Actually, all Verizon phones are unlocked, whether purchased with a contract or at retail cost. They have no reason to subsidy lock their phones. Sprint, US Cellular, and MetroPCS all use CDMA, and of the three, only MetroPCS will activate a phone purchased from another carrier. The reason you can't take an unlocked Verizon phone to Sprint is Sprint's own choice - they choose not to allow it. When I worked in South Texas, I had a regular customer base of users in Mexico (which has CDMA coverage) that purchased equipment from me to use in Mexico, because the carrier there (Usacell) had no compunctions using our equipment.
Therefore, purchasing a Verizon-compatible Nexus One is no different than purchasing an HTC Incredible at retail cost. Both are unlocked, but finding someone to activate either one is the challenge.
Unfortunately, you won't be able to get out of your contract with this, because your contract will not change. Virtually every time a carrier changes a policy, it affects only new contracts that are signed. For instance, when the carriers dropped their tethering/aircard plans from unlimited to a 5gb/month cap, people were able to keep the old unlimited plans if they already had them, but new signups or people changing their plan had to submit to the new terms and conditions.
This is either a good or bad thing for you - good if you want to keep your current terms and conditions, bad if you're wanting to use this as leverage to get out of your contract. If you're sticking with them, don't ever change your plan, because you'll lose the advantages of your current service agreement.
One use I can think of is when you have limited access to a network. My old school would authenticate one laptop per student (by MAC address) on its wifi network. Rather than trying to spoof a MAC address in your iPod Touch or whatever, you could use the PC to serve as an access point for your other wireless devices.
Sony ditching their AI and other cutting-edge 'out there' research (like the Qrio and Aibo) to focus on media/entertainment. Sony Labs used to feel like one of those wicked Zaibatsus as described in Neuromancer.
It happened shortly after they took on an American board member, incidentally.
HP did much the same under Carly.
ATT's Bell Labs, too.
I hope Research in Motion's Perimeter Institute takes off. These corporate research labs are where we get all the best stuff!
I wonder if that was going to be 'Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country'. I would be amused if it were - that happens to be the phrase I type whenever I'm testing a new (computer or cell phone) keyboard. I don't know why that phrase became my standard Keyboard Testing Phrase, but I've been using it since my early teens.
What carrier are you using? For most US carriers, mobile data is unlimited (really unlimited, not 'fine print' unlimited). That changes if you're using your phone to tether - most carriers cap that at 5 GB.
Have you considered the fact that this sort of behavior will stifle application development by developers? Do you really think Google would have put effort into developing the app for the iPhone if they knew it was going to get rejected? (They were previous told it would be accepted).
Developers are going to see stories like this and be dissuaded from development if their app idea in any way steps on Apple or AT&T's toes by 'duplicating functionality', which is a shame, because a great deal of the time a third-party solution is far superior to the native app.
Apple only allows programs to be added from their application store. The only way around this is to jailbreak your phone (hack it), which is against the terms of agreement and voids your warranty, and is always 'fixed' by the next OS update (you have to wait until someone figures out how to jailbreak the new OS version).
You would be correct if you were describing virtually any other mobile platform. Blackberry and Android have their own app stores, but there's no restrictions on getting your apps somewhere else. Blackberry has a nice over-the-air install process for apps - you just follow a hyperlink to the install file, and the browser downloads and runs it. On Windows Mobile you can point your mobile browser to a.CAB file, download, and unpack it. I'm not familiar with how Android or Palm's new WebOS does it.
Yes, we know that a few of you out there are happy with your 100 minutes a month with no caller ID or whatever, but you must understand this is Slashdot. We want to be able to SSH to our server from the bar, do an impromptu Wikipedia lookup on some random subject we're thinking about on the bus, get directions to the nearest Indian restaurant while in an unfamiliar city, and stream Internet radio while walking to the store.
Now that I've said my piece, I'll step off your lawn.
These numbers only reference brick and mortar retail sales. 3 out of the last 4 machines I've purchased were purchased from the manufacturer's website, and customized to my specs by upgrading components - with only one being under $1000 - but they wouldn't be incorporated in these sorts of specs. This also rules out servers/workstations. By selectively filtering statistics, you can put a positive spin on a statement like 'Macs make up only 8.7% of PC sales' (which is a number that probably has some filters of its own applied, for instance, being personal computers sales ONLY and not business/server/etc).
