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Re:Site-Restriction Already retracted
Results of Babelfish on the Heise article:
Isis takes blocking back from Internet pages
The Duesseldorfer Internet provider Isis took the blocking back of four on-line supplies again. " the barrier decreased/went back to the initiative of an individual technician. It corresponded not to the policy of the enterprise ", said Isis speaker Thomas Werz. It concerned itself thereby around four pages with right-wing extremists as well as force-wonderful-ends to contents from the USA, which were attainable for the Isis customers for Monday no longer.The technician had wanted to demonstrate on own fist that a technical solution for the blocking from Internet pages was possible, in addition, easily to be gone around can, avowed Werz opposite heise on-line. This should not have occurred however in all public; Werz apologized in the name of the company at the customers. Isis aims at a political solution with the Duesseldorfer district government.
From Monday to today one had gone out in the enterprise erroneously with it, the technician in arrangement with the management concerned, stressed Werz. Accordingly a Isis spokeswoman had justified the side blocking yesterday in relation to the public.
During his public demonstration the technician had followed arbitrarily a request of the district government Duesseldorf. This had before reminded the ACCESS Provider as North-Rhine/Westphalian supervision of Internet to lock four pages from the USA. Approximately ten Provider reacted according to specification of the authority country-wide so far to it. The measures are strongly disputed in the Internet municipality. Thus the chaos computer club called the attempts of the district government to let Internet pages lock censorship in the Internet. "this is a crucial step into the false direction."
The district government Duesseldorf tries as country-wide Internet control instance for some time to let pages with illegal contents lock by the ACCESS Provider. On 13 November a hearing with 90 Internet Providern took place for this reason. At that time the providers referred particularly to technical problems, in order to lock pages from the foreign country. According to estimations of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) approximately 90 per cent of the more than 1000 right-wing extremists German-language Internet supplies from the foreign country are fed into the network.
See to the topic also the contribution network barrier for Fritzchen stupid in Telepolis. (anw / c't)
Ah, good old machine translation. Yet, it's still Better than Nothing. "force-wonderful-ends"
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Re:Site-Restriction Already retracted
Results of Babelfish on the Heise article:
Isis takes blocking back from Internet pages
The Duesseldorfer Internet provider Isis took the blocking back of four on-line supplies again. " the barrier decreased/went back to the initiative of an individual technician. It corresponded not to the policy of the enterprise ", said Isis speaker Thomas Werz. It concerned itself thereby around four pages with right-wing extremists as well as force-wonderful-ends to contents from the USA, which were attainable for the Isis customers for Monday no longer.The technician had wanted to demonstrate on own fist that a technical solution for the blocking from Internet pages was possible, in addition, easily to be gone around can, avowed Werz opposite heise on-line. This should not have occurred however in all public; Werz apologized in the name of the company at the customers. Isis aims at a political solution with the Duesseldorfer district government.
From Monday to today one had gone out in the enterprise erroneously with it, the technician in arrangement with the management concerned, stressed Werz. Accordingly a Isis spokeswoman had justified the side blocking yesterday in relation to the public.
During his public demonstration the technician had followed arbitrarily a request of the district government Duesseldorf. This had before reminded the ACCESS Provider as North-Rhine/Westphalian supervision of Internet to lock four pages from the USA. Approximately ten Provider reacted according to specification of the authority country-wide so far to it. The measures are strongly disputed in the Internet municipality. Thus the chaos computer club called the attempts of the district government to let Internet pages lock censorship in the Internet. "this is a crucial step into the false direction."
The district government Duesseldorf tries as country-wide Internet control instance for some time to let pages with illegal contents lock by the ACCESS Provider. On 13 November a hearing with 90 Internet Providern took place for this reason. At that time the providers referred particularly to technical problems, in order to lock pages from the foreign country. According to estimations of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) approximately 90 per cent of the more than 1000 right-wing extremists German-language Internet supplies from the foreign country are fed into the network.
