....BR canned the Advanced Passenger Train project because apparently the test subjects didn't like the tilting inherent in a tilting train design.
They came up with the InterCity 125 (because it could do 125MPH) instead. This didn't tilt and was far less revolutionary, but is none the less still in service on our express lines, especially where the line hasn't been electrified.
It was at least the first train in the UK to have a DVT allowing it to be operated in either direction without being turned round and driven from either end
Annoyingly, the rights to the APT design were sold to an Italian firm (I think it was Bombardier) who turned it in to the commercialy succesful pendolino - which we have had to buy lots of to run on our West Coast Main line.
Shame we didn't finish the job ourselves really.
If you would like to find out more about the APT, visit the National Railway Museum in York UK!
...I'm sure someone will very quickly produce a hacked version of lilo or grub or something that boots from EFI and installes the necessary interrupt handlers etc to emulate a BIOS enough to boot Vista.
Hacking the real BIOS is probably too dangerous for most people to want to do with their new macs.
If all you had to go on when selecting music out of a massive list was the artist, title and ratings from other people - wouldn't you start by looking at what other people had rated most highly? I think almost everyone would.
> RIM has already stated that they have a technology workaround that does not infringe the "patents."
You believe them? I'm not sure I do. We don't know the exact details because of the NDAs but given it's 8 patents it sounds like a massive piece of work to me, presumably it could mean changing the device firmward on every device and changing the backend at the same time.
Even if they do have a technical solution, a large change to a massive live system like this, it's likely carries a very high risk.
Totally rediculous given the patents have all but been thrown out.
I'd much prefer to see a film done about another Pratchett book - Mort.
Everyone I know says that's the best of the Discworld books to start with, as it's the most accessible, and the characters are the most recognisable. Everyone for some reason identifies with Mort as he confronts, literally, death. It's funny, it's clever, and you don't need to be a discworld fan to love it - lets convert some people.
Most of them come region coded, but you just get a code off a website (the manufactures leak the codes) that you type in to the remote. All of a sudden no region coding.
Actually I can think of a number of reasons why an adware program might have legitimate reason to monitor your mouse movements - activating roll overs, pop ups etc.
I can't think of anything it would do with that functionlity that wouldn't be annoying, but I can see why it might be considered legitimate.
If it is storing key strokes to build an advertising profile or something (e.g. if you type "cat food" a lot - that would be different).
Are most urinals in the US the kind that you flush after each use (be that via handle or motion sensor)?
The vast majority in the UK just have a large tank high up on the wall, and a timer flushes them all every hour or so.
They normally don't smell particularly (except the infamous "public toilets" that only the very desperate use) and I guess this saves a lot of water over ones that flushed every time?
I think a lot of you have missed the point. This says far more about the U.N. than it says about Microsoft. Microsoft is a corporate, inherently self serving and intended as such, it's silly to criticise them for being what any other corporate would be in their place. It is because coroprations are expected to behave like this that we have legislation to prevent it.
The U.N. is meant to be about the greater good.
The saddest thing about the U.N. at the moment though is the fall from grace of the once eminent Kofi Annan.
We have a "do not call" register in the UK. It has been completely ineffective.
The marketing companies just ignore it because:
a) No-one is enforcing it. b) They have a loop hole for "out of date" lists c) A lot of companies seem to call in from outside the country, circumventing it (often Indian call centers, or recorded messages).
Anyone have any idea how this will be limited to the DS?
The only standards compliant ways I can think of would be to:
*Use MAC address filtering and limit to Nintendo ranges, in which case you can spoof the MAC on your wi-fi card to get access.
*Place a client on each DS containing a private key and a certificate, and set the gateway to authenticate each IP before allowing access. It's like DRM - if you give people the key, even hidden in a console, they will eventually find it and gain access.
*Secret WEP/WPA key embedded in to each DS? Again sooner or later the key will out?
*A very modified gateway and akey derived from the MAC address and some secret string hashed? Can you even have multiple keys on one network if you don't care about hosts talking direct to each other?
But I suppose they aren't restricted to staying standards compliant...
But if they don't, is there anyway to attach a NIC to a DS and get it to route?
I realise that it probably isn't even worth trying any of this. I just don't like McDonalds:) Also, free to use WiFi points are very few and far between in the UK. I can't help feeling that more bars/pubs/starbucks shoud provide it for free - it keeps you in there!
My XP laptop boots in a time that seems pefectly fine to me, dosen't bother me at all.
What bothers me is the login time. The *worst* thing being that even when the desktop and taskbar appear, there is still another 30 seconds before the machine is usable.
