modern schools are designed to condition kids to work hard on less sleep. Heck, public schools in America were original developed to get farm kids used to the kind of regimented life factory work
Note that this attitude now permeates American schooling all the way through medical training.
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It's getting a little better. As proof, I submit the fact that physicians who finished residency 10 years ago are now saying "back in my day, we had to . .."
My car doesn't go through R on the way to P. This also means my reverse lights don't flash during the transition.
I wonder how I could use the dashcam evidence in a similar manner.
I have never seen an automatic with a gear selector that had any pattern other than PRNDL. Variations on the number of "D's" and "L's", but I haven't seen one without an R between the D and P. What model and year is your vehicle?
No, I take that back a little. I saw a 1959 Plymouth with a dash-mounted push-button gear selector that could be switched from any gear into any other without intermediate steps. Also, it had no parking pawl, and thus no P gear. That car was a total POS, BTW, for reasons unrelated to shifting.
Presumably if you challenge it later, they wouldn't be able to confirm with any certainty that you wer too close to the intersection. Or too far from the kerb. Would a police oficer really remember exactly where a car was several weeks after the event? Even applying a fairly strong pro-police bias, I don't think the court would accept that one.
GP said there was dashcam evidence to exonerate him from the moving violation, it might also show his proximity to the traffic light. And besides, I've gotten parking tickets without much evidence of my actual violation other than a checkmark and signature on the ticket stuffed under a wiper blade. It certainly didn't require any photos or corroborating witnesses besides the meter maid's own observation. In my area -- and YMMV -- the standard of evidence for a parking ticket is not too high.
I wish I had a push bumper on my car to give the people still sitting at a green light a little "nudge". It would be much more fun than laying on the horn.
I'd love to see their reaction...
I do miss those 5 mph bumpers from the 70s for that reason. I don't miss the aesthetics, but being able to actually bump the car ahead of you with no damage to either one had a certain appeal to the driving devil that appears over one's left shoulder. My dad actually did use them for that purpose against a driver ahead of us who had slept (I think) through three green lights and couldn't be roused with the horn. Fortunately they hadn't had a stroke or something, they did spring into action upon feeling the bump.
Which is why I always put my car in [P]ark while stopped at traffic lights.
(I live in Cobb County, 2 counties over from Gwinnett and have received a ticket for "texting while driving")
You're not legally driving if your car is in park.
And I beat the ticket by forcing the cop to produce the dashcam footage. You could clearly see my reverse lights light up as the car was shifted from Park to Drive.
In fact, having a car in Park is one of the few exceptions written into the law.
Did you get a parking violation for parking too close to an intersection? We actually have a law against that here. Which does make some sense, actually.
Well, there's gotta be some reason why American's drive automatics.
I'd probably break down and get one if I had to deal with Atlanta-area traffic, where the rule seems to be "drive as fast as possible to get to the next traffic jam sonner."
I guess it's a lot easier to catch people texting at red lights vs. while driving. Especially since some people who would never text while moving might look at their phones there. However, it probably doesn't provide nearly the increased safety that the law was probably sold as providing. Compared to swerving across traffic into an oncoming lane, missing the light turning green is a much less serious hazard, IMO. (Yeah, yeah, it's Georgia, it might be legal to shoot someone that doesn't take off as soon as the light changes, the "move yer ass" law, maybe.)
On the other hand, "Officer" Myers might just be doing more to get the law changed than any citizen could. He's pissing off a bunch of people that would normally have supported a texting ban. Eventually, he's gonna ticket a state rep. Also, his "ten touch rule" subjects him to accusations of enforcing not the law but his interpretation of it. And he's on record with that, now.
Could he be trying to get the law changed by super-vigorous enforcement? Doesn't sound like it from TFA, but it wouldn't be the first time cops have aggressively enforced rules just to get the public to demand they be relaxed.
That's how other stores of value tend to work over the long term (gold, for example).
If one wants a "store of value" such as precious metal, then wouldn't purchasing a dollar's worth of gold be a better approach than complaining that the dollar itself wasn't up to the job?
If that's what one wants, shouldn't one do that? Then when society collapses or whatever he figures will happen to the rest of us over that 100 years, he can laugh at us. From the grave, at least -- since I doubt any particular financial philosophy is an elixir of life . . . but who knows? I don't personally think it's a good plan, but if someone else believes in it, they're free to do it.
