I think its called Dislosure and I know that for example IBM publishes its work that it doesn't want to patent there so they can't be slapped with a court writ later from a submarine patent.
I-mode has been available in Germany for two years now from E-plus. It hasn't been that successful here.
The WAP consortium was only seeking a way to get html down a low-bandwith traditional style connection as that is what is available in most of Europe. GPRS (already deployed) and later UMTS make this redundant.
You aren't really off-topic because GSM covers all aspects of the mobile system down to the SIM card. This is what annoys me about the CDMA advocates (and what is wrong with their system). You need much more than an air-interface for a complete standard.
What I like is that although roaming can cost serious money (20% of outgoing call costs), it is often possible to buy a local SIM card and use the system at local rates. You can then setup a redirect from your old number to the new local number.
This is a little like saying well, we doon't want to make right-hand drive cars so we demand that part of the road is set aside for cars that drive on the right. Its called compatability.
Yep, there is much more overhead in GSM because it does more. Qualcomm frankly make me sick because although they developed CDMA for mobile equipment and promoted it aggressively, they forgot that an air-protocol doesn't make a complete system. Implement a fraction of the protocol and everything is faster, but its better not to switch cells mid-call!!!
As for 'doing the European thing', thats called interoperability, as the rest of the world uses it too. It may be unimportant in the US where only 10% of people have passports but many in the rest of the world do travel.
The reason why I'm sick of this is that I'm aware of an incident where the US threatened to pull a World Bank loan if the country didn't admit a CDMA system which was 100% incompatible with its neighbours.
And this is now, when I can't see the mobile phone market in Iraq being very relevant for the next few years.
Fwiw, if you don't have a military radio or a satellite telephone, you really want a mobile phone in Iraq. The lack of physical wires means that they tend to be much more reliable *and* it will work in the neighbouring countries. The telephones are, of course, GSM as that is the standard in the arab world.
Japan leads the world in the use of GSM Phase 3 technology. The funny thing is that GSM phase 3 uses CDMA as the air interface. As I mentioned earlier, the air interface is only a minor part of the GSM spec. A GSM phase 3 handset can still be used in "reverse compatability mode" roaming onto a GSM Phase 2 system.
What the US is pushing is a CDMA system that doesn't communicate with anything else, which is being pushed by Qualcomm (and their senators). CDMA should provide a much better overall quality and spectrum of possible services, unfortunately in the US it doesn't. This is becase the air spec is just a small part of it.
The fun thing is that GSM Phase 3 means that some Qualcomm poatents must be licensed so they are still being paid for the technology.
GSM is about a heck of a lot more than the air interface. There is a lot connected with roaming between networks, the specification and use of the SIM card. The GSM spec could be changed to include CDMA, but this will hang on a lot of things. The first problem is that of patent licensing the second being the availability of mobile equipment that can switch air interfaces. Note that CDMA will be used by GSM Phase 3 equipment, but that hardly exists at the moment.
It is the fact that GSM stresses interoperability and the scope of the spec have been major reasons for its success.
What the high-end Suns are good at is I/O and memory bandwidth. Talking very quickly as far as your on-chip cache doesn't help a lot for most applications.
For AMD to compete in this space, it requires better motherboards and chipsets. It will happen, but it won't be cheap.
As far as software is concerned, it really isn't about Java. It is about Solaris, and there Linux is already getting many of Sun's enterprise level advantages, give another couple of years and it will have most of them. (courtesy of IBM amongst others).
It is a record I believe, I saw a "making of documentary". However you are tight in that that it was shot on HD video and later transferred. From simply a logistics viewpoint, the film is outstanding. From the cinematographic viewpoint, the Steadicam gives a dream-like quality to the whole thing.
The Stedicam Operator/cameraman was a german, Tilman Büttner who also worked on Lola Rennt (Lola run), a very dynamic film with the camera following the main protaganist as she rushes to fulfill her commitments to save her boyfriend.
On your first point, remember you have to counterbalance that 17lbs with something and that is extra weight for the soldier to carry.
It isn't so much the muzzle brakes, that just slows the munitions down trying to reduce the recoil by deflecting gasses rearwards. The real 'saver' is the mount of the gun. Springs are fine but they still just convert the impulse force into a more constant force when you are firing in full automatic mode. I really don't think that a gimble would like it!
No you didn't suggest that it was practical, but it was interesting to look at why it isn't such a good idea.
I guess the limit for the pro-rig is the film Russian Ark which was 90 minutes and shot in a single take. The camera passes through the Hermitage museum and various action sequences in one smooth, continuous movement. They used a two man crew, one with the camera and another carrying the power in a backpack.
A home-built rig will never get to that level, but the point about portable-rigs as opposed to dollys is that the former remains much more portable, while the latter requires installation (you need to lay tracks).
