Yes, loved the film too. But didn't the hero there get his hands on a lot of surplus parts? Many of which now would be mega-restricted in real life now.
your phone is a thin client. have it receive emails or some alert, but all heavy lifting should be on a server.
Why?
Even older smartphones have much more power than many desktop computers did 15 years ago. The I/O may not be up to much, especially over a network connection, but they definitely can do a lot of other work.
The difference being that once you have a physical keyboard device for the German market (D/A/CH), it is less easy to divert to another market so it means that you have to create keyboard specific batches.
Btw, RIM was putting out stock indices and FX since way back when to their earlier devices. Most of our traders had them in the mid nineties.
If we forget Blackberry, there were a lot of devices around that were connected by switched telephone lines that could only get their updates when connected. Not all that different from wireless.
All it needs is for something related to militant Islam (let alone bomb making instructions) to be found in the dumps and then Kim can be accused of "aiding terror".
Funnily enough, all three organisations (the ITU, WIPO and WTO) are Geneva based. A lovely little town on the lake of that name, unfortunately blighted by too many international conferences. WIPO is known for being so phenomenally out of touch as to lecture CERN on its failure to monetize the web. WTO is known for its negotiation rounds that go on for years.
The funny thing is that unless you are exceptionally wealthy, i.e. a megacorp, there is little hat you can do to stop another megacorp expropriating your ideas. The best you can do is to sell it to someone else who has the money to defend it.
Actually that was a clever move. Take a 3G iPhone 4 and it is more or less saleable in most of the world (barring chargers). Put a physical keyboard on it and you have a single market dependency. In Europe, even Germany, France and the UK (amongst others) have different layouts. Software keyboards are easy.
OTOH, a good hardware keyboard is so much easier to use, even a small one. I still loved my E71 for messaging.
Android does warn users but still some vendors managed to slip some bad applications through that would do bad things on network and CPU usage (battery drain), some even sending premium rate SMSs (they have been banned).
OTOH, root access does allow you to firewall particularly noisy apps, if not explicitly block access via the hosts file.
The protection on MS Office now has made it much more difficult to pirate. MS has been having a massive issue migrating people away from Office 2003. One issue is that it is perceived by some that it is easier to migrate some users towards LibreOffice/OpenOffice than to MSO 2007 and upwards due to the very different user interface. Even if corporates continue to pay their VUP license, it is still an overhead for Microsoft to continue to support older versions.
Their solution has been a cheap home-use program so non professional users can use office at home for almost nothing, but only the latest/greatest version. In this way, the home users can educate themselves at home and hopefully for Microsoft will push their IT departments to upgrade.
Anyway, cyber-security of shipping companies is the least of the EU's problems right now. How about you work on finding a way to get the Greeks to do more than 3 hours of work a day?
Funnily enough, the Greeks have about the largest merchant fleet in the EU. It is a major part of their problem because shipping is an area where you can get very creative as to where you make or lose money and avoiding inconvenient taxes.
First, there isn't a whole lot to see as you won't get access to the tunnels with a running beam line. What you do get is a presntation from the tour guide. Ours was a semi-retired CERN researcher, probably in his seventies who was a doctor of physics and a former professor.
It seems that CERN has a number of these "hangers-on" who may no longer be doing much work there, but still have some access and contribute. Even looking after visitors is useful work and it was very clear that he was still in full communication with his former colleagues whilst talking about the neutrino experiments.
There are no automatic arrangements for the military. The only stuff that you can put on a plane uninspected is a Diplomatic Bag which is protected by the Vienna Convention. Anything may be put into a diplomatic bag that does not compromise the safety of an aircraft. There is no automatic exemption for military stuff, but it is possible for the military to contact the TSA in advance with details of who is carrying the package and what external identifications there are on the package.
I am not certain though what happens to transplant organs that may be put on scheduled flights. They must also get some kind of exemption.
Not hidden trades. The guy was making perfectly reasonable trades on the FDAX and EuroStoxx indices. Allegedly, he was hedging the futures with ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) which should be comparable to an exposure to the underlying shares. However it seems that the hedge trades were being entered as OTC deals but in reality were never happening. As some banks weren't apparently sending confirmations, this was not spotted. Of course, there would be no cash flows but that would not be spotted immediately.
Apple were not that successful over the waste bin. They were only able to prevent other companies from using the concept of a bulging (full) bin. After the first suit against MS, a number of people who had been working at the Xerox Parc including Smokey Wallace who by then had moved to Digital and was working on X-windows let it be known that they were sitting on a pile of prior art. Apple became a lot less litigious over the desktop manager/windows related designs as it became knowledge that they were just an elaboration of earlier work.
