I believe it is intended to be a tax on those already owning computers, rather than a VAT-style tax on the purchase of computer equipment. The only change from the current system would be the equipment that was included in the definition, which would probably be extended to include any device with internet connectivity.
At the moment, you need to pay an annual TV Licence tax for any property that has a working television set, unless it is battery powered. However many sets you have you pay the same - about £125/year.
Except that article contains absolutly no mention of concerns at Intel - it is merely the writer's personal opinion, having seen the MacTel ad, that is must have pissed off Intel, a point which Intel are (at least officially) denying.
Now I'm not exactly a chip design engineer, but doesn't "placing a layer of insulator underneath a layer of silicon" sound suspicously similar to Silicon-on-insulator, a technology that has been in production x86 chips for sometime. Also, will the G6 chips released in 2007 run at 4-5Ghz, or is the G6 expected to be improved into a 4Ghz chip - like it was promised the P4 would be? And where will Intel be mid-2007?
Maybe a more appropriate question, is "Why didn't Apple wait until 64-bit before moving to Intel?"
As with all the IM clients I've seen, logging is optional (but extremely useful in my experience). In the case of GMail/Talk it is off by default so you must enable it before it actually starts logging.
Of course the person you are talking to may have logging enabled.
Hasn't their free choice friday policy (where employees get to work on whatever they want for one day a week so long as it is intended to benefit the company) always been a case of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks? Sure, you have GMail and no doubt several other successful projects, but surely there are many times that number of unsuccessful projects?
The renaming of the newsgroups has been one of the failures of the mozilla projects, and has dragged on for years.
It caused problems back before even Netscape 6 was released. The newsgroups were intended for developers, but because they were called "netscape.public.mozilla.x" they would get loads of noise from people looking for help with Netscape 4. Thats died down now, or at least moved on to questions about Firefox. Having said that, I'm a fan of what Mozilla.org has done, and if the names of their newsgroups are my biggest criticism of them then they must be doing something right.
This change should also help reduce the amount of spam on the newsgroups, since they will only be accessible through the mozilla news server and google groups
I'm on the UK's do-not-call list, and I can't think of a single UK telemarketing call that I have taken in the four or five years that I have been on it. What I do get is pre-recorded american women telling me I have won a holiday, and all I need to do is send a couple of grand to a PO Box address.
I've checked with the UK's telephone preference service, and aparently there is nothing they can do because these companies are calling from outside the UK.
A lot of it depends on how and when the DNA is compared.
If you have an existing suspect and you compare his DNA to crime scene DNA, then that can be usefully used to either exclude or partially incriminate him.
If, however, you find some unknown DNA at a crime scene, and then run a search on some DNA database then you will almost certainly bring up lots of false positives. DNA tests are not unique, current technology gives about a 1 in a million chance of two people's tests matching. Those odds are good enough when you are comparing a handful of samples, but if you are searching a database of 60 million people then clearly you are going to get about 60 results. Do you bring them all in for questioning?
ISPs can offer unmetered access because the then regulator OfTel forced BT to offer unmetered packages to the ISPs, first called "SurfTime" but later improved and called "FRIACO" (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination).
You need a BT line because OfTel never thought it was necessary to force the cable companies to provide these tariffs and it wasn't in the cable companies interests to provide them (much better to get people to signup to their own internet providers). In fact, at one point ntl were offering unmetered internet access included in the cost of the phone line.
Having a BT phone line is a requirement of all ADSL packages in the UK at the moment, because your ADSL connection uses that link at least until the local exchange.
Unmetered (not per minute) dialup access has been available in the UK for many years - it was first provided in 1999 (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/290229.stm), although it took a couple of years to become widely available and reliable. In the early days, none of the ISPs had enough modems to support their customers, so if you were trying to dial in between 6pm and midnight, you would usually have to redial several times until you got a free modem.
The problem only occurs if you have Secure IM enabled in the preferances, which was a new feature in 0.71
My guess, is that AOL spotted this, saw some security problem it was causing and patched it on their servers, breaking trillian. If that patch was applied in two stages, then that would explain why trillian needed to be updated twice.
AOL themselves haven't even commented on this, apart from re-issuing their policy. If AOL were trying to block trillian, I'm sure they would have implemented better blocking than they have.
Ian
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Netscape always release builds for the main platforms first, with minor platforms following in the next few days.
I use Mozilla Mail as my main Mail client, as I did with Netscape 4. To me, the Mail part is equal in importance to the Browser part, should I miss out because you don't want to use the mail. (remember, IE and Neoplanet both come with an email client, don't know about Opera but I'm sure KDE comes with a mail client too).
The editor is needed for HTML compose in the mail client.
As for IRC, as far as I know there is not a single Netscape employee on the IRC team. Removing IRC would not free up any time for other developers.
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I believe it is intended to be a tax on those already owning computers, rather than a VAT-style tax on the purchase of computer equipment. The only change from the current system would be the equipment that was included in the definition, which would probably be extended to include any device with internet connectivity.
