Probably means your phone is SIM-locked - this is a tactic used by many operators to attempt to recoup the subsidized cost of the handset. It will only recognize your operator's SIM until you get it unlocked or purchase your own, unsubsidized "SIM-free" handset.
I think you will find that pretty much all of Europe has cellphone service these days:-)
Actually, I imagine that what you're trying to get across is that since a couple of the dominant US-based service providers use CDMA based technology, which has no concept of roaming service, you are locked in to that network and only that network. In which case you might want to look at choosing one of the carriers who operate GSM networks instead (AT&T/Cingular or T-Mobile).
A better alternative for when you're in Europe (or most of the rest of the world for that mattter) would be to buy a cheap GSM handset and a pre-pay SIM. I suspect that would be more likely to work in more places than a WiFi handset. In Europe WiFi hotspots are still quite scarce outside of major population centres and costly in them.
I can't deny that Opera is innovative, and I thank them for that, but I have never been able to live with any of their browsers (and I've tried them often enough on a variety of platforms).
For me, the UI is *too* polished; I wish it would stop trying to be "different" and just fit in with the system theme I've chosen. Yes it's dull, but I like it that way.
On my 1400x1050 laptop panel the default font size is too small, even though I generally like small fonts. If I use the zoom feature, it zooms the images as well and I don't like the effect. Can't I just zoom the text? Firefox/Mozilla does that exactly right with Ctrl+/-.
Again on the laptop (IBM ThinkPad), the trackpoint scrolling (with middle button) doesn't work in Opera, and I simply hate that because I use it all the time in every other application. Does Opera use some fancy homegrown scrollbars? Why?
These may seem like small points, and perhaps if I persisted I could overcome them and grow to love it, but since Firefox does pretty much everything I need exactly how I like it, why on earth would I pay money for Opera?
It sounds like you must be operating in a cell where there are few to zero other users of the data service. I'd hate to rain on your parade, but if you shout too loud about the performance you're getting, or even if you just wait for a while, other users will turn up, and before you know where you are you will be contending for the limited wireless bandwidth and seeing much lower throughput.
That UI Hall of Shame link is just so old - look for yourself, it says
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Notes has had three - count 'em, 3 - major releases since that stuff was put up there, and many, if not all of the points it makes have been addressed. Notes is still one of the best platforms around for collaboration, for development of ad-hoc applications involving sharing information among teams and for publishing to the web. Notes/Domino continues to have just as much market share as Outlook/Exchange - and in fact you can even use Outlook as a client to a Domino back-end server.
Also, it continues to evolve - the next release, number 7, is in beta now. Customers' investment in applications developed under previous releases is preserved as well as ever (not something Microsoft can claim to do), and there's a roadmap that takes it towards a bright new future in the shape of the IBM Workplace.
In UK, the BBC is tonight screening the first of a series of programmes called The Power of Nightmares which makes exactly this point, according to its trailers.
This series shows dramatically how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.
I am a big Costco fan but that is not a very good deal. You should be able to get XP Home for a lot less than CAD299. I recently bought an OEM copy for my son's PC for UKP58 - the price appears now to have gone up a little but it's still only half of the Costco price - equivalent of CAD 144.
No. RTFA. This is precisely what he is arguing: that "intellectual property" is not all the same thing as tangible property, even if the law and lawyers increasingly suggest that it is. They are wrong, for the reasons Lemley sets out in his paper. Or so he argues.
The idea of being able to assemble your own perfect mobile technology farm out of a bunch of compatible, separate modules that communicate wirelessly is an appealing prospect.
But just one of the many problems with it is that each module will need to have its own power source, probably some kind of rechargeable battery, and so you would end up with a bunch of miscellaneous and probably incompatible chargers, cables and cradles. Pigs may fly before there is an industry consortium or an enlightened vendor of all the various modules that would standardize mobile power provisioning.
this looks like a really good deal. As well as the excellent and comprehensive iLife suite of applications, you get Quicken 2004, a trial of MS Office, and a couple of 3D games. What more does the average user need?
Man, you are confused. They way I see it, the browser's role is as a renderer of structured information. It matters not one jot whether the stuff it renders comes over a TCP/IP connection or off a local hard drive.
A letter can be a structured document just as much as a web page can be. Some, me included, would say that information should be stored in structured documents, and that content should be abstracted from presentation. Word does a first-class job of mashing them all up together and that is precisely why we don't like it.
