i think you are right but it is possible to make work on a console interesting. unfortunately the more realistic it is the smaller the audience that will understand what is going on.
burnintest. have used it for years. works fine. some systems which would run fine for days and then crash were driving us crazy. this software found memory, video and cpu problems. free version of version i bought only ran for 15 minutes. might be enough to find your problem. windows only though so that might be a problem.
tried it. didn't work. as i said i tried everything. one of my hates with the e71 was the location and size of the headphone jack. non standard size mounted 1/3 of the way down the side. such a bad place to put the jact if the phone is going to be in a holster or pocket. but if it had of worked i would have made a jack that fitted flush to eliminate that stupid fucking noise.
here's the thing. i almost never make voice calls from my phone. i would have left a headset plugged in 24 7 if it did work.
i could take the device apart and remove the speaker.
but it comes down to time wasted.
when i had a 3650 i just turned it off. when i had n70 i just switched the profile to silent when i had a e61i i set warning tones to off - 10 minutes finding this option. when i got the e71 i also set warning tones off.
i shouldn't have to waste time finding the new way to turn off an unwanted feature! i shouldn't have to worry every time i update firmware that they are going to remove a feature that i want! the firmware notice made no comment that they were turning on this noise for any reason. i have commited no crime, why am i been treated like a criminal? just because a tiny minority are using camera phones to take pictues up womens skirts doesn't mean that you should treat all your customers like criminals.
if i wanted to i could use the silent video recording ability to do the same anyway! it's a dumb stupid retarded way of dealing with the problem. i hate stupid dumb retarded rules. they're like a red rag to a bull for me.
my iphone can be made silent. it's an inferior phone/os compared to the nokia in almost every way. yet now it is my primary phone. of course with the google voice app debacle (i don't make voice calls remember but its the principal) i won't be buying the next version. so its off to android for me. suspect the camera there will be noisy... sigh!
i know! i only heard about it about 5 years ago! still haven't found a copy in any bookshop i've visited in that time. have to use a etext version.
the interview with the poison snake specialist is hilarious.
on the plus side stephen fry is doing a remake of the series for tv i believe. he may not write as well as douglas adams but he's always intelligent and entertaining.
dig out a copy of last chance to see. that has some of adam's best work...
Sleeping in Labuan Bajo, however, is something of an endurance test. Being woken at dawn by the cockerels is not in itself a problem. The problem arises when the cockerels get confused as to when dawn actually is. They suddenly explode into life squawking and screaming at about one o'clock in the morning. At about one-thirty they eventually realise their mistake and shut up, just as the major dog-fights of the evening are getting under way. These usually start with a few minor bouts between the more enthusiastic youngsters, and then the full chorus of heavyweights weighs in with a fine impression of what it might be like to fall into the pit of hell with the London Symphony Orchestra. It is then quite an education to learn that two cats fighting can make easily as much noise as forty dogs. It is a pity to have to learn this at two-fifteen in the morning, but then the cats have a lot to complain about in Labuan Bajo. They all have their tails docked at birth, which is supposed to bring good luck, though presumably not to the cats. Once the cats have concluded their reflections on this, the cockerels suddenly get the idea that it's dawn again and let rip. It isn't, of course. Dawn is still two hours away, and you still have the delivery van horn-blowing competition to get through to the accompaniment of the major divorce proceedings that have suddenly erupted in the room next door. At last things calm down and your eyelids begin to slide thankfully together in the blessed predawn hush, and then, about five minutes later, the cockerels finally get it right.
a helluva lot of the folks i talk to on tech support don't know what browser they are using right now. so google a name they know/trust will get that little extra nudge.
but we are social animals. a simple illness or injury will kill a lone human unable to feed themselves temporarily whereas a human in most societies will be cared for until they are literally back on their feet.
but that is a fully developed adult isolated on an island. a human is intelligent not solely because of their genetics but of the society they grow up in. look at the numerous cases where children have been reared by animals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Documented_cases
most of those have terrible difficulty adapting at a later than normal age to functioning in human societies. most have difficulty in communicating beyond the most basic needs. we learn so much in those crucial first few years. fire, wheel, levers
i would say that if you took 1000 children (pre school) and put them on that large island in such a way that most would be able to feed themselves you would not end up with intelligence for quite a while. how many generations would it take before language and tool use would be considered intelligent?
