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The person is lying or speaking about an old plan
http://mobile.free.fr/

Per there site it cap
19 € 99 / month
15,99 € / month
for Freebox subscribers

100 GB Internet

SMS calls, unlimited MMS

Abroad :
25Gb internet (in 3G)
from + 50 destinations
Calls, SMS, unlimited MMS
from Europe, DOM, USA, Canada
Australia, South Africa,
Israel, New Zealand.

They could have used the ham radio locator instead of inventing yet another locator tool.

When they say that the price is high because Canada is a big country and few people... I simply answer this:

French tourists in Canada have a better deal than Canadian themselves!
So last time I went to France, I went to one of their SIM card vending machine where I bought the SIM card using my Canadian Credit Card and I'm still using it in Canada!

http://mobile.free.fr/fiche-fo...

Using Free Mobile, you get a very good deal in France where you can call in more than 100 countries in the world and 100gb data...
But they get also a pretty good deal in 35 countries!

For 20€/month (no contract):
- Unlimited calls/sms/mms in that country and France
- 25gb data (not as fast as LTE... I get between 2mbit and 4mbit AND 25gb!)
- You can choose the network. In Canada, I can choose between Bell, Rogers and Telus (Videotron doesn't accept the connection). So when the speed or network reception is not good in one place, I can switch to another network.
- You can "Pause" it by downgrading to the 2€/month deal

That means that my mother, who also kept her Free's sim card, can call me for no extra cost even if we are anywhere within those 35 countries
That means also that if I go to USA, I also get this deal for no extra cost

The only thing that cost much more is the Toll Free number. So I just ask them for their "not Toll Free number" so I can call them... for free! :P

Enjoy!

Seriously, do people not even bother using Google anymore? Here's the AMD 80386 DX-40.

Doing good spam filtering is harder.

For small to average sites, Greylisting is very effective at removing spam.

The fact that it does not scales well to huge sites is probably why spammers do not spend much work fighting it

Both T-mobile and Google Fi offer worldwide free roaming, the EU is years behind

The EU is pushing this through regulation, because the companies weren't willing to do this themselves. T-Mobile and Google Fi aren't European based operators, as far as I am aware? In France there is one operator who offers a great plan, one that being resident in Canada seems excellent, if I only make outgoing calls: http://mobile.free.fr/ Ignoring the features for people using the phone in France, here are the out of country features (translated), all for 19€/month:

• Unlimited calls, SMS, MMS
  • From Europe and DOM (to fixed and mobile Europe, DOM and metropolitan France)
  • From the United States, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Israel and New Zealand (to the fixed and mobile countries of the same country and metropolitan France)
• Internet 25 GB / month from Europe, DOM, USA, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Israel and New Zealand (in 3G) (beyond: 0.009 € / Mo from Europe, For other countries)

I have to pay my ISP $57/month in Canada, and I don't get any of those international features. Heck when I do travel it is $10/day for 100MB of data, which work out to be around $300/month for 3GB of data!? It is cheaper for me to get a SIM card when I go to a new country, even if it is just for a week. T-Mobile is great in the USA for the pay-as-you-go plans.

There are methods way faster than a Taylor series. Ramanujan's series adds 8 digits per iteration, so getting to 16 would take two steps rather than 10^15 (a significant reduction). Chudnovsky's method converges even faster.

I know the Taylor series is highly inefficient, I was merely pointing out that it was one of the early methods and was highly computationally expensive. No matter how much free time Newton had on his hands, it wasn't going to be that much. And thanks for the link, very interesting.

There are methods way faster than a Taylor series. Ramanujan's series adds 8 digits per iteration, so getting to 16 would take two steps rather than 10^15 (a significant reduction). Chudnovsky's method converges even faster.

UDF is the RW format for dvd-rw and can be used on HDs in all modern OS (it requires format version 2.01)

The format is resilient, as DVD-R(W) may have scratches and have CRC in metadata... sadly it do not have CRC in data, as the DVD reader/physical format also have some recovery info, so UDF didn't add it directly.

