Same in the UK - in fact without that system only the rich could use it... you *win* a lawsuit and pay anyway???? Thats not going to encourage those with little money to take on the big boys.
Elections are completely different. They're a competition between *tv channels* who will manipulate better the ignorant civilians.
It's the known flaw in democracy - voters are generally just voting for the guy who their parents voted for/has the best hair/looks like them - they are not voting on issues. That's why we have representatives (senators, mps, call them what you like) whose job is to actually know what the fuck they're voting about.
Unfortunately on that last point there's a small problem:p
But crucially we don't vote for the PM. The PM is just the leader of the party in power - they can be booted out by their own party (like Thatcher was, for example, and replaced by John Major) and the party stays in power.
The transition of power from Blair to Brown was more orderly than the usually stab-me-in-the-back politics we see, but it wasn't any kind of departure from the way the system has always worked.
In general it's Local Election == Vote for local MP, General Election == Vote for government you want in power - the two aren't always the same answer.
static routes become unmanageable if you have more then a few routers/netmasks to contend with.
I'd say anything more than 2-3 and you should be using dynamic routing. If a route goes down you want something that can find another path.. eg. we have 3 VPNs linked together using EIGRP. If A-B goes down the data automatically goes A-C-B without being noticed (except a slight increase in latency). I'd hate to have to do that all manually.
iphone is a poor choice for this task. It's locked to a carrier, which means paying roaming charges - *bad* idea. You need to be able to put a local SIM in where you are going. It has poor battery life and a nonreplacable battery, so you can't even carry spares.. you may be away from compatible power sources for days or even weeks. It's expensive, so if dropped/lost/etc. has a high cost of replacement.
Pick up a relatively cheap unlocked phone somewhere. Cost of replacement is negligable, you can put a SIM in anywhere, and the batteries widely available are about $5 a throw - you can even use them once and throw them away in the worst case of having no power for extended periods.
N800/N810 isn't a phone as such, it's a web tablet.
My boss travels around the world a lot and he has one tip he uses all the time - get a Pay as you talk SIM in each country that you visit, and keep them in your wallet. It's *much* cheaper than paying roaming charges. Pretty much any (unlocked) GSM phone will do.. but don't spend too much - they can break, get lost, etc. and you have a laptop anyway.. no need for snazzy features.
Odd. I'm no lover of Vista but pre-SP1 it was *completely* unusable in 2GB. Post SP1 it's still very slow but the reduced memory footprint means that it's not in swap all the time, so it seems better. Plus they've fixed some of the more annoying bugs.
I don't get the file copying bit at all. The problem was it didn't work, not that it was slow - copying multiple files would abort halfway with no warning, and trying to copy would invoke about 6 UAC warnings. Copy speed was *not* the issue.
Have you actually read that review or just the slashdot 'summary'. They only tested file copy and startup time.. and only for a couple of hours.
Pre-SP1 I was getting startup times of 4-5 minutes. That's down to under a minutes. Time to open notepad was of the order of 5-10 seconds. Down to about 1 second. Number of UAC prompts to get anything done used to be insane, now I rarely see them. Network throughput is about 20% better.
I have to write code that runs on that POS OS.. I have to use it whether I like it or not - and SP1 *is* an improvement.. it makes using vista from a living hell into just damned annoying. I still hate it, but I might have to revise my stance of refusing point blank to support it if a friend asks for help (providing they have SP1 installed, which won't be for a while for most of them).
There's already a means to get ipod applications in itunes, and has been for some time - it'll just be extended to the iphone/itouch. The ipod touch 'option pack' ($20 to do the equivalent of set a registry entry), was the dry run of the delivery method.
From that we know that applications will be signed.. which means some kind of approval method, and its associated cost. No great surprise there - all mobile platforms have something like it. Whereas you *could* distribute an approved app for free you'd be paying apple for the privilege.
Presumably users will be able to sign their own apps limited to one phone with the SDK (development would be a bit hard without it.. simulators still aren't real hardware and nobody in their right mind would release an app that hadn't had real world testng), which means if you want to distribute 'free' apps then there's the extra step of getting end users to sign it themselves.
It comes down to the SDK - if that's free then distributing free software will continue with the extra step of signing those apps yourself. If it costs money it'll kill free distribution because there won't be enough users who will pay money simply to get free stuff.. they'll pay the fees to itunes instead.
It was originally announced for February. Remember that we weren't going to get a proper SDK... Steve Jobs announced the web SDK and said that everyone would be using that from now on (what, over GPRS? Get real steve). It was only when they realized that (a) nobody gave a shit about web apps, and (b) millions of users were running native apps anyway, and apple wasn't getting a cut, that he announced the SDK.
They already can easily enough.. accessng the media directory is easy and doesn't even require any kind of jailbreak - and apple haven't made any effort to stop people doing it.
