given a guy with a warez version of windows, do you let them app store it or not
Simply allow unlicensed installations of Windows to become legal by purchasing an OS licence from the app store. Have the version purchased update the existing install to the correct configuration (starter/home/ultimate) depending on what is purchased. Allow in store upgrades to the OS.
If/. had posted this story when his birthday began in the first timezone of the world, I would have got that question (what canadian is celebrating his 80th birthday today) right at trivia...last night.
No idea about other countries, but some Telcos in Australia offer(ed) free Facebook access plus various other 'sites' on your monthly plan - however all the ones I've ever seen supplemented *existing* data plans - doesn't explain how this works though. I've used Snaptu as a light interface for accessing FB, when the other applications weren't working or just annoying me (looking at you Nokia S^3!)
I had an idea for an application where many people would "sensibly" allow access to a whole bunch of things on their phone - including the functionality mentioned above - then realised I don't want that visible here for a number of reasons:
1) someone might code it:/
2) *I* might want someone to code it for me (I'm not a developer) and so I don't want the idea 'stolen'
This "Your phone will be everything!" idea that some people tout is just stupid. No, no it won't. Even presuming we arrive at a day where battery life is no longer a problem and you can have more CPU power than you need in a phone, it still won't be your only device. Why? Because phones are designed to be mobile, that is their primary requirement. They need to be small and light so they can travel with you. That is wonderful, but that isn't what you always want.
You know what else is designed to be mobile? Me.
There's a lot to be said for a desktop, a TV, and so on.
There's also a lot to be said about carrying your working environment with you in your pocket. We can do it now, it's just messy with HDMI cables plus adaptors, power cords, usb convertors etc.
Inductive charging and wireless remote displays (intel has this already) integrated into your phone will kick this to a new level.
When every decision you make that involves a monetory cost can potentially be splashed across the front page of your national newspaper, you end up with a lot of documentation to CYA. This takes an inordinate amount of time to produce and manage, which is why government is less efficient and flexible than private business.
Add election changes every 3-4 years that can introduce major dusruption and it's a wonder anything gets done sometimes...
One thing I didn't see mentioned was the cost of managing applications. Things like training (if perform significant migrations), change management, packaging and deployment probably incur very similar resource costs for open vs closed sauce. Add in licence management costs though, and it's chalk and cheese.
I have a team of 5 people to manage software licences, plus $$$ invested into software discovery, reporting and analysis tools and supporting infrastructure. As these are proprientary tools also they have their own yearly costs too. Preliminary investigation into how much software licence compliance activities cost (excluding licence purchases) are looking like 7 figures annually. No small change!
Donwloads are more convenient as they take up so little space when compared to physical media such as CD's, plus they are easily integrated into something else you were already carrying - your mobile phone.
Sure quality may be a bit lower, but how can you tell when listening to music through cheap earbuds?
I thought the Modu concept was pretty good. A basic phone that could plug into whatver expansion device (portable or not) you wanted to provide additional functionality .
From the expansions on offer it looked like a goer. Wonder what killed it?
Yeah I was staying fairly generic in not separating out our levels & types of government:)
My understanding is that changes to law are raised by ministers and debated in the relevant federal/state house. If passed (by the house for state, or both house and senate for federal) they are sent to agencies to implement and administer.
This is *exactly* what government does - propose, debate and pass laws, add clauses against identified workarounds/loopholes, clarifying and updating terminology etc. Have a look at HANSAARD one day.
Why else would you need a new ATO ETAX program every year? It's because of the changed laws and clauses for our tax legislation.
Note - not saying this is a good thing, it's just how things are. Refinement of existing laws and introduction of new ones. It would be nice to see more obsolete legislation removed though...
Without documenting the end requirements and analysing possible solutions, you miss opportunities.
For all we know, Google may have been able to offer a complete solution to replace all those systems - include training and migration costs - at a lower price than the MS solution.
19.41c per:(
only good thing about it is that I'm on the same grid as two hospitals - the power has *never* gone out, but if it did you know that it would be a damn high priority to get it back online.
