Remote Desktop is made available by installing netmeeting on a win2k machine. if you would rather use it than VNC, that is.
Why would you want to use VNC? My experience of VNC (on windows machines) is from a user perspective it is slower running VNC over a local network than Remote Desktop is over a VPN.
Why wouldn't we? When someone places a call to me from a land line or another carrier, my carrier doesn't get money from the call's originator, yet their cellular infrastructure is used. It makes more sense for customers to be billed for what they actually use, rather than blindly mimic the old POTS billing scheme.
They should get money for the call from the call originator's carrier.
A user pays system means I am in control of how I get billed.
As I've said before, you pay for calls to mobiles whether it's "mobile party pays" or "calling party pays". Unless, of course, you never make calls, but that's hardly a rational moral argument in terms of who should pay. "I'm a cheap bastard, so I expect everyone else to pay for my mobile phone". Right.
It's a perfectly rational argument. He is not the one initiating the call. If it weren't a rational argument you could expect to pay to recieve calls on land lines. This is the only example that I am aware of where you pay to recieve communication. Email would be the next closest example, however that is more paying to have access to the internet which can happen to be used to recieve email.
Your comment that the system works well doesn't mean much to me. Have you another system to compare it to? One you have actually experienced? Unmetered air time is unrelated to this issue. We get that in Autralia. Also in Australia quite a lot of people are dropping landlines in favour of mobiles.
The fact that the system works does not mean it is optimal.
Well check out what the major carriers in Autralia charge. Optus, Telstra (shudder), Vodafone, 3. $1AU ~ 0.$7US.
We also get options like free talk time within the same carrier, free sms messages etc. Depends on your carrier and your plant and all that.
My phone is largely used for business and I get a lot more calls than I make. However I do use it quite a bit. I pay $50/mnth for a capped plan that gives me $230 of calls/sms etc. Calls are ~$.30 flagfall and ~$0.1/second. I never really hit the cap.
That aside, to my mind it doesn't matter whether the system in the US works or not. It's just plain stupid to have a system where you pay for the actions of someone else, ie someone calling you. There is no logic behind it.
The joke of it is, it generally only tells me the wireless network is connected after I've VPNed into work. And I do mean after, I have flashing computers in the system tray before it tells me the wireless network is connected. Well hello of course the wireless network is connected, otherwise I wouldn't be on the VPN. Duh. Oh but then it tells me the VPN is connected. Woot! Thanks Windows XP.
I don't know how the handle things in the US so I guess I am in the same boat as you.
In Australia the mobile phones use a completely different number set. All mobiles have a 04 prefix and are 10 digits long. Land line phone numbers are 8 digits with a 2 digit prefix for different states. None of the 2 digit prefixes (add a zero to the front of the linked numbers) conflict with the mobile prefix. It is always clear that you are dialing a mobile number.
It would be a pretty dumb system to have a geographical code for mobiles, something that isn't tied to a physical location.
You don't understand. America is the world leader, they don't follow other people, they lead. That is why the US hasn't moved to metric and doesn't have a decent health system. To do that would be just copying the rest of the world./sacasm
However in some of the recent protests in the US peachful protestors have been treated rioters. This can become a self fulfilling prophecy: treat peaceful protestors as rioters and they riot.
I live in Sydney, in Hornsby in fact. We have a car but the major reason we have one is because my wife is a teacher, working somewhere that is not near good public transport and needs to move teaching materiels. Otherwise we could live quite happily without a car, I take a train to work.
However it does depend on where you live. If you live out west there just isn't the transport infrastructure.
This is a huge one. Anyone who develops software for a microsoft platform is going to drop source safe in favour of a real version control system real fast. svn runs nicely on windows (both server and client). If TortoiseSVN doesn't run on Vista, I will not be running Vista.
How did this crap get modded informative? The issue is if you use macros (more probably VBA), you are likely to have code invested in Office with no upgrade path to OO.
Anamoly, I am an evangelical christian who believes in evolution. Does that mean you believe in 7 day creation? 4004 BC? It seems to me that it is a very fragile theory. You need a lot of things to go your way so to speak. Fossil records, DNA records, Carbon and radioactive dating, geological records etc. In additon my wife is trained in plant biology and I have a friend with a phd in biology (both strong evangelical christians), both assure me that evolution happens. Particularly the friend with the phd who specialises in animal DNA and Autralian mammals.
