I have a 9500. The wifi is nice, but it is far too big and the keyboard is crappy. I think the problem with the keyboard is that it's half way between a thumb board and a proper keyboard: too big to reach all the keys easily with your thumbs, but the keys are shaped wrongly for typing with your fingers. (Note to Nokia designers: look at every other keyboard in existence. See how the each key is indented in the middle? There's a reason for that.)
Fusion reactors may be at high pressure+temp, but IIRC, there's not actually much material inside them to go boom. It's not like a fission reactor where the core contains large amounts of radioactive material.
I own a PS2 and a Gamecube, and I have to say I much prefer the GC controller. It feels better to use and the buttons are different shapes so it's easier to remember which is which. I find I can pick up control schemes much quicker on the GC than on the PS2.
Demon were very good in the 'old days', but since the Thus takeover I (and two other people I know who have used them) have found their customer service and ADSL service to be much worse.
Personally, I use Plus.net in the UK: £22/month, 2048k/256K, no cap, static IP, no blocked ports. I think the website hosting is good, but they have no problem with users running their own servers anyway.
what's the point of a "portable" computer if you have to plug it in all the time?!
I agree that there is always a place for small laptops, but a desktop replacement laptop has many advantages:
If you need to move office, just pick it up and go. I need to go to the US occasionally for work - when I do, I can just find an empty desk and plug in my complete development environment without sacrificing processor speed.
One desktop replacement laptop is much cheaper than one decent desktop and one small laptop, and avoids the hassle of keeping two systems in sync.
They are generally quieter
They use less power
I use a 15.4" widescreen Pentium-M Sonoma laptop for all my work and it's great: 3hrs battery time, easily fast enough and I can work pretty much anywhere there's internet access.
I've done IT work for several small charities and campaigning groups and they all used Access extensively. It allowed them to do things like mailshots, track elected officials' voting records and store members' details - things that you can't really do with Excel.
I think Access use is very common in small organisations and businesses because it's just about good enough to allow an inexperienced user to muddle through and do some very useful things. It's a terrible program from a proper database point of view, of course, but it does the job it's intended for.
Dammit, I'm trying to block out the memories of the Earthsea series. It actually made me doubt my memories of how good the original books were, until I went back and checked that it was just the TV series that was truly awful.
I couldn't agree more about B5, Stargate and almost all of Star Trek:Whatever. Wooden acting, corny scripts, dull unoriginal storylines. Good for passing 45 minutes when there's nothing else on, but that's all.
I quite enjoyed the Battlestar Galactica pilots (haven't watched the series yet), but most TV 'Sci-Fi' is terrible.
OK, Qt is a multiplatform toolkit, right? That means you can pretty much just port to a supported platform by recompiling.
So if the cost of porting the application and then maintaining separate source trees is greater than the cost of the Qt licence, buying Qt makes sense. Given that the cost of Qt is less than a month's salary per developer, it doesn't seem so bad to me.
Day of Defeat is one of the best FPS games I've played.
FPS classes are a little different, though, because skill on the part of the player makes so much difference. For example, I suck with the sniper and submachine gun for some reason, but rarely miss with the lee enfield.
Are the Day of defeat servers still full these days?
Symbian libc support isn't that bad: there are bugs (in sprintf printing 64 bit integers, for example), but in general it works pretty well. Good enough that you'd probably only have to use S60 libs for directly UI related code.
The problem is, your argument is a variation on the "I'm special, it's OK for me" argument. What if every single web user does what you do and blocks all ads? You would either see the death of free access to professional writing on the web, or the growth of more insidious advertising methods like paid for context links.
I see you don't have a/. subscription, so you don't like to support every site you use.
Personally, I go through phases when I think like this guy, when I'm just about ready to give up on the whole Linux-distro-as-a-desktop thing. Two days into trying to make my laptop work in Linux was one such phase. Eventually, I see something like the progress in apps like Evince, Tomboy, Muine and GIMP and my faith is restored.
The main problem facing OSS on the desktop, as I see it, is reliability. Many desktop apps work great for light usage. But so many lack decent testing - try to do something out of the ordinary or complex and bugs start appearing left and right. I know it's impossible to control volunteers, but I would urge OSS developers to take 20% of the effort they put into new features and create a testing framework for their apps with it.
At present, I wouldn't recommend non-technical friends to switch to a Linux distro, because I know I'd spend so much time dealing with the bugs they found.
Beagle is the Linux equivalent, written using Mono. It's early in development, but appears to be making good progress. It uses inotify in the kernel to monitor files for changes.
I'd love to be a tech journalist. It seems so easy to make money that way. Just write some barely logicial article, extrapolating wildly from very limited data. Then throw in a few choice trolls: dump GNOME, Linux sucks, along with a few straw men : OSS developers waste their time porting to obsolete architectures. Then just sit back and wait for the inevitable Slashdotting and page impressions.
Why not just use your debit card? Unless they don't have a bank account, I thought everyone had at least a debit card (assuming from you UID you're old enough).
It's a little different - it's only fifty years copyright for the actual recording itself (ie an audio recording of one performance of the song). For the song itself, copyright is the standard life + 70 years.
"In British English, singular words like family, team, government, which refer to groups of people, can be used with either singular or plural verbs and pronouns." (learnenglish.org.uk)
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What about proxies and NAT? One IP doesn't always equal one person (and vice versa, with dynamic IPs)
I have a 9500. The wifi is nice, but it is far too big and the keyboard is crappy. I think the problem with the keyboard is that it's half way between a thumb board and a proper keyboard: too big to reach all the keys easily with your thumbs, but the keys are shaped wrongly for typing with your fingers. (Note to Nokia designers: look at every other keyboard in existence. See how the each key is indented in the middle? There's a reason for that.)
