There are systems, where LibreOffice doesn't work anymore, but where Apache OpenOffice works fine. Well, ok, one could in theory choose an older version of LibreOffice, if it's still somehow better than the latest Apache OpenOffice.
Developing economies, like Venezuela, are very unlikely to shut down 2G and 3G networks even in the long term. Venezuela in particular is also unlikely to introduce 5G within the next five years.
wrt 2G and 3G, Africa and South Asia are just as unlikely to phase these technologies out; though 5G is likely to be introduced in some markets, after 5G implementations in Northern Europe will be rated stable. 5G was launched on 27 June 2018 in Finland and Estonia.
The situation with mobile tech adoption in India is mixed. On one hand, Reliance have switched 2G off, and their subsidiary Jio has 4G from the outset. On the other hand, Airtel have not shut their 2G network down, and I can imagine, that there may be smaller mobile providers that still offer 2G service.
Countries with large 2G-only and 3G-only userbases are unlikely to shut these networks off anytime soon, and will opt for a gradual migration.
Some of the reasons in favour of gradual migration:
* Late adoption of new technologies owing to reasons economic, or geographical: 3G was never implemented until very recently; so, the entire mobile network is based on 2G (GSM), and a large amount of (if not most) people have 2G-only phones. Wealthier subscribers may have phones that support 3G, but are unable to use the technology because of non-existent infrastructure;
* 2G and 3G have become plain utilities akin to landline phones, and can therefore be harder to phase out for their entrenched status, since:
* many of their subscribers might not be able to afford anything else;
* upgrading would increase the rate of planned obsolescence (lots of useless handsets); and
* would add to large amounts of electronic waste
-- despite being labeled a legacy technology.
* Countries, where the 2G/3G adoption ratio per population is small (percentage-wise), can afford to upgrade faster.
* Countries, where 2G/3G adoption is perhaps in single digits, can choose to:
** adopt 2G/3G either to quickly get more subscribers for less;
** or where there is no 2G/3G in the first place, said countries can leapfrog existing standards, and implement 4G from the outset, but with the downside, that not all people will be able to afford mobile telephony until the market is reasonably saturated, as newer technologies are also more expensive.
* Operators in very large and very wealthy economies have both monetary and security incentives to upgrade, and most of their userbase is probably using 3G devices at the very least (think lots of iPhones with at least iPhone 3G). The United States and Australia are examples of this upgrade model.
A historical example with the quick phaseout of 1G in favour of the 2G GSM:
In Estonia, the 1G NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) network was launched in 1991, and sunset in December 2000. In a country of 1.3 million, the greatest amount of NMT subscribers at EMT (then a major operator; now Telia) was about 19,000. By early 2000, the number of subscribers was 9600. And by December 2000, there were only 351 hold-outs left, after EMT announced in May that year, that they were going to shut the NMT network down in that same month of December. NMT was then still working in Finland, Sweden, and Russia. [Source]
Reasons for the shutdown of NMT in Estonia were the overall low and declining subscriber numbers, and the legacy status of the analogue 1G NMT network, which, compared to GSM, was not secure.
In time, 2G/GSM has in Estonia become an entrenched technology, relied on by people who choose to have a featurephone because of its high reliability, or because they're unable to afford a smartphone (pensioners). In 2016, Telia (then Elion) turned off WAP. The status of 2G in Estonia is similar to the rest of Europe: Despite the reasonably early adoption of 3G, GSM remains widespread, is in some ways entrench
3G: E: UMTS; A: CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Release 0 (TIA/IS-856) (May have also been adopted in Europe, but I'll assume not in favour of plain HSPA.)
3G transitional (3.5G, 3.75G, 3.9G): E: HSPA (HSDPA, HSUPA), HSPA+, LTE (plain; E-UTRA) (partial adoption in the U.S., and not on all networks) A: CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A, EV-DO Revision B Other: Mobile WiMAX (802.16e), iBurst (802.20), WiBro (South Korea)
4G: E: LTE Advanced (E-UTRA), LTE Advanced Pro A: At this point, the Americas and the United States seem to have moved to harmonise their standards with the rest of the world. I think.
Telia, the major operator in Estonia, have in the past also offered some triple bundles, which consist of basic Internet (up to 120 Kbytes/s, which in the Flash era made it just barely possible to reliably watch/listen to YouTube in 360p), a basic tv package (plan), and landline phone service in one. Well, as landline as it can get through household fiber. And on top of that one can order additional cable channels and pay-per-tv.
