No, you don't need to use a case to make a call with a blackberry, but you do have to use a case if you want to conveniently prevent somebody from making a call from their pocket with one. Historically, Blackberries have had no auto-lock timer, but required being put into the case or hitting a key combination in order to lock the device. I've gotten countless pocket calls from my boss and other folks on my team at work, sometimes several in a row, sometimes during heated discussions that had sensitive company information as the topic. I'm not sure if it's still this way since my team entirely abandoned Blackberry, but if they haven't fixed the software then they have an outstanding problem of their own that could have significantly more potential damage.
People like me who hate phone cases are screwed either way.
This probably isn't about bandwidth, but moving forward. Sure, PCI can handle a lot of the devices, but it can't handle every device. Moving forward, we have the option to do something like we did with PCI/ASA and have two physically different slots on the motherboard, or we can move forward with a scaling interface that supports auto speed negotiation and is physically compatible at all speeds of operation. (ie: put a PCI-E 2x card into a PCI-E 16x slot and it'll work.) This offers more flexibility when building out systems for different types of users, and takes the next step forward to give hardware with the new design a longer life. (ie: If PCI had been scalable in the same way, all those PCI cards would still be worth something, as would those ASA cards if they too had been compatible in the same way PCI-E is.)
One time I sawed off the back of a PCI-E 8x slot on my motherboard and put a PCI-E 16x video card in, sticking clean out of the back of the slot, and it worked like a charm. You just can't do that kind of thing with ASA and PCI.
Using page loads as a metric is really giving you a better view at Safari vs Chrome than CPU comparisons, and we all know that Chrome is faster.
You can't really use things like standby time either because Android multitasks, and we all know that kills battery life.
However, looking at the iPad on the A4 compared to previous devices that used ARM chips by Samsung and also ran the same OS, the iPad does much, much better. I bought an iPad a few weeks after it came out for a trip to Asia that I am just finishing up, and it's markedly more resourceful than other Apple portables I've used. Standby time is great, I left it unplugged and mostly unused for a week and it only went down 10%. It plays movies for like 9 hours without having to recharge. Games aren't as good as movies, but you still get like 7 or 8 hours of gaming out of it.
The A4 is definitely much better than previous chips that Apple has used, PR switch enabled or not.
Also, since Apple controls the whole platform, they can make changes to the hardware in future revs and just watch for and handle those changes in the software, designing both in parallel so you don't get an out-of-step release schedule like we're seeing with Android devices. It's the big benefit of controlling the whole platform.
I can vouch for the robustness of DNG files. I lost a HDD, recovered most of the files, dumped them back into Lightroom and everything was retained, even my ratings and edit history. DNG is an awesome format.
It's interesting to me to hear what people's ideas are of what Vietnam is like. I think some people think VN is kinda like the middle east, but in SE Asia.
I first came here a year ago and knew almost nothing about the place except pho, ca phe sua da and beautiful girls. I didn't even know much about the war except that a lot of young men went off and died in a war we Americans lost.
What's interesting to me though is that Vietnam is so different from what a lot of people expect. Vietnamese people are really happy, probably the happiest people I've ever met. Also, not a single one of them has brought up the war from the 70's.
There is a pretty amazing local free market economy where people set up shop on the side of the road if there is a demand for a service on any given day, and they make money sitting there with a sewing machine, a fruit juicer or a basket of crabs. A motorbike rider becomes a taxi when they spot you walking with a pack.
It's beautiful too, Ha Long Bay has amazing landscape and wildlife, and the Island of Phu Quoc in the Bay of Thailand has gentle, clear, warm water. The mountains have cool weather, so cool that you sometimes need a jacket even in summer.
The fashion is great because they make cheap versions of all the expensive stuff that gets shipped to first world countries, and it looks great on slender bodies that live on the natural foods that are grown all over the country. There are plenty of cafes with HDTVs showing movies and music videos from all over the world, playing music and serving fresh fruit smoothies.
The food is good and natural. Rice is grown everywhere, so you get it fresh and from local farmers. Fruits are also grown everywhere, naturally enough that if you pick a banana you better eat it within a few hours or it'll go bad.
Yes, the government is officially communist. You don't see it most of the time though. I was discussing this with a Russian friend and she said that VN communism was a joke compared to how it was in Russia where the gov owned every business. The local free market like what you see today in VN would not have existed in the USSR. Also, the involvement of the gov here is so minimal on a day to day basis that you don't actually experience the communism, it seems like a pretty free country for the most part, albeit pretty conservative.
The roads are often bad, but some of the progress they are making is fantastic. Huge bridges, smooth highways with higher speed limits.
