Note that the fine was probably originally specified in Euro, so it is better to say the fine will be in the range of between 100 thousand and 100 million Euro. The BBC converted into Pounds Stirling.
(Note that Euro is both singular and plural.)
This has been shown by Acorn's Risc-OS, that had this feature in the early 1990's. There, to save a file, you dragged a file icon from the Save As dialog to whatever directory you wanted to put it. Similarly, to load a file, simply drag a file icon from a directory to the application.
Dragging icons between the application and a directory is much simpler and intuitive than have an unecessary file choser dialog! IMnsHO.
If you had looked carefully, I had reversed my use of Bold and Italic!
I had actually picked up on both the sense that I had used BOLD, and was making a BOLD statement. - I honestly don't recall if I had inferred that you had implied that by using a BOLD font in itself I was making a BOLD statement - but, I feel that I did.
I was tempted to pretend to react angrily that you were suggesting I was Italian...
You must remember that on the world stage, America is very small. The biggest problem that Kiwi's have to deal with is the Australians.
The number one objective for any decent Kiwi, on meeting an Australian is to put them in their place - forget American politics, SCO, Microsoft, or any such minor problems.
However, should any other Tin-Pot country, such as America, were to attack Australia. Then, by mutual aggreement, Australia and New Zealand would reform the ANZAC brigades to see off the external threat - in fact, the remaining New Zealanders not already in Australia, would go to Australia to defend it.
Be warned. Rubbishing Australians is the sole perogative of the Kiwi's - if anyone else joins in, we reserve the right to jointly attack them!
As for the poster I'm replying to, he should applogise and refrain from attacking his betters. This means he is free, and encouraged, to pick on Bush, Blair, or any of their minions.
To return to topic: there is more truth in the above statements than seen in any of SCO's press releases...
I saw an invention that allowed a car to move sideways into a parking spot on British TV, over twenty years ago. This obviously could be used to get out as well. .
It worked by lefting the normal wheels a little of the road, and used small wheels aligned at right angles to the main wheels. Rotary power was derived from the normal driving wheels.
They even had a camera under the car so you could see the mechanism in action.
I have often wondered why it was never developed commercially.
I forgot to say that the first GUI I used was on an Apple Lisa in a computer shop, this came out before the first Apple Macintosh. The second GUI machine I used was the wonderful Acorn Archimedes.
The first GUI I saw in a magazine was an article on the Xerox Star computer in Scientific American, this predated the Apple Lisa.
Putting the close window icon on the right hand side seems to be a Microsoft "inovation".
When I started using a GUI, the close icon for a window was in the top left hand corner and the iconise (Minimise in Microsoft terminology) was in the top right hand corner So I could quickly iconise a window without fearing that I'd accidentally close the window instead.
Now with GNOME & KDE slavishly following Microsoft, the close icon is on the top right hand side and is one of 3, so I need to be more careful which of the icons I click.
Now the original X Windows system had the scroll bar for terminals on the left hand side, which is different from the Acorn and Microsoft GUI's. This I find more convenient, than having the scroll bar on the right hand side - so I'd like the option to globally switch all scrollbars to the left, so other people can still have their's on the right. Now I can switch my terminal windows that way, but not Mozilla, nor my Java, nor my other windows.
I don't want my desktop to look like a clone of one Microsoft's GUI's. If I desperately wanted to be a Microsoft true believer, I would have bought Microsoft, and not installed Linux.
Why not simply enable the search icon, then to look for something on Google, all you need to do is to put your search string in the URL bar and hit the search icon!
The above assumes that you have selected google in the preferences as your default search engine.
I suspect that beyond the technical advantages of IPv6, such as a vastly bigger address spaces and faster routing, the US Military (and Government) see that it is important for American strategic interests to spearhead the upgrade of America to IPv6 so that America is not left behind by the Asian countries.
I also think that the IPv6 capability of Linux is one of several reasons why Asian and other non-USA dominated countries are switching to Linux. With Linux they have a chance to ensure that their Internet traffic starts and ends in machines where they can trust the software - because it is open source. As has been said before, one of the drivers of Asian IPv6 adoption is their need for a bigger address space.
Once IPv6 becomes much more common, expect to see a lot of new companies, and some existing ones, launch new products for both the mass consumer and the specialist markets, that are only feasible with IPv6. Watch Asia, especially Japan. for the first evidence for this. If I had to pick a year for this to happen, I'd suggest 2006 - but maybe I'm being unduly conservative.
So it was released on 4-1-04, well it is 11-1-04 now so this must be old news? Oh wait, perhaps it was an American who posted it, so maybe they meant 1-Apr-04, not 4-Jan-04!
Please remember this is an international forum, best to include the month as a non-numeric form. I adopted this form (dd-mmm-yy) based on the date printed out by that great American company Digital's computer range called the PDP.
