The blog only talks about the IT Challenge category, which is about maintaining and using Windows. The Thai students won the Software Design category. The complete list of winners is here.
One of the easiest ways to see banding if you run Windows is the blue shaded screen that many install programs use. It should be completely smooth shaded and has no banding. I'm a little disappointed that my new ThinkPad with SXGA+ screen shows banding while the previous one with regular XGA didn't.
Strangely enough, F-Secure also ran into a false positive on a Windows system file (shdocvw.dll) on the same day, and on the Simplified and Traditional Chinese editions of Windows...
Unfortunately, Thailand is such a small country that few people outside of Thailand (or even in Thailand) pay attention to its government controlled computing policies. Thailand has more Internet censorship than anywhere else in the world, but no one can do anything about it.
Actually, a smartphone has to have the ability to install software that can modify the phone's behavior, and the installed software has to be able to interact with the phone's built-in features. e.g. a third-party contacts or calendar application that can completely replace the built-in application and can seamlessly share information with other apps, if necessary. This is unlike phones that can only run stand-alone apps inside a Java environment.
Sometimes a non-smartphone might even have more out of the box features, but a smartphone user would be able to find a third-party application to adds the feature. Common examples are photo caller ID and music/video players.
Actually, many major cities in China have hybrid buses. They look like trams but run on wheels instead of tracks. The electric part on top of the bus can disconnect from the power grid while turning or if the bus goes out of the city.
BlackBerry is available where I live (SE Asia), but the handset costs more than US$600 since phones aren't subsidized by the operators here, and push mail is an additional cost added towards the cellular bill. Not to mention the handsets don't support Asian languages. BlackBerry isn't likely go get anywhere, even if available, a local solution is much more useful...
In my country, we have three GSM operators, and the interference only happens with two operators. Strangely, one uses 900 MHz and one uses 1800 MHz. The one that interference doesn't happen uses 1800 MHz.
Those cheap Motorola phones are available in my country, but I've never seen anyone use one yet. Everyone wants phones with games, camera, and MP3. We have a huge gray market selling phones that are not officially imported by the phone companies. I don't even know why the phone companies bother to sell basic phones here. They should just send all the basic phones to the US where people want them, and bring those really good phones that no one in the US wants here.
The guy who stole their thunder is selling an "Internet Passport" program that does full screen translation between several languages, and also converts between Traditional and Simplified Chinese. It also claims to be the first that will speak out the translated text or something. I don't understand why the article says the guy stole all their thunder, but language translation software are incredibly popular in Taiwan.
Maybe Newsforge is talking from a US or European viewpoint. The kernel sources for E680/A760 have been available for ages, and I've seen thousands of applications available for these platforms, but almost all of the apps are non-English.
This is a bit like the N-Gage, where it's being laughed at in many English speaking countries, but it's still selling like hot cakes in Asia.
Probably depends on the brand. We have some $1200 Acers here that play games just fine... (1.73 GHz, 512 MB DDR2, 80 GB HDD, DVD writer, ATI X700, no OS included.)
The Classroom in a Book series used to be downloadable from the Adobe site. I just looked and only certain chapters from the CS2 edition can be downloaded now. But there are still a lot of tutorials, and you can request a free copy if you're an educator...
"Digital image stabilization" is not the same thing as the optical image stabilition on the Canon S2 IS or other manufacturer equivalents (Nikon VR, Panasonic OIS). It's just automatically increasing the sensitivity (ISO) when the camera thinks the scene is too dark.
Actually, I live in Thailand and everyone here has incredibly good computers since all software are "free" so people can spend all their money on the best hardware.
Strangely, the ROKR may be a flop, but where I live sales of the E398 that the ROKR is based on has taken off. The E398 is identical to the ROKR, but is cheaper, and of course, doesn't need iTunes to work.
Obviously we need to swap places. Where I live, every time Nokia releases yet another *monochrome* phone that's just a phone, everyone moans and says the good phones never get released, we still get crap phones that's "just a phone".
The Nokia N70 that's just released is selling so fast the shops can't get enough stock, and it's selling at full price (US$600), no such thing as subsidizing.
Actually, for Hotmail, if you change your profile to USA and use some particular zip code, you get 250 MB. I've had the instructions forwarded to me so many times, and even people calling me up to tell me about it, eventhough I don't even have a Hotmail account.
Actually, the Idol type programs are far more popular China than America since cellular phones and Internet are much more common in China than anywhere else, it's common to vote for your favorite idol by using SMS or online.
Probably because you're in the wrong timezone, like me. Whenever I see an article on/. that says Today is xxx day, I know that it was yesterday and I missed it.
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AMD chips are almost impossible to find in Thailand, does this mean they will continue to be impossible to find?
The blog only talks about the IT Challenge category, which is about maintaining and using Windows. The Thai students won the Software Design category. The complete list of winners is here.
