Strange - i have not yet run into a mac user that doesn't clickclick it first. And lets not forget that Mail shows it inline if its single page. Also - for windows users - if you need it to just see bills etc, Chrome handles PDF viewing internally.
I often find ads being served from the same hosts that serve other content i want. Hosts file can't block that. It is nice that you have discovered a "hidden" feature in your OS, but hosts file is not the answer to all life's problems.
I use cellular connection a lot. I don't want unnecessary traffic at the wrong time. Dont worry, i update manually and i have never had a worm. My dog had several once, but i don't think that automatic updates from google would have prevented that.
Been there, done that. Used chrome for a year or so as a primary browser. Got fed up with it for different things. For example the habit to eat up a mile long url you have already typed when you realize that you made a typo in the middle and want to fix that. And greasemonkey (or rather - lack thereof). Now back on Firefox for 2 months and happy as a clam.
As far as privacy goes - google software has NEVER asked me if i really want to check for updates and despite my repeated attempts to let them know that i dont by disabling the appropriate daemons they sneak back in when you update manually or install some other unrelated piece of code from google.
1) I seem to remember a case in Europe where thousands of phones were blocked because they all had the same IMEI due to some manufacturing error and one got stolen. 2) But i should have the right to do so. Its my phone and i should be able to do whatever i want with it. 3) billing is done by sim. And no - its not hard to use eachother"s blacklists. But the legal proceedings are costly and client relations are tricky if the IMEI is in a blacklist you as an operator can not control. Sooner or later you block your own client because of someone else's error and he has to prove he is not a camel.
I admit that the information on the AT&T site is overwhelming and i do not get heads or tails from it. But it looks like you could buy a phone upfront (e.g. iphone $649 ) and pay 50$ monthly (unlimited calls, texts and data): http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plans/pyg-cell-phone-plans.jsp?_requestid=12274 Or for example an iphone plan - $199.99+$36.00, 2 year contract (unlimited voice and messaging, DataPro 4GB for iPhone 4S) at $134.99 monthly
Now for the math part over 2 years: Phone bought and an "unsubsidized" plan: 649+24*50=1849 Phone "subsidized" by AT&T (actually by you): 199.99+36+24*134.99=3475.75
I might have got the information wrong though.
In my home country I buy an unlocked phone upfront (iphone for 600€ - yes, they are quite a bit more expensive here). I have an unlimited data plan and i pay for the minutes and sms's without any plans. My total monthly bill is generally around 20€ ($27) unless i've been abroad. I could have an iphone package from the operator with which i would pay 99€ for an iphone upfront but then i would pay around 60€ or more monthly for two years. I did the math and decided otherwise. And i can switch providers at any second (and they know it). And i can buy a prepaid data sim when i am abroad and use it because my phone isn't locked.
And they charge the same for a contract with no phone and for a contract with a "subsidized" phone? And can you terminate them both on he same terms? Trust me - it is never the carrier who pays for a "subsidized" phone - it's the customer.
First of all - how do they know which IMEI is cloned and which is original. Secondly - maybe i just cloned my IMEI - they have no link to the stolen phone, the previous IMEI can not be accessed. And third - the other phone might be in a different network.
It is not that difficult to find out. All it needs is a little math. You take the price of a phone and add 2 (or whatever) years worth of unsubsidized plan or pay-as-you go. In my coutry it is ALWAYS cheaper in the long run to buy a phone and pay as you go. The subsidy racket is just meant for people who can't do the math - "oooh, an iphone costs only $199 - i'll get that!" and they end up paying $2000 for it over the course of next two years.
The electronics are not shot. The article is misleading. They do not brick it. They blacklist the IMEI and that does not allow the phone to make calls in a given network. The phone works fine. That is done in a lot of countries - for example in mine. There are two ways around this - basement phone repair workshops that change the IMEI for a few bucks (model specific, can't be done with all phones) or exporting the stolen device. In my country the border is always less than 250km away, Australia is a bit more isolated so this might be a little more difficult there. Anyway - the phone isn't bricked, they do not have some magical killswitch, electronics are not shot.
Lots of talk about bricking. They don't brick them. They blacklist the IMEI. When a phone wih a blacklisted IMEI tries to connect to the network the service is denied. Until you realize that you can go to a basement workshop and bave the IMEI changed for 5â....
Considering the price of ram and flash i do not really understand these hybrid drives. Wouldn't it be cheaper and make more sense to just put 8GB (or 16GB, or more) battery protected RAM cache inside the hard disk rather than flash memory?
P.S. i chose to go an SSD route anyway, hybrid drives never entered my mind as an alternative.
We are not talking about Greece. We are talking about Germany, where a $7k car is ultra-cheap compared to what people normally buy ($30-100k). European Economy is quite diversified, nothing like US states.
