Its ironic that if you are sometimes better off hacking Windows to pretend it is genuine, than using the clean bought install. Case in point: I have a legitimate Windows XP install on a MacBook Pro, using BootCamp. First due to a few install issues I ended up having to activate it three times and for the final, but successful install, had to call Microsoft. Later on I decided I would use Windows with the help of Parallels, but found the even if I was using the same install, it required me to activate it again. Yet another call to Microsoft and trying to explain that yes this was the same machine. With the cracked version I wouldn't have to worry about calling Microsoft once in a while.
I understand why Microsoft does this, but I wonder if it is really solving the problem?
Who is to say what they do with the data once copied on the computer. European countries are already paranoid that the USA is snooping their companies to hand over data to US firms. I doubt this will do anything to reassure them.
Truth is, this is likely to encourage companies to a: use a securId on their computers or b: not to put corporate data on the computer and make it only accessible via a corporate VPN. Also, this is likely to make Toronto and Vancouver more popular as hubs for people not stopping in the USA. I know a fair amount of Canadians who would pay a bit extra just to avoid having to transit through the states because of the "warm welcome" of DHS. Nothing is worse that having to go though immigrations twice when flying to Canada (once in the USA and once in Canada).
Between the war in Iraq, the alienating of our allies and discouraging people flying through the USA, unless as a final destination, I can't say our government is helping our country's economy one bit.
GMail's interface update a month or so back randomly crashes Firefox 2.0 on Windows whenever you click one of the left-hand links or "Send." The 3.0 beta doesn't have this problem, and you can specify "ui=1" in the URL to use the old interface, but it's worth mentioning.
I have experienced this too. It does this on the Mac too. Luckily I have Webkit as backup (even if it is a nightly) and at home I just use the IMAP client. They blame it on certain plugins, but these are all disactivated for Google web sites.
I'll be sure to give Firefox 3.0 a go when it hits release candidate.
While this is about Muslims, it is not about Muslims as a whole. It is about a certain percentage of extremists forcing their view on everyone else. This is no different from extreme Christians forcing Creationism and Intelligent Design on people or other extreme views. except for the part of mass murder by muslim extremists unless you claim arguing is the same as mass murder of many innocents...
Step back a few centuries and think of the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition. Not current, but Christianity also has it share of crimes.
While this is about Muslims, it is not about Muslims as a whole. It is about a certain percentage of extremists forcing their view on everyone else. This is no different from extreme Christians forcing Creationism and Intelligent Design on people or other extreme views.
While generally you can show insensivity to certain religions, that are always factions that will condem people for this insensitivity. At the same time I believe you should show respect for everyones beliefs, but also make a point that there is only so far you can go before it is censorship of opinion.
Please, just because a percentage of any population feels a certain way, does not automatically make that true for everyone.
The irony with such tactics is that it will discourage businesses taking in their computers to the country and in many cases just mean that the important will be left online, using secure connections. European countries already distrust the USA over spying on corporate data, I doubt this is going to help the situation.
As if we really needed another method of damaging our economy.
I can't wait until the destroyer of nations leaves the office.
What's wrong with that? It's fairly close to the truth, much closer than many of the current federal administration's views on reality. And far less disastrous.
Actually it is wrong, since you would be rounding in the wrong direction. 3.14 rounds to 3.1.
But if the Bible is the unerring Word of God, surely God wouldn't have said 10 cubits when he meant anywhere from 5 to 14.9 cubits, would he?:-P
Possibly. Think of the knowledge of the average person at that time. Now think of how you try to explain something complicated to a layman, since thee chances are you would simplify the explanation.
Look, IPv6 is all well and good, but apart from typing 1:: for localhost, how am I going remember my outside IP?
There shouldn't be an inside or outside for IPv6, since there is no notion of NAT. If you mean your router, then using a service like dyndns.org is an alternative.
IPv6 is not quite there yet, with some of the popular web sites still not accessible via IPv6.
If you are stuck behind a home router, with NAT then you will probably find yourself unable to access IPv6 sites. In the meantime there are two solutions:
- Teredo. If you have Vista this is standard. For everything else there is Miredo
- Aiccu. A litte more work and bureaucracy to get up an running, but a solution non-the less
Of course there is also Apple's Airport Extreme, which is one of the few home routers out there that support IPv6. I believe some of the third-party firmwares will do this too, but I don't think the IPv6 support is mature. As for Linksys, D-Link, et al. I think you are out of luck for the moment.
Also, if you running Apache, you will need a minium of Apache 2 and specify IPv6 support, using the configure script, prior to building it.