It is still a good format, being a ISO, it should have a long life and be read for a long time. Of course, for HDs, i would bet that mechanical problems will probably be a problem sooner.

other than UDF, ZFS and BTRFS both have CRC and should be resilient and the format is set and should not change. but there are other formats with CRC, check the wikipedia for more options

Finally, probably the format that you store the files is also important, a solid RAR or TAR may cause problems in the future than compressing each file with gzip. Probably the best option is store the files using par, as it was created to permit access to the files even if several blocks can't be read. some backup tools support this, directly , as DAR or but, or indirectly, as backuppc (search ArchivePar) on the archive step

Whatever you do, a followup of this in one year (or more) is a good idea, as the theory and real life may be different things :)

Claude Paillard has a great video showing how it's done (and photos here). He's built not just his own vacuum tubes but also most of the tools needed to do so. So if you want to build your own molecular pump you'll find data here.

Claude Paillard has a great video showing how it's done (and photos here). He's built not just his own vacuum tubes but also most of the tools needed to do so. So if you want to build your own molecular pump you'll find data here.

Claude Paillard has a great video showing how it's done (and photos here). He's built not just his own vacuum tubes but also most of the tools needed to do so. So if you want to build your own molecular pump you'll find data here.

Claude Paillard has a great video showing how it's done (and photos here). He's built not just his own vacuum tubes but also most of the tools needed to do so. So if you want to build your own molecular pump you'll find data here.

Oh for God's sake. You're citing Philippe Rushton, a textbook definition of a racist, past president of the Pioneer Fund and frequent contributor to American Renaissance, both organizations classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups, and you want us to give equal weight to his arguments that blacks have smaller brains and unrestrained libido? He's been thoroughly debunked by many, but Joseph Grave's debunking of Rushton is one of the most thorough.

It's a sad day for slashdot when works by a noted racist thinker gets modded +5 and conspiracy theories on a presidential candidate's health make the front page.

"Just a camera..."

"Just an antenna..."

"Little need for this extra fuel..."

Maybe you could learn math and physics one day. Once you get into high school.

If they uses the IPTV approach, then they could just leverage devices people already have, such as the Apple TV, an Android TV based device or maybe a tablet.

Maybe this bitter medicine may actually help cable companies wake up and improve their service and the way people watch the content? There are people who still like the programmed content stream, but not necessarily the limitations on which device they can watch it on.

One company they should be copying: http://www.free.fr/adsl/freebo... (just use Google translate). It may be solution limited to France, but I am envious every time I read their offering.

Is a JPEG at 0% compression a RAW image?

It would be close but not exact. The way you would get close is to set the 8x8 quantization matrix to all 1's. In JPEG compression, the image is divided into 8x8 blocks, discrete cosine transformed, elementwise divided by an 8x8 quantization matrix, rounded to the nearest integer, and then (usually) Huffman encoded. The primary problem with being perfectly lossless is that the DCT produces a fractional result. So even if you set the quantization matrix to all 1's, the rounding step would lose information.

Care to enlighten me as to how one sets jpeg compression to 0%?

It's not easy to do in most image editors; even the highest (12) quality setting in Photoshop has quantization. You can do it in ImageMagick, however.

Also, no, RAW formats are not simply uncompressed, but largely unprocessed data as well (certainly less processed than what you get from an out of camera tif or jpf.)

Raw formats are indeed compressed; they're just losslessly compressed.

Finally, there is a true lossless JPEG format, though it is distinct from the usual JPEGs.

I use avidemux and audacity to add Rifftrax to movies. Basically copying out the existing audio, merging the rifftrack with the movie audio in to one track and then putting it back in as a separate audio track so the original audio is there too if you want to watch the movie without jokes (pretty rare for me actually, but it's nice to have options ;)).

Someone else already suggested OBS, I've used that too for recording gaming video. It can be pretty intensive and it takes some fiddling to make it workable but it's not bad.

I haven't used it in a long time, but would Avidemux do the trick?

And nothing particularly deep. It would be like asking if the name Munchkin came from the old "Real Men" SJG BBS postings. Of course it did. If you're unfamiliar with these, see here

Here's a cartoon plane that I wanted to be real when I was a kid...

http://modelstories.free.fr/an...

