Sorry but I just can get the image out of my head of a gerbils wearing tiny headphones being asked to raise a paw when they hear a tone. And I'm sure I don't want know how they made the gerbils deaf in the first place!
To be safe you should do what other are suggesting. I moved my parents to Linux and have never had a problem since.
The interesting thing is I have played with a couple of these scammers in VMs and in both cases it was clear they know very little about computers and really just want to get you to buy a 'support' package. To show how dumb some of them are when I told one I couldn't actually seen any problems he proceeded to try and format my C drive at a command prompt but he could not get the syntax right. After 5 minutes of trying he gave up and used the GUI to delete the C drive. So while dumb they can be vindictive, so be careful. He hung up before I could show him how a VM can be restored in seconds.
I recently got banned for my first post to a technical forum of a VPN provider service I am using. Not sure what went wrong but was able to get the problem fixed pretty quickly. With this proposal I would never had know there was a problem that needed fixed.
Depending on your standard there is probably none. I have spent a lot of time in China over the last couple of years and have visited quite a few factories. The working conditions vary of course but general the higher quality the product the better the factory is made in. I guess the attention to details that make a better product are also more like to make a better work environment. The quality of our product is our reputation which is why we now have our own factory built to first world standards. We also pay our staff well above market value. In return for a better work environment and pay we make clear to our employees that we expect them to take the quality of their work seriously. The result is can produce a quality product at a good price. Of course if we were making high volume low margin products that might not be possible.
The catch is we don't make all the parts, but deal with factories that do and they in turn deal with other factories of which we have no idea of the their standards. The factories I have visited have been better than I had expected but most would be borderline by first world standards with hardest thing I have seen being the employees who work their whole shift standing. I couldn't do that. Often the heating and cooling is substandard and safety standards are like stepping back 30 years in time. I imagine myself doing their work and in most cases it would be no worse than the kind for work I did part time in my youth. While the work conditions are not great they are not so bad I feel guilty about buying Chinese products. Of course there may be many far worse places I have not seen yet.
The pay on the other hand is probably a issue. I don't know how much the average worker gets but I suspect it is often unethically low. That is a result of our race to bottom on prices because at the end of the day given two similar products most people will buy the cheaper one and you follow that down the supply chain you will find that is the cheapest labor force.
There is an irony here that over the 6 years since I first visited China the average person's position has improved. For example my first trip bicycles were the most common transport, now it is electric scooters. With wages rising and work conditions improving China is now loosing it competitive edge over other 3rd world countries who's peoples have not seen any improvement.
To answer the question "What does this mean for the Galaxy Nexus, which is only available as CDMA in the U.S.?". My understanding is there will still be the HSPA+ version, made for GSM networks, available in the USA, and that Google will continue to support it.
Maybe there is hope for IPv6. I was going to cmment about it being a USA company but I see it is an Aussie company. Still no unlimited plan but much better than here. Maybe they will make the jump across the ditch to NZ one day, I'd switch to them.
For those who don't live in Australia or New Zealand DSE is like Radio Shack but has suffered a worse decline in to just another appliance store. Like Radio Shack DSE used to sell electronic components to the general public and like Radio Shack they have shifted focus to selling appliances. The biggest difference is that if you spend long enough looking it is still possible to find and purchase a resistor at Radio Shack, but at DSE you can't anymore. While the staff at DSE are nice enough people they are low paid drones who often would not think of issues such as formatting returned media. While there may be a company policy on the issue it is probably just one of dozens the staff are meant to follow but, as minimum wage workers, may forget or ignore.
It would help if you look at the Wikipedia link in my earlier posting, When you use a corrected map with the South Pole at the top you will find the East is on your left.
With summer pretty much started here and straddling the New Year it is unclear if it should be called the Summer of 2011 or 2012? Doesn't the W in W3C stand for World? So using a season for a time frame is ambiguous. Not as bad as saying 'Fall' which has to be translated from American to the English 'Autumn' then possibly reversed to 'Spring'. Q1 or Q3 is so much easier!
Now you just being silly! Of course it rises in the East tracking from left to right across the sky/map to set in the West. Logical when you think about it, same direction most of us write.
Bottom? I'm in New Zealand. We don't fall off because we are on the top. The Earth obversely spins clockwise so therefore South Pole is on the top. It's all explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversed_map
I'm not a fan of CCTV being over used but as it isn't normally available for access when used in a taxi the abuse potential is pretty small. We haven't had them long but they have already caught one scumbag http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10764246 on video. Used in this limited fashion I support their use.
Dear Orcon,
Sorry about the 10% drop. I had to travel overseas at the end of August so I have been using another ISP. Don't worry I returning on Sunday and your traffic will return to normal then.
