"The new Porsche is nothing more than a VW Golf on steroids with a much better engine in it."
Sort of, but the origonal 911 WAS nothing more that a VW bettle on steroids with a much better engine in it. Indeed is was possible to take a 911 engine and put it in your bettle as the engine mountings etc were the was.
And yes the qoute is amusing, especially as I get the feeling that this was the intention when designing the new PowerBook.
The trouble with this is that looking at the quote in the register article is says educational use is acepted and so if I was with NTL then I could not make the light use of VPN the the uni provides only to look at some newsgroups and some file transfer convinence. For news I would use the web based reader provided and use more bandwidth and for file transfer I would just use SSH. This broadbrush banning of VPN is bad because of this but bandwidth caps are not if they still allow you this amount of bandwidth, after all, what home user needs consistently 30GB a month, I only get through 1 - 3 GB a week and I consider my self to be a reasonably heavy user.
My message, use the caps but dont ban legally legitimate use of protocols, remember piracy bad, work and leasure good.
My original thinking when I asked the question was that I seems to me that more "geeks" are taking notice of OS X, I'm one of them. With this in mind on a corperate level I think that IT/IS (whatever) bosses might be more inclined to go with a non M$ platform if it is suported ny a large corperation. After all it has a nice GUI and is easy to use and so it alows managment to feel they have more ownership of a project than perhaps there techical ability would otherwise enable them to.
It is with this in mind that I think the the userbase may come (I hope so) but only if there is the software products and a will amoungst both workers and managment to use OS X
There is also a port to the Nokia 7650 avilable. I've not tried it myself yet but it looked playable on my mates phone
I don't think playing it with sound on the train would be such a great idea and it looks like a really good way to bring a premeture end to the navigation joystick on the phone!
Is Mac OS X a big enough competitor (for want of a better word) to the Linux server/desktop market to warrent porting products over to either OS X or to Darwin?
At my uni there is a sysadmin course for the information systems studends taught in a special lab cut off from the rest of the network as that the students. Looks like a fun course but its not available to the CS guys which is a shame.
Does anybody else have this sort of course available to them as part of their degrees>
Cool. Might just be Orange, then. Or possibly they've changed it recently.
No you have always only had one phone number, not one for each country with a Orange GSM roaming agreement. The system would not work otherwise and people would have to no where you are, which is so impractical to organise its impossible. You will have one phone number and it will be +447XXX XXXXXX just the same as all other mobile users in the UK.
I have roamed with Orange since 1999 and this as far as I am concerned is always the way it has been.
I got my nokia 7650 a week ago on orange nad it will pick up mail from multiple pop3 mailboxes over GPRS or normal dialup. It doesn't have a full web browser but sending and reveiving using pop is fine enough from me
I don't know if this phone is avilable in the states yet and photo messaging over MMS is quite cool, especially over new year.
Also for people in the UK Orange have got the phone for 49.99GBP with 50PGB cashback for your old phone provided it will turn on
1. circular context menues, with common items in the center, can less common ones on the outside, I belive that there is no GUI API which makes this easy.
2. Nothing radicaly different from whats gone before, no one likes to leave old habits.
3. Non of that rearanging of menues which apperared in ME ond office, it just gets confusing when menu its move arround.
Also speed is the most imnportant, responsivness aids learning and easy of learning is key to easy of use, as well as a whole host of other factors of course
Sounds like this would be great in airports and other locations where there are lots of people of different cultures and languages, and often in a bit of culture shock. I love to find this machine when I have just landed in a country where I know little of the language and am too tiered to communicate using body language.
But if they've already had some exposure to Linux, they'll be much more willing to try it out at home.
Im not so sure, in the workplace machines are supported by specialist, running specified suits of software and used pretty much only in perscibed menners. At home people want easy set up of perphierals, esspecially modems, games, dvd viewing and all sorts of other applications. I don't believe that linux is ready or designed for home use just as 4 years ago the consumer would not want to run NT
My view is that Linux is great for the work place, just as NT was, however, it is different from a consumer OS and all the will in the world is not going to change that at the minite. Just remember horse for courses
My Advice is to go to as many lectures as possible. It reduces the amount of work you have to do by 50%. I say this because you then know where to seek help when you have problems, you know what train of thought has been employed to arrive at a decision and you get to see your mates.
I would say that seeing you mates is more important that people might think, these are guys and gals who have the same work as you, if you have a problem with some coursework then I doubt very much that you are alone, or the nobody from your course can offer a solution
I have been employing these ideas for the past 2 years of my CS course at Newcaslte,UK. It has resulted in high marks for comparitivly little effort compared to some of my colegues who think I'm lazy because I don't work past 6 in the evining as I would rather spent the time with my girlfriend. They don't understant that if you start working at 9am, go to all lectures and do most of your work in the lab where there is an inexaustable source of help and experince that there is no need to work for more than about 7 hours a day.
I am about to enter by final year into my CS degree and have spent the summer working for a small Executive Coaching company in Newcastle, UK. I have a idea in my head that I want to turn into a product and have been watching very closely how this company, of 3 (5 inc two summer student) people operating. It has been very valuable to see an unrelated business in action and to find out the easy way just how much there is to do and how difficult it is.
So my advice, try to get some experience of a random small firm, even just to sit around and watch for a week any you'll see what your about to be up against.
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Heck, even if the PS2 comes out relatively soon
I cant wait to get my hands on one of thouse, my PS1 is getting tiered now!!
