That's a strange claim as both of the connectors work as USB style data/charging primarly and need heavy processing on the cable to produce any kind of video output. MicroUSB has exactly same features, it also transfers data and charge device. There might be some proprietary protocols that are unique to the lightning connector, but I doubt they are going to be widely used. However I like the hardware design of the lightning connector and hope next USB connector standard will be similar.
Problem is that you can have two persons working on a same thing where one does public presentation and does not want to patent the invention. Second one can then after this fact file patent for the invention and sue the former even if the invention was actually done first by the one who didn't want to file a patent for it. For open source and open ideas it's better to have a system where inventions can be made un-patentable without expensive legal process so I prefer the European system.
I think the novel idea here is that if you enter different passwords into same account you get different functionality. Especially useful on shared home iPad or computer or tv where you don't have need for separate accounts. Don't know if there is any prior art to this, but it sounds like a clearly different compared to user accounts in traditional sense.
Best way to deflect any talk of sanctions is to say like this : "Mr Putin's foreign policy advisor Yury Ushakov said the situation was "rather insignificant" and should not influence relations with the US."
Have you ever entered US as a foreigner? That sounds pretty standard procedure. Even when I was returning with valid visa to my home in San Diego I was asked questions and treated like I was trying to sneak in to the US. Not to mention the 1-2 hour lines in the immigration at Atlanta. The job of the immigration is to check the stories and documentation, if she honestly doubted your story then you wouldn't be let in.
I cannot say anything about Philippines or India, but I know for a fact that UK immigration is closer to US one towards foreigners (non-EU), my wife got once denied visa because she only had 1 month of bank statements prepared instead of 3 months. Often the treatment in other countries is similar to the one the country's citizens receive at your own country, it's called reciprocity and since US is one of the bigger offenders in poor immigration experience around the world the countries treat US citizens poorly as well. So if you are treated badly while travelling around the world it is most likely because you are US citizen.
How do you want foreign people to come to work to US? Close the borders for the foreign workers? I had opportunity to work in US for 3 years (L-2 visa), I liked it and I never had any problems with the salary level. At the moment I'm working in Europe again and happy, but if I ever wanted to return to work in US how should I do that? I also worked in China and sad to say the Chinese government is more open towards foreign workers than the US government.
I would hope that a real capitalistic economy would be able to handle also free market for employment. I would say that foreign workers also bring more to the table than just the low wage and inferior skills. Open the borders for foreign workers who pay their taxes to US and economy will benefit from that, having companies held hostage to some nation wide union of american workers is not a good thing in the long run.
If you read the bill text you quickly see (without lawyers) that your logs that are held to comply with laws and then deleted afterwards are not considered information your company retains. However you might retain other information and that information needs to be shared with the customer.
I started my own mobile game company back in 2002, which was the J2ME era. I think that was around the time of the start of the hype cycle. During this hype many companies paid big amounts of money for these mobile game startups that didn't generate real profit in a real market place. Just before Apple came out with iPhone mobile games market was in a really bad shape (disillusionment) and other apps were virtually nonexistent. Once Apple came out with iPhone market place and Android was announced things changed and companies started to make profit from paying happy customers. I consider current situation as plateau of productivity and the app market can sustain viable businesses in a relatively free marketplace.
I got stopped near Mexican border by a border patrol. I only had my California license and not my passport with me. They called in a number to check my visa and asked me to carry the passport in the future as I'm a visitor in US. I didn't, because it's too unsafe to have all of that documentation lost, if the police wants to stop me they can use my other ID to check for the visa. So far I have been stopped once, so it hasn't been a problem.
In other countries I have never been asked for a passport, including China and many South American countries.
At least in California the driving license validity extends only until your visa validity. When issuing the license they will check the documentation and tourist visa is not good enough to get the driving license. Social security number also can be applied, everyone staying longer in the country gets it, but tourists don't.
When I bought my Nokia 1610 around 1997 I listened the salesmen and purchased an extra battery with the phone. I never used that battery. Only time I had extra battery after that was with my Thinkpad T40 to extend the battery life when CD/DVD drive was removed. Since then I have never needed to replace any of the batteries on my devices and there has been many devices. Of course faulty battery goes under warranty, but that has never happened to me.
I just need to remember few things, Lithium batteries like to stay charged, Nickel based batteries like to run full cycle and charge full. With these rules I have managed to keep my devices in working condition for years. As a summary I can say that user replaceable batteries are a non-issue for me, never needed to replace one.
With pandemia it's safe to assume that most of medical facilities would be too full to administer care to even the critical part of the population. The chances are you won't have any treatment at all in the hospital, just quarantine facilities to make sure people don't escape while they are still sick.
