Because getting rid of the state religion, and the state relationship with the church of england would be problematic. It's not that it can't or won't be done, but there's quite a lot of legal effort involved in the powers of parliament vs the sovereign vs the church as an independent entity.
In some respects it's the same reason why none of the countries have actually settled the legal inheritance issue of if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a daughter and then a son (just a daughter, or multiple daughters doesn't require any rewrite), because it's not that we can't sort this out. But it's a lot of legal paperwork that can be deferred 50 or 60 years if they never have a son after a daughter.
Depends entirely on your requirements of course, but what would be the problem with running a local Apache instance?
Only time it cropped up for me was when I had one slight hiccup and I had to fallback to XSL transforms on the server side when the client didn't support them (but still wanted to use them normally). I was able to quite easily write a protocol handler for PHP that implemented multiviews for local filesystem calls, and it works really nicely!
URLs should identify resources, not files anyway, so "/images/background10.jpg" should have the URL "/images/background10" anyway, then you're free to have multiple formats that can supply said resource on the server and vary depending on the client's preferences.
...I just wish Nokia had had more of a clue and made more of Maemo open so we could see it running on more devices. It's an awesome system...or at least the Debian bits are. The Nokia bits...less so. So much potential though.....
...yet the Victorians managed to convert a large chunk of the Great Western Railway over a weekend from broad gauge to standard gauge. *sigh*...if only broad gauge had won this would be a *lot* easier to fix;)
Indeed. You would think that by now people wanting to work on these things would learn the lesson and tie yourself closer to a parent distro like Debian which has some kind of longevity....it's why I'm not really interested in the "new" Mer. Throws away far too much of Debian when IMHO I think it should be working to tie itself closer to it and undoing some of the unnecessary changes that Nokia made in Maemo....but it all got tainted by the pointless Meego fiasco, which is a shame. Divide and conquer is the best way to prevent something becoming viable, and it's something Nokia is very good at doing (unintentionally, probably).
A friend of mine who works for the BBC was discussing DAB with a colleague of his and me, and pointed out that apparently, DAB was designed to be used with a satellite acting as in-fill to give the expected blanket coverage. The half-arsed implementation means they skimped on the satellite bit, so that's why you get spotty DAB coverage. Not to mention the ancient crappy codecs.
...and for the people who want to chat with their Windows-using social groups?
I'm being pressured into either letting my users use the official MSN bloat-client or Skype so that they can video conference with other Windows users. Google could have sown this market up if they just put the ruddy jingle support into GTalk rather than GMail. Seriously, who wants to use a web page as an app on a desktop machine?
What I ideally want is Jingle support in Pidgin on Win32 and then native-jingle support in the various xmppmsn gateways.
"There is truth to one of the rumors, however. During WWII the American Red Cross did indeed charge American servicemen for coffee, doughnuts, and lodging. However, it did so because the U.S. Army asked it to, not because it was determined to make a profit off homesick dogfaces.
The request was made in a March 1942 letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to Norman H. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross. Because American soldiers were fighting as part of the Allied Forces, matters had to be considered on a Force-wide rather than solely American basis. The Red Cross was asked to establish club facilities for U.S. servicemen overseas where Allied troops would be welcome. Because English and Australian soldiers were being charged for the use of such facilities, it was deemed unfair that Americans were to get similar benefits for free, especially in light of their pay already being higher than that of their Allied counterparts. For the good of the alliance, the American Red Cross was persuaded to exact nominal charges from American GIs for off-base food and lodging."
Fair enough. Personally, I found the phone usable before they added the paging though. The only thing that caused problems was websites that really overdid the flash and crappy layouts requiring constant reflow (*cough*Slashdot*cough*).
I never did understand how a phone with 96MB of RAM struggled whilst an old PC of mine with 16MB used to manage just fine......6 years in-between notwithstanding:)
Original firmware: 10.0.018, released 15/03/2007 Latest firmware: 35.0.002, released 22/12/2009..which is good-as 3 years. Especially by the time it filtered down to each product code. Nokia used to be great:(
Yeah, I'd pretty much figured that was the case as well. A shame, as it's much more practical to have an application sitting in the system tray than a browser tab/window hogging tab bar/taskbar space.
I really don't see that being the outcome. The Skype stuff will probably just be in parallel to the XMPP stuff. In fact, I wouldn't put it past Skype to try and get Facebook to shut down the XMPP stuff so more users have to use Skype clients to even text chat outside of the Facebook website. Big companies like walled gardens and proprietary protocols.
