Of course not everyone works on OS software for free and I never said Apple didn't do anything but they certainly have to do less than if they built their own thing from scratch. Again, if it costs so much to cover their OS development which I will happily accept but by accepting that this means their hardware costs much be lower than most people would expect perhaps even on part with what others spend so why is their hardware infinitely better than a Windows PC? Either way Windows users are being fucked in the butt.
In issue 100 G.I.Joe that was tried when Cobra took over Millville but it didn't work thanks to Cobra's signal jamming jets. Now Cobra rarely wins and if such an incompetent terrorist organisations can think of signal jamming jets then surely Egypt can too.
I would also recommend they use Dr. Mindbender's cyberspace matrix from issue 150 to protect Egypt against ninjas.
I agree. The design looks nicer and performs better on my laptop and android phone and you can actually use the touch screen to navigate now. The best bit though is it doesn't kill my G1 when there are a lot of comments.I agree. The design
My point is that despite the US' size most states aren't that different from European countries in regards to population. Again take for instance Pennsylvania. They have a population of 12 million vs Austria's 8 million. Austria's is 32,383 sq mi and PA is 46,055 sq mi. PA's density is 289 people per sq mi and Austria is257 people per sq mi. Yet Austria's average speed is almost double that of PA. From what I can tell Austria is anywhere from an average of 8 meg to 10. PA seems to have an average of 4 meg but some stats say that 51% of the population have 4 meg or less so it could be worse.
PA has received money to help improve their broadband infrastructure. It will be interesting to see if anything actually happens but for a country that prides itself on supposedly being the best place to live it is lacking in areas that are quickly becoming necessities.
Where as PA is looking at 52.5% penetration and an average speed of 746.8 kb according to this page which claims that data came form pa.gov as of 2008. So that said if they did manage to get up to an average speed of 4 megs rather than it being the average that people have 4 meg or less then they've actually improved. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335740,00.asp Though I believe the average, if it has gone up is mainly from people having super sweet fiber broadband in a few key areas. Either way Austria has grown faster and I've not even covered their mobile broadband which apparently is or should be 3.5G with speeds up to 21 megs.
In the UK, I've lived here from 2002 until now and I'm not even in a densely populated area and my options have gone from 2 megs to 20megs as of last year. I could get even higher if I were in a town with cable.
Think about what sort of countries you picture if you were to talk about countries little or no phone access. Is unwise to restrict your citizens to communication. The government recognised that when they enacted the communications act which should be updated to include broadband.
Other countries are recognising that broadband is very important and quickly giving people options. The US seems to be either claiming it's impossible or too expensive when in reality that's not true. The US as a whole is bigger but most states are comparable to other countries and it's up to the states to do something about it as it appears PA is doing. Therefore the problem isn't that big.
You have to ask yourself is it more expensive to just lay the fiber now and create jobs or fall behind and not be able to compete with the rest of the world or even have to maintain numerous ways to get information to people because large swathes of the country have been left behind.
No, verizon won't be that happy to lay it even if you pay for it. One of the phone lines were cut in an accident and people complained to them for ages to fix it properly and their reply was not to cough up cash but instead that you can hear people on the other end so you can make calls and it's fine. My parent's neighbourhood could go with local cable co-op deal and pay to lay the lines. You're talking about a little under a mile for that option. Most people seem keen on waiting until someone else pays out so they only have to pay to hook up to the line up to the end of the road so basically it'll never happen due to selfishness.
I'm sure eventually some half assed option will come about but if they get something basic in 5 to 10 years then they're still behind everyone else and that will increasingly make areas like that less attractive which will have a knock-on effect on housing costs and local economies. States, like European countries, need to realise that.
The thing is they do have to maintain them but to a minimal level so basically you call up and the guy is like you can hear me therefore you can make phone calls so it's good enough.
AFAIK al their responsibilities came well before the internet so you're probably lucky they do anything for you in relation to the internet.
This is bullshit. In previous topics on slashdot about this (I believe it was about Swedish or Finland broadband) and they had a better spread for broadband coverage. Believe it or not, not everyone in Europe lives beside each other. There are mountains and rural people and in fact there are naturally fewer people in these rural areas yet they're more likely to have decent broadband.
