As others surely has mentioned already, the IT-department shouldn't have asked for a login-account on your private computer. They should have told you to take your privately owned computer off the hospital network.
The Chinese government might be hypocrites, but hypocrites being called hypocrites by hypocrites doesn't make either of the hypocrites any less of a hypocrite. =)
What I'm wondering about is what they do about scattered reflections? How far away would a laser of this magnitude permanently blind people just by reflections off the target and particles in the air? If this was put into active use, would they require all the personnel on all the vehicles of the navy to constantly wear protective goggles? What about civilians in the vicinity? Is blinding civilians an acceptable loss in a war zone where weapon-grade lasers is deployed? I've never seen this mentioned in articles discussing potential laser-weapons and I've always wondered about this.
Apple has said that Apple IOS is meant as a media consumption OS. (Or rather, they have said that the Ipad is a media consumption device, but since it's the OS and not the device itself that imposes the real limitations, the statement stands for the whole OS too.) You weren't originally meant to use it for anything productive. You were meant to buy content, paying Apple 30% of any fee, and then watch, read or play it on your i-device. The concept of actually creating or modifying content on the device itself has been duct-taped in as an afterthought due to an overwhelming amount of people who actually want to use their phones and tablets for something productive. Since IOS and it's support infrastructure wasn't planned or designed for this use, the implementation of how to use it for productivity has very serious flaws.
I've had an Ipad through work for a few months and I've really tried to find a professional use for it, but the best I've come up with is reading mail, searching for information and the occasional remote desktop or SSH session. I've tried a whole bunch of "Office" applications, but it is both faster and easier to walk back to my office, do the Office-application work needed and then walk back to where I was than trying to use the Ipad while away, even if I'm in another building. Actually, rather than using a native application, I've found it better to use remote desktop in the few cases where I've done some editing. This way, file-locks work and I don't have to download, edit and then upload a shared document while hoping that no one else edits it in the meanwhile. (Haven't found any application that lets me edit an online file, even if the application supports SMB or AFP shares. For some reason all of them requires me to download it first anyway.)
As a game-pad or news/comic-reader, though, it works fine. =)
I've had an Ipad for about six month and I regularly run into out-of-memory problems where applications suddenly shut down. Usually, turning off all the "sleeping" applications helps, but regularly I have to reboot the pad in order to run some applications reliably. So, yes, the 256MB's of the Ipad 1 is inadequate, at least for my usage. And, no, it's not jailbroken...
This is not the same thing at all. If they keep the Displayport but remove all USB and Firewire in favour of Light peak, then it would be the same thing. If you want to connect a scanner, printer, keyboard or mouse, it has to be a Light peak version of the device.
Forcing people to use their Light peak ports as a monitor port instead of a device connector is not a good way to make Light peak devices available.
It's really good that Apple within 6 month finally will introduce a faster interface than USB2, since many of their laptops no longer has the option of FW800 and (some) harddrives today can saturate even FW1600, especially if you daisychain a few on the bus. It's also nice that Lightpeak finally gets introduced in the market. It's damn annoying that Intel let Apple have the technology exclusively at the start though. I guess Apple are really eager to be able to market their PC's as the only ones with Lightpeak, and of course they are free to sign any exclusivity agreements they want, but agreements like that is bad for the computer market as a whole...
Hope they introduce a target-disk mode for Lightpeak too. The most annoying thing about Apple computers without Firewire is that they can't be used in target-disk mode over USB.
How about making a GUI to Macports available in the Apple application store for free. =) Or maybe Apple won't let you put free software and/or software that download other software on their application store... Haven't read up on the details surrounding it. =/
Might be. Increased temperature cases more evaporation from the seas, leading to increased rain and snow. As long as the temperature is low enough, an increase in the average temperature can cause more snow, which will cause thicker glaciers and harsher conditions during the winters. If the temperature is too high for snow to fall, it might lead to heavier rains with floods and landslides as a result.
In all honesty, how many programs are there that actually have any use of more than 32 bit memory space today? Do you really need access to more than 2GB of RAM each in a media-player, image viewer, word processor, etc? Yes, it is a bit annoying that 99% of all my software is 32 bit in my 64 bit system, but most of the time it's just irrelevant, and most of the few programs that actually has any use of more RAM is available in 64 bit versions...
Why indeed? What is it that requires a Mac? Will the students be required to use Final Cut, Logic, Garageband or some such software that only exist in OS X-versions? Otherwise, there is absolutely nothing that can be done on a Apple laptop that can't be done equally well on, say, a Dell or HP. Do they require a certain OS on the laptop too, or do they simply mandate that the brand of the laptop you bring to school must be Apple? And the big question; How much do Apple pay the school in order to have them require all the students to purchase a laptop from Apple?
