You needed to change the product code first, so the software update gets the unbranded version. You could find that you now have the most up to date firmware and you'll need to wait for the next Nokia release.
However, you may find third parties who are able to flash the phone to the generic firmware. You'll need to pay a fee though.
But there is a return even by not deploying a network - other startups can't rollout a competing network.
Why not compare to the original GSM licenses in the UK for Vodafone and Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio? They had coverage obligations. Those coverage obligations were absent from the 3G auctions because with no obligations, carriers would bid more for the license to prevent others gaining a license, and then deploy at a slower pace as funds allowed.
I don't think a great deal of thought was paid to the amounts being bid at auction time, and hence thepost auction impact.
Sweden has 1/10 the population density of the UK, so rollout in the UK should have been more cost efficient by an order of magnitude.
If the funding for a Sunk Cost comes from borrowing then of course it affects future business decisions. European networks paid $129 billion for 3G licenses. Vodafone alone spent more than $30 billion. It seems unlikely that sort of money came from cash surpluses.
In Japan, 3G licenses were free. Looking at the state of the mobile market there, and comparing it with that in Europe, then yes, I'd say that huge cost delayed roll out and by increasing user costs slowed uptake.
Is it irrelevant? That $19 billions is going to come out of our pockets over several years and yet will be spent in 7 weeks.
The 3G auctions in Europe raised a fortune for exchequers but the huge burden the placed on operators has crippled 3G roll-out for the best part of a decade.
Is it wrong to question how the money raised is spent?
Isn't it sad that he got modded up, for being Wrong, I was going to correct him, because since OSX apple has become the number one competitor to 'dell.'
It'd be interesting to see where your figures come from. The figures from iSupply tell a very different story.
Units shipped for Q4 2007 were as follows:
HP 14,567,000 Dell 11,320,000 Acer 7,220,000 Lenovo 5,760,000 Toshiba 3,070,000 Apple 2,197,000
As you can see, apple are competing with Toshiba, not Dell - unless you call trailing by 80% to be competing?
Storage is cheap, obscenely so, but until a basic off the shelf computer comes with more than this that's all your average user will have for memory. 2GB. In other words, not enough for more than one movie. If that.
You do realise the difference between RAM and Hard Drives, don't you? Those Dell's all come with a hard drive between 250GB and 500GB - easily enough to store several downloaded HD movies. I'd expect all but the cheapest one could even play the movie in full 1080P HD with a suitable monitor attached and run Vista at the same time.
I really don't see many desktop apps that demand more than 2GB of RAM. I'm certainly not rushing out to upgrade any of my 2GB machines.
Hmm, I'm not sure if it'd apply to Intel or not. Surely though it'd apply to operating systems since MS is a convicted monopolist. The solution is therefore for the government to subsidize linux.
Seriously, Intel is huge, but there have been other, better, chip makers before and likely will be again. If intel's competition declines, their designs will begin to stagnate as they try to increase profit and deliver 'shareholder value'. Then another AMD/ARM/IBM etc etc will come up with something different and the arms race will start again.
This though appears to have the advantage of not requiring a reboot, so rendering BIOS passwords ineffective.
It's all very well to say if someone has physical access all security is compromised. That doesn't mean you need to make it as easy and quick as possible. Now if you lock your computer and pop to the bathroom, a visitor could be in and out of your PC before you get back.
I think he's talking about the size limit for uploads, not the quality of downloads. Certainly in the past you were limited to 100MB for 10 minutes of video. So there's already compression needed before the file even gets to YouTube.
I don't think he's talking about POTS - he's talking about Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Skype etc.
He's telling the telcos that if they don't adapt, they aren't going to be carrying calls. Folk will buy bandwidth and use one of the above as their telco.
I know Embarq has received not a cent more than their minimum for DSL + a phone line from me in years, yet I make hours of calls each day, most of which are international. Every call is by VoIP and is routed on a lowest cost basis.
Unless telcos adapt, it's hard not to see that becoming the norm over the next decade.
Ah, you went for www.google.com which they seem to intercept, I went for google.com which they ignore (or did until they read this I guess).
Can't say routinely type in the www for any website - and get frustrated with the few sites that bork when you skip it. Nonetheless, the firefox search bar sends queries to www.google.com so this would hit quite a few folk if they use opendns.
For two cameras covering the same scene the one with more pixels will have the smaller angle.
That's just plain wrong, sorry.
I have a canon 10D DSLR. It has a 6MP APS-C sized sensor 22.7mm x 15.1mm. A much newer Canon 40D has a 10MP sensor which is also APS-C sized. When using the same lenses at the same spot, both cameras will get an identical viewing angle. The 40D will, however, be able to capture more detail doe to its higher resolution. This extra detil could in post processing be used to crop the image and effectively zoom in while still matching the resolution of my 10D.
If I has a spare $6,000 I could buy a Canon 1Ds and have 16MP images on a full frame 35mm sensor. It has almost three times as many pixels as my camera, but at the same spot using the same lens will capture a significantly wider angle of view than my 10D which has an effective 1.6x magnification over the 1Ds due to my camera's smaller sensor size.
