To summarize: Phones are "texting" towers constantly as part of the cellular standard.
Not exactly. AFAIK, in GSM and UMTS the standalone dedicated control channel (SDCCH) is occupied on both originating and terminating sides.
The appending of a personal message costs nothing extra for the company.
The store-and-forward SMSC servers cost very real money, and the hardware does limit throughput.
The rates are outrageously high for the minuscule data passed.
As per the first point, it's not about data but signalling resource usage. Don't think too much of sending over GPRS - a voice call would be interrupted and there's still the smallish data overhead involved anyway (some 30 octets per 140 bytes of payload).
I wonder how much would Motorola charge me for the fix, since the Milestone they soid me is effectively locked at the bootloader so they're the only ones who can fix the phone.
Ditto, after proper consultation with My Friend Wikipedia. Be warned that these are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films". That's why Saturday Night Fever is on the list.
Y'know, there's a lot more to movies than Star Wars:
1. Airplane (1980)
2. All the President’s Men (1976)
3. The Bargain (1914)
4. Cry of Jazz (1959)
5. Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
6. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
7. The Exorcist (1973)
8. The Front Page (1931)
9. Grey Gardens (1976)
10. I Am Joaquin (1969)
11. It’s a Gift (1934)
12. Let There Be Light (1946)
13. Lonesome (1928)
14. Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
15. Malcolm X (1992)
16. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
17. Newark Athlete (1891)
18. Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
19. The Pink Panther (1964)
20. Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
21. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
22. Study of a River (1996)
23. Tarantella (1940)
24. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
25. A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
Well, it's not like they're going to jump under a bus after having one beer. It's more like a token of sympathy which, along with supportive messages can go a long way in the other direction.
SSCs can be simple or complex depending on the subject of the acquisition. If FAR Part 15 is used, then a concept called best value can be used; best value simply is an idea that the lowest bidder is not necessarily the winner of a competition - rather, an evaluation of the overall offer based on specified SSCs is accomplished and a source selection decision is accomplished (see below) based on those specified SSCs using a fact based business judgement of the acquiring activity.
[...]
Contractors must also be aware of whether or not price is more important than non-price factors. Where price is more important than non-price factors, then the lowest bidder who is technically acceptable in view of the source selection factors and work statement requirements will be selected. Where the solicitation indicates that the requirement is a best value acquisition, then a contractor must draft their proposal to emphasize how their proposed technical solution will meet each and every requirement and source selection factor.
Animals die, you know, so it's mostly a matter of how and at what age. Me, I'd rather have my head clubbed or my neck slit in a farm than be eaten half-alive by a predator that just mauled me enough to keep me still. And while that's not a true dichotomy, the odds of dying peacefully, surrounded and guarded by my peers are small.
White Noise FM is an online radio broadcasting white noise, a sound known to improve concentration by covering background noise. It also helps relaxation, and can aid people to sleep. Although we're focusing on white noise at the moment, we have plans to add more colored sounds to our programs in the future : pink noise, brown noise, and grey noise. We aim to become a fully featured white noise generator!
It also features pink and brown(ian) noise
And WhiteNoise.fm in turn links to none other than Vuvuzela Radio!!:
Vuvuzela Radio is a station dedicated to playing the sound of the vuvuzela, the famous South African blowing horn the whole world learned to love (or hate) during the 2010 World Cup. We are broadcasting non-stop, without commercial breaks, so you can get your full daily dose : anywhere, anytime.
Though, I'm pretty certain that the four "streams" are actually pre-generated samples in a loop.
I guess the binaries would sound a lot like its sister station, White Noise FM:
White Noise FM is an online radio broadcasting white noise, a sound known to improve concentration by covering background noise. It also helps relaxation, and can aid people to sleep. Although we're focusing on white noise at the moment, we have plans to add more colored sounds to our programs in the future : pink noise, brown noise, and grey noise. We aim to become a fully featured white noise generator!
It also features pink and brown(ian) noise, though they all look like pre-generated samples in a loop
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hey Zucchini, IDGI, care to explain? Is Hungary relevant in some way?
To summarize: Phones are "texting" towers constantly as part of the cellular standard.
Not exactly. AFAIK, in GSM and UMTS the standalone dedicated control channel (SDCCH) is occupied on both originating and terminating sides.
The appending of a personal message costs nothing extra for the company.
The store-and-forward SMSC servers cost very real money, and the hardware does limit throughput.
The rates are outrageously high for the minuscule data passed.
As per the first point, it's not about data but signalling resource usage. Don't think too much of sending over GPRS - a voice call would be interrupted and there's still the smallish data overhead involved anyway (some 30 octets per 140 bytes of payload).
