Fortunately there is always the option to vote with your wallet and not use verizon service. There are two national GSM carriers and tons of regionals. You almost always have the option of picking a carrier who uses a truly open network (GSM). For information on GSM carriers see GSM World. I have long been using unbranded/locked devices on ATT's network and the experience is far and above that you could get with any of the crappy proprietary devices. And when I travel abroad, I can easily grab a prepaid sim from the country I'm in, pop it into the phone I already have and be good to go.
I think it's pretty slimy that verizon does things like disable USB on devices in order to force users to transfer their pictures over their pay-per-transfer type service. Don't let them get you with lockin. Bring your own device (byod) and pick the national or regional carrier that suites your usage pattern best.
Not to say she's been a bad senator. But, the Iraq vote is very troubling. Only six Senators are on record as checking in to the locked room to read the full (96 page) intelligence report. Yes, it was full of lies. But, John Edwards *did*. Clinton? McCain? Neither. They believed.
Which is why Hillary will not be getting my vote.
That said, the only candidate who has consistently gotten it right on the Iraq War is Kucinich. It is undeniable (I don't even think republicans deny it at this point) that the reasons for going into Iraq were without merit. See DK speak about Iraq.
That said, DK has virtually given his backing to Obama saying that if he doesn't get the nomination Obama would be the next best choice. Based on the fact that DK doesn't stand a chance of getting the election, and that DK, who has been right all along, said vote Obama if not me... I'm going to have to go with Obama.
Xen doesn't need modified guests, I've tested multiple microsoft os's and linux distributions under it without modified gusts. It works. But, it requires hardware virtualization capability to run in HVM mode. Additionally, disk IO and network IO are terrible due to qemu's disk controller/network card emulation.
Blame the Clinton and Gore all you want, but don't forget that the DMCA was passed by a republican controlled house and senate. To me, the RNC is EQUALLY as responsible as Clinton and Gore for this - they had the power to prevent such legislation from ever making it to Clinton's office to sign. What has Bush done to undo this injustice, anyways? How about Orin Hatch?
I think that's wrong. From the specifications, it looks like it's a GSM phone (they don't specifically say it's GSM nor do they say which frequencies it's radio supports) from the fact they say it supports GPRS.
As a result, it should work on *any* of the GSM carriers in the US that support the frequencies it uses. Let's assume for a moment it supports at a minimum 900/1800/1900 (hopefully 850 too) - like most tri-band devices do.
Take a look here. According to GSM world there are quite a few GSM carriers in the US. That list seems to exclude Unicel, which is actually a fairly large company in it's own right. Most of the carriers do support the 1900mhz band at a minimum though there are a few 850 only carriers.
Unfortunately, it's lack of GSM850 means the Greenphone won't be quite up to par (at least on some GSM networks) in the US. It also lacks UMTS/HSDPA (as does the iPhone, which is a major reason I won't get one).
Once someone comes out with an open phone that does GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS-HSDPA 1900(US)/2100(Everywhere Else) (btw, hsdpa is downwards compatible with umts), then I'd be interested.
On ANY airline? I used my Macbook Pro plugged in on my last trip to europe. FYI this was aboard a Northwest Airlines A330 (A332 I believe). Worked both up front (only the first [n] rows have power, with [n] I think being 20) and in business class fine. Watched every episode of season 1 of the boondocks which I had just gotten on DVD. Can't speak for other jets, but the 330's I was on had no problem supplying my laptop with power.
Sure, but conversely my grandmother uses IRC to chat with other old people, can ssh into a *nix box to check her email in pine, knows how to publish web pages from the command line etc etc. She also uses computer aided sewing machines, draws in photoshop, and manages a mailing list.
Now granted, every once in a while she'll send me a false virus email, or some stupid chain letter - but I get that same crap from people under 70 too. Perhaps, it's about intelligence - with people like Ted Stevens *clearly lacking* and people like my grandmother not?
No - they do honor it. At least the one that pays me does (and tmobile being a large eu carrier, I would be really surprised if they don't). The stolen IMEI list is not for banning your customers that have unlocked devices, it's only to be used in the event that a device is stolen. After all, if carriers banned all unlocked devices, the list would get huge, and the bigger the list the more resources the carrier needs to scan the list each time a device registers on the network.
