Many of the companies whose products are advertised this way turn out to be US based, it doesn't matter whether it is V1agra, C1alis, Mortgages, loans or whatever. Forget the advertsing channel, it is the company being advertised that initiates spam-based marketing campaigns.
If the US government outlawed the users of spam campaigns then a large part of the volume would be eliminated.
Strange, VMS came from Digital and they had a large library of free software from their user group, DECUS. The rule is most places was that as long as someone would take ownership of the code in-house and ensured that it worked with new releases then no problems to use it in production.
Not quite, the Soviet space program was big into sequencers. That is glorified timers that controlled the mission. Pretty easy and reliable tech and well known from missilies. However, they are pretty hopeless if you wanted to change a sequence mid flight. Otherwise they used dedicated guidance systems (coupled gyros), which again was old tech.
The Saturn V itself had quite a lot of processing power for the day. The LEM and CM/SM were fully controllable. The basic programs were in ROM but they could be used quite flexibly. On Apollo 13, I seem to remember that they had to use the computer for the pre-reentry manouvers.
In your example of the B2, I agree. The flying wing was considered extremely difficult to manouver. Now the B2 along with many modern warplanes use instability to increase manouverability, but the control is eased through the use of processing power.
This isn't about WWII type security. This is about GWII where unwanted pictures have spread around and appeared in newspapers. Very embarassing for both the military and the government.
I was able to rent an E-class for about 96 Euros, from Friday lunchtime through Monday. Ok, I still had to pay for fuel, but it still looks a good deal compared to a bicycle.
The problem is that India isn't a very modern country yet. It takes time to acquire general background knowledge, and even more so over a general knowledge domain. Give them time and they will acquire that knowledge.
One issue which may be cultural or it may relate to a lack of domain knowledge is that an Indian is less likely to complain when given a stupid specification. A western programmer will tend to complain that something doesn't make sense but an Indian not.
In a group of N workers, there are (N-1)^2 paths of communication or miscommunication. Keeping the bodycount down on a project is an optimum strategy. So what you do is to split the project into mini-projects, each with fewer bodies. However this pushes back extra organisation work onto those comissioning the project.
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Wow, I hope they are hiring senior staff as well. I worked alongside a major caribbean based consultancy. They expanded too fast offshore and the quality of their code plummeted. It also didn't help that this particular consultancy chose to develop in a location which is considered unsafe and had suffered multiple natural disasters.
The original article in the Lancet emphasised how the survey suprised the authors to the point that they intentionally and consistently underestimated numbers to allow for collection errors. In other words, the number is most likely to be an underestimate.
If one simply looks at the quantity of munitions that exploded in populated places, then the estimate of 10K seems to be exceptionally low, even allowing for increased accuracy.
He first envisaged this in an article published in 1945 in "Wireless World" an engineering journal, entitled "Extra-terrestrial Relays". He was well qualified to talk about radio equipment because of his work on Ground Controlled Approach for poor weather conditions.
Asmiov was a qualified chemist, but he didn't really invent robots. The concept links back through Jewish folklore to that of Golems. His three laws have provoked a lot of discussion though outside of fiction.
The interesting thing is that Frankfurt led the world with it's electronic financial futures and options exchange, DTB, know known as Eurex. Other electronic markets existed before, indeed some of the code came from a similiar project in Zurich.
Now the cash market has become all electronic, yes the market place may exist in a building on the outskirts of Frankfurt, but the financial centre is no longer there. Much of the trading is actually taking place in London and Frankfurt becomes relegated to backoffice clearing and settlement operations.
What I'm trying to say is that whilst the market place is important, it could be quickly established elsewhere. Where the customers are becomes more important.
Essentiaally it means there is a movement towards a single financial centre serving a group of timezones.
I have used a lot of 450s and had very few problems with them especially from late NT4.0 through to Win2K. We always installed the Matrox driver (not the Windows distributed one), and had no problems. Typically our PCs have been on for long periods and running lots of multiscreen stuff. However, I don't think anything tries to use Direct-X. There are 3D visualisation tools, but I don't believe they do anything clever with the driver.