Your arguments against using anything else are the same lazy arguments you can see all over this topic: I have Word, everyone else has Word, I have half a clue how to make it do what I need to do, and I'm too timid to risk wasting time by investigating anything else.
And that's fine; if you're happy to be a member of the late-adopters, and to follow the herd.
But make no mistake, there are alternatives, and they might well be superior. If you want someone to give you a cast iron guarantee that any of them will suit you and will save you x minutes per day or whatever, look elsewhere. You have to take some risk to make progress.
For what it's worth and based on what I imagine you need to do, I'd check out FrameMaker, or even (X)HTML with some suitable CSS to abstract the formatting.
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Part of the problem is having required courses in a program that student's might not want to take and thus might not care about learning the material.
So students should get to do only what they like? I suppose that's a point of view, but it doesn't greatly coincide with what I understand learning to involve.
The role of the pupil - and undergraduates are pupils - involves to a great extent submitting to the greater knowledge and understanding of the teacher. Maybe this comes as a surprise, but most teachers take their jobs seriously and don't assign tasks to pupils on a whim. If they want you to learn something, there is usually a reason for it. What you should do if you're a good pupil is buckle down and learn it.
Later on in graduate school or in employment when you're given some responsibility you can make decisions about what seems to make sense and what doesn't. By that time you'll have learnt enough to be trusted to make those decisions.
This, and other things I read about - like the way insurance companies would like to know your genetic makup so they can charge you a higher premium if you have a predisposition to some hereditary condition - suggests to me that insurance companies, whether they realize it or not, are busily undermining a fundamental principle of the whole insurance concept. Namely that a large number of people collectively contribute towards a fund that pays out if any one of their number suffers some loss.
If it's going to come down to such a precise reckoning of the odds for each individual, then surely we will arrive at a situation where the sum of the premiums you pay will exactly match the payout from your policy (less the insurance company's profits of course). The averaging out of risk across the mass of policyholders is negated.
And when it comes to that, WTF is the point of being insured in the first place? You might as well carry the risk yourself.
After all this brouhaha, "Edward Kennedy" should be a pretty good choice of alias for a would-be terrorist hijacker to use, since that name has surely been removed from the No-Fly list.
I would guess that the actual heat exchange process will take place somewhere on land - the cold water will be pumped up first - so there should be no localized warming of the water in the lake surrounding the inlet.
Why is it that in every damn press release I see online, not one of the URLs is ever a live, clickable link? Is there some press office union rule that insists only people with the skill and knowledge to use copy-and-paste should ever get to look into the background of one of these blurbs?
Damn you! How did you guess my passwords? I have been using these and others like them for years, but now I see I was only kidding myself when I thought they were secure.
It may not be the actual law, but in the UK it's a condition of the necessary license to sell petroleum spirit that "The licensee shall take all practicable steps necessary to prevent: [...] the operation of radio transmitting equipment, including Citizens Band radios and mobile telephones in the hazardous area, except for radio transmitting equipment not capable of inducing a current or charge which could ignite a flammable atmosphere as defined in BS 6656"
Pretty well all the filling stations I can recall using in UK have a prominent sign on display forbidding the use of mobile transmitting equipment (including mobile telephones) while refuelling. In fact I believe you're supposed to turn them off, but of course no-one does.
In fact, it's become quite common to see people chatting away as they fill up, especially since we are now banned from using handheld phones while driving.
For instance, Lotus Notes (used by corporations "serviced" by IBM the world around) has a nifty feature whereby should a sender wish, they can block access to many client features like, oh, printing or forwarding.
Ha ha. Any self-respecting power user of Notes will readily be able to defeat this "protection". All it takes is one line of formula language - and given a copy of the correct incantation, any user can execute it.
It's good fun to quote the supposedly copy-proof email back to users who have used this "feature" believing it to be secure.
I took my portable to work one day, and in order to charge the battery, I plugged it in as a USB drive and played my mp3s with Windows XP's Media Player.
Why? Why? FFS, WHY? And why act so surprised? You should know what WMP is like - if you didn't, you do now. Plus, there are well-known and superior alternatives to WMP, so it cannot have been anything other than pure indolence that caused you to choose to allow WMP to screw up your files.
