it does mean that people who hacked their consoles with custom firmware and got banned, now get exactly the same level of service as people who didn't!
a spouse or child who goes for regular counselling due to issues of abuse or neglect at home
students sharing a house who use each others' computers as a backup
people issued with iphones by employer who sync their iphone to a computer at work, which is shared with other colleagues, or backed up to a fileserver which can be accessed by colleagues, or whose home directory is on a file server for roaming profiles
policemen, security workers, or social workers when there's a risk of having their phones stolen by disaffected people. sure, they may lock their phones and minimise personal information, but don't realise the tracking DB reveals all.
car manufacturers marked the speedometers with MPH
if I need to know my speed in km/h, I simply read the m/h reading as if it were hexadecimal and convert to decimal in my head, something all techies should be able to do instinctively.
if you go through retail channel to buy servers then you will often get the choice of a microsoft OS, or a commercial linux os, and you'll pay at least 30% more than asking an HP or Dell account manager for a price, at which point you can tell said acct mgr you don't want an OS or any media.
In the last six months I've seen bluray players drop below GB£100, about US$160, which was the point at which DVDs in the consumer market really took off. Also, bluray disks have fallen in price making them less of premium over DVDs.
That said, as people have pointed out, there's a lot less visual quality to be gained changing from DVD to bluray than there was from VHS tape to DVD. Here in the UK, where DVD resolution is 720x576 the quality is quite good, especially if watching on a 720p display with a good scaler.
If you do buy bluray you may only have one player in the house, so until the players are cheap enough to replace all the dvd players in your house, many people will hold back on buying blurays except for special buys for when, for example, they want the "premium" experience in their main viewing room perhaps with their surround sound kit.
Personally, I buy blurays if I can, and accept the fact that I have only one player at the moment (a PS3) but I am looking to buy another sometime soon.
having wanted to buy a fan for a Vaio TX series, I can say I'll never touch another Sony computer product; they wanted GB£150 (US$220) just to look at it, never mind actually fix it. When I tried to buy a fan they wouldn't sell it to me. I had the part number for the fan, a Toshiba unit, but the only places that listed in online were "breakers" who were selling used parts (either on ebay or specialist dealers).
For this reason I'd look very carefully at the cost of spares, and/or the cost of extra-long warranties, on a laptop before buying.
it might even topple the government
given that the Italians change their government as often as US corporates file patent lawsuits, that wouldn't be hard.
given that Nokia already sold Qt, I think their lack of commitment is obvious. Intel's head phone guy also quit recently, so I think maemo and meego are pretty much dead in the water. And I say this reluctantly having been a happy owner of nokia 770, n800; I would have had an n900 if they'd produced the variant I wanted.
Agreed, I recently got a desireZ/g2 and in my ignorance let it update itself on the first day
Took me quite a lot of effort to get to where I wanted to be. Had to back it up, downgrade it, root, s-off, upgrade to custom boot and finally restore apps and redo settings
If the trend continues, we will look back at the N900 and wish Nokia hadn't been so casual in updating it and losing their edge.
I used copy/paste all the time on android for organising contacts, selecting bits of URLs etc.
I could live without it but then I previously used Nokia S60 which had copy/paste so it's a feature I've always had... as did my Palm T3 and Sony Clie before that.
At one point the USA used to be cheaper for bandwidth than the UK, but it has not been for quite a long time!
I've commissioned bandwidth in two offices, one in Cambridge UK, one in Denver USA.
In the UK it cost less than a $1000 equiv for a 100Mb/s circuit (optical fibre) with a 30Mb/s comitted data rate
In Denver, because the office wasn't "on net" with a telco, it required bonded multiple T1s to get 8M service, costing close to the same as the Cambridge office.
At home I have an 8M down, 448k up ADSL service, uncapped, unshaped, unfiltered, with 40GB/month allowance for about US$30 per month.
having dealt with the stupidity of even supposedly clueful people, I can believe almost everything has some basis in fact, even the coffee cup holder story.
sometimes I read this site:
http://clientcopia.com/
but only when I've not had to do any IT support for a while!!