I guess you are too young to have ever used them. Itanium was a totally inferior technology and the only reason Intel could succeed was to kill it via their partnership with HP (the printer ink company). At the time HP bought Alpha to kill it, Itanium wasn't tenable. HP spend a hell of a lot of Intel's money porting over VMS so they could kill Alpha (HP had obligations to support VMS through 2020 or so because of the DoD). The acquisition of Compaq also allowed Intel to use their agreements with HP to legitimise their theft of technology from AMD who had made their own arrangements with Digital.
Digital's issue was they never properly understood the mass market. They couldn't bring the chip price down fast enough whereas Intel could always cross-subsidize their higher performance lines from their consumer channels. On the scientific and commercial side they were loved by their users. They worked, and they worked extremely well. This is why they ended up as the processors in most of the world's major financial exchanges as well as in the labs.
few of us would have issue if HP/Intel had out-teched Alpha, but instead it was down to some very dubious machinations which stank of monopolistic abuse. Oh and forget the Thz, the Alpha was best compared with SPARC or ARM so instructions were being executed with just a few clocks.
The reason Alpha is dead is because your limp dick numb nuts DEC twinks couldn't get it up. suck on it.
Didn't know it was 4chan here?
The truth is that HP/Intel Betamaxed Digital. Their chips were crap (until Intel started stealing tech from Digital) but they were good at the low end and had the marketing tie-ups. Unfortunately, we all lost on that one.
In total agreement and it wasn't just scientific performance, Alphas were at one time very big on commercial processing powering most of the world's big exchanges. Alpha was innovative and a very clean architecture. It was also designed for multiprocessing from the very beginning. It had a good toolchain available under Unix (incl. Linux) as well as VMS: However HP and Intel for committed to flogging that dead horse called Itanium.
This has existed for a long time in Germany for small office phone systems and I think I first saw it in 97. The door-bell intercom was connected as a telephone extension to a mini-telephone switch (I believe from Elmeg). When you pressed the bell, it was routed either to an individual number, a call group or it could be call forwarded to any number (internal or external), The door release also worked by dialling an internal number.
The police once stopped someone for speeding on the basis of a radar device and they were challenged and the police lost. Many devices have issues with incorrect siting and can incorrectly measure the closing speed between vehicles travelling in the opposite direction. The police lost, but the accused was a researcher at the RSRE - the government run Radar and Signals Research Establishment who had first tested such devices and warned about the issues with stray reflections.
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Yes, loved the film too. But didn't the hero there get his hands on a lot of surplus parts? Many of which now would be mega-restricted in real life now.
Why?
Even older smartphones have much more power than many desktop computers did 15 years ago. The I/O may not be up to much, especially over a network connection, but they definitely can do a lot of other work.
The difference being that once you have a physical keyboard device for the German market (D/A/CH), it is less easy to divert to another market so it means that you have to create keyboard specific batches.
If we forget Blackberry, there were a lot of devices around that were connected by switched telephone lines that could only get their updates when connected. Not all that different from wireless.
All it needs is for something related to militant Islam (let alone bomb making instructions) to be found in the dumps and then Kim can be accused of "aiding terror".
Funnily enough, all three organisations (the ITU, WIPO and WTO) are Geneva based. A lovely little town on the lake of that name, unfortunately blighted by too many international conferences. WIPO is known for being so phenomenally out of touch as to lecture CERN on its failure to monetize the web. WTO is known for its negotiation rounds that go on for years.
The funny thing is that unless you are exceptionally wealthy, i.e. a megacorp, there is little hat you can do to stop another megacorp expropriating your ideas. The best you can do is to sell it to someone else who has the money to defend it.
OTOH, a good hardware keyboard is so much easier to use, even a small one. I still loved my E71 for messaging.
I had no problems getting my cheapo BT keyboard to connect with ICS on my Galaxy Nexus.
Android does warn users but still some vendors managed to slip some bad applications through that would do bad things on network and CPU usage (battery drain), some even sending premium rate SMSs (they have been banned).
OTOH, root access does allow you to firewall particularly noisy apps, if not explicitly block access via the hosts file.
Probably grid computing. The same tech that builds render farms can be used for code breaking.
The protection on MS Office now has made it much more difficult to pirate. MS has been having a massive issue migrating people away from Office 2003. One issue is that it is perceived by some that it is easier to migrate some users towards LibreOffice/OpenOffice than to MSO 2007 and upwards due to the very different user interface. Even if corporates continue to pay their VUP license, it is still an overhead for Microsoft to continue to support older versions.
Their solution has been a cheap home-use program so non professional users can use office at home for almost nothing, but only the latest/greatest version. In this way, the home users can educate themselves at home and hopefully for Microsoft will push their IT departments to upgrade.
