Posts by Robert Carnegie

Evidently you -do- have to pay the licence fee, they just haven't caught you yet.

I can PHONE people on my Galaxy Tab, but

This thing gives up after playing four hours of video and you're DISAPPOINTED? What on earth are you wanting to watch that's more than four hours? Perhaps you have a number of entire movies more than two in mind? Or two movies about Harry Potter or the Lord of the Rings? Suit yourself, but this sounds like a marvel of technology, and something that Microsoft could only dream of when WINDOWS tablets were launched, such as the Compaq TC1000.

I don't use it myself.

On the page you provided, I see, "not everyone updates their Chrome version immediately, especially updates like this one which require that you restart the browser (and all running browser instances)."

I didn't think that you had a choice, and so, puzzlingly, our fellow user ought to have had Chrome updated to the allegedly safe Flash version.

My thought, if I were Adobe, would be not to allow this before my own release of plug-ins was ready - perhaps a matter of regression testing, that everything else still works - and instead oblige Google to release either Chrome with Flash disabled by default, or Chrome without Flash at all, if their users wanted to install that.

But then, if Google leaves Flash out of Chrome once, they might not want to put it back in again.

I'm assuming that Adobe writes, tests, and bug-fixes Flash, and Google only duct-tapes it into their browser. Like fitted-kitchen equipment that fits inside standard size cabinets, and, of course, is built by a refrigerator company or a washing machine company instead of a kitchen cabinet company.

Indeed not,

because that's not his money he's giving away, it's OUR money.

Well, up to a point.

Hey, does the name "Carnegie" ring a bell with you? Gigantic philanthropist of the twentieth century. And yet not a universally popular man. Funny how that works.

Well, these are the allegations.

They also kicked a puppy once. Maybe.

I believe we were told that they were closed down because online gambling is simply illegal in the U.S.? Except on native reservations or something.... They weren't (I thought?) U.S. based but Uncle Sam got 'em anyway. Something like that.

But a prosecutor's allegations shouldn't pass without scrutiny and criticism. If there's an alleged offence then there has to be a trial.

You mean the Civil service aren't all Tory any more?

'Cause I'm pretty sure that they used to be. How sad that those days are gone. Not it isn't, and anyway I'm not persuaded that they are.

There's probably an alternative to "check for updates" in the app.

Visit the product's web site and read the latest version number. But that isn't secure. Someone could set up a fake Opera site, and serve out trojan software.

Negativity?

I assume you meant to say that there would be a (minor?) controversy if There's Only Us Bus announced that the only public transport service serving Little Blighty On the Down would NOT sell a ticket to The Only Gay In The Village.

So that he has to get on his bike and look for... look forward to making new friends.

The thing is, we all know, but how does Brian Souter know?

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,1078,lucas-enlists-celebrity-divorce-lawyers-in-split-with-mcgee,31961

Fellah on the left - seen in happier times. The other chap has killed himself, I've been told, which is very regrettable.

In Central Scotland there are often "park here at your own risk" signs.

Theft or vehicle damage = not the store"s fault - they claim. In some cases you may be able to argue otherwise.

Good point, only -five- years in beta

But what about Google Labs stuff? Experimental add-ons that, now that Google Labs is -gone-, will -never- not be beta. I'll mention also Google Wave, which was not so much released as dumped into the open sourhce world with still nobody being quite sure what it was ever for.

So, is "ten years" a ridiculous exaggeration? Not so much as five years is a ridiculous length of time for a service to beta. And, no, I haven't forgotten Napster. Or any number of open-source tools whose version number is less than 1.0 and, by the look of it, always will be - partimage for instance becoming obsolete when hard disks are all large enough to require partitioning with GPT.

Given the point about CEOs not being good in mediation, maybe they'll each be smart enough to bring someone else along to do the talking - and they'll show this comment to the judge.

Maybe the judge does want to hear more about the case at length in many hearings, it may be quite dull but there are still worse things that they could be hearing about, and it's fairly unlikely that he'll be assassinated if someone doesn't like the verdict, which isn't always the case.

"typing the US Declaration of Independance into a mainframe"

Is it still possible to correct that spelling, or does it remain as his memorial? ;-)

Well,

There's an "as-yet-unspecified remote code execution flaw" that isn't critical. -That- worries me.

Good point. Mobile apps are priced cheap or free. Have been since the PalmPilot at least, a device that cost a lot less than your PC, also had a lot less memory and smaller screen, so people weren't willing to pay a lot for application programs. I myself still feel in my gut that spending more on the software than on the device is wrong somehow. But that means that doing the same thing on a mobile device earns the programmer-vendor a lot less than the PC edition. If every iPhone user buys your program then you can still make good money... but would you -want- the PC edition to be available at the exact same price? When you can probably charge $50 insead of $5 and still sell a heap of licences? No, and for that reason, the $5 mobile edition won't run on PCs.

