
@ Tim Read
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87 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jan 2008
Why can't we just dedicate a portion of the spectrum to unlicensed stations?
Make it wide enough to fit 2/3 stations in and that should serve any local area.
Of course you'd need some restrictions to stop big players exploiting this free air space. Maybe a maximum range (so you can't blanket the country) so that it is local.
"That's why I love this age, its all computers heh," SoBe wrote in early December 2005, a month after Ancheta's arrest, during an online chat. "All these companys have websites, etc. Its just funny going somewhere like Target, or Sprint then coming home and rooting there servers out of boredom. Makes some people feel like they can do anything." (Misspellings and grammatical errors are his.)
While observing the vote count is certainly important I would imagine most fraud has already taken place by this point.
The fact that you simply had to write down names and send them to the council to get voting cards (with very little validation) and then they don't check IDs when voting... of course you could do it all by post too just to be extra safe when committing fraud.
I held out for 5 years before finally buying an iPod and nothing better came along in that time. Sure some players sounded better but they all had horrible interfaces, others were too bulky... etc etc the list goes on.
I'm willing to bet you haven't tried any kind of apple product. I'm just starting my love affair with their stuff. Yes it's overpriced but if you can afford it then it's worth it.
If they could make an infinite (or practically infinite) number of iPhones in a given time then yes.
Seeing as they can only make so many it's better for them to sell them locked and benefit from the phone provider kick backs.
e.g. THey make 1000 phone.
1000 02 contracts = 1000 x Retail Price + 1000 x 02 monthly fee to Apple
1000 unlocked = 1000 x Retail Price
I own both the 360 and a PS3 and a friend regularly brings his Wii round to my house.
Having played the Wii I'll admit that it is amazing, innovative and creative... for about 2 weeks. After that it's an awfully poor games console that's more of a gimmick.
Of course this isn't a problem for Nintendo because the don't sell their hardware at a loss and will make a bit of money as people buy lots of games to find one decent one.
As far as the 360 and PS3 goes... they're used about 30%:70% respectively but the PS3 is definitely the better console.
I'm a database geek so it's not pain I have to suffer directly, but the operating system guys have had fun locating all the relevant settings and turning them to "on'".
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So in your ideal world you wouldn't figure these out until you got to the production environment, sounds like a great idea...
Banks fight it out with each other in a competitive market. Allowing others to request information using the FOIA would sabotage the profitability and ultimately cost the tax payer.
What would make more sense, that isn't mentioned in the story, would be stricter risk management, auditing and compliance regulations.
I own both a Xbox360 and PS3 so feel fairly confident I can present a view not biased by fanboy principles. Here's my quick overview:
1. I don't know anyone who owns a Xbox360 that hasn't broken.
2. They repair them very promptly and recompense you for the inconvenience.
3. They tell you what went wrong and what they've done.
4. They wont tell you why it went wrong and don't want to know. If you tell them it occurred when you tried to use Halo 3 they will not record the information.
5. Repairs are made with refurbished parts which can lead to multiple repairs (friend now on console number 5!)
Overall good performance and I'm very happy with my experiences so far even though I've had to send it off for repairs.
Like NHSDirect this is actually a fairly good idea.
Postcodes are on road signs (at least in London) so you can always know which area your in. Even when you've lived somewhere for a while you may not know where to go for a specific medical service.
An autoamted system should be cheap as chips (but I bet they got ripped off anyway, government IT procurement etc) and a manned system isn't particularly time consuming either.
It was given to them by a government body (FCC equivalent?) and so they'll give it back to them. It's not like they're going to had them £15Bn to buy shiny new tanks and such.
It'll be the government that sells it and the money will go to plug all black holes in the budget that are last chancellors have seen fit to create.
In the UK when you buy a phone you sign the contract and activate it at the same time. Don't like the contract? Fine, but you aren't getting the phone at the reduced rate, you can pay full retail which is £600+ for a top end Nokia.
Why can't they do the same at AT&T? Then even if you unlock it you still have the contract and you're still going to be paying Apple. Is this some cancellation grace period law in the US I'm missing?
PH angle?
...do not force them to charge for the update. It's just better for them, from a tax perspective, if they do this.
Sarbanes-Oxley is both bloody stupid and bloody brilliant. Why is it brilliant? Financial institutions have less desire to base their operations on U.S. soil as the compliance costs are rather high.
I remember the CIH virus very well. I wrote an article on hot swapping your bios chip for PC Format at the time. I wouldn't have recommended it for 99.99% of users though!
Security is still an afterthought in PC architecture. Why have guards on the front-desk if someone leaves the back door open when they pop out for a cheeky fag.