Maybe it's such a desired status symbol because such a big deal is made about having one. For my daughter, the novelty wore off after a week. By the time she's a teenager, maybe it'll just be another tool lying around.
She's six years old and it spends most of the time switched off.
I like her having it, because she DOES go and do things without me. She visits friends. She has dance classes. When she does these things, I throw the phone in her bag, and she knows it's there. If "something happens" she knows how to to call Mummy or Daddy, or any of the other relatives or close family friends we've got stored in the phonebook. If whoever is picking her up has a problem - a flat tyre, a train running late - we know, always, what number to call.
I've seen a lot of posts here about cost... honestly... it's not a lot. She's got one of my old phones. She gets handed down the old technology, just like the computer in her room, and the TV. The phone is on a pre-paid credit account. I've put $20 (Australian) on that account so far, and that was about a year ago. It's still running on that. She made a lot of calls out of the novelty of the thing in the first week, and hasn't really bothered since. If she wants to use it more when she gets older, then we can work out a deal where she gets phone credit instead of an allowance. Or she can get a job and do what she likes.
It's not a control thing, it's a security thing. I feel better knowing she can reach me, and I can reach her, any time. Guess what? We hardly ever actually use it. The last time she called me was a few weeks ago when she hurt herself slightly at dance class. She talked to me for a minute, then went back to doing things. Would it have been better for her to just sit at the side of the class feeling bad and wondering when daddy was coming to get her? Sure, her teacher was keeping an eye on her, but that doesn't make a sad kid feel much better when the attention has to be split with the other 15 kids in the class.
People didn't have these things when YOU grew up, so they're bad now? I never expected that kind of attitude here. Improved communication is a good thing, folks. It certainly can't HURT. My daughter is growing up in a world where she has an ability to get in touch with someone whenever she needs to, wherever she is. That's what we're building all this stuff for, after all.
It's not necessarily caching at fault - I used curl to take a look at this from a shell under OS X. It's weird. First, I got the redirect you saw. I requested the "?ABCDEFGH" page. This didn't give me a 302 redirect.
If load is your goal, then rather than a bogus ID, it seems slightly more amusing to enter "%" - the SQL "match everything" wildcard.
Looks like the contents of that field are thrown directly into a query string. Takes quite a while to come back with; "Warning: readfile(http://213.159.117.133/dl/stats.php?adv=a dv0): failed to open stream: Connection timed out in/home/users/81.222.131.59/stats.php on line 47"
There's no Open Firmware on the new machines. The developer docs say that apps requiring it won't be supported, and the developer systems from Apple just have a Phoenix BIOS on board. See http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ for a breakdown.
Apparently, the machines boot Windows just fine. No hacking required to install it at all, it seems.
Try Handbrake. I've only ever used it on OS X, but it's been ported over to Linux as well. Debian packages are even on the download page.
Very simple application. Does one thing and does it really well.
I checked the old data by querying Dotster's whois server directly after the last story. It showed April 2005 as the expiry date, so it hadn't expired. Looks like an extra year was added during the hijack.
I think you're a bit out of date. Melbourne IT does not have a monopoly in.au by a long shot (.au is managed by auDA, and has many registrars), and it's been a publicly listed company for ages.
I did exactly the same thing with my daughter - got her a computer of her own. At first, just an old Mac LC III with an application that made noises when she hit the keys. That was at about six months old.
Now, she's four, on her second CRT iMac, logging in by typing her name, firing up her own games, watching movies (and learning to read by recognising the file names), calling her mother via iChat's voice chat and browsing the web from a start page we made for her.
It sits in my home office, at a desk right next to mine, so we "work" together. Today I found her typing in a URL from leaflet inside a Kinder Surprise egg.
I can keep an eye on what she's doing, she's not interested in my stuff (no good games), she gets attention from me and help when she needs it. Everybody wins.
I was hoping this announcement would take a bit longer - I was going to put my old Beige machine up on eBay next week.:)
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2) A way of verifying what e-mail addresses & domains are allowed on outgoing e-mails from said mail sever. That would be new, but should be easy to develop.
There is a proposal for this, which was covered here a while back. I like the idea, although it's going to mean more ISPs will have to offer authenticated SMTP relays for roaming users (not exactly a bad thing, in any case).
Also, to those people saying Bayesian filtering is so great, this doesn't solve my problems. To filter a message on content means I have to accept the damned thing first, and I don't know about anyone else but my inbound traffic costs me money. If I accepted every piece of mail destined for my server, the costs would have me off the net in no time - I have a pretty low-budget operation. Blacklisting servers and not accepting connections from them (and accepting the collateral damage) is the only practical option I have.
