In North America, including here in Candada, the "standard" 3g frequencies are what ATT/Rogers/Telus/Bell etc use.
There is also an AWS band which T-Mobile and Wind Mobile here in Canada use, but their coverage is spotty outside of major metro areas and you end up frequently roaming.
So blame the FCC:D Whoever it to blame it means no 3G for me.
It is certainly more powerful, but I'm a UI snob. Even the lower fps of android phones I just couldn't do.
I could care less about flash and wish it would disappear from the desktop too:D
Like I said, I really considered it. A mobile device running a desktopish linux was appealing, but the UI won me over, considering the similar functionality.
I totally agree with you on a ton of fronts. But for me the total package I just can't do.
With the iPhone I get the smooth UI, the huge app store, AND all the nerd stuff I need. The N900 is cool, but it is basically an EOL device, almost no devs, universally panned UI, but lots of hacker friendliness. You also lose the ability to do 3G on any major carrier.
Apple as a company sucks, their behavior sucks, the fact that the iPhone is locked down sucks. But in reality the end product STILL ends up better since the shit they DID do, they did well, and the hackers picked up the slack for the rest, no matter what apple wanted.
Morally I agree it is better to support nokia or another companies that support hackers, but I just can't fight through shitty user interfaces, slow grahics, and a crappy app selection just to balm the moral aspect of it.
On the other hand I've used webOS and the GUI is done right unlike android/n900. If the user share picked up, I see what HP plans to do with the platform, and development caught up to iPhone/Android, I would be very likely to switch.
I'm not married to the iPhone, I just think that TODAY it is the best solution out there. I am perfectly willing to switch, and put my money where my mouth was buying the Nexus One and not having an iPhone for months, but in the end it sucked,a lot. (for me).
For one, being at the mercy of the next update bricking your phone. It just does not work like that.
For one, the iPhone in its current state is unbrickable through software. There is ALWAYS a way to recover it. You can yank the cord mid-flash and still recover your device (google DFU mode).
Next, the current jailbreaks to the iPhone 4 etc are forever as they are in bootrom. My phone would need to be eeprom flashed by apple to get rid of the current exploit. All I have to do is wait a day or two for a hacker to update the tools for the next version and I'm good to go.
I realize other platforms already have a hacker mentality built it, but what's funny is the way it works.
Android for example you need to root anyways to install any of the really cool stuff. No difference there. And once you do, you can't install half the stuff you can on the iPhone since the userbase currently is not there, so many of the tools don't exist.
You talked about giving up a bit of functionality but I disagree. On android, you get embedded tools, that's it. Embedded ssh, embedded commands, etc. On the iPhone you get full sets of BSD/Linux gnu tools. You get a full and powerful debian apt packing system. You really get a full computer's worth of tools. If I could find a 8p8c dongle for the phone I could almost toss my laptop.
There are no hoops to jump through to jailbreak either, it almost couldn't be easier. You run one small.exe, follow maybe 10-20 seconds worth of instructions, and you're jailbroken. If you are a nerd and find this hard you need to hand in your nerd card.
Steve jobs at this point, cannot fuck this up for me, however smelly his fart. The exploit exists in hardware, and the hackers are out there in far more force than on Android.
I realize this could change, but currently, I still believe the iPhone is MUCH more of a nerd/geek/hacker's platform than android.
I still think the iPhone is much more of a hackers platform than any android phone.
It is kind of long but I'm going to recycle a recent comment:
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What's funny is, iOS jailbroken is actually a nerd's paradise. Much more so than android actually.
On the iPhone, you have a full apt package system, a terminal running bash, OpenSSH/OpenSSL tools, server, client, etc. a full GCC dev environement, etc.
A lot of this stuff is stuff you just don't get on Android at any level. You get a terminal out of the box with android, but what do you get? Busybox. Guh. Want SSH? You get Dropbear. The package system sucks compared to APT. I've never tried getting GCC running on the phone but I don't imagine it is easy, if at all possible.
