in europe they use , instead of . and . instead of ,
Except in the UK, where we use the same as most of the world; '.' for a decimal separator and ',' for a thousand separator... So, despite the UK being part of Europe (the continent) we're much closer to the USA than we are say France.
If only this was the case. It's MHz,or in this case, GHz that sells to Joe Consumer. If the general public bought machines based on the pure speed then Motorola would have a larger userbase with its PowerPC as until recently it ran all over the Intel/AMD offerings...
So whilst the educated buyer will look at the benchmarks and see that a 1.2GHz Athlon (+760 chipset) beats the P4 1.5GHz in a lot of the benchmarks, the uneducated majority will see that 1.5GHz is a lot faster than 1.2GHz and go out and line Intel's pockets, paying a premium in the process.
I would doubt that the hacks he's performed for his own personal entertainment would cause problems, but being a non-american myself and not familiar with the DMCA I'm not certain. Some of the other projects on his site do draw certain parallels with DeCSS, for example, CopyNES.
That's just the attitude that bought about a majority of the incompatabilities on the web in the first place.
IMHO, the W3C standards should _ALWAYS_ be used on a project unless there is a very good reason not to. The fact that the W3C have defined standards saves each project defining their own.
The Register has a little article about this also. They say that it will be used along side ASCI White.. so the worlds fastest compnuter gets the worlds best display... droool... Dear Mr. Bank Manager...
MAC addresses...uniquely identify individual computers
That is assuming that you have a MAC address... isn't that an Ethernet attribute? What if I was running IP over another medium (ATM, TokenRing, etc...)?
IIRC this is similar to the way the Transmeta Crusoe chips work. The code-morphing software is loaded at boot time by the BIOS and then the "door is closed" so that no other changes can occur until the system is reset. I believe that details of this was talked about by Transmeta way back when the Crusoe range was launched.
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With the announcement in May about Corel hosting WineHQ, does anyone else find the small investment that Microsoft made in them earlier this month a little odd.
Could Microsoft's substantial investment have any influence on the direction of Wine? I leave the answer as an exercise for the reader...
IMHO the amaturish nature of Slashdot is part of its appeal. Rather than having "stuffy" feel of the big news sites, the atmosphere is very relaxed here.
Although I do agree a little more care needs to be taken at times to stop mistakes being made to the live site. For example, minutes ago, a story was on the front page entitled "Voices From The Hellmouth Revisited: Part 4 of 10" (screenshot here) which obviously wasn't ready for primetime as it was in need of "Rob's part" The article has now been removed.
The criminal mind and stupidity more than often go together. The in-duh-vidual that lifted the machine is almost certainly the idiot who is trying to extort GBP25K from a charitable organisation that looks after Bletchley Park.
How far can the MPAA reach with its letters? Is this just restricted to the USA, or is my page which links to search engine searches for DeCSS which is hosted in the UK at risk of receiving such a letter?
If US laws can also be applied in the UK then why shouldn't it work the other way... I'd love to see the result of an old English law that says London Taxi drivers are allowed to relieve themselves against the front wheel of their cabs... outside the MPAA's offices would be OK with me!;-)
Similar situation, I use Freeserve purely for my connectivity over ISDN. The throughput at times can be, shall we say, less than optimal, but for the price I don't think that it can be beaten (10GBP for what is effectively a 64Kbs leased line!). Especially as it allows my Linux boxen access throught my router - as you say, no special software is a blessing.
I still use my (paid for) Demon Internet account for email and web hosting, but as their service has been in decline for a while now this may change.
Am I the only one who sees some parallels here with the control that Linus has over the direction of the Linux kernel... he wants it to be open but still keep control of the direction that it takes.
Personally I like Java as a language, and having experience of many languages can see that it suits application development very well. Whilst C/C++ is still superior for low-level (OS) speed critical stuff.
BTW, not a Linux basher - I use it on almost all of my machines, and have been for many years.
Microsoft Word also had a locali[sz]ed version of WordBasic way back.
I know this as I worked in a software house at the time in England and was dealing with a Dutch customer trying to run some WordBasic macros that where written on an English version. The Dutch version of Word (Basic) simply didn't recognise the code. So I spent about a day sitting down with a Dutch user, translating the English WB into Dutch.
Thanksfully the later versions of Word supported the OLE model and the methods where all standardised in English (well, American).
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Shock, Horror, A release from the Torvalds household... Will Debian mark this by naming the next version with the 2.4 kernel Diaper? ;-)
They'll turn "Windows Update" into a revenue stream
in europe they use , instead of . and . instead of ,
Except in the UK, where we use the same as most of the world; '.' for a decimal separator and ',' for a thousand separator... So, despite the UK being part of Europe (the continent) we're much closer to the USA than we are say France.
If only this was the case. It's MHz,or in this case, GHz that sells to Joe Consumer. If the general public bought machines based on the pure speed then Motorola would have a larger userbase with its PowerPC as until recently it ran all over the Intel/AMD offerings...
