says that they '"grab" the four centre digits of a vehicle number plate' - although how you grab the four central digits of a UK 7-character plate I don't know. Does identifying a car to within about 1 in 1000 mean that you've "recognised" it? Statistically, it must be good enough for them to measure traffic flow.
Interesting that people here started discussing Windows when the article didn't mention it!
When Windows Mobile 5 came out or had just done so, F-Secure had a product ready, and you could argue that the statements that F-Secure made at the time saying that you could benefit from their software were inaccurate, given than there was virtually no malware for the OS at the time. When I looked at it (a few months ago) there was allegedly a fair bit of malware for Symbian, and I'm guessing that F-Secure got to producing WM5 software because they already produced Symbian / Nokia software, and because of the historically huge takeup of Nokia devices in Finland.
I can't comment on how good F-Secure's WM5 software is because I've never used it. I have used Windows Mobile 5 (and hated it - but that's a different story), but was surprised that how hard it was to install an updated version of it - it essentially requires a whole new image to be installed, and you reinstall all your data.
ALL operating systems have flaws - because software has bugs, period. The discovery of a 0-day flaw that could be remotely exploited in an OS with this "reinstall from scratch" requirement, like WM5, would be a major headache to the wireless carriers that typically supply the devices and users.
I'd also disagree that "most people don't need AV software". As devices become more capable, they're more likely to need functions to protect users from themselves. You may not need this, but "most people" do.
You don't have to buy SA, though. Many companies don't (although one of the articles says that they're not renewing a "running contract with Microsoft", none of the linked articles directly say "forced renewal after 3 years").
They do say that they're spending 160k on OO instead of 330k on Office, thus saving 170k. They also each say that "we're not going to move to Linux" as well...
330k is about 90 Euro a desktop. Anyone care to comment whether 90 Euro is about right for Office at this volume after haggling, and whether that would include SA or not? I'd have guessed that it would have been maybe a bit low but pretty close to a purchase price (without SA), but quite a lot for an annual fee.
>... unwanted volume licences for some Microsoft software can be transferred; but this trade must be compliant > with Microsoft's own transfer terms and conditions.
is entirely correct - it's a "feature" of UK insolvency laws. See here:
After Sony's experience, it's bound to play MP3s. I'd worry instead that they'll try and shoehorn Windows Mobile 5 or similar on it and come up with something full of unwanted "features" that make it slow and clumsy to use.
I'd worry about the battery life if the wifi is on all the time, too...
It's possible that a very poor ABS could stop slower in the dry than driver very experienced at cadence braking could, but it would have to be a very bad ABS system - ABS can "press and release the pedal" much faster than a human, and although it can't see the road ahead can detect and react to the acceleration at each wheel individually and much faster.
I suppose the relevant example would be the old no-expense-spared DTM - there, ABS was legal, and was used. You can bet that if it wasn't effective the manufacturers would have saved the weight and left the ABS out, given that all of the drivers concerned were clearly "experienced at threshold braking" - almost no other series allowed ABS. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Tourenwagen_ Meisterschaft for a bit of info on the old DTM).
> The fact that 'Bogtha' appears at the bottom, as part of the comment and not part of the > meta-data, means that I've "signed" the "contract".
No - I think what the judge said was the fact that it doesn't means that you haven't. The inverse isn't necessarily true or untrue. He then goes on to discuss what might constitute a legal signature.
> Not a single one of the corporate email systems officially supported by BES is even close to > fitting this description. Exchange has always been a piece of sh** as far as filtering is > concerned
The BES part of that certainly doesn't fit my experience...
Setting up mail filters in Outlook is a "wizardy" thing designed to allow even idiots to set up mail filters, and no, it doesn't let you do anything too complicated.
However, I've not had a problem with the BES honouring "don't sync this folder" after Exchange has done a "move to folder". For example - Spamassassin marks stuff as spam on the way in, Exchange is told to move stuff so marked into a "spam" folder, and that doesn't get sent to the device.
There were historically issues like this with the BES version for Novell Groupwise - I don't know if they've been fixed or not yet, and I can't comment about Domino, so you could be correct there.
While email-to-SMS might work for you, I wouldn't assume that you'll always get those SMSes immediately . Having relied on this for some time in the past for server emergency messages it's fair to say there will be occasions (albeit rare) when you don't get "that important SMS" for a couple of hours or so.
