We could have had fibre to the door from the profits but instead licences were sold to foreign investment. They have spectacularly failed to recoup their investment, not least because BT won;t open up the local loop. I have fibre to my street but copper to the door.
ohh! what wouldn't i give to have copper to the door.
sometimes i lie awake at night dreaming of having copper to my door...
but instead, they put fibre to my door (or the one that will be my door in about two weeks, but who cares), so i can't have dsl any more. this sucks. we need to get that wireless lan up fast.
unfortunately this is not true for me. i live in europe and i've had dsl (cheap flatrate) for years.
but i will move to a new appartment end of this month, and i can't have dsl because they used fiberoptical cables for that specific house when they rebuild the telephone system some ten years ago (east germany).
there are not many options for me. there is no net via cable, the isdn 'flatrate' of the local telco includes only 10GB transfer, others are expensive, satellite is per transfer volume as well, and i can't afford to just use the fiberoptical cable.
so i will have to wait untill we have that wireless lan built from my university to where i will live. that might well take another month if not longer.
i am really scared of having to use dial-in isdn again.
Re:Wonder what the heck this is all about?
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i seem to be the only one here who really likes it -- of course, i feel sorry for the box.
while you and me are very aware of the difference between a client and a server, most people are not. they might even learn something!
and then, a computer destroying itself is of course very cool. i plan to be there and watch.
when i click on any link here to the bbc, i get blocked. even if i then reduce the location by hand to http://news.bbc.co.uk, i get blocked.
if i start that other browser that i never installed willingly, i can go to the bcc normally and click through. everything works fine.
it even works in it if i click on the link on the slashdot mainpage.
i visit the bcc regulary with mozilla, i never had any problems. they're not... oh no...
i live in east germany. right now i have aDSL, but i will move to a new appartment in about a month.
this will have no DSL, because they put glass fiber cables there some ten years ago. DSL relies on copper, and i can't afford the enormous costs of using the glass fiber cable.
it must have seemed like a good idea back then.
oh well, hope we will get that WLAN going soon...
that it has millions of hairs does not mean it has to let go all of them at at time.
so my theory is it lets go hair by hair, in fast order -- like it automaticly does when it walks.
if you take two-sided sticky tape and tape it to your soles it would be harder to lift your foot straight up than to just walk, wouldn't it?
unless you are really heavy you will have to wait for them to decompose.
be careful what you wish for
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from the faq:
Q: I'm using an ATI [something] and Tenebrae does [something bad].
A: ATI support was kind of nonexistent in the first version this should be fixed now, if you have problems (besides being slow) with an ATI card please let me know.
If you have success with an ATI card please let me now it also!
if you are not impressed by JIM, why not pic one of the many others?
you could write your own -- it's not that out of reach, the protocol is easy to understand, and The Jabber Programmers Guide is actually a good read.
If Carbon Dioxide is pollution, I demand that you immediately stop breathing
you convinced me. as i have to breath anyway, i can as well drive a huge car, with it's airconditioning set on chilly. in winter, i can turn up the heating some more instead of building a house with modern windows, take an airplane instead of a train and finally use ordinary light bulbs again instead of those energy saving ones.
thank you, you have made my life a lot easyer.
i'm 26, so odds are i won't live longe enough to be affected by the effects of my actions anyway.
sure, but how high is the probability that you hit something when you are in outer space far away from the nearest star?
and aren't those little pebbles fast enough by themselves to destroy any antenna a probe would need to transmit something back to earth from a distantce it would reach with such a speed?
i don't think the risk of hitting anything dangerous is that high on interstellar travel, but i might be wrong.
you're right about the energy, of course.
i wonder wether you hit more if you go slow than when you go fast. i would imagine you hit less when you go fast:
less from the side, equally from front, and less from the back (you are faster).
