Maybe blowing the sentenced up with explosives? A small lead container with walls strong enough to be reusable and enough explosives to annihilate the human?
Totally inappropriate, but that reminded me of the old game Lemmings...
It's intersting... they could well advertise alongside.
Some analysts are predicting that we may end up with two-tier mobile services. The service might be free or heavily subsidised if you go for the ad-enabled plan, or pay a normal subscription for the ad-free service.
Oh, I have to jailbreak it. That makes sense... Oh wait, you're asking me to crack my own phone.
To be fair, TFA mentions that in order to run Debian on Android, you have to use modded firmware to gain root access (it was removed by default by an update a little while ago). Probably won't brick the device, but there are no guarantees.
Maybe I'll make it run in the background, so I can have something play music while users do something else... Nope, not allowed.
What I've read suggests that the iPhone will continue iPod playback in the background, but not other apps. Never used one, though.
I'm more than happy with my Android G1 in this respect, because I can run things like the StreamFurious Shoutcast client in the background while surfing or reading eBooks.
Personally, I wasn't thinking in terms of getting into the OS code...
How about having a huge repository of great software at their disposal for $0?
Assuming they want to do something more than MS Office, their choices will often be to rely on warez (hello malware), or download shareware from iffy sources (hello more malware), and ending up with a slower, less efficient machine.
Wouldn't it be great if they could just learn from any programming, mathematical, enginnering, astonomy apps that they could grab from a repository and just start using?
My $0.02.. In many cases, I think Javascript has an advantage because you can apply it iteratively.
An organisation might already have some JS active on their web presence, perhaps doing something trivial like form validation. It's not such a big deal to add as much or as little Ajax or effect eyecandy as you like, building on what you already have.
Doing it in Flex or Silverlight would effectively be a rewrite for a different platform...?
I don't think that's putting any blame in the right place.
The recording engineer will try to get a decent signal down for a track ('on tape' seems like an anachronism now), but also want to leave some headroom for balancing tracks on the final mixdown.
It's the Mastering Engineer who takes the final mix and tries to polish it, maximising the loudness in the process.
Similar toys are often used by us ordinarly mortals too.
Ultimately, it's the record company execs who dictate that the CD must sound 'big'. They don't want it to sound 'weak' or 'thin' compared to the competition (that's their sort of terminology).
I know what you mean... I was with Orange for about 10 years, and eventually I couldn't wait to get away from them.
They spend their inflated charges on stupid adverts telling you "we treat our existing customers as well as we treat our new ones" . Pfft. No, looks like being a new customer is the only game in town.
I'm now happy with T-Mobile and their unlimited data plan. Monthly bill halved.
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Maybe blowing the sentenced up with explosives? A small lead container with walls strong enough to be reusable and enough explosives to annihilate the human?
Totally inappropriate, but that reminded me of the old game Lemmings...
Oh no!.... <pop>
Better get a couple! I'm on my 3rd in two months... the OEM ones aren't very well put together.
I guess so if the cellphones in question have GPS activated...
The tower triangulation fix (coarse location on my G1) might be too inaccurate to locate a person in a crowd.
It's intersting... they could well advertise alongside.
Some analysts are predicting that we may end up with two-tier mobile services. The service might be free or heavily subsidised if you go for the ad-enabled plan, or pay a normal subscription for the ad-free service.
Oh, I have to jailbreak it. That makes sense... Oh wait, you're asking me to crack my own phone.
To be fair, TFA mentions that in order to run Debian on Android, you have to use modded firmware to gain root access (it was removed by default by an update a little while ago). Probably won't brick the device, but there are no guarantees.
Maybe I'll make it run in the background, so I can have something play music while users do something else... Nope, not allowed.
What I've read suggests that the iPhone will continue iPod playback in the background, but not other apps. Never used one, though.
I'm more than happy with my Android G1 in this respect, because I can run things like the StreamFurious Shoutcast client in the background while surfing or reading eBooks.
What about the bit at the end of the video, about the sudoku serial killer?
