Perhaps this is why the bc(1) page, which I haven't really read, describes it as "bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language", the source code might be funny too.
Already doing this, manually, in part as a protest of the price hiking practice, effectively nullifying it. Don't want to spend too much time on any specific streaming service anyway. Pausing all streaming services is helpful to concentrate on book reading too, for those of us daring to try to make a dent in the reading list.
What I'd really like to see happen though is for the content to become entirely disconnected from the distribution channels, i.e. streaming service brands, DVD & Blue-Ray manufacturers and sellers etc., so that we can get real competition for each level of the products and their delivery, rather than the current walled gardens (also known as vertical integration) where every streaming service put out seriously flawed player apps, for example (any competent software developer will understand). The barrier to market entry for new players is now artificially high, which further weakens the market and slows the rate of innovation.
We have much better competition in other markets, most notably perhaps in the mobile phone system. For digital content, though, few of the hard-earned lessons from making the other markets work properly have been applied so far.
Eventually the EU will fix this, too, as it always does. Maybe we then can actually deliver the full potential of the technology we developed, with full multi-lingual subtitle translations and optional dubbed audio of all content, without regional limitations.
Just about every day I notice to my dismay that some content on cable TV that might otherwise be worthy of my time has been dubbed and the original soundtrack deleted rather than kept as an option. I frequently switch off instead.
The similar problem exists on eg. Netflix, who leaves out seasons from the European market, although they are available from Netflix for the U.S. market - it makes no sense. An example of this on Netflix is the series The Good Place, where only season one is available in the EU. Season 2, while available in the U.S. now, was briefly available in the EU, but removed for some unexplained reason. Perhaps Netflix has some reason for this, such as not wanting to dub or translate the subtitles for a number of languages, but given that I don't even care about the translation for most shows anyway, and I am hardly alone in this, just let customers pick content from any language or region as they see fit instead of reimplementing the tower of Babel in digital imprimatur form for audiovisual content.
The big picture is that this harms free movement in the EU by forming a kind of double cultural lock-in. You can't easily, in advance, familiarise yourself with a foreign language on a daily basis despite that the technology itself actually allows for it, and when you move to another region for studies or work, you are suddenly shut out from the content languages you know from before. It's all counter-productive, not to mention counter to the spirit of EU Fundamental Rights that include, in Article 45, the Freedom of movement and residence.
Hoofbeats. From clop-clop-clop at low speeds to a thunderous gallop at higher speed.
Only in urban areas, of course.
You're joking, of course. But back when motor cars made their debut in the U.S. and started to take market share from the horse carriages, some viewed it as a threat and fought for legislation that would have required motor cars to have horse shoes nailed to the car.
Had they published it under GPLv3 instead (Why Upgrade to GPLv3, by rms), I would have been interested and been playing witht the code. Now, not. Your loss, Alcatel-Lucent.
That suggestion makes no sense at all, considering that governments are paying to insert seurity bugs either by ordering the companies to do so or by infiltration of the developer team.
This is a complete list of IP addresses and host names for all WikiLeaks mirrors, in standard hosts file format. You can add the contents of the file to the hosts file already on your computer. The advantage of this is that you are no longer dependant on external DNS service providers in order to access WikiLeaks, as the file provides the necessary domain name to IP address mapping needed to access the sites.
Well, you're in luck. The N900 comes with vi pre-installed. Personally, I prefer Emacs of course. After all, the N900 is much more powerful than the desktop computers that existed in the first 10-15 years of Emacs.
Probably Mappero. or if you want to edit OpenStreetMap, OSM2GO. These are golden. The Nokia Maps application has one big plus, though: you can store complete maps for the whole world on the N900 device (free downloads from Nokia, in case you managed to miss the commercials) so you don't need Internet access while finding your way. I still prefer Mappero though and simply zoom in to the required detail level and go over the route I intend to take in advance, so that Mappero downloads and caches the maps and I can do without Internet access again. Only if I get truly lost, i.e. when I am outside the cached maps in Mappero, do I switch over to the Nokia Maps application. Now if we could have the wonderful Mappero combined with the pre-downloaded Nokia Maps map database, it would be perfect.
Overall I like it - it's obvious that a lot of good thinking has been going on. That much said, there are a few things to look at:
No scrollbars on pages. This must be fixed! Microb does it right by fading them in and out of visibility, so that no screen real estate is lost.
The setting to preload it should be an option in preferences, enabled by default (you can do this manually, search the comments here for "preload" for instructions). Perhaps also add way to remove the preload setting for Microb and to make Firefox the default browser. (There's an add-on for making Firefox the default).
