I think this really depends on where exactly you live. York for example is a cyclist's dream, lanes everywhere and reasonably flat. You get tons of cyclists around the city there. But go to somewhere like Milton Keynes or Croydon or Crawley and the dominance of roundabouts, traffic lights and three-lane carriageways mean cyclists are a lot rarer. Oh, and don't forget Royal Mail, practically half their routes are now done with bikes.
This is about tethering though. You wouldn't bother wiring up a laptop to your 3G-connected phone when there's a Wi-Fi hotspot around. So it really comes down to whether you trust the 3G network. And if the traffic itself is secure (SSL-ed), you should be able to trust 3G just as much as you do a wired network.
Thunderbolt seems to get a lot of hate because it's marketed by Apple. Techies are quick to forget their main partner in this, who designed the technology, is Intel. I'm sure if Intel had released the technology off their own back it would have had the full support of the tech community, and would also have died within 6 months thanks to lack of use.
By going for the consumers via Apple first, this technology has the chance to thrive. It has a chance to gain some ground in the peripherals market, which it wouldn't have done if it was only found on high-end gaming PCs (see: eSata). Probably Intel will start putting TB ports on their motherboards soon-ish, and once those start appearing, the other mobo manufacturers will almost certainly follow.
So basically, odds are TB will still be going strong in two years. It could still fail of course, since nothing is really certain in this market (who's to say ATi won't come up with a competing standard?). But right now there's no reason to doubt Thunderbolt is a growing force in the world of plugging stuff in.
Well Virgin is gone, HMV is closing dozens of stores and seems to be narrowly escaping collapse. Tesco seems to the place to find CDs nowadays, although you won't find much apart from chart and a token selection of rock and pop. Though part of this downfall is probably due to online CD sales as much as it thanks to iTunes sales.
Very, very few places have computers on offer with no OS installed. Practically none have Linux-based PCs on sale (I know there are a few, but the number is pretty much negligible here). So Linux is not the cheap option. You don't save money buying the computer without Windows, because you simply can't get anything without Windows. And here in the UK at least, the Ubuntu PCs I saw didn't save you much money over the Windows alternative anyway.
So basically, Linux isn't going to save the customer any money. Therefore it will be no more and no less attractive in a recession than at any other time. Therefore this article is complete twaddle. Next.
Would you be doing anything "secure" at a public wi-fi hotspot? Checking bank details can wait until you get home I'd imagine, or you could hop onto the kinda-more-secure 3G network.
I'd imagine the motivation was more political than financial (insofar as the two are separate things). Remember that the news was broken by a rival newspaper, not some stock broker. They wanted to discredit NewsInt before they took over half the British media.
Do you not own a portable music player? Most of them have small disks, very few even use hard drives nowadays. And if you listen to music on a smartphone (or an iPod Touch), your music is also jostling for space with Angry Birds et. al., making this even more of an issue.
Plus there is also the fact that most portable players produce lower quality audio (especially when paired with cheap "going out" headphones and a noisy environment), so there's little point in using lossless codecs in the first place.
I'd personally be quite interested in this, not for my FLAC collection at home, but for my iPhone's music collection on the move.
Sniffer dogs are valuable. As you say, they actually work, and they cost a bomb (no pun intended) to train up. That's why they tend to be employed on the other side, in customs. That way they can be used to prevent some real crime, rather than just being around for show.
More to the point, how many would actually care? So long as they can play Angry Birds under the desk at work, I doubt the average Joe will really be concerned about the underlying technology.
Of course, there's the whole consumer misinformation jazz, but I don't think Apple is deliberately trying to mask their phone off as capable of 4G when it's really only 3G. They're too busy claiming it will change your life, make you 50% more attractive to women, give you riches beyond imagining... What was I talking about again?
All the talks about GIMP not suitable for professional use is bullshit and only by those who are afraid they need to learn something else than Photoshop and photoshop can not be used as meme to be repeated all days long "photoshop this and photoshop that, did you photoshop it?"
And why exactly would I bother spending hours of my time learning how to use GIMP? If it "does just perfect job as" Photoshop, then why don't I just use Photoshop? Unless there's an advantage for me to learn GIMP (and no, price is not one of them, I don't give a damn what it costs), I'm sterring well clear. It also needs to not run like a dog on my work's MacBook.
