I agree. There's a whole generation growing up knowing everyhing about their peers. This is not bad at all.. and in many ways is much more healthy than the insular 'omg he knows where I shop!' mentality of the older generation.
This is entirely different to government/corporate interference/monitoring which *is* a debate that society needs to have. To try to conflate the issues is to make yourself out to seem to be a complete nutter.
It also cost about $1000, worked only with Macbooks which were far more niche than they are today (hell, back then the average person on the street hadn't even heard of apple).. itunes was little more than a list of music - no store or anything like that. Truly, they sucked compared to the $100 mp3 players of the time.. and capacity didn't make up for it. I only ever saw one of them in the wild.. and it was 2 years after that before I heard the ipod name again.
Only a true fanboy would believe that the other mp3 (and minidisc, which was huge back then) manufacturers even gave a shit about the ipod back then, let alone thought it was the thing to beat.
Legend? I'd never heard of the guy until he crashed, and from the looks of it all he did was spend loads of money on having fun. Nothing wrong with that, but he aint exactly mother theresa either.
I don't think this buyout will be allowed. The assets of SCO are in dispute - probably mostly owned by Novell at this point.. and the market cap of SCO is only 2.5M anyway. If they're found to owe more than that there's no company left to be bought.
The ipod wasn't the mp3 player to beat for years... at the beginning it was OSX only, then it got windows compatibility but was still a hideously expensive geek toy. That's about where the iphone is now. Look what happened - It got colour, it got video, the design was refined, it got more capacity, then followed the ipod mini(? forgot its title), nano, etc. all came out, the price plummeted then everyone got one.
Following the same track - get 3G, more capacity, decent camera, maybe an iphone nano on PAYT for half the price, etc. and it'll take off. Apple know how to make a phone UI (compared to Symbian, which is a bit of a trainwreck, it's not got a lot of competition on that front). Might take a few years... but it's not beyond possbility.
OTOH I can run an N95 (which is no star in the battery front) for 5 days on 3G, and switching to 2G makes no noticable dfference.
I'm in a well covered area in the UK though - I believe if you use a 3G phone in an area with limited 3G coverage like the US it ends up preferring distant 3G towers over local 2G ones and uses more power.
The same will be true for analog.. although it truly surprises me that the US still has an analog phone network.. when I saw the headline I thought it was a bit of a joke and there would be a lot of 'who cares' posts but it seems not.
Lots of old people around here... I mean, they haven't sold analog phones in this country for.. um... 15 years? I can't see the US being that far behind - call it 10 years.
So any analog phones in use are going to be nearly useless bricks anyway. What's the point of keeping them around?
Can't see it - digital picture frame: £130 ($260) (btw. that's cheap - the ones in stores are double that.. I saw one for over £500 just the other day). Normal picture frame: £5 ($10)
Cost of devloping photo from a camera? About £2.50 a memory stick in lots of stores. You can do it at the same place you buy a cheap frame from.
In addition the 'digital' frame uses power, can fail (especially if it gets dropped), is only viewable from certain angles, etc.
There's a reason you rarely see them in stores except novelty shops and amazon. They're the classic example of a solution begging for an actual problem.
MSDN users is a heck of a lot of people.. basically means it's available to nearly everyone that works in IT.
It probably won't be on automatic updates for a few days so in that sense the story is wrong - but it's not unfeasable at all that he's installed RTM and had this issue.
If he works for a company that has MSDN he's been able to download it since Yesterday.
Coincidince that this news broke today? Not at all.. it's taken a day for everyone to install it.
The RTM is done, finished. I'm bleedin' running it even.. If this bug is there and widespread they're going to have to either pull the RTM or hotfix it. I suspect it's not widespread though.
The public SP1 is available but it's not in the normal place - in fact I have it on a vmware machine right now. They've fixed the bugs I reported... I'm currently looking for more:p
Vista prefers to reboot rather than BSOD... It'll still BSOD in certain circumstances but it's harder to achieve.
So it's quite possible nothing has changed other than the default OS behaviour.. the update reboots rather than BSODs because that's (normally) a better thing to do. Only this time they got stuck in a loop.
You want one standard but multiple manufacturers. Don't confuse a monopoly on a product (like MS has) with a monopoly on a standard (like NTSC).
Many manufacturers make Bluray players. OTOH only Toshiba make HDDVD players, so this is good for competition. Competition between different bluray manufacturers all working to the same basic standard will drive prices down, probably very quickly now that the chinese manufacturers can safely get on board.
I just don't think there's a common point of reference.. just because its English doesn't mean we're talking about the same thing. On the political compass I, my friends, and most of the politicians I know of are on the bottom left square. The entire US political system maps onto the top right.. but I know lots of people I'd consider 'right wing'.
OTOH that's not the whole story. The terms don't mean the same thing. eg. in the UK Christians, if they're anything, tend to be associated with what we call left wing policies* - social justice, feeding the poor, equality, welfare state, etc. In the US they're universally described as right wing, for, I presume, similar reasons.