You can then compare that to any one state and it will generally be worse no matter how densely populate. In fact as I recall PA broadband is a bit shit despite even in more populated areas.
Everyone in the US does not live a mile apart from each other. The mid-west is pretty spread out but the vast majority of the population live much closer together and on the coasts.
My parents live less than a mile away from the last house with DSL. It's been that way for ages so they like everyone else are stuck with dial-up and on lines that verizon isn't all that bothered about maintaining so people can have reasonable dial-up connections.
It is purely about commercial interest and if that's what the US that's fine but don't be surprised when you keep falling behind the rest of the world.
What makes you think it would cost that much? It's not like Apple is re-developing Apache and all the other open source software they use. They reuse a lot of code written by others where as MS can really only rely on themselves.
That also brings up the question that if the software is subsidised so much then the hardware is much cheaper so if Apple can maintain such high quality hardware then why can't others for the same cost?
OS X costs $29. A copy of Windows 7 ranges anywhere from $199.99 to $319.99. So I'm not sure where you're getting $1500 to $500 or do you think the hardware should be free?
I don't think it's sad. If terrorist can hold a nation hostage and cause them to fear everything then they do win. If you man-up and just get on with your lives showing little change then it devalues their attack which is a good thing.
Technically to earn the "right" to the title software engineer even in the UK there are certain requirements but that doesn't stop many people form having the title software engineer and I suspect it's the same in Canada.
Legal requirements for the licensing or certification of professional software engineers vary around the world. In the UK, the British Computer Society licenses software engineers and members of the society can also become Chartered Engineers (CEng), while in some areas of Canada, such as Alberta, Ontario,[13] and Quebec, software engineers can hold the Professional Engineer (P.Eng)designation and/or the Information Systems Professional (I.S.P.) designation; however, there is no legal requirement to have these qualifications.
In fact that article covers the fact that the term software engineer gets used more than it technically probably should but the term is a bit vague. Engineer in general is a bit of vague term.
My concern is always more about my pay than my title. More so in development since people generally don't understand the title software engineer so why care about it even if you're fully capable of obtaining it properly.
I agree but I found I was spending nearly as much to get the same sort of thing from a wintel PC and typically it wasn't as thin or had as good battery life. I got an SSD and you can hardly find a good wintel PC for a reasonable price with an SSD.
The selling point was that I could get an education discount because of my employer which more importantly meant the best warranty possible from Apple for something like £35 or £40 and there is an Apple shop just down the road if I do happen to need it.
That said my old IBM / Lenovo Thinkpad (it's an R60 from around the switch to Lenovo) is flawless. Sure it's heavy as hell but it still runs well. It was dual core 64-bit with a real graphics card. I can run Street fighter 4 on it and played tons of TF2, Half life 2, etc.
The only problem I had with it is the battery life started going a bit shit as of last year but other than that I think I'll easily have it for years to come.
I'd probably have gone for a thinkpad again if they were more flexible with adding SSDs into any model and I wasn't able to get the bargin on the Apple warranty as my only concern was to have something that ran Linux or something similar.
My Macbook Pro is as good (better even in my opinion) than previous macbooks. It's effectively like having a polish Linux system and I can control it fully. If I want to uninstall iTunes it'd be more than happy to and I feel no need to use it.
I'm not saying the way they handle their portables is perfect or what I'd like but their laptops and desktops are still excellent and make wintel machines feel cheap and awful.
I'm not saying Homer is really an engineer because he doesn't really build or maintain machines so I'd agree his title likely isn't right but he wouldn't need a 4 year degree for the title.
Mine's unlimited and I've gone over 1 gig many times. My co-worker uses his for internet acces for his laptop during his train journey and frequently uses 3+ gig a month. My deal is under £30 (£25 if I recall) a month so it's not even near being one of the more expensive packages.
