Much more importantly, Europe could fairly easily become self sufficient in fuel if it substituted ethanol for petrol and vegetable oil for Diesel - why we don't do this is a total mystery to me
We do have the North Sea oil, but I believe like the USA, they would rather use oil from the rest of the world, which is usually cheaper. Having our own oil and not using it allows us to have a certain bargining tool on the table when buying oil from others.
This makes me very happy, more music to buy from Apple!
I agree with this sentiment, but the next step I would like to see from Apple is the ability to access their service from outside of the USA and most importantly any platform, this includes both Linux and MS-Windows. Either that or let's just hope that no one signs any exclusive contracts, since I still want the option of buying my music from another distributor.
The last point brings up another point. Part of the larger problem appears to be film and record companies trying to keep their distributors happy (region encoding on DVDs is really for this reason). This appears to be the real bottleneck in getting the audio and visual media to the client. If the distributor doesn't want to take the risk, on selling music of smaller bands, then you are left having to finding out doing the foot work yourself. Online music reduces the distribution costs and the risks, so hopefully we should be seeing more smaller artists and international music, available outside of their intended market - yay!
One other thing is hopefully Apple won't increase the price of the songs as a particular one becomes popular. For example the CD for T.a.t.u. when it first came out in Canada was $11, now that they have become popular the price has shot up to $20!?
Sure, we could all sign an NDA and then look at the SCO code, but most of us are not interested in what the SCO code is. We simply want to know what code in LINUX has been, apparently, copied, from SCO, without permission. For this no NDA is needed, since that code is clearly already available to the public. SCO does not appear to be willing to do this, since it knows that a public discussion, on what is available to be seen,would likely kill its case. Until SCO stops throwing FUD around, I like many others are going to have a hard time taking them seriously. The only thing we can do is wait for SCO and IBM to hash it out in the courts, as SCO appears unwilling to provide any evidence to the press and the public in general.
If their claims have any validity, then why keep the details secret?
This is like Bush claiming the USA knows that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, not showing anyone the evidence and then looking a bit sheepish after the war is over not beng able to find any (maybe time will prove otherwise, we will just have to see).
SCO is spreading FUD and is trying to blackmale everyone, unless they show evidence quickly the should retract their claims. Maybe SCO should be pressured into showing their evidence, or be issued a cease and decist, or whatever is appropriate in this case.
Doing a search for 'Caldera Systems' at the USPTO only shows one patent. I am having a little trouble finding patents held by SCO. If anyone can list the patents held by SCO and Caldera it would be very much appreciated.
That's where it would be handy to have a traditional space capsule on standby. Of course, given the fact they can only fit three people max, it would require three launches, or a single launch vehicle with three capsules. The capsules would then be able to dock with the shuttle to let everyone out and would then return to Earth as the Soyuz does. This is a knee jerk idea, so there are probably limiting factors that I have not taken into account.
BTW does anyone know what the minimum crew required to fly a shuttle?
Also, adding to the reply of the parent post, OpenGL has the huge advantage of being portable. I have talked to one or two games developers who have told me that porting the OpenGL portion of their game to another platform is fairly straighforward. The remaining 5% of the work is usually politics and platform specific configurations and this is what is the hardest. BTW if my two games programmers' opinion is not representitive of the rest of the games developers, please let me know.
Would it be resonable for an ISP to restrict the number of recipients that can be associated with an given e-mail? For example if an e-mail has more than 50 recipients the server would bounce the e-mail asking the sender to reduce the number of recipients on the e-mail or for the sender to include a time variable ID (would be valid for 24 hours) in an extended field. This would require some mailing-list programs to be rewritten, but it would ensure that the address to which the e-mail was bounced actually exists. Spammers would not be able to get the bounced message because of forged from address, but mailing lists which use real address could be automated to deal with this.
For this we will need to define two extended headers, one for providing the ID and expiry time to the 'bouncee' and another for the original sender to resend the e-mail. The content of the bounced message would be human readable to allow the same thing to be done by hand.
I have been in contact with a friend in Tallinn, Estonia and he tells me that Tallin is full of publically accessible Wi-Fi hot spots. You can see more on this page, referenced at Wifi Free hot spots.
It looks like the only reason they wanted Iraq was as a guinea pig state to test if certain laws work there before they do in the states. If GWB, and his clowns, starts imposing USA laws and making Iraq a US colony, then he will have succeeded in alienating any other country that accepted the Iraq war.
[rant] Repeat after me: Iraq is and should be treated as a soverign country and the culture of that country should be respected. The people come before the mega-corporation global economics! [/rant]
You might want to check out this open source implementation - note: it is free for non-commerical use. As far as I can tell it is part of the MPEG 4 specification.
