The medium is the message. A big goal is location awareness. I doubt there will be audio advertising. More likely if you turn the phone on there will be a popup of a nearby business with a special offer or something. Or if you use data functions, there'll be targetted ads. GIS, you know. So pay-per-click becomes pay per entry to building? Advertisers would love that.
The iPhone is pushing in the direction that the cell phone industry should have moved a long time ago. Limitations now are not largely technological.
And yet I somehow doubt that, the day of release, they will suddenly be awestruck at the recognition of their horrible, shameful pricing plans. Sure, data plans are poised to become much more main stream, but carriers will keep making arbitrary distinctions between voice and 'data' just because they can, and it will be a cold day in hell when we start paying a flat rate for unfettered wireless access as we do with the internet. Their customers are sheep. It's that that will most hinder the adoption and spread of anything iPhone-like...
Perhaps when the day comes that Apple bundles a VoIP client the industry will finally feel fear...you know, some kind of competition that forces them to adopt sane policies. I refuse to pay for cell phone service until that happens.
The survery says nothing. The question is not what percentage of users plan on upgrading. The question is what percentage of users plan on upgrading AND have ever upgraded their OS before. Joe User won't upgrade to Vista until he buys a new machine.
The linked article describes a situation almost identical to mine.
My eyes were misaligned since birth. Surgery #1 at six months was a first step, but apparently wasn't enough. The problem was severe enough to hinder depth perception, a common side effect. No surprise, really. How could you mux two distinctly different pictures (to a useful end)?
I was surprised to read, though, that she previously used only one eye at a time. I had the same problem, and this is the first I've heard of someone else with it. It's really an interesting compensation. One might assume that both eyes would continue to work even if depth perception never developed, which seems to happen in some cases. In these cases there was a compromise -- better to have working vision than having to constantly deal with two irreconcilable images. The "preferred" eye switched a few times for me, leaning towards the one with the better vision at the time if I recall. And yet, if that eye was covered, I'd suddenly see out of the other (a strange feeling even by my standards). Brains...amazing.
The endings haven't matched up, though. After surgery #3, my eyes were finally realigned well enough such that I suddenly began to see out of both eyes at once. But nothing has "popped out" in the years since then. Your link is hopeful in this regard, however. It would be a delightful development, but in the end I'd still be staring at a flat monitor all day;)
Some other countries are higher, but they're mostly countries which are either very crowded or very cold. Well duh. Smaller internet tubes might freeze solid.
A few weeks ago I wrote a small program to spawn a thread on the Winlogon desktop...if I remember correctly, pretty much all the desktop-specific apis were up for grabs except for setting window hooks (which you probably wouldn't need badly in the first place). There's an api called SetThreadDesktop that allows one to do this easily. I don't plan on ever installing Vista, but the first time I run across a public workstation running it, I will make sure to investigate the default security permissions on the UAC desktop...
I'd think that the bigger threat comes from malware spoofing it instead. I have the suspicion that Joe User will gladly enter the admin password into the UAC box even if it's usually just a click-through.
Admins should be more concerned about Tor's Hidden Service feature. It's handy to avoid censorship and all, but it allows you to connect to hosts behind a NAT or firewall (the node keeps a circuit open). Not only that, the person using the service remotely is unrelated to the host that shows up in the logs...
It's a drop-in backdoor tool. Instant access to the internal network.
This change does in fact have raiding implications. Off-peak hours are not so for everyone, and who knows what kind of stability/lag problems will crop up during maintenance.
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...and divorced a Black Temple raider, no doubt.
The solution is end to end encryption. Start now.
A China full of Qs huh? I can just imagine the untapped potential for humanity that would spring forth at that point.
I can see it now -- penis enlargement then just a snap of the fingers away...
Finally, a solution to spam! 100 billion years!
For some classes in WoW, that actually works surprisingly well.
...apples ruled "Not Oranges."
