Where my mother works, they're all allowed to have VPN access (I know this because I'm getting ADSL so she won't be dialling in directly anymore), but it's not on by default, you have to make a request to turn it on.
Similarly, few individuals have a desperate need to run their own mail server, so ISPs should only allow mail connections to their own mail servers unless the user asks otherwise. How hard is that? Someone tell me this wouldn't have a major impact on spam zombies.
You could do the same for pretty much every unpopular service and just have an account page where users can specifically turn on services they need.
I've just ordered a PocketPC because, like Windows, it's the platform that supports most of the hardware I like to play with. Sure, my TRGpro has a CF slot, but are there drivers for the Colorgraphic Voyager VGA adapter?
Have you played it? It's not a bad game. It may be cliched, but it's very technically competent and visually stylish, which is getting rarer these days. Sure, it's no Ico, but what is?
What you do for your personal stuff, I do for work. I mostly use Mozilla, the rest of the team use IE. The result is very compatible. Some Mac users have reported problems with older version of IE, but they have all been quite receptive to installing Mozilla and that works very nicely.
Our biggest problem appears to be that some older versions of Squid, installed in places we can't influence, began tripping over our pages when I installed mod_gzip.
I gave up on the West's IT when I was getting the Australian too. I found a short story in the Australian, properly attributed to Reuters. In the West, that same story had been altered, making it wrong, and not attributed.
We get a copy of the West's weekend edition because it's a cheaper way of getting the TV guide than buying TV Guide. If some website provided a nice PDF each week with at least as much detail as the West's TV guide I think I wouldn't bother getting the paper at all.
That's always been true. At least now when you buy an expensive computer with an expensive graphics card you're far less likely to find that the popular games don't support it.
As for not being able to afford it, that's why I bought a Playstation. I'd just spent a couple of thousand (A$) on a very nice new PC that never got proper DirectX support. Bought the PSX on sale, barely cost more than a new graphics card.
Agree with them 100% of the time. Then do whatever you were going to do anyway. If you're always in agreement it's not a "personality clash", it's something else less easy to whack a label on and blame you for.
By mid-day, the paper had received more than 40,000 phone calls from angry or confused subscribers.
My, some people get worked up easily. I bet there was a message on the automated phone system explaining that there had been a technical error and some papers hadn't been delivered. I can't imagine I would have needed to lodge a complaint, speak to a human or get angry.
Mind you, here in Perth we only have one daily newspaper and it sucks, so I can't imagine getting worked up about a failed delivery.
I believe that video gaming is going to collapse into a small core of well known titles that sell very well, a group of niche titles probably six to eight times larger than the core that make a profit but not a huge one, then a big cloud of titles that are done for the love of it, not particularly for profit.
A bit like books. Anyone know enough about the book, music and video game industries to draw informed parallels?
Browsers aren't like an OS, you can easily run more than one at a time. In fact, I often use Mozilla and IE together so that I can be logged into the same development site as two different people. Both Mozilla and IE are now on all our PCs, staff (and students) can choose to use either or both at any given time. Because of this we will never "switch" as such.
Nokia's bottom of the range phones have always sucked. If you're buying a $0 up-front phone, you're buying problems. If a reliable mobile phone is important to you, you need to spend more than the minimum. I currently recommend the 6600, or if you can hold of it the "Sendo X" (not a Nokia phone, but runs Series 60) looks pretty damn sweet.
I don't drink, nor do many of my friends. Those that do rarely "get drunk". Most of us a pretty handy with a camera too. While amateur photos may not approach the quality of someone who can field-strip a Voigtlander blindfolded, I tend to think that the photos will have more soul and personal value if they're taken by my friends.
ATI and nVidia are each other's competition, and they have competition, just not a lot in the high performance 3D market. As I sit at my desk at work I'm surrounded by chipsets from Matrox, Intel and Chips and Technolgies. I don't know what's in a couple of the old servers, but it could well be that there isn't an nVidia or ATI graphics chipset in my office, despite there being seven graphics adapters. It's only once I get home that three of the four video cards are nVidia.
The current market is natural and healthy. There are two main players, with half a dozen well known niche companies.
