0% of iPhone users on AT&T can get a tethering plan from AT&T.
the crying to pay is crap - what your hearing is the bait and switch complaints.
they sell it as unlimited - and are now using their lack of network growth to justify changing contracts to 5gb max meaning unlimited while pocketing the money.
As far as i'm concerned the tethering iPhone users can be cut off - they knew when they bought the phone that it wasn't allowed. In fact that is the chief reason i don't have one, because i do tether a lot.
AT&T justs wants to continue over selling their network and charge more for it too - all to fund the top people and not actual network expansion.
if AT&T's tower switches fail to prioritize a 911 call ahead of generic data traffic then AT&T should be liable for not providing the required 911 service.
some funny things happen with cell phones when you dial 911 - they are not treated as a general phone call.
to be honest the reason i trusted the abstract was if you look the filing date is in 1991.. and to be honest it has been my experience when reading and dealing with patents that the older ones are written better in that they are more precise and accurate to what they where doing.
I agree that the abstract vs. claims is important to check but it's just and age/quality thing for me.
" a tamperproof overlay program is constructed at the registration computer and transferred to the personal computer. The tamperproof overlay includes critical portions of the main program, without which the main program would not operate and also contains licensee identification and license control data."
while someone could say that the activation code COULD be the tamper proof critical portion - the fact that they broke that out into an overlay of the mail program and licensee identification and control means it is not.
So while the activation code would be the control data there wouldn't be any "overlay" so this patent is only half passable at current activation schemes.
i doubt this will make it that far other than where they filed it.
oh i fully agree - like i said i'm not on their side at all.
what i was pointing out was that you seem to want to belittle the economic value that they bring to the bottom line, by comparing them to Intel or manufacturing.
while i fully believe they are nothing more than corrupt bigots, you can't say they don't have an economic impact worthy of government attention.
if i remember the random story yesterday they are slated to break 30bn this year which puts them at 0.2% of the US GDP or better phrased 1/500th of the US GDP.
0.2 doesn't sound like much but 1 in 500 is.. think if they where to disappear 1 in 500 people wouldn't have a livelihood.
i'm not advocating for them - nor do i think the taxpayers should give them anything or pay for their troubles. BUT i think 1 in 500 is enough to justify a meeting at the white house.
while there are bigger companies and sectors - Hollywood isn't small
i seriously can't wait till FF gets a new JS engine - sorry but the erata for it is horrid in how you can deal with the dom - it's almost to the point where you have to make exceptions for it as often as you do for IE
oh and the forcing you to update on start - no question just "i'm doing shit come back later" is god damn annoying
i remember this becoming an issue for me - i was on vacation - got an e-mail on my phone - had been drinking considerably and was in the car with the wife driving us back to the hotel.
the next week when i was back in the office there was a print out of the e-mail i sent with a huge ? on it on my desk.. apparently my response was so bad the thought my e-mail got "corrupted"
Where i work as the only IT person and there fore always on call - They provide a smart phone with voice and data and cover the costs - then for any time i do spend on a call after hours i can comp that back into the next work week and take a day off or cut the days short.
Over all i'm happy with it - i don't feel like i'm getting cheated and they get what they need without hidden costs.
If both connections are behind a nat then the RMA will use windows live servers as a proxy to initate the direct connection in the same way that some trackers do it for peers - establish communication to both and then pass on the relevant response addresses and ports to the clients and let them try.
sure there was physical withdrawal symptoms - but to be quite honest none of them can compare to other pain i have experienced and live with - so to me it was more of an inconvenience that i knew would go away with time - and they did
either way you look at it - there is a mind over mater thing going on - it is a mind-only thing - in that if you really do want to quit you can - and you can do it without drugs or other things, sure it isn't easy but that is the price to pay to do it. If your not willing to do that - then your not willing to do what it takes to quit.
no one under 40 that smokes didn't know that it was a bad idea when they started - they made that decision - now if they want to quit they get to make another.
don't get me wrong i'm sure some drugs/gums or what ever will make it easier - but the only surefire way is for the person to actually make it in their mind - after that the body will follow
I was 1/2 to 1 pack a day for 13 years - then the day before my 26'th birth day i realized that 1 more day and i would have smoked for 1/2 my life and at that point i was a smoker never a non smoker.
looked at the one in my hand - dropped it through the pack i had away and that was it.
Sure i had cravings - i chewed tooth picks for weeks - some times i miss the flavor but to be honest i can't even stand the smell of it any more if i'm around smokers.
Congrats for quiting - and while i'm glad i quit - i'd never be a zealot to go and tell smokers they need to quit, it's a personal thing - but quitting is defiantly a mind over matter thing
You joke - in NC it is attempted 1st degree murder to attempt suicide.
