Well, one reason I can think of is that it's illegal to transmit on the FM band in many countries, my own Sweden included. Owning and using an accessory like the iTrip is not legal here.
I bet Apple doesn't want to have to make different iPods for different regions.
They can get their wifi range to reach over so many miles, and I can't connect to my neighbors house 1000 feet away. Somebody ought to sit down and make cheaper, simpler solutions for extending wifi range. And no, I'm not talking about pringles cans or Chinese cookware here - we need simple-yet-working antennas that we can buy straight from a store. I don't have time to sit down and mess with a wireframe wok!
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All you say is true.
However, it is more a question of how the following code is written of course. I didn't mean to come off like you didn't know your stuff - if I did I apologize.
The problem with the register_globals approach is that people are not aware of the possible security holes it creates and uses it in unsafe manners.
SQL-inject is easy if you treat a variable unsafely.
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Sure, but that doesn't fix the problem - that assuming that a variable is set by a cookie when it may as well be set by a GET variable is very unsafe/unwise/unsmart...
Am I the only one who read the sentence "The 99 cent downloads are stirring some discussion in the music community." and thought that "99 cent" was some new hip-hop artist I hadn't heard of?
Actually, I have the same problem and I've got the latest Detonator drivers and tried a reboot. Weird.
Although I did also just try the GameMaker also mentioned in this article discussion, and its examples also ran impossibly slow. Must be something up with DirectX and these things, my commercial installed games still run just fine.
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A system similar to this was rolled out here in Sweden a couple of years ago - CASH as it is aptly named. Now, about 4 years later, it's all but dead since nobody thought it was a good idea. As far as I can see, the only thing people use these cards for these days is parking meters.
I think it failed here because of a few simple reasons. People here were actually smart enough to see that a major reason for the banks to try this approach is for them to make more money without any benefit to the customer. Doesn't it sound like a banker's dream? I can hear the banker's going:
- I've got a great idea! We'll make our customers keep all their money - including their cash - in our bank, but we won't pay them any interest on that "CASH"-card.
- Sweet! And why don't we charge them a small fee to obtain the card in the first place?
- They won't know what hit them!
Sure, it sounds great with a cash-less society, but until the system is free to use and has all the advantages of cash, it just won't catch on.
I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to use IMAP with OE, it just gets plain confusing.
Let's say I have 14 new e-mails when I check my mail. OE will randomly say "28 new e-mails" or "42 new e-mails", i.e. a multiple of 2 or 3, never ever the correct number.
Furthermore, the little icon in the systray telling me I have new e-mail never disappears, even after I read all my new e-mail. It doesn't go away even if I delete and purge all those new e-mails. The only thing that will make it go away is restarting OE.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, as long as I haven't restarted OE, when that little icon is still there (even though I have no new mail) it plays the system "You have new mail" sound.
All this is very annoying, but if it weren't for these things, OE would work great for me.
Me: You can't use IE! It's unsafe and bad for you! Wife: But I like it better than Mozilla! Mozilla just doesn't feel like home to me! Me: You don't understand, IE is BAD for you! Wife: But... Me: Bzzz! BAD! Wife: You insensitive asshole! Why can't you understand when you are hurting my feelings.
I forsee a new book by John Gray: Mozilla is from Mars, IE is from Venus.
...that after hearing so much about the user's right to freedom of choice when it comes to browsers, the Mozilla Messenger makes it impossible to use MS Internet Explorer to view the URLs I receive in e-mails.
Yes, I use MSIE for web and Mozilla for e-mail since its IMAP functionalities blow Outlook Express out of the water (actually, it does that just by being bug-free), but why on earth am I not allowed to open links I click in my e-mails with MSIE?
Maybe it's just me, but I think it's ironic that Mozilla is trying to tie me down to its web browser just because I want to use it for e-mail.
...since me and a lot of other European consumers have already quit buying BMG CDs after they begun experimenting with crippled "CDs". We will just continue to buy our music on CDNOW or other American sites instead. Or just download it from a nearby P2P network - hey that also makes it free!
Now let me wheigh my options... Crippled "CD" with no possibility of portability, OR, MP3s which I can make into a real red-book audio CD?
Umm... Let me guess - your site is in English? Yeah, Europeans speak more than one language you know. You have to think of all the sites out there in French, Italian, Polish, Swedish, German, etc.
Your statement is like me saying "My Swedish web site has more than 95% Swedish visitors, therefore us Swedes must make up 95% of all Internet users, woohoo!"
I'm so tired of reading reports saying "real games in your cellphone/PDA/GPS coming soon!" and then waiting, waiting and waiting for something to show up. I'd like to see one of these games actually making waves with users using a cell phone CPU, especially when you consider the user base of "enhanced" phones like the newest Nokia phone with Java (but no color).
