None of the handset manufacturers has shown a GPRS capable handset, even at trade shows AFAIK.
Existing handsets cannot do GPRS, and you cannot buy one that does.
There may be a "commercial" launch in June, but to whom?
IIRC, HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data) *can* be used with existing handsets, and will be available on the Orange network in the UK before June. HSCSD is effectively bonding of multiple timeslots.
In fact it was sixteen, and he still didn't get a straight answer. Made the politician in question (Michael Howard, the then Home Secretary) look like a total Rodney. He also hosts a discussion programme (Start the Week) on BBC Radio 4 (like the US's NPR) on which he asked Henry Kissinger (on the program to plug his book) some fairly hard questions including: "Did not you feel something of a fraud taking the Nobel Peace Prize?" So there is no reason to hold back on a question just because you think the interviewer will not have the cojones to ask it - he will! Paxo (as he is fondly known in Rightpondia) known no shame. Cakes
How about encrypting twice, then all you could happily decrypt it for them and make it intelligable. They would find a still encrypted message was less than useful to them. It is intelligable as an encrypted message...
Does *anyone* in the US have unmetered calls to their ISP *and* no subscription or usage charges from that ISP.
I doubt it, otherwise how does the ISP cover their costs, let alone make any money.
The US has unmetered calls, we have free ISPs in the UK. Everything falls over if you start offering both. We now have one ISP (owned by BT) who offer 800 number access to their sevice for a particular period at the weekend, *for a fee*.
If you introduced unmetered calls to the UK, the number of homes having a second line would rocket, and *most* of those second lines would we on 24/7.
Can you really imagine a european government saying to a business (as they have almost all been privatised) 'You must *give* your product away' instead of charging for it.
They might encourage/permit them to do it - AIUI, BT is not, as the dominant telco in the UK, permitted to offer unmetered calls - but I don't think there is any prospect of *the government* requiring it to be so. Competition perhaps - Kinston Communications in Hull already offer unmetered local calls to other KC subs.
That is fine as long as you are the only one connecting 24/7. The phone system is desined for a small %age (say 5% for the sake of argument) of customers on an exchange to be connected simultaneously. If 5% of people connected 24/7 then nobody else would be able to make a call. So, if they gave everyone unmetered access all the time the whole system would fall over. Or alternatively cost the telco a huge amount of money to upgrade their equipment.
When I saw (what I assume is) the underlying work presented about 6 years ago (by the inventor), he said you could ensure it was a real living iris by stimulating it with light and monitoring how it reacts - the check test worked regardless of pupil size as the iris just shrinks when the pupil is enlarged, so the pattern remains the same.
ISTR the test used a Gabor function on the scanned pattern, and it worked when there was the iris occupied about 80 pixels or more in diameter.
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None of the handset manufacturers has shown a GPRS capable handset, even at trade shows AFAIK.
Existing handsets cannot do GPRS, and you cannot buy one that does.
There may be a "commercial" launch in June, but to whom?
IIRC, HSCSD (High Speed Circuit Switched Data) *can* be used with existing handsets, and will be available on the Orange network in the UK before June. HSCSD is effectively bonding of multiple timeslots.
In fact it was sixteen, and he still didn't get a straight answer. Made the politician in question (Michael Howard, the then Home Secretary) look like a total Rodney. He also hosts a discussion programme (Start the Week) on BBC Radio 4 (like the US's NPR) on which he asked Henry Kissinger (on the program to plug his book) some fairly hard questions including: "Did not you feel something of a fraud taking the Nobel Peace Prize?" So there is no reason to hold back on a question just because you think the interviewer will not have the cojones to ask it - he will! Paxo (as he is fondly known in Rightpondia) known no shame. Cakes
How about encrypting twice, then all you could happily decrypt it for them and make it intelligable. They would find a still encrypted message was less than useful to them. It is intelligable as an encrypted message...
Does *anyone* in the US have unmetered calls to their ISP *and* no subscription or usage charges from that ISP.
I doubt it, otherwise how does the ISP cover their costs, let alone make any money.
The US has unmetered calls, we have free ISPs in the UK. Everything falls over if you start offering both. We now have one ISP (owned by BT) who offer 800 number access to their sevice for a particular period at the weekend, *for a fee*.
If you introduced unmetered calls to the UK, the number of homes having a second line would rocket, and *most* of those second lines would we on 24/7.
Can you really imagine a european government saying to a business (as they have almost all been privatised) 'You must *give* your product away' instead of charging for it.
They might encourage/permit them to do it - AIUI, BT is not, as the dominant telco in the UK, permitted to offer unmetered calls - but I don't think there is any prospect of *the government* requiring it to be so. Competition perhaps - Kinston Communications in Hull already offer unmetered local calls to other KC subs.
That is fine as long as you are the only one connecting 24/7. The phone system is desined for a small %age (say 5% for the sake of argument) of customers on an exchange to be connected simultaneously. If 5% of people connected 24/7 then nobody else would be able to make a call. So, if they gave everyone unmetered access all the time the whole system would fall over. Or alternatively cost the telco a huge amount of money to upgrade their equipment.
When I saw (what I assume is) the underlying work presented about 6 years ago (by the inventor), he said you could ensure it was a real living iris by stimulating it with light and monitoring how it reacts - the check test worked regardless of pupil size as the iris just shrinks when the pupil is enlarged, so the pattern remains the same.
ISTR the test used a Gabor function on the scanned pattern, and it worked when there was the iris occupied about 80 pixels or more in diameter.