I had exactly the opposite issue with BT back when broadband was relatively uncommon.
They set up everything, sent us all the hardware etc. but we couldn't get it to work. It took almost a month before we managed to get them to admit that they couldn't provide us with any service and we had to go back to dialup...at least they didn't ask for the hardware back...
Move to present day, I'm back at my parents for the weekend and they can get broadband, but they're stuck with ~786kbs compared to the 14mb I get for the same price in a city.
They used the Nexus One as an experiment to see how consumers reacted to buying smart phones directly and found that they preferred buying from carriers.
The experiment was a success as they now have an answer with data to back it up: consumers prefer buying from carriers.
You can specify the hardware and software requirements of your app in the manifest file and it will not show up in the market for devices which do not meet the requirements.
You can be incredibly specific. If you app requires an auto-focus camera then you can specify that and it will only show up for phones which have one.
and the have been heading there for a while now. Every "upgrade" I've ever bought has turned out to be a disappointment. Their drivers and firmware are crap, they have actually removed certain features from their Zen Vision:M series in the form of firmware "upgrades" (removing the ability to record from live radio is the first example that comes to mind) and the 2 players I've bought from them (a Zen Touch 20GB and Zen Vision:M 60GB) have both died within a year.
Lost the CD that comes with your Creative Player and want to reinstall Creative Media Explorer so you can start copying music to your player? Tough, you wont find it anywhere on their website, they don't offer it for download. (I even have the sneaking suspicion that while hunting for it I found them offering to ship it on CD for £8, although don't quote me on this being true or the price being anywhere near accurate).
I personally never plan on buying from them again, at least not until they pull their act together and start pushing updates that actually add features and drivers that work (Linux support would be lovely too, gnomad2 gets the job done but it's no where near perfect). I've always tried to avoid the iPod, but it's looking increasingly likely that my next mp3 player will be one.
Maybe because a game is not just a piece of software and most decent games have hundreds of full time graphics programmers, mission designers, texture artists, concept artists, AI programmers, skybox artists, effects artists, animation engineers, networking programmers etc. These kind of resources just aren't available to open source games, at least not to the same level as commercial games.
I just love how the article tells us "For starters, it was the first wireless pad to come as standard." then show a picture of a controller which has something at least very similar to a wire protruding out the back.
Anyways, I find the 360 controller to be very comfortable myself and usable for long periods of time. The only problem I have with it is how easy it is to get dirty. Dirt seems to be attracted to its sleek, white design.
Now, the only decision you have to make is do you believe the 11 year olds description of "about 20 kids started to cry" or the schools "the children remained there quietly for a short period of time"?
By blocking sites like Wikipedia you are doing absolutely _nothing_ to help you students. The information you can get access to through sites such as Wikipedia isn't something that should be lost. Why block access to something that could potentially be the most accurate and up to date source of information on a subject because it could be wrong, just like, um, everything else you find on the internet?
If you're blocking Wikipedia you may as well remove access to the internet from your students. Its the only way your going to stop them from viewing it at school when websites such as Answers.com give access to the Wikipedia article on the subject you've searched for and finding a proxy isn't exactly a difficult task, unless you block all search engines too.
More than once have I found Wikipedia to be more accurate and in a few cases correct where my course notes are wrong. There's an uproar among senior students when the IT staff update their list of blocked sites as every time they do Wikipedia is classified as "personal pages" and blocked for the next couple of weeks while the IT staff get off their asses and add it to the white list.
There was never a 'loss' of plutonium as such, simply a miscalculation which resulted in them having less plutonium than they had estimated at the begging. It mixed with other things at the begging, when they first try and work out how much thy will have so they can not get an accurate amount.
Whats more scary is the fact that they had more then they estimated a few years back.
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I had exactly the opposite issue with BT back when broadband was relatively uncommon.
They set up everything, sent us all the hardware etc. but we couldn't get it to work. It took almost a month before we managed to get them to admit that they couldn't provide us with any service and we had to go back to dialup...at least they didn't ask for the hardware back...
