We've hooked an iPod shuffle to our new phone system. When customers are on hold now, they get to listen to cool music not some synthiepop mozart castration. No pictures on the phone system though.
One customer even asked if he could get the music from our phone system on CD.
I've spent an afternoon in the Archaeological Museum in Athens and without knowing the story stumbled upon this thing (no mention of the "clock/computer" in the weblog post though). It is impressive to look at, among the other ancient stuff it has an otherworldly air, it's not impressive in the sense of how big or complex it looks. Of course you can't see that much from the object itself, but I can imagine that people first looked at it and noticed that there is something really unusual about gears appearing in something so old.
The bronze exhibition also has other fine worked small stuff (and the gold stuff exhibition has even smaller and more detailed worked stuff), so I give the old Greeks the ability to work on this level. Perhaps not your neighbourhood blacksmith, but some experts were definitely able to do this level of work.
So Google/Sun offer an online office application, which will be fine for single users, then some companies want to use it. Next Google will sell something like the Google mini (see this piece on AnandTech loaded with the online office application server in a mini version......and then we're back full circle at server/client applications, thin clients, the complete shebang. But this time all that in a closed box, with an external support thing too. Oh, we had that before already too? A wet dream for the Sun guys, for sure.
What is a blog for Google? How to get listed
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The way to get your blog listed and also the answer to "what makes a blog a blog for Google":
Quote: How do I get my blog listed?
If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically pings an updating service (such as Weblogs.com), we should be able to find and list it. Also, we will soon be providing a form that you can use to manually add your blog to our index, in case we haven't picked it up automatically. Stay tuned for more information on this. End Quote
Which means that your page becomes a blog if it you ping a blog updating service like weblogs.com. Which is likely the reason why my blog is ranking well on google, but not present in the blogsearch beta.
And yes, I'm not posting any news about hamsters and gf's, though you might find excerpts from error logs with what solved the probem.
> As much as they may have a case, I always find the "we don't want to, > but they are forcing us" argument funny.
It might sound funny, but it's just the way Trademark law works. Either you defend your trademark, or else you might as well just drop it. If you did not take action and defend it now, your chances of further proving that you are the holder of that trademark go to zero.
So in fact quite often, "we are sorry, but we have to take legal action" is what you hear in Trademark business.
Judging fromt the description that people had problems logging in, but that
things work fine once logged in, and OTOH that Messenger had problems too, I
would conclude that the problem is with their Passport infrastructure.
Instead of a big bang scenario I could imagine a change through software liability.
Just imagine some slightly bigger then average small country (France? UK? Germany?) picking up the lead and explicitly cover product liability for software products. No more chickening out with boilerplate "click I AGREE" licenses.
Software companies would either have to be good enough or gone from that market. In this scenario e.g. Microsoft might have a really hard time to hold up against the courts. They might decide to leave that market. That would result in trouble for lots of businesses, but they will get over it. And then a reasonably big market might be open for something better. Don't be too optimistic, that other choice would have to be really better.
Such a small change could lead to a change in the IT industry much faster then any horrible catastrophic event in cyberspace (which also invariably leads to loss of life and property in popular articles). The change would spread out to the world really fast. And even if other countries didn't copy that legal model exactly it would leave us with a choice of software that is up to such a legal model.
Judging from the story ("WWDC giveaway..." or something) the one that broke down was exactly such a Kensington Saddlebag. Those WWDC-giveaway bags are Kensington Saddlebags with Apple lettering. Myself I had the same problem. The Saddlebag is nice for its different use cases: Backpack, shoulderstrap, carry-in-hand. But using it every day as a bagpack made the shoulder straps rip out. It's just not tough enough.
That was more then two years ago. Then I bought a bagpack from spire. Still looks like new and I travel 3 hours on different trains with it every workday. Normal operation when arriving somewhere is to drop the pack on the floor. I don't think like there is a laptop in there anymore. It won't break. I'm on the second laptop in that bagpack now and the bag will likely survive a couple of generations of laptops more.
Re:200 dpi looks almost like paper
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Uh, no. Good quality print resolution is generally considered about 1000 dpi, although 600 dpi laser printers look pretty good. You can easily see jaggies with a 300 dpi laser printer.
Maybe this is the old thing, mistake ppi and dpi? Screen resolutions should be given in ppi (pixel per inch), while b&w printer resolutions should be given in dpi (dots per inch). Even some scanner manufacturers get this wrong.
A printer needs a lot of dots to form what is one pixel on the monitor. Because one dot is just black or white while one pixel on the monitor has a colour and brightness depth. 200 ppi certainly is a high resolution.
Sounds like the movie is based on the novel "Enigma" by Robert Harris. This also has the polish spy (somehow weaving in a storry about the Katyn massacre on polish officers). But this book gets the part with the original invention of the bombes by the polish engineers right. There are some other smaller differences from tech details in the book, but overall it gives a good atmospheric idea about the time and proceedings. Maybe we should prefer not to be annoyed by the way novels and movies treat history, but too many people only hear about history through movies and novels.
So what? Just switch off AppleTalk entirely. I have seen "hacks" to get FileSharing started, but they worked only when AppleTalk was already running. Never seen a hack to start AppleTalk on a machine where it was off.
Just to get some facts straight: From the article it does not appear that they are running Mac OS X for Server, because that would have a Command Line Interface.
Mac OS X is a weirded up BSD system with a bag on the side^w^w^w^w MacOS on the top.
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We've hooked an iPod shuffle to our new phone system. When customers are on hold now, they get to listen to cool music not some synthiepop mozart castration. No pictures on the phone system though.
One customer even asked if he could get the music from our phone system on CD.