IPtv (tv over IP) works really well in Estonia, and several years ago, the country's main service provider (incl. mobile & Internet) made it possible to order individual cable channels in addition to a basic bundle. This, and the possibility to order pay-per-view movies makes their entire proposition a delight. So, T-Mobile might be on to a very lucrative market segment.
IPtv also makes it much easier to do viewership statistics, and thus gather better data on viewership of both tv shows and ads. These kinds of statistics are way more reliable over IPtv than through a Nielsen box.
Apart from Apple admitting issues with the design, the official repair is meant to alleviate the problem of people buying a very expensive gadget and then taking it to unofficial repair shops, which action can often void warranty on the device.
If the programme is worldwide, then for many people in developing states, an official repair is one way of not leaving customers in the lurch. Because in these countries, taking a fragile device to what is most certainly an unofficial repair shop might make things worse. (And yes, each developing country does have a class of people who can afford an iPhone. Of these, some can just or only barely afford one.)
If I ever come across such news, it would be interesting to find out what was officially replaced.
To be rather forthcoming, then for $149 per item, a creative electronics company could have engineered new innards for the faulty model, including a motherboard and attached gear that would not be susceptible to bending. Of course, this would dramatically enhance the future lifetime of said product model, but these things do have 64-bit chips. Such an electronics manufacturer would also be very smart to refurbish all existing bits and pieces less the faulty item (and sell the phone as refurb). But that would in and of itself be a painstakingly complex process.
An easier and faster solution from the consumer point of view would be a very generous buyback or exchange-for-new programme.
There is NoScript Anywhere for Firefox for Android. Be forewarned, though, that Firefox Reader Mode requires that a site be whitelisted for JavaScript; apparently, Reader Mode requires JavaScript.
Malicious makers of propaganda do not care, if information used is accurate or not, so long it servers their agenda.
Bad propaganda is, when a foreign government that actively works against the way of life of your country, has made a decision for you that they want you to think like them.
The question is, why would you allow a foreign entity or government to make a decision about how you should think about anything by way of that government and its supporters influencing the news cycle of your country, which they regard as their enemy.
To remind you the correct order of events:
1. The Nokia board for some very stupid reason allowed Stephen Elop (a former Microsoftie) to become the CEO of Nokia,
2. who in Nokia then made Windows Phone the exclusive smartphone operating system.
3. Windows Phone didn't do very well,
4. so Nokia sold its Devices and Services division (the one that made phones) to Microsoft.
5....
6. Windows Phone didn't do very well after that, either.
Because Microsoft has made so many mistakes in the mobile field, and because its former employee (as the CEO of Nokia) is widely faulted for making the Nokia phone business impossible, then I'm not really in the mood to write here of the ways that Microsoft could improve its Windows Phone operating system and ecosystem. If Nokia still released smartphones with Windows Phone, then I'd write several suggestions on how to improve Windows Phone.
Add to that the fact, that there is no easy way to block ads on Windows Phone without rooting the device.
Nokia bought Alcatel-Lucent, while the Alcatel brand on mobile phones is owned by the Chinese TCL. The Alcatel mobile phone history is very storied, I might add.
Alt+F sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. In the days of yore, F10 was the menu access key for most graphical Linux programs that were equipped with menus.
These two films are not documentaries, but actual feature productions that were filmed to be as historically accurate as possible.
"In the Crosswind" is based on the letters of a woman who, along with tens of thousands of other people from the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, was forcibly deported overnight to Siberia.
"1944" is based on a screenplay penned by a former soldier who served in Afghanistan (after 9/11), who is now a military historian.
Films concerning WWII can roughly be divided into two camps:
* those that come from countries that were formerly occupied by the Soviet Union, or which were its satellite states;
* and those from nowadays' Russia.
The former are made to preserve the memories of peoples who were occupied by the Soviet Union, and who now wish their memories of occupation to be preserved.
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There are systems, where LibreOffice doesn't work anymore, but where Apache OpenOffice works fine. Well, ok, one could in theory choose an older version of LibreOffice, if it's still somehow better than the latest Apache OpenOffice.
Developing economies, like Venezuela, are very unlikely to shut down 2G and 3G networks even in the long term. Venezuela in particular is also unlikely to introduce 5G within the next five years.
wrt 2G and 3G, Africa and South Asia are just as unlikely to phase these technologies out; though 5G is likely to be introduced in some markets, after 5G implementations in Northern Europe will be rated stable. 5G was launched on 27 June 2018 in Finland and Estonia.
The situation with mobile tech adoption in India is mixed. On one hand, Reliance have switched 2G off, and their subsidiary Jio has 4G from the outset. On the other hand, Airtel have not shut their 2G network down, and I can imagine, that there may be smaller mobile providers that still offer 2G service.
