It sounded to me like the 10 key area is simply for quick program access, not for selecting the keyboard layout. It sounds like selecting the layout is going to be mostly software anyway (they said unsupported os' will have a default layout), and as they will be releasing the SDK, it cant be long before someone automates it anyway.
I think it would be quite cool if someone wrote an app that turns the 10 key area into the first 10 items in your dock. And then, in photoshop (for example) the 10 key area could turn into the first 10 items in the main toolbox.
I dont really know what the digital is like in america, but here in the uk, even set top boxes wont be an option in many cases. In my area at least, the dvb signal isnt very strong, so I cant get any stb to work with a portable antenna. I imagine this will cause problems for people who dont have aerial sockets in their bedrooms. As i understand it, once the analogue is turned off, they can turn up the strength of the digital, but thats not much help when they are trying to get people to buy the sets before then.
And what about the people with caravans? Usually when we go on holiday, the best we can get is a weak picture, not nearly good enough for dvb.
They may not need it, but does that mean this organisation shouldnt provide it anyway? You can see aidworlds objective here. These are clearly open source developers trying to help developing countries. If they agreed with you that these countries dont need fast web browsing, they would probably not fly over there and build a sewer network, but would just turn to another open source project or company. So, the developing world has gained something they dont need, but not at the expense of the things they do need.
Thats the point though, you arnt buying crippled music, you are renting it (with napster-to-go). This just the same as blockbuster force you to return your rented dvds if you cancel the subscription. I think that is a good example of what DRM can do - no company would try to offer rented mp3s. What possible way is there of enforcing it?
Having said that, while I think the renting model is a nice application of DRM, I personally would not buy crippled music, unless i could easily remove it (ie, iTunes + Hymn).
With the uk chip and pin, the pin *is* stored on the card. But, it doesnt just hand the pin over to the reader, the reader tells the card what you typed in, and the card says if its right or not.
I think the main problem is its too easy at the moment to watch a person type in the pin. I work at Tesco, and a lot of people just casually type in the pin, even if there is someone standing nearby with a clear view. At Tesco at least, you can just pull the reader from its holder and hold it out of other peoples view, yet not many people take advantage of this.
Even worse, when it first started out, a number of customers told me their pins (and i didnt even offer them chocolate!), and i had to explain you should never, ever do that.
Its a good system, I think the banks just need to do more to educate their customers - not just little leaflets, but TV ads explaining all this. Bringing this post back in line with the post a few parents up.. I think the banks missed a big oportunity to add even more than just pin, such as a Check ID option, or maybe storing a photo on the card and if the customer wants, make the retailers check it. One of the banks, i think it is The Royal Bank of Scotland, does print black and white owner photos on their cards, but there is no requirement for the retailer to check it.
In the UK its only the low/mid range phones that are on "pay as you go" and the better ones are quite expensive, but PAYG is still very popular among kids/teenagers. It is very easy to top them up too.
We have "E-Topup" cards which you assign to your phone and then dont need to enter any codes when you top up, you just hand the card over at a shop (most highstreet stores, supermarkets, petrol stations etc support this) and it increases ur balance. This is useful for parents too, who can have cards for their kids phones, and top them up when doing the shopping for example.
You can now top up at Natwest (a uk bank) cash machines too.
As daoine_sidhe said, the XBox 2 Developers Kit was released on Apple G5s running Windows (with a custom ppc NT kernel). (from theinquirer)
The XBox2 itself runs on power/powerpc processors, so using apples hardware for development workstations makes sense, and as its still running windows its not like microsoft are shouting out that apple machines (as a whole) are better than theirs.
And more important, if the US didn't come to Europe, Nazi would have come to them later on.
Im not so sure that is true. While the Americans played a major part in defeating the Nazis, the Soviets too were making a major push through Europe. So if the Americans had not helped, they would not have had to face Nazis later on, but a massive Soviet Europe.
This is also mentioned on Wikipedia
There is more detail here:
"Only nine nations have ratified the Moon Treaty (Australia, Austria, Chile, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, and Uruguay), while over 90 have signed the Outer Space Treaty. By UN agreement, five signatures are sufficient to validate a treaty as an international instrument, but there is concern at the refusal of the USA and Russia/USSR to sign--the two nations most likely at present to engage significantly in space exploration."
They tend to use the same assumption with other technologies too. From the Metropolitan Police Service: "Now the MPS Bureau has a database of 1.5 million fingerprints of people charged with offences and a collection of over 70,000 unidentified marks left at scenes of crimes."
Or, are you suggesting they form a national database and ID card scheme?;)
Its interesting that in the US you get discounts if you use a club card (I didnt realise this until i read all the odd comments about it here). In the UK there are no instant discounts on items like that, they do send you coupons through the post, but most of them are for more points on the clubcard anyway (except a few £10 off your shopping type ones, but they arnt item specific).
