BlackBerry too has the option to turn of data when roaming
But if you turn off data, you are essentially offline. With a BlackBerry you can stay online and available and it still won't cost you an arm and a leg. Most email are simply a short bit of text with possibly some attachments. When I am in another country I get all my normal emails, and most of them I can reply to there and then. If I need to examine the attachments or read a very long mail I can usually wait till I'm back at the hotel with Wifi and read on the laptop.
80K is a lot of plaintext,. And the limit is actually configurable.
if you get an e-mail with a body over 80K the BlackBerry wouldn't let you view all of it! Ha!
And if you are travelling internationally you will be very happy to come home without facing $10K+ phone bills because your phone auto-downloaded 10M attachments when roaming.
Connecting directly to exchange is much simpler..... If you only want email. With BB you can also have the phone on your intraweb and access all the internal systems without exposing them on the internet.
No. a DRMed copy should be more like a trade secret. Whwn you invent a new industrial process you have a choice to either patent it and let the world know how it is done or keep it a trade secret and forever give up the patent protection. If someone else figures out how it is done, they can use the process freely.
Similarly you should have a choice to either give it out openly with copyright protection or use DRM and forever give up the protection of copyright on that work.
So, the logical choice for anyone doing something shady is to pay a lawyer to start a class action suit and then botch it.
How do we know that didn't happen?
In Norway in the 1800's a patent would be granted different durations depending on how important and how ingenious the patent office considered the patent.
Also, a patent that was not used or licensed out within the first three years after it was granted was considered invalidated and open for everyone.
Screw RIM. I only know about it because I've been following QNX. Frankly, I'd love to see RIM go under, get taken over, and QNX ending up in the hands of someone who'll reopen the source and let me legally continue my projects I was working on before RIM got their mitts on it.:)
A more likely scenario if RIM should go under is that QNX is sold to Microsoft who will then lock it safely away. Be careful what you wish for.
Actually, the scientific thing to say is "What experiment can we perform that would behave differently if there is a God and if there isn't?" Until such an experiment can be formulated and then performed, science can say nothing whatsoever about the existence or lack of existence of God or gods.
Science can however perform experiments that conclude that "No matter if God exists or not, the age of this planet must be in the order of billions of years and not thousands"
The argument that God falsifies the experiments can be countered in a theological fashion with "If God is doing all he can to make the evidence show that the world is billions of years old and life is the result of evolution, then it should be the duty of all christians to believe the evidence He wants us to believe"
All the companies I know have either switched away from Blackberry, or at least opened their policies to say "get whatever phone-device you want, here's your budget, and tech-supporting it is your problem". Nobody, given that option, chooses Blackberry.
Do they also say "If your phone is the entry point for an intrusion into the intranet you are fired and will be sued for the cost of fixing everything" or "If internal email comes into the hands of unauthorized persons through your device, you are fired"?
If not, is it because they don't care about the security or that they don't allow anything sensitive on the phone in the first place.
I'm not saying that Android cannot be secured, but they cannot be secured if everyone has different phones and are their own support.
But they will get native email in February.
It's BlackBerry Messenger that they won't get. Because the BBM is tied to a single device, so they haven't solved the problem of having the same messages on both devices at once.
Does anyone know if they are selling more now than when they were the Only game in town? If they are what does it matter if they have lost market share?
They reported 70 million current subscribers worldwide, up 20 million from last year.
Less than Android, but not that bad.
Don't worry. Before long GM will catch on and all who buy a used car will have to pay 10% of the new value of a car to GM before they are allowed to start the engine.
And yet, during Clinton's time in office, he ended up with a higher debt than he started with.
More in dollar amount, but less as a percentage. Clinton took office with the debt at 66% of GDP, and left it at 56%.
The amount increased by about 1500 billion. How the percentage could decrease while the amount increased? One hint: Inflation
GWB took office with the debt at 56% (of course) and left with the debt at 84%
Really? Then how come the DVD of Casablanca is region locked? The films made their way around the world in the 1940's but it is still region-locked.
An even worse example from Norway: Most of the Norwegian-made films are released on DVD with Norwegian the only soundtrack and either no subtitles at all or only subtitled in Norwegian for those with hearing problems. 98% of all the people in the world who understand Norwegian already live in Scandinavia which is in Region 2. But, they are still region-locked so I cannot buy one as a gift to a friend or relative living in the US unless he or she has an unlocked DVD player.
