The phone has 2 transmitters in it, a cellular one, that puts out a few watts of power, and bluetooth one, that puts out a small fraction of a watt.
Maybe in a phone made in 1970.
A modern phone is limited 2 watts on the cellular transmitter (which is the maximum transmission power), and even then only intermittently (they don't transmit continuously, they use 577us bursts every 4.6ms), giving an average of 0.125W.
And that's on the top of a mountain somewhere when you're miles away from a tower.
In a city, with a good connection to the tower, a phone will reduce the power output - there are 15 steps down to a mimimum of 2 milliwatts (the minimum won't be reached indoors, but should be fairly common in a city outdoors as there are towers all over the place).
OTOH Bluetooth will be transmitting between 2.5mW and 100mW. An unpaired bluetooth phone is quite likely to be using the higher end of this range... in the worst case you're looking at bluetooth using 50 times the output power of the cellular transmitter.
Carriers specify that all the other features be crippled because they want you to use THEIR services. Why synch jpegs with your PC when you can PAY to use picturemail? Why download ringtones when you can BUY them.
Get a new carrier. No good carrier would restrict a phone in the manner you describe - only a crappy one.
With most legit. ISPs these days you won't just lose 10 customers you'll lose your entire internet connection. For a company that can be a *big* deal.
If it's just a few emails then the ISP might take you back after a day or so. If it's half a million... well you're going to have to change providers and that can be a week or more downtime.
And presumably an unemployed ex-marketing manager.
Only in the absense of data protection laws. Try this in the EU and the fines will be a lot more than whatever you might have made by selling the list.
It's more than that Firstly (at least in the UK) it's a criminal offence, for which you get a record, and the fines are unlimited (for a large breach you can write off your company there and then). Plus they can serve you with an enforcement notice - preventing you from processing personal data (wave byebye to your customer database) and that's backed by criminal law too.
I had one that did that (Mobile Fun). They repeatedly ignored unsubscribe requests so I forwarded their message to spamcop saying you couldn't unsubscribe therefore it was spam. Of course they protested, saying they were a 'microsoft partner' and therefore not spammers (not sure how that follows, but hey...) and offering to unsubscribe me immediately (which they failed to do - took another 2 months for them to stop, even with a pending RBL blacklist).
I have a list that is mailman based, double opt-in of course and unsubscribe information at the bottom of every email (plus I'll do it manually if they're too clueless to click a link). Every now and then someone reports it as spam, because they couldn't be bothered unsubscribing or even sending a 'please unsubscribe me' email.
Heck, mailman even auto-unsubscribes after a small number of bounces, so it's not like it tries too hard...
90% of ISPs can spot the induhvidual immediately and just ignore them (or maybe send to the x-unsubscribe-email). There are a few where they blacklist the entire mailserver without even checking... then I get the inevitable 'I'm not getting list email any more!' message..
that drives me absolutely mental though... in the windows explorer there is no "up" button, and back does not do the same thing, and yes, I am aware that I can just hit backspace, but when I'm in "mouse only" mode, this does not cut it.
Backspace doesn't work (it doesn't go 'up' and more). They've tied it to the back key.
There's no way to go to the parent directory in vista that I know of other than clicking on the address bar & editing it.. which is hell for me (in keyboard only mode).
The finder's network support is completely broken. If the remote drive responds even *slightly* slowly you get the spinning beachball of death & have to pull the plug. And active directory integration is completely broken (they even managed to break samba in all sorts of ways).
Or he tried to plug a firewire drive in. Every one I've tried blackscreens the mac instantly (identical to a bluescreen only it's black).
All of these are software issues that should have been fixed before release.
Of course I'll probably get modded down now for criticizing the beloved apple on Slashdot.
You can use them on 10 machines, but only for devlopment.
OTOH when you are a software company then what else are they using it for?
It's common to go over the 10 limit though - pretty much everywhere I've ever worked has kitted out the entire office off a single MSDN Universal. The worst being over 100 people.
(I have one just for me and combined with the licenses that came with laptops etc. I'm probably *way* overlicensed).
Vista is slow (or it feels slow.. I don't think they let you publish benchmarks any more with the new license).
Runing VMWare WS 6 beta (with debug on) on a vista host with an XP client.. XP is faster, even though it's emulated and should be a lot slower.
How that translates to application speed is anybody's guess. I know from reading the forums that WoW plays a lot slower, but beyond that I coldn't say.
Absolutely. IT departments don't have the time or manpower to be farting around with configuration of MS's latest disaster. SOP for *every* IT department I've ever worked in has been to wipe and reinstall rather than trying to 'fix' a broken configuration.
The format command is the best spyware remover there is.
I remember the version check on an early version of Word (6.0? Maybe earlier). It came on floppies, and the 'full' version cost 3 times the cost of the upgrade version.
Trouble was it would accept its own installation floppy as 'proof' you owned the earlier product! So it was a no brainer that nobody got the full version..
I remember the version check on an early version of Word (6.0? Maybe earlier). It came on floppies, and the 'full' version cost 3 times the code of the upgrade version.
