Small company, newly formed IT/development department. Turned out all four of us preferred OS X as our desktop environment, and it didn't take long for the boss guy to convince himself he needed one to (and very happy with it he is). Just found out one of the sales people has come over to the dark^H^H^H^H Jobs side, and the external consultant guy has a MacBook Air (which is a subject of constant ridicule as we are Ethernet-only for reasons of paranoia).
(Personally I need a laptop which runs an internationalized UNIXy environment and plays well with the hardware without me having to spend time fiddling about with the OS , and OS X has saved me a great deal of time in this respect).
Of course the article raises the very obvious point that if a guy with a pair of binoculars in his back yard can spot a satellite, so can the Chinese government.
Just think what the Chinese government would be capable of if they were to stand in this guy's backyard with his binoculars!
I've just arrived in Japan, which has - following pressure from the US - introduced fingerprinting
at the border for all foreigners (including those with residence rights, not just visitors).
While the process was relatively smooth (put your index fingers on a little machine), it's been my
first contact with the world of paranoid "anti-terrorist" biometrics and for me marks the end of an era
where international travel has been an expression of freedom.
Why not just do a simple, old-fashioned on-click change to the "display" attribute? As it is, if I didn't have a very specific interest in that site, I'd close the window quick, because with sites like that, there's a high probability they'll do something nasty to my browser.
Just to be clear on one point: the IP address tracking mentioned in articles on this subject is the IP address allocated by your ISP, not the IP addresses you connect to. Which is bad enough, and on the basis of existing laws there was a ruling that ISPs aren't allowed to retain your IP connection history for privacy reasons.
Personally I've alway assumed IP addresses are inherently traceable, so in a practical sense this doesn't make any difference to me (except that no doubt I'll end up paying for the extra costs incurred by my ISP). It's the other stuff I find more worrying - and completely asinine at the same time, because anyone with anything to hide (including teh terrorists) will know how to work round them anyway.
(My personal reaction after reading earlier comments by Mr. Frattini, who's not only the EU's anti-terrorism muppet but is also responsible for "Fundamental Rights and citizenship", hahaha.)
the system can be set up to limit access to doors for certain people at certain times, including shutting the main doors of a school to pupils during classtime.
Let's just hope the various systems involve are intelligent enough to deal with unforseeable situations such as fires or gun-toting amok-runners.
IIRC one of the Wikipedia GFDL's terms is that anyone using the content of an article should include a link to the source (i.e. the original Wikipedia article), partly as an acceptable method of attributing the content's authors. This particular ${insert_name_here}opedia clone site doesn't seem to. (This is one reason why I've given up contributing to Wikipedia).
This particular site looks just like any other ${insert_name_here}opedia which clones Wikipedia content. They haven't landed on the GFDL Compliance page yet though...
Addendum: having said the Eee PC 701's battery life (given its weight, size and price) is not at all bad - the question is will it support a UNIXy OS without too much hassle, and looking at the ZDNet review mentioned elsewhere, it looks like the usual story: looks like more trouble than it's worth (for me at least).
Battery life was quite impressive. Asus claims it will last approximately 3.5 hours depending on what tasks you're performing, and this was in line with our own experience. With very light use, the machine lasted as long as four hours, though your own mileage may vary.
Not bad, but my 2005 iBook (G4, ca. 2kg) is rated at "up to 6 hours", and in real use I still get at least 4.5 hours out of it (provided I'm not playing DVDs or running the screen at max brightness or compiling Emacs). I'm considering getting a new laptop soon, and battery life is important to me, so I wandered through a computer store checking the PC laptops, and was surprised to see that hardly any had battery lives which even touch on those of Macs (typically 2 - 3 hours vs about 6). Even those in the same price / weight class as the Macs.
This isn't a "My Mac is better than your PC" thing pissing contest (all I need is a UNIXy OS which plays well with the laptop hardware and power saving stuff), but is there any reason why "PC" laptops generally pack that much less juice?
Philbin's last scheduled day at FEMA was Thursday. He has been named as the new head of public affairs at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI spokeswoman Vanee Vines said.
Oddly enough the patent doesn't mention Chinese characters, though it does mention Chinese restaurants. It does say "Also, the dictionaries are not limited to the English language, but may cover other languages having other characters, and even other types of objects. ", but I can't see how this "would allow an English speaker, for example, to use the keypad of any mobile phone to enter Chinese characters" - what would be the point, unless the English speaker also reads / writes Chinese?
Anyway, the parent poster would be right about prior art, if there was such a mechanism described in the patent - I have here in my possession a Japanese mobile phone with the normal set of numeric keys, which I can use to enter Japanese / Sino-Japanese characters, and I presume there are Chinese mobile phones with similar capability.
On my main PC (development / surfstation) I'm currently running Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) which I'm quite happy with, but for various reasons I'm planning to wipe it and install a new distro from scratch. I've been waiting for this Ubuntu release before I make my move, but just recently OpenSuse 10.3 came out and I'm hearing good things of it too. Has anyone tried both and got an opinion?
I'm looking for a distro which will give me a good environment for development in (mainly databases and script languages) while making the "desktop" side of things not too much of a hassle. The development aspect is pretty much distro-agnostic for me (as long as there's a reasonably recent gcc etc. I'm happy); it's more the "user experience" I'm concerned about, because I don't want to spend too much time messing about under the hood getting browser plugins, mp3 codecs etc. etc. working.
This is like a ginormous soot-stained, pitted, dented and immobile pot which has been simmering for the last twenty-five years calling the nearby, newish and rapidly expanding kettle made from stainless steel which is now somewhat more rusty than it was in 1998, black.
There's an organisation called "GEMA" who actively look out for their
customers' interests, which includes scouting round for shops, restaurants etc. who commit the heinous crime of playing music from CDs, radios etc. they already own.
...and this "gmail only" browser is on the same computer, with the same IP as the one you use for general google searching? I think they'd figure that out.
If "they" were really after me specifically, I'm sure they would. It's more a matter of not having all my stuff associated with the same Google cookie.
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Small company, newly formed IT/development department. Turned out all four of us preferred OS X as our desktop environment, and it didn't take long for the boss guy to convince himself he needed one to (and very happy with it he is). Just found out one of the sales people has come over to the dark^H^H^H^H Jobs side, and the external consultant guy has a MacBook Air (which is a subject of constant ridicule as we are Ethernet-only for reasons of paranoia).
(Personally I need a laptop which runs an internationalized UNIXy environment and plays well with the hardware without me having to spend time fiddling about with the OS , and OS X has saved me a great deal of time in this respect).
Of course the article raises the very obvious point that if a guy with a pair of binoculars in his back yard can spot a satellite, so can the Chinese government.
Just think what the Chinese government would be capable of if they were to stand in this guy's backyard with his binoculars!
Nope, definitely not a US citizen and though I'd like to visit some day, I am in absolutely no hurry.
I've got "vested interests" in Japan and have no option really, apart from abandoning a large part of my life.
I've just arrived in Japan, which has - following pressure from the US - introduced fingerprinting at the border for all foreigners (including those with residence rights, not just visitors). While the process was relatively smooth (put your index fingers on a little machine), it's been my first contact with the world of paranoid "anti-terrorist" biometrics and for me marks the end of an era where international travel has been an expression of freedom.
Why not just do a simple, old-fashioned on-click change to the "display" attribute? As it is, if I didn't have a very specific interest in that site, I'd close the window quick, because with sites like that, there's a high probability they'll do something nasty to my browser.
Why not use the UK-specific MCPL (Mad Cow Public License), the GPL version better suited to the British ecosystem?
Yeah, especially as this affects all travelers to Japan, not just US Americans.
Just to be clear on one point: the IP address tracking mentioned in articles on this subject is the IP address allocated by your ISP, not the IP addresses you connect to. Which is bad enough, and on the basis of existing laws there was a ruling that ISPs aren't allowed to retain your IP connection history for privacy reasons.
Personally I've alway assumed IP addresses are inherently traceable, so in a practical sense this doesn't make any difference to me (except that no doubt I'll end up paying for the extra costs incurred by my ISP). It's the other stuff I find more worrying - and completely asinine at the same time, because anyone with anything to hide (including teh terrorists) will know how to work round them anyway.
Get it here! How To Make A Bomb .
(My personal reaction after reading earlier comments by Mr. Frattini, who's not only the EU's anti-terrorism muppet but is also responsible for "Fundamental Rights and citizenship", hahaha.)
Let's just hope the various systems involve are intelligent enough to deal with unforseeable situations such as fires or gun-toting amok-runners.
IIRC one of the Wikipedia GFDL's terms is that anyone using the content of an article should include a link to the source (i.e. the original Wikipedia article), partly as an acceptable method of attributing the content's authors. This particular ${insert_name_here}opedia clone site doesn't seem to. (This is one reason why I've given up contributing to Wikipedia).
This particular site looks just like any other ${insert_name_here}opedia which clones Wikipedia content. They haven't landed on the GFDL Compliance page yet though...
And doh to me, who evidently can't read: it comes pre-loaded with Linux...
Addendum: having said the Eee PC 701's battery life (given its weight, size and price) is not at all bad - the question is will it support a UNIXy OS without too much hassle, and looking at the ZDNet review mentioned elsewhere, it looks like the usual story: looks like more trouble than it's worth (for me at least).
The review says:
Not bad, but my 2005 iBook (G4, ca. 2kg) is rated at "up to 6 hours", and in real use I still get at least 4.5 hours out of it (provided I'm not playing DVDs or running the screen at max brightness or compiling Emacs). I'm considering getting a new laptop soon, and battery life is important to me, so I wandered through a computer store checking the PC laptops, and was surprised to see that hardly any had battery lives which even touch on those of Macs (typically 2 - 3 hours vs about 6). Even those in the same price / weight class as the Macs.
This isn't a "My Mac is better than your PC" thing pissing contest (all I need is a UNIXy OS which plays well with the laptop hardware and power saving stuff), but is there any reason why "PC" laptops generally pack that much less juice?
From the end of the TFA:
O. M. G.
Oddly enough the patent doesn't mention Chinese characters, though it does mention Chinese restaurants. It does say "Also, the dictionaries are not limited to the English language, but may cover other languages having other characters, and even other types of objects. ", but I can't see how this "would allow an English speaker, for example, to use the keypad of any mobile phone to enter Chinese characters" - what would be the point, unless the English speaker also reads / writes Chinese?
Anyway, the parent poster would be right about prior art, if there was such a mechanism described in the patent - I have here in my possession a Japanese mobile phone with the normal set of numeric keys, which I can use to enter Japanese / Sino-Japanese characters, and I presume there are Chinese mobile phones with similar capability.
Yes, but they're just plain parking places, not actually integrated into the apartment buildings.
for your convenience here
On my main PC (development / surfstation) I'm currently running Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) which I'm quite happy with, but for various reasons I'm planning to wipe it and install a new distro from scratch. I've been waiting for this Ubuntu release before I make my move, but just recently OpenSuse 10.3 came out and I'm hearing good things of it too. Has anyone tried both and got an opinion?
I'm looking for a distro which will give me a good environment for development in (mainly databases and script languages) while making the "desktop" side of things not too much of a hassle. The development aspect is pretty much distro-agnostic for me (as long as there's a reasonably recent gcc etc. I'm happy); it's more the "user experience" I'm concerned about, because I don't want to spend too much time messing about under the hood getting browser plugins, mp3 codecs etc. etc. working.
Why is there never a mod option "+1 pedant" when you need one ;-)
This is like a ginormous soot-stained, pitted, dented and immobile pot which has been simmering for the last twenty-five years calling the nearby, newish and rapidly expanding kettle made from stainless steel which is now somewhat more rusty than it was in 1998, black.
BTW Google reads your slashdot comments too.
There's an organisation called "GEMA" who actively look out for their customers' interests, which includes scouting round for shops, restaurants etc. who commit the heinous crime of playing music from CDs, radios etc. they already own.
Maybe Google should adapt their filter software so it blurs the face of anyone with a Canadian flag patched attached to themselves ;-)
Yes, but can these old calculators work out the modern answer (recently redefined by the calculation software industry leader as 100,000)?
If "they" were really after me specifically, I'm sure they would. It's more a matter of not having all my stuff associated with the same Google cookie.