How is this a GPS problem? Maps existed before GPS...
Yeah. I don't that that is an effect of GPS so much as an effect of the online maps (Google Maps, etc). Of course, those are dependent on GPS, so I guess it's a secondary effect.
i like t mobile's plan scheme, where the first 2gig is at full speed and then your speed gets knocked down. instead of paying an arm and a leg for the data. their data plans are $10 a month and i've always been able to tether for free using the phone off the shelf. i hate to say it, but with their shitty service and all but they've got the best setup. all told i think that is a $20-50 per month saving
I've got T-mo as well. My (un-rooted) Vibrant came with a option in the settings to enable it to be a WiFi AP. When I bought the phone I was told that I could tether with no extra charges. Then a couple of months after I got it, this came out:
T-Mobile recently announced the upcoming availability of a Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing service plan that enables select smartphones to function as wireless modems for connecting devices, such as laptops, tablets and netbooks, to the Internet through the T-Mobile network.
I've only used it a couple of time, for my iPad, and so far they haven't modified my plan. But from the wording, it looks like they could. I suppose they'll only go after the biggest data hogs.
This is from a BlackBerry Software license agreement:
(2) You will not use the RIM Products and Software in the development, production, handling, maintenance, storage, detection, identification or dissemination of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons or their missile delivery systems, or of materials or equipment that could be used in such weapons or their missile delivery systems, or resell or export to anyone or any entity involved in such activity;.
That's pretty standard legalese found in most SLAs. So is RIM a controlling hippie, also?
... now pany batteries are chipped. 'for your protection' but they are authentication chipped for vendor lock-in (or lock-out, depending on POV).
Sometime 'for your protection' really means for your protection. If you put some cheap knock-off battery in the device, maybe it has different charge characteristics and the device will over-charge it, which can cause all kinds of problems.
My Blackberry has $5/month global roaming capabilities for data, I don't think it's anything special that you can't get.
A co-worker and I went to South America, he took his T-Mobile BB. I asked about data, he said he had the international data and it wouldn't cost him any extra. He neglected to check on the voice rates, however, and ended up with a $2k voice bill. Fortunately the company reimbursed him (but told him not to do that again).
If you're using a 4-digit numeric password to protect your phone, any kind of phone, yeah, somebody's eventually going to crack it in a non-end-of-the-universe timeframe, if they get unattended access to it, and you don't remote-wipe it.
Unless you limit the number of failed attempts (and then brick/erase the device), or have an increasing delay after each failed attempt.
7. Provide customers the right to terminate service for changes to contract terms.
Carriers will not modify the material terms of their subscribers’ contracts in a manner that is materially adverse to subscribers without providing a reasonable advance notice of a proposed modification and allowing subscribers a time period of not less than 14 days to cancel their contracts with no early termination fee.
Android supposedly has this same info. But my Android phone usually has the wrong location; when I'm at home it shows my location as at work, and vice versa. So if I commit a crime I'll have an iron-clad alibi!
Typically, when a phone is not in active voice call, it transmits only briefly about once an hour (location update). If you're in a voice call and have a bluetooth headset, then I could see that you could get a bit of RF into your hipbone. But if the phone is just strapped to your hip, and it's not a smart phone doing bittorrent or something, you are not getting much RF radiated from it into your body.
Complete and utter rubbish. Who got this wrong, Apple or the submitter?
The submitter.
Agreed.
From the referenced article:
However, the Samba team has moved active development of the project to the more strict GPLv3 license, which prevents Apple from realistically using the software commercially.
(emphasis mine)
Not sure if the emphasized word was missed by everyone or if the article was updated.
Also, amazingly, the Fine Article gives more info:
While Mac OS X's previous Samba only supported the original SMB1, Microsoft's new SBM2 is both faster and more efficient, reducing the number of commands and subcommands from over a hundred to just 19, while adding pipelining of commands (to more efficiently transact over slow links), support for symbolic links, caching of file properties, and larger storage fields supporting better performance of large file transfers over fast networks.
...