The iPhone is pushing in the direction that the cell phone industry should have moved a long time ago. Limitations now are not largely technological. And yet I somehow doubt that, the day of release, they will suddenly be awestruck at the recognition of their horrible, shameful pricing plans. Sure, data plans are poised to become much more main stream, but carriers will keep making arbitrary distinctions between voice and 'data' just because they can, and it will be a cold day in hell when we start paying a flat rate for unfettered wireless access as we do with the internet. Their customers are sheep. It's that that will most hinder the adoption and spread of anything iPhone-like... Perhaps when the day comes that Apple bundles a VoIP client the industry will finally feel fear...you know, some kind of competition that forces them to adopt sane policies. I refuse to pay for cell phone service until that happens.
How did...how did the parent get modded interesting? It's incorrect on so many levels.
...an embeded micro-controller ...with at least a gig of RAM. Cue rimshot.When we finally woke up, we came to realize why source control was really invented...
http://www.adamsnames.tc/whois/?domain=fuck.msfuck .ms is already taken :(
No, it just means you'll get to consolidate what you already have ;)
I wonder why there isn't bittorrent support in the package manager. That would be great for dist upgrades, auto-updates and such.
It works great for Blizzard.
Yes. Thank heavens they patched away "debugging." Nothing but a plague upon mankind... If you're going to hate on MS, get your facts straight.
The survery says nothing. The question is not what percentage of users plan on upgrading. The question is what percentage of users plan on upgrading AND have ever upgraded their OS before. Joe User won't upgrade to Vista until he buys a new machine.
The linked article describes a situation almost identical to mine.
;)
My eyes were misaligned since birth. Surgery #1 at six months was a first step, but apparently wasn't enough. The problem was severe enough to hinder depth perception, a common side effect. No surprise, really. How could you mux two distinctly different pictures (to a useful end)?
I was surprised to read, though, that she previously used only one eye at a time. I had the same problem, and this is the first I've heard of someone else with it. It's really an interesting compensation. One might assume that both eyes would continue to work even if depth perception never developed, which seems to happen in some cases. In these cases there was a compromise -- better to have working vision than having to constantly deal with two irreconcilable images. The "preferred" eye switched a few times for me, leaning towards the one with the better vision at the time if I recall. And yet, if that eye was covered, I'd suddenly see out of the other (a strange feeling even by my standards). Brains...amazing.
The endings haven't matched up, though. After surgery #3, my eyes were finally realigned well enough such that I suddenly began to see out of both eyes at once. But nothing has "popped out" in the years since then. Your link is hopeful in this regard, however. It would be a delightful development, but in the end I'd still be staring at a flat monitor all day
I've lacked depth perception my entire life. Does it really help that much?
A bug report and patch have been filed. Bathrooms will be available to airlines in the next release, estimated 2012.
You might say that we've reached the break(ing)point...
What's more, one pilot tried to turn off Aero Glass -- suddenly, he lost cabin pressure.
A few weeks ago I wrote a small program to spawn a thread on the Winlogon desktop...if I remember correctly, pretty much all the desktop-specific apis were up for grabs except for setting window hooks (which you probably wouldn't need badly in the first place). There's an api called SetThreadDesktop that allows one to do this easily. I don't plan on ever installing Vista, but the first time I run across a public workstation running it, I will make sure to investigate the default security permissions on the UAC desktop...
I'd think that the bigger threat comes from malware spoofing it instead. I have the suspicion that Joe User will gladly enter the admin password into the UAC box even if it's usually just a click-through.
Admins should be more concerned about Tor's Hidden Service feature. It's handy to avoid censorship and all, but it allows you to connect to hosts behind a NAT or firewall (the node keeps a circuit open). Not only that, the person using the service remotely is unrelated to the host that shows up in the logs... It's a drop-in backdoor tool. Instant access to the internal network.
Not Tor. I'd use some Germ-X on the keyboard first.
It's entirely on topic...
This change does in fact have raiding implications. Off-peak hours are not so for everyone, and who knows what kind of stability/lag problems will crop up during maintenance.