A Bloomberg article says: "Banks created at least $4 billion of CPDOs".
"Created" not rated. So noone knows for sure how many of these 4 billion have been rated by Moody's, but I guess a big chunk.
But this relativly small sum (compared to the amount of mess the credit crisis has produced) is not the heart of the problem. The big question now is "can we trust the rating agencies at all". Because this story has the smell of fraud. And that's (of course) much worse than overpaid MBAs that make some errors... (which shouldn't happen, but can happen).
While this seems to be the best suggestion so far, I still don't get two separate extension folders for example. When I upgrade the extension and this extension is FF3 only I will lose it for ever when I start FF2? Or do I miss something?
The solution I'm looking for is more like the portableapps kind. A completely separate FF3 that is fully self contained. Well, it's meant for USB-memory-sticks, but it would work on my harddisk as well.
Heise had an article about a new Atom based ITX Board yesterday. I'm quite sure that it is the same board linked here. There was one particulary interesting fact:
The Thermal Design Power (TDP) of the Atom 230 chip is sth. like 4 to 8 watts while the northbridge with the integrated GPU (945GC) uses 22(!) watts.
But it seems as if your only qualitiy indicator is speed of folding@home. Strange. I guess your PC is a PS3 then..
Half the price?
And some other fellow slashdot users have done the same for the Pro and the notebooks. When you compare Apple to sth. of similiar quality and design (e.g. Sony) Apple looks quite competitive.
If you compare Apples to lemons, well, than you'll get lemons. It's fruit, but the taste is really sour...
well it *might* be that someone at Apple reads this...
And Apple should make it easy to upgrade and change stuff. With the exception of the Mac Pro Apple computers are among the worst thing you could put on the desktop of your 500+ workers. Every swap of a died harddisk is a big operation whereas in office PC from HP (for example) they can be changed in less than 5 minutes.
Well it is low, but more than a fraction of a percent.
And you'll always have to consider the fact, that a lot of Smybian smartphones are sold in Europe that aren't used as a smartphone. Phones are heavily subsidized in Europe and people tend to get the best model that still doesn't cost a dime. Well they get a Symbian Series 60 smartphone, but never install even a single application.
Like the Blackberries, but they get at least an email app preinstalled...
Well our defintions of "stable", "crippled" and "intuitive" certainly differ.
You think Nokias interface "isn't intuitive", I think its crap, utter crap and I always hated fiddling with the settings and gazillion of function keys.
Nokias software tends to get stable after a few revisions. At least they now allow you to flash your phone so you don't have to go to some service point and pay 40 Euros for an upgrade of a buggy firmware.
And well crippled: I can phone, send SMS, take photos, add and edit contacts, listen to my music, surf the web in a quality like never before and last but not least syncing and setup were/are painless.
I'm happy with my mobile phone. For the first time since my Nokia 6110 sth like 10 years ago.
you can say anything about the iPhone (and Apple) but being clunky can't be further from the truth...
If someones software is clunky then it's Nokias... The N95 release has been delayed much in the US cause the firmware was not stable enough... ANd is this one of the Nokia phones with 21 function keys and hierarchical menus that go down to level 9? That what I'd call clunky.
Even your comparison is deeply flawed: How long has the N95 been available and how many providers support it? The N95 is available everywhere and since (at least) 12 months, the iPhone is available at one provider and for a mere 6 months.
Google Ads don't annoy most people. If they do, install Adblock.
I would really like a Wikipedia with 100 Million Dollar income per year that they can use to built better software, write better articles, buy out copyrighted books into the public domain which then can be translated into other languages, support the OLPC project and really beef up education in Africa,...
And what's your point? Ads are annoying? Seems a bit egocentric and short sighted to me.
That's why I suggest a separation into two organizations - one for the content and only the content, and the other for the financial side (advertising) and only the financial side.
I really guess the Mozilla team did this one exactly right.
I'm happy they struck this deal with Google. I'm happy that they drown in money and I'm happy they give me the best browser, support open source and have saved the world from the Microsoft monopoly spreading to the web.
Yes, you could claim that Firefox isn't about money, but about freedom, open source and standards support. But I'm sure that money has helped them to achieve this goal and as far as I am concerned money hasn't stopped or corrupted them.
OK, a broken business model that based on begging for money every 6 months or so.
Go for advertising. Buy out books to the public domain, give back some money to wikepedia authors (e.g. give money to proven authors for writing additional articles),... Gazillions good ideas come to mind. Buy out books to the public domain.
But no money means no money for good ideas. And Wikipedia will stay vulnerable to attacks from someone with money (think Google Knol).
Yes yes, money changes people. Articles may get flawed to get more money. If you think, Wikipedia must stay independent, make it independent. Create a Wikipedia-Ad-foundation, that tries to get as much money as possible, but give them absolutly no control over Wikipedia-The-Content-Organisation. Both orgs should be absolutly independent.