One of the easiest ways to see banding if you run Windows is the blue shaded screen that many install programs use. It should be completely smooth shaded and has no banding. I'm a little disappointed that my new ThinkPad with SXGA+ screen shows banding while the previous one with regular XGA didn't.
Strangely enough, F-Secure also ran into a false positive on a Windows system file (shdocvw.dll) on the same day, and on the Simplified and Traditional Chinese editions of Windows...
Unfortunately, Thailand is such a small country that few people outside of Thailand (or even in Thailand) pay attention to its government controlled computing policies. Thailand has more Internet censorship than anywhere else in the world, but no one can do anything about it.
Actually, a smartphone has to have the ability to install software that can modify the phone's behavior, and the installed software has to be able to interact with the phone's built-in features. e.g. a third-party contacts or calendar application that can completely replace the built-in application and can seamlessly share information with other apps, if necessary. This is unlike phones that can only run stand-alone apps inside a Java environment.
Sometimes a non-smartphone might even have more out of the box features, but a smartphone user would be able to find a third-party application to adds the feature. Common examples are photo caller ID and music/video players.
As usual, this got posted on July 29 on my time zone...
Actually, many major cities in China have hybrid buses. They look like trams but run on wheels instead of tracks. The electric part on top of the bus can disconnect from the power grid while turning or if the bus goes out of the city.
Polar and Adidas have had wearable heart rate monitors for ages. What's special about this?
BlackBerry is available where I live (SE Asia), but the handset costs more than US$600 since phones aren't subsidized by the operators here, and push mail is an additional cost added towards the cellular bill. Not to mention the handsets don't support Asian languages. BlackBerry isn't likely go get anywhere, even if available, a local solution is much more useful...
In my country, we have three GSM operators, and the interference only happens with two operators. Strangely, one uses 900 MHz and one uses 1800 MHz. The one that interference doesn't happen uses 1800 MHz.
Those cheap Motorola phones are available in my country, but I've never seen anyone use one yet. Everyone wants phones with games, camera, and MP3. We have a huge gray market selling phones that are not officially imported by the phone companies. I don't even know why the phone companies bother to sell basic phones here. They should just send all the basic phones to the US where people want them, and bring those really good phones that no one in the US wants here.
The guy who stole their thunder is selling an "Internet Passport" program that does full screen translation between several languages, and also converts between Traditional and Simplified Chinese. It also claims to be the first that will speak out the translated text or something. I don't understand why the article says the guy stole all their thunder, but language translation software are incredibly popular in Taiwan.
Maybe Newsforge is talking from a US or European viewpoint. The kernel sources for E680/A760 have been available for ages, and I've seen thousands of applications available for these platforms, but almost all of the apps are non-English.
This is a bit like the N-Gage, where it's being laughed at in many English speaking countries, but it's still selling like hot cakes in Asia.
Probably depends on the brand. We have some $1200 Acers here that play games just fine... (1.73 GHz, 512 MB DDR2, 80 GB HDD, DVD writer, ATI X700, no OS included.)
Actually, there's the ATI X200 chipset that uses Pentium M chips, and is available in many laptops.
The Classroom in a Book series used to be downloadable from the Adobe site. I just looked and only certain chapters from the CS2 edition can be downloaded now. But there are still a lot of tutorials, and you can request a free copy if you're an educator...
"Digital image stabilization" is not the same thing as the optical image stabilition on the Canon S2 IS or other manufacturer equivalents (Nikon VR, Panasonic OIS). It's just automatically increasing the sensitivity (ISO) when the camera thinks the scene is too dark.
Actually, I live in Thailand and everyone here has incredibly good computers since all software are "free" so people can spend all their money on the best hardware.
Strangely, the ROKR may be a flop, but where I live sales of the E398 that the ROKR is based on has taken off. The E398 is identical to the ROKR, but is cheaper, and of course, doesn't need iTunes to work.
Obviously we need to swap places. Where I live, every time Nokia releases yet another *monochrome* phone that's just a phone, everyone moans and says the good phones never get released, we still get crap phones that's "just a phone".
The Nokia N70 that's just released is selling so fast the shops can't get enough stock, and it's selling at full price (US$600), no such thing as subsidizing.
Actually, for Hotmail, if you change your profile to USA and use some particular zip code, you get 250 MB. I've had the instructions forwarded to me so many times, and even people calling me up to tell me about it, eventhough I don't even have a Hotmail account.
Actually, the Idol type programs are far more popular China than America since cellular phones and Internet are much more common in China than anywhere else, it's common to vote for your favorite idol by using SMS or online.
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Here's one where a friend's friend entered, go vote!
http://topidol.netandtv.com/showdj.aspx?ContentID
Probably because you're in the wrong timezone, like me. Whenever I see an article on /. that says Today is xxx day, I know that it was yesterday and I missed it.
They used to make a dongle with optical in and out that plugs into the same port as the live drive. I've got two of them...