Then of course there's the simple fact that Ahmadinejad is- what's the phrase? oh yes, batshit insane.
But entirely separate to that fact, is that the current establishment in Iran is trying to oppress its citizens, take away their rights of free speech and block them off from the world. We're just trying to give them their voice back.
I can't comment about BluRay, but I have an Xbox 360 hooked up to a 37" 720p capable Dell LCD TV, and the Xbox HD DVD player. I cannot really tell the difference between a DVD played on the 360 and an HD DVD.
However, the difference betwwen a DVD played on the 360 via HDMI and a DVD played on a regular DVD player via SCART is very noticable.
The marble of this story? Get a good upscaling DVD player.
plus, lets be honest, NTFS is crap. The only reason they're still using it is because there is too much involved in transitioning to a new one. The absense of WinFS from 7 is a testament to this.
> They might change their tune if (as the parent post points out) it's a 4 yr old girl/boy.
My four year old boy got separated from us in the local supermarket. Due to some strange quirk of the mind (who can fathom the mind of a four year old boy?) he decided we must have left without him, rather than, say, we were in the next aisle (which we were). So he headed out of the main doors and wandered around for a bit looking for us. When he was picked up by the local Community Support Officers, despite being in a state of some distress, he was able to tell them his parents names and where he had been when we got separated, so that they could help him find us. Which they did.
Children, even small, wooly-headed children, are much more capable than they are often given credit for. Teaching your child how to behave in an unexpected situation and crediting them with the intelligence and capability to look after themselves is the best way to ensure they make it through life safely. It's not the only way, but its far and away the most effective.
Chances are they are quite familiar with what a laptop is, and how easily they're a. broken and b. stolen. A desktop on a cart is a lot easier to repair, and a lot more difficult to steal.
And, yes, I know you can get round the second problem by using a good lock, but then you have a laptop-on-a-cart, and really, there's not much functional difference between that and a desktop-on-a-cart.
The Ovi store webpage, when accessed from the phone, doesn't remember your username and password, so you have to enter it every time.
To download the Ovi Store itself to the phone requires going through steps 8 through 14 above, for a 3.5MB download (pretty large, in mobile app terms). Oh, and a reboot (first Symbian app I have encountered that has required a reboot after installation). Then, when installed, takes well over 20 seconds just to load the initial interface and, from that point on, the entire interface appears to be streamed from the online store. It's almost unusably slow on a 3G connection while I'm standing still, I can't imagine how useless it'd be on, say, a train, and those poor souls stuck on GPRS/Edge might as well not bother.
I hate this phone. I really really hate this bloody phone.
I have a Nokia E71, so I thought I'd give this a go.
Here's the process I went through.
1. Visit the Ovi store 2. Register, giving my number 3. Wait for SMS to arrive, click on embedded link, which opens in the phone's web browser to confirm registration. 4. Find an app I like the look of on Ovi store on my PC (Nokia Magnifyer, silly, small, free. Ideal first test) 5. Click on Nokia magnifyer 6. Click on Send to phone, confirm phone number, wait for SMS to arrive 7. Open SMS, click on embedded link 8. Wait for web browser to load the page 9. Page shows overview of the app, with a "Download" button 10. Enter user information to log in (and the page is FUGLY) 11. Now logged in, same overview page is displayed. Click on the "Download" button AGAIN. 12. Confirm download. 13. Here begins the standard application installation procedure, which involves something in the region of ten separate button presses. 14. Browse to "Installation" folder, and launch Nokia Magnifyer.
Jesus H Christ, they think this is going to compete with the App store?
Found this article a while ago after having bought a Skype-to-phone adapter (This thing, I forget the exact model number). It basically describes a method of creating a "Skype server" that will provide skype service through the regular phone lines in your house.
Having abandoned the adapter in question as being a bit pointless, I would be ASTOUNDED if the above solution actually worked reliably, but, hey, certainly looks like he put a lot of effort into creating it.
