AES, the encryption algorithm, was invented at a Belgian university. A country like this, with less inhabitants than NYC cannot afford to have universities leading the world in all kinds of disciplines. This is a big problem for European universities: every country wants a silicon valley, AND a biotech center, AND nanotech,... But really they can't afford it, and therefore the money gets spread out too thin. If you work with small groups and good funding you can beat the world in a niche discipline, just like the AES guys did.
My experience: for each guy you fire, another one gets panicky, looks for a new job, and finds one. You can fire the guys you need least, but guess which one of the others will find a another job first... And then, train a foreigner, knowing you are getting the sack. For fuck sake, this is a BANK! All you need to do is to claim the indian guy doesn't understand your accent, throw in some "unfortunate misunderstandings", and the whole IT dept is on its way to hell. If I had money there, I'd run for my life.
Capacitors also have another difference: they can be (dis)charged extremely quickly.
That means you will be able to recharge very quickly (if you have a spiffy charger), but I wouldn't want to drop a capacitor powered cellphone in the toilet.....
There is an algorithm out there where you reduce the number of pixels and replace them with a median value. This reduces the noise, but can obviously only be done with high resolution thingies. Could get you a 2 megapixel stable image out of a 8 megapixel noisy one...
How about this? An encryption software which ALWAYS creates 5 large random files. You can use any number of them to store encrypted data, provided you enter the correct password. Put some plausible data in the first, and say you didn't need the others...
Corn-fuel is what we call a first-genearation technology. Biotech companies like Novozymes are working on enzymes which can break down corn-waste (leaves etc.) until the starch is short-chained enough to be fermented in the classical way. None of the first generation plants comes anywhere near making a profit, but once they can start fermenting the leftover crap, this picture could change. Raising fuel prices are obviously helping.
but if they are going to spend the money they stole through their OS monopoly, I would by far prefer them to spend it on research than on price-dumping a game console. No I don't pay the microsoft tax, but really I do anyway, because my kids school pays it, my local government pays it, and my employer pays it.
For all our quality documents, we use Word with some propietary plugin to help with the formatting. You can read and print it in a copy of word which doesn't have the plugin, but wheep he who shall alter the layout! These documents (preferably with embedded Powerpoint which has embedded Excel) get uploaded in our central documentation database, where they are supposed to remain for the next 20 years. I recently needed 3 days to convert my 7 year old thesis to PDF. Something tells me we are in deep shit...
I know Nokia's R&D gets paid by 16 year olds doing overtime at the local McDonnalds, but it keeps on amazing me how nobady develops the business marked. My phone can synch with Bluetooth and IR. Guess what? The average corporate desktop has neither. How about a intelligent USB craddle? When I put the phone in it, it not only recharges, but automatically forwards all calls to the desktop phone standing just beside it, and all text messages to my email inbox? How many mobile phone owners sit 8 hours a day at the same desk? Why does nobady cater for them?
Many phone companies will give you 2 sim cards on the same number, e.g. for use in your car. They are also pretty easy to copy. Better still would have been Bluetooth: did you know there is a bluetooth profile for "borrowing" a SIM card? Keep the Laptop (or whatever) anywhere near your phone and it can act as if it had the SIM card inside....
you gave the answer yourself: some EU court. EU courts are only there to settle disputes between states, the **AA sueing a company or an individual will have no choice but to go through a swedish court...
I once read that if you converted all the sand of the earth into processors, it would still take ages to accurately simulate the folding of a protein. Is this just "zooming out" and ignoring things like protein folding?
TFA mentions data about drug prescriptions by hundreds of physicians. Is that lying around unorganised on the net? Tell me which algorithm you are going to use to predict how many XBOX365 are going to get sold next month by webcrawling??? You think supermarkets post their sales-figures to public webpages? Wallmart is said to have more data off-line than is available on the entire public section of the net. Now give me access to that.. But on the other hand; if you work for the sales-tax administration (in Europe) and all the big companies file their invoices weekly, that is also a good starting point...
and would like to point out the one group of muslims which is NOT tearing down the house: those living in... Denmark. Not a single demonstration yet. They know what they have to lose. From the Cyber-angle: the foreign ministry is mounting a counter attack: arab-speaking danes are flooding chat-sites and sending SMS messages all over the middle east to try and counter the unbelievable crap which is spread this way. Chatsites right now are full with rumors that we are depicting the prophet as a pig, violently beating down demonstrations,burning the koran... So now we have government employees payed to counter-flood with more realistic descriptions of the situation in site.DK. Talk about cyber-warfare...
fact is, once the PHB's realise the "Intel inside" sticker is not an absolute requirement, Intel will have a hard time getting the cat in the bag again...