With the iPhone I really feel like I have a full computer running in my pocket. I asked several android hackers why you are limited with these crappy tools on the phone itself, and they replied it was an embedded device so you get embedded tools. I'm sorry but something with 1-2 cores at >1GHz, a GPU that far outstrips anything on my earlier computers, and 32 gigs of NV storage is -not- an embedded device, I don't care how small it is.
You get all this, PLUS a UI that (only IMO I understand) is far more fluid and nicer to use than Android.
Don't get my wrong I'm not just yelling across the fence. I had a Nexus one for a good few months. I tried hard to like it, but in the end when the i4 came out, I jumped ship like it was on fire.
There is of course, hassle. I don't like to restore from backup so Every time there is a major firmware update I actually wipe my phone clean, then sync all my apps over fresh. But thanks to several tools out there it isn't a total restart.
There is hassle but for me, android has a LONG way to go, especially on the hacker front to be anywhere near the iPhone in terms of UI -AND- geekery.
What's funny is, iOS jailbroken is actually a nerd's paradise. Much more so than android actually.
On the iPhone, you have a full apt package system, a terminal running bash, OpenSSH/OpenSSL tools, server, client, etc. a full GCC dev environement, etc.
A lot of this stuff is stuff you just don't get on Android at any level. You get a terminal out of the box with android, but what do you get? Busybox. Guh. Want SSH? You get Dropbear. The package system sucks compared to APT. I've never tried getting GCC running on the phone but I don't imagine it is easy, if at all possible.
With the iPhone I really feel like I have a full computer running in my pocket. I asked several android hackers why you are limited with these crappy tools on the phone itself, and they replied it was an embedded device so you get embedded tools. I'm sorry but something with 1-2 cores at >1GHz, a GPU that far outstrips anything on my earlier computers, and 32 gigs of NV storage is -not- an embedded device, I don't care how small it is.
You get all this, PLUS a UI that (only IMO I understand) is far more fluid and nicer to use than Android.
Don't get my wrong I'm not just yelling across the fence. I had a Nexus one for a good few months. I tried hard to like it, but in the end when the i4 came out, I jumped ship like it was on fire.
There is of course, hassle. I don't like to restore from backup so Every time there is a major firmware update I actually wipe my phone clean, then sync all my apps over fresh. But thanks to several tools out there it isn't a total restart.
There is hassle but for me, android has a LONG way to go, especially on the hacker front to be anywhere near the iPhone in terms of UI -AND- geekery.
Is it not possible to license your own frequency and get mics with radios on this frequency? Then if someone walks over you, you have a legal recourse. The FCC will actually help you track down who is doing it and punish them.
If you walk over other people's bandwidth on licensed frequencies that don't belong to you you're making the problem worse not helping it.
Certainly not weight based. The touchpads are capacitive sensing touchpads. You generally need conductive materials, and it usually calibrated for the range of human fingers. Some accessories have been made that transmit the capacitance of your finger through a spot in a glove etc so you can use it with gloves on.
As for the chess pieces etc I imagine they could organize the conductive material in the chess piece to indicate direction, but for stuff like the coloured paper, no f'n way. Paper will certainly not trigger any sort of touch response, and there is absolutely no way to sense color.
I personally have a feeling the whole source material is a hoax.
By the way having read the article better, it seems to imply the fungus actually is taking "over its brain and muscles" then killing the creature. In reality it is likely the fungus is making the ant feel more comfortable in this area or changing the way its pheremones tell it to go.
The incredible thing though, is according to wikipedia: "The changes in the behavior of the infected ants are very specific and tuned for the benefit of the fungus. The ants generally clamp to a leaf's vein about 25 cm above the ground, on the northern side of the plant, in an environment with 94-95% humidity and temperatures between 20 -30 degrees C. "
That is pretty damn specific, amazing so simple an organism can induce behavior that complex in an ant.