> if Manchester had upgraded their systems to Vista on the client side...
so they would have spent the money instead on licences of vista? that's a saving! plus most likely having to have their custom software rewritten to run on vista. more expense. plus retraining for staff to use vista. again more expense. plus if they are like any government agency i've had dealings with all the hardware would need replacing to be able to run vista.
my palm had one. my nokias had one. why not the iphone?
the notepad as it exists on the device is useless if you have lots of notes as you have to manually search for what you are looking for. its a fucking computer. it should do the searching! it can hold 16gb of info but searching is manual?
an option to add a bluetooth keyboard would also be nice.
not sure that would really work. was in hospital 5 weeks last year over 3 occassions.
most of the pcs containing records were generic compaqs that we sell at work. i was left on many an occassion in cubicles with these machines with a curtain giving a fair chunk of privacy to any attempt i should want to attempt. and the medical staff are not i.t. people thinking of security or fast typists so i was able to see a few of the passwords been typed in. out of curiosity more than any other reason this was interesting as we have customers in the security industry and i'm used to seeing staff be cautious with passwords/logging in.
with the doctors permission i took pictures of my mri scans from the screen and the small text was perfectly readable on my nokia e71. so it didn't need a usb drive or connection to copy the data.
this was in ireland so i'm sure that there are better more secure systems out there. however unlike a bank many of these terminals will be in semi private areas so that medical staff can refer to them while dealing with a patient in confidentiallity.
there was a market for smaller devices. the ultra small laptops though were very expensive. sony toshiba and a few others and never made in great numbers.
asus saw the demand/interest when ever the olpc was discussed and made the eeepc. last christmas in ireland it was more popular than the wii and much harder to get. even now getting our hands on asus eeepcs or acer aspire ones is hard as they go out of stock as soon as they come in. we usually sell 1-2 laptops to customers over christmas for personal use (it's not a market we're interested in a we supply accounting software and services) we shifted 10 or so netbooks. windows _and_ linux. some are for kids some are for business use. whenever i take out my current netbook i get bombarded with questions on price/battery life/os/speed. it changed the publics idea of what a laptop is.
now all the manufacturers are jumping on the market. didn't sony say that they weren't going to make a netbook?
the olpc has changed the market completely even if it was a failure. i'm waiting for mine to arrive so i might be a little biased.:-)
wellington:The men had a whip-round and got you this. Well, what I mean is I had the men roundly whipped until they got you this. It's a cigarillo case engraved with the regimental crest of two crossed dead Frenchmen, emblazoned on a mound of dead Frenchmen motif. - some of the funniest words ever on tv.
rather i saw it as an english officer talking of those that were supposed to be supporting him.
Second, he said it of Spanish officers, not the British Navy.
strange i'd always heard it used as a description of the irish soldiers under his command. i've seen it in print form as well as on the web.
For real Navy incompetence, you need to look no further than John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent. His idea of blockade was so close that its main danger was to his own ships, which were often wrecked close inshore. Appointed to shore command, he couldn't see the need for all those people working in shipyards. So he sacked 20% of them and cut the pay of the rest. Hence Nelson's depleted fleet at Trafalgar. Making stupid decisions to cut costs has a long history in the Navy, beginning with the aftermath of the Armada.
which is referred to in the fictional master and command series i'm currently reading. good reading!
no they are not useles toys. it just depends what you want them for. for me the camera is very useful as it allows me to take a photo of an a4 sheet of paper and read the text later if necessary. handy if you're give a sheet of paper on site with the configuration information and there is no photocopier handy to bring a copy back to the office. also screenshots with errors are handy to keep so instead of writing down a screen of gobbledegook i just take a picture knowing that i can reference back to it in the future.
