I, personally, have over 580GiB of games installed on my machine (the vast majority legally purchased!), completely excluding Windows and all other software. Admittedly, Games are much closer to data than apps, so installing them all to a separate drive would not trouble me at all. But they are still, strictly speaking, apps, and so every app I could possibly run on a cheap SSD? Not a chance in hell. My work machine, on the other hand, totals up 160GiB, data and all, so that would happily operate on a cheap SSD.
The text isn't actually displayed on the page since it's apparently still under copyright, so if you really want to see it you'll need to check the history.
If they cared about the truth, the Tiananmen square would be available for computer users in China...
Right, because if Google decides that they'll display *all* results for Tiananmen, Tibet, Xinjiang, etc., the Government wouldn't block them at all... Google *cannot* give information to the Chinese people that the Chinese government does not want them to see. If they try, they will be blocked and we will be back to where we started, except with one less search engine available to Chinese people.
Besides, I'm fairly sure Google censors content in America too. I'm not certain of that, but I'd be *extremely* surprised if you could find, say, Child Porn through a Google search, no matter where in the world you are located. If you can, then the rest of my post will look a bit silly, but I certainly wasn't going to looking for it. Don't see anyone making a fuss about that, though, because we all agree (well, almost all - the people who produce it probably don't) that Child Porn is *wrong*. And viewing it is against the law.
It's not like anyone's really noticed, since this isn't something you go and search for every day (well, I *hope* it isn't...), and I reckon that most people would instinctively agree with the decision to censor it. Hell, they probably wouldn't have it any other way. But then, as soon as Google (according to another countries laws) starts censoring things that we think people should have a right to find, we get all up in arms. This is despite the fact that a lot of the people on whose behalf we are aggrieved probably agree with the censorship.
So who the hell decides what it's OK to censor and what's not OK? The Government? Hmm... Don't think I like that idea, relying on the Government to do our thinking for us has lead to all sorts of problems. The majority? Well, since the majority seem happy to let the Government do the thinking for them, I think this is basically the same as the first option... Where does that leave us? Letting some minority of people decide what it's OK to censor and what's not? But which minority? The most vocal one? Seems even worse than the government to me...
Maybe we just shouldn't censor anything. *Anything*. If people want to look up Child Porn then we'll let them, and just arrest them later. But wait, what's stopping the Government from passing laws and arresting/fining/harassing/etc. people who view things they don't approve of?
This looks like a tricky question, and I don't believe there's a perfect answer. Shit, there might not even be a good answer, just a 'less bad' one...
If we start down this road, the next stop is censoring the 9/11 conspiricy folks, because they're ideas are disturbing people, and so on and so on...
Wouldn't be too terribly surprised, to be honest. And who's going to stand up for them? People already think they're weird (I think they're weird. Harmless, mostly, but weird), and if you're on their side you risk being seen as 'one of them'.
And again, most people *won't notice*. Maybe they're wonder why they don't see all these 9/11 conspiracy crackpots around so much, but I can't imagine it will worry them. They'll just be happy the internet is a 'cleaner' place.
Guess it's up to us to ensure that we're censoring the right things. Well, us and everyone else who actually gives a shit...
Either this is a really, really serious meltdown which completely killed not only the server but all their backups as well (and what're the chances of that?), or their IT guys have been really, really slack and just didn't make any backups...
Guess they should have used a better smartphone, like *anything* else on the market... Even the cloud-centric Pre will still work if you don't have access to the Cloud - even if Google and/or Palm dies, you'll still have all your information on your phone! Jesus... Doesn't inspire confidence...
Java Printing on Linux broke at some point. Before upgrading to 9.04, try installing Java 1.6 and Java 1.5, and seeing if either of them work. If they don't, then you'll probably need to upgrade to 9.04, assuming the bug has actually been fixed. Otherwise, you're completely SOL. Some Java applications (like Eclipse) seem to bypass the Java Print API and can print, but if you're using the default Swing/AWT Print stuff, you're screwed.
