But really there was nothing wrong with the hardware -- I could see that the phone could do everything that it advertised, but Nokia were on to greener pastures now that this phone was out of the door.
You seem to be in the UK, so class actions may not apply/be feasible. Have you tried the Sale Of Goods Act?
Yeah, the greenies are using the N-word to draw attention. What they meant to say was "Hey, these cosmetic products contain these funky metal oxides and other boutique molecules without making their safety studies public. Make them tell us more about their safety".
From your quote, Den Beste follows up by demonstrating his handling of powers of 10 instead of getting to the point.
Could we solve the actual problem (working on issues of economic equality and proper utilities and civil infastructures) instead of feeding poor people?
My sarcasm detector doesn't know what to do with that one.
If it's for real (and not some sort of typo), you just distilled the anti-globalization fanbois' (and -girls') greatest bait-and-switch down to one sentence. Let's work on the real problems instead of feeding people. Well done, sir.
If you were indeed sarcastic, please accept my apologies.
Has he tried +... numbers? I believe (but stand to be corrected) that it's up to the network to handle that.
Since you mention international travel I'm guessing he has a GSM RAZR (Cingular/T-Mobile). My SonyEricsson on Cingular handles international format numbers without problems, tested in the US, Canada and a couple of European countries so far.
I believe that if you go back to the reasoning behind the existing rules, you'll find that the cornerstone is something about the "greater good" that legacy broadcasters are supposed to serve in exchange for getting exclusive access to the public radio spectrum.
The Internet does not work that way. What I watch on my video stream has no effect on your ability to watch your video stream/browse the web etc. It all rests solely on agreements between individual "broadcasters" and individual members of the audience.
If anything, because of this independent and voluntary nature, the Internet is closer to books than it is to TV. Would you propose banning books that promote "hate speech" next, in the name of a level playing field? What about a history student who's working on the rise of Nazism, would they have to get special permission from some Department Of Truth bureaucracy before looking up Mein Kampf in the library?
I used to use a D-Link DWL-900AP+ access point. I updated to the latest firmware, which claimed to support WPA-PSK, but it wouldn't cooperate with wpa-supplicant. IIRC, for some unknown reason, the D-Link firmware would just not complete the WPA handshake.
I called tech support, got bumped up to "tier 2", only for a gruff-sounding rep to tell me "WPA is an optional feature, we don't support that".
That, and other issues I've had with them, was why my SSID for more than a year was "DLinkSucksAss".
Then I tried Netgear, with similar "results". What a scam. Therefore, my netgear AP SSID involves Patrick Lo (Netgear's CEO), a donkey's genitals, and suction.
My Madwifi/hostapd AP on the other hand hums along just fine.
Java is "heavier" than a native language/platform but for something like Freenet where privacy can be extremely important, reducing the possibility of stack smashing/bufer overrun type vulnerabilities to near zero - which Java helps do very well - is more than worth the execution overhead.
Not quite. The honor belongs to those who let the telcos gain, and keep, last-mile monopolies, via the bait-and-switch of universal service, even after that had ceased to be an issue due to low cost of provisioning a basic telecoms service.
Credit should also go to the fans of the Internet version of universal service, which made the bait-and-switch easier to apply to Internet (and later broadband) service.
When a new right is invented for one group, another group has to pay for it. When the cost connection between the two groups is obscured, that cost will go up.
In the case of the "right" to Internet access ("digital divide"), the inflated cost is the telcos' last mile [mono|duo]poly.
In the case of protecting the "right" of children to access a sex-free Internet unsupervised, combined with their parents' "right" to not see an extra line item in their ISP bill, the inflated cost is going to be loss of freedom and higher prices due to increased barriers to entry for ISPs.
similar to GM and Ford agreeing to fix the prices at which they sell cars to dealers in order to freeze out Honda. Yeah, the dealers could turn around and charge whatever retail price they choose, but that doesn't change the fact that GM and Ford are probably guilty of prce fixing.
You're conveniently forgetting that the point of a competitive car industry is supposed to be the benefit of drivers, not manufacturers.
Now, there are existing businesses where a "real" good is given away as part of a service agreement. Think mobile phones. Are you suggesting that giving out "free" phones bundled with service is price fixing against the poor mobile phone manufacturers? No? Then why can't IBM and redhat do the same with Linux?
