I second that. I have a 7600 with the buttons down the sides in two rows, and I have to say that after a few days of "wtf?" it has become far faster and easier to use for applications than a traditional keypad. Two thumbs, one either side, and no obstruction of the screen.
Makes no difference. If Apple release a product to make viewing movies easy from anywhere in the house how likely is it that getting video content will be made as easy as getting music?
At the moment I can get music from iTMS, or rip my own CDs. It wouldn't surprise me that if Apple plan for video distribution, it will include a nice two-step DVD rip as well.
I just hope it works on Windows as well as Macs, much as with iPod/iTunes. The iPod/iTunes combi is the only working attempt to define anything like a standard for digital distribution (You 'OMGS DRM PAYING SUX OMG' lot can get lost, I personally find iTMS and FairPlay to be... well... fair), and should it work on Macs and Windows a decent movie system should be the kick up the arse to the MPAA that the RIAA got.
No, the electric toothbrush mentioned didn't have any contact points. It used induction to transfer power between the base and the toothbrush body, which then charged a small battery inside the brush. This can work perfectly well through a couple of layers of plastic.
You and I may not, but others may feel the need to increase the size of their e-Penis. You know the world has gone downhill when people are getting e-penis enlargement spam through/.
As it happens, yes. I am aware the design is for a packet-based decentralised network. Notice the decentralised bit.
The internet is founded by the US in much the same way as the telephone network was founded by A. G. Bell (A scotsman incidentally). The fact that the telephone network is now worldwide means that a single Scotsman is no longer in control. Why not so with the Internet? It is an international network with international users, why not international governance?
If you buy a phone from the vendor like I did with one of my old handsets, it comes unlocked. Nokia sold me a phone for around £200 and it came fully unlocked and wonderful.
As with most things it was developed for research purposes by international scientists, hijacked by the US military, then inexplicably became mankind's greatest ever achievement which could not possibly have become anything because the US invented the whole thing...
Sorry. INTERnet, not USAnet. It doesn't matter who designed it back then, what matters is what it is now. And what it is now is an international network which happens to have the USA in charge of the root DNS servers.
This means that I need to make a link to the PHP source code available through all sites running on my server? Apache as well? How about Linux since that holds the entire thing together?
Yes I know they may not all be GPL3, but this is the kind of thing this 'closed loophole' will lead to.
Is it bollocks. Most people wouldn't know about network efficiency, and with the speed of systems today and trickle updates, it doesn't make any difference if it's 200KB or 200MB.
Running a Linux desktop is a pain in the arse, whichever way you look at it. Yes you do get a firewall, after much prodding aboug, and people DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO COMPILE THEIR OWN PATCHES INTO THE KERNEL. Linux is a moot point. Why not get a Mac instead, or a hardware firewall? We are dealing with Windows, and whilst Linux is a generally superior server OS it cannot yet compete for Joe Public on the desktop without someone to support it.
As it is, automatic updates and Windows firewall are designed to be a set-and-forget approach to security which for 99% of users works perfectly. They don't care about being able to allow specific ports outgoing access, or whether the packets are UDP or TCP. They don't want to have to recompile shit, they just want to be able to click a button and the machine does the rest. Which automatic updates and Windows firewall does quite well.
One of them pops up a bubble in the system tray as soon as you log in, as well as popping up a big security centre window the first time you turn the machine on or install SP2. In fact, if you're not part of a domain, it kicks in the initial security centre configuration before you even get the chance to log in.
The trouble is that people do not listen. Unless they do not actually have admin access to the system, the chances are if a box pops up going "You need admin access to install this, if you have it then just shove in a username and password here:" people will do so regardless.
Hell, in XPSP2 it has this big balloon which pops up repeatedly going along the lines of "Listen you pillock, you don't have firewall or automatic updates turned on. You really do need these. Click here and I'll set it all up for you, it's about 3 seconds work!". I know people who, when have this pointed out to them, go "Oh I never read that, it just keeps popping up".
The only other thing to do with some people is forcibly configure things, which I'm sure we'd all hate. I use Active Directory to force fine-tuned update compliance and firewall settings across my home network, but home users can't even negotiate a simple dialogue going "Here's what you need to do, here's why you need to do it, here's how to do it".
So when IE pops up a convenient dialogue warning about the fact that HotPornDialer32.exe isn't signed and is in fact coming from a website with an invalid certificate, along with a warning about exactly why it's bad to click 'Install', people will do anyway. Perhaps a Firefox-esque forced delay is in order so people can't just click 'OK' without thinking.
Steam is server-to-peer only. That's the reason the servers fell over when 6 million people hit them for the HL2 release.
