This has been an on going joke between some Nokia N770/N800 users and we have all been suspicious of Nokia's motives. Well now the cat is out of the bag and Nokia is just another borge like "we hate freedom if we cant control it" company. As many previous posters have said "Nokia wants DRM so it can sell music" even though its customers hate DRM and many video and audio people have swapped to ogg. Oh well it was nice knowing you Nokia, farewell and thanks for all the crackly calls.
I find it rather arrogant for Microsoft to turn up at the last minute and insist that Windows XP run on the OLPC XO laptop. The FOSS community have spent thousands of hours getting the XO to the point it is without a dime from Microsoft. If Microsoft wants an OLPC go make your own and use your huge non existent community of helpers to improve the non existent source code.
I would buy one in the blink of an eye, a cheap 80GB PMP with WiFi mixed with Linux would be a dream come true for me. Right now I have a Apple 5G iPOD and Im starting to hate the thing because you start to realise how retarded it is (try deleting a song for starters without a PC). Looks like I will be buying the far smarter and more functional Nokia N810 though this Xmas.
People keep quoting the 1-2 million handsets sold by Apple as being a large number. I hate to bring reality into this argument but the growth in mobile handset sales this year in China alone is over 10 million units. There are startup mobile handset makers in China who within 18 months of their creation have sold over 7 million handsets so Apples numbers look rather poor too me. AT&T have realised what many within the industry have, Apples sales although generating allot of publicity are small fish in the scheme of things.
A scientist will follow the precincts of science and ID being a philosophy (based in faith not any form of review) can not be scientific. It will be highly remiss for a scientist to not question anything based of "bad science", in fact asking a scientist to do so questions that person or persons understanding of the constitution. Its is a shame because the more the US government pushes the fools cart called ID upon its own people the more the rest of the world views them as being the clown in the room.
Ive been watching youtube videos on and off for over a year now and lately I have noticed everything is becoming sanitised and Disney like. I often see commentary videos pulled that I have already seen for the most vague reasons. I suspect now that Youtube is being paid to insert viral advertising videos into the cloud Youtube wants to make sure their new paying masters dont have much criticism happening.
The definition of a Library is just changing. When you look at a small Internet cafe what you are really seeing is the modern version of a Library that also caters for those who wish for some refreshments. If the old Dickensian hard copy libraries want to survive they will have to become more communal and socially active. Yes, that means having network access and a place for young people to talk. While you have them captive you can promote books with posters on the walls and seminars and social events. Its time Libraries stopped hiding behind dusty books and started becoming a public social space were people can exchange ideas, you know what Libraries were originally way back in the ancient Egyptian days of the great library of Alexandria.
If your young and renting (or living with your parents still) a mobile phone is the cheapest solution for your communications needs. Paying a monthly line fee plus internet comes into question when a modern 3.5G mobile service provider can offer both with a bundled cheaper monthly price. I know many fellow IT people who have a wireless network card (CDMA) plugged into their laptop computer and a mobile and no home line. This will only get worse as WiMAX (4G ?) starts hitting the airwaves and people can watch streaming media and surf the web without many of the issues of CDMA/GSM data services.
The source code for the EEE is available here. You will need some grasp of Chinese but I dare say the zip files are pretty obvious to anyone. Now go an an remove your foot from your mouth and say sorry to Asus. Just because a couple of idiots with no patience or language skills outside of english ignorantly inform everyone a mainly chinese speaking Taiwan based company hasnt posted the source doesnt make it true.
arr I be's tak'in a holiday in Iraq me hearties, all ye laggards can follow if yah wish...arrr.
See how long they follow you with a camera when bullets start flying their way.
Some may cringe at that statement especially from a person who is also a hardware geek. The reality is Im more interested in portable solutions now than static over priced box's. I already have a three year old Dual Xeon media server (8TB Raid 5, 4GB ram) that does everything I want and I wont be updating any time soon. What I will be looking for are better portable solutions like the Fujitsu U1010 or a Asus 10" EEE (if that is ever released) even the Archos 705/605WiFi PMP (Portable Media Player). Yes I do play games but Im happy with my PS3 and I wont be updating that any time soon. These expensive and way over the top cpu's I feel are becoming more and more irrelevant for the average (even power user) consumer.
If you want privacy "dont use any American companies services". The reality is any information services provider based inside the USA has to hand over records to the US Government even without a warrant at any time. Thus any private details are as secure as if you kept the same records within any other authoritarian state (China, Burma, Vietnam etc). I would not even be surprised if Hush mail has a black box router hooked into their service cloning all the data and routing it to the NSA in the name of "National Insecurity".
