Most good phones cost over $100 on a subsidized plan. So I think the case can be made for consumer appeal right now - regardless of whether you can change carriers or not. What I want my government to do is its job - foster competition by mandating that all US carriers have to offer non-subsidized plans with significant discounts to allow manufacturers to make phones and market them directly to consumers and not have the consumer screwed over by paying the same rate as someone who buys a subsidized phone.
I agree with everything you say, but you still use the fucked up US terminology. A phone isn't "subsidized" to $100; you pay an additional $20 / month for 24 months or a total of $580 for it. Not paying $20 a month for a phone is not a "discount" if you don't get the phone. Allowing bundling of product and service in the US has let the carriers not only raise the price of the service to ridiculous levels but even define language to use their own doubleplusgood terms.
We have pretty much the same everything at the same prices in Finland, but all the parts are priced separately. When you pay 17 euros a month for you Galaxy S you don't call it "subsidized" or "free" even though there's no up front cost.
The part you're quoting has an "Original research" label. Not that the analogy isn't realistic, but the Wikipedia text is probably some random dude's ramblings. There's no way to know if they would have lost without it and (in the matrix below) implementing a policy without promising to do so first is considered impossible.
Ok, even on Slashdot everyone (except the editors) knows they collide lead ions to create quark-gluon plasma. What I've not seen explained anywhere is what details of the strong force they're trying to measure. Is it simply more accurate measurements on how the coupling constant changes with higher energy or are there other features of QCD that aren't understood?
While we do realize that once you buy our games, they become your property, we do reserve the right to terminate your game at any time whenever we feel it is necessary.
Erm, what?
This one's easy. "While we do realize that once you buy our cars, they become your property, we do reserve the right to terminate your car at any time whenever we feel it is necessary."
Also, "While we do realize that once we pay for your games, the money becomes your property, we do reserve the right to demand our money back at any time whenever we feel it is necessary."
What a church is supposed to be or pretends to be has precious little to do with what it really is. You are quite right though; changing the religion to attract more followers doesn't make sense if the details are supposed to be spelled out in a book written by supernatural beings thousands of years ago. A religion is not a political party.
When you play a game yourself, you only have to come up with a counter strategy to what your opponent is doing. When you program a bot, you have to think of all the possible strategies to counter and find reliable ways to recognize them in addition to having the counter.
3d over internet delivery will take 2X the bitrate or you need to degrade the resolution. I dont see that happening in backwater internet countries like the USA any time soon...
(yes we are backwater, we do not have 100Mb/100Mb to our homes.)
2 x the bandwidth isn't much. Add 40% to the width in pixels and you have the same. 100Mbps is far from necessary when good quality 1080p is 8Mbps and a DVD rip is 2. Double those figures. It's nothing. Home users have had the bandwidth for good quality video over the Internet for a decade now.
The fancy calculator I had when I was a kid (late 80's) was the size of a phone in 2010. Today's calculators have nothing like the processing power of a phone that costs roughly the same, yet they are now the size of ancient mobile phones. I don't get it.
I upgraded to a 30" monitor from my ancient 1600x1200 CRT because "upgrading" to 1920x1200 felt just plain dumb. I doubt monitors will get better until they start pushing a 2160p double HD format.
The outliers might not be due to conscious suppression of competing research. People just have some ways of thinking that make their subjective opinions sometimes contrast with what an objective observer would think.
The Tab will come in at around $100-$200 with a 2 year contract. I actually think this type of price discounting FUD should be illegal. Tell me the total cost of the device and what part of the monthly fee goes towards the cost.
It probably still is illegal in some countries. It used to be illegal to bundle a product and a service in Finland, but after some heavy lobbying an exception was made for 3G-capable phones to "speed up the transition to 3G". Obviously, unless the law is updated, all future phones will be 3G compatible long after the actual network has been shut down.
Decades ago, we used to laugh at the Norwegians who bought phones for one NOK (about 16 US cents) and paid five times as much as us for phone calls. Apparently they were just before their time.