Whoa, talk about a trip down memory lane. I haven't seen that Deluxe Paint picture of King Tut in ages. Great find !

I'm crazy enough to believe I have found a path to unification that is actually quite simple: add a new relativity principle that states that laws of physics must be the same irrespective of the measurement instrument we use. Here is a parallel:

- Special relativity states that the laws of physics must be the same irrespective of your state of motion. So a complete description of an experiment must include which referential you are using. There is no absolute space, no absolute time, no aether. And we need to add new transformation laws from one referential to the next, which are Lorentz transforms.

- General relativity states that the laws of physics must be the same irrespective of acceleration. So a complete description of an experiment must include accelerations, including gravitation. There is no flat space-time anymore, but something that is curved by gravitation fields. So we need to add new transformations from one curved space-time to another, use tensor math, covariant and contravariant quadrivectors, etc.

- My still incomplete theory of incomplete measurements (TIM) states that the laws of physics must be the same irrespective of the measurement instruments used. So a complete description of an experiment must include which instruments were used, including calibration and range. Just because two instruments are calibrated to coincide on a given range cannot be used to postulate that they match at any scale. Space, time, mass and other measurements are no longer continuous, but discrete (because all our physical instruments give discrete results). We need to add new transformation when going from one physical instrument to another, which correspond almost exactly to renormalisation in quantum mechanics, but give an explanation as to their origin.

The TIM focuses on what I learn about a system using a physical measurement instrument. This starts by defining what an instrument is:
- It's a portion of the universe (i.e. it's not "outside the matrix")
- which has an input and an output (e.g. the probe and the display of a voltmeter)
- where changes in the state at the input yield a change in the state of the output (change in voltage result in changes on the display)
- which ideally depend only on the input (the voltmeter picks the voltage at the probe, not somewhere else)
- and change the output (nothing being said about the change in the input, since even macro-scale experiments can be destructive)
- the change in the output being mapped to a mathematical representation (often a real number) through a calibration

The instrument gives me knowledge about the state at the input. Since the instrument has a limited number of states in the output, my knowledge of the system through this instrument at any given time is described by a probability for each of the possible states. If I have N states, the probabilities p_1...p_N are all positive, and their sum is 1. So the knowledge state can be represented by a unit vector in dimension N.

For example, if I care about "is there a particle here", the possible measurements are "yes" and "no". The knowledge state is therefore represented by a unit complex number. If now you want to answer that on a plate with 1 million possible positions, you have a field of 1 million complex numbers, with the additional constraint that the particle must be at only one position (which is expressed as the sum of the probabilities for all "yes" being 1). That field is remarkably similar to the wave function, and this reasoning explains why it is complex-valued, why it is a probability of presence, and why it collapses when you know where the particle is.

But the primary difference with QM and GTR is that space-time is no longer continuous. It is discrete, and the discretization depends on the instrument being used. Because it is discrete, there are never any theoretical infinities in the sums you compute (these infinities being the reason why QM and GTR are considered fundamentally incompatib

Indeed. Low level knowledge was true mastery of the hardware. Pure arcane "magic" and bliss.

Back then there was a cool disk util 2M that extended the format of a 1.44 MB floppy from 18 sectors/track up to a non-standard 21 sectors/track for ~1804KB! (It still used 80 tracks.) Even Microsoft embraced it with DMF Distribution Media Format for a total of 1,720,320 bytes!

On the Apple ][ there were 18-sectors/track copy-protection games & programs written by the young and brilliant Roland Gustafsson that Broderbund used. It had the advantage of speeding up loading too in addition to stopping people from copying it!

Prince of Persia used it and took a while for pirates to figure out how to get their "kracked" 3-disk version back down to the original 2-disk version!

Solresol has some fun features.

Also dump verb conjugation.

Alfred Korzybski made some important observations I think.

And finally, to replace English your language will need to become the official language of a World-spanning empire like those of Britain and America.

When I was a twelve (or so) I was given my first pocket calculator, the entry level Citizen 800D (version 1 or 2).

http://ernst.mulder.com/calcul...

