I haven't seen too many posts about most of Asia other than Japan. Why not Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Seoul, Jakarta, KL, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Dubai, etc. All these places are cities, and they all have unique cultural identities with most things you would want. I have lived out here in various countries for about 3 years, and if you can get over the language barrier issues, most of Asia is a fantastic place to live.
Singapore is a great place to start as it is primarily English (although singlish) speaking country. Hong Kong is a major city with lots of culture and an enormous amount of English history. As for most other major cities in the region most things you would generally want are available and your average cost of living is fractional compared to the US.
Besides, 1/5 of the world is basically Chinese, and almost 65% of the population is in Asia Pacific, it might be good for people to take this view once in a while.
The DVD release date is 1 Aug 2006... Article is dated 1 Aug 2006... it's in the UK... Associated Newspapers UK (ANWS LN ) owns dailymail.co.uk... Parent company Daily Mail & General Trust... 39 major subsidiaries mostly in media... seems too much like viral marketing advertising to me...
Does this checking work the other way, in terms of the liability of the establishment?
Let's say Joe User goes to a bar, and the bartender feeds him drinks until he's blotto. He's out with friends and they can confirm he was at the bar. The bartender continues to pass him drinks even though he is well intoxicated, and in no condition to drive a vehicle.
He tells the bartender he's leaving, walks out of the bar into his car and drives himself into a delivery car filled with some valuable item. Destroying $2 million in goods and injuring the driver.
If the bar he was at has a record of patrons, and his ID was scanned into that list confirming his attendance at the bar, could either the victim of the accident, the driver, or owning company sue the bar for neglect and seize the records of the scanner? Thus potentially holding the establishment liable.
Or what happens if the driver sues the bar after the accident saying they never cut him off knowing he was too intoxicated, they say he wasn't in the bar, but the ID records prove that he was.
It would seem such records are more of a liablity to the establishment than a tool for collecting information.
For a couple of bucks you can subscribe to any number of adult entertainment sites.
After reading some of the comments in this thread, the/. news/$ ratio has fallen below that of the porn/$ ratio.
I'm better off paying for a nekked subscription, at least I won't have to listen to people complaining about how much things cost, or who gets the money.
By far the most appealing thing about computers at a young age for most kids was games. things like turtle in basic, even where in the world is carmen sandiego, was a big hit. Anything that might get kids involved in simple interaction with the computer. It dosen't have to be oriented to programing or anything in particular. Just getting them to hit keys, and move the mouse. I believe you have to mask the education with something they might have fun with.
I'd like to have one of these in geo-syncronous orbit directly over my house. I've been a HAM for 8 years. I think it would be neat to beam stuff to my satelite for storage and be able to retrieve info from it. It would be a great place to store your public key. Just point people to your satelite.
I am a tech guy working in new york, and the hours can be pretty ridiculous, 7am - 11pm+ has happened a number of days in a row. Aside from the financial benefit from working this much, and living in new york. I would like a enhanced concierge service provided by the company. To do things like walk my dog, bring it to the park, pick up laundry, grocery shopping etc. It may seem like i am asking for hotel like services, but aside from going out and finding these individual services, i would like someone to coordinate. That would make my life worlds easier.
In most financial firms, others as well. The data on the portable pc is exponentially worth more than the machine itself. Portfolio information, Analytics models, contact lists and other data property are very important, especially in the banking world. Things like EFS in windows 2000 work only on a small scale and are very difficult to manage and implement. Encryption like EFS encrypts the files on a per user basis. A key is generated along with a recovery agent (master key) that allows only the specific user to access the encrypted files. The problem, especially in espionage scenarios is that the recovery key, used in the event that the user's account becomes permanently deleted and other scenarios, becomes the single entry point into the entire company's data. In real world espionage scenarios, the attacker or data thief usually will be someone internal to the company who has such access to begin with. This may save users from having lost data in the event of a missing notebook, but the real threat to data loss comes from inside the organization.
One of the scenarios that is commonly used is the idea of self destructing data. Enter the password wrong 3 times in a row, and your notebook becomes useless, and data is wiped from the disk. Mirrored copies of the users data live on a server or on tape and can be restored relatively quickly. This presents a problem for the dial up user, but is a relatively safe way of implementing a process to prevent data loss. It becomes easier to implement with the advent of smartcards, where you keep the crypto certificate on the card instead of on the machine.
I got a great idea, why don't they give ME the 40 million and we can plan a destination "my apartment." I'll setup an obsticle course and give away fabulous prizes, like old chinese food, and that cup 'o yogurt that's been in the fridge for 6 months, it's got it's own space fungus. I've even got a vicious domesticated space dog that they can take pictures with. It'll be great.