...and it's also worth mentioning that many of the "African" (i.e. not European or European-derived) national languages are related, just as many European languages are. For example, the words for "centre" and "central" are similar to the latin original even as far as Denmark and Norwegian Danish ("Senter" in Norwegian if I remember correctly). And the Romans didn't get much further North than the Rhine...
To describe a word as "Western European" isn't necessarily prejorative, and "South African" or "African" isn't either.
That works great if you're actually in the same room as all of the other people you want to talk to. I'm not, and it'll be increasingly be the case that most people aren't.
In a few years time the idea of everyone going to centralised "offices" all the time to do whatever it is they do will seem as antiquated as moving memos around by paper does today.
I think that someone's suffering from a severe sense of humour failure today. OK, so it's not exactly very funny, but it's not exactly flamebait either.
This has been his line for at least 20 years (since the dispute at Wapping) and probably longer.
However, my (entirely subjective) experience is that the newspapers that tend to get quoted / referenced in other online articles* from the UK and Australia aren't the News Corp ones - from the UK it's as often as not the Scotsman and the Guardian, followed by the rest; from Australia it's the Sydney Morning Herald. Maybe it's my reading that tends to steer me away from places likely to quote Murdoch papers - but I'm sure that that's not the whole story.
In the commercial world, Linux distributions stand out by having applications (that businesses need to run) saying "will run on distribution X". Application vendors pick distributions with the largest market share (among their target market). Right now, these are versions of Redhat and Suse - so that's they say their products work on.
If it's someone with a mathematical background who is planning on writing compilers in a few years time, then it probably isn't. But if it's someone who's initial goal is to link a few screens together with a bit of code behind them, and then maybe go on to more "traditional" programming, then it's an excellent choice - and so are Delphi, Java and probably lots of others.
Someone above said something along the lines of "people should start with assembler and then work from there". I don't agree - it's like saying that you need to be able to build an internal combustion engine from scratch before getting a driving licence. Speaking as someone who DID learn assembler programming (Z80, on the venerable Spectrum*) pretty early on, I'd have to say that assembler can be a really good way of teaching people really bad habits. The level of indirection that an "object view" of things gives you is a good idea - that's why it has stuck around!
* I suppose it's worth mentioning here that Z80 assembler was pretty rich in some ways - one instruction to "move this block of memory from here to here" for example. That, and the well-documented Spectrum ROM functions made writing assembler programs that "did something useful" (even though all they were really doing was calling lots of existing functions) was relatively easy. A bit like VB...
Email is NOT for sending binary copies of document XYZ
How exactly then do you suggest that salesperson A on a customer site sends a document to salesperson B somewhere else? I'd be interested to know what suggestions you've got that would be as easy as "new message / attach file / send".
People don't send business emails because they want to, but because they're trying to do their job. Statements like the one above won't win any friends and will distract everyone from the sensible suggestions that you went on to make, such as "please delete stuff occasionally".
In the UK I believe that they do that because of the way that the pricing from BT works (where most get the wholesale ADSL connections / connectivity from). Those that don't are paying for bandwidth directly somewhere along the line.
The problem is that customers LIKE fixed costs and don't necessarily know how much "X Gb" is. Some ISPs in the UK (like mine) are going away from fixed limits and using traffic shaping to limit the speed of e.g. P2P connections. They also restrict the use of "servers open to the internet" (but interestingly don't yet, as far as I can see, restrict open Wi-Fi).
It'll surely only be a matter of time before everything is charged per bit - including voice calls.
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I'm English - I've always thought that quite a lot of what's written here isn't.
I suspect that it depends on what you mean by "recognise". This page:w w.trafficmaster.co.uk/page.cfm%3Fkey%3Dnetwork_ptf m-network+&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox -a
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:jE-HE3fd-eEJ:w
(TM's Coldfusion site has boiled over, hence from Google cache)
says that they '"grab" the four centre digits of a vehicle number plate' - although how you grab the four central digits of a UK 7-character plate I don't know. Does identifying a car to within about 1 in 1000 mean that you've "recognised" it? Statistically, it must be good enough for them to measure traffic flow.
It's been done:i cproducts
http://www.trafficmaster.co.uk/page.cfm?key=traff
(never used their products, bought their stock or worked for them, but I've driven past their cameras plenty of times).
Interesting that people here started discussing Windows when the article didn't mention it!
