The future of Vision?

I have just signed a new 24 month contract with BT for vision/phone/broadband, and what a great deal I got also...
After a little read on these forums, Im left wondering what the future of Vision is, with youview in the pipeline?
I am kinda under the impression vision will morph into youview, and vision will be no more?
That cant be the case though, because BT wouldnt be issuing 2 year contracts still!!
------Marc------

No, that's not what's going to happen at all. YouView is a platform for the delivery of free over the air services in conjunction with broadband TV, just like Vision is now. The difference is that unlike Vision which can currently only use Vision equipment and BT broadband it will be more open platform which will be able to deliver Vision as well as other services and won't be held to a particular network. So someone who has a YouView box and gets their IPTV from BT can actually move to another IPTV supplier and keep the same kit if that's what they want to do.
So Vision will still be around, but the delivery mechanism may be different when your contract is up.

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What is the future for Vision subscribers ?

My apolgies if this question has been asked before , but ............
As i am not in an infinity enabled area , nor am likely to be in the next couple of years , what kind of future service can i expect from BT ?
As a vision subsriber do i miss out on new linear channels , sports channels , HD content and anything else that is planned ?
I believe that less than 50% of UK homes are in infinty enabled areas which means that BT are at best halving their potential customers !
Is vision set to be a glorified freeview box ?
Have i got it completely wrong ?

The plan is to get you Infnity. I live in large villages/small town of. Pop 6000 we got infinity in December. I thought we would never get it but I was wrong.
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Heard that the screen was going to be smaller in the future. Lots of low vision people use the ipad to make it thru the day. Hope the screen stays the same for their sake.

Heard that the sreen was going to be smaller in the future. Lots of low vision people use the ipad to make it thru their day. Hope for their sake the screen stays tha same size.

Don't believe all the rumors you read. Rumors that purport that Apple will release a model of iPad with a smaller screen have been around for a couple of years, and so far have not come to pass, though of course that's no guarantee for the future. I strongly doubt that Apple would abandon the current screen size even if they were to release another iPad model with a smaller screen.
Anyway, if you want to comment to Apple, you can do so here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Regards.

