I've got a sony compatible controller which I could use with my 10 inch tablet but kind of pointless unless i bother to connect the hdmi out to a TV. I've not seen any kind of external controls that attach to a tablet yet. Archos have included a mapping option to change onscreen controls to physical buttons that in itself is an advantage over some other tablets.
It can only help Gaming on Android to have the physical controls available. It could be a replacement for the venerable psp.
Maybe it's about the fee's they are not getting, there is a regular monthly fee just for having the ability to accept credit cards (as well as the 2.5% they take from the purchase price anyway). Paypal is a lot friendlier to the occasional and low volume merchant than any credit card company. You have something you think might sell, with paypal you can dip into the market place and give it a try, no real loss if it doesn't work out but have to become an accredited merchant with a credit card company thats a significant barrier to entering the market place.
That's funny really. If you have ads with google you need click through or your ads are going to become more expensive if your customer just hits the back button.
so the first thing to do once a visitor arrives at your site is to get them to click again to get to what they really want.
It's Google and similar which pushes those designs which we hate.
A GIRL of six racked up a £900 bill in 30 minutes on a FREE iPad game, her horrified mum revealed last night. Grace Walker downloaded the My Little Pony app on her mumâ(TM)s iPad â" and paid £69.99 a pop to buy VIRTUAL gems. She innocently clicked on the âoebuy nowâ option which appeared more than 12 times in half an hour â" landing her parents with the monster bill.
Apple faces paying £66million damages to US customers whose kids also ran up huge bills using free apps.
Apologies for the Sun link but it said pretty much the same on the BBC News last night. On the news report it said there is a bit of a hole in iTunes you need to enter your password to purchase a game but not to make an in game purchase. Look at the price per in game purchase £69.99 about $100 that is way out of line for a bought game let alone a freeby. Worse still it isn't a bunch of fly by nights but Hasbro! There are quite a few other games with the same mode of operation.
Part of playing many games is generating in game cash to "pay" for upgrades, how is a young kid going to know the difference between play money and real money in a game.
Android isn't much better, there is a thing called the adpush framework which is increasingly being used by apps and (worse still upgrades to apps) The first you will know about it is a notification with a star. When clicked this takes you to an affiliate AD which can be for a ringtone and a 12 dollar a month subscription to be taken from your phone bill. The biggest issue with this is the app which installed this framework isn't mentioned. Luckily once you know the source of the ads you can download applications which detect apps with the framework installed so you have the option of deleting them.
Personally I think this advertising method should be classed as malware and apps that use it should be removed from the playstore. Google manages and approves the apps and is essentially a trusted source, Google is betraying that trust and damaging the reputation of Android and Google. You could say that Apple is damaging the relationship between Apple and its users by allowing the ingame purchases by default. However if Big Name companies are producing these apps then they may have leverage when it comes to other products such as movie and song downloads.
It needs action taking before the credibility of both platforms is ruined
Is it really suffering, because of the internet there is access to more suppliers than ever before. Where you might have gone to a local store and bought what they had that was close to what you actually wanted now you get what you want and at some point it gets shipped to you.
If anything the internet is helping support the postal service through increased long distance trading. Post Offices do suffer somewhat since their role is increasingly marginal, however they could be revived if redefined and they acted more as distribution centres. It would be far more convenient to go to the local post office to collect an item rather than having to arrange a different delivery time take time off to wait for the item or locate the remote depot that is open until about an hour after you get off work when travelling anywhere is at its slowest.
It may come as a surprise that many people pretty much believed that it was that or AOL. Microsoft tried hard to make it one, what with active X and its other propitiatory technology it pushed hard to try to get entrenched.
Now we have choice, very rarely do we need a particular browser to be able to access a site and that was quite common at one time.
The computer literacy needed to use chrome or firefox? Simply to know that they exist and are as capable if not marginally more so than Microsofts offerings. That was a big change and one part of that change was the browser ballot page that Microsoft agreed to.
its getting better the voice dialing , you can install a number of 'siri' like assistants which can read your sms out loud to you which could be useful or embarrassing depending on the text...
The pebble idea might be a workable solution, separate the device from the mic and speaker would it be strange to talk using a device attached to your wrist. Maybe even better would be some form of bluetooth headset which clipped to a wrist band yet could detach and sit over your ear when needed.
