I'm in the UK and post prices are going to rise to 46p per stamp soon. I don't care about rural areas. You pay less for property and goods in those areas, so if you have to pay extra for stuff like mail and broadband or whatever then factor it in - I've no interest in subsidizing you! Where's my interest in saving you some money?
You mean "selling phones with"? Why not find a vendor "selling phones with" 1.6? Anyway, hardly anyone has 1.6 anymore. What is it now? Less than 17% have 1.6/1.7 combined. As a company, surely you'd choose a phone and stick with it, just like you can specify/mandate OS, browser etc. You're talking about checking email, right?
Heh - that, or Jobs has finally realised that if he wants to not totally fail in the long term against Android he has to allow people to run both OSes on his phones. "Yeah, we're doing all we can to prevent people
> one of whom was a longtime activist and even a part of an organization that > arranged one of his talks, and thus obviously not a CIA "sparrow".
Why don't you believe that you can be a "CIA sparrow" and a "longtime activist"? You've obviously not read about the informers within the IRA and other "terrorist" groups.
I used Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. I want it to `just work` - I don't want to dick around with this or that app. I want bookmarks to bookmark a different string, that's all - the one that would work more often than currently. Yes, every few years I'll have the incorrect bookmark because the IP address might change etc, but manifestly this happens less often than the DNS going down.
Failed reading comprehension, huh? Please provide the link where I can download the hundreds of thousands of cables, not just the few hundred released on the site.
If they're just mirroring what's currently on the site then most of the cables stuff is not there. They gave it a few news organisations, but posted this bizarre message about how putting it on their site wouldn't do it justice. Perhaps they want the news to be about their site, and not the cables themselves. Surely it's safer to mirror all the cables in case anything happens to them before they're all published?
Oh, and they have all your emails, text messages, pager messages to. You know that, right? No, I'm not going to prove it to you. But ask yourself - do they want to read them? Can they get hold of them? Is there some technical problem obtaining/storing/searching them?
Of course not. Read up on the last 50 years or so of what the relevant bodies have been doing, why they want this data etc.
> In regards to WikiLeaks, I agree with the point that wholesale document > releases like this do little to create openness. I always pictured a leak as a > bit of information that is released to correct something that is going wrong > behind closed doors, this is more like a flood.
>The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The >subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical >spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice.
At this rate it's going to take about 5 years! Isn't there a risk `something will happen` to the site or the people behind it? Why not release it all in one go?
>You seem to be trying at sarcasm, but umm...yes. Yes, it does sometimes make >sense for limited sales to go buy-one-get-one. Especially for something that >comes attached to a subscription service with a monetary cost which dominates >the initial price. And if it's not a limited sale, well, then that's the price >of two and not the price of one, by definition. > >It's a marketing promotion. That's all.
So why have no iPhones or Android phones ever been part of a BOGOF promotion?
It's odd - I can see it mentioned in a few papers, but there's nothing on the website. I don't want to read recycled crap in the Gruaniad; when's the download going to be available?
Yes, you're right. For some products, giving away two when a customer pays for one makes perfect sense, and is not, repeat NOT a sign of desperation that the manufacturer is struggling to stay relevant.
> BOGO offers are in no way a sign of desperation.
Exactly. It's why you often see BOGOF offers on PS3s, digital cameras etc. It's what you do when your product is a runaway success and you can't keep up with demand.
That's kind of backwards. He's part of an organisation which doesn't think certain stuff should be covered up. This latest release is a case it point. It's going to embarass governments by showing them lying, trying to outdo each other etc. People are trying to shut him up by engaging him in pointless lawsuits. It'll make no difference; wikileaks is bigger than him.
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I'm in the UK and post prices are going to rise to 46p per stamp soon. I don't care about rural areas. You pay less for property and goods in those areas, so if you have to pay extra for stuff like mail and broadband or whatever then factor it in - I've no interest in subsidizing you! Where's my interest in saving you some money?
Or time to find out why stuff like green tea is so good for you it's not for this reason.
Google Goggles translates text from photos. Google has promised that this app will be a new platform with an API and so on. Can't wait.
Lol! Do keep up!
http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-versions.html
So...target 2.1 then? Or, get this, target 1.5 then it'll work on all later (minor) updates.
That was hard.
