I used the N900 for 6 months, hated it - and the screen was one of the main reasons for my hate. The FAQ can preach the good word all it wants (of course its going to back the decision) but it doesn't change my mind about how terrible the N900 was.
You really believe you should have control over public facts about you? That you have the right to never be documented in public in any form? The ability to enforce your whims over your friends?
There are certain things you should control, and in the UK most of those are covered by the Data Protection Act. But I wouldn't ever consider that I have the right to never, ever be known, to disappear entirely while still in public or to control what my friends can and cannot say about me.
If you are in public, then you should expect to actually be publicly exposed in some ways and everyone should have the right to record you and your activities when you are in public. Private citizens should equally not be bound by laws meant for corporations, and should be able to record or disseminate any information they know about you. The law isn't there to enforce your perceived rights over whomever you decide to hang around with, or to fix your bad choice of friends.
Paid for either as part of your ISP bill when you use their servers, or when you sign up to a USENET provider. I never saw a free provider which gave you all branches, especially alt.binary etc.
You say "it turned out" as if that was only discovered later on, when infact it was a well known thing from day one, or at least those of us who signed up on day one knew what was going on and the "revelation" was not a surprise.
You certainly can have a personal cloud, or an internal cloud, or a private cloud.
The term cloud is one of those that people seem to go out of their way on Slashdot in order to misconstrue or misunderstand, when in fact its simple - its a resource that you want to do X but you don't necessarily want to know the indepth details of how it goes about it. I want a website hosted, I want it redundant and I want it scalable, but I dont necessarily want to give a toss about manually balancing resources across several servers. Creating a single resource out of all of my local servers and letting the management software work out the details of where and how my redundant, scalable website is spread across those individual servers...
Old timers might call it something else, or people coming from a particular industry might call it something else, but for the rest of us its just the cloud. Its separating the physical resource from the task you need to do, hiding the complexity of the underlying resource provision so you just get the task done. In an IT department for a large company, the hardware department might create a private cloud in order to remove the task of managing the hardware from the various departments that might want to utilise them, so they just allow the web department to deploy their sites, and the analytics department to run their tasks etc etc all without worrying about hardware failing or getting gummed up by a single process, because the underlying management later spreads the load across multiple physical resources automatically.
I'd love to know what their definition of "buy new devices frequently" is in relation to the MacBook Pro - mine is 3.5 years old and its still going strong. I envision getting another 2 or more years out of it yet, probably more. Its already older than the Dell it replaced.
The Oyster Card really makes a huge difference to the transport experience in London, so much so that you find many many people wondering why it hasn't been rolled out nationally
That's great for when there isn't a huge uptake, but once your demographic largely becomes those likely to take you up on the offer then it becomes much more expensive...
I certainly would be surprised if in 10 years all new cars were fully electric, as there are huge demographics of car owner who simply cannot own an electric car.
I live on a typical British Victorian workers housing road - terrace housing both sides, no off road parking, a pavement between the house and the car, and absolutely no guarantee that you can park your car outside your house anyway. There is no way I can charge any electric vehicle in that situation, and neither can anyone else on the street. And this setup is very very common in the UK.
So I'm going to be buying a petrol car for some time yet.
Unfortunately due to the way the telecoms system is set up, if you control your own CLID then you can set any number you want to be displayed at the other end, which means you can mask international origins. Also, there are many many ways for an overseas call centre to have an origin point from within a specific country (its a lot cheaper to do VOIP internationally and then go legacy at the final few hops).
It doesn't necessarily assume that at all, but what it can assume is that rays coming down vertically have less atmosphere to travel through than rays at any angle, and thus have more energy when they hit the server. Same reason the midday sun has more heat than the morning or setting sun.
Meh, makes a perfect DLNA server and irssi box, sat behind my TV downstairs - low power, low noise, cheap and cheerful. I don't see what benefit an ARMv7 would bring for me in any of the uses I have put mine to.
British Army regiments have individual identities, with many of them identifying with home areas around the UK, so in essence Scotland and Wales do have their own armies as there are Scottish and Welsh regiments.
The tunnels done for the SCSC are probably no longer fit for purpose, as they've been flooded ever since they were abandoned, which weakens and damages the structure considerably:(
Pretty much that, and the ability to say "well, 100,000 people can't be wrong..."
A startup I was recently involved in had their twitter follower count go from about 4,000 to over 100,000 in 72 hours (this was after I left), without any media exposure or obvious campaigns - that sort of thing cannot be legitimate, however you look at it.
One easy way for Twitter to combat this sort of thing would be to put a time graph of follows for an account in the public arena, and then people could see the huge jumps that cannot correlate with real world events, and make their own judgement calls. Anything you can't find much about on Google but has massive jumps in followers in shirt periods if time is a quick way to raise suspicions about legitimacy.
The book did actually cover how the current political climate came around, and it was in the period after a massive global war, so there was your blood bath.
People often quote that line, but fail to note the obvious - it just says "progress". Patented progress is still progress, just limited to control by the patent holder for a limited duration.
That line doesn't say or even imply that progress has to be socialistic from the outset.
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I used the N900 for 6 months, hated it - and the screen was one of the main reasons for my hate. The FAQ can preach the good word all it wants (of course its going to back the decision) but it doesn't change my mind about how terrible the N900 was.
You really believe you should have control over public facts about you? That you have the right to never be documented in public in any form? The ability to enforce your whims over your friends?
There are certain things you should control, and in the UK most of those are covered by the Data Protection Act. But I wouldn't ever consider that I have the right to never, ever be known, to disappear entirely while still in public or to control what my friends can and cannot say about me.