In my car I don't need to know where my phone is since it is linked by bluetooth to my car stereo. It would be better thou if I had voice command via the car stereo so I could just press a button and say call whoever, that functionality requires me to handle my phone as it stands. On the positive side you can decide when to make a call so it's a minor niggle.
As a result, HPâ(TM)s plan includes a three-tiered approach for the tablet market. Torres adds, âoeWeâ(TM)re looking at mobility in the enterprise commercial tier, where the ElitePad 900 is already getting traction in the marketplace. The Slate is coming from the consumer line, which is really about delivering a great entertainment experience. We also want to create a third tier for premium consumer products â" a Bring-Your-Own solution for the SMB crowd. Think of a device built with a âwork hard, play hardâ(TM) attitude.âoe
The ElitePad 900 is a $649 Windows 8 tablet with 1280 x 800 screen (same resolution as my much cheaper android tablet actually). The inbetween tablet doesn't exist yet. However now there is some context it becomes a little clearer why the slate 7 is a bit so so.
In my opinion HP are trying to bait and switch. The Android tablet is supposed to be the poor mans option, your not a poor man are you? They can't build an Android tablet with decent specs or it will detract from the tablet they really want you to buy. I had to go to HP to find out a little more about the Slate 7 and it still left unanswered questions and in the process of doing so started trying to sell me on its ElitePad. Without the Slate 7 I wouldn't have bothered looking at HP.
If HP really wanted to sell me an Android tablet they could have built an Android version of the Elite Pad with it's better screen keyboard dock , longer life battery faster processor. The Message is clear, Android tablets are an inferior option to a Windows 8 tablet in every respect. Maybe they are still smarting from the failure of WEBOS, Android was the alternative that sunk their investment, I can't see HP as being a fan of Android at all.
I don't see much about the Slate 7 to differentiate it from many other chinese designs other than the badge and the colour scheme. I'm pretty sure any engineer who worked for HP on the Slate 7 would be googling reviews and as Slashdot is on the front page for the Slate 7, Im sure one will comment on one of these threads.
Doesn't seem to be all that good it is missing a few things, it does have 1Gb of ram and bluetooth 2.1 what isn't said is GPS? Glass Screen? USB Host? HDMI? Multitouch ? confused reports of 3meg camera and 0.3 meg Camera on board.
It is not very good and not even on that price point (+ taxes?)
For a new product it has out dated Specifications The Ram onboard Should be at least 2 GB and it has lost me already with no gps or hdmi, even 1 full sized host usb port was too much to ask for the screen resolution is too low.
It's just another junky tablet, its "beats" branding and HP name is not enough to make it anything like desirable. Just another nail in the coffin for HP unfortunately.
In a CNN interview, President Carter addressed the controversy by stating: "90% of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA. And with that exception, the movie is very good. But Ben Affleck's character in the film was... only in Tehran a day and a half. And the main hero, in my opinion, was Ken Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador who orchestrated the entire process."
Upon its wide release in October 2012, the film was criticized for its claim that the New Zealand and British diplomats had turned away the American refugees in Tehran. Diplomats from New Zealand had proved quite helpful; one drove the Americans to the airport. The British hosted the Americans initially, but the location was not safe and all considered the Canadian ambassador's residence to be the better location. British diplomats also assisted other Americans beyond the six. Bob Anders, the U.S. consular agent played in the film by Tate Donovan, said, "They put their lives on the line for us. We were all at risk. I hope no one in Britain will be offended by what's said in the film. The British were good to us and we're forever grateful."
In the film, the diplomats face suspicious glances from Iranians whenever they go out in public, and appear close to being caught at many steps along the way to their freedom: while pretending to scout for filming locations at a bazaar; while purchasing plane tickets to Zurich; while trying to board the plane; and finally before the plane takes off, when Iranian guards try to stop the plane in a dramatic chase sequence. In reality, the diplomats never appeared to be in imminent danger: the six never went to a bazaar, Taylor's wife bought three sets of plane tickets from three different airlines ahead of time, there was no confrontation with security officials at the departure gate, and there was no runway chase at the airport.
