Also, the company that won the contract your employer was bidding for will probably hire more workers, so it's not much of a difference in overall employment.
I have an original iPhone, and went through their "check for eligibility" wizard, and it was $199/$299 for the 16/32GB models. Your "subsidized" 3g buyers still have the better part of 1-2 years on their contracts before they are eligible for a "discount". That's how the subsidized phones work on ALL carriers.
Yeah, when I got my my green card like 15 years ago, they required all 10 fingerprints, as well as a photo. And as someone has already mentioned, your picture and fingerprint are prominently displayed on it.
A side question: can Microsoft really not afford to just keep these servers running? I guess they're having some problems with Vista being a flop and all, but how expensive can it be to maintain these servers? On the other hand, I don't particularly blame Microsoft for this situation. It's an inherent problem with DRM, and it was bound to happen to someone sooner or later.
Maybe it doesn't matter if they shut it down, because no one is using it?
I think the stat is that more than half of the iPhones are sold without getting activated on AT&T, meaning people are either unlocking them for other carriers, or using them as overpriced iPod Touch's.
Wow. We've gone from 18% to 1/3 to more than 50% all in a single story.
Yes, but consider how many people could be killed by a nuclear weapon being exploded in a major metropolitan area.
Also, when people die of strokes, they tend not to do massive damage to surrounding infrastructure.
Napster far overestimated the value of its "brand".
Actually, the "brand" was purchased by Roxio in Bankruptcy court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster
The entity you think of as Napster is a different company just using the name.
Well I'm still stuck with my DirecTV HD Tivo. While I'd love to get the new channels, I think I'm going to wait for reports on what kind of compression and PQ are delivered before I commit to another 2 years with them. FIOS may be coming to town soon as well, so that's another alternative for me as well, and it doesn't require a 2 year commitment. Although from the channel lineup I've seen for FIOS, I think they will be lagging DirecTV in that regard, but from what I hear, the FIOS PQ ROCKS.
DirecTV 10 is supposedly about to go live with a bunch of new HD channels as soon as Saturday. These are all MPEG 4 though.
I recommend checking AVSForum.com in the HDTV Programming section, or DBSTalk.com for up to date information.
Rumor has it that a boatload of new HD channels will be going live in MPEG 4 on or around this Saturday on DirecTV. I recommend checking AVSForum.com in the HD Programming section for up to date information. DBSTalk.com might be a good place to check as well.
And in the mean time, in the rest of the world, crippled phones DON'T EXIST. Because the phone you use is independent from the carrier. Welcome to open standards (GSM). You do realize you can just use pretty much any old GSM phone on AT&T's network don't you? Or Tmobile's for that matter.
Actually, it seems to me that if Google gets their way, the telcos would be less interested in bidding, which might actually make the winning bid lower.
My first PC was the Apple II w/16k of RAM, a pair of the paddle controllers, a spare tape player for loading/saving programs, and a spare 13" (or maybe smaller) b&w TV as a monitor. I learned to program with the included Integer Basic. Eventually, we upgraded and got a floppy drive and an add on card that included Pascal and Applesoft basic, as well as more RAM.
Eventually I got a IIgs, but when Apple released the Lisa (and then the Macintosh), I was left behind, since they were both far to expensive for me at the time. I ended up moving over to the MS/intel world, and have worked there ever since.
I think I'm going to buy one of the new Macbook Pros (after I wait to see if anything interesting comes out from WWDC next week) and take OS X for a spin. I think part of it is nostalgia and a desire to "pay it back" so to speak for having pushed me into the direction my career path has taken me. The ability to dual boot and run Parallels has given me the peace of mind to do so. I don't think I would have taken that leap if they weren't running Intel.
Yes, but that would only be useful for outgoing calls. For incoming calls, you would have to leave your data on, which would suck your battery dry in no time.
Mr. Bill didn't luck out with DOS. What the product does isn't very important. How you release it into the world is important. The man is a marketing [evil] genius. He has a feel for which way people will jump and an understanding about how people select things. He knows that as a group consumers are raccoons. Give us something shiny and our eyes glaze over, we grab it, and we won't let go.
