Not really.. Short supply in stores, unless you get there on the delivery day, but on the internet? Sign up for one of the wii 'watcher' sites and wait for the popup.
Didn't work on my N95 either.. there's an app and it shows a map position but it's at the other end of the country and pressing '0' just comes up with an error.
Nice idea but doesn't work... as it proven by the fact that I've *never* had it give me a position even in major cities when I'm surrounded by towers, wifi etc.
People with GPS won't use Navizon because, well, they have GPS already. People without would use it but it doesn't work because there's nobody feeding in coordinates.
Google can do this as they have the money and leverage to get the real locations of the towers off the companies, thus bypassing the chicken and egg that navizon is trapped in.
There's a thing called Navizon that works on the iphone, but it's pretty poor - every now and then I put it back on but it's so far failed to *ever* get any kind of approximation of where I am.
Unless you've found a free supply of commercial grade wifi routers, free connections for them to a backbone, volunteers to do all the installation, etc.
If the trench (pipe, tunnel, etc. depending on location) already exists then installation of wired connections can be far lower than than wifi - and installing a fiber bundle gives orders of magnitude more bandwidth availablility == more options to make your money back.
GPL goes beyond that, covering things like linking and dynamic loading.
So if I distribute an app which is not GPL but my app is able to use a GPL binary downloaded by a third party, I violate the GPL by proxy even though no copyright law is broken and I haven't agreed to any GPL terms.
(This isn't theoretical - We had this exact situation with mysql and it was confirmed by mysql via telephone whilst we were trying to sort out a way of continuing support for their product. Their website also confirms this although it's not put as clearly)
Have to agree.. a lot of AS is pretty crappy. I found Moral Orel quite amusing (now cancelled, alas), and Sealab has its moments, but most of the stuff I switch off after about 10 seconds as it's unwatchable.
DLM had a few good soundbites ("Life sucks, then you die, then it still sucks" springs to mind) but the programme was pretty terrible to watch - poor script writing I think. It's not surprising it didn't last.
Microsoft has been competing with itself for years.. Office for example - they actually had to trash their own product in advertising to get people to upgrade from office 97.
I mean, really... think about it, is it Microsoft or is it something else holding people from upgrading? I don't think Vista is as bad as people put it, out of 10 people who uses Vista, 7 say its good and that they like it (and use it everyday). 1 Didn't try to get along with it much and found everything very different and didn't like it and 2 used it at the local CompUSA/BestBuy store and didn't like it (and other people who did this very same thing told em it sucked). I mean, I don't know;)
I used it for about 9 months, starting with the release candidate. Yes it is as bad as people say... and I'm not going back to it unless they fix a heck of a lot of usability issues with it, some of the more critical bugs, and make it run at a reasonable speed (it's a dog on a 2GB dual core.. I'd hate to think what it would do on less)... I Haven't heard *anything* that would make me consider it again coming out of microsoft... certainly not SP1.
My experience is about 0 out of 10 people like it.. I've had people who got it on their new machines actually begging me to put XP on it - and it takes a hell of a lot of suckiness to provoke that kind of reaction in the average consumer.
Have a look around MSDN sometime.. they plan a *lot* more than that.. the basic OS recognition routine lists 17:
Ultimate Home Premium Home Basic Enterprise Business Starter Cluster Server Datacenter Datacenter (core) Enterprise Enterprise (core) Enterprise for Itanium Small Business Server Small Business Server Premium")); Standard Standard (core) Web Server
If you include all the possible options defined in the headers, there are 30 'editions' of vista.
They may not all get released.. 'Vista Home Server' sounds a little unlikely.. but however you count it there are a lot more than 9.
When you first malloc memory you get a page of memory that's set copy on write and backed from a special page in memory with nothing but zeroes in it. It's only when you first use the memory that physical memory is actually allocated.
It's a restriction. You can't use it unless you distribute the source. Previously you could use it and not distribute the source, provided you didn't distribute the app.
This is the same problem as the witching hour every year when switching to and from daylight savings time. The remedy for that is to ensure you don't schedule jobs for those hours, or get vendor assurance of what, exactly, will happen for jobs scheduled at the start, middle or end of the witching hours.
Nope. cron, like all Unix services, runs to UTC and doesn't give a crap about daylight savings time.
