As for the service pack not crashing routers, they actually do have the ability. So no MS bashing for me, just truth.
Microsoft just has a bad run with service packs for XP, huh?
SP3 has also been the culprit for a lot of machines just up and crashing. At both of our shops, we've gotten scads of machines, all with the same issues, all caused by an SP3 update. It's insane.
First ME, then XP SP2, then Vista, now SP3. Microsoft really wants to be the evil empire, don't they?
Sprint Nextel's dying. It has to vacate it's Direct Connect spectrum by the 26th of this month, killing millions of users and losing a great bit of their coverage, which will effectively cripple the company.
Alltel was the bottom wrung of the five main companies. (Though the commercials were funny.) So Verizon scooped them up, making them the number one carrier with the extra customers.
AT&T is planning on acquiring US Cellular, which will only net them around 6 million extra customers...
After this month, really all that's left is AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
Monopolies aside, if Verizon is allowed to acquire Alltel, AT&T should be allowed to acquire T-Mobile. Then we'd have two giant companies vying for power of America's network, while a bunch of itty bitty little local companies (Cricket, MetroPCS, Qwest) and a bunch of prepaid companies (Boost, Virgin Mobile, Helio) flit about like flies.
Two colossal companies. Hmm. Microsoft and Apple?
However this goes, I am interested to see what Google can bring to the table, whenever they figure out what's shakin' in their court.
First, I'm not "attacking". Second, I never said I approved of the Linux usage as well. Again, it's not so much what what you can do legally, it's more what you would do if you had a conscious. But, of course, corporations don't know the meaning of such a word.
Besides. Wikipedia probably put a free use policy on the information because...oh what? It's not their information to begin with. They just accumulate it. I think it would be pretty pompous of them to put any other form of license on their site. Also, how would they go about putting another license into effect if it's user-created content in the first place? Seems kinda odd to me.
Of course, this is just my opinion, which I am entitled to without having to worry about people looking to pick a fight over it.
I'm extremely tickled that there was an advert for AMD on this article when I first looked at it.
Honestly, while it's interesting to see how they are developing this chip, I am so much more interested to see how it's going to stack up to AMD's new chip in the works. Especially seeing as intel is running the 45nm and AMD is still developing on the 65nm. I'm wondering if AMD's product could actually give them the boost they need to jump out from the depths of the AM2 debacle.
Actually, the slowness was because of the php scripts in Safari, as I stated later...
The problem with the open source info being used to gain profits is perfectly legal of course, but I'm thinking more from ethical standpoints.
As for languages, I rarely see sites that support as many languages as Wikipedia does, so I wouldn't doubt that Veropedia wouldn't add anything more than the "main" ones.
But hey! Thanks for calling my comment asinine. I seriously appreciate it.
Google search for "Veropedia", and the main website is 9th on the search results. In fact, this story is 3rd. Good job. I find that quite awesome.
Few things I've noticed about this...thing.
- It's orange. Ugly ugly layout of orange. It actually makes me want to murder people.
- It only takes FOREVER to load. I've been loading it for the last 10 minutes.
- They have a link right on the sidebar (that has actually loaded) to donate to Wikipedia, saying "Support free knowledge! Donate to Wikipedia today!" Am I the only one that finds that slightly ironic?
- It still hasn't loaded.
- I think the servers are run by child labor because it is taking so long to load a single page.
- Oh wait. It seems it's not Safari friendly thanks to bastardized uneeded php scripts.:D AWESOME.
- Apparently Veropedia hates everyone that can't speak either English, Spanish, or French. Because that's the only languages I see on their site. Now to jump over to Wikipedia... I'm only FLOODED with languages.
- Apparently Christopher Reeve died on my birthday. Huh. What a strangely satisfying birthday gift. *cough*
All in all, this Veropedia is just capitilizing off Wikipedia's open source information. I seriously wonder if the ads on the site ONLY pay for hosting costs. Somehow, I highly doubt it.
Of course. That apostrophe and the 're', she accidently regurgitated those on the spot in mid-word. It was that silly English language she had for lunch, so full of its backward...ness.
While the rest of the country is stuck with pokey (relatively speaking) 5/5.
You want to talk about pokey? Until last Christmas, we were stuck with dialup. No, not the normal 56k dialup or anything that glamorous. More like... 32.6k on a GOOD day. Last Christmas, we finally got DSL support. We have an advertised speed (according to the modem) of 1.334mb/192k. The fastest I have ever seen it is just below 1mb/128k, and I do mean at the VERY best.