Countries with large 2G-only and 3G-only userbases are unlikely to shut these networks off anytime soon, and will opt for a gradual migration.
Some of the reasons in favour of gradual migration:
* Late adoption of new technologies owing to reasons economic, or geographical: 3G was never implemented until very recently; so, the entire mobile network is based on 2G (GSM), and a large amount of (if not most) people have 2G-only phones. Wealthier subscribers may have phones that support 3G, but are unable to use the technology because of non-existent infrastructure;
* 2G and 3G have become plain utilities akin to landline phones, and can therefore be harder to phase out for their entrenched status, since:
* many of their subscribers might not be able to afford anything else;
* upgrading would increase the rate of planned obsolescence (lots of useless handsets); and
* would add to large amounts of electronic waste
-- despite being labeled a legacy technology.
* Countries, where the 2G/3G adoption ratio per population is small (percentage-wise), can afford to upgrade faster.
* Countries, where 2G/3G adoption is perhaps in single digits, can choose to:
** adopt 2G/3G either to quickly get more subscribers for less;
** or where there is no 2G/3G in the first place, said countries can leapfrog existing standards, and implement 4G from the outset, but with the downside, that not all people will be able to afford mobile telephony until the market is reasonably saturated, as newer technologies are also more expensive.
* Operators in very large and very wealthy economies have both monetary and security incentives to upgrade, and most of their userbase is probably using 3G devices at the very least (think lots of iPhones with at least iPhone 3G). The United States and Australia are examples of this upgrade model.
A historical example with the quick phaseout of 1G in favour of the 2G GSM:
In Estonia, the 1G NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) network was launched in 1991, and sunset in December 2000. In a country of 1.3 million, the greatest amount of NMT subscribers at EMT (then a major operator; now Telia) was about 19,000. By early 2000, the number of subscribers was 9600. And by December 2000, there were only 351 hold-outs left, after EMT announced in May that year, that they were going to shut the NMT network down in that same month of December. NMT was then still working in Finland, Sweden, and Russia. [Source]
Reasons for the shutdown of NMT in Estonia were the overall low and declining subscriber numbers, and the legacy status of the analogue 1G NMT network, which, compared to GSM, was not secure.
In time, 2G/GSM has in Estonia become an entrenched technology, relied on by people who choose to have a featurephone because of its high reliability, or because they're unable to afford a smartphone (pensioners). In 2016, Telia (then Elion) turned off WAP. The status of 2G in Estonia is similar to the rest of Europe: Despite the reasonably early adoption of 3G, GSM remains widespread, is in some ways entrench
I'm not disagreeing, but trying to point this out as a service to other readers:
From the Cellular network standards navbox at Wikipedia
E: Europe / the world;
A: Americas, including the U.S.
2G:
E: GSM
A: cdmaOne (IS-95), D-AMPS (IS-54 and IS-136)
2G transitional (2.5G, 2.75G):
E: GPRS, EDGE/EGPRS, Evolved EDGE (little-used / not implemented)
A: CDMA2000 1X, CDMA2000 1X Advanced
3G:
E: UMTS;
A: CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Release 0 (TIA/IS-856) (May have also been adopted in Europe, but I'll assume not in favour of plain HSPA.)
3G transitional (3.5G, 3.75G, 3.9G):
E: HSPA (HSDPA, HSUPA), HSPA+, LTE (plain; E-UTRA) (partial adoption in the U.S., and not on all networks)
A: CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision A, EV-DO Revision B
Other: Mobile WiMAX (802.16e), iBurst (802.20), WiBro (South Korea)
4G:
E: LTE Advanced (E-UTRA), LTE Advanced Pro
A: At this point, the Americas and the United States seem to have moved to harmonise their standards with the rest of the world. I think.
GNU IceCat 38.8 on Android 2.3: "I've had many featurephones."
It's possible to make laws that are specific and reasonably future-proof: "this means that, and includes, but is not limited to: ..."
n/t
Telia, the major operator in Estonia, have in the past also offered some triple bundles, which consist of basic Internet (up to 120 Kbytes/s, which in the Flash era made it just barely possible to reliably watch/listen to YouTube in 360p), a basic tv package (plan), and landline phone service in one. Well, as landline as it can get through household fiber. And on top of that one can order additional cable channels and pay-per-tv.
IPtv (tv over IP) works really well in Estonia, and several years ago, the country's main service provider (incl. mobile & Internet) made it possible to order individual cable channels in addition to a basic bundle. This, and the possibility to order pay-per-view movies makes their entire proposition a delight. So, T-Mobile might be on to a very lucrative market segment.
