Posts by Havin_it 1227 publicly visible posts • joined 1 May 2008
They may share a common ancestor, but that was something like 6 years ago or more.
Anyway, what sort of compatibility do you mean? An encoder and decoder that can handle both? I can't see much point to it aside from presumably some level of code re-use, but this wouldn't be of much interest for hardware decoders at least. They'll probably just go with the one that works better (although there are programmable DSPs out there that can decode Theora although they weren't designed for it).
What we really need to keep footpath coexistence harmonious is automatic bike-mounted tasers to detect and immobilize oncoming dogs, children and other erratically-moving obstacles. These can be a nightmare even when moving at a crawl - at least I've got the bell for the blind people. Give me a main road over a footpath any day for safe navigability.
The emitter could even use sound - just at an inaudible frequency, which the receiver would pick up and convert. The receivers would only be needed by a very small percentage of the population, so the cost shouldn't be prohibitive. They could even build the tech into music players for those who choose to render their ears useless on roadways...
Only problem is the receiver's batteries running out.
You can see their logic though. Atom was a break from the norm for them, and no one could quite tell how it'd fit into the marketplace. All their favourite OEMs would no doubt snap the chips up, but with no real precedent to work from, they could have come up with some real stinkers of machines that just didn't fit the use cases of the people who bought them. Mid-range laptops could/would have appeared that the early Atoms just couldn't drive adequately (imagine an Alienware gaming rig with Celeron inside and VIA graphics).
PR result: Intel's bold new breed of chips would look like crap because the OEMs over-reached. In that analysis, Intel were wise to rein them in by imposing these limits. Now that netbooks and Atom have been around for a while, and the use-cases are better understood, hopefully that paranoid stance isn't needed any more.
Not disagreeing with either of you - and it doesn't look like you posted above so you can count yourselves out of that broadside, which wasn't very well executed anyway. Should have been more specific:
I don't deny what she did was selfish and hurtful, and the justification for the suit seems a bit shaky to say the least, but none of that justifies branding her a whore (or synonyms thereof). That's it really, just wish people would try and balance things (esp.genders) a bit before choosing such words.
Anyway, I'm sorry that the rant deflected from the questions I posed above, which are rather more pertinent to the story.
That sounds fair enough, but following that logic surely her permission was also needed for the bundling to go ahead. If she gave permission, she has no case as she presumably would have notionally acknowledged having "read the small print" that this is what would happen. If their terms didn't make it adequately clear that both bills would come in the same envelope, then she has a case.
If it's the case that none of these points are very clear, another interesting question raises its head: What degree of privacy are spouses, legally, entitled to *from each other*? I only ask because there are many other aspects of law where being married to each other makes a difference, e.g. (if I can believe Law & Order) you cannot be compelled to testify in court against your spouse. That seems to be a case where the law treats a marital unit as, forgive the phrasing, a law unto itself - could this be another?
PS @the sadly numerous misogynistic rants posted above: Christ, get some perspective. Mating for life is a relatively new notion for us as a species and some people just aren't cut out for it. You lot are awfully keen to make horrible pronouncements about a situation you know sod-all about. Grow up please.
Right, well first off an OOXML file is actually a ZIP archive, and ZIP compression goes by degrees dunnit? So presumably if you just unzip it, ratchet up the compression ratio and re-zip it, you've saved a bit there.
If Paint is MS's state-of-the-art on JPG optimisation, then there's definitely a fair bit of saving you can make there too.
And are you really shocked that OOXML, a format with a 6,000-page spec, generated by an app suite notorious for the sometimes-embarrassing junk metadata it bundles into documents, has much scope for cruft-trimming? You surprise me. Either that or I missed the <irony> tags ;)
It did drop the Hotmail name altogether and become Live Mail ... for all of 5 minutes, before they realised the brand was too strong to just chuck away (and perhaps acknowledging that it caused a degree of confusion between this and the desktop app, as nicely alluded to by your post).
@James re Gmail: Except in the UK where it's been Googlemail for the last few years, no? Still, at least that's sorted now.
This looks like the natural successor to the Squeezebox 3, which was just under £200 at launch if memory serves. Fifty quid more for a touchscreen (and a newer better DAC perhaps?) seems not all that unreasonable. Having an integrated (and usable) method of control is a big plus as well, saves you having to hunt for the remote when you want some tunes.
