I was going to pick up on that sentence too; the bottom line is exactly that - Apple, RIM and Google are all in the mobile phone OS business to make money. The interesting this is they are each have a different design philosophy and business model in mind. I'm sure a few dozen MBA students will be writing their dissertations on this subject right now...
If Microsoft doesn't explain what is going on or fix the problem people are having of random unexplained large data transfers, then WP7 will end up a has been. People are reporting 50MB transfers during calls, and 500MB transfers each night...
It's not so much a problem for Microsoft, but it will be a huge problem for consumers, as the network carriers all have clauses that say something like "The customer is ultimately responsible for all of the billable transactions (phone calls, SMS, data use) detected by the network and billed back to you, the customer."
Anybody else have a recommendation for a site with similar functionality, clean interface, and good browser addon support?
I'll bite. I use Opera as my Browsing weapon of choice. You can import bookmark files (Opera, IE, Firefox, Konqueror) into it easily. Nerdlist has published instructions on how to export to an html file, which you can then import into your browser, but I'm not sure how well the tags & notes would import along with the bookmarks.
Opera has nicknames where tags could go and description fields you can add notes to on Bookmarks, but whether you can port them over automatically or have to do it by hand I don't know. Maybe a canny coder will make an Opera Widget or Extension to help user port their bookmarks over. If you make use of Opera Link you can synch your bookmarks (and more) to your online Link account and choose to make your bookmarks public or private, as you so desire.
...I'm not sure if this means that Time is becoming more parochial, or that they honestly believe that no one outside the USA is that influential anymore.
I use closed source nvidia drivers with no particular ethical issues.
You're not the only one; I run the Easy Peasy distro on my Eee PC and it has a whole load of non-free drivers bundled into the installation purely to make life as easy as possible for the end user. Those people who really want a totally free system with no closed source software can have it on a myriad of different flavours of Linux.
Personally, I want to run what works - if it's open source, then all the better. Having said that my favourite application is close source - Opera. I wouldn't use anything else as a Browser. YMMV, clearly....
It doesn't break Federal law, but it may be against state law. Recording someone without their consent is a felony in Illinois, and probably other states as well.
IIRC, recording a telephone conversation (mobile or fixed line) without someone's knowledge and consent is a breach of the Telecommunications Act in the UK. Of course, there are exceptions that apply to the Security Services, but even they need express permission to tap/monitor a phone line or mobile number.
Of course, you will always lose your data if your hard drive goes bad (which is probably the most common failure in computers) regardless of manufacturer so there is no excuse for losing your data if YOU don't have a backup.
Given a MTTF of 3 years, which is roughly when I replace my PC, I can honestly say I've never had a hard drive crap out on me. It's usually the power units and/or motherboards that have been by far the most common failures in any computer I have owned, or used. External backup drives - and using them regularly - are your friend.:)
I disagree - my EeePC has 40GB of memory on it, which is more than I need right now. If really want to store shedloads of data, I'll go buy a 1TB external HDD; they're cheap as chips these days.
My work PC has 70GB storage spread over two drives - any significant data is store on the network drives, or our internal Wiki, where there is significant redundancy to avoid accidental data loss to, for example, a spilled mug of coffee...
Not that I'm wanting to hijack this thread and make it all about different distros, but I'll put in a recommendation for using Easy Peasy, which I've got installed on my EeePC and runs quite happily.:) I simply had to try something different; the Xandros distro that it came preinstalled on it was just too twee for words...
If I ever created a FB account, I wouldn't use my real name or details at all. I wouldn't provide false details either - just not the ones I'd use in this thing called "real life"...:)
We've got one of those in work. It conforms to NATO military specifications for blocking out EM signalling over a wide frequency range. Cost a smegload to buy too, but it's well worth it for testing non-connectivity behaviour of mobile devices.:)
Just because a specific genetic mutation is consistently (but not necessarily always) found in, for example, patients with pancreatic cancer, does not mean that if you have that specific mutation you are in any way guarranteed to get pancreatic cancer, merely that you may have a higher-the-average propensity to contract such a malignancy.