This seems like a big usability problem to me - I don't think it should be there until it is ready, otherwise the user gets very frustrated trying to click on a button that just wont play while the hard drive continues to thrash around.
Also, I think that 30 seconds is a bit lond to load a profile...
You seem to have missed the point of my post there. In fact you don't seem to have read the first line.
Nowhere in my post did I say that NAT is the solution to the address space shortages, of course it isn't. We need IPv6.
My post was all about the reasons why NAT won't die, and why it dosen't necessarily deserve to be seen as a bad thing, even when there is plenty of address space available.
I'm genuinely conviced that this will happen.
Partly for all of the address space wastage reasons that other people have given above (e.g. not assigning less than a 64 which in some ways could very loosely be seen as reducing the effective address space to 64 bits), but partly just because *every* time anyone has said "we'll never need that much" in the IT industry they have been proven totally wrong (think that Bill Gates quote, the one about 640k of RAM... ).
It's just we haven't dreamed up the application yet.
I don't think that IPv6 will see the end of NAT at all. NAT is a very quick and covenient technique for consumer DSL routers to use.
For a start, a lot of ISPs only offer one address, partly to encourage people to buy more expensive packages with multiple addresses, and NAT transparently solves that issue.
There is no reason to assume that increased avilability of addresses will cause ISPs to offer more addresses to consumers - after all if they anticipate 100,000 single PC broadband connections, they are going to find it hard to get approval for 800,000 addresses (to allow a/28), even with the increased address space. And even when you do have multiple addresses allocated, what about the users that have one more machine than usable addresses? Small company networks etc? Now matter how many addressed IPv6 supplies, we will run out eventually, and much sooner than we expect.
Also low end ADSL connections often force NAT upon a user, allowing the vendor to create a differentiator between it's commercial and domestic offerings.
In the end NAT offers security, independence of allocated IP space to available addresses, simplified network management with an excellent delineation point between vendor and consumer (the ISP dosen't have to worry about what is inside the end user network), and a reasonable form of security. It's great for a small internet connected network.
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Having checked it out you're right. Alstom made the Pendolino's, Bombardier made the non-tilting Voyagers.
....BR canned the Advanced Passenger Train project because apparently the test subjects didn't like the tilting inherent in a tilting train design.
They came up with the InterCity 125 (because it could do 125MPH) instead. This didn't tilt and was far less revolutionary, but is none the less still in service on our express lines, especially where the line hasn't been electrified.
It was at least the first train in the UK to have a DVT allowing it to be operated in either direction without being turned round and driven from either end
Annoyingly, the rights to the APT design were sold to an Italian firm (I think it was Bombardier) who turned it in to the commercialy succesful pendolino - which we have had to buy lots of to run on our West Coast Main line.
Shame we didn't finish the job ourselves really.
If you would like to find out more about the APT, visit the National Railway Museum in York UK!
...I'm sure someone will very quickly produce a hacked version of lilo or grub or something that boots from EFI and installes the necessary interrupt handlers etc to emulate a BIOS enough to boot Vista. Hacking the real BIOS is probably too dangerous for most people to want to do with their new macs.
If all you had to go on when selecting music out of a massive list was the artist, title and ratings from other people - wouldn't you start by looking at what other people had rated most highly? I think almost everyone would.
Yes but the court is enforcing them anyway.
> RIM has already stated that they have a technology workaround that does not infringe the "patents."
You believe them? I'm not sure I do. We don't know the exact details because of the NDAs but given it's 8 patents it sounds like a massive piece of work to me, presumably it could mean changing the device firmward on every device and changing the backend at the same time.
Even if they do have a technical solution, a large change to a massive live system like this, it's likely carries a very high risk.
Totally rediculous given the patents have all but been thrown out.
I'd much prefer to see a film done about another Pratchett book - Mort.
Everyone I know says that's the best of the Discworld books to start with, as it's the most accessible, and the characters are the most recognisable. Everyone for some reason identifies with Mort as he confronts, literally, death. It's funny, it's clever, and you don't need to be a discworld fan to love it - lets convert some people.
I was replying to the parent about the DVD players you buy in shops.. guess I should have made that clearer.
Most of them come region coded, but you just get a code off a website (the manufactures leak the codes) that you type in to the remote. All of a sudden no region coding.
You don't need to anyway. Pretty much every DVD player on sale in the UK has a code you enter on the remote that makes it region free.
But as it says, these "screener" copies need special Dolby DVD players anyway. Surprising that they are region coded.
I did. Sent a mail off. A good 10 mins before it went green. Didn't help.
The "blogosphere" is one of those terms that's so wooly it dosen't really mean anything.
You could well have a very valid point but it is phrased very generically - which servers and datacenters are having trouble coping?
