Whilst I can understand your annoyance, if you're suggesting a business-led method for outsing Jobs, you might want to take a look at the stock price of APPL right now and see how it's changed under his stewardship. I doubt you'll persuade the shareholders.
Awesome. Thanks for your answer. Too many/, posts are from people who've only had sim-time rather than done stuff in real life, whether it's flying a plane or configuring an enterprise network
I read your post earlier and thought this unlikely. I've just come back after reading some of the UK papers at lunch, and now think you have a point. If you read the headlines, the editorial comment and the substories, the recurring theme is that Iran nearly has The Bomb, and if/when they do become a nuclear superpower, the rest of the middle east will follow and hilarity ensue. It talks of the Saudis and the Israelis pushing for a preemptive military strike on Iran and backs it up with various horrendous scenarios that might come to pass should this not happen. If someone has just become interested in this since the Wikileaks scandal broke, an dthey pick up a paper/turn on the TV then they're going to be hearing "Iran nearly has teh bomb" over and over again.
In terms of political damage to the US - sure, allegations of spying at the UN (who didn't think this happened anyway?) and a few others, but you could read it as embarassing countries outside the US more whilst furthering its the US's agenda as a precursor to another war in the middle east...
Oh yes, I'm aware of this. Most mechanics working in car dealerships own their own tools (and if you think our toys are expensive, wait until you see what a full cabinet of Snap On tools costs...!)
The point is here that it's a fact that MS Exchange Activesync offers the ability to force-wipe devices. If it didn't we'd be decrying it for not offering enough protection for lost corporate phones. If you (for whatver reason) blur the lines between personal and work data by hooking your own phone up to a work MSX server, then this is what might happen.
For an alternate view, compare to Blackberry - those can full wipe too (which is one of their major selling points - you can hack around it on MSX but AFAIK BB offer the only solution that's pretty much bulletproof). Good luck adding your private BB handset to your corporate BES server without the help of the BES admin.
"it would mean that their phones get into the hands of many "dumb-phone" users"
This is EXACTLY the target audience - the mass market. Look at how many people have the iPhone as their first smart phone. Not geeks/;power users etc - just normal people.
Exactly. Most users are going to be on 2 year contracts, too, so there's a natural cycle in place. MS will have to convince iPhone holders they want to switch, and that's going to take time to gain traction. I went through this iwth Android 0- come renewal time (which was exactly 2 years after the launch of the iPhone 3G) I switched.
I'm in the happy position that I'm joining MS in the new year so will be getting a Win7 work phone to complement my personal Android phone. Looking forward to dabbling.
Can you provide an instance where Google has ever remote wiped a phone synching to Gmail by Exchange Activesync, or point to a policy where you can request this? I don't believe it's ever happened.
No, No. So if you want remote access to your corporate mail, you do it on a company-supplied device and accept they have full control. If you want the convenience of using your personal phone with their exchange server, you accept that this includes the remote wipe nuclear option. The company gets to choose the policies for securing its own data, you get to choose if you bring your personal device to the party or not. It only becomes a problem if a company does something dumb like mandates you use personal phones to connect to their exchange environment and in my experience this pretty much never happens: it's people who go "Oh cool, my iPhone does Exchange! " and connect it to their corporate network for convenience that'll be affected by this.
So if you want remote access to your corporate mail, you do it on a company-supplied device and accept they have full control. If you want the convenience of using your personal phone with their exchange server, you accept that this includes the remote wipe nuclear option. The company gets to choose the policies for securing its own data, you get to choose if you bring your personal device to the party or not. It only becomes a problem if a company does something dumb like mandates you use personal phones to connect to their exchange environment and in my experience this pretty much never happens: it's people who go "Oh cool, my iPhone does Exchange! " and connect it to their corporate network for convenience that'll be affected by this.
Oh, this one time you heard something? THanks for that.
