Seriously, take it. You aren't as important to your current employer as you think you are.
Oh, they will cajole and complain. But you will kick yourself for the years to come because you will wonder what would've happened if you had taken the job.
And, if you say, the management are really your friends, they'll understand eventually. Good management understands the value of keeping even leaving people happy - because after all, the employees might want to come back some day.
Nokia and Samsung have had NFC-compatible models years ago. They're in active use in countries like Austria and Germany. Also, Japan has had its own NFC-based infra in place for years, and most cell phone manufacturers offer payment-capable phones in there. Have done so for the past few years.
Nope. The Church collects a tax from corporations as well, and this money is used to maintain the cemeteries. Hence everyone, regardless of their actual faith or whether they paid their taxes or not, is entitled to a place in the cemetery. It's required by law.
Kind of. But it still wouldn't demolish the connection between church and state - a power which is given by the fact that 80% of the population belongs to the same church.
Also, the more hardliners there are, the faster the exodus of the moderates will be.
Also, you can leave the church by submitting a form on the internet. Voting requires that you actually go somewhere and figure out who to vote for. Too much trouble.
As of 14.00 EEST today, 10,000 persons (~0.2% of the population) have left the state church in three days. The pace seems to be somewhat accelerating even.
As far as PR catastrophes go, this is a fairly major one. The average tax paid by a church member is 300€/year, so this means annual losses of at least 3 M€.
It is possible they were from a sect like the Jehova's witnesses or some such. I get regular visits too. If you tell them firmly you never want to see them again, they write your address down and never bother you again (until you move, they keep track of addresses, not people). If you chat amicably with them, they'll pop by for another visit in a few months or so.
Most of them are quite nice and fun to chat with, but some of them can be downright rude.
Yes. This particular incident comes from the fact that the majority of people (according to polls) do agree that equality is a good thing and that gay people should be allowed to marry and adopt children.
However, the church disagrees, and because they have a government-given monopoly on defining marriage, there's a bit of a crisis now.
(You can kind of get a marriage-like thing from the government, but it's legally not the same thing.)
It's not only income tax. Also corporations are taxed by the church, regardless of whether the personnel is a member of the church or not. The money is used to maintain graveyards and other infrastructure; including graveyards for people who don't belong to any organized religion.
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Do not forget the EHB - Extra Halfbrite Mode, in which you have 32 colors (5 bitplanes) and then a sixth bit which halves the colour intensity, so that you get 64 colors, though you can only choose freely 32 of them.
I wrote an image processing program which had fairly good RGB -> HAM & HAM8 conversion routines. If someone's curious to see how that is managed in practice, the code is here (GPL):
But once you learn Qt, you can use the same skillset and nearly the same toolchain to target Mac, Windows, Linux DESKTOPS in addition to Symbian, Meego/Maemo and Windows Mobile. So you can release a few slots from your memory like Carbon or Microsoft classes to learn Qt;-)
I do believe there's a go compiler already for the N900 - at least I recall seeing it in the repos.
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Yes, but e.g. ISO 14443 RFID passive responses (e.g. the ones used in ICAO-specified RFID passports and paypass cards) very quickly go below ambient background noise, in effect limiting even the theoretical range to 1-2 m for all but most exotic radio-noise free environments.
SMSs can be concatenated to form bigger SMSs. I routinely send SMS messages of more than 140 characters, but am obviously charged for multiple SMS messages in that case. However, neither the sender nor recipient notice this aside from a small counter in the top-hand corner of my Nokia phone which says how many SMS messages it takes to carry it.
Twitter's 140 char limit is fairly arbitrary, as evidenced by the likes of Brightkite, Facebook and other ublogging services.
Yes, correct. Some of the passports out there already provide ATR randomization providing random anticollision IDs for each query, so there's no unique data which can be used to identify the passport.
Unfortunately this is not widely used yet, though in all honesty, following your cell phone IMEI or Bluetooth code is far easier than trying to read the passport anticol id - you need a really large and expensive infrastructure in order to have any sort of massive tracking capability for this near field RFID...
There are multiple technologies, all called RFID. Some of them have very short range (like the ISO 14443 used in the passports, also known as NFC), which has pretty much a maximum distance of one metre (due to the coupling it uses).
However, there are other technologies which allow far longer reading range - such as the one used in these inconveniently named "passport cards". The EZPass cards can be read from the range of several metres fairly easily.
Don't confuse these "far field" and "near field" RFID technologies. They are physically quite different beasts.
There is no need for a self-respecting geek to wait for others to get their stuff together. These phones (e.g. Nokia 6131nfc and 6212) have an RFID reader AND writer as well as a programmable platform (Java MIDP) and cell connectivity in a single package.
