Oh, jeesh. Like with many other small technology companies with an awesome product, they were going broke because no-one bought it. Better that someone incorporated the technology for public consumption, rather than some patent vultures snapping up the carcass and keeping multi-touch completely dead for another 20 odd years.
Don't own an Apple product but I think your tarring brush is a bit broad.
I think this person needs to understand what the difference is between WM6 and a company that has jacked it up. WM6 is not perfect, but the issues he's blasted here are either because of TMobile's implementation, or his lack of knowledge of the features of the OS. Two things. First, it's a cell phone. Why should I have to know anything about an OS? It should just work. Intuitively, quickly and without driving one mad. Secondly, how is it that a multi-billion dollar corporation can't get anything right even at sixth major revision, whereas Apple somehow magically brought fourth a phone that just works, on their first try? Windows Mobile is garbage because it tries to faithfully keep elements of the Windows Desktop OS which make absolutely no sense on a cell phone.
and more importantly, can you divide by partial zero? Yes, but you get a semi-infinite. Unless you divide zero by a partial zero, at which point the result is slightly undefined.
I'm sure it's contractual stuff with the record companies. They operate on their own internal logic which doesn't quite match anyone's outside of that circle.
If they didn't do it right, they obviously weren't experts. You should be more careful who you hire.
Hence the quotes around "expert". You let me know when there's an on-line rating board for electricians, home appliance repair dudes, carpenters, painters, plasterers, plumbers, etc. and we'll talk. Until then, it's still a complete minefield finding competent people for just about anything. Especially in a non-regulated environment like the US and Canada.
Who then proceed to charge you through the nose for a shoddy job because you can't tell the difference.
I don't let "experts" into my house. I do the jobs that need to be done myself, unless the government mandates otherwise. Any time I've let "experts" come in to "fix" something, I've ended up having to spend twice as much to fix what they left.
and that it looked like a bloodthirsty Texas redneck might get elected US president.
Just so that we won't have to continue besmirching the good people of Texas. I believe you're talking about a bloodthirsty Connecticut silver spoon sucker (nutmegger?) posing as a Texan redneck.
He's not really from Texas any more than Eskimos are.
Oh, come now. Québecois politicians have corruption nailed down just as well as, if not better than, their Ottawa counterparts. Indeed the duplication of all levels of the Federal government in Québec simply encourages this. Ever wondered why the income tax is so high here?
The reason child porn is illegal is not because being attracted to minors is a crime, not matter what your age. The reason it is a crime is because you are feeding an industry that is preying on children. Children under 18 are not considered old enough to make the decision to appear in porn. So sure, at 16, it's perfectly reasonable to be attracted to girls his age. But supporting those girls as they start a pornography career (under the influence of others) is what's wrong!
Yeah, but dude... Seriously. In this day and age of cameras on every goddamn thing, taking nekkid pictures of your 16 year old girlfriend with your cellphone, when you yourself is 16 years old, constitutes possession of child pornography and can land you in jail with an indelible mark on your record long after serving your trumped up sentence. How can that not be wrong in the light of the circumstances? It's like jailing pot smokers. They did nothing to nobody but their lives are now irrecoverably ruined because some asshat AG figured it was the winning ticket for the next local election.
I'm starting to think that anyone in position of power should not be voted, they should be hired and therefore easily fired if they get too frisky with their new found source of power.
Ok, so what I take from that is that Apple will permit 3rd party development, but there will be some restriction on loading software on it. Apple will be serving as a sort of gate-keeper, it seems. Now, that still kind of sucks, but it means there might be hope for my SSH client. If I can get a SSH client on it, it'll be good enough.
Given the sheer amount of absolutely vile garbage out there, that pose as 3rd party apps for my Nokia phone, I'd welcome any form of quality control.
But I don't want the browser to tell the user that it's sure I am who I say I am. I want the browser to encrypt the damn data.
But that's the whole point. Encryption is about trust. Trusting that only the two endpoints agreed upon are actually talking and no-one is listening in on it. The certificates (to a certain extent) enable that level of trust. Otherwise anyone can simply insert themselves into the stream (man in the middle attack) and neither you nor the user would be any wiser, since no credentials are being displayed and acknowledged. At this point you're no better off than having no encryption at all.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer. I shouldn't need to pay anyone to encrypt my traffic, even "cheaply". There is no technical reason why I need to.
