So you can replace the perfectly good bios that comes with your pc with one that might work almost as well if you are very lucky and happen to have exactly the right hardware and software.
The question "Why?" springs to mind here?
Basically palm introduced their PDA a few years ago and they were good at the time, but they've gone nowhere since. PPC's are a generation later and are more powerful, have better software, faster, more memory and are more compatible with the software people use on their computers.
Basically the palm you can buy now is identical to the one you could get four years ago except it's in a new box and has a bit more memory maybe.
Because the pocket pc things are "bigger" machines, a lot more of the interesting software has been developed for them.
The new palms look a bit better but they still seem rather outdated compared with their competition. Their new OS6 when it comes out next year looks interesting though.
I emailed dell last week to see if, or when these would be available in the UK. I got back a reply saying they'd passed my message on to the appropriate person but other than that no reply for 3 working days now.
They can't want to sell them very much.
Couldn't agree... less. I seriously hate the way the BBC pumps my licence fee into projects that the majority of licence payers have no access to.
Well fine, but who exactly are those people? Everyone in the UK has access to those channels. Ok, so you've got to buy some equipment but you have to buy a TV to watch BBC1 and I don't see anyone complaining that that's unfair.
So it's nothing to do with the fact that they announced this phone YEARS ago, never released it and now orange have gone a developed their own similar phone which is actually going to be available and for much less money than sendo were planning on charging?
I think is entirely possible they were simply unable to produce a competative phone and decided to blame someone else.
I buy maybe ten CDs a year and extract the audio to listen to like I want. If they do this I won't be buying any because it would be easier to download them instead.
Actually I probably won't be doing that either because there is almost no good music being released any more
Because with the code anyone with a tivo can use it to do a few extra things. Hacking the code would at best require you to take the tivo apart and modify the code on your machine. Not quite to simple.
I don't think it's sad, it's just evolution of language. I think that it fairly clear what it means and it can be more convenient to phrase things that way so even if it's not the traditional way to say something it's a decent enough innovation.
It has nothing to do with math skills, it's to do with English language usage, and that changes all the time.
Bah, it's in RM and MOV formats....! After the amount of junk the players for both of those installed on my machine last time I tried them I won't have them on my machine.
Anyone know any software for windows that will play either of those formats without installing a whole load of junk as well?
Not so much an issue at an airport - as somewhere unattended like an ATM machine or security door where someone could more easily attach extra equipment.
My concern with all of these schemes is that if someone gets hold of your biometric data it may be passible to spoof the device in some way.
At least with a password you can change your password if someone gets hold of it, but with these schemes, if someone gets hold of your data there is nothing you can do about it.
Probably not an issue for this application, but I see it suggested for things like ATM machines or access to building (where swipe cards are used now) where they are used unattended. I expect that if these devices become widespread then someone will build a device to spoof them. and once someone has got hold of your data there is nothing you can do about it
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In any case, it's always been the way: Macs are more expensive than PCs, but they do things in a much nicer way. [/blockquote]
No, they don't. I don't know where people get this ideas from.
1. IE *is* the standard. Not some document produced by a committee somewhere. You might not like it, and it may not be "right" but a standard is common set of rules and definitions, not a document and like it or not IE *is* the standard for web browsers.
2. I like flash web sites. If a site uses flash it's the best way to tell that there is going to be nothing useful on the site so not to bother with it.Probably not what the designers of "flash" hoped it would be useful for, but that's how it is.
One thing that was good about Dr Who was that most of the stories were two or three hours long giving the chance for characters to develop better than the typical 50 minutes long most episodes are now. Of course that didn't happen in all the episodes but the format did allow the program to feel different that most serries
They have cellphone coverage at the top of a mountain? I find that someone difficult to believe.
Also why would anyone take their phone climbing with them and not have any credit on it?
Ok, so I'm sure they didn't just make it up, but it does seem stranmge
You'd think this would be true, but in the UK at least you certainly can't make emergency calls without a sim, and I'm not 100% sure you can even make them with no credit.
And you still can't make them on any network other than your own. I know that the gsm standards allow this to work, but it isn't done.
I don't understand why people have any sympathy for these people at all. This is a crime with a clear victim. The ISP is paying for the bandwidth and so if you pay for a certain amount and then take considerably more then you have cost them money.
In many cases, the word theft is wrong (such as copyright theft) but here these people are deliberatly taking a resource for which they have not paid and is exactly the same as any other kind of theft.
The X bug is very serious. It's possible to set up a web site that will cause any X based computer looking at it to crash.
But it's not a microsoft product so I expect the majority of people here will just ignore it and carry on bashing microsoft products as usual.
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Yeah buy Amnesty are not interested in improving human rights, only promoting their own political agenda.
The article makes it sound like having to learn new things to keep up is a bad thing. It's what makes the job better than most.
So you can replace the perfectly good bios that comes with your pc with one that might work almost as well if you are very lucky and happen to have exactly the right hardware and software. The question "Why?" springs to mind here?
