It's funny, because when netbooks first appeared, they came with Linux pre-loaded, and there were high hopes that ordinary users would buy them for light use, such as web browsing and email on the go. Nowadays, you'll struggle to find a netbook that doesn't come with Window (XP or 7 Starter) preloaded, because consumers saw it as a computer and wanted to do computery things with it.
Fast forward to today, and the geeks are crying foul because Apple is pitching their iPad to consumers using the exact same tactic that the geeks used to pitch netbooks to consumers... only this time it's working.
The irony is that most netbooks have screens that are small, widescreen and landscape, which is pretty unsuitable for browsing the web because pages flow from top to bottom. For all its faults, the iPad fixes this fundamental flaw.
This is exactly why I don't believe Wave was ever designed to succeed as a product in its own right. It was public beta for experimental web-based UI elements that Google was thinking of integrating into its other products.
He would rather that content creators only build native iOS apps that work only for iDevices rather than use already-existing channels & platforms that work perfectly fine.
When Jobs introduced the original iPhone, he declared, "The browser is the SDK". Or words to that effect. This made a lot of prospective developers unhappy and the lack of a native SDK was a significant issue of consternation right up until it was released with iPhone OS 2.0.
Of course, at that time the browser wasn't in any way ready to be an SDK of any sort. But along with the native SDK, 2.0 introduced a bunch of 'HTML 5' features, notably local storage, that allowed web pages to act much more like apps in their own right. This news was completely buried because nobody cared.
Aw say kah : Osaka (with an oh sound and then a saw sound)
I can't speak for any other part of the BBC (or indeed the country), but BBC Scotland football pundits have a habit of mispronouncing foreign names. Motherwell played away to Ålesund recently, the pronunciation of which varied wildly. And I vaguely remember them completely giving up on Stig Inge Bjørnebye back when he was active.
The term 'garage' is still used as an alternative to 'petrol station' in Scotland. I guess it's a remnant of the time when you could get basic car maintenance done at a petrol station.
(That's pronounced 'GAR-age', as opposed to the French pronunciation that Americans use.)
In this day and age, I don't know why ISPs don't just advertise their speed as "the maximum that your line will support" instead of showing the actual number. 9 times out of 10 this is what they're providing anyway, in the UK at least, with different levels of data caps being used to differentiate their products.
I'd love it if they used this design for the Beauly to Denny power line, if only to see how many of them get set on fire. There are two groups of Scots that might do so... those opposed to the visual intrusion of pylons in otherwise unspoilt scenery, and those who got lost on the way to the Wicker Man festival.
Personally I quite like them. They look like a cross between Rez and Thunderbirds.
Or do you HONESTLY think a 200 pound American is actually drunk on...what? A half a beer or whatever it takes to hit that tiny number?
It depends what you mean by 'drunk'. If you mean slurred speech, staggering gait and/or the inability to focus their vision, then probably not. If you mean sufficiently inebriated to be a danger while behind the wheel to him/herself and others, then yes, absolutely. It doesn't take much.
It sucks for "creating content" in the "i have to type on a keyboard" sense
Complaining about the lack of a physical keyboard on the iPad is like complaining about the lack of a keyboard on a desktop PC. All you need to do is plug one in or pair one via Bluetooth.
There is a legitimate issue with the iPad's support for hardware accessories - it can be done but (as far as I understand it) you have to design your accessories specifically for iOS devices and get accreditation from Apple, which is why there are so few accessories available even though this has been possible since iPhone OS 3.0.
I also heard a legitimate complaint from an application developer (can't remember which one - if anyone can find the blog post please link it) who ruled out bringing their photo management app to the App Store because they didn't have direct access to the Camera Kit. Photos had to be imported through Apple's photos app, which modified the images.
That said, a lot of the issues are being overblown. A couple of other posters here have complained that the iPad screen isn't pressure-sensitive like a Wacom, and that it wouldn't be capable of opening huge Photoshop files. The iPad is competing against netbooks, not professional desktop workstations - netbooks can't (or would struggle to) do these things.
Care to comment on how much of Sweden's social system is funded by rapidly depleting Oil reserves?
Are you sure you're not thinking of Norway here? I wasn't aware that Sweden had significant oil reserves, certainly not enough to entirely sustain the economy of a country with ~10 million people.
Oil reserves in Western Europe are largely concentrated in the North Sea, in the territorial waters of the UK and Norway. Norway, by the way, looks to be in a much better position than the UK with regards to oil revenues because their reserves are managed centrally by the government. In the UK, on the other hand, our reserves were sold off quickly under Thatcher in order to fund the unemployment bill when all the nationalised industries were shut down.
Are you talking about installation costs or running costs? Common sense states to me that installation costs are higher for renewables than fossil fuel or nuclear plants, but running costs are lower because there's no fuel to buy. That doesn't include maintenance of course... how much does it cost to maintain wind turbines?