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Probably means your phone is SIM-locked - this is a tactic used by many operators to attempt to recoup the subsidized cost of the handset. It will only recognize your operator's SIM until you get it unlocked or purchase your own, unsubsidized "SIM-free" handset.
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I think you will find that pretty much all of Europe has cellphone service these days :-)
Actually, I imagine that what you're trying to get across is that since a couple of the dominant US-based service providers use CDMA based technology, which has no concept of roaming service, you are locked in to that network and only that network. In which case you might want to look at choosing one of the carriers who operate GSM networks instead (AT&T/Cingular or T-Mobile).
A better alternative for when you're in Europe (or most of the rest of the world for that mattter) would be to buy a cheap GSM handset and a pre-pay SIM. I suspect that would be more likely to work in more places than a WiFi handset. In Europe WiFi hotspots are still quite scarce outside of major population centres and costly in them.
I can't deny that Opera is innovative, and I thank them for that, but I have never been able to live with any of their browsers (and I've tried them often enough on a variety of platforms).
For me, the UI is *too* polished; I wish it would stop trying to be "different" and just fit in with the system theme I've chosen. Yes it's dull, but I like it that way.
On my 1400x1050 laptop panel the default font size is too small, even though I generally like small fonts. If I use the zoom feature, it zooms the images as well and I don't like the effect. Can't I just zoom the text? Firefox/Mozilla does that exactly right with Ctrl+/-.
Again on the laptop (IBM ThinkPad), the trackpoint scrolling (with middle button) doesn't work in Opera, and I simply hate that because I use it all the time in every other application. Does Opera use some fancy homegrown scrollbars? Why?
These may seem like small points, and perhaps if I persisted I could overcome them and grow to love it, but since Firefox does pretty much everything I need exactly how I like it, why on earth would I pay money for Opera?
I think, possibly, that you don't know what you're talking about.
errm, what about this.
I think, possibly, that you don't know what you're talking about.
Does nobody read yesterday's news?
It sounds like you must be operating in a cell where there are few to zero other users of the data service. I'd hate to rain on your parade, but if you shout too loud about the performance you're getting, or even if you just wait for a while, other users will turn up, and before you know where you are you will be contending for the limited wireless bandwidth and seeing much lower throughput.
Notes has had three - count 'em, 3 - major releases since that stuff was put up there, and many, if not all of the points it makes have been addressed. Notes is still one of the best platforms around for collaboration, for development of ad-hoc applications involving sharing information among teams and for publishing to the web. Notes/Domino continues to have just as much market share as Outlook/Exchange - and in fact you can even use Outlook as a client to a Domino back-end server.
Also, it continues to evolve - the next release, number 7, is in beta now. Customers' investment in applications developed under previous releases is preserved as well as ever (not something Microsoft can claim to do), and there's a roadmap that takes it towards a bright new future in the shape of the IBM Workplace.
I will definitely be watching.
I am a big Costco fan but that is not a very good deal. You should be able to get XP Home for a lot less than CAD299. I recently bought an OEM copy for my son's PC for UKP58 - the price appears now to have gone up a little but it's still only half of the Costco price - equivalent of CAD 144.
No. RTFA. This is precisely what he is arguing: that "intellectual property" is not all the same thing as tangible property, even if the law and lawyers increasingly suggest that it is. They are wrong, for the reasons Lemley sets out in his paper. Or so he argues.
The idea of being able to assemble your own perfect mobile technology farm out of a bunch of compatible, separate modules that communicate wirelessly is an appealing prospect.
But just one of the many problems with it is that each module will need to have its own power source, probably some kind of rechargeable battery, and so you would end up with a bunch of miscellaneous and probably incompatible chargers, cables and cradles. Pigs may fly before there is an industry consortium or an enlightened vendor of all the various modules that would standardize mobile power provisioning.
this looks like a really good deal. As well as the excellent and comprehensive iLife suite of applications, you get Quicken 2004, a trial of MS Office, and a couple of 3D games. What more does the average user need?
Man, you are confused. They way I see it, the browser's role is as a renderer of structured information. It matters not one jot whether the stuff it renders comes over a TCP/IP connection or off a local hard drive.
A letter can be a structured document just as much as a web page can be. Some, me included, would say that information should be stored in structured documents, and that content should be abstracted from presentation. Word does a first-class job of mashing them all up together and that is precisely why we don't like it.
