typical slashdot post with title suggesting nokia concluded "the sun can't charge your phone" the article says it can; just not in very practical way yet.
As the article concludes:
Reasonably good results were also obtained when the tester was able to carry the phone while moving around outdoors, for instance in a holder around his neck. However, this isn’t necessarily the most stylish or convenient arrangement, and another solution is needed.
So it is more saying "the sun can't in a practical way charge your phone right now and improvements are needed before it's practical"
I'm sure we'll see improvements in phones to become more energy efficient & better solar panels which may make this more practical in the future.
i like the "might win back the customers amazon lost from removing ebooks remotely" how many customers they lost? 5 out of millions? for better or for worse most of us don't care...
the Amazon CEO said these devices would not be sold at a loss. How accurate is this estimation of cost? If Amazon is producing millions it can probably reduce cost to manufacture significantly.
You have to options
1) "bare-metal" hypervisor virutalization
2) "layer-2" virtualization - i.e. VMWare Workstation, Virtual Box, Parellels, etc running within primary OS
Option 1 you can use free Citrix XenClient http://blogs.citrix.com/product/xenclient/
The problem is...limited hardware support. This is the primary issue with achieving option 1. Option 2 as long as your PC is powerful enough there is no problem here.
Majority of software doesn't come with that. Do companies really want to waste the effort reviewing source code of each product they use? I mean really...would you want to even bother reviewing the entire windows source code if you had access to it? Even Linux with fully open source still remains buggy in many of the GUI based implementations, even with everybody being able to access source code.
um yeah because most people who buy a computer WANT WINDOWs not LINUX sorry to everyone at slashdot who lives in an alternate reality and believes regular consumers want linux. most commercial desktops trying to sell linux has failed, not from trying, from lack of consumer interest. they don't care about the OS, they just want to use facebook and youtube.
People need to understand: You are not forced into the internship - it is up to you. If you already have real-world experience without the internship great. On the other-hand without it you are likely not as productive as an employee no matter how many mountains of theory books you've read.
Myself I did some "internship" type work for next to nothing, the others doing the same job earned about 5-10 times / hr I was earning. One year later from that position I had learned huge amounts, stuff that is not found in text books. After that I was prepared for going into the world as a solo contractor, and multiplied my wage 10x while some of my friends who had been too fussy about their first jobs after study where still working at fast food joints while they tried to find that killer contract deal.
The reality is: if you get a chance for really good experience, take it, and you can use it totally to your benefit. Of course it is also just as possible to totally squander the opportunity and see it as somebody just taking advantage of you. Good luck with your career then.
Note this is the service level plan, which does not mean this is what actually happens.In any case google's offer at 100% uptime sounds great but they've also failed to deliver on that with several long outages.
With SharePoint & Exchange interaction with these in VBScript is a serious pain.
Best to use PowerShell, can do more with about 1/10th the coding required of VBScript. I would only use VBScript if you require it for backwards compatibility with older systems. (i.e. pre-XP)
Some comparisons between Bash and PowerShell http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/78/Bash_vs._Vista_PowerShell.pdf
Resources on the net are everywhere for PowerShell just google. If you do tasks in Exchange 2007/2010 management console you'll get to see the powershell scripts used to perform the task.
most users will not care if it is unlocked or easily rootable. they will care that it's cheap / works. as much as i love android, android success is more about lower price then openness.
Symbian is far superior embedded OS???? have you used it? How about SLOW, UNRELIABLE piece of crap? I have a few phones around the house on symbian and while I could appreciate the simplicity, the simplicity + slow responsiveness = crap user experience.
