Wow! You can place CS with an abacus! I gotta get one of these! Whats the battery time of one of those, are they portable, can I connect it to the internet wirelessly?!
What are the alternatives. I understand that people compain about other people using cars that use excessive amounts of fuel, but there is no better way to make microchips yet, or is there?
The intention of my reply above was not to troll nor to put out a flamebait. My only intention was to be ironic about RIAA's standpoint. Please mod me up.
I have to say something that I never though I'd say: "These new Macs look great! They are relatively cheap, run *nix and have al the hardware you could wish for!"
My sincere congratulations to Apple for having swung around from being a stubborn, expensive brand to become a computer supplier that I like. I will concider an Apple next time I buy a computer!
Have you ever heard of the new invention: (tada) portable PCs. Just one problem, if you want to be connected to the internet you'll need a cable, which reduced the usefulness of a portable computer. But, hey, we can connect using a phone, thus staying mobile and still having access to/.
How does it come that some contries get the page in their native language (Germany, Poland, Italy, etc.) while some get it in English (Sweden, Spain, Austria (a german speaking country!), France, etc.) And since all sites look the same except for the map-picture and the contact info, why not spare us the hazzle of a choice, simply put all in english on one site and supply different contacts.
"BMG attaches great importance to assuring that the copy protection used does not lead to restrictions for consumers with respect to listening pleasure. Those who play back their purchased product on a standard home CD Audio player will not notice any difference at all."
Does this mean that I cannot listen to CDs on my computer without being concidered a consumer without respect to listening pleasure?
"In the long term, massive copying
deprives music-makers of their very livelihood.... New trends and
talents can only emerge if music is bought..."
I prefer listening to musicians who play music because they enjoy it, not for the money. As for the veri livelihood, I'd say that the ability to sample non-mainstream artists without having to stand in line at my local music store has made me by more CDs than ever before. I suggest that this assumption is down right wrong.
"...this decline is attributed to a large extent to unauthorised CD-R copying."
Or perhaps due to a downwards tendency of the entire economy. Sales will fluctuate, so don't blame the customers, make new and better products.
1. Encode/decode sound, i.e. record and replay music.
2. FreeNet is a P2P network guaranteeing the freedom of speech.
3. Nothing.
4. Allow people to watch movies and listen to music without region restrictions and also allow copying for private use. The reason that I encode MP3s (Oggs nowerdays) is to free up the CD player of my computer.
5. Copy for private use, i.e. the right to change medium to a more suitable and the right to back-up. Also, the right to buy the media anywhere and play it anywhere (no regions).
Ok, they mainly complain about the screen, but the conclusions says that it is sitting in front of a computer that is the problem, not radiation from a CRT.
From this I draw two conclusions: 1) the original article is better than the rewritten summary and 2) LCDs is not the solution.
I have two tips myself to solve the problem: 1) get an adjustable dest that you can stand or sit at and 2) make sit-ups each morning and evening to avoid back pains. These two points helped me!
I would recommend them to contact plig.org. According to their home site "PLiG is a privately funded not-for-profit organisation, supporting the development of Internet related services and projects since 1996." and "We also provide hosting and support for a variety of projects...". If they are in the right mood they could be an option.
What I meant was that KDE seems to be prefered in front of other desktop solutions, for example Gnome (I'm not flaming!). As for the OpenOffice part, I just indicated that it is more mature than KOffice (again, not flaming!).
Just wait for two more years and some european goventment agencies will probably be dominated by open source software. The countries I'm thinking of are Germany, England, Sweden and Spain. All these contries have initialized open source studies or started with test installations of open source alternatives.
When looking at what software that is used, it looks like KDE has an edge in Europe, specially in Germany and Sweden. But also OpenOffice is actively evaluated.
Qt is worth every penny you put into it. A fully working cross-platform toolkit, and so much more than just a GUI.
Qt makes printing, sockets, fileaccess, database access, etc. so easy in a good cross-platform way. No need ever again to user #ifdef WIN32 to plant some special case non-unix platform code, simply use the appropriate class.
As for support, they've got it, and training etc. So it will all work just great!
If nothing else, they'll still f**k up the format by adding links to ActiveX components etc. so that you'll need to have Office installed to view properly.
What is wrong with a plain old PS, you can even embed EPS files into PS files. Has always worked, will always work. I use Framemaker + xfig + matlab for my documents, and this far, I've never had any problems. As for PS portability, that's what ps2pdf is for:)
Sure IE will come with support for it, and of course that support is not optional, you'll end up downloading and installing it no matter what (as long as you insist on using Windows).
