"Two thirds of the world's population, 4 billion people, use cell phones today, and all of them have access to SMS"
Are they really all using the GSM standard, which provides SMS? I thought that in some developing countries, there were still analogue (i.e. pre-GSM) networks in use?
If you look at how much it costs to drop a Tomahawk missile onto a target then this could start to look more cost effective. If good satellite imagery/intel can point you more accurately onto where the bad guys are, then maybe you only need one missile instead of two or three if you're not so sure where your target is.
Still not small beer, but it's all relative.
I frequently use the web for research and Wikipedia is my auxilliary brain of choice, so I'm by no means a Luddite. However, I think this is very sad news - a processed tree carcass, especially something like a set of Encyclopdiae, is a truly beautiful thing
You say that this is a "thriving ecommerce company"...I'm just wondering how it's managed to achieve and maintain "thriving" status with a single member of IT personnel?
I'm not quite sure why the hell you'd have subsequent encounter with things like power tools. Most people would learn the first time.
There was a case a few years ago, quite local to me as it happens, of a farm worker who lost his arm in a piece of machinery. There then followed a site inspection by the health & safety people, and the same guy accidentally severed his other arm while demonstrating how the initial accident had happened.
I think you'd need more than water...you need neutrients as well. The reason that agriculture flourished along the banks of the Nile while all around was desert was thanks only in part to the water - it also owed a lot to the soil and neutrients that got washed downriver in the annual floodwaters as well. Water != agricultural viability
...and so is TETRAPOL (similar name, but different technology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TETRAPOL
Between them, TETRA and TETRAPOL support all (or at lease the vast majority) of all European law enforcement and other emergency service organisations.
I was involved with a UK government contract years ago which followed that sort of model. It was for a system which would interconnect offices across the whole of the UK, and there was a clause that payment wasn't released until at least ninety-odd percent of the user base had access to the system.
As it happens, the job got canned part-way through, leaving the prime contractor in the position that they'd spent a lot of money, but not received any payment.
the FACT that you just cannot find new Windows PC's under 4GB any more, forcing a 64 bit OS on him, and me, and you...
A 64bit OS is not being forced on anyone.
I bought a new PC which came with 4GB of RAM. However, for legacy reasons I needed a 32bit OS rather than a 64bit one (long story, not relevant here). All I did was ask the shop to supply and install the 32bit version of Win7 instead of the 64bit version. Job done.
If you are so sure that Google or Microsoft would so such a thing, why can you be equally sure that Skype *wouldn't* have done something similar (say, if they'd not been bought out and had found themselves needing to make a quick buck a little way down the line)?
I acknowledge that I failed to interpret the numbers correctly, and thank those who provided clarification. In particular, I thank those who did so without use of insult or obscenity.
My apologies - you are correct that I did make the mistake of saying "infer", when of course I should have used "imply".
Now, would you please be so kind as to explain why I am, as you so eloquently put it, a f***ing idiot?
If Google are hiring 6200 this year, then it infers that Google will hire 6200 in the first quarter, and then none in the next 3 quarters (giving the 6200 this year).
And from those numbers it still leaves Microsoft with zero over either time period.
There's really nothing new there. It's the usual Strostrup stuff. He's still in denial about C++ being the cause of most of the buffer overflows, system crashes, and security holes in the world.
Programming lanuages don't cause bugs....programmers cause bugs
The courts have made Microsoft make those protocols available. It will be interesting to see how many people actually pony up to buy those protocol specs - in part, that would be a measure of how valid the EU's judgement was.
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Just heard an interview with the council on BBC Radio 4, and it sounds like they've reversed the decision.
"Two thirds of the world's population, 4 billion people, use cell phones today, and all of them have access to SMS" Are they really all using the GSM standard, which provides SMS? I thought that in some developing countries, there were still analogue (i.e. pre-GSM) networks in use?
I stand corrected....shows you how much attention I've been paying to WinPhone (I wonder why that is)
Video chat is indeed a useful feature....unless you have a Nokia Lumia Windows phone, which lacks a front-facing camera
If you look at how much it costs to drop a Tomahawk missile onto a target then this could start to look more cost effective. If good satellite imagery/intel can point you more accurately onto where the bad guys are, then maybe you only need one missile instead of two or three if you're not so sure where your target is. Still not small beer, but it's all relative.