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clearly they decided maybe they're lacking the skills?
sony job listing on linkedin.com
it does mean that people who hacked their consoles with custom firmware and got banned, now get exactly the same level of service as people who didn't!
a spouse or child who goes for regular counselling due to issues of abuse or neglect at home
students sharing a house who use each others' computers as a backup
people issued with iphones by employer who sync their iphone to a computer at work, which is shared with other colleagues, or backed up to a fileserver which can be accessed by colleagues, or whose home directory is on a file server for roaming profiles
policemen, security workers, or social workers when there's a risk of having their phones stolen by disaffected people. sure, they may lock their phones and minimise personal information, but don't realise the tracking DB reveals all.
with latitude you can also choose whether you share the best location or simply which city you are in.
car manufacturers marked the speedometers with MPH
if I need to know my speed in km/h, I simply read the m/h reading as if it were hexadecimal and convert to decimal in my head, something all techies should be able to do instinctively.
e.g. 40mph is about 64km/h.
if you go through retail channel to buy servers then you will often get the choice of a microsoft OS, or a commercial linux os, and you'll pay at least 30% more than asking an HP or Dell account manager for a price, at which point you can tell said acct mgr you don't want an OS or any media.
In the last six months I've seen bluray players drop below GB£100, about US$160, which was the point at which DVDs in the consumer market really took off. Also, bluray disks have fallen in price making them less of premium over DVDs.
That said, as people have pointed out, there's a lot less visual quality to be gained changing from DVD to bluray than there was from VHS tape to DVD. Here in the UK, where DVD resolution is 720x576 the quality is quite good, especially if watching on a 720p display with a good scaler.
If you do buy bluray you may only have one player in the house, so until the players are cheap enough to replace all the dvd players in your house, many people will hold back on buying blurays except for special buys for when, for example, they want the "premium" experience in their main viewing room perhaps with their surround sound kit.
Personally, I buy blurays if I can, and accept the fact that I have only one player at the moment (a PS3) but I am looking to buy another sometime soon.
some people are AC, some DC, and some like AC/DC.
my brain stimulator goes up to 11
having wanted to buy a fan for a Vaio TX series, I can say I'll never touch another Sony computer product; they wanted GB£150 (US$220) just to look at it, never mind actually fix it. When I tried to buy a fan they wouldn't sell it to me. I had the part number for the fan, a Toshiba unit, but the only places that listed in online were "breakers" who were selling used parts (either on ebay or specialist dealers).
For this reason I'd look very carefully at the cost of spares, and/or the cost of extra-long warranties, on a laptop before buying.
it might even topple the government
given that the Italians change their government as often as US corporates file patent lawsuits, that wouldn't be hard.
http://www.theonion.com/video/internet-archaeologists-find-ruins-of-friendster-c,14389/
given that Nokia already sold Qt, I think their lack of commitment is obvious. Intel's head phone guy also quit recently, so I think maemo and meego are pretty much dead in the water. And I say this reluctantly having been a happy owner of nokia 770, n800; I would have had an n900 if they'd produced the variant I wanted.
did Nokia never check their history? if so they would have known about Sendo, who had an interesting run-in with Microsoft quite a few years ago.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/13/sendo_ms_settle/
how about "appl" ? :-D
mod parent up!
Agreed, I recently got a desireZ/g2 and in my ignorance let it update itself on the first day
Took me quite a lot of effort to get to where I wanted to be. Had to back it up, downgrade it, root, s-off, upgrade to custom boot and finally restore apps and redo settings
If the trend continues, we will look back at the N900 and wish Nokia hadn't been so casual in updating it and losing their edge.
then set the GPS preferences to not use major roads?
why not produce a mobile OS based on emacs? I mean, come on, you only need a massive foldout keyboard with 200 keys, 100 of which are meta keys
:-D
I used copy/paste all the time on android for organising contacts, selecting bits of URLs etc. I could live without it but then I previously used Nokia S60 which had copy/paste so it's a feature I've always had... as did my Palm T3 and Sony Clie before that.
huh? that's an interesting twisting of the way fedora, centos and redhat inter-relate.
mod parent up!!
the same government deliberately allowed people in the armed forces to be irradiated during nuclear testing to see the effects.
At one point the USA used to be cheaper for bandwidth than the UK, but it has not been for quite a long time!
I've commissioned bandwidth in two offices, one in Cambridge UK, one in Denver USA.
In the UK it cost less than a $1000 equiv for a 100Mb/s circuit (optical fibre) with a 30Mb/s comitted data rate
In Denver, because the office wasn't "on net" with a telco, it required bonded multiple T1s to get 8M service, costing close to the same as the Cambridge office.
At home I have an 8M down, 448k up ADSL service, uncapped, unshaped, unfiltered, with 40GB/month allowance for about US$30 per month.
having dealt with the stupidity of even supposedly clueful people, I can believe almost everything has some basis in fact, even the coffee cup holder story.
sometimes I read this site:
http://clientcopia.com/
but only when I've not had to do any IT support for a while!!