Well, I don't know about your teachers, but I'm sure plenty of mine were/are. I'll go check that copy of the BNP membership list I've got saved on my hard drive...
No computer is completely "silent" unless it's turned off at the wall.
I used to play on my Spectrum 48k when I started off playing with computers and even it made a tiny amount of noise. I remeber quite clearly that in a quiet room, you could hear very high-pitched sounds (probably far too too high for me to hear these days) as the processor worked away during a game of Maziacs or Volcanic Dungeon.
All credit to the guys who built that. Given how much processing power it's got under the hood, noise levels of less than 20db are pretty damn good going; a normal conversation at a distance on 1 metre is about 40-60db - and TV at normal volume is about 60db. Every 10db increase is a 100-fold increase in intensity, off the top of my head (the decibel is a logarithmic base-10 scale).
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I was going to pick up on that sentence too; the bottom line is exactly that - Apple, RIM and Google are all in the mobile phone OS business to make money. The interesting this is they are each have a different design philosophy and business model in mind. I'm sure a few dozen MBA students will be writing their dissertations on this subject right now...
If Microsoft doesn't explain what is going on or fix the problem people are having of random unexplained large data transfers, then WP7 will end up a has been. People are reporting 50MB transfers during calls, and 500MB transfers each night...
It's not so much a problem for Microsoft, but it will be a huge problem for consumers, as the network carriers all have clauses that say something like "The customer is ultimately responsible for all of the billable transactions (phone calls, SMS, data use) detected by the network and billed back to you, the customer."
Caveat emptor!
Anybody else have a recommendation for a site with similar functionality, clean interface, and good browser addon support?
I'll bite. I use Opera as my Browsing weapon of choice. You can import bookmark files (Opera, IE, Firefox, Konqueror) into it easily. Nerdlist has published instructions on how to export to an html file, which you can then import into your browser, but I'm not sure how well the tags & notes would import along with the bookmarks.
Opera has nicknames where tags could go and description fields you can add notes to on Bookmarks, but whether you can port them over automatically or have to do it by hand I don't know. Maybe a canny coder will make an Opera Widget or Extension to help user port their bookmarks over. If you make use of Opera Link you can synch your bookmarks (and more) to your online Link account and choose to make your bookmarks public or private, as you so desire.
I hope the Time Cops aren't actually out again. I thought Jean-Claude Van Damme was more or less washed up.
Naw, he's still kicking around... :)
...I'm not sure if this means that Time is becoming more parochial, or that they honestly believe that no one outside the USA is that influential anymore.
Yes.
You mean they handed out acid to people to help them enjoy the game footage?
Or did you just reply to the first post (without even reading it) so that you would be at the top of the thread?
Mod parent down for stupidity.
Also, [citation needed]
Mod up for comedy first line.
Mod down for flamebait.
Who is "They" and how many is a "lot"????
I use closed source nvidia drivers with no particular ethical issues.
You're not the only one; I run the Easy Peasy distro on my Eee PC and it has a whole load of non-free drivers bundled into the installation purely to make life as easy as possible for the end user. Those people who really want a totally free system with no closed source software can have it on a myriad of different flavours of Linux.
Personally, I want to run what works - if it's open source, then all the better. Having said that my favourite application is close source - Opera. I wouldn't use anything else as a Browser. YMMV, clearly....
It doesn't break Federal law, but it may be against state law. Recording someone without their consent is a felony in Illinois, and probably other states as well.
IIRC, recording a telephone conversation (mobile or fixed line) without someone's knowledge and consent is a breach of the Telecommunications Act in the UK. Of course, there are exceptions that apply to the Security Services, but even they need express permission to tap/monitor a phone line or mobile number.
