Another vote here for a Nokia E-series or N-series (S60) phone. The integration of the SIP client into the UI is amazing.
Select your contact in the phonebook, and pick "Internet call". Works like a normal phonecall -- right down to bluetooth headsets "just working".
Contacts in your phonebook can even have "SIP numbers".
Even better, you can set it to prefer VoIP calls over cellphone calls whenever you're in WiFi coverage -- useful if you've got a good VoIP plan.
Australia. I've been issued a ticket for "Not stop at amber light". These infringements are generally issued by cops who are having a bad day and want to harass a motorist.
Alas, it was easier to just pay the fine than bother contesting the ticket in court.
Responding to the original poster: (also in Australia), red light cameras do take two photos: one where the light turns red, and another when a car crosses the line. They're triggered by an induction loop placed just after the "stop" line.
As someone who's hired a lot of developers, I can tell you now that going down the Testing path is a terrible idea.
As all good Software Engineers go, Developers Make Bad Testers(tm), and the same goes for the reciprocal. Testing and developing require two completely different mindsets. When we advertise developer positions, we get swarms of testers applying. Unless they've got something else to show for it, their application goes straight in the bin.
The best advice I can give you: contribute to an open source project.
This tells us three things: You actually can cut code, you're motivated enough to see something through, and money isn't your primary motivator.
Like it or not, web apps -- even the most powerful of them -- still suffer from one basic sticking point: They're limited by the browser.
Here's the perfect example: Name one webmail client where you can copy a picture from anywhere (browser, word, powerpoint) and paste it into an email. You can't, because web browsers lack (for security) the ability to interact with your clipboard.
Web apps suffer from another problem: Browsers use a "page based" paradigm. You know, because most of the web is about navigating between pages. Try as hard as you might, you can't get rid of those "Back" and "Forward" buttons above your application. In almost all web apps, a click of one of these buttons is disastrous. Sure, you can hack around it with frequent autosaves, but your poor user will still lose data.
In the long term it's NEVER cheaper to follow a vendor's lock-in.
If you consider the whole-of-life costs of a system, often Open Source does turn out more expensive. Open source products are constantly in a state of flux. Products fork or fold, vendors disappear.
I worked for a government department that procured an open source CMS, complete with a support contract from the vendor. A large part of the rationale was "if the vendor goes bust, we can just hire a bunch of developers, and continue with business-as-usual".
Of course, worst did come to worst. Three years after procurement, the vendor folded. The department hired four developers (which in it self, cost a lot more than the support contract).
Turns out that hiring *good* developers at government pay grades just isn't possible.
At least with a Microsoft product, if they tell you their product is going End-Of-Life, you can throw a couple of grand at Microsoft Consultants, and they'll move you to the next version of the product.
Unfortunately, domain of Australians doesn't have a large intersection with the domain of Slashdotters.
How do you think that initiatives such as Internet Filtering get serious consideration? The demographic that politicians (in Australia, anyway) generally target are white lower-middle class parents.
If I went up for election this year, I probably wouldn't even get 1% of the votes I'd need to win a seat. I'm not affiliated with a major political party, I'm not 40 years old, and I'm not married with children.
Arguably, PayPal is just a "transaction provider", like Western Union or Visa. The only difference is they allow you to store your money with them until you feel like transferring it elsewhere.
Paranoid people (like me) who are forced to use PayPal transfer money straight out into a bank account as soon as it arrives. The less time my money spends in PayPal's coffers, the less risk there is of them taking my money.
On another note, in many countries (e.g. Australia), PayPal has had to meet many of the regulations that apply to banks in order to deal with the public's money.
I think you misunderstand. The HTML5 standard does not specify a codec to be used in the <video> tag; just like the standards don't specify what image formats are to be used in the <img> tag.
Arguing that "it's not HTML5" because your browser (presumably, firefox) doesn't support h.264 would be no different to an Internet Explorer user saying "it's not HTML4.1" when a website uses PNG images.
Youtube has a large (and ever-increasing) following on mobile devices -- iPhone, Symbian, etc. These low-powered devices are generally able to play video using hardware acceleration.
One guess as to which codec is likely to have more widespread hardware acceleration.... Youtube is unlikely to alienate mobile users by picking Ogg Vorbis.
On the up-side; since Internet Explorer is unlikely in the near future to support HTML5 (let alone <video>), I predict that if Youtube does go the HTML5 path, there will still be a Flash fallback.
I had similar problems with the Intel X3100 on my mythtv box.
