Also Japan have several operators that offer 100/100 FDDI (=fiber) to home, mostly in urban areas. IIRC, you may get 10M beginning from $25 in Tokyo area, and 100M ethernet or fiber from $45.
In Shanghai, China telecom brought 10M conn with $10 to my grandmother/grandfathers house, though speed was very dependant of time of day (users, lots) and while mainland was blinding fast, rest of the world was mostly like 300bps modem (great firewall of china perhaps, dunno - pages like yahoo worked pretty fast).
DHS took fingerprints at JFK, plus photographed me when I arrived for a short holiday in US. And they required my passport to be a machine readable model with the bio-chip. No latex gloves though.
I've been marked as flamebait often for lot less.
One point to make -/. moderators are from US mainly, and therefore moderation most likely will favor US citizens and opinions (aka it is BIASED).
We are eagerly waiting RIAA and other US parties to sue 500 million Indian and 500 million Chinese for breaking US IPO Laws.
1000 million more prison inmates gives whole new meaning for prison inmate statistics. Soon not only every 17th american is in jail or under parole, but every 3rd is _not_. Lol.
Bush Jr. should be locked up in gitmo and key thrown away. As most of GOP rednecks.
I've heard about companies with 3000+ employees and every single software is 100% pirate. Police could not care less, and anyway you can buy them off for $100. You can't even find shop from mainland china, that would sell LEGAL COPY of pretty much anything. Neither anybody could actually afford it.
in reality, despite all sometimes even redicilous things that are in NDAs, not all things are certainly lawfully binding. i.e. they would not hold a sec in court of law.
Biggest consumer group for pirated US products live inside US borders. Mind to clean your own yard first, gentlemen.
Another question is competitive pricing. Would you pay $500 for a new DVD? Certainly not.
RIAA thinks Chinese should, their monthly average income is $200 (in cities, like Shanghai, poorer areas it might be like $20-$50), and one legal movie could cost 1/10th to 1/20th ($10-$20) of their income. It's same portion as if we say 1/10th of US citizen who's income is $5000/mo, is used to buy a $500 movie. No wonder, that Chinese rather buy $1 (10 yuan) pirates. And in the end, western pirated movies are mostly for tourists buying pirates. Pirating some gong li movie is not away from any western studio. Chinese themselves watch mostly their own productions and music, and consume them. Pirating say Faye Wong is not away from some US producers ability to pay illegal Mexican gardener doing his lawn and wife.
Bush administration is just panicking their growing trade surplus with China. US just cannot compete much longer against labor force of 1.4 billion. I'd be tempted to say, that just finally mind your own business America.
Couple of years ago, US majority in polls wanted to ban Al-Jazeera TV.
Ssame majority now opposes censorship of search-engines in China.
Talk about double-standards.
Chinese would just really bow, cause they do have their own initiatives which have larger
user base than Google at the moment (baidu, sohu etc).
Also Google competitors like Yahoo plays in China, and has shown it willingly cooperates with Chinese police in the matters of national security.
this all is just about corporates does not have any values, not at Yahoo, not at Enron, not at Google. All their purpose is to make money for their shareholders
86 out of 100 largest American companies has been in court in past decade for some kind of corporate misdemeanors or worse. Values are just something marketing/PR department comes up with, they all break the law when overseer is not watching. I'd suggest to watch documentary called 'the corporation'. Just seek the torrent, it's good.
While Brin and Page laught all the way to the bank, some poor ba*tard is going to executed cause they used Google to search something somebody else didn't like.
$$$ uber alles. I wonder how sound sleep does Larry and Sergei have? Well, perhaps billion dollars really does silence any body's conscience..:-(
'Do no evil' my ass. It should say 'do may ass' instead. They just bend over and let Chinese ram it in deep for they money. F Google.
Wrong. It does. I've reviewed several guys for a high demand positions, who thought they were good but didn't have slightest idea.
I think those questions can be pretty much answered by anybody who has B.Sc or M.Sc in computer science.
In my area it's common practice you won't get even in to the interview without M.Sc degree. Usually it so waste of time hiring "just some nerd", who can do good thing in one place, but can't even document what he's doing nor code by design. Army service is a definite plus, cause it displays one can stand some pressure in his/hers life. Plus being an officer in army also is good background for being a team leader or manager position.
I think Google or any sane company don't need wannabes, loners, sociopaths, trainees or talk-a-lot's, who make much noise but no real know-how. Heavy filtering is good, and if you really know the things, you won't take a pressure about it.
People who get things done, talk less and do more.
Probably this is the way it is. Ten managers per one employee who really does something. Processes for the sake of processes. Just like working for some say like Hewlett-Packard. Lick bottom and you'll do nice, speak out the truth in wrong place (like to customer, for God's sake) and you're so fired. Bad management practices tend to spread around.
