I use it to coordinate a web development team. I have a team of four people, all in different towns, collaborating through wave. The graphic designer can drag her work in and have everyone comment. The CSS coder can tell the PHP coder what he needs done, and vice versa. The accesibility adviser can tell us what to change. I can check on progress.
I hadn't come across Falling Blocks, but thanks the the Tetris Company's actions I know now about it, and have downloaded and installed it (from the marketplace, but I am in the UK) on my HTC Hero. So thank you!
Look, your server is down. You say it costs thousands a year to host, so it must be running something important. Pay the $35 for KVM access, get it running, then complain to their accounts department and say that you are leaving at next renewal time unless they reimburse you. In fact, leave anyway and just take them to small claims court to claim the $35 back.
They do expect everyone to get a new receiver.
Freeview HD has just started it's rollout, although no receivers will be available until next month. It uses H.264 and DVB-T2.
Both talk about it being for mail order and telephone payments but it works just fine with the customer there, and it is what was used when I paid for my last motorbike.
I can't steal from you with those numbers, but I could easily inconvenience you. All I need to do is set up a direct debit to any organisation and the money will disapear from your account. The direct debit guarantee means that you can get it back but you have to go through the banks procedure to do that, and while some may reverse the transaction with a phone call others will make you fill in forms and wait days or weeks.
I had better ban all under-18s from my Half Life 2:Deathmatch server then. I'm in the UK but some of the players are in the US and Canada and I don't want to end up extradited. In fact, I have no way of checking ages. Better close down the whole server!
I run a Half Life 2: Deathmatch server. Looking at the Steam stats, only 2,100 people have played it today. If I look at my stats site, though, I can see over 3,100 people have passed through my server in the past month! Now either every single person that plays deathmatch has used my server, or the number of deathmatch players is a hell of a lot higher than daily peaks would suggest.
I will also say that without the community generated by having enthusiasts run their own servers, many people wouldn't bother to play the game.
I work for a timber distributer. I have to provide phones to warehouse staff, lorry loaders and sawmill operators. Even if the environment wasn't so hostile I think the workmen would be! We have a large site with lots of warehouses so phones are essential to get the job done.
I have one loader who in the last few years has been through several Nokia 6310s, a Nokia 5210, 5410, and a JCB phone. The JCB was supposed to be indistructible and had a similar demo video to this Land Rover phone but he still broke it. At least they gave me a refund without arguing.
There are some uses where the name makes sense! On a terminal server software can only be installed through add and remove. It is also possible to publish software through group policy such that unpriviliged users can install it from a list in Add and Remove.
You might be able to name lots of ISPs, but most of them use BT's backbone network and are therefore subject to BT's network policies. Fortunately that is starting to change with Local Loop Unbundling, but many exchanges still don't have that option. Even if a LLU ISP offers a connection from an exchange without LLU, they use BT's network. (And charge you more.)
It didn't take 18 days to install windows. It took 18 days to re-cable the whole submarine with an ethernet network, replace all the computers, AND install windows. I'd like to see you rewire a submarine in that time...
I just got off the phone after a long conversation with Virgin Media in response to my complaint. I originally complained about 3 points.
1. They were being dishonest with customers by dropping the connection or returning a page not found error when blocking, and that they should inform the customer when they block something. Surprisingly, Virgin assured me that they were making changes to do so!
2. That by redirecting the whole of Wikipedia through a transparent proxy and not passing the "X-Forwarded-From" header they were breaking Wikipedia and preventing all of their customers from editing Wikipedia anonymously. On this point the customer services rep claimed that I was the first person who had complained about this, but if 5 people reported it as a technical problem then it would be investigated. So if you are a Virgin Media customers, please call Virgin and complain that you can't edit Wikipedia anonymously due to a Virgin technical problem!
3. That Virgin Media had broken their contract to me by blocking some content and not providing access to the whole of the internet. They claimed that their terms and conditions allowed them to do this, although they insisted on sending me a highlighted copy by post(!) to tell me which part applied.
