Not according to the article. Fortunately, they don't retrofit the dates in history, they have gone forward 3hours already + switching dates... Wikipedia tells me the same, as does the television journal at home (which I am currently listening to as I'm posting this). Summary is wrong (gosh, what a surprise).
That's a bit overstated - as HTC user I got one or two updates over the first year at least - but I must admit it is a drawback of smartphones in general. You would expect at least security updates from the phone manufacturer (although when using Java, the chance of a non-native app escaping the sandbox or attacking the system should be much lower). I've installed a modded version on my HTC hero, which now runs way better, but I must admit it's a bit large regarding RAM and flash usage. That's one thing, I would rather buy a new model with more RAM than anything else - a quad core CPU won't do much to enhance my experience, but more RAM certainly would. Oh, and replacing the internal flash with some kind of SSD chip would be nice too of course.
Still, there are many reasons why I would not want to be stuck on an internet cafe for regular usage. Using a credit card or managing my bank acounts from an internet cafe does not sound like the thing to do. Fine for holidays (although I can now use my cell phone 3G for 10 euro a month in Europe), but I wouldn't like to use it otherwise.
Although I am generally in favor of the government organizations checking on private companies (I think there is no such thing as a *fully* free market), I think the EU is sometimes overshooting their goal. It seems to me that there is no reason to disallow this deal. So generally what happens is just the delay, which can kill the value of the company that is being taken over. Sure, large take overs take time, but adding time to the deal in this fast paced sector can cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars really quick. Hopefully they will not take months (again) to validate the deal.
Yup, I quickly shut down a move to open source within our company that gave away some of the crown jewels. Within a product we used a open source library (GPL) that we would have to improve radically to be of any business value. I'm all for open source, and I will give some open source improvements back (crypto, bouncy castle) soon. But I won't help create an open source product that will harm my Christmas bonus, or even my chances of employment.
In other words, it makes *lots* of sense to use and maintain, and even create new open source within companies (mine does too little of that). As long as that software is what makes your business worthwhile. This is of course speaking in general. If you are big enough, you can make your money around the main, open sourced product. Generally, that won't be the case for a startup (unless it is build around something that has been open sourced by someone else).
Warning: some applications (such as the Java VM) more or less depend on the swap to be present; unused memory can be swapped away, leaving you more memory for other applications. Futhermore, on many OS platforms, you need at least the amount of swap as the amount of RAM to be able to hibernate your computer.
When there are many people that can do the same job, negotiating will be a very painfull business. In that case you need a Union as well, as they can stop the employers for hiring people that don't have any leverage. Of course, at the moment, there is the chance that for some specific jobs, they'll just move to China.
This is one reason why "just get another job" does not work.
So Android is not a "real language and execution environment?" That's a really fucked up view of looking at it. "It also has pointers and all the other trappings..."? Don't you mean: flaws?
The current governments cannot afford fair wages instead of benefits unfortunately.
Governments claim lots of things. The problem is not a lack of money (one man's debt is another man's credit) but that money is increasingly being channeled towards special interests in every sector.
I certainly agree with that.
Social benefits, especially in Europe, is a huge factor in financing a country, second after keeping the financial industry alive.
Unfortunately, that's only a small part of the total spend on welfare state related expenditures. That's not wrong, of course, having a happy society, explicitly including the persons currently without a job is what it is all about. But if you would employ all the people that receive welfare, well, that's certainly going to cost money. Lots and lots of it.
The way to handle unemployed, in my opinion, is to have them working on something that is usefull, but out of reach of the current budget. And there are oodles of things that can be done. Creating nicer neighbourhoods, creating new parks/forests, helping the elderly (supervised and voluntarily of course), helping with open source products, etc. etc. etc.
Do they have to look for work 8 hours a day as well, or are you suggesting that the government take back the responsibility for helping people find jobs (public or private sector)?
Paid workers and genuine volunteers already do the above things. If society cannot find enough volunteers but wants certain work to be done then it can cough up the money to pay people to do it. Again, there is not a lack of money, there is just ever-growing inequality. Put bluntly: the rich can pay higher taxes to pay the unemployed to make their community better. If we can force the poor to be "volunteers" then we can force the rich to be "philanthropists", right?
Of course not. That's why I said "mornings", I think you should read what is implied. And I don't even say each and every morning, and I would certainly exclude job finding activities or education. Current society is very individual, unfortunately, so finding volunteers is hard, and we just cannot pay for every nice thing.
you would end up with a communist kind of workforce, which is *not* a good thing.