When Windows Mobile 5 came out or had just done so, F-Secure had a product ready, and you could argue that the statements that F-Secure made at the time saying that you could benefit from their software were inaccurate, given than there was virtually no malware for the OS at the time. When I looked at it (a few months ago) there was allegedly a fair bit of malware for Symbian, and I'm guessing that F-Secure got to producing WM5 software because they already produced Symbian / Nokia software, and because of the historically huge takeup of Nokia devices in Finland.
I can't comment on how good F-Secure's WM5 software is because I've never used it. I have used Windows Mobile 5 (and hated it - but that's a different story), but was surprised that how hard it was to install an updated version of it - it essentially requires a whole new image to be installed, and you reinstall all your data.
ALL operating systems have flaws - because software has bugs, period. The discovery of a 0-day flaw that could be remotely exploited in an OS with this "reinstall from scratch" requirement, like WM5, would be a major headache to the wireless carriers that typically supply the devices and users.
I'd also disagree that "most people don't need AV software". As devices become more capable, they're more likely to need functions to protect users from themselves. You may not need this, but "most people" do.
And there was me thinking that some of the engineers on Apollo were most definitely "imported".. html
http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/vonbraun/bio
You don't have to buy SA, though. Many companies don't (although one of the articles says that they're not renewing a "running contract with Microsoft", none of the linked articles directly say "forced renewal after 3 years").
u ropa.eu.int/ida/en/document/3393/470+groningen+ope noffice&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=7&lr=lang_en&client =firefox-a
They do say that they're spending 160k on OO instead of 330k on Office, thus saving 170k. They also each say that "we're not going to move to Linux" as well...
330k is about 90 Euro a desktop. Anyone care to comment whether 90 Euro is about right for Office at this volume after haggling, and whether that would include SA or not? I'd have guessed that it would have been maybe a bit low but pretty close to a purchase price (without SA), but quite a lot for an annual fee.
Apparently there have been other projects in other local authorities in Groningen province (the city of Groningen itself is the biggest city in Groningen province):
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:BzxPzhhUBLoJ:e
(google cache link because the original's moved).
I'm not sure that the statement at the end
... unwanted volume licences for some Microsoft software can be transferred; but this trade must be compliant
+ goes+on+sale/2100-1012_3-5944617.html
>
> with Microsoft's own transfer terms and conditions.
is entirely correct - it's a "feature" of UK insolvency laws. See here:
http://news.com.com/Secondhand+Microsoft+software
http://www.openfree.org/opinion/?p=31
After Sony's experience, it's bound to play MP3s. I'd worry instead that they'll try and shoehorn Windows Mobile 5 or similar on it and come up with something full of unwanted "features" that make it slow and clumsy to use.
I'd worry about the battery life if the wifi is on all the time, too...
Is it Notes or Emacs that's the ugly email client?
Like this one?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm
It's possible that a very poor ABS could stop slower in the dry than driver very experienced at cadence braking could, but it would have to be a very bad ABS system - ABS can "press and release the pedal" much faster than a human, and although it can't see the road ahead can detect and react to the acceleration at each wheel individually and much faster.
_ Meisterschaft for a bit of info on the old DTM).
I suppose the relevant example would be the old no-expense-spared DTM - there, ABS was legal, and was used. You can bet that if it wasn't effective the manufacturers would have saved the weight and left the ABS out, given that all of the drivers concerned were clearly "experienced at threshold braking" - almost no other series allowed ABS.
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Tourenwagen
> The fact that 'Bogtha' appears at the bottom, as part of the comment and not part of the
c ases/EWHC/Ch/2006/813.html&query=+incidental+in+th e+sense+identified+by+Lord+Westbury&method=all , especially para 22 on)
> meta-data, means that I've "signed" the "contract".
No - I think what the judge said was the fact that it doesn't means that you haven't. The inverse isn't necessarily true or untrue. He then goes on to discuss what might constitute a legal signature.
(this is from reading the judgement here:
http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/
...and that just shows that whoever is deciding what to black out and what not to doesn't know what they are doing.
> Not a single one of the corporate email systems officially supported by BES is even close to
> fitting this description. Exchange has always been a piece of sh** as far as filtering is
> concerned
The BES part of that certainly doesn't fit my experience...
Setting up mail filters in Outlook is a "wizardy" thing designed to allow even idiots to set up mail filters, and no, it doesn't let you do anything too complicated.