:-)
Police say he might strike again, killing 1, 4 or 9 victims.
That bit is real, right?
Lopsided seems likely if one side believes in the value of human shields...
I was a little bemused by the Microsoft guy's blog... last screenshot before the comments.
He needs to demo something non-trivial, so he switches to Firefox and Firebug.
Tell me about it, Scott!
Well.... a big part of its popularity is that it's a lightweight library, so maybe better if they don't contribute to it... :-)
Personally, I wasn't thinking in terms of getting into the OS code...
How about having a huge repository of great software at their disposal for $0?
Assuming they want to do something more than MS Office, their choices will often be to rely on warez (hello malware), or download shareware from iffy sources (hello more malware), and ending up with a slower, less efficient machine.
Wouldn't it be great if they could just learn from any programming, mathematical, enginnering, astonomy apps that they could grab from a repository and just start using?
IIRC, Hays IT are a recruitment firm, and contacts would be a currency to them.
Speaking as a UK contactor, it's not at all unusual to have a fishing conversation about your resume...
You worked at X inc.?
Did you work for [make a name up]?
Oh... who was it then?
> calls come in constantly
Hey, I thought "it just works..."??
:-)
Sorry... bad choice of words!
I meant in XP if I press Ctrl Alt Down, the screen flips upside down, and Ctrl Alt Left makes it rotate 90 degrees left...
Got to say I love the multiple desktops too...
Problem is when I switch to an XP machine I have to use, press Ctrl-Alt-Left or Right, and the desktop rotates.
It was a real WTF?! the first time...
Are you sure? I thought Wellington wanted it to calculate log books for ballistics/trajectories...?
My $0.02.. In many cases, I think Javascript has an advantage because you can apply it iteratively.
An organisation might already have some JS active on their web presence, perhaps doing something trivial like form validation. It's not such a big deal to add as much or as little Ajax or effect eyecandy as you like, building on what you already have.
Doing it in Flex or Silverlight would effectively be a rewrite for a different platform...?
no worries propotype will fix everything by simple hijacking the dollar operator which then is also used by jquery and others
jQuery plays nice by letting you disassociate $ by calling jQuery.noConflict(). I like their attitude.
Not sure about the other libraries.
IIRC, SMS was free when I first signed up ('95)
They didn't forsee making any money out of it at the time.
Ooh, enigmatic.
Your bit of insight failed to mention what's you think is wrong with it.
I've worked with many popular JS libraries and frameworks, and find jQuery indispensible.
Like a Grungelizer!
:-)
You can dial in as much turntable rumble, hiss and AC hum as needed if that's your thing...
I don't think that's putting any blame in the right place.
The recording engineer will try to get a decent signal down for a track ('on tape' seems like an anachronism now), but also want to leave some headroom for balancing tracks on the final mixdown.
It's the Mastering Engineer who takes the final mix and tries to polish it, maximising the loudness in the process.
Similar toys are often used by us ordinarly mortals too.
Ultimately, it's the record company execs who dictate that the CD must sound 'big'. They don't want it to sound 'weak' or 'thin' compared to the competition (that's their sort of terminology).
Hope those 8 months go quickly!
I know what you mean... I was with Orange for about 10 years, and eventually I couldn't wait to get away from them.
They spend their inflated charges on stupid adverts telling you "we treat our existing customers as well as we treat our new ones" . Pfft. No, looks like being a new customer is the only game in town.
I'm now happy with T-Mobile and their unlimited data plan. Monthly bill halved.
Good post....
I was a bit suprised that DAT made it to the list, as it got quite a lot of use in the pro audio industry.
I thought maybe they were thinking of the Philips Digital Compact Cassette - DCC.
Anyone remember those??
This site might be interesting...
I've been looking at their various websites, as I'm doing a course in hypnotherapy at the moment.
Good luck.
Really?
I live in London, and I can't remember hearing about anyone being shot for their iPod.
You hear plenty about gun crime, though...
All kids pretending they're bloody American 'ganstas' or whatever.