Not to insult those who like old-school tech, but this article really sounds like it was written by the views of a bunch of dinosaurs. On p3 someone laments the death of xedit, a non-GUI text editor with search/replace, go to top/bottom, and so on. I mean, has he never heard of Vim? I'd be intrigued to hear of any features xedit had that Vim doesn't, or you couldn't write a keybinding for in emacs (not that I delve in such magic). There's also this gem of a quote:
"Whenever I read an article online, be it in Adobe Reader, a text editor, or a web browser, I try to get an uninterrupted paragraph on the screen, fail, curse, and move on, knowing that online reading used to be a far less turbulent and far more graceful experience before popular and simple displaced complex and useful."
Adobe Reader (along with MS Word and others) supports full-screen mode, allowing an uninterrupted view. And with monitors being so huge now it's not exactly hard to ignore 100 vertical pixels of menu bars.
And clacky keyboards have been sidelined for a reason - it's generally much nicer to type on a soft keyboard, and in a crowded office your eardrums will thank you if everyone's using laptop-style keyboards. Of course, if you really prefer the old style, it's not hard to get a hold of one, they're just not as mass-produced now because the demand isn't there. Nothing to lament, really.
Today I got about 50 emails about new & exciting opportunities as an assistant manager. Quite how they can use "exciting" and "assistant manager" in the same sentence, I've got no idea.
As much as it's nice to know reCAPTCHA is working towards a good cause (digitising old books, if you live under a rock or something), the amount of times I've got incomprehensible jibberish from it makes me rather unsympathetic towards their cause. It'd be nice to think there was some better way of keeping spam out, but I guess developer laziness and Google's endless crusade to rule the Internet we'll be stuck trying to decipher nonsense from the 1900s for a good while yet.
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I think this really depends on where exactly you live. York for example is a cyclist's dream, lanes everywhere and reasonably flat. You get tons of cyclists around the city there. But go to somewhere like Milton Keynes or Croydon or Crawley and the dominance of roundabouts, traffic lights and three-lane carriageways mean cyclists are a lot rarer. Oh, and don't forget Royal Mail, practically half their routes are now done with bikes.
Just under 13 bitcoins.
Actually, it would be bull, bulls, bullss, bullsss...
When the Earth falls to dust, we humans look to the stars. Or something like that.
This is about tethering though. You wouldn't bother wiring up a laptop to your 3G-connected phone when there's a Wi-Fi hotspot around. So it really comes down to whether you trust the 3G network. And if the traffic itself is secure (SSL-ed), you should be able to trust 3G just as much as you do a wired network.
Thunderbolt seems to get a lot of hate because it's marketed by Apple. Techies are quick to forget their main partner in this, who designed the technology, is Intel. I'm sure if Intel had released the technology off their own back it would have had the full support of the tech community, and would also have died within 6 months thanks to lack of use.
By going for the consumers via Apple first, this technology has the chance to thrive. It has a chance to gain some ground in the peripherals market, which it wouldn't have done if it was only found on high-end gaming PCs (see: eSata). Probably Intel will start putting TB ports on their motherboards soon-ish, and once those start appearing, the other mobo manufacturers will almost certainly follow.
So basically, odds are TB will still be going strong in two years. It could still fail of course, since nothing is really certain in this market (who's to say ATi won't come up with a competing standard?). But right now there's no reason to doubt Thunderbolt is a growing force in the world of plugging stuff in.
They just forgot to tag themselves when they uploaded it.
Well Virgin is gone, HMV is closing dozens of stores and seems to be narrowly escaping collapse. Tesco seems to the place to find CDs nowadays, although you won't find much apart from chart and a token selection of rock and pop. Though part of this downfall is probably due to online CD sales as much as it thanks to iTunes sales.
Which "scientists" did they drag out to say this was a UFO?
Very, very few places have computers on offer with no OS installed. Practically none have Linux-based PCs on sale (I know there are a few, but the number is pretty much negligible here). So Linux is not the cheap option. You don't save money buying the computer without Windows, because you simply can't get anything without Windows. And here in the UK at least, the Ubuntu PCs I saw didn't save you much money over the Windows alternative anyway.