The film contains other historical inaccuracies:
The climax of film is a chase down an airport runway, as gun-toting members of the Revolutionary Guard try to stop the plane bearing the American refugees from taking off. "Absolutely none of that happened," says Mark Leijek. "Fortunately for us, there were very few Revolutionary Guards about. It's why we turned up for a flight at 5.30 in the morning; even they weren't zealous enough to be there that early. The truth is the immigration officers barely looked at us and we were processed out in the regular way. We got on the flight to Zurich and then we were taken to the US ambassador's residence in Berne. It was that straightforward."[28]
The part of the plot about the Revolutionary Guards discovering the diplomats' identities is fictional. They had left Iran with their fake identities with no hassle. So the scenes of trouble with the bearded guard at the last check point, the scene of the commander raiding the Canadian ambassador's residence, and the entire chasing scene at the airport and even on the runway are fictional.[29]
The character of the guards commander, Ali Khalkhali is fictional.[30]
There is a sequence in the film where the six go on a location scout in Tehran to create the impression they are movie people. According to Mark Lijek, the scene is total fiction.[31]
"It's not true we could never go outside. John Sheardown's house had an interior courtyard with a garden and we could walk there freely," Mark Lijek says.[32]
The screenplay has the escapees - Mark and Cora Lijek, Bob Anders, Lee Schatz and Joe and Kathy Stafford - settling down to enforced cohabitation at the residence of the Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor. In reality, after
Oracle restricts the mobile version of java but is it needed on systems with more ram and cpu than some desktop systems? Probably was necessary when ram and storage was limited but it isn't the case now.
Personally I think it is unlikely that the decision will be overturned due to the damage it would cause to the software industry as a whole. I have confidence Google would win.
On the other hand you could just check the sites you manage and design with this tool and see if it finds any problems. It is important your website is standards compliant and it is just as important that your site is secure. If you ever got hacked you will soon find your site blacklisted and a pile of work to rebuild the site and more importantly restore your reputation.
Without this tool you will be hacked eventually if your site has vulnerabilities, it has to be a good thing for you to know beforehand so you can secure your site.
It would be even better if after scanning a site that it sends an email to the site info@whatever.com is a fairly safe bet. If you haven't used the tool at least you know someone else has and you need to know hopefully before your site gets hacked.
This tool might lower the bar for script kiddies but there are plenty of people who can hack your site without using this particular tool. You only need one to be successful.
pretty much hit the nail on the head, android and chrome os are scaling up nicely and doing cool things. It started with a phone scaled up to tablets and is moving forward into laptop land. Microsoft never really had much to compete with before. Apple was always priced too high to be a full blown competitor, Linux used to be hard really hard to get to grips with. Ubuntu made Linux easy although it seemed to lose its way for a while.
I personally think the new Ubuntu tablet/desktop systems could be remarkable. The initial specification is pretty high for low end quad core cpu 8 core gpu and at least 2GB of ram.
Pretty much now is the time where Microsoft is facing real competition, most of the stuff people and business's do is network based and the OS is not that important . Even gaming is breaking free, recently i was reading that mobile game sales are dominated by ios and android and even sonys handheld may be its last.
My tablet is relatively low spec with gps bluetooth wifi hdmi and 2 usb ports which can act as host. It's actually pretty good it can be bought for 199 euro retail now. (Incidentally if you have Android try the BBC news app it is excellent and really shows off the strength of tablets, better presentation than the typical web page).
If Microsoft was to succeed in breaking Android in court it would probably only delay the inevitable rise in competition from Linux based tablets. The hardware is out there now and its affordable, android and chrome both make it manageable with few problems.
I will not say no problems because i recently had an App which was pushing ads to sites for the gullible ring tones and the like for 12 dollars and a monthly subscription, it was quite hard to figure which app was generating these notifications but the ads were from "sam media". A problem if you are running android on a mobile phone as they can bill via your mobile phone account.
Programmers have long been taught the MVC (model view controller) model of programming but usually there has only been one view usually one for a windowed desktop and traditional mouse keyboard interaction. However the gui toolkits are changing so your programs ui can adapt to the io available which hopefully will result in software that will work in many different hardware configurations with minimal effort on the part of the developers. Maybe the concept of css will be applied to native desktop and tablet applications.
Microsofts legal challenge to Android is probably too late to be effective if they fail they will increasingly lose out to the simplicity of android and chrome and ios which is increasingly being demanded by ordinary users.
If Microsoft wins then they have opened the door to Ubuntu, there is already a large number of hardware manufacturers producing android devices and ubuntu has a userland which can run on them with marginal effort. Dalvik is pretty close to being java so to port an android app to java and run on ubuntu shouldn't be that hard to do. I can't see why anyone already invested in Android as a hardware or software company wouldn't take a good hard look at Ubuntu if the legal challenge to Google was successful.