"An open invitation for cranky Slashdotters to complain about waste of taxpayer money -- despite it being non-governmental funded -- to study a topic I find ridiculous."
His job description entails standing around telling the NSA to stop doing all of the things the NSA does. It's not going to matter whether he performs this duty faithfully or not.
If he doesn't get the authority to make anyone do what he says -- or even listen to him -- then he can perform his job as faithfully as he wishes while the NSA can carry on with its own. Everybody wins!
When we were student and all student say every morning
And this annoyed me greatly because my non-US citizen children were required to take part in this when in a state school in the USA.
That was not appropriate on the teacher's part to force a child -- a citizen of another country -- who's just visiting, to say the pledge. They really can't "force" anyone to do it, but it's hard for kids to stand up to their teachers at that age.
I am a US citizen, but didn't like being forced to do things like say the pledge, and I did refuse on occasion. Figured I was asserting my rights, the "liberty" part. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. What always gets you out of it is giving the "Hitler salute" thing instead of the hand-over-heart. Alternate accommodations were immediately made for me in that case. Usually in the principal's office. And since my parents weren't "Love-or-leave-it! Coo!" rednecks, sending home a note got the school nothing.
I'd probably be tasered these days.
But again, your kids' teacher(s) should never have forced them, doubly so in their case.
The subject of the story is: "What Will Ubiquitous 3D Printing Do To IP Laws?" If it's not easier, cheaper or more fun, the problem won't exist! Why do you think people pirated music and video?
Again, show me a non-theoretical 3D printed sock. Not a giant condom, either. But just a sock. Don't even need a pair. Can even be child-sized. Wearable, washable, printed at home on general purpose equipment sock. Until then, you got nothing and we're done here.
Would they have to stop being lazy, download the specs, get the supplies from the appropriate locations in sufficient quantity, and cut out the fashion and supply chain middleman? Yes.
I've seen clothing made at home the old-fashioned way (by extremely non-lazy people). But until I see a general purpose device cranking out socks, I'm gonna continue to be skeptical. Not just fabric, I want Prêt-à-Porter. I know we've got looms and knitting machines, but I want to literally see a real 3D printed article of clothing. Really, I do. Because I'm lazy and cheap. The main reason music and video piracy exist, after all. (And stupid regional limitations on distribution, I suppose). Until I see it, I'm a doubter.
Unless alcohol sales US are suffering terribly from the advent of home brewing, the statement of this lawyer is a bag full of sh*t aimed at creating legislature that will only benefit IP lawyers.
I agree with you, and I don't really think that brewing beer at home will ever really threaten the industry. After all, you want a cold beer now, not next month . . . Also, I don't need another hobby and I'm lazy.
However, (some, many?) states actually do have some fairly strict (and odd) laws governing brewing beer at home. Alabama and Mississippi lifted their total bans on the practice just this year. California lets you brew 100 gallons per house, 200 if more than one 21+ year old lives there. You can take it to contests but not sell it. A license is not required. In Iowa, you can bottle beer and remove it from the home to give away, but not charge for it. Actual brewing is not specifically allowed. In Kentucky, you can't give it away or sell it, but you can take it to a bar for a beer judging competition. In New York, you can maybe make beer at home, but certainly not sell it. Possession of homemade beer is not specifically prohibited as an illicit substance. It's a pretty bizarre and tangled web of laws.
I expect someone will try to extend copyright law to cover CAD models used to drive the printers, but I also expect that attempt to fail because copyright isn't allowed to cover a list of facts, only a creative work.
That'd be a real mindblower: Patenting a design and copyrighting the patent. So as to prevent copying the design allowing another to replicate the product. Not that weirder legal gymnastics haven't been attempted and sometimes successfully performed.
you can print real cotton clothes that are completely washable on a 3d printer? where do you get the raw cotton for it to form into clothing?
You asked "can you".
Asked and answered. Your supply chain problems are a different issue.
He asked "can you" in the context of the article, which is -- and I summarize -- "ZOMG 3D Piracy!!!1!" And in that context -- piracy, in the "threatening established commercial suppliers of goods" sense -- you really can't 3D print something at home (like clothes) where the phrase "supply chain problems" comes into play. Kind of like there was just about zero threat of music piracy prior to the introduction of magnetic tape. And really only minimal threat before the introduction of mag tape in a convenient format.
I'd like to be proved wrong in this case, mostly because I'd like to see something that could "print" practical clothing from some sort of feedstock like cellulose or thermoplastics. That would be cool.
