throttle by wire is common: VW golfs have had this since 2000/2001 and i'm presuming so do all Audis/Skodas/Seats and probably many more. brake by wire's getting common and steer by wire's coming from Honda shortly...
"Also, all mac laptops have the latest and greatest stuff"
Um, like 7200rpm drives as standard? Nope. Like Core2Duo before the cheap Wintel Laptops? No. Like cheap, powerful graphics cards? No. They make great hardware, but you can't pretend it's cheap or cutting edge in terms of components.
...it's a bit light on specifics. "Powerful"? If you mean CPU-power, then an Intel Core2Duo running OS X is pretty much the same as running Windows. It's then all about the applications available...
...you need to consider that without x amount of advertising, revenue would be decreased by y. if you don't spend on sales and marketing, you get less revenue. less revenue = company has less to spend on R&D. big pharma is *hurting* right now (check Pfizer's decimation of staff last month, AZ's 5% headcount cut announced yesterday, et al) and they're not spending the S&M money for fun...
£135/year is dirt cheap for what you get. Multiple channels of high quality TV (if you've got small kids, then Cebeebies is worth the licence fee alone - quality kids TV programming, no adverts to drive them into an I-want frenzy, with a "Bedtime Hour" cutoff at 7pm that you can build into their routine to get them to bed), multiple radio channels, the BBC website, quality investigative reporting, excellent journalism - the list goes on. UK Media would be a lot poorer if the BBC were forced into becoming an ad-driven whore like the other channels.
OK. Fair comments in the main: but most UK phones *are* sim-locked.
HTC locking is nothign to do with MS - it's the carriers choice. You could say MS are even making it easier to unlock given the ease with which unlocking code can be run on these devices.
Me, I'm in favour of SIM locking phones. It means they're nice and cheap, and there's always a plentiful supply on ebay of the latest and greatest which can be unlocked for 5UKP or so to run on the network of your choice...
indeed. Plus, you get plausible deniability. Is leaving a cardboard box on the sidewalk likely to be considered a bomb hoax? OK. How about leaving a coffee cup? Or howabout next time you drop a bag of trash? At some point people have got to realise that once you start accepting this kind of crap, that civil rights have *gone*. No legal statute is going to be able to discriminate between different levels of might-look-like-a-potential-bomb-if-you-were-brain dead...
is *how* this'll be used. I've never seen a handset that'll connect to a network share over bluetooth, although I could have missed it. How are you going to receive files from it?
the XDA crippling is annoying, but easily remedied. Register on http://www.xda-developers.com/ and get a later, unbranded ROM installed. It'll usually have significant improvements in all areas including radio performance.
in Europe, virtually all phones - whether contract or pay-as-you-go - are locked to an individual phone company vendor. sure, you can buy unlocked, unbranded handsets, but you pay full price. vendor phones are heavily subsidised.
for a comparison, have a look at prices on a typical UK phone company website: http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handsets/pay_mo nthly/all/all, versus a typical UK reseller of unbranded, unlocked phones: http://www.expansys.com/t.aspx?f=22.
The only people who pay full price for unlocked phones are early adopters and geeks. Others, like me, buy the phones the early adopters are bored of via ebay, and unlock them ourselves.
I've just got myself a nice HTC Wizard for 120UKP this way, which I've unlocked and debranded, and sped up by around 40% using a "Mr Clean" ROM via http://www.xda-developers.com/.
Where do I get a mains supply from? Um, howabout an inverter hooked up the the 12V electrical system of the vehicle it's mounted on. Do I have to think of *everything?*?
it doesn't really. it'll require you to *pair* with another device to allow you to send/receive without explicit authorisation, but there's nothign to stop bored kids finding your device (if you have it set to "discoverable") and sending you vcards with abusive text, as an example. some phones notably were sold that automatically accepted transfers to/from non-paired devices without any interaction, however - e.g. early bluetooth nokias.
this is why programs like BTCrawler for Windows Mobile devices are popular - allows you to scan for nearby devices, find out what services are running and if they're vulnerable, steal their phone books over bluetooth - "bluesnarfing"...