Then it turns out we were just slightly too far from the CO, so our service was strained and all kinds of cattywompus. As in, crazy SNR numbers in the trillions when they should be...oh...under 60. So now we are at half speed. Awesome. The fastest I can download a torrent is at 50mb/s.
Alternatives? Wild Blue Satellite. Uber expensive packages for decent speeds and horrid bandwith caps. I could go on, but I doubt I have to. No cable whatsoever.
I might also mention that FrontierNet has a monoploy on the area, but ironically, it was Verizon who bought them out, and made them step up the DSL support to the entire state of West Virginia. Regardless, I'm moving to VA, and THANKFULLY the aprtment complex I will reside in has FiOS availability.:D Though no 20/20...:'[ But we can at least get the 15/2. I think that'll do us just fine compared to what I've grown accustomed to for the past 8 years of my life.;]
That's our congressman.:] Wewt to having a politician that only has his head partially inserted into his ass.
You could always switch to Verizon FiOS, if it is supported in your area. Because we all know there is nothing better for getting those pesky share ratios up than a 2 Mbps upload.;D
In response to your "troll" accusation, let me say first that I actually WORK for AT&T. Why would I bash a phone mindlessly that I actually sell? I was just pointing out my opinions.
The one that seems to be trolling here is you. Especially since you posted the comment as an "Anonymous Coward". Just because you can say UID and UNIX doesn't make your internet penis any bigger.
As for the redesign like I "claim", the only real solution to the security flaw would be to redesign the entire firmware. Can you find another way to fix it? Think about that, before you start spouting your Mac fanboy agenda please. It makes you seem not only like an elitist, but an anonymous elitist.
I've scanned through what I'm pretty sure is all of the responses to this, and I am suprised I have not seen anyone throw out the iPhone's inherent security flaws...
In a Wired News article posted earlier this morning (or yesterday morning, in my current EST location), Kim Zetter likens the security of the iPhone to that of Windows 95. As that title states: "No, that's not good." To make it short and sweet...every single application on the iPhone, including the calculator and on up from there, runs as "root", which essentially means full system privelages. So basically, you open up your handy dandy iCal and you risk being invaded by some pimply-faced basement-dweller who will proceed to have complete control over your phone.
So what kind of stuff could these hackers do? Call random numbers, take photos without your consent, seize contact information, sent and recieved calls, etc etc. The really sad thing is these vunerabilities are pretty fundamental, and "Apple should have known better."
Of course, besides that, there is always the ever-popular iPhone updates! Gotta love the "You buy it, We may break it and render it useless" mentality. All in all, while an interesting and perhaps slightly useful phone, is it really worth all of this hassle?
Hopefully, Apple will redesign the entire firmware in a back-breaking update, develop a whole new iPhone, or set some pigs loose in the sky. Any of those will probably work.
Amazing. People will sue for all kinds of crap these days, eh?
Call me stupid, but this sounds like a rerun. The same thing happened with automobiles...George Selden tried to sue Henry Ford because Selden held the patent to the first automobile, even though it was built after Ford's. Messed up American patent system. The supreme court ruled that Ford and anyone else with the crazy hair across their ass to do so could build a car without paying Selden royalties. Because, and I quote from wikipedia.org, "automobile technology had improved so significantly since the design of Selden's patent, that no one was building according to his early designs."
There's a saying: "Couldn't you see the elephant in the living room?" Meaning it's kinda...obvious. I cite this, because the basics for iTunes are pretty simple to think up by yourself, without having to steal it. It's not that hard to think up an idea that you would want to organize, move around, and play your music all in one program. It's a basic concept. Sure, this company may have came out with it first, but look at how iTunes has evolved with it, and added on so much more functionality, like the music store, and interfacing with an external device to create playlists.
So I guess you could say that Apple is painting the elephant in the living room a different color. And adding some piercings.
Hah. Human-computer interaction.
Screen: "Firefox has caused a serious error and will now close."
Me: Wtf. *opens iTunes*
Screen: "iTunes has caused a serious error and will now close."
Me: "..."
Screen: "Windows has caused a serious error and will now close. Would you like to send an error report?"
Me: "Sure." *starts typing* "I...can't...wait...for...better...Linux...support ."
Screen: "...ouch."
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Oh snap! After playing for 2364872364 hours straight, I can buy a Daedric Face of God!
Oh. Wrong game. Crap.
Hey. Assface. We are GETTING IN scads of computers. From clients. To fix. Think before you post.
Also, how is that flamebait in comparison to some of the crap commented on here? Apparently sarcasm and humor is flamebait nowadays. Great.
Hey damn. I forgot the br codes. Great.
