Scariest thing about this - it'll be the same everywhere else someone in the US puts a foot down. If it's a profitable business for the telcos, it's all good.
Out of interest (I'm from the UK), what would the costs be like if you used a UK based supplier on US networks? Would you still have to pay for incoming texts, or could you just pay the extra on outgoing ones and get all the texts you want?
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Thirdly, very boring project subject matter.
1. This 2. That 3. Very boring project subject matter (???) 4. Profit
Post Scriptum: The most I've ever seen a 'normal computer user' get out of dual screens is youtube in one window, and normal browsing in another window. I tried sidebars for a while, and it just doesn't help. Maybe I'm just used to 800x600 from many earlier years of computer usage.
Personally, I only use more than one thing in the same window when it makes sense. Firefox with firebug/web devel toolbar, and a text editor. Sometimes maybe a browser at the top, and an email client at the bottom. I only see widescreens beneficial for watching videos - multiple desktops make more sense if I wanna switch subject.
Though I can totally see the value of sidebars, I've still to see anyone who uses one long term.
I've messed about with some of them. It only seems useful for things I want 'at-a-glance'. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but that's the clock. Five seconds and a click I have the weather. I have a window always open that provides calculator functions. As many others here, I'm the computer fixer dude for friends. I still haven't met any 'normal computer users' who will use anything more than a browser and IM client on the same screen at a time.
Seriously though, decades of keyboard and mouse usage have given me superhero-like fingers when compared to none computer users. Will extended use of this give me a face like a body builders chest?
Face it, if an attacker already has physical access to a system -- to the extent that he can run his own Linux OS on it and mess with the contents of its disks -- then that computer is already, entirely owned. This is true for Linux, it's true for OS X, it's true for BSD, and it's true for Windows. That's just the way computers work.
It's much much harder with Linux. First of all you have to work out how to lure the user out of their basement and away from their computer.
First of all, I congratulate you for making attempts to improve the worlds searching (and also on the look of your website - I love that blue!). How is this different from ask.com though (Powerset's search didn't give me an answer to that).
Why is that if Adobe has a monopoly on a web item that in the end will be monstrously profitable that it's perfectly ok? If Microsoft wants to move in and give them competition it's a mortal sin.
Because most of us already (have to) use flash. What is Silverlight going to offer? It just feels like ActiveX 2.0.
Seriously though, what, if anything, can we do? I've signed a dozen or so petitions opposing laws being passed in the past decade, some with up to tens of thousands of signatures, and nothing changed. I've been on a handful of marches, and nothing has changed.
I live in the UK, and often many of our people are shocked when they realize how many CCTV cameras are on them at all times, let alone the other 'safety-procedures' put in place for our protection (DRM being a big one atm).
I remember this joke about how if your dog craps up on the pavement and a cop comes by, you should just squat over it as the fine for indecent exposure is less than the fine for allowing your dog to mess a public highway. Was a while ago though.. anyone know if it still works out cheaper?
Personally, the easiest deterrence is open carrying of weapons for everyone. If that mugger doesn't know if someone around has a gun and WILL use it, perhaps he won't mug ya of your wallet. Arm the populace and let God sort em out.
Or just don't allow guns? I've got a phone. If anyone breaks into my place, I have a choice of the police (station is 5 minutes away), or neighbours in the apartments around me (8 football-player sized guys within two minutes). Maybe I'm just lucky living somewhere that has more of a respect culture than a fear culture?
BTW, most shows on the BBC suck, too. Just as with commercial t.v., there's the occasional gem (Dr. Who).
Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The League of Gentlemen, Men Behaving Badly, The Office, Little Britian, Coupling, The Goodies, Goodness Gracious Me, Dead Ringers, Not The Nine O'Clock News, 'Allo 'Allo, Big Train, I'm Alan Partridge, Shooting Stars, The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, The Fast Show....
I jest, but still, the fact that all these issues are undetected by anti-virus programs does make me worry. My only windows box atm is not online, but when it is, I secure it as much as the next/.er. Most of my worry is for the people whose computers I have to go fix than mine. If a drone can't be detected, I'll look bad!
I can confirm this with the Messenger part. I've never seen anyone giveout a GTalk or MSN id in Romania, only Yahoo!.
This part worries me a bit. Are we going to see a GTalk/AIM vs MSN/YIM thing going on? Worse still, it wouldn't be inconceivable for the latter two to be linked together and Windows only. Do either of the two like third party IM clients at all?
