Apple insists on building it out of glass, in case you dont remember back to high school physics, tensile strength vs hardness. Materials that are more tensile resist impact better because they can warp and spread the force of the impact over a large area. Hardness on the other hand does not resist impact very well because the impact of the force remains more localised.
So plastic will bend because it is more tensile then glass, Glass will shatter because it's not very tensile despite being quite hard
True innovation requires the ability to make mistakes, learn from them, and try something new - which is contrary and alien to the H1B "cog developer" system.
This is not an issue with "cog developers" but with business methods* but more primarily with Indian culture. In many Asian cultures, it's considered a very bad thing to make a mistake, even worse is to admit to it. Indian's aren't as bad as Chinese or Thais in this regard but they still have that syndrome where they cannot draw attention to a failing. As you said, the ability to fail and get back up again after you fail is absolutely vital to innovation and problem solving in general.
That being said, most of the Indian's I've met in professional positions in Australia have broken that, they've had to in order to be competitive.
India is going to have a large pool of talent within the next few decades, but like China it's going to be held back somewhat by their culture.
* business methods refers to the MBA who insist on instilling the fear of god into people and firing them at the first sign of failure.
Probably another distraction to the poor quality of Delhi Commonwealth games.
This is a pretty bad distraction...
Hang on a sec.
Comm games still appalling, no I take that back, this is well above the current standard. Maybe they'll create some decent inflatable accommodation for the athletes, they've certainly created inflatable refs for taking medals off athletes.
I almost break down whenever someone mentions "integration".
*shudder*
Drupal is a lot better from almost every viewpoint.
I've honestly never looked at Drupal. Can it be used in the same way as sharepoint, document storage/versioning and collaboration?
Currently googling for an easy to follow guide, I'd like to point out the Nagios Quickstart guides as an example of how FOSS documentation should look (the Nagios doc's in general are quite good). A bit of a segue but lots of people bitch and moan about how poorly documented some FOSS projects are but no one ever points out when one is well documented. Not that closed source is any better, I've just shelved Civ V until I figure out why Firaxis' FireTuner doesn't work on my PC, no doco on that what so ever.
Dont use it, this would be a really small selling point. Also XBL costs money to have each month.
Windows Live integration
I can use Windows live from my Android phone (if I wanted to)
Office integration
Got this on Android too.
Free "sync to cloud" and "find my phone"
And this.
This is why people think you've drunk the kool-aid. You've basically copy/pasted the MS feature list with no real thought as to how many other platforms actually have the features your listing.
ZunePass
Cant get that in most civilised nations.
Zune software is much better on Windows than iTunes
I'd rather just use MSC. That works perfectly on Linux, Windows or Mac
Works better with Windows
You do know you're on Slashdot, half of us run Linux, the other half will hate MS for no good reason.
For business types
Now this is where MS really screwed up, they've actually alienated business users. They've gone down the social route with WP7 rather then the business route, now no one in business can actually take them seriously. Everyone has now switched to Blackberry or Nokia with Android starting to make serious inroads into the enterprise MS has really shot themselves in the foot. WinMo had two types of users, Microsoft loving MBA's and Hackers, because MS went after the consumer market with WP7 they've lost the MBA's to RIM and they are at risk of losing the hackers to Android.
I would like to know WHY the Lucasfilm 'droid' trademark applies to phones in any way or to any real world device at all outside of Star Wars toys/games.
It's ambiguous enough that they can sue.
Trademarks often operate like protection rackets, that's a nice name you've got there, it would be a shame if we were to sue over it. I can understand how things like Intel, Apple and Windows need to be protected but things like Droid are used as extortion.
MS: You know, we could "misplace" the lawsuit MS has going against you.
Motorola: That would be great, but what would we have to do?
MS: Nothing much, just mess with Apple a bit. We could do it ourselves but it would attract the kind of attention we don't want right now.
