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THE COMPETITION
When the article talks about all the things they needed to work out how the phone connects to networks and how the brain gets microwaved (or not) it fails to mention, that this is only news to Apple, not all the other mobile phone manufacturers of the world. Especially when the article talks about the phone being light years ahead it completely resolves into pure Apple fanboy talk.
I have one just like the last Samsung model. Mine also has WLan and, like the Samsung, it has a full sized keyboard. Nokia is not even on that list. All of the phone makers have a wide variaty of phones to fit every customers preferred style. Candy bar being the best liked. Many have important features that the Iphone is lacking. Like UMTS support to get decent speed for surfing whe web. Opera build a decent web browser complete with a proxy that "refits" webpages so they look good on a small screen years ago. It is written in Java and works on many phones.
The mobile phone market has enough players that the competition actually works (not like the OS market for PCs). Of those three phones up the all of them use a different OS for example. The HTC model even uses Microsoft Mobile, an OS that sucks less and less with each version, because they face a steep competition by Symbian. And Google just joined.
There are just two things that were new with the IPhone. First was the touchscreen that you can operate on with more than one finger. A feature that is pretty cool and was therefore swiftly copied by everyone else.
The second thing is the Apple marketing. The only thing right now that makes Apple stand out. That and their tie in with Itunes. Itunes has such a large market share, it almost became a monopoly. And now they try to extend that power to other products and markets. Sounds familiar? Another reason why the IPod-ITunes connection works so good.
And that brings us to the last little thing which the article good completely right. Back in 2002 (I would say even earlier, but the article says that was when Jobs woke up to that fact) it became clear that phones will aquire more and more memory and computing power, just like the regular PC. Some people prefer to have funtions seperate on different devices. They like their music player, phone and PDA, or just one of them. Other people like to have everything in one device. And Jobs/Apple wanted to sell Ipods to those people as well. So the Ipod needed to become a phone and a PDA.
And it did. Ipod touch is a PDA and the Iphone is a smartphone.
Well, some people don't want to get shot in the knee and dragged to Guantanamo. Welcome the the police state that is the US. He acted perfectly reasonable. They just say "terrorism" and can do everything they want. So by consenting to everything they wanted he was able to stop them from doing worse or using force. "I swear I saw the gun in his hand, your honor." "Case dimissed."
Those are called SIM-Lock and Netlock. I couldn't find any English sources (I am from Germany) to explain them, so here it goes:
SIM-Lock locks the phone to a certain SIM. It does not work the other way around. So you can put your SIM in any GSM phone and use it. The SIM carries your number and your PIN. It doesn't matter which phone you use. The reason behind this is that the carriers subsidize the phones. With a "normal" contract you mainly pay off the phone with the monthly base charge. That base charge would roughly add up to the value of the phone over the length of the contract.
That changed, when the carriers began to introduce contracts without a monthly fee. With those you have to buy your credits at the store beforehand. And you only pay as much as you like, but then you can only talk as long as you paid before. Back then even the most basic GSM phones cost more than 100 bucks in retail. To sell more they also started subsidizing these kind of contracts. But you could just buy a bunch of phones, throw away the SIM and have a new phone for less. To prevent this from happening they invented the SIM-Lock to a phone to a certain SIM. SIM-Lock is pretty common in Germany.
Netlock ist similar, but it just locks the phone to a certain carrier. Netlock is less common in Germany.
You could go to your carrier and ask them for the code to unlock the phone, but that costs usually about as much as a new phone. Since you bought the phone it is legally yours and you can do as you wish. So dodgy places began offering to unlock them for much less money than the carrier. To unlock your own phone any way you like is perfectly legal. But to offer this service to others is not. They won't throw you in jail, but the carriers could sue you for example.
This all has to do with the marketing that is used to sell phone contracts to people in different countries. For example in Germany it is not allowed to charge people for getting a call. This wouldn't sell anyways, since we are not used to that. The kind of contract that Apple offered the carriers was also new to them. Probabely a reason why Verizon didn't really bother with it.
0.12% of all devices that access the internet are IPhones? How many did they sell? 0.63% for Linux, which means that only six times as many Linux computers are used to access the internet as IPhones.
About one persent for Linux and about seven for Mac: I would buy that. Sounds reasonable, since many open source guys I know use a Mac for desktop stuff.
But with those numbers for the IPhone the numbers look more like something someone pulled out of their a**. Plus all the computer lab computers at our universities got converted to Linux over the past years. And our university is not Linux friendly in any way. So I imagine that this would happen at many universities and colleges.