What's good is what alleviates the suffering of the people in the short and long term. If your definition of "communist" (which I guess isn't the same as mine) applies then who cares?
See Greece. It's certainly not their only problem, but having a (huge) trade deposit and many people employed by the government certainly does not help.
It's not that I would not like for that to happen, you might be surprised that I'm quite left wing in my beliefs (heck, I'm even member of a left-wing party). However, if there are unemployed people out there doing nothing, well, that certainly does not help anybody, including themselves. So then you end up thinking of ways in which they create a possitive contribution, without endangering the economy or the - already sliding - state budgets.
Maybe it's the part of "handle the unemployed" part that sparked your ignition, but that was certainly not intended.
As far as I know, the larger percentage of people that receive benefits are not creating a substantial amount of money through black market jobs. This goes for almost any country. There is just one single thing worse than attacking the black market economy: to criminalize or punish the persons that receive a benefit because they are eligible for it. Even then, many of the people that do work in the black market do so because they see no other way out.
As you (possibly) implied, the way to attack the black market is to punish the employers, not the employees - even if just for practical reasons.
The current governments cannot afford fair wages instead of benefits unfortunately. Social benefits, especially in Europe, is a huge factor in financing a country, second after keeping the financial industry alive. Besides, in that case you would go to a true soviet kind of handling things.
The way to handle unemployed, in my opinion, is to have them working on something that is usefull, but out of reach of the current budget. And there are oodles of things that can be done. Creating nicer neighbourhoods, creating new parks/forests, helping the elderly (supervised and voluntarily of course), helping with open source products, etc. etc. etc. If these were created as "proper" jobs, then you would end up with a communist kind of workforce, which is *not* a good thing.
Of course, training people should be top priority first. But training is not the same thing as doing something you can directly see the benefits of.
IMHO these kind of things don't always have to be voluntary. As I said before, people are most of the time against change. Sometimes you have to help people do something that goes against their wishes in the first place, even though it is, ultimately, for their own benefit. The trick is to keep some flexibility so that e.g. people can change their work environment afterwards. Otherwise the persons involved will feel oppressed, and that's not going to help in the long run.
Of course there are similarities between "hard labour camps" and any scheme for the unemployed. But there are equally as many differences, and the monstrosities performed in the former makes any discussion moot. That's why bringing up WWII and the holocaust is considered harmful to discussions. It is not to deny that they have happened, it is because it makes a structured discussion about the actual subject impossible.
I think the fallacy here is that people want to stay unemployed. I don't think they want to. Its just that they are not brought up to build their own private enterprises (a risky venture indeed - without a really good plan you will fail). After some time trying to get a job (failure after failure) you will get into a situation where you keep with the status quo. This is a very human thing to do, any healthy human will look for stability in his life. Add to that the current market where oodles of people are unemployed and yes, you will have oodles of people - especially long term unemployed - staying at home.
Personally, doing community service for the government is a good thing, and I think it is healthy thing to do (especially if given a job in the morning only), and does not replace other payed jobs. Private enterprises however should stay the hell out, because you will have "slave labour" in a short time. You cannot trust the private companies to do or stay good all the time. Even then, you will have to keep a good eye on the people in charge, because if there is power involved (especially if it is "follow instructions or loose all benefits") it will be abused in no time whatsoever.
The problem with mini-itx is that you might have to literally bend something out of shape to fit the new board into the same slot that the old one occupied;)
I posted a negative review as well, but there is one thing to be said about failing motherboards: most of the time the enclosures of mini-itx systems are of course tiny. So tiny that you must test the enclosure with the motherboard to see if it works. You can get new motherboards (if you are lucky, this is one of the few *new* ITX boards from VIA in a while), but there is a serious chance that it simply won't fit. And with ITX, the enclosure may be *more expensive* than the whole motherboard + CPU.
Yeah, I've got tons of those lying around here. All processor/chipset failures. Seriously, it would be more practical to put the high powered capacitors in sockets if you are worying about that kind of thing.
There will be more processors that die because they were not connected properly to motherboards or fans than any other reason. And if it breaks, anybody but the real enthousiast will toss away the broken motherboard anyway.
Maybe because you responded so fast, but as long as you don't show a list of features you require, you are not going to get much useful response.
They have just brought this one to the market, it is unlikely to feature a full set of bugs. That said, the VIA chipsets have always had quite a strong feature set. It amazed me that the Atom boards did trash the VIA EPIA in sales. The VIA EPIA chipset especially was way way way better than what the Intel chipsets had to offer (and then came nVidia, of course.)
