No, in the UK your 'tariff' is what would be called your 'call plan' in the US - your basic monthly fee charged by your carrier for service, inclusive of VAT (which is the *only* separately itemised tax on UK plans as there is no other tax) for non business users.
While I'm not at the stage to comment on your other points, the N95 does not have 'less storage' - Nokia released an 8GB internal storage version a few months ago and I have confirmed O2 will ship that version to me if I upgrade over the phone.
I feel compelled simply because, after 18 months, the W810i is nearing the end of its life:) Its lasted me well, but the battery is next to shot, and the keyboard is becoming unresponsive due to my proliferic texting habit. Either way I have to buy a new phone in the coming months, so I may as well renew my contract at the same time.
I currently have an O2 contract phone (W810i - very pleased with both phone and network) and my contract is coming up for renewal at about the same time as the iPhone will be released. As you can guess, my decision is now slightly more complicated:
iPhone for £269.00 and 18 month contract for £35 a month:
200 minutes and 200 texts a month
Unlimited (within reason) data
Free wifi access at the Cloud access points
N95 for free and 18 month contract for £30 a month:
400 minutes and 200 texts a month
Better featured phone
200MB data a month for extra £7.50 a month or unlimited data for an extra £30 a month
The iPhone deal comes to £899 total and the N95 deal comes to £675.
Quite frankly, the *only* reason the iPhone is even still in the running is because of the inclusive data and wifi at the moment - and even then I am still heavily leaning toward the N95 with the 200MB data allowance.
because I'm sure the job of the plaintiffs team to do the job of the defence as well. Seriously, how is this news? The plaintiff brings information to court in support of his case, the defence brings information to court to destroy the case - there's no question of an overlap here.
You understand wrong - there is no EU wide law making the tying of products illegal, otherwise the entire mobile market in the UK would have been in deep shit years ago.
The Eurofighter, while not designed around the stealth mantra, does incorporate some reduced visibility features such as a non exposed engine face (S bend intakes) and subtle alterations to features to cut down on radar return.
The Zero was better than anything the allies had at the time, but in terms of people volume and production volume the US was non-beatable
That comparison may be valid for American vs. German tanks, but not for Japanese vs. American airplanes. Japan created what was undoubtedly its best fighter, the Zero, in 1939, and never did anything better than that. OTOH, the US kept releasing better and better planes during WWII; the P-51 had a cruising speed that was 20 mph faster than the Zero's *top* speed in level flight.
The A6M Zero was considered obsolete by the Japanese government by late 1942, and was replaced by various aircraft such as the Ki-84 and N1K-J, both of which had a similar (or indeed, with the higher octane fuel the US was using, better!) performance to the P-51D and P-47D, and Japan had even higher performance fighters such as the Ki-83 about to enter service in 1945 when they surrendered.
The myth that Japan entered the war with the Zero and left it at that is simply that - a myth. The Zero was being replaced throughout 1943, 1944 and 1945 with better aircraft, with the only problem being that toward the end of the war Japan could not produce enough of them to sustain a defensive force.
Whether its a sealed unit according to the law is meaningless in this discussion, Apple is selling it as a sealed unit and therefor will apply updates assuming its a sealed unit - its not up to them to determine if their update will break your nonstandard item.
I go back to my original post and repeat what I said there: Don't apply updates if you are at all concerned.
My argument holds no water? You simply ignored half my comment in order to attempt to counter it.
Neither OSX nor Macs are sold as sealed units, both allow and in fact intend end user modification through additional applications (Adobe in your example) or hardware (RAM, printers, scanners et al).
This is not true for the iPhone as they are sold as a sealed unit not intended to be modified by the end user, so your comment adds nothing to this discussion.
Apple are selling what is essentially a sealed unit, every single device out there should be 100% identical (other than user data) in Apples view, so why should they check to see if their universal update to the iPhone would cause your individual unit harm? Its an extra hassle and effort that they really should have no need to do, since they sold the item with the intent of it remaining identical.
If you change the game by modding or unlocking the iPhone, the onus is on you and you alone to then keep abreast of the play and pay due diligence to any updates to ensure they don't have any adverse effect on your non standard item.