A tough, unobtrusive little unit that does its thing simply and well. I'm always tempting myself to get another SB3, but this is looking like a serious contender for a wee bit more of my hard-earned.
Why the hell should it matter? They make their money selling that disk, and the online access is part of what the customer pays for - "bonus" my arse, those resources cost them money too and you can't tell me that cost isn't a component of the purchase price, notionally.
As far as I see it, they're selling the disk plus the provision of online access to one person for as long as convention/conscience/economics dictates (read: the shortest feasible time before they can unplug the server without being sued). First user sells it on? That's still one person using the services, it makes no difference to their costs.
The only difference is someone else made a buck and they didn't get their vig off it. It's insulting to suggest it comes down to anything other than that.
Jeez, get me wading into this mess - I can't even play Tetris ^^
Great, thanks for telling me. I shall dump IE6 immediately. Let's be conservative and just move up to IE7...
What? Not available for Windows 98?
Oh well, let's be brave and give this Firefox thingy a try, my daughter uses that....
That's not available for Win98 either? Deplorable!
And likely most of the others have abandoned pre-XP Windows as well by now. But I'll bet there are still plenty of folks (corporates included) still using them. Do something about the OS barrier, then we'll talk about browser upgrading.
(Note: The above is not a personal account. I ditched Win ME a whole 3 years ago.)
Namely that the vast majority of our country's largely-urbanised population -- and thus the "average bloke" -- will never HAVE their own garden or at least one larger than a postage-stamp, so that's NO months in the frickin' shed for most of us.
You insensitive clods.
with that name. Seriously, who saluted that one when they ran it up the flagpole?
And, please, any discussion of "internal Splunk deployment" should be kept in the Netherlands where it belongs.
Then again it might make a good (and it's really about time we had one) generic verb/noun for an enterprise privacy breach. As in: "I don't believe it, BT have splunked my credit card details all over the place!" etc.
...which is an ominous thought. Who's for the "space jockey" (blown-chest alien bloke) having an annoying, accident-prone frog-like sidekick that talks in Black Vernacular English? /facepalm
As for 3D, Avatar was basically a cartoon with a few walk-on parts by live actors - Pete's Dragon with knobs on. The chances of recapturing the grimy, suffocating realism of the original while trying to show off what your super new shiny-thing tech can do rank in my mind somewhere between slim and none.
Still, at least it's not another bloody remake.
Absolutely with you on this. I never understood why Google didn't have a modifier (a la "site:somedomain.com" and so forth) to yield only an exact string match. It would be so useful for hunting down software error-messages and the like - usually this works to some extent with phrase matching, but often it doesn't.
An engine that did this would get a big portion of my queries.
I like the idea, provided you can set up your own "cloud" and not have to use Google's servers. One of the biggest headaches I face with my home network setup is CUPS and/or the HP printer drivers breaking on just about every goddamn update. Having to fanny about reading bugreports and recompiling things is a royal pain in the arse when there's something I need to print (which is thankfully rare) - when my other half needs to print, it's a life-threatening peril!
If Google manage to browbeat the manufacturers into making all new printers (or even just a decent cross-section reaching down to the commodity level) accept jobs via an open, universal protocol over IP without any driver-hell to worry about, the benefits will be felt far beyond mobile-land.
Haven't you ever faceplanted your keyboard during a long and late assignment as a result of failing to keep the caffeine levels up?
The keylogger data would've been intriguing:
Admin: "He keeps going on about this 'dsgfsjkhhhhkjweeeeeeeeellaanasanswrrrrrr'. D'you think it's a new drug?"
Suck it up, man. Every retailer has to bank on a certain level of costly bastardry from their customers, shoplifters, whatever applies to their particular business. Nobody likes it, but these cases are a vanishingly small minority for any business I've ever known.
If people pulling this crap account for a big enough chunk of your profits that you're this worked-up about it, maybe it's time to move on and seek out a new market and/or new customer base.
Forgive the hard-assery; don't get me wrong, I'm apt to have a good swear about it when it happens to me too. Have a pint.
Urban joggers (and I suppose anyone who regularly pounds pavement at a more sedate pace) tend to knacker their leg-bones a lot quicker than those lucky enough to spend their time bouncing around on good old naked Terra Rather-Less-Firma.