What about the vast majority of Christians who are not what you call "fundamentalists"? Oh, those don't exist, do they?
They're just going about their business working their dead-end jobs just like and side-by-side with the non-radical Muslims, Jews, Zoroastrians, Mormons, and all other non-extreme believers of religions, plus doubters, unbelievers, and nearly everybody else who don't make any news because stories like "Non-Fundamentalist Believer Bitches About Unpaid Overtime" do not make for an interesting headline.
My in-laws gave my daughter a giant bible stories for children book titled "Giant Bible Stories for Children."* Although, it would more appropriately be called "Selected Old Testament Excerpts with Pictures." Anyway, its answer to this question was: China. Seriously.
I guess they get this from the "East of Eden" thing.
*I was relieved that she didn't receive the coloring book version of "You Bring the Bagels, I'll Bring the Gospel," or "You Don't Have to be Gay," the "adult" versions of which are in their library.
It's called journalistic prose numbnuts, this isn't an academic paper, nobody gives a shit about run-on sentences in the real world.
Because they either get bored or irritated trying to make sense of them and eventually -- but not before getting a headache and taking some aspirin and having a bit of a lie-down in order to give the aspirin time to work and to soothe the aforementioned head -- quit trying to mentally diagram it and just skip it and plow on in the hopes that the rest of the document, unlikely as it sounds, will be more readable, and perhaps the prosaic period will be understood in learning the larger context in which it appeared, or, alternatively, just stop reading entirely based on the assumption that the whole piece will be just like it, resulting in even greater frustration that can only be relieved by tying an onion to one's belt and taking the ferry to Morgantown?
Anyone else notice his odd use of language and use of unusual words?
Reminded me of Homer Simpson when he got the subliminal vocab-builder instead of weight loss tape.
Had to start googling a little on those. "Soluable," I thought only meant capable of being dissolved, but apparently is a real synonym for "solvable," and not a malaprop, dating back to the 15th century. But "rapeutated"? First page of google hits are stories about Carreon himself. The second was TFA, and the fifth was this very story!. Does it mean his reputation was raped? I guess so, but I don't really want to read his feculent drivel to find out.
"Remediable? Erudite, Aplomb" Okay, whatever. They're real, but why? He seems to be in love with^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B enamored of fifty-cent words.
You seem to assume that there are no criminals at all part of "the NSA".
The NSA itself is comprised of criminals. From the agent who accesses data he has no legitimate right to, to James Clapper who lies about it to Congress. The NSA is a criminal organization.
But having freelance criminals within still makes things even worse, since they may be looking to exploit different things for different gains. Like having NSA backdoors also used by the Russian mob and teenage webcam peepers, plus all sorts of things I haven't even thought of by people I haven't imagined.
Of course, one could argue that the mere presence of a deliberate backdoor is just an invitation to other individuals, organizations and states to exploit as well. Consider those luggage locks the TSA can open without cutting. You don't have to be too paranoid to figure that with one key opening all "TSA-friendly" luggage locks, someone has a copy of that for "personal" purposes, too.
You can't have that many antennas in the phone without it being too big.
You haven't see my in-laws new phones, then. You want too big? They got that. My father- and sister-in-laws phones don't fit any of my pants pockets except ones with those big cargo pouches (and then kneecap my with every step). My mother-in-law carries a phone big enough for a satellite dish. I couldn't carry that at all without some kind of holster worthy of an HP-41. Epic Galaxy Phablet Nexus Plus Seven, or something.
So I'm pretty sure that size isn't the limit there. Those suckers could fit an original SIM, no problem. And I see more and more folks with these monsters. It's not the barrier to adoption that I thought it would be.
yeah that's why we don't have pentaband phones going from 900 to 2100 on umts and gsm.. oh wait we do.
cdma networks in usa were on purpose built so that you're tied to the network as the phone provider. they should never have allowed to do so because it's pretty obvious what the result from that kind of arrangement is..
When you trace the origins of CDMA back to PCS, it was developed to overcome the bandwidth-sharing shortcomings of AMPS. The tech lock-in was more of a happy side-effect (for Sprint -- at the time still making a lot of its money selling long-distance carried on lines running on the Southern Pacific Railroad's rights-of-way.)
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modern schools are designed to condition kids to work hard on less sleep. Heck, public schools in America were original developed to get farm kids used to the kind of regimented life factory work
Note that this attitude now permeates American schooling all the way through medical training.
captcha:wretches
It's getting a little better. As proof, I submit the fact that physicians who finished residency 10 years ago are now saying "back in my day, we had to . . ."
