Who/Whom ever is initiating the attacks is wasting their time. The documents in question have been leaked to all the major media branches and torrents can be easily found for the offending files. The only people being blocked right now are those with the least ability to do anything with the data provided.
So when I go to a meeting I have to take my iPAD and a Windows server to show my slides/video on the projector via it's HDMI port ? I dare say an already built in HDMI port would be father easier..
so what technology would this so called glass foundry use, Dow Corning does improve the technology covering Gorilla Glass and thus has patented some those manufacturing methods (gorilla glass is the marketing term not the type or grade of the final product as that varies depending on its use). You may be able to produce similar glass but the methods (heating cooling times, chemical combinations etc) used are "not public knowlege".
So, perhaps this is user error - for not putting an adequate case on 'em.
The problem is Apple recently removed full cover cases for the iphone 4 as apple engineers recently discovered if dirt or grit gets stuck between the protective case and the back of the phone the glass on the back has an increased probability of cracking. So with antenna-gate just starting to cool we now have case-gate were it doesn't matter how you hold the iphone 4 it breaks. You would think Apple would use gorilla glass like many brands including dell with do with their recent full screen mobile handsets. Well I am sorry to inform you Apple just used generic hardened glass on the back and the front to save a few bucks having to pay Dow Corning a license fee.
Already Apple is starting to bleed money thanks to the patent war on mobile devices. Most recently it lost a court case for a patent on cover flow and time machine
"Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
You may laugh but America did the exact same thing when they were industrializing, many European companies complained about American companies ignoring copyright and patents. It was only after the US started inventing their own unique designs that they started enforcing IP rights. China has reached that same stage were they are now producing their own unique products so you will see IP right enforced more rigidly. If this is a good or bad thing time will tell, for Europe it didnt work out well as many industries collapsed as more innovative products came out of the USA.
My solution was to get a laptop dock at home and work. For good on the move typing I go for a laptop with a full sized keyboard and numb-pad (got a HP right now) and a large comfortable Logitech M950 mouse (robust and has a tiny USB dongle you can leave plugged in all the time). I dont use the touch pad as I find it makes me want to bend my wrists inwards to hard at times (always use an Apple cordless touchpad).
yes an organic enhanced exoskeleton came to mind when I read this. I can imagine them being grown to fit specific users needs either for heavy industry or the military use so they can carry larger and more heavier items.
Android platform also supports programming in C/C++, to be honest I looked at Dalvik (java like language) and decided after some experimentation to go with C/C++. In my case the applications ran very smooth and others have reported when they ported from dalvik to c/c++ the apps ran faster.
if you know anything about english history you would know that many of the words as spoken today were not invented but forced upon the people by invaders of the gray clouded isle.
Actually Terry Gou must have read Made in Japan" written by the founder of Sony Akio Morita. There is a section were Akio Morita talks about Sony setting up manufacturing facilities in the USA and how Sony was sued by competing (and in some cases companies Sony had a close business relationship with ie suing their own customer) for the most insane reasons. The view that Akio left me was when dealing with the USA have a large legal dept because everyone will try to sue you to stop you competing in the market. Akio also compares the the US legal system with Japans and explains how most of the cases being bought forward in the US would never have got of the ground as the lawyers would lose to much money if they lost. So I can see were Terry Gou from Foxcon gets the view that the USA is not a good place to manufacture, not good news for the US manufacturing industry now that unemployment is heading past the 10% mark. On another note, for those who think this is all about wages and conditions, explain to me why South Korea has a huge ship building industry that leaves the US in their dust but the workers actually have higher wages!! Simple, South Korean workers are dedicated to their job and the bosses dont get multi million dollar kick backs and unlike US CEO's dont just see the stock price but also the products they are making today and in the future. This is why the USA is failing, to many directors looking at the stock ticker and ignoring the "product" that is being made now and what they will be producing in 10 years. Go to Toyota and they will happily show you products they have slated to be made in the next 2, 5,10 and 20 years.
You have to be shitting me, Im on a ADSL2+ connection with a 500GB cap for the same price I used to pay for dial up (100mb limit/mnth) 12 years ago. Dodo is now offering a "unlimit" ADSL2+ service "yes no cap at all" for $49/mnth. My parents were on a 256kb/s 2GB a month account until I visited them and made a few phone calls, now they have ADSL2+ with 2-8mb/s down and a 200GB cap for $39. I find most people complaining about speed and caps these days are just lazy or don't have the sense to ask an IT guy for advice.