So a shop owner could create his own loyalty card system (just read the Oyster card's ID and put it in a database) or make up a game of geotagging.
Why bother to wait for the payment stuff? It's cool as it is.:-)
Yeah, I'm biased, having worked in the area for quite a while. But there's no need to wait - just get the phones and hack away:-)
Nokia 6131nfc and Nokia 6212 already contain the necessary hardware. Both are on market, the former has been around for over a year. They are not carried by any US operators, but they are available in some European countries, like Austria.
RFID does not protect technology. Saying something is "RFID-protected" is just like saying "my access point is WiFi -protected". Eh?
RFID is a carrier technology, with a number of different frequency bands, with each of their own application area: some can be read from afar, some offer high transfer speeds, some work well close to metal, some need large antennas and some need small ones.
Some RFID tags just contain an ID (and are usually of high range and low speed), and some tags contain loads of data (meaning a low range and high speed). Unfortunately, people tend to lump all RFID as a single thing, which muddles things somewhat. However, they have no more in common than say, HAM radio and WiFi. You can't say that WiFi is bad because HAM radio lacks security;-)
RFID is everywhere in Europe - just not on the credit cards. Yet. But the situation is changing.
The US is skipping on the chip-n-pin because it makes sense for them to jump directly to the RFID cards, which are physically more durable, and allow for different form factors (like mobile phones or keyfobs).
The RFID card security problems currently can be attributed to flawed security design, not to the technology itself. We trust TSL over WiFi, and WiFi is far more easier to skim than RFID comms.
Originally I thought that when they asked "paper or plastic" they wanted to know if I wanted to pay with paper notes or a plastic credit card. And then I was confused in Australia because their notes *are* made of plastic.
Life gets so much more interesting when English is not your native language:-)
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Seriously, take it. You aren't as important to your current employer as you think you are.
Oh, they will cajole and complain. But you will kick yourself for the years to come because you will wonder what would've happened if you had taken the job.
And, if you say, the management are really your friends, they'll understand eventually. Good management understands the value of keeping even leaving people happy - because after all, the employees might want to come back some day.
Why not? There's plenty of ideas for startups out there around NFC.
Nokia and Samsung have had NFC-compatible models years ago. They're in active use in countries like Austria and Germany. Also, Japan has had its own NFC-based infra in place for years, and most cell phone manufacturers offer payment-capable phones in there. Have done so for the past few years.
Google is hardly the first.
Nope. The Church collects a tax from corporations as well, and this money is used to maintain the cemeteries. Hence everyone, regardless of their actual faith or whether they paid their taxes or not, is entitled to a place in the cemetery. It's required by law.
Kind of. But it still wouldn't demolish the connection between church and state - a power which is given by the fact that 80% of the population belongs to the same church.
Also, the more hardliners there are, the faster the exodus of the moderates will be.
Also, you can leave the church by submitting a form on the internet. Voting requires that you actually go somewhere and figure out who to vote for. Too much trouble.
As of 14.00 EEST today, 10,000 persons (~0.2% of the population) have left the state church in three days. The pace seems to be somewhat accelerating even.
As far as PR catastrophes go, this is a fairly major one. The average tax paid by a church member is 300€/year, so this means annual losses of at least 3 M€.
It is possible they were from a sect like the Jehova's witnesses or some such. I get regular visits too. If you tell them firmly you never want to see them again, they write your address down and never bother you again (until you move, they keep track of addresses, not people). If you chat amicably with them, they'll pop by for another visit in a few months or so.
Most of them are quite nice and fun to chat with, but some of them can be downright rude.
Yes. This particular incident comes from the fact that the majority of people (according to polls) do agree that equality is a good thing and that gay people should be allowed to marry and adopt children.
However, the church disagrees, and because they have a government-given monopoly on defining marriage, there's a bit of a crisis now.
(You can kind of get a marriage-like thing from the government, but it's legally not the same thing.)
It's not only income tax. Also corporations are taxed by the church, regardless of whether the personnel is a member of the church or not. The money is used to maintain graveyards and other infrastructure; including graveyards for people who don't belong to any organized religion.
N900 runs J2SE. In fact, it runs even J2EE...
Do not forget the EHB - Extra Halfbrite Mode, in which you have 32 colors (5 bitplanes) and then a sixth bit which halves the colour intensity, so that you get 64 colors, though you can only choose freely 32 of them.
