a 10 figure grid reference is accurate to 1 square meter on your map. What scale are you using? Which map? Which edition? Grid references are too simplistic to this situation.
I have seen a MS smart phone being demoed at a recent MS product launch here in Sydney. The phone, apart from working as a standard GSM mobile, uses a GPRS internet connection to also connect to an exchange server (best with MSX 2003). (again this is carrier independent) Besides, for those who have used the XDA (a WINCE with mobile built in) can tell that the difference is only superficial, from a distance anyway) So, I not exactly sure what this news is all about. It's probably in relation to launching the phone with some extra value-added services usable only with the smartphone. I wouldn't read too much into it.
I'll give my reason for not running OSX on my B&W G3. It simply does not run. 'Huh?' I hear you say. For some reason OSX does not run on this G3. I'm assuming it's the RAM. I have ~750Mb (not Apple RAM). OS9 and Mandrake Linux run OK. OSX crashes a couple of minutes (on a good day) after I boot. I'm not about to fork USD $100 for 128Mb RAM from Apple and then pay another $100 for the OS. I don't need to. I'd like to run X, but really can't justify the spending.
From the page: To purchase Shake for Mac OS X, contact an Apple Authorized Professional Film Reseller. Shake 3 will be available for Mac OS X for a suggested retail price of $4,950 (US), and for Linux and IRIX for a suggested retail price of $9,900 (US) with an annual maintenance of $1485 (US)
A hefty price difference. Makes ditiching the Linux machine a more tempting proposal if you really need Shake!
Could not believe a 9 times reboot to update win2000 to the latest service packs and progs.?
Huh? I just installed SP2 on a win2k laptop. It asked me to reboot once. I don't know where you got the 9 times from, but that is not my experience. Not even in the days of NT4
Please, if you want to say that MacOSX is better than Windows, say so on its merits not by inventing problems with Windows.
A compnay that hardly makes anything worth selling (ie not going to be around much longer) has to find a way to make money for their shareholders. What is better than someone buying you off while the price is high? I think it's just a ploy. I'd say within a year they'd be bought off by somone for "their customer base" and not much else. Then again, I could be wrong, and IBM will lose the suit and SCO will be worth a billion and 25 million!
Not only that, but not all the $12 goes to the record company; some of it goes to pay the wages o the store workers, delivery companies and a whole lot more. Plus I can play it in my car without having to fork out more money for a blank CD (if I can still burn them that is!)
Check out this web site. It lists a set of phone numbers for information about evacuations etc. You can also check with the Australian Embassy in the US.
Here is Australia, our main problem is delivery time. This is one of the major reasons why pager (beeprs) are still in use. I work for the State Emergency service, and we have to use pagers. Sometime, an SMS message takes up to 4 hours. They have to do something about that.
I wish I had moderating rights at the moment, because this and the parent thread should be read by all those who are breating Adobe without knowing what is it they've done wrong. The point is not that Elcomsoft and Sklyarov developed anti DMCA software, because they did; The point that should concern people (especially those from outside the US) is that they are being tried in the US, under US law for legal actions they committed in another country. This just shows the hypocrisy of the US government. They want others to follow their rules, but they never stop to consider others' rules.
This website at the Australian Institute of Criminology has quite a variety of criminal statistics for all Australian states, and some overseas countries like USA, Canada and NZ.
Gun control cannot work in America without the citizenry of the U.S. giving up a lot more of their personal freedoms. It is too easy for Americans to come and go as they please- to keep things private in their homes and buy/sell things in private- unregulated transactions.
Can you please explain what freedoms you'll lose if there is gun control in the US? In Australia, we have stricter gun control laws, and we don't lack in freedoms. As another poster earlier said, that in countries like Canada, Australia and others that are closely related to the British system, people have a different approach to behaviour. However, I agree with you, it all boils down to personal responsibility.