See to the topic also the contribution network barrier for Fritzchen stupid in Telepolis. (anw / c't)
Ah, good old machine translation. Yet, it's still Better than Nothing. "force-wonderful-ends"
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Re:Site-Restriction Already retracted
Results of Babelfish on the Heise article:
Isis takes blocking back from Internet pages
The Duesseldorfer Internet provider Isis took the blocking back of four on-line supplies again. " the barrier decreased/went back to the initiative of an individual technician. It corresponded not to the policy of the enterprise ", said Isis speaker Thomas Werz. It concerned itself thereby around four pages with right-wing extremists as well as force-wonderful-ends to contents from the USA, which were attainable for the Isis customers for Monday no longer.The technician had wanted to demonstrate on own fist that a technical solution for the blocking from Internet pages was possible, in addition, easily to be gone around can, avowed Werz opposite heise on-line. This should not have occurred however in all public; Werz apologized in the name of the company at the customers. Isis aims at a political solution with the Duesseldorfer district government.
From Monday to today one had gone out in the enterprise erroneously with it, the technician in arrangement with the management concerned, stressed Werz. Accordingly a Isis spokeswoman had justified the side blocking yesterday in relation to the public.
During his public demonstration the technician had followed arbitrarily a request of the district government Duesseldorf. This had before reminded the ACCESS Provider as North-Rhine/Westphalian supervision of Internet to lock four pages from the USA. Approximately ten Provider reacted according to specification of the authority country-wide so far to it. The measures are strongly disputed in the Internet municipality. Thus the chaos computer club called the attempts of the district government to let Internet pages lock censorship in the Internet. "this is a crucial step into the false direction."
The district government Duesseldorf tries as country-wide Internet control instance for some time to let pages with illegal contents lock by the ACCESS Provider. On 13 November a hearing with 90 Internet Providern took place for this reason. At that time the providers referred particularly to technical problems, in order to lock pages from the foreign country. According to estimations of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office (BKA) approximately 90 per cent of the more than 1000 right-wing extremists German-language Internet supplies from the foreign country are fed into the network.
See to the topic also the contribution network barrier for Fritzchen stupid in Telepolis. (anw / c't)
Ah, good old machine translation. Yet, it's still Better than Nothing. "force-wonderful-ends"
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Re:No big deal
PNG was supposed to replace GIF because (Unisys?) was going to uphold patents on GIF
Also because PNG is Turbo Studly standard and supposedly unencumbered.
Has anyone even seen a PNG file online? I think I ran across a grand total of 1. Of course there could have been inline graphics that I didn't notice, but really?
Yeah, inline graphics are pretty rare on the web. Plus, some sites are designed to give you PNG if your browser supports OBJECT PNG, and GIF otherwise.
From my mozilla cache:
file * | grep PNG | wc -l = 20
file * | grep GIF | wc -l = 546
Of course, I do spend a lot of time on http://pnggygirls.com.
From Altavista:
image:bmp (348,527 results)
image:png (1,726,036 results)
image:jpg (204,606,124 results)
image:gif (452,012,967 results)
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Re:Wait a second...You asked for it...
Keiner hat einen Anspruch darauf, daß diese Sprache einer anderen Sprache anspruchsvoller gelegt war! Was ist mit dem Flamewar? Und die 4000+ Kommentaren? Im Namen des Herrn, dieses ist verdammt noch mal Slashdot, oder?! GIB MIR MEINE FLAMMEN (or FLAMES) ZURÜCK, DU DRECKSAU!
You're right... it does work better in German.
woof.
BTW, don't use the Fish for this. The Fish is good for getting the gist of things, but the translations themselves are unintentionally funny. Like Japanglish (Mmmmm... tasty Japanglish). If you don't believe me, try my translation in German->English mode! Bwahahahaha!
The brackets and parentheses are killing me! Make them stop!!!
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42!I thought babelfish.altavista.com had taken care of globalization for us...
So much for the Thumb. I've got to get Marvin to come fix this thing. -
the essence of mathematics
``... the essence of mathematics resides in its freedom''
From Georg Cantor, Ueber unendliche, lineare Punktmannischfaltigkeiten, Mathematische Annalen, volume 21, in 1883.
The context of which Cantor extended the natural numbers to infinite ordinal numbers, with addition and multiplication defined on them.