I've spent an afternoon in the Archaeological Museum in Athens and without knowing the story stumbled upon this thing (no mention of the "clock/computer" in the weblog post though). It is impressive to look at, among the other ancient stuff it has an otherworldly air, it's not impressive in the sense of how big or complex it looks. Of course you can't see that much from the object itself, but I can imagine that people first looked at it and noticed that there is something really unusual about gears appearing in something so old.
The bronze exhibition also has other fine worked small stuff (and the gold stuff exhibition has even smaller and more detailed worked stuff), so I give the old Greeks the ability to work on this level. Perhaps not your neighbourhood blacksmith, but some experts were definitely able to do this level of work.
So Google/Sun offer an online office application, which will be fine for single users, then some companies want to use it. Next Google will sell something like the Google mini (see this piece on AnandTech loaded with the online office application server in a mini version... ...and then we're back full circle at server/client applications, thin clients, the complete shebang. But this time all that in a closed box, with an external support thing too. Oh, we had that before already too? A wet dream for the Sun guys, for sure.
The way to get your blog listed and also the answer to "what makes a
blog a blog for Google":
Quote:
How do I get my blog listed?
If your blog publishes a site feed in any format and automatically pings
an updating service (such as Weblogs.com), we should be able to find and
list it. Also, we will soon be providing a form that you can use to
manually add your blog to our index, in case we haven't picked it up
automatically. Stay tuned for more information on this.
End Quote
Which means that your page becomes a blog if it you ping a blog updating
service like weblogs.com. Which is likely the reason why my blog is
ranking well on google, but not present in the blogsearch beta.
And yes, I'm not posting any news about hamsters and gf's, though you
might find excerpts from error logs with what solved the probem.
> As much as they may have a case, I always find the "we don't want to,
> but they are forcing us" argument funny.
It might sound funny, but it's just the way Trademark law works. Either
you defend your trademark, or else you might as well just drop it. If
you did not take action and defend it now, your chances of further
proving that you are the holder of that trademark go to zero.
So in fact quite often, "we are sorry, but we have to take legal action"
is what you hear in Trademark business.
Judging fromt the description that people had problems logging in, but that things work fine once logged in, and OTOH that Messenger had problems too, I would conclude that the problem is with their Passport infrastructure.
Instead of a big bang scenario I could imagine a change through software liability.
Just imagine some slightly bigger then average small country (France? UK? Germany?) picking up the lead and explicitly cover product liability for software products. No more chickening out with boilerplate "click I AGREE" licenses.
Software companies would either have to be good enough or gone from that market. In this scenario e.g. Microsoft might have a really hard time to hold up against the courts. They might decide to leave that market. That would result in trouble for lots of businesses, but they will get over it. And then a reasonably big market might be open for something better. Don't be too optimistic, that other choice would have to be really better.
Such a small change could lead to a change in the IT industry much faster then any horrible catastrophic event in cyberspace (which also invariably leads to loss of life and property in popular articles). The change would spread out to the world really fast. And even if other countries didn't copy that legal model exactly it would leave us with a choice of software that is up to such a legal model.
There is an article by PGP Corporations CTO Jon Callas about it. His tagline is "Do we need another version of digital timestamps?"
What he has to say looks like plain common sense to me:
His conclusion: "To me, this seems like a solution in search of a problem." He even mentions open standard file formats. Nice read.
Judging from the story ("WWDC giveaway..." or something) the one that broke down was exactly such a Kensington Saddlebag. Those WWDC-giveaway bags are Kensington Saddlebags with Apple lettering. Myself I had the same problem. The Saddlebag is nice for its different use cases: Backpack, shoulderstrap, carry-in-hand. But using it every day as a bagpack made the shoulder straps rip out. It's just not tough enough.
That was more then two years ago. Then I bought a bagpack from spire. Still looks like new and I travel 3 hours on different trains with it every workday. Normal operation when arriving somewhere is to drop the pack on the floor. I don't think like there is a laptop in there anymore. It won't break. I'm on the second laptop in that bagpack now and the bag will likely survive a couple of generations of laptops more.
Uh, no. Good quality print resolution is generally considered about 1000 dpi, although 600 dpi laser printers look pretty good. You can easily see jaggies with a 300 dpi laser printer.
Maybe this is the old thing, mistake ppi and dpi? Screen resolutions should be given in ppi (pixel per inch), while b&w printer resolutions should be given in dpi (dots per inch). Even some scanner manufacturers get this wrong.
A printer needs a lot of dots to form what is one pixel on the monitor. Because one dot is just black or white while one pixel on the monitor has a colour and brightness depth. 200 ppi certainly is a high resolution.
Hey man, .ch is switzerland, definitely not in asia -- better read up before you complain. China is .cn.
Sorry, MOL only works on PPC-Hardware. So, no luck.
Sounds like the movie is based on the novel "Enigma"
by Robert Harris. This also has the polish spy (somehow
weaving in a storry about the Katyn massacre on polish
officers).
But this book gets the part with the original invention
of the bombes by the polish engineers right.
There are some other smaller differences from tech
details in the book, but overall it gives a good
atmospheric idea about the time and proceedings.
Maybe we should prefer not to be annoyed by the way novels and
movies treat history, but too many people only hear
about history through movies and novels.
Hmmm, I already got the dead tree version, but the
digital version is nice to keep around on the laptop.
I found the book a good read, but still had to look
up some things in other books.
So what? Just switch off AppleTalk entirely. I have seen "hacks" to get FileSharing started, but they worked only when AppleTalk was already running.
Never seen a hack to start AppleTalk on a machine where it was off.
Regards,
Sascha
Mac OS X is a weirded up BSD system with a bag on the side^w^w^w^w MacOS on the top.
Regards,
Sascha