IMEI numbers are easy to change though. It's illegal, but very very easy to do. Hardware + software cost for Nokia is less than $100US - hardly going to break the bank of your average international terrorist organisation is it?
I wish you hadn't told me that, along with the existence of Santa Claus, the American apple pie being really American was the last childhood illusion I was successfully holding on to.
Our local high school has free-issued EEE PC's to all its students. It's interesting to note their reaction as a user group of widely varied aptitude
Almost all of them got a very poor first impression of the device because of it's god awful desktop. Silly stuff like the cross shaped cursor, and GEM 1.0 style menus. User bias like this often leads to returns when things get difficult. If the user thinks it's a POS then they won't bother to learn how to use it. Why not put KDE on there so it at least looks vaguely familiar to them.
Support for wireless networking is abymsal, setup is clunky and you need to be a power-user type of person to overcome the limitations of this. This means it's almost impossible for most of the kids to set these up to use a secondary network at home after the primary school network is locked in. Connection to the school network took three patches to get it working.
It's a shame the people who discuss Linux loudly as an alternative consumer OS still look at it from a power user viewpoint, instead of the average "ignorant" member of the public's view. Usability vs Windows is still the primary barrier to consumer acceptance of Linux, and unfortunately it looks like most of these webbooks are confirming this very point. Give the user what they want - easy wireless networking setup, automated updating that works, a pretty desktop and multi-protocol IM that works properly and returns will dramatically reduce.
Yeah, I was really surprised at that. I remember back in the good old days of SDI and unlimited defence budgets when I was a new graduate engineer, and these things were in their earlier stages, I was lucky enough to get my first job with a big defence company. The first test I witnessed, I expected a melt through the steel plate scenario when the laser fired, expected a blinding flash then to see a nice round neat laser beam shaped hole (as you do) - instead I got an earth-shattering kabooom, and lots of bits of steel everywhere. Apparently the bang was due to imperfections in and on the surface of the target plate and was "normal". Surprised me though, maybe I watched too much Star Trek.
Isn't the real problem that with a million TV channels on cable/satellite now and dozens of video streaming options, there just aren't enough hours in the day to watch it all. As the technology gets better for streaming from computer to TV - maybe the next incarnation of Windows Home Server, or similar - people will be playing direct from hard drive more and there will be no need for DVD-R, much less a HD replacement like BluRay.
Lots of products made by American companies are sold under different brand names in different markets. I'm surprised they didn't change it for the US market
As for my being a pompous douche - everyone has a hobby, that's mine, leave me to it.
It is a Scottish naming convention, that's where it comes from. Mc or Mac = Son of
McDonald = Son of Donald and exists as the name of a million or so people who have nothing to do with beef patties, or any other form of biological warfare
How can you argue that a word in a language which pre-dates English can become the property of a US corporation to the exclusion of the speakers of that language and/or their descendants
Actually, I think if you do the maths, you'll find that, all other things being equal, on a level road with no wind, it will take four times as much gas to run
I'd beg to differ. While 40 sample against the total number of vehicles on the road would be too small, 40 types against the total number of types of vehicles on the road is not necessarily so. I would suggest that if you were to categorise vehicles from the last 40 years irrespective of brand & model, you would struggle to come up with more than about 50-100 types, in which case a sample of 40 types would be adequate - overkill to some statisticians.
Economics have made cars more fuel efficient, as has increased emission control legislation - the poster surely merely illustrates the point using an anecdotal reference we can all relate to - he's not offering it as a PhD thesis in applied mathematics
Prius ?!?!?!?!
I wondered how long before the name of Satan's own chariot was touted. No vehicle has done more to trash the image of hybrids.
In real world driving in a Prius you'll be lucky to see your 45mpg, but in an average modern diesel compact you would regard 45mpg as poor.
I got a diesel hatchback recently as a courtesy car while my normal 3.6L Merc was being repaired. I hated it, but it sure was economical, returning an average 52mpg even with me doing my best to wring every last hp out of that poor little engine.
British rail used to offer a "MotorRail" service - your car went into a cargo wagon while you had the comfort of a sleeper cabin. I remember a few relatives using it London-Inverness when I was a kid.
But thermal attachment cycles are part of a component's design parameters - it can hardly be blamed as a cause of failure.