The hard bit isn't itunes, it's the rest of the application.
Try SP1. They seem to have removed quite a bit of the bloat... no seriously. SP1 is what *should* have been released as Vista. The UI still blows and it still runs at half the speed of XP on a brand new laptop, but compared to the original it's like night and day, as the base footprint is down to about 350mb so it's not constantly thrashing with 2GB of RAM.
Can't they return it? I don't know about US consumer protections, but here in the UK an item must be 'as described'. A computer described as vista capable that could not run vista would not fit this description and be able to be returned for a full refund.
Streaming has an uphill struggle simply because the infrastructure isn't there. And not just the last mile, the entire internet isn't set up for it.
eg. I was just watching a programme on Hulu. I have an 8mb connection with a good ISP (can sustain about 7.1mb 24/7.. I pay for the privilege though) and still, given the really low resolution the hulu uses, every few minutes the programme would begin stuttering as it couldn't keep up. Their HD stuff is just unusable.
99% of consumers are on cheap ISPs that have low sustainable bandwidth, 'fair use' caps, shaping, etc.. they'd have zero chance. That isn't going to change - in fact it's getting worse, as ISPs drop prices they're overselling their bandwidth more and more.
For streaming even to be viable for the general population you'd have to be talking about sustaining about 8=12mb to every household at the same prices that the average consumer pays now. Which would in turn require massive ugrades to the infrastructure. The maths don't work - who's going to pay for this?
What's happening is there's a building crisis. Apple in the US and the BBC in the US are increasing the ISPs costs at no cost to themselves. The bandwidth isn't there for these services to become too popular - and neither Apple nor the BBC are paying for it.. at some point it'll hit critical mass - either the ISPs will start throttling video services, or they'll split the accounts allowing video download on only higher priced tariffs (much like the mobile phone companies have done from the start), or worst case they'll cut them off altogether.
That's without even considering HD.. the end users simply don't have the ability to download 20gb+ of HD data and won't for years (the apple thing is so compromised it only gets to be called HD on a technicality).
Oh get over yourself. Toshiba were already in a firesale in January. They knew that it was over the day Warner made their decision.
When Walmart (followed by everyone else) dropped HDDVD suddenly Toshiba couldn't sell their players any more... why the hell would they keep making something when only a few specialist shops would stock them? Toshiba ended it for one reason and one reason only - because their shareholders would have gone nuclear if they didn't.
I wasn't aware that parents needed consent from their kids before acting as a parent.
I know you didn't mean it like that but legally in fact they do.. in law forcing a child to do something against their will (or even being percieved to do so) is an assault charge - in actual fact such cases are rarely brought against parents (only in those cases where physical abuse has been alleged) as you have the reasonable defence that you are doing it for the wellbeing of the child, which is watertight except for the more extreme cases.
That's why working with children is such a tightrope these days - even taking a childs hand to help them across the road can be jailtime. There has to be verbal and witnessed consent to absolutely everything... the mess you have to go with if you find a lost child is insane (I've had to do this a couple of times, and it means finding two or three adults as witnesses, standing at least 3 feet from the child at all times.. god I hate political correctness sometimes..)
Responsibility of the parent doesn't make it a dictatorship, legally or otherwise.
I'm shocked that anyone would even think that. A child with no freedom and no room to grow would turn out to be a basket case. I'd wager social services would get involved at some point.
They're going to see it anyway - one of their friends is going to bluetooth it to their phone probably. This is the reality of the modern world.
The parents job isn't to pretend that the world doesn't exist, it's to help the child make sense of it when they do see it. Yes it's a good idea that internet access is done from the living room not the bedroom, so the parents can see what's going on, but to try to stop it happening is merely to shift it.. they'll go to a friends house where they've got internet, a cyber cafe, etc. and see it anyway.
hell, no wonder so many kids get screwed up and run away at 16.
A family is most definately *not* a dictatorship. It's a family, which has its own dynamic. Respecting the rights of the child (one of those rights is the right to privacy btw.) is fundamental to a healthy functioning family. In turn they should respect your wish to know what they're doing - but not every detail (and you will never find that out anyway).
You really should read the pdf in FA (I know it goes against the slashdot meme), but it covers these issues and finally makes a reasonable argument for transition rather than the current policy of 'the sky is falling let's create a new internet at great expense' that the summary seems to be talking about).
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So basically it's like booting 2003 in 'Command line only' mode, which is basically the same thing (except I think that doesn't load drivers).
All you need to do is find an explorer.exe and I bet it'll start up a full shell. Interesting marketing exercise but nothing new.
Same in the UK - in fact without that system only the rich could use it... you *win* a lawsuit and pay anyway???? Thats not going to encourage those with little money to take on the big boys.
Elections are completely different. They're a competition between *tv channels* who will manipulate better the ignorant civilians.
