Seems you were taken for a ride by some obscure kraut. Or yours was a July 4 joke.
There are 3 (or 4, depending on how you take it) different types of "TAE" phone sockets here. A single one for a phone (coded "F"), a dual one for a modem and a phone (coded "N-F"), where the modem or answering or fax machine plugs into "N" and cuts off the phone socket when active, and a third one which combines a N-F socket with another F socket accomodating 2 lines (coded "N-F-F"). There are also "N-F-N" types for special uses. Your flat or hotel room apparently got only a "F" socket. Next time you come to Munich you visit one of the electronics stores in Schillerstrasse and buy an N-F socket for 3.50 Euros and exchange it for the F socket.
No nazi conspiracies here. Duh.
By the way the German federal constitution court in Karlsruhe already ruled online searches of the said kind unconstitutional, and the law now passed will most probably get probed there, and fail. Why in the world the Bavarian government would do that I've no idea. Any Bavarians here who can shed some political light on it?
Whoa - if their smiley were pentagon-shaped I'd definitely run! Other civilizations with pentagon-shaped things aren't famous for being friendly towards people who are "different".
If Richard Stallman wants everything to be free, maybe he should create a whole bunch of decent stuff and give it away. Without license. Without license. Without license.
He did that, remember? And not without license, this is not what he's working for in the past 25 years, but with a public license. Understand?
But you may stick to your proprietary stuff if you like.
this is not about which products might fit in M$'s portfolio but about killing these products and vendors. Who believes that M$ is going to set up an open source strategy (open source as in GPL)? I believe hell is going to freeze over before that is going to happen. Ballmer threatening Novell and Red Hat with patent cases and setting up an open source strategy at the same time. Sure.
I built something similar back in 2000/2001 (back then, such embedded boards sported a 200 MHz Cyrix GXm CPU — man were such embedded boards expensive!). Used that beast in my car as an MP3 player with 30 Gigs of HD space. Look for the string "MPorty" with your favourite search engine. Sadly, the two Linux magazine articles were taken offline since. I'm taking my old MPorty web page online for a while so if anyone's interested...
why don't they invest those billions in new drivetrain, suspension, and rail technology.
The answer is easy. The current Bavarian prime minister (Mr. Edmund Stoiber) is leaving office in a couple of weeks. He has been fighting for the technology demo (and hey, it's not more than that because the train is not nearly going to reach is max speed enroute!) for some years. He finally managed to get this memorial risen for him. He always wanted to be as great as Franz-Josef Strauß after whom the airport is named, and who is said to have fathered the Airbus project. This maglev is likely to be named after him, one way or another.
The suggested project price is likely to be exceeded big time. The figure (1.85 bn Euros) is from 2004, and the current contract says final fixed prices will be presented in early 2008. Nobody appears to seriously expect the $2.6bn to be met.
Bavaria has become^Wbeen a banana republic, although it is nice to be living here. I just hope I won't hear the train from where I live (about 2-3 kms away from the planned track, across the autobahn). The departing plane traffic is bad enough.
Methinks this is an utter waste of (taxpayers') money, largely. There are two suburban lines from Munich railway mainstation to the airport. The trains take about 40 minutes per direction, either line (S1 / S8), halting at every second apple tree. The maglev is supposed to need only 10 minutes. The price will be hefty (in the 30-40 Euro ballpark), and the maglev will never, ever ROI. Even not in terms of the tech demo for selling the train abroad mainly because the Shanghai folks already copied the entire construction. The project is a dead horse, IMHO.
Munich's mayor Mr. Christian Ude seems to be the only person who can stop the nonsense. His alternative approach is an express suburban line that could reach the airport in far less than 40 minutes, making a 10-minute connection obsolete, for all practical purposes.
German readers may want to read on here, here, and here.
Ohmygod. Dupes belong to the culture of Slashdot, they are the cherry on the cake for all the people who don't get a message at the first time, or who make a living pointing out dupes on/.
For what it's worth, messages with a subject ~ "*[Dd]upe*\!" are the most common dupes, and should be avoided at all cost.
We should stop pointing out dupes and start slashing non-dupes. That would reduce the traffic by at least 24.3% and would allow/. to postpone the next harddisk purchase by a month or two, or one could purchase 750GB instead of 1TB disks.
Does Groklaw actually think that Microsofts Army of Layers knows less than they do about law or something?
You seem to forget that it's not the job of "Microsofts Army of Layers" (is it just me or.... ?) to tell the world about the implications of law. It's their job to spin the story long enough to convince some judges. Given the U.S. case law, they may prevail in the end. OTOH the SCO case demonstrates that spin doctors don't always succeed.
That being said, the GPLv3 does apply to everyone - as soon as they distribute GPLv3 software. If Microsoft doesn't do that today, fine (pretty improbable because AFAIK there has not been any project releasing GPLv3'd code yet). If they do that in the future, they had better watch out. The GPLv3 as a software license is as valid as any other software license, like the M$ EULA (which has proven not be valid in certain judiciary systems).
