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Is it _really_ inevitable? Do the operators themselves have a fixed cost per bit, or are their costs actually dominated by static overheads?
Speed is where the real issues lie.
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But what you all have to remember is that the naming is more significant than at first glance: Americans refer to mobile phones as Cell Phones, so by using the word 'Mobile' in the name of the show, it was a very clear marker that it was _meant_ to be about more than just phones.
He said "it isn't mobile" not "it isn't a Cell-phone", so there is no way this was just a minor bit of semantics.
31kg of weight gain is slightly more than a few kebabs - its four stone 12lbs in real money, which is going to affect anyone quite considerably, particularly if we assume he started off quite skinny. I am also going to assume from what was said that this gentleman is probably off African origin, so you can understand why there was doubt.
Lets, face, it if we ignore IE (if only we could) then Firefox is the LAST browser to come out with something like this. Though arguably it all started with Foxpose which was pretty great, which pre-dates the features in Safari and Opera, but was itself a blatant rip off of the Expose feature of Apple's OSX.
What are they on about? For any antenna shape, size etc. the whole thing is important; there are no sweet spots on the wire itself, so top or bottom doesn't matter, only thing likely to have any effect is the ground plane, which can only be _improved_ with contact.
"If Canvas boxes succeed, it's much less likely that the hi-tech TV big boys such as Sony and Panasonic* will be able to embed the capabilities into their TVs"
Please explain - I would have thought that if Canvas was a big success, that would garuntee that it _would_ be included, assuming that the licence terms were reasonable, and your earlier point suggests that the licensing _will_ be sensible.
The first thing I though when I was that remark was that most sensible military craft will be running an awful lot _lower_ than that. Mind you, imagine the fun if you are meandering along in one of these at 100MPH and a flight of fast-jets slip beneath you. Lets see how good the attitude-control works in the jet-wash from a Typhoon or similar!
On the other hand, the entire spec sounds like someone has taken a basic idea, had it thrown back at him as impractical, and he has simply re-submitted it on the basis of doing every single bit of it much better than anyone else does at the moment - lets wait till they build it, and even one item fails to meet the required spec.
My current car is a Fiesta, admittedly not the largest car on the market, but bigger than my first car, which was a Mk11 Escort. The Fiesta 'only' has a 1.25 litre engine, but it can top 100MPH, which this one apparently can't, so why the hell does this thing need a 1.4? Does that indicate that this thing weighs three tonnes or something? Given that my 1.25 is about double what I need to cruise at 70MPH, the power is only needed for acceleration, which in this case comes from the battery, which is never supposed to go below 20%, surely a 1L or similar should be enough to keep this charge when on the move?
I take it you didn't read the piece in ElReg a day or three ago, where it was pointed out that because it is well known that most people don't read the fine print, and have no option to negotiate any way, it really isn't a contract, and anything remotely unfair can be challenged at a later date.
What Google did this time probably wouldn't get them in any trouble, but when they do it for an app that is useful to an individual, even if it does have some malware properties, then removing it without that users permission probably would be illegal.
(Disclaimer: IANA Jury - even lawyers could not give you a definitive answer on this sort of thing.)
I love the way that the props on that first one are clearly much too large to allow a 'normal' landing without them fouling the ground / water - that is going to catch out lots of pilots, like the way that the Harrier requireing greater power when coming in to land, has caught out quite a few pilots who are used to throttling back.
I am not sure that you are correct with this - Hollywood may produce a lot of entertainment, but so does Bollywood, and China for that matter. As a result, I doubt if the west as a whole is a net exporter, California probably is, but whatever the locals may think, there is more to the world than just the USA.
In any case, trying to base an economy on something intangible is a bad idea, hence the current banking crisis.
I really, really, _really_ want to be a multi-millionaire. Can I ask a judge to make it so?
Alternatively, ask yourself what it _actually_ means when a passport indicates your gender - it is not up to the French courts to start saying that particular people can now be referred to as a different gender - that is a decision for the country that they have just entered.
These days, Dyson probably sell more machines than anyone else, but we still call them 'Hoovers' - the iPod is clearly the brand leader, but nowhere near to being a monopoly.
Call me weird, but I like things to just work, particularly when they are 'appliances' of one kind or another. As someone pointed out before, there are just as many useless apps available for iPhone as there are for Android, but at least I know that when I find something that looks usefull to me, it isn't going to kill my device, which is a very real possibility on open-access devices. If I want to do serious development of my own, then I will do it on a Linux box, but I can see no great reason for wanting to hack around on a phone.