1000 years ago, it took years to go or communicate from one end of the known world to the other.
and a squirrel could go that distance without ever getting on the ground, just by jumpibng from one tree to the next (well, all trough europe at least).
chopping off and burning down rain forests, wasting of resources, global warming, no apparent will on the side of the worlds #1 polluters (25% of carbon dioxide emissions world wide) to take part in international initiatives to stop it -- we (human race) might not live long enough to see this.
but appart from this, out of couriosity, if we would somehow manage to accelerate to 10% of light speed, couldn't we accelerate even further? 10% is well below anything relativistic, so whatever accelerated us from 5% to 10% could bring us up to 90% after a (long) while, or did i get something wrong here?
ok, you're right.
i'm sorry if i sounded a little harsh, but people mustn't get the impression that they can just sit down and make a font. it's just not as easy as it sounds, it's an art that developed over hundrets of years and there is a lot of research (and talent) involved. you also need experience in working with fonts.
i certainly don't want to scare people off of typography. but if you want to make a good font, not just one that has all the needed characters and displays correctly, you need to be aware that it is a lot of work, and it will take years to get there. it is not just a hobby.
so people, if you are interested in this, go get a good book about it, and dig into that subject. i'm sure that everybody can learn something for life by reading typo books, and maybe you have a hidden talent.
i want to get deeper into that as well, but more in the proper-using-of-fonts direction, which is hard enough.
good point. some people might get interested (or even as obsessed as some close friends of mine:) ), and decide to devote their spare time to getting into typography.
but we would need a way to get a set of standart fonts together that you can rely on being installed on most machines (like the ms fonts were). and those fonts need to be both good and complete. even i could manage to make some font that displays the characters i need correctly, but you probably wouldn't want to read a book printed with it, and it wouldn't be worth the time it would take to make different typefaces.
i don't want my typofetishist friends to whine about the lack of (what they consider) usable fonts installed on linux machines.
i still believe that rebuilding former-eastern-block fonts is the way to go. they are fairly complete, exept of course for the euro sign. they are professionally made and tested, at least for print. and maybe somebody will be porting them for screen use.
i know this sounds troll, but if you don't know which tools to use you are not the right person to do this.
designing fonts is not rocket science, but it comes pretty close. typography might even be the equivalent of rocket science in design.
what we certainly don't need is hundrets of people making up amateur open source fonts, but a few people who know what they're doing.
what might be possible is to find and old font (most common fonts are quite old, and the other good fonts usually are based on them), or a former-eastern-block font and reconstruct it. but you still need quite some experience to do this. i personally wouldn't even try.
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ohh! what wouldn't i give to have copper to the door.
sometimes i lie awake at night dreaming of having copper to my door...
but instead, they put fibre to my door (or the one that will be my door in about two weeks, but who cares), so i can't have dsl any more. this sucks. we need to get that wireless lan up fast.
but i will move to a new appartment end of this month, and i can't have dsl because they used fiberoptical cables for that specific house when they rebuild the telephone system some ten years ago (east germany).
there are not many options for me. there is no net via cable, the isdn 'flatrate' of the local telco includes only 10GB transfer, others are expensive, satellite is per transfer volume as well, and i can't afford to just use the fiberoptical cable.
so i will have to wait untill we have that wireless lan built from my university to where i will live. that might well take another month if not longer.
i am really scared of having to use dial-in isdn again.
while you and me are very aware of the difference between a client and a server, most people are not. they might even learn something!
and then, a computer destroying itself is of course very cool. i plan to be there and watch.
if i start that other browser that i never installed willingly, i can go to the bcc normally and click through. everything works fine.
it even works in it if i click on the link on the slashdot mainpage.
i visit the bcc regulary with mozilla, i never had any problems. they're not... oh no...
let me suggest HALs eye as an icon.
how would you express AI as an icon? maybe that's why it isn't here yet.
even if it would, it wouldn't in the next version.
this will have no DSL, because they put glass fiber cables there some ten years ago. DSL relies on copper, and i can't afford the enormous costs of using the glass fiber cable.
it must have seemed like a good idea back then.
oh well, hope we will get that WLAN going soon...
that it has millions of hairs does not mean it has to let go all of them at at time.
so my theory is it lets go hair by hair, in fast order -- like it automaticly does when it walks.
if you take two-sided sticky tape and tape it to your soles it would be harder to lift your foot straight up than to just walk, wouldn't it?
unless you are really heavy you will have to wait for them to decompose.
