[AusNOG] Conroy censoring dissent?

[Sean K. Finn]

Fair call, I stand corrected r.e. the technical aspects of its GPS signalling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Phone

However, I was more referring to needing to be connected to the net to downloading maps rather than having a pre-cached, updatable set.

Specifically, I was criticising the nature of members of my fellow generation for following fad's blindly and being spoon fed rather than thinking for themselves, rather than trying to outright bag the iPhone, it does have it's good points.

Like iPINT,
http://www.carling.com/ipint_details.html

Or I-Beer,
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MfQIswl3k

So that my fellow generationeers can *pretend* to be at the pub while at work, for example.

As an Australian, you're either addicted to the Internet or the pub, you can't have both.

(And if anyone goes and puts an iKiosk in the pub to circumvent net filters, I claim prior art)

-S


> (this is a little OT but I think people should get the facts straight)

> The iPhone does have proper GPS. I wish people would stop spreading  
> this FUD when even a tiny bit of research would set them straight.

> A-GPS /is/ "proper" GPS, with the added feature of fast startup time  
> due to the ability to obtain a rough location from the cell sites and/ 
> or download an almanac and ephemeris data via the cell network.

> A-GPS starts up faster and performs better in weaker signal  
> conditions. A-GPS works fine when there is no data network available,  
> it just starts up slower and needs a better signal to get almanac and  
> Ephemeris.

> I understand the built-in Maps application might have some problems  
> operating when there's no data signal, but that might have more to do  
> with not being able to download any maps. As someone who has worked  
> with the Core Location API I can confirm 100% that the GPS  
> functionality in the iPhone works without a data connection.

> If you're going to criticise the iPhone, at least stick to facts, like  
> its inexplicable intermittent slowness, its lack of basic features  
> like copy-paste or email search, the limited nature of the API, etc.

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