It's called ActiveSync, and there are implementations (e.g. z-Push, funambol)
Funambol is an implementation of industry standards like SyncML, OMA-DM and others, which is why it works with everything from Nokia and Sony Ericsson feature phones to the iPhone. ActiveSync is a Microsoft abomination that should hopefully die out with Windows Phone and Nokia.
Now, making women feel welcome in gaming culture is a different thing. A big part of that is voice chat online, and that is a huge problem we're all trying to solve.
Reading the GP comment about women preferring single player games, it was immediately obvious to me that there must be reasons behind this that can't be put down to women's choice. In pretty much everything else in life, women have a more social approach than men. That they don't in gaming is probably more a reflection of the adolescent male hormones running rampant in online gaming worlds, without the social control of embarrassment that you get in face to face interaction.
The sacrifice of resolution isn't really that big a concern. Consumer cameras have far more resolution than they need these days, as the almighty megapixel has been used as a marketing ploy even though increasing pixel density on the CCDs has led to lower image quality overall. My 10 year old 2Mpx Canon still takes better pictures than any of my wife's last 3 compact cameras (4, 5 and 8Mpx Nikon and Canons), especially in low light. I would go so far as to say it doesn't make sense to have go beyond much more than 4Mpx with lenses the size of compact cameras, as details will be lost due to lens quality long before the pixel count causes loss of detail.
My guess is that what the politicians are really interested in is the contention rate - or the maximum download speed you can expect with a perfect signal at the busiest time of day. Minimum download speed is uninteresting, it not only depends on your distance from towers and the device you are using, but network congestion everywhere between you and your destination, so the only valid value that could be advertised is zero.
As for Malaysia specifically, they have a 10% government tax and 7.5% service charge.
Where do you get this info from? Hotels and restaurants employing more than a certain number of staff are subject to a 6% government service tax (raised from 5% at the beginning of this year), and most also add a 10% service charge to the bill (as tipping is not customary in Malaysia, and the government probably regulates how much is allowed for "tips" outside of what is covered by service tax so they are taking maximum advantage of this).
I've been waiting for Google Maps to be able to save the route I chose on the desktop Maps and sync it with Android for two years-ish
You can save the route with the Link button on top right of the map. Then paste that into the url bar and load it before using Chrome to Phone (or Firefox equivalent) to sync with the phone. Yes, a single button would be nice, but it is still easier than starting from scratch again on your phone.
For Windows Mobile, using Google Gears, and now Adobe Flash has finally caught up. This news is so old the technologies it was implemented on are dead already.
... we used Silverlight to create a product. Now, you may think that's insane, but what we wanted to deliver was a very rich user experience over the web that was cross platform.
Sorry, but I read that, and reread it several times to make sure I hadn't missed anything, but I still don't see any reason to stop thinking you are insane.
Even worse is the growing trend to assume you want Spanish language pages because your IP address is geolocated in Spain, completely disregarding the Accept-Language HTTP header. Google and Facebook are both abusing their geolocation technology in this way, and probably others as well. Just because you have the technology to do something, doesn't make it a good idea, especially when there is an already existing method of dealing with language preference which is under control of the users. Google fanboys will pop up now and say that the unwashed masses don't know how to configure their browsers, so Google is doing them a favour, but the reality is that browsers on PCs sold to the unwashed masses in Spain will default to Spanish, so the existing standards based method is at least no worse than the geolocation assumption in predicting what language the user might want, and much easier to work around especially if you want to access those services anonymously.
And the entire world outside of East Coast USA would probably be more comfortable working out what it is in local time from 1:00am GMT Wednesday until 0:59am Thursday.
They treat residential customers like shit because they are often out, and standing around waiting for people to answer the doorbell makes them run late for other deliveries for customers who have more clout with management when they complain. Doesn't make it right, but it is really just a symptom of "performance targets" being applied as a disciplinary measure to employees.
Facebook has had an IPv6 server running for some time. And Amazon support IPv6 for AWS, so I'd be surprised if they do not have at least an unpublicised test server running for their main site.
No company worth their salt will put consumer grade PCs on every desktop. No way in HELL is my mainframe based customer DB and accounting DB going to be accessible on the LAN.
Are the cartridges region coded? After moving from Europe to Asia, I've discovered I can no longer buy cartridges for my printer, and the ones that are locally available, which differ in model number by one digit but are physically identical refuse to work unless I swap the chips from my old cartridges (which also require resetting due to the counter in them, supposedly to protect the printer from damage caused by running the cartridge completely dry, but we all know the real reason is to prevent them from being easily refilled). I want to dump my printer on the manufacturer's doorstep with a note about what I think of their environmental responsibility in making their products so unreusable, but first I need to find a replacement that doesn't come with such idiotic profit-protection measures.
The access control system that I worked on in the early 1990's recorded door open and close events (normally configured only to be logged when the door was open excessively long, unless it was a secure environment like a prison or bank).
If the value in Windows is 0 or 1 it's likely to be the same in linux. You can fuck typing it up as easily on one system as the other.
Really? Is that a REG_SZ 0 or 1, a REG_EXPAND_SZ 0 or 1, a REG_BINARY 0 or 1, a REG_DWORD 0 or 1, a REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN 0 or 1, or a REG_QWORD 0 or 1?
The share of the income tax burden borne by the top 10 percent of taxpayers increased from 48.0 percent in 1981 to 57.2 percent in 1988. Meanwhile, the share of income taxes paid by the bottom 50 percent of taxpayers dropped from 7.5 percent in 1981 to 5.7 percent in 1988.
In other words, when tax policy got changed to favor the rich, the rich ended up with a larger share of the nation's wealth.
