Even if Superman isn't visiting a city street near you a cycle courier could confuse data, they all carry mobiles and they are the fastest (human) in the city.
All this suggests that consumers looking for bargain gifts may opt for less-expensive gadgets such as cell phones, digital music players, video phones or noise-cancelling headphones.
I agree with jfengel but I would add that diferentiating between commercial and non-commercial distrubution would still be important as it would provide a tool to help shut down any organised crime that may be involved in counterfit DVD distribution.
I wasn't made to "jump through hoops" when I installed PHP (with the GD image manipulation library) or ImageMagick (which is far superior in my opinion).
This is the best time for it to be aired (and the worst time for Diebold to try and stop it) because people might actually sit up and listen, it being election time.
Anyone who thinks that 5 days before an election is the worst time (because it might give people ideas and not enough time to stop it happening) are wrong because although it is relatively easy to hack a Diebold voting machine you still need a bit of know-how and the people who have this know-how will have known about it for a long time and there will be nothing new in the documentary.
I suspect they are just trying to get some good press
Just what I was thinking. If piracy is so prevalent in China then M$ pulling out is not going to have a major effect on the people there. They'll still get the latest Winows OS a few days(?) after it is released.
If I lived in China I'd be quite pleased (about this news) because I wouldn't have to watch M$ advertising any more.
I work from home and get on average 5-6 telesales calls per day. About 1 in every 10 is a recorded message. Another thing they like to do is call you and hang up when you answer. If you have CLI (caller line identification) or you dial 1471 (In the UK) you will see that you have been called by an 0800 freephone number and if you call the freephone number back you can listen to them try to sell you stuff.
Anyone know what the law is in the UK regarding recorded message telesales calls? They are a right pain and although I probably wouldn't follow up with anything it would be nice to phone them back and give them some abuse, threaten to sue etc.
Telesales people don't do to well at my house, 99 time out of 100 the calls go like this:
Me: Hello... Me: Hello, is there anyone there? Salesman (gets connected by auto dialing): Hello, could I speak to Mr Jones please? Me: There are two Mr Jones who live here, which one do you want to speak to? Salesman: Mr A. Jones? Me: Yes, which one? Salesman: Uhm, the home owner? Me: Seeing as you don't know the home owners first name you must be selling something so no, you can't speak to him...
Fraid not, I do most of my flying in Chamonix. I know most of the English speaking locals and about half the French locals there.
Back on topic, I don't have a GPS at the moment (I mostly stick within sight of landing) or a bluetooth mobile so would you buy this phone if you had a maximum of £300 to spend? I didn't think the Twig would match up to a proper standalone GPS unit but someone on paraglidingforum.com had this to say:
Looks like it has the same chip set (SIRF-3) as the Mitac Mio - I have one of these, and it's brilliant, better than my Garmin.
I failed the test:-(
I don't have an Uncle John or an Aunt Mary so I clicked deny, I've also already got my swimsuit pics posted so I assumed the guy who asked me to send them was using Lynx and I clicked accept.
Also there IS such an animal as a wombat...
I believe this device could have some useful applications for adventure sports enthusiasts.
Personally I fly paragliders in the French Alps. A lot of pilots fly with top of the range GPS units that link in with our variometers. This phone would never replace that but it could provide a useful backup and give friends/family/retrieve driver your location for peace of mind (or so they know where to come and pick you up). Most pilots already carry a phone so to have a GPS unit combined does have some value in terms of weight saving (especially if you are going to climb Mt Blanc and fly off the top). Obviously you could text your location in most circumstances but if you have crash landed in a tree or out on the glacier unconcious this could save your life as it would constantly be sending your location (unlike emergency beacons which have to be activated). Of course it helps if you tell someone where you've gone and when you expect to be back...
Actually, accordding to wikipediea, the first *international* "internet" (which I think is what is relevant here) was a collaboration:
"the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981."
I hate it when people waste a first post *not* M$ bashing.
Personally I can't wait to download it so I can buy all my music from Micro$oft. Most importantly, it's much better looking than vlc and it doesn't have any of those confusing stream recording features.
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Even if Superman isn't visiting a city street near you a cycle courier could confuse data, they all carry mobiles and they are the fastest (human) in the city.
It tastes great with three eye'd soy sauce.
Because the conditions in which the "in between" creatures flourished no longer exist.
I changed my mind, this would be much more appropriate:
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http://www.presentsdirect.com/go/Product_1000485.
I'm hoping for one of these:
http://www.presentsdirect.com/go/Product_1000625.
