Posts by BristolBachelor 2200 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2009
When the network starts getting congested, share the bandwidth between the users, independant of what they are doing. If I have paid the same as someone else, why can't I download Suse 11.3, but the kid next door can spend the whole evening streaming (illegal) TV programs, or surfing YouTube.
It can't be hard to do; the network already knows how much congestion there is, and there are already systems in place to limit user's bandwidth (normally just dependant on tariff). I can see that this idea will fail; p2p will change their packet type to avoid the restrictions, the restrictions will change, it will just become a race.
Just imagine the uproar if the local council said that instead of sharing out the council bills among everyone, they said that Conservative voters can pay all the bills, and Labour voters don't have to.
What utter crap!! Why should BBC and Google pay because users are consuming their product? Can I get Southern water to pay because of all that water they shove to my house down pipes? What about the electricity company?
The correct person to pay is the one who consumes it.
As for shaping traffic, I think that should be BANNED. In a world where the ISP cannot deliver the bandwidth that everyone wants, it should be shared out (per users). It certainly isn't fair that someone gets all they can eat of iTube or YouBBC while I cannot download the latest SUSE release because my packets look different, even though I am paying for the same service!!
So will the 3D version actually just be the 2D version with some superimposed flies buzzing around in the foreground?
I watched Avitar in 3D because my misses wanted to. I watched Resident Evil in 3D because there was no 2D. I've watched 3D videos before, and they are impressive, but 3D films just seem to be hollywood wanting to stamp 3D all over it.
You say that as if you are suggesting that they are not working on anything constructive; FAR FAR from it. They are in fact working on software that allows someone to buy a piece of hardware (e.g. Apple TV), and then run software on it to make it do useful things.
From what I've seen of iPods, some of the software that you can run on them done by these types of people are a great improvement over what ships with it originally. (and no, I'm not an Apple hater, just pragmatic.)
I once worked for a company which was doing some work using some big IBM iron. One day the chairman had a bit of a tiff with IBM and the edict came down that no money was to be spent with them.
Obviously this either meant dropping the contract with heavy penaty payments, or...
...paying a tiny little garden-shed company to supply some big iron that just happened to be manufactured by IBM. I believe that the little fish in the middle made a very tidy sum!
"...supports 120 Gb/sec of aggregate Internet capacity for employees and for processing transactions from the HP online store."
In that case, why does the HP online store run so goddam slow?
And where are the skips so ordinary people can queue up and get some nice cisco switches?
It seems that all the camcorders are HD nowadays, and every week new still cameras are replaceing old models and have HD video included.
So if I video my nephew's school play, I have to buy server space so that his parents can watch the video streaming over the internet?
I'm sorry but I think that the gentleman from Microsoft is off. I think that bluray writers will become common long before people are able to stream their HD content. When bluray writers are common, readers will be essential. I was looking at bluray writers last night to back-up some photos (they're a lot easier to browse than DAT tapes!) Not much more than £100. I think I paid almost that for my first DVD-Rom drive, and certainly more than that for my first DVD writer.
This could be very helpful to the Human Genome project, which still hasn't managed to map the whole DNA of a single person.
I mean obviously this unit checks _ALL_ of the DNA, doesn't it? Otherwise it's a bit like arresting someone for murder because their first name was "John", which is the known first name of the murderer, and not bothering to check any further...
If this is needed to track the bad guys / prevent them boarding, then they should provide a list of the "bad guys" to _US_ and _WE_ should check if they are on the list.
We should not send the details of every single person that wants to fly, just because a small few might be matches.
This list should also say why the person is on the list, or at least the category, such as "wanted murderer", etc. rather than just a list of names that the United States World Police want to track whereever they go (e.g. executives of companies that compete with American comapnies).
OK I'll go along with your idea, but what are you going to nationalise it with?
There is no money left despite the fact that almost everything has already been sold. In the bottom of the tin are a few buttons and some bandwidth when the digital TV switchover is finished...
... complained that the UK government lags ... no specific legislation that can be used in a charge ...
That would be a fair comment if it wasn't for the fact that people can obviously be prosecuted using existing laws, so no new law needed. Just like there is no specific law against punching someone in the right eye using your left fist while standing on one leg, because it isn't needed.
We already have too many laws. We don't need any more, we need less.
<climbs down from soapbox>
"This winner is almost a cheat. They did not compete in the spirit of the competition - which was to find a way to minimise use of fossil fuels."
So they served up a car that can use HALF the fuel of other cars on the road. So if a large number of these actually get built, you cannot work out how that would minimise the use of "fossil" fuels? Apart from the fact that it deosn't use much fossil fuel at all; most is alcohol, normally fermented from sugar beat or similar.
In addition, any innovations that they made to making cars lighter can also be carried across to non fuel burning cars. I'm not even going to comment on the delusional rant that the rest of your post degrades into.
"Editor's note: An anagram of "Trevor Pott sysadmin" is "Nerd vomit spat story". Just saying."
C L A S S ! ! !
It must be friday, and I need a new keyboard.
Note to editor: Do also check posts by Andrew "we don't need no stinkin comments" Orlowski?
