They sound like a contract manufacturer to me. But the founder claims that they're not a contract manufacturer, but a "flexible manufacturer"... whatever that means.
1) Compulsory ID cards only make sense if it's requirement to always carry them, and *that* only makes sense if the Police can stop anyone and ask to see them at anytime - at which point you're perilously close to a police state
[1] Of course, Hong Kong has been perilously close (if only in geographic terms) to a police state ever since the Chinese revolution!
er... HK residents have been, for a long time, required to carry their ID cards and produce them upon demand. This fine innovation was introduced by the British Colonial Government.
Re:wow... that popup question was worth the hype.
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4) why would i ADVERTISE on a site that allows its biggest fans to block the ads?
It doesn't make sense to me either. In fact, traditionally, the more subscribers pay to read the publication, the *more* advertisers are willing to pay for ads - because it demonstrates that the readers have purchasing power; it's the reason why newspapers charge for subscriptions, even though the revenue from subscriptions are miniscule compared to advertising revenue - because it demonstrates that the paper is being read by the "right" demographic.
Allowing subscribers to block ads is going to be counter-productive, some other way should be found to reward subscribers. Maybe like only subscribers get to read jon katz articles or something...
Chinese constitution proscribes and limits the powers and reach of the government. Conversely, a totalitarian government has no limits (hence the name 'totalitarian').
The judicial system in China is dysfunctional. Without a functioning legal system, the government is effectively totalitarian, however many laws it has written on the books. See Prosecuting the Defence
The Chinese enjoy nearly every individual right the American does: freedom of speech, of worship, of belief, of assembly
I have great hope in the progress and future of China. The Chinese government has chosen economic development over political development, which I believe is a sound strategy. But China's problems shouldn't be whitewashed.
The thrust of Cringely's argument, which he devotes most of his article to, is this: Apple should port OS X to Intel because "it is exactly the competitor Microsoft needs." But what really matters to Apple is: Will porting OS X to Intel make Apple more or less profitable?
Cringely resolves this complex matter in the space of a paragraph length assertion "The upside for Apple is enormous. Suddenly, their software budget is leveraged across a much larger number of units, making the company more profitable and able to spend even more on making the software better."
Really, Cringely? I think we need more than a handwaving assertion to back this up. e.g. What effect will porting OS X to Intel have on Apple Hardware sales? What will MS's response will be - will it withdraw its Office and IE products for OS X? etc.
They called it "the matrix" -- a computer program that brought a scientific dimension to Enron's effort to seduce politicians and sway bureaucrats.
With each proposed change in federal regulations, lobbyists punched details into a computer, allowing Enron economists in Houston to calculate just how much a rule change would cost. If the final figure was too high, executives used it as the cue to stoke their vast influence machine, mobilizing lobbyists and dialing up politicians who had accepted some of Enron's millions in campaign contributions.
I don't see why people think that writing a petition will help - unless Fox is really stupid, they must already have a good idea of how many people watch Futurama. How will a petition change anything?
I think his bisexuality was intentionally kept out the film because the producers of the movie did not want to associate bi/homosexuality with mental illness.
I think it's more likely that they didn't want to associate homosexuality with Russell Crowe.
This means AOL has "network appliance" in their heads. They've watched the stuff being done with embedded Linux (like the DVRs that aren't all that popular yet but they work). They looked to see who was the big cheese, the Biggest Name In Linux, and it was RedHat. They buy RH, they can have them develop an AOL Network Appliance, basically a box you turn on and it delivers... AOL and Time-Warner content. No Microsoft anywhere to be seen, which means no chance for Microsoft to hijack future revenue streams.
It doesn't make sense for AOL to buy a whole company just to get them to develop a "Network Appliance" version of Linux. It would be cheaper to contract programmers to do the job.
Furthermore RH's focus is on servers; even if AOL were to buy a Linux company, it would make better sense to buy a consumer focused Linux company, and not RH.
The gap in the whole AOL buying RH story is that there doesn't seem to be a good reason why on earth AOL would want to buy RH.
The problem is unlimited, flat rate access. The solution is a market based approach where people are charged according to how much bandwidth they use, and not draconian anti-market restrictions on utilization.
Want to use more bandwidth? Sure, as long as you're willing to pay for it.
Your argument reminds me of China during the Great Leap Forward, where as part of the great people's revolution everybody had to be out in the fields farming or producing iron.
If you want something, just pay for it! There's nothing wrong about demanding money in exchange for goods or service. Money just facilitates trade - it allows people to specialize in what they're good at, and trade to get what they don't produce themselves.
