I don't disagree with any of these responses at all. The redundant mod is a bit perplexing though.
My passport is Australian though I live in Asia, I earn a decent income, and I have a job that I actually enjoy doing. You are entirely right though, a lack of population control is at the centre of it all. A lack of ambition and drive? Absolutely. Rampant apathy and a pathetic near enough is good enough attitude. The list of negatives is a long one. America is different. Australia is different.
Since the state of ~your~ economy affects pretty much the entire world, I figure a bit of a perspective on poverty shouldn't go astray since someone else had already broached the subject. The affluent world demands that every widget be produced for the lowest price possible, countries like the one I live in are more than willing to sacrifice their own welfare to appease that demand. This is their problem, not mine, I can always go home. Once those widgets leave these shores their price sky rockets. Why that is I don't know, probably just because it can.
I don't know squat about economics, though I do know about poverty. Your poverty is not as bad as our poverty - That is exactly the point I was making. Lifestyles are very different, attitudes are very different.
I think a couple of those US citizens that spout statistics about some imaginary notion of poverty in their part of the world need to get out a bit more, take a trip around a few of the Asian ports of call. Our middle class standard of living makes your notion of poverty look like a life of absolute luxury. A successful college education is a minimum requirement just to slap burgers around a hot plate over this way, and it is considered a decent line of work too. Most people never reach such lofty heights in their employment.
The ipod will be obsoleted by the humble cell phone. Like it or not people want convergence. Particularly in Asia. Phone, Camera, multimedia, they (we) want it all in one smallish chunk of electronics - it also needs to be shiny and have flashing lights. And yup, the cameras these days are 'good enough' for social networking.
I remember using Afterstep's dock somewhere in 1995 or 1996 on Sparc 5's and Sparc 20's, then on to the Ultra 10's and enterprise stuff. While perhaps not as candy as the OS-X version, it was a dock - far more so than Microsoft's quick launch.
1500 * 10 = 15,000. No rocket science here, you've been copying CD's for ~at least~ 625 days. In realistic terms this would have been a job that took you 3 to 5 years for a one man, one computer show, and that's going at it pretty hard.
My BS meter is twitching. I can't work out if you are spamming or you are serious.
I used handbrake just yesterday to rip a DVD to mp4, it took about 1 hour, less time that it would take to actually watch the content.
10 to 24 hours. I bet business is booming for you.
I remember signing on to the electoral roll in Canberra somewhere back in the very early 90's. A few weeks later I received a letter from the commission saying after an investigation I no longer lived where I said I did so they have removed me from their list. I'm thinking I live on a Navy base, I have no hope of being posted anywhere for a few years, so, er, WTF? What investigation?
I wrote back and asked WTF? They replied to the same Canberra address I enrolled with and said you don't live there any longer, you are no longer enrolled to vote, please update your electoral status at your new address. Thank you. Good day, and we are done here. Do not write back to us.
Meh. So I never voted for as long as I lived in Canberra.
A few years later I was posted elsewhere and received yet another letter from Canberra saying I never voted in one of the elections, tut tut tut, and that I would have to choose between a fine ($90 AUD I think) or tick a box that says "I did vote" - I think you can guess which option I chose.
In the Decathlon that I flew, the actual seat was a parachute, you sat on it. The door has a quick release mechanism so in the event of emergency, pull the yellow loop, door disappears, and jump.
There are a handful of stories of people bailing from a few hundred feet and surviving with the aid of a parachute.
I'm quite positive it has made a huge difference to the way food tastes.
I can tell the difference between sweet, sour, and salty. If food doesn't fit into one of those categories then it doesn't have any taste, texture becomes far more important in that circumstance.
The end result is that people place me in the 'fussy' category.
Does holding my nose make any difference? None at all.:-)
I'm guessing a little, but I think when people have a cold they are pretty much experiencing what I do every day.
Sort of related, I have no sense of smell, at all. I was probably close on 20 years old before that fact actually sunk in. I thought it was a sense that people learned to use, like learning to read and write, that I would figure it all out some time later in life. Not to be.
From a perspective of never having known smell, the idea of being able to do so is intriguing. At the very least it would mean I could definitively know whether I need to spend more on deodorant or less:-)
Oddly enough, I have had dreams where I can smell perfectly fine, I don't know how this state of mind compares with the real world experience though.
Is this the year that 'cloud computing' redefines 'the internet'? I must have missed the memo. Now we have cloud clients, cloud architecture, cloud outlines, cloud conversions, cloud overhead, cloud management strategies, and a host of other cloud drivel.
