All snipers are marksmen, but not all marksmen are snipers. A sniper is someone trained in the COMPLETE art of infiltrating an area and eliminating a target. Marksmen are people who can simply hit an object with a gun.
Marksman is someone who can hit a target *reliably*. Sniper is any marksman who is concealed, not really infiltrating and eliminating, unless you are thinking of a ninja marksman, that would be awesome...
I tried the same and was turned away. Infact i just called up the apple line to ask if i can buy a no-commitment iphone with a prepaid sim from AT&T and was told no, and that i needed to be under AT&T contract to buy the phone. The only way, i guess, to buy the iphone without being put in a contract, is by having your contract expire and then buying the iphone under no commitment cost.
Aahh.. now that's much better. I couldn't find this inside the article which was all about "Linked data is the idea of assigning Web addresses to individual chunks of information, rather than just to documents, so that these chunks can interlink and lend meaning to one another." which reads more like deep linking than open data.
What is covered in the TED is far more agreeable on, though it is more about generating collaborative data (like openstreetmaps) rather than *linking* data per say. What Tim seems to be asking was for people to open up data sets which they have already so that someone may/can generate some contextual information. And this is data generated by the government i.e. organizations which by their requirement collect data *sets* not few lines of data.
Here what the article is going on about, is *linking* data/content which is already present, in some form or format which are not necessarily data sets, just random chunks of information.
This sounds pretty much like deep linking. which per wikipedia is
Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on a website, instead of that website's main or home page. Such links are called deep links.
I remember hearing about a couple of lawsuits which were raised because of deep linking and i dont see how this is any different. I can faintly hear the lawyer sharpening their tools right now......
GSA's goal is to be the best value supplier of choice.
GSA Schedule contracts are negotiated with the intent of achieving the contractors' "most favored customer" pricing/discounts under similar conditions. In order to ensure that they receive the best value at the lowest overall cost when using GSA Schedule contracts, agencies are encouraged and empowered to seek price reductions, not only for orders over the maximum order threshold or when establishing Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), but also when circumstances warrant (see FAR 8.405-4).
It doesnt exactly say that the vendors are *bound* to offer them the lowest cost. Only that the negotiations are made such that they reach the lowest price. Big difference.
And yes I already knew the differences between the two.
No you were merely confused. Yes, T-mobile and AT&T are HSPA networks. Yes, HSPA is a WCDMA technology. BUT T-mobile and AT&T are on different frequency bands of UMTS, and apple went with the one which has a larger footprint which is aT&T's frequency.
If apple wanted to release a Verizon phone they would have to change the entire baseband/signalling hardware of the phone to work with the CDMA network which would cost them quite a bit. and dpolak, i was pretty surprised to see you marked Troll as well.. that was a good point you had made.
So I bought one for GTA4 and use it for playing blu-rays now. That was a big win for them, 1 game sold. Great DRM.
I guess they also thank you for being a part of their "X people own PS3" statistics as well. No Sale is Bad Sale.
From Sony's perspective its better that they do not have people ripping off the PS3 games and playing than having people not using their consoles at all. At least this way, they are making it painful for the pirates and maybe it would make a infinitesimal percentage go out(optional) and actually buy a game instead. Great DRM indeed.
the parent was talking about the fact that the signalling used by the 2 are different. GSM and CDMA are not compatible and that is why apple took a stand with following the standard used by most of the world which was GSM instead of using CDMA which still hasnt got the same coverage as GSM.
This outside of the obvious no data + voice at same time issue.
Also, WCDMA != CDMA.
The names are similar but they are evolved seperatetly and are two different incompatible standards. Its better to refer to the GSM WCDMA as UMTS instead.
The GSM group decided to take up UMTS as a standard for deploying the high speed networks whereas the CDMA group went ahead with the EVDO standard.
AT&T and T-Mobile are both GSM based telecom, however they are working on *different* frequency band for UMTS (which quite frankly is a pain in the neck) considering that they are not following any of the frequencies used by the rest of the world for UMTS, which makes UMTS roaming very very hard to achieve. None the less, the 2 companies are GSM based and therefore the GSM services would work exactly the same everywhere (well as long as you have a Quad Band *GSM* phone)
No you cant inside the US.
Inside the US the only option you have is to have an existing contract with AT&T. The guide you have linked to points to the app store in sydney from where like you pointed out, they do not ship out of the country.
I *am* willing to pay the full price, but they refuse to give me one with my prepaid account, even though i were to use it on AT&T.
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All snipers are marksmen, but not all marksmen are snipers. A sniper is someone trained in the COMPLETE art of infiltrating an area and eliminating a target. Marksmen are people who can simply hit an object with a gun.
