To install most programs, you need to use the command line. You also need to use the command line to uncompress files and do most operations like this. (I am using Fedora.) Until you can just double click a program and easily install it, Linux isn't ready for the old grandma's who know nothing about computers. However, I think that the average will be able to understand how to use the command line for simple tasks. (Installing something isn't a hard task, for example.) Therefore, Linux is ready for the Desktop market.
There's a pretty big misconception that WAP has been a miserable failure, but the much-maligned technology continues to putter along.
UK trade group the Mobile Data Association says that 1.11 billion WAP pages were viewed in the country in June, a 42 percent increase over June 2003, and over 4 billion pages were viewed in the second quarter, driven by ringtone downloads as well as the Euro 2004 football tournament.
Four billion pages in three months isn't bad for a technology that was supposed to have died on arrival several years ago. Certainly faster GPRS and 3G connections help, as do advanced handsets, but the biggest change has come in the design of mobile services and how they're marketed.
WAP has such a negative stigma attached to it because that's what carriers marketed several years ago, rather than what could be done with WAP, and the technology got the blame for misguided and poorly implemented content. Systems like Vodafone live!, i-mode and O2 Active are successful, in part, because they separate the technology from the services. The majority of users don't care how their phone gets the news headlines or sports scores, just that it can and does. Make technical information available for the geeks that want it, but sell simpler services to the masses.
But these services are all better designed than early WAP efforts as well, and the difference is more than color icons. Content providers are finally gaining an understanding of what works on a mobile device, though some are still stuck on what doesn't. But just as WAP has evolved from WML to XHTML, what programmers do with those languages has to change as well.
Mobile search must continue to improve, since mobile users typically go online in search of specific information rather than just to browse. This also reinforces the need for robust personalization features and smarter systems that help users get to the information they're looking for more quickly.
Neither, this is a book. It was produced from trees and cost money to manufacture. Obviously, these expenses need to paid off. Plus, this is probably this guy's job. He needs money to put food on the table. No one can survive without money.
He is merely saying that free software is often very secure and advises to use it. He is not saying that everything in the world should be free in some sort of communistic world.
No, 50 WPM is not that fast. However, you must consider that they are typing on a gaming pad, so it's pretty fast for that. Plus, that's for the first month. If one keeps using it, I bet that they could get much better and type faster than 50 WPM on the thing.
Maybe they have a Windows and Linux machine. The Linux machine is on a cable connection and the Windows machine is on the dial-up connection. The person downloads it on the Linux machine and installs it on the Windows machine.
Not to brag, but I type fairly fast, yet I never learned. I type using 3 of my fingers and my thumbs, but because I do it so often, I have gotten fairly fast at it. I'm probably not fast enough to be a proffessional typist or anything, but I do type fast enough to do any computer task quickly.
The point is that typing is something that comes with practice and teaching it is kind of pointless. It will come with time to the kids.
DoubleClick tries to spy on you with a cookie (in order to deliver ads of course) like that and no one likes them for it. Why would it be different if the news sites did it?
There is a very useful and free service called Malinator where you can give any email out at malinator.net, and then read it no matter what at the Malinator site. You don't even have to sign up for anything.
Well, isn't it obvious? He is noticing the lack of booth babes in the pictures, and is making an insightful post trying to clarify this...
On second thought, you are correct.
"Defense" is just a nicer way of saying it. (The way the Secretary of War is now the Secretary of Defense.) Anyway, I think these uniforms will be used for terrorists; I mean, it makes sense like that,
Well, Steve obviously did something correctly since, after he returned to Apple, the company became much better and started releasing all those great products. (Such as Mac OS X, the iPod, the new Power Books and iBooks, the iMac, etc.)
I agree with the writer of the article, software patents do do a lot of harm to programmers. Saying that monopolies are the only way to make money and should be encouraged is just crazy...
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To install most programs, you need to use the command line. You also need to use the command line to uncompress files and do most operations like this. (I am using Fedora.) Until you can just double click a program and easily install it, Linux isn't ready for the old grandma's who know nothing about computers. However, I think that the average will be able to understand how to use the command line for simple tasks. (Installing something isn't a hard task, for example.) Therefore, Linux is ready for the Desktop market.
There's a pretty big misconception that WAP has been a miserable failure, but the much-maligned technology continues to putter along.
