Of course Apple, like any other manufacturer, has to comply with EU regulations, which are a bit more strict than the US ones, overall. However Apple's internal calculation actually looks like, let's have a look at what you would need to properly import an iPhone from the US into Europe, and whether that is really that much cheaper:
399 USD iPhone, for the sake of the argument you managed to buy it in, say, New Hampshire, so you haven't paid any sales tax. Approx. 270 EUR
Value Added Tax, ranging from 15 to 30%, depending on which EU country you import it into specifically. Germany has 19%. 51 EUR
Mobile phones can be imported duty free from the US (if I found the right taric code, 8517120090)
WEEE compliance: I couldn't find any numbers for phones, but a PC is estimated to cost around 10 EUR. A phone has less materials, but is harder to disassemble, so I'd guess at least 5 EUR.
Two year compulsory warranty. Apple sells the warranty extension for the iPhone for 70 USD, and you get a bit more from AppleCare then the EU directives give you, but it still increases the price. 50 USD or 35 EUR.
Additional compliance (CE cert, etc.), but I assume that is factored into product development.
That's a grand total of 361 EUR. Of course, if you're willing to smuggle it into Europe and circumvent various other legal provisions, then yes, you can have your iPhone a lot cheaper than those evil bastards at Apple are offering it for.
Haven't followed the latest EDGE specifications closely, but AFAIR GPRS and EDGE are limited to either sending and receiving data, or having an active voice connection. So no looking at an incoming mail or at some document while you're talking. UMTS allows both data transmission and voice circuits to be active concurrently.
I don't have practical experience with EDGE, but latency on GPRS just blows, compared to UMTS.
Please remember that accoring to various news sources, at least six previously unknown plane wrecks were found, but none of those were Fossett's. So this might well be one of them.
So keep looking at the satellite images, maybe there is a hint there that noone else has spotted yet.
Also, they updated the image overlay with new color images, so spotting hopefully get's a bit easier.
I'm confused: I was under the impression that Apple pretty much dictates the sale price for the iPod and other consumer gear to the dealers? It sounds like such contracts would be massively illegal currently?
The product page has a couple of PDFs with actual technical data and some nice photos. Oh, and in terms of real units, the power output is up to 80 MW for the largest model.
The upper left section shows the blocks sold directly to corporations and governments in the 1990's before the RIRs took over allocation.
IP addresses were never sold, and they are not property. In the days before IANA, there wasn't even a few associated with getting an address assignment. Nowadays, you need to become a member of a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to directly receive addresses through them, but more commonly, you get your IPs from your ISP.
Considering that there are a number of sleaseballs that want to get IP address assignments to be recognized as property, and be able to trade in them, the distinction is important. Considering the money making schemes we now see around domain names, I don't want to think about what those people would do to connectivity if they'd managed to get that established in court.
Regardless of this ruling, the EU data retention directive will force providers to retain connection info, such as IP assignment to DSL accounts, for up to six months. So unless the directive gets repealed (IIRC Ireland has brought it before the EU court of justice), providers will have to keep all this info anyway.
As I was told by an Apple tech, when a hd starts up the dirve itself checks the validity of track zero. If it is invalid, you have a hardware fault and this generates a kernel panic.
Yeah, I know those calls. Did he give you the secret internal error number of one of these to expedite the shipment of the replacement drive? Just in case, it's one-d-ten-t.
Ugh, here's an idea: maybe could write a program that could somehow figure out which lowercase letter corresponds to which uppercase letter. Maybe it's possible to somehow teach the data entry application to use this to convert all the wrong letters into the right ones?
And, yes, I know, some asshat has probably already patented this brilliant idea...
Arggh! Someone just shoot the product managers who came up with the MUST BE IN ALL CAPS crap to start with!
This sounds like a really cool hack, but I don't believe a word of it.
I just took a sample shot with my 6230, and at 1cm, a printed page with 12pt courier on it shows essentially no structure at all, it's all too blurred. At closer range, the body blocks too much light for the camera to aquire anything. My wooden desk and various other things also didn't give any discernible shapes. Looking at the video and the mouse pad, I doubt the camera would see anything at all.
Even if it is possible to properly track the blobs, I doubt that you'll get high resolution from the typical phone camera. I believe typical optical mice have a resolution between 500 and 2000 dpi, and given the typical 640x480 resolution, you'd need optics to focus the camera on a rather small spot. The mice have these optics, the cameras won't (they're usually wide angle).
I think what people are forgetting here is when Apple started this drastic course against the rumor sites: just weeks before the announcement they would be switching to Intel processors.
In hindsight, it's clear to me that they wanted to send a strong signal to all potential leaks that they would be found out--"just look at what happened to the people who were talking about some random Firewire audio interface"--and for the most part, they've succeeded. Remember that Apple must have been in serious negotiations and preparations with Intel for at least half a year, if not longer, and keeping this secret from both Motorola and IBM was most certainly really important to the entire process.
