First - sales is Manager, manager better. If you are IT, you are fucked. Remember this kids, don't do IT.
So but back to real. Our company just is in the works of passing the "P-Mark", the japanese privacy mark for the new law in Japan for all kind of private documents. That puts necessary locks outside of office and server rooms, no access to any kind of public documents, and the IT area which was before very public (anybody who knows japanese offices, knows there are no cublices, there are just tiny desks. Anyway, its always mandatory to lock your PC if you go away, and even if you sit in a cublice, put a polarizer in front of your monitor and put it in an angle that nobody can stand right behind you.
But, as seen in my first sentence, the IT always get the worst and no one in management even wastes a second on thinking how viable the IT is... unless their precious outlook doesn't get any mail anymore...
Actually almost every european country has that. Even Japan. You have an ID (Social Security Number), you have to tell the Police where you live (thats required by law, but I am not sure if it is enforced, I lived two years somewhere else and I never told the police), and you pay redicolous hight taxes.
eg Japan, there isn't one provider that doesn't give you VoIP with a real telefone number, etc etc and really low charges. I mean, really low ones... So there is no need for me to call with Skype...
A lot of things that might have been done in the past are exegerated or made up. Thats how history works. Thats why I would be double careful to believe it. It might be doable nowadays, but I really doubt it was doable then.
hey used bronze for everything. That's why it is known as the bronze age. If they were short of available bronze they could always have melted down some coins.
Just because they used it for everything doesn't mean they had enough of it. You need a bit more of bronze than just some coins.
Why are you so sure that it never happened?
Because in the given situation at the given time it is more than unlikely that it would have ever succeeded.
@1) like a previous poster said, their shields were not maid out of bronze or any metal. so that cuts it out. @2) see 1) 3) I still think there were more pratical ways to burn down a fleat than using some non existend bronze shields and some well trained solders and tons of luck.
First, the Greeks didn't have mirrors. There was no glass at that time. Good so they need bronze, highly polished. First you need to get enough of that. They probably used most they could find (there was no deep core mining then) for armour and weapons. So, first you need to make it totaly flat, highly polished and then aim it correct.
please try it out, with just 120 0.33 m^2 plates. I am sure, 100% sure, you will not succeed. Not even a motionless dry wood.
I doubt. Ships are not motionless. They move up/down, left/right, forward/backward. You have constantly adept the aim of your sunbeam. Thats really hard, even with technology nowadays. In my opinion its not doable, this is not a spyglass vs paper or bug...
well they did a very good job. Compared to what people would have used some thousand year s ago. Do you think they could have made hundrets of 100% identical mirrors. Well, actual they had no mirrors (they sayed that in Myth Busters, as I remember). They would have used brass or something similar.
true. I use KDE, but the only reason why, is because when I started to use Linux at work KDE Terminal had taps and gnome didn't. Konsole (the KDE terminal program) and Korganizer are the only KDE progams I actually use.
we don't care what you think of our product. It will suck, yes. We lied to you in what we can provied, we lied, but who gives a shit about it. We make it look so cool, that you will give us your money. And then, we launch the second extended version, and we will get your money again. Ain't that cool. Damn, no toilet paper, I'll just use this 100$ bills here... flush them, I get 100 more from you tomorrow.
sure, so you get a free drive change later? Of course:) Remember a PS3 will have it from the start, Xbox not. That will cut out all first-time adaptors from HD content. Not that it will count, but... MS will earn double then, smart move, ain't it?
When you see him talk, then you understand why noone ever take him and will take him serious. Sort of a shame, he really did something great for the software world.
correct. thats why users really don't give a damn if its windows, mac os x or something else. As long they can open their powerpoint, excel and surf the web without too many troubles.
Windows can bring you in a lot of troubles once it breaks. But the trick is not to let that happen. Of course windows sometimes does this by itself, eg by claiming that the OEM licence doesn't work anymore.
Mac OS X works much better in that way and is easier to fix. But the iMac hardware is uebercrap and sometimes if it works on one Mac it doesn't work on another.
Linux is anyway a different storry and superfar from beeing a desktop system. Especially if it comes down to CJK (chinese japanese korean) input. possible yes, but so far away from the easieness of MS or Mac OS X like nothing else in the universe.
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gosh. twice the link on the same day. what about a good old goatysex? nope, all has to be moving now!
Vielen Danke, dass du so offen zu Leuten bist, die Englisch nicht als ihre Muttersprache haben.
Perhaps Sony thought about this, and thats why they "loose" extra money for putting a Blueray drive into it.
I never ever even heard about google talk before reading this article. I am all in an MSN craze here, because everyone wants to use it ... bah :(
I am from Europe and all my friends use it. _all_, my friends from Amerika all use AIM, and all my asian friends use MSN.
I know nobody on yahoo or google chat.