As far as I can tell, they will not "block" a website in the sense that they will "firewall it"; but what they will do is ask the ISP o remove it or block access to it. This is no different to stopping the printing of inciting material. They will never be able (or even try to force you) to stop you reading the material, but they intend to stop the "creation" of such material. Also, my interpretaion of censorship, is the banning of all "opinions" on a related topic. An example would be the WTO. In Australia, they will never ban or censor people from talking about how bad and useless the WTO is, but they will stop people advertising for demonstrations where violent clashes with WTO reps will take place. I think this difference needs to be made clear. After all in Australia, we did not ban the Communist party at the hight of the anti-communist sentiments in the 50s and 60s. In the US, with the "1st Amendment", they did ban the Communist party!
I stand corrected. You are right. I looked at the Dictionary.com definition, but I don't use them as the ultimate reference. I did look in a pocket oxford, but it wasn't there. The online version required registration. I was unable to figure out the domain name of the MW site! It still sounds wrong to my ear though.
Communitarian... Would you trust someone's opinion if they use undefined words like these?
However,... Government units abroad and in the United States and individual computer users should look for ways to support Linux and Linux-based products. The competition it offers helps everyone. That last comment is definitly worth highlighting as the only useful thing in the "Editorial".
The prevailing attitude from the 30 odd replies I've read so far, is something like this: They are sil;ly and stupid bureaucrats who are limiting our enjoyment in something totally harmeless. My reply to this is, a 5.6 G turn will produce the same sensation as a 4.6 G turn. So the fun is still exactly the same. Besides, for those who have a hard time thinking beyond their own noses, G forces apply to machinery as well as to humans. Lower Gs results in less stress on the machinery, and thus becomes less likely to malfunction. Also, designing for less Gs reduces the cost of construction, which, theoretically, means more roller-coasters.
Word meanings and expressions might be exactly the same in spelling and sound but mean different things to different people.
I agree with both Theaetetus and Puto about the differences in word meanings within the same language or language group. I sometime do some consulting for a multiligual publisher, and he reckons that translastions for a certain audience must be done by a person from that audience. The differences don't become obvious until you do a back translation by a different translator. Some of the mistakes are very funny.
Besides, I think using machine generated translations as a basis for proofreading by a real translator is just as time consuming and resource intensive as a real translation;
I think we have to wait for contact with the Vulcans before we can have good real-time translators. At least this is a good start though.
I think it is about time that the LSM (or anything similar) was included in the kernel. When it comes to access control, I think Windows NT/2000 wins hands down against Linux. I know I am running the risk of being modded down for saying that Win2K is way ahead of linux (or other *nix for all I know) but in the real world of file sharing, we use permissions and auditing quite a lot; these are not always black and white (what linux is currently capable of) permissions, they are often varying shades of grey. Hopefully, with LSM, this will change even if it is in the future (1 year? 2 years?) For a good explanation of the LSM, read this from NSA/SELinux
Slashdot is not a "blog"; neither it is a news site. It is a discussion site. It is a meeting place where a group of people with, mainly, similar interests come together to talk about certain issues. The meeting is usually moderated, and people with good things to say are heard, and those who wish to troll a shouted down. All news items are "links" to others' news stories. There is no news on Slashdot. The only news comes from the "comments" of the participants. Besides, not everything mentioned on Slashdot is anywhere close to "news".
I've just been told by a source at an Apple sales partner that the old languages covered by WorldScript will now again be featured in OSX. Previously only Japanese and (Chinese?) were included, but now the Eastern European and Middle Eastern languages will also be included. I hope this does not mean we still have to buy localised versions of the applications because they usually were twice as much as normal apps.
A while ago I read something along the lines that Hamidi was able to connect to the Intel network and send his emails from there. (my memory may be failing me) I think that that that is what Intl is alleging he has done when they say "tampering". I do not thing it is about spamming.
In this case, there was nothing new, so says the SAMABA people. But what would happens when (notice I didn't say if) MS changes the specs significantly to break the surrent implementation of SAMBA, but before doing this, they release the specs with similar restrictions to what they've just done) That is, no GPLed products? Where would the SAMBA teams stand when they upgrade their implementation? * MS to Judge (in case of MS vs SAMBA): Sorry your honour, but they couldn't possibly have reverse engineered the new implementation; they must've used the published specs. This, your honour, violated the (some acronym) law. Seems far fetched? I hope so.