The only sellers, of any product/service, I have ever seen complaining about price fixing are those who want to milk a little (or a lot) extra from their customers and are afraid of the competition.
...these guys want some of my disposable income? From TFA:
According to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Senior VP Don Eklund, none of Sony's Blu-ray releases for the "foreseeable future" will use ICT to force downsampling.
Riiiight. Give them money now, for a "promise" they can break any time they feel like it.
Maybe, just maybe, if you sign a contract to buy back any equipment I buy - adjusting for inflation but not depreciation - if you choose to use ICT, then I'll think about considering looking into the possibility of wondering aloud whether paying real money for Blu-Ray (or HD-DVD for that matter) could potentially enter my hypothetical to-do list.
Fry's Electronics (for those unfortunate enough to have one near them)
Dude, unfortunate? Over the years they've let me borrow all sorts for goodies to try out and then return after I figured out they didn't work for me/I didn't need them/I didn't like the color, or whatever.
What I'd really like to know is this: Are there any USB enclosures that support the SCSI spin up/down commands?
Everything I've tried so far doesn't, and forcing the drive to do an emergency head park every time you unplug it (or power down the computer it's attached to) can't be good.
If you're talking about T-Mobile US, why not? Aren't they the only US operator that hasn't paid billions for 3G spectrum? They should be best positioned to offer a very competitive package of flat/"free" WiFi SIP and data together with cheap/pay-as-you-go GSM/GPRS/EDGE fallback when "on the road".
However the custom access point, if true, would be a killer, at least for me. If I can't use their SIP service over any IP connectivity I happen to be in the range of, how are they different from, say, teliax with the forward-to-my-mobile-number feature?
This is why, although I really like the idea of a hybrid SIP/GSM mobile, I'm not paying a cent for one which ties its SIP functionality to an operator. It was stupid with conventional GSM and network/SIM locks, it's absolutely medieval with SIP/WiFi.
Oh, and another thing: For me to tie one of my primary public "addresses" - my phone number - to an operator, I must be bribed, substantially and continuously. Otherwise I'll roll my own teliax/SIP/IAX/pay-as-you-go service, thankyouverymuch.
I guess you're right, it's going to be ARPU crunch time. Excellent, Smithers!
I'd ask him about his/the school's financial interests in payphones, calling card marketing to the students, student ISP et cetera.
I'm not sure what the situation is in that school, but I remember one school in the US (SJSU) where the phone system on campus, including dorms, was owned by the school. Your telephone bill came not from AT&T or MCI, but by SJSU. In another case, in a university in London many years ago, the regular BT payphones in halls (dorms) were replaced by some other company's boxes, presumably under some contract where the school got some (legal) kickback for the exclusive contract.
Such a setup would make for some suspicious conflicts of interest now that WiFi phones are available, including ones that use Skype.
I'm not saying there's anything other than innocent Luddism going on here, but it's worth a look under the carpet just in case.
Why should a cellphone company allow the user to store gigabytes of high resolution pictures so they can return home to their PC and download the pictures FOR FREE to their computer. Why should a cellphone company allow people to listen to hours of music or watch hours of video FOR FREE. Why should a cellphone company allow ANY feature to be used for free on a cellphone.
And we give a flying fuck about the phone company because...?
My phone allows me to do all of the above and more, including switching to another provider's SIM and a very smooth way to use calling cards to get around the extortionate international rates available on pay-as-you-go SIMs in Europe.
My first machine was a ZX Spectrum 48K back in 1984. After getting bored with the first batch of games, I wrote my first BASIC program, a telephone directory application. String arrays! Saving to/load from tape! Yay!
The Speccy is also responsible for introducing me to Tolkien, via The Hobbit.
Since then... Amstrad CPCs (Sorcery!), 286, Sun workstations (in college), 486, etc. My current main machine is a Thinkpad X31 which is just the right size (and color!) to run spectemu on.
By the way, the Spectrum is, as far as I know, the only machine to have had a song written about it.
Seriously. Aren't there any countries with advanced-enough industrial infrastructure and less regulatory crap?
You wouldn't have to move *everything*. Just move the trials there and start selling to them. People outside the US get sick too, and a lot of them have the money to pay for their treatment.
Sucks that yours didn't work, but I thought I'd chime in to provide some balance.
