Yes and I'm convinced that my local council in the UK uses a copy of Simcity to implement road planning and routes: one way systems, traffic lights, road works, etc.
It's quite obvious the user doesn't have a driving licence or drive in my local area, since the decisions they make are completely insane and illogical from a practical point of view, they just look pretty in Simcity.
The thing is, it's not just 1 truck and the water. As you saw from the footage the sheer amount of debris in the water would be your major problem, not drowning just because you're in the water per se.
I think the safest thing that driver could do was to put their foot to the floor and drive as aggressively away from the coast line as they could, trying to stick to the roads and make sure that they don't overcook it going round a corner and blow out a tyre.
It would certainly take some confidence to drive out of a situation like that without panicing and being left a sitting duck in the middle of the road, immobilized by fear.
One thing I've found out after a few years of rolling out software to companies with inefficient workflow, is that users absolutely hate change.
They are not really interested in the profits, or how something could perhaps work more efficiently... they want to come into work, do the same job they did yesterday (easy) and go home to their families. They don't want to learn new systems or get their head around new implementations. That requires engaging the brain and interacting with the software rather than just clicking the same old buttons over and over.
There is also the fear of embracing a new software product which may make them redundant, so they resist and complain and wish things were the way they were before so they can go back to sleep for the rest of their 8 hour shift.
I think the days of people in business playing the dumb card ("I don't know anything about computers, I stay away from them!") are slowly dying. At some point it won't be acceptable to be dumb computer user or "IT illiterate" anymore than not being able to read about write is acceptable in most business environments today.
Governments will be even worse, everyone will have an opinion about what should be happening and the entire thing will drown in red tape. Can you imagine?!
Ultimately it's about giving the German public the very best value for their taxes they pay, who cares what the OS is? Linux or Windows, it'll always be poorly received by the users.
It wasn't luck that Geo or SomeOneElse leaked the keys, it was inevitable due to Sonys poor crypto implementation. Sony will be to blame, is responsible, and has to somehow mitigate the damage that's been done.
Before moving to this ISP/router I've always used a Cisco 877 at home, and I liked it because it let me learn a little about the cisco config. If I wanted Annex M functionality I'd have to rebuy the Cisco 877 M K9 for it to work:(
The Linksys is a great little device, has a USB port for NAS. Responsive web GUI and it doesn't reboot itself each time a change is made to the config.
I sync at 19Mb down and 2.1Mb up, which is very good for my distance from the exchange and ADSL2+ technology.
A place near me which serves all-you-can-eat buffets has a clause which states that if you don't finish your plate then you have to pay a surcharge.
I'm from the UK and I visited the USA last year for the first time, I went to Las Vegas for 10 days and it was very easy to go to the likes of the Bellagio Grand Buffet and eat like a pig for 2 hours. It's quite a novelty, especially when I could eat 6 or 7 different courses at 10am. If I got bored of a course that I'd grabbed, I'd just leave my half filled plate on the table and start again on a different cuisine. The waitress would come along and clear the plate to remove any embaressment by the time I had returned with more noms.
My grandmother would faint if she could see the wastage in the states, she's from a war generation where food was rationed and nothing went to waste. That was diluted over the next 2 generations, but I still have an inbuilt ambition to finish all the food on my plate, rather than just eating the best of it and not appreciate the food infront of me.
I was quoting the facts stated in the Youtube video (the TV series is called QI (Quite Interesting) which is broadcast in the UK on BBC and hosted by Stephen Fry)
A quick Google found me the webpage that was probably used to generate the statistics:
"1% of American adults are in prison (2.3m people)
No society in history has imprisoned more of it's citizens than the United States of America
1 in 30 men aged 20-34 are in prison 1 in 9 black males are in prison There are more 17 year old black people in prison than in college.
