I've seen this happen numerous times in a company I worked at. Graphic design, like programming, is one of those fields where management vastly underestimates the time it will take to "knock something up for this presentation I'm doing first thing tomorrow". Graphic designers, like programmers, seem to just knuckle down and do it without complaint, time and time again, which just validates the manager's misconceptions. Unlike programmers though, graphic designers are dependant on external companies for the final stage of their output, luckily the print shops understand the pressure the designers are under and keep hours to suit. Officially the print shop our designer used had to get jobs in by 6pm to have them done the following night, but I know there were cases where the job wasn't ready until 8pm, but they still got it through as long as they got advance warning that there was an urgent job on its way.
You can't "opt-out" of the protections offered by the Data Protection Act. Clauses like that aren't worth the pixels they're written on, especially without a wet ink signature.
However, they have UK operations and these operations will fall under UK law.
Even if they didn't have UK operations, if they collect the data of people located in the UK they still fall under the UK's privacy laws. Otherwise UK companies could just offshore their data collection. Although its rather theoretical, since the privacy laws aren't really enforced strongly, you could end up with a situation similar to the Dmitry Skylorov DCMA case, where an executive of Google could be arrested while visiting the UK for breach of the data privacy act that their company has conducted in the US.
Pure dB measures the amplitude of sound waves. Relative dB levels are often used to measure gain.
And FYI, 84dB is (grosso modo) 2'3 times 80dB, so it's too much of a efficiency difference for a passive (no gain) speaker.
Not at all. Your average pair of cheap in-ear headphones produces around 95dB at 1W input power measured from 1m (this is the standard way of measuring speaker efficiency, though most cheap buds won't handle a watt of input, so they must extrapolate). A good pair of DJing cans will produce around 105-110dB under the same conditions (and max out at about 2W). Your average home stereo speakers are more like 80-85dB, but can handle 50W or more of input power. So there is a huge difference in the efficiency of passive speakers, partly due to the light weight and relatively low input power that headphones have to handle, and varying according to how much the manufacturer has spent on design and materials, and whether they are willing to sacrifice some sound quality for better efficiency (as with concert speakers).
I think a lot of people would gladly pay a small monthly fee if it was an option. I know in my younger years I was easily spending upwards of $100 per month on CDs, so it would have been an excellent deal to me then. Sadly, I don't think that is what Warner Bros mean. I suspect they want to levy a compulsory charge on all internet connections.
step 4. company such as Google kicks their asses by offering free, unrestricted wifi in every major city around the world
Can you see why regulation is necessary here? If companies like Google are allowed to cherrypick the most profitable customers, where does this leave the telcos? Do they seek approval to drastically raise prices to their remaining unprofitable customers, or does the government hold them to current regulations, sending them bankrupt and leaving those customers without any means of communication?
It would be interesting to repeat the search using the equivalent Traditional Chinese characters in place of the Simplified Chinese used on the Mainland. I wonder if you might get different results then?
I did notice that if you change the hl=zh-CN in the URL to hl=en, you get redirected to the full google.com search, I wonder if it works that way inside the Great Firewall as well?
Keep in mind that, for most people with firewalled email servers, a device like this is the only way that they can have remote access to their e-mail, if their sysadmin supports it.
If the company/sysadmin is happy to send its mail out through a third party's servers using a proprietary blackbox inside their internal network to leap the firewall, but won't open port 993 for an industry standard secure mail protocol, then someone has needs their head read.
I simply don't know anyone who has one: surprising, considering I have some pretty geeky friends, and I work with bunch of programmers.
The blackberry isn't really aimed at your average geeky programmer. It's more for your corporate suit types. Programmers are more likely to roll their own solution to email on the move using a POP/IMAP client or Java midlet on their PDA/phone and some procmail scripts to filter it down to what they're really interested in.
There's also madwifi for Atheros chipsets, which includes a couple of Belkin models (though manufacturers switch chipsets all the time, sometimes without even changing model numbers - eg the D-link DWL-650, which may be Prism or TI ATX100 depending on when it was manufactured).
The event is genuine. There's a press release from the company itself (in Japanese) here.
