On the tech specs, it's clearly listed as a quad-band phone with 850MHz compatibility. Given that AT&T's 3G in on the 850MHz band, I thought this meant the Nexus S would work fine at 3G. I recall the N900 wouldn't work on AT&T's 3G (but it would on Edge), because the phone's radio only supported 900MHz.
What I'm curious about though, is why the teacher felt this memo was necessary in the first place; TFA doesn't mention this.
When I was in grade school, we used to fling sharpened pencils like crossbow bolts, using several rubber bands for higher tension. It wasn't uncommon to draw blood from these toys... and there would be quite a firefight whenever the teacher turned his or her back toward the class to write on the board. So, I think that's why the summary mentions "materials to build weapons," but it's still a stupid idea to ban pencils.
Apple is clearly abusing its users: If you buy one of my outrageously overpriced devices, you will only be able to login as an unprivileged user, we reserve the right to login as administrators.
Isn't this precisely what a security or network consulting firm would do? Company X pays the company $y per year to take care of all connection-related issues, and even information management. What Apple has done is bring this to the individual consumer, rather than just corporate clients. What's so bad about that?
Just playing devil's advocate here; I'm the proud owner of a Nexus One myself, but I also work in IT.
Oh... wait... New Orleans. Nevermind. The lemmings will pay plenty to drown in the ocean.
Even before Katrina, many of the devastated areas in New Orleans weren't exactly prime real estate. So I don't think it's fair to say that people will "pay plenty" to live in poor conditions. Don't you find it more likely that these proposed cities will quickly turn into conveniently off-shore ghettos?
I really can't be bothered with having to update the operating system for what is still basically just a phone.
You know, a lot of people would say that same thing about their computers. And if you're thinking of devices like the Nexus One as "basically just a phone," you haven't spent time with one. Even calling it "basically just a computer" is selling it short; this thing has a faster processor, more RAM, and more storage space than my desktop computer from ten years ago. And it fits in my pocket.
If you want to be all "Get off my lawn" about smartphones, be my guest. But the influx of mobile computing is happening with or without your personal consent, and I think there's a lot of good to come of it, if we do it right.
As an aside, does anyone know what phone makers are good about keeping updates coming?
No. I have a Nexus One and am extremely pleased with it. The unlocked bootloader means I can run whatever version of the operating system I want. Google releases the source code months (in some cases, maybe years) before most phone manufacturers get around to offering an update, but modding communities like CyanogenMod have an extremely fast turnaround. They build for many different handsets, by different vendors, patch often (there are nightly releases available if you're into that), and don't seem to have any bias about device manufacturers.
Google did allow this system to be open, but people didn't vote with their dollars by buying the Nexus One in big enough numbers. I wouldn't stand for having a computer that restricted the software I'm allowed to run on it, and I don't see any reason to change that philosophy for using a "smartphone."
Do Colbert's comments count as "deceptive tactics and misinformation"? Satire might be rather difficult to account for without broadly categorizing based on the cited source, but a well designed data-mining tool should be able to handle it.
I fail to see how sensitive information being sent over the Internet could be more secure than keeping sensitive information stored on a computer that doesn't even have a network card installed.
While I acknowledge your penchant for information security, I fail to see how information on a non-networked computer is useful. If we're tearing out our network cards in 2010 (note that the very notion of non-embedded networking hardware is rather old-hat), let's just go back to poking at clay tablets with sticks! All this new-fangled technology is for the birds, right?
TFA is about ensuring that computer security improves to meet new challenges. That is both harder and more noble than throwing the baby out with the bathwater, which you seem to propose as a reasonable solution.
The reason you add two spaces is because the additional space aids your eyes in determining individual sentences. Two spaces gives the eyes an additional visual cue, and thus is far easier to parse.
Please explain why you used one space between all sentences in your post.
The best jokes are never understood on first telling.
Back to the subject at hand, however, why not consult the Chicago Manual of Style? To cut to the chase:
So, in our efficient, modern world, I think there is no room for two spaces after a period. In the opinion of this particular copyeditor, this is a good thing.
Seems pretty reasonable to me, and it's from quite a credible source. Read the full page for justification (no pun intended).
There's great promise to this game, you're right. And this reviewer seems to be panning it unfairly, while referring to Call of Duty in the opening paragraph. Please. And this claim about no space plans is deplorably U.S.-centric:
It will be more than a decade before humans even attempt another trip outside of Earth's orbit.
What about India's and China's plans to go to the moon, six years and three years away, respectively?