Trouble was it would accept its own installation floppy as 'proof' you owned the earlier product! So it was a no brainer that nobody got the upgrade..
OTOH the resource monitor *does* take around 20%...
Methinks the people who made the 20% claim forgot to look at what was actually producing it.
Mine goes like: DWM 2% (that's aeroglass AFAIK) Task Manager 2% (you can discount that from normal running figures)
Lots of random stuff making it up to between 5% and peaking at 10% (not really a problem.. XP would peak at around the same level).
I'm not fan of vista by any means but CPU usage isn't its problem. *disk* usage... well that's a whole different story - until I switched off windows search the disk light was permanently on (*not* good for a laptop on battery). Still has the occasional burst of reading random files (something in svchost) that I need to track down/kill.
I would hope they fix some of the issues with vista.. although some are just plain UI inconsistencies.
My pet hate being you can't put an icon in the taskbar for network devices any more, so you can't see visually whether you're locked onto wireless or wired (I switch between them a lot when moving around on the laptop). Disabling the wireless has gone from a right click to 3 dialogs and a UAC prompt.
There's also a process that keeps scanning the files on the disk. Not windows search (disabled that, as it runs the HD at 100% when the machine is idle, stopping the powersaving from working) but another process that's part of svchost.exe - picks random files too.. never seen a pattern to it.
There are a few API bugs that are just plain wierd too.. you can code around them but they're subtle enough to break non-obvious stuff.
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The phone has 2 transmitters in it, a cellular one, that puts out a few watts of power, and bluetooth one, that puts out a small fraction of a watt.
Maybe in a phone made in 1970.
A modern phone is limited 2 watts on the cellular transmitter (which is the maximum transmission power), and even then only intermittently (they don't transmit continuously, they use 577us bursts every 4.6ms), giving an average of 0.125W.
And that's on the top of a mountain somewhere when you're miles away from a tower.
In a city, with a good connection to the tower, a phone will reduce the power output - there are 15 steps down to a mimimum of 2 milliwatts (the minimum won't be reached indoors, but should be fairly common in a city outdoors as there are towers all over the place).
OTOH Bluetooth will be transmitting between 2.5mW and 100mW. An unpaired bluetooth phone is quite likely to be using the higher end of this range... in the worst case you're looking at bluetooth using 50 times the output power of the cellular transmitter.
Hence why bluetooth drains the battery.
Carriers specify that all the other features be crippled because they want you to use THEIR services. Why synch jpegs with your PC when you can PAY to use picturemail? Why download ringtones when you can BUY them.
Get a new carrier. No good carrier would restrict a phone in the manner you describe - only a crappy one.
Yeah MS use their own CA that only exists in IE.. so in any other browser you have to ignore the security warning to browse large parts of their site.
Not great when you're trying to train users not to ignore bad certificates...
With most legit. ISPs these days you won't just lose 10 customers you'll lose your entire internet connection. For a company that can be a *big* deal.
If it's just a few emails then the ISP might take you back after a day or so. If it's half a million... well you're going to have to change providers and that can be a week or more downtime.
And presumably an unemployed ex-marketing manager.
Only in the absense of data protection laws. Try this in the EU and the fines will be a lot more than whatever you might have made by selling the list.
It's more than that Firstly (at least in the UK) it's a criminal offence, for which you get a record, and the fines are unlimited (for a large breach you can write off your company there and then). Plus they can serve you with an enforcement notice - preventing you from processing personal data (wave byebye to your customer database) and that's backed by criminal law too.
See the out-law summary
Needless to say here we take the DPA *very* seriously.
Forward them to spamcop. It gets things done.
I had one that did that (Mobile Fun). They repeatedly ignored unsubscribe requests so I forwarded their message to spamcop saying you couldn't unsubscribe therefore it was spam. Of course they protested, saying they were a 'microsoft partner' and therefore not spammers (not sure how that follows, but hey...) and offering to unsubscribe me immediately (which they failed to do - took another 2 months for them to stop, even with a pending RBL blacklist).
It's just life, and stupid users.
I have a list that is mailman based, double opt-in of course and unsubscribe information at the bottom of every email (plus I'll do it manually if they're too clueless to click a link). Every now and then someone reports it as spam, because they couldn't be bothered unsubscribing or even sending a 'please unsubscribe me' email.
Heck, mailman even auto-unsubscribes after a small number of bounces, so it's not like it tries too hard...
90% of ISPs can spot the induhvidual immediately and just ignore them (or maybe send to the x-unsubscribe-email). There are a few where they blacklist the entire mailserver without even checking... then I get the inevitable 'I'm not getting list email any more!' message..
Go with XP. Games are slower under vista, and not as well tested. Most game companies don't yet officially support it either.
that drives me absolutely mental though ... in the windows explorer there is no "up" button, and back does not do the same thing, and yes, I am aware that I can just hit backspace, but when I'm in "mouse only" mode, this does not cut it.
Backspace doesn't work (it doesn't go 'up' and more). They've tied it to the back key.