I have three complaints about this. 1. I object to you censoring the internet at all. You are not legally obliged to do so. (I understand that you were instructed to voluntarily filter or have laws made, but you should not take the law in to your own hands even if instructed to by MPs.) I resent that you do not provide access to the whole of the internet as I have paid you for. You should allow me to make the choice about legality and consequences of viewing. In my opinion you have not fulfilled your contract to provide internet access and I may consider canceling my service on this basis.
2. I object to the way that you block the page. If I attempt to access the link I simply receive a blank page. If you are going to block something I demand that you display a message to tell me exactly what you have blocked and why. Anything else is an outright lie to the customer.
3. Your technical method of blocking in this case has caused all access to wikipedia to come from one single IP address which has caused huge technical problems and inconvenience for thousands of your customers. You should not redirect traffic in this way.
I hope that you will resolve this issue by removing the blocking or at least being honest with your customers about what you are doing. If not I will be moving to another internet provider."
Try reading the article. AAISP states that the problem is in BT's routers and a patch is available but they would rather say they don't support IPv6 than install the patch. How is it FUD?
BT provides the backbone network and local loop used by most UK ISPs. AAISP is trying to provide IPv6 and can't because BT won't fix a bug in their network. Where's the FUD?
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Absolutely.
I use it to coordinate a web development team. I have a team of four people, all in different towns, collaborating through wave.
The graphic designer can drag her work in and have everyone comment.
The CSS coder can tell the PHP coder what he needs done, and vice versa.
The accesibility adviser can tell us what to change.
I can check on progress.
I will seriously miss wave.
Xmarks has a Chrome version. I use it to stay synchronized between FireFox and Chrome.
I think that anyone who either opts out, or doesn't opt in, to organ donation, should be last on the list to receive an organ should they need it.
I hadn't come across Falling Blocks, but thanks the the Tetris Company's actions I know now about it, and have downloaded and installed it (from the marketplace, but I am in the UK) on my HTC Hero. So thank you!
That's just your computers way of saying it doesn't like it when you do that stuff to it.
Slovakia is part of the EU now, if you couldn't get a fair trial in Slovakia, you could in the EU courts.
Look, your server is down. You say it costs thousands a year to host, so it must be running something important. Pay the $35 for KVM access, get it running, then complain to their accounts department and say that you are leaving at next renewal time unless they reimburse you. In fact, leave anyway and just take them to small claims court to claim the $35 back.
They do expect everyone to get a new receiver. Freeview HD has just started it's rollout, although no receivers will be available until next month. It uses H.264 and DVB-T2.
Two that I know of are
*spit* Paypal Virtual Terminal
Sage Pay MOTO
Both talk about it being for mail order and telephone payments but it works just fine with the customer there, and it is what was used when I paid for my last motorbike.
Technically yes. In practice no. As an example, look at this form. Authorisation consists of ticking the boxes and entering an address.
You don't need a card terminal. You can get a virtual one, processed through your PC and broadband connection, for around £20 a month.
I can't steal from you with those numbers, but I could easily inconvenience you. All I need to do is set up a direct debit to any organisation and the money will disapear from your account. The direct debit guarantee means that you can get it back but you have to go through the banks procedure to do that, and while some may reverse the transaction with a phone call others will make you fill in forms and wait days or weeks.
I had better ban all under-18s from my Half Life 2:Deathmatch server then. I'm in the UK but some of the players are in the US and Canada and I don't want to end up extradited. In fact, I have no way of checking ages. Better close down the whole server!
I run a Half Life 2: Deathmatch server. Looking at the Steam stats, only 2,100 people have played it today. If I look at my stats site, though, I can see over 3,100 people have passed through my server in the past month! Now either every single person that plays deathmatch has used my server, or the number of deathmatch players is a hell of a lot higher than daily peaks would suggest.
