If you don't explicitly disallow it and the devices you may use don't include limitations - well, that boils down to allowing it, doesn't it? I've got the same with my phone company. If the phone company changes the terms, I'll stop paying the monthly fee. Then I would have a very cheap phone and I can go to any service I like. Works for me...
It's not binding anymore in Europe, you just send them a letter that you want out because they changed the terms, and you're out.
Then it becomes the question what the service is worth to you. Most people will stay anyway - switching between credit card companies every now and then is not funny.
Certainly in Europe (and probably in the USA) they can't just change terms for existing customers, at least not without the option to back out. In NL they are trying hard (finally) to make sure you can opt out for any service in a months time. Software with those kind of statements can be sold, but they are legally void over here.
Of course, that won't stop them from writing things down anyway. As long as it takes too much effort to fight them, they'll continue doing it too. And they can still sell services together with a phone, I do think up to two years. As long as they don't change the terms you cannot opt out.
Here's hoping that they change that 2 year period to 1 year in the near future.
How the fuck am I supposed to buy anything if consumers need to take a look at a product *that* closely? That whole idea of consumers having to make decisions like that is bogus. Vote with your wallet, right. I'm trying to make a worthwhile living here.
Most of these early adapters are probably still congratulating themselves for not just looking at the tech specs and buying a product that they can actually USE. Do you think they care at all about tethering?
Hell, I've had a lot of trouble to get it running on 64 bit Linux. And I still have the strong idea that it crashes my Firefox browser now and then. This is nothing like running it on ARM or anything, this is one of the things that should just work.
Yes, that was back in the day you actually had to change SD cards to get some throughput and storage space. Nowadays you can get devices with fast USB connections (Palm absolutely sucked at USB throughput) and 8 GB micro-SD cards for almost the same price as regular SD cards. There is simply no need to swap these things anymore, so size does not matter.
That said, I still prefer normal sized SDHC cards over those tiny ones. It does not make much difference for the device (I think) and I can swap them between my computer, my laptop, my eBook and my compact and digital SLR camera. I probably forgot a few devices:). Of course, you could buy micro-SD cards with a converter as well, but I admit that that is a bit too much work (I would forget to take the adapter with me for sure, or loose it etc.).
You are probably in the market for a high end iRex reader (IREX Digital Reader 1000S). It's not quite A4, but the resolution is high enough to view PDF files:
Specs of the display:
10.2 Inch (diagonal) electronic paper display 1024 x 1280 pixel resolution at 160 pixels per inch (eInk) 16-level grey scale
With PDF search & pen input available, although I haven't tried that (and I don't know how the input is stored).
I don't think anything comes close for business use. But it still might fall a bit short (e.g. for input reasons, eInk is hard to use for regular computer input methods) and it's priced for business use as well. I'm not affiliated with them.
Personally I cannot tolerate this planet going to pieces because people seem to think you can stop global resource abuse *and* keep doing things like you mention all at the same time - just because you think it is fun.
Which is why I have replaced my optical drive with a nice one from newmodeUS (the only one I could find after a nice tip on Slashdot, I'm not affiliated). Now I can keep Windows/backup on my HDD and still use the SSD in the optical bay. Most high end laptops have specific replaceable drive bays. If you are (like me) stuck with a generic one, try one of these.
7 seconds for Ubuntu to boot on a cheap SL300 and a 160 GB HDD as media/backup/windows drive. Sweet.
I never suggested that having no insurance is a good reason to sue anyone. I just wanted to show that it might be more a desperate move than a well thought out move to scam somebody.
Yup, that works. Although Google maps clearly warns me that directions for pedestrians is a beta feature. That would be the internet version, not my Android 1.5 version. Mod A/C up please.
Maybe she does not have insurance. How do you expect her to pay for the medical costs? There's a saying in the Netherlands that "a cornered cat can make surprising jumps", although the American version "fight like a cornered cat" might make as much sense.
OK, let's let them clean rocks instead. If it doesn't cure them, it will alleviate my mind that those greedy bastards get what they deserve.
I mean, they are responsible for one of the biggest if not the biggest oil spill in history. Of course, you can also count the 11 death against them, if you inclined to think that is the bigger issue (I certainly don't).
Huh? Of course it does not have to. As long as it can use cheaper energy, it can offset it's drawbacks against that. Of course, that does not mean that 100 KM would be acceptable to a lot of people. But you're requiring that it should have all advantages and no drawbacks, then you're not being fair to the electric car. It's like saying an SSD cannot be a good replacement for a HDD unless the price and capacity is equal to that of a hard drive.
For transport, you currently need oil. But if I'm not mistaken, that's just a part for which oil is used for. So your whole rant sounds a bit off topic to me. The question is not if you need oil, it's if you need this well, and if deep drilling is really absolutely necessary. It's not like this is an inexpensive operation by itself.
Yes, you are obviously right. Unless of course there are other places to get oil from that 1.5 mile deep wells. And who says you cannot drill this well after doing proper research on it?
For a DVD yes, but I could foresee that if you just encode video to be used from cell-phone to cell-phone, errors in a single frame don't have to be fatal. As long as you don't screw up the stream beyond recovery you are OK. You could perform building the stream (in some kind of meta-format) using the CPU and encoding the frames by a fault tolerant design.
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Easy, drifting anything into the void contaminates the void.
Ah, ok, I could not distil that from the parents post. Fortunately, I haven't got T-Mobile.