The car era will never be over because it's really hard to make out in the back of a bicycle.
Carry a blanket or towel when on your bike?
Likewise, the PC era will never be over because it's really hard to fap to a video on a 4 inch screen.
My phone has HDMI out and will play many video formats. You can also buy portable projectors that fit in your pocket.
Hang your towel over your bike and you have your own portable outdoor movie theatre:)
If you try to directly migrate your current installation of Windows to a computer and replace enough of the right (wrong?) components, Windows 7 will literally break itself and stop working
Not neccessarily, I recently swapped AMD/ATI to Intel and after redetecting everything and a couple of reboots it was fine. The only common component was the hard drive and video card - I didn't even need to install new drivers as everything was already included in Win7.
Pretty astounding actually - new chipset (north and south bridges, USB etc), new CPU, new SATA controller, new PCIe controller, new NIC & audio.
On building your own hardware though, ugh. You'll be needing additional staff to fix everything so factor that into your cost base. There's a reason big business buy this way - it scales.
Not neccessarily. I'm from Australia (which has fairly strict firearms laws) yet I'm still thinking this is 40 grains of gunpowder as imagine a single bullet to use (or perhaps pellets in a shotgun cartridge). As to whether that projectile targets the PEBKAC or the PC, well that's someone else's decision.
hope I have the right terminology, I didn't Google any of it.
back OT, while the expressed sentiment may seem fine, I doubt that every Linux distro could be checking their installs and issuing certificates. Yet another way to dump on open sauce:/
I had a phone call claiming to be from the "Microsoft Certified Technical Department":o, apparently this IRS group had identified my computer as being ridden with viruses. I was only able to keep them on the phone for 7 mins, but it was sorta funny considering how hard they were trying to get me to open this website. Asking how they obtained my phone number from my IP address seemed to be the clincher in her hanging up.
I wish I'd thought to boot a Windows VM box, might've been able to waste more of their time (it was a weekend and I was lazing on the couch, no skin off my nose).
I reported the website and phone # I was given to scamwatch.com.au
Oh - check out the Live Support link (top right) - an executable?!?
I will believe it when I see it. Even now innocent people get leeched for incredibly small ADSL plans. 200MB per month from Telstra. That sort of thing.
Only because they don't look at what's available, or upgrade to newer plans.
Telstra now seems to offer 2GB plans as minimum, with 200GB/month plans available. There are also now Terabyte plans available from a number of ISPs.
I still cannot believe there are people that oppose the NBN. The cost is small ($6B/yr for 8 years) in relation to the benefits we will reap for the next 50+ years.
93% are to get FTTP, while the rest (that remain in the other probable 93% of Australia) will be looking at wireless and satellite.
Interesting, I'll have to check when this was enabled.
I racked up an $850+ data roaming bill on a 2 week trip to Japan. A lot of it was easily attributable to what I was doing, but all of it? Now I'm not so sure - if Apple was sending out data every day they could have caused a significant chunk of that bill. I'll have to check...
Australia internet usage - we've had these for a decade or so now.
At least significant competition (even with consolidation) between ISPs has seen usage plans increased as infrastructure is built. Where I was once on a 3GB/month cap, I'm now on 200GB/month. Unlimited is on the (distant) horizon for certain areas. Oh, get ready for some massive internet bills too.
I was thinking about pointing a webcam at my fishpond, so I could see how my goldfish were doing while I was having fun overseas. Wish I had acted on this thought at the time, as a mere week later I busted a girl peeing in my fishpond late one night - would've provided some interesting pictures!
My guess is that because historically broadband plans - both business and personal - had limits on how much you could download (and with a few providers, upload also) in a given month. Once you exceeded that limit, you were either capped to something terrible like 64kbit, or worse - charged vast amounts for the extra GB you downloaded (there were cases of people have excess usage fees of thousands of dollars). Even today you will find little availability of broadband that does not measure usage.
