Ok there are two parts to your question. Network independence is a good thing.... but it would be a little hard on them to expect them to provide both a CDMA (Verizon,Sprint) and a GSM (Cingular,T-Mobile (other freq. of GSM being the rest of the WORLD)). So that they picked GSM I think is the only choice they had since they were going to go global with the product. That being said... why not let you pick T-Mobile or Cingular?
There are two glaring reasons why they did what they did: 1. Price: As you can tell by the people already complaining about the price, there price point was important, and I think they realized they could chop off a 100 or so (I don't know exactly, but think of other phone discounts) by making it with a service plan and giving the carrier an exclusive contract. This reduces price, which from reading comments from many sites, seems to be the biggest gripe so far 2. Features: Visual Voicemail requires cooperation with the carrier. This is obvious. If I had a chance to play with the thing, I think I will find others (I thought I heard something about it "knowing" where it was for weather and maps.... for example). These features means that you can't just design the phone and forget about the carrier, since they are an integral part. Apple went for as many killer featurs as possible. This came at the expense of universal GSM interoperability.
I can see why people will love this, and I can see why some will complain. All I ask is that you stop and think about why things ended up being this way
I have heard this argument so many times, I'm not sure why I still address it.
Regardless of whether you "like" Bush or Kerry, they definitely have different positions on a wide range of positions. Only if you don't care about any of the following issues can you truly say it "doesn't matter"
**** Gay Rights + Bush is for the marriage amendment + Kerry is againts the amendment
**** Abortion Rights + Bush is pro-life + Kerry is pro-choice
**** Gun Control + Bush is letting the Assault Weapons Ban expire (at least not actively trying to extend it) + Kerry wants to extend the ban
**** Taxes + Bush wants to make his tax cuts permanent + Kerry wants to undo the Bush tax cuts for the top 5% (? the percentage could be wrong)
**** Stem Cells + Bush declared that only X number of stem cell lines made before a certain date are allowed to be used in federally funded research + Kerry wants to allow new lines
I simply think that the third party people out there just want something different and are trying to blur the differences in the two parties for their own ends. (Pat Buchanan left the Republican party because of this, and Ralph Nader called Gore "Bush Lite"). However a viable 3rd party if successful, would fall into the same problems of both of the current parties, special interest groups trying to steer the party.
You know the reason that this is happening has mainly due to the fact that there are a lot of things on Linux that need to be standardized still like library locations, etc. That is the real problem here. Specifying exactly where libraries go does not hurt the "diversity" of the distributions, but it sure makes it easier for application vendors to port their product to "Linux" as opposed to Red Hat or Suse. How long is it going to take for RH, SUSE, Caldera etc. to realize this?
I can't believe someone hasn't brought this up yet:-) There are many supposed Eucharistic Miracles in the Catholic faith. They have what they purport to be physical evidence of Transubstantiation (turning bread into body, wine into blood). One rather famous example of this is in Lanciano, Italy and happened in the 8th century. So why don't we DNA test these different examples and see if they at least match. Furthermore, if they do, why don't we just clone Jesus Christ:-)
There has been a lot of talk about Gore and Bush, but I have read that some very big Silicon Valley CEO's and others have donated a good chunk of money to Bill Bradley. Do you think he would try to make good policies toward the internet and technology in general?
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Ok there are two parts to your question. Network independence is a good thing.... but it would be a little hard on them to expect them to provide both a CDMA (Verizon,Sprint) and a GSM (Cingular,T-Mobile (other freq. of GSM being the rest of the WORLD)). So that they picked GSM I think is the only choice they had since they were going to go global with the product. That being said... why not let you pick T-Mobile or Cingular?
There are two glaring reasons why they did what they did:
1. Price: As you can tell by the people already complaining about the price, there price point was important, and I think they realized they could chop off a 100 or so (I don't know exactly, but think of other phone discounts) by making it with a service plan and giving the carrier an exclusive contract. This reduces price, which from reading comments from many sites, seems to be the biggest gripe so far
2. Features: Visual Voicemail requires cooperation with the carrier. This is obvious. If I had a chance to play with the thing, I think I will find others (I thought I heard something about it "knowing" where it was for weather and maps.... for example). These features means that you can't just design the phone and forget about the carrier, since they are an integral part. Apple went for as many killer featurs as possible. This came at the expense of universal GSM interoperability.
I can see why people will love this, and I can see why some will complain. All I ask is that you stop and think about why things ended up being this way
I have heard this argument so many times, I'm not sure why I still address it.
Regardless of whether you "like" Bush or Kerry, they definitely have different positions on a wide range of positions. Only if you don't care about any of the following issues can you truly say it "doesn't matter"
**** Gay Rights
+ Bush is for the marriage amendment
+ Kerry is againts the amendment
**** Abortion Rights
+ Bush is pro-life
+ Kerry is pro-choice
**** Gun Control
+ Bush is letting the Assault Weapons Ban expire (at least not actively trying to extend it)
+ Kerry wants to extend the ban
**** Taxes
+ Bush wants to make his tax cuts permanent
+ Kerry wants to undo the Bush tax cuts for the top 5% (? the percentage could be wrong)
**** Stem Cells
+ Bush declared that only X number of stem cell lines made before a certain date are allowed to be used in federally funded research
+ Kerry wants to allow new lines
I simply think that the third party people out there just want something different and are trying to blur the differences in the two parties for their own ends. (Pat Buchanan left the Republican party because of this, and Ralph Nader called Gore "Bush Lite"). However a viable 3rd party if successful, would fall into the same problems of both of the current parties, special interest groups trying to steer the party.
You know the reason that this is happening has mainly due to the fact that there are a lot of things on Linux that need to be standardized still like library locations, etc. That is the real problem here. Specifying exactly where libraries go does not hurt the "diversity" of the distributions, but it sure makes it easier for application vendors to port their product to "Linux" as opposed to Red Hat or Suse. How long is it going to take for RH, SUSE, Caldera etc. to realize this?
I can't believe someone hasn't brought this up yet :-) There are many supposed Eucharistic Miracles in the Catholic faith. They have what they purport to be physical evidence of Transubstantiation (turning bread into body, wine into blood). One rather famous example of this is in Lanciano, Italy and happened in the 8th century. So why don't we DNA test these different examples and see if they at least match. Furthermore, if they do, why don't we just clone Jesus Christ :-)
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Go here if you want to see a newer story about the mars observer on BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_4 55000/455807.stm
There has been a lot of talk about Gore and Bush, but I have read that some very big Silicon Valley CEO's and others have donated a good chunk of money to Bill Bradley. Do you think he would try to make good policies toward the internet and technology in general?