If I interpret your remarks correctly, you're suggesting I should unplug (or heavily firewall, even more so than the NAT I use today) my iMac because Apple no longer pushes security updates for it, or be or else be criminally liable.
Those laws are ideal, but would never be enforced anyways. What police officer wants to spend hours at a time checking the versions of each and every installed software application to verify that a machine is "secure"? And how many of the 245 million Internet users in the United States are going to constantly check the vulnerability disclosure lists to know when to uninstall/upgrade software to maintain compliance? I suppose it would mean a return to 1974's small ARPANET with a few thousand users across the nation.
That would punish me for running Mac OS X 10.3.9 on my iMac G3. Why should the law require me to use Linux? Hell, with some of the legal suggestions floating around on here, it would be illegal for me to use this machine for anything at all, due to an low watt-per-FLOP ratio.
Maybe Intel is hoping nVidia or AMD will use their foundry to fab their GPUs. And then Intel magically comes out with a GPU that doesn't suck 6 months later.
I've been told by someone that newer GPUs and systems have zero practical use of hardware-accelerated h.264, as the CPU is insanely fast enough to do it just fine without acceleration. Not that I believe it, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone used this excuse to downplay the lack of hardware-accelerated h.264 decoding.
I didn't know that. Good to know. And good for them, going the globally-supported UMTS route. I've heard Austraila and New Zealand use a weird mix of frequencies for UMTS, deploying IMT-style 2100MHz (Band I) in urban areas and American-style 850MHz (Band V). Can you elaborate more on that?
What about Sprint, MetroPCS, Cricket, US Cellular, Alltel, Alaska Wireless, etc.? They're all CDMA2000 carriers that use MEID authentication exclusively.
GSM networks really aren't as bad as you've been brainwashed into believing. I read the same report, except I read the unedited version, before they swapped all mentions of "GSM/UMTS" and "cdmaOne/CDMA2000". And no, I can't hear you now, go get yourself a GSM phone dude.
W-CDMA is not the same as CDMA2000. W-CDMA uses 5MHz channels, normally is used with the UMTS protocol suite (based on GSM), and uses SIM exclusively. Also, it's not. "wcdma" or "wcdma2000" or anything of the sort. It's essentially GSM, but with a newer air interface. CDMA2000 uses a 1.25MHz channel and is essentially a backwards-compatible upgrade to TIA-EIA-95 (cdmaOne).
I think the only thing it has to do with CDMA2000 is that both use CDMA as a multiple access method. And that's a very low-level (and thus distant) similarity. W-CDMA is used by UMTS, and UMTS is mostly GSM on a new air interface (the W-CDMA air interface). It is not, and is not compatible with, CDMA2000. Please don't mix them up. Not only does it show that you don't know what you're talking about, it can also be (very) costly for you if you decide to buy aftermarket phones if you buy the wrong type.
This is totally WRONG. Verizon Wireless uses R-UIM for LTE devices. While the phones are also capable of MEID authentication, they primarily use CSIM. The HTC Thunderbolt will not function at all without a SIM card, while on Verizon Wireless, because the SIM is also used for CDAM2000 network authentication. I have read reports of people flashing the phone to Cricket, and using MEID-based authentication in such case, and I've also heard reports from Indian owners of the Thunderbolt that have SIM-unlocked the device and have successfully used it on Reliance (a CDMA2000 carrier in India) simply by inserting a Reliance R-UIM. Furthermore, I've seen (in real life) an unlocked Japanese CDMA handset work as a Verizon Wireless device simply by inserting an LTE SIM into the device's SIM slot. The phone's operator banner read as "Verizon Wireless" and the MSISDN was that of the LTE SIM (to verify, we placed a test call to another phone, which showed the same Caller ID as when the SIM was in a Droid RAZR). Japanese CDMA devices do not use MEID authentication at all - they do not have the ability to internally store authentication credentials or a PRL file, and can only pull those from the CSIM application on the smartcard.