The programming language of the future: a philosophical question

So after reading some of these posts and reflecting on the history of programming languages, I find myself wondering what the programming language of the future will be? As the human-computer interface evolves (touch interfaces, voice recognition, computer vision, etc) how will this influence the process of creating computer programs? Will programming become more graphical (e.g. flow charts, UML diagrams, etc)? Setting ego's aside, does it make sense for programming to be more graphical? Will we reach a point where we can essentially just sketch out a concept and let the compiler/interpreter handle the rest?
Perhaps this question is best left to Clark and Asimov, but they're dead. This leaves you guys.
(Moderator, I apologize in advance if this is out of scope for this forum.)
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geniuz wrote:I think the mistake of the scientist in question was not that he re-derived the Trapezoid Rule, but that he published it as if it was a new invention, while it existed and was already published in some form. That certainly could be prevented by reconciling to literature before publishing. In fact, I'd not even blame the scientist in question too much, rather the commission that approved his paper to be published in the first place.
Sure, he didn't publish the paper in isolation - but the peers who reviewed it would have been people from the same or a related profession. My point is that this kind of error results from splintering of the disciplines. You seem to think that the splintering should be somehow undone or reversed at the level of the peer reviewer or the publisher - but non-specialists (or specialists in other areas) will not be invited to comment, because it will be assumed that they lack the qualifications to do so.
geniuz wrote:Still, I think its a long stretch to compare the derivation of a Mathematical rule or method to the invention of a complete DSL.
I think I didn't make it clear where I was going with that. My point was that splintering of specialisations from each other permitted this duplication of effort to take place. I see DSLs as a way to splinter disciplines from each other. Thus, the rise of DSLs would make it easier for duplicate effort to take place.
geniuz wrote:The whole point of a DSL is that it allows experts in a specific domain to focus their efforts on creatively solving problems directly related to their field of expertise. When specific DSL's are integrated in university curricula world-wide, I hardly think there will be much duplicate effort going on.
Sorry, but this seems a little naive to me. I can see why you might think DSLs would permit specialists to more efficiently focus on solving their particular problems, and I don't entirely disagree, but even if it's true, I don't think it's controversial to think this will lead to considerably more duplicate effort.
geniuz wrote:Also, in the world of OSS, there are multiple tools that can perform the exact same job. Do you for instance consider the existence of both of the mail clients Mutt and Alpine as duplicate effort?
I haven't used Alpine, but if it's exactly like Mutt, then sure, I would certainly say that's duplicate effort. The more people who use one single piece of software, the more bugs can be filed against that software.
Also, I think this is a false analogy from the start. Mutt and Alpine are both written in C. If we're talking about the connection between duplicate effort and DSLs, let's consider the fact that "communicating and storing computational models of biological processes" (from the Wikipedia page on SBML) could be better done in Lisp, Lex/Yacc, or with the Lemon C++ library, instead of coming up with some new way of using harmful XML.
geniuz wrote:I still don't quite see how this can be interpreted as a necessary weakness or argument against more complex systems. Sure, DSLs can be dependent upon lower level languages, but if they are considered to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of certain experts, what exactly stops them from becoming dominant and continually evolving?
The fact that higher and higher levels of specialisation are concomitant with smaller and smaller user bases who still need to communicate with experts in other groups. I'm not saying DSLs should never be used. I just think they are essentially self-limiting, and just as bacteria will long outlive us more complicated life-forms, so too will the lower-level languages long outlive more cumbersome DSLs.
geniuz wrote:I wasn't implying computers will ever be able to mimic the human brain, and I'm not even sure whether it is something we necessarily want to strive for. All I was saying is that computers have already become indispensable tools in virtually every scientific and engineering discipline. They are computationally strong machines able to solve numerically involved problems at rates no human can ever hope to accomplish. It is this very aspect that will continue to guarantee the succes of computers, not AI per se. Again, I believe computers will never (at least not while I'm alive) be able to truly independently mimic and outperform the human brain, especially when it comes to aspects like creativity, i.e. the very aspects of human intelligence scientists have not even been able to understand and quantify to this date. Hence, humans will always remain "in the loop" to a large extent.
This all seems reasonable.
geniuz wrote:Don't forget that laws of physics are "laws" that have been defined and created by humankind for its own convenience. Even recently this year, practice has shown that a concept as fundamental as the speed of light might not be as accurate as it was so widely acknowledged by the scientific community. This however hasn't stopped mankind from using these fundamental "laws" to invent e.g. radio communication and electronic devices.
I don't think you're disagreeing with me. I'm aware of the fragile nature of what we call the laws of physics - but like you say, they're good enough that we can do things with them. It looks like our knowledge of the speed of light breaks down on really large length scales, and it looks like our knowledge of gravity breaks down on really small length scales, but the brain is in the middle. In between, our models for how the physical world works are very accurate, and it is in this regime that the brain operates.
Also, you should note that most scientists regard those neutrino test results as residing within the bounds of experimental error, and therefore not strongly indicative that the neutrinos really did break light speed.
geniuz wrote:I haven't said low-level languages will be abandoned completely, I think they will remain to serve their purpose as a base upon which higher level languages (like DSLs) are built. In that sense, I believe that the user base of these low level languages will become more limited to computer scientists, i.e. to the people responsible for "formulating suitable abstractions to design and model complex systems" (source).
Seems reasonable.
geniuz wrote:Having said that, I still don't see why it so farfetched that for the rest of the world, physically telling a computer what to do in their native tongue as opposed to typing it in some generic-text programming language, will become the de-facto standard. Hence, I will reformulate my statement by stating that programming as most people know it today will eventually become a redundant practice.
I don't think a friendly human interface should be considered the same as programming. This thread, if we recall the OP, is about programming languages of the future, not user interfaces of the future. I certainly agree that user interfaces will become more intelligent and attractive. I only disagree that this will have any strong impact on how we do programming.
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The future of J2ME?

Hi, I read at the following address:
http://www.croftsoft.com/library/books/javagame/
that the author foresee that J2ME will become obsolete in a couple of years being replaced by regular J2SE/J2EE applications. I'm studying for the SCMAD and this article worried me a bit. Obviouvsly I wouldn't like studying something which is becoming obsolete.
What's your vision about the future of J2ME?
Regards,
Marco

They are all right. Any technology is bound to become obsolete sooner or later. But at this moment, J2ME is still in it's development stage and for the moment, shows no sign of slowing down. So like the previous person, I would think you'd definitely be able to make use of it before it gets trashed. And technically, no matter if it becomes obsolete, I still do not believe that any learning is wasted.
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Programming for mobile devices is quite different. Although knowing Java is a huge advantage, there will definitely be things that need to be implemented on mobiles which are not needed in J2SE. So knowing J2ME gives you a good basis on these special implementations. Besides, after doing some work in J2ME, you'll learn all these optimization techniques that are not as important in our normal PC programming, which will benefit you in any type of programming.
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Cheers.

