It's not as if this is anything specific to the developing world. The model for the dotcom 1.0 boom was "get the users now, figure out how to make a profit from them later". Now it just so happens that with Web 2.0 the new users are in developing countries, but the problem is the same - do you try and serve all these users in the hope that some day they might become profitable, or do you say that if you can't see a way to realize profit from them near term, then cut them loose. We all know how dotbomb 1.0 turned out, so the answer is pretty clear. The likes of google can cross-subsidize the poor, but less well-funded businesses should face up to the economic realities and not continue to pour money into users that will likely never be profitable for them - by the time these users might become profitable, they'll probably have moved on to other services anyway.
I'm honestly sure who I trust less to securely maintain a database containing large amounts my of private data. The government have consistently proven themselves incapable of managing large scale IT projects, or of taking privacy seriously. On the other hand, I don't trust my ISP either - will they be prevented from outsourcing any part of the chain involved in collecting and storing this data, for example, or is my data going to be available for $1 in Delhi anytime soon? It's a lose-lose situation.
I dunno. They would take all the hassle out of creating those "this message will self destruct in..." type of messages for secret agents, something that I'm sure we all have to do regularly...ok, maybe it is just dumb.
As a Brit, I hate to have to defend our old adversaries, but I have to step in here, as I think you're being a little unfair. You say the French are lazy, but I can tell you that they are more than willing to work quite hard. As long as it isn't August of course. Or one of their many holidays. Or within 30 minutes of their official close of business. Or anywhere near lunch. And so long as they aren't on strike. But other than that, absolutely nose-to-the-grindstone tireless hard workers for sure.
When i was in secondary school (that's what we call high school in the UK), the GSCE's (the exams you take in 5th form at around 15/16 years old) hadn't been around long, so for practice exams we mostly used the old O levels. When we came to sit the actual GCSE's, particularly the sciences, we couldn't believe how easy they were compared to the old exams. And at that point the GCSE's were at least proper exams, since then they've brought in large amounts of continuous assessment, with students able to re-take modules several times until they get them right during the course of the year. It's basically impossible to fail GCSE's now, and I thought we were at the point where we couldn't dumb our education system down any further. Looks like I was wrong.
Yes, I'm kind of astonished by this. Over here in the UK, there are plenty of complaints about speed cameras being used as revenue generators, by being put in places where there isn't a safety issue. But I don't think I've ever once heard anyone complaining about a red light camera. There is no effing excuse for running a red light, and no safe way of doing it. If you live in the middle of nowhere and feel the traffic levels are low enough that a red light can be ignored, then you should campaign for those lights to be removed, not ignore them.
In the UK at least, your transactions are guaranteed by the credit card company. So it's often actually recommended that you purchase things online with a credit card, because if you get ripped off, the goods are defective, or the merchant goes bankrupt etc, the card company has to refund you. This is enshrined in law under the Consumer Credit Act. On the other hand, if you pay with a debit card or other direct payment, your money is gone.
is what it's about. If they don't know what the IWF is actually doing, then when it goes wrong, they can say "wasn't us". That is standard practice for the current UK government. Fred Goodwin's pension? We didn't know about that. UK residents being totured by the CIA? Wasn't us. 400 needless deaths in a hospital? We've given local health authorities responsibility for maintaining standards. Etc etc.
As usual with Firefox features, if you don't like it, you can probably fix it. Try the oldbar extension. There is probably a way to disable it without an extension, ISTR there is a setting in about:config for 3.0 at least, but you can google that yourself. Personally I love the awesome bar, although I don't think I will flip out about the new version for a whole 6 months, but each to their own.
I don't have an iPhone, but from the description and reviews, Dapple looks like a dinky little fun time-killer app. There are loads of such games, at least on other mobile platforms, and looks like on iPhone too, quite a few of them great fun, and many very cheap. Meanwhile for PC I just bought Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete on Steam for £2.99 (about $4.20) - a great edition of one of the greatest games of it's type ever. So I'd say the guy's $5 valuation is way out of whack. Dinky little time-killer games of that sort will never be worth more than a token payment to me (like $1), if anything. No matter how much fun it is, it's inherently replaceable, and therefore of limited value. Expecting to get rich selling such games on iPhone is just wishful thinking unless you get hugely lucky.
Several companies offer such functionality in their computer BIOSes. Sony's stupidly named XrossMediaBar that they install on everything from PS3s to televisions as well as some laptops being a prime example. These people are probably out of luck as if anybody actually wants this kind of feature, it will start to be provided in more and more BIOSes. Sure, the BIOS mini-OSes don't have the "app store" extensibility (although there's no reason why they couldn't), but, well good luck with that. And if (as I suspect) nobody is really interested because suspend/hibernate is plenty fast enough, then they're still buggered.
Yes, I see much the same. I have ~30 extensions, and currently five tabs open, been running all day, and only ~160MB in use.