I will also say that without the community generated by having enthusiasts run their own servers, many people wouldn't bother to play the game.
I work for a timber distributer. I have to provide phones to warehouse staff, lorry loaders and sawmill operators. Even if the environment wasn't so hostile I think the workmen would be! We have a large site with lots of warehouses so phones are essential to get the job done.
I have one loader who in the last few years has been through several Nokia 6310s, a Nokia 5210, 5410, and a JCB phone. The JCB was supposed to be indistructible and had a similar demo video to this Land Rover phone but he still broke it. At least they gave me a refund without arguing.
There are some uses where the name makes sense! On a terminal server software can only be installed through add and remove. It is also possible to publish software through group policy such that unpriviliged users can install it from a list in Add and Remove.
I couldn't if I wanted to, my Wang requires a 3 phase power supply and takes up half the server room. Oh, wait, the other kind of wang.
I don't know about you, but on my network I run a centrally administered virus scanner. It seems quite a bit easier than asking every user!
Intelligence often precludes sanity. At least it does in my social circle.
You might be able to name lots of ISPs, but most of them use BT's backbone network and are therefore subject to BT's network policies. Fortunately that is starting to change with Local Loop Unbundling, but many exchanges still don't have that option. Even if a LLU ISP offers a connection from an exchange without LLU, they use BT's network. (And charge you more.)
It didn't take 18 days to install windows. It took 18 days to re-cable the whole submarine with an ethernet network, replace all the computers, AND install windows. I'd like to see you rewire a submarine in that time...
I can't believe I just defended the military.
I just got off the phone after a long conversation with Virgin Media in response to my complaint. I originally complained about 3 points.
1. They were being dishonest with customers by dropping the connection or returning a page not found error when blocking, and that they should inform the customer when they block something. Surprisingly, Virgin assured me that they were making changes to do so!
2. That by redirecting the whole of Wikipedia through a transparent proxy and not passing the "X-Forwarded-From" header they were breaking Wikipedia and preventing all of their customers from editing Wikipedia anonymously. On this point the customer services rep claimed that I was the first person who had complained about this, but if 5 people reported it as a technical problem then it would be investigated. So if you are a Virgin Media customers, please call Virgin and complain that you can't edit Wikipedia anonymously due to a Virgin technical problem!
3. That Virgin Media had broken their contract to me by blocking some content and not providing access to the whole of the internet. They claimed that their terms and conditions allowed them to do this, although they insisted on sending me a highlighted copy by post(!) to tell me which part applied.
This was the complaint that I have just sent to Virgin Media. Let's see what their response is.
"I am writing to complain about your blocking of content on Wikipedia and of your censorship of the internet in general.
I specifically refer to the page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
I have three complaints about this.
1. I object to you censoring the internet at all. You are not legally obliged to do so. (I understand that you were instructed to voluntarily filter or have laws made, but you should not take the law in to your own hands even if instructed to by MPs.) I resent that you do not provide access to the whole of the internet as I have paid you for. You should allow me to make the choice about legality and consequences of viewing. In my opinion you have not fulfilled your contract to provide internet access and I may consider canceling my service on this basis.
2. I object to the way that you block the page. If I attempt to access the link I simply receive a blank page. If you are going to block something I demand that you display a message to tell me exactly what you have blocked and why. Anything else is an outright lie to the customer.
3. Your technical method of blocking in this case has caused all access to wikipedia to come from one single IP address which has caused huge technical problems and inconvenience for thousands of your customers. You should not redirect traffic in this way.
I hope that you will resolve this issue by removing the blocking or at least being honest with your customers about what you are doing. If not I will be moving to another internet provider."
Try reading the article. AAISP states that the problem is in BT's routers and a patch is available but they would rather say they don't support IPv6 than install the patch. How is it FUD?
BT provides the backbone network and local loop used by most UK ISPs. AAISP is trying to provide IPv6 and can't because BT won't fix a bug in their network. Where's the FUD?