The one problem I see with wireless on planes right now is battery life. My PowerBook battery gets about 4 hours under "optimal conditions" (read: fully charged, brightness at minimum setting, little HD activity, etd)
11 hour flight? No problem, as long as your battery doesn't die. If they also decided to put in power outlets, perhaps even multiple types, or provide adapters for international flights, then I think it'd be a pretty good deal. 11 hour flight across half of the US and the Atlantic?
When I started to learn to play guitar, I started by learning how to play my favorite songs (new and old) from tab sites like OLGA. I think if anything, shutting down a site like this removes incentive for "musicians and songwriters" to make their music, since there will be fewer people willing to pay for lessons, or invest the time to learn how to figure songs out by ear and then notate the songs to paper (or simply in the head), and thus there will be fewer musicians making music. You have to start somewhere, and if they take away this kind of learning device, fewer people will be learning.
I also think they're just trying to get more people to buy their tabulature books, which are often full of mistakes.
If the average person could somehow switch without having to learn anything new, or do anything different from his normal routine, and it had no additional costs involved, people would do it. Many people don't see the long-term benefits of switching (security, etc) as outweighing the short-term costs (time to learn the new system, money, incompatibility, etc). For someone with a technical background, switching to a new interface / system and adjusting can be almost trivial (especially for the tasks that the average user would be doing), but there are tons of people who click on the blue E because it has the word "INTERNET" in it.
This is a pretty good point that most people seem to forget about. It doesn't seem to be as valid in the rest of the world as in the US, since their coverage is generally better, but in the US, at 20,000+ feet, you're not going to get a cell signal, almost guaranteed, much less a consistent one.
About a year and a half ago, I got an AMD64 2800+ for about... $160. The reason I didn't go with Intel, is because 64-bit Intel processors were too expensive. I'll assume that the price has gone down over the past year.
The problem with the "infinite monkeys and time" situation is that it assumes that each key is as likely to be pressed as any other, and it's all random. As we can see, "S" was greatly favored.
That's really interesting, I didn't know about the 9-5 thing for their students.
Being an American college student, I noticed pretty quickly that college isn't quite as much as high school. The classes are about the same difficulty as high school(meaning you go to lecture, turn in your assignments, and pass your exams, the hardest part is remembering to ataully do it all), but far less intense. I know plenty of students taking three or four classes per semester, taking maybe 3 or 4 hours a day; nowhere near the 9-5 attitude that students in other countries may be taking. And what's more, is that students at different institutions can graduate with equal degrees with fewer classes than here (University of Minnesota).
I think if the US were to reshape the image of what college is, from four years of sitting through class and partying, to focusing on learning, that would help any "gap" of the quality, and at the same time reduce the number of qualified people looking for jobs(as other people in the thread were suggesting, supply and demand, fewer scientists, the demand for them goes up, they get paid more) in the US.
I imagine that in a facility like an airport, with that many people, they'd have more than one line going. Something like an airport would probably have more than one machine.
However, that does raise an interesting point about the number of people who can be tested at once.
Digg stories dont necessarily get rejected, but only the popular ones make it to the front page. The bad stories kinda reject themselves by not getting enough votes to get to the front page.
GPRS isn't used here, rather, it's Sprint's EV-DO service which is supposedly able to reach broadband speeds. So it could potentially be atleast moderately fast, faster than GPRS.
I think one of the most unfortunate things about this is the inability to use it as a ring tone, but most people Sprintel is targeting probably wont mind just paying for a low-fi ringtone for the same price, not realizing that they're getting ripped off.
Also... do these handsets work with regular stereo headphones? or are people supposed to use a single earbud? or just use the phone as a speaker?
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Why would "municipal broadband" be impossible with net neutrality?
The one problem I see with wireless on planes right now is battery life. My PowerBook battery gets about 4 hours under "optimal conditions" (read: fully charged, brightness at minimum setting, little HD activity, etd)
11 hour flight? No problem, as long as your battery doesn't die. If they also decided to put in power outlets, perhaps even multiple types, or provide adapters for international flights, then I think it'd be a pretty good deal. 11 hour flight across half of the US and the Atlantic?