If I'd work for Google, I'd sell my stocks and run. Barely before armies of wannabe-millionaires and other incompetent morons who smell money will start pouring in from doors and windows.
Hey, who are those hippies standing besides my Ferrari?
It's less than GEO, MEO/ICO nor LEO, so it's less than 200km (124 miles) orbit in thermoshpere.
One could think ash doesn't have much atmospheric drag, so it won't rain down on somebody.atleast before 2010.
People have polluted land, air and oceans, now the space, oh the times, oh the times.
Even better if phone or car would automatically call help in case of accident. This kind of system has been developed in Finland, and EU wide initiative has been proposed.
Idea behind the tech is quite simple. Car has mobile phone and/or GPS device attached, and if subjected to high G-forces and/or certain event (say airbag used) car automatically calls 911 (or actually 112 in Europe), and sends GPS location of the vechile. It has been talked, that such system could be mandatory in cars sold in europe like after 2012.
This has been due fact, that many road accident fatalities could be prevented, if help could arrive few minutes earlier. Driver in these accidents are usually unable to call for help themselves, and computers are in those cases, better than nothing. I have understood, that US carmakers have their own initiatives and development plans in same area of interest. Hopefully unified standard will be developed at some point, yet I doubt it. In EU it's easy to enfoce things, but FTC more relies on market driven approach than one-for-all-solution.
Accelerational sensing can be also used with GPS, like Nokia N95. If contact to satellites are lost, phone have past knowledge of directional vector and speed. When you add sensing acceleration/deacceleration, you may calculate approximation of position without GPS data, or just interpolate to help out weak positioning signal.
..it will also use 100% more wattage and produce 200% more heat than any Intel product. It will be released soon(tm), which means in few months, nobody just doesn't know which year.
Good news for everybody who liked AMD Athlon thunderbird, it'll also warm up your house during cold winter months. Bad news for your electricity bill. Bind it with AMD-ATI graphics product and you'll get markets 2nd fastest rig, 'n small nuclear power plant to feed it as bonus.:-):-)
Perhaps some GOP respresentative got worried US literacy rate may get over 95%. But with this kind of a measures put in place, it'll be sure that there will be plenty of people, who pass High School but can't read and write. God bless american public education.
Many people in europe could be willing to buy lots of games from online-retailing places like Ubisoft's Direct2Drive, but nearly all titles say "Only to be sold in North America".
I really do wonder what makes my Visa or Amex worse than any John Doe from Newark. We would both want to buy a product.
It's very lame excuse to say that I pirated some game cause I couldn't either buy it online nor it wasn't available on the local store, but I do think this is common dilemma. Same thing with the movies. You would want to buy it, can you can't. What happened to Globalization?
What you latest bought from the shop is known by the shopping chains marketdroids, how many bonus cards you said you have? Library information, I guess nobody else is interested harvesting it other than United States at the moment. For public interest, I last read Terry Pratchett btw.
In Finland, we do have the national ID database. Expenses are 28M a year. From every citizen we record things like name, address, citizenship, date of birth, birthplace and so forth. Postal office gets records from same DB. When you move, fill out a form, and mail comes to a new place fluently. They also keep building records database for uses like fire&rescue, ownership etc., voting register (people eglible to vote) and issue national electronic ID cards with which you can identify yourself for good in gov't net services.
I don't really get how it makes my or any others life worse, but it certainly makes life lot easier. Sweden had first ID records from it's citizens 15th century, and church kept records for many centuries.
What's one nice thing also, you see amount of citzens without explicitly counting them out once in a decade. They update the counter (i.e. 'suomen väkiluku') every mon-fri noon. Not totally real-time thou. : http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/
In China, problems are different level, there are like over million people with overlapping ID's (same SSN issued twice) and things like that. They really need to renew the thing, as current scheme was totally not designed for such amount of people in firstplace.
Interstingly, Youtube has whole tv-series and movies available, for example Chinese. So actually American lawyers are only intersted protecting american intellectual property rights, not battle copyright infringement in general.
If music video is from Madonna or U2, subpoena is already on the way, but if it's Faye Wong or Andy Lau, nobody takes action. What's the puzzling logic here?
They are just wanting to protect and maximize their invest and interest groups. It's just business, nothing about honesty nor justice actually. Lawyers or RIAA are not existing for charity. It's about sucking blood.
I think it would be rather appropriate calling them hypocrits and liars.
