Their service is great where they have competition. Speedtest.net just now showed 679 Mbps down and 776Mbps up on my advertised gigabit ($70/month) from AT&T in a neighborhood with multiple providers offering >100Mbps service
I have about 40 SmartHome-brand Insteon switches in my house. Every year one or two of them crap out and need to be replaced at $50 a pop and an hour of tinkering with wiring and controller programming.
Automation can be useful but I'm not sure if it's useful enough to justify the continuing maintenance overhead.
It's technically trivial to allow users to train any trigger phrase they want to, but it hurts brand awareness. When your device only wakes to "OK Google" it tells everyone you're using Google assistant. "Hello Computer" could be anything.
So the phone may have the hardware for it, but not actually be wired up. The real question is why?
Because the circuitry required to utilize the shield (ground) wire on the headset as an FM antenna increases the ground impedance and causes left-right and capture-playback crosstalk. The latter can be fixed by the phone's echo canceler, but the former cannot.
That's why FM radio is mainly confined to lower-cost phones. Premium phone buyers tend to be more particular about the headset audio quality.
Or, the sound server/mixer in the phone could switch from MP3/AAC passthrough to mix-and-reecode whenever there are multiple streams, and switch back to passthrough once the music is the only remaining sound.
Sure, that's technically feasible, but since nobody cares about mp3 passthrough anymore there's no incentive to implement it.
FLAC and OPUS are royalty-free nowadays, and OPUS is even a IETF standard. Bluetooth should consider introducing them to Bluetooth...
That would make many people very happy. No idea what BT SIG is up to these days.
Trivially possible, but it would have required a MP3 *codec* core, instead of a purely MP3 decoding hardware core as done back then, which would have risen the cost of the SoC and thus of the feature phone.
You have a funny definition of "trivial".
Correct me, if I'm wrong, but 25Mpbs figure is basically using AMP - Alternative MAC/PHY. Or in other words, using Bluetooth over a 802.11 transport (i.e.: over a Wifi transport).
Nope, you're not wrong. That's what I get for skimming the results for latest BT specs. Regular Bluetooth EDR is more like 3Mbps -- the data rate is one order of magnitude greater than hi-fi audio, not two. I stand by my assertion that faster radios aren't needed for high-quality audio.
Tons of headsets support mp3 over A2DP, but few sources do. It was intended to enable low-power operation by streaming the mp3 content directly from source to sink without transcoding. This seems perfectly sensible to somebody making a media player, but for smartphones it means you have to come up with something else to do with your UI tones and notifications and whatnot (because you can't mix them into the mp3 stream without decoding and re-encoding, defeating the purpose of mp3 passthrough).
For the same reason, ATRAC is also a defined A2DP codec: so your MiniDisc player could stream directly to an A2DP sink. I'm not sure if this was ever implemented by anyone.
I'm pretty sure all these codecs (except AptX) were part of the A2DP spec from the beginning. SBC was the first implemented because it's computationally trivial and royalty-free. I'm not sure it would have been practical to encode mp3 in real-time on a featurephone in 2004.
Anyway, the limiting factor of BT audio quality is the codec, not the radio. AptX is ~384Kbps for 16-bit stereo, and BT4.0 has a raw capacity on the order of 25Mpbs. Further increasing the interface speed isn't going to change the audio quality
The FM Receiver isn't enabled in most phones because the electronics required to use the headset shield as an FM antenna increase crosstalk on the 3.5mm jack. Phones without FM chose to emphasize 3.5mm audio quality over FM radio function.
This is trivially easy to confirm - just check the headset crosstalk numbers on any Android review site. You'll find a bi-modal distribution that correlates to presence of an FM receiver.
It's got to be the stupidest time to set up a gas delivery business. Just as gas powered cars are going to be obsoleted. OK, they're not obsolete yet - but it's hardly a new business model that has a future.
