Just moved back to UK after nearly 15 years in US and then Canada. HSBC Canada has never had the ability to see my UK accounts, nor vice versa. A little bit too much of the local bank, but perhaps your experience suggests what we can expect from them elsewhere at some point in the future. A GBP bankers draft from HSBC Canada cost me something like CAD$3. Going the other way, HSBC UK charges GBP£30 for CAD$ draft. HSBC UK are wankers.
The guys in Canada have been a much better experience, and I'm guessing because they are only the fifth largest bank, versus the 900lb gorilla elsewhere. In fact, I was a victim of identity theft and fraud in Canada last year, and HSBC Canada have been awesome. The thieves were bold enough to call my branch at one point and ask for my account manager by name, when they ran in to trouble stealing from me via regular telephone banking. She knows me and knew I had an English accent, which they did not. She called me immediately. That's when one appreciates customer service.
Oh that British Humor. If only Benny Hill had not passed away or Monty Python broken up they could have made even more practical jokes and even more BBC prototype beta web site designs to insult and offend more Facebook fans.
Oh how Americans misunderstand British humour! There's a reason why Benny Hill is better known in the US than the UK.
Ugh: I disable the PDF reader plug-in and have FF treat it like a regular file download. Why anybody would want an application inside an application beats me, and the functionality is partially cripped too.
Chrome's behaviour with PDF's prevented me from ditching FF: after disabling the PDF reader, Chrome launches the Acrobat Reader, but it keeps open a page that can't be closed and doesn't repaint itself.
These things sound promising to me, but then I move uncompressed HD video between systems (think 6GB per minute, or double for 3D) between computers and locations.
I was under the impression that that these multi-process browser implementations keep such related pages in the same process space, for the same reason (breaks JavaScript/DHTML/etc). It seems like plugins would be covered by this.
Most of my iPlayer watching is via my PS3. None of the other broadcasters in the UK support it - thanks BBC for producing something convenient. Sometimes I use my Mac instead, where it's based on Adobe's technology.
Most of your points are irrelevant if I happen to be using two browsers. Things aren't broken if I do that today, so what's special about working with one browser? Adobe are hardly kings of outstanding implementations... they products should be sand boxed. Especially if it reduces the changes of XSS, etc.
Doesn't IE or Chrome make a decision about new pages as to whether they get a new process or share an existing one? It would seem like that logic would apply to plugins too. There's little reason for unrelated web pages to share a plugin, especially if they're from different domains.
I don't get it: what happens if I run something in IE and FF at the same time? Then there are two instances of Flash in separate address spaces. Killing IE doesn't bring down Flash in FF. What's going on in FF that doesn't allow it to run in multiple instances?
Far worse than/.: we use Code Collaborator for our code reviews at work. Rendering those pages (e.g. two large C# files and their differences) can block the whole browser for several minutes. It's utter shit by FF.
If you're worrying about memory, then per-page processes is actually a boon. If implemented properly, one should be able to figure out problematic pages and close them, re-open them. FF is a total memory sieve these days, so I'm really hoping for something like this in FF4. It's pain at the moment having close the whole browser and then wait for 40 tabs to reload.
When the outside humidity is in the region of 10%, how high does the evaporative cooling raise it? Why is that a problem compared with other places where relative humidity could be in the range of 75-100%? I lived in Shanghai the May-Oct before I lived in Melbourne, and I'd say 30C there was worse than 45C downunder (I might react differently than my computer mind you, which certainly doesn't soak it's case through with sweat).
I was somewhere near this weather station last year, it reported something like 46.4 on the day of the bush fires. As you can see, both Jan and Feb had days that reached 46. The only cooling we had were fans (I was working from home). Again, I'll take that over Shanghai at a lower temperature. It was quite an incredible experience, with everything in the house seemingly above body temperature (one couldn't even lay down to escape the heat as the bed was hot).
