I don't really care how big or small PayPal are, but ~nothing~ instead of PayPal? Lie much or just stuck in the basement? Almost every single bank out there offers a merchant system for credit card payments. Some are expensive, some cheap, none are free, not even paypal - though many are tremendously better than PayPal. If you can manage to cobble together enough HTML for the paypal button to work on your website, then you can manage a merchant system.
How is PayPal more useful than channeling money directly in to your very own bank account? And exactly how is a bank crippled with over-regulation? Can you refund money through PayPal? Capture / Auth? Void? etc. It's a long list, maybe you should look in to it sometime. I think you'll find PayPal is actually more hassle than its worth in comparison.
Lots of talk sir, but no actual substance to your argument.
I think if they said investigations were still ongoing, they would be lying - mainly for the reasons the parent post gave you but also probably just because their reason (or excuse if you prefer) might actually be true.
It is entirely probable that these items were just 'demo units' meant for store windows and displays (I'm not saying this is legal where you are, but in some parts of the world it is) - over here in Asia some businesses will line entire walls with CPU boxes as a form of advertising. They have to look a little bit legitimate for this purpose, but I can easily see a situation where this kind of display would be far too expensive to obtain directly from Intel itself. The same thing happens with cell phones, not too many people will fill their glass cabinets with the real deal, instead they use fake look-a-likes that are very convincing in every detail, other than the fact they don't turn on when you hit the power button.
When it comes time to buy a CPU, they go out the back and get it from the real stock.
You should try the driving test in the Philippines:-)
Not only does the examiner helpfully highlight the correct answers on the test paper for you in advance, but the actual driving component involves moving a vehicle forward 2 meters and then reversing back the same distance - without going outside white painted lines about 4 meters away on either side of the car. I thought it would be physically impossible for anyone to fail this test, but watching others - I was pleasantly surprised!
Now don't get me wrong, even with the bar set to these lofty heights, people still complain that the testing is too hard - others, well, they resort to the good old paper handshake to save themselves the stress.
Well, even easier, with your mouse ~anywhere~ in the window, hit the Alt key and your right mouse button - it'll bring up a menu thing to do the business with. Same deal with resizing, you don't need to be clicking on window borders, alt - middle mouse button, drag out the window to the size you want.
No flames from me, but have you ever considered a virtual desktop of some kind so you don't need to constrain yourself to a single window for so many applications all at once, maybe even two or three monitors as well.
I think had Microsoft included a virtual desktop in Windows 95, it probably would have been quite easy to pry the sparc 20 with olvwm from my cold dead hands back in the day. I soon discovered Afterstep and Enlightenment and never looked back.
Not only that but some vehicle designers are, quite literally, stupid. Really, why on earth would you directly link a braking systems boost mechanics to the f'ing accelerator. The more you accelerate, the less braking potential you have if you start stomping down to get the vehicle stopped in a hurry.
If I can stop my ZX-10 (motorbike) under (metric shit tons of) power with my pinky finger, how hard is it to sort this crap out in a car? A million dollars? This is not a contest, it's peoples lives. Just build the brakes completely independent from all other systems and the job is done.
I think what the parent is actually saying, in slightly more diplomatic terms is "if everyone has their DNA on file, then I don't have to get off my fat donut eating arse cheeks and do any actual detective work, I can just click a few buttons and send someone directly to jail - or two people with identical DNA, who really cares"
There are some terribly bright and technically minded people in government, particularly in the intelligence gathering fields (secret 3 letter agencies) - unfortunately they are not usually in positions of power or within ear shot of anyone that might easily comprehend what they are actually saying. I guess it's the same old problem everywhere - if 'Government' knew what they actually had behind their own closed doors, they'd be shocked, maybe even outraged:-)
I spent a lot of years working for the defence signals directorate (Same as the NSA's, different acronym) - safe to say that those up at the top take about 5 to 10 years to actually understand what their underlings have been saying for the aforementioned 5 to 10 years. Ops Normal.
The main problem is, as others have more eloquently said, right up at the top you get the boss saying "Just make it f'ing happen already" Be damned if they care about security. Thus the stunningly illogical knee jerk reaction to shut the barn door after the quadrupeds have already legged it, oh, and death sentences to the idiots that forged the door hinges, because we need to punish the wrong people in spectacular fashion to prove a point that nobody will ever understand.
