I know you didn't mean to take it personally but saying this utter BS is a bit too much.:)
The reason that you think it that way is due to the bad track record of freedeom China. Everything that would result in blockage of information is very sensitive, we can understand that.
In fact the nationwide inspection of illegal established netcafes has already begun BEFORE the instance. I'm sure NY does not have 90% unlicensed netcafe, does it? Illegal opening of netcafes not only endanger the safety of their customers, it also causes social problems as it attracts drug-dealers and prostitutes(no kidding, ask a Chinese).
However, when we think the other way round, if China Government did'nt put too much restriction in licnesing netcafes there wouldn't be that many illegal operating shops, thus results in this tragedy. Hell I'm not totally disagree with you! LESS RESTRICTION TO NETCAFES PLEASE!
China always very controlling the net and freedom of the speech.
To be honest your statement is true. However, if you care to read any news on it, you can see that the reason to shutdown netcafes is for safety and license inspection, it has nothing to do with squeezing free of speech and human right. While it may be true that China Government has problems with human right, do you guys has to related all the bad things happened in China to human right and free speech?
Recent floods in China has killed thousands of people, can we conclude by this instance that human right and freedom of speech are in jeopardy?
Even the press has conclude that the embassy instances are all political. It could be an accident in the first instance, but it's obviously not for the second.
However, I see no direct relation of above with the shutting down of netcafes. Your rationale is that you don't like the way China Government treats people in both cases so they are connected.
I know take an objective view on cases related to commies would be unwelcomed here. I don't care, I just state the fact.
I write to clear things up just in case some people immediate jumping into issues of free speech and human rights.
The students are killed as all possible exits were either blocked or locked up.
The building has only one entrance/exit, and it was locked at the time of fire, and the windows were barred with steel. As a matter of fact the owner didn't get proper license to open an Internet cafe and the door was always locked to avoid inspection. The windows were barred to prevent thievery, and it's not unusual to see many factories and commercial buildings have their windows barred for this reason.
As a result the authority shutdown all Internet cafes for safety and license inspection. In fact only 1/10 of the Internet cafes got proper commercial license for. It's not an action against civilians' Internet access, at least not directly.
Of course, I'd expect people in Beijing has tough time accessing Internet in the future, as the conservative people would sneak chance to impose more restrictions.:(
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It's effectively saying: You got what you asked for. Here's your five dollars, move along.
Somehow I think it's much worse than the big cap 'NO WARRANTY' in all GNU software license.:)
Microsoft will actually sign with customers of big contracts agreements which assure that Microsoft will taking liability to ensure uptime, security and safety something.
One of the major bonehead CIO bloated to others that agreement and said "Now that's what we need - an assurance from a big corp.! What more can we ask for!"
Until I show him the following line:
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
Microsoft's entire liability and your exclusive remedy under this EULA shall not exceed five dollars (US$5.00).
God, he signed a $10,000 assurance agreement for a liability worths US$5.00. You gotta see his face when he figured this out.
Obviously the original poster didn't compare rpm to apt-get, he's talking about the convenience offered by RPM-based apt-get which solves a lot of dependencies problems in RPM.
They couldn't help, in view of high tariff on Japanese-made electronics. Like Sony, they've to find markets where they could get a quick sales for new products. Yes US is a huge market, but it's not a desirable market for new product initial lanuch.
She might have thought her boss forced her to be unethical.
What she must do is to report the instance to his boss immediately, and her job is done. It's up to her boss to decide the next action. Bear in mind, Dana is just an administrator and she's not in the front line dealing with the customers, nor dealing with the legalese.
Her boss is doing good for her, because he took up the responsibility. I understand Dana's feeling that she thinks she has the social responsiblity on every unethical matter she comes across. In this case she really has to find a company which is so pure that has nothing to hide.
Coincidentally I'm drafting a project proposal which includes GPL'd software and contains some patented component. As they are not going to release the code to anyone else outside their organization, under abovesaid and this, they do not need to worry too much about conflicting of both license as long as they don't distribute their code outside their organization, and at the same time under the protection of patent-law.
