Let me guess, you're American, and this new phone is your first GSM phone? All GSM phones do this, your previous ones were probably CDMA. I'm afraid you just have to get used to it, it tends to interfere with just about any unbalanced, unshielded connection (at low frequencies, at least that's where you notice it).
I have also absolutely no idea if it would be dangerous on an aeroplane, however, the particular problem you describe can often be removed from audio equipment by using balanced connections, you could probably apply the same principles to the aircraft equipment, to deal with that particular type of noise.
Furthermore, this really seems to be the effort of someone who is trying very hard not to like Yahoo mail. Here's some quotes from TFA that are outright lies:
The search function, powered by google, enables me to find old messages with good accuracy, which is something yahoomail doesn't have at all.
There's a little magnifying glass underneath the "check mail" button on the article's screen shot. That's the search function. The results open up in a convienient new tab. Doesn't take a genius.
Logging into yahoomail beta again opens an "overview page", which is again just a place to display ads and news stories.
Doesn't do that for me.
Below the message display area there's an endorsement for Yahoo's calendar,
Actually its a view of todays events - it's actual useful functionality. Calling it an "endorsement" makes it sound like an ad. Also the Yahoo web search (which takes up a tiny space) is also labelled an advertisement by the article - not really is it?
When I open my inbox, I only see about 7 messages in the list, and there's no way for me to scroll the page, because the list is in a damn frame. When I click on a message title, I get about 5 lines of message text displayed in the display area, which is about as convenient as reading the same message off the screen of a cell phone. And this is it, there is no "open message in a new tab/window" or anything like that, this is the only way to view messages.
You can scroll using the scrollbar next to the list. You can remove the message preview by clicking "hide message preview" so you'll list more messages on a small screen. There are options to open messages in new tabs and windows. This section is just all lies.
On the left, I have my list of folders, and a new search box to search my email,
Ahh, you've found the search box you previously claimed didn't exist...
The address book does not seem to have changed in the new yahoomail, I still have to add contacts by hand.
You can easily add addresses of people who email you from the read email view. You can add addresses when you send emails to new people (you're given tick boxes to add the addresses after you send the message) and the address book is integrated into the composition system. What more do you want?
I'd expect and hope, from a supposedly intelligent group of readers, that the majority of the comments here will be examining China's labor laws and China's human rights record, and mechanisms via which those might be changed and how responsible governments of the world can affect that change, rather than thinking about ways that corporations that legally do business in China may be further targeted.
So why haven't you discussed China at all?
You seem to be saying the government (presumably the US government) should be going after China, yet no one should interfere with Apple's business practices. Surely impossible, since Apple is a US business, if the US government tells the Chinese to stop allowing this exploitation then they will be cutting Apple's profits. Which is more important?
Put another way, Apple's use of Chinese labour puts pressure on the US to be lax on China's human rights record, because it's obviously not in the interest of the US to damage its own economy.
I'm not saying Apple is the only, or worst, abuser of foreign labour, or that it must be evil because it's a big company, but equally you can't just say "well everyone's doing it so its ok".
If CA wasn't supporting millions of illegals, CA could afford to support its *citizens*.
...there'd just be no-one to pump your gas.
I do wonder what you mean by supporting millions of illegals. Do you really think they cross the border then think, Hmm.. now I'm in the land of plenty, I think I'll get tuberculosis, just to make the best of it.
Would you ever consider that the reason your public services are crap is because you are scared of taxes, not to mention you voted in the f***ing terminator for governor. If you paid your teachers the schools would be happier, if you paid they police they wouldn't be corrupt, if you paid the doctors and nurses you'd have more of them.
The bbc has a nice simple page about the european parliament which contains a rather good diagram showing the relationship of the institutions. As a very rough guide, the Commission produces directives. The parliament and the council must agree with the directives before they become law. Once the EU has agreed on directives, individual countries translate them into their own legal system, and turn them into individual laws.
For more information on europe, that mandatory wikipedia link is a good place to start. Slashdot, as ever, is a bad place to go for factual information.
This reminds me of a newspaper article I read the other day. You possibly fall into the category of "competent jerk". People prefer a lovable fool, that's just the way the world works.
Fortunately being likable really isn't that difficult. Just a case of saying please and thankyou at the right times, and being patient with people, even if you know they're being morons.
