A lot of the blame seems to go to MS. Strange that the article here didn't attract more MS bashing comments. Maybe most slashdotters don't know what has been going on and didn't realize this was a good opportunity for anti-MS karma whoring?:-)
Anyway, I'm glad MS didn't manage to sneak patents into a standard. As a previous poster said: "Long live SPF".
Sorry to nit-pick, but there is a slight arithmetic error in your example: if you produce 150% of what is needed with all (100%) turbines and 50% of those fail, then you don't have 100% covered, but only 75%.:-)
I've been hunting for a win32 email client that doesn't suck a bag of cocks. Anyone got any suggestions? I'd appreciate it a lot.
I've tried Thunderbird and others, but am still staying with Eudora for now.
A few months ago, I started to write some sort of review/blog, pointing out some aspects of the mailers I tried. Never finished it really, but in case you find it useful: here it is
Switzerland takes theis to the extreme, actually requiring all their households to have a government issued machine gun.
No, not all households. Only the active military have their gun (not machine-gun) at home. The peculiarity is that they are "active" until the age of 40 or something, going back to training for about 1 to 3 weeks every year, plus a few Saturdays going to shooting training.
That, and the finincal cooperation, were the two reasons the Nazis didn't invade.
I don't believe the miltary had anything to do with Switzerland not being invaded by Germany. To put it simply: you don't attack your own bank.
BTW, the 2 countries which used to be poor and became rich after the World Wars are Switzerland and the US.
Maybe because they were meant to be used by humans, who start counting at 1, not by geeks who would count 3 apples on a table as "0, 1, 2. Plus one, that's three apples".
I once received a letter from lawyers asking me to put a client's site down.
I called the client then only replied with an email saying something like "You say it's illegal, but I understand my client's lawyers disagree. I'm only an ISP, not a lawyer, so I will let you sort this out between professionals. I will close the site if and when I receive an official decision from a judge telling me to do so."
I didn't even word it in a more sophisticated way than above. That email took me 5 minutes. Less than the time to take the site down and notify/apologize/explain the matter to the client (who got a Cc of my reply).
Why would any ISP do it differently and just let down his client, to please some anonymous lawyer?
Of course, I would probably have acted differently if the site had been something I consider clearly unacceptable. But it was just about 2 parties accusing each other of being crooks.
Anyway, I never heard of these lawyers again, but heard much later from my client that they actually did go to court, and were dismissed.
If the site is not *very* obviously illegal, why would an ISP act as a judge?
Size seems to be around 22 (6-9 year olds; don't know for later), up from around 18 when I was in school (but what I remember is for when I was between 14-18).
And quality seems to have dropped too, according to the Pisa study (annoying pdf), where Switzerland is way behind most comparable countries (and Australia seems to do well). So the number of children per class is obviously not everything.
But I don't know how the study mixed private and state schools (nobody (almost) goes to private schools in Switzerland).
Trouble is, when you get three times the salary driving a forklift truck nights at the local steelworks (friend of mine), it's a bit hard to get the best people into the profession in the first place.
And then, maybe it's just the opposite: to be willing to do very hard work for a small salary, you have to really be dedicated to it. (Of course, I'm NOT saying "keep their pay low", and wouldn't make this remark in front of a politician voting budgets).
PS: This post and the parent are precisely coming through the connection of some anonymous neighbour. He's not sharing it on purpose, it seems, and I guess I could easily hack into his machine on the same subnet. But I appreciate this practical Internet access: wihtout this neighbour, I would have no access tonight. I want to offer the same commodity to people, and that wireless vlan switch looks like it would let me do it safely.
I'm glad to see they seem to have dumped that horrible design they had.
But more importantly, it looks like this will make what I wanted possible:
Wireless switching with the Linksys WET54GS5 Wireless Ethernet Switch: - Managed Ethernet switch - Wireless supports virtual LANs (VLAN) - Supports up to 69 VLAN users - Each wireles suser gets a separate Subnetted IP address - Targeted release June 2004
This should enable you to share your wireless Internet access, without opening up your own network to strangers.
allofmp3.com would be almost perfect: non-protected mp3, at the bitrate of your choice, for an unbeatable price.
The only problem is that it doesn't look like being very "legal", despite whate the site pretends.
In fact, my problem is not whether it is technically legal or not. It is that the money certainly doesn't go to the artists. So it's just the same as non-legal.