What compiler does Apple use? As they are starting from scratch, they should be able to optimise for this specific chip without taking backward compatibility into account...
all the subways I've been to in Europe have coverage, and you can (unfortunately) talk inside the trains as well. U.S. comming a little late in the game, heh?
Samsonite now charges airline companies. Philips, Samsung, and Sony started a class action lawsuit against CBS and CNN. The American Association Of Shopping Bag Producers is looking into charging WalMart. And everywhere the same cry can be heard:" They are using us without paying us!".
They can do it if they follow the shuffle concept and make you do all the "big" work in iTunes, like maintaining your contact list etc. They would be the only phone makers who could expect all their customers to have access to a PC. Sending SMS messages would be the big difficulty, but this is less relevant in the US, and might be replaced by spoken/photographed MMS messages. The rare occasion where you need to dial a number you don't have in memory, you would have to accept a more lengthy way, like rotating up the digits and acknowledging with a tap. All this to say they could make a phone without a numeric keyboard.
Like it or not, but we will need MORE electricity in the future, to cover other energy usages like transport. If Belgium wanted to run 100% of its transport on biofuel, it would need 5 times the surface of France to produce it. With massive amounts of electrical power, you could make hydrogen, or heat waste into plasma and crack it to fuel. Heating your house could also be done with electrical power, provided you spread the consumption over the day by using heat accumulation. Wind power is good, but I don't think it will be enough.
When you can choose between a region-encoded DVD player and one which isn't, you buy..... When you can choose between one display standard which has been hacked and one which hasn't.... Competition is not just going to drive down prices, it is also going to lower the efforts done on DRM.
I've been using computers frequently since 1992. Mostly keyboard work. Usually for more than six or seven hours at a time. Every day.
Well, you might not have carpal tunnel syndrome, but then you don't seem to have a life either..
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AES, the encryption algorithm, was invented at a Belgian university. A country like this, with less inhabitants than NYC cannot afford to have universities leading the world in all kinds of disciplines. This is a big problem for European universities: every country wants a silicon valley, AND a biotech center, AND nanotech,... But really they can't afford it, and therefore the money gets spread out too thin. If you work with small groups and good funding you can beat the world in a niche discipline, just like the AES guys did.
My experience: for each guy you fire, another one gets panicky, looks for a new job, and finds one. You can fire the guys you need least, but guess which one of the others will find a another job first... And then, train a foreigner, knowing you are getting the sack. For fuck sake, this is a BANK! All you need to do is to claim the indian guy doesn't understand your accent, throw in some "unfortunate misunderstandings", and the whole IT dept is on its way to hell. If I had money there, I'd run for my life.
Capacitors also have another difference: they can be (dis)charged extremely quickly. That means you will be able to recharge very quickly (if you have a spiffy charger), but I wouldn't want to drop a capacitor powered cellphone in the toilet.....
There is an algorithm out there where you reduce the number of pixels and replace them with a median value. This reduces the noise, but can obviously only be done with high resolution thingies. Could get you a 2 megapixel stable image out of a 8 megapixel noisy one...
How about this? An encryption software which ALWAYS creates 5 large random files. You can use any number of them to store encrypted data, provided you enter the correct password. Put some plausible data in the first, and say you didn't need the others...
Corn-fuel is what we call a first-genearation technology. Biotech companies like Novozymes are working on enzymes which can break down corn-waste (leaves etc.) until the starch is short-chained enough to be fermented in the classical way. None of the first generation plants comes anywhere near making a profit, but once they can start fermenting the leftover crap, this picture could change. Raising fuel prices are obviously helping.
but if they are going to spend the money they stole through their OS monopoly, I would by far prefer them to spend it on research than on price-dumping a game console. No I don't pay the microsoft tax, but really I do anyway, because my kids school pays it, my local government pays it, and my employer pays it.
For all our quality documents, we use Word with some propietary plugin to help with the formatting. You can read and print it in a copy of word which doesn't have the plugin, but wheep he who shall alter the layout! These documents (preferably with embedded Powerpoint which has embedded Excel) get uploaded in our central documentation database, where they are supposed to remain for the next 20 years. I recently needed 3 days to convert my 7 year old thesis to PDF. Something tells me we are in deep shit...
