India/United States Poplutaion:1,014,003,817 / 275,562,673 Area (sq. Km):2,973,190 / 9,166,601 Density (persons per sq Km):341.0 / 30.1
always seems to have outer space stuff hitting the States
There is a lot of stuff hitting US.
But with such a hight density population it's more easy that a meteor hits a village in India than a American one.
By 1980 the American auto industry had lost its first-place standing to Japan. In fact, Japanese auto imports accounted for a large portion of annual car sales in the U.S. One out of every four cars sold in 1980 were imports. Many buyers in the Seventies concluded that Japanese autos were of higher quality than American-made cars, and were less expensive besides. They also got very good gas mileage, as a rule. With the oil crisis triggered by OPEC's decision to curtail production and raise prices on crude oil, fuel economy was top priority among many American car buyers. The aptly named Dodge Omni Miser got an estimated 50 miles-per-gallon on the highway. So did the Dodge Colt hatchback.
Under the canny stewardship of Lee Iacocca (whose 1984 autobiography broke bestseller records), Chrysler began producing its K-model cars -- plain, gas-efficient, front-wheel-drive vehicles designed to challenge Japanese imports and put the company back on its feet. The $1.2 billion federal bailout helped too, as did the decision by the United Auto Workers to forego $600 million in new wage and benefit increases.) GM launched its new J-cars in early 1981. The Big Three automakers were in dire straits, going $4.2 billion in the red in 1980. Not since 1961 had they sold so few units. Ford and Chrysler suspended production at two major plants in November 1980. Nearly 200,000 auto workers were laid off. Chrysler cut its work force from 160,000 to 85,000.
Detroit wanted Congress and the White House to do something to curtail the flood of car imports from Japan. After all, the auto industry accounted for one-fifth of the country's gross national product and employed one-sixth of its work force. American auto production had declined 30% in three years. As had happened in textiles and electronics, steel and shipbuilding, Americans found to their dismay that in yet another industry the ambitious and fiercely competitive Japanese were selling higher quality product at a low price.
But protectionism was not to the liking of a confirmed free trader like President Reagan, and he sought instead a "gentleman's agreement" with the Japanese by which they would voluntarily curb their exports to the United States. Nearly two million Japanese cars and trucks were sold in the U.S. in 1980, and Reagan wanted a reduction of 25% in that number for at least the next few years. This was a tough pill for Japan to swallow, since exports to the American market accounted for almost one-half of its overseas auto sales. The Japanese foreign minister became an ardent free-trade advocate himself whenever the issue arose, which was ironic since Japan maintained high import barriers to protect its own home industries. Meeting with Reagan in May 1981, Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki predicted a satisfactory solution to the problem. American trade representatives hinted that protectionist legislation was probably just around the corner unless something was done. The Japanese got the message and car exports were curtailed.
it would make it more difficult for Asian companies to participate in world markets
There isn't free market. If China becomes 1st software producer some "friendly" actions will take place.
Edit file "C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" (/etc/hosts for any real OS)and add
216.239.51.99 sitefinder.verisign.com
216.239.51.99 can be any IP.
216.239.51.99 is Google.com.
OK, it's not strictly regulation, but with any luck Verisgn will find that "controlling" the underlying technology of the Internet is not as easy as they first though
Yes, Google is in control.
The blunt message was delivered by Laura Fryer, director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group, to a meeting of game developers in London.
Games are boring so.... buy a Xbox.
It isn't an article is an Ad.
[From Primal Void Engineer, via Sebastian's Humor Group]
MacGyver Cookie Recipe
Well, folks, here it is. I didn't have time to cook this stuff myself for you the way Paul Newman does, so I just wrote up this cookbook to give you all the recipes, tried and true just like I make'em in my own kitchen at home.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES:
Frequent flier coupons One medium paperclip (not plastic coated) One movie ticket stub Now remember that chocolate-chip cookies are supposed to be a nice relaxing kind of food, so the first thing you'll want to do to make them is to go somewhere where you can kick back and relax. Ecuador is good, so use your frequent-flier coupons to pick up a round-trip ticket there. The stewardess will hand you a couple of bags of peanuts, but don't eat them, since we're going to need those for the cookies.
