Cloning is supposedly going to be much easier then breeding (once you have a perfect specimen, it's no trouble to reproduce the traits). True, all the training still must be done, but you're making the process easier (supposedly).
And what happens when the quality of living increases in the country you've outsourced to? India has had this problem, and now companies in India are outsourcing elsewhere. I have no problem with this, as eventually the world will have it's entire quality of life pulled up slowly but surely.
With this @Home service, yes. You'll need to have a phone that supports it (only two phones, a Nokia and Samsung, currently support the needed guts to do this).
/also a T-Mobile customer //always have had a fantastic experience
Hey there chief. I've been a loyal T-mobile customer since 2001 (old Voicestream customer). Do me a favor and pass this wislist along to your ops team:
1) Don't bill based on what network the call starts on. Bill based on minutes used on each type of network. My understanding of @Home is that if the call starts while you're on the cellular network, and then you get home to the Wifi network, you still eat into your bucket of minutes since the call started on the tower.
2) Have more phones support this. I'd fork over what people paid for the iPhone to have my Blackberry support this.
3) Tunnel everything. I know just voice is done right now (data is still done over the GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks). Why not route the data over the Wifi network if it's available?
Thank you T-Mobile dude!
P.S. I'd be willing to pay to help beta test if more testing is needed;)
Years ago, I did not believe in God. I was young, and thought I knew everything. Slowly, as I've matured (I'm 24, going on 25), I've realized that what I know is a minuscule fraction of what the universe has to offer. I'm not saying I believe in God now, but I am saying that I'm not ruling out that there are things across the universe I may not know or understand, nor will I in this lifetime.
I've just recently become self-employed, and had health insurance priced through State Farm (who also handles my car and home insurance). I'm a 24 year old healthy male, non-smoker. Assurant quoted my insurance out at $133/month (which would include dental and term life insurance on the order of $6 million). Me thinks your friend needs to look around more for insurance.
I won't flame you, but I'll explain the error in your reasoning. Verizon is CDMA, and there are very few CDMA providers in the world. You're basically tied to Verizon. Since the iPhone is GSM, you just swap out the SIM card and use another GSM provider. You won't get the cool non-sequential-access for voicemails with another provider, but you can still switch providers.
If I wanted a phone that worked only in the US, I'd go with Verizon and Sprint (the only US EVDO providers). Unfortunately, I enjoy my phone working in Ireland, the UK, and the Carribean, places where CDMA providers (and hence, EVDO providers) are scant.
Agreed. I used to be pretty far to the left (and as I've grown older and more mature, have moved towards being a moderate). No matter what my political views were though, Senator Kennedy always came off as a douchebag.
You're very right about VMWare ESX. We use it in production for a couple thousand users, and I'm still in awe that I can push running VMs from one physical box to another with less than a second of downtime.
Keep in mind you're in the majority. Most people don't mind that their music isn't super-high-bitrate/lossy compression. You don't have to get all the money in the market to be the biggest player, just the majority. Example: MySpace. Sure, it looks like ass, and it's code is half-broken. But millions upon millions of people use it. And the ad money flows in.
Ablative = more weight. Also, forgive my math, as I had been up for 30 hours straight. Why not go with a highly reflective surface? A laser can't destroy a mirror.
A company is a distinct entity in the US system, and has plenty of the same rights as a person. So why can't it have lobbyists looking out for it's interests? Shut the fuck up and stop bitching until you do something as valuable or more then what Google has done.
Bring one of them down? Probably not. But they're extremely expensive to run. Don't get me wrong, I love them. They're extremely cool. But I'd prefer a more efficient aircraft design, one that doesn't drip super-expensive boutique jet fuel on the runway as the body heats up to form together properly.
You don't outrun the laser, you outrun the tracking system. 4000mph is more then 11 miles per second. You can predict a satellite's trajectory, but not always an aircraft's. Also take into account dwell time for the laser as well(as someone else noted higher up in the thread), as it takes time to pump joules into a target.
At some point, you don't need the stealth, because by the time anyone realizes you're coming and gets some sort of weapon 100k ft into the air, you'll probably have already landed.
It's funny you mention that. That's exactly how the SR-71 handled the stealth issue. If you read up on Wikipedia (as well as other sources) you'll note that the SR-71 showed up as a huge radar signature on FAA radar (even with the transponder off). The engines also burned hot and bright, making any stealth efforts negligible. Standard procedure if attacked by surface to air or air to air missiles was to go to Mach 3. Everyone sees you, but nothing catches you.
T-zones was $5/month (web only, ports 80/443). True data service was sold (unlimited) for $30/month. This included unlimited usage of their EDGE network as well as unlimited usage of their wi-fi locations. A steal in my opinion. Unfortunately, most Slashdot users are cheapskates who have no clue as to how much a network actually costs to run.
