This smells like it has the beginings of another ISS type fiasco.
With almost all things 'International' being done for the sake of individual national glory while shifting costs to others, one would wonder if it is wise to depend solely on such an international effort.
The world needs to break free from fossle feuls as a source of energy, and i think competition would drive the effort faster then arguing over stupid things like where to put a building.
it would take a video of me performing the signature as well as paper samples, making it much much more difficult to achieve, and easier to detect.
I realise that this technology is a double edged sword. While it may make detecting fraud more precise, it will also make it possible to create the perfect fake, as analising your signiture with this method will tell the fraudster exactly in what sequence and what strokes you use to create your signiture, without the need for the video.
And since the goverment will likely have access to this tech, all tin foil hats are ON!
RTFA. This guy wanted to use a short clip from NBC's Meet The Press in his documentary and offered to pay for a license to use it, just like all the other clips he paid for in his documentary.
NBC said no, not for any copyright related reason, but because it was "not very flattering to the president."
How is this news? People have been selling cheap decorative bands for mobile phones, pens and other items that light up moments before a cell phone lights up.
It's quite popular with the ladies over here and they are onlyh about RM$5 - 20 each.
So these kids put in 4 LEDs instead of 1. Big deal.
Why the trouble with the HDDs? All you need is to do is get your hands on:
1. Windows Preinstallation Kit (1 comes with every box of WindowsXP OEM Licences)
2. A spare Network card
3. A Crossover cable
Then all you need to do after you have setup the Preinstallation Kit on a machine, is to conenct your PC to your clients, insert the CD, a floppy (which will be created when you setup the kit and you're rady to go.
The system will be blanked out and a clean install will be done and the client will be asked for his CD key when he takes it hoem and boots for the 1st time..
yea, but we are talking a heck of alot of energy. Your solution makes it easier, but not cheaper.
I suppose the best thign would be to ship in a nuke reactor and use it to boil water for the heat drills you propose, but the damn enviormentalists will have a lot to say.
They can. The damand for original online mutiplayer games are very strong. Basicly everything Blizzard puts out is booked solid even before the ship that brings it in leaves port of origin.
Also we have a start up online gaming firm that is doing quite well.
That and the commercial use of pirated software is a big no-no. It's only home users that buy pirated and considering that the PC penetration rate for Malaysian households is only 15%, it's not a big loss compared to commercial piracy.
But what good is all that storage space without a proper way of archiving and accessing it?
Remember years ago when the max e-mail size wasn't 2mb and you suddenly got mail bombed? You had to go looking through 100's of pages of mail and deleting all the junk. All that work is enough to give anybody carpel tunnel syndrome. Also, Hotmail's recent restriction on opening only one page at a time only makes the matter worse.
The reason why Gmail can give 1GB of space is because it has developed an excellent system of mail archival, retrieval and display. So unless Hotmail changes its interface and pulls something as good as Google, we are soon going to see frustrated users shifting through many pages of spam.
Well.. Normally, people just buy a place, and finance it.
Say you have diploma and a decent job, you buy a 120K house and finance it over 30 years, basicly your entire working life. You normally end up paying the bank double the price the house what with interest and all. So as it works out, it's an average of rm700/mo in payments to the bank.
Lower income earners are enligible to buy low cost homes that cost a max of 60K (Land developers are required by law to build low cost homes along with mid-high cost projects according to a quota). There are low cost flats also, cost less, but are tiny.
but thats just the urban/industrial areas. There is a sizeable portion of Malaysia that isn't urban, mainly villages and small towns. Again, the economic situation there is diffrent, mainly farmers, fishermen and cottage industries.
You are right about PC ownership. Only 15% of us own PCs.
But you are wrong about the cell phones. For some weird reason, the cellphone companies don't subsidize the phones here. So a new cell phone is about 2 - 3 months average wage.
Cheapest workable computer, with no licenced software: about rm 1100~ (price changes according to market rate, cheapest i've seen was a duron system going for rm 990, branded PC's start at about 2.8K with licences) OEM licensed copy of windows to go with a new system is about rm350.
Rent depends on where you are. urban areas, a 3 room flat is about rm1200-2000/mo, rural areas/low cost housing projects, 1/2 that or less.
Utilities, power is rm0.24 to rm 0.28 a Kw/hour, phone is rm.10 per minute, internet is rm 40 for 60 hours of 382kbps DSL then rm0.01 a minute after, rm 66 unlimited 382, or rm 88 for unlimited 512K. cell phone charges are about rm0.30/min plus a about rm 30 monthly charge.
A mind range palm is rm 1100K and a mac is too expensive. (a used iMac (the lamp like one) is about rm 4800)
We are paid by the month here. Your average school leaver gets paid about rm 600-800 a month. A college diploma will start at about 1 to 1.2K. A tech sector job starts at about 1.6 to 1.8K. A bank manager will make about rm 3K.
The above is all ballpark from my observations, but i'm confident i'm quite correct.. I do live here.
