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Android wasn't exactly perfect on day one but in the short time it's been around they've done a damn good job.
I think MS have learned a few things watching Android and iOS mature and from the mistakes made with Kin. When you have guys like Scott Gu pimping WinMo7 dev tools then you can take it as read that they're serious and we'll see a fairly rapid release/bug fix cycle ala Android. MS can't afford not to do this, not this time around
I agree that as a Window Mobile 5/6 user I wasn't exactly enamoured. The platform was stale and had no sex appeal. WinMo7 feels different.
I have a HTC Desire and love it. I'm also about to kick of a dev project targetting Android, but I'm also gonna take a stab at WinMo 7 because it looks interesting.
I wouldn't write them off yet.
Platform agnostic actually.
We run Windows and Linux, we've had more compromises due to insufficient patching on the Linux environments because our Windows admins make bloody sure those boxes are locked down/patched timeously, Linux folks live in this complacent world of "can't happen here"...sadly it does...and that's the facts of the matter from our experience.
FYI: I haven't had a BSOD on any of our 300 or so Windows boxes for five years now. When we did get them they were usually caused by hardware or third party driver issues.
Personally I run Ubuntu, OSX and Windows in the house so can hardly be considered a 'fanboi' of anything, except my Android phone.
Your whiny utterances about MS and their corruption/deceit just sounds like the noise of a 15 yr old boy living in his basement spending too much time reading slashdot. How about checking out the Oracle/Google spat about Java, now there's a couple of companies that smell strongly of deceit and corruption.
Anyway, stop being a twat and try getting a real job managing and securing 60 racks of internet facing kit then you'll maybe learn a thing or two before criticising.
Lots of yelling and bitching about Windows again which is a big yawn, if indeed the airlines "central computer" was actually running windows). But the problem here isn't Windows, it's the folks maintaining the systems who are to blame. Why weren't they ensuring the highest levels of platform hygiene in such a critical system. i.e. patching and ongoing detection.
We run a load of Windows and Unix boxes, these machines are internet facing and so baring their arses to all sorts of break in attempts 24hrs a day.
Over the past five years we've had two machine hijackings, neither of these were on the Windows platform. The machines involved were running Linux and the cause was that the boxes weren't being patched correctly. This is human error, not the fault of the OS.
Yes MS have had a lot to answer for over the past 15 years, but since 2003-2004 they've pulled their finger out and Windows 2003 and 2008 are pretty secure operating systems and as a hoster I should know.
It truly grips my shit when I see some of the ill-informed crap spewed by some of the anti-Windows league. Sorry guys, go get a real job running a real platform that has to weather the endless storms of saboteurs trying to breach your security before opening your mouths with all that crap.
No the guy is not a moron, he's a brave chap for pushing back against a country run by medieval fascist islamist dictators.
People like this at the frontline of trying to establish and uphold human rights in countries that would have you jailed for eating the wrong breakfast cereal should be applauded.
Yes some of us might want to keep our heads down for fear of otherwise having our bones broken, but when freedom and liberty is established and you can protest against what you don't like about your ruler, who will you be thanking?
Looks like some of the commentards need to go read some history as to why Iran is such a prickly customer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Shah's_Men
Of course the usual suspects are at the root cause, the UK & the US, all in the name of oil and colonialism.
It also doesn't help that the US applies one set of rules to Israel and another set for the rest of the arab middle east when it comes to conflict settling.
Yes all very well. But the state of LLU is such that you can't guarantee having the provider you want in your exchange. Ok there's CPW and Tiscali in many but who the hell wants to use them?
BT still has the lions share of DSL connectivity in the country.
I'd also add, as an A&A customer I can say that these guys wouldn't be complaining openly if they didn't have the facts straight and also hadn't been badgering BT for a long time. In fact if you read their blog post:
"We have been chasing BT for this for weeks now, and are getting nowhere. Hopefully this posting will prompt BT to make some formal response to their apparent capacity issues. Either admitting they can't cope, claiming the service is working as designed (i.e. designed not to cope) or if we are very lucky - giving a clear timescale for when it will be fixed."
