Which ass are you speaking out of? Unlike "North American Continent" where everyone uses english (and ok -- some amount of Spanish) the Indian Subcontinent has about 17 different "official" languages, + many hundreds local languages and dialects, and at LEAST 5 different scripts (I think the number is more like 10).
So if you want to do business with that large a demographic, you bet your ass it has to support all those languages.
(as an Example -- which $MegaCorp in Southern states (California... Texas) does _NOT_ provide Spanish as an option for users)
Sorry to say, you made a mistake in your math too. The answer is 14.
You are making cupcakes for a party at which there will be 40 people. Half of them will be teenagers, a quarter of them will be adults, and the rest will be babies. Half of the babies don't like cupcakes, and one fifth of the babies left are too young to eat cupcakes. Half of the adults and three-quarters of the teenagers like chocolate cupcakes, and the rest of the people like cupcakes with sprinkles on them.
This gives us
20 Teeagers
10 Adults
10 Babies
5 babies do not like cupcakes, 2 are too young, so 3 babies eat cupcakes -- WRONG: 5 babies don't like cupcakes, and 1/5 of the remaining (i.e. 1/5 of 5 babies, not 10) are too young to eat cupcakes (see above)
5 adults and 15 teenagers do chocolate cupcakes
This leaves us with 5 adults, 5 teens, and 4 babies to eat cupcakes with sprinkles, which totals 14.
(of course, as another poster below mentioned -- Chocolate and Sprinkle cupcakes are not exclusive -- so at least 14 but as many as 34 cupcakes, assuming one per person)
Other than what MightyYar and eMartin have already posted, CutePDF works amazingly well. Best part is its FREE free (no watermark, expiry dates, etc) and is just a frontend to Alladin Ghostscript.
I do believe the parent meant man-in-the-middle INTERCEPT rather than SNIFF.
If Alice and Bob are trying to communicate securely, and need to exchange keys, Alice can't simply send the key to Bob, cos Trudy can intercept it, and send out a DIFFERENT key to Bob, who is then replying to Trudy not Alice. Unless Bob knows that the key he received was indeed sent by Alice, the whole system just went out the door.
Yeah, I love perforce too. The good thing is (if you RTF Licensing terms from the website) is that GPL/BSD and other open source projects can get a P4 license for free.
Blockquoth the site:
Organizations developing software that is licensed or otherwise distributed exclusively under an Open Source license may be eligible to obtain Perforce licenses gratis. This includes upgrades but not support. Perforce Software reserves the right to approve the Open Source license; those fitting The Open Source Definition, including the GNU and FreeBSD licenses, are good candidates. Execution of a End User License Agreement for Open Source Software Development (PDF) is required. For more information, please see the Perforce and Open Source FAQ or contact opensource [at] perforce [dot] com
Seriously though, I won't want to use my cellphone to browse the internet. However, hooking it up to a PC is a wonderful thing to do, as people alreay are with CDMA phones in India (Reliance, Tata Indicom, etc)
Agreed that the terrain is not as demanding as in Nepal (flat plains vs. extremely hilly), but the goals look similar. They also have a pretty Coverage Map
The ranges they get out of wifi links are also pretty good - 5kms is on ordinary antennas, while with properly aimed parabolic antennae (antennas?) they get upto 40 kms (25 miles)
"This membrane acts like a drum, and each key hits the drum in a different location and produces a unique frequency or sound that the neural networking software can decipher," said Asonov.
Well, while hitting the keys harder or softer may make little difference (note that the frequency is captured), doing weird tricks like
typing at 5 wpm rather than 50
mistyping a few keys, and going back and forth to correct the errors
I have used P4 (perforce) to keep a lot of files in sync between two locations. Fortunately, I had only two locations, so the 2-user 2-client limit never was exceeded.
In case you want more clients/users, you can try for any of the following:
1. CVS (http://www.cvshome.org/) 2. GNU Arch (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/) 3. SubVersion (http://subversion.tigris.org/)
All these are excellent source control tools, and operate over ordinary TCP/IP (don't need a special setup).
Avoid tools like Visual SourceSafe because they require a network-mapped drive to work.
http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparis on.html gives a comparitive list of version control systems out there.
Microsoft hit by record EU fine Microsoft is to appeal against the EU's decision Software giant Microsoft must pay a fine of 497m euros ($613m; 331m) for abusing its dominant market position, the EU has ordered.
EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti also insisted Microsoft must reveal secrets of its Windows software, which sits on 90% of the world's PCs.
The European Commission approved Microsoft's punishment on Wednesday.
Microsoft has already said it will appeal, kicking off a legal battle that could last years.
Mr Monti said he was confident "that we have produced here a decision that will stand before any appeal".
Microsoft has a cash pile of more than $50bn, so even a fine on this scale - a record for the EU in an antitrust case - is unlikely to hurt it commercially.
