I see them everywhere in Australia and New Zealand.
Every computer store carries a bunch of them... I own one, and absolutely love it, and use it along side my 17" Alienware all the time.
Smartphones are great, and i've had an iPhone 3G since it came out and now an iPhone 4.... but it still can't be used for real work running real apps like a netbook.
The iPhone/iPad and other tablets are just for consuming media, not real work. Ultra portables like my netbook are a godsend when I need to be mobile around a large office or in the datacenter.
Bezos needs to stop bitching and just realise he's fighting an uphill losing battle he's going to inevitably lose.
Most of what amazon sells is manufactures overseas (read: China) and Amazon is already somewhat international with presences in other countries, he should just move the Amazon warehouses overseas and be done with it.
*Even if it means going to Mexico or something:)
Disclaimer: I'm an Aussie and don't know anything about the rules of shipping and selling items in the US coming from warehouses in Mexico or elsewhere in the world. But I assume there's no sales tax.
You guys need to ditch your state level sales tax anarchy and just get a federally managed GST like, oh I dunno, Canada... Singapore... Australia... New Zealand... and other sane countries:)
The way the US does everything at the state level, with so many states, and every state doing its own thing, just truly results in anarchy...
People really fail to grasp just how big the American southwest is
that's a good point, if you've never driven through New Mexico it's hard to get your mind around just how sparsely populated and desolate the SW United States is. You could fall asleep driving, drive off the road, and just keep going for a 100 miles and never hit anything.
Honestly, thats nothing.
Try driving through Western Australia.
Australia is almost the same land area as the continental United States, except, unlike the US, its almost ALL desert.
Regarding TrueCrypt, some of the stuff is simple enough. Encrypted filesystem inside a file, or encrypted partition. Okay. I've done enough under linux with mounting filesystems within files and other stuff to understand how that works very easily.
But then... what boggles my mind, is, how do some of the features of full disk encryption even work?
What performs the decryption while the operating system (whether it be windows or whatever) loads?
And how can your system disk be in a half encrypted half not state and still WORK?
Note that TrueCrypt can encrypt an existing unencrypted system partition/drive in-place while the operating system is running (while the system is being encrypted, you can use your computer as usual without any restrictions). Likewise, a TrueCrypt-encrypted system partition/drive can be decrypted in-place while the operating system is running. You can interrupt the process of encryption or decryption anytime, leave the partition/drive partially unencrypted, restart or shut down the computer, and then resume the process, which will continue from the point it was stopped.
There's some technical details on their site, but nothing that explains how that stuff works in particular.
Precisely. The problem all along has been that power was lost and no backups were working to provide power to run the cooling systems.
If the reactors kept running, they would have had no trouble keeping themselves cool just as they were before the Quake. In other words, business would have continued as normal.
Hopefully this incident will cause a reevaluation to the auto-scram-on-earthquake rule currently in place. (And of course, for more reliable backups to be in place too.)
We also have a 13th floor in every building in Australia and New Zealand.... (or at least, in buildings that are high enough to warrant a 13th and above floor.)
The AFP or Australian Federal Police is not just the 'Australian Police' like the title misleads you to believe. They are known as 'the feds' and would be most similar to what Americans know as the FBI. And then there's ASIO which is the Australian Security Intelligence Organiasation and is akin to the CIA and NSA.
Its their network, their policy... be lucky you are even ALLOWED to connect your own personal laptop to their network, that is strictly forbidden for security reasons in most places.
If you don't want them to install that software on your personal machine, don't bring it in or don't connect it to their network and use 3G or something.
As soon as you connect to their network you must abide by their rules.
But the fact that, 1) It's only 20 feet away, 2) It's in the same plane as you, and, 3) It's pointed AT you...
That worries me some more. Obviously you want to talk to someone who really knows this stuff, and can also measure the EM radiation in your future apt.
I also assume its a 'killer' apt because its in a great location and its CHEAP. And of course, its CHEAP because everyone is scared of the antenna pointing right at it...
I can't stand blackberry's BIS & BES. Phones these days are clearly powerful enough to just speak the same protocols computers can, why have mandatory middlemen for everything? gah.
I hate my iPhone for a lot of reasons, but I still use it because its wayy better than BlackBerry and being forced to use special blackberry plans to have access to use BIS & BES. Fuck that.
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I see them everywhere in Australia and New Zealand.
Every computer store carries a bunch of them... I own one, and absolutely love it, and use it along side my 17" Alienware all the time.
Smartphones are great, and i've had an iPhone 3G since it came out and now an iPhone 4.... but it still can't be used for real work running real apps like a netbook.
The iPhone/iPad and other tablets are just for consuming media, not real work. Ultra portables like my netbook are a godsend when I need to be mobile around a large office or in the datacenter.
Bezos needs to stop bitching and just realise he's fighting an uphill losing battle he's going to inevitably lose.
Most of what amazon sells is manufactures overseas (read: China) and Amazon is already somewhat international with presences in other countries, he should just move the Amazon warehouses overseas and be done with it.
*Even if it means going to Mexico or something :)
Disclaimer: I'm an Aussie and don't know anything about the rules of shipping and selling items in the US coming from warehouses in Mexico or elsewhere in the world. But I assume there's no sales tax.
You guys need to ditch your state level sales tax anarchy and just get a federally managed GST like, oh I dunno, Canada... Singapore... Australia... New Zealand... and other sane countries :)
The way the US does everything at the state level, with so many states, and every state doing its own thing, just truly results in anarchy...
