Funnily enough a lot of people on the coast where the cyclone hit are reporting fair 3G coverage and usable internet access. Its probably less vulnerable than power because it is either buried cables or wireless. Queensland is tropical and the weather there is often quite wild. The teletext service used to (maybe still does) operate out of channel 7 in Brisbane and it was always going down due to massive electrical storms.
The current Government barely made it back in to office at the last election. They need every cheap shot they can think of to boost their popularity ratings. I assume the algorithm in use here is that Conroy scans the Daily(tm) on his iPad(tm) at the start of the week, picks a bit of news relevant to his constituency which looks bad, and composes a speech saying he won't do that. Repeat next week and so on.
Similarly I got an LG Optimus from Optus in Australia. It came with 100mb of data per month but I found out recently that the built in google sync uses exactly that amount of data. So take care with that.
Dunno I tend to hang out in Internet cafes while in Malaysia and I am pretty sure the guys browsing porn on public terminals there are mostly Muslim. The preferred delivery mechanism is yahoo mail so governments who want to filter porn are going to have to block mail too.
China’s “Hermes” Space Plane: A December 16 photo shows a model of the Shenlong and a new model of the Chinese “Hermes” space plane. China has made significant progress toward the development of an unmanned trans-atmospheric vehicle and a Space Plane. Beijing’s technological advancement has obvious commercial and scientific uses, however the military significance of the plane cannot be denied.
But Hermes was a European vehicle. Sounds like somebody in China has been cutting and pasting, and has a bad case of the mee toos.
They are using arrays of lasers to make fringe/interference patterns. This IS "real holography", just very low resolution and framerate.
If it took three GPUs to do that, then I shudder to think how much processor power it would take to render a holotheatric release of Star Wars. I hope there's some room for optimization here.
It would be worth working on, don't you think? Finally a use for really massively parallel computing.
They seem to be claiming that they were (or are) developing a holographic display device. Thats far more interesting to me than Princess Leia or the Kinect. Isn't that the red blob we see in the video? I assume that monochrome holograms will come before color holograms because of the difficulty of getting the interference patterns right when you have more than one wavelength.
Asking how to prevent that damage misses the point - You can't.
Yeah. The only thing I can suggest would be to have two totally separate systems (possibly at two sites) with two admins. That way you have another system and administrator to fall back on if things go bad. But that might be an expensive solution.
I am a former openmoko user. I developed openmoko apps using EFL as well. There is a lot of stuff missing from EFL. A lot of stuff which is not documented. There are many situations where you just have to try something and if it doesn't work, try something else. A good component set will have documentation telling you what components can be embedded in other components. In many cased with EFL you have to go to the code or write a test to find out. Interoperability between components seems to have been developed on an "as needed" basis. A lot of the error messages written to stdout are unprofessionally written and uninformative. Its easy to generate a crash. I just can't see this going anywhere.
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Funnily enough a lot of people on the coast where the cyclone hit are reporting fair 3G coverage and usable internet access. Its probably less vulnerable than power because it is either buried cables or wireless. Queensland is tropical and the weather there is often quite wild. The teletext service used to (maybe still does) operate out of channel 7 in Brisbane and it was always going down due to massive electrical storms.
Well I did my bit by putting him last on the Victorian senate voting slip.
The current Government barely made it back in to office at the last election. They need every cheap shot they can think of to boost their popularity ratings. I assume the algorithm in use here is that Conroy scans the Daily(tm) on his iPad(tm) at the start of the week, picks a bit of news relevant to his constituency which looks bad, and composes a speech saying he won't do that. Repeat next week and so on.
That question tells me more about you than about vegetarians.
Banana meat.
Setting aside the problems of maintaining the aesthetics while keeping it waterproof
I bet that issue is keeping the GPs co-worker up at nights.
My wife would have switched it on straight away to check that it still worked.
Similarly I got an LG Optimus from Optus in Australia. It came with 100mb of data per month but I found out recently that the built in google sync uses exactly that amount of data. So take care with that.
Nokia phones.
The article says:
Unlike US exchanges, the LSE platform is not based on the internet, and therefore is less vulnerable to general cyber attacks.
...and it doesn't detail the attacks. Maybe somebody tried a dictionary search on a web server, probably looking for something to spam from?
Oops! Exception Encountered Error Running Custom Exception handler Error Type: Expression : [N/A] Error Messages: Element CURURL is undefined in REQUEST. Tag Context: ID: ?? LINE: 227 Template: D:\websites\www.computerworlduk.com\handlers\Main.cfc ID: CFINVOKE LINE: 629 Template: D:\JRun4\servers\www.computerworlduk.com\cfusion.ear\cfusion.war\Coldbox\system\web\Controller.cfc ID: CF_UDFMETHOD
Where would the D: drive be mounted in Linux?
I don't know but its better having it there than on A: drive.
Dunno I tend to hang out in Internet cafes while in Malaysia and I am pretty sure the guys browsing porn on public terminals there are mostly Muslim. The preferred delivery mechanism is yahoo mail so governments who want to filter porn are going to have to block mail too.
We should send them our porn.
You know, Saudi Arabia is also next door. I wonder if they are next?
China’s “Hermes” Space Plane: A December 16 photo shows a model of the Shenlong and a new model of the Chinese “Hermes” space plane. China has made significant progress toward the development of an unmanned trans-atmospheric vehicle and a Space Plane. Beijing’s technological advancement has obvious commercial and scientific uses, however the military significance of the plane cannot be denied.
But Hermes was a European vehicle. Sounds like somebody in China has been cutting and pasting, and has a bad case of the mee toos.
Egypt perhaps.
If you get a chance: read The Starcrossed by Ben Bova,
They are using arrays of lasers to make fringe/interference patterns. This IS "real holography", just very low resolution and framerate.
If it took three GPUs to do that, then I shudder to think how much processor power it would take to render a holotheatric release of Star Wars. I hope there's some room for optimization here.
It would be worth working on, don't you think? Finally a use for really massively parallel computing.
So we are at the point where TV was done with arrays of light globes.
Ever heard of live theatre? Its pretty popular you know.
Let me guess: Han doesn't shoot at all but he pays for bar man to clean up all the mess.
They seem to be claiming that they were (or are) developing a holographic display device. Thats far more interesting to me than Princess Leia or the Kinect. Isn't that the red blob we see in the video? I assume that monochrome holograms will come before color holograms because of the difficulty of getting the interference patterns right when you have more than one wavelength.
Asking how to prevent that damage misses the point - You can't.
Yeah. The only thing I can suggest would be to have two totally separate systems (possibly at two sites) with two admins. That way you have another system and administrator to fall back on if things go bad. But that might be an expensive solution.
Maybe we can give the Chinese the French ISP phone number
Are the Chinese even allowed to dial outside their own country?
Of course. My wife's mother was on holiday in China a few months ago and she was calling back here all the bloody time.
I am a former openmoko user. I developed openmoko apps using EFL as well. There is a lot of stuff missing from EFL. A lot of stuff which is not documented. There are many situations where you just have to try something and if it doesn't work, try something else. A good component set will have documentation telling you what components can be embedded in other components. In many cased with EFL you have to go to the code or write a test to find out. Interoperability between components seems to have been developed on an "as needed" basis. A lot of the error messages written to stdout are unprofessionally written and uninformative. Its easy to generate a crash. I just can't see this going anywhere.