I'd be interested to know what you think. I'm going away for a week so I won't be able to read your response for a while. You can email me at david@uberconcept.com if that works better.
Scobeliser: Former MS blogger and still *loves* them, so no surprises there. Gets a major fact wrong (updated) to Apple's detriment. GSM + Cingular is teh suck.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Screen will scratch (agreed). Cingular is teh suck.
Paul Kendowsky: cannot ring by touch. closed system (yeah OS X is *real* closed). Cingular is teh suck. Vapourware (well duh, no product yet, but that doesn't make it vapourware). Waah too expensive.
Jupiter: apple extend only (that I cannot believe, you will see lost of non-apple code for this). No support for some MS Office stuff (maybe this will mean office will provide some open standards support). No 3G.
Interestingly only a few of the comments are about the actual hardware. I have two addition potential hardware issues in mind: - Greasy screen, you will be putting this against your face - lack of tactile feedback on "buttons". This could be an issue. The fact that buttons have edges make it easier to use buttons than pseudo buttons. I'd be interested to see if then turns out the difficult to use. Particularly for fat fingered people.
A funny story I hard from someone else. An Australian born Japanese man married an Autralian woman. He spoke no japanese but had japanes parents. She spoke Japanese but was very caucasian. They went to Japan and had the disturbing experience that everyone spoke to him first, but of course he couldn't understand a word...
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Remote Desktop is made available by installing netmeeting on a win2k machine. if you would rather use it than VNC, that is.
Why would you want to use VNC? My experience of VNC (on windows machines) is from a user perspective it is slower running VNC over a local network than Remote Desktop is over a VPN.
But if I did that then the number of windows drivers would go to zero. I'd have to exclude people like Netgear.
Oh the memories. I never got as far as 40 floppies but I did that a few times over about 10 floppies.
Let me be the first to say: Dumb terminals, dumb users. Seems like a perfect match to me.
Linux already supports more hardware out of the box than Windows does.
That may be the case but windows + drivers-that-ship-with-the-hardware supports more than Linux (at least on x86, and that is where the action is).
From personal experience there is nothing more dangerous than a lawyer without a brief. If they don't get one they write their own.
In addition in some cases is can be ambiguous and there is more than one way the SQL engine can interpret it.
Why wouldn't we? When someone places a call to me from a land line or another carrier, my carrier doesn't get money from the call's originator, yet their cellular infrastructure is used. It makes more sense for customers to be billed for what they actually use, rather than blindly mimic the old POTS billing scheme.
They should get money for the call from the call originator's carrier.
A user pays system means I am in control of how I get billed.
As I've said before, you pay for calls to mobiles whether it's "mobile party pays" or "calling party pays". Unless, of course, you never make calls, but that's hardly a rational moral argument in terms of who should pay. "I'm a cheap bastard, so I expect everyone else to pay for my mobile phone". Right.
It's a perfectly rational argument. He is not the one initiating the call. If it weren't a rational argument you could expect to pay to recieve calls on land lines. This is the only example that I am aware of where you pay to recieve communication. Email would be the next closest example, however that is more paying to have access to the internet which can happen to be used to recieve email.
Your comment that the system works well doesn't mean much to me. Have you another system to compare it to? One you have actually experienced? Unmetered air time is unrelated to this issue. We get that in Autralia. Also in Australia quite a lot of people are dropping landlines in favour of mobiles.
The fact that the system works does not mean it is optimal.
Well check out what the major carriers in Autralia charge. Optus, Telstra (shudder), Vodafone, 3. $1AU ~ 0.$7US.
We also get options like free talk time within the same carrier, free sms messages etc. Depends on your carrier and your plant and all that.
My phone is largely used for business and I get a lot more calls than I make. However I do use it quite a bit. I pay $50/mnth for a capped plan that gives me $230 of calls/sms etc. Calls are ~$.30 flagfall and ~$0.1/second. I never really hit the cap.
That aside, to my mind it doesn't matter whether the system in the US works or not. It's just plain stupid to have a system where you pay for the actions of someone else, ie someone calling you. There is no logic behind it.