That wasn't a video admitting anything - it was one of the most selective, heavily edited and cut snippets I've seen come out of fox. Maybe you should read this. Or this Or watch the CBS interview and hear it in his own words.
I'd love to see the sections of the WV code that say a) the state government cannot provide commercial services (are the WV rest area vending machines run at cost?) and also the code that states that everything produced with state funds is in the public domain? I know there's a federal statute, but this is about WV after all.
Sorry, either it is you who misunderstand or you missed the end of my post.
I did not try to judge on whether the data should be available or not - read the last sentence in my post. What I pointed out was that they clearly were selling this data and therefore recouping all or some of the costs through sales.
Without that income WV residents can expect to see more of their tax dollars going to the department in future than did in the past.
You say it was produced with PUBLIC FUNDS (your caps). Does that mean if the revenue from private sales covered the cost of production you would agree the data should continue to only be available on a commercial basis?
The fact they want to charge suggests you probably didn't pay for this information when you paid your taxes. They're trying to recoup costs through the charge.
Local government doesn't exactly run at a profit. If they are forced to stop charging by law, or find they have no sales due to the data being freely available on the internet you'll find that lost income has to be recouped - then you'll be paying for it through your taxes.
Please note, I'm not suggesting the data shouldn't be free on the internet, just pointing out that in the past they probably helped cover the cost through paper sales and if/when that changes the money will have to come from somewhere else.
While I agree this is an unhelpful restriction and not exactly in the spirit of open source, I'm not sure it would prevent development even after a takeover.
IANAL but I understand trademark law is there to protect a company from others passing off as them. That wouldn't be the case here - you have a license to use those trademarks in Zimbra, to modify the program and to redistribute the resulting works.
You wouldn't at any time be passing off, as you're using the software under license.
Maybe there's a lawyer on here who can clarify this a bit further?
Slashdot discussed the Yahoo! buyout of Zimbra just a few weeks ago. Now we have the threat of Microsoft buying what is possibly the biggest competitor to Exchange.
I'm pretty sure any regulatory approval would mean them disposing of Zimbra, but it must be a time of frustration and worry to the staff there.
Well if someone doctor was waving a local anesthetic at me and threatening to stick metal rods with an electric current through my brain, I'd be trying damn hard to remember whatever it is they wanted!
Of course now when you try and claim you've forgotten your PGP password and really can't help the *IAA / FBI / NSA / GCHQ / Etc the response you'll get is "well maybe we can help you...". Next thing you know you're on an operating table and some army doctor is looking down at you with a big smile saying, "Don't worry son, this will only hurt a little".
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That may have been the worst thing you could do.
You needed to change the product code first, so the software update gets the unbranded version. You could find that you now have the most up to date firmware and you'll need to wait for the next Nokia release.
However, you may find third parties who are able to flash the phone to the generic firmware. You'll need to pay a fee though.
But there is a return even by not deploying a network - other startups can't rollout a competing network.
Why not compare to the original GSM licenses in the UK for Vodafone and Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio? They had coverage obligations. Those coverage obligations were absent from the 3G auctions because with no obligations, carriers would bid more for the license to prevent others gaining a license, and then deploy at a slower pace as funds allowed.
I don't think a great deal of thought was paid to the amounts being bid at auction time, and hence thepost auction impact.
Sweden has 1/10 the population density of the UK, so rollout in the UK should have been more cost efficient by an order of magnitude.
If the funding for a Sunk Cost comes from borrowing then of course it affects future business decisions. European networks paid $129 billion for 3G licenses. Vodafone alone spent more than $30 billion. It seems unlikely that sort of money came from cash surpluses.
In Japan, 3G licenses were free. Looking at the state of the mobile market there, and comparing it with that in Europe, then yes, I'd say that huge cost delayed roll out and by increasing user costs slowed uptake.
A quick google search
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000252 shows how to implement pivot tables in OO2. http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_186.pdf tells us that Pivot Table support will be improved in OO3
Is it irrelevant? That $19 billions is going to come out of our pockets over several years and yet will be spent in 7 weeks.
The 3G auctions in Europe raised a fortune for exchequers but the huge burden the placed on operators has crippled 3G roll-out for the best part of a decade.
Is it wrong to question how the money raised is spent?
Units shipped for Q4 2007 were as follows: As you can see, apple are competing with Toshiba, not Dell - unless you call trailing by 80% to be competing?
I really don't see many desktop apps that demand more than 2GB of RAM. I'm certainly not rushing out to upgrade any of my 2GB machines.
Hmm, I'm not sure if it'd apply to Intel or not. Surely though it'd apply to operating systems since MS is a convicted monopolist. The solution is therefore for the government to subsidize linux.
Seriously, Intel is huge, but there have been other, better, chip makers before and likely will be again. If intel's competition declines, their designs will begin to stagnate as they try to increase profit and deliver 'shareholder value'. Then another AMD/ARM/IBM etc etc will come up with something different and the arms race will start again.