You'll find yourself sitting next to an attractive woman who teaches archaeology at Cornell; she'll explain that she's going to Ecuador to try to find her father--a biochemist by trade, but he dabbles in archaeology as a hobby--who went down there to find the lost pyramid of Sesquichachloride, well known in archaeological circles as the fabled storehouse of the god Valhequesal who, according to myth, rode down from the skies on a pillar of fire bringing with him a wealth of powerful but somewhat failure-prone magical devices that, according to the priests of the day, were pretty darn all-around nifty.
Now her father, after examining several stone tablets depicting the god Valhequesal, discovered that he is always shown wearing a curious bracelet on his left wrist that looks surprisingly like a digital watch, leading him to the conclusion that Valhequesal did actually exist, but he was really an advanced space traveller with comparatively poor taste in accessories, and that the lost pyramid of Sesquichachloride must contain his spacecraft and untold other devices from his world. About this time, the stewardess will bring by the main meal and you'll want to be sure to save the little packets of salt and butter that come with your meal--the woman next to you will be too worried about her father to eat and so you'll want to take her packet of butter and go ahead and keep her crackers too.
When you get off the plane in Ecuador, just go out to the front of the airport and try to locate a cab. There won't be any, for some reason, so you'll go inside to inquire about where transportation might be found and some guy will stumble against you and when you look at him, you'll notice that he's been stabbed in the left side and is bleeding pretty profusely. With a weakly shaking hand, he'll thrust the key to a safety deposit box into your hand, gasp something about "be careful of the poison ivy" and expire messily on the floor of the terminal. You'll decide that maybe waiting for a cab is the better part of valor and head back outside--on the way, though, be sure to stop at the concession stand and ask for a half-pound of chocolate chips. The clerk will measure the appropriate amount and put it in a bag for you. Be sure your movie ticket stub is visible in the handful of change you pull from your pocket to pay her. She'll reach down under the counter and then surreptitiously drop a roll of microfilm into your bag along with the chocolate chips, then hand you the bag, saying, "On the house."
At this point, speed is of the essence--get back outside the concourse before a swarthy man with a mustache strides up to the snack shop holding a movie ticket stub. Moments later he and the clerk will run out the door looking for you, just as the woman who sat next to you on the plane drives up in her rental car and offers you a lift. Cheerfully accept, and hop in before the man with the mustache disconnects the safety on his gun. If all goes well, you'll both be out of the parking lot and on your way before he has time to squeeze off more than one shot--and he'll miss on the first one anyway and the woman driving the car will think it was just another vehicle b
Gamers will use REAL EVERYDAY GAMES to see what runs the fastest again
Like Quake III? Like the rest of the online press, we received our RADEON 7500 and 8500 review samples at the beginning of last week. At first, things proceeded smoothly; both boards were running great on our testing platform (in this case, a Pentium 4 since we've already examined the performance of Titanium boards on Athlon). Then we received word of HardOCP's results with a modified Quake 3 executable. It appeared as if the RADEON drivers was looking for Quake and optimizing for performance if it was found. By changing all references from "quake" to "quack" performance of the RADEON 8500 was slower. We were in the middle of testing the validity of the same program with an executable we'd made of our own that performed a similar function. By the time we'd completed testing with all three executables it was obvious that ATI had modified their drivers specifically for Quake 3. Therefore, rather than discussing the features and performance of the RADEON 7500 and 8500, we've decided to devote this entire article to examine exactly what's going on.
Once they start to care about this distinction, all hope of obtaining a life is gone with the wind (or, gone with a stream of tachyon particles, as it may be)
Major brand hard drive vendors recall defective products produced in China
Jimmy Hsu, Taipei; Wen-Yu Lang, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 27 May 2003]
Three major brand hard drive vendors - Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - have started recalling some of their 40GB and 80GB products sold in Taiwan due to similar defects identified in the products, Taiwanese channel distributors said.
About 12,000-15,000 defective hard drives are estimated to have entered Taiwan. It is unclear whether the same groups of products, with an estimated defect rate of 10%, have also been marketed in other parts of the world, sources said.
Local distributors said they began to see soaring return rates on the hard drives since late April. Most of the returned drives reportedly suffered from bad sectors or problems being formatted, and were found to have come from the same sources in China.
Among the top four hard drive vendors worldwide, Western Digital is the only one unaffected by the incident, as the company does not have products manufactured in China, sources said.
It is suspected that high defect rate was caused by the inexperience of certain manufacturers in China as they were transitioning to new production processes, sources said.
