Re: a limited number of models have been having an issue getting a GPS position.
But the fix is only available to some satnav models.
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"And once again, I get back to the fact that I want a telephone to be a telephone. Nothing more, nothing less."
Does that include being wired to a land line? After all, thats a 'normal phone.'
Oh, but wait, you want it to do something more. Like be portable. No you can't have that because someone else wants phones just to be wired devices.
And you can't ever be connected to the internet either. Your home and work connection is via phone lines. And phone lines are for voice only.
You want something more than a device tethered to a wire. Other people want more than being tethered to a voice only device.
No one is forcing you to surf the internet on a pocket device.
I remember when I still had analogue. The picture was much clearer than any standard def digital signal due to the compression. Things don't fade between light and dark, it has massive chunky steps. But I suppose thats one way to sell the HD by throttling the SD down to a nasty compression level.
Tuning in a TV on the move is a bit more tricky with digital. Hired a campervan and toured the UK a few years ago. Got a directional antenna and a cheep freeview box for it.
In areas where there was analogue, you tuned the TV till you got a bit of picture, moved the antenna till it got better and tuned it in a bit more. Picture might look fuzzy but you can still watch it.
Digital was a whole lot more fun, since you need a good signal to tune the box but you cant work out where the good signal is till the box is tuned. Needed to go online, find where the nearest tower was, find yourself on a map with GPS, work out compass bearing...
It boils my piss having every bloody program want to install its toolbar. At least the Java update has stopped doing it.
Yes, its easy to untick, but then you have to wait for that screen to pop up rather than hitting the button to just install the main program.
And there are all the machines you have to fix for family and friends because they are surfing through a letterbox with all the sodding toolbars installed on their machine.
Give me a nice big advert with an opt-in click and I'll think about it, but I hate having to use opt-out.
I started to block ads back when adverts started using animated gifs by a few lines in my hosts file. Then they started making them flash with sound, so I moved up to Adblock, still manually adding the ones that annoyed.
Now its adblock-plus that gets them all automatically for me. Its the ad-men's own fault.
I would have left the ads alone if they had been text/static images. but make them too annoying and people want to block them.
But it won't stop all of the tracking.
CDs can be played anywhere. Vinyl and tape still can where people have their old equipment (and you can still get new equipment to do so). Its easy to find your original.
A trashed CD player can be made to spit out its disk if the unit dies.
Downloaded files are not so easy.
If you can read the hard disk of a dead PC, you might not be able to use the music files elsewhere because of DRM.
The other half bought some music for her Blackberry. Now she has an HTC and it won't play them due to DRM. Bit of downloading later and I have files she can play anywhere.
Computer formats also die off. Doomsday disk anyone? Getting something to read that memory stick in 100years might not be so easy. Vinyl can be heard with a pin and a bit of paper (and something to spin it)
What about the effect on other wireless devices using the same frequencies? I know of one remote monitoring system that went toes up after someone installed a wireless CCTV system.
And how smart are the meters? Is it just monitoring or control? Could we have a drive by disconnection of a whole area?
Part of its appeal really. I want a keyboard on mine, someone wants a tiny one, someone else wants a keypad on the front. Nice big array instead of one size fits all.
It never stopped the PC market place. Various PC resolutions doesn't stop the average developer (and since the likes of Windows came out, no worries about the graphics driver either). Same can be said for various peripherals. You detect if they have something (eg a webcam) and give them extra functionality.
Something Android devs need to think of. Ok, your first app might be a bit fiddly to write to do all the detecting, but keep the frame and reuse it. Probably ones out there for free to do that basic nonsense.
Looks like its for sitting about chatting, not actually working.
Think of any poor sod trying to use their laptop for any length of time in any of those environments.
All well and good, sitting about being 'creative' (http://dilbert.com/2012-03-18/) but I expect their bosses want some sort of end product.
Sat navs, when used properly, are very helpful.
Saved me quite a bit of time in Milton Keynes (and visitors to their fare non-city will probably agree) that its difficult to navigate, even after checking maps in advance and street-viewing my route, as everything looks the same.
