What part if "WARNING: THIS WEBSITE CONTAINS PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT WHICH IS UNSUITABLE FOR PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 " on the first page led you to believe this was SFW?
The problem with GPS is the battery drain.. if you run it all the time expect your battery to die in a couple of hours.
It's great for in-car use where it's on power, but unless apple have found a GPS chipset that is able to work on much lower power than the current ones I wouldn't expect it in an iphone in the near future.
External GPS works - where you have a separate battery and you plug it into USB. Then when the GPS dies at least you've still got your phone. That would mean apple enabling the USB port on the phone though..
Err... so if 'Anonymous' does something you like, it's them, but if they don't, it's not them.
Yeah... right. Get over it. Hiding behind the term 'Anonymous' pretty much labels them as a much of 13 year olds with no life in the first place. They don't *need* smearing - they're perfectly capable of doing it themselves.
Depends on where they see their primary means of making money is. If they want to remain US centric they can probably stretch out the 2G iphone for another 9 months or so.. after all I heard you still use analogue phones over there. If they want to go worldwide 2G aint gonna cut it.. and they know it.
Also lots of people are now waiting for the 3G iphone - that's gotta hurt sales (Osborne effect.. everyone learns about that in college these days, but steve jobs still pre-announced it anyway:p).
Maybe in the US, but in the UK I can buy an unlocked and jailbroken iphone in the high street - and if what I've seen is anything to go by they're selling far better than the 'official' ones... and I dare say it's similar in the rest of europe too (where you can't even buy a non-jailbroken phone).
These unlocked phones tend to have installer.app out of the box. So the apps are already part of the experience.
It's still a right if anyone can apply for the license without discrimination...
There's plenty of discrimination. Not passed your test? No license. Fucked up too many times in the last year? License revoked for at least a year. Got caught drunk behind the wheel? License revoked permanently.
Firstly that's a nightmare to handle multiplatform - have you any idea how many processor variations Unix runs on?
Secondly even assembler level compare and exchange isn't always atomic. It depends on the CPU. Intel (IIRC) has the lock prefix that is able to do that.
There are strategies you can use to handle non-atomic assembler instructions, and it's best to employ these where possibe.
"Bunch o' bloated bollocks for kids that can't code cleanly" is maybe more like the average comment from an old programmer.
To an extent they were right - remember at the time OO was being pushed as the ultimate answer to life, the Universe and Everything. If you read some of the more academic OO books even today they truly are "a Bunch o' bloated bollocks".
Then there was UML, Webservices, XML, Threading, Java,.NET... all have been pushed in the same way. Seems to be part of the lifecycle that technologies go through.
Of course over time most of us realize all these things are tools to be used in the right context, and just use what we need when we need it. That's not being old, it's realizing that there's nothing that there's no silver bullet and anyone that says $technology_of_the_week is going to change the world probably is talking bollocks.
Actually No. In that case you'd want to use a maximum of 3. The OS needs to do its own processing and if you're hogging all 4 cores your app will end up slower because every time it does something OS dependent like accessing a the disk or network it'll be waiting around for the OS to catch up.
Yeah it's clear Vista was never tested on a laptop prior to release - all the caching crap should be *off* when on batteries to preserve battery life. If they'd really been thinking there would be a single button to switch *all* that crap off permanently anyway - it doesn't work and it slows the OS down.
Generally people don't buy operating systems, they buy machines. It's not uncommon to hear of peopple talking about their 'windows box' and saying 'you can only get vista boxes now, I'm considering a Mac'.
Until you can buy 'Linux boxes' (and there's enough TV advertising to raise awareness) then nobody is going to go opensource.
Vista wastes so much resource on graphics and 'caching' that it runs very sluggish even on well specced hardware.
MS have forgotten that vista is an OS. It should boot up then get the hell out of the way and let the applications take over, not keep trying to provide 'an experience' all the time.
