I don't think the World Health Organisation is interested in scaremongering and taking the public's mind of domestic politics. Their take: "The risk of pandemic influenza is serious".
During past pandemics, attack rates reached 25-35% of the total population. Under the best circumstances, assuming that the new virus causes mild disease, the world could still experience an estimated 2 million to 7.4 million deaths (projected from data obtained during the 1957 pandemic). Projections for a more virulent virus are much higher. The 1918 pandemic, which was exceptional, killed at least 40 million people. In the USA, the mortality rate during that pandemic was around 2.5%.
As every(?) other phone out there can have the simlock removed, I'd think so. However, every other phone needs that facility as they're sold on different networks and thsu can't put the simlock in hardware, so perhaps the iPhone is locked-down harder.
I doubt it'd be possible to make it faster, as it doesn't support 3G. I don't think the speed is a result of the network - it's the phone.
Perhaps this might help with the visual voicemail.
Well, yeah. I got my M600i unlocked on eBay. However, I said pretty much all. How many people do you think buy SIM-free phones compared to those who get them subsidised?
That's not quite accurate. They're not contracted by HMG to collect the licence fee - they don't take it and give it to the govt. They are granted permission to collect it themselves. Subtle but important difference.
Even if they support more platforms in future, the approach is not platform agnostic. If it were, it would support all platforms equally. Don't get me wrong: I'm a great supporter of the iPlayer project, and am happy to pay the licence fee. I just hate the fact that they have jumped into bed with MS and adopted a system that means I can't get access to the content. It's annoying enough that all the other channels doing TVOD are using MS, but I'll acknowledge that they have no requirement to do anything else. However, the beeb has the duty and opportunity to do better. They should develop, or contract someone to develop, an open (not open source - that's impossible) system. I can see why they're forced to use DRM, but they needn't been tied to a proprietary commercial system. They could develop one and then licence it cheaply to the other channels. That way everyone would benefit.
The only part of the BBC funded by the government is the World Service, which is funded by the Foreign Office. Of course, you could say that the govt funds the BBC by making the Licence Fee mandatory, but that's not what your comments state.
Web stream IS covered by the charter. From "The Charter:
The Public Purposes of the BBC are
[...]
promoting its other purposes, helping to deliver to the public the
benefit of emerging communications technologies and services and, in
addition, taking a leading role in the switchover to digital television.
[...]
(1)
The BBC's main activities should be the promotion of its Public Purposes
through the provision of output which consists of information, education and
entertainment, supplied by means of--
television, radio and online services;
similar or related services which make output generally available and
which may be in forms or by means of technologies which either have
not previously been used by the BBC or which have yet to be developed.
The BBC is NOT free to deliver web streaming in any format they choose. From the BBC Trust's Public Value Assessment. (The BBC Trust is its independent governing body): "The PVA noted that we would expect the BBC to adopt a platform-agnostic approach."
Not necessarily. When I was 11 I was doing some pretty ambitious stuff (not quite on this scale, but not far off). Everyone assumed my parents were pushing it, but they were baffled more than anything. Of course, it never went anywhere though. Puberty tends to be a bit distracting.
It makes more sense when there's an actual reason for it to be on the web. For example, CleVR stitches photos into panoramas, then uses a flash thing to display them and embed them in other pages, youtube style. It's like Apple's old Quicktime VR, but without the $500 authoring environments and plugin and embedding nightmares.
It has a market cap of $57 billion. That's larger than Yahoo, over twice the size of Sun and only around 25% smaller than Oracle. To put it in perspective, MSFT is three times the size of Oracle, the number 2. The numbers would be similar if you did it by revenue, but that's more annoying to look up. The fact you haven't heard of them doesn't prove that they're insignificant - just that you're ignorant.
That's like being happy you got into a car accident because you met a nice nurse at the hospital. Well, if it wasn't a serious accident, and she was really hot...
It's not a big scary conspiracy. They need to be granted rights for each territory by the labels. They evidently don't have US licences for all the japanese stuff. But if you prefer you can pretend that the government is stopping Apple corrupt the nation's youth with cheesy J-pop.
