I'm from the UK and although it certainly helps that syntax etc is in English I find I have to memorise certain keywords as though they were a foreign language anyway since everything is spelt the American way - so many compilation errors in the days before syntax highlighting due to things like "Color", "Synchronize" etc
I work for a contractor who does work for the Ministry of Defence and some of our buildings require SC/DV clearance. Taking a phone in any of those would be a disciplinary offence, and may even get the person fired.
The risk to my company of losing it's List-X status (and hence 40% of our work) if there's a breach is too high to be flexible in this regard.
As little as the style of the device means to me, even I'm bothered by a solution that ugly. That was my thought actually, it's odd that a device that prides itself on its looks (amongst other things) relies on an awkward solution for using third-party earphones!
Apple managed to add a non-recessed headphone socket to the iPod Touch and that's a very similar device. I know there's more going on inside an iPhone, but I imagine there just wasn't time to design around the issue rather than it being an impossibility. Hopefully Apple will sort this out for iPhone v2, as although iPod headphones aren't terrible when compared with the ones Nokia et al bundle in they still aren't as good as a cheap set of Sennheisers.
Yes I'm aware of that, and I see why you would want to use a camera with a monochrome CCD (or CMOS) sensor. I was just wondering whether there is any reason to use coloured filters when you could artificially colour the images in post-processing?
Is there any point in changing filters? Modern DSLRs (e.g. a Nikon D80) have options for simulating different coloured filters in B&W mode, I'm sure you could do the same thing in post processing on a computer with a single 16bpp B&W image.
You're not the only one. I installed it in April 2007 and although I had one minor issue installing it (missing nVidia drivers for a 'fakeraid' setup), I've not had any issues since. Before I decided to go with Vista I tried out Ubuntu, but for my home use Vista is a lot less hassle.
I mainly use my home PC for media management (music, videos, photos), Photoshop and the occasional game of COD4 or TF2. Sure, XP might be faster for Photoshop and playing games (although for games the difference is so marginal as to not be noticeable now), but the Windows Media Centre front-end is great if you have a HDTV connected (even Windows Media Player can do decent upscaling with the right graphics card) and Windows Photo Gallery is very useful too.
I actually find going back to XP at work annoying now; I really miss features like the built in search and the new explorer interface.
Non-Windows machines have only been accessing the Internet for some 40 years now. What's that got to do with anything? The average internet user has only been streaming watchable-quality video from the internet for a few years.
The BBC don't have to provide this service at all, the TV licence is a licence to watch broadcast TV as it is transmitted; the TV licence doesn't give the people who pay it any right to a catch-up service such as that offered by either the streaming or download version of the iPlayer.
Unfortunately most office jobs in the UK aren't that flexible. Office hours are traditionally 9am to 5pm; 8.30am to 5.30pm is becoming increasingly common. Flexible office hours would help, but then there are still things like school hours, train/bus timetables etc. to deal with. There are obviously a lot more (or longer) trains during the morning/evening peak rush hour going into London; even if the timetable changed once a month to match the daylight hours I imagine it would cause no end of complications for commuters.
9am and 5pm already occur in near-darkness in London during December/January, and for longer periods the further north you go.
I don't really care about Microsoft getting hurt (although I guess their re-sellers would be hurt by any ban on sales), but I was thinking more about the businesses that rely on being able to buy Microsoft applications to function and the cost implications to them if they could no longer buy licences to that software. That's why I don't think the EU would ever go down the route of banning the sale of Microsoft products. Plus, the EU could probably use (read: waste) the money they'll receive from these huge fines.
I was thinking mainly about the OS to be honest. If someone said to our sysadmins that all new client machines (laptops etc.) coming through the door would be running Linux (for example) and that they had to make them work with the current domains that are administrated using Active Directory, use exchange servers for mail etc. I think they would have heart attacks.
Office would be slightly less of an issue for the folks that just use Word and Excel, as they could probably get used to OpenOffice or similar. Not sure if there's an alternative for Microsoft Project and some of the other lesser used applications. There are also plenty of folks here using XML based workflows in Infopath/Sharepoint for business process type stuff, which would probably require a lot of effort to rework with non-MS products.