In related news:
-Solid-state hard drives are common (in netbooks).
-Motorcycles dominate the market of two-wheel vehicle sales with 99.999% marketshare, while Segway sales lag far behind at.001%.
-Barack Obama represents 100% of current U.S. Presidents.
-Ladies, I have the biggest dick you'll ever see (of all males in a ten foot radius/in the next five minutes).
These numbers only reference brick and mortar retail sales. 3 out of the last 4 machines I bought were purchased from the manufacturer's website, customized to my specs, and only one of those was under $1000. They wouldn't have been included in these sorts of 'selective statistics'
As for $1000+ machines, it doesn't cover servers/workstations either (which you wouldn't buy over the counter anyway).
What this says to me:
1) Apple has a decent retail store presence 2) Macs are frakkin' expensive:) 3) By selectively applying filters to your stats, you can say whatever you want. Ladies, I have the biggest dick you'll ever see (in this room/of all males within a five foot radius/for the next five minutes).
We shouldn't *have* to legislate common sense - that's what judges are for, to express it in their rulings/judgements.
Patents can be declared invalid if it is ruled that they are 'obvious'. For instance, a patent for a door would be thrown out, but a new type of lock wouldn't.
The trick is, of course, finding judges with common sense...
I don't get it. Both the summary and the line at the top of the page say that the page is optimized for Firefox 3.5, so why the hell does Opera show *more* fonts? Is it failing somehow in FF or is Opera somehow going above and beyond what the page designer intended?:)
Ah well, you're missing out. I watched two lectures last night and was impressed (my first silverlight experience). I use my cell phone as a modem and thus don't get a create connection speed, and watching videos usually requires me to buffer for some time... the lectures played fine and in decent quality. What impressed me, though, were the closed captions that were displayed below the video window.
Why the knee-jerk reactions to Silverlight? Is it because it doesn't have full Linux support yet? By that regard, by cell phone sucks, my vid card sucks, etc.
Everybody likes to focus on the technology when discussing William Gibson, but the real focus of his stories have always been about the psychology/sociology/culture of the people in his books.
Take the Bridge Trilogy. The virtual glasses which (in part) drive the stories are simply plot macguffins. The real focus of the stories is the San Francisco-Oakland bridge and the people on it, which is decidedly low-tech - an interstitial, lawless zone, where, due to the class divide, the city's poor and homeless have taken residency, living in makeshift cabins strapped to the suspension cables. A metalsmith on the bridge forges knife blades, hammered out of motorcycle chains, giving them a damascus-like blade, while a vendor sells soup from a pot that is never emptied, rather continuously adding new ingredients... the 'wild folk' living on the bridge are feared by those living on land, but on the bridge itself, there is a sense of cooperation and fellowship.
Compare to the real-life (and now demolished) city of Kowloon.
Anyway, if you focus too much on the tech, you're missing the point.
Exactly. The parts of the novel which make little sense on first reading quite literally read like a series of fleeting impressions, experienced by the main character (Case, in this book). It's a great way of putting the reader in the action.
You know ONLY what the main character knows and no more - you don't get to cheat with help from the Explaining Narrator.
The cosmic microwave background is the residual heat left over from the Big Bang event. It was discovered quite by accident (in the 60's or 70's I believe) by Bell Labs, who were trying to figure out where the interference in their communication satellite transmissions were coming from. Its existence had already been conjectured to exist (by Edwin Hubble himself, if memory serves).
Water maintains surface tension in null gravity. It'll form droplets. By experimenting to see if sand will do the same thing, you can eliminate the 'moving air' variable of pouring sand.
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Actually, all Verizon phones are unlocked, whether purchased with a contract or at retail cost. They have no reason to subsidy lock their phones. Sprint, US Cellular, and MetroPCS all use CDMA, and of the three, only MetroPCS will activate a phone purchased from another carrier. The reason you can't take an unlocked Verizon phone to Sprint is Sprint's own choice - they choose not to allow it. When I worked in South Texas, I had a regular customer base of users in Mexico (which has CDMA coverage) that purchased equipment from me to use in Mexico, because the carrier there (Usacell) had no compunctions using our equipment.
Therefore, purchasing a Verizon-compatible Nexus One is no different than purchasing an HTC Incredible at retail cost. Both are unlocked, but finding someone to activate either one is the challenge.
