However, it's audio quality is fantastic for such a small device, it was in fact the main reason I bought it, as for WAP? Why does anyone even comment on that any more, WAP is useless anyway. The SPV has regular internet access via GPRS, and that works perfectly (it shrinks the images and everything), much better than WAP.
GPRS isn't a replacement for WAP. WAP is the protocol. GPRS is the connection method.
Saying GPRS is better than WAP is like saying ADSL is better than HTTP.
I can see where you're coming from, but I disagree. Us geeks aren't like the rest of the population when it comes to upgrading and futzing with operating systems and/or environments.
My sister is still using the PC she bought to do her Ph.D. It's a 200mhz pentium with less hard drive space than I have RAM in my main workstation:) She's not going to upgrade that to Windows 2005 or whatever will be around then. She, like most non-IT literate people who use computers, view the computer as a tool, as a means to an end, and not a collection of individual pieces of hardware and software. This is one of the reasons the iMac was so successful a few years ago. Apple realised that geeks are in the minority, and most people who use computers view them as a piece of commodity hardware in the same way that they view their mobiles or DVD players (they just crash more;).
Why would that be bad for Microsoft? The only people it would have an effect on would be the tiny percentage of us who don't use IE. You say "If one is free, it's not a tough choice", but the fact is that 90% (or whatever today's statistic is) of people use the OS and browser that came with their Dell/Compaq/whatever. Not only are they not going to know if there's some other browser called Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird (or whatever it's called today), they're very likely not going to want to meddle with their PCs in order to install it. This is mom and pop remember, not some geek you know online or at work;)
Our local UCI in Norwich, UK does that. Nice comfy couches and waiters to bring you your beer and popcorn. The last time I went tickets were £12 as opposed to the £4.50 that the plebs in the cheap seats pay;)
You can say "my system was hacked" but you sound silly if you say "my house was burgled". For both the car and the house, you say "it was broken into".
Here in the UK it's normal to say "my house was burgled". Well, since the police have decided to give up...;)
I believe in the US the term "burglarized" is used. Now, people tell me that's a completely commonsensical word, but I beg to differ...:-)
cans and string, there's nothing to be worried about. And look, I've got quite a few...ugh. Wait, where are the cans? Where is my string?!? Who moved my cheese?!?!?!
I care. It's just one more reason why xbox is one of the greatest things a shoddy company like Microsoft has ever produced. It means that the modded xbox I have sitting in my living room now plays xbox, psx, amiga, snes, megadrive and arcade games. It's hooked up to the LAN so I can listen to my mp3 collection or listen to shoutcast streams. I can stream videos from the LAN, or simply play them from the huge hard drive I now have installed. I can stick a CF memory card into my computer in the other room and we can all view the pictures taken earlier that day on a big screen TV. Or maybe just boot into linux.
All accessible from the couch via the xbox's dvd remote control.
Didn't mean to go off on a fanboy wank-rant there, but as much as I dislike Microsoft as a company, they've produced one hell of a product.
[Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. The crew are sat around a table.]
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes.] Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Bender: Quit squawking fleshwad nobody's forcing you to buy anything.
Amy: Yeah. I mean we all have commercials in our dreams but you don't see us running of to buy brand name merchandise at low low prices.
[After a long silence the crew gets up and runs out.]
Principal Skinner reads his invitation at school and thinks to himself.
He walks down the hall and looks into Miss Hoover's classroom, where children sit in front of a TV screen, piled three high and crammed into
desks.
Troyon TV: "Now turn to the next problem. If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you? You, the redhead in the Chicago school system?" A window opens up on the screen to show the girl Girl: "Pepsi?" Troy: "Partial credit!"
So, in between downloading files they can bitch about, consider using your favourite P2P app any time you want to download a Paint Shop Pro trial or whatever; ie, any file you'd automatically turn to the web to download. This is a small thing that everyone can do to help, and means that no-one can make the "no legitimate use" case.
While I'd agree with you in principle, there are a huge number of files on these networks laden with virii (or is it viruses.. Whichever!), or just plain incorrectly named. Maybe I'm being a tiny bit naive, but I trust a site I've linked to from download.com a hell of a lot more than some random Kazaa user.
Sites like www.filenexus.com and www.sharereactor.com have done much to enable P2P users to be confident in the content they're downloading. Perhaps what we need is something along those lines for shareware, unless there's a website I'm not aware of.
Paul
That could potentially mean that mislabeled audio files are illegial... A practice RIAA is deeply involved in.
Of course, I'm no lawyer, and legalese is nearly as hard to read as German to me. Corrections welcome!
