Unfortunately that is exactly when we all watch the rugby (and afterwards wish we hadn't). They could have chosen a better time, like maybe 10-11 AM when you are having the coffee after the night before and there is nothing better to watch than the agricultural show.
Somebody at SABC listening out there?
And some people actually prefer it. Building a container window with custom docking, tabs, etc should not be that much of an issue. Let the user decide for himself whether he wants to use it or not. Not providing the option has proven to be a barrier to adoption. Remember that not all of us are graphics professionals with multiple desktops and screens.
3 days for a phone line is exceptional in Africa and 10$ flatrate for local phone calls is unheard of. Down here in South Africa we have arguably the best communications network in Africa, run by what has recently become on of the worst companies in this country. Look at 4-6 weeks for a residential installation and a 12$US? subscription fee afterwards(no call included). They have been raping the SA consumer to the tune of R4billion + yearly for the past few years. We fortunately are about to see an about turn come Feb 2005, when deregulation kicks in. I think our telecoms future lies in small operators like this. They will probably consolidate into bigger companies, but nothing drives prices down like competition. I hope that that Ivy or ICASA is seeing this and can go and learn from the Somalis.
My first computer was a ZX Spectrum with 16k ram also running at 2MHz. I can't remember running wordprocessors or the like, but I did manage to read and plot the output of an 8bit A/D convertor to the screen at about 25khz. Using machine code of course - did not have an assembler. The first sounds I managed to get on the screen was off a Final Cut tape, some of the best stuff ever written I might add. Those were the days.
Fully connected probably means not behind firewall, not natted, all ports open and available. Note they say 'works best' not 'works only'. That probably answers your gripe with the ports 80/443. Most firewalls allow these by default, so a 'not fully connected' computer on say a company lan will also be able to use skype. This is a powerful feature at the expense of misusing the above ports. Something else to take into account is that most company computers are only allowed internet connection through an http proxy. How does the skype protocol play with that? Anybody knows?
I have tested some of the clients six months ago an most of them worked fine through my natted firewall. Only thing I could never get to work is use the keypad to navigate an automated operator - think it is cvalled DTMF?
What stops a neferious neighbour from plugging in and snooping your packets? Certainly not the fact that the network does not authenticate his MAC address. Not having an encryption standard, or having one and not implementing it, sounds like a severe shortcoming to me. Will definately put me off the technology altogether.
I checked out Google Answers(where you pay Google to have some research done) the other day. In their examples section under $150 examples there are a couple of questions like: Describe with references and annotations etc the relation between woman and her child. A pretty comprehensive answer then follows and the person who asked the question then responds with a thank you, now I have everything I need to answer this question for that subject of my masters degree. Doesn't seem right to me that Google should be using this for promotion material.
Very true. And you could do a lot more with 8 megs 20 years ago. The only people seeming to buck the trend is Microsoft (picture with old prices). Seems they haven't dropped their price a lot.
1.3MP does not mean fancy digital camera, it means fancy webcam. And yes, it will be nice to take a nearly full strength PC the size of a paperback on holiday.
1. Install a huge red switch
2. Post a link to interesting story about an explosion/pipegun/robot/Steve Balmer dancing on Slashdot.
3. Flick the switch
4. Yell 'Incoming!!!' and run!
Gordon Brown put him up for this award, not the aristocracy. The article says it best: "On the eve of Hutton and the university fees vote, this is Brown saying, 'Look at all my powerful friends'," said a Downing Street adviser.
For those of you that are not familiar with British politics: There is this guy Tony who is in charge. Then there is this guy Gordon who wants to be in charge. Gordon and Tony agreed that Tony will be in charge for a while and then Gordon will get a turn. It is increasingly looking as if Tony is screwing Gordon out of his turn. Time is running out for Gordon because, since their party has screwed the British public and treated them like serfs for two terms, their party probably only has one term left in government - maybe. And since they have screwed up so royally Gordon will probably be dead next time their party gets put in charge again. So Gordon only has one term to possibly lead the government. So he has started screwing Tony. He has built an empire around his ministry and just about every other part of government now reports in some way to his department. He is the one that holds the country's purse strings. Every chance he gets he usurps the authority of Tony. Tony on the other hand is increasingly looking like a deer caught in the headlights. This honouring of Gates is just another kick in the groin at a time when Tony is already holding his guts to stop them from spilling. Gordon is playing low and dirty on this one.
British politics beats any soap hands down. I am sure it is the same in many other countries. Pity then that it affects real lives.
This was also reported in the FT on Monday and probably in some other newspapers as well. I agree with you that quoting Sun doesn't give the story any credibility.
The story included a broad outline of how it will work and the possible scope. It was obviously intended to sound the waters for the system - typical example of a government out of touch with its people.
Have you considered a studying something not related to IT like business, finance or management. There are some good ones available at masters level that will definately improve your career prospects. You have most propably already proven you have the IT knowledge. Even a maths masters with some finance slant will put you in good stead with banks and traders. And if you are not working for yourself that is where the big bucks are IMHO.