BlackBerry doesn't require signing on the simulator, only for running on the devices. And the reason for requiring it on the devices is that there are no dedicated development devices. All devices can be used for development.
RIM has been too slow......only thing they have going for them is rock-solid security...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. "Rock solid" means, in my book at least, unquestionable, bomb-proof, without "back doors" that can be opened with a key given to any government that whines loudly enough. See sibling's comments about RIM rolling over and peeing on themselves for the U.A.E.
The only key RIM can give anyone is for the BIS users. Enterprise (BES) users can make their own key and that key exists only on the enterprise server and its associated phones. RIM cannot give this key to anyone because they simply don't have it.
That was kinda bad, but at least it really was Unix.
It was still really bad.
/. has lots of geeks, but I suspect that less than a handful had ever seen that interface before the movie came out, so there was no chance the little girl had seen it.
You forget one thing. Her computer was a gift from her grandfather. Presumably an identical machine ordered at the same time as the ones on the island.
I was referring to the situation in my own country, where neither being a witness to a crime nor a wistleblower would require a anonymous prepaid phone card. Perhaps thats what you get in a country that is percieved as very little corrupt, with a government that is (for now) considered friendly at most levels.
Well, as you might not know, the law in Norway makes it obligatory for the police to give your name and phone number to the accused (and/or his lawyer) if you phone in to report a crime.
Maybe you would like an anonymous phone after all?
From the start of C&C you got 2 cd's. One with GDI and one with NOD. And you were explicitely permitted to lend one to a friend while you were using the other yourself.
Thats how I got hooked too.
If I remember correctly the first where this was not included/allowed was C&C Generals.
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BlackBerry too has the option to turn of data when roaming
But if you turn off data, you are essentially offline.
With a BlackBerry you can stay online and available and it still won't cost you an arm and a leg.
Most email are simply a short bit of text with possibly some attachments.
When I am in another country I get all my normal emails, and most of them I can reply to there and then. If I need to examine the attachments or read a very long mail I can usually wait till I'm back at the hotel with Wifi and read on the laptop.
80K is a lot of plaintext,. And the limit is actually configurable.
if you get an e-mail with a body over 80K the BlackBerry wouldn't let you view all of it! Ha!
And if you are travelling internationally you will be very happy to come home without facing $10K+ phone bills because your phone auto-downloaded 10M attachments when roaming.
Connecting directly to exchange is much simpler.....
If you only want email. With BB you can also have the phone on your intraweb and access all the internal systems without exposing them on the internet.
No. a DRMed copy should be more like a trade secret.
Whwn you invent a new industrial process you have a choice to either patent it and let the world know how it is done or keep it a trade secret and forever give up the patent protection. If someone else figures out how it is done, they can use the process freely.
Similarly you should have a choice to either give it out openly with copyright protection or use DRM and forever give up the protection of copyright on that work.
So, the logical choice for anyone doing something shady is to pay a lawyer to start a class action suit and then botch it.
How do we know that didn't happen?
In Norway in the 1800's a patent would be granted different durations depending on how important and how ingenious the patent office considered the patent.
Also, a patent that was not used or licensed out within the first three years after it was granted was considered invalidated and open for everyone.
Why on Earth should they give up when they are still growing and still making a profit?
GM doesn't close shop just because Toyota sells more cars.
Screw RIM. I only know about it because I've been following QNX. Frankly, I'd love to see RIM go under, get taken over, and QNX ending up in the hands of someone who'll reopen the source and let me legally continue my projects I was working on before RIM got their mitts on it. :)
A more likely scenario if RIM should go under is that QNX is sold to Microsoft who will then lock it safely away.
Be careful what you wish for.
Actually, the scientific thing to say is "What experiment can we perform that would behave differently if there is a God and if there isn't?" Until such an experiment can be formulated and then performed, science can say nothing whatsoever about the existence or lack of existence of God or gods.
Science can however perform experiments that conclude that "No matter if God exists or not, the age of this planet must be in the order of billions of years and not thousands"
The argument that God falsifies the experiments can be countered in a theological fashion with "If God is doing all he can to make the evidence show that the world is billions of years old and life is the result of evolution, then it should be the duty of all christians to believe the evidence He wants us to believe"
Does it include things like disabling camera for users with access to sensitive areas? Or forcing SDcard encryption?