Battle lines
Industry experts say that the non-financial penalties are likely to hurt Microsoft more by opening it to further challenges and altering the regulatory environment it operates in.
Mr Monti has ordered Microsoft to reveal details of its Windows software codes within 120 days, to make it easier for rivals to design compatible products.
Microsoft must offer a stripped-down version of its Windows operating system minus the firm's MediaPlayer audiovisual software within 90 days.
Microsoft will still be allowed to sell Windows with Media Player bundled in.
Announcing the penalties, Mr Monti said they restored the conditions for fair competition in the software market.
"Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition...and does not harm consumers and innovation," he said.
More transparent Windows
By setting limits on Microsoft's practice of bundling software and services with its Windows operating system, Mr Monti has struck a blow against a key part of the software firm's commercial strategy.
He said the Commission would appoint a trustee to make sure Microsoft reveals "complete and accurate" software codes "and that the two versions of Windows are equivalent in terms of performance."
Mr Monti's demand for a more transparent Windows proved the sticking point in failed talks between Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Mr Monti last week.
The five year EU case was launched after complaints from rival makers of audiovisual software that Microsoft was protecting its own media player and squeezing out others.
Mr Monti said the EU decision did not break new legal ground in either Europe or the US, nor did it expropriate Microsoft's intellectual property.
"Our decision is about protecting consumer choice and stimulating innovation", he told a newsconference.
'Unfair'
Microsoft claims that it should not be fined at all because it did not know its behaviour would breach EU law.
Microsoft spokesman Tom Brookes said the firm believes the settlement it proposed last week "would have been better for European consumers".
The software giant said it would continue to co-operate with the EU but would seek a legal review of the Commission's decision.
The appeal is expected to begin in a Luxembourg court but the legal battle could go all the way to the European Court of Justice.
The fine tops the EU's previous record of 462m euros. That penalty was imposed on pharmaceutical group Roche after a scandal involving price fixing in the vitamin pills market.
Last-ditch talks to agree a settlement between Mr Monti and Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer broke down last week.
Following the talks, Mr Monti said: "It is essential to have a precedent which will establish clear principles for the future conduct of a company with such a strong dominant position."
The EU's investigation has found Microsoft to be an "abusive monopolist" which has skewed the market for audiovisual software to the detriment of its rivals.
Because Thunderbird Just Works (r)(tm)(other crap) . All that is required is to enable spam filtering on the specified account.
For Outlook/Express, you have to google for the plugin, ensure that it is free (or can be cracked, which shouldn't be done in a business environment anyway) or pay the $PRICE for it, install it, and hope it works.
And who said you have to <quote> diving into a huge app, making changes, and maintaining my changes over new versions </quote>? Thunderbird is a simple ZIP file which you dump into your C:\Program Files or wherever you please.
Here is one place where Thunderbird "Just Works" - why not try it?
Slashdot Mirror
Given the number of people on MySpace who can spell properly, I would say quite a large proportion ;)
Shouldn't that be "America doesn't use 24 hour clock time like Europe does, we're insensitive clods!"
Which ass are you speaking out of? Unlike "North American Continent" where everyone uses english (and ok -- some amount of Spanish) the Indian Subcontinent has about 17 different "official" languages, + many hundreds local languages and dialects, and at LEAST 5 different scripts (I think the number is more like 10).
... Texas) does _NOT_ provide Spanish as an option for users)
So if you want to do business with that large a demographic, you bet your ass it has to support all those languages.
(as an Example -- which $MegaCorp in Southern states (California
More like "Land OFF the free" ?
Apparently, you are new here ...
Yeah, but if you have a PocketPC based PDA, you can already run Skype on it.
No need to have a SIP service (which may/not gateway into your asterisk box).
And then, finally
;)
Web 3 1/337 => The final insult
(of course, as another poster below mentioned -- Chocolate and Sprinkle cupcakes are not exclusive -- so at least 14 but as many as 34 cupcakes, assuming one per person)
Other than what MightyYar and eMartin have already posted, CutePDF works amazingly well. Best part is its FREE free (no watermark, expiry dates, etc) and is just a frontend to Alladin Ghostscript.
I do believe the parent meant man-in-the-middle INTERCEPT rather than SNIFF.
If Alice and Bob are trying to communicate securely, and need to exchange keys, Alice can't simply send the key to Bob, cos Trudy can intercept it, and send out a DIFFERENT key to Bob, who is then replying to Trudy not Alice. Unless Bob knows that the key he received was indeed sent by Alice, the whole system just went out the door.
Blockquoth the site:
In case someone manages to /. the torrents themselves, here is an alternate location.
In Soviet America, YOU tell on Airlines!
sorry, had to be said.
I thought we already had those.
Oh.. Wait.
