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Germany's DIN has voted to vote YES (sorry, article in german) at ISO.

I must say that I think Barropunto is a pretty cool name for anything, would very well fit a sporty Seat for example.

"gas station" Sorry, not a native speaker, as you could have guessed already from my post. Anyway, for those interested, here a discussion on the same subject, this time in relation to the murder of an 18 year old girl: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/76270/from/ rss09. Or, instead of that, just watch a video of a drifting tank (set to crappy music, in true youtube style).

> The SATA drives break the compatibility, although you will probably
> be able to get SATA to IDE adapters for some time to come.

Probably this Seagate news goes hand-in-hand with another news that didn't make it to Slashdot yet:

CompactFlash is going to have SATA compatibility built-in! (german news item).

If you are aware of the German language, the following article should be a must-read: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23625/1.html

Its title is called "Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat auch nichts zu befürchten".

Actually, Google already lost this case in April 2006, but they appealed. Now, they lost the appeal also at the Hanseatic Upper Court. Google cannot appeal at the German Supreme Court but could try to file for non-admission of the ruling. Here is an article that gets the details right.

Interestingly, Google already rebranded GMail in Germany as Googlemail, so it's really not that clear why they think that they have a case and why it is important to them.

So apparently Sweden has the same problems with blogs and web-boards as Germany. Over here the
blog/board owner can be held responsible for any offensive/illegal content posted by someone on
the discussion board or comments. Even if the owner isn't aware of any such posting. This is called
"disturbance liability". If he is sued and agrees to remove the incriminating content there are some
stiff financial penalties if the poster is continuing.

Some courts think it is technically possible to monitor a web-board with 200k comments per month
like http://heise.de/

It creates a CD (or DVD, if you want) of updates.

It creates a CD (or DVD, if you want) of updates.

It creates a CD (or DVD, if you want) of updates.

I'd be more worried about the Chinese side than Chavez, but yeah it's more than a remote possibility.

I'd be more worried about the Chinese side than Chavez, but yeah it's more than a remote possibility.

According to Heise this happens on non-English versions on Windows (like mine - he's right).

I downloaded it twice, the first time because I was excited to be able to test my websites with Safari without spending money on overpriced Apple hardware, and the second time because Heise announced an update, which unfortunately didn't suck much less. Mozilla in its pre-1.0 days displayed websites more reliably than this so-called "beta". Most importantly, it displayed all the text, even if maybe at different places than intendent, even for non-English users.

I downloaded it twice, the first time because I was excited to be able to test my websites with Safari without spending money on overpriced Apple hardware, and the second time because Heise announced an update, which unfortunately didn't suck much less. Mozilla in its pre-1.0 days displayed websites more reliably than this so-called "beta". Most importantly, it displayed all the text, even if maybe at different places than intendent, even for non-English users.

We theorize that the Apple buds were less capable of reproducing high frequencies and that this weakness amplified the listeners' perception of aliasing in the compressed audio signal. But that's just a theory.

It's not Xorg 7.3 that's packaged with Fedora, but Xorg 7.2 with the xorg-server 1.3.0 release. It still features very interesting software, like, for example, noveau, a free reimplementation of NVIDIA's hardware-accelerated 3D-drivers (still work in progress, of course), as well as a kernel patched with the all-new and highly anticipated mac802.11-subsystem that whould yield much better compatibility and performance for all things WLAN. I also like this idea of "Revisor", an application easily allowing for building customized bootable (install-)media with specific packages only.

There are actually three prime factors; the two you listed, and the small factor 5080711. Thus:

2^1039-1 = 5080711 * 55853666619936291260749204658315944968646527018488 637648010052346319853288374753 * 20758181946442382764570481370359469516293970800739 52098812083870379272909032467938234314388414483488 25340533447691122230281583276965253760914101891052 41993899334109711624358962065972167481161749004803 659735573409253205425523689

is the correct factorization, as can be readily verified.

Also:
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/90031

I'd like to rant, but just 10 seconds of fact checkiing should be done before ...

luggage space (Kofferraumvolumen):

VW Polo 1.4 Comfortline 5-türig: 270 Liter (80 hp, 15.104 Euros)

Toyota Yaris 1.3 Sol 5-türig: 275 Liter (87 PS, 15.542 Euro)

Opel Corsa 1.2 Twinport Catch Me 5-türig285 Liter (80 hp, 15.080 Euro)

Nissan Micra 1.4 Acenta 5-türig251 Liter (88 hp, 15.090 Euro)

I couldn't find the Sirion in the list, but I've seen it and compared to my Polo the luggage volume is lower.

