In India, the mobile phone companies have an upper ceiling on the bill you can rack up (even on post-paid connections). This limit is like your credit limit - it is set based on how regular you were with your payments, etc. and is dynamically upgraded if the system sees you are consistently calling at higher rates (your monthly bill has details of what your "call limit" is).
Once you *near* your limit, you get an SMS asking you to pre-pay some money to the company, before you are allowed to make more calls. If you hit your call-limit, your outgoing calls will be automatically barred. If you do pay the amount, based on certain heuristics, the aforementioned upgrading of your call limit takes place.
I'm surprised that this system is not in place elsewhere. I think at the end of the day, it is the collection agencies that make a killing off this system, I am not ready to believe with all the legal and support personnel who must be spending time on issues like this, the phone companies make money on this, not to mention the bad press
To help both keyboard and mouse positioning, I use the Imak SmartGlove. I play games with it as well.
At first, I did not feel too much of a difference, but now I feel uncomfortable if I use the keyboard and mouse without them. I think it really helps.
I bought the Matsunichi Photoblitz 7'' photoframe with 1GB sd card for 80 bucks in total (from amazon). Works very well. It does not have any networking protocol, but I consider it a plus - keeps the price down. Since memory cards are so cheap, might as well pop for a couple more and get it done with.
The (slashdot) article content is incorrect. there is no restricted access to turmeric (and its derived anti-cancer products) for Indians. Even the original article mentions "had it been enforced"
All linux needs for wider acceptance is seamless WoW and iTunes - that's all. Everything else is secondary. Think of the user base that uses their computers for WoW and iTunes exclsively.
You dont need pre-installed linux, just a better installer.
What I think would be best is to have a wine-linked release of the Game built on the same Win32 codebase. It would be even better if they could release the patches back into the Wine source tree so as to benefit all future development.
World of Warcraft runs beautifully on Cedega - I wonder how much effort is it really to release a Wine-linked app.
People who come to the US to study, get advanced degrees and stay back in the US to work as highly skilled and specialised engineers/doctors/scientists.
The ones who work in the BPO sector or the IT sector are basic code monkeys.
Those who do make it into all those MS/Ph.D programmes are genuinely skilled - cutting them out will only ensure that R&D programmes experience a shortfall. And that one-advance-in-AI-to-make-outsourcing-redundant, that becomes so much further off.
IS it just me, or does this approach sound very similar to VLIW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLIW) architecture. The problem is that the branch prediction needs to be very accurate, for any kind of performance boost. Which is why these types of architecture lend very well to sequences of operations that are very similar (video processing, etc.). Will this work just as well in the general-computing sphere? No idea.
This is obviously the first step by google towards integration of search and the personal interaction space. How long before our contact lists in gmail are moved to orkut and into a messenger?
I agree. The ability to exercise a right of expression on cyberspace, regardless of whether that right was bought or simply given away,is more fundamental than creation of channels of expression. Free software is important, very very important. However at this moment in history, we are dealing with corporate entities trying to stifle the right to innovate and crucify open expression(remember Prof. Felten??) Hats off to EFF... and to FSF
John Walker writes more like an ivory tower recluse rather than a man living in social realities. Constitutional right to rpivacy does not exist - well it does, in a sublime way.
1. thy are not allowed to sell thy customers email lists
2. thy cannot turn over purchase records to a third party
3. thy have a right to vote *anonymously*
These are the founding principles on how we keep a check on our government and any other entity which has the power to affect, directly or indirectly our social behavior - in terms of opinion or purchasing habits.
As for freedom of speech during wartime, Walker was so kind to point out a few pertinent facts about the first world war.Seems he forgot about the Vietnam protests.
Yes, as a part of civilization, I am responsible for my actions. But people dont think in isolation, a persons opinion is also subject to his idea of social expectation of an opinion. That, ladies and gentlemen is where the Internet is an Elysian field. You are no longer afraid....
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In India, the mobile phone companies have an upper ceiling on the bill you can rack up (even on post-paid connections). This limit is like your credit limit - it is set based on how regular you were with your payments, etc. and is dynamically upgraded if the system sees you are consistently calling at higher rates (your monthly bill has details of what your "call limit" is).
