They have a big stake in the market, and have one of the most pernicious, devious and downright aggressive marketing and sales tactics it's ever been my displeasure to be on the receiving end of.
So don't just take those numbers with a ladle-full of salt, take them as plain "marketing bullshit dressed up as research and regurgitated by lazy publishers"
Unless it's all a cunning plan by my Governemnt to make it seem like I can connect, but reality I'm behind Hadrian's Firewall and surfing the UK Intranet. Which, admittedly, knowing the UK Government is perfectly possible
Really? Are you sure you don't mean: "Which, admittedly, knowing the UK Government is unlikely as it's impossible for them to do something related to IT without ballsing it all up and spending skip-loads more taxpayer money than they promised (mostly to consultancy firms, with whom the MPs involved co-incidentally have board membership) then eventually dropping the whole thing after two years of laborious committee-based failuremongering blaming the sub-contractors for everything and giving CBEs to the management so they don't leak to the press"?
Try a metasearch and let the server figure it out.
So I hit up metacrawler.com for "sendmail tips". Just for the heck of it.
Result #4: Tips on EBay, Find Tip items at low prices. Result #5: ServSafe Alcohol (R) Training Program, Comprehensive interactive training for those who serve alcohol.
Erm, what the hell? Leaving aside the fact that these are sponsored links thinly disguised as real results, they seem to lack relevance somewhat.
This morning's oral arguments (along with a bunch of other stuff) were blogged by an "informal law student" here. Some useful insight into what's happening behind the news reports.
Hey, let's get this out in the open, shall we. The product was "announced" at the 3GSM World Congress, it don't exist, you can't buy it. Yet... But the specs have been announced, you can email the company about pre-ordering, and it's getting some decent coverage. Plus the fact it looks pretty cool (the screen may have been photoshopped, but the model looks like a prototype).
Usually I like to give a product more than 72 hours before denouncing it as "Vapourware".
OzForces offer 64K/64K ISDN for $14.99/mo. Of course, this assumes you are in Australia.
If you are in one of the 24 other countries which use dollars, perhaps you should be a bit more specific?
Decoding the 5-letter example in the article took waaay too long when compared to current techniques (i.e. 30 seconds as opposed to 3), regardless of how good it is at eliminating nonhuman respondants. It seems a very good idea, but all that flicking back-and-forth of the eyes is to compute-intensive for my grey matter.
how long it will be before I get my first "Help the victims of the tsunami, forward this mail to everyone you know and $company will donate $0.10 per person to the relief fund" chain email? Nothing is sacred to those shitheads.
Not portable, but an old (P133, 96Mb RAM) toshi laptop which became all but useless for any meaningful work did, however, have a sound card and PCMCIA wi-fi fully supported by Linux 2.4.n. Add Music Player Daemon, samba, PHP and apache and connect via 1/8" stereo jack to your Hi-Fi. Then mount all your MP3's via samba, fire up the servers and use your new laptop or desktop system to set up playlists and pump your MP3's through your nice phat amp.
Yup, genuine value for your money, unfortunately it doesn't fit with Orange's business model i.e. to make money, not give services away for free.
Nobody really expected SMS to take off in the way it did, hell some networks didn't even have SMS capability, so you can't blame Orange if what seemed like a good idea at the time suddenly starts costing the company a lot of money, and is thus withdrawn or re-modeled.
As I see it, if Locust is as good as everyone seems to think, they won't mind paying to use it, and another deal can be struck. If not then it will go under. smacks of free as in beer, rather than free as in speech here.
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They have a big stake in the market, and have one of the most pernicious, devious and downright aggressive marketing and sales tactics it's ever been my displeasure to be on the receiving end of. So don't just take those numbers with a ladle-full of salt, take them as plain "marketing bullshit dressed up as research and regurgitated by lazy publishers"
LOLBOT has since been released into the wild to post random abuse, hentai manga and titty shots to 4chan
pffft. Like /b/ would notice the difference. In fact, the quality might go up a bit.
Really? Are you sure you don't mean: "Which, admittedly, knowing the UK Government is unlikely as it's impossible for them to do something related to IT without ballsing it all up and spending skip-loads more taxpayer money than they promised (mostly to consultancy firms, with whom the MPs involved co-incidentally have board membership) then eventually dropping the whole thing after two years of laborious committee-based failuremongering blaming the sub-contractors for everything and giving CBEs to the management so they don't leak to the press"?
