Well, it has been going on the ages, but I think that it is fair to say it has blown up now. The issue had been swept under the carpet by the police and government until recently. The Guardian have been telling the Met, the Government and the PCC for years that they have all of this information, and if it wasn't investigated properly they would run the stories. Eventually they called time. I don't think it is necessarily the change of public mood that has caused it to explode in such a manner. I think it is implications of criminal activity perpetrated by so many powerful people in Government and the Met. They have had to all come out and start blaming each other for it, as opposed to leaving it in the long grass where they wanted it. The public reaction hasn't actually been that great, it was a massive media and Westminster reaction though. In some ways you could still call it a storm in a teacup.
Err, this is just not true. Any public sector jobs have far stricter rules regarding the procurement of employees compared to private sector. If people try anything like what you have suggested, then they would be risking the sack. Not saying it doesn't happen a bit, but in my experience many businesses are hampered by family and other personal allegiance a lot more frequently.
It's not a failure if you're in the business of government. When you're spending other people's money, it hardly matters whether you "succeed" or "fail". What matters is that the money passes through your hands, giving you a chance to exploit that cash flow for personal gain. At the top of the pyramid, ANY expansion of cash flow is desirable, no matter what the consequences. Your time in power won't last forever, and you've got to move if you want to exploit it. This domain-seizure program pales in comparison to the death, destruction, and injustice caused by drug prohibition, but the goal is essentially the same: justification for spending, borrowing, and generally expanding the business of government.
You're not in the business of government, are you?
A few years ago, just after I left my school, a few students ended up suspended after setting up and commenting on a facebook group called "Bring back Mr.Bla" ("Bla" not being the name of a previous principle) in protest of a newly appointed school principal. Their comments were not as slanderous as these, they mainly commented on the poor management decisions made by new principle and one person called him a "twat". It was ridiculous, especially seeing as the majority of members of staff agreed with everything that had been said on the page. But it was considered perfectly legal and correct. Crazy!
I would suggest sending it back then. Mine gets warm if I run really high strain stuff like sygic or something, but not when playing flash videos. Of course it is going to drain the battery quicker than normal, the screen will have to be constantly on while you watch the video. That will be the prime cause of battery drain, but you get that watching any video. Battery life on the N900 isn't great, it has to be said. You only really get a days normal use out of it. But its really no worse than an iPhone, and at least you can take the battery out and change it over, or get a new one when it starts to die. Also, you get get significantly longer use out of it if you turn of internet connections, and all the widgets. It will last for days then.
It really is aimed at the slightly more tech inclined than, say, a typical iPhone user. You cirtainly don't have to be a genius to use it. In fact, I think the interface is more intuitive than an iPhone. But it gives you a lot of power. Like you can multi-task, and have as many crazy apps open as you like. Of course that means that it will slow down, but as long as you realise that having loads of apps open is going to slow it down, you will be fine. Same with loads of widgets, etc. If you like linux, and hacking, then this phone offers hacking capabilities that no other phone comes anywhere near to. But you don't have to do that. Nokia have been a bit callas with it however. Like it doesn't work with their Ovi store, and getting it to work with the old PC suite is tricky, and there are only a few functions that work. Lack of OOTB MMS support was pretty stupid as well. Luckily most of these problems have been solved by the community, but you need to know where to look. Most reviewers wont bother to go exploring maemo.org to realise the phones potential.
Presumably it just utilises the.flv stream with a codec. Like when you install a codec on your computer to play.flv videos (through media player classic or something). Flash is used in the browser to form the player of the stream. So it gives you all the buttons, position on the page, size, etc... The.flv file is essentially just a H.263 video stream.
I see. Have you tried overclocking it a bit? I don't think I could access daily show videos from the UK so I can't test it. But so far it's been able to do everything I've thrown at it.
Does T-mobile in the US not support HSDPA (3.5G). Also, that shouldn't really change the outcome of a phone review. Maybe as a side note, but you can always buy the phone from Nokia and then get a sim only contract. Also, as a side not to this: T-mobile has very good reception in the UK, especially out in the country.
My N900 plays flash video pretty well on the standard MicroB browser. Youtube is seamless. Slightly bigger, less optimised players like megavideo can be made to work with a bit of simple overclocking. Even iPlayer works OOTB.
Hmm. The only reason it stuck is because we had gone round, raping and pillaging half the world. But anyway, Greenwich sounds so much better than Zulu!
put more apples on the table and find how many are on it now
isn't really right. That is a standard use of English grammar, which you can then convert into a standard piece of mathematics notation. It is ridiculous to expect an education system to teach outside of the standard mathematics notation. I mean, where would you draw the line? You just can't teach every possible wacko notation, and I don't know how you could choose which to teach between a bunch of incorrect notations. Also, teaching non-standard notation is bad for society, because it would propel the use of it, thus increasing the problem.
