... and the odd SPV phone, have become increasingly bad at actually making a call.
My old Nokia 3330 was a lot faster to hang up a call and lock the keypad. I've waited 20 seconds with no apps running in the background on the 6680 for the thing to accept any input after ending a call.
There is Salling Clicker though which kinda makes up for it - one of the best phone advancements I've used in a while (no-one mention 3G please).
Gran Turismo series is a good example. Do you want to be driving past billboards for mock companies, in a car with fake sponsors, on circuits with changed names and layouts?
I agree that WoW would be ruined by a quest to return the Flame Grilled Whopper Recipe, and that BF1942 can do without the latest Nissan Micra advert, but some games are improved by the added realism. If these ads generate revenue to continue to develop quality games then that'll be a good thing too. Just don't make them intrusive or a hindrance to my enjoyment in any way shape or form.
That's fine - I was the same with The Ashes last year. What I disagree with are people who go out of their way to be killjoys. For example the BBC site has been inundated with people writing on polls stating they hate football and "can everyone stop please flying England flags?" etc. Each to their own.
Enjoy the WoW - I don't get time to play anymore:-(
A large portion of the rest of the world laughs at sports where:
- you have three teams (offense, defense and "special") which you bring on every 30 seconds. wearing an insane amount of armour and not really doing a lot.
- driving around a circle all day
etc. etc. I myself love Ice Hockey & Basketball even though I'm nought but a limey. It'd be nice if the US did more to embrace world cultures. As someone once said about football "If you only see the ball, you've missed the point". It's a world-uniting event.
From TFA: "Use existing, proven technologies and a few new and novel ideas - starting with the latest encoding mechanisms, a reliable hashing algorithm, fast compression, strong encryption and signatures. "
So in 25 years time today's technology will stop 90% of communication being spam? Spam exists in the spite of the best efforts to stamp it out. Whatever we do it'll be the same. Writing an article full of buzzwords and hypothesis doesn't really help a lot.
Perhaps if you ask them, they might stop!. or how about asking your network provider to block their number? or asking their provider to get them to pack it in?
why are you so obsessed with finding a nerdesque way to do something when a bit of real life common sense would go a long way
I'm one of the aforementioned gym-goers and my iPod shuffle has been part of the reason I've lost so much geekweight(30kg) in the last year. Having a little, robust and fuss-free mp3 player with me has got me through some tough long distance runs and some gym sessions where I didn't want to be there.
I often sit there for ages with my iPod video not knowing which of the 30gb of music & podcasts I actually want to listen to, having that hassle on runs before with other media players has been more than off-putting.
I have a PC and a Mac sharing the same monitor, the footprint of the Mini means I can sit it atop my PC case without even knowing it's there.
If I ever get bored of the noise I just browse in silence on the mini. (if it ran Warcraft properly I don't think I'd even have the PC).
Had a shock-tactic article about "Suicide Chatrooms" that a young girl frequented in order to take her life.
The article did not focus on the fact that parents need to try and understand and help when their child is contemplating self harm or suicide, rather on the evil of "backdoor codes".
"Backdoor codes" are numbers, rather than website addresses than children can use to hack these evil websites to gain information, apparently. Was the journalist referring to IP addresses? Referrer spoofing? Who can know?
Parents certainly won't. They'll see the evil of this fictitious rubbish and proclaim it as gospel. Unfortunately this sort of reporting happens too often and shows that papers and magazines are all too willing to prey on a lack of knowledge rather than research their story.
You're assuming the outsourcer that is given the huge contracts to supply and support is actually interested in preventing these issues. When contracts worth millions are sold around 24/7 support at a predicted level why would they want rid of end user tomfoolery?
Your points are all valid there, I was trying to put across the point that coaching and encouraging users to understand the WHY of not clicking on every popup might save them the cost of both a new PC and also the support. This would also have the added bonus of reducing zombie machines (although throwing them in the trash is one way of sorting THAT problem I suppose.)
Isn't telling people to go away and buy a new machine just avoiding the issue? More and more these days the things I've been asked to look at have stemmed from "This page said I was the millionth person to visit their site and that I should get some free smilies! Now my internet has been replaced with this other stuff"
I'm finding it hard to think of a circumstance that a user would benefit from buying a new machine. I'd think the focus ought to be on NOT getting people to throw money at a new box every time it blue screens - what a waste of money!
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I am currently househunting and I've seen many "virtual tour" examples on even the most rustic of rural english estate agent sites.
GP was grouping all Americans, and all Europeans under the same banners. Now who's racist?
not if you're a sickly type, prone to motion sickness. This thing could kill you!
If you're not looking at it how do you know if it's on or off? think about it!
They're not that cheap everywhere... check out eBuyer (www.ebuyer.co.uk). I paid about $80 or so for mine in the UK.
... and the odd SPV phone, have become increasingly bad at actually making a call.
My old Nokia 3330 was a lot faster to hang up a call and lock the keypad. I've waited 20 seconds with no apps running in the background on the 6680 for the thing to accept any input after ending a call.