A financial institution typically needs lots of screen space for their trading and reporting apps. This means a few hundred in each major bank in NY at least. Add the other financial centres as well, and it is a far from a small market.
The other thing is that Matrox is boring. It may not do Doom 3, but is is really, really stable. ATI and Nvidia don't offer crap, but state of the art complex 3D drivers are not what you want to draw some graphs and reliably show tables.
Actually, it is the range of 50cm to two metres or so that is worrying for the smart mine idea. Note to lurkers, the Pentagon apparently is insisting on RFID tagging their equipment for inventory control. Improved inventory control is a great idea for the military, but as with passports, there are some issues that seem to have been forgotten.
Long-distance reader for identifying American targets....
I know that these chips are supposed to have a range of centimetres, but always? There have been plenty of privacy concerns about the remote interrogation of RFID chips used for profuct identification. Heck, you could probably even make a 'smart' boobytrap, only arms if a US passport is nearby.
If you want a forged current generation passport to convince a police officer in Nairobi, then it isn't so hard. If you want a forged passport to convice an Immigration Officer at JFK or Heathrow, then it had better be pretty genuine.
The issue of access to passport blanks (this has happened) or the ability to get a passport in a false identity through normal channels is more of an issue. Not RFID.
Its probably easier in a big city where they don't know each other so well.
When I was in St. Petersburg, the FSB together with the city announced a campaign to look after foreign enterprises from Mafya pressure. I have no idea what happened to it. Most foreign businessmen I know in Russia complain now more about the state (Corrupt officials and unequal and non-transparent bureaucracy).
I was also hassled by OMON a couple of time in night clubs, but I just played an indignant but honest citizen and demanded the guy's ID before I gave him my passport.
Your "roof" is your "Krysha" a term that used to mostly refer to the guys you were paying your protection to (who also helped out with Militia problems). In former times, they were essentially Mafya, but these days they can be private security organisations manned by off-duty MVD or FSB officers.
I was on an aid project for financial infrastructure reform. The host for my visa was a prominent organisation (actually established by Putin) associated with the city and the Russian Central Bank.
I had no "roof" as such, but playing indignant foreigner and claiming that I was calling my FSB roof and waiving my mobile got me off the hook. It was plausible that I had some kind of official connection and I was clearly not drunk so I couldn't be so easily targeted. I was actually innocent of everything except walking home from a late party because there were no taxis (official or unofficial) in the area and public transport wouldn't start for another couple of hours.
The militia in St Pete do have a certain reputation for the way they deal with foreigners and in much of the town you are often at more risk from them at night than from any other criminal. At the same time I have had taxi rides from uniformed militia men and had no problems (I just love those unlicensed cabs in Russia).
Doesn't work for UK alone, it must be the EEA (the EU plus Switzerland, Norway, etc). It still means that Tesco could now source Levis out of say, Hungary, Czech Republic or somewhere else.
I still havnt seen a single legal copy of anything apart from Night Watch (big Russian blockbuster film... totally strange plot but enjoyed it anyway).
Actually that is the only film I've seen pirated in recent times as I'm back in the west noe. Paramount or someone bought western distribution rights but the idiots are sitting on the film.
On wages, pay in St. Pete where I was much of the time is somewhat better (I still have good contacts there). Still there is a much lower level of PC ownership and the official price of western software is just a joke.
However I also worked with reasonably major organisations and they would typically use legal software, although it may be installed on multiple systems.
Lastly, when I was stopped by the militia, I just pulled out my mobile and told them I was "calling my roof". They backed down.
Communism didn't work well but neither did capitalism, Russian style. The connection between the two though is interesting. Many of the prominent new capitalists were leading communists (or at least leading in Komosomol) under the former regime. Both systems have taught people that it doesn't matter who is running things but those without influence are screwed either way.