Cheers
ukoda
I am in China now and the rate of change here is amazing. The amount of development in roading and new building is nothing short of impressive but what I really noticed the high rate of EV usage. In the 'developed' world we talk about how great EVs would be if they were both practical and cheap but in China they just get on with it because here EVs are both very practical and cheap. For USD $250 to $350 you can buy the functional equivalent to a 50cc scooter which is cheaper to run and can take you anywhere in the city and back home on a charge. What more do you need? It seems to me the difference is the Chinese will use something if it's good enough for what they do most of the time where as we have to have a vehicle that does everything we might want to do, even if we seldom have the need. I guess the truth is there is many factors at play but the bottom line is in the cities I have seen here the EV scooters significantly outnumber cars but back home (New Zealand) I have never seen an actual EV in use on a public road. I should add I don't count half assed hybrid like a Prius as an EV unless it can be used without petrol.
Here in New Zealand it would only be a problem for a small number of bigots but for the most part is likely to be positive. In my case it has clearly been a good thing. When I worked for the TAB (horse racing) it required high quality audited code, which looks good on a CV. When I worked for a casino I had be police interview and certified as a reputable citizen which is also good on a CV, and I always thought I was certifiable;-)
I was looking thru my web server logs and noticed one of my photos was being referenced often from another site. I turns out some guy was using a photo of me on a motorcycle as his icon/avatar on some motorcycle forums. Since he was referencing my site directly I was tempted to change the image to something wacky for a laugh but since I couldn't be recognized behind the helmet I thought it was harmless and was kind of faltered so didn't change it.
When I heard about WiMax I was excited about the idea of long range WiFi as that's what the name and technology implied. But reality killed that when I found it was licensed space so could not be freely used like WiFi and name was a classic case of false advertising. I'm not sure who owns the spectrum where you are but the cases I have heard of are all telcos are buying the rights. Given the screw every cent you can out of the customer attitude of telcos in this part of the world it's clear that WiMax will offer nothing that G3 doesn't already. I couldn't care less what happens to WiMax, it's just another acronym in the soup of big business.
It will be popular with that significant group of consumers who just buy things without think about the future. Microsoft has always done well out of those customers. Where it will get interesting is when those customers are asked to repurchase all their music because they have a new phone. The response in different countries will be interesting and expensive for Microsoft. In the USA I guess there will be a class action lawsuit that will take years to resolve. Here in New Zealand consumer law will force them to fix the problem promptly or face large fines and I suspect the EU will be the same but take longer and fine them even after they have fixed the problem.
If you want experience as a programmer I would suggest you start writing programs! You are allow to write programs even if you are not paid to do so. I have employed people for positions which they have no paid experience if they can show they have done that type of work as a hobby and to a suitable level of quality. Pick something simple of interest and start coding for it. When you are comfortable with your skill set write something more significant or join an open source project. When I interview someone I want to see the source code more that the running program and hear from the candidate how they designed and debugged their code.
I was great but appears to be abandoned and for some reason FF3 was not made to be backwards compatible with FF2 for the API relating to bookmarks so upgrading the code will be a non-trivial task. Since WebDAV works where FTP won't it's a shame it was the only solution what allowed you to use your own servers with WebDAV.
It would be interesting to know if there is competitors in the different countries that could take advantage of this. Here in New Zealand Trade Me is the big player and ebay is a non-event. Trade Me has the advantage you don't have to pay to list, only on a successful sale, but I think it's actually early market domination that has them owning the market here. I think Aussies are currently allow to use Trade Me with some limits but given that it's now owned by a Aussie company (I think) then now might be a chance for them to expand. If they played their cards right I could see that happening in Aussie but other countries may not have anyone ready to take advantage of the change.
Why measure in white blood cells? I thought the accepted standards were Jumbo Jets, Football fields or Statutes of Libertys, unless you are in Europe were the metric equivalent is the simpler Eiffel Towers?
It's all a mute point anyway as Bill pointed out 640K is more than enough for anyone and he's, like, mega rich so he has to be right, right?
I have Windows based K-Jam i-mate. The appeal is I no longer have to carry a PDA and my phone has handy apps like a Russian-English dictionary. Great for traveling. Windows works ok most of the time but still has the classic windows problems so I was looking forward to being able to get a more usable platform. I use Windows, Linux and Mac laptops and based on the usability of them I was keen to get an iPhone. However if I can't load on the apps I choose, or create, then whats the point? The product is not worthy of comparison with the likes of the i-mate or Treo. What stupid way to ruin what looked to be dream product. I think DOA is the right term, good luck selling them now...
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Sorry but I just can get the image out of my head of a gerbils wearing tiny headphones being asked to raise a paw when they hear a tone. And I'm sure I don't want know how they made the gerbils deaf in the first place!
