Like my example of the 3yr old battery clearly demonstrates... ?????? I'm not letting it run down completely btw... It could run maybe 8 or even 9 days (with not to much calling) without recharging... 1 week is just convenient.
"... are we seeing what will be the death of the entry level point and shoot digicam?" Not anytime soon. There are still people that just use a phone for calling people. Not to make a sandwich with. All these features (for which you have to pay a small fortune, just for the data transfer if you use the phone for these things) are wrecking the batteries. I hear people that have to recharge their phones every other day, and in the manual is stated that it is not a luxury to buy a new battery every 6 months !!
I have a phone (ericsson T39m) that does what it is supposed to (phonecalls, sms) and it does it very well. I recharge it maybe once a week and the battery is as old as the phone (almost 3 years). I don't need my phone to sound like a hifi stereoset and don't have to watch video's on it. Sure... in 10 years lots of people might have those all-in-one gadgets and they could be very useful indeed... but as long as there are enough people who just want to buy stuff that they actually use, there will still be a market for 'just phones' and 'just cameras'. Even though the manufacturers are pushing the 'multi-functional' down our throats.
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Personally I find that the lack of relevant pages if the biggest problem with search engines, not the lack of pages with information.
Actually.... information IS relevant data. If it's not relevant to what you want, then it is just data...
Haven't used firefox for a while (last one was 0.7), but has that utterly annoying 'feature' with the profile selection window (that appears when you already have a firefox window open and try to open another one from your menu) finally been kicked out by default?
I know that with some scripts (there are about 397 versions of it, and just a few work nicely), you can get rid of it. But this schould be turned of by default.
Every year at least once an acticle appears about a rumour or someone proposing that MS should or will release an MS-Office 4 Linux. So far I haven't seen anything. It's just like waiting for Doom 3...
So basically they're leaving the residential analog phone market but actively getting residential (potential) customers for their VoIP products... so they're just converting their business...
you have to become a kernel hacker if you want your own distro.
sure you can go for one of those 'stable' commercial kernels... but for desktops, remember to take one of the older ones they supply, as the latest kernels from commercial distro's are usually to bleeding edge to be considered rock solid. Not true for the server editions I guess.
But does that mean that if I want a rock solid 2.6 kernel I can't use the ones on kernel.org ????
Some people shouting here that it would take a 3d gui to use a 3d mouse. Others telling that thanx to the scroll wheel we already have 3d mice.
I guess both are true. The 3d gui's that are designed (for general use) right now are probably all designed with our '3d' scroll wheel mice, as the adoption of the gui will be more likely (and much quicker) if people won't need a new pointing device just to try the gui.
That's the problem with innovations. If you're not slightely backwards compatible, it will be very hard to succeed. But by being backwards compatible, true innovation is so much harder.
True... but to many people have the tendency to trust everything and everyone without checking what it is (examples? how many people you know open attachments from unknown sources on a windows machine?, how many people have spyware installed with some application because they never checked if the software is 'clean'?)
So even though it IS possible to deliver documents that are 'original' and check for it... that doesn't mean that people actually pay attention.
ok... so I take a document, modify it anyway I want, make an md5 for it.
There's a document that has the same name as the original, AND there exists a MD5sum for it to check against.
A better solution would be to have a PGP signed document. But then again... Almost no Joe Average uses PGP or GPG... so no one checks the source of the document.
If people download these documents from kazaa or some other p2p network, who is to tell if the information in these documents hasn't been tampered with ? For fun or evil...
You can get weird stories into this world this way.
Slashdot Mirror
It says Li-Polymer
what's that?????
12 hours is about the amount of time to read the original 6 books (in 3 well-known volumes)
Ah.. speedreader are we?
"Just lowers the battery's lifetime.
... ??????
Like my example of the 3yr old battery clearly demonstrates
I'm not letting it run down completely btw... It could run maybe 8 or even 9 days (with not to much calling) without recharging... 1 week is just convenient.
"... are we seeing what will be the death of the entry level point and shoot digicam?"
Not anytime soon. There are still people that just use a phone for calling people. Not to make a sandwich with.
All these features (for which you have to pay a small fortune, just for the data transfer if you use the phone for these things) are wrecking the batteries. I hear people that have to recharge their phones every other day, and in the manual is stated that it is not a luxury to buy a new battery every 6 months !!
