While what you say is true, it's not only testing and documentation that is lacking. Good design is, IMHO, at least just as important and often overlooked. The actual coding of a program is a lot easier and less error prone if everything that has to be done is defined beforehand. It also makes the testing easier, because a good design will tell exactly what to expect under certain circumstances. But most programmers, myself included, tend to start writing code as soon as possible. This is often encouraged by management people that want to see results. But they don't understand a design and only believe you've made progress when they see something working, not when you show them a design wich makes it possible to implement everything within a week...
I'm not offended, i never said chello was a good idea anyway. (actually, a *lot* has to change there before they will see me in their constumer base) To be honest, i would not be suprised if they used the KPN-Qwest problem as an excuse for other things. I heard chello users complaining about speed drop after the warning, but while the KPN-Qwest network was still fully operational...
UPC/Chello gave out a warning here in the Netherlands that there users might experience a slowdown when the KPN-Qwest network goes down. They will not lose their connectivity, but the capacity will drop.
I think the situation will be the same for most ISP in europe, there are plenty of networks left when KPN-Qwest goes down, but the overall capacity will be less. Any decent ISP will have more then one uplink anyway, so i guess no one will be completely offline when the stop the network. Unless there are routing problems ofcourse.
If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations
And since it is there own patent the sure can distibute it, or they should find a way to sue themself for distributing the software royalty-free. (That whould make an interesting case...)
They published the code under GPL they gave away the right to use and modify this code, they cannot withdraw that once given right under the terms of the GPL. Basically, I think they gave as they right to use, at least this implementation, of their patent at the moment the GPL'ed it. (But IANAL.)
This pops up on slashdot right after i submitted this cnet story about sony and universal lowering the prices of there online digital music, as well as alowing downloading to mp3 players and burning on cd. Wich a least suggests these companies aren't as afraid of piracy as they where before.
I heard they do something like this on toll roads in France. Your are clocked when you enter and leave the toll road and if that leads to an average speed thats to high you'll get fined.
Suppose an accident happens somewhere on the road, people will start calling and the density of mobile phones in the area will get bigger, so the system will conclude there is a traffic jam. But the people going in the other direction might just be on an nearly empty road. How will the system be able to decide for wich direction there is a trafic jam? This gets even funnier when intersections this happen on an intersection of roads (where most traffic jams occur). Based on the cell info you might conclude there is some kind of traffic jam, but you will never know to wich road in wich direction this applies.
Here in Holland loops are placed in the road wich detect passing cars and there speed. This information is much better localized and gives more info about how big the jam is. In some places this system is also used to warn the upcoming trafic there is a traffic jam ahead.
After several attempts to go through and learn all the different mouse gestures I decided to disable this function as it started to become more of an annoyance.
If thou can not learn even that thou art not worthy of reviewing Opera.
If the RIAA lawyer are worth there money they would make a great case, again Clear Channel as well as against the RIAA. So lets see what they have to say;-)
Oke, I think I understand, it's just like buying CD's, isn't it?
Good luck RIAA, we know your pain...
The/. comunity is full of understanding, please raise the price of CD's a bit to fund the fight against this great injustice!
OTOH, I've had a MS Office document that was
unopenable in MS Office! No matter which version
I tried the program crashed.
I've had many of those in office 97, but i've also had files that whould open perfectly and then crash office when changing the size of a certain a text area inside that file. Even after copying everything and pasting it into a new file. Which leads to the conclusion that office is capable of saving corrupt files...
So If I take a bunch of C4 explosive, press it down into a CD shape and put it in then it should still be okay, EVEN if I put a small detonator in that is kicked off by exposure to the light in the CD laser.
Yes, that is, the firmware should still be okay and say, 'hey, this is not a CD-ROM nor a CD-DA' and then ignore it or eject it.
And yes, your drive may fail if the stuff explodes, but you couldn't blame the firmware for that...
> why would I want intermittent connections of VoIP
> when land-line POTS companies offer the same
> deal?
You don't, but you do want it for international calls. I'm in Holland and using this service I will also pay $0.05 wich is hard to beat over land lines. When you check out the rates for other countries and compare it with what you pay using POTS
But the main use will be PC-to-PC calls and this unit allows you to connect you POT to your PC and use it for voip. Basically this makes Telephone + PC = IP phone. Since I own the phone and the PC already it's a way cheaper deal then buying a IP Phone...