I'm guessing there will be more discussion on the correct spelling of 'Centre' than the actual topic at hand...
To be safe you should do what other are suggesting. I moved my parents to Linux and have never had a problem since.
The interesting thing is I have played with a couple of these scammers in VMs and in both cases it was clear they know very little about computers and really just want to get you to buy a 'support' package. To show how dumb some of them are when I told one I couldn't actually seen any problems he proceeded to try and format my C drive at a command prompt but he could not get the syntax right. After 5 minutes of trying he gave up and used the GUI to delete the C drive. So while dumb they can be vindictive, so be careful. He hung up before I could show him how a VM can be restored in seconds.
I recently got banned for my first post to a technical forum of a VPN provider service I am using. Not sure what went wrong but was able to get the problem fixed pretty quickly. With this proposal I would never had know there was a problem that needed fixed.
Depending on your standard there is probably none. I have spent a lot of time in China over the last couple of years and have visited quite a few factories. The working conditions vary of course but general the higher quality the product the better the factory is made in. I guess the attention to details that make a better product are also more like to make a better work environment. The quality of our product is our reputation which is why we now have our own factory built to first world standards. We also pay our staff well above market value. In return for a better work environment and pay we make clear to our employees that we expect them to take the quality of their work seriously. The result is can produce a quality product at a good price. Of course if we were making high volume low margin products that might not be possible.
The catch is we don't make all the parts, but deal with factories that do and they in turn deal with other factories of which we have no idea of the their standards. The factories I have visited have been better than I had expected but most would be borderline by first world standards with hardest thing I have seen being the employees who work their whole shift standing. I couldn't do that. Often the heating and cooling is substandard and safety standards are like stepping back 30 years in time. I imagine myself doing their work and in most cases it would be no worse than the kind for work I did part time in my youth. While the work conditions are not great they are not so bad I feel guilty about buying Chinese products. Of course there may be many far worse places I have not seen yet.
The pay on the other hand is probably a issue. I don't know how much the average worker gets but I suspect it is often unethically low. That is a result of our race to bottom on prices because at the end of the day given two similar products most people will buy the cheaper one and you follow that down the supply chain you will find that is the cheapest labor force.
There is an irony here that over the 6 years since I first visited China the average person's position has improved. For example my first trip bicycles were the most common transport, now it is electric scooters. With wages rising and work conditions improving China is now loosing it competitive edge over other 3rd world countries who's peoples have not seen any improvement.
To answer the question "What does this mean for the Galaxy Nexus, which is only available as CDMA in the U.S.?". My understanding is there will still be the HSPA+ version, made for GSM networks, available in the USA, and that Google will continue to support it.
Maybe there is hope for IPv6. I was going to cmment about it being a USA company but I see it is an Aussie company. Still no unlimited plan but much better than here. Maybe they will make the jump across the ditch to NZ one day, I'd switch to them.
Until IPv6 is offer by a single ISP or Telco then it is the stuff of myths. Nice to read about but not part of the world I live in.
For those who don't live in Australia or New Zealand DSE is like Radio Shack but has suffered a worse decline in to just another appliance store. Like Radio Shack DSE used to sell electronic components to the general public and like Radio Shack they have shifted focus to selling appliances. The biggest difference is that if you spend long enough looking it is still possible to find and purchase a resistor at Radio Shack, but at DSE you can't anymore. While the staff at DSE are nice enough people they are low paid drones who often would not think of issues such as formatting returned media. While there may be a company policy on the issue it is probably just one of dozens the staff are meant to follow but, as minimum wage workers, may forget or ignore.
It would help if you look at the Wikipedia link in my earlier posting, When you use a corrected map with the South Pole at the top you will find the East is on your left. With summer pretty much started here and straddling the New Year it is unclear if it should be called the Summer of 2011 or 2012? Doesn't the W in W3C stand for World? So using a season for a time frame is ambiguous. Not as bad as saying 'Fall' which has to be translated from American to the English 'Autumn' then possibly reversed to 'Spring'. Q1 or Q3 is so much easier!
Now you just being silly! Of course it rises in the East tracking from left to right across the sky/map to set in the West. Logical when you think about it, same direction most of us write.
Bottom? I'm in New Zealand. We don't fall off because we are on the top. The Earth obversely spins clockwise so therefore South Pole is on the top. It's all explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversed_map
So when they say "summer 2012" do they mean Jan/Feb 2012 or Nov/Dev 2012?
I'm not a fan of CCTV being over used but as it isn't normally available for access when used in a taxi the abuse potential is pretty small. We haven't had them long but they have already caught one scumbag http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10764246 on video. Used in this limited fashion I support their use.