The backend may be, but you wouldn't run SCO Unix on a terminal.
For all of these kinds of things, the OS is part of the device, along with the app that runs with it. You wouldn't upgrade it normally - you'd upgrade the entire device to the next model.
3. Is your 30 second video file just as important as a technician using torrents to download a Linux Distro to put on a server used for business they need up and running ASAP?
1. Any business running a linux server will have the boxed redhat CDs. 2. If they don't then they're stupid technicians, but as a last resort they get them via ftp from redhat themselves. 3. -most important- in many (most?) companies running p2p software is an instant dismissal offence, so they won't be technicians for long.
Your figures for the UK are way off. Cities have mostly 8mbh/s with some ISPs offering 16mb/s. Outside cities this trails off as exchanges are more sparse and distance becomes an issue - this is a source of contention as services are advertisied as up to 8mb/s with the 'up to' bit not highlighted, so people who end up with 1mb/sec are complaining they're paying the same as someone getting 8mb/sec (that's the way the tech works, so it's perfectly fair, but it's not more obvious).
As far as contention goes this is limited by OFCOM to more than 40:1 on consumer lines - they start to clog up at way less than that though and good ISPs never go above 15:1 (my current ISP is managing to maintain 5:1, but I do pay more for the privilage).
At 100:1 a connection would be utterly unusable even for browsing.
I've never understood why people find them so confusing in the first place.
Same here.. people here advocating all sorts of wierd stuff like advanced maths theory*, when anyone could work out regular expressions by looking at them for a few minutes. Of course visualisers help for the really complex stuff (which nobody ever uses anyway).
PCRE is actually quite nice - you only have to bother with the setup once. just make a class that you can chuck a regexp string at and reuse it. Depends on the data set I guess.
* I hate maths.. Computer science has never really got over the way it used to be a part of the maths dept. at schools. They *really* hated me.. I was in remedial classes for maths (never saw the point of learning it until I was in my late teens, so I just wrote crap for all the anwsers and went back to whatever I was messing with at the time), so technically I wasn't allowed to enter the computer class as I was too stupid, but then I got 99% on the aptitude test and they were kinda stuck in a quandry as it was the higest score they'd ever had...
Safari 3.1 is at 75, and looks pretty close to the correct image. Firefox 3 beta allegedly gets 63 (haven't tested that yet, just downloading it. btw. didn't realize the mozilla downloads were hosted on facebook before..)
Passing acid2 is a measure of your ability to pass acid2.
Opera has the same issue despite passing acis2.. Some sites that render just fine in IE and Firefox without modification break in Opera because it fails to implement some parts of CSS correctly that the others do right - and acid2 was no help in finding this issue (my wife showed me one ages ago, where she had a CSS laid out page, written 100% to standards and validated correctly, and it looked like crap on Opera because the CSS she was using wasn't implemented in it).
Once it becomes easy to put another layer of (competitors') ads on the publisher's Web site, if the publisher can't opt out and if they want to keep competitors' ads from being prominently displayed on their own web site they will have to pay for ads one more time (and this is their own web site). To add insult to injury
What BS. Have you ever actually *used* google?
The ads are at the top and right hand side of the google search page. They give the customer more options. This is called competition. This is a *good* thing.
Google are not forcing you to put competitors ads on your own website and there's no way that they realistically could.
What's unethical about it? Google can do what the hell they like with their search engine.
If your company is so expensive/crappy that having your customers know about the competition will destroy your business model, then it deserves to be destroyed.
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What part if "WARNING: THIS WEBSITE CONTAINS PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT WHICH IS UNSUITABLE FOR PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 " on the first page led you to believe this was SFW?
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stupid lameness filter
The problem with GPS is the battery drain.. if you run it all the time expect your battery to die in a couple of hours.
It's great for in-car use where it's on power, but unless apple have found a GPS chipset that is able to work on much lower power than the current ones I wouldn't expect it in an iphone in the near future.
