Posts by foo_bar_baz 752 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Oct 2007
Though it's white, it's not distinguishable enough from the iPhone 4. Because it's just an update the difference with next iPhone model will be even more pronounced.
Why are these problems? Because you get a 2-year contract with one of these. When you lease it (nobody buys iPhones) you don't stand out from the crowd. Down the line you'll look out of touch. The reason people get these is to look hip. Features don't matter.
When Nokia started putting NFC on its phones Bill Ray opined: "NFC just isn't desirable", and "[t]he idea is to make a mobile phone operate as a electronic wallet, despite the fact that no one seems to want this."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/17/nokia_nfc_commitment/
Now "[Nokia] are going to have to support those payment systems eventually if it isn't going to be left behind entirely".
A pattern in Bill's reporting?
I immediately thought of the 11" Macbook Air: small, light, full desktop OS: a good battery life is not an impossible proposition at all for this device. In fact a touch screen and a detachable keyboard are the only things missing from the Air.
Microsoft seems to plan on tablet-PC convergence on Windows 8, IIRC the traditional desktop will be just an optional UI app running on top of a lightweight OS.
The research paper discusses "compromised" DNS servers and compromised client machines as the causes. When caused by the ISP's DNS server the activity is also not necessarily intentional.
"... If the LDNSes are compromised because they run the same vulnerable version of DNS software, then the cloud provider can notify the ISP about the problem. Or if the ISP is voluntarily involved in inflight modifications, then appropriate actions, including legal".
What's missing is an analysis of the servers that the traffic is being redirected to, or what's being inserted into the pages.
For one, the "500 components" are software, not hardware components.
Secondly, it's not meant to fly 5 hours. That's how long the computer equipped with the GPU will take to crack the encryption based on captured data. The plane flies about half an hour (follow the link in the article and read).
Thirdly, it's a UAV not an RC model. Read that again. No radio control. "GPS too much complexity and weight" Ummm. 5 seconds on Google will tell you that's exactly what ArduPilot uses.
Glad you got all that off your chest, though.
I still don't understand the fixation with clock speed. If then N9 can play back HD video (Matroska FTW), the UI is smooth and multitasking works nicely (many Ifs there), then what do you need more megaherz or cores for?
This coming from a gamer who's jumped off the annual PC update hamster wheel. The games I play look nice as it is ...
What about the assertion that warming leading to ice caps melting and higher sea levels?
Regarding historical proof of CO2: Has there ever been a release of CO2 that compares in scale with what humans have done over the last decades? If there hasn't, it's pretty obvious why we don't have historical proof...
Perhaps the answer is not being verbose. I offer Python as a good example.
As a Perl fan the indentation put me off, but I had to use it in my work. I've since ditched Perl. On the rare occasions when I have to write JavaScript the braces and parentheses look very cluttered.
Tux because penguins and snakes go together well.
The AC probably had an issue with your implication that:
- other than close-to-hardware programming is not "real work"
- using a HLL makes you a sheep
Both of which rubbed the AC the wrong way, who's obviously proud of his own "real work" that involves using a compiler. I don't think he disagreed with your choice of tools, so he wasn't trying to offer a rebuttal.
Just calm down and get back to your workstations. The managers want that code yesterday.
So your current president is an islamic puppet whose entire history from birth to present is faked, including all academic achievements and working life records.
The KGB and Martians must be green with envy. Well, perhaps Martians go another color when envious.
Paris because she's an "under cover" Soviet Martian agent.
how "open" CLOSED software is becoming
http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/
http://www.oracle.com/us/opensource/
http://www.ibm.com/opensource
http://www.apple.com/opensource/
http://code.google.com/opensource/
http://opensource.nokia.com
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/599999-0-0-0-121.html (LOL @ crappy HP websites)
... or actually open in some cases. Yeah you wouldn't have guessed in 1995.
"But it may be that the reason that the iSCSI and FC protocols are so detailed is that they do a whole lot more and the resulting network connectivity is more reliable and robust"
In AoE the reliability and robustness is handled in L2, i.e. the switches, which is the whole point.
@Igorevna:
It's not enough that AoE is cheaper and faster than traditional SANs? If you need the complex features of FC, go ahead and use FCoE. A typical HA cluster doesn't require any of that. I've only dealt with setting up FC in a one scenario but that was enough for me to see the merits of AoE.
The author says Amazon won't contribute until it's in its interest. Reputation and good standing are major reasons why people and companies contribute to open source projects. Good natured prodding can use reputation as leverage and result in contributions. I don't see anything wrong with that, as long as it's not (as the author correctly points out) framed in some wonky ideology or done with a holier than thou attitude.
It's true some open source advocates misunderstand. "Parasites" are part of the deal and are also good for open source. The quality and utility of the product is the only value in open source. If there are "parasites" that don't contribute code, documentation, bug reports, money or anything else back to the project, they are a proof of its quality and serve as an advertisement to the project and open source in general. It's win-win!
Pull up your pants, your paternalistic attitudes are showing. Who are you to decide what they spend their money on in the poorer countries, don't you think they are able to prioritize their spending?
Mobile phones are extremely popular in developing countries, and assist in not just personal communication but in development itself via mobile banking, information services etc.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6339671.stm
http://www.conversationsforabetterworld.com/2010/05/the-importance-of-the-mobile-phone-to-developing-countries/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/mobile-phones-key-to-deve_n_190809.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35539966/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/t/cell-phone-use-surging-developing-countries/
etc.
This should also give you some perspective when you doom Nokia saying Apple has them beat. How many trendy iPhones are you going to see among the world's poorer people?
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