I've lived in Melbourne with temperatures of up to 47C. The heat the was a problem - I'd have to put the DSL modem in the freezer for 10 mins a few times a day as it would be become unreliable. That's without any cooling. But evaporative cooling causes what kinds of problems?
The funny thing about the road signs is it does mean Westerners can get around more easily, but it still doesn't help with pronunciation. I had an apartment for a few months on Qingdao Lu in Shanghai... you'd think I'd be able to say the name of China's most common beer properly (Tsingtao - not Pinyin, so different romanisation). I had to get by with North/South/East/West that I was more proficient at from playing Mah Jiang in order to guide taxi drivers home.
A lot of mobile phones, including my Samsung phone, use Pinyin as a way of entering Chinese characters. For each word/syllable I enter, there's a sometimes long list of matching Chinese characters to select from.
Pinyin is also used on things like street signs in some of the larger cities, which gives Western people at least some chance of recongnising names.
The thing I'm missing is crowd noise, and that wouldn't help that. So far only the English fans have been able to out sing this blasted things. The ups and downs in the crowd sound really adds to the atmosphere, but these horns are levelling everything out and making it flat aurally.
How much of the crowd noise do the studio mics pic up?
Let me guess... you live in the USA? I was forced to import tea from the UK when I lived in Denver in the mid-90s. De facto American black tea then was some shite from Lipton that required boiling in the mug in a microwave for several minutes just to squeeze some flavour out of it.
Sugar ruins tea. Just add some milk. Unless it's mint tea;)
I think they should have phrased it such that they are replaced a 10mpg car with a 20mpg (same), and a 33mpg car with a 70mpg (more than double). This exaggerates the misunderstanding. Sure, higher mpg is better, but if your family has two cars and you can only afford to replace one, the first is a better choice for replacement than the second as it saves 5 gallons/100 miles versus 1.6 gallons/100 miles.
Other countries use litres per 100 km to guage fuel consumption. These figures make it much easier to gauge how much fuel you will save.
High speed's a joke with some of the bandwidth caps and the amount charged for excess GB. I lived in Australia for 6 months last year, coming from Canada. I could not believe what the Aussies tolerate for internet, nor the cost. New Zealand doesn't sound much better. Last mile speed was not my impediment to internet usage/participation, but the costs and ISP practices were. My DSL line was never the bottleneck, but rather the link across the Pacific. I'm in the UK now, and although more expensive than Canada, I'm not frustrated by the internet service here in the same way as I was in Melbourne. I stand by my statement that the money would be better spent other ways, or not spent at all.
I love how people justify taxation based on spreading it out over time. How many of these "little" projects can politicians contrive before your tax burden or government debt is unreasonable? Is that per person in NZ, or per ISP customer, per tax payer, BTW? Money would be better invested elsewhere.
Even though you're saying otherwise, you're actually blaming the users for the lack of security, not the OS. XP's security model is fine... encouraging users to create superuser accounts by default was not, but still, that's ultimately a user mistake. Trying to get users to work the other way in Vista didn't work out so well on the UAC front, but again, it's a user error (negligence?) to disable it. You can run everything as root on UNIX systems if you want, and would make those systems easier to use too.
Using C++ doesn't mean using all of the features of C++. It can be used as a better C, e.g. through the use of const. Maybe C supports const now, it's been a long time for since I wrote any.
Have you been to Belgium? That's a whole country that will disagree with you. I've been enjoying a very nice wheat beer recently with a touch of coriander and orange in it - perfect for sitting in the summer sun by the river. There's a time and place for everything, and I'm just as happy with downing a couple of pints of bitter if I have 20 mins to unwind and chat to work colleagues on my way home.
I was very happy with my paper driving license. It was valid til my 70th birthday, and stayed at home in a drawer. I have no problem grabbing my passport from the same drawer when I go travelling overseas. The new license doesn't really offer me anything, other than having to renew it every few years. Why do I need to carry ID again?