I'm not sure how useful an unlocked SK would be on a network that doesn't support all the little things on the back end that makes the SK useful - and in the US that pretty much means tmobile. The owner of the device in question should ask T-Mobile to ban it's IMEI. That will effectively (not literally) brick the device and end the controversy.
Since the SK is a GSM device it'll have an International Mobile Equipment ID (IMEI). This is different than your IMSI (Intl Mobile Subscriber ID), in that the IMSI is tied to a subscriber and account, and the IMEI is tied to a device. Report the device stolen (your carrier will have the device IMEI if you bought it from them). As soon as someone slips their own SIM into the device, or tries to use your SIM, the carrier can track down many things about the user. In the case of their own SIM, they will know who the user is that is associated with said SIM. If the person is using your SIM, they can still track the user based on calls (after all, it is your account you can authorize them to track this info) as well as distance and angle (which directional antenna). Additionally, there is an international registry of stolen IMEI's, so if someone takes your device to another country, chances are it won't work if it's on that list.
It worked fine on my 2ghz AMD64 from the 2004.0 CD. And as for those complaining how long it takes to compile stuff, well if you dont want an OS that gives you those options you can always use emerge packages, or just install SuSE.:)
P.s. this release abolsutely flys on the AMD64. I started the emerge, and at the time it was downloading QT I left to go get some fast food. A quick drive down the road through the pickup window, and back down the road I had come up and I was home, and QT was already completly compiled/installed (and it was working on another package). Shortly after that, I was in KDE 3.2...
"Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."
Isn't finding bugs and reporting them part of the spirit?
If my understand is correct, some of the guys from the GNU Radio Project have developed a USB based software radio device that works with in linux. It is called the Universal Software Radio Peripheral. I think the first prototypes have shipped. The cost is pretty close to your price range. You can see it in action running an oscope program here. And of course it can be extended to do many more exciting things.
Have you tried the kde print interface? I have a network printer. I simply went to the print dialog, clicked on the wizard, told it to scan and boom there was my printer. I said ok, then printed the document which looked perfect.
One would think a piece of paper would be prior art in this case.:) Or maybe a post-it pad with only a few pieces of paper (to be credit card sized).
Just another reason why patents and "IP" need to be done away with.
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Fortunately there is always the option to vote with your wallet and not use verizon service. There are two national GSM carriers and tons of regionals. You almost always have the option of picking a carrier who uses a truly open network (GSM). For information on GSM carriers see GSM World. I have long been using unbranded/locked devices on ATT's network and the experience is far and above that you could get with any of the crappy proprietary devices. And when I travel abroad, I can easily grab a prepaid sim from the country I'm in, pop it into the phone I already have and be good to go.
I think it's pretty slimy that verizon does things like disable USB on devices in order to force users to transfer their pictures over their pay-per-transfer type service. Don't let them get you with lockin. Bring your own device (byod) and pick the national or regional carrier that suites your usage pattern best.
Not to say she's been a bad senator. But, the Iraq vote is very troubling. Only six Senators are on record as checking in to the locked room to read the full (96 page) intelligence report. Yes, it was full of lies. But, John Edwards *did*. Clinton? McCain? Neither. They believed.
Which is why Hillary will not be getting my vote.
That said, the only candidate who has consistently gotten it right on the Iraq War is Kucinich. It is undeniable (I don't even think republicans deny it at this point) that the reasons for going into Iraq were without merit. See DK speak about Iraq.
That said, DK has virtually given his backing to Obama saying that if he doesn't get the nomination Obama would be the next best choice. Based on the fact that DK doesn't stand a chance of getting the election, and that DK, who has been right all along, said vote Obama if not me... I'm going to have to go with Obama.
Xen doesn't need modified guests, I've tested multiple microsoft os's and linux distributions under it without modified gusts. It works. But, it requires hardware virtualization capability to run in HVM mode. Additionally, disk IO and network IO are terrible due to qemu's disk controller/network card emulation.
Blame the Clinton and Gore all you want, but don't forget that the DMCA was passed by a republican controlled house and senate. To me, the RNC is EQUALLY as responsible as Clinton and Gore for this - they had the power to prevent such legislation from ever making it to Clinton's office to sign. What has Bush done to undo this injustice, anyways? How about Orin Hatch?
I think that's wrong. From the specifications, it looks like it's a GSM phone (they don't specifically say it's GSM nor do they say which frequencies it's radio supports) from the fact they say it supports GPRS.
