This is an incredible step forward, but not for us people who can already charge our cellphones in our cars, in the office, and at home, and just want to charge them in the supermarket, too.
Think wider.
Think mine detectors.
Think Cambodia, Rwanda, Ethiopia.
People who really, really need some piece of low-power electronic equipment, and DON'T have four different charging stations already, and whom it will cost an arm and a leg - literally! - if they are careless.
Coming to think of it, I'm not surprised this comes from India.
You may compare Korea to the US all you want, so I'll compare Korea to the US to Sweden. I guess it is fairly well-known by now here at Slashdot that Sweden has 100 Mbit (full duplex) at most metropolitan areas, and 10 Mbit (full duplex) in quite some more places. Out in the countryside, you may have to make do with 8/1 Mbit ADSL.
The US has 31 people per square kilometer. Sweden has 18. More than one-third less.
The cause is not population density, but a) a lack of people burning for the idea of cheap broadband for everybody (which we did have in Sweden - thanks, Birger), and b) mega-telcos trying fervently to kill any such initiatives.
I jumped party line the last European Parliament election to hand pick a MEP that was solidly behind FFII's line. And I let all of the involved people, including the MEP and my previous MEP, know it.
Did they care? Did they respond? Yes, they responded to my e-mail. That was a sign in itself.
Politicians ultimately need votes. Regardless of business interests, compromises, if they don't get votes they're out of a job. Let them know what counts. It works.
but that's how it mostly works, yes. The hospital bills me, I am reimbursed by the insurance company, minus a small fixed amount which I don't know the U.S. term for.
There may be other systems but this is how I know it from where I live.
This only applies when seeking private care (95% not necessary) or needing a hospital bed, though. If it's an ordinary visit, I pay a small fee when entering the hospital, and the rest is paid through taxes. Many European countries don't have the entry fee, either.
They do not have access to the hospital data, period. I can't see why this is such a hard concept.
Hospitals are financed mostly by taxes and in part by private insurances. At no point will I allow the hospital to communicate any information directly to an insurance company, or vice versa. All such information passes through me. And I am free to lie about what I want, but I am also accountable for such lies, should I choose to change anything.
The network is the first step in moving from paper to electronic patient records and sharing health data between doctors, researchers, insurers and hospitals.
This was completely mind-boggling to me, until I realized we're talking about the big ole US of A.
If a commercial enterprise that was supposed to be working in my interests got access to my medical data here in Europe, there'd be fucking hell to pay. Heads would roll.
The only difference between DVI signal and HDMI signal is that the HDMI signal is encrypted.
So where is the added value for the buyer? They seriously want me to pay MORE for something which gives me LESS options?
Besides, HDMI is audio and video and encryption. (My dad occasionally touts the fact that HDMI carries audio and video both as an advantage.) However, seeing as audio and video goes to completely separate outputs (monitor/projector vs. stereo equipment), this design choice baffles me completely.
Morons. Let this abomination die a quick death and be done with it.
Or possibly, let's assume that someone like LG Electronics Gets It again and understands that the people with the ultimate money in the chain (consumers) don't want encrypted signals. Once you have the option of buying unencrypted, the point of having encryption at all is completely lost.
Memory leaks are notoriously difficult to fix, largely because it's very difficult to find what's caused it.
Nonsense.
You use in-line instrumentation and catch the leaks as they happen in real time, with source references.
A number of development products will do this. Look at BoundsChecker for one example.
There is no excuse for a single memory leak today. At least, not for an easily reproducible one.
Other than that, a few very simple engineering practices can eliminate all memory leaks. Those engineering practices are three simple rules:
1) All activity that allocates memory dynamically must be encapsulated in a class. 2) All allocation must happen in the constructor of the class that manages a dynamic memory area. 3) All deallication must happen in the destructor of said class.
There. Follow these three simple rules, and you won't get any leaks, ever. As a side effect, you get cleaner code.
If you're in an after-the-fact situation, three days with BoundsChecker can sort out 95% of the problems. The last 5% typically take some more thinking.
On the other hand, he signed a contract to work for them that didn't include any promises of profit-sharing on things he invented for them.
