Though what I've noticed is that when a full featured phone is released here in Europe, the US model is always degraded in hardware & software, so it's not just the provider thing.
I've always understood that to be exactly the provider 'thing'. Most of the Nokia models that differ from the 'original' releases are tailored to meet the providers wishes, thus they have a different model number. For example, the original model is Nokia 6210 and if you come across with Nokia 6212, you can be sure that the model is tailored to specific providers needs by disabling some of the hardware/software features.
At least this is how it was done around 2000 when I spent some time in the UK. I noticed that if, let's say, Orange was carrying a certain Nokia model, the last digit was always different (as was the firmware).
A microsoft product is referrign to a microsoft search engine. It's very easy to change it to use a different one.
Yes. It is just as easy as it was in 1998 to change IE to that other browser.. now what was its name? You know, what I mean. I think it started with "net" or something.
Then why didn't F-Secure release a update to detect and remove the rootkit and the rest of the compromising software without waiting for Sony? Not what I call acting in the best interest of anybody except Sony.
And if they were ducking for cover from Sony's lawyers and legal threats, then they're even worse!
Now this is based hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt:
F-Secure (being a Finnish company) couldn't just create a removal tool for the rootkit, because of the uncertainty whether it would be legal or not thanks to the new copyright legislation in Finland.
That's what you get when you vote a former Miss Finland to the parliament.
Nokia's problem is that they keep developing stuff in-house without seeming to gather feedback or comments from their market.
I think that they do listen to their market. I've been looking for a new cellphone which is smallish, comes with a calendar but without a camera, thank you very much. And there's no such thing, because whenever I go to a reseller I hear that the customers in front of me want a cellphone with atleast a megapixel camera.
Doesn't anybody want their cellphones with usefull features anymore, more towards PDA's instead of digital cameras. I guess "the market" is more interested in sneaking shots of teenage girls asses than having a phone with WLAN. Personally I blame the 3G hype, "show the birth of your baby boy in realtime to all your friends!".. and because of that, we now have an armsrace of megapixel cameras in cellphones. The market bought it, and now the manufacturers have to ride it out in the expense of more usefull features.
Good thing I noticed Nokia E60 before I gave in and bought their 6680 model. Once released, the Nokia E60 is going to be a step towards the right direction, at least for me.
Yes, I'd be surprised, as Finland actually lost and gave up the areas Stalin had demanded.
Take a look what Stalin did to the Baltic countries. I would say Finns lost the battle but won the war since it was a fight for survival. Some land was lost but Finland as we know it survived, that sounds like a victory to me.
But in strict military terms, Finland did indeed surrender to the Soviet Union.
Man, I didn't realize there are so many counterfeited euros around.
But what really bugs me is that whenever I read about how good the counterfeits were from a newspaper, they never tell what exactly was forged. I mean, do they use it as an excuse on behalf of the poor soul who accepted the note and was too lazy (or just didn't know how to) properly check the bill.
What I want to know is what fooled the person in the first place, as long as the note wasn't done with a regular printer. Did they check all its key (or at least some, for Petes sake,) security features and the note still passed as a real thing?
Nobody would ever recive, and take the call in a theater.
Unfortunately this is not the case anymore. I live in Finland and during the last year or two people have started answering to their mobiles in theatres. Especially in movie theatres.
This kind of phenomenon did not exist until recently. I was in UK about four years ago, and people were constantly answering their phones during movies. I thought this to be ubelievably rude and told my friends how this would never happen back home.
I guess now that the 13 and under kids with mobiles have grown up, they no longer feel similar kind of social pressure not to answer to their phones in theatres, because the mobiles have become a normal mean of daily communication to them.
They fail because employers don't care or nobody never told them how to spot a counterfeit properly. This is the case at least with Euros.
People rely on the UV-light instead of checking the holograms and other features. If printers/copiers really could produce counterfeits that are almost impossible to spot the government would be buggered. Once again this all leads to the weakest link, the human accepting the money.
Whenever somebody has been circulating counterfeits they have always been easy to spot if you just know what to check and how (and care enough to do so).
