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Comment Re:Perhaps that is why there's a new focus... (Score 1) 406

AT&T has the second-best thing: SMS.

The funny thing is - they used to.

With iOS5, any iPhone owner who sends an SMS to another iPhone owner actually sends it through Apple, not over SMS! So suddenly the vast numbers of iPhones they are selling mean a dramatic drop in SMS revenue.

It makes you wonder if that's why the sudden squeeze in other areas, as they need to adjust for making less money from the same customer base.

That's the initial, default behavior in IOS5, but it's possible to disable that and send messages with normal SMS.

Comment Some help with "Morgen regnet es" in TFA (Score 1) 297

The article says "Morgen regnet es" in German translates to "It will rain tomorrow". But translate.google.com says it translates to "Tomorrow it's raining", which does not requre the "will", which seems critical to TFA's thesis. Can a German-speaker please say what is the common sentence to express the possibility of rain tomorrow? Google translates "It will rain tomorrow" to "Es wird morgen regnen".

Comment Someone please explain the problem with this (Score 1) 126

How is this different from hiring low-paid staff to log traffic and follow suspicious looking people? And looking at checkout sales summaries is not enough - some places might want to know simply how many people walk in/out. Or maybe identify locations in a store where people look for an item but don't actually pick up something to buy - this could mean insufficient product choice or low inventory. I'm sure software hooked into already existent cameras is more efficient than minimum wage patrol staff who will usually get most everything wrong.

Comment Automatic meeting transcription is what's needed (Score 1) 65

Just 2 or 3 fixed wide angle cameras in the conference room, automatic identification of speakers in the video, and text-only transcripts or video annotated with subtitle-like real time text for people who are just observing and don't have a headset. This is also an archive recording of the meeting. Robotic cameras in a conference room would just be a playful annoyance.

Comment Maybe not such a bad move (Score 1) 481

The DVD rental by mail business is a dead end, and Netflix can more easily sell it off after they figure out streaming deals. I never understood how they make money - I pay about $8/month for renting a max of 1 DVD, and I get about 2 DVDs by mail each week. That's 8 each month, and with postage/envelopes each way at about $0.50, that's $8.00 - not much profit here. I suspect Netflix wants to emphasize to movie studios that DVDs are a dying business, and to get their streaming act together.

Comment Be sure to do some design team projects (Score 1) 296

Try to get involved in at least one or two design team projects, which are often available even starting as a freshman - not just seniors. Be an expert in one or more areas - there's always a need for a good Powerpoint person in these teams, for example. And also learn Matlab or Comsol or something like that. Just know something and be an expert in something that nobody else is good at. The other team members and also even professors will seek you out. Note that ME and CS don't mix so well, unless you intend to go into ME CAD tool development. But knowledge of ME software design tools and basic Office tools is extremely valuable.

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