..you can use Javascript as a scripting language in a JVM - no still no connection, you can script JVM with Groovy already does this mean it is Java... no
JVM is a virtual machine, the main language for programming it is Java You can also program in other languages and script it in several languages - One of this will soon be JavaScript
ASPM is implemented incorrectly in many motherboards, either fails to advertise it supports it when it does, or advertises it supports it when it doesn't
MS have worked around the issue rather than getting the manufacturers to fix it.. so now everyone else has to follow suit...
I suspect MS do it wrong on a few systems, but no-one notices because everyone else does it wrong as well
Blame the MB, Bios manufacturers for not caring about quality, and blame MS for not using the clout they have to force people to do it right...
Many Android devices are effectively locked down so that you can only use the interface provided, regardless if it is open-source or not... But at least with Android you have the device in your hand and so can always tunnel underneath the interface and get at the real system...
With Cloud based systems the interface is all you have access to and so what the actual system is written in what OS it is on are largely irrelevant...
This might be like Android is OpenSource... i.e. it is OpenSource, and so are all the components, but from the user's point of view this make no difference at all you are still locked into a propitiatory sandbox...
In the UK they can ask to search your bag, and you can refuse, and they can escort you from the premises, and refuse to let you return... and that's it..
No arrest, (Except Citizens arrest just like anyone else) no search, no confiscation
Anything else they would have to pursue through the civil courts...if they can get your details, they cannot force you to identify yourself, and neither can a police officer unless they arrest you....
People (as in general users) were still not aware that there *was* any alternative
People still today refer to the IE icon on the desktop as "The Internet".. and get confused when it is replaced by Firefox...
The alternatives were doing well in terms of growth , but not in overall terms.. Growing from almost nothing to slightly significant is large growth, but slightly significant is not exactly dominating...
Drag-and-drop re-arranging of taskbar buttons - Don't care
Jump-lists with most-recently-used documents and other quick featuers (app doesn't need to be running to use them!) - Don't like, gets in the way and is annoying
Areo snap (snap to left/right, snap-to-full-height) makes window management much easier.- Don't like, Don't Use, Aero is off...!
Tons of new short-cut keys (especially useful are the ones for hadningling projectors and secondary screens: Win-P) - Don't care, I have a secondary screen, tried it, it does not help...
Improved search and Start-Menu-Search. - Don't like, don't use except to find the app/item that MS have moved to an unexpected location....
Vastly simplified "Homegroup" networking. - Don't use - I work in a business, and use Win 7 Pro
Full 64-bit support (not that half-assed WinXP64 crap). - Don't care - 32 bit processor
"Play to" for playing media to other devices (Win7 or even XBox extender devices) and remote media streaming. - Don't use I work in a business environment so this is irrelevant or blocked...
Now give me something that is *improved* not just changed for the sake of it, or to look pretty, or to solve an bad design feature that I have been working around for years...
The list of apps that now don't work - or work badly on Win 7 is long enough to make me want to avoid it . (Yes they are "Legacy" apps this is a business we have them, wish we didn't)
Note I do use Win 7 at work because I have no choice...I would go back to XP in an instant given the choice
The words Single Instance full screen sandboxed app - mean it is not intended for a business environment...It's for a) Tablets, b) Single application environments
If conventional apps work on this (they will) then continue to develop in C++ or C# as needed... this is a sideshow
So Jobs got started and built his empire on making a Blue-Box phreaking tool that was illegal at the time and still is now........can the government seize his ill-gotten gains...?
I suspect the answer is that what most people file under is not what they search for...
Email from Bob is easy to find if you file all email from Bob in a folder Bob.... but where did you file the email mentioning Bob's project but not from Bob...?
Tags (preferably automatic Tags) would be a better way, just use them like a preindexed search...
