The user interface is just fine. It's based on the common '1 menu button and two action buttons (OK and Cancel)' paradigm that has been used in cell phones for decades. Every cell phone user is acquainted with that UI paradigm. It's the PC users that expect a mobile computing device instead of a phone that have the hardest time coping, but they're a minority (at least here in Europe).
You are already without a Fourth Estate. Western journalism, with the U.S. in the vanguard, is rapidly becoming a Versailles court doing nothing but flattering the King.
When your journalists are funded by the likes of Jack Welch and Rupert Murdoch, do you really expect anything critical to the Powers That Be?
Bob Somerby may be a malcontent, but he has fairly well documented just how broken the U.S. press corps is. And from this side of the Atlantic, let me confirm that Europe is rapidly becoming just as bad.
Yeah, until a major ISP decides to run their ATM core switches at almost 100% load and one of them goes offline during an upgrade. Can you say 'cascade failure'?
And this is not hypothetical. This is exactly what happened last summer with the former monopoly telco here in the Netherlands. Took out a significant chunk of DSL service, including business lines.
Apparently you have never used an S60 phone. It already has the basic mechanisms in place in the download section in the main menu. All Nokia has to do is market the server side to developers.
Nah. That's the Linux Format house style. I still consider it one of the two best magazines out there, together with the German Linux Magazin (which is available in an English translation these days).
Linux Format has concise, to the point articles, that are more than a reprint of the online docs (I'm looking at you, Linux Journal!). The writing style is also quitessentially British, with a nice touch of lightness without becoming adolescent. And the ratio of articles to advertising is still good (again, looking at you, Linux Journal. How the mighty have fallen).
Adjusting content on the User Agent if that UA is Googlebot is a good way to go even lower in search ranking: Google blacklists such sites with prejudice. Ask BMW.
That's not too bad. The closest European equivalent appears to be the 2000 BMW 320i, with a 170 DIN HP straight six. According to some googling, that'll do 7-8l/100km, which is just about 30 mpg. On the other hand, your Mercury has the Duratec V6 engine that was designed by Ford Europe for the Mondeo, so in essence it is a European car.
Surely Paul wrote in Greek? But the point stands, translators have their own agenda. Which is why ordination requires academic study, including Hebrew, Greek and Latin, in my country. A reverend is expected to be able to form his own opinion from the original texts.
If I'm a Christian, why should I be expected to set aside my moral and ethical underpinning and decide a question by *your* values?
Because, unless the question impacts you personally, or is something you can do something about personally, the judgment is not yours to make. Arrogantly claiming that it is makes you a Pharisee.
Rejoice. Your loud proclamation of your values has given you your reward. You can now continue to parade around in clothes that proclaim your righteousness, while at the same time looking down your nose at the Samaritans and the tax gatherers.
Look, the only way a homosexual will keep his orientation out of a casual conversation is by staying in the closet. As a heterosexual, you may not realise just how peppered your speech is with references to your sexual preferences. Simple example: do you refer to your 'wife' or to your 'partner'?
I'm straight myself, but when this issue came up, and I started thinking about it, it became fairly obvious fairly quickly that there is a heterosexual bias in my daily conversation. We tend not to think about it, as it is a majority bias, and thus mostly unconscious, but it is there.
And you're not going to convince me things like talking about one's family life don't come up at work during water-cooler talk.
Yes, you do lose something in the dub: Norio Wakamoto's brilliant Vicious. And of course Megumi Hayashibara is always hard to beat in a female role.
I've heard the Cowboy Bebop dub, and it is excellent, but don't pretend you're not losing something.
Then again, since English is a foreign language to me anyway, it matters not one whit in what foreign language I hear the characters. So I may as well go with the original.
Typically, you can get a dual-core CPU for only a few dollars more, and you end up with a much more responsive machine.
That depends. I have here a work laptop (Dell Latitude D820) with Intel chipset and a Core Duo processor, and it sucks. Responsiveness goes out the window when the load average hits 2.5. My private laptop is much less powerful, a simple PIIIM 900 on an Intel chipset, and it stays responsive under load.
