So if I'm in the middle of a phone call and want to lookup a piece of information, or take down a piece of information, or do something as terribly extreme as using a calculator app, then I'm out of luck?
Unless you are on hands-free, every other phone is like that. Unless you have eyes above your ears?:-)
Still, telling customers how they should be using it is very backwards.
Good point, I'm in two minds, in honesty I perhaps prefer it if they left edited files behind. Usually these take up very little space and can be useful should you reinstall the app.
They could probably make it a lot more efficient though. For example, load the "filesToBeDeleted" list into memory and just iterate over it. I'd bet a lot of them are doing it the other way round, listing the available files then looking them up in the list to see if they are eligible for deletion. This would be several hundred times slower because of the list-lookup operation, especially when there is a large number of files to look through.
It's not like the UK doesn't have it's own problems. At least I can drive to work with out being recorded on a government camera.
You do know that Predator drones have been deployed in the USA? In some ways I'm glad our surveillance system is old and decrepit...at least it can't be used to aim laser-guided bombs!
I'm just assuming the harddisks were secure erased, considering that is what pretty much every govenment in the world does when formatting harddisks.
Of course. You don't take any chances when you are defrauding a $38 billion account. I'd be watching the departments personal bank records if I were the police.
The same is true when you jump from GT to your real-world car: It's different. You play around a bit with the handling of your real car and you will learn how it handles in more "extreme" circumstances. This learning directly translates into a better understanding of your car and how it behaves.
I agree completely with you there. Drive your car in the wet car park at night when it's empty. Learn how to skid, how to tell when you are about to skid. Hell, go on skid-pan training if you have a track near you. I had a go in a car where you could turn the ABS off. Fascinating.
But I still have doubts on exactly how much you can learn from a game. Sure, you'll pickup techniques like watching further down the road than you might normally. You learn to read the road, and predict other drivers. But I'd still argue that a day on a track with an instructor would outdo an lifetime of gaming experience.
You're absolutely right: Drunk drivers should not be confident. But that's not what we're talking about, here.
My point was that over-confidence can be very bad and it is conceivable that a similar effect might be had from playing a lot of driving games.
I can see the lines of a turn, can apply the use of braking and acceleration better, and I am better at avoiding other drivers and retaining awareness of my surroundings.
Yes, but does it make you a safer driver? Perfect lines and last-minute braking don't translate well off the track.
The way I see it, over-confidence is the root problem with drunk drivers. The same effect might apply, possibly to a lesser extent, to people who think they can get around the Nuremberg in under ten minutes.
By the way, a TV show (possibly the UK's "Top Gear") took a load off gamers and put them in a real car to see if the skills they had acquired helped. They didn't, they were all crap. Simulators might teach the theory, but you still need to practice the application of it.
I concur. I believe there is an effect. Just after Gran Turismo was big on the PS1, I was driving home in the rain, quite possibly driving a little too fast. On a corner I got the car into a four-wheel skid and instantly "fixed it" and got things under control.
It was 30 seconds later that I realized what I'd just subconsciously done. Granted in this case the game proved to be a positive experience, but to me it shows that they do have an affect on your habits, good or bad.
Funny thing is, that if the RIAA and MIAA were smart, they would allow the net the gut to the brick based businesses FIRST, and then go after just the net. But alas
Nah, they are trying to prevent the next generation of kids from habitually downloading all of their future content. Get 'em young as the catholic church used to say. It's a campaign of shock and awe intended to win over their hearts and minds. Rarely works...
What he said. My ISP actually had you type in the cable modems mac address while you were sandboxed to associate the modem with your account during the first-time signup. This was quite some time ago and I'd expect this to now be done using the DHCP option (or similar) that the parent mentioned. Once the modem is live your first network card's mac address goes out on the wire for the DHCP address. This is why you can change card or mac address to get a new IP if the address pool is dynamic.
Any mac addresses beyond that on your network (including the green interface itself) do not go out on the wire. Your own router would need to expose this for no reason at all however there's no reason why some form of tagging/encapsulation could not be done to ID the actual browser PC itself if the router was also supplied by the ISP. I doubt anyone does this as there's not much point, but I only mention it to suggest that it's possible.
