In Australia we pay an average of 20c to 25c per SMS message.
Considering how little data is traversed to wager the cost, I can't see how its anywhere near reasonable.
Our postal service will physically send a letter to anywhere in Australia for 40c - which requires much more signficant investment in resources. And yet somehow telcos feel they can charge -that- much.
Whenever I can, I prefer to pick up the mobile to call somebody, if you stay on the phone for no longer than 30 seconds its about the same cost. And the call is calcuated per second airtime.
What do other countries such as Asia, Europe and America pay?
I don't mind throwing some money to the way of companies willing to invest in Linux, so I think its a good thing in general for Linux users.
We should start to notice a better experience on the desktop which is thus supported by companies and their websites. On a side note, I'm very excited that OSX is using KTHML, as this means that at least Konqi will be 100% compatible with websites that strive to be Mac friendly...
I have just moved over 100% to linux on the desktop, and my legally purchased DVD's do not work. Very frustrating indeed.
Can somebody explain to me why Cyberlink's DVD player is legal as opposed to our very own libdvdcss?
Apart from the obvious 'libdvdcss' mechanism 'cracks' the dvd codes, how does this differ from Cyberlink and any other commerical player, do they have some sort of authority keys?
It seems like any legal system can be bought for the right price to subsidise commerical incompetence.
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a couple of thousands of dollars to an ordinary business is a relatively small investment for a cross-portable environment.
Porting from MFC -> wxwidgets would require significiant effort, and, if you're paying your programmers a decent rate per day, you'll blow the cost of the QT license in a matter of days.
I was an IT technical auditor for a big 5 a few years back. I also did some (boring) process work to map out IT areas of audit weaknesses / risk.
The job of an auditor is to find weaknesses. Like any profession its their job to satisify their existance and to find issues, no matter how big or how small.
I havent read the article (in true Slashdot style - I'm actually writing up some design docs right now!) but I'd say what they have found is typical of any normal IT / technology company where their process is never updated to the standards of their documentation.
I find the lack of examples in man pages to be a real pain....Example take a look at the crontab manual, it would be nice to see how to formulate an example to place into the crontabs. You'll find such things in Solaris.
To at left defend any company (not just MS) products must be updated and improved to generate sales. Qmail hasn't changed in 5 years since its 1.03 release in '98.
If any company took on the methodology that DJB has implemented, you wouldnt have a need for software to be written because you wouldnt have a job nor a company to run.
Google Bar is a most excellent way to curb the abusive use of popups, whilst still providing you the flexibility to customise against trusted URLs. Also has a neat Google search.
Win32 Only.
Compared to other countries, the US / Canada prices for IT products and bandwidth is way cheaper than anywhere else in the World. Australia for instance (where I am from) are playing forever catch up. Where mobile phone calls, ISP charges, IT books are still overlypriced, even with our dollar at a reasonable 80 cents to the US greenback.
Why do Verisign have this level of access anyway?
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The internet infrastructure should be managed and run by the community, and not driven by commerical proliferation of services offered to enhance a companies offerings. This change seems dubious at best, considering Verisigns previous efforts of domain sitting, which, would break applications lets ensure we keep them in their place.
I just looked at the Tivo website and the online flash demo, it appears you can record TV a set time (1 min - 60 mins etc) before and after the scheduled time.....
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In Australia we pay an average of 20c to 25c per SMS message.
Considering how little data is traversed to wager the cost, I can't see how its anywhere near reasonable.
Our postal service will physically send a letter to anywhere in Australia for 40c - which requires much more signficant investment in resources. And yet somehow telcos feel they can charge -that- much.
Whenever I can, I prefer to pick up the mobile to call somebody, if you stay on the phone for no longer than 30 seconds its about the same cost. And the call is calcuated per second airtime.
What do other countries such as Asia, Europe and America pay?
Tell us!
why they killed off the show? was is something to do with loosing focus with the cash cow that is the simpsons....?
Fly more, with less.
I have to upgrade my 40g ipod already!?!
Im only hovering on 5g of songs!
Im sure airlines have laws on what can go into domestic aircraft space.
It kind of scares me that there is no mention of laws relating what, how, who can launch into space.
