Gutenberg's great, but what we need is e-lending from Libraries. In the UK, this is sort of possible via Overdrive - if you have an "approved" device then you can borrow eBooks from UK libraries. For some reason they seem to be keeping this a secret despite having done it in some form since 2004. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/26/libraries-ebook-restrictions
Only works on some devices, like the Sony readers.
To me, this is the killer app and I'd buy an eReader that allowed easy borrowing (i.e. time-expired downloads ) of current fiction in a heartbeat...
How do you function in society?
You accept a company's guarantee to behave in a certain way from your bank, you expect your legal system to behave in a certain way.
You expect the company that produces any pharmaceuticals you take to make certain guarantees as to quality, testing, efficacy and manufacture.
It's a forensic tool. Company X will certify that smartwater product ID 12345678abc was manufactured on a set date, track its packaging and dispatch to a specific customer, and then retain their records and full audit trail for inspection by law enforcement.
Just think of it as a marker that contains a guaranteed unique identifier. backed up by a system that records which company is associated with that uniique identifier, and records to prove that they were the only company who has access to that identifier. It's millions of tiny (unique to that instance) serial numbers mixed up in a solution of UV-flourescent glue. This isn't that hard to understand, surely?
Thank you. I've been reading the completely naive "explanations" of how this must work and was working up to attempting a post like yours. It's obvious that after even a moment's introspection that this stuff does have a use, and isn't simply an excuse to arrest anyone covered in UV paint. Cheers
Yeah, I'll third this. For anything other than a handful of desktops or laptops, it's a terrible idea to build your own unless your time is worth nothing.. Buy from Dell or IBM or whoever and you get fixed TCO over a set lifecycle, the company can write off the cost ads desductable, and you get a hardware refresh evey 3 years or so which keeps the users happy. Something blows up? A dell tech is onsite with replacement components in half a day, and it gets fixed at desk. If you don't have this, budget for having a *lot* of loaner desktops and laptops, with the associated mither of setting them up for each user everytime then cleanign them down afterwards.
If you're buying the corp spec you get a guarantee of the component spec so your corp image will reliably work for the next few years, and you can get most vendors to ship the systems with your custom corpoate build if you ask nicely. New box comes in, your desktop guy just plugs it up on the user's desk, gets them to log in and you're done.
The problem here is that tiredness is something that a) creeps up on you, and b) impairs your ability to make judgements, including "am I too tired to drive?".
I doubt there's anyone here who's been driving for a while who hasn't ended up driving at least once when they've become very tired, and it's taken a shock to make them realise how tired they actually were.
Seriously, this is getting as bad as Engadget with their phantom Android Fragmentation issue.
You have a basic hardware spec (number of buttons etc) laid out by the OHSA, you have processors of varying speeds and some have keyboards and better GPUs. The market can already limit what you see based on these requirements. App developers just need to think about the spec they want vs the number of handsets of that spec in the market. Hell, if your app's good enough, it'll drive the spec of the handset. It's just like what they have to do in the world of PC app development, made easier due to the rapid churn of handset specs as they get steadily faster and cheaper.
Android's not doing at all badly compared to Apple's iOS, is it?
But they aren't being grown in a natural setting. The aim is to get them as big and bushy as possible, as quickly as possible. See also: raising cattle for meat in intensive farming.
What if there's another reason Facebook are doing this?
It's a good idea, but it's also one that will increase the number of people who put their mobile phone number in their facebook profile.
What if Facebook were looking at leveraging this for a Facebook/Skype/Facebook-branded mobile phone OS as has been rumoured recently? It'd be very handy for them if they already had a lot of users who'd already input their numbers, so when they launched any mobile services the "dial friend" option was already working...
My T68i did transfer of data/contacts etc by BT and IrDA years before that. Prior to that I was sending email by phone/IrDA/palm in the mid 90s, too.
Are most US phones crippled deliberately?
Apple seem to have banned hard cases that the iPhone 4 slides into. There is speculation that this is because if these are slid on/off when there is any hard grit in or on either case or phone when it's fitted or removed, that the grit could score the glass and create a long scratch that will crack under stress. Have a look, there aren't any slider cases in my local Apple store.