Local agents declined to confirm the report. While Maxtor agent Xander International denied seeing an unusual defect rate, Seagate agents Synnex Technology International and Taiwan Aries stressed that customers would be provided with complete warranty services if they were sold defective products. Comments from Hitachi were unavailable.
Superb, excellent, this book really captures the mind. Gates shows how intelligent he is with some of his predictions, which will make our lives easier and safer. May of his predictions are suddenly creeping into the market place.In the book Gates describes how technology has advanced, and of course how he thinks it will further advance. He explains things simply and clearly. The beggining of the book is not to great, but the rest of the book is excellent. As gates says at the beggining of the book, ' anyone who is expecting a biography of Bill Gates has choosen the wrong book'.This is true, Gates is simply acting as a philiosopher in the technological world
A sparrow decides that it is too hard a flight to go south in the winter and refuses to migrate when the other birds leave.
Winter sets in and finally gets so bad that even the sparrow realizes he needs to head south. But he is no sooner in flight than ice forms on his wings and he falls to the ground. There on the cold, hard ground he is freezing to death until a cow comes by and flops on him. The warm of the cow's droppings began to warm him up and he feels so good he jumps up and starts singing. The farm cat hears him and pulls him out of his messy condition, cleans him up and eats him! The morals of this story are:
[1] Not everybody who shits on you is your enemy.
[2] Not everybody who gets you out of shit is your friend.
[3] If, and when, you do get out of shit keep your mouth shut!
No IPv6 huh? (Score:5, Funny)
by hillct (230132) on Sunday May 18, @10:40AM (#5985332)
(http://www.keepersoflists.org/ | Last Journal: Monday August 20, @09:52AM)
Severla hundred years in the future and still, IPv6 hasn't been adopted. Personally, I'm not suprised. It'll take an act of god to get it deployed.
Dihydrogen monoxide is colourless, odourless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide:
is also known as hydroxl acid, and is the major component of acid rain. contributes to the "greenhouse effect." may cause severe burns. contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape. accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals. may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes. has been found in excised tumours of terminal cancer patients.
Contamination Is Reaching Epidemic Proportions!
Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
as an industrial solvent and coolant. in nuclear power plants.
in the production of styrofoam. as a fire retardant.
in many forms of cruel animal research. in the distribution of pesticides.
Even after washing, produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.
Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal. The impact on wildlife is extreme, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer!
The Horror Must Be Stopped!
The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation." In fact, the navy and other military organizations are conducting experiments with DHMO, and designing multi-billion dollar devices to control and utilise it during warfare situations. Hundreds of military research facilities receive tons of it through a highly sophisticated underground distribution network. Many store large quantities for later use.
It's Not Too Late!
Act NOW to prevent further contamination. Find out more about this dangerous chemical. What you don't know can hurt you and others throughout the world.
Communications technology giant Motorola (Quote, Company Info) is angling to cash in on the younger set's attachment to instant messaging with its new wireless IMfree device.
The blue-and-silver, 5-inch-square device looks like a very large wireless pager. With a built-in keyboard and LCD display, the device enables users to carry on six simultaneous IM sessions on America Online's (Quote, Company Info) AOL Instant Messenger service.
While the IM client resides on the device, it connects wirelessly to a base station attached to a user's PC. The PC must be kept running and online while IMfree is in use.
What you get, essentially, is a basic level of AIM connectivity anywhere in the home. The client supports a handful of AIM emoticons, but does not support rich text. IMfree users appear as mobile users to others on AIM -- that is, with a small mobile phone icon next to their Buddy List name. There are a few glitches to work around -- if AOL is an IMfree user's ISP, then the IMfree user must log into the handheld with a different Screen Name than they used to sign onto PC.
Eventually, the device could support other public IM networks, said Larry O'Shaughnessy, director of marketing at Motorola Consumer Products Division.
"We're constantly talking relative to other potential opportunities... but we're very happy to be working with AOL -- they're the big player," he said.
The device, which is available online now for about $99 and will reach offline stores later in the year, is seen by Motorola as appealing to families with teens or pre-teens. For one thing, it enables the kids to use IM without dominating the family PC.
"Anyone who knows or has a tween or teen of their own has seen firsthand the passion this audience has with IMing," O'Shaughnessy said. "This passion will only increase with the new Motorola IMfree -- giving kids a more convenient and private way to IM with their friends away from the PC."
IMfree's software also includes built-in parental controls, enabling parents to blocking certain chat invitations. In addition, parents can also specify times during which a child can access AIM via IMfree.
