I had a Nokia 5510.That allowed me to use both my thumbs to type.I can type at an average speed on a keyboard, and on the 5510 I can find the keys easily enough(its QWERTY). Even then, my friends with an ordinary keypad (with T9en autocomplete) could atleast keep up with me most of the time (we timed it a couple of times). Now this new Intel keypad has all the keys, but you can only use one thumb to type,moreover Im sure I'll have to look at the keypad to type since I wont know where the keys are (sure they are alphabetical but my thumb will not know that). So I think this will actually cut my typing speed even compared to the ordinary T9en enabled keypads Not good for the Phone , but great for PDAs
Nope . The review clearly says that the export is near perfect. Apparently he had problems exporting a 120 page novel in the earlier version to PDF and now it works perfectly.
The reviewer accepts when he cant do things (like test how fast it actually starts up compared to earlier verions), looks at the important stuff etc
My favorite is this one though, the author shows that he looks in places which only the/. crowd would find interesting The license agreement is rather odd. A part of Sun's legalese (which also appears in the Solaris license) stipulates that StarOffice 7 is not intended for use in (or by those contracted by) a nuclear facility.
This probably is aimed at large customers so that they can give this to their employees. At office you have a desktop, proper eye-screen distance, proper keyboard etc. And when you go home you can take it with you and set it up at home.
Also probably useful for all those people who move their laptop only once or twice like probably small shops where the propreiter could use it as a billing machine or something and in the evening take it home. I dont suppose IBM really intends it to be used extensively used on the move.You really cannot walk into a coffe shop and start setting up the monitor on the table.
And you are right , it is a desktop if it is not upgradeable.
Or is it really slashdotted that fast?
I wanted to find out where larry ellisson was. He was No2 at some point of time , but I think the DotCom bust took care of that.
Anyway is'nt it funny that US Tech industry is going downhill for the workers whil the Industry is making money for the "bosses" (and the investors) ?
If they keep making money like this and the middleclass keeps getting smaller (less manufacturing, less IT , design is doing well though) at this rate is USA headed for a crisis? Since the rich dont spent as much as the others (in percentage) and all that stuff? Is it the new age when all the shareholders are americans and they own all the companies of India and China?
Well it atleast disproves the theory that you CANNOT make money on Opensource.
A sample size of one is enough to disprove that. About long-term sustainability of this model, We'll see.
I thought of this yesterday. And I would believe that the network is going to be used way too much trying to contact other machines and it then becomes obvious that something wrong is going on. So they can just take the machines offline and the virus cannot do any damage. A better way is to start 2 or 3 different viruses at different points of time each one invrementally adding payload and then at some point actually doing the damage. You could then have different OS vulnerablities targeted, cross OS infection (even those unpatched Cisco servers) and all kinds of fun. Ofcourse teh code to do this would be a signature, but you probably can encrypt it so that they appear different. (For example a "male" encrypted virus only talks to a "female" encrypted virus eventhough they have the same content). With enough variation, enough to start a new kind of life.
Scary...
Since IBM does not have a decent web/app server they probably are trying to get a foot in the door for their.NET suite.....
Ooops , I meant Microsoft ofcourse....
IBM should have learned from OS/2 about partnering with Microsoft. Currently they are very pro Java , for example take a look at their developer website.
Since IBM does not have a decent web/app server they probably are trying to get a foot in the door for their.NET suite.
I have so far understood their "embrace" part. But what I don't get is where does the "annihilate" part come in? By standardising the XML standards Java also benefits, right? So how does M$ plan to screw Java and IBM
No, not if the SEC gets into this. Again IANAL, but does'nt the fact that they allocated shares to all the higher ups at a low price just before the IBM suit was filed count?
And what about buying another Canopy group company from the money they made from SCO shares?
Or what if the IBM case is dismissed and the court finds that Redhats case against SCO has merit, or that $699 scam was shown to be mail fraud? I think a lot of people will actually have to pay for what they have said. There are a lot of ways SCO and its bosses can be screwed. They are playing a dangerous game. And I dont know what Darl gets for this. He is not even selling his shares.
Whether the SEC gets involved at all is another matter at all.
I think SCO started out with a case against IBM and when they realised that IBM will not bend over, they switched tracks and got into a stock scam. The claim that Darl made was purely for publicity, I think.
Now their words have come back to bite them. Either they can sue IBM and keep their mouth shut or they can do a publicity stunt. Both together is a dangerous idea. The outcome I hope is that they lose their suit against IBM, AND also get punished for their dumping scheme.