I imagine they're much less common outside the US. In New Zealand, for example, I'm quite rare in having a contract. I know one other person who has a contract for non-business reasons (my bosses do, but they use them for work as well). Everyone else is on prepay. It's just better for most people I know. (Plans == not cheap. Cheapest Vodafone is NZ$20/month for 20 mins, 0 texts, 0MB. They get better, but that should give you some idea).
Also, there's no such thing as "unlimited" data over here, not even on fixed-line broadband. I've got no idea how they're going to sell the iPhone.
Mandarin's not that hard:). IMO, anyway. Just gotta work at it, and spend ages memorising stuff. But you have to focus and study consistently. I'd be surprised if you were able to learn it well if you only studied off-and-on.
Also, game is very cool, but still in Beta, and thus has, for me at least, responsiveness issues.
The wireless bit is the biggest problem with installing Ubuntu as far as I can tell - there's just a huge number of chipsets, the majority of which have propriety drivers, and some of which just won't work at all, no matter what you do. I think you may have actually been better off with a Broadcom: at least you would've quickly discovered this was a case of "Abandon hope now!"...
Did you install Ubuntu on the NTFS partition, or format it as Ext3 or what? If it wasn't an Ext3 partition, I suspect it would be the reverse-engineered NTFS drivers playing up. If it was Ext3, then I've got no idea... Maybe it'll be better in the future. *shrug*
Sucks that it didn't work out for you, but there we go.:(. I very carefully read up a lot before installing Ubuntu on my machine, and searched for my wireless drivers before installing Ubuntu. Got lucky, and it worked first time round. Similar deal with the printer.
Chinese Support, on the other hand, was horrific to get working...:(
What does Add/Remove programs do in Windows? Well, as I recall, it usually only REMOVES programs (if they've registered with it, and provided an uninstaller...), and provides nothing even remotely similar to the Ubuntu Add/Remove Programs application. So why in the name of god would someone coming from Windows ever bother to click on Add/Remove Applications? They'd only do that if they wanted to get rid of something, not if they wanted to add something.
If you read the article, it does say that you'll need a special contract and a special phone. And in addition to that contract, I believe you'll need to buy an unlimited data plan as well. Woo.
And it's not like you can put them on your iPod. If you want to use them on the computer, you'll need to use an approved player. Which I'm sure will be *fantastic*, the best *ever*!
And then I saw that it had DRM. And was limited to certain LG phones. Wow. Underwhelming, sad to say. Not that it'll appear down here, like, ever. Moving on.
And hell, it's *NOT REALLY FREE*. You need a special contract. Oh yeah. Sure, each track is free, but you're still paying a premium for it. I don't mind that, but it's a bit misleading. Not that I'm surprised.
They haven't even said which player will be able to play the files. It looks like Windows Media Player is a contender.
Seriously, I'm not surprised there aren't more embedded developers. There's next to no graduate Application Developer positions available right now where I am. I don't think I've seen a single Embedded Role come up recently. Admittedly, Wellington, New Zealand is a bit of a small sample size (then again, there's a disturbing number of IT jobs available given the population), but even so...
Doesn't seem to be any point in specializing in Embedded Development, because, as others have said, it's too hard to get a job in it.
You'd be pigeon-holing yourself into a market where there aren't enough entry-level positions to go around. Sure, if you got a job you'd be set, but if you didn't, you'd be kinda stuck. At least if you pigeon-hole yourself as a Microsoft C# Developer, then you'll always have work (you may not enjoy it, but it will be work).
Me, I'm just wondering why people dislike hiring Graduates so much. Sure, most people would have hired during the Graduate Recruitment part of the year, but I would have thought there would be more people out there looking to recruit Graduates given there's a shortage of experienced workers, and them train them up. Apparently I was being a little on the hopeful side. Well, actually, I was being far too hopeful. Managed a few interviews, but there's always been someone with more experience to take the job I wanted. *sigh*. That, or I'm not enough of a 'people person' which kinda hurts when you're looking for a software development role. Looks like it's a support role for me until I can find something better. Assuming I can even get a support role with just a degree and no experience.
Agreed. I'm not putting foot on US soil, probably ever, given the way things are currently going. Just... No. No way. Especially because buying a new laptop would be a significant expense... As would buying a new Treo, or whatever. Though the Treo isn't too bad, as you can just hard-reset it before giving it to them.