Basically palm introduced their PDA a few years ago and they were good at the time, but they've gone nowhere since. PPC's are a generation later and are more powerful, have better software, faster, more memory and are more compatible with the software people use on their computers. Basically the palm you can buy now is identical to the one you could get four years ago except it's in a new box and has a bit more memory maybe. Because the pocket pc things are "bigger" machines, a lot more of the interesting software has been developed for them. The new palms look a bit better but they still seem rather outdated compared with their competition. Their new OS6 when it comes out next year looks interesting though.
I emailed dell last week to see if, or when these would be available in the UK. I got back a reply saying they'd passed my message on to the appropriate person but other than that no reply for 3 working days now. They can't want to sell them very much.
Couldn't agree ... less. I seriously hate the way the BBC pumps my licence fee into projects that the majority of licence payers have no access to.
Well fine, but who exactly are those people? Everyone in the UK has access to those channels. Ok, so you've got to buy some equipment but you have to buy a TV to watch BBC1 and I don't see anyone complaining that that's unfair.
So it's nothing to do with the fact that they announced this phone YEARS ago, never released it and now orange have gone a developed their own similar phone which is actually going to be available and for much less money than sendo were planning on charging? I think is entirely possible they were simply unable to produce a competative phone and decided to blame someone else.
I buy maybe ten CDs a year and extract the audio to listen to like I want. If they do this I won't be buying any because it would be easier to download them instead. Actually I probably won't be doing that either because there is almost no good music being released any more
Fantastic. I really hate pdf files and the sooned they are destroyed the better,
Because with the code anyone with a tivo can use it to do a few extra things. Hacking the code would at best require you to take the tivo apart and modify the code on your machine. Not quite to simple.
I don't think it's sad, it's just evolution of language. I think that it fairly clear what it means and it can be more convenient to phrase things that way so even if it's not the traditional way to say something it's a decent enough innovation. It has nothing to do with math skills, it's to do with English language usage, and that changes all the time.
This doesn't mention that he's also the person who first did a lot of the tivo hacks that are out there. How can one person do so many good things?
Bah, it's in RM and MOV formats....!
After the amount of junk the players for both of those installed on my machine last time I tried them I won't have them on my machine.
Anyone know any software for windows that will play either of those formats without installing a whole load of junk as well?
Not so much an issue at an airport - as somewhere unattended like an ATM machine or security door where someone could more easily attach extra equipment.
My concern with all of these schemes is that if someone gets hold of your biometric data it may be passible to spoof the device in some way. At least with a password you can change your password if someone gets hold of it, but with these schemes, if someone gets hold of your data there is nothing you can do about it. Probably not an issue for this application, but I see it suggested for things like ATM machines or access to building (where swipe cards are used now) where they are used unattended. I expect that if these devices become widespread then someone will build a device to spoof them. and once someone has got hold of your data there is nothing you can do about it
There is nothing wrong with open source. What is wrong is trying to force it on people either through legislation or the GPL.
[blockquote] In any case, it's always been the way: Macs are more expensive than PCs, but they do things in a much nicer way. [/blockquote] No, they don't. I don't know where people get this ideas from.
Maybe it's because Linux is harder to use and much less useful for most people than windows.
If this item had been a comment it would have been moderated as troll and never seen again.
1. IE *is* the standard. Not some document produced by a committee somewhere. You might not like it, and it may not be "right" but a standard is common set of rules and definitions, not a document and like it or not IE *is* the standard for web browsers. 2. I like flash web sites. If a site uses flash it's the best way to tell that there is going to be nothing useful on the site so not to bother with it.Probably not what the designers of "flash" hoped it would be useful for, but that's how it is.
One thing that was good about Dr Who was that most of the stories were two or three hours long giving the chance for characters to develop better than the typical 50 minutes long most episodes are now. Of course that didn't happen in all the episodes but the format did allow the program to feel different that most serries
They have cellphone coverage at the top of a mountain? I find that someone difficult to believe. Also why would anyone take their phone climbing with them and not have any credit on it? Ok, so I'm sure they didn't just make it up, but it does seem stranmge
You'd think this would be true, but in the UK at least you certainly can't make emergency calls without a sim, and I'm not 100% sure you can even make them with no credit. And you still can't make them on any network other than your own. I know that the gsm standards allow this to work, but it isn't done.
I don't understand why people have any sympathy for these people at all. This is a crime with a clear victim. The ISP is paying for the bandwidth and so if you pay for a certain amount and then take considerably more then you have cost them money. In many cases, the word theft is wrong (such as copyright theft) but here these people are deliberatly taking a resource for which they have not paid and is exactly the same as any other kind of theft.
The X bug is very serious. It's possible to set up a web site that will cause any X based computer looking at it to crash. But it's not a microsoft product so I expect the majority of people here will just ignore it and carry on bashing microsoft products as usual.