But I don't think the people that are complaining about this are making it up, so the question is, what is going wrong for them? On Windows I recommend trying Firefox Portable as a diagnostic aid (make sure you close your installed Firefox before running the portable version). That will run with it's own profile and extensions all in it's own directory, completely separate from your installed version, so if you don't see the same problems then you know your problem is down to a broken Firefox install, try a full uninstall, manually delete the ff program folder and wipe your profile before reinstalling.
Whenever I think about kids and robots I can't help but think about Perp-a-tron. Not sure if a child molesting robot is a suitable project for the kids, but it'll put them ahead of the game.
Yeah, although I mostly listen to recent rock, a lot of the stuff where I love the drumming in particular is older stuff. Mitch Mitchell for example, especially on "Are You Experienced?". I don't think it's just the use of click tracks, I have a suspicion that I just like the way drums sounded through the less sophisticated recording technology used back then, or maybe the drums themselves. But I bet Mitch would be turning in his grave at the thought of using a click track.
I have never observed this phenomenon on myself or anybody else...but then I wash regularly. When he says "end up in the navel at the end of the day", I think he really means "end of the week".
Umm, you are so wrong, one of the power plant options was satellite microwave. I remember it clearly, and it's mentioned in the wikipedia entry. Obviously you don't get to build the space based part, just the ground based receiver. As I recall, it was an expensive option and I rarely used it.
...our ISP's in the UK, USA etc seem to be having real problems dealing with the bandwidth usage of their customers who have paltry 10Mbps connections. Do the Koreans not use bittorrent or usenet? Are these connections going to be capped or throttled? If the connections are bandwidth-managed, then it seems kind of pointless to have them in the first place. But if not bandwidth-managed, then I can't see how the ISPs can make it work. TFA sheds no light, so I guess it's just a rather pointless snippet, unless anyone can shed some light on these questions.
Absolutely, having these charges will hopefully reduce the amount of spurious fishing trips. Let's face it, if it didn't cost them, we all know how that would end.
Mind you, when I read about this yesterday on theregister, it said that ~10000 requests had resulted in ~300 arrests, but no data was available on how many of those arrests had resulted in convictions. So we don't really know the quality of those requests as it is.
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It's not as if this is anything specific to the developing world. The model for the dotcom 1.0 boom was "get the users now, figure out how to make a profit from them later". Now it just so happens that with Web 2.0 the new users are in developing countries, but the problem is the same - do you try and serve all these users in the hope that some day they might become profitable, or do you say that if you can't see a way to realize profit from them near term, then cut them loose. We all know how dotbomb 1.0 turned out, so the answer is pretty clear. The likes of google can cross-subsidize the poor, but less well-funded businesses should face up to the economic realities and not continue to pour money into users that will likely never be profitable for them - by the time these users might become profitable, they'll probably have moved on to other services anyway.
I'm honestly sure who I trust less to securely maintain a database containing large amounts my of private data. The government have consistently proven themselves incapable of managing large scale IT projects, or of taking privacy seriously. On the other hand, I don't trust my ISP either - will they be prevented from outsourcing any part of the chain involved in collecting and storing this data, for example, or is my data going to be available for $1 in Delhi anytime soon? It's a lose-lose situation.
As opposed to a non-binary computer?
Yes
For the clock, or for the human race?
Webmonkey. Can't quite pay them bananas yet, but it's getting that way.
I dunno. They would take all the hassle out of creating those "this message will self destruct in..." type of messages for secret agents, something that I'm sure we all have to do regularly...ok, maybe it is just dumb.
While of course I was being humorous, come on, the best you can do to back up your case is an article by a comedian? Other sources say different.
"A quarter of the workforce - around 7million people - put in more than 48 hours a week.
That puts us way ahead of the rest of Europe and even the hard-grafting Americans, says the International Labour Organisation, a UN agency. "
As a Brit, I hate to have to defend our old adversaries, but I have to step in here, as I think you're being a little unfair. You say the French are lazy, but I can tell you that they are more than willing to work quite hard. As long as it isn't August of course. Or one of their many holidays. Or within 30 minutes of their official close of business. Or anywhere near lunch. And so long as they aren't on strike. But other than that, absolutely nose-to-the-grindstone tireless hard workers for sure.
When i was in secondary school (that's what we call high school in the UK), the GSCE's (the exams you take in 5th form at around 15/16 years old) hadn't been around long, so for practice exams we mostly used the old O levels. When we came to sit the actual GCSE's, particularly the sciences, we couldn't believe how easy they were compared to the old exams. And at that point the GCSE's were at least proper exams, since then they've brought in large amounts of continuous assessment, with students able to re-take modules several times until they get them right during the course of the year. It's basically impossible to fail GCSE's now, and I thought we were at the point where we couldn't dumb our education system down any further. Looks like I was wrong.
Yes, I'm kind of astonished by this. Over here in the UK, there are plenty of complaints about speed cameras being used as revenue generators, by being put in places where there isn't a safety issue. But I don't think I've ever once heard anyone complaining about a red light camera. There is no effing excuse for running a red light, and no safe way of doing it. If you live in the middle of nowhere and feel the traffic levels are low enough that a red light can be ignored, then you should campaign for those lights to be removed, not ignore them.
