Don't be naive.
Every single telecommunications vendor has tapping capability built into their equipment.
Every western government *mandates* that this functionality is built in.
It is not the equipment manufacturer who is morally wrong here.
If you think it's wrong in Iran, it's wrong in the US or Europe too.
This product:
http://www.quarantainenet.nl/?language=en;page=main-home
has been in commercial use for several years at educational institutions in the Netherlands.
It basically does just that -- infected computers get isolated and get referred to a self-help page.
Interesting stuff.
(disclaimer: I know people who work there)
The thing is, I can request *your* birthcertificate in writing if I know your birthplace. I can get a passport photograph signed by a "person of standing" -- I doubt this is actually checked -- fill out the paperwork, and presto, theres my new UK passport with my photo and your identity.
Of course this will leave in place the quaint system thats currently there -- theres no national register of who lives where. So opening a bank account requires you to bring in a random assortment of water bills, phone bills, as proof of address, getting a passport requires you to get the reverse of your passport photograph signed by "a person of standing" i.e. your doctor or a certified engineer or a company director. Hardly waterproof, really.
To travel to Europe you need to fork out the full fee for a "real passport" rather than the cut-price national-ID card -- most other Europeans can just make do with a national ID card. Or wait -- that might be because Britain is one of the few countries that still does border controls for travel within Europe. Travel north-south from Germany to Holland to Belgium to France to Spain to Portugal and the only thing you notice is the language on the road signs changing, the borders are notionally still there but no checks are done.
Im not sure the current system really is that much better.
Anything moderately current will do anything you want. It doesn't really matter what you choose.
So set yourself a budget and buy something that fits within that. It will probably do fine.
Given all the hassle that the US gives foreigners over passports, visa, workpermits and what have you, why not try a hop over the border in Europe?
From your e-mail address I am guessing you are German, you speak/write English -- so you could probably take your pick from at least Austria, Holland, Germany, Swiss, Norway, Sweden, Finland, UK, Ireland or Belgium without running into great language difficulties.
A good university would have a placement officer that can help you out and would already have some contacts in place. Start early, ask around, keep asking.
If you are looking for the sexy internet companies like Google or the like -- most of them have european offices that also do interesting things down here.
It was fast, yes. And a fabulous FORTH, that was actually usable without disks. When I still had copious amounts of free time the Ace experience got me to port CamelForth to the GameBoy, oh joy.
Forth is definitely a good / better start than Basic -- if only for the "down to the bare metal" feel of it.
Something else that is interesting about this is that it will be the first untied x86 version -- you can actually buy a x86 version of MacOS without buying Mac hardware to run it on.
There was a brief period of time where you could actually buy Alpha / PowerPC motherboards with an ATX formfactor and PCI slots. Microsoft *did* release versions of Windows NT 3.51 (iirc) that would run on those -- but the independent software vendors didn't follow.
... if you're working on an open source project for "fun", being pestered around by a release manager to hurry up might not be as "fun". Most open source developers probably have a day job that's got enough deadlines to meet and managers to please -- so joining an open source project gives some fresh air, not being told what to do and being able to run your own show.
Bringing in managers, paying them, getting people on your back telling you what to do and when to do it, when you were doing this as a "hobby", is a bit erhm -- turning the hobby into a chore. You want a job done, on time, when you want it, sure. Pay for it.
I've played "worker bee" for a bit, just trying to understand what this does - I was intrigued by the concept. At this moment I feel ripped off, but hey, it's my own fault if I'm willing to work for pennies an hour right? No hard feelings, but I'll try explain why.
What gives?
The $0.03 a piece for judging the photo shoots seems like a nice brainless exercise to cure your insomnia. Click around and see what you get. I've worked on Las Vegas.
My theory of how this works, is that they've mounted a video camera on a car, kept the GPS coordinates for each of the shots. Now, the trouble is that you need to convert a street address into a GPS coordinate to be able to match up a photo with the business. These conversions exist, but are not always accurate. If you're unlucky enough to hit a street that does not have accurate streetnumbers-to-GPS-coordinate mappings, your photos won't match up.
So you'll get Sahara Avenue 2100, and the photo's you see are way off - you'll be shown some photo's around Sahara Avenue 2500.
There is no match.
And lo-and-behold: Amazon does not pay for "no match".
