They should have told it's out in December, not specifying a year. So they wouldn't be the laughing stock of the industry when they have to admit in three years that it's expected for 2017, or so
That's a point that I missed in the fa. In my experience that's one of the most dangerous risks for just about any project. They either have:
No project sponsor from the business side (usually in high places), or - even worse - there are multiple "sponsors" from multiple departments (usually using the project as a war by proxy entity for their departmental feuds).
In both situations I wouldn't come near the project with a gas mask and asbstos suit.
Currently, many of the large companies are unsure how having unlocked phones will impact there current business practice of getting you to sign a contract. Since a contract is general as good as money in the bank they can book it as potential revenue and their budgeting is easier to do. That doesn't make sense at all (granted, there doesn't seem to be much sense in the US cell phone business). When I sign a contract anyway then why lock my phone? I'm anyway stuck with the contract for its duration.
Usually phones in here around are only SIM locked on very cheap pre-payed deals.
I guess that customers just wouldn't accept this. As they wouldn't accept crippled bluetooth stacks, or other such silly stunts, which US carriers seem so fond of pulling off.
The difference is that Japanese vending machines mainly sell soiled schoolgirl panties.
I'm sure that somebody else is better qualified on that issue and I heard the same story. But my experience from a 2001 visit to Tokyo is quite different. While vending machines are ubiquitous (and a good thing too. Nothing better then some ice cold green tea drink after a hard night of partying on a hungover morning; but I digress) I had to see yet one vending machines selling panties. Used or not.
May be that this is a thing of the past, maybe that we weren't in the seedy enough parts of town to find such vending machines, maybe that it's just an urban legend (and it's not that Japanese gentlemen don't have quite a reputation when it comes to kink), but the most likely explanation is that this was cleaned up in the 90s.
The problem is not with Americans--you'll note that somewhere in the neighborhood of 78% of them are displeased with George II.
...that over 50% voted for George W. Bush in the 2004 election.
I also noticed that 80% of Americans hip-hip hoorayed a war in Iraq killing 100s of thousands of innocent people and providing a hotbed for global terrorism.
I recall quite vividly that every critic of the war, was derided, smeared, insulted and partially threated for their lives.
I noted that this administration, elected (at least the second time by a majority of US citizens) leaked the name of an undercover intelligence operative for no better reason then to smear her husband, who the administration didn't like.
I recall a hell of a lot really bad and rotten things for which this administration and ultimnately the people that elected them are responsible.
That, quite likely, includes you.
So please don't give me this "we're all so much against it, but those in power..." bullshit.
Microsoft was always very, very careful to stay far away from everything GPL. Ignoring software licenses could hurt them very, very badly appart from the negative PR.
"Sure, your honor, we ripped of GPLd code, becuase Mr. Ballmer and a dunderhead from legal determined that this license is not real and we are not bound by it, but we nevertheless sue pirates left and right, because our Messrs Ballmer and Dunderhead determined that our 688 page EULA is absolutely valid...
How do you think would this go over with any court?
The point in code, IMHO, is to make it readable. That's more important today than just about anything else.
Generally speaking you are totally right, of course, but there are exceptions:
Investments banks focus more and more on algorithmic trading. In essence those are rule based systems geared towards processing deals very, very fast, partially even trading automatically based on market trends and statistics. For such systems speed is the holy grail and more important then anything else. They are also the crown jewels of an investment bank, that the competition frantically tries to reverse engineer.
A nice example was when NYSE mused about moving the data center to the outskirts, freeing up valuable real estate in one of the most expensive places in the world. There was an uproar since even those couple milliseconds latency due to the longer lines where deemed unacceptable.
That's a nice example that illustrates why maintainability is not always the highest priority.
And the irony is that it's the kinda thing that many people in IT are still involved with.
Same can be said for the infamous QWERTY keyboard (or QWERTZ keyboards as we call them in the German sticks of the world, or those damn AZERTY keyboards that the French use, by I digress).