As for the service pack not crashing routers, they actually do have the ability. So no MS bashing for me, just truth. Microsoft just has a bad run with service packs for XP, huh? SP3 has also been the culprit for a lot of machines just up and crashing. At both of our shops, we've gotten scads of machines, all with the same issues, all caused by an SP3 update. It's insane. First ME, then XP SP2, then Vista, now SP3. Microsoft really wants to be the evil empire, don't they?
Sprint Nextel's dying. It has to vacate it's Direct Connect spectrum by the 26th of this month, killing millions of users and losing a great bit of their coverage, which will effectively cripple the company.
Alltel was the bottom wrung of the five main companies. (Though the commercials were funny.) So Verizon scooped them up, making them the number one carrier with the extra customers.
AT&T is planning on acquiring US Cellular, which will only net them around 6 million extra customers...
After this month, really all that's left is AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
Monopolies aside, if Verizon is allowed to acquire Alltel, AT&T should be allowed to acquire T-Mobile. Then we'd have two giant companies vying for power of America's network, while a bunch of itty bitty little local companies (Cricket, MetroPCS, Qwest) and a bunch of prepaid companies (Boost, Virgin Mobile, Helio) flit about like flies.
Two colossal companies. Hmm. Microsoft and Apple?
However this goes, I am interested to see what Google can bring to the table, whenever they figure out what's shakin' in their court.
How is this operating system going to be "snowy"?
They must really be running out of names.
I vote for 10.6 to stick with the feline thing. Mac OS X 10.6...LOLCAT.
I'm in ur developrs, stealin' ur originality.
First, I'm not "attacking". Second, I never said I approved of the Linux usage as well. Again, it's not so much what what you can do legally, it's more what you would do if you had a conscious. But, of course, corporations don't know the meaning of such a word.
Besides. Wikipedia probably put a free use policy on the information because...oh what? It's not their information to begin with. They just accumulate it. I think it would be pretty pompous of them to put any other form of license on their site. Also, how would they go about putting another license into effect if it's user-created content in the first place? Seems kinda odd to me.
Of course, this is just my opinion, which I am entitled to without having to worry about people looking to pick a fight over it.
I meant the Phenom, sorry for not specifying. :P I just read up on both the chips the other day, which is why my interest was sparked.
I'm extremely tickled that there was an advert for AMD on this article when I first looked at it.
Honestly, while it's interesting to see how they are developing this chip, I am so much more interested to see how it's going to stack up to AMD's new chip in the works. Especially seeing as intel is running the 45nm and AMD is still developing on the 65nm. I'm wondering if AMD's product could actually give them the boost they need to jump out from the depths of the AM2 debacle.
Actually, the slowness was because of the php scripts in Safari, as I stated later...
The problem with the open source info being used to gain profits is perfectly legal of course, but I'm thinking more from ethical standpoints.
As for languages, I rarely see sites that support as many languages as Wikipedia does, so I wouldn't doubt that Veropedia wouldn't add anything more than the "main" ones.
But hey! Thanks for calling my comment asinine. I seriously appreciate it.
I guess it depends on the ad. Kind of like throwing a Volkswagen advert on jawfaq.org or something.
If ME was created by the new technology folks, I hope they got fired.
Scratch that. I hope they were eaten by seals.
Google search for "Veropedia", and the main website is 9th on the search results. In fact, this story is 3rd. Good job. I find that quite awesome.
:D AWESOME.
Few things I've noticed about this...thing.
- It's orange. Ugly ugly layout of orange. It actually makes me want to murder people.
- It only takes FOREVER to load. I've been loading it for the last 10 minutes.
- They have a link right on the sidebar (that has actually loaded) to donate to Wikipedia, saying "Support free knowledge! Donate to Wikipedia today!" Am I the only one that finds that slightly ironic?
- It still hasn't loaded.
- I think the servers are run by child labor because it is taking so long to load a single page.
- Oh wait. It seems it's not Safari friendly thanks to bastardized uneeded php scripts.
- Apparently Veropedia hates everyone that can't speak either English, Spanish, or French. Because that's the only languages I see on their site. Now to jump over to Wikipedia... I'm only FLOODED with languages.
- Apparently Christopher Reeve died on my birthday. Huh. What a strangely satisfying birthday gift. *cough*
All in all, this Veropedia is just capitilizing off Wikipedia's open source information. I seriously wonder if the ads on the site ONLY pay for hosting costs. Somehow, I highly doubt it.
Wikipedia forever. Less than 3.
Of course. That apostrophe and the 're', she accidently regurgitated those on the spot in mid-word. It was that silly English language she had for lunch, so full of its backward...ness.