Why is nudity automatically porn? Most definitions state that it has to either have no artistic value which is always debatable but Playboy is by far more artistic than pixelated videos of 10 men cumming on a woman and I think many people would consider a fair chunk of their work to have artistic value or that it has to be something sexually graphic which playboy is not.
If the mere act of being nude is enough then we have plenty of old statues and paintings that should be classed as pornography.
Nope, Firefox 4 C&P is broke for everything. But yeah I've noticed Slashdot was nice enough to break C&P in Chrome. That annoys the heck out of me because I typically would paste a lot at Slashdot. i'm not switching from Chrome for C&P on slashdot.
I typically use Firefox at work because it's better for web development and yes I should be using a beta for that but I have older versions on my VMs so I'm ok with attempting to have the latest as my main browser. That was until this C&P bug.
I'm not sure if it's just me or not but I can not cut/copy & paste with Firefox. I'm not sure how that went unnoticed but it's a pain in the ass so I'm back off it at work until it's fixed or I decide to roll back to the latest stable release.
Steve Jobs doesn't do everything in Apple. I'm sure he's been an excellent driver but I think they can live without him providing he is replaced with another decent leader and not someone like Ballmer for instance.
I'd hardly say corporations and financial institutions are being screwed. It's the citizens that are being screwed. Goldman Sachs is all about capitalism until they need bailed out and to thank the citizens for this honor they're sending them a big fuck you.
The question is whether the microwave maker did something wrong or not. If you make a car with broken locks then the manufacturer is in the wrong. If someone throws a rock through the window it's the criminal in the wrong. I'm not saying the software company is always in the wrong but when they are actually in the wrong then yes it's their fault.
They should be expected to take all reasonable measures to ensure something is as safe as possible. Knocking out new software as quickly as possible and patching later probably means they're not trying too hard.
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Of course not everyone works on OS software for free and I never said Apple didn't do anything but they certainly have to do less than if they built their own thing from scratch. Again, if it costs so much to cover their OS development which I will happily accept but by accepting that this means their hardware costs much be lower than most people would expect perhaps even on part with what others spend so why is their hardware infinitely better than a Windows PC? Either way Windows users are being fucked in the butt.
In issue 100 G.I.Joe that was tried when Cobra took over Millville but it didn't work thanks to Cobra's signal jamming jets. Now Cobra rarely wins and if such an incompetent terrorist organisations can think of signal jamming jets then surely Egypt can too.
I would also recommend they use Dr. Mindbender's cyberspace matrix from issue 150 to protect Egypt against ninjas.
I agree. The design looks nicer and performs better on my laptop and android phone and you can actually use the touch screen to navigate now. The best bit though is it doesn't kill my G1 when there are a lot of comments.I agree. The design
I agree with the bill but Al Franken shouldn't be in government at all let alone be president.
It looks much better than the previous version and, so far, seems to run better.
My point is that despite the US' size most states aren't that different from European countries in regards to population. Again take for instance Pennsylvania. They have a population of 12 million vs Austria's 8 million. Austria's is 32,383 sq mi and PA is 46,055 sq mi. PA's density is 289 people per sq mi and Austria is257 people per sq mi. Yet Austria's average speed is almost double that of PA. From what I can tell Austria is anywhere from an average of 8 meg to 10. PA seems to have an average of 4 meg but some stats say that 51% of the population have 4 meg or less so it could be worse.
PA has received money to help improve their broadband infrastructure. It will be interesting to see if anything actually happens but for a country that prides itself on supposedly being the best place to live it is lacking in areas that are quickly becoming necessities.
Telekom Austria stated they've gone from covering the main cities in 2001 to nearly 97% of the country's households. So from just one DSL provider it would appear that nearly anyone can get broadband in Austria. http://www.telekomaustria.com/presse/news/2010/0419-broadband-customer.php
Where as PA is looking at 52.5% penetration and an average speed of 746.8 kb according to this page which claims that data came form pa.gov as of 2008. So that said if they did manage to get up to an average speed of 4 megs rather than it being the average that people have 4 meg or less then they've actually improved. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335740,00.asp Though I believe the average, if it has gone up is mainly from people having super sweet fiber broadband in a few key areas. Either way Austria has grown faster and I've not even covered their mobile broadband which apparently is or should be 3.5G with speeds up to 21 megs.