As Office evolves it will be more and more integrated into IE and even though IE is not required by the OS, it will be required by Office. I believe that the recent ruling only concerned their dominance in the OS area, not in productive software (i.e. Office), but I may be wrong about that.
For starters you'll need a really big fan, just to driver the air-flow through the filters and your room. The trick is to have an over-pressure and a good flow. The over-pressure prevents stuff from getting in, and the flow removes stuff that already are in (you'll probably carry in some dust, etc.).
What parts are you going to assemble in a clean room. I'd rather suggest a clean-box (i.e. a box with a good clean air-flow and gloves epoxied to a couple of entry points to allow you to work in there. Simply put your working project (in transport protection) in there, your tools (do *not* forget anything), then let the air flow through. When the air has been completely exchanged a few times you can get your working project out of the transport protection and get working on it. When you are done, simply wrap it into something air-tight again and then remove it from your working box.
Such a solution would be easier to work with and have a higher wife-acceptance-factor. Of course, it requires that whatever your doing fits into the box.
Ah, the name 6800 has a fond place in my heart. The first CPU I learned to hack asm for...
Seriously speaking. It seems that Nokia has realized that if you build phones based on proper modules you can pump out a number of new models each quarter of a year, without too much fuzz.
As for a dream phone, just wait until the P800 is released...
The author(s) may licens their product(s) anyway they want, even in different versions.
For another example of this, look at Qt (www.trolltech.org). I'd say that it is a nice way to make money, while still contributing to the open source community.
This is probably a way of hiding 'offensive' paragraphs. I'd say that most end-user agreements are too long. A solution to this would be a legal phrasing and a readable phrasing (i.e. a shorter, readable form with the main points).
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Wow! You can place CS with an abacus! I gotta get one of these! Whats the battery time of one of those, are they portable, can I connect it to the internet wirelessly?!
What are the alternatives. I understand that people compain about other people using cars that use excessive amounts of fuel, but there is no better way to make microchips yet, or is there?
No, breasts! :)
Did you see the pictures, the PPC runs without a fan at 600MHz. Quiet, good history, great name, can it get any better?!
I take it that you don't use amiwm. I actually used this windows manager a few years back (before KDE and Gnome). It has a great retro feel!
Dear moderators!
/Johan
The intention of my reply above was not to troll nor to put out a flamebait. My only intention was to be ironic about RIAA's standpoint. Please mod me up.
Cheers!
Ok, two thing for RIAA to attend to:
"watching DVD movies to burning your own music CDs"
A portable DVD, i.e. you could end up watching region one DVDs in region two. BAD!
CD burner, aught to be illegal, makes rich artists starve. BAD!
I have to say something that I never though I'd say: "These new Macs look great! They are relatively cheap, run *nix and have al the hardware you could wish for!"
My sincere congratulations to Apple for having swung around from being a stubborn, expensive brand to become a computer supplier that I like. I will concider an Apple next time I buy a computer!
"WELL I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WILL DO TO YOU BUT IT WON'T BE GOOD!!!"
:)
Give him burned CDs with copyrighted music and call the RIAA... they'll know what to do to him!
Have you ever heard of the new invention: (tada) portable PCs. Just one problem, if you want to be connected to the internet you'll need a cable, which reduced the usefulness of a portable computer. But, hey, we can connect using a phone, thus staying mobile and still having access to /.
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Mine too. I feel that it is nice to live in Europe where RIAA has less influence... :^)
How does it come that some contries get the page in their native language (Germany, Poland, Italy, etc.) while some get it in English (Sweden, Spain, Austria (a german speaking country!), France, etc.) And since all sites look the same except for the map-picture and the contact info, why not spare us the hazzle of a choice, simply put all in english on one site and supply different contacts.
"BMG attaches great importance to assuring that the copy protection used does not lead to restrictions for consumers with respect to listening pleasure. Those who play back their purchased product on a standard home CD Audio player will not notice any difference at all."
... New trends and
talents can only emerge if music is bought..."
Does this mean that I cannot listen to CDs on my computer without being concidered a consumer without respect to listening pleasure?
"In the long term, massive copying deprives music-makers of their very livelihood.
I prefer listening to musicians who play music because they enjoy it, not for the money. As for the veri livelihood, I'd say that the ability to sample non-mainstream artists without having to stand in line at my local music store has made me by more CDs than ever before. I suggest that this assumption is down right wrong.