Apple appear to have banned hard cases that the iPhone 4 slides into. There is speculation that this is because if these are slid on/off when there is any hard grit in or on either case or phone when it's fitted or removed, that the grit could score the glass and create a long scratch that will crack under stress. Have a look, there aren't any slider cases in my local Apple store.
I had a £60 fine for driving in a bus lane in Manchester, UK, based on CCTV footage. What the single still image they posted to me *didn't* show was that I'd had to make an emergency swerve around a bike in front of me that wasn't looking where it was going. Total time in bus lane? Approx 2 seconds. Nice.
Seed it yourself? Pick something unambigious like a current Linux distro. If you don't own your company I'd check no-one's going to go nuts when the bandwidth takes a hammering though.
In what way is the hardware on any of these devices limited by a manufacturer? The hardware is what the hardware is. You may or may not have unfettered access to it depending on how difficult the vendor has decided to make it.
The Streak's lovely hardware but I don't see how it's more or less limited in terms of the freedom you have to play with it than any other device.
Also, how's that proprietary dock/charger connector working out for you?
How about the most common, the Nexus One?
Just run 'fastboot-windows oem unlock', it flashes up a little message about how if it goes wrong you're on your own, and it's donw, using the official Android SDK.
I'd expect the next official Android dev phone to be similar. It'll probably be the same hardware as the G2 with a vanilla install and unlocked bootloader.
it wasn't modifying it that was illegal, it was distributing the copyrighted MS code for the BIOS etc. That's why modchips shipped iwth generic linux BIOS code, allowign you to flash it yourself from other sources.
..and IBM already has a uniform. It's a blue shirt, black suit trousers and shoes, a tie and a defeated expression. Seriously, go watch outside an IBM Global Services office at lunchtime and count the number of guys who *don't* wear this. I still have half a dozen shirts in the wardrobe from my time inside..
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Gutenberg's great, but what we need is e-lending from Libraries. In the UK, this is sort of possible via Overdrive - if you have an "approved" device then you can borrow eBooks from UK libraries. For some reason they seem to be keeping this a secret despite having done it in some form since 2004.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/26/libraries-ebook-restrictions
Only works on some devices, like the Sony readers.
To me, this is the killer app and I'd buy an eReader that allowed easy borrowing (i.e. time-expired downloads ) of current fiction in a heartbeat...
IN B4 "Android Fragmentation"
Becasuse the business model of the company depends on them demonstrating that level of audit! Think!
How do you function in society?
You accept a company's guarantee to behave in a certain way from your bank, you expect your legal system to behave in a certain way.
You expect the company that produces any pharmaceuticals you take to make certain guarantees as to quality, testing, efficacy and manufacture.
It's a forensic tool. Company X will certify that smartwater product ID 12345678abc was manufactured on a set date, track its packaging and dispatch to a specific customer, and then retain their records and full audit trail for inspection by law enforcement.
Just think of it as a marker that contains a guaranteed unique identifier. backed up by a system that records which company is associated with that uniique identifier, and records to prove that they were the only company who has access to that identifier. It's millions of tiny (unique to that instance) serial numbers mixed up in a solution of UV-flourescent glue. This isn't that hard to understand, surely?
Thank you. I've been reading the completely naive "explanations" of how this must work and was working up to attempting a post like yours. It's obvious that after even a moment's introspection that this stuff does have a use, and isn't simply an excuse to arrest anyone covered in UV paint. Cheers
thanks for that. Had heard of former, just read the latter. Excellent stuff!
Yeah, I'll third this. For anything other than a handful of desktops or laptops, it's a terrible idea to build your own unless your time is worth nothing.. Buy from Dell or IBM or whoever and you get fixed TCO over a set lifecycle, the company can write off the cost ads desductable, and you get a hardware refresh evey 3 years or so which keeps the users happy. Something blows up? A dell tech is onsite with replacement components in half a day, and it gets fixed at desk. If you don't have this, budget for having a *lot* of loaner desktops and laptops, with the associated mither of setting them up for each user everytime then cleanign them down afterwards.
If you're buying the corp spec you get a guarantee of the component spec so your corp image will reliably work for the next few years, and you can get most vendors to ship the systems with your custom corpoate build if you ask nicely. New box comes in, your desktop guy just plugs it up on the user's desk, gets them to log in and you're done.
