We have MVNO providers that offer a pretty low price for similar. Simple Mobile has a $40/month plan that is unlimited voice, unlimited text, and unlimited 3G data. For $60/month you get the same, except unlimited 4G data (it's HSPA+ on T-Mobile). Straight Talk offers unlimited voice, unlimited text, and unlimited 3G data for $45/month on T-Mobile or AT&T and you can bring your own phone.
So, why do I still have Verizon and am paying $156/month for two Android phones with "unlimited" data, 700 minutes shared on a family plan, and 500 text messages on each line? I have no idea. I think it's the fear of losing my "unlimited" data plan on Verizon that I've been grandfathered into even though neither my wife or I use more than 500MB of data a month. I could easily be saving $70-$80/month switching to a prepaid provider. I'm actually looking forward to the day when Verizon pulls the same throttling thing AT&T did on their grandfathered data customers because I won't even think twice about switching providers at that point to save money.
Ah, the old "I was forced to pirate the content because they wouldn't offer it to me for free" argument. Nobody is forcing you to watch TV... turn it off and do something more productive with your time instead.
There are at least a dozen different browsers available for iOS. The only restriction is you need to use the Webkit library built into iOS for rendering, so technically Mozilla could come out with a Firefox mobile for iOS that uses webkit.
How about discontinuing the MacOS X systems and just create a Macbook laptop based on the ARM processor that boots right into Xcode? They could call it the iOS Premier Developer System and sell it at a premium... like $3000.
Exactly. Even if the seed files for the token were stolen, RSA still has no information about what seed file information was associated with what user! A company like Lockheed Martin could have tens of thousands of Securid tokens. The permutations for users to tokens to guessing PINs is still astronomical unless an insider was involved that had access to the securid database.
I have a VCR I bought in 1992 hooked up to a TV I bought in 1990 and they both still work just fine. I don't see why a DVD player shouldn't be able to last 20 years.
And you think the ISPs care about your ability to run Bittorrent? I assure you the vast majority of them wish that protocol had never been invented.:-)
Capitalism naturally weeds out situations that are unsatisfactory to the consumer. If you don't like your ISP with its two-tier Internet approach, use another. If there are no other options, assuming there is no government-imposed monopoly in place, then petition companies to start offering service in your area. If enough people get pissed off with poor service then other companies will jump at the chance to fill the void.
Cox's Akamai node they host on their internal network is massively overloaded by all the Cox users that hit it. When I first changed to Cox last year I started noticing massive buffering when trying to access Akamai sites like Apple's movie trailer's site or even just updates for my iPhone. I was barely getting 512 Kbps downloading stuff. The minute I switched over to using Level 3's DNS servers my download times cut to a fraction of what it used to take and I was getting 20 Mbps.
I reported all this information along with detailed traceroutes and packet dumps and what was their response? "Reboot your computer. If that doesn't resolve the situation you may need to reset your cable modem." That was it. They totally ignored all the analysis and just told me the problem was on my end. I haven't used their DNS servers since.
The point is that eBooks take the vast majority of the cost of publishing out of the equation and yet they want those books to cost as much as, if not more, than a physical book made out of paper. Then on top of it they screw you by not letting you resell, loan, or just plain give the book away to someone else despite the fact that it is perfectly possible for a DRM scheme to be created that allows the transfer of electronic content while removing your access to read it.
This is an enormous pet peeve of mine. I've got Kindle on my iPad and my Droid phone but I can't bring myself to actually BUYING any eBooks. The entire concept seems absolutely ludicrous to me. I can go to Amazon or Borders and order a hard copy book that usually is cheaper than the ebook, and gives me total freedom to resell, loan it out, or toss it on my bookshelf for future generations of my family to pick up and read when the time comes. If the ebook was a fraction of the price of a print book or had technology that would allow me to loan and resell, or at the very least print a hardcopy of the book, I may reevaluate the technology. At the rate we're going though, I have little hope my grandchildren will even know what a library is, much less see one filled with current edition books because the concept of sharing and borrowing is being lost in this digital generation. Publishers are turning the concept of sharing into a dirty criminal thing when in fact we go out of our way to instill those values of sharing into our children from the time they are babies. It is insane.
The point is there should be a bootloader in ROM that allows for a failsafe to restore the device to factory conditions or at least allow it a minimal capability to load such an image off another system. Nothing in erasable storage should ever be able to brick the phone. It's trivial for designers to avoid that unless they are doing it on purpose to punish hardware hackers.