Many charities and famous personalities get corporate assistance and no one complains when they wear that companies logo or do some other form of viral promotion. Yes I can understand people worrying about Google having sway over the code but lets be honest every corporate sponsorship comes with strings attached. if you can figure out how to pay "everyones" rent based on wishful thinking go for it otherwise we have to go with what we have. It could be worse, Mozilla could have been sponsored by a pro-closed source "Evil"(tm) company
I remember reading a few years ago about the "Australian navy" sneaking up and actually marking American ships in trials with a locally made "Collins Class" (very big diesel) submarine. What the US Navy hates to admit right now is that the much loved aircraft carrier groups are sitting ducks for modern diesel subs and there is little they can do about it.
In my postgrad years in the early 80's I worked for a now defunct computer company that often supplied minicomputers for Government departments. The patent is an exact copy of how we did information searches across a network.Honestly there is no other way of doing this type of search efficiently back then and I dare say the same method pre dates my early years within th computer industry. Think about it, user enters search criteria into stand alone PC/Terminal then it is passed onto a primary node minicomputer, if the information is not available on hand (cached common searches) the search engine software then quires all the other minicomputers computers attached, it's a no brainier. What Google has done is refine the search algorithms and used more generic hardware but the concept hasnt changed.
We "the people" run the software and pay the millions of dollars of hardware and electricity costs. When the problem is solved the University patents everything (thank you suckers) and licenses the technology for for a small fortune to some back stabbing Megacorp (TM) drug company. So when "we the people" get sick we have the wonderful knowledge that we have paid twice for the ripp-off drugs. So all things being fair, if you want my cpu spare time I want a part of the license fees to pay for the drugs that cost a house when I get sick.
GAH!, clicked on the wrong button.
If you think this is a fine way to do business how come it is illegal in some countries (France comes to mind). Easy, because it is anti-competitive and anti-consumer rights.
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It's called a theme. You can change the theme layout to anything you want. I do agree with you though, that is one very ugly theme.
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This has been an on going joke between some Nokia N770/N800 users and we have all been suspicious of Nokia's motives. Well now the cat is out of the bag and Nokia is just another borge like "we hate freedom if we cant control it" company. As many previous posters have said "Nokia wants DRM so it can sell music" even though its customers hate DRM and many video and audio people have swapped to ogg. Oh well it was nice knowing you Nokia, farewell and thanks for all the crackly calls.
I find it rather arrogant for Microsoft to turn up at the last minute and insist that Windows XP run on the OLPC XO laptop. The FOSS community have spent thousands of hours getting the XO to the point it is without a dime from Microsoft. If Microsoft wants an OLPC go make your own and use your huge non existent community of helpers to improve the non existent source code.
I would buy one in the blink of an eye, a cheap 80GB PMP with WiFi mixed with Linux would be a dream come true for me. Right now I have a Apple 5G iPOD and Im starting to hate the thing because you start to realise how retarded it is (try deleting a song for starters without a PC). Looks like I will be buying the far smarter and more functional Nokia N810 though this Xmas.
People keep quoting the 1-2 million handsets sold by Apple as being a large number. I hate to bring reality into this argument but the growth in mobile handset sales this year in China alone is over 10 million units. There are startup mobile handset makers in China who within 18 months of their creation have sold over 7 million handsets so Apples numbers look rather poor too me. AT&T have realised what many within the industry have, Apples sales although generating allot of publicity are small fish in the scheme of things.
A scientist will follow the precincts of science and ID being a philosophy (based in faith not any form of review) can not be scientific. It will be highly remiss for a scientist to not question anything based of "bad science", in fact asking a scientist to do so questions that person or persons understanding of the constitution. Its is a shame because the more the US government pushes the fools cart called ID upon its own people the more the rest of the world views them as being the clown in the room.
Ive been watching youtube videos on and off for over a year now and lately I have noticed everything is becoming sanitised and Disney like. I often see commentary videos pulled that I have already seen for the most vague reasons. I suspect now that Youtube is being paid to insert viral advertising videos into the cloud Youtube wants to make sure their new paying masters dont have much criticism happening.
The definition of a Library is just changing. When you look at a small Internet cafe what you are really seeing is the modern version of a Library that also caters for those who wish for some refreshments. If the old Dickensian hard copy libraries want to survive they will have to become more communal and socially active. Yes, that means having network access and a place for young people to talk. While you have them captive you can promote books with posters on the walls and seminars and social events. Its time Libraries stopped hiding behind dusty books and started becoming a public social space were people can exchange ideas, you know what Libraries were originally way back in the ancient Egyptian days of the great library of Alexandria.