What I'd have much preferred to have seen would be a XMPP-video based feature, a-la Google's GMail/XMPP Jingle video. Incidentally, does anyone have any idea why the GTalk client doesn't support it, but ruddy GMail and the N900 does?...the mind boggles.
The lack of any decent Jingle clients on Windows isn't such a hurdle if Facebook were to use a browser plugin like GMail (or indeed, sort out using the same one).
Don't know what ISPs you're looking at, but every one I've seen has a monthly contract option. You usually have to pay a setup fee to cover BT's extortionate 'cut', but getting out is easy-as.
I think the idea is that, much as with the NHS, it relies on economies of scale for funding. Much as you can't really opt-out of National Insurance contributions (as the rich who contribute the most are those most able to afford private healthcare - making the system unaffordable), the BBC provides so many high-quality public services, that it would be cut back so drastically by those who would just opt for things like The Murdoch network...I mean Sky;) Other broadcasters would have to be so over regulated to provide the same level of impartial service as the BBC that you're probably better off with the current system. Really, it isn't that much to pay for the best broadcaster in the world.
I do in Firefox, but in Thunderbird I have javascript disabled and the bars are an inconvenience. On my N95 phone however, slashdot is now dead to me, as I cannot read any damn comments on the screen. It was awkward enough before, but now it's just grey bars of death time.
I was under the impression that they want to ban this imagery because paedophiles are just converting photographic media into drawn forms to evade the current bans. I'd imagine you could probably just run a set of cell shading-esque toon filters over them if you so wanted, though I can't imagine it'd work too well.
Not that I agree with the banning though, I think there are more targeted solutions that could protect children without impacting free expression....I just don't know what they are right now, which is why I don't aspire to be a politician:)
I bought a Live! Player 5.1 with my ABit VP6....and I went through so many hassles getting it to work I damn near broke down in tears. I was only 17 and had saved up from my first job for some kick-ass hardware, only to find that it would blue screen almost every other game of Tiberian Sun. Without net access, I spent weeks fiddling with various settings until I eventually found working solutions using the PCI delay settings in the BIOS.
All was well until I finally bought a second P3 for my VP6.....and all went to shit again. I tried the kx drivers....but the dev at least admits they didn't work in SMP setups...unlike Creative, who insisted that they did.
I eventually solved my problem by doing what I should have done in the first place....I dumped my SoundBlaster and got a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz off eBay.
What annoys me though is that the codec system is now off limits, as codecs load into the media player (which requires DRM access). That means no custom codecs without using a 3rd party media player, which is never going to be as well integrated into the phone UI as the native one, which would be perfectly adequate if it would only play the format that my music is in (OGG/SID/etc).
I've also had issues where corrupted data files bork the phone, but as they live in one of the two protected directories on the file system, I am unable to repair them myself without doing a factory reset of the phone. Which annoys me no end. Bloody DRM nonsense.
I sat and did a simple TCO of the various tariffs T-Mobile had on offer, and went with the cheapest way to get the N95 I wanted. The deal I went with was Flext 35 (£35/mo) + Web 'n Walk (£7.50/mo), giving £42.50/mo + £70 for the phone on a 12 month contract. I could have got the phone for free by going for an 18 month tariff, but want to get off the higher tariff ASAP - I only went for this combo as it was the cheapest TCO. Works out as £569.99 for an N95 with 12 months of unlimited data and £120 worth of calls and txts per month (which is far in excess of what I need, but a lower tariff would have required more up front for the phone). As there was an offer at the time, I also get free evening and weekends:), and after 12 months I can drop down to the cheapest tariff quite easily, or maybe get a newer phone:)
It's really easy to do this with T-Mobile at least, just grab all their tariff options from their website, dump into OpenOffice Calc, add a calculated TCO column from the values, and sort.
Also, don't forget that the N95 has a Micro-SDHC card slot. I have a 4GB card in there, and 8GB ones should be available within a year. Being able to switch out my music library to have a spare few GB for recording video/piccies is quite handy.
The phone companies are pretty desperate to get customers to renew their contracts when they expire, which is why they generally will offer you better deals if you barter with them. My granddad, for example, recently got himself a free phone and a tariff which is half per month of what was initially on offer....and he was moving from PAYG on Orange to O2, all he did was mention to the O2 rep what he was able to get from Orange.
I got a N95 a couple of months ago, have a look at T-Mobile. Tariff + £7.50 for unlimited data.:) If you don't want to switch, use it as leverage to get your tariff down for O2.