In its responding motion, SCO says its actions are protected by, among other rights, First Amendment protections of free speech. "Any governmental interest served under the Lanham Act (one of the foundations of U.S. intellectual property law) is heavily outweighed by fundamental governmental interests in protecting copyright interests, ensuring full and free access to courts, providing litigation immunity, promoting judicial economy and fairness in litigation, and safeguarding freedom of speech and the press," according to SCO's motion
Another company claiming the rights that an individual is entitled to. I say that since you can't jail a company or kill it, a company should not have the rights of an individual. I think the old Nike case has not been settled yet. So SCO is in the wrong. IIRC, AFAIK and IANAL. But I know I hate this.
except that they removed the extra space around the keyboard (frameless ?). The only problem with this is that you are going to hit the keys around the preiphery accidentally. I am sure apple has done their homework, but I have no idea how this kbd design can stop you from accidentally hitting the spacebar. Or you don't rest your wrists on the table at all and type like you would on the typewriter with your hand completely off the desk.
Okay, I have not yet taken sides on this issue, and I am bad at economics
Can anyone with some Economics knowledge help me with this?
There are US companies selling stuff to the world. They start outsourcing their jobs. People are laid off in the US.But companies make more money since they sell to the world (Global sales increase, expenditure decrease). Now there are a lot of rich companies, and a lot of poor people (long term). I assume shareholders get rich. Are there enough normal,average people holding shares and who earn enough from it so that the middle class does not vanish? What is the retail versus wholesale split on shareholding? Are they concentrated in the hands of a few?
Suppose there are not enough people holding shares. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. They can't spend it all. Economy gets bad (does it?). So government taxes the rich to feed the poor creating demand. Sort of like Saudi arabia where all the work is done by import labor and all the money comes from the oilwells which government controls. There is a welfare state. But US companies are taxed too much, so they start moving completely offshore up to the top level.Now Saudi oil can't be moved out but companies can. US economy goes bust.
Can you tell me what mistaken assumptions I made? Or is there a logical error?
When it is an opensource product , it is bad manners not to give a bittorent link with a story posting. while Ican't do that either , here is an actual download page... Kinda slow
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Light emanating from earth really does'nt die out, right? So if it was possible for us to either travel faster than light or warp space time into a circle and then get a powerful enough telescope, then we should be able to see events from the past, right?
That is travel faster than light, to a long distance, turn around and then look at earth with a powerful telescope, we should be able to see kennedy getting shot? wouldnt we? Or maybe bend spacetime so that all the light which left earth years ago comes back to earth ?
I want what they're smoking...
Probably they tested the prototype on themselves and the line got cut
Lemme explain, In "You must be joking Mr.Feynmann" Richard Feynmann (Nobel prize winning physicist and overall colorful charecter) talks about his experiences with a thing like this. Somebody had set up a salt water tank (same sp. gravity as human body), totally dark and noise proof and at exact temp. as human body. So a person inside it cannot feel gravity, noise, temperature, anything at all. Feynmann spent some time in it and what he says is that after a few minutes in it, you start hallucinating and start having totally extrasensory experiences. Something about body compensating for all the lack of feeling
These guys just added a phone to it.
From the article linked to in the post Tokyo-based Sharp has been selling cellphones with 3-D displays for NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile carrier, since November last year. They were so popular the feature is being introduced in notebook computers, Nakayama says. If it works with cellphones (come on who holds a cellphone at eyelevel, its almost always at chest or waist level when you read a text message) It should work for laptops, wouldnt it ? And the market is Japan rememeber ? They made pokemon popular!!
Actually from a little googling it looks like the rules says that "etry visas" or visas for a general long term entry is decided on a case by case basis. Also no work permits are required. Look at this link and scroll down to the "work permits" part. Seems like they have reasonable migration policies.Moreover no restriction on Natural/Naturalised citizens in politics either. An former Italian is the opposition leader
No, I was not comparing soldiers to SCO employees. I posted because the parent poster had claimed that soldiers are not responsible for their actions. This is incorrect in some cases. Hence my disclaimer in the second paragraph.
Since you asked if SCO employees support Linux, there was once a slashdot story about a protest organised at SCO doorstep. Apparently the SCO employees came out with posters comparing Linux to communism etc. They gave protesters free food though. There was a slashdot story on it sometime ago. So I would not justify those (only those not others ) employees. Even there is no comparison between nazis and Sco employees.
Hope this is clear enough.
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No. Snopes says its true. But even IBM meant it as a joke.