Bull. DVD is a global standard, and since it didn't have much in the way of natural competition per region (aside from [Super] Video CD in East Asian markets, and that was still rather weak), they had to create artificial region locks.
Even when they do have a unified global standard, they still want per-region controls, to fragment the global economy. It's to dissuade, for example, Americans from buying fully functional and 100% legally licensed DVDs from Hong Kong for 5-10% of the cost of the American release of the film.
It's worth noting that some (maybe all) of Verizon Wireless' LTE-capable devices also use SIM for CDMA2000 authentication. There are reports of unlocked Thunderbolts running just fine in India with Reliance (a CDMA2000 carrier) just by popping in a Reliance CDMA SIM.
And that shitty ribbon is why I switched to OpenOffice.org, and then to LibreOffice once Oracle decided to dump OOo onto Apache Foundation. Not that I hadn't used OOo before, just that I finally quit messing with Microsoft Office completely.
Except that East Asian deployments of CDMA2000 use SIM for network authentication - changing phones in Japan, Korea, or India is as simple as moving a little smartcard around. Just like in GSM. Don't hold me to it, but it might also apply to CDMA2000 networks in Eastern Europe.
Only in the Americas do CDMA2000 networks still use MEID for authentication, as far as I know.
I didn't know that someone's a shill because they think Multicast DNS is a good idea (and by the way, it is. It's a hell of a lot better than Microsoft's SMB multicast host discovery and name resolution)
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Actually, I think the video you want to link to is this one. That aside, I'd like a spec sheet and diagram, please.
Arby 'n' the Chief wouldn't be the same without him!
You downloaded three tracks! That's like murdering three people!
Sadly, this means I've got about 5 people I'm even interested in talking to, and only one of them have I ever met in person.
But how would I keep a job if I couldn't get there on time?
But Verizon is CDMA2000, and thus doesn't work with his phone. (Not that they work with their own phones as it is.)
The N9 has UMTS-AWS support. Nice try, though.
If I interpret your remarks correctly, you're suggesting I should unplug (or heavily firewall, even more so than the NAT I use today) my iMac because Apple no longer pushes security updates for it, or be or else be criminally liable.
Those laws are ideal, but would never be enforced anyways. What police officer wants to spend hours at a time checking the versions of each and every installed software application to verify that a machine is "secure"? And how many of the 245 million Internet users in the United States are going to constantly check the vulnerability disclosure lists to know when to uninstall/upgrade software to maintain compliance? I suppose it would mean a return to 1974's small ARPANET with a few thousand users across the nation.
That would punish me for running Mac OS X 10.3.9 on my iMac G3. Why should the law require me to use Linux? Hell, with some of the legal suggestions floating around on here, it would be illegal for me to use this machine for anything at all, due to an low watt-per-FLOP ratio.
Slashdotters are killing my childhood, not 4chan.
And cockroaches, if you have them.
Maybe Intel is hoping nVidia or AMD will use their foundry to fab their GPUs. And then Intel magically comes out with a GPU that doesn't suck 6 months later.
I've been told by someone that newer GPUs and systems have zero practical use of hardware-accelerated h.264, as the CPU is insanely fast enough to do it just fine without acceleration. Not that I believe it, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone used this excuse to downplay the lack of hardware-accelerated h.264 decoding.
Jon CJ Graham pretty much predicted this a year ago in the form of satire, with his series "Arby 'n' The Chief", with an douchebag game studio CEO named Trent Donovich
I didn't know that. Good to know. And good for them, going the globally-supported UMTS route. I've heard Austraila and New Zealand use a weird mix of frequencies for UMTS, deploying IMT-style 2100MHz (Band I) in urban areas and American-style 850MHz (Band V). Can you elaborate more on that?
What about Sprint, MetroPCS, Cricket, US Cellular, Alltel, Alaska Wireless, etc.? They're all CDMA2000 carriers that use MEID authentication exclusively.
