people are nervous of the government (and others) building giant databases with all our info in. Its just too easy for these types of illegal access to occur.
Then they want to out source running the operation. So the people looking after the info have even less likelihood of feeling obliged to treat it with up most respect. Lets face it, the out sourcing deal is going to go to the lowest cost bidder, so you get three effects
1) you pay peanuts you get monkeys
2) its generally held to be easier (or at least cheaper) to bribe under paid people
3) all the staff know the "customer" doesn't give a flying f*&^ about them, so feelings are likely to be mutual.
OK, I know that technically format shifting is a nono under the UK's poor excuse for a law on the subject, but the only reason I buy CDs is because I can format shift them.
I went well over a decade buying CDs at the rate of less than 1 every couple of years. If that.
Then along came the ability to easily carry them around on my PC and eventually on an MP3 player or phone. At this point the consumption of music became much easier. So I started to shop again. Not sure what I spent on CDs last year, rough guess somewhere between £200->300.
Would I have bought them if I couldn't have used them as I do now?
Probably not.
At home I often listen from the CD, if not I listen from my desktop (my newer laptop doesn't have as good sound quality as my last one). But often with classic music I listen to the CD rather than the MP3s.
When I'm out I listen either on my phone or my antiquated Creative MP3 player.
While I'm away from home I listen a lot on my laptop (and grumble the sound isn't as good as the last one).
That is the package of I'm looking for. That is the package I'm prepared to put my hand in my pocket for and pay for the Artists time and effort.
What's the economic harm? A lot less than nothing.
If the rules change so that I can't do this then the cash will go back to staying in my pocket.
At the moment the market is at a stage where it is providing a product I choose to buy.
If the record companies chose to do what a number of the film companies have chosen to do recently and sell the media in packet with different formats included, for a small over head, I'd happily pay more - they just need to work at a level where the incremental cost is low enough that it's worth me paying for rather than ripping the CDs myself or beating the kids into ripping for me.
Perhaps its a personal preference thing but I can't see a rear screen as well as I can see through a view finder, and that's not just because I need my reading glasses to work properly with the rear screen. I've got a D300 and in lots of lighting situations I can't see enough on the rear screen to be able to compose properly let alone focus. On a sunny day there just isn't enough light coming out. Now I've never used one of these, so perhaps they've got a much brighter screen, but I've never seen any display on anything that can compete with sunlight and not blind you (except ePaper and that isn't going to work for a camera).
I've not replaced my late lamented Cannon S60 for the reason they've stopped giving a real viewfinder as an option on the new models.
I'm sure the Gen8 DL360 was there a few weeks back when I was speccing out a G7 (coz they're cheaper) one for a project.
Like the idea of the new blade, 512GB in a half height blade, there are precious few SuperDomes out there with more than that and you can get 16 of these buggers into a single enclosure.
As a parent I've found the full BBFC reports available from their website to be very useful in deciding whether to let my kids buy certain games. I don't know whether the VSC publish such details. I find the simple 12, 16 or 18 rating too simplistic. The last game I eldest bought was rated 16 and he isn't. But the primary reason for the rating was bad language. Well I'm sure he'll use worse language in the play ground, but he knows that if he uses in front of his mother he'll get busted. The full report gave me the information to make the decision to let him buy the game, where as a simplistic rating and tick box approach wouldn't.
So, as a parent, I won't welcome this move it is results in there being less information about content available to let me make informed decisions.
made by young people without enough experience to know that what they are trying is known to be impossible. And because they don't know its impossible they find that they can do it.
> "20 years ago many people doubted you could do optics with x-rays – no one even considered that it might be possible for gamma-rays too
Hang on, it has to be nearer 30 years ago I went to lecture at the RI where an engineer from IBM was talking about their "lens" for focussing X-Ray for fine line lithography. At the time most silicon processes were moving from 5u to 3.5u but they liked to plan ahead, and that was certainly the level we were fabbing.
If I remember correctly they were old gold Fresnel lens back then.
I suspect that Nokia are talking a lot of real patents here, things like antenna design was mentions in the article. We probably aren't talking "its a rectangle" type patents.
When I was an HP employee there was an expectation of work hard / play hard and the company expected to pick up at least some of the bill to play hard.
Oh how times have changed.