These guys are also consummate professionals. They push BT hard to get faults fixed and faults that other ISP's would just give up on and happily lose your business to get away from.
Best DSL ISP I've ever had over the past 10 yrs, trust me, this isn't a PR stunt.
"Look how increasingly irrelevant win32 is becoming today, thanks to the web. In Microsoft Land, the web is public enemy #1!"
Hello, hello, the 1990's would like their FUD back.
That's the biggest load of yesteryear pish I've heard recently. Microsoft circa 1995 perhaps.
Yes every corporation seeks to steer how we use the internet to their financial advantage, but these days MS are no more evil and control seeking than Apple, Google or Oracle.
Go check the MS dev tools and you'll find the web and importantly interop fully embraced. e.g. support for both XML and JSON baked into the tools. Oh yeah, and how about their participation in and redistribution of jQuery in Visual Studio?
Oh and "win32 irrelevant", well sorry matey, I think Microsoft's 90% share of the desktop OS market keeps Win32 pretty relevant.
Facts please.
I know. I work for a hoster, we get blamed because the end users and their developers think our platform is insecure and can't/won't believe their code is to culprit.
When I investigate these claims it makes me weep when I see their data access code or code that managed file uploads and the like.
Apple are slowly creeping towards a walled internet garden like MS tried to do back in the 90's and appear to be getting away with it.
What next? Apple only DNS servers where they can filter out sites they don't want you to see?
Whilst there may not be an Apple monoculture within the mobile space, there is a monoculture within the Apple mobile space and that's not good.
Chip chip chip....thin edge of the wedge.
As some else said earlier, FB is just like a xmas card list and I find it handy for keeping track of far flung mates around the world.
Whilst I use my real name on FB, the quality of the rest of the data I provide (DOB, location etc) is totally inaccurate, crap or not at all. I also don't allow any apps access to my profile either nor do I play any of those daft Farmville type games.
Communication between mates that is anything more than a "Hey dude, fancy a pint" is quickly moved to MSN or regular email.
It's all about common sense. It's a bit of fun and a handy friend tracker, but don't store anything of any worth on the site.
No the distance selling regs are fine how they are. Your example is extreme and no single retailer is being hit with the restocking costs, but that's by the by.
If I'm buying a high value item such as a TV online then of course I should have the right to return if I'm unhappy with the way it performs.
Reviews and popping into Comet are not adequate means of making an informed decision for this type of purchase. Reviews are often filled with fanboi comments and the lighting and display shelf areas of most stores are often badly lit and the TV's badly configured.
Also not everyone has access to a decent independent specialist retailer who has nicely set up auditioning rooms.
Why not have the right to check to your satisfaction that the £1500 42" telly your parting your hard earned cash for is going to do the job?
I had the same problem with Forbidden Plant. No kosher DVD to buy in the UK and no release date (at the time) so I bought a (very good) pirated copy for four quid.
I rarely download movies because I'm happy to just rent, or if the film is exceptional I'll buy. But Blu-Ray releases are just far too expensive so I stick to renting.
The studios/labels are as usual their own worst enemies. Music and films I will happily pay for if they don't piss me about on price and that region coding crap.
I wonder if local Primark refunds desk has a big queue of Sun readers today.
This truly is hypocritical bullshit by these pushers of scandal, lies and titillation.
From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Fox):
"In early 1983, Carole Fox photographed her teenage daughter wearing lingerie and submitted several pictures to the The Sunday People newspaper's "Face and Shape of 1983" amateur modeling contest. Judged joint runner-up in the contest, Fox had her pictures published, and was soon after invited for a test shoot for The Sun newspaper's Page Three feature. Her parents gave their consent for their daughter to pose topless, and on Tuesday, 22 February 1983, Fox's first Page Three photograph was published under the headline "Sam, 16, Quits A-Levels for Ooh-Levels"."
Sixteen years old eh? Can't do this now, but I bet they wish they could still get away with it.
In the last 15 years I've yet to have a prospective parliamentary candidate (or even a canvasser) darken my doorstep from any party.