We all know this is a killer app, my baby sister can write the business model, but where are the platforms and where's the beef?
You should check out the excellent and cheap MP3-player Diva, which has received very high marks from users at MP3.com.
It can be bought with different amount of built-in flash memory and has a CompactFlash Type 1 slot where you can put inexpensive CF-cards to expand the memory.
This player does not even require any driver installations under Win2000/XP and is said to work with Linux (according to Diva themselves, read the FAQ). The memory card shows up as a removable drive in Windows when you connect the USB cable and it's extremeley simple to download or upload MP3s from/to the player. Yes, you read me right, no security protocol so you can easily move music from one computer to another too.
I just bought one and I couldn't be happier. Best player I've tried so far and definately lots of bang-for-your-buck.
Actually, after the price drop here in Europe, the price of the Xbox is only $30 more than that of GC (which won't be released here for another week) so I don't think that will be a factor here.
X-box has been selling almost nothing over here in Europe but today is the first day with the new price, 299 which brought the Xbox to below $300 here in Sweden where it was previously around $500. Reportedly several stores have sold out of Xbox today so maybe now things will get going for Microsoft in the gaming arena.
Palm Port
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Does everybody forget WHY/. is doing this? Seems to me people think that this is an evil scheme to take over the world when I'm sure that this is the only way for/. to actually survive.
It's interesting to see how many readers are willing to "screw"/. of either the $20 or the hard-earned ad-bucks that would make/. survive.
I mean, if you're willing to use measures such as turning of images, javascript or blocking ads in other ways, just remember that you might be a contributing factor if/. does not get the money it needs to continue to exist.
The capitalist idea works when users are willing to actually pay for services they like. If you like/. IMHO you should either pay or endure the ads.
I haven't seen any comments from the SETI project - what do they make of all this? Are they afraid to lose a lot of computing power from afraid sysadmins now? What about other distributed computing projects?
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Hey, I live in Sweden and my alphabet has 29 letters, you insensitive clod!
Ha! I would love to pay for a PS3 with my turnips, but winter is grim here in Sweden, and I need to eat what valuable currency I have.
Well, one reason I can think of is that it's illegal to transmit on the FM band in many countries, my own Sweden included. Owning and using an accessory like the iTrip is not legal here.
I bet Apple doesn't want to have to make different iPods for different regions.
Now, when you say Griffin, do you mean the new NASA administrator Michael D. Griffin, or do you mean the mythological creature, half eagle, half lion?
Sorry... had to steal a Dilbert joke. I'll go hide in a corner now.
They can get their wifi range to reach over so many miles, and I can't connect to my neighbors house 1000 feet away. Somebody ought to sit down and make cheaper, simpler solutions for extending wifi range. And no, I'm not talking about pringles cans or Chinese cookware here - we need simple-yet-working antennas that we can buy straight from a store. I don't have time to sit down and mess with a wireframe wok!
All you say is true. However, it is more a question of how the following code is written of course. I didn't mean to come off like you didn't know your stuff - if I did I apologize. The problem with the register_globals approach is that people are not aware of the possible security holes it creates and uses it in unsafe manners. SQL-inject is easy if you treat a variable unsafely.
extract($_POST);
extract($_GET);
extract($_COOKIE);
Sure, but that doesn't fix the problem - that assuming that a variable is set by a cookie when it may as well be set by a GET variable is very unsafe/unwise/unsmart...
Am I the only one who read the sentence "The 99 cent downloads are stirring some discussion in the music community." and thought that "99 cent" was some new hip-hop artist I hadn't heard of?
Actually, I have the same problem and I've got the latest Detonator drivers and tried a reboot. Weird. Although I did also just try the GameMaker also mentioned in this article discussion, and its examples also ran impossibly slow. Must be something up with DirectX and these things, my commercial installed games still run just fine.
A system similar to this was rolled out here in Sweden a couple of years ago - CASH as it is aptly named. Now, about 4 years later, it's all but dead since nobody thought it was a good idea. As far as I can see, the only thing people use these cards for these days is parking meters.
I think it failed here because of a few simple reasons. People here were actually smart enough to see that a major reason for the banks to try this approach is for them to make more money without any benefit to the customer. Doesn't it sound like a banker's dream? I can hear the banker's going:
- I've got a great idea! We'll make our customers keep all their money - including their cash - in our bank, but we won't pay them any interest on that "CASH"-card.
- Sweet! And why don't we charge them a small fee to obtain the card in the first place?
- They won't know what hit them!
