A sound based technology might have big problems operating in a noisy environment - and I know this is for non human audible sounds - but these sounds can also occur outside of this phone app - ie building noise / night club / a busy street. This might limit the usage a little.
And that $20 would go straight into the pocket of one of their biggest competitors (Sony) per unit sold. Its very easy to understand why they don't want to pay it,.
Here in Sweden - my bank uses a keypad - where the user first must key in a pincode to activate the device. Then to login - you must key in your national security number (userid) - from this the bank generates a code - I key this code into my unlocked keypad - and get a return code. This is I guess similar to the RSA key generation (the device is not supplied by RSA incidentally) - except that the whole activity is locked down by a 4 key pin in my handheld device - which I guess is the key to the code generation. My bank thinks this security is impregnable (the last time I questioned it they laughed at me) - but after the recent RSA hack I really wonder if this is the case. If the generation algorithm becomes common knowledge (ie the security provider is hacked) - then all that is needed is to identify the 4 digit pin code.
Google wallet could also be a good thing for the consumer. It would mean that all items bought this way will have their prices tracked and stored in google. This will mean that users should be able to run price comparisons over all stores that are compatible with this tech - this means you can work out before you go grocey shopping - which store will offer you the best price for your weekly shopping list.
This sounds a little like what the Allies were doing with operation fortitude - before the dday landings. They build inflatable rubber tanks and artillery - and placed them in locations that made it look like the invasion would be aimed at Calais. Of course then they weren't trying to confuse satellites - but German spotter planes.
I'm not trolling - just I recall giving my card no grudgingly when I signed up - maybe it was just with the first purchase from the store (my memory is a little clouded - it was a long time ago) - but I still fail to see why the playstation store needs to record the card numbers at all. Its just placing credit card information at risk for no need except for more control by Sony.
What I hated about PSN from the start is that they demand we enter a credit card number just to be able to use the service. I really see no need for any site outside of financial institutions to need to store credit card information - in my opinion this practice should be made illegal. My bank has recently started offering the facility (through Visa) of generating one time card numbers with fixed limit caps - and you can choose your own expiry date. If Sony are still insisting on card numbers - they will be getting one of these generated ones from me.
The problem I have with 3D films - is being forced to wear 2 pairs of spectacles - one to correct my longsighted vision - and the second for the 3D effect (which incidentally I cannot perceive as a result of the longsightedness / vision imbalance). This tech is not designed for people who need to wear spectacles on a regular basis - and that is quite a proportion of the population.
I also get headaches whilst watching - but last time I attributed this to the fact that the double pair of specs was very uncomfortable. Then its not like you can relax mid movie - and take off the 3D glasses - cos then you can't see the film at all! So I regard 3D films as a step backwards in cinematography - until they can remove the need for special glasses - and I will not be going to the hobbit - or any other 3D movie until it gets fixed. So please please make a 2D version.
I have a similar eye problem - and what I hate is being forced to wear 2 pairs of glasses to see the 3D movie - you have to have the 3D pair balanced on top of your real glasses - its uncomfortable - and even with this - I cannot see the 3D. Without the 3d glasses though the screen is one big blur. Then living in Sweden - a lot of the English releases now are only appearing in 3D, so you say just don't go to the 3D movies - which is what I've done - I've stopped going to the cinema - until this little fad is over.
When Volvo demonstrated their S60 colliision detection to 120 Swedish journalists - they actually served to demonstrate why its not such a good idea to rely on all this safety technology:
I think Sony will only use this as a learning exercise for the PS4, which cannot be so very far away now - any kind of hardware fix to the PS3 will screw the vast majority of PS3 owners - and would be commercial stupidity.
As others have stated - property owners have no rights to prevent phots taken from public places - so this allows pretty much all aerial photography of stonehenge - and any from outside of the property. Then they can only restrict photographs taken on the site, by requiring this on entry to the site so they must actually state this in the contract (when you buy your tickets).
