Card #12345 was just used to purchase $80 worth of pr0n
There is no serial number. Stop bashing untill you know the facts
Use www.everything2.org to find out what a smartcard is for example.
Re:How am I suppose to put this...
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One of the advantages of cash is that it can be split into whatever demoniations you have.
For instance, if I have a 45 dollar card and I want you to have 5 dollars, can't do it without a transfer machine (or if you forgot your card). With cash easy, assuming I have a five.
Without a machine, yes you have a point; with a machine it gets better since you don't have to assume you have 5 fiver; More to the point it can be split on the cent. So IMO this is better.
How much tip? Hmm, make it 8% please... Sure thing sir!
And then counterfitting.
This was created by the banks; what does that tell you?:)
In Holland all card readers have an extra button to call up the amount.
So when you are waiting for the lady behind the counter to tell you how much it is you allready put your card in the reader and press 'saldo'. It pops up in less then a second. You just leave your card there untill she asks you to pay and then you press 'ok'. One smooth transaction.
Additionally all banks have an extra 'slot' seperate from the ATM. Just slide it in and press a button to find out.
Nice feature (here in Holland) is that you can select an amount of cache at the bank to transfer BACK to your bank account!
Person to person payments
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What is not immidiately obvious from the story (which lacks any and all technical details) is that the merchent has about the same card as the customer; it can contain a maximum amount of cash and the card reader does nothing but transfer cach.
A safe encryption based handshaking requires an additional 'master card' with the intelligence to do the transer inside the reader. So its very unlikely your local homeless will walk around with a reader:) But it is possible!
Point is that the card of the merchent has to be emptied at the bank as well, and why is this important? Well; the bank has absolutely no way of tracking transactions to real persons.
This is the beaty of the system; in contrary to all electronic payment systems; this is the only one that actually makes your payments more anonymous.
Any you can still use it to show your vacation pictures afterwards!
Cool stuff; unfortunately a patent does not mean these things will be in the shops soon; I hope Apple will not use this to bother others more then they will use it to make better stuff itself. Seems common enough practice:(
new PC design has been released.
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Actually; the Pacebook has been announced 1 1/2 years ago and released at the last Cebit. I have been trying to get my hands on one for all this time, but unfortunately they still don't sell to us Euros:(
Re:KWord can be a good rival to Framemaker /Publis
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It is certainly true that the frames concept of KWord is based on FM, but after working with it for quite a bit longer (even the newest version) I was thinking that FM sucks so bad I (as one of the autors of KWord) wanted to understand the nice things of FM and reimplement them the way I think they should work.
In the end this will mean a slower progress and probably a rewrite here and there (tables are being redone for the 1.2 release). Maybe you guys can post good bug reports about the little stuff that make an application look 'finished'. Not stuff like "I need this and that". But more like "Hee, this feature could also be done via drag and drop there and there" . You know; the small things we develoipers tend to overlook..
The first step - where we are now - is to have office packages working on *published* file formats. Allready there
Following on, a degree of component sharing would make sense That would seem quite impossible since the base is different; KWord can't use Windows hooks and OpenOffice can't use QT hooks etc.
Our blow for freedom must be the use of open formats such as plain text and comma separated lists.
Ehm, make that utf8 texts and XML with open DTDs, and I agree:)
Hmm, I personally feel very warm and fuzzy inside when I use a former version and think; in the new version I made this so much better! When the application is generally praised, I feel the praise as well. When someone walks away cursing the app I feel I have to fix it, not feel depressed. And most of all; users bad feedback lies on the level of 1% verses peer developers feedback. I don't care that noone has big banners with my name, or even that (quite likely) nobody knows my name! I like programming, and I like the application I am writing. Thats all there is to it!
The point is not can or can not Jasc software afford the $2000 barrier to commercial software. Instead, my point is there are PLENTY of small software shops that would consider porting to Linux, but can't afford this high cost.
Any idea what a Windows developer seat (including something like visual studio) costs?
Porting to another environment is actually easier when starting with QT, since it runs on all platforms, now thats power! And yes you pay a little for that. $2000 is not much for a (even small) company...