Prison labour produces 100% all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests, id tags, and other items of uniform
93% of domestic produced paints, 36% of home appliances and 21% of office furniture. This allows the US to compete with Mexican labour - because the workers cannot refuse to work for 25 cents per hour. "
I wonder how much money a single inmate could earn to offset their $453,00 "rehabilitation" bill. It's no wonder the sentances are so harsh.
My full time job is working for a small hotel group (5 hotels) and I run their IT, and I was going to reply with the exact same argument as you - why not also charge for the utility services such as electricity, water and heating if you're going to charge for WiFi.
Our WiFi is free to use, with no encryption or password protection. What we are thinking of doing is implementing some sort of version of Chillispot which will ask the guest if they mind submitting their email address for our marketing purposes, with incentives such as winning a free or meal during their stay. Or they can choose to skip the submittion form, either way they will be authenticated after hitting our splash page first.
In my experience people don't mind getting "spam" from us if they willingly opt in and are getting something for it.
Yeah I went to look around at what Bing offered and I tried the Bing Visual Search.. and it prompted me to download the Silver Light installer. My insta-knee-jerk reaction was to click cancel since I didn't specifically ask to download something. I'd like to think more and more casual users are getting better at not installing random crap from websites now that they've spent the past few years having their computers infected and it costing them real money and time to have it fixed.
If I was looking for something, and the idea of a Visual Search seemed like a good idea - I wouldn't want to then start installing additional software. I want my results! I've obviously got a goal which is to find information, not to spend time installing stuff. I'm likely to go elsewhere.
From a "I'd like to know what Microsoft are up to here!" angle, the Visual Search seems like a 2 pronged attack - 1) Google by offering a different search product and 2) to increase it's market share against Adobe Flash player.
A couple of my friends work in school IT departments, and I've always argued with them the pointlessness of trying to filter the internet usage in schools.
- It doesn't prevent the dangerous stuff like kids being groomed by weirdos on the internet
- It's not perfect in terms of banned websites or URLs. False positives occur and how are you supposed to deal with kids aged from 11 through to 18 and all of their learning requirements/subjects, including biology?
- Kids run or install proxies which route through the filtering proxies and they get on MSN and other sites they want to get to anyway. Only the "good guys" lose out
- When they get home they can do whatever the hell they want anyway. If you've been on the internet, you cannot unsee some websites and images!
All it does is give the teachers and parents (who don't know any better) a false sense of security. They get to accuse the kid of hacking or breaching yet more rules and regulations by viewing "banned" websites. The school teachers are absolved from any responsibility and can show that they at least made an effort to stop little Jonny from browing sites he shouldn't.
The only possible solution for kids to be allowed on the internet, is for them to have 100% supervision. Their parents should keep an eye on them and educate them on why supervision is required. The teachers should educate them on the dangers. A portion of their curriculum each year should be whats going on on-line and why they should pay attention. Then when they are old enough or responsible enough - the kids should be told by their parents that they've reached a responsible age, and now it's up to them to look after themselves and not be manipulated, conned or ripped off. Coming of age and maturity.
There is no other alternative. Letting youths onto the 'net I can only compare to letting them out into cities at night unsupervised. They are exposed to danger which could ultimately become a physical threat to them.
So are seedboxes going to cause entire data centers or hosting providers to be disconnected? Users in the closed tracker communities pay for seedboxes at remote hosting facilities to help boost speeds and their ratio and they could single handily cause down time or disruption to 1000s of users if this laws consequences was applied to them.
My guess is that if this law goes through then seedboxes would become even more popular. Seed from the remote box, and VPN between the box and the home user. It has to be a much safer option already... bandwidth is cheap and disk space is always getting cheaper.
What about public WiFi projects and airports, hotels etc? As usual there are some fringe cases where this law just doesn't work.
I can completely agree about both the N95 and the N97.
For me the N95 broke new ground and really was an impressive device when it was released. The fixes did a lot to help usability and stability.
The N97 is the Nokia device which has pissed me off so much - that I've become stuborn and vowed to never, ever again own another Nokia Symbian device. It's a complete disaster, even with the much anticipated v20 firmware.