3G is the successor to 2G (GSM) mobile phone networks which were launched today in the UK. Not 3 GB or 3Gb!
"The new Porsche is nothing more than a VW Golf on steroids with a much better engine in it."
Sort of, but the origonal 911 WAS nothing more that a VW bettle on steroids with a much better engine in it. Indeed is was possible to take a 911 engine and put it in your bettle as the engine mountings etc were the was.
And yes the qoute is amusing, especially as I get the feeling that this was the intention when designing the new PowerBook.
The trouble with this is that looking at the quote in the register article is says educational use is acepted and so if I was with NTL then I could not make the light use of VPN the the uni provides only to look at some newsgroups and some file transfer convinence. For news I would use the web based reader provided and use more bandwidth and for file transfer I would just use SSH. This broadbrush banning of VPN is bad because of this but bandwidth caps are not if they still allow you this amount of bandwidth, after all, what home user needs consistently 30GB a month, I only get through 1 - 3 GB a week and I consider my self to be a reasonably heavy user.
My message, use the caps but dont ban legally legitimate use of protocols, remember piracy bad, work and leasure good.
My original thinking when I asked the question was that I seems to me that more "geeks" are taking notice of OS X, I'm one of them. With this in mind on a corperate level I think that IT/IS (whatever) bosses might be more inclined to go with a non M$ platform if it is suported ny a large corperation. After all it has a nice GUI and is easy to use and so it alows managment to feel they have more ownership of a project than perhaps there techical ability would otherwise enable them to.
It is with this in mind that I think the the userbase may come (I hope so) but only if there is the software products and a will amoungst both workers and managment to use OS X
There is also a port to the Nokia 7650 avilable. I've not tried it myself yet but it looked playable on my mates phone
I don't think playing it with sound on the train would be such a great idea and it looks like a really good way to bring a premeture end to the navigation joystick on the phone!
Is Mac OS X a big enough competitor (for want of a better word) to the Linux server/desktop market to warrent porting products over to either OS X or to Darwin?
This is with focus on the server side.
At my uni there is a sysadmin course for the information systems studends taught in a special lab cut off from the rest of the network as that the students. Looks like a fun course but its not available to the CS guys which is a shame.
Does anybody else have this sort of course available to them as part of their degrees>
Cool. Might just be Orange, then. Or possibly they've changed it recently.
No you have always only had one phone number, not one for each country with a Orange GSM roaming agreement. The system would not work otherwise and people would have to no where you are, which is so impractical to organise its impossible. You will have one phone number and it will be +447XXX XXXXXX just the same as all other mobile users in the UK.
I have roamed with Orange since 1999 and this as far as I am concerned is always the way it has been.
I got my nokia 7650 a week ago on orange nad it will pick up mail from multiple pop3 mailboxes over GPRS or normal dialup. It doesn't have a full web browser but sending and reveiving using pop is fine enough from me
I don't know if this phone is avilable in the states yet and photo messaging over MMS is quite cool, especially over new year.
Also for people in the UK Orange have got the phone for 49.99GBP with 50PGB cashback for your old phone provided it will turn on
1. circular context menues, with common items in the center, can less common ones on the outside, I belive that there is no GUI API which makes this easy.
2. Nothing radicaly different from whats gone before, no one likes to leave old habits.
3. Non of that rearanging of menues which apperared in ME ond office, it just gets confusing when menu its move arround.
Also speed is the most imnportant, responsivness aids learning and easy of learning is key to easy of use, as well as a whole host of other factors of course
Sounds like this would be great in airports and other locations where there are lots of people of different cultures and languages, and often in a bit of culture shock. I love to find this machine when I have just landed in a country where I know little of the language and am too tiered to communicate using body language.
But if they've already had some exposure to Linux, they'll be much more willing to try it out at home.
Im not so sure, in the workplace machines are supported by specialist, running specified suits of software and used pretty much only in perscibed menners. At home people want easy set up of perphierals, esspecially modems, games, dvd viewing and all sorts of other applications. I don't believe that linux is ready or designed for home use just as 4 years ago the consumer would not want to run NT
My view is that Linux is great for the work place, just as NT was, however, it is different from a consumer OS and all the will in the world is not going to change that at the minite. Just remember horse for courses
My Advice is to go to as many lectures as possible. It reduces the amount of work you have to do by 50%. I say this because you then know where to seek help when you have problems, you know what train of thought has been employed to arrive at a decision and you get to see your mates.
I would say that seeing you mates is more important that people might think, these are guys and gals who have the same work as you, if you have a problem with some coursework then I doubt very much that you are alone, or the nobody from your course can offer a solution
I have been employing these ideas for the past 2 years of my CS course at Newcaslte,UK. It has resulted in high marks for comparitivly little effort compared to some of my colegues who think I'm lazy because I don't work past 6 in the evining as I would rather spent the time with my girlfriend. They don't understant that if you start working at 9am, go to all lectures and do most of your work in the lab where there is an inexaustable source of help and experince that there is no need to work for more than about 7 hours a day.
I am about to enter by final year into my CS degree and have spent the summer working for a small Executive Coaching company in Newcastle, UK. I have a idea in my head that I want to turn into a product and have been watching very closely how this company, of 3 (5 inc two summer student) people operating. It has been very valuable to see an unrelated business in action and to find out the easy way just how much there is to do and how difficult it is. So my advice, try to get some experience of a random small firm, even just to sit around and watch for a week any you'll see what your about to be up against.