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Also Japan have several operators that offer 100/100 FDDI (=fiber) to home, mostly in urban areas. IIRC, you may get 10M beginning from $25 in Tokyo area, and 100M ethernet or fiber from $45. In Shanghai, China telecom brought 10M conn with $10 to my grandmother/grandfathers house, though speed was very dependant of time of day (users, lots) and while mainland was blinding fast, rest of the world was mostly like 300bps modem (great firewall of china perhaps, dunno - pages like yahoo worked pretty fast).
DHS took fingerprints at JFK, plus photographed me when I arrived for a short holiday in US. And they required my passport to be a machine readable model with the bio-chip. No latex gloves though.
I've been marked as flamebait often for lot less. One point to make - /. moderators are from US mainly, and therefore moderation most likely will favor US citizens and opinions (aka it is BIASED).
We are eagerly waiting RIAA and other US parties to sue 500 million Indian and 500 million Chinese for breaking US IPO Laws. 1000 million more prison inmates gives whole new meaning for prison inmate statistics. Soon not only every 17th american is in jail or under parole, but every 3rd is _not_. Lol. Bush Jr. should be locked up in gitmo and key thrown away. As most of GOP rednecks.
I've heard about companies with 3000+ employees and every single software is 100% pirate. Police could not care less, and anyway you can buy them off for $100. You can't even find shop from mainland china, that would sell LEGAL COPY of pretty much anything. Neither anybody could actually afford it.
in reality, despite all sometimes even redicilous things that are in NDAs, not all things are certainly lawfully binding. i.e. they would not hold a sec in court of law.
Biggest consumer group for pirated US products live inside US borders. Mind to clean your own yard first, gentlemen. Another question is competitive pricing. Would you pay $500 for a new DVD? Certainly not. RIAA thinks Chinese should, their monthly average income is $200 (in cities, like Shanghai, poorer areas it might be like $20-$50), and one legal movie could cost 1/10th to 1/20th ($10-$20) of their income. It's same portion as if we say 1/10th of US citizen who's income is $5000/mo, is used to buy a $500 movie. No wonder, that Chinese rather buy $1 (10 yuan) pirates. And in the end, western pirated movies are mostly for tourists buying pirates. Pirating some gong li movie is not away from any western studio. Chinese themselves watch mostly their own productions and music, and consume them. Pirating say Faye Wong is not away from some US producers ability to pay illegal Mexican gardener doing his lawn and wife. Bush administration is just panicking their growing trade surplus with China. US just cannot compete much longer against labor force of 1.4 billion. I'd be tempted to say, that just finally mind your own business America.
Couple of years ago, US majority in polls wanted to ban Al-Jazeera TV. Ssame majority now opposes censorship of search-engines in China. Talk about double-standards.
It not just China. Some things are filtered for Germany and France, also by eBay and Yahoo. University of Harvard pg about it http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/google/
Chinese would just really bow, cause they do have their own initiatives which have larger user base than Google at the moment (baidu, sohu etc). Also Google competitors like Yahoo plays in China, and has shown it willingly cooperates with Chinese police in the matters of national security. this all is just about corporates does not have any values, not at Yahoo, not at Enron, not at Google. All their purpose is to make money for their shareholders 86 out of 100 largest American companies has been in court in past decade for some kind of corporate misdemeanors or worse. Values are just something marketing/PR department comes up with, they all break the law when overseer is not watching. I'd suggest to watch documentary called 'the corporation'. Just seek the torrent, it's good.
While Brin and Page laught all the way to the bank, some poor ba*tard is going to executed cause they used Google to search something somebody else didn't like. $$$ uber alles. I wonder how sound sleep does Larry and Sergei have? Well, perhaps billion dollars really does silence any body's conscience.. :-(
'Do no evil' my ass. It should say 'do may ass' instead. They just bend over and let Chinese ram it in deep for they money. F Google.
Wrong. It does. I've reviewed several guys for a high demand positions, who thought they were good but didn't have slightest idea. I think those questions can be pretty much answered by anybody who has B.Sc or M.Sc in computer science. In my area it's common practice you won't get even in to the interview without M.Sc degree. Usually it so waste of time hiring "just some nerd", who can do good thing in one place, but can't even document what he's doing nor code by design. Army service is a definite plus, cause it displays one can stand some pressure in his/hers life. Plus being an officer in army also is good background for being a team leader or manager position. I think Google or any sane company don't need wannabes, loners, sociopaths, trainees or talk-a-lot's, who make much noise but no real know-how. Heavy filtering is good, and if you really know the things, you won't take a pressure about it. People who get things done, talk less and do more.
Probably this is the way it is. Ten managers per one employee who really does something. Processes for the sake of processes. Just like working for some say like Hewlett-Packard. Lick bottom and you'll do nice, speak out the truth in wrong place (like to customer, for God's sake) and you're so fired. Bad management practices tend to spread around. If I'd work for Google, I'd sell my stocks and run. Barely before armies of wannabe-millionaires and other incompetent morons who smell money will start pouring in from doors and windows. Hey, who are those hippies standing besides my Ferrari?