Actually he did luck out with MS DOS. If memory serves me correctly, they purchased it from another company, and then tried to SELL it to IBM for $50,000. IBM decided they didn't want to buy it, but license it instead. That's where they started raking in the cash. If Bill Gates had his way back then, MS would just be a footnote in the history books.
Perhaps the real reason for this change is to encourage a slow and painful death for all of it's PlaysforSure partners so that the Zune can take on the iPod by itself.
One thing that's mentioned in the review that I found annoying was the lack of dual buffers for the live tuners. This feature on the DirecTivo's allows you to have a 30 minute buffer of what's currently on each of the tuners (assuming you haven't changed the channel recently). Comes in quite handy, especially during football season, or other times when 2 sports events are on at the same time.
While most admins (including me) will be disgusted at the "protecting us from ourselves" aspect, as well as taking away free choice, this will really help the schools and libraries with their bandwith consumption. Some of the school and Library admins I know say that Myspace.com now accounts for over 50% of their traffic, with its stupid embedded music/videos.
Since then, that entire department has been disbanded, and from all I've heard, Murray Hill is a husk of what it used to be even five to six years ago. It's been the victim of both Lucent's overall decline due to a combination of mismanagement and the crash of the optical networking industry, and of the general change in corporate attitudes to "blue sky" research.
While some of the decline can be certainly be attributed to mismanagement, the decline of the optical networking industry had very little to do with it. While they were certainly involved in some aspects of the optical networking market, that was never their primary market. Lucent is primarily involved in telecommunications infrastructure (Central Office switches, wireless base stations etc.). The two primary factors for the decline has been the consolidation of the telecommunications industry, and their lack of GSM wireless products for overseas markets (where most of the growth is occuring). The GSM problem is one of the primary reasons for the proposed merger with Alcatel (which is largely without wireless CDMA products).
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Here's a comparison:
Cryptonomicon:
Kindle version: $6.39
Nook version: $11.99
Just a book I picked at random.
Why would they fear you working in California?
Also, the company that won the contract your employer was bidding for will probably hire more workers, so it's not much of a difference in overall employment.
I have an original iPhone, and went through their "check for eligibility" wizard, and it was $199/$299 for the 16/32GB models. Your "subsidized" 3g buyers still have the better part of 1-2 years on their contracts before they are eligible for a "discount". That's how the subsidized phones work on ALL carriers.
Yeah, when I got my my green card like 15 years ago, they required all 10 fingerprints, as well as a photo. And as someone has already mentioned, your picture and fingerprint are prominently displayed on it.
A side question: can Microsoft really not afford to just keep these servers running? I guess they're having some problems with Vista being a flop and all, but how expensive can it be to maintain these servers? On the other hand, I don't particularly blame Microsoft for this situation. It's an inherent problem with DRM, and it was bound to happen to someone sooner or later.
Maybe it doesn't matter if they shut it down, because no one is using it?
I highly recommend watching his whole speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrp-v2tHaDo
Wow. We've gone from 18% to 1/3 to more than 50% all in a single story.
The correct figure appears to be 10%:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/04/report_10_percent_of_september_iphones_sold_to_unlocking_teams.html
Yes, but consider how many people could be killed by a nuclear weapon being exploded in a major metropolitan area. Also, when people die of strokes, they tend not to do massive damage to surrounding infrastructure.
Actually, the "brand" was purchased by Roxio in Bankruptcy court.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster
The entity you think of as Napster is a different company just using the name.
Well I'm still stuck with my DirecTV HD Tivo. While I'd love to get the new channels, I think I'm going to wait for reports on what kind of compression and PQ are delivered before I commit to another 2 years with them. FIOS may be coming to town soon as well, so that's another alternative for me as well, and it doesn't require a 2 year commitment. Although from the channel lineup I've seen for FIOS, I think they will be lagging DirecTV in that regard, but from what I hear, the FIOS PQ ROCKS.