Is it Cable & Wireless that blocked all normal VOIP ports in the caribean to reduce the VOIP traffic(as recently as a few months ago)? The reality is that many third world countries still allow their telco monopolies to get away with typical monopoly activities. Anti-competitive behaviour, the stuff that will get you investigated and fined in Europe and the States, is in many cases protected by law. These laws won't change soon either, too many palms being crossed with gold for that to happen. Getting back to C&W, this a a first world company milking third world countries. So the profits does not even stay in the country of origin. Guess what scale of corruption allows that to happen. South Africa has a local company that has the monopoly. The market was due to be opened up to competition a while ago, but procrastination in appointing a second operator has caused the monopoly to drag on. The laws protecting it was drafted with a certain targets and a definate end in mind, but since the end date was not laid in stone, they are still in effect and being actively enforced. So, while VOIP is a good thing and can be a boon to small economies (getting more done cheaper), and indeed there are many third world countries technologically capable, it is still not bound to happen soon. It maximises usage of infrastructure and minimises cost - and that does not gel with the business model of a monopoly.
And another thing they should be forced to do is open their proxy authentication protocol, or provide a standerd java proxy class to authenticate against a micro$oft proxy server(or whatever they call it these days). I haven't looked lately, but if you replace the default ms java machine with Sun's Java 1.3, any applet which require an internet connection will not be able to go through an ms proxy. On the same point, can Linux go through an ms proxy?(have never tried it myself) Corporates running Exchange often run this as well.
This is a typical case of FUD around the real reason they wrote the law. The safety issue is just a means to their real end and could obviously be used effectively used as lobbying fodder (and attract less flack from the NRA). The real aim is less guns being sold. And that is what they will get. Now you can argue about the merits of less or more guns, but this is just another example of politicians slipping one past the opposition. Watch out for this law at a state near you!
This sentence of Hilary Rosen is often quoted to prove harm filesharing is doing: "When 23 percent of surveyed music consumers say they are not buying more music because they are downloading or copying their music for free, we cannot ignore the impact on the marketplace." And I see that it is used again in this article. What this really means is that 23 percent are not changing their buying habits, and 77 percent are spending more. Where's the harm to their marketplace? This is typical politician double-speak - I can see her laughing everytime she sees it quoted. With the figures they published they are doing better than most anyway.
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Unfortunately that is exactly when we all watch the rugby (and afterwards wish we hadn't). They could have chosen a better time, like maybe 10-11 AM when you are having the coffee after the night before and there is nothing better to watch than the agricultural show.
Somebody at SABC listening out there?
And some people actually prefer it. Building a container window with custom docking, tabs, etc should not be that much of an issue. Let the user decide for himself whether he wants to use it or not. Not providing the option has proven to be a barrier to adoption. Remember that not all of us are graphics professionals with multiple desktops and screens.
3 days for a phone line is exceptional in Africa and 10$ flatrate for local phone calls is unheard of. Down here in South Africa we have arguably the best communications network in Africa, run by what has recently become on of the worst companies in this country. Look at 4-6 weeks for a residential installation and a 12$US? subscription fee afterwards(no call included). They have been raping the SA consumer to the tune of R4billion + yearly for the past few years. We fortunately are about to see an about turn come Feb 2005, when deregulation kicks in. I think our telecoms future lies in small operators like this. They will probably consolidate into bigger companies, but nothing drives prices down like competition. I hope that that Ivy or ICASA is seeing this and can go and learn from the Somalis.
I just installed 5.05 lite. It looks and behaves just like V2 - did not even need to change skins. Performance is just as snappy as well. Great stuff!
Ditto. Upgraded once to V3 and reverted back after 10 minutes. What did they do wong in V3 and is V5 worth the upgrade?
My first computer was a ZX Spectrum with 16k ram also running at 2MHz. I can't remember running wordprocessors or the like, but I did manage to read and plot the output of an 8bit A/D convertor to the screen at about 25khz. Using machine code of course - did not have an assembler. The first sounds I managed to get on the screen was off a Final Cut tape, some of the best stuff ever written I might add. Those were the days.
Amen
Fully connected probably means not behind firewall, not natted, all ports open and available. Note they say 'works best' not 'works only'. That probably answers your gripe with the ports 80/443. Most firewalls allow these by default, so a 'not fully connected' computer on say a company lan will also be able to use skype. This is a powerful feature at the expense of misusing the above ports. Something else to take into account is that most company computers are only allowed internet connection through an http proxy. How does the skype protocol play with that? Anybody knows?
I have tested some of the clients six months ago an most of them worked fine through my natted firewall. Only thing I could never get to work is use the keypad to navigate an automated operator - think it is cvalled DTMF?
What stops a neferious neighbour from plugging in and snooping your packets? Certainly not the fact that the network does not authenticate his MAC address. Not having an encryption standard, or having one and not implementing it, sounds like a severe shortcoming to me. Will definately put me off the technology altogether.
