Comment Re:5 page paper? (Score 1) 539
I have identified you as a non-dumb person. Thank you for reminding me that someone else in the world understands turn lanes.
I have identified you as a non-dumb person. Thank you for reminding me that someone else in the world understands turn lanes.
Read the original Engadget post and the court documents are weaselly. They are simply saying that customers should not expect phone unlocks because USA Today made it public knowledge that there was a 5 year contract. They did NOT reveal the actual contract as part of the court documents, nor did they go on record confirming the contract. USA Today never said the contract started in 2007, that's just when they reported it. Lot's of assumptions being made.
I suspect the "5 year agreement" started earlier than 2007... say end of 2005 when Apple wanted to lock down a network/carrier to try out their new revenue system.
None of the previous rumors have involved Pegatron already tooling up for production of an iPhone. Granted, that leak was right before their IPO--so I'd says there's an even chance that someone made it up to boost the stock, or they really are producing an iPhone under secrecy and needed to leak the info to boost the stock.
I'd say if we're going to hear something official, it will be at the September iPod event. If Pegatron really is going to produce iPhones, it will be hard to keep it a secret, so I would be shocked if Apple didn't plan to reveal something until Nov-Jan timeframe (which would coincide with VZW's LTE announcements).
How can anyone post this when we have the exclusive deal confirmed? http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/confirmed-apple-and-atandt-signed-five-year-iphone-exclusivity-de/
Show me the signatures on that contract and the date it was signed. Their "confirmation" is a referral to general knowledge of an exclusivity deal because USA Today published wording to that effect. Basically they're using weasel wording so they don't have to disclose the actual contract--which suggests the whole truth is missing. Further, who's to say the 5 year exclusivity deal started the day the iPhone went on sale, and not 18 months earlier when Apple was looking to lock a network? You think they designed, built, and shipped a phone with a contract that didn't start until they reached customer's hands?
And the other is that the last time I checked, Verizon doesn't have GSM. Why would Apple manufacture two different devices, and one that can't be used in all the other world markets? I'm not trying to start a GSM/CDMA holy war, just acknowledging that Apple is doing just fine with AT&T and GSM. Why would they go through all that trouble just to get Verizon customers?
Especially since Verizon seems to insist on branding all phones they offer--I don't see how Steve would accept that either.
Verizon has nearly 93 million subscribers, a large percentage of which have expressed interest in an iPhone. Apple is expected to sell 16 million iPhones this year to AT&T's 83 million subscribers, which is nearly half of their total sales. Why wouldn't Apple jump at the earliest opportunity to further increase sales by another 50%? It's not a big technical feat for them to design a CDMA iPhone, other manufacturers with much less money at stake than Apple produce multiple models on CDMA, GSM, euro-specific frequencies, AT&T frequencies, and T-Mobile frequencies. After Apple's done with VZW, there's also China and Canada, along with Sprint, Cricket, and MetroPCS in the US all with decent numbers of CDMA subscribers. In all, world CDMA subscribers are something like 462 million, even if that's only 14% of the mobile market.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/06/piper_15_8m_us_iphone_sales_in_2010_even_without_verizon.html
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20070215/127796/
Can't see a CDMA iPhone at this late stage. It's been end-of-lifed for quite some time.
Yeah, because no one else makes new CDMA phones these days. It would be stupid to design something like a Droid X CDMA-only phone and try to sell that in this market... or a Samsung Galaxy S... etc.
Seriously, its not that hard for Apple to make a CDMA version of the iPhone--its more a matter of their exclusivity contract.
To say that CDMA is EOL, is just plain dumb. LTE is being deployed on 700 MHz, and not replacing CDMA on 850/1900 for MANY years. Consider that most people don't keep a smart phone for more than 2 years, often just 1, and Apple could release a couple generations of CDMA-only iPhones and still make bank on the sales.
I'll hope like everyone else that if VZW gets an iPhone in 2011 that it will support CDMA+LTE much like the EVO 4G support WiMax, but I wouldn't be surprised if they released a CDMA-only version and then caught everyone for an upgrade a year later to the 4G version. Was no one around in 2007 when they released the original iPhone with no 3G?
Absolutely! That is one of the major points TFA makes. The top 5 passwords account for 1.75% of all the accounts, and the top password alone accounts for 0.9% of accounts.