Here is Google's not particularly good Japanese (BETA) translation:
By the error order of this corporation stock which is by the Mizuho bond December 8th of 2005, this corporation shareholder * investor and the security market have caused confusion concerning the case to which, as this corporation to everyone of the shareholder * investor thinking very much, regrettably the ? it increases. At this corporation, we receive apology from the Mizuho bond in the same day and night moment. In addition, after the last night, the same company and From Tokyo stock exchange, on occasion, we receive communication such as situation report, but as the contents are reported and the been is. In addition, stock of this corporation has become at this day buying and selling stop, but this makes the market system stabilize For the sake of Tokyo stock exchange to be the measure which is decided concerning buying and selling this day, unintentionally in buying and selling the after the Monday The considering future circumstance, the schedule which it decides is with has received communication, from the same place. In the first value formation process of yesterday, violent fluctuations of this corporation stock price, furthermore very you have been perplexed concerning exerting influence security market to the whole and by the error order which is by the Mizuho bond. Especially appraisal receiving this corporation from before the presentation day, in everyone of the shareholder who has received the application of stock confronting The ? can't help be regrettable, first value of this corporation shape partly due to the fact that it is formed in the form which opposes to the mind of the market. In order in the future, stock price of this corporation early to stabilize in the security market, to be appraised legitimately, the place where it keeps striving to official * being employed member all business it is existence. Furthermore, circulation stocks of this corporation are 3,000 stocks, rewriting the share-holder's list the above that is impossible, it is not something which produces what effect densely the empty, concerning the right of administration of this corporation. In addition, we have entrusted to Tokyo stock exchange circulation stocks from here concerning the correspondence to buying and selling the stock above. December 9th of 2005 Yasushi Okamoto J-Com corporation Chief Executive Officer
In fact if you start digging, Jupiter Communications (J:COM) has been listed on JASDAQ for some time, so if it was listing on TSE, it would be a transfer between exchanges, not an IPO. CNN and Reuters really need to check their urban myths a bit better before running with them.
Imagine a version of Windows with no notepad, wordpad, IE, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, screensaver, network browser, task manager, disk defragmenter, TCP stack, Instant Messenger, backup tool, cd player, email client, remote desktop, scripting tool, command prompt or shell.
Those I can live with. But please don't tell me they'll stop including SOLITAIRE?!!!
The PNG example isn't really anything to do with AJAX. It is just a case of proper use of the "If-Modified-Since" header. But you're right in general, a well designed AJAX app should cause less server load for a traditional page-by-page app with the same functionality. It is only the extra functionality that is not available without AJAX that should be adding any load.
But what alphabet would you use? Who the hell is going to use this domain anyway? Each country has its own domain already, and its not like there's an Asian Union of cooperating states. It looks pretty patronizing to me to suggest this as a solution to anything.
I tried Festoon back when it was vSkype (I guess Skype made them change their name when they decided to do video themselves). It looked OK, but didn't support my video camera as the input device. Spontania did support it, so I set my parents in law up with that and a webcam so they can see their grandchild as I follow him around the room with the camcorder. It would be nice to have an integrated solution as we sometimes have difficulties with spontania not picking up the call from skype, which means 10 minutes of trying to talk my in-laws through the steps of manually getting them connected before we can get down to business.
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Yet the whole point of the GPL is to allow users of software the freedom to modify it as they wish.
You mean they avoid paying for the telephone companies' lines by not using them! The cheek of it!
I meant overnight, or the following morning.
I've seen this happen numerous times in a company I worked at. Graphic design, like programming, is one of those fields where management vastly underestimates the time it will take to "knock something up for this presentation I'm doing first thing tomorrow". Graphic designers, like programmers, seem to just knuckle down and do it without complaint, time and time again, which just validates the manager's misconceptions. Unlike programmers though, graphic designers are dependant on external companies for the final stage of their output, luckily the print shops understand the pressure the designers are under and keep hours to suit. Officially the print shop our designer used had to get jobs in by 6pm to have them done the following night, but I know there were cases where the job wasn't ready until 8pm, but they still got it through as long as they got advance warning that there was an urgent job on its way.
You can't "opt-out" of the protections offered by the Data Protection Act. Clauses like that aren't worth the pixels they're written on, especially without a wet ink signature.