I dont know why people think MS is against Apple Inc (and vice versa) they haven't attacked each other since Apple Computers died in the 90's. In fact MS moved to save Apple in the late 90's. Both MS and Apple know that Linux is the real threat to their closed, locked down business model.
Nope, most companies have cross-licensing agreements. Apple is in trouble because they didn't bother to set these up when they entered the market
Not really, Apple didn't have anything of value so Nokia et al. asked for cash, this is not unusual as many manufacturers such as HTC, LG, Huewei and so forth pay cash because they dont have a sufficient patent portfolio. Only the top tier R&D companies like Sony Eriksson, Motorola and Nokia have a no fee cross licensing agreement.
The way it works is, Manufacturer A has no patents, so they pay $50 per unit to Nokia for use of the patents they use, Manufacturer B has 2 patents, Nokia et al. determine this is worth $20 and make a cross licensing agreement so that B only pays $30 per unit. Everyone pays RAND (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) fees for things like GSM, even Nokia and Motorola although they are paying fees to themselves (and others)
Apple did not want to play this way at all, they claimed they paid RAND so they should be permitted to use the entirety of Nokia's patent portfolio, which is not true as RAND only covers a limited number of patents. Nokia negotiated with Apple for 3 years until they finally got sick of the stonewalling and just sued.
And people here say the economy doesn't fix itself when corporations do things consumers don't like.
This is a definite case of correlation not equalling causation. You assume that they sued the record companies because some users left, I'd be a great deal on the real reason being that filtering and logging software as well having a human go through the logs to find the answers to the deluge of piracy complaints was costing them way too much. ISP's operate on a shoestring profit, not a lot of fat in it so if a few heavy users leave, all the better (less international bandwidth being bought) but when they have to spend more to keep an eye on users that is a terrible thing from a business perspective.
So ISP greed vs movie studio greed, in Soviet Ireland ISP greed wins. Eircom is far from the worlds most altruistic ISP.
Both those figures $150 and $300 can be reached in a couple of minutes for a compromised box. Sat phone calls are in the dollars per minute range and simultaneous calls are not unusual.
First off, thanks for posting.
People who make satphone calls are unusual, most people dont make them from home VOIP accounts. Primary users of satphones are business, I've worked in GIS in the mining industry who are the biggest users of satphones in AU (merchant marine is probably biggest world wide though). People regularly calling satphones will be on pretty hefty business accounts (it's just madness not to).
At the the Australian Voip provider I work for we, have alerts for unusual calling to overseas numbers. If it looks suspicious we will cutoff the account, kill the calls and then contact the client. If we contact the client first they could be up for thousands by the time we get a hold of them.
This is why I suggested two levels of alerts, contact at alert 1, terminate at alert 2 regardless of if you've contacted the client, then wait for the client to respond.
. It's very unlikely the NBN or any other technology will see true unlimited plans at rock bottom prices in Australia anytime soon
Not unlimited, but we'll see a lot of restrictions that come with DSL disappear. What the NBN will bring is a highly reliable network with consistent speeds to over 95% of Australian homes and businesses. This kind of connection is something that is very very expensive at the moment.
the inescapable fact remains: we are an English speaking country wishing to consume mostly English speaking content which is hosted 15,000km away in North America
And this is the kind of thing the NBN will actually work to fix.
Why is the content hosted in North America/Europe?
Because it's not any faster to host it here. With a better network the idea of running Australian datacentres for Australian consumption becomes more feasible.
Ultimately, what you want is to create a need for local datacentres, there's no point if there's no benefit. There is not much content that cannot be easily replicated here, once here it costs practically nothing to transmit, this is why ISP's tend to use caching very aggressively.
For a sysadmin, doing the command line stuff will be over with in a few seconds, for a peon they are just going to let their pictures sit in ~/pictures and have done with. Mucking about with "this folder thingy" always goes into the "top hard basket".