:p
It's the known flaw in democracy - voters are generally just voting for the guy who their parents voted for/has the best hair/looks like them - they are not voting on issues. That's why we have representatives (senators, mps, call them what you like) whose job is to actually know what the fuck they're voting about.
Unfortunately on that last point there's a small problem
But crucially we don't vote for the PM. The PM is just the leader of the party in power - they can be booted out by their own party (like Thatcher was, for example, and replaced by John Major) and the party stays in power.
The transition of power from Blair to Brown was more orderly than the usually stab-me-in-the-back politics we see, but it wasn't any kind of departure from the way the system has always worked.
In general it's Local Election == Vote for local MP, General Election == Vote for government you want in power - the two aren't always the same answer.
static routes become unmanageable if you have more then a few routers/netmasks to contend with.
I'd say anything more than 2-3 and you should be using dynamic routing. If a route goes down you want something that can find another path.. eg. we have 3 VPNs linked together using EIGRP. If A-B goes down the data automatically goes A-C-B without being noticed (except a slight increase in latency). I'd hate to have to do that all manually.
iphone is a poor choice for this task. It's locked to a carrier, which means paying roaming charges - *bad* idea. You need to be able to put a local SIM in where you are going. It has poor battery life and a nonreplacable battery, so you can't even carry spares.. you may be away from compatible power sources for days or even weeks. It's expensive, so if dropped/lost/etc. has a high cost of replacement.
Pick up a relatively cheap unlocked phone somewhere. Cost of replacement is negligable, you can put a SIM in anywhere, and the batteries widely available are about $5 a throw - you can even use them once and throw them away in the worst case of having no power for extended periods.
N800/N810 isn't a phone as such, it's a web tablet.
My boss travels around the world a lot and he has one tip he uses all the time - get a Pay as you talk SIM in each country that you visit, and keep them in your wallet. It's *much* cheaper than
paying roaming charges. Pretty much any (unlocked) GSM phone will do.. but don't spend too much - they can break, get lost, etc. and you have a laptop anyway.. no need for snazzy features.
Odd. I'm no lover of Vista but pre-SP1 it was *completely* unusable in 2GB. Post SP1 it's still very slow but the reduced memory footprint means that it's not in swap all the time, so it seems better. Plus they've fixed some of the more annoying bugs.
I don't get the file copying bit at all. The problem was it didn't work, not that it was slow - copying multiple files would abort halfway with no warning, and trying to copy would invoke about 6 UAC warnings. Copy speed was *not* the issue.
Have you actually read that review or just the slashdot 'summary'. They only tested file copy and startup time.. and only for a couple of hours.
Pre-SP1 I was getting startup times of 4-5 minutes. That's down to under a minutes.
Time to open notepad was of the order of 5-10 seconds. Down to about 1 second.
Number of UAC prompts to get anything done used to be insane, now I rarely see them.
Network throughput is about 20% better.
I have to write code that runs on that POS OS.. I have to use it whether I like it or not - and SP1 *is* an improvement.. it makes using vista from a living hell into just damned annoying. I still hate it, but I might have to revise my stance of refusing point blank to support it if a friend asks for help (providing they have SP1 installed, which won't be for a while for most of them).
There's already a means to get ipod applications in itunes, and has been for some time - it'll just be extended to the iphone/itouch. The ipod touch 'option pack' ($20 to do the equivalent of set a registry entry), was the dry run of the delivery method.
From that we know that applications will be signed.. which means some kind of approval method, and its associated cost. No great surprise there - all mobile platforms have something like it. Whereas you *could* distribute an approved app for free you'd be paying apple for the privilege.
Presumably users will be able to sign their own apps limited to one phone with the SDK (development would be a bit hard without it.. simulators still aren't real hardware and nobody in their right mind would release an app that hadn't had real world testng), which means if you want to distribute 'free' apps then there's the extra step of getting end users to sign it themselves.
It comes down to the SDK - if that's free then distributing free software will continue with the extra step of signing those apps yourself. If it costs money it'll kill free distribution because there won't be enough users who will pay money simply to get free stuff.. they'll pay the fees to itunes instead.
It was originally announced for February. Remember that we weren't going to get a proper SDK... Steve Jobs announced the web SDK and said that everyone would be using that from now on (what, over GPRS? Get real steve). It was only when they realized that (a) nobody gave a shit about web apps, and (b) millions of users were running native apps anyway, and apple wasn't getting a cut, that he announced the SDK.
Dammit.. that should have read:
The hard bit isn't the iphone, it's the rest of the application.
They already can easily enough.. accessng the media directory is easy and doesn't even require any kind of jailbreak - and apple haven't made any effort to stop people doing it.
The hard bit isn't itunes, it's the rest of the application.
