On my last trip over (March '03), I was suprised that the concept of a rechargable SIM had not caught on in the US. I tried hard to find them in both Seattle and San Francisco but could not..
With the current political climate and the perception that such a phone would only be used by terrorists and drug dealers, I find it hard to belive it would catch on or would be allowed to work.
More importantly, what is the exit strategy with the data that the collection. When they go bankrupt (they will... no valid business model yet), who owns the data?
But.. you're allowed to cite from books that you read in the library. The plagiarism services use far more complex algorithms to detect patterns. Atleast thats what they would like us to think.
Did you have to deal with X.400 gateways, UUCP connections? Incompatibility between Compuserve and the rest of the world? 10 years ago was 1993....
Some people just want to make a phone call...
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They forget that majority of the cellphone users are people who just want to make a call and have no desire or ability to organise their lifestyle around a PDA-phone-mp3player type gizmo.
Wonder if they asked a carrier about their users calling patterns.. bet most of them would have said that a large number of their users use their phone primarily for short 1 minute type calls.
6mbps + a DVD quality decoder for cable tv on demand with a progressive scan DVD player from Now Broadband for a total of US$35-38/month. The cable channels run for about US$5-10/month and you can turn them on / off interactively using your decoder box.
In terms of features and value add, Hong Kong beats Korea hands down. (Yes, I live in HK)
We had recorded the message from 1-800-call-spy about (13 years ago) and put that on our answering machine. One of my roommates still has that and assures me that no-one call him the second time around. (Assuming a live person listens to that message).
I'm not sure if the number is still active (I don't live in the US anymore) and I'm not sure how serious the response of the Home Land Security (or who ever runs that number) is. Dial at your own risk!
Not sure why this story -- Saving Private Lynch covered by the UK was in there. A bunch of us spent long hours searching through major newspaper and network achives to see how people in the US would react to it.
This is the legal equivalent of a spanking. Anyone remember the good old adage about sparing the rod...
While this is a PR blunder (and who said they were trying to score brownie points anyways...) this is going to enforce the message to parents -- watch what your kids are doing online.
Let the courts sort this one out, looks like one heck of a legal mess.
It will give lusers a false sense of security. I happen to travel with my notebook and one of the worst places where I get hit by viruses is not my home ISP or work, but hotel broadband connections in Asia.
If my ISP was protecting me, I would be complacent and I can see myself not updating the scanners / firewall on my notebook and getting hit the next time I went on the road.
The next issue is liability. If an ISP claims to protect and a luser gets infected, they're going to sue (atleast in a north American situation).
Read the article and started to wonder if Cringley was having a bad day. For every business he's mentioned, there are several who are doing well and doing it cleanly.
Companies like Google, Berthshire Hathaway and others come to mind as good counter examples of what Cringley calls "gone from following the rules to playing the odds".
A sligh positive note in that article would have helped. Oh well.. just an observation.
Sounds a lot like the POD car that Toyota had announced.
Toyota says the pod can express up to ten emotions through its lighting and mechanical system. The car has lights embedded in its hood that change color along with the car's mood. Wash the car or refuel it and the pod's hood glows a bright orange. If the driver hits the brakes too hard, the pod glows an angry red.
The pod can also learn the driver's tastes in music, television or shopping through the use of something called a "mini-pod." That is a hand-held device that the driver can connect to his or her home computer, where it stores the owner's preferences among various shopping and entertainment choices. The mini-pod also acts as an electronic door-opener for the car, and ignition starter.
(Ok.. having a bad day.. just posting a bit of a rant)
What is wrong with collateral damage when you're out there killing people and destroying large portions of their country?
I'd be happy if someone admitted that they were creating the perfect doomsday device which would take out all of civilisation if everyone didn't behave.:)
On a side note.. One of the most amusing comments about bombs was TheOnion bomb that created 1500 new terrorists when it exploded...
Amen! And what about standard corporate applications like Siebel, Peoplesoft, SAP etc? Its ok to move some fringe desktops but the majority of the desktops exist for the purpose of running a (number of) specific corporate apps.