You haven't thought about this very well. Everything we create is largely automatically copyrighted (I didn't make the rules) - that doodle you scrawl out on a piece of paper, the photograph you take of your dog, the short piece of prose you write to describe your neighbors sexual problem, the list is endless.
You think a good solution is to have creative types (and all of us are to one extent or another) actually pay the government for the mere privilege of creating stuff? This is absurd. What constitutes a 'work' anyway? A photograph of your family? A mindless drawing you make while talking on the telephone? Or is there some clear distinction that I am just failing to see?
Where can you find noncondensing conditions exactly?
I live in the tropics, I go for a motorbike ride with my phone in my pocket for a couple of hours - 33 degrees and stupidly high levels of humidity. Stop all nice and stinky at my usual coffee place with the air-conditioner running inside at 18C - instant condensation. Not just on metal items - even your skin can become clammy for a brief time.
That said - we buy our phones outright in this part of the world. The manufacturer warranties normally run anywhere from 1 to 3 years - and we like it that way:-) We tend to buy Nokia / LG / Sony Ericsson rather than Apple though.
You can actually trust that a few governments out there are still about 30 years or so behind the spying curve.
Due to the village chief mentality still widely prevalent in my particular country of residence, deals are all penned in chicken blood, and payment is settled through exchanges of daughters and pigs:-) The more affluent tribes do accept caribou and tricked out white-man-magic scooters in return for various acts of thuggery I hear, but I don't swim in those circles.
I don't want it. Period. Now if you want to live beneath a net-nanny filter, that's your issue, but don't be forcing your filtering views on me though. I'm a big boy, I can take care of my own.
I see it every single day I look out my window right here in the Philippines. Might just be it's a better idea to spend that 7 cents on a condom once in a while, yeah?
Changing your product ID to download a non-branded firmware is simple using NSS or JAF. The BB5 tools you used to unlock your N73 do not really apply to later model handsets though - at least not without physically dismantling your phone a little bit to stick probes on various test points.
Or... You use navifirm to download the firmware you need, tweak it such that you never again need to bother with certificates at all, and reflash using Jaf or Phoenix. forum.dailymobile.se has all the dirt for anyone interested.
There's a general notion that foreign companies "need" China
Maybe amongst your average American consumer, but the drones up in their glass towers don't think this way. If an extra dollar can be added to a golden parachute, directors will jump the Chinese bandwagon in a heartbeat and shift operations elsewhere. China know this so they keep the factory lines populated, and the wages stay in the dirt. Were this to change in any big way, companies would flee to the next impoverished over populated patch of ground looking to do it all again.
Companies like google are getting in early and waiting for the standard of living to rise so that they can eventually turn some decent profits - give it a couple of weeks, people will forget about this google thing and life goes on. Same as usual.
Some companies pulled out of China, but these were naught more than short lived dog and pony shows to earn an extra buck on the waves of good will and love that they produced. Only in the more affluent countries do people actually care about such things as human rights, just so long as they can care from a distance anyway.
Because people would rather have the instant gratification right now and make future self suffer by paying $700 for the same device spread over a couple of years. No matter how you swing it, it is cheaper to buy your phone outright. In the early 1990's all phones were cutting edge and expensive, these days companies can literally sell phones for $15 and still make some profit.
I live in the Philippines (Australian, not that this matters) I pay $25 USD per month (Smart) for completely unlimited data with tethering. No caps. My N97 cost about $520 USD outright. 200 kilobytes per second downloads are not uncommon, though perhaps not as regular as I'd like either. You can buy an unlocked iPhone here for about the same price. If you don't quite want cutting edge, then you can opt for stuff a little older - the Nokia 5800 costs about $270 and does practically everything the N97 does. I think the only difference is the lack of an FM transmitter.
"Some" is redundant. "Some" capacitive touch screens can do multi-touch - not all of them. What I said works in context.
If two or more fingers on my N97 and 5800 can reliably plot a point central to my touches, this is ~not~ multi-touch? You are perhaps right in saying it is not multi-touch in the sense that I can currently obtain the coordinates of each finger from some exposed part of the OS, but it certainly isn't a 'quirk' in the hardware if that was your point.
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I don't really care how big or small PayPal are, but ~nothing~ instead of PayPal? Lie much or just stuck in the basement? Almost every single bank out there offers a merchant system for credit card payments. Some are expensive, some cheap, none are free, not even paypal - though many are tremendously better than PayPal. If you can manage to cobble together enough HTML for the paypal button to work on your website, then you can manage a merchant system.
