It's not a perfect solution - a number of 3 letter combinations have multiple words that they can mean. Actually, what I'd rather have is something like the old Microwriter Agenda:
Dead right - but the rules that code reviews enforce need to be there for a reason, not just arguments about style. I once had the misfortune to be in a code review meeting where the main topic of discussion seemed to be 8-character tabs vs 4-character ones.
Thanks for that. Judging by many of the responses posts so far (of the "the magnetic field has wobbled all over the place" variety), the relevance of the recent research providing evidence that it hadn't wasn't obvious.
If I'm not mistaken, the Hoffman / Schrag article appeared in Jan 2000's Scientific American, and was more readable there with illustrations intact.
But the era of "consciously" recording something is (nearly) dead. A few years ago you might find something out and "store" that bit of information so that it was available next time you needed it (say - a recipe for Christmas Pudding). Storage was expensive in terms of time or effort, so it didn't happen to everything. These days storage is not only cheap, it's often automatic. If I want to know what I was working on a year last Thursday it's easy to find out - I think that I last saw a paper diary about 10 years ago, so a year last Thursday is as accessible last week in terms of what was written down at the time.
In thirty years time, we won't be struggling to find out what a particular band sounded like in 2010 by trying to restore rotting CDs or breaking some long-forgotten DRM system - there'll be a thousand and one personal records of every performance still flying around as "live" data, taken using people's mobile phones (or whatever has replaced mobile phones in 2010).
The way that we know what a lot of (British) TV programs in the 1960s and even later isn't because they were "officially preserved" at the time - unofficial audience recordings and tapes "rescued" from bins have had a huge role to play (see http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/missing.htm for a few examples). The future's just like that, only more so.
You're correct as to ad-break frequency (so 3 breaks is the maximum in a 1-hour show), but Channel 4 does seem to have moved to often having a US-style "post titles break" within the first ten minutes. It's not necessarily a bad idea if whoeever designed the show intended there to be a break at that point - what would be a bad idea would be too long / too frequent breaks.
> And if Microsoft can have a patch for two states and one territory in a relatively small country, then they can have a patch for > the vast majority of their home country...
I wouldn't bet on it, they screwed some people in Europe up since the move to "last week in October" from "fourth week in October": http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/910268
Still, I'm not aware of any planes falling out of the sky because someone turned up to a meeting an hour late...
It's mainly "folk" (whatever that means this week - and it certainly means something different in the UK and the US) - but if you're doing a Robyn Hitchcock cover you can't be that far off (assuming that you're these "Jennifers" - http://www.thejennifers.com/music.html of course).
It would be useful to know exactly what law had been broken - the links that I can find just quote the judge saying that "the offer for sale had taken place not in Hong Kong but in the EEA". Is this just "Asda and Tesco vs Levi" again?
If it IS just a trademark issue, what's to prevent some sort of "Iceweasel" solution to this? For example advertise the consoles as being of certain dimensions and able to play certain titles - but no more.
Outlook seems to use IE's proxy settings, though. If you don't use IE as a browser (or use one of the other things that depends on it, like Outlook Express) presumably there's no need to have those set to a proxy that will return anything at all (or even set to a valid proxy server).
What I haven't tried is seeing whether Outlook tries to go direct if proxy settings are set to something that's complete garbage (as far as resolving the name is concerned) or indeed does a DNS lookup "for no apparent reason" anyway.
Using a crappy old version of Zonealarm here, but any decent software firewall would do the same.
Zonealalarm's pretty basic - it* only has concepts of "local" and "Internet" zones; simply ensure that the Exchange server that it wants to connect to is in the "local" zone and that Outlook can't access the "Internet" zone.
Surely needing a "battery replacement service" is a problem in itself? Why not use actual user-removable rechargeable batteries - even better if they're a standard size (e.g. AAA). Charging over $60 for a new battery sounds like a rip-off to me.
Most organisations are going to wait until the hardware replacement cycle dictates new PCs before putting Vista in place, at which point it will be "free" (in the sense of costs being hidden in another budget). Also, people who are going to deploy e.g. collaboration servers are going to do so anyway, regardless of Vista, so no extra costs there.
The big, big cost will be user education and support - which TFA didn't mention. Even 2000 to XP confused people enough to have a significant extra support cost.
The author apparently "writes books and jokes about technology" so I suspect he's not being entirely serious here, but whether he was primarily trying to be funny or not, he could have done a better job of it.
That was widely viewed as being at the very least badly focused if not actually inaccurate in its conclusions. It cost the BBC the top two people running the corporation; since then there hasn't seemed to be the willingness to go out on a limb to make accusations that can lead to serious investigation. Other broadcasters (Channel 4, even occasionally Sky) did a job that was as good as the BBC before - now they're much more willing to raise issues.
