Ugh. I've lived in England for 15 years now, and the one thing that I know is that 70% of British people speak almost undecipherable English - the accents are very heavy in most (especially) northern palces.
In Inner city areas, you would have problems understanding how much a newspaper costs. That's how bad the dialects are - it makes a good ol' Southern accent seem like a tiny difference.
Thats not catchup. That is just monopoly. If Microsoft didn't have Windows installed on 90+% of machines do you still think they would of 'caught up' with netscape?
I agree - I very rarely use the function keys in either OSX, Windows XP or Fedora Linux so I just 'peck and hunt' for them. Grouping them into smaller groups would make it easier...
I agree.
Mac OSX is so damn good for working in. They have the context menus nailed right down - I never feel they are cluttered but they always have the option I'm looking for...
This is just the start... Apple is only starting to show itself as a real solution for the RIAA -- remember that it took months of begging to get the major labels to sign up anyway.
If it goes to plan (which it looks like it is) then expect in a few years for Apple to be dictating to the RIAA how much they pay. While Apple thinks this is only going to be an iPod selling machine, I think it will become a major stream of income for Apple once they manage to negoiate a far fairer price for the songs...
I agree -- turning itunes music store into a market where anyone could put their music would be a grave mistake - the thing would get bogged down and your searches would become full of crap.
However, signing deals with smaller indie labels is far better. It means that the indie labels get a share of the profit and can start to grow a bit.
It does really seem that Apple has finally hit the nail on the head here and if they are lucky they might convert this to market share so alternate OSes at least get discussed with the 'family'..
Stupid spyware, it made me hit cancel when it tried to install itself.
Safari (or Mozilla/Firebird for that matter) will ignore any ActiveX code shit that comes up. The worst that will happen is that it will try and download 'hardcoresexdialer.exe' to your desktop and you'll either have to stop the download or delete it from the desktop.
I'd say most of the windows machines used in the home today are infested with spyware.... Mac and linux is completely unvunrable.
eBay. Buy the model below the brand new one, unless you are a speed freak (but then you'd be buying a powerbook)... I got a 350 saving getting an iBook G3 (66mhz slower CPU), and much more RAM.
That wouldn't work....
there are already signs that (at least in call centres) the current situation in india is unsustainable due to the fact that the people get burnt out and quit so damn much - 50% of the employees quit every year.
The hiring companies for these sorts of places are having problems making ends meet. The churn rate is going up, and all the time you have to pay more and more advertising the jobs and training the staff.
People back home are not happy with the level of service from some of these places. A few of them are excellent - better than the 'homeland' ones infact. But most of them are absolute shit. They can't care less and sometimes you can't even understand what they are saying thanks to their accent.
In the end the jobs will start coming back - but it will probably result in the permentant creating of the professional middle class in Asia and therefore more money flowing back to western companies in banking and other such services.
DVD+R seems to have taken the lead now - they have announced 9gb DVD+Rs (dual layer), and they have got 8x drives to the market first.
Also, DVD+R seems to be cheaper (almost all +Rs are cheaper than -R ones)
But you could split the 2.1gb of SVCD up into tiny 110byte chunks and spread them all over the internet DNS servers. You'd need millions of chunks - and you'd probably be spending more bandwidth requesting each chunk of all these DNS servers than actually getting any data. But that would probably completely annhilate the internet.
Bullshit. CAT5 is cheap, but how much do you think it costs for Mr Cable Man to get on a train, be on time, just to repair one peice of cut cable?
WiFi, while bad when flooded with lot's of laptops, is much much better for public places.
While I agree with you that some routes (like yours) are pretty appalling, the glasgow to london (euston) line is usually very good. I've been on it (not starting from Glasgow, however) about 10 times this year and it was well run - the only time it wasn't was the stupid speed restrictions, which sadly show you how piss poor the tracks are if they can't cope with a bit of heat.
Any old WiFi access point does this... my 40 origo 'cheapo' one can filter upto 50 MAC addresses.... I mean maybe not ethernet switches, but I can't really see someone going into your house and plugging a ethernet cable in and reeling it out of your house. Maybe this could happen in a corprate network, but they will have ethernet switches with mac address filtering.