McDonalds isn't about food, its about marketing (mostly to children). My kids nag me to go there all the time. On the rare occasions I relent and take them there, they hardly touch their food because "it doesn't taste nice". They've even stopped liking the plastic junk that comes with their Happy Meal, but still want to go there all the time.
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Funambol is an implementation of industry standards like SyncML, OMA-DM and others, which is why it works with everything from Nokia and Sony Ericsson feature phones to the iPhone. ActiveSync is a Microsoft abomination that should hopefully die out with Windows Phone and Nokia.
Free healthcare is a good thing, but isn't this a bit off topic with the rest of your post?
Reading the GP comment about women preferring single player games, it was immediately obvious to me that there must be reasons behind this that can't be put down to women's choice. In pretty much everything else in life, women have a more social approach than men. That they don't in gaming is probably more a reflection of the adolescent male hormones running rampant in online gaming worlds, without the social control of embarrassment that you get in face to face interaction.
Now that Google finally opened up paid apps to my part of the world at the beginning of this month, I expect that might change.
The sacrifice of resolution isn't really that big a concern. Consumer cameras have far more resolution than they need these days, as the almighty megapixel has been used as a marketing ploy even though increasing pixel density on the CCDs has led to lower image quality overall. My 10 year old 2Mpx Canon still takes better pictures than any of my wife's last 3 compact cameras (4, 5 and 8Mpx Nikon and Canons), especially in low light. I would go so far as to say it doesn't make sense to have go beyond much more than 4Mpx with lenses the size of compact cameras, as details will be lost due to lens quality long before the pixel count causes loss of detail.
My guess is that what the politicians are really interested in is the contention rate - or the maximum download speed you can expect with a perfect signal at the busiest time of day. Minimum download speed is uninteresting, it not only depends on your distance from towers and the device you are using, but network congestion everywhere between you and your destination, so the only valid value that could be advertised is zero.
Vending machines and street parking meters only take cash where you are? Welcome to the 1980's guys.
Selective quoting of history can be used to predict whatever future a magazine thinks will sell the most ads.
Where do you get this info from? Hotels and restaurants employing more than a certain number of staff are subject to a 6% government service tax (raised from 5% at the beginning of this year), and most also add a 10% service charge to the bill (as tipping is not customary in Malaysia, and the government probably regulates how much is allowed for "tips" outside of what is covered by service tax so they are taking maximum advantage of this).
You can save the route with the Link button on top right of the map. Then paste that into the url bar and load it before using Chrome to Phone (or Firefox equivalent) to sync with the phone. Yes, a single button would be nice, but it is still easier than starting from scratch again on your phone.
For Windows Mobile, using Google Gears, and now Adobe Flash has finally caught up. This news is so old the technologies it was implemented on are dead already.
Sorry, but I read that, and reread it several times to make sure I hadn't missed anything, but I still don't see any reason to stop thinking you are insane.
Even worse is the growing trend to assume you want Spanish language pages because your IP address is geolocated in Spain, completely disregarding the Accept-Language HTTP header. Google and Facebook are both abusing their geolocation technology in this way, and probably others as well. Just because you have the technology to do something, doesn't make it a good idea, especially when there is an already existing method of dealing with language preference which is under control of the users. Google fanboys will pop up now and say that the unwashed masses don't know how to configure their browsers, so Google is doing them a favour, but the reality is that browsers on PCs sold to the unwashed masses in Spain will default to Spanish, so the existing standards based method is at least no worse than the geolocation assumption in predicting what language the user might want, and much easier to work around especially if you want to access those services anonymously.
And the entire world outside of East Coast USA would probably be more comfortable working out what it is in local time from 1:00am GMT Wednesday until 0:59am Thursday.
You too can get enough IPv6 addresses to make silly vanity addresses that noone other than a few geeks will see. Hardly a land grab.
They treat residential customers like shit because they are often out, and standing around waiting for people to answer the doorbell makes them run late for other deliveries for customers who have more clout with management when they complain. Doesn't make it right, but it is really just a symptom of "performance targets" being applied as a disciplinary measure to employees.
Facebook has had an IPv6 server running for some time. And Amazon support IPv6 for AWS, so I'd be surprised if they do not have at least an unpublicised test server running for their main site.
The recruiters obviously aren't filtering well enough. Those jobs they are sending you emails about require some basic math skills.
No company worth their salt will put consumer grade PCs on every desktop. No way in HELL is my mainframe based customer DB and accounting DB going to be accessible on the LAN.
Are the cartridges region coded? After moving from Europe to Asia, I've discovered I can no longer buy cartridges for my printer, and the ones that are locally available, which differ in model number by one digit but are physically identical refuse to work unless I swap the chips from my old cartridges (which also require resetting due to the counter in them, supposedly to protect the printer from damage caused by running the cartridge completely dry, but we all know the real reason is to prevent them from being easily refilled). I want to dump my printer on the manufacturer's doorstep with a note about what I think of their environmental responsibility in making their products so unreusable, but first I need to find a replacement that doesn't come with such idiotic profit-protection measures.
Not necessarily, under International Law.
The access control system that I worked on in the early 1990's recorded door open and close events (normally configured only to be logged when the door was open excessively long, unless it was a secure environment like a prison or bank).
Really? Is that a REG_SZ 0 or 1, a REG_EXPAND_SZ 0 or 1, a REG_BINARY 0 or 1, a REG_DWORD 0 or 1, a REG_DWORD_BIG_ENDIAN 0 or 1, or a REG_QWORD 0 or 1?
In other words, when tax policy got changed to favor the rich, the rich ended up with a larger share of the nation's wealth.
McDonalds isn't about food, its about marketing (mostly to children). My kids nag me to go there all the time. On the rare occasions I relent and take them there, they hardly touch their food because "it doesn't taste nice". They've even stopped liking the plastic junk that comes with their Happy Meal, but still want to go there all the time.