well, to give my point of view, from Eastern Europe, (and maybe for most of the rest of the world) here the US is mostly viewed as a redneck country with the border rednecks willing to almost rape and anal probe you if you dare to visit and WILL kick arrest and deport you even for posting twitter jokes (TSA checkpoints). The USA's new logo for promoting tourism is: "Come and visit the USA, strip for the TSA!"
i'm in the same porting hell with Vodafone ever since 2009 !!!!
i'm stuck in a similar porting hell with Vodafone (in Romania) since 2009 and they won't do ANYTHING about it.
in october 2009 i ported my number from Vodafone to another carrier (RDS DigiMobil) and to this day i CANNOT RECEIVE any international call or sms.
i tested with a friend in Canada: while we were both on skype video chat i had him call my mobile phone number from his mobile phone and after he started to get a ringing tone (and my phone wasn't ringing at all) i used the very same phone that he was trying to reach to call his home land line number.
His landline started to ring immediately and at the same time his mobile phone was still trying to ring my mobile number (and did a very good job of faking the ringing, there was no indication that the call was not connected properly at all, he was hearing a standard ringing tone)
i filed complaints all the way up to the National Authority for Communications but all my complaints end up in the same stink-hole that is vodafone+rds support.
RDS says that the porting has been completed from their end... Vodafone says the same and i'm stuck with having to use a secondary prepaid sim card (from vodafone since they won't unlock that handset even if the contract is finished) so that i can receive international calls and sms.
Proview is not using the fraud and deceit defense in China because these are really two separate legal matters:
The international lawsuits are related to the INTERNATIONAL (actually 10-countries) usage of the mark that was sold to a buyer that was acting under false pretenses and thus it is the contract to the international mark that is contested and as such that contract might be found null and void because of willfull deceit on part of the buyer and Proview might end up actually owning the international IPAD trade mark again if the courts decide so.
The China lawsuit is another kettle of fish: the international right for the mark does not include the rights for Chinese mainland.
Harris & Moure on their blog, http://www.chinalawblog.com/ have repeatedly stressed the point that Hong Kong trademarks are not always (i.e. almost never) recognized in mainland China unless they are also REGISTERED in China.
This is due to the "One country, two systems" approach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems
the chinese courts' decision is correct imho because they bought the rights from Proview Taiwan not Proview China.
These are separate (but related) legal entities.
The taiwanese company is in charge of international stuff and the chinese company takes care of matters within the borders of China.
The taiwanese was the trademark administrator for international usage but the owner is the chinese company and that one never sold the mark. It was the taiwanese company that did it and they only sold the international rights not the rights within china as they had no right to sell that.
these two complement each other quite well. Sometimes (*ahem*... often) PSI lags a bit on the detection of the latest version available but filehippo's manual tool picks it up.
PSI is best to leave running all the time in the tray since it can auto-update quite a few odd programs (irfan view, adobe flash..), prompt the user for updates for other programs that cannot be auto-updated (no silent install available for them: winamp, vlc,..).
PSI will also warn about end of life programs - programs that their producer has decided to no longer support because newer versions are available - such is the case with sysinternals' registry monitor and file monitor that have been retired and replaced by process monitor.
well, i assume that at least he'll be paying those 35% properly instead of the creative accounting that Mitt Romney is using so that he's only paying 13,9% tax on his millions
you won't get access to updates directly from MS unless your carrier says so and they won't say so because they don't make any money from a free os update, their interest is to push you to PAY and change your phone... this is a quote from a comment there:
<quote>
They have no intentions on rolling out the update.
They very kindly asked me if I (and for that matter the other 3 members of my family who have the same phones) would like to terminate our contracts and get shiny new Nokia phones where they would be pushing the update out on to at a cost of £350.00 per phone which makes a stagering total of £1400.
limiting warranties to less than two years will not pass in Europe, here the minimum mandatory warranty period is 2 years as stated in Directive 1999/44/EC and adopted as such in the legislation of the Member Nations
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(17) Whereas it is appropriate to limit in time the period during which the seller is liable for any lack of conformity which exists at the time of delivery of the goods; whereas Member States may also provide for a limitation on the period during which consumers can exercise their rights, provided such a period does not expire within two years from the time of delivery; whereas where, under national legislation, the time when a limitation period starts is not the time of delivery of the goods, the total duration of the limitation period provided for by national law may not be shorter than two years from the time of delivery;
(...)