Ich mag den Käse. Ooh, der Mond! Ja habe ich keine Bananen...:(
1) Qualified (i.e. not test taking wonders) MCSE can physically manage about 14 MS Servers... However, a qualified Linux Admin can handle (depending upon variations in OS release) from 50-75. Much lower people cost.
Huh? Where do you pull that 14 figure from? I'm sitting here on a nightshift, with two other guys, and we're currently looking after the e-commerce applications of one of the largest insurance companies in Europe. Hundreds upon hndreds of servers in multiple environments, in multiple locations across the country. It's busier when we're working days, obviously, but please take that linux FUD/nonsense elsewhere. How you got modded insightful is beyond me.
Key text in that article:
"The self-replicating worm spreads through network shared folders and subfolders as well as through the traditional method of an unsuspecting user CLICKING ON AN ATTACHMENT." (emphasis mine)
I'd have to disagree. I find mozilla fiendishly slow on Winxp and even slower on linux. Having said that, I've used slack8.1, Redhat 8 and Mandrake (9 I think - the newest one, anyway), and the installs have been pretty much the generic ones, with no tweaking (Winxp isn't tweaked either, btw). I think the problem is the graphics card drivers. That box has a G400Max, and try as I might, I can't get X working with any new drivers I download - I'm still a linux newbie. Maybe they should have been on the ISOs I downloaded.
Anyway, that rather incoherent rambling is just my way of disagreeing with you:)
Don't be a moron - there was a bug in Opera 6.5 that this '-30' kludge was designed to get around. Now that Opera7 has been released, they're a little slow on the uptake. The Opera guys are doing themselves an injustice by continuing their "MS is trying to ambush our browser" stance.
I'll repeat for the slow people at the back...
The -30 was there to fix a css bug in Opera 6.5 which has been fixed in Opera7.
The guy has a grace period of a month before XP needs activation. If he waited until the last day and then found out there was a problem I have no sympathy. He's either talking rubbish, or he's trolling or he's just lazy.
So, I gotta stop my project for some unknown length of time. Good thing I'm not updating a medical drug interaction database, or an available transplant database, or a process flow control system or a hazardous atmosphere measurement system or a BUNCH of other possibilities. In my case, either I miss the superbowl, or my car dealer can't find and order Volvo cars on Monday. Life will continue.
If the work is that important, why do you not have a backup machine with which to perform the task? Rather ironic that you're lambasting Microshaft for having no backup system when you yourself have none.
Disclaimer: yeah, yeah, I know it's pretty poor that M$ doesn't have any kind of backup activation facility, but just playing devil's advocate a little.
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GPRS isn't a replacement for WAP. WAP is the protocol. GPRS is the connection method.
Saying GPRS is better than WAP is like saying ADSL is better than HTTP.
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I can see where you're coming from, but I disagree. Us geeks aren't like the rest of the population when it comes to upgrading and futzing with operating systems and/or environments. My sister is still using the PC she bought to do her Ph.D. It's a 200mhz pentium with less hard drive space than I have RAM in my main workstation :) She's not going to upgrade that to Windows 2005 or whatever will be around then. ;).
She, like most non-IT literate people who use computers, view the computer as a tool, as a means to an end, and not a collection of individual pieces of hardware and software. This is one of the reasons the iMac was so successful a few years ago. Apple realised that geeks are in the minority, and most people who use computers view them as a piece of commodity hardware in the same way that they view their mobiles or DVD players (they just crash more
Why would that be bad for Microsoft? The only people it would have an effect on would be the tiny percentage of us who don't use IE. You say "If one is free, it's not a tough choice", but the fact is that 90% (or whatever today's statistic is) of people use the OS and browser that came with their Dell/Compaq/whatever. Not only are they not going to know if there's some other browser called Mozilla/Phoenix/Firebird (or whatever it's called today), they're very likely not going to want to meddle with their PCs in order to install it. This is mom and pop remember, not some geek you know online or at work ;)
Only on /. could a story about a hydrogen powered scooter provoke a "Micr0s0ft suxx0rs" reaction ;)
This is the part where you explain how the UK "offs" its troublemakers.
Does this just stop people stealing computers, or will it stop them stealing product names also? ;)
(ducks for cover)
Our local UCI in Norwich, UK does that. Nice comfy couches and waiters to bring you your beer and popcorn. The last time I went tickets were £12 as opposed to the £4.50 that the plebs in the cheap seats pay ;)
Here in the UK it's normal to say "my house was burgled". Well, since the police have decided to give up... ;)
I believe in the US the term "burglarized" is used. Now, people tell me that's a completely commonsensical word, but I beg to differ... :-)
cans and string, there's nothing to be worried about. And look, I've got quite a few ...ugh. Wait, where are the cans? Where is my string?!? Who moved my cheese?!?!?!