With nuclear, of course, you also have to factor in the astronomical cost of decommissioning once a plant reaches the end of its working life.
You'd plead guilty too, even if it IS a gross violation of due process - you don't have the requisite tools/experience to fight the system
He was driving a BMW M5. I doubt that he is (or more likely, his parents are) so strapped for cash that they can't afford a decent enough lawyer to contest a careless driving charge.
As an aside, the snitch in question who thought the best use of his time in the U.S. was to call Canada and report that one of their citizens might have been speeding should be outed and dealt with appropriately.
Excuse me, what? Someone provided a tip-off and evidence to police that resulted in a prosecution. I have no idea what you mean by 'dealt with appropriately', but personally I think that person should be applauded for his or her actions.
You wouldn't automatically be charged, but you'd probably be arrested or at the very least invited to the police station for questioning. The police would probably examine your claim, compare it with missing persons reports, and decide whether you're telling the truth or just being a nuisance (in which case, you might get a warning or be charged with wasting police time).
(and you can't prove otherwise)
The article has a link to the actual forum post, which is worth a read if you're under the impression that the only proof the police had was a confession. In fact, the driver mentions the location and date of his crime, plus the fact that there were witnesses. There's more than enough information there for the police to conduct an investigation.
In the end, the guy pleaded guilty not just on the internet but in a court of law.
A business's chief priority SHOULD be customer service.
That depends on your business model. Ryanair, for example, keep customer service to an absolute minimum in order to keep fares low. Low fares mean lots of passengers and lots of passengers means profit.
A business's chief priority should be profit. Customer service is a means (but not the only means) to that end.
I doubt that it's necessary. WiFi freeloaders are in the coffee shop because that's where the WiFi is. If you're using 3G in a coffee shop then chances are you're there for the coffee.
The question you should be asking isn't "how can I get money out of the 900k people who are playing but not paying" but "how many of my 100,000 paying customers would I have lost had I released it with DRM".
And what if the answer is, "This is a catch-22 situation, we're barely breaking even no matter what DRM policy we adopt"? The answer might well be to abandon the PC market in favour of the console market where you can get more return on investment due to lower rates of piracy.
A few years ago when I was still in university, the uni's central IT department decided to standardise on Toshiba laptops for all the uni departments. I vaguely remember the Computing Science department being up in arms about this because they'd internally standardised on Dells already, and the first batch of Toshibas had been cheap and unreliable. I certainly hated using them.
Not that the Mac laptops of the time were that great either - okay, being able to get access to the iBook's RAM and WiFi card by lifting up the keyboard was great, but the keyboard itself was awful to type on. Apple's build quality has improved immensely since then, so there's no reason for me to believe that Toshiba's hasn't either.
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Isn't it actually environmentally beneficial to burn it? Methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
It's funny, because when netbooks first appeared, they came with Linux pre-loaded, and there were high hopes that ordinary users would buy them for light use, such as web browsing and email on the go. Nowadays, you'll struggle to find a netbook that doesn't come with Window (XP or 7 Starter) preloaded, because consumers saw it as a computer and wanted to do computery things with it.
Fast forward to today, and the geeks are crying foul because Apple is pitching their iPad to consumers using the exact same tactic that the geeks used to pitch netbooks to consumers... only this time it's working.
The irony is that most netbooks have screens that are small, widescreen and landscape, which is pretty unsuitable for browsing the web because pages flow from top to bottom. For all its faults, the iPad fixes this fundamental flaw.
This is exactly why I don't believe Wave was ever designed to succeed as a product in its own right. It was public beta for experimental web-based UI elements that Google was thinking of integrating into its other products.
When Jobs introduced the original iPhone, he declared, "The browser is the SDK". Or words to that effect. This made a lot of prospective developers unhappy and the lack of a native SDK was a significant issue of consternation right up until it was released with iPhone OS 2.0.
Of course, at that time the browser wasn't in any way ready to be an SDK of any sort. But along with the native SDK, 2.0 introduced a bunch of 'HTML 5' features, notably local storage, that allowed web pages to act much more like apps in their own right. This news was completely buried because nobody cared.
Isn't that why NASA was founded? To be America's 'me-too' reply to Sputnik.
I can't speak for any other part of the BBC (or indeed the country), but BBC Scotland football pundits have a habit of mispronouncing foreign names. Motherwell played away to Ålesund recently, the pronunciation of which varied wildly. And I vaguely remember them completely giving up on Stig Inge Bjørnebye back when he was active.
Actually British English uses both pronunciations, but in completely different contexts. This is a rooter , whereas this is a rowter .
The term 'garage' is still used as an alternative to 'petrol station' in Scotland. I guess it's a remnant of the time when you could get basic car maintenance done at a petrol station.
(That's pronounced 'GAR-age', as opposed to the French pronunciation that Americans use.)
In this day and age, I don't know why ISPs don't just advertise their speed as "the maximum that your line will support" instead of showing the actual number. 9 times out of 10 this is what they're providing anyway, in the UK at least, with different levels of data caps being used to differentiate their products.