Btw. I'm sure, that if you compare cars in the same class there isn't anything major that differs by more than 25%. All cars are mostly equal.

And a 2nd btw: My second car is an Audi A2. Yes, the A pillars are thick. But they are thick in most (Mini)-Vans as well. At least for me the higher seating position in those kind of cars is more important than the thick A-pillars. But your mileage may vary (mine is 64.20 mpg :-) ).

Bye egghat

I'd like to rant, but just 10 seconds of fact checkiing should be done before ...

luggage space (Kofferraumvolumen):

VW Polo 1.4 Comfortline 5-türig: 270 Liter (80 hp, 15.104 Euros)

Toyota Yaris 1.3 Sol 5-türig: 275 Liter (87 PS, 15.542 Euro)

Opel Corsa 1.2 Twinport Catch Me 5-türig285 Liter (80 hp, 15.080 Euro)

Nissan Micra 1.4 Acenta 5-türig251 Liter (88 hp, 15.090 Euro)

I couldn't find the Sirion in the list, but I've seen it and compared to my Polo the luggage volume is lower.

Btw. I'm sure, that if you compare cars in the same class there isn't anything major that differs by more than 25%. All cars are mostly equal.

And a 2nd btw: My second car is an Audi A2. Yes, the A pillars are thick. But they are thick in most (Mini)-Vans as well. At least for me the higher seating position in those kind of cars is more important than the thick A-pillars. But your mileage may vary (mine is 64.20 mpg :-) ).

Bye egghat

I'd like to rant, but just 10 seconds of fact checkiing should be done before ...

luggage space (Kofferraumvolumen):

VW Polo 1.4 Comfortline 5-türig: 270 Liter (80 hp, 15.104 Euros)

Toyota Yaris 1.3 Sol 5-türig: 275 Liter (87 PS, 15.542 Euro)

Opel Corsa 1.2 Twinport Catch Me 5-türig285 Liter (80 hp, 15.080 Euro)

Nissan Micra 1.4 Acenta 5-türig251 Liter (88 hp, 15.090 Euro)

I couldn't find the Sirion in the list, but I've seen it and compared to my Polo the luggage volume is lower.

Btw. I'm sure, that if you compare cars in the same class there isn't anything major that differs by more than 25%. All cars are mostly equal.

And a 2nd btw: My second car is an Audi A2. Yes, the A pillars are thick. But they are thick in most (Mini)-Vans as well. At least for me the higher seating position in those kind of cars is more important than the thick A-pillars. But your mileage may vary (mine is 64.20 mpg :-) ).

Bye egghat

I'd like to rant, but just 10 seconds of fact checkiing should be done before ...

luggage space (Kofferraumvolumen):

VW Polo 1.4 Comfortline 5-türig: 270 Liter (80 hp, 15.104 Euros)

Toyota Yaris 1.3 Sol 5-türig: 275 Liter (87 PS, 15.542 Euro)

Opel Corsa 1.2 Twinport Catch Me 5-türig285 Liter (80 hp, 15.080 Euro)

Nissan Micra 1.4 Acenta 5-türig251 Liter (88 hp, 15.090 Euro)

I couldn't find the Sirion in the list, but I've seen it and compared to my Polo the luggage volume is lower.

Btw. I'm sure, that if you compare cars in the same class there isn't anything major that differs by more than 25%. All cars are mostly equal.

And a 2nd btw: My second car is an Audi A2. Yes, the A pillars are thick. But they are thick in most (Mini)-Vans as well. At least for me the higher seating position in those kind of cars is more important than the thick A-pillars. But your mileage may vary (mine is 64.20 mpg :-) ).

Bye egghat

• Someone contacts ATI's sales about this announcement and is told to hold tight for more news (this is consistent with what was posted to German news site heise.de link found via liquidat)
  
• Thank you for your current drivers ATI
  
• Slashdot shouldn't speculate on what ATI's roadmap
  
• We want open source ATI drivers, not Linux drivers
  
• ATI don't support vblank in their binary drivers (open source drivers do support vblank but it's hard to find the cards)..
  