It is at my parents home and my father still uses it for everyday calculations, as I've upgraded many time since then. :)

I'm not sure exactly which version it is, version 1 or 2. They used different processors for each version.

version 1 http://mycalcdb.free.fr/main.p... unlisted processor
version 2 http://mycalcdb.free.fr/main.p... NEC uPD940C (1975)

A friend later had the model 801D which had memory buttons. Awe.

Didn't touch a computer until four years later.

Memories :)

When I was a twelve (or so) I was given my first pocket calculator, the entry level Citizen 800D (version 1 or 2).

http://ernst.mulder.com/calcul...

It is at my parents home and my father still uses it for everyday calculations, as I've upgraded many time since then. :)

I'm not sure exactly which version it is, version 1 or 2. They used different processors for each version.

version 1 http://mycalcdb.free.fr/main.p... unlisted processor
version 2 http://mycalcdb.free.fr/main.p... NEC uPD940C (1975)

A friend later had the model 801D which had memory buttons. Awe.

Didn't touch a computer until four years later.

Memories :)

For client-side encrypted backups, duplicity is popular, however it is a bit too buggy in edge cases for my taste.
dar is similar but seems more mature, however takes up more space (deduplication is less efficient than Duplicity) IIRC.
For offsite online backups you can check out: Tahoe-LAFS, Obnam, tarsnap, brackup, attic.

You mean this? http://mobile.free.fr/ I think your French is a little rusty, and those plans end up being a ton more expensive when all is said and done.

What's the catch? Can't we get a mobile plan for only 2 euros/month?

In any case, in the US, Ting and Family Mobile are pretty good deals.

That's not that cheap. Start at $15 for 100 minutes, 100 text and 100 MB.

Ok what US MVNO offers 120 minutes of talk time (to France, the USA and 99 other destinations), unlimited SMS and 50 MB data for 2 euros/month? Free offers it in France

You mean this? http://mobile.free.fr/ I think your French is a little rusty, and those plans end up being a ton more expensive when all is said and done. Note that in Europe, the existence of these plans is a result of deregulation, not regulation.

In any case, in the US, Ting and Family Mobile are pretty good deals. If you look around, you can find even cheaper plans, but I don't think it's worth bothering.

Perhaps there is a secret civilization living in a lost city accessed though a hidden pyramid?

At least that was the story in D&D Module B4, The Lost City.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist. Sometimes geekdom gets the best of me.)

9:42 may be good enough for the masses but for the elite only 13:37 will do. [...]

13:37 would be a horrible timestamp to use in US ads. Some people would actually discard the product since it is a 24 hour clock instead of 12 hour AM/PM.

9:42 may be good enough for the masses but for the elite only 13:37 will do. And that's why the elite chooses Free as their ISP.

Private companies wouldn't be using it for free. They would need to lease out usage, but that wouldn't be an exclusive lease. When people were still using dial-up modems there was more competition, so this would be an attempt to recreate something that allows for this. Line sharing is really necessary for something healthy and focusing on innovation. BTW always jealous of France's http://free.fr/

What we have now is broken, so it is time to come up with a model that will help foster competition.

"most users need" is very often a fallacy based on personal assumptions (anecdotes are not data). One of the things I use home computer for is editing GoPro HD video, and that is a camera that have sold in very significant numbers and footage is unusable without editing (as it would be endless). But editing it's HD video is so slow on my fairly ok desktop that I can't wait for the new X99 platform to stabilize to buy a new PC. This is just one of many examples of "niche" use that put together end up with significant numbers. From what I can read from statistics and surveys it seems a big chunk of the real "just surfing" users have moved to tablets and are no longer in the PC market.

How much editing are you looking to do? If you're just looking to cut and splice, Avidemux works well as it can do quick lossless edits like that, as well as lossless conversion of container types. http://fixounet.free.fr/avidem... A little unstable, and a bit of a learning curve, but it works, and it's quick (if you don't re-encode the video stream).

I found editing HD video on my 7 year old Laptop using Sony Vegas to be a passable experience. I have to basically set all the preview settings to "ultra-crap mode", but I can get my previews, arrange the video, then let it render over night.