And before anyone brings up the idea of powerusers, forget it. Powerusers dont exist, they are only peons who think they know how to use computers.
don't use unbounded plans. If your provider doesn't offer hard limits for post-paid plans, choose pre-paid and never put more money into the account than you can afford to lose
G'day mate,
In Australia we dont have so called "unlimited" plans, for A$99 a month you get 1 TB of data (upload and download) on an ADSL connection. After reaching your data cap your connection is shaped to just above dialup speed (somewhere between 64K and 256K as our Luddite government still defines anything above 56K as broadband). If you want unmetered plans, expect to pay $450+ (+ == plus GST (Goods and Services Tax) which is 10%) for 2 Mbit, if you want 10 Mbit, expect to pay $1400+ for fibre.
Side note: this is why the NBN at 43 Bn AU$ (26 Bn public money) is an absolute bargain.
Now that I've clued you in about the sorry state of internet in Australia, the charges are not from downloads but from using the ISP's SIP gateway. Traffic between your router and the ISP's SIP gateway will not be metered by all but the most unscrupulous of telco's in AU. But you still pay a per call charge on VOIP because the ISP is providing a service which costs them money (calls within their network are typically free however). It would be quite easy to rack up hefty bill if you have a script that can call internationally. What the service providers should be doing is this, when a bill reaches a suspicious amount (use $150 as a yardstick for home services) then the ISP notifies the customer, once the bill reaches a second milestone (say $300) the service is suspended (incoming calls only) until the issue is rectified unless the user expressly requests otherwise.
There wouldn't be any name change for Microsoft - the brand is far too valuable. Adobe would cease to exist; or rather they would become a subsidiary and only funnel money to Microsoft.
The Adobe brand would not cease to exist either for the same reason, it's too valuable. What would happen is what happens with acquisitions all the time, the brand stays on as a subsidiary publishing it's own marketing under it's own name but still funnelling the profits to the parent company.
Microsoft would still be Microsoft, Adobe would still be Adobe, Microsoft would publish Adobe Flash and Adobe Photoshop.
It took me less time to finish StarCraft II than the original StarCraft.
True, but I wouldn't say there was less content in Starcraft II, it was just more streamlined in it's delivery. In Starcraft 1 I would spend 10 minutes doing absolutely nothing just waiting for resources in the Zerg Missions on Char because there was no way in hell you could approach any of the Terran bases without a sizable force. SC II stripped a lot of that away without sacrificing gameplay (lets face it, at it's heart Starcraft is a clickfest, but a very good one).
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There's the problem.
Apple insists on building it out of glass, in case you dont remember back to high school physics, tensile strength vs hardness. Materials that are more tensile resist impact better because they can warp and spread the force of the impact over a large area. Hardness on the other hand does not resist impact very well because the impact of the force remains more localised.
So plastic will bend because it is more tensile then glass, Glass will shatter because it's not very tensile despite being quite hard
This is not an issue with "cog developers" but with business methods* but more primarily with Indian culture. In many Asian cultures, it's considered a very bad thing to make a mistake, even worse is to admit to it. Indian's aren't as bad as Chinese or Thais in this regard but they still have that syndrome where they cannot draw attention to a failing. As you said, the ability to fail and get back up again after you fail is absolutely vital to innovation and problem solving in general.
That being said, most of the Indian's I've met in professional positions in Australia have broken that, they've had to in order to be competitive.
India is going to have a large pool of talent within the next few decades, but like China it's going to be held back somewhat by their culture.
* business methods refers to the MBA who insist on instilling the fear of god into people and firing them at the first sign of failure.
This is a pretty bad distraction...
Hang on a sec.
Comm games still appalling, no I take that back, this is well above the current standard. Maybe they'll create some decent inflatable accommodation for the athletes, they've certainly created inflatable refs for taking medals off athletes.
What a let down.
I'd prefer mine with a smaller, tighter missile silo. But I suppose most /.ers take what they can get.