This though appears to have the advantage of not requiring a reboot, so rendering BIOS passwords ineffective.
It's all very well to say if someone has physical access all security is compromised. That doesn't mean you need to make it as easy and quick as possible. Now if you lock your computer and pop to the bathroom, a visitor could be in and out of your PC before you get back.
I think he's talking about the size limit for uploads, not the quality of downloads. Certainly in the past you were limited to 100MB for 10 minutes of video. So there's already compression needed before the file even gets to YouTube.
I don't think he's talking about POTS - he's talking about Google Talk, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, Skype etc.
He's telling the telcos that if they don't adapt, they aren't going to be carrying calls. Folk will buy bandwidth and use one of the above as their telco.
I know Embarq has received not a cent more than their minimum for DSL + a phone line from me in years, yet I make hours of calls each day, most of which are international. Every call is by VoIP and is routed on a lowest cost basis.
Unless telcos adapt, it's hard not to see that becoming the norm over the next decade.
Ah, you went for www.google.com which they seem to intercept, I went for google.com which they ignore (or did until they read this I guess).
Can't say routinely type in the www for any website - and get frustrated with the few sites that bork when you skip it. Nonetheless, the firefox search bar sends queries to www.google.com so this would hit quite a few folk if they use opendns.
I have a canon 10D DSLR. It has a 6MP APS-C sized sensor 22.7mm x 15.1mm. A much newer Canon 40D has a 10MP sensor which is also APS-C sized. When using the same lenses at the same spot, both cameras will get an identical viewing angle. The 40D will, however, be able to capture more detail doe to its higher resolution. This extra detil could in post processing be used to crop the image and effectively zoom in while still matching the resolution of my 10D.
If I has a spare $6,000 I could buy a Canon 1Ds and have 16MP images on a full frame 35mm sensor. It has almost three times as many pixels as my camera, but at the same spot using the same lens will capture a significantly wider angle of view than my 10D which has an effective 1.6x magnification over the 1Ds due to my camera's smaller sensor size.
The earth orbits your satellite? Why would it not point towards earth at night time?
Do communications satellites only work during daylight hours?
I'd love to see the sections of the WV code that say a) the state government cannot provide commercial services (are the WV rest area vending machines run at cost?) and also the code that states that everything produced with state funds is in the public domain? I know there's a federal statute, but this is about WV after all.
Sorry, either it is you who misunderstand or you missed the end of my post.
I did not try to judge on whether the data should be available or not - read the last sentence in my post. What I pointed out was that they clearly were selling this data and therefore recouping all or some of the costs through sales.
Without that income WV residents can expect to see more of their tax dollars going to the department in future than did in the past.
You say it was produced with PUBLIC FUNDS (your caps). Does that mean if the revenue from private sales covered the cost of production you would agree the data should continue to only be available on a commercial basis?
You seem to have a very confused idea of profit. Most organisations would consider staffing costs an expense, not a measure of profit.
The fact they want to charge suggests you probably didn't pay for this information when you paid your taxes. They're trying to recoup costs through the charge.
Local government doesn't exactly run at a profit. If they are forced to stop charging by law, or find they have no sales due to the data being freely available on the internet you'll find that lost income has to be recouped - then you'll be paying for it through your taxes.
Please note, I'm not suggesting the data shouldn't be free on the internet, just pointing out that in the past they probably helped cover the cost through paper sales and if/when that changes the money will have to come from somewhere else.
I can't type, that should have been 1.5Mbps synchronous for about $360/month with cheaper options down to 384kbps synchronous
Speakeasy will sell you a T1 with 1,5Mbps down, 384k upstream for about $360/month. That's the real cost of unlimited bandwidth.
While I agree this is an unhelpful restriction and not exactly in the spirit of open source, I'm not sure it would prevent development even after a takeover.
IANAL but I understand trademark law is there to protect a company from others passing off as them. That wouldn't be the case here - you have a license to use those trademarks in Zimbra, to modify the program and to redistribute the resulting works.
You wouldn't at any time be passing off, as you're using the software under license.
Maybe there's a lawyer on here who can clarify this a bit further?
Slashdot discussed the Yahoo! buyout of Zimbra just a few weeks ago. Now we have the threat of Microsoft buying what is possibly the biggest competitor to Exchange.
I'm pretty sure any regulatory approval would mean them disposing of Zimbra, but it must be a time of frustration and worry to the staff there.
Well if someone doctor was waving a local anesthetic at me and threatening to stick metal rods with an electric current through my brain, I'd be trying damn hard to remember whatever it is they wanted!
Of course now when you try and claim you've forgotten your PGP password and really can't help the *IAA / FBI / NSA / GCHQ / Etc the response you'll get is "well maybe we can help you...". Next thing you know you're on an operating table and some army doctor is looking down at you with a big smile saying, "Don't worry son, this will only hurt a little".