i currently have a nokia e71 and use the 3mp camera for this purpose. the e61i and n70 i had before that with a 2mp camera did this as well. the 1mp camera in the palm zire 72 also achieved this aim. it just took a bit more care with lower resolution devices.
as for taking pictures outside work the devices mentioned above do fine for my needs. hell the vga res palm pix i used on my palm iiix took some good pictures but that seemed to have a pretty good lens.
it is better to have a simple camera always to hand than drag along another device and charger in my book. the e71 lives in a holster on my belt and is always ready to go. having to fetch or unpack a camera from my bag would have lost me some great photos of stuff that was happening around me. ymmv.
as for cheap service i'm in europe and use a prepay system. i average 10 a month for my phone. sometimes less some times more. when in hospital recently i used the e71 for web (99c for 50mb a day on prepay was sufficient for my needs using rss and lo bandwidth sites, cheaper than the newspapers others on my ward were buying to stave off boredom), email and etext reader as well as fm radio. i used an ipod for music and movies as the 160gb gave me a huge library to keep me amused with while the e71 was limited to 8gb. wow to think that i now see 8gb as a limitation.:-)
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sith?
isn't a freudian slip when you say one thing and mean your mother? :-)
explain that the name tory comes from the irish for outlaw?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory#History_of_the_term
she can vote for pirates or outlaws. :-) isn't history fun!
and yet i always laugh my head off when i see this bit of typing on a console in red dwarf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYAlB1Kxayc
i think you are right but it is possible to make work on a console interesting. unfortunately the more realistic it is the smaller the audience that will understand what is going on.
like this?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4394002
would they not be fools to turn down such an opportunity?
they banned life of brian making it one of the most pirated films in the 80s in ireland. every body i knew had a copy.
banning something in ireland automatically encourages it.
we'll probably need a blasphemy per comment counting system.
the first person to try and prosecute somebody with this will be the laughing stock of this country for quite a while.
http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm
burnintest. have used it for years. works fine. some systems which would run fine for days and then crash were driving us crazy. this software found memory, video and cpu problems. free version of version i bought only ran for 15 minutes. might be enough to find your problem. windows only though so that might be a problem.
heinlein and his tumblebugs in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
tried it. didn't work. as i said i tried everything. one of my hates with the e71 was the location and size of the headphone jack. non standard size mounted 1/3 of the way down the side. such a bad place to put the jact if the phone is going to be in a holster or pocket. but if it had of worked i would have made a jack that fitted flush to eliminate that stupid fucking noise.
here's the thing. i almost never make voice calls from my phone. i would have left a headset plugged in 24 7 if it did work.
i could take the device apart and remove the speaker.
but it comes down to time wasted.
when i had a 3650 i just turned it off.
when i had n70 i just switched the profile to silent
when i had a e61i i set warning tones to off - 10 minutes finding this option.
when i got the e71 i also set warning tones off.
i shouldn't have to waste time finding the new way to turn off an unwanted feature!
i shouldn't have to worry every time i update firmware that they are going to remove a feature that i want! the firmware notice made no comment that they were turning on this noise for any reason.
i have commited no crime, why am i been treated like a criminal? just because a tiny minority are using camera phones to take pictues up womens skirts doesn't mean that you should treat all your customers like criminals.
if i wanted to i could use the silent video recording ability to do the same anyway! it's a dumb stupid retarded way of dealing with the problem. i hate stupid dumb retarded rules. they're like a red rag to a bull for me.
my iphone can be made silent. it's an inferior phone/os compared to the nokia in almost every way. yet now it is my primary phone. of course with the google voice app debacle (i don't make voice calls remember but its the principal) i won't be buying the next version. so its off to android for me. suspect the camera there will be noisy... sigh!
i know! i only heard about it about 5 years ago! still haven't found a copy in any bookshop i've visited in that time. have to use a etext version.
the interview with the poison snake specialist is hilarious.
on the plus side stephen fry is doing a remake of the series for tv i believe. he may not write as well as douglas adams but he's always intelligent and entertaining.
dig out a copy of last chance to see. that has some of adam's best work...
Sleeping in Labuan Bajo, however, is something of an endurance test.