It also doesn't require much in the way of advanced setup or a cutting-edge PC. Like most cordless telephones, the system operates at a 900MHz frequency, enabling it to reach about 150 feet. The base station connects to the PC via a USB cable, and the handheld unit includes a rechargeable battery.
A base station supports up to seven IMfree devices -- ideally enabling siblings or, perhaps, a college dorm hall, to use the devices. At some point, Motorola expects to sell the handsets separate from the base stations.
The move takes Motorola's long involvement in mobile instant messaging in a new direction. So far, most of the tech giant's efforts have centered around mobile phone-based IM. For one thing, the company is a major player in the Wireless Village (now Open Mobile Alliance) initiative to develop carrier-interoperable cell phone instant messaging.
In 2001, the company's Lexicus unit launched a Java-based, cross-network IM client, teaming up with presence software developer Personity. Notable for its support for AIM, Yahoo! (Quote, Company Info) and MSN's IM networks as well as Wireless Village protocols, the client is supported on a number of Motorola devices. Also that year, Motorola worked with Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) and Arch Wireless to deploy MSN Messenger on its Talkabout T900 two-way pager device.
Motorola has been working with AOL since late 1999, when the two first inked a deal to support AIM on Motorola's Timeport PDA/cellular phone combination devices.
But with mobile IM still having yet to catch on significantly, Motorola is banking that a low-cost product targeting an established market could fit the bill.
"We like the ubiquity of IM, and anything associated with IM and teens is a really dynamic, fun ma
Re:Dyson didnt invent this , Derek Phillips did !
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so i think the credit goes to Mr Phillips for actually pulling it off, Dyson loves taking credit for other peoples work
"I stand a discreet distance away and listen to some of their theories - there are some fantastic ideas there, some of them I actually wish I could make[and patent?]."
There are a lot of people that patents other people's ideas.
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India/United States
Poplutaion:1,014,003,817 / 275,562,673
Area (sq. Km):2,973,190 / 9,166,601
Density (persons per sq Km):341.0 / 30.1
always seems to have outer space stuff hitting the States
There is a lot of stuff hitting US.
But with such a hight density population it's more easy that a meteor hits a village in India than a American one.
SCO Intellectual property pedigree chart looks like this UNIX History.
You can make your own graphics.
What do you do if you have a nice big data set that won't fit in memory?
Don't use it. There is diferent software for diferent needs.
By 1980 the American auto industry had lost its first-place standing to Japan. In fact, Japanese auto imports accounted for a large portion of annual car sales in the U.S. One out of every four cars sold in 1980 were imports. Many buyers in the Seventies concluded that Japanese autos were of higher quality than American-made cars, and were less expensive besides. They also got very good gas mileage, as a rule. With the oil crisis triggered by OPEC's decision to curtail production and raise prices on crude oil, fuel economy was top priority among many American car buyers. The aptly named Dodge Omni Miser got an estimated 50 miles-per-gallon on the highway. So did the Dodge Colt hatchback. Under the canny stewardship of Lee Iacocca (whose 1984 autobiography broke bestseller records), Chrysler began producing its K-model cars -- plain, gas-efficient, front-wheel-drive vehicles designed to challenge Japanese imports and put the company back on its feet. The $1.2 billion federal bailout helped too, as did the decision by the United Auto Workers to forego $600 million in new wage and benefit increases.) GM launched its new J-cars in early 1981. The Big Three automakers were in dire straits, going $4.2 billion in the red in 1980. Not since 1961 had they sold so few units. Ford and Chrysler suspended production at two major plants in November 1980. Nearly 200,000 auto workers were laid off. Chrysler cut its work force from 160,000 to 85,000. Detroit wanted Congress and the White House to do something to curtail the flood of car imports from Japan. After all, the auto industry accounted for one-fifth of the country's gross national product and employed one-sixth of its work force. American auto production had declined 30% in three years. As had happened in textiles and electronics, steel and shipbuilding, Americans found to their dismay that in yet another industry the ambitious and fiercely competitive Japanese were selling higher quality product at a low price. But protectionism was not to the liking of a confirmed free trader like President Reagan, and he sought instead a "gentleman's agreement" with the Japanese by which they would voluntarily curb their exports to the United States. Nearly two million Japanese cars and trucks were sold in the U.S. in 1980, and Reagan wanted a reduction of 25% in that number for at least the next few years. This was a tough pill for Japan to swallow, since exports to the American market accounted for almost one-half of its overseas auto sales. The Japanese foreign minister became an ardent free-trade advocate himself whenever the issue arose, which was ironic since Japan maintained high import barriers to protect its own home industries. Meeting with Reagan in May 1981, Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki predicted a satisfactory solution to the problem. American trade representatives hinted that protectionist legislation was probably just around the corner unless something was done. The Japanese got the message and car exports were curtailed.
it would make it more difficult for Asian companies to participate in world markets
There isn't free market. If China becomes 1st software producer some "friendly" actions will take place.