And how, exactly, do you propose that the software companies ensure that you're not keeping a copy of the software after selling it? With Steam it might work, as you could transfer your license to someone else's account. But that's really the only way to do it, isn't it? Have the publisher keep track of who owns the game. With software that doesn't require activation, or some other method of only allowing one copy to be used at any one time, it's simply too easy to abuse. So easy that you'd be legalizing piracy. Imagine that if you buy a game which requires only a CD Key. No activation, no online play, nothing that conceivably cause conflict if you kept your version. If you sell that to person A, you could keep your copy. There's nothing preventing you, except your own morals. Please note that the law doesn't prevent it, in the sense that it will actually come around to your house and stop you from playing or installing it, it just means that when (or if) you get caught, you're subject to damages, and maybe more severe penalties. And then person A could sell it to person B. Again, entirely legal. They bought it, they can resell it, from what I understand in the Wikipedia article. But Person A could also keep a copy, right? Again, assuming they have lax enough morals that they don't see a problem, what's stopping them? But instead of selling it, they could just give it away.
So if they give it away, one person buys something, and then suddenly everyone they know has a copy, as A gives to B who gives to C who gives to D who gives to E... etc. And it's all legal, in the sense that they are entitled to resell it. They're not entitled to keep a copy. That's illegal. But who'd know? And who, after 'giving' their copy away, would tell? Sure, it'd break down with a large enough number of people, but if it's just you and a couple of friends...
So I'm just curious about how you plan to prevent this while still allowing first-sale rights. And DRM is a valid solution. I'm just assuming that you want to be able to have your cake and eat it too.
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I, personally, have over 580GiB of games installed on my machine (the vast majority legally purchased!), completely excluding Windows and all other software. Admittedly, Games are much closer to data than apps, so installing them all to a separate drive would not trouble me at all. But they are still, strictly speaking, apps, and so every app I could possibly run on a cheap SSD? Not a chance in hell. My work machine, on the other hand, totals up 160GiB, data and all, so that would happily operate on a cheap SSD.
Actually, you should have 15Mb/s (but still only 2Mb/s up), and it only costs you NZ$76 - see http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/residential/inhome/internet/cable-broadband/index.cfm
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den
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If they cared about the truth, the Tiananmen square would be available for computer users in China...
Right, because if Google decides that they'll display *all* results for Tiananmen, Tibet, Xinjiang, etc., the Government wouldn't block them at all... Google *cannot* give information to the Chinese people that the Chinese government does not want them to see. If they try, they will be blocked and we will be back to where we started, except with one less search engine available to Chinese people.
Besides, I'm fairly sure Google censors content in America too. I'm not certain of that, but I'd be *extremely* surprised if you could find, say, Child Porn through a Google search, no matter where in the world you are located. If you can, then the rest of my post will look a bit silly, but I certainly wasn't going to looking for it. Don't see anyone making a fuss about that, though, because we all agree (well, almost all - the people who produce it probably don't) that Child Porn is *wrong*. And viewing it is against the law.
It's not like anyone's really noticed, since this isn't something you go and search for every day (well, I *hope* it isn't...), and I reckon that most people would instinctively agree with the decision to censor it. Hell, they probably wouldn't have it any other way. But then, as soon as Google (according to another countries laws) starts censoring things that we think people should have a right to find, we get all up in arms. This is despite the fact that a lot of the people on whose behalf we are aggrieved probably agree with the censorship.
So who the hell decides what it's OK to censor and what's not OK? The Government? Hmm... Don't think I like that idea, relying on the Government to do our thinking for us has lead to all sorts of problems. The majority? Well, since the majority seem happy to let the Government do the thinking for them, I think this is basically the same as the first option... Where does that leave us? Letting some minority of people decide what it's OK to censor and what's not? But which minority? The most vocal one? Seems even worse than the government to me...
Maybe we just shouldn't censor anything. *Anything*. If people want to look up Child Porn then we'll let them, and just arrest them later. But wait, what's stopping the Government from passing laws and arresting/fining/harassing/etc. people who view things they don't approve of?
This looks like a tricky question, and I don't believe there's a perfect answer. Shit, there might not even be a good answer, just a 'less bad' one...
