If somebody has a better link, or at least one that doesn't sound like a fluffed-up ad, please help me out here.
> Select from people where time_spent_here > a_little_bit and ID = you. 0 rows returned. Given that you didn't SELECT anything, you would be given a parse error - not a valid result as you claim. If you insist on conveying messages to people with [insert computer language here] then at least do it right.
That's not quite right. AudioSpotlight has been shipping similar products since 2000. Indeed, I saw them featured on Tomorrow's World in that same year.
http://wfp.microsoft.com/FAQ.aspx
It's neither. It seems to me that they needed some sort of excuse to prevent users reading the data collected about them.
Indeed. You can blame that on the fact that I had 'Match case' checked in Firefox's inline search.:)
In any case, I slightly misread the summary; registered users from all over the world can edit locations in the US, Australia and New Zealand. This feature is not implemented when viewing British maps.
The moral: laziness leads to the wrong conclusions.
The summary claims that this feature is limited to users from the US, Australia and New Zealand - yet the article makes no mention of this. As a UK user, I can confirm that such a claim is not true.
My point was, no, it's not just Central London and Manchester. Two years ago, yes - but not now. You're suggesting that the trials failed and LLU has ceased - or that ISPs have done absolutely nothing in that time?
I live in Kent and 24 Mbps is most definitely available - but I have 20 Mbps from Virgin.
You're talking rubbish. ADSL+ was being sold to UK subscribers over two years ago. I don't see why anyone should be blamed for the fact that where you live isn't populated enough to be deemed profitable yet. ISPs are not charities.
[Microsoft is] a monopoly because their OS completely dominates the market, and because they practice illegal tactics to ensure it does.
That's not the case. A monopoly can exist because a particular government explicitly hands control of a certain market to one company. A monopoly can exist within the law.
I pay £23.50 per month for 20 Mbps cable from Virgin Media as part of a package. That said, their customer support have presented me with no end of problems.
I agree that kdawson's original post was inexcusable - libellous even, but do you not think that the people who responded so negatively are also at fault? Slashdot isn't exactly known for its standard of journalism and routinely publishes sensationalist headlines/stories that lead the reader to form a misinformed opinion. After one negative Slashdot headline, numerous people were thinking of a new name for a Wordpress fork. Why would you place so much credibility on a Slashdot post? Frankly, it's scary how much influence and power the Slashdot editors have.
Google lets every-day users who are fluent in both English and another language translate small snippets of English text into the language of their choice. This is how they can offer services in several languages without spending a dime on professional translators.
Given that there is no actual evidence, are you not jumping to conclusions? How do you know the owner didn't merely die and automated billing continued? You don't.
Fastservers apparently is unwilling to turn the machines back on, so people could get their content, without authorization from Tooley.
This seems to imply that Fastservers are wrong to do so. I disagree. I'd be very angry if one of my suppliers started using their position as such to talk to my customers and make changes to the services I provide to them. It's not their place to investigate whether Tooley is doing anything untoward or is otherwise indisposed. As long as they offer the same amount of security when malicious people try to tamper with an account without permission, they've done exactly the right thing.
If you don't regularly make a completely separate backup of your website files, you are choosing to risk this type of thing happening. What if your host doesn't make regular backups themselves and your server suffered a hard drive failure? Even if a host claimed they offered this service, nobody would find out until after a failure. Regarding data loss, these two situations are no different.
Moral: If your data is that important to you, don't leave one single organisation in charge of its safety.
I'm not trying to belittle his achievement, but I think the fact that geohot autographed the phone with a marker pen can only detract from the value. After distributing instructions to do this yourself and acknowledging that similar auction lots are likely to appear before the end of his, he obviously believes that he's selling a part of iPhone of history. Odd.
If you have some time to kill, you could always watch his Google Tech Talk about Git - his alternative to CVS. He can't help himself from insulting CVS/SVN numerous times. If I remember correctly, he thinks SVN is "pointless".
If I was talking about OpenOffice.org Novell Edition I would have said so. OpenOffice.org does not support Office 2007 file formats. Office Open XML support is scheduled for OpenOffice.org 2.3.
Firstly, look at the title of the story. Secondly, you say you have no experience of Office 2007 at all; this fact makes me wonder why the story was published in the first place.
I encountered no difficulties when switching from the Office 2007 trial to OpenOffice.org. It's funny, OpenOffice.org in no way supports the 2007 file format. What happens with Outlook I'm not sure, but the rest of the Office suite doesn't convert any files unless you choose to. It's really not hard to select 'Save in Office 97-2003 format' from a drop down menu on the save dialogue.