If i get a e-mail writed in english i trhow it to the trash.
Swen isn't Blaster.
216.239.51.99 can be any IP.
216.239.51.99 is Google.com.
OK, it's not strictly regulation, but with any luck Verisgn will find that "controlling" the underlying technology of the Internet is not as easy as they first though
Yes, Google is in control.
This spanish web used P2P to distribute amateur videos of the "Campus Party" computer event.
Videos:
Conference Hispalinux.
Conference Windows vs Linux.
Video Frikis en el Chill out.
Video Computer Mods.
P2P: From People to People.
The blunt message was delivered by Laura Fryer, director of the Xbox Advanced Technology Group, to a meeting of game developers in London.
Games are boring so.... buy a Xbox.
It isn't an article is an Ad.
Most Detailed Image Of Earth Yet (20 February):
So that's why Africa^H^H^H^H^HAmerica is called the dark continent...
[From Primal Void Engineer, via Sebastian's Humor Group]
MacGyver Cookie Recipe
Well, folks, here it is. I didn't have time to cook this stuff myself for you the way Paul Newman does, so I just wrote up this cookbook to give you all the recipes, tried and true just like I make'em in my own kitchen at home.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES:
Frequent flier coupons
One medium paperclip (not plastic coated)
One movie ticket stub
Now remember that chocolate-chip cookies are supposed to be a nice relaxing kind of food, so the first thing you'll want to do to make them is to go somewhere where you can kick back and relax. Ecuador is good, so use your frequent-flier coupons to pick up a round-trip ticket there. The stewardess will hand you a couple of bags of peanuts, but don't eat them, since we're going to need those for the cookies.
You'll find yourself sitting next to an attractive woman who teaches archaeology at Cornell; she'll explain that she's going to Ecuador to try to find her father--a biochemist by trade, but he dabbles in archaeology as a hobby--who went down there to find the lost pyramid of Sesquichachloride, well known in archaeological circles as the fabled storehouse of the god Valhequesal who, according to myth, rode down from the skies on a pillar of fire bringing with him a wealth of powerful but somewhat failure-prone magical devices that, according to the priests of the day, were pretty darn all-around nifty.
Now her father, after examining several stone tablets depicting the god Valhequesal, discovered that he is always shown wearing a curious bracelet on his left wrist that looks surprisingly like a digital watch, leading him to the conclusion that Valhequesal did actually exist, but he was really an advanced space traveller with comparatively poor taste in accessories, and that the lost pyramid of Sesquichachloride must contain his spacecraft and untold other devices from his world. About this time, the stewardess will bring by the main meal and you'll want to be sure to save the little packets of salt and butter that come with your meal--the woman next to you will be too worried about her father to eat and so you'll want to take her packet of butter and go ahead and keep her crackers too.
When you get off the plane in Ecuador, just go out to the front of the airport and try to locate a cab. There won't be any, for some reason, so you'll go inside to inquire about where transportation might be found and some guy will stumble against you and when you look at him, you'll notice that he's been stabbed in the left side and is bleeding pretty profusely. With a weakly shaking hand, he'll thrust the key to a safety deposit box into your hand, gasp something about "be careful of the poison ivy" and expire messily on the floor of the terminal. You'll decide that maybe waiting for a cab is the better part of valor and head back outside--on the way, though, be sure to stop at the concession stand and ask for a half-pound of chocolate chips. The clerk will measure the appropriate amount and put it in a bag for you. Be sure your movie ticket stub is visible in the handful of change you pull from your pocket to pay her. She'll reach down under the counter and then surreptitiously drop a roll of microfilm into your bag along with the chocolate chips, then hand you the bag, saying, "On the house."
