Unfortunately there would only ever be one third party application that needed to be develeoed and that would be a version of Skype. Once that was out it would kill off all the phone usage and therefore the phone itself.
how much a botnet would be worth to a crooked political party? Spam the electorate and then mount a DOS on the voting server with votes for them. Or the opposition if they were being devious. I suppose all the while we are receiveing spam the bots arn't being used for anything more dangerous.
you are in a foreign country and you want to say something to a local. Dial up a number on your mobile, say what you want to say and either the translation gets spoken back to you or it turns up, a few seconds later, in a text. I know speech recognition is a bit harder than OCR but it's only a matter of time before they perfect it.
If there is an issue with drivers then its probably the HW manufacturers fault and not Vistas. It is not like MS makes that hardware as well as the software now is it?
"I can't say it [the vulnerability] has been eliminated. But I can say a lot of risk has been taken off the table," said Robert Jamison, acting undersecretary of DHS's National Protection and Programs Directorate as he pulled the network cable out of the wall socket.
I think that where every 10/20 years the whole law book gets reviewed. Anything not entirely relevant gets removed so as to streamline the whole legal process. Most legal systems are full of laws that go back several hundred years and never get called on these days. If you don't see people herding sheep over london bridge its got nothing to do with the fact it's against the law, its just that there is no need to any more.
Rather than the typical knee jerk reactions to some current event, a constantly evolving set of laws would be more in touch with the people and the state of the nation. To this end, a wiki is certainly an interesting way of doing things. A discussion forum on the various subjects may have been better as that would encourage proper discussion and discourage edit wars.
What he was saying is that if you get a speeding ticket, you shouldn't be able to go in, edit the law to exclude everyone with your surname and then tear the ticket up. He says afterwards that laws should change where and when necessary.
Is a 256kb mp3 twice the size of a 128kb mp3? If it is then isn't this just a scam to make us buy bigger iPods/Zunes/Zens/etc? Make the files twice the size (with no real difference in sound) and suddenly you can only fit half as much music on there.
When my hard drive crashes I could have lost my entire music collection but when my CD collection crashes (to the floor), I can just stand it up again. Will they let you re-download stuff you have brought? iTunes allows you once I think.
My surname is PRYSZLAK. Unfornunately most people print it out mixed case so they have no idea if its LAK or IAK at the end. Why institutions use fonts where you cannot tell the letters apart is beyond me.
Yeah, its a bit of bad PR spin. If they had relased the update and a 'few' iPhones had stopped working, and they just happened to be the modded ones then people wouldn't be so up in arms.
The trouble is people don't know if Apple are deliberately going to kill the iPhones where they have been tampered with or whether it's just some part of the update mechanism that has been hacked and therefore doesn't work any longer.
I still say move development over to the iPod Touch. No one actually brought the iPhone for the phone part of it. They brought it for the touchscreen. I am sure hacking the touch will be a lot less problematic.
Would anyone miss them if they pulled out of iTunes? I don't think so. Apple/iTunes is only the largest supplier of downloads as they have a LOT of iPods out there.
People only buy a couple of tunes each a year, but multiply that by the number of iPods out there and you are talking big numbers. People buying a dozen tunes each year is not a bright future for the music industry. It's better than every other download company but still not brilliant. Twenty songs =1 or 2 albums.
As you say they get paid for doing nothing. I wouldn't be suprised if the record companies got together and formed their own music sales website. Just as NBC is supposed to be doing. That way they still have to do nothing but get the full 99c for it. iTunes was successful as it was first but as it has no control over the content the record companies have them over a barrel.
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Unfortunately there would only ever be one third party application that needed to be develeoed and that would be a version of Skype. Once that was out it would kill off all the phone usage and therefore the phone itself.
I have heard stories of peole taking their "bricks" into Genius Bars and miraculously coming out with said phone working again.
and of course the OSX version runs under X11, so that adds another level of unusability.
it is the Covenants fault. They are trying to crash the internet ready for the next invasion.
Should have asked Motley Crue. The know what's happening.
Interesting. So they want us to replace all our existing wireless infrastructure? Can't see that happening any time soon.