"This is the only photo of her I have she answers to the name Missy and is black and white and about 8 months old."
Cats don't answer to names.
While I'm sure you're joking, cats actually do tend to respond well to sibilant names. So in this case, "Missy" is a name a cat is likely to respond to.
Googling around at work didn't yield any articles that were both in support of my claim and cited other sources, so you'll have to perform the research yourself. I've had many cats over the years, and this seems like a reasonable observation to me. A good relationship with your cat and reasonable training usually means the cat will respond to whatever its name is, but a lot of this has to do with the cat recognizing the owner's voice, more than the actual sound the human voice is making. Much of human-range languaging phonetics are sophisticated enough that both cats and dogs are largely in the dark about them. (See Levin, 2007 for more on that.)
My ideal world is one that is 1/3 Apple, 1/3 Microsoft, and 1/3 Linux. May not happen, but if any one company gets too powerful it gives us problems.
Sure, but that equal market fragmentation would mean that people would start to think in terms of full interoperability, and then a fourth, all-inclusive OS—or other abstract layer that spans all the them—would be created.
Pretty sure I just prognosticated the advent of web apps.
I know of three different "non-geeks" who had second and third generation iPhones who have switched to Android handsets.
I know of two separate "geeks," coworkers in IT, who both switched from iPhones to the Nexus One. Just this morning, one of them ordered the other to put his brand new iPhone 4 back in the box (he hadn't even turned it on yet) and had me show off my Nexus One again. It resulted in a conversion, and he'll be returning the phone tonight, he claims.
As hard as it is for some people to accept that geeks use iPhones, it does happen. Increasingly less due to Android, though, it would seem.
the reporters have filed their stories in Googled Docs instead of Microsoft Word.
Since when is Google Docs considered free and/or open source software? I thought most of the free software movement agreed that cloud-based solutions were a big threat to software freedom. RMS must be rolling in his—er, make that Ben Franklin....
I hate to keep playing this game, but what's really of interest here is the etymology, so this link is substantially more informative:
1779, from Fr. crétin (18c.), from Alpine dialect crestin, "a dwarfed and deformed idiot" of a type formerly found in families in the Alpine lands, a condition caused by a congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones, from V.L. *christianus "a Christian," a generic term for "anyone," but often with a sense of "poor fellow." Related: Cretinism (1801).
Oh, and can someone tell the shitty mobo makers to stop requiring MS DOS floppy disks to flash their BIOSs?
Yes, definitely. But most motherboards these days, even old ones, tend to support booting to USB devices. That means you can often flash from a USB drive as long as you configure it right. (I keep a specially formatted stick in my bag for just such cases, so I can just toss on the right drivers and plug it in.) But really, the problem is with BIOS. Let's just transition to EFI already, can't we?
And because I'm sure someone's going to reply and chastise me, I'll ask upfront: what are some EFI-like projects, i.e. BIOS replacements, that are free and open?
I will never be a Chrome user until someone forks off a "stainless steel" release where a group of people have poured over the source code to ensure there is no Google data collecting going on and then compiles it themselves for distribution.
Ever try Iron? There's also a Chromium-based browser actually called Stainless, as you suggest, but I believe it's Mac OS X only. Iron is Windows only.
I dunno, the guy just lists out reasons why you can't uniquely identify people by names. e.g. "some people don't have names".
Yeah, I don't see anything Insightful, Informative, Interesting, or even Funny about his blog post. Still waiting for CmdrTaco to authorize the use of Slashdot mod points across the entire internet.
Next up, a headline on MPEG-LA decrying this as an ignominious infringement on scads of their intellectual property. Hopefully projects like this stand a reasonable change at exposing the ludicrousness of the software patent system.
no file downloads, no porn, no webmail etc. We monitor usage in co-ordination with blocking software
I would never work for such a company. It blows my mind how anyone would. It must be that because of all the click-through EULAs, we're conditioned to dismiss any legal stipulations and just figure, "Eh, it'll probably never happen to me." And largely, that is true. (I'm speaking mostly of Americans when I reference this dismissive attitude.)
I see all the time driving 70 MPH on the 55 MPH-speed limit Interstate, or driving through red lights. Who watches the watchers? Oh yeah, that would be nobody. Oh, don't worry though, I'm sure they're browsing "responsibly" and don't need watching.