How exactly do YOU hold your phone? I just naturally picked up my Droid and held it up to my ear and I pick it up with my left hand with my thumb extended along the length of the left-hand side of the phone and two or three fingers wrapped around the back holding the right hand side of the phone. It certainly seems natural to me, and I'm right-handed. The way I naturally hold my phone causes the fat-pad of my hand to cross that imaginary antenna slot if I had an iPhone 4. I imagine the vast majority of people would hold their phones the same way if they're right-handed (in their left-hand since we use our dominate hand to dial and manipulate the UI).
The iPad is a HORRIBLE porn viewing device. There's no easy way to set it down to view hands-free and if you're holding it... well... let's just say it's slippery enough as it is without any fluids involved.
They'd probably rather license the content to mobile providers using services like Verizon's VCAST. I recently read they went live with VCAST for Android which could explain why Hulu is blocking Android phones with Flash. No sense in letting users get something for free with ads when you can charge them for a premium service right?
I guarantee you within 10 years every Apple computer will use its trusted computing module to disallow you from running unsigned code. Apple is trailblazing this technology on mobile devices today, getting people accustomed to it and even astonishingly getting their more fanatical users to defend their use of it to restrict their activities. Unbelievable. You'll need to join the Apple developer program and pay your yearly fee to them just to write code for your own computer and they'll do it all under the guise of preserving "performance" and "security".
Also, the big content providers in the USA seem to be purposefully blocking access from mobile devices. Try going to Hulu or CBS and displaying videos and you will be blocked even though Flash is perfectly capable of displaying those videos. This just astonishes me that they don't want me to view their advertisements from my mobile device. I can only assume Steve has arranged some exclusive deal with them or they're planning on releasing pay-per-view versions of their web sites, perhaps using a dedicated video application. FAIL.
My magical iPad did get a girl to look at me in a cafe last month though. Well, it was either that or the ridiculously loud Hawaiian shirt I was wearing.
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We have MVNO providers that offer a pretty low price for similar. Simple Mobile has a $40/month plan that is unlimited voice, unlimited text, and unlimited 3G data. For $60/month you get the same, except unlimited 4G data (it's HSPA+ on T-Mobile). Straight Talk offers unlimited voice, unlimited text, and unlimited 3G data for $45/month on T-Mobile or AT&T and you can bring your own phone.
So, why do I still have Verizon and am paying $156/month for two Android phones with "unlimited" data, 700 minutes shared on a family plan, and 500 text messages on each line? I have no idea. I think it's the fear of losing my "unlimited" data plan on Verizon that I've been grandfathered into even though neither my wife or I use more than 500MB of data a month. I could easily be saving $70-$80/month switching to a prepaid provider. I'm actually looking forward to the day when Verizon pulls the same throttling thing AT&T did on their grandfathered data customers because I won't even think twice about switching providers at that point to save money.
Ha Ha Ha. Laugh it up Mr. Funnyman. The extra 5% boost I get out of these optimizations is going to blow your god damn socks off.
I don't think you're going to melt if you can't run the AC or listen to your pop tunes on the radio. LOL. Open the windows, enjoy the breeze.
Ah, the old "I was forced to pirate the content because they wouldn't offer it to me for free" argument. Nobody is forcing you to watch TV... turn it off and do something more productive with your time instead.
There are at least a dozen different browsers available for iOS. The only restriction is you need to use the Webkit library built into iOS for rendering, so technically Mozilla could come out with a Firefox mobile for iOS that uses webkit.
How about discontinuing the MacOS X systems and just create a Macbook laptop based on the ARM processor that boots right into Xcode? They could call it the iOS Premier Developer System and sell it at a premium... like $3000.
Exactly. Even if the seed files for the token were stolen, RSA still has no information about what seed file information was associated with what user! A company like Lockheed Martin could have tens of thousands of Securid tokens. The permutations for users to tokens to guessing PINs is still astronomical unless an insider was involved that had access to the securid database.
Use KeePassX instead. (http://www.keepassx.org/). It is open source and doesn't require the lame-brain mono crap.
WTF happened to Firefox 5? I am running the newest build I can find and it is Firefox 4.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.04.
I have a VCR I bought in 1992 hooked up to a TV I bought in 1990 and they both still work just fine. I don't see why a DVD player shouldn't be able to last 20 years.
And you think the ISPs care about your ability to run Bittorrent? I assure you the vast majority of them wish that protocol had never been invented. :-)
Capitalism naturally weeds out situations that are unsatisfactory to the consumer. If you don't like your ISP with its two-tier Internet approach, use another. If there are no other options, assuming there is no government-imposed monopoly in place, then petition companies to start offering service in your area. If enough people get pissed off with poor service then other companies will jump at the chance to fill the void.
