Your next phone will probably still ask you to set the date and time on first power on. On Nokia phones at least, automatic time/date update is switched OFF by default. You have to go through the wizard thingy before you can get to the setting to set the auto date/time setting! (Nokia's user interface on their more complex phones is bloody awful - even simple and frequent functions such as sending a text take about ten times as many button presses as should be necessary)
Contrast 1968 and the early 2000s and there's just as much technological change as 1938 to 1968 (possibly more) - just not in the manner that the pundits in 1968 were predicting.
Many of the entries were just too busy and distracting, or very Digg-ish (i.e. looked like a soul-less link farm). The winning design IMHO doesn't muck with things too much, but gives an aesthetically pleasing facelift to Slashdot. The only problem I could see with it is that the "Slashdot" logo (presumably should appear in the upper left) didn't show up on any browser I tried.
For third party apps, there is already Autopackage. We use it for Oolite on Linux. One autopackage installs on all recent distros, and sets up the menu items correctly etc.
That's the whole point of Autopackage (http://autopackage.org/). We release Oolite for Linux as an Autopackage rather than an RPM/deb/whatever. Seems to work fine on all the recent distros out there.
Hrm. My observations are still contradicting you:-)
I just ran this test. I'm in Houston, TX. and my GSM phone is currently using T-Mobile. The phone is a Nokia 6820. The current time is 09:40 CDT as shown by my NTP synced laptop.
I set the clock to 14:47 manually - so both the hours and the minutes were way off. It reverted back to 09:40 when I powered it off and on.
I ran another test. I set it to 17:20 then just let it sit, without cycling power. It takes much longer before the time gets corrected if I don't cycle power, but it does get corrected.
So therefore, I think you're friend is probably wrong too - or at least has outdated information.
In which case (a) makes this all a storm in a teacup: the European airline just has to ask the passenger to consent to the data transfer before they board the flight - probably at the time they buy the ticket. British Airways already explicitly requests you fill in the Advance Information if you book your ticket on the internet - and tells you why, so already, with BA, I think you're fulfilling (a) in what you quoted.
All Nokia phones from the cheapest to most expensive will sync time with the cell tower. The option is OFF by default. Have you checked that you have turned that feature on?
Some cell phone companies don't broadcast time though. Most UK providers DO NOT much to my annoyance, but in the US, it seems like all the GSM providers send the time.
I'm in the US on vacation from Britain. When I arrived at the airport terminal and turned my phone on, it instantly synced up with the correct time, which is 6 timezones behind what the phone was set to when I left. When I crossed timezones in the US, the phone instantly synced with the local time.
It's a GSM phone. It roams between T-Mobile, Cingular and AT&T Wireless most of the time when I'm in the US. I've never had an issue with it showing the wrong time.
Perhaps you need to choose the setting on the phone to synchronize time - Nokia phones at least have the synchronize the clock option turned OFF by default.
Most the people I know who are over 35 use text messages. They can be extremely convenient. For example, when riding on the bus, instead of phoning someone and shouting over the noise of the engine "I'M ON THE BUS BE HOME IN 20 MINUTES!" and annoying all the passengers, you send a brief text message which is discreet and doesn't annoy anyone who's travelling on the bus with you. Similarly on trains or in other public places.
We use text messaging extensively in the glider club. One person will check the weather in the morning then send a broadcast text saying "Weather good, flying" or "Weather not good enough, no flying". You can save a pre-made text message for this, then broadcast it. Much faster and much cheaper than phoning 20 people.
Text messaging is extremely useful for sending quick (mostly one way) messages. I didn't start using text messaging until I was in my 30s. Text messaging has been available in even the cheapest phones for probably over a decade here.
On a point of pedantry, Cheyenne Mountain is an easy drive from Colorado Springs. It sounds like this guy is living in one city, and commuting to another hundreds of miles away.
There is more than one person on Slashdot. The people who said the record companies should go after individuals, not Napster are NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME people who are moaning now about the RIAA going after individuals. The people who condone piracy are NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME people who condemn GPL violations. Etc. Slashdot has thousands of people comment, and they will not necessarily have the same views so in any given mix of stories you are likely to find conflicting and opposite views because Slashdot is NOT ONE PERSON! It's perfectly OK for a disparate group of people to offer differing and seemingly conflicting opinions.
This is the sort of thing you get when conjectures such as "intelligent design" is pushed as science by people who don't even know what science is, and teachers who are bound up in their religion so much they have to give "intelligent design" a fair hearing in science class - when it's not even science.
Microsoft will simply make this new format the default format that gets saved from any photo manipulation software that gets shipped with some future version of Windows. Then everyone will be saving as default in this format (save the proportionately tiny number of professional photographers out there). MPEG4 video is an open standard - yet virtually all short video clips available online are WMV files that can only be played with WMP10 (or a licensend implementation thereof). This is because Microsoft ships Windows Movie Maker with Windows, and it saves by default as WMV and no one changes this.