Anyway, why is it worth the bother of getting a hacked DHCP server, making a load of config files that work properly... when you can just use one of the thousands of windows exploits (I'm assuming corperate networks will have both Mac and PCs)...
It's more likley its just a typo/"make it easier for the noob" comment. I know for a fact that patches will go to mozilla, because the guy that makes it has been the main person in composer development.
ATi really know what gamers want. The card is excellent, they have some of the best support ever (did you know every faulty 9600+ ATI card is checked completly when you RMA it?), ATI knows where it's at.
On the other hand, you have nVidia with the stupid FX5950. 2-5% performance increase, 20% price increase. Can you say brain dead?
All popups are blocked by default. If you run into one of those dodgey websites that spring a nice flash window right up in a popup, you just click the little Blue 'I' icon, press 'unblock' and refresh.
Also, if you want to open a link which opens in a popup, double click on it. That lets Firebird know that you really want this and it isn't a popup ad attached to a link.
0.7 is nearly finished (its out roughly the same time Moz 1.5 is out) and it is far better than the others. Better password manager, web sidebars etc.
Personally, I think firebird has a little while to go for the 'great unwashed' but most of the problems will be fixed by 1.0. How about an intellegent web installer that only installs the things you want? Basic browser? Choose the basic option. Developer? Choose the developer option and get a bunch of useful web development extensions downloaded and built in. RSS/Blog maniac? Choose the news option etc.
Personally if Mozilla Firebird moves quicker, I can't see why PC manufacturers won't load it as default. Dell could advertise they have a 'custom' web browser with popup and ad blocker. Dress it up with a custom Dell skin, and they can make it seem like they have made a brand new browser.
Completly agree. My local school has gave a laptop (really bad ones - bottom of the line Acers and Toshibas, anyone?) to every teacher, along with installing LCD projectors in each classroom.
There are 3 distinct groups in the teachers:
-No idea. These people have had such fun as 'ripping DVD/CD combo out of chasis because it won't open' and 'oops, my LCD screen has fell off'. That's about 50% of the teachers.
-The 'I'll use it way too much' group. Enjoy shitty powerpoint presentations? Well, these people have every lesson with a crap powerpoint presentation. They also use it for email and generally messing around when they are bored.
-Then there is the I can use a computer ok. Mostly IT teachers or maths teachers, they use the laptop sensibly and don't bore everyone to death with powerpoint #24.
This is TEACHERS. The school has had budget cuts this year, but they are rolling out more WiFi AP's and giving more laptops out. The IT department is completly overstressed, 2 people for about 300 computers in the school, and 50 LCD projectors (and they are all about 1 year old so most bulbs are starting to go). I used too work there, now I don't. I feel sorry for the 2 guys left there, and both guys are on the verge of quitting. Sadly 'desktop' PCs/Macs are going out of fasion fast. The school used to have a 3 year maximum PC life for the IT rooms, but they haven't replaced any for the last 2 years. Some rooms are stuck with P75s and P2 233mhz.
Office for OSX is far far nicer than horrible Office XP/2003 for Windows. It's like everything on Mac that MS makes - IE is another example. IE can support transparent PNGs on Mac, but it can't on Windows.
Anyway, Apple are supposed to be preparing a new office suite for mac os X (have you seen keynote? I'd die for a *nix port of that), and it will be mighty good. Apples track record for inhouse software has been excellent so far. Final Cut Pro, Keynote, Safari, OSX... the list goes on.
a) Ghost takes a LONG time over wifi with a 5600rpm drive. Or even over ethernet. b) These laptops will be handed out to schools. Schools don't just use Word, Excel and IE/Safari. They use specialist programs, and each school will mix and match stuff. While I'm sure a couple of schools will have a clever IT department if they chose Windows and set up a ghost image, I'm betting that a hell of a lot of smaller ones won't have a good IT deperment, if a deparment at all.
oooh yea, those 10gigabit (or whatever) internet2 connections are going to really suffer from 5mb being transferred over them.
Seriously, this isn't the early 90's anymore. Bandwidth is cheap and plentiful.
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Ugh. I've lived in England for 15 years now, and the one thing that I know is that 70% of British people speak almost undecipherable English - the accents are very heavy in most (especially) northern palces. In Inner city areas, you would have problems understanding how much a newspaper costs. That's how bad the dialects are - it makes a good ol' Southern accent seem like a tiny difference.
