Early termination: if terminated in the first 30 days, I return the phone for a full refund; after 30 days there is a prorated fee ($350->0 over 20 or 24 months probably, I didn't verify). Pretty standard language - this isn't some payday lender phone.
the article is actually uncertain...they've quoted someone as saying that only the user (i.e. you) may unlock the phone. This sounds exactly like the DMCA - you can decrypt for fair use* or for interoperability, but you may not assist anyone in doing so. In other words, you have to do it all by yourself. If someone else helps you, they get into trouble. It's all kind of weird, since the unlocking they're talking about is specifically to allow interoperability of the device/software on (otherwise) compatible networks other than the original carrier.
*Not really true...you may not decrypt, but if you do it for a use considered fair use than you may use that as a positive/valid defense for doing so. a very backhanded exemption, but an exemption nonetheless.
"after 1/26/13, for any new mobile phone you purchase, you'll have to fulfill your contract, or break the law to unlock it."
That doesn't make sense. You own it or you don't. I own my iPhone, but in return for a reduced price I have agreed to use the carriers service. If I do not fulfill my agreement the penalty is financial, not the return of the merchandise. I don't even have to use my iPhone to fulfill the agreement.
Also, if you break the decryption, you break it. What if you agree to an upgraded OS version and it installs - is that now software obtained after the date of prohibition?
Well, I guess I may as well buy to my heart's content, since I have already purchased from SlySoft the program necessary to circumvent DRM. In for a dime, in for a dollar!
That's the thing about courts - as arbiters of the law, they define it and may override it. It's that whole checks and balances thing...but on an international scale. It's not as if the IP players in the US are some insignificant party with no say in government affairs. Fuck, they practically write the laws our congress passes. The US may not give a shit about what the WTO rules, but if interests within the US do then things will happen.
Fair enough...the last time I looked they were dog slow, but there are better options now. It'd still be nicer to have an SD slot - you can always adapt down to micro, but you have to carry a reader for a full sd.
Panasonic's 20" tablet has certain major advantages for me, as I do architectural-like work. Still, pressure sensitive pen input (if high-dpi accurate) and a 2lb mark is nice. 4 hours life sucks, but it's not as bad as the 2 hours proposed for the panasonic.
The biggest draw for this is a machine that could replace both my iPad and my notebook computer (currently an 11.6" Acer Timeline). The ability to have a real OS and the ability to run real applications (Lightroom, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Analysis software) is a major plus.
The shortcomings, beyond the middling battery life, include the limitation that you can only get 128GB. While that may seem like enough for a tablet, this is a working machine and really needs have an option to go to 256, if not 512, for serious road warrior data sets (or photogs on the go). And *micro* SD? Slow AND limited capacity. Hard to believe on a tablet this big that SD was a deal breaker in the real estate department. The lack of included keyboard is just money. I have Apple products, so overly expensive SSD and accessories are already commonplace.
No, it was to ensure remuneration. Just because the words of the statute don't mention it explicitly doesn't mean that it was not the driving force. If it weren't for the money, we could just skip the entire debate. Nobody (of statistical significance) expends substantial effort to author a creative work with the sole intent of never showing or distributing it.
Copyright protects the livelihood of the creators of works of knowledge or creativity to ensure that they may do so with the knowledge that they will receive just remuneration for their effort. Without that basic tenet, only those of independent wealth would have the means to create and we would lose an entire segment of professional creative people. In a way, its no different than the ownership of real property - you can't pick up real property and move away with it, and anybody can walk on it. Neither are like personal property, and there are special laws to deal with ownership and transfer for each kind - both of which are in existence to preserve the monetary value.
Luckily, since they weren't for sale there was no loss on the part of the content creator. Copyright was set up to ensure remuneration for the work of the creators of intellectual property. By not offering these for sale in any form, I see no moral dilemma in obtaining a copy from an alternate source.
Professors I know view such assignments as (1) beneath them (2) a waste of time and (3) practically a punishment from the administration. Unless the student had a brief prepared on his behalf, the administration told their side (i.e. he know of a flaw and intentionally exploited it) which is probably a statutory violation of university policy. It's simple black and white to them - no thought or investigation necessary. It has little bearing on the actual facts.
It wasn't clear FTFA whether the phone numbers were marked as private or public on the FB accounts. If the information is marked to be shared only with "friends" then I don't believe it's searchable. I can't test it on mine...everything on my account is generally shared globally or simply not in facebook.