I have had sony laptops for the past couple of years. My opinion has been that they are usually visually appealing, and have decent specifications. The problem is that they treat service of their devices the same as they would treat a television, or toaster oven. Their response to service calls is basically to run the recovery disk which overwrites the entire machine. Not to say that i'm the most proficient microsoft operating system user, but i can fix most problems when they arrise.
I wonder if this could be applied to dna strands on a molecular level. With the advent of genetic modification and genetic medicine, i would think the vendors of those type of products would want to brand their treatments in some way. It would ensure authenticity, and could potentially be used to watch the propogation of these gene therapies and their effects on procreated animals. I'd hate to see some genetic cure for cancer from vendor A show up as some heinous disease in the 5th generation of the treated individual's offspring.
We used to do this with radio transmitters and a home made dopler radar scanner. We would drive around within a 50 mile radius (we were using 2meter radio at the time) and try to find the target. what would be really neat, is if someone figured out how to build a cheapo beacon on some public radio band that beeped or squeaked. You could use gps to aproximate the location down to that 50 mile or so radius, then radio locate the can or stash or whatever you want to call it. I think that would be alot more fun.
I know internally most financial companies have around 1200 applications in the windows environment. This number is pretty consistent within the top 50 financial companies. I would say about 70 percent of these applications are written in house. The number of these that are in use is significantly smaller. I'd say about 100 of them are actively used, but they all have to be working and installable because they are so specialized. I don't know any of the numbers for OTC apps but i'd say a good 20000 - 30000 of that 70k number are accounted for this way.
That radio shack idea brought this up.
What if cd manufacturers were to issue a bar code scanner to everyone that bought cd's or who wanted one. They could provide a service similar to what cddb does that would issue you a certificate of ownership of that particular cd. This certificate would entitle you to download any/all forms or recordings of tracks on that album. It would also transfer the so called "listening rights" to the certificate and off the music itself. You could even provide online key storage as well as tracking. I don't think this would be that hard to code, and could easily eliminate alot of the licensing issues surrounding music purchase. Either you buy the cd online and they ship it to you, or you buy it in a store and make your own cert. It would be signed by the manufacurer so they can't say you didn't buy it, and would allow services such as napster to remain online indefinately. You could even use the cd player in your machine to get signatures off of the cd itself.
I dunno, just a thought.
Bullocks.
you can tell the difference between 100fps and 40fps. Try doing an offhand grapple from ceiling to ceiling tossing hundreds of rockets on a 30fps machine. It's impossible, you can't see the damn ground and you only get one or two frames of visible target. At 100 you can actually see the rolling heads and gut splatter.
that whole 30-60fps thing is for FMV where the images blend into each other. You can see more than that.
What happened to games like Metal Gear and Zelda, 2/3D overhead view that was more maze/puzzle. Those were the most time consuming things I had ever played. Speaking of puzzles, what about things like phantasmagoria, I haven't seen RPG/puzzlers in ages.
Tivo actually gives you a choice of numbers, you can choose a local carrier in your area, or you can have it dial the 800 number, which is toll free in the US.
RIM provides mobile email services in their Blackberry 957, which is pda sized and has a qwerty keyboard. I've never had any luck using the touch-screen based stuff (poor graffiti skill), and once you get used to the keyboard you can type info in relatively fast. as for web functionality, there are plenty of scraping utils out there like this one http://www.lanexperts.com/frobot.htm
also. http://www.rim.net
At what point in the history of America did we make the transition from lawyers and politicians being lawyers and politicians, to musicians and coorporate representatives being lawyers and politicians? Lars Ulrich is a musician, go back to being a musician. This whole damn thing is an abomination of the legal system. Someone needs to pop his head with a pin.
Does anyone know where i can download the actual code? I was thinking of shoveling it through my brand new C# compiler to see if anything interesting came out.
in short, by agreeing to "run" and "install" this application you are not permitted legally to reverse engineer it. same thing applied to the "ellison challenge" at comdex a year or so ago, users of sql are permitted to publish benchmarks without explicit permission from microsoft.
1. GRANT OF LICENSE. This EULA grants you the following rights: Applications Software. You may install, use, access, display, run, or otherwise interact with ("RUN") one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, or any prior version for the same operating system, on a single computer, workstation, terminal, handheld PC, pager, "smart phone," or other digital electronic device ("COMPUTER"). The primary user of the COMPUTER on which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is installed may make a second copy for his or her exclusive use on a portable computer.
Limitations on Reverse Engineering, Decompilation, and Disassembly. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation. Separation of Components. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed as a single product. Its component parts may not be separated for use on more than one COMPUTER.
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I haven't seen too many posts about most of Asia other than Japan. Why not Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Seoul, Jakarta, KL, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Dubai, etc. All these places are cities, and they all have unique cultural identities with most things you would want. I have lived out here in various countries for about 3 years, and if you can get over the language barrier issues, most of Asia is a fantastic place to live.