You are working under the assumption that every country operates under U.S. law.
In the country where I live, if somebody dreams up a patentable invention at work, during business hours, on company equipment, and patents it, then that patent belongs to the employee as an individual, not the company, and the company is prohibited by law to require otherwise in the employment contract.
I don't know what the law is like in Japan, but don't take for granted that employees are serfs all over the world. They're not.
Monday = Moon day Tuesday = Tyr's day Wednesday = Odin's day Thursday = Thor's day Friday = Frey's (Freya's) day Saturday = ? Sunday = sunday.
The days of the week were humbly exported into then-England and Anglosaxon languages by the Nordic viking culture. Latin languages, au contraire, use Roman gods for weekdays.
This isn't cool. This is just misapplication of technology.
When I've burned the data to the disc using the data-burn laser, I place it in the inkjet printer to create a human-readable cover. In full color, at that, something I highly doubt the data-writing laser is capable of.
Again: If I want text on the disc, I don't flip it over to burn the other side too, I place it in the goddamn printer and put ink on it.
Keep It Simple, Stupid. Why does that have to be so hard?
And we will still be able to bypass everything they have hyped so hard by, lo and behold, putting the disk in a DVD player instead of the intended CD player.
The time needed to boot desktop Linux systems is becoming an issue
Yeah, because you see, them Linux systems need to reboot very frequently, so this is a time-waster for many, many folks....oh, wait.
Card reader can be hostile - put PIN-pad on card
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Even better is to integrate the PIN pad onto the card itself, and use encrypted communication between the card and the authenticating server. The card reader would just see encrypted traffic.
These boxen may be as fanless as they want, but that's not the only source of noise.
What about the hard drive? Anybody who has turned off a computer a couple of times knows that the main change in sound is not the fans going silent, but the hard drive spinning down.
Saying "no noise from fans" about a computer is as useful to me as saying "no noise from cockpit" in an aircraft when I'm sitting next to the engine.
Does anybody have these machines so we can get some subjective feedback?
You're right, 315 km/h is not very fast. I've driven that fast myself on highways around here.
All for a cost significantly less than a normal midsize car, and three times the adrenaline.
I drove a Suzuki Hayabusa. Fantastic machine. Insurance costs forced me to sell it, though. Attracted all kinds of reckless drivers, young guys who needed to prove something.:-/
(OTOH, everything is relative. Yes, going 300+ km/h with your eyes about 3 feet from the ground does cramp your stomach a bit. There's a threshold around 230-240 km/h where tunnel vision kicks in for real; above that, you're running on adrenaline.)
Though I would be interested to read more on the pop-tart to hurricane correlation...
Of course pop-tart sales go up in the light of an oncoming hurricane. And if you look, I'd bet water bottles, candy bars, and similar foods skyrocket similarly.
No-preparation or simple-preparation foods go up in the face of an emergency. Complex-preparation foods go down. In this context, "complex" can mean "anything that requires a stove" or even "foods requiring electricity or water to prepare".
People are stocking up to handle a few days without services, ffs.
Xerox printers can be configured to automatically order new supplies when the current ones run low. You're sure it was not something like this?
Also, they can be configured to send out e-mail to supply adminsitrators (in this case, picture Carol, the PHB's secretary in Dilbert) to ask for ordering new supplies with a handy web page served from the printer, if human intervention is desired. You're sure it was not something like this?
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That hit just too close to home to be funny. I forced myself to chuckle, then found myself just shaking my head.
This is an incredible step forward, but not for us people who can already charge our cellphones in our cars, in the office, and at home, and just want to charge them in the supermarket, too.
Think wider.
Think mine detectors.
Think Cambodia, Rwanda, Ethiopia.
People who really, really need some piece of low-power electronic equipment, and DON'T have four different charging stations already, and whom it will cost an arm and a leg - literally! - if they are careless.
Coming to think of it, I'm not surprised this comes from India.