Well, you are half right, the problem with your "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" is that it needs a lot of backing from the public, and Alan is doing the only thing anyone outside the US can do at the moment: allowing the public a view of the facts.
Btw. if you release your code in LGPL (don't know BSD to well) then no company can use your _code_ in a commercial (non-OS) release. They can naturally point to, or even include your library (and QTs) as a service in their release.
Yes, which basically means that I have to use the GPL for any open source software I write based on it--that's too restrictive. I want to let people use my open source software under BSD or LGPL licenses.
When creating a program which uses KDE classes you are free to licence it either LGPL or BSD. Various progams in KDE allready do that actually.
In the w3c patent-response point 3 it is pointed out that W3C acknowledges the importance of RF licences, but wants to keep an open door to non-free licences.
I have to ask you; allowing companies and the W3C to let patented technologies, with (any) royalty fee become a standard, how probable do you think it is that companies will start to licence their technologies only as RAND technologies. Simply because they can. And would you (and the W3C) be able to do anything against that?
but once you get a set of styles down, you can rattle off any old document you deal with on a regular basis with almost no effort devoted to the formatting of the document -- you just work on the content.
This is exactly what KWord is trying to implement, and it actually works for a great part allready that way.
Hehe, maybe people are upgrading their linux machines too often, hoping that bug will go away with the next upgrade.
Hell thats how I rebooted several machines which run ReiserFS (the _only_ reason I wanted to run 2.4) several times allready. NFS has this (known) bug where mounting a nfs share takes 5 minutes per share. This is not acceptable for workstations.
NFS also has problems with maintaining a steady stream of packets; playing an mp3 over my 100Mb network does not work! Thats just rediculous.
Sometimes I just think I should use smb shares to connect my machines..
The 2.4.9 kernel did not even compile for me! (ntfs) Why are linus and friends not doing this non-stable stuff in a 2.5 set of kernels?
NFS still does not work correctly and heaps of memory problems have been bugging the series until 2.4.5
Release early, releas often is good, but please state when you have a STABLE version so distros can use that. It seems to me that the 2.4 series is just one stumble after another..
Yeah, might be flamebait, but he, it had to be said!
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copy the current image off the chip
Therefor it is not needed; and actually not done. Read up on smartcards to find out why this is so.
Its a smartcard with no transaction cost; full anonaminity and faster then papermoney transactions.
I'm a happy user for some time now :)
Card #12345 was just used to purchase $80 worth of pr0n
There is no serial number. Stop bashing untill you know the facts
Use www.everything2.org to find out what a smartcard is for example.
For instance, if I have a 45 dollar card and I want you to have 5 dollars, can't do it without a transfer machine (or if you forgot your card). With cash easy, assuming I have a five.
Without a machine, yes you have a point; with a machine it gets better since you don't have to assume you have 5 fiver; More to the point it can be split on the cent. So IMO this is better.
How much tip? Hmm, make it 8% please... Sure thing sir!
And then counterfitting.
This was created by the banks; what does that tell you? :)
So when you are waiting for the lady behind the counter to tell you how much it is you allready put your card in the reader and press 'saldo'. It pops up in less then a second. You just leave your card there untill she asks you to pay and then you press 'ok'. One smooth transaction. Additionally all banks have an extra 'slot' seperate from the ATM. Just slide it in and press a button to find out.
Nice feature (here in Holland) is that you can select an amount of cache at the bank to transfer BACK to your bank account!
A safe encryption based handshaking requires an additional 'master card' with the intelligence to do the transer inside the reader. So its very unlikely your local homeless will walk around with a reader :) But it is possible!
Point is that the card of the merchent has to be emptied at the bank as well, and why is this important? Well; the bank has absolutely no way of tracking transactions to real persons.
This is the beaty of the system; in contrary to all electronic payment systems; this is the only one that actually makes your payments more anonymous.
So you did not buy a mac for coolness factor? You must be a loner there!!
Cool stuff; unfortunately a patent does not mean these things will be in the shops soon; I hope Apple will not use this to bother others more then they will use it to make better stuff itself. Seems common enough practice :(
Actually; the Pacebook has been announced 1 1/2 years ago and released at the last Cebit. I have been trying to get my hands on one for all this time, but unfortunately they still don't sell to us Euros :(
Hi Rob.
for the non GPL apps (most in the world out there, I know) you have to option to buy a licence from www.trolltech.com quite cheap as well.