Though for file names, I use yyyymmdd; so files sort in the right order.
In New Zealand, all the notes have a transparent section. If Euro notes and American dollar notes had the same thing then counterfeiting would be next to impossible.
This transparent section would easily be checked even in a dim bar. If you can't see through part of the note, or the transparent section has the wrong shape - call the police!
If they move to allow people to dial using IP addresses, then they should use IPv6. However, most people would prefer some kind of email like address, but computers would be quite happy storing and using the IPv6 numeric codes.
The downside, would be vastly increased spamming. With Mozilla, spam gets automatically junked, but how do you do that with voice, once you pick the phone up...
P.S. Please don't tell your president about the large pointed structure in the centre of Dublin, He'd probably think it a thinly disguised massive ICBM with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Don't forget SUN's contract to supply 200 Million Linux desktops to China! This is marketed as rhe "Java Desktop System"s. This can't exactly help Microsoft...
-Nivag
Yes, we British did make a twin engined fighter (named the Mosquito) out of wood. The Germans hated the Mosquito, it flew too high and too fast for them to shoot it down. Also, when they did managed to hit one, it generally survived to get back to base.
Back on topic:
The budget for the Beagle was very small, and to be honest I think it was way too small to give the probe a decent chance. However, I know of another country with huge budgets for space who often fail too.
My personal opinion is that the airbags failed. Having airtight material closely folded and kept that way for months in a vacuum at very low temperatures, seems asking for trouble.
I sometimes despair at my Government, when it comes to space exploration. I find it amazing that they will fund anything for space, so I shouldn't be so surprised at such a small budget.
It will be interesting to see when the Chinese begin to send probes to Mars, and how successful, or otherwise, they will be.
He is a character in a British children's magazine (the "Dandy" or "Beano", I can never remember which) who always wears a jumper with red and black stripes. The real Dennis the Menace wold use "p" for pence.
You may be thinking about an American TV "comedy" program with a Dennis, who is not nearly as wicked as the real Dennis the Menace.
I remember buying those comics more than 40 years ago.
Ahh! the memories, now I can't justify buying them, I'm now meant to be too old and mature...
Actually the Isle of Man had a parliament (government) that was begun over a thousand years ago - and still meets evey year.
Oh! you did say "and some other tiny places" - oops! But, since when was China a tiny place? (maybe its too late at night for reading slashdot... (10:50pm here)
It was one of the rare times I found an excuse to use my HP48 calculator. As most times I want to do any vaguely complicated calculations, I'd whip up a quick Java program.
I suppose all this probably makes me a mathematical pedant (or does it make me a "Precision Nazi"?)!:-)
I guess I should salute your bravery for admitting to use a Microsoft product...
[...] Assuming the NSA doesn't already have a good working quantum computer...
And assuming it's possible to continue adding entangled qubits...
Anyway, Moores law says the power of classical computers increases as 2^(Y/1.5), where Y is years. So far, roughly, quantum computers are increasing in power as 2^2^(Y/2), which should make em about 10^225 times as powerful as today's classical computers in 2 decades. [...]
Given that one decade is 10 years, then for 2 decades: Y=20 2^(2^(Y/2)) = 1.8*10^308 (2^2)^(Y/2) = 10^6
Not sure how the value of 10^225 was derived for Y=20.
Hmm... Possible these nano tubes could be used as part of an optical quantum computer to crack encrypted files. Even, if it is not possible to actually intercept quantum transmissions (beyound the first packet).
I agree the following is prpbably true with regards cost for most indians...
[...] > The primary appeal of Linux is low cost: $0.00. with > Windows being free in India, the typical Indian will > not be interested in using Linux. Windows has significantly > more applications that run on it than Linux. Off course, > those applications are also "free". [...]
However, there are 3 other factors that seem to have been missed:
(1) Indian companies that are doing (or plan to do) business in the USA, will want to ensure that they are not open to legal liability caused by using pirated American software. They can save money legally, by using Linux.
(2) Linux has adequate to superior applications for most purposes, so the application superiority of Microsoft is not as strong as some people believe,
(3) With Linix, they get the source legally, and can then:
(A) modify it to suit local conditions, and hence make
money from local busness customers
(B) more easily develop sophisticated applications
which need intimate knowledge of the underlying OS
(C) similarly for developing specialized hardware
which need drvers and or other changes to the
kernel
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ARRGHHHH!!!!! 100 million Euro to 1000 million Euro
Note that the fine was probably originally specified in Euro, so it is better to say the fine will be in the range of between 100 thousand and 100 million Euro. The BBC converted into Pounds Stirling. (Note that Euro is both singular and plural.)
Well it was on the 1pm (1300 GMT) RTE1 radio news here in Dublin Ireland! -Nivag
There is actually No need for a file selector!