BTW, I'd also prefer them to brunette and Asian.
Please dont remind me.
I almost break down whenever someone mentions "integration".
*shudder*
I've honestly never looked at Drupal. Can it be used in the same way as sharepoint, document storage/versioning and collaboration?
Currently googling for an easy to follow guide, I'd like to point out the Nagios Quickstart guides as an example of how FOSS documentation should look (the Nagios doc's in general are quite good). A bit of a segue but lots of people bitch and moan about how poorly documented some FOSS projects are but no one ever points out when one is well documented. Not that closed source is any better, I've just shelved Civ V until I figure out why Firaxis' FireTuner doesn't work on my PC, no doco on that what so ever.
Dont use it, this would be a really small selling point. Also XBL costs money to have each month.
I can use Windows live from my Android phone (if I wanted to)
Got this on Android too.
And this.
This is why people think you've drunk the kool-aid. You've basically copy/pasted the MS feature list with no real thought as to how many other platforms actually have the features your listing.
Cant get that in most civilised nations.
I'd rather just use MSC. That works perfectly on Linux, Windows or Mac
You do know you're on Slashdot, half of us run Linux, the other half will hate MS for no good reason.
Now this is where MS really screwed up, they've actually alienated business users. They've gone down the social route with WP7 rather then the business route, now no one in business can actually take them seriously. Everyone has now switched to Blackberry or Nokia with Android starting to make serious inroads into the enterprise MS has really shot themselves in the foot. WinMo had two types of users, Microsoft loving MBA's and Hackers, because MS went after the consumer market with WP7 they've lost the MBA's to RIM and they are at risk of losing the hackers to Android.
It's ambiguous enough that they can sue.
Trademarks often operate like protection rackets, that's a nice name you've got there, it would be a shame if we were to sue over it. I can understand how things like Intel, Apple and Windows need to be protected but things like Droid are used as extortion.
I dont know why people think MS is against Apple Inc (and vice versa) they haven't attacked each other since Apple Computers died in the 90's. In fact MS moved to save Apple in the late 90's. Both MS and Apple know that Linux is the real threat to their closed, locked down business model.
Not really, Apple didn't have anything of value so Nokia et al. asked for cash, this is not unusual as many manufacturers such as HTC, LG, Huewei and so forth pay cash because they dont have a sufficient patent portfolio. Only the top tier R&D companies like Sony Eriksson, Motorola and Nokia have a no fee cross licensing agreement.
The way it works is, Manufacturer A has no patents, so they pay $50 per unit to Nokia for use of the patents they use, Manufacturer B has 2 patents, Nokia et al. determine this is worth $20 and make a cross licensing agreement so that B only pays $30 per unit. Everyone pays RAND (Reasonable And Non Discriminatory) fees for things like GSM, even Nokia and Motorola although they are paying fees to themselves (and others)
Apple did not want to play this way at all, they claimed they paid RAND so they should be permitted to use the entirety of Nokia's patent portfolio, which is not true as RAND only covers a limited number of patents. Nokia negotiated with Apple for 3 years until they finally got sick of the stonewalling and just sued.
This is a definite case of correlation not equalling causation. You assume that they sued the record companies because some users left, I'd be a great deal on the real reason being that filtering and logging software as well having a human go through the logs to find the answers to the deluge of piracy complaints was costing them way too much. ISP's operate on a shoestring profit, not a lot of fat in it so if a few heavy users leave, all the better (less international bandwidth being bought) but when they have to spend more to keep an eye on users that is a terrible thing from a business perspective.
So ISP greed vs movie studio greed, in Soviet Ireland ISP greed wins. Eircom is far from the worlds most altruistic ISP.
First off, thanks for posting.
People who make satphone calls are unusual, most people dont make them from home VOIP accounts. Primary users of satphones are business, I've worked in GIS in the mining industry who are the biggest users of satphones in AU (merchant marine is probably biggest world wide though). People regularly calling satphones will be on pretty hefty business accounts (it's just madness not to).