There are exactly two books that have ever got me interested in science, and after reading each, I've said the same thing - "Why the hell didn't I have books like this in school?"
Both gave me an incredible overview of the issues and concepts in science, and serve as a great jumping off point for further reading, once you've spotted areas that really interest you. The Discworld book is probably a lot better if you've read some of Pratchett's other books (don't be fooled by the title - it's actually an overview of our science, not the Discworld's), but the Bryson book is readable by anyone.
The parent post was talking about the PowerBooks - not the desktop machines. It's pretty hard to buy a third-party replacement for the built-in trackpad.
I agree that it's stupid to bitch about the mice that come with the systems when replacement is cheap and easy, but it is a bit of a pain on the laptops. You don't always have somewhere to put an external mouse when you're working away from a desk.
There are non-Sony Memory Sticks, and as for devices - there certainly are third party readers (mainly all-in-one USB devices for every format under the sun) so Sony can't be too mean about letting people use the format.
Look, I really do agree that it'd be nicer if they went with something like CompactFlash, but the main thing that really mystifies me is that they've got this whole Memory Stick thing going on, but didn't use it in one of the most obvious places.
Yeah, I see that now. It's late, I'm tired and I really should be finishing my assignment that's due tomorrow instead of posting here, but that's life isn't it?:)
I think you're probably right, but surely it must be worth something to them to push their Memory Sticks into the hands of all the PlayStation owners - if someone's already got one, it'd seem to me to be an extra deciding factor for when they're contemplating a new video camera, PDA, laptop or whatever to choose the Sony product which will let them make more use of the Memory Stick(s) that they've already got.
But hey, I don't claim to understand business decisions.:)
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Just for the record ... I laughed, even if nobody else got it.
And, of course, so was the world's first web server, without which the browser wouldn't have been very useful. :)
Maybe it's such a desired status symbol because such a big deal is made about having one. For my daughter, the novelty wore off after a week. By the time she's a teenager, maybe it'll just be another tool lying around.
She's six years old and it spends most of the time switched off.
... honestly ... it's not a lot. She's got one of my old phones. She gets handed down the old technology, just like the computer in her room, and the TV. The phone is on a pre-paid credit account. I've put $20 (Australian) on that account so far, and that was about a year ago. It's still running on that. She made a lot of calls out of the novelty of the thing in the first week, and hasn't really bothered since. If she wants to use it more when she gets older, then we can work out a deal where she gets phone credit instead of an allowance. Or she can get a job and do what she likes.
I like her having it, because she DOES go and do things without me. She visits friends. She has dance classes. When she does these things, I throw the phone in her bag, and she knows it's there. If "something happens" she knows how to to call Mummy or Daddy, or any of the other relatives or close family friends we've got stored in the phonebook. If whoever is picking her up has a problem - a flat tyre, a train running late - we know, always, what number to call.
I've seen a lot of posts here about cost
It's not a control thing, it's a security thing. I feel better knowing she can reach me, and I can reach her, any time. Guess what? We hardly ever actually use it. The last time she called me was a few weeks ago when she hurt herself slightly at dance class. She talked to me for a minute, then went back to doing things. Would it have been better for her to just sit at the side of the class feeling bad and wondering when daddy was coming to get her? Sure, her teacher was keeping an eye on her, but that doesn't make a sad kid feel much better when the attention has to be split with the other 15 kids in the class.
People didn't have these things when YOU grew up, so they're bad now? I never expected that kind of attitude here. Improved communication is a good thing, folks. It certainly can't HURT. My daughter is growing up in a world where she has an ability to get in touch with someone whenever she needs to, wherever she is. That's what we're building all this stuff for, after all.
I thought I'd seen their web site design somewhere before ... I was using that for a bit, too.
It's not necessarily caching at fault - I used curl to take a look at this from a shell under OS X. It's weird. First, I got the redirect you saw. I requested the "?ABCDEFGH" page. This didn't give me a 302 redirect.
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$ curl -D - http://www.photosparks.com/?ABCDEFGH
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Connection: Close
Pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<HTML><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0.1; URL=/?ABCDEFGH">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">
</HEAD></HTML>
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Ever since then, I get the intended result for every redirect page under GoDaddy, in _Safari_ as well as from curl.
The first time I tested this, I got the white page. All I've done since is make a couple of requests from the command line, and now it all works.
It's not related to caching or cookies, that's for sure. It must be IP tracking somewhere along the line.
Pretty much the same reason I started using it. Database neutrality is hard to come by these days, is a shame.
Although, even if it _required_ MySQL, I'd still think about using Serendipity. It's a pretty nice piece of work.