Though when you look at the originator of the standard, intel, it becomes quite apparent why it is CPU-bound. Want faster speeds? Buy a new Pentium! How I wish Firewire was the standard for all high-bandwidth connections. We might never have needed SATA nor USB 2.0 at all.
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Because getting rid of the state religion, and the state relationship with the church of england would be problematic. It's not that it can't or won't be done, but there's quite a lot of legal effort involved in the powers of parliament vs the sovereign vs the church as an independent entity.
In some respects it's the same reason why none of the countries have actually settled the legal inheritance issue of if the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a daughter and then a son (just a daughter, or multiple daughters doesn't require any rewrite), because it's not that we can't sort this out. But it's a lot of legal paperwork that can be deferred 50 or 60 years if they never have a son after a daughter.
I was under the impression that they sorted this out very recently: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20600543
Depends entirely on your requirements of course, but what would be the problem with running a local Apache instance?
Only time it cropped up for me was when I had one slight hiccup and I had to fallback to XSL transforms on the server side when the client didn't support them (but still wanted to use them normally). I was able to quite easily write a protocol handler for PHP that implemented multiviews for local filesystem calls, and it works really nicely!
..or Apache multiviews using the content-accept header. :)
URLs should identify resources, not files anyway, so "/images/background10.jpg" should have the URL "/images/background10" anyway, then you're free to have multiple formats that can supply said resource on the server and vary depending on the client's preferences.
...I just wish Nokia had had more of a clue and made more of Maemo open so we could see it running on more devices. It's an awesome system...or at least the Debian bits are. The Nokia bits...less so. So much potential though.....
...yet the Victorians managed to convert a large chunk of the Great Western Railway over a weekend from broad gauge to standard gauge. *sigh* ...if only broad gauge had won this would be a *lot* easier to fix ;)
Indeed. You would think that by now people wanting to work on these things would learn the lesson and tie yourself closer to a parent distro like Debian which has some kind of longevity. ...it's why I'm not really interested in the "new" Mer. Throws away far too much of Debian when IMHO I think it should be working to tie itself closer to it and undoing some of the unnecessary changes that Nokia made in Maemo. ...but it all got tainted by the pointless Meego fiasco, which is a shame. Divide and conquer is the best way to prevent something becoming viable, and it's something Nokia is very good at doing (unintentionally, probably).
A friend of mine who works for the BBC was discussing DAB with a colleague of his and me, and pointed out that apparently, DAB was designed to be used with a satellite acting as in-fill to give the expected blanket coverage. The half-arsed implementation means they skimped on the satellite bit, so that's why you get spotty DAB coverage. Not to mention the ancient crappy codecs.
...and for the people who want to chat with their Windows-using social groups?
I'm being pressured into either letting my users use the official MSN bloat-client or Skype so that they can video conference with other Windows users. Google could have sown this market up if they just put the ruddy jingle support into GTalk rather than GMail. Seriously, who wants to use a web page as an app on a desktop machine?
What I ideally want is Jingle support in Pidgin on Win32 and then native-jingle support in the various xmppmsn gateways.
Fair enough. Personally, I found the phone usable before they added the paging though. The only thing that caused problems was websites that really overdid the flash and crappy layouts requiring constant reflow (*cough*Slashdot*cough*).
I never did understand how a phone with 96MB of RAM struggled whilst an old PC of mine with 16MB used to manage just fine... ...6 years in-between notwithstanding :)
My Nokia N95-1 did.
Original firmware: 10.0.018, released 15/03/2007 ..which is good-as 3 years. Especially by the time it filtered down to each product code. :(
Latest firmware: 35.0.002, released 22/12/2009
Nokia used to be great
Yeah, I'd pretty much figured that was the case as well. A shame, as it's much more practical to have an application sitting in the system tray than a browser tab/window hogging tab bar/taskbar space.
I really don't see that being the outcome. The Skype stuff will probably just be in parallel to the XMPP stuff. In fact, I wouldn't put it past Skype to try and get Facebook to shut down the XMPP stuff so more users have to use Skype clients to even text chat outside of the Facebook website. Big companies like walled gardens and proprietary protocols.
What I'd have much preferred to have seen would be a XMPP-video based feature, a-la Google's GMail/XMPP Jingle video. Incidentally, does anyone have any idea why the GTalk client doesn't support it, but ruddy GMail and the N900 does? ...the mind boggles.
The lack of any decent Jingle clients on Windows isn't such a hurdle if Facebook were to use a browser plugin like GMail (or indeed, sort out using the same one).