You can fix the problem by telling mplayer to use the overlay port (I inserted vo=xv:port=138 into my mplayer config).
I'm pushing 720p mp4 content to a 1080p panel with no issues now!
If Mars was solid gold, could we transport enough of it so that we could make a profit on the venture?
You'd also risk repeating what the Spanish did in Argentina in the 16th Century. You'd ship boatloads of Gold back to Earth, and as a result, the gold price plummets, devaluing your shipment.
Gold only has value because of it's relative rarity. If you suddenly dump kilotons of gold onto the market, it's no longer rare.
The drop in traffic is easy to explain. Most distros nowadays have a NetInst option, where you can download a small CD to boot off, then download only the packages you need.
For a bunch of techies on Slashdot it's hard to understand. It's like a car mechanic saying, "How could you not know your valves needed adjusting by how the engine was running? Now your motor is destroyed"
I whole-heartedly agree. However, how many people are willing to tinker under the hood of their car, or make modifications to it? Most people don't even bother to perform basic maintenance, such as checking tyre pressure.
The difference with computers is that everyone with a little bit of knowledge thinks they're an expert. Installing an application is, conceptually, not that different to say, performing an oil change. Both aren't that particularly difficult, but they require some knowledge, and if you get it wrong, the results can be disastrous.
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Speaking of Apple -- did anyone notice the smartphone they were demo'ing on in the video was an iPhone?
Even poor Microsoft employees don't use WinMo!
That and output as H.264 which is really the only choice.
Agree. H.264 is supported, in hardware, by most of the smartphones you care about (iPhone, Nokia/Symbian and most android phones).
I've found the output from mencoder (part of mplayer) has worked across all three platforms flawlessly.
Another vote here for a Nokia E-series or N-series (S60) phone. The integration of the SIP client into the UI is amazing.
Select your contact in the phonebook, and pick "Internet call". Works like a normal phonecall -- right down to bluetooth headsets "just working". Contacts in your phonebook can even have "SIP numbers".
Even better, you can set it to prefer VoIP calls over cellphone calls whenever you're in WiFi coverage -- useful if you've got a good VoIP plan.
does the NSA run completely on -gulp- windows?
You can rest assured that of all of the organizations on the planet this is one that will never be using Windows for its core mission.
Except of course, for Windows for Warships...
I hope you smacked J. J. Abrams around with a solid bar of Unobtainium.
Australia. I've been issued a ticket for "Not stop at amber light". These infringements are generally issued by cops who are having a bad day and want to harass a motorist.
Alas, it was easier to just pay the fine than bother contesting the ticket in court.
Responding to the original poster: (also in Australia), red light cameras do take two photos: one where the light turns red, and another when a car crosses the line. They're triggered by an induction loop placed just after the "stop" line.
As someone who's hired a lot of developers, I can tell you now that going down the Testing path is a terrible idea.
As all good Software Engineers go, Developers Make Bad Testers(tm), and the same goes for the reciprocal. Testing and developing require two completely different mindsets. When we advertise developer positions, we get swarms of testers applying. Unless they've got something else to show for it, their application goes straight in the bin.
The best advice I can give you: contribute to an open source project.
This tells us three things: You actually can cut code, you're motivated enough to see something through, and money isn't your primary motivator.
Linux can scale to 32 CPUs, but most applications can't.
Most my my time "spent waiting" is for Firefox chugging through all the Javascript that bogs slashdot down...
Like it or not, web apps -- even the most powerful of them -- still suffer from one basic sticking point: They're limited by the browser.
Here's the perfect example: Name one webmail client where you can copy a picture from anywhere (browser, word, powerpoint) and paste it into an email. You can't, because web browsers lack (for security) the ability to interact with your clipboard.
Web apps suffer from another problem: Browsers use a "page based" paradigm. You know, because most of the web is about navigating between pages. Try as hard as you might, you can't get rid of those "Back" and "Forward" buttons above your application. In almost all web apps, a click of one of these buttons is disastrous. Sure, you can hack around it with frequent autosaves, but your poor user will still lose data.
From another source:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/lazyjock/117509.flv
Using Amazon S3 is pretty good way to ensure that when this gets modded +5, it's still available.
I'd hate to be the guy who's paying the bill on that bucket...
In the long term it's NEVER cheaper to follow a vendor's lock-in.
If you consider the whole-of-life costs of a system, often Open Source does turn out more expensive. Open source products are constantly in a state of flux. Products fork or fold, vendors disappear.