My father worked 20 years for BP and is an oil safety expert - after a few conversations with him we come to the following - The only proven solution to a spill at this depth is to drill a secondary well to extract the oil. This unfortunately takes 8 to 9 months. Why not drill the secondary well prior to extracting any oil from the primary well. Then in the event of an accident such as this - you can switch to the secondary immediately and not have slicks for 9 months. The only reason is cost... BP failed to do any kind of accurate risk assessment with this well, if they had done this they would never have drilled in this location at this depth, then they had a faulty blowout valve, that they knew about - they ignored the risks. They should pay in full. I have no sympathy for BP at all.
I disagree - I think it will be impossible to create a solid legal framework for what counts as "airbrushing" and what is standard manipulation. New manipulation techniques are introduced constantly - there are daily new filters available in photoshop, there are a million ways to edit a photo - and I can't wait to see how they are going to categorise what is acceptable - and what is not. You can multilayer various manipulations one on top of the other - and the courts are gonna go and look at a particular shot - work out what manipulations were done in what layer - and exactly how - before making their decision. It doesn't seem to me like this will work in practice.
Whichever way this was ruled the paper could release the identity of the blogger - if they ruled against allowing publication of identity then the paper could just release the identity in an anonymous blog and with the new restriction in place noone could release the papers identity either... a catch 22.
Skys content - particularly the sport is bound up with a ton of licensing restrictions - Sports tv rights are still bound by licensing deals that arose in the 1980s - and don't seem to be changing anytime soon. I currently live in Sweden - if you wanna watch a game of rugby in Sweden on TV - you basically have 3 choices:
1) Buy a big satellite dish and put it in your back yard... (not an option for me - I live in an appartment that frowns on big dishes... 2) Find a dodgy internet stream - quality is pretty crappy - often laggy - I watched one game where the commentry was 3 minutes ahead of the picture - which makes for some really frustrating viewing - I can tell you 3) Find an Irish pub with a big satellite dish. - This is my preffered option - whenever I get the chance.
For rugby - there appears to be very little drive to get the rights of the sports more widely available - the unions aren't interested - and the BBC / SKY certainly aren't either - they do everything to ensure that the existing UK based licensing rules dreamt up in the 80s are enforced for all eternity.
I would love to be able to purchase the games that I want to watch when I want to watch them... maybe in another 20 years...
Sky currently only operate in the UK - you can't buy SKY tv overseas - unless you have a UK based bank account - so I wonder if this means sky are becoming more global - or if this really is just content for the UK market only...and will Sony respond by cutting a deal with Viacom?
I took a Masters in Software Engineering - back in the 90s. My masters was specially setup so that an industrial placement with a company was an integral part of the course. By all means take a job now - if you can get a good one - on the other hand - combining your masters course with an industrial placement at a well known company will get you the best of both worlds - and usually there are several bigname companies interested in taking on a motivated masters student as an industrial placement.
Utter nonsense - the opposition party is called the Social democrats. On may 1st the streets are packed out with people waving red flags and shouting socialist slogans (there is no similar day for anyone who doesnt follow the socialist agenda) - socialism is a fully accepted fact of life in Sweden - as someone else has replied - its capitalism that is held in contempt. Newspapers here publish details of all in the local area who earn over a certain amount each year - and to be if you are on that list - it seems like you should hold your head in shame... why else would they publish this information.
The word socialism is completely taboo in Sweden as much as it is in the US. Even when you discuss systems where there clearly is socialism, such as the public road system.
I live in Sweden have broadband with blixtvik http://blixtvik.se/ and pay $29 per month for a 100/10 connection - and its totally uncapped no 200GB/month cap - at least there is no stipulation of this cap in my contract with them - and so no extra premiums.
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A sound based technology might have big problems operating in a noisy environment - and I know this is for non human audible sounds - but these sounds can also occur outside of this phone app - ie building noise / night club / a busy street. This might limit the usage a little.
And that $20 would go straight into the pocket of one of their biggest competitors (Sony) per unit sold. Its very easy to understand why they don't want to pay it,.