Sure, it sounds great with a cash-less society, but until the system is free to use and has all the advantages of cash, it just won't catch on.
I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to use IMAP with OE, it just gets plain confusing.
Let's say I have 14 new e-mails when I check my mail. OE will randomly say "28 new e-mails" or "42 new e-mails", i.e. a multiple of 2 or 3, never ever the correct number.
Furthermore, the little icon in the systray telling me I have new e-mail never disappears, even after I read all my new e-mail. It doesn't go away even if I delete and purge all those new e-mails. The only thing that will make it go away is restarting OE.
And as if that wasn't bad enough, as long as I haven't restarted OE, when that little icon is still there (even though I have no new mail) it plays the system "You have new mail" sound.
All this is very annoying, but if it weren't for these things, OE would work great for me.
Me: You can't use IE! It's unsafe and bad for you!
Wife: But I like it better than Mozilla! Mozilla just doesn't feel like home to me!
Me: You don't understand, IE is BAD for you!
Wife: But...
Me: Bzzz! BAD!
Wife: You insensitive asshole! Why can't you understand when you are hurting my feelings.
I forsee a new book by John Gray: Mozilla is from Mars, IE is from Venus.
...that after hearing so much about the user's right to freedom of choice when it comes to browsers, the Mozilla Messenger makes it impossible to use MS Internet Explorer to view the URLs I receive in e-mails.
Yes, I use MSIE for web and Mozilla for e-mail since its IMAP functionalities blow Outlook Express out of the water (actually, it does that just by being bug-free), but why on earth am I not allowed to open links I click in my e-mails with MSIE?
Maybe it's just me, but I think it's ironic that Mozilla is trying to tie me down to its web browser just because I want to use it for e-mail.
...since me and a lot of other European consumers have already quit buying BMG CDs after they begun experimenting with crippled "CDs". We will just continue to buy our music on CDNOW or other American sites instead. Or just download it from a nearby P2P network - hey that also makes it free!
Now let me wheigh my options... Crippled "CD" with no possibility of portability, OR, MP3s which I can make into a real red-book audio CD?
The choice is easy, people.
Umm... Let me guess - your site is in English? Yeah, Europeans speak more than one language you know. You have to think of all the sites out there in French, Italian, Polish, Swedish, German, etc.
Your statement is like me saying "My Swedish web site has more than 95% Swedish visitors, therefore us Swedes must make up 95% of all Internet users, woohoo!"
I'm so tired of reading reports saying "real games in your cellphone/PDA/GPS coming soon!" and then waiting, waiting and waiting for something to show up. I'd like to see one of these games actually making waves with users using a cell phone CPU, especially when you consider the user base of "enhanced" phones like the newest Nokia phone with Java (but no color). We all know this is a killer app, my baby sister can write the business model, but where are the platforms and where's the beef?
You should check out the excellent and cheap MP3-player Diva, which has received very high marks from users at MP3.com.
It can be bought with different amount of built-in flash memory and has a CompactFlash Type 1 slot where you can put inexpensive CF-cards to expand the memory.
This player does not even require any driver installations under Win2000/XP and is said to work with Linux (according to Diva themselves, read the FAQ). The memory card shows up as a removable drive in Windows when you connect the USB cable and it's extremeley simple to download or upload MP3s from/to the player. Yes, you read me right, no security protocol so you can easily move music from one computer to another too.
I just bought one and I couldn't be happier. Best player I've tried so far and definately lots of bang-for-your-buck.
Actually, after the price drop here in Europe, the price of the Xbox is only $30 more than that of GC (which won't be released here for another week) so I don't think that will be a factor here.
X-box has been selling almost nothing over here in Europe but today is the first day with the new price, 299 which brought the Xbox to below $300 here in Sweden where it was previously around $500. Reportedly several stores have sold out of Xbox today so maybe now things will get going for Microsoft in the gaming arena.
There may not be a complete Palm Port yet, but for those interested, the project is well underway at http://nethack-palm.sourceforge.net/
Does everybody forget WHY /. is doing this? Seems to me people think that this is an evil scheme to take over the world when I'm sure that this is the only way for /. to actually survive.
/. of either the $20 or the hard-earned ad-bucks that would make /. survive.
/. does not get the money it needs to continue to exist.
/. IMHO you should either pay or endure the ads.
It's interesting to see how many readers are willing to "screw"
I mean, if you're willing to use measures such as turning of images, javascript or blocking ads in other ways, just remember that you might be a contributing factor if
The capitalist idea works when users are willing to actually pay for services they like. If you like
I haven't seen any comments from the SETI project - what do they make of all this? Are they afraid to lose a lot of computing power from afraid sysadmins now? What about other distributed computing projects?