What I find funniest about this is that the settlements are currently equal to the production costs. What we're witnessing is the point when the MPAA members can actually stay profitable without releasing their movies!
That may be what has actually happened, but it seems unlikely that's what the police and prosecutors have been told. Unless a lot of the involved persons are CIA agents or just plain insane.
Former equality ombudsman for the country, 2000-2007. Proponent of a "man tax" to make up for men's treatment of women. Currently spokesperson for the social democratic party in gender equality issues. One of the women is active in the same party.
He's one of the most, if not the most, known lawyers in the country.
The word "ofredande" translates to molestation, but the actual law text makes it pretty obvious what it's about. See how even Google's translator can't make up its mind on molestation vs. harassment.
I've been following the case and the speculation around it on Swedish forums and blogs. A story in English that seems to have what is known / believed to have happened without any obvious errors can be found here.
In addition, it's known the police officer interrogating the younger woman has filed a complaint about not being allowed to give her view on what offenses if any were described to the first prosecutor and that her colleague who contacted the prosecutor refused to communicate. The colleague says she has contacted superiors and others and everyone agreed the charge would be rape. The initial prosecutor is under investigation for possibly issuing an arrest warrant without enough cause to do so and, in addition, for confirming Assange's name to a journalist.
The lawyer of the women says the published story is missing crucial details. He also says he's gone through material used in the preparation of the current law on rape in Sweden. To the question of why the older woman filed harassment charges instead of reporting a rape, he replied "She's not a lawyer".
Given that the chief prosecutor dismissed the charge of rape saying there's no reason to disbelieve the younger woman's story, but no crime has been committed, but the organization supervising the work of prosecutors think otherwise, it would seem to me there's disagreement on whether there was consent or not. If it was an issue of whether a sex act is rape vs molestation vs harassment etc, they wouldn't be flipping between rape and no crime like this.
What's absolutely clear is that much of the speculation on what Assange could have done is completely and utterly wrong since the chief prosecutor would never have simply dropped a case where he's accused of strangleholds, forcing himself on a sleeping woman, etcetc.
Obviously the customer downloading the most per month will download quite a lot. Why should that matter and why would there be a question of how much is reasonable or excessive? The costumer using the most water in Belgium is probably not using it on showers and the customer using the most electricity probably uses quite a lot. Neither water nor electricity has any kind of "How much is excessive" numbers associated with them. If these were companies rather than persons or families, would anyone raise an eyebrow at a download of 2,7TB/month?
A 7-inch 16:9 screen could fit in a 3,5" wide device, making it fit in a pocket rather than needing a bag. Not that I'd buy one regardless, but it would distinguish "pads" from netbooks in the way you carry them around. It might be a more convenient e-reader/web browser format. I think I could imagine buying one that connects to the net through my phone and/or wifi, but I wouldn't want to use it as a phone with a separate phone number or have to switch sim cards etc. Locked into monthly fees is right out - I can't imagine any bundled services that would make it feel like a good deal.
However as a masturbation tool anyone who tries to build a business model by showing porn in public is doomed to failure because no one is encouraged to masturbate in public. In fact that would be kind of creepy.
This is Hong Kong. Your western sensibilities are inferior and unwanted.
These provisions do not apply to acts which do not interfere with rights-holders or to acts carried out for computer security purposes or for scientific research or cryptographic purposes.
Bolded for emphasis. I put the French original into Google's translator and got
These provisions do not apply to acts which do not prejudice the rights holders and are made for purposes of security or for scientific research in cryptography
A very important difference. One says security and research are allowed regardless of whether it inconveniences the RIAA/MPAA, the other (I assume the real one) that these things can be done only for security and research and then only if the RIAA/MPAA don't suffer.
They quit testing moves when they found a solution in 20 moves for a given starting state. This means they don't know if a given starting state requires 20 moves. There may be an 18-move solution that they missed.