I think the wiimote still wins out. The only thing that I would change with the wiimote is give it a higher resolution IR camera, but maybe that was too expensive for Nintendo (that may also have been a reason they didn't do high def?)
Cost is a big thing with the Wii. Currently the controller does the job for most people and at a cost that they can afford. There are better accelerometers and gyros around, but they tend to be expensive. If they could create a new and improved Wiimote, at a cost the market is willing to pay, it would have to be backwards compatible with the current set of games, and the new games would have to be backwards compatible with the original Wiimote.
Also you can already use the wiimote on a PC [wiiuse.net] for free and have millions of potential customers already owning one. So why would anyone want to pay royalties to use this thing?
Another site is http://www.wiili.org/ . There is even an API for developing with Java. BTW If you wish to play around with development for the Wiimote I highly recommend buying a battery based IR-bar.
Maybe the state of Washington should take a page out of Microsoft's book: If you are working for Microsoft they give you a certain time period to pay up (activation) and if not will disable access to the bridge. Once they pay up the will allow them through, but sometimes get it wrong and prevent them from crossing until they have waded through the support process.
You don't need to activate the specific device with GSM, but you do normally need to activate the SIM/your account, which for 99.9% of consumers amounts to exactly the same thing.
I mentioned the fact the SIM needs activating in my post. Beyond that no more activation is needed. In the GSM markets that I have experience with (Europe, Asia and Canada) many people stay with the same carrier and after a year or two get a new phone, with no change of SIM or need to re-activate. The SIM card is the account identifier. Only in CDMA is the phone and account tied together.
I am not sure where you pulled your percentages from, so I would appreciate a source, since they seem to be incompatible with my experience of the market.
Can Apple leave its five year exclusive contract with AT&T? If for no other reason that to heed the cautionary woes of a Computerworld writer with tenuous grasp of business and markets?
Probably, but at what cost? This will depend on the terms of the contract. I am just curious whether AT&T needs Apple more or whether Apple needs AT&T more. This is an important point, because this will define who owes what if the contract is broken, and who is most likely to opt for pulling out of the contract first.
Like being able to activate at home without having to wait for a sales droid.
The whole notion of phone activation is very CDMA like and is not part of the usual GSM experience. The only thing that should take activating is the phone account, and then you are free to move your SIM card from phone to phone. I have never need to activate any GSM phone I have got, so why should I need to do this with the iPhone.
The iPhone has got many things right, but this does not make it a perfect phone. There are still missing features, that some people take for granted in GSM phones, like being able to transmit files and contacts via Bluetooth and MMS messaging, amongst others. Hopefully Apple will correct this or the competition will offer something that is even better, for us to lust over.
Hmm, I wonder whether I could get him to apply the process to my MacBook Pro? If he manages to get the technique to colour metal in industrial quantity that could be amazing.
and keep the same timeframe. Wouldnt it be the winter of coding?
That is the whole point. Currently it is the winter of coding to the Australians. Having SoC that really corresponds to the Australian summer (around December) is what is being proposed. Also, as another poster mentions this could be opened up to all countries in the Southern hemisphere who share the same school schedule.
Stubbornness is part of genius; without it, you get people who learn to do things the "safe" and obvious way, rather than refusing to do so, and trying the brilliant and inventive way, failing several times along the way.
Are you a manager, by any chance?
I am no manager. The quote is about attitude, in that if you assume to know everything and won't learn then there is no way to progress. Sometimes it is better to be humble and accept that there is still more to learn and that you don't always have the only answer.
One of the main issues with microkernels is that of performance, but the trade-off results in reduced stability if you have a bad driver, since there is no notion of memory protection for drivers in a monolithic kernel.
The way I see it, is given the current performance of systems, getting a fast, but slightly less stable kernel counts for a lot, but in the future when the overhead provided a microkernel is deemed insignificant we will see them become the norm. In many ways this is much like when we were all using SCSI CD burners because the processor couldn't keep up, but now we are all using IDE CD burners because CPUs can more than handle the task.
A specification 6000 pages long is probably another factor. Heck, try to get something that is spec compliant from a 100 page specification is hard enough, but with 6000 pages you must be smoking something good to even expect compliance. Good specs are easy to implement and understand, but then again I doubt Microsoft was even expecting anyone to be able to implement OOXML.
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Its ironic that if you are sometimes better off hacking Windows to pretend it is genuine, than using the clean bought install. Case in point: I have a legitimate Windows XP install on a MacBook Pro, using BootCamp. First due to a few install issues I ended up having to activate it three times and for the final, but successful install, had to call Microsoft. Later on I decided I would use Windows with the help of Parallels, but found the even if I was using the same install, it required me to activate it again. Yet another call to Microsoft and trying to explain that yes this was the same machine. With the cracked version I wouldn't have to worry about calling Microsoft once in a while.