Interesting times, it is probably going to be less about the physical hardware and more about the protocols and formats for the manipulation of data. There isn't a need for everybody to be running power hungry super computers most of us already have more than enough power already in a pocket.
The electrical power requirements of these new systems is really useful too. Look at what is needed now I have a 19inch monitor / tv it has usb, hdmi, vga dvd ect. I can connect my tablet to the hdmi port the usb to the tablets USB port and charge it while using bluetooth for keyboard and mouse (or wireless usb keyboard and mouse). These Arm systems really are becoming incredibly useful anywhere.
certainly it is a beginning, if the graphical tool kits can be expanded so they can present the interface in a manner which reflects the mode of the tablet. Even the user interface could be changed easily enough as it is many of us have at least a couple of options for desktop environments that are only a login away.
I like the idea of an ubuntu tablet since it almost certainly means it can be more. It almost certainly will be capable of running android maybe similar to running virtualbox in seamless mode. I can already run ubuntu on my android tablet as a dualboot but it isn't that good unless i bring a keyboard and mouse into the mix.
On the plus side hopefully there are going to be some decent tablets with open hardware around which new interfaces can be developed.
Power steering is less of a problem than the brakes which are also power assisted, leaving the hand brake as the only option if he didn't have an electric handbrake.
Depends on the App as to how irritating it is, however it does give you chance to see if an app is genuinely useful to you before upgrading to the ad free version. not every free app comes with ads either.
The story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reggie Perrin, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.
The Boss was CJ and you can probably find most of the episodes on youtube. Maybe like the American version of the office it is a remake of a British original. Still quite funny but the books go down hill as the idea's dry up and the same characters are overly reused.
One thing you are ignoring is that the kindle software will load ebooks that are not drm protected, you are not forced to buy ebooks from Amazon to read using the kindle software as long as you can get the ebook of interest on the device you can read it.
Realistically if I wanted to pirate ebooks all i need is a browser a search engine and a copy of the kindle software.
The issue with this software is it allows users to share links some of which can lead to commercial ebooks on pirate sites and some links are to non commercial ebooks. People create content all the time with the intent that it be freely shared. I like to write music, some people like to write story's, poetry, manuals and other stuff.
I honestly don't see a problem with this app if anything it seems like an improvement to the many other ereader programs out there. You seem to be arguing for approved sources and texts , do you really think that is a positive move?
The most positive thing we can do as people is the sharing of our culture and ideas.
too true for 69 euro I have a Samsung galaxy mini Bluetooth wifi and a 7 meg modem I own this not rented from the phone company . It tethers wirelessly or by USB. It is my GPS too.
To get free internet and free calls and texts I top up by 20 euro for 30 days access for 5 I can buy an add on for net access once I have used my 30 days limited data but if I need the cash for something else I am still connected and being in Europe I don't pay to receive calls or texts. I haven,t had a landline in years .
Contract phones are lunacy and the Apple option even more so. One thing thou this article does highlight is there is a need for high speed net access provision within the local community McDonalds is not ideal but the cost of providing a dedicated facility and staffing it and heating it is too high to make it viable. It would be nice if someone could post links to any working community scheme especially for rural locations.
Are you kidding, the majority of MP's in the UK went to Public Schools, Public Schools are in fact privately funded.
Privately funded education for the masses well that is a different matter, just how much education is needed if the end result is working on a simple production line...
The situation is a bit different these days in order to be competitive most production needs to be automated and to maintain and create these automated facilities needs a well educated and trained work force. It also needs a creative inventive work force too, maybe the raspberry pi initiative will help, while 15,000 seems very low parents may well fund other devices when they see there is some support framework in place.
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I've got a sony compatible controller which I could use with my 10 inch tablet but kind of pointless unless i bother to connect the hdmi out to a TV. I've not seen any kind of external controls that attach to a tablet yet. Archos have included a mapping option to change onscreen controls to physical buttons that in itself is an advantage over some other tablets.
It can only help Gaming on Android to have the physical controls available. It could be a replacement for the venerable psp.
Got one of these for Christmas for my nephew, direct from Archos and he loves it, He is a smart kid so he will take advantage of all it's features.
I guess it's not going to be quite as cool as it was because it wasn't available in the shops yet.
A good buy and more than just a toy.
