SMS messaging is not and never has been a guaranteed delivery system. I have been told (but cannot find a source right now) that networks can and do silently drop text messages.
Like it nor not, Email may not initially have been an instantaneous guaranteed messaging service but that is what is expected of it now.
Has a decent trackpad, and a trackpoint. Also a matte screen, nice form factor, pretty cheaply made but no worse than the equivalents from other manufacturers. Came with Windows 8, UEFI and secureboot enabled, no COA, license embedded in the firmware. But I gather that's the standard way of doing things now. It's been downgraded to Windows 7 Pro (legitimately) with only a small amount of frustration.
I never moved up to the 650 but I had a 600 and I loved that thing. They got it so, so right. Every modern mobile phone manufacturer should be forced to use a Treo 600 for a week and then answer the question: "Is your product as good as this? No? Well back to the bloody drawing board with you."
Speak for yourself. I'm using Windows 8 on a core 2 duo Dell (so not exactly cutting edge). I've upped the RAM to 8GB and put in a half decent SSD. Everything opens and runs nice and fast.
Incorrect. If you add your corporate Exchange account to your iphone, you are giving your Exchange admins the ability to wipe your device. I know this because the it happened to a friend of mine - the IT function at her company apparently had a spazz attack and remote wiped ALL the phones.
A flagship Android phone with a 4" screen? Doesn't exist anymore - all Androids that are good have bigger and bigger screens - from a Galaxy S III to a Nexus 4
I actually bought an android device (a Galaxy Note, which I never bothered "jailbreaking" because it was good enough as it was), which I then had stolen.
A colleague gave me a 3GS she had lying around for me to use. It's now mine. However for me to proceed to sell it so that I could purchase another android device would be (in my opinion) a pretty crappy thing to do. So I'm stuck with it for now (and not ungrateful at all, it's a decent phone and it was free).
My point being many people will have similar reasons for sticking with iOS but wanting to customise it beyond the limits of what Apple allow.
I had one of these a while back (this one). I used it all the time with my mobile phone and it was both a great conversation piece and ergonomically and functionally superior to putting the mobile to my head.
Be ware, there are lots of people out there now manufacturing similar things and the quality varies dramatically. The one linked in PP looks to be of pretty poor quality.
The phobile is no longer available as far as I know which is a shame.
We have a reconditioned rotary dial telephone. Up until recently I could still dial out with it, but as you say the newer telephone equipment doesn't support pulse dialling any more. Also, it was really designed for a time when numbers were four to six digits long, not 11. Dialling 0777 etc gets old very quickly.
Those things are awesome. We had one at a company I used to do contracting for. The only interaction anyone on their IT staff ever had with it was double-tapping scroll lock. I found out the IP address and used it without getting up from my desk and they all thought I was some kind of wizard.
I worry about the state of some people's IT staff.
My own anecdotal experience as someone who likes a lot of current music.
I hear a song premiered on the radio during one of the evening shows that promote new music (Zane Lowe mostly). I get really excited over this great song I just heard. I go home, find it on youtube or soundcloud (usually posted by the artist or label) and listen the hell out of it. Post about it on twitter and facebook and so on.
However, this song is a good month or two months away from actually being released. By the time it's actually released, I've already heard it many times, and I've already moved on to the next new exciting song. My urge to purchase song 1 is significantly reduced.
I try to override this for artists I really care about and make sure I purchase the song, but I'm not excited about buying it.
The massive disparity between a song being released to the world and the song actually being available to buy is probably responsible for quite a lot of lost sales.
I didn't go and see Avengers in the cinema but would very much have liked to. Also want to go and see Bond. Feedback on both has been overwhelmingly positive, and having watched Avengers on blu-ray, I was not disappointed.
I did go and see Cabin in the Woods (in a small independent cinema, no less), and enjoyed it immensely.
Many people rated The Dark Knight Rises highly (although it's not my sort of film). The Hunger Games was equally quite popular.
The Woman in Black.
The Lorax
Titanic 3D (my wife took the children to see that one)
Snow White and the Huntsman (took my daughter to that one)
Prometheus (not greatly rated but a lot of people went to see it)
I've used Sophos in both the small business and enterprise incarnations, and both of them had a centrally managed way to download updates as frequently as you required. This wasn't even recently.