Actually, this business model makes a lot more sense in an environment without a gas station on every corner -- people are much likely to pay a delivery fee for something they can't pick up conveniently themselves. If anything, I'd say they're jumping the gun on gasoline being a niche product.
hacked tools are no longer readily available.(Motorola PST, Qualcom's tool, etc...)
You only need PST if you want to update the software, and there hasn't been an update for V3xx in quite some time. And Qualcomm never had tools for the V3xx, since there's no Qualcomm hardware in it. The V3xx was one of the last Moto phones with a Moto (Freescale) chipset. The only Qualcomm RAZRs were the CDMA ones.
What fuel stabilizer do you use, how long do you keep the gas, and what do you do when it expires?
Every 6 months, dump the stored gas into your car and refill the can(s) at the station. Even better, get a manual transfer pump so you can refill your gas can from your car's tank in a pinch. My "emergency" generator fuel supply is ~16gals in each of two cars.
It's a good idea to fill up before a major storm anyway in case you need to evacuate.
Bigger users can get bigger equipment. Last year, my office installed entire cell stations for major providers in our main equipment rooms and wired them with low-loss coax to little dome antennas scattered around the buildings. Helps coverage immensely:)
Author of TFA says he doesn't know if the material he observed has an impact on radio, just quoting the fact that it's "reflective" from a vendor brochure, but according to the same pdf the material is in fact metallic
Protect TF200 Thermo includes a tough non-woven PP core with a durable bright high purity permeable aluminium layer, bonded to the substrate.
Yep, sounds like a radio-eater all right. Interesting stuff, too.
Ok, what exactly does the word "bonus" mean to you? If it was just a given that you were going to get a bonus, why not just include it in the regular salary?
Bonuses in the US are "incentive pay". They're an aware based on success, and most companies define success as meeting their goals, so it's perfectly logical for a company to say to have a baseline bonus policy in addition to salary, and modify that bonus up or down for exceeding or falling short of the stated goals. It's both the carrot and the stick.
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The author of the article is clearly a journalism major...
The author of the article is a public health major. Her bio's right there at the bottom of the page.
Their service is great where they have competition. Speedtest.net just now showed 679 Mbps down and 776Mbps up on my advertised gigabit ($70/month) from AT&T in a neighborhood with multiple providers offering >100Mbps service
I have about 40 SmartHome-brand Insteon switches in my house. Every year one or two of them crap out and need to be replaced at $50 a pop and an hour of tinkering with wiring and controller programming.
Automation can be useful but I'm not sure if it's useful enough to justify the continuing maintenance overhead.
Nah, that one's not digital enough. It'll look something more like this
Go nuts
AT&T has been branding their HSPA network as "4G" for years. AT&T retail phones show "4G" for HSPA and "4G LTE" for LTE.
It's technically trivial to allow users to train any trigger phrase they want to, but it hurts brand awareness. When your device only wakes to "OK Google" it tells everyone you're using Google assistant. "Hello Computer" could be anything.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-time-to-print-500-sheets-by-a-colour-desktop-printer
Less than one second per page in full color, and that's not even an industrial-size printer.
Because the circuitry required to utilize the shield (ground) wire on the headset as an FM antenna increases the ground impedance and causes left-right and capture-playback crosstalk. The latter can be fixed by the phone's echo canceler, but the former cannot.
That's why FM radio is mainly confined to lower-cost phones. Premium phone buyers tend to be more particular about the headset audio quality.
I would thing a wee bit of paranoia is justified at the TJ fire service
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tianjin-explosion-photos-china-chemical-factory-accident-crater-revealed-a7199591.html
Ghostery would like a word.
Most construction is done with OSB, which is not at all like particle board.
Sure, that's technically feasible, but since nobody cares about mp3 passthrough anymore there's no incentive to implement it.
That would make many people very happy. No idea what BT SIG is up to these days.
You have a funny definition of "trivial".
Nope, you're not wrong. That's what I get for skimming the results for latest BT specs. Regular Bluetooth EDR is more like 3Mbps -- the data rate is one order of magnitude greater than hi-fi audio, not two. I stand by my assertion that faster radios aren't needed for high-quality audio.