The commercialization of the internet has given rise to free web page services that only give you 2MB of space and 300MB of bandwidth per month
The reason why you're getting "only" 2mb space and 300mb a month is because, in case you haven't noticed, the bubble has burst. This is a good thing, because we're returning to a rational allocation of resources.
Monkey dominance games are amusing and irritating in equal measure, but as it's clear that I won't play them, I'm not often bothered by them.
Then why are you crowing about your superiority and putting other people down here on slashdot? You clearly have the need to assert your dominance, but it's obvious that you have to do it here since you can't win in the real world.
The simple fact of the matter is that there are people out there with high intelligence and good social skills. These are the people who make lots of money and become your bosses.
The technique used by Digital Fountain is called Forward Error Correction. It allows a message M with m parts to be encoded into n parts, where n > m. The interesting thing about this is that any m of the n parts will allow the original message M to be reconstructed.
This means that if a part of the message is missed, the receiver doesn't have to request a resend.. it just continues listening. This is especially cool for multicast transmission since even if receivers A and B miss different parts of the message, the broadcaster doesn't have to send the missed parts of the message to the different receivers - it just continues broadcasting since any part can substitute for any other part.
Marketing. Read some books on it.
Of course, it's good to have something special, something that people actually want (marketing types call this "differentiation").
The most disturbing suspension of civil liberties is the power the Bush administration has given itself to try suspected terrorists in secret military tribunals - all non-US citizens, even long time residents of the United States, can be tried and sentenced in secret military courts.
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Here's a businessweek article on Quanta : http://www.quantatw.com/company/quanta/Quanta%20Ed u%20Fundation/enews1.htm
... whatever that means.
They sound like a contract manufacturer to me. But the founder claims that they're not a contract manufacturer, but a "flexible manufacturer"
ok, so how does this virtual keyboard work? How does it know what keys you're pressing?
I haven't been able to find a picture of H5 anywhere. Is it still in one piece?
1) Compulsory ID cards only make sense if it's requirement to always carry them, and *that* only makes sense if the Police can stop anyone and ask to see them at anytime - at which point you're perilously close to a police state
[1] Of course, Hong Kong has been perilously close (if only in geographic terms) to a police state ever since the Chinese revolution!
er... HK residents have been, for a long time, required to carry their ID cards and produce them upon demand. This fine innovation was introduced by the British Colonial Government.
4) why would i ADVERTISE on a site that allows its biggest fans to block the ads?
It doesn't make sense to me either. In fact, traditionally, the more subscribers pay to read the publication, the *more* advertisers are willing to pay for ads - because it demonstrates that the readers have purchasing power; it's the reason why newspapers charge for subscriptions, even though the revenue from subscriptions are miniscule compared to advertising revenue - because it demonstrates that the paper is being read by the "right" demographic.
Allowing subscribers to block ads is going to be counter-productive, some other way should be found to reward subscribers. Maybe like only subscribers get to read jon katz articles or something...
If I sells doors and a burglar breaks down the door and robs someone's home, who is legally liable? The door manufacturer? Or the criminal?
Chinese constitution proscribes and limits the powers and reach of the government. Conversely, a totalitarian government has no limits (hence the name 'totalitarian').
The judicial system in China is dysfunctional. Without a functioning legal system, the government is effectively totalitarian, however many laws it has written on the books. See Prosecuting the Defence
The Chinese enjoy nearly every individual right the American does: freedom of speech, of worship, of belief, of assembly
Really?
I have great hope in the progress and future of China. The Chinese government has chosen economic development over political development, which I believe is a sound strategy. But China's problems shouldn't be whitewashed.
The thrust of Cringely's argument, which he devotes most of his article to, is this: Apple should port OS X to Intel because "it is exactly the competitor Microsoft needs." But what really matters to Apple is: Will porting OS X to Intel make Apple more or less profitable?
Cringely resolves this complex matter in the space of a paragraph length assertion "The upside for Apple is enormous. Suddenly, their software budget is leveraged across a much larger number of units, making the company more profitable and able to spend even more on making the software better."
Really, Cringely? I think we need more than a handwaving assertion to back this up. e.g. What effect will porting OS X to Intel have on Apple Hardware sales? What will MS's response will be - will it withdraw its Office and IE products for OS X? etc.
Wonder how big companies sway the government?
The Enron Matrix
They called it "the matrix" -- a computer program that brought a scientific dimension to Enron's effort to seduce politicians and sway bureaucrats.