I have a phone (ericsson T39m) that does what it is supposed to (phonecalls, sms) and it does it very well. I recharge it maybe once a week and the battery is as old as the phone (almost 3 years).
I don't need my phone to sound like a hifi stereoset and don't have to watch video's on it. Sure... in 10 years lots of people might have those all-in-one gadgets and they could be very useful indeed... but as long as there are enough people who just want to buy stuff that they actually use, there will still be a market for 'just phones' and 'just cameras'. Even though the manufacturers are pushing the 'multi-functional' down our throats.
Personally I find that the lack of relevant pages if the biggest problem with search engines, not the lack of pages with information.
Actually.... information IS relevant data. If it's not relevant to what you want, then it is just data...
sounds like a battle between more and less ;-)
Haven't used firefox for a while (last one was 0.7), but has that utterly annoying 'feature' with the profile selection window (that appears when you already have a firefox window open and try to open another one from your menu) finally been kicked out by default?
I know that with some scripts (there are about 397 versions of it, and just a few work nicely), you can get rid of it. But this schould be turned of by default.
Ain't this a little early to start planning an april fools joke???
ah ... metatags...
hoping the files you download allready have correct and descriptive tags or otherwise you'll basically be typing all day to fill a database
so if someone wants to find that movie with boobies on his drive.... he types 'find me movie with boobies' and the filesystem will find it for me?
.. ehm... doesn't it need keywords of some sort in the mediafile? It doesn't view my pron collection while i'm away does it?
cool
but
you need some sort of metatags , id3 tags for every file... basically you build a database of descriptions yourself.
imagine that... treating everything as files...
;-)
how inovative...
Every year at least once an acticle appears about a rumour or someone proposing that MS should or will release an MS-Office 4 Linux. So far I haven't seen anything. It's just like waiting for Doom 3...
ehm
HEEEEELPPP
and extend
It states explicitly that the terms of section 2, 3 and 4 of the GPL are valid under German copyright and contract law.
The GPL has more sections than 2 3 and 4... what about the other sections? If those are invalid, the GPL as a whole doesn't mean anything, right?
Wonder when angelina jolie has a day off to go there ;-) :-(
As I'm not expecting her to come here
So basically they're leaving the residential analog phone market but actively getting residential (potential) customers for their VoIP products... so they're just converting their business...
hate replying to myself...
but above comment doens't really make sense... I'm to tired... I'll shut up now.
you have to become a kernel hacker if you want your own distro.
sure you can go for one of those 'stable' commercial kernels... but for desktops, remember to take one of the older ones they supply, as the latest kernels from commercial distro's are usually to bleeding edge to be considered rock solid. Not true for the server editions I guess.
But does that mean that if I want a rock solid 2.6 kernel I can't use the ones on kernel.org ????
That sounds silly.
Disco is dead???
Damn.. I have to get out more often...
Maybe turn it around... Tell your favourite artists and you get the perfect job description as a return value :-)
For now... I have concluded that I should not be in IT LOL (btw I'm a developer)
Was Listening to some Jamie Cullum this morning (jazzy stuff)
Some people shouting here that it would take a 3d gui to use a 3d mouse. Others telling that thanx to the scroll wheel we already have 3d mice.
I guess both are true. The 3d gui's that are designed (for general use) right now are probably all designed with our '3d' scroll wheel mice, as the adoption of the gui will be more likely (and much quicker) if people won't need a new pointing device just to try the gui.
That's the problem with innovations. If you're not slightely backwards compatible, it will be very hard to succeed. But by being backwards compatible, true innovation is so much harder.
But arent the 3d wm's developed with our 2d (+scroll wheel) mice in mind? I bet they are, as the adoption of the gui would go much quicker.
True... but to many people have the tendency to trust everything and everyone without checking what it is (examples? how many people you know open attachments from unknown sources on a windows machine?, how many people have spyware installed with some application because they never checked if the software is 'clean'?)
So even though it IS possible to deliver documents that are 'original' and check for it... that doesn't mean that people actually pay attention.
ok... so I take a document, modify it anyway I want, make an md5 for it.
There's a document that has the same name as the original, AND there exists a MD5sum for it to check against.
A better solution would be to have a PGP signed document. But then again... Almost no Joe Average uses PGP or GPG... so no one checks the source of the document.
If people download these documents from kazaa or some other p2p network, who is to tell if the information in these documents hasn't been tampered with ? For fun or evil...
You can get weird stories into this world this way.