The processor was not that fast, but I've still got this nice fanless board with PCI, SATA and DVI lying around (they were way too late introducing DVI though, don't know what it is with those legacy ports either).
That did not materialize for cable in NL though, only for telephone lines. This is particularly stupid since coax can transport much much more than telephone, even with VDSL. Rolling out Fiber to the Home is much to expensive to compete with cable. Fortunately, I only need/expect fast enough ADSL with high uptime (and with my tether on my android phone, I've got a rather speedy backup anyway).\
I'm sure that I like the browser interfaces much better now than before. Before we had much less screen estate, much more prominent "history" and "bookmarks", more modal pop-ups, the URL bar was at the wrong place, no smart URL bar (a clear winner if there ever was), less clear SSL information etc etc etc. If there is anything that shows improvement, its the new browser interfaces.
As for the power user, what I like to see further is some features taken from e.g. Eclipse: easy to change shortcuts, self arranging (offline) help, searchable preferences, copyable labels (any text element should have a context menu), smarter text areas (completion using ).
Good things about the latest versions of windows are the searchable programs. I really really like the new task manager of Win 8 as well, with a clear distinction between user applications and services and what more, using the full names. I cannot wait for usable way of putting the "start bar " in Ubuntu on the left side (of my left screen) either. Currently that's hardly doable.
Wait a minute! Top gear cast and producers have a full sense of humor and have brilliant programs, full of twists and jokes.
Even I, as a green party supported, just love watching it. That he himself has as much knowledge about science and politics, and just dimly follows his egocentrical sense of "good" (anything with pistons in), does not make the people that watch it dimwits by definition. Besides, although keeping spawning his idiotic opinions, he himself *knows* he's a petrolhead. He's mostly an entertainer, and he's certainly good at *that*.
If there is anybody that takes its "reviews" or "opinions" serious, gosh, yes. Even *they themselves* make fun of such dimwits.
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Not according to the article. Fortunately, they don't retrofit the dates in history, they have gone forward 3hours already + switching dates... Wikipedia tells me the same, as does the television journal at home (which I am currently listening to as I'm posting this). Summary is wrong (gosh, what a surprise).
"This means there will be no December 30, 2011 in these countries." You've just shown that you can skip calendar dates, congratulations!
That's a bit overstated - as HTC user I got one or two updates over the first year at least - but I must admit it is a drawback of smartphones in general. You would expect at least security updates from the phone manufacturer (although when using Java, the chance of a non-native app escaping the sandbox or attacking the system should be much lower). I've installed a modded version on my HTC hero, which now runs way better, but I must admit it's a bit large regarding RAM and flash usage. That's one thing, I would rather buy a new model with more RAM than anything else - a quad core CPU won't do much to enhance my experience, but more RAM certainly would. Oh, and replacing the internal flash with some kind of SSD chip would be nice too of course.
Still, there are many reasons why I would not want to be stuck on an internet cafe for regular usage. Using a credit card or managing my bank acounts from an internet cafe does not sound like the thing to do. Fine for holidays (although I can now use my cell phone 3G for 10 euro a month in Europe), but I wouldn't like to use it otherwise.
Although I am generally in favor of the government organizations checking on private companies (I think there is no such thing as a *fully* free market), I think the EU is sometimes overshooting their goal. It seems to me that there is no reason to disallow this deal. So generally what happens is just the delay, which can kill the value of the company that is being taken over. Sure, large take overs take time, but adding time to the deal in this fast paced sector can cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars really quick. Hopefully they will not take months (again) to validate the deal.
Yup, I quickly shut down a move to open source within our company that gave away some of the crown jewels. Within a product we used a open source library (GPL) that we would have to improve radically to be of any business value. I'm all for open source, and I will give some open source improvements back (crypto, bouncy castle) soon. But I won't help create an open source product that will harm my Christmas bonus, or even my chances of employment.
In other words, it makes *lots* of sense to use and maintain, and even create new open source within companies (mine does too little of that). As long as that software is what makes your business worthwhile. This is of course speaking in general. If you are big enough, you can make your money around the main, open sourced product. Generally, that won't be the case for a startup (unless it is build around something that has been open sourced by someone else).
Warning: some applications (such as the Java VM) more or less depend on the swap to be present; unused memory can be swapped away, leaving you more memory for other applications. Futhermore, on many OS platforms, you need at least the amount of swap as the amount of RAM to be able to hibernate your computer.