Being woken at dawn by the cockerels is not in itself a problem. The problem arises when the cockerels get confused as to when dawn actually is. They suddenly explode into life squawking and screaming at about one o'clock in the morning. At about one-thirty they eventually realise their mistake and shut up, just as the major dog-fights of the evening are getting under way. These usually start with a few minor bouts between the more enthusiastic youngsters, and then the full chorus of heavyweights weighs in with a fine impression of what it might be like to fall into the pit of hell with the London Symphony Orchestra.
It is then quite an education to learn that two cats fighting can make easily as much noise as forty dogs. It is a pity to have to learn this at two-fifteen in the morning, but then the cats have a lot to complain about in Labuan Bajo. They all have their tails docked at birth, which is supposed to bring good luck, though presumably not to the cats.
Once the cats have concluded their reflections on this, the cockerels suddenly get the idea that it's dawn again and let rip. It isn't, of course. Dawn is still two hours away, and you still have the delivery van horn-blowing competition to get through to the accompaniment of the major divorce proceedings that have suddenly erupted in the room next door.
At last things calm down and your eyelids begin to slide thankfully together in the blessed predawn hush, and then, about five minutes later, the cockerels finally get it right.
love thine enemy...
it drives them nuts. :-)
a helluva lot of the folks i talk to on tech support don't know what browser they are using right now. so google a name they know/trust will get that little extra nudge.
but we are social animals. a simple illness or injury will kill a lone human unable to feed themselves temporarily whereas a human in most societies will be cared for until they are literally back on their feet.
but that is a fully developed adult isolated on an island. a human is intelligent not solely because of their genetics but of the society they grow up in. look at the numerous cases where children have been reared by animals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Documented_cases
most of those have terrible difficulty adapting at a later than normal age to functioning in human societies. most have difficulty in communicating beyond the most basic needs. we learn so much in those crucial first few years. fire, wheel, levers
i would say that if you took 1000 children (pre school) and put them on that large island in such a way that most would be able to feed themselves you would not end up with intelligence for quite a while. how many generations would it take before language and tool use would be considered intelligent?
i still think turings test is the best base line for recognition of artifical intelligence. yet chatbots fool people every day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterbot#Malicious_chatterbots
are they intelligent? perhaps we just need a new definition of what is artificial intelligence.
my 2c
> if Manchester had upgraded their systems to Vista on the client side...
so they would have spent the money instead on licences of vista? that's a saving! plus most likely having to have their custom software rewritten to run on vista. more expense. plus retraining for staff to use vista. again more expense. plus if they are like any government agency i've had dealings with all the hardware would need replacing to be able to run vista.
that i think woukd be sendo
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/13/sendo_ms_settle/
other partnership deals of the top of my head were ms didn't get the shitty end of the stick when the shit hit the fan;
os/2
stac
i wish there was one web page that showed all these deals in one location that was kept up to date. i've seen a few but they are seldom updated.
upshot as far as i can see it. do a deal with ms and get shafted.
easy peasy for the japanese. have you not seen their training programme? :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEOz7gaFfmU
those buggers can endure anything.
global search.
my palm had one. my nokias had one. why not the iphone?
the notepad as it exists on the device is useless if you have lots of notes as you have to manually search for what you are looking for. its a fucking computer. it should do the searching! it can hold 16gb of info but searching is manual?
an option to add a bluetooth keyboard would also be nice.
>cannot legally be used in the U.S. or Europe
when has that ever stopped anybody?
everyone uses Zunes
not on 2008-12-31 they didn't :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune#Zune_30_leap_year_bug
not sure that would really work. was in hospital 5 weeks last year over 3 occassions.
most of the pcs containing records were generic compaqs that we sell at work. i was left on many an occassion in cubicles with these machines with a curtain giving a fair chunk of privacy to any attempt i should want to attempt. and the medical staff are not i.t. people thinking of security or fast typists so i was able to see a few of the passwords been typed in. out of curiosity more than any other reason this was interesting as we have customers in the security industry and i'm used to seeing staff be cautious with passwords/logging in.
