How will allowing people to pay to avoid spam filters reduce spam? The spam filters won't change, all this does is gives AOL an incentive to up the false-positive rate of their spam filters.
Really? At what kind of level? The OP implied that was for a relatively skilled programmer : I'm in the UK and I think most good new-graduate programmers would expect around 3000Eur/Month here. Certainly, that was my expectation back then.
This seems to be a serious case of the underpants gnomes' business plan. Ignore 80% of the potential market, ignore the lessons learnt by your main competitor (style and ease of use sell) and rely on companies with a proven record of producing poor-quality MP3 players to create your market. Somehow that leads to profit?
Does anyone else think the choice of "PlaysForSure" as a name is pretty odd? "SurePlay" or something would have been better - the only people I have ever heard say "for sure" are German people learning English.
The only advantage I've seen of electronic whiteboards is that they don't need to be cleaned so much. In general, they seem to get in the way of the presentation, add something else to go wrong and distract from the lesson.
The worms didn't appear to inflict any meaningful harm on Macs -- they required users to go through several steps on their computers before being infected.
Doesn't the fact that they require user intervention to propogate make them not worms but trojan horses? Every OS is vulnerable to those, from Irix to Windows.
The problem with the value per hour of videogames is that the play time is often artificially inflated. Things like copy-and-pasted levels, unskippable cut scenes or placing hard boss fights miles from save points (Spider Guardian in MP2, for example) are all cheap techniques to make the game last longer, while actually making it less fun.
Tech has nothing to do with it. Lots of people seem to love to say "Oh, I'm so busy, I'm rushing everywhere". It makes them feel important, it gives an impression of being invaluable to the company and most of all it's a defence mechanism - "I couldn't possibly do that project as well, just look at how rushed I am". Most of the time when you actually analyse the work they are doing, it's no more than the relaxed guy who just sits and slowly plods through his work.
It's a UK public sector position, they'll hire anyone. Nobody ever gets fired (unless you do something really stupid that ends up getting in the newspapers). The pay is crappy, but the conditions are good.
I haven't played for several years. While at Uni I would give it a try every so often, just to see, but I always came to the same conclusion. Day of Defeat would probably be a bit more watchable.
I think the continued use of any Counterstrike variant is a mistake. I know many people get obsessed by it, but every match I've ever played seems to degenerate into a bunny-hopping automatic-fire-fest around some bottleneck corner, or fill up with boring people camping entrance points to the target, barely even moving the cross hairs.
I'm not denying that Wikipedia is a fantastic resource: I use it daily. But I only rely on it for things that are fairly non-controversial or provably correct.
So the vulnerability 'only' allows a cracker to steal or delete the user's personal data. In other words, the most valuable files stored on the computer. Plus accessing things like web browser cache and history could give them passwords or at least information for a phishing attack.
I think the basic Wikipedia problem is that the more obscure a fact is, the more likely a user is to want to look it up (nobody uses Wikipedia to look up things they already know). But the more obscure facts are the ones with fewer people qualified to write about them and the ones with more people who don't fully understand them, so they are the least trustworthy.
Yeah, because a tiny amount of audio quality which 99% of the population wouldn't even notice is such a huge sacrifice for the ability to carry 10 or 15 times as much music around on a portable player. There are a huge number of 512MB and 4GB players out there.
Aha! Due to lack of money at the time, I still have *so* many great Gamecube games to play. Pikmin 1+2, Metroid Prime 1, Tales of Symphonia, Fire Emblem, Battalion Wars, the list is huge and they're mostly cheap and second hand now:-)
The major advantage of the Treo is that it is always there. Like many people, I never go out without a mobile, so all my information, videos, pictures etc are right there all the time. Memory isn't an issue: 512Mb SD cards are like £15 these days. I wish they hadn't put the camera in, but that's not a major problem. WiFi would be nice, but I have reasonably cheap GPRS so email and web is feasible on it.
A TX isn't really pocket sized, given that my inner pocket will already be carrying my mobile, so unless I want to take a bag I couldn't take a TX as well.
Given the increasing usability of smartphones, I can't see seperate PDAs surviving all that long without some major changes. The main usage of PDA-like devices seems to be mobile email and some document viewing, which are easier on a smartphone - receive email with attachment, open attachment, read, reply.
It's a long time since I've seen any business type with anything other than a Blackberry, Treo or a UIQ phone of some kind. A few years ago I would see a lot of Palms and PocketPCs, but not any more. This is in the UK, though, so possibly other regions are different.