I frequently use the web for research and Wikipedia is my auxilliary brain of choice, so I'm by no means a Luddite. However, I think this is very sad news - a processed tree carcass, especially something like a set of Encyclopdiae, is a truly beautiful thing
You say that this is a "thriving ecommerce company"...I'm just wondering how it's managed to achieve and maintain "thriving" status with a single member of IT personnel?
I'm not quite sure why the hell you'd have subsequent encounter with things like power tools. Most people would learn the first time.
There was a case a few years ago, quite local to me as it happens, of a farm worker who lost his arm in a piece of machinery. There then followed a site inspection by the health & safety people, and the same guy accidentally severed his other arm while demonstrating how the initial accident had happened.
I think you'd need more than water...you need neutrients as well. The reason that agriculture flourished along the banks of the Nile while all around was desert was thanks only in part to the water - it also owed a lot to the soil and neutrients that got washed downriver in the annual floodwaters as well. Water != agricultural viability
During the recent unrest I was using Twitter to access my local police force's feed to see what trouble was going on in my area.
...and so is TETRAPOL (similar name, but different technology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TETRAPOL Between them, TETRA and TETRAPOL support all (or at lease the vast majority) of all European law enforcement and other emergency service organisations.
I was involved with a UK government contract years ago which followed that sort of model. It was for a system which would interconnect offices across the whole of the UK, and there was a clause that payment wasn't released until at least ninety-odd percent of the user base had access to the system. As it happens, the job got canned part-way through, leaving the prime contractor in the position that they'd spent a lot of money, but not received any payment.
this was fixed in 2010... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/14/voda_dismisses_femtocell_base_station_hack/
the FACT that you just cannot find new Windows PC's under 4GB any more, forcing a 64 bit OS on him, and me, and you...
A 64bit OS is not being forced on anyone. I bought a new PC which came with 4GB of RAM. However, for legacy reasons I needed a 32bit OS rather than a 64bit one (long story, not relevant here). All I did was ask the shop to supply and install the 32bit version of Win7 instead of the 64bit version. Job done.
Microsoft has killed/destroyed far more popular products than it has made/kept successful.
There's probably a similar keep:discard ratio for stuff coming out of the R&D labs of any big company.
If you are so sure that Google or Microsoft would so such a thing, why can you be equally sure that Skype *wouldn't* have done something similar (say, if they'd not been bought out and had found themselves needing to make a quick buck a little way down the line)?
Disclaimer: I am bad at math
So, it would appear, am I
I acknowledge that I failed to interpret the numbers correctly, and thank those who provided clarification. In particular, I thank those who did so without use of insult or obscenity.
My apologies - you are correct that I did make the mistake of saying "infer", when of course I should have used "imply". Now, would you please be so kind as to explain why I am, as you so eloquently put it, a f***ing idiot?
Yes I read...do you?
So MS and G have 6200 roles this quarter.
If Google are hiring 6200 this year, then it infers that Google will hire 6200 in the first quarter, and then none in the next 3 quarters (giving the 6200 this year).
And from those numbers it still leaves Microsoft with zero over either time period.
"Google and Microsoft have 6200 roles" and "Google alone will hire 6200 engineers, executives and sales staff". So, are Microsoft hiring or not?
How about we realize that we are far more likely to be killed by our car or the food we eat then by terrorists?
How about we quit giving away all of our hard won freedoms like a bunch of scared pussies?
Does eating at a drive-in lengthen or shorten the odds?
There's really nothing new there. It's the usual Strostrup stuff. He's still in denial about C++ being the cause of most of the buffer overflows, system crashes, and security holes in the world.
Programming lanuages don't cause bugs....programmers cause bugs
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The courts have made Microsoft make those protocols available. It will be interesting to see how many people actually pony up to buy those protocol specs - in part, that would be a measure of how valid the EU's judgement was.
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And don't forget the French Minitel system.