That is fine as long as it is a WIFI only device but as soon as it uses the cellular network then you are now out in the public and you can potentially not only harm yourself but others and the network that you share.
In modern phones, the relationship with the cellular network is controlled by a separate chip which the operating system interfaces through a standard, and limited protocol like with a modem. Thus, even if the user had full control of his device, he would not be able to tamper with cellular transmission.
What's the situation now with non-Western scripts on the Kindle? I heard that when the device was launched, texts that contained foreign alphabets would just display gibberish instead, making people pissed off that they had wasted their money. I see from recent Amazon reviews that the device supports Spanish, so I assume Western European letters will show up correctly, but what's the situation with Cyrillic or CJK text within a publication?
I don't know if the old problem with the Kindle's lack of fonts or erroneous automatic conversion to Kindle format by the publishers, but for the Kindle to be a reliable device for a wide range of academics, it's not to have that internationalization.
There were enough people yesterday complaining about Microsoft stories suspiciously appearing in close succession, and it seems pretty clear now that Slashdot has become a shill for the company.
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Nokia is already pasting their brand on any chinese slave-labor garbage that will have them
Cite? Nokia's low-end phones are still produced in the company's own factories and in places like Romania and South Korea. Indeed, the company has called "Chinese slave-labor garbage" their major competitor in the low-end market.
Al Qaeda has a negligible presence in northern Central Asia and virtually none in Kazakhstan, which in spite of some statistics that ask people to answer a religion is one of the most non-religious countries on Earth.
Nazarbayev isn't as "ruthless in holding down dissent" as typical Arab dictators. Human rights group bemoan some harrassment of opposition, but there's no institutionalization of torture. And plenty of commentators note that, regardless of government pressure, an opposition is unlikely to flourish because people feel there's no way to be more effective economically than Nazarbayev.
Personally, I think a case could be made for slight concern, but the country is damn stable and posts like yours are fearmongering by people who probably haven't spent much time in the country.
Kazakhstan does not seem to me to be the safest or most stable of places.
Kazakhstan is the only Central Asian republic to see no bloodshed following the breakup of the USSR, 10% growth year after year, and major international investment. Almaty and Astana look like Dubai now, all glittering skyscrapers and high-tech installations. It's OK if you don't know much about the country, but drawing a conclusion from ignorance is just silly.
The FTC has said that if you write a review of a product, you have to disclose if you received the product for free. I don't know if that regulation is applicable in this context.
Well, when you ask average Americans about this and they respond that it's OK because we're going after Reds or terrorists, than to me that crosses the line between apathy and forgiveness.
It's been a pretty publicly known for many, many years now that the US has tapped international telephone cables. Histories of submarine espionage like Blind Man's Bluff go into some detail. There was no uproar then about listening in on people's private calls -- and some of these lines had US traffic going through them. The American public is pretty forgiving as long as the administration claims that it's happening off of US soil and is for a good cause.
I am wondering if there will be shareholder suits. Elop's action is clearly not in the interest of Nokia shareholders as graphically demonstrated by the trading results today.
And yet Elop was brought in because the shareholders wanted it. It was reported last month that major American investors forced Nokia into choosing a Yank over Vanjoki, who was favoured for the position.
Seriously, making it difficult to fire someone is precisely why we have bad customer service from government institutions
Correlation does not imply causation. I'm quite happy with the service from my government, and though people might grumble occasionally to make conversation, polls indicate a high level of satisfaction among my compatriots.
It only gets worse when you put Unions into the mix.
A miniscule percentage of American workers have belonged to unions, and yet you are so ready to blame unions for your ills. Meanwhile there are countries where the vast majority of workers belong to a union, and the economy does fine and unemployment is not much higher than in the US at good times.
I'm surprised that this artist was the first to try implanting a device, as Steve Mann has been increasingly merging technology with his body for three decades now.
