Yeah, I was wondering which firewall was being referred to: at the network level, or at the machine (i.e. Windows firewall) level? Would doing at the machine level make it hard for others to access shared folders? It seems these days that most of the computer issues (viruses, trojans, etc) have come from other machines on the corporate network, so a network level firewall is only have the story.
It doesn't work with Freesat though, does it? I can't get Freeview in my flat, and there isn't enough room inside for an internal aerial big enough - the whole building is wired for Freesat though. And why can't the iPlayer download to the harddrive like on PC or Mac? And why is the PS3 fan so loud?
It's a bit of cop-out when people hide behind that. In this case, the story is pathetic. Did you read the article? It's like one of those things Yahoo tries to foist in my way when I go to logon to my email. That's never stopped people around here postulating wildly, but sometimes it's better not to post a story than to post utter crap.
If this is a GPL violation, I'm sure it wasn't deliberate by Microsoft. People around here no doubt think differently. I'd be interested to know what processes they have in place - at our company, any use of third party code (whatever license) has to be sign-off by the CTO, and the details get put away in a file somewhere. There's more to it than that, but in theory, something like this would be a screw-up by somebody or a break-down in the process.
I bet it can't find old messages at the speed I do with X1 + 10 years of Exchange-based email (more than 250,000 messages). I stuck with Pine through the end of the 90s, when everybody else I worked with was switching to Netscape Communicator. I wouldn't go back now though.
The BBC is still dabbling in it. I saw the BBC Research labs demonstrating two different 3D display technologies at IBC in Amersterdam back in September. With the advent of 3-D for Blu-ray, and TV manufacturers pushing 3-D, I imagine we will see more from them.
I haven't found anything that works as well as Skype. SIP is way down the list in performance. Skype could cope like nothing else when I was living in China calling the West, dealing with high latency and packet loss.
No, the worst bit about Skype is that UI has been eBay-ified. It's becoming a dog to use. No doubt they'll start using different fonts all over the place in the next version...
The number one memory hog for me is leaky Firefox. Then multiple instances of Visual Studio, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat reader, and a bunch of other stuff before Skype.
I found it amusing when I lived in China: all advertising (not just Google, but places like Facebook too) was in Chinese. I can't even begin to read that. I guess it doesn't cost much, but it is daft.
Fuses are dreadful as they take sometime to blow at their rated value.
Surely though a proper circuit breaker should trip instantly if the max load is exceeded?
The bending pins in N. America drive me nuts, and also the fact that you can't always tell immediately if you've got a polarised plug the right way around or you're having trouble because the pins aren't straight. And also that sockets (wall outlets, or individually on a power bar) don't normally have a power switch. It's really nice being able to turn things off individually without having to unplug them.
I sure wish N. America would run on higher voltage: it takes an age to boil a kettle because at a max of 13A, it's half the power of a kettle pulling 13A elsewhere in the world.
Funny how yanks think the war wouldn't have been won without them, when really they waited until they knew they were going to be on the winning side. A bit of a tired joke don't you think?
Funny how yanks think the war would have been won without them, when really they waited until they knew they were going to be on the winning side. A bit of a tired joke don't you think?
Don't you remember the story a year or two ago about people importing real books from the UK in to the US, because they are cheaper in the UK (especially for university books).
So if I'm in the UK, why won't they let me buy content for the Kindle from the US? That's right, because they want to charge higher prices.
I spent five months in Australia earlier this year. The book market there is out of control, and I ended buying from Amazon.co.uk because it was cheaper to have them shipped from the other side of the planet. For example, the Lonely Planet guide to New Zealand was $45 in Australia. It cost me $37, include $15-20 shipping to get it from the UK. That's disgusting. Amazon I think would like to be able to enforce higher prices.
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Yeah, I was wondering which firewall was being referred to: at the network level, or at the machine (i.e. Windows firewall) level? Would doing at the machine level make it hard for others to access shared folders? It seems these days that most of the computer issues (viruses, trojans, etc) have come from other machines on the corporate network, so a network level firewall is only have the story.
It doesn't work with Freesat though, does it? I can't get Freeview in my flat, and there isn't enough room inside for an internal aerial big enough - the whole building is wired for Freesat though. And why can't the iPlayer download to the harddrive like on PC or Mac? And why is the PS3 fan so loud?
