Actually, I just realised that the cables landing in Penang and Malacca support your point that these cables are following the old telegraph routes, as Penang and Malacca were important colonial settlements up until WW2.
The cables don't necessarily land in population centres. In Malaysia, there are a few cables landing in Penang and Malacca, with total bandwidth of a little over 1Tbps, but on the other side of the peninsular, which is less populated but facing Japan and US, there are two cables landing in small towns with bandwidth of over 2Tbps, and a third cable that is just under 1Tbps. Surprisingly, no cables land in the Klang area, where population is most concentrated. I expect some very high bandwidth cables between Johor and Singapore are missing from the map, as they are considered too short to count.
Dual core definitely makes a difference with Android, as the Dalvik VM does not seem to have an incremental garbage collector (or its increments are too large), so you get frequent pauses in the UI with a single core device.
Freescale were not selling certain BGA package ICs in the US for about 18 months because of a move like this (for a patent which was about to expire, so they decided to wait it out rather than pay up).
wouldn't it count as an attack coming from Missouri instead of Shanghai?
Actually, according to the geolocation provider's own figures, it would count as an attack coming 90% from Missouri with another 9.7% spread over other states and 0.3% appearing to come from other countries. If it appeared to be coming from Kuala Lumpur though, there's only a 53% chance that it is coming from anywhere within a 25 mile radius of the city (which takes in a much larger population than they've accounted for in their calculation). The only consolation they have to this inconvenience in their report is that Seoul reports over 80% accuracy in the geolocation data, so it is near enough to be useful.
Who is "them"? Are you advocating collective punishment for the actions of a minority who appear to be more concentrated in a few foriegn cities rather than evenly distributed like in US and Europe. The reality is probably more to do with the reliability of geolocation services in those countries - making the entire nation appear to be coming from the capital.
The reality is that I don't foresee myself selling any products or services into Asia, Russia, or South America. I don't speak their language(s),
You don't speak the official language of Singapore and Guyana, and the lingua franca of business in India and Malaysia? You seem to do OK writing it though, so I think you're being a bit hard on yourself.
Philips didn't threaten to sue anyone producing 10cm polycarbonate disks with aluminium coating containing digitally encoded information in a format mostly compatible with the CD Red Book format. They only stopped them using the "Compact Disk Digital Audio" trademark.
Does Exchange still not work properly with standard IMAP and iCal? That used to be a problem when I used it in 2003, but I thought they'd improved lately.
UPNP IGD works over IPv6. Even if you are not NATed, it seems it would be a good idea to block all incoming ports at the router unless a client inside the local subnet specifically asks for it to be forwarded. Apple messed up badly on this one by making their equivalent Bonjour based protocol specific to NAT.
Traditional Chinese was only held onto by Hong Kong and Taiwan - basically to be contrary to the Chinese government. Places further removed (politically and geographically) such as Singapore, followed China in using simplified script, and now that Hong Kong is under Chinese rule they are starting to shift to simplified as well. As Taiwan and China loosen up their relationship, I expect Taiwanese to start using more Simplified Chinese, starting with business communications with the mainland, and eventually Traditional Chinese will die out outside of academic study of Classical Chinese.
Better choice: patents are non-transferrable except to heirs upon death. Patents may be licensed, but not sold.
The problem with this is that genuine individual inventors do not have the resources to manufacture by themselves, and do not want to spend their time administering a licensing scheme. They'd much rather sell the rights and move onto the next invention.
I can see mini roundabouts causing confusion. Drivers either don't notice that its a roundabout, or they see the roundabout and take a wide swing around it to do a right (left for US and continental Europe) turn rather than just driving over the top as the roundabout is designed for. Mini roundabouts are basically the UK equivalent of a 4 way stop, without the compulsory stop, and I don't see why any city in the US would adopt them when drivers are already used to 4-way stops.
Large roundabouts on the other hand are just a bunch of independent T intersections, where traffic already on the roundabout has right of way. If you think of them that way, there is no confusion (unless you're in Italy where traffic on the roundabout bizarrely has to give way to traffic coming on).
If private US corporations can be used by the USA to extend its intelligence gathering reach like this, does that mean their employees can be treated as government agents by non-US law enforcement agencies? Could a privacy breach turn into an espionage case because of this? It'd certainly make me think twice about accepting a job for a US based company.
Or possibly they've got CUPS working with avahi like it used to (before avahi went and removed a bunch of bonjour compatible APIs).
I got my printer working with AirPrint soon after iOS4 was released, but I had to configure the avahi part of it manually because CUPS and avahi don't work well together.
Terrorists use eight year old kids as vessel for their explosives
Citation please. The best Google could come up with is Michael W. Hicks, who is apparently on a TSA watchlist because his name is confusingly (to TSA agents) similar to David Michael Hicks, the Australian who was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for most of the time the boy was being patted down by TSA agents.
Until someone invents an electronic switch, then the STB designers will be able to turn the power hungry tuner and hard drive on when the schedule says something worth recording is on. Until then, we'll have to put up with our hard drives and tuners being on all the time.
I've always considered synaptic to be a poor reimplementation of aptitude using GTK instead of ncurses. At least the Software Center has some new features to let inexperienced users try and make some sense out of the massive list of packages available.
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Actually, I just realised that the cables landing in Penang and Malacca support your point that these cables are following the old telegraph routes, as Penang and Malacca were important colonial settlements up until WW2.