Singapore is a great place to start as it is primarily English (although singlish) speaking country. Hong Kong is a major city with lots of culture and an enormous amount of English history. As for most other major cities in the region most things you would generally want are available and your average cost of living is fractional compared to the US.
Besides, 1/5 of the world is basically Chinese, and almost 65% of the population is in Asia Pacific, it might be good for people to take this view once in a while.
The DVD release date is 1 Aug 2006... Article is dated 1 Aug 2006... it's in the UK... Associated Newspapers UK (ANWS LN ) owns dailymail.co.uk... Parent company Daily Mail & General Trust... 39 major subsidiaries mostly in media... seems too much like viral marketing advertising to me...
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He'd be defrauding investors by skewing data about the company indirectly, and be sued by the SEC.
Does this checking work the other way, in terms of the liability of the establishment?
Let's say Joe User goes to a bar, and the bartender feeds him drinks until he's blotto. He's out with friends and they can confirm he was at the bar. The bartender continues to pass him drinks even though he is well intoxicated, and in no condition to drive a vehicle.
He tells the bartender he's leaving, walks out of the bar into his car and drives himself into a delivery car filled with some valuable item. Destroying $2 million in goods and injuring the driver.
If the bar he was at has a record of patrons, and his ID was scanned into that list confirming his attendance at the bar, could either the victim of the accident, the driver, or owning company sue the bar for neglect and seize the records of the scanner? Thus potentially holding the establishment liable.
Or what happens if the driver sues the bar after the accident saying they never cut him off knowing he was too intoxicated, they say he wasn't in the bar, but the ID records prove that he was.
It would seem such records are more of a liablity to the establishment than a tool for collecting information.
2 cents.
For a couple of bucks you can subscribe to any number of adult entertainment sites.
/. news/$ ratio has fallen below that of the porn/$ ratio.
After reading some of the comments in this thread, the
I'm better off paying for a nekked subscription, at least I won't have to listen to people complaining about how much things cost, or who gets the money.
By far the most appealing thing about computers at a young age for most kids was games. things like turtle in basic, even where in the world is carmen sandiego, was a big hit. Anything that might get kids involved in simple interaction with the computer. It dosen't have to be oriented to programing or anything in particular. Just getting them to hit keys, and move the mouse. I believe you have to mask the education with something they might have fun with.
I'd like to have one of these in geo-syncronous orbit directly over my house. I've been a HAM for 8 years. I think it would be neat to beam stuff to my satelite for storage and be able to retrieve info from it. It would be a great place to store your public key. Just point people to your satelite.
I am a tech guy working in new york, and the hours can be pretty ridiculous, 7am - 11pm+ has happened a number of days in a row. Aside from the financial benefit from working this much, and living in new york. I would like a enhanced concierge service provided by the company. To do things like walk my dog, bring it to the park, pick up laundry, grocery shopping etc. It may seem like i am asking for hotel like services, but aside from going out and finding these individual services, i would like someone to coordinate. That would make my life worlds easier.
In most financial firms, others as well. The data on the portable pc is exponentially worth more than the machine itself. Portfolio information, Analytics models, contact lists and other data property are very important, especially in the banking world. Things like EFS in windows 2000 work only on a small scale and are very difficult to manage and implement. Encryption like EFS encrypts the files on a per user basis. A key is generated along with a recovery agent (master key) that allows only the specific user to access the encrypted files. The problem, especially in espionage scenarios is that the recovery key, used in the event that the user's account becomes permanently deleted and other scenarios, becomes the single entry point into the entire company's data. In real world espionage scenarios, the attacker or data thief usually will be someone internal to the company who has such access to begin with. This may save users from having lost data in the event of a missing notebook, but the real threat to data loss comes from inside the organization.
One of the scenarios that is commonly used is the idea of self destructing data. Enter the password wrong 3 times in a row, and your notebook becomes useless, and data is wiped from the disk. Mirrored copies of the users data live on a server or on tape and can be restored relatively quickly. This presents a problem for the dial up user, but is a relatively safe way of implementing a process to prevent data loss. It becomes easier to implement with the advent of smartcards, where you keep the crypto certificate on the card instead of on the machine.
-Not even 2 bits.
I got a great idea, why don't they give ME the 40 million and we can plan a destination "my apartment." I'll setup an obsticle course and give away fabulous prizes, like old chinese food, and that cup 'o yogurt that's been in the fridge for 6 months, it's got it's own space fungus. I've even got a vicious domesticated space dog that they can take pictures with. It'll be great.
I have had sony laptops for the past couple of years. My opinion has been that they are usually visually appealing, and have decent specifications. The problem is that they treat service of their devices the same as they would treat a television, or toaster oven. Their response to service calls is basically to run the recovery disk which overwrites the entire machine. Not to say that i'm the most proficient microsoft operating system user, but i can fix most problems when they arrise.