GSM networks really aren't as bad as you've been brainwashed into believing. I read the same report, except I read the unedited version, before they swapped all mentions of "GSM/UMTS" and "cdmaOne/CDMA2000". And no, I can't hear you now, go get yourself a GSM phone dude.
2) LTE devices, since LTE requires a SIM. The SIM is, to my knowledge, not used for the legacy CDMA interfaces.
It is. See my comment here.
W-CDMA is not the same as CDMA2000. W-CDMA uses 5MHz channels, normally is used with the UMTS protocol suite (based on GSM), and uses SIM exclusively. Also, it's not. "wcdma" or "wcdma2000" or anything of the sort. It's essentially GSM, but with a newer air interface. CDMA2000 uses a 1.25MHz channel and is essentially a backwards-compatible upgrade to TIA-EIA-95 (cdmaOne).
I think the only thing it has to do with CDMA2000 is that both use CDMA as a multiple access method. And that's a very low-level (and thus distant) similarity. W-CDMA is used by UMTS, and UMTS is mostly GSM on a new air interface (the W-CDMA air interface). It is not, and is not compatible with, CDMA2000. Please don't mix them up. Not only does it show that you don't know what you're talking about, it can also be (very) costly for you if you decide to buy aftermarket phones if you buy the wrong type.
This is totally WRONG. Verizon Wireless uses R-UIM for LTE devices. While the phones are also capable of MEID authentication, they primarily use CSIM. The HTC Thunderbolt will not function at all without a SIM card, while on Verizon Wireless, because the SIM is also used for CDAM2000 network authentication. I have read reports of people flashing the phone to Cricket, and using MEID-based authentication in such case, and I've also heard reports from Indian owners of the Thunderbolt that have SIM-unlocked the device and have successfully used it on Reliance (a CDMA2000 carrier in India) simply by inserting a Reliance R-UIM. Furthermore, I've seen (in real life) an unlocked Japanese CDMA handset work as a Verizon Wireless device simply by inserting an LTE SIM into the device's SIM slot. The phone's operator banner read as "Verizon Wireless" and the MSISDN was that of the LTE SIM (to verify, we placed a test call to another phone, which showed the same Caller ID as when the SIM was in a Droid RAZR). Japanese CDMA devices do not use MEID authentication at all - they do not have the ability to internally store authentication credentials or a PRL file, and can only pull those from the CSIM application on the smartcard.
Bull. DVD is a global standard, and since it didn't have much in the way of natural competition per region (aside from [Super] Video CD in East Asian markets, and that was still rather weak), they had to create artificial region locks.
Even when they do have a unified global standard, they still want per-region controls, to fragment the global economy. It's to dissuade, for example, Americans from buying fully functional and 100% legally licensed DVDs from Hong Kong for 5-10% of the cost of the American release of the film.
It's worth noting that some (maybe all) of Verizon Wireless' LTE-capable devices also use SIM for CDMA2000 authentication. There are reports of unlocked Thunderbolts running just fine in India with Reliance (a CDMA2000 carrier) just by popping in a Reliance CDMA SIM.
And that shitty ribbon is why I switched to OpenOffice.org, and then to LibreOffice once Oracle decided to dump OOo onto Apache Foundation. Not that I hadn't used OOo before, just that I finally quit messing with Microsoft Office completely.
I'd like a copy of said documents to check out for myself.
Except that East Asian deployments of CDMA2000 use SIM for network authentication - changing phones in Japan, Korea, or India is as simple as moving a little smartcard around. Just like in GSM. Don't hold me to it, but it might also apply to CDMA2000 networks in Eastern Europe.
Only in the Americas do CDMA2000 networks still use MEID for authentication, as far as I know.
I didn't know that someone's a shill because they think Multicast DNS is a good idea (and by the way, it is. It's a hell of a lot better than Microsoft's SMB multicast host discovery and name resolution)