IPtv also makes it much easier to do viewership statistics, and thus gather better data on viewership of both tv shows and ads. These kinds of statistics are way more reliable over IPtv than through a Nielsen box.
The electrical system is well-established, but that means nothing, except that it's difficult to get rid of.
'The electrical system,' right?
It is well-understood, and people who understand it the most (constitutional scholars and such) say it's no longer a good idea.
...
Apart from Apple admitting issues with the design, the official repair is meant to alleviate the problem of people buying a very expensive gadget and then taking it to unofficial repair shops, which action can often void warranty on the device.
If the programme is worldwide, then for many people in developing states, an official repair is one way of not leaving customers in the lurch. Because in these countries, taking a fragile device to what is most certainly an unofficial repair shop might make things worse. (And yes, each developing country does have a class of people who can afford an iPhone. Of these, some can just or only barely afford one.)
If I ever come across such news, it would be interesting to find out what was officially replaced.
To be rather forthcoming, then for $149 per item, a creative electronics company could have engineered new innards for the faulty model, including a motherboard and attached gear that would not be susceptible to bending. Of course, this would dramatically enhance the future lifetime of said product model, but these things do have 64-bit chips. Such an electronics manufacturer would also be very smart to refurbish all existing bits and pieces less the faulty item (and sell the phone as refurb). But that would in and of itself be a painstakingly complex process.
An easier and faster solution from the consumer point of view would be a very generous buyback or exchange-for-new programme.
There is NoScript Anywhere for Firefox for Android. Be forewarned, though, that Firefox Reader Mode requires that a site be whitelisted for JavaScript; apparently, Reader Mode requires JavaScript.
Malicious makers of propaganda do not care, if information used is accurate or not, so long it servers their agenda.
Bad propaganda is, when a foreign government that actively works against the way of life of your country, has made a decision for you that they want you to think like them.
The question is, why would you allow a foreign entity or government to make a decision about how you should think about anything by way of that government and its supporters influencing the news cycle of your country, which they regard as their enemy.
That reserves cannot be built up, looks like an inherent vulnerability in the system.
To remind you the correct order of events: ...
1. The Nokia board for some very stupid reason allowed Stephen Elop (a former Microsoftie) to become the CEO of Nokia,
2. who in Nokia then made Windows Phone the exclusive smartphone operating system.
3. Windows Phone didn't do very well,
4. so Nokia sold its Devices and Services division (the one that made phones) to Microsoft.
5.
6. Windows Phone didn't do very well after that, either.
Because Microsoft has made so many mistakes in the mobile field, and because its former employee (as the CEO of Nokia) is widely faulted for making the Nokia phone business impossible, then I'm not really in the mood to write here of the ways that Microsoft could improve its Windows Phone operating system and ecosystem. If Nokia still released smartphones with Windows Phone, then I'd write several suggestions on how to improve Windows Phone.
Add to that the fact, that there is no easy way to block ads on Windows Phone without rooting the device.
Nokia bought Alcatel-Lucent, while the Alcatel brand on mobile phones is owned by the Chinese TCL. The Alcatel mobile phone history is very storied, I might add.
Alt+F sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. In the days of yore, F10 was the menu access key for most graphical Linux programs that were equipped with menus.
Sorry.
"It was a 66KV sub-transmission supply. If you touch one, you will have possibly been a person." — bahaha :D
I'm still thinking about replying to you about all the movie stuff we discussed earlier.
It was tongue-in-cheek, but your self-description appealed to me so much. But hey, _you_ can renounce :-)
I don't want to become a U.S. citizen. FATCA and stuff, potentially hundreds of pages of tax filings, etc.
These two films are not documentaries, but actual feature productions that were filmed to be as historically accurate as possible.
"In the Crosswind" is based on the letters of a woman who, along with tens of thousands of other people from the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, was forcibly deported overnight to Siberia.
"1944" is based on a screenplay penned by a former soldier who served in Afghanistan (after 9/11), who is now a military historian.
Films concerning WWII can roughly be divided into two camps:
* those that come from countries that were formerly occupied by the Soviet Union, or which were its satellite states;
* and those from nowadays' Russia.
The former are made to preserve the memories of peoples who were occupied by the Soviet Union, and who now wish their memories of occupation to be preserved.
The novelty wears off in all relationships. The trick is to stay together after the novelty has worn off.
If I had all your invitations within the city I live in, I'd be much happier, because potentially free food :-)
Given that you're interested about WWII, I'd like you to watch two Estonian films: "In the Crosswind" (Risttuules, 2014), and "1944" (2015).
Wikipedia links:
* In the Crosswind
* 1944