As for the OP, that sounds like a hard thing for this country to enforce. Vietnam is one of the most corrupt governments in the world. Even so, I don't agree with mandated software installation. Besides, what are they going to do, port it to every platform, or do they expect everybody to run Windows?
All in all, the "new reality" of Vietnam is pretty good. I'm happy here. I won't stay here forever, but I wouldn't be upset if I had to. That is to say I am not more upset at the communist Vietnamese government than I am with the republic US government.
Was it just me or did the article completely miss settling the huge rumor of whether or not the CPU is the A4? The strings "CPU" and "proc" don't even appear in the Gizmodo article. =/
I don't think your car analogy works exactly. The CD is a deliver mechanism for the content, it is not the feature itself. You merely use the CD to get the game. The game is what you're paying for, not the disc itself.
Imagine you bought a car and had somebody deliver it to your house, and they brought it on a truck that had extra sport racing tires stored in it. They give you the keys to the car and say "if you pay $5 more you can get these nifty tires, but the car works just fine without them. they're just an add-on that we thought you might like so we brought it along."
Better yet, imagine you buy a brand new computer and it comes loaded with software, but you have to pay for it in order to get the full version... oh wait, you probably don't have to imagine that because most people have already done that.
I really don't think it's a problem that they are using the disc to store additional stuff that you may enjoy but haven't paid for yet. The original Quake CD did this with every single game Id had ever made (and was also cracked to get free access to those games, but that's a digression.)
Would you rather not have the content be there and have to go to the store and buy another CD? How many game CD's have you lost over the years? By shipping both of these products on the same disc, that's -1 potentially lost game CD.
I have never played Bioshock or Bioshock 2, but I do not see a problem with filling an optical disc with additional software that you have the option to pay for.
I'm so pissed at Apple. I bought the toolkit and made a mobile botnet iPhone app with controller but they won't approve it. *sigh* Such bullshit, they don't approve anything!
Apple shipped a full-fledged IDE with every OS in the last many years. It includes example software projects to load up into the tools, and a full programming manual on how to program anything from command tools on up to 3D graphical interfaces with data fed from 3rd party open standard web protocols.
It costs 100 fucking dollars to become an iPod developer, which is less than the cost of the Visual Basic IDE. With that you can load your own apps onto your phone and run them inside of an iPod emulator on your computer.
As an owner of three blackberry devices before the iPhone came out, my reason for not complaining about the network was twofold...
1) Blackberry devices weren't good enough to be anything better than the bottleneck. They didn't do video, streaming audio, and until the 8830, couldn't even render a fucking <table>.
2) I was too busy complaining about Blackberry itself with its terrible speed problems, UI problems and interface inconsistencies. (Tip to the 8830 users: you can set the side button to go to the app switcher, which can function as a "get me the fuck out of this back-button-loop" button.)
Regardless of whether Google is going to use Tricycles, they're not the first to market with this feature. http://www.mapjack.com/ already has many many trails mapped out, things that bicycles may even have a hard time on.
This article is clearly a suit acting as a voice to what his limited understanding leads him to believe. It's kinda cute, how he proclaims his faith in the imminently fallible.
The bios won't let you boot up a Domain Controller with root access that has valid certificates to connect to an entire security infrastructure.
The bios won't let you boot up any workstation in a Windows Domain, change the local administrator password, then use that escalation to access trusted resources.
Sure, local access is weak security, and you can often boot up whatever software you want with local access, but that's the equivalent of dismembering a body or stealing a car. This is the equivalent of cat burglary, and while you're inside you can do whatever you want, take whatever you want, install whatever you want. There is a difference, and this tactic is more subtle.
You're not very good at puzzles, are you? First you get one piece, here it is the ability rename an executable to execute a privilege escalation. The next piece is for anybody to find... a way to remotely rename an executable while it is being used, or during reboot, or something else more clever than one minute of my thinking during this reply.
Your questioning follows the "who cares if water expands when it freezes?" line of thinking. You're missing the second part, the idea that you have to pour it into something before it freezes in order to break that something without effort.
Because we like to ride fast motorcycles, drive fast cars, and jump out of planes, which all present a possibility of becoming slightly less than dead.
I love Adium, and I think they have the OP's problem solved pretty well, but as far as video and audio you're wrong. It does not support video or audio chat.
The way I read the article, the output of the errors alone was 17mb... That's pretty f bad, the errors alone are way bigger than most documents I write.
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No, you don't need to use a case to make a call with a blackberry, but you do have to use a case if you want to conveniently prevent somebody from making a call from their pocket with one. Historically, Blackberries have had no auto-lock timer, but required being put into the case or hitting a key combination in order to lock the device. I've gotten countless pocket calls from my boss and other folks on my team at work, sometimes several in a row, sometimes during heated discussions that had sensitive company information as the topic. I'm not sure if it's still this way since my team entirely abandoned Blackberry, but if they haven't fixed the software then they have an outstanding problem of their own that could have significantly more potential damage.
