No refs, but if we say that Sony had 30% of the market over the entire lifetime of the product - a feasible number as there were many, many imitators - then that suggests there were over half a billion of the things. More often than not I would encounter friends with a non-Sony unit, so one in three sounds like a good rough guess.
The trouble is, there's a shit-load of copper out there, much of it in incredibly inaccessible places. Complete replacement of copper network versus use of DNA water? Which is cheaper? Especially when we consider that BT are embarking on a copper replacement plan, but only between their cabinets.
I'm holding off because I don't like the idea of wearing glasses just to watch the television. Also I cannot bear the micro-adjustments your eyes have to make for any significant length of time.
They are using two or three different accounts to reduce the load on one individual account - no I don't understand either - but it does highlight the need to eliminate imposters.
Besides, all it would take is an interface between the 999 call-recording software and the Twitter API. I HOPE someone isn't sat there copying them from one system and submitting them in another.
But you need a way to prove that the person holding the card is the cardholder, as it were. Smartcards are generally used in a form of two-factor authentication. It's why our bank cards require a PIN.
Virgin absolutely cannot be trusted, if not only because they too have a media arm which means, like Sky,
Virgin sold their media arm to Sky, funnily enough, a month or two back.
Let's be honest though, the ISPs aren't really just thinking of their poor customers, they just don't want to become the net's policemen. This was also their reasoning behind the fight against the DEA, TalkTalk included. That Act tries to shift the burden onto the ISPs by making them analyse traffic, contact customers, go through expensive disconnection battles, et cetera.
Surely the attraction is the deep analysis such services offer. Like I can set up a short link, post it on a forum and watch how many people click, and where they click it, did it get tweeted and so on. If you don't own the URL's target server you'll never find this out.
To compare a world-class athlete, a man probably one in a million in terms of technique, application and effort, to someone trying to play a video game is at best disingenuous. Why should I need to develop muscle memory in order to play some two-bit game?
There was an essay from around 2003 or maybe earlier which predicted that these so-called "news aggregators" would become as famous as the news-makers themselves, and would hold the most valuable positions in the information age. Someone refresh my memory, as it seems it might have been incredibly accurate.
An odd response, I thought CR was an exercise in collecting amateur pr0n from unsuspecting users who sign their rights away when they use the site. Maybe they got enough?
Maybe you could explain to granny how losing the ability to record two channels at once is "progress" - and how the kind of artefacts seen on digital TV with a poor signal is "progress", when before one could at least watch through the analogue snow. As eldavajohn says, not everyone is suitably comfortable enough with new technology to splash around money they don't have on products with abbreviations they don't understand. Especially when it reduces your choice.
As soon as I read the summary I thought of Warwick. Puffed-up PR posing as legitimate research. Classic Kevin Warwick. The Register used to have a 'thing' about him, a search there would reveal many similar antics in the past, including the notorious bionic chip.
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No refs, but if we say that Sony had 30% of the market over the entire lifetime of the product - a feasible number as there were many, many imitators - then that suggests there were over half a billion of the things. More often than not I would encounter friends with a non-Sony unit, so one in three sounds like a good rough guess.
The trouble is, there's a shit-load of copper out there, much of it in incredibly inaccessible places. Complete replacement of copper network versus use of DNA water? Which is cheaper? Especially when we consider that BT are embarking on a copper replacement plan, but only between their cabinets.
I'm holding off because I don't like the idea of wearing glasses just to watch the television. Also I cannot bear the micro-adjustments your eyes have to make for any significant length of time.
They are using two or three different accounts to reduce the load on one individual account - no I don't understand either - but it does highlight the need to eliminate imposters.
Besides, all it would take is an interface between the 999 call-recording software and the Twitter API. I HOPE someone isn't sat there copying them from one system and submitting them in another.
Just like if you leave your door open, burglars have the legal right to take your stuff (or even just use it)
But you need a way to prove that the person holding the card is the cardholder, as it were. Smartcards are generally used in a form of two-factor authentication. It's why our bank cards require a PIN.
Twitter - perfecting the art of people talking at, rather than to, each other.
No wonder our universe is so backward... all the civilisations are sat in their gravity wells waiting for someone else to turn up with a solution....
Virgin sold their media arm to Sky, funnily enough, a month or two back.
Let's be honest though, the ISPs aren't really just thinking of their poor customers, they just don't want to become the net's policemen. This was also their reasoning behind the fight against the DEA, TalkTalk included. That Act tries to shift the burden onto the ISPs by making them analyse traffic, contact customers, go through expensive disconnection battles, et cetera.
Surely the attraction is the deep analysis such services offer. Like I can set up a short link, post it on a forum and watch how many people click, and where they click it, did it get tweeted and so on. If you don't own the URL's target server you'll never find this out.
The Digital Economy Act was the one rushed through Parliament. The Data Protection Act is the one that might have been breached here.
How is email any different than sending a message on Facebook? Hint: it isn't at all.
apart from that bit which allows FB to retain your communication in perpetuity
It's very easy to invite people to your party on Facebook. perhaps too easy. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8012043/Girl-14-fears-21000-party-guests-after-Facebook-invite-blunder.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/12/facebook-party-mayfair-riot-police http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23722118-im-proud-my-facebook-party-cost-police-10000.do
Twitter. Perfecting the art of people talking at, rather than to each other.
Good, that must mean there's no point to Twitter then.
To compare a world-class athlete, a man probably one in a million in terms of technique, application and effort, to someone trying to play a video game is at best disingenuous. Why should I need to develop muscle memory in order to play some two-bit game?
There was an essay from around 2003 or maybe earlier which predicted that these so-called "news aggregators" would become as famous as the news-makers themselves, and would hold the most valuable positions in the information age. Someone refresh my memory, as it seems it might have been incredibly accurate.
it works, as well. Pinpointed my UK house down to the pixel. Travel down the road with a 3G laptop and the dot follows you.
Freedom of speech? You'll take my ampersand from my cold, dead hands.
"If God had meant football to be played in the air he would have put grass in the sky" - Brian Clough
An odd response, I thought CR was an exercise in collecting amateur pr0n from unsuspecting users who sign their rights away when they use the site. Maybe they got enough?
Maybe you could explain to granny how losing the ability to record two channels at once is "progress" - and how the kind of artefacts seen on digital TV with a poor signal is "progress", when before one could at least watch through the analogue snow. As eldavajohn says, not everyone is suitably comfortable enough with new technology to splash around money they don't have on products with abbreviations they don't understand. Especially when it reduces your choice.
Interestingly there appears to be no Native Americans at all - none I've seen mentioned in reviews anyway. Presumably a political decision.
As soon as I read the summary I thought of Warwick. Puffed-up PR posing as legitimate research. Classic Kevin Warwick. The Register used to have a 'thing' about him, a search there would reveal many similar antics in the past, including the notorious bionic chip.