I wish I could win the bid but my competitor send some MCSEs to spread FUD that we are using viral licenses and my software is infested with virus. Well that's another story to tell.:(
I started my career in 80's when corporate culture are valued, thanks to Ford who started it all out - company as a family and all as one. We have common focus and the company's vision really means a lot to us.
Nowaday? Blah! Your company treated you as 'resources'(when you can be used) or 'headcount'(in time of downsizing); the vision/mission/values are well-written but the real meaning behind them is 'profit'; your contribution is not important when it's not directly contributed to profit; downsizing would increase stock values so the hell with morale; they paid you just enough to keep you, while your company tries their best to get the most out of their customers; the word loyality means nothing to your managers, but it's still being used when you are asked to accept unfavourable offers; when you aren't work overtime you are not competitive enough; 'insubordinate' in your review refers to anything you did/acted/said that didn't suit your bosses; you could hardly find an employee contract that does not include statements that fuck you up and over...
and the sadiest thing of all, is that most people read above paragraph will respond with 'so what? that's normal'.
So what's my opinion? Get the best you can get! Loot while you are there! They got the most out of their customers could give, it's obligatory to get the most out of your company. Don't be fooled by lies they learnt from management courses, like 'you are company's most valuable asset'(1/1459 of 15% of company's annual expenses), 'the work itself is a reward'(while I took the monetary counterpart), and 'you are at the top on the list of potential promotion'(scores sorted in accending order), etc.
Jump from one company to another so that you could get the most out of what you are worth. Eventually you'll like my friend and become a.......consultant.
You might be joking, but the horror is that DRM actually work well with mobile phone.
I've been working with people bidding projects for mobile computing. Mobile business is an area where you find eveyrthing proprietary.
First you must sign NDA to be allowed to program a GSM sim, then when you've done with the sim you must sign a partnership(aka pay them big bucks of money) agreement with telcos and mobile makers so that they'd ever consider recognize the sim cards you made. Otherwise they can always deny your sim from accessing their network. The problem is that when you asked one Telco/mobile maker to sign an agreement with you, they'll probably include in the agreement forbid you from signing a similar agreement with their competitors. There goes the market penetration.
That's why you don't see much special purpose sim card around. Unlike PC market, the business of mobile markets are controlled by the telcos and mobile makers.
DRM would probably not work in PC market, but it would succeed in such a business environment where the business are controlled by several big corps.
Hm.. Looks more like a paper written by an Intel fanatic by me.:)
Have you read from the beginning? I've been reading his articles year ago and he was fiercing bashing Intel, especially first Pentium 4. I was surprise way back ago when he changed his stand, but with good reasons.
This is just another proof of the author's lack of insight in processor architecture.
I'm not really sure if you've read his previous article explaining why and how Intel attempted to kill off Pentium III. Judging from the speed of your reply you obviously haven't read them all before reaching your conclusion.
Also, Pentium III is NOT equal to P3 you idiot. While you bash people lacking insight in processor architecture, you must do more homework in this area and learn what P3 architecture refers to.(or read the article and learn about P3-P7, but I'm sure the hell you won't)
My first Athlon I've installed worked instantly. The first Athlon a friend installed worked instantly. And it was even one of those super hot Thunderbirds. Cool huh? I'm successfully running an (non-replaced!) Athlon at work. Are we super lucky then?
You intentionally extract part of the text and make the worse comment to shine your point. He is not just simply sitting back and installing a Windows/Linux on his computers to browse webs and do games like you, he's writing emulators on all platforms. What are you? You are, in my opinion, the worse kind of cluebie critics.
"Intel caught up as expected"
Actually, you only need to read the first paragraph to see where the entire article is heading (and he get to show off his bias too):
He has been spending a whole year and a half bashing Intel and Pentium before reaching this conclusion. If you could read(obvious you don't) than copy and paste, you will see he's always been the faithful supporter of AMD until recently.
Rating: -1 Troll
The author switches side with reasons. Unlike you, who can only copy and paste part of the text to make your point.
and it can be used to track you if they got your information linked to this unique ID. Just like the unique ID inside Pentium III.