The advantage of the smartphone approach is that virtually everyone already has a mobile and carries it with them all the time, so they are more likely to upgrade to a smartphone at the end of their contract than they are to buy a seperate PDA. The Treo 650 seems to be selling very well and is a very nice PDA/phone: I have no reason to carry around my Tungsten now I have one. Something like a Nokia N70 will do most of what people want from a PDA, is still a decent phone and is available virtually free on many tariffs.
Another good year for Handango, raking in their 40% commision.
I wish they would give a little more detail on the OS breakdown: in my experience, the PalmOS market is still many times larger than the Symbian market, despite the presence of the p910 at number 2 in the revenue table.
Human rights in China are severely limited (Tiananmen Square etc). Just do a Google search for "china human rights record" and see for yourself. Unless you're in China, of course, in which case you will presumably get search results full of articles about how free Chinese people are.
In my limited experience of China (I spent a week at an academic conference in Kunming), the police there can be very controlling. In order to get our coaches through the city centre quckly during rush hour, they posted two traffic policemen at every intersection for maybe 8 blocks and just stopped all other traffic. Not the kind of treatment three coaches full of geeks normally get. I saw them bundle an old woman who happened to wander near our event across the street. The main thing was that where I would be used to seeing one policeman, in China they would have five.
I listened to some of this on the Today programme (Radio 4) in the UK and the Microsoft guy sounded *really* nervous when they bought up the IBM/Germany analogy. It sounded like the similarity really hadn't occurred to him before. Really cheered me up on a cold morning.
I've had completely the opposite experience with iTunes. Drag and drop to the iPod is easy, you just drag the song onto where is says "iPod". If I want to find a song/album/artist I just start typing the name and it generally shows up in the list within five keypresses. Ripping a CD is easy - insert CD, leave and come back when the CD ejects.
The main way I can tell that iTunes is easy to use is that I gave my dad an iPod for his birthday and the only emails I've had from him about it have been saying how he's enjoying creating playlists and selections on it. This is from a guy who takes twenty minutes to remember how to send an SMS.
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Hasn't MSN been the default home page of IE for years now*? It doesn't seem to have helped them much.
(*I haven't used IE in several years)
How will allowing people to pay to avoid spam filters reduce spam? The spam filters won't change, all this does is gives AOL an incentive to up the false-positive rate of their spam filters.
Really? At what kind of level? The OP implied that was for a relatively skilled programmer : I'm in the UK and I think most good new-graduate programmers would expect around 3000Eur/Month here. Certainly, that was my expectation back then.
This seems to be a serious case of the underpants gnomes' business plan. Ignore 80% of the potential market, ignore the lessons learnt by your main competitor (style and ease of use sell) and rely on companies with a proven record of producing poor-quality MP3 players to create your market. Somehow that leads to profit?
Does anyone else think the choice of "PlaysForSure" as a name is pretty odd? "SurePlay" or something would have been better - the only people I have ever heard say "for sure" are German people learning English.
Is that salary in Euros? If so, glad I'm not a programmer in Belgium :-)
The only advantage I've seen of electronic whiteboards is that they don't need to be cleaned so much. In general, they seem to get in the way of the presentation, add something else to go wrong and distract from the lesson.
The worms didn't appear to inflict any meaningful harm on Macs -- they required users to go through several steps on their computers before being infected.
Doesn't the fact that they require user intervention to propogate make them not worms but trojan horses? Every OS is vulnerable to those, from Irix to Windows.
The problem with the value per hour of videogames is that the play time is often artificially inflated. Things like copy-and-pasted levels, unskippable cut scenes or placing hard boss fights miles from save points (Spider Guardian in MP2, for example) are all cheap techniques to make the game last longer, while actually making it less fun.
Tech has nothing to do with it. Lots of people seem to love to say "Oh, I'm so busy, I'm rushing everywhere". It makes them feel important, it gives an impression of being invaluable to the company and most of all it's a defence mechanism - "I couldn't possibly do that project as well, just look at how rushed I am". Most of the time when you actually analyse the work they are doing, it's no more than the relaxed guy who just sits and slowly plods through his work.
It's a UK public sector position, they'll hire anyone. Nobody ever gets fired (unless you do something really stupid that ends up getting in the newspapers). The pay is crappy, but the conditions are good.
I haven't played for several years. While at Uni I would give it a try every so often, just to see, but I always came to the same conclusion. Day of Defeat would probably be a bit more watchable.
I think the continued use of any Counterstrike variant is a mistake. I know many people get obsessed by it, but every match I've ever played seems to degenerate into a bunny-hopping automatic-fire-fest around some bottleneck corner, or fill up with boring people camping entrance points to the target, barely even moving the cross hairs.