It's kind of like what Eddie Izzard says; When somebody does a crime above a certain limit, we don't know how to deal with it and instead kind of reward them instead...
"Pol Pot killed 1.7 million people. We can't even deal with that! You know, we think if somebody kills someone, that's murder, you go to prison. You kill 10 people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick, that's what they do. 20 people, you go to a hospital, they look through a small window at you forever. And over that, we can't deal with it, you know? Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning."
Or, at least, do it the sensible way... OPT IT! If I want it, I'll activate the damn feature! I really hate every damned company, organization and software-installer that graciously let people opt out of stuff that really should be an opt in option.
The problem is that many people aren't thinking persons and thus actually do idiotic things if you do not specifically warn them not to. (Or maybe even then.)
Also, some people who actually are smart but get hurt while doing something that's rather reckless or stupid don't mind being branded as stupid retards if they think that they can force Random Corporation Inc to pay enough money by claiming to be a stupid retard.
I doubt that their measurements are that accurate anyway, and since both the ocean floor and the ocean surface will move during the measurements, the number 320billion cubic miles is probably only accurate to +/- 5 billion cubic miles or something.
I'd assume that HTML5's openness will help avoid Flash's spammyness, right? In particular, all the pop-up ads that circumvent the "Block Pop-Ups" button are using Flash now, so they'll all go away right?
Nope. Probably not. If HTML5 really is able to replace flash, as in "Able to do everything flash does", idiots and retards will use HTML5 instead of flash to deliver popup ads, blinking commercials and other annoying stuff. It will probably be harder to block. With flash, you can simply block all flash content, or choose to not install flash at all. With HTML5, you'd have to have the ability to only block the annoying part, since the entire page will be written in it.
I still think it should be the telecompanies obligation to make it impossible or hard to spoof caller ID. A caller apparently can't be trusted to provide their true identity, so it is up to the service provider to identify the caller to the receiver. Change the system so that the caller ID is sent from the telecompanies equipment instead of from the callers equipment and thereby removing the ability to call under a false ID.
How are users of legitimate services inconvenienced by not being able to use spoofed caller ID's?
Personally, I think it not only should be illegal but also, it should be the responsibility of the telephone companies to make sure that it is technically impossible, or at least very hard, to call under a false ID. That companies and people call with anonymous ID is OK. I simply do not pick up the phone when the ID is hidden. But I should be able to trust that if it says number 123456789 is calling me, it really is number 123456789 and not somebody pretending to be 123456789.
If, as you say, there are good reasons for offering a caller ID spoofing service, I should be offered the option of not letting these spoofers call me since there is no one in the entire world that have any kind of legitimate reason nor the right to call me with a spoofed ID.
But not even Apple has a single application store. The one I access, which is the Swedish store, does not have the same applications as the UK store or US store has. I had a bug in my Iphone for a while where it would always connect to the UK store when opening the "App Store" application. When trying to buy an application, even free ones, I'd get a message that I was not allowed to purchase applications in this store. It was really annoying when the application I'd found wasn't available for purchase in the Swedish store, which happened from time to time.
Personally, I don't see much difference in having country-specific stores with similar but not identical content and having operator-specific or brand-specific stores with similar but not identical content.
Actually, there might even be some benefits to having operator-specific stores, since these can reside inside the operators network and could thus, if the operator so chooses, offer application downloads without a traffic fee. (Like how many operators offer free SMS or voice traffic to other handsets inside their own network.)
Most people already have a card with which they can shop and that uniquely identifies them in their credit card. Yes, you can in some cases buy stuff with a stolen or copied credit card but, at least here, you often get asked to identify yourself with an ID card or by providing a PIN-code to prove that you are the actual holder of the credit card when shopping in a real store.
The Iphone has a similar issue. I tried charging it using the cable and charger that came with it but via a one meter USB extension cable in order to be able to actually use the phone while charging. No go. The Iphone happily informed me that it was unable to charge. I tried several different cables and none worked. Apparently, the Iphone couldn't tolerate the added electrical resistance of one meter extra cable.
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As others surely has mentioned already, the IT-department shouldn't have asked for a login-account on your private computer.
They should have told you to take your privately owned computer off the hospital network.