If we start down this road, the next stop is censoring the 9/11 conspiricy folks, because they're ideas are disturbing people, and so on and so on...
Wouldn't be too terribly surprised, to be honest. And who's going to stand up for them? People already think they're weird (I think they're weird. Harmless, mostly, but weird), and if you're on their side you risk being seen as 'one of them'.
And again, most people *won't notice*. Maybe they're wonder why they don't see all these 9/11 conspiracy crackpots around so much, but I can't imagine it will worry them. They'll just be happy the internet is a 'cleaner' place.
Guess it's up to us to ensure that we're censoring the right things. Well, us and everyone else who actually gives a shit...
Yeah, that's a fair point. They don't actually say whether it was hardware or software. Just 'server failure'.
Either this is a really, really serious meltdown which completely killed not only the server but all their backups as well (and what're the chances of that?), or their IT guys have been really, really slack and just didn't make any backups...
Guess they should have used a better smartphone, like *anything* else on the market... Even the cloud-centric Pre will still work if you don't have access to the Cloud - even if Google and/or Palm dies, you'll still have all your information on your phone! Jesus... Doesn't inspire confidence...
Java Printing on Linux broke at some point. Before upgrading to 9.04, try installing Java 1.6 and Java 1.5, and seeing if either of them work. If they don't, then you'll probably need to upgrade to 9.04, assuming the bug has actually been fixed. Otherwise, you're completely SOL. Some Java applications (like Eclipse) seem to bypass the Java Print API and can print, but if you're using the default Swing/AWT Print stuff, you're screwed.
60 year old virgin CEO.
I get exactly the same.
You can get 40GB, or 80GB if you want to pay more...
They've also got 25/2 in Christchurch, with a 120GB cap (for NZ$225/month...).
I'm sure the price of bottled water will skyrocket to about the same level. What? You thought you could drink tap water?
I imagine they're much less common outside the US. In New Zealand, for example, I'm quite rare in having a contract. I know one other person who has a contract for non-business reasons (my bosses do, but they use them for work as well). Everyone else is on prepay. It's just better for most people I know. (Plans == not cheap. Cheapest Vodafone is NZ$20/month for 20 mins, 0 texts, 0MB. They get better, but that should give you some idea).
Also, there's no such thing as "unlimited" data over here, not even on fixed-line broadband. I've got no idea how they're going to sell the iPhone.
The machines are doing a good job of copying us - they're onto Mail-Order brides now...
Mandarin's not that hard :). IMO, anyway. Just gotta work at it, and spend ages memorising stuff. But you have to focus and study consistently. I'd be surprised if you were able to learn it well if you only studied off-and-on.
Also, game is very cool, but still in Beta, and thus has, for me at least, responsiveness issues.
I'd be happy to get 2 pages of printing out of my battery.
It's four years old, and spends most of its time plugged into AC, which can't be doing good things for the battery.
The wireless bit is the biggest problem with installing Ubuntu as far as I can tell - there's just a huge number of chipsets, the majority of which have propriety drivers, and some of which just won't work at all, no matter what you do. I think you may have actually been better off with a Broadcom: at least you would've quickly discovered this was a case of "Abandon hope now!"...
:(. I very carefully read up a lot before installing Ubuntu on my machine, and searched for my wireless drivers before installing Ubuntu. Got lucky, and it worked first time round. Similar deal with the printer.
:(
Did you install Ubuntu on the NTFS partition, or format it as Ext3 or what? If it wasn't an Ext3 partition, I suspect it would be the reverse-engineered NTFS drivers playing up. If it was Ext3, then I've got no idea... Maybe it'll be better in the future. *shrug*
Sucks that it didn't work out for you, but there we go.
Chinese Support, on the other hand, was horrific to get working...
What does Add/Remove programs do in Windows? Well, as I recall, it usually only REMOVES programs (if they've registered with it, and provided an uninstaller...), and provides nothing even remotely similar to the Ubuntu Add/Remove Programs application. So why in the name of god would someone coming from Windows ever bother to click on Add/Remove Applications? They'd only do that if they wanted to get rid of something, not if they wanted to add something.