Not only is a data plan much cheaper in Europe, I'm giving up on unlimited data as soon as my contract runs out, since in the two countries I divide my time between (Finland and Romania), there's free wi-fi nearly everywhere I go during an ordinary day. During my last visit to the States, it seems like most wi-fi access points are either closed or require payment.
Do you really think you'll still be in a cancer-prone human body for most of the span until the 400th birthday you hope for. I'm not as optimistic about the Singularity as Ray Kurzweil and similar futurists (though Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near is thought-provoking), but surely sometime within the next century or so we will have moved beyond biology. So, you only need miracle cures that get you that far.
There are too many companies producing Android based mobile phones and Nokia would become one of many and Nokia will have to compete on hardware quality/price level which they cannot do/afford to do (Finnish labour is very costly).
Nokia's Finnish labour is mostly software R&D. Manufacturing of Nokia hardware is done elsewhere. In my city in Romania (Cluj-Napoca) there's a factory to turn out the very cheapest models, while the N900 was made in South Korea.
In fact, MeeGo can't be even killed by Nokia dropping it, because it is open source project and there are lot of companies who are planning to use it in their products.
While the Meego editions for netbooks, tablets and in-vehicle devices still have a bright future, Nokia was the only manufacturer committed to the mobile phone edition.
Wasn't there a SEAL team that caused a scandal by actually breaking into some admiral's home and terrorizing his family, taking their exercise a little too far? I looked at the Wikipedia article for Richard Marcinko, who I thought was the mastermind, but there's no mention of such an incident.
In case no one gets it, this post as well as the "The only winning move is not to play" quotation comes from the old Matthew Broderick film War Games . I'm going to the trouble of explaining that because I've been around on Slashdot for almost a decade, but I still think War Games is before my time, so I can't imagine what the youngsters make of these posts.
Back when they were on trial, there were plenty of reports that the founders of TPB had become rather wealthy from the site. Certainly they could pay the immense costs of their legal defence.
Bittorrent sites do generate profit. The Pirate Bay has made a fantastical amount of money over the years from advertising, while Demonoid takes donations. I don't mind that, as these Bittorrent community has tried to get the public to requestion copyright law. It's rather unsavory when a faceless corporation who doesn't have that social mission makes loads of money off of our P2P activities, though.
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In modern phones, the relationship with the cellular network is controlled by a separate chip which the operating system interfaces through a standard, and limited protocol like with a modem. Thus, even if the user had full control of his device, he would not be able to tamper with cellular transmission.
Err, this should read "it's got to have that internationalization", sorry.
What's the situation now with non-Western scripts on the Kindle? I heard that when the device was launched, texts that contained foreign alphabets would just display gibberish instead, making people pissed off that they had wasted their money. I see from recent Amazon reviews that the device supports Spanish, so I assume Western European letters will show up correctly, but what's the situation with Cyrillic or CJK text within a publication?
I don't know if the old problem with the Kindle's lack of fonts or erroneous automatic conversion to Kindle format by the publishers, but for the Kindle to be a reliable device for a wide range of academics, it's not to have that internationalization.
Decent (i.e. non-prostitute) women were expected to cover their breasts in ancient Greek and Rome long before Judeo-Christian ideas came to Europe.
There were enough people yesterday complaining about Microsoft stories suspiciously appearing in close succession, and it seems pretty clear now that Slashdot has become a shill for the company.
Cite? Nokia's low-end phones are still produced in the company's own factories and in places like Romania and South Korea. Indeed, the company has called "Chinese slave-labor garbage" their major competitor in the low-end market.
Al Qaeda has a negligible presence in northern Central Asia and virtually none in Kazakhstan, which in spite of some statistics that ask people to answer a religion is one of the most non-religious countries on Earth. Nazarbayev isn't as "ruthless in holding down dissent" as typical Arab dictators. Human rights group bemoan some harrassment of opposition, but there's no institutionalization of torture. And plenty of commentators note that, regardless of government pressure, an opposition is unlikely to flourish because people feel there's no way to be more effective economically than Nazarbayev. Personally, I think a case could be made for slight concern, but the country is damn stable and posts like yours are fearmongering by people who probably haven't spent much time in the country.
