At my workplace (german university) it is officially forbidden to send shipments via UPS and we ask to use another courier with every supplier.
At our department alone, I had 2 computers missing, many massively damaged packages but the worst thing was the dry ice package (with big stickers: Store at -20C) with antibodies worth about $10K that was put before our door one friday afternoon. Not only had we to reorder those antibodies, the experiments they where to be used with failed because the timing was critical and had to be started from scratch, taking two more month and $20K additional costs.
c't, ix, Linux-Magazin, Fono-Forum, Concerto (all german) Linux-Journal, Strings and The Strad (english/american)
When I catch them at a newsstand and have time to kill
Dr. Dobbs, Spektrum der Wissenschaft (german edition of Scientific American), the german National Geographic, Die Zeit, Outdoor (german!), BBC music magazine, Macwelt
And twice a year I have to get rid of all those old magazines to make room for new ones. Thank god for CD-Rom and internet archives.
Nice, but in reality, there is NO increased security following out of any civil right restriction any government has set in place followig the WTC attacks. It just make citizens less free, makes everyone a crime suspect and allows government agencies to terrorize both US citizens and foreigners without having to take the responsibility for their actions.
Your comparision sucks even more. Red hair doesn't indicate you are a competent driver, but certificating your are capable of handling such a network is the sole purpose of this MCSE crap. So, if this guy fails to handle it, this is at least an indication there is something wrong with the MCSE program...
Since both Sasser and Phatbot developers are native germans, they will never be extradited. German constitution luckily forbids it. Only foreigns can be extradited to other countries and only if they don't have to fear death penalty and will get a fair trial.
Nope, it means that the recording industry can't sue you but Microsoft can for unallowed use of their (patented?) proprietary codecs. But if you write it for your own personal use and do not distribute it, I guess even MS can't do anything to you.
That situation alone is bad enough - no one should have the right to hold patents over data formats - everyone should be forced to keep them open and documented, so that I have the chance to read and convert my data in whatever format I want.
Only HP and IIRC Lexmark are replacing the printhead with the cartridge, Epson and Canon have permanent printheads. HP claims it is technically necessary and use it to defend their high ink costs. But, strangely enough, their High-Volume Business Inkjets may not have permanent heads, but you only have to replace them after every 5 or 10 ink fills, so it is (IMHO) safe to assume they could do that with the consumer models as well.
But, beside that, the Epson cartridges are basically just a lump of plastics, no jets included, and their ink is still much more expensive than Dom Perignon, so in the end you pay them way too much as well.
There should be a law that makes it mandatory for every manufacturer of standard consumer goods to provide fully (and completly free usable) documentation to interface their products, be it for consumables or for hard- and software connections (ie. replacement parts for cars, a full documentation of the protocols used between WIndows Servers and Clients and whatever else). But general tendency with todays lawmakers aims into just force you to drop your money into the industries pockets without getting anything back. Thats in full force in the US, and even we old europeans slowly move into that direction:(
Yep, and I'am sure you are driving to the super market with your giant 30 (metric) ton Truck...
What is wrong with all you guys mocking about MySQL not being a "real" database and basically calling its users idiots? It's all about the right tool for a job - and MySQL is OK for some applications. It's lightweight, extremely easy to use, very fast and easy to install and administer. Other systems may share some of this pro's and even offer (significantly) more, but if it's enough for a given app, why don't use it?
BTW, I know some systems that still run dBASE databases - and they are working fine and do what they are expected to do.
I liked the movie as well but this is certainly the fastest film I have ever seen - sometimes a little slowdown in the actions scences would have been nice. At some moments it was nearly impossible to really follow the course of action, i.e. at the great Jedi battle.
But in the end there remains only two questions: What is Saruman doing in Star Wars and why does he try to look like Sean Connery?:)
I agree that c't has indeed a strong "followership" here, but hey, they have well earned it. In all the years I read c't (10+ years) I had never any reason not to trust them.
Their style of writing and layout/design is serious and pleasing and their editors are the best in their field (i.e I think it is safe to say that no other journalist in Germany and maybe in Europe knows as much about x86-processors as Andreas Stiller).
The war is run by Waibel, who are very bad loosers. In open tests where they send in preconfigured special press systems they usually get very good reviews which may lead them to think all their systems live up to that promise. Sadly, this is not the case, like in all this open tests.
In practise, their systems far to often fail miserably, their customer service and support is terrible and so on. AFAIK c't is the only magazine that do this secret testing in germany (it's quite expensive if you have to buy 15 computers a 1500$) and so they are the only one that actual report about real live with a Waibel system.