WP7 is a great OS, been using it for months, it is far superior to Symbian in a almost everyway i can think of
oops! forgot i was on slashdot
. and praising a Microsoft product will result in sending me to flame war hell
How is it misdirection? They explained it perfectly clearing. They do not "copy the search" results. Is everybody here on slashdot really that blind that they just believe any anti-MS rubbish that gets published?? Google is full of crap. The only thing MS does (which they explained very clearly) is that people who opt-in to send feedback to Microsoft, if they use the IE toolbar for searching, the search term + the link they eventually choose, may influence ranking of sites. This is not copying search results. It doesn't matter what search engine it is, and they do not copy the results from google, it is just one of the influencing factors. That is: the link the user ends up choosing, it doesn't matter what google shows it in. If google showed xyz.com as first result, and users kept clicking on 10th result down abc.com, that might increase the ranking of abc.com.
Just because they're google, doesn't mean they're not evil. This time they are, their accusation of copying is complete crap
You can easily prove the results are not copied by just doing search results and comparing them among bing & google. After doing that a few times you will find it's very obvious they do not copy each other.
It is obivous, even from reading Google's details of the allegated copying that Microsoft is copying search results. So before you call responses amateur I suggest you go and research the issue a bit better before believing in Google's PR BS. Microsoft is not copying search results, and you can prove this yourself by doing searchs in Bing and Microsoft and find the results are very different. First only 9/100 Googles tests demonstrated the copying, and even those cases the results aren't exact copies. The results showing up in Bing are a result of click-through data from IE users who opted in to send this data to Microsoft. The click through data influences the ranking. But it is not copying the result. For example even if google listed site x as #1 but users clicked through on #5 in significant numbers, it may increase the ranking in Bing. It doesn't look at how google has ranked it. So this is not copying, not even copying the results.
Google should spend more time on getting Honeycomb ready then wasting their time on Honeypots.
Doesn't look like bing's copying to me. only 7 of 100 tests demonstrated the "copied" search results, and even the copied results were "similar" not exactly the same. As for mis-spelling...MS has had autocorrection/spell checking technology for ages, before google knew about it, before the internet. Very in-conclusive proof if you ask me.
Google's bigger concern is probably Bing is actually starting to get decent, and sometimes even better than google.
yeah he cheated, and people realize it's in the agreement when you play X Box live not to cheat
"5. How You May Not Use the Service.
- exploit a bug, or make an unauthorized modification, to any software or data to gain unfair advantage in a game, contest, or promotion."
i think it's funny people think a public facing company like Microsoft would ban this kid without very good evidence, they're not complete idiots, and really don't gain anything by
how is windows losing steam? = 240 million copies Windows 7 sold last year, $62.5 billion last fiscal year, up 7 per cent from the year before, and its highest ever net profit of $18.8 billion. sounds like a real struggle to me.
Managing IT in large organizations there are many other considerations than just the license cost. In fact the license cost is small part of overall cost for liftetime in product.
Some things that are also important
- available support (many open source projects have none, or through forums/email only)
- usability / user training (many open source projects unfortunately are more difficult to use than the commercial products. Comparing Office 2010 for example to OpenOffice, in terms of ease of use I think Microsoft Office is miles ahead)
- on going maintenance (Most commercial products have limited number of updates and updates mainly focus on security/bug fixes until a major release every 1-3 years. Open Source projects tend to add features rapidly with major releases very frequently)
Now in this case they are also moving to cloud which eliminates need for many of their backend infrastructure which was probably very expensive to maintain, and now will just pay for the amount of users on the system. Unlike having your own infrastructure were much of it may be under utilized and you are just paying for electricity/hardware/data centre space that is wasted. So I think this is probably more cost effective option the route they are going.
I am using Flash on HTC Desire with Android 2.2 installed and it works fine over Telstra 3G connection, for video and some games. The main issue is some apps dont work well on small screen.
Steve Jobs doesn't want flash off device because of speed or quality, he wants it off because it prevents easy development of cross platform web apps/games which would potentially reduce market share from the app store.
I've found in numerous test over wifi & 3G the HTC Desire loads pages faster than iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or iPad...and can load flash if a site requires it.
I find so far the iPad has really slow web loading, so adding flash would probably kill it...
