to Europe is obviously more expensive than shipping to Japan or the US(largely because there isn't really a direct sea route)
If only the Egyptians would dig a canal through the narrow strip from Port Said to Suez we could avoid the "'ere be dragons" areas south of Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope.
Good analogy. Except your car is a concrete mixer, and the flooding started when you ran into the dam with it. And now you're standing on the other side with your concrete mixer watching the developing world try to plug the leaks in the dam with mud and saying "fuck you, I got to the other side".
That would be the security model where apps can be given permissions to access certain areas of the sandbox by signing them with an authorized key. Now where have I seen that before?
Adobe needs Flash on iPhone to defend their marketing strategy. They have always pushed Flash by quoting over 90% desktop penetration, which as far as I can tell has always been a figure they just pulled out from where the sun doesn't shine. Then they started making inroads into mobile, and started quoting figures like 80% penetration in the mobile market for current models. This worked, because noone could really counter it - a quick survey of the mobile phone market a couple of years back would show that while there were many phones available without Flash, none of them had a significant enough market share to counter Abobe's claims. Now the iPhone comes along, and clearly does have a significant market share as a counter to Adobe's imaginary market share figures. And its success will convince other manufacturers that licensing the Flash runtime isn't really necessary. Flash is on the way out anyway with HTML5 and more standard Javascript behaviour across browsers, but the iPhone might accelerate that process by pushing developers to HTML5 sooner rather than later.
The law itself prevents police from stopping someone simply because they look different. They can only question you about your immigration status if they've stopped you for something else first.
The same is true of Japanese law, but we have one post stating "people in some areas report", and one account of first hand experience in this thread that show that such restrictions on the police are meaningless in reality.
Some areas have lots of people who report being checked for absolutely no apparent reason at all;
Cite please. While Japanese law requires foreigners to carry around ID proving their immigration status, it also prevents police from stopping people purely for the purpose of checking their ID.
Really? My drivers license says nothing about my citizenship - though it does contain a three letter country code in the notes section on the back which gives away the country where I first obtained a license to drive.
Did Motorola make Windows Mobile phones before they started making Android phones? I don't recall any. Lawsuits from Microsoft often seem to be used as punishment for companies that switch away from Microsoft, and a deterrent for others considering the switch.
Google Buzz seems to be aimed at Facebook status updates. Wave is more of a collaboration platform. But to get a critical mass to move across, you'd have to move all the pointless timewasting data collect^H^H^H^H^H games there too, so it would fairly quickly end up as bad as facebook.
If someone goes from your University to China, they most likely go to Beijing or Shanghai. The cost of living varies a lot within China. And judging by the fact that the allowance for Singapore is higher than the US, that subsistence allowance must have to cover accommodation as well as other living expenses, which in Beijing and Shanghai will make up the bulk of your expenses.
The $.52 is meaningless; how much does an apartment cost? What is the price of food?
Zero. The workers live in dormitories supplied by the employer, and eat three meals a day for free in the staff canteen (except maybe lunch on their day off if they head into town). But it doesn't make as shocking a headline if this is taken into account.
In the factory where I work, the lights are turned out, even for the shorter 10 minute breaks. By the looks of this photo, they don't have the lines segregated, so there are people in the same room working while these ones are power napping on their break.
'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions. 'I also need to worry about getting married, which requires a lot of money. Therefore'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions., I stil l push myself to continue working in spite of my exhaustion.
Now this is typical and very believeable of chinese 'shops. Again, actual statement or made up?
Then again, how many Western factory workers do you know who make enough money to support their pensionless parents?
It's likely that he's going to be terminated (from his employment, not physically)
It could happen to anybody. If it happened to Steve Jobs, would anyone expect him to be terminated? So why someone lower down the chain? Who approved him to have the device off premises? Maybe they are the ones whose neck should be on the line?
although multitasking was certainly there in Win9x, it was notoriously unstable.
There was never a problem multitasking Win32 apps, though in the early days of Windows 95, many users were still using a lot of Win16 and DOS apps, which shared the same 16 bit VM and didn't multitask any better than they had on Windows 3.11. But I was talking about Windows NT 3.1 when I said they had been multitasking properly for a couple of years already by the mid-1990s.
Mid-90's? By then Windows had been doing proper multitasking for a couple of years, while Mac programmers were still adding yeild() calls to give the illusion that their applications could multitask alongside others.
And I can imagine that the Chinese law is perhaps not up to the same standards as the US law, let alone th European law.
I don't know specifically about China (but given the socialist background, I could imagine the labour laws there might surprise some Americans), but many developing countries do in theory have just as high standards in their Labour laws as Western countries, the real problem is enforcement, and the fact that corruption favours rich corporations over poor individuals.
Most of the factory workers are migrant workers from more rural parts of China. They have no connections in the cities they work in outside of the people they work with, and no reason to want to do anything other than make more money quicker so they can spend less of their life working in factories before they take their savings back to their villages for a better quality of life.
but where exactly can you get a hotel room with three meals a day for less than $5?
Probably most of Asia and Africa, and maybe parts of South America. For some definition of hotel room, which admittedly may not be somewhere where you personally would choose to stay.
$0.50 for a bowl of rice???!!! Where I am in SE Asia, the average income for factory workers is about double what it is in China, judging by the rest of the comments here, and I can get a pretty good meal for about $0.80. A bowl of rice from our staff cafeteria is a little under $0.20.
I've traveled enough to know to leave the rose tinted spectacles at home. Scum exist wherever you go in the world, and when theres riots happening, they gravitate.
In all my years of use I've never heard of an Windows NT 3.51 emulator for OS/2. It hasn't been until lately(last 3 or 4 years) with virtual machines that you could run any 32 bit Windows software on OS/2.
