I live in a rural area, about a mile outside the nearest village/town.
I use Virgin as an ISP over a BT phone line, and my download speeds are noticeably faster than my mother's connection. She uses BT Internet as an ISP, but lives in central Reading, so one would assume should have a faster connection.
Punchline being, if you're using BT, and you're unhappy with the speed, give Virgin a try.
I think Asus? Acer? has said the split on netbook sales is two thirds MS XP, one third Linux.
The point I was trying to make is, that with OEMs installing Linux on new machines, the user base will increase enough for developers to consider the platform as a sales target.
The success of Firefox and Safari have forced? encouraged? web developers to target browsers beyond Internet Explorer.
But you can't install an application to run under Local Service from a non-admin account, and even from an admin account, it would require an UAC confirmation.
I've been using XP Home a little recently (new netbook), and this is annoying the dickens out of me.
On a Mac, a non-admin user would be prompted for an admin user name & password to install an application. On the XP machine, I have to either log in as admin to install something, or change the non-admin account to an admin account.
I realise I may well be preferring what I'm used to, but I feel the Mac system - prompting for an admin's OK - is better.
MS Windows achieved monopoly status because OEMs installed it on new machines. The size of the user base made it the platform for developers to target.
"Obfuscated TCP is a transport layer protocol that adds opportunistic encryption. It's designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet."
One of the questions in the interview was, "How has the emergence of WebKit and Chrome changed the market for you?".
I think an honest answer to that question from Mr Tetzchner would have been to say that Apple's active engagement with webmasters, and their user base's evangelising, has been the most significant factor in any market change.
Well, I'd say their partisan preference colours their reporting. The stories they feature, the way they slant the editorial line, even the visual images they use.
indeed, Apple has gone beyond even Japanese cars when it comes to the detail of their products...
Ever since I bought my MacBook, I've found myself thinking that if Sony had made it, the build quality would have been better.
Intially this was just disappointment that my new toy's battery wasn't flush with the bottom of the case. The cracks that have appeared on the keyboard plane / palm rest have me feeling like a muppet for having bought a poorly made product.
Sorry to hear about the quality issues.
These days I use a laptop, but the media pro keyboard that came with my G3 iMac remains my favourite, and the Matias looked like a super substitute now that Apple no longer offer it.
The Matias Tactile Pro keyboard is much the same thing, a clickety-clackety mechanical switches keyboard, but it does have the volume control keys the reviewer missed in the Das Keyboard.
So who is this product for? Seems interesting from a design point of view, but unelss one of the big browsers adopts it, could it really make even a tiny dent on the security of the internet?
The article says "The long-term plan is to create a cross-platform Webkit version that will be released to the open-source community," so perhaps it will be adopted by the Webkit/Nokia/Apple teams?
Remember the days when websites would yell at you telling you that you needed to use a certain version of an OS, with a certain version of a certain browser, with the latest pre-alpha VRML plugin and 1024x768 resolution?
I don't remember the last problem I've had viewing a website.
I think Apple deserve some credit here. When 'problem' websites were reported to them, they seem to have done some very effective outreach work with webmasters, as well as fixing their own bugs.
Being able to search the library catalogue, and reserve books, online has increased my library usage. One of the handier things web access has given me.
Automobile usage is a fairly inelastic behaviour. You can cut back on some of the trips that you take, but for most people, there remains a minimal amount of driving that is not drastically lower than their average.
Internationally, travel behaviour surveys in
urban areas find that around 10% of car trips
are no longer than 1km, 30% no longer than
3km and 50% no longer than 5km.
...more than half of car trips
within Darlington (56%) could be made
realistically by at least one alternative mode,
compared with 46% in Worcester and 39%
in Peterborough.
Their conclusions as to why people don't use the available alternatives to automobiles were:
In all three Towns poor perceptions of relative
travel time form the most significant barrier
against walking and cycling instead of local
car trips, followed in nearly all cases by a
generally negative view of these as day-today
travel modes. Other reasons included
poor perceptions of the available
infrastructure and journey comfort.
Analysis of the journey times recorded in the
travel behaviour surveys shows that in fact
between a quarter and half of car trips within
the Towns are within range of the average
cycling trip, and that going by car for these
trips offers little or no time benefit over
cycling.