Article 5 - Time limits
1. The seller shall be held liable under Article 3 where the lack of conformity becomes apparent within two years as from delivery of the goods. If, under national legislation, the rights laid down in Article 3(2) are subject to a limitation period, that period shall not expire within a period of two years from the time of delivery.
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this minimum term of two years is further highlighted by a common letter of the Commission and European Parliament from 2007
The seller is liable under Article 3 where the lack of conformity becomes apparent within two years as from the moment of delivery.
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Also, article 7 of Directive 1999/44/EC has this to say:
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Binding nature
1. Any contractual terms or agreements concluded with the seller before the lack of conformity is brought to the seller's attention which directly or indirectly waive or restrict the rights resulting from this Directive shall, as provided for by national law, not be binding on the consumer.
Member States may provide that, in the case of second-hand goods, the seller and consumer may agree contractual terms or agreements which have a shorter time period for the liability of the seller than that set down in Article 5(1). Such period may not be less than one year.
====
please note that warranties of one year are acceptable only for second-hand goods.
I'm sooo looking forward to the day when the European Class Action lawsuits (called "collective redress") can finally be launched at such sellers/manufacturers.
the funny thing is that the SLAB title really fits this one.
At 2.1lbs (0.952 kg) and 0.7" thick without any accessories it's quite heavy as hell to handle for extended lengths of time in just one palm. Samsung's Galaxy Tab is only 1.2lbs (0.544 kg) and only 0.33" thick, HALF the weight and thickness of the panasonic SLAB
Oh.. and the panasonic PR spinners managed to spit out this bit of Vogon prose when they talk about the difference: (from the PDF file Toughpad_ConsumerCompetitiveChart.pdf on panasonic's site)
"The Toughpad A1 has a significant rugged and performance advantage for only a slight difference in weight and thickness."
rofl, "slight difference" my ass, the thing is more than DOUBLE the thickness and almost double the weight!
at the beginning of summer they promised us that in it will BE AVAILABLE by the end of this year, and the trade shows i've attended they promised us that it will be available in november! why this delay again?
"The bank added that it would have contacted those customers whose email bounced back through some other means."
i set up my own mail server that doesn't bounce ANY mail.
if its addressed to a known address then it is processed properly (including blacklist filtering and such), however if it is addressed to an unknown address then the mail is sent complete with headers directly to spamcop and phishtank.
quote from that microsoft page: "Much of the NGSCB architecture design is covered by patents, and there will be intellectual property issues to be resolved. "
this is why that thing is not used much, patents = either increased product costs for manufacturers or exposing themselves to lawsuits.
the only devices that i know to use it are the game consoles, XBOX, PlayStation and the like, but those are relatively closed and isolated ecosystems where competition in hardware is non-existent, e.g. the only way to get an xbox motherboard is from Microsoft. Same thing is for Sony and playstation motherboards.
push that button! ooops.. not THAT one! **screen cracks**
those gamers that are used to really squeeze the plastic buttons of the console will find that they WILL get a broken display on this one.
Sony should see failure mode coming... i don't think that there is anyone who didn't press really hard on one button or another at least once in their lifetime during a really captivating game. Even if i'm super careful that button arrangement is just asking for trouble. Do that with this display and you're guaranteed to break the screen. Can you spell "not covered by warranty"? i can!
It does not apply in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Spain because in those countries Apple has abandoned the patent registration process mid-way and it lapsed.
quote from INPADOC LEGAL status: EP 2059868 (A2) for those countries:
LAPSED BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT
instead of nuking webOS it would be better imho to just release it as an open-source project... maybe this way android could use some bits from it and HP would get to use it for (a potential) future tablet.
too bad that "It's a Sony" because they'll eventually screw all their customers "like.no.other" and will "make.believe." that OtherOS removal, CD Rootkits, etc never happened
i got locked out of my fb account because i have login approval required via phone but no phone number defined on profile!!!!!!
This happened because i deleted my phone number from my public profile but i didnt mean to also delete it from the login security section. However, when i changed my public profile, their stupid site also deleted the phone number from the security login approval section too, while keeping active the mandatory login approval via sms.
That results in a catch-22 scenario, i cannot login until i get a sms with an auth code, but i cannot get the code since there's no phone number listed to send the sms to.
Since there's no phone number left to send sms to, and i don't currently have a device that's already authorized (i run ccleaner weekly to clear cookies and other stuff) that effectively means their system gives me no other way to recover my account and they get to sit on and steal my private data without letting me have any say in it.