But when I left there more than 20 years back, there were a lot more women in technical roles there than there are today. Over that time I've seen a steady decline at the customers I've worked with to a point approaching zero.
It seems to vary from country to country. The US like the UK seems to have seem a steady drop off in the numbers of women in technical roles. Spain and Greece on the other hand can see a close to 50/50 split.
The situation with vPars is slightly different to the way that you describe.
vPars first became available for the i2 blade family late last year with vPars A.06.00, which only ran on these boxes. Since they don't have a huge number of IO slots, just plenty of bandwidth, they switched from using dedicate PCI slots for vPars to using shared IO model which externally looks like the one previously used n the VMs, but with the addition of NPIV support for virtual HBAs.
This new update, B.06.10 merges the vPar and HPVM products although doesn't yet allow mixing them. This release adds the SuperDome2 and rx2800i2 to this version of vPars. IO for storage is still shared, but some of the new LAN cards are supported in a dedicated modes of operation.
SuperDome2 customers now have a choice as to whether to run this version of vPars with shared IO, or whether they want to remain running a vPars environment of purely dedicated (no overhead) resources, and there is an update to this environment too.
Previous cell based systems continue to have their own vPars implementation with no size limits or virtualization overhead.
OK, not a home machine, but the HP85. Designed and built by their calculator division, so had native BCD support in the 8bit CPU and all implemented in 6V logic (5V is a difficult concept to someone who thinks in terms of batteries).
Lovely implementation of BASIC, which lots of expansion capabilities via plugin ROMs. Ours had matrix support, printer/plotter ROM, and...
32K of memory and 32K of main ROM plus 6 plugin ROMs at 8K each.
Did they ever actually ship a New Brain? I thought it died before reaching production.
I really fancied the box running Forth, much more fun to tinker with. The Linux of the 80s.
I got a copy of Forth for the Excidy Sorcerer from one of the lectures at my 6th form college and a rich mate parents had bought him the Sorcerer. I remember writing Space Invaders on it, complete with generating the characters by re programming the character generator. Do think I'd have managed it in BASIC.
No idea about the US, but haven't the German courts said that attempting stop the sale of second hand software is illegal. That irrespective of what ever drivel SW companies choose to put in their EULA the paying customer has the right to sell on what they paid for.
The accusation in the US court case is that the front company were asked whether this was being acquired for Apple and they denied that it was. Hence the complain about the improper acquisition. Otherwise I'd agree with you that it was shrewd.
Is that most people ask don't actually do any work on their PC/Laptop.
I like my (or as I keep reminding her, my wife's) tablet, it great for lots of things. But most bits of real work need more, most especially they need a keyboard.
I wonder how long before we see the news filled with stories of RSI or other complaints again with people working on tablets.
The Daily Fail's headline was that Google wouldn't back the Fail and Government's plan for a magic pixy dust firewall to stop kiddies seeing porn. Apparently Google pointed out that magic pixy dust doesn't exist and that parents should be responsible for their children.
So we can't have that now can we.
Google :
a) clearly won't tow the party line
b) don't understand kids
c) don't understand parents
but mostly
d) clearly won't tow the party line
On the subject of Farcebook and the magic pixy dust, a mate's daughter was being somewhat out of order recently so the selected punishment was to ban her from FB for a period. He prompty added FB to the block list on his home firewall. Less than 30 minutes later she's back on FB. Oh I just used a proxy since you wouldn't let me get their directly. Said daughter is 11, and clearly has a much better understanding of the Internet than either the government or the Daily Fail.
Disembowel-Myself-Honorably Dibhalamy enterprises really needs this trade mark for ourselves.
Now, admittedly it was a pretty dumb thing to do in actually believing the front operation and not putting a restriction into the clause in the first place, that in the event of the trademark being offered to Apple that it would revert back to "... insert name here ..." for the original purchase price less any fees...
When or whether anyone would come up with a practical way of implementing this.
I can think of lots of potential uses. As a photographer you choose where to focus in a picture. Later on someone might be interested in a different part of the picture to you and wished to have something else in focus.