However, it's difficult to link one's personal information to this smart card because we are not required to submit our personal information when buying an Octopus card. Therefore I'll not trade my privacy to a lousy company like Cafe da Carol who sell lousy food just because I want eat some fast food real fast.:)
the thing Octopus piss me off is that it charges HK$50 prepayment. There's no way we could get back that prepayment as long as you are using their service, and when you lost the card you've to pay that HK$50 again. That's why regardless of the fact that we have only 6mil-7mil residents, they've sold 8mils Octopus. Good deal(for them).
Octopus has become a society problems here. Kids are allowed to use the Octopus to pay goods and services in many areas like department store and internet Cafe, etc. People are concerned that while the payment is untrackable, their parents cannot tell where their kids spent their money.
Location-based tracking system is a rather profitable business here because GPS generally fails to work in a city with a lot of high-rising buildings due to blocking and reflection. People are now developing location-based tracking with GPS sims and it works great. I don't think Octopus is better than GSM sims in this case as in normal case a GSM sims is synchronized with 6 GSM location based stations(NNM system) and the result is close to 25M radius.
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In my town I can set a netcafe up without a license, just rent (or buy) some space on main street, a T1, and some comptuers.
Without license? Even BR?
I know you didn't mean to take it personally but saying this utter BS is a bit too much. :)
The reason that you think it that way is due to the bad track record of freedeom China. Everything that would result in blockage of information is very sensitive, we can understand that.
In fact the nationwide inspection of illegal established netcafes has already begun BEFORE the instance. I'm sure NY does not have 90% unlicensed netcafe, does it? Illegal opening of netcafes not only endanger the safety of their customers, it also causes social problems as it attracts drug-dealers and prostitutes(no kidding, ask a Chinese).
However, when we think the other way round, if China Government did'nt put too much restriction in licnesing netcafes there wouldn't be that many illegal operating shops, thus results in this tragedy. Hell I'm not totally disagree with you! LESS RESTRICTION TO NETCAFES PLEASE!
China always very controlling the net and freedom of the speech.
To be honest your statement is true. However, if you care to read any news on it, you can see that the reason to shutdown netcafes is for safety and license inspection, it has nothing to do with squeezing free of speech and human right. While it may be true that China Government has problems with human right, do you guys has to related all the bad things happened in China to human right and free speech?
Recent floods in China has killed thousands of people, can we conclude by this instance that human right and freedom of speech are in jeopardy?
Even the press has conclude that the embassy instances are all political. It could be an accident in the first instance, but it's obviously not for the second.
However, I see no direct relation of above with the shutting down of netcafes. Your rationale is that you don't like the way China Government treats people in both cases so they are connected.
I know take an objective view on cases related to commies would be unwelcomed here. I don't care, I just state the fact.
I write to clear things up just in case some people immediate jumping into issues of free speech and human rights.
:(
The students are killed as all possible exits were either blocked or locked up.
The building has only one entrance/exit, and it was locked at the time of fire, and the windows were barred with steel. As a matter of fact the owner didn't get proper license to open an Internet cafe and the door was always locked to avoid inspection. The windows were barred to prevent thievery, and it's not unusual to see many factories and commercial buildings have their windows barred for this reason.
As a result the authority shutdown all Internet cafes for safety and license inspection. In fact only 1/10 of the Internet cafes got proper commercial license for. It's not an action against civilians' Internet access, at least not directly.
Of course, I'd expect people in Beijing has tough time accessing Internet in the future, as the conservative people would sneak chance to impose more restrictions.
Advanced LCD with backlight. 3.5 times wider than the typical handheld.
A laptop without color?
PalmOS Software v4.1
Flash, or burnt?
8MB of memory
It doesn't scale up with the size it seems.
Looks like a case mod of a normal Palm to me...
Be warned that the links go to Japanese web sites.
/. it equals to declare war on Japan. So becareful gentlemen.
I know it's a novel concept around these parts...
I wish someday music industry would change, so that I can buy the songs I want to buy. I have way too many plastics in the drawers.