I agree completely. Can't hurt, might help, let's have them.
The problem here is that tiredness is something that a) creeps up on you, and b) impairs your ability to make judgements, including "am I too tired to drive?".
I doubt there's anyone here who's been driving for a while who hasn't ended up driving at least once when they've become very tired, and it's taken a shock to make them realise how tired they actually were.
Seriously, this is getting as bad as Engadget with their phantom Android Fragmentation issue.
You have a basic hardware spec (number of buttons etc) laid out by the OHSA, you have processors of varying speeds and some have keyboards and better GPUs. The market can already limit what you see based on these requirements. App developers just need to think about the spec they want vs the number of handsets of that spec in the market. Hell, if your app's good enough, it'll drive the spec of the handset. It's just like what they have to do in the world of PC app development, made easier due to the rapid churn of handset specs as they get steadily faster and cheaper.
Android's not doing at all badly compared to Apple's iOS, is it?
"the US Military is developing this kind of capability to tap into the local power supply of whichever country we decide to invade next"
What, you mean by invading then stealing their oil?
But they aren't being grown in a natural setting. The aim is to get them as big and bushy as possible, as quickly as possible. See also: raising cattle for meat in intensive farming.
Much better we're all kept in the dark ages, so we can better hear his invisible friend talking.
What if there's another reason Facebook are doing this?
It's a good idea, but it's also one that will increase the number of people who put their mobile phone number in their facebook profile. What if Facebook were looking at leveraging this for a Facebook/Skype/Facebook-branded mobile phone OS as has been rumoured recently? It'd be very handy for them if they already had a lot of users who'd already input their numbers, so when they launched any mobile services the "dial friend" option was already working...
My T68i did transfer of data/contacts etc by BT and IrDA years before that. Prior to that I was sending email by phone/IrDA/palm in the mid 90s, too.
Are most US phones crippled deliberately?
Apple seem to have banned hard cases that the iPhone 4 slides into. There is speculation that this is because if these are slid on/off when there is any hard grit in or on either case or phone when it's fitted or removed, that the grit could score the glass and create a long scratch that will crack under stress. Have a look, there aren't any slider cases in my local Apple store.
Apple appear to have banned hard cases that the iPhone 4 slides into. There is speculation that this is because if these are slid on/off when there is any hard grit in or on either case or phone when it's fitted or removed, that the grit could score the glass and create a long scratch that will crack under stress. Have a look, there aren't any slider cases in my local Apple store.
I had a £60 fine for driving in a bus lane in Manchester, UK, based on CCTV footage. What the single still image they posted to me *didn't* show was that I'd had to make an emergency swerve around a bike in front of me that wasn't looking where it was going. Total time in bus lane? Approx 2 seconds. Nice.
Seed it yourself? Pick something unambigious like a current Linux distro. If you don't own your company I'd check no-one's going to go nuts when the bandwidth takes a hammering though.
In what way is the hardware on any of these devices limited by a manufacturer? The hardware is what the hardware is. You may or may not have unfettered access to it depending on how difficult the vendor has decided to make it.
The Streak's lovely hardware but I don't see how it's more or less limited in terms of the freedom you have to play with it than any other device.
Also, how's that proprietary dock/charger connector working out for you?
Hang on. Your rooting process for it wasn't officially sanctioned, was it? I remember Paul @ Modaco breaking root on that device.
How about the most common, the Nexus One? Just run 'fastboot-windows oem unlock', it flashes up a little message about how if it goes wrong you're on your own, and it's donw, using the official Android SDK. I'd expect the next official Android dev phone to be similar. It'll probably be the same hardware as the G2 with a vanilla install and unlocked bootloader.
it wasn't modifying it that was illegal, it was distributing the copyrighted MS code for the BIOS etc. That's why modchips shipped iwth generic linux BIOS code, allowign you to flash it yourself from other sources.
..and IBM already has a uniform. It's a blue shirt, black suit trousers and shoes, a tie and a defeated expression. Seriously, go watch outside an IBM Global Services office at lunchtime and count the number of guys who *don't* wear this. I still have half a dozen shirts in the wardrobe from my time inside..