If the user knows that they were "immunized" they would be pretty stupid to snort more and more lines.
But I was also wondering about the onset. I heard that the snort leads to an almost instant high. The immune response would probabely shorten the trip.
But I don't have a clue about the onset. And maybe the immune system response is very quick?
Maybe 4.0 still has some rough edges for now (considering that it isn't even out yet), but from the features standpoint it totally rocks. I wonder how KDE 4 will compare to Vista once Kubuntu 8.04 or even 8.10 comes out. 2007 was the year desktop Linux was accepted. 2008 will be the year Linux takes over the desktop.
Limewire is a good client. And it is GNU GPL software. And Java. I give you that.
But it uses the Gnutella protocol which is pretty much dead among the filesharing community. I use Mldonkey to share stuff like Linux images and hard to get legal software. Sometimes I run the Gnutella part of it and the statistics show that Limewire might get one third of the Gnutella clients. But how many Gnutella clients are out there compared to computers connected to the internet?
I suppose someone got those two mixed up. Limewire runs one third of the Gnutella network, not on one third of all computers. But still, that is a pretty good marketshare.
I forgot to mention that in protest of the new passports the CCC (or some other guys I can't remember) just broke that encryption (or, for legal reasons, just showed how it is broken).
I had to go to New York on family business in 2006. The US requires you to leave fingerprints at the airport. And even though it is very easy nowdays to fool fingerprint scanners, I didn't want to risk something like this and be thrown out the country. And since US government agencies are very "open" about their data (any person posing as a business that needs to screen potential employees can get extensive background information), I used to worry about the fact that any idiot can now download my fingerprint and frame me for a crime if they wanted to.
But then again Germany now has biometric passports. So any idiot with a RFID scanner can do the same.
In the end that means that biometric data/security is nothing worth anything anymore. I wonder how long it will take criminal defense lawyers to realize that one.
that are hard to remember. I lost a bunch of stuff, because I couldn't remeber the passphrase. Now they want me to rot in jail if I happen to forget one that they need from me?
While I do believe that nobody should jump to war and Israel ist not all white and Iran deserves to be recognized and all.
Iranian nukes is not good for anyone. Any new country gaining the ability isn't good news. And Iran is not even any country. Nobody wants them to have nukes. And apparantly (if you trust the lates US intel) they, too, decided that they don't want to. At least not yet.
Maybe a secret cabel from Israel told them that the bunkers for the Iranian government elite are not nuke proof.
Some guy playing with clocks making sure everyone else gets a correct time via ntp.
Some people playing with code making sure everyone has access to good quality free software. I can't code worth sh.., but have been a very grateful (bug reports) and happy Debian user for almost ten years now.
You do know that for a simulation you do need to detonate a couple bombs to collect data first, right? You could get it from France, Russia or the USA, possibly from China, but I doubt they would give that to you.
I really used to like Metacafe.com but they have gone a little downhill with the quality ever since quantity really kicked in.
Anyways, they now have producer awards for movies where they promote bogus instructions to build supposedly cool things (or insctructions for magic tricks) that simply dont work. The best/worst thing I found is a self made laser cannon build from a cd burner:
For some reason Mubarak has managed to keep a very clean image, even though he is a brutal dictator not much better or worse than the rest of them. If I were to compare Syria and Egypt in brutality against political opposition I would probabely say Syria comes out on top. But Syria is "evil" and Egypt is an ally.
Btw. both countries are really nice tourism spots, so please don't let this all deter you from seeing the pyramids (and tell them you are from Canada, because the whole Iraq thing hasn't gone down too well with the middle east as a whole). So when it comes to policy marketing I guess Mubarak really trumps Bush.
Maybe before 2001. But nowdays you would need billions to pay of Senators for a permission. Think about it. Put an IED next to one and... boom! you got your dirty bomb. They really need to review their business model.
I guess the "fanatical mindset" refers to the 1930s and 1940s.
There is a huge difference. The difference I was pointing out in my article. Back then we had a war machine that took down Europe and was set to conquer Asia. But America stood up to that. Now it is a bunch of guys with box cutters. Less than a tiny fraction of people with no weapons other than box cutters.
But still they managed to destroy 4 airliners, 2 buildings and damage a fourth one. That is very impressive, don't you think? To prevent that any sane person would lock the cockpit doors of airliners so they can't open during midflight. I am sorry to call you pussy. I was just trying to point something out.