When there are many people that can do the same job, negotiating will be a very painfull business. In that case you need a Union as well, as they can stop the employers for hiring people that don't have any leverage. Of course, at the moment, there is the chance that for some specific jobs, they'll just move to China.
This is one reason why "just get another job" does not work.
So Android is not a "real language and execution environment?" That's a really fucked up view of looking at it. "It also has pointers and all the other trappings..."? Don't you mean: flaws?
The current governments cannot afford fair wages instead of benefits unfortunately.
Governments claim lots of things. The problem is not a lack of money (one man's debt is another man's credit) but that money is increasingly being channeled towards special interests in every sector.
I certainly agree with that.
Social benefits, especially in Europe, is a huge factor in financing a country, second after keeping the financial industry alive.
Welfare in the sense of unemployment, disability and child allowances (excluding education) make up about 16% of the UK budget - and that's factoring in the huge inefficiencies made by contracting work out to state-capitalist organisations such as ATOS.
Unfortunately, that's only a small part of the total spend on welfare state related expenditures. That's not wrong, of course, having a happy society, explicitly including the persons currently without a job is what it is all about. But if you would employ all the people that receive welfare, well, that's certainly going to cost money. Lots and lots of it.
The way to handle unemployed, in my opinion, is to have them working on something that is usefull, but out of reach of the current budget. And there are oodles of things that can be done. Creating nicer neighbourhoods, creating new parks/forests, helping the elderly (supervised and voluntarily of course), helping with open source products, etc. etc. etc.
Do they have to look for work 8 hours a day as well, or are you suggesting that the government take back the responsibility for helping people find jobs (public or private sector)?
Paid workers and genuine volunteers already do the above things. If society cannot find enough volunteers but wants certain work to be done then it can cough up the money to pay people to do it. Again, there is not a lack of money, there is just ever-growing inequality. Put bluntly: the rich can pay higher taxes to pay the unemployed to make their community better. If we can force the poor to be "volunteers" then we can force the rich to be "philanthropists", right?
Of course not. That's why I said "mornings", I think you should read what is implied. And I don't even say each and every morning, and I would certainly exclude job finding activities or education. Current society is very individual, unfortunately, so finding volunteers is hard, and we just cannot pay for every nice thing.
you would end up with a communist kind of workforce, which is *not* a good thing.
What's good is what alleviates the suffering of the people in the short and long term. If your definition of "communist" (which I guess isn't the same as mine) applies then who cares?
See Greece. It's certainly not their only problem, but having a (huge) trade deposit and many people employed by the government certainly does not help.
It's not that I would not like for that to happen, you might be surprised that I'm quite left wing in my beliefs (heck, I'm even member of a left-wing party). However, if there are unemployed people out there doing nothing, well, that certainly does not help anybody, including themselves. So then you end up thinking of ways in which they create a possitive contribution, without endangering the economy or the - already sliding - state budgets.
Maybe it's the part of "handle the unemployed" part that sparked your ignition, but that was certainly not intended.
Any successor to Slashdot should think of "The Colon" as the first option, as it is what you get after you slash the dot in two :)
As far as I know, the larger percentage of people that receive benefits are not creating a substantial amount of money through black market jobs. This goes for almost any country. There is just one single thing worse than attacking the black market economy: to criminalize or punish the persons that receive a benefit because they are eligible for it. Even then, many of the people that do work in the black market do so because they see no other way out.
As you (possibly) implied, the way to attack the black market is to punish the employers, not the employees - even if just for practical reasons.
The current governments cannot afford fair wages instead of benefits unfortunately. Social benefits, especially in Europe, is a huge factor in financing a country, second after keeping the financial industry alive. Besides, in that case you would go to a true soviet kind of handling things.
The way to handle unemployed, in my opinion, is to have them working on something that is usefull, but out of reach of the current budget. And there are oodles of things that can be done. Creating nicer neighbourhoods, creating new parks/forests, helping the elderly (supervised and voluntarily of course), helping with open source products, etc. etc. etc. If these were created as "proper" jobs, then you would end up with a communist kind of workforce, which is *not* a good thing.
Of course, training people should be top priority first. But training is not the same thing as doing something you can directly see the benefits of.
IMHO these kind of things don't always have to be voluntary. As I said before, people are most of the time against change. Sometimes you have to help people do something that goes against their wishes in the first place, even though it is, ultimately, for their own benefit. The trick is to keep some flexibility so that e.g. people can change their work environment afterwards. Otherwise the persons involved will feel oppressed, and that's not going to help in the long run.
