nd yes, iPhone will work on any GSM carrier; that's the whole purpose of standards like GSM, and iPhone is a GSM phone.
While I wish this were true, if GSM standards demanded that phones worked on any GSM network, why are things like simlocking coming out which create phones which are locked to a specific carrier, just like CDMA?
I believe that GSM network owners hate that their phones will work anywhere, and that is why they're pushing for the capability to lock phones to their networks like what can be done with CDMA.
You're right; the early unions paved the way for what we have today as non-union members. However, I think that the unions of yesteryear that GOT that stuff done do not exist today. Unions today are a sea of mediocrity and seniority rule. More specifically: large unions are the problem. The whole "sister union" and "brother union" bullshit that allows completely unrelated sectors to go on sympathetic strike should be outright illegal, or at least pave the way for firing the entire fucking sympathetic union body.
Collective bargaining is a useful tool. When, however, said tool is a 15-ton wrecking ball it kind of ruins the original intent of the tool, which is to allow fairness and mutual respect on both sides of the bargaining table.
On the other hand, some of us do (I used to have a picture of me depressing both the control keys at once without pressing any other keys, on a full-size IBM keyboard) and even ordinary keyboards aren't large enough. I'd like to see someone do the IBM butterfly keyboard thing, except, I'd like to see them do it right.
I can do that too, but I have absolutely *no* problem typing on regular laptop keyboards. No sore wrists, even though my wrists pretty much enter the laptop "space" at the two lower corners. In fact, most days I prefer typing on a laptop keyboard!
You know, I'm reading Neuromancer right now. I have never been able to make it though the book, not in any of the several attempts I've made of it over the past 15 or so years. I find I just cannot get in to it. I just started Chapter 5, and it's a chore to not just put the book away. People keep telling me it's good, but... ugh.
from the FCC, since there is a legal limit on EIRP for 802.11. I strongly suspect that any means of increasing range to "several kilometers" would violate that limit.
Not entirely true. The FCC also allows you to increase EIRP up to 4W if your antenna gain is at least 6dBi and the system is a fixed, point-to-point setup (Part 15.247). You must also reduce your transmit power 1dB for every 3dB of antenna gain over 6dBi, which means you can technically achieve much higher than 4W EIRP if you've got a very directional system. Whether a ship anchored offshore qualifies as "fixed" or not, well I'm not sure.:-)
Hey everybody, I have found a magic speed bump. I'm not gonna tell you where it is, or show you pictures of it, but if you drive over it, you will be able to raise the dead!
I bet if you drive over any speed bump fast enough, the dead will at least jump...
I tried CVS for that... it is too much of a pain in the ass to patch CVS to accept root users. I don't know about you, but screwing about with permissions just to appease CVS was not my idea of fun. Maybe next time I'll run svn or something to see if it works better for config file management.
Because palmos doesn't multi-task. This is why the palm version of the treo can't support a wifi card.
Huh? Is that why my T|X uses a wifi card just fine? Palm is in the pockets of the carriers with the Treo; that's why it doesn't support the wifi card. The E2 supports it, the T|X does, but the Treo does not. The WinME version of the Treo I believe does, but that's likely because WinME has a lot more clout than Palm does.
Actually (audio) CDs don't have much for error correction at all; they use interleaving and interpolation to play even badly scratched CDs. Data CDs, as you point out, do indeed have significant amounts of error correction data encoded onto the disc.
Apple would be plunged into driver hell. I've got two windows machines on the bench right now with sound cards that don't work. One with an Ethernet card that won't work and one with a serial port that's conflicting with the sound card. I'll get it all sorted, of course, but it will take some hours. I'm no Mac fanboy and there some things about OSX that really torque me off, but I'm still planning to build my small recording studio around a Mac mini, because when I plug the audio gear into the family shared iBook it really does all just work.
That used to be true. Nowadays pretty much any motherboard from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, hell even MSI or ECS have peripherals that work "out of the box" or with the driver CD. "Driver hell" is largely a thing of the past, unless you're buying absolutely bottom-of-the-barrel crap. Apple could recognize a handful of manufacturers and have 80% of the PC marketplace, if they chose.
Honestly though, I don't see why they would. They're already selling like crazy. Why push for more? Why not wait until sales drop and then look for ways to make sales better?
In other news, vendors are likely to drop prices when in fear of losing customers.