- you could change your nick anytime :)
- I still remember my ICQ number
No, in Japan poeple pay money so they are not hit by sunshine. The older the get, the more they are willing to pay.
just reflected to what the world has become ... a place where two line comments get +5 insightful.
First - sales is Manager, manager better. If you are IT, you are fucked. Remember this kids, don't do IT.
... unless their precious outlook doesn't get any mail anymore ...
So but back to real. Our company just is in the works of passing the "P-Mark", the japanese privacy mark for the new law in Japan for all kind of private documents. That puts necessary locks outside of office and server rooms, no access to any kind of public documents, and the IT area which was before very public (anybody who knows japanese offices, knows there are no cublices, there are just tiny desks. Anyway, its always mandatory to lock your PC if you go away, and even if you sit in a cublice, put a polarizer in front of your monitor and put it in an angle that nobody can stand right behind you.
But, as seen in my first sentence, the IT always get the worst and no one in management even wastes a second on thinking how viable the IT is
Actually almost every european country has that. Even Japan. You have an ID (Social Security Number), you have to tell the Police where you live (thats required by law, but I am not sure if it is enforced, I lived two years somewhere else and I never told the police), and you pay redicolous hight taxes.
eg Japan, there isn't one provider that doesn't give you VoIP with a real telefone number, etc etc and really low charges. I mean, really low ones ... So there is no need for me to call with Skype ...
A lot of things that might have been done in the past are exegerated or made up. Thats how history works. Thats why I would be double careful to believe it. It might be doable nowadays, but I really doubt it was doable then.
hey used bronze for everything. That's why it is known as the bronze age. If they were short of available bronze they could always have melted down some coins. Just because they used it for everything doesn't mean they had enough of it. You need a bit more of bronze than just some coins. Why are you so sure that it never happened? Because in the given situation at the given time it is more than unlikely that it would have ever succeeded.
@1) like a previous poster said, their shields were not maid out of bronze or any metal. so that cuts it out.
@2) see 1)
3) I still think there were more pratical ways to burn down a fleat than using some non existend bronze shields and some well trained solders and tons of luck.
Yeah, funny ...
... ah, VNC for mobile phones, don't we miss that?
Back in real world kids use mobile phone dating services to sell themselves for a Luis Vutton bag
First, the Greeks didn't have mirrors. There was no glass at that time. Good so they need bronze, highly polished. First you need to get enough of that. They probably used most they could find (there was no deep core mining then) for armour and weapons. So, first you need to make it totaly flat, highly polished and then aim it correct.
please try it out, with just 120 0.33 m^2 plates. I am sure, 100% sure, you will not succeed. Not even a motionless dry wood.
I doubt. Ships are not motionless. They move up/down, left/right, forward/backward. You have constantly adept the aim of your sunbeam. Thats really hard, even with technology nowadays. In my opinion its not doable, this is not a spyglass vs paper or bug ...
well they did a very good job. Compared to what people would have used some thousand year s ago. Do you think they could have made hundrets of 100% identical mirrors. Well, actual they had no mirrors (they sayed that in Myth Busters, as I remember). They would have used brass or something similar.
So in my opinion the myth was correctly busted.
true. I use KDE, but the only reason why, is because when I started to use Linux at work KDE Terminal had taps and gnome didn't. Konsole (the KDE terminal program) and Korganizer are the only KDE progams I actually use.
we don't care what you think of our product. It will suck, yes. We lied to you in what we can provied, we lied, but who gives a shit about it. We make it look so cool, that you will give us your money. And then, we launch the second extended version, and we will get your money again. Ain't that cool. ... flush them, I get 100 more from you tomorrow.
Damn, no toilet paper, I'll just use this 100$ bills here
sure, so you get a free drive change later? Of course :) Remember a PS3 will have it from the start, Xbox not. That will cut out all first-time adaptors from HD content. Not that it will count, but ... MS will earn double then, smart move, ain't it?
hehe :) a unique social beeing then.
I downloaded ep1, peaked into it, and deleted it. They should go on poison it. Nobody wants that show anyway. crap crap, double crap.
When you see him talk, then you understand why noone ever take him and will take him serious. Sort of a shame, he really did something great for the software world.
correct. thats why users really don't give a damn if its windows, mac os x or something else. As long they can open their powerpoint, excel and surf the web without too many troubles.
Windows can bring you in a lot of troubles once it breaks. But the trick is not to let that happen. Of course windows sometimes does this by itself, eg by claiming that the OEM licence doesn't work anymore.
Mac OS X works much better in that way and is easier to fix. But the iMac hardware is uebercrap and sometimes if it works on one Mac it doesn't work on another.
Linux is anyway a different storry and superfar from beeing a desktop system. Especially if it comes down to CJK (chinese japanese korean) input. possible yes, but so far away from the easieness of MS or Mac OS X like nothing else in the universe.