I'm typing this on a Unicomp "On-the-ball" USB model with Windows key, UK layout and trackball in the top right.
I don't use the trackball at all, it's not sensitive enough.
The build quality is not the same as an actual Model M, but still miles better than most other keyboards.
Mine has an irritating bug which means I have to replug it on reboot. I don't know why this is. When I was using it with my laptop this was a real pain in the neck, but I've now got it attached to my desktop at work, and I hardly ever reboot that, so I'd forgotten about this bug until fairly recently.
Interestingly (or not, depending on your point of view), the Virgin Media branded PVR V+ in the UK would disable the analogue outputs when using an HD source, presumably to stop you recording stuff off it, or more likely to stop you beaming it to other parts of the house via an AV sender and getting second box functionality for free.
The Virgin Media branded TiVo (in favour of which V+ is being phased out) does not have this restriction.
Year after year I repeatedly refused to sign the "Internet Permission Slip" sent out with my children because the school put in a clause that they were not responsible for any inappropriate content that my children might see on the internet (primary age children). I refused to sign it because I knew that the school relied on the Birmingham City Council internet filter to prevent access to dodgy stuff rather than adequately supervising their computer use.
I think they eventually gave up chasing me and just let the children online anyway in the end.
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SMS messaging is not and never has been a guaranteed delivery system. I have been told (but cannot find a source right now) that networks can and do silently drop text messages.
Like it nor not, Email may not initially have been an instantaneous guaranteed messaging service but that is what is expected of it now.
Just bought one of these with a view to making it our standard laptop deployment
Thinkpad Edge 530
Has a decent trackpad, and a trackpoint. Also a matte screen, nice form factor, pretty cheaply made but no worse than the equivalents from other manufacturers. Came with Windows 8, UEFI and secureboot enabled, no COA, license embedded in the firmware. But I gather that's the standard way of doing things now. It's been downgraded to Windows 7 Pro (legitimately) with only a small amount of frustration.
I never moved up to the 650 but I had a 600 and I loved that thing. They got it so, so right. Every modern mobile phone manufacturer should be forced to use a Treo 600 for a week and then answer the question: "Is your product as good as this? No? Well back to the bloody drawing board with you."
The equivalent on Linux would be iptables. Can you just about anything, as long as you have a lot of time to invest in learning the rules syntax.
I came here to post exactly the same thing.
Speak for yourself. I'm using Windows 8 on a core 2 duo Dell (so not exactly cutting edge). I've upped the RAM to 8GB and put in a half decent SSD. Everything opens and runs nice and fast.
(no, not a shill, check my comment history)
and for a more recent example, Novell and (by extension) SUSE.
Incorrect. If you add your corporate Exchange account to your iphone, you are giving your Exchange admins the ability to wipe your device. I know this because the it happened to a friend of mine - the IT function at her company apparently had a spazz attack and remote wiped ALL the phones.
iOS remote wipe from exchange
Like this you mean?
Well my reasons:
I actually bought an android device (a Galaxy Note, which I never bothered "jailbreaking" because it was good enough as it was), which I then had stolen.
A colleague gave me a 3GS she had lying around for me to use. It's now mine. However for me to proceed to sell it so that I could purchase another android device would be (in my opinion) a pretty crappy thing to do. So I'm stuck with it for now (and not ungrateful at all, it's a decent phone and it was free).
My point being many people will have similar reasons for sticking with iOS but wanting to customise it beyond the limits of what Apple allow.
Same, but I don't think I'd show her a picture of one, would you? That's really more what this is about.
You did a Google Image Search for his ailment?
I had one of these a while back (this one). I used it all the time with my mobile phone and it was both a great conversation piece and ergonomically and functionally superior to putting the mobile to my head.
Be ware, there are lots of people out there now manufacturing similar things and the quality varies dramatically. The one linked in PP looks to be of pretty poor quality.
The phobile is no longer available as far as I know which is a shame.