Space junk falling back onto earth has to be a concern....
$2,863,104 in license fees going SCO's way!
I can see the investors now rubbing their 2 cents together....
In other news Stallman leaves MIT, in a huff over the privacy debarcle.
Research facilities all over the US and the world unite to install new RFID access devices.
Stallman ends up staying at home.
Thanks a bunch for the heads up.
I don't mind throwing some money to the way of companies willing to invest in Linux, so I think its a good thing in general for Linux users.
We should start to notice a better experience on the desktop which is thus supported by companies and their websites. On a side note, I'm very excited that OSX is using KTHML, as this means that at least Konqi will be 100% compatible with websites that strive to be Mac friendly...
The future is definately bright!
I have just moved over 100% to linux on the desktop, and my legally purchased DVD's do not work. Very frustrating indeed.
Can somebody explain to me why Cyberlink's DVD player is legal as opposed to our very own libdvdcss?
Apart from the obvious 'libdvdcss' mechanism 'cracks' the dvd codes, how does this differ from Cyberlink and any other commerical player, do they have some sort of authority keys?
It seems like any legal system can be bought for the right price to subsidise commerical incompetence.
thats exactly what I was (hoping) implying :)
actually come to think of it, it was a green screen commodore monochrome, not CGA.
until only recently when my new bsd server was updated with new hardware. The new hardware wouldnt support for the full length CGA card any longer :(
It was great for many years and ran as a samba server / console without any problems.
I'd love to find a similar style LCD screen for my box similar to the ones used in Coles supermarkets in Australia......that would be cool!
Anybody know where to source them with modern video cards?
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a couple of thousands of dollars to an ordinary business is a relatively small investment for a cross-portable environment.
Porting from MFC -> wxwidgets would require significiant effort, and, if you're paying your programmers a decent rate per day, you'll blow the cost of the QT license in a matter of days.
The writing was on the wall for this article to arise sooner or later.
No matter which desktop you prefer, the nativeness of your desktop will be lost somewhere in the conversation.
This is what moved me away from Redhat, and that is why I now run a community based Linux distribution.
I was an IT technical auditor for a big 5 a few years back. I also did some (boring) process work to map out IT areas of audit weaknesses / risk.
The job of an auditor is to find weaknesses. Like any profession its their job to satisify their existance and to find issues, no matter how big or how small.
I havent read the article (in true Slashdot style - I'm actually writing up some design docs right now!) but I'd say what they have found is typical of any normal IT / technology company where their process is never updated to the standards of their documentation.
Back to the Future 2??????
It could of been a fax AND an MMS message.....
It's good to see they have identified this and quickly moved into the Smartphones to gain a greater marketreach.
Trolltech has made a similar move, offering QTopia which operates in Mobile Phones and PDAs.
The future is bright!
I find the lack of examples in man pages to be a real pain....Example take a look at the crontab manual, it would be nice to see how to formulate an example to place into the crontabs. You'll find such things in Solaris.
wow, and to think of the security implications of such a file with A records such as:
u nsecured
testserver
dev
firewall
router
secrethost
etc etc
To at left defend any company (not just MS) products must be updated and improved to generate sales. Qmail hasn't changed in 5 years since its 1.03 release in '98.
If any company took on the methodology that DJB has implemented, you wouldnt have a need for software to be written because you wouldnt have a job nor a company to run.
Google Bar is a most excellent way to curb the abusive use of popups, whilst still providing you the flexibility to customise against trusted URLs.
Also has a neat Google search.
Win32 Only.
Compared to other countries, the US / Canada prices for IT products and bandwidth is way cheaper than anywhere else in the World. Australia for instance (where I am from) are playing forever catch up. Where mobile phone calls, ISP charges, IT books are still overlypriced, even with our dollar at a reasonable 80 cents to the US greenback.
The internet infrastructure should be managed and run by the community, and not driven by commerical proliferation of services offered to enhance a companies offerings. This change seems dubious at best, considering Verisigns previous efforts of domain sitting, which, would break applications lets ensure we keep them in their place.
I just looked at the Tivo website and the online flash demo, it appears you can record TV a set time (1 min - 60 mins etc) before and after the scheduled time.....