A search of all listed broadband providers for Australia indicate only
10 options for 8/x unlimited business internet access.
I have 2x20" 4:3 1600x1200 LCD's, sitting one on each side of my couple of hours old LED 24" 1920x1080 screen (which looks gorgeous BTW).
They look really primitive now, but the pixel density was the best I could get for a desktop screen at the time, not sure you can get better now either.
I ditched a really old 21" 1600x1200 LCD to make way for the new monitor, 3 barely fits on my desk as it is;)
My preference would be for super-high pixel density, and you just choose whatever resolution (in the appropriate scale) you're comfortable wth viewing.
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given a guy with a warez version of windows, do you let them app store it or not
Simply allow unlicensed installations of Windows to become legal by purchasing an OS licence from the app store. Have the version purchased update the existing install to the correct configuration (starter/home/ultimate) depending on what is purchased. Allow in store upgrades to the OS.
If /. had posted this story when his birthday began in the first timezone of the world, I would have got that question (what canadian is celebrating his 80th birthday today) right at trivia...last night.
No idea about other countries, but some Telcos in Australia offer(ed) free Facebook access plus various other 'sites' on your monthly plan - however all the ones I've ever seen supplemented *existing* data plans - doesn't explain how this works though.
I've used Snaptu as a light interface for accessing FB, when the other applications weren't working or just annoying me (looking at you Nokia S^3!)
1) someone might code it :/
2) *I* might want someone to code it for me (I'm not a developer) and so I don't want the idea 'stolen'
*sigh*
This "Your phone will be everything!" idea that some people tout is just stupid. No, no it won't. Even presuming we arrive at a day where battery life is no longer a problem and you can have more CPU power than you need in a phone, it still won't be your only device. Why? Because phones are designed to be mobile, that is their primary requirement. They need to be small and light so they can travel with you. That is wonderful, but that isn't what you always want.
You know what else is designed to be mobile? Me.
There's a lot to be said for a desktop, a TV, and so on.
There's also a lot to be said about carrying your working environment with you in your pocket. We can do it now, it's just messy with HDMI cables plus adaptors, power cords, usb convertors etc.
Inductive charging and wireless remote displays (intel has this already) integrated into your phone will kick this to a new level.
So when you forget to call your gfirlfriend/mom/dog you can blame your phone? Brilliant!
When every decision you make that involves a monetory cost can potentially be splashed across the front page of your national newspaper, you end up with a lot of documentation to CYA. This takes an inordinate amount of time to produce and manage, which is why government is less efficient and flexible than private business. Add election changes every 3-4 years that can introduce major dusruption and it's a wonder anything gets done sometimes...
I have a team of 5 people to manage software licences, plus $$$ invested into software discovery, reporting and analysis tools and supporting infrastructure. As these are proprientary tools also they have their own yearly costs too. Preliminary investigation into how much software licence compliance activities cost (excluding licence purchases) are looking like 7 figures annually. No small change!
Sure quality may be a bit lower, but how can you tell when listening to music through cheap earbuds?
I thought the Modu concept was pretty good. A basic phone that could plug into whatver expansion device (portable or not) you wanted to provide additional functionality . From the expansions on offer it looked like a goer. Wonder what killed it?
Yeah I was staying fairly generic in not separating out our levels & types of government :)
My understanding is that changes to law are raised by ministers and debated in the relevant federal/state house. If passed (by the house for state, or both house and senate for federal) they are sent to agencies to implement and administer.
This is *exactly* what government does - propose, debate and pass laws, add clauses against identified workarounds/loopholes, clarifying and updating terminology etc. Have a look at HANSAARD one day.
Why else would you need a new ATO ETAX program every year? It's because of the changed laws and clauses for our tax legislation.
Note - not saying this is a good thing, it's just how things are. Refinement of existing laws and introduction of new ones. It would be nice to see more obsolete legislation removed though...
For all we know, Google may have been able to offer a complete solution to replace all those systems - include training and migration costs - at a lower price than the MS solution.