For the record, those that voted for the Constitution were not "citizens" since the Constitution didn't exist when they voted for it. The American Constitution was voted into legislation in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention, but the United States of America was formed under the Articles of Confederation in 1777, which in itself was adopted by the second Continental Congress.
They were very much 'citizens' when they voted for the Constitution in 1787.
The American Airlines flight crash had nothing to do with the fact the tail was composite - the NTSB report (Press Release) found that the fin failed beyond the ultimate load that the fin was approved to:
The Board found that the composite material used in constructing the vertical stabilizer was not a factor in the accident because the tail failed well beyond its certificated and design limits.
The Air Transat incident is looking more and more likely that it was caused by leaking hydraulic fluid causing delamination in the composites to the point of failure.
At one point in GCC's history (infact, not all that long ago), you couldn't even use GCC to do that - there was a big issue about Red Hat shipping a version of GCC by default that could not compile the Linux kernel, you had to install another earlier version if you wanted to do that.
This is a similar situation to ticket resellers for shows and venues - I was caught out last year when I purchased tickets from a normally reputable online vendor for a music gig in London, but I (and 5 of my friends) was turned away at the door when the staff determined my tickets were fake. No amount of arguing the point would change the decision so we went without.
We eventually got a refund from the vendor for 100% of the price plus a little extra, so there was nothing wrong with the tickets themselves.
My point is, false positives *will* occur, you know this, I know this and surprise surprise, Microsoft knows this - they will have a process to deal with this, and they will get dealt with.
It is well known that for £50 you can get a car license plate traced, even though only the police are supposed to have access. Uhm, I hate to break it to you, but you can buy a subscription service to the DVLA vehicle database to lookup not just car registration and details (make, model, type, VIN, last known owner, insurance and tax status et al) but you can also buy a subscription to the DVLA driver licensing database as well.
Actually, 'god' does levy taxes - tithing is one of the things laid out in Exodus 20 - 23 (along with little things such as proper payment for slaves, and selling ones own daughter etc).
Yup, just like the extremely high incidence rate of 'MySQL concurrent user count exceeded' errors that front page Slashdot articles seem to induce in other websites, especially for what should be nothing more than static pages! I wonder who owns the patent on those...
Soyuz only has three seats, and one of those has to be occupied by the pilot. With seven stranded astronauts, it would take four *extra* Soyuz missions - its doubtful that Russia has that sort of slack in the Soyuz schedule.
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Because you probably wouldn't have bought it if it was $70?
No, in the UK your 'tariff' is what would be called your 'call plan' in the US - your basic monthly fee charged by your carrier for service, inclusive of VAT (which is the *only* separately itemised tax on UK plans as there is no other tax) for non business users.
While I'm not at the stage to comment on your other points, the N95 does not have 'less storage' - Nokia released an 8GB internal storage version a few months ago and I have confirmed O2 will ship that version to me if I upgrade over the phone.
I feel compelled simply because, after 18 months, the W810i is nearing the end of its life :) Its lasted me well, but the battery is next to shot, and the keyboard is becoming unresponsive due to my proliferic texting habit. Either way I have to buy a new phone in the coming months, so I may as well renew my contract at the same time.
The iPhone deal comes to £899 total and the N95 deal comes to £675.
Quite frankly, the *only* reason the iPhone is even still in the running is because of the inclusive data and wifi at the moment - and even then I am still heavily leaning toward the N95 with the 200MB data allowance.
Thoughts?
because I'm sure the job of the plaintiffs team to do the job of the defence as well. Seriously, how is this news? The plaintiff brings information to court in support of his case, the defence brings information to court to destroy the case - there's no question of an overlap here.
You understand wrong - there is no EU wide law making the tying of products illegal, otherwise the entire mobile market in the UK would have been in deep shit years ago.
The Eurofighter, while not designed around the stealth mantra, does incorporate some reduced visibility features such as a non exposed engine face (S bend intakes) and subtle alterations to features to cut down on radar return.