You can't always run away. What's the spread of this thing? What about if it's applied to an enclosed space? Presumably it has some significant range, too: imagine this fired into a densely-populated, enclosed space such as a football auditorium, or an outdoor demonstration in a fenced area? This doesn't sound good, at all.
Debates that reference a secret, military technologies supposed battery life can be dismissed out of hand as we just don't know what the figures might be: and surely it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that they could JUST PLUG THE THING INTO THE MAINS SUPPLY.
the old "credit card" form factor ones were fragile. well, they were pretty robust but being thin, sitting on them in a back pocket tended to break them. the newer keyfob style ones are nigh-on indestructible.
and yes, the correction magic *is* what you're paying for...as the saying goes: "fast, cheap, good. pick two."
"You are employed by your company to service the tools they use to generate the money that pays your salary. You are a cost to the company.
They owe you politeness out of common decency, but common sense suggests you should avoid interrupting their work."
Um, no. I'm part of an IS organisation that actively saves the business money right,left and centre. We're providing new tools that let you do your business workflow in half the time. We're providing new ways of working whilst you're on the road, with access to all the office systems. We're decommissioning a fuckload of old systems that duplicate each other's functionality, don't talk to each other and are costing the company a fortune in licence fees - and replacing them with one that requires one guy to look after it, rather than the 5 bodies you're currently paying for.
The view that IS/IT support is a pure cost center is archaic. Lumping us in with the guy who dusts the plastic plants and fills the vending machine is, frankly, insulting.
...SPEWS and other blacklists don't force anyone to use them. If you're having trouble with a block, it's because someone's ISP has decided that using SPEWS blacklists works for them. It makes commercial sense...
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throttle by wire is common: VW golfs have had this since 2000/2001 and i'm presuming so do all Audis/Skodas/Seats and probably many more. brake by wire's getting common and steer by wire's coming from Honda shortly...
"Also, all mac laptops have the latest and greatest stuff"
Um, like 7200rpm drives as standard? Nope. Like Core2Duo before the cheap Wintel Laptops? No. Like cheap, powerful graphics cards? No. They make great hardware, but you can't pretend it's cheap or cutting edge in terms of components.
...it's a bit light on specifics. "Powerful"? If you mean CPU-power, then an Intel Core2Duo running OS X is pretty much the same as running Windows. It's then all about the applications available...
1) Never
2) If they did, your already thin margins would be squeezed to non-existent and you'd go out of business.
3) No profit
this doesn't take into account the extreme differences between patented and generic drugs. anyone can make generics...
...you need to consider that without x amount of advertising, revenue would be decreased by y. if you don't spend on sales and marketing, you get less revenue. less revenue = company has less to spend on R&D. big pharma is *hurting* right now (check Pfizer's decimation of staff last month, AZ's 5% headcount cut announced yesterday, et al) and they're not spending the S&M money for fun...
£135/year is dirt cheap for what you get. Multiple channels of high quality TV (if you've got small kids, then Cebeebies is worth the licence fee alone - quality kids TV programming, no adverts to drive them into an I-want frenzy, with a "Bedtime Hour" cutoff at 7pm that you can build into their routine to get them to bed), multiple radio channels, the BBC website, quality investigative reporting, excellent journalism - the list goes on. UK Media would be a lot poorer if the BBC were forced into becoming an ad-driven whore like the other channels.
look up "take ownership". If you have local admin, you have access to any and all files on that box.
Nice! Thanks for the tip, explains a lot.
OK. Fair comments in the main: but most UK phones *are* sim-locked.
HTC locking is nothign to do with MS - it's the carriers choice. You could say MS are even making it easier to unlock given the ease with which unlocking code can be run on these devices.
Me, I'm in favour of SIM locking phones. It means they're nice and cheap, and there's always a plentiful supply on ebay of the latest and greatest which can be unlocked for 5UKP or so to run on the network of your choice...