The issue is not the bundling, it is TINA (there is no alternative) syndrome, this was the problem with IE in Europe,
People generally said that they had an icon for "The Internet" on their desktop, this was IE...This is more like having a radio come with your car, but it is welded in place, and all mass-market cars have the same radio
Whereas now you get a popup when you first use a Windows PC in Europe that asks which browser you want to use, so at least people know they have a choice...
Try Virgin - 2 Shops in Bournemouth (Large conurbation in UK) hawking broadband et al, I live within a few meters of the exchange in the centre of town, but "sorry we don't have cable to that road"... i.e. the road with the telephone exchange in it..!
The randomness of their coverage is odd beyond belief
You have to replace this, So the Italian government have now made Wikipedia edit wars legal, mandatory, and with no 3 Revert rule, never-ending
I suggest the best thing to do if this law comes in, go to one of the governments own web sites, find something that mentions two people, and get them to edit war over it continuously as fast as they can, until this law is repealed, or the Government pays them the fines... win-win..
I just wish they would use a different name for the e-ink devices and the non-e-ink devices... they have very little in common
The e-ink devices are a book reader - and nothing else, the non-e-ink devices can be used as a book reader (as can a PC, Phone etc with the Kindle reader software) but are actually a general purpose device
It's a bit like selling a bicycle, then launching a Car a motorbike, and a bicycle with an assist motor and calling them all the same name...
No conspiracy needed - The CIA and FBI are not very good at sharing information, they are better at it now they have been shown to be not very good at it deliberately - now they just do it by accident
15 people organised the hijacking of 4 planes, this is was difficult or complicated or expensive, and the CIA and FBI missed the connections needed to stop it mostly through minor incompetence..
Afterwards there was massive sympathy towards the USA, even in a few country with reasons to dislike... and in under 2 years Bush managed to make the USA a pariah in the global community find the conspiracy there...
I did not want 3G, I have better devices to browse on already
I did not want a colour screen, I wanted one that was easy to read
I did not want a touchscreen, it makes the device too expensive and attracts fingerprints that make it hard to read (see above)
I bought the Kindle e-book reader as an e-book reader, if I had wanted a laptop, Tablet, Mobile phone, portable gaming console, movie device etc.. that is not as good at reading books on.. there are plenty out there that are much much better...
Amazon seem to have lost the point of an e-book reader, that it is easier to read books on it than a conventional screen and the battery life is measured in months, all the new devices seem to be multimedia, network connected tablets....there are better ones out there already?
A simple overwrite will erase the disk irrecoverably...and this will be good enough for most people for most purposes
But how do you guarantee that the drive has been completely overwritten, most modern OS's do not use the entire drive, do not erase files down to the drive, etc... if you bypass the OS and do a low level erase that will work but most people do not have the time or knowledge to do this properly... and old drive is often near to failure and the only way to be sure is make it unusable
In secure environments they destroy drives deliberately so that no drive accidentally gets off site, security guys can see the difference between a physically destroyed drive and a working one, but cannot see the difference between a wiped drive and one full of data....
Virgin don't have the monopoly on Fibre - all the BT backbone is Fibre to the Exchange which is where these will be connected to not the Local Loop copper
There are also several companies who do LLU and can do you a Fire connection the a BT exchange, and get 50Mb/s with no problems.... the infrastructure is there
But my point was if no-one can be bothered to but fast fibre to each house (Virgin only do upto 50Mb/s... well below the possible limit) who is going to pay to do this...?
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The filter they use is the same for most government run Web Access e.g. Library Internet access ...
It is massively flawed as expected, i.e. it lets many sites through that should be blocked, and blocks sites that are totally clean ...
The answer is Curl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_(programming_language)
this is a full programming language that also does markup, scripting, CSS, all in one language ...
..you can use Javascript as a scripting language in a JVM - no still no connection, you can script JVM with Groovy already does this mean it is Java ... no
JVM is a virtual machine, the main language for programming it is Java
You can also program in other languages and script it in several languages - One of this will soon be JavaScript
Student Grades are a function of Teacher Quality ... but not alone
A good teacher will get the majority of their class to do their best
A bad teacher will not get the best out of the kids and so the average grades will be lower
Comparing teachers directly assumes that no-one has been dumped with a large class of all the kids who don't want to learn ...