Move to present day, I'm back at my parents for the weekend and they can get broadband, but they're stuck with ~786kbs compared to the 14mb I get for the same price in a city.
They used the Nexus One as an experiment to see how consumers reacted to buying smart phones directly and found that they preferred buying from carriers.
The experiment was a success as they now have an answer with data to back it up: consumers prefer buying from carriers.
You can specify the hardware and software requirements of your app in the manifest file and it will not show up in the market for devices which do not meet the requirements.
You can be incredibly specific. If you app requires an auto-focus camera then you can specify that and it will only show up for phones which have one.
and the have been heading there for a while now. Every "upgrade" I've ever bought has turned out to be a disappointment. Their drivers and firmware are crap, they have actually removed certain features from their Zen Vision:M series in the form of firmware "upgrades" (removing the ability to record from live radio is the first example that comes to mind) and the 2 players I've bought from them (a Zen Touch 20GB and Zen Vision:M 60GB) have both died within a year.
Lost the CD that comes with your Creative Player and want to reinstall Creative Media Explorer so you can start copying music to your player? Tough, you wont find it anywhere on their website, they don't offer it for download. (I even have the sneaking suspicion that while hunting for it I found them offering to ship it on CD for £8, although don't quote me on this being true or the price being anywhere near accurate).
I personally never plan on buying from them again, at least not until they pull their act together and start pushing updates that actually add features and drivers that work (Linux support would be lovely too, gnomad2 gets the job done but it's no where near perfect). I've always tried to avoid the iPod, but it's looking increasingly likely that my next mp3 player will be one.
Maybe because a game is not just a piece of software and most decent games have hundreds of full time graphics programmers, mission designers, texture artists, concept artists, AI programmers, skybox artists, effects artists, animation engineers, networking programmers etc. These kind of resources just aren't available to open source games, at least not to the same level as commercial games.
This is slashdot after all.
I just love how the article tells us "For starters, it was the first wireless pad to come as standard." then show a picture of a controller which has something at least very similar to a wire protruding out the back. Anyways, I find the 360 controller to be very comfortable myself and usable for long periods of time. The only problem I have with it is how easy it is to get dirty. Dirt seems to be attracted to its sleek, white design.
Wasn't the average lift span also much shorter? Our lives are much longer today giving us time to take things slower and enjoy them more.
http://www.cityschools.net/schoolsites/se/images/N ews%20Release.jpg - Released by the school.
Now, the only decision you have to make is do you believe the 11 year olds description of "about 20 kids started to cry" or the schools "the children remained there quietly for a short period of time"?
The secure connection would be great, now if only my school didn't have all https:/// connections blocked by default.
Censorship sucks.
By blocking sites like Wikipedia you are doing absolutely _nothing_ to help you students. The information you can get access to through sites such as Wikipedia isn't something that should be lost. Why block access to something that could potentially be the most accurate and up to date source of information on a subject because it could be wrong, just like, um, everything else you find on the internet? If you're blocking Wikipedia you may as well remove access to the internet from your students. Its the only way your going to stop them from viewing it at school when websites such as Answers.com give access to the Wikipedia article on the subject you've searched for and finding a proxy isn't exactly a difficult task, unless you block all search engines too. More than once have I found Wikipedia to be more accurate and in a few cases correct where my course notes are wrong. There's an uproar among senior students when the IT staff update their list of blocked sites as every time they do Wikipedia is classified as "personal pages" and blocked for the next couple of weeks while the IT staff get off their asses and add it to the white list.
Grammer once again slips at /.
From a Scottish Linux Geek: Its back to calling them the 'Pigs'.
There was never a 'loss' of plutonium as such, simply a miscalculation which resulted in them having less plutonium than they had estimated at the begging. It mixed with other things at the begging, when they first try and work out how much thy will have so they can not get an accurate amount. Whats more scary is the fact that they had more then they estimated a few years back.
Looks like the server has been /.ed already.
And if anybody is going to be called a "Halo 2 fanboy", it should be me.
This still doesn't explain them blinking lights I keep seeing...