The company I have been working for has been testing a wide range of VoIP handsets and what surprised us the most is even though the phones themselves can use a wideband codec (Siren 16 comes to mind) the actual handpiece mic design is primitive to say the least (not talking el cheapo digital telephones here but models around $300-600). A majority of the models we tested had a simple pin hole mic on the handpiece with no noise canceling at all (done in software I suspect). We often found that by just changing the handset for one with a good noise canceling mic within a well thought out internal cavity (yes even the internal shape of the handset effects the audio quality) improved the quality of the audio massively. We suspect the reason for this is because designers now think they can do everything in software, The reality doesnt match up so you have these expensive digital telephones with very well designed codecs but the hardware so badly designed audio wise that you end up with audio quality that is no better (or worse) than a analogue handset.
7 months and I am still trying to get Vista working lol, thank god my main machine runs Linux without the random freeze ups that windows gives me every time something complex has to be done.
Newbie "but I thought news journalism was about investigating the truth and keeping the world informed not opinion and fiction"
Journalist " you must be new around here"
Then explain to me how the Chinese are making such massive headway in these countries with corrupt governments ? The problem with the west is "we refuse to work with the tools that are available" but instead sit there and complain and "only see problems not opportunities". The chinese are doing what we should all do, get back to reality and do "business" and manage problems and make money, you know that thing called "capitalism" that we often look at as the ugly relative. When these corrupt officials see that the Chinese are not only enriching them and the locals "with no strings attached other than keeping out of their way" things move forward. People get educated (cant fix a truck with untrained staff) and then in time give their corrupt officials a boot up the rear often at the end of a gun. Thus when this happens guess who already has a front seat, yep those nasty chinese companies who practice capitalism.
The best saying regarding Africa and the problems it has was stated on a BBC podcast earlier this year Africa is not poor just poorly managed . In a nutshell that pretty much summerises the whole problem that is Africa. I think the west needs to get out of the charity mindset of "save the poor" when the reality is Africa has more than enough resources to feed and cloth themselves. The best analogy I can think of on short notice is Africa is like a man sitting on a pile of gold then complaining he is starving and then we in our wisdom give him a bag of rice. So he eats his rice then complains a few days later "I have no food" and we in our wisdom give him another bag of rice. The fix is obvious you say, tell him to sell the gold, but to do that you need roads and trucks and education, now you see how the whole save the world logic is lacking in common sense. Then you have Bills charity who instead of giving the poor food attacks disease, yep this logic is no better them giving them bags of rice. Want to see how dumb this logic is, I read a story about Bills charity handing our fly screens to stop malaria in one wet area but the problem got worse not better. When they investigated what was going on the locals were using the fly screens as better fish nets and because the fish were getting decimated the mosquito population was booming because the fish kept their numbers down. So charity without education "will" make things worse. Yes even handing out food makes it worse as people don't leave arid over farmed areas but hang around and have more children thus the environment never recovers properly in the good seasons, so you have more kids and a bigger desert to deal with in 5 years.
Linux would want. ZFS and DTrace would be two big ones errr why would I want ZFS and Dtrace when Linux already has better alternatives "now". ZFS is nice but btrfs is now in many cases catching up to ZFS fast and in some new benchmarks surpassing ZFS. Also ZFS has just as many things missing, as there, especially when looking at the enterprise side of things it is far from complete and btrfs now has many of the missing bits in place.
If you're under 50 you're probably not old enough to remember how some of the early players in personal computing wanted total platform control to a degree that would make the current Steve Jobs blush.
BLUSHING!!, lol.. try Steve is copying what IBM did way back in the bad old days when IBM used to only allow IBM connectors and IBM power supplied and cords or "you will be banned from the light that is IBM support". Apple is doing exactly the same right now. My take on this whole thing is Microsoft has seen a weakness in the new bastard on the block with the fruit logo on his chest. So now Microsoft has realised that Apple is more closed as a computer environment than a PC with windows on it. So first step is make peace with the FOSS community then start attacking the Apple cage of none reality.
Very few realize that both are sides of the same coin. Same BS sold in different flavor.
So true, we just had a federal election here in Australia and both parties campaigned in such a similar way (both using bean counter spin doctors) that they "pretty much got the same amount of votes" from the Australian people as we couldn't really decide on who to vote for (no clear out standing leader). So now we have a hung parliament with both parties now sucking up to the far right and left independents who took over when both parties went for the central ground. The same crap happened in the U.K recently and it shows how none of the spin doctors helping the major parties took note of what happened in the UK when they also ran similar campaigns (accept UK people got a 3 way mess).