How is PayPal more useful than channeling money directly in to your very own bank account? And exactly how is a bank crippled with over-regulation? Can you refund money through PayPal? Capture / Auth? Void? etc. It's a long list, maybe you should look in to it sometime. I think you'll find PayPal is actually more hassle than its worth in comparison.
Lots of talk sir, but no actual substance to your argument.
I think if they said investigations were still ongoing, they would be lying - mainly for the reasons the parent post gave you but also probably just because their reason (or excuse if you prefer) might actually be true.
It is entirely probable that these items were just 'demo units' meant for store windows and displays (I'm not saying this is legal where you are, but in some parts of the world it is) - over here in Asia some businesses will line entire walls with CPU boxes as a form of advertising. They have to look a little bit legitimate for this purpose, but I can easily see a situation where this kind of display would be far too expensive to obtain directly from Intel itself. The same thing happens with cell phones, not too many people will fill their glass cabinets with the real deal, instead they use fake look-a-likes that are very convincing in every detail, other than the fact they don't turn on when you hit the power button.
When it comes time to buy a CPU, they go out the back and get it from the real stock.
You solve this by using directional "sector" antennas. However, these cost a small fortune.
Two (2) words sir. Tin. Foil.
http://forums.mycotopia.net/resist-rebel/56038-easy-parabolic-reflector-template-boost-your-wifi-free.html
You might need to talk to those hippies that built the unix stuff too. :-)
You should try the driving test in the Philippines :-)
Not only does the examiner helpfully highlight the correct answers on the test paper for you in advance, but the actual driving component involves moving a vehicle forward 2 meters and then reversing back the same distance - without going outside white painted lines about 4 meters away on either side of the car. I thought it would be physically impossible for anyone to fail this test, but watching others - I was pleasantly surprised!
Now don't get me wrong, even with the bar set to these lofty heights, people still complain that the testing is too hard - others, well, they resort to the good old paper handshake to save themselves the stress.
Well, even easier, with your mouse ~anywhere~ in the window, hit the Alt key and your right mouse button - it'll bring up a menu thing to do the business with. Same deal with resizing, you don't need to be clicking on window borders, alt - middle mouse button, drag out the window to the size you want.
No flames from me, but have you ever considered a virtual desktop of some kind so you don't need to constrain yourself to a single window for so many applications all at once, maybe even two or three monitors as well.
I think had Microsoft included a virtual desktop in Windows 95, it probably would have been quite easy to pry the sparc 20 with olvwm from my cold dead hands back in the day. I soon discovered Afterstep and Enlightenment and never looked back.
Not only that but some vehicle designers are, quite literally, stupid. Really, why on earth would you directly link a braking systems boost mechanics to the f'ing accelerator. The more you accelerate, the less braking potential you have if you start stomping down to get the vehicle stopped in a hurry.
If I can stop my ZX-10 (motorbike) under (metric shit tons of) power with my pinky finger, how hard is it to sort this crap out in a car? A million dollars? This is not a contest, it's peoples lives. Just build the brakes completely independent from all other systems and the job is done.
I think what the parent is actually saying, in slightly more diplomatic terms is "if everyone has their DNA on file, then I don't have to get off my fat donut eating arse cheeks and do any actual detective work, I can just click a few buttons and send someone directly to jail - or two people with identical DNA, who really cares"
There are some terribly bright and technically minded people in government, particularly in the intelligence gathering fields (secret 3 letter agencies) - unfortunately they are not usually in positions of power or within ear shot of anyone that might easily comprehend what they are actually saying. I guess it's the same old problem everywhere - if 'Government' knew what they actually had behind their own closed doors, they'd be shocked, maybe even outraged :-)
I spent a lot of years working for the defence signals directorate (Same as the NSA's, different acronym) - safe to say that those up at the top take about 5 to 10 years to actually understand what their underlings have been saying for the aforementioned 5 to 10 years. Ops Normal.
The main problem is, as others have more eloquently said, right up at the top you get the boss saying "Just make it f'ing happen already" Be damned if they care about security. Thus the stunningly illogical knee jerk reaction to shut the barn door after the quadrupeds have already legged it, oh, and death sentences to the idiots that forged the door hinges, because we need to punish the wrong people in spectacular fashion to prove a point that nobody will ever understand.
You haven't thought about this very well. Everything we create is largely automatically copyrighted (I didn't make the rules) - that doodle you scrawl out on a piece of paper, the photograph you take of your dog, the short piece of prose you write to describe your neighbors sexual problem, the list is endless.
