1. You do realize that if the company was a fraud, VISA will end up taking the loss. Who do you think will pay for that in the end?
2. "Don't buy pizza" - sure that's safe. But the grandparent was talking about an electronic payment system he could actually use. I'd like that too (instead of not bying the pizza).
euro-zone GDP: 7.1 billion euros *
the whole union (E15): 9.2 billion euros *
E15 + CC-13 (the countries applying for membership): ~10 billion euros *
Euro-zone: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland.
E15: euro-zone countries plus Sweden, Denmark and UK.
CC-13: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia,Bulgaria,Romania,Turkey (Three last ones are uncertain, others will probably become members in 2004).
* us trillion = billion for other people. Also, your figures were probably in dollars... Source: Eurostat
So why were you getting your asses kicked by the Axis before the US entered WWII?
I hope you're not implying that US alone 'turned the tide of war'?
The germans lost 2.3 - 2.5 million soldiers on the eastern front. That leaves about 1 million casualties to _all_ other campaigns.
Based on that, I'd say that most ass kicking was done by the USSR.
Did you read the fine print? Parent said: "... and let the idiots on the field make as much as schoolteachers or cops"... That would probably have an effect on the 'little thing called supply and demand'.
I used to work in a company doing 3d maps. In rural areas this meant taking existing topo maps and elevation models and constructing a model out of those, but in cities the we used aerial photos, 'slanted' aerial photos and/or laser scanning to re-map everything: existing map data just isn't accurate enough for 3D.
The company didn't do well financially (which is why i'm not working there anymore), but the models can still be viewed. Check them out:
A presentation of just about every model we did (Helsinki, Tokyo, London, Bremen). Helsinki, more images of Helsinki model.
London, a small part of London (images and video)
Virtual Kainuu, a huge rural area model created from existing map data (VRML, video and images). In finnish, but I think you'll manage.
having to take the battery out to change games...that was just a horrible idea.
At least you said up front that you haven't tried it yet... Having tested it myself, I can tell that this game change problem is nonexistant: It takes about two seconds to do it.
You are right about Nokia missing quality games, but I think we could give 'em the benefit of doubt, right? I mean, how could they have a Nintendo-class games arsenal right from the start when it's their first game machine?
The problems with home voting do not end with a secure website. One of the reasons elections are organized the way they are is non-provability (don't know if a better word exists..): Anyway, the point is one can't prove how one voted. This makes bribes and threats ineffectual as election strategies.
Just to nitpick: Nordic countries consists of five countries (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland ) and three autonomous territories: (Gronland, Faroe Islands, Aland).
...a high-end homebrew platform...
The processor is a Motorola 68HCS12 (16-bit @ 25 MHz). According to Andre that means that the system will be about as powerful as an snes. Wouldn't call that high-end myself.
The graphics will hopefully be about half as good as the ones in snes, as far as functionality is concerned, but at least as good color- and resolutionwise. So don't expect a 3D support;)
Maybe I'll actually plunk down my own ~$99 and see if it would be a fun toy. It might even be better than watching pr0n!
Well, I won't go into overstatements, but I'm pretty sure I'll order one for christmas (I hope Andre can keep his schedule).
A bit like (government funded) university research that's just let out in the public. The fools! All the 'competitors' are going to steal it with 0 cost!
Seriously, this is the same argument that is used against free software in general: That you can't benefit from it financially. Still, there are quite a lot of companies making a living on Linux and such...
You think about it: If a government funded software becomes popular (because it's free) it might not only drive costs down, but might also create jobs on the side. So, if these benefits are more than equal to the costs, why would the country care if some 'competitor' does the same?
I'm not sure that government funded free software is a good idea myself, but I find your points both merchantilistic and moot.
I believe the main things here are
a) efficiency and
b) reliability
A lot of government services are not handled by private companies because we want rock solid reliability, even if it means bad economical efficiency.
I guess there are some areas of software engineering where it would be better that market conditions didn't have large effects (like firms going bancrupt) on the delivered services. In most cases however, the important point is economical efficiency, and that is best delivered by a free market.
On the other hand, the time involved to identify and delete one spam mail remains quite constant, and it is at best a temporary solution when the filters get smarter.
How is it temporary if the filters continually evolve? My impression is that filters and such are getting better and better pretty fast, advancing even faster than the amount of spam grows.
The problem of network abuse is of course not solved by filtering...
I found that hard to believe (knowing the enormous differences European countries' road and traffic data systems have), and tried searching the website. The only thing they say about Europe is this:
Trafficmaster has a number of interests in Europe, including a network of fixed sensors in Germany and shares in Mediamobile, the leading French traffic flow data company. In Italy, Trafficmaster has a joint venture with Targa, part of the Fiat group, to operate a floating car data network.
So Germany maybe, whole of Europe probably not. If you have some other information, please share.
So, where exactly did you look? I usually start with
Google. From the numerous possibilities I'd recommend this one because of the support for subdir-searches.
You're right about the piping of course, but an outright lie like that (not to mention using terms like winshit) kind of lowers the value of the whole post.
Any admin who isn't completely shirking his duties has exactly no use for this book. Who, then, will find it valuable? That's right: hackers. Script kiddies have an easy enough time of it as it is. The computer book industry needs to take some responsibility and stop publishing this sort of hacker how-to.
So you prefer security through obscurity... That's one way to do it, I guess.
I believe that
A truly secure system must be able to withstand open review at all levels (e.g. protocol, source code, etc).
The details of security vulnerabilities should be available to everyone.