It's very common, for a variety of reasons such as insurance prices, pecking order in the range (eg. Seat/Skoda/VW/Audi), emissions, economy etc. This is why remaps are so popular. The BWM Mini One and Mini Cooper, for example, have identical engines with different ECU software maps. A one-click remap will turn one into the other. Obviously the Cooper has a few other bits and pieces - stiffer dampers etc.
Um, how about "No". Good luck with getting every major current manufacturer to recall and redesign every car they've made in the last 10 years at their own expense.
Good point, yep, I'm in the UK and we have bigger gallons (that's a first, I thought everything was bigger in America!). I called it an aside as you didn't say that, but a lot of US opinion on diesels seems to think this.
In terms of cost, a UK spec diesel might cost a bit more than a petrol engined version. However, the economy is way greater, and despite the fact that diesel is slightly more expensive here than petrol (I paid 1.23 UKP a litre last night vs 1.17 UKP for 99 RON petrol) I'm getting 50mph compared to 30mph in a 1.8T petrol version. Do a few hundred miles a month and it makes a noticeable difference, plus my 50-70 times are *way* quicker than the petrol and I get max torque at 2.5k revs...
I don't know how they tested a Jetta 1.9TDI and got mileage that poor out of it. I've a VAG 1.9TDI PD130 engine in my Skoda Superb (basically a stretched VW Passat - 5m long and 2 tonnes) and it gets over 50mpg with no problem whatsoever. I've seen 55 on long runs, and regularly get 43 commuting in gridlock.
The urea treatment and diesel particulate filter is common in all Euro 4 diesels - all Euro diesels sold now do this AFAIK.
VW also has the "Bluemotion" line (slightly taller gearing, better aero, lower rolling resistance tyres) variants of most of their diesels that'll do even better MPG - the Polo will do 70mpg on conventional diesel.
As an aside, anyone who thinks diesels are dirty, slow or smelly should sit in an Audi A4 3.0TDI or a BMW 330d.
No, MS's PR drones just issued a blanket statement saying they wouldn't support reverse engineerd Kinect units and they'd prefer you to connect them to Xboxes instead. Seems reasonable to me. Did you expect GPL'd code for them from MS?
And if MS sell any advertising service (and it's a big IF, the CFO said it was possible, not that it would happen) then obviously part of the service they offer will include support. I could imagine your Kinect in your home tailoring ads to number of people, size etc. I could also imagine a future service using a Kinect sensor outside the Xbox world. Both are possible, both don't exist right now, and both, I'm sure, would be supported if MS officially went down that route.
SMS on GSM works kind of like this. If your phone is on, you'll get the message. If it's out of coverage or tunred off, the network will resend periodically (and your phone will ask for it when it comes back on). You only receive it once regardless.
You'd send it to all phones within a particular cell or cell's coverage. GSM phones already have "Cell Broadcast" to support exactly this - in the UK it's often used to display the local dialling code of the area that you're currently in on your phone display. I last used it on some ancient Nokia about 10 years ago. There also exists GSM "Flash" SMS - these are specially formed SMS messages that just pop up on the display - they don't just beep or display an icon, they display the text immediately on the screen of the phone without any interaction. I used to use the same ancient nokia and some PC software to generate these to freak out friends back in the day (also fun sending out operator logo texts - if someone hit "accept" then the "Nokia" logo on their phone was semi-permanently swapped to something slightly more offensive!).
This isn't needed, because it's already been done. Check out the Motorola F3 "Zombie Phone". Massive battery lief, e-ink numeric display, unlocked, cheap and virtually no other features.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_FONE_F3
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Good points. I think it's easy to underestimate the fickleness of the consumer and as you say they have some real competition coming their way.
Whilst I can understand your annoyance, if you're suggesting a business-led method for outsing Jobs, you might want to take a look at the stock price of APPL right now and see how it's changed under his stewardship. I doubt you'll persuade the shareholders.