Even if there are alternatives out there for all of these Microsoft products, the cost to industry of migrating would likely be huge if the sale of Microsoft products (soft licences for the most part I guess) were banned. It wouldn't have to happen immediately, as I imagine the likes of Dell etc. have got a stockpile of Microsoft licences, and many businesses would be on corporate licences that wouldn't run out straight away, but most businesses, especially in the SMB space, wouldn't have a clue where to start.
I think it would severely hurt industry across the EU if the sale of Microsoft products were banned, especially since the EU has to deal with the rest of the world who for the most part use Microsoft products. It's just not possible for free/open source software to inter-operate effectively with Microsoft products at the moment, which was kind of the whole point of the anti-trust ruling.
Check out these guys. They're attempting to map the whole world using data submitted by users (anyone can edit the map). They have by far the most detailed map of where I live and are the only online map I know of to correctly show my street as a dead-end.
(I see about 5-10 drivers a day drive up our street only to find it's a dead end even though this is clearly shown on the road signs; I guess they trust their SatNavs more than the road signs)
I'd say the continuing success of the iPod is down to 3rd party support in the form of accessories and so on. You can buy hundreds of different devices with iPod docks on them, but I've never seen anything advertised as having a Zune dock.
That's before you consider the enormous amount of cases, FM transmitters, headphones etc. that are marketed purely at iPod owners. People continue to buy iPods because either they know their upgraded iPod will work with the accessories they already have, or they know that they'll have no trouble getting the accessory they want for their new purchase.
I can't believe you passed up the opportunity to use "someone's car" instead of "someone's home" in that analogy! I actually think there's a bit more to this though, as using the information gained by breaking into the computer system to make a profit probably amounts to a crime as well as the actual act of hacking.
Of course, I don't know if there's a law related to profiting from a crime where this took place.
Installing signal blocking equipment is illegal in a lot of places, like the UK and Ireland. I expect there's just a whole load of EM noise from the equipment in the CS building that stops calls getting through.
I think the main reason Apple don't offer a HDD-based iPod Touch is one of responsiveness. I went into an Apple store and use an iPod Classic for a while and the UI was very sluggish; cover-flow is almost useless on that device as there is a lag in retrieving the album art from the HDD which isn't present on the touch.
I was worried about the storage thing after having a 20GB iPod for years that I kept pretty much full, but after having a 16GB Touch for 6 months I can safely say that storage isn't a problem. The transfer rates for putting music/video on the touch are very, very fast compared to those on the older HDD based iPods; it's really very easy to delete a bunch of stuff and put new content on every few days which I am happy to do. Granted there are some people who absolutely must have a giant music collection with them at all times (people who travel a lot, for one), but I'm not one of them.
I also have Orb set up at home which lets me stream music and video from my home PC over Wi-fi whilst I'm out and about; great if you're at a friend's house and want to show them some video that you don't currently have on the iPod.
Those flaps are designed to be taken off easily, especially the ones covering the Gamecube controller ports and memory card slots which would be flapping about vertically if you had the Wii in its stand with controllers and a memory card plugged in. Those flaps would get broken off very quickly if they weren't designed to be removed.
Hmm, I think something was lost in the translation:
Down to Earth from space station by this vision of creating a paper airplane, Japan Origami Association HIKOKI and Tokyo are working on a large group. 17, the university's wind tunnel using a validated test.
8 centimeters in length experiment, the space shuttle heat-resistant form of folded paper airplane use by the process. Tokyo campus Ookashiwa (Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture), a super high-speed wind tunnel tests of the high-speed stream of Mach 7 in the heat resistance and strength to find out.
When the space shuttle and other spacecraft will return to the speed of Mach 20, and the friction in the air and high temperatures for the heat-resistant surface is a special twist. Paper airplane is so light, slowing down from the thin air, landing in slow. Coming back without burnout might be.