Calling the World Trade Center attacks an "Attack on America" just upgraded a couple of lunatic terrorists to warfaring guys that can attack a nation.
What a bunch of bullcrap. But good for the security industry. They can sell a bunch of crap on that. The Iraqis are now used to live with a big one every week. America turned into a bunch of pussies because of one lousy (OK, it was pretty good, but it was still just one) attack. I am from Germany and we went through this before. The RAF formed in the 70s and the whole nation went ape shit crazy. Anti-Terrorism-legislation went unanimously through parliament that was against basic rights and the constitution on many accounts.
I think this makes terror work in the first place. If we don't pass legislation. If we don't go ape shit. Then we win against them. The loosing starts by calling them terrorists. They are a bunch of lunatics that badly need to be put behind bars. Nothing more, nothing less.
"Modern warfare"? This article marks just another loss.
Actually, if you have the money for a Core2 Q6600 and a board to go with it go ahead. They are so cheap because of AMD. But AMD doesn't even make processors that fast. So they have no choice but to sell them cheaper. And for processors half as expensive AMD packs more punch per dollar.
The sole reason why Intel does have an edge is because of AMD. Without AMD you would still heat your home with a nice Pentium 4, single core, at about 3 Ghz this year. Competition is very important. And in the performance per dollar AMD is at least on par with Intel, so there is not even any harm done by suggesting it. But if everyone starts suggesting Intel AMD will go down the drain. They are pretty close anyways.
Or do you want to start paying upwards of 200 dollar for a processor again? Just look at what monopoly has done with the OS market. And remember that Intel is hated even more than Microsoft by many in the industry.
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one tiny little bit.
THE COMPETITION
When the article talks about all the things they needed to work out how the phone connects to networks and how the brain gets microwaved (or not) it fails to mention, that this is only news to Apple, not all the other mobile phone manufacturers of the world. Especially when the article talks about the phone being light years ahead it completely resolves into pure Apple fanboy talk.
Those are just three examples of phones that you could compare to the Iphone:
http://www.lge.com/products/model/detail/ke850.jhtml
http://www.htc.com/product/03-product_htctouch.htm
http://uk.samsungmobile.com/mobile/SGH-F700
I have one just like the last Samsung model. Mine also has WLan and, like the Samsung, it has a full sized keyboard. Nokia is not even on that list. All of the phone makers have a wide variaty of phones to fit every customers preferred style. Candy bar being the best liked. Many have important features that the Iphone is lacking. Like UMTS support to get decent speed for surfing whe web. Opera build a decent web browser complete with a proxy that "refits" webpages so they look good on a small screen years ago. It is written in Java and works on many phones.
The mobile phone market has enough players that the competition actually works (not like the OS market for PCs). Of those three phones up the all of them use a different OS for example. The HTC model even uses Microsoft Mobile, an OS that sucks less and less with each version, because they face a steep competition by Symbian. And Google just joined.
There are just two things that were new with the IPhone. First was the touchscreen that you can operate on with more than one finger. A feature that is pretty cool and was therefore swiftly copied by everyone else.
The second thing is the Apple marketing. The only thing right now that makes Apple stand out. That and their tie in with Itunes. Itunes has such a large market share, it almost became a monopoly. And now they try to extend that power to other products and markets. Sounds familiar? Another reason why the IPod-ITunes connection works so good.
And that brings us to the last little thing which the article good completely right. Back in 2002 (I would say even earlier, but the article says that was when Jobs woke up to that fact) it became clear that phones will aquire more and more memory and computing power, just like the regular PC. Some people prefer to have funtions seperate on different devices. They like their music player, phone and PDA, or just one of them. Other people like to have everything in one device. And Jobs/Apple wanted to sell Ipods to those people as well. So the Ipod needed to become a phone and a PDA.
And it did. Ipod touch is a PDA and the Iphone is a smartphone.
Well, some people don't want to get shot in the knee and dragged to Guantanamo. Welcome the the police state that is the US. He acted perfectly reasonable. They just say "terrorism" and can do everything they want. So by consenting to everything they wanted he was able to stop them from doing worse or using force. "I swear I saw the gun in his hand, your honor." "Case dimissed."