I get a free company phone of my choosing, and I could've taken the iPhone at various times but I stood my ground on the principle of it being a "more free" device in terms of application choice. Now I'd be happy to give all of that up just to have a device which has a slick UI, does the basic functions perfectly and isn't so frustrating that I want to smash the device into the floor or throw it out of the car window.
Nokia really have to improve - they have no other choice - otherwise I believe they will lose the smartphone market.
As good as the N900 is or promises to be - I refuse to believe the hype or to be an early adopter. I'd have to see the phone in action in Real Life first before even considering another Nokia product.
The N97 is the single worst mobile phone I have ever owned.
I made a devastating mistake choosing to get one through my work contract over an iPhone and I so wish I hadn't done so. The latest v20 firmware promised to fix a lot of the problems.. which it addressed... but failed... and the N97 is still a million miles away from the competition such as the iPhone 3GS and HTC Hero in terms of interface usability and slickness.
Now Nokia are focused on the N900 and Maemo so they aren't going to be bothered trying to fix the Symbian OS, which I think is the route cause of all of the N97s problems.
I'll never own another Nokia again after this disaster:(
The Cloud works for some customers because they are depending on under-utilization of the available resources. If all the news agenices, Twitter and Facebook all used Amazon then perhaps it would create the same melt down.
iPhone owners will love Nokia N95 users then. I could set my phone as a WiFI access point and iPhone users could make Skype calls through my data plan.
So annoying to see technology come so far and then the next logical step be crippled.
Being sat on the tube/metro with my iPhone/N95 and wifi + bittorrent would enable huge amounts of data exchange while I'm commuting to work.
Music concerts and festivals could allow the audience to bluetooth or wifi their music to the DJ, allowing him to queue it up, vote on the next track, allowing him to mix it live. As people come and go, so does their music collection, tastes and interests.
Apparently that wouldn't be good for society though. It'd be better to lock everyone down and charge them like a wounded rhino.
The thing is, mobile carriers are scared of data adoption. If the price of data transfer becomes as cheap as other typical landline based broadband packages, their revenue will decrease as customers will use VOIP instead of traditional calls. Worldwide, SMS text messages are worth $billions and £billions.
Mobile carriers have some serious business issues to address, imo they are destined to become ISPs rather than Voice Service Providers. Even now, with many of the places I go on my daily routine I have access to Wifi, so I can use my N95 + wifi + fring to make 10% of my calls - which cost absolutely nothing. If mesh style wifi becomes more popular, companies like AT&T, Verizon, BT, T-Mobile, will all find that their services become redundant.
The only option they have in the future is to charge for data - so like all other big industries they are typically "kicking the arse" out of their current cash cow and will shout, kick, scream and sue as their business model goes down the pan. $0 - $20 would've been the cost to use a local wifi connection and to send the data using traditional internet access.
To be fair, I've been informed by another poster that the BBC delivers adverts to IP ranges outside of the UK, so perhaps I stand corrected over if the BBC advertises. It certainly doesn't to the UK audience, but it makes sense to when dealing with non UK residents.
The only thing the BBC directly advertises is themselves.
Short previews of their shows, or informative adverts on how to upgrade to digital TV etc. No doubleclick adverts, so I figure you must be confusing the BBC iPlayer with break.com or something.
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Yes and I'm convinced that my local council in the UK uses a copy of Simcity to implement road planning and routes: one way systems, traffic lights, road works, etc.
It's quite obvious the user doesn't have a driving licence or drive in my local area, since the decisions they make are completely insane and illogical from a practical point of view, they just look pretty in Simcity.
If you extend javascripts prototype, then they do exist - as does any other event which you care to fire and listen for.
Check the Sencha framework for an example of iOS and Android framework which implements these events and allows you to use these handlers.
I must be new here because this is one of the most retarded /. comments ever.