With a combination of three free programs and a bit of common sense, I haven't gotten a single virus or bit of spyware on my XP box in literally years. ZoneAlarm, AVG, and Spybot make a fantastic defense.
..and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software.
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Scariest thing about this - it'll be the same everywhere else someone in the US puts a foot down. If it's a profitable business for the telcos, it's all good.
Out of interest (I'm from the UK), what would the costs be like if you used a UK based supplier on US networks? Would you still have to pay for incoming texts, or could you just pay the extra on outgoing ones and get all the texts you want?
1. This
2. That
3. Very boring project subject matter (???)
4. Profit
..'til they get wifi.
Post Scriptum: The most I've ever seen a 'normal computer user' get out of dual screens is youtube in one window, and normal browsing in another window. I tried sidebars for a while, and it just doesn't help. Maybe I'm just used to 800x600 from many earlier years of computer usage.
Personally, I only use more than one thing in the same window when it makes sense. Firefox with firebug/web devel toolbar, and a text editor. Sometimes maybe a browser at the top, and an email client at the bottom. I only see widescreens beneficial for watching videos - multiple desktops make more sense if I wanna switch subject.
Though I can totally see the value of sidebars, I've still to see anyone who uses one long term.
I've messed about with some of them. It only seems useful for things I want 'at-a-glance'. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but that's the clock. Five seconds and a click I have the weather. I have a window always open that provides calculator functions.
As many others here, I'm the computer fixer dude for friends. I still haven't met any 'normal computer users' who will use anything more than a browser and IM client on the same screen at a time.
The neighbours would notice holes in the walls and extra cables to their routers otherwise.
"Stop winking at me!"
"I'm not - I'm trying to send an email!"
Seriously though, decades of keyboard and mouse usage have given me superhero-like fingers when compared to none computer users. Will extended use of this give me a face like a body builders chest?
It's much much harder with Linux. First of all you have to work out how to lure the user out of their basement and away from their computer.
First of all, I congratulate you for making attempts to improve the worlds
searching (and also on the look of your website - I love that blue!). How is
this different from ask.com though (Powerset's
search didn't give me an answer to that).
Because most of us already (have to) use flash. What is Silverlight going to offer? It just feels like ActiveX 2.0.
Seriously though, what, if anything, can we do? I've signed a dozen or so petitions opposing laws being passed in the past decade, some with up to tens of thousands of signatures, and nothing changed. I've been on a handful of marches, and nothing has changed.
I live in the UK, and often many of our people are shocked when they realize how many CCTV cameras are on them at all times, let alone the other 'safety-procedures' put in place for our protection (DRM being a big one atm).
I remember this joke about how if your dog craps up on the pavement and a cop comes by, you should just squat over it as the fine for indecent exposure is less than the fine for allowing your dog to mess a public highway. Was a while ago though.. anyone know if it still works out cheaper?
And do what about it?
Agreed. BBses seems like the easier route (yahoo/google groups are easy enough if you are limited).
Or just don't allow guns? I've got a phone. If anyone breaks into my place, I have a choice of the police (station is 5 minutes away), or neighbours in the apartments around me (8 football-player sized guys within two minutes). Maybe I'm just lucky living somewhere that has more of a respect culture than a fear culture?
It won't get slashdotted, it'll get eaten by 69105 grues.
Dad's Army, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The League of
Gentlemen, Men Behaving Badly, The Office, Little Britian, Coupling, The
Goodies, Goodness Gracious Me, Dead Ringers, Not The Nine O'Clock
News, 'Allo 'Allo, Big Train, I'm Alan Partridge, Shooting Stars, The Two
Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, The Fast Show....
You're already at +5 funny, otherwise would've modded you up. Funniest comment I've read for a long while, thank you.
Maybe not today.
I jest, but still, the fact that all these issues are undetected by anti-virus programs does make me worry. My only windows box atm is not online, but when it is, I secure it as much as the next /.er. Most of my worry is for the people whose computers I have to go fix than mine. If a drone can't be detected, I'll look bad!
Best analogy ever. Can you do car ones as well?
This part worries me a bit. Are we going to see a GTalk/AIM vs MSN/YIM thing going on? Worse still, it wouldn't be inconceivable for the latter two to be linked together and Windows only. Do either of the two like third party IM clients at all?
Who needs a life if you can get decent broadband speeds. Maybe it's the ones who have a life that are the introverted IMers?