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On my last trip over (March '03), I was suprised that the concept of a rechargable SIM had not caught on in the US. I tried hard to find them in both Seattle and San Francisco but could not..
With the current political climate and the perception that such a phone would only be used by terrorists and drug dealers, I find it hard to belive it would catch on or would be allowed to work.
stop people from picking their noses in public. :)
They have an excellent How-to document here if you want to start up your own. They're not stupid people.. greedy people.
More importantly, what is the exit strategy with the data that the collection. When they go bankrupt (they will... no valid business model yet), who owns the data?
But .. you're allowed to cite from books that you read in the library. The plagiarism services use far more complex algorithms to detect patterns. Atleast thats what they would like us to think.
Some of us in Hong Kong are paying for our groceries, transportation and a lot more with our Octopus cards
Did you have to deal with X.400 gateways, UUCP connections? Incompatibility between Compuserve and the rest of the world? 10 years ago was 1993 ....
They forget that majority of the cellphone users are people who just want to make a call and have no desire or ability to organise their lifestyle around a PDA-phone-mp3player type gizmo.
Wonder if they asked a carrier about their users calling patterns.. bet most of them would have said that a large number of their users use their phone primarily for short 1 minute type calls.
And here.
Have we got our home improvement appliances mixed with outdoor cooking?
Cool.. drop us a line if you're in town. We've got a few old time slashdotters who go drinking every now and then.
Absolutely, here's what available in Hong Kong.
6mbps + a DVD quality decoder for cable tv on demand with a progressive scan DVD player from Now Broadband for a total of US$35-38/month. The cable channels run for about US$5-10/month and you can turn them on / off interactively using your decoder box.
In terms of features and value add, Hong Kong beats Korea hands down. (Yes, I live in HK)
We had recorded the message from 1-800-call-spy about (13 years ago) and put that on our answering machine. One of my roommates still has that and assures me that no-one call him the second time around. (Assuming a live person listens to that message).
I'm not sure if the number is still active (I don't live in the US anymore) and I'm not sure how serious the response of the Home Land Security (or who ever runs that number) is. Dial at your own risk!
WHO FactSheet on Depleted Uranium.
Not sure why this story -- Saving Private Lynch covered by the UK was in there. A bunch of us spent long hours searching through major newspaper and network achives to see how people in the US would react to it.
This is the legal equivalent of a spanking. Anyone remember the good old adage about sparing the rod...
While this is a PR blunder (and who said they were trying to score brownie points anyways...) this is going to enforce the message to parents -- watch what your kids are doing online.
Let the courts sort this one out, looks like one heck of a legal mess.
It will give lusers a false sense of security. I happen to travel with my notebook and one of the worst places where I get hit by viruses is not my home ISP or work, but hotel broadband connections in Asia.
If my ISP was protecting me, I would be complacent and I can see myself not updating the scanners / firewall on my notebook and getting hit the next time I went on the road.
The next issue is liability. If an ISP claims to protect and a luser gets infected, they're going to sue (atleast in a north American situation).
Umm.. they're scanned images.
this essay written by a student in Hong Kong. :)
Thank you for putting my thoughts into such eloquent words. Thank you!
Read the article and started to wonder if Cringley was having a bad day. For every business he's mentioned, there are several who are doing well and doing it cleanly.
.. just an observation.
Companies like Google, Berthshire Hathaway and others come to mind as good counter examples of what Cringley calls "gone from following the rules to playing the odds".
A sligh positive note in that article would have helped. Oh well
(Ok.. having a bad day .. just posting a bit of a rant)
:)
What is wrong with collateral damage when you're out there killing people and destroying large portions of their country?
I'd be happy if someone admitted that they were creating the perfect doomsday device which would take out all of civilisation if everyone didn't behave.
On a side note.. One of the most amusing comments about bombs was TheOnion bomb that created 1500 new terrorists when it exploded...
Amen! And what about standard corporate applications like Siebel, Peoplesoft, SAP etc? Its ok to move some fringe desktops but the majority of the desktops exist for the purpose of running a (number of) specific corporate apps.
http://www.smartid.gov.hk/en/index.html
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and so does Hong Kong Post.
http://www.hongkongpost.gov.hk/product/ecert/ty