If you can't have a fashion victim feeling comfortable with your phone, then you have just found painted yourself into a crowed corner of other generic looking devices. If you are going to charge someone $200-$400 for a phone, then it better not look like it was put together without any care for appearance. If you want to make a generic phone, be ready to charge no more than $50 for it.
You seriously think things are that simple? Here's a tip: DNS doesn't magically create itself from nothing, and for for those who matter (the folks charged with making things work), the ability to use host names is simply a byproduct of using numbers. Hell, even Joe Average configuring his Linksys router knows he has to type in a number to connect to it, and probably has that number memorised.
Sure at the moment, we are referencing these devices by name because people making these routers don't think the numbers is any less convenient than the name. Maybe the complexity of the IPv6 address will actually get them to have a dynamic DNS in their routers. There are other technologies such a Bonjour, zero-config and possibly even NMB.
On that account, are there any home routers which provide dynamic DNSs for computers registered via DHCP?
With 64 bit addresses that people can still scribble on a scrap of paper.
Get a name for your machine. If it is public try dyndns.org. You don't address you envelopes with grid coordinates, so why should the logic here be any different?
I meant that they are amongst the guys dragging their feet. Linksys has made it clear that they have no IPv6 plans, and my best bet is to go with corporate solutions from Cisco -- idiots.
Part of the problem at the moment is that because network companies are failing to provide IPv6 ready equipment, it is only the dedicated few that are moving to IPv6. Linksys, D-Link I am talking about guys like you. The there are the ISPs like Bell and Telus here in Canada who have to plans, or even anything beta.
Now look in Africa, Asia and Europe and you will see some serious movement in that direction.
Don't get me wrong, I have my computer enabled with Tiredo, providing me IPv6 access, but companies are going to want the easy route to IPv6 and until they are provided the support, or like my experience two days to immenent failure they aren't likey to do sod.
I have a Linksys WRT54G v8 and there isn't even the possibility of installing a version of DD-WRT that supports IPv6:(
1 GB for a demo is huge. Sure, it probably represents a smaller percentage of the release game than it used to, but still.
$0.16 for 200 000 downloads works out to be $32000, so for a large publisher this is probably just a dip in the ocean when it comes to their marketing budget. For a smaller company the cost might hurt a bit more. Whether this means smaller demos or a change in approach by the publishers it is hard to tell.
Part of the reason Sony is doing this, is probably because this is what they are being charged and they are simply passing the fee on to the publishers.
While reports like these are interesting, they often feel like they are done in isolation to everything else. For example how does that fit in the trend of the market in general, and if it is not fitting in with the buying elsewhere in the market, are other commercial sources like iTunes picking the slack?
That might work for 6 months of the year, but we get these things called summers... We can hit 100 degrees or more here in Washington State. Even Alaska gets warm in the summer (Fairbanks record high of 99F).
This is where adaptable buildings come into play. For example a building uses natural cooling when it can, and then in the other months could have insulated shutters which close to provide thermal insulation, yet still use things like air flow cooling. The Windcatchers are actually a middle-eastern design, and there the temperatures give very high. High humidity environments are difficult to deal with, but this where locating a data center in a suitable location helps.
I have never understood why data centers located in colder climates need cooling systems. Surely the only thing they need is access to as much outside temperature as possible and humidity filters? The other solution is to design data centers to use things like Windcatchers to use natural physical processes.
While I am looking forward to a flying car, on the condition it doesn't consume more fuel that the current automobile, I can't wonder who will be driving those things. At least with current aviation you know that people have a pilot's license and have a certain sense of wanting to live, but if I look at some of the drivers around me when I drive, then I can't help wonder whether putting these people at the helm of a flying vehicle would be such a wise thing. Imagine:
normal: - driving instructor: look left and right before entering the intersection - ditsy learner: ooh look at the flowers - driving instructor: watch out for the car!!!!
flying: - driving instructor: look all around you before crossing the vertical air junction - ditsy learner: ohh those cars look like ants - driving instructor: keep your altitude!!!