If load is your goal, then rather than a bogus ID, it seems slightly more amusing to enter "%" - the SQL "match everything" wildcard.
a dv0): failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /home/users/81.222.131.59/stats.php on line 47"
Looks like the contents of that field are thrown directly into a query string. Takes quite a while to come back with;
"Warning: readfile(http://213.159.117.133/dl/stats.php?adv=
There's no Open Firmware on the new machines. The developer docs say that apps requiring it won't be supported, and the developer systems from Apple just have a Phoenix BIOS on board. See http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ for a breakdown.
Apparently, the machines boot Windows just fine. No hacking required to install it at all, it seems.
Euripides? Eumenedies.
Try Handbrake. I've only ever used it on OS X, but it's been ported over to Linux as well. Debian packages are even on the download page. Very simple application. Does one thing and does it really well.
I checked the old data by querying Dotster's whois server directly after the last story. It showed April 2005 as the expiry date, so it hadn't expired. Looks like an extra year was added during the hijack.
:)
At least they got something good out of it.
I think you're a bit out of date. Melbourne IT does not have a monopoly in .au by a long shot (.au is managed by auDA, and has many registrars), and it's been a publicly listed company for ages.
I did exactly the same thing with my daughter - got her a computer of her own. At first, just an old Mac LC III with an application that made noises when she hit the keys. That was at about six months old.
Now, she's four, on her second CRT iMac, logging in by typing her name, firing up her own games, watching movies (and learning to read by recognising the file names), calling her mother via iChat's voice chat and browsing the web from a start page we made for her.
It sits in my home office, at a desk right next to mine, so we "work" together. Today I found her typing in a URL from leaflet inside a Kinder Surprise egg.
I can keep an eye on what she's doing, she's not interested in my stuff (no good games), she gets attention from me and help when she needs it. Everybody wins.
That's not flying. It's falling - with style.
I was hoping this announcement would take a bit longer - I was going to put my old Beige machine up on eBay next week. :)
2) A way of verifying what e-mail addresses & domains are allowed on outgoing e-mails from said mail sever. That would be new, but should be easy to develop.
There is a proposal for this, which was covered here a while back. I like the idea, although it's going to mean more ISPs will have to offer authenticated SMTP relays for roaming users (not exactly a bad thing, in any case).
Also, to those people saying Bayesian filtering is so great, this doesn't solve my problems. To filter a message on content means I have to accept the damned thing first, and I don't know about anyone else but my inbound traffic costs me money. If I accepted every piece of mail destined for my server, the costs would have me off the net in no time - I have a pretty low-budget operation. Blacklisting servers and not accepting connections from them (and accepting the collateral damage) is the only practical option I have.
There are exactly two books that have ever got me interested in science, and after reading each, I've said the same thing - "Why the hell didn't I have books like this in school?"
Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and Terry Pratchett's "The Science of Discworld"
Both gave me an incredible overview of the issues and concepts in science, and serve as a great jumping off point for further reading, once you've spotted areas that really interest you. The Discworld book is probably a lot better if you've read some of Pratchett's other books (don't be fooled by the title - it's actually an overview of our science, not the Discworld's), but the Bryson book is readable by anyone.
The parent post was talking about the PowerBooks - not the desktop machines. It's pretty hard to buy a third-party replacement for the built-in trackpad.
I agree that it's stupid to bitch about the mice that come with the systems when replacement is cheap and easy, but it is a bit of a pain on the laptops. You don't always have somewhere to put an external mouse when you're working away from a desk.
Being linked to from Slashdot every couple of days didn't exactly help with bandwidth costs.
Well, I laughed ... can't vouch for anyone else, though. :)
There are non-Sony Memory Sticks, and as for devices - there certainly are third party readers (mainly all-in-one USB devices for every format under the sun) so Sony can't be too mean about letting people use the format.
Look, I really do agree that it'd be nicer if they went with something like CompactFlash, but the main thing that really mystifies me is that they've got this whole Memory Stick thing going on, but didn't use it in one of the most obvious places.
Yeah, I see that now. It's late, I'm tired and I really should be finishing my assignment that's due tomorrow instead of posting here, but that's life isn't it? :)
I think you're probably right, but surely it must be worth something to them to push their Memory Sticks into the hands of all the PlayStation owners - if someone's already got one, it'd seem to me to be an extra deciding factor for when they're contemplating a new video camera, PDA, laptop or whatever to choose the Sony product which will let them make more use of the Memory Stick(s) that they've already got.
:)
But hey, I don't claim to understand business decisions.
Yes, this one does - and I was saying that I think it's long overdue. I really expected the PS2 to have one.