Phones are locked to networks, but the providers must give you the unlock code if you phone them.
Or you can go to any one of a thousand websites or a million corner shop and have it done for a small fee.
It's a nice way to get a cheap phone - buy a 'pay as you talk' phone from a shop, then go around the corner and get it unlocked. Usually about half the price of the sim-free version.
Lots of laser printer salesmen astroturfing on this thread.
I mean.. I've had my HP for 2 years and I'm still on the original cartridges. I don't print much but I've been through a few stacks of paper in that time... so all this bull about a cartridge lasting 50 pages is just pulled out of someones ass.
Inflammable derived from 'Inflame' . It is a *much* older word than 'flammable' (inflammable is about 200 years older, going back to 1605).
So if you want to be absolutely correct always us inflammable.. but since the other word has been in (uncommon) use for 200 years already I don't think most people will notice any more.
The earliest written reference to ain't is 1778, so that's nearly 230 years of its use... It's not american it derives from cockney (London) speech in Dickens (there's an earlier form an't that dates back to 1706).
Lazy shortcuts are one thing.. the language is full of them.
Making a word *longer* by adding redundant letters in front of it is just insane. What's wrong with regardless? Why add 'ir' onto the front for no apparent reason?
As for its use becoming commonplace.. well on Slashdot maybe.. but Slashdot seems to be a world unto itself. I've never seen or heard of that usage outside this site. (Wikipedia doesn't count.. that's even less of a reliable source than slashdot, and that's saying something). Websters and the OED both consider it an abberation.
Parallels is I believe the first to offer 3d accelerated virtual drivers. You can bet VMWare are working hard to be second.. xen will probably follow eventually on their pay versions (free versions have no windows acceleration, so it runs as slow as molasses anyway).
Within 3-4 years all this 'stuff doesn't work under virtualisation' will be ancient history - it's just going to take time for it to mature. We've just migrated all our servers to uber-powerful virtualisation boxes... if you spend 4 times as much on the hardware but can run 20 VMs on it at the same speed.. then you've gained (not to mention the decrease in power costs, the increase in available office space, decrease in noise level, etc.). One OS == One machine is history.
After using Vista for about 4-5 months now I actively hate it.
Aside from being slow as molasses and able to burn through a laptop battery at twice the rate that XP did, it's recently decided that I don't have permissions to see the network status.. so all I get is 'connection status: unknown access is denied'.. also making it impossible to see whether I'm actually connected to anything without going to the command line and using ipconfig.
Oh and the wonderfully inconsistent permissions don't stop there. 'ipconfig/renew' is a user command. 'ipconfig/release' is an admin only command. Great thinking there chaps.
Oh and there's the utterly broken file copy. Try copying a directory from one place to another when it requires elevation. It'll do one of two things:
1. Ask for elevation, then when you confirm do absolutely nothing. 2. Ask for elevation, copy about 10% of the files then silently stop.
I could go on for hours... Advice for anyone thinking of installing it before SP1 comes out.. don't bother.
Easy? One company I worked for asked Blackberry about this... at the time we had one manager who wanted one and the blackberry refused to talk IMAP.
You have to buy a blackberry server, which is a special version of MS Exchange at an inflated price. Then there's the subscription charge to run the service. Then you've actually got to buy the phone.
We worked out it would be cheaper to hire a new employee to run after him taking phone calls than set him up with a blackberry.
It probably scales well if you have 200 of the things but it definately isn't 'easy'.
Remember the US is a good 5 years behind in phone development, so instead of 'low end 3-4 years ago' think 'high end 5 years ago' and you have the iphone.. which (surprise!) is only being released in the US.
As for sony I remember the P800 from around that time. It was an excellent phone.. good battery life (longest I've ever had), reasonable camera, it had even Opera as its web browser! Its let downs were it was a touch screen (not durable enough - both of mine broke because the touch screen cracked rendering the phone useless) and the silly plastic keyboard that pressed the touch screen (they fixed that for the P900 I believe).
I've had nokias since and they're not a patch on the sony's.. really should remember that next time I upgrade..
That means there are 40 million in stores, in warehouses, etc.
There's no way in hell that 40 million copies of vista have been sold. When's the last time you saw a PC with it on? Aside from the occasional test machine it's just not in use.
The story has been running on the news all morning. That's a few million people in the UK who know about it for a start. Oh and they forgot to mention it was beta...
That *only* hurts legitimate email. It does not hurt spammers one tiny little bit.. they don't send their own email they use botnets to do it. So someone gets their machine pwned and has a $100,000 bill the next month.
It would also mean the end of mailing lists, the end of legitimate businesses sending out newsletters, a drastic reduction in the amount of personal email sent... so basically in your scheme the spammers win.
So would all other email. I send lots of emails.. I don't send letters any more. Why? Too expensive.
I have a mailing list with 1000 people on it and peak around 20 messages a day. This should cost me $5000 dollars a day to run? I'd shut it down. And so would everyone else with a list.
I shudder to think what the linux kernel mailing list would cost to run on your scheme. Probably more than redhat make in a year.