...and go straight to "The channel with Battlestar Galactica reruns, and nothing else really worth watching."
Or they will pull a Fox and play time-slot roulette, and then dropping what the core audience wants. Then they will promise DVD sales, forget about it, finally get to it and then decide people actually wanted to watch it.
I don't consider myself a narcissistic student, but I wonder, what's the point of going through years of education, if not to use it?
I too want to do cool stuff, but the reality is that there is cool stuff and stuff that will make the company money. You may be lucky and be able to land a job at a company that does both, but don't expect it. The companies I worked for, that did cool stuff didn't last long because it was too cutting and the market wasn't ready for it.
Often you aren't in management because you were forced there, but because you wanted more pay (pay usually corresponds to responsibility) or you were fed up of being a lab rat or equivalent.
I am still hoping I will get my dream job, but I realise that it is all down to luck and hard work.
How myopic. As someone who once worked at MS (and now at a Linux company, so sad that I feel I need to qualify that) - Redmond is a traffic nightmare, due to the sheer volume of intercampus transport for Microsoft (and other companies in the area, but MS is certainly the biggest).
I am not living anywhere near there, so I would curious to know how much of this traffic is made up of single person vehicles and how much is made up by multi-passenger vehicles like buses. If it is the former, then surely the solution is to encourage public transport? This would reduce road wear and trafiic.
Ahh, Congress. Finally get around to encouraging schools to use this for educational purposes on a year when it falls on a Saturday. Brilliant.
No need to worry, since over time the meaning will be lost and it will be assumed it was national 'Pie day'. For the years to come Apple pies will be sold in millions on this special day;)
In all honesty if you are going to write an e-mail announcing someone is fired, you show say so in the most diplomatic approach and say the minimum. For example:
"Joe Blogs is no longer part of CompanyX".
will suffice. Everyone else is free to read between the lines.
Given the amount of crap (IMHO) that some devices install on your hard-drive, they could always provide a file system driver for Windows. Heck, maybe we need to be pushing to have an Ext2 or ZFS driver for Windows that anyone can install, even novices?
While free games are certainly an option, I find it very difficult to believe that you are going to have a team of 10 developers working 5 days a week, for nothing to develop a game. If you want free games, then expect them to use last year's technology, be late and not necessarily have the same amount of finesse.
Don't get me wrong, I will take a free game if I am given it, but I don't expect to get everything for free. If you do, then give up your day job, join a commune and don't cry when you don't have money to buy your next PC.
Because it's an aspect of chimpanzee intelligence that hadn't previously been observed, apparently. One of the key differences between humans and animals is that humans have a much more advanced ability to predict what will happen in the future and to make preparations to deal with that prediction
So squirrels and other animals who hide their food are just doing it for fun? Surely the behaviour in these animals is evidence that they are capable of planning for a future time or event.
Quite honestly, I find it arrogant for us to consider animals unintelligent. They may not have the same degree of 'intelligence', but if their level of intelligence allows them to survive, then they are most certainly doing better than us, IMHO.
Given the compatibility issues that ActiveX has in IE8, then it probably won't matter what Microsoft will do in the future. In all reality no site should be depending on ActiveX. If it breaks without it, then fix the site.
YouTube: OK, we won't have the videos then PRS: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yup. Then again its all about posturing. Google is making the point, a bit like Apple did with iTunes, that they don't have to provide their content, getting the other party to realise how little negotiating clout they really have.
All this makes me think of Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and how the new inhabitants of the space vessel manage to screw things up completely, because they put short term personal needs before the balance of the system.
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If you can't have a fashion victim feeling comfortable with your phone, then you have just found painted yourself into a crowed corner of other generic looking devices. If you are going to charge someone $200-$400 for a phone, then it better not look like it was put together without any care for appearance. If you want to make a generic phone, be ready to charge no more than $50 for it.