Maybe it's about the fee's they are not getting, there is a regular monthly fee just for having the ability to accept credit cards (as well as the 2.5% they take from the purchase price anyway). Paypal is a lot friendlier to the occasional and low volume merchant than any credit card company.
You have something you think might sell, with paypal you can dip into the market place and give it a try, no real loss if it doesn't work out but have to become an accredited merchant with a credit card company thats a significant barrier to entering the market place.
That's funny really. If you have ads with google you need click through or your ads are going to become more expensive if your customer just hits the back button.
so the first thing to do once a visitor arrives at your site is to get them to click again to get to what they really want.
It's Google and similar which pushes those designs which we hate.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4834923/iPad-pony-trap-as-Grace-6-runs-up-massive-900-bill-on-free-game-app.html
Not at these prices he doesn't.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4834923/iPad-pony-trap-as-Grace-6-runs-up-massive-900-bill-on-free-game-app.html
A GIRL of six racked up a £900 bill in 30 minutes on a FREE iPad game, her horrified mum revealed last night.
Grace Walker downloaded the My Little Pony app on her mumâ(TM)s iPad â" and paid £69.99 a pop to buy VIRTUAL gems.
She innocently clicked on the âoebuy nowâ option which appeared more than 12 times in half an hour â" landing her parents with the monster bill.
Apple faces paying £66million damages to US customers whose kids also ran up huge bills using free apps.
Apologies for the Sun link but it said pretty much the same on the BBC News last night. On the news report it said there is a bit of a hole in iTunes you need to enter your password to purchase a game but not to make an in game purchase. Look at the price per in game purchase £69.99 about $100 that is way out of line for a bought game let alone a freeby. Worse still it isn't a bunch of fly by nights but Hasbro! There are quite a few other games with the same mode of operation.
Part of playing many games is generating in game cash to "pay" for upgrades, how is a young kid going to know the difference between play money and real money in a game.
Android isn't much better, there is a thing called the adpush framework which is increasingly being used by apps and (worse still upgrades to apps) The first you will know about it is a notification with a star. When clicked this takes you to an affiliate AD which can be for a ringtone and a 12 dollar a month subscription to be taken from your phone bill. The biggest issue with this is the app which installed this framework isn't mentioned. Luckily once you know the source of the ads you can download applications which detect apps with the framework installed so you have the option of deleting them.
Personally I think this advertising method should be classed as malware and apps that use it should be removed from the playstore. Google manages and approves the apps and is essentially a trusted source, Google is betraying that trust and damaging the reputation of Android and Google. You could say that Apple is damaging the relationship between Apple and its users by allowing the ingame purchases by default. However if Big Name companies are producing these apps then they may have leverage when it comes to other products such as movie and song downloads.
It needs action taking before the credibility of both platforms is ruined
Is it really suffering, because of the internet there is access to more suppliers than ever before. Where you might have gone to a local store and bought what they had that was close to what you actually wanted now you get what you want and at some point it gets shipped to you.
If anything the internet is helping support the postal service through increased long distance trading. Post Offices do suffer somewhat since their role is increasingly marginal, however they could be revived if redefined and they acted more as distribution centres. It would be far more convenient to go to the local post office to collect an item rather than having to arrange a different delivery time take time off to wait for the item or locate the remote depot that is open until about an hour after you get off work when travelling anywhere is at its slowest.
The Internet is not a Microsoft product.
It may come as a surprise that many people pretty much believed that it was that or AOL.
Microsoft tried hard to make it one, what with active X and its other propitiatory technology it pushed hard to try to get entrenched.
Now we have choice, very rarely do we need a particular browser to be able to access a site and that was quite common at one time.
The computer literacy needed to use chrome or firefox? Simply to know that they exist and are as capable if not marginally more so than Microsofts offerings. That was a big change and one part of that change was the browser ballot page that Microsoft agreed to.
its getting better the voice dialing , you can install a number of 'siri' like assistants which can read your sms out loud to you which could be useful or embarrassing depending on the text...
The pebble idea might be a workable solution, separate the device from the mic and speaker would it be strange to talk using a device attached to your wrist. Maybe even better would be some form of bluetooth headset which clipped to a wrist band yet could detach and sit over your ear when needed.
In my car I don't need to know where my phone is since it is linked by bluetooth to my car stereo. It would be better thou if I had voice command via the car stereo so I could just press a button and say call whoever, that functionality requires me to handle my phone as it stands. On the positive side you can decide when to make a call so it's a minor niggle.
