You can call me old fashion but I am against all kinds of voting machines. Democracy works when free elections can be held and its results checked by any common citizen. I don't know in the US, but in Europe, any participant in the elections has the right to a representative in all the pooling stations. Any common person can count the votes and confirm its results. When voting machines exist there's no real way for this kind of direct check. First, because even if the code is open source, only programmers can check it. This is unfair to any other kind of citizen. Second, popular participation. The mobilization of thousands of people in election days, counting the votes is a blessing and a grant of democracy. I've been a representative in several elections and I tell you, people enjoy being there helping and feel proud of it. Democracy is the power of the people not the machines.
I live in southern Europe and I never looked a real pistol pointed at anyone in my life. In my humble standards only violent people and hunters own guns. If you don't want to hurt anyone you don't need the means. I know that owning a gun is part of the American culture but so bullfighting is in ours... Tradition sucks. Bad habits need to be changed. My Respects to the families affected by this tragedy.
In fact, GSM mobile phones can monitor up to 32 neighbour cells, they listen them and report back to the network the received power of the 6 most powerful base stations for handover (change the of the base station in use) purposes. I find very difficult to a mobile phone at 10Km high to successfully communicate with the ground. It is possible, but because base station antennas don't point to the sky (it's a waste of energy), the only signal paths are thru reflection, thus the probability of success is weak. Even more difficult... the plain acts like a shield because its made of metal, so only a fraction of the broadcasted energy gets thru.
One real problem is that on startup or in the beginning of each communication the phone broadcasts in full power, as anyone can listen by putting the gadget near a speaker. This cannot be corrected and can cause some meaningful interferences... but I really don't think they can cause any harm to the plain because data transmission should have multiple paths and should have error detection and correction.
I also switched to ubuntu half a year ago and never switched back to XP. I must say that I did't find a definitive solution form my tv card... Now I'm using TVTime, it has a very good image, but has very annoying controls. Did you try it?
Never mind the fact that some of the components you ordered are OEM, meaning they have no warranty I don't know in the US, but in Europe every piece of equipment sold to the public must have, at least, 2 years of warranty.
The first experimental power station is working in Portugal since May 2006, and it is made from the same palamis system. As far as I know, until now, they didn't publish any results yet. This may indicate that this technology is worthful.
Blogger (also a famous google service), recently started the migration of all accounts (optional, for now) to the new ones based on the GMail login. For this reason they must open the subscription to everybody of Blogger who doesn't have a GMail account. From this to open up all the doors is a small step... I think they started the integration of all the company services under the GMail account. It's easier to login but also to track all the users...
I agree with you. Moreover, 2 years ago Nokia bought the Code Warrior IDE for Symbian. I used it and it was very good. I've developed in several mobile platforms and symbian is still the one I find faster and more efficient, but it's true that the framework complexity is damaging the reputation of the OS. I think all this buzz around Mac OS in the iPhone is more PR than engineering.
in fact... speed of light in vacuum is more or less 3E8, in coper or semiconductors will be far less... n=c/vp, were n is the refraction index of the material. for copper n~1,1, so vp~2,73E8 (1.7cm at 16GHz); for silicon n~4.24, so vp=0.7E8 (0.4cm at 16GHz). As we can see, this setup is even more questionable.
I've lived all my live in the metric system and I certainly use centimeters almost every day, and I don't see the difficulty in it. Every time this "Imperial"/Metric discussion arises I remember of the elderly people that steel think in escudos(I'm in Portugal) and don't give a dam about the Euro... There's a high inertia to this kind of changes and a lot of nationalistic pride in keeping the old stuff. The metric system is simpler than the "Imperial" one, but people will use what they are used to!
After 5 years of Euro I don't know a Kid that still thinks in escudos... This changes are made with the thought in improving the future of the next generations, not the current one.
1. I'm programming cell phones and PDA's for the last 2 years and I cannot believe in the announced power consumption. We have all this set of software platforms and frameworks like J2ME, C++ for Symbian,.Net compact framework, etc... Because processors are small, memory is limited and power is VERY scarce. Man... we are talking about ARM processors (I don't know if apple will use them), not Dual Core Pentium 4. It's not like a laptop that you are used to get 2 or 3 hours off the batteries. A mobile phone with less than 2 days of autonomy it's extremely annoying.
2. I'm wandering what will happen to that screen after a good fall from the table. And what will happen to the accelerometer after the 2nd fall? I'm not saying the gadget won't last, but after seeing some broken touch screens from some HTCs, I have some doubts.
3. Touch screens get really greasy.
After this, let me say that I hope apple gets the best success with this good locking product. If this happens, the competition will certainly improve their products... a lot.
I see that you don't like to live/born in Brazil. That's your problem, but... Portuguese legal system is based in civil law, and inspired in the French and mainly in the German law systems. In Portugal, the problem isn't bad laws, it's bad enforcement. If after 200 years of independence your problems still exist because of Portugal... That's a very bad sign.
