The EU is ready to take over ICANN regionally already - they needed to to have a credible threat to get their own way last year, and make no mistake if they were pushed make the switch that will end ICANN (and probably end the idea of a single global entity controlling DNS.. it'll be down to regional ones, because China will want their own, the US will probably keep ICANN, etc..).
If ICANN start ordering UK websites down at the request of random US courts then that'll be a pretty hard push in that direction. Even the americans aren't that bloody stupid.
I've been trying to work out what my car stereo does. It interfaces directly with the ipod and has its own shuffle mode, however it's not done as you describe as far as I can tell.
Basically what happens is if you listen to a track all the way through it gets marked that you 'like' that track (I think the ipod itself records this data as itunes can see it as last played/number of plays). What the stereo seems to be doing is giving higher weighting to tracks, artists (or possibly genres but they're harder to pin down) that you 'like'.
What will happen is that in a 30 minutes journey you'll get the same artist multiple times - in fact even the same song... and this is nearly always a song that you've listened to all the way through in 'random' previously. This also seems to work in genres.
I've been able to 'fix' the shuffle mode by listening to a series of tracks by an artist all the way through and hitting 'random' - that artist then appears multiple times within the first hour.
All this would be great... after all what you want it the ipod playing tracks you like all the time... however it causes it to miss out on the less known stuff, which comes up very rarely - and becomes a self reinforcing problem. At the moment it tends to choose from less than 100 songs repeatedly (from a library of about 5000 songs).
I wonder if there's a way to delete the last played data from itunes and see if it becomes more random.
LA? Wouldn't need to. Backpacker with a small weapon detonated on the fault line would probably enough (better if you could dig it deep rather than a surface detonation.. so maybe a backpacker with a potholing hobby).
If China cut of its support then it wouldn't take 5-10 years. More like 5-10 weeks. NK is utterly dependent on chinese aid to prop up their government.
China is reluctant to do that because it'd cause a refugee problem on their border and NK might become a western friendly nation. However if NK pushed *too* hard it's a possibility.
The US is run and controlled by fundamentalists. Armageddon would suit them just fine.. although half of them can't agree whether to wait for the rapture first or not.
I *cared* about XP. Even ran the betas for development for a while. My users did too - I was fielding questions about it before the official release, and pointing out bugs.
With vista I've got a machine with it on but I never go near it except for essential testing (rarely) and nobody has asked me about compatibility yet (I know one of our programs doesn't work on RC1 because of a nasty bug in IShellFolder that stops it.. presumably fixed in RC2 - not tried yet).
This is completely different to the XP experience. Certainly the users I deal with aren't thinking of the upgrade.. they're happy with what the have.
XP SP2 was basically treated as an OS upgrade by many users because it was such a change & required the same level of software upgrade/support. For many, that was their last OS upgrade and it didn't happen that long ago - it's too soon for another one.
Google/YouTube: Thousands of downloadable videos, user supplied content, comments system, etc. iTunes Video: US Only download system. No idea what's on it exactly (apple won't let me even look) but I believe it's only studio produced content.
Precisely. Vista's 'compatibility with windows apps' isn't that great unless you enjoy entering your password 30 times every time the machine boots and again every time you want to actually run anything.
OK I'd tend to agree it's best to break compatibility now and have a reasonably secure system in the future, but compatibility definately isn't a strong point of vista. Heck, I'm at the stage I can't bear to use the vista machine because it's such a pig getting anything done with it.. it's used for essential testing only then I'm out of there.
Of course in the UK you need a MAC to change ISPs.
People get confused if you give them your MAC instead of your MAC so you'd better not get the two mixed up... Your Mac might have a MAC but that's not the MAC that you need.
Probability that any sun reader could even spell exebyte let alone comprehend what it was: 0% Probability that this story is made up by some hack out of someone's blog he read once: 100%
The Sun doesn't print news stories, it prints mainly the made up kind, interspersed with pictures of breasts. Occasionally they get lucky and print a made up story *about* breasts.
That just allows other processes to open a file that is opened with delete access. It does not allow you to delete a file that is in use - that is still impossible in Windows.
Services providing remote access to users need to do this with no interaction. It's not a good idea to force them to have the plaintext password either (as NT does, although you can bypass that with some hackery) since it means that you've got plaintext (or reversibly encrypted) passwords flying around the network.
Create token is the 'meta' privilege - it lets you create a system level token with *any* privilege and then switch to that context... essentially anyone/thing with that privilige has all rights to the system and you cannot stop them (takes a little work.. it's not got a GUI or anything, but anyone with access to MSDN online could work it out).
