Actually Belgium mostly speaks french and flemish, which is a dialect of dutch.
It's not really a dialect, more like Dutch with a different accent (and a few different words). In Flanders, the official first language taught in schools is Dutch.
It's like the difference between the French spoken in France, and Belgian French (Walloon really is a dialect).
You're probably talking about this bug (links from Slashdot are disabled, copy url to view). It's fixed, but too late for inclusion in the 1.0 branch. It will be included in Firefox 1.1. (Up to now, more than 30 other bugs are marked as duplicates of this one:-)
A single full-length column of a newspaper has a few thousand words. Rest assured, we've done our homework. We will be able to accommodate several thousand names in a readable font size and still provide a very attractive and compelling advertisement. We have already mocked up some designs, and we will solicit input from the community about them in the coming weeks.
From their site: "Appropriate vs. Inappropriate Uses of the Rejection Hotline. To use as a fake phone number for online registration forms, in stores, or to give to telemarketers: NO. We heard people were doing that with the Rejection Hotline, so that's why we created: The Telemarketers Nightmare."
Also consider the iRiver H140. It has a 40GB HD and USB2.0, it plays MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG, you can use it to read text files (8 line lcd), it has a FM radio and a voice recorder,...
Third, this thing does not auto startup. So, when your device is drained off battery, it won't run by itself as far as I can see.
From the report: "[...] then copy itself to a directory that is not visible by default. The worm runs from this directory whenever the phone is rebooted."
Lots of demo's can be found on ftp.edome.net. Scene.org also has an archive, but they seem to have disk problems at the moment.
My absolute favourite is Zoom 3 - Trance Generation by AND & Cybermag. They were the winners of the 64k compo at Assembly 2003 (with almost tree times the votes of the 2nd place). Beautiful graphic effects (thanx to pixel and vertex shaders for making this possible), stunning music and yes, that's full speech!
The word "alliance" does not appear in the linked article.
The article only states "Microsoft is one of several companies who are also working to combat spam with a "caller ID" system. Yahoo's DomainKeys is another one."
The article on the Sendmail site says "By incorporating a selection of sender authentication technologies into these applications, Sendmail aims to significantly hasten the global adoption of mainstream authentication initiatives such as DomainKeys, recently introduced by Yahoo!, as well as proposals put forward by Microsoft and others."
A Sendmail press release, also released today, does mention the collaboration of Yahoo and Sendmail: "Sendmail, Inc., the global provider of electronic message management solutions and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, will begin testing the DomainKeys. cryptographic authentication solution in March 2004."
That's Duvel, probably Belgium's most famous high fermented beer (found around the world).
My own favourite high fermented Belgian beer is Delirium Tremens (site only in French). It has a smooth taste, and is a bit stronger (9.0 %) than Duvel (8.5 %).
DAB does not use the existing FM band (87.5 to 108 MHz) but the VHF-band (176 to 230 MHz) in most countries. Some countries (like France) also use the L-band (1452 to 1492 MHz). The user doesn't have to know about frequencies, as receivers scan for available transmitters and you can pick the one you like.
Higher frequencies mean more bandwith per slice of spectrum. DAB also uses COFDM (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), a digital modulation technology using multiple carrier waves (> 1000) instead of one in traditional technologies like AM or FM. COFDM has multiple avantages: less sensitive for disturbances, and all transmitters for a station can broadcast using the same set of frequencies. DAB uses extra bits for error correction, and MPEG Audio Layer 2 for compression.
A DAB station broadcasts an "ensemble" or "multicast." One ensemble has a capacity of 2.3 Mbit/s, and can be divided in as much parts as needed. E.g. 6 channels offering 192 kbit/s stereo each, or more if you have channels which need less bandwith (like a news channel). Other data, like html or images, can also be transmitted.
Some receivers offer an optical connector which outputs the complete DAB stream (one ensemble), so new future uses can be easily adapted. E.g. broadcasts in 5.1 surround sound will be possible.
Indeed, Europe, Canada, Australia,... all are adapting DAB. The only other exception is Japan, which introduced its own standard, ISDB-T (Terrestrial Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting) in 1998. This standard covers both digital radio and television.
Has somebody actually tested their 3.2.1 GS system, or its predecessor? They claim these systems can create a 5.1 experience using only 2 speakers and a bass box. And the system doesn't seem to depend on reflection on the side walls.
Microsoft most definitely does have a user interface guideline for developers, with very defined rules for the "look and feel" of a Windows application.
This book (the 2nd edition) is published in 1995. Of course a lot of things remain valid today, e.g. structuring of the File, Edit and View menus. But it doesn't include new concepts introduced in Windows 98/Windows 2000 and Windows XP. And MS itself doesn't always follow these guidelines in its new software products.
Strangely enough, when doing a search for "interface guidelines" on the Microsoft site, this book does not turn up. Instead, the more recent (1999) Microsoft Windows User Experience is found. The description states this are the official MS guidelines, updated for Win98/2k. But according to Amazon, this book is out of print???
