I'd be prepared to put money on Sony losing this case. I'm sure we've all seen this sort of thing before. Media Max will have warned Sony that the approach had problems, they will have a mail chain demonstrating that, but Sony's management will have bullishly insisted on the security features it offered while ignoring or not bothering to understand the warnings it contained about the risks. What are the chances even their own technical advisors internally warned against it?
How is this different to source routing packets in IPv4? Surely people will just configure firewalls and hosts to drop these packets in exactly the same way as is done for IPv4 now.
Oops sorry slip of the tongue - I do know the difference between the US and Canada - apart from anything else the US would never get in to the Commonwealth:-)
OK Credit Cards aren't available to under 18's but in the UK at least you can get a debit card from as young as 13 - a lot of kids have them and they work on iTunes here.
I've looked after well over a hundred of them - and never known a dual PSU host go down because of a PSU failure, or a machine go down because of a single fan failure. The DL380 in particular has a redundant fan option - did you take it?
In fact I've only ever known 2 go down, because of M/B failures.
If you had to name the two most popular HP products, I think you'd say these:
*HP Printers *DL series servers
They are certainly the only HP products I use (at my company we use only Dell workstations). Obviously the DL servers came in with the Compaq merger - and having used a wide variety of Dell, Sun and IBM servers, I'd certainly call the HP DL360 and 380 the most engineer friendly webserver hosts going.
Without Carly where would HPs server arm be, and would I only be talking about the printers in this post?
I suspect this is being presented backwards. Mabye all ISPs do that because each country's respective government makes them (US and UK governments certainly require this kind of thing), and this ISP is just too honest not to admit it...
Verrus operate a similar system at the council car parks in York, England. It's great - finding the change was always a pain!
They get the number of your cell phone from caller ID and store your vehicle registration plate and credit card details against it the first time you call. The next time you call you just tell it how many hours you want and enter the 4 digit code for the car park you are using. For an extra 10p you can get a reminder SMS. You are also free to call again and extend the parking.
If you don't have your cell phone with you then you can use any phone, and just tap in your cell number and the PIN number you set the first time you called. You also use that PIN if you want to change credit card or vehicle registration numbers.
The wardens have machines that have details of the electronically issued tickets on them, so they don't clamp you:)
The sales tax thing was a good flaw in my argument - it accounts for 17% of the 30% difference - but the pound being strong makes no difference at all.
The prices are higher based on the current, strong, exchange rate, for a US product in the UK, and show a higher differential between US and UK price then, for example, Dell.
Since I forgot to mention above - the two top end systems have a 2.0GHZ Intel Core Duo, the bottom end has 1.83GHZ. Personally I'm very surprised that the base system dosen't have a DVD writer - I bought a Dell Inspiron for £379 that had the same spec as the mid range machine except it only had a Celeron 1.4 - it did have a bigger screen, and was still half the price.
I was hoping for a cheaper and better specified machine, in the laptop world CPU is often seen as one of the less important factors, especially if you are using onboard graphics as in this case as that has already killed the game potential anyway.
Apple's website saying the family is complete has no bearing at all on whether we can expect any new arrivals- it's not like they'd put "coming soon" and hurt the sales of the current products.
The new system is availabe in three specs. All have:
13.3-inch widescreen display 1280 x 800 resolution 512MB memory (2 x 256MB SODIMMs) USB, Bluetooth 2.0 and Firewire Airport
The bottom end model has:
60GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive 2 Combo drive (DVD-ROM, CD-RW) White
US: $1099 UK: £749 ($1423)
The mid-range model has:
60GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive 2 SuperDrive (DVD±RW, CD-RW) White
US: $1288 UK: £899 ($1708)
The high-end model has:
80GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive 2 SuperDrive (DVD±RW, CD-RW) Black or White
US: $1499 UK: £1028.99 ($1953)
So.. Once again Apple think that in the UK we should pay as much as 30% more for the privilege of having a machine shipped across the Atlantic and a couple of keys in a different place. Great.
We had self-heating coffee cans in the UK under the Nescafe brand (Nestle). They were sold at petrol (gas) stations mainly.
Problem was not many people bought them. The coffee was nothing special, and because the cans were mostly filled with heater mechaism there wasn't even that much of it. They were expensive too.
I haven't seen any for a couple of years now. Instead a lot of petrol stations just have a coffee machine, or cans of coffee that are kept in a heater.
>You try fighting 3 or 4 modern rendering engines' screwed up implementations of CSS for hours or days, with little more than a prayer that it'll look half as consistent as Netscape 4's parsing of the HTML you wrote over lunch. I eventually did succeed (partially, some tables had to stay) after alot of frustration but I'd hardly call it time well spent.