Wherever you go, anywhere in the world, anyone who gets within a few feet of you can conclusively identify you as a U.S. citizen if they so wish to.
They pretty much can now, even before you've opened your mouth - from a combination of dress, mannerisms, etc. Once you start speaking, the accent confirms it. Social norms in different (Western) countries are often very different and the game of "guess the country of origin of your fellow travellers" at an airport is surprisingly easy.
...or if you're fussy about sound quality a CD player that recognises MP3 data CDs - around 60 quid in the UK, so maybe $100 US? It's got to be a better option than trying to shoehorn any sort of MP3 player into a car and then finding that all it tells you is "TR04" or similar. This assumes that you haven't bought into some scheme that stops you copying music off your player, though.
> I don't even know what happens to Linux when you don't close it off cleanly
Depends what's running on the server of course, but if it is just e.g. serving files surprisingly little goes wrong, assuming that you're using a journalling filesystem.
Maybe that was the case a while back, but when I installed Debian for the first time in years a couple of months ago, the installer seemed pretty idiotproof. Having heard of its reputation the I RTFMed first, but didn't really need to as the installer was no less good at handholding than many commercial distros. Can't comment about Gentoo, but I suspect that the bloke that wrote the article might want to put himself in a position where he can do image backups and restores (using dd or whatever) so that when "something gets broken" he can at least restore back to a pre-broken state.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.blackberry.com/products/suretype/index. shtml
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(OK - that has with 5 keys across rather than 3)
It's not a perfect solution - a number of 3 letter combinations have multiple words that they can mean. Actually, what I'd rather have is something like the old Microwriter Agenda:
http://www.geoff.org.uk.nyud.net:8080/museum/micr
but without the individual character ABCDE etc. keys.
No, "she is accused of being associated with people who are accused of trying to blow up several airplanes".
I'm not going to make any judgegment until a trial, and nor should you.
Dead right - but the rules that code reviews enforce need to be there for a reason, not just arguments about style. I once had the misfortune to be in a code review meeting where the main topic of discussion seemed to be 8-character tabs vs 4-character ones.
...compared with, say, Christmas 1347 (or 1918)? Which is worse - no "Zune" or the Black Death?
Thanks for that. Judging by many of the responses posts so far (of the "the magnetic field has wobbled all over the place" variety), the relevance of the recent research providing evidence that it hadn't wasn't obvious.
If I'm not mistaken, the Hoffman / Schrag article appeared in Jan 2000's Scientific American, and was more readable there with illustrations intact.
Can I have a Microsoft-supported Linux driver for NTFS please?
But the era of "consciously" recording something is (nearly) dead. A few years ago you might find something out and "store" that bit of information so that it was available next time you needed it (say - a recipe for Christmas Pudding). Storage was expensive in terms of time or effort, so it didn't happen to everything. These days storage is not only cheap, it's often automatic. If I want to know what I was working on a year last Thursday it's easy to find out - I think that I last saw a paper diary about 10 years ago, so a year last Thursday is as accessible last week in terms of what was written down at the time.
In thirty years time, we won't be struggling to find out what a particular band sounded like in 2010 by trying to restore rotting CDs or breaking some long-forgotten DRM system - there'll be a thousand and one personal records of every performance still flying around as "live" data, taken using people's mobile phones (or whatever has replaced mobile phones in 2010).
The way that we know what a lot of (British) TV programs in the 1960s and even later isn't because they were "officially preserved" at the time - unofficial audience recordings and tapes "rescued" from bins have had a huge role to play (see http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/missing.htm for a few examples). The future's just like that, only more so.
...and given that the occurence of Opera doubled in that period, in 5 days we'll all be using that instead.
You're correct as to ad-break frequency (so 3 breaks is the maximum in a 1-hour show), but Channel 4 does seem to have moved to often having a US-style "post titles break" within the first ten minutes. It's not necessarily a bad idea if whoeever designed the show intended there to be a break at that point - what would be a bad idea would be too long / too frequent breaks.
> And if Microsoft can have a patch for two states and one territory in a relatively small country, then they can have a patch for
> the vast majority of their home country...
I wouldn't bet on it, they screwed some people in Europe up since the move to "last week in October" from "fourth week in October":
http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/910268
Still, I'm not aware of any planes falling out of the sky because someone turned up to a meeting an hour late...
They might be an option - depends on what sort of music you're doing:y /pc/home.asp
http://www.wovenwheatwhispers.co.uk/folk_communit
It's mainly "folk" (whatever that means this week - and it certainly means something different in the UK and the US) - but if you're doing a Robyn Hitchcock cover you can't be that far off (assuming that you're these "Jennifers" - http://www.thejennifers.com/music.html of course).