If you have an amnesty, then how do you get paying customers?

How about this, make an edition of the software that is free, but only runs on the graphics adapter that it was supposed to be a free gift for.

Anyone remember the Amstrad PC? My employer at the time bought a database title - I think I found it for them, I think it was a database - that was a budget-priced Amstrad-branded edition. You see where the story's going, it only ran on an Amstrad PC, if you were filthy rich and had a real IBM PC then you were out of luck. Yes, PCs are compatible, but market segmentation could still be done.

And tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

...he misquoted.

It seems to me that parts of a 1G phone are doing the same things as a 2G, 3G, or 4G phone, or for that matter a desktop PC or a web server, and shouldn't be limited by new patents. And other parts, of course, are innovative. But it seems that I'm wrong and the whole thing is re-patentable every time there's a new form factor or protocol. I won't be surprised if you show me new patents for the 3G phone keypad. "An Interface for Making Number-Coded Calls from a 3G Phone Handset." And it turns out to be a dial where you push a finger into a numbered hole, pull it around, and let it go so it returns to its original position. And if that isn't patented yet, hey, I just invented it.

I'm not a lawyer, but if they release beta software to favoured partners...

...then don't they have to release that beta version to everybody?

I mean, yes, a closed beta operating system is common practice in the industry, but the GPL -exists- to exclude activities that are common practice in the industry.

Then again, not all software on a Linux system - which Android is - must be GPL. Android Market apps don't have to be GPL. Linux is public anyway, and they can use a different licence for other software on the device that is part of the Android package - maybe. Did I mention I'm not a lawyer? I did.

Is Opera safe? On Mac? (Although I don't have one.)

According to http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/blog/2011/08/30/when-certificate-authorities-are-hacked-2

Opera verifies certificate validity with Opera's server, but I don't know if that applies to every Opera platform including OS X.

The mobile browser that does the rendering on an Internet server and sends you the result is probably okay, too. If you consider that secure in the first place...

Nope, because

instead of incorporating DigiNotar in their business subsequently, they are now having everybody from DigiNotar shot. Thus the good name of Vasco is protected. If that -is- a good name: I wouldn't know, really.

It's like when HP bought Palm - well, not the best example...

"Oh well, time to write another Greasemonkey script"

Sure, if your web browser can't either zoom the page to a useable compromise size - your definition of "useable" - or, in the case of Opera, squeeze the stuff onto the screen itself - not guaranteed. Disabling the site's CSS may also help.

I'm no longer using a tablet in portrait orientation, 480x800, for this, and that's probably a good thing.

You still use branded Viagra?

Let me tell you about this Canadian online pharmacy...

On the main point, the law seems to be that Levi are entitled not to have quality-seeking customers in Europe offered the lousy rags that Levi chooses to sell under its trademark in les fussy countries. Whether the outside-EU product actually is any worse may or may not be relevant under the law. The EU is anti-import by default anyway: it's one of the things that it was set up for.

Gentibus est aliis tellus data limine certo: Romanae spatium est urbis et orbis idem

I'm told in http://groups.google.com/group/talk.origins/msg/01abe481111135fd

that

this means "Other people (only) have territories with fixed borders, only for Rome, the city covers the entire globe." Other loose translations would be "We can -see- you" and "how many nuclear bombs do -you- have? haha. Do the math, 'mate'," and "Don't make me come over there", and "Kneel before Zod."

Some people take cars (or radios) abroad,

so we may as well standardise on a car radio that works with the best of other countries' DAB. It may be easier to build one radio into cars made for sale internationally, too.

I'd like a PC accessory for DAB radio digital recording, you can't get them any more, except for a radio with optical interface input. I've got two Pure Evoke-3 that record onto SD card, but the card slot is sticky, SD, and performs worse with "larger" cards above 128 MB :-O when you want to record, the USB transfer interface is USB 1 or 1.1 (moves audio at ~ 10 x play speed), and you can get a netbook PC for the same money.

If a car radio did better, I'd buy one, and I don't have a car.

It was US $60

That's about £37.50. But if the teacher is also quite old then it might not seem an unreasonable price to them. They wouldn't know.

Anything with a camera in it, though, I think realistically you'd expect to pay more.

It uses Apache... whoops :-)

Not really. Well, I don't know. Maybe it does.

See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/24/devastating_apache_vuln/

Accidental?

They accidentally dug a hole in the sea and the sea filled up with oil?

No. Until they went out into the Gulf, the sea was fine. They broke it.

Partly by tolerating - requiring - unsafe circumvention of underfunded safe working and safe drilling procedures. Sure I'll illegally risk my life to keep my job. No I won''t, but some fellows will.