You seriously think things are that simple? Here's a tip: DNS doesn't magically create itself from nothing, and for for those who matter (the folks charged with making things work), the ability to use host names is simply a byproduct of using numbers. Hell, even Joe Average configuring his Linksys router knows he has to type in a number to connect to it, and probably has that number memorised.
Sure at the moment, we are referencing these devices by name because people making these routers don't think the numbers is any less convenient than the name. Maybe the complexity of the IPv6 address will actually get them to have a dynamic DNS in their routers. There are other technologies such a Bonjour, zero-config and possibly even NMB.
On that account, are there any home routers which provide dynamic DNSs for computers registered via DHCP?
With 64 bit addresses that people can still scribble on a scrap of paper.
Get a name for your machine. If it is public try dyndns.org. You don't address you envelopes with grid coordinates, so why should the logic here be any different?
Linksys, D-Link I am talking about guys like you.
I meant that they are amongst the guys dragging their feet. Linksys has made it clear that they have no IPv6 plans, and my best bet is to go with corporate solutions from Cisco -- idiots.
Part of the problem at the moment is that because network companies are failing to provide IPv6 ready equipment, it is only the dedicated few that are moving to IPv6. Linksys, D-Link I am talking about guys like you. The there are the ISPs like Bell and Telus here in Canada who have to plans, or even anything beta.
Now look in Africa, Asia and Europe and you will see some serious movement in that direction.
Don't get me wrong, I have my computer enabled with Tiredo, providing me IPv6 access, but companies are going to want the easy route to IPv6 and until they are provided the support, or like my experience two days to immenent failure they aren't likey to do sod.
I have a Linksys WRT54G v8 and there isn't even the possibility of installing a version of DD-WRT that supports IPv6 :(
Aren't CEOs of software megaconglomerates like Microsoft supposed to do this kind of research before talking smack?
This is Ballmer we are talking about, so don't expect it. He is too hot and bothered to be thinking straight.
1 GB for a demo is huge. Sure, it probably represents a smaller percentage of the release game than it used to, but still.
$0.16 for 200 000 downloads works out to be $32000, so for a large publisher this is probably just a dip in the ocean when it comes to their marketing budget. For a smaller company the cost might hurt a bit more. Whether this means smaller demos or a change in approach by the publishers it is hard to tell.
Part of the reason Sony is doing this, is probably because this is what they are being charged and they are simply passing the fee on to the publishers.
While reports like these are interesting, they often feel like they are done in isolation to everything else. For example how does that fit in the trend of the market in general, and if it is not fitting in with the buying elsewhere in the market, are other commercial sources like iTunes picking the slack?
That might work for 6 months of the year, but we get these things called summers... We can hit 100 degrees or more here in Washington State. Even Alaska gets warm in the summer (Fairbanks record high of 99F).
This is where adaptable buildings come into play. For example a building uses natural cooling when it can, and then in the other months could have insulated shutters which close to provide thermal insulation, yet still use things like air flow cooling. The Windcatchers are actually a middle-eastern design, and there the temperatures give very high. High humidity environments are difficult to deal with, but this where locating a data center in a suitable location helps.
I have never understood why data centers located in colder climates need cooling systems. Surely the only thing they need is access to as much outside temperature as possible and humidity filters? The other solution is to design data centers to use things like Windcatchers to use natural physical processes.
While I am looking forward to a flying car, on the condition it doesn't consume more fuel that the current automobile, I can't wonder who will be driving those things. At least with current aviation you know that people have a pilot's license and have a certain sense of wanting to live, but if I look at some of the drivers around me when I drive, then I can't help wonder whether putting these people at the helm of a flying vehicle would be such a wise thing. Imagine:
normal:
- driving instructor: look left and right before entering the intersection
- ditsy learner: ooh look at the flowers
- driving instructor: watch out for the car!!!!
flying:
- driving instructor: look all around you before crossing the vertical air junction
- ditsy learner: ohh those cars look like ants
- driving instructor: keep your altitude!!!