I had a Nokia 5510 .That allowed me to use both my thumbs to type.I can type at an average speed on a keyboard, and on the 5510 I can find the keys easily enough(its QWERTY). Even then, my friends with an ordinary keypad (with T9en autocomplete) could atleast keep up with me most of the time (we timed it a couple of times). Now this new Intel keypad has all the keys, but you can only use one thumb to type ,moreover Im sure I'll have to look at the keypad to type since I wont know where the keys are (sure they are alphabetical but my thumb will not know that). So I think this will actually cut my typing speed even compared to the ordinary T9en enabled keypads
Not good for the Phone , but great for PDAs
Nope . The review clearly says that the export is near perfect. Apparently he had problems exporting a 120 page novel in the earlier version to PDF and now it works perfectly.
That should be easily fixed someime soon since Sun has chosen Berkeley DB as their DB of choice for use by their apps.
The reviewer accepts when he cant do things (like test how fast it actually starts up compared to earlier verions), looks at the important stuff etc /. crowd would find interesting
My favorite is this one though, the author shows that he looks in places which only the
The license agreement is rather odd. A part of Sun's legalese (which also appears in the Solaris license) stipulates that StarOffice 7 is not intended for use in (or by those contracted by) a nuclear facility.
Sorry screwed up the link /. story on Sobig. Anybody got a pic of this ?
And I remembered this post on a previos
And I remembered this post on a previos /. story on Sobig. Anybody got a pic of this ?
This probably is aimed at large customers so that they can give this to their employees. At office you have a desktop, proper eye-screen distance, proper keyboard etc. And when you go home you can take it with you and set it up at home. Also probably useful for all those people who move their laptop only once or twice like probably small shops where the propreiter could use it as a billing machine or something and in the evening take it home.
I dont suppose IBM really intends it to be used extensively used on the move.You really cannot walk into a coffe shop and start setting up the monitor on the table.
And you are right , it is a desktop if it is not upgradeable.
Or is it really slashdotted that fast?
I wanted to find out where larry ellisson was. He was No2 at some point of time , but I think the DotCom bust took care of that.
Anyway is'nt it funny that US Tech industry is going downhill for the workers whil the Industry is making money for the "bosses" (and the investors) ?
If they keep making money like this and the middleclass keeps getting smaller (less manufacturing, less IT , design is doing well though) at this rate is USA headed for a crisis? Since the rich dont spent as much as the others (in percentage) and all that stuff? Is it the new age when all the shareholders are americans and they own all the companies of India and China?
Well it atleast disproves the theory that you CANNOT make money on Opensource.
A sample size of one is enough to disprove that. About long-term sustainability of this model, We'll see.
I thought of this yesterday. And I would believe that the network is going to be used way too much trying to contact other machines and it then becomes obvious that something wrong is going on. So they can just take the machines offline and the virus cannot do any damage. A better way is to start 2 or 3 different viruses at different points of time each one invrementally adding payload and then at some point actually doing the damage. You could then have different OS vulnerablities targeted, cross OS infection (even those unpatched Cisco servers) and all kinds of fun. Ofcourse teh code to do this would be a signature, but you probably can encrypt it so that they appear different. (For example a "male" encrypted virus only talks to a "female" encrypted virus eventhough they have the same content). With enough variation, enough to start a new kind of life.
Scary...
Yeah. That was a mistake. Which is why I corrected it in a stupid reply to myself.
Since IBM does not have a decent web/app server they probably are trying to get a foot in the door for their .NET suite. ....
Ooops , I meant Microsoft ofcourse....
IBM should have learned from OS/2 about partnering with Microsoft. Currently they are very pro Java , for example take a look at their developer website. .NET suite.
Since IBM does not have a decent web/app server they probably are trying to get a foot in the door for their
I have so far understood their "embrace" part. But what I don't get is where does the "annihilate" part come in? By standardising the XML standards Java also benefits, right? So how does M$ plan to screw Java and IBM
No, not if the SEC gets into this. Again IANAL, but does'nt the fact that they allocated shares to all the higher ups at a low price just before the IBM suit was filed count?
And what about buying another Canopy group company from the money they made from SCO shares?
Or what if the IBM case is dismissed and the court finds that Redhats case against SCO has merit, or that $699 scam was shown to be mail fraud? I think a lot of people will actually have to pay for what they have said. There are a lot of ways SCO and its bosses can be screwed. They are playing a dangerous game. And I dont know what Darl gets for this. He is not even selling his shares.
Whether the SEC gets involved at all is another matter at all.
I think SCO started out with a case against IBM and when they realised that IBM will not bend over, they switched tracks and got into a stock scam. The claim that Darl made was purely for publicity, I think.