I'd love it if they used this design for the Beauly to Denny power line, if only to see how many of them get set on fire. There are two groups of Scots that might do so... those opposed to the visual intrusion of pylons in otherwise unspoilt scenery, and those who got lost on the way to the Wicker Man festival.
Personally I quite like them. They look like a cross between Rez and Thunderbirds.
It depends what you mean by 'drunk'. If you mean slurred speech, staggering gait and/or the inability to focus their vision, then probably not. If you mean sufficiently inebriated to be a danger while behind the wheel to him/herself and others, then yes, absolutely. It doesn't take much.
Only if your sysadmin isn't doing his job properly.
Hey, I'm just covering my ass. Read the fucking title!
The man behind The Sun and Fox News has a horrendous opinion of the average person?
In other news, grass is green, *** is blue.
Complaining about the lack of a physical keyboard on the iPad is like complaining about the lack of a keyboard on a desktop PC. All you need to do is plug one in or pair one via Bluetooth.
There is a legitimate issue with the iPad's support for hardware accessories - it can be done but (as far as I understand it) you have to design your accessories specifically for iOS devices and get accreditation from Apple, which is why there are so few accessories available even though this has been possible since iPhone OS 3.0.
I also heard a legitimate complaint from an application developer (can't remember which one - if anyone can find the blog post please link it) who ruled out bringing their photo management app to the App Store because they didn't have direct access to the Camera Kit. Photos had to be imported through Apple's photos app, which modified the images.
That said, a lot of the issues are being overblown. A couple of other posters here have complained that the iPad screen isn't pressure-sensitive like a Wacom, and that it wouldn't be capable of opening huge Photoshop files. The iPad is competing against netbooks, not professional desktop workstations - netbooks can't (or would struggle to) do these things.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Norway here? I wasn't aware that Sweden had significant oil reserves, certainly not enough to entirely sustain the economy of a country with ~10 million people.
Oil reserves in Western Europe are largely concentrated in the North Sea, in the territorial waters of the UK and Norway. Norway, by the way, looks to be in a much better position than the UK with regards to oil revenues because their reserves are managed centrally by the government. In the UK, on the other hand, our reserves were sold off quickly under Thatcher in order to fund the unemployment bill when all the nationalised industries were shut down.
I see that 3 UK are offering 15 GB for £15 a month.
Are you talking about installation costs or running costs? Common sense states to me that installation costs are higher for renewables than fossil fuel or nuclear plants, but running costs are lower because there's no fuel to buy. That doesn't include maintenance of course... how much does it cost to maintain wind turbines?
With nuclear, of course, you also have to factor in the astronomical cost of decommissioning once a plant reaches the end of its working life.
He was driving a BMW M5. I doubt that he is (or more likely, his parents are) so strapped for cash that they can't afford a decent enough lawyer to contest a careless driving charge.
Excuse me, what? Someone provided a tip-off and evidence to police that resulted in a prosecution. I have no idea what you mean by 'dealt with appropriately', but personally I think that person should be applauded for his or her actions.
You wouldn't automatically be charged, but you'd probably be arrested or at the very least invited to the police station for questioning. The police would probably examine your claim, compare it with missing persons reports, and decide whether you're telling the truth or just being a nuisance (in which case, you might get a warning or be charged with wasting police time).
The article has a link to the actual forum post, which is worth a read if you're under the impression that the only proof the police had was a confession. In fact, the driver mentions the location and date of his crime, plus the fact that there were witnesses. There's more than enough information there for the police to conduct an investigation.
In the end, the guy pleaded guilty not just on the internet but in a court of law.
You need to expand your argument. This is either comically surreal or perfectly sensible depending on what part of Scotland you're from.
That depends on your business model. Ryanair, for example, keep customer service to an absolute minimum in order to keep fares low. Low fares mean lots of passengers and lots of passengers means profit.
A business's chief priority should be profit. Customer service is a means (but not the only means) to that end.
I doubt that it's necessary. WiFi freeloaders are in the coffee shop because that's where the WiFi is. If you're using 3G in a coffee shop then chances are you're there for the coffee.
And what if the answer is, "This is a catch-22 situation, we're barely breaking even no matter what DRM policy we adopt"? The answer might well be to abandon the PC market in favour of the console market where you can get more return on investment due to lower rates of piracy.
A few years ago when I was still in university, the uni's central IT department decided to standardise on Toshiba laptops for all the uni departments. I vaguely remember the Computing Science department being up in arms about this because they'd internally standardised on Dells already, and the first batch of Toshibas had been cheap and unreliable. I certainly hated using them.
Not that the Mac laptops of the time were that great either - okay, being able to get access to the iBook's RAM and WiFi card by lifting up the keyboard was great, but the keyboard itself was awful to type on. Apple's build quality has improved immensely since then, so there's no reason for me to believe that Toshiba's hasn't either.