But, funny side note, c't or better the above mentioned Andreas Stiller is fighting a private war - against Intel. Okay, sort of. He is "fighting" the terrible and nowadays totally useless A20 gate which Intel (and AMD, I think) happily integrates into every new processor they build:)
The story has an interesting background. c't did an anonymous buy test where Waibel sold an apparently illegal Windows license to the test buyer. Now it seems to be the case that M$ refuses to sell any legal licenses to Waibel (at least they have some serious disagreements), so Waibel is looking for ways to get some Win-Licenses to sell together with there computers.
But this company has an incredible ability to interprete every bad report about them or every law/license infringement with which they get caught as an private little war of c't-magazine against the company.
Unfortunatly, they often tend not to do that:(
At least life scientist do not.
Instead, the use (the much dreaded) Word and wonder why all their betas, gammas, indices etc. tend to always disappear in the wrong moment...
I once wrote an web application where people could submit an abstract for a congress on developmental neurobiology. I allowed for subsets of HTML or simplifed LaTeX for text formatting. It was hell - even the brightest people in their field failed to understand the concepts. I believe I spend more time searching texts for missing tags or closing braces than for anything else...
Yep, on very neat addition (borrowed from konqueror, I think):
You enter g searchword into the adress field and it will search google for searchword. Same with a searchword for altavista etc. I just haven't found out yet how to configure this to add your own searching needs (i.e. dict.leo.org).
That is certainly not big enough a feature to call it 5.0, but at least they don't changed it to Opera 2001:)
But: The betas for Linux have this nice "Personal Toolbar" that netscape has since 4.0, which is the best part of netscape after all. I hoped so very much that they will add it to Opera 5.0, but nothing happened:(
Opera 4.0b3 for Linux runs pretty well - used it for 3 hours straight yesterday and had no crashes.
Rendering fonts doesn't always work correctly, forcing me to scroll the page up or down to get a redraw. Speed isn't bad also, but this will certainly get further improvements when the debug code is taken out of the program.
I have best hopes for this baby (I don't use konqueror because I would hate to switch between konq. on linux and Opera on Win).
Opera is doing exactly that: You pay the registration fee, get a code - and voila: No banners anymore. If you are already registered to 4.0, you even get a free update (OK, except for the new banner model, it should be called 4.1).
I run it - and haven't seen any banner the whole day (I even write this with Opera).
Hi! I just wonder why everybody thinks becoming a flight instructor means retirement?
I know flight students where I (would I be an instructor) would say: "Hey, okay, you got me - I agree to do debugging Microsoft code for the rest of my life - just get me away from this guy" - and this at soaring where the instructor isn't paid at all... I wasn't one of the easiest myself - but someday I got it:)
just kidding - but it is a very cool job to finish you working life.
Hi all.
As I said in the subject, Andreas Stiller from c't-Magazin has a TM5600-Vaio in test. Check it out on heise news.
For all non-germans out there: Basically it says that the speed of the systems lies between a P-III 400 and a P-III 600. Memory transfer rates are quite good, approximately like a Coppermine 800 in an i815-Motherboard.
But: The Code Morphing Software of the Crusoe seems to generate a CPU-ID (that means: Not hardcoded into the Chip), which cannot be switched off at least in the VAIO. Nevertheless, the Athlon-compatible "real" CPUID-Command doesn't report a number.
Yeah - IBM built the best keyboards ever - years ago. My newest one is from a 286 PS/2 out of '85.
They where attached to some lab computers where I did my civil service. When I left there I just bought some $10-boards and simply replaced them - and no one cared - so much for lab rats...
Now I own a collection of three and take them to every new job which usually results in some kind of laughing and even complaints about the loud clicks. It usually stops when I invite them to test it out: "Hey, have you got any spare ones of these???":)
Bye
Sven
Have you read the letter? He isn't offering $3k to Troll but to the KDE project for the work to convince all contributing authors to the license modification.
And why should someone buy Troll? It would be bad business policy - with qt gpl'ed, they have _no_ products to make money with - and I personally don't think that the support thing for a GUI library makes any $$ at all...
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At my workplace (german university) it is officially forbidden to send shipments via UPS and we ask to use another courier with every supplier.
At our department alone, I had 2 computers missing, many massively damaged packages but the worst thing was the dry ice package (with big stickers: Store at -20C) with antibodies worth about $10K that was put before our door one friday afternoon. Not only had we to reorder those antibodies, the experiments they where to be used with failed because the timing was critical and had to be started from scratch, taking two more month and $20K additional costs.
