On a related note, I quite liked that when the user used the "paint" app and selected green, and then painted a load of green, their arm turned green too... it was like the vitual-table-top-world extending into reality.
But you're right about the lack of memory protection, but then again, did Windows 9.x have memory protection? 'cos if it did, it didn't help reliability much did it?!;)
When the Amiga died, it was less "special" (compared with other platforms) than when it was created, but remember it died circa 1992-ish when the PC world only had Windows 3.x to offer. The things that killed Amiga [IMHO] were No. 1 mis-management by Commodore (let's face it, they were not cut out as a modern business.. seriously!), and No. 2 they were comparatively expensive; they should've adopted IDE HD's earlier than they did.
**I hate that I've been dragged into this thread and turned into "one of those" people who talk up the Amiga like it's about to return or something.
...
..that said, I'm sure 2008 will mark the return of AmigaOS!:D
If they had succeeded in their mission, then we might at least have some more information about events with CCTV than without; with no CCTV you only have whatever you can pick out of the smoldering remains. With CCTV you have a better chance of ID'ing the people involved, and then working backwards through their movements. They are unlikely to be isolated; there will have been people aiding their plans and these people may well be aiding others, so being able to gather any evidence after the event is still of *huge* benefit to the security agencies and is useful in prevention for future events.
Plus, we are talking about information that is in effect, in the public domain. Anything you do in public, is like that!
I do have concerns about state surveillance, but really CCTV isn't really something I'm worried about. It makes sense given the relatively low cost of CCTV these days, to use is as *part of* a layered security model.
On a practical level, we know this is fine. But in business, people higher up the food chain like to know that their business can continue to operate in the future without risk of an IT failure. They typically do this by employing an outside company to "support" the product; by "support" however, they actually just want someone to blame/sue if things go badly wrong.
So whilst *we* know that Kubuntu (or whatever) will likely be very solid and reliable, and any future problems will be resolved by the community, that isn't good enough for most business folk; they'd sooner pay someone for "support" (even if they effectively get nothing) just so there is someone that will either sort the problem or get sued. When the support company is large, a business knows that with pretty much certainty, any problems they might have will be resolved, worked-around or at worst, financially compensated.
So on the face of it, they're paying for nothing. But in practice, business (particularly high up the food chain) is simply about investing X in order to later recover X+Y versus a risk. A company providing "support" removes some of that risk for a known sum. The alternative is "some bloke" telling them that this OS is brilliant and is much better! No matter how true that is, someones word does not mitigate the risk, and IT failures represent a very large risk to a business, hence the need for "support".
^^ typo: when I said "...we already have fully functional tunnels machines..." I actually meant "..we already have fully functional tunneling machines.."
But given that we already have fully functional tunnels machines, wouldn't it make sense to save immigrants the effort of digging their own tunnels by supplying them with tunneling machines. And in return, they could do the fruit picking?
It'd be nice if MS would simply say something to that effect, rather than the BS they currently spew about VMs being less secure, blah blah.
I think we all [mostly anyway] understand that MS is a commercial organisation that needs to make money somehow, so pricing products differently for separate customer bases does make sense. But the "not being allowed to run Vista Basic/Home on a VM" does seem an awful lot like desperately trying to hang on to a monopoly. And then, using BS about security to justify it... well, that's the reason MS are receiving flack here!
(since there will be an integer number of atoms, the inaccuracy will be lost in the rounding)
We split the atom years and years ago, so thats not a problem; we'll just have a load of half/quarter/eigth atoms around the edge. In fact, there's probably a load of spare atom parts lying around somewhere that could be used for just such a purpose!:D
Top gear covered this a few months back (or possibly last year... my memory is not... erm... thingy). Actually, the clip I was looking for featured one of the presenters collecting used oil from a chip shop and filling up the car with that. Anyway I found this clip:
and then I realised that it wasn't top gear I was thinking of; it was Fifth Gear! But I still can't find the actual article. I can however find a follow-up show with the same presenter:
It'd be easier to use Safari for testing if I could enable the JavaScript debugger! I've googled and found that debugged is enabled on the Mac via a terminal window, but I can find *nothing* to explain how debugging can be enabled in Windows. I also tried launching Safari from a command prompt and I tried adding command switches, but no joy.
Anyone got any ideas on this?
Otherwise, is there any kind of Safari community/forum/news-group that I can whinge on?!
An additional point is that replacement batteries for Dells appear to be much cheaper than for Macs; although I'm ready to be corrected on this. But I was trying to find the price for a replacement MacBook battery on the Apple website (I couldn't), but a Froogle (sorry Google Products) search indicates ~£110, whereas I believe Dells are more in the ~£55 area.
I know the price difference isn't huge, but given that there is already a premium for buying the Apple machine in the first place, it is an added insult to know that in a few years time I'll have to fork out even more cash!
Maybe it has something to do with import taxes and duties.
It'd be interesting to know what import taxes/duties are paid, but given that the machines are probably built in Asia somewhere, the US retail price would be due their own import taxes/duties... albeit they're likely not identical.