Google has the ability to remotely brick my android phone? Citation needed.
is there such a thing as an "accurised" M16? I.e. someone paying a fair amount of money to an armourer to tune a standard rifle for higher accuracy?
if there's any justice in the world, the hearse will have flashing lights on top and will crash into some bins...
Awesome. Thanks for your answer. Too many /, posts are from people who've only had sim-time rather than done stuff in real life, whether it's flying a plane or configuring an enterprise network
I read your post earlier and thought this unlikely. I've just come back after reading some of the UK papers at lunch, and now think you have a point. If you read the headlines, the editorial comment and the substories, the recurring theme is that Iran nearly has The Bomb, and if/when they do become a nuclear superpower, the rest of the middle east will follow and hilarity ensue. It talks of the Saudis and the Israelis pushing for a preemptive military strike on Iran and backs it up with various horrendous scenarios that might come to pass should this not happen.
If someone has just become interested in this since the Wikileaks scandal broke, an dthey pick up a paper/turn on the TV then they're going to be hearing "Iran nearly has teh bomb" over and over again. In terms of political damage to the US - sure, allegations of spying at the UN (who didn't think this happened anyway?) and a few others, but you could read it as embarassing countries outside the US more whilst furthering its the US's agenda as a precursor to another war in the middle east...
Of course, I *hope* I'm wrong.
Oh yes, I'm aware of this. Most mechanics working in car dealerships own their own tools (and if you think our toys are expensive, wait until you see what a full cabinet of Snap On tools costs...!)
The point is here that it's a fact that MS Exchange Activesync offers the ability to force-wipe devices. If it didn't we'd be decrying it for not offering enough protection for lost corporate phones. If you (for whatver reason) blur the lines between personal and work data by hooking your own phone up to a work MSX server, then this is what might happen.
For an alternate view, compare to Blackberry - those can full wipe too (which is one of their major selling points - you can hack around it on MSX but AFAIK BB offer the only solution that's pretty much bulletproof). Good luck adding your private BB handset to your corporate BES server without the help of the BES admin.
"it would mean that their phones get into the hands of many "dumb-phone" users"
This is EXACTLY the target audience - the mass market. Look at how many people have the iPhone as their first smart phone. Not geeks/;power users etc - just normal people.
Exactly. Most users are going to be on 2 year contracts, too, so there's a natural cycle in place. MS will have to convince iPhone holders they want to switch, and that's going to take time to gain traction. I went through this iwth Android 0- come renewal time (which was exactly 2 years after the launch of the iPhone 3G) I switched.
I'm in the happy position that I'm joining MS in the new year so will be getting a Win7 work phone to complement my personal Android phone. Looking forward to dabbling.
Hint: MS don't sell phones. Phone networks sell phones, usually on expensive monthly contracts.
"Real Men don't make backups. They upload it via bacteria and let the world mirror it."
wow, there's some advanced TFH thinking there
bear in mind the time it'll take to restore from a remotely-held Mozy backup, given the speed of your internet connection...
Maybe it's just a way of easily identifying journalists. Anyone carrying a DSLR - probably a journalist. Moderate behaviour around them accordingly...
Can you provide an instance where Google has ever remote wiped a phone synching to Gmail by Exchange Activesync, or point to a policy where you can request this? I don't believe it's ever happened.
No, No. So if you want remote access to your corporate mail, you do it on a company-supplied device and accept they have full control. If you want the convenience of using your personal phone with their exchange server, you accept that this includes the remote wipe nuclear option. The company gets to choose the policies for securing its own data, you get to choose if you bring your personal device to the party or not. It only becomes a problem if a company does something dumb like mandates you use personal phones to connect to their exchange environment and in my experience this pretty much never happens: it's people who go "Oh cool, my iPhone does Exchange! " and connect it to their corporate network for convenience that'll be affected by this.