Human-Computer Interfaces aren't much of an item any more. I think he is looking in the wrong direction. He is looking at how people interact with their home PC. If you look at the last few years the way we interact with our PC's hasn't changed much. But PC's haven't changed much as well. Yes, there is more disk space, faste CPU's etc. but how they work and what we do with it hasn't changed much. That means there isn't much need for a better interface.
Only a new technology need a new interface, the way we currently interact with PC's is around for some time now and everybody is fine with it.
If you want to see intresting thing I think you should be looking at newer devices like mobile phone, PDA's etc.
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Well this is what it told me: In the future, your Google account will enable login access to all Google services, including Google Groups posting, Google AdWords, the Google Store, the Google in Your Language program, and more. (My emphasis)
You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google. Note that "sending automated queries" includes, among other things:
using any software which sends queries to Google to determine how a website or webpage "ranks" on Google for various queries;
"meta-searching" Google; and
performing "offline" searches on Google.
Now, how can I use the web API?!
Note that this is not in the Google Api TOS wich you must agree to before downloading the api. But in the Google Terms of Service wich you must agree to before creating a Google account needed to use the Google Api.
Yes, but did it still connect to sa.microsoft.com or did it try to connect to localhost. Think of the fun you can have if it whould connect to my.server.somewhere instead of sa.microsoft.com;-)
I don't have an XP box handy, but I'd like to see what happens if you change add sa.windows.com to the host file and make it point to 127.0.0.1. Or to some other server. It would be nice to be able to send other files then the ones MS wants you to get...
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While what you say is true, it's not only testing and documentation that is lacking. Good design is, IMHO, at least just as important and often overlooked. The actual coding of a program is a lot easier and less error prone if everything that has to be done is defined beforehand. It also makes the testing easier, because a good design will tell exactly what to expect under certain circumstances. But most programmers, myself included, tend to start writing code as soon as possible. This is often encouraged by management people that want to see results. But they don't understand a design and only believe you've made progress when they see something working, not when you show them a design wich makes it possible to implement everything within a week...
I'm not offended, i never said chello was a good idea anyway. (actually, a *lot* has to change there before they will see me in their constumer base) To be honest, i would not be suprised if they used the KPN-Qwest problem as an excuse for other things. I heard chello users complaining about speed drop after the warning, but while the KPN-Qwest network was still fully operational...
True, it helps, but dropping Outlook (Express) for any other mail program of your choice will have largely the same effect.
UPC/Chello gave out a warning here in the Netherlands that there users might experience a slowdown when the KPN-Qwest network goes down. They will not lose their connectivity, but the capacity will drop.
I think the situation will be the same for most ISP in europe, there are plenty of networks left when KPN-Qwest goes down, but the overall capacity will be less. Any decent ISP will have more then one uplink anyway, so i guess no one will be completely offline when the stop the network. Unless there are routing problems ofcourse.
If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations
And since it is there own patent the sure can distibute it, or they should find a way to sue themself for distributing the software royalty-free. (That whould make an interesting case...)
They published the code under GPL they gave away the right to use and modify this code, they cannot withdraw that once given right under the terms of the GPL. Basically, I think they gave as they right to use, at least this implementation, of their patent at the moment the GPL'ed it. (But IANAL.)
This pops up on slashdot right after i submitted this cnet story about sony and universal lowering the prices of there online digital music, as well as alowing downloading to mp3 players and burning on cd. Wich a least suggests these companies aren't as afraid of piracy as they where before.
I heard they do something like this on toll roads in France. Your are clocked when you enter and leave the toll road and if that leads to an average speed thats to high you'll get fined.
Suppose an accident happens somewhere on the road, people will start calling and the density of mobile phones in the area will get bigger, so the system will conclude there is a traffic jam. But the people going in the other direction might just be on an nearly empty road. How will the system be able to decide for wich direction there is a trafic jam? This gets even funnier when intersections this happen on an intersection of roads (where most traffic jams occur). Based on the cell info you might conclude there is some kind of traffic jam, but you will never know to wich road in wich direction this applies. Here in Holland loops are placed in the road wich detect passing cars and there speed. This information is much better localized and gives more info about how big the jam is. In some places this system is also used to warn the upcoming trafic there is a traffic jam ahead.