Apparently this was introduced becuase if you typed too fast on the first mechanical typewriters the mechanic jammed up. Thus a layout was chosen, which was not based on ergonomic principles, but to slow the typer done.
All attempts to replace this over the years have proven futile and lead nowhere.
I answer your post represantively for everybody that stepped in and tried to help. I did the error code google search stik and in essence it leads to that: A file is blocked while WU tries to install the new version. Usually this is triggered by virus scanners. I even went so far to uninstall the Antivirus software to no avail.
Re-installation is not an option because the restore DVD is totally binary. You can flatten the whole thing or not and I'm not inclined to obtain a dodgy pirate copy for a software I payed for.
I downloaded Windizupdate and give it a shot. I should see afte Tuesday.
Anyway, there's really not a lot that Linux can't do for me at this point in time. So I may flatten it in the end, maybe not quite in a way which Microsoft deems desirable.
Anyway, thanks everybody. People stepping in and trying to be helpful is sure one of the powerful things of/. even if you're so frustrated and agonized by the procedure that you're beyond seeking help:)
Time to patch my Laptop (Samsung, XP Pro legally licensed). There's only one problem with that:
When I start Windows Update it informs me that it needs updating. Attempting to do so leads to a carped update with some error code. In short: Without the "improved" version of the software no more Windows update for me and since getting the "improved" version fails to install in the first place...
This seems to be a known problem for which there doesn't ssem to be a fix yet. And no! Re-installing the OS is not and option since this toasts my Ubuntu partition.
Microsoft is a company that pisses me off more and more on a daily basis. Thank you for listening.
Let's put it that way: You will hardly find any country where laws are so much geared in a way to benefit business. Examples?
Look at the mess copyright legislations is in. Three years jail for operating a video camera in a cinema. The push of this tragic sharade called attorney general for pushing criminal legislation towards copyright offenses?
Another shiny example is that if somebody pilfers your "pre-approved credit card invitation", which you never ordered, let alone wanted, in order to steal your identity it's up to you to clean up the resulting mess.
I wouldn't call those shiny examples of legislation or custom to benefit the common man and society as a whole. It's more in line with streamlining the business processes of big business.
You haven't read an annual company report recently, or ever for that matter?
Even in sdoftware - or pharmaceutical companies where one would assume that a lot is spent for research the R&D budget is usual ~18% (which varies, of course) while sales and marketing usually eats away approx. half of the costs.
Sales, marketing and distribution is horrendously expensive and gets a far bigger chunk of the budget then R&D.
This is a generalisation, of course, but true for the vast majority of companies.
As far as I know said Nokia has an autofocus Zeiss lense.
Now, Zeiss is probably like Shimano for gear shifts. It's never really crap, but the top of the line offerings have little to do with the mid - and low range offerings by said manufacturers.
Anyway, the fact that Nokia sprang for 5MP, a Zeiss lense and (whatever form of) real autofocus indicates to me that some thought and expense went into the camera function of that phone.
Mind you, it's not a replacemant for a good digital camera, but it may come in handy at times. Out of arse I trust that it's the significantly better camera offering then what the iPhone has to offer.
Honestly, you get more junkmail than regular mail on a daily basis,
Speak for yourself, please. I can guarantee you that I get more then 100 times more spam then regular junk mail. There is one huge difference, though which makes spam so despicable:
If you want to send me junk mail you have to print it, package it and most important: pay postage for it. So sending junk mail to 10'000'000 recipients at 29cents a pop is friggin' expensive. Sending the same amount of spam is virtually free.
A few people get rich by shitting into the communal water supply. And that's pretty much socially unacceptable.
Those investment bankers support the regulations because they personally benefit from them, at the expense of the marginal suppliers those same regulations drove out of business.
That's just so much bollocks. If you argue that invetment banks support regulations because it enforces transparacy and thus reduces their reputational risk (which can get much more expensive then a financial hit) I' m with you. But the idea that investment banks support regulation to force smaller players out of business is ridiculous. And yes; I am an investment banker
Actually, what exactly is the business use of being able to edit spreadsheets on your mobile phone?