And so you'd have a lot of money *and* complete seperation of concerns.
And there are *so* many unbelievably good ways to spend money.
In fact most people think Javscript is bad because they have to use it inside browsers which tend to ignore the specification (OK, the one with 75% market share). In most cases Javascript is not the reason for frustration but the lack of DOM-compliant behaviour of the browsers (Ok, the one with 75% market share).
You may read some articles about Javascript, which indeed has some cool features. And with Adobes open sourced VM (Tamarin) it has a rather fast implementation too.
OK, a broken business model that based on begging for money every 6 months or so.
Go for advertising. Buy out books to the public domain, give back some money to wikepedia authors (e.g. give money to proven authors for writing additional articles),... Gazillions good ideas come to mind. But no money means no money for good ideas. And Wikipedia will stay vulnerable to attacks from someone with money.
Yes yes, money changes people. Articles may get flawed to get more money. If you think, Wikipedia must stay independent, make it independent. Create a Wikipedia-Ad-foundation, that tries to get as much money as possible, but give them absolutly no control over Wikipedia-The-Content-Organisation. Both orgs should be absolutly independent.
And so you'd have a lot of money *and* complete seperation of concerns.
Bye egghat.
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Oh, I see that you need 850 MHz GSM in the US. The European model misses that.
All shops are in Germany, international sales may be possible, but I'm not sure if the Neorunner will work in GSM 1900 networks (I guess not).
Trisoft: Freerunner,
Pulster,
OpenMoko Neo Freerunner GTA02 EU Version
All links found here (German only, sorry):
Linux-Smartphone Freerunner von Openmoko im Handel
SproutCore was built while SproutIT developed Mailroom. Mailroom was launched in February 2006 (Interview with Charles Jolley, SproutIt.com).
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So the core is much older and tested rather well. The only thing that's new is the hype
Btw. The Ars Technica article on SproutCore is good as well SproutCore: rich web apps in JavaScript, no Flash needed
A Bloomberg article says: "Banks created at least $4 billion of CPDOs".
... (which shouldn't happen, but can happen).
"Created" not rated. So noone knows for sure how many of these 4 billion have been rated by Moody's, but I guess a big chunk.
But this relativly small sum (compared to the amount of mess the credit crisis has produced) is not the heart of the problem. The big question now is "can we trust the rating agencies at all". Because this story has the smell of fraud. And that's (of course) much worse than overpaid MBAs that make some errors
While this seems to be the best suggestion so far, I still don't get two separate extension folders for example. When I upgrade the extension and this extension is FF3 only I will lose it for ever when I start FF2? Or do I miss something?
The solution I'm looking for is more like the portableapps kind. A completely separate FF3 that is fully self contained. Well, it's meant for USB-memory-sticks, but it would work on my harddisk as well.
Thanks for all suggestions btw.
I'm on OS X and FF3 doesn't allow a parallel installation of two Firefoxes.
Is there a way to test all my installed extension in advance?
Sorry if this is a dumb question but I couldn't find anything with googling.
Heise had an article about a new Atom based ITX Board yesterday. I'm quite sure that it is the same board linked here. There was one particulary interesting fact:
...
The Thermal Design Power (TDP) of the Atom 230 chip is sth. like 4 to 8 watts while the northbridge with the integrated GPU (945GC) uses 22(!) watts.
Heise.de: Mini-ITX-Board mit Intel-Atom-Prozessor aufgetaucht (Sorry, only available in German)
So I think we'll have to wait for a board that uses a mobile chipset
I have a tab that causes Firefox to (near) freeze, which means 100% CPU load and a restart of FF.
I'd certainly love a way to find out which tab causes this.
Bye egghat
Take an All-In-One computer from Gateway:
..
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Gateway® One ZX190 1399 Dollar Core 2 Duo, 19" screen, etc.
Half the price of an iMac?
Mac Mini:
CompuStre: AOpen Pandora MiniPC MP915-B Slim DVD/CDRW 40GB Cel-M 1.4 512MBDDR2 549 Dollar. This thing is worse than the mini *and* more expensive.
But it seems as if your only qualitiy indicator is speed of folding@home. Strange. I guess your PC is a PS3 then
Half the price?
And some other fellow slashdot users have done the same for the Pro and the notebooks. When you compare Apple to sth. of similiar quality and design (e.g. Sony) Apple looks quite competitive.
If you compare Apples to lemons, well, than you'll get lemons. It's fruit, but the taste is really sour
well it *might* be that someone at Apple reads this ...
And Apple should make it easy to upgrade and change stuff. With the exception of the Mac Pro Apple computers are among the worst thing you could put on the desktop of your 500+ workers. Every swap of a died harddisk is a big operation whereas in office PC from HP (for example) they can be changed in less than 5 minutes.
Does anyone know if there was any redundancy in the filesystem or if it was a normal FAT/UFS or sth. comparable?