Es ist, wie ich glaube, nicht nöthig in diesen Grundsätzen irgendeine Gefahr für die Wissenschaft zu befürchten, wie dies von Vielen geschieht; einerseits sind die bezeichneten Bedingungen, unter welchen die Freiheit der Zahlenbildung allein geübt werden kann, derartige, dass sie der Willkür einen äussertst geringen Spielraum lassen; dann aber trägt auch jeder mathematische Begriff das nöthige Correctiv in sich selbst einher; ist er unfruchtbar oder unzweckmässig, so zeigt er es sehr bald durch seine Unbrauchbarkeit und er wird alsdann, wegen mangelnden Erfolgs, fallen gelassen. Dagegen scheint mir aber jede überflüssige Einengung des mathematischen Forschungstriebes eine viel grössere Gefahr mit sich zu bringen und eine um so grössere, als dafür aus dem Wesen der Wissenschaft wirklich keinerlei Rechtfertigung gezogen werden kann; denn das Wesen der Mathematik liegt grerade in ihrer Freiheit.
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Translated Version
Those who can't read Japanese might want to look at this, translated by Babelfish.
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other links since page is down
here are some useful other links (screenshots, downloads, and such) since the page was down (and google cache didn't catch it right)
http://www.onlythebestfreeware.com/program.asp?pro gram_id=76
http://home.media-n.de/lug-nb/software/xosl.html (In German for those of you who can't read it...use babelfish) -
Non-Graphic Altavista Searches
I changed my Altavista bookmarks to http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/text yonks ago when they started with all the graphics stuff.
Still prefer Google's results, but Altavista delivers better with complex searches.
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Re:why i don't love anything but google...
I agree that the basic Altavista page has an incurable case of portalitus (or even portal-heavy-us). But they did maintain a good interface - it's just much harder to find. You used to be able to just append '?text=yes' to an Altavista URL to get a text only page, but now the advanced text search is hidden at http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/sites/searc
h /textadv.
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Re:Left behind
Yeah, don't forget they also have a nice banner free text-only search. It used to be at av.com/?text which was dead handy to type when bookmarks weren't around...They'd always been my favourite until they put a banner on their text-only page, that really pissed me off, but thankfully it's gone again.
I think I'll still be using the above link for quite some time to come (except when searching for obviously post-July info), unless Google come up with a decent implementation of AVs boolean capabilities as mentioned above.
Al.
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Re:why i don't love anything but google...
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Re:why i don't love anything but google...
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Re:why i don't love anything but google...
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Re:The Fish
I also sorta like the news.altavista.com site sorta (although news.yahoo.com is much better). check out ">a search for osama
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What about news.altavista.com?
I'm not sure it is a widely known feature (I just discovered it recently), but I've grown pretty fond of news.altavista.com. A normal search engine will rarely spider a news site quickly enough to be of use for the searches of the sort "there is a news story on the radio, let me go to the net and find out what they are really talking about" variety. Does anyone other than altavista offer a search engine of this sort?
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Re:Babelfish!
Also, one can buy AltaVista's AV Personal Search product to index the mail and MS Office documents on one's hard drive. It's a *little* bit better than the built-in "Find in Files" doohickey that ships with Windows.
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Problem with AltaVista
Like many here, I too used to use altaVista religiously. Then came the portal debacle. Then the pop up ads. Then the meta-refresh. Then, all of a sudden I couldn't find the seach input. You are a search engine, therefore the only thing I care about on your page is the input and the results.. The usage numbers verify this statement.
The beauty of Google is that it has none of these.
A weird side effect is that if you search Altavista for "google", good luck trying to find out how big a number it is...unless you follow the link that Altavista figures out for you.
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Is it a troll, or is it funny?Any altavista user should know that it can be loaded graphic free
(and also free of all those annoying categories.)Anyone who hates ads needs to look at the great job AltaVista has done with this:
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Re:Why I stopped using AltaVista
try Altavista's text only version
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Babelfish!
The only reason I go to the altavista.com domain these days is for the Babelfish.
So I hope the AV search engine will still prosper to some degree, so that the whole business doesn't tank and they take the Babelfish with it. -
Left behind
Alta Vista has certainly been an innovator in its day... and was by far the best search engine until Google.
They were the first to have a searchable full-text database and asian character sets (Chinese, Korean, Japanese).
Don't forget about Babel Fish either... seems like this alone would be enough to keep them alive...
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Left behind
Alta Vista has certainly been an innovator in its day... and was by far the best search engine until Google.
They were the first to have a searchable full-text database and asian character sets (Chinese, Korean, Japanese).
Don't forget about Babel Fish either... seems like this alone would be enough to keep them alive...
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Re:but will it run...
