Hmmm, wasn't aware of that feature. It is actually quite nifty, works for everything i threw at it (for instance '42 miles per gallon in liters per 10 kilometers', the standard way of measuring fuel consumption in Norway).
That gave me a really good laugh! For some strange reason I find the idea of RAID'ing floppy drives hilarious. Beware of the monster RAID array of 125 USB floppy drives...
I think what was implied was that if you already had a translation engine trained for English/Japanese, when you are training it for English/French you can use the already existing "metadata" for English/Japanese to make the process quicker (requires smaller datasets to achieve the same precision).
I might be far out here. Excuse my crappy English, btw.
I read this as "Higher number of laptops than desktops".
As laptops generally cost a lot more, it's not that surprising. I also think that laptops are most popular among business / professional users (who can afford the higher price for increased convenience), while the vast majority of home users have desktops as their primary/only computer.
Could something similar be the case with the LCD's?
A good point, which we discussed. Sadly, the problem is that some of the various pieces of software is 16-bit, and it's a pain to get it to run, even in Windows. One old Foxpro-application actually required the resolution to be exactly 800x600, 16 bpp (talk about those 18" LCDs going to waste...). Otherwise, it refused to launch. Screensaver starting? Crash and burn. Alt-tabbing out? Ditto. It even crashed due to Large fonts being selected.
And of course, it was barely able to read its own database files. Talk about lock-in:(
Oh, to just have a suite of good, up to date medical software, running on top of mySQL, that ported to different platforms. I'm sure there is a fortune to be made.
Many organizationss have Win2K clients that log into a Domain provided by a Linux box running SAMBA
As my final project of CS education, I have just set up a network for a small Medical Doctor's office. It involves a Linux server, and Win2k desktop machines (due to proprietary medical software). It's not connected to the Internet due to Government security regulations for sensitive information.
The Linux server works as a domain controller with roaming profiles just as the parent describes, and performs wonderfully. Having a little experience with Linux, but practically no experience setting up real-world production servers, it took us (two students) about 24 hours of work to install the OS, configure samba shares/printers/PDC stuff, internal email server (Qmail sure beats sendmail in terms of ease-of-configuration), DHCP, backup routines, etc etc.
What really amazed me in the end was that the MDs, being impressed by the fact that Linux was free of charge and still performed A LOT better than their old NT server OS in terms of reliability and speed, wanted Linux for their separate web-connected network. After having used Linux for Office, web and mail-applications for about a month, they've started to complain about not being able to run their medical software on Linux...
In Norway cellular number portability became a reality November 1st, 2001.
The reason it didn't happen until then was primarily that (some) powerful operators wanted to lock in customers, not because of technical difficulties.
We have a state organisation (is that the correct term in English? 'Konkurransetilsynet' for those who understand Norwegian) that ensures that competition is fair in any specific market, and they had a large say in the matter...
In a regular water-jet engine, the internal propeller is powerful enough to suck water in from an intake mounted in the hull of the boat (as seen in your regular jet-ski). This, of course, is a huge advantage as the craft don't go as deep, and the intake is less likely to be damaged by underwater rocks (skerries?) and such.
Would this new solution require that the intake is vertical, forcing water into it at high speed? Or is the suck powerful enough to use a regular intake?
You make me sick. When people with guns start talking about God-given rights, it's pretty frightening.
I'm not religious, but I presume you're a Christian. So, what exactly is 'Thou shalt not kill' to you? Some kind of polite suggestion?
Oh, I see, anyone who breaks into your property doesn't have the right to live. Where I live, that's not a capital offense, furthermore we leave judgment to the courts.
Why should I trust you to make the right decision about whether someone lives or dies? Oh, it's your god-given right. Ah well.
Btw, don't bother to reply, I won't listen to your drivel.
I realized after posting that the message of the poem was more important than the context in which it was writen. Next time, I'll let myself cool off 5 minutes before posting, doing some philosophing...
My grandfather, who experienced said atrocities, always says it's important to forgive, but not forget, so that we can learn from them. Like you said. Oh no, I'm back at the high horse...
Oh God, get off your high horse.
Not being a Christian, I wouldn't know whether God belongs on his high horse or not:)
"Only during the brief years or decades after the impact events would Mars have been temperate, and only then might it have bloomed with life as we know it," they wrote.
If earth is anything to go by, I thought evolution of self-reproducing organisms would require quite a few million years and a primordial soup...
The poem cited above was written by a man who was vitctim of the nazi holocaust. It's magnificient, but I feel it's a little out of context here...
I mean, the DRM/'right-to-backup-your-media-debate' is important, but the holocaust issue is in another league entirely. Literally millions of people exterminated. Get a perspective, please, don't trivialize REAL atrocities.
It's interesting to check out netcraft's statistics about web servers with insane uptimes.
