Live classical concerts have about a 40dB noise floors
Begging your pardon? 40dB is about the level of a conversation. I don't know about you, but people that talk during a live concert get dirty looks and get shushed, if not escorted out of the hall outright.
The English used is a bit of a toss-up to identify whether or not a Dutchman wrote a certain piece of text. By default, Dutch schools teach British English, however Dutch culture is closer to American culture, and TV and Hollywood do their fair bit to make sure that most Dutchmen with a fair command of English tend to use American spellings and idiom (if they don't use their own idiom consisting of highly amusing literal translations from Dutch).
I can generally pass for British if I put my mind to it, and I'm fairly sure I'm an exception. Most of my countrymen, excepting those active in international government work, couldn't.
When my colleagues were still on the old corporate standard (HTC TyTN with WinMO 6), I had a Nokia Communicator 9500. The differences:
When a call came in, I could pick it up with the phone open, or close the phone and take the call without delay. The TyTNs took multiple seconds to change into phone mode after sliding in the keyboard.
My addressbook was type-as-you-go. Type the first three letters of any of the details of a contact, and hit call the call button.
Despite the markedly lesser hardware specs, the interface had hardly any latency.
Symbian blew the pants of WinMO 6. WinMO was utter garbage.
All you say does not invalidate the point: WinMO was a garbage OS.
Setting aside stability issues, how about simply working as a phone? Taking multiple seconds to switch modes when you slide in the keyboard to take a call, so that the call runs to voice mail? That's a clear sign of garbage (Seen on a HTC TyTN, might have been a TyTN II, WinMO 6).
And leveraging the Win32 API is a pipe dream. The average Win32 developer is not an embedded developer, and has thus no experience in writing software for a phone platform, and it shows. This, by the way, is the same reason why touting 100% Linux capability is a pipe dream as well: phones are not workstations nor servers; they require software designed for phones, not desktop ports.
The most obvious reason why GP switches phones every two years is because they get a free phone when extending their contract. In fact, this is what I have done over the same time, and I have used a comparable number of Nokias over that period, to my great satisfaction.
Have you seen the terms of the deal? It is Nokia doing all the hard work and consequently taking the risk. Heck, MS as much as admits that they want Nokia to do the work to turn WP7 into a viable phone OS.
MS brings nothing to the table on this deal. This is a thinly veiled takeover.
Starting out with a false dilemma is not helping your cause much.
On most roadways where pedestrain traffic is not separated from vehicular traffic, a driver that is not expecting crossing pedestrians is a bad driver, period.
Two glasses of wine on a full stomach and several hours means your BAC is probably around 0.02%. Yes, that is safe to drive; not even on a roadblock are they going to make trouble for you. Bit of a strawman, isn't it?
The fact that you are counting on reaction time marks you as a bad driver, period. A good driver does not rely on reaction time, but uses insight to avoid bad situations. If you're on a piece of roadway that may have pedestrians suddenly crossing, especially if you can't see them coming, you have no business driving 50.
Just because other impairments to driving exist does not excuse driving with a BAC that measurably impairs your ability to drive. Or would you want to stop the government prosecuting assault and battery because rape and murder still happen? Same non-sequitur. You're either stupid or trolling.
Stop making excuses, stop drinking so much before you drive.
0.08% is empathically not a 'very low' BAC. Your example of splitting a bottle shows just what is wrong with your example: that's three glasses! Unless you do that over an entire evening (4 hours mininum), you will end up with a BAC that provably has a detrimental influence on your capacity to operate a vehicle.
And would you really want people to not get caught at roadblocks but at the site of an accident?
I work in computer security, and I have had training in SOx compliance, and all that you say is exactly what I learned.
All SOx requires is a clear chain of responsibility. In theory, a company could be SOx compliant if the CEO were to sign a statement saying he is personally responsible for the outcome of all business processes. Practically, no CEO will do so, therefore a clear, documented process is necessary, so that when the company does something contrary to the law, a responsible employee can be identified (and prosecuted).
udev is nice once you have your devices up and running. Note however, that your parent is talking about install time, when udev still has to run its discovery.
I partly agree with GP, it would be nice to have a consistent way to select network interfaces in advance; I don't think giving up the eth<X> naming scheme is necessary for that.
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In other words, you are stupid. I'm very sorry I had to reassess my opinion so quickly.