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0 rows returned. Given that you didn't SELECT anything, you would be given a parse error - not a valid result as you claim. If you insist on conveying messages to people with [insert computer language here] then at least do it right.
That's not quite right. AudioSpotlight has been shipping similar products since 2000. Indeed, I saw them featured on Tomorrow's World in that same year.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000302223042/www.bbc.co.uk/tw/stories/technology/0001audiospotlight.shtml
The relevant part of the episode is still hosted by Holosonic.
http://www.holosonics.com/media/BBC_TW_AudioSpotlight_1Mbps.mpg
Their website also lists alternative applications..
http://www.holosonics.com/customers.html
http://wfp.microsoft.com/FAQ.aspx It's neither. It seems to me that they needed some sort of excuse to prevent users reading the data collected about them.
Not only are you wrong, I fail to see your logic. 2 cents is 1000 times smaller than 20 dollars.
Indeed. You can blame that on the fact that I had 'Match case' checked in Firefox's inline search. :)
In any case, I slightly misread the summary; registered users from all over the world can edit locations in the US, Australia and New Zealand. This feature is not implemented when viewing British maps.
The moral: laziness leads to the wrong conclusions.
The summary claims that this feature is limited to users from the US, Australia and New Zealand - yet the article makes no mention of this. As a UK user, I can confirm that such a claim is not true.
My point was, no, it's not just Central London and Manchester. Two years ago, yes - but not now. You're suggesting that the trials failed and LLU has ceased - or that ISPs have done absolutely nothing in that time?
I live in Kent and 24 Mbps is most definitely available - but I have 20 Mbps from Virgin.
You're talking rubbish. ADSL+ was being sold to UK subscribers over two years ago. I don't see why anyone should be blamed for the fact that where you live isn't populated enough to be deemed profitable yet. ISPs are not charities.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/77057/uk-online-joins-24mbps-adsl-rollout.html
That's not the case. A monopoly can exist because a particular government explicitly hands control of a certain market to one company. A monopoly can exist within the law.
I pay £23.50 per month for 20 Mbps cable from Virgin Media as part of a package. That said, their customer support have presented me with no end of problems.
I agree that kdawson's original post was inexcusable - libellous even, but do you not think that the people who responded so negatively are also at fault? Slashdot isn't exactly known for its standard of journalism and routinely publishes sensationalist headlines/stories that lead the reader to form a misinformed opinion. After one negative Slashdot headline, numerous people were thinking of a new name for a Wordpress fork. Why would you place so much credibility on a Slashdot post? Frankly, it's scary how much influence and power the Slashdot editors have.
You have to cross a body of water to reach another state?
Given that there is no actual evidence, are you not jumping to conclusions? How do you know the owner didn't merely die and automated billing continued? You don't.
This seems to imply that Fastservers are wrong to do so. I disagree. I'd be very angry if one of my suppliers started using their position as such to talk to my customers and make changes to the services I provide to them. It's not their place to investigate whether Tooley is doing anything untoward or is otherwise indisposed. As long as they offer the same amount of security when malicious people try to tamper with an account without permission, they've done exactly the right thing.
If you don't regularly make a completely separate backup of your website files, you are choosing to risk this type of thing happening. What if your host doesn't make regular backups themselves and your server suffered a hard drive failure? Even if a host claimed they offered this service, nobody would find out until after a failure. Regarding data loss, these two situations are no different.
Moral: If your data is that important to you, don't leave one single organisation in charge of its safety.
I'm not trying to belittle his achievement, but I think the fact that geohot autographed the phone with a marker pen can only detract from the value. After distributing instructions to do this yourself and acknowledging that similar auction lots are likely to appear before the end of his, he obviously believes that he's selling a part of iPhone of history. Odd.
If you have some time to kill, you could always watch his Google Tech Talk about Git - his alternative to CVS. He can't help himself from insulting CVS/SVN numerous times. If I remember correctly, he thinks SVN is "pointless".
Would you be talking about this?
That refers to the number of PCs involved in storing the data.
To ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME?
If I was talking about OpenOffice.org Novell Edition I would have said so. OpenOffice.org does not support Office 2007 file formats. Office Open XML support is scheduled for OpenOffice.org 2.3.
Firstly, look at the title of the story. Secondly, you say you have no experience of Office 2007 at all; this fact makes me wonder why the story was published in the first place.
Nope. That was trial I downloaded.
I encountered no difficulties when switching from the Office 2007 trial to OpenOffice.org. It's funny, OpenOffice.org in no way supports the 2007 file format. What happens with Outlook I'm not sure, but the rest of the Office suite doesn't convert any files unless you choose to. It's really not hard to select 'Save in Office 97-2003 format' from a drop down menu on the save dialogue.