This is where I believe XHTML (1.1 at least) has the most to offer.
When working with HTML 4 I've had to spend a huge amount of time trying to make the site look the same in multiple browsers - then I switched to XHTML 1.1, and all of a sudden most of that work disappeared.
>And you want us to ditch everything Javascript has to offer because of support/compatibility issues? Are you insane?
I've no objection to javascript for input validation and UI enhacement if is it 100% optional, and the site is unaffected if it is unavailable. Also, it has to be done properly - 3 out of the lat 5 ecommerce sites I tried to use failed in Firefox (Windows) due to javascript errors, and I had to switch to IE. In firefox it was completely impossible to use the sites.
My objection to javascript with AJAX is it becomes compulsory for the functioning of that application.
1: Does anyone know of any significant javascript code which works on two different browsers without having to have conditionals based on the user agent?
2: Most AJAX applications break accessibility rules, which are law in many countries (including the UK, where I am).
3: AJAX provides another attack vector on websites. Look at the myspace worm. I know that comes down to bad programming, but still it's another chance to miss something.
4: A number of companies block javascript at the firewall - trust me, it's true. Imagine how well an AJAX site will work there!
5: Javascript is not available in all UA's (e.g. Lynx) - I firmly believe that no website should ever NEED javascript - in fact in my sites I avoid it all together.
I wish people would forget about stuff like this and concentrate on at least getting VALID html and CSS in their sites, preferably using at least semi recent standards like XHTML 1.0. Eh slashdot coders? I mean you!!!
The APT was the tilting train - the 225 is the combination of a Class 91, a DVT and a load of MK4 rolling stock and is the most common train on the East Coast Main today. It dosen't tilt.
"But for the stimulus and competition of APT, HST would not have been in service as early. It might not have existed at all as its development was initiated as a low risk conventional response to APT."
Slashdot Mirror
I'd be prepared to put money on Sony losing this case. I'm sure we've all seen this sort of thing before. Media Max will have warned Sony that the approach had problems, they will have a mail chain demonstrating that, but Sony's management will have bullishly insisted on the security features it offered while ignoring or not bothering to understand the warnings it contained about the risks. What are the chances even their own technical advisors internally warned against it?
How is this different to source routing packets in IPv4? Surely people will just configure firewalls and hosts to drop these packets in exactly the same way as is done for IPv4 now.
This is already covered by UK law - either driving without due care and attention, or causing death by dangerous driving.
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In fact someone who caused a fatal accident while texting has been sentenced to jail for 2 years, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6357425.stm and another to a young offenders institution, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6448887
But it's common to other EU countries too, here is another example from France; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3673632.s
No, this is why Judge Judy exists.
iTunes is effectively a different site in each country though, accepting the local methods of payment. For example in the EU, Maestro/Switch.
Oops sorry slip of the tongue - I do know the difference between the US and Canada - apart from anything else the US would never get in to the Commonwealth :-)
Not the same in the US?
I've looked after well over a hundred of them - and never known a dual PSU host go down because of a PSU failure, or a machine go down because of a single fan failure. The DL380 in particular has a redundant fan option - did you take it?
In fact I've only ever known 2 go down, because of M/B failures.
J
If you had to name the two most popular HP products, I think you'd say these:
*HP Printers
*DL series servers
They are certainly the only HP products I use (at my company we use only Dell workstations). Obviously the DL servers came in with the Compaq merger - and having used a wide variety of Dell, Sun and IBM servers, I'd certainly call the HP DL360 and 380 the most engineer friendly webserver hosts going.
Without Carly where would HPs server arm be, and would I only be talking about the printers in this post?
I suspect this is being presented backwards. Mabye all ISPs do that because each country's respective government makes them (US and UK governments certainly require this kind of thing), and this ISP is just too honest not to admit it...
Yes - so long as you either know their PIN number of you have the same vehicle registration number as them....
Verrus operate a similar system at the council car parks in York, England. It's great - finding the change was always a pain!
:)
They get the number of your cell phone from caller ID and store your vehicle registration plate and credit card details against it the first time you call. The next time you call you just tell it how many hours you want and enter the 4 digit code for the car park you are using. For an extra 10p you can get a reminder SMS. You are also free to call again and extend the parking.
If you don't have your cell phone with you then you can use any phone, and just tap in your cell number and the PIN number you set the first time you called. You also use that PIN if you want to change credit card or vehicle registration numbers.
