Plus $30 line rental? For the $80 you'd get the 25/5, double the quota and node phone. Not to mention a more reliable connection with lower latency.
That is good value if you ask me!
Not to mention you are in the
Yes, they may make a loss on these unit, but not as much as they would make if they just scrapped the 100.000 parts and sub-assemblies they have lying in a warehouse.
If those parts are worth $200/piece, that would be a $20M loss.
Spending an extra $100 to turn them into units and selling them at $250 (nobody said these ones would be $99 also!) that would be a $5M loss.
(Shipping will only be a few dollars and reseller margins on these things are so thin at the best of times, they just want to get people into their store and sell them accessories)
You are working on the assumption that the system will send location information to the government.
The trials utilize a little box outfitted with GPS, wireless internet, and a complex rating system that tracks a car's environmental impact
Sounds like the box has all the info it needs to calculate the cost, needing only to send that information to its base.
I'm not saying that is how it will work, but there is no reason to jump to conclusions.
The reason for drawing that conclusion is that when an aircraft departing controlled flight in this fashion without evidence of structural or control failure, there really is only one other option.
The conclusion did not come from knowing these things fail regularly; instead it came from working back what could cause the observed events - a purely scientific analysis.
The leading theory for a long time has been super cooled water droplets causing a blockage so rapidly that no amount of heating of the pitot probes could have prevented it.
When you look at the twisted mass of wreckage the flight recorder came from, finding the data unit is a miracle.
I miracle would have been some deity appearing in the cockpit on that fateful night and telling the guys how to not get into this mess.
Finding this flight recorder is simply a great achievement of science, technology and perseverance.
I really wish people would stop calling great examples of human ingenuity with no evidence of divine intervention "miracles".
"Miracle on the Hudson" my ass!
I am working with a hardware company on this. The main issue we are having is that the whole program is tailored to high-volume manufacturers; little guys like us are below the Apple radar.
To apply for the program, you need to supply a lot of information, including company turn-over and a whole lot more that should be none of their business.
Then to make it work, you must integrate a chip supplied by Apple that does the authentication. That's great if you are starting from scratch and intend to send millions of products. It's a pain if you already have a working design with thousands of devices out in the field with bluetooth, but not Apple's chip.
That's what's stopped us from signing up and doing it. Luckily, in our business, people would be buying mostly tablet devices that are exclusively used for the purpose. Android here we come, which is a shame as iOS is a much nicer platform to create something that works well and looks good in very little time.
Yeah, but looking at the guy's name, I'd say he's Australian. While nobody here ends up with $100K student debt, the days of free are over too.
Australia has some of the lowest taxes in the western world, affordable quality education and healthcare and a very high standard of living. (Same big cars and McMansions Americans enjoy) All while having a $10K lower GNI per Capita than the US. So obviously, there seems to be a good balance between taxes and government spending here.
It also has barely HALF the unemployment rate of the US. Europe and US are on par hovering around 10%; you might want to check your facts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_by_country
No NBN trial for me, but with the RIM hell we have here I have good hopes of being hooked up early in the rollout!
When the NBN was going to be FTTN I used to joke that's what we already had: it's called a RIM, look how great those are!
Yeah, if we had an ADSL2+ minimux, I'd be laughing at 24mbit, but 17 ain't so bad... (I used to live 75m from here on the other side of the suburb's ring road. That was direct exchange at 21mbit.)
But there are also a lot of RIMs with severe backhaul problems, where people sync at 8mbit and get a whole mbit or two at peak times.
Internode is the best ISP in the country, not Telstra!
Having experience with both Agile ports and TWS ports, I can say there is no discernible difference in being on either of them with Internode. The only difference is price; I have to pay the Telstra tax; being on a Agile port would be $30/month less.
My particular RIM actually has no minimux, instead it is fed by a 100-pair from the exchange for ADSL.
Yes they do: Internode offers Telstra wholesale ADSL2+ where available.
I do believe they are the only ISP to do so.
It's not cheap, but you do get the best ISP in the country. Linux mirrors included.
How do I know? I am on ADSL2+ (17mbit sync) on a RIM off a Telstra-only exchange using Internode as ISP.
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