You are saying that 7k car does not take off in bad economy. Well, bad economy is a good place to sell cheap cars as opposed to expensive ones. Tere might be potential. And besides - while the US consumer is still hot on hybrids that consume more petrol than an average 10 year old diesel hatchback here, electric vehicles are all the rage in EU.
Macs, for instance, made a huge campaign of their products' new ability to finally support Microsoft Windows
New? Finally? Apple's Boot Camp utility has been installing MS Windows and Apple supplied drivers on Mac hardware since 2006.
made In the past tense.
Past tense as in when you made your post a few minutes ago? "Made" can be vague with respect to time, when used with "new" and "finally" it seems to be referring to something in the recent past.
You can always bitch about words. But the sentence in itself is correct. And the date is not that important in the context of this article. Apple thing is just an example to illustrate a point.
At the time of the campaign, the feature was "new" as well as "finally". For the first time in Mac's history, it ran on an intel CPU (hence "new"). And the history preceeding that was as long as the history of PC (hence "finally"). Neither of the words have nothing to do with the recentness of "made" in this context.
And additionally - any person who knows even a little about Apple history, read this sentence like this: "Macs, for instance, made a huge campaign [oh yeah - i rememver it from around 2006] of their products' new ability to finally support Microsoft Windows". I know I did and did not give it a second thought. There has not been another campaign by Apple on this subject except the "i am also a pc" stuff.
And does 111 x 55 x 15.2 mm Galaxy 551 fit much more comfortably in your pocket than 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm iphone? I am usually not that demanding when choosing trousers that a couple of millimeters would make or brake my smartphone choice.
As far as "overpriced behaviour" is concerned - in my country an unlocked iphone costs less than comparable models from samsung and HTC. I am not saying that Apple does not have shortcomings, but price and size are not among them.
It does not "boost" the signal at all. It directs it. Basically it makes a directional antenna out of your omnidirectinal antenna. How much it helps, depends on your home and the placement of your wifi access point. If your wifi ap happens to be in the center of your domicile (where a reasonable person would put it) this cantenna does more harm than good.
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Strange - i have not yet run into a mac user that doesn't clickclick it first. And lets not forget that Mail shows it inline if its single page. Also - for windows users - if you need it to just see bills etc, Chrome handles PDF viewing internally.
ISO conformity is no excuse for the amount of vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat software. Unless the vulnerability is specified in the ISO.
Dont forget its a zero day vulnerability that is fixed in the next quarterly update.
I often find ads being served from the same hosts that serve other content i want. Hosts file can't block that.
It is nice that you have discovered a "hidden" feature in your OS, but hosts file is not the answer to all life's problems.
I use cellular connection a lot. I don't want unnecessary traffic at the wrong time. Dont worry, i update manually and i have never had a worm. My dog had several once, but i don't think that automatic updates from google would have prevented that.
Been there, done that. Used chrome for a year or so as a primary browser. Got fed up with it for different things. For example the habit to eat up a mile long url you have already typed when you realize that you made a typo in the middle and want to fix that. And greasemonkey (or rather - lack thereof). Now back on Firefox for 2 months and happy as a clam.
As far as privacy goes - google software has NEVER asked me if i really want to check for updates and despite my repeated attempts to let them know that i dont by disabling the appropriate daemons they sneak back in when you update manually or install some other unrelated piece of code from google.
1) I seem to remember a case in Europe where thousands of phones were blocked because they all had the same IMEI due to some manufacturing error and one got stolen.
2) But i should have the right to do so. Its my phone and i should be able to do whatever i want with it.
3) billing is done by sim. And no - its not hard to use eachother"s blacklists. But the legal proceedings are costly and client relations are tricky if the IMEI is in a blacklist you as an operator can not control. Sooner or later you block your own client because of someone else's error and he has to prove he is not a camel.
I admit that the information on the AT&T site is overwhelming and i do not get heads or tails from it.
But it looks like you could buy a phone upfront (e.g. iphone $649 ) and pay 50$ monthly (unlimited calls, texts and data):
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plans/pyg-cell-phone-plans.jsp?_requestid=12274
Or for example an iphone plan - $199.99+$36.00, 2 year contract (unlimited voice and messaging, DataPro 4GB for iPhone 4S) at $134.99 monthly
Now for the math part over 2 years:
Phone bought and an "unsubsidized" plan: 649+24*50=1849
Phone "subsidized" by AT&T (actually by you): 199.99+36+24*134.99=3475.75
I might have got the information wrong though.
In my home country I buy an unlocked phone upfront (iphone for 600€ - yes, they are quite a bit more expensive here). I have an unlimited data plan and i pay for the minutes and sms's without any plans. My total monthly bill is generally around 20€ ($27) unless i've been abroad. I could have an iphone package from the operator with which i would pay 99€ for an iphone upfront but then i would pay around 60€ or more monthly for two years. I did the math and decided otherwise. And i can switch providers at any second (and they know it). And i can buy a prepaid data sim when i am abroad and use it because my phone isn't locked.