I believe Steam 3 includes a cloud distribution model for mods so that they can be released and patched without nuking Valve's servers, but all Valve content will come straight from a content server and not a client.
Perhaps what we need to augment this system is a cloud of smaller satellites in orbit armed with short to mid-range tracking so that they can pick out space debris. When something is found which happens to be in the path of something else, it can flag up with mission control so that (if the colliding objects are easily moveable) the offending items can be shunted out of the path temporarily.
Alternatively, satellites which realise something is wrong with themselves can send out a general "I'm screwed" message without needing to wait for LoS to a ground transmitter.
Moderators obviously suck today, this is called an analogy or a metaphor. This means that it is in fact on topic.
Parent was saying (sarcasm on) that even though very few people need 600W (SUVs in the analogy), they are obviously far better than 300W/400W PSUs (Efficient city cars in the analogy) and therefore we should all buy them.
This highlights the fact that you don't need a 600W PSU for your office machine, much as you don't need an SUV for city driving.
It depends, some things really do work better with centralisation. IMAP is a good example of having a central location look after all your emails, and even if you don't use a web-app to read your mails the option is still there.
I move around a lot, and can't always guarantee I'm on a system with my applications on it. I want my contact list, emails and calendar to be accessible *live* without resorting to my iPaq and syncing it later on. If I use a web based interface, I don't have to worry about the Linux/Windows/Mac arguments because as long as I can load any (modern) browser and enter a URL, it will work.
On the other hand, I definately don't want to be trying to write my own applications, or even write documents, using webapps. Even if at the end of the day I store the file in a central repository, I still want the actual program I'm using to be on the local machine, simply because it's faster and more reliable.
So to summarise - central storage of the data, but I want to use local applications to read and edit it wherever possible. If there's nothing suitable, I can use the webapp to work in.
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I second that. I have a 7600 with the buttons down the sides in two rows, and I have to say that after a few days of "wtf?" it has become far faster and easier to use for applications than a traditional keypad. Two thumbs, one either side, and no obstruction of the screen.
But do they sing at you?
Makes no difference. If Apple release a product to make viewing movies easy from anywhere in the house how likely is it that getting video content will be made as easy as getting music?
At the moment I can get music from iTMS, or rip my own CDs. It wouldn't surprise me that if Apple plan for video distribution, it will include a nice two-step DVD rip as well.
I just hope it works on Windows as well as Macs, much as with iPod/iTunes. The iPod/iTunes combi is the only working attempt to define anything like a standard for digital distribution (You 'OMGS DRM PAYING SUX OMG' lot can get lost, I personally find iTMS and FairPlay to be... well... fair), and should it work on Macs and Windows a decent movie system should be the kick up the arse to the MPAA that the RIAA got.
The beauty of it is, if you can't find a social network site which meshes you can create your *own* social network site and...
Oh, wait.
No, the electric toothbrush mentioned didn't have any contact points. It used induction to transfer power between the base and the toothbrush body, which then charged a small battery inside the brush. This can work perfectly well through a couple of layers of plastic.
You and I may not, but others may feel the need to increase the size of their e-Penis. You know the world has gone downhill when people are getting e-penis enlargement spam through /.
Single or plural?
Or use a credit card? Or store loyalty cards?
These know far more about you than Google, it's just that Google has the skills to mine the data effectively.
As it happens, yes. I am aware the design is for a packet-based decentralised network. Notice the decentralised bit.
The internet is founded by the US in much the same way as the telephone network was founded by A. G. Bell (A scotsman incidentally). The fact that the telephone network is now worldwide means that a single Scotsman is no longer in control. Why not so with the Internet? It is an international network with international users, why not international governance?
If you buy a phone from the vendor like I did with one of my old handsets, it comes unlocked. Nokia sold me a phone for around £200 and it came fully unlocked and wonderful.
As with most things it was developed for research purposes by international scientists, hijacked by the US military, then inexplicably became mankind's greatest ever achievement which could not possibly have become anything because the US invented the whole thing...
Sorry. INTERnet, not USAnet. It doesn't matter who designed it back then, what matters is what it is now. And what it is now is an international network which happens to have the USA in charge of the root DNS servers.
This means that I need to make a link to the PHP source code available through all sites running on my server? Apache as well? How about Linux since that holds the entire thing together?
Yes I know they may not all be GPL3, but this is the kind of thing this 'closed loophole' will lead to.
Is it bollocks. Most people wouldn't know about network efficiency, and with the speed of systems today and trickle updates, it doesn't make any difference if it's 200KB or 200MB.
