Posts by whoseyourdaddy

"Which means you don't have the conversation you would have because its too much hassle to go to the meeting room with what you need to show the person, so it doesn't get done."

Do you have to be in a conference room? You have no hallways away from cubicles to have a long-ass discussion about stuff most people don't have the necessary background info to process?

I worked for a large company in San Diego who used to put more than 90% of their employees in private offices. It didn't help. People just talked louder.

Arguably, you're impromptu discussions that take longer than 3 minutes or so should be happening on the Wiki where business-critical information and ideas will be harder to lose (unless one of you opted to type up meeting notes after the discussion.)

Still, you're just being lazy and oblivious because *everyone* will use that excuse to talk about the World Cup or the NBA Finals in the middle of a cubicle farm.

Re: Counterexample

I can’t help but think how much personal time I would have saved if every computer ecosystem had a walled garden.

Owning a Google phone, would be too much like my day job.

I just can’t have random happenings on my fondleslab. I own one too many hammers to fix it with.

Re: Verizon is already an undesirable phone company due to their high rates

VZ investors pay a lot for their spectrum and infastructure.

I have exactly two choices: the best network with the most spectrum coverage or the best in-your-face marketing group with annoying ringtones.

Don't even bother, T-Mobe...

"Apple stops using them?"

Unless you start expecting late-generation iPods from them, its called patent infringement.

What do you call an iPhone with Intel Inside?

Cheaper.. Which is why the Apple store carries Qualcomm versions of the phone.

Re: Could be....

Antitrust. Never happen.

Where do you think 'droids would get their chips from?

"It would be really interesting to see Apple release Mac OS to OEMs"

The requirement that Windows OS be open and run on all OEM hardware is exactly why Apple (who doesn't waste time with such things) comes out ahead.

One small number of hardware platforms to deal with.

leads to more time adding sexy features, less time figuring out why it no longer works on *that* hardware.

why share if it actually works against you?

Re: Translation...

"I have always either worked or lived in a place void of a decent signal."

For the record, I have Verizon. Don't drop calls but have LTE dead zones.

My co-workers have AWE and drop calls if they stand up from their cubicles at work or are on the wrong side of my apartment building.

Re: desperation

We are repeatedly told not to tell spouses or family members or friends or, are you stupid?: the press.

Still leaks out and discussed endlessly on stock chat boards.

Daytraders suck.

Re: Raking it in?

Apparently, they are paid about 900K (2.7m/3) per day to provide the service and they were down for three days.

Seems appropriate to me.

Re: (Easily) Replaceable batteries FTW

Preventing overheating, shorts, and accidental puncture adds bulk, cost and weight. Or, you could invent a phone that runs on a hearing-aid battery (basically, a piece of cardboard).

Those cells are too small to do anything exciting.

Wherever you go, some idiot will jam his car keys into the same pocket as a battery and sit down, puncturing the battery or deforming the case and shorting out the protection electronics *that* *must* *be* *in* *the* *pack*.

A worldwide news event and hysteria ensues, the TSA warns you against carrying this phone model anywhere on an aircraft. Just because his pants caught on fire while he was highway driving, dooming that phone to obscurity for being "unsafe".

Removable batteries put you in the granny-panties league. Good luck on that.

Re: RICO

Uh, isn't ElReg chock full of articles where Uber is deliberately screwing their drivers to pay for driverless car technology with the ultimate hope of screwing everyone else?

At least those medallions appreciate in value. At a certain price point, you don't have a glut of taxi services clogging the roadways agressively fighting over a limited number of customers. They're in a position to drive safe, be responsible, and in my experience, actually give a damn to care about customer service.

"Banning alternatives".

No one wins when pickup areas around airports are a parkinglot of Uber drivers trying to snare fares.

My avoidance of Uber has everything to do with the observation that in the bay area, the majority of cars that slam on the brakes in traffic or double park while staring down at their phones...are Uber drivers.

Never mind that a former coworker lost his life in a Nissan when his Uber driver pulled into traffic and was T-Boned. Sleep deprived? Don't care.

F*ck Uber. Follow the laws or GTFO.

Re: Open up!

Pretty confident RAM DIMMs in laptops went away forever about half a decade ago...

No one wants a bulky lapwarmer anymore.

Re: A chip hidden in a charging cable?

Fun fact: fuses cut the MTBF of electronic devices.

And, you're assuming people will care to replace the fuse with one of the correct rating to maintain safety without standing in a bathtub of water.

Re: Patents

"strangle competitors by penalising customer with differential patent licensing fees as the patents are expiring"

Umm.. What?

Now that Apple is refusing to pay licensing fees to Qualcomm, iPhone prices have changed how, exactly? You're saying $20 in royalties on a shiny $800 phone from Cupertino is excessive?

Apparently Mediatek's modem technology, like Icera's, comes up short.

Explain how this is Qualcomm's fault.

Re: Not sure what your issue is...

"That's more than double what I'd pay here in the UK for an actual unlimited contract with no throttling or caps of any kind."

And, that affects us Americans how?

Re: As a building owner...

"How about you wire the damn thing properly when it's built?"

Eh... Buildings built after Clinton left office usually support more than one provider (Fios, Uverse, and whatever the cableTV provider is.)

Past few years, it's always RG6 and Cat 5 in the walls and the building has conduit to the wiring closet or demarcation point where new fiber could be pulled at some point.

More than a decade ago, Cat5 wasn't cheap and everyone thought RG6/Coax would live forever.