The cables don't necessarily land in population centres. In Malaysia, there are a few cables landing in Penang and Malacca, with total bandwidth of a little over 1Tbps, but on the other side of the peninsular, which is less populated but facing Japan and US, there are two cables landing in small towns with bandwidth of over 2Tbps, and a third cable that is just under 1Tbps. Surprisingly, no cables land in the Klang area, where population is most concentrated. I expect some very high bandwidth cables between Johor and Singapore are missing from the map, as they are considered too short to count.
Dual core definitely makes a difference with Android, as the Dalvik VM does not seem to have an incremental garbage collector (or its increments are too large), so you get frequent pauses in the UI with a single core device.
Freescale were not selling certain BGA package ICs in the US for about 18 months because of a move like this (for a patent which was about to expire, so they decided to wait it out rather than pay up).
You can keep your blinking text and ad-serving plugins. I'm sticking with NCSA Mosaic.
Actually, according to the geolocation provider's own figures, it would count as an attack coming 90% from Missouri with another 9.7% spread over other states and 0.3% appearing to come from other countries. If it appeared to be coming from Kuala Lumpur though, there's only a 53% chance that it is coming from anywhere within a 25 mile radius of the city (which takes in a much larger population than they've accounted for in their calculation). The only consolation they have to this inconvenience in their report is that Seoul reports over 80% accuracy in the geolocation data, so it is near enough to be useful.
Who is "them"? Are you advocating collective punishment for the actions of a minority who appear to be more concentrated in a few foriegn cities rather than evenly distributed like in US and Europe. The reality is probably more to do with the reliability of geolocation services in those countries - making the entire nation appear to be coming from the capital.
You don't speak the official language of Singapore and Guyana, and the lingua franca of business in India and Malaysia? You seem to do OK writing it though, so I think you're being a bit hard on yourself.
Philips didn't threaten to sue anyone producing 10cm polycarbonate disks with aluminium coating containing digitally encoded information in a format mostly compatible with the CD Red Book format. They only stopped them using the "Compact Disk Digital Audio" trademark.
Does Exchange still not work properly with standard IMAP and iCal? That used to be a problem when I used it in 2003, but I thought they'd improved lately.
UPNP IGD works over IPv6. Even if you are not NATed, it seems it would be a good idea to block all incoming ports at the router unless a client inside the local subnet specifically asks for it to be forwarded. Apple messed up badly on this one by making their equivalent Bonjour based protocol specific to NAT.
Traditional Chinese was only held onto by Hong Kong and Taiwan - basically to be contrary to the Chinese government. Places further removed (politically and geographically) such as Singapore, followed China in using simplified script, and now that Hong Kong is under Chinese rule they are starting to shift to simplified as well. As Taiwan and China loosen up their relationship, I expect Taiwanese to start using more Simplified Chinese, starting with business communications with the mainland, and eventually Traditional Chinese will die out outside of academic study of Classical Chinese.
Learning Mandarin won't help you eavesdrop if your business partners are from Shanghai, Guangdong or just about anywhere else outside of Beijing.
The problem with this is that genuine individual inventors do not have the resources to manufacture by themselves, and do not want to spend their time administering a licensing scheme. They'd much rather sell the rights and move onto the next invention.
I can see mini roundabouts causing confusion. Drivers either don't notice that its a roundabout, or they see the roundabout and take a wide swing around it to do a right (left for US and continental Europe) turn rather than just driving over the top as the roundabout is designed for. Mini roundabouts are basically the UK equivalent of a 4 way stop, without the compulsory stop, and I don't see why any city in the US would adopt them when drivers are already used to 4-way stops.
Large roundabouts on the other hand are just a bunch of independent T intersections, where traffic already on the roundabout has right of way. If you think of them that way, there is no confusion (unless you're in Italy where traffic on the roundabout bizarrely has to give way to traffic coming on).
Or maybe they just saw other companies putting in irrational bids and decided to join the fun.
Of course they do. The difference here is that the US seems to be compelling private US companies to do it on their behalf.
If private US corporations can be used by the USA to extend its intelligence gathering reach like this, does that mean their employees can be treated as government agents by non-US law enforcement agencies? Could a privacy breach turn into an espionage case because of this? It'd certainly make me think twice about accepting a job for a US based company.
What CUPS filter are you using for image/urf? FWIW, I have CUPS working with my iPad without the URF stuff.
It allows printing from an iPad or iPhone to any printer.
Or possibly they've got CUPS working with avahi like it used to (before avahi went and removed a bunch of bonjour compatible APIs). I got my printer working with AirPrint soon after iOS4 was released, but I had to configure the avahi part of it manually because CUPS and avahi don't work well together.
So basically these applications are being punished because their users are not spamming.
Citation please. The best Google could come up with is Michael W. Hicks, who is apparently on a TSA watchlist because his name is confusingly (to TSA agents) similar to David Michael Hicks, the Australian who was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for most of the time the boy was being patted down by TSA agents.
Until someone invents an electronic switch, then the STB designers will be able to turn the power hungry tuner and hard drive on when the schedule says something worth recording is on. Until then, we'll have to put up with our hard drives and tuners being on all the time.
I've always considered synaptic to be a poor reimplementation of aptitude using GTK instead of ncurses. At least the Software Center has some new features to let inexperienced users try and make some sense out of the massive list of packages available.