I remember a guy who attempted suicide - he ate the end of a.22 - failed at killing him self BUT managed to blow most of his brain stem off and became a quadriplegic. He was later convicted of attempted 1st degree murder and sent to jail (no i don't remember for how long).
thats the point - to make it so the generic OS can see the card and get to that point it has to advertise it's self as an existing standard compliant card - which it isn't because the existing standard isn't fast enough for it. instead you end up with OS/Application specific drivers to present the card as storage space.
Sure they might be able to make it present it's self as a standard ATA or SCSI interface and volume with degraded performance and then some how load a driver in the OS to talk over that existing connection in it's specialized way but to be honest - that is just another layer of abstraction and another spot for problems to creep up. If you actually have a need for the kind of performance this thing offers - being able to boot from it isn't a nice to have not a need to have from a company that is still refining it's tech (if they aren't still refining it there would be no need to put them in production with FPGA's)
Maybe on day they will get to point X where they are happy with their custom interface and present it for standard adoption - then the generic OS can implement support for not just it but all devices using the new interface.
or a list of Bugs/features/changes that have a milestone down the road and avg out to stupidly short amounts of time.
i get that daily - "lets tack this on the list - its small compared to the list" - repeat every couple days. and yet they expect it to take exactly as long as it should have when we started..
Yea when i read that - it sounds to me less like a "computer" problem and more like the common "backhoe" problem which is the fear of every sys/noc admin
you hit it right on the nose - my wife and i have 3 cars.. 1 compact for her for everyday driving 1 family car for road trips and i have my old Midget which sadly being 30 years old gets better gas mileage than either the Compact or the family car (both y2000+. i drive my small car and she drives hers - when we go on a road trip we take the family car and it works great.
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that is true - when ever i get a new cell phone i donate my old one to the domestic violence shelter so they can pass them out as 911 usable phones.
why? when i bought the router it said on the box 100Mbps Ethernet. And thats what i got. they don't say unlimited.
whats happening is they are saying Unlimited for X and then charging you X+Y where Y is usage over 5gb.
if they want to do that then they need to state that and remove the word Unlimited as that is false advertising.
0% of iPhone users on AT&T can get a tethering plan from AT&T.
the crying to pay is crap - what your hearing is the bait and switch complaints.
they sell it as unlimited - and are now using their lack of network growth to justify changing contracts to 5gb max meaning unlimited while pocketing the money.
As far as i'm concerned the tethering iPhone users can be cut off - they knew when they bought the phone that it wasn't allowed. In fact that is the chief reason i don't have one, because i do tether a lot.
AT&T justs wants to continue over selling their network and charge more for it too - all to fund the top people and not actual network expansion.
how about they start using the money to build their network instead of lining a couple people's pockets?
if AT&T's tower switches fail to prioritize a 911 call ahead of generic data traffic then AT&T should be liable for not providing the required 911 service.
some funny things happen with cell phones when you dial 911 - they are not treated as a general phone call.
exactly - if they want a 5gb a month plan - then sell it as a 5gb a month plan not unlimited.
unlimited means without limit - a limit is a restriction - a cap is a restriction and there for a limit.
I really wish i had the resources to take them to court for fraud/false advertising/deceptive practices.
to be honest the reason i trusted the abstract was if you look the filing date is in 1991.. and to be honest it has been my experience when reading and dealing with patents that the older ones are written better in that they are more precise and accurate to what they where doing.
I agree that the abstract vs. claims is important to check but it's just and age/quality thing for me.
Yea i noticed that too in the abstract
" a tamperproof overlay program is constructed at the registration computer and transferred to the personal computer. The tamperproof overlay includes critical portions of the main program, without which the main program would not operate and also contains licensee identification and license control data."
while someone could say that the activation code COULD be the tamper proof critical portion - the fact that they broke that out into an overlay of the mail program and licensee identification and control means it is not.
So while the activation code would be the control data there wouldn't be any "overlay" so this patent is only half passable at current activation schemes.
i doubt this will make it that far other than where they filed it.
oh i fully agree - like i said i'm not on their side at all.
what i was pointing out was that you seem to want to belittle the economic value that they bring to the bottom line, by comparing them to Intel or manufacturing.
while i fully believe they are nothing more than corrupt bigots, you can't say they don't have an economic impact worthy of government attention.
if i remember the random story yesterday they are slated to break 30bn this year which puts them at 0.2% of the US GDP or better phrased 1/500th of the US GDP.
