I can't verify what the source was since it the items were purchased before I got there and records were sketchy at best. They were government purchased products so I would hope they would work through approved channels but I can't say.
This isn't just for good known to be made in china. This past year we performed an audit of our network infrastructure with Cisco's help. We found almost 10% of our switches were counterfeit. They were all models of layer 2 and layer 3 switches and were virtually indistinguishable from genuine Cisco products down to the enhanced security IOS.
The replaceable battery isn't so much for when I need to talk for a long time but when the battery wears out and stops holding as much charge. The SD becomes more important if you use your phone as a multimedia device otherwise it's pretty moot. Which part is non intuitive? The Eris was the first smartphone I've owned and it was extremely easy to dive into, and from using iPhones at work no harder than using Apples hardware.
Just out of curiostiy have you managed to put you iPhone down long enough to USE an Android phone? I bought my Eris less than a month ago and fail to see any validity to your position that isn't caused by the App not the OS. Of course I have a faster CPU than the iPhone 3GS, a replaceable battery, and can switch back and forth between 3G and 1x seemlessly (something the iPhone fails at consistently with Edge and 3G). Does the iPhone have an SD (or other) slot yet?
Of course Google now owns a little bit more of my soul but at least they don't force me to put blinders on.
I wish I had Mod points to bump you up so there would be more attention to this point. eBooks should be cheaper but How much cheaper is the million dollar question I'd like to see answered too.
There is actually a windshield/glass technology out there now that can prevent (or at least slow) the dust from building up on the glass of the solar panels. Unfortunately it wasn't around when these guys were built, proven, and then shipped off to a strange hostile world where they have run around like little conquering heroes.
These little guys (and by extension their designers, etc...) are a shining examples of going above and beyond the call of duty.
I run two isolated networks for roughly 300 users (about 600 accounts between the networks) over multiple isolated geographical locations (you have to convoy between them) with 2 admins and 5 sneaker techs. We run about 200 computers, 4-6 servers, and multiple wireless interconnects with associated equipment. Of course being military makes for special requirements.
No back light. It is easier on the eyes than a netbook screen, no eye strain or anything, and the battery lasts for days (I recharge about twice a month and read on it every day) not hours. The form factor varies but my PRS-505 if roughly the size of a VERY thin paperback.
You can only show so many titles on a screen at once. Every game, every title, and every product has to fight for that space. The closer you are to the front the more likely you are to be seen.
A PBS documentary isn't federal prosecution in any sense. Lets try using our higher skills and follow logical paths, a prosecution started by religious fanatics because of a documentary doesn't mean the makers of the documentary were religious fanatics.
However GP said it wouldn't be accurate, just accurate enough. How high do windspeeds get in safe flying weather (assume a headwind) and would that plus whatever error there is in the gps (probably fairly small) be too much for a go/no go system?
Call me selfish, jade, evil... call me what ever you like. All lives are not equal.
Some people contribute more to my way of life and the future of my way of life than others. I therefore have a more vested interest in their survival. If you got cancer tomorrow I would wish you the best of luck and hope you got well soon, but I don't know you from Adam and won't follow your disease, recovery, or honestly care beyond simple human compassion for those who are suffering. Because honestly it is unlikely to effect me.
Reality is a harsh mistress. Some of us treat with her in a more pragmatic less carebear approach. To each their own.
Indeed. With Microsoft they control my OS and to some extent my software. With Apple they contol my hardware, my OS, my software, my peripherals, and my soul.
I personally like linux for all its faults and will continue to abuse it and myself with microsoft products until such a time as they are no longer needed.
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I can't verify what the source was since it the items were purchased before I got there and records were sketchy at best. They were government purchased products so I would hope they would work through approved channels but I can't say.
Cisco was pointing the finger at China for the source... Helps if you add WHY that little anecdote was relevant...
This isn't just for good known to be made in china. This past year we performed an audit of our network infrastructure with Cisco's help. We found almost 10% of our switches were counterfeit. They were all models of layer 2 and layer 3 switches and were virtually indistinguishable from genuine Cisco products down to the enhanced security IOS.