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Just moved back to UK after nearly 15 years in US and then Canada. HSBC Canada has never had the ability to see my UK accounts, nor vice versa. A little bit too much of the local bank, but perhaps your experience suggests what we can expect from them elsewhere at some point in the future. A GBP bankers draft from HSBC Canada cost me something like CAD$3. Going the other way, HSBC UK charges GBP£30 for CAD$ draft. HSBC UK are wankers.
The guys in Canada have been a much better experience, and I'm guessing because they are only the fifth largest bank, versus the 900lb gorilla elsewhere. In fact, I was a victim of identity theft and fraud in Canada last year, and HSBC Canada have been awesome. The thieves were bold enough to call my branch at one point and ask for my account manager by name, when they ran in to trouble stealing from me via regular telephone banking. She knows me and knew I had an English accent, which they did not. She called me immediately. That's when one appreciates customer service.
Oh how Americans misunderstand British humour! There's a reason why Benny Hill is better known in the US than the UK.
Ugh: I disable the PDF reader plug-in and have FF treat it like a regular file download. Why anybody would want an application inside an application beats me, and the functionality is partially cripped too.
Chrome's behaviour with PDF's prevented me from ditching FF: after disabling the PDF reader, Chrome launches the Acrobat Reader, but it keeps open a page that can't be closed and doesn't repaint itself.
Why aren't external drives interesting?
These things sound promising to me, but then I move uncompressed HD video between systems (think 6GB per minute, or double for 3D) between computers and locations.
I was under the impression that that these multi-process browser implementations keep such related pages in the same process space, for the same reason (breaks JavaScript/DHTML/etc). It seems like plugins would be covered by this.
What's this Microsoft-only iPlayer you speak of?
Most of my iPlayer watching is via my PS3. None of the other broadcasters in the UK support it - thanks BBC for producing something convenient. Sometimes I use my Mac instead, where it's based on Adobe's technology.
Most of your points are irrelevant if I happen to be using two browsers. Things aren't broken if I do that today, so what's special about working with one browser? Adobe are hardly kings of outstanding implementations... they products should be sand boxed. Especially if it reduces the changes of XSS, etc.
That sounds like a problem with FF, not Flash.
Doesn't IE or Chrome make a decision about new pages as to whether they get a new process or share an existing one? It would seem like that logic would apply to plugins too. There's little reason for unrelated web pages to share a plugin, especially if they're from different domains.
I don't get it: what happens if I run something in IE and FF at the same time? Then there are two instances of Flash in separate address spaces. Killing IE doesn't bring down Flash in FF. What's going on in FF that doesn't allow it to run in multiple instances?
Far worse than /.: we use Code Collaborator for our code reviews at work. Rendering those pages (e.g. two large C# files and their differences) can block the whole browser for several minutes. It's utter shit by FF.
If you're worrying about memory, then per-page processes is actually a boon. If implemented properly, one should be able to figure out problematic pages and close them, re-open them. FF is a total memory sieve these days, so I'm really hoping for something like this in FF4. It's pain at the moment having close the whole browser and then wait for 40 tabs to reload.
When the outside humidity is in the region of 10%, how high does the evaporative cooling raise it? Why is that a problem compared with other places where relative humidity could be in the range of 75-100%? I lived in Shanghai the May-Oct before I lived in Melbourne, and I'd say 30C there was worse than 45C downunder (I might react differently than my computer mind you, which certainly doesn't soak it's case through with sweat).
I was somewhere near this weather station last year, it reported something like 46.4 on the day of the bush fires. As you can see, both Jan and Feb had days that reached 46. The only cooling we had were fans (I was working from home). Again, I'll take that over Shanghai at a lower temperature. It was quite an incredible experience, with everything in the house seemingly above body temperature (one couldn't even lay down to escape the heat as the bed was hot).
In what way?