Maybe if these buggers started tramping the streets like the old days we might get the turnout up instead of the predictable Con/Lab/Lib party turnouts by the party faithfull.
Actually, many data centre facilities use a high fog mist system to suppress fire which is entirely different from "sprinklers". It's also a hell of a lot safer than halon or co2 based suppression methods.
Methinks you've never actually worked in a data centre from the nonsense you've just spouted, I in fact have.
Yep..I have a nice Blaupunkt DAB head unit in my old scooby legacy but I'm reluctant to transplant it into my 11 year old Saab 93 because it'll ruin the look of the dashboard, even if done by my local auto-radio shop. And you're right about these external FM gadgets, they look crap and never quite deliver.
I had one of those auto-dialers (from within the UK) call me with a recorded message offering debt assistance (you know the sort of thing). When I pressed 5 to be put through to the agent so I could give him an earful, the tosser argued with me, and then called me a "f*cking cocksmoker"!.
When I called BT to try and get the call originator they said that because it was a CLI withheld they could do nothing. That I find unbelievable. I bet if I was phoning around making bomb threats whilst withholding my number they'd pull their bloody fingers out.
Secondly BT's charge of £3.35 for Choose to Refuse and £4.00 for anonymous call reject are extortion, these should be free.
I bought my PS3 in September 2007 partly for the Blu-ray player (had also bought the big HD telly and surround system) and partly for playing games. All in all it was pretty obvious choice despite the price and I have no regrets.
If I was starting again I'd buy this new slim model. The killer application is still the blu-ray capability and it's a decent player as well, none of this waiting around for 2 minutes for content to load. I also had a Tosh EP30 HD-DVD player, it was bloody awful to use (even with DVD's) but still cost £200 quid.
Dude don't be a twat, but then I see you can't help it (Microborg, Microbarf oh yeah u so hip!).
Microsoft are contributing, they're not part of the core team, see Resig's comments in the blog post:
" jQuery is not becoming a part of Microsoft at all – Microsoft is contributing to the jQuery project, much like other projects and companies do as well. The jQuery library will continue to remain open and under the control of the jQuery project (and will be hosted on Github for the foreseeable future)."
Looking at the 3700 tech specs show Ubuntu Linux available as an OS option in April which should please some folks.
The OS options on this model are a bit wierd compared to the old 1720 which had the option of Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate. It's a bit of a retrograde step I think.
Some folks give the Vostro's a bit of a slagging but I've had a 1700 for nearly a couple of years and it's been a sterling workhorse for VS 2008 development when on the road.
I also have a couple of 1720's (one running Citrix XenServer 5.5) and the other Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and again great workhorses and quite nippy.
The 1920x1200 displays are also nice as well.
It's just a shame they won't put a DVI connector on them, but then I guess no-one would spend money on the more expensive models which do have them.
All in all I think these machines are pretty good value for money, and if you can pick them up from EuroPC.co.uk you can often get a decent length on-site warranty as well.
Yes all very nice to dream about HD content delivery over super-fast broadband connections, but you forget that there's a fairly large number of consumers, such as in the UK, who still can't get much more than 1MBits.
Now before you suggest that's just tough love, and that I should move out of the boonies, I live in Perth, Scotland in one of the high density greenbelt newish housing estates where Telewest/Virgin declined to service and the Perth BT exchange is ~5miles away in the town centre and the ADSL service is marginal at best.
Dunno what I'd do without my weekly dose of freakyness from Stuart Maconies freakzone. The shows on Radio 6 are eclectic and aimed at folks who actually like to listen to music rather than those who like to have some noise in the background whilst perming hair or polishing nails.
Since I started listening to R6 in 2004 I've discovered and listened to such a wide range of artists and sounds that would be impossible to find being broadcast anywhere else.
It'd be very sad to see this station go off air,it's a beautiful oasis of quality music broadcasting compared to the pool of Radio 1 14-18 chav shit and middle of the road keeping-it-safe Radio 2.
If they kill radio 6 then that would be the death of music radio in this country for me, there's nothing else like it.