At least with Google's 2-factor auth sms security i have some printed recovery codes i can use, but they didn't give me any recovery codes to print.
And they dont want to turn off the mandatory sms auth (or restore the previous phone number or convert it to email-based auth) for accounts that no longer have a phone number listed. It's impossible to send a sms to a non-existing number.
As to my government-issued id, i'm NOT going to send that, because OF COURSE i didn't use the name that the government uses for me but i used the name most of my friends know me by.
they got it wrong, their greatest enemy is NOT old windows, it's their own stupid mandatory "genuine checks" that they perform as a condition to obtaining updates. This in turn leads to obsolete software sticking around for ages.
Not my case but i get calls and i know a lot of people that simply DO NOT WANT TO USE windows/microsoft update AT ALL on their home computers because of that. They simply CANNOT afford to pay the bank-breaking fee (for them) that MS is demanding!
If the genuine check was just a gentle reminder in the tray that would pop out once a day they could live with it, BE SECURE and one day they might get a proper license when/if they can afford it but noooo, MS wants to mess with their desktop settings, stick them with old&insecure windows files and so on.
That's why in these cases i always carry an Ubuntu live cd around with me and most people LOVE it when they see what it can do and that it can be installed and updated without intrusive "genuine" checks.
Ubuntu (as almost any other linux distro there) does perform some "genuine" checks but it does so in the background just to make sure that the updates it downloads have not been altered after they were signed with the distro GPG key.
Also, roughly half of the people i introduce to Ubuntu decide to keep it and ditch windows completely.
would it have killed them if they included a 3s/hsdpa modem built-in and leave me a slot to add a sim card? the bill of materials increase for an additional internal 3g modem is usually less than about 10 euro each when purchased bulk.
I don't want to mess with an external usb modem on a small portable device because it tends to snag on all kinds of things and break off either the usb port or the dongle itself.
also, is there any model available with a PixelQi screen yet?
an apology and and extension means nothing when you just lost tens of thousands of euros because a customer has just walked away when you couldn't do your job because of microsoft's stupidity.
on the contrary, i see that alphabet soup picture as a forewarning of nokia's impending demise:
if you look at those three white lines that they used, i think that they are a condensed expression (and admission at the same time) of the entire company evolution: rise to glory, stagnation and then finally, crash and burn (i.e. bankruptcy or irrelevance in the market)
reading comprehension fail, google chrome really uses a patched flash plugin, not a work-around.
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
in firefox: You have version 10,2,152,32 installed
in chrome: You have version 10,2,154,25 installed
The table below contains the latest Flash Player version information. Adobe recommends that all Flash Player users upgrade to the most recent version of the player through the Player Download Center to take advantage of security updates.
Platform Browser Player version
Windows Internet Explorer (and other browsers that support Internet Explorer ActiveX controls and plug-ins) 10.2.152.32
Windows Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera (and other plugin-based browsers) 10.2.152.32
i gave up on symantec since they decided to piss on its existing customers and dumped the old norton ghost when they bought the crappy PowerQuest DriveImage and re-labeled it as the new Ghost (Ghost v9)
Ghost v11.5 was the last version that i bought, because it still had the updated old dos mode ghost utility. Everything after that is pure crappy DriveImage code that cannot even READ OR RESTORE FROM the old .gho image format
I still use the dos mode Ghost when i need to make dos-bootable dvd disks that contain both the recovery tool and the disk image on the same disk. Saves a lot of time for re-imaging computers, i don't have to juggle two different disks and it even works with sata ahci disks or raid arrays :D
give me a way to play RS without java on all the computers that i use (OS: Windows, Linux, MacOSX) and i will gladly take it, until then java is the ONLY way.
if they tax even personal tablets on the way in to prevent grey market imports, do they refund that tax on the way out? (if you have the receipt & other documents from when you entered)
it would be common sense to me, not sure to the bureaucrats there though.
wtf, nobody uses p2p networking over there? There's not a single mention of torrents or p2p networking being used for porn entertainment in the article :p
how about they offer an option to display the REAL received signal strength in REAL units, like dBm, and also display the signal strength of the phone itself, as relayed back by the receiving tower. Again, in dBm.
that would solve the display issues of signal quality meters once and for all.
