First: Nokia are toy phones. I wouldn't want to be catched with one alive. I'm a Siemens fan, plain (not "uber-cool") phones with a clean interfaces and no fancy-schmancy stuff.
My Nokia has just gone in for repair following an encounter with the floor. By way of replacement I've been loaned some crappy little Siemens thing... okay it looks nice but the menu system is not brilliant, too much nesting and hiding of options behind other options....
I think with mobiles, PDA's and a certain extent laptop/notebooks personal choice and tastes play a big part and what one person likes another with loath.
As for mobiles... I want a telephone that lets me make calls, receive calls and send the odd text message, the latest features, gprs etc aren't important and add more clutter. As for the trend to smaller and smaller phones I prefer a reasonable size phone that is easy to hold and not easy to bury under a mound of paperwork;>
Strange as it might seem to me I still like paper copies of magazines which I can read away from my monitor... and unfortuantly most eZine's even those with PDF's don't tend to be very well formated in terms of layout etc for hardcopy.
Hmm... actually just doing a search for gif on google's image search returns 11,700,000 results, and as earlier pointed out jpg 18,100,000 + roughly another 900,000 when you include jpeg.
So despite all the problems with gif gif's still make it big time... and sorry to point this out but currently google finds only 52,400 png's.
Too true - I tend find the sound of total silence very worrying as it means that we've probably lost power or all the servers have died - in which case I've got alot of work heading my way (or would have when the managers release that emailing me to say email is down is rather a waste of the PHB's time...)
Browsers: netscape, internet explorer, opera Email: outlook, outlook express, eudora, pegasus, pine, and which ever other linux mail clients are in wide spread use. OS: Mac OS, Solaris, Linux, Windows 98 / XP/2k
Go one step further - find some human mail address at yahoo - ideally someone senior and get every/. reader to set their alternate to his/her address...
Anyone remember the good ole days of mailbomb attacks... wonder how much mail we'd need to spit at yahoo to mailbomb it back to the stoneage?
I agree that in *general* copyright should be used to protect software, occasionally algorithims that deal with a subject in a novel or non-standard and effective way should be patented.
The big problem with copyright is if company a comes up with a killer app and company b goes oh, that's nice then engineers something to do the same what's left for company a to encourage them to do anything novel in the future? As I understand it copyright only protects the code not the idea or method of doing something at a higher level.
Spam isn't all that effective really though - you lose good will of your spamees - the spam is more of a scatter gun approach that direct mailing - and for one I've never clicked on a spam link or brought any thing off spam...
Effectivness = more than just the price of the mailing...
And what I tried to add to my original reply but failed as I'd clicked post a second before I thought of it... Amnesty international amongst others make use of strong cryptography to be able to work in some of the less liberal countries - without strong crypto they'd be fubar'd.
Your reaction is typical of the brainwashing the various supposedly open gov'ts have purveyed over the last few years...
Execuse me.... what about large companies who use email etc to communicate between their various branches in other countries? Recently (well a year or two ago) there where a number of articles about the French spying on British and US companies, The British spying on US and French etc... and the gov't agencies concerend passed some details on to rival companies.
As for me... well I like the idea of only my intended receipient reading my emails - the gov't wants the keys they can have them but joe bloggs sitting down stream of my mail packet... can sod off.
Ahh... but the Oscars involves Holywood. Holywood involves money... no disrespect but your permier isn't one of the rich people and so isn't news worthy....
Yes I agree it is a sad state of afairs but unfortunatly to misquote the Clash (or the Jam?) The public wants what the public gets... and if holywood and overpaid underintelligent stars sell papers then that is what will get front pages.
Brilliant - I'm in the process of forming a company with a product range partly involving application & OS independent file encryption (albeit on Handhelds so got to read their patent)...
Why can't the bloody dickheads check for prior art and then tell MAZ to go and play with their train set somewhere else...
Perhaps some overzealous manager issued an edict that everyone *must* use AOL even though it's email software is next to useless in a work environment.
It's next useless in a non-work environment.
Good point about iPlanet lineup - though the Calander server seems to loving screwing Windows servers up (Yes I know its meant for unix)....
And when haven't things got mangled between Engineering and Marketing?
Now as to the idea of a nice multi-player system.... that would be rather nice... oh wait hang on - let me just connect my PC and load QIII or similiar...
And as others have said while MS aren't the most popular of companies WMA is of a reasonable quality and does as it says on the tin (if you ignore all the crap about digital rights management that is)...