But then again, I have an advert here for a Dell laptop (Inspiron 1501) with an ex. VAT, ex. delivery price of £229. Whilst accepting that the specs are not comparable, the point is that other companies have to deal with the same taxes as Apple, but manage to be much more competitive. I think really, Apple don't try to compete in order to make the brand more desirable... but I'm not convinced that's the best strategy in the UK; we're pretty cynical folk!:D
I need a new laptop although I don't like using a laptop as my main computer but I'm struggling to understand how Apple justify £700 for their most basic MacBook when the specs aren't particularly amazing. I'm absolutely certain they'd sell more and if they cut their prices a little.
I've been toying with the idea of buying an n800 myself; it's possible to use it with a bluetooth keyboard. But this Palm does have instant on/off which I don't believe the n800 has -- *I think* that has no hibernate at all and requires a full shutdown/boot cycle. So this would be an improvement, plus the screen is larger... and perhaps more practical for that reason.
I don't imagine this is possible... but (I'll carry on anyway!) would it be possible for the G8 to instead try to reach agreement with individual states? I'd imagine that California (for one) might be more inclined to reach an agreement.
This might be a more practical approach than trying to reach any agreement with the current US administration, which would otherwise involve lots of foot-dragging and then finally a very watered down (and likely useless) agreement.
Also, if some states did sign up, it *might* shame the others into action? Or am I expecting too much?!
I used to be with a wonderful ISP known as Metronet. They were cheap, but had *really* clued up staff (i.e. when you phone you don't speak to phone monkeys - you speak to actual techs). Meanwhile, a shite ISP called PlusNet who had been publicly floated, wanted to impress share holders with their fantastic management team so decided to buy a small-ish ISP, namely Metronet and then proceeded to migrate Metronet customers to the PlusNet platform resulting to many of them leaving (including me). All the while they kept saying how this new system would be much better, blah blah, and then something would break really badly, and there would be another excuse.
Seriously, PlusNet are simply a sack of shit. That's all that's to it!
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Yeah but, whilst your dad was listening to the Beatles and you where listening to The Cult. So he had a point! :D
By illegal, they just mean things like MP3 codecs and DVD player DeCSS thingums.
On a related note, I quite liked that when the user used the "paint" app and selected green, and then painted a load of green, their arm turned green too... it was like the vitual-table-top-world extending into reality.
...sort of!
It was preemptive!
;)
...
..that said, I'm sure 2008 will mark the return of AmigaOS! :D
But you're right about the lack of memory protection, but then again, did Windows 9.x have memory protection? 'cos if it did, it didn't help reliability much did it?!
When the Amiga died, it was less "special" (compared with other platforms) than when it was created, but remember it died circa 1992-ish when the PC world only had Windows 3.x to offer. The things that killed Amiga [IMHO] were No. 1 mis-management by Commodore (let's face it, they were not cut out as a modern business.. seriously!), and No. 2 they were comparatively expensive; they should've adopted IDE HD's earlier than they did.
**I hate that I've been dragged into this thread and turned into "one of those" people who talk up the Amiga like it's about to return or something.
If they had succeeded in their mission, then we might at least have some more information about events with CCTV than without; with no CCTV you only have whatever you can pick out of the smoldering remains. With CCTV you have a better chance of ID'ing the people involved, and then working backwards through their movements. They are unlikely to be isolated; there will have been people aiding their plans and these people may well be aiding others, so being able to gather any evidence after the event is still of *huge* benefit to the security agencies and is useful in prevention for future events.
Plus, we are talking about information that is in effect, in the public domain. Anything you do in public, is like that!
I do have concerns about state surveillance, but really CCTV isn't really something I'm worried about. It makes sense given the relatively low cost of CCTV these days, to use is as *part of* a layered security model.
Beagle
A bit of both; part security by design, and part security by obscurity^H^H^H^H^H^H^H a layered defense model! :D
On a practical level, we know this is fine. But in business, people higher up the food chain like to know that their business can continue to operate in the future without risk of an IT failure. They typically do this by employing an outside company to "support" the product; by "support" however, they actually just want someone to blame/sue if things go badly wrong.
So whilst *we* know that Kubuntu (or whatever) will likely be very solid and reliable, and any future problems will be resolved by the community, that isn't good enough for most business folk; they'd sooner pay someone for "support" (even if they effectively get nothing) just so there is someone that will either sort the problem or get sued. When the support company is large, a business knows that with pretty much certainty, any problems they might have will be resolved, worked-around or at worst, financially compensated.
So on the face of it, they're paying for nothing. But in practice, business (particularly high up the food chain) is simply about investing X in order to later recover X+Y versus a risk. A company providing "support" removes some of that risk for a known sum. The alternative is "some bloke" telling them that this OS is brilliant and is much better! No matter how true that is, someones word does not mitigate the risk, and IT failures represent a very large risk to a business, hence the need for "support".
^^ typo: when I said "...we already have fully functional tunnels machines..." I actually meant "..we already have fully functional tunneling machines.."