Suzuki professor at Tokyo University (aerospace engineering) is a "message of peace from the space station to skip it. Land in the world where you do not know the fairy who could deliver" a dream said.
Whether Britney Spears is any good or not is besides the point. The artists they have chosen are probably some of the better selling ones (Black Out debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart if I remember correctly), which seems a logical place to start if you want to make your catalogue available in a piecemeal fashion.
The core text on my Human Computer Interaction course at University (College for you American folks) was this. It might be a bit long in the tooth now but it covers the general principles of how to design a good user interface and how to actually measure user interaction with an interface, as well as the theory (some psychology type stuff mixed with Computer Science) behind the principles.
It doesn't really cover web stuff if that's what you're after, but the most of the principles are largely the same. Having said that, I still refer back to this book from time-to-time even though I've worked exclusively with Web applications for the last three years.
The real problem is DRM. The BBC does not want you to be able to keep the file on your computer. If they would forgo that requirement, then they could just use AV files, rather than using an intentionally limiting solution.
It's not about what the BBC wants, it's about what the content owners will allow them to do. The BBC doesn't make much of its content in house these days, and the production companies aren't going to give away for free (apart from the licence fee) content that people will happily buy on DVD. I'd rather have a system where I can download/stream a whole bunch of stuff for 7 days after broadcast than a system where I can watch next to nothing indefinitely.
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I'm from the UK and although it certainly helps that syntax etc is in English I find I have to memorise certain keywords as though they were a foreign language anyway since everything is spelt the American way - so many compilation errors in the days before syntax highlighting due to things like "Color", "Synchronize" etc
I work for a contractor who does work for the Ministry of Defence and some of our buildings require SC/DV clearance. Taking a phone in any of those would be a disciplinary offence, and may even get the person fired.
The risk to my company of losing it's List-X status (and hence 40% of our work) if there's a breach is too high to be flexible in this regard.
Kind of like a modern version of the Allegory of the cave as discussed by Plato in The Republic.
Apple managed to add a non-recessed headphone socket to the iPod Touch and that's a very similar device. I know there's more going on inside an iPhone, but I imagine there just wasn't time to design around the issue rather than it being an impossibility. Hopefully Apple will sort this out for iPhone v2, as although iPod headphones aren't terrible when compared with the ones Nokia et al bundle in they still aren't as good as a cheap set of Sennheisers.
Yes I'm aware of that, and I see why you would want to use a camera with a monochrome CCD (or CMOS) sensor. I was just wondering whether there is any reason to use coloured filters when you could artificially colour the images in post-processing?
Is there any point in changing filters? Modern DSLRs (e.g. a Nikon D80) have options for simulating different coloured filters in B&W mode, I'm sure you could do the same thing in post processing on a computer with a single 16bpp B&W image.
I mainly use my home PC for media management (music, videos, photos), Photoshop and the occasional game of COD4 or TF2. Sure, XP might be faster for Photoshop and playing games (although for games the difference is so marginal as to not be noticeable now), but the Windows Media Centre front-end is great if you have a HDTV connected (even Windows Media Player can do decent upscaling with the right graphics card) and Windows Photo Gallery is very useful too.
I actually find going back to XP at work annoying now; I really miss features like the built in search and the new explorer interface.
The BBC don't have to provide this service at all, the TV licence is a licence to watch broadcast TV as it is transmitted; the TV licence doesn't give the people who pay it any right to a catch-up service such as that offered by either the streaming or download version of the iPlayer.
9am and 5pm already occur in near-darkness in London during December/January, and for longer periods the further north you go.
I don't really care about Microsoft getting hurt (although I guess their re-sellers would be hurt by any ban on sales), but I was thinking more about the businesses that rely on being able to buy Microsoft applications to function and the cost implications to them if they could no longer buy licences to that software. That's why I don't think the EU would ever go down the route of banning the sale of Microsoft products. Plus, the EU could probably use (read: waste) the money they'll receive from these huge fines.