Is the cable live? If you can run the same tests with the cables live/non-live. Make sure that you and your boss doesn't know which is which (try to make it double blind, otherwise your body language may give it away and effect the results).
In fact could the 'dowser' in your tests see visually anyone related to the test? If so they could easily have just picked up on body language. Some people who do 'best' in these kind of tests are just very good at reading people (they'd have made excellent fortune tellers 100 years ago).
Well yes, lots of us do our own thinking thank you very much. And we think dowsing is hogwash unless proved otherwise. Oh and so is Santa Claus, and Hyperspace travel, and pretty much anything else that isn't proved using the scientific method.
You can't prove it, so you start attacking people calling them 'chumps'. Way to persuade people, dude.
You are welcome to believe anything you like, and be around people who believe the same. Free country. But don't dare start using the word 'proof' without backing it up.
When Monster sell someone a $200 HDMI cable that does exactly the same as a $5 cable, is that fraud? Probably not - you're allowed to be stupid. When the salesman says it'll make the colours richer and the pictures sharper... is that fraud? I reckon it is.. but I don't see hifi shops across the land being sued.
Somewhere there's a line where something becomes actionable, but I'm not sure where it is. Is talking about Painting chips with gunk to improve sound actionable fraud? It probably should be.. but the guy is still in business.
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Not really.. Short supply in stores, unless you get there on the delivery day, but on the internet? Sign up for one of the wii 'watcher' sites and wait for the popup.
Got mine last week in under an hour.
Didn't work on my N95 either.. there's an app and it shows a map position but it's at the other end of the country and pressing '0' just comes up with an error.
Nice idea but doesn't work... as it proven by the fact that I've *never* had it give me a position even in major cities when I'm surrounded by towers, wifi etc.
People with GPS won't use Navizon because, well, they have GPS already. People without would use it but it doesn't work because there's nobody feeding in coordinates.
Google can do this as they have the money and leverage to get the real locations of the towers off the companies, thus bypassing the chicken and egg that navizon is trapped in.
There's a thing called Navizon that works on the iphone, but it's pretty poor - every now and then I put it back on but it's so far failed to *ever* get any kind of approximation of where I am.
The installation costs are not zero.
Unless you've found a free supply of commercial grade wifi routers, free connections for them to a backbone, volunteers to do all the installation, etc.
If the trench (pipe, tunnel, etc. depending on location) already exists then installation of wired connections can be far lower than than wifi - and installing a fiber bundle gives orders of magnitude more bandwidth availablility == more options to make your money back.
GPL goes beyond that, covering things like linking and dynamic loading.
So if I distribute an app which is not GPL but my app is able to use a GPL binary downloaded by a third party, I violate the GPL by proxy even though no copyright law is broken and I haven't agreed to any GPL terms.
(This isn't theoretical - We had this exact situation with mysql and it was confirmed by mysql via telephone whilst we were trying to sort out a way of continuing support for their product. Their website also confirms this although it's not put as clearly)
I think it is because of the n00b's perception that bigger=more powerful
We just bought a new HP server.. quad core, 16gb, iscsi, etc.
The box was so big it wouldn't fit through the damned door!
I blame it on the noobs.
Oh god singing.
Is it an american thing? Turn every half decent programme into a musical?
There's no *way* I'd watch it in a cinema now. Wait for the DVD when you can fast forward the singing bits.
Have to agree.. a lot of AS is pretty crappy. I found Moral Orel quite amusing (now cancelled, alas), and Sealab has its moments, but most of the stuff I switch off after about 10 seconds as it's unwatchable.
DLM had a few good soundbites ("Life sucks, then you die, then it still sucks" springs to mind) but the programme was pretty terrible to watch - poor script writing I think. It's not surprising it didn't last.
Microsoft has been competing with itself for years.. Office for example - they actually had to trash their own product in advertising to get people to upgrade from office 97.
