Against the joke theory is it's OOC. His persona is Steve Jobs. SJ wouldn't write about being sued by apple... so he's writing as himself. Doesn't make sense to go OOC on that blog as a joke.
Is that even *possible* on a modern car? On mine you need to use the zapper to lock it.. sure you can lock it from inside, but you have to open the door to get out...
I actually have a spare 'manual' key but have never used it. Even then I can't see a way of actually locking the door whilst the key is inside and I'm out.
I'm sat here typing on a 64bit laptop, with shiny 64bit logos on it - that has zero drivers for 64bit XP (or Vista)... and the Manufacturer (Asus) states that this model will *never* have 64bit support. Or Vista support (despite having a 'vista ready' logo clearly stamped on it).
Wolfbane always says that.. it's practically hardcoded. I wouldn't believe it.
It says that for me and I can get a perfect digital signal with no external aerial at all... and I'm nowhere near the transmitter either.
The digital signal has got progressively stronger as the years have gone on.. plus the signal is now much more robust (OnDigital were more interested in cramming channels in than quality so their broke up a lot).
If you'd said Java or c# then you might have a case (although even that's got limitations that mean it doesn't work for a lot of cases). Python? It's a freaking scripting language.
You choose the language to suit the task. Design the app, pick the best language (and you'd be amazed how many projects C/C++ are the only choices.. eg. Java simply doesn't exist on some of the platforms I work on). Unfortunately it's not fashionable to do that any more and people start with the language then design the app around it.. which is why there's so much crap out there.
X86 enjoys by far the most readily available open source software
If it's opensource, recompile it FFS.
Things like OpenWrt have been doing this for years.. architecture doesn't matter to well written code. Even my own humble efforts run on all sorts of arcane platforms.
ARM runs cool and on little power, which is why it's so popular. x86 is such a cludgefest with backward compatibility etc. it needs significantly more power to do the same work.
Why bother? I pretty much always use my name in stuff. I got my current job precisely because I was visible... at its peak the first 6 pages of any google search came up with stuff about me. Now it's buried in other Tony Hoyle's any I'm only a footnote (partly due to changes in google indexing, partly because I'm not posting on things like LKML any more so don't get the high profile hits).
Of course if there's someone else with your name who's a serial drug user, criminal, paedophile etc. and your prospective employer will still google it and find them anyway - so you might as well get stuff about the real you out there.
As a backup media it makes a lot of sense... tape is still too expensive and hasn't kept up with the increase in storage requirements. Hard drive backup media is too fragile won't take long term storage.
In an office full of people they won't have admin rights and the system policies would have locked down any ability to install anything.. so AV isn't an issue there either. All it'll do is slow them down and cause random BSODs, program failures etc.
The problem with that is badly implemented versions (*cough* Norton *cough*) that scan everything..executable or not, and slow the machine down so much that the cure is worse than the disease - I've had machine to sort out that have been using 80% of their cycles just scanning text files over and over again.
It's a fairly recent phenomenon.. like the iphone 'brick' that wasn't a brick at all but the press seemed to pick up on the word even though they have no idea what it means (if anyone really thinks their iphone is bricked I'm quite happy to dispose of it for them, for a fee of course).
Most people still use the term correctly.. but the press through their damned stupid ignorance is determined to change that. Slashdot should not be one of the sites doing it.. they're supposed to know better.
That's not research.. The question what *research* has ended up in a product, not what their programming teams have implemented from standards developed by other people.
I've been thinking of the N810 myself... one thing the whole iphone thing tought me is there's no perfect device that can do everything.. I still ended up carrying two devices anyway. For my next upgrade I'm thinking of just a simple camera phone (preferably with longish battery life) and an N810 (or whatever supercedes it by then).
How is the N800 with connection to wireless hotspots? Does it pick them up automatically or do you have to select it like other nokia devices (that always annoyed me.. even devicescape doesn't automate it sufficiently).
No, they oppose it as they don't thing the risk/benefit equation stacks up. You might disagree.. but that's the crux of the argument, not 'if I had suitcase sized ones they'd be fine'.
I've *never* heard the size used as an argument.
I suspect the ones in nuclear submarines aren't that big either, compared to your average power plant.
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Against the joke theory is it's OOC. His persona is Steve Jobs. SJ wouldn't write about being sued by apple... so he's writing as himself. Doesn't make sense to go OOC on that blog as a joke.
Have you ever locked your keys in your car?
Is that even *possible* on a modern car? On mine you need to use the zapper to lock it.. sure you can lock it from inside, but you have to open the door to get out...
I actually have a spare 'manual' key but have never used it. Even then I can't see a way of actually locking the door whilst the key is inside and I'm out.
It's an iCar
Brilliant user interface, hailed as the best car ever. Inexplicably it has only one door, no reverse gear and the hood is welded shut.
64bit drivers however are like hens teeth.