Well, I do work as a sysadmin, so naturally I fall into that category. But I sure as hell haven't ever policed anyone for checking their Gmail, for Christ's sake. The only time I've ever had to confront anyone about porn usage was in a computer lab, so it was not staff perpetrating. What a staff member does in their office is none of my damn business. It's up to their supervisor to make sure that they remain productive, and I doubt anyone cares if they eat peanut butter sandwiches, or listen to Wagner, or watch goat sex on YouTube while they maintain their output.
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It's old and worn down, I would've expected better.
IOW: you didn't win, so you deride the contest rather than congratulate the winner.
No AT&T 3G, though.
On the tech specs, it's clearly listed as a quad-band phone with 850MHz compatibility. Given that AT&T's 3G in on the 850MHz band, I thought this meant the Nexus S would work fine at 3G. I recall the N900 wouldn't work on AT&T's 3G (but it would on Edge), because the phone's radio only supported 900MHz.
Or am I missing something here?
What I'm curious about though, is why the teacher felt this memo was necessary in the first place; TFA doesn't mention this.
When I was in grade school, we used to fling sharpened pencils like crossbow bolts, using several rubber bands for higher tension. It wasn't uncommon to draw blood from these toys... and there would be quite a firefight whenever the teacher turned his or her back toward the class to write on the board. So, I think that's why the summary mentions "materials to build weapons," but it's still a stupid idea to ban pencils.
Apple is clearly abusing its users: If you buy one of my outrageously overpriced devices, you will only be able to login as an unprivileged user, we reserve the right to login as administrators.
Isn't this precisely what a security or network consulting firm would do? Company X pays the company $y per year to take care of all connection-related issues, and even information management. What Apple has done is bring this to the individual consumer, rather than just corporate clients. What's so bad about that?
Just playing devil's advocate here; I'm the proud owner of a Nexus One myself, but I also work in IT.
Oh... wait... New Orleans. Nevermind. The lemmings will pay plenty to drown in the ocean.
Even before Katrina, many of the devastated areas in New Orleans weren't exactly prime real estate. So I don't think it's fair to say that people will "pay plenty" to live in poor conditions. Don't you find it more likely that these proposed cities will quickly turn into conveniently off-shore ghettos?
I really can't be bothered with having to update the operating system for what is still basically just a phone.
You know, a lot of people would say that same thing about their computers. And if you're thinking of devices like the Nexus One as "basically just a phone," you haven't spent time with one. Even calling it "basically just a computer" is selling it short; this thing has a faster processor, more RAM, and more storage space than my desktop computer from ten years ago. And it fits in my pocket.
If you want to be all "Get off my lawn" about smartphones, be my guest. But the influx of mobile computing is happening with or without your personal consent, and I think there's a lot of good to come of it, if we do it right.
As an aside, does anyone know what phone makers are good about keeping updates coming?
No. I have a Nexus One and am extremely pleased with it. The unlocked bootloader means I can run whatever version of the operating system I want. Google releases the source code months (in some cases, maybe years) before most phone manufacturers get around to offering an update, but modding communities like CyanogenMod have an extremely fast turnaround. They build for many different handsets, by different vendors, patch often (there are nightly releases available if you're into that), and don't seem to have any bias about device manufacturers.
Google did allow this system to be open, but people didn't vote with their dollars by buying the Nexus One in big enough numbers. I wouldn't stand for having a computer that restricted the software I'm allowed to run on it, and I don't see any reason to change that philosophy for using a "smartphone."
Do Colbert's comments count as "deceptive tactics and misinformation"? Satire might be rather difficult to account for without broadly categorizing based on the cited source, but a well designed data-mining tool should be able to handle it.
I fail to see how sensitive information being sent over the Internet could be more secure than keeping sensitive information stored on a computer that doesn't even have a network card installed.
While I acknowledge your penchant for information security, I fail to see how information on a non-networked computer is useful. If we're tearing out our network cards in 2010 (note that the very notion of non-embedded networking hardware is rather old-hat), let's just go back to poking at clay tablets with sticks! All this new-fangled technology is for the birds, right?
TFA is about ensuring that computer security improves to meet new challenges. That is both harder and more noble than throwing the baby out with the bathwater, which you seem to propose as a reasonable solution.
Burn him, burn him!
Efficiency has nothing to do with it.
The reason you add two spaces is because the additional space aids your eyes in determining individual sentences. Two spaces gives the eyes an additional visual cue, and thus is far easier to parse.
Please explain why you used one space between all sentences in your post.
The best jokes are never understood on first telling.
