It didn't work in the US... Of course it works! For example, there is a very healthy and competitive DSL resale market in Germany. It is protected by strong anti monopolistic government regulation and works out quite well. Needless to say that you need something else than a lobbyist infiltrated FCC to accomplish something like that.
Can't believe this happening in a country which promotes itself as a global exporter of freedom. Do Americans just sit at home and watch this as just another ironic comedy on their TVs?
Just because an average human eye can tell apart a 600 dpi print from a 1200 dpi print doesn't mean it is more 'usable'. 1200 allows fancier or more elegant fonts (like a subtly waisted Optima) and nice printouts, but I have never met anyone who would have printed all his texts at 5 pt size just because his printer could.
UI design regarding resolution is mainly about legibility. Using sub-pixel anti-aliasing and optimized fonts you can get excellent, and I mean very excellent results below 200 dpi. Anything higher can show more detail in theory, but not more significant information. Nobody would chose a waisted font over a optimized one on a portable device, so why waste money (which could be used for other features) on displays which -could- display them.
That's bullshit. Calling government officials spending tax dollars on public manipulation in the same as interest groups paid for doing the same. In many European countries the former would be illegal. And there are reasons for it. Relativistic dumb heads and ignorants like you are those who pave the way for the morally corrupt.
...and even have an arrow painted on the floor of their cell pointing towards Mecca. Well that may be part of the torture.;) They change it one degree a day while you sleep, but will tell you they did not. Over time you think you are turning mad (as they even relocate the little pencil marks that you apply to monitor any changes).
fighting for "the free world"... America has lost all of its moral credibility in the world. I'm still looking up to the fathers of your constitution. That's some of the best lines of code ever written. Very, very wise men... Look what you made out of this today, look at who got 50% of your votes at the last election. That's so sad.
After Ahmadinejad had beaten Bush in Civilization IV GBE four times in a row (2003), he got in trouble. Althoug Bush had been batteling him on a Blue Gene/B powering his massive personal iMax 3D, Ahmadinejad always got the Nuclear Bomb first. The latter reported to be playing on a "Pentium Pro multi core system" with an undisclosed number of processors. Bush had a terribly fitful sleep since this.
After the NSA had found out, that the "Pentium Pro multi core system" was in reality a massive cluster of Iranian people's government-troyan infected home computers, the smart guys developed an ingenious plan: Export restrictions for anti-virus and anti-spyware software were lowered and the Iranian people should be helped to clean up their PCs. They started distribution just one month before THE World Series game between Bush and Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad being beaten down to just 10% of his former capacity failed miserably and was humiliated by Bush, who couldn't resist - against all even begging advisory - to place little virtual churches all over the virtually run over Iran.
In the end President Bush gained back his pride - but the world again lost a little bit of safety: Ahmadinejad was so pissed that he threw out the EIEIO Inspectors and ordered his own dedicated super cluster. And he has NOT decided yet wether to use it for bombs or taking back the secret virtual title...
Narrator: In A.D. 2101, war was beginning.
Svalbard : What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Svalbard : What!
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Svalbard : It's you!!
CATS: How are you gentlemen!!
CATS: All your semen are belong to us.
CATS: You are on the way to destruction.
Svalbard : What you say!!
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha Ha Ha....
Operator: Svalbard !! *
Svalbard : Take off every 'SEMEN'!!
Svalbard : You know what you doing.
Svalbard : Move 'SEMEN'.
Svalbard : For great justice.
Just continue trying to let this look like a political issue.
It's not the debate which is political, but this standard. It even includes bugs from previous Microsoft Office versions to make OOXML backwards compatible to their own product line. Any external developer, who just wants to use an interopable office file format, is burdened by having to implement this proprietary legacy crap.
Microsoft has created its own office format mess during the last two decades. Create a lean and nice OOXML spec instead and let Microsoft do their homework by writing usable converters for their own legacy products. What's happening right now is Microsoft putting its legacy crap (Windows ties, bugs,...) into this "open" spec and all other developers having to worry about Microsoft's DOC-mess for completely new applications, which shouldn't need to care.