The thermal and mechanical characteristics of tin-lead solder are what they are, and likewise those of the various lead free replacements. Blaming them for problems in circuit design and reliability is ridiculous, problems apparent after RoHS implementation are purely failures on the part of the designer to adequately understand the consequences of lead free solder use. Lead free solder is nothing new, and there can be no excuse for failing to incorporate it's use into a design model.
Hp Pavillion DV9000 series certainly is (mine is on holiday at HP again, gone for a new mobo)
According to their site HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000 and Compaq Presario V3000/V6000 UK HP Support Article at hp.com
A note for UK readers. Don't let HP fob you off with the old "your warranty's expired BS". In UK (& most of EU) law says goods must be of "merchantable quality" at the time of sale, which means free of manufacturing defects and able to fulfil "reasonable expectations", including expectations of product life. In the case of "high-tech" electronics, this has generally been taken by the courts to mean five years, not 12 months.
Math is an abbreviation of Mathematics, a discipline which includes as a subset, Algebra
Thus Algebra is math,
but it isn't Arithmetic, which is perhaps the word you were seeking and would protect you from the grammar nazis
Reading the various threads from this article sees many just fall into the same old irreconcilable argument about which is "best"
There is no best. Why can't authors of code just say stuff like "GPL was the best for me for this bit of code" and those who think he should have chosen a different license just STFU and focus on what choice they will make themselves.
As an aside, I prefer GPL in most instances for one simple reason - I just don't like the idea of someone else making money from something I chose to give away for free. I feel that is they want to make money from their project then they should write the necessary code themselves, otherwise I consider them somewhat lazy, and somewhat leechy too. Similarly I hate bands doing cover versions of my favourite songs. I might be ignorant, and to some degree selfish, but I am entitled to my opinion, and in the case of my work, to decide under what conditions I wish to allow its reuse.
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IMEI numbers are easy to change though. It's illegal, but very very easy to do. Hardware + software cost for Nokia is less than $100US - hardly going to break the bank of your average international terrorist organisation is it?
Wouldn't it be easier to just make it illegal to be a criminal or terrorist.
American apple pie's are made in Japan too?!
I wish you hadn't told me that, along with the existence of Santa Claus, the American apple pie being really American was the last childhood illusion I was successfully holding on to.
Our local high school has free-issued EEE PC's to all its students. It's interesting to note their reaction as a user group of widely varied aptitude
Almost all of them got a very poor first impression of the device because of it's god awful desktop. Silly stuff like the cross shaped cursor, and GEM 1.0 style menus. User bias like this often leads to returns when things get difficult. If the user thinks it's a POS then they won't bother to learn how to use it. Why not put KDE on there so it at least looks vaguely familiar to them.
Support for wireless networking is abymsal, setup is clunky and you need to be a power-user type of person to overcome the limitations of this. This means it's almost impossible for most of the kids to set these up to use a secondary network at home after the primary school network is locked in. Connection to the school network took three patches to get it working.
It's a shame the people who discuss Linux loudly as an alternative consumer OS still look at it from a power user viewpoint, instead of the average "ignorant" member of the public's view. Usability vs Windows is still the primary barrier to consumer acceptance of Linux, and unfortunately it looks like most of these webbooks are confirming this very point. Give the user what they want - easy wireless networking setup, automated updating that works, a pretty desktop and multi-protocol IM that works properly and returns will dramatically reduce.
Yeah, I was really surprised at that. I remember back in the good old days of SDI and unlimited defence budgets when I was a new graduate engineer, and these things were in their earlier stages, I was lucky enough to get my first job with a big defence company. The first test I witnessed, I expected a melt through the steel plate scenario when the laser fired, expected a blinding flash then to see a nice round neat laser beam shaped hole (as you do) - instead I got an earth-shattering kabooom, and lots of bits of steel everywhere. Apparently the bang was due to imperfections in and on the surface of the target plate and was "normal". Surprised me though, maybe I watched too much Star Trek.
Isn't the real problem that with a million TV channels on cable/satellite now and dozens of video streaming options, there just aren't enough hours in the day to watch it all. As the technology gets better for streaming from computer to TV - maybe the next incarnation of Windows Home Server, or similar - people will be playing direct from hard drive more and there will be no need for DVD-R, much less a HD replacement like BluRay.
Why thank you kind person, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me on slashdot for ages
Lots of products made by American companies are sold under different brand names in different markets. I'm surprised they didn't change it for the US market As for my being a pompous douche - everyone has a hobby, that's mine, leave me to it.