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Who/Whom ever is initiating the attacks is wasting their time. The documents in question have been leaked to all the major media branches and torrents can be easily found for the offending files. The only people being blocked right now are those with the least ability to do anything with the data provided.
father=far
So when I go to a meeting I have to take my iPAD and a Windows server to show my slides/video on the projector via it's HDMI port ? I dare say an already built in HDMI port would be father easier..
so what technology would this so called glass foundry use, Dow Corning does improve the technology covering Gorilla Glass and thus has patented some those manufacturing methods (gorilla glass is the marketing term not the type or grade of the final product as that varies depending on its use). You may be able to produce similar glass but the methods (heating cooling times, chemical combinations etc) used are "not public knowlege".
So, perhaps this is user error - for not putting an adequate case on 'em.
The problem is Apple recently removed full cover cases for the iphone 4 as apple engineers recently discovered if dirt or grit gets stuck between the protective case and the back of the phone the glass on the back has an increased probability of cracking. So with antenna-gate just starting to cool we now have case-gate were it doesn't matter how you hold the iphone 4 it breaks. You would think Apple would use gorilla glass like many brands including dell with do with their recent full screen mobile handsets. Well I am sorry to inform you Apple just used generic hardened glass on the back and the front to save a few bucks having to pay Dow Corning a license fee.
Already Apple is starting to bleed money thanks to the patent war on mobile devices. Most recently it lost a court case for a patent on cover flow and time machine
"Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life."
You may laugh but America did the exact same thing when they were industrializing, many European companies complained about American companies ignoring copyright and patents. It was only after the US started inventing their own unique designs that they started enforcing IP rights. China has reached that same stage were they are now producing their own unique products so you will see IP right enforced more rigidly. If this is a good or bad thing time will tell, for Europe it didnt work out well as many industries collapsed as more innovative products came out of the USA.
My solution was to get a laptop dock at home and work. For good on the move typing I go for a laptop with a full sized keyboard and numb-pad (got a HP right now) and a large comfortable Logitech M950 mouse (robust and has a tiny USB dongle you can leave plugged in all the time). I dont use the touch pad as I find it makes me want to bend my wrists inwards to hard at times (always use an Apple cordless touchpad).
yes an organic enhanced exoskeleton came to mind when I read this. I can imagine them being grown to fit specific users needs either for heavy industry or the military use so they can carry larger and more heavier items.
or just get a wetab
http://wetab.mobi/en
Will apple sue apple picking places with apple in there name?
Dont laugh, Apple has already tried and lost ie stop a supermaket selling vegetables using an apple shaped logo.
Android platform also supports programming in C/C++, to be honest I looked at Dalvik (java like language) and decided after some experimentation to go with C/C++. In my case the applications ran very smooth and others have reported when they ported from dalvik to c/c++ the apps ran faster.
http://openhandsetmagazine.com/2007/11/running-c-native-applications-on-android-the-final-point/
if you know anything about english history you would know that many of the words as spoken today were not invented but forced upon the people by invaders of the gray clouded isle.
...they are nuclear plants? [ducks]
or..
in Soviet Russia nuclear plant grows
Actually Terry Gou must have read Made in Japan" written by the founder of Sony Akio Morita. There is a section were Akio Morita talks about Sony setting up manufacturing facilities in the USA and how Sony was sued by competing (and in some cases companies Sony had a close business relationship with ie suing their own customer) for the most insane reasons. The view that Akio left me was when dealing with the USA have a large legal dept because everyone will try to sue you to stop you competing in the market. Akio also compares the the US legal system with Japans and explains how most of the cases being bought forward in the US would never have got of the ground as the lawyers would lose to much money if they lost. So I can see were Terry Gou from Foxcon gets the view that the USA is not a good place to manufacture, not good news for the US manufacturing industry now that unemployment is heading past the 10% mark. On another note, for those who think this is all about wages and conditions, explain to me why South Korea has a huge ship building industry that leaves the US in their dust but the workers actually have higher wages!! Simple, South Korean workers are dedicated to their job and the bosses dont get multi million dollar kick backs and unlike US CEO's dont just see the stock price but also the products they are making today and in the future. This is why the USA is failing, to many directors looking at the stock ticker and ignoring the "product" that is being made now and what they will be producing in 10 years. Go to Toyota and they will happily show you products they have slated to be made in the next 2, 5 ,10 and 20 years.
slow speeds and Draconian caps.
You have to be shitting me, Im on a ADSL2+ connection with a 500GB cap for the same price I used to pay for dial up (100mb limit/mnth) 12 years ago. Dodo is now offering a "unlimit" ADSL2+ service "yes no cap at all" for $49/mnth. My parents were on a 256kb/s 2GB a month account until I visited them and made a few phone calls, now they have ADSL2+ with 2-8mb/s down and a 200GB cap for $39. I find most people complaining about speed and caps these days are just lazy or don't have the sense to ask an IT guy for advice.