Yes, but 90%? I've been in a position similar to that and after negotiating back and forth toward a price where I felt I was getting good value, they claimed they couldn't go any lower. They got wind I was looking very closely at one of their competitor's products and they gave a 25% discount on their "firm" price. I was insulted, and they did not get my business because of that. If the original vendor had held firm on their price I probably would have gone with them (their competitor's product was priced very similarly), but suddenly being able to lose another 25% on their price when it was already claimed it was as low as they could go... How can I trust anything they'd say, whether it be support or expansion or anything?
Yes, installing it's the easy part. The LDAP schema is what had me stumped. You also menton an LDAP admin -- How much work did they do to massage the schema into something they were happy with?
Thanks for the quick reply -- it's things like this that keep me reading/. -- the ability to find people who have done something I'd like to do before and can indicate where the hidden pitfalls are.:-)
Two hours of your time to set that up? I must be stupid.
How did you set up the LDAP schema to be able to keep all (or even most) of the Outlook Contact data (anniversaries, categories, etc.)? How do users manage this data? I've never found a schema I liked, and every time I sat down to devise a schema that would work properly with more than just one client I got bogged down in the details.
Do you have any more information, especially gotchas that you may have encountered when doing this? Honestly though if you did it all in two hours I imagine you didn't run into any trouble whatsoever.
There's something you're forgetting. Peanut butter is harmful for a very few people. Tobacco is harmful to *everybody*.
This is true, but until it's illegal I have a right to smoke where it's been deemed "safe". If I had some moron scream at me from a hundred yards away, he'd be receiving my raised middle finger at a minimum.
If you were as allergic to tobacco as he is, you'd yell too. I remember seeing his hand break out once because an ashtray had been spilled on him. It took a couple of weeks for the blistering and peeling to clear up.
Then *he*, not everyone else, needs to stay away from tobacco. His right to exist must not infringe on my right to smoke in a designated area. I'm really sick of this kind of thinking... My kids love peanut butter sandwiches, but I can't take them to a public school because someone else's kid is anaphylactic and could get themselves killed by being around my kid. Instead of taking the 1 or 2 kids who are anaphylactic and putting them somewhere safe, we instead sanitize the entire school system, at great expense, and at marginal benefit... The same kid could go into shock or die because the bus driver has peanut butter on his breath, or the kid picked up a breakfast bar wrapper on the way to school.
I don't mind helping people out, but this is just too far. It's too much. I'm really, really sorry that he's got a severe reaction to tobacco, and I am genuinely sorry that some children are anaphylactic. I'm also sorry that some kids have leukemia and others have genetic disorders. I sincerely do wish that all children could be happy and healthy and robust, but reducing absolutely everything down to a common level to protect all the weak ones is bad for society on a whole.
Nice description. It reminded me of an old description I shamelessly copied from somewhere long ago and forgot the source. If anyone knows, I'd love to give proper attribution:
"Think of the Internet as a highway."
There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the "Information Superhighway." They don't know anything about the 'net. It's nothing like a superhighway. What a rotten metaphor.
Suppose the metaphor ran the other way. Suppose highways were like the 'net.
A highway hundreds of lanes wide, most with pitfalls for potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol, save for a couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. Five hundred member vigilante posses with nuclear weapons. A minimum of 237 on-ramps at every intersection.
No Signs. Want to get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck and ask for directions. Ad hoc traffic laws. Some lanes would vote to make use by a single-occupant vehicle a capitol offense on Monday through Friday between 7:00am and 9:00pm. Other lanes would just shoot you without a trial for talking on a car phone.
America Online would be a giant diesel-smoking bus filled with hundreds of Ebola victims on board throwing dead wombats and rotten cabbage at the other cars, most of which have been assembled from kits. Some are built around 2.5 horsepower lawnmower engines with a top speed of 9 miles per hour. Others burn nitroglycerine and idle at 120. No license plates. World War II bomber nose art instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or vampire eagles. Bumper mounted machine guns. Flip somebody the finger and get a white phosphorus grenade up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks cruise around with anti-aircraft missile batteries to shoot down the traffic helicopter. Little kids on tricycles with squirtguns filled with hydrochloric acid switch lanes without warning.
Since the company I am working for, and for which I am responsible for security, works a lot with sensitive information from customers, the risk of losing their trust is quite there, even more so if it becomes publicly known that such a backdoor existed. In that case there wold be real damage even if no actual security breach ever took place.
So essentially you're saying that your job is to recommend against closed-source software. That's great. That is not, however, what this guy is talking about at all. If his customers required access to the source, they would have made that apparent in the software requirements specification, and the guy would have priced it accordingly or submitted a no-bid.