At the moment, you need to pay an annual TV Licence tax for any property that has a working television set, unless it is battery powered. However many sets you have you pay the same - about £125/year.
Except that article contains absolutly no mention of concerns at Intel - it is merely the writer's personal opinion, having seen the MacTel ad, that is must have pissed off Intel, a point which Intel are (at least officially) denying.
Now I'm not exactly a chip design engineer, but doesn't "placing a layer of insulator underneath a layer of silicon" sound suspicously similar to Silicon-on-insulator, a technology that has been in production x86 chips for sometime. Also, will the G6 chips released in 2007 run at 4-5Ghz, or is the G6 expected to be improved into a 4Ghz chip - like it was promised the P4 would be? And where will Intel be mid-2007?
Maybe a more appropriate question, is "Why didn't Apple wait until 64-bit before moving to Intel?"
As with all the IM clients I've seen, logging is optional (but extremely useful in my experience). In the case of GMail/Talk it is off by default so you must enable it before it actually starts logging.
Of course the person you are talking to may have logging enabled.
Its a subliminal way of increasing their shareprice.
Hasn't their free choice friday policy (where employees get to work on whatever they want for one day a week so long as it is intended to benefit the company) always been a case of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks? Sure, you have GMail and no doubt several other successful projects, but surely there are many times that number of unsuccessful projects?
I'm surprised Microsoft have any working chairs left, the number Ballmer is reported on here to have thrown.
The renaming of the newsgroups has been one of the failures of the mozilla projects, and has dragged on for years.
It caused problems back before even Netscape 6 was released. The newsgroups were intended for developers, but because they were called "netscape.public.mozilla.x" they would get loads of noise from people looking for help with Netscape 4. Thats died down now, or at least moved on to questions about Firefox. Having said that, I'm a fan of what Mozilla.org has done, and if the names of their newsgroups are my biggest criticism of them then they must be doing something right.
This change should also help reduce the amount of spam on the newsgroups, since they will only be accessible through the mozilla news server and google groups
Nintendo seem to have chosen the 'Lite' name because it is smaller and brigher than a standard DS.
It sounds to me more like a name for a cut-down version, rather than an improved one.
Yeah, but you have to remember that the majority of /. readers are american and therefore have probably never even heard of Finland...
I'm on the UK's do-not-call list, and I can't think of a single UK telemarketing call that I have taken in the four or five years that I have been on it. What I do get is pre-recorded american women telling me I have won a holiday, and all I need to do is send a couple of grand to a PO Box address.
I've checked with the UK's telephone preference service, and aparently there is nothing they can do because these companies are calling from outside the UK.
A lot of it depends on how and when the DNA is compared.
If you have an existing suspect and you compare his DNA to crime scene DNA, then that can be usefully used to either exclude or partially incriminate him.
If, however, you find some unknown DNA at a crime scene, and then run a search on some DNA database then you will almost certainly bring up lots of false positives. DNA tests are not unique, current technology gives about a 1 in a million chance of two people's tests matching. Those odds are good enough when you are comparing a handful of samples, but if you are searching a database of 60 million people then clearly you are going to get about 60 results. Do you bring them all in for questioning?
ISPs can offer unmetered access because the then regulator OfTel forced BT to offer unmetered packages to the ISPs, first called "SurfTime" but later improved and called "FRIACO" (Flat Rate Internet Access Call Origination).
You need a BT line because OfTel never thought it was necessary to force the cable companies to provide these tariffs and it wasn't in the cable companies interests to provide them (much better to get people to signup to their own internet providers). In fact, at one point ntl were offering unmetered internet access included in the cost of the phone line.
Having a BT phone line is a requirement of all ADSL packages in the UK at the moment, because your ADSL connection uses that link at least until the local exchange.
Unmetered (not per minute) dialup access has been available in the UK for many years - it was first provided in 1999 (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/290229.stm), although it took a couple of years to become widely available and reliable. In the early days, none of the ISPs had enough modems to support their customers, so if you were trying to dial in between 6pm and midnight, you would usually have to redial several times until you got a free modem.
The problem only occurs if you have Secure IM enabled in the preferances, which was a new feature in 0.71
My guess, is that AOL spotted this, saw some security problem it was causing and patched it on their servers, breaking trillian. If that patch was applied in two stages, then that would explain why trillian needed to be updated twice.
AOL themselves haven't even commented on this, apart from re-issuing their policy. If AOL were trying to block trillian, I'm sure they would have implemented better blocking than they have.
Ian
Netscape always release builds for the main platforms first, with minor platforms following in the next few days.
By the looks of it mozilla now blocks off-site popup windows by default: "...by setting the Window.open policy back to its default value, sameOrigin"
I use Mozilla Mail as my main Mail client, as I did with Netscape 4. To me, the Mail part is equal in importance to the Browser part, should I miss out because you don't want to use the mail. (remember, IE and Neoplanet both come with an email client, don't know about Opera but I'm sure KDE comes with a mail client too). The editor is needed for HTML compose in the mail client. As for IRC, as far as I know there is not a single Netscape employee on the IRC team. Removing IRC would not free up any time for other developers.