There's no way to go to the parent directory in vista that I know of other than clicking on the address bar & editing it.. which is hell for me (in keyboard only mode).
Try running XP under VMWare within Vista.
XP runs faster... even with the disadvantage of a virtual machine.
The crazy thing is since both OS's are basically using the same display then vista *could* be much faster.. but it isn't.
Que announcements of crazilly fast processors and large memory motherboards so everyone can get their speed and usability back..
No, he probably tried to use it on a network.
The finder's network support is completely broken. If the remote drive responds even *slightly* slowly you get the spinning beachball of death & have to pull the plug. And active directory integration is completely broken (they even managed to break samba in all sorts of ways).
Or he tried to plug a firewire drive in. Every one I've tried blackscreens the mac instantly (identical to a bluescreen only it's black).
All of these are software issues that should have been fixed before release.
Of course I'll probably get modded down now for criticizing the beloved apple on Slashdot.
You can use them on 10 machines, but only for devlopment.
OTOH when you are a software company then what else are they using it for?
It's common to go over the 10 limit though - pretty much everywhere I've ever worked has kitted out the entire office off a single MSDN Universal. The worst being over 100 people.
(I have one just for me and combined with the licenses that came with laptops etc. I'm probably *way* overlicensed).
Nope, it's true - the CDs have been on MSDN for ages now.
Of course from there you can also get the full versions, so it's no been an issue. But the limitation with the upgrade version is definately real.
They already are and they know it.
The existing XP installed base is the #1 competitor to Vista, and XP has been around longer, more stuff works with it, is cheaper, etc.
Vista is slow (or it feels slow.. I don't think they let you publish benchmarks any more with the new license).
Runing VMWare WS 6 beta (with debug on) on a vista host with an XP client.. XP is faster, even though it's emulated and should be a lot slower.
How that translates to application speed is anybody's guess. I know from reading the forums that WoW plays a lot slower, but beyond that I coldn't say.
Absolutely. IT departments don't have the time or manpower to be farting around with configuration of MS's latest disaster. SOP for *every* IT department I've ever worked in has been to wipe and reinstall rather than trying to 'fix' a broken configuration.
The format command is the best spyware remover there is.
Damn typing whilst tired. Better start again.
I remember the version check on an early version of Word (6.0? Maybe earlier). It came on floppies, and the 'full' version cost 3 times the cost of the upgrade version.
Trouble was it would accept its own installation floppy as 'proof' you owned the earlier product! So it was a no brainer that nobody got the full version..
I remember the version check on an early version of Word (6.0? Maybe earlier). It came on floppies, and the 'full' version cost 3 times the code of the upgrade version.
Trouble was it would accept its own installation floppy as 'proof' you owned the earlier product! So it was a no brainer that nobody got the upgrade..
Even the taxi drivers have them now...
Maybe in the US they're not so common but elsewhere they're basically a required addon.
They've blurred all of the surroundings as well - presumably to stop you from navigating there by landmark.
If that's the purpose they failed. Just click on 'Get directions to here' and type a nearby town (try Lancaster or Manchester).
I think that's just a crappy low-res image rather than deliberate obfuscation.
For that money I can get a low-end iPhone and have $41 left to buy my own viruses ... if only the iphone was an in-car GPS system and not a phone
There, fixed it for you.
OTOH the resource monitor *does* take around 20%...
Methinks the people who made the 20% claim forgot to look at what was actually producing it.
Mine goes like:
DWM 2% (that's aeroglass AFAIK)
Task Manager 2% (you can discount that from normal running figures)
Lots of random stuff making it up to between 5% and peaking at 10% (not really a problem.. XP would peak at around the same level).
I'm not fan of vista by any means but CPU usage isn't its problem. *disk* usage... well that's a whole different story - until I switched off windows search the disk light was permanently on (*not* good for a laptop on battery). Still has the occasional burst of reading random files (something in svchost) that I need to track down/kill.
XP 64bit was basically that (although they'd shoved things like media player in there).
I would hope they fix some of the issues with vista.. although some are just plain UI inconsistencies.
My pet hate being you can't put an icon in the taskbar for network devices any more, so you can't see visually whether you're locked onto wireless or wired (I switch between them a lot when moving around on the laptop). Disabling the wireless has gone from a right click to 3 dialogs and a UAC prompt.
There's also a process that keeps scanning the files on the disk. Not windows search (disabled that, as it runs the HD at 100% when the machine is idle, stopping the powersaving from working) but another process that's part of svchost.exe - picks random files too.. never seen a pattern to it.
There are a few API bugs that are just plain wierd too.. you can code around them but they're subtle enough to break non-obvious stuff.
no, they're not stupid. they put shit in a "black box that makes food hot" and it caught fire. WOW! color me surprised. I'd say that's pretty stupid.
No. The media told them "if you put shit into a black box that makes food hot it will sterilize it".
So they did. And it caught fire... because the media forgot to mention that you should use *wet* shit.
That is totally different to waking up one morning and trying to microwave a random object to see what would happen.