Apparently the Pentagon liked the idea (it looks cool) but I had a detailed discussion with a military person about these things.
Yes they are interesting but what would the recoil do to the mount (particularly the gimbles)? Also the full harnesses make it rather difficult to hit the ground for cover. The other point is that a gun is rather heavier than a camera so you need more of a counterbalance.
The monitor aspect of the viewcam isn't really needed with a gun because of laser sights. You would only need to see through the scope when looking over a long distance.
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Last time I heard, nuclear weapons need a service from time to time to keep their ability to detonate - this would certainly hamper any country's wish to hold a nuke in space. If such a weapon was launched in 96, it would have been useless by 2000.
This is total BS. First of all, the Soviets were most interested in MAD, they had no aggressive policies involving nuclear weapons although conventional weapons were another matter. Whether or not starwars in the form proposed by the idiot, Reagan worked, it would have been totally ineffective against the SS20s in Europe (although the US was beyond range, they would have destroyed much of western Europe).
Moscow knew about the economic problems, but the reform interests in the Kremlin had to circumvent the old guard. This circumvention happened as a result of two incident, first the shooting down of civillian flight KAL007 by the Russian military and the second was the landing of a Cessna in Red Square by Mathias Rust. Essentially this discredited the old-guard in the military and allowed the economic reforms.
Yep, but the date wasn't mentioned in the print edition and a Google search revealed this article on chaotic systems listing William Ditto as a co-author. I would guess it is genuine.
Many people have accused Microsoft of ripping off some aspects of Digital's OpenVMS operating system. However, that ran on VAXes and later Alphas and both supported read, execute and modify as memory page attributes and it was throughout the OS. I'm suprised that Cutler didn't scream about this earlier (he was a VMS architect). Hoiwever many of the security features of VMS came from anothe architect, Andy Goldstein who I hear remains with HPaq.
I have a Russian wife and two kids from post-Soviet Russia. I brought them to Europe and my new son, aged 16 was given a competance test by the authorities in Germany where we were living. The maths test was so simple for him that he was puzzles lest there was some trick. No, he was given simple arithmetic of fractions which he had learned at about 11 in Russia. Talking to the lady who supervised these tests, this wasn't unusual and it was known that the Russians excelled at mathematical r scientific subjects. The only reason they didn't at other subjects was because of the German language, which isn't easy in written form.
The problem is that due to the nature of Russian society, which still emphasises personal connections above all, large organisations such as the government and companies. They respond well to a personal touch, but they resent stupid management.
You are right about software engineering, that is where they still show some weaknesses, but no more than the Indians.
The end result is that you get what you pay for. If you are prepared to spend time supervising projects on a personal basis, they will work. and work well.
It is illegal. If you pay somebody else to make a claim for you then you can be seen to be behind it (that is unless another company writes the cheque, say Microsoft?).
It appears that our friends at SCO commissioned a PR agency to translate and circulate their illegal and ridiculous claims. In this case, a SCO employee briefed the agency so SCO remain guilty of the public circulation of their claims. The only get out is if the PR company took direct instructions from Utah.
It is a pity that the PR company isn't named. Linux is getting well established as a server platform in many of Germany's largest banks and IBM are quite powerful there too.
What happens when the catalyst get poisoned? Normally, reactivation is needed (typically heating it up) from time to time to ensure that the molecular sites where the combination occurs remain free of contamination.
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CMYK is a fairly basic feature. Once you engineer in the object and the methods it really would be quite cheap to do. This is why CMYK output was implemented so quickly. And $5K can buy a lot of programmer time in India.
Photoshop is good but it isn't that good. I have fought with a number of prepress packages from Adobe and others, and can honestly say that they are overpriced for what they offer and away from the Mac environment they can be somewhat flakey (which you don't expect when you pay that amount).
Given that commercial aircraft and ground vehicles have rather different maintenance procedures depending upon conditions, are you telling me that the F15 is somehow immune? They can't always spend their time hangared?
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I think its called Dislosure and I know that for example IBM publishes its work that it doesn't want to patent there so they can't be slapped with a court writ later from a submarine patent.
The WAP consortium was only seeking a way to get html down a low-bandwith traditional style connection as that is what is available in most of Europe. GPRS (already deployed) and later UMTS make this redundant.
What I like is that although roaming can cost serious money (20% of outgoing call costs), it is often possible to buy a local SIM card and use the system at local rates. You can then setup a redirect from your old number to the new local number.
Yep, there is much more overhead in GSM because it does more. Qualcomm frankly make me sick because although they developed CDMA for mobile equipment and promoted it aggressively, they forgot that an air-protocol doesn't make a complete system. Implement a fraction of the protocol and everything is faster, but its better not to switch cells mid-call!!!
As for 'doing the European thing', thats called interoperability, as the rest of the world uses it too. It may be unimportant in the US where only 10% of people have passports but many in the rest of the world do travel.
