Battery lasts two days, easily.
Hmm. Really? I work with 4 colleagues who all have iPhone 3Gs phones we use regularly. None of us has ever reported batteries lasting more than 24 hours without a charge unless we turn off Wi-Fi, push and 3G.
You are either incredibly blessed, or you are turning off services. If so, why are you using a smart phone at all when all that really leaves is the ability to send texts and voice calls?
This will just be another clump of dirt on the corpse of Segway. It actually sucks in a way. It was invented to try to radically mix up society and how we travel, change the way we travel in cities. Use less gas, get people moving, less space for parking, all that cool stuff. Instead it became a toy for Segway Polo, jokes for Mall Cops, and t tours. Never getting the impact it was intended for..
Any idea why? I'm guessing you don't think it was because the fundamental idea of the thing was wrong-headed and silly, as most people at the time believed when they first saw it.
A Segway is better than a bicycle because...??
The US might have not ran over any of its own college students with a tank,
slowloris.pl is a better way - I'm told.
"Journalists tend to be bad at covering tech news. "
Actually, if you ask anyone in any industry to comment on the quality of journalism as it relates to their field, you'll hear the same complaint.
The basic problem (not the only one though) with journalism is that it suffers from chronic and crippling lack of time. A journalist has to pick up on, research, spin, write and edit a story in a matter of hours sometimes. Most, if not all, news is going to suffer badly by that process.
If anyone here has ever read a news story about which they have had true first-hand knowledge on what was being reported, and can honestly say that what they read was fair, balanced and accurate - I'll give them a big prize.
I don't care what you say... If Socialism creates hell holes... Then I really don't know why Sweden and Norway aren't hellholes they should be.
There's something rather pathetic about the ridiculous use of the term "socialism" in America to demonize anything that's possibly left of main stream US politics.
The word "socialism" in the US seems to mean something more akin to Stalinism or Juche. Really, if you come to Europe and live in a place like Sweden, you'd have a pretty hard time trying to work out what all the fuss is about "socialism" back home. Free healthcare and high taxes have about as much to do with "socialism" as the Pope has to do with the Branch Davidians.
Gasoline prices in the US are comparatively very low, about the same in dollars as Bangladesh and Romania, which is really saying something:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_gas_pri-energy-gasoline-prices
So if the likes of Japan and the United Kingdom can sustain their economies with oil-fuel prices about 80-100% higher, why not the US?
Nothing less than to abolish copyright will do. Copyrights and patents prevent progress in the sciences and the useful arts. They were an experiment that utterly failed.
I'd love to hear your evidence of this, because as far as I can tell, there are a lot of benefits of copyright and patents.
There's quite a lot of evidence against the efficacy of copyright (in its current form) in stimulating the creative industries, and more being researched all the time. Some of it indicates that in fact copyright does quite the opposite of its original intent. I know less about patents, since that's a completely separate thing, but a quick google will turn up a great deal.
Here, for example, is some recent research from the UK:
"There are few things more annoying than finding something impressive or good about someone I dislike and consider responsible for a lot of people suffering."
On the other hand, there are also few things more annoying than somebody in power recognising that something is objectively good while denying that good to those whom they rule.
"Like a form in a web site, that's highly interactive and can be accessed collaboratively by many people at once."
I can't see what problem that actually solves, unless the writers/contributors have control over when others can write/contribute to the wave. I mean, how often have you sat down to write an email, or a document, or make a PPT presentation and said to yourself "You know, it would be really cool if my colleagues could see me putting this together and could then jump in at any time and edit or discuss what I'm writing."
To me, that would be immensely annoying to the point of utter lunacy.
"In this paper, I shall show how a perpetual motion machine can be assembled from simple household items and
"BZZT! Dude! You're full of shit!"
"Look, let me finish this please - you've not read the...."
"Dave - what? Are you seriously going to try to convince me that you can defy the laws of physics?"
"Oh FFS Frank, if I wanted to put commas all over the place, I would OK! Just stop editing my damn paper before I'm finished with it OK!!!!! Huh?? What has that video got anything to do with this??!!"
If you read TFA, is says things like "we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives" and "we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science."
Earth to Google: a computer scientific achievement does not a user experience make.
Really. It's not that hard. Just becase you can putting together bunch of crazy-ass techno doesn't means people will flock to your door any more than I should be president of the United States if I can solve a Rubuik's cube in under 10 seconds.
Pizza-munching geeks. It's crap like Wave that reassures me in my job as a user experience designer.
A monopoly? Interesting. I, along with a large proportion of the UK population, have Internet access via Virgin Media cable and telephone via SIP and a mobile - no money going to BT at all. Some people get ADSL without BT, but an increasing number of exchanges are covered by local loop unbundling, and they can.
No money going to BT Retail maybe, (which has a share of about 30% of the domestic broadband market and about 50% of domestic fixed lines, I believe - some general Googling will reveal this). BT Wholesale, on the other hand, basically has a government-regulated monopoly on backbone and infrastructure provision in the UK though. Virgin Media's cables go to BT's LLU exchanges, and their packets pass over BT's maintained ATM. And they pay them for that.
"F***k you British Petroleum"
I'm curious: how does the fact that BP happens to be registered in the UK change anything? If it had been Shell, would Americans start calling Shell "Royal Dutch Shell" all of a sudden and start ranting about how the Dutch were awful? Shell is only Dutch because it's registered in Holland. BP is only British because they're registered in the UK. But BP (and indeed Shell) are substantially part-owned by Americans, employ thousands of US citizens in the US, and the drilling operation in question was in partnership with US and Japanese companies.
If the US president refers to "British Petroleum" when lambasting them, should the British remind Barack Hussein Obama that Union Carbide was an "American" company?
I write music for a living...I should only get paid for the first copy sold?
Depends. If you're any good, I'd like to see you paid for about 7 years after you wrote the work. Then I'd like to see your work go into the public domain to be used by others in any way they want, for free. Meanwhile, you're going to write other stuff, because you're good at what you do, aren't you? If not, fuck off and stack shelves for a living, like me.
The big problem at the moment is NOT that people are copying stuff, it's that artists (well, publishers really) are demanding payment for works for literally hundreds of years after they were first produced. That's wrong, and it must stop because without a public domain, you can forget about anyone producing any art at all.
Verizon would be big enough to subscribe to one of the Mortality Suppressions lists if it wanted to. This is what most large consumer subscriptions companies use to prevent fuck-ups like this.
So in short, it's absolutely Verizon's fault. They could have prevented it, and they deserve all the derision they get.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.
