First, I'm a Korean citizen who uses on-line banking every day.
Just as the article mentions, 128-bit SSL wasn't an option when the internet-based banking started on 1998, so Korea had to develop their own standards. Since there are more than 10 million SEED-based certificates issued on this country, changing the whole infrastructure into SSL would be crazy.
Yes, certficates are issued to everybody who needs an on-line banking account, since itself is used as an authentication method. To get a certificate, you have to visit any bank that you have an account, ask them for on-line banking, and they will give you a one-time password for issuing your certificate (valid for one week).
Everything else is handled on-line. Since the authentication system is a national standard, it works with any bank, any credit card company, and I remember it also works on the stock market. You don't need any offline registration to use it on another bank.
The certificate is password-protected, just like any other certificate. I believe the certificate is node-locked. If you want to export/import the key, you need the password associated with the key.
I'm not sure how many of these kind of features are supported by SSL, but even if IE/Firefox/Opera's SSL has more features, I don't think it's a good idea to replace a system that works well. Yes, I hate ActiveX, but I don't want to see 10+ million Korean citizens visit the bank for re-issuing their certificate.
This compressed air engine isn't directly related to a environment-friendly fuel. The fuel of the car itself isn't compressed air - it's electricity, the battery. Electric cars, or hybrid cars, have the problem that they can't obtain high torque instantly. However, compressed air does give high torque. The idea is to store compressed air in a tank, and use it as a booster when high torque is needed. The air will be compressed later on with another compressor.
Now, combine the compressed air engine with an hybrid car. You get an hybrid car with instant high torque when needed.
> Former? Was he fired? This might be his revenge?;-)
No. He wasn't fired. He simply resigned, and joined KIPA. Since Microsoft Korea was in good shape while he was the president, I don't think there were any reason to fire him.
Actually, many Korean software corporations were getting nuts when the announcementnt was made that Ko was designated be the new KIPA president, since most of them expected that MS was behind this move, and the government will become more and more MS friendly. (Actually I expected this to happen, too.)
Some more google search showed that before working for Microsoft, he also worked for Sun Microsystems Korea and IBM Korea.:)
Actually, KIPA (Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency), an organization funded by the Korean government, switched all its desktops to Linux, and that news was around about 8 months ago. I remember, that the purpose KIPA switched all its desktop to Linux (around 100+ desktops), was to test the possibility of Linux desktop in Korean goverment agencies. The biggest problem of using Linux in government agencies, was the vast amount of in-house tools plus special applications that didn't exist for Linux, and staff training issues. I remeber a KIPA staff screaming for help on a LUG webboard, due to l10n issues. They seemed to have some problem because of inadequate Korean support in Linux.
Something that may be ironic, is that KIPA's current president, Hyun Jin Ko, is the former president of Microsoft Korea.:)
The problem is, there *do* exist people who do other things using cellphones. There are *a lot* of people who do many other things.
I live in Korea, and actually I also use my phone only for phone calls and some text messages. However, I find that cellphone gaming is becoming a killer app over here. Unlike mp3s or any sort of video application, it doesn't require so much bandwith(download once' and you're done), it's cheap (somewhere around $3 per download, which you can play for any number of times), less piracy (compared to PCs or consoles), and many more advantages.
It's easy to find cellphone game ads on cable TVs, and there even are models that claim to be 'phone for gamers'. There are many people who plays games with their cellphones on most public transportation.
That gives the 747-400 a rate of 0.2km/g.
And the A380 a rate of 0.18km/g.
You mean the 747-400 travels two hundred meters with one gram of gas? How amazing.
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First, what's 'non-bios'? There seems to be nothing that only the 'bios' can do. If the BIOS can do something, the OS (or kernel drivers) can do it too, without any code from the BIOS. What's the difference? What I remember is, years ago, there was a virus that re-flashed the BIOS with garbage, so it would fail to boot. (I think it's the CIH virus. Somewhere around 1999.) A lot of people had gone crazy, and had to call the customer support to replace the BIOS flash.
Well, if a 'user application' could wreck your (maybe modern) PC, then that's not a feature, that's a critical security threat. (A DOS attack, I guess.)
Why broadband could success greatly in Korea isn't just because there was competition, or because most of the Korean population lives in cities with high population density.
Another big reason is because unlike the broadband market, the phone network were monopolized by a single giant Korea Telecom. Since there was no competition in the phone market, dialup was horribly expensive (approx. 5 cents per 3 minuite translates to $1/hr).
It was completely nonsense to use dialup instead of broadband even though broadband costs more than $50 per month. (Now I pay $25/month for a 100meg Ethernet connection directly to my home) I used broadband as soon as it was available in my town, since the dialup costs were already somewhat around $100 per month. (that was something around 1998, I remember)
Though it looks wierd, broadband was the cheap alternative of dialup.