So whilst the educated buyer will look at the benchmarks and see that a 1.2GHz Athlon (+760 chipset) beats the P4 1.5GHz in a lot of the benchmarks, the uneducated majority will see that 1.5GHz is a lot faster than 1.2GHz and go out and line Intel's pockets, paying a premium in the process.
I would doubt that the hacks he's performed for his own personal entertainment would cause problems, but being a non-american myself and not familiar with the DMCA I'm not certain. Some of the other projects on his site do draw certain parallels with DeCSS, for example, CopyNES.
That's just the attitude that bought about a majority of the incompatabilities on the web in the first place.
IMHO, the W3C standards should _ALWAYS_ be used on a project unless there is a very good reason not to. The fact that the W3C have defined standards saves each project defining their own.
The Register has a little article about this also. They say that it will be used along side ASCI White.. so the worlds fastest compnuter gets the worlds best display... droool... Dear Mr. Bank Manager...
That is assuming that you have a MAC address... isn't that an Ethernet attribute? What if I was running IP over another medium (ATM, TokenRing, etc...)?
IIRC this is similar to the way the Transmeta Crusoe chips work. The code-morphing software is loaded at boot time by the BIOS and then the "door is closed" so that no other changes can occur until the system is reset. I believe that details of this was talked about by Transmeta way back when the Crusoe range was launched.
whois netscape.com is also quite interesting! ;-)
With the announcement in May about Corel hosting WineHQ, does anyone else find the small investment that Microsoft made in them earlier this month a little odd.
Could Microsoft's substantial investment have any influence on the direction of Wine? I leave the answer as an exercise for the reader...
IMHO the amaturish nature of Slashdot is part of its appeal. Rather than having "stuffy" feel of the big news sites, the atmosphere is very relaxed here.
Although I do agree a little more care needs to be taken at times to stop mistakes being made to the live site. For example, minutes ago, a story was on the front page entitled "Voices From The Hellmouth Revisited: Part 4 of 10" (screenshot here) which obviously wasn't ready for primetime as it was in need of "Rob's part" The article has now been removed.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those
IMAGINE? - Don't have to! I drive to work trying to avoid them every morning!
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Will it have a spell checker? ;-)
The criminal mind and stupidity more than often go together. The in-duh-vidual that lifted the machine is almost certainly the idiot who is trying to extort GBP25K from a charitable organisation that looks after Bletchley Park.
striken by an elderly woman nearly head on. Her car was demolished,
That must have been an awfully big woman to do so much damage. ;-)
I know it's not funny given the outcome, but I couldn't resist.
Never store your passwords in plaintext. Preferably, just hash them.
Wouldn't this prevent the ability to have a "mail me my password"?
It doesn't really do a good job of being a proxy as it only translates text. Anonymizer does a better job IMHO.
How far can the MPAA reach with its letters? Is this just restricted to the USA, or is my page which links to search engine searches for DeCSS which is hosted in the UK at risk of receiving such a letter?
If US laws can also be applied in the UK then why shouldn't it work the other way... I'd love to see the result of an old English law that says London Taxi drivers are allowed to relieve themselves against the front wheel of their cabs... outside the MPAA's offices would be OK with me! ;-)
Similar situation, I use Freeserve purely for my connectivity over ISDN. The throughput at times can be, shall we say, less than optimal, but for the price I don't think that it can be beaten (10GBP for what is effectively a 64Kbs leased line!). Especially as it allows my Linux boxen access throught my router - as you say, no special software is a blessing.
I still use my (paid for) Demon Internet account for email and web hosting, but as their service has been in decline for a while now this may change.
Where does Britain turn? Well, FreeServe are offering unmetered use for a flat 10GBP a month!
Oracle has also shipped with default passwords for a while now (as long as I've been involved with it anyway.)
A lot of the systems that I've come across still have system/manager and sys/change_on_install as their configurations...
Am I the only one who sees some parallels here with the control that Linus has over the direction of the Linux kernel... he wants it to be open but still keep control of the direction that it takes.
Personally I like Java as a language, and having experience of many languages can see that it suits application development very well. Whilst C/C++ is still superior for low-level (OS) speed critical stuff.
BTW, not a Linux basher - I use it on almost all of my machines, and have been for many years.
What about all of the secret API code that's used in Windows?
Not to mention that IE is part of the OS! - well, according to the court cases anyway! ;-)
Microsoft Word also had a locali[sz]ed version of WordBasic way back.
I know this as I worked in a software house at the time in England and was dealing with a Dutch customer trying to run some WordBasic macros that where written on an English version. The Dutch version of Word (Basic) simply didn't recognise the code. So I spent about a day sitting down with a Dutch user, translating the English WB into Dutch.
Thanksfully the later versions of Word supported the OLE model and the methods where all standardised in English (well, American).