Microsoft are *years* behind everyone else on multiple desktops.
I was working with multiple monitors on System 7 many years ago (and the implementation was *better* than the one that XP and Vista have - you could move your desktops around, even lay them out vertically or in a grid.. on Windows the position is hardwired to the graphics card and they must be next to each other).. around the era of Windows 3.1
If you use something a lot stick it in the dock.. that's what it's there for. Everything else is in/Applications.
Don't quite understand your browser reference.. spotlight doesn't interface with google as far as I know.
I've rarely used spotlight beyond the initial 'what does this do' when I first installed 10.4. Don't see the point.
At least the OSX one doesn't hog the disk reindexing everything like the windows incarnations do, though, so there's no great need to switch it off (if indeed it's possible).
Look in the corporate space. Oracle is everywhere. SQLServer is around (not popular in my experience). Mysql is nowhere.
Mysql has a long way to go to justify its $200 per client cost (the GPL version being pretty useless for deployment - mysql consider releasing an application that is even compatible with their client as 'distribution' of Mysql (check their site.. it's amazing to read their interpretation of the GPL) and unless you're 100% GPL you're liable for the client cost for every single user).
It just is... no idea why. Like the way they say 'Unlimited broadband £9.99' then in a 2 point light grey on white font just off the page 'subject to fair use limit', and this so-called limit is on defined in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'
Fraud and deception laws haven't reached the technology world, alas.
You underestimate the cost of replacing the last mile technology... there are millions of miles of copper out there and it isn't going anywhere soon. BT's 21cn replacment for example is going to take until 2011 to update their network (if on schedule, and AFAIK it's behind already), cost many hundreds of millions and *still* relies on copper for the last mile (it merely makes ADSL2 deployment easier). And most countries' networks aren't even coming close to that level of investment.
If this means they'll be able to go to ADSL3 at 200Mb/s then I'm all for it.
Australia is one of the first to roll out ADSL2, and my australian boss just got 2MB SDSL for less than I pay for my ADSL link over on the other side of the planet (SDSL here costs about 20x as much)... so don't be so quick with the jokes:p
Slowly the banks are realizing this and giving the option to send via email/web only (often under the guise of being 'environmentally friendly'. Short lived SSL transaction > completely unencrypted, unprotected snail mail left outside in the dump for a week (the rubbish collection is going to bi-weekly soon so make that two weeks).
Unfortunately mastercard appear to be the last of mine to do this... all the other cards were very happy to stop sending me paper. I had my mastercard number swiped by some local idiot crawling through the dump. Luckily it was rather easy to prove it wasn't me that had bought an expensive holiday in Switzerland on a card that was almost never used...
Except labels don't scale. If you have filters that put things into folders then they are there.. your inbox stays relatively clean. With labels that is no longer true - you end up with an inbox with 100,000 entries in it but maybe 10 of them visible.. but the system still has to deal with 100,000 emails instead of 10. When 99,000 of those would in a folder system be in the 'trash' and 'spam' folders that's a heck of a lot of wasted work.
The other thing that folders have that labels don't is easy drag/drop assignment. If I get an email about a subject and it's missed the filtering I can drop it directly into the correct folder in one movement. Labels just can't do that.
I remember VMS (not tried the open version so not sure if it did this). There was a parameter to set password that'd give a list of completely unreadable junk passwords to use.. the problem was they were so damned complex there was no was a normal human being could remember them.. so nobody ever used it (except a few nutters, and they wrote their passwords down!).
Their site could easily win a 'worst of the internet' award. It's truly awful, as in never will I ever want to look at it again as long as I live awful.
I'm surprised anyone managed to download it myself.. never found out how in my few minutes of browsing.
When mac software crashes it usually just vanishes, with no user feedback at all. When the OS crashes it blackscreens (like, say, plugging in a firewire drive into Tiger, which they *still* haven't fixed) but I wouldn't say the information it gives is useful at all.. about as useful as a bluescreen.
Then there's the spinning beachball of death crashes which are a sore point with me.. they happen every time it decides it can't access a network resource* and the only way out is to pull the power cord (since if finder is dead you can't even power off or run the kill application). Got rather sick of doing that last night...
* Which happens rather a lot if you decide to use NFS. NFS under Tiger is broken on intel macs but works OK on ppc macs.. same OS version (allegedly), same NFS share, even the same damned cables.. different result every time.
Cost is the same, you pay by the MB.. whereas you could argue that since Edge is about 10* slower than HSPDA it's 10* cheaper because you could only transfer 1/10th of the data.. that's be a silly argument.