A friend of mine is living in China and he keeps telling me that the average urban chinese is a lot like a western person. Simply doesn't care about politics. Those that use these programs already appreciate the value of democracy. This is one of those matters where technology won't make a difference. Freedom must be pushed from the inside by example, by those who believe in it, even if it is extremely painful.
In Portugal, my country, we had a dictatorship during almost 50 years, and it was not outside influence that finally broke it. At some point a critical mass of will for change and for freedom was achieved and a revolution was made. In Spain, in a similar scenario, it was the death of Franco that allowed the ascent to the power of a more democratic government.
More over, different cultures see democracy through a different perspective, some give it the up most value, others see it as the way to get a corrupt pro western leadership, as in islamic public opinion. Others value more stability over freedom... In China, the current communist regime provided the greatest war free period in centuries.
To be successfully achieved and perpetuated, democracy must be actively wanted by the citizens.
By using proprietary formats Sony gains in the royalties market... Saves in licenses and gains a lot selling them, hence leading to higher profit margins. Can anyone say that all this "supposed failures" prevented Sony from being the large corporation it is today? Selling less with a higher margin, keeping a good R&D department is probably not that bad in a corporation point of view...
I live in Portugal. Here, the tv stations must broadcast a short PUB jingle (always the same one) before and after each pub block. There's however the station self promotion, but usually they don't have the station logo. I think this practice is common here in Europe.
For the record... here, pub blocks sometimes last 20 minutes (10 min is a fair average )... You can see 2 shows in parallel. The viewer is only a cash cow.
GSM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gsm maximum cell radius is 35Km, because of relative delay between different users (GSM uses TDM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-division_multipl exing/). If the user is at a larger distance the system doesn't allow it to connect because of the interference on time slots of other users. Usually, the antennas don't point to the upper atmosphere so the signal, if available, will be very weak.
from the end of the disclaimer:
"We may give you bad advice. Don't listen to us. In short, ENTER AND USE THE PRESERVE AT YOUR OWN RISK. And have fun!"
this is the disclaimer's disclaim?
I've worked with symbian OS and I'm pleased with it.
the main programing language used by symbian is C++ and the Maemo Platform, now only suports C (I think). this could be a great problem for current nokia developers if the switch is made.
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You can call me old fashion but I am against all kinds of voting machines.
Democracy works when free elections can be held and its results checked by any common citizen.
I don't know in the US, but in Europe, any participant in the elections has the right to a representative in all the pooling stations. Any common person can count the votes and confirm its results. When voting machines exist there's no real way for this kind of direct check.
First, because even if the code is open source, only programmers can check it. This is unfair to any other kind of citizen.
Second, popular participation. The mobilization of thousands of people in election days, counting the votes is a blessing and a grant of democracy. I've been a representative in several elections and I tell you, people enjoy being there helping and feel proud of it.
Democracy is the power of the people not the machines.
I live in southern Europe and I never looked a real pistol pointed at anyone in my life. In my humble standards only violent people and hunters own guns. If you don't want to hurt anyone you don't need the means.
I know that owning a gun is part of the American culture but so bullfighting is in ours... Tradition sucks. Bad habits need to be changed.
My Respects to the families affected by this tragedy.
In fact, GSM mobile phones can monitor up to 32 neighbour cells, they listen them and report back to the network the received power of the 6 most powerful base stations for handover (change the of the base station in use) purposes. I find very difficult to a mobile phone at 10Km high to successfully communicate with the ground. It is possible, but because base station antennas don't point to the sky (it's a waste of energy), the only signal paths are thru reflection, thus the probability of success is weak. Even more difficult... the plain acts like a shield because its made of metal, so only a fraction of the broadcasted energy gets thru.
One real problem is that on startup or in the beginning of each communication the phone broadcasts in full power, as anyone can listen by putting the gadget near a speaker. This cannot be corrected and can cause some meaningful interferences... but I really don't think they can cause any harm to the plain because data transmission should have multiple paths and should have error detection and correction.
I can't take this bullshit stories from slashdot anymore.
Someone! please get a mood system for this editors.
I also switched to ubuntu half a year ago and never switched back to XP. I must say that I did't find a definitive solution form my tv card... Now I'm using TVTime, it has a very good image, but has very annoying controls. Did you try it?
The first experimental power station is working in Portugal since May 2006, and it is made from the same palamis system. As far as I know, until now, they didn't publish any results yet. This may indicate that this technology is worthful.
Blogger (also a famous google service), recently started the migration of all accounts (optional, for now) to the new ones based on the GMail login. For this reason they must open the subscription to everybody of Blogger who doesn't have a GMail account. From this to open up all the doors is a small step... I think they started the integration of all the company services under the GMail account. It's easier to login but also to track all the users...
I agree with you. Moreover, 2 years ago Nokia bought the Code Warrior IDE for Symbian. I used it and it was very good. I've developed in several mobile platforms and symbian is still the one I find faster and more efficient, but it's true that the framework complexity is damaging the reputation of the OS.
I think all this buzz around Mac OS in the iPhone is more PR than engineering.