ICANN for all their faults are probably no worse than another body that could be appointed to fulfill the same role.
The big problem with the TLD's is that they're global as opposed to country specific and so any regulation needs to be done from that perspective -- and regardless of the rights and wrongs a central body is needed to prevent anarchy... unfortunatly given that power corrupts any replacement will probably over the years go the same way.
Under NT it is a pig to get going with juggling raid driver disks - even though this PEdge has just a standard Perc-2Si raid controller...
With RH7.2 - no problems, 30 mins after starting I had a fully working linux box, 60 mins later a fully working PDC, DNS etc - normally with NT its the best part of a day getting the OS and all patches etc installed and working together (and then put exchange on and watch the whole thing vanish into a big pile of junk).
Wonder whether Dell might reconsider and agree to provide linux on their servers given MS is such a pig to work with.
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Yes and no;>
They're pitched at the low end workgroup level servers rather than your enterprise server but regardless of whether they're server or home or whatever its pretty poor performance if you take the worse case interpretation of the 333 hours - 333 hours on as opposed to 333 hours of actual head activity (rw)....
My home pc is usually on 24/7 which would soon eat into that 333 per month...
Apart from the (skip milage concerns) how would y ou like it if GM told you you could only drive for 3 hours a month or your car would melt...
That's unfair to the poster. He may well use different players to WMP but the majority of users(those that know bugger all beyond where the power switch is, how to connect using IE / outlook etc), will stick to using the inbuilt software purely out of ignorance not out of any desire to perputate M$'s monoply.
If they run their shuttle the way they run their airline then I think I'll stick to earth bound holidays...
Also do you really want to pay enough money to go a world cruise that actually lasts a while?
OR for the same money how far could you go in learning to fly yourself and get a plane - okay you're limited to the sky;> but the freedom of flying yourself is definetly worth it.
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Actually some stupid twit during the last US elections mailed me urging me to support the republicans...
Just one tiny miniscule problem... I live in the UK and have only ever been to the US on buisness trips.
Wish I'd kept that email now...
First: Nokia are toy phones. I wouldn't want to be catched with one alive. I'm a Siemens fan, plain (not "uber-cool") phones with a clean interfaces and no fancy-schmancy stuff.
;>
My Nokia has just gone in for repair following an encounter with the floor. By way of replacement I've been loaned some crappy little Siemens thing... okay it looks nice but the menu system is not brilliant, too much nesting and hiding of options behind other options....
I think with mobiles, PDA's and a certain extent laptop/notebooks personal choice and tastes play a big part and what one person likes another with loath.
As for mobiles... I want a telephone that lets me make calls, receive calls and send the odd text message, the latest features, gprs etc aren't important and add more clutter. As for the trend to smaller and smaller phones I prefer a reasonable size phone that is easy to hold and not easy to bury under a mound of paperwork
Strange as it might seem to me I still like paper copies of magazines which I can read away from my monitor... and unfortuantly most eZine's even those with PDF's don't tend to be very well formated in terms of layout etc for hardcopy.
Hmm... actually just doing a search for gif on google's image search returns 11,700,000 results, and as earlier pointed out jpg 18,100,000 + roughly another 900,000 when you include jpeg.
So despite all the problems with gif gif's still make it big time... and sorry to point this out but currently google finds only 52,400 png's.
Too true - I tend find the sound of total silence very worrying as it means that we've probably lost power or all the servers have died - in which case I've got alot of work heading my way (or would have when the managers release that emailing me to say email is down is rather a waste of the PHB's time...)
Browsers: netscape, internet explorer, opera /2k
Email: outlook, outlook express, eudora, pegasus, pine, and which ever other linux mail clients are in wide spread use.
OS: Mac OS, Solaris, Linux, Windows 98 / XP
Add a few news readers etc...
Go one step further - find some human mail address at yahoo - ideally someone senior and get every /. reader to set their alternate to his/her address...
Anyone remember the good ole days of mailbomb attacks... wonder how much mail we'd need to spit at yahoo to mailbomb it back to the stoneage?
Patents... and copyright.
I agree that in *general* copyright should be used to protect software, occasionally algorithims that deal with a subject in a novel or non-standard and effective way should be patented.
The big problem with copyright is if company a comes up with a killer app and company b goes oh, that's nice then engineers something to do the same what's left for company a to encourage them to do anything novel in the future?
