It would be interesting if Google would hash the images and replace the image URL with a comon one per hash that is stripped of tracking info and shared by all users who got the same hashed image in their mail.
It would even reduce storage requirements as the images would get deduplicated.
Canon support is really good. True story - I had a canon A70 that I left inside a car in probably 160F heat during a Dubai summer. All the photos it took after that were all washed out white except one corner where some of the image showed through. I took it to the local Canon service center for repair. The camera was purchased in the US and was out of warranty. I got it back in a week fully repaired and at 0 cost. All my cameras since then have been Canons.
The UAE authorities know very well that they cannot block everyone.
Even with the "gaping holes" in their firewalls, I won't be surprised if they block more that 90% of the local population from accessing restricted sites. That's probably good enough for them. The effort required to block the remaining 10% would be too high and not worth it.
In many cases it makes sense to spend more energy in extracting oil than the energy available in the oil itself. This is because oil is mobile energy. It can be easily transported and stored. Also, much of modern infrastructure depends on energy in liquid form, eg. cars, airplanes, farming equirpment etc. There may be plentiful nuclear, solar, coal, or natural gas energy, but it's useless in many cases because the current infrastructure can not use it. So it does make sense for example to use a certain amount of nuclear energy to get a lesser amount of energy in the form of oil.
In Dubai in the UAE as well as in most Gulf countries, VoIP is completely illegal, and the state run telcos use DPI technology to block it. This adds about 200ms of latency to *all* packets which the telcos think is an acceptable tradeoff to preserve their monopoly revenue.
I'd like to add only the files I edited from/etc/ and/home/.* to a versioning system. With SVN I can only add directories, so when I do `svn status` I get a long list of unversioned files marked by a '?' mark.
Can git be used for versioning files scattered across the filesystem? Basically I want to be able to do `git status` (or equivalent) and get a list of changed files.
I was among many users who were having trouble displaying maps loaded by MapsLoader. Some kind person on the Nokia forums pointed me to that page and explained how to load the maps manually.
Unfortunately I did not know about this when I took my $400 E61i to a US trip. The phone would only load maps from the network, and ignore those on the card because MapsLoader did not load the map data right. I ended up wasting my 1 month navigation subscription and ended up paying $10/day for a GPS device when renting cars.
I posted that link above along with instructions to load maps on Nokia's forums, and one the the official Nokia mods deleted my post with the following message:
"Hello,
We have removed your post that had a link to downloading Nokia Maps with out using Nokia Map loader. This is not an approved method. The only method approved to do so is by using Nokia Map loader.
Kind Regards"
1) Fly via US airport on a business trip
2) Lie that TSA confiscated company laptop (It's not like they'll call your employer)
3) Sell it on Ebay
4) Profit!!!
An anchor drag accross two cables in the Mediterranean is quite plausible, but what about the third one off the coast of Dubai in less than a week? That's not even the same sea.
It might just be a cover up for incompetency. but I don't buy the three accidental anchor drags story.
There were similar outages due to supposedly broken cables a year (or two?) ago in the Indian ocean, which affected UAE Internet services. Those cables were dozens of kilometers apart too.
I'm also near Media City, which is in the free zones, and generally has better Internet service.
Outside the zones, from my home ping times are over 1100ms to my server in the US. I'm running asterisk with the speex codec. It performs remarkably well despite the lag.
They've also blocked all ports except the web, email, ssh and a few others. Bittorent, and other p2p software isn't working. Youtube wasn't working yesterday, but it is today.
That's an interesting point. The Chinese sell low quality goods and get paid in a low quality currency in exchange. They are holding over a trillion US dollars and stand to lose quite a bit due to rapid devaluation by the US Fed. However, the depreciating dollars do not exclusively affect China. It affects everyone with dollar denominated assets, especially Americans. Just look at the increasing prices of basic necessities like food and gas in recent years.
Sure, China might take a hit on their huge USD reserves, but in the mean while, they have built hundreds of factories, infrastructure and acquired real skills and real wealth. McDonalds recently announced a 30% pay raise for its employees in China. When was the last time that happened in the US?
They are also gaining political influence in countries with rich natural resources, such as in Africa and the Middle East. That influence would remain long after the dollar loses its reserve currency status. Their stockpile of dollars is also being used to threaten the US itself.
JPGraph uses PHP and GD, and they have dozens of very fancy graphs along with excellent documentation and code examples. You can have beautiful looking graphs in a few minutes with less than a screen full of php code.
I think it's dual licensed, with a very modest fee for commercial use.
Yes, any currency has only as much value as people decide to give it.
But unlike fiat currencies, gold can't be printed or willed into existence by central banks.
Also, if gold wasn't accepted as a type of currency, what the hell would you do with it?
Gold has a history spanning thousands of years, can you specify any period where gold wasn't easily convertible to currency anywhere?
Fiat currencies barely last longer than 40 years. The US $ has lost over 95% of its value during the last 100 years.It's artifically propped up because of its worldwide reserve currency stutus. No country with huge dollar reserves wants to see it lose value rapidly. But it can't go on forever.
Buying gold is not really an investment, as it doesn't do anything by itself. But its very good at holding value, so it makes sense to hold it during inflationary times. If you held dollars instead of gold last year, you would be 19% poorer today.
Slashdot blocks logins from the UAE as well most of the time. I have to use an http proxy to post comments. Several other sites do the same thing. The whole country's traffic goes through a handful of proxy servers, which are used by UAE's infamous monopoly ISP to censor content and block VoIP calls.
Using energy from what? Oil? I doubt that you could irrigate biofuel crops with desalinated water, use the biofuel to power desalination, and wind up with an excess of energy.