They only list the fifty highest uptimes, the 'winner' (FreeBSD/Apache) have been up for 1410 days. That's right folks, three years and 315 days.
I'm aware that OS uptime != service uptime, and that most admin work on a *nix doesn't require a reboot, but still it indicates that they have had no major problems due to the OS.
Too me it seems like this is a great advantage when running a production server (is that the term in English?), and that it at least indicates a lower long term maintenance cost. Admittedly, those servers are only web servers, but I would think that you would observe a similar trend for servers running other kinds of services.
I'm not an admin (not yet, currently studing CS).
Still, am I way off here? I see no Microsoft software on that list... Just a thought.
I'm eager to learn, corrections/observations are most welcome!
While the grandparent makes a valid point, herrd0kt0r's post is one of the most hilarious ones I've seen on Slashdot, sig and all... should've been 10 funny
What exactly do they mean by 'special new technology that is build in in burners'? It can't be very burner specific since car radios, cd readers and some home systems also have it...
Besides, why would they be interested in burners specifically? Joe User will, when he wants to copy a cd on his computer, put the cd in the dvd-reader and a blank disc in the burner.
Write them back and ask them what they think about the bad side effects of their strategy, and that it seriously hinders your LEGAL and fair use of their product. Also, don't be satisfied with the dodgy and obviously crappy standard answer their support comes up with (I saw that same reply in earlier posts too. One must wonder why they already have a standard reply to inquiries about this matter... Could they have been expecting lots of them?).
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Wake up you people, he's a troll, and a clever one too. Gotta laugh looking at all the people swallowing the bait...
Check out his other posts too, some gold nuggets in there:). Btw, he must have at least a bit of a clue to troll in this way.
There is also a project going on to create a distro tailored for Norwegian schools, read about it here.
BTW, the Microsoft deal never applied to the schools, as some imply in other posts. I'm a Norwegian CS student, and thank all applicable deities for not having to use MS... in fact, we use Debian on most of the desktops
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Hmmm, wasn't aware of that feature. It is actually quite nifty, works for everything i threw at it (for instance '42 miles per gallon in liters per 10 kilometers', the standard way of measuring fuel consumption in Norway).
Thanks!
That gave me a really good laugh! For some strange reason I find the idea of RAID'ing floppy drives hilarious. Beware of the monster RAID array of 125 USB floppy drives...
The robot's kind of suspended from the naves (is that the word? Centerpoints...) of the wheels, so that balance isn't an issue. Picture here
I think what was implied was that if you already had a translation engine trained for English/Japanese, when you are training it for English/French you can use the already existing "metadata" for English/Japanese to make the process quicker (requires smaller datasets to achieve the same precision).
I might be far out here. Excuse my crappy English, btw.
I'm posting this from lynx...
A bit awkward if you're not used to it, but quite possible
Thanks a bunch. You made me laugh into my waterglass and spill water everywhere...
I read this as "Higher number of laptops than desktops".
As laptops generally cost a lot more, it's not that surprising. I also think that laptops are most popular among business / professional users (who can afford the higher price for increased convenience), while the vast majority of home users have desktops as their primary
Could something similar be the case with the LCD's?
Pardon my English...
From the article:
Seems to me that bumping into animals become less of a problem when said animals are running like hell to escape the high-frequency sound...
Don't know what frequencies it operates at, or if that could be a problem.
The article states that one of the goals is to provide fast transfer from Svalbard Satellite Station (SvalSat) to customers in Europe and USA.
The Norwegian Space Center is behind the project.
A good point, which we discussed. Sadly, the problem is that some of the various pieces of software is 16-bit, and it's a pain to get it to run, even in Windows. One old Foxpro-application actually required the resolution to be exactly 800x600, 16 bpp (talk about those 18" LCDs going to waste...). Otherwise, it refused to launch. Screensaver starting? Crash and burn. Alt-tabbing out? Ditto. It even crashed due to Large fonts being selected. And of course, it was barely able to read its own database files. Talk about lock-in
Oh, to just have a suite of good, up to date medical software, running on top of mySQL, that ported to different platforms. I'm sure there is a fortune to be made.
As my final project of CS education, I have just set up a network for a small Medical Doctor's office. It involves a Linux server, and Win2k desktop machines (due to proprietary medical software). It's not connected to the Internet due to Government security regulations for sensitive information.
The Linux server works as a domain controller with roaming profiles just as the parent describes, and performs wonderfully. Having a little experience with Linux, but practically no experience setting up real-world production servers, it took us (two students) about 24 hours of work to install the OS, configure samba shares/printers/PDC stuff, internal email server (Qmail sure beats sendmail in terms of ease-of-configuration), DHCP, backup routines, etc etc.