When was this? Their devices have acted as USB mass storage for several years now.
Indeed. And yet apple products STILL won't show up as USB mass storage devices...
Everyone is still using IE6 anyway.
(If they're using IE at all that is. Everyone else is on Firefox, Chrome, etc..)
I don't get why Americans think they are so entilted to unlimited broadband.
The rest of the world has had caps since day one.
Once upon a time I remember bandwidth caps were 1gb or 3gb a month on BROADBAND (cable or adsl.)
Now its 10gb for entry level, and 20gb or 40gb for higher users.
Common all over the world my friend.
Your caps are VERY generous. I wouldn't be complaining.
People really fail to grasp just how big the American southwest is
that's a good point, if you've never driven through New Mexico it's hard to get your mind around just how sparsely populated and desolate the SW United States is. You could fall asleep driving, drive off the road, and just keep going for a 100 miles and never hit anything.
Honestly, thats nothing.
Try driving through Western Australia.
Australia is almost the same land area as the continental United States, except, unlike the US, its almost ALL desert.
Regarding TrueCrypt, some of the stuff is simple enough. Encrypted filesystem inside a file, or encrypted partition. Okay. I've done enough under linux with mounting filesystems within files and other stuff to understand how that works very easily.
But then... what boggles my mind, is, how do some of the features of full disk encryption even work?
What performs the decryption while the operating system (whether it be windows or whatever) loads?
And how can your system disk be in a half encrypted half not state and still WORK?
Note that TrueCrypt can encrypt an existing unencrypted system partition/drive in-place while the operating system is running (while the system is being encrypted, you can use your computer as usual without any restrictions). Likewise, a TrueCrypt-encrypted system partition/drive can be decrypted in-place while the operating system is running. You can interrupt the process of encryption or decryption anytime, leave the partition/drive partially unencrypted, restart or shut down the computer, and then resume the process, which will continue from the point it was stopped.
There's some technical details on their site, but nothing that explains how that stuff works in particular.
Precisely. The problem all along has been that power was lost and no backups were working to provide power to run the cooling systems.
If the reactors kept running, they would have had no trouble keeping themselves cool just as they were before the Quake. In other words, business would have continued as normal.
Hopefully this incident will cause a reevaluation to the auto-scram-on-earthquake rule currently in place. (And of course, for more reliable backups to be in place too.)
I don't get why Americans think they are so entilted to unlimited broadband.
The rest of the world has had caps since day one.
Once upon a time I remember bandwidth caps were 1gb or 3gb a month on BROADBAND (cable or adsl.)
Now its 10gb for entry level, and 20gb or 40gb for higher users.
Common all over the world my friend.
Your caps are VERY generous. I wouldn't be complaining.
Since when is Ubuntu the 'bad linux'?
Since they put the window buttons on the left hand side, if I remember correctly.
Indeed.
That was the worst decision they EVER made.
We have these in New Zealand.
We also have a 13th floor in every building in Australia and New Zealand.... (or at least, in buildings that are high enough to warrant a 13th and above floor.)
http://simplyshrug.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63:the-overpopulation-myth&catid=31:general&Itemid=50
This is so old...
Even Blizzard issues a press release about it years ago because people kept arguing about it on the Blizzard forums.
http://www.mbdguild.com/index.php?topic=14915.0
http://www.pornbay.org/ and its tracker is down :(
NZ was smart enough to do this... lets hope AU will, too!
Disclaimer: I'm an Aussie living in NZ.
Just as a note,
The AFP or Australian Federal Police is not just the 'Australian Police' like the title misleads you to believe. They are known as 'the feds' and would be most similar to what Americans know as the FBI. And then there's ASIO which is the Australian Security Intelligence Organiasation and is akin to the CIA and NSA.
So yeah, the AFP ain't your local cop shop.
Set up a nice OpenSolaris box with ZFS and export it with Samba/NFS/iSCSI, etc.
Its their network, their policy... be lucky you are even ALLOWED to connect your own personal laptop to their network, that is strictly forbidden for security reasons in most places.
If you don't want them to install that software on your personal machine, don't bring it in or don't connect it to their network and use 3G or something.
As soon as you connect to their network you must abide by their rules.
Simple as that, really.
(I'm a Network Administrator IRL.)
Apple == The rise of a new Microsoft?
Worse.
Microsoft was never this nasty.
Will do, Jobs!
Normally I wouldn't worry at all.
But the fact that,
1) It's only 20 feet away,
2) It's in the same plane as you, and,
3) It's pointed AT you...
That worries me some more. Obviously you want to talk to someone who really knows this stuff, and can also measure the EM radiation in your future apt.
I also assume its a 'killer' apt because its in a great location and its CHEAP. And of course, its CHEAP because everyone is scared of the antenna pointing right at it...
Call me crazy.... but I started doing this a couple years ago.
I can't remember what font it was now; I was programming under linux using eclipse.
But I really enjoyed switching away from a fixed width font...
Its been stated here repeatedly. You want to go NTFS for all the listed reasons, or ZFS.
I set up my own ZFS NAS server, but yeah, up to you.
Do NOT go FAT32 under ANY circumstances.
I can't stand blackberry's BIS & BES. Phones these days are clearly powerful enough to just speak the same protocols computers can, why have mandatory middlemen for everything? gah.
I hate my iPhone for a lot of reasons, but I still use it because its wayy better than BlackBerry and being forced to use special blackberry plans to have access to use BIS & BES. Fuck that.