It's sort of the 10th version of the Mac OS, but the X was to make it sound cooler and sort of clever, but what comes after?
That reminds me of a question I had for some time: Do you pronounce that "Mac OS Ex" or "Mac OS Ten"? Most people I know use the former, but the latter also makes sense...
I don't understand why this solution is not absolutely obvious to everybody. What is the problem? Why is anybody proposing anything other than this?
Sounds interesting, but editing a program's configuration would be a royal pain in the ass with this system. Right now, I can open the conf file, browse through it, read the commentaries and change what needs to be changed. With your proposal, I would have to open a new file for each setting, plus one for the commentary. Unless, of course, there is a special editor for this.
"Election Day as a national holiday.": Good. Productivity could go down, but it could increase turn-out and the importance of the election in people's minds.
How about doing the presidential election on a sunday? Most people don't have to work on sundays, so productivity loss would not be a problem. In Germany (and most of the EU, I think), all elections are on sundays.
What we really want is for Novell to license Microsoft's ActiveSync for Exchange protocol, and include a module for it in the GPL source for one of these Novell servers.
Do you really think Microsoft would sell Novell a license that allows them to implement ActiveSync in GPL software? I doubt that very much.
Maybe they could release it as a free as in beer library, and then include it in SuSE Linux. But that would not really help open source collaboration software, would it...
Sorry for not being clear here - the article from heise.de says that the private key itself is created on their server. I have not verified this, but it seems like a one-click-shop to me:
You click on "Yes, I want an SSL certificate!", they generate the key and the certificate, sign it, and send it to you via mail.
Too bad that the Envisional report the Guardian article is based on is not fully available online, I would like to know the figures for other EU countries.
I don't know many people here in Germany that download their TV shows online, but those who do are really happy that option exists. US TV shows come to Germany about 1-2 years after they aired in the US, and most of the time are dubbed really bad.
At least that is how it used to be until very recently; German digital pay TV station Premiere right now airs Desperate Housewives in the original US version with just a few weeks lag between the US and the German air date. If they do that with all major US TV shows, I might be tempted to buy a subscription.
On the other hand, a downloaded show I can watch whenever I want, and those HDTV torrents still look good after you burned half a season on a DVD and watch it with an XVID-enabled dvd player...
The third way Windows AntiSpyware protects users is by stopping the latest threats, and a key piece of this is SpyNet, the worldwide community of Windows AntiSpyware users.
Of course, the "p" will be a "k" soon, because "SkyNet" simply sounds... aehm... friendlier.
And the Terminator is really a very advanced Anti-Spyware drone in auto-clean mode.
Better have a look at the EULA, who knows what they let you sign!
I don't see how they couldn't, without risking further anti-trust-related accusations.
Well, instead of integrating it into Windows, which would indeed provoke anti-trust accusations, they could offer it as a free download on their website. Just like they do with TweakUI, for example - one of the better add-ons for the Windows platform.
Of course, competitors would complain nonetheless, but there already exist free AV solutions, and they don't seem to cut into Symantecs', McAfee's et. al. businesses.
Should my bank analyse every transaction made on my account, and have free reign to investigate any of them?
Last year, some phishers succesfully got some PIN/TAN combinations from customers of the German Postbank. They tried to transfer high sums to accounts at some eastern European bank, but the Postbank software scans for "unusual" transfers, so the customers were contacted by Postbank employees and asked wether they really wanted to transfer 10,000 Euros to Elbonia.
According to an interview with the bank's CEO last month, no harm was done and the authorities in the respective countries were informed.
Personally, I never understood what those huge display resolutions on notebook screens are good for.
I've seen one of those Dell displays, and you can barely read the window titles and start menu entry in the default Windows font size. Sure, you can set a bigger font size, but then you would not have needed the higher resolution in the first place. I don't have a very good eye sight, but a mouse pointer that's only 2.5mm doesn't seem terribly ergonomic to me.
I know a high resolution is needed by people doing DTP and similar things for full size page previews, but who does this on a laptop, and not a calibrated big screen on their desks?
"Cash shortages will kill cable's momentum, and its market share will drop from 53 percent in 2000 to 15 percent in 2010," said market analyst Lars Godell.
Hm, I can't really believe that cable has more than half of the market right now.
I know for sure that in Germany, cable internet access is nearly non-existant. AFAIK, Italy, France and the UK also have far more DSL lines than cable. And in Scandinavia, many people have those fat 10mbps pipes, which definitively are not cable.
I don't know much about other European countries, but if cable is supposed to have 53% market share, it must have close to 100% in all the other countries.
Does anyone have links relevant to the topic? What do my fellow European Slashdoters use for their broadband connection (besides "my neighbours AP")?
It's been said before, but mature industries tend towards three of something, such as GM-Ford-Chrysler.
And what about Toyota, Hyundai and VW? You have a very US-centric view here.