What really amazed me in the end was that the MDs, being impressed by the fact that Linux was free of charge and still performed A LOT better than their old NT server OS in terms of reliability and speed, wanted Linux for their separate web-connected network. After having used Linux for Office, web and mail-applications for about a month, they've started to complain about not being able to run their medical software on Linux...
Yes, I believe so. Thanks, I'm always interested in improving my English!
In Norway cellular number portability became a reality November 1st, 2001.
The reason it didn't happen until then was primarily that (some) powerful operators wanted to lock in customers, not because of technical difficulties.
We have a state organisation (is that the correct term in English? 'Konkurransetilsynet' for those who understand Norwegian) that ensures that competition is fair in any specific market, and they had a large say in the matter...
In a regular water-jet engine, the internal propeller is powerful enough to suck water in from an intake mounted in the hull of the boat (as seen in your regular jet-ski). This, of course, is a huge advantage as the craft don't go as deep, and the intake is less likely to be damaged by underwater rocks (skerries?) and such.
Would this new solution require that the intake is vertical, forcing water into it at high speed? Or is the suck powerful enough to use a regular intake?
Couldn't find information about that...
Good! I suspected somebody on Slashdot could handle unit conversion
I see a new moderation coming along for the benefit (?) of unit-whiners: -1 non-geek...
Check out this 256 BYTE intro for win32/intel. Unbelievable. The download insn't too big
The whole site www.pouet.net is great if you were interested in the scene 'back in the day'.
You make me sick. When people with guns start talking about God-given rights, it's pretty frightening.
I'm not religious, but I presume you're a Christian. So, what exactly is 'Thou shalt not kill' to you? Some kind of polite suggestion?
Oh, I see, anyone who breaks into your property doesn't have the right to live. Where I live, that's not a capital offense, furthermore we leave judgment to the courts.
Why should I trust you to make the right decision about whether someone lives or dies? Oh, it's your god-given right. Ah well.
Btw, don't bother to reply, I won't listen to your drivel.
I realized after posting that the message of the poem was more important than the context in which it was writen. Next time, I'll let myself cool off 5 minutes before posting, doing some philosophing...
My grandfather, who experienced said atrocities, always says it's important to forgive, but not forget, so that we can learn from them. Like you said. Oh no, I'm back at the high horse...
Oh God, get off your high horse.
Not being a Christian, I wouldn't know whether God belongs on his high horse or not
From the article:
If earth is anything to go by, I thought evolution of self-reproducing organisms would require quite a few million years and a primordial soup...
The poem cited above was written by a man who was vitctim of the nazi holocaust. It's magnificient, but I feel it's a little out of context here...
I mean, the DRM/'right-to-backup-your-media-debate' is important, but the holocaust issue is in another league entirely. Literally millions of people exterminated. Get a perspective, please, don't trivialize REAL atrocities.
Go ahead, mod me down.
It's interesting to check out netcraft's statistics about web servers with insane uptimes.
They only list the fifty highest uptimes, the 'winner' (FreeBSD/Apache) have been up for 1410 days. That's right folks, three years and 315 days.
I'm aware that OS uptime != service uptime, and that most admin work on a *nix doesn't require a reboot, but still it indicates that they have had no major problems due to the OS.
Too me it seems like this is a great advantage when running a production server (is that the term in English?), and that it at least indicates a lower long term maintenance cost. Admittedly, those servers are only web servers, but I would think that you would observe a similar trend for servers running other kinds of services.
I'm not an admin (not yet, currently studing CS). Still, am I way off here? I see no Microsoft software on that list... Just a thought.
I'm eager to learn, corrections/observations are most welcome!
OMGROFLMAO!
While the grandparent makes a valid point, herrd0kt0r's post is one of the most hilarious ones I've seen on Slashdot, sig and all... should've been 10 funny
What exactly do they mean by 'special new technology that is build in in burners'? It can't be very burner specific since car radios, cd readers and some home systems also have it...
Besides, why would they be interested in burners specifically? Joe User will, when he wants to copy a cd on his computer, put the cd in the dvd-reader and a blank disc in the burner.
Write them back and ask them what they think about the bad side effects of their strategy, and that it seriously hinders your LEGAL and fair use of their product. Also, don't be satisfied with the dodgy and obviously crappy standard answer their support comes up with (I saw that same reply in earlier posts too. One must wonder why they already have a standard reply to inquiries about this matter... Could they have been expecting lots of them?).
Wake up you people, he's a troll, and a clever one too. Gotta laugh looking at all the people swallowing the bait...
:). Btw, he must have at least a bit of a clue to troll in this way.
Check out his other posts too, some gold nuggets in there
There is also a project going on to create a distro tailored for Norwegian schools, read about it here.
BTW, the Microsoft deal never applied to the schools, as some imply in other posts. I'm a Norwegian CS student, and thank all applicable deities for not having to use MS... in fact, we use Debian on most of the desktops