My backup laptop is a Toughbook CF-18 Mark I. A first generation Centrino laptop, with a PIIIM at 900Mhz and 768M of RAM. It runs an up-to-date Debian Unstable, with the newest Firefox, with no problems at all. Heck, it even does that with Gnome+Compiz running with all the bells and whistles on, with no lack of responsiveness.
On the other hand, I must admit that Panasonic seems to know how to design a good motherboard. My work laptop is a Dell Latitude D820, a Core Duo 1.67Ghz, Intel chipset with 1.5G of RAM, and it sucks donkey balls in performance. Interaction starts stuttering the minute the load goes over 2.5, and intensive disk I/O really brings down performance. The Panasonic, with an Intel chipset three generations behind, blows it away. It feels more like a Sparc/Solaris machine when under load: not fast, but interactive tasks stay responsive.
On a 100Mb network, the expected maximum speed is indeed 12MB/s. However, this does not take into account the overhead for the protocol stack, this is raw Ethernet speed. With TCP/IP overhead, you'd drop down to about 10MB/s, and then you get into the SMB overhead, which is worse. No way you're getting SMB file transfers at 12MB/s on a 100Mb/s network. It's simply physically impossible.
Funny that. The top of the Nazi party was hardly elite in the context of 1930s Germany. In fact, they were small bourgeois at best. Why do you think they wanted to associate themselves with the proletarian movement by calling themselves 'Socialists'?
And to further shoot down your historical ignorance: it was the elite, the old German nobility, who objected the most to the Nazis. It was a bloody Count that tried to blow up Hitler.
Shhhh. Haven't you heard the newest scientific findings? Even a single particle of tobacco smoke is lethal. We must take away your simple pleasure to "Save the Children!"
This seems to be consistent with the pattern in the Netherlands. No surprise of course, as traffic engineers work off the same data the world over.
Also consistent is the local authorities' habit of just blindly posting a limit because of the road category, regardless of road circumstances. While most speed limits I see are sensible, local authorities have stamped a blanket 60km/h limit on the minor backroads, even if they are 5 kilometers of straight asphalt with 2 side roads in pastureland. Just because most B-category roads are limited-visibility, with lots of blind curves, soft verges, tree-lined, and spattered with mud 6 months a year from agricultural vehicles doesn't mean a 60km/h limit makes sense on all of them.
If you lock the brakes, you are by definition not doing a hard stop. The friction resistance of the tires on the road surface produces less stopping power than the conversion of rotational energy into heat from your disc brakes. Your Porsche would have stopped even harder had you braked properly. In fact, the very reason sports cars have relatively larger tires is to stop the tires locking up under hard braking.
And as an added bonus: locked tires take away your control. This is even more dangerous in a high performance vehicle.
I doubt that the Volvo people are going to engineer their cars to speed UP.
I bet you'd be surprised at that. Part of the Swedish car design philosophy is that all factors to increase safety are addressed. Acceleration is considered an active safety component. At least Volvo's competitor Saab has actually advertised with that reasoning.
And if you look at the engines mounted in the average Volvo, I have a strong suspicion that Volvo subscribes to this philosophy as well. For a brand with such a sedate image, they mount some impressive horsepower.
The old behavior used a big warning without condemning the cert. Unfortunately it gave the used an option to just accept the cert and make a connect without even viewing it.
Nice of you to say so. Then you go and show that you actually don't use FF3, or that you are just as oblivious as the users who clicked away the old warning:
The correct change to make IMO would be to remove the "Continue" button and instead force the user to import the cert before continuing with a connection.
This is exactly what FF3 does. Which you should have known if you had read the text of the warning and the dialog boxes following.
And where do you see user condemnation in FF3's prompts?
Fred Brooks is also a Christian. Yet you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone alive in CS at the moment who relies more on hard data. In fact, his seminal work is basically a lament on the lack of hard data in the study of project management, leading to fads and cult-like behaviour.
Ah yes. The consistent UI Microsoft has pushed on their platform. That must be why I keep closing unwanted new emails when I want to search for some text in Outlook.