There is Salling Clicker though which kinda makes up for it - one of the best phone advancements I've used in a while (no-one mention 3G please).
Gran Turismo series is a good example. Do you want to be driving past billboards for mock companies, in a car with fake sponsors, on circuits with changed names and layouts?
I agree that WoW would be ruined by a quest to return the Flame Grilled Whopper Recipe, and that BF1942 can do without the latest Nissan Micra advert, but some games are improved by the added realism. If these ads generate revenue to continue to develop quality games then that'll be a good thing too. Just don't make them intrusive or a hindrance to my enjoyment in any way shape or form.
Oh dear - join the rest of the world.
Can we have a comparison in REAL wages please? Not that a calculated fact would get in the way of a Daily Mail story.
That's fine - I was the same with The Ashes last year. What I disagree with are people who go out of their way to be killjoys. For example the BBC site has been inundated with people writing on polls stating they hate football and "can everyone stop please flying England flags?" etc. Each to their own.
:-(
Enjoy the WoW - I don't get time to play anymore
A large portion of the rest of the world laughs at sports where:
- you have three teams (offense, defense and "special") which you bring on every 30 seconds. wearing an insane amount of armour and not really doing a lot.
- driving around a circle all day
etc. etc. I myself love Ice Hockey & Basketball even though I'm nought but a limey. It'd be nice if the US did more to embrace world cultures. As someone once said about football "If you only see the ball, you've missed the point". It's a world-uniting event.
you do know that you don't have to watch it?
If they got enough money suing Apple for hearing loss from using the iPod in the first place they can surely afford it :)
From TFA: "Use existing, proven technologies and a few new and novel ideas - starting with the latest encoding mechanisms, a reliable hashing algorithm, fast compression, strong encryption and signatures. "
So in 25 years time today's technology will stop 90% of communication being spam? Spam exists in the spite of the best efforts to stamp it out. Whatever we do it'll be the same. Writing an article full of buzzwords and hypothesis doesn't really help a lot.
have you thought about:
ringing the number.
Perhaps if you ask them, they might stop!.
or how about asking your network provider to block their number? or asking their provider to get them to pack it in?
why are you so obsessed with finding a nerdesque way to do something when a bit of real life common sense would go a long way
I'm one of the aforementioned gym-goers and my iPod shuffle has been part of the reason I've lost so much geekweight(30kg) in the last year. Having a little, robust and fuss-free mp3 player with me has got me through some tough long distance runs and some gym sessions where I didn't want to be there.
I often sit there for ages with my iPod video not knowing which of the 30gb of music & podcasts I actually want to listen to, having that hassle on runs before with other media players has been more than off-putting.
Hopefully the screen will be a lot more durable than the current video one - mine scratched when in the fluffy little case Apple sold it with.
I have a PC and a Mac sharing the same monitor, the footprint of the Mini means I can sit it atop my PC case without even knowing it's there. If I ever get bored of the noise I just browse in silence on the mini. (if it ran Warcraft properly I don't think I'd even have the PC).
Had a shock-tactic article about "Suicide Chatrooms" that a young girl frequented in order to take her life.
The article did not focus on the fact that parents need to try and understand and help when their child is contemplating self harm or suicide, rather on the evil of "backdoor codes".
"Backdoor codes" are numbers, rather than website addresses than children can use to hack these evil websites to gain information, apparently. Was the journalist referring to IP addresses? Referrer spoofing? Who can know?
Parents certainly won't. They'll see the evil of this fictitious rubbish and proclaim it as gospel. Unfortunately this sort of reporting happens too often and shows that papers and magazines are all too willing to prey on a lack of knowledge rather than research their story.
I've heard this too through friends of friends in London. Apparently it was the Citygroup(?) Tower.
If you don't seek the spyware/malware/viruses you often do not find them.
You're assuming the outsourcer that is given the huge contracts to supply and support is actually interested in preventing these issues. When contracts worth millions are sold around 24/7 support at a predicted level why would they want rid of end user tomfoolery?
The person submitting the article might be a Nigerian Neon salesman called Nehemiah who lives in Nebraska, you insensitive clod!
Your points are all valid there, I was trying to put across the point that coaching and encouraging users to understand the WHY of not clicking on every popup might save them the cost of both a new PC and also the support. This would also have the added bonus of reducing zombie machines (although throwing them in the trash is one way of sorting THAT problem I suppose.)
Isn't telling people to go away and buy a new machine just avoiding the issue? More and more these days the things I've been asked to look at have stemmed from "This page said I was the millionth person to visit their site and that I should get some free smilies! Now my internet has been replaced with this other stuff"
I'm finding it hard to think of a circumstance that a user would benefit from buying a new machine. I'd think the focus ought to be on NOT getting people to throw money at a new box every time it blue screens - what a waste of money!
I found a slight irony in the IBM connection after reading Edwin Black's book about IBM and the holocaust.