Once you *near* your limit, you get an SMS asking you to pre-pay some money to the company, before you are allowed to make more calls. If you hit your call-limit, your outgoing calls will be automatically barred. If you do pay the amount, based on certain heuristics, the aforementioned upgrading of your call limit takes place.
I'm surprised that this system is not in place elsewhere. I think at the end of the day, it is the collection agencies that make a killing off this system, I am not ready to believe with all the legal and support personnel who must be spending time on issues like this, the phone companies make money on this, not to mention the bad press
I would recommend that you try out Mrxvt along with Kuake, Yakuake or Yeahconsole .
Mrxvt is a sweet and fast little console with tabs (and tab switching!).
To help both keyboard and mouse positioning, I use the Imak SmartGlove. I play games with it as well. At first, I did not feel too much of a difference, but now I feel uncomfortable if I use the keyboard and mouse without them. I think it really helps.
I bought the Matsunichi Photoblitz 7'' photoframe with 1GB sd card for 80 bucks in total (from amazon). Works very well. It does not have any networking protocol, but I consider it a plus - keeps the price down. Since memory cards are so cheap, might as well pop for a couple more and get it done with.
The (slashdot) article content is incorrect. there is no restricted access to turmeric (and its derived anti-cancer products) for Indians.
Even the original article mentions "had it been enforced"
All linux needs for wider acceptance is seamless WoW and iTunes - that's all. Everything else is secondary. Think of the user base that uses their computers for WoW and iTunes exclsively.
You dont need pre-installed linux, just a better installer.
What I think would be best is to have a wine-linked release of the Game built on the same Win32 codebase. It would be even better if they could release the patches back into the Wine source tree so as to benefit all future development.
World of Warcraft runs beautifully on Cedega - I wonder how much effort is it really to release a Wine-linked app.
What about area implication - how are they going to handle routing for the extra wire length needed to loop back.
People who come to the US to study, get advanced degrees and stay back in the US to work as highly skilled and specialised engineers/doctors/scientists.
The ones who work in the BPO sector or the IT sector are basic code monkeys.
Those who do make it into all those MS/Ph.D programmes are genuinely skilled - cutting them out will only ensure that R&D programmes experience a shortfall. And that one-advance-in-AI-to-make-outsourcing-redundant, that becomes so much further off.
IS it just me, or does this approach sound very similar to VLIW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLIW) architecture. The problem is that the branch prediction needs to be very accurate, for any kind of performance boost.
Which is why these types of architecture lend very well to sequences of operations that are very similar (video processing, etc.).
Will this work just as well in the general-computing sphere? No idea.
This is obviously the first step by google towards integration of search and the personal interaction space.
How long before our contact lists in gmail are moved to orkut and into a messenger?
posted this story 10 days back. Was rejected. funny, really funny.
I agree. The ability to exercise a right of expression on cyberspace, regardless of whether that right was bought or simply given away,is more fundamental than creation of channels of expression.
Free software is important, very very important. However at this moment in history, we are dealing with corporate entities trying to stifle the right to innovate and crucify open expression(remember Prof. Felten??)
Hats off to EFF... and to FSF
John Walker writes more like an ivory tower recluse rather than a man living in social realities. Constitutional right to rpivacy does not exist - well it does, in a sublime way.
1. thy are not allowed to sell thy customers email lists
2. thy cannot turn over purchase records to a third party
3. thy have a right to vote *anonymously*
These are the founding principles on how we keep a check on our government and any other entity which has the power to affect, directly or indirectly our social behavior - in terms of opinion or purchasing habits.
As for freedom of speech during wartime, Walker was so kind to point out a few pertinent facts about the first world war.Seems he forgot about the Vietnam protests.
Yes, as a part of civilization, I am responsible for my actions. But people dont think in isolation, a persons opinion is also subject to his idea of social expectation of an opinion. That, ladies and gentlemen is where the Internet is an Elysian field. You are no longer afraid....
Long live Freenet