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The user interface is just fine. It's based on the common '1 menu button and two action buttons (OK and Cancel)' paradigm that has been used in cell phones for decades. Every cell phone user is acquainted with that UI paradigm. It's the PC users that expect a mobile computing device instead of a phone that have the hardest time coping, but they're a minority (at least here in Europe).
Mart
Fucking stupid Apple fanbois.
Check the dates on the PyS60 releases. Then crossreference that with the Jesusphone release. Do you now see how bloody stupid you are?
Mart
You are already without a Fourth Estate. Western journalism, with the U.S. in the vanguard, is rapidly becoming a Versailles court doing nothing but flattering the King.
When your journalists are funded by the likes of Jack Welch and Rupert Murdoch, do you really expect anything critical to the Powers That Be?
Bob Somerby may be a malcontent, but he has fairly well documented just how broken the U.S. press corps is. And from this side of the Atlantic, let me confirm that Europe is rapidly becoming just as bad.
Mart
Yeah, until a major ISP decides to run their ATM core switches at almost 100% load and one of them goes offline during an upgrade. Can you say 'cascade failure'?
And this is not hypothetical. This is exactly what happened last summer with the former monopoly telco here in the Netherlands. Took out a significant chunk of DSL service, including business lines.
Mart
Apparently you have never used an S60 phone. It already has the basic mechanisms in place in the download section in the main menu. All Nokia has to do is market the server side to developers.
Mart
Nah. That's the Linux Format house style. I still consider it one of the two best magazines out there, together with the German Linux Magazin (which is available in an English translation these days).
Linux Format has concise, to the point articles, that are more than a reprint of the online docs (I'm looking at you, Linux Journal!). The writing style is also quitessentially British, with a nice touch of lightness without becoming adolescent. And the ratio of articles to advertising is still good (again, looking at you, Linux Journal. How the mighty have fallen).
Mart
Most talked about? Sure.
Loudest fanbois? Check.
The USA is the world? Yup.
Come back when Apple manages to sell as many iPhones as Nokia does world-wide, for non-US versions of the world.
Mart
Adjusting content on the User Agent if that UA is Googlebot is a good way to go even lower in search ranking: Google blacklists such sites with prejudice. Ask BMW.
Mart
That's not too bad. The closest European equivalent appears to be the 2000 BMW 320i, with a 170 DIN HP straight six. According to some googling, that'll do 7-8l/100km, which is just about 30 mpg. On the other hand, your Mercury has the Duratec V6 engine that was designed by Ford Europe for the Mondeo, so in essence it is a European car.
Mart
Surely Paul wrote in Greek? But the point stands, translators have their own agenda. Which is why ordination requires academic study, including Hebrew, Greek and Latin, in my country. A reverend is expected to be able to form his own opinion from the original texts.
Mart
Because, unless the question impacts you personally, or is something you can do something about personally, the judgment is not yours to make. Arrogantly claiming that it is makes you a Pharisee.
Rejoice. Your loud proclamation of your values has given you your reward. You can now continue to parade around in clothes that proclaim your righteousness, while at the same time looking down your nose at the Samaritans and the tax gatherers.
Mart
Look, the only way a homosexual will keep his orientation out of a casual conversation is by staying in the closet. As a heterosexual, you may not realise just how peppered your speech is with references to your sexual preferences. Simple example: do you refer to your 'wife' or to your 'partner'?
I'm straight myself, but when this issue came up, and I started thinking about it, it became fairly obvious fairly quickly that there is a heterosexual bias in my daily conversation. We tend not to think about it, as it is a majority bias, and thus mostly unconscious, but it is there.
And you're not going to convince me things like talking about one's family life don't come up at work during water-cooler talk.
Mart
Yes, you do lose something in the dub: Norio Wakamoto's brilliant Vicious. And of course Megumi Hayashibara is always hard to beat in a female role.
I've heard the Cowboy Bebop dub, and it is excellent, but don't pretend you're not losing something.
Then again, since English is a foreign language to me anyway, it matters not one whit in what foreign language I hear the characters. So I may as well go with the original.
Mart
That depends. I have here a work laptop (Dell Latitude D820) with Intel chipset and a Core Duo processor, and it sucks. Responsiveness goes out the window when the load average hits 2.5. My private laptop is much less powerful, a simple PIIIM 900 on an Intel chipset, and it stays responsive under load.