"...this decline is attributed to a large extent to unauthorised CD-R copying."
Or perhaps due to a downwards tendency of the entire economy. Sales will fluctuate, so don't blame the customers, make new and better products.
This is MHO:
1. Encode/decode sound, i.e. record and replay music.
2. FreeNet is a P2P network guaranteeing the freedom of speech.
3. Nothing.
4. Allow people to watch movies and listen to music without region restrictions and also allow copying for private use. The reason that I encode MP3s (Oggs nowerdays) is to free up the CD player of my computer.
5. Copy for private use, i.e. the right to change medium to a more suitable and the right to back-up. Also, the right to buy the media anywhere and play it anywhere (no regions).
Ok, they mainly complain about the screen, but the conclusions says that it is sitting in front of a computer that is the problem, not radiation from a CRT.
From this I draw two conclusions: 1) the original article is better than the rewritten summary and 2) LCDs is not the solution.
I have two tips myself to solve the problem: 1) get an adjustable dest that you can stand or sit at and 2) make sit-ups each morning and evening to avoid back pains. These two points helped me!
I would recommend them to contact plig.org. According to their home site "PLiG is a privately funded not-for-profit organisation, supporting the development of Internet related services and projects since 1996." and "We also provide hosting and support for a variety of projects...". If they are in the right mood they could be an option.
What I meant was that KDE seems to be prefered in front of other desktop solutions, for example Gnome (I'm not flaming!). As for the OpenOffice part, I just indicated that it is more mature than KOffice (again, not flaming!).
Just wait for two more years and some european goventment agencies will probably be dominated by open source software. The countries I'm thinking of are Germany, England, Sweden and Spain. All these contries have initialized open source studies or started with test installations of open source alternatives.
When looking at what software that is used, it looks like KDE has an edge in Europe, specially in Germany and Sweden. But also OpenOffice is actively evaluated.
Qt is worth every penny you put into it. A fully working cross-platform toolkit, and so much more than just a GUI.
Qt makes printing, sockets, fileaccess, database access, etc. so easy in a good cross-platform way. No need ever again to user #ifdef WIN32 to plant some special case non-unix platform code, simply use the appropriate class.
As for support, they've got it, and training etc. So it will all work just great!
If nothing else, they'll still f**k up the format by adding links to ActiveX components etc. so that you'll need to have Office installed to view properly.
:)
What is wrong with a plain old PS, you can even embed EPS files into PS files. Has always worked, will always work. I use Framemaker + xfig + matlab for my documents, and this far, I've never had any problems. As for PS portability, that's what ps2pdf is for
Sure IE will come with support for it, and of course that support is not optional, you'll end up downloading and installing it no matter what (as long as you insist on using Windows).
As Office evolves it will be more and more integrated into IE and even though IE is not required by the OS, it will be required by Office. I believe that the recent ruling only concerned their dominance in the OS area, not in productive software (i.e. Office), but I may be wrong about that.
For starters you'll need a really big fan, just to driver the air-flow through the filters and your room. The trick is to have an over-pressure and a good flow. The over-pressure prevents stuff from getting in, and the flow removes stuff that already are in (you'll probably carry in some dust, etc.).
What parts are you going to assemble in a clean room. I'd rather suggest a clean-box (i.e. a box with a good clean air-flow and gloves epoxied to a couple of entry points to allow you to work in there. Simply put your working project (in transport protection) in there, your tools (do *not* forget anything), then let the air flow through. When the air has been completely exchanged a few times you can get your working project out of the transport protection and get working on it. When you are done, simply wrap it into something air-tight again and then remove it from your working box.
Such a solution would be easier to work with and have a higher wife-acceptance-factor. Of course, it requires that whatever your doing fits into the box.
Ah, the name 6800 has a fond place in my heart. The first CPU I learned to hack asm for...
Seriously speaking. It seems that Nokia has realized that if you build phones based on proper modules you can pump out a number of new models each quarter of a year, without too much fuzz.
As for a dream phone, just wait until the P800 is released...
"Does the GPL permit that?"
The author(s) may licens their product(s) anyway they want, even in different versions.
For another example of this, look at Qt (www.trolltech.org). I'd say that it is a nice way to make money, while still contributing to the open source community.
This is probably a way of hiding 'offensive' paragraphs. I'd say that most end-user agreements are too long. A solution to this would be a legal phrasing and a readable phrasing (i.e. a shorter, readable form with the main points).