On the other hand, the version of Samba Apple had been using prevented Macs from seamlessly working with modern PCs running Windows 7, which include security changes in how encryptions protocols work. Apple's own software won't be constrained by the design limitation of Samba.
Similar quakes have been felt in the North Texas area. The drilling is for natural gas from the Barnett Shale.
From a local TV station report:
Researching a 100-mile radius around Fort Worth, the U.S. Geological Survey recorded 11 minor earthquakes from 1973 to 2006, the period the government database spans.
But, in the last seven months, 15 more minor quakes have happened, including the four most recently in Cleburne. Still, most occurred along the Dallas and Tarrant County line.
I have to go with the GP on this one. It's not that vim is inherently bad, it's just that it's *unnecessary*. It includes tons of features that an old-school admin has no use for. Sure, most of us use it anyway because modern Linux systems usually don't include our good friend vi (it's usually just a symlink to vim), but we rarely use the features that separate vim from vi. Moving in and out of edit mode is second nature. Hell, even using the arrow keys to move around is a needlessly inefficient waste of motion, since the arrow keys are usually far from any other useful key on the keyboard. The first thing we do in vim is turn off syntax highlighting and silently curse whoever keeps turning it back on.
:set compat
That's all you have to do to make vim very close to vanilla vi.
And if you're cursing the one who turned on syntax highlighting, why not edit your.vimrc and disable it?
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Really? I work about 90 hours a week, and haven't had a single week actually "off" in about ten years.
Selfish bastard. You could share some of that work, there's enough to do for two or three people there.
Don't worry, they'll have to hire someone else when he works himself into an early grave.
How is this a GPS problem? Maps existed before GPS...
Yeah. I don't that that is an effect of GPS so much as an effect of the online maps (Google Maps, etc). Of course, those are dependent on GPS, so I guess it's a secondary effect.
i like t mobile's plan scheme, where the first 2gig is at full speed and then your speed gets knocked down. instead of paying an arm and a leg for the data. their data plans are $10 a month and i've always been able to tether for free using the phone off the shelf. i hate to say it, but with their shitty service and all but they've got the best setup. all told i think that is a $20-50 per month saving
I've got T-mo as well. My (un-rooted) Vibrant came with a option in the settings to enable it to be a WiFi AP. When I bought the phone I was told that I could tether with no extra charges. Then a couple of months after I got it, this came out:
T-Mobile recently announced the upcoming availability of a Tethering and Wi-Fi Sharing service plan that enables select smartphones to function as wireless modems for connecting devices, such as laptops, tablets and netbooks, to the Internet through the T-Mobile network.
I've only used it a couple of time, for my iPad, and so far they haven't modified my plan. But from the wording, it looks like they could. I suppose they'll only go after the biggest data hogs.
Then they took two more but filled various body cavities in the Pinto with rigid urethane foam.
I don't think I want to fill my body cavities with foam!
(2) You will not use the RIM Products and Software in the development, production, handling, maintenance, storage, detection, identification or dissemination of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons or their missile delivery systems, or of materials or equipment that could be used in such weapons or their missile delivery systems, or resell or export to anyone or any entity involved in such activity;.
That's pretty standard legalese found in most SLAs. So is RIM a controlling hippie, also?
... now pany batteries are chipped. 'for your protection' but they are authentication chipped for vendor lock-in (or lock-out, depending on POV).
Sometime 'for your protection' really means for your protection. If you put some cheap knock-off battery in the device, maybe it has different charge characteristics and the device will over-charge it, which can cause all kinds of problems.
Basically, the fluid cannot settle into little pockets because the (fictional) centripetal force is pushing it outwards along the fin channels.
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The used car salesman knows when he is lying.
My Blackberry has $5/month global roaming capabilities for data, I don't think it's anything special that you can't get.
A co-worker and I went to South America, he took his T-Mobile BB. I asked about data, he said he had the international data and it wouldn't cost him any extra. He neglected to check on the voice rates, however, and ended up with a $2k voice bill. Fortunately the company reimbursed him (but told him not to do that again).
