The problem is not the Thai government, or the focus of the current riots. It is the type of person that rioting attracts - some of these are likely to be xenophobic psychopaths who would take the opportunity to assault any foreign looking bystanders. Lucky for westerners, most Thai xenophobes are probably focused on their immediate neighbours, especially the ones with significant economic migrants in Thailand - Laos, Cambodia, Burma, so westerners can usually stand around watching a riot unharmed, but I don't know if I'd take the chance.
In 1998 I was happily using a 100MHz laptop with a 200Mb hard drive and 32Mb RAM. In its day it was still a reasonably capable machine, though already a couple of years old at that point. I don't think it is 2 - 3 orders of magnitude slower than a modern PC either - maybe for certain applications like 3D graphics and video playback, but for everyday tasks using software of the day it was comparable to what I'm using today (bogged down by loads of mostly useless update and anti-malware tasks running in background).
When I was at University, one of my classmates gave me his password, as I was going to the computer lab and he wanted something printed out from his home directory. After finishing my work and his printout, I had some time to kill, so I wrote a script called ~/bin/passwd which asked him to insert his credit card into the floppy drive slot to authorize his request (~/bin was already at the front of his PATH, but I could have changed ~/.profile if necessary). He thought it was hilarious, and probably learnt something as a result, but if I'd been so inclined, I could have silently captured his password and had access to his account forever without his knowledge.
Android phones and (I believe) the iPhone can do everything this phone can do out-of-the-box, and more.
That's not really the point. If you buy an Android phone or iPhone, then your friends with the same phone will be constantly pointing out cool applications that offer more than what came out of the box. And to teenagers and some young adults, this starts to eat away at their self-esteem if they can't keep up. With a phone that doesn't offer the possibility for expansion, they have one less social pressure to worry about.
What if the users have a need to use authorized USB devices? It seems this is aimed at such cases, where approved devices can be filtered from the log.
One thing they could do short of a full on antitrust complaint, is ask a court to rule that certain terms in the developer contract constitute unreasonable restraint of trade.
Flash becoming the defacto standard for video was an accident. Even up to around 5 years ago, Macromedia had just started pushing Flash for interactive applications (which they lost to AJAX) after being a vector animation plugin for years, and video was just a small part of that. Given that most sites use prebuilt Flash apps for their video player, and the Flash player is given away, I don't know that its even made much revenue for them - its value is probably just the marketing effect of being able to point to Flash as being ubiquitous.
What app developers need to do is just what the parent has done. Just stick with Google's app store, and don't try to peddle their apps on other markets. This way, customers always come to one place, rather than check one store and not others.
How do you suggest I come to that one place when Google does not offer access to it from where I live, even for free apps? SlideMe is at least accessible to everyone (I can't speak for any of the others, as when I looked around SlideMe seemed to be the only alternative source with a decent range of apps and a decent cataloging system).
Java Web Start runs apps in a sandbox by default. To obtain extra priviledges, apps have to be signed and the user is presented with a confirmation dialog, the same as for Java applets.
The Java applet plugin has a documented parameter to specify the version of JVM to run, so including such a parameter in Java Web Start is unlikely to be a malicious back door. The workaround for both vulnerabilites is to uninstall old vulnerable JVMs from your system so they are not available to exploit.
An interesting tactic for companies affected by this would be to start pointing out the popular games and apps that break this condition and demand that Apple apply its T&Cs consistently and take them down. It would suck for the developers caught in the middle, but pretty soon Apple would start feeling the pain too - from the developer backlash, and from the loss of sales.
Android also has some serious downsides compared to the iPhone, chief among them being fragmentation of the platform - not all the apps work on all the handsets,
Apple's remaining advantage in that respect ended on Saturday. Now iDevelopers have to deal with different screen resolutions too, and they always had to deal with different feature sets if they wanted to work across the full range of iPhones, iPod Touch and now iPad.
The OP wasn't questioning the fact that Chernobyl was a disaster. They were questioning whether it is the largest, given that Hiroshima killed over 100,000 people and and levelled a good portion of the city.
Speaking of which, C now stands for Citigroup according to Google. Before, typing C in google would just get you a web page concerning the C programming language.
This symbolizes a shift in control at Google from the engineers to the beancounters. Doing evil will inevitably follow.
I don't know about the specific case of the person you know, but many cases of "bright" kids being bored at school are largely the fault of the parents pushing their kids outside of school to get ahead. It has become a real problem in Japan, where attending "juku" (after school lessons) has become normal for the middle classes, and kids are doing all their learning there and sleeping through classes or being disruptive in school. Its no fun for the kids to spend their whole lives studying, and it doesn't really help them get ahead as much as the parents would like to think.
I am sure there are Hungarian children doing just that every day.
In my experience, knowledge of grammar has no real purpose beyond rote learning until you try to learn a foreign language - then it becomes useful as a tool to relate concepts in the foreign language to the native languages that you already know. The same is true with maths - at the level where many of these concepts are taught, they have no meaning to students beyond the fact that they have to learn them to pass exams. It is not until they encounter more advanced maths later in life (which is a minority of students - those studying science and engineering subjects at University) that the knowledge of those concepts becomes useful.
And when I got to final year high school, I was the only person in the class (top class, academically selective school) who could still do long division.
I couldn't do long division until University. I have a vague recollection of a teacher trying to teach it once, but I could always find the answer without doing it, so I never learned. It wasn't until I encountered it as a step of solving (or maybe proving) some partial differentiation equations that I needed to learn how to do long division. I think that backs up your experience - long division was taught only very briefly as a step towards doing short division on larger numbers. Top maths students didn't really need it, as they could factor large numbers in their head and turn it into short division without having being taught the next step.
