Your problem is not the apple lockdown (there isn't one)
Your problem is that your local network applied a subsidy lock. In other countries apple will happily sell you a phone outright without that lock, but you essentially rented your phone from AT&T.
Take note of these completely unlocked and without contract iphones. Now I happen to have an Australian iPhone with a carrier lock on it... and it will cost me $75 to remove it but over the life of the contract it works out about $200 cheaper and i get more minutes/data for my money too.
And this is why in australia all of our ADSL/Cable plans have "shaping" you get your allotment (usually in peak/offpeak GB per month) and once you go over it they "shape" your previously 24mbit** connection to 64 or 128kbit/s. This means your monthly bill is a flat cost but if you accidentally stream too many movies off xbox live or something you will be back in dialup land till the end of your billing cycle or decide to upgrade to a more generous plan.
Our ISPs got slapped about 7 years ago for selling "unlimited" plans that had hidden smallprint limits in the acceptable useage policy (some of them defining abuse by being in the 98th percentile) as it was found to be illegal by the consumer watchdog.
** 24mbit is actually an average of 15mbit due to the nature of ADSL2+
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That is because pictures are not sent over the voice network like SMS (which uses the command channel in GSM) with MMS the phone has to create a data connection and pull down the message.
if enough of us do it, maybe they'll stop charging it altogether.
No they won't, if enough people start getting it waived some manager somewhere will notice it in his metrics and an order will come down from on-high and nobody will be able to waive it anymore
the real issue is lack of real competition. Lawmakers need to force the carriers to be more transparent (i.e. the total cost of the subsidy phone plan must be at least equal to the cost of the phone outright plus the same amount of time on the same no-contract plan) because people sign these contracts because they are cheaper. The contract only serves to help the carrier.
My vodafone iphone plan is not availiable at a discount when you bring your own phone but there is a "sim only" plan with a bit less data for $25/month less than my current plan that came with a free 16gb 3gs. $25/month is $600 over 2 years so I would pay $250 more in total if i bought my phone outright AND i would get 10% less call credit and 80% less data (200mb instead of 1gb)
Honestly, I would prefer the browser to not be the media player. Just use whatever backend is available on the client, be it DirectShow, Quicktime, GStreamer, xine or whatever else.
Just FYI, this is exactly the reasoning behind the <video> tag. The browser developers won't (or at least shouldn't) be re-rolling the whole decoding stack.
Some countries have very strict limits (and taxes) on gambling. Online poker is illegal in Australia but you are welcome to go down to the local casino and play some hands.
Personally I think that is reasonable, these online poker sites are run from outside the reach of our country's laws - both from a tax and a "we have no idea if this site is 100% scam" point of view.
I hate to burst your "I'm an American and I'll do what I want" bubble, but some countries have laws that state just that. I believe the Australian laws also state that a gun isn't to be stored loaded in the safe.
There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired. Several years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multimillion-dollar machines. They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine to work but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who had solved so many of their problems in the past. The engineer reluctantly took the challenge. He spent a day studying the huge machine. Finally, at the end of the day, he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and said, "This is where your problem is." The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly again.
When the company received a bill for $50,000 from the engineer for his service, they demanded an itemized accounting. The engineer responded briefly: One chalk mark $1. Knowing where to put it $49,999. The bill was paid in full, and the engineer retired again in peace.
And the dotnet framework is designed to operate in exactly this way.
Except the default permissionset allows all local code access to the filesystem - this default setting really should be changed. Once something is installed into the GAC or a whitelist entry is added it can get access to things like the unmanaged APIs and System.IO
I like you think that compulsory voting makes us "serfs".
A representative government isn't really representative if it only represents those that can be bothered to vote (they are generally the rich/educated/old)
Compulsory voting with a secret ballot means you don't have to vote (you can just scribble all over the ballot and drop it in the box) but you do have to show up if you don't want a $50 fine. Getting everyone to show up means that people are more likely to take an interest since they have to show up anyway, but those that really don't want to vote for whatever reason can pay a fine or waste their vote.
Oh, and we manage to get 99% certainty of the winner before polls close in the west with a hand counted paper ballot. Machine-aided voting really is a terrible idea.
Cookies? Something else that the user's computer provides to identify themselves - and can easily change?
Good luck with that buddy.
I remember recently when half of the UK were identified as malicious editors when wikipedia started being routed through a proxy because of child porn and 30million people suddenly started coming from a single address.
By this logic it should be just as illegal to direct a film like 28 days later in Australia
By the way, you should be modded down for the "but its harmful to children" argument you just used. The average age of an australian gamer has been shown to be over 30 We are not asking for games like this to be available to children, only that we can have a suitable rating for adults that wish to play games with adult content not intended for sale or consumption by chidren.
I think the other 60% efficiency is because you arent' just cooling away the hot water in a radiator but storing it in a tank for your radiators/showers/washingup
Services like last.fm and Pandora only suggest music you already know about anyway.
I'm not even in a regieon that can listen to pandora and even I know that pandora definately plays music you don't necessarilt know about. I can tell it about a single track and it won't just play that on repeat, that would be dumb.
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Your problem is not the apple lockdown (there isn't one)
Your problem is that your local network applied a subsidy lock. In other countries apple will happily sell you a phone outright without that lock, but you essentially rented your phone from AT&T.
Take note of these completely unlocked and without contract iphones. Now I happen to have an Australian iPhone with a carrier lock on it... and it will cost me $75 to remove it but over the life of the contract it works out about $200 cheaper and i get more minutes/data for my money too.
And this is why in australia all of our ADSL/Cable plans have "shaping" you get your allotment (usually in peak/offpeak GB per month) and once you go over it they "shape" your previously 24mbit** connection to 64 or 128kbit/s.