BBC Planet Earth shows the cordyceps fungus attacking some Bullet Ants in South America. It is incredible camera work showing the ant being forced to climb, and later a time lapse of the fruit body erupting from the ant's body. It is short but very well filmed, as is the case for the entire series.
HIGHLY recommend watching this if you have any interest in nature.
The cordyceps section is around 28 minutes into the "Jungle" episode. You won't be dissapointed.
Actually I searched youtube and found an excert of this episide including the cordyceps on the ants. The cordyceps part starts about 4 minutes into this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qabQZQQrGk
I still recommend getting the blue-ray or at least dvd of this series, can't say enough good things about it in general.
This is already a well commented story and I usually don't enjoy commenting on those since my comment will likely just get lost but here it is.
At least with cable modems the DOCSIS configuration file for your modem is given two speeds. Sustained and Burst.
If they spec you at 10Mbps sustained and 2.5 Burst, you will see 'up to' 10Mbps. For normal browsing, it should be like being on a 10 megabit connection, but for downloading, you will quickly be relagated to sustained speed.
The file also has provisions for setting these speeds based on ports. They may really give you ten megabit on port 80 but less on others, its up to your cable ISP.
You don't think it was willing? All products will have a certain failure rate.
Even if the failure rate is blow industry norms (which I doubt is the case here) it doesn't matter.
The company is making people who buy the cards give a bunch of info online before their warranty is any good. If you did not do this and your product breaks you're screwed, dispite it being the same product as if you had not filled in this info online.
They are banking on people not filling in this info to save them on warranty replacements. This is common in many industries but it is still willfully fucking the customer IMO.
That is all the guy was talking about. His comments about it being a different card pre-registration was sarcasm to point out the rediculousness of needing to register to have a proper warranty.
Do you really thing the OP believed the things were less reliable because he did not register? You really need to address your reading comprehension.
The OP's cards failed and the warranty was denied due to the fact that he had not registered. He sarcastically was wondering what difference the registry should make since it is the same card whether he registered it or not. A reputable company would have covered the card reglardless of the registry and it was obviously just a way to bilk him out of his money (requiring the registry to stand behind the products they made).
He is totally in agreement with you that they fucked up on the cards. The issue is the company would not stand behind them, not that they broke.
I totally disagree with you that the company did not want to 'fuck' the OP. It is like mail in rebates. They are given in this way rather than an instant discount in hopes that many will not send them in, and many don't. Basically, do extra work or we take your money. It is not reputable, and certainly constitutes 'fucking' of the customer in my book.
Let's say you need to write 100 gb per day of data to a server. You have a 100 gb SSD in place. Say you can write each cell 10k times (And it is often higher even more MLC) This gives you ten thousand days of write time. Not bad! Even if you vastly over-estimate write amplification it boils down to a lot of time. You won't have a problem hitting your 5 year marks, and the MTBFs on almost all of these drives is given over a million hours so no issue there either.
I mean, the time scales are so far in the green for write or any kind of reliability it should be a non issue. If you get a bigger SSD later, it is even more robust.
I've never met a single AIM user in my life. Everyone here (In Canada among the people I know anyways) use MSN or facebook chat. A tiny segment use gtalk, and not a single one use AIM.
Might be regional but is it really that popular anywhere?
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Actually you're blaming the wrong person.
:D Whoever it to blame it means no 3G for me.
:D
In North America, including here in Candada, the "standard" 3g frequencies are what ATT/Rogers/Telus/Bell etc use.
There is also an AWS band which T-Mobile and Wind Mobile here in Canada use, but their coverage is spotty outside of major metro areas and you end up frequently roaming.
So blame the FCC
It is certainly more powerful, but I'm a UI snob. Even the lower fps of android phones I just couldn't do.
I could care less about flash and wish it would disappear from the desktop too
Like I said, I really considered it. A mobile device running a desktopish linux was appealing, but the UI won me over, considering the similar functionality.
No 3G, clunky UI, clunky device, etc.
With the iPhone I get the hacker stuff AND the nice stuff. That's the whole point.
