The UK is pretty small. I didn't see stats for Australia but I know I can get over 40Mbps in Sydney or Brisbane but drive from Sydney to Brisbane and and most of the way you are lucky to get 2G dialup speed for the 1000km journey.
When I was living in the US I went to Vancouver for the weekend and ordered an international data plan from AT&T before I went. I only used a bit of Google maps on the iPhone to see what was around me. When I got my next bill from AT&T they had hundreds of dollars in charges for using the Rogers network. I was charged at 5 cents a kilobyte. People should be put in jail for fraud by charging 5 cents for a single kilobyte. After ringing and asking why the data plan was never applied to my account I was refunded the charges so I got if for free but I was ready to throw rocks through the window of the local AT&T store when I first got the bill.
So why did this post get a zero rating?
I am a.NET developer and agree 100%. Visual Studio 2010 is a fantastic development experience. I tried to do some iPhone development and hated XCode on the Mac. Objective C seems like going back in time. Why would I give up my managed environment and want to worry about de-constructors and managing resources. Anyone who criticises.NET development has probably never done any.
I had the demo version of World of Goo from Steam and kind of enjoyed it but didn't think it was worth $20.
I paid $5 for World of Goo and probably wont even download the others.
The 99c iPhone games have really spoilt my expectations of what games are worth.
In my Amiga days I would not have thought $20 for a game like world of Goo was a bargain but now I can get addictive games like Angry Birds and Doodle Jump for 99c while on the bus my perspective has changed.
Plus in Australia we do not pay to receive calls with any service provider. I was shocked when I first got to the USA and got an AT&T prepaid phone and my minutes were used when receiving calls.
My service provider TPG in Australia has a great plan. $1 per month that gives you 150 mb for DSL subscribers and 50 mb for people who are not DSL subscribers with them. Phone calls are 10c per minute and excess data is 2.75c per meg. I usually spend about $20 per month on my iPhone. I did have to buy my iPhone out right but hey they sell iPhones unlocked in Australia and I liked paying full price for my phone rather than having to be locked into a draconian contracts.
Other service provider give you a free iPhone but charge you at least $60 a month and lock you into an 18 month contract.
My first programming job was with a porn company.
A lot of people told me that it was a career move that would get me stuck in the porn industry.
After about six months I was sick of the job and started looking for a new job.
When I got an interview with a bank for an Internet Banking role I told them exactly what I did for the last company minus what the content we were distributing was.
Nobody ever asked me in the interview what sort of sites I was developing, just my technical experience.
Once I had the job for a few months I told the people I worked with at the bank what my last roles was and they all kind of had a giggle at it.
Where do you get these numbers from?
Here in Australia ISPs sell broadband plans from 256 kbps.
Plenty of telephone companies market 3G as mobile broadband which gets about 700 kbps.
What is it that a burglar will see on street view that they cannot see for themselves driving down the road?
I love Google street view. I am in the USA at the moment and taking a virtual drive around my home town in Australia the other day made me feel homesick.
Who cares?
If consumers know enough about alternative browsers to decide which one they want from a Windows Wizard then they are capable of downloading the browser of their choice.
Confront most people with a choice of do you want IE, FF, Safari or Chrome and they are going to crap themselves if they have no idea of what that means.
Choice is already available for whoever cares and choice is just plain confusing for my mum. IE will do her just fine.
I just went to Bandwidth.com and used their bandwidth speed test.
It game me no option to select a server just started a test.
Results:
5683kbps down
1679kbps up
So then I went to Speedtest.net which game me a choice of servers
Going from Redmond here to the Seattle servers I got
77418kbps down
9069kbps up
So Bandwidth.com is not really showing a true measurement of your bandwidth.
I really doubt that unless there is something wrong with his machine that it would choke at 12mbit when his network can clearly achieve 22mbit.
If you are a PM then stay out of the code!
Seriously it does not help for PM's to start getting into the code.
Focus your time on usability and business requirements but please don't go thinking you will help anyone by getting your hands dirty.