This means your monthly bill is a flat cost but if you accidentally stream too many movies off xbox live or something you will be back in dialup land till the end of your billing cycle or decide to upgrade to a more generous plan.
Our ISPs got slapped about 7 years ago for selling "unlimited" plans that had hidden smallprint limits in the acceptable useage policy (some of them defining abuse by being in the 98th percentile) as it was found to be illegal by the consumer watchdog.
** 24mbit is actually an average of 15mbit due to the nature of ADSL2+
throw new ClumpOfPooException();
However the reason for the loss of bone density is due to the lack of pressure from skeletal muscles on them.
Bones get harder and stronger in the same way as muscles get larger and stronger.
What you are saying basically amounts to "when you hit rock bottom the only place to go is up"
Unless x = 100
Did you even read the post you replied to?
That is because pictures are not sent over the voice network like SMS (which uses the command channel in GSM) with MMS the phone has to create a data connection and pull down the message.
if enough of us do it, maybe they'll stop charging it altogether.
No they won't, if enough people start getting it waived some manager somewhere will notice it in his metrics and an order will come down from on-high and nobody will be able to waive it anymore
the real issue is lack of real competition. Lawmakers need to force the carriers to be more transparent (i.e. the total cost of the subsidy phone plan must be at least equal to the cost of the phone outright plus the same amount of time on the same no-contract plan) because people sign these contracts because they are cheaper. The contract only serves to help the carrier.
My vodafone iphone plan is not availiable at a discount when you bring your own phone but there is a "sim only" plan with a bit less data for $25/month less than my current plan that came with a free 16gb 3gs. $25/month is $600 over 2 years so I would pay $250 more in total if i bought my phone outright AND i would get 10% less call credit and 80% less data (200mb instead of 1gb)
Honestly, I would prefer the browser to not be the media player. Just use whatever backend is available on the client, be it DirectShow, Quicktime, GStreamer, xine or whatever else.
Just FYI, this is exactly the reasoning behind the <video> tag. The browser developers won't (or at least shouldn't) be re-rolling the whole decoding stack.
Some countries have very strict limits (and taxes) on gambling. Online poker is illegal in Australia but you are welcome to go down to the local casino and play some hands.
Personally I think that is reasonable, these online poker sites are run from outside the reach of our country's laws - both from a tax and a "we have no idea if this site is 100% scam" point of view.
I hate to burst your "I'm an American and I'll do what I want" bubble, but some countries have laws that state just that. I believe the Australian laws also state that a gun isn't to be stored loaded in the safe.
I believe the anecdote is this:
There was an engineer who had an exceptional gift for fixing all things mechanical. After serving his company loyally for over 30 years, he happily retired. Several years later the company contacted him regarding a seemingly impossible problem they were having with one of their multimillion-dollar machines. They had tried everything and everyone else to get the machine to work but to no avail. In desperation, they called on the retired engineer who had solved so many of their problems in the past. The engineer reluctantly took the challenge. He spent a day studying the huge machine. Finally, at the end of the day, he marked a small "x" in chalk on a particular component of the machine and said, "This is where your problem is." The part was replaced and the machine worked perfectly again.
When the company received a bill for $50,000 from the engineer for his service, they demanded an itemized accounting. The engineer responded briefly: One chalk mark $1. Knowing where to put it $49,999. The bill was paid in full, and the engineer retired again in peace.
And the dotnet framework is designed to operate in exactly this way.
Except the default permissionset allows all local code access to the filesystem - this default setting really should be changed.
Once something is installed into the GAC or a whitelist entry is added it can get access to things like the unmanaged APIs and System.IO
I like you think that compulsory voting makes us "serfs".
A representative government isn't really representative if it only represents those that can be bothered to vote (they are generally the rich/educated/old)
Compulsory voting with a secret ballot means you don't have to vote (you can just scribble all over the ballot and drop it in the box) but you do have to show up if you don't want a $50 fine. Getting everyone to show up means that people are more likely to take an interest since they have to show up anyway, but those that really don't want to vote for whatever reason can pay a fine or waste their vote.
Oh, and we manage to get 99% certainty of the winner before polls close in the west with a hand counted paper ballot. Machine-aided voting really is a terrible idea.
I dont' think you quite understand that word you used there. Hulu/pandora are the OPPOSITE of multicast.
And then what do you propose to use?
Cookies?
Something else that the user's computer provides to identify themselves - and can easily change?
Good luck with that buddy.
I remember recently when half of the UK were identified as malicious editors when wikipedia started being routed through a proxy because of child porn and 30million people suddenly started coming from a single address.
The issue with the page wasn't noscript but that the page loads and then performs a meta-redirect.
due to annoying sites like news.com.au that auto refresh (to increase ad impressions) a lot of people disable this "feature"
That you can't go outside for 20minutes to run outdoors?
It's 30
By this logic it should be just as illegal to direct a film like 28 days later in Australia
By the way, you should be modded down for the "but its harmful to children" argument you just used. The average age of an australian gamer has been shown to be over 30
We are not asking for games like this to be available to children, only that we can have a suitable rating for adults that wish to play games with adult content not intended for sale or consumption by chidren.
You should not have shown them "apt-get"
You should have shown them Synaptic or something... you know - a GUI
I think the other 60% efficiency is because you arent' just cooling away the hot water in a radiator but storing it in a tank for your radiators/showers/washingup
or, you know.... wealthy russian crime syndicates
Please mod parent up
Services like last.fm and Pandora only suggest music you already know about anyway.
I'm not even in a regieon that can listen to pandora and even I know that pandora definately plays music you don't necessarilt know about. I can tell it about a single track and it won't just play that on repeat, that would be dumb.