What we want is high-quality non-DRM files, and knowing that the artists get their share from what we pay of it. But the companies don't seem to understand that, so it will continue to be P2P, allofmp3.com, et al.
Last I heard, film had about 10 stops range. But as you say, it really has much more because it is non-linear, which is an advantage. It looks much better, especially in the whites.
While CCD sensors are more or less linear, software is used to compresses the extremes and get better-looking shadows and especially to avoid the horrible "clipping" of the over-exposed whites. That's what the DCC switch on the video cameras does (does anybody ever switch it off??). Recent cameras give finer control on these features.
Anyway, while the linear dynamic range might be greater with CCDs (I don't know), when you consider the full range including the compressed non-linear parts, film has a much greater range, and that is what really matters.
Anyway, the problem with digital photographs is not really the definition, but the very narrow luminance range the sensors are able to record. That's where the photo-chemical process makes a huge difference: it is able to keep much more detail in the very bright areas. That wouldn't matter for advertizing photography in a studio with controlled lighting, but in the real world, our eye sees a huge range, photographic film much less, and digital sensors far less.
Whether the French do or do not hate America is irrelevant to the Cannes prize.
The jury was presided by an American (Quentin Trantino). Members were two more Americans, one Belgian, one British, one Chinese, and two unknown.
The French, and Europeans in general, are very grateful to the Americans for liberating them in the two WWs. Even the younger are aware of that.
The problem is that in the last 50+ years (mainy during the cold war), things have changed, and America actively supported or put into power about all non-communist dictators, even when it required overthrowing democratically elected governments.
So the Europeans slowly learned that the country which once liberated them had changed...
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Never tried IM before. Are there some IM test bots around, with whom I could have a little chat to try it out?
Maybe someone like Eliza? My regular therapist being on holidays...
I found this post in the mailing list about the closing of the working group interesting.
:-)
A lot of the blame seems to go to MS. Strange that the article here didn't attract more MS bashing comments. Maybe most slashdotters don't know what has been going on and didn't realize this was a good opportunity for anti-MS karma whoring?
Anyway, I'm glad MS didn't manage to sneak patents into a standard. As a previous poster said: "Long live SPF".
Sorry to nit-pick, but there is a slight arithmetic error in your example: if you produce 150% of what is needed with all (100%) turbines and 50% of those fail, then you don't have 100% covered, but only 75%. :-)
Has someone tried recent versions of both Knoppix and Mepis?
Reviews are interesting, but comparative remarks from actual users would be even more interesting.
If you used both, how do they compare? Did you switch from one to the other, and why? Or do you use both for different purposes?
You're not thinking globally!
Of course he is, but like any good revolutionary, he is acting locally.
... instead of nice sunny places like Napoli, Valencia, Split, Tunis, ...
Why are the interesting tech jobs mostly in dull places with bad weather, no decent coffee and generally bad food?
Well, there is India which is sunny and has nice food, but that's really too far away...
I've been hunting for a win32 email client that doesn't suck a bag of cocks. Anyone got any suggestions? I'd appreciate it a lot.
I've tried Thunderbird and others, but am still staying with Eudora for now.
A few months ago, I started to write some sort of review/blog, pointing out some aspects of the mailers I tried. Never finished it really, but in case you find it useful: here it is
According to Katie Jones, it is not Penguin but Katie T.'s lawyer who is bullying her to give up katie.com.
After WW1, both countries were much better off than before. And it improved even more after WW2.
It's true that before WW2, they weren't really poor anymore.
Switzerland takes theis to the extreme, actually requiring all their households to have a government issued machine gun.
No, not all households. Only the active military have their gun (not machine-gun) at home. The peculiarity is that they are "active" until the age of 40 or something, going back to training for about 1 to 3 weeks every year, plus a few Saturdays going to shooting training.
That, and the finincal cooperation, were the two reasons the Nazis didn't invade.
I don't believe the miltary had anything to do with Switzerland not being invaded by Germany.
To put it simply: you don't attack your own bank.
BTW, the 2 countries which used to be poor and became rich after the World Wars are Switzerland and the US.
Maybe because they were meant to be used by humans, who start counting at 1, not by geeks who would count 3 apples on a table as "0, 1, 2. Plus one, that's three apples".
Indeed, most Perl code which can check email addresses finds it syntactically valid, even though I also think it really should be @[127.0.0.1] instead.