The purpose of call-hold music is to indicate that you have not hung up. So why not send soft beeps, once in a while, so that
(a) the exchange does not terminate the call thinking that there is no activity
(b) the listener doesnt get pissed off listening to some (great?) music played over a crap 3KHz bandwidth phone line
Seriously though, I won't want to use my cellphone to browse the internet. However, hooking it up to a PC is a wonderful thing to do, as people alreay are with CDMA phones in India (Reliance, Tata Indicom, etc)
GZ List in vanilla HTML (Have mercy on my server too!)
Agreed that the terrain is not as demanding as in Nepal (flat plains vs. extremely hilly), but the goals look similar. They also have a pretty Coverage Map
The ranges they get out of wifi links are also pretty good - 5kms is on ordinary antennas, while with properly aimed parabolic antennae (antennas?) they get upto 40 kms (25 miles)
Well, while hitting the keys harder or softer may make little difference (note that the frequency is captured), doing weird tricks like
How about Robot Grad Students?
Mod Parent Up!
s on .html gives a comparitive list of version control systems out there.
I have used P4 (perforce) to keep a lot of files in sync between two locations. Fortunately, I had only two locations, so the 2-user 2-client limit never was exceeded.
In case you want more clients/users, you can try for any of the following:
1. CVS (http://www.cvshome.org/)
2. GNU Arch (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/)
3. SubVersion (http://subversion.tigris.org/)
All these are excellent source control tools, and operate over ordinary TCP/IP (don't need a special setup).
Avoid tools like Visual SourceSafe because they require a network-mapped drive to work.
http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/compari
Microsoft hit by record EU fine
Microsoft is to appeal against the EU's decision
Software giant Microsoft must pay a fine of 497m euros ($613m; 331m) for abusing its dominant market position, the EU has ordered.
EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti also insisted Microsoft must reveal secrets of its Windows software, which sits on 90% of the world's PCs.
The European Commission approved Microsoft's punishment on Wednesday.
Microsoft has already said it will appeal, kicking off a legal battle that could last years.
Mr Monti said he was confident "that we have produced here a decision that will stand before any appeal".
Microsoft has a cash pile of more than $50bn, so even a fine on this scale - a record for the EU in an antitrust case - is unlikely to hurt it commercially.
Battle lines
Industry experts say that the non-financial penalties are likely to hurt Microsoft more by opening it to further challenges and altering the regulatory environment it operates in.
Mr Monti has ordered Microsoft to reveal details of its Windows software codes within 120 days, to make it easier for rivals to design compatible products.
Microsoft must offer a stripped-down version of its Windows operating system minus the firm's MediaPlayer audiovisual software within 90 days.
Microsoft will still be allowed to sell Windows with Media Player bundled in.
Announcing the penalties, Mr Monti said they restored the conditions for fair competition in the software market.
"Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition...and does not harm consumers and innovation," he said.
More transparent Windows
By setting limits on Microsoft's practice of bundling software and services with its Windows operating system, Mr Monti has struck a blow against a key part of the software firm's commercial strategy.
He said the Commission would appoint a trustee to make sure Microsoft reveals "complete and accurate" software codes "and that the two versions of Windows are equivalent in terms of performance."
Mr Monti's demand for a more transparent Windows proved the sticking point in failed talks between Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer and Mr Monti last week.
The five year EU case was launched after complaints from rival makers of audiovisual software that Microsoft was protecting its own media player and squeezing out others.
Mr Monti said the EU decision did not break new legal ground in either Europe or the US, nor did it expropriate Microsoft's intellectual property.
"Our decision is about protecting consumer choice and stimulating innovation", he told a newsconference.
'Unfair'
Microsoft claims that it should not be fined at all because it did not know its behaviour would breach EU law.
Microsoft spokesman Tom Brookes said the firm believes the settlement it proposed last week "would have been better for European consumers".
The software giant said it would continue to co-operate with the EU but would seek a legal review of the Commission's decision.
The appeal is expected to begin in a Luxembourg court but the legal battle could go all the way to the European Court of Justice.
The fine tops the EU's previous record of 462m euros. That penalty was imposed on pharmaceutical group Roche after a scandal involving price fixing in the vitamin pills market.
Last-ditch talks to agree a settlement between Mr Monti and Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer broke down last week.
Following the talks, Mr Monti said: "It is essential to have a precedent which will establish clear principles for the future conduct of a company with such a strong dominant position."
The EU's investigation has found Microsoft to be an "abusive monopolist" which has skewed the market for audiovisual software to the detriment of its rivals.
Whatever happened to the good old LOC (Libraries of Congress)?
You mean like DNF? I hope not ...
Because Thunderbird Just Works (r)(tm)(other crap) . All that is required is to enable spam filtering on the specified account.
For Outlook/Express, you have to google for the plugin, ensure that it is free (or can be cracked, which shouldn't be done in a business environment anyway) or pay the $PRICE for it, install it, and hope it works.
And who said you have to <quote> diving into a huge app, making changes, and maintaining my changes over new versions </quote>? Thunderbird is a simple ZIP file which you dump into your C:\Program Files or wherever you please.
Here is one place where Thunderbird "Just Works" - why not try it?