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Fusion reactors may be at high pressure+temp, but IIRC, there's not actually much material inside them to go boom. It's not like a fission reactor where the core contains large amounts of radioactive material.
I own a PS2 and a Gamecube, and I have to say I much prefer the GC controller. It feels better to use and the buttons are different shapes so it's easier to remember which is which. I find I can pick up control schemes much quicker on the GC than on the PS2.
Demon were very good in the 'old days', but since the Thus takeover I (and two other people I know who have used them) have found their customer service and ADSL service to be much worse.
Personally, I use Plus.net in the UK: £22/month, 2048k/256K, no cap, static IP, no blocked ports. I think the website hosting is good, but they have no problem with users running their own servers anyway.
what's the point of a "portable" computer if you have to plug it in all the time?!
I agree that there is always a place for small laptops, but a desktop replacement laptop has many advantages:
- If you need to move office, just pick it up and go. I need to go to the US occasionally for work - when I do, I can just find an empty desk and plug in my complete development environment without sacrificing processor speed.
- One desktop replacement laptop is much cheaper than one decent desktop and one small laptop, and avoids the hassle of keeping two systems in sync.
- They are generally quieter
- They use less power
I use a 15.4" widescreen Pentium-M Sonoma laptop for all my work and it's great: 3hrs battery time, easily fast enough and I can work pretty much anywhere there's internet access.I've done IT work for several small charities and campaigning groups and they all used Access extensively. It allowed them to do things like mailshots, track elected officials' voting records and store members' details - things that you can't really do with Excel.
I think Access use is very common in small organisations and businesses because it's just about good enough to allow an inexperienced user to muddle through and do some very useful things. It's a terrible program from a proper database point of view, of course, but it does the job it's intended for.
Dammit, I'm trying to block out the memories of the Earthsea series. It actually made me doubt my memories of how good the original books were, until I went back and checked that it was just the TV series that was truly awful.
I couldn't agree more about B5, Stargate and almost all of Star Trek:Whatever. Wooden acting, corny scripts, dull unoriginal storylines. Good for passing 45 minutes when there's nothing else on, but that's all.
I quite enjoyed the Battlestar Galactica pilots (haven't watched the series yet), but most TV 'Sci-Fi' is terrible.
OK, Qt is a multiplatform toolkit, right? That means you can pretty much just port to a supported platform by recompiling.
So if the cost of porting the application and then maintaining separate source trees is greater than the cost of the Qt licence, buying Qt makes sense. Given that the cost of Qt is less than a month's salary per developer, it doesn't seem so bad to me.
Technically, it's not Palm that supports MS Office formats so well, it's Dataviz's DocumentsToGo, which comes free with most Palms.
I agree in general, though: Palm devices are still amongst the best general PDA devices.
(and yes, I do work for Dataviz)
Day of Defeat is one of the best FPS games I've played.
FPS classes are a little different, though, because skill on the part of the player makes so much difference. For example, I suck with the sniper and submachine gun for some reason, but rarely miss with the lee enfield.
Are the Day of defeat servers still full these days?
Yep. If a tourist is run over in London, they just leave them by the side of the road and notify the relevant embassy.
You think that's bad: take a look at the Series 80 'phones'. My 9500 is ugly with a capital Ug.
Symbian libc support isn't that bad: there are bugs (in sprintf printing 64 bit integers, for example), but in general it works pretty well. Good enough that you'd probably only have to use S60 libs for directly UI related code.
The problem is, your argument is a variation on the "I'm special, it's OK for me" argument. What if every single web user does what you do and blocks all ads? You would either see the death of free access to professional writing on the web, or the growth of more insidious advertising methods like paid for context links.
/. subscription, so you don't like to support every site you use.
I see you don't have a
Personally, I go through phases when I think like this guy, when I'm just about ready to give up on the whole Linux-distro-as-a-desktop thing. Two days into trying to make my laptop work in Linux was one such phase. Eventually, I see something like the progress in apps like Evince, Tomboy, Muine and GIMP and my faith is restored.
The main problem facing OSS on the desktop, as I see it, is reliability. Many desktop apps work great for light usage. But so many lack decent testing - try to do something out of the ordinary or complex and bugs start appearing left and right. I know it's impossible to control volunteers, but I would urge OSS developers to take 20% of the effort they put into new features and create a testing framework for their apps with it.
At present, I wouldn't recommend non-technical friends to switch to a Linux distro, because I know I'd spend so much time dealing with the bugs they found.
Beagle is the Linux equivalent, written using Mono. It's early in development, but appears to be making good progress. It uses inotify in the kernel to monitor files for changes.
I'd love to be a tech journalist. It seems so easy to make money that way. Just write some barely logicial article, extrapolating wildly from very limited data. Then throw in a few choice trolls: dump GNOME, Linux sucks, along with a few straw men : OSS developers waste their time porting to obsolete architectures. Then just sit back and wait for the inevitable Slashdotting and page impressions.
Why not just use your debit card? Unless they don't have a bank account, I thought everyone had at least a debit card (assuming from you UID you're old enough).
It's a little different - it's only fifty years copyright for the actual recording itself (ie an audio recording of one performance of the song). For the song itself, copyright is the standard life + 70 years.
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http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk/std/faq/c
so download a netinst CD. Or just use the first CD to install a base system and then use apt-get to install the rest. 14 cds is the entire repository.
"In British English, singular words like family, team, government, which refer to groups of people, can be used with either singular or plural verbs and pronouns." (learnenglish.org.uk)
In British English, companies are referred to as plural subjects: e.g. "British Telecom have...". I'm not sure why, that's just The Way It Is.
Who's going to get the central heating installation contract for Hell? That's got to be a seriously big job.