You may compare Korea to the US all you want, so I'll compare Korea to the US to Sweden. I guess it is fairly well-known by now here at Slashdot that Sweden has 100 Mbit (full duplex) at most metropolitan areas, and 10 Mbit (full duplex) in quite some more places. Out in the countryside, you may have to make do with 8/1 Mbit ADSL.
The US has 31 people per square kilometer. Sweden has 18. More than one-third less.
The cause is not population density, but a) a lack of people burning for the idea of cheap broadband for everybody (which we did have in Sweden - thanks, Birger), and b) mega-telcos trying fervently to kill any such initiatives.
This is interesting. In Sweden, the right to talk to journalists without fear of being revealed (meddelarskydd) is a part of the Constitution.
It is a criminal offense for a public employer, such as a police commissioner, to even ask who leaked information to the media.
This would be a total non-issue here. Trying to make a civil lawsuit go against a country's constitution... well, you get the point.
So I ask again:
how long are you U.S. folks just going to obediently turn around, bend over, and ask for more?
Your comment led me to take a look at the silhouettes to check my own reaction.
There was a mirror in one of the images, directly in view of the camera. They hadn't edited out what showed in the mirror.
Now THAT made me uneasy.
Votes.
I jumped party line the last European Parliament election to hand pick a MEP that was solidly behind FFII's line. And I let all of the involved people, including the MEP and my previous MEP, know it.
Did they care? Did they respond? Yes, they responded to my e-mail. That was a sign in itself.
Politicians ultimately need votes. Regardless of business interests, compromises, if they don't get votes they're out of a job. Let them know what counts. It works.
but that's how it mostly works, yes. The hospital bills me, I am reimbursed by the insurance company, minus a small fixed amount which I don't know the U.S. term for.
There may be other systems but this is how I know it from where I live.
This only applies when seeking private care (95% not necessary) or needing a hospital bed, though. If it's an ordinary visit, I pay a small fee when entering the hospital, and the rest is paid through taxes. Many European countries don't have the entry fee, either.
They do not have access to the hospital data, period. I can't see why this is such a hard concept.
Hospitals are financed mostly by taxes and in part by private insurances. At no point will I allow the hospital to communicate any information directly to an insurance company, or vice versa. All such information passes through me. And I am free to lie about what I want, but I am also accountable for such lies, should I choose to change anything.
Anything other order is unthinkable.
The network is the first step in moving from paper to electronic patient records and sharing health data between doctors, researchers, insurers and hospitals.
This was completely mind-boggling to me, until I realized we're talking about the big ole US of A.
If a commercial enterprise that was supposed to be working in my interests got access to my medical data here in Europe, there'd be fucking hell to pay. Heads would roll.
Can't see why you keep putting up with it.
You lost me completely there. Why Sweden?
The only difference between DVI signal and HDMI signal is that the HDMI signal is encrypted.
So where is the added value for the buyer? They seriously want me to pay MORE for something which gives me LESS options?
Besides, HDMI is audio and video and encryption. (My dad occasionally touts the fact that HDMI carries audio and video both as an advantage.) However, seeing as audio and video goes to completely separate outputs (monitor/projector vs. stereo equipment), this design choice baffles me completely.
Morons. Let this abomination die a quick death and be done with it.
Or possibly, let's assume that someone like LG Electronics Gets It again and understands that the people with the ultimate money in the chain (consumers) don't want encrypted signals. Once you have the option of buying unencrypted, the point of having encryption at all is completely lost.
Memory leaks are notoriously difficult to fix, largely because it's very difficult to find what's caused it.
Nonsense.
You use in-line instrumentation and catch the leaks as they happen in real time, with source references.
A number of development products will do this. Look at BoundsChecker for one example.
There is no excuse for a single memory leak today. At least, not for an easily reproducible one.
Other than that, a few very simple engineering practices can eliminate all memory leaks. Those engineering practices are three simple rules:
1) All activity that allocates memory dynamically must be encapsulated in a class.
2) All allocation must happen in the constructor of the class that manages a dynamic memory area.
3) All deallication must happen in the destructor of said class.
There. Follow these three simple rules, and you won't get any leaks, ever. As a side effect, you get cleaner code.
