Beisdes that, since they were nerds, what other type of intercourse could they get?
Oh, to the contrary, Einstein was quite the ladyman:
Einstein wanted and enjoyed the company of women, and his intellectual celebrity certainly wouldn't have hurt his chances with the socialites of Berlin or, later, the women of America. The relationships rarely lasted, however - usually once they were established, Einstein cooled off and looked elsewhere. Avoiding deep emotional ties in this way may have given him the solitude he needed to pursue his work, but few would find such behaviour admirable.
(source)
The advantage of home printing is not raw price, it's control and selection.
Why exactly wouldn't you be able to have a retouched photo developed?
Or a selection of your pictures?
It's not like you have to take your memory card out of your camera and take it straight to the lab - you can modify them and then save those you want to have developed back to the card, or - behold! - upload them online.
I'm in Germany right now and have been comparing DSL rates with my colleagues.
Well, I'm from Germany, and I find your statement not entirely correct.
First, Deutsche Telekom does not sell unbundled DSL lines. You have to have phone service from them to get DSL. POTS is ca. EUR15/month, most people nowadays order ISDN which is about EUR24/month, no minutes included respectively.
The cheapest DSL line you can get is EUR16/month (1Mbit down, 128kbit up). ISP is not included with that. Since beginning of this year, prices for DSL ISP services have fallen tremendously, so that you can get a flatrate from EUR5/month in bigger cities and around EUR10/month everywhere else.
In many areas, there are other phone companies than the former monopolist Deutsche Telekom. Hansenet offers their Alice DSL product in most big cities, and with them, a phone line, 6Mbit DSL line and unlimited volume costs you EUR50/month. For EUR60/month, you get the same plus unlimited national landline calls from Versatel.
It is really pure hubris on Google's part to think that it can handle the creation of a new Internet backbone *and* a consumer OS among all the other things it is trying to do.
So, you all your criticism is based on some rumours.
Has Google ever confirmed that they want to create a new Internet backbone? Or an OS?
Or are those just rumours that surface from time to time on sites like slashdot?
A Skype/Paypal solution would be international, [...]
I don't know about that - here in Germany, premium phone services are heavily regulated (why? I don't really know; I guess just too many crooks abused them and found too many fools to pay them).
I assume Germany is not the only country in the world where this is the case.
But for the US and other less regulated economies, your idea sounds feasible.
I hope they can also be viewed comfortably in mono if this gets a new cinegraphic standard.
I wouldn't count on it.
I mean, they didn't care about deaf people when they introduced talkies, did they? And those don't really make sense if you can't hear anything - without additional subtitles, that is.
What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all file sharers are actually evil... they still pledged to carry on the 'carrot and stick' approach though.
...what is the carrot again?
I mean, we've seen plenty of stick action in the US and recently the EU, but what are those figurative carrots they are speaking about?
Oh, maybe they consider letting us pay for downloaded songs via iTunes etc. a big favour.
Or not having people assaulted by hired goons - at least for now.
Those that have 2 are fined for the second, so effectively people with money (sometimes equivalent to success) can breed more.
I'm no specialist in that matter, but I don't think that is how things work in China.
Yes, people are fined for having more than one child, but that does not mean that rich people have more children. The One Child Doctrine is also an ideological goal, meaning that people who want to be economically successful will only have one child so that their higher-ups, who will most probably be connected with the Communist Party in one way or the other, see that they are "good citizens".
AFAIK, families with many children are only common in the poor, rural areas of China - the areas we never hear about here in the west, but still are home to more than 70% of the Chinese population.
These might be some nice new features, depending on one's personal or professional needs, but still - what took Microsoft so long?
I mean, Vista will probably be out in late 2006. That will be 5 years since Windows XP. Five years. For new visual effects, some new security measures, and fewer reboots? With hundreds of developers working continuosly on it, and hundreds of millions of $$ invested?