Unfortunately, you won't be able to get out of your contract with this, because your contract will not change. Virtually every time a carrier changes a policy, it affects only new contracts that are signed. For instance, when the carriers dropped their tethering/aircard plans from unlimited to a 5gb/month cap, people were able to keep the old unlimited plans if they already had them, but new signups or people changing their plan had to submit to the new terms and conditions.
This is either a good or bad thing for you - good if you want to keep your current terms and conditions, bad if you're wanting to use this as leverage to get out of your contract. If you're sticking with them, don't ever change your plan, because you'll lose the advantages of your current service agreement.
All it would take is a motion from you or your lawyer, if it is not automatically offered.
Statistics where percentages are concerned are of little value in many situations - a growing market is one of them.
100 people use computers, of these 95 use IE, 4 use Firefox and 1 uses Opera. therefore IE = 95% market share, Firefox 4% and Opera 1%
Now 105 people use computers, of these 96 use IE, 7 use Firefox, 2 use Opera. Now IE has a 91% share, 6.66% Firefox and 1.9% Opera.
So market share has reduced, but the amount of users has increased, no one has to switch for this to take place.
One use I can think of is when you have limited access to a network. My old school would authenticate one laptop per student (by MAC address) on its wifi network. Rather than trying to spoof a MAC address in your iPod Touch or whatever, you could use the PC to serve as an access point for your other wireless devices.
...Apple has received a million dollars worth of free publicity for the low cost of their insurance deductible.
Sony ditching their AI and other cutting-edge 'out there' research (like the Qrio and Aibo) to focus on media/entertainment. Sony Labs used to feel like one of those wicked Zaibatsus as described in Neuromancer.
It happened shortly after they took on an American board member, incidentally.
HP did much the same under Carly.
ATT's Bell Labs, too.
I hope Research in Motion's Perimeter Institute takes off. These corporate research labs are where we get all the best stuff!
I wonder if that was going to be 'Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country'. I would be amused if it were - that happens to be the phrase I type whenever I'm testing a new (computer or cell phone) keyboard. I don't know why that phrase became my standard Keyboard Testing Phrase, but I've been using it since my early teens.
A time-honored tradition: boycott the advertisers, and write letters to both the advertisers and the game company telling them you're doing so.
"All of a sudden" doesn't really make any sense either. "Suddenly" does work and it's more succinct to boot. /whatever "to boot" means
What carrier are you using? For most US carriers, mobile data is unlimited (really unlimited, not 'fine print' unlimited). That changes if you're using your phone to tether - most carriers cap that at 5 GB.
There's still a reason for them not to like it.
Have you considered the fact that this sort of behavior will stifle application development by developers? Do you really think Google would have put effort into developing the app for the iPhone if they knew it was going to get rejected? (They were previous told it would be accepted).
Developers are going to see stories like this and be dissuaded from development if their app idea in any way steps on Apple or AT&T's toes by 'duplicating functionality', which is a shame, because a great deal of the time a third-party solution is far superior to the native app.
Apple only allows programs to be added from their application store. The only way around this is to jailbreak your phone (hack it), which is against the terms of agreement and voids your warranty, and is always 'fixed' by the next OS update (you have to wait until someone figures out how to jailbreak the new OS version).
You would be correct if you were describing virtually any other mobile platform. Blackberry and Android have their own app stores, but there's no restrictions on getting your apps somewhere else. Blackberry has a nice over-the-air install process for apps - you just follow a hyperlink to the install file, and the browser downloads and runs it. On Windows Mobile you can point your mobile browser to a .CAB file, download, and unpack it. I'm not familiar with how Android or Palm's new WebOS does it.
There's one of you in every mobile phone thread.
Yes, we know that a few of you out there are happy with your 100 minutes a month with no caller ID or whatever, but you must understand this is Slashdot. We want to be able to SSH to our server from the bar, do an impromptu Wikipedia lookup on some random subject we're thinking about on the bus, get directions to the nearest Indian restaurant while in an unfamiliar city, and stream Internet radio while walking to the store.
Now that I've said my piece, I'll step off your lawn.