It can also be safer. Work dumped me in the Netherlands with a motorway trip in a hire car. First time driving on the opposite side of the road, with the body of the car at the opposite side (extra concentration to line yourself up with the lane) and speeds in KPH instead of MPH to fight with, without having to deal with locations in a language you are not familiar with and trying to spot them in overhead gantries.
Using the sat nav helped free up concentrating on my location so I could use it to watch the road.
Note, that I said I was watching the road. If it did point me at a cliff edge, I would stop.
I've seen lorries do this many a time. Nothing to do with how courteous you drive.
Anyone exiting the road should be over in the left in plenty of time. There are plenty of muppets in cars and vans who will carve across when they realise their exit is coming up. Forward thinking is not their strong suit.
To be courteous to them would involve knowing what they are doing before they think of it themselves.
There are many sensible lorry drivers out there, but also plenty of suicidally reckless ones who use their size to force their way out knowing you'll sharply break rather than become a bug on their bumper.
Can I have the spike sticking out the back for all the tail-gaters?
People are forgetting to take responsibility for their own actions. People currently step out in front of cars without looking. They know the driver will stop and if they don't the driver is at fault, not the moron who didn't look. Won't help the lifespan of the pedestrian when the sun is in the driver's eyes.
I suggest the front facing camera on the car. Someone steps out without looking round and its classed as suicide. No blame passed to the driver.
Exactly right. Doesn't matter if its the old lady getting mugged or the company using under-age workers it all boils down to the same thing. By being a part of it, you are condoning it.
Same could be said about the consumers who buy the products, but most won't have a clue about it. Some of them probably struggle over the idea of fair trade coffee.
Ok, maybe Apple, HP, etc can't just drop Foxconn overnight. It will take time to get other suppliers on line. But if they start making the move today, they will have it in place eventually. They will also not be reliant on one supplier who could hold them to ransom or may suffer a failure of their own preventing shipment of their product. Never been a good idea to have all your eggs in one basket.
If all companies acted with the same ethics, it shouldn't be a problem. Everyone drops Foxconn out of concern for their end users.
There are plenty of companies who will not deal with unethical companies and pride themselves when doing so.
In my company, if we had opportunity of a nice big juicey profit on a project but the company is an iffy one, we are supposed to walk away even though someone less ethical would take it.
Apple isn't going to change the legal system in China. But it does have the obligation to do ethical trading. And that includes not dealing with companies (eg Foxcon) who are proving themselves to be unethical.
Same for any other company who use Foxcon for their manufacturing needs.
So, if instead of killing the server, someone replaced the file on internic.net with a fake one (all the numbers changed to point to the wrong places but all the right headers/version numbers), your system will still download it and use it?
Hope you keep an archive of previous working copies.
Lots of people have flexi time. If they want to get up earlier so they can go home earlier, they can.
If schools want to change their start and finish times to match up with local lighting, then let them.
Why not stick to GMT all year round?
We will have to educate the muppets who think that going to Summer Time gives more sunlight in a 24hour period though.
"Why didn't you prepare for your journey first by reading a bloody map and looking at the location on, say, Google Maps or Bing Maps BEFORE you leave? Make a couple of notes if you need to—perhaps jot down the names of any local towns or villages on a Post-IT note and stick it to the back of your sun visor. That way, you'll know what to look for on the signposts. It's not that hard."
I've gone round the one way system a few times in various towns because of poor sign-age. Try driving north up the east coast and you might find one of them. You get exit signs from the town telling you the name of two towns. Unless you are local or have memorised the names and order of every town on a London to Aberdeen drive, you can get stuck in these places. A helpful voice saying "Turn left" at the right time would have saved me hours many years ago.
"...a 2010 study determined that car accidents actually increased a bit after handheld mobile phone talking and texting bans..."
"...drivers have responded to the law ... by hiding their phones from view"
Also, more mobile phones have touchscreens.
I used to be able to type a whole message without looking on my N95 because it had keys. These days you have to look.