I've lived in Melbourne with temperatures of up to 47C. The heat the was a problem - I'd have to put the DSL modem in the freezer for 10 mins a few times a day as it would be become unreliable. That's without any cooling. But evaporative cooling causes what kinds of problems?
The funny thing about the road signs is it does mean Westerners can get around more easily, but it still doesn't help with pronunciation. I had an apartment for a few months on Qingdao Lu in Shanghai... you'd think I'd be able to say the name of China's most common beer properly (Tsingtao - not Pinyin, so different romanisation). I had to get by with North/South/East/West that I was more proficient at from playing Mah Jiang in order to guide taxi drivers home.
A lot of mobile phones, including my Samsung phone, use Pinyin as a way of entering Chinese characters. For each word/syllable I enter, there's a sometimes long list of matching Chinese characters to select from.
Pinyin is also used on things like street signs in some of the larger cities, which gives Western people at least some chance of recongnising names.
The thing I'm missing is crowd noise, and that wouldn't help that. So far only the English fans have been able to out sing this blasted things. The ups and downs in the crowd sound really adds to the atmosphere, but these horns are levelling everything out and making it flat aurally.
How much of the crowd noise do the studio mics pic up?
Let me guess... you live in the USA? I was forced to import tea from the UK when I lived in Denver in the mid-90s. De facto American black tea then was some shite from Lipton that required boiling in the mug in a microwave for several minutes just to squeeze some flavour out of it.
Sugar ruins tea. Just add some milk. Unless it's mint tea ;)
Important? I haven't heard of them since I completed my Computer Science degree in 1996. They're relevant how?
I think they should have phrased it such that they are replaced a 10mpg car with a 20mpg (same), and a 33mpg car with a 70mpg (more than double). This exaggerates the misunderstanding. Sure, higher mpg is better, but if your family has two cars and you can only afford to replace one, the first is a better choice for replacement than the second as it saves 5 gallons/100 miles versus 1.6 gallons/100 miles.
Other countries use litres per 100 km to guage fuel consumption. These figures make it much easier to gauge how much fuel you will save.
High speed's a joke with some of the bandwidth caps and the amount charged for excess GB. I lived in Australia for 6 months last year, coming from Canada. I could not believe what the Aussies tolerate for internet, nor the cost. New Zealand doesn't sound much better. Last mile speed was not my impediment to internet usage/participation, but the costs and ISP practices were. My DSL line was never the bottleneck, but rather the link across the Pacific. I'm in the UK now, and although more expensive than Canada, I'm not frustrated by the internet service here in the same way as I was in Melbourne. I stand by my statement that the money would be better spent other ways, or not spent at all.
I love how people justify taxation based on spreading it out over time. How many of these "little" projects can politicians contrive before your tax burden or government debt is unreasonable? Is that per person in NZ, or per ISP customer, per tax payer, BTW? Money would be better invested elsewhere.
Even though you're saying otherwise, you're actually blaming the users for the lack of security, not the OS. XP's security model is fine... encouraging users to create superuser accounts by default was not, but still, that's ultimately a user mistake. Trying to get users to work the other way in Vista didn't work out so well on the UAC front, but again, it's a user error (negligence?) to disable it. You can run everything as root on UNIX systems if you want, and would make those systems easier to use too.
Using C++ doesn't mean using all of the features of C++. It can be used as a better C, e.g. through the use of const. Maybe C supports const now, it's been a long time for since I wrote any.
Have you been to Belgium? That's a whole country that will disagree with you. I've been enjoying a very nice wheat beer recently with a touch of coriander and orange in it - perfect for sitting in the summer sun by the river. There's a time and place for everything, and I'm just as happy with downing a couple of pints of bitter if I have 20 mins to unwind and chat to work colleagues on my way home.
I was very happy with my paper driving license. It was valid til my 70th birthday, and stayed at home in a drawer. I have no problem grabbing my passport from the same drawer when I go travelling overseas. The new license doesn't really offer me anything, other than having to renew it every few years. Why do I need to carry ID again?