For those of you wanting to play AAC file on Linux, then you should check out Audio Coding. It is open source under the GPL. There is both an encoder and decoder.
There are no mass graves, but there are citizens being detained without charge (a number of cases have appeared on '/.'). This is not as bad, but it is still against basic human-rights.
The USA is still the only 'civilised' country that still has member states using the death penalty.
No country is without fault. No country should use external poltics as a way of covering the interal mess. No country should ignore human-rights, whether in time of peace or time of war.
Yeah, I'll be getting a computer with Palladium WinHEC freezes over!
Or when the computer is labelled as such. I am worried that the marketing guys who usually print every possible buzz word on the box will hide this in the small print.
I have the opposite problem with Opera 7. If I hit back, it will get the page from the cache, which can be annoying when it's a page I'm working on, and I know it's changed since I last loaded it...
If that is the case why don't you add an expiry value for the duration of development, or whenever you know that the page is going to expire. This way the browser knows when it should be reloading the page from the network.
You could try the BBC and do a search on the subject. You could use Google news and do a search there. Other, English language, news sources from around the world include:
Part of the problem is that they keep on playing musical chairs with the viewing times. Most of the 'dumb' programs get aired at the same time every week. Try this with your programs for 'people who think a bit more' (I couldn't find a more PC way of putting it:/ ) and you have to to hunt around to see where Fox has put it this week, or what football match is being shown instead. This is part of the reason I gave cable the boot. What I do want to see is either killed off just as I am getting into it and the adverts just kill me - like many people on/. I capable of concentrating for an hour without needing to get up, so the adverts, especially at the climax, just make me fed up.
I buy DVDs because there are NO adverts and I can watch them when I want. Sure I could record them off TV, but that assumes that the program is on at the same time as it was last week and that what ever sports match isn't taking priority. As you have guessed I am not much of an American Football fan;)
If CmdrTaco is posting an article then it is most certainly a dupe. Past history has made is quite clear. CmdrTaco posts should be considered flashbacks for those of us who were asleep;)
I don't know about how much of this is dependent on company policy or the paranoia of the system admin.
I have one system admin, who is a friend, and locks everythinmg down hard, mainly because of company politics. Everyone is protecting the backs and nobody wants to get the blame. In such a scenario if you don't allow anyone to stray, then nobody will, but then it isn't always good for the work atmosphere. It works in his case since the company he works for is in the business of large scale retail.
In some cases all you have to is ask, and be willing to make your point. If you are dealing with a large company then you need to know the politics. Sometimes asking your boss will do, sometimes being friendly with sys admin guys will also do. Acting in a professional manner and making everyone feel respected will often pay off and works both ways.
The two companies I was happiest with were the two where the programmers used the computers as if they were their own. Programmers tend to be very protective of their work space and the computer often reflects their approach to doing things. Some will be a reflection of the cutting edge experimenter, trying every new gadget on the block and another will that of minimalist installing on the necessary and trashing what isn't.
Mileage will always vary, since people aren't the same and politics aren't either. In one scenario the response to the same question will be no and in another it will be yes. Until you try you don't know.
Writing this I am wondering whether this would be the sort of question you could ask at an interview and whether this would make a good question for ask slashdot. I'll let you submit the story.
I had a company like this and didn't stay long (2.5 months), though while I was there they did make a a small exception to me using my own computer for development (I had a portble that surpased the work's computer in capability), but they wouldn't allow me access to Window shares:(.
I also worked at another company where they tried locking everything down and I managed to make my point to the right people and got things loosened up a bit. They then later on tried removing local admin rights for the developers, on Windows NT, and internet access. Once again I managed to keep our needs:)
I am a strong advocate that a comfortable developer is one that can actually install a new API when (s)he wants to. Usually in nazi, style admin environments I make the point that I will support my own computer if they just give me the tools I need. This usually get's them off my back.
Of course your mileage might vary.
Haven't re-read my text, so this might be total giberish
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Does the AT7-Max Legacy free motherboard also have a parallel ATA connector. While I am happy to see the rest of the connectors go, this is the only one which matters to me, since nobody near me sells any serial ATA based drives.
The other reason is legal. If/. started mirroring sites you're bound to have some guy saying 'site down since/. is mirroring without permission, followed by the cease and disist'.
You can't please everyone. BTW no body expects to be/.ed, but nor should the expect that it won't be.
Slashdot Mirror
Much more importantly, Europe could fairly easily become self sufficient in fuel if it substituted ethanol for petrol and vegetable oil for Diesel - why we don't do this is a total mystery to me
We do have the North Sea oil, but I believe like the USA, they would rather use oil from the rest of the world, which is usually cheaper. Having our own oil and not using it allows us to have a certain bargining tool on the table when buying oil from others.