There are very many anonymous posts today, which all share a common style. Absolutely lacking any arguments, maybe to not attract further discussion, but clearly intended to make the whole issue around OOXML appear as a solely political one. Posts discrediting the slashdot crowd, post discrediting critics as IBM puppets.
OOXML IS a seriously flawed standard. There were endless very level headed comments on slashdot listing serious issues (e.g. the recently talked about "ANSI" and "Mac codepage" references), where you really ask yourself, how could a person knowing to be writing a "standard" put such rubbish in there?
Just install bootcamp and buy windows XP and Microsoft Office 2007. You were given bootcamp for a reason, use it.
Yes, OOXML's world is so open, you have to reboot your machine into another proprietary operating system just to open a stupid office document.
It does not even load in Microsoft's own Office 2004 for Mac for which they still aren't selling an alternative. Their OOXML converter is a silly joke. Convert an old Word XP HTML to Word 97 (doc) to Wordperfect to Word 95 to RTF and it will still look much better than the laughable output of their converter.
Clearing private data primarily means clearing traces you leave publicly. Traces which can and are being used to collect very intimate profiles about many internet users. That's a much bigger privacy concern than traces on your local computer, especially since "Clear private data" just deletes filesystem references without wiping data. For anybody curious enough it won't be hard to undelete cleared local traces.
So Firefox defaults don't clear your public traces at all and your local traces can either be seen by "show cookies" (preferences) or undeleted for an even better picture. I don't understand how my initial post could be moderated 'Troll'. That's just ignorant.
No, it's because most of the time people just want their browsing history cleared (so people don't see what naughty perverts they are), yet don't want their logins/preferences to be lost. Choice is good, checkboxes are good.
I recommend to any wife, whose husband is trusting Firefox' defaults for covering his porn traces, to just use Firefox' builtin "Show cookies". Caches get cleared, cookies are still there. About every porn page he had visited will be listed. And that after he has trusted Firefox' "Clear private data" defaults. Firefox targets an audience where large shares of users wouldn't know what cookies really are. Setting such loose defaults for such an audience just isn't right, especially if your largest sponsor is profiting from this.
Try this: Click "Tools" -> "Clear private data..." => Now notice that every removal option is checked but two: "Saved Passwords" and "Cookies".
With all this intimate data which can be collected by tracing cookies sent to your browser, why in the hell doesn't a browser default to delete cookies if you tell it to "clear PRIVATE data"??? Well, maybe because Mozilla's top sponsor is intensively relying on cookies?
I think this says all about who is" calling the shots" at Mozilla. It's cleary NOT the end user's interests.
The temporal pattern of an atomic blast's electromagnetic radiation may be different from a purposely pulsed and strong mircowave. Having secured your gear against the former may not automatically protect against the latter.
shhhhhh! don't tell the enemy! you don't want a horde of islamistic clodhoppers take down a batallion of US high-tech tanks with modified chinese microwaves.... how many modern high school buildings is each of those tanks worth, btw, 500?
That post looks like it is complete speculation. Do you have any evidence to the contary?
I've cited an anonymous blog, duh! What could be more credible?
In the end it's just a sequence of bytes that you feel more comfortable about than other sequences of bytes. At some point in time, after you could connect it to some beliefs of yourself (like "bytes from msnbc.com always carry true facts"), you are suddenly willing to call a sequence 'evidence'.
It's very questionable that they would even extend their Java efforts for the iPhone when Java support by Apple for Mac OS X might soon be over, but continued by Sun.
Main argument: Kernel APIs are stable since OS X 10.4, all major high performance graphic foundations since 10.5. The JDK could be put almost completely onto public APIs so Sun could take over development without the need for so much insider involvement anymore.
but they usually take at least 20 minutes to copy a 17 meg file which at home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that. I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. LMFAO! Where is this guy writing from?? Sounds like he's living in a cave and using an old bicycle to deliver the energy for his server park.;)
Only geeks would think that this is a bug!