Marksman is someone who can hit a target *reliably*.
Sniper is any marksman who is concealed, not really infiltrating and eliminating, unless you are thinking of a ninja marksman, that would be awesome...
This ASCAP has an EFF'ing problem.
I tried the same and was turned away.
Infact i just called up the apple line to ask if i can buy a no-commitment iphone with a prepaid sim from AT&T and was told no, and that i needed to be under AT&T contract to buy the phone.
The only way, i guess, to buy the iphone without being put in a contract, is by having your contract expire and then buying the iphone under no commitment cost.
Aahh.. now that's much better. I couldn't find this inside the article which was all about "Linked data is the idea of assigning Web addresses to individual chunks of information, rather than just to documents, so that these chunks can interlink and lend meaning to one another." which reads more like deep linking than open data.
What is covered in the TED is far more agreeable on, though it is more about generating collaborative data (like openstreetmaps) rather than *linking* data per say.
What Tim seems to be asking was for people to open up data sets which they have already so that someone may/can generate some contextual information.
And this is data generated by the government i.e. organizations which by their requirement collect data *sets* not few lines of data.
Here what the article is going on about, is *linking* data/content which is already present, in some form or format which are not necessarily data sets, just random chunks of information.
This sounds pretty much like deep linking. which per wikipedia is
Deep linking, on the World Wide Web, is making a hyperlink that points to a specific page or image on a website, instead of that website's main or home page. Such links are called deep links.
I remember hearing about a couple of lawsuits which were raised because of deep linking and i dont see how this is any different.
I can faintly hear the lawyer sharpening their tools right now......
From the GSA Schedules FAQ @ http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/contentView.do?faq=yes&pageTypeId=17112&contentId=8106&contentType=GSA_OVERVIEW#3
How do I know I am getting the best price?
GSA's goal is to be the best value supplier of choice.
GSA Schedule contracts are negotiated with the intent of achieving the contractors' "most favored customer" pricing/discounts under similar conditions. In order to ensure that they receive the best value at the lowest overall cost when using GSA Schedule contracts, agencies are encouraged and empowered to seek price reductions, not only for orders over the maximum order threshold or when establishing Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs), but also when circumstances warrant (see FAR 8.405-4).
It doesnt exactly say that the vendors are *bound* to offer them the lowest cost. Only that the negotiations are made such that they reach the lowest price. Big difference.
I was wrong? I don't think I was.
And yes I already knew the differences between the two.
No you were merely confused.
Yes, T-mobile and AT&T are HSPA networks.
Yes, HSPA is a WCDMA technology.
BUT
T-mobile and AT&T are on different frequency bands of UMTS, and apple went with the one which has a larger footprint which is aT&T's frequency.
If apple wanted to release a Verizon phone they would have to change the entire baseband/signalling hardware of the phone to work with the CDMA network which would cost them quite a bit.
and dpolak, i was pretty surprised to see you marked Troll as well.. that was a good point you had made.
So I bought one for GTA4 and use it for playing blu-rays now. That was a big win for them, 1 game sold. Great DRM.
I guess they also thank you for being a part of their "X people own PS3" statistics as well.
No Sale is Bad Sale.
From Sony's perspective its better that they do not have people ripping off the PS3 games and playing than having people not using their consoles at all.
At least this way, they are making it painful for the pirates and maybe it would make a infinitesimal percentage go out(optional) and actually buy a game instead. Great DRM indeed.
the parent was talking about the fact that the signalling used by the 2 are different.
GSM and CDMA are not compatible and that is why apple took a stand with following the standard used by most of the world which was GSM instead of using CDMA which still hasnt got the same coverage as GSM.
This outside of the obvious no data + voice at same time issue.
Also, WCDMA != CDMA.
The names are similar but they are evolved seperatetly and are two different incompatible standards. Its better to refer to the GSM WCDMA as UMTS instead.
The GSM group decided to take up UMTS as a standard for deploying the high speed networks whereas the CDMA group went ahead with the EVDO standard.
AT&T and T-Mobile are both GSM based telecom, however they are working on *different* frequency band for UMTS (which quite frankly is a pain in the neck) considering that they are not following any of the frequencies used by the rest of the world for UMTS, which makes UMTS roaming very very hard to achieve. None the less, the 2 companies are GSM based and therefore the GSM services would work exactly the same everywhere (well as long as you have a Quad Band *GSM* phone)
No you cant inside the US. Inside the US the only option you have is to have an existing contract with AT&T. The guide you have linked to points to the app store in sydney from where like you pointed out, they do not ship out of the country. I *am* willing to pay the full price, but they refuse to give me one with my prepaid account, even though i were to use it on AT&T.