> With vendors still pushing out 1.5
You mean "selling phones with"? Why not find a vendor "selling phones with" 1.6? Anyway, hardly anyone has 1.6 anymore. What is it now? Less than 17% have 1.6/1.7 combined. As a company, surely you'd choose a phone and stick with it, just like you can specify/mandate OS, browser etc. You're talking about checking email, right?
GC = Garbage Collector? Then again, given the quality of most websites....
That, and that the dodgy websites were probably hosted on servers running IIS shite.
It's because Abba are an embarrassing, cheesy group from the '70s/'80s.
Heh - that, or Jobs has finally realised that if he wants to not totally fail in the long term against Android he has to allow people to run both OSes on his phones. "Yeah, we're doing all we can to prevent people
> Also, it is considered dishonorable for a man to admit ignorance.
So how do you explain that fucking bearded cunt in a suit saying stuff like `the holocaust didn't happen` and `we have no homosexuals in Iran`?
> one of whom was a longtime activist and even a part of an organization that
> arranged one of his talks, and thus obviously not a CIA "sparrow".
Why don't you believe that you can be a "CIA sparrow" and a "longtime activist"? You've obviously not read about the informers within the IRA and other "terrorist" groups.
I used Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. I want it to `just work` - I don't want to dick around with this or that app. I want bookmarks to bookmark a different string, that's all - the one that would work more often than currently. Yes, every few years I'll have the incorrect bookmark because the IP address might change etc, but manifestly this happens less often than the DNS going down.
Failed reading comprehension, huh? Please provide the link where I can download the hundreds of thousands of cables, not just the few hundred released on the site.
If they're just mirroring what's currently on the site then most of the cables stuff is not there. They gave it a few news organisations, but posted this bizarre message about how putting it on their site wouldn't do it justice. Perhaps they want the news to be about their site, and not the cables themselves. Surely it's safer to mirror all the cables in case anything happens to them before they're all published?
Prove it isn't.
Oh, and they have all your emails, text messages, pager messages to. You know that, right? No, I'm not going to prove it to you. But ask yourself - do they want to read them? Can they get hold of them? Is there some technical problem obtaining/storing/searching them?
Of course not. Read up on the last 50 years or so of what the relevant bodies have been doing, why they want this data etc.
If only browsers bookmarked the IP address as well as the domain name.
1. build nuclear plant
2. install complex, life-or-death computer system
3. connect computer system to the internet for...oh..no reason
4. ??
5. lol
> In regards to WikiLeaks, I agree with the point that wholesale document
> releases like this do little to create openness. I always pictured a leak as a
> bit of information that is released to correct something that is going wrong
> behind closed doors, this is more like a flood.
From http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/
Currently released so far... 272 / 251,287
Uh...that's a trickle.
Also from that page:
>The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The
>subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical
>spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice.
At this rate it's going to take about 5 years! Isn't there a risk `something will happen` to the site or the people behind it? Why not release it all in one go?
>You seem to be trying at sarcasm, but umm...yes. Yes, it does sometimes make
>sense for limited sales to go buy-one-get-one. Especially for something that
>comes attached to a subscription service with a monetary cost which dominates
>the initial price. And if it's not a limited sale, well, then that's the price
>of two and not the price of one, by definition.
>
>It's a marketing promotion. That's all.
So why have no iPhones or Android phones ever been part of a BOGOF promotion?
It's odd - I can see it mentioned in a few papers, but there's nothing on the website. I don't want to read recycled crap in the Gruaniad; when's the download going to be available?
Yes, you're right. For some products, giving away two when a customer pays for one makes perfect sense, and is not, repeat NOT a sign of desperation that the manufacturer is struggling to stay relevant.
> BOGO offers are in no way a sign of desperation.
Exactly. It's why you often see BOGOF offers on PS3s, digital cameras etc. It's what you do when your product is a runaway success and you can't keep up with demand.
That's what I thought. Nice advert for the company, I guess. It's going to boost Linux development by precisely one game, in 18 months time, maybe....
That would be illegal in the UK. ISPs tend to avoid doing stuff that's going to get them fined; lose them customers etc.
That's kind of backwards. He's part of an organisation which doesn't think certain stuff should be covered up. This latest release is a case it point. It's going to embarass governments by showing them lying, trying to outdo each other etc. People are trying to shut him up by engaging him in pointless lawsuits. It'll make no difference; wikileaks is bigger than him.
I can't see the Guardian agreeing to this.