I wonder how much would Motorola charge me for the fix, since the Milestone they soid me is effectively locked at the bootloader so they're the only ones who can fix the phone.
six tons in pounds ;)
Yup, Google is a cooler overlord than Yahoo ever was
Ditto, after proper consultation with My Friend Wikipedia. Be warned that these are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films". That's why Saturday Night Fever is on the list.
Y'know, there's a lot more to movies than Star Wars:
1. Airplane (1980)
2. All the President’s Men (1976)
3. The Bargain (1914)
4. Cry of Jazz (1959)
5. Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB (1967)
6. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
7. The Exorcist (1973)
8. The Front Page (1931)
9. Grey Gardens (1976)
10. I Am Joaquin (1969)
11. It’s a Gift (1934)
12. Let There Be Light (1946)
13. Lonesome (1928)
14. Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
15. Malcolm X (1992)
16. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)
17. Newark Athlete (1891)
18. Our Lady of the Sphere (1969)
19. The Pink Panther (1964)
20. Preservation of the Sign Language (1913)
21. Saturday Night Fever (1977)
22. Study of a River (1996)
23. Tarantella (1940)
24. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
25. A Trip Down Market Street (1906)
Umm...
VNC = Virtual Network Computing
VLC = VLC media player (former VideoLAN Client)
There's even more redundancy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_card_number
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm
Well, it's not like they're going to jump under a bus after having one beer. It's more like a token of sympathy which, along with supportive messages can go a long way in the other direction.
For a change away from xkcd: "Horrible Truth: All technological progress is due to Humanity's unearned sense of entitlement"
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=change+wlan+mac+address
more like Twitter and local message boards with their "insidious rumours"
Source Selection Criteria (SSC)
SSCs can be simple or complex depending on the subject of the acquisition. If FAR Part 15 is used, then a concept called best value can be used; best value simply is an idea that the lowest bidder is not necessarily the winner of a competition - rather, an evaluation of the overall offer based on specified SSCs is accomplished and a source selection decision is accomplished (see below) based on those specified SSCs using a fact based business judgement of the acquiring activity.
[...]
Contractors must also be aware of whether or not price is more important than non-price factors. Where price is more important than non-price factors, then the lowest bidder who is technically acceptable in view of the source selection factors and work statement requirements will be selected. Where the solicitation indicates that the requirement is a best value acquisition, then a contractor must draft their proposal to emphasize how their proposed technical solution will meet each and every requirement and source selection factor.
Government procurement in the United States
Google: And this! "Rubber chicken with a"
Well played, sir Threep
Animals die, you know, so it's mostly a matter of how and at what age. Me, I'd rather have my head clubbed or my neck slit in a farm than be eaten half-alive by a predator that just mauled me enough to keep me still. And while that's not a true dichotomy, the odds of dying peacefully, surrounded and guarded by my peers are small.
It shouldn't be too hard to use a flexible and less power-hungry display like OLED, even if it takes a few years to have screens that big.
sudo make me a sandwich
Linux.fm links to its "sister station"White Noise FM :
White Noise FM is an online radio broadcasting white noise, a sound known to improve concentration by covering background noise. It also helps relaxation, and can aid people to sleep. Although we're focusing on white noise at the moment, we have plans to add more colored sounds to our programs in the future : pink noise, brown noise, and grey noise. We aim to become a fully featured white noise generator!
It also features pink and brown(ian) noise
And WhiteNoise.fm in turn links to none other than Vuvuzela Radio !!:
Vuvuzela Radio is a station dedicated to playing the sound of the vuvuzela, the famous South African blowing horn the whole world learned to love (or hate) during the 2010 World Cup. We are broadcasting non-stop, without commercial breaks, so you can get your full daily dose : anywhere, anytime.
Though, I'm pretty certain that the four "streams" are actually pre-generated samples in a loop.
I guess the binaries would sound a lot like its sister station, White Noise FM :
White Noise FM is an online radio broadcasting white noise, a sound known to improve concentration by covering background noise. It also helps relaxation, and can aid people to sleep. Although we're focusing on white noise at the moment, we have plans to add more colored sounds to our programs in the future : pink noise, brown noise, and grey noise. We aim to become a fully featured white noise generator!
It also features pink and brown(ian) noise, though they all look like pre-generated samples in a loop
Gee, thanks Max.
An retired inventor, once intrepid, sheds a single tear. Old memories, indeed.
O RLY?
Perhaps, but this is a laden, asian swallow.
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this thing can turn on my webcam and upload the vids just because i clicked on a link?
let me ask, how do i NEVER get this add-on?
Got Flash? Yes it can, and guess what: there are settings for that, per site and global.
Maybe the good boys at Mozilla thought of that too.