Yeah, it has got a lot better in recent years. I know it used to be pretty bad, but when the iphone came out, the other companies had to change their pricing model to compete.
Erm, I know that the plans here in Germany aren't the best, but you obviously haven't looked very hard at the deals out there as what you are saying in clearly false.
o2 Germany offer 1gig/month (there after at 2.5g speeds, unlimited) as a bolt on for 15 euros/month which can be cancelled with 3 months notice. 25 euros/month gives you unlimited 3g. In fact, if all you want to do is check email, 5 euros a month gives you 20mb of 3g speed and unlimited 2.5g a month. Couple that with a 10 euro base plan (which gives you 100minutes talk time and 100sms), that is only 15 euros a month. (www.o2online.de)
Then there is Blau.de which offer a similar package for under 10 euros/month for data and a 4euro option for voice. The blau plan runs on a month by month basis as well, so no 2 year contract. Oh, and you could look at e-plus as well, which offer similar priced plans.
About the only company out here that does tend to be expensive is vodafone.
I have never used a locked and subsidised phone here in Germany and have managed fine with reasonable rates. Maybe you need to look a bit harder for decent plans... (although it isn't that hard really). I think you need to change provider...
This restriction is only on the selling of new books. You can still sell your second hand books on there below the list price.
If you didnt read the article, it was a suit brought about by a bookseller against a reviewer who was selling unread review copies of books on ebay for under the new selling price.
I know its slashdot, but try reading the links sometimes. It helps when you want to discuss it.
I dont think that this is as bad as it sounds. Its not like they have removed the indexes completely from their databases. Only their.fr and.de sites. That would be complying with local laws as.de and.fr TLDs are specific to those countries unlike.com/net/org which are considered worldwide.
If these people want to search for these sites, they can still fire up google.com.
Guess it does seem a little pointless like that but they are complying with local laws for countries they are operating in which i think is fair.
And as another poster pointed out, they probably checked each site individually to insure that they were offending sites and not just done automatically.
Well, to let you all know, i was the one who submitted this story over a week ago. I couldnt log in at the time to post it as a registered user. So i had given everyone plenty of notice about it. Just must have been a pretty busy slashdot submission bin.
Ah well, hopefully this will become a regular festival.
No shit its been pirated already. im sure ive seen some releases of it floating about the divx/vcd trading groups for at least a week. i mean, this has got to be one of the biggest films for a long time, its hot stuff to get your hands on.
some of these people have links right in the film industry and can easily get films before they are released. just dont count on dvd quality though.
so its no suprise that people are flogging copies of it already. its probably been running rampant through south east asia for weeks. i know when i lived there it wasnt hard to get movies on vcd before they were released.
cant wait to see this movie in the cinema though:) i wouldnt watch a crappy copy of it.
I dunno about the states, but here in the UK 3g mobile networks have basically hurt the phone companies really bad financially. The government put up the 3g licenses for auction and the top 4 mobile companies paid something like a combined 60billion ukp for them. And that doesnt include actually building the network.
Plus, some pundits have already slated it as doomed as the current networks are already vastly popular with relatively cheap phones. It would have to take a big incentive for most people to get rid of their cheap gsm phones and move to 3g ones. Because chances are, they are gonna be expensive so the phone companies can actually try to break even. Its gonna take em a long time though...
However, considering that the states isnt all gsm already, i hope your 3g network gets sorted properly.
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the register is also carrying a story about this. it talks about the uk release date as well as containing links to sites with more info on where to buy it and where you can test them out.
i think you'll find that that comment is actually his signature rather than part of his comment. i dont think he was suggesting that it was a non-event.
Well, i'll admit that the uk railway system is pretty bad, but it wasbefore privatisation too. The duth railway system is brilliant. at least when i was over there, all trains leaving on time and running to schedule.
That story seems to just be trolling. i mean, the slackware forum at www.slackware.com is always buzzing. doesnt seem like its dieing to me. i use slackware 90% of the time on my workstation to do just about everything i want. it runs the apps i want, i can install them no problem. the slackware community has been going fine for years without a package manager and still keeps its userbase.
what does that tell you.