My car doesn't go through R on the way to P. This also means my reverse lights don't flash during the transition.
I wonder how I could use the dashcam evidence in a similar manner.
I have never seen an automatic with a gear selector that had any pattern other than PRNDL. Variations on the number of "D's" and "L's", but I haven't seen one without an R between the D and P. What model and year is your vehicle?
No, I take that back a little. I saw a 1959 Plymouth with a dash-mounted push-button gear selector that could be switched from any gear into any other without intermediate steps. Also, it had no parking pawl, and thus no P gear. That car was a total POS, BTW, for reasons unrelated to shifting.
Presumably if you challenge it later, they wouldn't be able to confirm with any certainty that you wer too close to the intersection. Or too far from the kerb. Would a police oficer really remember exactly where a car was several weeks after the event? Even applying a fairly strong pro-police bias, I don't think the court would accept that one.
GP said there was dashcam evidence to exonerate him from the moving violation, it might also show his proximity to the traffic light. And besides, I've gotten parking tickets without much evidence of my actual violation other than a checkmark and signature on the ticket stuffed under a wiper blade. It certainly didn't require any photos or corroborating witnesses besides the meter maid's own observation. In my area -- and YMMV -- the standard of evidence for a parking ticket is not too high.
I wish I had a push bumper on my car to give the people still sitting at a green light a little "nudge". It would be much more fun than laying on the horn. I'd love to see their reaction...
I do miss those 5 mph bumpers from the 70s for that reason. I don't miss the aesthetics, but being able to actually bump the car ahead of you with no damage to either one had a certain appeal to the driving devil that appears over one's left shoulder. My dad actually did use them for that purpose against a driver ahead of us who had slept (I think) through three green lights and couldn't be roused with the horn. Fortunately they hadn't had a stroke or something, they did spring into action upon feeling the bump.
Which is why I always put my car in [P]ark while stopped at traffic lights.
(I live in Cobb County, 2 counties over from Gwinnett and have received a ticket for "texting while driving")
You're not legally driving if your car is in park.
And I beat the ticket by forcing the cop to produce the dashcam footage. You could clearly see my reverse lights light up as the car was shifted from Park to Drive.
In fact, having a car in Park is one of the few exceptions written into the law.
Did you get a parking violation for parking too close to an intersection? We actually have a law against that here. Which does make some sense, actually.
There is allot of bad science out there; reaching different conclusions about how dangerous texting and driving is or isn't.
I do my best to allot my bad science equally across all fields of study.
Well, there's gotta be some reason why American's drive automatics.
I'd probably break down and get one if I had to deal with Atlanta-area traffic, where the rule seems to be "drive as fast as possible to get to the next traffic jam sonner."
I guess it's a lot easier to catch people texting at red lights vs. while driving. Especially since some people who would never text while moving might look at their phones there. However, it probably doesn't provide nearly the increased safety that the law was probably sold as providing. Compared to swerving across traffic into an oncoming lane, missing the light turning green is a much less serious hazard, IMO. (Yeah, yeah, it's Georgia, it might be legal to shoot someone that doesn't take off as soon as the light changes, the "move yer ass" law, maybe.)
On the other hand, "Officer" Myers might just be doing more to get the law changed than any citizen could. He's pissing off a bunch of people that would normally have supported a texting ban. Eventually, he's gonna ticket a state rep. Also, his "ten touch rule" subjects him to accusations of enforcing not the law but his interpretation of it. And he's on record with that, now.
Could he be trying to get the law changed by super-vigorous enforcement? Doesn't sound like it from TFA, but it wouldn't be the first time cops have aggressively enforced rules just to get the public to demand they be relaxed.
That's how other stores of value tend to work over the long term (gold, for example).
If one wants a "store of value" such as precious metal, then wouldn't purchasing a dollar's worth of gold be a better approach than complaining that the dollar itself wasn't up to the job?
If that's what one wants, shouldn't one do that? Then when society collapses or whatever he figures will happen to the rest of us over that 100 years, he can laugh at us. From the grave, at least -- since I doubt any particular financial philosophy is an elixir of life . . . but who knows? I don't personally think it's a good plan, but if someone else believes in it, they're free to do it.
Hey, now. We're also going to get the crowd of "people who slept through Undergraduate Macroeconomics 101 ranting about 'fiat currency'".