As a result, it should work on *any* of the GSM carriers in the US that support the frequencies it uses. Let's assume for a moment it supports at a minimum 900/1800/1900 (hopefully 850 too) - like most tri-band devices do.
Take a look here. According to GSM world there are quite a few GSM carriers in the US. That list seems to exclude Unicel, which is actually a fairly large company in it's own right. Most of the carriers do support the 1900mhz band at a minimum though there are a few 850 only carriers.
Unfortunately, it's lack of GSM850 means the Greenphone won't be quite up to par (at least on some GSM networks) in the US. It also lacks UMTS/HSDPA (as does the iPhone, which is a major reason I won't get one). Once someone comes out with an open phone that does GSM 850/900/1800/1900 and UMTS-HSDPA 1900(US)/2100(Everywhere Else) (btw, hsdpa is downwards compatible with umts), then I'd be interested.
On ANY airline? I used my Macbook Pro plugged in on my last trip to europe. FYI this was aboard a Northwest Airlines A330 (A332 I believe). Worked both up front (only the first [n] rows have power, with [n] I think being 20) and in business class fine. Watched every episode of season 1 of the boondocks which I had just gotten on DVD. Can't speak for other jets, but the 330's I was on had no problem supplying my laptop with power.
Sure, but conversely my grandmother uses IRC to chat with other old people, can ssh into a *nix box to check her email in pine, knows how to publish web pages from the command line etc etc. She also uses computer aided sewing machines, draws in photoshop, and manages a mailing list. Now granted, every once in a while she'll send me a false virus email, or some stupid chain letter - but I get that same crap from people under 70 too. Perhaps, it's about intelligence - with people like Ted Stevens *clearly lacking* and people like my grandmother not?
No - they do honor it. At least the one that pays me does (and tmobile being a large eu carrier, I would be really surprised if they don't). The stolen IMEI list is not for banning your customers that have unlocked devices, it's only to be used in the event that a device is stolen. After all, if carriers banned all unlocked devices, the list would get huge, and the bigger the list the more resources the carrier needs to scan the list each time a device registers on the network. I'm not sure how useful an unlocked SK would be on a network that doesn't support all the little things on the back end that makes the SK useful - and in the US that pretty much means tmobile. The owner of the device in question should ask T-Mobile to ban it's IMEI. That will effectively (not literally) brick the device and end the controversy.
Since the SK is a GSM device it'll have an International Mobile Equipment ID (IMEI). This is different than your IMSI (Intl Mobile Subscriber ID), in that the IMSI is tied to a subscriber and account, and the IMEI is tied to a device. Report the device stolen (your carrier will have the device IMEI if you bought it from them). As soon as someone slips their own SIM into the device, or tries to use your SIM, the carrier can track down many things about the user. In the case of their own SIM, they will know who the user is that is associated with said SIM. If the person is using your SIM, they can still track the user based on calls (after all, it is your account you can authorize them to track this info) as well as distance and angle (which directional antenna). Additionally, there is an international registry of stolen IMEI's, so if someone takes your device to another country, chances are it won't work if it's on that list.
But the code is printed on charts, so you don't actually *have to* know morse code, if you have your charts with you, which you're supposed to have.
It worked fine on my 2ghz AMD64 from the 2004.0 CD. And as for those complaining how long it takes to compile stuff, well if you dont want an OS that gives you those options you can always use emerge packages, or just install SuSE. :)
P.s. this release abolsutely flys on the AMD64. I started the emerge, and at the time it was downloading QT I left to go get some fast food. A quick drive down the road through the pickup window, and back down the road I had come up and I was home, and QT was already completly compiled/installed (and it was working on another package). Shortly after that, I was in KDE 3.2...
"Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."
Isn't finding bugs and reporting them part of the spirit?
If my understand is correct, some of the guys from the GNU Radio Project have developed a USB based software radio device that works with in linux. It is called the Universal Software Radio Peripheral. I think the first prototypes have shipped. The cost is pretty close to your price range. You can see it in action running an oscope program here. And of course it can be extended to do many more exciting things.
Have you tried the kde print interface? I have a network printer. I simply went to the print dialog, clicked on the wizard, told it to scan and boom there was my printer. I said ok, then printed the document which looked perfect.
Hello happiness, I think its time to switch.
One would think a piece of paper would be prior art in this case. :) Or maybe a post-it pad with only a few pieces of paper (to be credit card sized).
Just another reason why patents and "IP" need to be done away with.