By your logic a tablet is better at browsing any site that makes use of swipe, pinch, zoom events.
The thing is, it's not just 1 truck and the water. As you saw from the footage the sheer amount of debris in the water would be your major problem, not drowning just because you're in the water per se.
I think the safest thing that driver could do was to put their foot to the floor and drive as aggressively away from the coast line as they could, trying to stick to the roads and make sure that they don't overcook it going round a corner and blow out a tyre.
It would certainly take some confidence to drive out of a situation like that without panicing and being left a sitting duck in the middle of the road, immobilized by fear.
Users will complain about anything.
One thing I've found out after a few years of rolling out software to companies with inefficient workflow, is that users absolutely hate change.
They are not really interested in the profits, or how something could perhaps work more efficiently ... they want to come into work, do the same job they did yesterday (easy) and go home to their families. They don't want to learn new systems or get their head around new implementations. That requires engaging the brain and interacting with the software rather than just clicking the same old buttons over and over.
There is also the fear of embracing a new software product which may make them redundant, so they resist and complain and wish things were the way they were before so they can go back to sleep for the rest of their 8 hour shift.
I think the days of people in business playing the dumb card ("I don't know anything about computers, I stay away from them!") are slowly dying. At some point it won't be acceptable to be dumb computer user or "IT illiterate" anymore than not being able to read about write is acceptable in most business environments today.
Governments will be even worse, everyone will have an opinion about what should be happening and the entire thing will drown in red tape. Can you imagine?!
Ultimately it's about giving the German public the very best value for their taxes they pay, who cares what the OS is? Linux or Windows, it'll always be poorly received by the users.
It wasn't luck that Geo or SomeOneElse leaked the keys, it was inevitable due to Sonys poor crypto implementation. Sony will be to blame, is responsible, and has to somehow mitigate the damage that's been done.
One can only hope common sense prevails. 4 year old kids are still learning that their actions have repercussions.
The woman who has died will not benefit from the court case, just her immediate family who are trying to gain financially from her demise.
Don't forget to delete your Xmarks account by logging into the website and choosing My Account > Delete Account.
I removed the xmarks extension from my browsers, and then wondered what would happen to my data. I can only assume it's gone now.
In this day and age it's easy to litter the 'net with personal information.
For ADSL2+ (Annex M) I use the Linksys WAG-320N
Before moving to this ISP/router I've always used a Cisco 877 at home, and I liked it because it let me learn a little about the cisco config. If I wanted Annex M functionality I'd have to rebuy the Cisco 877 M K9 for it to work :(
The Linksys is a great little device, has a USB port for NAS. Responsive web GUI and it doesn't reboot itself each time a change is made to the config.
I sync at 19Mb down and 2.1Mb up, which is very good for my distance from the exchange and ADSL2+ technology.
A place near me which serves all-you-can-eat buffets has a clause which states that if you don't finish your plate then you have to pay a surcharge.
I'm from the UK and I visited the USA last year for the first time, I went to Las Vegas for 10 days and it was very easy to go to the likes of the Bellagio Grand Buffet and eat like a pig for 2 hours. It's quite a novelty, especially when I could eat 6 or 7 different courses at 10am. If I got bored of a course that I'd grabbed, I'd just leave my half filled plate on the table and start again on a different cuisine. The waitress would come along and clear the plate to remove any embaressment by the time I had returned with more noms.
My grandmother would faint if she could see the wastage in the states, she's from a war generation where food was rationed and nothing went to waste. That was diluted over the next 2 generations, but I still have an inbuilt ambition to finish all the food on my plate, rather than just eating the best of it and not appreciate the food infront of me.
I was quoting the facts stated in the Youtube video (the TV series is called QI (Quite Interesting) which is broadcast in the UK on BBC and hosted by Stephen Fry)
A quick Google found me the webpage that was probably used to generate the statistics:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289
As per QI:
"1% of American adults are in prison (2.3m people)
No society in history has imprisoned more of it's citizens than the United States of America
1 in 30 men aged 20-34 are in prison
1 in 9 black males are in prison
There are more 17 year old black people in prison than in college.
