I have tried the jailbreak route. Even enabling the features through activating Apple's own implementations (the.plist edit to enable multitasking and wallpaper) left my phone running unacceptably slow, compared to just acceptably slow with non-jailbroken iOS 4. It also killed my battery life, and the funny thing was it wasn't even the multitasking doing it. I tried just enabling the wallpaper and I had a good 30-40% reduction in battery life while using the phone. Standby time seemed to be unaffected.
I'm in the same situation. iOS 4 has noticeably slowed down my 3G. My contract won't be up until early 2011, so I don't even have the option of buying an iPhone 4 for less than full retail price ($600 or $700) so I am stuck with a 3G until then. I try to look on the bright side, that when I get the chance to upgrade again I will get the next version after the iPhone 4, which will probably fix all the problems people are having. Until then, I'll suffer through the plain black background and no multitasking.
The question is whether their sexual preference alone is the criteria for discrimination. In such a case, I would say no, I would not allow open pedophiles to work with kids because it would endanger the children, and their own safety/future freedom.
Being a pedophile isn't against the law, if it were that would be thought-crime, as pedophilia is just an attraction to children. Child molestation IS a crime, and if someone commits that crime they'll be put in jail. When they get out they will be discriminated against because of the crime they committed, not their sexual preference.
I always say, if people go to hell for sodomy, then you're going to hell for shaving and wearing a cotton-poly blended T-shirt - both things mentioned in Leviticus...I don't think it specifically mentions T-shirts though.
Maternity leave is one area where the US is particularly behind the rest of the world. In general US labor laws are tilted in favor of the business you work for, what will be most profitable for them, unlike much of Europe where the employees actually have more power in many situations than their employers (as it should be).
From what I can tell, some of the biggest wastes of our money are farm subsidies (grow so much corn that HFCS is cheaper than sugar!) and the military. I'm all for smaller government regarding those two. Much of the rest of government spending is welfare state stuff that I not only support, I want it expanded. Free university education for all, longer unemployment benefits, socialized health care, pensions, etc.
The fundamental problem with the Tea Party movement is that, the libertarian (economically), interventionist (with regard to foreign policy), and xenophobic (with respect to our relationship with the rest of the civilized) ideas that are underlying their platform are demonstrably awful for any society that adopts them. Sometimes there is a right and a wrong answer, all opinions are not equally valid and worthy of debate - yet we will tolerate all of them. The Tea Party movement is wrong, plain and simple. They do not have a legitimate contribution to make to the debate of how to govern society because their answer to that question is, "Don't."
That's not an ideology, it's an emotional response. It is essentially fear based isolationism taken to the extreme and applying it as far down as it will go; to the individual person. That, mixed with religious zealotry, and a sub-culture that worships guns and violence has the potential to set the US back 50-100 years in terms of social progress, equality, and the expansion of rights (as is understood by the ability to actually make life choices and have the MEANS to carry them out).
We have to tolerate them, as Americans they are within their right to express themselves, but anyone who does not stand up and say, scream, "NO!" to their hateful, backward, intolerant, reactionary rhetoric is the very antithesis of patriotic.
Can I get a smart phone (iPhone or an Android phone) that's prepaid in the US? I don't think that's currently possible. There's a lot about our cellphone industry that needs to change, from text message rates and the absurd markup on wireless data plans, to predatory contracts and schemes to hide their price gouging on handsets. Unfortunately, they have the money, which means we'll never get sane regulation of this industry which has proven that it is incapable of acting fairly and honestly. Just another example of a market outcome that benefits a few people at the top of a huge corporation, while leaving the rest of us with no viable option for something that is effectively a requirement to get by these days.
Although this is a sad day, as we've seen time and time again the loss of any one entity does not make a dent in bittorrent, or the exchange of ideas over the free internet. It's not a fight the content cartels or their shills in government can win.
You should have gotten an Airport Extreme, 2TB HDD, and a USB enclosure. That's my setup and it separates the three heat producing elements (router, HDD, and power adapter). I took one look at the Time Capsule and realized heat was going to be a problem with that design, research confirmed it. That's why I am worried about the new mac minis, they have a similarly designed internal power supply crammed into a tiny metal case right next to the HDD, recipe for disaster.
I'm pretty sure that's why they designed the bumper accessories to be the way they are. They turned a product defect into a way to sell an overpriced accessory to fix their devices shortcomings - and it's working! The Jobsian management style never ceases to amaze me with its outcomes.