Slashdot is a great testing platform, with "dynamic discussions" on. This reveals several bugs, making Firefox mobile 1.0 painful to use. For example clicking on a the subject of a hidden comment does load and expand the comment correctly, but then scrolls the page elsewhere where the comment is no longer visible. Something similar happens when replying to a comment.
How can I copy/paste page and link URLs to an email, for example?
Javascript seems to kill UI responsiveness (seen on slashdot.org article pages, to the point where it is impossible to open a link in a comment).
Zooming with Ctrl-up and Ctrl-down works perfectly.
If your physical keyboard layout have the up/down keys in blue, like mine, you must also press the blue arrow together with Ctrl (easy as they are next to each other), otherwise you're really typing Ctrl-left or Ctrl-right.
While at first it seems handy that the N900 built-in browser, Microb, uses the volume control buttons for easy zooming, it's not so great once you'd actually like to change the volume quickly. (You'd have to use the desktop status area volume control in Microb.) Since some will prefer that anyway, a preference setting may be in place.
Why not make the same choice as the Irish government and kill off Sharepoint and switch to the open source Plone instead. A complete list of all Irish sites are here: Government and related websites, both Plone and non-Plone.
I thought this was a solved problem: http://www.coppercoat.com/. Britain's biggest sailing magazine (and many others) has good results with it:
In the December 2007 edition of Practical Boat Owner, the editor Sarah Norbury extolls the virtues of Coppercoat after a 14-year test on her family boat, a Starlight 39. She writes: "Our experience with Coppercoat has been fantastic. In all the 14 years we've never had a barnacle, seaweed, nothing.... The original claim for our Coppercoat was that it would last 10 years and many people were sceptical. Our test proves the doubters wrong."
either they obtain a separate license from each of the original programmers
This option is actually not available to Cisco, as almost all of the original authors (including me) have assigned their copyright to the FSF. Thus, we can't re-assign it to some other party after the fact. Some may have made their contributions public domain so they could be used, although I'd expect this to be a rare case.
If Microsoft hopes to enable an acceptable level of compatibility, automatic test suites (including a complete range of test data files) for the specifications are needed. Descriptive specifications this large is always unclear or simply inconsistent with themselves or just wrong, somewhere.
Descriptive specifications alone are never good enough.
I find sewing machine oil has too low viscosity. It allows the fan to vibrate against the fan axle, creating horrible noise as well as preventing the fan to run at the correct speed when it can't get past some resonating vibration frequency.
Anyone know what the correct oil viscosity is for small fans?
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps this is why the bc(1) page, which I haven't really read, describes it as "bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language", the source code might be funny too.
Already doing this, manually, in part as a protest of the price hiking practice, effectively nullifying it. Don't want to spend too much time on any specific streaming service anyway. Pausing all streaming services is helpful to concentrate on book reading too, for those of us daring to try to make a dent in the reading list.
What I'd really like to see happen though is for the content to become entirely disconnected from the distribution channels, i.e. streaming service brands, DVD & Blue-Ray manufacturers and sellers etc., so that we can get real competition for each level of the products and their delivery, rather than the current walled gardens (also known as vertical integration) where every streaming service put out seriously flawed player apps, for example (any competent software developer will understand). The barrier to market entry for new players is now artificially high, which further weakens the market and slows the rate of innovation.
We have much better competition in other markets, most notably perhaps in the mobile phone system. For digital content, though, few of the hard-earned lessons from making the other markets work properly have been applied so far.
Eventually the EU will fix this, too, as it always does. Maybe we then can actually deliver the full potential of the technology we developed, with full multi-lingual subtitle translations and optional dubbed audio of all content, without regional limitations.
Just about every day I notice to my dismay that some content on cable TV that might otherwise be worthy of my time has been dubbed and the original soundtrack deleted rather than kept as an option. I frequently switch off instead. The similar problem exists on eg. Netflix, who leaves out seasons from the European market, although they are available from Netflix for the U.S. market - it makes no sense. An example of this on Netflix is the series The Good Place, where only season one is available in the EU. Season 2, while available in the U.S. now, was briefly available in the EU, but removed for some unexplained reason. Perhaps Netflix has some reason for this, such as not wanting to dub or translate the subtitles for a number of languages, but given that I don't even care about the translation for most shows anyway, and I am hardly alone in this, just let customers pick content from any language or region as they see fit instead of reimplementing the tower of Babel in digital imprimatur form for audiovisual content.
