One of the many reasons why I won't spend a dime on Bluray.
I can think of one case where you might buy a Bluray player. If you needed a new player. Remember you can borrow Bluray Discs from most libraries. And if you have to spend the money on a new player, you may as well get something multiformat.
This is what can be done when you don't shut out your customers - I am an HTC purchaser for life now.
Or until HTC does something really stupid and doesn't back down. There are many companies who used to be great, then they changed. I'm not saying HTC will change in a bad way, but you just never know.
In regards to Streetview itself and recording SSIDs and such, there is simply no privacy concerns. When you are in public, people can see you. When you broadcast signals, people can receive them. If you don't want to be seen, don't go out in public. If you don't want people to see the SSID of your AP, don't broadcast it.
If you're not broadcasting the SSID and are using some form of encryption, is Google still getting this data? I would hope not, because at that point, they're dealing with data that has not been made public.
Many words have multiple meanings. Will Amazon pick the synonym that has a compatible meaning? Or will they change the work totally?
Also what if a word they pick is also the name of an item? This would break the work they modified.
An example works for both: "Grill" do they mean to cook or to interrogate? And what if it is a grill as in the item to cook with?
And as for changing the spelling of words, well what if it becomes another word? Or maybe it gets changed into a name used in the book - this would cause confusion. And what about people learning the wrong spelling for words?
Of course there is also the issue of possibly violating the authors copyright by changing the work in question.
From the linked article: He also expects his new business will be good for his old one. "The only way to block your number after this is released is to use Spoofcard," he says with a laugh.
Basically the TrapCall service is extortion to get people to buy their SpoofCard service.
On the other side, you have a true war hero married to a woman with a huge chest who owns a beer distributorship. But is it just junky US beer, or is it actually a decent brew?
How free is something when you're told what to spend it on? How free is money when it goes into a fund that invests in the United States companies and stock markets and you can't control that fund?
My answer would be 'not very' but, you know, when you see these 'donations' from the rich like Bill Gates, that seems to be the case every single time. I'm glad they're getting something, I'm upset about the strings attached. Better than nothing, yes. But sounding more and more like a fishy tax loophole or legacy purchase (he'll go down in history as a philanthropist no doubt) every day.
It's a way to screw with sales numbers. They give away money it looks good. They sold another 50,000 copies of windows it looks good. If they just gave away Windows, it only looks half as good since the sales numbers won't increase from the donation.
Players are cheap and they'll only get cheaper. Not every one has the spare cash to be buying stuff that will only get replaced within a year or so. And too many people have overly high credit card debt as it is. In my case I prefer not to waste money on a piece of electronics that won't last me more than a year or two. My stereo has components in it that are from 8 years to 30 years old in it and the old components work just fine. Yes I still have a turntable as well.
I won't mind spending $200 to $300 for a high def disc player when the format war settles. As long as the player will last several years. Heck even my VCR is 20 years old and is working just fine. But then again I didn't buy the cheapest model on the market.
(And no I'm not driving a beater. I recognize when the cost of repair is going to be more than owning a new car.)
Because I don't want to be faced with repurchasing a chunk of my movie collection or trawling the used market a few years down the line when one of my players goes tits up and I can't buy a new one because the format lost. Seems pretty simple to me. A rather good point. I have a fair number of 12" laser discs and a player that is working fine. When the player dies, I doubt I'd be able to get a decent replacement. And not all of the movies I have on laser disc are available on DVD (amazingly enough) and these are the ones I actually watch most often.
And as for a HD TV, I will get one of those either when my current TV dies or maybe when the HD-DVD vs. BluRay is settled. As it is my local cable company is in the process of changing ownership, so I wouldn't want to buy anything until I see what the new owner provides for service (equipment requirement wise) in my area.
And I am also a little skittish about buying a HD TV since the early adopters got screwed over since theirs don't have the HDMI interface. Who knows what other important changes might creep in before analog TV is cut off in the US.
Actually, if you use the online account management stuff, you can do your own phone activation. Presuming you have a phone that is compatible with Verizon's network.
There are authorized Verizon Wireless shops that provide phones that work that Verizon never sold.
So there is more than one way around it being a Verizon sold phone.
But anyways I'm sure if Comcast, AT&T or Verizon told a tier 1 that they wanted another couple OC738's of backbone into their data-centers it would happen PDQ. Sorry to bother you with the facts, but AT&T and Verizon are tier 1 providers.
So you're right, but for the wrong reason. People with a vested interest in netwrok providers increasing their spending have announced... that network providers need to increase their spending. Yawn, is there no news today? It may have been just a self serving article, but at least one can understand why it was posted on Slashdot. (Unlike several articles I can think of.)
have you ever tried just dropping your sim into an unlocked phone? In the USA, only AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM and Sim cards. (At least of the 4 large carriers.) So for Verizon Wireless users, there is no sim card to just drop in. Also Verizon and Sprint use different encoding methods and radio frequencies from the GSM based carriers - another barrier to phone choice.
