The domain doesn't tell you at all where the hosts are located, and you can't trust the IPs as they're all routed through AOL (it bein it's own ISP).
Both may the IPs seem to refer to US hosts, and if you're wearing a tin-foil hat they could easily "spoof" IPs (pick some IP that's supposedly allocated for servers in the USA), add/remove traceroute info, tunnel packets through their datacenters, and do about anything but artificially remove latency. Also, where are actual ICQ messages routed through and logged?
GSM Short Messages are embedded in control messages that will be sent anyway, no? GSM phones simply queue messages for delivery and send them in the next heartbeat, and while that's quite short lag on average for "normal" uses it will always be the max (around 8 secs. I think) if you're packeting larger data streams to short messages.
Bandwidth skyrocketing due to massive overuse of the system the same way Bittorrent seems to have to done to DSL is another issue (though Short Messager will be much less of a problem for obvious reasons).
Restoration disks contain the same system that was on the computer originally, often much more unsecure than current systems. If she can't afford a license for Windows get Ubuntu, don't buy a computer and a new license.
Backup disks are more important (except the user data filesystem (C?) was uncorrupted).
[quote]But pressing the winkey, start typing a name or command and pressing enter to launch about anything you can think of in Win7 is "easy" in my book.[/quote] It is. At least if you know the the first few letters of the app you want to open. But if you pose so much knowledge of the inner workings of computers you should be using a Linux distro with a dmenu. For users that think Internet = browser or don't know what a browser is (according to Google's estimates they are quite many) that is just too much. Windows and Ubuntu Linux exist for those users. And then there's Mac OS X which doesn't even assume it's users how to type;P iPad is a confirmation of that.
Grandparent refers to the fact that something "good enaugh" will be almost impossible to replace by something perfect, if it's incompatible (like a new codec will be). See Plan 9, IPv6.
[quote]Actually there is one thing left, but it's also the kind of hard job that Apple doesn't handle well. Right now we pick phones based on how easy it is to enter data without a keyboard. That's pretty ludicrous when you think about it. If we could input data to a phone by speaking into it how amazing would that be? Yeah, I know, voice rec is hard, but when it comes along it's going to be the only kind of smartphone worth owning. And Apple isn't even working on it.[quote] If Apple isnt working on voice recognition; why did it buy a voice recognition company?
Google maybe should "mask" all apps reported not to work on your model. They could then appear only on the bottom of search results (if they provided a app search engine) and maybe not appear at all in categories to keep them uncluttered.
Yes, such software exists, (e.g. unionmount squashfs & ramfs) but what if you managed to install malware on your network share? You'd have to mount all executable shares readonly, and the rest noexec. But then only admins can add any sort of software to the system (good or mal) and they can get infected to and normally have more privileges. Overall security might increase, though.
But more importantly that would break one of the holy laws of Unix: Unix does not prevent people from doing stupid things as that would also prevent them from doing clever things. But if users are never going to tweak their system, mutate their sofware or hack around, it's possible. Otherwise there's no way to stay clean for long.
Doing this on Windows sounds funny though. Office documents, images and all documents containing any sort of ActiveY would have to be readonly and normal users forbidden from browsing the interwebs, reading email, using removable media and creating new folders. Good luck with that.
P.S. My school really does forbid installation of drivers for USB-flashsticks we were told to buy on computers students have access to. So one can forbid something like that... enforcing that is another matter, though, on system which gives one root-access when booting in single user mode.
Then use a mix of em and CSS3 px (which are _NOT_ screen pixels), possibly with display ratio @rules. Convert to pixels at install-time if doing so on run-time is to slow. Problem solved. Or just use a Java layout manager...
Suggesting a low-tech solution instead of a high-tech one is a dangerous thing to do on/. You're a hero that might save a few iPhones from their true rich Apple-ass-kHHHHH owners to some few 3rd nation guy selling it to put food on the table. What evil biz-people do to sell things!
As for tethering, it's not Apple involved there. iPhone OS 3.0 supports it, as do a number of carriers around the world - look right at AT&T if you wonder who is preventing you from tethering in the U.S. Granted to a consumer it doesn't matter if it's Apple or AT&T blocking that, but it's unfair to blame Apple for AT&T suckage.
It's perfectly rational to blame Apple for locking in to AT&T and thus preventing competition for features such as tethering.
Slashdot Mirror
The definition of Y in lambda calculi.
But really, don't put this thing in a too obvious place: you may regret it. Your forehead would be a fine compromise.
The domain doesn't tell you at all where the hosts are located, and you can't trust the IPs as they're all routed through AOL (it bein it's own ISP).
Both may the IPs seem to refer to US hosts, and if you're wearing a tin-foil hat they could easily "spoof" IPs (pick some IP that's supposedly allocated for servers in the USA), add/remove traceroute info, tunnel packets through their datacenters, and do about anything but artificially remove latency. Also, where are actual ICQ messages routed through and logged?
Almost all word documents should be sent in plain text anyway (and most of the rest should probably be in RTF).