Regularily (as in subscription)
c't, ix, Linux-Magazin, Fono-Forum, Concerto (all german)
Linux-Journal, Strings and The Strad (english/american)
When I catch them at a newsstand and have time to kill
Dr. Dobbs, Spektrum der Wissenschaft (german edition of Scientific American), the german National Geographic, Die Zeit, Outdoor (german!), BBC music magazine, Macwelt
And twice a year I have to get rid of all those old magazines to make room for new ones. Thank god for CD-Rom and internet archives.
Sven
Hey, thanks, man! Now I know where I will go hiking end of july!!
...
Hmmh, I guess my s.o. will wonder why I keep babbling and drooling about something in 30" size
Have we? You have a link or somewat? Never heard of it before.
Nice, but in reality, there is NO increased security following out of any civil right restriction any government has set in place followig the WTC attacks. It just make citizens less free, makes everyone a crime suspect and allows government agencies to terrorize both US citizens and foreigners without having to take the responsibility for their actions.
Your comparision sucks even more. Red hair doesn't indicate you are a competent driver, but certificating your are capable of handling such a network is the sole purpose of this MCSE crap. So, if this guy fails to handle it, this is at least an indication there is something wrong with the MCSE program...
Hmmh, you are right. Funny, I was reading this Art. 16 only a few weeks ago from an older (online) copy.
:)
One should regularily download law codes and run diffs on them, I guess
Since this guy is most probably only a script kiddy, that would have about the same effect as asking GWB to help ruling the US.
Since both Sasser and Phatbot developers are native germans, they will never be extradited. German constitution luckily forbids it. Only foreigns can be extradited to other countries and only if they don't have to fear death penalty and will get a fair trial.
Nope, it means that the recording industry can't sue you but Microsoft can for unallowed use of their (patented?) proprietary codecs. But if you write it for your own personal use and do not distribute it, I guess even MS can't do anything to you.
That situation alone is bad enough - no one should have the right to hold patents over data formats - everyone should be forced to keep them open and documented, so that I have the chance to read and convert my data in whatever format I want.
... Territo said. "It's like the difference between an Apple microprocessor and an IBM microprocessor."
Hmmh, and I thought Apples G5 Microprocessors come from IBM...
Howard Shore is apparently touring the US with a 6-movement symphony version of his soundtrack.
One station will be Atlanta, where he will conduct the ASO (Hi Larry...).
Only HP and IIRC Lexmark are replacing the printhead with the cartridge, Epson and Canon have permanent printheads. HP claims it is technically necessary and use it to defend their high ink costs. But, strangely enough, their High-Volume Business Inkjets may not have permanent heads, but you only have to replace them after every 5 or 10 ink fills, so it is (IMHO) safe to assume they could do that with the consumer models as well.
:(
But, beside that, the Epson cartridges are basically just a lump of plastics, no jets included, and their ink is still much more expensive than Dom Perignon, so in the end you pay them way too much as well.
There should be a law that makes it mandatory for every manufacturer of standard consumer goods to provide fully (and completly free usable) documentation to interface their products, be it for consumables or for hard- and software connections (ie. replacement parts for cars, a full documentation of the protocols used between WIndows Servers and Clients and whatever else). But general tendency with todays lawmakers aims into just force you to drop your money into the industries pockets without getting anything back. Thats in full force in the US, and even we old europeans slowly move into that direction
What is wrong with all you guys mocking about MySQL not being a "real" database and basically calling its users idiots? It's all about the right tool for a job - and MySQL is OK for some applications. It's lightweight, extremely easy to use, very fast and easy to install and administer. Other systems may share some of this pro's and even offer (significantly) more, but if it's enough for a given app, why don't use it?
BTW, I know some systems that still run dBASE databases - and they are working fine and do what they are expected to do.
I liked the movie as well but this is certainly the fastest film I have ever seen - sometimes a little slowdown in the actions scences would have been nice. At some moments it was nearly impossible to really follow the course of action, i.e. at the great Jedi battle.
:)
But in the end there remains only two questions: What is Saruman doing in Star Wars and why does he try to look like Sean Connery?
I agree that c't has indeed a strong "followership" here, but hey, they have well earned it. In all the years I read c't (10+ years) I had never any reason not to trust them. Their style of writing and layout/design is serious and pleasing and their editors are the best in their field (i.e I think it is safe to say that no other journalist in Germany and maybe in Europe knows as much about x86-processors as Andreas Stiller).