The replaceable battery isn't so much for when I need to talk for a long time but when the battery wears out and stops holding as much charge. The SD becomes more important if you use your phone as a multimedia device otherwise it's pretty moot. Which part is non intuitive? The Eris was the first smartphone I've owned and it was extremely easy to dive into, and from using iPhones at work no harder than using Apples hardware.
Just out of curiostiy have you managed to put you iPhone down long enough to USE an Android phone? I bought my Eris less than a month ago and fail to see any validity to your position that isn't caused by the App not the OS. Of course I have a faster CPU than the iPhone 3GS, a replaceable battery, and can switch back and forth between 3G and 1x seemlessly (something the iPhone fails at consistently with Edge and 3G). Does the iPhone have an SD (or other) slot yet?
Of course Google now owns a little bit more of my soul but at least they don't force me to put blinders on.
I wish I had Mod points to bump you up so there would be more attention to this point. eBooks should be cheaper but How much cheaper is the million dollar question I'd like to see answered too.
And he answered the GGP's question.
I'm on Verizon with an Eris and I can do that whole visual voicemail thing. Have a clue bat.
There is actually a windshield/glass technology out there now that can prevent (or at least slow) the dust from building up on the glass of the solar panels. Unfortunately it wasn't around when these guys were built, proven, and then shipped off to a strange hostile world where they have run around like little conquering heroes.
These little guys (and by extension their designers, etc...) are a shining examples of going above and beyond the call of duty.
I run two isolated networks for roughly 300 users (about 600 accounts between the networks) over multiple isolated geographical locations (you have to convoy between them) with 2 admins and 5 sneaker techs. We run about 200 computers, 4-6 servers, and multiple wireless interconnects with associated equipment. Of course being military makes for special requirements.
Heck as a 27 year old Marine it makes for some fun reading and something to browse for while at work.
No back light. It is easier on the eyes than a netbook screen, no eye strain or anything, and the battery lasts for days (I recharge about twice a month and read on it every day) not hours. The form factor varies but my PRS-505 if roughly the size of a VERY thin paperback.
Or make it run on double-A batteries like a large number of GPS's do...
Really? You might want to tell that to the military... I can't get Firefox installed much less supported on a military computer.
You can only show so many titles on a screen at once. Every game, every title, and every product has to fight for that space. The closer you are to the front the more likely you are to be seen.
It's obviously somewhere between reality and some stuff they made up to win grant money.
A PBS documentary isn't federal prosecution in any sense. Lets try using our higher skills and follow logical paths, a prosecution started by religious fanatics because of a documentary doesn't mean the makers of the documentary were religious fanatics.
Not so much dead as just highly crippled by the past 8 years of having religious zealots in control.
We still haven't shed the genes that make some people become Politicians...
There fixed that for you...
Wouldn't that require starting over?
Wow. I would have guessed that in or near a storm system but not in nicer weather. Thanks for the knowledge.
+ Insightful
However GP said it wouldn't be accurate, just accurate enough. How high do windspeeds get in safe flying weather (assume a headwind) and would that plus whatever error there is in the gps (probably fairly small) be too much for a go/no go system?
Call me selfish, jade, evil... call me what ever you like. All lives are not equal.
Some people contribute more to my way of life and the future of my way of life than others. I therefore have a more vested interest in their survival. If you got cancer tomorrow I would wish you the best of luck and hope you got well soon, but I don't know you from Adam and won't follow your disease, recovery, or honestly care beyond simple human compassion for those who are suffering. Because honestly it is unlikely to effect me.
Reality is a harsh mistress. Some of us treat with her in a more pragmatic less carebear approach. To each their own.
Sad that they're still playing my maps... They weren't that good years ago. I would like to think someone would have made a better map by now...
Indeed. With Microsoft they control my OS and to some extent my software. With Apple they contol my hardware, my OS, my software, my peripherals, and my soul.
I personally like linux for all its faults and will continue to abuse it and myself with microsoft products until such a time as they are no longer needed.
-Lifyre