Dear Orcon, Sorry about the 10% drop. I had to travel overseas at the end of August so I have been using another ISP. Don't worry I returning on Sunday and your traffic will return to normal then. Cheers ukoda
I am in China now and the rate of change here is amazing. The amount of development in roading and new building is nothing short of impressive but what I really noticed the high rate of EV usage. In the 'developed' world we talk about how great EVs would be if they were both practical and cheap but in China they just get on with it because here EVs are both very practical and cheap. For USD $250 to $350 you can buy the functional equivalent to a 50cc scooter which is cheaper to run and can take you anywhere in the city and back home on a charge. What more do you need? It seems to me the difference is the Chinese will use something if it's good enough for what they do most of the time where as we have to have a vehicle that does everything we might want to do, even if we seldom have the need. I guess the truth is there is many factors at play but the bottom line is in the cities I have seen here the EV scooters significantly outnumber cars but back home (New Zealand) I have never seen an actual EV in use on a public road. I should add I don't count half assed hybrid like a Prius as an EV unless it can be used without petrol.
Here in New Zealand it would only be a problem for a small number of bigots but for the most part is likely to be positive. In my case it has clearly been a good thing. When I worked for the TAB (horse racing) it required high quality audited code, which looks good on a CV. When I worked for a casino I had be police interview and certified as a reputable citizen which is also good on a CV, and I always thought I was certifiable ;-)
I was looking thru my web server logs and noticed one of my photos was being referenced often from another site. I turns out some guy was using a photo of me on a motorcycle as his icon/avatar on some motorcycle forums. Since he was referencing my site directly I was tempted to change the image to something wacky for a laugh but since I couldn't be recognized behind the helmet I thought it was harmless and was kind of faltered so didn't change it.
When I heard about WiMax I was excited about the idea of long range WiFi as that's what the name and technology implied. But reality killed that when I found it was licensed space so could not be freely used like WiFi and name was a classic case of false advertising. I'm not sure who owns the spectrum where you are but the cases I have heard of are all telcos are buying the rights. Given the screw every cent you can out of the customer attitude of telcos in this part of the world it's clear that WiMax will offer nothing that G3 doesn't already. I couldn't care less what happens to WiMax, it's just another acronym in the soup of big business.
It will be popular with that significant group of consumers who just buy things without think about the future. Microsoft has always done well out of those customers. Where it will get interesting is when those customers are asked to repurchase all their music because they have a new phone. The response in different countries will be interesting and expensive for Microsoft. In the USA I guess there will be a class action lawsuit that will take years to resolve. Here in New Zealand consumer law will force them to fix the problem promptly or face large fines and I suspect the EU will be the same but take longer and fine them even after they have fixed the problem.
If you want experience as a programmer I would suggest you start writing programs! You are allow to write programs even if you are not paid to do so. I have employed people for positions which they have no paid experience if they can show they have done that type of work as a hobby and to a suitable level of quality. Pick something simple of interest and start coding for it. When you are comfortable with your skill set write something more significant or join an open source project. When I interview someone I want to see the source code more that the running program and hear from the candidate how they designed and debugged their code.
I was great but appears to be abandoned and for some reason FF3 was not made to be backwards compatible with FF2 for the API relating to bookmarks so upgrading the code will be a non-trivial task. Since WebDAV works where FTP won't it's a shame it was the only solution what allowed you to use your own servers with WebDAV.
It would be interesting to know if there is competitors in the different countries that could take advantage of this. Here in New Zealand Trade Me is the big player and ebay is a non-event. Trade Me has the advantage you don't have to pay to list, only on a successful sale, but I think it's actually early market domination that has them owning the market here. I think Aussies are currently allow to use Trade Me with some limits but given that it's now owned by a Aussie company (I think) then now might be a chance for them to expand. If they played their cards right I could see that happening in Aussie but other countries may not have anyone ready to take advantage of the change.
Why measure in white blood cells? I thought the accepted standards were Jumbo Jets, Football fields or Statutes of Libertys, unless you are in Europe were the metric equivalent is the simpler Eiffel Towers? It's all a mute point anyway as Bill pointed out 640K is more than enough for anyone and he's, like, mega rich so he has to be right, right?
I have Windows based K-Jam i-mate. The appeal is I no longer have to carry a PDA and my phone has handy apps like a Russian-English dictionary. Great for traveling. Windows works ok most of the time but still has the classic windows problems so I was looking forward to being able to get a more usable platform. I use Windows, Linux and Mac laptops and based on the usability of them I was keen to get an iPhone. However if I can't load on the apps I choose, or create, then whats the point? The product is not worthy of comparison with the likes of the i-mate or Treo. What stupid way to ruin what looked to be dream product. I think DOA is the right term, good luck selling them now...