Also, could they please stop using the 'bars' as a measuring scale. it's useless in comparisons. It can vary between different phone models, firmware versions or even production batches of the same phone design & specs, due to minute variations in hardware components used.
the most recent NORMAL phone i had that could display the real raw signal strength was an Alcatel One Touch Easy... and that was about TEN years ago. I still have fond memories about that brick of a phone.
Since then, i don't remember having a normal phone that could display the raw signal quality info :(
not sure if they were logic bombs or expired licenses. From the (Google translated) description it looks to me more like they were expired licenses, left to lapse way past the expiration warning point, causing the software to refuse to function and require a license and contract renewal.
Seems the license expiration caught some self-important douche by surprise and this one called the police when they saw that the software refuses to work and shows a message asking to contact the company and renew the contract. They should have called IT and accounting departments to renew the license or choose a different software from the beginning.
Norton Antivirus, BitDefender and a lot of other software (not only antivirus) behaves this way by design, requires you to pay more money for continued usage of the software. Still, I haven't heard anybody calling the cops when their Norton/BitDefender (subscription that needs to be renewed yearly) asks for more money after a year of usage.
and about fake antiviruses... those are another story.
the most obvious usage mode that i don't see tested is if it can run in tracking mode while being plugged into an usb port to provide it always with power and how long can it last until it fills all the space at maximum sampling speed (5 seconds).
Many vehicles these days have a car radio / cd / mp3 player with at least one or two usb ports (for playing MP3s & stuff). Connecting this thing to power via a usb cable extender while keeping it out of the way in the documents tray on top of the dashboard seems the ideal thing to do.
the only way i can think it would work is that the flash will be transparent write-through, like a cache... but since the article says it's not really a cache... this leaves me puzzled.
(the flash part could be accessed independently, like a separate device... but what's the point in that? we have usb for that.)
this is a great incentive for the marketing departments to cut out the 'creative' crap they try to push and spin into product descriptions and press releases.
add +1 to that number :) ... however, i'm waiting for something with a reasonably low price, pixel qi screen, long battery life and wifi+3g hsdpa support.... i.e. NOT APPLE's ipad... i think/hope that notion ink's adam will be that something, if they ever get to shipping.
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Re: Good luck with that
well, to give my point of view, from Eastern Europe, (and maybe for most of the rest of the world) here the US is mostly viewed as a redneck country with the border rednecks willing to almost rape and anal probe you if you dare to visit and WILL kick arrest and deport you even for posting twitter jokes (TSA checkpoints). The USA's new logo for promoting tourism is: "Come and visit the USA, strip for the TSA!"
i'm in the same porting hell with Vodafone ever since 2009 !!!!
i'm stuck in a similar porting hell with Vodafone (in Romania) since 2009 and they won't do ANYTHING about it.
in october 2009 i ported my number from Vodafone to another carrier (RDS DigiMobil) and to this day i CANNOT RECEIVE any international call or sms.
i tested with a friend in Canada: while we were both on skype video chat i had him call my mobile phone number from his mobile phone and after he started to get a ringing tone (and my phone wasn't ringing at all) i used the very same phone that he was trying to reach to call his home land line number.
His landline started to ring immediately and at the same time his mobile phone was still trying to ring my mobile number (and did a very good job of faking the ringing, there was no indication that the call was not connected properly at all, he was hearing a standard ringing tone)
i filed complaints all the way up to the National Authority for Communications but all my complaints end up in the same stink-hole that is vodafone+rds support.
RDS says that the porting has been completed from their end... Vodafone says the same and i'm stuck with having to use a secondary prepaid sim card (from vodafone since they won't unlock that handset even if the contract is finished) so that i can receive international calls and sms.
Re: China trademarks =/= Hong Kong trademarks
P.S. read that 2007 blog article and the linked blogspot article too...
Ferrari lost the right to the horse image trademark in China to a company that registered it properly in 1996.
China trademarks =/= Hong Kong trademarks
Proview is not using the fraud and deceit defense in China because these are really two separate legal matters:
The international lawsuits are related to the INTERNATIONAL (actually 10-countries) usage of the mark that was sold to a buyer that was acting under false pretenses and thus it is the contract to the international mark that is contested and as such that contract might be found null and void because of willfull deceit on part of the buyer and Proview might end up actually owning the international IPAD trade mark again if the courts decide so.
The China lawsuit is another kettle of fish: the international right for the mark does not include the rights for Chinese mainland.
Harris & Moure on their blog, http://www.chinalawblog.com/ have repeatedly stressed the point that Hong Kong trademarks are not always (i.e. almost never) recognized in mainland China unless they are also REGISTERED in China.