The NT system is ass backwards because it lets you *add* privileges. The Linux capabilities system does it right - process 1 starts with all privileges, then it removes them. It is *impossible* to add a new privilege - you have to ask a more privileged process to do your work for you.
I'm guessing the reason they didn't go with OO etc. is simply economics. They can go to the people that make ability office and say 'rebrand your software with tesco logos and ship us a million CDs by friday. We'll pay you in 9 months mmm'kay?'.
With OO there's nobody to do that to - they'd have to setup their own duplication, hire people to do the branding, etc. Too time consuming, logistically harder and probably more expensive.
Fail? Even if 0.01% of tescos customers buy it it'll be a runaway success just on the numbers alone.
Tesco want to get their branding onto their PCs and presumably microsoft wouldn't cut a deal. So they decided to make their own & sell it with their hardware. Tesco sell a *lot* of hardware.
On a related note just how good/bad is Ability Office that Tesco are repackaging? Panda AV is ok, but does Ability (for example) read Microsoft Office files?
For the average non-business user, who cares? Provided you can write a letter to aunt flo then it's good enough.
Until the competition let me call a landline through their product for free, as Skype does at the moment, I won't be switching.
I take it you've never actually used SIP then?
Skype is *far* more expensive than 99% of SIP providers (and due to the nature of SIP you can have more than one configured at a time - I have about 5 at the moment). I can call nearly anywhere in the US and europe for just the connection charge.
Slashdot Mirror
$ host www.spamhaus.org
www.spamhaus.org has address 216.168.30.71
$ whois 216.168.30.71
~$ whois 216.168.30.71
OrgName: Supernews, Inc
OrgID: SUPERN-4
Address: 350 The Embarcadero, 6th Floor
City: San Francisco
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94105
Country: US
The definately have a US presence.
That's for a small email service provider, defending only about 75 million email addresses.
Well I know you US types thing big, but 75 million email addresses isn't small in my book. Who are you... AOL?
The EU is ready to take over ICANN regionally already - they needed to to have a credible threat to get their own way last year, and make no mistake if they were pushed make the switch that will end ICANN (and probably end the idea of a single global entity controlling DNS.. it'll be down to regional ones, because China will want their own, the US will probably keep ICANN, etc..).
If ICANN start ordering UK websites down at the request of random US courts then that'll be a pretty hard push in that direction. Even the americans aren't that bloody stupid.
spamhaus.org.uk already resolves.. problem solved.
A US court would have trouble trying to get the UK registry to pull websites that have broken no laws.
No they couldn't. Spamhaus is european and its IP addresses are allocated by RIPE.
I don't think ICANN even give out IP addresses in the US.
Plus if they did everyone would probably ignore them anyway.
I've been trying to work out what my car stereo does. It interfaces directly with the ipod and has its own shuffle mode, however it's not done as you describe as far as I can tell.
Basically what happens is if you listen to a track all the way through it gets marked that you 'like' that track (I think the ipod itself records this data as itunes can see it as last played/number of plays). What the stereo seems to be doing is giving higher weighting to tracks, artists (or possibly genres but they're harder to pin down) that you 'like'.
What will happen is that in a 30 minutes journey you'll get the same artist multiple times - in fact even the same song... and this is nearly always a song that you've listened to all the way through in 'random' previously. This also seems to work in genres.
I've been able to 'fix' the shuffle mode by listening to a series of tracks by an artist all the way through and hitting 'random' - that artist then appears multiple times within the first hour.
All this would be great... after all what you want it the ipod playing tracks you like all the time... however it causes it to miss out on the less known stuff, which comes up very rarely - and becomes a self reinforcing problem. At the moment it tends to choose from less than 100 songs repeatedly (from a library of about 5000 songs).
I wonder if there's a way to delete the last played data from itunes and see if it becomes more random.
LA? Wouldn't need to. Backpacker with a small weapon detonated on the fault line would probably enough (better if you could dig it deep rather than a surface detonation.. so maybe a backpacker with a potholing hobby).
If China cut of its support then it wouldn't take 5-10 years. More like 5-10 weeks. NK is utterly dependent on chinese aid to prop up their government.
China is reluctant to do that because it'd cause a refugee problem on their border and NK might become a western friendly nation. However if NK pushed *too* hard it's a possibility.
Well, the book of revelation for a start.