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Cloning is supposedly going to be much easier then breeding (once you have a perfect specimen, it's no trouble to reproduce the traits). True, all the training still must be done, but you're making the process easier (supposedly).
Excellent non-car analogy. And hats off to reminding me of "The Grapes of Wrath."
Apologies to Godwin.
And what happens when the quality of living increases in the country you've outsourced to? India has had this problem, and now companies in India are outsourcing elsewhere. I have no problem with this, as eventually the world will have it's entire quality of life pulled up slowly but surely.
1) Don't bill based on what network the call starts on. Bill based on minutes used on each type of network. My understanding of @Home is that if the call starts while you're on the cellular network, and then you get home to the Wifi network, you still eat into your bucket of minutes since the call started on the tower.
2) Have more phones support this. I'd fork over what people paid for the iPhone to have my Blackberry support this.
3) Tunnel everything. I know just voice is done right now (data is still done over the GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks). Why not route the data over the Wifi network if it's available?
Thank you T-Mobile dude!
P.S. I'd be willing to pay to help beta test if more testing is needed ;)
Years ago, I did not believe in God. I was young, and thought I knew everything. Slowly, as I've matured (I'm 24, going on 25), I've realized that what I know is a minuscule fraction of what the universe has to offer. I'm not saying I believe in God now, but I am saying that I'm not ruling out that there are things across the universe I may not know or understand, nor will I in this lifetime.
How do you increase a scarce resource? Start offering incentives for students to get into medical/nursing school.
I've just recently become self-employed, and had health insurance priced through State Farm (who also handles my car and home insurance). I'm a 24 year old healthy male, non-smoker. Assurant quoted my insurance out at $133/month (which would include dental and term life insurance on the order of $6 million). Me thinks your friend needs to look around more for insurance.
I won't flame you, but I'll explain the error in your reasoning. Verizon is CDMA, and there are very few CDMA providers in the world. You're basically tied to Verizon. Since the iPhone is GSM, you just swap out the SIM card and use another GSM provider. You won't get the cool non-sequential-access for voicemails with another provider, but you can still switch providers.
If I wanted a phone that worked only in the US, I'd go with Verizon and Sprint (the only US EVDO providers). Unfortunately, I enjoy my phone working in Ireland, the UK, and the Carribean, places where CDMA providers (and hence, EVDO providers) are scant.
Agreed. I used to be pretty far to the left (and as I've grown older and more mature, have moved towards being a moderate). No matter what my political views were though, Senator Kennedy always came off as a douchebag.
You're very right about VMWare ESX. We use it in production for a couple thousand users, and I'm still in awe that I can push running VMs from one physical box to another with less than a second of downtime.
Done and done.
As an IT professional who moved into aviation, you've be amazed at the durability of most components. These aren't no Linksys boxes I tell ya.
Internet wins for geographic range it can cover. Most lower power FM transmitters have a short range.
Keep in mind you're in the majority. Most people don't mind that their music isn't super-high-bitrate/lossy compression. You don't have to get all the money in the market to be the biggest player, just the majority. Example: MySpace. Sure, it looks like ass, and it's code is half-broken. But millions upon millions of people use it. And the ad money flows in.
Ablative = more weight. Also, forgive my math, as I had been up for 30 hours straight. Why not go with a highly reflective surface? A laser can't destroy a mirror.
Fucking Slashdot. Figures.
Bring one of them down? Probably not. But they're extremely expensive to run. Don't get me wrong, I love them. They're extremely cool. But I'd prefer a more efficient aircraft design, one that doesn't drip super-expensive boutique jet fuel on the runway as the body heats up to form together properly.
You don't outrun the laser, you outrun the tracking system. 4000mph is more then 11 miles per second. You can predict a satellite's trajectory, but not always an aircraft's. Also take into account dwell time for the laser as well(as someone else noted higher up in the thread), as it takes time to pump joules into a target.
It's funny you mention that. That's exactly how the SR-71 handled the stealth issue. If you read up on Wikipedia (as well as other sources) you'll note that the SR-71 showed up as a huge radar signature on FAA radar (even with the transponder off). The engines also burned hot and bright, making any stealth efforts negligible. Standard procedure if attacked by surface to air or air to air missiles was to go to Mach 3. Everyone sees you, but nothing catches you.
*misses the SR-71*
Air dried = Let sit out. Zero fossil fuels burned =)
T-zones was $5/month (web only, ports 80/443). True data service was sold (unlimited) for $30/month. This included unlimited usage of their EDGE network as well as unlimited usage of their wi-fi locations. A steal in my opinion. Unfortunately, most Slashdot users are cheapskates who have no clue as to how much a network actually costs to run.
Yes, it can. It just needs to be cheaper to build/purchase it then bandwidth.