ASPM is implemented incorrectly in many motherboards, either fails to advertise it supports it when it does, or advertises it supports it when it doesn't
MS have worked around the issue rather than getting the manufacturers to fix it .. so now everyone else has to follow suit ...
I suspect MS do it wrong on a few systems, but no-one notices because everyone else does it wrong as well
Blame the MB, Bios manufacturers for not caring about quality, and blame MS for not using the clout they have to force people to do it right ...
Many Android devices are effectively locked down so that you can only use the interface provided, regardless if it is open-source or not ... But at least with Android you have the device in your hand and so can always tunnel underneath the interface and get at the real system ...
With Cloud based systems the interface is all you have access to and so what the actual system is written in what OS it is on are largely irrelevant ...
This might be like Android is OpenSource ... i.e. it is OpenSource, and so are all the components, but from the user's point of view this make no difference at all you are still locked into a propitiatory sandbox ...
In the UK they can ask to search your bag, and you can refuse, and they can escort you from the premises, and refuse to let you return ... and that's it ..
No arrest, (Except Citizens arrest just like anyone else) no search, no confiscation
Anything else they would have to pursue through the civil courts...if they can get your details, they cannot force you to identify yourself, and neither can a police officer unless they arrest you ....
The US has a history of separate lines ... but that was based on a visible marker that people could not remove
There was the Dunces cap and that didn't work ...
Perhaps the teachers should be visibly marked depending on how their students perform ?
People (as in general users) were still not aware that there *was* any alternative
People still today refer to the IE icon on the desktop as "The Internet" .. and get confused when it is replaced by Firefox ...
The alternatives were doing well in terms of growth , but not in overall terms .. Growing from almost nothing to slightly significant is large growth, but slightly significant is not exactly dominating ...
Drag-and-drop re-arranging of taskbar buttons - Don't care
Jump-lists with most-recently-used documents and other quick featuers (app doesn't need to be running to use them!) - Don't like, gets in the way and is annoying
Areo snap (snap to left/right, snap-to-full-height) makes window management much easier.- Don't like, Don't Use, Aero is off ...!
Tons of new short-cut keys (especially useful are the ones for hadningling projectors and secondary screens: Win-P) - Don't care, I have a secondary screen, tried it, it does not help...
Improved search and Start-Menu-Search. - Don't like, don't use except to find the app/item that MS have moved to an unexpected location ....
Vastly simplified "Homegroup" networking. - Don't use - I work in a business, and use Win 7 Pro
Full 64-bit support (not that half-assed WinXP64 crap). - Don't care - 32 bit processor
"Play to" for playing media to other devices (Win7 or even XBox extender devices) and remote media streaming. - Don't use I work in a business environment so this is irrelevant or blocked ...
Now give me something that is *improved* not just changed for the sake of it, or to look pretty, or to solve an bad design feature that I have been working around for years ...
The list of apps that now don't work - or work badly on Win 7 is long enough to make me want to avoid it . (Yes they are "Legacy" apps this is a business we have them, wish we didn't)
Note I do use Win 7 at work because I have no choice ...I would go back to XP in an instant given the choice
The words Single Instance full screen sandboxed app - mean it is not intended for a business environment ...It's for a) Tablets, b) Single application environments
If conventional apps work on this (they will) then continue to develop in C++ or C# as needed ... this is a sideshow
So Jobs got started and built his empire on making a Blue-Box phreaking tool that was illegal at the time and still is now .... ....can the government seize his ill-gotten gains ...?
I suspect the answer is that what most people file under is not what they search for ...
Email from Bob is easy to find if you file all email from Bob in a folder Bob.... but where did you file the email mentioning Bob's project but not from Bob ...?
Tags (preferably automatic Tags) would be a better way, just use them like a preindexed search ...