This makes me very happy, more music to buy from Apple!
I agree with this sentiment, but the next step I would like to see from Apple is the ability to access their service from outside of the USA and most importantly any platform, this includes both Linux and MS-Windows. Either that or let's just hope that no one signs any exclusive contracts, since I still want the option of buying my music from another distributor.
The last point brings up another point. Part of the larger problem appears to be film and record companies trying to keep their distributors happy (region encoding on DVDs is really for this reason). This appears to be the real bottleneck in getting the audio and visual media to the client. If the distributor doesn't want to take the risk, on selling music of smaller bands, then you are left having to finding out doing the foot work yourself. Online music reduces the distribution costs and the risks, so hopefully we should be seeing more smaller artists and international music, available outside of their intended market - yay!
One other thing is hopefully Apple won't increase the price of the songs as a particular one becomes popular. For example the CD for T.a.t.u. when it first came out in Canada was $11, now that they have become popular the price has shot up to $20!?
While not shaped the same, you could have a look at MacAlly's netkey . Tell you the truth though, maybe just getting the keyboard in white would help.
Sure, we could all sign an NDA and then look at the SCO code, but most of us are not interested in what the SCO code is. We simply want to know what code in LINUX has been, apparently, copied, from SCO, without permission. For this no NDA is needed, since that code is clearly already available to the public. SCO does not appear to be willing to do this, since it knows that a public discussion, on what is available to be seen,would likely kill its case. Until SCO stops throwing FUD around, I like many others are going to have a hard time taking them seriously. The only thing we can do is wait for SCO and IBM to hash it out in the courts, as SCO appears unwilling to provide any evidence to the press and the public in general.
If their claims have any validity, then why keep the details secret?
This is like Bush claiming the USA knows that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, not showing anyone the evidence and then looking a bit sheepish after the war is over not beng able to find any (maybe time will prove otherwise, we will just have to see).
SCO is spreading FUD and is trying to blackmale everyone, unless they show evidence quickly the should retract their claims. Maybe SCO should be pressured into showing their evidence, or be issued a cease and decist, or whatever is appropriate in this case.
Doing a search for 'Caldera Systems' at the USPTO only shows one patent. I am having a little trouble finding patents held by SCO. If anyone can list the patents held by SCO and Caldera it would be very much appreciated.
That's where it would be handy to have a traditional space capsule on standby. Of course, given the fact they can only fit three people max, it would require three launches, or a single launch vehicle with three capsules. The capsules would then be able to dock with the shuttle to let everyone out and would then return to Earth as the Soyuz does. This is a knee jerk idea, so there are probably limiting factors that I have not taken into account.
BTW does anyone know what the minimum crew required to fly a shuttle?
Also, adding to the reply of the parent post, OpenGL has the huge advantage of being portable. I have talked to one or two games developers who have told me that porting the OpenGL portion of their game to another platform is fairly straighforward. The remaining 5% of the work is usually politics and platform specific configurations and this is what is the hardest. BTW if my two games programmers' opinion is not representitive of the rest of the games developers, please let me know.
Here is a link to the guidelines.
Would it be resonable for an ISP to restrict the number of recipients that can be associated with an given e-mail? For example if an e-mail has more than 50 recipients the server would bounce the e-mail asking the sender to reduce the number of recipients on the e-mail or for the sender to include a time variable ID (would be valid for 24 hours) in an extended field. This would require some mailing-list programs to be rewritten, but it would ensure that the address to which the e-mail was bounced actually exists. Spammers would not be able to get the bounced message because of forged from address, but mailing lists which use real address could be automated to deal with this.
For this we will need to define two extended headers, one for providing the ID and expiry time to the 'bouncee' and another for the original sender to resend the e-mail. The content of the bounced message would be human readable to allow the same thing to be done by hand.
Google support Klingon, amongst the amazing number of languages that they support: Google in Klingon
I have been in contact with a friend in Tallinn, Estonia and he tells me that Tallin is full of publically accessible Wi-Fi hot spots. You can see more on this page, referenced at Wifi Free hot spots.
It looks like the only reason they wanted Iraq was as a guinea pig state to test if certain laws work there before they do in the states. If GWB, and his clowns, starts imposing USA laws and making Iraq a US colony, then he will have succeeded in alienating any other country that accepted the Iraq war.
[rant]
Repeat after me: Iraq is and should be treated as a soverign country and the culture of that country should be respected. The people come before the mega-corporation global economics!