This crap is a lot like my old boss and his fascination for mixing up buzz words and who knows what else - he would wander in and utter trash like 'We have a wagon wheel of possibilities, which spider thread we apply to bring closure will depend on your assessment of the associated paradigm.' Er, seriously, WTF?
No need for me to read about spying good sir, I am a disgruntled former defence signals directorate drone, willing to exchange secrets for carbonated diet beverage or preferably beer.:-)
It's not meant to prevent spam at all - whatever gave you that idea? It's meant to stop forgeries. The anonymous coward above and yourself seem to feel that it is a fine and ok thing to impersonate someone else.
It might be ok for you, but it's not for me, so I do actually send SPF Fail to/dev/null - I can afford to do this just fine. For me it's just playing nice in the big sand pit with others.
This entire slashdot story is about a guy who accessed a yahoo account that he did not create. Big deal. This happens how many thousand times each day because people are stupid? What makes this case any different to some random spouse gaining access to a husbands account without permission? Or some idiot at work, or a friend, or someone who you borrowed a laptop from, or the idiot on the backend of the wifi box in starbucks, or your ISP, or the NSA, or whoever.
Anything more than a minor slap on the wrist would be too much punishment for the kid, this is something that routinely goes entirely unpunished. Even when the guilty parties are known.
$4 per day with a 3 gigabyte cap per month. I'm not sure which part of the world you live in where you are ok with throwing away $100 USD per month for internet on your phone - in real world terms it costs the network provider a tiny fraction of that to support you - so this is a crazy amount of money for such a small return.
In Asia I pay a little over $30 USD per month for unlimited data on my phone (3.5g) I run bittorrent on my N95 and regularly fill up the 8 gigabyte memory stick. Starbucks has free internet in this part of the world.
...and they also invested many billions of stolen dollars in communications equipment and computers to suck down your phone calls, locations, internet activity, and generally monitor everything you do from credit card transactions to tracking your number plate with bridge mounted cameras as you drive your car from one side of the country to the other.
While the things you mention are (sort of) positive, the list of negatives has long since outgrown it.
I'm not quite sure I understand. Colour me unimpressed with this patriotic ego tripping.
Back on topic, either these drones are pumping out an imperial fuck ton of RADAR energy to get a paint on the largely water based bipedal elements inside, or it's plain old propaganda. My vote is on the latter given the dimensions of the aircraft itself and its power plant. 115 HP Rotax engine. Yeah right.
It may have 20 times the market share 'right now' but the writing went up on the wall for its demise at about the time the whole certificate business came in to being. It'll be interesting to see if open sourcing will make any difference.
Certainly you can distribute unsigned applications, quite a few people have gained much popularity by going this route, but to rake in the cash from average users you have to pay the toll to get your app signed. Not only that, while you may have knocked up the best 'killer app' ever over a weekend or two, it would still take 6 months to 2 years before you get the silent nod from Symbain to unleash it on the world.
Symbian also decide what they will or wont sign, and while they perhaps aren't as obvious in their motives as Apple, they are just as bad.
If the average user can so rabidly figure out how to install their IM client of choice along with the usual array of spyware infested screen savers and mouse pointers, then installing the latest Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, or whatever, is even far less of a challenge.
The problem is not that they are incapable, its that they are just plain stupid.:-) (I kid, I kid! I don't really know what the problem is, legacy applications, not wanting to learn new things, I'm sure the list is long)
There are so many overhead assets that all the responses above are accurate. In this day and age if you want something to stay hidden, you keep it under wraps. Not just any kind of wraps though. Floating above are devices that can look at pretty much any part of the spectrum, along with active systems such as synthetic aperture RADAR. RADAR is quite cool, it can even peek through various layers and see what's underneath to a limited extent.
There is a lot of interesting stuff on fas.org that would have (and probably still would) see me thrown in jail were I to ever make such info accessible on line. I'm not sure how they get away with it.
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I don't disagree with any of these responses at all. The redundant mod is a bit perplexing though.
My passport is Australian though I live in Asia, I earn a decent income, and I have a job that I actually enjoy doing. You are entirely right though, a lack of population control is at the centre of it all. A lack of ambition and drive? Absolutely. Rampant apathy and a pathetic near enough is good enough attitude. The list of negatives is a long one. America is different. Australia is different.