The terms used by the political compass, clearly US based, are interesting reading - we see extreme right wing as about control (a legacy of world war two I suspect) and left wing as about freedom (power to the people etc.).. whereas the political compass defines them in completely opposite.
Basically until we can agree on clearly defined terms that mean the same globally it's meaningless to even try to compare. The best you can do is agree/disagree on certain points and form your own unique political stance - then vote for the best candidate at the next available election.
* That's a simplification - there are plenty of christian conservatives (again that word doesn't mean the same thing it does in the US).
The difference is that the person I'm replying to knows I own that OpenID account, rather than me just being a random anonymous person.
No, it knows nothing. OpenID has no trust, so they could have just visited http://www.jkg.in/openid/ and generated one for that purpose.
OpenID says zero about who you really are. You are an anonymous user - which is why it would be crazy for a site which previously required registration to allow OpenID users to post simply based on the existence of that token. You're going to have to registry/verify your email/etc. *as well* so you've gained nothing.
Pay for web apps would probably only allow verisign paid openids.
Anyone can create a random SSL certificate as well... the can't be used for anything.
Now slashdot allowing those anonymous openids... that would enable drive-by trolling. Login using anonymous temporary openid, say something rude about Linux, log out, wash, rinse, repeat.
It relies on providers cooperating with each other - clearly the sites the other poster tried had not agreed to share users. You're going to need multiple openid's anyway.. some of which will be chargable (this much is admitted on the openid site.. you can bet verisign are itching to charge a fortune for 'secure' openids and charge double for 'super secure assured' openids).
Saying the users from one blog work on another blog isn't saying much. When I can log into slashdot and my bank with the same ID then there's a single signon system (not that that's necessarily a good idea, but it's just an example).
So of james bond parks in the street, some scrote decides to smash his window his car blows up taking out nearby cars and buildings and possible a few people with it.
I'd love to try to get that past the insurance company!
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I agree. There's a whole generation growing up knowing everyhing about their peers. This is not bad at all.. and in many ways is much more healthy than the insular 'omg he knows where I shop!' mentality of the older generation.
This is entirely different to government/corporate interference/monitoring which *is* a debate that society needs to have. To try to conflate the issues is to make yourself out to seem to be a complete nutter.
play.com out of business? WTF? They're still one of the most popular online stores in the UK!
At least try to go to a url before making bizarre assertions.
It also cost about $1000, worked only with Macbooks which were far more niche than they are today (hell, back then the average person on the street hadn't even heard of apple).. itunes was little more than a list of music - no store or anything like that. Truly, they sucked compared to the $100 mp3 players of the time.. and capacity didn't make up for it. I only ever saw one of them in the wild.. and it was 2 years after that before I heard the ipod name again.
Only a true fanboy would believe that the other mp3 (and minidisc, which was huge back then) manufacturers even gave a shit about the ipod back then, let alone thought it was the thing to beat.
Legend? I'd never heard of the guy until he crashed, and from the looks of it all he did was spend loads of money on having fun. Nothing wrong with that, but he aint exactly mother theresa either.
I don't think this buyout will be allowed. The assets of SCO are in dispute - probably mostly owned by Novell at this point.. and the market cap of SCO is only 2.5M anyway. If they're found to owe more than that there's no company left to be bought.
It could become so though.
The ipod wasn't the mp3 player to beat for years... at the beginning it was OSX only, then it got windows compatibility but was still a hideously expensive geek toy. That's about where the iphone is now. Look what happened - It got colour, it got video, the design was refined, it got more capacity, then followed the ipod mini(? forgot its title), nano, etc. all came out, the price plummeted then everyone got one.
Following the same track - get 3G, more capacity, decent camera, maybe an iphone nano on PAYT for half the price, etc. and it'll take off. Apple know how to make a phone UI (compared to Symbian, which is a bit of a trainwreck, it's not got a lot of competition on that front). Might take a few years... but it's not beyond possbility.
It's been tried - OpenDNS. When they decided there was no money in it they relaunched as a 'think of the children' content filtering company instead.
OTOH I can run an N95 (which is no star in the battery front) for 5 days on 3G, and switching to 2G makes no noticable dfference.
I'm in a well covered area in the UK though - I believe if you use a 3G phone in an area with limited 3G coverage like the US it ends up preferring distant 3G towers over local 2G ones and uses more power.
The same will be true for analog.. although it truly surprises me that the US still has an analog phone network.. when I saw the headline I thought it was a bit of a joke and there would be a lot of 'who cares' posts but it seems not.
Lots of old people around here... I mean, they haven't sold analog phones in this country for.. um... 15 years? I can't see the US being that far behind - call it 10 years.
So any analog phones in use are going to be nearly useless bricks anyway. What's the point of keeping them around?