This is due to the "One country, two systems" approach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems
See:
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2007/07/china_trademarks_do_you_feel_l.html
and
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2011/12/china_and_foreign_trademarks_think_puerto_rico.html
the chinese courts' decision is correct imho because they bought the rights from Proview Taiwan not Proview China.
These are separate (but related) legal entities.
The taiwanese company is in charge of international stuff and the chinese company takes care of matters within the borders of China.
The taiwanese was the trademark administrator for international usage but the owner is the chinese company and that one never sold the mark. It was the taiwanese company that did it and they only sold the international rights not the rights within china as they had no right to sell that.
virustotal apps, secunia psi & filehippo updater
1) VirusTotal.com - the uploader and browser extension tools
https://www.virustotal.com/documentation/desktop-applications/
right click on any file (up to 20mbytes) - send to - virustotal
will scan that file with all their installed antivirus programs
the browser extension helps with scanning unknown links, scans downloads before saving the file, and so on...
https://www.virustotal.com/documentation/browser-extensions/
btw, i chose not to use the browser extensions, i don't want too many addons in firefox, i'm only using the uploader app.
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2) filehippo's update checker and Secunia PSI
http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/
https://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
these two complement each other quite well. Sometimes (*ahem*... often) PSI lags a bit on the detection of the latest version available but filehippo's manual tool picks it up.
PSI is best to leave running all the time in the tray since it can auto-update quite a few odd programs (irfan view, adobe flash..), prompt the user for updates for other programs that cannot be auto-updated (no silent install available for them: winamp, vlc,..).
PSI will also warn about end of life programs - programs that their producer has decided to no longer support because newer versions are available - such is the case with sysinternals' registry monitor and file monitor that have been retired and replaced by process monitor.
well, i assume that at least he'll be paying those 35% properly instead of the creative accounting that Mitt Romney is using so that he's only paying 13,9% tax on his millions
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-24-2012/indecision-2012---i-know-what-you-did-last-quarter
Windows Phone OS = dead in the water
nokia & ms are taking a nosedive recently since MS announced a few days ago that all updates of WinPhone OS will be provided by CARRIERS only
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/windowsphone/archive/2012/01/06/new-maintenance-release-for-windows-phone.aspx
you won't get access to updates directly from MS unless your carrier says so and they won't say so because they don't make any money from a free os update, their interest is to push you to PAY and change your phone... this is a quote from a comment there:
<quote>
They have no intentions on rolling out the update.
They very kindly asked me if I (and for that matter the other 3 members of my family who have the same phones) would like to terminate our contracts and get shiny new Nokia phones where they would be pushing the update out on to at a cost of £350.00 per phone which makes a stagering total of £1400.
</endquote>
napalm pudding!
"Plan B was much the same, the only difference being they were tossed, flaming into the offices concerned."
rofl, great use of a napalm / molotov pudding... tasty AND sticky incendiary device :D
lawsuit incoming in 3....2....1.....
limiting warranties to less than two years will not pass in Europe, here the minimum mandatory warranty period is 2 years as stated in Directive 1999/44/EC and adopted as such in the legislation of the Member Nations
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(17) Whereas it is appropriate to limit in time the period during which the seller is liable for any lack of conformity which exists at the time of delivery of the goods; whereas Member States may also provide for a limitation on the period during which consumers can exercise their rights, provided such a period does not expire within two years from the time of delivery; whereas where, under national legislation, the time when a limitation period starts is not the time of delivery of the goods, the total duration of the limitation period provided for by national law may not be shorter than two years from the time of delivery;
(...)
Article 5 - Time limits
1. The seller shall be held liable under Article 3 where the lack of conformity becomes apparent within two years as from delivery of the goods. If, under national legislation, the rights laid down in Article 3(2) are subject to a limitation period, that period shall not expire within a period of two years from the time of delivery.
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this minimum term of two years is further highlighted by a common letter of the Commission and European Parliament from 2007
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/cons_int/safe_shop/guarantees/CSD_2007_EN_final.pdf
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TIME LIMITS – ARTICLE 5(1)
The seller is liable under Article 3 where the lack of conformity becomes apparent within two years as from the moment of delivery.
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Also, article 7 of Directive 1999/44/EC has this to say:
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Binding nature
1. Any contractual terms or agreements concluded with the seller before the lack of conformity is brought to the seller's attention which directly or indirectly waive or restrict the rights resulting from this Directive shall, as provided for by national law, not be binding on the consumer.