For CPUs, it has to be AMD64/ia32e, PowerPC, and SPARC. They're the only ones with any high-volume prospects.
I don't have any links to prove it, but I am fairly certain that in the last few years, there have been sold more ARM-based CPUs than those three architectures combined.
I think you oversimplify things a bit with that "three of something" theory.
The problem is that it is illegal under World Trade Organization law to label food as "contains GM stuff", as you put it.
Do you have any sources for this? Because here in Germany, we have a law that makes it mandatory to mark food that contains genetically modified ingrediences, even the tiniest amounts. There are similar laws in other EU countries.
If there is such a WTO trade rule, why hasn't anyone sued yet?
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Actually, this song has a rather interesting history.
It was written and recorded 4 years ago for and by the composer's 5-year old niece. The song had a brief appearance in the popular German TV show "Sendung mit der Maus", was published on a sampler and soon forgotten. But somebody seemed to like it and shared it via p2p networks. The song slowly took of, and last year, it was played by some radio stations. The powers that be noticed, and republished it as a single at the end of 2004. By now, the song is number one in the German single charts and a huge hit in dance clubs and private parties.
Talk about how p2p destroys the music industry.
Look here for more information (in German). If you want to listen to it, I'm shure you'll find it in your favourite p2p network if you search for "Schnappi".
Have you ever seen microsoft.com, msdn.com, msn.com get slashdotted, or even slow down in the slightest?...OS/X sucks, and people who own Macintoshes are ugly losers...
Have you ever been at windowsupdate.com when a new sevice pack was released?
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Why do you think they g0t a huge part in APPLE/Mac?
Microsoft has sold all their Apple Computer stock a long time ago - and they gained quite a lot with it, IIRC.
For starters you could quit pratting around reading \. and start the project.
\.? What's that supposed to be?
I'm sure you meant
It's sort of the 10th version of the Mac OS, but the X was to make it sound cooler and sort of clever, but what comes after?
That reminds me of a question I had for some time:
Do you pronounce that "Mac OS Ex" or "Mac OS Ten"?
Most people I know use the former, but the latter also makes sense...
I don't understand why this solution is not absolutely obvious to everybody. What is the problem? Why is anybody proposing anything other than this?
Sounds interesting, but editing a program's configuration would be a royal pain in the ass with this system. Right now, I can open the conf file, browse through it, read the commentaries and change what needs to be changed. With your proposal, I would have to open a new file for each setting, plus one for the commentary. Unless, of course, there is a special editor for this.
Considering that they had a total revenue of nearly 3 billion US-$ in 2003, they don't really "make good money".
Debitel is the largest mobile phone service reseller in Germany. They used to be a subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler, no less.
"Election Day as a national holiday.": Good. Productivity could go down, but it could increase turn-out and the importance of the election in people's minds.
How about doing the presidential election on a sunday? Most people don't have to work on sundays, so productivity loss would not be a problem. In Germany (and most of the EU, I think), all elections are on sundays.
What we really want is for Novell to license Microsoft's ActiveSync for Exchange protocol, and include a module for it in the GPL source for one of these Novell servers.
Do you really think Microsoft would sell Novell a license that allows them to implement ActiveSync in GPL software? I doubt that very much.
Maybe they could release it as a free as in beer library, and then include it in SuSE Linux. But that would not really help open source collaboration software, would it...
Sorry for not being clear here - the article from heise.de says that the private key itself is created on their server. I have not verified this, but it seems like a one-click-shop to me:
You click on "Yes, I want an SSL certificate!", they generate the key and the certificate, sign it, and send it to you via mail.
Really convenient, isn't it?
According to this article on heise.de, StartCom generates the SSL certificate you order on their server, sign it, and send it to you.
How do I know that they don't keep a copy of the cert for their own use? They could impersonate my server any time with this.
[...]so the powers that be are freaking out with reactive litigation instead of responding with new law that incorporates new technology.
Um, I'm not sure you really want them to do that.
Ever heard of the DMCA?
They did "incorporate new technology", alright, but not the way most Slashdotters would have liked...
Too bad that the Envisional report the Guardian article is based on is not fully available online, I would like to know the figures for other EU countries.
I don't know many people here in Germany that download their TV shows online, but those who do are really happy that option exists. US TV shows come to Germany about 1-2 years after they aired in the US, and most of the time are dubbed really bad.
At least that is how it used to be until very recently; German digital pay TV station Premiere right now airs Desperate Housewives in the original US version with just a few weeks lag between the US and the German air date. If they do that with all major US TV shows, I might be tempted to buy a subscription.
On the other hand, a downloaded show I can watch whenever I want, and those HDTV torrents still look good after you burned half a season on a DVD and watch it with an XVID-enabled dvd player...
Now we know how it all started:
The third way Windows AntiSpyware protects users is by stopping the latest threats, and a key piece of this is SpyNet, the worldwide community of Windows AntiSpyware users.