Here in Sweden - my bank uses a keypad - where the user first must key in a pincode to activate the device. Then to login - you must key in your national security number (userid) - from this the bank generates a code - I key this code into my unlocked keypad - and get a return code. This is I guess similar to the RSA key generation (the device is not supplied by RSA incidentally) - except that the whole activity is locked down by a 4 key pin in my handheld device - which I guess is the key to the code generation. My bank thinks this security is impregnable (the last time I questioned it they laughed at me) - but after the recent RSA hack I really wonder if this is the case. If the generation algorithm becomes common knowledge (ie the security provider is hacked) - then all that is needed is to identify the 4 digit pin code.
Google wallet could also be a good thing for the consumer. It would mean that all items bought this way will have their prices tracked and stored in google. This will mean that users should be able to run price comparisons over all stores that are compatible with this tech - this means you can work out before you go grocey shopping - which store will offer you the best price for your weekly shopping list.
This sounds a little like what the Allies were doing with operation fortitude - before the dday landings. They build inflatable rubber tanks and artillery - and placed them in locations that made it look like the invasion would be aimed at Calais. Of course then they weren't trying to confuse satellites - but German spotter planes.
I'm not trolling - just I recall giving my card no grudgingly when I signed up - maybe it was just with the first purchase from the store (my memory is a little clouded - it was a long time ago) - but I still fail to see why the playstation store needs to record the card numbers at all. Its just placing credit card information at risk for no need except for more control by Sony.
What I hated about PSN from the start is that they demand we enter a credit card number just to be able to use the service. I really see no need for any site outside of financial institutions to need to store credit card information - in my opinion this practice should be made illegal. My bank has recently started offering the facility (through Visa) of generating one time card numbers with fixed limit caps - and you can choose your own expiry date. If Sony are still insisting on card numbers - they will be getting one of these generated ones from me.
The problem I have with 3D films - is being forced to wear 2 pairs of spectacles - one to correct my longsighted vision - and the second for the 3D effect (which incidentally I cannot perceive as a result of the longsightedness / vision imbalance). This tech is not designed for people who need to wear spectacles on a regular basis - and that is quite a proportion of the population.
I also get headaches whilst watching - but last time I attributed this to the fact that the double pair of specs was very uncomfortable. Then its not like you can relax mid movie - and take off the 3D glasses - cos then you can't see the film at all!
So I regard 3D films as a step backwards in cinematography - until they can remove the need for special glasses - and I will not be going to the hobbit - or any other 3D movie until it gets fixed. So please please make a 2D version.
...once they get all the bugs out of the system.
shouldn't that be - once they get the system out of the bugs...
I have a similar eye problem - and what I hate is being forced to wear 2 pairs of glasses to see the 3D movie - you have to have the 3D pair balanced on top of your real glasses - its uncomfortable - and even with this - I cannot see the 3D. Without the 3d glasses though the screen is one big blur.
Then living in Sweden - a lot of the English releases now are only appearing in 3D, so you say just don't go to the 3D movies - which is what I've done - I've stopped going to the cinema - until this little fad is over.
When Volvo demonstrated their S60 colliision detection to 120 Swedish journalists - they actually served to demonstrate why its not such a good idea to rely on all this safety technology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ6z3IArINI
Not sure how safe I would feel sitting in one of these car train jams... something tells me this tech is still a few years off yet.
I think Sony will only use this as a learning exercise for the PS4, which cannot be so very far away now - any kind of hardware fix to the PS3 will screw the vast majority of PS3 owners - and would be commercial stupidity.
And this years best actor is awarded to... the Jaguar Cray XT5...
just when you thought hollywood couldn't possibly get any worse...
A good site for photographers rights is: http://www.sirimo.co.uk/2009/05/14/uk-photographers-rights-v2/
As others have stated - property owners have no rights to prevent phots taken from public places - so this allows pretty much all aerial photography of stonehenge - and any from outside of the property.
Then they can only restrict photographs taken on the site, by requiring this on entry to the site so they must actually state this in the contract (when you buy your tickets).