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Oh, and some Linux desktop environments do have a registry.
Which ones would those be? They must be obscure, as none of the major desktop environments that I know of uses a registry.
I hope you're not referring to Gnome though. A quick look at your posting history doesn't show you as stupid.
And to clarify for the audience: GConf is not the same as the Windows Registry. GConf is a method to manage configuration files, and the Gnome configuration is stored in human-readable text. That the default GUI tool has an interface that looks superficially similar to regedit does not make GConf a registry.
Actually, yes, I am claiming exactly that most phones in the bulk retail segment could be considered 'smart phones'. The 'smartness' has been moving downmarket a lot since the days of the Psion and the Nokia Communicator (the original smartphone). Apple in fact bucked that trend by aiming at the high end, as they always do. Whereas Nokia does what it does best: selling lots of hardware in bulk, and slowly moving more features from the high end into the bulk product.
And as for the data plan: that's a carrier thing. My old Nokia 6820 already came with full Internet access (then again, I live in a country with a sane mobile phone market), so if that's your criterium, then yes, so-called 'feature phones' are just smartphones redefined so that the JesusPhone won't have any competition.
US discussions tend to redefine 'smartphone'. In general, it has always meant a phone with PDA capabilities (addressbook, calendar, capable of running non-preinstalled applications). In that definition, anything running Series60 or better is a smartphone. In the U.S. discussion, this is redefined as 'feature phone'; usually to artificially inflate JesusPhone market share.
The global numbers are more amusing. Over the year, Nokia/Symbian has retained its majority market share, only dropping 7% in a market that has grown 64%; with Android and iOS more or less in equal competition for second place. (Source)
For some reason the discussion on the completely distorted US marketplace is amusing. But I question the relevance.
And finally, let me add that I vastly prefer my phone run an operating system that is designed to run phones, not an app or advertising channel primarily, no matter how shiny it looks.
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Begging your pardon? 40dB is about the level of a conversation. I don't know about you, but people that talk during a live concert get dirty looks and get shushed, if not escorted out of the hall outright.
Mart
How about next time you actually read before jerking your knee? Grandparent addressed that in his last paragraph.
Idiot.
Mart
The English used is a bit of a toss-up to identify whether or not a Dutchman wrote a certain piece of text. By default, Dutch schools teach British English, however Dutch culture is closer to American culture, and TV and Hollywood do their fair bit to make sure that most Dutchmen with a fair command of English tend to use American spellings and idiom (if they don't use their own idiom consisting of highly amusing literal translations from Dutch).
I can generally pass for British if I put my mind to it, and I'm fairly sure I'm an exception. Most of my countrymen, excepting those active in international government work, couldn't.
Mart
Yes.
In which case I posit you're an illiterate, because it is right there in the very first sentence of the summary.
Mart
When my colleagues were still on the old corporate standard (HTC TyTN with WinMO 6), I had a Nokia Communicator 9500. The differences:
Symbian blew the pants of WinMO 6. WinMO was utter garbage.
Mart
All you say does not invalidate the point: WinMO was a garbage OS.
Setting aside stability issues, how about simply working as a phone? Taking multiple seconds to switch modes when you slide in the keyboard to take a call, so that the call runs to voice mail? That's a clear sign of garbage (Seen on a HTC TyTN, might have been a TyTN II, WinMO 6).
And leveraging the Win32 API is a pipe dream. The average Win32 developer is not an embedded developer, and has thus no experience in writing software for a phone platform, and it shows. This, by the way, is the same reason why touting 100% Linux capability is a pipe dream as well: phones are not workstations nor servers; they require software designed for phones, not desktop ports.
Mart
No, sorry, but that is how things work. If you acquire a company, you acquire all its assets and liabilities.
Even in case of a bankruptcy, the only liabilities that may be voided are debts.
Mart
Erm no.
The most obvious reason why GP switches phones every two years is because they get a free phone when extending their contract. In fact, this is what I have done over the same time, and I have used a comparable number of Nokias over that period, to my great satisfaction.
Mart
MS desperate?
Have you seen the terms of the deal? It is Nokia doing all the hard work and consequently taking the risk. Heck, MS as much as admits that they want Nokia to do the work to turn WP7 into a viable phone OS.
MS brings nothing to the table on this deal. This is a thinly veiled takeover.