The issue is not the bundling, it is TINA (there is no alternative) syndrome, this was the problem with IE in Europe,
People generally said that they had an icon for "The Internet" on their desktop, this was IE ...This is more like having a radio come with your car, but it is welded in place, and all mass-market cars have the same radio
Whereas now you get a popup when you first use a Windows PC in Europe that asks which browser you want to use, so at least people know they have a choice...
Try Virgin - 2 Shops in Bournemouth (Large conurbation in UK) hawking broadband et al, I live within a few meters of the exchange in the centre of town, but "sorry we don't have cable to that road" ... i.e. the road with the telephone exchange in it ..!
The randomness of their coverage is odd beyond belief
You have to replace this, So the Italian government have now made Wikipedia edit wars legal, mandatory, and with no 3 Revert rule, never-ending
I suggest the best thing to do if this law comes in, go to one of the governments own web sites, find something that mentions two people, and get them to edit war over it continuously as fast as they can, until this law is repealed, or the Government pays them the fines... win-win ..
I just wish they would use a different name for the e-ink devices and the non-e-ink devices ... they have very little in common
The e-ink devices are a book reader - and nothing else, the non-e-ink devices can be used as a book reader (as can a PC, Phone etc with the Kindle reader software) but are actually a general purpose device
It's a bit like selling a bicycle, then launching a Car a motorbike, and a bicycle with an assist motor and calling them all the same name ...
You can extrapolate the destruction, or the propping up of an entire economy based on pirating of one CD ... if you try hard enough
Most stock traders do this and more every day, a rumour of a minor potential difficulty can sink a single company, and industry or a whole economy ...
They got the idea from the UK .... we gave them up when we gave up the idea of private universities for the elite only
No conspiracy needed - The CIA and FBI are not very good at sharing information, they are better at it now they have been shown to be not very good at it deliberately - now they just do it by accident
15 people organised the hijacking of 4 planes, this is was difficult or complicated or expensive, and the CIA and FBI missed the connections needed to stop it mostly through minor incompetence ..
Afterwards there was massive sympathy towards the USA, even in a few country with reasons to dislike ... and in under 2 years Bush managed to make the USA a pariah in the global community find the conspiracy there ...
I bought the Wifi only Kindle
I did not want 3G, I have better devices to browse on already
I did not want a colour screen, I wanted one that was easy to read
I did not want a touchscreen, it makes the device too expensive and attracts fingerprints that make it hard to read (see above)
I bought the Kindle e-book reader as an e-book reader, if I had wanted a laptop, Tablet, Mobile phone, portable gaming console, movie device etc .. that is not as good at reading books on .. there are plenty out there that are much much better ...
Amazon seem to have lost the point of an e-book reader, that it is easier to read books on it than a conventional screen and the battery life is measured in months, all the new devices seem to be multimedia, network connected tablets ....there are better ones out there already?
A simple overwrite will erase the disk irrecoverably ...and this will be good enough for most people for most purposes
But how do you guarantee that the drive has been completely overwritten, most modern OS's do not use the entire drive, do not erase files down to the drive, etc ... if you bypass the OS and do a low level erase that will work but most people do not have the time or knowledge to do this properly ... and old drive is often near to failure and the only way to be sure is make it unusable
In secure environments they destroy drives deliberately so that no drive accidentally gets off site, security guys can see the difference between a physically destroyed drive and a working one, but cannot see the difference between a wiped drive and one full of data ....
Virgin don't have the monopoly on Fibre - all the BT backbone is Fibre to the Exchange which is where these will be connected to not the Local Loop copper
There are also several companies who do LLU and can do you a Fire connection the a BT exchange, and get 50Mb/s with no problems .... the infrastructure is there
But my point was if no-one can be bothered to but fast fibre to each house (Virgin only do upto 50Mb/s ... well below the possible limit) who is going to pay to do this...?
Spoken like a true American .... up to the AK47 (Avtomat Kalashnikova 47) would that not be an M16?