I had this switching from 98 to XP. Three month old printer, no XP support, ever. How much do the hardware companies pay Microsoft to break their drivers with each release of Windows I wonder?
Unfortunately there are also tons of sites whose developers did not understand the part about POST being for creating new resources, and PUT being for making changes on the server.
HTTP verb semantics are a very dangerous thing for Google or any other third party to rely on, unless they are using a documented API where the developers have explicitly followed REST principles.
But it does helpfully offer to look on the internet for such drivers.
Has anyone ever actually seen that work? I don't mean the bit where it phones home and sends your first born son to Microsoft, but are there really any drivers at the other end?
Long term, your liberal arts college is probably going to give you a broader education, and set you up for a quicker career path to management, starting your own business or other broadening out from plain development, if that is what you want. It'll also offer more opportunities for liasing with hot chicks during your college years, which is not to be underestimated.
Short term, you might find that the initial job offers immediately after graduating offer better salaries, or are more forthcoming from the tech focused school, but that's more difficult to predict, and it could just as easily swing the other way.
I suspect this corporate bigwig has a smug feeling of superiority every time he crawls past a bus that is stopped letting people off as he commutes alone in his Chelsea tractor. This feeling is so powerful to his CEO ego, that he misses the 5 buses that drive past him seconds later as he sits in typical London traffic going nowhere. No doubt he is looking forward to the £25 congestion charge in the same way that he believes content providers should be looking forward to paying him for the privilege of carrying their traffic on his oversubscribed network.
If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane'.
Isn't the whole point of bus lanes to keep the buses moving in rush hour traffic? Not the best analogy for a Virgin wannabe-mobster to be using to coerce content providers to cough up.
The situation in UK (and US for that matter) is complicated by the fact that a large part of the infrastructure was developed by the General Post Office, which was a Government department until 1969, and continued to receive government funding for infrastructure projects at least into the 1980s. Only more recent work since competition was introduced in the 1990s has been entirely privately funded, and while BT might argue that all internet infrastructure is more recent, clearly a lot of the copper in the ground, the exchanges and other parts of the infrastructure go back much further, and trying to account for everything based on who funded it would be a nightmare.
It seems that with this, and the Amazon news from a few days ago, some of the companies that experienced rapid growth during the first.com bubble by offering what the customer wants vs the old model of trying to control the market are now switching to the old model. They control enough of the market now that it probably seems safe to their board to do this, but they are forgetting how rapidly they themselves were able to grab market share, and seem to be missing the fact that if someone new moves into the space they are vacating, the market share that the new company takes will come almost entirely from their customer base. They should also keep in mind that it won't necessarily be a startup that moves into their space; Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all contenders that could jump in and cause a massive shift in the market almost immediately.
They're not just testing, they're already rolling them out to customers, and there is no suggestion that customers will pay. My wife got hers from Barclays last year, and Nationwide has warned its customers to contact the bank if they are travelling between April and July to avoid having one sent to a vacant address, and for instructions on what to do when the old system is switched off in August (probably telephone banking).
Presumably they see some of the value in their house being in the fact that it is on a "private" road. Google's images demonstrate how little that is really worth, thus lowering the value of their property.
It cannot be applied to a single unit in the way it can be applied to a large population of units.
This is the case with any statistic. They are very useful for predicting trends in a large enough population, but completely useless for predicting individuals' behaviour.
What is also overlooked is that most people have a fixed budget for "entertainment", so rather than buying B, with the iTunes pricing model, they can cherry pick B3, C5, J2 and M4 and still have enough money left over for some ringtones. OK, some of those artists might be on another label, but it'll all even out in the long run as long as the label keeps producing music that people want to buy.
Also, I don't buy their argument that CDs, which have to be manufactured and distributed, are more lucrative than online sales, which aren't really any cheaper despite the lower costs.
What the neocons are trying to say is that by subcontracting everything out to their mates at Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, the military is no longer part of the government, but is a private militia that is not bound by the constitution.
I presume you are talking about the Sky Broadband boxes, which are Netgear routers, for which Sky passes on the written offer to download the source from the Netgear website that Netgear provides to comply with GPLv2. While Sky has locked down their routers beyond what the standard Netgear firmware does, it is not clear that they have modified any GPLed source to do this, most likely all they have done is changed configuration files.
Given how strong Busybox has been in pursuing violations, I'd be surprised if Sky is violating the GPL on their boxes and getting away with it.