Bug? My events on the iPad iCal app aren't shown in the year view if they are more than two years in the future.

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When iTunes upgraded, many of my song tags were changed by iTunes. This happened again when an update was sent this week. Is there any way to avoid this happening again in the future?

When I downloaded the new iTunes, it changed the tags on some of my tracks. As a result, I had to fix them manually. When I downloaded another upgrade this week, my tags changed again. How can I prevent this from happening in the future?

The cricual thing is to have a complete backup of your library that you could restore if needed.
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How to Send an Email at a Specific Time in the Future Using Mozilla Thunderbird.

Hi guys,
I downloaded Thunderbird for my Mac for one single purpose, simpy to be able to send an email by executing the time and date i wish my email to be send, automatically. The extension saves the message to draft and monitors the messages in the draft folder, when the chosen time arrives it moves the message to unsent and sends unsent messages. So i can send messages in the future.
I dont know how to manage this, and i would appreciate help and tutorials from you guys!

Why not read Thunderbirds tutorials and post in their forum area?

The Future Of The N900?

Hello,
It was hard enough for me to fathom out what was going on in favor of the N900 before I heard about the Microsoft announcement.
It seems Nokia have got bigger concerns for the future of themselves than to be concerned about a past product?
As a layman it seems the N900 is good phone but will be ultimately be limited by it's processor. I assume like computers this will increase unless there are limitations.
BUT, it does seem that all these names I've heard of since owning a N900 - Maemo, Meego, Moblin, Intel, Qt, Ovi Beta do not represent a part of the future in the grand scheme of things for Nokia. I can understand that if Microsoft is necessary for survival.
I have no experience of Ipod / HTC Andriod but it does seem these have stolen the march whilst Nokia have been floundering. I really don't know if I move away from the Nokia N900 if I would be pleasantly surprised or wish for it back.
In the meantime if the N900 has a future interesting or otherwise it would be good to know as upgrade is round the corner and unless the competition are not to be missed, I am happy to stick with the N900 as it does the business for me.
The thing is I shouldn't need to be thinking like this but it is not obvious to me where the Nokia successor to it is.
I am very open to responses to my thoughts, which may need correcting. I might not even be on the right track, but it's funny how I am the only person in my group of friends with a Nokia, never mind a N900.
I would also like to mention that cpitchford has helped me in the past and I consider him to be the man in the know by far. I was gutted to read a recent post how he felt let down.
I favor quality brand loyalty but this seems to questionable these days.

hi,
i do agree with you!!
even after losing my 1st nokia n900, i cud not digest any other phone as similar and doing-business for me.
hence to asnwer all easy options i bought again my 2nd n900.
Certainly there is no match to its convinence, leave apart its processor.
I am also amongst those who r eagerly waiting for new version, but the possibility seems to b diminishing .
hope nokia will revive this exclusive-not-for masses-smartphone!!!

How do I delete photos from my daughter's ipod that showed up on there when she got music from her aunt's itunes? Also how do I make sure none of my iphone pics show up on her ipod in the future (we use the same itunes account and I think same icloud).

I'm totally new to iphone/ipod. I need help with the following:
1) How do I get rid of a folder of photos that showed up on my daughter's ipod touch when she received some songs from her aunt's itunes? After she got some songs from that itunes a folder of pictures showed up with no delete option. Does she need to reconnect to that itunes/computer and if so what do we need to do to remove this folder of pics from her ipod?
2) Also, my daughter uses same itunes as myself, how do I make sure any pics I have on my iphone & icloud (itunes) don't show up on her ipod? I shut off my photostream so perhaps this is the solution. But I noticed that a message I sent from her ipod to my sister (an iphone user) later showed up on my iphone (as if I had sent it from my iphone)! That was really odd. I'd like to keep our itunes account together simply so I can monitor her downloads, etc so I don't want to open up her own itunes to avoid automatic syncing.
I only want to share music between our devices. I don't want her pics nor my pics to go to icloud/itunes.
Thank you!