Yes, The fact they are nocturnal means they probably operate better at night while we work better during the day.
Now excuse me, I have some research to finish as to whether bears prefer forests or shopping malls for their biological functions.
how much a botnet would be worth to a crooked political party? Spam the electorate and then mount a DOS on the voting server with votes for them. Or the opposition if they were being devious. I suppose all the while we are receiveing spam the bots arn't being used for anything more dangerous.
Does Wimax work with existing wireless hardware like wireless routers and wireless network cards, etc?
you are in a foreign country and you want to say something to a local. Dial up a number on your mobile, say what you want to say and either the translation gets spoken back to you or it turns up, a few seconds later, in a text. I know speech recognition is a bit harder than OCR but it's only a matter of time before they perfect it.
If there is an issue with drivers then its probably the HW manufacturers fault and not Vistas. It is not like MS makes that hardware as well as the software now is it?
Especially as it says you have to sign up to get these messages. It's not like they are sending them out randomly.
"I can't say it [the vulnerability] has been eliminated. But I can say a lot of risk has been taken off the table," said Robert Jamison, acting undersecretary of DHS's National Protection and Programs Directorate as he pulled the network cable out of the wall socket.
As long as it isn't to make another record. Can you just imagine ...
I think that where every 10/20 years the whole law book gets reviewed. Anything not entirely relevant gets removed so as to streamline the whole legal process. Most legal systems are full of laws that go back several hundred years and never get called on these days. If you don't see people herding sheep over london bridge its got nothing to do with the fact it's against the law, its just that there is no need to any more. Rather than the typical knee jerk reactions to some current event, a constantly evolving set of laws would be more in touch with the people and the state of the nation. To this end, a wiki is certainly an interesting way of doing things. A discussion forum on the various subjects may have been better as that would encourage proper discussion and discourage edit wars.
What he was saying is that if you get a speeding ticket, you shouldn't be able to go in, edit the law to exclude everyone with your surname and then tear the ticket up. He says afterwards that laws should change where and when necessary.
Is a 256kb mp3 twice the size of a 128kb mp3? If it is then isn't this just a scam to make us buy bigger iPods/Zunes/Zens/etc? Make the files twice the size (with no real difference in sound) and suddenly you can only fit half as much music on there.
When my hard drive crashes I could have lost my entire music collection but when my CD collection crashes (to the floor), I can just stand it up again. Will they let you re-download stuff you have brought? iTunes allows you once I think.
My surname is PRYSZLAK. Unfornunately most people print it out mixed case so they have no idea if its LAK or IAK at the end. Why institutions use fonts where you cannot tell the letters apart is beyond me.
Mod me +1 Bitter.
Or maybe an online version of the old BBC game Elite. Then you could fly between worlds shooting pirates and trading Second Life goods for WOW goods.
When you earn that much you have to find bigger ways of avoiding tax. They probably did their charitable bit for this year anyway.
Yeah, its a bit of bad PR spin. If they had relased the update and a 'few' iPhones had stopped working, and they just happened to be the modded ones then people wouldn't be so up in arms.
The trouble is people don't know if Apple are deliberately going to kill the iPhones where they have been tampered with or whether it's just some part of the update mechanism that has been hacked and therefore doesn't work any longer.
I still say move development over to the iPod Touch. No one actually brought the iPhone for the phone part of it. They brought it for the touchscreen. I am sure hacking the touch will be a lot less problematic.
While it would probably run fast I don't think it was really optimized for quad core systems was it?
Would anyone miss them if they pulled out of iTunes? I don't think so. Apple/iTunes is only the largest supplier of downloads as they have a LOT of iPods out there. People only buy a couple of tunes each a year, but multiply that by the number of iPods out there and you are talking big numbers. People buying a dozen tunes each year is not a bright future for the music industry. It's better than every other download company but still not brilliant. Twenty songs =1 or 2 albums.
As you say they get paid for doing nothing. I wouldn't be suprised if the record companies got together and formed their own music sales website. Just as NBC is supposed to be doing. That way they still have to do nothing but get the full 99c for it. iTunes was successful as it was first but as it has no control over the content the record companies have them over a barrel.
This is /. remember.