The Chinese government might be hypocrites, but hypocrites being called hypocrites by hypocrites doesn't make either of the hypocrites any less of a hypocrite. =)
What I'm wondering about is what they do about scattered reflections? How far away would a laser of this magnitude permanently blind people just by reflections off the target and particles in the air?
If this was put into active use, would they require all the personnel on all the vehicles of the navy to constantly wear protective goggles?
What about civilians in the vicinity? Is blinding civilians an acceptable loss in a war zone where weapon-grade lasers is deployed?
I've never seen this mentioned in articles discussing potential laser-weapons and I've always wondered about this.
Obviously, it's Gaston Lagaffe!
Apple has said that Apple IOS is meant as a media consumption OS. (Or rather, they have said that the Ipad is a media consumption device, but since it's the OS and not the device itself that imposes the real limitations, the statement stands for the whole OS too.)
You weren't originally meant to use it for anything productive. You were meant to buy content, paying Apple 30% of any fee, and then watch, read or play it on your i-device.
The concept of actually creating or modifying content on the device itself has been duct-taped in as an afterthought due to an overwhelming amount of people who actually want to use their phones and tablets for something productive.
Since IOS and it's support infrastructure wasn't planned or designed for this use, the implementation of how to use it for productivity has very serious flaws.
I've had an Ipad through work for a few months and I've really tried to find a professional use for it, but the best I've come up with is reading mail, searching for information and the occasional remote desktop or SSH session.
I've tried a whole bunch of "Office" applications, but it is both faster and easier to walk back to my office, do the Office-application work needed and then walk back to where I was than trying to use the Ipad while away, even if I'm in another building.
Actually, rather than using a native application, I've found it better to use remote desktop in the few cases where I've done some editing. This way, file-locks work and I don't have to download, edit and then upload a shared document while hoping that no one else edits it in the meanwhile. (Haven't found any application that lets me edit an online file, even if the application supports SMB or AFP shares. For some reason all of them requires me to download it first anyway.)
As a game-pad or news/comic-reader, though, it works fine. =)
I've had an Ipad for about six month and I regularly run into out-of-memory problems where applications suddenly shut down. Usually, turning off all the "sleeping" applications helps, but regularly I have to reboot the pad in order to run some applications reliably.
So, yes, the 256MB's of the Ipad 1 is inadequate, at least for my usage.
And, no, it's not jailbroken...
This is not the same thing at all.
If they keep the Displayport but remove all USB and Firewire in favour of Light peak, then it would be the same thing. If you want to connect a scanner, printer, keyboard or mouse, it has to be a Light peak version of the device.
Forcing people to use their Light peak ports as a monitor port instead of a device connector is not a good way to make Light peak devices available.
It's really good that Apple within 6 month finally will introduce a faster interface than USB2, since many of their laptops no longer has the option of FW800 and (some) harddrives today can saturate even FW1600, especially if you daisychain a few on the bus.
It's also nice that Lightpeak finally gets introduced in the market.
It's damn annoying that Intel let Apple have the technology exclusively at the start though. I guess Apple are really eager to be able to market their PC's as the only ones with Lightpeak, and of course they are free to sign any exclusivity agreements they want, but agreements like that is bad for the computer market as a whole...
Hope they introduce a target-disk mode for Lightpeak too. The most annoying thing about Apple computers without Firewire is that they can't be used in target-disk mode over USB.
How about making a GUI to Macports available in the Apple application store for free. =)
Or maybe Apple won't let you put free software and/or software that download other software on their application store... Haven't read up on the details surrounding it. =/
Might be.
Increased temperature cases more evaporation from the seas, leading to increased rain and snow.
As long as the temperature is low enough, an increase in the average temperature can cause more snow, which will cause thicker glaciers and harsher conditions during the winters.
If the temperature is too high for snow to fall, it might lead to heavier rains with floods and landslides as a result.
The math itself is easy but the exact conversion factors between Imperial units, Customary units and SI units isn't common knowledge.
In all honesty, how many programs are there that actually have any use of more than 32 bit memory space today?
Do you really need access to more than 2GB of RAM each in a media-player, image viewer, word processor, etc?
Yes, it is a bit annoying that 99% of all my software is 32 bit in my 64 bit system, but most of the time it's just irrelevant, and most of the few programs that actually has any use of more RAM is available in 64 bit versions...
And why mac books?
Why indeed?
What is it that requires a Mac?
Will the students be required to use Final Cut, Logic, Garageband or some such software that only exist in OS X-versions?
Otherwise, there is absolutely nothing that can be done on a Apple laptop that can't be done equally well on, say, a Dell or HP.
