As far as cool I would disagree with you. The C4 (especially the 3 door one) cool.
Granted, it is probably the first cool looking car Citroen has put out for nearly 20 years. Otherwise the early Citroens used to be "the kings of cool" on European roads. Just ask anyone who is old enough to remember the flying Citroen out of the Phantomas movies and its first descendants. Or the 2CV which is probably the ultimate Bohemi attitude car. More beetle than the real beetle.
At least one of the tech sites (forgot which one, see the iPhone coverage on the Reg, links from there), posted that Safari runs as root based on the UID in memorydumps caused by nuking it the recent Safary vulns. Same for a couple of othr apps which they have managed to coredump. It is only a matter until one of them gets exploited.
If I understand the idea correctly this allows you to use it without activating it and having a mandatory contract. This does not remove the SIM lock though. If a hack comes out to unlock the SIM lock these two will make a total unlock possible. Anything else aside, this allows you to use the iPhone for something without registering for 2 years contract while you are waiting for the second hack.
The latter is only a matter of time, after all you do not expect a device with a general purpose OS where everything runs as root to last long, do you?
By the look of it you do not have to know anything about law either. If the granny is right (and I hope she gets a sponsor to ensure that she gets through with it) the evidence they used in many other cases will have no bearing in a US court of law. That is probably one of the most entertaining twists to the RIAA lawsuits affairs of late.
This dress code on/dress code off is more or less a US specific phenomenon. We never saw it on this side of the pond. Very few companies tried it and all of them tried it for the sole reason of underpaying their workers by 25%+, not for the reason of bringing "talent".
You are mistaking patents for copyright and vice versa.
As far as the iPhone software is concerned this is all a storm in a teacup. The real storm will start later.
If the postings so far on various security boards are correct it looks like it indeed runs something OSX like enough and runs everything even the web browser as ROOT. Now if that is not a hacker dream dunno what is. Every exploit no matter how small will provide the attacker with full access to the system including ability to break out of the ghastly contract obligations to ATT and Apple. While the lack of fine grained privilege system is a general problem for all smartphones, in the apple's case it is made worse by the platform being "bigger" and everything having direct access to the iron.
It is too early to say if the iPhone will be the first phone where the admin vs user and privilege control issue will be finally forced, but there is a considerable likelihood of this happening. Once this happens, it will also inevitably open up as a platform (and we will soon know exactly how much (X)GPL code it contains).
They can, but you can use foil there. In fact if you have a modern enough house it is likely to have foil in the external wall insulation. Same for the roof. It is also trivial to retrofit (you can just lay it under a plasterboard.
As a result the doors and the windows remain the sole way in and out for the radiowaves. While special films like the one described in the article can deliver a nearly perfect insulation, they are not necessary.
If what you are bothered about are script kiddies driving down the street (or in your neigbour's basement) or interference from your neigbour's AP standard K-glass (or similar IR reflective type) will do. In my previous company we did a survey prior to moving into a new office and the drops was by more than 30db in the 802.11b/g band (in layman terms from 95% "quality" to sub 5%). In fact the drop from K-glass was more than the drop through a concrete floor covered by a steel plated grounded raised floor.
That does not include essential and unavoidable licenses which in the GSM world push the BOM by further 30-40$ (depending on volumes). Add to that licenses related to digital media playback (encoders, decoders) and the phone BOM approaches 300+. That is all before the cost of developing the software. So while the margins are very "applelike", they are nowhere as obscene as the article suggests.
It is the same as the health industry. There are evil and less evil companies.
For example, there is little I can complain about BP as far as oil companies go. It scrubs its products from sulphur way beyond the requirements of the current standards here. It is also one of the largest (if not the largest) producer of industrial and domestic solar panels in the world.
If you think that it has become usefull after that think twice. Have you ever dealt with a mobile operator customer care or sales on a predominantly data product?
I am tempted to post some of the great gems I have received from Vodafone, O2 and the like in responce to trivial queries regarding data tariffs and billing. What Apple afficionados do not realise is that with this cool new gadget they are going to jump straight into the great quagmire of extreme incompetence that is the data side of the mobile industry. Compared to mobile data support the likes of NTL or AOL are stellar examples of customer service.
So the minor noises from people slightly dissatisfied now will be replaced with screams of horror later on. Apple's fans are spoilt to have products that usually perform as advertised. When they meet the reality of general purpose mobile data which works only occasionally and never works when you really need it, they are going to scream. Loud. Very loud.
