This doesn't stop you from unlocking the bootloader for the purposes of running custom ROMs. It only prevents you from SIM-unlocking for switching carriers or overseas travel.
I do find it annoying/unsavory that many phones are supported by the manufacturer for less than 2 years, despite most contracts being 2 years. If they're going herd people into contracts, they should support you from the length of the contract at least.
Should I have the right, if I visit the UK this summer, to put in a local prepaid SIM card so I can use my own phone without paying my normal carrier their insane international roaming fees?
Roaming fees are one of the ways the company recovers the cost they pay up front when they subsidize the phone.
I really can't understand why people complain about this. Read the contract before signing it, if there's something you don't like there, get another plan or go to another carrier.
No, they're not. As long as you pay for two years of service (or an ETF), they are getting they're subsidy back. Is your provider losing money if you use a 2nd phone while overseas? No, of course not. Do the carriers lose money on customers who never leave the US during their contact (and thus never roam)? No, of course not.
As for reading the contract before signing, you're asking non-lawyers to read through and understand 20 pages of legalese, and make a decision right there at the store. It would be nice if you could see the contract beforehand (like on the carrier's website) and if it were in language understandable by non-lawyers.
As you myself, I plan to buy only unlocked phones from here on.
Did Netflix launch with TV shows? Perhaps the copyright owners in TV shows will become more willing to license them to Redbox once Redbox gains more experience.
and starting out being invitation only.
Gmail and Pinterest started out invitation only while they scaled up. Facebook started out invitation only, where all college students were invited, but anyone who graduated in or before about 2004 was out of luck. Advogato is still invitation only; as far as I can tell, you need commit privileges on a high-profile free software project to get certified.
Oops, I meant to respond to these also.
TFA makes it sound like Redbox was unwilling to license TV shows from the content owners, not the other way around.
As for Gmail and Facebook, that's irrelevent. They were not paid services trying to take customers from an established paid service. They could take as long as they wanted to to scale up. Redbox needs to move quicker than that, or they'll be written off in a hurry, and never get the additional content deals and subscriber base to truly compete with Netflix (or Amazon for that matter).
The summary (but not so much the TFA) implies that Redbox is going be an instant threat to Netflix simply due to its lower price. The point of my original post is that they've got a lot of work to do to truly compete with Netflix, and being invite-only for now further weakens the threat.
Netflix streaming: 60,000 titles (movies and tv shows); lots of Blu-ray players, TVs, and all the major game consoles have Netflix apps Redbox streaming: 5500 titles (movies only); a few Blu-ray players and TVs will have support, no game consoles for the time being
Redbox DVD/Blu-ray: 4 nights per month Netflix DVD/Blu-ray: Unlimited
I'm sure Redbox's library and device support will expand over time, but they have a long way to go to be a real competitor to Netflix. They don't help themselves by excluding TV shows and starting out being invitation only.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think these galaxies were 13 billion light years away at the time they emitted the light Hubble is seeing. They'd be (much) farther away now.
Seriously, I can't see why anybody else would care, mouse coordinates are not useful data for anything. The fact that they have "detector" exposed... somebody needs to stop working in development for that one.
It is useful data if the user is using a virtual keyboard on a touch-device.
Certainly 4MB sticks existed in the 386 days, but I don't think they were out yet in 1990 (when GP claims to have had 1GB of RAM). Even if I'm wrong, you'd need 256 4MB sticks to get a GB.
Microsoft provided them with documentation and helped them with interoperability testing. From TFA:
The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers that made our implementation interoperable.
"Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across platforms," said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows Server. "We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality."
Why would you want to install apps on a molasses-slow sd card? Install your apps on the internal drive and use the sd card for videos, music, documents, etc.
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How do you "suffer" when using a 32-bit browser?
This doesn't stop you from unlocking the bootloader for the purposes of running custom ROMs. It only prevents you from SIM-unlocking for switching carriers or overseas travel.
I do find it annoying/unsavory that many phones are supported by the manufacturer for less than 2 years, despite most contracts being 2 years. If they're going herd people into contracts, they should support you from the length of the contract at least.
Should I have the right, if I visit the UK this summer, to put in a local prepaid SIM card so I can use my own phone without paying my normal carrier their insane international roaming fees?
Roaming fees are one of the ways the company recovers the cost they pay up front when they subsidize the phone.
I really can't understand why people complain about this. Read the contract before signing it, if there's something you don't like there, get another plan or go to another carrier.
No, they're not. As long as you pay for two years of service (or an ETF), they are getting they're subsidy back.