That's nice and beautiful he hacked the ones he bought. But he still has to get remote access #'s, and if that's easy to get I think that's even a bigger security issue. Also "war-dialling" tactics to find a Windows CE based ATM may take a while, majority of ATMs now run Windows XP embedded, not Windows CE. Also I'm not sure about this, but I would hope ATM implemented call-back security on in-production devices.
Windows 7 has some built in functionality to do this
You can tag multiple photos at once, just select a group of photos in explorer then
a) At bottom of Windows explorer you may see 'more details' click that to update certain fields on all selected photos (i.e. add tags)
b) right click a selected group of photos and choose properties. In the details view some fields that it will let you update will update for all selected photos at once
You can then set the pictures to be arranged 'by Tag' in the Explorer view.
This assumes your folder has been set up for 'pictures' view. To do this right click in a blank spot within your pictures folder and choose 'Properties' then click the 'Customize' tab. Set 'Optimize this folder' to 'Pictures'
You should also look into 'Windows Advanced Query Search Syntax' Which you can use straight from the explorer or start menu search bar to filter your searches. Some options available for pictures include: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx
You can use the results of a search, select the search results then apply properties to all those pictures at once.
Yes, well I think this is important as well. I think teaching technology in school has some pitfalls as it doesn't really prepare the kids for much as technology changed so significantly by the time they get out of school. (OK i remember going to school with Apple ]['s and Commodore 64's then finishing going over to Windows NT platform, sort of a significant change
Here locally my wife was helping out with a class locally where every student had a laptop, almost all the students where just playing games or facebook during the class.
OK windows 7 does WORK, and works GREAT. And combined with Office 2010 it is way ahead of anything MAC has to offer for productivity suite.
If it is not the job for education to support monoploies what are they doing by enforcing the use of one particular product?
When you have a look at the MAC platform it is just not that great yet for corporate environments, I think it is unfortunate school is enforcing such a policy.
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typical slashdot post with title suggesting nokia concluded "the sun can't charge your phone" the article says it can; just not in very practical way yet. As the article concludes: Reasonably good results were also obtained when the tester was able to carry the phone while moving around outdoors, for instance in a holder around his neck. However, this isn’t necessarily the most stylish or convenient arrangement, and another solution is needed. So it is more saying "the sun can't in a practical way charge your phone right now and improvements are needed before it's practical" I'm sure we'll see improvements in phones to become more energy efficient & better solar panels which may make this more practical in the future.
i like the "might win back the customers amazon lost from removing ebooks remotely" how many customers they lost? 5 out of millions? for better or for worse most of us don't care...
But this just replaces the same issue - now I just hack the hypervisor or host of the virtual machines and I can gain control of all machines...
the Amazon CEO said these devices would not be sold at a loss. How accurate is this estimation of cost? If Amazon is producing millions it can probably reduce cost to manufacture significantly.
You have to options 1) "bare-metal" hypervisor virutalization 2) "layer-2" virtualization - i.e. VMWare Workstation, Virtual Box, Parellels, etc running within primary OS Option 1 you can use free Citrix XenClient http://blogs.citrix.com/product/xenclient/ The problem is...limited hardware support. This is the primary issue with achieving option 1. Option 2 as long as your PC is powerful enough there is no problem here.
Majority of software doesn't come with that. Do companies really want to waste the effort reviewing source code of each product they use? I mean really...would you want to even bother reviewing the entire windows source code if you had access to it? Even Linux with fully open source still remains buggy in many of the GUI based implementations, even with everybody being able to access source code.
um yeah because most people who buy a computer WANT WINDOWs not LINUX sorry to everyone at slashdot who lives in an alternate reality and believes regular consumers want linux. most commercial desktops trying to sell linux has failed, not from trying, from lack of consumer interest. they don't care about the OS, they just want to use facebook and youtube.