Where are the editors notes on them then?
Like I said, it's a start. People want it and they will get it. Give it to them instead of the torrents.
BUT seriously iTunes? So of the hundreds of media TVs, computers and set-top boxes, none of them will likely play it even though they support all files under the sun except the iTunes format.
Also if I buy it today, I want to be able to watch it in a years time too, unlike my wife's music collection which vanished becuase the re-install of her computer means that iTunes will no longer let her play her music because it says she has no license.
This is only too true. Carry out the following steps, prefereably in this order:
1. Uninstall FLASH.
2. Uninstall Acrobat and Acroread.
3. Uninstall Windows.
4. Unplug the internet connection.
5. Unplug the CDROM drive, Floppy drive (if any), plug the keyboard and mouse into internal USB ports and fill the external ones with Araldite.
6. Move the computer to a secure computer room with walls made of lead.
7. Lock the door to the computer room and destroy the key.
8. Cut all cables into and out of the computer room and cover their ends with steel plates.
I'm half expecting a reply from TEMPEST because this sounds like Tempest security :)
I think that this will help re-enforce the message that "copy protection" doesn't work if enough people want to break it.
IMHO they should give up on trying to copy-protect everything, but work out what the market as a whole is willing to pay, and sell for that price.
If that price looks too low for the margins you want, re-think your business model. Stop paying the actors a gazillion dollars for each film, pay everyone a normal living wage the same as your customers earn, and watch copyright infrindement fall. (Oh and have simple click-to-download & buy websites, but NOT itunes) Get with Web2.0
Hopefully this will mean a return of the Small Cheap Computers that you used to get before netbooks ended up costing more than laptops and being almost the same size.
I recently wanted to buy a new SCC netbook with a 8" screen that was cheap. Unless I wanted the Disney one, I couldn't actually find one for love nor money.
I'm a little confused. What is a mobile app?
I have a mobile computer. There is a program on it that I can run and it lets me talk to someone who is in a different place. This then is a mobile app, yes? Another program on it stores addresses and telephone numbers of people. This is also a mobile app, yes? Yet another program shows me a calendar and lets me write appointments on it, and another program lets me write small notes.
Is it possible to have a mobile telephone that doesn't have mobile apps? Mobile apps sounds like badger paws to me.
My old folks need to check every 2 digits that they have entered the correct ones, so yeah they need to be able to see the screen.
To be honest, better would be a series of buttons marked "John", "Mary" etc. so they don't have to worry about numbers. Some of them seem to even have trouble remembering which name is which, let alone what numbers to dial to who.
Well then, I'd say that their guarantee is false.
10MHz is no good at all. One of the blokes working on long-wave stuff in the 100s kHz got stomach cancer that was attributed to his work.
Also the levels that you normally find are below recommended safe levels. If they are claiming that levels below this are unsafe too, then they should stop ALL of it. Working in EMC, the chambers had to have MORE than 100dB to be called shielding. Also that had to be from about 30kHz - 40GHz.
They could also sell those dowsing rods for detecting land-mines...
Despite the size of the screen, it still doesn't tell you the date and time that emails arrive. You have to go to the email and click details?
The task switcher didn't seem that easy to use. It seems that you have to slide your ringer back and forward several times before the task switcher actually moves? Is that because of the task switcher app, or is that because of the touch screen?
Compared to what has been on the market for a few years, it is late and still behind.
Yes, if someone sees you steeling, then they can describe you to the police. BUT if the police get an anonymous note that describes someone, and says that they committed a crime, does that person automatically go to jail?
If someone goes to the police with a description, the police have properly controlled procedures to ensure that things are done properly. I'm sure you wouldn't want it any other way. How is it any different saying that those who want to collect IP addresses to prosecute people are controlled to ensure that things are done correctly?
If you can be identified by an IP address or IP address and time, then the information is personally identifiable. As such it is right that it is controlled.
I'm not saying that the freetards get a free-for-all, or that they shouldn't collect IP addresses, but the same way that the cameras that take pictures of shop-lifters are controlled, this should be too.
There have been a number of cock-ups with addresses being flagged that obviously weren't infringing (even networked laser printers in some cases!), and other cock-ups with IP addresses being associated with the wrong people. The processes need to be verified and controlled.
I have a N770 in a drawer somewhere. I thought it was a good idea, and I really liked the way that some of it worked. The drag scrolling for example.
It got a problem after less than a month where it wouldn't connect to a WiFi point unless it was less than 1M away. Sent it off to Nokia (premium phones department no less), and was basically told that it was a bit of a gimick, they couldn't do anything with it and Nokia isn't really interested in them (like their old set-top boxes).
That and what I read on the forums about the N800 and N810 kinda put me off the N900. There were a few software issues, but Nokia always seemed to be looking to ship a new model rather than fix the old ones.
I'm sad to say that I'm now using an ipod touch for what the N770 was bought for (small hand-held terminal for use about the house).
Yeah, the E7 looks pretty, but then so did the E90.
The E90 is not a communicator, and the E7 is even less. Andrew Orlowski should be shot for even reporting that someone said that the E7 is a communicator.