My footage is in 1920x1080 x 60FPS. Reason for this mode is ability to digitally zoom/use only a section of the footage and to do slow motion. And that it generally is recommended as the mode with best results for what I usually film, which is underwater. My new i7 laptop with a dedicated (but laptop) video card could not keep up at all even with settings at lowest. Editing I do in addition to cut and splice: zoom/cutout, slow motion, color correction (important, I use filters on the GoPro but still need to correct), overlays/picture-in-picture, text and music, etc.

"most users need" is very often a fallacy based on personal assumptions (anecdotes are not data). One of the things I use home computer for is editing GoPro HD video, and that is a camera that have sold in very significant numbers and footage is unusable without editing (as it would be endless). But editing it's HD video is so slow on my fairly ok desktop that I can't wait for the new X99 platform to stabilize to buy a new PC. This is just one of many examples of "niche" use that put together end up with significant numbers. From what I can read from statistics and surveys it seems a big chunk of the real "just surfing" users have moved to tablets and are no longer in the PC market.

How much editing are you looking to do? If you're just looking to cut and splice, Avidemux works well as it can do quick lossless edits like that, as well as lossless conversion of container types. http://fixounet.free.fr/avidem... A little unstable, and a bit of a learning curve, but it works, and it's quick (if you don't re-encode the video stream).

I found editing HD video on my 7 year old Laptop using Sony Vegas to be a passable experience. I have to basically set all the preview settings to "ultra-crap mode", but I can get my previews, arrange the video, then let it render over night.

First, someone mentioned their Verizon phone wouldn't work in Africa: this is no surprise, as Verizon uses CDMA, which is found only in islands outside of N. America. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Second, here is Wikipedia's list of bands since no one bothered to include it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...

and an alternative source: http://niviuk.free.fr/lte_band...

Now, for a list of phones, a quick search found this article: http://www.extremetech.com/ele...
    This phone doesn't support 600-700 MHz LTE, but I don't think that's being deployed much yet in Europe, anyway (though it's coming). And, of course, the mention of the latest Apples.

Personally, I think it's a miracle that EE's are able to squeeze in as many bands as they have (650-928 MHz and 1710-2600 MHz with a gap or two PLUS 2450 MHz WiFi and Bluetooth) and still have usable sensitivity and selectivity. This is more than just SDR at work.

and I am quite sure the policy of not using bridging mode on modems is fairly standard in the industry, it is not as if that is unusual.

You should qualify that with 'in the US'. In France Free has always let customers choose between bridge and router mode. Actually if you have fiber, bridge mode is the only way to get 1Gbps as otherwise the NATting, saturates the CPU around 400Mbps.

If I were to fund the continued development of one Linux-based video authoring/editing tool it would be Cinelerra. Between that and Avidemux, all my video editing needs are completely met.

Err... What about Kdenlive? Worked pretty well last time I checked...

If I were to fund the continued development of one Linux-based video authoring/editing tool it would be Cinelerra. Between that and Avidemux, all my video editing needs are completely met.

To fully understand the concept of religion its important to understand why and how this concept came about.

All systems of belief have flaws, for all any belief system is, is a constrained interpretation of the all that is. Why this is, is because abstract language used to communicate shared perspectives cannot express the all..... that is. - T.Rue

There is the why and how we came to create and use abstraction and out of this also came effort to create philosophies inline with the subconscious state of living (as many animals still do today) as the conscious mind cannot handle the massive amount of information the subconscious has access to. We use belief filters (and philosophies) to reduce what all we allow into our consciousness (me for me, you for you)

Interesting reads! Can you put the pieces together?

http://www.bizcharts.com/stoa_del_sol/conscious/conscious3.html
Perspective of Mind: Julian Jaynes

http://leftinthedark.org.uk/sites/default/files/Left%20in%20the%20Dark%20free%20edition.pdf
LEFT IN THE DARK

http://esgs.free.fr/uk/art/sands.htm
Science & Sanity (extreme left brain?)

http://umclidet.com/pdf/Frank.R..Wallace.-.Neocheating.pdf
Wallace - Neocheating. (the how to abuse mans left hemisphere?)

http://abstractionphysics.net/pmwiki/index.php
Abstraction Physics (The Mechanics)

http://iamb.net/IJMB/journal/IJMB_Vol_3_1.pdf
NEUROSCIENCE REVEALS THE WHOLE-BRAIN STATE.....(ARTICLE PAGE 73)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp%3Bv=9l6VPpDublg
No More Secrets

There is a reason why the number and size of protest around the world are happening. The common factor is people in the general population are getting fed up with the distortions of the few ruling over them.