My father worked 20 years for BP and is an oil safety expert - after a few conversations with him we come to the following - The only proven solution to a spill at this depth is to drill a secondary well to extract the oil. This unfortunately takes 8 to 9 months. Why not drill the secondary well prior to extracting any oil from the primary well. Then in the event of an accident such as this - you can switch to the secondary immediately and not have slicks for 9 months. The only reason is cost...
BP failed to do any kind of accurate risk assessment with this well, if they had done this they would never have drilled in this location at this depth, then they had a faulty blowout valve, that they knew about - they ignored the risks. They should pay in full. I have no sympathy for BP at all.
This must be a typo - I'm sure UK robotic scientists are investigating krikkits and their imminent return to collect the ashes.
I disagree - I think it will be impossible to create a solid legal framework for what counts as "airbrushing" and what is standard manipulation. New manipulation techniques are introduced constantly - there are daily new filters available in photoshop, there are a million ways to edit a photo - and I can't wait to see how they are going to categorise what is acceptable - and what is not. You can multilayer various manipulations one on top of the other - and the courts are gonna go and look at a particular shot - work out what manipulations were done in what layer - and exactly how - before making their decision. It doesn't seem to me like this will work in practice.
Whichever way this was ruled the paper could release the identity of the blogger - if they ruled against allowing publication of identity then the paper could just release the identity in an anonymous blog and with the new restriction in place noone could release the papers identity either... a catch 22.
Skys content - particularly the sport is bound up with a ton of licensing restrictions - Sports tv rights are still bound by licensing deals that arose in the 1980s - and don't seem to be changing anytime soon. I currently live in Sweden - if you wanna watch a game of rugby in Sweden on TV - you basically have 3 choices:
1) Buy a big satellite dish and put it in your back yard... (not an option for me - I live in an appartment that frowns on big dishes...
2) Find a dodgy internet stream - quality is pretty crappy - often laggy - I watched one game where the commentry was 3 minutes ahead of the picture - which makes for some really frustrating viewing - I can tell you
3) Find an Irish pub with a big satellite dish. - This is my preffered option - whenever I get the chance.
For rugby - there appears to be very little drive to get the rights of the sports more widely available - the unions aren't interested - and the BBC / SKY certainly aren't either - they do everything to ensure that the existing UK based licensing rules dreamt up in the 80s are enforced for all eternity.
I would love to be able to purchase the games that I want to watch when I want to watch them... maybe in another 20 years...
Since when is Rep of Ireland in the UK?
OK my appologies - being Welsh myself I'm not exactly pro-uk either...
Sky currently only operate in the UK - you can't buy SKY tv overseas - unless you have a UK based bank account - so I wonder if this means sky are becoming more global - or if this really is just content for the UK market only...and will Sony respond by cutting a deal with Viacom?
one more reason to vote pirate in Sweden in the upcoming EU elections.
I took a Masters in Software Engineering - back in the 90s. My masters was specially setup so that an industrial placement with a company was an integral part of the course. By all means take a job now - if you can get a good one - on the other hand - combining your masters course with an industrial placement at a well known company will get you the best of both worlds - and usually there are several bigname companies interested in taking on a motivated masters student as an industrial placement.
Utter nonsense - the opposition party is called the Social democrats. On may 1st the streets are packed out with people waving red flags and shouting socialist slogans (there is no similar day for anyone who doesnt follow the socialist agenda) - socialism is a fully accepted fact of life in Sweden - as someone else has replied - its capitalism that is held in contempt. Newspapers here publish details of all in the local area who earn over a certain amount each year - and to be if you are on that list - it seems like you should hold your head in shame... why else would they publish this information.
The word socialism is completely taboo in Sweden as much as it is in the US. Even when you discuss systems where there clearly is socialism, such as the public road system.
I live in Sweden have broadband with blixtvik http://blixtvik.se/ and pay $29 per month for a 100/10 connection - and its totally uncapped no 200GB/month cap - at least there is no stipulation of this cap in my contract with them - and so no extra premiums.