• ATI? You mean AMD!
  
• Marketing... Ha!
  
• This is because of Dell starting a Linux push
  
• Doing a Windows graphics driver wrapper wouldn't be feasible...
  
• Reverse engineering modern graphics cards is hard... because the API driving them is complex.
  
• Intel have released open source graphics drivers BEFORE their next card was released!
  

to be fair, according to this writeup, at present (with the power management features still non-implemented) the OLPC only lasts 2-4 hours on a battery charge, (depending on screen use IIRC). Current power consumption is around 8 watts on 'BTest-2', with the target consumption being 2 watts. I don't doubt they'll sort out such things before the design is finalized though, and actually I was a little surprised to see this article after reading the writeup I linked above, there's still some real serious bugs on those machines.

The file was live for about 10 minutes, in wich 20.000 people saw it.

And then there was that nice artfully carved goat-o-lantern on Dremel's website on Halloween 2004, which stayed online for the whole weekend...

The file was live for about 10 minutes, in wich 20.000 people saw it.

And then there was that nice artfully carved goat-o-lantern on Dremel's website on Halloween 2004, which stayed online for the whole weekend...

In plain language, this means that our musically trained test listeners could reliably distinguish the poorer quality MP3s at 128 kbps quite accurately from either of the other higher-quality samples. But when deciding between 256 kbps encoded MP3s and the original CD, no difference could be determined, on average, for all the pieces. The testers took the 256 kbps samples for the CD just as often as they took the original CD samples themselves.
(...)
This article will not end the ongoing debate of whether the use of MP3 compression is a reasonable or unreasonable procedure. Audiophile fans that concern themselves with brand names and are status conscious will never listen to MP3s, no matter how many tests may prove that the sound experience is equivalent in both cases. Skeptics (They are all sissies at ct; I would certainly have heard the difference) should get encoders and CD burners and then submit themselves perhaps even using the same pieces and under similar conditions to their own Pepsi-Test.

http://www.heise.de/ct/schlagseite/07/08/gross.jpg

(In German, but you get the idea without the text)

I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. Prior art should still hold in that you can't patent something that was described by DaVinci, Ben Franklin, Alexander Graham Bell, Erosthanes, or some dude in Ohio in 1998 on his web site. What first to file means is that the USPTO no longer needs to flip a coin when it gets three applications for the same thing and needs to determine who made the invention when.

See http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/86141 which makes if pretty clear that Germany -- a first to file country -- considers prior art in judging the validity of patents.

Of course, I'm no patent expert, and the US Congress with a little help from the lobbiests is capable of coming up with absolutely abominable legislation . But I'd keep an open mind on this one at least for a while for a while.

see here: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85914

It is not allowed to limit the Home edition to phyiscal machines. (at least in Germany, probably everywhere in the EU)

You think that's bad, wait until the US gets full control over the DNS root.

* seriously, how would Mac users feel if Office for Mac literally ran in a simulated Windows XP environment, complete with Windows-style widgets and the XP GUI skin layed over the top of it?

It was called Office 98 for Mac. This screenshot illustrates it rather nicely.

And to be honest, although they have managed an icon redesign, Office 2004 is still a pile of un-Mac-like Windozey shit. Part of me hopes that with the need to make a Universal (i.e. PowerPC and x86 compatible) version, Office 2008 for Mac will be less shit, but then I see every other piece of software that Microsoft has produced and my heart sinks...

I do agree with your assessment that iTunes and QuickTime are dreadful and bloated though. Alongside Office, they are the two worst pieces of software on the Mac (lots of pre-OS X-era Carbon cruft; QuickTime's must go back 15 years). But at the same time, iTunes is still probably the best damn jukebox software out there.

iqu :~

There are more earthshaking News around. Se there http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/87582 (german). The Mozilla Foundation wants 1.4 Billion US$ from Microsoft because of a patent registered in 1922. :-D

Predictably, the page ended up with a big shiny moon. Surprisingly enough, the moon did stay online for a couple of hours until it finally was taken down.

During that same year, a number of other Sql sewer shites that had the misfortune of being linked by Slashdot or other geeky sites were mooned in a similar fashion. IIRC, one gaming site was mooned early Saturday morning, and only demooned in the very late evening. So yes, even moons can survive more than a trivial amount of time.