Just because some apps are no longer being actively developed by the lead maintainer doesnt mean the distro is dead. thats the beauty of open source. if alan cox or linus decided that they no longer had time to work on the kernel, would people shout that linux was dead?
i think not. as many people have said here, they are still using slackware, lots of people are. just because it isnt keeping up with the 'latest and greatest lindows distro' doesnt mean its dieing.
As another poster said, slackware's goal is not to ipo, make a huge amount of money (although im sure patrick wouldnt mind that, heh), and take over the world. its to have a linux distro based on KISS. and it works.
in general, you want to have about double the amount of swap space as you do ram. i believe one of the main reasons for this is when you get a major crash, the kernel cant dump the memory to disk, only to swap space, so you need the swap space big enough to hold the contents of your ram plus a bit more.
plus, with the price of hard disks these days, why would you quibble about having a 1gb swap partition? its a right pain in the arse to resize a swap partition. dont be stingy and allocate a fair amount to swap.
i think it is mainly to do with stability and the proven ability of the old vm code. basically, the new vm code was a complete rewrite from scratch and was incorporated into the main kernel straight away. the problem therein is the fact that the code will not have been as throughly tested and proven as the old vm. it may well be that the new vm is rock solid but it hasnt been in use for as long as the old vm to prove it. what alan is doing is sticking with the old vm as it is pretty much proven to work well and not fall over.
its not exactly trivial to rewrite an entire vm so there are bound to be problems with it. these problems come out through testing. i would have thought such a major rewrite would have been put in a development kernel first rather than into a "stable" kernel tree. that way, developers can test it first and iron out any problems rather than everyone upgrading to the new vm _then_ a major problem found.
the new vm may be brilliant and fast, but alan has a point in sticking with the old code. major rewrites should belong in development trees until fully ready for a stable release.
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Yeah, it has got a lot better in recent years. I know it used to be pretty bad, but when the iphone came out, the other companies had to change their pricing model to compete.
Erm, I know that the plans here in Germany aren't the best, but you obviously haven't looked very hard at the deals out there as what you are saying in clearly false.
o2 Germany offer 1gig/month (there after at 2.5g speeds, unlimited) as a bolt on for 15 euros/month which can be cancelled with 3 months notice. 25 euros/month gives you unlimited 3g. In fact, if all you want to do is check email, 5 euros a month gives you 20mb of 3g speed and unlimited 2.5g a month. Couple that with a 10 euro base plan (which gives you 100minutes talk time and 100sms), that is only 15 euros a month. (www.o2online.de)
Then there is Blau.de which offer a similar package for under 10 euros/month for data and a 4euro option for voice. The blau plan runs on a month by month basis as well, so no 2 year contract. Oh, and you could look at e-plus as well, which offer similar priced plans.
About the only company out here that does tend to be expensive is vodafone.
I have never used a locked and subsidised phone here in Germany and have managed fine with reasonable rates. Maybe you need to look a bit harder for decent plans... (although it isn't that hard really). I think you need to change provider...
This restriction is only on the selling of new books. You can still sell your second hand books on there below the list price.
If you didnt read the article, it was a suit brought about by a bookseller against a reviewer who was selling unread review copies of books on ebay for under the new selling price.
I know its slashdot, but try reading the links sometimes. It helps when you want to discuss it.
It should work. The M3 is just a tuned up 3 series. Just like the M5 is a tuned 5 series.
There isnt really an "M-Series". Its just the tuned up version of which ever series its based on.
I think you may mean ISO-9660?
details here
ISO 9960 seems to be: Draughting instruments with or without graduation -- Part 1: Draughting scale rules
Or as he is better known
Dom Jolly.
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i would imagine that that would work.
If these people want to search for these sites, they can still fire up google.com.
Guess it does seem a little pointless like that but they are complying with local laws for countries they are operating in which i think is fair.
And as another poster pointed out, they probably checked each site individually to insure that they were offending sites and not just done automatically.
Well, to let you all know, i was the one who submitted this story over a week ago. I couldnt log in at the time to post it as a registered user. So i had given everyone plenty of notice about it. Just must have been a pretty busy slashdot submission bin.
Ah well, hopefully this will become a regular festival.
i was just wondering if you had found anyway to make your clie sync under linux? last i heard there wasnt any software to do it with the usb cradle.