Isn't most '3G' 3.5G anyway? Certainly is here... It's just marketed as the same. Certainly my N95 comes up as 3.5G wherever it is, even when I was stuck in the middle of nowhere camping..
In the UK only one provider (O2) has Edge *at all* and they installed it so they could sell the iphone. And that covers by their own estimates only about 20% of the country. I'm not sure how that translates to 'decent coverage'.
The iphone is effectively limited to GPRS acrosss most of the country even on O2 which sucks the big one, and could mean its ultimate failure here (since wifi is as rare as hens teeth too).
Every single iphone and touch is running a vulnerable safari (using a year out of date libtiff). Once the virus writers get hold of this then there'll be all sorts of stuff going on.
Of course the hacked phones will be immune as one of the first things that will be done is fix the bug.:p
One of the main reasons is organ shortages. You can (with some effort) use a pigs heart in a human, but not for example a pigs kidney. Mix in some genetic manipulation and voia.. a living breathing oinking organ bank.
Never saw the problem with this - no different than eating sausages.
Well there's a directive... each country then makes its own laws based on that.
Apple is in legal trouble trying to sell locked anywhere in the EU (including the UK but it can take some time for the law to work here, so they can get away with breaking it for a few months - OTOH when they do get slapped down the fines may well be punitive).
OK so you have wifi in your house. Where else? Starbucks? You have to pay for that. Your local bar? You have to pay for that. Oh and it's a different provider so you have to pay twice if you want your starbucks to.
Anywhere else? No wifi.
3G. Everywhere... even in quite remote places (Cities are 3.5G now).
I think here they'll market it as an ipod with a phone built in.. ipods are reasonably popular, and an 'ipod with phone' might just outweigh the disadvantages of the lack of 3G. MMS they'll fix in a software update I guess.
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Microsoft are *years* behind everyone else on multiple desktops.
I was working with multiple monitors on System 7 many years ago (and the implementation was *better* than the one that XP and Vista have - you could move your desktops around, even lay them out vertically or in a grid.. on Windows the position is hardwired to the graphics card and they must be next to each other).. around the era of Windows 3.1
If you use something a lot stick it in the dock.. that's what it's there for. Everything else is in /Applications.
Don't quite understand your browser reference.. spotlight doesn't interface with google as far as I know.
I've rarely used spotlight beyond the initial 'what does this do' when I first installed 10.4. Don't see the point.
At least the OSX one doesn't hog the disk reindexing everything like the windows incarnations do, though, so there's no great need to switch it off (if indeed it's possible).
Insightful? Fine for a web server perhaps.
Look in the corporate space. Oracle is everywhere. SQLServer is around (not popular in my experience). Mysql is nowhere.
Mysql has a long way to go to justify its $200 per client cost (the GPL version being pretty useless for deployment - mysql consider releasing an application that is even compatible with their client as 'distribution' of Mysql (check their site.. it's amazing to read their interpretation of the GPL) and unless you're 100% GPL you're liable for the client cost for every single user).
They had gigabit ethernet running over copper in 1997..
We certainly had a 64kb leased line then which ran over copper (over a phone line, no less.. they just jumpered it differently at the exchange).
56kb was (hopefully) never described as the fastest copper could provide, only what modem technology could do.
It just is... no idea why. Like the way they say 'Unlimited broadband £9.99' then in a 2 point light grey on white font just off the page 'subject to fair use limit', and this so-called limit is on defined in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'
Fraud and deception laws haven't reached the technology world, alas.
You underestimate the cost of replacing the last mile technology... there are millions of miles of copper out there and it isn't going anywhere soon. BT's 21cn replacment for example is going to take until 2011 to update their network (if on schedule, and AFAIK it's behind already), cost many hundreds of millions and *still* relies on copper for the last mile (it merely makes ADSL2 deployment easier). And most countries' networks aren't even coming close to that level of investment.
If this means they'll be able to go to ADSL3 at 200Mb/s then I'm all for it.
Australia is one of the first to roll out ADSL2, and my australian boss just got 2MB SDSL for less than I pay for my ADSL link over on the other side of the planet (SDSL here costs about 20x as much)... so don't be so quick with the jokes :p
Slowly the banks are realizing this and giving the option to send via email/web only (often under the guise of being 'environmentally friendly'. Short lived SSL transaction > completely unencrypted, unprotected snail mail left outside in the dump for a week (the rubbish collection is going to bi-weekly soon so make that two weeks).
Unfortunately mastercard appear to be the last of mine to do this... all the other cards were very happy to stop sending me paper. I had my mastercard number swiped by some local idiot crawling through the dump. Luckily it was rather easy to prove it wasn't me that had bought an expensive holiday in Switzerland on a card that was almost never used...