KT still makes a lot of profit from the phone business, but it's getting smaller every year, and dialup is still damn expensive. I didn't use a dialup connection for the last three years.
How is Sun going to make profit if they open-source Solaris?
Hears like a nice news to most of the open-source enthusiasts (including me), but hears like something wierd in terms of business.
Waiting for +5, insightful replys.
Able to play a movie, and 'quite a bit longer'?
Does that translates to something like 2hrs + 30 minuites of movie playing?
hmmmmmmmm............. What do you think?
For the most of the poor countries, I think they simply would use used (old) PCs which has hardware something like ancient P4 celerons or Durons, with pirated copies of all sorts of software. That would cost something around $150(or less), with runs (almost) every software they would like, much cheaper, higher performance.
With a price tag like $189, It's impossible to compete with 'free (beer) software'. Who in China buys (legal copies of) Windows?
1. IBM shells an awful lot of $$$$$ and designs a ppc processor which overwhelms every x86 processor with 1.5x performance (or at least in terms of price-performance ratio) 2. an app. compatability layer exists on Windows4ppc which dynamically translates EVERY x86 binary to run on ppc (like the FX!32 of WinNT for alpha) 3. Damn lot of mobo manufacturers starts designing ppc boards 4. more stable than x86 windows
No.1 is highly unlikely, since Intel and AMD aren't some brainless company which sells crappy chips (some people claim that Intel is, but I don't think they are that bad, at least they are still profitable), no.2 is highly likely (and essential) if MS starts to develop Windows for PPC. No.3 will be possible if MS announces Windows for PPC development.
Number four. Stable windows? Come on, what do you expect from Microsoft?
Conclusion : Although possible, very VERY unlikely.
ps : or maybe if IBM acquires both Intel and AMD, or if IBM acquires Microsoft, which are also highly unlikely.
Need a simple console emulator machine? run it on your main PC. Need a MP3 player? run it on your main PC. Need a word processor? run it on your main PC. Need a server? run it on your main PC with VMWare or user-mode linux or whatsoever equivalent.
Don't need any of them? forget about it and throw the old laptop away, or maybe give it to some of your friends who wants it as some other usage.
That would be cheaper, considering that old laptops eat up your room space, and here in Seoul, every square feet of your apartment cost thousands of dollars.
Not to mention getting your room full of ancient machines, and the disk+fan noise you have to tolerate every day.
I use TC1100, and I think all the bads you have said has been resolved.
First, cost. I've bought my TC1100 - the model with a Pentium M 1G - for somewhat around $2200. Comparing the price with other laptops that weights less than 1.5kg, it isn't that expensive, at least here in Korea. For that money, you can buy a high-end IBM x31(with P-M 1.6G), a 1.3kg Samsung SQ20, or some high-end heavy laptops with 15 inch LCDS. However, I'm not interested in laptops that weight more than 1.8kg, since I really hate to carry heavy laptops.
wireless - better. I seem to have absolutely no problem, except on some places in the research center I am I can only get weak wifi connection. Since there are 11g APs nearby, I hope I can upgrade the wlan to 11g, but I'm not sure if I can.
512MB RAM and a ULV Pentium M gives just enough processing power - of course, this is not enough to run matlab or do some simulations, but I don't do them on my laptop anyway.
battery runs somewhat around 3.5 hours with brightest screen & wireless lan on. not a big problem.
The best thing is that you can remove the keyboard. Just as somebody has already written, they are great when you use your tablet when you simply cannot place your laptop on some table or whatsoever. This is extremely useful since I have to take mass transportation for approx. 2 hours every day. It can serve as a portable DivX player, e-book reader(using acrobat), etc. Using ordinary laptops in subways - especially when there's no seat available - is almost impossible.
I have OneNote installed, but I don't find taking notes useful. They keep misinterpret my handwriting, and end up with a lot of garbage. Since I use a Korean version of XP Tablet PC, they interpret English characters as Korean characters, and vise versa. What's worse, is that they even try to change English characters into Chinese characters! I hope there is some 'magic button' that changes the 'language to interpret'. Text recognition is simply horrible. I just take notes, and don't change them into some form of text, which means when I take notes, I use the $2200 tablet PC as a cheap notebook that costs somewhat around $2.
I've used this tablet PC for about a month, and I'm quite satisfied. Oh. just one thing. I've made a scratch on the LCD panel with a stapler(by mistake, of course), and it's really annoying. But since it's my fault, never mind.
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First, I'm a Korean citizen who uses on-line banking every day.