If you think that you're really safe, click here. (Better not)
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Re:The Politicians May Have A Point Here
The Internet may, if we're not careful, merely provide the big labels with another avenue of control over their product. We may see a repeat of past history where a couple of key players (both of which seem to be merely extensions of the major recording labels) grow and grow until they become so big they can have the kind of control over the digital market that they have over the physical market right now.
You know, I just don't see this happening. Of course bigger labels will always have a monetary edge, but one of the beauties of the Internet is the advantage of lower cost than brick-and-mortar operations. One key point of the major labels' current monopoly is cutting deals with record stores for shelf space. On the Internet this issue goes away when anyone can set up a few servers and jump right into competition with the big boys. Costs aren't nil, but I imagine they pale in comparison to the cost of worldwide physical media distribution.
So I think the EU is probably overreacting to Pressplay and MusicNet. Let the record companies try their outdated muscle tactics in cyberspace. The net has a way of spawning smaller, more nimble services to compete with ones that have gotten too big and bloated. -
Re:Please pardon.
I think, perhaps you translating the Japanese in English the Babel fish the place the way. Use several of the words where the cod the translator who is automated causes and those which are not the way the hole is seems the way, chooses and chooses you use.
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Who cares about ads?
If you go to AltaVista's text only search page, then you don't get any ads at all... not even graphics. It's quick to load, and quick to search. I've got it bookmarked, and it's the search engine that I always use.
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Re:I've been trying to find google
whoops, i forgot to add the link that would have made my comment all too clear, and added to the humor.
We found 1,324,597 results:
that link says that if you pay them enough, they will put your ranking wherever you want. -
New Kind of War? Old Kind of Errors
This sort of offensive, confusing and strange-sounding to non-tech laypeople and those outside the military, will clearly rely heavily on security technology -- surveillance, wire-taps, electronic ID's from cards to voice and fingerprint scanning, biological warfare and defense, e-mail encryption and interception, satellite photographs, the digital tracing of money,
First, this is not a war, it's a crime.Second, we will not be attacking ("offensive"), we will be defending ourselves against terrorism - in a way that European countries already have for years.
Third, before asking for new toys, how about those in charge of this defense started by using the info they already had? See
U.S. officials said the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon bear the imprint of Yusef, the 41-year-old Pakistani who was convicted for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Yusef was arrested and found with plans for a coordinated series of hijackings and suicide crashes of several U.S. commercial airliners.
The plan was never carried out, the officials said, because of the limitations of the poorly-trained squad.
Jeff, the terrorist who revealed the kamikaze plan to the Fbi (fish translation)
The truth that is emerging in these hours in New York, and that nobody as yet wants to say aloud, is bitter as a poison: the Fbi could have known if it had only believed what it already knew.(...)
The plan to train pilots, too slow in Africa, continued more rapidly in America. In the "memo" of the long depositions of Jeff to Attorney Mary Jo White, one can read: "The training of the men infiltrated in the United States through Canada involved training to the individual conflict in the paramilitary fields in Afghanistan, intelligence and techniques of flight in the United States. For instance Iab Ali, a.k.a. Nawawi, the right arm of Osama. He lived in Orlando, Florida. He was trained until the diploma in the school of flight of Norman, Oklahoma".
(According to La Repubblica, this "memo" dates from October 20, 2000. They don't say how they got it -- I couldn't find the complete text online, but another part is in "Jeff"'s guilty plea in "USA v. Ali Mohamed", dated the same day.)
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FBI knew a lot as it is...I'm sending this because it doesn't seem well advertised in domestic news sources. Found through yesterday's La Repubblica (the Italian daily) and some web search:
U.S. officials said the destruction of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon bear the imprint of Yusef, the 41-year-old Pakistani who was convicted for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Yusef was arrested and found with plans for a coordinated series of hijackings and suicide crashes of several U.S. commercial airliners.
The plan was never carried out, the officials said, because of the limitations of the poorly-trained squad.
Jeff, the terrorist who revealed the kamikaze plan to the Fbi (fish translation)
The truth that is emerging in these hours in New York, and that nobody as yet wants to say aloud, is bitter as a poison: the Fbi could have known if it had only believed to those that it already knew.(...)
The plan to train pilots, too slow in Africa, continued more rapidly in America. In the "memo" of the long depositions of Jeff to Attorney Mary Jo White, one can read: "The training of the men infiltrated in the United States through Canada involved training to the individual conflict in the paramilitary fields in Afghanistan, intelligence and techniques of flight in the United States. For instance Iab Ali, a.k.a. Nawawi, the right arm of Osama. He lived in Orlando, Florida. He was trained until the diploma in the school of flight of Norman, Oklahoma".