Except labels don't scale. If you have filters that put things into folders then they are there.. your inbox stays relatively clean. With labels that is no longer true - you end up with an inbox with 100,000 entries in it but maybe 10 of them visible.. but the system still has to deal with 100,000 emails instead of 10. When 99,000 of those would in a folder system be in the 'trash' and 'spam' folders that's a heck of a lot of wasted work.
The other thing that folders have that labels don't is easy drag/drop assignment. If I get an email about a subject and it's missed the filtering I can drop it directly into the correct folder in one movement. Labels just can't do that.
I remember VMS (not tried the open version so not sure if it did this). There was a parameter to set password that'd give a list of completely unreadable junk passwords to use.. the problem was they were so damned complex there was no was a normal human being could remember them.. so nobody ever used it (except a few nutters, and they wrote their passwords down!).
On those figures they just made 5.2 million pounds on the album without it even hitting the charts yet.
Personally I doubt it.. last I heard the average was about 5p donation.. people are cheap.
Their site could easily win a 'worst of the internet' award. It's truly awful, as in never will I ever want to look at it again as long as I live awful.
I'm surprised anyone managed to download it myself.. never found out how in my few minutes of browsing.
When mac software crashes it usually just vanishes, with no user feedback at all. When the OS crashes it blackscreens (like, say, plugging in a firewire drive into Tiger, which they *still* haven't fixed) but I wouldn't say the information it gives is useful at all.. about as useful as a bluescreen.
Then there's the spinning beachball of death crashes which are a sore point with me.. they happen every time it decides it can't access a network resource* and the only way out is to pull the power cord (since if finder is dead you can't even power off or run the kill application). Got rather sick of doing that last night...
* Which happens rather a lot if you decide to use NFS. NFS under Tiger is broken on intel macs but works OK on ppc macs.. same OS version (allegedly), same NFS share, even the same damned cables.. different result every time.
Cost is the same, you pay by the MB.. whereas you could argue that since Edge is about 10* slower than HSPDA it's 10* cheaper because you could only transfer 1/10th of the data.. that's be a silly argument.
Isn't most '3G' 3.5G anyway? Certainly is here... It's just marketed as the same. Certainly my N95 comes up as 3.5G wherever it is, even when I was stuck in the middle of nowhere camping..
In the UK only one provider (O2) has Edge *at all* and they installed it so they could sell the iphone. And that covers by their own estimates only about 20% of the country. I'm not sure how that translates to 'decent coverage'.
The iphone is effectively limited to GPRS acrosss most of the country even on O2 which sucks the big one, and could mean its ultimate failure here (since wifi is as rare as hens teeth too).
I'm currently up to 2.5 minutes and I'm still counting.
iPhone is pretty useless for browsing websites outside wifi zones.
btw. WTF have redhat done to their page that takes so long?
They need to patch anyway.
:p
Every single iphone and touch is running a vulnerable safari (using a year out of date libtiff). Once the virus writers get hold of this then there'll be all sorts of stuff going on.
Of course the hacked phones will be immune as one of the first things that will be done is fix the bug.
An embryo is a cell pretty much. Then a bunch of cells.
The things are going to be destroyed after 15 days - never gets past the 'bunch of cells' part.
No ethical dilemmas to see here... move along...
One of the main reasons is organ shortages. You can (with some effort) use a pigs heart in a human, but not for example a pigs kidney. Mix in some genetic manipulation and voia.. a living breathing oinking organ bank.
Never saw the problem with this - no different than eating sausages.
Well there's a directive... each country then makes its own laws based on that.
Apple is in legal trouble trying to sell locked anywhere in the EU (including the UK but it can take some time for the law to work here, so they can get away with breaking it for a few months - OTOH when they do get slapped down the fines may well be punitive).
Nokia sell that many units every single day.
Apple are nowhere.
Wifi? Nice joke.
OK so you have wifi in your house. Where else? Starbucks? You have to pay for that. Your local bar? You have to pay for that. Oh and it's a different provider so you have to pay twice if you want your starbucks to.
Anywhere else? No wifi.
3G. Everywhere... even in quite remote places (Cities are 3.5G now).
I think here they'll market it as an ipod with a phone built in.. ipods are reasonably popular, and an 'ipod with phone' might just outweigh the disadvantages of the lack of 3G. MMS they'll fix in a software update I guess.
No it won't.. German consumer law is one of the strongest in the EU. You think it'll stay locked for long?
And a product sold in one country of the EU is available in every country of the EU (common market rules) so everyone will be able to buy one.