You also seem to have a hard time finding stores that dont use loyalty cards, whereas about half of ours dont.
The 4 largest supermarket chains here are Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons. Tesco and Sinsbury's use loyalty cards, whereas Asda and Morrisons dont.
This post isnt really going there, i jsut thought it was interesting to note how much more you seemed to be being forced into the loyalty schemes.
It sounds like nintendo are more concerned with their game being mentioned on a porn site, and when they aim their console at kids you can see their point. Although, i think a letter asking the blog owner or site admin to remove the reference with a good excuse, like kids stumbing onto it, would have been better received than a cease and desist order.
I dont really see a winner emerging, at least not for a while. With betamax/vhs, studios had to try to cater to the format most of their consumers were using, but with hd/br soon into it (as has been speculated by many others) someone will release dvd players that can handle both formats, and as with dvd+/-r the consumers wont care which format the dvd they are buying is.
Then eventually, i think the studios will only standardise over one format if its either cheaper (?), or offers more features/space (blu-ray?).
Its hard to know without really knowing what happened. If it was via the UK-US MLAT, and the fbi could justify the request under british law, then the home office had little choice.
Well, lets be fair here, to quote the tv licensing site:
"If you use or install television receiving equipment to receive or record television programme services you are required by law to have a valid TV Licence."
So, if as in ur example you just own a tv to watch DVDs and play console games, you would not need to pay for a tv license.
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It sounded to me like the 10 key area is simply for quick program access, not for selecting the keyboard layout. It sounds like selecting the layout is going to be mostly software anyway (they said unsupported os' will have a default layout), and as they will be releasing the SDK, it cant be long before someone automates it anyway.
I think it would be quite cool if someone wrote an app that turns the 10 key area into the first 10 items in your dock. And then, in photoshop (for example) the 10 key area could turn into the first 10 items in the main toolbox.
I dont really know what the digital is like in america, but here in the uk, even set top boxes wont be an option in many cases. In my area at least, the dvb signal isnt very strong, so I cant get any stb to work with a portable antenna. I imagine this will cause problems for people who dont have aerial sockets in their bedrooms. As i understand it, once the analogue is turned off, they can turn up the strength of the digital, but thats not much help when they are trying to get people to buy the sets before then.
And what about the people with caravans? Usually when we go on holiday, the best we can get is a weak picture, not nearly good enough for dvb.
They may not need it, but does that mean this organisation shouldnt provide it anyway? You can see aidworlds objective here. These are clearly open source developers trying to help developing countries. If they agreed with you that these countries dont need fast web browsing, they would probably not fly over there and build a sewer network, but would just turn to another open source project or company. So, the developing world has gained something they dont need, but not at the expense of the things they do need.
Microsoft have been trying this one for a while now, and are still considered evil...
Thats the point though, you arnt buying crippled music, you are renting it (with napster-to-go). This just the same as blockbuster force you to return your rented dvds if you cancel the subscription. I think that is a good example of what DRM can do - no company would try to offer rented mp3s. What possible way is there of enforcing it?
Having said that, while I think the renting model is a nice application of DRM, I personally would not buy crippled music, unless i could easily remove it (ie, iTunes + Hymn).
With the uk chip and pin, the pin *is* stored on the card. But, it doesnt just hand the pin over to the reader, the reader tells the card what you typed in, and the card says if its right or not.
I think the main problem is its too easy at the moment to watch a person type in the pin. I work at Tesco, and a lot of people just casually type in the pin, even if there is someone standing nearby with a clear view. At Tesco at least, you can just pull the reader from its holder and hold it out of other peoples view, yet not many people take advantage of this.
Even worse, when it first started out, a number of customers told me their pins (and i didnt even offer them chocolate!), and i had to explain you should never, ever do that.
Its a good system, I think the banks just need to do more to educate their customers - not just little leaflets, but TV ads explaining all this. Bringing this post back in line with the post a few parents up.. I think the banks missed a big oportunity to add even more than just pin, such as a Check ID option, or maybe storing a photo on the card and if the customer wants, make the retailers check it. One of the banks, i think it is The Royal Bank of Scotland, does print black and white owner photos on their cards, but there is no requirement for the retailer to check it.
In the UK its only the low/mid range phones that are on "pay as you go" and the better ones are quite expensive, but PAYG is still very popular among kids/teenagers. It is very easy to top them up too.
We have "E-Topup" cards which you assign to your phone and then dont need to enter any codes when you top up, you just hand the card over at a shop (most highstreet stores, supermarkets, petrol stations etc support this) and it increases ur balance. This is useful for parents too, who can have cards for their kids phones, and top them up when doing the shopping for example.