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a 10 figure grid reference is accurate to 1 square meter on your map. What scale are you using? Which map? Which edition?
Grid references are too simplistic to this situation.
I have seen a MS smart phone being demoed at a recent MS product launch here in Sydney. The phone, apart from working as a standard GSM mobile, uses a GPRS internet connection to also connect to an exchange server (best with MSX 2003). (again this is carrier independent) Besides, for those who have used the XDA (a WINCE with mobile built in) can tell that the difference is only superficial, from a distance anyway)
So, I not exactly sure what this news is all about. It's probably in relation to launching the phone with some extra value-added services usable only with the smartphone.
I wouldn't read too much into it.
I'll give my reason for not running OSX on my B&W G3. It simply does not run. 'Huh?' I hear you say. For some reason OSX does not run on this G3. I'm assuming it's the RAM. I have ~750Mb (not Apple RAM). OS9 and Mandrake Linux run OK. OSX crashes a couple of minutes (on a good day) after I boot. I'm not about to fork USD $100 for 128Mb RAM from Apple and then pay another $100 for the OS. I don't need to. I'd like to run X, but really can't justify the spending.
A hefty price difference. Makes ditiching the Linux machine a more tempting proposal if you really need Shake!
Huh? I just installed SP2 on a win2k laptop. It asked me to reboot once. I don't know where you got the 9 times from, but that is not my experience. Not even in the days of NT4
Please, if you want to say that MacOSX is better than Windows, say so on its merits not by inventing problems with Windows.
A compnay that hardly makes anything worth selling (ie not going to be around much longer) has to find a way to make money for their shareholders. What is better than someone buying you off while the price is high?
I think it's just a ploy.
I'd say within a year they'd be bought off by somone for "their customer base" and not much else.
Then again, I could be wrong, and IBM will lose the suit and SCO will be worth a billion and 25 million!
Not only that, but not all the $12 goes to the record company; some of it goes to pay the wages o the store workers, delivery companies and a whole lot more. Plus I can play it in my car without having to fork out more money for a blank CD (if I can still burn them that is!)
Check out this web site. It lists a set of phone numbers for information about evacuations etc. You can also check with the Australian Embassy in the US.
Here is Australia, our main problem is delivery time. This is one of the major reasons why pager (beeprs) are still in use. I work for the State Emergency service, and we have to use pagers. Sometime, an SMS message takes up to 4 hours. They have to do something about that.
I wish I had moderating rights at the moment, because this and the parent thread should be read by all those who are breating Adobe without knowing what is it they've done wrong.
The point is not that Elcomsoft and Sklyarov developed anti DMCA software, because they did; The point that should concern people (especially those from outside the US) is that they are being tried in the US, under US law for legal actions they committed in another country. This just shows the hypocrisy of the US government. They want others to follow their rules, but they never stop to consider others' rules.
This website at the Australian Institute of Criminology has quite a variety of criminal statistics for all Australian states, and some overseas countries like USA, Canada and NZ.
Can you please explain what freedoms you'll lose if there is gun control in the US?
In Australia, we have stricter gun control laws, and we don't lack in freedoms. As another poster earlier said, that in countries like Canada, Australia and others that are closely related to the British system, people have a different approach to behaviour.
However, I agree with you, it all boils down to personal responsibility.
As far as I can tell, they will not "block" a website in the sense that they will "firewall it"; but what they will do is ask the ISP o remove it or block access to it. This is no different to stopping the printing of inciting material. They will never be able (or even try to force you) to stop you reading the material, but they intend to stop the "creation" of such material.
