Except as any mac fanboy will tell you the iphone is not subsidised.
UK law is similar - an unsubidised phone must be unlocked and with a subsidised phone if you buy your way out of the contract they must provide an unlock code (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/Oftel/consumer/advice/faqs/mobfaq3.htm)
A number of people are ready to challenge the apple policy in the UK once the iphone is launched there.
They already can and have been able to for ages. Most modern phones ship with capable browsers that support flash/java/etc. (except the iphone which can't render heavyweight sites due the the lack of both). The issue is the assumptions of the sites themselves... they often render to a minimum of 800x600 using fixed width tables - so you end up scrolling around all over the place to find what you want. Web designers basically need to get a clue and make their sites work well on small screens as well.
Vodaphone have two gateways - the internet gateway, which is unfiltered, and the WAP gateway, which rerenders the page to fit well on a mobile phone. Both have their place, and I prefer different ones for different sites.
Many sites simply will not render well on a phone, no matter how html compliant their browsers are (and most modern phones have full featured browsers these days). The vodophone gateway makes these usable (and for older phones with only WAP browsers it makes browsing actually possible).
If your site really wants to render to the mobile phone itself then tell people to reconnect via the other gateway. Otherwise live with it.
Antidepressants are a bit of a blunt instrument. They tried them on my wife once.. not only did they stop her feeling stressed, they stopped her feeling *any* emotion. It was like being in a zombie movie...
She gave them up after a week and never went back to that doctor again.
Personally I'd be *very* wary of any doctor who prescribed drugs to treat depression. We don't know what causes it and we certainly don't know how to 'cure' it.
They'll probably use the same system they use on the ipod touch on the next iphone update. That's turning out to be a nightmare to crack... sounds like they've learned the lesson from the first firmware.
You can get a top of the line nokia including contract fees for a fraction of that.. the phone is normally free anyway. Not to mention for some reason the iphone tariffs are at least double the cost of normal tariffs to cover the apple 'fees'.
They got away with it in the US because their prices were high to start with (someone mentioned a similar plan costing $100/mon) - I think they're going to have to do some rapid price adjustment in europe to stay in the game.
O2 unless they're behind the times should be upgrading to 3.5G by now, but that's besides the point. They've separately started an edge network for the iphone (being the only phone I'm aware of that uses that standard over here).. 30% coverage, mostly London & South East apparently (so the likes of us in the north will be limited to GPRS.. how 80's retro...)
Rumour has it that O2 actually make a loss.. although their iphone plans are utter crap (£35 ($70) a month for 100 minutes and 1GB data is the worst deal on the planet) they give 40% of revenue (not profit) directly to apple, so they're gambling the thing takes off and puts them back on the map in the UK, where they've been trounced by Orange and Vodaphone for ages now.
Adding GPL3 licensed code to GPL code with the or later clause causes the entire program to be licensed under GPL3 (since GPL3 is not directly compatible with GPL2).
That's why people have gone to so much effort to delete the or later clause.
Then again, if somebody bribed mint workers to print a few sheets of "genuine" notes "off the record", they'd be identical to real ones, wouldn't they?
I bet the printers that the mint use have internal counters that are regularly checked. If they're off by even one.. police get called, everybodys house/car/pockets get searched, etc.
Not to mention they'd routinely use cctv in such an environment... probably easier to produce a fake than produce any black market 'genuine' ones.
DHCPv6 has been around for ages.. Even XP will use it.
There appear to be multiple standards surrounding it though - although I've had no issues with Win boxes my N95 simply will not pick up an ipv6 address from it (the symbian stack doesn't send out RA requests, only DHCPv6 ones, and the packets it sends out have undocumented (as far as I can find out anyway) requests for the IPV6 address that no current DHCPv6 server knows how to respond to).
A little odd, but not worth worrying about - it's not really a license change, just a 'any further changes by aren't dual licensed any more' statement.
I got the impression it was BSD code that someone had relicensed without the authors permission (which the BSD actually allows you to do but you have to keep the original copyright text). If it was already GPL anyway what's the issue?
Digital VCRs have existed for some years now, although they're being phased out for hard drive based ones (which often have multiple tuners and can record more than one thing at once), and DVD recorders.
Most new TVs sold have digital decoders in them. Older ones need a converter box, but they're dirt cheap - they're selling for £10 (15 euros) in the UK and all of europe has the same DVB-T standard so I can't believe they're a lot more expensive in Denmark.
Companies don't buy from PC World (there's a thing called PCWB - PC World Business - that's a separate company designed for that, and they're a hell of a lot more professional, not to mention cheaper..).