O2 contract phones are unlocked. All of them (one of the reasons why I use only them nowdays). Same for the BT MVNO. Vodafone contract used to be unlocked, but started locking them from live! onwards. Orange and T-mob/Virgin are always locked regardless. This is the short summary for the UK. Other countries may differ.
Actually, the provider does not need to lock the phone to limit access to a particular service. 3 used to do that with their early 3G phones. They sucked so people took 3 contracts and put them into 2G Nokias. 3 was unhappy as their 2G is actually roaming on O2 so they started checking IEMI (phone ID) vs SIM and enforcing that you use a particular SIM with a particular phone on a particular contract.
More likely: The executive with an attitude like this should know that price collusion is an offence under EU law and while the record companies have escaped it a couple of prior occasions, one day they are going to get nailed. So they should not provide the EU with extra ammunition.
I would not expect ATT to be much different. In fact, it is likely to be worse. With or without Edge.. That is meant for a commuter route in the US of course. Something like Chicago or Seattle transit system.
Agree. Though the problem is not that GPRS (with or without EDGE) is slow as a network. The problem is that the ubiquity of the Blackberry has largely driven it over capacity in the places where the demand for mobile computing is likely to be the highest - commuter routes and tourist areas.
Here are some number from the UK Vodafone GPRS (non-Edge) network collected on a typical Cambridge to London Commute:
1. Business commuter trains (starting time) 7:15-8:45 and 17:15-18:45 97% downlink packet loss, totally unuseable. Looks like the BB is actually prioritised versus any other traffic to ensure that the people who enjoy a vibrator up their crotch have an instant vibration regularly.
2. Transition period: 8:45-9:15 and 16:15-17:15 - works in some areas depending on cell capacity
3. Non-business commuter trains 9:15-15:45 and after 19:15 - works flawlessly except a couple of holes in coverage. Speed is not great, but quite tolerable. Definitely useable for some minor surfing, checking mail, working on a couple of documents.
I would not expect ATT to be much different. In fact, it is likely to be worse. With or without Edge.
Most wireless chipsets have power saving modes, though I have yet to see an OS/driver/chipset combo to successfully use it (except some of the newest Intel drivers). It usually ends up being "yet another spec item" which nobody really cares about. No idea if that is the case with the Wii.
Comfortable? Forget it. I hate flying on any of the new Boeings. Have you flown on a 777 in a storm? You can actually see the fuselage bend and buckle and the luggage compartment above the central seats move by nearly a foot left and right. While the engineer in me knows that this way it is actually more likely to survive through turbulence and load, the little scared mammal in the depth of my brain (which everyone has) screams "run for your life". No thanks, had that twice and enough is enough. From there on I try to chose long haul flights by Iberia or one of the other airlines which operate "boeings and dogs not allowed" policy and use A340 on transatlantic routes. It is considerably more comfortable.
Not quite. At least here, on this side of the pond, rubber is now illegal to be dumped into landfill and the available methods for recycling suck bricks through a rubber hose sideways. As a result it is being stored and the storage capacity at the few sites allowed to store it is decreasing extremely fast. So the economical factors are already skewed in favour of something like this. All these chaps need to do is send a letter to EU refuse processing companies and they will have a queue of byers lined up for the next decade.
Have you ever seen a river downstream of a flotation separation plant which has been processing lead for the last 30 years? Those nice steel grey coloured sand beeches going for miles and miles downstream. And the strange quietness of the river itself...
If you read further you will see the obvious typo there. If you want to take advantage of the free breakfast and free dinner benefit you have to be at work from before 8 till after 6:30. That is 11+ hours. So going over the entire article and coming back I suspect he meant from 8 to 6.
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Oh, and one more thing. IIRC the car to smash the last pre-war speed record by a very large margin (the record was 160mph or so) was electric. The petrol could not get even close at the time to either electric or steam. Funny, how things come around in circles.
The company is French so think of it combined with French stained glass plates (Luminarch and the like). The overall effect if the colours are well matched can be stunning. Once. It is not something that will have an effect again and again. And as I said, personally, if I have that amount of money to splash around I would rather go and spend it on good wine and food.
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As far as cool I would disagree with you. The C4 (especially the 3 door one) cool.
Granted, it is probably the first cool looking car Citroen has put out for nearly 20 years. Otherwise the early Citroens used to be "the kings of cool" on European roads. Just ask anyone who is old enough to remember the flying Citroen out of the Phantomas movies and its first descendants. Or the 2CV which is probably the ultimate Bohemi attitude car. More beetle than the real beetle.