This has been shown by Acorn's Risc-OS, that had this feature in the early 1990's. There, to save a file, you dragged a file icon from the Save As dialog to whatever directory you wanted to put it. Similarly, to load a file, simply drag a file icon from a directory to the application.
Dragging icons between the application and a directory is much simpler and intuitive than have an unecessary file choser dialog! IMnsHO.
-Nivag
Perhaps I was too subtle?
If you had looked carefully, I had reversed my use of Bold and Italic!
I had actually picked up on both the sense that I had used BOLD, and was making a BOLD statement. - I honestly don't recall if I had inferred that you had implied that by using a BOLD font in itself I was making a BOLD statement - but, I feel that I did.
I was tempted to pretend to react angrily that you were suggesting I was Italian...
-Nivag
The "Italic" I've never heard of that Intel processor! Was this a special for SCO, especially designed for their new Linux distribution???
You must remember that on the world stage, America is very small. The biggest problem that Kiwi's have to deal with is the Australians.
The number one objective for any decent Kiwi, on meeting an Australian is to put them in their place - forget American politics, SCO, Microsoft, or any such minor problems.
However, should any other Tin-Pot country, such as America, were to attack Australia. Then, by mutual aggreement, Australia and New Zealand would reform the ANZAC brigades to see off the external threat - in fact, the remaining New Zealanders not already in Australia, would go to Australia to defend it.
Be warned. Rubbishing Australians is the sole perogative of the Kiwi's - if anyone else joins in, we reserve the right to jointly attack them!
As for the poster I'm replying to, he should applogise and refrain from attacking his betters. This means he is free, and encouraged, to pick on Bush, Blair, or any of their minions.
To return to topic: there is more truth in the above statements than seen in any of SCO's press releases...
Hmm... Time flies, the invention must have been shown on British TV in 1963 or earlier, as I left the UK when I was twelve.
I saw an invention that allowed a car to move sideways into a parking spot on British TV, over twenty years ago. This obviously could be used to get out as well. .
It worked by lefting the normal wheels a little of the road, and used small wheels aligned at right angles to the main wheels. Rotary power was derived from the normal driving wheels.
They even had a camera under the car so you could see the mechanism in action.
I have often wondered why it was never developed commercially.
-Nivag
Hmmm...
:-)
Is this more evidence that Microsoft has so much profit, that they don't know what to do with it?
I forgot to say that the first GUI I used was on an Apple Lisa in a computer shop, this came out before the first Apple Macintosh. The second GUI machine I used was the wonderful Acorn Archimedes.
The first GUI I saw in a magazine was an article on the Xerox Star computer in Scientific American, this predated the Apple Lisa.
Putting the close window icon on the right hand side seems to be a Microsoft "inovation".
When I started using a GUI, the close icon for a window was in the top left hand corner and the iconise (Minimise in Microsoft terminology) was in the top right hand corner So I could quickly iconise a window without fearing that I'd accidentally close the window instead.
Now with GNOME & KDE slavishly following Microsoft, the close icon is on the top right hand side and is one of 3, so I need to be more careful which of the icons I click.
Now the original X Windows system had the scroll bar for terminals on the left hand side, which is different from the Acorn and Microsoft GUI's. This I find more convenient, than having the scroll bar on the right hand side - so I'd like the option to globally switch all scrollbars to the left, so other people can still have their's on the right. Now I can switch my terminal windows that way, but not Mozilla, nor my Java, nor my other windows.
I don't want my desktop to look like a clone of one Microsoft's GUI's. If I desperately wanted to be a Microsoft true believer, I would have bought Microsoft, and not installed Linux.
-Nivag
Why not simply enable the search icon, then to look for something on Google, all you need to do is to put your search string in the URL bar and hit the search icon!
The above assumes that you have selected google in the preferences as your default search engine.
-Nivag
I suspect that beyond the technical advantages of IPv6, such as a vastly bigger address spaces and faster routing, the US Military (and Government) see that it is important for American strategic interests to spearhead the upgrade of America to IPv6 so that America is not left behind by the Asian countries.
I also think that the IPv6 capability of Linux is one of several reasons why Asian and other non-USA dominated countries are switching to Linux. With Linux they have a chance to ensure that their Internet traffic starts and ends in machines where they can trust the software - because it is open source. As has been said before, one of the drivers of Asian IPv6 adoption is their need for a bigger address space.
Once IPv6 becomes much more common, expect to see a lot of new companies, and some existing ones, launch new products for both the mass consumer and the specialist markets, that are only feasible with IPv6. Watch Asia, especially Japan. for the first evidence for this. If I had to pick a year for this to happen, I'd suggest 2006 - but maybe I'm being unduly conservative.
Basically, IPv6 is the future.