With each proposed change in federal regulations, lobbyists punched details into a computer, allowing Enron economists in Houston to calculate just how much a rule change would cost. If the final figure was too high, executives used it as the cue to stoke their vast influence machine, mobilizing lobbyists and dialing up politicians who had accepted some of Enron's millions in campaign contributions.
I don't see why people think that writing a petition will help - unless Fox is really stupid, they must already have a good idea of how many people watch Futurama. How will a petition change anything?
I know of Ubizen, a Belgian security firm, that filters out all of the Outlook posts from its incoming mail for al of its users.
Wouldn't that be rejecting mail from the largest pool of potential clients for their services - Outlook users?
I think his bisexuality was intentionally kept out the film because the producers of the movie did not want to associate bi/homosexuality with mental illness.
I think it's more likely that they didn't want to associate homosexuality with Russell Crowe.
This means AOL has "network appliance" in their heads. They've watched the stuff being done with embedded Linux (like the DVRs that aren't all that popular yet but they work). They looked to see who was the big cheese, the Biggest Name In Linux, and it was RedHat. They buy RH, they can have them develop an AOL Network Appliance, basically a box you turn on and it delivers... AOL and Time-Warner content. No Microsoft anywhere to be seen, which means no chance for Microsoft to hijack future revenue streams.
It doesn't make sense for AOL to buy a whole company just to get them to develop a "Network Appliance" version of Linux. It would be cheaper to contract programmers to do the job.
Furthermore RH's focus is on servers; even if AOL were to buy a Linux company, it would make better sense to buy a consumer focused Linux company, and not RH.
The gap in the whole AOL buying RH story is that there doesn't seem to be a good reason why on earth AOL would want to buy RH.
Previously this was available only though special software which had to be purchased from Adobe
Or you can get Jaws PDF Creatior
http://www.jawspdf.com/pdf_creator/cost.html
The problem is unlimited, flat rate access. The solution is a market based approach where people are charged according to how much bandwidth they use, and not draconian anti-market restrictions on utilization.
Want to use more bandwidth? Sure, as long as you're willing to pay for it.
Your argument reminds me of China during the Great Leap Forward, where as part of the great people's revolution everybody had to be out in the fields farming or producing iron.
If you want something, just pay for it! There's nothing wrong about demanding money in exchange for goods or service. Money just facilitates trade - it allows people to specialize in what they're good at, and trade to get what they don't produce themselves.
The commercialization of the internet has given rise to free web page services that only give you 2MB of space and 300MB of bandwidth per month
The reason why you're getting "only" 2mb space and 300mb a month is because, in case you haven't noticed, the bubble has burst. This is a good thing, because we're returning to a rational allocation of resources.
Monkey dominance games are amusing and irritating in equal measure, but as it's clear that I won't play them, I'm not often bothered by them.
Then why are you crowing about your superiority and putting other people down here on slashdot? You clearly have the need to assert your dominance, but it's obvious that you have to do it here since you can't win in the real world.
The simple fact of the matter is that there are people out there with high intelligence and good social skills. These are the people who make lots of money and become your bosses.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-rmt -info-fec-01.txt
The use of Forward Error Correction in Reliable Multicast
Enjoy.
The EETimes article is extremely poorly written.
.. it just continues listening. This is especially cool for multicast transmission since even if receivers A and B miss different parts of the message, the broadcaster doesn't have to send the missed parts of the message to the different receivers - it just continues broadcasting since any part can substitute for any other part.
The technique used by Digital Fountain is called Forward Error Correction. It allows a message M with m parts to be encoded into n parts, where n > m. The interesting thing about this is that any m of the n parts will allow the original message M to be reconstructed.
This means that if a part of the message is missed, the receiver doesn't have to request a resend
Marketing. Read some books on it.
Of course, it's good to have something special, something that people actually want (marketing types call this "differentiation").
Spain has already stated that it will not extradite suspects to the US unless the US guarantees that suspects will not be tried in military court.
s pain_2.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011127/pl/bush_
The most disturbing suspension of civil liberties is the power the Bush administration has given itself to try suspected terrorists in secret military tribunals - all non-US citizens, even long time residents of the United States, can be tried and sentenced in secret military courts.
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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/vvny/20011126/lo/301
If you're non-US citizen residing in the United States, you should be extremely worried.
You can see Asimo climbing down the stairs at the most recent event here
You can believe as much as you like but that doesn't make it true.