Just the fact you are asking this question means you are not the sort of person who should be coding.
Console downloads are just the latest way for companies to make money from old titles.
I have been an emulator junkie for years and playing the games I grew up with in the eighties has been a passion since I first discovered emulators in the late nineties.
When I show the old games to friends my age who played those games with me in the arcades they have the same amount of nostalgia I do but when I show them to my nephew I get no interest. He just wants to go play a Halo death match and calls my games budget or pov (his slang for poverty). When I show them to friends my age who don't play games I get comments like, I remember Frogger, do you have Galaga?
There are plenty of games that I have fallen in love with from playing emulators that I never played in their time so for me it is not all nostalgia, but it seems that kids who were first exposed to 3D games have no interest in the 80's classics. They will probably be playing Halo or Guitar Hero in 15 years as their retro games.
A Nigerian diplomat emailed me a few days ago with the opurtunity of a life time.
I wont go into the details but all I had to do was send him my personal information and he is going to transfer a few million dollars into my bank account. I can wait to spend all that free money this complete stranger is going to transfer into the account that I gave him access to.
178 degrees viewing "angle" on LCD motitor means a totally different thing.
It means the angle you can look at an LCD and still see the screen.
Nothing to do with field of vision.
I am a contractor working on a high profile Microsoft web application at the moment and we are using Flash in it. The decision is nothing against Silverlight, we have discussed using Silverlight. The issue is with the skills that the designers who are contracting have. Microsoft do use a lot a Silverlight across their web applications, try the downloads beta for example. You will see a lot more of it being used once there are more designers with experience using it. Flash has got over ten years of being in the marketplace and finding designers with Flash skills is a lot easier than finding designers with Sliverlight experience. I don't think this says anything against Microsoft's commitment to Silverlight.
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and then never tried to produce one or even pay his patent fees. Good luck buddy on defeating Apple's battalion of lawyers.
The UK is pretty small. I didn't see stats for Australia but I know I can get over 40Mbps in Sydney or Brisbane but drive from Sydney to Brisbane and and most of the way you are lucky to get 2G dialup speed for the 1000km journey.
it will be ten fifty two and twenty seconds, beep, beep, beep.
When I was living in the US I went to Vancouver for the weekend and ordered an international data plan from AT&T before I went. I only used a bit of Google maps on the iPhone to see what was around me. When I got my next bill from AT&T they had hundreds of dollars in charges for using the Rogers network. I was charged at 5 cents a kilobyte. People should be put in jail for fraud by charging 5 cents for a single kilobyte. After ringing and asking why the data plan was never applied to my account I was refunded the charges so I got if for free but I was ready to throw rocks through the window of the local AT&T store when I first got the bill.
So why did this post get a zero rating? I am a .NET developer and agree 100%. Visual Studio 2010 is a fantastic development experience. I tried to do some iPhone development and hated XCode on the Mac. Objective C seems like going back in time. Why would I give up my managed environment and want to worry about de-constructors and managing resources. Anyone who criticises .NET development has probably never done any.
I had the demo version of World of Goo from Steam and kind of enjoyed it but didn't think it was worth $20. I paid $5 for World of Goo and probably wont even download the others. The 99c iPhone games have really spoilt my expectations of what games are worth. In my Amiga days I would not have thought $20 for a game like world of Goo was a bargain but now I can get addictive games like Angry Birds and Doodle Jump for 99c while on the bus my perspective has changed.
Plus in Australia we do not pay to receive calls with any service provider. I was shocked when I first got to the USA and got an AT&T prepaid phone and my minutes were used when receiving calls.
My service provider TPG in Australia has a great plan. $1 per month that gives you 150 mb for DSL subscribers and 50 mb for people who are not DSL subscribers with them. Phone calls are 10c per minute and excess data is 2.75c per meg. I usually spend about $20 per month on my iPhone. I did have to buy my iPhone out right but hey they sell iPhones unlocked in Australia and I liked paying full price for my phone rather than having to be locked into a draconian contracts. Other service provider give you a free iPhone but charge you at least $60 a month and lock you into an 18 month contract.
