The biggest problem will be the piece of legacy hardware you have to deal with, ie your eyes. The difference between the kindle and the iPad when it comes to reading things is that the kindle uses e-ink which doesn't require any backlight whereas the iPad uses LEDs which do. After a few hours it will be much easier reading the kindle than it is the iPad.
And of course as a side effect the various irradiated bugs bite unsuspecting field trip students and imbue them with super powers. I cannot wait until Grasshopper-Man starts solving crimes!
The American government will step in to prevent CEOs from having to deal with the consequences of their actions. Remember the uproar in the 80s over Japan on the issue of trade? Guess what, throughout the 50s,60s, and 70s lots of work was being sent to Japan, but it was the American companies sending the work over there and there was very little uproar on the political stage.
Then starting in the mid-to-late 70s the Japanese started selling things in the US directly under their own brands and thus cutting the American CEOs out of the loop. It was only then that the politicians started really crying "they took our jobs!" and the supposedly "free-trade" Reagan(one of our worst presidents ever, I have no idea why people lionize the B-actor) made Japan make some major trade concessions and forced them to strengthen their currency.
So far China hasn't really made a big push in the west with their own brands, but its really only a matter of time. Then and only then, when the rich, who own the politicians lock stock and barrel, suffer will the politicians even attempt to do anything about Chinese trade practices.
No, but I am interested in the "porn bomb", ie a device that releases a massive amount of porn when set off. Can you imagine how much less bullshit people in the hardcore religious societies would have to put up with if you set off one of these in their place of worship?
Holy shit, a vagina that I didn't have marry anyone in order to see, this is awesome!
No, it's more of a feeling of "ownership" of the women, IE a certain group of Chinese men feel they "own" Chinese women and don't want the "others" sleeping with their property.
While I do regularly program in languages like Java that have automatic garbage collection, but in my experience you need to actually do some time in a language(C being the most common) that does not do this for you. While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.
By implementing a lot of the same things in C you can get a much better feel for what is actually happening underneath the covers.
HAHAHA, Nintendo DS as a high quality product? I've had 2 DS's, both are broken despite and yet my Japanese-made Gameboy is still kicking more than 20 years after I purchased it. Chinese workers don't give a shit about the stuff they are making, they are there only to allow the government come in to grab as much technology as they can.
As per the shoes in my example, the Chinese pair was $60, the American pair $30, the American pair lasted much longer. As per the American companies, I've bought stuff from the EXACT same companies at similar prices, some made in China, some made elsewhere. Guess what? the quality of the stuff made elsewhere is markedly better than the shit made in China. Whether the Chinese workers are intentionally doing a shitty job or intentionally poisoning the stuff they export is up for debate, but what isn't is their absolute shit quality. For example Apple's hardware quality has fallen significantly after moving more and more manufacturing to China. I doubt this is a coincidence.
to go ABC with my buying habits, ie Anything But China. I refuse unless absolutely necessary to buy goods manufactured in China. They are obvious hellbent on telling the rest of the world what they are allowed to do(such as meet with the Dalai Lama), not to mention they have the most hypocritical trade policy on the planet. Fuck them, fuck them all.
It's not easy, but if you are vigilant you can find really good deals on stuff not made in China(which is pretty much all shit quality anyway). I've noticed that clothes made in Vietnam have much better quality than those made in China, ditto for electronics and Japan. I have a camera that is made in Japan and has lasted a long time despite being repeatedly abused. It was certainly worth the extra bit of money I paid over the Chinese made piece of shit I bought before. The last pair of shoes I bought that were made in China fell apart in a couple of months, the US made ones I am wearing now are much durable. The list goes on. Boycott China.
I didn't think there was a whole lot of use for the device until I took a trip from Munich to Philly in one of US Airs brand new A330s and noticed something, every single seat had a USB power outlet and all over the US USB power outlets are increasing in number. Are there any netbooks that can run off of USB power? The fact that the iPad can, has (supposedly) a really good battery life, and the fact that you can use the thing while standing up has sold me on the device.
That being said, the first company that can come out with a netbook that can run off of USB power will have a winner.
nd the permissions on home directories are 755 by default.
thats actually common on a lot of unixes(OS X for example), and not really as bad as you think it is. Essentially it just allows any users to get a list of files on the top level of the home directory, thats it. You cannot necessarily even read any files in the root of the home directory, just list their names and sizes. The really important thing is what their default umask is set to be. Any decently good paranoid cs student will set it to 0022 asap.
Well to trade anecdotes, I am pretty much the exact opposite, the only things that I print out are stuff I need once, hotel reservations, train tickets(in Germany you can buy and print-out train tickets for long distance travel online, much easier than trying to get a real ticket). After I have taken the train trip or stayed at the hotel there is little reason for me to store the documents for later(though the caveat is the German train conductors tend to punch holes in the paper....)