What do we say when we meet?
"FIRST POST!"
(From NT EULA)
:)
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To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Microsoft or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damanges for loss of business profits, business information, or any other pecuniary loss) arising out of the use of or inability to use the software product even if Microsoft has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Because some states and jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you.
And my all time favourite:
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
Microsoft's entire liability and your exclusive remedy under this EULA shall not exceed five dollars(US$5.00).
It's effectively saying: You got what you asked for. Here's your five dollars, move along.
Somehow I think it's much worse than the big cap 'NO WARRANTY' in all GNU software license.
Microsoft will actually sign with customers of big contracts agreements which assure that Microsoft will taking liability to ensure uptime, security and safety something.
One of the major bonehead CIO bloated to others that agreement and said "Now that's what we need - an assurance from a big corp.! What more can we ask for!"
Until I show him the following line:
8. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.
Microsoft's entire liability and your exclusive remedy under this EULA shall not exceed five dollars (US$5.00).
God, he signed a $10,000 assurance agreement for a liability worths US$5.00. You gotta see his face when he figured this out.
someone please correct me if I'm wrong
Sure.
Obviously the original poster didn't compare rpm to apt-get, he's talking about the convenience offered by RPM-based apt-get which solves a lot of dependencies problems in RPM.
FOR THE JAPANESE MARKET ONLY
They couldn't help, in view of high tariff on Japanese-made electronics. Like Sony, they've to find markets where they could get a quick sales for new products. Yes US is a huge market, but it's not a desirable market for new product initial lanuch.
She might have thought her boss forced her to be unethical.
What she must do is to report the instance to his boss immediately, and her job is done. It's up to her boss to decide the next action. Bear in mind, Dana is just an administrator and she's not in the front line dealing with the customers, nor dealing with the legalese.
Her boss is doing good for her, because he took up the responsibility. I understand Dana's feeling that she thinks she has the social responsiblity on every unethical matter she comes across. In this case she really has to find a company which is so pure that has nothing to hide.
Applying the following patch to all GPL codes:
+# 0wn j00!!!!!
then patent it. All Your Base Are Belong To Me!
Coincidentally I'm drafting a project proposal which includes GPL'd software and contains some patented component. As they are not going to release the code to anyone else outside their organization, under abovesaid and this, they do not need to worry too much about conflicting of both license as long as they don't distribute their code outside their organization, and at the same time under the protection of patent-law.
:(
I wish I could win the bid but my competitor send some MCSEs to spread FUD that we are using viral licenses and my software is infested with virus. Well that's another story to tell.
I started my career in 80's when corporate culture are valued, thanks to Ford who started it all out - company as a family and all as one. We have common focus and the company's vision really means a lot to us.
.......consultant.
Nowaday? Blah! Your company treated you as 'resources'(when you can be used) or 'headcount'(in time of downsizing); the vision/mission/values are well-written but the real meaning behind them is 'profit'; your contribution is not important when it's not directly contributed to profit; downsizing would increase stock values so the hell with morale; they paid you just enough to keep you, while your company tries their best to get the most out of their customers; the word loyality means nothing to your managers, but it's still being used when you are asked to accept unfavourable offers; when you aren't work overtime you are not competitive enough; 'insubordinate' in your review refers to anything you did/acted/said that didn't suit your bosses; you could hardly find an employee contract that does not include statements that fuck you up and over...
and the sadiest thing of all, is that most people read above paragraph will respond with 'so what? that's normal'.
So what's my opinion? Get the best you can get! Loot while you are there! They got the most out of their customers could give, it's obligatory to get the most out of your company. Don't be fooled by lies they learnt from management courses, like 'you are company's most valuable asset'(1/1459 of 15% of company's annual expenses), 'the work itself is a reward'(while I took the monetary counterpart), and 'you are at the top on the list of potential promotion'(scores sorted in accending order), etc.
Jump from one company to another so that you could get the most out of what you are worth. Eventually you'll like my friend and become a
Well said. Thank you for your support, though I'd never know you. :)
A researcher with eEye Digital Security discovered the flaw in mid-April but it wasn't announced publicly because of an agreement with Microsoft.