The vast majority of users don't even know (or would care) that they are saving in a proprietary closed format because 90% of all other desktop PC users use Windows and can read the proprietary format.
This new format will become THE defacto standard for images online within the next few years and there is nothing that can be done to stop this from happening.
No, it's not a dead duck any more than WMV is a dead duck. Microsoft simply makes it the default format for digital photographs on a Windows machine. Everyone will then just use it by default. For example, virtually all short video clips online are in WMV only playable by WMP9 or newer (or other licensed implementations). This is because Windows Movie Maker outputs WMV by default and no one changes the default.
This new format (WMP, I suspect it will be called) will in a few years be the defacto standard for digital photos, just as WMV has become the defacto standard for short home made video clips, and MS Word doc has become the defacto standard for wordprocessing documents.
Judging by the kid's appalling grasp of the English language and total inability to use apostrophes appropriately, I think the school has already failed the student. Expulsion is only the icing on the cake - it won't make much difference at all.
I don't get why everyone's flagellating over the supposed fork. Open source projects do not fork unless there is a very good reason, and often the forks are minor, specialist versions. If Java was under a true OSS license, it would be very unlikely to fork. How many major forks are there of gcj? Exactly zero. How many forks of Mono? Exactly zero. How many major forks of the Linux kernel? Exactly zero. How many major forks of Eclipse? Exactly zero.
Because Microsoft patent encumbers them. Get a significant amount of useful Linux apps that depend on Mono (or in future, XPS), and Microsoft can simply pull the rug from under Linux users with a patent suit.
I suspect the real reason is they want to make sure that (at least the free service) has some bandwidth left. Porn is incredibly high bandwidth due to its popularity. It's for this reason many cheap hosting providers advertising 1TB/month bandwidth forbid the hosting of adult sites, because that might actually _use_ 1TB/month.
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It doesn't work. Look how the Palestinians are now coming to the west with a begging bowl in one hand and a loaded AK47 in the other.
And yet another Slashdotter can't spell "grammar" in his grammar gripe.
The original worm spread through Sendmail - the Morris worm of the late 1980s spread through a security flaw in Sendmail.
Your next phone will probably still ask you to set the date and time on first power on. On Nokia phones at least, automatic time/date update is switched OFF by default. You have to go through the wizard thingy before you can get to the setting to set the auto date/time setting! (Nokia's user interface on their more complex phones is bloody awful - even simple and frequent functions such as sending a text take about ten times as many button presses as should be necessary)
Contrast 1968 and the early 2000s and there's just as much technological change as 1938 to 1968 (possibly more) - just not in the manner that the pundits in 1968 were predicting.
Many of the entries were just too busy and distracting, or very Digg-ish (i.e. looked like a soul-less link farm). The winning design IMHO doesn't muck with things too much, but gives an aesthetically pleasing facelift to Slashdot. The only problem I could see with it is that the "Slashdot" logo (presumably should appear in the upper left) didn't show up on any browser I tried.
For third party apps, there is already Autopackage. We use it for Oolite on Linux. One autopackage installs on all recent distros, and sets up the menu items correctly etc.
That's the whole point of Autopackage (http://autopackage.org/). We release Oolite for Linux as an Autopackage rather than an RPM/deb/whatever. Seems to work fine on all the recent distros out there.
Hrm. My observations are still contradicting you :-)
I just ran this test. I'm in Houston, TX. and my GSM phone is currently using T-Mobile. The phone is a Nokia 6820.
The current time is 09:40 CDT as shown by my NTP synced laptop.
I set the clock to 14:47 manually - so both the hours and the minutes were way off. It reverted back to 09:40 when I powered it off and on.
I ran another test. I set it to 17:20 then just let it sit, without cycling power. It takes much longer before the time gets corrected if I don't cycle power, but it does get corrected.
So therefore, I think you're friend is probably wrong too - or at least has outdated information.
In which case (a) makes this all a storm in a teacup: the European airline just has to ask the passenger to consent to the data transfer before they board the flight - probably at the time they buy the ticket. British Airways already explicitly requests you fill in the Advance Information if you book your ticket on the internet - and tells you why, so already, with BA, I think you're fulfilling (a) in what you quoted.
No. You're going from an RPM based distro to a totally foreign DEB based distro - you'll need to install from scratch.
Ah, just like Microsoft Axapta doesn't sell, even though the name sounds like the sound made by a child's toy gun.
All Nokia phones from the cheapest to most expensive will sync time with the cell tower. The option is OFF by default. Have you checked that you have turned that feature on?