Thats pushing it. I'm Malaysian, and as far as wages go, i'd say that 1100 hours for a copy of XP is pushing it unless you are hardcore poor.
Working at a fastfood joint (there is forever a vacancy) in Malaysia will pay rm 3.50 an hour + benefits and workers fund ( 10 % of your pay is dedducted for workers fund, and the company adds another 20% to it).
A licenced copy of windows purchased with a PC is about rm 350. So if you are a teen working at say KFC and you spend all of your take home pay on the licenced copy of windose, it's about 110 hours.
But you'll have a hell of a time convincing the kid why he should give his hard earned money to a super rich monopoly when he can buy Windows off the street for rm 5.
It's hard, thats why in Malaysia, the (F*ing) BSA only raids companies and all anti piracy FUD are not targeted at home users. I'm sure if they started sueing, people would rather ditch them and use linux then pay MS.
What are the data charges like? When i was in NZ in 2002, call charges were an insane NZ$1.49 a minute. Where i come from, thats daylight robbery. So if data charges are just as high or worse, i don't see how it will take off.
if you're going to hack all that into your car, i don't think it'll be that hard to add a power socket soemhwere so that you can run an extension cable to your car and have the pc run off mains would it?
Kinda like an aircraft at an airport, where they can shutdown all the generators and run power from the terminal.
Face it. The anti abortionists are doing everybody a disservice.
Banning drugs doesn't makes drugs go away, It makes it worse by not only making it's sale unregulateable, it also makes the use of drugs a conduit for viruses like HIV to spread.
The same with abortion. Abortion is going to happen, regardless of what the law says. The only difference is that with abortion legal, a girl can going to a hospital, where she will receive counselling and presented with other options, and if that fails the procedure will carried out in a surgical and safe manner.
If it were illegal, she is going to have it done by some back ally quack, where she may die from the procedure, loosing 2 lives. Even if she were to survive, she's going to face a law written by the self-righteous who want to ruin her life even more by jailing her for the abortion.
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This smells like it has the beginings of another ISS type fiasco.
With almost all things 'International' being done for the sake of individual national glory while shifting costs to others, one would wonder if it is wise to depend solely on such an international effort.
The world needs to break free from fossle feuls as a source of energy, and i think competition would drive the effort faster then arguing over stupid things like where to put a building.
it would take a video of me performing the signature as well as paper samples, making it much much more difficult to achieve, and easier to detect.
I realise that this technology is a double edged sword. While it may make detecting fraud more precise, it will also make it possible to create the perfect fake, as analising your signiture with this method will tell the fraudster exactly in what sequence and what strokes you use to create your signiture, without the need for the video.
And since the goverment will likely have access to this tech, all tin foil hats are ON!
RTFA. This guy wanted to use a short clip from NBC's Meet The Press in his documentary and offered to pay for a license to use it, just like all the other clips he paid for in his documentary.
NBC said no, not for any copyright related reason, but because it was "not very flattering to the president."
At first glance, I though MSN Messenger got 0wnz...
I realised that dispite getting a string of 503 errors while trying to load thr front page, if you try accsing an article directly, it works.
Seems the errors only affects the front page.
Isn't it stated somewhere that a cetain OS, which is forever fair game in this community, should not be used for 'Mission Critical' situations?
Is Clippy Annoying?
This MUST be the first ever dupe comment to ever get modded up on SlashDot.
Whats next? Duplicate rant about dupe comments?
This MUST be the first ever dupe comment to ever get modden up on SlashDot.
Whats next? Duplicate rant about dupe comments?
How is this news? People have been selling cheap decorative bands for mobile phones, pens and other items that light up moments before a cell phone lights up.
It's quite popular with the ladies over here and they are onlyh about RM$5 - 20 each.
So these kids put in 4 LEDs instead of 1. Big deal.
Not really, before his destruction, he offloaded his entire memory into his 'brother'. So all they really need is to rewire his brother's brain.
Why the trouble with the HDDs? All you need is to do is get your hands on :
1. Windows Preinstallation Kit (1 comes with every box of WindowsXP OEM Licences)
2. A spare Network card
3. A Crossover cable
Then all you need to do after you have setup the Preinstallation Kit on a machine, is to conenct your PC to your clients, insert the CD, a floppy (which will be created when you setup the kit and you're rady to go.
The system will be blanked out and a clean install will be done and the client will be asked for his CD key when he takes it hoem and boots for the 1st time..
yea, but we are talking a heck of alot of energy. Your solution makes it easier, but not cheaper.
I suppose the best thign would be to ship in a nuke reactor and use it to boil water for the heat drills you propose, but the damn enviormentalists will have a lot to say.
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How many of you are there hitting refresh just to see the hit counter go up?
Well, MS didn't win in Malaysia. According to this article, Linux out sold Windows about 7 to 3 in the PC Gemilang project mention in the article.
They can. The damand for original online mutiplayer games are very strong. Basicly everything Blizzard puts out is booked solid even before the ship that brings it in leaves port of origin.