Since the state of ~your~ economy affects pretty much the entire world, I figure a bit of a perspective on poverty shouldn't go astray since someone else had already broached the subject. The affluent world demands that every widget be produced for the lowest price possible, countries like the one I live in are more than willing to sacrifice their own welfare to appease that demand. This is their problem, not mine, I can always go home. Once those widgets leave these shores their price sky rockets. Why that is I don't know, probably just because it can.
I don't know squat about economics, though I do know about poverty. Your poverty is not as bad as our poverty - That is exactly the point I was making. Lifestyles are very different, attitudes are very different.
I think a couple of those US citizens that spout statistics about some imaginary notion of poverty in their part of the world need to get out a bit more, take a trip around a few of the Asian ports of call. Our middle class standard of living makes your notion of poverty look like a life of absolute luxury. A successful college education is a minimum requirement just to slap burgers around a hot plate over this way, and it is considered a decent line of work too. Most people never reach such lofty heights in their employment.
The ipod will be obsoleted by the humble cell phone. Like it or not people want convergence. Particularly in Asia. Phone, Camera, multimedia, they (we) want it all in one smallish chunk of electronics - it also needs to be shiny and have flashing lights. And yup, the cameras these days are 'good enough' for social networking.
I remember using Afterstep's dock somewhere in 1995 or 1996 on Sparc 5's and Sparc 20's, then on to the Ultra 10's and enterprise stuff. While perhaps not as candy as the OS-X version, it was a dock - far more so than Microsoft's quick launch.
1500 * 10 = 15,000. No rocket science here, you've been copying CD's for ~at least~ 625 days. In realistic terms this would have been a job that took you 3 to 5 years for a one man, one computer show, and that's going at it pretty hard.
My BS meter is twitching. I can't work out if you are spamming or you are serious.
I used handbrake just yesterday to rip a DVD to mp4, it took about 1 hour, less time that it would take to actually watch the content.
10 to 24 hours. I bet business is booming for you.
I remember signing on to the electoral roll in Canberra somewhere back in the very early 90's. A few weeks later I received a letter from the commission saying after an investigation I no longer lived where I said I did so they have removed me from their list. I'm thinking I live on a Navy base, I have no hope of being posted anywhere for a few years, so, er, WTF? What investigation?
I wrote back and asked WTF? They replied to the same Canberra address I enrolled with and said you don't live there any longer, you are no longer enrolled to vote, please update your electoral status at your new address. Thank you. Good day, and we are done here. Do not write back to us.
Meh. So I never voted for as long as I lived in Canberra.
A few years later I was posted elsewhere and received yet another letter from Canberra saying I never voted in one of the elections, tut tut tut, and that I would have to choose between a fine ($90 AUD I think) or tick a box that says "I did vote" - I think you can guess which option I chose.
In the Decathlon that I flew, the actual seat was a parachute, you sat on it. The door has a quick release mechanism so in the event of emergency, pull the yellow loop, door disappears, and jump.
There are a handful of stories of people bailing from a few hundred feet and surviving with the aid of a parachute.
I'm quite positive it has made a huge difference to the way food tastes.
I can tell the difference between sweet, sour, and salty. If food doesn't fit into one of those categories then it doesn't have any taste, texture becomes far more important in that circumstance.
The end result is that people place me in the 'fussy' category.
Does holding my nose make any difference? None at all. :-)
I'm guessing a little, but I think when people have a cold they are pretty much experiencing what I do every day.
Sort of related, I have no sense of smell, at all. I was probably close on 20 years old before that fact actually sunk in. I thought it was a sense that people learned to use, like learning to read and write, that I would figure it all out some time later in life. Not to be.
From a perspective of never having known smell, the idea of being able to do so is intriguing. At the very least it would mean I could definitively know whether I need to spend more on deodorant or less :-)
Oddly enough, I have had dreams where I can smell perfectly fine, I don't know how this state of mind compares with the real world experience though.
Is this the year that 'cloud computing' redefines 'the internet'? I must have missed the memo. Now we have cloud clients, cloud architecture, cloud outlines, cloud conversions, cloud overhead, cloud management strategies, and a host of other cloud drivel.
This crap is a lot like my old boss and his fascination for mixing up buzz words and who knows what else - he would wander in and utter trash like 'We have a wagon wheel of possibilities, which spider thread we apply to bring closure will depend on your assessment of the associated paradigm.' Er, seriously, WTF?
