So you don't like Facebook. We get it. But would it have been so hard to write an unbiased summary? Some of us use Facebook and we a) actually don't mind it so much, and b) wouldn't really call it a "waste of time". Even if it does break sometimes:-)
I can see it having applications particularly in things like magazine adverts etc, where a QR/2D barcode wouldn't fit in aesthetically, but something with jazzy colours etc would do. It does open up the potential problem of bad registration during printing, where the colours may not necessarily line up; not a problem with a black-on-white barcode really.
Having tried it, the read speed is quicker than on my Nokia N95 barcode reader, but I guess having said that, there is already an existing standard which works fine with "proper" barcode scanners and not mobile phone ones - why deviate from this, in order to accomplish the same, but with the removal from the barcode of the information required (and place it on a server somewhere else)?
I'm sure Asterisk is suitable for this. If you have the time, inclination and oh probably a bit of geek inside you to actually want to try and set this up.
But seriously, how many grannies are going to want to set up an Asterisk server that lives in the corner of their living room next to the pot plant and the electric fire, and worry about what it's doing etc? It makes far more sense if you're going to market this to the general public to make it as easy as pressing a button to block future calls from that number, rather than having to fiddle about with a web interface yourself, or call grandson Johnny and get him to come over and fix it.
Watch out for Chronopay though - selling email address on to pr0n spammers isn't my idea of the most "secure" payment service... and yes, this has happened to me in the past 3 months since I started using them to charge my allofmp3 account.
The only one I really use and install immediately after a fresh Firefox install is the Webdeveloper toolbar extension - easy access to CSS, image control, outlining of HTML elements, form information etc...fantastic during web development.
I've had success using PuTTY for Symbian OS on my Nokia 6600 on O2 - am on a contract (one of the "online" tariffs) with them, and after installation on my phone, it worked straight away with no need to call them up. Haven't had the chance to try with pay-as-you-go however, but contract is fine.
I've just got the 3650 this week; it does take a bit of getting used to but it does have some nice features such as personal configuration of the menu layout. So you can have all your most frequently used options near the top and the less-used ones out of the way at the bottom.
The one problem I have with it though is that the video recorder doesn't record sound, even though the sample clips it comes with have a full soundtrack - annoying seeing as they fail to mention this in the advert.
Aside from that, the keypad takes a bit of getting used to but its a nice phone, and not as chunky in my pocket as I expected it to be.
"For Windows Server 2003, the War Room is run by Todd Wanke, who we eventually found to be an amazingly likeable guy. However, in the hour-long War Room sessions, Wanke rules with an iron fist":)
I know perhaps the whole idea of the XPC is that you buy the bare bones and insert the rest of the components yourself, but has anyone found a distributor that sells the machines completely-prebuilt? I've been looking for someone who does that, for a university project, and many companies are very willing to sell the basic case + motherboard, but not so keen when you ask them to equip it for you..
Just for the record, I've been using Mozilla with HSBC in the UK for the past 2 years, and have never had a problem with it - everything renders the same as in IE, and if anything, it's slightly faster than IE, although obviously thats down to the rendering code:)
A home office minister on BBC R4 yesterday blurted out that the government were collecting the data anyway, regardless....check the story on The Register...
Both in exams and outside of them, I tend to do most of my work in pseudo-code first as it helps me to get my head round tricky sections of code. I find it's much easier to sit down and say "This needs to happen (scribble) but only when this is true (scribble)", and from there you can begin to construct basic code around the pseudo-structure - far easier than delving straight into the code:)
We had pretty much the exact same problem with our ISP, in that if we sent HTTP requests out without any proxy configuration, they would often take a couple of times to get through, since our ISP's transparent proxying didn't work. However, on setting the browser's proxy settings to the proxy itself, this seemed to solve the problem since it would ask the proxy directly.
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So you don't like Facebook. We get it. But would it have been so hard to write an unbiased summary? Some of us use Facebook and we a) actually don't mind it so much, and b) wouldn't really call it a "waste of time". Even if it does break sometimes :-)
I can see it having applications particularly in things like magazine adverts etc, where a QR/2D barcode wouldn't fit in aesthetically, but something with jazzy colours etc would do. It does open up the potential problem of bad registration during printing, where the colours may not necessarily line up; not a problem with a black-on-white barcode really. Having tried it, the read speed is quicker than on my Nokia N95 barcode reader, but I guess having said that, there is already an existing standard which works fine with "proper" barcode scanners and not mobile phone ones - why deviate from this, in order to accomplish the same, but with the removal from the barcode of the information required (and place it on a server somewhere else)?
I'm sure Asterisk is suitable for this. If you have the time, inclination and oh probably a bit of geek inside you to actually want to try and set this up. But seriously, how many grannies are going to want to set up an Asterisk server that lives in the corner of their living room next to the pot plant and the electric fire, and worry about what it's doing etc? It makes far more sense if you're going to market this to the general public to make it as easy as pressing a button to block future calls from that number, rather than having to fiddle about with a web interface yourself, or call grandson Johnny and get him to come over and fix it.
Watch out for Chronopay though - selling email address on to pr0n spammers isn't my idea of the most "secure" payment service... and yes, this has happened to me in the past 3 months since I started using them to charge my allofmp3 account.
The only one I really use and install immediately after a fresh Firefox install is the Webdeveloper toolbar extension - easy access to CSS, image control, outlining of HTML elements, form information etc...fantastic during web development.
I've had success using PuTTY for Symbian OS on my Nokia 6600 on O2 - am on a contract (one of the "online" tariffs) with them, and after installation on my phone, it worked straight away with no need to call them up. Haven't had the chance to try with pay-as-you-go however, but contract is fine.
I've just got the 3650 this week; it does take a bit of getting used to but it does have some nice features such as personal configuration of the menu layout. So you can have all your most frequently used options near the top and the less-used ones out of the way at the bottom.
The one problem I have with it though is that the video recorder doesn't record sound, even though the sample clips it comes with have a full soundtrack - annoying seeing as they fail to mention this in the advert.
Aside from that, the keypad takes a bit of getting used to but its a nice phone, and not as chunky in my pocket as I expected it to be.
"For Windows Server 2003, the War Room is run by Todd Wanke, who we eventually found to be an amazingly likeable guy. However, in the hour-long War Room sessions, Wanke rules with an iron fist" :)
CNN has an article on this too.
I know perhaps the whole idea of the XPC is that you buy the bare bones and insert the rest of the components yourself, but has anyone found a distributor that sells the machines completely-prebuilt? I've been looking for someone who does that, for a university project, and many companies are very willing to sell the basic case + motherboard, but not so keen when you ask them to equip it for you..
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Just for the record, I've been using Mozilla with HSBC in the UK for the past 2 years, and have never had a problem with it - everything renders the same as in IE, and if anything, it's slightly faster than IE, although obviously thats down to the rendering code :)
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HELLO?? yeah i'm in a concert......yeah......no.......bye!
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A home office minister on BBC R4 yesterday blurted out that the government were collecting the data anyway, regardless....check the story on The Register ...
Both in exams and outside of them, I tend to do most of my work in pseudo-code first as it helps me to get my head round tricky sections of code. I find it's much easier to sit down and say "This needs to happen (scribble) but only when this is true (scribble)", and from there you can begin to construct basic code around the pseudo-structure - far easier than delving straight into the code :)
We had pretty much the exact same problem with our ISP, in that if we sent HTTP requests out without any proxy configuration, they would often take a couple of times to get through, since our ISP's transparent proxying didn't work. However, on setting the browser's proxy settings to the proxy itself, this seemed to solve the problem since it would ask the proxy directly.
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Don't ask me why