Running a Linux desktop is a pain in the arse, whichever way you look at it. Yes you do get a firewall, after much prodding aboug, and people DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO COMPILE THEIR OWN PATCHES INTO THE KERNEL. Linux is a moot point. Why not get a Mac instead, or a hardware firewall? We are dealing with Windows, and whilst Linux is a generally superior server OS it cannot yet compete for Joe Public on the desktop without someone to support it.
As it is, automatic updates and Windows firewall are designed to be a set-and-forget approach to security which for 99% of users works perfectly. They don't care about being able to allow specific ports outgoing access, or whether the packets are UDP or TCP. They don't want to have to recompile shit, they just want to be able to click a button and the machine does the rest. Which automatic updates and Windows firewall does quite well.
One of them pops up a bubble in the system tray as soon as you log in, as well as popping up a big security centre window the first time you turn the machine on or install SP2. In fact, if you're not part of a domain, it kicks in the initial security centre configuration before you even get the chance to log in.
All it takes is for them to pay attention once.
The trouble is that people do not listen. Unless they do not actually have admin access to the system, the chances are if a box pops up going "You need admin access to install this, if you have it then just shove in a username and password here:" people will do so regardless.
Hell, in XPSP2 it has this big balloon which pops up repeatedly going along the lines of "Listen you pillock, you don't have firewall or automatic updates turned on. You really do need these. Click here and I'll set it all up for you, it's about 3 seconds work!". I know people who, when have this pointed out to them, go "Oh I never read that, it just keeps popping up".
The only other thing to do with some people is forcibly configure things, which I'm sure we'd all hate. I use Active Directory to force fine-tuned update compliance and firewall settings across my home network, but home users can't even negotiate a simple dialogue going "Here's what you need to do, here's why you need to do it, here's how to do it".
So when IE pops up a convenient dialogue warning about the fact that HotPornDialer32.exe isn't signed and is in fact coming from a website with an invalid certificate, along with a warning about exactly why it's bad to click 'Install', people will do anyway. Perhaps a Firefox-esque forced delay is in order so people can't just click 'OK' without thinking.
Steam is server-to-peer only. That's the reason the servers fell over when 6 million people hit them for the HL2 release.
I believe Steam 3 includes a cloud distribution model for mods so that they can be released and patched without nuking Valve's servers, but all Valve content will come straight from a content server and not a client.
I think +R is on top due to player support, but most burners will happily burn both types.
Smart-proxies aren't needed to deal with dynamic pages, the responsibility lies with the web developer to return the correct headers.
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Expires: -1
If the proxy follows the spec, it should not cache pages returned with those headers. If it does, you need a new proxy.
Or if not dedicated satellites, at least those already up there being able to report "I've hit something, dammit!"
Go go gadget mesh networking.
Perhaps what we need to augment this system is a cloud of smaller satellites in orbit armed with short to mid-range tracking so that they can pick out space debris. When something is found which happens to be in the path of something else, it can flag up with mission control so that (if the colliding objects are easily moveable) the offending items can be shunted out of the path temporarily.
Alternatively, satellites which realise something is wrong with themselves can send out a general "I'm screwed" message without needing to wait for LoS to a ground transmitter.
Moderators obviously suck today, this is called an analogy or a metaphor. This means that it is in fact on topic.
Parent was saying (sarcasm on) that even though very few people need 600W (SUVs in the analogy), they are obviously far better than 300W/400W PSUs (Efficient city cars in the analogy) and therefore we should all buy them.
This highlights the fact that you don't need a 600W PSU for your office machine, much as you don't need an SUV for city driving.
I would have thought it was an inward extension of the Great Firewall of China
It depends, some things really do work better with centralisation. IMAP is a good example of having a central location look after all your emails, and even if you don't use a web-app to read your mails the option is still there.
I move around a lot, and can't always guarantee I'm on a system with my applications on it. I want my contact list, emails and calendar to be accessible *live* without resorting to my iPaq and syncing it later on. If I use a web based interface, I don't have to worry about the Linux/Windows/Mac arguments because as long as I can load any (modern) browser and enter a URL, it will work.
On the other hand, I definately don't want to be trying to write my own applications, or even write documents, using webapps. Even if at the end of the day I store the file in a central repository, I still want the actual program I'm using to be on the local machine, simply because it's faster and more reliable.
So to summarise - central storage of the data, but I want to use local applications to read and edit it wherever possible. If there's nothing suitable, I can use the webapp to work in.
Ugh, /. nerfed my greater than and less than symbols. Basically, if there's less than 4 then reproduce, if there's more than 6 then die.
find(other_nanites_in_area);
for (i_be_nanite){
nanites++;
}
if (nanites 6){
die();
}