Counter-intuitively, calling from the US to the UK is considerably cheaper than calling from the UK to the US.
That is true of many countries, and 3 or 4 years ago it was true of the UK. But the UK toll call market is extremely competitive now, and none of the low cost operators are using callback anymore.
>Mizuho is bigger than Citigroup
Not according to Forbes' data.
Which is why I assumed they were only counting US based companies. But it seems my data was out of date, as Mizuho lost 200 billion in the first 18 months of its existence, putting it back behind Citigroup in assets.
Now, if you choose to measure in terms of total company assets, the way Forbes does when they compile their Global 500 list, Citigroup wins. They've got assets worth over $1 trillion.
Except it isn't a Global 500 list, it only includes US based companies. Mizuho is bigger than Citigroup, and with the current exchange rate, probably Deutsche Bank as well.
I'd be really surprised if EMACS didn't offer something similar.
I'd be really surprised if the idea didn't come from Emacs in the first place. outline-mode has existed in Emacs since the '80s, and before it was made to play nicely with other programming modes by default (it used to take a lot of configuration for anything other than bullet-point text like the Emacs NEWS file), someone wrote a folding-mode (apparently in 1992) specifically for curly-brace languages (C/C++ etc).
Wrong. The law was changed in 1990, and a license is only required now for a TV. Just phone 0870 241 6468 and try buying a "radio license" if you don't beleive me.
XWT, like other similar open and closed source solutions that are here now, not whenever Longhorn finally comes out, have the advantage of being cross-platform and simple to use. XAML will be unnecessarily complicated due to Microsoft's efforts to tie it to Windows. A simple solution would be too easy to make cross-platform.
Not bought, granted options over. So unfortunately they are not losing anything as SCOX continues to submit to the pull of gravity past the 7.00 it is now.
As discussed in a thread last week on XUL/Mozilla as a platform, Glade already does generate XML based interface definitions for Gnome. XUL would be an improvement (readability wise) though, but there are a lot of things missing from XUL IMHO so you end up with the ugly hack of embedding Javascript.
Neither JSP nor PHP owe their existance to ASP, and certainly not to ActiveX. Even ASP (which is basically server side Javascript with Microsoft rebranding) doesn't owe much to ActiveX.
Stock Java is not an option because it lacks a few
things: the easy-to-build functionality of a web
page (XAML) and the advanced graphics and rendering
of Avalon.
Sure, they can both be built on top of Java, but
they need to be built, hence the `Come up with our
own competitive stack'.
No, unlike Longhorn/Mono, they do not need to be built, they already have been. There are a number of companies with XAML like technology here and now. I work for one that has been around for 4 years already, and there are many more including some Open Source projects (notably XWT and Luxor). I can't comment on "advanced graphics and rendering", because it is as vague a claim as you'd expect to come out of Microsoft's marketing for a product that is still 2 1/2 years away and slipping.
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Not to be a troll... but professional prints never come from a laser printer...and they cost lots more than 10,000
I have no idea what they cost, I was just guessing a minimum, then I put a + to indicate it was more. But they do use lasers. From photobox.co.uk:
For those that are technically minded, here is some information about our print devices and paper types. For small format work (up to 10"x15") we print on a number of FujiFilm Frontier 370 and 390 printers. These work by exposing red, green and blue laser light onto FujiFilm Crystal Archive photographic paper at 300 DPI (dots per inch). The fade resistance of the prints is rated at 150 years.
For large format work we use a Polielectronica Laserlab. This is a world-class laser-based photographic device which prints onto Agfa Professional digital photographic paper at 254 DPI. The fade resistance of the prints is also rated at 150 years.
That seems to match up with the advice on this site. For A3 prints (closest to 11x17 they offer AFAICT), they recommend 2000+ across, which is 3-4Mp. I've had prints made by them from 2Mp at 8x6, and they came out looking as good as any I've had made from film, so I'd trust their advice (even if the Mp sound a little low compared with what some other Slashdotters are pulling out of their rear ends).
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Some digital camera still don't product pictures that look as good as 3x5 film prints, so they are still chasing higher megapixels for that perfect image quality that they desire.
.... and print out a perfect looking picture at home.
I think that demonstrates the problem here perfectly. People are chasing bigger MP, not because 2 or 3 MP wasn't sufficient to give decent looking snapshots, but because they are trying to print those snapshots at home and then comparing them to professionally printed photos from film.
Send your photos off to a professional company, and pay them 20c per photo to print them on their $10,000+ professional laser printer instead of pissing about with your $100 inkjet that is probably costing you more than 20c per picture in overpriced ink cartridges anyway. Then you will see that even 2MP gives at least as good results as a compact film camera, and 3MP with a decent lens probably comes close to a 35mm SLR.
WEP is very effective when there are 5 other wireless networks in your immediate vicinity, 4 of which are completely open with default SSIDs and passwords, providing all you are trying to protect against is unauthorized use of your bandwidth (not trying to hide sensitive information).