Some cell phone companies don't broadcast time though. Most UK providers DO NOT much to my annoyance, but in the US, it seems like all the GSM providers send the time.
I don't think you're correct.
I'm in the US on vacation from Britain. When I arrived at the airport terminal and turned my phone on, it instantly synced up with the correct time, which is 6 timezones behind what the phone was set to when I left. When I crossed timezones in the US, the phone instantly synced with the local time.
It's a GSM phone. It roams between T-Mobile, Cingular and AT&T Wireless most of the time when I'm in the US. I've never had an issue with it showing the wrong time.
Perhaps you need to choose the setting on the phone to synchronize time - Nokia phones at least have the synchronize the clock option turned OFF by default.
Most the people I know who are over 35 use text messages. They can be extremely convenient. For example, when riding on the bus, instead of phoning someone and shouting over the noise of the engine "I'M ON THE BUS BE HOME IN 20 MINUTES!" and annoying all the passengers, you send a brief text message which is discreet and doesn't annoy anyone who's travelling on the bus with you. Similarly on trains or in other public places.
We use text messaging extensively in the glider club. One person will check the weather in the morning then send a broadcast text saying "Weather good, flying" or "Weather not good enough, no flying". You can save a pre-made text message for this, then broadcast it. Much faster and much cheaper than phoning 20 people.
Text messaging is extremely useful for sending quick (mostly one way) messages. I didn't start using text messaging until I was in my 30s. Text messaging has been available in even the cheapest phones for probably over a decade here.
On a point of pedantry, Cheyenne Mountain is an easy drive from Colorado Springs.
It sounds like this guy is living in one city, and commuting to another hundreds of miles away.
There is more than one person on Slashdot. The people who said the record companies should go after individuals, not Napster are NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME people who are moaning now about the RIAA going after individuals. The people who condone piracy are NOT NECESSARILY THE SAME people who condemn GPL violations. Etc. Slashdot has thousands of people comment, and they will not necessarily have the same views so in any given mix of stories you are likely to find conflicting and opposite views because Slashdot is NOT ONE PERSON! It's perfectly OK for a disparate group of people to offer differing and seemingly conflicting opinions.
I thought this was obvious.
This is the sort of thing you get when conjectures such as "intelligent design" is pushed as science by people who don't even know what science is, and teachers who are bound up in their religion so much they have to give "intelligent design" a fair hearing in science class - when it's not even science.
Microsoft will simply make this new format the default format that gets saved from any photo manipulation software that gets shipped with some future version of Windows. Then everyone will be saving as default in this format (save the proportionately tiny number of professional photographers out there). MPEG4 video is an open standard - yet virtually all short video clips available online are WMV files that can only be played with WMP10 (or a licensend implementation thereof). This is because Microsoft ships Windows Movie Maker with Windows, and it saves by default as WMV and no one changes this.
The vast majority of users don't even know (or would care) that they are saving in a proprietary closed format because 90% of all other desktop PC users use Windows and can read the proprietary format.
This new format will become THE defacto standard for images online within the next few years and there is nothing that can be done to stop this from happening.
No, it's not a dead duck any more than WMV is a dead duck. Microsoft simply makes it the default format for digital photographs on a Windows machine. Everyone will then just use it by default. For example, virtually all short video clips online are in WMV only playable by WMP9 or newer (or other licensed implementations). This is because Windows Movie Maker outputs WMV by default and no one changes the default.
This new format (WMP, I suspect it will be called) will in a few years be the defacto standard for digital photos, just as WMV has become the defacto standard for short home made video clips, and MS Word doc has become the defacto standard for wordprocessing documents.
Judging by the kid's appalling grasp of the English language and total inability to use apostrophes appropriately, I think the school has already failed the student. Expulsion is only the icing on the cake - it won't make much difference at all.
I don't get why everyone's flagellating over the supposed fork. Open source projects do not fork unless there is a very good reason, and often the forks are minor, specialist versions. If Java was under a true OSS license, it would be very unlikely to fork. How many major forks are there of gcj? Exactly zero. How many forks of Mono? Exactly zero. How many major forks of the Linux kernel? Exactly zero. How many major forks of Eclipse? Exactly zero.
Because Microsoft patent encumbers them. Get a significant amount of useful Linux apps that depend on Mono (or in future, XPS), and Microsoft can simply pull the rug from under Linux users with a patent suit.
I suspect the real reason is they want to make sure that (at least the free service) has some bandwidth left. Porn is incredibly high bandwidth due to its popularity. It's for this reason many cheap hosting providers advertising 1TB/month bandwidth forbid the hosting of adult sites, because that might actually _use_ 1TB/month.
No, the RIAA represents the record companies. It's the Recording Industry Associationi of America, not the Artists Industry Association of America.