This is why I suggested two levels of alerts, contact at alert 1, terminate at alert 2 regardless of if you've contacted the client, then wait for the client to respond.
Unmetered != Unlimited.
Plus read the fine print, only available to select customers. In terms of availability, it's extremely limited.
Not unlimited, but we'll see a lot of restrictions that come with DSL disappear. What the NBN will bring is a highly reliable network with consistent speeds to over 95% of Australian homes and businesses. This kind of connection is something that is very very expensive at the moment.
And this is the kind of thing the NBN will actually work to fix.
Why is the content hosted in North America/Europe?
Because it's not any faster to host it here. With a better network the idea of running Australian datacentres for Australian consumption becomes more feasible.
Ultimately, what you want is to create a need for local datacentres, there's no point if there's no benefit. There is not much content that cannot be easily replicated here, once here it costs practically nothing to transmit, this is why ISP's tend to use caching very aggressively.
For a sysadmin or a peon?
For a sysadmin, doing the command line stuff will be over with in a few seconds, for a peon they are just going to let their pictures sit in ~/pictures and have done with. Mucking about with "this folder thingy" always goes into the "top hard basket".
And before anyone brings up the idea of powerusers, forget it. Powerusers dont exist, they are only peons who think they know how to use computers.
India is in Asia, and unlike Thailand and Malaysia they dont have any oil.
G'day mate,
In Australia we dont have so called "unlimited" plans, for A$99 a month you get 1 TB of data (upload and download) on an ADSL connection. After reaching your data cap your connection is shaped to just above dialup speed (somewhere between 64K and 256K as our Luddite government still defines anything above 56K as broadband). If you want unmetered plans, expect to pay $450+ (+ == plus GST (Goods and Services Tax) which is 10%) for 2 Mbit, if you want 10 Mbit, expect to pay $1400+ for fibre.
Side note: this is why the NBN at 43 Bn AU$ (26 Bn public money) is an absolute bargain.
Now that I've clued you in about the sorry state of internet in Australia, the charges are not from downloads but from using the ISP's SIP gateway. Traffic between your router and the ISP's SIP gateway will not be metered by all but the most unscrupulous of telco's in AU. But you still pay a per call charge on VOIP because the ISP is providing a service which costs them money (calls within their network are typically free however). It would be quite easy to rack up hefty bill if you have a script that can call internationally. What the service providers should be doing is this, when a bill reaches a suspicious amount (use $150 as a yardstick for home services) then the ISP notifies the customer, once the bill reaches a second milestone (say $300) the service is suspended (incoming calls only) until the issue is rectified unless the user expressly requests otherwise.
Tomorrow it will be 11/10/10. Sent from +8 GMT.
Ze French, zey are resisting.
Last time I checked (CS3) I receive codes for both OSX and Win but needed to buy separate media kits, so this seems to have already happened
Steve said no.
Why do you need another reason.
The Adobe brand would not cease to exist either for the same reason, it's too valuable. What would happen is what happens with acquisitions all the time, the brand stays on as a subsidiary publishing it's own marketing under it's own name but still funnelling the profits to the parent company.
Microsoft would still be Microsoft, Adobe would still be Adobe, Microsoft would publish Adobe Flash and Adobe Photoshop.
A lot of Mac fan's forget this, you can make designers switch platforms if you sign their paycheck.
True, but I wouldn't say there was less content in Starcraft II, it was just more streamlined in it's delivery. In Starcraft 1 I would spend 10 minutes doing absolutely nothing just waiting for resources in the Zerg Missions on Char because there was no way in hell you could approach any of the Terran bases without a sizable force. SC II stripped a lot of that away without sacrificing gameplay (lets face it, at it's heart Starcraft is a clickfest, but a very good one).
Much like peoples desire for home theatre gear, that is something you just dont get.