Have other people got some crazy whacky super-awesome cellular technology that I'm not aware of? I currently have HSDPA on "3" in the UK, and VOIP calls point blank do not work. I don't know any cellular technology that can sustain a VOIP conversation, or even come close.
Having done further reading, it seems there have been some developments since I was last paying attention to this issue, and there are some inaccuracies in my above post.
It also seems that "the law was changed such that no person can be convicted on the basis of expert testimony alone" which gives me some hope, although I don't see a source on Wikipedia for this claim.
In the UK, many child abuse cases rested on the testimony of Prof Sir Roy Meadow, now discredited. Many people were convicted of child abuse and had their children taken into care based on his testimony. There was a scandal about it, it was decided that all the verdicts should be re-examined, and yet, curiously, all the convictions were deemed to be safe on examination.
Even thinking about it now still makes me angry, and I wasn't involved.
I don't think it will ever work reliably enough to serve its stated function.
Of course, it works well enough to serve its actual function currently, if you believe that the actual function is to serve as a cover for maintaining a massive database of every person in the UK, to allow unprecedented state tracking and control over its citizens. Of course, only the excessively paranoid would believe such a thing.
All these attempts at automated biometric identification just need to stop, now. None of it works. Facial / Iris recognition is far too unreliable to be used in any sort of serious context. Not even fingerprint recognition works reliably (or we'd all be bloody using it).
They need to stop pouring money down this black hole right now.
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Then of course there's the simple fact that Ahmadinejad is- what's the phrase? oh yes, batshit insane.
But entirely separate to that fact, is that the current establishment in Iran is trying to oppress its citizens, take away their rights of free speech and block them off from the world. We're just trying to give them their voice back.
Also:
Run a tor bridge relay. Chrooted, of course.
Then email Austin Heap with the details so that he can distribute it to the needy.
I can't comment about BluRay, but I have an Xbox 360 hooked up to a 37" 720p capable Dell LCD TV, and the Xbox HD DVD player. I cannot really tell the difference between a DVD played on the 360 and an HD DVD.
However, the difference betwwen a DVD played on the 360 via HDMI and a DVD played on a regular DVD player via SCART is very noticable.
The marble of this story? Get a good upscaling DVD player.
I am reminded of this.
plus, lets be honest, NTFS is crap. The only reason they're still using it is because there is too much involved in transitioning to a new one. The absense of WinFS from 7 is a testament to this.
Or "Twilight"
> They might change their tune if (as the parent post points out) it's a 4 yr old girl/boy.
My four year old boy got separated from us in the local supermarket. Due to some strange quirk of the mind (who can fathom the mind of a four year old boy?) he decided we must have left without him, rather than, say, we were in the next aisle (which we were). So he headed out of the main doors and wandered around for a bit looking for us. When he was picked up by the local Community Support Officers, despite being in a state of some distress, he was able to tell them his parents names and where he had been when we got separated, so that they could help him find us. Which they did.
Children, even small, wooly-headed children, are much more capable than they are often given credit for. Teaching your child how to behave in an unexpected situation and crediting them with the intelligence and capability to look after themselves is the best way to ensure they make it through life safely. It's not the only way, but its far and away the most effective.
Chances are they are quite familiar with what a laptop is, and how easily they're a. broken and b. stolen. A desktop on a cart is a lot easier to repair, and a lot more difficult to steal.
And, yes, I know you can get round the second problem by using a good lock, but then you have a laptop-on-a-cart, and really, there's not much functional difference between that and a desktop-on-a-cart.
Ah, nm, didn't see the AC post. Well done for beating me to it, AC.
with his most recent book, which was published as an unencumbered PDF. Sales of the PDF were very strong, and actually drove UP sales of the dead tree versions of all his books.
Assuming that was in response to me then, you're welcome.
I try to buy thing from 7digital.com where possible. I actually find the process less of a hassle than trying to find individual tracks via LimeWire.
http://ie.7digital.com/artists/ashley-tisdale/headstrong/
Yes, but what OpenOffice also has, that Koffice currently lacks, is bloat. Lots and lots of bloat.