Really, this entire discussion is stupid. "If I don't have the source, I assume a backdoor" "Yeah, so?" "Well your software would never be allowed in my company." "Ok, I don't remember ever selling it to you, or having a quote request come from you." "Yeah, because I'd never allow your software in my company."
The people I know who "hate" Palm OS coding are either trying to do wonky things that the device was not completely designed to do or they are use to working in another environment and are trying to force their (wrong) model of an OS onto the Palm APIs.
I think you're wrong.
Palm's API has some good points, but it does, by and large, suck hairy goat nad. Want a scrollable table? You are writing the entire scrolling/selecting code by hand, because the standard table just can't hack it right. Memory management is also very much done manually, but as a C programmer I don't mind all that much. It'd be nice if the damn OS just returned a "memory already freed, idjit" instead of crashing out, though. Trying to do anything with background tasks? Welcome to hell.
Supporting old devices? Larger-screen devices? High-res devices? Your code gets nasty, and fast. Palm's API needs a major overhaul.
Just as I suspected: SOAP suffers from an artificial (read: gratuitous) complexity; what more do you need besides XML-RPC, anyway?
I used to think the exact same way until I ran across some of the problems of XML-RPC. Namely the lack of NULL, and the lack of some data typing. Sure, you can throw those kinds of checks in the application and work around it, but complex as it is, SOAP has its place. There ought to be a happy medium as a standard, but there just isn't.:-(
My point is, is that your either get capped from Rogers, or take your chances with some DSL provider who has an ugly website.
Nah; Bell's DSL is uncapped, as is pretty much any ADSL, although some of the resellers do cap their customers. I get mine from a friend who resells PowerDSL (at least until he can get enough customers to justify his on L2TP server and PPPoE domain)... no caps, no port blocking. Good stuff. 3web resells Rogers as well, but their customer support (even sales support!) is nonexistant.
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nd yes, iPhone will work on any GSM carrier; that's the whole purpose of standards like GSM, and iPhone is a GSM phone.
While I wish this were true, if GSM standards demanded that phones worked on any GSM network, why are things like simlocking coming out which create phones which are locked to a specific carrier, just like CDMA?
I believe that GSM network owners hate that their phones will work anywhere, and that is why they're pushing for the capability to lock phones to their networks like what can be done with CDMA.
You're right; the early unions paved the way for what we have today as non-union members. However, I think that the unions of yesteryear that GOT that stuff done do not exist today. Unions today are a sea of mediocrity and seniority rule. More specifically: large unions are the problem. The whole "sister union" and "brother union" bullshit that allows completely unrelated sectors to go on sympathetic strike should be outright illegal, or at least pave the way for firing the entire fucking sympathetic union body.
Collective bargaining is a useful tool. When, however, said tool is a 15-ton wrecking ball it kind of ruins the original intent of the tool, which is to allow fairness and mutual respect on both sides of the bargaining table.
On the other hand, some of us do (I used to have a picture of me depressing both the control keys at once without pressing any other keys, on a full-size IBM keyboard) and even ordinary keyboards aren't large enough. I'd like to see someone do the IBM butterfly keyboard thing, except, I'd like to see them do it right.
I can do that too, but I have absolutely *no* problem typing on regular laptop keyboards. No sore wrists, even though my wrists pretty much enter the laptop "space" at the two lower corners. In fact, most days I prefer typing on a laptop keyboard!
You know, I'm reading Neuromancer right now. I have never been able to make it though the book, not in any of the several attempts I've made of it over the past 15 or so years. I find I just cannot get in to it. I just started Chapter 5, and it's a chore to not just put the book away. People keep telling me it's good, but... ugh.
from the FCC, since there is a legal limit on EIRP for 802.11. I strongly suspect that any means of increasing range to "several kilometers" would violate that limit.
Not entirely true. The FCC also allows you to increase EIRP up to 4W if your antenna gain is at least 6dBi and the system is a fixed, point-to-point setup (Part 15.247). You must also reduce your transmit power 1dB for every 3dB of antenna gain over 6dBi, which means you can technically achieve much higher than 4W EIRP if you've got a very directional system. Whether a ship anchored offshore qualifies as "fixed" or not, well I'm not sure. :-)
Hey everybody, I have found a magic speed bump. I'm not gonna tell you where it is, or show you pictures of it, but if you drive over it, you will be able to raise the dead!