A core duo is really cheap on ebay. The upgrade is not simple, but worth it. In my case I neede a VT-X enabled CPU for parallels.
Mini CPU upgrade
If you look at the smartphone market only, RIMs and Apples market share isn't that low ...
...
Market share of smartphones worldwide
Well it is low, but more than a fraction of a percent.
And you'll always have to consider the fact, that a lot of Smybian smartphones are sold in Europe that aren't used as a smartphone. Phones are heavily subsidized in Europe and people tend to get the best model that still doesn't cost a dime. Well they get a Symbian Series 60 smartphone, but never install even a single application.
Like the Blackberries, but they get at least an email app preinstalled
Well our defintions of "stable", "crippled" and "intuitive" certainly differ.
You think Nokias interface "isn't intuitive", I think its crap, utter crap and I always hated fiddling with the settings and gazillion of function keys.
Nokias software tends to get stable after a few revisions. At least they now allow you to flash your phone so you don't have to go to some service point and pay 40 Euros for an upgrade of a buggy firmware.
And well crippled: I can phone, send SMS, take photos, add and edit contacts, listen to my music, surf the web in a quality like never before and last but not least syncing and setup were/are painless.
I'm happy with my mobile phone. For the first time since my Nokia 6110 sth like 10 years ago.
Troll,
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... The N95 release has been delayed much in the US cause the firmware was not stable enough ... ANd is this one of the Nokia phones with 21 function keys and hierarchical menus that go down to level 9? That what I'd call clunky.
you can say anything about the iPhone (and Apple) but being clunky can't be further from the truth
If someones software is clunky then it's Nokias
Even your comparison is deeply flawed: How long has the N95 been available and how many providers support it? The N95 is available everywhere and since (at least) 12 months, the iPhone is available at one provider and for a mere 6 months.
Bye egghat
You can buy an iPhone in the UK *without* a new contract for a mere 169 pounds? Is O2 that brain damaged?
Idiots?
Major design flaw or some conspiracy theory at work?
Google Ads don't annoy most people. If they do, install Adblock.
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I would really like a Wikipedia with 100 Million Dollar income per year that they can use to built better software, write better articles, buy out copyrighted books into the public domain which then can be translated into other languages, support the OLPC project and really beef up education in Africa,
And what's your point? Ads are annoying? Seems a bit egocentric and short sighted to me.
bye egghat
Yes, I get your point.
That's why I suggest a separation into two organizations - one for the content and only the content, and the other for the financial side (advertising) and only the financial side.
I really guess the Mozilla team did this one exactly right.
bye egghat
I'm happy they struck this deal with Google. I'm happy that they drown in money and I'm happy they give me the best browser, support open source and have saved the world from the Microsoft monopoly spreading to the web.
Yes, you could claim that Firefox isn't about money, but about freedom, open source and standards support. But I'm sure that money has helped them to achieve this goal and as far as I am concerned money hasn't stopped or corrupted them.
bye egghat
OK, a broken business model that based on begging for money every 6 months or so.
... Gazillions good ideas come to mind. Buy out books to the public domain.
Go for advertising. Buy out books to the public domain, give back some money to wikepedia authors (e.g. give money to proven authors for writing additional articles),
But no money means no money for good ideas. And Wikipedia will stay vulnerable to attacks from someone with money (think Google Knol).
Yes yes, money changes people. Articles may get flawed to get more money. If you think, Wikipedia must stay independent, make it independent. Create a Wikipedia-Ad-foundation, that tries to get as much money as possible, but give them absolutly no control over Wikipedia-The-Content-Organisation. Both orgs should be absolutly independent.
And so you'd have a lot of money *and* complete seperation of concerns.
And there are *so* many unbelievably good ways to spend money.
In fact most people think Javscript is bad because they have to use it inside browsers which tend to ignore the specification (OK, the one with 75% market share). In most cases Javascript is not the reason for frustration but the lack of DOM-compliant behaviour of the browsers (Ok, the one with 75% market share).
You may read some articles about Javascript, which indeed has some cool features. And with Adobes open sourced VM (Tamarin) it has a rather fast implementation too.
The Next Big Language
ECMAScript: The Switzerland of development environments?
JavaScript Speed Tests
OK, a broken business model that based on begging for money every 6 months or so.
... Gazillions good ideas come to mind. But no money means no money for good ideas. And Wikipedia will stay vulnerable to attacks from someone with money.
Go for advertising. Buy out books to the public domain, give back some money to wikepedia authors (e.g. give money to proven authors for writing additional articles),
Yes yes, money changes people. Articles may get flawed to get more money. If you think, Wikipedia must stay independent, make it independent. Create a Wikipedia-Ad-foundation, that tries to get as much money as possible, but give them absolutly no control over Wikipedia-The-Content-Organisation. Both orgs should be absolutly independent.
And so you'd have a lot of money *and* complete seperation of concerns.
Bye egghat.
Hey! that one should make a rather good signature ...