The reason why I'm sick of this is that I'm aware of an incident where the US threatened to pull a World Bank loan if the country didn't admit a CDMA system which was 100% incompatible with its neighbours.
Incidentally, in many parts of the world straight TDMA GSM gives better quality than land-lines because of the digital nature of the network.
What the US is pushing is a CDMA system that doesn't communicate with anything else, which is being pushed by Qualcomm (and their senators). CDMA should provide a much better overall quality and spectrum of possible services, unfortunately in the US it doesn't. This is becase the air spec is just a small part of it.
The fun thing is that GSM Phase 3 means that some Qualcomm poatents must be licensed so they are still being paid for the technology.
It is the fact that GSM stresses interoperability and the scope of the spec have been major reasons for its success.
For AMD to compete in this space, it requires better motherboards and chipsets. It will happen, but it won't be cheap.
As far as software is concerned, it really isn't about Java. It is about Solaris, and there Linux is already getting many of Sun's enterprise level advantages, give another couple of years and it will have most of them. (courtesy of IBM amongst others).
The Stedicam Operator/cameraman was a german, Tilman Büttner who also worked on Lola Rennt (Lola run), a very dynamic film with the camera following the main protaganist as she rushes to fulfill her commitments to save her boyfriend.
It isn't so much the muzzle brakes, that just slows the munitions down trying to reduce the recoil by deflecting gasses rearwards. The real 'saver' is the mount of the gun. Springs are fine but they still just convert the impulse force into a more constant force when you are firing in full automatic mode. I really don't think that a gimble would like it!
No you didn't suggest that it was practical, but it was interesting to look at why it isn't such a good idea.
A home-built rig will never get to that level, but the point about portable-rigs as opposed to dollys is that the former remains much more portable, while the latter requires installation (you need to lay tracks).
Yes they are interesting but what would the recoil do to the mount (particularly the gimbles)? Also the full harnesses make it rather difficult to hit the ground for cover. The other point is that a gun is rather heavier than a camera so you need more of a counterbalance.
The monitor aspect of the viewcam isn't really needed with a gun because of laser sights. You would only need to see through the scope when looking over a long distance.
Last time I heard, nuclear weapons need a service from time to time to keep their ability to detonate - this would certainly hamper any country's wish to hold a nuke in space. If such a weapon was launched in 96, it would have been useless by 2000.
Moscow knew about the economic problems, but the reform interests in the Kremlin had to circumvent the old guard. This circumvention happened as a result of two incident, first the shooting down of civillian flight KAL007 by the Russian military and the second was the landing of a Cessna in Red Square by Mathias Rust. Essentially this discredited the old-guard in the military and allowed the economic reforms.
Yep, but the date wasn't mentioned in the print edition and a Google search revealed this article on chaotic systems listing William Ditto as a co-author. I would guess it is genuine.
Many people have accused Microsoft of ripping off some aspects of Digital's OpenVMS operating system. However, that ran on VAXes and later Alphas and both supported read, execute and modify as memory page attributes and it was throughout the OS. I'm suprised that Cutler didn't scream about this earlier (he was a VMS architect). Hoiwever many of the security features of VMS came from anothe architect, Andy Goldstein who I hear remains with HPaq.
I have a Russian wife and two kids from post-Soviet Russia. I brought them to Europe and my new son, aged 16 was given a competance test by the authorities in Germany where we were living. The maths test was so simple for him that he was puzzles lest there was some trick. No, he was given simple arithmetic of fractions which he had learned at about 11 in Russia. Talking to the lady who supervised these tests, this wasn't unusual and it was known that the Russians excelled at mathematical r scientific subjects. The only reason they didn't at other subjects was because of the German language, which isn't easy in written form.
You are right about software engineering, that is where they still show some weaknesses, but no more than the Indians.
The end result is that you get what you pay for. If you are prepared to spend time supervising projects on a personal basis, they will work. and work well.
However in the US, it is about as useful as a chocolate coffee-pot unless you had your own spot of desert to drive it on.
It is illegal. If you pay somebody else to make a claim for you then you can be seen to be behind it (that is unless another company writes the cheque, say Microsoft?).
It is a pity that the PR company isn't named. Linux is getting well established as a server platform in many of Germany's largest banks and IBM are quite powerful there too.
What happens when the catalyst get poisoned? Normally, reactivation is needed (typically heating it up) from time to time to ensure that the molecular sites where the combination occurs remain free of contamination.
Photoshop is good but it isn't that good. I have fought with a number of prepress packages from Adobe and others, and can honestly say that they are overpriced for what they offer and away from the Mac environment they can be somewhat flakey (which you don't expect when you pay that amount).
Given that commercial aircraft and ground vehicles have rather different maintenance procedures depending upon conditions, are you telling me that the F15 is somehow immune? They can't always spend their time hangared?