Presumably when converting these images to a standard image you could chose different focus points for different parts of the picture. So I love to show faces in really low light, F1.4 on a 50mm or 85mm lens, well at the point the depth of field in measured in millimetres, at least your likely not to be able to get both eyes in focus. Personally I like the effect, but I can see why people might want to generate a print where both eyes were in focus and you then allow the rest of the picture to go soft as it would normally do.
> ...but then if you're going from a 15 year old CRT TV to a big LCD it's bound to.
except for all those horrible skies and water scenes where the digital telly can't cope with the range of blues so you get all that dreadful banding. Apart from that they look better.
PS, another me too for sod 3D and gives us good iPlayer support, our Freesat PVR box is bloody useless at iPlayer but the BluRay box does a brilliant job - weird, you'd think the toy with the storage capacity to swallow whole programs would be good at it.
If they weren't bogus Microsoft would be only too happy to say
"Here is a list of patents you are currently infringing, there could be more, we'll keep you posted as we find them"
Instead they say you are infringing n patents pay up or else.
The reason people are paying up is that so far M$ have been asking for less that the probably cost of fighting it through the courts.
It should be made illegal to accuse someone of patent infringement without providing full details of how you feel they are infringing which patents. The kind of vague you're infringing our patents, cough up or else approach is the kind of shake down which would be deemed demanding money with menaces in other walks of life.
However it still seems that a German judge could find the US court to be in contempt of court.
This seems to set a dangerous president, but then we've already seen that the US legal system feels it is allowed to rule on anything anywhere in the world without regard to other nations rights to their own legal processes.
@basically they want iOS / iPhone but it's relatively expensive
But the big question is whether they'd still want an Apple if it was cheap as chips?
Most people who want an Apple are buying into an "aspirational" product. If it was really cheap then it wouldn't be aspirational. They want to be seen with an expensive product, if everyone could afford one, there would be no point.
Am I going to be able to sue the ISP/government if a connection I've not authorised shows someone having a wardrobe malfunction?
The number of porn sites on the internet is one of the closes approximations to infinity known to mathematics. Their rate of expansion is also astronomical. So how do they propose to know what sites are porn and which aren't. And that is a problem just for sites that are primarily aimed at being porn sites. How do they intend to deal with other sites which might well show something that is considered perfectly OK in its home jurisdiction but falls foul of some jealous old fart who decides to make it their business to ruin everyone else's lives.
I run parental control SW on my kids PCs, I've also told them I can, if need be monitor, what sites they visit. I've never tried testing the limits of what the SW is capable of, I've always thought it was to some extent a rite of passage for the kids as they grow up to find their own ways around the cracks in world. I'm sure the SW isn't perfect, I'm sure it isn't possible for any system to be perfect. Lets face it the whole of the US went into shock because some publicity hungry pair of performers decided to flash a ladies nipples in the middle of prime time TV, they couldn't stop that. How the hell do they think they are going to stop the smut on the web? without infringing the human rights of everyone over the age of 18 to be a total perv if that is their choice.
> Redmond has asked a court in the US to stop any such enforcement due to the negative impact it would have on a legal battle between the two firms in Washington
How can someone ask a court in one jurisdiction to forbid a plaintive from enforcing a court order in another?
Surely if the German court say do X, then that governs what happens in Germany, it isn't anything to do with a US court.
How would a US court react to a German judge trying to set aside one of his rulings?
Re: about to be cheaper to use PAYG abroad than at home!
Already can be.
The first Vodafone SIM card I had in India let me call the UK for 8p per minute, so was cheaper than the PAYG SIMs I had for use at home. I think the next time I got one it had gone up to 12p per minute.
Try googling the the sales of ZTE Blades, lots of reports that they've outsold the iPhone in the UK. Know one will ever know if they are true but they clearly sell them by the bucket load.
No I don't own one, but I know quite a few people who do, they're about £100 and do just about everything an iPhone does. They only significant thing they miss is the logo.
My old, circa 2002 Dull 8500 packed 1920x1200 into a 15.4" screen which clocks in at about 147DPI. Surely they'll need a lot higher density if they are planning to run with anything that can be considered an upgrade on 2002 level tech. That 15.4" screen you mentioned clocks in at about 340DPI, which sounds very nice.
Register
849 posts • joined Wednesday 12th September 2007 10:01 GMT
Page:
feature called program localization.
You mean native language support?
No idea of its origins but HP-UX had that when they released the PA-Risc version, so surely it has to be out of patent life by now.