At least one of the tech sites (forgot which one, see the iPhone coverage on the Reg, links from there), posted that Safari runs as root based on the UID in memorydumps caused by nuking it the recent Safary vulns. Same for a couple of othr apps which they have managed to coredump. It is only a matter until one of them gets exploited.
If I understand the idea correctly this allows you to use it without activating it and having a mandatory contract. This does not remove the SIM lock though. If a hack comes out to unlock the SIM lock these two will make a total unlock possible. Anything else aside, this allows you to use the iPhone for something without registering for 2 years contract while you are waiting for the second hack.
The latter is only a matter of time, after all you do not expect a device with a general purpose OS where everything runs as root to last long, do you?
No, more likely Puppeteers from "The Puppet Masters" by Robert A. Heinlein.
By the look of it you do not have to know anything about law either. If the granny is right (and I hope she gets a sponsor to ensure that she gets through with it) the evidence they used in many other cases will have no bearing in a US court of law. That is probably one of the most entertaining twists to the RIAA lawsuits affairs of late.
This dress code on/dress code off is more or less a US specific phenomenon. We never saw it on this side of the pond. Very few companies tried it and all of them tried it for the sole reason of underpaying their workers by 25%+, not for the reason of bringing "talent".
You are mistaking patents for copyright and vice versa.
As far as the iPhone software is concerned this is all a storm in a teacup. The real storm will start later.
If the postings so far on various security boards are correct it looks like it indeed runs something OSX like enough and runs everything even the web browser as ROOT. Now if that is not a hacker dream dunno what is. Every exploit no matter how small will provide the attacker with full access to the system including ability to break out of the ghastly contract obligations to ATT and Apple. While the lack of fine grained privilege system is a general problem for all smartphones, in the apple's case it is made worse by the platform being "bigger" and everything having direct access to the iron.
It is too early to say if the iPhone will be the first phone where the admin vs user and privilege control issue will be finally forced, but there is a considerable likelihood of this happening. Once this happens, it will also inevitably open up as a platform (and we will soon know exactly how much (X)GPL code it contains).
They can, but you can use foil there. In fact if you have a modern enough house it is likely to have foil in the external wall insulation. Same for the roof. It is also trivial to retrofit (you can just lay it under a plasterboard.
As a result the doors and the windows remain the sole way in and out for the radiowaves. While special films like the one described in the article can deliver a nearly perfect insulation, they are not necessary.
If what you are bothered about are script kiddies driving down the street (or in your neigbour's basement) or interference from your neigbour's AP standard K-glass (or similar IR reflective type) will do. In my previous company we did a survey prior to moving into a new office and the drops was by more than 30db in the 802.11b/g band (in layman terms from 95% "quality" to sub 5%). In fact the drop from K-glass was more than the drop through a concrete floor covered by a steel plated grounded raised floor.
That does not include essential and unavoidable licenses which in the GSM world push the BOM by further 30-40$ (depending on volumes). Add to that licenses related to digital media playback (encoders, decoders) and the phone BOM approaches 300+. That is all before the cost of developing the software. So while the margins are very "applelike", they are nowhere as obscene as the article suggests.
Sulphur and wear? This is the first time I hear this one. Would you mind posting a couple of references?
Actually yes.
It is the same as the health industry. There are evil and less evil companies.
For example, there is little I can complain about BP as far as oil companies go. It scrubs its products from sulphur way beyond the requirements of the current standards here. It is also one of the largest (if not the largest) producer of industrial and domestic solar panels in the world.
Yeah, so?
If you think that it has become usefull after that think twice. Have you ever dealt with a mobile operator customer care or sales on a predominantly data product?
I am tempted to post some of the great gems I have received from Vodafone, O2 and the like in responce to trivial queries regarding data tariffs and billing. What Apple afficionados do not realise is that with this cool new gadget they are going to jump straight into the great quagmire of extreme incompetence that is the data side of the mobile industry. Compared to mobile data support the likes of NTL or AOL are stellar examples of customer service.
So the minor noises from people slightly dissatisfied now will be replaced with screams of horror later on. Apple's fans are spoilt to have products that usually perform as advertised. When they meet the reality of general purpose mobile data which works only occasionally and never works when you really need it, they are going to scream. Loud. Very loud.