What country, which 3 carriers?
And they charge the same for a contract with no phone and for a contract with a "subsidized" phone? And can you terminate them both on he same terms? Trust me - it is never the carrier who pays for a "subsidized" phone - it's the customer.
First of all - how do they know which IMEI is cloned and which is original. Secondly - maybe i just cloned my IMEI - they have no link to the stolen phone, the previous IMEI can not be accessed. And third - the other phone might be in a different network.
It is not that difficult to find out. All it needs is a little math. You take the price of a phone and add 2 (or whatever) years worth of unsubsidized plan or pay-as-you go. In my coutry it is ALWAYS cheaper in the long run to buy a phone and pay as you go. The subsidy racket is just meant for people who can't do the math - "oooh, an iphone costs only $199 - i'll get that!" and they end up paying $2000 for it over the course of next two years.
The electronics are not shot. The article is misleading. They do not brick it. They blacklist the IMEI and that does not allow the phone to make calls in a given network. The phone works fine. That is done in a lot of countries - for example in mine. There are two ways around this - basement phone repair workshops that change the IMEI for a few bucks (model specific, can't be done with all phones) or exporting the stolen device. In my country the border is always less than 250km away, Australia is a bit more isolated so this might be a little more difficult there. Anyway - the phone isn't bricked, they do not have some magical killswitch, electronics are not shot.
Lots of talk about bricking. They don't brick them. They blacklist the IMEI. When a phone wih a blacklisted IMEI tries to connect to the network the service is denied. Until you realize that you can go to a basement workshop and bave the IMEI changed for 5â....
Considering the price of ram and flash i do not really understand these hybrid drives. Wouldn't it be cheaper and make more sense to just put 8GB (or 16GB, or more) battery protected RAM cache inside the hard disk rather than flash memory?
P.S. i chose to go an SSD route anyway, hybrid drives never entered my mind as an alternative.
ios and menu?
We are not talking about Greece. We are talking about Germany, where a $7k car is ultra-cheap compared to what people normally buy ($30-100k). European Economy is quite diversified, nothing like US states.
You are saying that 7k car does not take off in bad economy. Well, bad economy is a good place to sell cheap cars as opposed to expensive ones. Tere might be potential. And besides - while the US consumer is still hot on hybrids that consume more petrol than an average 10 year old diesel hatchback here, electric vehicles are all the rage in EU.
How can you justify Centos with its lagging release schedule when Scientific Linux exists?
Macs, for instance, made a huge campaign of their products' new ability to finally support Microsoft Windows
New? Finally? Apple's Boot Camp utility has been installing MS Windows and Apple supplied drivers on Mac hardware since 2006.
made
In the past tense.
Past tense as in when you made your post a few minutes ago? "Made" can be vague with respect to time, when used with "new" and "finally" it seems to be referring to something in the recent past.
You can always bitch about words. But the sentence in itself is correct. And the date is not that important in the context of this article. Apple thing is just an example to illustrate a point.
At the time of the campaign, the feature was "new" as well as "finally". For the first time in Mac's history, it ran on an intel CPU (hence "new"). And the history preceeding that was as long as the history of PC (hence "finally"). Neither of the words have nothing to do with the recentness of "made" in this context.
And additionally - any person who knows even a little about Apple history, read this sentence like this: "Macs, for instance, made a huge campaign [oh yeah - i rememver it from around 2006] of their products' new ability to finally support Microsoft Windows". I know I did and did not give it a second thought. There has not been another campaign by Apple on this subject except the "i am also a pc" stuff.
Macs, for instance, made a huge campaign of their products' new ability to finally support Microsoft Windows
New? Finally? Apple's Boot Camp utility has been installing MS Windows and Apple supplied drivers on Mac hardware since 2006.
made
In the past tense.
I have not seen a broken microphone in my 20 year IT career.
And does 111 x 55 x 15.2 mm Galaxy 551 fit much more comfortably in your pocket than 115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm iphone? I am usually not that demanding when choosing trousers that a couple of millimeters would make or brake my smartphone choice.
As far as "overpriced behaviour" is concerned - in my country an unlocked iphone costs less than comparable models from samsung and HTC. I am not saying that Apple does not have shortcomings, but price and size are not among them.
This is exactly why i use a smartphone. It allowed me to ditch the ipod, navi etc AND it fits in my pocket. No need for a backpack.
It does not "boost" the signal at all. It directs it. Basically it makes a directional antenna out of your omnidirectinal antenna. How much it helps, depends on your home and the placement of your wifi access point. If your wifi ap happens to be in the center of your domicile (where a reasonable person would put it) this cantenna does more harm than good.