Those are called SIM-Lock and Netlock. I couldn't find any English sources (I am from Germany) to explain them, so here it goes:
SIM-Lock locks the phone to a certain SIM. It does not work the other way around. So you can put your SIM in any GSM phone and use it. The SIM carries your number and your PIN. It doesn't matter which phone you use. The reason behind this is that the carriers subsidize the phones. With a "normal" contract you mainly pay off the phone with the monthly base charge. That base charge would roughly add up to the value of the phone over the length of the contract.
That changed, when the carriers began to introduce contracts without a monthly fee. With those you have to buy your credits at the store beforehand. And you only pay as much as you like, but then you can only talk as long as you paid before. Back then even the most basic GSM phones cost more than 100 bucks in retail. To sell more they also started subsidizing these kind of contracts. But you could just buy a bunch of phones, throw away the SIM and have a new phone for less. To prevent this from happening they invented the SIM-Lock to a phone to a certain SIM. SIM-Lock is pretty common in Germany.
Netlock ist similar, but it just locks the phone to a certain carrier. Netlock is less common in Germany.
You could go to your carrier and ask them for the code to unlock the phone, but that costs usually about as much as a new phone. Since you bought the phone it is legally yours and you can do as you wish. So dodgy places began offering to unlock them for much less money than the carrier. To unlock your own phone any way you like is perfectly legal. But to offer this service to others is not. They won't throw you in jail, but the carriers could sue you for example.
This all has to do with the marketing that is used to sell phone contracts to people in different countries. For example in Germany it is not allowed to charge people for getting a call. This wouldn't sell anyways, since we are not used to that. The kind of contract that Apple offered the carriers was also new to them. Probabely a reason why Verizon didn't really bother with it.
I took one look at the statistic and thought: Wtf?
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=8
0.12% of all devices that access the internet are IPhones? How many did they sell?
0.63% for Linux, which means that only six times as many Linux computers are used to access the internet as IPhones.
About one persent for Linux and about seven for Mac: I would buy that. Sounds reasonable, since many open source guys I know use a Mac for desktop stuff.
But with those numbers for the IPhone the numbers look more like something someone pulled out of their a**. Plus all the computer lab computers at our universities got converted to Linux over the past years. And our university is not Linux friendly in any way. So I imagine that this would happen at many universities and colleges.
If the user knows that they were "immunized" they would be pretty stupid to snort more and more lines.
But I was also wondering about the onset. I heard that the snort leads to an almost instant high. The immune response would probabely shorten the trip.
But I don't have a clue about the onset. And maybe the immune system response is very quick?
Maybe 4.0 still has some rough edges for now (considering that it isn't even out yet), but from the features standpoint it totally rocks. I wonder how KDE 4 will compare to Vista once Kubuntu 8.04 or even 8.10 comes out. 2007 was the year desktop Linux was accepted. 2008 will be the year Linux takes over the desktop.
Limewire is a good client. And it is GNU GPL software. And Java. I give you that.
But it uses the Gnutella protocol which is pretty much dead among the filesharing community. I use Mldonkey to share stuff like Linux images and hard to get legal software. Sometimes I run the Gnutella part of it and the statistics show that Limewire might get one third of the Gnutella clients. But how many Gnutella clients are out there compared to computers connected to the internet?
I suppose someone got those two mixed up. Limewire runs one third of the Gnutella network, not on one third of all computers. But still, that is a pretty good marketshare.
I forgot to mention that in protest of the new passports the CCC (or some other guys I can't remember) just broke that encryption (or, for legal reasons, just showed how it is broken).
I had to go to New York on family business in 2006. The US requires you to leave fingerprints at the airport. And even though it is very easy nowdays to fool fingerprint scanners, I didn't want to risk something like this and be thrown out the country. And since US government agencies are very "open" about their data (any person posing as a business that needs to screen potential employees can get extensive background information), I used to worry about the fact that any idiot can now download my fingerprint and frame me for a crime if they wanted to.
But then again Germany now has biometric passports. So any idiot with a RFID scanner can do the same.
In the end that means that biometric data/security is nothing worth anything anymore. I wonder how long it will take criminal defense lawyers to realize that one.
that are hard to remember. I lost a bunch of stuff, because I couldn't remeber the passphrase. Now they want me to rot in jail if I happen to forget one that they need from me?
That's mean!
While I do believe that nobody should jump to war and Israel ist not all white and Iran deserves to be recognized and all.
Iranian nukes is not good for anyone. Any new country gaining the ability isn't good news. And Iran is not even any country. Nobody wants them to have nukes. And apparantly (if you trust the lates US intel) they, too, decided that they don't want to. At least not yet.