Uh gee - remember Sept 11th? Illegals flying into the twin towers and the Pentagon and a field in PA? Murdered thousands? Ring a bell? Definitely have a need to watch out for who is coming into the country.
Right. But what about those who are leaving the country? When I flew out through LAX the only person who was interested about my identity was the Lufthansa check-in lady. Twice through the security and all they wanted to see was my ticket, surely I was the same person. I wouldn't trust the borders to be that secure.
"The United States has long pressured European airlines to submit passenger information in order to prevent the arrival of terrorists in the country."
This happened at LAX when I was returning to Frankfurt with Lufthansa. The only person who checked my passport was the Lufthansa lady at check-in. After that I spent about two hours eating and doing some duty free shopping around the public parts of the terminal. Then I went through the security and nobody ever asked for my passport again. All they were interested about was my boarding pass.
Obviously they don't care about terrorists who might have already sneaked in.
Next thing you know the music industry will want to make an enchantment that fools your brain into thinking that the TeenbandCorporated is actually good.
Can't you people do at least your basic history homework before claiming somebody sided with the Nazis. Besides, that was freaking 50 years ago. LET IT GO!
I'll keep American Republic-Democracy over Swiss Democracy, after all in the US women could vote more than 80 years before they could in Switzerland, even though we are 500 years younger.
80 years does not fempute.
Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and women in Switzerland got the right to vote in 1971.
At least in Finland you would have to watch out. If you photograph a person standing on his/her private yard without their permission, you're quilty of illicit viewing with the maximum penalty of one year in prison. (They'd propably just fine you for that, but nevertheless.)
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Though what I've noticed is that when a full featured phone is released here in Europe, the US model is always degraded in hardware & software, so it's not just the provider thing.
I've always understood that to be exactly the provider 'thing'. Most of the Nokia models that differ from the 'original' releases are tailored to meet the providers wishes, thus they have a different model number. For example, the original model is Nokia 6210 and if you come across with Nokia 6212, you can be sure that the model is tailored to specific providers needs by disabling some of the hardware/software features.
At least this is how it was done around 2000 when I spent some time in the UK. I noticed that if, let's say, Orange was carrying a certain Nokia model, the last digit was always different (as was the firmware).
"Oh well Gromit lets have a cup of tea and a nice bit of cheese. The UK still loves you Ardman"
.. and not a sheep to worry about, eh?
In other words, Kirk will still be fat and bald,..
So you will be crawling back to him for some of that sweet, sweet candy?
A microsoft product is referrign to a microsoft search engine. It's very easy to change it to use a different one.
Yes. It is just as easy as it was in 1998 to change IE to that other browser.. now what was its name? You know, what I mean. I think it started with "net" or something.Or better yet, can we adapt it to detect duplicate Slashdot articles?
Then why didn't F-Secure release a update to detect and remove the rootkit and the rest of the compromising software without waiting for Sony? Not what I call acting in the best interest of anybody except Sony.
And if they were ducking for cover from Sony's lawyers and legal threats, then they're even worse!
Now this is based hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt:
F-Secure (being a Finnish company) couldn't just create a removal tool for the rootkit, because of the uncertainty whether it would be legal or not thanks to the new copyright legislation in Finland.
That's what you get when you vote a former Miss Finland to the parliament.
Nokia's problem is that they keep developing stuff in-house without seeming to gather feedback or comments from their market.
.. and because of that, we now have an armsrace of megapixel cameras in cellphones. The market bought it, and now the manufacturers have to ride it out in the expense of more usefull features.
I think that they do listen to their market. I've been looking for a new cellphone which is smallish, comes with a calendar but without a camera, thank you very much. And there's no such thing, because whenever I go to a reseller I hear that the customers in front of me want a cellphone with atleast a megapixel camera.
Doesn't anybody want their cellphones with usefull features anymore, more towards PDA's instead of digital cameras. I guess "the market" is more interested in sneaking shots of teenage girls asses than having a phone with WLAN. Personally I blame the 3G hype, "show the birth of your baby boy in realtime to all your friends!"
Good thing I noticed Nokia E60 before I gave in and bought their 6680 model. Once released, the Nokia E60 is going to be a step towards the right direction, at least for me.