I checked out Google Answers(where you pay Google to have some research done) the other day. In their examples section under $150 examples there are a couple of questions like: Describe with references and annotations etc the relation between woman and her child. A pretty comprehensive answer then follows and the person who asked the question then responds with a thank you, now I have everything I need to answer this question for that subject of my masters degree.
Doesn't seem right to me that Google should be using this for promotion material.
Very true. And you could do a lot more with 8 megs 20 years ago. The only people seeming to buck the trend is Microsoft (picture with old prices). Seems they haven't dropped their price a lot.
1.3MP does not mean fancy digital camera, it means fancy webcam.
And yes, it will be nice to take a nearly full strength PC the size of a paperback on holiday.
1. Install a huge red switch 2. Post a link to interesting story about an explosion/pipegun/robot/Steve Balmer dancing on Slashdot. 3. Flick the switch 4. Yell 'Incoming!!!' and run!
Ditto to all the above and add:
Pocahontas,
Lion King,
Finding Nemo, and many more
I did see Snowwhite when I was about four - really dark stuff. Will probably see some of them in the coming years (with soon to be born daughter :-)
Always remember that Disney stole Pooh
Does it support ProxyPassReverse? Had a look in their docs and can't find a reference. Anybody knows?
For those of you that are not familiar with British politics: There is this guy Tony who is in charge. Then there is this guy Gordon who wants to be in charge. Gordon and Tony agreed that Tony will be in charge for a while and then Gordon will get a turn. It is increasingly looking as if Tony is screwing Gordon out of his turn. Time is running out for Gordon because, since their party has screwed the British public and treated them like serfs for two terms, their party probably only has one term left in government - maybe. And since they have screwed up so royally Gordon will probably be dead next time their party gets put in charge again. So Gordon only has one term to possibly lead the government. So he has started screwing Tony. He has built an empire around his ministry and just about every other part of government now reports in some way to his department. He is the one that holds the country's purse strings. Every chance he gets he usurps the authority of Tony. Tony on the other hand is increasingly looking like a deer caught in the headlights. This honouring of Gates is just another kick in the groin at a time when Tony is already holding his guts to stop them from spilling. Gordon is playing low and dirty on this one.
British politics beats any soap hands down. I am sure it is the same in many other countries. Pity then that it affects real lives.
Or is there scope in their legal system for another go at him?
The problem with jurisdiction is that it can change.
1. Generate taxes using jurisdiction.
2. Jurisdiction circumvented by people with little or no lobbying power in government.
3. Tax revenue declines.
4. Change jurisdiction.
5. Generate taxes and Profit!!
Hope I am not being too cynical
This was also reported in the FT on Monday and probably in some other newspapers as well. I agree with you that quoting Sun doesn't give the story any credibility.
The story included a broad outline of how it will work and the possible scope. It was obviously intended to sound the waters for the system - typical example of a government out of touch with its people.
Have you considered a studying something not related to IT like business, finance or management. There are some good ones available at masters level that will definately improve your career prospects. You have most propably already proven you have the IT knowledge. Even a maths masters with some finance slant will put you in good stead with banks and traders. And if you are not working for yourself that is where the big bucks are IMHO.
Is it Cable & Wireless that blocked all normal VOIP ports in the caribean to reduce the VOIP traffic(as recently as a few months ago)? The reality is that many third world countries still allow their telco monopolies to get away with typical monopoly activities. Anti-competitive behaviour, the stuff that will get you investigated and fined in Europe and the States, is in many cases protected by law. These laws won't change soon either, too many palms being crossed with gold for that to happen. Getting back to C&W, this a a first world company milking third world countries. So the profits does not even stay in the country of origin. Guess what scale of corruption allows that to happen. South Africa has a local company that has the monopoly. The market was due to be opened up to competition a while ago, but procrastination in appointing a second operator has caused the monopoly to drag on. The laws protecting it was drafted with a certain targets and a definate end in mind, but since the end date was not laid in stone, they are still in effect and being actively enforced. So, while VOIP is a good thing and can be a boon to small economies (getting more done cheaper), and indeed there are many third world countries technologically capable, it is still not bound to happen soon. It maximises usage of infrastructure and minimises cost - and that does not gel with the business model of a monopoly.
This is a typical case of FUD around the real reason they wrote the law. The safety issue is just a means to their real end and could obviously be used effectively used as lobbying fodder (and attract less flack from the NRA). The real aim is less guns being sold. And that is what they will get. Now you can argue about the merits of less or more guns, but this is just another example of politicians slipping one past the opposition. Watch out for this law at a state near you!
This sentence of Hilary Rosen is often quoted to prove harm filesharing is doing: "When 23 percent of surveyed music consumers say they are not buying more music because they are downloading or copying their music for free, we cannot ignore the impact on the marketplace." And I see that it is used again in this article. What this really means is that 23 percent are not changing their buying habits, and 77 percent are spending more. Where's the harm to their marketplace? This is typical politician double-speak - I can see her laughing everytime she sees it quoted. With the figures they published they are doing better than most anyway.