19.41c per :(
only good thing about it is that I'm on the same grid as two hospitals - the power has *never* gone out, but if it did you know that it would be a damn high priority to get it back online.
A little suprised that it was CG all along. Well done
The car era will never be over because it's really hard to make out in the back of a bicycle.
Carry a blanket or towel when on your bike?
Likewise, the PC era will never be over because it's really hard to fap to a video on a 4 inch screen.
My phone has HDMI out and will play many video formats. You can also buy portable projectors that fit in your pocket. :)
Hang your towel over your bike and you have your own portable outdoor movie theatre
If you try to directly migrate your current installation of Windows to a computer and replace enough of the right (wrong?) components, Windows 7 will literally break itself and stop working
Not neccessarily, I recently swapped AMD/ATI to Intel and after redetecting everything and a couple of reboots it was fine. The only common component was the hard drive and video card - I didn't even need to install new drivers as everything was already included in Win7. Pretty astounding actually - new chipset (north and south bridges, USB etc), new CPU, new SATA controller, new PCIe controller, new NIC & audio.
On building your own hardware though, ugh. You'll be needing additional staff to fix everything so factor that into your cost base. There's a reason big business buy this way - it scales.
hope I have the right terminology, I didn't Google any of it.
back OT, while the expressed sentiment may seem fine, I doubt that every Linux distro could be checking their installs and issuing certificates. Yet another way to dump on open sauce :/
I reported the website and phone # I was given to scamwatch.com.au
Oh - check out the Live Support link (top right) - an executable?!?
I will believe it when I see it. Even now innocent people get leeched for incredibly small ADSL plans. 200MB per month from Telstra. That sort of thing.
Only because they don't look at what's available, or upgrade to newer plans. Telstra now seems to offer 2GB plans as minimum, with 200GB/month plans available. There are also now Terabyte plans available from a number of ISPs.
I still cannot believe there are people that oppose the NBN. The cost is small ($6B/yr for 8 years) in relation to the benefits we will reap for the next 50+ years. 93% are to get FTTP, while the rest (that remain in the other probable 93% of Australia) will be looking at wireless and satellite.
Interesting, I'll have to check when this was enabled. I racked up an $850+ data roaming bill on a 2 week trip to Japan. A lot of it was easily attributable to what I was doing, but all of it? Now I'm not so sure - if Apple was sending out data every day they could have caused a significant chunk of that bill. I'll have to check...
Australia internet usage - we've had these for a decade or so now. At least significant competition (even with consolidation) between ISPs has seen usage plans increased as infrastructure is built.
Where I was once on a 3GB/month cap, I'm now on 200GB/month. Unlimited is on the (distant) horizon for certain areas.
Oh, get ready for some massive internet bills too.
I was thinking about pointing a webcam at my fishpond, so I could see how my goldfish were doing while I was having fun overseas.
Wish I had acted on this thought at the time, as a mere week later I busted a girl peeing in my fishpond late one night - would've provided some interesting pictures!
Any clues antipodeans?
My guess is that because historically broadband plans - both business and personal - had limits on how much you could download (and with a few providers, upload also) in a given month. Once you exceeded that limit, you were either capped to something terrible like 64kbit, or worse - charged vast amounts for the extra GB you downloaded (there were cases of people have excess usage fees of thousands of dollars). Even today you will find little availability of broadband that does not measure usage.
A search of all listed broadband providers for Australia indicate only 10 options for 8/x unlimited business internet access.
I have 2x20" 4:3 1600x1200 LCD's, sitting one on each side of my couple of hours old LED 24" 1920x1080 screen (which looks gorgeous BTW). ;)
They look really primitive now, but the pixel density was the best I could get for a desktop screen at the time, not sure you can get better now either. I ditched a really old 21" 1600x1200 LCD to make way for the new monitor, 3 barely fits on my desk as it is
My preference would be for super-high pixel density, and you just choose whatever resolution (in the appropriate scale) you're comfortable wth viewing.