(It didn't say that. It said: you are paid for each HIT / click. I did not get paid for the "no match" clicks. I'm not happy.)
I've done my hour of clicking around and learnt my lesson. Working for 27 cents an hour might not even be tempting for sweatshoppers.
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It's a very puzzling development for me.
There's been speculation that the Treo 670 will not be running PalmOS anymore -- how does that fit in with this?
There are a few Korean, Japanese and Chinese producers of PalmOS devices, especially smartphones. The pen interface is more suitable for iconographic languages so it would make sense to keep a presence there.
Where will this go from here?
The fine print, of course, is that the Bluetooth SDIO card does not work in any PalmOS 5 devices. I.e. it's useless to upgrade your entry level Zire71 / Tungsten T|E with -- it would not work.
It's really quite simple (comparing Apples with oranges wheeeeeee):
- Zire (21/31/71/72) -- Personal/home use, (matching the Apple iBooks 12/14" versions)
- Tungsten (E/T2/T3) -- Business use, (matching the Apple Powerbooks 12/15/17" versions)
There's a bunch of other models, but I don't find PalmOne's product line any more complicated than Apple's. Count in all the eMac, iMac, xServe models and Apple starts to look a lot more complicated.
I'm in Berlin, Germany -- Sony Clie is fairly popular here as well. Handspring has been bought by PalmOne, so that's one less on the list. I've not seen Kyocera in the shops here, and I've only seen Tapwave Zodiac from a private import.
This (slightly outdated) link mentions PalmOne having 40% of the market, and Sony having 11.3%. That probably accounts for nearly all of the PalmOS PDAs.
HP/Compaq/iPAQ is the big number 2 -- all the rest together is minor "me too" brands that are not very innovative at all.
There's been a lot of competition in the PalmOS world as well, which no doubt caused new PalmOS devices to come out with new and improved features. Long, long lists of devices on Palmsource. Think Sony Clie, Handspring, Kyocera, PalmOne, Tapwave... to name a few.
It's a strategic decision really -- only time will tell if PalmOne took the right decision.
I've seen all the newest smartphones pass by my desk, Nokia 6600, SonyEricsson P900, Siemens SX1 -- they are just not PDA's. They are phones, trying to do too much -- so you end up with a wierd hybrid of a phone, PDA, mp3player that doesn't do anything good and is not even usable as a phone anymore.
Screens on all these phones are no match for the new crispy Palm screens, and the sheer number of applications I can download for the Palm makes all the difference.
I've played with the Zire72 -- doing some development work, have seen early versions. It's *BLUE*. The camera is decent enough to take nice snapshots at 1.2 MP.
Most interesting to me is the Bluetooth connectivity, you can be connected to the Net in just a few clicks for most recent phones. Works good enough to read slashdot or check your e-mail.
Another interesting new application in there is "messages" -- it sends and receives SMS, MMS and e-mail.
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Don't be naive. Every single telecommunications vendor has tapping capability built into their equipment. Every western government *mandates* that this functionality is built in. It is not the equipment manufacturer who is morally wrong here. If you think it's wrong in Iran, it's wrong in the US or Europe too.
This product: http://www.quarantainenet.nl/?language=en;page=main-home has been in commercial use for several years at educational institutions in the Netherlands. It basically does just that -- infected computers get isolated and get referred to a self-help page. Interesting stuff. (disclaimer: I know people who work there)
The thing is, I can request *your* birthcertificate in writing if I know your birthplace. I can get a passport photograph signed by a "person of standing" -- I doubt this is actually checked -- fill out the paperwork, and presto, theres my new UK passport with my photo and your identity.
To travel to Europe you need to fork out the full fee for a "real passport" rather than the cut-price national-ID card -- most other Europeans can just make do with a national ID card. Or wait -- that might be because Britain is one of the few countries that still does border controls for travel within Europe. Travel north-south from Germany to Holland to Belgium to France to Spain to Portugal and the only thing you notice is the language on the road signs changing, the borders are notionally still there but no checks are done. Im not sure the current system really is that much better.
Anything moderately current will do anything you want. It doesn't really matter what you choose. So set yourself a budget and buy something that fits within that. It will probably do fine.
From your e-mail address I am guessing you are German, you speak/write English -- so you could probably take your pick from at least Austria, Holland, Germany, Swiss, Norway, Sweden, Finland, UK, Ireland or Belgium without running into great language difficulties.