I understand why Microsoft does this, but I wonder if it is really solving the problem?
Who is to say what they do with the data once copied on the computer. European countries are already paranoid that the USA is snooping their companies to hand over data to US firms. I doubt this will do anything to reassure them.
Truth is, this is likely to encourage companies to a: use a securId on their computers or b: not to put corporate data on the computer and make it only accessible via a corporate VPN. Also, this is likely to make Toronto and Vancouver more popular as hubs for people not stopping in the USA. I know a fair amount of Canadians who would pay a bit extra just to avoid having to transit through the states because of the "warm welcome" of DHS. Nothing is worse that having to go though immigrations twice when flying to Canada (once in the USA and once in Canada).
Between the war in Iraq, the alienating of our allies and discouraging people flying through the USA, unless as a final destination, I can't say our government is helping our country's economy one bit.
GMail's interface update a month or so back randomly crashes Firefox 2.0 on Windows whenever you click one of the left-hand links or "Send." The 3.0 beta doesn't have this problem, and you can specify "ui=1" in the URL to use the old interface, but it's worth mentioning.
I have experienced this too. It does this on the Mac too. Luckily I have Webkit as backup (even if it is a nightly) and at home I just use the IMAP client. They blame it on certain plugins, but these are all disactivated for Google web sites.
I'll be sure to give Firefox 3.0 a go when it hits release candidate.
Not only does this wreak of desperation on the part of Microsoft
I don't know anymore. I am starting to think that this just pure incompetence and lack of proper cross-platform testing.
While this is about Muslims, it is not about Muslims as a whole. It is about a certain percentage of extremists forcing their view on everyone else. This is no different from extreme Christians forcing Creationism and Intelligent Design on people or other extreme views.
except for the part of mass murder by muslim extremists unless you claim arguing is the same as mass murder of many innocents...
Step back a few centuries and think of the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition. Not current, but Christianity also has it share of crimes.
Ok, muslims...time to get with the 21st century.
While this is about Muslims, it is not about Muslims as a whole. It is about a certain percentage of extremists forcing their view on everyone else. This is no different from extreme Christians forcing Creationism and Intelligent Design on people or other extreme views.
While generally you can show insensivity to certain religions, that are always factions that will condem people for this insensitivity. At the same time I believe you should show respect for everyones beliefs, but also make a point that there is only so far you can go before it is censorship of opinion.
Please, just because a percentage of any population feels a certain way, does not automatically make that true for everyone.
The irony with such tactics is that it will discourage businesses taking in their computers to the country and in many cases just mean that the important will be left online, using secure connections. European countries already distrust the USA over spying on corporate data, I doubt this is going to help the situation.
As if we really needed another method of damaging our economy.
I can't wait until the destroyer of nations leaves the office.
What's wrong with that? It's fairly close to the truth, much closer than many of the current federal administration's views on reality. And far less disastrous.
Actually it is wrong, since you would be rounding in the wrong direction. 3.14 rounds to 3.1.
But if the Bible is the unerring Word of God, surely God wouldn't have said 10 cubits when he meant anywhere from 5 to 14.9 cubits, would he? :-P
Possibly. Think of the knowledge of the average person at that time. Now think of how you try to explain something complicated to a layman, since thee chances are you would simplify the explanation.
Look, IPv6 is all well and good, but apart from typing 1:: for localhost, how am I going remember my outside IP?
There shouldn't be an inside or outside for IPv6, since there is no notion of NAT. If you mean your router, then using a service like dyndns.org is an alternative.
IPv6 is not quite there yet, with some of the popular web sites still not accessible via IPv6.
If you are stuck behind a home router, with NAT then you will probably find yourself unable to access IPv6 sites. In the meantime there are two solutions:
- Teredo. If you have Vista this is standard. For everything else there is Miredo
- Aiccu. A litte more work and bureaucracy to get up an running, but a solution non-the less
Of course there is also Apple's Airport Extreme, which is one of the few home routers out there that support IPv6. I believe some of the third-party firmwares will do this too, but I don't think the IPv6 support is mature. As for Linksys, D-Link, et al. I think you are out of luck for the moment.
Also, if you running Apache, you will need a minium of Apache 2 and specify IPv6 support, using the configure script, prior to building it.
I think the wiimote still wins out. The only thing that I would change with the wiimote is give it a higher resolution IR camera, but maybe that was too expensive for Nintendo (that may also have been a reason they didn't do high def?)