DirecTV 10 is supposedly about to go live with a bunch of new HD channels as soon as Saturday. These are all MPEG 4 though. I recommend checking AVSForum.com in the HDTV Programming section, or DBSTalk.com for up to date information.
Rumor has it that a boatload of new HD channels will be going live in MPEG 4 on or around this Saturday on DirecTV. I recommend checking AVSForum.com in the HD Programming section for up to date information. DBSTalk.com might be a good place to check as well.
Actually, it seems to me that if Google gets their way, the telcos would be less interested in bidding, which might actually make the winning bid lower.
My first PC was the Apple II w/16k of RAM, a pair of the paddle controllers, a spare tape player for loading/saving programs, and a spare 13" (or maybe smaller) b&w TV as a monitor. I learned to program with the included Integer Basic. Eventually, we upgraded and got a floppy drive and an add on card that included Pascal and Applesoft basic, as well as more RAM. Eventually I got a IIgs, but when Apple released the Lisa (and then the Macintosh), I was left behind, since they were both far to expensive for me at the time. I ended up moving over to the MS/intel world, and have worked there ever since. I think I'm going to buy one of the new Macbook Pros (after I wait to see if anything interesting comes out from WWDC next week) and take OS X for a spin. I think part of it is nostalgia and a desire to "pay it back" so to speak for having pushed me into the direction my career path has taken me. The ability to dual boot and run Parallels has given me the peace of mind to do so. I don't think I would have taken that leap if they weren't running Intel.
Yes, but that would only be useful for outgoing calls. For incoming calls, you would have to leave your data on, which would suck your battery dry in no time.
Mr. Bill didn't luck out with DOS. What the product does isn't very important. How you release it into the world is important. The man is a marketing [evil] genius. He has a feel for which way people will jump and an understanding about how people select things. He knows that as a group consumers are raccoons. Give us something shiny and our eyes glaze over, we grab it, and we won't let go.
Actually he did luck out with MS DOS. If memory serves me correctly, they purchased it from another company, and then tried to SELL it to IBM for $50,000. IBM decided they didn't want to buy it, but license it instead. That's where they started raking in the cash. If Bill Gates had his way back then, MS would just be a footnote in the history books.
Perhaps the real reason for this change is to encourage a slow and painful death for all of it's PlaysforSure partners so that the Zune can take on the iPod by itself.
One thing that's mentioned in the review that I found annoying was the lack of dual buffers for the live tuners. This feature on the DirecTivo's allows you to have a 30 minute buffer of what's currently on each of the tuners (assuming you haven't changed the channel recently). Comes in quite handy, especially during football season, or other times when 2 sports events are on at the same time.
While most admins (including me) will be disgusted at the "protecting us from ourselves" aspect, as well as taking away free choice, this will really help the schools and libraries with their bandwith consumption. Some of the school and Library admins I know say that Myspace.com now accounts for over 50% of their traffic, with its stupid embedded music/videos.
Can't they just make the tubes smaller?
Dear god I hope this means I can get a bunch of commercials with babes in bikinis in place of the ones about feminine hygiene someday soon.
It would help if you stopped watching the Lifetime channel.
Since then, that entire department has been disbanded, and from all I've heard, Murray Hill is a husk of what it used to be even five to six years ago. It's been the victim of both Lucent's overall decline due to a combination of mismanagement and the crash of the optical networking industry, and of the general change in corporate attitudes to "blue sky" research.
While some of the decline can be certainly be attributed to mismanagement, the decline of the optical networking industry had very little to do with it. While they were certainly involved in some aspects of the optical networking market, that was never their primary market. Lucent is primarily involved in telecommunications infrastructure (Central Office switches, wireless base stations etc.). The two primary factors for the decline has been the consolidation of the telecommunications industry, and their lack of GSM wireless products for overseas markets (where most of the growth is occuring). The GSM problem is one of the primary reasons for the proposed merger with Alcatel (which is largely without wireless CDMA products).