Now their words have come back to bite them. Either they can sue IBM and keep their mouth shut or they can do a publicity stunt. Both together is a dangerous idea. The outcome I hope is that they lose their suit against IBM, AND also get punished for their dumping scheme.
In its responding motion, SCO says its actions are protected by, among other rights, First Amendment protections of free speech. "Any governmental interest served under the Lanham Act (one of the foundations of U.S. intellectual property law) is heavily outweighed by fundamental governmental interests in protecting copyright interests, ensuring full and free access to courts, providing litigation immunity, promoting judicial economy and fairness in litigation, and safeguarding freedom of speech and the press," according to SCO's motion
Another company claiming the rights that an individual is entitled to. I say that since you can't jail a company or kill it, a company should not have the rights of an individual.
I think the old Nike case has not been settled yet. So SCO is in the wrong. IIRC, AFAIK and IANAL. But I know I hate this.
except that they removed the extra space around the keyboard (frameless ?). The only problem with this is that you are going to hit the keys around the preiphery accidentally.
I am sure apple has done their homework, but I have no idea how this kbd design can stop you from accidentally hitting the spacebar. Or you don't rest your wrists on the table at all and type like you would on the typewriter with your hand completely off the desk.
Okay, I have not yet taken sides on this issue, and I am bad at economics
Can anyone with some Economics knowledge help me with this?
There are US companies selling stuff to the world. They start outsourcing their jobs. People are laid off in the US.But companies make more money since they sell to the world (Global sales increase, expenditure decrease). Now there are a lot of rich companies, and a lot of poor people (long term). I assume shareholders get rich. Are there enough normal,average people holding shares and who earn enough from it so that the middle class does not vanish? What is the retail versus wholesale split on shareholding? Are they concentrated in the hands of a few?
Suppose there are not enough people holding shares. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. They can't spend it all. Economy gets bad (does it?). So government taxes the rich to feed the poor creating demand. Sort of like Saudi arabia where all the work is done by import labor and all the money comes from the oilwells which government controls.
There is a welfare state. But US companies are taxed too much, so they start moving completely offshore up to the top level.Now Saudi oil can't be moved out but companies can. US economy goes bust.
Can you tell me what mistaken assumptions I made? Or is there a logical error?
When it is an opensource product , it is bad manners not to give a bittorent link with a story posting. while Ican't do that either , here is an actual download page ... Kinda slow
Light emanating from earth really does'nt die out, right? So if it was possible for us to either travel faster than light or warp space time into a circle and then get a powerful enough telescope, then we should be able to see events from the past, right?
That is travel faster than light, to a long distance, turn around and then look at earth with a powerful telescope, we should be able to see kennedy getting shot? wouldnt we? Or maybe bend spacetime so that all the light which left earth years ago comes back to earth ?
I want what they're smoking...
Probably they tested the prototype on themselves and the line got cut
Lemme explain, In "You must be joking Mr.Feynmann" Richard Feynmann (Nobel prize winning physicist and overall colorful charecter) talks about his experiences with a thing like this. Somebody had set up a salt water tank (same sp. gravity as human body), totally dark and noise proof and at exact temp. as human body. So a person inside it cannot feel gravity, noise, temperature, anything at all. Feynmann spent some time in it and what he says is that after a few minutes in it, you start hallucinating and start having totally extrasensory experiences. Something about body compensating for all the lack of feeling
These guys just added a phone to it.
From the article linked to in the post
Tokyo-based Sharp has been selling cellphones with 3-D displays for NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile carrier, since November last year. They were so popular the feature is being introduced in notebook computers, Nakayama says.
If it works with cellphones (come on who holds a cellphone at eyelevel, its almost always at chest or waist level when you read a text message) It should work for laptops, wouldnt it ? And the market is Japan rememeber ? They made pokemon popular!!
Actually from a little googling it looks like the rules says that "etry visas" or visas for a general long term entry is decided on a case by case basis. Also no work permits are required. Look at this link and scroll down to the "work permits" part.
Seems like they have reasonable migration policies.Moreover no restriction on Natural/Naturalised citizens in politics either. An former Italian is the opposition leader
No, I was not comparing soldiers to SCO employees. I posted because the parent poster had claimed that soldiers are not responsible for their actions. This is incorrect in some cases. Hence my disclaimer in the second paragraph.
Since you asked if SCO employees support Linux, there was once a slashdot story about a protest organised at SCO doorstep. Apparently the SCO employees came out with posters comparing Linux to communism etc. They gave protesters free food though. There was a slashdot story on it sometime ago. So I would not justify those (only those not others ) employees. Even there is no comparison between nazis and Sco employees.
Hope this is clear enough.