You can issue yourself self-signed certs using any of the fine crypto packages out there. The difference is that the browser isn't simply going to accept it on faith since you're not in its list of automatically trusted certificate authorities. The user will have to manually accept your certificate. If this is strictly to provide encryption for your forum website, they shouldn't have a problem with it.
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Oh, jeesh. Like with many other small technology companies with an awesome product, they were going broke because no-one bought it. Better that someone incorporated the technology for public consumption, rather than some patent vultures snapping up the carcass and keeping multi-touch completely dead for another 20 odd years.
Don't own an Apple product but I think your tarring brush is a bit broad.
Why can't we still undo mods without posting comments?
Not if they have to re-route you through a different hub. Then the original clearance would most likely be invalid.
Right here.
Ah yes, insulting your readership. I see that Slashdot's grasp of the finer points of customer relations remains as firm as ever...
You'll get over it.I'm sure it's contractual stuff with the record companies. They operate on their own internal logic which doesn't quite match anyone's outside of that circle.
What do you mean? Sounds like he's got a fine career as a high-flying CFO ahead of him.
So do sheep also see gay porn and snap?
Hence the quotes around "expert". You let me know when there's an on-line rating board for electricians, home appliance repair dudes, carpenters, painters, plasterers, plumbers, etc. and we'll talk. Until then, it's still a complete minefield finding competent people for just about anything. Especially in a non-regulated environment like the US and Canada.
Who then proceed to charge you through the nose for a shoddy job because you can't tell the difference.
I don't let "experts" into my house. I do the jobs that need to be done myself, unless the government mandates otherwise. Any time I've let "experts" come in to "fix" something, I've ended up having to spend twice as much to fix what they left.
Yes.
He's not really from Texas any more than Eskimos are.
Oh, come now. Québecois politicians have corruption nailed down just as well as, if not better than, their Ottawa counterparts. Indeed the duplication of all levels of the Federal government in Québec simply encourages this. Ever wondered why the income tax is so high here?
Yeah, but dude... Seriously. In this day and age of cameras on every goddamn thing, taking nekkid pictures of your 16 year old girlfriend with your cellphone, when you yourself is 16 years old, constitutes possession of child pornography and can land you in jail with an indelible mark on your record long after serving your trumped up sentence. How can that not be wrong in the light of the circumstances? It's like jailing pot smokers. They did nothing to nobody but their lives are now irrecoverably ruined because some asshat AG figured it was the winning ticket for the next local election.
I'm starting to think that anyone in position of power should not be voted, they should be hired and therefore easily fired if they get too frisky with their new found source of power.
Given the sheer amount of absolutely vile garbage out there, that pose as 3rd party apps for my Nokia phone, I'd welcome any form of quality control.
Which is in the general area of where Google started.
That's so passé. He actually called me next week about it.
Is this ironic? Iraq did have WMD.
Of course they did and Rumsfeld knows it since he probably still has the receipt.
But that's the whole point. Encryption is about trust. Trusting that only the two endpoints agreed upon are actually talking and no-one is listening in on it. The certificates (to a certain extent) enable that level of trust. Otherwise anyone can simply insert themselves into the stream (man in the middle attack) and neither you nor the user would be any wiser, since no credentials are being displayed and acknowledged. At this point you're no better off than having no encryption at all.
Bzzzt. Wrong answer. I shouldn't need to pay anyone to encrypt my traffic, even "cheaply". There is no technical reason why I need to.
You can issue yourself self-signed certs using any of the fine crypto packages out there. The difference is that the browser isn't simply going to accept it on faith since you're not in its list of automatically trusted certificate authorities. The user will have to manually accept your certificate. If this is strictly to provide encryption for your forum website, they shouldn't have a problem with it.
Here's the list you're looking for:- population-list-2005.pdf
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/world-prison
714 inmates per 100,000 population. That's about 200 more than its nearest competitor, Russia.
This is only here because I accidentally modded a post overrated instead of underrated. All gone now.