where the organization itself acts as the "bank". That way the interest on the micro-loan goes back to the charitable organization and is used to fund more loans.
Most of the LED brake lights use PWM for brightness control, and it results in the LEDs of the car in front of me appearing to flicker whenever I move my eyes. Drives me crazy.
I live in the Canadian prairies, and it turns out that there is an interesting side effect of the higher efficiency of the LED bulbs....they don't put out *enough* heat.
Last year the weather conditions were just right and we had a kind of sticky blowing snow that stuck to a bunch of the traffic lights. With the old bulbs the heat would have been enough to "self-clear", but for the LED ones they had to send out crews to clean off the snow.
The new Blackberry OS has some interesting functionality (reminiscent of webOS in some areas) that I could see some people really going for. In particular the separation between business/personal could reduce BYOD concerns a lot (though I think it should also be able to have separate sim cards as well).
With the new OS, I think it's reasonable to give Blackberry another chance, and so the question becomes what it would take for them to actually succeed.
1) Augmented reality, overlay virtual information on the real world. 2) 3D motion sensing, like the "leap motion" device. 3) Ability to dock with something that has common ports (USB in, video out, etc.) and turn into a full-fledged computer with full sized keyboard/mouse while also charging the mobile device. 4) Better battery. (like 10x better)
The early blackberrys were highly optimized text messaging machines...everything was aimed at maximizing battery life.
Once you start bringing in big bright high def screens, arbitrary apps, fluid video, fancy gui elements, etc. you pretty much by definition are going to use more battery keeping the whole thing running.
You could have 3 days of battery life now if you were willing to go back to the feature set of the 8830.
They used addresses of the form "abc123@school.tld" where "abc" were the initials of the student and "123" was a number that incremented whenever there was a collision in the initials. If you have over a thousand collisions you just add another digit.
Around here 7-11 offers a prepaid plan with the only monthly cost being the 911 fee. After that you pay as you go, so for "light" use it's cheaper than the cheapest fixed-rate plan.
They have an up-to-2G/month "unlimited web browsing" addon for $10/month that gets you most of the way to a full data connection when used with a proxy on the phone. This gets you texting for free with one of the various texting apps.
So, data and texting for $11.25 a month. Try getting that with a contract plan.
"more glass" means a wider front lens with the ability to capture more light.
I have an 85mm F1.4 lens originally designed for 35mm. The front element is 72mm across. No matter how good the lens is on a phone (and some are *very* good) it won't be able to gather as much light as this lens.
Maybe if you have brand new applications written properly then X is okay. However, I have old legacy apps that require many round-trips between the X client and server to do the simplest things. For a cross-country link with 60ms ping it is *FAR* faster to use VNC than to use X.
For their prepaid plan the only monthly fee is $1.25 for 911. You can get unlimited web browsing for $10/month (good for 2GB/month), and do all your texting via the data connection. Voice quality over the data connection is variable...if you care about that then you'll want to use the voice minutes which might mean another plan makes more sense.
although not by much. $200 flat discount with the one provider, I think.
The big difference is that if you bring your own phone you can use whatever plan you want, but if you take the subsidy you need to get a plan that costs at least $50/month.
I'm up in Canada...my dad just re-upped with his cell provider for 2 years. In return he paid $50 for a phone that would cost $300 to buy outright. He's on a $25/month plan with voice/text only, no data.
As for "plan pricing, internet caps, speed throttling, and terms of usage" constantly shifting, while the cell company can change the plans they offer to new customers they can't change the details of a contract that has already been signed.
A person can make things as accurately as a machine, they just take longer. Accuracy can be verified by someone else, it just takes longer. All that sort of stuff is just labour-saving in another guise.
You're carrying around a radio beacon, and you expect the store to not notice this fact and use it to gather statistics?
Really, if facial recognition software were cheap and ubiquitous would you really expect stores to not use it? This is just a quick and dirty substitute.
It is my understanding that Netflix will provide the server(s) and the bandwidth from Netflix to the ISP. This is basically like any other content delivery network (Akamai, for instance).
The ISP may need to beef up the connection to their subscribers, but that is useful for all traffic not just Netflix.
Theoretically a "carrier grade NAT" could (due to the large scale) have the resources (both computational and developer time) to be capable of packet inspection to figure out what ports need to be dynamically mapped for more types of traffic than are supported in a cheaper implementation.
I never really understood why we didn't just map all the IPv4 addresses to a IPv6 subset and provide a very simple rule to translate, say by adding all zeros or some other number to the IPv4 address to get its IPv6 one.
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When a new SLR body can be upwards of $6000, it's NOT going to be cheaper to get a new one.
where the organization itself acts as the "bank". That way the interest on the micro-loan goes back to the charitable organization and is used to fund more loans.
... the carriers long ago realized that the total qualify of your cellular experience is heavily dependent on the quality of your handset.
Um, no. The quality of your data usage may be...but for voice/text I'm using an ancient Blackberry with no data plan and it works just fine.
