... that kinda bugs me about the article is..
"Back in the early days, new, obscure distributions were popping up daily. Oh sure, most of them were spinoffs of Red Hat, Mandriva, SuSE, or Debian."
Isn't Mandriva based on RedHat? And SuSE Based on Slackware, and Slackware missing all together?
At least as far as actual original distributions the others were built upon?
I always thought that the best possible winning strategy would be an Android Phone with a completely redone UI using their QT Resource.
Allowing them to both get the Android market love, and differentiate themselves with QT Slickness.
Ah well...
I can only wonder what it'll take, when will companies like EA actually get a clue, and realize that they are completely ruining many loyal customers experience. It's not even just the customers they will loose, or the increased support costs they face, but the simple fact that they don't care in the least bit about their customers actually having a positive experience with their programs.
Why is it okay for them to expect their customers to completely tweak their systems to run their one program? How is this even remotely an okay concept?
Why is it okay for them to install something that thrashes a customers computer and not be expected to pay the bill when it comes to them having to get it repaired?
What the hell has the software industry turned into? Worse than that, why are they still making enough money off this garbage such that they still think it's a good idea, or consider it more cost effective?
It's terribly sad when the people they are trying to protect these programs from, come out with versions that are way more consumer friendly.
The Mobile is verified with the IMSI and the KI, the ICCID has nothing to do with it. The IMEI is what identifies your subscription to the network, not the MSISDN nor the ICCID.
It is however unlikly, yet quite possible that if two sims have the same IMSI+KI (hence a cloned card.
Usually you can have two cloned cards/mobiles on the network at the same time, and the results can be rather unpredictable. Both tend to be able to make calls out, however incoming calls tend to be routed to the 'most recently on' however not necessarily always the case. It should be pretty easy for the support people to see which part of the network you have ever been connected from, and if they see similar time slots from geographicly distinct locations, they should be able to figure out what happened. They may just not want to admit it.
The simplist solution is to go to a T-Mobile store and ask to purchase a new sim card, with that call up their customer care and ask to perform a sim swap of your current number. That will fix any issues 'IF' the card was cloned.
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Ya know then someone has to like, write ie6.css ...
... that kinda bugs me about the article is.. "Back in the early days, new, obscure distributions were popping up daily. Oh sure, most of them were spinoffs of Red Hat, Mandriva, SuSE, or Debian." Isn't Mandriva based on RedHat? And SuSE Based on Slackware, and Slackware missing all together? At least as far as actual original distributions the others were built upon?
I always thought that the best possible winning strategy would be an Android Phone with a completely redone UI using their QT Resource. Allowing them to both get the Android market love, and differentiate themselves with QT Slickness. Ah well...
What happens in the winter months, people not allowed to wear gloves to drive?
Yea, what's worse is on my netbook the static bits on the left means I can't actually see everything there due to the screen size. ~RK
I can only wonder what it'll take, when will companies like EA actually get a clue, and realize that they are completely ruining many loyal customers experience. It's not even just the customers they will loose, or the increased support costs they face, but the simple fact that they don't care in the least bit about their customers actually having a positive experience with their programs.
Why is it okay for them to expect their customers to completely tweak their systems to run their one program? How is this even remotely an okay concept?
Why is it okay for them to install something that thrashes a customers computer and not be expected to pay the bill when it comes to them having to get it repaired?
What the hell has the software industry turned into? Worse than that, why are they still making enough money off this garbage such that they still think it's a good idea, or consider it more cost effective?
It's terribly sad when the people they are trying to protect these programs from, come out with versions that are way more consumer friendly.
Just a sad sad state of affairs anymore.
~RK
Sim Number = ICCID?
The Mobile is verified with the IMSI and the KI, the ICCID has nothing to do with it. The IMEI is what identifies your subscription to the network, not the MSISDN nor the ICCID.
It is however unlikly, yet quite possible that if two sims have the same IMSI+KI (hence a cloned card.
Usually you can have two cloned cards/mobiles on the network at the same time, and the results can be rather unpredictable. Both tend to be able to make calls out, however incoming calls tend to be routed to the 'most recently on' however not necessarily always the case. It should be pretty easy for the support people to see which part of the network you have ever been connected from, and if they see similar time slots from geographicly distinct locations, they should be able to figure out what happened. They may just not want to admit it.
The simplist solution is to go to a T-Mobile store and ask to purchase a new sim card, with that call up their customer care and ask to perform a sim swap of your current number. That will fix any issues 'IF' the card was cloned.
-RK