Can't see it - digital picture frame: £130 ($260) (btw. that's cheap - the ones in stores are double that.. I saw one for over £500 just the other day).
Normal picture frame: £5 ($10)
Cost of devloping photo from a camera? About £2.50 a memory stick in lots of stores. You can do it at the same place you buy a cheap frame from.
In addition the 'digital' frame uses power, can fail (especially if it gets dropped), is only viewable from certain angles, etc.
There's a reason you rarely see them in stores except novelty shops and amazon. They're the classic example of a solution begging for an actual problem.
And MSDN users for the last couple of days.
Wrong. It's available to MSDN users http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb898842.aspx
They've actually fixed the two bugs I reported - domain prefixes not working properly and slow network transfer over gigabit ethernet.
Yes it is. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb898842.aspx
MSDN users is a heck of a lot of people.. basically means it's available to nearly everyone that works in IT.
It probably won't be on automatic updates for a few days so in that sense the story is wrong - but it's not unfeasable at all that he's installed RTM and had this issue.
If he works for a company that has MSDN he's been able to download it since Yesterday.
Coincidince that this news broke today? Not at all.. it's taken a day for everyone to install it.
The RTM is done, finished. I'm bleedin' running it even.. If this bug is there and widespread they're going to have to either pull the RTM or hotfix it. I suspect it's not widespread though.
It's been released for MSDN members already. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb898842.aspx
I find it difficult to believe that they'd wait until march for the public release.
The public SP1 is available but it's not in the normal place - in fact I have it on a vmware machine right now. They've fixed the bugs I reported... I'm currently looking for more :p
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/bb898842.aspx
Vista prefers to reboot rather than BSOD... It'll still BSOD in certain circumstances but it's harder to achieve.
So it's quite possible nothing has changed other than the default OS behaviour.. the update reboots rather than BSODs because that's (normally) a better thing to do. Only this time they got stuck in a loop.
You want one standard but multiple manufacturers. Don't confuse a monopoly on a product (like MS has) with a monopoly on a standard (like NTSC).
Many manufacturers make Bluray players. OTOH only Toshiba make HDDVD players, so this is good for competition. Competition between different bluray manufacturers all working to the same basic standard will drive prices down, probably very quickly now that the chinese manufacturers can safely get on board.
I just don't think there's a common point of reference.. just because its English doesn't mean we're talking about the same thing. On the political compass I, my friends, and most of the politicians I know of are on the bottom left square. The entire US political system maps onto the top right.. but I know lots of people I'd consider 'right wing'.
OTOH that's not the whole story. The terms don't mean the same thing. eg. in the UK Christians, if they're anything, tend to be associated with what we call left wing policies* - social justice, feeding the poor, equality, welfare state, etc. In the US they're universally described as right wing, for, I presume, similar reasons.
The terms used by the political compass, clearly US based, are interesting reading - we see extreme right wing as about control (a legacy of world war two I suspect) and left wing as about freedom (power to the people etc.).. whereas the political compass defines them in completely opposite.
Basically until we can agree on clearly defined terms that mean the same globally it's meaningless to even try to compare. The best you can do is agree/disagree on certain points and form your own unique political stance - then vote for the best candidate at the next available election.
* That's a simplification - there are plenty of christian conservatives (again that word doesn't mean the same thing it does in the US).
The entire planet, of course.
The difference is that the person I'm replying to knows I own that OpenID account, rather than me just being a random anonymous person.
No, it knows nothing. OpenID has no trust, so they could have just visited http://www.jkg.in/openid/ and generated one for that purpose.
OpenID says zero about who you really are. You are an anonymous user - which is why it would be crazy for a site which previously required registration to allow OpenID users to post simply based on the existence of that token. You're going to have to registry/verify your email/etc. *as well* so you've gained nothing.
Pay for web apps would probably only allow verisign paid openids.
Anyone can create a random SSL certificate as well... the can't be used for anything.
Now slashdot allowing those anonymous openids... that would enable drive-by trolling. Login using anonymous temporary openid, say something rude about Linux, log out, wash, rinse, repeat.
It relies on providers cooperating with each other - clearly the sites the other poster tried had not agreed to share users. You're going to need multiple openid's anyway.. some of which will be chargable (this much is admitted on the openid site.. you can bet verisign are itching to charge a fortune for 'secure' openids and charge double for 'super secure assured' openids).
Saying the users from one blog work on another blog isn't saying much. When I can log into slashdot and my bank with the same ID then there's a single signon system (not that that's necessarily a good idea, but it's just an example).
When I contacted them they said it was because the offer had expired some time ago.
At least I know the real reason now. Lying toads.
You can get SecurID tokens for about £50ish from some places but I think they need special (expensive!) Windows based software to work.
So of james bond parks in the street, some scrote decides to smash his window his car blows up taking out nearby cars and buildings and possible a few people with it.
I'd love to try to get that past the insurance company!