Of course, you will always lose your data if your hard drive goes bad (which is probably the most common failure in computers) regardless of manufacturer so there is no excuse for losing your data if YOU don't have a backup.
Given a MTTF of 3 years, which is roughly when I replace my PC, I can honestly say I've never had a hard drive crap out on me. It's usually the power units and/or motherboards that have been by far the most common failures in any computer I have owned, or used. External backup drives - and using them regularly - are your friend. :)
I disagree - my EeePC has 40GB of memory on it, which is more than I need right now. If really want to store shedloads of data, I'll go buy a 1TB external HDD; they're cheap as chips these days.
My work PC has 70GB storage spread over two drives - any significant data is store on the network drives, or our internal Wiki, where there is significant redundancy to avoid accidental data loss to, for example, a spilled mug of coffee...
Just give me a social networking site that lets me have a split personality.
Welcome to Livejournal - I have multiple filters to lock down exactly how much information I give out on each and every single post I make.
I think I saw some madman use the British pound symbol once, but that was Dark Magic and he was burned at the stake.
Pfft! If you want to see real dark magic, I'll show you a Scottish five pound note...
We clearly need a new symbol to indicate irony as well.
We've already got one of those - Fe
You're making an assumption that creationists believe that the world is 14 billion years old and that god only created the universe, which they don't.
ObPedantry... current theory and observations suggest that the universe is 13.75 ±0.17 billion years old.
Creationism should not be taught in a SCIENCE class because it is not science.
It is science if it's Pastafarianism... :)
Not that I'm wanting to hijack this thread and make it all about different distros, but I'll put in a recommendation for using Easy Peasy, which I've got installed on my EeePC and runs quite happily. :) I simply had to try something different; the Xandros distro that it came preinstalled on it was just too twee for words...
...and that makes Baby Jesus strangle a kitten.
Cool! Is that on Facebook too? WIll God fire Jesus over it?
If I ever created a FB account, I wouldn't use my real name or details at all. I wouldn't provide false details either - just not the ones I'd use in this thing called "real life"... :)
Can it solve a Rubik’s Dodecahedron yet?
I gues they'll need a Beowulf Cluster to solve one of those... ;p
Next time test inside a Faraday cage.....noob.
We've got one of those in work. It conforms to NATO military specifications for blocking out EM signalling over a wide frequency range. Cost a smegload to buy too, but it's well worth it for testing non-connectivity behaviour of mobile devices. :)
Just because a specific genetic mutation is consistently (but not necessarily always) found in, for example, patients with pancreatic cancer, does not mean that if you have that specific mutation you are in any way guarranteed to get pancreatic cancer, merely that you may have a higher-the-average propensity to contract such a malignancy.
Does that make my teacher a nazi?
Well, I don't know about your teachers, but I'm sure plenty of mine were/are. I'll go check that copy of the BNP membership list I've got saved on my hard drive...
In the UK, if you're working sat in front of a monitor health & safety recommendations state that 'There is no legal limit to how long you should work at a VDU, but under health and safety regulations you have the right to breaks from work using a VDU. These don't have to be rest breaks, just different types of work.'
I hope you take regular breaks away from sitting at your computer, for your sake.
No computer is completely "silent" unless it's turned off at the wall.
I used to play on my Spectrum 48k when I started off playing with computers and even it made a tiny amount of noise. I remeber quite clearly that in a quiet room, you could hear very high-pitched sounds (probably far too too high for me to hear these days) as the processor worked away during a game of Maziacs or Volcanic Dungeon.
All credit to the guys who built that. Given how much processing power it's got under the hood, noise levels of less than 20db are pretty damn good going; a normal conversation at a distance on 1 metre is about 40-60db - and TV at normal volume is about 60db. Every 10db increase is a 100-fold increase in intensity, off the top of my head (the decibel is a logarithmic base-10 scale).
The problem, historically, is that Palm will continue to offer this same product with minor cosmetic tweaks for a few years...
You mean exactly like Apple have done for years?