I might be misremembering, but didn't the later versions of Mosaic (or something of that c. 1994 era) support FTP resume?
Even HTTP has supported resume for over 5 years. Its time webbrowsers got with the program.
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That is true of many countries, and 3 or 4 years ago it was true of the UK. But the UK toll call market is extremely competitive now, and none of the low cost operators are using callback anymore.
I don't think following is the word you're looking for.
Salesforce.com have a webservices interface, that can be used by rich clients to deal with the responsiveness problems.
Your brainwashing is complete. Welcome to the new USA.
Not according to Forbes' data.
Which is why I assumed they were only counting US based companies. But it seems my data was out of date, as Mizuho lost 200 billion in the first 18 months of its existence, putting it back behind Citigroup in assets.
Except it isn't a Global 500 list, it only includes US based companies. Mizuho is bigger than Citigroup, and with the current exchange rate, probably Deutsche Bank as well.
I'd be really surprised if the idea didn't come from Emacs in the first place. outline-mode has existed in Emacs since the '80s, and before it was made to play nicely with other programming modes by default (it used to take a lot of configuration for anything other than bullet-point text like the Emacs NEWS file), someone wrote a folding-mode (apparently in 1992) specifically for curly-brace languages (C/C++ etc).
SAP R/3 was released. They use those as default passwords for their software.
I guess AtariAmarok will be changing "(my actual password)" now you've pointed that out.
Wrong. The law was changed in 1990, and a license is only required now for a TV. Just phone 0870 241 6468 and try buying a "radio license" if you don't beleive me.
XWT, like other similar open and closed source solutions that are here now, not whenever Longhorn finally comes out, have the advantage of being cross-platform and simple to use. XAML will be unnecessarily complicated due to Microsoft's efforts to tie it to Windows. A simple solution would be too easy to make cross-platform.
No, the grandparent specifically said that finailizers in Java do not meet his criteria, so that cannot be it.
Not bought, granted options over. So unfortunately they are not losing anything as SCOX continues to submit to the pull of gravity past the 7.00 it is now.
As discussed in a thread last week on XUL/Mozilla as a platform, Glade already does generate XML based interface definitions for Gnome. XUL would be an improvement (readability wise) though, but there are a lot of things missing from XUL IMHO so you end up with the ugly hack of embedding Javascript.
Neither JSP nor PHP owe their existance to ASP, and certainly not to ActiveX. Even ASP (which is basically server side Javascript with Microsoft rebranding) doesn't owe much to ActiveX.
Sure, they can both be built on top of Java, but they need to be built, hence the `Come up with our own competitive stack'.
No, unlike Longhorn/Mono, they do not need to be built, they already have been. There are a number of companies with XAML like technology here and now. I work for one that has been around for 4 years already, and there are many more including some Open Source projects (notably XWT and Luxor). I can't comment on "advanced graphics and rendering", because it is as vague a claim as you'd expect to come out of Microsoft's marketing for a product that is still 2 1/2 years away and slipping.
I have no idea what they cost, I was just guessing a minimum, then I put a + to indicate it was more. But they do use lasers. From photobox.co.uk:
That seems to match up with the advice on this site. For A3 prints (closest to 11x17 they offer AFAICT), they recommend 2000+ across, which is 3-4Mp. I've had prints made by them from 2Mp at 8x6, and they came out looking as good as any I've had made from film, so I'd trust their advice (even if the Mp sound a little low compared with what some other Slashdotters are pulling out of their rear ends).
I think that demonstrates the problem here perfectly. People are chasing bigger MP, not because 2 or 3 MP wasn't sufficient to give decent looking snapshots, but because they are trying to print those snapshots at home and then comparing them to professionally printed photos from film.
Send your photos off to a professional company, and pay them 20c per photo to print them on their $10,000+ professional laser printer instead of pissing about with your $100 inkjet that is probably costing you more than 20c per picture in overpriced ink cartridges anyway. Then you will see that even 2MP gives at least as good results as a compact film camera, and 3MP with a decent lens probably comes close to a 35mm SLR.
Since when is it a security-focussed feature to install your binaries in a writable partition?
To back that up, the Netstumbler docs state that quite clearly.
WEP is very effective when there are 5 other wireless networks in your immediate vicinity, 4 of which are completely open with default SSIDs and passwords, providing all you are trying to protect against is unauthorized use of your bandwidth (not trying to hide sensitive information).
It's not quite that illogical, he does make a connection between wearing pants and peach pie to justify his stupidity. So I'd rewrite that as:
"I'm going to stop wearing pants because I don't like peach pie, and people that eat peach pie sometimes wear pants."
Try September 17th. June 11th is the 65th day of the tax year in the UK (not just Britain either).
I might be misremembering, but didn't the later versions of Mosaic (or something of that c. 1994 era) support FTP resume? Even HTTP has supported resume for over 5 years. Its time webbrowsers got with the program.