People like me who hate phone cases are screwed either way.
Me too! That guy is _TOTALLY_ emphatic!
This probably isn't about bandwidth, but moving forward. Sure, PCI can handle a lot of the devices, but it can't handle every device. Moving forward, we have the option to do something like we did with PCI/ASA and have two physically different slots on the motherboard, or we can move forward with a scaling interface that supports auto speed negotiation and is physically compatible at all speeds of operation. (ie: put a PCI-E 2x card into a PCI-E 16x slot and it'll work.) This offers more flexibility when building out systems for different types of users, and takes the next step forward to give hardware with the new design a longer life. (ie: If PCI had been scalable in the same way, all those PCI cards would still be worth something, as would those ASA cards if they too had been compatible in the same way PCI-E is.)
One time I sawed off the back of a PCI-E 8x slot on my motherboard and put a PCI-E 16x video card in, sticking clean out of the back of the slot, and it worked like a charm. You just can't do that kind of thing with ASA and PCI.
Using page loads as a metric is really giving you a better view at Safari vs Chrome than CPU comparisons, and we all know that Chrome is faster.
You can't really use things like standby time either because Android multitasks, and we all know that kills battery life.
However, looking at the iPad on the A4 compared to previous devices that used ARM chips by Samsung and also ran the same OS, the iPad does much, much better. I bought an iPad a few weeks after it came out for a trip to Asia that I am just finishing up, and it's markedly more resourceful than other Apple portables I've used. Standby time is great, I left it unplugged and mostly unused for a week and it only went down 10%. It plays movies for like 9 hours without having to recharge. Games aren't as good as movies, but you still get like 7 or 8 hours of gaming out of it.
The A4 is definitely much better than previous chips that Apple has used, PR switch enabled or not.
Also, since Apple controls the whole platform, they can make changes to the hardware in future revs and just watch for and handle those changes in the software, designing both in parallel so you don't get an out-of-step release schedule like we're seeing with Android devices. It's the big benefit of controlling the whole platform.
Along with that PR came unprecedented performance, so it's not *just* PR...
I can vouch for the robustness of DNG files. I lost a HDD, recovered most of the files, dumped them back into Lightroom and everything was retained, even my ratings and edit history. DNG is an awesome format.
It's interesting to me to hear what people's ideas are of what Vietnam is like. I think some people think VN is kinda like the middle east, but in SE Asia.
I first came here a year ago and knew almost nothing about the place except pho, ca phe sua da and beautiful girls. I didn't even know much about the war except that a lot of young men went off and died in a war we Americans lost.
What's interesting to me though is that Vietnam is so different from what a lot of people expect. Vietnamese people are really happy, probably the happiest people I've ever met. Also, not a single one of them has brought up the war from the 70's.
There is a pretty amazing local free market economy where people set up shop on the side of the road if there is a demand for a service on any given day, and they make money sitting there with a sewing machine, a fruit juicer or a basket of crabs. A motorbike rider becomes a taxi when they spot you walking with a pack.
It's beautiful too, Ha Long Bay has amazing landscape and wildlife, and the Island of Phu Quoc in the Bay of Thailand has gentle, clear, warm water. The mountains have cool weather, so cool that you sometimes need a jacket even in summer.
The fashion is great because they make cheap versions of all the expensive stuff that gets shipped to first world countries, and it looks great on slender bodies that live on the natural foods that are grown all over the country. There are plenty of cafes with HDTVs showing movies and music videos from all over the world, playing music and serving fresh fruit smoothies.
The food is good and natural. Rice is grown everywhere, so you get it fresh and from local farmers. Fruits are also grown everywhere, naturally enough that if you pick a banana you better eat it within a few hours or it'll go bad.
Yes, the government is officially communist. You don't see it most of the time though. I was discussing this with a Russian friend and she said that VN communism was a joke compared to how it was in Russia where the gov owned every business. The local free market like what you see today in VN would not have existed in the USSR. Also, the involvement of the gov here is so minimal on a day to day basis that you don't actually experience the communism, it seems like a pretty free country for the most part, albeit pretty conservative.
The roads are often bad, but some of the progress they are making is fantastic. Huge bridges, smooth highways with higher speed limits.
As for the OP, that sounds like a hard thing for this country to enforce. Vietnam is one of the most corrupt governments in the world. Even so, I don't agree with mandated software installation. Besides, what are they going to do, port it to every platform, or do they expect everybody to run Windows?