If you're in an after-the-fact situation, three days with BoundsChecker can sort out 95% of the problems. The last 5% typically take some more thinking.
On the other hand, he signed a contract to work for them that didn't include any promises of profit-sharing on things he invented for them.
You are working under the assumption that every country operates under U.S. law.
In the country where I live, if somebody dreams up a patentable invention at work, during business hours, on company equipment, and patents it, then that patent belongs to the employee as an individual, not the company, and the company is prohibited by law to require otherwise in the employment contract.
I don't know what the law is like in Japan, but don't take for granted that employees are serfs all over the world. They're not.
Bidding is above $15,000. That's really good pay for 30 days of just walking about, looking like a borderline moron/genius.
Monday = Moon day
Tuesday = Tyr's day
Wednesday = Odin's day
Thursday = Thor's day
Friday = Frey's (Freya's) day
Saturday = ?
Sunday = sunday.
The days of the week were humbly exported into then-England and Anglosaxon languages by the Nordic viking culture. Latin languages, au contraire, use Roman gods for weekdays.
This isn't cool. This is just misapplication of technology.
When I've burned the data to the disc using the data-burn laser, I place it in the inkjet printer to create a human-readable cover. In full color, at that, something I highly doubt the data-writing laser is capable of.
Again: If I want text on the disc, I don't flip it over to burn the other side too, I place it in the goddamn printer and put ink on it.
Keep It Simple, Stupid. Why does that have to be so hard?
And we will still be able to bypass everything they have hyped so hard by, lo and behold, putting the disk in a DVD player instead of the intended CD player.
Wake me up when the madness ends.
Huh?
...oh, wait.
The time needed to boot desktop Linux systems is becoming an issue
Yeah, because you see, them Linux systems need to reboot very frequently, so this is a time-waster for many, many folks.
Even better is to integrate the PIN pad onto the card itself, and use encrypted communication between the card and the authenticating server. The card reader would just see encrypted traffic.
Also works against hostile ATMs.
A solution like this exists, see Cypak PIN-on-Card
I just read these magazines for the nice pictures, I don't read the text.
It's too small to read, anyway.
The pictures come in my e-mail now, too. Isn't that nice?
These boxen may be as fanless as they want, but that's not the only source of noise.
What about the hard drive? Anybody who has turned off a computer a couple of times knows that the main change in sound is not the fans going silent, but the hard drive spinning down.
Saying "no noise from fans" about a computer is as useful to me as saying "no noise from cockpit" in an aircraft when I'm sitting next to the engine.
Does anybody have these machines so we can get some subjective feedback?
I live in the middle of an Amish community.
And you not only own a computer, but you're an active contributor to Slashdot of all places?
I must be missing something here, yes?
You're right, 315 km/h is not very fast. I've driven that fast myself on highways around here.
:-/
All for a cost significantly less than a normal midsize car, and three times the adrenaline.
I drove a Suzuki Hayabusa. Fantastic machine. Insurance costs forced me to sell it, though. Attracted all kinds of reckless drivers, young guys who needed to prove something.
(OTOH, everything is relative. Yes, going 300+ km/h with your eyes about 3 feet from the ground does cramp your stomach a bit. There's a threshold around 230-240 km/h where tunnel vision kicks in for real; above that, you're running on adrenaline.)
Though I would be interested to read more on the pop-tart to hurricane correlation...
Of course pop-tart sales go up in the light of an oncoming hurricane. And if you look, I'd bet water bottles, candy bars, and similar foods skyrocket similarly.
No-preparation or simple-preparation foods go up in the face of an emergency. Complex-preparation foods go down. In this context, "complex" can mean "anything that requires a stove" or even "foods requiring electricity or water to prepare".
People are stocking up to handle a few days without services, ffs.
Why is this the least surprising?
Xerox printers can be configured to automatically order new supplies when the current ones run low. You're sure it was not something like this?
Also, they can be configured to send out e-mail to supply adminsitrators (in this case, picture Carol, the PHB's secretary in Dilbert) to ask for ordering new supplies with a handy web page served from the printer, if human intervention is desired. You're sure it was not something like this?