with the doctors permission i took pictures of my mri scans from the screen and the small text was perfectly readable on my nokia e71. so it didn't need a usb drive or connection to copy the data.
this was in ireland so i'm sure that there are better more secure systems out there. however unlike a bank many of these terminals will be in semi private areas so that medical staff can refer to them while dealing with a patient in confidentiallity.
there was a market for smaller devices. the ultra small laptops though were very expensive. sony toshiba and a few others and never made in great numbers.
asus saw the demand/interest when ever the olpc was discussed and made the eeepc. last christmas in ireland it was more popular than the wii and much harder to get. even now getting our hands on asus eeepcs or acer aspire ones is hard as they go out of stock as soon as they come in. we usually sell 1-2 laptops to customers over christmas for personal use (it's not a market we're interested in a we supply accounting software and services) we shifted 10 or so netbooks. windows _and_ linux. some are for kids some are for business use. whenever i take out my current netbook i get bombarded with questions on price/battery life/os/speed. it changed the publics idea of what a laptop is.
now all the manufacturers are jumping on the market. didn't sony say that they weren't going to make a netbook?
the olpc has changed the market completely even if it was a failure. i'm waiting for mine to arrive so i might be a little biased. :-)
nosense, the netbook market exists because of this machine.
till this appeared laptops were huge expensive pieces of hardware. now look at the market.
First, Wellington wasn't in the Navy.
as any fan of blackadder would know. :-)
wellington:The men had a whip-round and got you this. Well, what I mean is I had the men roundly whipped until they got you this. It's a cigarillo case engraved with the regimental crest of two crossed dead Frenchmen, emblazoned on a mound of dead Frenchmen motif. - some of the funniest words ever on tv.
rather i saw it as an english officer talking of those that were supposed to be supporting him.
Second, he said it of Spanish officers, not the British Navy.
strange i'd always heard it used as a description of the irish soldiers under his command. i've seen it in print form as well as on the web.
For real Navy incompetence, you need to look no further than John Jervis, Lord St. Vincent. His idea of blockade was so close that its main danger was to his own ships, which were often wrecked close inshore. Appointed to shore command, he couldn't see the need for all those people working in shipyards. So he sacked 20% of them and cut the pay of the rest. Hence Nelson's depleted fleet at Trafalgar. Making stupid decisions to cut costs has a long history in the Navy, beginning with the aftermath of the Armada.
which is referred to in the fictional master and command series i'm currently reading. good reading!
'I don't know if they frighten the enemy, but they scare the hell out of me.'
at least they're up front about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDHPCr5m4ko
no they are not useles toys. it just depends what you want them for. for me the camera is very useful as it allows me to take a photo of an a4 sheet of paper and read the text later if necessary. handy if you're give a sheet of paper on site with the configuration information and there is no photocopier handy to bring a copy back to the office. also screenshots with errors are handy to keep so instead of writing down a screen of gobbledegook i just take a picture knowing that i can reference back to it in the future.
i currently have a nokia e71 and use the 3mp camera for this purpose. the e61i and n70 i had before that with a 2mp camera did this as well. the 1mp camera in the palm zire 72 also achieved this aim. it just took a bit more care with lower resolution devices.
as for taking pictures outside work the devices mentioned above do fine for my needs. hell the vga res palm pix i used on my palm iiix took some good pictures but that seemed to have a pretty good lens.
it is better to have a simple camera always to hand than drag along another device and charger in my book. the e71 lives in a holster on my belt and is always ready to go. having to fetch or unpack a camera from my bag would have lost me some great photos of stuff that was happening around me. ymmv.
as for cheap service i'm in europe and use a prepay system. i average 10 a month for my phone. sometimes less some times more. when in hospital recently i used the e71 for web (99c for 50mb a day on prepay was sufficient for my needs using rss and lo bandwidth sites, cheaper than the newspapers others on my ward were buying to stave off boredom), email and etext reader as well as fm radio. i used an ipod for music and movies as the 160gb gave me a huge library to keep me amused with while the e71 was limited to 8gb. wow to think that i now see 8gb as a limitation. :-)