However, I've not had a problem with the BES honouring "don't sync this folder" after Exchange has done a "move to folder". For example - Spamassassin marks stuff as spam on the way in, Exchange is told to move stuff so marked into a "spam" folder, and that doesn't get sent to the device.
There were historically issues like this with the BES version for Novell Groupwise - I don't know if they've been fixed or not yet, and I can't comment about Domino, so you could be correct there.
While email-to-SMS might work for you, I wouldn't assume that you'll always get those SMSes immediately . Having relied on this for some time in the past for server emergency messages it's fair to say there will be occasions (albeit rare) when you don't get "that important SMS" for a couple of hours or so.
...and it's also worth mentioning that many of the "African" (i.e. not European or European-derived) national languages are related, just as many European languages are. For example, the words for "centre" and "central" are similar to the latin original even as far as Denmark and Norwegian Danish ("Senter" in Norwegian if I remember correctly). And the Romans didn't get much further North than the Rhine...
To describe a word as "Western European" isn't necessarily prejorative, and "South African" or "African" isn't either.
That works great if you're actually in the same room as all of the other people you want to talk to. I'm not, and it'll be increasingly be the case that most people aren't.
In a few years time the idea of everyone going to centralised "offices" all the time to do whatever it is they do will seem as antiquated as moving memos around by paper does today.
So the bloke on the back of the old Irish fiver now has a view on software patents?
g ena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Scotus_Eriu
Of course it's not genuine - it's a cohesive argument with long sentences. John Howard's prose is usually much more "combative" than this.
I think that someone's suffering from a severe sense of humour failure today. OK, so it's not exactly very funny, but it's not exactly flamebait either.
This has been his line for at least 20 years (since the dispute at Wapping) and probably longer.
However, my (entirely subjective) experience is that the newspapers that tend to get quoted / referenced in other online articles* from the UK and Australia aren't the News Corp ones - from the UK it's as often as not the Scotsman and the Guardian, followed by the rest; from Australia it's the Sydney Morning Herald. Maybe it's my reading that tends to steer me away from places likely to quote Murdoch papers - but I'm sure that that's not the whole story.
(*excluding Fark and The Sun, of course).
I'd have thought that "an effective, up-to-date, virus checker" would be an excellent start to an AUP.
In the commercial world, Linux distributions stand out by having applications (that businesses need to run) saying "will run on distribution X". Application vendors pick distributions with the largest market share (among their target market). Right now, these are versions of Redhat and Suse - so that's they say their products work on.
If it's someone with a mathematical background who is planning on writing compilers in a few years time, then it probably isn't. But if it's someone who's initial goal is to link a few screens together with a bit of code behind them, and then maybe go on to more "traditional" programming, then it's an excellent choice - and so are Delphi, Java and probably lots of others.
Someone above said something along the lines of "people should start with assembler and then work from there". I don't agree - it's like saying that you need to be able to build an internal combustion engine from scratch before getting a driving licence. Speaking as someone who DID learn assembler programming (Z80, on the venerable Spectrum*) pretty early on, I'd have to say that assembler can be a really good way of teaching people really bad habits. The level of indirection that an "object view" of things gives you is a good idea - that's why it has stuck around!
* I suppose it's worth mentioning here that Z80 assembler was pretty rich in some ways - one instruction to "move this block of memory from here to here" for example. That, and the well-documented Spectrum ROM functions made writing assembler programs that "did something useful" (even though all they were really doing was calling lots of existing functions) was relatively easy. A bit like VB...
Email is NOT for sending binary copies of document XYZ
How exactly then do you suggest that salesperson A on a customer site sends a document to salesperson B somewhere else? I'd be interested to know what suggestions you've got that would be as easy as "new message / attach file / send".
People don't send business emails because they want to, but because they're trying to do their job. Statements like the one above won't win any friends and will distract everyone from the sensible suggestions that you went on to make, such as "please delete stuff occasionally".
In the UK I believe that they do that because of the way that the pricing from BT works (where most get the wholesale ADSL connections / connectivity from). Those that don't are paying for bandwidth directly somewhere along the line.
The problem is that customers LIKE fixed costs and don't necessarily know how much "X Gb" is. Some ISPs in the UK (like mine) are going away from fixed limits and using traffic shaping to limit the speed of e.g. P2P connections. They also restrict the use of "servers open to the internet" (but interestingly don't yet, as far as I can see, restrict open Wi-Fi).
It'll surely only be a matter of time before everything is charged per bit - including voice calls.