You found sufficient facts in the six sentences in the story to draw this conclusion?
It's a bit of cop-out when people hide behind that. In this case, the story is pathetic. Did you read the article? It's like one of those things Yahoo tries to foist in my way when I go to logon to my email. That's never stopped people around here postulating wildly, but sometimes it's better not to post a story than to post utter crap.
Especially when it's such a substance-less [non-]story.
Story posted between 2am and 5am in the continental US. Can we have something less US-centric at this time of day?
If this is a GPL violation, I'm sure it wasn't deliberate by Microsoft. People around here no doubt think differently. I'd be interested to know what processes they have in place - at our company, any use of third party code (whatever license) has to be sign-off by the CTO, and the details get put away in a file somewhere. There's more to it than that, but in theory, something like this would be a screw-up by somebody or a break-down in the process.
I bet it can't find old messages at the speed I do with X1 + 10 years of Exchange-based email (more than 250,000 messages). I stuck with Pine through the end of the 90s, when everybody else I worked with was switching to Netscape Communicator. I wouldn't go back now though.
The BBC is still dabbling in it. I saw the BBC Research labs demonstrating two different 3D display technologies at IBC in Amersterdam back in September. With the advent of 3-D for Blu-ray, and TV manufacturers pushing 3-D, I imagine we will see more from them.
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I haven't found anything that works as well as Skype. SIP is way down the list in performance. Skype could cope like nothing else when I was living in China calling the West, dealing with high latency and packet loss.
No, the worst bit about Skype is that UI has been eBay-ified. It's becoming a dog to use. No doubt they'll start using different fonts all over the place in the next version...
The number one memory hog for me is leaky Firefox. Then multiple instances of Visual Studio, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat reader, and a bunch of other stuff before Skype.
I found it amusing when I lived in China: all advertising (not just Google, but places like Facebook too) was in Chinese. I can't even begin to read that. I guess it doesn't cost much, but it is daft.
Sterlisation might be a better suggestion than state-sponsored murder.
These people are useful in wars - maybe you could make a case of preserving this gene as a form of societal self-defense.
Fuses are dreadful as they take sometime to blow at their rated value.
Surely though a proper circuit breaker should trip instantly if the max load is exceeded?
The bending pins in N. America drive me nuts, and also the fact that you can't always tell immediately if you've got a polarised plug the right way around or you're having trouble because the pins aren't straight. And also that sockets (wall outlets, or individually on a power bar) don't normally have a power switch. It's really nice being able to turn things off individually without having to unplug them.
I sure wish N. America would run on higher voltage: it takes an age to boil a kettle because at a max of 13A, it's half the power of a kettle pulling 13A elsewhere in the world.
Funny how yanks think the war wouldn't have been won without them, when really they waited until they knew they were going to be on the winning side. A bit of a tired joke don't you think?
Funny how yanks think the war would have been won without them, when really they waited until they knew they were going to be on the winning side. A bit of a tired joke don't you think?
... personal responsibility? Controlling our behaviour is one of the things that differentiates us from animals.
Isn't Whitehorse in the Yukon territory, not BC?
The big news here isn't that an ocean will form: that's old news. We've known about the the Great Rift Valley" for a long time, and that three plates are pulling apart. What's interesting is that they've confirmed part of the process that's at work. I think this story a little over-hyped.
I would love a UI that makes sense, on Win32 and Mac OS X.
What would this do to their codecs, which are presumably optimised for regular voice/video? Would it increase the bandwidth requirements?
Don't you remember the story a year or two ago about people importing real books from the UK in to the US, because they are cheaper in the UK (especially for university books).
So if I'm in the UK, why won't they let me buy content for the Kindle from the US? That's right, because they want to charge higher prices.
I spent five months in Australia earlier this year. The book market there is out of control, and I ended buying from Amazon.co.uk because it was cheaper to have them shipped from the other side of the planet. For example, the Lonely Planet guide to New Zealand was $45 in Australia. It cost me $37, include $15-20 shipping to get it from the UK. That's disgusting. Amazon I think would like to be able to enforce higher prices.
Your MacBook doesn't get really hot and the fan really loud for quite a long time when you rip a DVD?