Duh, it's not the USA that's making the money. It's the companies linked to your administration that are making the profits. It's coming out of your pocket, but you voted for them so IMHO you deserve it.
Most copies of Windows in the U.S. are paid for, because Windows comes installed, by default, on almost every retail machine sold. That alone makes piracy a non-issue in the U.S.
Sure, most if not all retail machines are legit, however it would be interesting to see the percentage of raw motherboards sold, either to small independent shops who build, or two home users. I'd think a large number of them are iffy.
And then there's all the XP upgrades people have done...
I second that. I've NEVER seen or heard of an minority involved in these things. It's always white yobs and it's simply filming of the random violence that's always existed.
Besides, they are in fact pretty rare. Especially here in Glasgow; they'd probably get their knees broken if they tried this on many of my fellow
citizens.
We don't need much salt to live - less than a gram a day. That can easily be obtained from the sea. In fact, we eat so much salt in our modern diets that it's quite poisonous and we'd be better off with far less of the stuff.
People didn't fight wars over the stuff so that it be used as a dining table condiment.
Salt used to be used to store meat; it retards spoilage. You know, for back in the days before refrigerators. Our liking for salty meat probably derives from this. It's got lots of other uses as well.
Yeah... it's more of a British prison island, right?
Yeah, but so was the USA and we sent more people over your way (about 25% of all US immigrants it is estimated). The Australians were quite picky on what they did accept, we only started to send them there after the American Revolution meant North America was no longer a dumping ground.
No buttons is good novelty factor, but it does not make it easier to use. I have a phone similar to the grandparents that has a slide-out keyboard, except on mine the front is a large touch screen display. So, I can choose to use on-screen keyboards or a real one. I choose the real one EVERY TIME. On-screen keyboards are not very user-friendly; this is coming from someone whose had a large variety of mobile devices since the first GSM phones were available. There is no tactile response, miskeys are frequent, you can't touch-type and it makes the screen all grubby.
You can also watch the Office on it.
You can do that on the grandparents phone and mine. I had a divx Attack of the Clones on mine shortly after it came out. Welcome to 2002, nice to meet you.
Some actors still see it as an art and take pride in their work. As do many film buffs. We aren't talking about JayLo here, we are talking "Actors" with a capital A and pronounced in a BBC-English accent.
When one says "no post editing" they are saying that they have the talent to do their job. It's no different from a singer doing the occasional a capella just to prove they can.
You mean like the two-minute opening continuous Steadicam shot they used in 'The Birdcage'?:-)
Hmm, that sucks. That is cheating as continuous-shots are great on a directors portfolio. I'd imagine others in the industry deride him for it.
WRT continuous shots, the best one, hands down, is the opening of Boogie Nights. Introduces every single character in the movie in one long track through the nightclub. So good I never even noticed it; it took a film student friend to point it out to me.
Rally Car has been doing that for a while as it works just as well in that context. I believe it was computer games that first did it and it gave the TV guys the idea.
However, did your company hire you to fix your computer or to use "X" software to create circuits?
Bad analogy IMHO, all workmen should be able to maintain their own tool set, be it hammer & chisel or IDE and core dump analysis tool. If someone tells me they are a database expert they should be capable of installing and maintaining the software. They should also have a basic skill set in server maintainence. If they haven't, it sounds like you have hired a pigeon-holed, MCSE certification type of muppet.
If you're posting anonymously, how is your relation to the user account used for moderation activity detected? IP?
Just because it says "anonymous" on the webpage it doesn't mean that it's anonymous in the database. If you are logged in and tick "post anonymously" I don't see why there would be any difficulty in doing it this way.
There was a Democrat on watch when the policy was created, and there have been several democrats who could have changed that poilcy in the meantime.
It's not as simple as that. The Cuba exiles would make their life horrendous and the party could say goodbye to any Floridian congressional seats they had.
I work for an ISP and we do that. You have nothing you need to be sending out that can't bounce through my server.
Not true. I don't trust my ISP. Why should I? They have a long history of rolling over on requests for privacy invading information. They have to, under local law, log all of the emails I send.