Member States may provide that, in the case of second-hand goods, the seller and consumer may agree contractual terms or agreements which have a shorter time period for the liability of the seller than that set down in Article 5(1). Such period may not be less than one year.
====
please note that warranties of one year are acceptable only for second-hand goods.
I'm sooo looking forward to the day when the European Class Action lawsuits (called "collective redress") can finally be launched at such sellers/manufacturers.
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/redress_cons/collective_redress_en.htm
in case of fire, break the glass. ALL of it :p
3 hours/day?
who uses lighting bulbs only 3 hours/day? who made up this crazy metric?
if it's clouded or very foggy outside we even keep the lights on during the entire day and sometimes well past midnight
my opinion: it looks like a hairy spinning ball :p
adobe cancels development of flash for mobile devices
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/exclusive-adobe-ceases-development-on-mobile-browser-flash-refocuses-efforts-on-html5/19226
rofl... adobe punches nvidia right when it launches the tegra 3 platform.
nuked logo for ovious reasons
Re: Fondleslab -- HA HAAA HO HO HA HA HEE HO
the funny thing is that the SLAB title really fits this one.
At 2.1lbs (0.952 kg) and 0.7" thick without any accessories it's quite heavy as hell to handle for extended lengths of time in just one palm. Samsung's Galaxy Tab is only 1.2lbs (0.544 kg) and only 0.33" thick, HALF the weight and thickness of the panasonic SLAB
Oh.. and the panasonic PR spinners managed to spit out this bit of Vogon prose when they talk about the difference: (from the PDF file Toughpad_ConsumerCompetitiveChart.pdf on panasonic's site)
"The Toughpad A1 has a significant rugged and performance advantage for only a slight difference in weight and thickness."
rofl, "slight difference" my ass, the thing is more than DOUBLE the thickness and almost double the weight!
wtf, ANOTHER delay and expensive as hell?
Spring 2012?????? another delay?
at the beginning of summer they promised us that in it will BE AVAILABLE by the end of this year, and the trade shows i've attended they promised us that it will be available in november! why this delay again?
see: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/panasonictoughbook/sets/72157626971296012/
also,
£1K for the 3g version and £875 for non-3g? are they nuts? £125 just for an additional 3g modem tucked inside?
f**k it then, i'm getting samsung devices for our company. Panasonic can go suck on an egg.
"The bank added that it would have contacted those customers whose email bounced back through some other means."
i set up my own mail server that doesn't bounce ANY mail.
if its addressed to a known address then it is processed properly (including blacklist filtering and such), however if it is addressed to an unknown address then the mail is sent complete with headers directly to spamcop and phishtank.
Nokia - disconnecting people
... from their jobs
quote from that microsoft page: "Much of the NGSCB architecture design is covered by patents, and there will be intellectual property issues to be resolved. "
this is why that thing is not used much, patents = either increased product costs for manufacturers or exposing themselves to lawsuits.
the only devices that i know to use it are the game consoles, XBOX, PlayStation and the like, but those are relatively closed and isolated ecosystems where competition in hardware is non-existent, e.g. the only way to get an xbox motherboard is from Microsoft. Same thing is for Sony and playstation motherboards.
The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits
woot, we finally free of the old "The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits"
//beer icon for obvious reasons :)
push that button! ooops.. not THAT one! **screen cracks**
those gamers that are used to really squeeze the plastic buttons of the console will find that they WILL get a broken display on this one.
Sony should see failure mode coming... i don't think that there is anyone who didn't press really hard on one button or another at least once in their lifetime during a really captivating game. Even if i'm super careful that button arrangement is just asking for trouble. Do that with this display and you're guaranteed to break the screen. Can you spell "not covered by warranty"? i can!
not all Europe, just a few countries
as Florian Mueller says on his blog, the ruling only applies in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and Netherlands.
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/08/dutch-court-orders-eu-wide-preliminary.html
It does not apply in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Spain because in those countries Apple has abandoned the patent registration process mid-way and it lapsed.
quote from INPADOC LEGAL status: EP 2059868 (A2) for those countries:
LAPSED BECAUSE OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT A TRANSLATION OF THE DESCRIPTION OR TO PAY THE FEE WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED TIME-LIMIT
HP grabs tantō, performs seppuku ...
instead of nuking webOS it would be better imho to just release it as an open-source project... maybe this way android could use some bits from it and HP would get to use it for (a potential) future tablet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku#Ritual
too bad...
too bad that "It's a Sony" because they'll eventually screw all their customers "like.no.other" and will "make.believe." that OtherOS removal, CD Rootkits, etc never happened
facebook sms auth catch-22
i got locked out of my fb account because i have login approval required via phone but no phone number defined on profile!!!!!!