Sounds pretty inefficient, if you ask me. But then, I'm no OS developer, so what do I know. Tell me: What have they been doing? Fixing security holes in 2000/XP along the way? Implementing some new, hidden features that nobody knows about?
b) Driver support. Linux has enough trouble in this regard - how does BeOS (pardon me, Zeta) plan to do it? By becoming like Apple and selling box+hardware? If so they'd better get moving, because Apple has had tha market locked up for years now.
Yes, they really should build their own hardware. They might, for example, call it a BeBox or something. Yes, that indeed is a neat idea.
German company Spatz sells DVI HDCP (HDCP-protected DVI in -> VGA out) and DVI Magic (HDCP-protected DVI in -> 2 x unprotected DVI out). They are a bit pricey right now, but I reckon if enough people ordered one, they could make it cheaper.
Anyway, I have no idea if these things are illegal and/or a breach of contract.
And: Yes, these were on boingboing a few days ago.
According to this article (in German), 648 of 680 MEPs voted for striking it down, albeight for different reasons:
Some of them because they have always been against the European Commission's draft and prefered the proposal the EP made some time ago.
Others voted for striking it down although they were in favour of the EC's version, but the former group was gaining momentum, so they prefered no directive to a - for them - bad directive.
This site lists the positions of the German MEPs, maybe there is such a site for your country, too.
several? hundreds of UXB's (Unexploded bombs) have been found in east London and the old industrial areas of the UK after blanket bombing during WWII.
This still happens in Dresden. During the summer, when lots of digging goes on at construction sites, unexploded bombs from WWII are found frequently. It is not uncommon to evacuate whole quarters of the city until the bomb is defused/detonated.
DVB-T for digital terrestrial television broadcasting is a totally different modulation standard than DVB-S, the satellite broadcasting standard.
I am aware of the technical differences between DVB-T and DVB-S/DVB-C. My guess was that it was more of a political decision to choose ATSC over DVB-T.
DVB-T is based on COFDM modulation, which a lot of people think is inherently better than 8-VSB, the modulation scheme for ATSC. But in truth, the newest receivers for ATSC that can handle multiple reflected signals (ghosts) do just about as good a job.
That seems to support my assumption. Why did US authorities/broadcasters choose ATSC, if DVB-T is viewed as inherently better?
DVB is an European standard, and sometimes the US doesn't seem to like those (PAL, GSM) - but so are DVB-S and DVB-C, which appear to be used regularily.
It seems the world will be divided in terrestrial digital TV broadcasting standards. As this map shows, the US and Japan will have different systems then Europe, Australia, and most of Asia. Does anyone know why the US has decided to go with ATSC? What advantages does it have? DVB seems to be fine for digital satellite and cable variants.
IIRC, analog terrestrial TV will be switched off in Europe in 2010. Some regions already are digital only; Munich, for example, will turn off analog service in a few weeks.
It does not have such a big impact in Germany, though, as only about 5-10% of all households still receive TV via antenna, the rest has satellite or cable. DVB settop boxes start at EUR 70, good ones are about EUR 100-120. The number of channels increases: most regions used to have anywhere between 3 and 12 channels; now, with DVB-T, it will be about 20.
Slashdot Mirror
I think blogs without user comments are destined to failure.
I don't know... this one doesn't have comments, and is pretty successfull.
Beisdes that, since they were nerds, what other type of intercourse could they get?
Oh, to the contrary, Einstein was quite the ladyman:
Einstein wanted and enjoyed the company of women, and his intellectual celebrity certainly wouldn't have hurt his chances with the socialites of Berlin or, later, the women of America. The relationships rarely lasted, however - usually once they were established, Einstein cooled off and looked elsewhere. Avoiding deep emotional ties in this way may have given him the solitude he needed to pursue his work, but few would find such behaviour admirable.
(source)
I don't know about Bohr, though.
I can't try the demo right now - too many users - but I installed roundcube on my own server and can use it with Camino just fine.
The advantage of home printing is not raw price, it's control and selection.
Why exactly wouldn't you be able to have a retouched photo developed?
Or a selection of your pictures?