Wow. You're not wrong. I did not expect that one. Guess I should have.
I propose an alternate title to this story:
"An open invitation for cranky Slashdotters to complain about waste of taxpayer money -- despite it being non-governmental funded -- to study a topic I find ridiculous."
His job description entails standing around telling the NSA to stop doing all of the things the NSA does. It's not going to matter whether he performs this duty faithfully or not.
If he doesn't get the authority to make anyone do what he says -- or even listen to him -- then he can perform his job as faithfully as he wishes while the NSA can carry on with its own. Everybody wins!
And this annoyed me greatly because my non-US citizen children were required to take part in this when in a state school in the USA.
That was not appropriate on the teacher's part to force a child -- a citizen of another country -- who's just visiting, to say the pledge. They really can't "force" anyone to do it, but it's hard for kids to stand up to their teachers at that age.
I am a US citizen, but didn't like being forced to do things like say the pledge, and I did refuse on occasion. Figured I was asserting my rights, the "liberty" part. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not. What always gets you out of it is giving the "Hitler salute" thing instead of the hand-over-heart. Alternate accommodations were immediately made for me in that case. Usually in the principal's office. And since my parents weren't "Love-or-leave-it! Coo!" rednecks, sending home a note got the school nothing.
I'd probably be tasered these days.
But again, your kids' teacher(s) should never have forced them, doubly so in their case.
You're not getting it.
What????????????????
The subject of the story is: "What Will Ubiquitous 3D Printing Do To IP Laws?" If it's not easier, cheaper or more fun, the problem won't exist! Why do you think people pirated music and video?
Again, show me a non-theoretical 3D printed sock. Not a giant condom, either. But just a sock. Don't even need a pair. Can even be child-sized. Wearable, washable, printed at home on general purpose equipment sock. Until then, you got nothing and we're done here.
Would they have to stop being lazy, download the specs, get the supplies from the appropriate locations in sufficient quantity, and cut out the fashion and supply chain middleman? Yes.
I've seen clothing made at home the old-fashioned way (by extremely non-lazy people). But until I see a general purpose device cranking out socks, I'm gonna continue to be skeptical. Not just fabric, I want Prêt-à-Porter. I know we've got looms and knitting machines, but I want to literally see a real 3D printed article of clothing. Really, I do. Because I'm lazy and cheap. The main reason music and video piracy exist, after all. (And stupid regional limitations on distribution, I suppose). Until I see it, I'm a doubter.
Unless alcohol sales US are suffering terribly from the advent of home brewing, the statement of this lawyer is a bag full of sh*t aimed at creating legislature that will only benefit IP lawyers.
I agree with you, and I don't really think that brewing beer at home will ever really threaten the industry. After all, you want a cold beer now, not next month . . . Also, I don't need another hobby and I'm lazy.
However, (some, many?) states actually do have some fairly strict (and odd) laws governing brewing beer at home. Alabama and Mississippi lifted their total bans on the practice just this year. California lets you brew 100 gallons per house, 200 if more than one 21+ year old lives there. You can take it to contests but not sell it. A license is not required. In Iowa, you can bottle beer and remove it from the home to give away, but not charge for it. Actual brewing is not specifically allowed. In Kentucky, you can't give it away or sell it, but you can take it to a bar for a beer judging competition. In New York, you can maybe make beer at home, but certainly not sell it. Possession of homemade beer is not specifically prohibited as an illicit substance. It's a pretty bizarre and tangled web of laws.
I expect someone will try to extend copyright law to cover CAD models used to drive the printers, but I also expect that attempt to fail because copyright isn't allowed to cover a list of facts, only a creative work.
That'd be a real mindblower: Patenting a design and copyrighting the patent. So as to prevent copying the design allowing another to replicate the product. Not that weirder legal gymnastics haven't been attempted and sometimes successfully performed.
you can print real cotton clothes that are completely washable on a 3d printer? where do you get the raw cotton for it to form into clothing?
You asked "can you".
Asked and answered. Your supply chain problems are a different issue.
He asked "can you" in the context of the article, which is -- and I summarize -- "ZOMG 3D Piracy!!!1!" And in that context -- piracy, in the "threatening established commercial suppliers of goods" sense -- you really can't 3D print something at home (like clothes) where the phrase "supply chain problems" comes into play. Kind of like there was just about zero threat of music piracy prior to the introduction of magnetic tape. And really only minimal threat before the introduction of mag tape in a convenient format.