There was a Win32s implementation that ran on OS/2's Windows 3.1 emulator, but it was several months behind the current version from Microsoft, which is what all of the interesting applications of the day without OS/2 equivalents required (NCSA Mosaic, and later, beta versions of Netscape up until IBM WebExplorer was released to remove the need to run Windows for web browsing).
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If only the Egyptians would dig a canal through the narrow strip from Port Said to Suez we could avoid the "'ere be dragons" areas south of Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope.
Good analogy. Except your car is a concrete mixer, and the flooding started when you ran into the dam with it. And now you're standing on the other side with your concrete mixer watching the developing world try to plug the leaks in the dam with mud and saying "fuck you, I got to the other side".
And who is going to hold Cuccinelli to account for his abuse of taxpayers money to take out lawsuits against science?
That would be the security model where apps can be given permissions to access certain areas of the sandbox by signing them with an authorized key. Now where have I seen that before?
Adobe needs Flash on iPhone to defend their marketing strategy. They have always pushed Flash by quoting over 90% desktop penetration, which as far as I can tell has always been a figure they just pulled out from where the sun doesn't shine. Then they started making inroads into mobile, and started quoting figures like 80% penetration in the mobile market for current models. This worked, because noone could really counter it - a quick survey of the mobile phone market a couple of years back would show that while there were many phones available without Flash, none of them had a significant enough market share to counter Abobe's claims. Now the iPhone comes along, and clearly does have a significant market share as a counter to Adobe's imaginary market share figures. And its success will convince other manufacturers that licensing the Flash runtime isn't really necessary. Flash is on the way out anyway with HTML5 and more standard Javascript behaviour across browsers, but the iPhone might accelerate that process by pushing developers to HTML5 sooner rather than later.
The same is true of Japanese law, but we have one post stating "people in some areas report", and one account of first hand experience in this thread that show that such restrictions on the police are meaningless in reality.
Cite please. While Japanese law requires foreigners to carry around ID proving their immigration status, it also prevents police from stopping people purely for the purpose of checking their ID.
Really? My drivers license says nothing about my citizenship - though it does contain a three letter country code in the notes section on the back which gives away the country where I first obtained a license to drive.
Did Motorola make Windows Mobile phones before they started making Android phones? I don't recall any. Lawsuits from Microsoft often seem to be used as punishment for companies that switch away from Microsoft, and a deterrent for others considering the switch.
Google Buzz seems to be aimed at Facebook status updates. Wave is more of a collaboration platform. But to get a critical mass to move across, you'd have to move all the pointless timewasting data collect^H^H^H^H^H games there too, so it would fairly quickly end up as bad as facebook.
If someone goes from your University to China, they most likely go to Beijing or Shanghai. The cost of living varies a lot within China. And judging by the fact that the allowance for Singapore is higher than the US, that subsistence allowance must have to cover accommodation as well as other living expenses, which in Beijing and Shanghai will make up the bulk of your expenses.
Zero. The workers live in dormitories supplied by the employer, and eat three meals a day for free in the staff canteen (except maybe lunch on their day off if they head into town). But it doesn't make as shocking a headline if this is taken into account.
In the factory where I work, the lights are turned out, even for the shorter 10 minute breaks. By the looks of this photo, they don't have the lines segregated, so there are people in the same room working while these ones are power napping on their break.
Then again, how many Western factory workers do you know who make enough money to support their pensionless parents?
It could happen to anybody. If it happened to Steve Jobs, would anyone expect him to be terminated? So why someone lower down the chain? Who approved him to have the device off premises? Maybe they are the ones whose neck should be on the line?
That can be solved by installing CUPS on a server and using it as an intermediary between the clients and the printers.
CUPS also supports service discovery through avahi/bonjour, which is important for the "any printer anywhere" part.
There was never a problem multitasking Win32 apps, though in the early days of Windows 95, many users were still using a lot of Win16 and DOS apps, which shared the same 16 bit VM and didn't multitask any better than they had on Windows 3.11. But I was talking about Windows NT 3.1 when I said they had been multitasking properly for a couple of years already by the mid-1990s.
Mid-90's? By then Windows had been doing proper multitasking for a couple of years, while Mac programmers were still adding yeild() calls to give the illusion that their applications could multitask alongside others.
I don't know specifically about China (but given the socialist background, I could imagine the labour laws there might surprise some Americans), but many developing countries do in theory have just as high standards in their Labour laws as Western countries, the real problem is enforcement, and the fact that corruption favours rich corporations over poor individuals.
Most of the factory workers are migrant workers from more rural parts of China. They have no connections in the cities they work in outside of the people they work with, and no reason to want to do anything other than make more money quicker so they can spend less of their life working in factories before they take their savings back to their villages for a better quality of life.
Probably most of Asia and Africa, and maybe parts of South America. For some definition of hotel room, which admittedly may not be somewhere where you personally would choose to stay.
$0.50 for a bowl of rice???!!! Where I am in SE Asia, the average income for factory workers is about double what it is in China, judging by the rest of the comments here, and I can get a pretty good meal for about $0.80. A bowl of rice from our staff cafeteria is a little under $0.20.
I've traveled enough to know to leave the rose tinted spectacles at home. Scum exist wherever you go in the world, and when theres riots happening, they gravitate.
There was a Win32s implementation that ran on OS/2's Windows 3.1 emulator, but it was several months behind the current version from Microsoft, which is what all of the interesting applications of the day without OS/2 equivalents required (NCSA Mosaic, and later, beta versions of Netscape up until IBM WebExplorer was released to remove the need to run Windows for web browsing).