Give the e-pavement just the right amount of bounce to not be too energy-sapping for the livestock, and there'll be a commensurate reduction in the NHS cash spunked on titanium hips and knees every year. Come to that, a wee bit of impact absorption might mean fewer of the lushes who faceplant the pavement every weekend will require A&E's time, too...
Does this make *any* sense? Seems to. Over to the panel...
"Indie association AIM is celebrating the first UK independent number one album in 20 years (Vampire Weekend's Contra on the XL label). Former major label act Prodigy signed to former folk label Cooking Vinyl recently."
Can I just observe that up to "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned" [last-but-one album], The Prodigy's UK label was ...
XL Recordings.
The update came through on our Win 7 box last night. Installed and have rebooted a couple of times since, but I haven't been greeted by this contentious dialog, neither at login nor when opening IE8.
Is this just because I've already got Firefox as default browser? How is it supposed to appear? I'm a little hurt at missing out, even though it's not "for" the likes of me.
"Many features of Microsoft Office are supported by ODF but some content or editability may be lost on save."
That sounds like a perfectly accurate and honest statement to me. It's no secret, nor should it surprise anyone, that MSOffice and OOXML has features that ODF doesn't. This is why format parity is an impossible, not to say arguably undesirable, dream.
I really don't see what they are supposed to do about this. Can regulators force them to nobble OOXML and their suite so it only supports the features that ODF does? Or engineer a 'lite' mode so only those features are available when ODF is chosen as default format? Seems doubtful.
Seriously, format interoperability is a nice value-add for an office suite, and I abhor anyone placing artificial barriers against it, but nobody should be obliged to slave away in pursuit of it to the detriment of the product itself.
Disnae work like that. 3.5.8 is the latest release in the 3.5 series, which is and still will be maintained for a period of time for those unready or unwilling to upgrade to the 3.6 series. The numbers are not decimal despite the points, so you may yet see a version 3.5.10 and beyond. In earlier times, for example, there was a version 2.0.0.17 (they later decided three points was a bit excessive and dropped one for the 3.0 series).
Think of it like Windows XP Service Pack 3 (or maybe better just any old XP security patch, since that's all this is), which came out after Windows Vista had been released.
Absolutely with you on that. Were it not for the Nokia (whateveritscalledthisweek) Suite I'd probably happily hose my XP install on my netbook ... well, that and the Windows-only BIOS upgrades, GRRR.
However, be prepared for disappointment. Because the device is running Linux, that doesn't mean it isn't still twice the work to write two platforms' worth of connectivity drivers for said device. The drivers necessary for firmware updating etc. are essentially the same as those the service techs will use for more invasive maintenance work, and those techs are probably using Windows. Also, any phone that has a DRM "assisted" media payload will only be permitted to be accessed via a proprietary driver, which will be a source of grief in Linux land. Never mind a software player for Linux to actually play those locked-down songs/movies - who's gonna be arsed writing that?
There is how it should be, and how it is. I would dearly love to be proved wrong though...
Not a direct download, but then it's 279MB worth of maps so kinda understandable. You need to install the Nokia Maps Updater from here:
http://europe.nokia.com/support/product-support/maps-support/compatibility-and-download#/default/
(First you'll need the Nokia PC Suite installed and your phone connected to it)
The updater will sideload the app and maps into the N95 over USB - I guess you could use bluetooth but that would take _days_. It claimed to have failed when the loading was finished, but when I re-ran it it said it was already installed, and indeed it works fine.
Looks a lot like XP to me...
Yeah I know it's probably only a rendering, but I expect El Reg to point out the marketing-droids' faux pas so we don't have to!
On the other hand, were I in the market for such an impractical form-factor computing device, this sounds like a much better candidate for my (probably fewer) shekels. Plus the naming is deliciously cheeky (hope they don't get sued).
You talk about setting up a WPA key, then you refer to the wifi network as ad-hoc. These two statements are incompatible - the only kind of WPA you'll get on ad-hoc, to the best of my knowledge, is what they call WPA-NONE. I forget the details but this is not much better than WEP in its level of security.
Why in the world should a device like this be ad-hoc? It's a dreadful nuisance, many wifi cards have rotten support for it on Linux (sad to see you didn't bother discussing Linux support, but no big surprise) and it limits the strength of security that can be used. If it's managing all the outbound connections it should be operating in master mode like a proper AP, end of story.
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