So basically, Linux isn't going to save the customer any money. Therefore it will be no more and no less attractive in a recession than at any other time. Therefore this article is complete twaddle. Next.
That's what you wrote metaphorically.
Would you be doing anything "secure" at a public wi-fi hotspot? Checking bank details can wait until you get home I'd imagine, or you could hop onto the kinda-more-secure 3G network.
I'd imagine the motivation was more political than financial (insofar as the two are separate things). Remember that the news was broken by a rival newspaper, not some stock broker. They wanted to discredit NewsInt before they took over half the British media.
Do you not own a portable music player? Most of them have small disks, very few even use hard drives nowadays. And if you listen to music on a smartphone (or an iPod Touch), your music is also jostling for space with Angry Birds et. al., making this even more of an issue.
Plus there is also the fact that most portable players produce lower quality audio (especially when paired with cheap "going out" headphones and a noisy environment), so there's little point in using lossless codecs in the first place.
I'd personally be quite interested in this, not for my FLAC collection at home, but for my iPhone's music collection on the move.
Actually, they'll just encrypt your brain.
I think Jobs refuted that rumour a while back. Would be pretty clever/awesome if it was actually true though.
Sniffer dogs are valuable. As you say, they actually work, and they cost a bomb (no pun intended) to train up. That's why they tend to be employed on the other side, in customs. That way they can be used to prevent some real crime, rather than just being around for show.
Happy Bastille Day everyone.
More to the point, how many would actually care? So long as they can play Angry Birds under the desk at work, I doubt the average Joe will really be concerned about the underlying technology. Of course, there's the whole consumer misinformation jazz, but I don't think Apple is deliberately trying to mask their phone off as capable of 4G when it's really only 3G. They're too busy claiming it will change your life, make you 50% more attractive to women, give you riches beyond imagining... What was I talking about again?
All the talks about GIMP not suitable for professional use is bullshit and only by those who are afraid they need to learn something else than Photoshop and photoshop can not be used as meme to be repeated all days long "photoshop this and photoshop that, did you photoshop it?"
And why exactly would I bother spending hours of my time learning how to use GIMP? If it "does just perfect job as" Photoshop, then why don't I just use Photoshop? Unless there's an advantage for me to learn GIMP (and no, price is not one of them, I don't give a damn what it costs), I'm sterring well clear. It also needs to not run like a dog on my work's MacBook.
ARM is the same instruction set used by iOS, right? And yet the iPhone/iPad simulator runs at almost real-time. If Apple can do it, why can't Google?
Except for iPlayer.
Not to insult those who like old-school tech, but this article really sounds like it was written by the views of a bunch of dinosaurs. On p3 someone laments the death of xedit, a non-GUI text editor with search/replace, go to top/bottom, and so on. I mean, has he never heard of Vim? I'd be intrigued to hear of any features xedit had that Vim doesn't, or you couldn't write a keybinding for in emacs (not that I delve in such magic). There's also this gem of a quote: "Whenever I read an article online, be it in Adobe Reader, a text editor, or a web browser, I try to get an uninterrupted paragraph on the screen, fail, curse, and move on, knowing that online reading used to be a far less turbulent and far more graceful experience before popular and simple displaced complex and useful." Adobe Reader (along with MS Word and others) supports full-screen mode, allowing an uninterrupted view. And with monitors being so huge now it's not exactly hard to ignore 100 vertical pixels of menu bars. And clacky keyboards have been sidelined for a reason - it's generally much nicer to type on a soft keyboard, and in a crowded office your eardrums will thank you if everyone's using laptop-style keyboards. Of course, if you really prefer the old style, it's not hard to get a hold of one, they're just not as mass-produced now because the demand isn't there. Nothing to lament, really.
Today I got about 50 emails about new & exciting opportunities as an assistant manager. Quite how they can use "exciting" and "assistant manager" in the same sentence, I've got no idea.
As much as it's nice to know reCAPTCHA is working towards a good cause (digitising old books, if you live under a rock or something), the amount of times I've got incomprehensible jibberish from it makes me rather unsympathetic towards their cause. It'd be nice to think there was some better way of keeping spam out, but I guess developer laziness and Google's endless crusade to rule the Internet we'll be stuck trying to decipher nonsense from the 1900s for a good while yet.