We have a reconditioned rotary dial telephone. Up until recently I could still dial out with it, but as you say the newer telephone equipment doesn't support pulse dialling any more. Also, it was really designed for a time when numbers were four to six digits long, not 11. Dialling 0777 etc gets old very quickly.
Those things are awesome. We had one at a company I used to do contracting for. The only interaction anyone on their IT staff ever had with it was double-tapping scroll lock. I found out the IP address and used it without getting up from my desk and they all thought I was some kind of wizard.
I worry about the state of some people's IT staff.
My own anecdotal experience as someone who likes a lot of current music.
I hear a song premiered on the radio during one of the evening shows that promote new music (Zane Lowe mostly). I get really excited over this great song I just heard. I go home, find it on youtube or soundcloud (usually posted by the artist or label) and listen the hell out of it. Post about it on twitter and facebook and so on.
However, this song is a good month or two months away from actually being released. By the time it's actually released, I've already heard it many times, and I've already moved on to the next new exciting song. My urge to purchase song 1 is significantly reduced.
I try to override this for artists I really care about and make sure I purchase the song, but I'm not excited about buying it.
The massive disparity between a song being released to the world and the song actually being available to buy is probably responsible for quite a lot of lost sales.
OK, you got me. I'm intrigued (genuinely), could I have a source please?
OK, I'll bite on this bite ...
I didn't go and see Avengers in the cinema but would very much have liked to. Also want to go and see Bond. Feedback on both has been overwhelmingly positive, and having watched Avengers on blu-ray, I was not disappointed.
I did go and see Cabin in the Woods (in a small independent cinema, no less), and enjoyed it immensely.
Many people rated The Dark Knight Rises highly (although it's not my sort of film). The Hunger Games was equally quite popular.
The Woman in Black.
The Lorax
Titanic 3D (my wife took the children to see that one)
Snow White and the Huntsman (took my daughter to that one)
Prometheus (not greatly rated but a lot of people went to see it)
Rock of Ages
and more, I'm only up to June.
I can't reliably remember the dates of birth of my children, but I can still remember my skype ID which I haven't used for approximately ten years.
I've used Sophos in both the small business and enterprise incarnations, and both of them had a centrally managed way to download updates as frequently as you required. This wasn't even recently.
I'm typing this on a Unicomp "On-the-ball" USB model with Windows key, UK layout and trackball in the top right.
I don't use the trackball at all, it's not sensitive enough.
The build quality is not the same as an actual Model M, but still miles better than most other keyboards.
Mine has an irritating bug which means I have to replug it on reboot. I don't know why this is. When I was using it with my laptop this was a real pain in the neck, but I've now got it attached to my desktop at work, and I hardly ever reboot that, so I'd forgotten about this bug until fairly recently.
I'm happy with it. I would recommend it.
Interestingly (or not, depending on your point of view), the Virgin Media branded PVR V+ in the UK would disable the analogue outputs when using an HD source, presumably to stop you recording stuff off it, or more likely to stop you beaming it to other parts of the house via an AV sender and getting second box functionality for free.
The Virgin Media branded TiVo (in favour of which V+ is being phased out) does not have this restriction.
And it sucks.
You can't (for instance) use MHL at the same time as USB on the go (USB host mode). Or at the same time as USB AT ALL, as far as I know.
At least, you couldn't, until they released a new INCOMPATIBLE spec for the connector (starting with, I think, the Galaxy S3).
Also, there's no standard interface for external controls, so you can't have a dock that supports skipping forward/backward/etc.
There's no line level analogue out (as previously mentioned), so that connector is not useable as a dock connector.
Apple make questionable choices about some things, but the dock connector is something they got emphatically right, in my opinion.
Year after year I repeatedly refused to sign the "Internet Permission Slip" sent out with my children because the school put in a clause that they were not responsible for any inappropriate content that my children might see on the internet (primary age children). I refused to sign it because I knew that the school relied on the Birmingham City Council internet filter to prevent access to dodgy stuff rather than adequately supervising their computer use.
I think they eventually gave up chasing me and just let the children online anyway in the end.
Huawei make the 3 "MiFi", the original generation at least and probably the rest too. They also make 3G dongles.