Just as the article mentions, 128-bit SSL wasn't an option when the internet-based banking started on 1998, so Korea had to develop their own standards. Since there are more than 10 million SEED-based certificates issued on this country, changing the whole infrastructure into SSL would be crazy.
Yes, certficates are issued to everybody who needs an on-line banking account, since itself is used as an authentication method. To get a certificate, you have to visit any bank that you have an account, ask them for on-line banking, and they will give you a one-time password for issuing your certificate (valid for one week).
Everything else is handled on-line. Since the authentication system is a national standard, it works with any bank, any credit card company, and I remember it also works on the stock market. You don't need any offline registration to use it on another bank.
The certificate is password-protected, just like any other certificate. I believe the certificate is node-locked. If you want to export/import the key, you need the password associated with the key.
I'm not sure how many of these kind of features are supported by SSL, but even if IE/Firefox/Opera's SSL has more features, I don't think it's a good idea to replace a system that works well. Yes, I hate ActiveX, but I don't want to see 10+ million Korean citizens visit the bank for re-issuing their certificate.
This compressed air engine isn't directly related to a environment-friendly fuel. The fuel of the car itself isn't compressed air - it's electricity, the battery. Electric cars, or hybrid cars, have the problem that they can't obtain high torque instantly. However, compressed air does give high torque. The idea is to store compressed air in a tank, and use it as a booster when high torque is needed. The air will be compressed later on with another compressor.
Now, combine the compressed air engine with an hybrid car. You get an hybrid car with instant high torque when needed.
> Former? Was he fired? This might be his revenge? ;-)
:)
No. He wasn't fired. He simply resigned, and joined KIPA. Since Microsoft Korea was in good shape while he was the president, I don't think there were any reason to fire him.
Actually, many Korean software corporations were getting nuts when the announcementnt was made that Ko was designated be the new KIPA president, since most of them expected that MS was behind this move, and the government will become more and more MS friendly. (Actually I expected this to happen, too.)
Some more google search showed that before working for Microsoft, he also worked for Sun Microsystems Korea and IBM Korea.
Actually, KIPA (Korea IT Industry Promotion Agency), an organization funded by the Korean government, switched all its desktops to Linux, and that news was around about 8 months ago. I remember, that the purpose KIPA switched all its desktop to Linux (around 100+ desktops), was to test the possibility of Linux desktop in Korean goverment agencies. The biggest problem of using Linux in government agencies, was the vast amount of in-house tools plus special applications that didn't exist for Linux, and staff training issues. I remeber a KIPA staff screaming for help on a LUG webboard, due to l10n issues. They seemed to have some problem because of inadequate Korean support in Linux.
:)
Something that may be ironic, is that KIPA's current president, Hyun Jin Ko, is the former president of Microsoft Korea.
The problem is, there *do* exist people who do other things using cellphones. There are *a lot* of people who do many other things.
I live in Korea, and actually I also use my phone only for phone calls and some text messages. However, I find that cellphone gaming is becoming a killer app over here. Unlike mp3s or any sort of video application, it doesn't require so much bandwith(download once' and you're done), it's cheap (somewhere around $3 per download, which you can play for any number of times), less piracy (compared to PCs or consoles), and many more advantages.
It's easy to find cellphone game ads on cable TVs, and there even are models that claim to be 'phone for gamers'. There are many people who plays games with their cellphones on most public transportation.
That gives the 747-400 a rate of 0.2km/g. And the A380 a rate of 0.18km/g.
You mean the 747-400 travels two hundred meters with one gram of gas? How amazing.
First, what's 'non-bios'? There seems to be nothing that only the 'bios' can do. If the BIOS can do something, the OS (or kernel drivers) can do it too, without any code from the BIOS. What's the difference?
What I remember is, years ago, there was a virus that re-flashed the BIOS with garbage, so it would fail to boot. (I think it's the CIH virus. Somewhere around 1999.) A lot of people had gone crazy, and had to call the customer support to replace the BIOS flash.
Well, if a 'user application' could wreck your (maybe modern) PC, then that's not a feature, that's a critical security threat. (A DOS attack, I guess.)
I'm a Korean, and I currently live in Seoul.
Why broadband could success greatly in Korea isn't just because there was competition, or because most of the Korean population lives in cities with high population density.
Another big reason is because unlike the broadband market, the phone network were monopolized by a single giant Korea Telecom. Since there was no competition in the phone market, dialup was horribly expensive (approx. 5 cents per 3 minuite translates to $1/hr).
It was completely nonsense to use dialup instead of broadband even though broadband costs more than $50 per month. (Now I pay $25/month for a 100meg Ethernet connection directly to my home) I used broadband as soon as it was available in my town, since the dialup costs were already somewhat around $100 per month. (that was something around 1998, I remember)
Though it looks wierd, broadband was the cheap alternative of dialup.
