I went for a test-drive of a pre-production 2014 S Class last week, and to my surprise, the owner's manual came with a loose copy of the LGPL -- in English, no less (everything else was in German.)
I wonder, then, if it will no longer take a month between the time that you order your connection and the time that they come to hook it up. I moved to Germany two years ago, and I was lucky, it only took 3 weeks before Deutch Telekom turned on my DSL. Some of my colleagues have had to wait for 7-8 weeks!
I've been working with VMware since ESX 3.5. It's still my virtualization platform of choice, but on my desktop, I now run Hyper-v. It's included as a role in Windows 8, and is painless to install and configure.
I hope they allow people to use this service outside of the EU/US... I HATE not being able to use Hulu or Netflix or most of the Boxee services here Korea.
This may be a bit off-topic, but I got a Cowon S9 (the first commercially available full color OLED device) at release, and man, OLEDs are gorgeous. The refresh rate is nearly instantaneous, the contrast ratio is essentialy infninate, and has half the power drain of a comaprable LED. I can't wait to get one for my main PC monitor.
I can see where someone would want to have a working prototype of one of the first devices with an OLED display, it's probably headed to a museum somewhere.
I just built a 8x500gb Seagate 7200.12 RAID 10 array using a Dell Perc 5i controller.
I bought the controller for $108 on Ebay. Add the battery for write caching, and 2x 4 port SAS>SATA cables, and I spent a total of $190 on the controller/cables/shipping.
I picked the 500gb drives as they use less power, are extremely silent, run very very cool (case temp is a contstant 39c with 8 drives in a standard mid-tower case), and VMWare ESXi only recognizes up to 2TB per array. The total cost was $600 with shipping for the array.
I have been using Yahoo! Flickr on a nearly daily basis, and for online card/board games, yahoo is a great place to play.
Yahoo stopped being a search engine a looooong time ago, but still does other things quite well.
I have recently started doing something very similar with my DSLR and a GPS logger. Quick and dirty instructions:
1. Get a digital camera (A camcorder that will export.exif data with JPEG snapshots will work as well) and sync the time with International Atomic Time. If you're not using a camcorder, make sure you have PC sync software to be able to time the shots.
2. Get a fisheye lens or a 360 degree panoramic adapter.
3. Buy a GPS logger. Configure it to track during the same time that you are capturing photo/video.
4. Mount the camera to your vehicle, set up the capture criteria on the capture device (camcorder or digital camera and laptop) and gps logger and drive around to capture your image and geo location data.
5. Download the data and embed the geo-location into your images. I use GPSbabel(GPL Freeware) to convert the data to GPS XML (.gpx) format. I then use GeoSetter(Author's license freeware) to embed the EXIF data and export to Google Earth.
6. You can either export the tracks to Google Earth.kml files, upload to locr.com, or upload the photos to flickr.com and flickr will map them automatically (I use the 3rd option.)
Note: You'll have to use some kind of panoramic converter to be able to view the images in a non-distorted manner. A site dedicated to doing this will all-GPL software is located at http://www.all-in-one.ee/~dersch/
"The US House of Representatives passed a spending bill last week that contains provisions establishing a national ID card, and the Senate is poised to approve the measure in the next few days. This week marks the American public's last chance to convince their Senators they don't want to live in a nation that demands papers from its citizens as they go about their lives... One overriding point has been forgotten: Criminals don't obey laws! As with gun control, national ID cards will only affect law-abiding citizens. Do we really believe a terrorist bent on murder is going to dutifully obtain a federal ID card? Do we believe that people who openly flout our immigration laws will nonetheless respect our ID requirements? Any ID card can be forged; any federal agency or state DMV is susceptible to corruption. Criminals can and will obtain national ID cards, or operate without them. National ID cards will be used to track the law-abiding masses, not criminals."
From my own experience, the people who do the best work are the ones who have better ways to use their time than to keep track of "work done" metrics. Only the slackers, who are great at exaggerating what they do, are the ones with the unused time to make up such 'metrics' and skew the facts in their own favor.
I am an American living in Seoul. As a wedding gift, some of my wife's friends pooled their money and got us an electronic bidet. They definately do a better job at cleaning your rear than toilet paper. I'm taking it with me when I go back to the states, for sure.