Well, where I come from (England) they do not do that automatically, especially not in a murder trial. There would be a lengthy trial to try to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you did it. Of course your plea would be factor into that decision, but would not necessarily be conclusive. There are many instances of people protecting loved ones, being blackmailed, etc... There are many possible scenarios where somebody could be entering a false guilty plea. Only if there is no evidence to suggest that someone else did it, and there is no evidence to contradict your claim (i.e. somebody saw you elsewhere at the time of the murder) could a guilty verdict be reached without any evidence to support it (except the plea).
Well, given the fact that most stories you hear on such internet forums are complete codswallop, I think it would be very hard to get a conviction on a 19 year old who was bragging about how fast he drove his car. Most numbers uttered by a 19 year old have to be divided by 3 before they are close to the truth anyway. A stupid number of people would be in prison if police could go round internet forums (4chan would be a good start), read some nobheads cock and bull story about how he once smoked 42 ounces of pot in 2 seconds and put him away without any evidence to back up the story.
No of couse it doesn't fix the problem. Its just a response to problem to try and reduce its affect. Everybody ends up getting the same amount of money, surely that is better?
Doesn't really matter which way round it is taken, it still costs more for domestic partners than married partners. You can call that extra tax. Anyway, that's beside the point. Fact is it costs more, and that is discriminating against both homosexuals and people who just don't believe in marriage.
A debug feature who's data persists through a factory reset? I don't buy it.
What are you suggesting it is? A plot by HTC to somehow retrieve private data from its customers? Seems pretty far fetched to me, and it is quite a leap from the evidence presented here. I think occam's razor suggests this is a mistake. Not a small one, but I can't see that it is anything else.
Hmm, it does make life easier viewing youtube (i know there are other ways like html5, but that is still rather clunky), iplayer, etc... I would be very happy with adobe dropping support for flash entirely. Then we would very quickly move into a much more preferable situation. But dropping support just for the 64bit is a bit annoying, as it wont really push content providers to move away from flash, but it will unfairly hinder a (small) section of users.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, it has been going on the ages, but I think that it is fair to say it has blown up now. The issue had been swept under the carpet by the police and government until recently. The Guardian have been telling the Met, the Government and the PCC for years that they have all of this information, and if it wasn't investigated properly they would run the stories. Eventually they called time. I don't think it is necessarily the change of public mood that has caused it to explode in such a manner. I think it is implications of criminal activity perpetrated by so many powerful people in Government and the Met. They have had to all come out and start blaming each other for it, as opposed to leaving it in the long grass where they wanted it. The public reaction hasn't actually been that great, it was a massive media and Westminster reaction though. In some ways you could still call it a storm in a teacup.
Oh, BURN!
Err, this is just not true. Any public sector jobs have far stricter rules regarding the procurement of employees compared to private sector. If people try anything like what you have suggested, then they would be risking the sack. Not saying it doesn't happen a bit, but in my experience many businesses are hampered by family and other personal allegiance a lot more frequently.
Tell her to man up and get used to guys smelly feet.
It's not a failure if you're in the business of government. When you're spending other people's money, it hardly matters whether you "succeed" or "fail". What matters is that the money passes through your hands, giving you a chance to exploit that cash flow for personal gain. At the top of the pyramid, ANY expansion of cash flow is desirable, no matter what the consequences. Your time in power won't last forever, and you've got to move if you want to exploit it. This domain-seizure program pales in comparison to the death, destruction, and injustice caused by drug prohibition, but the goal is essentially the same: justification for spending, borrowing, and generally expanding the business of government.
You're not in the business of government, are you?
[Citation Needed]
A few years ago, just after I left my school, a few students ended up suspended after setting up and commenting on a facebook group called "Bring back Mr.Bla" ("Bla" not being the name of a previous principle) in protest of a newly appointed school principal. Their comments were not as slanderous as these, they mainly commented on the poor management decisions made by new principle and one person called him a "twat". It was ridiculous, especially seeing as the majority of members of staff agreed with everything that had been said on the page. But it was considered perfectly legal and correct. Crazy!
I would suggest sending it back then. Mine gets warm if I run really high strain stuff like sygic or something, but not when playing flash videos. Of course it is going to drain the battery quicker than normal, the screen will have to be constantly on while you watch the video. That will be the prime cause of battery drain, but you get that watching any video.
Battery life on the N900 isn't great, it has to be said. You only really get a days normal use out of it. But its really no worse than an iPhone, and at least you can take the battery out and change it over, or get a new one when it starts to die. Also, you get get significantly longer use out of it if you turn of internet connections, and all the widgets. It will last for days then.