I do think it's funny that the dummy account I set up on FB for use with websites which want to use FB as their login criteria (and in which profile I put NSA as my employer) asks me from time to time if I happen to know "these other people who are work for the NSA."
I've got a magnetic copper bracelet that aligns the molecules in my bloodstream so I've never had any wrist problems at all. I got it from some guy selling tiger protection rocks and submillimeter wave scanners.
You missed the entire engineering market that goes with them, which is several times bigger - and that's if you exclude the entire civil engineering field. It also excludes every architect who decides not to pay the AIA to be a "member." Don't forget all of the large general contractors out there doing hundreds of billions of dollars of construction projects every year who are utilizing building information modeling. Which, funny enough, is EXACTLY the market these have been made for - to the extent that one of the biggest players in the software size of technical drawing markups (Bluebeam) is working with them to make it happen.
And that ignores the entire photography and graphics art market, where something like this would be quite useful, as Wacom is keenly aware. (though without a pressure sensitive pen, you'll lose some of them)
The potential application extends to any field where large-format (in other words anything that uses Letter/A4 or larger pages) access to pages is necessary. That's a bit more of a stretch, but this will display two A3 pages side by side - just like a regular technical manual - in color, and with real time data connection to a local server. The KindleDX never really took off, but Amazon also never pushed it and never upgraded it because tech manuals don't sell well on Amazon.com.
Didn't you get the memo? Computers are dead - it's going to be all tablets and ultralight laptops from now on.;-)
Seriously, though - the market for personal PCs is dropping, being replaced by small form factor devices. The market for "monitors" is on its way to niche status, rather than the mandatory with-every-computer-sold status it enjoyed. But everybody seems to need a TV is every room of their house, and with the super-thin models it's practical to just hang it on any empty wall. Instead of two computers/monitors and a single large TV, we're moving to no fixed computers and 3-5 TVs. Of course they'll market them as TVs.
The only depressing thing is that they're in HDTV aspect ratios, which is less than ideal for a monitor. Then again, if you're getting 4k resolution, you've got all the real estate you need. (Hey, how 'bout they put the Panasonic tablet screen in a monitor - it's a lovely 3:2 ratio 3840x2650!)
Anyone who doesn't "get" the appeal of the 5lb, 20" tablet is clearly not an architect (or a related engineering discipline, like structural engineer...me). A 10" screen is too small to do almost anything on that really matters, and if you have a capacitive-only input it's doubly useless. I've tried 3-4 different styli on my iPad, only to usually give up after writing whiteboard-sized letters to accommodate the 1/4" tip diameter of the finest point reliable stylus. You can't even write a full line of text.
And you needn't worry about us finding a case for it. We've been toting around 11x17/A3 physical pads forever. In fact, that's the preferable format for taking a set of personal-sized drawings to a meeting, also known as a 1/2 size set (1/2 of an ANSI D, or 22x34). We've got a dozen folios in the supply closet that would fit this tablet perfectly.
This tablet, I suspect, has a wider audience or practical usability than making an imprint of your face on an iPhone cover, a $300 charger you can only get from Brookstone, or a $300 quadcopter.
Non pro has TLC NAND which only has 1000 write cycles. M500 has MLC.
...which appears to only have 72 write cycles.
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depends on what you do. Those of us who need screen real estate are already running three monitors with 4960x1600 resolution, which is just 4% shy in pixel count. Mine is with a $150 radeon from about three years ago. Of course, I don't game, but video runs fine.
You're just now getting this? Every election is about the little shit that doesn't really matter much. It's about emotion and flash. It always has been. Look back 100 years and it will be the same thing. Look back 200. Mudslinging, character assassination, out-of-context quotes, outright lies have always been part and parcel of the political election process. Sure, we can do more and make more convincing fakes with technology (autotune the news, anyone?), but it's also easier to fact check.
Contentless politician banter is anything but a recent phenomenon.
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Early termination: if terminated in the first 30 days, I return the phone for a full refund; after 30 days there is a prorated fee ($350->0 over 20 or 24 months probably, I didn't verify). Pretty standard language - this isn't some payday lender phone.
the article is actually uncertain...they've quoted someone as saying that only the user (i.e. you) may unlock the phone. This sounds exactly like the DMCA - you can decrypt for fair use* or for interoperability, but you may not assist anyone in doing so. In other words, you have to do it all by yourself. If someone else helps you, they get into trouble. It's all kind of weird, since the unlocking they're talking about is specifically to allow interoperability of the device/software on (otherwise) compatible networks other than the original carrier.