Limited to $150K
> damages in the separate copyright suit are limited to $150,000
I hope that all the lawyers fees have to come out of that.
They probably expect to earn those numbers before breakfast :-)
Then they wonder why
people are nervous of the government (and others) building giant databases with all our info in. Its just too easy for these types of illegal access to occur.
Then they want to out source running the operation. So the people looking after the info have even less likelihood of feeling obliged to treat it with up most respect. Lets face it, the out sourcing deal is going to go to the lowest cost bidder, so you get three effects
1) you pay peanuts you get monkeys
2) its generally held to be easier (or at least cheaper) to bribe under paid people
3) all the staff know the "customer" doesn't give a flying f*&^ about them, so feelings are likely to be mutual.
Re: Not likely.
> We just can't use them because the conservative governments of both main parties don't think there are any votes in it.
Rather they know they'd get their sorry arses righteously tanned by an electorate who can't see why they should be pushed around.
If it ain't broken don't fix it.
Re: Aero vs a pig wearing lipstick
> Maybe they should resurrect the old Win3 look
Because retro is just so now
Re: Economic harm?
OK, I know that technically format shifting is a nono under the UK's poor excuse for a law on the subject, but the only reason I buy CDs is because I can format shift them.
I went well over a decade buying CDs at the rate of less than 1 every couple of years. If that.
Then along came the ability to easily carry them around on my PC and eventually on an MP3 player or phone. At this point the consumption of music became much easier. So I started to shop again. Not sure what I spent on CDs last year, rough guess somewhere between £200->300.
Would I have bought them if I couldn't have used them as I do now?
Probably not.
At home I often listen from the CD, if not I listen from my desktop (my newer laptop doesn't have as good sound quality as my last one). But often with classic music I listen to the CD rather than the MP3s.
When I'm out I listen either on my phone or my antiquated Creative MP3 player.
While I'm away from home I listen a lot on my laptop (and grumble the sound isn't as good as the last one).
That is the package of I'm looking for. That is the package I'm prepared to put my hand in my pocket for and pay for the Artists time and effort.
What's the economic harm? A lot less than nothing.
If the rules change so that I can't do this then the cash will go back to staying in my pocket.
At the moment the market is at a stage where it is providing a product I choose to buy.
If the record companies chose to do what a number of the film companies have chosen to do recently and sell the media in packet with different formats included, for a small over head, I'd happily pay more - they just need to work at a level where the incremental cost is low enough that it's worth me paying for rather than ripping the CDs myself or beating the kids into ripping for me.
This is going to be fun
This is going to be fun
Since HP own the fundamental patents on this technology I can just see the EULA banning the use of these device to support any Oracle product.
If you scratch my eyes out, I'll scratch your's out.... Bitch
Re: WTF?
Perhaps its a personal preference thing but I can't see a rear screen as well as I can see through a view finder, and that's not just because I need my reading glasses to work properly with the rear screen. I've got a D300 and in lots of lighting situations I can't see enough on the rear screen to be able to compose properly let alone focus. On a sunny day there just isn't enough light coming out. Now I've never used one of these, so perhaps they've got a much brighter screen, but I've never seen any display on anything that can compete with sunlight and not blind you (except ePaper and that isn't going to work for a camera).
I've not replaced my late lamented Cannon S60 for the reason they've stopped giving a real viewfinder as an option on the new models.
New?
Haven't these been on the website for weeks?
I'm sure the Gen8 DL360 was there a few weeks back when I was speccing out a G7 (coz they're cheaper) one for a project.
Like the idea of the new blade, 512GB in a half height blade, there are precious few SuperDomes out there with more than that and you can get 16 of these buggers into a single enclosure.
I just wonder
Its great to see them using Linux
but
I just wonder how many will still have Linux installed within an hour of them being handed out.
Re: This is new?
Or when Red Ken order traffic lights be added to Hyde Park Corner to totally bu&^er up the flow of traffic.
Loosing the BBFC report is a pity
As a parent I've found the full BBFC reports available from their website to be very useful in deciding whether to let my kids buy certain games. I don't know whether the VSC publish such details. I find the simple 12, 16 or 18 rating too simplistic. The last game I eldest bought was rated 16 and he isn't. But the primary reason for the rating was bad language. Well I'm sure he'll use worse language in the play ground, but he knows that if he uses in front of his mother he'll get busted. The full report gave me the information to make the decision to let him buy the game, where as a simplistic rating and tick box approach wouldn't.