So if you want remote access to your corporate mail, you do it on a company-supplied device and accept they have full control. If you want the convenience of using your personal phone with their exchange server, you accept that this includes the remote wipe nuclear option. The company gets to choose the policies for securing its own data, you get to choose if you bring your personal device to the party or not. It only becomes a problem if a company does something dumb like mandates you use personal phones to connect to their exchange environment and in my experience this pretty much never happens: it's people who go "Oh cool, my iPhone does Exchange! " and connect it to their corporate network for convenience that'll be affected by this.
Oh, this one time you heard something? THanks for that.
It's very common, for a variety of reasons such as insurance prices, pecking order in the range (eg. Seat/Skoda/VW/Audi), emissions, economy etc. This is why remaps are so popular. The BWM Mini One and Mini Cooper, for example, have identical engines with different ECU software maps. A one-click remap will turn one into the other. Obviously the Cooper has a few other bits and pieces - stiffer dampers etc.
Um, how about "No". Good luck with getting every major current manufacturer to recall and redesign every car they've made in the last 10 years at their own expense.
Good point, yep, I'm in the UK and we have bigger gallons (that's a first, I thought everything was bigger in America!). I called it an aside as you didn't say that, but a lot of US opinion on diesels seems to think this.
In terms of cost, a UK spec diesel might cost a bit more than a petrol engined version. However, the economy is way greater, and despite the fact that diesel is slightly more expensive here than petrol (I paid 1.23 UKP a litre last night vs 1.17 UKP for 99 RON petrol) I'm getting 50mph compared to 30mph in a 1.8T petrol version. Do a few hundred miles a month and it makes a noticeable difference, plus my 50-70 times are *way* quicker than the petrol and I get max torque at 2.5k revs...
I don't know how they tested a Jetta 1.9TDI and got mileage that poor out of it. I've a VAG 1.9TDI PD130 engine in my Skoda Superb (basically a stretched VW Passat - 5m long and 2 tonnes) and it gets over 50mpg with no problem whatsoever. I've seen 55 on long runs, and regularly get 43 commuting in gridlock.
The urea treatment and diesel particulate filter is common in all Euro 4 diesels - all Euro diesels sold now do this AFAIK.
VW also has the "Bluemotion" line (slightly taller gearing, better aero, lower rolling resistance tyres) variants of most of their diesels that'll do even better MPG - the Polo will do 70mpg on conventional diesel.
As an aside, anyone who thinks diesels are dirty, slow or smelly should sit in an Audi A4 3.0TDI or a BMW 330d.
No, MS's PR drones just issued a blanket statement saying they wouldn't support reverse engineerd Kinect units and they'd prefer you to connect them to Xboxes instead. Seems reasonable to me. Did you expect GPL'd code for them from MS?
And if MS sell any advertising service (and it's a big IF, the CFO said it was possible, not that it would happen) then obviously part of the service they offer will include support. I could imagine your Kinect in your home tailoring ads to number of people, size etc. I could also imagine a future service using a Kinect sensor outside the Xbox world. Both are possible, both don't exist right now, and both, I'm sure, would be supported if MS officially went down that route.
SMS on GSM works kind of like this. If your phone is on, you'll get the message. If it's out of coverage or tunred off, the network will resend periodically (and your phone will ask for it when it comes back on). You only receive it once regardless.
You'd send it to all phones within a particular cell or cell's coverage. GSM phones already have "Cell Broadcast" to support exactly this - in the UK it's often used to display the local dialling code of the area that you're currently in on your phone display. I last used it on some ancient Nokia about 10 years ago. There also exists GSM "Flash" SMS - these are specially formed SMS messages that just pop up on the display - they don't just beep or display an icon, they display the text immediately on the screen of the phone without any interaction. I used to use the same ancient nokia and some PC software to generate these to freak out friends back in the day (also fun sending out operator logo texts - if someone hit "accept" then the "Nokia" logo on their phone was semi-permanently swapped to something slightly more offensive!).
This isn't needed, because it's already been done. Check out the Motorola F3 "Zombie Phone". Massive battery lief, e-ink numeric display, unlocked, cheap and virtually no other features. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_FONE_F3