A good university would have a placement officer that can help you out and would already have some contacts in place. Start early, ask around, keep asking.
If you are looking for the sexy internet companies like Google or the like -- most of them have european offices that also do interesting things down here.
Good luck!
It was fast, yes. And a fabulous FORTH, that was actually usable without disks. When I still had copious amounts of free time the Ace experience got me to port CamelForth to the GameBoy, oh joy. Forth is definitely a good / better start than Basic -- if only for the "down to the bare metal" feel of it.
ZX spectrum without colour, either.
Something else that is interesting about this is that it will be the first untied x86 version -- you can actually buy a x86 version of MacOS without buying Mac hardware to run it on.
There was a brief period of time where you could actually buy Alpha / PowerPC motherboards with an ATX formfactor and PCI slots. Microsoft *did* release versions of Windows NT 3.51 (iirc) that would run on those -- but the independent software vendors didn't follow.
Bringing in managers, paying them, getting people on your back telling you what to do and when to do it, when you were doing this as a "hobby", is a bit erhm -- turning the hobby into a chore. You want a job done, on time, when you want it, sure. Pay for it.
What gives?
The $0.03 a piece for judging the photo shoots seems like a nice brainless exercise to cure your insomnia. Click around and see what you get. I've worked on Las Vegas.
My theory of how this works, is that they've mounted a video camera on a car, kept the GPS coordinates for each of the shots. Now, the trouble is that you need to convert a street address into a GPS coordinate to be able to match up a photo with the business. These conversions exist, but are not always accurate. If you're unlucky enough to hit a street that does not have accurate streetnumbers-to-GPS-coordinate mappings, your photos won't match up.
So you'll get Sahara Avenue 2100, and the photo's you see are way off - you'll be shown some photo's around Sahara Avenue 2500.
There is no match.
And lo-and-behold: Amazon does not pay for "no match".
(It didn't say that. It said: you are paid for each HIT / click. I did not get paid for the "no match" clicks. I'm not happy.)
I've done my hour of clicking around and learnt my lesson. Working for 27 cents an hour might not even be tempting for sweatshoppers.
There's been speculation that the Treo 670 will not be running PalmOS anymore -- how does that fit in with this?
There are a few Korean, Japanese and Chinese producers of PalmOS devices, especially smartphones. The pen interface is more suitable for iconographic languages so it would make sense to keep a presence there. Where will this go from here?
WebPro is included on the Zire72 -- works like a charm.
The fine print, of course, is that the Bluetooth SDIO card does not work in any PalmOS 5 devices. I.e. it's useless to upgrade your entry level Zire71 / Tungsten T|E with -- it would not work.
- Zire (21/31/71/72) -- Personal/home use, (matching the Apple iBooks 12/14" versions)
- Tungsten (E/T2/T3) -- Business use, (matching the Apple Powerbooks 12/15/17" versions)
There's a bunch of other models, but I don't find PalmOne's product line any more complicated than Apple's. Count in all the eMac, iMac, xServe models and Apple starts to look a lot more complicated.
This (slightly outdated) link mentions PalmOne having 40% of the market, and Sony having 11.3%. That probably accounts for nearly all of the PalmOS PDAs.
HP/Compaq/iPAQ is the big number 2 -- all the rest together is minor "me too" brands that are not very innovative at all.
There's been a lot of competition in the PalmOS world as well, which no doubt caused new PalmOS devices to come out with new and improved features. Long, long lists of devices on Palmsource. Think Sony Clie, Handspring, Kyocera, PalmOne, Tapwave... to name a few.
I've seen all the newest smartphones pass by my desk, Nokia 6600, SonyEricsson P900, Siemens SX1 -- they are just not PDA's. They are phones, trying to do too much -- so you end up with a wierd hybrid of a phone, PDA, mp3player that doesn't do anything good and is not even usable as a phone anymore.
Screens on all these phones are no match for the new crispy Palm screens, and the sheer number of applications I can download for the Palm makes all the difference.
Most interesting to me is the Bluetooth connectivity, you can be connected to the Net in just a few clicks for most recent phones. Works good enough to read slashdot or check your e-mail.
Another interesting new application in there is "messages" -- it sends and receives SMS, MMS and e-mail.