It's not like you have to take your memory card out of your camera and take it straight to the lab - you can modify them and then save those you want to have developed back to the card, or - behold! - upload them online.
(webdav over ssl???)
I haven't tried it myself, but according to this, WebDAV over https is supported in Tiger.
Meh, if I'm not mistaken, only the display part of the notebook is titanium. I was thinking more along the lines of a full-metal casing.
Oh well, back to waiting for Powerbooks with Intels inside...
I would certainly hope that Deutsche Telekom DSL is cheaper than Baby Bell DSL. Germany (you) own 43% of it!
The KfW, a state owned bank, and the Federal Republic of Germany together own 37% of Deutsche Telekom (source).
Also, I'm no financial wizard, but it appears that DT is barely breaking even.
Deutsche Telekom had an EBITDA 4.9 billion Euros in Q1 2005, with a turnover of 14.4 billion Euros (source).
Please keep your facts straight.
I'm in Germany right now and have been comparing DSL rates with my colleagues.
Well, I'm from Germany, and I find your statement not entirely correct.
First, Deutsche Telekom does not sell unbundled DSL lines. You have to have phone service from them to get DSL. POTS is ca. EUR15/month, most people nowadays order ISDN which is about EUR24/month, no minutes included respectively.
The cheapest DSL line you can get is EUR16/month (1Mbit down, 128kbit up). ISP is not included with that. Since beginning of this year, prices for DSL ISP services have fallen tremendously, so that you can get a flatrate from EUR5/month in bigger cities and around EUR10/month everywhere else.
In many areas, there are other phone companies than the former monopolist Deutsche Telekom. Hansenet offers their Alice DSL product in most big cities, and with them, a phone line, 6Mbit DSL line and unlimited volume costs you EUR50/month. For EUR60/month, you get the same plus unlimited national landline calls from Versatel.
It is really pure hubris on Google's part to think that it can handle the creation of a new Internet backbone *and* a consumer OS among all the other things it is trying to do.
So, you all your criticism is based on some rumours.
Has Google ever confirmed that they want to create a new Internet backbone? Or an OS?
Or are those just rumours that surface from time to time on sites like slashdot?
Also not to be missed:
The iPhotoToGallery-Plugin.
Makes photoblogging really easy.
A Skype/Paypal solution would be international, [...]
I don't know about that - here in Germany, premium phone services are heavily regulated (why? I don't really know; I guess just too many crooks abused them and found too many fools to pay them).
I assume Germany is not the only country in the world where this is the case.
But for the US and other less regulated economies, your idea sounds feasible.
it isn't a new friend.
Ahh! You! hmph... shut up!
Don't listen to him... he's just being mean... you're my BEST friend!
I guess cars like the Maybach are even higher margin, but the Americans can't economically build it (nor something like a Lamborghini).
Why would that be? Do you know where the Maybach is built? In Germany, one of the most expensive countries in the world in terms of labour cost.
I hope they can also be viewed comfortably in mono if this gets a new cinegraphic standard.
I wouldn't count on it.
I mean, they didn't care about deaf people when they introduced talkies, did they? And those don't really make sense if you can't hear anything - without additional subtitles, that is.
- Power management menu in task bar (picture) - looks familiar.
- Search engine (picture) - Spotlight, anyone?
- User home directories can now be found in C:\Users\name - similar to how *nix does it
Then again, Apple borrowed Fast User Switching from Windows, so fair is fair...What is nice is that the BPI welcomed the findings that not all file sharers are actually evil... they still pledged to carry on the 'carrot and stick' approach though.
I mean, we've seen plenty of stick action in the US and recently the EU, but what are those figurative carrots they are speaking about?
Oh, maybe they consider letting us pay for downloaded songs via iTunes etc. a big favour.
Or not having people assaulted by hired goons - at least for now.
Those that have 2 are fined for the second, so effectively people with money (sometimes equivalent to success) can breed more.
I'm no specialist in that matter, but I don't think that is how things work in China.