People need to understand: You are not forced into the internship - it is up to you. If you already have real-world experience without the internship great. On the other-hand without it you are likely not as productive as an employee no matter how many mountains of theory books you've read. Myself I did some "internship" type work for next to nothing, the others doing the same job earned about 5-10 times / hr I was earning. One year later from that position I had learned huge amounts, stuff that is not found in text books. After that I was prepared for going into the world as a solo contractor, and multiplied my wage 10x while some of my friends who had been too fussy about their first jobs after study where still working at fast food joints while they tried to find that killer contract deal. The reality is: if you get a chance for really good experience, take it, and you can use it totally to your benefit. Of course it is also just as possible to totally squander the opportunity and see it as somebody just taking advantage of you. Good luck with your career then.
Note this is the service level plan, which does not mean this is what actually happens.In any case google's offer at 100% uptime sounds great but they've also failed to deliver on that with several long outages.
With SharePoint & Exchange interaction with these in VBScript is a serious pain. Best to use PowerShell, can do more with about 1/10th the coding required of VBScript. I would only use VBScript if you require it for backwards compatibility with older systems. (i.e. pre-XP) Some comparisons between Bash and PowerShell http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/78/Bash_vs._Vista_PowerShell.pdf Resources on the net are everywhere for PowerShell just google. If you do tasks in Exchange 2007/2010 management console you'll get to see the powershell scripts used to perform the task.
most users will not care if it is unlocked or easily rootable. they will care that it's cheap / works. as much as i love android, android success is more about lower price then openness.
Symbian is far superior embedded OS???? have you used it? How about SLOW, UNRELIABLE piece of crap? I have a few phones around the house on symbian and while I could appreciate the simplicity, the simplicity + slow responsiveness = crap user experience. WP7 is a great OS, been using it for months, it is far superior to Symbian in a almost everyway i can think of oops! forgot i was on slashdot . and praising a Microsoft product will result in sending me to flame war hell
How is it misdirection? They explained it perfectly clearing. They do not "copy the search" results. Is everybody here on slashdot really that blind that they just believe any anti-MS rubbish that gets published?? Google is full of crap. The only thing MS does (which they explained very clearly) is that people who opt-in to send feedback to Microsoft, if they use the IE toolbar for searching, the search term + the link they eventually choose, may influence ranking of sites. This is not copying search results. It doesn't matter what search engine it is, and they do not copy the results from google, it is just one of the influencing factors. That is: the link the user ends up choosing, it doesn't matter what google shows it in. If google showed xyz.com as first result, and users kept clicking on 10th result down abc.com, that might increase the ranking of abc.com. Just because they're google, doesn't mean they're not evil. This time they are, their accusation of copying is complete crap You can easily prove the results are not copied by just doing search results and comparing them among bing & google. After doing that a few times you will find it's very obvious they do not copy each other.
It is obivous, even from reading Google's details of the allegated copying that Microsoft is copying search results. So before you call responses amateur I suggest you go and research the issue a bit better before believing in Google's PR BS. Microsoft is not copying search results, and you can prove this yourself by doing searchs in Bing and Microsoft and find the results are very different. First only 9/100 Googles tests demonstrated the copying, and even those cases the results aren't exact copies. The results showing up in Bing are a result of click-through data from IE users who opted in to send this data to Microsoft. The click through data influences the ranking. But it is not copying the result. For example even if google listed site x as #1 but users clicked through on #5 in significant numbers, it may increase the ranking in Bing. It doesn't look at how google has ranked it. So this is not copying, not even copying the results. Google should spend more time on getting Honeycomb ready then wasting their time on Honeypots.