Also we have a start up online gaming firm that is doing quite well.
That and the commercial use of pirated software is a big no-no. It's only home users that buy pirated and considering that the PC penetration rate for Malaysian households is only 15%, it's not a big loss compared to commercial piracy.
But what good is all that storage space without a proper way of archiving and accessing it?
Remember years ago when the max e-mail size wasn't 2mb and you suddenly got mail bombed? You had to go looking through 100's of pages of mail and deleting all the junk. All that work is enough to give anybody carpel tunnel syndrome. Also, Hotmail's recent restriction on opening only one page at a time only makes the matter worse.
The reason why Gmail can give 1GB of space is because it has developed an excellent system of mail archival, retrieval and display. So unless Hotmail changes its interface and pulls something as good as Google, we are soon going to see frustrated users shifting through many pages of spam.
Well.. Normally, people just buy a place, and finance it.
Say you have diploma and a decent job, you buy a 120K house and finance it over 30 years, basicly your entire working life. You normally end up paying the bank double the price the house what with interest and all. So as it works out, it's an average of rm700/mo in payments to the bank.
Lower income earners are enligible to buy low cost homes that cost a max of 60K (Land developers are required by law to build low cost homes along with mid-high cost projects according to a quota). There are low cost flats also, cost less, but are tiny.
but thats just the urban/industrial areas. There is a sizeable portion of Malaysia that isn't urban, mainly villages and small towns. Again, the economic situation there is diffrent, mainly farmers, fishermen and cottage industries.
You are right about PC ownership. Only 15% of us own PCs.
But you are wrong about the cell phones. For some weird reason, the cellphone companies don't subsidize the phones here. So a new cell phone is about 2 - 3 months average wage.
Cheapest workable computer, with no licenced software: about rm 1100~ (price changes according to market rate, cheapest i've seen was a duron system going for rm 990, branded PC's start at about 2.8K with licences) OEM licensed copy of windows to go with a new system is about rm350.
Rent depends on where you are. urban areas, a 3 room flat is about rm1200-2000/mo, rural areas/low cost housing projects, 1/2 that or less.
Utilities, power is rm0.24 to rm 0.28 a Kw/hour, phone is rm.10 per minute, internet is rm 40 for 60 hours of 382kbps DSL then rm0.01 a minute after, rm 66 unlimited 382, or rm 88 for unlimited 512K. cell phone charges are about rm0.30/min plus a about rm 30 monthly charge.
A mind range palm is rm 1100K and a mac is too expensive. (a used iMac (the lamp like one) is about rm 4800)
We are paid by the month here. Your average school leaver gets paid about rm 600-800 a month. A college diploma will start at about 1 to 1.2K. A tech sector job starts at about 1.6 to 1.8K. A bank manager will make about rm 3K.
The above is all ballpark from my observations, but i'm confident i'm quite correct.. I do live here.
Thats pushing it. I'm Malaysian, and as far as wages go, i'd say that 1100 hours for a copy of XP is pushing it unless you are hardcore poor.
Working at a fastfood joint (there is forever a vacancy) in Malaysia will pay rm 3.50 an hour + benefits and workers fund ( 10 % of your pay is dedducted for workers fund, and the company adds another 20% to it).
A licenced copy of windows purchased with a PC is about rm 350. So if you are a teen working at say KFC and you spend all of your take home pay on the licenced copy of windose, it's about 110 hours.
But you'll have a hell of a time convincing the kid why he should give his hard earned money to a super rich monopoly when he can buy Windows off the street for rm 5.
It's hard, thats why in Malaysia, the (F*ing) BSA only raids companies and all anti piracy FUD are not targeted at home users. I'm sure if they started sueing, people would rather ditch them and use linux then pay MS.
What are the data charges like? When i was in NZ in 2002, call charges were an insane NZ$1.49 a minute. Where i come from, thats daylight robbery. So if data charges are just as high or worse, i don't see how it will take off.
if you're going to hack all that into your car, i don't think it'll be that hard to add a power socket soemhwere so that you can run an extension cable to your car and have the pc run off mains would it?
Kinda like an aircraft at an airport, where they can shutdown all the generators and run power from the terminal.
Because he's fo fat, he'll be enough ballast for 2 and they can't take Bill Gates.
Face it. The anti abortionists are doing everybody a disservice.
Banning drugs doesn't makes drugs go away, It makes it worse by not only making it's sale unregulateable, it also makes the use of drugs a conduit for viruses like HIV to spread.
The same with abortion. Abortion is going to happen, regardless of what the law says. The only difference is that with abortion legal, a girl can going to a hospital, where she will receive counselling and presented with other options, and if that fails the procedure will carried out in a surgical and safe manner.
If it were illegal, she is going to have it done by some back ally quack, where she may die from the procedure, loosing 2 lives. Even if she were to survive, she's going to face a law written by the self-righteous who want to ruin her life even more by jailing her for the abortion.