I'm not upset you like your phone. I just feel that you should not have to spout half truths and outright lies to justify liking it (and why everyone else should) - which you are. The phone should just *work* and have all of the standard features, especially for that price!
Except that no BIOS is stupid enough to just *crash* when they fail to find bootable media on the boot devices - they just carry on. Mine literally locks up.
And I have no intention of using the Linux flash card idea - my computer certainly wont thank me (being inanimate and all) with a printer that will refuse to print because there's flash media inserted.
Yeah, but what's the point in accepting updates that do things like "Fixes a performance issue in Windows Media Center. After installing this update, you may have to restart your computer". I do make the distinction for security updates, which just aren't the same thing.
Bollocks. If that were the case, my Windows Mobile device with a large, bright touch screen, 400MHz processor, and EVDO Rev-A (3G) support would have crappy battery life. And it would be larger than the 10x6x1.5 (cm) that it is. But guess what? It doesn't, and it isn't. Apple's just blowing smoke so you don't realise that the iPhone isn't worth the price they're charging.
Go get Windows Vista trial or something (virtualise one if you have to) and take a look at the Windows Firewall Advanced Configuration. XP SP3 might have it too, but I doubt it. It's pretty damn configurable now.
Actually, in Vista SP1 they reversed that direction because Symantec bitched and took it to court. There we have the real reason Windows can't get much more secure- because Symantec will sue if it happens.
And yet most of the people called "Astroturfers" on this here site (possibly even by you) are not in fact on the payroll or investor list of any of the companies they are being associated with.
Wont happen. If they do that, they can't price fix their content over different regions (for example, $5 in Thailand, $30 in UK, $20 in USA, $40 in NZ)
Ironically, like someone suggested earlier, Windows Mobile is currently the most open platform for developing on or using. Microsoft has designed in the ability to block unsigned apps from running, but they then conveniently signed the tool that you can install to disable that restriction (the Device Security Manager or whatever it's called) - any copy of Visual Studio has it (and I think it's. in the free Windows Mobile SDK) As well as that, you can develop third party apps in C++, C, VB,.NET, pretty much anything that compiles binaries! It even supports Javascript in the browser now;)
When Microsoft decided that I didn't own the rights to my own media and stopped me from being able to copy my own DVDs, I decided to drop them for my media development system and I switched to Linux and Apple. Microsoft doesn't want my business so I went with the people who do. No problem. Except that Windows has no such copy protection functionality - apart from HD Discs which Linux and Mac OS can't even READ because noone will license the tech to them without that protection. An ordinary DVD is still copyable with the right software, even on Windows.
Actually it is the case. I rarely reboot my Vista machine (mostly because for some reason the BIOS on my PC tries to boot from the printer - don't ask, I don't know), and on average only need to do so once every month or two (I don't accept Windows Updates for components I don't use)
I don't know about that - I try to remain unbiased in my moderation and the system is CONSTANTLY giving me mod points (sometimes the day after I use up my last lot!) so maybe you aren't being as unbiased as you thought?
Not necessarily possible over here - the tamper protection is... stunning. The PIN pad if it isn't official will be rejected by the terminal, which will be rejected by the network (it fails the handshake and just displays "PIN Pad Error"). You can't intercept the communication between the pad and terminal (they're both separate devices) because it's triple DES encrypted, and you can't intercept the communication between the terminal and the network (because it's a dial-up connection, again encrypted). The best thieves can do over here is some sort of device which copies the card itself when it's swiped, and a camera to pick up the PIN as it's entered (since the PIN is not on the card) - our ATMs now have a little picture when the card is inserted telling us to cover our PIN entry.
Really? Over here our terminals require triple-DES encryption between the PIN-pad and the terminal and then the connection from the terminal to the payment processor is encrypted again. Anything else will not be certified for connection to the EFTPOS network.
The flag you refer to is PICS (in use by ICRA), and is already in place (though optional). To see how it works, pop open Internet Explorer (only for a minute, don't worry) and on the Content tab of the Internet Options dialog, and under "Content Advisor", click "Enable...".
You describe Firefox ADDONS. Firefox PLUGINS are compiled DLL code written in languages like C++ - Netscape style. Apparently you trust Firefox addons (sandboxed javascript) a lot more than Firefox plugins (random bytecode)
You are, of course, completely right. In fact, when I went to a course and they handed out free copies of VS2008, they said the same thing: "if you can compile the code with anything other than this version, you should be sweet".
You think you have it bad? Our government over here is TRYING to weaken our dollar because the exporters are complaining that the USD they are getting isn't worth enough NZD. Never mind the importers (of which there are more) who are pretty much jumping for joy.
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I'm not upset you like your phone. I just feel that you should not have to spout half truths and outright lies to justify liking it (and why everyone else should) - which you are. The phone should just *work* and have all of the standard features, especially for that price!