True, and the original poster seems to foolishly believe that ASCII text can't be used to exploit a buffer overflow. Firstly, it can (random googled link), and secondly, you can send anything you want over the network, whether the spec says "binary data" is OK or not, unless there's some kind of filter that only lets certain types of bytes through.
You don't need a DHCP server to configure your IP addresses, or to configure them manually.
You don't need a DNS server to configure hostnames (i.e. you can go and get "bob'slaptop" rather that using an IP address like 192.168.1.47, that is inconvenient and could change to another address at any moment when bob moves between wireless hotspots).
You can share more services than just printers and files, like your iTunes playlist or anything that anyone cares to program.
When a new computer is added they don't have to be set up with an IP address / you don't have to worry about reconfiguring your DHCP server. (Obviously there's security implications, so depending on who you are you might need some reconfiguring, that is unavoidable for security).
If Microsoft don't pay, what's going to happen to them? Is the EU really going to tell them to stop trading in the EU, and do god knows how horrific damage to it's own economy which relies on MS software?
You're right, this apparently has nothing to do with the IEEE. It isn't even associated with ISO as far as I can tell (the american representative is ANSI)
That said, the confusion may arise from the fact that the IEEE already standardised some parts of UNIX through the POSIX set of standards. These were, I believe, originally intended to make commercial UNIXes play a bit nicer, but the Linux kernel and GNU tools mostly aim to comply with POSIX as well for the sake of standardisation.
Also, I'm not an American, so don't just think I'm being an arrogant yank, but IEEE standards are used throughout the world - many other standards (like firewire, one of the versions of ethernet, wi-fi lans (802.11 stuff) and many other networking bits and bobs) are standardised by IEEE committees, so in many ways they are more influential that professional organisations in other countries. Also, membership of the IEEE is not exclusive to US citizens. I'm not sure exactly how many countries they allow members from, but certainly most UK EE/CS degrees will get you in.
He cares about the freedom of the consumer, but not the producer - he wants to force producers of software to play by his rules
That's like saying Moses only cared about the freedom of his people and not the freedom of the pharoahs to exploit them.
Well duh.
Someone is bound to point out that without the producers there would be none of the massive complex of propriety software that the world runs on. Well without slave labour there would be no pyramids either, wouldn't that be a pity.
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Let me guess, you're American, and this new phone is your first GSM phone? All GSM phones do this, your previous ones were probably CDMA. I'm afraid you just have to get used to it, it tends to interfere with just about any unbalanced, unshielded connection (at low frequencies, at least that's where you notice it).
I have also absolutely no idea if it would be dangerous on an aeroplane, however, the particular problem you describe can often be removed from audio equipment by using balanced connections, you could probably apply the same principles to the aircraft equipment, to deal with that particular type of noise.
Couldn't agree more
I crucially didn't read the word "on" of course
Or the 33rd, if you remove &start=30 from the link you posted...
Don't know about the others, but firefox definitely does implement it, it's just off by default.
There's a little magnifying glass underneath the "check mail" button on the article's screen shot. That's the search function. The results open up in a convienient new tab. Doesn't take a genius.
Doesn't do that for me.
Actually its a view of todays events - it's actual useful functionality. Calling it an "endorsement" makes it sound like an ad. Also the Yahoo web search (which takes up a tiny space) is also labelled an advertisement by the article - not really is it?
You can scroll using the scrollbar next to the list. You can remove the message preview by clicking "hide message preview" so you'll list more messages on a small screen. There are options to open messages in new tabs and windows. This section is just all lies.
Ahh, you've found the search box you previously claimed didn't exist...
You can easily add addresses of people who email you from the read email view. You can add addresses when you send emails to new people (you're given tick boxes to add the addresses after you send the message) and the address book is integrated into the composition system. What more do you want?
Ok i'm done
Imagine if MS designed a talkie toaster...
Er "BRAAP", you forgot to divide by time in seconds.
Smartarse.
So why haven't you discussed China at all?
You seem to be saying the government (presumably the US government) should be going after China, yet no one should interfere with Apple's business practices. Surely impossible, since Apple is a US business, if the US government tells the Chinese to stop allowing this exploitation then they will be cutting Apple's profits. Which is more important?
Put another way, Apple's use of Chinese labour puts pressure on the US to be lax on China's human rights record, because it's obviously not in the interest of the US to damage its own economy.