So, as a parent, I won't welcome this move it is results in there being less information about content available to let me make informed decisions.
Many great discoveriers are
made by young people without enough experience to know that what they are trying is known to be impossible. And because they don't know its impossible they find that they can do it.
More than 20years ago
> "20 years ago many people doubted you could do optics with x-rays – no one even considered that it might be possible for gamma-rays too
Hang on, it has to be nearer 30 years ago I went to lecture at the RI where an engineer from IBM was talking about their "lens" for focussing X-Ray for fine line lithography. At the time most silicon processes were moving from 5u to 3.5u but they liked to plan ahead, and that was certainly the level we were fabbing.
If I remember correctly they were old gold Fresnel lens back then.
I'll live with
Oracle being able to stop anyone else using Java, if IBM promise to stop Oracle selling SQL databases.
I'd class that as:
a) a result
b) the biggest own goal in history
Re: what a crock
I suspect that Nokia are talking a lot of real patents here, things like antenna design was mentions in the article. We probably aren't talking "its a rectangle" type patents.
Not so much Samnsungs gain
More Nokia's loss,
Nokia are down from shipping over a million phones every single day.
Re: 9 to 5, chilling at Hewlett Packard
When I was an HP employee there was an expectation of work hard / play hard and the company expected to pick up at least some of the bill to play hard.
Oh how times have changed.
But when I left there more than 20 years back, there were a lot more women in technical roles there than there are today. Over that time I've seen a steady decline at the customers I've worked with to a point approaching zero.
It seems to vary from country to country. The US like the UK seems to have seem a steady drop off in the numbers of women in technical roles. Spain and Greece on the other hand can see a close to 50/50 split.
Re: Poulson MIA?
Since Poulson is just a drop in plug compatible replacement for Tukwila, there won't need to be any new boxes.
vPars
The situation with vPars is slightly different to the way that you describe.
vPars first became available for the i2 blade family late last year with vPars A.06.00, which only ran on these boxes. Since they don't have a huge number of IO slots, just plenty of bandwidth, they switched from using dedicate PCI slots for vPars to using shared IO model which externally looks like the one previously used n the VMs, but with the addition of NPIV support for virtual HBAs.
This new update, B.06.10 merges the vPar and HPVM products although doesn't yet allow mixing them. This release adds the SuperDome2 and rx2800i2 to this version of vPars. IO for storage is still shared, but some of the new LAN cards are supported in a dedicated modes of operation.
SuperDome2 customers now have a choice as to whether to run this version of vPars with shared IO, or whether they want to remain running a vPars environment of purely dedicated (no overhead) resources, and there is an update to this environment too.
Previous cell based systems continue to have their own vPars implementation with no size limits or virtualization overhead.
Sorry its all a bit confusing.
What about...
OK, not a home machine, but the HP85. Designed and built by their calculator division, so had native BCD support in the 8bit CPU and all implemented in 6V logic (5V is a difficult concept to someone who thinks in terms of batteries).
Lovely implementation of BASIC, which lots of expansion capabilities via plugin ROMs. Ours had matrix support, printer/plotter ROM, and...
32K of memory and 32K of main ROM plus 6 plugin ROMs at 8K each.
Did they ever actually ship a New Brain? I thought it died before reaching production.
I really fancied the box running Forth, much more fun to tinker with. The Linux of the 80s.
I got a copy of Forth for the Excidy Sorcerer from one of the lectures at my 6th form college and a rich mate parents had bought him the Sorcerer. I remember writing Space Invaders on it, complete with generating the characters by re programming the character generator. Do think I'd have managed it in BASIC.
Why no PET though?
Re: US first sale doctrine ?
No idea about the US, but haven't the German courts said that attempting stop the sale of second hand software is illegal. That irrespective of what ever drivel SW companies choose to put in their EULA the paying customer has the right to sell on what they paid for.
@Shrewd
The accusation in the US court case is that the front company were asked whether this was being acquired for Apple and they denied that it was. Hence the complain about the improper acquisition. Otherwise I'd agree with you that it was shrewd.