I've been using Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird for about 5 years now. On the email front, I've migrated across program versions, across different Windows machines (copying profile directories), from Windows to Linux and then from Moz integrated suite to Firefox/T-bird, and I haven't lost a single message. Same thing with browser/bookmark migrations.
I'm not disputing your experience, I'm just saying it doesn't (to me anyway) seem to be common.
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You seem to be in the UK, so class actions may not apply/be feasible. Have you tried the Sale Of Goods Act?
Yeah, the greenies are using the N-word to draw attention. What they meant to say was "Hey, these cosmetic products contain these funky metal oxides and other boutique molecules without making their safety studies public. Make them tell us more about their safety".
From your quote, Den Beste follows up by demonstrating his handling of powers of 10 instead of getting to the point.
My sarcasm detector doesn't know what to do with that one.
If it's for real (and not some sort of typo), you just distilled the anti-globalization fanbois' (and -girls') greatest bait-and-switch down to one sentence. Let's work on the real problems instead of feeding people. Well done, sir.
If you were indeed sarcastic, please accept my apologies.
Has he tried +... numbers? I believe (but stand to be corrected) that it's up to the network to handle that.
Since you mention international travel I'm guessing he has a GSM RAZR (Cingular/T-Mobile). My SonyEricsson on Cingular handles international format numbers without problems, tested in the US, Canada and a couple of European countries so far.
if you're so concerned about your darlings getting exposed to pornography.
Or get Internet service from a Christian ISP
instead of creating new crimes.
I believe that if you go back to the reasoning behind the existing rules, you'll find that the cornerstone is something about the "greater good" that legacy broadcasters are supposed to serve in exchange for getting exclusive access to the public radio spectrum.
The Internet does not work that way. What I watch on my video stream has no effect on your ability to watch your video stream/browse the web etc. It all rests solely on agreements between individual "broadcasters" and individual members of the audience.
If anything, because of this independent and voluntary nature, the Internet is closer to books than it is to TV. Would you propose banning books that promote "hate speech" next, in the name of a level playing field? What about a history student who's working on the rise of Nazism, would they have to get special permission from some Department Of Truth bureaucracy before looking up Mein Kampf in the library?
TOR should do what you want, assuming you get an "exit point" that is on an IP that geocodes to an "allowed" region.
I used to use a D-Link DWL-900AP+ access point. I updated to the latest firmware, which claimed to support WPA-PSK, but it wouldn't cooperate with wpa-supplicant. IIRC, for some unknown reason, the D-Link firmware would just not complete the WPA handshake.
I called tech support, got bumped up to "tier 2", only for a gruff-sounding rep to tell me "WPA is an optional feature, we don't support that".
That, and other issues I've had with them, was why my SSID for more than a year was "DLinkSucksAss".
Then I tried Netgear, with similar "results". What a scam. Therefore, my netgear AP SSID involves Patrick Lo (Netgear's CEO), a donkey's genitals, and suction.
My Madwifi/hostapd AP on the other hand hums along just fine.
Java is "heavier" than a native language/platform but for something like Freenet where privacy can be extremely important, reducing the possibility of stack smashing/bufer overrun type vulnerabilities to near zero - which Java helps do very well - is more than worth the execution overhead.
Whatever they did would be limited.
Not quite. The honor belongs to those who let the telcos gain, and keep, last-mile monopolies, via the bait-and-switch of universal service, even after that had ceased to be an issue due to low cost of provisioning a basic telecoms service.
Credit should also go to the fans of the Internet version of universal service, which made the bait-and-switch easier to apply to Internet (and later broadband) service.
When a new right is invented for one group, another group has to pay for it. When the cost connection between the two groups is obscured, that cost will go up.
In the case of the "right" to Internet access ("digital divide"), the inflated cost is the telcos' last mile [mono|duo]poly.
In the case of protecting the "right" of children to access a sex-free Internet unsupervised, combined with their parents' "right" to not see an extra line item in their ISP bill, the inflated cost is going to be loss of freedom and higher prices due to increased barriers to entry for ISPs.
You're conveniently forgetting that the point of a competitive car industry is supposed to be the benefit of drivers, not manufacturers.
Now, there are existing businesses where a "real" good is given away as part of a service agreement. Think mobile phones. Are you suggesting that giving out "free" phones bundled with service is price fixing against the poor mobile phone manufacturers? No? Then why can't IBM and redhat do the same with Linux?