A well paid software techie may get up to $1000 per month but many earn much less ($400 or so). $2/CD is about right for them.
You can print what you want these days. Watermarks are hard though and holograms aren't easy. The thing is that checking either takes a few extra seconds which is worth it for high-value notes but not for low. However gravure printed linen-stock has a special feel that a good cashier only needs a moment to check.
Don't you just love Multimedia Messaging web logs? You can the photo of a police photographer onto an offshore blog before they can handcuff you. Your phone is useless because you have already sent the images.
Li-Ion has actually worse performance than NiMH for the number of full charge/discharge cycles. The good thing is that they don't suffer from the memory effect so they can be topped up.
However, when frequently on the road, I was unable to get more than a couple of years out of a notebook Li-Ion cell before the performance dropped to about 50%. I have been more careful with the IPAQ which I now still get reasonable performance out of after three years. It only spends a long time in the cradle about once or twice a week. Usually it is just plugged in for synchronisation and I use a separate MP3 player so I don't tend to hard-drain it.
I'm now considering a more modern PDA, whether it is the DELL or the IPAQ, we shall have to see.
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If the US government outlawed the users of spam campaigns then a large part of the volume would be eliminated.
Strange, VMS came from Digital and they had a large library of free software from their user group, DECUS. The rule is most places was that as long as someone would take ownership of the code in-house and ensured that it worked with new releases then no problems to use it in production.
The Saturn V itself had quite a lot of processing power for the day. The LEM and CM/SM were fully controllable. The basic programs were in ROM but they could be used quite flexibly. On Apollo 13, I seem to remember that they had to use the computer for the pre-reentry manouvers.
In your example of the B2, I agree. The flying wing was considered extremely difficult to manouver. Now the B2 along with many modern warplanes use instability to increase manouverability, but the control is eased through the use of processing power.
This isn't about WWII type security. This is about GWII where unwanted pictures have spread around and appeared in newspapers. Very embarassing for both the military and the government.
I was able to rent an E-class for about 96 Euros, from Friday lunchtime through Monday. Ok, I still had to pay for fuel, but it still looks a good deal compared to a bicycle.
For ships, it is the country where the vessel is registered. As much of aviation law is based on maritime law, I can't see this being different.
What you mean is a set of DNA markers, which generaly are far from unique.
One issue which may be cultural or it may relate to a lack of domain knowledge is that an Indian is less likely to complain when given a stupid specification. A western programmer will tend to complain that something doesn't make sense but an Indian not.
In a group of N workers, there are (N-1)^2 paths of communication or miscommunication. Keeping the bodycount down on a project is an optimum strategy. So what you do is to split the project into mini-projects, each with fewer bodies. However this pushes back extra organisation work onto those comissioning the project.
Wow, I hope they are hiring senior staff as well. I worked alongside a major caribbean based consultancy. They expanded too fast offshore and the quality of their code plummeted. It also didn't help that this particular consultancy chose to develop in a location which is considered unsafe and had suffered multiple natural disasters.
If one simply looks at the quantity of munitions that exploded in populated places, then the estimate of 10K seems to be exceptionally low, even allowing for increased accuracy.
Asmiov was a qualified chemist, but he didn't really invent robots. The concept links back through Jewish folklore to that of Golems. His three laws have provoked a lot of discussion though outside of fiction.
Now the cash market has become all electronic, yes the market place may exist in a building on the outskirts of Frankfurt, but the financial centre is no longer there. Much of the trading is actually taking place in London and Frankfurt becomes relegated to backoffice clearing and settlement operations.
What I'm trying to say is that whilst the market place is important, it could be quickly established elsewhere. Where the customers are becomes more important.
Essentiaally it means there is a movement towards a single financial centre serving a group of timezones.