I'd like to be proved wrong in this case, mostly because I'd like to see something that could "print" practical clothing from some sort of feedstock like cellulose or thermoplastics. That would be cool.
What about the vast majority of Christians who are not what you call "fundamentalists"? Oh, those don't exist, do they?
They're just going about their business working their dead-end jobs just like and side-by-side with the non-radical Muslims, Jews, Zoroastrians, Mormons, and all other non-extreme believers of religions, plus doubters, unbelievers, and nearly everybody else who don't make any news because stories like "Non-Fundamentalist Believer Bitches About Unpaid Overtime" do not make for an interesting headline.
Where did Cain's wife come from?
My in-laws gave my daughter a giant bible stories for children book titled "Giant Bible Stories for Children."* Although, it would more appropriately be called "Selected Old Testament Excerpts with Pictures." Anyway, its answer to this question was: China. Seriously.
I guess they get this from the "East of Eden" thing.
*I was relieved that she didn't receive the coloring book version of "You Bring the Bagels, I'll Bring the Gospel," or "You Don't Have to be Gay," the "adult" versions of which are in their library.
It's called journalistic prose numbnuts, this isn't an academic paper, nobody gives a shit about run-on sentences in the real world.
Because they either get bored or irritated trying to make sense of them and eventually -- but not before getting a headache and taking some aspirin and having a bit of a lie-down in order to give the aspirin time to work and to soothe the aforementioned head -- quit trying to mentally diagram it and just skip it and plow on in the hopes that the rest of the document, unlikely as it sounds, will be more readable, and perhaps the prosaic period will be understood in learning the larger context in which it appeared, or, alternatively, just stop reading entirely based on the assumption that the whole piece will be just like it, resulting in even greater frustration that can only be relieved by tying an onion to one's belt and taking the ferry to Morgantown?
Anyone else notice his odd use of language and use of unusual words?
Reminded me of Homer Simpson when he got the subliminal vocab-builder instead of weight loss tape.
Had to start googling a little on those. "Soluable," I thought only meant capable of being dissolved, but apparently is a real synonym for "solvable," and not a malaprop, dating back to the 15th century. But "rapeutated"? First page of google hits are stories about Carreon himself. The second was TFA, and the fifth was this very story!. Does it mean his reputation was raped? I guess so, but I don't really want to read his feculent drivel to find out.
"Remediable? Erudite, Aplomb" Okay, whatever. They're real, but why? He seems to be in love with^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B^B enamored of fifty-cent words.
You seem to assume that there are no criminals at all part of "the NSA".
The NSA itself is comprised of criminals. From the agent who accesses data he has no legitimate right to, to James Clapper who lies about it to Congress. The NSA is a criminal organization.
But having freelance criminals within still makes things even worse, since they may be looking to exploit different things for different gains. Like having NSA backdoors also used by the Russian mob and teenage webcam peepers, plus all sorts of things I haven't even thought of by people I haven't imagined.
Of course, one could argue that the mere presence of a deliberate backdoor is just an invitation to other individuals, organizations and states to exploit as well. Consider those luggage locks the TSA can open without cutting. You don't have to be too paranoid to figure that with one key opening all "TSA-friendly" luggage locks, someone has a copy of that for "personal" purposes, too.
You can't have that many antennas in the phone without it being too big.
You haven't see my in-laws new phones, then. You want too big? They got that. My father- and sister-in-laws phones don't fit any of my pants pockets except ones with those big cargo pouches (and then kneecap my with every step). My mother-in-law carries a phone big enough for a satellite dish. I couldn't carry that at all without some kind of holster worthy of an HP-41. Epic Galaxy Phablet Nexus Plus Seven, or something.
So I'm pretty sure that size isn't the limit there. Those suckers could fit an original SIM, no problem. And I see more and more folks with these monsters. It's not the barrier to adoption that I thought it would be.
yeah that's why we don't have pentaband phones going from 900 to 2100 on umts and gsm.. oh wait we do.
cdma networks in usa were on purpose built so that you're tied to the network as the phone provider. they should never have allowed to do so because it's pretty obvious what the result from that kind of arrangement is..
When you trace the origins of CDMA back to PCS, it was developed to overcome the bandwidth-sharing shortcomings of AMPS. The tech lock-in was more of a happy side-effect (for Sprint -- at the time still making a lot of its money selling long-distance carried on lines running on the Southern Pacific Railroad's rights-of-way.)