Sorry, not feeling a lot of sympathy here.
'Provide arrival times for the city's buses'. Yes, like the LED displays in bus shelters or the operator's website. Or even the SF Muni's own app! With countdown to arrival feature...
Where's the innovation other than he makes a profit using ads?
Seriously, not everything that is repackaged as an app exhibits entrepreneurial innovation.
I can't remember the last time I entered a URL manually. What is this, 1994?
Err, how about the first time you visit your bank's Online Banking subsite?
You know the way they tell you in the introductory letter to enter the URL manually and as written in the letter? There is a reason for that.
Just a shame they don't print the signature of their SSL cert in the letter, too.
The only people who lose are the ones who were technicians working directly on the dialup infrastructure.
BT Openreach will still maintain the dial-up modems in the non-ADSL exchanges, of which there are 80+ in Scotland. So no real technical savings there.
I think it has as much, or more, to do with the culture surrounding the Raspberry Pi foundation as it does with the price point.
Perhaps when the Raspberry Pi Foundation has an Education Strategy I'll be more supportive of such awards. Until then, talk of helping youngsters learn to program is twaddle.
The new school term is about to start and still no 'Education Packs' available, or even planned. They're happy enough to sit back and take the dollars from people running HTPCs instead.
Let's see what the last update was. April 2012:
The Foundation is currently scrambling to gets its education pack ready by the time units are ready for the classroom.
Uh-huh.
I don't agree with the misuse of anti-terrorism laws in this case, but this is ridiculous:
a piece of paper with the password to part of the encrypted files was discovered along with the hard drive
Why? Why would you do that? What possible rationalisation could there be for writing the password down and keeping it with the encrypted data?
It's a pity there is no law against negligent custodianship of encrypted data, it might teach people to be more sensible.
Why did you place the order in the first place when this was never an intended feature?
Wheelies and bunnyhops were not an intended original feature of BMX bicycles, yet people bought them for that capability.
My washing machine is quite capable of washing my running shoes. That's not an intended feature either.
What if the UN kicks the US out of the UN?
UN loses military and funding.
What?
Jordan, Bangladesh, even ZAMBIA contribute more to UN military operations than the USA.
Currently there are an embarrassing THIRTY US military personnel on UN deployments. Seriously.
No, it was also a desktop when docked*. Tell me again which other phone does that?
Any of the Nexus devices they've used to demonstrate Ubuntu Desktop 'convergence' to date...?
It was just a phone. A phone SoC driving a pretty phone screen. Giving it HDMI-over-USB doesn't make it a desktop replacement.
* dock not included nor even designed at this time. May or may not drive high-res monitors. May only support one monitor.
A powerful phone, by the proposed specification, but just a phone.
It is hard to excite the masses when all you're offering is another black-cased smartphone, even if it does offer HDMI output.
I really like that quote and I don't care that it was Churchill that said it - I'm not a fan of his but he came out with good one-liners.
Very little of what is attributed to Winston Churchill ever passed his lips. He wasn't really that witty in public.
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There was even one uttered by his son Randolph that was attibuted to his father.
Well, the US Constitution is what makes it not OK for the US government to spy on Americans. There's no law we're beholden to that makes it wrong to spy on anyone else.
I suggest you go back and re-read the Constitution.
It has a differentiation between citizens and people, the latter being the set of all people. Not just US citizens.
And here's the clause relevant to this discussion:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers
Ooops, applies to all people!
What, you mean that boasting about two former SEALs on your board doesn't protect my data? I am shocked! Can't they go all Chuck Norris on the NSLs?
but you could have done it with a bit more professionalism than just disappearing one day
Don't feel bitter, they didn't even tell their staff what was happening. From Thursday:
We started moving mail to a new storage system today, but this is taking longer than expected -- we hoped to get everything finished during the off-peak times but things didn't work out that way. Sorry.
Therefore you're no longer faced with trying to get everyone to change things. You only need 5 major companies to change, and hopefully they're interested in the new protocol as well
Umm.. there is something in the region of half a billion corporate mailboxes in MS Exchange alone, per estimated done by the Raticati Group a few years ago ( and I'm sure it was on Slashdot that I read it ). That's more than any one webmail vendor.
Whose fault is it that IP multicast over the public Internet remains unimplemented?
Huh? Even my small UK ISP supports multicast, on all its services ( ADSL up through Ethernet and who-knows-what-else ).
I just have to set the mode to PIM-SM and enter the rendezous IPv4 address.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." - Bert Lantz