Yes, but that would mean that either the US doesn't torture, or Canada really is in the same league as China when it comes to Piracy.
If you read the article, it does say that you'll need a special contract and a special phone. And in addition to that contract, I believe you'll need to buy an unlimited data plan as well. Woo.
And it's not like you can put them on your iPod. If you want to use them on the computer, you'll need to use an approved player. Which I'm sure will be *fantastic*, the best *ever*!
And then I saw that it had DRM. And was limited to certain LG phones. Wow. Underwhelming, sad to say. Not that it'll appear down here, like, ever. Moving on.
And hell, it's *NOT REALLY FREE*. You need a special contract. Oh yeah. Sure, each track is free, but you're still paying a premium for it. I don't mind that, but it's a bit misleading. Not that I'm surprised.
They haven't even said which player will be able to play the files. It looks like Windows Media Player is a contender.
All-in-all, not impressed.
Seriously, I'm not surprised there aren't more embedded developers. There's next to no graduate Application Developer positions available right now where I am. I don't think I've seen a single Embedded Role come up recently. Admittedly, Wellington, New Zealand is a bit of a small sample size (then again, there's a disturbing number of IT jobs available given the population), but even so...
Doesn't seem to be any point in specializing in Embedded Development, because, as others have said, it's too hard to get a job in it.
You'd be pigeon-holing yourself into a market where there aren't enough entry-level positions to go around. Sure, if you got a job you'd be set, but if you didn't, you'd be kinda stuck. At least if you pigeon-hole yourself as a Microsoft C# Developer, then you'll always have work (you may not enjoy it, but it will be work).
Me, I'm just wondering why people dislike hiring Graduates so much. Sure, most people would have hired during the Graduate Recruitment part of the year, but I would have thought there would be more people out there looking to recruit Graduates given there's a shortage of experienced workers, and them train them up. Apparently I was being a little on the hopeful side. Well, actually, I was being far too hopeful. Managed a few interviews, but there's always been someone with more experience to take the job I wanted. *sigh*. That, or I'm not enough of a 'people person' which kinda hurts when you're looking for a software development role. Looks like it's a support role for me until I can find something better. Assuming I can even get a support role with just a degree and no experience.
Nope. :)
Agreed. I'm not putting foot on US soil, probably ever, given the way things are currently going. Just... No. No way. Especially because buying a new laptop would be a significant expense... As would buying a new Treo, or whatever. Though the Treo isn't too bad, as you can just hard-reset it before giving it to them.
But Google's not an ISP...
I don't have the faintest idea, personally. How can I use Thunderbird to book me some hookers? This seems like important information...
And how, exactly, do you propose that the software companies ensure that you're not keeping a copy of the software after selling it? With Steam it might work, as you could transfer your license to someone else's account. But that's really the only way to do it, isn't it? Have the publisher keep track of who owns the game. With software that doesn't require activation, or some other method of only allowing one copy to be used at any one time, it's simply too easy to abuse. So easy that you'd be legalizing piracy. Imagine that if you buy a game which requires only a CD Key. No activation, no online play, nothing that conceivably cause conflict if you kept your version. If you sell that to person A, you could keep your copy. There's nothing preventing you, except your own morals. Please note that the law doesn't prevent it, in the sense that it will actually come around to your house and stop you from playing or installing it, it just means that when (or if) you get caught, you're subject to damages, and maybe more severe penalties. And then person A could sell it to person B. Again, entirely legal. They bought it, they can resell it, from what I understand in the Wikipedia article. But Person A could also keep a copy, right? Again, assuming they have lax enough morals that they don't see a problem, what's stopping them? But instead of selling it, they could just give it away.
So if they give it away, one person buys something, and then suddenly everyone they know has a copy, as A gives to B who gives to C who gives to D who gives to E... etc. And it's all legal, in the sense that they are entitled to resell it. They're not entitled to keep a copy. That's illegal. But who'd know? And who, after 'giving' their copy away, would tell? Sure, it'd break down with a large enough number of people, but if it's just you and a couple of friends...
So I'm just curious about how you plan to prevent this while still allowing first-sale rights. And DRM is a valid solution. I'm just assuming that you want to be able to have your cake and eat it too.