Except that no BIOS is stupid enough to just *crash* when they fail to find bootable media on the boot devices - they just carry on. Mine literally locks up.
And I have no intention of using the Linux flash card idea - my computer certainly wont thank me (being inanimate and all) with a printer that will refuse to print because there's flash media inserted.
Yeah, but what's the point in accepting updates that do things like "Fixes a performance issue in Windows Media Center. After installing this update, you may have to restart your computer". I do make the distinction for security updates, which just aren't the same thing.
Bollocks. If that were the case, my Windows Mobile device with a large, bright touch screen, 400MHz processor, and EVDO Rev-A (3G) support would have crappy battery life. And it would be larger than the 10x6x1.5 (cm) that it is. But guess what? It doesn't, and it isn't. Apple's just blowing smoke so you don't realise that the iPhone isn't worth the price they're charging.
Can't be purchased on a business plan, no support for Exchange Server itself without Outlook (even Nokia has that).
Go get Windows Vista trial or something (virtualise one if you have to) and take a look at the Windows Firewall Advanced Configuration. XP SP3 might have it too, but I doubt it. It's pretty damn configurable now.
Actually, in Vista SP1 they reversed that direction because Symantec bitched and took it to court. There we have the real reason Windows can't get much more secure- because Symantec will sue if it happens.
And yet most of the people called "Astroturfers" on this here site (possibly even by you) are not in fact on the payroll or investor list of any of the companies they are being associated with.
Wont happen. If they do that, they can't price fix their content over different regions (for example, $5 in Thailand, $30 in UK, $20 in USA, $40 in NZ)
I have 60MB available. WTF are you running?
Ironically, like someone suggested earlier, Windows Mobile is currently the most open platform for developing on or using. Microsoft has designed in the ability to block unsigned apps from running, but they then conveniently signed the tool that you can install to disable that restriction (the Device Security Manager or whatever it's called) - any copy of Visual Studio has it (and I think it's. in the free Windows Mobile SDK) As well as that, you can develop third party apps in C++, C, VB, .NET, pretty much anything that compiles binaries! It even supports Javascript in the browser now ;)
Actually it is the case. I rarely reboot my Vista machine (mostly because for some reason the BIOS on my PC tries to boot from the printer - don't ask, I don't know), and on average only need to do so once every month or two (I don't accept Windows Updates for components I don't use)
I don't know about that - I try to remain unbiased in my moderation and the system is CONSTANTLY giving me mod points (sometimes the day after I use up my last lot!) so maybe you aren't being as unbiased as you thought?
Not necessarily possible over here - the tamper protection is... stunning. The PIN pad if it isn't official will be rejected by the terminal, which will be rejected by the network (it fails the handshake and just displays "PIN Pad Error"). You can't intercept the communication between the pad and terminal (they're both separate devices) because it's triple DES encrypted, and you can't intercept the communication between the terminal and the network (because it's a dial-up connection, again encrypted). The best thieves can do over here is some sort of device which copies the card itself when it's swiped, and a camera to pick up the PIN as it's entered (since the PIN is not on the card) - our ATMs now have a little picture when the card is inserted telling us to cover our PIN entry.
Really? Over here our terminals require triple-DES encryption between the PIN-pad and the terminal and then the connection from the terminal to the payment processor is encrypted again. Anything else will not be certified for connection to the EFTPOS network.
Wow you guys really do have it bad.
Hey hey! GNU is not Unix! Is that Stallman with a stick running at you?
Wrong. You change "Search from the address bar" to "Do not search from the address bar"
The flag you refer to is PICS (in use by ICRA), and is already in place (though optional). To see how it works, pop open Internet Explorer (only for a minute, don't worry) and on the Content tab of the Internet Options dialog, and under "Content Advisor", click "Enable...".
You describe Firefox ADDONS. Firefox PLUGINS are compiled DLL code written in languages like C++ - Netscape style. Apparently you trust Firefox addons (sandboxed javascript) a lot more than Firefox plugins (random bytecode)
Th Katana should (hopefully) be digitally signed, so the correct message is roughly:
"Windows needs your permission to perform the following command:
Use Katana
Continue / Cancel"
You are, of course, completely right. In fact, when I went to a course and they handed out free copies of VS2008, they said the same thing: "if you can compile the code with anything other than this version, you should be sweet".
Problem: the license agreement on the free copy forbids outright selling the output of the program (so your software house is again not a reality).
You think you have it bad? Our government over here is TRYING to weaken our dollar because the exporters are complaining that the USD they are getting isn't worth enough NZD. Never mind the importers (of which there are more) who are pretty much jumping for joy.
Betamax? The standard tape format? Are you smoking something?