The only sellers, of any product/service, I have ever seen complaining about price fixing are those who want to milk a little (or a lot) extra from their customers and are afraid of the competition.
...these guys want some of my disposable income? From TFA:
Riiiight. Give them money now, for a "promise" they can break any time they feel like it.
Maybe, just maybe, if you sign a contract to buy back any equipment I buy - adjusting for inflation but not depreciation - if you choose to use ICT, then I'll think about considering looking into the possibility of wondering aloud whether paying real money for Blu-Ray (or HD-DVD for that matter) could potentially enter my hypothetical to-do list.
Fuck Off, Mister Vee Pee.
Dude, unfortunate? Over the years they've let me borrow all sorts for goodies to try out and then return after I figured out they didn't work for me/I didn't need them/I didn't like the color, or whatever.
I like Fry's.
What I'd really like to know is this: Are there any USB enclosures that support the SCSI spin up/down commands?
Everything I've tried so far doesn't, and forcing the drive to do an emergency head park every time you unplug it (or power down the computer it's attached to) can't be good.
If you're talking about T-Mobile US, why not? Aren't they the only US operator that hasn't paid billions for 3G spectrum? They should be best positioned to offer a very competitive package of flat/"free" WiFi SIP and data together with cheap/pay-as-you-go GSM/GPRS/EDGE fallback when "on the road".
However the custom access point, if true, would be a killer, at least for me. If I can't use their SIP service over any IP connectivity I happen to be in the range of, how are they different from, say, teliax with the forward-to-my-mobile-number feature?
This is why, although I really like the idea of a hybrid SIP/GSM mobile, I'm not paying a cent for one which ties its SIP functionality to an operator. It was stupid with conventional GSM and network/SIM locks, it's absolutely medieval with SIP/WiFi.
Oh, and another thing: For me to tie one of my primary public "addresses" - my phone number - to an operator, I must be bribed, substantially and continuously. Otherwise I'll roll my own teliax/SIP/IAX/pay-as-you-go service, thankyouverymuch.
I guess you're right, it's going to be ARPU crunch time. Excellent, Smithers!
because you missed a crucial difference or three.
I humbly disagree. It is best when freshly ground and properly pulled.
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I'd ask him about his/the school's financial interests in payphones, calling card marketing to the students, student ISP et cetera.
I'm not sure what the situation is in that school, but I remember one school in the US (SJSU) where the phone system on campus, including dorms, was owned by the school. Your telephone bill came not from AT&T or MCI, but by SJSU. In another case, in a university in London many years ago, the regular BT payphones in halls (dorms) were replaced by some other company's boxes, presumably under some contract where the school got some (legal) kickback for the exclusive contract.
Such a setup would make for some suspicious conflicts of interest now that WiFi phones are available, including ones that use Skype.
I'm not saying there's anything other than innocent Luddism going on here, but it's worth a look under the carpet just in case.
My phone allows me to do all of the above and more, including switching to another provider's SIM and a very smooth way to use calling cards to get around the extortionate international rates available on pay-as-you-go SIMs in Europe.
My first machine was a ZX Spectrum 48K back in 1984. After getting bored with the first batch of games, I wrote my first BASIC program, a telephone directory application. String arrays! Saving to/load from tape! Yay!
The Speccy is also responsible for introducing me to Tolkien, via The Hobbit.
Since then... Amstrad CPCs (Sorcery!), 286, Sun workstations (in college), 486, etc. My current main machine is a Thinkpad X31 which is just the right size (and color!) to run spectemu on.
By the way, the Spectrum is, as far as I know, the only machine to have had a song written about it.
Seriously. Aren't there any countries with advanced-enough industrial infrastructure and less regulatory crap?
You wouldn't have to move *everything*. Just move the trials there and start selling to them. People outside the US get sick too, and a lot of them have the money to pay for their treatment.
How socialized is the health system in Chile?
Sucks that yours didn't work, but I thought I'd chime in to provide some balance.
I've been using Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird for about 5 years now. On the email front, I've migrated across program versions, across different Windows machines (copying profile directories), from Windows to Linux and then from Moz integrated suite to Firefox/T-bird, and I haven't lost a single message. Same thing with browser/bookmark migrations.
I'm not disputing your experience, I'm just saying it doesn't (to me anyway) seem to be common.