Finding a professional photographer that will give you the original digital shots of weddings or glamour shoots appears to be extremely difficult. The reasons stated are usually pretty nebulous, particularly the low-quality prints crap. Frankly, I wouldn't accept it for a wedding. I'd rather put a single-use 24-shot 35mm on each table with instructions for the guests to use up all the shots by the end of the even. Plus I'd probably ask anyone with their own camera to bring it, particularly if it's a digital video one, and again shoot anything they thought was interesting. Then I'd get it all onto computer and put together a nice Super Video CD or DVD of the occasion.
Trident. *shudder*. Google for the 9470 chipset. The last drivers released did't even properly support the video-out feature. And I don't think they work above DirectX 3. I will buy another Trident card the next time I go insane.
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Hey cool, that's going to be my ISP soon too. As soon as they get my ADSL on.
Similarly, few individuals have a desperate need to run their own mail server, so ISPs should only allow mail connections to their own mail servers unless the user asks otherwise. How hard is that? Someone tell me this wouldn't have a major impact on spam zombies.
You could do the same for pretty much every unpopular service and just have an account page where users can specifically turn on services they need.
I've just ordered a PocketPC because, like Windows, it's the platform that supports most of the hardware I like to play with. Sure, my TRGpro has a CF slot, but are there drivers for the Colorgraphic Voyager VGA adapter?
Have you played it? It's not a bad game. It may be cliched, but it's very technically competent and visually stylish, which is getting rarer these days. Sure, it's no Ico, but what is?
Our biggest problem appears to be that some older versions of Squid, installed in places we can't influence, began tripping over our pages when I installed mod_gzip.
We get a copy of the West's weekend edition because it's a cheaper way of getting the TV guide than buying TV Guide. If some website provided a nice PDF each week with at least as much detail as the West's TV guide I think I wouldn't bother getting the paper at all.
As for not being able to afford it, that's why I bought a Playstation. I'd just spent a couple of thousand (A$) on a very nice new PC that never got proper DirectX support. Bought the PSX on sale, barely cost more than a new graphics card.
Agree with them 100% of the time. Then do whatever you were going to do anyway. If you're always in agreement it's not a "personality clash", it's something else less easy to whack a label on and blame you for.
"For sale: Textbooks, never used. Marks to prove it." -- an actual sign I saw while at Uni.
You could probably setup a computer-free option by using USB-to-go.
I know! They should re-release the old games on portable platforms. That never fails.
There's a paper here on Sunday?
(Silly rabbit, reading the morning paper doesn't make you informed.)
Mind you, here in Perth we only have one daily newspaper and it sucks, so I can't imagine getting worked up about a failed delivery.
A bit like books. Anyone know enough about the book, music and video game industries to draw informed parallels?
Browsers aren't like an OS, you can easily run more than one at a time. In fact, I often use Mozilla and IE together so that I can be logged into the same development site as two different people. Both Mozilla and IE are now on all our PCs, staff (and students) can choose to use either or both at any given time. Because of this we will never "switch" as such.
Nokia's bottom of the range phones have always sucked. If you're buying a $0 up-front phone, you're buying problems. If a reliable mobile phone is important to you, you need to spend more than the minimum. I currently recommend the 6600, or if you can hold of it the "Sendo X" (not a Nokia phone, but runs Series 60) looks pretty damn sweet.
Python isn't.
Sounds like you want the "i" version of that phone. See if you can find the 8910i. Or maybe the 6310i.
I don't drink, nor do many of my friends. Those that do rarely "get drunk". Most of us a pretty handy with a camera too. While amateur photos may not approach the quality of someone who can field-strip a Voigtlander blindfolded, I tend to think that the photos will have more soul and personal value if they're taken by my friends.
The current market is natural and healthy. There are two main players, with half a dozen well known niche companies.
Finding a professional photographer that will give you the original digital shots of weddings or glamour shoots appears to be extremely difficult. The reasons stated are usually pretty nebulous, particularly the low-quality prints crap. Frankly, I wouldn't accept it for a wedding. I'd rather put a single-use 24-shot 35mm on each table with instructions for the guests to use up all the shots by the end of the even. Plus I'd probably ask anyone with their own camera to bring it, particularly if it's a digital video one, and again shoot anything they thought was interesting. Then I'd get it all onto computer and put together a nice Super Video CD or DVD of the occasion.
Trident. *shudder*. Google for the 9470 chipset. The last drivers released did't even properly support the video-out feature. And I don't think they work above DirectX 3. I will buy another Trident card the next time I go insane.