External GPS works - where you have a separate battery and you plug it into USB. Then when the GPS dies at least you've still got your phone. That would mean apple enabling the USB port on the phone though..
Most cell towers don't have accurate information - from your quote "the feature is not available in all areas"
Every time I've used it it's either said no data was available or drawn a huge circle around the city I'm in - that's completely useless.
Err... so if 'Anonymous' does something you like, it's them, but if they don't, it's not them.
Yeah... right. Get over it. Hiding behind the term 'Anonymous' pretty much labels them as a much of 13 year olds with no life in the first place. They don't *need* smearing - they're perfectly capable of doing it themselves.
Depends on where they see their primary means of making money is. If they want to remain US centric they can probably stretch out the 2G iphone for another 9 months or so.. after all I heard you still use analogue phones over there. If they want to go worldwide 2G aint gonna cut it.. and they know it.
:p).
Also lots of people are now waiting for the 3G iphone - that's gotta hurt sales (Osborne effect.. everyone learns about that in college these days, but steve jobs still pre-announced it anyway
Maybe in the US, but in the UK I can buy an unlocked and jailbroken iphone in the high street - and if what I've seen is anything to go by they're selling far better than the 'official' ones... and I dare say it's similar in the rest of europe too (where you can't even buy a non-jailbroken phone).
These unlocked phones tend to have installer.app out of the box. So the apps are already part of the experience.
And you can sign them yourself anyway.
A developer certificate costs a whole $0 and allows you to sign anything to run on your own phone.
Some zombies can hang around even after the parent is dead.. The D state zombies, for which the only cure is a reboot.
It's still a right if anyone can apply for the license without discrimination...
There's plenty of discrimination. Not passed your test? No license. Fucked up too many times in the last year? License revoked for at least a year. Got caught drunk behind the wheel? License revoked permanently.
Would you support mandatory liability insurance in other areas like employment?
Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969.
Every single employer in the UK has an insurance certificate prominently displayed in the workplace, by law.
What about mandatory insurance that covers more than third party liability, like Hilary's health care plan?
The NHS could be described as a state run insurance scheme.
Firstly that's a nightmare to handle multiplatform - have you any idea how many processor variations Unix runs on?
Secondly even assembler level compare and exchange isn't always atomic. It depends on the CPU. Intel (IIRC) has the lock prefix that is able to do that.
There are strategies you can use to handle non-atomic assembler instructions, and it's best to employ these where possibe.
"Bunch o' bloated bollocks for kids that can't code cleanly" is maybe more like the average comment from an old programmer.
.NET... all have been pushed in the same way. Seems to be part of the lifecycle that technologies go through.
To an extent they were right - remember at the time OO was being pushed as the ultimate answer to life, the Universe and Everything. If you read some of the more academic OO books even today they truly are "a Bunch o' bloated bollocks".
Then there was UML, Webservices, XML, Threading, Java,
Of course over time most of us realize all these things are tools to be used in the right context, and just use what we need when we need it. That's not being old, it's realizing that there's nothing that there's no silver bullet and anyone that says $technology_of_the_week is going to change the world probably is talking bollocks.
Actually No. In that case you'd want to use a maximum of 3. The OS needs to do its own processing and if you're hogging all 4 cores your app will end up slower because every time it does something OS dependent like accessing a the disk or network it'll be waiting around for the OS to catch up.
Yeah it's clear Vista was never tested on a laptop prior to release - all the caching crap should be *off* when on batteries to preserve battery life. If they'd really been thinking there would be a single button to switch *all* that crap off permanently anyway - it doesn't work and it slows the OS down.
Generally people don't buy operating systems, they buy machines. It's not uncommon to hear of peopple talking about their 'windows box' and saying 'you can only get vista boxes now, I'm considering a Mac'.
Until you can buy 'Linux boxes' (and there's enough TV advertising to raise awareness) then nobody is going to go opensource.