Mart
I have.
My backup laptop is a Toughbook CF-18 Mark I. A first generation Centrino laptop, with a PIIIM at 900Mhz and 768M of RAM. It runs an up-to-date Debian Unstable, with the newest Firefox, with no problems at all. Heck, it even does that with Gnome+Compiz running with all the bells and whistles on, with no lack of responsiveness.
On the other hand, I must admit that Panasonic seems to know how to design a good motherboard. My work laptop is a Dell Latitude D820, a Core Duo 1.67Ghz, Intel chipset with 1.5G of RAM, and it sucks donkey balls in performance. Interaction starts stuttering the minute the load goes over 2.5, and intensive disk I/O really brings down performance. The Panasonic, with an Intel chipset three generations behind, blows it away. It feels more like a Sparc/Solaris machine when under load: not fast, but interactive tasks stay responsive.
Mart
I call bullshit.
On a 100Mb network, the expected maximum speed is indeed 12MB/s. However, this does not take into account the overhead for the protocol stack, this is raw Ethernet speed. With TCP/IP overhead, you'd drop down to about 10MB/s, and then you get into the SMB overhead, which is worse. No way you're getting SMB file transfers at 12MB/s on a 100Mb/s network. It's simply physically impossible.
Mart
How did you think Warren Buffet earned his fortune?
Mart
Funny that. The top of the Nazi party was hardly elite in the context of 1930s Germany. In fact, they were small bourgeois at best. Why do you think they wanted to associate themselves with the proletarian movement by calling themselves 'Socialists'?
And to further shoot down your historical ignorance: it was the elite, the old German nobility, who objected the most to the Nazis. It was a bloody Count that tried to blow up Hitler.
Mart
Shhhh. Haven't you heard the newest scientific findings? Even a single particle of tobacco smoke is lethal. We must take away your simple pleasure to "Save the Children!"
Mart
This seems to be consistent with the pattern in the Netherlands. No surprise of course, as traffic engineers work off the same data the world over.
Also consistent is the local authorities' habit of just blindly posting a limit because of the road category, regardless of road circumstances. While most speed limits I see are sensible, local authorities have stamped a blanket 60km/h limit on the minor backroads, even if they are 5 kilometers of straight asphalt with 2 side roads in pastureland. Just because most B-category roads are limited-visibility, with lots of blind curves, soft verges, tree-lined, and spattered with mud 6 months a year from agricultural vehicles doesn't mean a 60km/h limit makes sense on all of them.
Mart
If you lock the brakes, you are by definition not doing a hard stop. The friction resistance of the tires on the road surface produces less stopping power than the conversion of rotational energy into heat from your disc brakes. Your Porsche would have stopped even harder had you braked properly. In fact, the very reason sports cars have relatively larger tires is to stop the tires locking up under hard braking.
And as an added bonus: locked tires take away your control. This is even more dangerous in a high performance vehicle.
Mart
I bet you'd be surprised at that. Part of the Swedish car design philosophy is that all factors to increase safety are addressed. Acceleration is considered an active safety component. At least Volvo's competitor Saab has actually advertised with that reasoning.
And if you look at the engines mounted in the average Volvo, I have a strong suspicion that Volvo subscribes to this philosophy as well. For a brand with such a sedate image, they mount some impressive horsepower.
Mart
About Firefox new certificate warnings:
Nice of you to say so. Then you go and show that you actually don't use FF3, or that you are just as oblivious as the users who clicked away the old warning:
This is exactly what FF3 does. Which you should have known if you had read the text of the warning and the dialog boxes following.
And where do you see user condemnation in FF3's prompts?
Mart
Fred Brooks is also a Christian. Yet you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone alive in CS at the moment who relies more on hard data. In fact, his seminal work is basically a lament on the lack of hard data in the study of project management, leading to fads and cult-like behaviour.
So, you have any more silly generalisations?
Mart
Ah yes. The consistent UI Microsoft has pushed on their platform. That must be why I keep closing unwanted new emails when I want to search for some text in Outlook.
Mart