Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 133
Indeed. You would think that by now people wanting to work on these things would learn the lesson and tie yourself closer to a parent distro like Debian which has some kind of longevity.
Indeed. You would think that by now people wanting to work on these things would learn the lesson and tie yourself closer to a parent distro like Debian which has some kind of longevity.
A friend of mine who works for the BBC was discussing DAB with a colleague of his and me, and pointed out that apparently, DAB was designed to be used with a satellite acting as in-fill to give the expected blanket coverage. The half-arsed implementation means they skimped on the satellite bit, so that's why you get spotty DAB coverage. Not to mention the ancient crappy codecs.
...and for the people who want to chat with their Windows-using social groups?
I'm being pressured into either letting my users use the official MSN bloat-client or Skype so that they can video conference with other Windows users. Google could have sown this market up if they just put the ruddy jingle support into GTalk rather than GMail. Seriously, who wants to use a web page as an app on a desktop machine?
What I ideally want is Jingle support in Pidgin on Win32 and then native-jingle support in the various xmppmsn gateways.
"There is truth to one of the rumors, however. During WWII the American Red Cross did indeed charge American servicemen for coffee, doughnuts, and lodging. However, it did so because the U.S. Army asked it to, not because it was determined to make a profit off homesick dogfaces.
The request was made in a March 1942 letter from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to Norman H. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross. Because American soldiers were fighting as part of the Allied Forces, matters had to be considered on a Force-wide rather than solely American basis. The Red Cross was asked to establish club facilities for U.S. servicemen overseas where Allied troops would be welcome. Because English and Australian soldiers were being charged for the use of such facilities, it was deemed unfair that Americans were to get similar benefits for free, especially in light of their pay already being higher than that of their Allied counterparts. For the good of the alliance, the American Red Cross was persuaded to exact nominal charges from American GIs for off-base food and lodging."
Fair enough. Personally, I found the phone usable before they added the paging though. The only thing that caused problems was websites that really overdid the flash and crappy layouts requiring constant reflow (*cough*Slashdot*cough*).
I never did understand how a phone with 96MB of RAM struggled whilst an old PC of mine with 16MB used to manage just fine...
My Nokia N95-1 did.
Original firmware: 10.0.018, released 15/03/2007
Latest firmware: 35.0.002, released 22/12/2009
Nokia used to be great
Yeah, I'd pretty much figured that was the case as well. A shame, as it's much more practical to have an application sitting in the system tray than a browser tab/window hogging tab bar/taskbar space.
I really don't see that being the outcome. The Skype stuff will probably just be in parallel to the XMPP stuff. In fact, I wouldn't put it past Skype to try and get Facebook to shut down the XMPP stuff so more users have to use Skype clients to even text chat outside of the Facebook website. Big companies like walled gardens and proprietary protocols.
What I'd have much preferred to have seen would be a XMPP-video based feature, a-la Google's GMail/XMPP Jingle video. Incidentally, does anyone have any idea why the GTalk client doesn't support it, but ruddy GMail and the N900 does?
The lack of any decent Jingle clients on Windows isn't such a hurdle if Facebook were to use a browser plugin like GMail (or indeed, sort out using the same one).
N900 FTW.
Don't know what ISPs you're looking at, but every one I've seen has a monthly contract option. You usually have to pay a setup fee to cover BT's extortionate 'cut', but getting out is easy-as.
I think the idea is that, much as with the NHS, it relies on economies of scale for funding. Much as you can't really opt-out of National Insurance contributions (as the rich who contribute the most are those most able to afford private healthcare - making the system unaffordable), the BBC provides so many high-quality public services, that it would be cut back so drastically by those who would just opt for things like The Murdoch network...I mean Sky
I do in Firefox, but in Thunderbird I have javascript disabled and the bars are an inconvenience. On my N95 phone however, slashdot is now dead to me, as I cannot read any damn comments on the screen. It was awkward enough before, but now it's just grey bars of death time.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.