Doesn't look like bing's copying to me. only 7 of 100 tests demonstrated the "copied" search results, and even the copied results were "similar" not exactly the same. As for mis-spelling...MS has had autocorrection/spell checking technology for ages, before google knew about it, before the internet. Very in-conclusive proof if you ask me. Google's bigger concern is probably Bing is actually starting to get decent, and sometimes even better than google.
yeah he cheated, and people realize it's in the agreement when you play X Box live not to cheat "5. How You May Not Use the Service. - exploit a bug, or make an unauthorized modification, to any software or data to gain unfair advantage in a game, contest, or promotion." i think it's funny people think a public facing company like Microsoft would ban this kid without very good evidence, they're not complete idiots, and really don't gain anything by
i don't think microsoft is just 'milking market share' there is plenty of innovation going on if you are actually following what they are doing ...
low latency audio works fine on windows 7, but must (as in previous windows versions) use ASIO drivers.
how is windows losing steam? = 240 million copies Windows 7 sold last year, $62.5 billion last fiscal year, up 7 per cent from the year before, and its highest ever net profit of $18.8 billion. sounds like a real struggle to me.
Managing IT in large organizations there are many other considerations than just the license cost. In fact the license cost is small part of overall cost for liftetime in product. Some things that are also important - available support (many open source projects have none, or through forums/email only) - usability / user training (many open source projects unfortunately are more difficult to use than the commercial products. Comparing Office 2010 for example to OpenOffice, in terms of ease of use I think Microsoft Office is miles ahead) - on going maintenance (Most commercial products have limited number of updates and updates mainly focus on security/bug fixes until a major release every 1-3 years. Open Source projects tend to add features rapidly with major releases very frequently) Now in this case they are also moving to cloud which eliminates need for many of their backend infrastructure which was probably very expensive to maintain, and now will just pay for the amount of users on the system. Unlike having your own infrastructure were much of it may be under utilized and you are just paying for electricity/hardware/data centre space that is wasted. So I think this is probably more cost effective option the route they are going.
I am using Flash on HTC Desire with Android 2.2 installed and it works fine over Telstra 3G connection, for video and some games. The main issue is some apps dont work well on small screen.
Steve Jobs doesn't want flash off device because of speed or quality, he wants it off because it prevents easy development of cross platform web apps/games which would potentially reduce market share from the app store.
I've found in numerous test over wifi & 3G the HTC Desire loads pages faster than iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or iPad...and can load flash if a site requires it.
I find so far the iPad has really slow web loading, so adding flash would probably kill it...
That's nice and beautiful he hacked the ones he bought. But he still has to get remote access #'s, and if that's easy to get I think that's even a bigger security issue. Also "war-dialling" tactics to find a Windows CE based ATM may take a while, majority of ATMs now run Windows XP embedded, not Windows CE. Also I'm not sure about this, but I would hope ATM implemented call-back security on in-production devices.
Windows 7 has some built in functionality to do this You can tag multiple photos at once, just select a group of photos in explorer then a) At bottom of Windows explorer you may see 'more details' click that to update certain fields on all selected photos (i.e. add tags) b) right click a selected group of photos and choose properties. In the details view some fields that it will let you update will update for all selected photos at once You can then set the pictures to be arranged 'by Tag' in the Explorer view. This assumes your folder has been set up for 'pictures' view. To do this right click in a blank spot within your pictures folder and choose 'Properties' then click the 'Customize' tab. Set 'Optimize this folder' to 'Pictures' You should also look into 'Windows Advanced Query Search Syntax' Which you can use straight from the explorer or start menu search bar to filter your searches. Some options available for pictures include: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch/technicalresources/advquery.mspx You can use the results of a search, select the search results then apply properties to all those pictures at once.
Yes, well I think this is important as well. I think teaching technology in school has some pitfalls as it doesn't really prepare the kids for much as technology changed so significantly by the time they get out of school. (OK i remember going to school with Apple ]['s and Commodore 64's then finishing going over to Windows NT platform, sort of a significant change Here locally my wife was helping out with a class locally where every student had a laptop, almost all the students where just playing games or facebook during the class.
OK windows 7 does WORK, and works GREAT. And combined with Office 2010 it is way ahead of anything MAC has to offer for productivity suite. If it is not the job for education to support monoploies what are they doing by enforcing the use of one particular product? When you have a look at the MAC platform it is just not that great yet for corporate environments, I think it is unfortunate school is enforcing such a policy.