0.2 doesn't sound like much but 1 in 500 is.. think if they where to disappear 1 in 500 people wouldn't have a livelihood.
i'm not advocating for them - nor do i think the taxpayers should give them anything or pay for their troubles. BUT i think 1 in 500 is enough to justify a meeting at the white house.
while there are bigger companies and sectors - Hollywood isn't small
i seriously can't wait till FF gets a new JS engine - sorry but the erata for it is horrid in how you can deal with the dom - it's almost to the point where you have to make exceptions for it as often as you do for IE
oh and the forcing you to update on start - no question just "i'm doing shit come back later" is god damn annoying
i remember this becoming an issue for me - i was on vacation - got an e-mail on my phone - had been drinking considerably and was in the car with the wife driving us back to the hotel.
the next week when i was back in the office there was a print out of the e-mail i sent with a huge ? on it on my desk.. apparently my response was so bad the thought my e-mail got "corrupted"
Where i work as the only IT person and there fore always on call - They provide a smart phone with voice and data and cover the costs - then for any time i do spend on a call after hours i can comp that back into the next work week and take a day off or cut the days short.
Over all i'm happy with it - i don't feel like i'm getting cheated and they get what they need without hidden costs.
the water acts as a stable oxidizer - freezing it makes it into more of a manageable past than a liquid
If both connections are behind a nat then the RMA will use windows live servers as a proxy to initate the direct connection in the same way that some trackers do it for peers - establish communication to both and then pass on the relevant response addresses and ports to the clients and let them try.
sure there was physical withdrawal symptoms - but to be quite honest none of them can compare to other pain i have experienced and live with - so to me it was more of an inconvenience that i knew would go away with time - and they did
either way you look at it - there is a mind over mater thing going on - it is a mind-only thing - in that if you really do want to quit you can - and you can do it without drugs or other things, sure it isn't easy but that is the price to pay to do it. If your not willing to do that - then your not willing to do what it takes to quit.
no one under 40 that smokes didn't know that it was a bad idea when they started - they made that decision - now if they want to quit they get to make another.
don't get me wrong i'm sure some drugs/gums or what ever will make it easier - but the only surefire way is for the person to actually make it in their mind - after that the body will follow
I was 1/2 to 1 pack a day for 13 years - then the day before my 26'th birth day i realized that 1 more day and i would have smoked for 1/2 my life and at that point i was a smoker never a non smoker.
looked at the one in my hand - dropped it through the pack i had away and that was it.
Sure i had cravings - i chewed tooth picks for weeks - some times i miss the flavor but to be honest i can't even stand the smell of it any more if i'm around smokers.
Congrats for quiting - and while i'm glad i quit - i'd never be a zealot to go and tell smokers they need to quit, it's a personal thing - but quitting is defiantly a mind over matter thing
lets see - it was 13 years ago - sorry no i don't remember the guys name, i do remember it happened less than a year after the state passed the law
You joke - in NC it is attempted 1st degree murder to attempt suicide.
I remember a guy who attempted suicide - he ate the end of a .22 - failed at killing him self BUT managed to blow most of his brain stem off and became a quadriplegic. He was later convicted of attempted 1st degree murder and sent to jail (no i don't remember for how long).
thats the point - to make it so the generic OS can see the card and get to that point it has to advertise it's self as an existing standard compliant card - which it isn't because the existing standard isn't fast enough for it. instead you end up with OS/Application specific drivers to present the card as storage space.
Sure they might be able to make it present it's self as a standard ATA or SCSI interface and volume with degraded performance and then some how load a driver in the OS to talk over that existing connection in it's specialized way but to be honest - that is just another layer of abstraction and another spot for problems to creep up. If you actually have a need for the kind of performance this thing offers - being able to boot from it isn't a nice to have not a need to have from a company that is still refining it's tech (if they aren't still refining it there would be no need to put them in production with FPGA's)
Maybe on day they will get to point X where they are happy with their custom interface and present it for standard adoption - then the generic OS can implement support for not just it but all devices using the new interface.
or a list of Bugs/features/changes that have a milestone down the road and avg out to stupidly short amounts of time.
i get that daily - "lets tack this on the list - its small compared to the list" - repeat every couple days. and yet they expect it to take exactly as long as it should have when we started..
Yea when i read that - it sounds to me less like a "computer" problem and more like the common "backhoe" problem which is the fear of every sys/noc admin
you hit it right on the nose - my wife and i have 3 cars.. 1 compact for her for everyday driving 1 family car for road trips and i have my old Midget which sadly being 30 years old gets better gas mileage than either the Compact or the family car (both y2000+. i drive my small car and she drives hers - when we go on a road trip we take the family car and it works great.
um, don't you mean military overlords...
Of course, the corporate uberlords control the military overlords, but that's a separate meme.
and at best temporary
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