With the Android you sacrifice UI -AND- nerdyness.
With the N900 you get quite a bit more nerd goodness, but much worse UI/device, at least in my eyes.
I considered the N900 quite a bit though.
I totally agree with you on a ton of fronts. But for me the total package I just can't do.
With the iPhone I get the smooth UI, the huge app store, AND all the nerd stuff I need. The N900 is cool, but it is basically an EOL device, almost no devs, universally panned UI, but lots of hacker friendliness. You also lose the ability to do 3G on any major carrier.
Apple as a company sucks, their behavior sucks, the fact that the iPhone is locked down sucks. But in reality the end product STILL ends up better since the shit they DID do, they did well, and the hackers picked up the slack for the rest, no matter what apple wanted.
Morally I agree it is better to support nokia or another companies that support hackers, but I just can't fight through shitty user interfaces, slow grahics, and a crappy app selection just to balm the moral aspect of it.
On the other hand I've used webOS and the GUI is done right unlike android/n900. If the user share picked up, I see what HP plans to do with the platform, and development caught up to iPhone/Android, I would be very likely to switch.
I'm not married to the iPhone, I just think that TODAY it is the best solution out there. I am perfectly willing to switch, and put my money where my mouth was buying the Nexus One and not having an iPhone for months, but in the end it sucked,a lot. (for me).
Sure just run openssh on your galaxy.
Fire up gcc and compile something.
Use anything in your terminal other than busybox.
Nope to do that you have to root your phone and install another operating system.
Fantastic. So to get a usable device, I have to install a different operating system.
It is cool, nice to be able to do, etc, but not quite the same thing.
No, Jailbroken A is better and more powerful than jailbroken B.
Unjailbroken A is of course much more closed down.
Your post is not true on several fronts..
.exe, follow maybe 10-20 seconds worth of instructions, and you're jailbroken. If you are a nerd and find this hard you need to hand in your nerd card.
For one, being at the mercy of the next update bricking your phone. It just does not work like that.
For one, the iPhone in its current state is unbrickable through software. There is ALWAYS a way to recover it. You can yank the cord mid-flash and still recover your device (google DFU mode).
Next, the current jailbreaks to the iPhone 4 etc are forever as they are in bootrom. My phone would need to be eeprom flashed by apple to get rid of the current exploit. All I have to do is wait a day or two for a hacker to update the tools for the next version and I'm good to go.
I realize other platforms already have a hacker mentality built it, but what's funny is the way it works.
Android for example you need to root anyways to install any of the really cool stuff. No difference there. And once you do, you can't install half the stuff you can on the iPhone since the userbase currently is not there, so many of the tools don't exist.
You talked about giving up a bit of functionality but I disagree. On android, you get embedded tools, that's it. Embedded ssh, embedded commands, etc. On the iPhone you get full sets of BSD/Linux gnu tools. You get a full and powerful debian apt packing system. You really get a full computer's worth of tools. If I could find a 8p8c dongle for the phone I could almost toss my laptop.
There are no hoops to jump through to jailbreak either, it almost couldn't be easier. You run one small
Steve jobs at this point, cannot fuck this up for me, however smelly his fart. The exploit exists in hardware, and the hackers are out there in far more force than on Android.
I realize this could change, but currently, I still believe the iPhone is MUCH more of a nerd/geek/hacker's platform than android.
I still think the iPhone is much more of a hackers platform than any android phone.
It is kind of long but I'm going to recycle a recent comment:
---
What's funny is, iOS jailbroken is actually a nerd's paradise. Much more so than android actually.
On the iPhone, you have a full apt package system, a terminal running bash, OpenSSH/OpenSSL tools, server, client, etc. a full GCC dev environement, etc.
A lot of this stuff is stuff you just don't get on Android at any level. You get a terminal out of the box with android, but what do you get? Busybox. Guh. Want SSH? You get Dropbear. The package system sucks compared to APT. I've never tried getting GCC running on the phone but I don't imagine it is easy, if at all possible.