The US is run and controlled by fundamentalists. Armageddon would suit them just fine.. although half of them can't agree whether to wait for the rapture first or not.
Reminds me there's a story about that on this week here... might be fun to watch (might just be overhyped crap though).
It's different this time.
I *cared* about XP. Even ran the betas for development for a while. My users did too - I was fielding questions about it before the official release, and pointing out bugs.
With vista I've got a machine with it on but I never go near it except for essential testing (rarely) and nobody has asked me about compatibility yet (I know one of our programs doesn't work on RC1 because of a nasty bug in IShellFolder that stops it.. presumably fixed in RC2 - not tried yet).
This is completely different to the XP experience. Certainly the users I deal with aren't thinking of the upgrade.. they're happy with what the have.
XP SP2 was basically treated as an OS upgrade by many users because it was such a change & required the same level of software upgrade/support. For many, that was their last OS upgrade and it didn't happen that long ago - it's too soon for another one.
Dammit. There was a less-than sign in there..
Nope. The IT industry is a lot older than online gaming and it has *always* been male dominated.
I've met precisely 1 female programmer in my life.. couldn't predict the percentage on that but it's 1%.
They're not in the same market:
Google/YouTube: Thousands of downloadable videos, user supplied content, comments system, etc.
iTunes Video: US Only download system. No idea what's on it exactly (apple won't let me even look) but I believe it's only studio produced content.
Precisely. Vista's 'compatibility with windows apps' isn't that great unless you enjoy entering your password 30 times every time the machine boots and again every time you want to actually run anything.
OK I'd tend to agree it's best to break compatibility now and have a reasonably secure system in the future, but compatibility definately isn't a strong point of vista. Heck, I'm at the stage I can't bear to use the vista machine because it's such a pig getting anything done with it.. it's used for essential testing only then I'm out of there.
Of course in the UK you need a MAC to change ISPs.
People get confused if you give them your MAC instead of your MAC so you'd better not get the two mixed up... Your Mac might have a MAC but that's not the MAC that you need.
Probability that any sun reader could even spell exebyte let alone comprehend what it was: 0%
Probability that this story is made up by some hack out of someone's blog he read once: 100%
The Sun doesn't print news stories, it prints mainly the made up kind, interspersed with pictures of breasts. Occasionally they get lucky and print a made up story *about* breasts.
You misunderstand what FILE_SHARE_DELETE does.
That just allows other processes to open a file that is opened with delete access. It does not allow you to delete a file that is in use - that is still impossible in Windows.
Services providing remote access to users need to do this with no interaction. It's not a good idea to force them to have the plaintext password either (as NT does, although you can bypass that with some hackery) since it means that you've got plaintext (or reversibly encrypted) passwords flying around the network.
Create token is the 'meta' privilege - it lets you create a system level token with *any* privilege and then switch to that context... essentially anyone/thing with that privilige has all rights to the system and you cannot stop them (takes a little work.. it's not got a GUI or anything, but anyone with access to MSDN online could work it out).
The NT system is ass backwards because it lets you *add* privileges. The Linux capabilities system does it right - process 1 starts with all privileges, then it removes them. It is *impossible* to add a new privilege - you have to ask a more privileged process to do your work for you.
I'm guessing the reason they didn't go with OO etc. is simply economics. They can go to the people that make ability office and say 'rebrand your software with tesco logos and ship us a million CDs by friday. We'll pay you in 9 months mmm'kay?'.
With OO there's nobody to do that to - they'd have to setup their own duplication, hire people to do the branding, etc. Too time consuming, logistically harder and probably more expensive.
Fail? Even if 0.01% of tescos customers buy it it'll be a runaway success just on the numbers alone.
Tesco want to get their branding onto their PCs and presumably microsoft wouldn't cut a deal. So they decided to make their own & sell it with their hardware. Tesco sell a *lot* of hardware.
On a related note just how good/bad is Ability Office that Tesco are repackaging? Panda AV is ok, but does Ability (for example) read Microsoft Office files?
For the average non-business user, who cares? Provided you can write a letter to aunt flo then it's good enough.
Well that's only £83 a month. The average monthly shop per person pretty much starts there and goes up...
Until the competition let me call a landline through their product for free, as Skype does at the moment, I won't be switching.
I take it you've never actually used SIP then?
Skype is *far* more expensive than 99% of SIP providers (and due to the nature of SIP you can have more than one configured at a time - I have about 5 at the moment). I can call nearly anywhere in the US and europe for just the connection charge.