If goodmail just allow anyone to pay to have the mail whitelisted they're very likely to become a good spam source. If that happens then it's a simple matter of a 'signed with goodmail -> trash/spamcop/bayes' rule.
It's been tried before.. remember that company that put haikus in 'good' emails - that became a near 100% reliable spam source *very* quickly. They're at +5 on my spamassassin rules and have been almost since they came out.. and I've never had a false positive from that rule.
If they're still sending you the email after you have specifically unsubscribed it *is* spam. Treat it as such, and report it using whatver system you have up for dealing with it.
I've seen quite large companies do this. Once they're on spamcop and razor they tend to get the hint though.
If you have IPv6 interfaces, gethostbyname() will look for IPv6 addresses first. This makes DNS lookups slower for real users.
bzzt. gethostbyname() is ipv4 only. Only getaddrinfo() and friends are multi-protocol, but even they will only ask for AAAA records if you ask them to.
This is why so many apps have to be rewritten to support ipv6, and why there's still no ipv6 squid (an app like that needs major surgery to handle a new addressing scheme).
The problem is some home routers have shitty dns relays that barf if they get an AAAA query. Disabling ipv6 gets rid of that for IE, temporarily... I suspect over time more apps will make such queries as they get changed to support ipv6, so they'll just call back in a few months.
If a vista machine isn't on a network broadcasting RA it'll only have a link local v6 address anyway so it can't in itself cause any problem.
For 99% of cases, no. Servers generally need IPs (port forwarding is ugly, although sometimes necessary even when you have the address space) but nothing else does... and how many public facing servers does an average company have?
The 2009 figure is pulled out of someone's ass. Have you seen their prediction graph? It assumes massive increase in ipv4 usage.. I mean - you're talking about us suddenly eating 35% of the IPV4 address space in *two years*. Sorry, That's bullshit. Usage is actually dropping slightly as more space is returned to the free pool than is allocated.
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Phones are locked to networks, but the providers must give you the unlock code if you phone them.
Or you can go to any one of a thousand websites or a million corner shop and have it done for a small fee.
It's a nice way to get a cheap phone - buy a 'pay as you talk' phone from a shop, then go around the corner and get it unlocked. Usually about half the price of the sim-free version.
As a plus, it would not be (comparatively) hard to use the impact to knock mars into a tighter solar orbit, improving your plant growing situation.
And thus changing the relationship of all the planets in the solar system.
If you're gonna play pool with planets you better get the maths right as I'd rather the earth didn't end up in a tighter orbit too...
Lots of laser printer salesmen astroturfing on this thread.
I mean.. I've had my HP for 2 years and I'm still on the original cartridges. I don't print much but I've been through a few stacks of paper in that time... so all this bull about a cartridge lasting 50 pages is just pulled out of someones ass.
Don't you see, you don't buy the ink, you license it.
Now I see.. it's the DIM* features forcing you to buy expensive cartridges.
* Digital Ink Management.
Inflammable derived from 'Inflame' . It is a *much* older word than 'flammable' (inflammable is about 200 years older, going back to 1605).
So if you want to be absolutely correct always us inflammable.. but since the other word has been in (uncommon) use for 200 years already I don't think most people will notice any more.
The earliest written reference to ain't is 1778, so that's nearly 230 years of its use... It's not american it derives from cockney (London) speech in Dickens (there's an earlier form an't that dates back to 1706).
Lazy shortcuts are one thing.. the language is full of them.
Making a word *longer* by adding redundant letters in front of it is just insane. What's wrong with regardless? Why add 'ir' onto the front for no apparent reason?
As for its use becoming commonplace.. well on Slashdot maybe.. but Slashdot seems to be a world unto itself. I've never seen or heard of that usage outside this site. (Wikipedia doesn't count.. that's even less of a reliable source than slashdot, and that's saying something). Websters and the OED both consider it an abberation.
Parallels is I believe the first to offer 3d accelerated virtual drivers. You can bet VMWare are working hard to be second.. xen will probably follow eventually on their pay versions (free versions have no windows acceleration, so it runs as slow as molasses anyway).
Within 3-4 years all this 'stuff doesn't work under virtualisation' will be ancient history - it's just going to take time for it to mature. We've just migrated all our servers to uber-powerful virtualisation boxes... if you spend 4 times as much on the hardware but can run 20 VMs on it at the same speed.. then you've gained (not to mention the decrease in power costs, the increase in available office space, decrease in noise level, etc.). One OS == One machine is history.
After using Vista for about 4-5 months now I actively hate it.
/renew' is a user command. 'ipconfig /release' is an admin only command. Great thinking there chaps.
Aside from being slow as molasses and able to burn through a laptop battery at twice the rate that XP did, it's recently
decided that I don't have permissions to see the network status.. so all I get is 'connection status: unknown access is denied'.. also making it impossible to see whether I'm actually connected to anything without going to the command line and using ipconfig.