Do they require a certain OS on the laptop too, or do they simply mandate that the brand of the laptop you bring to school must be Apple?
And the big question; How much do Apple pay the school in order to have them require all the students to purchase a laptop from Apple?
It's kind of like what Eddie Izzard says; When somebody does a crime above a certain limit, we don't know how to deal with it and instead kind of reward them instead...
"Pol Pot killed 1.7 million people. We can't even deal with that! You know, we think if somebody kills someone, that's murder, you go to prison. You kill 10 people, you go to Texas, they hit you with a brick, that's what they do. 20 people, you go to a hospital, they look through a small window at you forever. And over that, we can't deal with it, you know? Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning."
Or, at least, do it the sensible way... OPT IT! If I want it, I'll activate the damn feature!
I really hate every damned company, organization and software-installer that graciously let people opt out of stuff that really should be an opt in option.
The problem is that many people aren't thinking persons and thus actually do idiotic things if you do not specifically warn them not to. (Or maybe even then.)
Also, some people who actually are smart but get hurt while doing something that's rather reckless or stupid don't mind being branded as stupid retards if they think that they can force Random Corporation Inc to pay enough money by claiming to be a stupid retard.
Best..idea...ever!
I've been getting more and more annoyed by all the stupid warnings everywhere.
I doubt that their measurements are that accurate anyway, and since both the ocean floor and the ocean surface will move during the measurements, the number 320billion cubic miles is probably only accurate to +/- 5 billion cubic miles or something.
I'd assume that HTML5's openness will help avoid Flash's spammyness, right? In particular, all the pop-up ads that circumvent the "Block Pop-Ups" button are using Flash now, so they'll all go away right?
Nope. Probably not. If HTML5 really is able to replace flash, as in "Able to do everything flash does", idiots and retards will use HTML5 instead of flash to deliver popup ads, blinking commercials and other annoying stuff.
It will probably be harder to block.
With flash, you can simply block all flash content, or choose to not install flash at all.
With HTML5, you'd have to have the ability to only block the annoying part, since the entire page will be written in it.
I still think it should be the telecompanies obligation to make it impossible or hard to spoof caller ID. A caller apparently can't be trusted to provide their true identity, so it is up to the service provider to identify the caller to the receiver. Change the system so that the caller ID is sent from the telecompanies equipment instead of from the callers equipment and thereby removing the ability to call under a false ID.
How are users of legitimate services inconvenienced by not being able to use spoofed caller ID's?
Personally, I think it not only should be illegal but also, it should be the responsibility of the telephone companies to make sure that it is technically impossible, or at least very hard, to call under a false ID.
That companies and people call with anonymous ID is OK. I simply do not pick up the phone when the ID is hidden. But I should be able to trust that if it says number 123456789 is calling me, it really is number 123456789 and not somebody pretending to be 123456789.
If, as you say, there are good reasons for offering a caller ID spoofing service, I should be offered the option of not letting these spoofers call me since there is no one in the entire world that have any kind of legitimate reason nor the right to call me with a spoofed ID.
The most important questions are:
1. Will it work correctly when the user doesn't have administrative rights.
2. Will they have a network license system.
But not even Apple has a single application store.
The one I access, which is the Swedish store, does not have the same applications as the UK store or US store has.
I had a bug in my Iphone for a while where it would always connect to the UK store when opening the "App Store" application. When trying to buy an application, even free ones, I'd get a message that I was not allowed to purchase applications in this store. It was really annoying when the application I'd found wasn't available for purchase in the Swedish store, which happened from time to time.
Personally, I don't see much difference in having country-specific stores with similar but not identical content and having operator-specific or brand-specific stores with similar but not identical content.
Actually, there might even be some benefits to having operator-specific stores, since these can reside inside the operators network and could thus, if the operator so chooses, offer application downloads without a traffic fee.
(Like how many operators offer free SMS or voice traffic to other handsets inside their own network.)
Most people already have a card with which they can shop and that uniquely identifies them in their credit card.
Yes, you can in some cases buy stuff with a stolen or copied credit card but, at least here, you often get asked to identify yourself with an ID card or by providing a PIN-code to prove that you are the actual holder of the credit card when shopping in a real store.
The Iphone has a similar issue.
I tried charging it using the cable and charger that came with it but via a one meter USB extension cable in order to be able to actually use the phone while charging. No go.
The Iphone happily informed me that it was unable to charge. I tried several different cables and none worked.
Apparently, the Iphone couldn't tolerate the added electrical resistance of one meter extra cable.