Apple iWorms are magical thus always turn up and give the user a positive and life changing experience
The company I have been working for has been testing a wide range of VoIP handsets and what surprised us the most is even though the phones themselves can use a wideband codec (Siren 16 comes to mind) the actual handpiece mic design is primitive to say the least (not talking el cheapo digital telephones here but models around $300-600). A majority of the models we tested had a simple pin hole mic on the handpiece with no noise canceling at all (done in software I suspect). We often found that by just changing the handset for one with a good noise canceling mic within a well thought out internal cavity (yes even the internal shape of the handset effects the audio quality) improved the quality of the audio massively. We suspect the reason for this is because designers now think they can do everything in software, The reality doesnt match up so you have these expensive digital telephones with very well designed codecs but the hardware so badly designed audio wise that you end up with audio quality that is no better (or worse) than a analogue handset.
7 months and I am still trying to get Vista working lol, thank god my main machine runs Linux without the random freeze ups that windows gives me every time something complex has to be done.
Newbie "but I thought news journalism was about investigating the truth and keeping the world informed not opinion and fiction"
Journalist " you must be new around here"
Then explain to me how the Chinese are making such massive headway in these countries with corrupt governments ? The problem with the west is "we refuse to work with the tools that are available" but instead sit there and complain and "only see problems not opportunities". The chinese are doing what we should all do, get back to reality and do "business" and manage problems and make money, you know that thing called "capitalism" that we often look at as the ugly relative. When these corrupt officials see that the Chinese are not only enriching them and the locals "with no strings attached other than keeping out of their way" things move forward. People get educated (cant fix a truck with untrained staff) and then in time give their corrupt officials a boot up the rear often at the end of a gun. Thus when this happens guess who already has a front seat, yep those nasty chinese companies who practice capitalism.
The best saying regarding Africa and the problems it has was stated on a BBC podcast earlier this year Africa is not poor just poorly managed . In a nutshell that pretty much summerises the whole problem that is Africa. I think the west needs to get out of the charity mindset of "save the poor" when the reality is Africa has more than enough resources to feed and cloth themselves. The best analogy I can think of on short notice is Africa is like a man sitting on a pile of gold then complaining he is starving and then we in our wisdom give him a bag of rice. So he eats his rice then complains a few days later "I have no food" and we in our wisdom give him another bag of rice. The fix is obvious you say, tell him to sell the gold, but to do that you need roads and trucks and education, now you see how the whole save the world logic is lacking in common sense. Then you have Bills charity who instead of giving the poor food attacks disease, yep this logic is no better them giving them bags of rice. Want to see how dumb this logic is, I read a story about Bills charity handing our fly screens to stop malaria in one wet area but the problem got worse not better. When they investigated what was going on the locals were using the fly screens as better fish nets and because the fish were getting decimated the mosquito population was booming because the fish kept their numbers down. So charity without education "will" make things worse. Yes even handing out food makes it worse as people don't leave arid over farmed areas but hang around and have more children thus the environment never recovers properly in the good seasons, so you have more kids and a bigger desert to deal with in 5 years.
Linux would want. ZFS and DTrace would be two big ones
errr why would I want ZFS and Dtrace when Linux already has better alternatives "now". ZFS is nice but btrfs is now in many cases catching up to ZFS fast and in some new benchmarks surpassing ZFS. Also ZFS has just as many things missing, as there, especially when looking at the enterprise side of things it is far from complete and btrfs now has many of the missing bits in place.
If you're under 50 you're probably not old enough to remember how some of the early players in personal computing wanted total platform control to a degree that would make the current Steve Jobs blush.
BLUSHING!!, lol.. try Steve is copying what IBM did way back in the bad old days when IBM used to only allow IBM connectors and IBM power supplied and cords or "you will be banned from the light that is IBM support". Apple is doing exactly the same right now. My take on this whole thing is Microsoft has seen a weakness in the new bastard on the block with the fruit logo on his chest. So now Microsoft has realised that Apple is more closed as a computer environment than a PC with windows on it. So first step is make peace with the FOSS community then start attacking the Apple cage of none reality.
Very few realize that both are sides of the same coin. Same BS sold in different flavor.
So true, we just had a federal election here in Australia and both parties campaigned in such a similar way (both using bean counter spin doctors) that they "pretty much got the same amount of votes" from the Australian people as we couldn't really decide on who to vote for (no clear out standing leader). So now we have a hung parliament with both parties now sucking up to the far right and left independents who took over when both parties went for the central ground. The same crap happened in the U.K recently and it shows how none of the spin doctors helping the major parties took note of what happened in the UK when they also ran similar campaigns (accept UK people got a 3 way mess).