Q: I'm using an ATI [something] and Tenebrae does [something bad].
A: ATI support was kind of nonexistent in the first version this should be fixed now, if you have problems (besides being slow) with an ATI card please let me know.
If you have success with an ATI card please let me now it also!
he obviously did not expect to be on slashdot.
france telecom has invested $7mio in jabber.com.
press release talks about mobile and voice communications.
if you are not impressed by JIM, why not pic one of the many others?
you could write your own -- it's not that out of reach, the protocol is easy to understand, and The Jabber Programmers Guide is actually a good read.
so it is a known secret court.
a process is public for a reason.
minesweeper is way too complicated.
try a google search on minesweeper and "np complete".
you convinced me. as i have to breath anyway, i can as well drive a huge car, with it's airconditioning set on chilly. in winter, i can turn up the heating some more instead of building a house with modern windows, take an airplane instead of a train and finally use ordinary light bulbs again instead of those energy saving ones.
thank you, you have made my life a lot easyer.
i'm 26, so odds are i won't live longe enough to be affected by the effects of my actions anyway.
sure, but how high is the probability that you hit something when you are in outer space far away from the nearest star?
and aren't those little pebbles fast enough by themselves to destroy any antenna a probe would need to transmit something back to earth from a distantce it would reach with such a speed?
you're right about the energy, of course.
i wonder wether you hit more if you go slow than when you go fast. i would imagine you hit less when you go fast:
less from the side, equally from front, and less from the back (you are faster).
and a squirrel could go that distance without ever getting on the ground, just by jumpibng from one tree to the next (well, all trough europe at least).
chopping off and burning down rain forests, wasting of resources, global warming, no apparent will on the side of the worlds #1 polluters (25% of carbon dioxide emissions world wide) to take part in international initiatives to stop it -- we (human race) might not live long enough to see this.
but appart from this, out of couriosity, if we would somehow manage to accelerate to 10% of light speed, couldn't we accelerate even further? 10% is well below anything relativistic, so whatever accelerated us from 5% to 10% could bring us up to 90% after a (long) while, or did i get something wrong here?
to include the B-R tags
must be the haikus
privacy nowhere you can run but can not hide oops, wrong discussion
how could i have forgotten
to include linebraks
i now have to wait a bit
make that longer form instead
that is what i though when i read that companies must pay but still good idea
i'm sorry if i sounded a little harsh, but people mustn't get the impression that they can just sit down and make a font. it's just not as easy as it sounds, it's an art that developed over hundrets of years and there is a lot of research (and talent) involved. you also need experience in working with fonts.
i certainly don't want to scare people off of typography. but if you want to make a good font, not just one that has all the needed characters and displays correctly, you need to be aware that it is a lot of work, and it will take years to get there. it is not just a hobby.
so people, if you are interested in this, go get a good book about it, and dig into that subject. i'm sure that everybody can learn something for life by reading typo books, and maybe you have a hidden talent.
i want to get deeper into that as well, but more in the proper-using-of-fonts direction, which is hard enough.
but we would need a way to get a set of standart fonts together that you can rely on being installed on most machines (like the ms fonts were). and those fonts need to be both good and complete. even i could manage to make some font that displays the characters i need correctly, but you probably wouldn't want to read a book printed with it, and it wouldn't be worth the time it would take to make different typefaces.
i don't want my typofetishist friends to whine about the lack of (what they consider) usable fonts installed on linux machines.
i still believe that rebuilding former-eastern-block fonts is the way to go. they are fairly complete, exept of course for the euro sign. they are professionally made and tested, at least for print. and maybe somebody will be porting them for screen use.
designing fonts is not rocket science, but it comes pretty close. typography might even be the equivalent of rocket science in design.
what we certainly don't need is hundrets of people making up amateur open source fonts, but a few people who know what they're doing.
what might be possible is to find and old font (most common fonts are quite old, and the other good fonts usually are based on them), or a former-eastern-block font and reconstruct it. but you still need quite some experience to do this. i personally wouldn't even try.