With the iPhone I really feel like I have a full computer running in my pocket. I asked several android hackers why you are limited with these crappy tools on the phone itself, and they replied it was an embedded device so you get embedded tools. I'm sorry but something with 1-2 cores at >1GHz, a GPU that far outstrips anything on my earlier computers, and 32 gigs of NV storage is -not- an embedded device, I don't care how small it is.
You get all this, PLUS a UI that (only IMO I understand) is far more fluid and nicer to use than Android.
Don't get my wrong I'm not just yelling across the fence. I had a Nexus one for a good few months. I tried hard to like it, but in the end when the i4 came out, I jumped ship like it was on fire.
There is of course, hassle. I don't like to restore from backup so Every time there is a major firmware update I actually wipe my phone clean, then sync all my apps over fresh. But thanks to several tools out there it isn't a total restart.
There is hassle but for me, android has a LONG way to go, especially on the hacker front to be anywhere near the iPhone in terms of UI -AND- geekery.
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What's funny is, iOS jailbroken is actually a nerd's paradise. Much more so than android actually.
On the iPhone, you have a full apt package system, a terminal running bash, OpenSSH/OpenSSL tools, server, client, etc. a full GCC dev environement, etc.
A lot of this stuff is stuff you just don't get on Android at any level. You get a terminal out of the box with android, but what do you get? Busybox. Guh. Want SSH? You get Dropbear. The package system sucks compared to APT. I've never tried getting GCC running on the phone but I don't imagine it is easy, if at all possible.
With the iPhone I really feel like I have a full computer running in my pocket. I asked several android hackers why you are limited with these crappy tools on the phone itself, and they replied it was an embedded device so you get embedded tools. I'm sorry but something with 1-2 cores at >1GHz, a GPU that far outstrips anything on my earlier computers, and 32 gigs of NV storage is -not- an embedded device, I don't care how small it is.
You get all this, PLUS a UI that (only IMO I understand) is far more fluid and nicer to use than Android.
Don't get my wrong I'm not just yelling across the fence. I had a Nexus one for a good few months. I tried hard to like it, but in the end when the i4 came out, I jumped ship like it was on fire.
There is of course, hassle. I don't like to restore from backup so Every time there is a major firmware update I actually wipe my phone clean, then sync all my apps over fresh. But thanks to several tools out there it isn't a total restart.
There is hassle but for me, android has a LONG way to go, especially on the hacker front to be anywhere near the iPhone in terms of UI -AND- geekery.
Is it not possible to license your own frequency and get mics with radios on this frequency? Then if someone walks over you, you have a legal recourse. The FCC will actually help you track down who is doing it and punish them.
If you walk over other people's bandwidth on licensed frequencies that don't belong to you you're making the problem worse not helping it.
Certainly not weight based. The touchpads are capacitive sensing touchpads. You generally need conductive materials, and it usually calibrated for the range of human fingers. Some accessories have been made that transmit the capacitance of your finger through a spot in a glove etc so you can use it with gloves on.
As for the chess pieces etc I imagine they could organize the conductive material in the chess piece to indicate direction, but for stuff like the coloured paper, no f'n way. Paper will certainly not trigger any sort of touch response, and there is absolutely no way to sense color.
I personally have a feeling the whole source material is a hoax.
I agree to this. If you're working away from home this often, the chances of your wife cheating on you or leaving you increase tenfold.
"Lonely" is the absolute worst thing you can make your wife feel if you want to keep her, and is the reason most often given for infidelity.
By the way having read the article better, it seems to imply the fungus actually is taking "over its brain and muscles" then killing the creature. In reality it is likely the fungus is making the ant feel more comfortable in this area or changing the way its pheremones tell it to go.
The incredible thing though, is according to wikipedia: "The changes in the behavior of the infected ants are very specific and tuned for the benefit of the fungus. The ants generally clamp to a leaf's vein about 25 cm above the ground, on the northern side of the plant, in an environment with 94-95% humidity and temperatures between 20 -30 degrees C. "
That is pretty damn specific, amazing so simple an organism can induce behavior that complex in an ant.