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The problem is not the Thai government, or the focus of the current riots. It is the type of person that rioting attracts - some of these are likely to be xenophobic psychopaths who would take the opportunity to assault any foreign looking bystanders. Lucky for westerners, most Thai xenophobes are probably focused on their immediate neighbours, especially the ones with significant economic migrants in Thailand - Laos, Cambodia, Burma, so westerners can usually stand around watching a riot unharmed, but I don't know if I'd take the chance.
In 1998 I was happily using a 100MHz laptop with a 200Mb hard drive and 32Mb RAM. In its day it was still a reasonably capable machine, though already a couple of years old at that point. I don't think it is 2 - 3 orders of magnitude slower than a modern PC either - maybe for certain applications like 3D graphics and video playback, but for everyday tasks using software of the day it was comparable to what I'm using today (bogged down by loads of mostly useless update and anti-malware tasks running in background).
When I was at University, one of my classmates gave me his password, as I was going to the computer lab and he wanted something printed out from his home directory. After finishing my work and his printout, I had some time to kill, so I wrote a script called ~/bin/passwd which asked him to insert his credit card into the floppy drive slot to authorize his request (~/bin was already at the front of his PATH, but I could have changed ~/.profile if necessary). He thought it was hilarious, and probably learnt something as a result, but if I'd been so inclined, I could have silently captured his password and had access to his account forever without his knowledge.
That's not really the point. If you buy an Android phone or iPhone, then your friends with the same phone will be constantly pointing out cool applications that offer more than what came out of the box. And to teenagers and some young adults, this starts to eat away at their self-esteem if they can't keep up. With a phone that doesn't offer the possibility for expansion, they have one less social pressure to worry about.
What if the users have a need to use authorized USB devices? It seems this is aimed at such cases, where approved devices can be filtered from the log.
One thing they could do short of a full on antitrust complaint, is ask a court to rule that certain terms in the developer contract constitute unreasonable restraint of trade.
Flash becoming the defacto standard for video was an accident. Even up to around 5 years ago, Macromedia had just started pushing Flash for interactive applications (which they lost to AJAX) after being a vector animation plugin for years, and video was just a small part of that. Given that most sites use prebuilt Flash apps for their video player, and the Flash player is given away, I don't know that its even made much revenue for them - its value is probably just the marketing effect of being able to point to Flash as being ubiquitous.
How long before the feedback loop fries his brain?
Of these, Greece, Ireland and Portugal are not on Googles list of 13 countries that can access paid apps on the App Store.
How do you suggest I come to that one place when Google does not offer access to it from where I live, even for free apps? SlideMe is at least accessible to everyone (I can't speak for any of the others, as when I looked around SlideMe seemed to be the only alternative source with a decent range of apps and a decent cataloging system).
Java Web Start runs apps in a sandbox by default. To obtain extra priviledges, apps have to be signed and the user is presented with a confirmation dialog, the same as for Java applets.
The Java applet plugin has a documented parameter to specify the version of JVM to run, so including such a parameter in Java Web Start is unlikely to be a malicious back door. The workaround for both vulnerabilites is to uninstall old vulnerable JVMs from your system so they are not available to exploit.
An interesting tactic for companies affected by this would be to start pointing out the popular games and apps that break this condition and demand that Apple apply its T&Cs consistently and take them down. It would suck for the developers caught in the middle, but pretty soon Apple would start feeling the pain too - from the developer backlash, and from the loss of sales.
Apple's remaining advantage in that respect ended on Saturday. Now iDevelopers have to deal with different screen resolutions too, and they always had to deal with different feature sets if they wanted to work across the full range of iPhones, iPod Touch and now iPad.
Actually, Wikipedia is wrong on the count. 1.5 million purple hearts were manufactured during WWII, 500k is what was left over at the end.
US intelligence already knew the end was near. They wanted to make sure the Japanese surrendered to them, and not the Russians.
The OP wasn't questioning the fact that Chernobyl was a disaster. They were questioning whether it is the largest, given that Hiroshima killed over 100,000 people and and levelled a good portion of the city.
This symbolizes a shift in control at Google from the engineers to the beancounters. Doing evil will inevitably follow.
Windows 7 also uses browser mode. It is just Gnome following the pack again.
Maybe she wants to share with her friends who don't have enough Energizers.
But the Duracell Bunny doesn't "keep going and going and ...", that's always been Energizer's catchphrase, bunny or idiotic bodybuilder.
You need to find some businesses that are not advertisers to complain about if you want your negative reviews to stick around.
I don't know about the specific case of the person you know, but many cases of "bright" kids being bored at school are largely the fault of the parents pushing their kids outside of school to get ahead. It has become a real problem in Japan, where attending "juku" (after school lessons) has become normal for the middle classes, and kids are doing all their learning there and sleeping through classes or being disruptive in school. Its no fun for the kids to spend their whole lives studying, and it doesn't really help them get ahead as much as the parents would like to think.
I am sure there are Hungarian children doing just that every day.
In my experience, knowledge of grammar has no real purpose beyond rote learning until you try to learn a foreign language - then it becomes useful as a tool to relate concepts in the foreign language to the native languages that you already know. The same is true with maths - at the level where many of these concepts are taught, they have no meaning to students beyond the fact that they have to learn them to pass exams. It is not until they encounter more advanced maths later in life (which is a minority of students - those studying science and engineering subjects at University) that the knowledge of those concepts becomes useful.
I couldn't do long division until University. I have a vague recollection of a teacher trying to teach it once, but I could always find the answer without doing it, so I never learned. It wasn't until I encountered it as a step of solving (or maybe proving) some partial differentiation equations that I needed to learn how to do long division. I think that backs up your experience - long division was taught only very briefly as a step towards doing short division on larger numbers. Top maths students didn't really need it, as they could factor large numbers in their head and turn it into short division without having being taught the next step.