Please read up on the issue... the frequency L^2 purchased were always licensed for satellite-to-ground communication, which would have been fine for L^2 to do. But in order to get better coverage in dense areas like cities, they planed on putting up earth-based relay stations, which would have drowned out any adjacent frequency band... I read a comparison somewhere where the regular communication was compared to a regular light bulb in orbit, say 100W... while it's already hard to see by itself, now imagine a floodlight near where you stand, putting out several kW or MW worth of light... can you imagine that seeing the small light in the sky will be "somewhat" hard... ? L^2 tried to bend the rules, and for once, official places in the US didn't bow to lobbying and money, but did the right call...
Seems like they are listening to their (prospective) customers... I so want one;) Also, as long as they supply timely updates, and there's no bloatware on the pad, there's no real necessity for unlocking (n.b.: I rooted and re-flashed both my Android phones within days (and hours in case of the second one) of getting them...)... so let there be ICS and JB (whatever the next version is called - was that going to be Jelly Beans?), and the users will be happy! Now if I could only find a decent place to get on in Germany...
That's what some attempts have been... but defining "unused" is pretty hard - unannounced? Well, I doubt some larger institutions announce their/16 or similar sized networks as individual/24 subnets, so even if they barely use a tripple-diggit number of IPs, you won't see that... Unannounced? Even then there might be legitimately used number of IPs... e.g. for VPN-connections... RIPE has made some efforts recovering IP space, namely be starting to charge yearly for PI-space and ASNs... by that, some areas have been returned when companies either weren't reachable/existent anymore, or when they decided they did not really need the space anymore if it actually costed some money... (depending on the LIR a/24 cost something betwen 50 and 200â, so an "ancient"/19 or/16 would be pretty pricey...)
... what you don't seem to get is that the problem is not when ARIN runs out, but when your business partners get IPv6 addresses you can't reach because you didn't do your f@ckin' homework and upgrade to dual-stacked... So go ahead, stick to IPv4, and once your boss comes in and asks why you can't exchange data with your possibly largest customer, tell him: "why would we want IPv4? Arin hasn't run out yet"... good luck on finding a new job afterwards... And if you believe "Hey, no problem, it's just the Chinese and Japanese and Australians, who needs them" - think again, Europe's RIPE will run out of IPv4 addresses next...
If any patent office employee granted a patent on the idea of using a fuel cell in notebooks, they are obviously incapable of doing a simple google search and should therefore be fired for being unfit to do their job...
... didn't have a problem solving any of them, only using the calculator out for one (the 29/40 question) and that only out of laziness... where's the problem there? OK, I do acknowledge the world's population is getting dumber by the day... best example: The Front-Runners of the US presidential candidates... and the people supporting them... obviously, how can you want people with the knowledge and the IQ of a peanut to be your representative?
How can an automated system recognize whether an input is "not what the user meant to type"? As long as an input is syntactically correct, it's not up to the system... granted, the double colon might not fall under the "syntactically correct" inputs, though it would have to be checked whether it may indeed be allowed or not...
First of all, weight does not equal safety. There's enough examples out there that show that the structure of the car is the main deciding factor as to how safe a car is for the passengers. As for less injured, sure, if you have a hybrid that accelerates less quickly (due to weight and energy-saving driving habits), odds are it's slower in a crash, thus endangering the passengers less. In contrast, I would dare to bet that - everything else identical - the same car with the additional weight will have a longer breaking distance (causing higher risk for getting in an accident), and when crashing at the same speed, it will equal higher damage in both cars involved... it's hard to beat physics...
Are those all Lotus Notes users? If so, the result doesn't come as much of a surprise...;) Notes must be one of the worst email clients on this earth...
... so in spite of the (supposed) improved security of Win7 and the (in comparison) short time it has been around, a quarter of all infections are on Win7? While it is understandable that the decade old OS is easier to attack, this is definitely no good track record for Win7...
... to assume guilt than innocence... after all, countries all over the globe are switching to this, e.g. with data retention... everybody is guilty, just have to find out of what... just grab somebody, see if they prove they didn't do it, and if they can't (or won't) - off to jail!
a) who would want to collect half a million $ worth of experimental currency that can't really be used widely? b) why would you want to keep that much money as a virtual currency? c) why would you want to keep that wallet accessible on your PC and not on some external, removable media, or at the very least under tight lock e.g. via encrypted file?
and finally,
d) if it really did happen, he deserved losing it for being and idiot, see points a-c...
After a short evaluation period, in which the compliance with Apple rules will be thoroughly checked, it will be rejected from inclusion in the Apple Stores due to going against company policies...