It's always the human/machine-interface unit at Apple, who has the last word. By questioning their massive testing fleet of 'ordinary guys' they found out that 85% of their potential customers think of files as digital sausages (which can be sent through a series of tubes: the internet).
So Apple has implemented this feature just like a normal person(tm) would think. When moving he puts his file (the virtual sausage) into a tube, which is going to deliver it to another disk. When the tube is removed from the target before it can squeetze out the complete sausage, only a chunk of it is going be on the target disk - the rest cut off and stuck in the tube.
So if you find posts like "How can I get the rest of my file out of the tube" you know what they are trying to express.
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Can't believe this happening in a country which promotes itself as a global exporter of freedom. Do Americans just sit at home and watch this as just another ironic comedy on their TVs?
Just because an average human eye can tell apart a 600 dpi print from a 1200 dpi print doesn't mean it is more 'usable'. 1200 allows fancier or more elegant fonts (like a subtly waisted Optima) and nice printouts, but I have never met anyone who would have printed all his texts at 5 pt size just because his printer could.
UI design regarding resolution is mainly about legibility. Using sub-pixel anti-aliasing and optimized fonts you can get excellent, and I mean very excellent results below 200 dpi. Anything higher can show more detail in theory, but not more significant information. Nobody would chose a waisted font over a optimized one on a portable device, so why waste money (which could be used for other features) on displays which -could- display them.
That's bullshit. Calling government officials spending tax dollars on public manipulation in the same as interest groups paid for doing the same. In many European countries the former would be illegal. And there are reasons for it. Relativistic dumb heads and ignorants like you are those who pave the way for the morally corrupt.
...and even have an arrow painted on the floor of their cell pointing towards Mecca. Well that may be part of the torture.fighting for "the free world"... America has lost all of its moral credibility in the world. I'm still looking up to the fathers of your constitution. That's some of the best lines of code ever written. Very, very wise men... Look what you made out of this today, look at who got 50% of your votes at the last election. That's so sad.
After Ahmadinejad had beaten Bush in Civilization IV GBE four times in a row (2003), he got in trouble. Althoug Bush had been batteling him on a Blue Gene/B powering his massive personal iMax 3D, Ahmadinejad always got the Nuclear Bomb first. The latter reported to be playing on a "Pentium Pro multi core system" with an undisclosed number of processors. Bush had a terribly fitful sleep since this.
After the NSA had found out, that the "Pentium Pro multi core system" was in reality a massive cluster of Iranian people's government-troyan infected home computers, the smart guys developed an ingenious plan: Export restrictions for anti-virus and anti-spyware software were lowered and the Iranian people should be helped to clean up their PCs. They started distribution just one month before THE World Series game between Bush and Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad being beaten down to just 10% of his former capacity failed miserably and was humiliated by Bush, who couldn't resist - against all even begging advisory - to place little virtual churches all over the virtually run over Iran.
In the end President Bush gained back his pride - but the world again lost a little bit of safety: Ahmadinejad was so pissed that he threw out the EIEIO Inspectors and ordered his own dedicated super cluster. And he has NOT decided yet wether to use it for bombs or taking back the secret virtual title...
Narrator: In A.D. 2101, war was beginning. Svalbard : What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Svalbard : What! Operator: Main screen turn on. Svalbard : It's you!! CATS: How are you gentlemen!! CATS: All your semen are belong to us. CATS: You are on the way to destruction. Svalbard : What you say!! CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time. CATS: Ha Ha Ha ....
Operator: Svalbard !! *
Svalbard : Take off every 'SEMEN'!!
Svalbard : You know what you doing.
Svalbard : Move 'SEMEN'.
Svalbard : For great justice.
Just continue trying to let this look like a political issue.
It's not the debate which is political, but this standard. It even includes bugs from previous Microsoft Office versions to make OOXML backwards compatible to their own product line. Any external developer, who just wants to use an interopable office file format, is burdened by having to implement this proprietary legacy crap.
Microsoft has created its own office format mess during the last two decades. Create a lean and nice OOXML spec instead and let Microsoft do their homework by writing usable converters for their own legacy products. What's happening right now is Microsoft putting its legacy crap (Windows ties, bugs, ...) into this "open" spec and all other developers having to worry about Microsoft's DOC-mess for completely new applications, which shouldn't need to care.