At this point, speed is of the essence--get back outside the concourse before a swarthy man with a mustache strides up to the snack shop holding a movie ticket stub. Moments later he and the clerk will run out the door looking for you, just as the woman who sat next to you on the plane drives up in her rental car and offers you a lift. Cheerfully accept, and hop in before the man with the mustache disconnects the safety on his gun. If all goes well, you'll both be out of the parking lot and on your way before he has time to squeeze off more than one shot--and he'll miss on the first one anyway and the woman driving the car will think it was just another vehicle b
Typically, you want something more specific than "apple" in your search
Or you can search "+apple +fruit -mac".
Gamers will use REAL EVERYDAY GAMES to see what runs the fastest again
Like Quake III?
Like the rest of the online press, we received our RADEON 7500 and 8500 review samples at the beginning of last week. At first, things proceeded smoothly; both boards were running great on our testing platform (in this case, a Pentium 4 since we've already examined the performance of Titanium boards on Athlon). Then we received word of HardOCP's results with a modified Quake 3 executable. It appeared as if the RADEON drivers was looking for Quake and optimizing for performance if it was found. By changing all references from "quake" to "quack" performance of the RADEON 8500 was slower. We were in the middle of testing the validity of the same program with an executable we'd made of our own that performed a similar function. By the time we'd completed testing with all three executables it was obvious that ATI had modified their drivers specifically for Quake 3. Therefore, rather than discussing the features and performance of the RADEON 7500 and 8500, we've decided to devote this entire article to examine exactly what's going on.
I still don't think CGI is ready for the big time.
... real.
Are you sure?
CGI are prety
Once they start to care about this distinction, all hope of obtaining a life is gone with the wind (or, gone with a stream of tachyon particles, as it may be)
And they live with his mothers: No_More_Trek.avi (7.26 MB)
...that need better and more powerful mathematics.
Knowledge never is a waste of time.
Slashdot Subscribers Now See The Future:
We're pleased to announce the newest reason for you to subscribe to Slashdot... Slashdoting!
Major brand hard drive vendors recall defective products produced in China
Jimmy Hsu, Taipei; Wen-Yu Lang, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 27 May 2003]
Three major brand hard drive vendors - Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - have started recalling some of their 40GB and 80GB products sold in Taiwan due to similar defects identified in the products, Taiwanese channel distributors said.
About 12,000-15,000 defective hard drives are estimated to have entered Taiwan. It is unclear whether the same groups of products, with an estimated defect rate of 10%, have also been marketed in other parts of the world, sources said.
Local distributors said they began to see soaring return rates on the hard drives since late April. Most of the returned drives reportedly suffered from bad sectors or problems being formatted, and were found to have come from the same sources in China.
Among the top four hard drive vendors worldwide, Western Digital is the only one unaffected by the incident, as the company does not have products manufactured in China, sources said.
It is suspected that high defect rate was caused by the inexperience of certain manufacturers in China as they were transitioning to new production processes, sources said.
Local agents declined to confirm the report. While Maxtor agent Xander International denied seeing an unusual defect rate, Seagate agents Synnex Technology International and Taiwan Aries stressed that customers would be provided with complete warranty services if they were sold defective products. Comments from Hitachi were unavailable.
The Road Ahead it's a must read.
Superb, excellent, this book really captures the mind. Gates shows how intelligent he is with some of his predictions, which will make our lives easier and safer. May of his predictions are suddenly creeping into the market place.In the book Gates describes how technology has advanced, and of course how he thinks it will further advance. He explains things simply and clearly. The beggining of the book is not to great, but the rest of the book is excellent. As gates says at the beggining of the book, ' anyone who is expecting a biography of Bill Gates has choosen the wrong book'.This is true, Gates is simply acting as a philiosopher in the technological world
In Japan
A sparrow decides that it is too hard a flight to go south in the winter and refuses to migrate when the other birds leave.
Winter sets in and finally gets so bad that even the sparrow realizes he needs to head south. But he is no sooner in flight than ice forms on his wings and he falls to the ground. There on the cold, hard ground he is freezing to death until a cow comes by and flops on him. The warm of the cow's droppings began to warm him up and he feels so good he jumps up and starts singing. The farm cat hears him and pulls him out of his messy condition, cleans him up and eats him! The morals of this story are:
[1] Not everybody who shits on you is your enemy.
[2] Not everybody who gets you out of shit is your friend.
[3] If, and when, you do get out of shit keep your mouth shut!