I didn't find any general guidelines updated for Windows XP, only some for very specific situations, which don't look consistent whith the old guidelines at all.
As for some docs on Proton(/chipknip/and others, it's being used all over the world these days I presume), this one is ok if you know dutch: http://www.klaphek.nl/nr3/chipcards2.html
Ok, I read that article. You can do these things using your own smart card reader (hooked to a PC or something), or your own custom smart card. Banksys or your bank doesn't give out card readers / smart cards you can upload your own custom software to. And on the other hand, if you should have such self made stuff, you won't be able to use it to actually pay something. I suppose Banksys has built in at least enough protection in the system to make sure you can't pay in shops using your own home made card:-) And in the other direction, if a shopkeeper wants your payment AND the data on your card, he has to trick you in using two card readers.
If buy something in a shop on week 1, ang go to thesame shop an buy something on week 2, you can tell (by using your proton card only) how much that shop made using proton the last week.
I can't with my card?? Do you have any more information (links) on that?
Privacy leakage is happening the other way too, they can see the last N transactions on your proton card.
Does a standard terminal allow a shopkeeper to see this? I know the last 5 transactions are stored on the card, but only the date and the amount of money transferred are stored. Nothing more, as far as I know, and that info doesn't say that much (e.g. where you did the transaction).
The coupling with a bank account when loading the card is true. (In theory, a Proton card owned by person A can be loaded by person B from his account.)
Oh, and by the way: do you know where your SIS-card comes from (the health insurance chipcard every belgian has, which you use for hospital/doctor/pharmacy visits) - yep, Banksys. A private company owned by banks mostly, handling your sensitive/personal medical info.
That is not true. As the Banksys website says, they were only involved in the development of the card (because of their experience with smart cards). The operating of the network and handling of the data is done by the government (social security). More info.
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Actually Belgium mostly speaks french and flemish, which is a dialect of dutch.
It's not really a dialect, more like Dutch with a different accent (and a few different words). In Flanders, the official first language taught in schools is Dutch.
It's like the difference between the French spoken in France, and Belgian French (Walloon really is a dialect).
This is my personal opinion, but I think you can't blame the /. editors for not checking for duplicates if the previous article is 33 years old.
You're probably talking about this bug (links from Slashdot are disabled, copy url to view). It's fixed, but too late for inclusion in the 1.0 branch. It will be included in Firefox 1.1. (Up to now, more than 30 other bugs are marked as duplicates of this one :-)
One of the flyers (the Wisconsin one) they talk about...
From the FAQ:
How many names will fit in the ad?
A single full-length column of a newspaper has a few thousand words. Rest assured, we've done our homework. We will be able to accommodate several thousand names in a readable font size and still provide a very attractive and compelling advertisement. We have already mocked up some designs, and we will solicit input from the community about them in the coming weeks.
From their site: "Appropriate vs. Inappropriate Uses of the Rejection Hotline. To use as a fake phone number for online registration forms, in stores, or to give to telemarketers: NO. We heard people were doing that with the Rejection Hotline, so that's why we created: The Telemarketers Nightmare."
The virtual people in the virtual tour of this new Kingda Ka do put their virtual hands up... (it's at 2'45" in the movie).
Also consider the iRiver H140. It has a 40GB HD and USB2.0, it plays MP3, WMA, ASF, WAV and OGG, you can use it to read text files (8 line lcd), it has a FM radio and a voice recorder,...
It's listed on Froogle for $356.00.
For the moment, the Gmail size limit per mail is also 10MB, which in practice (encoding) translates to a max 7MB attachment.
The only thing that has been limiting the practice in the past is storage space and transfer limits, Google has changed all that.
Gmail limits the total message size to 10MB. In practice - mostly due to the encoding of the binary - you get a maximum attachment size of +/- 7MB.
Good points, but...
Third, this thing does not auto startup. So, when your device is drained off battery, it won't run by itself as far as I can see.
From the report: "[...] then copy itself to a directory that is not visible by default. The worm runs from this directory whenever the phone is rebooted."
Lots of demo's can be found on ftp.edome.net. Scene.org also has an archive, but they seem to have disk problems at the moment.
My absolute favourite is Zoom 3 - Trance Generation by AND & Cybermag. They were the winners of the 64k compo at Assembly 2003 (with almost tree times the votes of the 2nd place). Beautiful graphic effects (thanx to pixel and vertex shaders for making this possible), stunning music and yes, that's full speech!
Look at the Adobe banner: it links to http://www.worldebooklibrary.com/Adobe/ (corrected url)
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which is a *fake* Adobe website.
World eBook Library owns both sites.
whois:
www.worldebooklibrary.com = [ 207.175.209.173 ]
Organization:
World eBook Library
John Guagliardo
PO Box 22687
Honolulu HI 96823
US
[...]