No need for me to read about spying good sir, I am a disgruntled former defence signals directorate drone, willing to exchange secrets for carbonated diet beverage or preferably beer. :-)
Or maybe, just maybe, these companies are fed up with 3 letter agencies poking their noses around and this is a way to 'stick it to the man'
Perhaps they will be able to hold up their hands and say "We got nothing, sorry"
Nobody does 'opt-in' these days, very probably there is a little more to this story.
It's not meant to prevent spam at all - whatever gave you that idea? It's meant to stop forgeries. The anonymous coward above and yourself seem to feel that it is a fine and ok thing to impersonate someone else.
It might be ok for you, but it's not for me, so I do actually send SPF Fail to /dev/null - I can afford to do this just fine. For me it's just playing nice in the big sand pit with others.
Install proxy.
Block: sb.google.com
Problem solved. :-)
This entire slashdot story is about a guy who accessed a yahoo account that he did not create. Big deal. This happens how many thousand times each day because people are stupid? What makes this case any different to some random spouse gaining access to a husbands account without permission? Or some idiot at work, or a friend, or someone who you borrowed a laptop from, or the idiot on the backend of the wifi box in starbucks, or your ISP, or the NSA, or whoever.
Anything more than a minor slap on the wrist would be too much punishment for the kid, this is something that routinely goes entirely unpunished. Even when the guilty parties are known.
Well, there are some perks, the millions and millions of hot looking Asian chicks for instance. :-) Never a dull day.
$4 per day with a 3 gigabyte cap per month. I'm not sure which part of the world you live in where you are ok with throwing away $100 USD per month for internet on your phone - in real world terms it costs the network provider a tiny fraction of that to support you - so this is a crazy amount of money for such a small return.
In Asia I pay a little over $30 USD per month for unlimited data on my phone (3.5g) I run bittorrent on my N95 and regularly fill up the 8 gigabyte memory stick. Starbucks has free internet in this part of the world.
The problem isn't logistics, it's political. ISP's cut deals with local government to ensure they keep their monopoly and eat the whole cake.
And the chief isn't even fat. Sigh. They can't even propagate my own stereotypes.
...and they also invested many billions of stolen dollars in communications equipment and computers to suck down your phone calls, locations, internet activity, and generally monitor everything you do from credit card transactions to tracking your number plate with bridge mounted cameras as you drive your car from one side of the country to the other.
While the things you mention are (sort of) positive, the list of negatives has long since outgrown it.
I'm not quite sure I understand. Colour me unimpressed with this patriotic ego tripping.
Back on topic, either these drones are pumping out an imperial fuck ton of RADAR energy to get a paint on the largely water based bipedal elements inside, or it's plain old propaganda. My vote is on the latter given the dimensions of the aircraft itself and its power plant. 115 HP Rotax engine. Yeah right.
This is twitching the bullshit needle.
It may have 20 times the market share 'right now' but the writing went up on the wall for its demise at about the time the whole certificate business came in to being. It'll be interesting to see if open sourcing will make any difference.
Certainly you can distribute unsigned applications, quite a few people have gained much popularity by going this route, but to rake in the cash from average users you have to pay the toll to get your app signed. Not only that, while you may have knocked up the best 'killer app' ever over a weekend or two, it would still take 6 months to 2 years before you get the silent nod from Symbain to unleash it on the world.
Symbian also decide what they will or wont sign, and while they perhaps aren't as obvious in their motives as Apple, they are just as bad.
If the average user can so rabidly figure out how to install their IM client of choice along with the usual array of spyware infested screen savers and mouse pointers, then installing the latest Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu, or whatever, is even far less of a challenge.
The problem is not that they are incapable, its that they are just plain stupid. :-) (I kid, I kid! I don't really know what the problem is, legacy applications, not wanting to learn new things, I'm sure the list is long)
These days, even in google, I'm often going up to page 47 and beyond. Lets call it an addition to gathering images.
There are so many overhead assets that all the responses above are accurate. In this day and age if you want something to stay hidden, you keep it under wraps. Not just any kind of wraps though. Floating above are devices that can look at pretty much any part of the spectrum, along with active systems such as synthetic aperture RADAR. RADAR is quite cool, it can even peek through various layers and see what's underneath to a limited extent.
Here are some RADAR images.
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/radar.htm
There is a lot of interesting stuff on fas.org that would have (and probably still would) see me thrown in jail were I to ever make such info accessible on line. I'm not sure how they get away with it.
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Ex 3 letter agency drone.