The war is run by Waibel, who are very bad loosers. In open tests where they send in preconfigured special press systems they usually get very good reviews which may lead them to think all their systems live up to that promise. Sadly, this is not the case, like in all this open tests.
In practise, their systems far to often fail miserably, their customer service and support is terrible and so on. AFAIK c't is the only magazine that do this secret testing in germany (it's quite expensive if you have to buy 15 computers a 1500$) and so they are the only one that actual report about real live with a Waibel system.
But, funny side note, c't or better the above mentioned Andreas Stiller is fighting a private war - against Intel. Okay, sort of. He is "fighting" the terrible and nowadays totally useless A20 gate which Intel (and AMD, I think) happily integrates into every new processor they build :)
The story has an interesting background. c't did an anonymous buy test where Waibel sold an apparently illegal Windows license to the test buyer. Now it seems to be the case that M$ refuses to sell any legal licenses to Waibel (at least they have some serious disagreements), so Waibel is looking for ways to get some Win-Licenses to sell together with there computers.
But this company has an incredible ability to interprete every bad report about them or every law/license infringement with which they get caught as an private little war of c't-magazine against the company.
Its quite ridicoulous.
Unfortunatly, they often tend not to do that :(
At least life scientist do not.
Instead, the use (the much dreaded) Word and wonder why all their betas, gammas, indices etc. tend to always disappear in the wrong moment...
I once wrote an web application where people could submit an abstract for a congress on developmental neurobiology. I allowed for subsets of HTML or simplifed LaTeX for text formatting. It was hell - even the brightest people in their field failed to understand the concepts. I believe I spend more time searching texts for missing tags or closing braces than for anything else...
Yep, on very neat addition (borrowed from konqueror, I think):
:)
:(
You enter g searchword into the adress field and it will search google for searchword. Same with a searchword for altavista etc. I just haven't found out yet how to configure this to add your own searching needs (i.e. dict.leo.org).
That is certainly not big enough a feature to call it 5.0, but at least they don't changed it to Opera 2001
But: The betas for Linux have this nice "Personal Toolbar" that netscape has since 4.0, which is the best part of netscape after all. I hoped so very much that they will add it to Opera 5.0, but nothing happened
Opera 4.0b3 for Linux runs pretty well - used it for 3 hours straight yesterday and had no crashes.
Rendering fonts doesn't always work correctly, forcing me to scroll the page up or down to get a redraw. Speed isn't bad also, but this will certainly get further improvements when the debug code is taken out of the program.
I have best hopes for this baby (I don't use konqueror because I would hate to switch between konq. on linux and Opera on Win).
Opera is doing exactly that: You pay the registration fee, get a code - and voila: No banners anymore. If you are already registered to 4.0, you even get a free update (OK, except for the new banner model, it should be called 4.1).
I run it - and haven't seen any banner the whole day (I even write this with Opera).
Hi!
... :)
I just wonder why everybody thinks becoming a flight instructor means retirement?
I know flight students where I (would I be an instructor) would say: "Hey, okay, you got me - I agree to do debugging Microsoft code for the rest of my life - just get me away from this guy" - and this at soaring where the instructor isn't paid at all
I wasn't one of the easiest myself - but someday I got it
just kidding - but it is a very cool job to finish you working life.
Have fun, Ken.
Hi all.
As I said in the subject, Andreas Stiller from c't-Magazin has a TM5600-Vaio in test.
Check it out on heise news.
For all non-germans out there: Basically it says that the speed of the systems lies between a P-III 400 and a P-III 600. Memory transfer rates are quite good, approximately like a Coppermine 800 in an i815-Motherboard.
But: The Code Morphing Software of the Crusoe seems to generate a CPU-ID (that means: Not hardcoded into the Chip), which cannot be switched off at least in the VAIO. Nevertheless, the Athlon-compatible "real" CPUID-Command doesn't report a number.
Yeah - IBM built the best keyboards ever - years ago. My newest one is from a 286 PS/2 out of '85. They where attached to some lab computers where I did my civil service. When I left there I just bought some $10-boards and simply replaced them - and no one cared - so much for lab rats... Now I own a collection of three and take them to every new job which usually results in some kind of laughing and even complaints about the loud clicks. It usually stops when I invite them to test it out: "Hey, have you got any spare ones of these???" :)
Bye
Sven
Have you read the letter? He isn't offering $3k to
Troll but to the KDE project for the work to convince all contributing authors to the license modification.
And why should someone buy Troll? It would be bad business policy - with qt gpl'ed, they have _no_ products to make money with - and I personally don't think that the support thing for a GUI library makes any $$ at all...
Bye
Sven