I wrote an image processing program which had fairly good RGB -> HAM & HAM8 conversion routines. If someone's curious to see how that is managed in practice, the code is here (GPL):
Histogram conversion:
https://svn.ecyrd.com/repos/PPT/trunk/palette.c
Palette mapping:
https://svn.ecyrd.com/repos/PPT/trunk/colormap.c
But once you learn Qt, you can use the same skillset and nearly the same toolchain to target Mac, Windows, Linux DESKTOPS in addition to Symbian, Meego/Maemo and Windows Mobile. So you can release a few slots from your memory like Carbon or Microsoft classes to learn Qt ;-)
I do believe there's a go compiler already for the N900 - at least I recall seeing it in the repos.
Yes, but e.g. ISO 14443 RFID passive responses (e.g. the ones used in ICAO-specified RFID passports and paypass cards) very quickly go below ambient background noise, in effect limiting even the theoretical range to 1-2 m for all but most exotic radio-noise free environments.
Passive RFID is only half-radio, really. ;-)
Source is available (already, albeit in beta form) from http://maemo.org/development/sources/. Includes deb packages and direct SVN access.
You can try a web server for your phone: http://www.mymobilesite.net/.
SMSs can be concatenated to form bigger SMSs. I routinely send SMS messages of more than 140 characters, but am obviously charged for multiple SMS messages in that case. However, neither the sender nor recipient notice this aside from a small counter in the top-hand corner of my Nokia phone which says how many SMS messages it takes to carry it.
Twitter's 140 char limit is fairly arbitrary, as evidenced by the likes of Brightkite, Facebook and other ublogging services.
Yes, correct. Some of the passports out there already provide ATR randomization providing random anticollision IDs for each query, so there's no unique data which can be used to identify the passport.
Unfortunately this is not widely used yet, though in all honesty, following your cell phone IMEI or Bluetooth code is far easier than trying to read the passport anticol id - you need a really large and expensive infrastructure in order to have any sort of massive tracking capability for this near field RFID...
Or just buy one of the Nokia phones which already have an RFID/NFC reader in them (yes, it can read passports).
http://europe.nokia.com/A4991361
There are multiple technologies, all called RFID. Some of them have very short range (like the ISO 14443 used in the passports, also known as NFC), which has pretty much a maximum distance of one metre (due to the coupling it uses).
However, there are other technologies which allow far longer reading range - such as the one used in these inconveniently named "passport cards". The EZPass cards can be read from the range of several metres fairly easily.
Don't confuse these "far field" and "near field" RFID technologies. They are physically quite different beasts.
There is no need for a self-respecting geek to wait for others to get their stuff together. These phones (e.g. Nokia 6131nfc and 6212) have an RFID reader AND writer as well as a programmable platform (Java MIDP) and cell connectivity in a single package.
So a shop owner could create his own loyalty card system (just read the Oyster card's ID and put it in a database) or make up a game of geotagging.
Why bother to wait for the payment stuff? It's cool as it is. :-)
Yeah, I'm biased, having worked in the area for quite a while. But there's no need to wait - just get the phones and hack away :-)
Nokia 6131nfc and Nokia 6212 already contain the necessary hardware. Both are on market, the former has been around for over a year. They are not carried by any US operators, but they are available in some European countries, like Austria.
Check out http://europe.nokia.com/A41197323?&loc=use_nfc or search Youtube for "Near Field Communications".
Oyster phones (=the Nokia phone with an Oyster card on board) also exist in the UK, but still in pilot usage.
RFID does not protect technology. Saying something is "RFID-protected" is just like saying "my access point is WiFi -protected". Eh?
RFID is a carrier technology, with a number of different frequency bands, with each of their own application area: some can be read from afar, some offer high transfer speeds, some work well close to metal, some need large antennas and some need small ones.
Some RFID tags just contain an ID (and are usually of high range and low speed), and some tags contain loads of data (meaning a low range and high speed). Unfortunately, people tend to lump all RFID as a single thing, which muddles things somewhat. However, they have no more in common than say, HAM radio and WiFi. You can't say that WiFi is bad because HAM radio lacks security ;-)
RFID is everywhere in Europe - just not on the credit cards. Yet. But the situation is changing.
The US is skipping on the chip-n-pin because it makes sense for them to jump directly to the RFID cards, which are physically more durable, and allow for different form factors (like mobile phones or keyfobs).
The RFID card security problems currently can be attributed to flawed security design, not to the technology itself. We trust TSL over WiFi, and WiFi is far more easier to skim than RFID comms.
Originally I thought that when they asked "paper or plastic" they wanted to know if I wanted to pay with paper notes or a plastic credit card. And then I was confused in Australia because their notes *are* made of plastic.
Life gets so much more interesting when English is not your native language :-)