This happened because i deleted my phone number from my public profile but i didnt mean to also delete it from the login security section. However, when i changed my public profile, their stupid site also deleted the phone number from the security login approval section too, while keeping active the mandatory login approval via sms.
That results in a catch-22 scenario, i cannot login until i get a sms with an auth code, but i cannot get the code since there's no phone number listed to send the sms to.
Since there's no phone number left to send sms to, and i don't currently have a device that's already authorized (i run ccleaner weekly to clear cookies and other stuff) that effectively means their system gives me no other way to recover my account and they get to sit on and steal my private data without letting me have any say in it.
At least with Google's 2-factor auth sms security i have some printed recovery codes i can use, but they didn't give me any recovery codes to print.
And they dont want to turn off the mandatory sms auth (or restore the previous phone number or convert it to email-based auth) for accounts that no longer have a phone number listed. It's impossible to send a sms to a non-existing number.
As to my government-issued id, i'm NOT going to send that, because OF COURSE i didn't use the name that the government uses for me but i used the name most of my friends know me by.
reuters news late by about 3 WEEKS
the reuters story has been scooped 3 WEEKS ago by Charlie D.
http://semiaccurate.com/2011/06/27/apple-cpus-rolling-off-the-line-at-tsmc/
hint: june 27th
NOT!
they got it wrong, their greatest enemy is NOT old windows, it's their own stupid mandatory "genuine checks" that they perform as a condition to obtaining updates. This in turn leads to obsolete software sticking around for ages.
Not my case but i get calls and i know a lot of people that simply DO NOT WANT TO USE windows/microsoft update AT ALL on their home computers because of that. They simply CANNOT afford to pay the bank-breaking fee (for them) that MS is demanding!
If the genuine check was just a gentle reminder in the tray that would pop out once a day they could live with it, BE SECURE and one day they might get a proper license when/if they can afford it but noooo, MS wants to mess with their desktop settings, stick them with old&insecure windows files and so on.
That's why in these cases i always carry an Ubuntu live cd around with me and most people LOVE it when they see what it can do and that it can be installed and updated without intrusive "genuine" checks.
Ubuntu (as almost any other linux distro there) does perform some "genuine" checks but it does so in the background just to make sure that the updates it downloads have not been altered after they were signed with the distro GPG key.
Also, roughly half of the people i introduce to Ubuntu decide to keep it and ditch windows completely.
no 3g/hsdpa modem?
would it have killed them if they included a 3s/hsdpa modem built-in and leave me a slot to add a sim card? the bill of materials increase for an additional internal 3g modem is usually less than about 10 euro each when purchased bulk.
I don't want to mess with an external usb modem on a small portable device because it tends to snag on all kinds of things and break off either the usb port or the dongle itself.
also, is there any model available with a PixelQi screen yet?
re: Well...
are you serious?
an apology and and extension means nothing when you just lost tens of thousands of euros because a customer has just walked away when you couldn't do your job because of microsoft's stupidity.
961.5 MB??
wtf, almost 1gig for a DRIVER? are they nuts?
firefly
Burn the land and boil the sea,
you can’t take the sky from me...
termination
hmm, this brings new meaning to "iTunes account termination" :p
graphic evolution
on the contrary, i see that alphabet soup picture as a forewarning of nokia's impending demise:
if you look at those three white lines that they used, i think that they are a condensed expression (and admission at the same time) of the entire company evolution: rise to glory, stagnation and then finally, crash and burn (i.e. bankruptcy or irrelevance in the market)
reading comprehension fail
reading comprehension fail, google chrome really uses a patched flash plugin, not a work-around.
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
in firefox: You have version 10,2,152,32 installed
in chrome: You have version 10,2,154,25 installed
The table below contains the latest Flash Player version information. Adobe recommends that all Flash Player users upgrade to the most recent version of the player through the Player Download Center to take advantage of security updates.
Platform Browser Player version
Windows Internet Explorer (and other browsers that support Internet Explorer ActiveX controls and plug-ins) 10.2.152.32
Windows Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera (and other plugin-based browsers) 10.2.152.32
NASA TV is illegal?
since NASA TV uses streaming, does that mean that NASA TV will become illegal??
or C-SPAN, since they also show streams online?
or countless others?