My mail goes over SSL to the GMail smtp server. I trust them more, but I am reconsidering that setup based on recent events.
Some places, we even redirect port 25 rather than blocking so users will go through our servers without ever even knowing it. If it was seamlessly redirected to their servers, how did you even notice?
I can understand the logic behind this. Changing outgoing SMTP servers is a pain in the ass for my laptop and PDA. This is actually why I set up to use Googles SMTP server instead. However, there are many reasons why we might notice. Often ISPs lag behind in anti-spam protection. The same applies to transparent web proxies; they can cause issues with some things and have been known to go down from time to time. When this happens, the customer is essentially helpless.
Got a better idea? How are you going to teach your grandmother octet notation in order to use chmod? Her eyes will glaze over at the "B" in "Base". The windows setting in question here is in "Properties/Permission", not exactly hidden away.
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A ROM upgrade should enable the 4gb limit on most devices. Most high-tech media/phone device owners should be used to the occasional upgrade.
Unless you are on hands-free, every other phone is like that. Unless you have eyes above your ears? :-)
Still, telling customers how they should be using it is very backwards.
Good point, I'm in two minds, in honesty I perhaps prefer it if they left edited files behind. Usually these take up very little space and can be useful should you reinstall the app.
They could probably make it a lot more efficient though. For example, load the "filesToBeDeleted" list into memory and just iterate over it. I'd bet a lot of them are doing it the other way round, listing the available files then looking them up in the list to see if they are eligible for deletion. This would be several hundred times slower because of the list-lookup operation, especially when there is a large number of files to look through.
You do know that Predator drones have been deployed in the USA? In some ways I'm glad our surveillance system is old and decrepit...at least it can't be used to aim laser-guided bombs!
Of course. You don't take any chances when you are defrauding a $38 billion account. I'd be watching the departments personal bank records if I were the police.
I agree completely with you there. Drive your car in the wet car park at night when it's empty. Learn how to skid, how to tell when you are about to skid. Hell, go on skid-pan training if you have a track near you. I had a go in a car where you could turn the ABS off. Fascinating.
But I still have doubts on exactly how much you can learn from a game. Sure, you'll pickup techniques like watching further down the road than you might normally. You learn to read the road, and predict other drivers. But I'd still argue that a day on a track with an instructor would outdo an lifetime of gaming experience.
My point was that over-confidence can be very bad and it is conceivable that a similar effect might be had from playing a lot of driving games.
Yes, but does it make you a safer driver? Perfect lines and last-minute braking don't translate well off the track.
The way I see it, over-confidence is the root problem with drunk drivers. The same effect might apply, possibly to a lesser extent, to people who think they can get around the Nuremberg in under ten minutes.
By the way, a TV show (possibly the UK's "Top Gear") took a load off gamers and put them in a real car to see if the skills they had acquired helped. They didn't, they were all crap. Simulators might teach the theory, but you still need to practice the application of it.
I concur. I believe there is an effect. Just after Gran Turismo was big on the PS1, I was driving home in the rain, quite possibly driving a little too fast. On a corner I got the car into a four-wheel skid and instantly "fixed it" and got things under control.
It was 30 seconds later that I realized what I'd just subconsciously done. Granted in this case the game proved to be a positive experience, but to me it shows that they do have an affect on your habits, good or bad.
Nah, they are trying to prevent the next generation of kids from habitually downloading all of their future content. Get 'em young as the catholic church used to say. It's a campaign of shock and awe intended to win over their hearts and minds. Rarely works...
What he said. My ISP actually had you type in the cable modems mac address while you were sandboxed to associate the modem with your account during the first-time signup. This was quite some time ago and I'd expect this to now be done using the DHCP option (or similar) that the parent mentioned. Once the modem is live your first network card's mac address goes out on the wire for the DHCP address. This is why you can change card or mac address to get a new IP if the address pool is dynamic.
Any mac addresses beyond that on your network (including the green interface itself) do not go out on the wire. Your own router would need to expose this for no reason at all however there's no reason why some form of tagging/encapsulation could not be done to ID the actual browser PC itself if the router was also supplied by the ISP. I doubt anyone does this as there's not much point, but I only mention it to suggest that it's possible.