KT still makes a lot of profit from the phone business, but it's getting smaller every year, and dialup is still damn expensive. I didn't use a dialup connection for the last three years.
How is Sun going to make profit if they open-source Solaris? Hears like a nice news to most of the open-source enthusiasts (including me), but hears like something wierd in terms of business. Waiting for +5, insightful replys.
Able to play a movie, and 'quite a bit longer'? Does that translates to something like 2hrs + 30 minuites of movie playing? hmmmmmmmm............. What do you think?
For the most of the poor countries, I think they simply would use used (old) PCs which has hardware something like ancient P4 celerons or Durons, with pirated copies of all sorts of software. That would cost something around $150(or less), with runs (almost) every software they would like, much cheaper, higher performance.
With a price tag like $189, It's impossible to compete with 'free (beer) software'. Who in China buys (legal copies of) Windows?
only if:
1. IBM shells an awful lot of $$$$$ and designs a ppc processor which overwhelms every x86 processor with 1.5x performance (or at least in terms of price-performance ratio)
2. an app. compatability layer exists on Windows4ppc which dynamically translates EVERY x86 binary to run on ppc (like the FX!32 of WinNT for alpha)
3. Damn lot of mobo manufacturers starts designing ppc boards
4. more stable than x86 windows
No.1 is highly unlikely, since Intel and AMD aren't some brainless company which sells crappy chips (some people claim that Intel is, but I don't think they are that bad, at least they are still profitable), no.2 is highly likely (and essential) if MS starts to develop Windows for PPC. No.3 will be possible if MS announces Windows for PPC development.
Number four. Stable windows? Come on, what do you expect from Microsoft?
Conclusion : Although possible, very VERY unlikely.
ps : or maybe if IBM acquires both Intel and AMD, or if IBM acquires Microsoft, which are also highly unlikely.
Need a simple console emulator machine? run it on your main PC.
Need a MP3 player? run it on your main PC.
Need a word processor? run it on your main PC.
Need a server? run it on your main PC with VMWare or user-mode linux or whatsoever equivalent.
Don't need any of them? forget about it and throw the old laptop away, or maybe give it to some of your friends who wants it as some other usage.
That would be cheaper, considering that old laptops eat up your room space, and here in Seoul, every square feet of your apartment cost thousands of dollars.
Not to mention getting your room full of ancient machines, and the disk+fan noise you have to tolerate every day.
I use TC1100, and I think all the bads you have said has been resolved. First, cost. I've bought my TC1100 - the model with a Pentium M 1G - for somewhat around $2200. Comparing the price with other laptops that weights less than 1.5kg, it isn't that expensive, at least here in Korea. For that money, you can buy a high-end IBM x31(with P-M 1.6G), a 1.3kg Samsung SQ20, or some high-end heavy laptops with 15 inch LCDS. However, I'm not interested in laptops that weight more than 1.8kg, since I really hate to carry heavy laptops. wireless - better. I seem to have absolutely no problem, except on some places in the research center I am I can only get weak wifi connection. Since there are 11g APs nearby, I hope I can upgrade the wlan to 11g, but I'm not sure if I can. 512MB RAM and a ULV Pentium M gives just enough processing power - of course, this is not enough to run matlab or do some simulations, but I don't do them on my laptop anyway. battery runs somewhat around 3.5 hours with brightest screen & wireless lan on. not a big problem. The best thing is that you can remove the keyboard. Just as somebody has already written, they are great when you use your tablet when you simply cannot place your laptop on some table or whatsoever. This is extremely useful since I have to take mass transportation for approx. 2 hours every day. It can serve as a portable DivX player, e-book reader(using acrobat), etc. Using ordinary laptops in subways - especially when there's no seat available - is almost impossible. I have OneNote installed, but I don't find taking notes useful. They keep misinterpret my handwriting, and end up with a lot of garbage. Since I use a Korean version of XP Tablet PC, they interpret English characters as Korean characters, and vise versa. What's worse, is that they even try to change English characters into Chinese characters! I hope there is some 'magic button' that changes the 'language to interpret'. Text recognition is simply horrible. I just take notes, and don't change them into some form of text, which means when I take notes, I use the $2200 tablet PC as a cheap notebook that costs somewhat around $2. I've used this tablet PC for about a month, and I'm quite satisfied. Oh. just one thing. I've made a scratch on the LCD panel with a stapler(by mistake, of course), and it's really annoying. But since it's my fault, never mind.
What will happen if google gets slashdotted and slashdot gets googled?