Nor is battery a good analogy. Go back to the root - net neutrality. It's about an ISP wanting to charge more for "premium" access and if you don't pay, they bump you down a tier or limit your access. A proper analogy would be if you charged visitors to your house for access to your bathroom.
You don't have customers paying for access to your visitors in your bathroom. (That sounds a bit more weird than I intended...)
It's about ISPs wanting to charge the content providers for access to their customers, who already pay for access to the content providers. If you want a good analogy, think gas stations charging car manufacturers for not refusing to sell gas to car owners. I have no idea if it would be legal to put up "We don't sell to Chevy owners" signs.
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I agree with everything you say, but you still use the fucked up US terminology. A phone isn't "subsidized" to $100; you pay an additional $20 / month for 24 months or a total of $580 for it. Not paying $20 a month for a phone is not a "discount" if you don't get the phone. Allowing bundling of product and service in the US has let the carriers not only raise the price of the service to ridiculous levels but even define language to use their own doubleplusgood terms.
We have pretty much the same everything at the same prices in Finland, but all the parts are priced separately. When you pay 17 euros a month for you Galaxy S you don't call it "subsidized" or "free" even though there's no up front cost.
The part you're quoting has an "Original research" label. Not that the analogy isn't realistic, but the Wikipedia text is probably some random dude's ramblings. There's no way to know if they would have lost without it and (in the matrix below) implementing a policy without promising to do so first is considered impossible.
Ok, even on Slashdot everyone (except the editors) knows they collide lead ions to create quark-gluon plasma. What I've not seen explained anywhere is what details of the strong force they're trying to measure. Is it simply more accurate measurements on how the coupling constant changes with higher energy or are there other features of QCD that aren't understood?
He violated his probation - which means the court can throw whatever books it wants at him.
Keyword: books. Here they're just making stuff up. How is being unable to use any encryption not "cruel and unusual"?
This one's easy. "While we do realize that once you buy our cars, they become your property, we do reserve the right to terminate your car at any time whenever we feel it is necessary."
Also, "While we do realize that once we pay for your games, the money becomes your property, we do reserve the right to demand our money back at any time whenever we feel it is necessary."
What a church is supposed to be or pretends to be has precious little to do with what it really is. You are quite right though; changing the religion to attract more followers doesn't make sense if the details are supposed to be spelled out in a book written by supernatural beings thousands of years ago. A religion is not a political party.
When you play a game yourself, you only have to come up with a counter strategy to what your opponent is doing. When you program a bot, you have to think of all the possible strategies to counter and find reliable ways to recognize them in addition to having the counter.
2 x the bandwidth isn't much. Add 40% to the width in pixels and you have the same. 100Mbps is far from necessary when good quality 1080p is 8Mbps and a DVD rip is 2. Double those figures. It's nothing. Home users have had the bandwidth for good quality video over the Internet for a decade now.
The fancy calculator I had when I was a kid (late 80's) was the size of a phone in 2010. Today's calculators have nothing like the processing power of a phone that costs roughly the same, yet they are now the size of ancient mobile phones. I don't get it.
I upgraded to a 30" monitor from my ancient 1600x1200 CRT because "upgrading" to 1920x1200 felt just plain dumb. I doubt monitors will get better until they start pushing a 2160p double HD format.
They got 7,1% of the vote for the EU parliament last year. Has there been a tenfold increase in how villainous a term "pirate" is in the last year?
The outliers might not be due to conscious suppression of competing research. People just have some ways of thinking that make their subjective opinions sometimes contrast with what an objective observer would think.
It probably still is illegal in some countries. It used to be illegal to bundle a product and a service in Finland, but after some heavy lobbying an exception was made for 3G-capable phones to "speed up the transition to 3G". Obviously, unless the law is updated, all future phones will be 3G compatible long after the actual network has been shut down.
Decades ago, we used to laugh at the Norwegians who bought phones for one NOK (about 16 US cents) and paid five times as much as us for phone calls. Apparently they were just before their time.