;)
CANS!!! He hates these cans!
(sorry.. couldn't help it
I care. It's just one more reason why xbox is one of the greatest things a shoddy company like Microsoft has ever produced. It means that the modded xbox I have sitting in my living room now plays xbox, psx, amiga, snes, megadrive and arcade games. It's hooked up to the LAN so I can listen to my mp3 collection or listen to shoutcast streams. I can stream videos from the LAN, or simply play them from the huge hard drive I now have installed. I can stick a CF memory card into my computer in the other room and we can all view the pictures taken earlier that day on a big screen TV. Or maybe just boot into linux.
All accessible from the couch via the xbox's dvd remote control.
Didn't mean to go off on a fanboy wank-rant there, but as much as I dislike Microsoft as a company, they've produced one hell of a product.
[Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. The crew are sat around a table.]
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes.] Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Bender: Quit squawking fleshwad nobody's forcing you to buy anything.
Amy: Yeah. I mean we all have commercials in our dreams but you don't see us running of to buy brand name merchandise at low low prices.
[After a long silence the crew gets up and runs out.]
Principal Skinner reads his invitation at school and thinks to himself.
He walks down the hall and looks into Miss Hoover's classroom, where children sit in front of a TV screen, piled three high and crammed into desks.
Troy on TV: "Now turn to the next problem. If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you? You, the redhead in the Chicago school system?"
A window opens up on the screen to show the girl
Girl: "Pepsi?"
Troy: "Partial credit!"
So, in between downloading files they can bitch about, consider using your favourite P2P app any time you want to download a Paint Shop Pro trial or whatever; ie, any file you'd automatically turn to the web to download. This is a small thing that everyone can do to help, and means that no-one can make the "no legitimate use" case. While I'd agree with you in principle, there are a huge number of files on these networks laden with virii (or is it viruses.. Whichever!), or just plain incorrectly named. Maybe I'm being a tiny bit naive, but I trust a site I've linked to from download.com a hell of a lot more than some random Kazaa user.
Sites like www.filenexus.com and www.sharereactor.com have done much to enable P2P users to be confident in the content they're downloading. Perhaps what we need is something along those lines for shareware, unless there's a website I'm not aware of.
Paul
That could potentially mean that mislabeled audio files are illegial... A practice RIAA is deeply involved in. Of course, I'm no lawyer, and legalese is nearly as hard to read as German to me. Corrections welcome!
:(
Ich mag den Käse. Ooh, der Mond! Ja habe ich keine Bananen...
I'd have called it a chuzwazzah...
Huh? Where do you pull that 14 figure from? I'm sitting here on a nightshift, with two other guys, and we're currently looking after the e-commerce applications of one of the largest insurance companies in Europe. Hundreds upon hndreds of servers in multiple environments, in multiple locations across the country. It's busier when we're working days, obviously, but please take that linux FUD/nonsense elsewhere.
How you got modded insightful is beyond me.
Key text in that article: "The self-replicating worm spreads through network shared folders and subfolders as well as through the traditional method of an unsuspecting user CLICKING ON AN ATTACHMENT." (emphasis mine)
I'd have to disagree. I find mozilla fiendishly slow on Winxp and even slower on linux. Having said that, I've used slack8.1, Redhat 8 and Mandrake (9 I think - the newest one, anyway), and the installs have been pretty much the generic ones, with no tweaking (Winxp isn't tweaked either, btw). I think the problem is the graphics card drivers. That box has a G400Max, and try as I might, I can't get X working with any new drivers I download - I'm still a linux newbie. Maybe they should have been on the ISOs I downloaded.
:)
Anyway, that rather incoherent rambling is just my way of disagreeing with you
IME, default winxp install + IE = fast
default winxp install + moz = slow
default install + moz = slooww
I'll repeat for the slow people at the back...
The -30 was there to fix a css bug in Opera 6.5 which has been fixed in Opera7.
Nothing to see here - move on.
Ah, fairy nuff. I didn't realise the 30 day thing only applied to initial installs, and not reactivations. That's pretty crummy.
The guy has a grace period of a month before XP needs activation. If he waited until the last day and then found out there was a problem I have no sympathy. He's either talking rubbish, or he's trolling or he's just lazy.
If the work is that important, why do you not have a backup machine with which to perform the task? Rather ironic that you're lambasting Microshaft for having no backup system when you yourself have none.
Disclaimer: yeah, yeah, I know it's pretty poor that M$ doesn't have any kind of backup activation facility, but just playing devil's advocate a little.
Isn't that what people were saying 10 years ago? ;)
Wasn't Taos supposed to be just what you're talking about, or was that mainly hardware (not OS) independent program execution?