The physically interesting with a "Tablet PC" is that i could be used e g in the bed at morning to read (browse) the news or to sit comfortably in the sofa and look and show your photos or maybe read a book through a browser.
But they still is too expensive to be attractive for these uses to the right customers.
She would be treated the same in many western countrys and especially in US. As the narcotics was found in her luggage the court/jury would treat it as an evidence. (Assuming they not decides that they like her...)
The "war on narcotics" have lowered the need for evidence everywhere. The "innocent until proven guilty" is not but a bad joke now.
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
"Most of the things in the article (having shorter load times, better AI, no invisible borders, etc) are things decent game developers strive to do on every title. However, many of these problems are hardware-bound (you can only stream data from dvd so quickly regardless of how you optimize your code),"
Soo... then why can I play my game uninterrupted when my backup program is running in the background taking a backup of my HD ?? When apparently e g Half-Life 2 can't load the next part of the game in the background ??? When I have > 1GB of memory ????
Swedish law and legal rules demands that the prosecutor investigate not only evidence for guilt but also everything that could be evidence for innocense. And they do not get any points for demanding severa punishment or prosecuting many people. Instead they are (mostly) evaluated by how close the Court's judgement follows the prosecutors intent. (They shall not prosecute if they are not resonably sure that the verdict will be guilty.)
One is the problem of spoofing browser users. And this could be done as easy as someone else pointed out: using "www.payqal.com" instead of "www.paypal.com". Etc.
The other is connected to the fact that two different characters in different languages character sets uses the same glyph. (A glyph is the visual form of a character.) And this is not necessarely a problem isolated to internet usage. (Although it's more difficult to use it for deceiveful purposes utside of internet.)
The solution of the former is some combination of browser standards that make it clear for all but the most dumb users where they are going and some international regulations that e g protects sensitive sites like banking (paypal.com) to be used by/connected to/directed to other sites (like paqpal.com).
The solution of the latter is probably an international standardization of the characters glyphs. That is: a specific glyph should be clearly distinguished from other glyphs and be represented by only one character. (The eventual problem with sort orders etc. should be solved by depending on the actual usage/situation.)
Reagan received the same crap that Bush is receiving from you lefties, but the former Soviet ruling class thought he was rather effective. As they thought Hitler was. Islamic fascists are finding out the same thing about Dubya.Certainly not fascists (if You know what that means), rather religious fundamentalists, as Bush and his backers are.
Finland hase been a part of Sweden between ca 1200 - 1809 when Sweden lost Finland to Tszar-Russia after a war. 1917 (I think) Finland declared themselves independent. In WWII Finland was attacked in several "wars" by Soviet but defended themselves succesfully. (They beat the Soviet armys seriously.) In the last battles at the end of WWII they had to get into a peace agreement that included giving Soviet about one fifth (20%) of Finland (mostly the part nearest Leningrad (now S:t Petersburg)). This was mostly due to polical pressure as a consequence of the outcome of WWII.
An example of a company that never got to an IPO: IKEA (ok, it's not an IT company).
It have been (and in practice still are), wholly owned by the founder: Ingvar Kamprad. It's worth something like 55 billion dollars today.
(They have since a couple of Years begun establishing stores (and production) in Russia and are expecting losses in the next 10 years. As Kamprad have said: it haven't been possible if they had done an IPO.)
"As a final remark: didn't "Kursk", the Russian sub, sink due to a failed test of that same torpedo technology? And now they're selling it? Great move... develop a dangerous-to-use torpedo AND get the other guys to use it!:)"
No, it sink becuase it exploded. And that was (probably) because the fuel of a torpedo started burning/exploded and short thereafter ignated the warhead of several torpedos.
The reson it started burning was problay becuase they choosed a cheaper and more dangerous fuel for the torpedos. Pennywise...
BTW, it's supposed that the torpedos was a sort of "ramming" devises, that is, they forced their way through the water with such a force that they reached (teorethically) MACH 1 or 2. The reason that they can reach such a velocity is that the shockwawe with the water creates a "vapor shield" that greatly reduces (or practically eliminates) the friction against the water.
With this trend (people starts - *really* - learning fictional languages), it's time to introduce Latin as an (*the*) international language.
Before I thought that the only language viable to form the international choice was English (as it was the way of least restance). But it seems that fictions and games could drive people to unsual learning efforts.
Then we have also Esperanto, but I don't like it much although it's both simple in structure and easy to pronounce. What I don't like with it is that it's a bit "ugly". Latin may not be exactly beautiful, but it have some sort of "dignity" and have inspiring historical links. And litterature.
"I can't think of a modern system that doesn't support long passwords."
IBM mainframes takes max 8 characters as passwords. And in practice equates uppercase and lowercase letters. And don't permit special chars ! (So You have max 8 chars which is either uppercase letters or numbers...)
The main problem with these is that the market target was wrong. I would myself want one of these but NOT at work, rather in the bed ! In the morning (or at night if I had problem with sleep) I would use these to browse the web for news or whatever. Or check todays agenda etc. Or in the kitchen when doing the breakfast.
The main problem with this is that they are WAY TO EXPENSIVE regarding the functionality ! If the price had been a quarter of today and marketing targets the uses I mentioned above, they would have been a success !
Slashdot Mirror
About 3.
The physically interesting with a "Tablet PC" is that i could be used e g in the bed at morning to read (browse) the news or to sit comfortably in the sofa and look and show your photos or maybe read a book through a browser.
But they still is too expensive to be attractive for these uses to the right customers.
Bad marketing strategy !
Bush: Everyone are either with us or against us.
US Gov: We will make a preemtive nuclear strike if we find it necessary.
US police: We shoot everyone that make resistance.
The courts: We jail You for 25 years if You steal the third chocolatebar. Including gang rapes.
This is what a children in USA recieves during his childhood. Is it suprising that fear and violence is the result ?
It was called "windows" before.
Who cares ???
She would be treated the same in many western countrys and especially in US. As the narcotics was found in her luggage the court/jury would treat it as an evidence.
(Assuming they not decides that they like her...)
The "war on narcotics" have lowered the need for evidence everywhere. The "innocent until proven guilty" is not but a bad joke now.
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
"Most of the things in the article (having shorter load times, better AI, no invisible borders, etc) are things decent game developers strive to do on every title. However, many of these problems are hardware-bound (you can only stream data from dvd so quickly regardless of how you optimize your code),"
Soo... then why can I play my game uninterrupted when my backup program is running in the background taking a backup of my HD ??
When apparently e g Half-Life 2 can't load the next part of the game in the background ???
When I have > 1GB of memory ????
There exist no property or moral rights in this case.
None.
Whatsoever.
(Or are You talking about copy rights, patents or trademarks eventually ?)
Swedish law and legal rules demands that the prosecutor investigate not only evidence for guilt but also everything that could be evidence for innocense. And they do not get any points for demanding severa punishment or prosecuting many people. Instead they are (mostly) evaluated by how close the Court's judgement follows the prosecutors intent. (They shall not prosecute if they are not resonably sure that the verdict will be guilty.)
One is the problem of spoofing browser users. And this could be done as easy as someone else pointed out: using "www.payqal.com" instead of "www.paypal.com". Etc.
The other is connected to the fact that two different characters in different languages character sets uses the same glyph. (A glyph is the visual form of a character.) And this is not necessarely a problem isolated to internet usage. (Although it's more difficult to use it for deceiveful purposes utside of internet.)
The solution of the former is some combination of browser standards that make it clear for all but the most dumb users where they are going and some international regulations that e g protects sensitive sites like banking (paypal.com) to be used by/connected to/directed to other sites (like paqpal.com).
The solution of the latter is probably an international standardization of the characters glyphs. That is: a specific glyph should be clearly distinguished from other glyphs and be represented by only one character.
(The eventual problem with sort orders etc. should be solved by depending on the actual usage/situation.)
Why is this rated troll ??
THIS IS A FACT !
Sigh !
They are already.
The bacterias in our bodies outnumber the body cells.
Reagan received the same crap that Bush is receiving from you lefties, but the former Soviet ruling class thought he was rather effective.
As they thought Hitler was.
Islamic fascists are finding out the same thing about Dubya.Certainly not fascists (if You know what that means), rather religious fundamentalists, as Bush and his backers are.
Finland has never been a part of Soviet union.
Finland hase been a part of Sweden between ca 1200 - 1809 when Sweden lost Finland to Tszar-Russia after a war. 1917 (I think) Finland declared themselves independent.
In WWII Finland was attacked in several "wars" by Soviet but defended themselves succesfully. (They beat the Soviet armys seriously.) In the last battles at the end of WWII they had to get into a peace agreement that included giving Soviet about one fifth (20%) of Finland (mostly the part nearest Leningrad (now S:t Petersburg)).
This was mostly due to polical pressure as a consequence of the outcome of WWII.
An example of a company that never got to an IPO: IKEA (ok, it's not an IT company).
It have been (and in practice still are), wholly owned by the founder: Ingvar Kamprad.
It's worth something like 55 billion dollars today.
(They have since a couple of Years begun establishing stores (and production) in Russia and are expecting losses in the next 10 years. As Kamprad have said: it haven't been possible if they had done an IPO.)
KISS !
Keep It Simple Stupid !
"As a final remark: didn't "Kursk", the Russian sub, sink due to a failed test of that same torpedo technology? And now they're selling it? Great move... develop a dangerous-to-use torpedo AND get the other guys to use it! :)"
No, it sink becuase it exploded. And that was (probably) because the fuel of a torpedo started burning/exploded and short thereafter ignated the warhead of several torpedos.
The reson it started burning was problay becuase they choosed a cheaper and more dangerous fuel for the torpedos.
Pennywise...
BTW, it's supposed that the torpedos was a sort of "ramming" devises, that is, they forced their way through the water with such a force that they reached (teorethically) MACH 1 or 2. The reason that they can reach such a velocity is that the shockwawe with the water creates a "vapor shield" that greatly reduces (or practically eliminates) the friction against the water.
With this trend (people starts - *really* - learning fictional languages), it's time to introduce Latin as an (*the*) international language.
Before I thought that the only language viable to form the international choice was English (as it was the way of least restance). But it seems that fictions and games could drive people to unsual learning efforts.
Then we have also Esperanto, but I don't like it much although it's both simple in structure and easy to pronounce. What I don't like with it is that it's a bit "ugly". Latin may not be exactly beautiful, but it have some sort of "dignity" and have inspiring historical links. And litterature.
The Sheriff's version...
Sic!
And the children.
God Bless U.S.A
"Koresh had three outstanding warrants for statutory rape"
These were untrue. There were no facts supporting that.
Pity that You are spreading lies.
"I can't think of a modern system that doesn't support long passwords."
IBM mainframes takes max 8 characters as passwords. And in practice equates uppercase and lowercase letters. And don't permit special chars !
(So You have max 8 chars which is either uppercase letters or numbers...)
Sic!
After Nurnberg doesn't any law excuse a lack of moral.
They can't vote now either...
The main problem with these is that the market target was wrong. I would myself want one of these but NOT at work, rather in the bed ! In the morning (or at night if I had problem with sleep) I would use these to browse the web for news or whatever. Or check todays agenda etc. Or in the kitchen when doing the breakfast.
The main problem with this is that they are WAY TO EXPENSIVE regarding the functionality ! If the price had been a quarter of today and marketing targets the uses I mentioned above, they would have been a success !