And try to at least read the four line summary when the subject doesn't make sense to you, even on /.
GSM Short Messages are embedded in control messages that will be sent anyway, no? GSM phones simply queue messages for delivery and send them in the next heartbeat, and while that's quite short lag on average for "normal" uses it will always be the max (around 8 secs. I think) if you're packeting larger data streams to short messages.
Bandwidth skyrocketing due to massive overuse of the system the same way Bittorrent seems to have to done to DSL is another issue (though Short Messager will be much less of a problem for obvious reasons).
Now you can switch your default search provider to Bing!
Restoration disks contain the same system that was on the computer originally, often much more unsecure than current systems. If she can't afford a license for Windows get Ubuntu, don't buy a computer and a new license.
Backup disks are more important (except the user data filesystem (C?) was uncorrupted).
pay me licensing fees or stop infringing on my patents.
So they can search for porn. What can they do if they find it? Is porn illegal in Australia now?
What do you usually do with porn you were searching for when you''ve found it?
[quote]But pressing the winkey, start typing a name or command and pressing enter to launch about anything you can think of in Win7 is "easy" in my book.[/quote] ;P iPad is a confirmation of that.
It is. At least if you know the the first few letters of the app you want to open. But if you pose so much knowledge of the inner workings of computers you should be using a Linux distro with a dmenu. For users that think Internet = browser or don't know what a browser is (according to Google's estimates they are quite many) that is just too much. Windows and Ubuntu Linux exist for those users. And then there's Mac OS X which doesn't even assume it's users how to type
Grandparent refers to the fact that something "good enaugh" will be almost impossible to replace by something perfect, if it's incompatible (like a new codec will be). See Plan 9, IPv6.
[quote]Actually there is one thing left, but it's also the kind of hard job that Apple doesn't handle well. Right now we pick phones based on how easy it is to enter data without a keyboard. That's pretty ludicrous when you think about it. If we could input data to a phone by speaking into it how amazing would that be? Yeah, I know, voice rec is hard, but when it comes along it's going to be the only kind of smartphone worth owning. And Apple isn't even working on it.[quote]
If Apple isnt working on voice recognition; why did it buy a voice recognition company?
This is really cool and awesome, but why would I wan't to run this on my browser?
Google maybe should "mask" all apps reported not to work on your model. They could then appear only on the bottom of search results (if they provided a app search engine) and maybe not appear at all in categories to keep them uncluttered.
Compression?
Yes, such software exists, (e.g. unionmount squashfs & ramfs) but what if you managed to install malware on your network share? You'd have to mount all executable shares readonly, and the rest noexec. But then only admins can add any sort of software to the system (good or mal) and they can get infected to and normally have more privileges. Overall security might increase, though.
But more importantly that would break one of the holy laws of Unix: Unix does not prevent people from doing stupid things as that would also prevent them from doing clever things. But if users are never going to tweak their system, mutate their sofware or hack around, it's possible. Otherwise there's no way to stay clean for long.
Doing this on Windows sounds funny though. Office documents, images and all documents containing any sort of ActiveY would have to be readonly and normal users forbidden from browsing the interwebs, reading email, using removable media and creating new folders. Good luck with that.
P.S. My school really does forbid installation of drivers for USB-flashsticks we were told to buy on computers students have access to. So one can forbid something like that... enforcing that is another matter, though, on system which gives one root-access when booting in single user mode.
Then use a mix of em and CSS3 px (which are _NOT_ screen pixels), possibly with display ratio @rules. Convert to pixels at install-time if doing so on run-time is to slow. Problem solved. Or just use a Java layout manager...
But RMS said that consoles were EVIL!
But e.g. EVE Online works on Linux, right?
Google's feeling lucky redirected me to the right site and the Bing had it as the top result.
Doesn't that mean that someone can copy every page in Wikipedia and setup their own competing website?
In fact, there's even a howto: How to mirror Wikipedia
blog [..] meaningful
LOL
But it's Apple!
Suggesting a low-tech solution instead of a high-tech one is a dangerous thing to do on /. You're a hero that might save a few iPhones from their true rich Apple-ass-kHHHHH owners to some few 3rd nation guy selling it to put food on the table. What evil biz-people do to sell things!
You're a hero.
[/sarcasm]
As for tethering, it's not Apple involved there. iPhone OS 3.0 supports it, as do a number of carriers around the world - look right at AT&T if you wonder who is preventing you from tethering in the U.S. Granted to a consumer it doesn't matter if it's Apple or AT&T blocking that, but it's unfair to blame Apple for AT&T suckage.
It's perfectly rational to blame Apple for locking in to AT&T and thus preventing competition for features such as tethering.
Firefox has...
Built-in window manager (likely beacuse of Windows' crappy WM)
Built-in session-manager (to remember the tabs, I guess)
Built-in text-editor
Built-in WYSINWYG HTML-editor
and more
Compare to Surf (or Uzbl ore similar browser), and THEN argue that Firefox isn't bloated.