Please do this. This is a great idea. Preferably film the results...
indeed. Plus, you get plausible deniability. Is leaving a cardboard box on the sidewalk likely to be considered a bomb hoax? OK. How about leaving a coffee cup? Or howabout next time you drop a bag of trash? At some point people have got to realise that once you start accepting this kind of crap, that civil rights have *gone*. No legal statute is going to be able to discriminate between different levels of might-look-like-a-potential-bomb-if-you-were-brain dead...
is *how* this'll be used. I've never seen a handset that'll connect to a network share over bluetooth, although I could have missed it. How are you going to receive files from it?
the XDA crippling is annoying, but easily remedied. Register on http://www.xda-developers.com/ and get a later, unbranded ROM installed. It'll usually have significant improvements in all areas including radio performance.
for a comparison, have a look at prices on a typical UK phone company website: http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handsets/pay_m
The only people who pay full price for unlocked phones are early adopters and geeks. Others, like me, buy the phones the early adopters are bored of via ebay, and unlock them ourselves.
I've just got myself a nice HTC Wizard for 120UKP this way, which I've unlocked and debranded, and sped up by around 40% using a "Mr Clean" ROM via http://www.xda-developers.com/.
Where do I get a mains supply from? Um, howabout an inverter hooked up the the 12V electrical system of the vehicle it's mounted on. Do I have to think of *everything?*?
if you don't want to pay more than $50 for an item, DON'T BID MORE THAN $50 FOR IT. for christ's sake, this isn't rocket science.
this post is the perfect example of the type of signal/noise ratio we currently have on slashdot.
it doesn't really. it'll require you to *pair* with another device to allow you to send/receive without explicit authorisation, but there's nothign to stop bored kids finding your device (if you have it set to "discoverable") and sending you vcards with abusive text, as an example. some phones notably were sold that automatically accepted transfers to/from non-paired devices without any interaction, however - e.g. early bluetooth nokias.
this is why programs like BTCrawler for Windows Mobile devices are popular - allows you to scan for nearby devices, find out what services are running and if they're vulnerable, steal their phone books over bluetooth - "bluesnarfing"...
You can't always run away. What's the spread of this thing? What about if it's applied to an enclosed space? Presumably it has some significant range, too: imagine this fired into a densely-populated, enclosed space such as a football auditorium, or an outdoor demonstration in a fenced area? This doesn't sound good, at all.
Debates that reference a secret, military technologies supposed battery life can be dismissed out of hand as we just don't know what the figures might be: and surely it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that they could JUST PLUG THE THING INTO THE MAINS SUPPLY.
the old "credit card" form factor ones were fragile. well, they were pretty robust but being thin, sitting on them in a back pocket tended to break them. the newer keyfob style ones are nigh-on indestructible. and yes, the correction magic *is* what you're paying for...as the saying goes: "fast, cheap, good. pick two."
They owe you politeness out of common decency, but common sense suggests you should avoid interrupting their work."
Um, no. I'm part of an IS organisation that actively saves the business money right,left and centre. We're providing new tools that let you do your business workflow in half the time. We're providing new ways of working whilst you're on the road, with access to all the office systems. We're decommissioning a fuckload of old systems that duplicate each other's functionality, don't talk to each other and are costing the company a fortune in licence fees - and replacing them with one that requires one guy to look after it, rather than the 5 bodies you're currently paying for.
The view that IS/IT support is a pure cost center is archaic. Lumping us in with the guy who dusts the plastic plants and fills the vending machine is, frankly, insulting.
...when you joined your ISP. If they adhere to them, you can't complain. If they don't, you can. End of story.
...SPEWS and other blacklists don't force anyone to use them. If you're having trouble with a block, it's because someone's ISP has decided that using SPEWS blacklists works for them. It makes commercial sense...
...for FAT32. this is noticeable in an age of dvd backups...