I mean, really... think about it, is it Microsoft or is it something else holding people from upgrading? I don't think Vista is as bad as people put it, out of 10 people who uses Vista, 7 say its good and that they like it (and use it everyday). 1 Didn't try to get along with it much and found everything very different and didn't like it and 2 used it at the local CompUSA/BestBuy store and didn't like it (and other people who did this very same thing told em it sucked). I mean, I don't know ;)
I used it for about 9 months, starting with the release candidate. Yes it is as bad as people say... and I'm not going back to it unless they fix a heck of a lot of usability issues with it, some of the more critical bugs, and make it run at a reasonable speed (it's a dog on a 2GB dual core.. I'd hate to think what it would do on less)... I Haven't heard *anything* that would make me consider it again coming out of microsoft... certainly not SP1.
My experience is about 0 out of 10 people like it.. I've had people who got it on their new machines actually begging me to put XP on it - and it takes a hell of a lot of suckiness to provoke that kind of reaction in the average consumer.
Only 9 flavours?
Have a look around MSDN sometime.. they plan a *lot* more than that.. the basic OS recognition routine lists 17:
Ultimate
Home Premium
Home Basic
Enterprise
Business
Starter
Cluster Server
Datacenter
Datacenter (core)
Enterprise
Enterprise (core)
Enterprise for Itanium
Small Business Server
Small Business Server Premium"));
Standard
Standard (core)
Web Server
If you include all the possible options defined in the headers, there are 30 'editions' of vista.
They may not all get released.. 'Vista Home Server' sounds a little unlikely.. but however you count it there are a lot more than 9.
We're still deploying win2k servers. They work, we have licenses... why upgrade?
Well, you could if the project hadn't died in August.
"Lastly, we have nothing definitive to report in regards to our support for DirectX 10 based games"
It's not even zeroed.. it doesn't exist.
When you first malloc memory you get a page of memory that's set copy on write and backed from a special page in memory with nothing but zeroes in it. It's only when you first use the memory that physical memory is actually allocated.
Do the math.
150 apple stores worldwide. At least 2/3 of those are concentrated in the US.
110 million ipods sold worldwide.
That means that either (a) your assertion is correct and the apple stores have sold 700,000+ ipods.
or (b) other stores are selling them as well.
I'm voting (b).
NSFW? A pair of breasts?
A despair sometimes...
A teen lesbian orgy.. that would be NSFW... but breasts? Ever been outsite on a saturday night?
Yes - the same as the GPL.
You have to be careful of which licenses you use. If you're unsure.. consult a lawyer.
It's a restriction. You can't use it unless you distribute the source. Previously you could use it and not distribute the source, provided you didn't distribute the app.
This is the same problem as the witching hour every year when switching to and from daylight savings time. The remedy for that is to ensure you don't schedule jobs for those hours, or get vendor assurance of what, exactly, will happen for jobs scheduled at the start, middle or end of the witching hours.
Nope. cron, like all Unix services, runs to UTC and doesn't give a crap about daylight savings time.
Is the cable live? If you can run the same tests with the cables live/non-live. Make sure that you and your boss doesn't know which is which (try to make it double blind, otherwise your body language may give it away and effect the results).
In fact could the 'dowser' in your tests see visually anyone related to the test? If so they could easily have just picked up on body language. Some people who do 'best' in these kind of tests are just very good at reading people (they'd have made excellent fortune tellers 100 years ago).
Gold isn't expensive but it sounds expensive, which is why 'gold plated' cables cost twice as much.
A decent copper cable will give better results. It's just all the audiophiles will go 'eew copper!'.
Corrosion isn't going to be an issue for most. Unless you're wiring up a boat.
Well yes, lots of us do our own thinking thank you very much. And we think dowsing is hogwash unless proved otherwise. Oh and so is Santa Claus, and Hyperspace travel, and pretty much anything else that isn't proved using the scientific method.
You can't prove it, so you start attacking people calling them 'chumps'. Way to persuade people, dude.
You are welcome to believe anything you like, and be around people who believe the same. Free country. But don't dare start using the word 'proof' without backing it up.
At what point does it become fraud.
When Monster sell someone a $200 HDMI cable that does exactly the same as a $5 cable, is that fraud? Probably not - you're allowed to be stupid. When the salesman says it'll make the colours richer and the pictures sharper... is that fraud? I reckon it is.. but I don't see hifi shops across the land being sued.
Somewhere there's a line where something becomes actionable, but I'm not sure where it is. Is talking about Painting chips with gunk to improve sound actionable fraud? It probably should be.. but the guy is still in business.