I bet if you drive over any speed bump fast enough, the dead will at least jump...
I tried CVS for that... it is too much of a pain in the ass to patch CVS to accept root users. I don't know about you, but screwing about with permissions just to appease CVS was not my idea of fun. Maybe next time I'll run svn or something to see if it works better for config file management.
Don't you mean that superfast means we can hit the idiotic quotas used to restrict our use of the new technology... superfast!
Because palmos doesn't multi-task. This is why the palm version of the treo can't support a wifi card.
Huh? Is that why my T|X uses a wifi card just fine? Palm is in the pockets of the carriers with the Treo; that's why it doesn't support the wifi card. The E2 supports it, the T|X does, but the Treo does not. The WinME version of the Treo I believe does, but that's likely because WinME has a lot more clout than Palm does.
Which ISP is this?
Actually (audio) CDs don't have much for error correction at all; they use interleaving and interpolation to play even badly scratched CDs. Data CDs, as you point out, do indeed have significant amounts of error correction data encoded onto the disc.
What'd be even better is if the furnace fire were in proportion to CPU and I/O load. :-)
Apple would be plunged into driver hell. I've got two windows machines on the bench right now with sound cards that don't work. One with an Ethernet card that won't work and one with a serial port that's conflicting with the sound card. I'll get it all sorted, of course, but it will take some hours. I'm no Mac fanboy and there some things about OSX that really torque me off, but I'm still planning to build my small recording studio around a Mac mini, because when I plug the audio gear into the family shared iBook it really does all just work.
That used to be true. Nowadays pretty much any motherboard from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, hell even MSI or ECS have peripherals that work "out of the box" or with the driver CD. "Driver hell" is largely a thing of the past, unless you're buying absolutely bottom-of-the-barrel crap. Apple could recognize a handful of manufacturers and have 80% of the PC marketplace, if they chose.
Honestly though, I don't see why they would. They're already selling like crazy. Why push for more? Why not wait until sales drop and then look for ways to make sales better?
In other news, vendors are likely to drop prices when in fear of losing customers.
Yes, but 90%? I've been in a position similar to that and after negotiating back and forth toward a price where I felt I was getting good value, they claimed they couldn't go any lower. They got wind I was looking very closely at one of their competitor's products and they gave a 25% discount on their "firm" price. I was insulted, and they did not get my business because of that. If the original vendor had held firm on their price I probably would have gone with them (their competitor's product was priced very similarly), but suddenly being able to lose another 25% on their price when it was already claimed it was as low as they could go... How can I trust anything they'd say, whether it be support or expansion or anything?
But 90%... Jesus...
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Yes, installing it's the easy part. The LDAP schema is what had me stumped. You also menton an LDAP admin -- How much work did they do to massage the schema into something they were happy with?
Thanks for the quick reply -- it's things like this that keep me reading /. -- the ability to find people who have done something I'd like to do before and can indicate where the hidden pitfalls are. :-)
Two hours of your time to set that up? I must be stupid.
How did you set up the LDAP schema to be able to keep all (or even most) of the Outlook Contact data (anniversaries, categories, etc.)? How do users manage this data? I've never found a schema I liked, and every time I sat down to devise a schema that would work properly with more than just one client I got bogged down in the details.
Do you have any more information, especially gotchas that you may have encountered when doing this? Honestly though if you did it all in two hours I imagine you didn't run into any trouble whatsoever.
There's both factors of scale
heh. Fish... scale... good one!
There's something you're forgetting. Peanut butter is harmful for a very few people. Tobacco is harmful to *everybody*.
This is true, but until it's illegal I have a right to smoke where it's been deemed "safe". If I had some moron scream at me from a hundred yards away, he'd be receiving my raised middle finger at a minimum.
The funny part is... I don't even smoke.
If you were as allergic to tobacco as he is, you'd yell too. I remember seeing his hand break out once because an ashtray had been spilled on him. It took a couple of weeks for the blistering and peeling to clear up.
Then *he*, not everyone else, needs to stay away from tobacco. His right to exist must not infringe on my right to smoke in a designated area. I'm really sick of this kind of thinking... My kids love peanut butter sandwiches, but I can't take them to a public school because someone else's kid is anaphylactic and could get themselves killed by being around my kid. Instead of taking the 1 or 2 kids who are anaphylactic and putting them somewhere safe, we instead sanitize the entire school system, at great expense, and at marginal benefit... The same kid could go into shock or die because the bus driver has peanut butter on his breath, or the kid picked up a breakfast bar wrapper on the way to school.