In the UK at least, your transactions are guaranteed by the credit card company. So it's often actually recommended that you purchase things online with a credit card, because if you get ripped off, the goods are defective, or the merchant goes bankrupt etc, the card company has to refund you. This is enshrined in law under the Consumer Credit Act. On the other hand, if you pay with a debit card or other direct payment, your money is gone.
is what it's about. If they don't know what the IWF is actually doing, then when it goes wrong, they can say "wasn't us". That is standard practice for the current UK government. Fred Goodwin's pension? We didn't know about that. UK residents being totured by the CIA? Wasn't us. 400 needless deaths in a hospital? We've given local health authorities responsibility for maintaining standards. Etc etc.
I sat with a couple of sales guys (friends at that) last weekend who bragged back and forth about how they were literally screwing associates.
But surely their sex lives are perfectly fair game for a bit of bragging?
As usual with Firefox features, if you don't like it, you can probably fix it. Try the oldbar extension. There is probably a way to disable it without an extension, ISTR there is a setting in about:config for 3.0 at least, but you can google that yourself. Personally I love the awesome bar, although I don't think I will flip out about the new version for a whole 6 months, but each to their own.
I defend the right to bare arms and resolve conflicts like this in duels.
Easy there, I am also a fan of short sleeved shirts, but I'm not sure this is appropriate or traditional attire for a duel.
I don't have an iPhone, but from the description and reviews, Dapple looks like a dinky little fun time-killer app. There are loads of such games, at least on other mobile platforms, and looks like on iPhone too, quite a few of them great fun, and many very cheap. Meanwhile for PC I just bought Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete on Steam for £2.99 (about $4.20) - a great edition of one of the greatest games of it's type ever. So I'd say the guy's $5 valuation is way out of whack. Dinky little time-killer games of that sort will never be worth more than a token payment to me (like $1), if anything. No matter how much fun it is, it's inherently replaceable, and therefore of limited value. Expecting to get rich selling such games on iPhone is just wishful thinking unless you get hugely lucky.
Several companies offer such functionality in their computer BIOSes. Sony's stupidly named XrossMediaBar that they install on everything from PS3s to televisions as well as some laptops being a prime example. These people are probably out of luck as if anybody actually wants this kind of feature, it will start to be provided in more and more BIOSes. Sure, the BIOS mini-OSes don't have the "app store" extensibility (although there's no reason why they couldn't), but, well good luck with that. And if (as I suspect) nobody is really interested because suspend/hibernate is plenty fast enough, then they're still buggered.
Yes, I see much the same. I have ~30 extensions, and currently five tabs open, been running all day, and only ~160MB in use.
But I don't think the people that are complaining about this are making it up, so the question is, what is going wrong for them? On Windows I recommend trying Firefox Portable as a diagnostic aid (make sure you close your installed Firefox before running the portable version). That will run with it's own profile and extensions all in it's own directory, completely separate from your installed version, so if you don't see the same problems then you know your problem is down to a broken Firefox install, try a full uninstall, manually delete the ff program folder and wipe your profile before reinstalling.
Whenever I think about kids and robots I can't help but think about Perp-a-tron. Not sure if a child molesting robot is a suitable project for the kids, but it'll put them ahead of the game.
Yeah, although I mostly listen to recent rock, a lot of the stuff where I love the drumming in particular is older stuff. Mitch Mitchell for example, especially on "Are You Experienced?". I don't think it's just the use of click tracks, I have a suspicion that I just like the way drums sounded through the less sophisticated recording technology used back then, or maybe the drums themselves. But I bet Mitch would be turning in his grave at the thought of using a click track.
I have never observed this phenomenon on myself or anybody else...but then I wash regularly. When he says "end up in the navel at the end of the day", I think he really means "end of the week".
Umm, you are so wrong, one of the power plant options was satellite microwave. I remember it clearly, and it's mentioned in the wikipedia entry. Obviously you don't get to build the space based part, just the ground based receiver. As I recall, it was an expensive option and I rarely used it.
I can't tell if this is humour or not. Are you on the Microsoft UAC team, or are you having a laugh?
...our ISP's in the UK, USA etc seem to be having real problems dealing with the bandwidth usage of their customers who have paltry 10Mbps connections. Do the Koreans not use bittorrent or usenet? Are these connections going to be capped or throttled? If the connections are bandwidth-managed, then it seems kind of pointless to have them in the first place. But if not bandwidth-managed, then I can't see how the ISPs can make it work. TFA sheds no light, so I guess it's just a rather pointless snippet, unless anyone can shed some light on these questions.
Absolutely, having these charges will hopefully reduce the amount of spurious fishing trips. Let's face it, if it didn't cost them, we all know how that would end.
Mind you, when I read about this yesterday on theregister, it said that ~10000 requests had resulted in ~300 arrests, but no data was available on how many of those arrests had resulted in convictions. So we don't really know the quality of those requests as it is.