1) You asked "Does she need to reconnect to that itunes/computer and if so what do we need to do to remove this folder of pics from her ipod?" Yes, you have to connect the iPod to that computer and go to the Photos pane for the iPod in iTunes and uncheck sync photos and the click on synce/apply. In the future do not check sync photos.
iOS and iPod: Syncing photos using iTunes
2)
Create a NEW account for using these instructions. Make sure you follow the instructions. Many do not and if you do not you will not get the None option. You must use an email address that you have not used with Apple before.
Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store account without a credit card
Then on the iPod go to
- Settings>Messages>Send and receive and sign out your ID and sign into hers. Make sure that only her ID email address is listed.
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- Settings>iCloud and sign out and sign in with hers
Contnue to use the commpn ID/account for Settings>iTunes and App stores.

Can you keep extra songs on your iPod that are not in your iTunes library, and not lose these songs every time you want to delete something from your iPod in the future?

I have all these songs that I want to store on my iPod but not on my computer, and I know that by choosing to manually manage my music I can still hang on to these songs when I add new songs to my iPod. However, what if I want to delete songs off of my iPod in the future? Will I lose all of the extra music that is on my iPod but not my computer, due to the fact that the only way to delete songs seems to be by syncing?

The answer to the question in the title of the thread is yes, but it is not necessarily a good idea. At some point you are likely to find you need to restore your iPod for one reason or another, or it could be lost, stolen or damaged. If your songs aren't on your computer, and backed up too, then you will be less than happy.
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The future of Snapshot, and similar tools.

My apologies for posting this twice. I posted it first as a follow up
to an old thread in ...
novell.support.zenworks.desktop-management.6x.install-setup
I am quoting some comments made in that forum.
Then after surfing the forums for awhile, I thought the issue might get
more attention, if I posted it here. I am looking for ideas and advice
on the future of snap shot, and any tools that Novell might provide to
replace it.
If I could address some of these comments, in hopes of better
understanding ...
RE: >>>
> Most companies invest in packaging tools such the full version of
> AdminStudio to create deployment packages. They then use their desktop
> management suites to deploy those packages.
Admin Studio is not cheap. After a client has spend thousands of
dollars to implement ZENWorks, now I have to tell them to drop another
couple thousand down for an application packager. I also don't fully
understand Novell's relationship with the product, they don't seem to be
partnering well together, I'd appreciate anyone else's read on this
relationship.
RE: >>
> Novell has for over 5 years now been trying to steer people from
> Snapshot
I've heard that statement made verbally by many engineers, but I don't
always see the practice following that.
Has Novell ever gone on record to state they will no longer support snap
shot???
RE: >> > If your snapshots are failing with the latest versions of
snapshot, then
> most likely your software package falls outside the scope of what
> snapshot should be trying to handle.
Maybe I've just gotten lucky? I've have not had many issues with using
snapshot, and I have been involved in a wide variety of applications.
I have seen the statement made on the forum that ZEN Works is not really
a "Packaging" suite. While that may be a true statement, because
Snapshot has been packaged with the product for so long, the mind set of
customers is that it is expected to work, and be supported.
I look forward to additional comments on this matter.

Tom,
I'm not sure what exactly are you searching for? ZdM is already providing
you with snapshot replacement - AdminStudio ZfD edition, included in ZfD
price.
AdminStudio part for preparing snapshot MSI is identical in ZfD and
Professional edition.
All comments you qouted (including this one) are personal opinions - I
suggest you to try AdminStudio ZfD edition and make your own.
Denis
"tom" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> My apologies for posting this twice. I posted it first as a follow up to
> an old thread in ...
>
> novell.support.zenworks.desktop-management.6x.install-setup
>
> I am quoting some comments made in that forum.
>
> Then after surfing the forums for awhile, I thought the issue might get
> more attention, if I posted it here. I am looking for ideas and advice on
> the future of snap shot, and any tools that Novell might provide to
> replace it.
>
>
> If I could address some of these comments, in hopes of better
> understanding ...
>
> RE: >>>
> > Most companies invest in packaging tools such the full version of
> > AdminStudio to create deployment packages. They then use their desktop
> > management suites to deploy those packages.
>
> Admin Studio is not cheap. After a client has spend thousands of dollars
> to implement ZENWorks, now I have to tell them to drop another couple
> thousand down for an application packager. I also don't fully understand
> Novell's relationship with the product, they don't seem to be partnering
> well together, I'd appreciate anyone else's read on this relationship.
>
> RE: >>
> > Novell has for over 5 years now been trying to steer people from
> > Snapshot
>
> I've heard that statement made verbally by many engineers, but I don't
> always see the practice following that.
>
> Has Novell ever gone on record to state they will no longer support snap
> shot???
>
>
> RE: >> > If your snapshots are failing with the latest versions of
> snapshot, then
> > most likely your software package falls outside the scope of what
> > snapshot should be trying to handle.
>
> Maybe I've just gotten lucky? I've have not had many issues with using
> snapshot, and I have been involved in a wide variety of applications.
>
> I have seen the statement made on the forum that ZEN Works is not really a
> "Packaging" suite. While that may be a true statement, because Snapshot
> has been packaged with the product for so long, the mind set of customers
> is that it is expected to work, and be supported.
>
> I look forward to additional comments on this matter.