It might fit into a pocket so you don't have to carry a bag. 7" is probably the absolute max you don't need a bag for.
What I find funniest about this is that the settlements are currently equal to the production costs. What we're witnessing is the point when the MPAA members can actually stay profitable without releasing their movies!
That may be what has actually happened, but it seems unlikely that's what the police and prosecutors have been told. Unless a lot of the involved persons are CIA agents or just plain insane.
Translated Wiki.
Former equality ombudsman for the country, 2000-2007. Proponent of a "man tax" to make up for men's treatment of women. Currently spokesperson for the social democratic party in gender equality issues. One of the women is active in the same party.
He's one of the most, if not the most, known lawyers in the country.
Google translation of the Swedish Wikipedia page.
The word "ofredande" translates to molestation, but the actual law text makes it pretty obvious what it's about. See how even Google's translator can't make up its mind on molestation vs. harassment.
I've been following the case and the speculation around it on Swedish forums and blogs. A story in English that seems to have what is known / believed to have happened without any obvious errors can be found here.
In addition, it's known the police officer interrogating the younger woman has filed a complaint about not being allowed to give her view on what offenses if any were described to the first prosecutor and that her colleague who contacted the prosecutor refused to communicate. The colleague says she has contacted superiors and others and everyone agreed the charge would be rape. The initial prosecutor is under investigation for possibly issuing an arrest warrant without enough cause to do so and, in addition, for confirming Assange's name to a journalist.
The lawyer of the women says the published story is missing crucial details. He also says he's gone through material used in the preparation of the current law on rape in Sweden. To the question of why the older woman filed harassment charges instead of reporting a rape, he replied "She's not a lawyer".
Given that the chief prosecutor dismissed the charge of rape saying there's no reason to disbelieve the younger woman's story, but no crime has been committed, but the organization supervising the work of prosecutors think otherwise, it would seem to me there's disagreement on whether there was consent or not. If it was an issue of whether a sex act is rape vs molestation vs harassment etc, they wouldn't be flipping between rape and no crime like this.
What's absolutely clear is that much of the speculation on what Assange could have done is completely and utterly wrong since the chief prosecutor would never have simply dropped a case where he's accused of strangleholds, forcing himself on a sleeping woman, etcetc.
Obviously the customer downloading the most per month will download quite a lot. Why should that matter and why would there be a question of how much is reasonable or excessive? The costumer using the most water in Belgium is probably not using it on showers and the customer using the most electricity probably uses quite a lot. Neither water nor electricity has any kind of "How much is excessive" numbers associated with them. If these were companies rather than persons or families, would anyone raise an eyebrow at a download of 2,7TB/month?
A 7-inch 16:9 screen could fit in a 3,5" wide device, making it fit in a pocket rather than needing a bag. Not that I'd buy one regardless, but it would distinguish "pads" from netbooks in the way you carry them around. It might be a more convenient e-reader/web browser format. I think I could imagine buying one that connects to the net through my phone and/or wifi, but I wouldn't want to use it as a phone with a separate phone number or have to switch sim cards etc. Locked into monthly fees is right out - I can't imagine any bundled services that would make it feel like a good deal.
This is Hong Kong. Your western sensibilities are inferior and unwanted.
Bolded for emphasis. I put the French original into Google's translator and got
A very important difference. One says security and research are allowed regardless of whether it inconveniences the RIAA/MPAA, the other (I assume the real one) that these things can be done only for security and research and then only if the RIAA/MPAA don't suffer.
They quit testing moves when they found a solution in 20 moves for a given starting state. This means they don't know if a given starting state requires 20 moves. There may be an 18-move solution that they missed.
You don't have customers paying for access to your visitors in your bathroom. (That sounds a bit more weird than I intended...)
It's about ISPs wanting to charge the content providers for access to their customers, who already pay for access to the content providers. If you want a good analogy, think gas stations charging car manufacturers for not refusing to sell gas to car owners. I have no idea if it would be legal to put up "We don't sell to Chevy owners" signs.