Since they've stopped doing their not too expensively priced barebones shelf (hard drives in brown boxes, CPUs, memory, etc. usually in a corner of the store) and only sell overpriced plastic wrap 'ooh shiny' stuff now I haven't been there in a while. Geeks in general avoid it - there are lots of places that are cheaper and better.
The 6 month rule exists (retailer must prove their product was not faulty), and up to 6 years you can claim a manufacturing fault with the requisite proof (not hard to get in most cases).
Of course after 6 years you wouldn't get all your money back, only the portion you lost of the expected lifetime of the device (decided by small claims court usually)... but it's still worth claiming - small claims court is cheap and you can initiate an action online these days.
Again this is a thing they *cannot exclude* under UK law. PC world take the piss regularly.
Opening the software is a reasonable use of said software - in fact you can't tell if it works or not without opening the box! You have a legal right to use something before rejecting it as faulty/not as described.
PC World don't give a crap about publicity - they pull this all the time.. if you've ever watched consumer shows you'll see problems with their stuff showing up all the time (their favourite one is water damage is excluded.. so if you go in with *any* fault what do they find?? water damage!!).
They also know that 99% of customers do not know their rights under the sale of goods act and of the 1% that do half of those won't push it if they stonewall enough.
Favourite common - completely bogus - getout lines are:
"You have to contact the manufacturer" (It's up to the retailer to fix it) "We don't accept returns on this item" (They must. It's the law) "We only give a 14 day warranty" (You get 6 months for replacement/refund and retailer is liable for repairs for 6 years. "Replacement only on production of a valid receipt" (It's illegal to demand this.) "No refunds" (They *must* give refunds where applicable. Not credit notes or anything else).
Trading standards will usually kick them hard enough (they have the power to shut down the store, and do so in some cases) - but if they don't help then small claims are good for up to £5000. The store will lose (they always lose provided you're being reasonable) and will end up paying all the costs.
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Except as any mac fanboy will tell you the iphone is not subsidised.
UK law is similar - an unsubidised phone must be unlocked and with a subsidised phone if you buy your way out of the contract they must provide an unlock code (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/Oftel/consumer/advice/faqs/mobfaq3.htm)
A number of people are ready to challenge the apple policy in the UK once the iphone is launched there.
Now Apple has shown you how to do it
Yeah.. produce a stripped down browser with no flash or java and the fanboys will eat it up proclaiming it's the second coming.
That's how to do it.
Meanwhile, I'll stick with the full featured browser I've had on every phone for the last 3 years.
Delve deep into their phone settings? lol. When you bring up the browser it asks you which one you want to use.. you have to make the choice anyway.
They already can and have been able to for ages. Most modern phones ship with capable browsers that support flash/java/etc. (except the iphone which can't render heavyweight sites due the the lack of both). The issue is the assumptions of the sites themselves... they often render to a minimum of 800x600 using fixed width tables - so you end up scrolling around all over the place to find what you want. Web designers basically need to get a clue and make their sites work well on small screens as well.
Vodaphone have two gateways - the internet gateway, which is unfiltered, and the WAP gateway, which rerenders the page to fit well on a mobile phone. Both have their place, and I prefer different ones for different sites.
Many sites simply will not render well on a phone, no matter how html compliant their browsers are (and most modern phones have full featured browsers these days). The vodophone gateway makes these usable (and for older phones with only WAP browsers it makes browsing actually possible).
If your site really wants to render to the mobile phone itself then tell people to reconnect via the other gateway. Otherwise live with it.
Antidepressants are a bit of a blunt instrument. They tried them on my wife once.. not only did they stop her feeling stressed, they stopped her feeling *any* emotion. It was like being in a zombie movie...
She gave them up after a week and never went back to that doctor again.
Personally I'd be *very* wary of any doctor who prescribed drugs to treat depression. We don't know what causes it and we certainly don't know how to 'cure' it.
They'll probably use the same system they use on the ipod touch on the next iphone update. That's turning out to be a nightmare to crack... sounds like they've learned the lesson from the first firmware.
You can get a top of the line nokia including contract fees for a fraction of that.. the phone is normally free anyway. Not to mention for some reason the iphone tariffs are at least double the cost of normal tariffs to cover the apple 'fees'.
They got away with it in the US because their prices were high to start with (someone mentioned a similar plan costing $100/mon) - I think they're going to have to do some rapid price adjustment in europe to stay in the game.
O2 unless they're behind the times should be upgrading to 3.5G by now, but that's besides the point. They've separately started an edge network for the iphone (being the only phone I'm aware of that uses that standard over here).. 30% coverage, mostly London & South East apparently (so the likes of us in the north will be limited to GPRS.. how 80's retro...)