Vista capable means nothing.
My last laptop was 'vista capable'. The manufacturer (Asus) stated that they would *never* produce vista drivers for it, or support Vista on it.
It really isn't.
Vista wastes so much resource on graphics and 'caching' that it runs very sluggish even on well specced hardware.
MS have forgotten that vista is an OS. It should boot up then get the hell out of the way and let the applications take over, not keep trying to provide 'an experience' all the time.
The backend may be, but you wouldn't run SCO Unix on a terminal.
For all of these kinds of things, the OS is part of the device, along with the app that runs with it. You wouldn't upgrade it normally - you'd upgrade the entire device to the next model.
3. Is your 30 second video file just as important as a technician using torrents to download a Linux Distro to put on a server used for business they need up and running ASAP?
1. Any business running a linux server will have the boxed redhat CDs.
2. If they don't then they're stupid technicians, but as a last resort they get them via ftp from redhat themselves.
3. -most important- in many (most?) companies running p2p software is an instant dismissal offence, so they won't be technicians for long.
Your figures for the UK are way off. Cities have mostly 8mbh/s with some ISPs offering 16mb/s. Outside cities this trails off as exchanges are more sparse and distance becomes an issue - this is a source of contention as services are advertisied as up to 8mb/s with the 'up to' bit not highlighted, so people who end up with 1mb/sec are complaining they're paying the same as someone getting 8mb/sec (that's the way the tech works, so it's perfectly fair, but it's not more obvious).
As far as contention goes this is limited by OFCOM to more than 40:1 on consumer lines - they start to clog up at way less than that though and good ISPs never go above 15:1 (my current ISP is managing to maintain 5:1, but I do pay more for the privilage).
At 100:1 a connection would be utterly unusable even for browsing.
I've never understood why people find them so confusing in the first place.
Same here.. people here advocating all sorts of wierd stuff like advanced maths theory*, when anyone could work out regular expressions by looking at them for a few minutes. Of course visualisers help for the really complex stuff (which nobody ever uses anyway).
PCRE is actually quite nice - you only have to bother with the setup once. just make a class that you can chuck a regexp string at and reuse it. Depends on the data set I guess.
* I hate maths.. Computer science has never really got over the way it used to be a part of the maths dept. at schools. They *really* hated me.. I was in remedial classes for maths (never saw the point of learning it until I was in my late teens, so I just wrote crap for all the anwsers and went back to whatever I was messing with at the time), so technically I wasn't allowed to enter the computer class as I was too stupid, but then I got 99% on the aptitude test and they were kinda stuck in a quandry as it was the higest score they'd ever had...
Safari 3.1 is at 75, and looks pretty close to the correct image.
Firefox 3 beta allegedly gets 63 (haven't tested that yet, just downloading it. btw. didn't realize the mozilla downloads were hosted on facebook before..)
Passing acid2 is a measure of your ability to pass acid2.
Opera has the same issue despite passing acis2.. Some sites that render just fine in IE and Firefox without modification break in Opera because it fails to implement some parts of CSS correctly that the others do right - and acid2 was no help in finding this issue (my wife showed me one ages ago, where she had a CSS laid out page, written 100% to standards and validated correctly, and it looked like crap on Opera because the CSS she was using wasn't implemented in it).
Once it becomes easy to put another layer of (competitors') ads on the publisher's Web site, if the publisher can't opt out and if they want to keep competitors' ads from being prominently displayed on their own web site they will have to pay for ads one more time (and this is their own web site). To add insult to injury
What BS. Have you ever actually *used* google?
The ads are at the top and right hand side of the google search page. They give the customer more options. This is called competition. This is a *good* thing.
Google are not forcing you to put competitors ads on your own website and there's no way that they realistically could.
What's unethical about it? Google can do what the hell they like with their search engine.
If your company is so expensive/crappy that having your customers know about the competition will destroy your business model, then it deserves to be destroyed.