Office would be slightly less of an issue for the folks that just use Word and Excel, as they could probably get used to OpenOffice or similar. Not sure if there's an alternative for Microsoft Project and some of the other lesser used applications. There are also plenty of folks here using XML based workflows in Infopath/Sharepoint for business process type stuff, which would probably require a lot of effort to rework with non-MS products.
Even if there are alternatives out there for all of these Microsoft products, the cost to industry of migrating would likely be huge if the sale of Microsoft products (soft licences for the most part I guess) were banned. It wouldn't have to happen immediately, as I imagine the likes of Dell etc. have got a stockpile of Microsoft licences, and many businesses would be on corporate licences that wouldn't run out straight away, but most businesses, especially in the SMB space, wouldn't have a clue where to start.
I think it would severely hurt industry across the EU if the sale of Microsoft products were banned, especially since the EU has to deal with the rest of the world who for the most part use Microsoft products. It's just not possible for free/open source software to inter-operate effectively with Microsoft products at the moment, which was kind of the whole point of the anti-trust ruling.
(I see about 5-10 drivers a day drive up our street only to find it's a dead end even though this is clearly shown on the road signs; I guess they trust their SatNavs more than the road signs)
That's before you consider the enormous amount of cases, FM transmitters, headphones etc. that are marketed purely at iPod owners. People continue to buy iPods because either they know their upgraded iPod will work with the accessories they already have, or they know that they'll have no trouble getting the accessory they want for their new purchase.
Of course, I don't know if there's a law related to profiting from a crime where this took place.
Installing signal blocking equipment is illegal in a lot of places, like the UK and Ireland. I expect there's just a whole load of EM noise from the equipment in the CS building that stops calls getting through.
Guess this is off-topic, but the original survey was in Britain.
I was worried about the storage thing after having a 20GB iPod for years that I kept pretty much full, but after having a 16GB Touch for 6 months I can safely say that storage isn't a problem. The transfer rates for putting music/video on the touch are very, very fast compared to those on the older HDD based iPods; it's really very easy to delete a bunch of stuff and put new content on every few days which I am happy to do. Granted there are some people who absolutely must have a giant music collection with them at all times (people who travel a lot, for one), but I'm not one of them.
I also have Orb set up at home which lets me stream music and video from my home PC over Wi-fi whilst I'm out and about; great if you're at a friend's house and want to show them some video that you don't currently have on the iPod.
Those flaps are designed to be taken off easily, especially the ones covering the Gamecube controller ports and memory card slots which would be flapping about vertically if you had the Wii in its stand with controllers and a memory card plugged in. Those flaps would get broken off very quickly if they weren't designed to be removed.
8 centimeters in length experiment, the space shuttle heat-resistant form of folded paper airplane use by the process. Tokyo campus Ookashiwa (Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture), a super high-speed wind tunnel tests of the high-speed stream of Mach 7 in the heat resistance and strength to find out.
When the space shuttle and other spacecraft will return to the speed of Mach 20, and the friction in the air and high temperatures for the heat-resistant surface is a special twist. Paper airplane is so light, slowing down from the thin air, landing in slow. Coming back without burnout might be.
Suzuki professor at Tokyo University (aerospace engineering) is a "message of peace from the space station to skip it. Land in the world where you do not know the fairy who could deliver" a dream said.
Whether Britney Spears is any good or not is besides the point. The artists they have chosen are probably some of the better selling ones (Black Out debuted at #1 on the Billboard chart if I remember correctly), which seems a logical place to start if you want to make your catalogue available in a piecemeal fashion.
It doesn't really cover web stuff if that's what you're after, but the most of the principles are largely the same. Having said that, I still refer back to this book from time-to-time even though I've worked exclusively with Web applications for the last three years.
It's not about what the BBC wants, it's about what the content owners will allow them to do. The BBC doesn't make much of its content in house these days, and the production companies aren't going to give away for free (apart from the licence fee) content that people will happily buy on DVD. I'd rather have a system where I can download/stream a whole bunch of stuff for 7 days after broadcast than a system where I can watch next to nothing indefinitely.
Nope. Now you can download the programs to watch them offline or use flash streaming.