Was that this agreement they are talking about?
(Don't click I Agree for God's sake)
Whoo-hoo! DRM for cell phones
You might be joking, but the horror is that DRM actually work well with mobile phone.
I've been working with people bidding projects for mobile computing. Mobile business is an area where you find eveyrthing proprietary.
First you must sign NDA to be allowed to program a GSM sim, then when you've done with the sim you must sign a partnership(aka pay them big bucks of money) agreement with telcos and mobile makers so that they'd ever consider recognize the sim cards you made. Otherwise they can always deny your sim from accessing their network. The problem is that when you asked one Telco/mobile maker to sign an agreement with you, they'll probably include in the agreement forbid you from signing a similar agreement with their competitors. There goes the market penetration.
That's why you don't see much special purpose sim card around. Unlike PC market, the business of mobile markets are controlled by the telcos and mobile makers.
DRM would probably not work in PC market, but it would succeed in such a business environment where the business are controlled by several big corps.
Hm.. Looks more like a paper written by an Intel fanatic by me. :)
Have you read from the beginning? I've been reading his articles year ago and he was fiercing bashing Intel, especially first Pentium 4. I was surprise way back ago when he changed his stand, but with good reasons.
This is just another proof of the author's lack of insight in processor architecture.
I'm not really sure if you've read his previous article explaining why and how Intel attempted to kill off Pentium III. Judging from the speed of your reply you obviously haven't read them all before reaching your conclusion.
Also, Pentium III is NOT equal to P3 you idiot. While you bash people lacking insight in processor architecture, you must do more homework in this area and learn what P3 architecture refers to.(or read the article and learn about P3-P7, but I'm sure the hell you won't)
My first Athlon I've installed worked instantly. The first Athlon a friend installed worked instantly. And it was even one of those super hot Thunderbirds. Cool huh? I'm successfully running an (non-replaced!) Athlon at work. Are we super lucky then?
You intentionally extract part of the text and make the worse comment to shine your point. He is not just simply sitting back and installing a Windows/Linux on his computers to browse webs and do games like you, he's writing emulators on all platforms. What are you? You are, in my opinion, the worse kind of cluebie critics.
"Intel caught up as expected"
Actually, you only need to read the first paragraph to see where the entire article is heading (and he get to show off his bias too):
He has been spending a whole year and a half bashing Intel and Pentium before reaching this conclusion. If you could read(obvious you don't) than copy and paste, you will see he's always been the faithful supporter of AMD until recently.
Rating: -1 Troll
The author switches side with reasons. Unlike you, who can only copy and paste part of the text to make your point.
Read here and the author tells you how The Pentium 4 finally takes the speed crown as AMD falls asleep at the wheel
These are really great read.
we've been giving legal opinions even though majority of us saying 'IANAL'. Now you want us to be the judge? IANAJ, but....(here we go)
and it can be used to track you if they got your information linked to this unique ID. Just like the unique ID inside Pentium III.
:)
However, it's difficult to link one's personal information to this smart card because we are not required to submit our personal information when buying an Octopus card. Therefore I'll not trade my privacy to a lousy company like Cafe da Carol who sell lousy food just because I want eat some fast food real fast.
the thing Octopus piss me off is that it charges HK$50 prepayment. There's no way we could get back that prepayment as long as you are using their service, and when you lost the card you've to pay that HK$50 again. That's why regardless of the fact that we have only 6mil-7mil residents, they've sold 8mils Octopus. Good deal(for them).
Octopus has become a society problems here. Kids are allowed to use the Octopus to pay goods and services in many areas like department store and internet Cafe, etc. People are concerned that while the payment is untrackable, their parents cannot tell where their kids spent their money.
Location-based tracking system is a rather profitable business here because GPS generally fails to work in a city with a lot of high-rising buildings due to blocking and reflection. People are now developing location-based tracking with GPS sims and it works great. I don't think Octopus is better than GSM sims in this case as in normal case a GSM sims is synchronized with 6 GSM location based stations(NNM system) and the result is close to 25M radius.