Kazakhstan is the only Central Asian republic to see no bloodshed following the breakup of the USSR, 10% growth year after year, and major international investment. Almaty and Astana look like Dubai now, all glittering skyscrapers and high-tech installations. It's OK if you don't know much about the country, but drawing a conclusion from ignorance is just silly.
Companies were banding together patents that they claimed to relate to VP8, but it's undecided if their patents are indeed relevant.
The FTC has said that if you write a review of a product, you have to disclose if you received the product for free. I don't know if that regulation is applicable in this context.
Well, when you ask average Americans about this and they respond that it's OK because we're going after Reds or terrorists, than to me that crosses the line between apathy and forgiveness.
It's been a pretty publicly known for many, many years now that the US has tapped international telephone cables. Histories of submarine espionage like Blind Man's Bluff go into some detail. There was no uproar then about listening in on people's private calls -- and some of these lines had US traffic going through them. The American public is pretty forgiving as long as the administration claims that it's happening off of US soil and is for a good cause.
And yet Elop was brought in because the shareholders wanted it. It was reported last month that major American investors forced Nokia into choosing a Yank over Vanjoki, who was favoured for the position.
Correlation does not imply causation. I'm quite happy with the service from my government, and though people might grumble occasionally to make conversation, polls indicate a high level of satisfaction among my compatriots.
It only gets worse when you put Unions into the mix.
A miniscule percentage of American workers have belonged to unions, and yet you are so ready to blame unions for your ills. Meanwhile there are countries where the vast majority of workers belong to a union, and the economy does fine and unemployment is not much higher than in the US at good times.
I'm not sure a page last updated in 2003 is better than a Wikipedia article that still gets additions from time to time.
I'm surprised that this artist was the first to try implanting a device, as Steve Mann has been increasingly merging technology with his body for three decades now.
Not only is a data plan much cheaper in Europe, I'm giving up on unlimited data as soon as my contract runs out, since in the two countries I divide my time between (Finland and Romania), there's free wi-fi nearly everywhere I go during an ordinary day. During my last visit to the States, it seems like most wi-fi access points are either closed or require payment.
Do you really think you'll still be in a cancer-prone human body for most of the span until the 400th birthday you hope for. I'm not as optimistic about the Singularity as Ray Kurzweil and similar futurists (though Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near is thought-provoking), but surely sometime within the next century or so we will have moved beyond biology. So, you only need miracle cures that get you that far.
Nokia's Finnish labour is mostly software R&D. Manufacturing of Nokia hardware is done elsewhere. In my city in Romania (Cluj-Napoca) there's a factory to turn out the very cheapest models, while the N900 was made in South Korea.
While the Meego editions for netbooks, tablets and in-vehicle devices still have a bright future, Nokia was the only manufacturer committed to the mobile phone edition.
Wasn't there a SEAL team that caused a scandal by actually breaking into some admiral's home and terrorizing his family, taking their exercise a little too far? I looked at the Wikipedia article for Richard Marcinko, who I thought was the mastermind, but there's no mention of such an incident.
In case no one gets it, this post as well as the "The only winning move is not to play" quotation comes from the old Matthew Broderick film War Games . I'm going to the trouble of explaining that because I've been around on Slashdot for almost a decade, but I still think War Games is before my time, so I can't imagine what the youngsters make of these posts.
Back when they were on trial, there were plenty of reports that the founders of TPB had become rather wealthy from the site. Certainly they could pay the immense costs of their legal defence.
Bittorrent sites do generate profit. The Pirate Bay has made a fantastical amount of money over the years from advertising, while Demonoid takes donations. I don't mind that, as these Bittorrent community has tried to get the public to requestion copyright law. It's rather unsavory when a faceless corporation who doesn't have that social mission makes loads of money off of our P2P activities, though.
George W. Bush is a Methodist. That's a mainline Protestant denomination, not one of the Fundamentalist denominations that the OP alludes to.