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Comment Re:Power outlets? (Score 1) 177

When are they going to do power outlets? I could convince myself to replace each one of my outlets if it had WiFi connectivity and a way to monitor usage and turn it on/off.

A wireless panel usage device would capture individual circuits for whole house monitoring, or for individual plugs, a simple plug in wall wart with pass through outlets. They already have these, it's just likely not as slick or hyped by an ex-Apple employee. Hopefully this type of rethinking common items to make them smarter catches on and makes our houses that much more "intelligent". Not sure I want to rely on a 3rd party service though.

Comment Re:Erm, ok. (Score 1) 477

So a small sample. In my company if they did that (large multinational) I would work with 3 people in the cube farm maybe on the same floor, likely not. Then most of my work would be coordinating with a boss in another part of the country and coworkers in 4 other parts followed by trying to get deadlines in before the EU coworkers head out for the day.
With as big a company as HP this is not going to help and is nothing more than "I got nothin' else" punt. A power play that will wreak havoc on the numerous 80k+ ! employees that currently telecommute. It's old school thinking.

Comment Re:The dream of the Nineties (Score 1) 75

(Alcatel-)Lucent involved in a new massive layoff? It's another 90s revival. The scars never quite healed from starting my career there in the 90s.

I still work there. Amazing that through what seems layoffs continuously since 2001 that we are still around. I guess the cash infusion from merging with Alcatel helped push us along for a few more years. Though from what I know, due to unions and such in the EU, they are overstaffed there but it is very difficult to layoff.

Comment Re:RIP Bell Labs (Score 1) 75

Yes, but in A-L's case, they made the mistake of Carly Fiorina. She did what a lot of companies did, she lent money to her customers to buy Lucent stuff. Alcatel was incredibly blind to buy Lucent. After 3 years at L, Carly gave H-P the kiss of death, her being a serial failure.

It started well before Fiorina. And I was dumbfounded at the idea of it when I started working there. Merging with Alcatel was just a cash infusion for Lucent and now it's back down to the bottom. Who will be the next buyer to keep it going!

Comment Re:Alcatel makes decent Android phones (Score 1) 75

In India; Alcatel makes smartphones for Idea Cellular; and they are quite good. Very rugged; good specs; fairly low cost - $120 for a 5" smartphone.

Wonder if this move is to get eventually swallowed like Nokia - except the CxOs; nobody else benefits.

My understanding is that they have only lent their name to the phones and don't actually have anything to do with them but are made by a 3rd party.

Comment Re:Fucking idiots (Score 1) 1532

The US forest service is also part of the USDA and they actually do stuff like manage the national forests.

I believe he mentioned it should only be funded to a few billion, not the $140B+ it is today. A few billion for food inspection (maybe unless it's paid for via mfg fees), and some for forests. Bump it up to say 40B, there, saved taxpayers 100B. That is no small amount.

Comment Re:Non-US Internet (Score 3, Informative) 406

Iran has already done it. It has built an Intranet like network which connects to outside world through few gateways. The transition of the network users to the new Intranet is being done at the time being and will complete in year.

The main purpose is the:

1- Avoid the internal Iranian traffic to travel over the internet (i.e. unknown countries). 2- To control in/out traffic (deep packet inspection, control access to outsider websites, attack and spying control, allow access to Iran-only websites just from inside Iran, emergency kill switch). 3- Force Iranian organizations to host their website in Iranian data centers. 4- Save traffic costs. 5- Flourish local hosting and cloud business and local peering between ISPs. ....

6. Control the ideas/speech of all websites within Iran.

Comment Be better than that /. (Score 1) 616

"imagine the hilarity"

What? Sounds like the submitter has a petty vendetta. Less competition in the market is no cause for hilarity regardless of what you think of the company or it's outgoing CEO. I don't see myself using either, but I know some that have one and love it for their workflows. One size does not fit all and thankfully there are choices and room for numerous players to come and go as we all benefit, even from things we would never use out of need or emotional reasons.

Comment Re:History (Score 1) 432

BS. Name one single Android phone that is faster. No benchmark test anywhere legitimate puts ANY phone above the 5s in speed at launch date. All the test scores from all the usual mobile tests came back in favor of iPhone 5s. Every single one. Sure it will be surpassed eventually but to say it was comparatively slow at launch date compared to top Android phones is a flat out fabrication.

Comment Not 4M 5C's (Score 1) 432

Apple would produce just over 5 million iPhone 5S units ahead of the device's launch weekend; if that number's accurate, and Apple sold every single one, it would mean Apple sold roughly 4 million iPhone 5C units in order to reach that 9-million-sold figure for both models.

No. The 9 million number takes into account online orders for phones as well. As their 5s supply ran out, many/most ran to their carriers or Apple's website and ordered it online. It does not [necessarily] mean that 4M 5C's were purchased.

Comment Re:Not so much slowness (Score 1) 488

You can help speed it up some by disabling the parallax effect and by limiting what Spotlight Search has to index. My battery is slightly worse as well, I think. Turning off location services and background updating (among others) can help older hardware run smoother and longer. /4s owner

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