If a hacker would have used the list of the top 5000 passwords as a dictionary for brute force attack on Rockyou.
com users, it would take only one attempt (per account) to guess 0.9% of the users passwords or a rate of one
success per 111 attempts. Assuming an attacker with a DSL connection of 55KBPS upload rate and that each
attempt is 0.5KB in size, it means that the attacker can have 110 attempts per second. At this rate, a hacker will
gain access to one new account every second or just less than 17 minutes to compromise 1000 accounts. And the
problem is exponential. After the first wave of attacks, it would only take 116 attempts per account to compromise
5% of the accounts, 683 attempts to compromise 10% of accounts and about 5000 attempts to compromise 20%
of accounts.
I hate how British people use plural verbs for singular group nouns.
Target is A company, not Target ARE a company.
Anyone who spends any significant amount of time on that utter e-cesspool of amateur gossip queens attention seekers and other undesirable groups of society who for some reason can't or refuse to socialise in real life can't possibly have the bare minimum of intelligence required to be in college.
Facebook IS real life. It isn't any less real than emailing all the same people that live 300 miles away from me. And with FB, they can choose when to be assaulted by pictures of my kids rather than receiving them in their email, buried between their Amazon.com order confirmation, and an ad for some really good spyware remover. I'm certainly not going to go get prints made of the pictures and use the USPS to send a pack of 50 pictures to 300 people.
Seriously, why can't people realize their friends list is their ACL?
What if the ex-boyfriend is the mortuary science professor?
BTW, please read the Star-Tribune account before assuming the Slashdot synopsis is the full account of the FaceBook posting... you know if you're not already trained to not RTFA.
Ideally, you would create a new standard for your battery and it would get a number assigned. Then anyone who wanted to use your new battery would be able to grab the free specs and send you an order for 1000s of them. Then another manufacture would also get your specs and start producing their own version of the battery using their own technology, but perhaps offering 80% capacity for 70% price. You would be prompted to optimize your process, cut costs, etc, and voila, competition.
Instead, you'll produce your fancy technology in a copyrighted, trademarked, restricted form factor and charge an arm and a leg for it. You won't make any money until another manufacturer tries to produce one that fits and you sue them to hell. Meanwhile, a Chinese manufacturer will produce a cheap knockoff with 25% of the performance, but for pennies on the dollar and still make some change.
I agree! I'd rather be bound by data usage caps than pay more money for what I do with that data.
I agree its probably about capacity. iPhone users already use more data than the average data plan subscriber, so they probably estimate iPhone tetherers will also use a lot more data.
AT&T has been consistent lately about pricing the iPhone plans just like any other phone plans--I don't see why they wouldn't offer a 5GB capped tether plan for an additional $30.
Another possibility is that they're having trouble distinguishing tethering from normal use--possibly if they enable tethering then it might work even when not paying for the tethering plan. That would be a deal breaker for them.
All of it smells to me like Apple is trying to make their issues with AT&T obvious. It's very possible that Apple has a CDMA iPhone in the pipeline for 2010, with or without LTE. Consider that it took 2 years for the new graphics chip to reach market after the supply deals were made and that last year Apple was headhunting CDMA2000/EV-DO engineers.
Last I checked, tethering is an extra $30 over your normal plan. If you're getting it for $10-12, then that's some legacy rate and not available for new customers.
Its not that they are hardcoded to block MMS, they are set to intercept MMS and use the viewmymessage.com portal for them. You can still get MMS using an iPhone right now, but it comes in the form of a SMS with a login and password.
I sincerely doubt AT&T will charge extra for MMS. They just have to figure out how to selectively pass MMS through to iPhones using 3.0 and continue using the portal for iPhones using 2.0.
I'm am still shocked at the lack of technical understanding being applied to the idea that AT&T will charge extra for MMS.
CFL bulbs...Not good for use in bathrooms or inside refrigerators.
Those would be two good targets for LED lighting. Both are directional lighting and can be designed with non-standard fixtures. You'd probably never need to change the fridge LED, and bathrooms could have some stylish designs that aren't built around the shape of an ancient incandescent light bulb.
Ceiling fans could benefit from LEDs too. The vibration is bad for incandescents. Depending on your wiring, the fan motor may be rough on your CFLs.
Blended use of CFL and LED is the way to go.
BLISS is ignorance.