Is your provider losing money if you use a 2nd phone while overseas? No, of course not.
Do the carriers lose money on customers who never leave the US during their contact (and thus never roam)? No, of course not.
As for reading the contract before signing, you're asking non-lawyers to read through and understand 20 pages of legalese, and make a decision right there at the store. It would be nice if you could see the contract beforehand (like on the carrier's website) and if it were in language understandable by non-lawyers.
As you myself, I plan to buy only unlocked phones from here on.
No. It just lets you run unsigned desktop applications.
He has even sued spammers.
They don't help themselves by excluding TV shows
Did Netflix launch with TV shows? Perhaps the copyright owners in TV shows will become more willing to license them to Redbox once Redbox gains more experience.
and starting out being invitation only.
Gmail and Pinterest started out invitation only while they scaled up. Facebook started out invitation only, where all college students were invited, but anyone who graduated in or before about 2004 was out of luck. Advogato is still invitation only; as far as I can tell, you need commit privileges on a high-profile free software project to get certified.
Oops, I meant to respond to these also.
TFA makes it sound like Redbox was unwilling to license TV shows from the content owners, not the other way around.
As for Gmail and Facebook, that's irrelevent. They were not paid services trying to take customers from an established paid service. They could take as long as they wanted to to scale up. Redbox needs to move quicker than that, or they'll be written off in a hurry, and never get the additional content deals and subscriber base to truly compete with Netflix (or Amazon for that matter).
The summary (but not so much the TFA) implies that Redbox is going be an instant threat to Netflix simply due to its lower price. The point of my original post is that they've got a lot of work to do to truly compete with Netflix, and being invite-only for now further weakens the threat.
Redbox streaming: [...] no game consoles for the time being
Only because you aren't willing to consider a small-form-factor, low-noise PC as the fourth console.
Actually, I do have an HTPC. Most people do not, and aren't going to get one just for Redbox streaming.
Netflix streaming: 60,000 titles (movies and tv shows); lots of Blu-ray players, TVs, and all the major game consoles have Netflix apps
Redbox streaming: 5500 titles (movies only); a few Blu-ray players and TVs will have support, no game consoles for the time being
Redbox DVD/Blu-ray: 4 nights per month
Netflix DVD/Blu-ray: Unlimited
I'm sure Redbox's library and device support will expand over time, but they have a long way to go to be a real competitor to Netflix. They don't help themselves by excluding TV shows and starting out being invitation only.
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think these galaxies were 13 billion light years away at the time they emitted the light Hubble is seeing. They'd be (much) farther away now.
Yes
Nothing happens in Chrome either. In IE it works. I did notice that is only tracks while the mouse cursor is on the same monitor as the IE window.
Seriously, I can't see why anybody else would care, mouse coordinates are not useful data for anything. The fact that they have "detector" exposed... somebody needs to stop working in development for that one.
It is useful data if the user is using a virtual keyboard on a touch-device.
Certainly 4MB sticks existed in the 386 days, but I don't think they were out yet in 1990 (when GP claims to have had 1GB of RAM). Even if I'm wrong, you'd need 256 4MB sticks to get a GB.
Are you sure that wasn't 1MB not 1GB? I think the biggest memory sticks that existed back then were 1MB... you'd need 1024 of them to make a GB.
Of course what you failed to mention is that Microsoft only did this because the European Commission forced them to:
I answered GP's question with a simple quote from TFA. I didn't think it was necessary to go into the history of how/why Microsoft became involved.
Microsoft provided them with documentation and helped them with interoperability testing. From TFA:
The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers that made our implementation interoperable.
"Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across platforms," said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows Server. "We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality."
Rounders quoted Amarillo Slim, who quoted Warren Buffet, who quoted someone else, who quoted someone else...
They already did (they're just gog.com now):
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/27/good-old-games-gone-relaunches-as-gog-com/
They've had new and newish games for quite some time now.
Nothing in your rant has anything to do with SCADA.
The proper link is:
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/facebook-enabling-https-default-north-american-users-111912
I doubt it. Avoid VPC like the plague.
Why would you want to install apps on a molasses-slow sd card? Install your apps on the internal drive and use the sd card for videos, music, documents, etc.
Unfortunately more and more Android devices don't have micro SD slots, particularly all the recent Nexus devices.
40GB??? My first PC had a 20MB hard drive. My 2nd had a whopping 40 MB...
Fortunately, you can't patent aesthetics.
Unless you're Apple, then you can patent rectangle with rounded-corners.