Prison labour produces 100% all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet proof vests, id tags, and other items of uniform
93% of domestic produced paints, 36% of home appliances and 21% of office furniture. This allows the US to compete with Mexican labour - because the workers cannot refuse to work for 25 cents per hour. "
I wonder how much money a single inmate could earn to offset their $453,00 "rehabilitation" bill. It's no wonder the sentances are so harsh.
YouTube clip of QI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7wgFcCefE
My full time job is working for a small hotel group (5 hotels) and I run their IT, and I was going to reply with the exact same argument as you - why not also charge for the utility services such as electricity, water and heating if you're going to charge for WiFi.
Our WiFi is free to use, with no encryption or password protection. What we are thinking of doing is implementing some sort of version of Chillispot which will ask the guest if they mind submitting their email address for our marketing purposes, with incentives such as winning a free or meal during their stay. Or they can choose to skip the submittion form, either way they will be authenticated after hitting our splash page first.
In my experience people don't mind getting "spam" from us if they willingly opt in and are getting something for it.
Yeah I went to look around at what Bing offered and I tried the Bing Visual Search.. and it prompted me to download the Silver Light installer. My insta-knee-jerk reaction was to click cancel since I didn't specifically ask to download something. I'd like to think more and more casual users are getting better at not installing random crap from websites now that they've spent the past few years having their computers infected and it costing them real money and time to have it fixed.
If I was looking for something, and the idea of a Visual Search seemed like a good idea - I wouldn't want to then start installing additional software. I want my results! I've obviously got a goal which is to find information, not to spend time installing stuff. I'm likely to go elsewhere.
From a "I'd like to know what Microsoft are up to here!" angle, the Visual Search seems like a 2 pronged attack - 1) Google by offering a different search product and 2) to increase it's market share against Adobe Flash player.
A couple of my friends work in school IT departments, and I've always argued with them the pointlessness of trying to filter the internet usage in schools.
- It doesn't prevent the dangerous stuff like kids being groomed by weirdos on the internet
- It's not perfect in terms of banned websites or URLs. False positives occur and how are you supposed to deal with kids aged from 11 through to 18 and all of their learning requirements/subjects, including biology?
- Kids run or install proxies which route through the filtering proxies and they get on MSN and other sites they want to get to anyway. Only the "good guys" lose out
- When they get home they can do whatever the hell they want anyway. If you've been on the internet, you cannot unsee some websites and images!
All it does is give the teachers and parents (who don't know any better) a false sense of security. They get to accuse the kid of hacking or breaching yet more rules and regulations by viewing "banned" websites. The school teachers are absolved from any responsibility and can show that they at least made an effort to stop little Jonny from browing sites he shouldn't.
The only possible solution for kids to be allowed on the internet, is for them to have 100% supervision. Their parents should keep an eye on them and educate them on why supervision is required. The teachers should educate them on the dangers. A portion of their curriculum each year should be whats going on on-line and why they should pay attention.
Then when they are old enough or responsible enough - the kids should be told by their parents that they've reached a responsible age, and now it's up to them to look after themselves and not be manipulated, conned or ripped off. Coming of age and maturity.
There is no other alternative. Letting youths onto the 'net I can only compare to letting them out into cities at night unsupervised. They are exposed to danger which could ultimately become a physical threat to them.
So are seedboxes going to cause entire data centers or hosting providers to be disconnected? Users in the closed tracker communities pay for seedboxes at remote hosting facilities to help boost speeds and their ratio and they could single handily cause down time or disruption to 1000s of users if this laws consequences was applied to them.
My guess is that if this law goes through then seedboxes would become even more popular. Seed from the remote box, and VPN between the box and the home user. It has to be a much safer option already... bandwidth is cheap and disk space is always getting cheaper.