*Not really true...you may not decrypt, but if you do it for a use considered fair use than you may use that as a positive/valid defense for doing so. a very backhanded exemption, but an exemption nonetheless.
You heard it here first, folks.
"after 1/26/13, for any new mobile phone you purchase, you'll have to fulfill your contract, or break the law to unlock it."
That doesn't make sense. You own it or you don't. I own my iPhone, but in return for a reduced price I have agreed to use the carriers service. If I do not fulfill my agreement the penalty is financial, not the return of the merchandise. I don't even have to use my iPhone to fulfill the agreement.
Also, if you break the decryption, you break it. What if you agree to an upgraded OS version and it installs - is that now software obtained after the date of prohibition?
Clarification, anyone?
Well, I guess I may as well buy to my heart's content, since I have already purchased from SlySoft the program necessary to circumvent DRM. In for a dime, in for a dollar!
That's the thing about courts - as arbiters of the law, they define it and may override it. It's that whole checks and balances thing...but on an international scale. It's not as if the IP players in the US are some insignificant party with no say in government affairs. Fuck, they practically write the laws our congress passes. The US may not give a shit about what the WTO rules, but if interests within the US do then things will happen.
Fair enough...the last time I looked they were dog slow, but there are better options now. It'd still be nicer to have an SD slot - you can always adapt down to micro, but you have to carry a reader for a full sd.
Panasonic's 20" tablet has certain major advantages for me, as I do architectural-like work. Still, pressure sensitive pen input (if high-dpi accurate) and a 2lb mark is nice. 4 hours life sucks, but it's not as bad as the 2 hours proposed for the panasonic.
The biggest draw for this is a machine that could replace both my iPad and my notebook computer (currently an 11.6" Acer Timeline). The ability to have a real OS and the ability to run real applications (Lightroom, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Analysis software) is a major plus.
The shortcomings, beyond the middling battery life, include the limitation that you can only get 128GB. While that may seem like enough for a tablet, this is a working machine and really needs have an option to go to 256, if not 512, for serious road warrior data sets (or photogs on the go). And *micro* SD? Slow AND limited capacity. Hard to believe on a tablet this big that SD was a deal breaker in the real estate department. The lack of included keyboard is just money. I have Apple products, so overly expensive SSD and accessories are already commonplace.
No, it was to ensure remuneration. Just because the words of the statute don't mention it explicitly doesn't mean that it was not the driving force. If it weren't for the money, we could just skip the entire debate. Nobody (of statistical significance) expends substantial effort to author a creative work with the sole intent of never showing or distributing it.
Copyright protects the livelihood of the creators of works of knowledge or creativity to ensure that they may do so with the knowledge that they will receive just remuneration for their effort. Without that basic tenet, only those of independent wealth would have the means to create and we would lose an entire segment of professional creative people. In a way, its no different than the ownership of real property - you can't pick up real property and move away with it, and anybody can walk on it. Neither are like personal property, and there are special laws to deal with ownership and transfer for each kind - both of which are in existence to preserve the monetary value.
Luckily, since they weren't for sale there was no loss on the part of the content creator. Copyright was set up to ensure remuneration for the work of the creators of intellectual property. By not offering these for sale in any form, I see no moral dilemma in obtaining a copy from an alternate source.
Professors I know view such assignments as (1) beneath them (2) a waste of time and (3) practically a punishment from the administration. Unless the student had a brief prepared on his behalf, the administration told their side (i.e. he know of a flaw and intentionally exploited it) which is probably a statutory violation of university policy. It's simple black and white to them - no thought or investigation necessary. It has little bearing on the actual facts.
Come on. How bad could it really be?
Oh, right.
Actually, yes - I've seen someone burn a diamond. It was a great deal more difficult to light than charcoal.
It wasn't clear FTFA whether the phone numbers were marked as private or public on the FB accounts. If the information is marked to be shared only with "friends" then I don't believe it's searchable. I can't test it on mine...everything on my account is generally shared globally or simply not in facebook.