I wonder if this could be applied to dna strands on a molecular level. With the advent of genetic modification and genetic medicine, i would think the vendors of those type of products would want to brand their treatments in some way. It would ensure authenticity, and could potentially be used to watch the propogation of these gene therapies and their effects on procreated animals. I'd hate to see some genetic cure for cancer from vendor A show up as some heinous disease in the 5th generation of the treated individual's offspring.
We used to do this with radio transmitters and a home made dopler radar scanner. We would drive around within a 50 mile radius (we were using 2meter radio at the time) and try to find the target. what would be really neat, is if someone figured out how to build a cheapo beacon on some public radio band that beeped or squeaked. You could use gps to aproximate the location down to that 50 mile or so radius, then radio locate the can or stash or whatever you want to call it. I think that would be alot more fun.
I know internally most financial companies have around 1200 applications in the windows environment. This number is pretty consistent within the top 50 financial companies. I would say about 70 percent of these applications are written in house. The number of these that are in use is significantly smaller. I'd say about 100 of them are actively used, but they all have to be working and installable because they are so specialized. I don't know any of the numbers for OTC apps but i'd say a good 20000 - 30000 of that 70k number are accounted for this way.
That radio shack idea brought this up.
What if cd manufacturers were to issue a bar code scanner to everyone that bought cd's or who wanted one. They could provide a service similar to what cddb does that would issue you a certificate of ownership of that particular cd. This certificate would entitle you to download any/all forms or recordings of tracks on that album. It would also transfer the so called "listening rights" to the certificate and off the music itself. You could even provide online key storage as well as tracking. I don't think this would be that hard to code, and could easily eliminate alot of the licensing issues surrounding music purchase. Either you buy the cd online and they ship it to you, or you buy it in a store and make your own cert. It would be signed by the manufacurer so they can't say you didn't buy it, and would allow services such as napster to remain online indefinately. You could even use the cd player in your machine to get signatures off of the cd itself.
I dunno, just a thought.
-Inetd
Bullocks.
you can tell the difference between 100fps and 40fps. Try doing an offhand grapple from ceiling to ceiling tossing hundreds of rockets on a 30fps machine. It's impossible, you can't see the damn ground and you only get one or two frames of visible target. At 100 you can actually see the rolling heads and gut splatter.
that whole 30-60fps thing is for FMV where the images blend into each other. You can see more than that.
What happened to games like Metal Gear and Zelda, 2/3D overhead view that was more maze/puzzle. Those were the most time consuming things I had ever played. Speaking of puzzles, what about things like phantasmagoria, I haven't seen RPG/puzzlers in ages.
Tivo actually gives you a choice of numbers, you can choose a local carrier in your area, or you can have it dial the 800 number, which is toll free in the US.
Episode 2: Lucas Is getting Fatter.
RIM provides mobile email services in their Blackberry 957, which is pda sized and has a qwerty keyboard. I've never had any luck using the touch-screen based stuff (poor graffiti skill), and once you get used to the keyboard you can type info in relatively fast. as for web functionality, there are plenty of scraping utils out there like this one http://www.lanexperts.com/frobot.htm
also. http://www.rim.net
At what point in the history of America did we make the transition from lawyers and politicians being lawyers and politicians, to musicians and coorporate representatives being lawyers and politicians? Lars Ulrich is a musician, go back to being a musician. This whole damn thing is an abomination of the legal system. Someone needs to pop his head with a pin.
This is VERY stale info. The megacar came out ~3 or so years ago. around the time of sun's javacar.
the damn thing uses CDPD for christ's sake
Does anyone know where i can download the actual code?
I was thinking of shoveling it through my brand new C# compiler to see if anything interesting came out.
in short, by agreeing to "run" and "install" this application you are not permitted legally to reverse engineer it.
same thing applied to the "ellison challenge" at comdex a year or so ago, users of sql are permitted to publish benchmarks without explicit permission from microsoft.
1. GRANT OF LICENSE. This EULA grants you the following rights:
Applications Software. You may install, use, access, display, run, or otherwise interact with
("RUN") one copy of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, or any prior version for the same operating system,
on a single computer, workstation, terminal, handheld PC, pager, "smart phone," or other digital
electronic device ("COMPUTER"). The primary user of the COMPUTER on which the SOFTWARE PRODUCT
is installed may make a second copy for his or her exclusive use on a portable computer.
Limitations on Reverse Engineering, Decompilation, and Disassembly. You may not reverse
engineer, decompile, or disassemble the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, except and only to the extent that
such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
Separation of Components. The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed as a single product. Its
component parts may not be separated for use on more than one COMPUTER.