I agree with jfengel but I would add that diferentiating between commercial and non-commercial distrubution would still be important as it would provide a tool to help shut down any organised crime that may be involved in counterfit DVD distribution.
step 1. Create cheap copyrightable content.
step 2. Get person who cannot be connected to you to post it on YouTube.
step 4. Sue YouTube for $$$£££€€€
I've got a great new piece of software that hasn't been patented yet, I think I'll hand it over to Microsoft for review...
You obviously miaaed the slashdot article last week, here is a direct link to TFA:
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.a
I wasn't made to "jump through hoops" when I installed PHP (with the GD image manipulation library) or ImageMagick (which is far superior in my opinion).
This is the best time for it to be aired (and the worst time for Diebold to try and stop it) because people might actually sit up and listen, it being election time.
Anyone who thinks that 5 days before an election is the worst time (because it might give people ideas and not enough time to stop it happening) are wrong because although it is relatively easy to hack a Diebold voting machine you still need a bit of know-how and the people who have this know-how will have known about it for a long time and there will be nothing new in the documentary.
Just what I was thinking. If piracy is so prevalent in China then M$ pulling out is not going to have a major effect on the people there. They'll still get the latest Winows OS a few days(?) after it is released.
If I lived in China I'd be quite pleased (about this news) because I wouldn't have to watch M$ advertising any more.
The mullet of retroviri?
...I'm starting to feel like an iPod.
Definitely flamebait, funny flamebait, nothing wrong with that though.
I work from home and get on average 5-6 telesales calls per day. About 1 in every 10 is a recorded message. Another thing they like to do is call you and hang up when you answer. If you have CLI (caller line identification) or you dial 1471 (In the UK) you will see that you have been called by an 0800 freephone number and if you call the freephone number back you can listen to them try to sell you stuff.
Anyone know what the law is in the UK regarding recorded message telesales calls? They are a right pain and although I probably wouldn't follow up with anything it would be nice to phone them back and give them some abuse, threaten to sue etc.
Telesales people don't do to well at my house, 99 time out of 100 the calls go like this:
Me: Hello...
Me: Hello, is there anyone there?
Salesman (gets connected by auto dialing): Hello, could I speak to Mr Jones please?
Me: There are two Mr Jones who live here, which one do you want to speak to?
Salesman: Mr A. Jones?
Me: Yes, which one?
Salesman: Uhm, the home owner?
Me: Seeing as you don't know the home owners first name you must be selling something so no, you can't speak to him...
Fraid not, I do most of my flying in Chamonix. I know most of the English speaking locals and about half the French locals there.
Back on topic, I don't have a GPS at the moment (I mostly stick within sight of landing) or a bluetooth mobile so would you buy this phone if you had a maximum of £300 to spend? I didn't think the Twig would match up to a proper standalone GPS unit but someone on paraglidingforum.com had this to say:
Looks like it has the same chip set (SIRF-3) as the Mitac Mio - I have one of these, and it's brilliant, better than my Garmin.
I failed the test :-(
I don't have an Uncle John or an Aunt Mary so I clicked deny, I've also already got my swimsuit pics posted so I assumed the guy who asked me to send them was using Lynx and I clicked accept.
Also there IS such an animal as a wombat...
I believe this device could have some useful applications for adventure sports enthusiasts.
Personally I fly paragliders in the French Alps. A lot of pilots fly with top of the range GPS units that link in with our variometers. This phone would never replace that but it could provide a useful backup and give friends/family/retrieve driver your location for peace of mind (or so they know where to come and pick you up). Most pilots already carry a phone so to have a GPS unit combined does have some value in terms of weight saving (especially if you are going to climb Mt Blanc and fly off the top). Obviously you could text your location in most circumstances but if you have crash landed in a tree or out on the glacier unconcious this could save your life as it would constantly be sending your location (unlike emergency beacons which have to be activated). Of course it helps if you tell someone where you've gone and when you expect to be back...
Actually, accordding to wikipediea, the first *international* "internet" (which I think is what is relevant here) was a collaboration:
_ the_Internet
"the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Creation_of
When is Bush going to realise that even a sysadmin doesn't log in as root all the time
I hate it when people waste a first post *not* M$ bashing.
Personally I can't wait to download it so I can buy all my music from Micro$oft. Most importantly, it's much better looking than vlc and it doesn't have any of those confusing stream recording features.
...then everyone will want one and it won't be cool any more.
Flame away, I'm wearing lead lined pants.
He might well have been but the original post he was replying to was talking about "consumer cameras" in 20-30 years. Who says they have to be 35mm?
Try going back to 56k(or less)dial-up.