Last time I checked, I was paying to not see ads. What's up with these "offsite" related articles? If they are indeed relevant, put them in a box on the right.
Got sidetracked, so here's the second point: they advertise their "5 Euro router", but when you try to order it, you find out there's an additional 18 Euro P&H charge. Excuse me?
If they really want to subsidise kickstarting their network, they'd rather play with an open hand, instead of trying to lure people into some "free" stuff which turns out to be not quite so "free". Admittedly, 23 Euros for a 54GS isn't bad, but I'd much more inclined to give their network a shot if they'd been upfront about the cost.
I find this operation highly suspicious. First, from a (potential) user's point of view:
Sharing your DSL or cable connection is most likely against your ISPs terms and conditions. While there's a couple of ISPs allowing or even encouraging private sharing of a connection, FON's model is effectivly resale of bandwidth: even if you're a "Linus", your still getting a monetary value-equivalent for the service you're providing. I don't remember ever seeing an IP service allowing for resale of bandwith for less than USD/EUR 100 a month; usually, they're a lot more. So if your ISP finds out, they will either terminate your account, or back-bill you for business service. Not nice.
Legal responsibilites are even worse: while FON's T&C try to imply that the person using your shared connection will be responsible for any illegal or otherwise infringing activity, they disclaim any responsibility for it. It other words, the onus of proving that someone else did whatever happened is on you , not on FON, or anybody else. Since the contract between you and FON is likely not enforcable, (and the contract might well be irrelevant when it comes to criminal proceedings,) it's a massive risk to open up your connection to complete strangers. Even worse, FON does not allow you to limit what FON users can do over your access point; you must not modify their firmware, and they might change it at any time.
In other words, they completly control the situation, but you're completely responsible for the consequences.
If you want to give bandwidth to your neighborhood, I'd rather set up a router with proper filtering, so people can to normal things (surf 80/443, do smtps/pops/imaps, maybe IPsec), but make sure "problematic" stuff is blocked. That's a nice service for people who need basic access (on the move or otherwise), and you can control the exposure somewhat.
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Oh cut this whiny crap already.
Of course Apple, like any other manufacturer, has to comply with EU regulations, which are a bit more strict than the US ones, overall. However Apple's internal calculation actually looks like, let's have a look at what you would need to properly import an iPhone from the US into Europe, and whether that is really that much cheaper:
That's a grand total of 361 EUR. Of course, if you're willing to smuggle it into Europe and circumvent various other legal provisions, then yes, you can have your iPhone a lot cheaper than those evil bastards at Apple are offering it for.
Haven't followed the latest EDGE specifications closely, but AFAIR GPRS and EDGE are limited to either sending and receiving data, or having an active voice connection. So no looking at an incoming mail or at some document while you're talking. UMTS allows both data transmission and voice circuits to be active concurrently.
I don't have practical experience with EDGE, but latency on GPRS just blows, compared to UMTS.
Please remember that accoring to various news sources, at least six previously unknown plane wrecks were found, but none of those were Fossett's. So this might well be one of them.
So keep looking at the satellite images, maybe there is a hint there that noone else has spotted yet.
Also, they updated the image overlay with new color images, so spotting hopefully get's a bit easier.
at ThinkSecret. Plus they didn't destroy the case :-)
I'm confused: I was under the impression that Apple pretty much dictates the sale price for the iPod and other consumer gear to the dealers? It sounds like such contracts would be massively illegal currently?
FreeBSD already corrected the license:
imp 2007-01-08 17:35:36 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
lib/libkvm kvm.3 kvm.c kvm.h kvm_amd64.c kvm_file.c kvm_geterr.3 kvm_getfiles.3 kvm_getloadavg.3 kvm_getloadavg.c kvm_getprocs.3 kvm_i386.c kvm_nlist.3 kvm_open.3 kvm_private.h kvm_proc.c kvm_read.3 kvm_sparc.c kvm_sparc64.c
Log:
Remove the advertising clause. UCB did this some time ago, but these files were never updated to reflect that.
MFC After: 2 days
Revision Changes Path
1.15 +0 -4 src/lib/libkvm/kvm.3
1.30 +0 -4 src/lib/libkvm/kvm.c...
Up until Mac OS 9, dates were handled as days from January 1st, 1904.
The product page has a couple of PDFs with actual technical data and some nice photos. Oh, and in terms of real units, the power output is up to 80 MW for the largest model.
IP addresses were never sold, and they are not property. In the days before IANA, there wasn't even a few associated with getting an address assignment. Nowadays, you need to become a member of a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to directly receive addresses through them, but more commonly, you get your IPs from your ISP.