Recommend me a decent open smartphone, and I'll be right there. When it comes to smartphones, the E71 is the best of a very, very bad bunch.
It gets even better!
The Ovi store webpage, when accessed from the phone, doesn't remember your username and password, so you have to enter it every time.
To download the Ovi Store itself to the phone requires going through steps 8 through 14 above, for a 3.5MB download (pretty large, in mobile app terms). Oh, and a reboot (first Symbian app I have encountered that has required a reboot after installation). Then, when installed, takes well over 20 seconds just to load the initial interface and, from that point on, the entire interface appears to be streamed from the online store. It's almost unusably slow on a 3G connection while I'm standing still, I can't imagine how useless it'd be on, say, a train, and those poor souls stuck on GPRS/Edge might as well not bother.
I hate this phone. I really really hate this bloody phone.
I have a Nokia E71, so I thought I'd give this a go.
Here's the process I went through.
1. Visit the Ovi store
2. Register, giving my number
3. Wait for SMS to arrive, click on embedded link, which opens in the phone's web browser to confirm registration.
4. Find an app I like the look of on Ovi store on my PC (Nokia Magnifyer, silly, small, free. Ideal first test)
5. Click on Nokia magnifyer
6. Click on Send to phone, confirm phone number, wait for SMS to arrive
7. Open SMS, click on embedded link
8. Wait for web browser to load the page
9. Page shows overview of the app, with a "Download" button
10. Enter user information to log in (and the page is FUGLY)
11. Now logged in, same overview page is displayed. Click on the "Download" button AGAIN.
12. Confirm download.
13. Here begins the standard application installation procedure, which involves something in the region of ten separate button presses.
14. Browse to "Installation" folder, and launch Nokia Magnifyer.
Jesus H Christ, they think this is going to compete with the App store?
Found this article a while ago after having bought a Skype-to-phone adapter (This thing, I forget the exact model number). It basically describes a method of creating a "Skype server" that will provide skype service through the regular phone lines in your house.
Having abandoned the adapter in question as being a bit pointless, I would be ASTOUNDED if the above solution actually worked reliably, but, hey, certainly looks like he put a lot of effort into creating it.
Have other people got some crazy whacky super-awesome cellular technology that I'm not aware of? I currently have HSDPA on "3" in the UK, and VOIP calls point blank do not work. I don't know any cellular technology that can sustain a VOIP conversation, or even come close.
You are correct. A core difference being that in 2005, SuSE Linux was a better respected distribution (based out of Germany, ffs) than it is now.
Having done further reading, it seems there have been some developments since I was last paying attention to this issue, and there are some inaccuracies in my above post.
It also seems that "the law was changed such that no person can be convicted on the basis of expert testimony alone" which gives me some hope, although I don't see a source on Wikipedia for this claim.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Meadow
In the UK, many child abuse cases rested on the testimony of Prof Sir Roy Meadow, now discredited. Many people were convicted of child abuse and had their children taken into care based on his testimony. There was a scandal about it, it was decided that all the verdicts should be re-examined, and yet, curiously, all the convictions were deemed to be safe on examination.
Even thinking about it now still makes me angry, and I wasn't involved.
I don't think it will ever work reliably enough to serve its stated function.
Of course, it works well enough to serve its actual function currently, if you believe that the actual function is to serve as a cover for maintaining a massive database of every person in the UK, to allow unprecedented state tracking and control over its citizens. Of course, only the excessively paranoid would believe such a thing.
Didn't the European Parliament just rule that this sort of thing was illegal?
Exactly.
All these attempts at automated biometric identification just need to stop, now. None of it works. Facial / Iris recognition is far too unreliable to be used in any sort of serious context. Not even fingerprint recognition works reliably (or we'd all be bloody using it).
They need to stop pouring money down this black hole right now.
or 4) they did it for shits 'n giggles. Possibly while either drunk or high.