... probably for the iphone 6 they'll propose a completely new idea of burning the SIM data directly into the phone, saving the space for the card reader alltogether, and at the same time allowing for an even better carrier-lock-in than the current solution has. Which of course means the carriers will love it. No more sim/netlock breaking possible anymore.
Hm... Wait... wasn't there a wireless network that already did that?;)
... from the way the upper levels of management often see IT... after all, how complicated can clicking in a window be? Anybody can do that, after all, kids already do that all day long after school... so all you need is someone who has used a PC to set up your servers, network, routers, and take care of the dozens or hundreds of employees' computer problems...
The problem IMHO is when processes get out of hand - exceeding the complexity of the original project. True, there are projects that require near-perfect code as e.g. people's lives might depend on the quality. But just as programs suffer from excessive feature-growth (of stuff hardly needed, see M$ Office products e.g.), the same way process definitions tend to grow over time. Plus the compexity of a program if also often not easy to judge. For experienced (or "genius") programmers, some problem might be trivial, and quickly coded, while management (not understanding the problem) might see it as a difficult problem, endangering the company, which then require complex planning and QC. All the while the programmer could have finished the project less than the time required to even get the plans in order.
This reminds me of a Dilbert comic, where the PHB would come up and require some plan on how to impllement something. Dilbert would reply, he'd already solved the problem. To which the PHB replied, he'd still have to make the plan...
Personally, having programmed for something like the last 30 years (starting with ZX Spectrum and C64, via Amiga through Unix/Linux), I can pretty much code pretty decent code up to a certain complexity without doing much of planning ahead of time. Anyway, I do "fall back" to doing some more or less intricate planning at times, when I "feel" like the problem might have some tough points that could mess the whole thing up. Do date, I barely ever had major problems with this way of working. But then, I'm also just about the only person in the company doing any serious programming in that area... so no team to keep in line...
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And it wouldn't bow to cash or politics ... 'nough said.
Please read up on the issue ... the frequency L^2 purchased were always licensed for satellite-to-ground communication, which would have been fine for L^2 to do. But in order to get better coverage in dense areas like cities, they planed on putting up earth-based relay stations, which would have drowned out any adjacent frequency band ... I read a comparison somewhere where the regular communication was compared to a regular light bulb in orbit, say 100W ... while it's already hard to see by itself, now imagine a floodlight near where you stand, putting out several kW or MW worth of light ... can you imagine that seeing the small light in the sky will be "somewhat" hard ... ? L^2 tried to bend the rules, and for once, official places in the US didn't bow to lobbying and money, but did the right call ...
Seems like they are listening to their (prospective) customers ... I so want one ;) ...) ... so let there be ICS and JB (whatever the next version is called - was that going to be Jelly Beans?), and the users will be happy! ...
Also, as long as they supply timely updates, and there's no bloatware on the pad, there's no real necessity for unlocking (n.b.: I rooted and re-flashed both my Android phones within days (and hours in case of the second one) of getting them
Now if I could only find a decent place to get on in Germany
That's what some attempts have been ... but defining "unused" is pretty hard - unannounced? Well, I doubt some larger institutions announce their /16 or similar sized networks as individual /24 subnets, so even if they barely use a tripple-diggit number of IPs, you won't see that ... ... e.g. for VPN-connections ... ... by that, some areas have been returned when companies either weren't reachable/existent anymore, or when they decided they did not really need the space anymore if it actually costed some money ... (depending on the LIR a /24 cost something betwen 50 and 200â, so an "ancient" /19 or /16 would be pretty pricey ...)
Unannounced? Even then there might be legitimately used number of IPs
RIPE has made some efforts recovering IP space, namely be starting to charge yearly for PI-space and ASNs
... what you don't seem to get is that the problem is not when ARIN runs out, but when your business partners get IPv6 addresses you can't reach because you didn't do your f@ckin' homework and upgrade to dual-stacked ... So go ahead, stick to IPv4, and once your boss comes in and asks why you can't exchange data with your possibly largest customer, tell him: "why would we want IPv4? Arin hasn't run out yet" ... good luck on finding a new job afterwards ... ...
And if you believe "Hey, no problem, it's just the Chinese and Japanese and Australians, who needs them" - think again, Europe's RIPE will run out of IPv4 addresses next
Well, it may be the first time APPLE is doing it, but others have been there, done that ...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Panasonic-Fuel-Cell-Prototype,6516.html (2008)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/29/lg_chem_fuel_cell/ (2005)
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1008_3-1022130.html (2003)
If any patent office employee granted a patent on the idea of using a fuel cell in notebooks, they are obviously incapable of doing a simple google search and should therefore be fired for being unfit to do their job ...