I think it would be wise to allow so called Satanist to have their monument and specifically next to the ten commandments as simply a matter of contrast of the biased constraints. Might also go for something from each of the religions that people might get a good look at "in part".

If you observed it during a credits sequence it is almost certainly due to the refresh rate of your display/video card not being matched to the refresh rate of the source. (Credits sequences are very easy to encode and decode and shouldn't run into a bottleneck anywhere).

The best way to start analysing this issue is to use MediaPlayer Classic Home Cinema or Black Editon (a fork of MPC-HC), and check the stats with CTRL+J (using Custom EVR as renderer):
https://trac.mpc-hc.org/attachment/ticket/2682/screenshot3.gif
The green and red lines should be perfectly straight if refresh rate and frame rate are perfectly matched.

Other tools if your display/video card do not support a 23.976 Hz refresh rate:
- SmoothVideo Project - http://www.svp-team.com/
- MadVR smooth motion - http://www.svp-team.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1287 (MadVR smooth motion is discussed)
- ReClock - http://reclock.free.fr/ (last time I checked, it is not an option if you want to do audio bitstreaming)

Warning: once you get used to buttery smooth video playback, you will be ruined forever and unable to enjoy video that is not displayed properly ;-)

http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/bing_src-readme-1st.shtml

I'd like to see all Linux projects standardize on Qt as a their Gui toolkit. I understand why everyone has their own but the war is won and Qt won it.

War..Won!? All I see is healthy competition, and personally I run a whole host of Applications that I don't care what toolkit they are in. Having a look around there are some absolutely stellar QT applications http://calibre-ebook.com/, k3b http://www.k3b.org/ (although not in development for a while), MP3 Diags http://mp3diags.sourceforge.net/ and of course Clementine http://www.clementine-player.org/about. There are a few programs that can run either that I use Transmission http://www.transmissionbt.com/ and Avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ . But the Bottom line is GTK+ seems as popular as ever, and still more popular than Qt.

What is most bizarre is this about this is LXDE is looking great, a Desktop we don't hear about often enough, and is looking like a desktop I would use...half this discussion is about lets be honest a license subtlety I don't care about.

Dang. Forgot a really important link!

  * Python Quick Reference - a well-structured python reference, especially listing common variable types and functions attached to them

Six years ago, I wrote milter-greylist. At that time I thought some kind of distributed spam traps would be useful. I wrote software for a P2P network of mail servers that exchange signed information on messages reaching spam traps. The thing turned to be useless: greylisting alone was enough. Today, greylisting with variable delays depending on sender reputation from various DNSRBL is still enough, even is the DNSRBL information is not very reliable: an error just means an extra delay in delivery.

Especially since Skype out is more expensive than my current voip provider, they have the money for it and interoperate with the POTS.

Which is even more true in France since most ISPs include unlimited national and international calls in their basic 30€ ADSL plans.

I'm in the 14th (near Montsouris) - yet am on the Raspail exchange (as opposed to the Blvd Brune) exchange.

When I was in australia - I was actually closer to the exchange than here..

With that said, all the exchanges in the 14th are running at capacity:
http://francois04.free.fr/connex_dslam.php?dslam=ras75-7&nra=RAS75&periode=C

I've heard so, so, so many bad things about numericable ( especially how everything is very vague - they say they 'generally' offer FTTB, but there's no fibre in the 14th, so it'll be cable to the building.. ) that I couldn't bring myself to making the switch..

You can use SPF as a hint. A bad SPF record could trigger longer greylisting delay, therefore lowering the ability of a spammer to reach destination before been known by blacklists. milter-greylist allows such setup.

A google search revealed that the middle top one is VHDL or GHDL ("VHDL is an acronym for Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language")
Look here: http://ghdl.free.fr/ghdl/The-hello-word-program.html