However, there are companies that sell phones compatible with the various networks. You do not have to get a phone through Verizon. The third party phones tend to be a little more expensive as they aren't subsidized by the carriers.
In truth, I'd rtaher the phones be more expensive and the monthly fees be lower.
But just think how much faster the computer would have to be to be able to handle photo editing in a web based application?
"Let's move to the web." - It seems like a good business approach and for some stuff it is. Web based banking is great. Web based email is pretty good (depending on the service of course). Web based photo editing would be worse than sucky.
However, some business people see that web based is good for some stuff so it must be good for everthing. NEWS FLASH: Just because something works well for a lot of things, it doesn't mean it will work well for everything. I want to get a faster computer to do things faster, not to keep things at the same speed or maybe slower because of the inefficiencies and bloat in "upgraded" software/applications.
Customer buys iPhone from Apple -> Customer gets SIM card from chosen network on preferred contract/PAYG -> Customer puts SIM in iPhone and starts making calls That actually still leaves the choices as only AT&T or T-Mobile as they're the only 2 GSM carriers in the US.
So based on Apple's decission to go GSM only (and not really that bad of an idea) AT&T made more sense in the US than T-Mobile as AT&T has better cell coverage in general. However, depending on where you live, AT&T may not be a viable choice for a carrier.
Any journey to the moon starts on Earth, and I can understand why governments would be suspicious of rockets launching without warning. Of course if one got to the moon via something like a transporter (à la Star Trek) then there is no treaty covering or restricting that trip.
I mostly just want more memory... my CD collection is at about 30GB right now. Put 32GB of flash in there and we have a deal.
Do you? I've found I don't want all my music with me all the time. I have an old iPod for the car with lots of playlists for driving. I put the music I know I'm going to listen to today or this week on my iPhone for that rare case when I actually listen to music from it. I too would want to see a 32 GB iPhone. That wouldn't hold my whole music collection, however, it would hold enough that I wouldn't bother changing the music on it more than once every couple of months maybe. 32GB would allow enough music and space for other things on the phone. Remember on an 8GB iPhone, you probably should not use more than 6GB of space for music - depending of course how much you use other features of the phone. You want space for email, photos, the address book, etc.
Of course, I would also like to see the iPhone available for other carriers in the US - AT&T has coverage issues where I tend to be.
Like if photographer takes picture from a man standing next to gay parade, it is easy to understand that man is a gay. (gay as homosexual, not happy in this example). And then there is more things about it how to show person in it or how journalist writes it. Somebody standing next to a gay parade could be gay as you said they must be. Or they could just have friends who are gay and is supporting their friends. Of it could just be someone their supporting the rights of gays. Or maybe it was someone who just happened to be near the parade while out running errands. Or it could just be someone who likes watching parades. Now if they had something on them to indicate they were gay, like writing on their shirt, that would be a different story.
Going back to the original story, did the youth conselor even have permission to post photos of the kids he was taking pictures of? Some families do not like having their kids photos on the net, especially if the kids name is attached.
Right now, I may buy a DVD when it's in the $5 bin at the store. Other than that, I am buying no more DVDs until this stupid format war settles itself.
I just wish it would hurry because a BluRay or HD burner with reasanbly priced (inexpensive) blank media would be great for backing up my computer.
They make a big deal about this, but at the same time we still have NTSC and PAL formats to basically keep sales of certain products specific to European customers. One of the differences between PAL and NTSC is the frame refresh rate. And that is based on the line frequency of electricity being delivered to the consumers in the various countries. So even if everyone used PAL (or NTSC), you would still have different products based on the different frames per second.
releasing software with remotely exploitable bugs to the general public to the fanfare of the press (release of safari is in all major news) by a large company is surely a more irresponsible act than a bug report about the said software. Then releasing, Linux, Windows, and a heck of a lot of other software these days is irresponsible. If Aple did not know these bugs existed, thenthey ar enot at fault at all for releasing it.
And to add to that, we have no proof these are real bugs. Right now it's hot air from someone who has made false claims before (WiFi on the Intel Macs) and won't say what is broken. Until he actually tells Apple or the WebKit/khtml folks what the bugs are, there is no proof they are real. For example, how many exploitation bugs have been found in Windows Vista since its release? And remember the Safari on Windows is a beta release so is not expected to neccessarily be totally bug free.
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Considering what Motorola has done for Google, I wonder if the Nokia acquisition will turn out any different for Microsoft.
One of the many reasons why I won't spend a dime on Bluray.
I can think of one case where you might buy a Bluray player. If you needed a new player. Remember you can borrow Bluray Discs from most libraries. And if you have to spend the money on a new player, you may as well get something multiformat.
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This is what can be done when you don't shut out your customers - I am an HTC purchaser for life now.
Or until HTC does something really stupid and doesn't back down. There are many companies who used to be great, then they changed. I'm not saying HTC will change in a bad way, but you just never know.