Thats not catchup. That is just monopoly. If Microsoft didn't have Windows installed on 90+% of machines do you still think they would of 'caught up' with netscape?
I agree - I very rarely use the function keys in either OSX, Windows XP or Fedora Linux so I just 'peck and hunt' for them. Grouping them into smaller groups would make it easier...
I agree. Mac OSX is so damn good for working in. They have the context menus nailed right down - I never feel they are cluttered but they always have the option I'm looking for...
This is just the start... Apple is only starting to show itself as a real solution for the RIAA -- remember that it took months of begging to get the major labels to sign up anyway.
If it goes to plan (which it looks like it is) then expect in a few years for Apple to be dictating to the RIAA how much they pay. While Apple thinks this is only going to be an iPod selling machine, I think it will become a major stream of income for Apple once they manage to negoiate a far fairer price for the songs...
I agree -- turning itunes music store into a market where anyone could put their music would be a grave mistake - the thing would get bogged down and your searches would become full of crap.
However, signing deals with smaller indie labels is far better. It means that the indie labels get a share of the profit and can start to grow a bit.
It does really seem that Apple has finally hit the nail on the head here and if they are lucky they might convert this to market share so alternate OSes at least get discussed with the 'family'..
Stupid spyware, it made me hit cancel when it tried to install itself. Safari (or Mozilla/Firebird for that matter) will ignore any ActiveX code shit that comes up. The worst that will happen is that it will try and download 'hardcoresexdialer.exe' to your desktop and you'll either have to stop the download or delete it from the desktop. I'd say most of the windows machines used in the home today are infested with spyware.... Mac and linux is completely unvunrable.
I agree - pretty much all APs do MAC filtering now anyway so you can block any idiot who thinks its funny to swamp your network download pr0n etc...
eBay. Buy the model below the brand new one, unless you are a speed freak (but then you'd be buying a powerbook)... I got a 350 saving getting an iBook G3 (66mhz slower CPU), and much more RAM.
That wouldn't work.... there are already signs that (at least in call centres) the current situation in india is unsustainable due to the fact that the people get burnt out and quit so damn much - 50% of the employees quit every year. The hiring companies for these sorts of places are having problems making ends meet. The churn rate is going up, and all the time you have to pay more and more advertising the jobs and training the staff. People back home are not happy with the level of service from some of these places. A few of them are excellent - better than the 'homeland' ones infact. But most of them are absolute shit. They can't care less and sometimes you can't even understand what they are saying thanks to their accent. In the end the jobs will start coming back - but it will probably result in the permentant creating of the professional middle class in Asia and therefore more money flowing back to western companies in banking and other such services.
DVD+R seems to have taken the lead now - they have announced 9gb DVD+Rs (dual layer), and they have got 8x drives to the market first. Also, DVD+R seems to be cheaper (almost all +Rs are cheaper than -R ones)
But you could split the 2.1gb of SVCD up into tiny 110byte chunks and spread them all over the internet DNS servers. You'd need millions of chunks - and you'd probably be spending more bandwidth requesting each chunk of all these DNS servers than actually getting any data. But that would probably completely annhilate the internet.
Bullshit. CAT5 is cheap, but how much do you think it costs for Mr Cable Man to get on a train, be on time, just to repair one peice of cut cable? WiFi, while bad when flooded with lot's of laptops, is much much better for public places.
While I agree with you that some routes (like yours) are pretty appalling, the glasgow to london (euston) line is usually very good. I've been on it (not starting from Glasgow, however) about 10 times this year and it was well run - the only time it wasn't was the stupid speed restrictions, which sadly show you how piss poor the tracks are if they can't cope with a bit of heat.
Any old WiFi access point does this... my 40 origo 'cheapo' one can filter upto 50 MAC addresses.... I mean maybe not ethernet switches, but I can't really see someone going into your house and plugging a ethernet cable in and reeling it out of your house. Maybe this could happen in a corprate network, but they will have ethernet switches with mac address filtering. Anyway, why is it worth the bother of getting a hacked DHCP server, making a load of config files that work properly... when you can just use one of the thousands of windows exploits (I'm assuming corperate networks will have both Mac and PCs)...