What this report really tells us
Is that most people ask don't actually do any work on their PC/Laptop.
I like my (or as I keep reminding her, my wife's) tablet, it great for lots of things. But most bits of real work need more, most especially they need a keyboard.
I wonder how long before we see the news filled with stories of RSI or other complaints again with people working on tablets.
Can't have anyone from Google
Not after yesterday,
The Daily Fail's headline was that Google wouldn't back the Fail and Government's plan for a magic pixy dust firewall to stop kiddies seeing porn. Apparently Google pointed out that magic pixy dust doesn't exist and that parents should be responsible for their children.
So we can't have that now can we.
Google :
a) clearly won't tow the party line
b) don't understand kids
c) don't understand parents
but mostly
d) clearly won't tow the party line
On the subject of Farcebook and the magic pixy dust, a mate's daughter was being somewhat out of order recently so the selected punishment was to ban her from FB for a period. He prompty added FB to the block list on his home firewall. Less than 30 minutes later she's back on FB. Oh I just used a proxy since you wouldn't let me get their directly. Said daughter is 11, and clearly has a much better understanding of the Internet than either the government or the Daily Fail.
Re: Just shewd
Are you buying this name for Apple?
Oh no, not us, no
No, we want it for our own product, honest
Disembowel-Myself-Honorably Dibhalamy enterprises really needs this trade mark for ourselves.
Now, admittedly it was a pretty dumb thing to do in actually believing the front operation and not putting a restriction into the clause in the first place, that in the event of the trademark being offered to Apple that it would revert back to "... insert name here ..." for the original purchase price less any fees...
So?
Will MS head off to Germany to take out an injunction banning Moto in the US enforcing anything?
These lawyers must be raking it faster than a time traveller in a casino.
I've been wondering for a while
When or whether anyone would come up with a practical way of implementing this.
I can think of lots of potential uses. As a photographer you choose where to focus in a picture. Later on someone might be interested in a different part of the picture to you and wished to have something else in focus.
Presumably when converting these images to a standard image you could chose different focus points for different parts of the picture. So I love to show faces in really low light, F1.4 on a 50mm or 85mm lens, well at the point the depth of field in measured in millimetres, at least your likely not to be able to get both eyes in focus. Personally I like the effect, but I can see why people might want to generate a print where both eyes were in focus and you then allow the rest of the picture to go soft as it would normally do.
Re: People want.. new content, not '3D' content?
> ...but then if you're going from a 15 year old CRT TV to a big LCD it's bound to.
except for all those horrible skies and water scenes where the digital telly can't cope with the range of blues so you get all that dreadful banding. Apart from that they look better.
PS, another me too for sod 3D and gives us good iPlayer support, our Freesat PVR box is bloody useless at iPlayer but the BluRay box does a brilliant job - weird, you'd think the toy with the storage capacity to swallow whole programs would be good at it.
Re: Bogus?
Of course they're bogus.
If they weren't bogus Microsoft would be only too happy to say
"Here is a list of patents you are currently infringing, there could be more, we'll keep you posted as we find them"
Instead they say you are infringing n patents pay up or else.
The reason people are paying up is that so far M$ have been asking for less that the probably cost of fighting it through the courts.
It should be made illegal to accuse someone of patent infringement without providing full details of how you feel they are infringing which patents. The kind of vague you're infringing our patents, cough up or else approach is the kind of shake down which would be deemed demanding money with menaces in other walks of life.
@Nergatron
Thanks, that makes sense.
However it still seems that a German judge could find the US court to be in contempt of court.
This seems to set a dangerous president, but then we've already seen that the US legal system feels it is allowed to rule on anything anywhere in the world without regard to other nations rights to their own legal processes.
so-called "most favoured nation" clause
Is the real kicker here, it guarantees that prices are prices are at least 30%- a whisker higher than they would otherwise be.
If someone else was happy to carry ebooks as a loss leader, then the clause ensures that the public can not benefit.
misleading information
> giving misleading information on a dating site
Isn't this mandatory?
S*&t I always thought it was.
Don't tell me that lying to market researchers is also not explicitly required.
@basically they want iOS / iPhone but it's relatively expensive
But the big question is whether they'd still want an Apple if it was cheap as chips?