I'm sat here typing on a 64bit laptop, with shiny 64bit logos on it - that has zero drivers for 64bit XP (or Vista)... and the Manufacturer (Asus) states that this model will *never* have 64bit support. Or Vista support (despite having a 'vista ready' logo clearly stamped on it).
$200 for a bigger framebuffer? You're being ripped off.
For that money you can get a PVR.
Wolfbane always says that.. it's practically hardcoded. I wouldn't believe it.
It says that for me and I can get a perfect digital signal with no external aerial at all... and I'm nowhere near the transmitter either.
The digital signal has got progressively stronger as the years have gone on.. plus the signal is now much more robust (OnDigital were more interested in cramming channels in than quality so their broke up a lot).
30 quid? You're out of date..
They should be about $15 in the US I'd expect.
Nintendo doesn't give a crap about store bundles.. try buying a wii that is *not* part of a bundle.. I've never seen one.
If you'd said Java or c# then you might have a case (although even that's got limitations that mean it doesn't work for a lot of cases). Python? It's a freaking scripting language.
You choose the language to suit the task. Design the app, pick the best language (and you'd be amazed how many projects C/C++ are the only choices.. eg. Java simply doesn't exist on some of the platforms I work on). Unfortunately it's not fashionable to do that any more and people start with the language then design the app around it.. which is why there's so much crap out there.
What would a chip have to include for VIA to codename it God or Satan?
A chip called God would have to be omnoprescent and omniscient.
So it would be freaking *huge* but have shitloads of memory.
X86 enjoys by far the most readily available open source software
If it's opensource, recompile it FFS.
Things like OpenWrt have been doing this for years.. architecture doesn't matter to well written code. Even my own humble efforts run on all sorts of arcane platforms.
It also means more power drain, more heat, etc..
ARM runs cool and on little power, which is why it's so popular. x86 is such a cludgefest with backward compatibility etc. it needs significantly more power to do the same work.
Why bother? I pretty much always use my name in stuff. I got my current job precisely because I was visible... at its peak the first 6 pages of any google search came up with stuff about me. Now it's buried in other Tony Hoyle's any I'm only a footnote (partly due to changes in google indexing, partly because I'm not posting on things like LKML any more so don't get the high profile hits).
Of course if there's someone else with your name who's a serial drug user, criminal, paedophile etc. and your prospective employer will still google it and find them anyway - so you might as well get stuff about the real you out there.
Bluray still isn't that big... you can't backup a network on it.
1TB is approaching what you'd need today. Of course by 2011 or whatever we'll need 10TB.. sigh.
Write once is a an *advantage*. You don't want someone modifying your backups.
As a backup media it makes a lot of sense... tape is still too expensive and hasn't kept up with the increase in storage requirements. Hard drive backup media is too fragile won't take long term storage.
In an office full of people they won't have admin rights and the system policies would have locked down any ability to install anything.. so AV isn't an issue there either. All it'll do is slow them down and cause random BSODs, program failures etc.
The problem with nod32 is it interferes with the tcp/ip stack and stops lots of programs working.
What the hell it's doing even hooking into it is beyond me.. it's just feature creep.. it should be checking opened files only.
The problem with that is badly implemented versions (*cough* Norton *cough*) that scan everything..executable or not, and slow the machine down so much that the cure is worse than the disease - I've had machine to sort out that have been using 80% of their cycles just scanning text files over and over again.
It's a fairly recent phenomenon.. like the iphone 'brick' that wasn't a brick at all but the press seemed to pick up on the word even though they have no idea what it means (if anyone really thinks their iphone is bricked I'm quite happy to dispose of it for them, for a fee of course).
Most people still use the term correctly.. but the press through their damned stupid ignorance is determined to change that. Slashdot should not be one of the sites doing it.. they're supposed to know better.
That's not research.. The question what *research* has ended up in a product, not what their programming teams have implemented from standards developed by other people.
I've been thinking of the N810 myself... one thing the whole iphone thing tought me is there's no perfect device that can do everything.. I still ended up carrying two devices anyway. For my next upgrade I'm thinking of just a simple camera phone (preferably with longish battery life) and an N810 (or whatever supercedes it by then).
How is the N800 with connection to wireless hotspots? Does it pick them up automatically or do you have to select it like other nokia devices (that always annoyed me.. even devicescape doesn't automate it sufficiently).
Wow, your christmas mornings must really suck.
Most cell plans offer browsing on the phone itself, but not use as a modem. It's close, I'll give you that.
They do? I've never heard of one that didn't allow use as a modem.. You must have been on some sucky plans.
Granted they do have ridiculously small data limits (just a couple of years ago 4Mb/month was commonplace) although that's changing slowly.
No, they oppose it as they don't thing the risk/benefit equation stacks up. You might disagree.. but that's the crux of the argument, not 'if I had suitcase sized ones they'd be fine'.
I've *never* heard the size used as an argument.
I suspect the ones in nuclear submarines aren't that big either, compared to your average power plant.