And by the way the M$ EULA does not apply to me either.
Spam behaves like a flood caused by heavy thunderstorms and rain. It will start to flood your basement no matter what. You can start to build a little dam here, put some sandbags there, board up your windows, etc. The sad fact ist, it won't help much. You will only save your home if you stop the rain.
That being said, as long as spam does not really hurt large corporations or governments, in terms of more and more expensive resources (machines, energy, air conditioning, administrators etc.) being used to just process the amount of spam coming in, nothing is going to change. Still, these entities are only going to protect themselves, not the public.
Me, I'm going to filter all hotmail and yahoo generated mail to/dev/null. Sorry folks, but just get another mail provider if you want to talk to me.
Mind you, if you filter mail by any means (like spam or virus filtering), never send auto replies. You will only hit innocent bystanders and generate lots of bounces, and run the risk of getting blacklisted by Spamcop or somebody else (if you autoreply to a spamtrap address, for example). I've been using Linux exclusively for more than 14 years on my mail server @ home, and I cannot count the number of autoreplies saying my machine sent this or that W32...blablabla thing, with no Windows client attached or anything. The better part of spam and virus mails uses fake From: addresses.
So it looks pretty accurate at least, from a quick glance.
Or both are equally inaccurate, as with various web pages and Wikipedia entries where people just copy, slightly modify if deemed necessary, and paste.
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"the only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself" — Winston Churchill.
... for the "pirates". Since this is going to make "official" ink cartridges more expensive, this will firstly raise the "pirates"' revenues, making it more rewarding to produce counterfeit cartridges to begin with. Duh. Each time in history, when something was forbidden or made illegal, the criminals made more money, like during prohibition in the 30s. As soon as the prohibition was cancelled, the alcohol mafia gangs had to look for different businesses. When will people learn.
Actually, what TFA has failed to mention is the utter fact that the RIAA has paid M$ umpteen million US Dollars in cash (used, unregistered 10 and 20 dollar bills in a black nylon travel bag, for that matter) in order to pay for the use of M$ IP — whatever M$ IP might mean given the fact that most of the stuff M$ has been upcoming with in the past 25 years has been reengineered from somebody else's inventions.
The SRP (*) trying to dominate everything, and the thoughtlessness of some of their inhabitants, makes me sicker every day. No this is not a troll post or a flamebait, I'm just worried.
Slashdot Mirror
How would you put this in parentheses?
(not to buy) OR pirate
OR
not to (buy OR pirate)
Hmmm?
What have TCP SYN done to prevent contacting pirate sites to begin with? And slash terrorist home sites while on the go.
Seems you were taken for a ride by some obscure kraut. Or yours was a July 4 joke.
There are 3 (or 4, depending on how you take it) different types of "TAE" phone sockets here. A single one for a phone (coded "F"), a dual one for a modem and a phone (coded "N-F"), where the modem or answering or fax machine plugs into "N" and cuts off the phone socket when active, and a third one which combines a N-F socket with another F socket accomodating 2 lines (coded "N-F-F"). There are also "N-F-N" types for special uses. Your flat or hotel room apparently got only a "F" socket. Next time you come to Munich you visit one of the electronics stores in Schillerstrasse and buy an N-F socket for 3.50 Euros and exchange it for the F socket.
No nazi conspiracies here. Duh.
By the way the German federal constitution court in Karlsruhe already ruled online searches of the said kind unconstitutional, and the law now passed will most probably get probed there, and fail. Why in the world the Bavarian government would do that I've no idea. Any Bavarians here who can shed some political light on it?
Whoa - if their smiley were pentagon-shaped I'd definitely run! Other civilizations with pentagon-shaped things aren't famous for being friendly towards people who are "different".
But you may stick to your proprietary stuff if you like.
Go away.
I built something similar back in 2000/2001 (back then, such embedded boards sported a 200 MHz Cyrix GXm CPU — man were such embedded boards expensive!). Used that beast in my car as an MP3 player with 30 Gigs of HD space. Look for the string "MPorty" with your favourite search engine. Sadly, the two Linux magazine articles were taken offline since. I'm taking my old MPorty web page online for a while so if anyone's interested...
Yep - and where's Dirk? Wasn't he supposed to be Intel's Chief Linux Strategist or something?
The answer is easy. The current Bavarian prime minister (Mr. Edmund Stoiber) is leaving office in a couple of weeks. He has been fighting for the technology demo (and hey, it's not more than that because the train is not nearly going to reach is max speed enroute!) for some years. He finally managed to get this memorial risen for him. He always wanted to be as great as Franz-Josef Strauß after whom the airport is named, and who is said to have fathered the Airbus project. This maglev is likely to be named after him, one way or another.