Maybe a secret cabel from Israel told them that the bunkers for the Iranian government elite are not nuke proof.
Some guy playing with clocks making sure everyone else gets a correct time via ntp.
:-)
Some people playing with code making sure everyone has access to good quality free software. I can't code worth sh.., but have been a very grateful (bug reports) and happy Debian user for almost ten years now.
Just great
You do know that for a simulation you do need to detonate a couple bombs to collect data first, right? You could get it from France, Russia or the USA, possibly from China, but I doubt they would give that to you.
I am not sure, but as far as I remember Theora was said to be better suited for streaming.
Try to get one of those players on Ebay:
http://www.rockbox.org/manual.shtml
Except for the Archos models they all support OGG:
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WhyRockbox
And Rockbox REALLY rocks!
And you should get one of those on Ebay on a small budget
I really used to like Metacafe.com but they have gone a little downhill with the quality ever since quantity really kicked in.
Anyways, they now have producer awards for movies where they promote bogus instructions to build supposedly cool things (or insctructions for magic tricks) that simply dont work. The best/worst thing I found is a self made laser cannon build from a cd burner:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/756433/laser_flashlight_hack/
For some reason Mubarak has managed to keep a very clean image, even though he is a brutal dictator not much better or worse than the rest of them. If I were to compare Syria and Egypt in brutality against political opposition I would probabely say Syria comes out on top. But Syria is "evil" and Egypt is an ally.
Btw. both countries are really nice tourism spots, so please don't let this all deter you from seeing the pyramids (and tell them you are from Canada, because the whole Iraq thing hasn't gone down too well with the middle east as a whole). So when it comes to policy marketing I guess Mubarak really trumps Bush.
No experience. Sorry. You will have to trust their web site.
And I never had a problem with Vista. Come to think of it. Those other people reporting problems with Vista are just single people.
Slashdot should really get an "Apple Fanboy Comment" mod. It's been getting seriously worse.
Kolab server
KDE client
kolab.org
Maybe before 2001. But nowdays you would need billions to pay of Senators for a permission. Think about it. Put an IED next to one and ... boom! you got your dirty bomb. They really need to review their business model.
I guess the "fanatical mindset" refers to the 1930s and 1940s.
There is a huge difference. The difference I was pointing out in my article. Back then we had a war machine that took down Europe and was set to conquer Asia. But America stood up to that. Now it is a bunch of guys with box cutters. Less than a tiny fraction of people with no weapons other than box cutters.
But still they managed to destroy 4 airliners, 2 buildings and damage a fourth one. That is very impressive, don't you think? To prevent that any sane person would lock the cockpit doors of airliners so they can't open during midflight. I am sorry to call you pussy. I was just trying to point something out.
Cheap terrorism becomes "global warfare".
Calling the World Trade Center attacks an "Attack on America" just upgraded a couple of lunatic terrorists to warfaring guys that can attack a nation.
What a bunch of bullcrap. But good for the security industry. They can sell a bunch of crap on that. The Iraqis are now used to live with a big one every week. America turned into a bunch of pussies because of one lousy (OK, it was pretty good, but it was still just one) attack. I am from Germany and we went through this before. The RAF formed in the 70s and the whole nation went ape shit crazy. Anti-Terrorism-legislation went unanimously through parliament that was against basic rights and the constitution on many accounts.
I think this makes terror work in the first place. If we don't pass legislation. If we don't go ape shit. Then we win against them. The loosing starts by calling them terrorists. They are a bunch of lunatics that badly need to be put behind bars. Nothing more, nothing less.
"Modern warfare"? This article marks just another loss.
Actually, if you have the money for a Core2 Q6600 and a board to go with it go ahead. They are so cheap because of AMD. But AMD doesn't even make processors that fast. So they have no choice but to sell them cheaper. And for processors half as expensive AMD packs more punch per dollar.
The sole reason why Intel does have an edge is because of AMD. Without AMD you would still heat your home with a nice Pentium 4, single core, at about 3 Ghz this year. Competition is very important. And in the performance per dollar AMD is at least on par with Intel, so there is not even any harm done by suggesting it. But if everyone starts suggesting Intel AMD will go down the drain. They are pretty close anyways.
Or do you want to start paying upwards of 200 dollar for a processor again? Just look at what monopoly has done with the OS market. And remember that Intel is hated even more than Microsoft by many in the industry.