I have seen the same, my long running hard drives wouldn't boot up again. When I opened one of these stopped hard drives the head was glued to the boot sector. I assumed that since boot sector is never used during the 3-5 years of operation it collects some trash that will attach to the reading head when HD is stopped and cools down.
Sometimes moving the case is enough to get bad connections appear (or opposite, when computer is brought for maintenance it starts to work) but pressing down all the cards and chips that are using sockets solves those problems. Vacuum cleaner is also a good tool when talking about an old computer with mouse nest or something similar in it. Anyway computers can run well when stopped frequently, as long as you maintain similar schedule during the lifecycle of the computer.
That's only true if you look US as a whole. West coast has dense population centers and east coast is ideal for a rail. Both east coast and west coast have most of the population living only tens of miles from the coast, making it easy to cover all the cities by rail. In Europe it's more difficult as the cities are not on coast and to get from one city to another there are often no straight routes.
European high speed rail connections are not limited by borders, of course going from one city to the next is cheaper than building one huge rail with only two stops, 520 mile rail is not extremely long. The high speed rail makes sense where the travel time is competitive with airplane travel time and population centers have demand to travel between them. California is great place for high speed rail, very sparsely populated land with huge cities along the coast. San Diego - Los Angeles - San Francisco - Sacramento train would cover big parts of California, extend that to Las Vegas, Portland and Vancouver with more stops on the way and you have all west coast covered.
Sure, but you also managed to overlook the Macbook Air benefits compared to your excellent Asus model. First of all Macbook Air is just under 3lbs, while Asus is 3.7lbs. That weight difference alone explains some of the hardware differences and design decisions. Additionally Macbook Air has better resolution on the display, which is a huge plus in my eyes, 1440x900 compared to 1366x768. Add the ultra light power adapter of Macbook Air to the mix and you get portable system with you well under 4lbs.
Second area where I believe Macbook Air will prevail is heat management. Try using all those goodies loaded in Asus for an extended period of time and the laptop becomes unbearably hot and reduces battery life significantly. Macbook Air also heats but I believe less so because of lower powered CPU and no dedicated GPU. Adding dedicated GPU or more CPU power is less appealing on ultra portable than on a desktop computer and should be always weighted on the down side they create.
Nice things Macbook Air has that are more rarely found in competing products: Magsafe power port, OSX Lion, Thunderbolt port, excellent microphone, and great webcam.
I think the problem with these charges is that they are not even close to what it costs for a carrier to deliver 1GB. You don't pay $30-40 a month because of people who use 10GB per month or even 100GB per month. You pay that amount because of the carrier is greedy to subsidize other failed investments and/or extra dividends with the data fees. Or maybe they are just incompetent and the operations truly costs that much.
Amazon can sell 1 GB of data transfer for less than $0.15, even if we double that cost it's nowhere near the fees charged. With double of Amazon prices the carrier could transfer 100GB for $30. The cell towers needs to be built anyway for the coverage and the base cost of cell tower coverage is charged already on your regular phone bill.
I'm living in Finland and here the data transfer over cellular network is truly unlimited, tethering doesn't cost extra and speeds are up to 14mbit/sec. The cost for this connection is right now 13 EUR/month. On the other hand 10/10 fiber ethernet purchased by HOA for every unit in the building costs 6.80 EUR per apartment with 100/10 upgrade after 2 year contract period. Individually 10/10 fiber with IPTV costs 19 EUR/month.
I'm telling these costs as an example of true cost of delivering 1 GB over cellular or fiber network. If it would cost more than fraction of cent these companies would be out of business and right now they are in fact profitable. Even if you count in higher US wages, more difficult environment to build networks, and regulatory hurdles the true cost of gigabyte cannot be nowhere near what Verizon is charging.
Now if attacker has your hashed password from the server it's still possible to get authenticated. Am I thinking too simple way when I would just send the password over secure channel to the server, hash the password at the server and compare the hash to the one on the database?
American worldwide military base network, ability to project power anywhere in the world in matter of days, need to defend US interests across the globe, and requirement to be able to simultaneously encage in several fronts has its costs. Old European imperialistic nations didn't give up the foreign lands just because they suddenly felt generous and wanted to give freedom to these countries. It was in big part also a fiscal decision and sooner US realizes that the sooner the budget will be balanced.
Problem is that you cannot cut military spending without giving up the imperialistic approach towards the rest of the world. Having a weak military with same worldwide objectives in place will cost more as more conflicts would arise.
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That's a strange claim as both of the connectors work as USB style data/charging primarly and need heavy processing on the cable to produce any kind of video output. MicroUSB has exactly same features, it also transfers data and charge device. There might be some proprietary protocols that are unique to the lightning connector, but I doubt they are going to be widely used. However I like the hardware design of the lightning connector and hope next USB connector standard will be similar.