Exactly. Put a maximum fee increase in a contract with a monopoly and they will take it. The same happens with government regulated monopolies everywhere. The only real remedy is to create a competitive market, but too often governments break big monopolies up into a number of smaller monopolies and claim they have fixed things for the consumer.
I wouldn't even know where to start if I wanted to develop an application for my Sony Ericsson W910,
developer.sonyericsson.com would be a good start, which is linked directly on the front page of www.sonyericsson.com, so you can't have looked very hard in your rush to defend the iPhone.
Should antialiasing/font smoothing increase the size of text slightly or is that a bug? That's a difficult question to answer, but outside of this one extremely special font, it doesn't actually matter, does it? Hence the workaround for this one specific font.
It does matter, but it is a bug in the GUI toolkits' APIs, not in the browsers themselves. All GUI toolkits with which I am familiar report the metrics of a font based on the data in the font itself. Adding subpixel antialiasing to the font changes these metrics, so the information returned from the APIs does not match what is displayed on screen. This causes problems for any application that tries to maintain precise control over how glyphs are displayed rather than just handing whole blocks of text to the APIs.
If these laws were enforced in the USA, there would be riots, then it would be silence or royalty-free classical music only.
I don't know if they are enforced, but they are taken seriously in Japan. There is a special satellite radio service for businesses that want to pipe music that has all the fees built in (and continuous music, no ads or voiceovers). Many stores elect to just play elevator muzak all day long rather than pay the higher fees for the full service. It must drive the staff mad (it drove me mad enough listening to j-pop all day long when I worked somewhere that subscribed to the full satellite service).
There used to be a radio-only license fee, that was reduced compared to the TV license (which is really a TV and radio license). But once TVs reached 95% of households (percentage made up, but you get the idea), it wasn't worth the expense of administering it, so now radio is effectively free if you don't have a TV.
(PS Take 240mph for the train, since you've taken the speed of a fast passenger plane.)
Trains don't go that fast in regular service. The fastest run is on the Shinkansen between Hiroshima and Kokura, where the average is 165mph, peaking at 190mph. TGV hits faster speeds in record attempts by removing all the passenger carriages (since unlike the Shinkansen the power is not distributed throughout the train), but so far there are no peak speeds in service above 200mph (320km/h), and these are not sustained for long.
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I had this switching from 98 to XP. Three month old printer, no XP support, ever. How much do the hardware companies pay Microsoft to break their drivers with each release of Windows I wonder?
Unfortunately there are also tons of sites whose developers did not understand the part about POST being for creating new resources, and PUT being for making changes on the server.
HTTP verb semantics are a very dangerous thing for Google or any other third party to rely on, unless they are using a documented API where the developers have explicitly followed REST principles.
Has anyone ever actually seen that work? I don't mean the bit where it phones home and sends your first born son to Microsoft, but are there really any drivers at the other end?
The Neanderthals who infest the streets around here on a Friday night certainly use the combination. Ug Punch!
A great amount of effort went into writing GPLv3 in such a way that it would be compatible with Apache License v2.0 and other Free licenses.
Long term, your liberal arts college is probably going to give you a broader education, and set you up for a quicker career path to management, starting your own business or other broadening out from plain development, if that is what you want. It'll also offer more opportunities for liasing with hot chicks during your college years, which is not to be underestimated.
Short term, you might find that the initial job offers immediately after graduating offer better salaries, or are more forthcoming from the tech focused school, but that's more difficult to predict, and it could just as easily swing the other way.
So don't build one big plant, build lots of smaller ones. And for bonus points, build them in the wasteland created by old open cast mines.
Exactly. Its not like they haven't done it before. POSIX support in Windows NT anyone?
I suspect this corporate bigwig has a smug feeling of superiority every time he crawls past a bus that is stopped letting people off as he commutes alone in his Chelsea tractor. This feeling is so powerful to his CEO ego, that he misses the 5 buses that drive past him seconds later as he sits in typical London traffic going nowhere. No doubt he is looking forward to the £25 congestion charge in the same way that he believes content providers should be looking forward to paying him for the privilege of carrying their traffic on his oversubscribed network.
Isn't the whole point of bus lanes to keep the buses moving in rush hour traffic? Not the best analogy for a Virgin wannabe-mobster to be using to coerce content providers to cough up.