You are confusing penetration depth in a material with attenuation of a propagating electromagnetic wave over the surface of a conductor.
in fact... speed of light in vacuum is more or less 3E8, in coper or semiconductors will be far less... n=c/vp, were n is the refraction index of the material. for copper n~1,1, so vp~2,73E8 (1.7cm at 16GHz); for silicon n~4.24, so vp=0.7E8 (0.4cm at 16GHz). As we can see, this setup is even more questionable.
Any one that ever used J2ME, C++ for Symbian or the .Net Compact Framework knows apple is throwing sand to the eyes of the crowd.
I've lived all my live in the metric system and I certainly use centimeters almost every day, and I don't see the difficulty in it. Every time this "Imperial"/Metric discussion arises I remember of the elderly people that steel think in escudos(I'm in Portugal) and don't give a dam about the Euro... There's a high inertia to this kind of changes and a lot of nationalistic pride in keeping the old stuff. The metric system is simpler than the "Imperial" one, but people will use what they are used to!
After 5 years of Euro I don't know a Kid that still thinks in escudos... This changes are made with the thought in improving the future of the next generations, not the current one.
1. I'm programming cell phones and PDA's for the last 2 years and I cannot believe in the announced power consumption. .Net compact framework, etc... Because processors are small, memory is limited and power is VERY scarce. Man... we are talking about ARM processors (I don't know if apple will use them), not Dual Core Pentium 4. It's not like a laptop that you are used to get 2 or 3 hours off the batteries. A mobile phone with less than 2 days of autonomy it's extremely annoying.
We have all this set of software platforms and frameworks like J2ME, C++ for Symbian,
2. I'm wandering what will happen to that screen after a good fall from the table. And what will happen to the accelerometer after the 2nd fall? I'm not saying the gadget won't last, but after seeing some broken touch screens from some HTCs, I have some doubts.
3. Touch screens get really greasy.
After this, let me say that I hope apple gets the best success with this good locking product. If this happens, the competition will certainly improve their products... a lot.
I see that you don't like to live/born in Brazil. That's your problem, but... Portuguese legal system is based in civil law, and inspired in the French and mainly in the German law systems. In Portugal, the problem isn't bad laws, it's bad enforcement. If after 200 years of independence your problems still exist because of Portugal... That's a very bad sign.
So... If mathematics is not a science, then what it is?
A friend of mine is living in China and he keeps telling me that the average urban chinese is a lot like a western person. Simply doesn't care about politics.
Those that use these programs already appreciate the value of democracy. This is one of those matters where technology won't make a difference. Freedom must be pushed from the inside by example, by those who believe in it, even if it is extremely painful.
In Portugal, my country, we had a dictatorship during almost 50 years, and it was not outside influence that finally broke it. At some point a critical mass of will for change and for freedom was achieved and a revolution was made. In Spain, in a similar scenario, it was the death of Franco that allowed the ascent to the power of a more democratic government.
More over, different cultures see democracy through a different perspective, some give it the up most value, others see it as the way to get a corrupt pro western leadership, as in islamic public opinion. Others value more stability over freedom... In China, the current communist regime provided the greatest war free period in centuries.
To be successfully achieved and perpetuated, democracy must be actively wanted by the citizens.
By using proprietary formats Sony gains in the royalties market... Saves in licenses and gains a lot selling them, hence leading to higher profit margins. Can anyone say that all this "supposed failures" prevented Sony from being the large corporation it is today? Selling less with a higher margin, keeping a good R&D department is probably not that bad in a corporation point of view...
I live in Portugal. Here, the tv stations must broadcast a short PUB jingle (always the same one) before and after each pub block. There's however the station self promotion, but usually they don't have the station logo. I think this practice is common here in Europe.
For the record... here, pub blocks sometimes last 20 minutes (10 min is a fair average )... You can see 2 shows in parallel. The viewer is only a cash cow.
GSM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gsm maximum cell radius is 35Km, because of relative delay between different users (GSM uses TDM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-division_multipl exing/). If the user is at a larger distance the system doesn't allow it to connect because of the interference on time slots of other users. Usually, the antennas don't point to the upper atmosphere so the signal, if available, will be very weak.
from the end of the disclaimer:
"We may give you bad advice. Don't listen to us. In short, ENTER AND USE THE PRESERVE AT YOUR OWN RISK. And have fun!"
this is the disclaimer's disclaim?
Man.../ 03/0039235&tid=232&tid=126&tid=14
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/ 26/1158233&tid=232&tid=14
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11
Why when the press was being stomped before, did governments-- those people in *charge* of protecting rights-- never do this?
If you had checked, in the end of the RSF book you would see:
"WITH THE SUPPORT
FROM
THE FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTRY"
siemens corporation already has advanced cell phones with no camera for employees in sensitive areas...
I've worked with symbian OS and I'm pleased with it. the main programing language used by symbian is C++ and the Maemo Platform, now only suports C (I think). this could be a great problem for current nokia developers if the switch is made.