Considering that there are a number of sleaseballs that want to get IP address assignments to be recognized as property, and be able to trade in them, the distinction is important. Considering the money making schemes we now see around domain names, I don't want to think about what those people would do to connectivity if they'd managed to get that established in court.
Regardless of this ruling, the EU data retention directive will force providers to retain connection info, such as IP assignment to DSL accounts, for up to six months. So unless the directive gets repealed (IIRC Ireland has brought it before the EU court of justice), providers will have to keep all this info anyway.
At least we can be sure he never said he want's to stay the course.
That's terrible! You should ask your money back.
FBI says they didn't arrest him, but various people have tried to get in touch with him since then, and were unable to.
Yeah, I know those calls. Did he give you the secret internal error number of one of these to expedite the shipment of the replacement drive? Just in case, it's one-d-ten-t.
Now, please stop feeding the troll.Ugh, here's an idea: maybe could write a program that could somehow figure out which lowercase letter corresponds to which uppercase letter. Maybe it's possible to somehow teach the data entry application to use this to convert all the wrong letters into the right ones?
And, yes, I know, some asshat has probably already patented this brilliant idea...
Arggh! Someone just shoot the product managers who came up with the MUST BE IN ALL CAPS crap to start with!
This sounds like a really cool hack, but I don't believe a word of it.
I just took a sample shot with my 6230, and at 1cm, a printed page with 12pt courier on it shows essentially no structure at all, it's all too blurred. At closer range, the body blocks too much light for the camera to aquire anything. My wooden desk and various other things also didn't give any discernible shapes. Looking at the video and the mouse pad, I doubt the camera would see anything at all.
Even if it is possible to properly track the blobs, I doubt that you'll get high resolution from the typical phone camera. I believe typical optical mice have a resolution between 500 and 2000 dpi, and given the typical 640x480 resolution, you'd need optics to focus the camera on a rather small spot. The mice have these optics, the cameras won't (they're usually wide angle).
Excellent rant. Do you have any research to back this up? Because it certainly is not consistent with the mails arriving at my mail server...
I think what people are forgetting here is when Apple started this drastic course against the rumor sites: just weeks before the announcement they would be switching to Intel processors.
In hindsight, it's clear to me that they wanted to send a strong signal to all potential leaks that they would be found out--"just look at what happened to the people who were talking about some random Firewire audio interface"--and for the most part, they've succeeded. Remember that Apple must have been in serious negotiations and preparations with Intel for at least half a year, if not longer, and keeping this secret from both Motorola and IBM was most certainly really important to the entire process.
Last time I checked, I was paying to not see ads. What's up with these "offsite" related articles? If they are indeed relevant, put them in a box on the right.
Two clicks away from freescale.com homepage, instead of your nice ad-loaded page, and with quite a bit more info.
Who the fuck drinks BOTTLED Guinness?
Got sidetracked, so here's the second point: they advertise their "5 Euro router", but when you try to order it, you find out there's an additional 18 Euro P&H charge. Excuse me?
If they really want to subsidise kickstarting their network, they'd rather play with an open hand, instead of trying to lure people into some "free" stuff which turns out to be not quite so "free". Admittedly, 23 Euros for a 54GS isn't bad, but I'd much more inclined to give their network a shot if they'd been upfront about the cost.
I find this operation highly suspicious. First, from a (potential) user's point of view:
Sharing your DSL or cable connection is most likely against your ISPs terms and conditions. While there's a couple of ISPs allowing or even encouraging private sharing of a connection, FON's model is effectivly resale of bandwidth: even if you're a "Linus", your still getting a monetary value-equivalent for the service you're providing. I don't remember ever seeing an IP service allowing for resale of bandwith for less than USD/EUR 100 a month; usually, they're a lot more. So if your ISP finds out, they will either terminate your account, or back-bill you for business service. Not nice.
Legal responsibilites are even worse: while FON's T&C try to imply that the person using your shared connection will be responsible for any illegal or otherwise infringing activity, they disclaim any responsibility for it. It other words, the onus of proving that someone else did whatever happened is on you , not on FON, or anybody else. Since the contract between you and FON is likely not enforcable, (and the contract might well be irrelevant when it comes to criminal proceedings,) it's a massive risk to open up your connection to complete strangers. Even worse, FON does not allow you to limit what FON users can do over your access point; you must not modify their firmware, and they might change it at any time.
In other words, they completly control the situation, but you're completely responsible for the consequences.
If you want to give bandwidth to your neighborhood, I'd rather set up a router with proper filtering, so people can to normal things (surf 80/443, do smtps/pops/imaps, maybe IPsec), but make sure "problematic" stuff is blocked. That's a nice service for people who need basic access (on the move or otherwise), and you can control the exposure somewhat.