And for added effect, there will be a dupe next week.
So I hit up metacrawler.com for "sendmail tips". Just for the heck of it.
Result #4: Tips on EBay, Find Tip items at low prices.
Result #5: ServSafe Alcohol (R) Training Program, Comprehensive interactive training for those who serve alcohol.
Erm, what the hell? Leaving aside the fact that these are sponsored links thinly disguised as real results, they seem to lack relevance somewhat.
Only on slashdot (and when talking about Microsoft) could that comment be considered a joke ;-)
Dual-core chips are already a reality, Sun's UltraSPARC IV uses 2 UltraSPARC-III pipelines.
Perhaps the author means "x86 dual-core chips"?
This morning's oral arguments (along with a bunch of other stuff) were blogged by an "informal law student" here. Some useful insight into what's happening behind the news reports.
Hey, let's get this out in the open, shall we. The product was "announced" at the 3GSM World Congress, it don't exist, you can't buy it. Yet...
:-(
But the specs have been announced, you can email the company about pre-ordering, and it's getting some decent coverage. Plus the fact it looks pretty cool (the screen may have been photoshopped, but the model looks like a prototype).
Usually I like to give a product more than 72 hours before denouncing it as "Vapourware".
Now, about the 1400 Euro pricetag
Which company in their right mind plans 3 models of a phone, with the only difference being the OS?
:-)
It's called being OS-agnostic. Not something most slashdotters would recognise
OzForces offer 64K/64K ISDN for $14.99/mo. Of course, this assumes you are in Australia. If you are in one of the 24 other countries which use dollars, perhaps you should be a bit more specific?
Decoding the 5-letter example in the article took waaay too long when compared to current techniques (i.e. 30 seconds as opposed to 3), regardless of how good it is at eliminating nonhuman respondants.
It seems a very good idea, but all that flicking back-and-forth of the eyes is to compute-intensive for my grey matter.
how long it will be before I get my first "Help the victims of the tsunami, forward this mail to everyone you know and $company will donate $0.10 per person to the relief fund" chain email? Nothing is sacred to those shitheads.
Not portable, but an old (P133, 96Mb RAM) toshi laptop which became all but useless for any meaningful work did, however, have a sound card and PCMCIA wi-fi fully supported by Linux 2.4.n. Add Music Player Daemon, samba, PHP and apache and connect via 1/8" stereo jack to your Hi-Fi. Then mount all your MP3's via samba, fire up the servers and use your new laptop or desktop system to set up playlists and pump your MP3's through your nice phat amp.
Apparently.... you need to buy a dictionary, and look up the words "design" and "architect". Oh, and "grammar".
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I think I see why Solaris wouldn't run on it then.
cmclean
Short. And messy ;-)
cmclean
Ooohh! Base Jumping!!!!
a 1Km high jump site, I am sooooooo there
cmclean
Yep, I've got one. It only has an hour hand.
Someone: What's the time?
Me: Errrm, about half two. Probably.
cmclean
yes thanks
cmclean
So what are you paying for this consultancy work you expect us slashdotters to do, for you, for free?
Seriously dude, you must be earning some big bucks, but you want us to do your job for you?
Not flamebait pal, I'm serious. If you don't know the answer, go tell your client to find someone who does, it's the least you owe them.
cmclean
Nope, I'd probably get some work done ;-)
cmclean
Yup, genuine value for your money, unfortunately it doesn't fit with Orange's business model i.e. to make money, not give services away for free.
Nobody really expected SMS to take off in the way it did, hell some networks didn't even have SMS capability, so you can't blame Orange if what seemed like a good idea at the time suddenly starts costing the company a lot of money, and is thus withdrawn or re-modeled.
As I see it, if Locust is as good as everyone seems to think, they won't mind paying to use it, and another deal can be struck. If not then it will go under.
smacks of free as in beer, rather than free as in speech here.
cmclean
I'm going to have to assume you are in the US, if so Amazon do it. If not, I can't apologise enough ;-)
cmclean
It's for people who don't like the look of thier horoscopes.
cmclean