Of course, the "p" will be a "k" soon, because "SkyNet" simply sounds... aehm... friendlier.
And the Terminator is really a very advanced Anti-Spyware drone in auto-clean mode.
Better have a look at the EULA, who knows what they let you sign!
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Uhm... could somebody who has served please translate that for a lazy European conscientious objector?
The only acronyms I recognize are VOIP and DOD.
Thanks a lot.
I don't see how they couldn't, without risking further anti-trust-related accusations.
Well, instead of integrating it into Windows, which would indeed provoke anti-trust accusations, they could offer it as a free download on their website. Just like they do with TweakUI, for example - one of the better add-ons for the Windows platform.
Of course, competitors would complain nonetheless, but there already exist free AV solutions, and they don't seem to cut into Symantecs', McAfee's et. al. businesses.
Should my bank analyse every transaction made on my account, and have free reign to investigate any of them?
Last year, some phishers succesfully got some PIN/TAN combinations from customers of the German Postbank. They tried to transfer high sums to accounts at some eastern European bank, but the Postbank software scans for "unusual" transfers, so the customers were contacted by Postbank employees and asked wether they really wanted to transfer 10,000 Euros to Elbonia.
According to an interview with the bank's CEO last month, no harm was done and the authorities in the respective countries were informed.
Actually, it's not just an OS. There's word processing, presentation, photo, video editing, and music creation applications provided as well.
I've seen other people write that before, and justed wanted to clarify this:
The iWork '05 package is not included when you buy a Mac Mini. iLife '05 is.
So, unless you count TextEdit (yeah, I know some people do), there is no word processing included - and certainly no presentation programm.
Personally, I never understood what those huge display resolutions on notebook screens are good for.
I've seen one of those Dell displays, and you can barely read the window titles and start menu entry in the default Windows font size. Sure, you can set a bigger font size, but then you would not have needed the higher resolution in the first place. I don't have a very good eye sight, but a mouse pointer that's only 2.5mm doesn't seem terribly ergonomic to me.
I know a high resolution is needed by people doing DTP and similar things for full size page previews, but who does this on a laptop, and not a calibrated big screen on their desks?
So, tell me what am I missing?
FYI:
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The Ruhr is a river in a German region, the Ruhrgebiet, that traditionally has lots of mining and steel industries.
"Pumpen" means, surprise, pumps.
And those things don't look like they have many blinkenlights, but impressive nervertheless
"Cash shortages will kill cable's momentum, and its market share will drop from 53 percent in 2000 to 15 percent in 2010," said market analyst Lars Godell.
Hm, I can't really believe that cable has more than half of the market right now.
I know for sure that in Germany, cable internet access is nearly non-existant. AFAIK, Italy, France and the UK also have far more DSL lines than cable. And in Scandinavia, many people have those fat 10mbps pipes, which definitively are not cable.
I don't know much about other European countries, but if cable is supposed to have 53% market share, it must have close to 100% in all the other countries.
Does anyone have links relevant to the topic? What do my fellow European Slashdoters use for their broadband connection (besides "my neighbours AP")?
It's been said before, but mature industries tend towards three of something, such as GM-Ford-Chrysler.
And what about Toyota, Hyundai and VW? You have a very US-centric view here.
For CPUs, it has to be AMD64/ia32e, PowerPC, and SPARC. They're the only ones with any high-volume prospects.
I don't have any links to prove it, but I am fairly certain that in the last few years, there have been sold more ARM-based CPUs than those three architectures combined.
I think you oversimplify things a bit with that "three of something" theory.
The problem is that it is illegal under World Trade Organization law to label food as "contains GM stuff", as you put it.
Do you have any sources for this? Because here in Germany, we have a law that makes it mandatory to mark food that contains genetically modified ingrediences, even the tiniest amounts. There are similar laws in other EU countries.
If there is such a WTO trade rule, why hasn't anyone sued yet?
Actually, this song has a rather interesting history.
It was written and recorded 4 years ago for and by the composer's 5-year old niece. The song had a brief appearance in the popular German TV show "Sendung mit der Maus", was published on a sampler and soon forgotten. But somebody seemed to like it and shared it via p2p networks. The song slowly took of, and last year, it was played by some radio stations. The powers that be noticed, and republished it as a single at the end of 2004. By now, the song is number one in the German single charts and a huge hit in dance clubs and private parties.
Talk about how p2p destroys the music industry.
Look here for more information (in German). If you want to listen to it, I'm shure you'll find it in your favourite p2p network if you search for "Schnappi".
Everyone has a TV - and the Mac mini connects to a TV out of the box.
That's not entirely true. According to the technical specifications, the Apple DVI to Video Adapter is a Build-to-Order option.
Have you ever seen microsoft.com, msdn.com, msn.com get slashdotted, or even slow down in the slightest?
Have you ever been at windowsupdate.com when a new sevice pack was released?
What is this?
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Do I actually have to RTFA to see this award list or what!?
What has