To be fair, it usually is AT&T's fault. My entire family is on AT&T and we all complain about the terrible service in certain areas, but I'm the only one with an iPhone (3G). I stick with them because of the iPhone, I don't know what their excuses are:p
No one has a right to get paid for the content they produce, and the fact of the matter is that ideas, essentially everything that has been brought under the umbrella term "intellectual property", are not a scarce resource that can have market paradigms applied to it. Something that is intangible and infinitely and freely (or nearly freely) reproducible should not be treated as a commodity, and any step in the direction towards treating ideas like a product represents trans-generational cultural theft. Corruption of the system of making and distributing art and ideas exists only and because certain monied interests in society are attempting to use force to apply market principles to something that is not and never will be governable as a market.
My contract won't be up until 2012, and by then I'm sure the iPhone 4 will be 1 or 2 revisions behind. That, combined with the fact that it's $600+tax for the low end model without signing a contract means I am going to be skipping this generation of hardware.
I need the extra range, and I when setting up my home network had to choose between running cables through the walls (hard), having ugly cables along the outside of the walls, or using wireless. We picked wireless, although several of the devices are stationary so I would like to get the same speed I would be getting if they were attached via cables. I also live on an acre of property so it's nice to have coverage a good area around the house in case I am outside with my iPhone or something. So the need does exist, maybe it's not the majority of people that need it, but there are uses for 802.11n
Apple's Airport routers have a guest network feature, and I think it can be configured to only give limited bandwidth and services to people on that network. If you have the password, you join the secure network and get full speed.
Currently there is only one cable connecting NZ to North America, use government funds to build another link that can compete with the monopoly and speed and prices will improve. Same with Australia, although I am reading that competition has improved recently resulting in better speeds and higher caps.
Availability of high speed internet access is actually pretty important to modern life, and the economy. It's a legitimate use of tax dollars for government to improve that infrastructure, especially when market forces alone have proved insufficient to do so.
And what if all the ISPs had a similar law? What if they were mandated to by the state? Sounds draconian but it just might force Microsoft and the end user to get their ducks in a row regarding security.
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I have tried the jailbreak route. Even enabling the features through activating Apple's own implementations (the .plist edit to enable multitasking and wallpaper) left my phone running unacceptably slow, compared to just acceptably slow with non-jailbroken iOS 4. It also killed my battery life, and the funny thing was it wasn't even the multitasking doing it. I tried just enabling the wallpaper and I had a good 30-40% reduction in battery life while using the phone. Standby time seemed to be unaffected.
I'm in the same situation. iOS 4 has noticeably slowed down my 3G. My contract won't be up until early 2011, so I don't even have the option of buying an iPhone 4 for less than full retail price ($600 or $700) so I am stuck with a 3G until then. I try to look on the bright side, that when I get the chance to upgrade again I will get the next version after the iPhone 4, which will probably fix all the problems people are having. Until then, I'll suffer through the plain black background and no multitasking.
The question is whether their sexual preference alone is the criteria for discrimination. In such a case, I would say no, I would not allow open pedophiles to work with kids because it would endanger the children, and their own safety/future freedom.
Being a pedophile isn't against the law, if it were that would be thought-crime, as pedophilia is just an attraction to children. Child molestation IS a crime, and if someone commits that crime they'll be put in jail. When they get out they will be discriminated against because of the crime they committed, not their sexual preference.
Minors can't (by definition) render legal consent so I fail to see the point you're trying to make.
I always say, if people go to hell for sodomy, then you're going to hell for shaving and wearing a cotton-poly blended T-shirt - both things mentioned in Leviticus...I don't think it specifically mentions T-shirts though.
consistent logical argument
US politics abandoned that quaint idea decades ago.
Maternity leave is one area where the US is particularly behind the rest of the world. In general US labor laws are tilted in favor of the business you work for, what will be most profitable for them, unlike much of Europe where the employees actually have more power in many situations than their employers (as it should be).
From what I can tell, some of the biggest wastes of our money are farm subsidies (grow so much corn that HFCS is cheaper than sugar!) and the military. I'm all for smaller government regarding those two. Much of the rest of government spending is welfare state stuff that I not only support, I want it expanded. Free university education for all, longer unemployment benefits, socialized health care, pensions, etc.
Then by your metric, the Republican party is not conservative. We should think up a new word for them then, how about just 'Wrong'?