Oh and the wonderfully inconsistent permissions don't stop there. 'ipconfig
Oh and there's the utterly broken file copy. Try copying a directory from one place to another when it requires elevation. It'll do one of two things:
1. Ask for elevation, then when you confirm do absolutely nothing.
2. Ask for elevation, copy about 10% of the files then silently stop.
I could go on for hours... Advice for anyone thinking of installing it before SP1 comes out.. don't bother.
Easy? One company I worked for asked Blackberry about this... at the time we had one manager who wanted one and the blackberry refused to talk IMAP.
You have to buy a blackberry server, which is a special version of MS Exchange at an inflated price. Then there's the subscription charge to run the service. Then you've actually got to buy the phone.
We worked out it would be cheaper to hire a new employee to run after him taking phone calls than set him up with a blackberry.
It probably scales well if you have 200 of the things but it definately isn't 'easy'.
Remember the US is a good 5 years behind in phone development, so instead of 'low end 3-4 years ago' think 'high end 5 years ago' and you have the iphone.. which (surprise!) is only being released in the US.
As for sony I remember the P800 from around that time. It was an excellent phone.. good battery life (longest I've ever had), reasonable camera, it had even Opera as its web browser! Its let downs were it was a touch screen (not durable enough - both of mine broke because the touch screen cracked rendering the phone useless) and the silly plastic keyboard that pressed the touch screen (they fixed that for the P900 I believe).
I've had nokias since and they're not a patch on the sony's.. really should remember that next time I upgrade..
They *shipped* 40 million. Not sold.
That means there are 40 million in stores, in warehouses, etc.
There's no way in hell that 40 million copies of vista have been sold. When's the last time you saw a PC with it on? Aside from the occasional test machine it's just not in use.
I remember the first release (not beta) of Opera for linux.
It actually required you to put a symlink called 'C:\' in your home directory otherwise it wouldn't start up.
So give Apple a break... it's a first release/beta/whatever.
But it just seems to me that they need a "devious little shit" department
Apple have plenty of lawyers already.
The story has been running on the news all morning. That's a few million people in the UK who know about it for a start. Oh and they forgot to mention it was beta...
It's a signed email but there's probably some easy text you can match on (no point in wasting CPU on your email server decrypting their junk).
I too will be doing this when it arrives.. if it's all spam, it gets a +5 spamassassin score and I forget about it.
That *only* hurts legitimate email. It does not hurt spammers one tiny little bit.. they don't send their own email they use botnets to do it. So someone gets their machine pwned and has a $100,000 bill the next month.
It would also mean the end of mailing lists, the end of legitimate businesses sending out newsletters, a drastic reduction in the amount of personal email sent... so basically in your scheme the spammers win.
So would all other email. I send lots of emails.. I don't send letters any more. Why? Too expensive.
I have a mailing list with 1000 people on it and peak around 20 messages a day. This should cost me $5000 dollars a day to run? I'd shut it down. And so would everyone else with a list.
I shudder to think what the linux kernel mailing list would cost to run on your scheme. Probably more than redhat make in a year.
If goodmail just allow anyone to pay to have the mail whitelisted they're very likely to become a good spam source. If that happens then it's a simple matter of a 'signed with goodmail -> trash/spamcop/bayes' rule.
It's been tried before.. remember that company that put haikus in 'good' emails - that became a near 100% reliable spam source *very* quickly. They're at +5 on my spamassassin rules and have been almost since they came out.. and I've never had a false positive from that rule.
If they're still sending you the email after you have specifically unsubscribed it *is* spam. Treat it as such, and report it using whatver system you have up for dealing with it.
I've seen quite large companies do this. Once they're on spamcop and razor they tend to get the hint though.
If you have IPv6 interfaces, gethostbyname() will look for IPv6 addresses first. This makes DNS lookups slower for real users.
bzzt. gethostbyname() is ipv4 only. Only getaddrinfo() and friends are multi-protocol, but even they will only ask for AAAA records if you ask them to.
This is why so many apps have to be rewritten to support ipv6, and why there's still no ipv6 squid (an app like that needs major surgery to handle a new addressing scheme).
The problem is some home routers have shitty dns relays that barf if they get an AAAA query. Disabling ipv6 gets rid of that for IE, temporarily... I suspect over time more apps will make such queries as they get changed to support ipv6, so they'll just call back in a few months.
If a vista machine isn't on a network broadcasting RA it'll only have a link local v6 address anyway so it can't in itself cause any problem.
But can you address it?
Do you need to?
For 99% of cases, no. Servers generally need IPs (port forwarding is ugly, although sometimes necessary even when you have the address space) but nothing else does... and how many public facing servers does an average company have?
I wish it was that simple. Some things like routers, switches, etc. need to have static internal ips.
OK fire your admin.
DHCP != Dynamic.
The 2009 figure is pulled out of someone's ass. Have you seen their prediction graph? It assumes massive increase in ipv4 usage.. I mean - you're talking about us suddenly eating 35% of the IPV4 address space in *two years*. Sorry, That's bullshit.
Usage is actually dropping slightly as more space is returned to the free pool than is allocated.