According to La Repubblica, this "memo" dates from October 20, 2000. They don't say how they got it -- I couldn't find the complete text online, but another part is in "Jeff"'s guilty plea in "USA v. Ali Mohamed", dated the same day.
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Ex-KGB suggests U.S. needs more LOW TECH espionageCNN has an article (Spanish only, but babelfish does a reasonable translation) quoting an ex-KGB agent saying the CIA and FBI need to focus on less high-tech espionage, and get back to the nuts and bolts of infiltration and direct observation.
The article is here.
Babel fish is here.CNN Spanish edition tends to have much broader worldwide content than CNN in English.
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Illegal immigrant apparently warned of the attackYou don't need to break crypto if what you need to know is told to you by renegades disagreeing with their own organization's insanity.
About 10 hrs ago, before I went to work (I live in Europe) I wrote what I had just heard on local radio (all the media is still full of the events, of course - the campaigns for next week's elections for probably a new mayor of Hamburg have been interrupted) and submitted it as a
/. story, which was later rejected - I shall now post it as a comment, in case anyone is interested.Apparently, CIA may have been warned immediately before the attack. According to german newspaper Hannoversche Neue Presse (article in german - it was already slashdotted this morning, or so I think), an Iranian imprisoned in Hannover, Germany (Langenhagen, near the airport) has been reported to have called CIA officials to warn about the imminent assault. When they heard he was calling from jail, they just hung up. Subsequently, he desperately tried to get a fax through to GWB.
Attempt at correction of a babelfish translation follows.
"US-Government doubted warning from Hannover
Seems like someone among the terrorists' own ranks didn't think their plans were a good idea...It is a shock. The tracks of terror also lead to Hanover: An Iranian extradiction prisoner in Langenhagen wanted to warn the american president and his secret service. Nobody took him serious.
Mystery around Ali S. (29) from Iran. The man who entered Germany illegally weeks ago. He had been arrested by the police in Goslar and was to be sent back by November 6. For one month he pressed officials of the extradiction detention Langenhagen.
"I have got important information for the USA", he told JVA officials. He must call there urgently.
Finally, he was permitted. Consequence: In the White House [the phone] was hung up when Ali S. identified himself as a prisoner.
For the Secret Service the warnings of the man were only twaddle. Ali S. had however specifically named this week for assaults that would "change the world order".
The Iranian was estimated in Langenhagen as psychologically unstable. He however did not relent, on passed Friday he urgently contacted the responsible chief of department. He said he knew that in the coming week something would happen.
Hours before the two machines rammed the towers of the World Trade Center and an airplane fell on Pentagon, Ali S. still spoke about information on an endangerment of the world order. He wanted to send a fax to the American president. That was rejected. The JVA Langenhagen thought he was just posing.
After NP information the investigators now assume the Iranian actually looked for contact to governmental institutions of the USA. It is possible that he had information which could be important for investigation on the assaults.
Only on Wednesday the Ministry of Justice of Lower Saxony learned of the telephone calls. The Ministry of the Interior in Hanover was informed. It contacted the Schily Ministry (Schily is the German Minister of the Interior (is it really called that? well, he is responsible for all police and prisons)) in Berlin.
On Thursday Secret Service agents and Chief Federal Prosecutor interrogated the Iranian. Results unknown.
LANGENHAGEN, BY KLAUS GEMBOLIS"
Seems also that breaking crypto wouldn't have been able to tell them anything they couldn't find out by other means.
Kiwaiti
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Concerts/Expo, and other points...> "If you were a full time artist, it would
> be very hard to live if you licensed all your
> work under the GNU art license. "
GNUArt protect art, not the artist, this means that if -for example- Britney Spears put one of her songs under the GNU GPL License, she is not obliged to do so with all the rest (Thanks God ;-) but we will fight to preserve her rights on what she accepted to share,...
A full time artist may also live by GPL'ing his stuff, as if he gets enough recognition, he then may earn money with either concerts, expositions or whatever else, which doesn't forbid any other to do so with *his* creations, but just gives *him* a chance to get more recognition with fewer risks as either- being the prisoner of a contract signed with a major company
- just giving away stuff that may be "patented by somebody else"
I think GNUArt is the missing link and I'll translate it ASAP. Please, use the Fish, till then.