Yes, people are fined for having more than one child, but that does not mean that rich people have more children. The One Child Doctrine is also an ideological goal, meaning that people who want to be economically successful will only have one child so that their higher-ups, who will most probably be connected with the Communist Party in one way or the other, see that they are "good citizens".
AFAIK, families with many children are only common in the poor, rural areas of China - the areas we never hear about here in the west, but still are home to more than 70% of the Chinese population.
These might be some nice new features, depending on one's personal or professional needs, but still - what took Microsoft so long?
I mean, Vista will probably be out in late 2006. That will be 5 years since Windows XP. Five years. For new visual effects, some new security measures, and fewer reboots? With hundreds of developers working continuosly on it, and hundreds of millions of $$ invested?
Sounds pretty inefficient, if you ask me. But then, I'm no OS developer, so what do I know. Tell me: What have they been doing? Fixing security holes in 2000/XP along the way? Implementing some new, hidden features that nobody knows about?
Honestly, I want to know.
b) Driver support. Linux has enough trouble in this regard - how does BeOS (pardon me, Zeta) plan to do it? By becoming like Apple and selling box+hardware? If so they'd better get moving, because Apple has had tha market locked up for years now.
Yes, they really should build their own hardware. They might, for example, call it a BeBox or something. Yes, that indeed is a neat idea.
You don't have to go to China.
German company Spatz sells DVI HDCP (HDCP-protected DVI in -> VGA out) and DVI Magic (HDCP-protected DVI in -> 2 x unprotected DVI out). They are a bit pricey right now, but I reckon if enough people ordered one, they could make it cheaper.
Anyway, I have no idea if these things are illegal and/or a breach of contract.
And: Yes, these were on boingboing a few days ago.
According to this article (in German), 648 of 680 MEPs voted for striking it down, albeight for different reasons:
Some of them because they have always been against the European Commission's draft and prefered the proposal the EP made some time ago.
Others voted for striking it down although they were in favour of the EC's version, but the former group was gaining momentum, so they prefered no directive to a - for them - bad directive.
This site lists the positions of the German MEPs, maybe there is such a site for your country, too.
several? hundreds of UXB's (Unexploded bombs) have been found in east London and the old industrial areas of the UK after blanket bombing during WWII.
This still happens in Dresden. During the summer, when lots of digging goes on at construction sites, unexploded bombs from WWII are found frequently. It is not uncommon to evacuate whole quarters of the city until the bomb is defused/detonated.
Just FYI:
DWARF (Debug With Arbitrary Record Format) is a format for debugging information for ELF files.
(Yes, I know the parent is joking.)
DVB-T for digital terrestrial television broadcasting is a totally different modulation standard than DVB-S, the satellite broadcasting standard.
I am aware of the technical differences between DVB-T and DVB-S/DVB-C. My guess was that it was more of a political decision to choose ATSC over DVB-T.
DVB-T is based on COFDM modulation, which a lot of people think is inherently better than 8-VSB, the modulation scheme for ATSC. But in truth, the newest receivers for ATSC that can handle multiple reflected signals (ghosts) do just about as good a job.
That seems to support my assumption. Why did US authorities/broadcasters choose ATSC, if DVB-T is viewed as inherently better?
DVB is an European standard, and sometimes the US doesn't seem to like those (PAL, GSM) - but so are DVB-S and DVB-C, which appear to be used regularily.
It seems the world will be divided in terrestrial digital TV broadcasting standards. As this map shows, the US and Japan will have different systems then Europe, Australia, and most of Asia. Does anyone know why the US has decided to go with ATSC? What advantages does it have? DVB seems to be fine for digital satellite and cable variants.
IIRC, analog terrestrial TV will be switched off in Europe in 2010. Some regions already are digital only; Munich, for example, will turn off analog service in a few weeks.
It does not have such a big impact in Germany, though, as only about 5-10% of all households still receive TV via antenna, the rest has satellite or cable. DVB settop boxes start at EUR 70, good ones are about EUR 100-120. The number of channels increases: most regions used to have anywhere between 3 and 12 channels; now, with DVB-T, it will be about 20.