So the Jornada will be successful because it has a keyboard ?
Ummm, the iPaq has a keyboard available for it, and has done so for quite some time. The iPaq can also handle network connectivity and store large amounts of data at the same time. The Jornada can either have network connectivity or have local data not both. Now I think having both is far more useful, plus you can plug in the keyboard the same as the Jornada. Seems the iPaq is much more usefull in a commerical situation.
1. SirCam wasn't spread using Outlook, it had its own SMTP server and got email addresses from web pages and the windows address book (different to Outlook)
2. Instead of fdisking to remove SirCam why aren't you telling users to use the tool available from Symantec (www.sarc.com) to remove it ?
They should consider themselves lucky, when I lived in the UK and worked in a bookstore I would reguarly have to tell American tourists that unfortunately I couldn't sell them the books they wanted as thier credit card company didn't believe that they were in Europe even when they spoke to the credit card company on the phone. Basically they were told that in order to use their credit card they would have to write to the issuer and tell them that they were going to be travelling in Europe.
If they can actually ship some products using the technology then I can see this replacing Bluetooth before it even got started. I think I've seen a totally of three Bluetooth products, none of which were particulary appealing, for example I can move that radiation spewing phone from next to my head and replace it with a radiation spewing headset and this will only cost me more than the phone originally cost ? Excuse me if I don't queue up for it.
I'd like to see Wireless Firewire replace all cables in the computer industry, no more cables in the case, in fact why even bother with a case anymore ?
WHSmith's is a national newsagent chain in the UK and they are selling trips into space for 100,000ukp. No real details are given, other than the 100,000ukp is just a deposit and they don't guaruntee you'll get into space.
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The allegations of plagarism were made in the trade magazine "Bookseller", I have no idea which issue or when as I no longer work in the industry.
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Closer to four years now. All based on a conference the author attended, made some notes and then wrote them up in to the book. She came very close to being sued for plagarism.
I saw a program in the UK recently about Data-VHS machines that use MPEG2 compression on to D-VHS tapes - which I understand are more expensive than standard tapes. Trouble is the machine was 1200ukp ~$1800
AMD is working on the 760 chipset which is the DDR chipset, later this year or early next there will be another revison (760MP) which will support SMP, all current Durons and Thunderbirds are SMP capable.
It was often the case on the course I took at Durham, UK that lecturers would supply notes for a fee. Figuring this would not be allowed under this legislature, luckly UK not part of CA (yet).
How about this: Lack of choice for the consumer. Not being able to chose best of breed web browsers, through bundling and other practices.
Netscape, specifically, and not being able to sell PCs with Netscape, as dictated by MS.
Not really a lack of choice when you can go to netscape.com and download it. Perhaps McDonalds should get broken up because I'm forced to drink Coke and they don't offer me the choice of Pepsi.
Or how about not being able to chose the best of breed graphics and 3d for PCs. We get direct3d at the expense of openGL, when openGL
was mature and well defined, and direct3d was just a poorly design upgrade to Windows. Stuck with poor performance, poor implementation,
poor design and poor product for 6 iterations now.
Again you are free to use OpenGL, no company should be forced to inculding something in their product that they don't want to. Just because you want OpenGL doesn't mean they have to put it in. What else? How about their pricing policies, essentially the M$ tax? Every PC comes with M$ Windows, and you pay for it, even if you don't
need it? It's similar to bundling child car seats with every car, and charging for it. It's not even a selling feature, it's mandatory with every PC
that Compaq or Dell had to sell.
If you buy a car with a stereo you don't get a discount if you promise not to use it, why should you when you buy a PC ? Would you rather have it that when Joe Consumer buys a PC he gets a blank box and has to go about installing an OS himself ? That would be a great way of killing demand for PC's overnight. Most consumers can't do this and just want a PC that they take out the box, plug in and use.
Interestingly Will Wright recently gave an interview where he talked about a new net enabled version of The Sims where every house would be controlled by someone. Aparently in testing it has resulted in some really interesting behaviou as people try to make their character popular. Would be interesting to watch as well, bit like a soap opera.
Clearly the folder was set to "Thumbnails" not the normal "large" or "small" icons. If there had been any other files there (i.e. images) thumbnails would have been visible, but because there weren't the folders get displayed at that size because that is the size used by the thumbnails.
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So the Jornada will be successful because it has a keyboard ? Ummm, the iPaq has a keyboard available for it, and has done so for quite some time. The iPaq can also handle network connectivity and store large amounts of data at the same time. The Jornada can either have network connectivity or have local data not both. Now I think having both is far more useful, plus you can plug in the keyboard the same as the Jornada. Seems the iPaq is much more usefull in a commerical situation.
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Talisker != Windows XP Embedded Talisker = Windows CE 4.0 Totally different products for totally different markets.
He doesn't have to, just download the ROMs from the thousands of warez sites out there.