Your arguments against using anything else are the same lazy arguments you can see all over this topic: I have Word, everyone else has Word, I have half a clue how to make it do what I need to do, and I'm too timid to risk wasting time by investigating anything else.
And that's fine; if you're happy to be a member of the late-adopters, and to follow the herd.
But make no mistake, there are alternatives, and they might well be superior. If you want someone to give you a cast iron guarantee that any of them will suit you and will save you x minutes per day or whatever, look elsewhere. You have to take some risk to make progress.
For what it's worth and based on what I imagine you need to do, I'd check out FrameMaker, or even (X)HTML with some suitable CSS to abstract the formatting.
Part of the problem is having required courses in a program that student's might not want to take and thus might not care about learning the material.
So students should get to do only what they like? I suppose that's a point of view, but it doesn't greatly coincide with what I understand learning to involve.
The role of the pupil - and undergraduates are pupils - involves to a great extent submitting to the greater knowledge and understanding of the teacher. Maybe this comes as a surprise, but most teachers take their jobs seriously and don't assign tasks to pupils on a whim. If they want you to learn something, there is usually a reason for it. What you should do if you're a good pupil is buckle down and learn it.
Later on in graduate school or in employment when you're given some responsibility you can make decisions about what seems to make sense and what doesn't. By that time you'll have learnt enough to be trusted to make those decisions.
This, and other things I read about - like the way insurance companies would like to know your genetic makup so they can charge you a higher premium if you have a predisposition to some hereditary condition - suggests to me that insurance companies, whether they realize it or not, are busily undermining a fundamental principle of the whole insurance concept. Namely that a large number of people collectively contribute towards a fund that pays out if any one of their number suffers some loss.
If it's going to come down to such a precise reckoning of the odds for each individual, then surely we will arrive at a situation where the sum of the premiums you pay will exactly match the payout from your policy (less the insurance company's profits of course). The averaging out of risk across the mass of policyholders is negated.
And when it comes to that, WTF is the point of being insured in the first place? You might as well carry the risk yourself.
After all this brouhaha, "Edward Kennedy" should be a pretty good choice of alias for a would-be terrorist hijacker to use, since that name has surely been removed from the No-Fly list.
I would guess that the actual heat exchange process will take place somewhere on land - the cold water will be pumped up first - so there should be no localized warming of the water in the lake surrounding the inlet.
Why is it that in every damn press release I see online, not one of the URLs is ever a live, clickable link? Is there some press office union rule that insists only people with the skill and knowledge to use copy-and-paste should ever get to look into the background of one of these blurbs?
Sheesh.
Damn you! How did you guess my passwords? I have been using these and others like them for years, but now I see I was only kidding myself when I thought they were secure.
Still, plenty more where those came from.
It may not be the actual law, but in the UK it's a condition of the necessary license to sell petroleum spirit that "The licensee shall take all practicable steps necessary to prevent: [...] the operation of radio transmitting equipment, including Citizens Band radios and mobile telephones in the hazardous area, except for radio transmitting equipment not capable of inducing a current or charge which could ignite a flammable atmosphere as defined in BS 6656"
Pretty well all the filling stations I can recall using in UK have a prominent sign on display forbidding the use of mobile transmitting equipment (including mobile telephones) while refuelling. In fact I believe you're supposed to turn them off, but of course no-one does.
In fact, it's become quite common to see people chatting away as they fill up, especially since we are now banned from using handheld phones while driving.
I'm betting the Golden Ratio comes into A4 paper somehow; anyone want to comment?
RTFA - it's covered. They are not the same thing. But they are often confused.
For instance, Lotus Notes (used by corporations "serviced" by IBM the world around) has a nifty feature whereby should a sender wish, they can block access to many client features like, oh, printing or forwarding.
Ha ha. Any self-respecting power user of Notes will readily be able to defeat this "protection". All it takes is one line of formula language - and given a copy of the correct incantation, any user can execute it.
It's good fun to quote the supposedly copy-proof email back to users who have used this "feature" believing it to be secure.
I took my portable to work one day, and in order to charge the battery, I plugged it in as a USB drive and played my mp3s with Windows XP's Media Player.
Why? Why? FFS, WHY? And why act so surprised? You should know what WMP is like - if you didn't, you do now. Plus, there are well-known and superior alternatives to WMP, so it cannot have been anything other than pure indolence that caused you to choose to allow WMP to screw up your files.