I know Nokia's R&D gets paid by 16 year olds doing overtime at the local McDonnalds, but it keeps on amazing me how nobady develops the business marked. My phone can synch with Bluetooth and IR. Guess what? The average corporate desktop has neither. How about a intelligent USB craddle? When I put the phone in it, it not only recharges, but automatically forwards all calls to the desktop phone standing just beside it, and all text messages to my email inbox? How many mobile phone owners sit 8 hours a day at the same desk? Why does nobady cater for them?
Many phone companies will give you 2 sim cards on the same number, e.g. for use in your car. They are also pretty easy to copy. Better still would have been Bluetooth: did you know there is a bluetooth profile for "borrowing" a SIM card? Keep the Laptop (or whatever) anywhere near your phone and it can act as if it had the SIM card inside....
you gave the answer yourself: some EU court. EU courts are only there to settle disputes between states, the **AA sueing a company or an individual will have no choice but to go through a swedish court...
I once read that if you converted all the sand of the earth into processors, it would still take ages to accurately simulate the folding of a protein. Is this just "zooming out" and ignoring things like protein folding?
TFA mentions data about drug prescriptions by hundreds of physicians. Is that lying around unorganised on the net? Tell me which algorithm you are going to use to predict how many XBOX365 are going to get sold next month by webcrawling??? You think supermarkets post their sales-figures to public webpages? Wallmart is said to have more data off-line than is available on the entire public section of the net. Now give me access to that.. But on the other hand; if you work for the sales-tax administration (in Europe) and all the big companies file their invoices weekly, that is also a good starting point...
and would like to point out the one group of muslims which is NOT tearing down the house: those living in... Denmark. Not a single demonstration yet. They know what they have to lose. From the Cyber-angle: the foreign ministry is mounting a counter attack: arab-speaking danes are flooding chat-sites and sending SMS messages all over the middle east to try and counter the unbelievable crap which is spread this way. Chatsites right now are full with rumors that we are depicting the prophet as a pig, violently beating down demonstrations,burning the koran... So now we have government employees payed to counter-flood with more realistic descriptions of the situation in site .DK. Talk about cyber-warfare...
How about saying: My program is called Azureus, and it is a client to the BitTorrent(TM) protocol?
fact is, once the PHB's realise the "Intel inside" sticker is not an absolute requirement, Intel will have a hard time getting the cat in the bag again...
What compiler does Apple use? As they are starting from scratch, they should be able to optimise for this specific chip without taking backward compatibility into account...
all the subways I've been to in Europe have coverage, and you can (unfortunately) talk inside the trains as well. U.S. comming a little late in the game, heh?
Samsonite now charges airline companies. Philips, Samsung, and Sony started a class action lawsuit against CBS and CNN. The American Association Of Shopping Bag Producers is looking into charging WalMart. And everywhere the same cry can be heard:" They are using us without paying us!".
They can do it if they follow the shuffle concept and make you do all the "big" work in iTunes, like maintaining your contact list etc. They would be the only phone makers who could expect all their customers to have access to a PC. Sending SMS messages would be the big difficulty, but this is less relevant in the US, and might be replaced by spoken/photographed MMS messages. The rare occasion where you need to dial a number you don't have in memory, you would have to accept a more lengthy way, like rotating up the digits and acknowledging with a tap. All this to say they could make a phone without a numeric keyboard.
Like it or not, but we will need MORE electricity in the future, to cover other energy usages like transport. If Belgium wanted to run 100% of its transport on biofuel, it would need 5 times the surface of France to produce it. With massive amounts of electrical power, you could make hydrogen, or heat waste into plasma and crack it to fuel. Heating your house could also be done with electrical power, provided you spread the consumption over the day by using heat accumulation. Wind power is good, but I don't think it will be enough.
The link is to something called the Uniform driver interface, some kind of attempt to make OS-neutral drivers. Is this the same thing??
When you can choose between a region-encoded DVD player and one which isn't, you buy.....
When you can choose between one display standard which has been hacked and one which hasn't....
Competition is not just going to drive down prices, it is also going to lower the efforts done on DRM.
I've been using computers frequently since 1992. Mostly keyboard work. Usually for more than six or seven hours at a time. Every day.
Well, you might not have carpal tunnel syndrome, but then you don't seem to have a life either..
She is not that ugly, look carefully at this: http://www.mozilla.org/press/image-library/people- mitchell-baker.jpg. Her hairdresser however, deserves to get shot without a trial.