In the UK, I've lived here from 2002 until now and I'm not even in a densely populated area and my options have gone from 2 megs to 20megs as of last year. I could get even higher if I were in a town with cable.
Think about what sort of countries you picture if you were to talk about countries little or no phone access. Is unwise to restrict your citizens to communication. The government recognised that when they enacted the communications act which should be updated to include broadband.
Other countries are recognising that broadband is very important and quickly giving people options. The US seems to be either claiming it's impossible or too expensive when in reality that's not true. The US as a whole is bigger but most states are comparable to other countries and it's up to the states to do something about it as it appears PA is doing. Therefore the problem isn't that big.
You have to ask yourself is it more expensive to just lay the fiber now and create jobs or fall behind and not be able to compete with the rest of the world or even have to maintain numerous ways to get information to people because large swathes of the country have been left behind.
No, verizon won't be that happy to lay it even if you pay for it. One of the phone lines were cut in an accident and people complained to them for ages to fix it properly and their reply was not to cough up cash but instead that you can hear people on the other end so you can make calls and it's fine. My parent's neighbourhood could go with local cable co-op deal and pay to lay the lines. You're talking about a little under a mile for that option. Most people seem keen on waiting until someone else pays out so they only have to pay to hook up to the line up to the end of the road so basically it'll never happen due to selfishness.
I'm sure eventually some half assed option will come about but if they get something basic in 5 to 10 years then they're still behind everyone else and that will increasingly make areas like that less attractive which will have a knock-on effect on housing costs and local economies. States, like European countries, need to realise that.
The thing is they do have to maintain them but to a minimal level so basically you call up and the guy is like you can hear me therefore you can make phone calls so it's good enough.
AFAIK al their responsibilities came well before the internet so you're probably lucky they do anything for you in relation to the internet.
This is bullshit. In previous topics on slashdot about this (I believe it was about Swedish or Finland broadband) and they had a better spread for broadband coverage. Believe it or not, not everyone in Europe lives beside each other. There are mountains and rural people and in fact there are naturally fewer people in these rural areas yet they're more likely to have decent broadband.
You can then compare that to any one state and it will generally be worse no matter how densely populate. In fact as I recall PA broadband is a bit shit despite even in more populated areas.
Everyone in the US does not live a mile apart from each other. The mid-west is pretty spread out but the vast majority of the population live much closer together and on the coasts.
My parents live less than a mile away from the last house with DSL. It's been that way for ages so they like everyone else are stuck with dial-up and on lines that verizon isn't all that bothered about maintaining so people can have reasonable dial-up connections.
It is purely about commercial interest and if that's what the US that's fine but don't be surprised when you keep falling behind the rest of the world.
What makes you think it would cost that much? It's not like Apple is re-developing Apache and all the other open source software they use. They reuse a lot of code written by others where as MS can really only rely on themselves.
That also brings up the question that if the software is subsidised so much then the hardware is much cheaper so if Apple can maintain such high quality hardware then why can't others for the same cost?
OS X costs $29. A copy of Windows 7 ranges anywhere from $199.99 to $319.99. So I'm not sure where you're getting $1500 to $500 or do you think the hardware should be free?
I don't think it's sad. If terrorist can hold a nation hostage and cause them to fear everything then they do win. If you man-up and just get on with your lives showing little change then it devalues their attack which is a good thing.
Legal requirements for the licensing or certification of professional software engineers vary around the world. In the UK, the British Computer Society licenses software engineers and members of the society can also become Chartered Engineers (CEng), while in some areas of Canada, such as Alberta, Ontario,[13] and Quebec, software engineers can hold the Professional Engineer (P.Eng)designation and/or the Information Systems Professional (I.S.P.) designation; however, there is no legal requirement to have these qualifications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering
In fact that article covers the fact that the term software engineer gets used more than it technically probably should but the term is a bit vague. Engineer in general is a bit of vague term.