It really is aimed at the slightly more tech inclined than, say, a typical iPhone user. You cirtainly don't have to be a genius to use it. In fact, I think the interface is more intuitive than an iPhone. But it gives you a lot of power. Like you can multi-task, and have as many crazy apps open as you like. Of course that means that it will slow down, but as long as you realise that having loads of apps open is going to slow it down, you will be fine. Same with loads of widgets, etc. If you like linux, and hacking, then this phone offers hacking capabilities that no other phone comes anywhere near to. But you don't have to do that.
Nokia have been a bit callas with it however. Like it doesn't work with their Ovi store, and getting it to work with the old PC suite is tricky, and there are only a few functions that work. Lack of OOTB MMS support was pretty stupid as well. Luckily most of these problems have been solved by the community, but you need to know where to look. Most reviewers wont bother to go exploring maemo.org to realise the phones potential.
Really? Seems a surprising way to go about it. Do you have a source for that?
Presumably it just utilises the .flv stream with a codec. Like when you install a codec on your computer to play .flv videos (through media player classic or something). Flash is used in the browser to form the player of the stream. So it gives you all the buttons, position on the page, size, etc... The .flv file is essentially just a H.263 video stream.
I see. Have you tried overclocking it a bit? I don't think I could access daily show videos from the UK so I can't test it. But so far it's been able to do everything I've thrown at it.
Does T-mobile in the US not support HSDPA (3.5G). Also, that shouldn't really change the outcome of a phone review. Maybe as a side note, but you can always buy the phone from Nokia and then get a sim only contract.
Also, as a side not to this: T-mobile has very good reception in the UK, especially out in the country.
Classic.
My N900 plays flash video pretty well on the standard MicroB browser. Youtube is seamless. Slightly bigger, less optimised players like megavideo can be made to work with a bit of simple overclocking. Even iPlayer works OOTB.
You can pretty much always improve your grade by cheating. Also, some people's intelligence is not that well trained to passing exams.
Hmm. The only reason it stuck is because we had gone round, raping and pillaging half the world. But anyway, Greenwich sounds so much better than Zulu!
put more apples on the table and find how many are on it now
isn't really right. That is a standard use of English grammar, which you can then convert into a standard piece of mathematics notation.
It is ridiculous to expect an education system to teach outside of the standard mathematics notation. I mean, where would you draw the line? You just can't teach every possible wacko notation, and I don't know how you could choose which to teach between a bunch of incorrect notations. Also, teaching non-standard notation is bad for society, because it would propel the use of it, thus increasing the problem.
Well, where I come from (England) they do not do that automatically, especially not in a murder trial. There would be a lengthy trial to try to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you did it. Of course your plea would be factor into that decision, but would not necessarily be conclusive. There are many instances of people protecting loved ones, being blackmailed, etc... There are many possible scenarios where somebody could be entering a false guilty plea.
Only if there is no evidence to suggest that someone else did it, and there is no evidence to contradict your claim (i.e. somebody saw you elsewhere at the time of the murder) could a guilty verdict be reached without any evidence to support it (except the plea).
Well, given the fact that most stories you hear on such internet forums are complete codswallop, I think it would be very hard to get a conviction on a 19 year old who was bragging about how fast he drove his car. Most numbers uttered by a 19 year old have to be divided by 3 before they are close to the truth anyway.
A stupid number of people would be in prison if police could go round internet forums (4chan would be a good start), read some nobheads cock and bull story about how he once smoked 42 ounces of pot in 2 seconds and put him away without any evidence to back up the story.
Please don't feed this troll.
I don't infer from "fastest card ever made" that it will be the last card made.
No of couse it doesn't fix the problem. Its just a response to problem to try and reduce its affect. Everybody ends up getting the same amount of money, surely that is better?
Doesn't really matter which way round it is taken, it still costs more for domestic partners than married partners. You can call that extra tax.
Anyway, that's beside the point. Fact is it costs more, and that is discriminating against both homosexuals and people who just don't believe in marriage.
A debug feature who's data persists through a factory reset? I don't buy it.
What are you suggesting it is? A plot by HTC to somehow retrieve private data from its customers? Seems pretty far fetched to me, and it is quite a leap from the evidence presented here. I think occam's razor suggests this is a mistake. Not a small one, but I can't see that it is anything else.
Hmm, it does make life easier viewing youtube (i know there are other ways like html5, but that is still rather clunky), iplayer, etc... I would be very happy with adobe dropping support for flash entirely. Then we would very quickly move into a much more preferable situation. But dropping support just for the 64bit is a bit annoying, as it wont really push content providers to move away from flash, but it will unfairly hinder a (small) section of users.