1. SirCam wasn't spread using Outlook, it had its own SMTP server and got email addresses from web pages and the windows address book (different to Outlook) 2. Instead of fdisking to remove SirCam why aren't you telling users to use the tool available from Symantec (www.sarc.com) to remove it ?
There's BBC America, it is on cable (AT&T Broadband) I have no idea about DirecTV. It's one of the few things that keep me sane living here :)
Not quite. It was Christmas Jones who was de-arming the bomb and she was using her HP Jornada to interface with the bomb.
Last time I checked there weren't any RJ-11 ports in the mid Atlantic.
I think it is pretty easy to travel somewhere where there aren't phone lines.
They should consider themselves lucky, when I lived in the UK and worked in a bookstore I would reguarly have to tell American tourists that unfortunately I couldn't sell them the books they wanted as thier credit card company didn't believe that they were in Europe even when they spoke to the credit card company on the phone. Basically they were told that in order to use their credit card they would have to write to the issuer and tell them that they were going to be travelling in Europe.
> Geothermal, like wind power is limited in power Tell that to Iceland, where every house is heated by geothermal power.
If they can actually ship some products using the technology then I can see this replacing Bluetooth before it even got started. I think I've seen a totally of three Bluetooth products, none of which were particulary appealing, for example I can move that radiation spewing phone from next to my head and replace it with a radiation spewing headset and this will only cost me more than the phone originally cost ? Excuse me if I don't queue up for it. I'd like to see Wireless Firewire replace all cables in the computer industry, no more cables in the case, in fact why even bother with a case anymore ?
WHSmith's is a national newsagent chain in the UK and they are selling trips into space for 100,000ukp. No real details are given, other than the 100,000ukp is just a deposit and they don't guaruntee you'll get into space.
The allegations of plagarism were made in the trade magazine "Bookseller", I have no idea which issue or when as I no longer work in the industry.
Closer to four years now. All based on a conference the author attended, made some notes and then wrote them up in to the book. She came very close to being sued for plagarism.
I saw a program in the UK recently about Data-VHS machines that use MPEG2 compression on to D-VHS tapes - which I understand are more expensive than standard tapes. Trouble is the machine was 1200ukp ~$1800
AMD is working on the 760 chipset which is the DDR chipset, later this year or early next there will be another revison (760MP) which will support SMP, all current Durons and Thunderbirds are SMP capable.
I've been running test-7 at work for since it came out and have nothing but praise for it. Just wondered what was going to take so long to fix.
It was often the case on the course I took at Durham, UK that lecturers would supply notes for a fee. Figuring this would not be allowed under this legislature, luckly UK not part of CA (yet).
How about this: Lack of choice for the consumer. Not being able to chose best of breed web browsers, through bundling and other practices. Netscape, specifically, and not being able to sell PCs with Netscape, as dictated by MS.
Not really a lack of choice when you can go to netscape.com and download it. Perhaps McDonalds should get broken up because I'm forced to drink Coke and they don't offer me the choice of Pepsi.
Or how about not being able to chose the best of breed graphics and 3d for PCs. We get direct3d at the expense of openGL, when openGL was mature and well defined, and direct3d was just a poorly design upgrade to Windows. Stuck with poor performance, poor implementation, poor design and poor product for 6 iterations now.
Again you are free to use OpenGL, no company should be forced to inculding something in their product that they don't want to. Just because you want OpenGL doesn't mean they have to put it in.
What else? How about their pricing policies, essentially the M$ tax? Every PC comes with M$ Windows, and you pay for it, even if you don't need it? It's similar to bundling child car seats with every car, and charging for it. It's not even a selling feature, it's mandatory with every PC that Compaq or Dell had to sell.
If you buy a car with a stereo you don't get a discount if you promise not to use it, why should you when you buy a PC ? Would you rather have it that when Joe Consumer buys a PC he gets a blank box and has to go about installing an OS himself ? That would be a great way of killing demand for PC's overnight. Most consumers can't do this and just want a PC that they take out the box, plug in and use.
Interestingly Will Wright recently gave an interview where he talked about a new net enabled version of The Sims where every house would be controlled by someone. Aparently in testing it has resulted in some really interesting behaviou as people try to make their character popular. Would be interesting to watch as well, bit like a soap opera.
Clearly the folder was set to "Thumbnails" not the normal "large" or "small" icons. If there had been any other files there (i.e. images) thumbnails would have been visible, but because there weren't the folders get displayed at that size because that is the size used by the thumbnails.
Nah, means you need to start drinking decent scotch. Get thyself a bottle of Distiller's Edition Talisker, mmmm.
Color ones are available in Japan, but only in Japan.
Actually Intel have stopped (or will stop soon) including PSNs.
Exactly, it could just go the way of those CDs a month or so ago that couldn't be played on PCs for some reason.