It would be useful to know exactly what law had been broken - the links that I can find just quote the judge saying that "the offer for sale had taken place not in Hong Kong but in the EEA". Is this just "Asda and Tesco vs Levi" again?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1261829.stm
has a summary of that (grey imports from the rest of the EEA legal; elsewhere not)
Also see:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899
http://www.patent.gov.uk/policy/policy-issues/pol
has a link to the judgement (those last two links may cause you to lose the will to stay awake, though).
If it IS just a trademark issue, what's to prevent some sort of "Iceweasel" solution to this? For example advertise the consoles as being of certain dimensions and able to play certain titles - but no more.
Hmm - good point (about the iframe thing).
Outlook seems to use IE's proxy settings, though. If you don't use IE as a browser (or use one of the other things that depends on it, like Outlook Express) presumably there's no need to have those set to a proxy that will return anything at all (or even set to a valid proxy server).
What I haven't tried is seeing whether Outlook tries to go direct if proxy settings are set to something that's complete garbage (as far as resolving the name is concerned) or indeed does a DNS lookup "for no apparent reason" anyway.
Sounded pretty mandatory last time I read it...
http://www.boe.ca.gov/sptaxprog/ewaste.htm
Using a crappy old version of Zonealarm here, but any decent software firewall would do the same.
Zonealalarm's pretty basic - it* only has concepts of "local" and "Internet" zones; simply ensure that the Exchange server that it wants to connect to is in the "local" zone and that Outlook can't access the "Internet" zone.
*the version I'm using, anyway.
Surely needing a "battery replacement service" is a problem in itself? Why not use actual user-removable rechargeable batteries - even better if they're a standard size (e.g. AAA). Charging over $60 for a new battery sounds like a rip-off to me.
Most organisations are going to wait until the hardware replacement cycle dictates new PCs before putting Vista in place, at which point it will be "free" (in the sense of costs being hidden in another budget). Also, people who are going to deploy e.g. collaboration servers are going to do so anyway, regardless of Vista, so no extra costs there.
The big, big cost will be user education and support - which TFA didn't mention. Even 2000 to XP confused people enough to have a significant extra support cost.
The author apparently "writes books and jokes about technology" so I suspect he's not being entirely serious here, but whether he was primarily trying to be funny or not, he could have done a better job of it.
The BBC's current "politeness" has everything to do with them getting blamed by the Hutton report:
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http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/
That was widely viewed as being at the very least badly focused if not actually inaccurate in its conclusions. It cost the BBC the top two people running the corporation; since then there hasn't seemed to be the willingness to go out on a limb to make accusations that can lead to serious investigation. Other broadcasters (Channel 4, even occasionally Sky) did a job that was as good as the BBC before - now they're much more willing to raise issues.
For more of this angle on the Hutton report, here's some humour from Guardian readers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hutton/story/0,,1146756
From around 1983:
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?
(small 2nd screen above the keyboard, in case it isn't obvious)
I always thought that it was a daft idea then...
Shame the Vikings couldn't make a go of it - a "greater Denmark" would have been interesting.
Wherever you go, anywhere in the world, anyone who gets within a few feet of you can conclusively identify you as a U.S. citizen if they so wish to.
They pretty much can now, even before you've opened your mouth - from a combination of dress, mannerisms, etc. Once you start speaking, the accent confirms it. Social norms in different (Western) countries are often very different and the game of "guess the country of origin of your fellow travellers" at an airport is surprisingly easy.
How hard is it for web sites to check the browser user agent and output something relevant? It's not as if many sites don't do this already anyway.
...or if you're fussy about sound quality a CD player that recognises MP3 data CDs - around 60 quid in the UK, so maybe $100 US? It's got to be a better option than trying to shoehorn any sort of MP3 player into a car and then finding that all it tells you is "TR04" or similar. This assumes that you haven't bought into some scheme that stops you copying music off your player, though.
> I don't even know what happens to Linux when you don't close it off cleanly
Depends what's running on the server of course, but if it is just e.g. serving files surprisingly little goes wrong, assuming that you're using a journalling filesystem.
Maybe that was the case a while back, but when I installed Debian for the first time in years a couple of months ago, the installer seemed pretty idiotproof. Having heard of its reputation the I RTFMed first, but didn't really need to as the installer was no less good at handholding than many commercial distros. Can't comment about Gentoo, but I suspect that the bloke that wrote the article might want to put himself in a position where he can do image backups and restores (using dd or whatever) so that when "something gets broken" he can at least restore back to a pre-broken state.