This is a gripe to the editors.
I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but I posted this LAST DECEMBER:
2004-12-10 03:04:27 RFID Mandated in US Passports (Politics,Privacy) (rejected)
I wonder how much enforcement the Dutch police do for the MPAA/RIAA? Maybe, just maybe, if other criminal justice systems went after CRIMINALS, they could (once again) vailidate their existance. I remember when I was a kid you could actually approach a cop for help without them making it feel like a burden, or worse, being scared of even approaching them.
You can haggle with street vendors- I usually get great deals on clothing that way.
No haggling on electronics. Period. Appliances, maybe, but electronics, NO WAY!
Thant being said, you can get cables here real cheap- like $2 for an optical SPDIF cable and $.20c for a 1/4" to 1/8" headphone adapter. I hooked up my entire home theater, projector, 6.1 surround sound, DVD, satellite, and VCR for like $60.
I think electronics price fixing is much the same all over Asia. Souveniers, clothes, jewellery, etc. can all be had at a great price, expecially if you haggle right; but electronics are all set at a fixed, non-negotiable price. And the only time anything goes on sale is if it is a producer's promotion (I.E. iRiver comes out with a new portable mpeg4 player and has a, you gessed it, fixed sale price. Everywhere.) I think store owners don't understand the "S" in MSRP.
You have no idea how hard it is to find the 1 block that has the 10 shops that all carry the 1 thing you need in a city of 20 million people. ESPECIIALY with hardware (the construction type).
I MISS HOME DEPOT!
I live in Korea. The Electronics Market here is the biggest in the world. The prices are all fixed. There will be 10 stores right next to each other, all selling the same brand of the same item. Not a single one will be 1 Won less (1/10th of a cent). Hell, the price for any specfic electronic item at any store is the same ALL THROUGOUT THE COUNTRY. Some of them might be more, or may quote me a higher price, as I am a foreigner, BUT will NEVER be lower than the set price. How does competition work here? Who knows! It's probably the reason why having a business for over 6 months without going under is a major accomplishment. It's really funny when you see someone putting up a new sign and it says, "Since 2004."
Last time I checked, works created by a United States government agency are public domain at the moment of creation. Does this not count for city/county/state governments? I'm a Federal contractor and all of the work that I do belongs to the Federal Government. Is there something I'm missing?
This is really old news.
The U.S Army in Korea has had this in their game rooms for quite some time (since 2002, I believe). All of the machines have a smart card reader. You rent the card for a $1 deposit and then put your money into the machine. They're all networked and there is a central kiosk that's basically an ATM that you insert the card into to collect your winnings and the $1 deposit return (it keeps the card). Unfortunately, the payout ratio is something like 60%, which pales in comparison to the ~90% payout ratio of Atlantic City/Vegas. Your (if you're an American) federal tax dollars at work, swindling the soldiers and civilians living and working here...
Since when does Hong Kong care about copyright/patent enforcement? The last time I was there I could have gotten a (counterfeit) North Face coat, Rolex watch, and Prada bag, and for about $100US. What gives? 3 movies? I mean, seriously...
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Here's a video of a 2.5 gram homemade mini shaped charge against a brass lock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I've found value on the material from MS Virtual Academy for System Center, SQL, Windows Server, and Windows Client: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/micros...
I went for a test-drive of a pre-production 2014 S Class last week, and to my surprise, the owner's manual came with a loose copy of the LGPL -- in English, no less (everything else was in German.)
I wonder, then, if it will no longer take a month between the time that you order your connection and the time that they come to hook it up. I moved to Germany two years ago, and I was lucky, it only took 3 weeks before Deutch Telekom turned on my DSL. Some of my colleagues have had to wait for 7-8 weeks!
I've been working with VMware since ESX 3.5. It's still my virtualization platform of choice, but on my desktop, I now run Hyper-v. It's included as a role in Windows 8, and is painless to install and configure.
I hope they allow people to use this service outside of the EU/US... I HATE not being able to use Hulu or Netflix or most of the Boxee services here Korea.