You think a good solution is to have creative types (and all of us are to one extent or another) actually pay the government for the mere privilege of creating stuff? This is absurd. What constitutes a 'work' anyway? A photograph of your family? A mindless drawing you make while talking on the telephone? Or is there some clear distinction that I am just failing to see?
Where can you find noncondensing conditions exactly?
I live in the tropics, I go for a motorbike ride with my phone in my pocket for a couple of hours - 33 degrees and stupidly high levels of humidity. Stop all nice and stinky at my usual coffee place with the air-conditioner running inside at 18C - instant condensation. Not just on metal items - even your skin can become clammy for a brief time.
That said - we buy our phones outright in this part of the world. The manufacturer warranties normally run anywhere from 1 to 3 years - and we like it that way :-) We tend to buy Nokia / LG / Sony Ericsson rather than Apple though.
You can actually trust that a few governments out there are still about 30 years or so behind the spying curve.
Due to the village chief mentality still widely prevalent in my particular country of residence, deals are all penned in chicken blood, and payment is settled through exchanges of daughters and pigs :-) The more affluent tribes do accept caribou and tricked out white-man-magic scooters in return for various acts of thuggery I hear, but I don't swim in those circles.
How many clients have you ever met that actually ~know~ what they want? :-)
I don't want it. Period. Now if you want to live beneath a net-nanny filter, that's your issue, but don't be forcing your filtering views on me though. I'm a big boy, I can take care of my own.
Or, you know, you could just harden the fuck up as Chopper Reid might say :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EY7lYRneHc
I see it every single day I look out my window right here in the Philippines. Might just be it's a better idea to spend that 7 cents on a condom once in a while, yeah?
Changing your product ID to download a non-branded firmware is simple using NSS or JAF. The BB5 tools you used to unlock your N73 do not really apply to later model handsets though - at least not without physically dismantling your phone a little bit to stick probes on various test points.
Or... You use navifirm to download the firmware you need, tweak it such that you never again need to bother with certificates at all, and reflash using Jaf or Phoenix. forum.dailymobile.se has all the dirt for anyone interested.
There's a general notion that foreign companies "need" China
Maybe amongst your average American consumer, but the drones up in their glass towers don't think this way. If an extra dollar can be added to a golden parachute, directors will jump the Chinese bandwagon in a heartbeat and shift operations elsewhere. China know this so they keep the factory lines populated, and the wages stay in the dirt. Were this to change in any big way, companies would flee to the next impoverished over populated patch of ground looking to do it all again.
Companies like google are getting in early and waiting for the standard of living to rise so that they can eventually turn some decent profits - give it a couple of weeks, people will forget about this google thing and life goes on. Same as usual.
Some companies pulled out of China, but these were naught more than short lived dog and pony shows to earn an extra buck on the waves of good will and love that they produced. Only in the more affluent countries do people actually care about such things as human rights, just so long as they can care from a distance anyway.
Because people would rather have the instant gratification right now and make future self suffer by paying $700 for the same device spread over a couple of years. No matter how you swing it, it is cheaper to buy your phone outright. In the early 1990's all phones were cutting edge and expensive, these days companies can literally sell phones for $15 and still make some profit.
I live in the Philippines (Australian, not that this matters) I pay $25 USD per month (Smart) for completely unlimited data with tethering. No caps. My N97 cost about $520 USD outright. 200 kilobytes per second downloads are not uncommon, though perhaps not as regular as I'd like either. You can buy an unlocked iPhone here for about the same price. If you don't quite want cutting edge, then you can opt for stuff a little older - the Nokia 5800 costs about $270 and does practically everything the N97 does. I think the only difference is the lack of an FM transmitter.
Why baffled? This is naught more than an advert for a graphic log analysis filter riding on the coattails of the google / China thing.
There are many others that go about the same task in different ways, most are free, this one is not.
Yeah, and a drunk driver kills your loved one, get over it. Think about it.
Maybe for you :-)
"Some" is redundant. "Some" capacitive touch screens can do multi-touch - not all of them. What I said works in context.
If two or more fingers on my N97 and 5800 can reliably plot a point central to my touches, this is ~not~ multi-touch? You are perhaps right in saying it is not multi-touch in the sense that I can currently obtain the coordinates of each finger from some exposed part of the OS, but it certainly isn't a 'quirk' in the hardware if that was your point.