UK trade group the Mobile Data Association says that 1.11 billion WAP pages were viewed in the country in June, a 42 percent increase over June 2003, and over 4 billion pages were viewed in the second quarter, driven by ringtone downloads as well as the Euro 2004 football tournament.
Four billion pages in three months isn't bad for a technology that was supposed to have died on arrival several years ago. Certainly faster GPRS and 3G connections help, as do advanced handsets, but the biggest change has come in the design of mobile services and how they're marketed.
WAP has such a negative stigma attached to it because that's what carriers marketed several years ago, rather than what could be done with WAP, and the technology got the blame for misguided and poorly implemented content. Systems like Vodafone live!, i-mode and O2 Active are successful, in part, because they separate the technology from the services. The majority of users don't care how their phone gets the news headlines or sports scores, just that it can and does. Make technical information available for the geeks that want it, but sell simpler services to the masses.
But these services are all better designed than early WAP efforts as well, and the difference is more than color icons. Content providers are finally gaining an understanding of what works on a mobile device, though some are still stuck on what doesn't. But just as WAP has evolved from WML to XHTML, what programmers do with those languages has to change as well.
Mobile search must continue to improve, since mobile users typically go online in search of specific information rather than just to browse. This also reinforces the need for robust personalization features and smarter systems that help users get to the information they're looking for more quickly.
Video game controllers aren't the only thing we should coat in rubber... Remember kids, always keep it safe.
Neither, this is a book. It was produced from trees and cost money to manufacture. Obviously, these expenses need to paid off. Plus, this is probably this guy's job. He needs money to put food on the table. No one can survive without money.
He is merely saying that free software is often very secure and advises to use it. He is not saying that everything in the world should be free in some sort of communistic world.
No, 50 WPM is not that fast. However, you must consider that they are typing on a gaming pad, so it's pretty fast for that. Plus, that's for the first month. If one keeps using it, I bet that they could get much better and type faster than 50 WPM on the thing.
No one, actually, but it's an idea. Or, they may be downloading it for their dial-up friend who uses Windows! That is more likely.
Maybe they have a Windows and Linux machine. The Linux machine is on a cable connection and the Windows machine is on the dial-up connection. The person downloads it on the Linux machine and installs it on the Windows machine.
Maybe be the hospitals are in Microsofts pockets? A lot of companies use Windows for no apparent reason, so it makes some sense.
Er, yeah, it is.
We could've spent the tax dollers on much more worthwhile things. (Like making sure that the kids actually learn math or something.)
Not to brag, but I type fairly fast, yet I never learned. I type using 3 of my fingers and my thumbs, but because I do it so often, I have gotten fairly fast at it. I'm probably not fast enough to be a proffessional typist or anything, but I do type fast enough to do any computer task quickly.
The point is that typing is something that comes with practice and teaching it is kind of pointless. It will come with time to the kids.
DoubleClick tries to spy on you with a cookie (in order to deliver ads of course) like that and no one likes them for it. Why would it be different if the news sites did it?
There is a very useful and free service called Malinator where you can give any email out at malinator.net, and then read it no matter what at the Malinator site. You don't even have to sign up for anything.
Maybe HP will provide auto-updates? I mean, this could introduce Linux to a whole new layer of users.
That is probably because Mac OS X has UNIX in it, which is what Linux really is pretty much.
Well, isn't it obvious? He is noticing the lack of booth babes in the pictures, and is making an insightful post trying to clarify this... On second thought, you are correct.
But San Francisco is too far away for me to travel to... This expo looks pretty interesting.
I have a 14" iBook and the battery life on this thing is amazing. If I use it well, it can last over 6 hours and that is a long time.
"Defense" is just a nicer way of saying it. (The way the Secretary of War is now the Secretary of Defense.) Anyway, I think these uniforms will be used for terrorists; I mean, it makes sense like that,
You probably know this, but one of the things Debian does to stay as bug-free as possible is have an extensive bug database. It really helps them.
Heh, I bet they get sued by both the makers of "I, Robot" and Apple.
Well, with a name like iRobot, wouldn't one think Steve Jobs was behind it?
Well, Steve obviously did something correctly since, after he returned to Apple, the company became much better and started releasing all those great products. (Such as Mac OS X, the iPod, the new Power Books and iBooks, the iMac, etc.)
I agree with the writer of the article, software patents do do a lot of harm to programmers. Saying that monopolies are the only way to make money and should be encouraged is just crazy...
Plus, the people playing counter-stike are not the same people fighting the real wars.