It used to be like that in a lot of the UK, but it's changing. In my city, the central area is zoned, but as mixed use. They specifically state that no planning permission will be granted for any development that isn't mixed-use. For example, residential blocks with shops on the ground floor, office blocks with cafes, bars and shops. Their favoured design is shops and cafes on the ground floor, offices for a few floors above that, then residential above that. Certain streets are zoned as "spill-out" areas, where shops and cafes must use the pavement (with outside seating etc.). These are often pedestrianised areas. It makes for a much more pleasant town.
Slashdot Mirror
Think about it.
It's a book review, dear. Now you go back to bed.
Irony used in correct sense shocker!
...but the article doesn't seem to have an actual link to the map. It's here.
humour (that's humor for you Americans)
As every(?) other phone out there can have the simlock removed, I'd think so. However, every other phone needs that facility as they're sold on different networks and thsu can't put the simlock in hardware, so perhaps the iPhone is locked-down harder.
I doubt it'd be possible to make it faster, as it doesn't support 3G. I don't think the speed is a result of the network - it's the phone.
Perhaps this might help with the visual voicemail.
Well, yeah. I got my M600i unlocked on eBay. However, I said pretty much all. How many people do you think buy SIM-free phones compared to those who get them subsidised?
Which begs the question - if this hack unlocks it, does it also remove the sim lock? And if not, could it.
Of course it does, all GSM phones do. It's part of the standard.
Pretty much all phones in the UK are sim-locked. It's legal to get it unlocked by a slightly dodgy bloke on a market stall for a tenner though.
Why is it assumed that phone functionality must be sacrificed? Why can't another SIM be used?
That's not quite accurate. They're not contracted by HMG to collect the licence fee - they don't take it and give it to the govt. They are granted permission to collect it themselves. Subtle but important difference.
Even if they support more platforms in future, the approach is not platform agnostic. If it were, it would support all platforms equally. Don't get me wrong: I'm a great supporter of the iPlayer project, and am happy to pay the licence fee. I just hate the fact that they have jumped into bed with MS and adopted a system that means I can't get access to the content. It's annoying enough that all the other channels doing TVOD are using MS, but I'll acknowledge that they have no requirement to do anything else. However, the beeb has the duty and opportunity to do better. They should develop, or contract someone to develop, an open (not open source - that's impossible) system. I can see why they're forced to use DRM, but they needn't been tied to a proprietary commercial system. They could develop one and then licence it cheaply to the other channels. That way everyone would benefit.
Wow, that's quite impressive: you managed to be wrong on every single point.
Not just Google Earth: it's on Google Maps too.
Not necessarily. When I was 11 I was doing some pretty ambitious stuff (not quite on this scale, but not far off). Everyone assumed my parents were pushing it, but they were baffled more than anything. Of course, it never went anywhere though. Puberty tends to be a bit distracting.
I would've been helpful if there was a link to his site in the summary.
Err, that's the whole point of the article.
It's what the Minister of the Interior is called in the UK. i.e. the one responsible for police etc.
It makes more sense when there's an actual reason for it to be on the web. For example, CleVR stitches photos into panoramas, then uses a flash thing to display them and embed them in other pages, youtube style. It's like Apple's old Quicktime VR, but without the $500 authoring environments and plugin and embedding nightmares.
It has a market cap of $57 billion. That's larger than Yahoo, over twice the size of Sun and only around 25% smaller than Oracle. To put it in perspective, MSFT is three times the size of Oracle, the number 2. The numbers would be similar if you did it by revenue, but that's more annoying to look up. The fact you haven't heard of them doesn't prove that they're insignificant - just that you're ignorant.
It's only the third-largest software company in the world.
Good point, but: "troll"?? Do you even know what the word means? It doesn't just mean "wrong".
It's not a big scary conspiracy. They need to be granted rights for each territory by the labels. They evidently don't have US licences for all the japanese stuff. But if you prefer you can pretend that the government is stopping Apple corrupt the nation's youth with cheesy J-pop.
It used to be like that in a lot of the UK, but it's changing. In my city, the central area is zoned, but as mixed use. They specifically state that no planning permission will be granted for any development that isn't mixed-use. For example, residential blocks with shops on the ground floor, office blocks with cafes, bars and shops. Their favoured design is shops and cafes on the ground floor, offices for a few floors above that, then residential above that. Certain streets are zoned as "spill-out" areas, where shops and cafes must use the pavement (with outside seating etc.). These are often pedestrianised areas. It makes for a much more pleasant town.