You can now top up at Natwest (a uk bank) cash machines too.
"The Laddermill would only be flown where aircraft are banned. One such area is the" white house.
Most windmills arnt 30,000ft tall, and at that altitude the winds are 20 times more powerful than at sea level. (from the article..)
As daoine_sidhe said, the XBox 2 Developers Kit was released on Apple G5s running Windows (with a custom ppc NT kernel). (from theinquirer)
The XBox2 itself runs on power/powerpc processors, so using apples hardware for development workstations makes sense, and as its still running windows its not like microsoft are shouting out that apple machines (as a whole) are better than theirs.
And more important, if the US didn't come to Europe, Nazi would have come to them later on.
Im not so sure that is true. While the Americans played a major part in defeating the Nazis, the Soviets too were making a major push through Europe. So if the Americans had not helped, they would not have had to face Nazis later on, but a massive Soviet Europe.
Except, the US never signed the moon treaty. They did sign the Outer Space Treaty, but that limits the government, not citizens or companies.
http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/results/ice/moon.htm
This is also mentioned on Wikipedia
There is more detail here:
"Only nine nations have ratified the Moon Treaty (Australia, Austria, Chile, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Philippines, and Uruguay), while over 90 have signed the Outer Space Treaty. By UN agreement, five signatures are sufficient to validate a treaty as an international instrument, but there is concern at the refusal of the USA and Russia/USSR to sign--the two nations most likely at present to engage significantly in space exploration."
They tend to use the same assumption with other technologies too. From the Metropolitan Police Service: "Now the MPS Bureau has a database of 1.5 million fingerprints of people charged with offences and a collection of over 70,000 unidentified marks left at scenes of crimes."
;)
Or, are you suggesting they form a national database and ID card scheme?
But until then, give me the choice of buying a screen that doesn't have defects.
And forces anyone who cant afford the premium displays to buy one which definitely has a dead pixel.
You cant if camera phones are banned, which is what he was replying to...
The article mentions the unlicensed spectrum will infact increase, i would assume that includes the bands you mention. Paul
I can find many. One i remember seeing a while back turned up in a google i just did:f o.php?products_id=32 1 0Browse.asp?Category=Mains
http://www.theledlight.com/120-VAC-LEDbulbs.html
But they seem quite expensive. Another couple:
http://host205.ipowerweb.com/~goldenga/product_in
https://secure530.sectorlink.com/led-bulbs/eShop/
I dont think there is much demand for them at the moment though, and i doubt the ones with ~14 standard leds are very bright. Luxeon Star LEDs would seem like a better choice, but would get expensive quick, and I havent come across anyone who has tried putting them in standard bulb fittings.
Its interesting that in the US you get discounts if you use a club card (I didnt realise this until i read all the odd comments about it here). In the UK there are no instant discounts on items like that, they do send you coupons through the post, but most of them are for more points on the clubcard anyway (except a few £10 off your shopping type ones, but they arnt item specific). You also seem to have a hard time finding stores that dont use loyalty cards, whereas about half of ours dont.
The 4 largest supermarket chains here are Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, Morrisons. Tesco and Sinsbury's use loyalty cards, whereas Asda and Morrisons dont.
This post isnt really going there, i jsut thought it was interesting to note how much more you seemed to be being forced into the loyalty schemes.
It sounds like nintendo are more concerned with their game being mentioned on a porn site, and when they aim their console at kids you can see their point. Although, i think a letter asking the blog owner or site admin to remove the reference with a good excuse, like kids stumbing onto it, would have been better received than a cease and desist order.
I dont really see a winner emerging, at least not for a while. With betamax/vhs, studios had to try to cater to the format most of their consumers were using, but with hd/br soon into it (as has been speculated by many others) someone will release dvd players that can handle both formats, and as with dvd+/-r the consumers wont care which format the dvd they are buying is.
Then eventually, i think the studios will only standardise over one format if its either cheaper (?), or offers more features/space (blu-ray?).
From the iodata product page:
Supported Video MPEG-1/MPEG-2/DivX® VIDEO/XviD/WMV9
Its hard to know without really knowing what happened. If it was via the UK-US MLAT, and the fbi could justify the request under british law, then the home office had little choice.
A good overview of the legality.
If one out of your five computers already runs it, you dont need an emulator to test drive it...
Well, lets be fair here, to quote the tv licensing site:
"If you use or install television receiving equipment to receive or record television programme services you are required by law to have a valid TV Licence."
So, if as in ur example you just own a tv to watch DVDs and play console games, you would not need to pay for a tv license.
Simple, with the SUV you just push the surrounding cars out of the way.