Remove back of mobile, pull battery out, there easily fixed. Anyone asks you have a flat battery.
If your young and renting (or living with your parents still) a mobile phone is the cheapest solution for your communications needs. Paying a monthly line fee plus internet comes into question when a modern 3.5G mobile service provider can offer both with a bundled cheaper monthly price. I know many fellow IT people who have a wireless network card (CDMA) plugged into their laptop computer and a mobile and no home line. This will only get worse as WiMAX (4G ?) starts hitting the airwaves and people can watch streaming media and surf the web without many of the issues of CDMA/GSM data services.
The source code for the EEE is available here. You will need some grasp of Chinese but I dare say the zip files are pretty obvious to anyone. Now go an an remove your foot from your mouth and say sorry to Asus. Just because a couple of idiots with no patience or language skills outside of english ignorantly inform everyone a mainly chinese speaking Taiwan based company hasnt posted the source doesnt make it true.
The source code for the EEE is available here. You will need some grasp of Chinese but I dare say the zip files are pretty obvious to anyone.
Im still buying a Nokia N810, this thing doesnt do colour and has very poor support for alternate file formats ie PDF support isnt very good.
arr I be's tak'in a holiday in Iraq me hearties, all ye laggards can follow if yah wish...arrr. See how long they follow you with a camera when bullets start flying their way.
Some may cringe at that statement especially from a person who is also a hardware geek. The reality is Im more interested in portable solutions now than static over priced box's. I already have a three year old Dual Xeon media server (8TB Raid 5, 4GB ram) that does everything I want and I wont be updating any time soon. What I will be looking for are better portable solutions like the Fujitsu U1010 or a Asus 10" EEE (if that is ever released) even the Archos 705/605WiFi PMP (Portable Media Player). Yes I do play games but Im happy with my PS3 and I wont be updating that any time soon. These expensive and way over the top cpu's I feel are becoming more and more irrelevant for the average (even power user) consumer.
If you want privacy "dont use any American companies services". The reality is any information services provider based inside the USA has to hand over records to the US Government even without a warrant at any time. Thus any private details are as secure as if you kept the same records within any other authoritarian state (China, Burma, Vietnam etc). I would not even be surprised if Hush mail has a black box router hooked into their service cloning all the data and routing it to the NSA in the name of "National Insecurity".
hundreds of man hours and a few hundred thousand dollars we have finally put our finger on the problem "It was written in Microsoft's C#"...
a Human theme park to stop global robot domination.
Many charities and famous personalities get corporate assistance and no one complains when they wear that companies logo or do some other form of viral promotion. Yes I can understand people worrying about Google having sway over the code but lets be honest every corporate sponsorship comes with strings attached. if you can figure out how to pay "everyones" rent based on wishful thinking go for it otherwise we have to go with what we have. It could be worse, Mozilla could have been sponsored by a pro-closed source "Evil"(tm) company
I remember reading a few years ago about the "Australian navy" sneaking up and actually marking American ships in trials with a locally made "Collins Class" (very big diesel) submarine. What the US Navy hates to admit right now is that the much loved aircraft carrier groups are sitting ducks for modern diesel subs and there is little they can do about it.
In my postgrad years in the early 80's I worked for a now defunct computer company that often supplied minicomputers for Government departments. The patent is an exact copy of how we did information searches across a network.Honestly there is no other way of doing this type of search efficiently back then and I dare say the same method pre dates my early years within th computer industry. Think about it, user enters search criteria into stand alone PC/Terminal then it is passed onto a primary node minicomputer, if the information is not available on hand (cached common searches) the search engine software then quires all the other minicomputers computers attached, it's a no brainier. What Google has done is refine the search algorithms and used more generic hardware but the concept hasnt changed.
We "the people" run the software and pay the millions of dollars of hardware and electricity costs. When the problem is solved the University patents everything (thank you suckers) and licenses the technology for for a small fortune to some back stabbing Megacorp (TM) drug company. So when "we the people" get sick we have the wonderful knowledge that we have paid twice for the ripp-off drugs. So all things being fair, if you want my cpu spare time I want a part of the license fees to pay for the drugs that cost a house when I get sick.
The mighty lord god for he hath great humour and wit. God Now you see it, now you don't, now you see it, now you don't, ha ha ha I kid myself"
GAH!, clicked on the wrong button. If you think this is a fine way to do business how come it is illegal in some countries (France comes to mind). Easy, because it is anti-competitive and anti-consumer rights.