Actually, dude, this is a damn good question. Personally I use a Nokia 9300 Symbian smartphone for a couple years now. This thing can apparently deal with Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents. I love the sophisticated calendar and address book functionality. I have yet to connect to the internet and read email on this thing. But I sure as hell can't figure out for what I should ever use the "office compatibility mode".
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Dude, you don't need a Slashdot subscription to get the exactly "same quality news" as a subscriber.
Sheesh!
They should have told it's out in December, not specifying a year. So they wouldn't be the laughing stock of the industry when they have to admit in three years that it's expected for 2017, or so
No project sponsor from the business side (usually in high places), or - even worse - there are multiple "sponsors" from multiple departments (usually using the project as a war by proxy entity for their departmental feuds).
In both situations I wouldn't come near the project with a gas mask and asbstos suit.
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Usually phones in here around are only SIM locked on very cheap pre-payed deals.
I guess that customers just wouldn't accept this. As they wouldn't accept crippled bluetooth stacks, or other such silly stunts, which US carriers seem so fond of pulling off.
Yup; and the layout of this obvious bastion of quality journalism gave me a headache too.
I'm sure that somebody else is better qualified on that issue and I heard the same story. But my experience from a 2001 visit to Tokyo is quite different. While vending machines are ubiquitous (and a good thing too. Nothing better then some ice cold green tea drink after a hard night of partying on a hungover morning; but I digress) I had to see yet one vending machines selling panties. Used or not.
May be that this is a thing of the past, maybe that we weren't in the seedy enough parts of town to find such vending machines, maybe that it's just an urban legend (and it's not that Japanese gentlemen don't have quite a reputation when it comes to kink), but the most likely explanation is that this was cleaned up in the 90s.
They tried such a stunt already. And as far as I recall it didn't go over too well.
Actually those immigration forms foreigners have to fill out upon entering the US are not that far off from your questionaire.
I also noticed that 80% of Americans hip-hip hoorayed a war in Iraq killing 100s of thousands of innocent people and providing a hotbed for global terrorism.
I recall quite vividly that every critic of the war, was derided, smeared, insulted and partially threated for their lives.
I noted that this administration, elected (at least the second time by a majority of US citizens) leaked the name of an undercover intelligence operative for no better reason then to smear her husband, who the administration didn't like.
I recall a hell of a lot really bad and rotten things for which this administration and ultimnately the people that elected them are responsible.
That, quite likely, includes you.
So please don't give me this "we're all so much against it, but those in power..." bullshit.
"Sure, your honor, we ripped of GPLd code, becuase Mr. Ballmer and a dunderhead from legal determined that this license is not real and we are not bound by it, but we nevertheless sue pirates left and right, because our Messrs Ballmer and Dunderhead determined that our 688 page EULA is absolutely valid...
How do you think would this go over with any court?
Dude, I actually like SOX. It means that, as a database developer, I am not allowed to touch the production databases.
This in turn means that I am not allowed to do production support.
This again means that I'm not liklely to receive phone calls at 3am, which I like just fine.
Yeah, but it's sort of hard to encrypt URLs that you enter into you browser.
Generally speaking you are totally right, of course, but there are exceptions:
Investments banks focus more and more on algorithmic trading. In essence those are rule based systems geared towards processing deals very, very fast, partially even trading automatically based on market trends and statistics. For such systems speed is the holy grail and more important then anything else. They are also the crown jewels of an investment bank, that the competition frantically tries to reverse engineer.
A nice example was when NYSE mused about moving the data center to the outskirts, freeing up valuable real estate in one of the most expensive places in the world. There was an uproar since even those couple milliseconds latency due to the longer lines where deemed unacceptable.
That's a nice example that illustrates why maintainability is not always the highest priority.