The situation in UK (and US for that matter) is complicated by the fact that a large part of the infrastructure was developed by the General Post Office, which was a Government department until 1969, and continued to receive government funding for infrastructure projects at least into the 1980s. Only more recent work since competition was introduced in the 1990s has been entirely privately funded, and while BT might argue that all internet infrastructure is more recent, clearly a lot of the copper in the ground, the exchanges and other parts of the infrastructure go back much further, and trying to account for everything based on who funded it would be a nightmare.
It seems that with this, and the Amazon news from a few days ago, some of the companies that experienced rapid growth during the first .com bubble by offering what the customer wants vs the old model of trying to control the market are now switching to the old model. They control enough of the market now that it probably seems safe to their board to do this, but they are forgetting how rapidly they themselves were able to grab market share, and seem to be missing the fact that if someone new moves into the space they are vacating, the market share that the new company takes will come almost entirely from their customer base. They should also keep in mind that it won't necessarily be a startup that moves into their space; Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all contenders that could jump in and cause a massive shift in the market almost immediately.
From the figures, I'm guessing that he's counting licenses, not projects. So why is license proliferation a good thing again?
They're not just testing, they're already rolling them out to customers, and there is no suggestion that customers will pay. My wife got hers from Barclays last year, and Nationwide has warned its customers to contact the bank if they are travelling between April and July to avoid having one sent to a vacant address, and for instructions on what to do when the old system is switched off in August (probably telephone banking).
Presumably they see some of the value in their house being in the fact that it is on a "private" road. Google's images demonstrate how little that is really worth, thus lowering the value of their property.
This is the case with any statistic. They are very useful for predicting trends in a large enough population, but completely useless for predicting individuals' behaviour.
What is also overlooked is that most people have a fixed budget for "entertainment", so rather than buying B, with the iTunes pricing model, they can cherry pick B3, C5, J2 and M4 and still have enough money left over for some ringtones. OK, some of those artists might be on another label, but it'll all even out in the long run as long as the label keeps producing music that people want to buy.
Also, I don't buy their argument that CDs, which have to be manufactured and distributed, are more lucrative than online sales, which aren't really any cheaper despite the lower costs.
What the neocons are trying to say is that by subcontracting everything out to their mates at Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, the military is no longer part of the government, but is a private militia that is not bound by the constitution.
I presume you are talking about the Sky Broadband boxes, which are Netgear routers, for which Sky passes on the written offer to download the source from the Netgear website that Netgear provides to comply with GPLv2. While Sky has locked down their routers beyond what the standard Netgear firmware does, it is not clear that they have modified any GPLed source to do this, most likely all they have done is changed configuration files.
Given how strong Busybox has been in pursuing violations, I'd be surprised if Sky is violating the GPL on their boxes and getting away with it.
Exactly. Put a maximum fee increase in a contract with a monopoly and they will take it. The same happens with government regulated monopolies everywhere. The only real remedy is to create a competitive market, but too often governments break big monopolies up into a number of smaller monopolies and claim they have fixed things for the consumer.
developer.sonyericsson.com would be a good start, which is linked directly on the front page of www.sonyericsson.com, so you can't have looked very hard in your rush to defend the iPhone.
It does matter, but it is a bug in the GUI toolkits' APIs, not in the browsers themselves. All GUI toolkits with which I am familiar report the metrics of a font based on the data in the font itself. Adding subpixel antialiasing to the font changes these metrics, so the information returned from the APIs does not match what is displayed on screen. This causes problems for any application that tries to maintain precise control over how glyphs are displayed rather than just handing whole blocks of text to the APIs.
I don't know if they are enforced, but they are taken seriously in Japan. There is a special satellite radio service for businesses that want to pipe music that has all the fees built in (and continuous music, no ads or voiceovers). Many stores elect to just play elevator muzak all day long rather than pay the higher fees for the full service. It must drive the staff mad (it drove me mad enough listening to j-pop all day long when I worked somewhere that subscribed to the full satellite service).
There used to be a radio-only license fee, that was reduced compared to the TV license (which is really a TV and radio license). But once TVs reached 95% of households (percentage made up, but you get the idea), it wasn't worth the expense of administering it, so now radio is effectively free if you don't have a TV.
Trains don't go that fast in regular service. The fastest run is on the Shinkansen between Hiroshima and Kokura, where the average is 165mph, peaking at 190mph. TGV hits faster speeds in record attempts by removing all the passenger carriages (since unlike the Shinkansen the power is not distributed throughout the train), but so far there are no peak speeds in service above 200mph (320km/h), and these are not sustained for long.