You might be right a chinese tablet with a HP badge on it, HP was an engineering company, would an Engineer be proud of that?
From here
http://h20435.www2.hp.com/t5/The-Next-Bench-Blog/HP-Slate-This-is-the-Droid-You-Were-Looking-For/ba-p/80911
As a result, HPâ(TM)s plan includes a three-tiered approach for the tablet market. Torres adds, âoeWeâ(TM)re looking at mobility in the enterprise commercial tier, where the ElitePad 900 is already getting traction in the marketplace. The Slate is coming from the consumer line, which is really about delivering a great entertainment experience. We also want to create a third tier for premium consumer products â" a Bring-Your-Own solution for the SMB crowd. Think of a device built with a âwork hard, play hardâ(TM) attitude.âoe
The ElitePad 900 is a $649 Windows 8 tablet with 1280 x 800 screen (same resolution as my much cheaper android tablet actually). The inbetween tablet doesn't exist yet. However now there is some context it becomes a little clearer why the slate 7 is a bit so so.
In my opinion HP are trying to bait and switch. The Android tablet is supposed to be the poor mans option, your not a poor man are you? They can't build an Android tablet with decent specs or it will detract from the tablet they really want you to buy. I had to go to HP to find out a little more about the Slate 7 and it still left unanswered questions and in the process of doing so started trying to sell me on its ElitePad. Without the Slate 7 I wouldn't have bothered looking at HP.
If HP really wanted to sell me an Android tablet they could have built an Android version of the Elite Pad with it's better screen keyboard dock , longer life battery faster processor. The Message is clear, Android tablets are an inferior option to a Windows 8 tablet in every respect. Maybe they are still smarting from the failure of WEBOS, Android was the alternative that sunk their investment, I can't see HP as being a fan of Android at all.
I don't see much about the Slate 7 to differentiate it from many other chinese designs other than the badge and the colour scheme. I'm pretty sure any engineer who worked for HP on the Slate 7 would be googling reviews and as Slashdot is on the front page for the Slate 7, Im sure one will comment on one of these threads.
Doesn't seem to be all that good it is missing a few things, it does have 1Gb of ram and bluetooth 2.1
what isn't said is GPS? Glass Screen? USB Host? HDMI? Multitouch ? confused reports of 3meg camera and 0.3 meg Camera on board.
It is not very good and not even on that price point (+ taxes?)
For a new product it has out dated Specifications The Ram onboard Should be at least 2 GB and it has lost me already with no gps or hdmi, even 1 full sized host usb port was too much to ask for the screen resolution is too low.
It's just another junky tablet, its "beats" branding and HP name is not enough to make it anything like desirable. Just another nail in the coffin for HP unfortunately.
Offensive? as in rewriting history and presenting it with an air of truthiness?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film)
In a CNN interview, President Carter addressed the controversy by stating: "90% of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA. And with that exception, the movie is very good. But Ben Affleck's character in the film was... only in Tehran a day and a half. And the main hero, in my opinion, was Ken Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador who orchestrated the entire process."
Upon its wide release in October 2012, the film was criticized for its claim that the New Zealand and British diplomats had turned away the American refugees in Tehran. Diplomats from New Zealand had proved quite helpful; one drove the Americans to the airport. The British hosted the Americans initially, but the location was not safe and all considered the Canadian ambassador's residence to be the better location. British diplomats also assisted other Americans beyond the six. Bob Anders, the U.S. consular agent played in the film by Tate Donovan, said, "They put their lives on the line for us. We were all at risk. I hope no one in Britain will be offended by what's said in the film. The British were good to us and we're forever grateful."
In the film, the diplomats face suspicious glances from Iranians whenever they go out in public, and appear close to being caught at many steps along the way to their freedom: while pretending to scout for filming locations at a bazaar; while purchasing plane tickets to Zurich; while trying to board the plane; and finally before the plane takes off, when Iranian guards try to stop the plane in a dramatic chase sequence. In reality, the diplomats never appeared to be in imminent danger: the six never went to a bazaar, Taylor's wife bought three sets of plane tickets from three different airlines ahead of time, there was no confrontation with security officials at the departure gate, and there was no runway chase at the airport.