A former famous hardcore band from France also "gave" us the responsability of putting all their stuff under the GNU GPL License: Garlic Frog Diet...
Also, Tompox, in my .sig is the first band to ever have GPL'ed its stuff (including the now famous Free Software Song Remix and Debugging, by RMS.)
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Re:It does work the other way around...
Red Flag Linux is available for sale here in Hong Kong. I guess that counts as 'distributing Red Flag linux
... publicly (sic)'.see http://www.redflag-linux.com/. (or http://world.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2
F %2Fwww.redflag-linux.com&lp=zh_en&tt=url&urltext= for a translation.)dave
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Re:Not aircraft
Well, you can find small R/C helicopter at this site:
http://www.keyence.co.jp/hobby/
It's about a foot long (290mm).
You may want to view the web site with the aid of the bable fish.
The helicopter is available for about 50,000JPY in hobby stores in Japan. It can either run for 30 minutes with a trailing power line attached, or 3 minutes with a rechargeable battery pack. It's meant for indoor use and has built in circuitry to make it easy to fly.
Keyence also sells something called a Desktop Runner which is a small R/C truck, on about the same scale as a matchbox car, and costs about the same as the helicopter. -
PLC considered harmfule by HAM associations
Many HAM associations consider Power Line Communicatiosn (PLC) harmful due to the interferences it causes.
They claim that even the limits imposed by the Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post (German FCC) cause problems for television, radio broadcasts and HAM radio. If they succeed with more tight limits this could be the end for PLC.
Further, many PLC installations in the test regions did not even adhere to the existing limits, they say. If this proves true, it might be that PLC can never into widespread use.
Another point is that many people (at least here) are very sensitive in respect to electromagnetic pollution. The emissions caused by PLC are higher and much more present (they come out of every wall outlet) than those caused by cell phones, which are already believed to cause diseases.
More information (mostly in German-language, use fish) has been gathered by DARC e.V. (German HAM Radio Club).
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Information
In Germany, it's called RWE PowerNet.
The service offers two Mbit/sec access, a plug and play USB / Ethernet modem, Internet access via every electrical outlet in the house, etc.
You can read about it (in German) here, or you can use the BabelFish version to see it in (mostly) English. You can also get a brochure in PDF format that gives the sales pitch. -
Re:The title is wrong
It's not so hard to do this: don't click here!
You can think of inumerous proxies to hide the real server from
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Re:Yes, it's real.
For those who can't read Japanese, you could try Babelfish, although the translation is quite terrible.
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Usability of Search Engines
I have used many different search engine sites since I began using the internet in 1993. (I know it's not as long as some, maybe most of you) Back then I started with Webcrawler then YAHOO!. After getting easily annoyed with those, I found Altavista, which back then was actually at http://altavista.digital.com. I stuck with AV for a very long time, until I found GOOGLE... Ahhh Goooooogle. What can I say, there's nothing easier, and faster. Plus when I want to do a specific search, I love the option of adding on the
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Bought by a German online news service
It was bought by Spiegel-Online, a german online news service.
The announcement is here (in German - try the babelfish version).
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Re:Can anybody translate this for me?
Have you tried this? Babel Fish
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Re:From another audience member...Cygnus, for example, was greatly profitable developing free software long before the movement ever became popular. RedHat seems to be doing well, having beat analyst expectations every quarter. Mandrake has done well. IBM has done well. CollabNet has done well.
The above is not correct, and in fact, no one has been able to cite an example of a profitable open source software company. Cygnus was privately held and so it's hard to figure out if it was proftable or not, but it was definitely not "greatly profitable." However, it's easy to do a back-of-the-envelope calculation based on its $20M in annual revenues and 180 employees at the time of its acquisition. The cost of maintaining 180 employees in a technology company in the SF Bay Area is more than $18M annually, and there are other costs of doing business, so if the company was profitable at all, it was just squeaking through. (And $20M in annual revenues after ten years of existence is no one's idea of "greatly profitable.")
Red Hat has yet to turn a profit, though it keeps promising one real soon now.
Mandrake is losing money. According to its financial disclosure, as translated by BabelFish:
Since its creation in November 1998 the company recorded losses. The cumulated amount of the overdrawn turnover of the group accounts between September 30, 1999 and 31 March 2001 amounted to 13,7 MEuros is approximately three times the amount of the turnover over the period. In spite of a strong progression envisaged of its turnover, MANDRAKESOFT considers a benefit only at the end of the exercise closed at June 30 2003;
That is, it doesn't expect to become profitable for two years.