The joke of it is, it generally only tells me the wireless network is connected after I've VPNed into work. And I do mean after, I have flashing computers in the system tray before it tells me the wireless network is connected. Well hello of course the wireless network is connected, otherwise I wouldn't be on the VPN. Duh. Oh but then it tells me the VPN is connected. Woot! Thanks Windows XP.
I don't know how the handle things in the US so I guess I am in the same boat as you.
In Australia the mobile phones use a completely different number set. All mobiles have a 04 prefix and are 10 digits long. Land line phone numbers are 8 digits with a 2 digit prefix for different states. None of the 2 digit prefixes (add a zero to the front of the linked numbers) conflict with the mobile prefix. It is always clear that you are dialing a mobile number.
It would be a pretty dumb system to have a geographical code for mobiles, something that isn't tied to a physical location.
The biggest WTF in the US mobile phone system is you pay to recieve calls.
You don't understand. America is the world leader, they don't follow other people, they lead. That is why the US hasn't moved to metric and doesn't have a decent health system. To do that would be just copying the rest of the world. /sacasm
Hmm... Peaceful protestors are not rioters.
However in some of the recent protests in the US peachful protestors have been treated rioters. This can become a self fulfilling prophecy: treat peaceful protestors as rioters and they riot.
Blame the victim goes with the libertarian thinking that is so popular in the US.
I live in Sydney, in Hornsby in fact. We have a car but the major reason we have one is because my wife is a teacher, working somewhere that is not near good public transport and needs to move teaching materiels. Otherwise we could live quite happily without a car, I take a train to work.
However it does depend on where you live. If you live out west there just isn't the transport infrastructure.
No. Region encoding the stupidest feature.
Explain to me why the DVD of Blade Runner I legally bought off Amazon (new) wouldn't work in the DVD player.
This is a huge one. Anyone who develops software for a microsoft platform is going to drop source safe in favour of a real version control system real fast. svn runs nicely on windows (both server and client). If TortoiseSVN doesn't run on Vista, I will not be running Vista.
How did this crap get modded informative? The issue is if you use macros (more probably VBA), you are likely to have code invested in Office with no upgrade path to OO.
Anamoly, I am an evangelical christian who believes in evolution. Does that mean you believe in 7 day creation? 4004 BC? It seems to me that it is a very fragile theory. You need a lot of things to go your way so to speak. Fossil records, DNA records, Carbon and radioactive dating, geological records etc. In additon my wife is trained in plant biology and I have a friend with a phd in biology (both strong evangelical christians), both assure me that evolution happens. Particularly the friend with the phd who specialises in animal DNA and Autralian mammals.
I'd be interested to know what you think. I'm going away for a week so I won't be able to read your response for a while. You can email me at david@uberconcept.com if that works better.
That fact that slashdot was wrong about the ipod doesn't necessarily mean they will be wrong about this.
I've gone through the negative comments.
Scobeliser: Former MS blogger and still *loves* them, so no surprises there. Gets a major fact wrong (updated) to Apple's detriment. GSM + Cingular is teh suck.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Screen will scratch (agreed). Cingular is teh suck.
Paul Kendowsky: cannot ring by touch. closed system (yeah OS X is *real* closed). Cingular is teh suck. Vapourware (well duh, no product yet, but that doesn't make it vapourware). Waah too expensive.
Jupiter: apple extend only (that I cannot believe, you will see lost of non-apple code for this). No support for some MS Office stuff (maybe this will mean office will provide some open standards support). No 3G.
Interestingly only a few of the comments are about the actual hardware. I have two addition potential hardware issues in mind:
- Greasy screen, you will be putting this against your face
- lack of tactile feedback on "buttons". This could be an issue. The fact that buttons have edges make it easier to use buttons than pseudo buttons. I'd be interested to see if then turns out the difficult to use. Particularly for fat fingered people.
Still, neat hardware.
But the Top 40 is not about gauging popularity. It's about gauging sales.
And sales are a pretty good reflection of popularity. I'd bet that there is a pretty close correlation between sales and # downloads on P2P.
Contacts and hair dye? /joke
A funny story I hard from someone else. An Australian born Japanese man married an Autralian woman. He spoke no japanese but had japanes parents. She spoke Japanese but was very caucasian. They went to Japan and had the disturbing experience that everyone spoke to him first, but of course he couldn't understand a word...