I have used a lot of 450s and had very few problems with them especially from late NT4.0 through to Win2K. We always installed the Matrox driver (not the Windows distributed one), and had no problems. Typically our PCs have been on for long periods and running lots of multiscreen stuff. However, I don't think anything tries to use Direct-X. There are 3D visualisation tools, but I don't believe they do anything clever with the driver.
The other thing is that Matrox is boring. It may not do Doom 3, but is is really, really stable. ATI and Nvidia don't offer crap, but state of the art complex 3D drivers are not what you want to draw some graphs and reliably show tables.
Actually, it is the range of 50cm to two metres or so that is worrying for the smart mine idea. Note to lurkers, the Pentagon apparently is insisting on RFID tagging their equipment for inventory control. Improved inventory control is a great idea for the military, but as with passports, there are some issues that seem to have been forgotten.
I know that these chips are supposed to have a range of centimetres, but always? There have been plenty of privacy concerns about the remote interrogation of RFID chips used for profuct identification. Heck, you could probably even make a 'smart' boobytrap, only arms if a US passport is nearby.
If you want a forged current generation passport to convince a police officer in Nairobi, then it isn't so hard. If you want a forged passport to convice an Immigration Officer at JFK or Heathrow, then it had better be pretty genuine.
The issue of access to passport blanks (this has happened) or the ability to get a passport in a false identity through normal channels is more of an issue. Not RFID.
When I was in St. Petersburg, the FSB together with the city announced a campaign to look after foreign enterprises from Mafya pressure. I have no idea what happened to it. Most foreign businessmen I know in Russia complain now more about the state (Corrupt officials and unequal and non-transparent bureaucracy).
I was also hassled by OMON a couple of time in night clubs, but I just played an indignant but honest citizen and demanded the guy's ID before I gave him my passport.
I was on an aid project for financial infrastructure reform. The host for my visa was a prominent organisation (actually established by Putin) associated with the city and the Russian Central Bank.
I had no "roof" as such, but playing indignant foreigner and claiming that I was calling my FSB roof and waiving my mobile got me off the hook. It was plausible that I had some kind of official connection and I was clearly not drunk so I couldn't be so easily targeted. I was actually innocent of everything except walking home from a late party because there were no taxis (official or unofficial) in the area and public transport wouldn't start for another couple of hours.
The militia in St Pete do have a certain reputation for the way they deal with foreigners and in much of the town you are often at more risk from them at night than from any other criminal. At the same time I have had taxi rides from uniformed militia men and had no problems (I just love those unlicensed cabs in Russia).
Doesn't work for UK alone, it must be the EEA (the EU plus Switzerland, Norway, etc). It still means that Tesco could now source Levis out of say, Hungary, Czech Republic or somewhere else.
On wages, pay in St. Pete where I was much of the time is somewhat better (I still have good contacts there). Still there is a much lower level of PC ownership and the official price of western software is just a joke.
However I also worked with reasonably major organisations and they would typically use legal software, although it may be installed on multiple systems.
Lastly, when I was stopped by the militia, I just pulled out my mobile and told them I was "calling my roof". They backed down.
A well paid software techie may get up to $1000 per month but many earn much less ($400 or so). $2/CD is about right for them.
You can print what you want these days. Watermarks are hard though and holograms aren't easy. The thing is that checking either takes a few extra seconds which is worth it for high-value notes but not for low. However gravure printed linen-stock has a special feel that a good cashier only needs a moment to check.
Don't you just love Multimedia Messaging web logs? You can the photo of a police photographer onto an offshore blog before they can handcuff you. Your phone is useless because you have already sent the images.
However, when frequently on the road, I was unable to get more than a couple of years out of a notebook Li-Ion cell before the performance dropped to about 50%. I have been more careful with the IPAQ which I now still get reasonable performance out of after three years. It only spends a long time in the cradle about once or twice a week. Usually it is just plugged in for synchronisation and I use a separate MP3 player so I don't tend to hard-drain it.
I'm now considering a more modern PDA, whether it is the DELL or the IPAQ, we shall have to see.