(source: Bugtraq)
Well, if Theora files are smaller than MPEG-4 (like Vorbis files are compared to mp3), that would mean savings in bandwidth and/or CD space.
Anyone know whether this is the case?
Your claim about source code availability is only 70% true.
From the faq:
We do not distrubute all of the source code, but the components which we deem to be helpful to third-party developers and which do not risk the dilution of our intellectual property are available to you at no charge. Approximately 70% of the source code is currently available to the public.
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2. "Don't buy pizza" - sure that's safe. But the grandparent was talking about an electronic payment system he could actually use. I'd like that too (instead of not bying the pizza).
How could I tell? There are no pages I could test it on...
Am I missing something? Mozilla source can be used as MPL, GPL or LGPL. What's the problem?
You can play the original Playstation version on the PS2, so a remake would be a little redundant, wouldn't it?
Your point is valid, but the examples suck. Java is not a standard and neither is the Office XML schema.
the whole union (E15): 9.2 billion euros *
E15 + CC-13 (the countries applying for membership): ~10 billion euros *
Euro-zone: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal and Finland.
E15: euro-zone countries plus Sweden, Denmark and UK.
CC-13: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia,Bulgaria,Romania,Turkey (Three last ones are uncertain, others will probably become members in 2004).
* us trillion = billion for other people. Also, your figures were probably in dollars... Source: Eurostat
The germans lost 2.3 - 2.5 million soldiers on the eastern front. That leaves about 1 million casualties to _all_ other campaigns. Based on that, I'd say that most ass kicking was done by the USSR.
So? They said nothing about the other hand.
Did you read the fine print? Parent said: "... and let the idiots on the field make as much as schoolteachers or cops"... That would probably have an effect on the 'little thing called supply and demand'.
The company didn't do well financially (which is why i'm not working there anymore), but the models can still be viewed. Check them out:
A presentation of just about every model we did (Helsinki, Tokyo, London, Bremen).
Helsinki, more images of Helsinki model.
London, a small part of London (images and video)
Virtual Kainuu, a huge rural area model created from existing map data (VRML, video and images). In finnish, but I think you'll manage.
At least you said up front that you haven't tried it yet... Having tested it myself, I can tell that this game change problem is nonexistant: It takes about two seconds to do it.
You are right about Nokia missing quality games, but I think we could give 'em the benefit of doubt, right? I mean, how could they have a Nintendo-class games arsenal right from the start when it's their first game machine?
The problems with home voting do not end with a secure website. One of the reasons elections are organized the way they are is non-provability (don't know if a better word exists..): Anyway, the point is one can't prove how one voted. This makes bribes and threats ineffectual as election strategies.
Just to nitpick:
Nordic countries consists of five countries (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland ) and three autonomous territories: (Gronland, Faroe Islands, Aland).
The processor is a Motorola 68HCS12 (16-bit @ 25 MHz). According to Andre that means that the system will be about as powerful as an snes. Wouldn't call that high-end myself.
The graphics will hopefully be about half as good as the ones in snes, as far as functionality is concerned, but at least as good color- and resolutionwise. So don't expect a 3D support ;)
Maybe I'll actually plunk down my own ~$99 and see if it would be a fun toy. It might even be better than watching pr0n!
Well, I won't go into overstatements, but I'm pretty sure I'll order one for christmas (I hope Andre can keep his schedule).
A bit like (government funded) university research that's just let out in the public. The fools! All the 'competitors' are going to steal it with 0 cost!
Seriously, this is the same argument that is used against free software in general: That you can't benefit from it financially. Still, there are quite a lot of companies making a living on Linux and such...
You think about it: If a government funded software becomes popular (because it's free) it might not only drive costs down, but might also create jobs on the side. So, if these benefits are more than equal to the costs, why would the country care if some 'competitor' does the same?
I'm not sure that government funded free software is a good idea myself, but I find your points both merchantilistic and moot.
I believe the main things here are
a) efficiency and
b) reliability
A lot of government services are not handled by private companies because we want rock solid reliability, even if it means bad economical efficiency.
I guess there are some areas of software engineering where it would be better that market conditions didn't have large effects (like firms going bancrupt) on the delivered services. In most cases however, the important point is economical efficiency, and that is best delivered by a free market.
How is it temporary if the filters continually evolve? My impression is that filters and such are getting better and better pretty fast, advancing even faster than the amount of spam grows.
The problem of network abuse is of course not solved by filtering...
Trafficmaster has a number of interests in Europe, including a network of fixed sensors in Germany and shares in Mediamobile, the leading French traffic flow data company. In Italy, Trafficmaster has a joint venture with Targa, part of the Fiat group, to operate a floating car data network.
So Germany maybe, whole of Europe probably not. If you have some other information, please share.
So, where exactly did you look? I usually start with Google. From the numerous possibilities I'd recommend this one because of the support for subdir-searches.
You're right about the piping of course, but an outright lie like that (not to mention using terms like winshit) kind of lowers the value of the whole post.
I believe that
A truly secure system must be able to withstand open review at all levels (e.g. protocol, source code, etc).
The details of security vulnerabilities should be available to everyone. (source: Bugtraq)
Well, if Theora files are smaller than MPEG-4 (like Vorbis files are compared to mp3), that would mean savings in bandwidth and/or CD space.
Anyone know whether this is the case?
I prefer to know whose lies I'm reading...
Sadly the errors caused by the atmosphere are (locally) systematic and common to both. Adding satellites just doesn't help.
From the faq: -jussi
Maybe you'll find this useful: White paper on resource management in components written for the Common Language Runtime (CLR).
-jk