Rumour has it that O2 actually make a loss.. although their iphone plans are utter crap (£35 ($70) a month for 100 minutes and 1GB data is the worst deal on the planet) they give 40% of revenue (not profit) directly to apple, so they're gambling the thing takes off and puts them back on the map in the UK, where they've been trounced by Orange and Vodaphone for ages now.
Adding GPL3 licensed code to GPL code with the or later clause causes the entire program to be licensed under GPL3 (since GPL3 is not directly compatible with GPL2).
That's why people have gone to so much effort to delete the or later clause.
Then again, if somebody bribed mint workers to print a few sheets of "genuine" notes "off the record", they'd be identical to real ones, wouldn't they?
I bet the printers that the mint use have internal counters that are regularly checked. If they're off by even one.. police get called, everybodys house/car/pockets get searched, etc.
Not to mention they'd routinely use cctv in such an environment... probably easier to produce a fake than produce any black market 'genuine' ones.
DHCPv6 has been around for ages.. Even XP will use it.
There appear to be multiple standards surrounding it though - although I've had no issues with Win boxes my N95 simply will not pick up an ipv6 address from it (the symbian stack doesn't send out RA requests, only DHCPv6 ones, and the packets it sends out have undocumented (as far as I can find out anyway) requests for the IPV6 address that no current DHCPv6 server knows how to respond to).
So can it also tell my wife where her keys are? If so, I'll be adopting it right away.
For that you'd need DWCP. Last I checked wives don't count as hosts.
Theoretically, but DHCP is there, widely deployed and works.
No, you get the login prompt. Good luck finding the password.
Currently they're on a 52 week low at 37c a share.
Pick 'em up now whilst they're cheap!
A little odd, but not worth worrying about - it's not really a license change, just a 'any further changes by aren't dual licensed any more' statement.
I got the impression it was BSD code that someone had relicensed without the authors permission (which the BSD actually allows you to do but you have to keep the original copyright text). If it was already GPL anyway what's the issue?
Digital VCRs have existed for some years now, although they're being phased out for hard drive based ones (which often have multiple tuners and can record more than one thing at once), and DVD recorders.
Most new TVs sold have digital decoders in them. Older ones need a converter box, but they're dirt cheap - they're selling for £10 (15 euros) in the UK and all of europe has the same DVB-T standard so I can't believe they're a lot more expensive in Denmark.
Companies don't buy from PC World (there's a thing called PCWB - PC World Business - that's a separate company designed for that, and they're a hell of a lot more professional, not to mention cheaper..).
Since they've stopped doing their not too expensively priced barebones shelf (hard drives in brown boxes, CPUs, memory, etc. usually in a corner of the store) and only sell overpriced plastic wrap 'ooh shiny' stuff now I haven't been there in a while. Geeks in general avoid it - there are lots of places that are cheaper and better.
Wireless AP is normally called a bridge, but they can be setup as routers as well.
The 6 month rule exists (retailer must prove their product was not faulty), and up to 6 years you can claim a manufacturing fault with the requisite proof (not hard to get in most cases).
Of course after 6 years you wouldn't get all your money back, only the portion you lost of the expected lifetime of the device (decided by small claims court usually)... but it's still worth claiming - small claims court is cheap and you can initiate an action online these days.
Warranty is irrelevant. Statutory rights apply and they trump any warranty clauses.
Again this is a thing they *cannot exclude* under UK law. PC world take the piss regularly.
Opening the software is a reasonable use of said software - in fact you can't tell if it works or not without opening the box! You have a legal right to use something before rejecting it as faulty/not as described.
OTOH under UK law it's up to PC world to prove that it did, *not* for the article poster to prove that it didn't.
It's called the "reversed burden of proof" and is valid on all goods for 6 months after sale.
PC World don't give a crap about publicity - they pull this all the time.. if you've ever watched consumer shows you'll see problems with their stuff showing up all the time (their favourite one is water damage is excluded.. so if you go in with *any* fault what do they find?? water damage!!).
They also know that 99% of customers do not know their rights under the sale of goods act and of the 1% that do half of those won't push it if they stonewall enough.
Favourite common - completely bogus - getout lines are:
"You have to contact the manufacturer" (It's up to the retailer to fix it)
"We don't accept returns on this item" (They must. It's the law)
"We only give a 14 day warranty" (You get 6 months for replacement/refund and retailer is liable for repairs for 6 years.
"Replacement only on production of a valid receipt" (It's illegal to demand this.)
"No refunds" (They *must* give refunds where applicable. Not credit notes or anything else).
Read http://www.dti.gov.uk/consumers/fact-sheets/page38311.html and memorise the major points.
Trading standards will usually kick them hard enough (they have the power to shut down the store, and do so in some cases) - but if they don't help then small claims are good for up to £5000. The store will lose (they always lose provided you're being reasonable) and will end up paying all the costs.