All in all, the "new reality" of Vietnam is pretty good. I'm happy here. I won't stay here forever, but I wouldn't be upset if I had to. That is to say I am not more upset at the communist Vietnamese government than I am with the republic US government.
Was it just me or did the article completely miss settling the huge rumor of whether or not the CPU is the A4? The strings "CPU" and "proc" don't even appear in the Gizmodo article. =/
I don't think your car analogy works exactly. The CD is a deliver mechanism for the content, it is not the feature itself. You merely use the CD to get the game. The game is what you're paying for, not the disc itself.
Imagine you bought a car and had somebody deliver it to your house, and they brought it on a truck that had extra sport racing tires stored in it. They give you the keys to the car and say "if you pay $5 more you can get these nifty tires, but the car works just fine without them. they're just an add-on that we thought you might like so we brought it along."
Better yet, imagine you buy a brand new computer and it comes loaded with software, but you have to pay for it in order to get the full version... oh wait, you probably don't have to imagine that because most people have already done that.
I really don't think it's a problem that they are using the disc to store additional stuff that you may enjoy but haven't paid for yet. The original Quake CD did this with every single game Id had ever made (and was also cracked to get free access to those games, but that's a digression.)
Would you rather not have the content be there and have to go to the store and buy another CD? How many game CD's have you lost over the years? By shipping both of these products on the same disc, that's -1 potentially lost game CD.
I have never played Bioshock or Bioshock 2, but I do not see a problem with filling an optical disc with additional software that you have the option to pay for.
I'm so pissed at Apple. I bought the toolkit and made a mobile botnet iPhone app with controller but they won't approve it. *sigh* Such bullshit, they don't approve anything!
Apple shipped a full-fledged IDE with every OS in the last many years. It includes example software projects to load up into the tools, and a full programming manual on how to program anything from command tools on up to 3D graphical interfaces with data fed from 3rd party open standard web protocols.
It costs 100 fucking dollars to become an iPod developer, which is less than the cost of the Visual Basic IDE. With that you can load your own apps onto your phone and run them inside of an iPod emulator on your computer.
As an owner of three blackberry devices before the iPhone came out, my reason for not complaining about the network was twofold...
1) Blackberry devices weren't good enough to be anything better than the bottleneck. They didn't do video, streaming audio, and until the 8830, couldn't even render a fucking <table>.
2) I was too busy complaining about Blackberry itself with its terrible speed problems, UI problems and interface inconsistencies. (Tip to the 8830 users: you can set the side button to go to the app switcher, which can function as a "get me the fuck out of this back-button-loop" button.)
Why not just have certain flights that do not allow any allergens onboard? Cats, dogs, peanuts, wheat, whatever...
Pets don't drive cars so there's no compound resource consumption going on. Eating neighbors definitely tops eating pets.
Regardless of whether Google is going to use Tricycles, they're not the first to market with this feature. http://www.mapjack.com/ already has many many trails mapped out, things that bicycles may even have a hard time on.
It must have *sucked* to have your interruptions and distractions load at 64 Kbps. I don't know if I could take that...
This article is clearly a suit acting as a voice to what his limited understanding leads him to believe. It's kinda cute, how he proclaims his faith in the imminently fallible.
The bios won't let you boot up a Domain Controller with root access that has valid certificates to connect to an entire security infrastructure.
The bios won't let you boot up any workstation in a Windows Domain, change the local administrator password, then use that escalation to access trusted resources.
Sure, local access is weak security, and you can often boot up whatever software you want with local access, but that's the equivalent of dismembering a body or stealing a car. This is the equivalent of cat burglary, and while you're inside you can do whatever you want, take whatever you want, install whatever you want. There is a difference, and this tactic is more subtle.
You're not very good at puzzles, are you? First you get one piece, here it is the ability rename an executable to execute a privilege escalation. The next piece is for anybody to find... a way to remotely rename an executable while it is being used, or during reboot, or something else more clever than one minute of my thinking during this reply.
Your questioning follows the "who cares if water expands when it freezes?" line of thinking. You're missing the second part, the idea that you have to pour it into something before it freezes in order to break that something without effort.
The beta sign-up ended October 19th, 2007. At 6 months almost to the day this story is hardly news.
A LiveCD will not enter the password to the keychain for you... It won't type his PGP passphrase for you. It won't find his TrueCrypt disks for you.
Because we like to ride fast motorcycles, drive fast cars, and jump out of planes, which all present a possibility of becoming slightly less than dead.
http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/VoiceAndVideo
I love Adium, and I think they have the OP's problem solved pretty well, but as far as video and audio you're wrong. It does not support video or audio chat.