My first programming job was with a porn company. A lot of people told me that it was a career move that would get me stuck in the porn industry. After about six months I was sick of the job and started looking for a new job. When I got an interview with a bank for an Internet Banking role I told them exactly what I did for the last company minus what the content we were distributing was. Nobody ever asked me in the interview what sort of sites I was developing, just my technical experience. Once I had the job for a few months I told the people I worked with at the bank what my last roles was and they all kind of had a giggle at it.
Where do you get these numbers from? Here in Australia ISPs sell broadband plans from 256 kbps. Plenty of telephone companies market 3G as mobile broadband which gets about 700 kbps.
What is it that a burglar will see on street view that they cannot see for themselves driving down the road? I love Google street view. I am in the USA at the moment and taking a virtual drive around my home town in Australia the other day made me feel homesick.
Who cares? If consumers know enough about alternative browsers to decide which one they want from a Windows Wizard then they are capable of downloading the browser of their choice. Confront most people with a choice of do you want IE, FF, Safari or Chrome and they are going to crap themselves if they have no idea of what that means. Choice is already available for whoever cares and choice is just plain confusing for my mum. IE will do her just fine.
I just went to Bandwidth.com and used their bandwidth speed test. It game me no option to select a server just started a test. Results: 5683kbps down 1679kbps up So then I went to Speedtest.net which game me a choice of servers Going from Redmond here to the Seattle servers I got 77418kbps down 9069kbps up So Bandwidth.com is not really showing a true measurement of your bandwidth. I really doubt that unless there is something wrong with his machine that it would choke at 12mbit when his network can clearly achieve 22mbit.
If you are a PM then stay out of the code! Seriously it does not help for PM's to start getting into the code. Focus your time on usability and business requirements but please don't go thinking you will help anyone by getting your hands dirty. Just the fact you are asking this question means you are not the sort of person who should be coding.
Console downloads are just the latest way for companies to make money from old titles. I have been an emulator junkie for years and playing the games I grew up with in the eighties has been a passion since I first discovered emulators in the late nineties. When I show the old games to friends my age who played those games with me in the arcades they have the same amount of nostalgia I do but when I show them to my nephew I get no interest. He just wants to go play a Halo death match and calls my games budget or pov (his slang for poverty). When I show them to friends my age who don't play games I get comments like, I remember Frogger, do you have Galaga? There are plenty of games that I have fallen in love with from playing emulators that I never played in their time so for me it is not all nostalgia, but it seems that kids who were first exposed to 3D games have no interest in the 80's classics. They will probably be playing Halo or Guitar Hero in 15 years as their retro games.
Why not just give them a free download of an MP3 for every song they already purchaced?
Oh crap, I just checked my account and all my money is gone!!
A Nigerian diplomat emailed me a few days ago with the opurtunity of a life time. I wont go into the details but all I had to do was send him my personal information and he is going to transfer a few million dollars into my bank account. I can wait to spend all that free money this complete stranger is going to transfer into the account that I gave him access to.
178 degrees viewing "angle" on LCD motitor means a totally different thing. It means the angle you can look at an LCD and still see the screen. Nothing to do with field of vision.
I am a contractor working on a high profile Microsoft web application at the moment and we are using Flash in it.
The decision is nothing against Silverlight, we have discussed using Silverlight.
The issue is with the skills that the designers who are contracting have.
Microsoft do use a lot a Silverlight across their web applications, try the downloads beta for example.
You will see a lot more of it being used once there are more designers with experience using it.
Flash has got over ten years of being in the marketplace and finding designers with Flash skills is a lot easier than finding designers with Sliverlight experience.
I don't think this says anything against Microsoft's commitment to Silverlight.
So they get blocked if visiting the real site but not when they click the scammers link. Seems like a useless plan to me.
And kill off all your business.
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