You want to talk about pokey? Until last Christmas, we were stuck with dialup. No, not the normal 56k dialup or anything that glamorous. More like... 32.6k on a GOOD day. Last Christmas, we finally got DSL support. We have an advertised speed (according to the modem) of 1.334mb/192k. The fastest I have ever seen it is just below 1mb/128k, and I do mean at the VERY best.
Then it turns out we were just slightly too far from the CO, so our service was strained and all kinds of cattywompus. As in, crazy SNR numbers in the trillions when they should be...oh...under 60. So now we are at half speed. Awesome. The fastest I can download a torrent is at 50mb/s.
Alternatives? Wild Blue Satellite. Uber expensive packages for decent speeds and horrid bandwith caps. I could go on, but I doubt I have to. No cable whatsoever.
I might also mention that FrontierNet has a monoploy on the area, but ironically, it was Verizon who bought them out, and made them step up the DSL support to the entire state of West Virginia. Regardless, I'm moving to VA, and THANKFULLY the aprtment complex I will reside in has FiOS availability.
That's our congressman. :] Wewt to having a politician that only has his head partially inserted into his ass.
;D
You could always switch to Verizon FiOS, if it is supported in your area. Because we all know there is nothing better for getting those pesky share ratios up than a 2 Mbps upload.
SEED, JOHNNY! SEEEEED!
In response to your "troll" accusation, let me say first that I actually WORK for AT&T. Why would I bash a phone mindlessly that I actually sell? I was just pointing out my opinions.
The one that seems to be trolling here is you. Especially since you posted the comment as an "Anonymous Coward". Just because you can say UID and UNIX doesn't make your internet penis any bigger.
As for the redesign like I "claim", the only real solution to the security flaw would be to redesign the entire firmware. Can you find another way to fix it? Think about that, before you start spouting your Mac fanboy agenda please. It makes you seem not only like an elitist, but an anonymous elitist.
I've scanned through what I'm pretty sure is all of the responses to this, and I am suprised I have not seen anyone throw out the iPhone's inherent security flaws...
In a Wired News article posted earlier this morning (or yesterday morning, in my current EST location), Kim Zetter likens the security of the iPhone to that of Windows 95. As that title states: "No, that's not good." To make it short and sweet...every single application on the iPhone, including the calculator and on up from there, runs as "root", which essentially means full system privelages. So basically, you open up your handy dandy iCal and you risk being invaded by some pimply-faced basement-dweller who will proceed to have complete control over your phone.
So what kind of stuff could these hackers do? Call random numbers, take photos without your consent, seize contact information, sent and recieved calls, etc etc. The really sad thing is these vunerabilities are pretty fundamental, and "Apple should have known better."
Of course, besides that, there is always the ever-popular iPhone updates! Gotta love the "You buy it, We may break it and render it useless" mentality. All in all, while an interesting and perhaps slightly useful phone, is it really worth all of this hassle?
Hopefully, Apple will redesign the entire firmware in a back-breaking update, develop a whole new iPhone, or set some pigs loose in the sky. Any of those will probably work.
Amazing. People will sue for all kinds of crap these days, eh?
Call me stupid, but this sounds like a rerun. The same thing happened with automobiles...George Selden tried to sue Henry Ford because Selden held the patent to the first automobile, even though it was built after Ford's. Messed up American patent system. The supreme court ruled that Ford and anyone else with the crazy hair across their ass to do so could build a car without paying Selden royalties. Because, and I quote from wikipedia.org, "automobile technology had improved so significantly since the design of Selden's patent, that no one was building according to his early designs."
There's a saying: "Couldn't you see the elephant in the living room?" Meaning it's kinda...obvious. I cite this, because the basics for iTunes are pretty simple to think up by yourself, without having to steal it. It's not that hard to think up an idea that you would want to organize, move around, and play your music all in one program. It's a basic concept. Sure, this company may have came out with it first, but look at how iTunes has evolved with it, and added on so much more functionality, like the music store, and interfacing with an external device to create playlists.
So I guess you could say that Apple is painting the elephant in the living room a different color. And adding some piercings.
The most a snoop would get off my phone is that I have a Cingular phone and I work for Verizon Wireless...
Hah. Human-computer interaction. Screen: "Firefox has caused a serious error and will now close." Me: Wtf. *opens iTunes* Screen: "iTunes has caused a serious error and will now close." Me: "..." Screen: "Windows has caused a serious error and will now close. Would you like to send an error report?" Me: "Sure." *starts typing* "I...can't...wait...for...better...Linux...support ."
Screen: "...ouch."