This is perfect for documents like that. In fact, I print so rarely that I don't even own a printer, fortunately my work lets me get away with limited printing, but I would consider one of these things as unlike inkjet printers, the ink will not dry out. Paying $20+ for about 20 pages does tend to get a little old.
A large part of it probably has to do with the upcoming UN hearings on sanctions on Iran. Iran does realize that Google and China, a permanent member of the UN security counsel, have had a pretty public spat recently. But singling out gmail they are hoping that they will curry favor with the Chinese, and further persuade them not to vote for sanctions.
They stayed quiet about Afghanistan because the whole world was shocked by 9-11 and expected American retaliation.
No, more than likely they stayed quiet because they expected America to end up in a long, protracted, bloody and costly war much like the Russians did 2 decades earlier.....
I have the same problem, in fact I cannot watch 3d movies out of both eyes if I have my glasses on(and at least in a theatre, I cannot see jack shit without them). I can actually watch it out of one eye at a time, but squinting for 2 hours is hardly the definition of fun.
When the Chinese hackers decided to go after Google, which machines did they go after, the Linux servers or the Microsoft Windows clients? Answer, despite the fact that the data they were after lives on the servers, they went after the clients because Microsoft "security" is a joke and serious, easy to exploit holes go unpatched for months on end from Redmond. Not to mention the sheer amount of shit they REQUIRE you to be an admin for, the total lack of opacity in their processes etc. If Microsoft disappeared tomorrow, there still would be security exploits, but significantly less than there are now.
Not to mention the numbers speak for themselves, despite having over 90% of the pc market share, Microsoft has less than half that and that share is continuing to decline. Why is that? Because cracking Windows is pretty trivial, and if a company has important data they want to protect, they sure as hell aren't going to go Windows.
Microsoft has never paid anything but lip service to security, and I suspect they never will. Oh well, the sooner the world is rid of Windows Server, the better.
through new security, reliability and collaborative applications.
No need to create new tech to do that, I can increase the security, reliability, and the collaborative potential of the internet easily, just get rid of Windows. There, can I have my $30 mil now?
Not to mention its at least 5x the price of a print subscription...... Now granted you get access to past archives, but really, how many people actually need an in-depth contemporary expose on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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The biggest problem will be the piece of legacy hardware you have to deal with, ie your eyes. The difference between the kindle and the iPad when it comes to reading things is that the kindle uses e-ink which doesn't require any backlight whereas the iPad uses LEDs which do. After a few hours it will be much easier reading the kindle than it is the iPad.
Supposedly the human male's penis is also designed to remove other male's sperm from the vaginal tract.
And of course as a side effect the various irradiated bugs bite unsuspecting field trip students and imbue them with super powers. I cannot wait until Grasshopper-Man starts solving crimes!
All the movies suffered from the same basic flaw, not nearly enough Zoidberg.
The American government will step in to prevent CEOs from having to deal with the consequences of their actions. Remember the uproar in the 80s over Japan on the issue of trade? Guess what, throughout the 50s,60s, and 70s lots of work was being sent to Japan, but it was the American companies sending the work over there and there was very little uproar on the political stage.
Then starting in the mid-to-late 70s the Japanese started selling things in the US directly under their own brands and thus cutting the American CEOs out of the loop. It was only then that the politicians started really crying "they took our jobs!" and the supposedly "free-trade" Reagan(one of our worst presidents ever, I have no idea why people lionize the B-actor) made Japan make some major trade concessions and forced them to strengthen their currency.
So far China hasn't really made a big push in the west with their own brands, but its really only a matter of time. Then and only then, when the rich, who own the politicians lock stock and barrel, suffer will the politicians even attempt to do anything about Chinese trade practices.
No, but I am interested in the "porn bomb", ie a device that releases a massive amount of porn when set off. Can you imagine how much less bullshit people in the hardcore religious societies would have to put up with if you set off one of these in their place of worship?
Holy shit, a vagina that I didn't have marry anyone in order to see, this is awesome!
ie have the applet download some porn and measure how long it took!
No, it's more of a feeling of "ownership" of the women, IE a certain group of Chinese men feel they "own" Chinese women and don't want the "others" sleeping with their property.
I want a bowel disrupter!
Because for some strange reason Americans are squeamish about everything sexual, and as a result have the highest rates of STDs in the G-7.....
While I do regularly program in languages like Java that have automatic garbage collection, but in my experience you need to actually do some time in a language(C being the most common) that does not do this for you. While this is anecdotal, I've found that people who have never actually programmed in a low level language tend to regard object allocation and deallocation as "magic" and thus write poorly performing code.
By implementing a lot of the same things in C you can get a much better feel for what is actually happening underneath the covers.
HAHAHA, Nintendo DS as a high quality product? I've had 2 DS's, both are broken despite and yet my Japanese-made Gameboy is still kicking more than 20 years after I purchased it. Chinese workers don't give a shit about the stuff they are making, they are there only to allow the government come in to grab as much technology as they can.
As per the shoes in my example, the Chinese pair was $60, the American pair $30, the American pair lasted much longer. As per the American companies, I've bought stuff from the EXACT same companies at similar prices, some made in China, some made elsewhere. Guess what? the quality of the stuff made elsewhere is markedly better than the shit made in China. Whether the Chinese workers are intentionally doing a shitty job or intentionally poisoning the stuff they export is up for debate, but what isn't is their absolute shit quality. For example Apple's hardware quality has fallen significantly after moving more and more manufacturing to China. I doubt this is a coincidence.
Unlike China they actually make some decent quality stuff and are vehemently opposed to the mainland's expansionist policies for obvious reasons.
to go ABC with my buying habits, ie Anything But China. I refuse unless absolutely necessary to buy goods manufactured in China. They are obvious hellbent on telling the rest of the world what they are allowed to do(such as meet with the Dalai Lama), not to mention they have the most hypocritical trade policy on the planet. Fuck them, fuck them all.
It's not easy, but if you are vigilant you can find really good deals on stuff not made in China(which is pretty much all shit quality anyway). I've noticed that clothes made in Vietnam have much better quality than those made in China, ditto for electronics and Japan. I have a camera that is made in Japan and has lasted a long time despite being repeatedly abused. It was certainly worth the extra bit of money I paid over the Chinese made piece of shit I bought before. The last pair of shoes I bought that were made in China fell apart in a couple of months, the US made ones I am wearing now are much durable. The list goes on. Boycott China.
I didn't think there was a whole lot of use for the device until I took a trip from Munich to Philly in one of US Airs brand new A330s and noticed something, every single seat had a USB power outlet and all over the US USB power outlets are increasing in number. Are there any netbooks that can run off of USB power? The fact that the iPad can, has (supposedly) a really good battery life, and the fact that you can use the thing while standing up has sold me on the device.
That being said, the first company that can come out with a netbook that can run off of USB power will have a winner.
nd the permissions on home directories are 755 by default.
thats actually common on a lot of unixes(OS X for example), and not really as bad as you think it is. Essentially it just allows any users to get a list of files on the top level of the home directory, thats it. You cannot necessarily even read any files in the root of the home directory, just list their names and sizes. The really important thing is what their default umask is set to be. Any decently good paranoid cs student will set it to 0022 asap.
Well to trade anecdotes, I am pretty much the exact opposite, the only things that I print out are stuff I need once, hotel reservations, train tickets(in Germany you can buy and print-out train tickets for long distance travel online, much easier than trying to get a real ticket). After I have taken the train trip or stayed at the hotel there is little reason for me to store the documents for later(though the caveat is the German train conductors tend to punch holes in the paper....)
This is perfect for documents like that. In fact, I print so rarely that I don't even own a printer, fortunately my work lets me get away with limited printing, but I would consider one of these things as unlike inkjet printers, the ink will not dry out. Paying $20+ for about 20 pages does tend to get a little old.
will fly by their own accord to their destination!
Well, they were close, but it was Toyotas, not Hondas that had the brake problems.
A large part of it probably has to do with the upcoming UN hearings on sanctions on Iran. Iran does realize that Google and China, a permanent member of the UN security counsel, have had a pretty public spat recently. But singling out gmail they are hoping that they will curry favor with the Chinese, and further persuade them not to vote for sanctions.
They stayed quiet about Afghanistan because the whole world was shocked by 9-11 and expected American retaliation.
No, more than likely they stayed quiet because they expected America to end up in a long, protracted, bloody and costly war much like the Russians did 2 decades earlier.....
I have the same problem, in fact I cannot watch 3d movies out of both eyes if I have my glasses on(and at least in a theatre, I cannot see jack shit without them). I can actually watch it out of one eye at a time, but squinting for 2 hours is hardly the definition of fun.
When the Chinese hackers decided to go after Google, which machines did they go after, the Linux servers or the Microsoft Windows clients? Answer, despite the fact that the data they were after lives on the servers, they went after the clients because Microsoft "security" is a joke and serious, easy to exploit holes go unpatched for months on end from Redmond. Not to mention the sheer amount of shit they REQUIRE you to be an admin for, the total lack of opacity in their processes etc. If Microsoft disappeared tomorrow, there still would be security exploits, but significantly less than there are now.
Not to mention the numbers speak for themselves, despite having over 90% of the pc market share, Microsoft has less than half that and that share is continuing to decline. Why is that? Because cracking Windows is pretty trivial, and if a company has important data they want to protect, they sure as hell aren't going to go Windows.
Microsoft has never paid anything but lip service to security, and I suspect they never will. Oh well, the sooner the world is rid of Windows Server, the better.
through new security, reliability and collaborative applications.
No need to create new tech to do that, I can increase the security, reliability, and the collaborative potential of the internet easily, just get rid of Windows. There, can I have my $30 mil now?
So you are essentially aspiring to be this guy?
Not to mention its at least 5x the price of a print subscription...... Now granted you get access to past archives, but really, how many people actually need an in-depth contemporary expose on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.