Tons of headsets support mp3 over A2DP, but few sources do. It was intended to enable low-power operation by streaming the mp3 content directly from source to sink without transcoding. This seems perfectly sensible to somebody making a media player, but for smartphones it means you have to come up with something else to do with your UI tones and notifications and whatnot (because you can't mix them into the mp3 stream without decoding and re-encoding, defeating the purpose of mp3 passthrough).
For the same reason, ATRAC is also a defined A2DP codec: so your MiniDisc player could stream directly to an A2DP sink. I'm not sure if this was ever implemented by anyone.
I'm pretty sure all these codecs (except AptX) were part of the A2DP spec from the beginning. SBC was the first implemented because it's computationally trivial and royalty-free. I'm not sure it would have been practical to encode mp3 in real-time on a featurephone in 2004.
Anyway, the limiting factor of BT audio quality is the codec, not the radio. AptX is ~384Kbps for 16-bit stereo, and BT4.0 has a raw capacity on the order of 25Mpbs. Further increasing the interface speed isn't going to change the audio quality
The FM Receiver isn't enabled in most phones because the electronics required to use the headset shield as an FM antenna increase crosstalk on the 3.5mm jack. Phones without FM chose to emphasize 3.5mm audio quality over FM radio function.
This is trivially easy to confirm - just check the headset crosstalk numbers on any Android review site. You'll find a bi-modal distribution that correlates to presence of an FM receiver.
Actually, this business model makes a lot more sense in an environment without a gas station on every corner -- people are much likely to pay a delivery fee for something they can't pick up conveniently themselves. If anything, I'd say they're jumping the gun on gasoline being a niche product.
There are US states with higher weight limits than national standard..
The maximum allowable gross vehicle weight on the heaviest "Michigan-weight-law MDOT Intermodal Policy Division truck" is 164,000 pounds,
https://www.michigan.gov/docum...
Some providers are doing exactly that.
Got a citation for that? The only mention of a fee I could find was from a Car and Driver blog post
http://blog.caranddriver.com/elon-take-the-wheel-we-test-teslas-new-autopilot-feature/
I would have thought there'd be some communication from Tesla if they were selling an OTA update?
Stagefright is one of the Android media libraries. It's sort of the Android analog of ffmpeg's libavcodec and libavformat
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/master/media/libstagefright
Come now. MiniUSB isn't that unusual.
You only need PST if you want to update the software, and there hasn't been an update for V3xx in quite some time. And Qualcomm never had tools for the V3xx, since there's no Qualcomm hardware in it. The V3xx was one of the last Moto phones with a Moto (Freescale) chipset. The only Qualcomm RAZRs were the CDMA ones.
Every 6 months, dump the stored gas into your car and refill the can(s) at the station. Even better, get a manual transfer pump so you can refill your gas can from your car's tank in a pinch. My "emergency" generator fuel supply is ~16gals in each of two cars.
It's a good idea to fill up before a major storm anyway in case you need to evacuate.
Remember, you can add more APs for wifi, but not for phones.
Not true. Residential users can use broadband backhaul for relatively cheap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femtocell)
Bigger users can get bigger equipment. Last year, my office installed entire cell stations for major providers in our main equipment rooms and wired them with low-loss coax to little dome antennas scattered around the buildings. Helps coverage immensely :)
Author of TFA says he doesn't know if the material he observed has an impact on radio, just quoting the fact that it's "reflective" from a vendor brochure, but according to the same pdf the material is in fact metallic
Yep, sounds like a radio-eater all right. Interesting stuff, too.
Ok, what exactly does the word "bonus" mean to you? If it was just a given that you were going to get a bonus, why not just include it in the regular salary?
Bonuses in the US are "incentive pay". They're an aware based on success, and most companies define success as meeting their goals, so it's perfectly logical for a company to say to have a baseline bonus policy in addition to salary, and modify that bonus up or down for exceeding or falling short of the stated goals. It's both the carrot and the stick.