Of course there are similarities between "hard labour camps" and any scheme for the unemployed. But there are equally as many differences, and the monstrosities performed in the former makes any discussion moot. That's why bringing up WWII and the holocaust is considered harmful to discussions. It is not to deny that they have happened, it is because it makes a structured discussion about the actual subject impossible.
I think the fallacy here is that people want to stay unemployed. I don't think they want to. Its just that they are not brought up to build their own private enterprises (a risky venture indeed - without a really good plan you will fail). After some time trying to get a job (failure after failure) you will get into a situation where you keep with the status quo. This is a very human thing to do, any healthy human will look for stability in his life. Add to that the current market where oodles of people are unemployed and yes, you will have oodles of people - especially long term unemployed - staying at home.
Personally, doing community service for the government is a good thing, and I think it is healthy thing to do (especially if given a job in the morning only), and does not replace other payed jobs. Private enterprises however should stay the hell out, because you will have "slave labour" in a short time. You cannot trust the private companies to do or stay good all the time. Even then, you will have to keep a good eye on the people in charge, because if there is power involved (especially if it is "follow instructions or loose all benefits") it will be abused in no time whatsoever.
That's the point: in IT, everybody is in that 1% :)
Anyone turning off his pacemaker, don't forget to register with the Darwin awards first (if applicable).
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The problem with mini-itx is that you might have to literally bend something out of shape to fit the new board into the same slot that the old one occupied ;)
I posted a negative review as well, but there is one thing to be said about failing motherboards: most of the time the enclosures of mini-itx systems are of course tiny. So tiny that you must test the enclosure with the motherboard to see if it works. You can get new motherboards (if you are lucky, this is one of the few *new* ITX boards from VIA in a while), but there is a serious chance that it simply won't fit. And with ITX, the enclosure may be *more expensive* than the whole motherboard + CPU.
Yeah, I've got tons of those lying around here. All processor/chipset failures. Seriously, it would be more practical to put the high powered capacitors in sockets if you are worying about that kind of thing.
There will be more processors that die because they were not connected properly to motherboards or fans than any other reason. And if it breaks, anybody but the real enthousiast will toss away the broken motherboard anyway.
Maybe because you responded so fast, but as long as you don't show a list of features you require, you are not going to get much useful response.
They have just brought this one to the market, it is unlikely to feature a full set of bugs. That said, the VIA chipsets have always had quite a strong feature set. It amazed me that the Atom boards did trash the VIA EPIA in sales. The VIA EPIA chipset especially was way way way better than what the Intel chipsets had to offer (and then came nVidia, of course.)
The processor was not that fast, but I've still got this nice fanless board with PCI, SATA and DVI lying around (they were way too late introducing DVI though, don't know what it is with those legacy ports either).
That did not materialize for cable in NL though, only for telephone lines. This is particularly stupid since coax can transport much much more than telephone, even with VDSL. Rolling out Fiber to the Home is much to expensive to compete with cable. Fortunately, I only need/expect fast enough ADSL with high uptime (and with my tether on my android phone, I've got a rather speedy backup anyway).\
I'm sure that I like the browser interfaces much better now than before. Before we had much less screen estate, much more prominent "history" and "bookmarks", more modal pop-ups, the URL bar was at the wrong place, no smart URL bar (a clear winner if there ever was), less clear SSL information etc etc etc. If there is anything that shows improvement, its the new browser interfaces.
As for the power user, what I like to see further is some features taken from e.g. Eclipse: easy to change shortcuts, self arranging (offline) help, searchable preferences, copyable labels (any text element should have a context menu), smarter text areas (completion using ).
Good things about the latest versions of windows are the searchable programs. I really really like the new task manager of Win 8 as well, with a clear distinction between user applications and services and what more, using the full names. I cannot wait for usable way of putting the "start bar " in Ubuntu on the left side (of my left screen) either. Currently that's hardly doable.
Progress is being made :)
Wait a minute! Top gear cast and producers have a full sense of humor and have brilliant programs, full of twists and jokes.
Even I, as a green party supported, just love watching it. That he himself has as much knowledge about science and politics, and just dimly follows his egocentrical sense of "good" (anything with pistons in), does not make the people that watch it dimwits by definition. Besides, although keeping spawning his idiotic opinions, he himself *knows* he's a petrolhead. He's mostly an entertainer, and he's certainly good at *that*.
If there is anybody that takes its "reviews" or "opinions" serious, gosh, yes. Even *they themselves* make fun of such dimwits.