The film contains other historical inaccuracies:
The climax of film is a chase down an airport runway, as gun-toting members of the Revolutionary Guard try to stop the plane bearing the American refugees from taking off. "Absolutely none of that happened," says Mark Leijek. "Fortunately for us, there were very few Revolutionary Guards about. It's why we turned up for a flight at 5.30 in the morning; even they weren't zealous enough to be there that early. The truth is the immigration officers barely looked at us and we were processed out in the regular way. We got on the flight to Zurich and then we were taken to the US ambassador's residence in Berne. It was that straightforward."[28]
The part of the plot about the Revolutionary Guards discovering the diplomats' identities is fictional. They had left Iran with their fake identities with no hassle. So the scenes of trouble with the bearded guard at the last check point, the scene of the commander raiding the Canadian ambassador's residence, and the entire chasing scene at the airport and even on the runway are fictional.[29]
The character of the guards commander, Ali Khalkhali is fictional.[30]
There is a sequence in the film where the six go on a location scout in Tehran to create the impression they are movie people. According to Mark Lijek, the scene is total fiction.[31]
"It's not true we could never go outside. John Sheardown's house had an interior courtyard with a garden and we could walk there freely," Mark Lijek says.[32]
The screenplay has the escapees - Mark and Cora Lijek, Bob Anders, Lee Schatz and Joe and Kathy Stafford - settling down to enforced cohabitation at the residence of the Canadian ambassador Ken Taylor. In reality, after
Oracle restricts the mobile version of java but is it needed on systems with more ram and cpu than some desktop systems? Probably was necessary when ram and storage was limited but it isn't the case now.
Personally I think it is unlikely that the decision will be overturned due to the damage it would cause to the software industry as a whole. I have confidence Google would win.
On the other hand you could just check the sites you manage and design with this tool and see if it finds any problems. It is important your website is standards compliant and it is just as important that your site is secure. If you ever got hacked you will soon find your site blacklisted and a pile of work to rebuild the site and more importantly restore your reputation.
Without this tool you will be hacked eventually if your site has vulnerabilities, it has to be a good thing for you to know beforehand so you can secure your site.
It would be even better if after scanning a site that it sends an email to the site info@whatever.com is a fairly safe bet. If you haven't used the tool at least you know someone else has and you need to know hopefully before your site gets hacked.
This tool might lower the bar for script kiddies but there are plenty of people who can hack your site without using this particular tool. You only need one to be successful.
pretty much hit the nail on the head, android and chrome os are scaling up nicely and doing cool things. It started with a phone scaled up to tablets and is moving forward into laptop land. Microsoft never really had much to compete with before. Apple was always priced too high to be a full blown competitor, Linux used to be hard really hard to get to grips with. Ubuntu made Linux easy although it seemed to lose its way for a while.
I personally think the new Ubuntu tablet/desktop systems could be remarkable. The initial specification is pretty high for low end quad core cpu 8 core gpu and at least 2GB of ram.
Pretty much now is the time where Microsoft is facing real competition, most of the stuff people and business's do is network based and the OS is not that important . Even gaming is breaking free, recently i was reading that mobile game sales are dominated by ios and android and even sonys handheld may be its last.
My tablet is relatively low spec with gps bluetooth wifi hdmi and 2 usb ports which can act as host. It's actually pretty good it can be bought for 199 euro retail now. (Incidentally if you have Android try the BBC news app it is excellent and really shows off the strength of tablets, better presentation than the typical web page).
If Microsoft was to succeed in breaking Android in court it would probably only delay the inevitable rise in competition from Linux based tablets. The hardware is out there now and its affordable, android and chrome both make it manageable with few problems.
I will not say no problems because i recently had an App which was pushing ads to sites for the gullible ring tones and the like for 12 dollars and a monthly subscription, it was quite hard to figure which app was generating these notifications but the ads were from "sam media". A problem if you are running android on a mobile phone as they can bill via your mobile phone account.
Programmers have long been taught the MVC (model view controller) model of programming but usually there has only been one view usually one for a windowed desktop and traditional mouse keyboard interaction. However the gui toolkits are changing so your programs ui can adapt to the io available which hopefully will result in software that will work in many different hardware configurations with minimal effort on the part of the developers. Maybe the concept of css will be applied to native desktop and tablet applications.
Microsofts legal challenge to Android is probably too late to be effective if they fail they will increasingly lose out to the simplicity of android and chrome and ios which is increasingly being demanded by ordinary users.