Funnily enough, the Greeks have about the largest merchant fleet in the EU. It is a major part of their problem because shipping is an area where you can get very creative as to where you make or lose money and avoiding inconvenient taxes.
Funnily enough, they gave options to load their business versions (Lattitudes and I believe, XPS)with clean builds.
First, there isn't a whole lot to see as you won't get access to the tunnels with a running beam line. What you do get is a presntation from the tour guide. Ours was a semi-retired CERN researcher, probably in his seventies who was a doctor of physics and a former professor.
It seems that CERN has a number of these "hangers-on" who may no longer be doing much work there, but still have some access and contribute. Even looking after visitors is useful work and it was very clear that he was still in full communication with his former colleagues whilst talking about the neutrino experiments.
It makes really effective fly paper though after drying. An insect landing on it would have the shock of its (very shortly to expire) life.
Oooh, the days of High-School chemistry
There are no automatic arrangements for the military. The only stuff that you can put on a plane uninspected is a Diplomatic Bag which is protected by the Vienna Convention. Anything may be put into a diplomatic bag that does not compromise the safety of an aircraft. There is no automatic exemption for military stuff, but it is possible for the military to contact the TSA in advance with details of who is carrying the package and what external identifications there are on the package. I am not certain though what happens to transplant organs that may be put on scheduled flights. They must also get some kind of exemption.
Not hidden trades. The guy was making perfectly reasonable trades on the FDAX and EuroStoxx indices. Allegedly, he was hedging the futures with ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) which should be comparable to an exposure to the underlying shares. However it seems that the hedge trades were being entered as OTC deals but in reality were never happening. As some banks weren't apparently sending confirmations, this was not spotted. Of course, there would be no cash flows but that would not be spotted immediately.
Apple were not that successful over the waste bin. They were only able to prevent other companies from using the concept of a bulging (full) bin. After the first suit against MS, a number of people who had been working at the Xerox Parc including Smokey Wallace who by then had moved to Digital and was working on X-windows let it be known that they were sitting on a pile of prior art. Apple became a lot less litigious over the desktop manager/windows related designs as it became knowledge that they were just an elaboration of earlier work.
Apple famously did try to once sue over the trash bin icon for deleting files. This was considered amusing by those who worked at the Parc.
I guess you are too young to have ever used them. Itanium was a totally inferior technology and the only reason Intel could succeed was to kill it via their partnership with HP (the printer ink company). At the time HP bought Alpha to kill it, Itanium wasn't tenable. HP spend a hell of a lot of Intel's money porting over VMS so they could kill Alpha (HP had obligations to support VMS through 2020 or so because of the DoD). The acquisition of Compaq also allowed Intel to use their agreements with HP to legitimise their theft of technology from AMD who had made their own arrangements with Digital.
Digital's issue was they never properly understood the mass market. They couldn't bring the chip price down fast enough whereas Intel could always cross-subsidize their higher performance lines from their consumer channels. On the scientific and commercial side they were loved by their users. They worked, and they worked extremely well. This is why they ended up as the processors in most of the world's major financial exchanges as well as in the labs.
few of us would have issue if HP/Intel had out-teched Alpha, but instead it was down to some very dubious machinations which stank of monopolistic abuse. Oh and forget the Thz, the Alpha was best compared with SPARC or ARM so instructions were being executed with just a few clocks.
Didn't know it was 4chan here? The truth is that HP/Intel Betamaxed Digital. Their chips were crap (until Intel started stealing tech from Digital) but they were good at the low end and had the marketing tie-ups. Unfortunately, we all lost on that one.
In total agreement and it wasn't just scientific performance, Alphas were at one time very big on commercial processing powering most of the world's big exchanges. Alpha was innovative and a very clean architecture. It was also designed for multiprocessing from the very beginning. It had a good toolchain available under Unix (incl. Linux) as well as VMS: However HP and Intel for committed to flogging that dead horse called Itanium.
This has existed for a long time in Germany for small office phone systems and I think I first saw it in 97. The door-bell intercom was connected as a telephone extension to a mini-telephone switch (I believe from Elmeg). When you pressed the bell, it was routed either to an individual number, a call group or it could be call forwarded to any number (internal or external), The door release also worked by dialling an internal number.
The police once stopped someone for speeding on the basis of a radar device and they were challenged and the police lost. Many devices have issues with incorrect siting and can incorrectly measure the closing speed between vehicles travelling in the opposite direction. The police lost, but the accused was a researcher at the RSRE - the government run Radar and Signals Research Establishment who had first tested such devices and warned about the issues with stray reflections.