Let me suggest an alternative. Go to your librarian and offer to buy a whole set for the library, but on the condition you get the first crack at them. More expensive than Pirate Bay plus an SD card? Sure. But this way you might get to live in a town that is slightly less overpopulated by ignoramuses. Plus get a tax deduction.
Have you tried this? It's an interesting idea, but I think the library will be happier with a donation so that they can buy something from their list of purchases, rather than have people donate books.
If you are able to donate the books, that's great.
I have had my VGN-18GN/X for about 6 months now also and absolutely love it. I carry it all day, everyday, even if I think that I don't need a machine since I never notice it in my backpack. I have it setup to dialup via my 3G cellphone if I can't find a wireless network and gives me access anywhere.
The screen is brilliant and perfect ratio for watching videos.
I too get 6+ hours battery life. It's great not having to bother with the power cords.
I haven't yet wiped the recovery partition - but I have made the recovery DVD. Maybe I will do that this weekend.
But nowhere does it say she'll have access to sensitive material and what type of projects she'll be working on. If the data/project is highly sensitive then of course her identity should be validated.
You are assuming that the work that she is initially doing is what she will continue to do which is normally *not* the case for permanent employees. so when her role changes, do you then do the background check? Much better to do the check on everyone as part of the employment process.
It's the binaries needed to boot a system, and resides on the root partition./usr might be on another partition and not mounted yet.
And that's exactly why they are statically linked - because at boot time the libraries are not mounted.
Why do you think there is a/sbin/sh and a/bin/sh?/sbin/sh is statically linked to be used in single user mode,/bin/sh is dynamically linked for in multi-user mode.
Am I the only one who's annoyed by bar codes on CD covers and books?
Of course, this probably wouldn't fare too well on a re-issue of the White Album...
The idea is that this will not be visible to the naked eye - you should be cheering this announcment as a way to get rid of the barcodes that you hate but still keep the information.
Mobile phones in Japan already have a function to read barcodes - rather than the traditional barcode that the west are used to, it is a small square of barcode information which holds a lot more data.
You often see this barcode on advertisements next to the url - you can scan the barcode and save typing in the url. I've done it several times - even my non-techy wife uses the feature.
This new announcement seems like a way that you can embed the information without having to have an obvious barcode spoiling the picture - but you will still need some tag to let you know that there was something there worth scanning.
This is software and will work with any digital camera - though you would want to use a web-enabled device like your cellphone so that you can go to the link. So there is no need for dedicated hardware.
They're going to sell the new Japanese version (W42CA) in America too now. Of course, it's still uglified... This is why I go GSM- unlock the phone and use it without modifications.
Of course it would be easy for the Germans to go out with their cable ship, dredge up the two ends, and join them back together again - if they knew where to look for the break. And it's not hard to find out how far along the cable the cut is, as a pulse will be reflected from the break. This had been well understood for a hundred years.
Knowing this, the British engineers made some sort of contraption full of capacitors and coils that they could fix on to the end of the severed cable before dropping it back into the sea. This would add some extra delay to the reflection, causing the Germans to miscalculate where the break was, and send their cable ship to the wrong place.
Wouldn't it have been simpler and easier (and cheaper) to just move a couple of miles and cut the cable again? The Germans wouldn't have detected the break until the repaired the first one and then would have had to start over again. I very much doubt they would have gone to the effort to make a device to stick on the cut cable when there was an easier solution.
And while the German cable ship is in location repairing the cable, it would have been a nice target to aim at - take out a couple of repair ships and that cable is going to stay broken for a long time.
And please don't play the "Japanese is difficult to read" card. I lived there for 4 1/2 years, and when I entered the country my Japanese speaking and reading ability were nearly zero. Reading menus in restaurants stopped being a problem in less than a year. It shouldn't be difficult to pick up enough kanji to be able to recognise things on the menu and point to them even if you are not sure how to pronounce them.
I've lived here for 3 years and it is hard for some of us to learn japanese no matter how much we want to. I just don't have the ear for the words. Heck I have enough trouble in english!.
I can read a few kanji though and I am slowly getting better but I doubt I will be anywhere near fluent ever.
I personally enjoyed the adventure of it, but we ran into a few distraught Western tourists who seemed to be having a hard time enjoying themselves due to the total maze of a street system
Having lived here for a few years now, I think I prefer the Tokyo address system. It's much easier to know where things are in relation to each other. Think of a Tokyo address as targetting a bullseye - the first number gives the outer ring, then next number gives you the inner ring and the final number gives you the building. Compare that to most western systems where you could be walking 1 street over from your destination and never find it.
The Tokyo governor does not share your qualms. From the article: "'Ginza is the most famous shopping district in Japan,' said Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara at an event to launch the project."
I think you mean the Governor's translator, not the governor himself. I would be surprised if the ultra right-wing governor would ever reduce himself to speak in english.
This is the problem of most forum based discussions anybody can post stuff and it gets enough hype if its slashdotted.
Sigh. One of the problems of most forum based discussions is that anybody can post comments on topics without RTFA.
The submitter mistakenly put Peter Gutmann as being a Medical Imaging Specialist, but your comment suggests you know very little about the Security field if you didn't recognise the name.
Even skimming the linked article would have put you right, but then, this is Slashdot, who reads the articles?
if you're a sales rep with decent leeway, you just give out a gmail address to your contacts instead of your corporate address. What IT don't know can't hurt you
You print your own business cards? You must work in a small company.
If you tried that trick at our work that would be considered to be actively working against the company and you would be out the door pretty quickly.
Can I use Zune's great wifi capabilities to exchange MP3s with the onboard flight navigation system?
I know you got modded as funny but this brings up an interesting point - will flight crew allow you to use a Zune onboard because of the Wifi feature?