So it was released on 4-1-04, well it is 11-1-04 now so this must be old news? Oh wait, perhaps it was an American who posted it, so maybe they meant 1-Apr-04, not 4-Jan-04!
Please remember this is an international forum, best to include the month as a non-numeric form. I adopted this form (dd-mmm-yy) based on the date printed out by that great American company Digital's computer range called the PDP.
Though for file names, I use yyyymmdd; so files sort in the right order.
- Nivag
In New Zealand, all the notes have a transparent section. If Euro notes and American dollar notes had the same thing then counterfeiting would be next to impossible.
This transparent section would easily be checked even in a dim bar. If you can't see through part of the note, or the transparent section has the wrong shape - call the police!
-Nivag
If they move to allow people to dial using IP addresses, then they should use IPv6. However, most people would prefer some kind of email like address, but computers would be quite happy storing and using the IPv6 numeric codes.
The downside, would be vastly increased spamming. With Mozilla, spam gets automatically junked, but how do you do that with voice, once you pick the phone up...
P.S. Please don't tell your president about the large pointed structure in the centre of Dublin, He'd probably think it a thinly disguised massive ICBM with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Don't forget SUN's contract to supply 200 Million Linux desktops to China! This is marketed as rhe "Java Desktop System"s. This can't exactly help Microsoft...
-Nivag
Yes, we British did make a twin engined fighter (named the Mosquito) out of wood. The Germans hated the Mosquito, it flew too high and too fast for them to shoot it down. Also, when they did managed to hit one, it generally survived to get back to base.
Back on topic:
The budget for the Beagle was very small, and to be honest I think it was way too small to give the probe a decent chance. However, I know of another country with huge budgets for space who often fail too.
My personal opinion is that the airbags failed. Having airtight material closely folded and kept that way for months in a vacuum at very low temperatures, seems asking for trouble.
I sometimes despair at my Government, when it comes to space exploration. I find it amazing that they will fund anything for space, so I shouldn't be so surprised at such a small budget.
It will be interesting to see when the Chinese begin to send probes to Mars, and how successful, or otherwise, they will be.
-Nivag
Actually Dennis the Menace would never use cents!
He is a character in a British children's magazine (the "Dandy" or "Beano", I can never remember which) who always wears a jumper with red and black stripes. The real Dennis the Menace wold use "p" for pence.
You may be thinking about an American TV "comedy" program with a Dennis, who is not nearly as wicked as the real Dennis the Menace.
I remember buying those comics more than 40 years ago.
Ahh! the memories, now I can't justify buying them, I'm now meant to be too old and mature...
Actually the Isle of Man had a parliament (government) that was begun over a thousand years ago - and still meets evey year.
Oh! you did say "and some other tiny places" - oops! But, since when was China a tiny place? (maybe its too late at night for reading slashdot... (10:50pm here)
a tired Nivag
It was one of the rare times I found an excuse to use my HP48 calculator. As most times I want to do any vaguely complicated calculations, I'd whip up a quick Java program.
:-)
I suppose all this probably makes me a mathematical pedant (or does it make me a "Precision Nazi"?)!
I guess I should salute your bravery for admitting to use a Microsoft product...
[...]
Assuming the NSA doesn't already have a good working quantum computer...
And assuming it's possible to continue adding entangled qubits...
Anyway, Moores law says the power of classical computers increases as 2^(Y/1.5), where Y is years. So far, roughly, quantum computers are increasing in power as 2^2^(Y/2), which should make em about 10^225 times as powerful as today's classical computers in 2 decades.
[...]
Given that one decade is 10 years, then for 2 decades:
Y=20
2^(2^(Y/2)) = 1.8*10^308
(2^2)^(Y/2) = 10^6
Not sure how the value of 10^225 was derived for Y=20.
Hmm... Possible these nano tubes could be used as part of an optical quantum computer to crack encrypted files. Even, if it is not possible to actually intercept quantum transmissions (beyound the first packet).
I agree the following is prpbably true with regards cost for most indians...
[...]
> The primary appeal of Linux is low cost: $0.00. with
> Windows being free in India, the typical Indian will
> not be interested in using Linux. Windows has significantly
> more applications that run on it than Linux. Off course,
> those applications are also "free".
[...]
However, there are 3 other factors that seem to have been missed:
(1) Indian companies that are doing (or plan to do) business in the USA, will want to ensure that they are not open to legal liability caused by using pirated American software. They can save money legally, by using Linux.
(2) Linux has adequate to superior applications for most purposes, so the application superiority of Microsoft is not as strong as some people believe,
(3) With Linix, they get the source legally, and can then:
(A) modify it to suit local conditions, and hence make
money from local busness customers
(B) more easily develop sophisticated applications
which need intimate knowledge of the underlying OS
(C) similarly for developing specialized hardware
which need drvers and or other changes to the
kernel
Just my EURO 0.2 cent worth!
-Nivag