Problem is that you can have two persons working on a same thing where one does public presentation and does not want to patent the invention. Second one can then after this fact file patent for the invention and sue the former even if the invention was actually done first by the one who didn't want to file a patent for it. For open source and open ideas it's better to have a system where inventions can be made un-patentable without expensive legal process so I prefer the European system.
I think the novel idea here is that if you enter different passwords into same account you get different functionality. Especially useful on shared home iPad or computer or tv where you don't have need for separate accounts. Don't know if there is any prior art to this, but it sounds like a clearly different compared to user accounts in traditional sense.
Best way to deflect any talk of sanctions is to say like this : "Mr Putin's foreign policy advisor Yury Ushakov said the situation was "rather insignificant" and should not influence relations with the US."
Have you ever entered US as a foreigner? That sounds pretty standard procedure. Even when I was returning with valid visa to my home in San Diego I was asked questions and treated like I was trying to sneak in to the US. Not to mention the 1-2 hour lines in the immigration at Atlanta. The job of the immigration is to check the stories and documentation, if she honestly doubted your story then you wouldn't be let in.
I cannot say anything about Philippines or India, but I know for a fact that UK immigration is closer to US one towards foreigners (non-EU), my wife got once denied visa because she only had 1 month of bank statements prepared instead of 3 months. Often the treatment in other countries is similar to the one the country's citizens receive at your own country, it's called reciprocity and since US is one of the bigger offenders in poor immigration experience around the world the countries treat US citizens poorly as well. So if you are treated badly while travelling around the world it is most likely because you are US citizen.
How do you want foreign people to come to work to US? Close the borders for the foreign workers? I had opportunity to work in US for 3 years (L-2 visa), I liked it and I never had any problems with the salary level. At the moment I'm working in Europe again and happy, but if I ever wanted to return to work in US how should I do that? I also worked in China and sad to say the Chinese government is more open towards foreign workers than the US government.
I would hope that a real capitalistic economy would be able to handle also free market for employment. I would say that foreign workers also bring more to the table than just the low wage and inferior skills. Open the borders for foreign workers who pay their taxes to US and economy will benefit from that, having companies held hostage to some nation wide union of american workers is not a good thing in the long run.
If you read the bill text you quickly see (without lawyers) that your logs that are held to comply with laws and then deleted afterwards are not considered information your company retains. However you might retain other information and that information needs to be shared with the customer.
I started my own mobile game company back in 2002, which was the J2ME era. I think that was around the time of the start of the hype cycle. During this hype many companies paid big amounts of money for these mobile game startups that didn't generate real profit in a real market place. Just before Apple came out with iPhone mobile games market was in a really bad shape (disillusionment) and other apps were virtually nonexistent. Once Apple came out with iPhone market place and Android was announced things changed and companies started to make profit from paying happy customers. I consider current situation as plateau of productivity and the app market can sustain viable businesses in a relatively free marketplace.
Except the full size USB port is designed for 1500 cycles of insertion and removal and micro USB port is designed for 10000 cycles.
He can start over in some other country, it's not as bad as it sounds.
I got stopped near Mexican border by a border patrol. I only had my California license and not my passport with me. They called in a number to check my visa and asked me to carry the passport in the future as I'm a visitor in US. I didn't, because it's too unsafe to have all of that documentation lost, if the police wants to stop me they can use my other ID to check for the visa. So far I have been stopped once, so it hasn't been a problem.
In other countries I have never been asked for a passport, including China and many South American countries.
At least in California the driving license validity extends only until your visa validity. When issuing the license they will check the documentation and tourist visa is not good enough to get the driving license. Social security number also can be applied, everyone staying longer in the country gets it, but tourists don't.
When I bought my Nokia 1610 around 1997 I listened the salesmen and purchased an extra battery with the phone. I never used that battery. Only time I had extra battery after that was with my Thinkpad T40 to extend the battery life when CD/DVD drive was removed. Since then I have never needed to replace any of the batteries on my devices and there has been many devices. Of course faulty battery goes under warranty, but that has never happened to me.
I just need to remember few things, Lithium batteries like to stay charged, Nickel based batteries like to run full cycle and charge full. With these rules I have managed to keep my devices in working condition for years. As a summary I can say that user replaceable batteries are a non-issue for me, never needed to replace one.
With pandemia it's safe to assume that most of medical facilities would be too full to administer care to even the critical part of the population. The chances are you won't have any treatment at all in the hospital, just quarantine facilities to make sure people don't escape while they are still sick.
I have seen the same, my long running hard drives wouldn't boot up again. When I opened one of these stopped hard drives the head was glued to the boot sector. I assumed that since boot sector is never used during the 3-5 years of operation it collects some trash that will attach to the reading head when HD is stopped and cools down.