Actually this is what they do in Saudi Arabia.
They have huge 'crop circles' created by rotating a pipe with sprinklers on it. You can see them from the air (or googleearth) around riyaadh. Most of the water evaporates away, but what remains is sufficient to grow a significant amount of crops. And most of the water is fossil water, not desalinated.
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It would be interesting if Google would hash the images and replace the image URL with a comon one per hash that is stripped of tracking info and shared by all users who got the same hashed image in their mail. It would even reduce storage requirements as the images would get deduplicated.
Canon support is really good. True story - I had a canon A70 that I left inside a car in probably 160F heat during a Dubai summer. All the photos it took after that were all washed out white except one corner where some of the image showed through. I took it to the local Canon service center for repair. The camera was purchased in the US and was out of warranty. I got it back in a week fully repaired and at 0 cost. All my cameras since then have been Canons.
This discussion should be mandatory reading for PHBs and HR drones.
ok, so seriously, what are good or better alternatives to Plantronics?
The UAE authorities know very well that they cannot block everyone. Even with the "gaping holes" in their firewalls, I won't be surprised if they block more that 90% of the local population from accessing restricted sites. That's probably good enough for them. The effort required to block the remaining 10% would be too high and not worth it.
In many cases it makes sense to spend more energy in extracting oil than the energy available in the oil itself. This is because oil is mobile energy. It can be easily transported and stored. Also, much of modern infrastructure depends on energy in liquid form, eg. cars, airplanes, farming equirpment etc. There may be plentiful nuclear, solar, coal, or natural gas energy, but it's useless in many cases because the current infrastructure can not use it. So it does make sense for example to use a certain amount of nuclear energy to get a lesser amount of energy in the form of oil.
In Dubai in the UAE as well as in most Gulf countries, VoIP is completely illegal, and the state run telcos use DPI technology to block it. This adds about 200ms of latency to *all* packets which the telcos think is an acceptable tradeoff to preserve their monopoly revenue.
escape-dot seems to fill in the last argument as well in bash
do ssh sunworkstation eject instead. You won't show up in `who`
Can git be used for versioning files scattered across the filesystem? Basically I want to be able to do `git status` (or equivalent) and get a list of changed files.
I've been using ps_color.vim in VIM for over six years now. It works well with several programming languages. I highly recommended it.
I was among many users who were having trouble displaying maps loaded by MapsLoader. Some kind person on the Nokia forums pointed me to that page and explained how to load the maps manually.
Unfortunately I did not know about this when I took my $400 E61i to a US trip. The phone would only load maps from the network, and ignore those on the card because MapsLoader did not load the map data right. I ended up wasting my 1 month navigation subscription and ended up paying $10/day for a GPS device when renting cars.
I posted that link above along with instructions to load maps on Nokia's forums, and one the the official Nokia mods deleted my post with the following message:
"Hello, We have removed your post that had a link to downloading Nokia Maps with out using Nokia Map loader. This is not an approved method. The only method approved to do so is by using Nokia Map loader. Kind Regards"
Response to Mish's deflation case
History of ABS
Which one would you recommend the Asus EEE or Nokia N810?
2) Lie that TSA confiscated company laptop (It's not like they'll call your employer)
3) Sell it on Ebay
4) Profit!!!
Seriously, that will put an end to this.
It might just be a cover up for incompetency. but I don't buy the three accidental anchor drags story.
There were similar outages due to supposedly broken cables a year (or two?) ago in the Indian ocean, which affected UAE Internet services. Those cables were dozens of kilometers apart too.
Outside the zones, from my home ping times are over 1100ms to my server in the US. I'm running asterisk with the speex codec. It performs remarkably well despite the lag.
They've also blocked all ports except the web, email, ssh and a few others. Bittorent, and other p2p software isn't working. Youtube wasn't working yesterday, but it is today.
Interesting, simply moving heavy IO parts of the filesystem to a flash disk, and you've got a poor man's hybrid drive...
Sure, China might take a hit on their huge USD reserves, but in the mean while, they have built hundreds of factories, infrastructure and acquired real skills and real wealth. McDonalds recently announced a 30% pay raise for its employees in China. When was the last time that happened in the US?
They are also gaining political influence in countries with rich natural resources, such as in Africa and the Middle East. That influence would remain long after the dollar loses its reserve currency status. Their stockpile of dollars is also being used to threaten the US itself.
I think it's dual licensed, with a very modest fee for commercial use.
But unlike fiat currencies, gold can't be printed or willed into existence by central banks.
Also, if gold wasn't accepted as a type of currency, what the hell would you do with it?
Gold has a history spanning thousands of years, can you specify any period where gold wasn't easily convertible to currency anywhere?
Fiat currencies barely last longer than 40 years. The US $ has lost over 95% of its value during the last 100 years.It's artifically propped up because of its worldwide reserve currency stutus. No country with huge dollar reserves wants to see it lose value rapidly. But it can't go on forever.
Buying gold is not really an investment, as it doesn't do anything by itself. But its very good at holding value, so it makes sense to hold it during inflationary times. If you held dollars instead of gold last year, you would be 19% poorer today.
Slashdot blocks logins from the UAE as well most of the time. I have to use an http proxy to post comments. Several other sites do the same thing. The whole country's traffic goes through a handful of proxy servers, which are used by UAE's infamous monopoly ISP to censor content and block VoIP calls.
Actually this is what they do in Saudi Arabia. They have huge 'crop circles' created by rotating a pipe with sprinklers on it. You can see them from the air (or googleearth) around riyaadh. Most of the water evaporates away, but what remains is sufficient to grow a significant amount of crops. And most of the water is fossil water, not desalinated.
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