The fundamental problem with the Tea Party movement is that, the libertarian (economically), interventionist (with regard to foreign policy), and xenophobic (with respect to our relationship with the rest of the civilized) ideas that are underlying their platform are demonstrably awful for any society that adopts them. Sometimes there is a right and a wrong answer, all opinions are not equally valid and worthy of debate - yet we will tolerate all of them. The Tea Party movement is wrong, plain and simple. They do not have a legitimate contribution to make to the debate of how to govern society because their answer to that question is, "Don't."
That's not an ideology, it's an emotional response. It is essentially fear based isolationism taken to the extreme and applying it as far down as it will go; to the individual person. That, mixed with religious zealotry, and a sub-culture that worships guns and violence has the potential to set the US back 50-100 years in terms of social progress, equality, and the expansion of rights (as is understood by the ability to actually make life choices and have the MEANS to carry them out).
We have to tolerate them, as Americans they are within their right to express themselves, but anyone who does not stand up and say, scream, "NO!" to their hateful, backward, intolerant, reactionary rhetoric is the very antithesis of patriotic.
Can I get a smart phone (iPhone or an Android phone) that's prepaid in the US? I don't think that's currently possible. There's a lot about our cellphone industry that needs to change, from text message rates and the absurd markup on wireless data plans, to predatory contracts and schemes to hide their price gouging on handsets. Unfortunately, they have the money, which means we'll never get sane regulation of this industry which has proven that it is incapable of acting fairly and honestly. Just another example of a market outcome that benefits a few people at the top of a huge corporation, while leaving the rest of us with no viable option for something that is effectively a requirement to get by these days.
Although this is a sad day, as we've seen time and time again the loss of any one entity does not make a dent in bittorrent, or the exchange of ideas over the free internet. It's not a fight the content cartels or their shills in government can win.
You should have gotten an Airport Extreme, 2TB HDD, and a USB enclosure. That's my setup and it separates the three heat producing elements (router, HDD, and power adapter). I took one look at the Time Capsule and realized heat was going to be a problem with that design, research confirmed it. That's why I am worried about the new mac minis, they have a similarly designed internal power supply crammed into a tiny metal case right next to the HDD, recipe for disaster.
I'm pretty sure that's why they designed the bumper accessories to be the way they are. They turned a product defect into a way to sell an overpriced accessory to fix their devices shortcomings - and it's working! The Jobsian management style never ceases to amaze me with its outcomes.
To be fair, it usually is AT&T's fault. My entire family is on AT&T and we all complain about the terrible service in certain areas, but I'm the only one with an iPhone (3G). I stick with them because of the iPhone, I don't know what their excuses are :p
No one has a right to get paid for the content they produce, and the fact of the matter is that ideas, essentially everything that has been brought under the umbrella term "intellectual property", are not a scarce resource that can have market paradigms applied to it. Something that is intangible and infinitely and freely (or nearly freely) reproducible should not be treated as a commodity, and any step in the direction towards treating ideas like a product represents trans-generational cultural theft. Corruption of the system of making and distributing art and ideas exists only and because certain monied interests in society are attempting to use force to apply market principles to something that is not and never will be governable as a market.
My contract won't be up until 2012, and by then I'm sure the iPhone 4 will be 1 or 2 revisions behind. That, combined with the fact that it's $600+tax for the low end model without signing a contract means I am going to be skipping this generation of hardware.
I need the extra range, and I when setting up my home network had to choose between running cables through the walls (hard), having ugly cables along the outside of the walls, or using wireless. We picked wireless, although several of the devices are stationary so I would like to get the same speed I would be getting if they were attached via cables. I also live on an acre of property so it's nice to have coverage a good area around the house in case I am outside with my iPhone or something. So the need does exist, maybe it's not the majority of people that need it, but there are uses for 802.11n
I use an Airport Extreme, btw
You are wrong about digital zoom, wallpapers, and wireless keyboard for the iPhone 3G. I am using it right now and those features are absent.
IMO, any profiting from healthcare is obscene.
Apple's Airport routers have a guest network feature, and I think it can be configured to only give limited bandwidth and services to people on that network. If you have the password, you join the secure network and get full speed.
Currently there is only one cable connecting NZ to North America, use government funds to build another link that can compete with the monopoly and speed and prices will improve. Same with Australia, although I am reading that competition has improved recently resulting in better speeds and higher caps.
Availability of high speed internet access is actually pretty important to modern life, and the economy. It's a legitimate use of tax dollars for government to improve that infrastructure, especially when market forces alone have proved insufficient to do so.
And what if all the ISPs had a similar law? What if they were mandated to by the state? Sounds draconian but it just might force Microsoft and the end user to get their ducks in a row regarding security.