And their ISP: Maui Global Communications Corp., Hawaii
Even better: the advertised eBook Reader is a discontinued Adobe product, the functionality is integrated in Adobe Reader now:
http://www.adobe.com/products/ebookreader/main.ht
No mention of Giant Microbes? They now include such cute cuddly toys as the Black Death and Ebola!
The word "alliance" does not appear in the linked article.
The article only states "Microsoft is one of several companies who are also working to combat spam with a "caller ID" system. Yahoo's DomainKeys is another one."
The article on the Sendmail site says "By incorporating a selection of sender authentication technologies into these applications, Sendmail aims to significantly hasten the global adoption of mainstream authentication initiatives such as DomainKeys, recently introduced by Yahoo!, as well as proposals put forward by Microsoft and others."
A Sendmail press release, also released today, does mention the collaboration of Yahoo and Sendmail: "Sendmail, Inc., the global provider of electronic message management solutions and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, will begin testing the DomainKeys. cryptographic authentication solution in March 2004."
Hey, I need my favourite search engine - I don't want them to be slashdotted!
That's Duvel, probably Belgium's most famous high fermented beer (found around the world).
My own favourite high fermented Belgian beer is Delirium Tremens (site only in French). It has a smooth taste, and is a bit stronger (9.0 %) than Duvel (8.5 %).
DAB does not use the existing FM band (87.5 to 108 MHz) but the VHF-band (176 to 230 MHz) in most countries. Some countries (like France) also use the L-band (1452 to 1492 MHz). The user doesn't have to know about frequencies, as receivers scan for available transmitters and you can pick the one you like.
Higher frequencies mean more bandwith per slice of spectrum. DAB also uses COFDM (Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), a digital modulation technology using multiple carrier waves (> 1000) instead of one in traditional technologies like AM or FM. COFDM has multiple avantages: less sensitive for disturbances, and all transmitters for a station can broadcast using the same set of frequencies. DAB uses extra bits for error correction, and MPEG Audio Layer 2 for compression.
A DAB station broadcasts an "ensemble" or "multicast." One ensemble has a capacity of 2.3 Mbit/s, and can be divided in as much parts as needed. E.g. 6 channels offering 192 kbit/s stereo each, or more if you have channels which need less bandwith (like a news channel). Other data, like html or images, can also be transmitted.
Some receivers offer an optical connector which outputs the complete DAB stream (one ensemble), so new future uses can be easily adapted. E.g. broadcasts in 5.1 surround sound will be possible.
Indeed, Europe, Canada, Australia,... all are adapting DAB. The only other exception is Japan, which introduced its own standard, ISDB-T (Terrestrial Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting) in 1998. This standard covers both digital radio and television.
Another article on ISDB-T.
Has somebody actually tested their 3.2.1 GS system, or its predecessor? They claim these systems can create a 5.1 experience using only 2 speakers and a bass box. And the system doesn't seem to depend on reflection on the side walls.
Indeed. And there are dozens of distributed computing projects, so everyone can find one to his likings.
Click here for an overview of active distributed computing projects. Also have a look at the lists at the bottom of the page: these are projects you donate some of your own time to, instead of spare CPU cycles (from Distributed Proofreaders to The Hunger Site).
Further info on distributed computing: Bottomquark has reviewed a number of projects.
Microsoft most definitely does have a user interface guideline for developers, with very defined rules for the "look and feel" of a Windows application.
This book (the 2nd edition) is published in 1995. Of course a lot of things remain valid today, e.g. structuring of the File, Edit and View menus. But it doesn't include new concepts introduced in Windows 98/Windows 2000 and Windows XP. And MS itself doesn't always follow these guidelines in its new software products.
Strangely enough, when doing a search for "interface guidelines" on the Microsoft site, this book does not turn up. Instead, the more recent (1999) Microsoft Windows User Experience is found. The description states this are the official MS guidelines, updated for Win98/2k. But according to Amazon, this book is out of print???
I didn't find any general guidelines updated for Windows XP, only some for very specific situations, which don't look consistent whith the old guidelines at all.
Tsss, tsss. You are not running PawSense, are you?
Ok, I read that article. You can do these things using your own smart card reader (hooked to a PC or something), or your own custom smart card. Banksys or your bank doesn't give out card readers / smart cards you can upload your own custom software to. And on the other hand, if you should have such self made stuff, you won't be able to use it to actually pay something. I suppose Banksys has built in at least enough protection in the system to make sure you can't pay in shops using your own home made card
I can't with my card?? Do you have any more information (links) on that?
Does a standard terminal allow a shopkeeper to see this? I know the last 5 transactions are stored on the card, but only the date and the amount of money transferred are stored. Nothing more, as far as I know, and that info doesn't say that much (e.g. where you did the transaction).
The coupling with a bank account when loading the card is true. (In theory, a Proton card owned by person A can be loaded by person B from his account.)
That is not true. As the Banksys website says, they were only involved in the development of the card (because of their experience with smart cards). The operating of the network and handling of the data is done by the government (social security). More info.