I worked for a government department that procured an open source CMS, complete with a support contract from the vendor. A large part of the rationale was "if the vendor goes bust, we can just hire a bunch of developers, and continue with business-as-usual".
Of course, worst did come to worst. Three years after procurement, the vendor folded. The department hired four developers (which in it self, cost a lot more than the support contract).
Turns out that hiring *good* developers at government pay grades just isn't possible.
At least with a Microsoft product, if they tell you their product is going End-Of-Life, you can throw a couple of grand at Microsoft Consultants, and they'll move you to the next version of the product.
You appear to have provided too much detail. If you were following the formula correctly, it would be:
1. Find something that the target group is aware of that "threatens" them
2. Build up a cover that you are in a position to make that happen to them sooner
3. Claim you can make it go away for $$$. Enough so you make some money, but low enough that the target can scrounge it up.
4. ???
5. Profit
Unfortunately, domain of Australians doesn't have a large intersection with the domain of Slashdotters.
How do you think that initiatives such as Internet Filtering get serious consideration? The demographic that politicians (in Australia, anyway) generally target are white lower-middle class parents.
If I went up for election this year, I probably wouldn't even get 1% of the votes I'd need to win a seat. I'm not affiliated with a major political party, I'm not 40 years old, and I'm not married with children.
Arguably, PayPal is just a "transaction provider", like Western Union or Visa. The only difference is they allow you to store your money with them until you feel like transferring it elsewhere.
Paranoid people (like me) who are forced to use PayPal transfer money straight out into a bank account as soon as it arrives. The less time my money spends in PayPal's coffers, the less risk there is of them taking my money.
On another note, in many countries (e.g. Australia), PayPal has had to meet many of the regulations that apply to banks in order to deal with the public's money.
I think you misunderstand. The HTML5 standard does not specify a codec to be used in the <video> tag; just like the standards don't specify what image formats are to be used in the <img> tag.
Arguing that "it's not HTML5" because your browser (presumably, firefox) doesn't support h.264 would be no different to an Internet Explorer user saying "it's not HTML4.1" when a website uses PNG images.
Wait... You mean Cisco Telepresence doesn't fall in the category of "affordable and usable"?
Damn. All those certifications (read: hours of watching "24") have gone to waste...
Youtube has a large (and ever-increasing) following on mobile devices -- iPhone, Symbian, etc. These low-powered devices are generally able to play video using hardware acceleration.
One guess as to which codec is likely to have more widespread hardware acceleration.... Youtube is unlikely to alienate mobile users by picking Ogg Vorbis.
On the up-side; since Internet Explorer is unlikely in the near future to support HTML5 (let alone <video>), I predict that if Youtube does go the HTML5 path, there will still be a Flash fallback.
But then how will all the kiddyporn sites increase their PageRank when the Australian Government pays for their blacklist to be taken down??
I'm waiting for the Duplicity plugin!
Encrypted backups, for half the money Amazon S3 charges...
Is everyone here forgetting IP over DNS? How else would I get free internet at paid wifi access points??
It was... a joke. Thank god English is free of that stupid distinction?
but is it DFSG free?
I had similar problems with the Intel X3100 on my mythtv box. You can fix the problem by telling mplayer to use the overlay port (I inserted vo=xv:port=138 into my mplayer config).
I'm pushing 720p mp4 content to a 1080p panel with no issues now!
If Mars was solid gold, could we transport enough of it so that we could make a profit on the venture?
You'd also risk repeating what the Spanish did in Argentina in the 16th Century. You'd ship boatloads of Gold back to Earth, and as a result, the gold price plummets, devaluing your shipment.
Gold only has value because of it's relative rarity. If you suddenly dump kilotons of gold onto the market, it's no longer rare.
The drop in traffic is easy to explain. Most distros nowadays have a NetInst option, where you can download a small CD to boot off, then download only the packages you need.
All that P2P traffic IS just "Linux ISOs", right?
For a bunch of techies on Slashdot it's hard to understand. It's like a car mechanic saying, "How could you not know your valves needed adjusting by how the engine was running? Now your motor is destroyed"
I whole-heartedly agree. However, how many people are willing to tinker under the hood of their car, or make modifications to it? Most people don't even bother to perform basic maintenance, such as checking tyre pressure.
The difference with computers is that everyone with a little bit of knowledge thinks they're an expert. Installing an application is, conceptually, not that different to say, performing an oil change. Both aren't that particularly difficult, but they require some knowledge, and if you get it wrong, the results can be disastrous.