This may be a bit off-topic, but I got a Cowon S9 (the first commercially available full color OLED device) at release, and man, OLEDs are gorgeous. The refresh rate is nearly instantaneous, the contrast ratio is essentialy infninate, and has half the power drain of a comaprable LED. I can't wait to get one for my main PC monitor.
I can see where someone would want to have a working prototype of one of the first devices with an OLED display, it's probably headed to a museum somewhere.
I just built a 8x500gb Seagate 7200.12 RAID 10 array using a Dell Perc 5i controller.
I bought the controller for $108 on Ebay. Add the battery for write caching, and 2x 4 port SAS>SATA cables, and I spent a total of $190 on the controller/cables/shipping.
I picked the 500gb drives as they use less power, are extremely silent, run very very cool (case temp is a contstant 39c with 8 drives in a standard mid-tower case), and VMWare ESXi only recognizes up to 2TB per array. The total cost was $600 with shipping for the array.
The Perc 5i has been clocked at 2TB/s+ burst and 500GB/s sustained. For detailed benchmarks see http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives-storage/359025-perc-5-i-raid-card-tips.html
I have been using Yahoo! Flickr on a nearly daily basis, and for online card/board games, yahoo is a great place to play. Yahoo stopped being a search engine a looooong time ago, but still does other things quite well.
I have recently started doing something very similar with my DSLR and a GPS logger. Quick and dirty instructions:
.exif data with JPEG snapshots will work as well) and sync the time with International Atomic Time. If you're not using a camcorder, make sure you have PC sync software to be able to time the shots.
.kml files, upload to locr.com, or upload the photos to flickr.com and flickr will map them automatically (I use the 3rd option.)
1. Get a digital camera (A camcorder that will export
2. Get a fisheye lens or a 360 degree panoramic adapter.
3. Buy a GPS logger. Configure it to track during the same time that you are capturing photo/video.
4. Mount the camera to your vehicle, set up the capture criteria on the capture device (camcorder or digital camera and laptop) and gps logger and drive around to capture your image and geo location data.
5. Download the data and embed the geo-location into your images. I use GPSbabel(GPL Freeware) to convert the data to GPS XML (.gpx) format. I then use GeoSetter(Author's license freeware) to embed the EXIF data and export to Google Earth.
6. You can either export the tracks to Google Earth
Note: You'll have to use some kind of panoramic converter to be able to view the images in a non-distorted manner. A site dedicated to doing this will all-GPL software is located at http://www.all-in-one.ee/~dersch/
I've had an APO address for the better part of a decade. In that time, I've had the following articles stolen in the mail:
a monitor
2x laptops
a workstation
3x motherboard/cpu combos
They were all bought with credit cards; so I got my money back, but it's still a major pain in the ass to have to deal with
Overseas military mail is an easy target for criminals. The required customs declaration makes for easy pickings.
Sometimes, they do catch the perps and the penalties are harsh. That's your only consolation.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_/ai_n15827460
If you insure your mail, they are required to have a positive chain of custody and proof of identity before delivery.
Ron Paul is vehemently against the Real ID act.
From his official congressional website (http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst050905.htm):
"The US House of Representatives passed a spending bill last week that contains provisions establishing a national ID card, and the Senate is poised to approve the measure in the next few days. This week marks the American public's last chance to convince their Senators they don't want to live in a nation that demands papers from its citizens as they go about their lives...
One overriding point has been forgotten: Criminals don't obey laws! As with gun control, national ID cards will only affect law-abiding citizens. Do we really believe a terrorist bent on murder is going to dutifully obtain a federal ID card? Do we believe that people who openly flout our immigration laws will nonetheless respect our ID requirements? Any ID card can be forged; any federal agency or state DMV is susceptible to corruption. Criminals can and will obtain national ID cards, or operate without them. National ID cards will be used to track the law-abiding masses, not criminals."
From my own experience, the people who do the best work are the ones who have better ways to use their time than to keep track of "work done" metrics. Only the slackers, who are great at exaggerating what they do, are the ones with the unused time to make up such 'metrics' and skew the facts in their own favor.
I am an American living in Seoul. As a wedding gift, some of my wife's friends pooled their money and got us an electronic bidet. They definately do a better job at cleaning your rear than toilet paper. I'm taking it with me when I go back to the states, for sure.