If you are in public, then you should expect to actually be publicly exposed in some ways and everyone should have the right to record you and your activities when you are in public. Private citizens should equally not be bound by laws meant for corporations, and should be able to record or disseminate any information they know about you. The law isn't there to enforce your perceived rights over whomever you decide to hang around with, or to fix your bad choice of friends.
I'm not entirely sure that any of those things are about privacy, as any right to privacy does not extend to the right to be completely unknown.
Except that the UEA climate department was investigated and no problems with their science were found...
Paid for either as part of your ISP bill when you use their servers, or when you sign up to a USENET provider. I never saw a free provider which gave you all branches, especially alt.binary etc.
You say "it turned out" as if that was only discovered later on, when infact it was a well known thing from day one, or at least those of us who signed up on day one knew what was going on and the "revelation" was not a surprise.
You certainly can have a personal cloud, or an internal cloud, or a private cloud.
The term cloud is one of those that people seem to go out of their way on Slashdot in order to misconstrue or misunderstand, when in fact its simple - its a resource that you want to do X but you don't necessarily want to know the indepth details of how it goes about it. I want a website hosted, I want it redundant and I want it scalable, but I dont necessarily want to give a toss about manually balancing resources across several servers. Creating a single resource out of all of my local servers and letting the management software work out the details of where and how my redundant, scalable website is spread across those individual servers...
Old timers might call it something else, or people coming from a particular industry might call it something else, but for the rest of us its just the cloud. Its separating the physical resource from the task you need to do, hiding the complexity of the underlying resource provision so you just get the task done. In an IT department for a large company, the hardware department might create a private cloud in order to remove the task of managing the hardware from the various departments that might want to utilise them, so they just allow the web department to deploy their sites, and the analytics department to run their tasks etc etc all without worrying about hardware failing or getting gummed up by a single process, because the underlying management later spreads the load across multiple physical resources automatically.
Here in the UK its called sweet corn, and is shortened to corn on the cob.
I owned the N900. Thought it was shit, went back to my old phone after 6 months. So glad the world moved on.
I'd love to know what their definition of "buy new devices frequently" is in relation to the MacBook Pro - mine is 3.5 years old and its still going strong. I envision getting another 2 or more years out of it yet, probably more. Its already older than the Dell it replaced.
The Oyster Card really makes a huge difference to the transport experience in London, so much so that you find many many people wondering why it hasn't been rolled out nationally
VIA was also one that was affected by Intels compiler behaviour.
That's great for when there isn't a huge uptake, but once your demographic largely becomes those likely to take you up on the offer then it becomes much more expensive...
I certainly would be surprised if in 10 years all new cars were fully electric, as there are huge demographics of car owner who simply cannot own an electric car.
I live on a typical British Victorian workers housing road - terrace housing both sides, no off road parking, a pavement between the house and the car, and absolutely no guarantee that you can park your car outside your house anyway. There is no way I can charge any electric vehicle in that situation, and neither can anyone else on the street. And this setup is very very common in the UK.
So I'm going to be buying a petrol car for some time yet.
Unfortunately due to the way the telecoms system is set up, if you control your own CLID then you can set any number you want to be displayed at the other end, which means you can mask international origins. Also, there are many many ways for an overseas call centre to have an origin point from within a specific country (its a lot cheaper to do VOIP internationally and then go legacy at the final few hops).
It doesn't necessarily assume that at all, but what it can assume is that rays coming down vertically have less atmosphere to travel through than rays at any angle, and thus have more energy when they hit the server. Same reason the midday sun has more heat than the morning or setting sun.
Meh, makes a perfect DLNA server and irssi box, sat behind my TV downstairs - low power, low noise, cheap and cheerful. I don't see what benefit an ARMv7 would bring for me in any of the uses I have put mine to.
Don't then, you don't have to.
It's not as if this is anything new, you can already deploy to Azure using Git et al, so people are already pushing source code up.
British Army regiments have individual identities, with many of them identifying with home areas around the UK, so in essence Scotland and Wales do have their own armies as there are Scottish and Welsh regiments.
The tunnels done for the SCSC are probably no longer fit for purpose, as they've been flooded ever since they were abandoned, which weakens and damages the structure considerably :(
Pretty much that, and the ability to say "well, 100,000 people can't be wrong..."
A startup I was recently involved in had their twitter follower count go from about 4,000 to over 100,000 in 72 hours (this was after I left), without any media exposure or obvious campaigns - that sort of thing cannot be legitimate, however you look at it.
One easy way for Twitter to combat this sort of thing would be to put a time graph of follows for an account in the public arena, and then people could see the huge jumps that cannot correlate with real world events, and make their own judgement calls. Anything you can't find much about on Google but has massive jumps in followers in shirt periods if time is a quick way to raise suspicions about legitimacy.
I would agree, but all of a sudden I'm having huge issues with Chrome :(
Tabs becoming unresponsive, mysterious downloads in the background stopping me from quitting, tabs taking ages to close etc etc.
No extensions, no java, no flash.
The book did actually cover how the current political climate came around, and it was in the period after a massive global war, so there was your blood bath.
I use the Ethernet adapter without paying MS a dime more than the one off cost of the xbox360 itself - I just use local dlna servers...
People often quote that line, but fail to note the obvious - it just says "progress". Patented progress is still progress, just limited to control by the patent holder for a limited duration.
That line doesn't say or even imply that progress has to be socialistic from the outset.