Style wise, they look very nice, but useability wise, Nokia lost it after the 9110 and 9500.
They should've just admitted that they won't make a communicator again and stuck to candybar phones.
Now how do I get the FAIL icon and the hand grenade and show that I am spitting flames? (Ms. Bee?)
I wanted a good Spanish - English dictionary for my E90. It should be easy, and with a big screen and qwerty keyboard should work quite well.
Well, it seems that there isn't any way of finding out what the software is like, and the reviews didn't give me enough confidence to try any. Plus they were horrifically expensive. A few cost more than my actual Casio hardware dictionary. Plus one that requires a special mention. You have to pay for it, but it requires a network connection (not always available) and a dataplan, and is basically what you get free on dictionary.com in a paid-for application.
Then I try with my ipod touch. A number of free ones, all good enough to use.
Ovi fail.
IIRC, the issue is that one day a very, very stupid judge was convinced that when software loads from the disk to RAM, then a copy is made. Then they said that this copy could only be made if the person doing it had authorisation to make acopy. The license from the SW company gives that authorisation, but only in certain circumstances.
Now if the same stupid judge ruled in other cases, just imagine it! If you read a newspaper or book then you are guilty of copyright infringement, because there is a copy of it made on you retina. Similarly if you hear anything, then there is a copy of what you hear on your nerves to your brain.
<Troll remark>
Quick, lock everyone up!
</Troll>
Back to the real world, that means that any money spent on software is not a capital asset, because it has no value. What are the company operating / tax implications of this?
@bitmap animal
"If you do buy it second hand, would you expect to get support and updated from the manufacturer, even though you haven't actually paid THEM anything?"
So if I buy a Ford car from a car shop, I shouldn't expect to get a warrantee from FORD, or for FORD to replace the defective brakes when there is a recall, because I didn't give the money directly to FORD?
Should I not get any service from MICROSOFT because I only gave my money to PC World?
I have been thinking about how feasibile it would be to do this for a home server.
What I would like is a tiny low-powered atom thing that sits on the network using almost no power, and can serve files accasionally to a single user. When the going gets a bit much for it because suddenly there is lots of disk access from a number of users, or there is a need for transcoding or similar, then a "normal" processor fires up and takes over.
I don't really want a full power PC on all the time for occasional file serving at home, but I also don't want to go and turn on something bigger if I ask the TV to play a video from the server.
"But then, why is the ACPO issuing 'guidance' anyway?"
Probably for the same reason that in your company the IP department issue guidance notes and processes for copyright and patents; the finance department issues processes and guidance for expenses; the legal department issues processes on blah blah blah.
The reason is that if they asked every plod to read every act of parliament, firstly they'd have no time to do anything else. Secondly they would all go (more) mad. Thirdly they would all interpret it differently...
However, there does seem to be some contention as to how teh SCPO interprets the laws, but that is a different issue.
While I would pass you litmus test, it's more because I am a bit paranoid about introducing unknown s**t onto my computers.
As for users, it's not their fault if they expect their computer to work properly. I mean here in the real world, how often do you hear about people dying because they opened their newspaper, and there was an article that made their brain explode? And from the description here, they receieve the email from someone they know.
I blame it all on the OS writers. There seem to be 2 options for files:
Option 1. Don't open it, look at it, or even allow your pointer to move over it. (This fails because of autorun etc.)
Option 2. Run, look at etc. the file. This gives it almost complete unfettered access to everything. It can use any resource it wants, and can persist forever without any way of getting rid of it or working out what it has been up to.
In my book, execution is not an automatic right. It should be possible to say what resources any program/file can have (e.g. why should a webpage turn on my webcam?). I think everything should be run in it's own sandbox. Users shouldn't have to worry about this kind of thing.
It's all crap. These numbers even make bad statistics look good.
For example, how many applications just turn on the backlight to use you iPhone battery up even quicker?
Or are just an application that does the same thing as 4 other applications?
How many applications are just 1 particular webiste (or RSS feed) inside an application? How can you boast that 20 of these are different applications, if all they are really is like opening safari and going to "news.bbc.co.uk", "www.imdb.org" or similar?
How many applications are just a slideshow of pictures? (Probably less since all the ones that were pictures of pretty ladies got kickedd out!)
Perhaps Apple should CHARGE developers to put applications in the app store to stop all the app spamming!
I believe that certin Nikon bodies will let you store the photo twice on 2 different cards (Raw on one, JPEG on the other). Plod only needs JPEG, so presumably you could keep the other card - the same as the way they record interviews on 2 tapes?
Unfortunately I bought into Canon, so no good for me. Of course I could always buy a Canon WiFi adaptor for each body, but would then need my laptop always on, and besides the WiFi adaptors cost almost the same as a 2nd-hand car (Reg standard unit).
Why?
Because of the number of (l)users who can't do anything on the internet without typing it into Google. I have seen people who even type URLs into Google to go to a website. Paying Google & the others to have a link to the DWP when people enter relevant search terms sounds like making their on-line services easily available to the masses, which is what they are supposed to do.
It's also unfortunate that it isn't that obvious which faceless government department you need for what and you might have to resort to an internet search to find out.
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