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN/
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/
symantec vs acronis
i gave up on symantec since they decided to piss on its existing customers and dumped the old norton ghost when they bought the crappy PowerQuest DriveImage and re-labeled it as the new Ghost (Ghost v9)
Ghost v11.5 was the last version that i bought, because it still had the updated old dos mode ghost utility. Everything after that is pure crappy DriveImage code that cannot even READ OR RESTORE FROM the old .gho image format
I still use the dos mode Ghost when i need to make dos-bootable dvd disks that contain both the recovery tool and the disk image on the same disk. Saves a lot of time for re-imaging computers, i don't have to juggle two different disks and it even works with sata ahci disks or raid arrays :D
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tried RuneScape on windows, linux, os x?
ever tried playing RuneScape without java?
give me a way to play RS without java on all the computers that i use (OS: Windows, Linux, MacOSX) and i will gladly take it, until then java is the ONLY way.
re: Fuel Tax ...
if you charge at work you risk your job, people have been fired over 1.8 cent worth of electricity "theft"
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68232X20100903
chinese tax
if they tax even personal tablets on the way in to prevent grey market imports, do they refund that tax on the way out? (if you have the receipt & other documents from when you entered)
it would be common sense to me, not sure to the bureaucrats there though.
ancient tech
wtf, nobody uses p2p networking over there? There's not a single mention of torrents or p2p networking being used for porn entertainment in the article :p
how about
how about they offer an option to display the REAL received signal strength in REAL units, like dBm, and also display the signal strength of the phone itself, as relayed back by the receiving tower. Again, in dBm.
that would solve the display issues of signal quality meters once and for all.
Also, could they please stop using the 'bars' as a measuring scale. it's useless in comparisons. It can vary between different phone models, firmware versions or even production batches of the same phone design & specs, due to minute variations in hardware components used.
the most recent NORMAL phone i had that could display the real raw signal strength was an Alcatel One Touch Easy... and that was about TEN years ago. I still have fond memories about that brick of a phone.
Since then, i don't remember having a normal phone that could display the raw signal quality info :(
logic bomb or license expired?
not sure if they were logic bombs or expired licenses. From the (Google translated) description it looks to me more like they were expired licenses, left to lapse way past the expiration warning point, causing the software to refuse to function and require a license and contract renewal.
Seems the license expiration caught some self-important douche by surprise and this one called the police when they saw that the software refuses to work and shows a message asking to contact the company and renew the contract. They should have called IT and accounting departments to renew the license or choose a different software from the beginning.
Norton Antivirus, BitDefender and a lot of other software (not only antivirus) behaves this way by design, requires you to pay more money for continued usage of the software. Still, I haven't heard anybody calling the cops when their Norton/BitDefender (subscription that needs to be renewed yearly) asks for more money after a year of usage.
and about fake antiviruses... those are another story.
how about...
the most obvious usage mode that i don't see tested is if it can run in tracking mode while being plugged into an usb port to provide it always with power and how long can it last until it fills all the space at maximum sampling speed (5 seconds).
Many vehicles these days have a car radio / cd / mp3 player with at least one or two usb ports (for playing MP3s & stuff). Connecting this thing to power via a usb cable extender while keeping it out of the way in the documents tray on top of the dashboard seems the ideal thing to do.
*head scratching*
How would you go about DEFRAGGING such a beast ?
the only way i can think it would work is that the flash will be transparent write-through, like a cache... but since the article says it's not really a cache... this leaves me puzzled.
(the flash part could be accessed independently, like a separate device... but what's the point in that? we have usb for that.)
huh?
zeustracker now shows that proxiez is online... are you sure that the plug was pulled properly?
incentive to cut out the crap
this is a great incentive for the marketing departments to cut out the 'creative' crap they try to push and spin into product descriptions and press releases.
a bit on the low side...
add +1 to that number :) ... however, i'm waiting for something with a reasonably low price, pixel qi screen, long battery life and wifi+3g hsdpa support.... i.e. NOT APPLE's ipad... i think/hope that notion ink's adam will be that something, if they ever get to shipping.
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ext2/ext3 filesystem driver for windows
there already is a great ext2/ext3 filesystem driver for windows: http://www.fs-driver.org/
there are also alternatives to installing a full-featured filesystem driver:
http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows
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