O2 contract phones are unlocked. All of them (one of the reasons why I use only them nowdays). Same for the BT MVNO. Vodafone contract used to be unlocked, but started locking them from live! onwards. Orange and T-mob/Virgin are always locked regardless. This is the short summary for the UK. Other countries may differ.
Actually, the provider does not need to lock the phone to limit access to a particular service. 3 used to do that with their early 3G phones. They sucked so people took 3 contracts and put them into 2G Nokias. 3 was unhappy as their 2G is actually roaming on O2 so they started checking IEMI (phone ID) vs SIM and enforcing that you use a particular SIM with a particular phone on a particular contract.
More likely: The executive with an attitude like this should know that price collusion is an offence under EU law and while the record companies have escaped it a couple of prior occasions, one day they are going to get nailed. So they should not provide the EU with extra ammunition.
I would not expect ATT to be much different. In fact, it is likely to be worse. With or without Edge.. That is meant for a commuter route in the US of course. Something like Chicago or Seattle transit system.
Agree. Though the problem is not that GPRS (with or without EDGE) is slow as a network. The problem is that the ubiquity of the Blackberry has largely driven it over capacity in the places where the demand for mobile computing is likely to be the highest - commuter routes and tourist areas.
Here are some number from the UK Vodafone GPRS (non-Edge) network collected on a typical Cambridge to London Commute:
1. Business commuter trains (starting time) 7:15-8:45 and 17:15-18:45 97% downlink packet loss, totally unuseable. Looks like the BB is actually prioritised versus any other traffic to ensure that the people who enjoy a vibrator up their crotch have an instant vibration regularly.
2. Transition period: 8:45-9:15 and 16:15-17:15 - works in some areas depending on cell capacity
3. Non-business commuter trains 9:15-15:45 and after 19:15 - works flawlessly except a couple of holes in coverage. Speed is not great, but quite tolerable. Definitely useable for some minor surfing, checking mail, working on a couple of documents.
I would not expect ATT to be much different. In fact, it is likely to be worse. With or without Edge.
Most wireless chipsets have power saving modes, though I have yet to see an OS/driver/chipset combo to successfully use it (except some of the newest Intel drivers). It usually ends up being "yet another spec item" which nobody really cares about. No idea if that is the case with the Wii.
Comfortable? Forget it. I hate flying on any of the new Boeings. Have you flown on a 777 in a storm? You can actually see the fuselage bend and buckle and the luggage compartment above the central seats move by nearly a foot left and right. While the engineer in me knows that this way it is actually more likely to survive through turbulence and load, the little scared mammal in the depth of my brain (which everyone has) screams "run for your life". No thanks, had that twice and enough is enough. From there on I try to chose long haul flights by Iberia or one of the other airlines which operate "boeings and dogs not allowed" policy and use A340 on transatlantic routes. It is considerably more comfortable.
Not quite. At least here, on this side of the pond, rubber is now illegal to be dumped into landfill and the available methods for recycling suck bricks through a rubber hose sideways. As a result it is being stored and the storage capacity at the few sites allowed to store it is decreasing extremely fast. So the economical factors are already skewed in favour of something like this. All these chaps need to do is send a letter to EU refuse processing companies and they will have a queue of byers lined up for the next decade.
So do many natural resources.
Have you ever seen a river downstream of a flotation separation plant which has been processing lead for the last 30 years? Those nice steel grey coloured sand beeches going for miles and miles downstream. And the strange quietness of the river itself...
If you read further you will see the obvious typo there. If you want to take advantage of the free breakfast and free dinner benefit you have to be at work from before 8 till after 6:30. That is 11+ hours. So going over the entire article and coming back I suspect he meant from 8 to 6. A.
Oh, and one more thing. IIRC the car to smash the last pre-war speed record by a very large margin (the record was 160mph or so) was electric. The petrol could not get even close at the time to either electric or steam. Funny, how things come around in circles.
Err...
The first diesel engineered and built by Rudolf Diesel himself ran on coal as well. On an aerosol of fine suspended coal particles.
So if we follow your logic that should not be a Deseasel, sorry diesel engine, right? Somehow that does not ring right to me.
Further to this, the engine in this car is a turbine. A piston engine is not a match to a turbine of any description.
The company is French so think of it combined with French stained glass plates (Luminarch and the like). The overall effect if the colours are well matched can be stunning. Once. It is not something that will have an effect again and again. And as I said, personally, if I have that amount of money to splash around I would rather go and spend it on good wine and food.
Yep. The 900+ quid they are asking for it will make for lots of decent wine (if it is not French) and decent grub instead.