These numbers only reference brick and mortar retail sales. 3 out of the last 4 machines I've purchased were purchased from the manufacturer's website, and customized to my specs by upgrading components - with only one being under $1000 - but they wouldn't be incorporated in these sorts of specs. This also rules out servers/workstations. By selectively filtering statistics, you can put a positive spin on a statement like 'Macs make up only 8.7% of PC sales' (which is a number that probably has some filters of its own applied, for instance, being personal computers sales ONLY and not business/server/etc).
In related news:
-Solid-state hard drives are common (in netbooks).
-Motorcycles dominate the market of two-wheel vehicle sales with 99.999% marketshare, while Segway sales lag far behind at .001%.
-Barack Obama represents 100% of current U.S. Presidents.
-Ladies, I have the biggest dick you'll ever see (of all males in a ten foot radius/in the next five minutes).
These numbers only reference brick and mortar retail sales. 3 out of the last 4 machines I bought were purchased from the manufacturer's website, customized to my specs, and only one of those was under $1000. They wouldn't have been included in these sorts of 'selective statistics'
As for $1000+ machines, it doesn't cover servers/workstations either (which you wouldn't buy over the counter anyway).
What this says to me:
1) Apple has a decent retail store presence :)
2) Macs are frakkin' expensive
3) By selectively applying filters to your stats, you can say whatever you want. Ladies, I have the biggest dick you'll ever see (in this room/of all males within a five foot radius/for the next five minutes).
We shouldn't *have* to legislate common sense - that's what judges are for, to express it in their rulings/judgements.
Patents can be declared invalid if it is ruled that they are 'obvious'. For instance, a patent for a door would be thrown out, but a new type of lock wouldn't.
The trick is, of course, finding judges with common sense...
It worked fine for me in Opera 10. In fact, the page showed about six or seven different fonts in Opera 10, versus only about four in Firefox.
Here is a screenshot I took comparing how it looked in Opera 10 versus FF 3.5:
Screenshot
I don't get it. Both the summary and the line at the top of the page say that the page is optimized for Firefox 3.5, so why the hell does Opera show *more* fonts? Is it failing somehow in FF or is Opera somehow going above and beyond what the page designer intended? :)
Yeah! Feynman's getting the shaft here! Never mind the fact that he's been dead for 21 years...
Ah well, you're missing out. I watched two lectures last night and was impressed (my first silverlight experience). I use my cell phone as a modem and thus don't get a create connection speed, and watching videos usually requires me to buffer for some time... the lectures played fine and in decent quality. What impressed me, though, were the closed captions that were displayed below the video window.
Why the knee-jerk reactions to Silverlight? Is it because it doesn't have full Linux support yet? By that regard, by cell phone sucks, my vid card sucks, etc.
Mmm. And what of all those spies who have been charged with stealing secrets?
Everybody likes to focus on the technology when discussing William Gibson, but the real focus of his stories have always been about the psychology/sociology/culture of the people in his books.
Take the Bridge Trilogy. The virtual glasses which (in part) drive the stories are simply plot macguffins. The real focus of the stories is the San Francisco-Oakland bridge and the people on it, which is decidedly low-tech - an interstitial, lawless zone, where, due to the class divide, the city's poor and homeless have taken residency, living in makeshift cabins strapped to the suspension cables. A metalsmith on the bridge forges knife blades, hammered out of motorcycle chains, giving them a damascus-like blade, while a vendor sells soup from a pot that is never emptied, rather continuously adding new ingredients... the 'wild folk' living on the bridge are feared by those living on land, but on the bridge itself, there is a sense of cooperation and fellowship.
Compare to the real-life (and now demolished) city of Kowloon.
Anyway, if you focus too much on the tech, you're missing the point.
Exactly. The parts of the novel which make little sense on first reading quite literally read like a series of fleeting impressions, experienced by the main character (Case, in this book). It's a great way of putting the reader in the action.
You know ONLY what the main character knows and no more - you don't get to cheat with help from the Explaining Narrator.
The cosmic microwave background is the residual heat left over from the Big Bang event. It was discovered quite by accident (in the 60's or 70's I believe) by Bell Labs, who were trying to figure out where the interference in their communication satellite transmissions were coming from. Its existence had already been conjectured to exist (by Edwin Hubble himself, if memory serves).
Water maintains surface tension in null gravity. It'll form droplets. By experimenting to see if sand will do the same thing, you can eliminate the 'moving air' variable of pouring sand.