I'm not saying Apple is the only, or worst, abuser of foreign labour, or that it must be evil because it's a big company, but equally you can't just say "well everyone's doing it so its ok".
And if you are in favour of "online piracy" as well as net neutrality then you are also a hypocrite?
You'd better tell Ghandi that.
...Except the forthcoming trademark violation suit :)
...there'd just be no-one to pump your gas.
I do wonder what you mean by supporting millions of illegals. Do you really think they cross the border then think, Hmm.. now I'm in the land of plenty, I think I'll get tuberculosis, just to make the best of it.
Would you ever consider that the reason your public services are crap is because you are scared of taxes, not to mention you voted in the f***ing terminator for governor. If you paid your teachers the schools would be happier, if you paid they police they wouldn't be corrupt, if you paid the doctors and nurses you'd have more of them.
The bbc has a nice simple page about the european parliament which contains a rather good diagram showing the relationship of the institutions. As a very rough guide, the Commission produces directives. The parliament and the council must agree with the directives before they become law. Once the EU has agreed on directives, individual countries translate them into their own legal system, and turn them into individual laws.
For more information on europe, that mandatory wikipedia link is a good place to start. Slashdot, as ever, is a bad place to go for factual information.
It's the flawless logic of the politician - all that anti terrorist legislation didn't work, so lets have more anti terrorist legislation.
Err, no they didn't
This reminds me of a newspaper article I read the other day. You possibly fall into the category of "competent jerk". People prefer a lovable fool, that's just the way the world works.
Fortunately being likable really isn't that difficult. Just a case of saying please and thankyou at the right times, and being patient with people, even if you know they're being morons.
True, and the original poster seems to foolishly believe that ASCII text can't be used to exploit a buffer overflow. Firstly, it can (random googled link), and secondly, you can send anything you want over the network, whether the spec says "binary data" is OK or not, unless there's some kind of filter that only lets certain types of bytes through.
To play games on a PC, you need windows. A playstation is cheaper than windows.
You don't need a DHCP server to configure your IP addresses, or to configure them manually.
_ TB.pdf
You don't need a DNS server to configure hostnames (i.e. you can go and get "bob'slaptop" rather that using an IP address like 192.168.1.47, that is inconvenient and could change to another address at any moment when bob moves between wireless hotspots).
You can share more services than just printers and files, like your iTunes playlist or anything that anyone cares to program.
When a new computer is added they don't have to be set up with an IP address / you don't have to worry about reconfiguring your DHCP server. (Obviously there's security implications, so depending on who you are you might need some reconfiguring, that is unavoidable for security).
Linkage:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/MacOSX_Bonjour
http://www.zeroconf.org/
And whoosh, there goes the joke.
The "GNU public license" does not exist, references on google are mistakes.
GPL
If Microsoft don't pay, what's going to happen to them? Is the EU really going to tell them to stop trading in the EU, and do god knows how horrific damage to it's own economy which relies on MS software?
You're right, this apparently has nothing to do with the IEEE. It isn't even associated with ISO as far as I can tell (the american representative is ANSI)
That said, the confusion may arise from the fact that the IEEE already standardised some parts of UNIX through the POSIX set of standards. These were, I believe, originally intended to make commercial UNIXes play a bit nicer, but the Linux kernel and GNU tools mostly aim to comply with POSIX as well for the sake of standardisation.
Also, I'm not an American, so don't just think I'm being an arrogant yank, but IEEE standards are used throughout the world - many other standards (like firewire, one of the versions of ethernet, wi-fi lans (802.11 stuff) and many other networking bits and bobs) are standardised by IEEE committees, so in many ways they are more influential that professional organisations in other countries. Also, membership of the IEEE is not exclusive to US citizens. I'm not sure exactly how many countries they allow members from, but certainly most UK EE/CS degrees will get you in.
He cares about the freedom of the consumer, but not the producer - he wants to force producers of software to play by his rules
That's like saying Moses only cared about the freedom of his people and not the freedom of the pharoahs to exploit them.
Well duh.
Someone is bound to point out that without the producers there would be none of the massive complex of propriety software that the world runs on. Well without slave labour there would be no pyramids either, wouldn't that be a pity.
I agree, but modded you redundant, whoops. Posting here will prolly cancel it out though.