It's boring enough to play, let alone watch.
I'm not denying that Wikipedia is a fantastic resource: I use it daily. But I only rely on it for things that are fairly non-controversial or provably correct.
So the vulnerability 'only' allows a cracker to steal or delete the user's personal data. In other words, the most valuable files stored on the computer. Plus accessing things like web browser cache and history could give them passwords or at least information for a phishing attack.
I think the basic Wikipedia problem is that the more obscure a fact is, the more likely a user is to want to look it up (nobody uses Wikipedia to look up things they already know). But the more obscure facts are the ones with fewer people qualified to write about them and the ones with more people who don't fully understand them, so they are the least trustworthy.
Yeah, because a tiny amount of audio quality which 99% of the population wouldn't even notice is such a huge sacrifice for the ability to carry 10 or 15 times as much music around on a portable player. There are a huge number of 512MB and 4GB players out there.
the Gamecube will be pretty much dead anyways
:-)
Aha! Due to lack of money at the time, I still have *so* many great Gamecube games to play. Pikmin 1+2, Metroid Prime 1, Tales of Symphonia, Fire Emblem, Battalion Wars, the list is huge and they're mostly cheap and second hand now
The major advantage of the Treo is that it is always there. Like many people, I never go out without a mobile, so all my information, videos, pictures etc are right there all the time. Memory isn't an issue: 512Mb SD cards are like £15 these days. I wish they hadn't put the camera in, but that's not a major problem. WiFi would be nice, but I have reasonably cheap GPRS so email and web is feasible on it.
A TX isn't really pocket sized, given that my inner pocket will already be carrying my mobile, so unless I want to take a bag I couldn't take a TX as well.
Indeed, calendaring probably is the main usage. Again, though, that's something that can be done pretty easily with a smartphone and Outlook sync.
At present, I agree that there is a place for separate PDAs, but that market is going to continue to dwindle as the smartphone market grows.
Given the increasing usability of smartphones, I can't see seperate PDAs surviving all that long without some major changes. The main usage of PDA-like devices seems to be mobile email and some document viewing, which are easier on a smartphone - receive email with attachment, open attachment, read, reply.
It's a long time since I've seen any business type with anything other than a Blackberry, Treo or a UIQ phone of some kind. A few years ago I would see a lot of Palms and PocketPCs, but not any more. This is in the UK, though, so possibly other regions are different.
The advantage of the smartphone approach is that virtually everyone already has a mobile and carries it with them all the time, so they are more likely to upgrade to a smartphone at the end of their contract than they are to buy a seperate PDA. The Treo 650 seems to be selling very well and is a very nice PDA/phone: I have no reason to carry around my Tungsten now I have one. Something like a Nokia N70 will do most of what people want from a PDA, is still a decent phone and is available virtually free on many tariffs.
Another good year for Handango, raking in their 40% commision.
I wish they would give a little more detail on the OS breakdown: in my experience, the PalmOS market is still many times larger than the Symbian market, despite the presence of the p910 at number 2 in the revenue table.
Human rights in China are severely limited (Tiananmen Square etc). Just do a Google search for "china human rights record" and see for yourself. Unless you're in China, of course, in which case you will presumably get search results full of articles about how free Chinese people are.
In my limited experience of China (I spent a week at an academic conference in Kunming), the police there can be very controlling. In order to get our coaches through the city centre quckly during rush hour, they posted two traffic policemen at every intersection for maybe 8 blocks and just stopped all other traffic. Not the kind of treatment three coaches full of geeks normally get. I saw them bundle an old woman who happened to wander near our event across the street. The main thing was that where I would be used to seeing one policeman, in China they would have five.
I listened to some of this on the Today programme (Radio 4) in the UK and the Microsoft guy sounded *really* nervous when they bought up the IBM/Germany analogy. It sounded like the similarity really hadn't occurred to him before. Really cheered me up on a cold morning.
I've had completely the opposite experience with iTunes. Drag and drop to the iPod is easy, you just drag the song onto where is says "iPod". If I want to find a song/album/artist I just start typing the name and it generally shows up in the list within five keypresses. Ripping a CD is easy - insert CD, leave and come back when the CD ejects.
The main way I can tell that iTunes is easy to use is that I gave my dad an iPod for his birthday and the only emails I've had from him about it have been saying how he's enjoying creating playlists and selections on it. This is from a guy who takes twenty minutes to remember how to send an SMS.