I do think it's funny that the dummy account I set up on FB for use with websites which want to use FB as their login criteria (and in which profile I put NSA as my employer) asks me from time to time if I happen to know "these other people who are work for the NSA."
If you don't like it, go get yourself some wood putty and a sharpie and make the letters whatever value you damned well please.
How many times have you seen a diamond burn without immersing it in pure oxygen? It's just compressed graphite, after all.
The correct joke should have been: Boeing should reconsider using Sony batteries in their planes.
Big and hairy. Actually, a lot like your mom - but with better outdoor survival skills.
You mean you got to talk to the entabulator guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIS5n9Oyzsc in person? COOL!
I've got a magnetic copper bracelet that aligns the molecules in my bloodstream so I've never had any wrist problems at all. I got it from some guy selling tiger protection rocks and submillimeter wave scanners.
You missed the entire engineering market that goes with them, which is several times bigger - and that's if you exclude the entire civil engineering field. It also excludes every architect who decides not to pay the AIA to be a "member." Don't forget all of the large general contractors out there doing hundreds of billions of dollars of construction projects every year who are utilizing building information modeling. Which, funny enough, is EXACTLY the market these have been made for - to the extent that one of the biggest players in the software size of technical drawing markups (Bluebeam) is working with them to make it happen.
And that ignores the entire photography and graphics art market, where something like this would be quite useful, as Wacom is keenly aware. (though without a pressure sensitive pen, you'll lose some of them)
The potential application extends to any field where large-format (in other words anything that uses Letter/A4 or larger pages) access to pages is necessary. That's a bit more of a stretch, but this will display two A3 pages side by side - just like a regular technical manual - in color, and with real time data connection to a local server. The KindleDX never really took off, but Amazon also never pushed it and never upgraded it because tech manuals don't sell well on Amazon.com.
Yeah, that just about sums it up. If had mod points, you would get them. All.
Didn't you get the memo? Computers are dead - it's going to be all tablets and ultralight laptops from now on. ;-)
Seriously, though - the market for personal PCs is dropping, being replaced by small form factor devices. The market for "monitors" is on its way to niche status, rather than the mandatory with-every-computer-sold status it enjoyed. But everybody seems to need a TV is every room of their house, and with the super-thin models it's practical to just hang it on any empty wall. Instead of two computers/monitors and a single large TV, we're moving to no fixed computers and 3-5 TVs. Of course they'll market them as TVs.
The only depressing thing is that they're in HDTV aspect ratios, which is less than ideal for a monitor. Then again, if you're getting 4k resolution, you've got all the real estate you need. (Hey, how 'bout they put the Panasonic tablet screen in a monitor - it's a lovely 3:2 ratio 3840x2650!)
Anyone who doesn't "get" the appeal of the 5lb, 20" tablet is clearly not an architect (or a related engineering discipline, like structural engineer...me). A 10" screen is too small to do almost anything on that really matters, and if you have a capacitive-only input it's doubly useless. I've tried 3-4 different styli on my iPad, only to usually give up after writing whiteboard-sized letters to accommodate the 1/4" tip diameter of the finest point reliable stylus. You can't even write a full line of text.
And you needn't worry about us finding a case for it. We've been toting around 11x17/A3 physical pads forever. In fact, that's the preferable format for taking a set of personal-sized drawings to a meeting, also known as a 1/2 size set (1/2 of an ANSI D, or 22x34). We've got a dozen folios in the supply closet that would fit this tablet perfectly.
This tablet, I suspect, has a wider audience or practical usability than making an imprint of your face on an iPhone cover, a $300 charger you can only get from Brookstone, or a $300 quadcopter.
Non pro has TLC NAND which only has 1000 write cycles. M500 has MLC.
...which appears to only have 72 write cycles.
depends on what you do. Those of us who need screen real estate are already running three monitors with 4960x1600 resolution, which is just 4% shy in pixel count. Mine is with a $150 radeon from about three years ago. Of course, I don't game, but video runs fine.
You're just now getting this? Every election is about the little shit that doesn't really matter much. It's about emotion and flash. It always has been. Look back 100 years and it will be the same thing. Look back 200. Mudslinging, character assassination, out-of-context quotes, outright lies have always been part and parcel of the political election process. Sure, we can do more and make more convincing fakes with technology (autotune the news, anyone?), but it's also easier to fact check.
Contentless politician banter is anything but a recent phenomenon.