BBC Planet Earth shows the cordyceps fungus attacking some Bullet Ants in South America. It is incredible camera work showing the ant being forced to climb, and later a time lapse of the fruit body erupting from the ant's body. It is short but very well filmed, as is the case for the entire series.
HIGHLY recommend watching this if you have any interest in nature.
The cordyceps section is around 28 minutes into the "Jungle" episode. You won't be dissapointed.
Actually I searched youtube and found an excert of this episide including the cordyceps on the ants. The cordyceps part starts about 4 minutes into this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qabQZQQrGk
I still recommend getting the blue-ray or at least dvd of this series, can't say enough good things about it in general.
This is already a well commented story and I usually don't enjoy commenting on those since my comment will likely just get lost but here it is.
At least with cable modems the DOCSIS configuration file for your modem is given two speeds. Sustained and Burst.
If they spec you at 10Mbps sustained and 2.5 Burst, you will see 'up to' 10Mbps. For normal browsing, it should be like being on a 10 megabit connection, but for downloading, you will quickly be relagated to sustained speed.
The file also has provisions for setting these speeds based on ports. They may really give you ten megabit on port 80 but less on others, its up to your cable ISP.
You don't think it was willing? All products will have a certain failure rate.
Even if the failure rate is blow industry norms (which I doubt is the case here) it doesn't matter.
The company is making people who buy the cards give a bunch of info online before their warranty is any good. If you did not do this and your product breaks you're screwed, dispite it being the same product as if you had not filled in this info online.
They are banking on people not filling in this info to save them on warranty replacements. This is common in many industries but it is still willfully fucking the customer IMO.
That is all the guy was talking about. His comments about it being a different card pre-registration was sarcasm to point out the rediculousness of needing to register to have a proper warranty.
True but it is certainly 21 in every state now according to that WP link.
What the hell are you talking about?
Do you really thing the OP believed the things were less reliable because he did not register? You really need to address your reading comprehension.
The OP's cards failed and the warranty was denied due to the fact that he had not registered. He sarcastically was wondering what difference the registry should make since it is the same card whether he registered it or not. A reputable company would have covered the card reglardless of the registry and it was obviously just a way to bilk him out of his money (requiring the registry to stand behind the products they made).
He is totally in agreement with you that they fucked up on the cards. The issue is the company would not stand behind them, not that they broke.
I totally disagree with you that the company did not want to 'fuck' the OP. It is like mail in rebates. They are given in this way rather than an instant discount in hopes that many will not send them in, and many don't. Basically, do extra work or we take your money. It is not reputable, and certainly constitutes 'fucking' of the customer in my book.
I have no idea how you got modded informative.
Well just work it out and see if it fits you.
Let's say you need to write 100 gb per day of data to a server. You have a 100 gb SSD in place. Say you can write each cell 10k times (And it is often higher even more MLC) This gives you ten thousand days of write time. Not bad! Even if you vastly over-estimate write amplification it boils down to a lot of time. You won't have a problem hitting your 5 year marks, and the MTBFs on almost all of these drives is given over a million hours so no issue there either.
I mean, the time scales are so far in the green for write or any kind of reliability it should be a non issue. If you get a bigger SSD later, it is even more robust.
What do you want them to say in a PR statement?
"Hey it happens guys. Comonnnnn <arms moving back and forth>"
21, not 18. Remember which country we're talking about here.
You can be in porn, screw adults, go to war for your country, but not drink at 18. Makes sense to me!
http://tinyurl.com/3276efb
I've never met a single AIM user in my life. Everyone here (In Canada among the people I know anyways) use MSN or facebook chat. A tiny segment use gtalk, and not a single one use AIM.
Might be regional but is it really that popular anywhere?
Like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_Keyboard
As another poster said, a car jack will easily smash that lock.
A large (4ft long) set of bolt cutters will also do it.