All the companies I know have either switched away from Blackberry, or at least opened their policies to say "get whatever phone-device you want, here's your budget, and tech-supporting it is your problem". Nobody, given that option, chooses Blackberry.
Do they also say "If your phone is the entry point for an intrusion into the intranet you are fired and will be sued for the cost of fixing everything" or "If internal email comes into the hands of unauthorized persons through your device, you are fired"? If not, is it because they don't care about the security or that they don't allow anything sensitive on the phone in the first place. I'm not saying that Android cannot be secured, but they cannot be secured if everyone has different phones and are their own support.
But they will get native email in February.
It's BlackBerry Messenger that they won't get. Because the BBM is tied to a single device, so they haven't solved the problem of having the same messages on both devices at once.
Does anyone know if they are selling more now than when they were the Only game in town? If they are what does it matter if they have lost market share?
They reported 70 million current subscribers worldwide, up 20 million from last year.
Less than Android, but not that bad.
Don't worry. Before long GM will catch on and all who buy a used car will have to pay 10% of the new value of a car to GM before they are allowed to start the engine.
It was always clear since the announcement that the android apps would be running inside a dedicated android runtime. like running it in a VM.
why is anyone surprised that a vm client cannot affect the wallpaper on the host?
The Clinton years spring to mind.
And yet, during Clinton's time in office, he ended up with a higher debt than he started with.
More in dollar amount, but less as a percentage. Clinton took office with the debt at 66% of GDP, and left it at 56%.
The amount increased by about 1500 billion. How the percentage could decrease while the amount increased? One hint: Inflation
GWB took office with the debt at 56% (of course) and left with the debt at 84%
Really?
Then how come the DVD of Casablanca is region locked?
The films made their way around the world in the 1940's but it is still region-locked.
An even worse example from Norway: Most of the Norwegian-made films are released on DVD with Norwegian the only soundtrack and either no subtitles at all or only subtitled in Norwegian for those with hearing problems. 98% of all the people in the world who understand Norwegian already live in Scandinavia which is in Region 2.
But, they are still region-locked so I cannot buy one as a gift to a friend or relative living in the US unless he or she has an unlocked DVD player.
BlackBerry doesn't require signing on the simulator, only for running on the devices.
And the reason for requiring it on the devices is that there are no dedicated development devices. All devices can be used for development.
RIM has been too slow... ...only thing they have going for them is rock-solid security...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. "Rock solid" means, in my book at least, unquestionable, bomb-proof, without "back doors" that can be opened with a key given to any government that whines loudly enough. See sibling's comments about RIM rolling over and peeing on themselves for the U.A.E.
The only key RIM can give anyone is for the BIS users. Enterprise (BES) users can make their own key and that key exists only on the enterprise server and its associated phones. RIM cannot give this key to anyone because they simply don't have it.
It's a Unix system, I know this!
That was kinda bad, but at least it really was Unix.
It was still really bad.
/. has lots of geeks, but I suspect that less than a handful had ever seen that interface before the movie came out, so there was no chance the little girl had seen it.
You forget one thing.
Her computer was a gift from her grandfather. Presumably an identical machine ordered at the same time as the ones on the island.
Singing your favourite song in a public place does constitute copyright infringement.
I was referring to the situation in my own country, where neither being a witness to a crime nor a wistleblower would require a anonymous prepaid phone card. Perhaps thats what you get in a country that is percieved as very little corrupt, with a government that is (for now) considered friendly at most levels.
Well, as you might not know, the law in Norway makes it obligatory for the police to give your name and phone number to the accused (and/or his lawyer) if you phone in to report a crime.
Maybe you would like an anonymous phone after all?
Next time, bring a lawyer along and let the salesman talk to him. Thir reply might change quite a bit.
Not pirated, but fully legal.
From the start of C&C you got 2 cd's. One with GDI and one with NOD. And you were explicitely permitted to lend one to a friend while you were using the other yourself.
Thats how I got hooked too.
If I remember correctly the first where this was not included/allowed was C&C Generals.
What prevents a trojan from turning on encryption "at management level" thus holding all your data hostage until you pay up for the key?