What about public WiFi projects and airports, hotels etc? As usual there are some fringe cases where this law just doesn't work.
I can completely agree about both the N95 and the N97.
For me the N95 broke new ground and really was an impressive device when it was released. The fixes did a lot to help usability and stability.
The N97 is the Nokia device which has pissed me off so much - that I've become stuborn and vowed to never, ever again own another Nokia Symbian device. It's a complete disaster, even with the much anticipated v20 firmware.
I get a free company phone of my choosing, and I could've taken the iPhone at various times but I stood my ground on the principle of it being a "more free" device in terms of application choice. Now I'd be happy to give all of that up just to have a device which has a slick UI, does the basic functions perfectly and isn't so frustrating that I want to smash the device into the floor or throw it out of the car window.
Nokia really have to improve - they have no other choice - otherwise I believe they will lose the smartphone market.
As good as the N900 is or promises to be - I refuse to believe the hype or to be an early adopter. I'd have to see the phone in action in Real Life first before even considering another Nokia product.
The N97 is the single worst mobile phone I have ever owned.
I made a devastating mistake choosing to get one through my work contract over an iPhone and I so wish I hadn't done so. The latest v20 firmware promised to fix a lot of the problems.. which it addressed... but failed... and the N97 is still a million miles away from the competition such as the iPhone 3GS and HTC Hero in terms of interface usability and slickness.
Now Nokia are focused on the N900 and Maemo so they aren't going to be bothered trying to fix the Symbian OS, which I think is the route cause of all of the N97s problems.
I'll never own another Nokia again after this disaster :(
What if everyone uses Cloud hosting?
The Cloud works for some customers because they are depending on under-utilization of the available resources. If all the news agenices, Twitter and Facebook all used Amazon then perhaps it would create the same melt down.
iPhone owners will love Nokia N95 users then. I could set my phone as a WiFI access point and iPhone users could make Skype calls through my data plan.
So annoying to see technology come so far and then the next logical step be crippled.
Being sat on the tube/metro with my iPhone/N95 and wifi + bittorrent would enable huge amounts of data exchange while I'm commuting to work.
Music concerts and festivals could allow the audience to bluetooth or wifi their music to the DJ, allowing him to queue it up, vote on the next track, allowing him to mix it live. As people come and go, so does their music collection, tastes and interests.
Apparently that wouldn't be good for society though. It'd be better to lock everyone down and charge them like a wounded rhino.
Just give them your forwarding address:
John Doe #93254
Bunk 3
Cell 4562
Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
The thing is, mobile carriers are scared of data adoption. If the price of data transfer becomes as cheap as other typical landline based broadband packages, their revenue will decrease as customers will use VOIP instead of traditional calls. Worldwide, SMS text messages are worth $billions and £billions.
Mobile carriers have some serious business issues to address, imo they are destined to become ISPs rather than Voice Service Providers. Even now, with many of the places I go on my daily routine I have access to Wifi, so I can use my N95 + wifi + fring to make 10% of my calls - which cost absolutely nothing. If mesh style wifi becomes more popular, companies like AT&T, Verizon, BT, T-Mobile, will all find that their services become redundant.
The only option they have in the future is to charge for data - so like all other big industries they are typically "kicking the arse" out of their current cash cow and will shout, kick, scream and sue as their business model goes down the pan. $0 - $20 would've been the cost to use a local wifi connection and to send the data using traditional internet access.
To be fair, I've been informed by another poster that the BBC delivers adverts to IP ranges outside of the UK, so perhaps I stand corrected over if the BBC advertises. It certainly doesn't to the UK audience, but it makes sense to when dealing with non UK residents.
The only thing the BBC directly advertises is themselves.
Short previews of their shows, or informative adverts on how to upgrade to digital TV etc. No doubleclick adverts, so I figure you must be confusing the BBC iPlayer with break.com or something.
Just use an alt tag.