If Microsoft wins then they have opened the door to Ubuntu, there is already a large number of hardware manufacturers producing android devices and ubuntu has a userland which can run on them with marginal effort. Dalvik is pretty close to being java so to port an android app to java and run on ubuntu shouldn't be that hard to do. I can't see why anyone already invested in Android as a hardware or software company wouldn't take a good hard look at Ubuntu if the legal challenge to Google was successful.
Interesting times, it is probably going to be less about the physical hardware and more about the protocols and formats for the manipulation of data. There isn't a need for everybody to be running power hungry super computers most of us already have more than enough power already in a pocket.
The electrical power requirements of these new systems is really useful too. Look at what is needed now I have a 19inch monitor / tv it has usb, hdmi, vga dvd ect. I can connect my tablet to the hdmi port the usb to the tablets USB port and charge it while using bluetooth for keyboard and mouse (or wireless usb keyboard and mouse). These Arm systems really are becoming incredibly useful anywhere.
certainly it is a beginning, if the graphical tool kits can be expanded so they can present the interface in a manner which reflects the mode of the tablet. Even the user interface could be changed easily enough as it is many of us have at least a couple of options for desktop environments that are only a login away.
I like the idea of an ubuntu tablet since it almost certainly means it can be more. It almost certainly will be capable of running android maybe similar to running virtualbox in seamless mode. I can already run ubuntu on my android tablet as a dualboot but it isn't that good unless i bring a keyboard and mouse into the mix.
On the plus side hopefully there are going to be some decent tablets with open hardware around which new interfaces can be developed.
Power steering is less of a problem than the brakes which are also power assisted, leaving the hand brake as the only option if he didn't have an electric handbrake.
Depends on the App as to how irritating it is, however it does give you chance to see if an app is genuinely useful to you before upgrading to the ad free version. not every free app comes with ads either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_and_Rise_of_Reginald_Perrin
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a series of novels which developed into a British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. Both the books and television series were written by David Nobbs, and the screenplay for the first series was adapted by Nobbs from the novel, though subplots in the novel were considered too dark or risqué for television and toned down or omitted, an example being the relationship between Perrin's daughter and his brother-in-law.
The story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reggie Perrin, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.
The Boss was CJ and you can probably find most of the episodes on youtube. Maybe like the American version of the office it is a remake of a British original. Still quite funny but the books go down hill as the idea's dry up and the same characters are overly reused.
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One thing you are ignoring is that the kindle software will load ebooks that are not drm protected, you are not forced to buy ebooks from Amazon to read using the kindle software as long as you can get the ebook of interest on the device you can read it.
Realistically if I wanted to pirate ebooks all i need is a browser a search engine and a copy of the kindle software.
The issue with this software is it allows users to share links some of which can lead to commercial ebooks on pirate sites and some links are to non commercial ebooks. People create content all the time with the intent that it be freely shared. I like to write music, some people like to write story's, poetry, manuals and other stuff.
I honestly don't see a problem with this app if anything it seems like an improvement to the many other ereader programs out there. You seem to be arguing for approved sources and texts , do you really think that is a positive move?
The most positive thing we can do as people is the sharing of our culture and ideas.
too true for 69 euro I have a Samsung galaxy mini Bluetooth wifi and a 7 meg modem I own this not rented from the phone company . It tethers wirelessly or by USB. It is my GPS too.
To get free internet and free calls and texts I top up by 20 euro for 30 days access for 5 I can buy an add on for net access once I have used my 30 days limited data but if I need the cash for something else I am still connected and being in Europe I don't pay to receive calls or texts. I haven,t had a landline in years .
Contract phones are lunacy and the Apple option even more so. One thing thou this article does highlight is there is a need for high speed net access provision within the local community McDonalds is not ideal but the cost of providing a dedicated facility and staffing it and heating it is too high to make it viable. It would be nice if someone could post links to any working community scheme especially for rural locations.
Are you kidding, the majority of MP's in the UK went to Public Schools, Public Schools are in fact privately funded.
Privately funded education for the masses well that is a different matter, just how much education is needed if the end result is working on a simple production line...
The situation is a bit different these days in order to be competitive most production needs to be automated and to maintain and create these automated facilities needs a well educated and trained work force. It also needs a creative inventive work force too, maybe the raspberry pi initiative will help, while 15,000 seems very low parents may well fund other devices when they see there is some support framework in place.