I could swear I saw reports of companies building experimental Notebook fuel cells years ago ...
... didn't have a problem solving any of them, only using the calculator out for one (the 29/40 question) and that only out of laziness ... where's the problem there? ... best example: The Front-Runners of the US presidential candidates ... and the people supporting them ... obviously, how can you want people with the knowledge and the IQ of a peanut to be your representative?
OK, I do acknowledge the world's population is getting dumber by the day
Or ASCII GUI: vimdiff ... works fine, also with 3 files ...
... would no doubt be swamped holding 600 million war crime law suits ...
How can an automated system recognize whether an input is "not what the user meant to type"? As long as an input is syntactically correct, it's not up to the system ... granted, the double colon might not fall under the "syntactically correct" inputs, though it would have to be checked whether it may indeed be allowed or not ...
Garbage out. What else is new?
"I love stupid criminals" ...
First of all, weight does not equal safety. There's enough examples out there that show that the structure of the car is the main deciding factor as to how safe a car is for the passengers. ... it's hard to beat physics ...
As for less injured, sure, if you have a hybrid that accelerates less quickly (due to weight and energy-saving driving habits), odds are it's slower in a crash, thus endangering the passengers less. In contrast, I would dare to bet that - everything else identical - the same car with the additional weight will have a longer breaking distance (causing higher risk for getting in an accident), and when crashing at the same speed, it will equal higher damage in both cars involved
... to many devices with ICS ... guess the CyanogenMod team has already locked itself in the attic and is coding ;)
Thanks to both Google for the code and of course the Modders for their work!!!
Are those all Lotus Notes users? If so, the result doesn't come as much of a surprise ... ;) Notes must be one of the worst email clients on this earth ...
... so in spite of the (supposed) improved security of Win7 and the (in comparison) short time it has been around, a quarter of all infections are on Win7? ...
While it is understandable that the decade old OS is easier to attack, this is definitely no good track record for Win7
... to assume guilt than innocence ... after all, countries all over the globe are switching to this, e.g. with data retention ... everybody is guilty, just have to find out of what ... just grab somebody, see if they prove they didn't do it, and if they can't (or won't) - off to jail!
Given Apple's track record on approving app updates, a corrected version should be out in 2-3 weeks ...
a) who would want to collect half a million $ worth of experimental currency that can't really be used widely?
b) why would you want to keep that much money as a virtual currency?
c) why would you want to keep that wallet accessible on your PC and not on some external, removable media, or at the very least under tight lock e.g. via encrypted file?
and finally,
d) if it really did happen, he deserved losing it for being and idiot, see points a-c ...
After a short evaluation period, in which the compliance with Apple rules will be thoroughly checked, it will be rejected from inclusion in the Apple Stores due to going against company policies ...
... probably for the iphone 6 they'll propose a completely new idea of burning the SIM data directly into the phone, saving the space for the card reader alltogether, and at the same time allowing for an even better carrier-lock-in than the current solution has. Which of course means the carriers will love it. No more sim/netlock breaking possible anymore.
Hm ... Wait ... wasn't there a wireless network that already did that? ;)
... from the way the upper levels of management often see IT ... after all, how complicated can clicking in a window be? Anybody can do that, after all, kids already do that all day long after school ... so all you need is someone who has used a PC to set up your servers, network, routers, and take care of the dozens or hundreds of employees' computer problems ...
The problem IMHO is when processes get out of hand - exceeding the complexity of the original project. True, there are projects that require near-perfect code as e.g. people's lives might depend on the quality. But just as programs suffer from excessive feature-growth (of stuff hardly needed, see M$ Office products e.g.), the same way process definitions tend to grow over time. Plus the compexity of a program if also often not easy to judge. For experienced (or "genius") programmers, some problem might be trivial, and quickly coded, while management (not understanding the problem) might see it as a difficult problem, endangering the company, which then require complex planning and QC. All the while the programmer could have finished the project less than the time required to even get the plans in order.
This reminds me of a Dilbert comic, where the PHB would come up and require some plan on how to impllement something. Dilbert would reply, he'd already solved the problem. To which the PHB replied, he'd still have to make the plan ...
Personally, having programmed for something like the last 30 years (starting with ZX Spectrum and C64, via Amiga through Unix/Linux), I can pretty much code pretty decent code up to a certain complexity without doing much of planning ahead of time. Anyway, I do "fall back" to doing some more or less intricate planning at times, when I "feel" like the problem might have some tough points that could mess the whole thing up. Do date, I barely ever had major problems with this way of working. But then, I'm also just about the only person in the company doing any serious programming in that area ... so no team to keep in line ...
... does anyone believe storing sensitive informaiton in the "cloud" or the Internet?