Where it provides a practical alternative to
local car trips, the main reason people do
not take public transport is a lack of
information. In all three Towns this was the
case in around half of local car trips which
could have been made by bus. Perceptions
of relative travel time are also important: in
general people over-estimate travel time by
public transport by around two-thirds and for
cars under-estimate travel time by one fifth.
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I live in a rural area, about a mile outside the nearest village/town.
I use Virgin as an ISP over a BT phone line, and my download speeds are noticeably faster than my mother's connection. She uses BT Internet as an ISP, but lives in central Reading, so one would assume should have a faster connection.
Punchline being, if you're using BT, and you're unhappy with the speed, give Virgin a try.
I hope they bring out a UK version. MYOB have sold their UK operation to a web outfit, and there's not much choice for Mac users.
I think Asus? Acer? has said the split on netbook sales is two thirds MS XP, one third Linux.
The point I was trying to make is, that with OEMs installing Linux on new machines, the user base will increase enough for developers to consider the platform as a sales target.
The success of Firefox and Safari have forced? encouraged? web developers to target browsers beyond Internet Explorer.
I've been using XP Home a little recently (new netbook), and this is annoying the dickens out of me.
On a Mac, a non-admin user would be prompted for an admin user name & password to install an application. On the XP machine, I have to either log in as admin to install something, or change the non-admin account to an admin account.
I realise I may well be preferring what I'm used to, but I feel the Mac system - prompting for an admin's OK - is better.
MS Windows achieved monopoly status because OEMs installed it on new machines. The size of the user base made it the platform for developers to target.
With netbooks, Linux is being installed by OEMs.
Your gait can also be used to identify you. Something that could more easily be added to remote surveillance than a bloodhound :-)
I don't think that's valid. Past exploits have used syndicated advertising, e.g. DoubleClick, Falk.
Obfuscated TCP might be useful here:
One of the questions in the interview was, "How has the emergence of WebKit and Chrome changed the market for you?" .
I think an honest answer to that question from Mr Tetzchner would have been to say that Apple's active engagement with webmasters, and their user base's evangelising, has been the most significant factor in any market change.
Well, I'd say their partisan preference colours their reporting. The stories they feature, the way they slant the editorial line, even the visual images they use.
There is a big difference between IE versions. IE7 has markedly fewer quirks than IE6.
There's a new Ubuntu release? Tell all!
I don't think it's fair to single out Americans on this. Everyone hates the French, the yanks are no different to the rest of us.
The point was that the newspapers gave up on it too soon.
So the 'failure', was short-termism from the management.
Where did you hear that?
Ever since I bought my MacBook, I've found myself thinking that if Sony had made it, the build quality would have been better.
Intially this was just disappointment that my new toy's battery wasn't flush with the bottom of the case. The cracks that have appeared on the keyboard plane / palm rest have me feeling like a muppet for having bought a poorly made product.
Sorry to hear about the quality issues. These days I use a laptop, but the media pro keyboard that came with my G3 iMac remains my favourite, and the Matias looked like a super substitute now that Apple no longer offer it.
The Matias Tactile Pro keyboard is much the same thing, a clickety-clackety mechanical switches keyboard, but it does have the volume control keys the reviewer missed in the Das Keyboard.
I remember Blue Peter doing a 'how to make a Blakes 7 handgun', from an old washing up liquid bottle.
:-)
Looked very convincing as I recall
As I understand it Virgin didn't 'unilaterally drop' Sky channels, they and Sky couldn't agree on a price.
Virgin did quite well the recent YouGov/uSwitch Broadband customer satisfaction survey.
The article says "The long-term plan is to create a cross-platform Webkit version that will be released to the open-source community," so perhaps it will be adopted by the Webkit/Nokia/Apple teams?
I think Apple deserve some credit here. When 'problem' websites were reported to them, they seem to have done some very effective outreach work with webmasters, as well as fixing their own bugs.
The 10 euros figure was a suggested 'roaming' charge, roaming between networks, typically this is an international travel issue only.
Vodaphone offer a standard package of 15-30GBP-ish per month.
Being able to search the library catalogue, and reserve books, online has increased my library usage. One of the handier things web access has given me.