Qt certainly gets my recomendation over STL by far!
Cheers!
Maybe you missed the fact that KWord does have plugins like you seem to require. The latest version has a thesaurus plugin for example.
Anyway, exactly _this_ is why more authors are needed. The basis is there; just the work needs to be done.
Click on the "US Letter" icon before hitting "OK"
In the end this will mean a slower progress and probably a rewrite here and there (tables are being redone for the 1.2 release). Maybe you guys can post good bug reports about the little stuff that make an application look 'finished'. Not stuff like "I need this and that". But more like "Hee, this feature could also be done via drag and drop there and there" . You know; the small things we develoipers tend to overlook..
Allready there
Following on, a degree of component sharing would make sense
That would seem quite impossible since the base is different; KWord can't use Windows hooks and OpenOffice can't use QT hooks etc.
Our blow for freedom must be the use of open formats such as plain text and comma separated lists. :)
Ehm, make that utf8 texts and XML with open DTDs, and I agree
And most of all; users bad feedback lies on the level of 1% verses peer developers feedback. I don't care that noone has big banners with my name, or even that (quite likely) nobody knows my name! I like programming, and I like the application I am writing. Thats all there is to it!
A relatively unknown KWord developer...
The point is not can or can not Jasc software afford the $2000 barrier to commercial software. Instead, my point is there are PLENTY of small software shops that would consider porting to Linux, but can't afford this high cost.
Any idea what a Windows developer seat (including something like visual studio) costs?
Porting to another environment is actually easier when starting with QT, since it runs on all platforms, now thats power! And yes you pay a little for that. $2000 is not much for a (even small) company...
Well, you are half right, the problem with your "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" is that it needs a lot of backing from the public, and Alan is doing the only thing anyone outside the US can do at the moment: allowing the public a view of the facts.
Full power to him!
Btw. if you release your code in LGPL (don't know BSD to well) then no company can use your _code_ in a commercial (non-OS) release. They can naturally point to, or even include your library (and QTs) as a service in their release.
Wasn't QT GPL'd??
Yes, which basically means that I have to use the GPL for any open source software I write based on it--that's too restrictive. I want to let people use my open source software under BSD or LGPL licenses.
When creating a program which uses KDE classes you are free to licence it either LGPL or BSD.
Various progams in KDE allready do that actually.
kpaint is beta software and not included in the standard base KDE distribution, its in kdegraphics which is an addon package.
Adding an application that is not feature complete does not sound like 'adding crap' to me...
If you would spend time being productive for your favorite unix-software (whatever that is) and stop blowing smoke you might actually be appriciated :)
In the w3c patent-response point 3 it is pointed out that W3C acknowledges the importance of RF licences, but wants to keep an open door to non-free licences.
I have to ask you; allowing companies and the W3C to let patented technologies, with (any) royalty fee become a standard, how probable do you think it is that companies will start to licence their technologies only as RAND technologies. Simply because they can. And would you (and the W3C) be able to do anything against that?
This is exactly what KWord is trying to implement, and it actually works for a great part allready that way.
Please give the styles editor in KWord a spin ;)
Bravo!
Piece does not exist in a world where we say: "we strike harder, so don't strike us"
Take a look at the prosecution at the Jugoslavian war tribunal a small number of years ago. It actually works.
Hell thats how I rebooted several machines which run ReiserFS (the _only_ reason I wanted to run 2.4) several times allready. NFS has this (known) bug where mounting a nfs share takes 5 minutes per share. This is not acceptable for workstations.
NFS also has problems with maintaining a steady stream of packets; playing an mp3 over my 100Mb network does not work! Thats just rediculous.
Sometimes I just think I should use smb shares to connect my machines..
NFS still does not work correctly and heaps of memory problems have been bugging the series until 2.4.5
Release early, releas often is good, but please state when you have a STABLE version so distros can use that. It seems to me that the 2.4 series is just one stumble after another..
Yeah, might be flamebait, but he, it had to be said!