Duh, it's not the USA that's making the money. It's the companies linked to your administration that are making the profits. It's coming out of your pocket, but you voted for them so IMHO you deserve it.
Sure, most if not all retail machines are legit, however it would be interesting to see the percentage of raw motherboards sold, either to small independent shops who build, or two home users. I'd think a large number of them are iffy.
And then there's all the XP upgrades people have done...
What's that got to do with anything? In fact, saying that this censorship has been around for years is harming your argument here.
I second that. I've NEVER seen or heard of an minority involved in these things. It's always white yobs and it's simply filming of the random violence that's always existed.
Besides, they are in fact pretty rare. Especially here in Glasgow; they'd probably get their knees broken if they tried this on many of my fellow citizens.
People didn't fight wars over the stuff so that it be used as a dining table condiment.
Salt used to be used to store meat; it retards spoilage. You know, for back in the days before refrigerators. Our liking for salty meat probably derives from this. It's got lots of other uses as well.
Yeah, but so was the USA and we sent more people over your way (about 25% of all US immigrants it is estimated). The Australians were quite picky on what they did accept, we only started to send them there after the American Revolution meant North America was no longer a dumping ground.
No buttons is good novelty factor, but it does not make it easier to use. I have a phone similar to the grandparents that has a slide-out keyboard, except on mine the front is a large touch screen display. So, I can choose to use on-screen keyboards or a real one. I choose the real one EVERY TIME. On-screen keyboards are not very user-friendly; this is coming from someone whose had a large variety of mobile devices since the first GSM phones were available. There is no tactile response, miskeys are frequent, you can't touch-type and it makes the screen all grubby.
You can do that on the grandparents phone and mine. I had a divx Attack of the Clones on mine shortly after it came out. Welcome to 2002, nice to meet you.
Some actors still see it as an art and take pride in their work. As do many film buffs. We aren't talking about JayLo here, we are talking "Actors" with a capital A and pronounced in a BBC-English accent.
When one says "no post editing" they are saying that they have the talent to do their job. It's no different from a singer doing the occasional a capella just to prove they can.
Hmm, that sucks. That is cheating as continuous-shots are great on a directors portfolio. I'd imagine others in the industry deride him for it.
WRT continuous shots, the best one, hands down, is the opening of Boogie Nights. Introduces every single character in the movie in one long track through the nightclub. So good I never even noticed it; it took a film student friend to point it out to me.
Rally Car has been doing that for a while as it works just as well in that context. I believe it was computer games that first did it and it gave the TV guys the idea.
Bad analogy IMHO, all workmen should be able to maintain their own tool set, be it hammer & chisel or IDE and core dump analysis tool. If someone tells me they are a database expert they should be capable of installing and maintaining the software. They should also have a basic skill set in server maintainence. If they haven't, it sounds like you have hired a pigeon-holed, MCSE certification type of muppet.
Just because it says "anonymous" on the webpage it doesn't mean that it's anonymous in the database. If you are logged in and tick "post anonymously" I don't see why there would be any difficulty in doing it this way.
It's not as simple as that. The Cuba exiles would make their life horrendous and the party could say goodbye to any Floridian congressional seats they had.
Not true. I don't trust my ISP. Why should I? They have a long history of rolling over on requests for privacy invading information. They have to, under local law, log all of the emails I send.
My mail goes over SSL to the GMail smtp server. I trust them more, but I am reconsidering that setup based on recent events.
I can understand the logic behind this. Changing outgoing SMTP servers is a pain in the ass for my laptop and PDA. This is actually why I set up to use Googles SMTP server instead. However, there are many reasons why we might notice. Often ISPs lag behind in anti-spam protection. The same applies to transparent web proxies; they can cause issues with some things and have been known to go down from time to time. When this happens, the customer is essentially helpless.
Got a better idea? How are you going to teach your grandmother octet notation in order to use chmod? Her eyes will glaze over at the "B" in "Base". The windows setting in question here is in "Properties/Permission", not exactly hidden away.