It turns out that breasts contain high concentrations of magnetic material.
I guess that's why I'm attracted to them!
I think more likely that a vendor with laugh at Microsoft, spit in their face, and go with Android.
Maybe that's their plan.
If you're using a 4-digit numeric password to protect your phone, any kind of phone, yeah, somebody's eventually going to crack it in a non-end-of-the-universe timeframe, if they get unattended access to it, and you don't remote-wipe it.
Unless you limit the number of failed attempts (and then brick/erase the device), or have an increasing delay after each failed attempt.
This just lets you brute force the passkey, easy as if you're using a 4-digit numeric passkey there are only 10000 combinations.
I wonder if it tries '1234' first?
I predicted that most INSURANCE companies should or would have these to help get a better understanding of their customers driving habits 15 years ago
Like this?
It's not a 'black box', just logs your driving habits.
GSM phones have Cell Broadcast that is similar to SMS. I would expect that CDMA phones have something similar to that.
Whether it is by selling hypertension drugs to people with 140/90 (which was considered perfectly normal 50 years ago)
Maybe we know more about the long term effects of moderate hypertension than we did 50 years ago.
cholesterol drugs to everybody
I totally agree with you on this one.
Administering networks is best left to wizards and warlocks.
I guess Charlie Sheen wasn't available?
7. Provide customers the right to terminate service for changes to contract terms.
Carriers will not modify the material terms of their subscribers’ contracts in a manner that is materially adverse to subscribers without providing a reasonable advance notice of a proposed modification and allowing subscribers a time period of not less than 14 days to cancel their contracts with no early termination fee.
Android supposedly has this same info. But my Android phone usually has the wrong location; when I'm at home it shows my location as at work, and vice versa. So if I commit a crime I'll have an iron-clad alibi!
Yes
Typically, when a phone is not in active voice call, it transmits only briefly about once an hour (location update). If you're in a voice call and have a bluetooth headset, then I could see that you could get a bit of RF into your hipbone. But if the phone is just strapped to your hip, and it's not a smart phone doing bittorrent or something, you are not getting much RF radiated from it into your body.
Complete and utter rubbish. Who got this wrong, Apple or the submitter?
The submitter.
Agreed.
From the referenced article:
However, the Samba team has moved active development of the project to the more strict GPLv3 license, which prevents Apple from realistically using the software commercially.
(emphasis mine) Not sure if the emphasized word was missed by everyone or if the article was updated.
Also, amazingly, the Fine Article gives more info:
While Mac OS X's previous Samba only supported the original SMB1, Microsoft's new SBM2 is both faster and more efficient, reducing the number of commands and subcommands from over a hundred to just 19, while adding pipelining of commands (to more efficiently transact over slow links), support for symbolic links, caching of file properties, and larger storage fields supporting better performance of large file transfers over fast networks.
On the other hand, the version of Samba Apple had been using prevented Macs from seamlessly working with modern PCs running Windows 7, which include security changes in how encryptions protocols work. Apple's own software won't be constrained by the design limitation of Samba.
Researching a 100-mile radius around Fort Worth, the U.S. Geological Survey recorded 11 minor earthquakes from 1973 to 2006, the period the government database spans.
But, in the last seven months, 15 more minor quakes have happened, including the four most recently in Cleburne. Still, most occurred along the Dallas and Tarrant County line.
I have to go with the GP on this one. It's not that vim is inherently bad, it's just that it's *unnecessary*. It includes tons of features that an old-school admin has no use for. Sure, most of us use it anyway because modern Linux systems usually don't include our good friend vi (it's usually just a symlink to vim), but we rarely use the features that separate vim from vi. Moving in and out of edit mode is second nature. Hell, even using the arrow keys to move around is a needlessly inefficient waste of motion, since the arrow keys are usually far from any other useful key on the keyboard. The first thing we do in vim is turn off syntax highlighting and silently curse whoever keeps turning it back on.
That's all you have to do to make vim very close to vanilla vi.
And if you're cursing the one who turned on syntax highlighting, why not edit your .vimrc and disable it?