Try SP1. They seem to have removed quite a bit of the bloat... no seriously. SP1 is what *should* have been released as Vista. The UI still blows and it still runs at half the speed of XP on a brand new laptop, but compared to the original it's like night and day, as the base footprint is down to about 350mb so it's not constantly thrashing with 2GB of RAM.
This did not really happen.
Bet it did. Thousands of times.
Well, apart from step 16 (unless you meant the profit that MS made).
Can't they return it? I don't know about US consumer protections, but here in the UK an item must be 'as described'. A computer described as vista capable that could not run vista would not fit this description and be able to be returned for a full refund.
Streaming has an uphill struggle simply because the infrastructure isn't there. And not just the last mile, the entire internet isn't set up for it.
eg. I was just watching a programme on Hulu. I have an 8mb connection with a good ISP (can sustain about 7.1mb 24/7.. I pay for the privilege though) and still, given the really low resolution the hulu uses, every few minutes the programme would begin stuttering as it couldn't keep up. Their HD stuff is just unusable.
99% of consumers are on cheap ISPs that have low sustainable bandwidth, 'fair use' caps, shaping, etc.. they'd have zero chance. That isn't going to change - in fact it's getting worse, as ISPs drop prices they're overselling their bandwidth more and more.
For streaming even to be viable for the general population you'd have to be talking about sustaining about 8=12mb to every household at the same prices that the average consumer pays now. Which would in turn require massive ugrades to the infrastructure. The maths don't work - who's going to pay for this?
What's happening is there's a building crisis. Apple in the US and the BBC in the US are increasing the ISPs costs at no cost to themselves. The bandwidth isn't there for these services to become too popular - and neither Apple nor the BBC are paying for it.. at some point it'll hit critical mass - either the ISPs will start throttling video services, or they'll split the accounts allowing video download on only higher priced tariffs (much like the mobile phone companies have done from the start), or worst case they'll cut them off altogether.
That's without even considering HD.. the end users simply don't have the ability to download 20gb+ of HD data and won't for years (the apple thing is so compromised it only gets to be called HD on a technicality).
Oh get over yourself. Toshiba were already in a firesale in January. They knew that it was over the day Warner made their decision.
When Walmart (followed by everyone else) dropped HDDVD suddenly Toshiba couldn't sell their players any more... why the hell would they keep making something when only a few specialist shops would stock them? Toshiba ended it for one reason and one reason only - because their shareholders would have gone nuclear if they didn't.
Or my personal favourite:
"the development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers"
I wasn't aware that parents needed consent from their kids before acting as a parent.
I know you didn't mean it like that but legally in fact they do.. in law forcing a child to do something against their will (or even being percieved to do so) is an assault charge - in actual fact such cases are rarely brought against parents (only in those cases where physical abuse has been alleged) as you have the reasonable defence that you are doing it for the wellbeing of the child, which is watertight except for the more extreme cases.
That's why working with children is such a tightrope these days - even taking a childs hand to help them across the road can be jailtime. There has to be verbal and witnessed consent to absolutely everything... the mess you have to go with if you find a lost child is insane (I've had to do this a couple of times, and it means finding two or three adults as witnesses, standing at least 3 feet from the child at all times.. god I hate political correctness sometimes..)
Responsibility of the parent doesn't make it a dictatorship, legally or otherwise.
I'm shocked that anyone would even think that. A child with no freedom and no room to grow would turn out to be a basket case. I'd wager social services would get involved at some point.
.. and these are probably the same people bitching about the right to privacy being eroded.
They're going to see it anyway - one of their friends is going to bluetooth it to their phone probably. This is the reality of the modern world.
The parents job isn't to pretend that the world doesn't exist, it's to help the child make sense of it when they do see it. Yes it's a good idea that internet access is done from the living room not the bedroom, so the parents can see what's going on, but to try to stop it happening is merely to shift it.. they'll go to a friends house where they've got internet, a cyber cafe, etc. and see it anyway.
hell, no wonder so many kids get screwed up and run away at 16.
A family is most definately *not* a dictatorship. It's a family, which has its own dynamic. Respecting the rights of the child (one of those rights is the right to privacy btw.) is fundamental to a healthy functioning family. In turn they should respect your wish to know what they're doing - but not every detail (and you will never find that out anyway).
18? Hell, you can have a child of your own and get married at 16.
You need to revise your scales a bit. I'd say by the time they're old enough to want privacy they're old enough to need it.. 11 or 12 maybe.
Or would you also routinely read your childs diary until they're 18?
It'll be 10 years before that makes an impact.
Win2003 can't run active directory over IPV6.
XP can't do DNS over ipv6.
You really should read the pdf in FA (I know it goes against the slashdot meme), but it covers these issues and finally makes a reasonable argument for transition rather than the current policy of 'the sky is falling let's create a new internet at great expense' that the summary seems to be talking about).