Mart
Stephen Elop must be the best mole since Kim Philby.
After Sendo en Palm yet another mobile vendor commits suicide-by-Microsoft. But this is the biggest yet.
I really liked Nokia devices, but my E71 is probably going to be my last one.
Mart
Our 2k3 servers still don't show extensions on a default install.
Mart
Starting out with a false dilemma is not helping your cause much.
On most roadways where pedestrain traffic is not separated from vehicular traffic, a driver that is not expecting crossing pedestrians is a bad driver, period.
Mart
Two glasses of wine on a full stomach and several hours means your BAC is probably around 0.02%. Yes, that is safe to drive; not even on a roadblock are they going to make trouble for you. Bit of a strawman, isn't it?
Mart
The fact that you are counting on reaction time marks you as a bad driver, period. A good driver does not rely on reaction time, but uses insight to avoid bad situations. If you're on a piece of roadway that may have pedestrians suddenly crossing, especially if you can't see them coming, you have no business driving 50.
Mart
Just because other impairments to driving exist does not excuse driving with a BAC that measurably impairs your ability to drive. Or would you want to stop the government prosecuting assault and battery because rape and murder still happen? Same non-sequitur. You're either stupid or trolling.
Stop making excuses, stop drinking so much before you drive.
Mart
0.08% is empathically not a 'very low' BAC. Your example of splitting a bottle shows just what is wrong with your example: that's three glasses! Unless you do that over an entire evening (4 hours mininum), you will end up with a BAC that provably has a detrimental influence on your capacity to operate a vehicle.
And would you really want people to not get caught at roadblocks but at the site of an accident?
Mart
Right on.
I work in computer security, and I have had training in SOx compliance, and all that you say is exactly what I learned.
All SOx requires is a clear chain of responsibility. In theory, a company could be SOx compliant if the CEO were to sign a statement saying he is personally responsible for the outcome of all business processes. Practically, no CEO will do so, therefore a clear, documented process is necessary, so that when the company does something contrary to the law, a responsible employee can be identified (and prosecuted).
Mart
udev is nice once you have your devices up and running. Note however, that your parent is talking about install time, when udev still has to run its discovery.
I partly agree with GP, it would be nice to have a consistent way to select network interfaces in advance; I don't think giving up the eth<X> naming scheme is necessary for that.
Mart
In other words, you are stupid. I'm very sorry I had to reassess my opinion so quickly.
Mart
Which ones would those be? They must be obscure, as none of the major desktop environments that I know of uses a registry.
I hope you're not referring to Gnome though. A quick look at your posting history doesn't show you as stupid.
And to clarify for the audience: GConf is not the same as the Windows Registry. GConf is a method to manage configuration files, and the Gnome configuration is stored in human-readable text. That the default GUI tool has an interface that looks superficially similar to regedit does not make GConf a registry.
Mart
A Nokia. Duh.
Mart
Actually, yes, I am claiming exactly that most phones in the bulk retail segment could be considered 'smart phones'. The 'smartness' has been moving downmarket a lot since the days of the Psion and the Nokia Communicator (the original smartphone). Apple in fact bucked that trend by aiming at the high end, as they always do. Whereas Nokia does what it does best: selling lots of hardware in bulk, and slowly moving more features from the high end into the bulk product.
And as for the data plan: that's a carrier thing. My old Nokia 6820 already came with full Internet access (then again, I live in a country with a sane mobile phone market), so if that's your criterium, then yes, so-called 'feature phones' are just smartphones redefined so that the JesusPhone won't have any competition.
Mart
US discussions tend to redefine 'smartphone'. In general, it has always meant a phone with PDA capabilities (addressbook, calendar, capable of running non-preinstalled applications). In that definition, anything running Series60 or better is a smartphone. In the U.S. discussion, this is redefined as 'feature phone'; usually to artificially inflate JesusPhone market share.
Mart
The global numbers are more amusing. Over the year, Nokia/Symbian has retained its majority market share, only dropping 7% in a market that has grown 64%; with Android and iOS more or less in equal competition for second place. (Source)
For some reason the discussion on the completely distorted US marketplace is amusing. But I question the relevance.
And finally, let me add that I vastly prefer my phone run an operating system that is designed to run phones, not an app or advertising channel primarily, no matter how shiny it looks.
Mart