Even if they didn't have UK operations, if they collect the data of people located in the UK they still fall under the UK's privacy laws. Otherwise UK companies could just offshore their data collection. Although its rather theoretical, since the privacy laws aren't really enforced strongly, you could end up with a situation similar to the Dmitry Skylorov DCMA case, where an executive of Google could be arrested while visiting the UK for breach of the data privacy act that their company has conducted in the US.
And FYI, 84dB is (grosso modo) 2'3 times 80dB, so it's too much of a efficiency difference for a passive (no gain) speaker.
Not at all. Your average pair of cheap in-ear headphones produces around 95dB at 1W input power measured from 1m (this is the standard way of measuring speaker efficiency, though most cheap buds won't handle a watt of input, so they must extrapolate). A good pair of DJing cans will produce around 105-110dB under the same conditions (and max out at about 2W). Your average home stereo speakers are more like 80-85dB, but can handle 50W or more of input power. So there is a huge difference in the efficiency of passive speakers, partly due to the light weight and relatively low input power that headphones have to handle, and varying according to how much the manufacturer has spent on design and materials, and whether they are willing to sacrifice some sound quality for better efficiency (as with concert speakers).
I think a lot of people would gladly pay a small monthly fee if it was an option. I know in my younger years I was easily spending upwards of $100 per month on CDs, so it would have been an excellent deal to me then. Sadly, I don't think that is what Warner Bros mean. I suspect they want to levy a compulsory charge on all internet connections.
Can you see why regulation is necessary here? If companies like Google are allowed to cherrypick the most profitable customers, where does this leave the telcos? Do they seek approval to drastically raise prices to their remaining unprofitable customers, or does the government hold them to current regulations, sending them bankrupt and leaving those customers without any means of communication?
I did notice that if you change the hl=zh-CN in the URL to hl=en, you get redirected to the full google.com search, I wonder if it works that way inside the Great Firewall as well?
If the company/sysadmin is happy to send its mail out through a third party's servers using a proprietary blackbox inside their internal network to leap the firewall, but won't open port 993 for an industry standard secure mail protocol, then someone has needs their head read.
The blackberry isn't really aimed at your average geeky programmer. It's more for your corporate suit types. Programmers are more likely to roll their own solution to email on the move using a POP/IMAP client or Java midlet on their PDA/phone and some procmail scripts to filter it down to what they're really interested in.
There's also madwifi for Atheros chipsets, which includes a couple of Belkin models (though manufacturers switch chipsets all the time, sometimes without even changing model numbers - eg the D-link DWL-650, which may be Prism or TI ATX100 depending on when it was manufactured).
Here is Google's not particularly good Japanese (BETA) translation:
Scrap that. The IPO was real: http://www.tokyoipo.com/top/en/index.php?id=pre&se qid=1504
In fact if you start digging, Jupiter Communications (J:COM) has been listed on JASDAQ for some time, so if it was listing on TSE, it would be a transfer between exchanges, not an IPO. CNN and Reuters really need to check their urban myths a bit better before running with them.
Those I can live with. But please don't tell me they'll stop including SOLITAIRE?!!!
Is that supposed to be an argument for, or against?
In the real world, who cares about Opera and Safari users? The real world where until about 3 months ago, few people even cared about Firefox users.
The PNG example isn't really anything to do with AJAX. It is just a case of proper use of the "If-Modified-Since" header. But you're right in general, a well designed AJAX app should cause less server load for a traditional page-by-page app with the same functionality. It is only the extra functionality that is not available without AJAX that should be adding any load.
... or even a wallaby?
It looked like an oppossum to me (Australian marsupial), apart from the coloring.
Great idea! Then we can give .com back to its rightful owners; the communists.
But what alphabet would you use? Who the hell is going to use this domain anyway? Each country has its own domain already, and its not like there's an Asian Union of cooperating states. It looks pretty patronizing to me to suggest this as a solution to anything.
I was under the impression when I first read that press release he was trying out vSkype (now Festoon).
I tried Festoon back when it was vSkype (I guess Skype made them change their name when they decided to do video themselves). It looked OK, but didn't support my video camera as the input device. Spontania did support it, so I set my parents in law up with that and a webcam so they can see their grandchild as I follow him around the room with the camcorder. It would be nice to have an integrated solution as we sometimes have difficulties with spontania not picking up the call from skype, which means 10 minutes of trying to talk my in-laws through the steps of manually getting them connected before we can get down to business.