And for all of us who would call ourselves English, we might retort that your English is not proper English, because it is not English English.
That might be lost on our American bretheren. I don't think that particular brand of water based sexual lubricant is sold in the USA
LMAO
Also used in Scottish naming conventions?!?!
It is a Scottish naming convention, that's where it comes from. Mc or Mac = Son of
McDonald = Son of Donald and exists as the name of a million or so people who have nothing to do with beef patties, or any other form of biological warfare
How can you argue that a word in a language which pre-dates English can become the property of a US corporation to the exclusion of the speakers of that language and/or their descendants
Actually, I think if you do the maths, you'll find that, all other things being equal, on a level road with no wind, it will take four times as much gas to run
I'd beg to differ. While 40 sample against the total number of vehicles on the road would be too small, 40 types against the total number of types of vehicles on the road is not necessarily so. I would suggest that if you were to categorise vehicles from the last 40 years irrespective of brand & model, you would struggle to come up with more than about 50-100 types, in which case a sample of 40 types would be adequate - overkill to some statisticians.
Economics have made cars more fuel efficient, as has increased emission control legislation - the poster surely merely illustrates the point using an anecdotal reference we can all relate to - he's not offering it as a PhD thesis in applied mathematics
Yes, but you're a cyclist. I'm not saying your argument has no merit, just that it's being made by a cyclist
Prius ?!?!?!?! I wondered how long before the name of Satan's own chariot was touted. No vehicle has done more to trash the image of hybrids. In real world driving in a Prius you'll be lucky to see your 45mpg, but in an average modern diesel compact you would regard 45mpg as poor. I got a diesel hatchback recently as a courtesy car while my normal 3.6L Merc was being repaired. I hated it, but it sure was economical, returning an average 52mpg even with me doing my best to wring every last hp out of that poor little engine.
British rail used to offer a "MotorRail" service - your car went into a cargo wagon while you had the comfort of a sleeper cabin. I remember a few relatives using it London-Inverness when I was a kid.
Duh! - this is an American internet and the only real currency is the dollar
Didn't you know The world = The United States of America just ask any American
But thermal attachment cycles are part of a component's design parameters - it can hardly be blamed as a cause of failure. The thermal and mechanical characteristics of tin-lead solder are what they are, and likewise those of the various lead free replacements. Blaming them for problems in circuit design and reliability is ridiculous, problems apparent after RoHS implementation are purely failures on the part of the designer to adequately understand the consequences of lead free solder use. Lead free solder is nothing new, and there can be no excuse for failing to incorporate it's use into a design model.
Hp Pavillion DV9000 series certainly is (mine is on holiday at HP again, gone for a new mobo) According to their site HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000 and Compaq Presario V3000/V6000 UK HP Support Article at hp.com
A note for UK readers. Don't let HP fob you off with the old "your warranty's expired BS". In UK (& most of EU) law says goods must be of "merchantable quality" at the time of sale, which means free of manufacturing defects and able to fulfil "reasonable expectations", including expectations of product life. In the case of "high-tech" electronics, this has generally been taken by the courts to mean five years, not 12 months.
Math is an abbreviation of Mathematics, a discipline which includes as a subset, Algebra Thus Algebra is math, but it isn't Arithmetic, which is perhaps the word you were seeking and would protect you from the grammar nazis
No it's still math The electronics have just been constructed in such a way as to add physicality to the math
It's not scary, after all there are really only two countries in the world
The USA and 'not the USA'
Jeremy Clarkson (outspoken and quite infamous journalist/TV bod in the UK) once said the rarest book in the USA was an atlas.
I think he was probably right.
Samsung and many others have marketed full blown XP, CE and Linux based thin clients for many years Capable of all the above plus web & email
That's a bit harsh isn't it?
Reading the various threads from this article sees many just fall into the same old irreconcilable argument about which is "best"
There is no best. Why can't authors of code just say stuff like "GPL was the best for me for this bit of code" and those who think he should have chosen a different license just STFU and focus on what choice they will make themselves.
As an aside, I prefer GPL in most instances for one simple reason - I just don't like the idea of someone else making money from something I chose to give away for free. I feel that is they want to make money from their project then they should write the necessary code themselves, otherwise I consider them somewhat lazy, and somewhat leechy too. Similarly I hate bands doing cover versions of my favourite songs. I might be ignorant, and to some degree selfish, but I am entitled to my opinion, and in the case of my work, to decide under what conditions I wish to allow its reuse.