[/rant]
You might want to check out this open source implementation - note: it is free for non-commerical use. As far as I can tell it is part of the MPEG 4 specification.
For those of you wanting to play AAC file on Linux, then you should check out Audio Coding. It is open source under the GPL. There is both an encoder and decoder.
:)
Eat your heart out
There are no mass graves, but there are citizens being detained without charge (a number of cases have appeared on '/.'). This is not as bad, but it is still against basic human-rights.
The USA is still the only 'civilised' country that still has member states using the death penalty.
No country is without fault. No country should use external poltics as a way of covering the interal mess. No country should ignore human-rights, whether in time of peace or time of war.
Yeah, I'll be getting a computer with Palladium WinHEC freezes over!
Or when the computer is labelled as such. I am worried that the marketing guys who usually print every possible buzz word on the box will hide this in the small print.
I have the opposite problem with Opera 7. If I hit back, it will get the page from the cache, which can be annoying when it's a page I'm working on, and I know it's changed since I last loaded it...
If that is the case why don't you add an expiry value for the duration of development, or whenever you know that the page is going to expire. This way the browser knows when it should be reloading the page from the network.
- SABC - South Africa Broadcasting Corporation
- New.com.au
- South african news sources
In certain cases you will have to do search on the subject. BTW It should be Afghanistan, with an 'h'.Part of the problem is that they keep on playing musical chairs with the viewing times. Most of the 'dumb' programs get aired at the same time every week. Try this with your programs for 'people who think a bit more' (I couldn't find a more PC way of putting it :/ ) and you have to to hunt around to see where Fox has put it this week, or what football match is being shown instead. This is part of the reason I gave cable the boot. What I do want to see is either killed off just as I am getting into it and the adverts just kill me - like many people on /. I capable of concentrating for an hour without needing to get up, so the adverts, especially at the climax, just make me fed up.
;)
I buy DVDs because there are NO adverts and I can watch them when I want. Sure I could record them off TV, but that assumes that the program is on at the same time as it was last week and that what ever sports match isn't taking priority. As you have guessed I am not much of an American Football fan
We have Internet Explorer here on the Mac, but that too is refused :( Maybe they should have said Windows Internet Explorer?
If CmdrTaco is posting an article then it is most certainly a dupe. Past history has made is quite clear. CmdrTaco posts should be considered flashbacks for those of us who were asleep ;)
I don't know about how much of this is dependent on company policy or the paranoia of the system admin.
I have one system admin, who is a friend, and locks everythinmg down hard, mainly because of company politics. Everyone is protecting the backs and nobody wants to get the blame. In such a scenario if you don't allow anyone to stray, then nobody will, but then it isn't always good for the work atmosphere. It works in his case since the company he works for is in the business of large scale retail.
In some cases all you have to is ask, and be willing to make your point. If you are dealing with a large company then you need to know the politics. Sometimes asking your boss will do, sometimes being friendly with sys admin guys will also do. Acting in a professional manner and making everyone feel respected will often pay off and works both ways.
The two companies I was happiest with were the two where the programmers used the computers as if they were their own. Programmers tend to be very protective of their work space and the computer often reflects their approach to doing things. Some will be a reflection of the cutting edge experimenter, trying every new gadget on the block and another will that of minimalist installing on the necessary and trashing what isn't.
Mileage will always vary, since people aren't the same and politics aren't either. In one scenario the response to the same question will be no and in another it will be yes. Until you try you don't know.
Writing this I am wondering whether this would be the sort of question you could ask at an interview and whether this would make a good question for ask slashdot. I'll let you submit the story.
I had a company like this and didn't stay long (2.5 months), though while I was there they did make a a small exception to me using my own computer for development (I had a portble that surpased the work's computer in capability), but they wouldn't allow me access to Window shares :(.
:)
I also worked at another company where they tried locking everything down and I managed to make my point to the right people and got things loosened up a bit. They then later on tried removing local admin rights for the developers, on Windows NT, and internet access. Once again I managed to keep our needs
I am a strong advocate that a comfortable developer is one that can actually install a new API when (s)he wants to. Usually in nazi, style admin environments I make the point that I will support my own computer if they just give me the tools I need. This usually get's them off my back.
Of course your mileage might vary.
Haven't re-read my text, so this might be total giberish
Does the AT7-Max Legacy free motherboard also have a parallel ATA connector. While I am happy to see the rest of the connectors go, this is the only one which matters to me, since nobody near me sells any serial ATA based drives.
The other reason is legal. If /. started mirroring sites you're bound to have some guy saying 'site down since /. is mirroring without permission, followed by the cease and disist'.
/.ed, but nor should the expect that it won't be.
You can't please everyone. BTW no body expects to be