N900 FTW.
Don't know what ISPs you're looking at, but every one I've seen has a monthly contract option. You usually have to pay a setup fee to cover BT's extortionate 'cut', but getting out is easy-as.
I think the idea is that, much as with the NHS, it relies on economies of scale for funding. Much as you can't really opt-out of National Insurance contributions (as the rich who contribute the most are those most able to afford private healthcare - making the system unaffordable), the BBC provides so many high-quality public services, that it would be cut back so drastically by those who would just opt for things like The Murdoch network...I mean Sky ;) Other broadcasters would have to be so over regulated to provide the same level of impartial service as the BBC that you're probably better off with the current system. Really, it isn't that much to pay for the best broadcaster in the world.
I do in Firefox, but in Thunderbird I have javascript disabled and the bars are an inconvenience. On my N95 phone however, slashdot is now dead to me, as I cannot read any damn comments on the screen. It was awkward enough before, but now it's just grey bars of death time.
I was under the impression that they want to ban this imagery because paedophiles are just converting photographic media into drawn forms to evade the current bans. I'd imagine you could probably just run a set of cell shading-esque toon filters over them if you so wanted, though I can't imagine it'd work too well.
:)
Not that I agree with the banning though, I think there are more targeted solutions that could protect children without impacting free expression....I just don't know what they are right now, which is why I don't aspire to be a politician
Aww dear...don't get me started on Creative.
I bought a Live! Player 5.1 with my ABit VP6....and I went through so many hassles getting it to work I damn near broke down in tears. I was only 17 and had saved up from my first job for some kick-ass hardware, only to find that it would blue screen almost every other game of Tiberian Sun. Without net access, I spent weeks fiddling with various settings until I eventually found working solutions using the PCI delay settings in the BIOS.
All was well until I finally bought a second P3 for my VP6.....and all went to shit again. I tried the kx drivers....but the dev at least admits they didn't work in SMP setups...unlike Creative, who insisted that they did.
I eventually solved my problem by doing what I should have done in the first place....I dumped my SoundBlaster and got a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz off eBay.
What annoys me though is that the codec system is now off limits, as codecs load into the media player (which requires DRM access). That means no custom codecs without using a 3rd party media player, which is never going to be as well integrated into the phone UI as the native one, which would be perfectly adequate if it would only play the format that my music is in (OGG/SID/etc).
I've also had issues where corrupted data files bork the phone, but as they live in one of the two protected directories on the file system, I am unable to repair them myself without doing a factory reset of the phone. Which annoys me no end. Bloody DRM nonsense.
I sat and did a simple TCO of the various tariffs T-Mobile had on offer, and went with the cheapest way to get the N95 I wanted. The deal I went with was Flext 35 (£35/mo) + Web 'n Walk (£7.50/mo), giving £42.50/mo + £70 for the phone on a 12 month contract. I could have got the phone for free by going for an 18 month tariff, but want to get off the higher tariff ASAP - I only went for this combo as it was the cheapest TCO. Works out as £569.99 for an N95 with 12 months of unlimited data and £120 worth of calls and txts per month (which is far in excess of what I need, but a lower tariff would have required more up front for the phone). As there was an offer at the time, I also get free evening and weekends :), and after 12 months I can drop down to the cheapest tariff quite easily, or maybe get a newer phone :)
It's really easy to do this with T-Mobile at least, just grab all their tariff options from their website, dump into OpenOffice Calc, add a calculated TCO column from the values, and sort.
Also, don't forget that the N95 has a Micro-SDHC card slot. I have a 4GB card in there, and 8GB ones should be available within a year. Being able to switch out my music library to have a spare few GB for recording video/piccies is quite handy.
The N95-8GB has no SD slot, AFAIK.
The phone companies are pretty desperate to get customers to renew their contracts when they expire, which is why they generally will offer you better deals if you barter with them. My granddad, for example, recently got himself a free phone and a tariff which is half per month of what was initially on offer....and he was moving from PAYG on Orange to O2, all he did was mention to the O2 rep what he was able to get from Orange.
I got a N95 a couple of months ago, have a look at T-Mobile. Tariff + £7.50 for unlimited data. :) If you don't want to switch, use it as leverage to get your tariff down for O2.
Though when you look at the originator of the standard, intel, it becomes quite apparent why it is CPU-bound. Want faster speeds? Buy a new Pentium! How I wish Firewire was the standard for all high-bandwidth connections. We might never have needed SATA nor USB 2.0 at all.