Just curious, did you test, crack or guess? It is atleast not the most secure password i've ever seen ;-)
After several attempts to go through and learn all the different mouse gestures I decided to disable this function as it started to become more of an annoyance.
If thou can not learn even that thou art not worthy of reviewing Opera.
True, it's fast most of the time but it does seem to have severe problems with link in the /. articles. The just take forever to load...
Of course, all the labels will have to agree to do this
Well, they've done fine one that point so far, so I really don't see how that could be a problem...
...can and will be used against them.
;-)
If the RIAA lawyer are worth there money they would make a great case, again Clear Channel as well as against the RIAA. So lets see what they have to say
Oke, I think I understand, it's just like buying CD's, isn't it?
/. comunity is full of understanding, please raise the price of CD's a bit to fund the fight against this great injustice!
Good luck RIAA, we know your pain...
The
OTOH, I've had a MS Office document that was unopenable in MS Office! No matter which version I tried the program crashed.
I've had many of those in office 97, but i've also had files that whould open perfectly and then crash office when changing the size of a certain a text area inside that file. Even after copying everything and pasting it into a new file. Which leads to the conclusion that office is capable of saving corrupt files...
So If I take a bunch of C4 explosive, press it down into a CD shape and put it in then it should still be okay, EVEN if I put a small detonator in that is kicked off by exposure to the light in the CD laser.
Yes, that is, the firmware should still be okay and say, 'hey, this is not a CD-ROM nor a CD-DA' and then ignore it or eject it.
And yes, your drive may fail if the stuff explodes, but you couldn't blame the firmware for that...
...one competitor less.
With a tv card and XawTV on the root window it whould make a nice desktop background...
> why would I want intermittent connections of VoIP > when land-line POTS companies offer the same > deal? You don't, but you do want it for international calls. I'm in Holland and using this service I will also pay $0.05 wich is hard to beat over land lines. When you check out the rates for other countries and compare it with what you pay using POTS
But the main use will be PC-to-PC calls and this unit allows you to connect you POT to your PC and use it for voip. Basically this makes Telephone + PC = IP phone. Since I own the phone and the PC already it's a way cheaper deal then buying a IP Phone...
I did that when I before, and so did my sister!
It's my invention! Mine, MINE, MINE!
So I will swing sideways when I want to and I won't license it from you, sue me!
Human-Computer Interfaces aren't much of an item any more. I think he is looking in the wrong direction. He is looking at how people interact with their home PC. If you look at the last few years the way we interact with our PC's hasn't changed much. But PC's haven't changed much as well. Yes, there is more disk space, faste CPU's etc. but how they work and what we do with it hasn't changed much. That means there isn't much need for a better interface.
Only a new technology need a new interface, the way we currently interact with PC's is around for some time now and everybody is fine with it. If you want to see intresting thing I think you should be looking at newer devices like mobile phone, PDA's etc.
Well this is what it told me:
In the future, your Google account will enable login access to all Google services, including Google Groups posting, Google AdWords, the Google Store, the Google in Your Language program, and more.
(My emphasis)
Notice the difference?
No Automated Querying
You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google. Note that "sending automated queries" includes, among other things:
- using any software which sends queries to Google to determine how a website or webpage "ranks" on Google for various queries;
- "meta-searching" Google; and
- performing "offline" searches on Google.
Now, how can I use the web API?!Note that this is not in the Google Api TOS wich you must agree to before downloading the api. But in the Google Terms of Service wich you must agree to before creating a Google account needed to use the Google Api.
Still, it's fun and i'll play with it!
Yes, but did it still connect to sa.microsoft.com or did it try to connect to localhost. Think of the fun you can have if it whould connect to my.server.somewhere instead of sa.microsoft.com ;-)
I don't have an XP box handy, but I'd like to see what happens if you change add sa.windows.com to the host file and make it point to 127.0.0.1. Or to some other server. It would be nice to be able to send other files then the ones MS wants you to get...