Paid paternity/maternity leave is common practice for everybody in Scandinavian countries (finland, sweden, demark, norway, iceland). What's the fuzz?
Freedom is an illusion, and from jail one can anyway escape. So why bother - if rulers don't mess with us, we could not care less.
It's less than GEO, MEO/ICO nor LEO, so it's less than 200km (124 miles) orbit in thermoshpere. One could think ash doesn't have much atmospheric drag, so it won't rain down on somebody.atleast before 2010. People have polluted land, air and oceans, now the space, oh the times, oh the times.
Even better if phone or car would automatically call help in case of accident. This kind of system has been developed in Finland, and EU wide initiative has been proposed. Idea behind the tech is quite simple. Car has mobile phone and/or GPS device attached, and if subjected to high G-forces and/or certain event (say airbag used) car automatically calls 911 (or actually 112 in Europe), and sends GPS location of the vechile. It has been talked, that such system could be mandatory in cars sold in europe like after 2012. This has been due fact, that many road accident fatalities could be prevented, if help could arrive few minutes earlier. Driver in these accidents are usually unable to call for help themselves, and computers are in those cases, better than nothing. I have understood, that US carmakers have their own initiatives and development plans in same area of interest. Hopefully unified standard will be developed at some point, yet I doubt it. In EU it's easy to enfoce things, but FTC more relies on market driven approach than one-for-all-solution. Accelerational sensing can be also used with GPS, like Nokia N95. If contact to satellites are lost, phone have past knowledge of directional vector and speed. When you add sensing acceleration/deacceleration, you may calculate approximation of position without GPS data, or just interpolate to help out weak positioning signal.
..it will also use 100% more wattage and produce 200% more heat than any Intel product. It will be released soon(tm), which means in few months, nobody just doesn't know which year. Good news for everybody who liked AMD Athlon thunderbird, it'll also warm up your house during cold winter months. Bad news for your electricity bill. Bind it with AMD-ATI graphics product and you'll get markets 2nd fastest rig, 'n small nuclear power plant to feed it as bonus. :-) :-)
Informational, Microsoft Windows XP actually does have virtual desktop that is not an third-party addon. Interested may check out virtual desktop manager: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/power toys/xppowertoys.mspx
Perhaps some GOP respresentative got worried US literacy rate may get over 95%. But with this kind of a measures put in place, it'll be sure that there will be plenty of people, who pass High School but can't read and write. God bless american public education.
Many people in europe could be willing to buy lots of games from online-retailing places like Ubisoft's Direct2Drive, but nearly all titles say "Only to be sold in North America". I really do wonder what makes my Visa or Amex worse than any John Doe from Newark. We would both want to buy a product. It's very lame excuse to say that I pirated some game cause I couldn't either buy it online nor it wasn't available on the local store, but I do think this is common dilemma. Same thing with the movies. You would want to buy it, can you can't. What happened to Globalization?
What you latest bought from the shop is known by the shopping chains marketdroids, how many bonus cards you said you have? Library information, I guess nobody else is interested harvesting it other than United States at the moment. For public interest, I last read Terry Pratchett btw. In Finland, we do have the national ID database. Expenses are 28M a year. From every citizen we record things like name, address, citizenship, date of birth, birthplace and so forth. Postal office gets records from same DB. When you move, fill out a form, and mail comes to a new place fluently. They also keep building records database for uses like fire&rescue, ownership etc., voting register (people eglible to vote) and issue national electronic ID cards with which you can identify yourself for good in gov't net services. I don't really get how it makes my or any others life worse, but it certainly makes life lot easier. Sweden had first ID records from it's citizens 15th century, and church kept records for many centuries. What's one nice thing also, you see amount of citzens without explicitly counting them out once in a decade. They update the counter (i.e. 'suomen väkiluku') every mon-fri noon. Not totally real-time thou. : http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/ In China, problems are different level, there are like over million people with overlapping ID's (same SSN issued twice) and things like that. They really need to renew the thing, as current scheme was totally not designed for such amount of people in firstplace.
Interstingly, Youtube has whole tv-series and movies available, for example Chinese. So actually American lawyers are only intersted protecting american intellectual property rights, not battle copyright infringement in general. If music video is from Madonna or U2, subpoena is already on the way, but if it's Faye Wong or Andy Lau, nobody takes action. What's the puzzling logic here? They are just wanting to protect and maximize their invest and interest groups. It's just business, nothing about honesty nor justice actually. Lawyers or RIAA are not existing for charity. It's about sucking blood. I think it would be rather appropriate calling them hypocrits and liars.