...and go straight to "The channel with Battlestar Galactica reruns, and nothing else really worth watching."
Or they will pull a Fox and play time-slot roulette, and then dropping what the core audience wants. Then they will promise DVD sales, forget about it, finally get to it and then decide people actually wanted to watch it.
-sniff
I don't consider myself a narcissistic student, but I wonder, what's the point of going through years of education, if not to use it?
I too want to do cool stuff, but the reality is that there is cool stuff and stuff that will make the company money. You may be lucky and be able to land a job at a company that does both, but don't expect it. The companies I worked for, that did cool stuff didn't last long because it was too cutting and the market wasn't ready for it.
Often you aren't in management because you were forced there, but because you wanted more pay (pay usually corresponds to responsibility) or you were fed up of being a lab rat or equivalent.
I am still hoping I will get my dream job, but I realise that it is all down to luck and hard work.
How myopic. As someone who once worked at MS (and now at a Linux company, so sad that I feel I need to qualify that) - Redmond is a traffic nightmare, due to the sheer volume of intercampus transport for Microsoft (and other companies in the area, but MS is certainly the biggest).
I am not living anywhere near there, so I would curious to know how much of this traffic is made up of single person vehicles and how much is made up by multi-passenger vehicles like buses. If it is the former, then surely the solution is to encourage public transport? This would reduce road wear and trafiic.
Ahh, Congress. Finally get around to encouraging schools to use this for educational purposes on a year when it falls on a Saturday. Brilliant.
No need to worry, since over time the meaning will be lost and it will be assumed it was national 'Pie day'. For the years to come Apple pies will be sold in millions on this special day ;)
How about following the standards the rest of the world uses instead?
Habits are hard to break ;)
In all honesty if you are going to write an e-mail announcing someone is fired, you show say so in the most diplomatic approach and say the minimum. For example:
"Joe Blogs is no longer part of CompanyX".
will suffice. Everyone else is free to read between the lines.
Given the amount of crap (IMHO) that some devices install on your hard-drive, they could always provide a file system driver for Windows. Heck, maybe we need to be pushing to have an Ext2 or ZFS driver for Windows that anyone can install, even novices?
While free games are certainly an option, I find it very difficult to believe that you are going to have a team of 10 developers working 5 days a week, for nothing to develop a game. If you want free games, then expect them to use last year's technology, be late and not necessarily have the same amount of finesse.
Don't get me wrong, I will take a free game if I am given it, but I don't expect to get everything for free. If you do, then give up your day job, join a commune and don't cry when you don't have money to buy your next PC.
Because it's an aspect of chimpanzee intelligence that hadn't previously been observed, apparently. One of the key differences between humans and animals is that humans have a much more advanced ability to predict what will happen in the future and to make preparations to deal with that prediction
So squirrels and other animals who hide their food are just doing it for fun? Surely the behaviour in these animals is evidence that they are capable of planning for a future time or event.
Quite honestly, I find it arrogant for us to consider animals unintelligent. They may not have the same degree of 'intelligence', but if their level of intelligence allows them to survive, then they are most certainly doing better than us, IMHO.
In soviet Russia:
1. Attack victim
2. Blame victim
3. ????
4. Profit
Given the compatibility issues that ActiveX has in IE8, then it probably won't matter what Microsoft will do in the future. In all reality no site should be depending on ActiveX. If it breaks without it, then fix the site.
YouTube: OK, we won't have the videos then
PRS: Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Yup. Then again its all about posturing. Google is making the point, a bit like Apple did with iTunes, that they don't have to provide their content, getting the other party to realise how little negotiating clout they really have.
All this makes me think of Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and how the new inhabitants of the space vessel manage to screw things up completely, because they put short term personal needs before the balance of the system.
Program a robot to think like a human, and they will begin acting like a human. It's amazing no one ever thinks about the negative aspects of this.
All we need now is teach the robot how to deal with rejection ;)