I have been on many airlines which tell you that even if your phone has a flight-safe mode you much leave it switched off for the entire flight - I can imagine they will say the same thing about the Zune.
It is highly likely that this person did something to provoke his neighbor. If you knew how to track down a person stealing your wireless, it is unlikely that you would have an unsecured connection.
That is the single most insightful thing I have seen on this thread so far - pity I have no mod points.
Part of the problem with the battery life is the amount of buffering the thing does. It tries to read entire songs into memory and shut off the HD, FOR EVERY SONG YOU PLAY. Which is wasteful if you skip from one song to the next to find the perfect one for the time being....
So how about you search through the menus for the pefect song you want to listen to, rather than listening to the first 10 seconds of each song? Then there is no issue with buffering.
You don't need to hook it up to your iTunes machine to charge though - I do a lot of my charging from my work computer that doesn't have iTunes installed or from a power charger.
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Have you tried this? It's an interesting idea, but I think the library will be happier with a donation so that they can buy something from their list of purchases, rather than have people donate books.
If you are able to donate the books, that's great.
The screen is brilliant and perfect ratio for watching videos.
I too get 6+ hours battery life. It's great not having to bother with the power cords.
I haven't yet wiped the recovery partition - but I have made the recovery DVD. Maybe I will do that this weekend.
Lovely machine - use it all the time.
Come on, this is rediculous. First off, if they wanted to, data recovery services would be able to get the key back from the disk.
Secondly, by doing this you are moving from unable to comply to actively impeding the police in their duties. Your punishment just got upgraded.
Just say you can't recall/find the key.
You are assuming that the work that she is initially doing is what she will continue to do which is normally *not* the case for permanent employees. so when her role changes, do you then do the background check? Much better to do the check on everyone as part of the employment process.
And that's exactly why they are statically linked - because at boot time the libraries are not mounted.
Why do you think there is a /sbin/sh and a /bin/sh? /sbin/sh is statically linked to be used in single user mode, /bin/sh is dynamically linked for in multi-user mode.
Of course, this probably wouldn't fare too well on a re-issue of the White Album...
The idea is that this will not be visible to the naked eye - you should be cheering this announcment as a way to get rid of the barcodes that you hate but still keep the information.
You often see this barcode on advertisements next to the url - you can scan the barcode and save typing in the url. I've done it several times - even my non-techy wife uses the feature.
This new announcement seems like a way that you can embed the information without having to have an obvious barcode spoiling the picture - but you will still need some tag to let you know that there was something there worth scanning.
This is software and will work with any digital camera - though you would want to use a web-enabled device like your cellphone so that you can go to the link. So there is no need for dedicated hardware.
Good luck with that - it's not a GSM phone :-)
Knowing this, the British engineers made some sort of contraption full of capacitors and coils that they could fix on to the end of the severed cable before dropping it back into the sea. This would add some extra delay to the reflection, causing the Germans to miscalculate where the break was, and send their cable ship to the wrong place.
Wouldn't it have been simpler and easier (and cheaper) to just move a couple of miles and cut the cable again? The Germans wouldn't have detected the break until the repaired the first one and then would have had to start over again. I very much doubt they would have gone to the effort to make a device to stick on the cut cable when there was an easier solution.
And while the German cable ship is in location repairing the cable, it would have been a nice target to aim at - take out a couple of repair ships and that cable is going to stay broken for a long time.
Pegasus mail uses pmail for its directory names - at least on windows - so for many people pmail == Pegasus Mail.
I've lived here for 3 years and it is hard for some of us to learn japanese no matter how much we want to. I just don't have the ear for the words. Heck I have enough trouble in english!.
I can read a few kanji though and I am slowly getting better but I doubt I will be anywhere near fluent ever.
Having lived here for a few years now, I think I prefer the Tokyo address system. It's much easier to know where things are in relation to each other. Think of a Tokyo address as targetting a bullseye - the first number gives the outer ring, then next number gives you the inner ring and the final number gives you the building. Compare that to most western systems where you could be walking 1 street over from your destination and never find it.
I think you mean the Governor's translator, not the governor himself. I would be surprised if the ultra right-wing governor would ever reduce himself to speak in english.
Sigh. One of the problems of most forum based discussions is that anybody can post comments on topics without RTFA.
The submitter mistakenly put Peter Gutmann as being a Medical Imaging Specialist, but your comment suggests you know very little about the Security field if you didn't recognise the name.
Even skimming the linked article would have put you right, but then, this is Slashdot, who reads the articles?
You print your own business cards? You must work in a small company.
If you tried that trick at our work that would be considered to be actively working against the company and you would be out the door pretty quickly.
You have no idea about the different between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes do you? I'll wager that I am thinner than you are (I have Type 1)
Insulin is no longer produced from animals
I know you got modded as funny but this brings up an interesting point - will flight crew allow you to use a Zune onboard because of the Wifi feature?
I have been on many airlines which tell you that even if your phone has a flight-safe mode you much leave it switched off for the entire flight - I can imagine they will say the same thing about the Zune.
That is the single most insightful thing I have seen on this thread so far - pity I have no mod points.
Who moded parent "interesting"? Possibly "funny" but certainly not interesting or informative.
So how about you search through the menus for the pefect song you want to listen to, rather than listening to the first 10 seconds of each song? Then there is no issue with buffering.
You don't need to hook it up to your iTunes machine to charge though - I do a lot of my charging from my work computer that doesn't have iTunes installed or from a power charger.
Actually it's Japan where we tend to pay for everything in cash. I used to pay with debit or credit card for everything in the UK.
ATM transaction limit here is Y500 000 (a bit over US$4000) because of that.
Vegetarian Hiker paying in cash, that will be me!