Sometimes moving the case is enough to get bad connections appear (or opposite, when computer is brought for maintenance it starts to work) but pressing down all the cards and chips that are using sockets solves those problems. Vacuum cleaner is also a good tool when talking about an old computer with mouse nest or something similar in it. Anyway computers can run well when stopped frequently, as long as you maintain similar schedule during the lifecycle of the computer.
Hmm... isn't being a IT/Geek/Nerd pretty much Darwin Award material as itself?
That's only true if you look US as a whole. West coast has dense population centers and east coast is ideal for a rail. Both east coast and west coast have most of the population living only tens of miles from the coast, making it easy to cover all the cities by rail. In Europe it's more difficult as the cities are not on coast and to get from one city to another there are often no straight routes.
European high speed rail connections are not limited by borders, of course going from one city to the next is cheaper than building one huge rail with only two stops, 520 mile rail is not extremely long. The high speed rail makes sense where the travel time is competitive with airplane travel time and population centers have demand to travel between them. California is great place for high speed rail, very sparsely populated land with huge cities along the coast. San Diego - Los Angeles - San Francisco - Sacramento train would cover big parts of California, extend that to Las Vegas, Portland and Vancouver with more stops on the way and you have all west coast covered.
Sure, but you also managed to overlook the Macbook Air benefits compared to your excellent Asus model. First of all Macbook Air is just under 3lbs, while Asus is 3.7lbs. That weight difference alone explains some of the hardware differences and design decisions. Additionally Macbook Air has better resolution on the display, which is a huge plus in my eyes, 1440x900 compared to 1366x768. Add the ultra light power adapter of Macbook Air to the mix and you get portable system with you well under 4lbs.
Second area where I believe Macbook Air will prevail is heat management. Try using all those goodies loaded in Asus for an extended period of time and the laptop becomes unbearably hot and reduces battery life significantly. Macbook Air also heats but I believe less so because of lower powered CPU and no dedicated GPU. Adding dedicated GPU or more CPU power is less appealing on ultra portable than on a desktop computer and should be always weighted on the down side they create.
Nice things Macbook Air has that are more rarely found in competing products: Magsafe power port, OSX Lion, Thunderbolt port, excellent microphone, and great webcam.
I think the problem with these charges is that they are not even close to what it costs for a carrier to deliver 1GB. You don't pay $30-40 a month because of people who use 10GB per month or even 100GB per month. You pay that amount because of the carrier is greedy to subsidize other failed investments and/or extra dividends with the data fees. Or maybe they are just incompetent and the operations truly costs that much.
Amazon can sell 1 GB of data transfer for less than $0.15, even if we double that cost it's nowhere near the fees charged. With double of Amazon prices the carrier could transfer 100GB for $30. The cell towers needs to be built anyway for the coverage and the base cost of cell tower coverage is charged already on your regular phone bill.
I'm living in Finland and here the data transfer over cellular network is truly unlimited, tethering doesn't cost extra and speeds are up to 14mbit/sec. The cost for this connection is right now 13 EUR/month. On the other hand 10/10 fiber ethernet purchased by HOA for every unit in the building costs 6.80 EUR per apartment with 100/10 upgrade after 2 year contract period. Individually 10/10 fiber with IPTV costs 19 EUR/month.
I'm telling these costs as an example of true cost of delivering 1 GB over cellular or fiber network. If it would cost more than fraction of cent these companies would be out of business and right now they are in fact profitable. Even if you count in higher US wages, more difficult environment to build networks, and regulatory hurdles the true cost of gigabyte cannot be nowhere near what Verizon is charging.
You mean AT&T Wireless will compete with AT&T uVerse and Verizon Wireless will put Verizon FIOS out of business?
Now if attacker has your hashed password from the server it's still possible to get authenticated. Am I thinking too simple way when I would just send the password over secure channel to the server, hash the password at the server and compare the hash to the one on the database?
Yes. If they didn't they wouldn't be shutting down Google Video.
Isn't this how leases work? Leases always have some limited number of miles and any miles above that will be charged at very expensive rate.
American worldwide military base network, ability to project power anywhere in the world in matter of days, need to defend US interests across the globe, and requirement to be able to simultaneously encage in several fronts has its costs. Old European imperialistic nations didn't give up the foreign lands just because they suddenly felt generous and wanted to give freedom to these countries. It was in big part also a fiscal decision and sooner US realizes that the sooner the budget will be balanced.
Problem is that you cannot cut military spending without giving up the imperialistic approach towards the rest of the world. Having a weak military with same worldwide objectives in place will cost more as more conflicts would arise.