IBM is sinking a billion dollars into open source this year. That doesn't mean it will realize any profit from this investment. It certainly hasn't earned it back yet, and whether it ever will is purely speculative.
CollabNet is privately held, so it's hard to say how much money it's made back on that $35M investment. It's announced a few deals, but refuses to comment on their size: "It's our first true enterprise development network..." It's a significant deal for CollabNet, so much so that Mills refused to comment on the size of the contract or even whether it's the company's biggest win so far. (CollabNet is still privately held.) Mills did say that there are other deals now in the pilot stage with the potential to be as big as this one. I think it's a safe bet that the company is not yet profitable.
Many consultancy companies have done well. In fact, the consultancy companies do what can't be done in the Microsoft world - they can be profitable, equal players.
Consultancies are homesteading businesses, not software companies. As already pointed out, consultancies only scale linearly, not exponentially. In any case, they aren't doing so well either. I'm not going to mention the name of one company we're partnered with, but they make a great open source product, but they're in dire straits and they're going to have to start charging for it. I imagine there are probably a few small-business open source consultancies which are bringing in six-figure salaries for their principals, but that's not enough to sustain development efforts, and it's not enough to go public.
Tim
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Re:PDF Conversion Features
Some search engines have this capability built in, including the one which I work on professionally: AltaVista Enterprise Search.
But my grandest creation, as history will tell, -
Well...
... Assuming the Linux that ships for the PS2 has some form of USB support, the possibilities are limitless. Native support with games for keyboards, mice, PC steering wheels & certainly other peripherals is already quite strong.
Then there's the whole firewire IEEE 1394 which the console supports, the possibilities are limitless.
Some pictures of the Japanese PS2 Hard Disk Drive & Ethernet Unit. http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20010719/ hdd.htm Use the Fish! -
Re:Interview with Sklyarov's boss
Here's a Babelfish translation of the interview. Not the best in readability, but you can get the general idea.
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Re:Interview with Sklyarov's boss
Here's a Babelfish translation of the interview. Not the best in readability, but you can get the general idea.
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Complements of our friend fish.From 11 to 16 July 4 it was found in Las-Vegase at the conference Of defchon 9 together with the colleague of our firm Dmitriy Sklyarov, who came forward at the conference with report. In the morning, on 16 July, we together with Dmitriy left the hotel and intended to go into the airport. To the voyage remained about one-and-a-half hours. Directly on leaving from the door us approached two young persons, with cries " hand to the wall, FBR!". After solving, that this whose- that the unsuccessful joke (but at the conference fairly often they joked apropos of federalov), Dmitriy began to laugh and even something attempted to say as the response/answer. However, to it in the even rougher form it was said " hand to the wall!". In me they asked key/wrench from the hotel number and invited for the conversation. Only later into the number they introduced Dmitriy. It was already in the handcuffs. The two additional colleagues OF FBR, who apparently, monitored street, approached. Dmitriy asked to move handcuffs forward, since it is very inconvenient to sit with the hands connected/bonded from behind. To it there was otkazano. The colleague OF FBR was represented and said that there are no claims to me, and they arrived to arrest Dmitriy. In the polite form it was proposed to have a talk. To my question " for which they arrested Dmitriy?" response/answer was given, that for it is produced the charge in the disturbance/breakdown DMCHA (Digital Of millennium Tyuey chopyrigyut Acht) - this is American law about the copyrights. The initiator of court trial and consequence is company To adobe. More than no details colleagues FBR reported, referring to the fact that they only carry out order. To me were assigned several formal questions, to which they certainly already knew responses/answers. They asked to take with itself the things Of dimy, justifying this fact that " as they were not lost in America ". They answered to a question about further fate Of dimy, that it they will directly now transport into local ofis FBR, where will explain even some questions, and then to the judge, who will make final decision. Entire above-described occurred into Alekhis the park Of yuotel, Las-Vegas, the state of Nevada. They followed along the road into Los Angeles me, moreover it is sufficiently rough. As soon as 4 in the airport it approached the telephone, the officer of the police here ran up and made form, which wants to ring from the adjacent telephone. Anywhere it so did not ring.