If you don't explicitly disallow it and the devices you may use don't include limitations - well, that boils down to allowing it, doesn't it? I've got the same with my phone company. If the phone company changes the terms, I'll stop paying the monthly fee. Then I would have a very cheap phone and I can go to any service I like. Works for me...
It's not binding anymore in Europe, you just send them a letter that you want out because they changed the terms, and you're out.
Then it becomes the question what the service is worth to you. Most people will stay anyway - switching between credit card companies every now and then is not funny.
Certainly in Europe (and probably in the USA) they can't just change terms for existing customers, at least not without the option to back out. In NL they are trying hard (finally) to make sure you can opt out for any service in a months time. Software with those kind of statements can be sold, but they are legally void over here.
Of course, that won't stop them from writing things down anyway. As long as it takes too much effort to fight them, they'll continue doing it too. And they can still sell services together with a phone, I do think up to two years. As long as they don't change the terms you cannot opt out.
Here's hoping that they change that 2 year period to 1 year in the near future.
How the fuck am I supposed to buy anything if consumers need to take a look at a product *that* closely? That whole idea of consumers having to make decisions like that is bogus. Vote with your wallet, right. I'm trying to make a worthwhile living here.
Most of these early adapters are probably still congratulating themselves for not just looking at the tech specs and buying a product that they can actually USE. Do you think they care at all about tethering?
Hell, I've had a lot of trouble to get it running on 64 bit Linux. And I still have the strong idea that it crashes my Firefox browser now and then. This is nothing like running it on ARM or anything, this is one of the things that should just work.
Yes, that was back in the day you actually had to change SD cards to get some throughput and storage space. Nowadays you can get devices with fast USB connections (Palm absolutely sucked at USB throughput) and 8 GB micro-SD cards for almost the same price as regular SD cards. There is simply no need to swap these things anymore, so size does not matter.
That said, I still prefer normal sized SDHC cards over those tiny ones. It does not make much difference for the device (I think) and I can swap them between my computer, my laptop, my eBook and my compact and digital SLR camera. I probably forgot a few devices :). Of course, you could buy micro-SD cards with a converter as well, but I admit that that is a bit too much work (I would forget to take the adapter with me for sure, or loose it etc.).
You are probably in the market for a high end iRex reader (IREX Digital Reader 1000S). It's not quite A4, but the resolution is high enough to view PDF files:
Specs of the display:
10.2 Inch (diagonal) electronic paper display
1024 x 1280 pixel resolution at 160 pixels per inch (eInk)
16-level grey scale
With PDF search & pen input available, although I haven't tried that (and I don't know how the input is stored).
I don't think anything comes close for business use. But it still might fall a bit short (e.g. for input reasons, eInk is hard to use for regular computer input methods) and it's priced for business use as well. I'm not affiliated with them.
Well, not everybody is called rally2xs I presume.
Personally I cannot tolerate this planet going to pieces because people seem to think you can stop global resource abuse *and* keep doing things like you mention all at the same time - just because you think it is fun.
Which is why I have replaced my optical drive with a nice one from newmodeUS (the only one I could find after a nice tip on Slashdot, I'm not affiliated). Now I can keep Windows/backup on my HDD and still use the SSD in the optical bay. Most high end laptops have specific replaceable drive bays. If you are (like me) stuck with a generic one, try one of these.
7 seconds for Ubuntu to boot on a cheap SL300 and a 160 GB HDD as media/backup/windows drive. Sweet.
I never suggested that having no insurance is a good reason to sue anyone. I just wanted to show that it might be more a desperate move than a well thought out move to scam somebody.
Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know?
And what country would that be? 'Cause if you are going to suggest the US then the joke is complete.
Yup, that works. Although Google maps clearly warns me that directions for pedestrians is a beta feature. That would be the internet version, not my Android 1.5 version. Mod A/C up please.
Maybe she does not have insurance. How do you expect her to pay for the medical costs? There's a saying in the Netherlands that "a cornered cat can make surprising jumps", although the American version "fight like a cornered cat" might make as much sense.
OK, let's let them clean rocks instead. If it doesn't cure them, it will alleviate my mind that those greedy bastards get what they deserve.
I mean, they are responsible for one of the biggest if not the biggest oil spill in history. Of course, you can also count the 11 death against them, if you inclined to think that is the bigger issue (I certainly don't).
Huh? Of course it does not have to. As long as it can use cheaper energy, it can offset it's drawbacks against that. Of course, that does not mean that 100 KM would be acceptable to a lot of people. But you're requiring that it should have all advantages and no drawbacks, then you're not being fair to the electric car. It's like saying an SSD cannot be a good replacement for a HDD unless the price and capacity is equal to that of a hard drive.
For transport, you currently need oil. But if I'm not mistaken, that's just a part for which oil is used for. So your whole rant sounds a bit off topic to me. The question is not if you need oil, it's if you need this well, and if deep drilling is really absolutely necessary. It's not like this is an inexpensive operation by itself.
Yes, you are obviously right. Unless of course there are other places to get oil from that 1.5 mile deep wells. And who says you cannot drill this well after doing proper research on it?
That's certainly true, once they are done with it you cannot peck anywhere anymore.
I agree, in short it is fine for rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty :)
For a DVD yes, but I could foresee that if you just encode video to be used from cell-phone to cell-phone, errors in a single frame don't have to be fatal. As long as you don't screw up the stream beyond recovery you are OK. You could perform building the stream (in some kind of meta-format) using the CPU and encoding the frames by a fault tolerant design.
Yes, they do. They are basically testing how many times you can update the firmware. After 1.6M upgrades, it seems we'll have to worry.
Of course they do contain EEPROM. For the firmware :)