I don't mind helping people out, but this is just too far. It's too much. I'm really, really sorry that he's got a severe reaction to tobacco, and I am genuinely sorry that some children are anaphylactic. I'm also sorry that some kids have leukemia and others have genetic disorders. I sincerely do wish that all children could be happy and healthy and robust, but reducing absolutely everything down to a common level to protect all the weak ones is bad for society on a whole.
Nice description. It reminded me of an old description I shamelessly copied from somewhere long ago and forgot the source. If anyone knows, I'd love to give proper attribution:
"Think of the Internet as a highway."
There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the "Information Superhighway." They don't know anything about the 'net. It's nothing like a superhighway. What a rotten metaphor.
Suppose the metaphor ran the other way. Suppose highways were like the 'net.
A highway hundreds of lanes wide, most with pitfalls for potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol, save for a couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. Five hundred member vigilante posses with nuclear weapons. A minimum of 237 on-ramps at every intersection.
No Signs. Want to get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck and ask for directions. Ad hoc traffic laws. Some lanes would vote to make use by a single-occupant vehicle a capitol offense on Monday through Friday between 7:00am and 9:00pm. Other lanes would just shoot you without a trial for talking on a car phone.
America Online would be a giant diesel-smoking bus filled with hundreds of Ebola victims on board throwing dead wombats and rotten cabbage at the other cars, most of which have been assembled from kits. Some are built around 2.5 horsepower lawnmower engines with a top speed of 9 miles per hour. Others burn nitroglycerine and idle at 120. No license plates. World War II bomber nose art instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or vampire eagles. Bumper mounted machine guns. Flip somebody the finger and get a white phosphorus grenade up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks cruise around with anti-aircraft missile batteries to shoot down the traffic helicopter. Little kids on tricycles with squirtguns filled with hydrochloric acid switch lanes without warning.
Welcome to the Internet.
Since the company I am working for, and for which I am responsible for security, works a lot with sensitive information from customers, the risk of losing their trust is quite there, even more so if it becomes publicly known that such a backdoor existed. In that case there wold be real damage even if no actual security breach ever took place.
So essentially you're saying that your job is to recommend against closed-source software. That's great. That is not, however, what this guy is talking about at all. If his customers required access to the source, they would have made that apparent in the software requirements specification, and the guy would have priced it accordingly or submitted a no-bid.
Really, this entire discussion is stupid. "If I don't have the source, I assume a backdoor" "Yeah, so?" "Well your software would never be allowed in my company." "Ok, I don't remember ever selling it to you, or having a quote request come from you." "Yeah, because I'd never allow your software in my company."
The people I know who "hate" Palm OS coding are either trying to do wonky things that the device was not completely designed to do or they are use to working in another environment and are trying to force their (wrong) model of an OS onto the Palm APIs.
I think you're wrong.
Palm's API has some good points, but it does, by and large, suck hairy goat nad. Want a scrollable table? You are writing the entire scrolling/selecting code by hand, because the standard table just can't hack it right. Memory management is also very much done manually, but as a C programmer I don't mind all that much. It'd be nice if the damn OS just returned a "memory already freed, idjit" instead of crashing out, though. Trying to do anything with background tasks? Welcome to hell.
Supporting old devices? Larger-screen devices? High-res devices? Your code gets nasty, and fast. Palm's API needs a major overhaul.
Just as I suspected: SOAP suffers from an artificial (read: gratuitous) complexity; what more do you need besides XML-RPC, anyway?
I used to think the exact same way until I ran across some of the problems of XML-RPC. Namely the lack of NULL, and the lack of some data typing. Sure, you can throw those kinds of checks in the application and work around it, but complex as it is, SOAP has its place. There ought to be a happy medium as a standard, but there just isn't. :-(
I *don't* like the pkill mplayer solution, but I'm still not sure to easily get a PID out of a process.
How about
? It does the same thing as pkill I guess.My point is, is that your either get capped from Rogers, or take your chances with some DSL provider who has an ugly website.
Nah; Bell's DSL is uncapped, as is pretty much any ADSL, although some of the resellers do cap their customers. I get mine from a friend who resells PowerDSL (at least until he can get enough customers to justify his on L2TP server and PPPoE domain)... no caps, no port blocking. Good stuff. 3web resells Rogers as well, but their customer support (even sales support!) is nonexistant.