Cost is a big thing with the Wii. Currently the controller does the job for most people and at a cost that they can afford. There are better accelerometers and gyros around, but they tend to be expensive. If they could create a new and improved Wiimote, at a cost the market is willing to pay, it would have to be backwards compatible with the current set of games, and the new games would have to be backwards compatible with the original Wiimote.
Also you can already use the wiimote on a PC [wiiuse.net] for free and have millions of potential customers already owning one. So why would anyone want to pay royalties to use this thing?
Another site is http://www.wiili.org/ . There is even an API for developing with Java. BTW If you wish to play around with development for the Wiimote I highly recommend buying a battery based IR-bar.
Maybe the state of Washington should take a page out of Microsoft's book: If you are working for Microsoft they give you a certain time period to pay up (activation) and if not will disable access to the bridge. Once they pay up the will allow them through, but sometimes get it wrong and prevent them from crossing until they have waded through the support process.
:)
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You don't need to activate the specific device with GSM, but you do normally need to activate the SIM/your account, which for 99.9% of consumers amounts to exactly the same thing.
I mentioned the fact the SIM needs activating in my post. Beyond that no more activation is needed. In the GSM markets that I have experience with (Europe, Asia and Canada) many people stay with the same carrier and after a year or two get a new phone, with no change of SIM or need to re-activate. The SIM card is the account identifier. Only in CDMA is the phone and account tied together.
I am not sure where you pulled your percentages from, so I would appreciate a source, since they seem to be incompatible with my experience of the market.
Can Apple leave its five year exclusive contract with AT&T? If for no other reason that to heed the cautionary woes of a Computerworld writer with tenuous grasp of business and markets?
Probably, but at what cost? This will depend on the terms of the contract. I am just curious whether AT&T needs Apple more or whether Apple needs AT&T more. This is an important point, because this will define who owes what if the contract is broken, and who is most likely to opt for pulling out of the contract first.
Like being able to activate at home without having to wait for a sales droid.
The whole notion of phone activation is very CDMA like and is not part of the usual GSM experience. The only thing that should take activating is the phone account, and then you are free to move your SIM card from phone to phone. I have never need to activate any GSM phone I have got, so why should I need to do this with the iPhone.
The iPhone has got many things right, but this does not make it a perfect phone. There are still missing features, that some people take for granted in GSM phones, like being able to transmit files and contacts via Bluetooth and MMS messaging, amongst others. Hopefully Apple will correct this or the competition will offer something that is even better, for us to lust over.
Hmm, I wonder whether I could get him to apply the process to my MacBook Pro? If he manages to get the technique to colour metal in industrial quantity that could be amazing.
and keep the same timeframe. Wouldnt it be the winter of coding?
That is the whole point. Currently it is the winter of coding to the Australians. Having SoC that really corresponds to the Australian summer (around December) is what is being proposed. Also, as another poster mentions this could be opened up to all countries in the Southern hemisphere who share the same school schedule.
Stubbornness is part of genius; without it, you get people who learn to do things the "safe" and obvious way, rather than refusing to do so, and trying the brilliant and inventive way, failing several times along the way.
Are you a manager, by any chance?
I am no manager. The quote is about attitude, in that if you assume to know everything and won't learn then there is no way to progress. Sometimes it is better to be humble and accept that there is still more to learn and that you don't always have the only answer.
One of the main issues with microkernels is that of performance, but the trade-off results in reduced stability if you have a bad driver, since there is no notion of memory protection for drivers in a monolithic kernel.
The way I see it, is given the current performance of systems, getting a fast, but slightly less stable kernel counts for a lot, but in the future when the overhead provided a microkernel is deemed insignificant we will see them become the norm. In many ways this is much like when we were all using SCSI CD burners because the processor couldn't keep up, but now we are all using IDE CD burners because CPUs can more than handle the task.
Here is another map, from the same company that made the one on C|Net: http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/index.php
Also where is "Putin" tag as there seems to be Cold War 2.0 going on lately?
;)
But is it backwards compatible?
or someone tapping into the undersea cable cut a bit too deep...
I didn't think AT&T would go this far!
A specification 6000 pages long is probably another factor. Heck, try to get something that is spec compliant from a 100 page specification is hard enough, but with 6000 pages you must be smoking something good to even expect compliance. Good specs are easy to implement and understand, but then again I doubt Microsoft was even expecting anyone to be able to implement OOXML.
Here is something describing criminal and civil law, in the USA though the definition is probably universal:
http://www.rbs2.com/cc.htm