In regards to Streetview itself and recording SSIDs and such, there is simply no privacy concerns. When you are in public, people can see you. When you broadcast signals, people can receive them. If you don't want to be seen, don't go out in public. If you don't want people to see the SSID of your AP, don't broadcast it.
If you're not broadcasting the SSID and are using some form of encryption, is Google still getting this data? I would hope not, because at that point, they're dealing with data that has not been made public.
Also what if a word they pick is also the name of an item? This would break the work they modified.
An example works for both: "Grill" do they mean to cook or to interrogate? And what if it is a grill as in the item to cook with?
And as for changing the spelling of words, well what if it becomes another word? Or maybe it gets changed into a name used in the book - this would cause confusion. And what about people learning the wrong spelling for words?
Of course there is also the issue of possibly violating the authors copyright by changing the work in question.
From the linked article:
He also expects his new business will be good for his old one.
"The only way to block your number after this is released is to use Spoofcard," he says with a laugh.
Basically the TrapCall service is extortion to get people to buy their SpoofCard service.
My answer would be 'not very' but, you know, when you see these 'donations' from the rich like Bill Gates, that seems to be the case every single time. I'm glad they're getting something, I'm upset about the strings attached. Better than nothing, yes. But sounding more and more like a fishy tax loophole or legacy purchase (he'll go down in history as a philanthropist no doubt) every day.
It's a way to screw with sales numbers. They give away money it looks good. They sold another 50,000 copies of windows it looks good. If they just gave away Windows, it only looks half as good since the sales numbers won't increase from the donation.
I won't mind spending $200 to $300 for a high def disc player when the format war settles. As long as the player will last several years. Heck even my VCR is 20 years old and is working just fine. But then again I didn't buy the cheapest model on the market.
(And no I'm not driving a beater. I recognize when the cost of repair is going to be more than owning a new car.)
And as for a HD TV, I will get one of those either when my current TV dies or maybe when the HD-DVD vs. BluRay is settled. As it is my local cable company is in the process of changing ownership, so I wouldn't want to buy anything until I see what the new owner provides for service (equipment requirement wise) in my area.
And I am also a little skittish about buying a HD TV since the early adopters got screwed over since theirs don't have the HDMI interface. Who knows what other important changes might creep in before analog TV is cut off in the US.
Actually, if you use the online account management stuff, you can do your own phone activation. Presuming you have a phone that is compatible with Verizon's network.
There are authorized Verizon Wireless shops that provide phones that work that Verizon never sold.
So there is more than one way around it being a Verizon sold phone.
In the USA, only AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM and Sim cards. (At least of the 4 large carriers.) So for Verizon Wireless users, there is no sim card to just drop in. Also Verizon and Sprint use different encoding methods and radio frequencies from the GSM based carriers - another barrier to phone choice.
However, there are companies that sell phones compatible with the various networks. You do not have to get a phone through Verizon. The third party phones tend to be a little more expensive as they aren't subsidized by the carriers.
In truth, I'd rtaher the phones be more expensive and the monthly fees be lower.
"Let's move to the web." - It seems like a good business approach and for some stuff it is. Web based banking is great. Web based email is pretty good (depending on the service of course). Web based photo editing would be worse than sucky.
However, some business people see that web based is good for some stuff so it must be good for everthing.
NEWS FLASH: Just because something works well for a lot of things, it doesn't mean it will work well for everything. I want to get a faster computer to do things faster, not to keep things at the same speed or maybe slower because of the inefficiencies and bloat in "upgraded" software/applications.
So based on Apple's decission to go GSM only (and not really that bad of an idea) AT&T made more sense in the US than T-Mobile as AT&T has better cell coverage in general. However, depending on where you live, AT&T may not be a viable choice for a carrier.
Of course, I would also like to see the iPhone available for other carriers in the US - AT&T has coverage issues where I tend to be.
Going back to the original story, did the youth conselor even have permission to post photos of the kids he was taking pictures of? Some families do not like having their kids photos on the net, especially if the kids name is attached.
Right now, I may buy a DVD when it's in the $5 bin at the store. Other than that, I am buying no more DVDs until this stupid format war settles itself.
I just wish it would hurry because a BluRay or HD burner with reasanbly priced (inexpensive) blank media would be great for backing up my computer.
One of the differences between PAL and NTSC is the frame refresh rate. And that is based on the line frequency of electricity being delivered to the consumers in the various countries. So even if everyone used PAL (or NTSC), you would still have different products based on the different frames per second.
And to add to that, we have no proof these are real bugs. Right now it's hot air from someone who has made false claims before (WiFi on the Intel Macs) and won't say what is broken. Until he actually tells Apple or the WebKit/khtml folks what the bugs are, there is no proof they are real. For example, how many exploitation bugs have been found in Windows Vista since its release? And remember the Safari on Windows is a beta release so is not expected to neccessarily be totally bug free.
And my first thought at seeing the title of this was the song 1,000,000 Lawyers by Tom Paxton.
Is it up to the postfix authors to require people to not run open mail relays?
At least postfix by default doesn't have open relaying set up.