When I started to learn to play guitar, I started by learning how to play my favorite songs (new and old) from tab sites like OLGA. I think if anything, shutting down a site like this removes incentive for "musicians and songwriters" to make their music, since there will be fewer people willing to pay for lessons, or invest the time to learn how to figure songs out by ear and then notate the songs to paper (or simply in the head), and thus there will be fewer musicians making music. You have to start somewhere, and if they take away this kind of learning device, fewer people will be learning.
I also think they're just trying to get more people to buy their tabulature books, which are often full of mistakes.
That still doesn't fix the problem, because now you'de be just left with the question of "Where did God come from?" etc.
Isn't it the same god?
If the average person could somehow switch without having to learn anything new, or do anything different from his normal routine, and it had no additional costs involved, people would do it. Many people don't see the long-term benefits of switching (security, etc) as outweighing the short-term costs (time to learn the new system, money, incompatibility, etc). For someone with a technical background, switching to a new interface / system and adjusting can be almost trivial (especially for the tasks that the average user would be doing), but there are tons of people who click on the blue E because it has the word "INTERNET" in it.
People also just don't like change, sometimes.
This is a pretty good point that most people seem to forget about. It doesn't seem to be as valid in the rest of the world as in the US, since their coverage is generally better, but in the US, at 20,000+ feet, you're not going to get a cell signal, almost guaranteed, much less a consistent one.
TMobile charges $25 for a SIM? Cingular handed out a new one to me for free when I asked for one.
Dual core != 64 bit.
About a year and a half ago, I got an AMD64 2800+ for about... $160. The reason I didn't go with Intel, is because 64-bit Intel processors were too expensive. I'll assume that the price has gone down over the past year.
I would assume also that the viruses would mutate over time, and possibly making the vaccines ineffective.
Hehe that was pretty good.
The problem with the "infinite monkeys and time" situation is that it assumes that each key is as likely to be pressed as any other, and it's all random. As we can see, "S" was greatly favored.
You forgot "Oil funds terrorism."
Treo 650's cost much more than $100, usually.
Perhaps not, but we should theoretically have the knowledge to either recreate that technology, or surpass it.
That's really interesting, I didn't know about the 9-5 thing for their students.
Being an American college student, I noticed pretty quickly that college isn't quite as much as high school. The classes are about the same difficulty as high school(meaning you go to lecture, turn in your assignments, and pass your exams, the hardest part is remembering to ataully do it all), but far less intense. I know plenty of students taking three or four classes per semester, taking maybe 3 or 4 hours a day; nowhere near the 9-5 attitude that students in other countries may be taking. And what's more, is that students at different institutions can graduate with equal degrees with fewer classes than here (University of Minnesota).
I think if the US were to reshape the image of what college is, from four years of sitting through class and partying, to focusing on learning, that would help any "gap" of the quality, and at the same time reduce the number of qualified people looking for jobs(as other people in the thread were suggesting, supply and demand, fewer scientists, the demand for them goes up, they get paid more) in the US.
Just something interesting to think about.
When V approaches C (velocity increases), you're getting faster.
I'm not sure I'd call creatures like the Dodo perfect...
Or an open air predator!
I imagine that in a facility like an airport, with that many people, they'd have more than one line going. Something like an airport would probably have more than one machine.
However, that does raise an interesting point about the number of people who can be tested at once.
Digg stories dont necessarily get rejected, but only the popular ones make it to the front page. The bad stories kinda reject themselves by not getting enough votes to get to the front page.
wouldn't something need to be dependable to perform well?
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/ Check that out for signature matching.
If you had someone's credit card, you usually dont need any other type of ID at all.
Or if you were buying something online, and you had someone's credit card info and what not, you could make purchases without the SSN.
GPRS isn't used here, rather, it's Sprint's EV-DO service which is supposedly able to reach broadband speeds. So it could potentially be atleast moderately fast, faster than GPRS.
I think one of the most unfortunate things about this is the inability to use it as a ring tone, but most people Sprintel is targeting probably wont mind just paying for a low-fi ringtone for the same price, not realizing that they're getting ripped off.
Also... do these handsets work with regular stereo headphones? or are people supposed to use a single earbud? or just use the phone as a speaker?
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