Koreans don't have to purchase a copy of the game or expansions. They pay about $25US a month to play and usually play at net cafes.
Aargh, don't forget the Flying Spaghetti Monster(tm)!
This is a gripe to the editors. I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but I posted this LAST DECEMBER: 2004-12-10 03:04:27 RFID Mandated in US Passports (Politics,Privacy) (rejected)
I wonder how much enforcement the Dutch police do for the MPAA/RIAA? Maybe, just maybe, if other criminal justice systems went after CRIMINALS, they could (once again) vailidate their existance. I remember when I was a kid you could actually approach a cop for help without them making it feel like a burden, or worse, being scared of even approaching them.
You can haggle with street vendors- I usually get great deals on clothing that way. No haggling on electronics. Period. Appliances, maybe, but electronics, NO WAY! Thant being said, you can get cables here real cheap- like $2 for an optical SPDIF cable and $.20c for a 1/4" to 1/8" headphone adapter. I hooked up my entire home theater, projector, 6.1 surround sound, DVD, satellite, and VCR for like $60. I think electronics price fixing is much the same all over Asia. Souveniers, clothes, jewellery, etc. can all be had at a great price, expecially if you haggle right; but electronics are all set at a fixed, non-negotiable price. And the only time anything goes on sale is if it is a producer's promotion (I.E. iRiver comes out with a new portable mpeg4 player and has a, you gessed it, fixed sale price. Everywhere.) I think store owners don't understand the "S" in MSRP. You have no idea how hard it is to find the 1 block that has the 10 shops that all carry the 1 thing you need in a city of 20 million people. ESPECIIALY with hardware (the construction type). I MISS HOME DEPOT!
I live in Korea.
The Electronics Market here is the biggest in the world.
The prices are all fixed.
There will be 10 stores right next to each other, all selling the same brand of the same item.
Not a single one will be 1 Won less (1/10th of a cent).
Hell, the price for any specfic electronic item at any store is the same ALL THROUGOUT THE COUNTRY.
Some of them might be more, or may quote me a higher price, as I am a foreigner, BUT will NEVER be lower than the set price.
How does competition work here? Who knows! It's probably the reason why having a business for over 6 months without going under is a major accomplishment. It's really funny when you see someone putting up a new sign and it says, "Since 2004."
Last time I checked, works created by a United States government agency are public domain at the moment of creation. Does this not count for city/county/state governments? I'm a Federal contractor and all of the work that I do belongs to the Federal Government. Is there something I'm missing?
First off,
/end rant
I live in Korea. Gas here is ~1400 Won a Litre. That equates to ~$5.30/gal.
When I was in Cambodia on vacation this summer, with oil around $60 a barrel. Gas was 2000 Riel per litre. 4200 Riel = $1. That equates to ~$1.80/gal.
Thailand had similar pricing: 25 Baht/Litre. That's ~$2.25 a gallon.
Answer this simple question for me: If gas at these prices is subsidized, how the hell do the Thai or Cambodian government subsidize it?
Hell, the annual revenues for the company I work for are 4x Cambodia's GNP!
If you don't like the gas prices in GO OUT AND VOTE OR LOBBY YOUR GOVERNMENT AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
I'm sick and tired of the world constantly blaming America for all of their problems.
This is really old news. The U.S Army in Korea has had this in their game rooms for quite some time (since 2002, I believe). All of the machines have a smart card reader. You rent the card for a $1 deposit and then put your money into the machine. They're all networked and there is a central kiosk that's basically an ATM that you insert the card into to collect your winnings and the $1 deposit return (it keeps the card). Unfortunately, the payout ratio is something like 60%, which pales in comparison to the ~90% payout ratio of Atlantic City/Vegas. Your (if you're an American) federal tax dollars at work, swindling the soldiers and civilians living and working here...
Not to mention pirated DVD's to include screeners for $1 a piece.
Since when does Hong Kong care about copyright/patent enforcement? The last time I was there I could have gotten a (counterfeit) North Face coat, Rolex watch, and Prada bag, and for about $100US. What gives? 3 movies? I mean, seriously...