Predictably, the page ended up with a big shiny moon. Surprisingly enough, the moon did stay online for a couple of hours until it finally was taken down.

During that same year, a number of other Sql sewer shites that had the misfortune of being linked by Slashdot or other geeky sites were mooned in a similar fashion. IIRC, one gaming site was mooned early Saturday morning, and only demooned in the very late evening. So yes, even moons can survive more than a trivial amount of time.

...that the software emulation will allow to scale the PS2-games to 720p high def resolution.
It doesn't mention that Sony want's to bring the backward compatbility to an level almost
as high as the hardware emulation in the US/Japan PS3 is too. See http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85781
(in German). Not so bad as ist sounds.

According to heise the new 45 watt versions are the followups to the old 65 watts EE version (not the 35 watts EE SFF versions). While the EE SFF were essentially unavailable, the "normal" EE versions were available. At least here in Germany.

Bye egghat.

Perhaps you are referring to this?

Why is that ridiculous? That guy had offered a service (http://www.my-g-mail.com/) before Google came up with its GMail. That service also dealt with email. The difference is that you could get your emails delivered as physical (snail) mail, too.

In opposite to the typical domain grabber, there's an actual product behind, which he tries to defend. And just for your information, the first german court rulings dealing about case date back to 2005 (http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/61419 ), so this is not something brand new.

I won't put him in the categorie "get big money quick", given the fact that he didn't try to make monetary deals with Google since two years, but instead defends his business.

Yes, you can. Assuming you have the complete /i386 installation directory with its .cab files, you can use these tools to make a bootable installation CD. There's an article (in german, sorry) about how it works. You may want to slipstream all the post SP2-updates as well, and I'd recommend ross' cygwin/makefile based setup for this.

Yes, you can. Assuming you have the complete /i386 installation directory with its .cab files, you can use these tools to make a bootable installation CD. There's an article (in german, sorry) about how it works. You may want to slipstream all the post SP2-updates as well, and I'd recommend ross' cygwin/makefile based setup for this.

How long has the ECMA-376 spec been available to the public for review? How long was the OASIS ODF standard available to the public before being published as an ISO Standard?

Answer: 1 Month vs. 1.5 years respectively.

So, Microsoft rams a specification through the ECMA in a quarter of the time as ODF was moved through OASIS, significantly increases the volume of the standard over their original specs, at least one major partner voted against it, then gives everyone exactly one month to review it before it becomes an international standard, and somehow that makes the industry a bunch of whiners for complaining about having only one month to review their standard. Right.

The Infoworld article is misleading and wrong (american journalism at work).
What has been reported in German-language news (see heise: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/83790)
is simply that steps are being taken to create a central list of banned games in member states.
This in itself has NO effect on the actual bans or lack thereof.
The second thing is that the EU justice comissionary wants to (rough quote) "harmonise member state laws" on the matter (or as he refers to it, protection of children). It seems more likely that he means the list can be used by other countries, not that the EU will ban things directly.

It's in German, but check out this:
http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/83678
http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/83678/1
(the last one has a little table that compares the performance of VMware and Virtualbox)

It's in German, but check out this:
http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/83678
http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/83678/1
(the last one has a little table that compares the performance of VMware and Virtualbox)

Tehre is a german review:
http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/83678/
As they say it seems to be quite promissing.

If you read this: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html Of course, it you managed to enter your key into an OS, you want to make sure that it is and stays widely used.

Does this affect the warranty?

Yes; in any case it voids the warranty and may even be borderline illegal, but generally tolerated by the phone manufacturers. You also need special geer whiich can cost a few hundred Euros.

Assuming that you are a German speaker. ct' had an interesting article on the subject a few month ago. It's available for sale online for 0.70 EUR: here.

The only time you ask the NSA for help,
is after they have given you instructions.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/5/5263/1.html

And they are seldom interested in your silly little marketing details.

If you hold MS stock, be afraid.
Be very, very afraid

Theseus is thought to be some /semantic/ search engine, so this would be at least something new compared with Google. But don't ask me what is exactly meant by "semantic search engine", nor ask me about Theseus, I did not find any link on its project page. I have this information from German Heise forum some weeks ago (it's in German!):

        http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/82708/from/ rss09