If you'd stop slating religions because it makes you feel somehow superior and pay attention to the beliefs, you'll discover that Islam's Allah and Christianity's God are in fact the same being.
But in the case of having a 'couple of standardised formats' why not standardise on ones which can be reasonably expected to be supported on the vast majority of browsing systems?
Obviously we start hitting problems with the whole Windows/OS X/Linux issue. MPEG-4 seems to be the one with the best support across all the platforms, and the.mov container seems to be one of the best understood (I've not used a machine in the last 5 years which didn't understand.mov). I would have suggested FLV, but Linux support is lacking there.
I would personally say.mov, since aside from being a Mac user it does include some things which would make life far easier for mobile devices which are supposed to be taking over the web - for example the ability to specify different movies to download based on factors such as available codecs, connection speed, render window size etc
I'd take the "H.264 has much better support in everything" argument.
Ogg V/T is still a fairly niche thing, and although if it became the 'defined standard' then support would improve. Alternatively, H.264 could be made the defined standard and suddenly be compatible with most devices out there, including the most popular line of portable video players in the world.
Not to mention that I don't care if my IDE can do brace matching, it's a damn reference book so I want to be able to see where things happen in the code without needing to put it into my IDE in order to get nice formatting!
The wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff is getting involved in Voyager now? I thought they weren't allowed to nick space-time continuums from other series!
Which of my statutory rights says I have the right to use a mobile phone on any network? Genuine question - I'm not aware of anything which states that, only that it's historically been the way things are done in the UK.
Not if you've got an iPhone. The terms of use stated on the outside of the box, the EULA you agree to when you activate it, and usually by whoever sold you the thing in the first place state quite clearly the phone is for use exclusively on the O2 network. You agreed to it.
112 makes more sense to remember though. Works almost anywhere in Europe be it mobile or landline, and from mobile phones in several other places across the world, including on any GSM phone in the USA.
In the UK you can also dial 101 for non-emergency police and local authority services.
In the UK I can dial 911, 112 or 999 by mistake. Well, at least I used to be able to since the iPhone doesn't react to anything other than fingerpresses.
Perhaps have it so that if you dial an emergency number with keypad locked, the phone will make an audible/vibrate notification with a few seconds delay before actually placing the call, but if it's unlocked then it doesn't on the assumption that you know damn well you're making an emergency call.
Stocks and weather (Along with Maps) don't self-localise, you need to tell them what you want. In addition, it'd be far easier for the phone to send its base station number(s) as position info, since sending the IMEI involves the application server contacting the network provider to ask where the phone is, rather than just looking up the base station number in a local table.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it on everything since 2KSP4, but my memory of service packs before then is patchy at best so it may have been earlier. Also, the backing up to allow recovery is a bit hit and miss - if it's killed halfway through a major file write or something similar then it's going to do nasty things anyway. In *theory* it should be able to recover from failed installs, in practice it's more of a 'hope and pray' approach.
I'm surprised they're calling 50MiB a service pack. Weren't XPSP 1 and 2 much larger than that? Or is it more of a 'Service Pack' which changes a few graphical tweaks, and happens to be released at the same time as another 300MiB worth of critical updates? All that said I've just upgraded to OS X 10.5.1, which was (as far as I can tell) a few fiddling little bug patches somehow bloated to over 100MiB. Perhaps the amount of space taken is inversely proportional to the actual improvements made to the OS.
All OS-slating aside, the 7GiB is probably only used for the RC because it won't have its backup sequence optimised. Service Packs back up everything they're changing before writing, so they can recover the system if broken mid-flow. 7GiB is probably the entirety of every folder which may be changed, as opposed to the release which will have a much more narrowed down set of things to copy. XPSP2 needed far more space available than it actually took up, and also took 30 to 60 minutes on most machines. A lot of that was taken up with making a backup and verifying the installation - so if you don't mind running the risk of hosing your system (Insert joke about Windows being pre-hosed) then I'm sure it could be made a lot slimmer and faster.
With all respect, I doubt there are hundreds of MRIs in a single location. The price tags run into millions. Not tens or hundreds of thousands - millions. Perhaps you can provide us with the name of this facility?
As far as the claustrophobia goes, MRI is a bad time to find out.
The phone is programmed to check mail and deliver revenue to your service provider even when it is "off" Nope. The phone has an option (Off by default) to check mail when the phone is on standby. When you switch the phone off, it doesn't do anything. Finally, since all plans include unlimited data, it delivers no revenue anyway.
Shadow Copy is no use at all if your entire disk drive comes down in balls of flame, or if you don't have Premium or Enterprise, or if you simply don't know it's there. The first one defeats the purpose of a backup, and the second two are true for the majority of Vista users, never mind Windows users as a whole.
I've used both, and Time Machine, whilst functionally almost identical to VSC, is a much better product. It took me attaching a disk and clicking one button to enable it, and the interface is frankly amazing. Interface being something both Shadow Copy and this Linux clone thing lack - and configuration/interface is where Time Machine wins out. I can actually see it seriously increasing the number of Mac users who make backups simply because they don't need to engage their brains, or hunt down a backup application, or remember to burn a CD every week. It is literally plug in a disk, and click "OK".
On the subject of mentioning who does what though... where are the people screaming at the developers to have some originality? If this concept had been released first as an OSS product and someone at Apple went "Nice, we should have one" then people would be up in arms!
Oh, you mean like in the UK where becoming a qualified medical practitioner is so simple and textbook-based we are now struggling to meet the required number of even nurses, let alone fully trained doctors.
The IEC document on the subject (IEC 60027) makes Ki the 2^10 unit. BIPM (The SI people) have stated that you should *never* use SI units in relation to binary numbers. The k/K issue is moot, since according to SI k is kilo and K is Kelvin (My bad in my original post, I knew what I meant to type:-/).
Also, I was wrong in stating they were SI units, typo there. They're IEEE units, stated in IEEE 1541. It's also, interestingly enough, been ratified as a European standard making use of binary prefixes where necessary legally binding in the EU.
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If you'd stop slating religions because it makes you feel somehow superior and pay attention to the beliefs, you'll discover that Islam's Allah and Christianity's God are in fact the same being.
But in the case of having a 'couple of standardised formats' why not standardise on ones which can be reasonably expected to be supported on the vast majority of browsing systems?
.mov container seems to be one of the best understood (I've not used a machine in the last 5 years which didn't understand .mov). I would have suggested FLV, but Linux support is lacking there.
.mov, since aside from being a Mac user it does include some things which would make life far easier for mobile devices which are supposed to be taking over the web - for example the ability to specify different movies to download based on factors such as available codecs, connection speed, render window size etc
Obviously we start hitting problems with the whole Windows/OS X/Linux issue. MPEG-4 seems to be the one with the best support across all the platforms, and the
I would personally say
I'd take the "H.264 has much better support in everything" argument.
Ogg V/T is still a fairly niche thing, and although if it became the 'defined standard' then support would improve. Alternatively, H.264 could be made the defined standard and suddenly be compatible with most devices out there, including the most popular line of portable video players in the world.
I thought mobile content was the future.
I was sorely tempted, I honestly was.
Also: Informative? I thought it was basic knowledge!
As any fool doth know, the condom goes on the erect penis, not on a flaccid one!
This has been a public service announcement.
Not to mention that I don't care if my IDE can do brace matching, it's a damn reference book so I want to be able to see where things happen in the code without needing to put it into my IDE in order to get nice formatting!
The wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff is getting involved in Voyager now? I thought they weren't allowed to nick space-time continuums from other series!
Which of my statutory rights says I have the right to use a mobile phone on any network? Genuine question - I'm not aware of anything which states that, only that it's historically been the way things are done in the UK.
Not if you've got an iPhone. The terms of use stated on the outside of the box, the EULA you agree to when you activate it, and usually by whoever sold you the thing in the first place state quite clearly the phone is for use exclusively on the O2 network. You agreed to it.
Easy. It's really a 1500 MW Google Heavy-Duty Supercolliding Superbutton.
112 makes more sense to remember though. Works almost anywhere in Europe be it mobile or landline, and from mobile phones in several other places across the world, including on any GSM phone in the USA.
In the UK you can also dial 101 for non-emergency police and local authority services.
In the UK I can dial 911, 112 or 999 by mistake. Well, at least I used to be able to since the iPhone doesn't react to anything other than fingerpresses.
Perhaps have it so that if you dial an emergency number with keypad locked, the phone will make an audible/vibrate notification with a few seconds delay before actually placing the call, but if it's unlocked then it doesn't on the assumption that you know damn well you're making an emergency call.
Computing student - force of habit. Sorry :-/
Stocks and weather (Along with Maps) don't self-localise, you need to tell them what you want. In addition, it'd be far easier for the phone to send its base station number(s) as position info, since sending the IMEI involves the application server contacting the network provider to ask where the phone is, rather than just looking up the base station number in a local table.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it on everything since 2KSP4, but my memory of service packs before then is patchy at best so it may have been earlier. Also, the backing up to allow recovery is a bit hit and miss - if it's killed halfway through a major file write or something similar then it's going to do nasty things anyway. In *theory* it should be able to recover from failed installs, in practice it's more of a 'hope and pray' approach.
I'm surprised they're calling 50MiB a service pack. Weren't XPSP 1 and 2 much larger than that? Or is it more of a 'Service Pack' which changes a few graphical tweaks, and happens to be released at the same time as another 300MiB worth of critical updates? All that said I've just upgraded to OS X 10.5.1, which was (as far as I can tell) a few fiddling little bug patches somehow bloated to over 100MiB. Perhaps the amount of space taken is inversely proportional to the actual improvements made to the OS.
All OS-slating aside, the 7GiB is probably only used for the RC because it won't have its backup sequence optimised. Service Packs back up everything they're changing before writing, so they can recover the system if broken mid-flow. 7GiB is probably the entirety of every folder which may be changed, as opposed to the release which will have a much more narrowed down set of things to copy. XPSP2 needed far more space available than it actually took up, and also took 30 to 60 minutes on most machines. A lot of that was taken up with making a backup and verifying the installation - so if you don't mind running the risk of hosing your system (Insert joke about Windows being pre-hosed) then I'm sure it could be made a lot slimmer and faster.
With all respect, I doubt there are hundreds of MRIs in a single location. The price tags run into millions. Not tens or hundreds of thousands - millions. Perhaps you can provide us with the name of this facility?
As far as the claustrophobia goes, MRI is a bad time to find out.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Shadow Copy is no use at all if your entire disk drive comes down in balls of flame, or if you don't have Premium or Enterprise, or if you simply don't know it's there. The first one defeats the purpose of a backup, and the second two are true for the majority of Vista users, never mind Windows users as a whole.
I've used both, and Time Machine, whilst functionally almost identical to VSC, is a much better product. It took me attaching a disk and clicking one button to enable it, and the interface is frankly amazing. Interface being something both Shadow Copy and this Linux clone thing lack - and configuration/interface is where Time Machine wins out. I can actually see it seriously increasing the number of Mac users who make backups simply because they don't need to engage their brains, or hunt down a backup application, or remember to burn a CD every week. It is literally plug in a disk, and click "OK".
On the subject of mentioning who does what though... where are the people screaming at the developers to have some originality? If this concept had been released first as an OSS product and someone at Apple went "Nice, we should have one" then people would be up in arms!
Oh, you mean like in the UK where becoming a qualified medical practitioner is so simple and textbook-based we are now struggling to meet the required number of even nurses, let alone fully trained doctors.
A waste of good scanlines?
Doubt about the AT&T approval - if AT&T need to approve software, then Orange, O2 and various other carriers will also be involved.
I'm more willing to bet that Apple have a clause in the contract that basically states AT&T's involvement in the platform stops at the network.
The IEC document on the subject (IEC 60027) makes Ki the 2^10 unit. BIPM (The SI people) have stated that you should *never* use SI units in relation to binary numbers. The k/K issue is moot, since according to SI k is kilo and K is Kelvin (My bad in my original post, I knew what I meant to type :-/).
Also, I was wrong in stating they were SI units, typo there. They're IEEE units, stated in IEEE 1541. It's also, interestingly enough, been ratified as a European standard making use of binary prefixes where necessary legally binding in the EU.