No shit its been pirated already. im sure ive seen some releases of it floating about the divx/vcd trading groups for at least a week. i mean, this has got to be one of the biggest films for a long time, its hot stuff to get your hands on.
:) i wouldnt watch a crappy copy of it.
some of these people have links right in the film industry and can easily get films before they are released. just dont count on dvd quality though.
so its no suprise that people are flogging copies of it already. its probably been running rampant through south east asia for weeks. i know when i lived there it wasnt hard to get movies on vcd before they were released.
cant wait to see this movie in the cinema though
I dunno about the states, but here in the UK 3g mobile networks have basically hurt the phone companies really bad financially. The government put up the 3g licenses for auction and the top 4 mobile companies paid something like a combined 60billion ukp for them. And that doesnt include actually building the network.
Plus, some pundits have already slated it as doomed as the current networks are already vastly popular with relatively cheap phones. It would have to take a big incentive for most people to get rid of their cheap gsm phones and move to 3g ones. Because chances are, they are gonna be expensive so the phone companies can actually try to break even. Its gonna take em a long time though...
However, considering that the states isnt all gsm already, i hope your 3g network gets sorted properly.
the register is also carrying a story about this. it talks about the uk release date as well as containing links to sites with more info on where to buy it and where you can test them out.
this might be useful. hasnt been updated in a long time though
i think you'll find that that comment is actually his signature rather than part of his comment. i dont think he was suggesting that it was a non-event.
no terrorist attacks in europe? heard of the ira?
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i guess because it isnt america, this news was heard much outside of the UK but here are some bbc links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_147100
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_irel
oh and here is a link for all you people that think cctv is useless
Well, i'll admit that the uk railway system is pretty bad, but it wasbefore privatisation too. The duth railway system is brilliant. at least when i was over there, all trains leaving on time and running to schedule.
Or a 144 Petabyte drive
That story seems to just be trolling. i mean, the slackware forum at www.slackware.com is always buzzing. doesnt seem like its dieing to me. i use slackware 90% of the time on my workstation to do just about everything i want. it runs the apps i want, i can install them no problem. the slackware community has been going fine for years without a package manager and still keeps its userbase.
what does that tell you.
Just because some apps are no longer being actively developed by the lead maintainer doesnt mean the distro is dead. thats the beauty of open source. if alan cox or linus decided that they no longer had time to work on the kernel, would people shout that linux was dead?
i think not. as many people have said here, they are still using slackware, lots of people are. just because it isnt keeping up with the 'latest and greatest lindows distro' doesnt mean its dieing.
As another poster said, slackware's goal is not to ipo, make a huge amount of money (although im sure patrick wouldnt mind that, heh), and take over the world. its to have a linux distro based on KISS. and it works.
slackware lives on, and always will.
the register is also carrying this story
here is the release page as well. and here is the coverart.
who says that the swap has to be on the same drive? isnt it feasible to have, say, a separate ide or scsi disk dedicated to swap?
in general, you want to have about double the amount of swap space as you do ram. i believe one of the main reasons for this is when you get a major crash, the kernel cant dump the memory to disk, only to swap space, so you need the swap space big enough to hold the contents of your ram plus a bit more.
plus, with the price of hard disks these days, why would you quibble about having a 1gb swap partition? its a right pain in the arse to resize a swap partition. dont be stingy and allocate a fair amount to swap.
i think it is mainly to do with stability and the proven ability of the old vm code. basically, the new vm code was a complete rewrite from scratch and was incorporated into the main kernel straight away. the problem therein is the fact that the code will not have been as throughly tested and proven as the old vm. it may well be that the new vm is rock solid but it hasnt been in use for as long as the old vm to prove it. what alan is doing is sticking with the old vm as it is pretty much proven to work well and not fall over.
its not exactly trivial to rewrite an entire vm so there are bound to be problems with it. these problems come out through testing. i would have thought such a major rewrite would have been put in a development kernel first rather than into a "stable" kernel tree. that way, developers can test it first and iron out any problems rather than everyone upgrading to the new vm _then_ a major problem found.
the new vm may be brilliant and fast, but alan has a point in sticking with the old code. major rewrites should belong in development trees until fully ready for a stable release.