As I understand it copyright only protects the code not the idea or method of doing something at a higher level.
Spam isn't all that effective really though - you lose good will of your spamees - the spam is more of a scatter gun approach that direct mailing - and for one I've never clicked on a spam link or brought any thing off spam...
Effectivness = more than just the price of the mailing...
And what I tried to add to my original reply but failed as I'd clicked post a second before I thought of it...
Amnesty international amongst others make use of strong cryptography to be able to work in some of the less liberal countries - without strong crypto they'd be fubar'd.
Your reaction is typical of the brainwashing the various supposedly open gov'ts have purveyed over the last few years...
Execuse me.... what about large companies who use email etc to communicate between their various branches in other countries? Recently (well a year or two ago) there where a number of articles about the French spying on British and US companies, The British spying on US and French etc... and the gov't agencies concerend passed some details on to rival companies.
As for me... well I like the idea of only my intended receipient reading my emails - the gov't wants the keys they can have them but joe bloggs sitting down stream of my mail packet... can sod off.
It certainly does - more than one or two memories though I wish would not return...
Ahh... but the Oscars involves Holywood. Holywood involves money... no disrespect but your permier isn't one of the rich people and so isn't news worthy....
Yes I agree it is a sad state of afairs but unfortunatly to misquote the Clash (or the Jam?) The public wants what the public gets... and if holywood and overpaid underintelligent stars sell papers then that is what will get front pages.
Brilliant - I'm in the process of forming a company with a product range partly involving application & OS independent file encryption (albeit on Handhelds so got to read their patent)...
Why can't the bloody dickheads check for prior art and then tell MAZ to go and play with their train set somewhere else...
Rant over.
It's next useless in a non-work environment.
Good point about iPlanet lineup - though the Calander server seems to loving screwing Windows servers up (Yes I know its meant for unix)....
And when haven't things got mangled between Engineering and Marketing?
Now as to the idea of a nice multi-player system.... that would be rather nice... oh wait hang on - let me just connect my PC and load QIII or similiar...
And as others have said while MS aren't the most popular of companies WMA is of a reasonable quality and does as it says on the tin (if you ignore all the crap about digital rights management that is)...
My boxed off the shelf W2k Pro didn't want to know without the NT drivers either.
ICANN for all their faults are probably no worse than another body that could be appointed to fulfill the same role.
The big problem with the TLD's is that they're global as opposed to country specific and so any regulation needs to be done from that perspective -- and regardless of the rights and wrongs a central body is needed to prevent anarchy... unfortunatly given that power corrupts any replacement will probably over the years go the same way.
I'm running an old poweredge 6300 with RH 7.2.
Under NT it is a pig to get going with juggling raid driver disks - even though this PEdge has just a standard Perc-2Si raid controller...
With RH7.2 - no problems, 30 mins after starting I had a fully working linux box, 60 mins later a fully working PDC, DNS etc - normally with NT its the best part of a day getting the OS and all patches etc installed and working together (and then put exchange on and watch the whole thing vanish into a big pile of junk).
Wonder whether Dell might reconsider and agree to provide linux on their servers given MS is such a pig to work with.
Yes and no ;>
They're pitched at the low end workgroup level servers rather than your enterprise server but regardless of whether they're server or home or whatever its pretty poor performance if you take the worse case interpretation of the 333 hours - 333 hours on as opposed to 333 hours of actual head activity (rw)....
My home pc is usually on 24/7 which would soon eat into that 333 per month...
Apart from the (skip milage concerns) how would y ou like it if GM told you you could only drive for 3 hours a month or your car would melt...
Ah but not many /.er's know a) what reality is or b) where to find it...
and there goes my karma rating...
3) GPS is one-way.... the GPS will just fix their position - the wireless link is still needed to get the data from the device back to the servers...
To be honest at the rate of change in the last year with the handheld market it will be interesting to see what they come up with.
That's unfair to the poster. He may well use different players to WMP but the majority of users(those that know bugger all beyond where the power switch is, how to connect using IE / outlook etc), will stick to using the inbuilt software purely out of ignorance not out of any desire to perputate M$'s monoply.
/.er isn't your average user.
Remember the average
If they run their shuttle the way they run their airline then I think I'll stick to earth bound holidays...
;> but the freedom of flying yourself is definetly worth it.
Also do you really want to pay enough money to go a world cruise that actually lasts a while?
OR for the same money how far could you go in learning to fly yourself and get a plane - okay you're limited to the sky