It's only a joke about Water :(
No IPv6 huh? (Score:5, Funny) by hillct (230132) on Sunday May 18, @10:40AM (#5985332)
(http://www.keepersoflists.org/ | Last Journal: Monday August 20, @09:52AM)
Severla hundred years in the future and still, IPv6 hasn't been adopted. Personally, I'm not suprised. It'll take an act of god to get it deployed.
70% Funny 20% Overrated 10% Troll Score:5, Interesting Score:5, Funny Score:3, Interesting Score:4, Insightful Score:4, Insightful Score:4, Insightful Score:4, Insightful Score:4, Funny Score:3, Funny Score:5, Insightful Score:4, Informative Score:5, Interesting
Dihydrogen Monoxide! The Invisible Killer
Dihydrogen monoxide is colourless, odourless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide:
is also known as hydroxl acid, and is the major component of acid rain. contributes to the "greenhouse effect." may cause severe burns. contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape. accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals. may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes. has been found in excised tumours of terminal cancer patients.
Contamination Is Reaching Epidemic Proportions!
Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California.
Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
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Communications technology giant Motorola (Quote, Company Info) is angling to cash in on the younger set's attachment to instant messaging with its new wireless IMfree device.
... but we're very happy to be working with AOL -- they're the big player," he said.
The blue-and-silver, 5-inch-square device looks like a very large wireless pager. With a built-in keyboard and LCD display, the device enables users to carry on six simultaneous IM sessions on America Online's (Quote, Company Info) AOL Instant Messenger service.
While the IM client resides on the device, it connects wirelessly to a base station attached to a user's PC. The PC must be kept running and online while IMfree is in use.
What you get, essentially, is a basic level of AIM connectivity anywhere in the home. The client supports a handful of AIM emoticons, but does not support rich text. IMfree users appear as mobile users to others on AIM -- that is, with a small mobile phone icon next to their Buddy List name. There are a few glitches to work around -- if AOL is an IMfree user's ISP, then the IMfree user must log into the handheld with a different Screen Name than they used to sign onto PC.
Eventually, the device could support other public IM networks, said Larry O'Shaughnessy, director of marketing at Motorola Consumer Products Division.
"We're constantly talking relative to other potential opportunities
The device, which is available online now for about $99 and will reach offline stores later in the year, is seen by Motorola as appealing to families with teens or pre-teens. For one thing, it enables the kids to use IM without dominating the family PC.
"Anyone who knows or has a tween or teen of their own has seen firsthand the passion this audience has with IMing," O'Shaughnessy said. "This passion will only increase with the new Motorola IMfree -- giving kids a more convenient and private way to IM with their friends away from the PC."
IMfree's software also includes built-in parental controls, enabling parents to blocking certain chat invitations. In addition, parents can also specify times during which a child can access AIM via IMfree.
It also doesn't require much in the way of advanced setup or a cutting-edge PC. Like most cordless telephones, the system operates at a 900MHz frequency, enabling it to reach about 150 feet. The base station connects to the PC via a USB cable, and the handheld unit includes a rechargeable battery.
A base station supports up to seven IMfree devices -- ideally enabling siblings or, perhaps, a college dorm hall, to use the devices. At some point, Motorola expects to sell the handsets separate from the base stations.
The move takes Motorola's long involvement in mobile instant messaging in a new direction. So far, most of the tech giant's efforts have centered around mobile phone-based IM. For one thing, the company is a major player in the Wireless Village (now Open Mobile Alliance) initiative to develop carrier-interoperable cell phone instant messaging.
In 2001, the company's Lexicus unit launched a Java-based, cross-network IM client, teaming up with presence software developer Personity. Notable for its support for AIM, Yahoo! (Quote, Company Info) and MSN's IM networks as well as Wireless Village protocols, the client is supported on a number of Motorola devices. Also that year, Motorola worked with Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) and Arch Wireless to deploy MSN Messenger on its Talkabout T900 two-way pager device.
Motorola has been working with AOL since late 1999, when the two first inked a deal to support AIM on Motorola's Timeport PDA/cellular phone combination devices.
But with mobile IM still having yet to catch on significantly, Motorola is banking that a low-cost product targeting an established market could fit the bill.
"We like the ubiquity of IM, and anything associated with IM and teens is a really dynamic, fun ma
so i think the credit goes to Mr Phillips for actually pulling it off, Dyson loves taking credit for other peoples work
"I stand a discreet distance away and listen to some of their theories - there are some fantastic ideas there, some of them I actually wish I could make[and patent?]."
There are a lot of people that patents other people's ideas.