There are very many anonymous posts today, which all share a common style. Absolutely lacking any arguments, maybe to not attract further discussion, but clearly intended to make the whole issue around OOXML appear as a solely political one. Posts discrediting the slashdot crowd, post discrediting critics as IBM puppets. OOXML IS a seriously flawed standard. There were endless very level headed comments on slashdot listing serious issues (e.g. the recently talked about "ANSI" and "Mac codepage" references), where you really ask yourself, how could a person knowing to be writing a "standard" put such rubbish in there?
It does not even load in Microsoft's own Office 2004 for Mac for which they still aren't selling an alternative. Their OOXML converter is a silly joke. Convert an old Word XP HTML to Word 97 (doc) to Wordperfect to Word 95 to RTF and it will still look much better than the laughable output of their converter.
My 1,2 Ghz (C7) Epia Board runs a 28Mbyte/s file server over Gigabit LAN - with transparent AES decryption (dm-crypt).... :)
Clearing private data primarily means clearing traces you leave publicly. Traces which can and are being used to collect very intimate profiles about many internet users. That's a much bigger privacy concern than traces on your local computer, especially since "Clear private data" just deletes filesystem references without wiping data. For anybody curious enough it won't be hard to undelete cleared local traces.
So Firefox defaults don't clear your public traces at all and your local traces can either be seen by "show cookies" (preferences) or undeleted for an even better picture. I don't understand how my initial post could be moderated 'Troll'. That's just ignorant.Try this: Click "Tools" -> "Clear private data..." => Now notice that every removal option is checked but two: "Saved Passwords" and "Cookies".
With all this intimate data which can be collected by tracing cookies sent to your browser, why in the hell doesn't a browser default to delete cookies if you tell it to "clear PRIVATE data"??? Well, maybe because Mozilla's top sponsor is intensively relying on cookies?
I think this says all about who is" calling the shots" at Mozilla. It's cleary NOT the end user's interests.
The temporal pattern of an atomic blast's electromagnetic radiation may be different from a purposely pulsed and strong mircowave. Having secured your gear against the former may not automatically protect against the latter.
Good to be in a Humvee when a 25 megaton atomic bomb drops nearby....
shhhhhh! don't tell the enemy! you don't want a horde of islamistic clodhoppers take down a batallion of US high-tech tanks with modified chinese microwaves....
how many modern high school buildings is each of those tanks worth, btw, 500?
I've cited an anonymous blog, duh! What could be more credible?
In the end it's just a sequence of bytes that you feel more comfortable about than other sequences of bytes. At some point in time, after you could connect it to some beliefs of yourself (like "bytes from msnbc.com always carry true facts"), you are suddenly willing to call a sequence 'evidence'.
It's very questionable that they would even extend their Java efforts for the iPhone when Java support by Apple for Mac OS X might soon be over, but continued by Sun.
Main argument: Kernel APIs are stable since OS X 10.4, all major high performance graphic foundations since 10.5. The JDK could be put almost completely onto public APIs so Sun could take over development without the need for so much insider involvement anymore.
I've found the whole story here: http://javablasphemy.blogspot.com/ (currently overloaded)
Sounds plausible: http://eventarithmetic.blogspot.com/
Sounds like he's living in a cave and using an old bicycle to deliver the energy for his server park.
Only geeks would think that this is a bug!
It's always the human/machine-interface unit at Apple, who has the last word. By questioning their massive testing fleet of 'ordinary guys' they found out that 85% of their potential customers think of files as digital sausages (which can be sent through a series of tubes: the internet).
So Apple has implemented this feature just like a normal person(tm) would think. When moving he puts his file (the virtual sausage) into a tube, which is going to deliver it to another disk. When the tube is removed from the target before it can squeetze out the complete sausage, only a chunk of it is going be on the target disk - the rest cut off and stuck in the tube. So if you find posts like "How can I get the rest of my file out of the tube" you know what they are trying to express.