The suggested project price is likely to be exceeded big time. The figure (1.85 bn Euros) is from 2004, and the current contract says final fixed prices will be presented in early 2008. Nobody appears to seriously expect the $2.6bn to be met.
Bavaria has become^Wbeen a banana republic, although it is nice to be living here. I just hope I won't hear the train from where I live (about 2-3 kms away from the planned track, across the autobahn). The departing plane traffic is bad enough.
Methinks this is an utter waste of (taxpayers') money, largely. There are two suburban lines from Munich railway mainstation to the airport. The trains take about 40 minutes per direction, either line (S1 / S8), halting at every second apple tree. The maglev is supposed to need only 10 minutes. The price will be hefty (in the 30-40 Euro ballpark), and the maglev will never, ever ROI. Even not in terms of the tech demo for selling the train abroad mainly because the Shanghai folks already copied the entire construction. The project is a dead horse, IMHO.
Munich's mayor Mr. Christian Ude seems to be the only person who can stop the nonsense. His alternative approach is an express suburban line that could reach the airport in far less than 40 minutes, making a 10-minute connection obsolete, for all practical purposes.
German readers may want to read on here, here, and here.
s/WinAmp/XMMS/ig
Well. Get a used iPod 5 and / or install Rockbox. Death to proprietary crap!
Can I have some of the stuff you appear to be smoking? Since when is there any compression on CD?
Ohmygod. Dupes belong to the culture of Slashdot, they are the cherry on the cake for all the people who don't get a message at the first time, or who make a living pointing out dupes on /.
For what it's worth, messages with a subject ~ "*[Dd]upe*\!" are the most common dupes, and should be avoided at all cost.
We should stop pointing out dupes and start slashing non-dupes. That would reduce the traffic by at least 24.3% and would allow /. to postpone the next harddisk purchase by a month or two, or one could purchase 750GB instead of 1TB disks.
You seem to forget that it's not the job of "Microsofts Army of Layers" (is it just me or .... ?) to tell the world about the implications of law. It's their job to spin the story long enough to convince some judges. Given the U.S. case law, they may prevail in the end. OTOH the SCO case demonstrates that spin doctors don't always succeed.
That being said, the GPLv3 does apply to everyone - as soon as they distribute GPLv3 software. If Microsoft doesn't do that today, fine (pretty improbable because AFAIK there has not been any project releasing GPLv3'd code yet). If they do that in the future, they had better watch out. The GPLv3 as a software license is as valid as any other software license, like the M$ EULA (which has proven not be valid in certain judiciary systems).
And by the way the M$ EULA does not apply to me either.
Spam behaves like a flood caused by heavy thunderstorms and rain. It will start to flood your basement no matter what. You can start to build a little dam here, put some sandbags there, board up your windows, etc. The sad fact ist, it won't help much. You will only save your home if you stop the rain.
That being said, as long as spam does not really hurt large corporations or governments, in terms of more and more expensive resources (machines, energy, air conditioning, administrators etc.) being used to just process the amount of spam coming in, nothing is going to change. Still, these entities are only going to protect themselves, not the public.
Me, I'm going to filter all hotmail and yahoo generated mail to /dev/null. Sorry folks, but just get another mail provider if you want to talk to me.
Mind you, if you filter mail by any means (like spam or virus filtering), never send auto replies. You will only hit innocent bystanders and generate lots of bounces, and run the risk of getting blacklisted by Spamcop or somebody else (if you autoreply to a spamtrap address, for example). I've been using Linux exclusively for more than 14 years on my mail server @ home, and I cannot count the number of autoreplies saying my machine sent this or that W32...blablabla thing, with no Windows client attached or anything. The better part of spam and virus mails uses fake From: addresses.
Or both are equally inaccurate, as with various web pages and Wikipedia entries where people just copy, slightly modify if deemed necessary, and paste.
--
"the only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself" — Winston Churchill.
You sure they will work in the studio?
... for the "pirates". Since this is going to make "official" ink cartridges more expensive, this will firstly raise the "pirates"' revenues, making it more rewarding to produce counterfeit cartridges to begin with. Duh. Each time in history, when something was forbidden or made illegal, the criminals made more money, like during prohibition in the 30s. As soon as the prohibition was cancelled, the alcohol mafia gangs had to look for different businesses. When will people learn.
Now TFA makes sense, eh?
Well why slashdot http://www.markshuttleworth.com/ ? ;-)
True but then they control all of the manufacturing chain themselves, economically as well as morally.
Agreed. Then there's the other 2 variants.
VY Canis Majoris bacteria. Wow. ;-)
Fancy how big the first algae and bacteria must have been!
The SRP (*) trying to dominate everything, and the thoughtlessness of some of their inhabitants, makes me sicker every day. No this is not a troll post or a flamebait, I'm just worried.
(*) Single Remaining Superpower