Back to the subject at hand, however, why not consult the Chicago Manual of Style? To cut to the chase:
Seems pretty reasonable to me, and it's from quite a credible source. Read the full page for justification (no pun intended).
What about India's and China's plans to go to the moon, six years and three years away, respectively?
"This is the only photo of her I have she answers to the name Missy and is black and white and about 8 months old."
Cats don't answer to names.
While I'm sure you're joking, cats actually do tend to respond well to sibilant names. So in this case, "Missy" is a name a cat is likely to respond to.
Googling around at work didn't yield any articles that were both in support of my claim and cited other sources, so you'll have to perform the research yourself. I've had many cats over the years, and this seems like a reasonable observation to me. A good relationship with your cat and reasonable training usually means the cat will respond to whatever its name is, but a lot of this has to do with the cat recognizing the owner's voice, more than the actual sound the human voice is making. Much of human-range languaging phonetics are sophisticated enough that both cats and dogs are largely in the dark about them. (See Levin, 2007 for more on that.)
A world with 3/3 Linux would provide you with companies competing on their services and value added options such as remote backups or such.
Yep, no GNU/Linux means no remote backups.
My ideal world is one that is 1/3 Apple, 1/3 Microsoft, and 1/3 Linux. May not happen, but if any one company gets too powerful it gives us problems.
Sure, but that equal market fragmentation would mean that people would start to think in terms of full interoperability, and then a fourth, all-inclusive OS—or other abstract layer that spans all the them—would be created.
Pretty sure I just prognosticated the advent of web apps.
I know of three different "non-geeks" who had second and third generation iPhones who have switched to Android handsets.
I know of two separate "geeks," coworkers in IT, who both switched from iPhones to the Nexus One. Just this morning, one of them ordered the other to put his brand new iPhone 4 back in the box (he hadn't even turned it on yet) and had me show off my Nexus One again. It resulted in a conversion, and he'll be returning the phone tonight, he claims.
As hard as it is for some people to accept that geeks use iPhones, it does happen. Increasingly less due to Android, though, it would seem.
Since when is Google Docs considered free and/or open source software? I thought most of the free software movement agreed that cloud-based solutions were a big threat to software freedom. RMS must be rolling in his—er, make that Ben Franklin....
Oh, and can someone tell the shitty mobo makers to stop requiring MS DOS floppy disks to flash their BIOSs?
Yes, definitely. But most motherboards these days, even old ones, tend to support booting to USB devices. That means you can often flash from a USB drive as long as you configure it right. (I keep a specially formatted stick in my bag for just such cases, so I can just toss on the right drivers and plug it in.) But really, the problem is with BIOS. Let's just transition to EFI already, can't we?
And because I'm sure someone's going to reply and chastise me, I'll ask upfront: what are some EFI-like projects, i.e. BIOS replacements, that are free and open?
I will never be a Chrome user until someone forks off a "stainless steel" release where a group of people have poured over the source code to ensure there is no Google data collecting going on and then compiles it themselves for distribution.
Ever try Iron? There's also a Chromium-based browser actually called Stainless, as you suggest, but I believe it's Mac OS X only. Iron is Windows only.
I dunno, the guy just lists out reasons why you can't uniquely identify people by names. e.g. "some people don't have names".
Yeah, I don't see anything Insightful, Informative, Interesting, or even Funny about his blog post. Still waiting for CmdrTaco to authorize the use of Slashdot mod points across the entire internet.
Next up, a headline on MPEG-LA decrying this as an ignominious infringement on scads of their intellectual property. Hopefully projects like this stand a reasonable change at exposing the ludicrousness of the software patent system.
I would never work for such a company. It blows my mind how anyone would. It must be that because of all the click-through EULAs, we're conditioned to dismiss any legal stipulations and just figure, "Eh, it'll probably never happen to me." And largely, that is true. (I'm speaking mostly of Americans when I reference this dismissive attitude.)
Well, I do work as a sysadmin, so naturally I fall into that category. But I sure as hell haven't ever policed anyone for checking their Gmail, for Christ's sake. The only time I've ever had to confront anyone about porn usage was in a computer lab, so it was not staff perpetrating. What a staff member does in their office is none of my damn business. It's up to their supervisor to make sure that they remain productive, and I doubt anyone cares if they eat peanut butter sandwiches, or listen to Wagner, or watch goat sex on YouTube while they maintain their output.
I wasn't aware someone was forcing me to move the cursor up to the address bar and deliberately click the 'READER' button.
Affordances, affordances, affordances. Choice can still be incredibly restrictive.