Most people who want an Apple are buying into an "aspirational" product. If it was really cheap then it wouldn't be aspirational. They want to be seen with an expensive product, if everyone could afford one, there would be no point.
Apple owns the OS
thanks rather to the largess of the regents of a well know University and the Open Source community.
PS, bad example to choose Woz, HP (your old employer) own quite a few Operating Systems.
So hows this going to work then?
Am I going to be able to sue the ISP/government if a connection I've not authorised shows someone having a wardrobe malfunction?
The number of porn sites on the internet is one of the closes approximations to infinity known to mathematics. Their rate of expansion is also astronomical. So how do they propose to know what sites are porn and which aren't. And that is a problem just for sites that are primarily aimed at being porn sites. How do they intend to deal with other sites which might well show something that is considered perfectly OK in its home jurisdiction but falls foul of some jealous old fart who decides to make it their business to ruin everyone else's lives.
I run parental control SW on my kids PCs, I've also told them I can, if need be monitor, what sites they visit. I've never tried testing the limits of what the SW is capable of, I've always thought it was to some extent a rite of passage for the kids as they grow up to find their own ways around the cracks in world. I'm sure the SW isn't perfect, I'm sure it isn't possible for any system to be perfect. Lets face it the whole of the US went into shock because some publicity hungry pair of performers decided to flash a ladies nipples in the middle of prime time TV, they couldn't stop that. How the hell do they think they are going to stop the smut on the web? without infringing the human rights of everyone over the age of 18 to be a total perv if that is their choice.
Re: They appear to be having problems with ICS
To the best of my knowledge my S2 isn't branded by any of the networks, just a pucker Samsung one. So the "they" I was referring too was Samsung.
I'd love to be proved wrong, but plugging the phone into the Kies insists I have the latest firmware.
*#1234# responses indicate that the phone is unbranded and unlocked.
They appear to be having problems with ICS
There is still no official ICS for the S2 available through Kies here in the UK.
Re: iPhone users <> Apple fanbois
Real programmers avoid branches where possible, consider using predicates instead.
Girls don't need an app
They just need to stand near the bar, take a good look around and say "heal" in a loud enough voice to be heard over the throng.
She can then just take her pick from those of us kneeling at her feet.
Jurisdiction
> Redmond has asked a court in the US to stop any such enforcement due to the negative impact it would have on a legal battle between the two firms in Washington
How can someone ask a court in one jurisdiction to forbid a plaintive from enforcing a court order in another?
Surely if the German court say do X, then that governs what happens in Germany, it isn't anything to do with a US court.
How would a US court react to a German judge trying to set aside one of his rulings?
Re: Cover picture
Oh no!
I've heart broken
they've taken the picture away
Cover picture
Coding projects are likely to run late with distractions like the accompanying picture on El'Reg's front page.
I was just disappointed not to be able to find a link between the picture and the article.
I call that false advertising personally
kerrrrrrChingggggggggg
Watch that share price soar
Re: about to be cheaper to use PAYG abroad than at home!
Already can be.
The first Vodafone SIM card I had in India let me call the UK for 8p per minute, so was cheaper than the PAYG SIMs I had for use at home. I think the next time I got one it had gone up to 12p per minute.
Equality
Will they also require that all their male astronauts have given birth naturally to the legally sanctioned one baby too?
Re: @ JDX
Try googling the the sales of ZTE Blades, lots of reports that they've outsold the iPhone in the UK. Know one will ever know if they are true but they clearly sell them by the bucket load.
No I don't own one, but I know quite a few people who do, they're about £100 and do just about everything an iPhone does. They only significant thing they miss is the logo.
No S*&t
In a maturing market cheap products will out sell expensive ones.
Hmmm and this is hard to predict is it?
144DPI, ultra-high resolution graphics ?
Ummmm
doesn't seem that impressive to me.
My old, circa 2002 Dull 8500 packed 1920x1200 into a 15.4" screen which clocks in at about 147DPI. Surely they'll need a lot higher density if they are planning to run with anything that can be considered an upgrade on 2002 level tech. That 15.4" screen you mentioned clocks in at about 340DPI, which sounds very nice.
If Apple jumped off a cliff...?
How long do you think the queue would be for the iJump ?
Page: