Not to mention the fact that it is optimised to run on *lots* of hardware, and on google's own OS (Which, though based on Linux, uses a nicely different filesystem with bigger chunks etc.
Basically, it's useless for any company which doesn't have Google's sheer volume of data and hardware.
I only heard the "get me a human" option last time I called, so I thought it was just a new feature. Perhaps it's just hit-and-miss depending on how long queues are / how many operators are free.
The BT customer service (UK, so all you foreigners may not understand some of what I'm on about) is brilliant. If there's a free rep, you press the 'get me a human being' option, or you hung up midway through a previous call, then you get connected directly to a human.
If not, you get the automated system which covers every option under the sun and deals with things automatically. Whilst reporting a phone fault, all you had to do was key in the appropriate number and the system automatically line tested, decided there was a problem, requested an engineer and even let me set up a free call diversion to the number of my choice without once involving a real person.
When used properly automated systems can cut costs and make things easier for the customer and the company. When used badly, they just get on people's nerves. A quick "Which department do you want?" from an automated system is, in my mind, preferable to getting a real human who then switches you between departments.
I second that motion. I wish I had a penny for every time I have been trying to explain why Automatic Updates is a good thing, and why you should leave the firewall turned on by default.
I wasn't talking about the hit the reputation/brand took, I was talking purely financial. Losses from direct sales of the CDs won't be covered by the direct sales of PS3s.
Personally, I think the "Playstation" brand will have more of a clout on the box than "SONY".
Sony publishing (Music) is very very (very) loosely tied with Sony Gaming (Those of the PS3). The loss of CD sales (Which whilst substantial to you and me, is probably just loose change in the scheme of things) won't be directly reimbursed by PS3 profits (If there are any).
But then again, isn't pretty much any religious fundamentalist just a pain in the ass? I'm a practicing Christian (Burn karma burn...), but find so-called 'fundamentalists' like Jack Thompson to be the most irritating creatures on this earth, with the exception of wasps.
Be it Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu... anybody forcing their views on anyone else (Even if I happen to agree with some of them) evidently hasn't read the appropriate scriptures properly since as far as I am aware, and scholars feel free to correct me on this one, all the religions I named encourage gently moving people towards the appropriate truth, and seriously discourage using threats or violence to get your way.
Conclusion: Jack Thompson is neither Christian, Buddhist, or even sentient.
Windows hiding things actually makes for more predictability. You know that unless the person has either a. really screwed up or b. really knows what they are doing then the system will act like millions of others with that hidden option unchanged.
I agree with your basic argument, but you speak of Standards and Linux in the same sentence. Linux talks entirely open standards between applications, yet cannot even master copy/paste between those applications.
If Linux finally had a good standard agreed on for how programs accept arguments, how copying and pasting works, even (gasp) where to store config files then it would be a serious player on the desktop. At the moment all it's doing is touting openness, on the condition that to use the openness you need to be able to write your own bits to make one application talk to another.
How in God's name do you steal a shipping crate with "Google" written on the side in big colourful letters, and probably packed with enough technology to enable it to not only report its location but to drive itself home when it gets lost?
I believe last time it was brought up in any serious conversation (A few years back iirc) of it was vetoed on the grounds that not installing GSM repeaters would prevent remote activation bombs.
It's cheap and cheerful software on a CD, a few minutes of outgoing call time, and a headset. You're paying for convenience more than anything else - this is an ideal pack to get people started with who may not have a headset, or not fully understand if you tell them to "Go to skype.com, download it and register". The pack (In the UK at least) comes with a nice clear instruction leaflet for the whole procedure.
Not accurate enough. It's possible to triangulate a phone's position on demand down to a few metres using 3 or more towers and best-signal feedbacks, but if all it's logging is cell hand-offs then it could be a phone from any point in the cell switching to any other point in the other cell.
I know I'm going to sound like a Google fanboy here, but Google also now has search history and bookmarks. Also, the search history weighs your new search results towards what you found more useful in the past.
Not to mention that IE/WMP are tied into Microsoft Update, along with Windows and Office. Yes, a few other companies offer automatic updating of everything (And OS X does the same with all Apple applications), but the fact that by default all the bundled apps are kept up to date without big dialogs going "New version! Update now!" is handy for stopping those bloody family members complaining.
I disagree. If it's a major song but the execs want to release it into the $0.99 bracket, why should iTMS not promote it on the music store as much as anything else? It's still a profit, and if it's a good song then surely it will sell more at the lower price.
Just looking for ideas. I'm aware the stack needs to be implemented, I was more referring to the fact that the modem establishes its own connection, meaning the BIOS doesn't need to bother dialing (Although this could be a good idea for a function for non-DSL connections).
As for having a virus re-flash things, just have the virus guard system switch to a read-only once the system is powered up normally. If a virus can intercept before IDE boot (Or floppy/CD boot, depending on what's in the machine at the time) then it's doing well.
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Not to mention the fact that it is optimised to run on *lots* of hardware, and on google's own OS (Which, though based on Linux, uses a nicely different filesystem with bigger chunks etc.
Basically, it's useless for any company which doesn't have Google's sheer volume of data and hardware.
Ugh, overseas call centres.
I only heard the "get me a human" option last time I called, so I thought it was just a new feature. Perhaps it's just hit-and-miss depending on how long queues are / how many operators are free.
US and Canadian beer aside, all pales in comparison to the ales of the UK!
The BT customer service (UK, so all you foreigners may not understand some of what I'm on about) is brilliant. If there's a free rep, you press the 'get me a human being' option, or you hung up midway through a previous call, then you get connected directly to a human.
If not, you get the automated system which covers every option under the sun and deals with things automatically. Whilst reporting a phone fault, all you had to do was key in the appropriate number and the system automatically line tested, decided there was a problem, requested an engineer and even let me set up a free call diversion to the number of my choice without once involving a real person.
When used properly automated systems can cut costs and make things easier for the customer and the company. When used badly, they just get on people's nerves. A quick "Which department do you want?" from an automated system is, in my mind, preferable to getting a real human who then switches you between departments.
I second that motion. I wish I had a penny for every time I have been trying to explain why Automatic Updates is a good thing, and why you should leave the firewall turned on by default.
I wasn't talking about the hit the reputation/brand took, I was talking purely financial. Losses from direct sales of the CDs won't be covered by the direct sales of PS3s.
Personally, I think the "Playstation" brand will have more of a clout on the box than "SONY".
Sony publishing (Music) is very very (very) loosely tied with Sony Gaming (Those of the PS3). The loss of CD sales (Which whilst substantial to you and me, is probably just loose change in the scheme of things) won't be directly reimbursed by PS3 profits (If there are any).
Sorry, open is open. There is no licence which specifically excludes Microsoft.
But then again, isn't pretty much any religious fundamentalist just a pain in the ass? I'm a practicing Christian (Burn karma burn...), but find so-called 'fundamentalists' like Jack Thompson to be the most irritating creatures on this earth, with the exception of wasps.
Be it Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu... anybody forcing their views on anyone else (Even if I happen to agree with some of them) evidently hasn't read the appropriate scriptures properly since as far as I am aware, and scholars feel free to correct me on this one, all the religions I named encourage gently moving people towards the appropriate truth, and seriously discourage using threats or violence to get your way.
Conclusion: Jack Thompson is neither Christian, Buddhist, or even sentient.
The FF 1.5 beta I'm running on seems to be fine with it, no adverse effects.
Windows hiding things actually makes for more predictability. You know that unless the person has either a. really screwed up or b. really knows what they are doing then the system will act like millions of others with that hidden option unchanged.
I agree with your basic argument, but you speak of Standards and Linux in the same sentence. Linux talks entirely open standards between applications, yet cannot even master copy/paste between those applications.
If Linux finally had a good standard agreed on for how programs accept arguments, how copying and pasting works, even (gasp) where to store config files then it would be a serious player on the desktop. At the moment all it's doing is touting openness, on the condition that to use the openness you need to be able to write your own bits to make one application talk to another.
I thought that at first, but then I realised that it's a link to the books section.
"phenolphthalein" (An indicator) gives me:
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Tesco. Free delivery over £20.
How in God's name do you steal a shipping crate with "Google" written on the side in big colourful letters, and probably packed with enough technology to enable it to not only report its location but to drive itself home when it gets lost?
I believe last time it was brought up in any serious conversation (A few years back iirc) of it was vetoed on the grounds that not installing GSM repeaters would prevent remote activation bombs.
It's cheap and cheerful software on a CD, a few minutes of outgoing call time, and a headset. You're paying for convenience more than anything else - this is an ideal pack to get people started with who may not have a headset, or not fully understand if you tell them to "Go to skype.com, download it and register". The pack (In the UK at least) comes with a nice clear instruction leaflet for the whole procedure.
Yes apt-get does, but your average user won't even be running Linux, let alone know how to update things.
http://www.microsoft.com/ipv6 for any Windows based network. No idea for Linux, you may have to check with your individual distro.
Not accurate enough. It's possible to triangulate a phone's position on demand down to a few metres using 3 or more towers and best-signal feedbacks, but if all it's logging is cell hand-offs then it could be a phone from any point in the cell switching to any other point in the other cell.
I know I'm going to sound like a Google fanboy here, but Google also now has search history and bookmarks. Also, the search history weighs your new search results towards what you found more useful in the past.
Not to mention that IE/WMP are tied into Microsoft Update, along with Windows and Office. Yes, a few other companies offer automatic updating of everything (And OS X does the same with all Apple applications), but the fact that by default all the bundled apps are kept up to date without big dialogs going "New version! Update now!" is handy for stopping those bloody family members complaining.
Doubt it will work. The chances are any decent quality first-to-p2p version will be ripped by someone who has a clue.
I disagree. If it's a major song but the execs want to release it into the $0.99 bracket, why should iTMS not promote it on the music store as much as anything else? It's still a profit, and if it's a good song then surely it will sell more at the lower price.
Just looking for ideas. I'm aware the stack needs to be implemented, I was more referring to the fact that the modem establishes its own connection, meaning the BIOS doesn't need to bother dialing (Although this could be a good idea for a function for non-DSL connections).
As for having a virus re-flash things, just have the virus guard system switch to a read-only once the system is powered up normally. If a virus can intercept before IDE boot (Or floppy/CD boot, depending on what's in the machine at the time) then it's doing well.