Personally I'd be very shocked if any data center couldn't cope with a blog.
Actually I can think of a number of reasons why an adware program might have legitimate reason to monitor your mouse movements - activating roll overs, pop ups etc.
I can't think of anything it would do with that functionlity that wouldn't be annoying, but I can see why it might be considered legitimate.
If it is storing key strokes to build an advertising profile or something (e.g. if you type "cat food" a lot - that would be different).
The vast majority in the UK just have a large tank high up on the wall, and a timer flushes them all every hour or so. They normally don't smell particularly (except the infamous "public toilets" that only the very desperate use) and I guess this saves a lot of water over ones that flushed every time?
Actually dual flush toilets are mostly confined to pan-European chain hotels in the UK.
The saddest thing about the U.N. at the moment though is the fall from grace of the once eminent Kofi Annan.
My folks have been on the register for years - they still get about a call a day.
We have a "do not call" register in the UK. It has been completely ineffective.
The marketing companies just ignore it because:
a) No-one is enforcing it.
b) They have a loop hole for "out of date" lists
c) A lot of companies seem to call in from outside the country, circumventing it (often Indian call centers, or recorded messages).
Anyone have any idea how this will be limited to the DS?
:) Also, free to use WiFi points are very few and far between in the UK. I can't help feeling that more bars/pubs/starbucks shoud provide it for free - it keeps you in there!
The only standards compliant ways I can think of would be to:
*Use MAC address filtering and limit to Nintendo ranges, in which case you can spoof the MAC on your wi-fi card to get access.
*Place a client on each DS containing a private key and a certificate, and set the gateway to authenticate each IP before allowing access. It's like DRM - if you give people the key, even hidden in a console, they will eventually find it and gain access.
*Secret WEP/WPA key embedded in to each DS? Again sooner or later the key will out?
*A very modified gateway and akey derived from the MAC address and some secret string hashed? Can you even have multiple keys on one network if you don't care about hosts talking direct to each other?
But I suppose they aren't restricted to staying standards compliant...
But if they don't, is there anyway to attach a NIC to a DS and get it to route?
I realise that it probably isn't even worth trying any of this. I just don't like McDonalds
My XP laptop boots in a time that seems pefectly fine to me, dosen't bother me at all.
What bothers me is the login time. The *worst* thing being that even when the desktop and taskbar appear, there is still another 30 seconds before the machine is usable.
This seems like a big usability problem to me - I don't think it should be there until it is ready, otherwise the user gets very frustrated trying to click on a button that just wont play while the hard drive continues to thrash around.
Also, I think that 30 seconds is a bit lond to load a profile...
You seem to have missed the point of my post there. In fact you don't seem to have read the first line.
Nowhere in my post did I say that NAT is the solution to the address space shortages, of course it isn't. We need IPv6.
My post was all about the reasons why NAT won't die, and why it dosen't necessarily deserve to be seen as a bad thing, even when there is plenty of address space available.
I'm genuinely conviced that this will happen. Partly for all of the address space wastage reasons that other people have given above (e.g. not assigning less than a 64 which in some ways could very loosely be seen as reducing the effective address space to 64 bits), but partly just because *every* time anyone has said "we'll never need that much" in the IT industry they have been proven totally wrong (think that Bill Gates quote, the one about 640k of RAM... ). It's just we haven't dreamed up the application yet.
I don't think that IPv6 will see the end of NAT at all. NAT is a very quick and covenient technique for consumer DSL routers to use.
/28), even with the increased address space. And even when you do have multiple addresses allocated, what about the users that have one more machine than usable addresses? Small company networks etc? Now matter how many addressed IPv6 supplies, we will run out eventually, and much sooner than we expect.
For a start, a lot of ISPs only offer one address, partly to encourage people to buy more expensive packages with multiple addresses, and NAT transparently solves that issue.
There is no reason to assume that increased avilability of addresses will cause ISPs to offer more addresses to consumers - after all if they anticipate 100,000 single PC broadband connections, they are going to find it hard to get approval for 800,000 addresses (to allow a
Also low end ADSL connections often force NAT upon a user, allowing the vendor to create a differentiator between it's commercial and domestic offerings.
In the end NAT offers security, independence of allocated IP space to available addresses, simplified network management with an excellent delineation point between vendor and consumer (the ISP dosen't have to worry about what is inside the end user network), and a reasonable form of security. It's great for a small internet connected network.
Yes but Safari dosen't run on Windows, and probably never will... people don't want to reboot in to MacOS just to browse the web.
Good point - though in the case of 2.6 you are still doing the same thing for the same results, just with a different interface.