Yes, Microsoft Office v.X must of been a dream for me...
It's more likley its just a typo/"make it easier for the noob" comment. I know for a fact that patches will go to mozilla, because the guy that makes it has been the main person in composer development.
So damn true.
ATi really know what gamers want. The card is excellent, they have some of the best support ever (did you know every faulty 9600+ ATI card is checked completly when you RMA it?), ATI knows where it's at.
On the other hand, you have nVidia with the stupid FX5950. 2-5% performance increase, 20% price increase. Can you say brain dead?
Or they gave them it for a loss, just to get the PR and marketing hype...
Mozilla Firebird has the best popup blocker ever.
All popups are blocked by default. If you run into one of those dodgey websites that spring a nice flash window right up in a popup, you just click the little Blue 'I' icon, press 'unblock' and refresh.
Also, if you want to open a link which opens in a popup, double click on it. That lets Firebird know that you really want this and it isn't a popup ad attached to a link.
0.7 is nearly finished (its out roughly the same time Moz 1.5 is out) and it is far better than the others. Better password manager, web sidebars etc.
Personally, I think firebird has a little while to go for the 'great unwashed' but most of the problems will be fixed by 1.0. How about an intellegent web installer that only installs the things you want? Basic browser? Choose the basic option. Developer? Choose the developer option and get a bunch of useful web development extensions downloaded and built in. RSS/Blog maniac? Choose the news option etc.
Personally if Mozilla Firebird moves quicker, I can't see why PC manufacturers won't load it as default. Dell could advertise they have a 'custom' web browser with popup and ad blocker. Dress it up with a custom Dell skin, and they can make it seem like they have made a brand new browser.
Completly agree. My local school has gave a laptop (really bad ones - bottom of the line Acers and Toshibas, anyone?) to every teacher, along with installing LCD projectors in each classroom.
There are 3 distinct groups in the teachers:
-No idea. These people have had such fun as 'ripping DVD/CD combo out of chasis because it won't open' and 'oops, my LCD screen has fell off'. That's about 50% of the teachers.
-The 'I'll use it way too much' group. Enjoy shitty powerpoint presentations? Well, these people have every lesson with a crap powerpoint presentation. They also use it for email and generally messing around when they are bored.
-Then there is the I can use a computer ok. Mostly IT teachers or maths teachers, they use the laptop sensibly and don't bore everyone to death with powerpoint #24.
This is TEACHERS. The school has had budget cuts this year, but they are rolling out more WiFi AP's and giving more laptops out. The IT department is completly overstressed, 2 people for about 300 computers in the school, and 50 LCD projectors (and they are all about 1 year old so most bulbs are starting to go). I used too work there, now I don't. I feel sorry for the 2 guys left there, and both guys are on the verge of quitting. Sadly 'desktop' PCs/Macs are going out of fasion fast. The school used to have a 3 year maximum PC life for the IT rooms, but they haven't replaced any for the last 2 years. Some rooms are stuck with P75s and P2 233mhz.
Again, more crapola.
Office for OSX is far far nicer than horrible Office XP/2003 for Windows. It's like everything on Mac that MS makes - IE is another example. IE can support transparent PNGs on Mac, but it can't on Windows.
Anyway, Apple are supposed to be preparing a new office suite for mac os X (have you seen keynote? I'd die for a *nix port of that), and it will be mighty good. Apples track record for inhouse software has been excellent so far. Final Cut Pro, Keynote, Safari, OSX... the list goes on.
Bullshit.
a) Ghost takes a LONG time over wifi with a 5600rpm drive. Or even over ethernet.
b) These laptops will be handed out to schools. Schools don't just use Word, Excel and IE/Safari. They use specialist programs, and each school will mix and match stuff. While I'm sure a couple of schools will have a clever IT department if they chose Windows and set up a ghost image, I'm betting that a hell of a lot of smaller ones won't have a good IT deperment, if a deparment at all.
For UK/Europe pricing?
oooh yea, those 10gigabit (or whatever) internet2 connections are going to really suffer from 5mb being transferred over them. Seriously, this isn't the early 90's anymore. Bandwidth is cheap and plentiful.