The big picture is that this harms free movement in the EU by forming a kind of double cultural lock-in. You can't easily, in advance, familiarise yourself with a foreign language on a daily basis despite that the technology itself actually allows for it, and when you move to another region for studies or work, you are suddenly shut out from the content languages you know from before. It's all counter-productive, not to mention counter to the spirit of EU Fundamental Rights that include, in Article 45, the Freedom of movement and residence.
You're joking, of course. But back when motor cars made their debut in the U.S. and started to take market share from the horse carriages, some viewed it as a threat and fought for legislation that would have required motor cars to have horse shoes nailed to the car.
From mtgox.com:
<html> <head> <title>MtGox.com</title> </head> <body> <!-- put announce for mtgox acq here --> </body> </html>
Had they published it under GPLv3 instead (Why Upgrade to GPLv3, by rms), I would have been interested and been playing witht the code. Now, not. Your loss, Alcatel-Lucent.
That suggestion makes no sense at all, considering that governments are paying to insert seurity bugs either by ordering the companies to do so or by infiltration of the developer team.
Apparently the Core War game has becomre largely forgotten, or become better known under its commercial variant: anti-virus software.
KryoFlux looks very interesting, mod up please.
Slightly off-topic: get your hosts file with IP-addresses for each of the WikiLeaks mirrors here:
WikiLeaks hosts file for mirrors
This is a complete list of IP addresses and host names for all WikiLeaks mirrors, in standard hosts file format. You can add the contents of the file to the hosts file already on your computer. The advantage of this is that you are no longer dependant on external DNS service providers in order to access WikiLeaks, as the file provides the necessary domain name to IP address mapping needed to access the sites.
Indeed it is. And why not emulate it at the bare metal level in JavaScript, while you're at it?
Well, you're in luck. The N900 comes with vi pre-installed. Personally, I prefer Emacs of course. After all, the N900 is much more powerful than the desktop computers that existed in the first 10-15 years of Emacs.
Unfortunately, they will also make perfect bomb triggers, when the target walks by.
Probably Mappero. or if you want to edit OpenStreetMap, OSM2GO. These are golden. The Nokia Maps application has one big plus, though: you can store complete maps for the whole world on the N900 device (free downloads from Nokia, in case you managed to miss the commercials) so you don't need Internet access while finding your way. I still prefer Mappero though and simply zoom in to the required detail level and go over the route I intend to take in advance, so that Mappero downloads and caches the maps and I can do without Internet access again. Only if I get truly lost, i.e. when I am outside the cached maps in Mappero, do I switch over to the Nokia Maps application. Now if we could have the wonderful Mappero combined with the pre-downloaded Nokia Maps map database, it would be perfect.
An interesting question & answer chat with Julian Assange, who founded WikiLeaks was published (in English) by Dagens Nyheter, the biggest morning newspaper in Sweden, today.
It gives some insight into his thinking as well as the seriousness of their task — two of their contributors have already been assassinated.
Overall I like it - it's obvious that a lot of good thinking has been going on. That much said, there are a few things to look at:
Keep up the good work! You'll get there.
Zooming with Ctrl-up and Ctrl-down works perfectly.
If your physical keyboard layout have the up/down keys in blue, like mine, you must also press the blue arrow together with Ctrl (easy as they are next to each other), otherwise you're really typing Ctrl-left or Ctrl-right.
While at first it seems handy that the N900 built-in browser, Microb, uses the volume control buttons for easy zooming, it's not so great once you'd actually like to change the volume quickly. (You'd have to use the desktop status area volume control in Microb.) Since some will prefer that anyway, a preference setting may be in place.
Why not make the same choice as the Irish government and kill off Sharepoint and switch to the open source Plone instead. A complete list of all Irish sites are here: Government and related websites, both Plone and non-Plone.
Disclaimer: I consulted for them on this project.
I guess good news travels slowly. ;-)
This option is actually not available to Cisco, as almost all of the original authors (including me) have assigned their copyright to the FSF. Thus, we can't re-assign it to some other party after the fact. Some may have made their contributions public domain so they could be used, although I'd expect this to be a rare case.
QuteCom runs well on a number of platforms.
The following platforms has a status of "good":
In addition, as of five months ago:
I trust prebuilt binaries for all the platforms are coming soon.
Switch to QuteCom, which is based on OpenWengo / WengoPhone. The long-awaited QuteCom 2.2 RC1 is now available.
Source code for that version is of course available there as well, or you can check it out from the repository.
Descriptive specifications alone are never good enough.
Anyone know what the correct oil viscosity is for small fans?