Cox's Akamai node they host on their internal network is massively overloaded by all the Cox users that hit it. When I first changed to Cox last year I started noticing massive buffering when trying to access Akamai sites like Apple's movie trailer's site or even just updates for my iPhone. I was barely getting 512 Kbps downloading stuff. The minute I switched over to using Level 3's DNS servers my download times cut to a fraction of what it used to take and I was getting 20 Mbps.
I reported all this information along with detailed traceroutes and packet dumps and what was their response? "Reboot your computer. If that doesn't resolve the situation you may need to reset your cable modem." That was it. They totally ignored all the analysis and just told me the problem was on my end. I haven't used their DNS servers since.
The point is that eBooks take the vast majority of the cost of publishing out of the equation and yet they want those books to cost as much as, if not more, than a physical book made out of paper. Then on top of it they screw you by not letting you resell, loan, or just plain give the book away to someone else despite the fact that it is perfectly possible for a DRM scheme to be created that allows the transfer of electronic content while removing your access to read it.
This is an enormous pet peeve of mine. I've got Kindle on my iPad and my Droid phone but I can't bring myself to actually BUYING any eBooks. The entire concept seems absolutely ludicrous to me. I can go to Amazon or Borders and order a hard copy book that usually is cheaper than the ebook, and gives me total freedom to resell, loan it out, or toss it on my bookshelf for future generations of my family to pick up and read when the time comes. If the ebook was a fraction of the price of a print book or had technology that would allow me to loan and resell, or at the very least print a hardcopy of the book, I may reevaluate the technology. At the rate we're going though, I have little hope my grandchildren will even know what a library is, much less see one filled with current edition books because the concept of sharing and borrowing is being lost in this digital generation. Publishers are turning the concept of sharing into a dirty criminal thing when in fact we go out of our way to instill those values of sharing into our children from the time they are babies. It is insane.
The point is there should be a bootloader in ROM that allows for a failsafe to restore the device to factory conditions or at least allow it a minimal capability to load such an image off another system. Nothing in erasable storage should ever be able to brick the phone. It's trivial for designers to avoid that unless they are doing it on purpose to punish hardware hackers.
How exactly do YOU hold your phone? I just naturally picked up my Droid and held it up to my ear and I pick it up with my left hand with my thumb extended along the length of the left-hand side of the phone and two or three fingers wrapped around the back holding the right hand side of the phone. It certainly seems natural to me, and I'm right-handed. The way I naturally hold my phone causes the fat-pad of my hand to cross that imaginary antenna slot if I had an iPhone 4. I imagine the vast majority of people would hold their phones the same way if they're right-handed (in their left-hand since we use our dominate hand to dial and manipulate the UI).
The iPad is a HORRIBLE porn viewing device. There's no easy way to set it down to view hands-free and if you're holding it... well... let's just say it's slippery enough as it is without any fluids involved.
Oh for crying out loud, you guys need to have your sarcasm meters checked. He was obviously joking.
They'd probably rather license the content to mobile providers using services like Verizon's VCAST. I recently read they went live with VCAST for Android which could explain why Hulu is blocking Android phones with Flash. No sense in letting users get something for free with ads when you can charge them for a premium service right?
I guarantee you within 10 years every Apple computer will use its trusted computing module to disallow you from running unsigned code. Apple is trailblazing this technology on mobile devices today, getting people accustomed to it and even astonishingly getting their more fanatical users to defend their use of it to restrict their activities. Unbelievable. You'll need to join the Apple developer program and pay your yearly fee to them just to write code for your own computer and they'll do it all under the guise of preserving "performance" and "security".
Also, the big content providers in the USA seem to be purposefully blocking access from mobile devices. Try going to Hulu or CBS and displaying videos and you will be blocked even though Flash is perfectly capable of displaying those videos. This just astonishes me that they don't want me to view their advertisements from my mobile device. I can only assume Steve has arranged some exclusive deal with them or they're planning on releasing pay-per-view versions of their web sites, perhaps using a dedicated video application. FAIL.
"We found a revolutionary new way to display Flash content that won't drain the battery..."
Comcast's cable box is not capable of downscaling to 480i? I find that hard to believe.
My magical iPad did get a girl to look at me in a cafe last month though. Well, it was either that or the ridiculously loud Hawaiian shirt I was wearing.