Same can be said for the infamous QWERTY keyboard (or QWERTZ keyboards as we call them in the German sticks of the world, or those damn AZERTY keyboards that the French use, by I digress).
Apparently this was introduced becuase if you typed too fast on the first mechanical typewriters the mechanic jammed up. Thus a layout was chosen, which was not based on ergonomic principles, but to slow the typer done.
All attempts to replace this over the years have proven futile and lead nowhere.
Ah well; thanks anyway
Re-installation is not an option because the restore DVD is totally binary. You can flatten the whole thing or not and I'm not inclined to obtain a dodgy pirate copy for a software I payed for. I downloaded Windizupdate and give it a shot. I should see afte Tuesday.
Anyway, there's really not a lot that Linux can't do for me at this point in time. So I may flatten it in the end, maybe not quite in a way which Microsoft deems desirable.
Anyway, thanks everybody. People stepping in and trying to be helpful is sure one of the powerful things of /. even if you're so frustrated and agonized by the procedure that you're beyond seeking help :)
When I start Windows Update it informs me that it needs updating. Attempting to do so leads to a carped update with some error code. In short: Without the "improved" version of the software no more Windows update for me and since getting the "improved" version fails to install in the first place...
This seems to be a known problem for which there doesn't ssem to be a fix yet. And no! Re-installing the OS is not and option since this toasts my Ubuntu partition.
Microsoft is a company that pisses me off more and more on a daily basis. Thank you for listening.
Look at the mess copyright legislations is in. Three years jail for operating a video camera in a cinema. The push of this tragic sharade called attorney general for pushing criminal legislation towards copyright offenses?
Another shiny example is that if somebody pilfers your "pre-approved credit card invitation", which you never ordered, let alone wanted, in order to steal your identity it's up to you to clean up the resulting mess.
I wouldn't call those shiny examples of legislation or custom to benefit the common man and society as a whole. It's more in line with streamlining the business processes of big business.
You haven't read an annual company report recently, or ever for that matter?
Even in sdoftware - or pharmaceutical companies where one would assume that a lot is spent for research the R&D budget is usual ~18% (which varies, of course) while sales and marketing usually eats away approx. half of the costs.
Sales, marketing and distribution is horrendously expensive and gets a far bigger chunk of the budget then R&D.
This is a generalisation, of course, but true for the vast majority of companies.
Now, Zeiss is probably like Shimano for gear shifts. It's never really crap, but the top of the line offerings have little to do with the mid - and low range offerings by said manufacturers.
Anyway, the fact that Nokia sprang for 5MP, a Zeiss lense and (whatever form of) real autofocus indicates to me that some thought and expense went into the camera function of that phone.
Mind you, it's not a replacemant for a good digital camera, but it may come in handy at times. Out of arse I trust that it's the significantly better camera offering then what the iPhone has to offer.
Isn't that quite the business model of security software?
Nice laptop you have there, would be a shame if something happens to it!
Speak for yourself, please. I can guarantee you that I get more then 100 times more spam then regular junk mail. There is one huge difference, though which makes spam so despicable:
If you want to send me junk mail you have to print it, package it and most important: pay postage for it. So sending junk mail to 10'000'000 recipients at 29cents a pop is friggin' expensive. Sending the same amount of spam is virtually free.
A few people get rich by shitting into the communal water supply. And that's pretty much socially unacceptable.
That's just so much bollocks. If you argue that invetment banks support regulations because it enforces transparacy and thus reduces their reputational risk (which can get much more expensive then a financial hit) I' m with you. But the idea that investment banks support regulation to force smaller players out of business is ridiculous. And yes; I am an investment banker
Actually, dude, this is a damn good question. Personally I use a Nokia 9300 Symbian smartphone for a couple years now. This thing can apparently deal with Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents. I love the sophisticated calendar and address book functionality. I have yet to connect to the internet and read email on this thing. But I sure as hell can't figure out for what I should ever use the "office compatibility mode".
But then again I'm probably a luddite.