Also, my interpretaion of censorship, is the banning of all "opinions" on a related topic. An example would be the WTO. In Australia, they will never ban or censor people from talking about how bad and useless the WTO is, but they will stop people advertising for demonstrations where violent clashes with WTO reps will take place. I think this difference needs to be made clear. After all in Australia, we did not ban the Communist party at the hight of the anti-communist sentiments in the 50s and 60s. In the US, with the "1st Amendment", they did ban the Communist party!
I stand corrected.
You are right. I looked at the Dictionary.com definition, but I don't use them as the ultimate reference. I did look in a pocket oxford, but it wasn't there. The online version required registration. I was unable to figure out the domain name of the MW site!
It still sounds wrong to my ear though.
However, ...
Government units abroad and in the United States and individual computer users should look for ways to support Linux and Linux-based products. The competition it offers helps everyone.
That last comment is definitly worth highlighting as the only useful thing in the "Editorial".
The prevailing attitude from the 30 odd replies I've read so far, is something like this: They are sil;ly and stupid bureaucrats who are limiting our enjoyment in something totally harmeless.
My reply to this is, a 5.6 G turn will produce the same sensation as a 4.6 G turn. So the fun is still exactly the same. Besides, for those who have a hard time thinking beyond their own noses, G forces apply to machinery as well as to humans. Lower Gs results in less stress on the machinery, and thus becomes less likely to malfunction. Also, designing for less Gs reduces the cost of construction, which, theoretically, means more roller-coasters.
If you want to nitpick, then you should've mentioned the where!
Will it's interface be also unified or ratehr nullified?
I agree with both Theaetetus and Puto about the differences in word meanings within the same language or language group. I sometime do some consulting for a multiligual publisher, and he reckons that translastions for a certain audience must be done by a person from that audience. The differences don't become obvious until you do a back translation by a different translator. Some of the mistakes are very funny.
Besides, I think using machine generated translations as a basis for proofreading by a real translator is just as time consuming and resource intensive as a real translation;
I think we have to wait for contact with the Vulcans before we can have good real-time translators. At least this is a good start though.
I think it is about time that the LSM (or anything similar) was included in the kernel. When it comes to access control, I think Windows NT/2000 wins hands down against Linux.
I know I am running the risk of being modded down for saying that Win2K is way ahead of linux (or other *nix for all I know) but in the real world of file sharing, we use permissions and auditing quite a lot; these are not always black and white (what linux is currently capable of) permissions, they are often varying shades of grey.
Hopefully, with LSM, this will change even if it is in the future (1 year? 2 years?)
For a good explanation of the LSM, read this from NSA/SELinux
Slashdot is not a "blog"; neither it is a news site. It is a discussion site. It is a meeting place where a group of people with, mainly, similar interests come together to talk about certain issues. The meeting is usually moderated, and people with good things to say are heard, and those who wish to troll a shouted down. All news items are "links" to others' news stories. There is no news on Slashdot. The only news comes from the "comments" of the participants. Besides, not everything mentioned on Slashdot is anywhere close to "news".
My 2cents.
I've just been told by a source at an Apple sales partner that the old languages covered by WorldScript will now again be featured in OSX. Previously only Japanese and (Chinese?) were included, but now the Eastern European and Middle Eastern languages will also be included. I hope this does not mean we still have to buy localised versions of the applications because they usually were twice as much as normal apps.
A while ago I read something along the lines that Hamidi was able to connect to the Intel network and send his emails from there. (my memory may be failing me) I think that that that is what Intl is alleging he has done when they say "tampering". I do not thing it is about spamming.
In this case, there was nothing new, so says the SAMABA people. But what would happens when (notice I didn't say if) MS changes the specs significantly to break the surrent implementation of SAMBA, but before doing this, they release the specs with similar restrictions to what they've just done) That is, no GPLed products? Where would the SAMBA teams stand when they upgrade their implementation?
* MS to Judge (in case of MS vs SAMBA): Sorry your honour, but they couldn't possibly have reverse engineered the new implementation; they must've used the published specs. This, your honour, violated the (some acronym) law.
Seems far fetched? I hope so.
It's not about intuitiveness, it's about consistency.
Consistency across the OS and across applications.