It's a commented assembly listing with a proposed hacky fix in assembly.
The solowheel does actually appear to have been invented by one guy...
Most of the LED brake lights use PWM for brightness control, and it results in the LEDs of the car in front of me appearing to flicker whenever I move my eyes. Drives me crazy.
I live in the Canadian prairies, and it turns out that there is an interesting side effect of the higher efficiency of the LED bulbs....they don't put out *enough* heat.
Last year the weather conditions were just right and we had a kind of sticky blowing snow that stuck to a bunch of the traffic lights. With the old bulbs the heat would have been enough to "self-clear", but for the LED ones they had to send out crews to clean off the snow.
The new Blackberry OS has some interesting functionality (reminiscent of webOS in some areas) that I could see some people really going for. In particular the separation between business/personal could reduce BYOD concerns a lot (though I think it should also be able to have separate sim cards as well).
With the new OS, I think it's reasonable to give Blackberry another chance, and so the question becomes what it would take for them to actually succeed.
1) Augmented reality, overlay virtual information on the real world.
2) 3D motion sensing, like the "leap motion" device.
3) Ability to dock with something that has common ports (USB in, video out, etc.) and turn into a full-fledged computer with full sized keyboard/mouse while also charging the mobile device.
4) Better battery. (like 10x better)
The early blackberrys were highly optimized text messaging machines...everything was aimed at maximizing battery life.
Once you start bringing in big bright high def screens, arbitrary apps, fluid video, fancy gui elements, etc. you pretty much by definition are going to use more battery keeping the whole thing running.
You could have 3 days of battery life now if you were willing to go back to the feature set of the 8830.
They used addresses of the form "abc123@school.tld" where "abc" were the initials of the student and "123" was a number that incremented whenever there was a collision in the initials. If you have over a thousand collisions you just add another digit.
Around here 7-11 offers a prepaid plan with the only monthly cost being the 911 fee. After that you pay as you go, so for "light" use it's cheaper than the cheapest fixed-rate plan.
They have an up-to-2G/month "unlimited web browsing" addon for $10/month that gets you most of the way to a full data connection when used with a proxy on the phone. This gets you texting for free with one of the various texting apps.
So, data and texting for $11.25 a month. Try getting that with a contract plan.
"more glass" means a wider front lens with the ability to capture more light.
I have an 85mm F1.4 lens originally designed for 35mm. The front element is 72mm across. No matter how good the lens is on a phone (and some are *very* good) it won't be able to gather as much light as this lens.
Maybe if you have brand new applications written properly then X is okay. However, I have old legacy apps that require many round-trips between the X client and server to do the simplest things. For a cross-country link with 60ms ping it is *FAR* faster to use VNC than to use X.
For their prepaid plan the only monthly fee is $1.25 for 911. You can get unlimited web browsing for $10/month (good for 2GB/month), and do all your texting via the data connection. Voice quality over the data connection is variable...if you care about that then you'll want to use the voice minutes which might mean another plan makes more sense.
although not by much. $200 flat discount with the one provider, I think.
The big difference is that if you bring your own phone you can use whatever plan you want, but if you take the subsidy you need to get a plan that costs at least $50/month.
I'm up in Canada...my dad just re-upped with his cell provider for 2 years. In return he paid $50 for a phone that would cost $300 to buy outright. He's on a $25/month plan with voice/text only, no data.
As for "plan pricing, internet caps, speed throttling, and terms of usage" constantly shifting, while the cell company can change the plans they offer to new customers they can't change the details of a contract that has already been signed.
because if *everyone* does the experiment and the results don't match up with the theory, then there's something missing in the theory.
In this case, taking the same measurement two different ways results in two different numbers, and the theory says they should match.
The N4/N7/N10 are pretty much flying off the shelves as fast as they can make them.
At the peak, a job in the unionized auto shops paid pretty well and had an awesome pension.
Nowadays, not so much.
A person can make things as accurately as a machine, they just take longer. Accuracy can be verified by someone else, it just takes longer. All that sort of stuff is just labour-saving in another guise.
You're carrying around a radio beacon, and you expect the store to not notice this fact and use it to gather statistics?
Really, if facial recognition software were cheap and ubiquitous would you really expect stores to not use it? This is just a quick and dirty substitute.
It is my understanding that Netflix will provide the server(s) and the bandwidth from Netflix to the ISP. This is basically like any other content delivery network (Akamai, for instance).
The ISP may need to beef up the connection to their subscribers, but that is useful for all traffic not just Netflix.
Theoretically a "carrier grade NAT" could (due to the large scale) have the resources (both computational and developer time) to be capable of packet inspection to figure out what ports need to be dynamically mapped for more types of traffic than are supported in a cheaper implementation.
I never really understood why we didn't just map all the IPv4 addresses to a IPv6 subset and provide a very simple rule to translate, say by adding all zeros or some other number to the IPv4 address to get its IPv6 one.
Um....they did?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses