Try spending 5 minutes with a high school kid; you'll see 50 text messages in that time. (It's scary... this current generation communicated almost entirely via texts and Facebook)
The hotel I'm sittig in Xi'an right now (and typing this) is charging 20 RMB a day... for a fairly fast connection (2435 kbps). Oddly - while some other people in the group I'm in are getting charged... its free in my room.
Yeah, as a whole the CD thing isn't that bad for me, if anything its what I'm used to (heh, still remember playing my first game of Return to Zork - one of the free games that came with my first cd-rom drive).
To reply to some of my questions about it: "The special fabric is supported by a metal wire structure. At specific points, the high-strength metal is enhanced by carbon struts with a higher flexibility. They are used predominantly for round, moving contours with a particularly narrow radius."
Check out the video thats linked to it - there's some footage of an actual car (which is covered, so we can't tell for sure if it really is the skinned GINA).
but call me stuck - I just can't get over the thought that the fabric can't keep the car as safe as metal does.
I can see some of the benefits - you won't have to worry about dents and the such, but the isn't the possibility of having something tear right through the fabric pretty high (if you hit something on the highway the kinetic energy on it is rather high)?
I wouldn't be so quick to say that dogfighting is obsolete - every few years or so they keep on claiming that, but its yet to happen; you can't forget that each time someone creates a new missile someone comes up with a new countermeasure.
The F-22's stealth is supposed to be vastly superior to anything else we've ever had. Between the radar absorbent material, the shape of the plane, lowered infrared signature, and other things it's way better than the F-117.
The thing about the F-22 is that its able to take on the top of the line aircraft currently (F-15/F-16) in service (I'd love to see a test of the F-22 against a Eurofighter); exercises the US has done had 12 Raptors taking out 108 15/16's without a single loss.
The F-22 is a much better overall package than you realize - in combat tests they've had a 108-0 kill ratio against superior forces of F-15's and F-16's, and I can't find a single reference of an F-22 being judged as shot down.
Things that I've read from pilots that flew against the F-22 in exercises say that the F-22 managed to kill them before they ever saw it.
For the new things coming - its the JSF (F-35), its not meant to be air superiority but its meant to be the mainstay of the American fleet.
Yeah - I didn't have a problem with Wikpedia in 2005 and 2007 when I was in China (Beijing and an interior province) - we actually taught some locals how to use it.
I did come across the blocking of the BBC; and I always found it interesting how the BBC channel was scrambled in Beijing.
My response to the whole Apple thing? I tend to react extremely favorable when there're negative comments about Apple; it doesn't balance the amount of negative modding, but its the little I can do.
I wish I read the article before. Here're the numbers which he's actively responsible for (at least):
His company made at least $300,000 last year at $495 a shot - so he sold at least 606 of his packages in a year. With a package lasting 15 days it means he had to sell 24.3 packages to cover 20,000,000 people for one year (since he also sold email addresses and the cumulative effect of that would cover enough to hit the 20 min/month ratio) that means he could cover 500 million people/addresses in a year. When you take our previous number of 5.5 people in a year based off of 1 million inboxes, you find that the time he's spent is equivalent to killing 2,750 people in a year. Its currently 2008, and we know he's done it at least 2005, that means he's been responsible for the equivalent of 8,250 lives.
Or, you could just go off the fact he would send spam to 20,000,000 addresses regardless of the amount of times he could cover them or the fact that he sold their addresses; that means he's responsible for 110 people.
Sure brings some perspective to the whole spamming thing doesn't it?
If an average person spends 20 minutes a month fighting spam (between time they filter through it, work they have to do to pay for the costs, or anything else - which this would be a low number) they end up fighting spam for 3.6 hours every year.
When you take that 3.6 hours spent by one person in a year and multiply it by the millions of people that receive the spam (for simplicity's sake lets just say its a paltry 1 million), thats costing 3,600,000 hours in a year.
A person who lives to be 75 lives 655,200 hours.
With this math, when a spammer hit one million people's inboxes (with just spam, not even counting the viruses and other means that we have to combat to stop their means of distribution) thats the equivalent of killing 5.5 people each year. When you figure that the amount of time it takes to fight spam is probably significantly higher than 20 minutes a month by an individual (bearing costs, actual time hitting delete, viruses, etc) even with filters and that they're hitting far more than just a million people, the actual cost in human lives increases dramatically.
So, yes; I do support a far harsher sentence on him - based on the math alone he should be thrown in jail for multiple lifetime convictions.
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Put in a FIOA request...
Try spending 5 minutes with a high school kid; you'll see 50 text messages in that time. (It's scary... this current generation communicated almost entirely via texts and Facebook)
What's happened with it? Almost all of the states have fought against it, and it's been stuck in a implementation black hole.
At this point my hope is just on Stardock.
Same here - I've gotten text messages from China. During Chinese New Year I received 3 or 4 text messages from friends that I have in Qinghai...
I'm there right now - different sites are blocked at different times of the day... there really isn't much sense in all of it (luckily I have Tor).
The hotel I'm sittig in Xi'an right now (and typing this) is charging 20 RMB a day... for a fairly fast connection (2435 kbps). Oddly - while some other people in the group I'm in are getting charged... its free in my room.
Yeah, as a whole the CD thing isn't that bad for me, if anything its what I'm used to (heh, still remember playing my first game of Return to Zork - one of the free games that came with my first cd-rom drive).
Well, I was looking forward to getting Spore when it came out - if this DRM remains though there's no chance that I'm going to buy it.
Even easier - tversity; I'm running a 802.11n network in my place and the streaming between my 360 and desktop works great.
I'm not sure about mod points but there has to be some excellent karma involved.
To reply to some of my questions about it: "The special fabric is supported by a metal wire structure. At specific points, the high-strength metal is enhanced by carbon struts with a higher flexibility. They are used predominantly for round, moving contours with a particularly narrow radius."
Taken from the press release found here
Or better yet - paper
Check out the video thats linked to it - there's some footage of an actual car (which is covered, so we can't tell for sure if it really is the skinned GINA).
I can see some of the benefits - you won't have to worry about dents and the such, but the isn't the possibility of having something tear right through the fabric pretty high (if you hit something on the highway the kinetic energy on it is rather high)?
But hasn't WikiLeaks already been shut down once?
I wouldn't be so quick to say that dogfighting is obsolete - every few years or so they keep on claiming that, but its yet to happen; you can't forget that each time someone creates a new missile someone comes up with a new countermeasure.
The thing about the F-22 is that its able to take on the top of the line aircraft currently (F-15/F-16) in service (I'd love to see a test of the F-22 against a Eurofighter); exercises the US has done had 12 Raptors taking out 108 15/16's without a single loss.
Things that I've read from pilots that flew against the F-22 in exercises say that the F-22 managed to kill them before they ever saw it.
For the new things coming - its the JSF (F-35), its not meant to be air superiority but its meant to be the mainstay of the American fleet.
He makes your eyes bleed... seriously. (I've tried to watch some of his stuff, I couldn't take it)
http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html
I did come across the blocking of the BBC; and I always found it interesting how the BBC channel was scrambled in Beijing.
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My response to the whole Apple thing? I tend to react extremely favorable when there're negative comments about Apple; it doesn't balance the amount of negative modding, but its the little I can do.
His company made at least $300,000 last year at $495 a shot - so he sold at least 606 of his packages in a year. With a package lasting 15 days it means he had to sell 24.3 packages to cover 20,000,000 people for one year (since he also sold email addresses and the cumulative effect of that would cover enough to hit the 20 min/month ratio) that means he could cover 500 million people/addresses in a year. When you take our previous number of 5.5 people in a year based off of 1 million inboxes, you find that the time he's spent is equivalent to killing 2,750 people in a year. Its currently 2008, and we know he's done it at least 2005, that means he's been responsible for the equivalent of 8,250 lives.
Or, you could just go off the fact he would send spam to 20,000,000 addresses regardless of the amount of times he could cover them or the fact that he sold their addresses; that means he's responsible for 110 people.
Sure brings some perspective to the whole spamming thing doesn't it?
If an average person spends 20 minutes a month fighting spam (between time they filter through it, work they have to do to pay for the costs, or anything else - which this would be a low number) they end up fighting spam for 3.6 hours every year.
When you take that 3.6 hours spent by one person in a year and multiply it by the millions of people that receive the spam (for simplicity's sake lets just say its a paltry 1 million), thats costing 3,600,000 hours in a year.
A person who lives to be 75 lives 655,200 hours.
With this math, when a spammer hit one million people's inboxes (with just spam, not even counting the viruses and other means that we have to combat to stop their means of distribution) thats the equivalent of killing 5.5 people each year. When you figure that the amount of time it takes to fight spam is probably significantly higher than 20 minutes a month by an individual (bearing costs, actual time hitting delete, viruses, etc) even with filters and that they're hitting far more than just a million people, the actual cost in human lives increases dramatically.
So, yes; I do support a far harsher sentence on him - based on the math alone he should be thrown in jail for multiple lifetime convictions.