FPBW: Extract Open Items with a posting date in the future

Dear all,
I'm are currently searching for possibilities to extract Open Items with a posting date in the future from SAP IS-U 4.72 into SAP BW 3.5.
Currently I'm using the Business Content extractor 0FC_OP_01 together with the mass transaction FPBW in IS-U.
The problem I'm facing is within the mass transaction FPBW. I've have set the key date at 01.11.2007, but this job already runs for 52.000 seconds on the same database select-statement.
Does anybody know a possible solution to improve the performance of the statement below? (I pasted it from the process overview)
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SELECT
/*+
INDEX("DFKKOP" "DFKKOP~1" "DFKKOP^1" "DFKKOP____1" "DFKKOP____1__X" "DFKKOP_1")
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FROM
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WHERE
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AND ( "BUDAT" <= :A6 OR "AUGBD" <= :A7 ) OR "WHGRP" <> :A8 AND "OPUPW" = :A9 )
ORDER BY
"AUGST" , "GPART"#
=================================
I have already tried to create an index on the following fields (in the same order):
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- AUGST           Clearing status
- GPART           Business Partner Number
- AUGDT           Clearing date
- BUDAT           Posting Date in the Document
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Steven Groot

Hi Marcos,
When you have created the Restricted keyfigures for Open Items, You have to add the date characteristic on which you are looking open item and add the variable there.Here you have to use a variable of type Interval and select the operator "<" the date of the Variable.If you go through, there are standard variable for keydate, which you can use directly.
Hope you got the idea
Regards
Happy Tony

When the message arrives, the message tone sound that many times. How this problem can be solved? I installed the new version, but the problem is not resolved, the future is to be taken into account in the new version of this?

When the message arrives, the message tone sound that many times. How this problem can be solved? I installed the new version, but the problem is not resolved, the future is to be taken into account in the new version of this?

I'm not sure I understand the question, is the message tone going more then once?
Turn off repeat message alert here:
settings > notifications > messages > repeat alert > never
Some people have found this does not stop the repeat miessage tone,
if you are one of those then I suggest you contact Apple:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
They may not respond, but hopefully will fix in uodate if enough people complain.

New Features it would be cool to see implemented in the future

I really love itunes, but have some ideas of things that could be improved upon in the future:
Firstly this in an issue about something that used to work better than it does now: it used to be that if you had a smart playlist set to live update on your ipod it would update on the ipod itself, not just itunes. here's an example: if the list was set to only have songs with a playcount less than one (ie, unplayed songs) then if those songs were played and the playlist was exited from and reentered, those songs would then no longer appear in the playlist. This was a feature I used with regularity, but now cannot due to updates to my ipod's os.
Secondly, it would be great if more logic were added to the smartlist functionality. As of now, you can either have a list follow all or any of the options. it would be great to have logic more along the lines of: this and this or this or that. that way some very interesting and specific lists could be created.
also, it would be cool if the blue dot that appears next to a podcast if it is new would last until that podcasts has been played through in full (ie playcount=1) instead of just in part.
another useful addition would be the choice to designate a playlist as video only, audio only or any. that way videos wouldn't pop up in audio lists.
finally it would be great to have an option to say if the ipod it being charged, then the backlight would automatically turn on and stay on (timer turned off).

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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