The wardens have machines that have details of the electronically issued tickets on them, so they don't clamp you
The sales tax thing was a good flaw in my argument - it accounts for 17% of the 30% difference - but the pound being strong makes no difference at all.
The prices are higher based on the current, strong, exchange rate, for a US product in the UK, and show a higher differential between US and UK price then, for example, Dell.
Good point - but with 17.5% VAT that would still leave a differential of 12.5%...
Since I forgot to mention above - the two top end systems have a 2.0GHZ Intel Core Duo, the bottom end has 1.83GHZ. Personally I'm very surprised that the base system dosen't have a DVD writer - I bought a Dell Inspiron for £379 that had the same spec as the mid range machine except it only had a Celeron 1.4 - it did have a bigger screen, and was still half the price.
I was hoping for a cheaper and better specified machine, in the laptop world CPU is often seen as one of the less important factors, especially if you are using onboard graphics as in this case as that has already killed the game potential anyway.
Apple's website saying the family is complete has no bearing at all on whether we can expect any new arrivals- it's not like they'd put "coming soon" and hurt the sales of the current products.
The new system is availabe in three specs. All have:
13.3-inch widescreen display
1280 x 800 resolution
512MB memory (2 x 256MB SODIMMs)
USB, Bluetooth 2.0 and Firewire
Airport
The bottom end model has:
60GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive 2
Combo drive (DVD-ROM, CD-RW)
White
US: $1099 UK: £749 ($1423)
The mid-range model has:
60GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive 2
SuperDrive (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
White
US: $1288 UK: £899 ($1708)
The high-end model has:
80GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive 2
SuperDrive (DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Black or White
US: $1499 UK: £1028.99 ($1953)
So.. Once again Apple think that in the UK we should pay as much as 30% more for the privilege of having a machine shipped across the Atlantic and a couple of keys in a different place. Great.
We had self-heating coffee cans in the UK under the Nescafe brand (Nestle). They were sold at petrol (gas) stations mainly.
Problem was not many people bought them. The coffee was nothing special, and because the cans were mostly filled with heater mechaism there wasn't even that much of it. They were expensive too.
I haven't seen any for a couple of years now. Instead a lot of petrol stations just have a coffee machine, or cans of coffee that are kept in a heater.
Yes I'm pretty sure I know what Javascript is - and I just posted this comment with Javascript turned off.
:)
Are you sure you know what it is?
J
>You try fighting 3 or 4 modern rendering engines' screwed up implementations of CSS for hours or days, with little more than a prayer that it'll look half as consistent as Netscape 4's parsing of the HTML you wrote over lunch. I eventually did succeed (partially, some tables had to stay) after alot of frustration but I'd hardly call it time well spent.
This is where I believe XHTML (1.1 at least) has the most to offer.
When working with HTML 4 I've had to spend a huge amount of time trying to make the site look the same in multiple browsers - then I switched to XHTML 1.1, and all of a sudden most of that work disappeared.
>And you want us to ditch everything Javascript has to offer because of support/compatibility issues? Are you insane?
I've no objection to javascript for input validation and UI enhacement if is it 100% optional, and the site is unaffected if it is unavailable. Also, it has to be done properly - 3 out of the lat 5 ecommerce sites I tried to use failed in Firefox (Windows) due to javascript errors, and I had to switch to IE. In firefox it was completely impossible to use the sites.
My objection to javascript with AJAX is it becomes compulsory for the functioning of that application.
I really dislike AJAX, for the following reasons:
1: Does anyone know of any significant javascript code which works on two different browsers without having to have conditionals based on the user agent?
2: Most AJAX applications break accessibility rules, which are law in many countries (including the UK, where I am).
3: AJAX provides another attack vector on websites. Look at the myspace worm. I know that comes down to bad programming, but still it's another chance to miss something.
4: A number of companies block javascript at the firewall - trust me, it's true. Imagine how well an AJAX site will work there!
5: Javascript is not available in all UA's (e.g. Lynx) - I firmly believe that no website should ever NEED javascript - in fact in my sites I avoid it all together.
I wish people would forget about stuff like this and concentrate on at least getting VALID html and CSS in their sites, preferably using at least semi recent standards like XHTML 1.0. Eh slashdot coders? I mean you!!!
The APT was the tilting train - the 225 is the combination of a Class 91, a DVT and a load of MK4 rolling stock and is the most common train on the East Coast Main today. It dosen't tilt.
You were right to pick me up on the multiple units though :)
I didn't say they had a pair of DVT's, I said they had *a* DVT. RTFC :-)
See APT - With Hindsight by Professor Alan Wickens