But given that we already have fully functional tunnels machines, wouldn't it make sense to save immigrants the effort of digging their own tunnels by supplying them with tunneling machines. And in return, they could do the fruit picking?
It'd be nice if MS would simply say something to that effect, rather than the BS they currently spew about VMs being less secure, blah blah.
I think we all [mostly anyway] understand that MS is a commercial organisation that needs to make money somehow, so pricing products differently for separate customer bases does make sense. But the "not being allowed to run Vista Basic/Home on a VM" does seem an awful lot like desperately trying to hang on to a monopoly. And then, using BS about security to justify it... well, that's the reason MS are receiving flack here!
(since there will be an integer number of atoms, the inaccuracy will be lost in the rounding)
:D
We split the atom years and years ago, so thats not a problem; we'll just have a load of half/quarter/eigth atoms around the edge. In fact, there's probably a load of spare atom parts lying around somewhere that could be used for just such a purpose!
Top gear covered this a few months back (or possibly last year... my memory is not... erm... thingy). Actually, the clip I was looking for featured one of the presenters collecting used oil from a chip shop and filling up the car with that. Anyway I found this clip:
top gear article
and then I realised that it wasn't top gear I was thinking of; it was Fifth Gear! But I still can't find the actual article. I can however find a follow-up show with the same presenter:
Fifth gear article!
Brilliant -- cheers!! :D
It'd be easier to use Safari for testing if I could enable the JavaScript debugger! I've googled and found that debugged is enabled on the Mac via a terminal window, but I can find *nothing* to explain how debugging can be enabled in Windows. I also tried launching Safari from a command prompt and I tried adding command switches, but no joy.
Anyone got any ideas on this?
Otherwise, is there any kind of Safari community/forum/news-group that I can whinge on?!
An additional point is that replacement batteries for Dells appear to be much cheaper than for Macs; although I'm ready to be corrected on this. But I was trying to find the price for a replacement MacBook battery on the Apple website (I couldn't), but a Froogle (sorry Google Products) search indicates ~£110, whereas I believe Dells are more in the ~£55 area.
I know the price difference isn't huge, but given that there is already a premium for buying the Apple machine in the first place, it is an added insult to know that in a few years time I'll have to fork out even more cash!
Maybe it has something to do with import taxes and duties.
:D
It'd be interesting to know what import taxes/duties are paid, but given that the machines are probably built in Asia somewhere, the US retail price would be due their own import taxes/duties... albeit they're likely not identical.
But then again, I have an advert here for a Dell laptop (Inspiron 1501) with an ex. VAT, ex. delivery price of £229. Whilst accepting that the specs are not comparable, the point is that other companies have to deal with the same taxes as Apple, but manage to be much more competitive. I think really, Apple don't try to compete in order to make the brand more desirable... but I'm not convinced that's the best strategy in the UK; we're pretty cynical folk!
Cheapy US MacBook = $1099
USD 1099 = ~ GBP 552
552 * 1.175 = £648.6
So if they sold for £650 I'd be happy! I must admit, I had entirely forgotten to take VAT into account, but even so, they *do* bump the price a bit.
I need a new laptop although I don't like using a laptop as my main computer but I'm struggling to understand how Apple justify £700 for their most basic MacBook when the specs aren't particularly amazing. I'm absolutely certain they'd sell more and if they cut their prices a little.
For some reason Apple likes to charge UK customers much more than their US customers.
Dunno about her cat being "clearly" visible -- her windows could do with a clean! Also, did anyone else think it was funny her house number was 404?
I stand corrected! In that case, I'd guess this must be the same as the Foleo then, since there must be a way to completely restart it?
I've been toying with the idea of buying an n800 myself; it's possible to use it with a bluetooth keyboard. But this Palm does have instant on/off which I don't believe the n800 has -- *I think* that has no hibernate at all and requires a full shutdown/boot cycle. So this would be an improvement, plus the screen is larger... and perhaps more practical for that reason.
I don't imagine this is possible... but (I'll carry on anyway!) would it be possible for the G8 to instead try to reach agreement with individual states? I'd imagine that California (for one) might be more inclined to reach an agreement.
This might be a more practical approach than trying to reach any agreement with the current US administration, which would otherwise involve lots of foot-dragging and then finally a very watered down (and likely useless) agreement.
Also, if some states did sign up, it *might* shame the others into action? Or am I expecting too much?!
I used to be with a wonderful ISP known as Metronet. They were cheap, but had *really* clued up staff (i.e. when you phone you don't speak to phone monkeys - you speak to actual techs). Meanwhile, a shite ISP called PlusNet who had been publicly floated, wanted to impress share holders with their fantastic management team so decided to buy a small-ish ISP, namely Metronet and then proceeded to migrate Metronet customers to the PlusNet platform resulting to many of them leaving (including me). All the while they kept saying how this new system would be much better, blah blah, and then something would break really badly, and there would be another excuse.
Seriously, PlusNet are simply a sack of shit. That's all that's to it!