The A6M Zero was considered obsolete by the Japanese government by late 1942, and was replaced by various aircraft such as the Ki-84 and N1K-J, both of which had a similar (or indeed, with the higher octane fuel the US was using, better!) performance to the P-51D and P-47D, and Japan had even higher performance fighters such as the Ki-83 about to enter service in 1945 when they surrendered.That comparison may be valid for American vs. German tanks, but not for Japanese vs. American airplanes. Japan created what was undoubtedly its best fighter, the Zero, in 1939, and never did anything better than that. OTOH, the US kept releasing better and better planes during WWII; the P-51 had a cruising speed that was 20 mph faster than the Zero's *top* speed in level flight.
The myth that Japan entered the war with the Zero and left it at that is simply that - a myth. The Zero was being replaced throughout 1943, 1944 and 1945 with better aircraft, with the only problem being that toward the end of the war Japan could not produce enough of them to sustain a defensive force.
Whether its a sealed unit according to the law is meaningless in this discussion, Apple is selling it as a sealed unit and therefor will apply updates assuming its a sealed unit - its not up to them to determine if their update will break your nonstandard item.
I go back to my original post and repeat what I said there: Don't apply updates if you are at all concerned.
My argument holds no water? You simply ignored half my comment in order to attempt to counter it.
Neither OSX nor Macs are sold as sealed units, both allow and in fact intend end user modification through additional applications (Adobe in your example) or hardware (RAM, printers, scanners et al).
This is not true for the iPhone as they are sold as a sealed unit not intended to be modified by the end user, so your comment adds nothing to this discussion.
Don't apply any updates then, its that simple.
Apple are selling what is essentially a sealed unit, every single device out there should be 100% identical (other than user data) in Apples view, so why should they check to see if their universal update to the iPhone would cause your individual unit harm? Its an extra hassle and effort that they really should have no need to do, since they sold the item with the intent of it remaining identical.
If you change the game by modding or unlocking the iPhone, the onus is on you and you alone to then keep abreast of the play and pay due diligence to any updates to ensure they don't have any adverse effect on your non standard item.
The American Constitution was voted into legislation in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention, but the United States of America was formed under the Articles of Confederation in 1777, which in itself was adopted by the second Continental Congress.
They were very much 'citizens' when they voted for the Constitution in 1787.
The Board found that the composite material used in constructing the vertical stabilizer was not a factor in the accident because the tail failed well beyond its certificated and design limits.
The Air Transat incident is looking more and more likely that it was caused by leaking hydraulic fluid causing delamination in the composites to the point of failure.
As you can see, all is not as lost as some are making it out to be.
At one point in GCC's history (infact, not all that long ago), you couldn't even use GCC to do that - there was a big issue about Red Hat shipping a version of GCC by default that could not compile the Linux kernel, you had to install another earlier version if you wanted to do that.
There are over 30 recognised countries on the North American continent.
This is a similar situation to ticket resellers for shows and venues - I was caught out last year when I purchased tickets from a normally reputable online vendor for a music gig in London, but I (and 5 of my friends) was turned away at the door when the staff determined my tickets were fake. No amount of arguing the point would change the decision so we went without.
We eventually got a refund from the vendor for 100% of the price plus a little extra, so there was nothing wrong with the tickets themselves.
My point is, false positives *will* occur, you know this, I know this and surprise surprise, Microsoft knows this - they will have a process to deal with this, and they will get dealt with.
If you like MS Paint, try Paint.Net - much much better and almost just as light.
I deal with this practically every day.
Actually, 'god' does levy taxes - tithing is one of the things laid out in Exodus 20 - 23 (along with little things such as proper payment for slaves, and selling ones own daughter etc).
Yup, just like the extremely high incidence rate of 'MySQL concurrent user count exceeded' errors that front page Slashdot articles seem to induce in other websites, especially for what should be nothing more than static pages! I wonder who owns the patent on those...
Soyuz only has three seats, and one of those has to be occupied by the pilot. With seven stranded astronauts, it would take four *extra* Soyuz missions - its doubtful that Russia has that sort of slack in the Soyuz schedule.
What does Google offer that your $200 computer can't? Redundancy. Massive redundancy.