There's no need for any of those "single sex classes". After all this is Slashdot, we're all over-qualified.
Yes, I'd be surprised, as Finland actually lost and gave up the areas Stalin had demanded.
Take a look what Stalin did to the Baltic countries. I would say Finns lost the battle but won the war since it was a fight for survival. Some land was lost but Finland as we know it survived, that sounds like a victory to me.
But in strict military terms, Finland did indeed surrender to the Soviet Union.
What about a probe on Uranus? hehehehehehehe
I wonder if the astronomers are really going to put on end to that stupid joke once and for all by renaming it to Urectum.
Man, I didn't realize there are so many counterfeited euros around.
But what really bugs me is that whenever I read about how good the counterfeits were from a newspaper, they never tell what exactly was forged. I mean, do they use it as an excuse on behalf of the poor soul who accepted the note and was too lazy (or just didn't know how to) properly check the bill.
What I want to know is what fooled the person in the first place, as long as the note wasn't done with a regular printer. Did they check all its key (or at least some, for Petes sake,) security features and the note still passed as a real thing?
My conclusion is simple. I will not use an US-American ISP.
my 0.02 $
In that case it would be your 0.015 euros. Thank you and come again!
We need a judge to stand up and say that the term cyber-terrorist hereafter only applies to robots with bombs.
..or, in other words, to the governor of California.
Nobody would ever recive, and take the call in a theater.
Unfortunately this is not the case anymore. I live in Finland and during the last year or two people have started answering to their mobiles in theatres. Especially in movie theatres.
This kind of phenomenon did not exist until recently. I was in UK about four years ago, and people were constantly answering their phones during movies. I thought this to be ubelievably rude and told my friends how this would never happen back home.
I guess now that the 13 and under kids with mobiles have grown up, they no longer feel similar kind of social pressure not to answer to their phones in theatres, because the mobiles have become a normal mean of daily communication to them.
So much for the Shangrila.
People rely on the UV-light instead of checking the holograms and other features. If printers/copiers really could produce counterfeits that are almost impossible to spot the government would be buggered. Once again this all leads to the weakest link, the human accepting the money.
Whenever somebody has been circulating counterfeits they have always been easy to spot if you just know what to check and how (and care enough to do so).
Right. But what about those who are leaving the country? When I flew out through LAX the only person who was interested about my identity was the Lufthansa check-in lady. Twice through the security and all they wanted to see was my ticket, surely I was the same person. I wouldn't trust the borders to be that secure.
This happened at LAX when I was returning to Frankfurt with Lufthansa. The only person who checked my passport was the Lufthansa lady at check-in. After that I spent about two hours eating and doing some duty free shopping around the public parts of the terminal. Then I went through the security and nobody ever asked for my passport again. All they were interested about was my boarding pass.
Obviously they don't care about terrorists who might have already sneaked in.
Actually, this is a alpha release...
It's more like "What's long, hard, and full of nerd seamen? our su... *glub* *glub* *glub*
So the alpha release sucks, and swallows too by the sound of it.
Stupud tipo.
"Shut up brain or I'll stab you with a Q-tip!"
Next thing you know the music industry will want to make an enchantment that fools your brain into thinking that the TeenbandCorporated is actually good.
They have a term for it already: Lobotomy.
What is it whit this s**t?
Can't you people do at least your basic history homework before claiming somebody sided with the Nazis. Besides, that was freaking 50 years ago. LET IT GO!
I'll keep American Republic-Democracy over Swiss Democracy, after all in the US women could vote more than 80 years before they could in Switzerland, even though we are 500 years younger.
80 years does not fempute.
Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 and women in Switzerland got the right to vote in 1971.
The Americans refuse to take sides in the length debate until the French and English decide whether the measurement is taken at 0 or 1 degree.
I'd vote for 20 degrees Celsius if you want to measure the length. Things tend to get smaller at lower temperatures.
At least in Finland you would have to watch out. If you photograph a person standing on his/her private yard without their permission, you're quilty of illicit viewing with the maximum penalty of one year in prison. (They'd propably just fine you for that, but nevertheless.)
Here's a short video showing some Laser action (in Quicktime and Windowsmedia).
:)
That would be sooo easy to fake though.