My concern is always more about my pay than my title. More so in development since people generally don't understand the title software engineer so why care about it even if you're fully capable of obtaining it properly.
I agree but I found I was spending nearly as much to get the same sort of thing from a wintel PC and typically it wasn't as thin or had as good battery life. I got an SSD and you can hardly find a good wintel PC for a reasonable price with an SSD.
The selling point was that I could get an education discount because of my employer which more importantly meant the best warranty possible from Apple for something like £35 or £40 and there is an Apple shop just down the road if I do happen to need it.
That said my old IBM / Lenovo Thinkpad (it's an R60 from around the switch to Lenovo) is flawless. Sure it's heavy as hell but it still runs well. It was dual core 64-bit with a real graphics card. I can run Street fighter 4 on it and played tons of TF2, Half life 2, etc.
The only problem I had with it is the battery life started going a bit shit as of last year but other than that I think I'll easily have it for years to come.
I'd probably have gone for a thinkpad again if they were more flexible with adding SSDs into any model and I wasn't able to get the bargin on the Apple warranty as my only concern was to have something that ran Linux or something similar.
My Macbook Pro is as good (better even in my opinion) than previous macbooks. It's effectively like having a polish Linux system and I can control it fully. If I want to uninstall iTunes it'd be more than happy to and I feel no need to use it.
I'm not saying the way they handle their portables is perfect or what I'd like but their laptops and desktops are still excellent and make wintel machines feel cheap and awful.
A software engineer does not require a 4 year degree in the US or UK and I suspect it's the same in Canada. There are other engineers that would not require a 4 year degree. http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0266260#m_en_gb0266260
I'm not saying Homer is really an engineer because he doesn't really build or maintain machines so I'd agree his title likely isn't right but he wouldn't need a 4 year degree for the title.
There are their best efforts for the customers and the best efforts for themselves and the two aren't the same.
Mine's unlimited and I've gone over 1 gig many times. My co-worker uses his for internet acces for his laptop during his train journey and frequently uses 3+ gig a month. My deal is under £30 (£25 if I recall) a month so it's not even near being one of the more expensive packages.
Why is nudity automatically porn? Most definitions state that it has to either have no artistic value which is always debatable but Playboy is by far more artistic than pixelated videos of 10 men cumming on a woman and I think many people would consider a fair chunk of their work to have artistic value or that it has to be something sexually graphic which playboy is not.
If the mere act of being nude is enough then we have plenty of old statues and paintings that should be classed as pornography.
Nope, Firefox 4 C&P is broke for everything. But yeah I've noticed Slashdot was nice enough to break C&P in Chrome. That annoys the heck out of me because I typically would paste a lot at Slashdot. i'm not switching from Chrome for C&P on slashdot.
I typically use Firefox at work because it's better for web development and yes I should be using a beta for that but I have older versions on my VMs so I'm ok with attempting to have the latest as my main browser. That was until this C&P bug.
I'm not sure if it's just me or not but I can not cut/copy & paste with Firefox. I'm not sure how that went unnoticed but it's a pain in the ass so I'm back off it at work until it's fixed or I decide to roll back to the latest stable release.
Steve Jobs doesn't do everything in Apple. I'm sure he's been an excellent driver but I think they can live without him providing he is replaced with another decent leader and not someone like Ballmer for instance.
I should sure as hell hope Bill Gates is more admired than Glenn Beck.
I'd hardly say corporations and financial institutions are being screwed. It's the citizens that are being screwed. Goldman Sachs is all about capitalism until they need bailed out and to thank the citizens for this honor they're sending them a big fuck you.
Does Facebook have a fart app yet? Maybe I should make one and just watch the address & phone numbers roll in.
The question is whether the microwave maker did something wrong or not. If you make a car with broken locks then the manufacturer is in the wrong. If someone throws a rock through the window it's the criminal in the wrong. I'm not saying the software company is always in the wrong but when they are actually in the wrong then yes it's their fault.
They should be expected to take all reasonable measures to ensure something is as safe as possible. Knocking out new software as quickly as possible and patching later probably means they're not trying too hard.