So where would Noam Chomsky fall in the spectrum of world political opinion?
In Europe, mainstream left of the intellectual variant. Or just mainstream intellectual.
I agree, and that's about what I did in a similar case.
I host about 20 domains for clients on my server.
I once received a letter from lawyers asking me to put a client's site down.
I called the client then only replied with an email saying something like "You say it's illegal, but I understand my client's lawyers disagree. I'm only an ISP, not a lawyer, so I will let you sort this out between professionals. I will close the site if and when I receive an official decision from a judge telling me to do so."
I didn't even word it in a more sophisticated way than above. That email took me 5 minutes. Less than the time to take the site down and notify/apologize/explain the matter to the client (who got a Cc of my reply).
Why would any ISP do it differently and just let down his client, to please some anonymous lawyer?
Of course, I would probably have acted differently if the site had been something I consider clearly unacceptable. But it was just about 2 parties accusing each other of being crooks.
Anyway, I never heard of these lawyers again, but heard much later from my client that they actually did go to court, and were dismissed.
If the site is not *very* obviously illegal, why would an ISP act as a judge?
Where are you that class size is 20?
Switzerland.
Size seems to be around 22 (6-9 year olds; don't know for later), up from around 18 when I was in school (but what I remember is for when I was between 14-18).
And quality seems to have dropped too, according to the Pisa study (annoying pdf), where Switzerland is way behind most comparable countries (and Australia seems to do well). So the number of children per class is obviously not everything.
But I don't know how the study mixed private and state schools (nobody (almost) goes to private schools in Switzerland).
Trouble is, when you get three times the salary driving a forklift truck nights at the local steelworks (friend of mine), it's a bit hard to get the best people into the profession in the first place.
And then, maybe it's just the opposite: to be willing to do very hard work for a small salary, you have to really be dedicated to it. (Of course, I'm NOT saying "keep their pay low", and wouldn't make this remark in front of a politician voting budgets).
Yes. It is called "school teacher"
They don't have many teaching hours, but the profession has the highest rate of diagnosed depressions.
Before I had children, I wondered why. Now I don't even dare to imagine what it is to be in front of 20 of them all day long...
And in most countries, they aren't even paid well.
PS: This post and the parent are precisely coming through the connection of some anonymous neighbour. He's not sharing it on purpose, it seems, and I guess I could easily hack into his machine on the same subnet. But I appreciate this practical Internet access: wihtout this neighbour, I would have no access tonight. I want to offer the same commodity to people, and that wireless vlan switch looks like it would let me do it safely.
I'm glad to see they seem to have dumped that horrible design they had.
But more importantly, it looks like this will make what I wanted possible:
Wireless switching with the Linksys WET54GS5 Wireless Ethernet Switch:
- Managed Ethernet switch
- Wireless supports virtual LANs (VLAN)
- Supports up to 69 VLAN users
- Each wireles suser gets a separate Subnetted IP address
- Targeted release June 2004
This should enable you to share your wireless Internet access, without opening up your own network to strangers.
[legal ... not legal ...] The RIAA lawyers
:-)
Good point, I guess.
But for me, I have the luck of not living in America. Among other advantages, I can afford to not give a damn about your RIAA.
allofmp3.com would be almost perfect: non-protected mp3, at the bitrate of your choice, for an unbeatable price.
The only problem is that it doesn't look like being very "legal", despite whate the site pretends.
In fact, my problem is not whether it is technically legal or not. It is that the money certainly doesn't go to the artists. So it's just the same as non-legal.
What we want is high-quality non-DRM files, and knowing that the artists get their share from what we pay of it. But the companies don't seem to understand that, so it will continue to be P2P, allofmp3.com, et al.
Last I heard, film had about 10 stops range. But as you say, it really has much more because it is non-linear, which is an advantage. It looks much better, especially in the whites.
While CCD sensors are more or less linear, software is used to compresses the extremes and get better-looking shadows and especially to avoid the horrible "clipping" of the over-exposed whites. That's what the DCC switch on the video cameras does (does anybody ever switch it off??). Recent cameras give finer control on these features.
Anyway, while the linear dynamic range might be greater with CCDs (I don't know), when you consider the full range including the compressed non-linear parts, film has a much greater range, and that is what really matters.
For example, there is Sinar's 22 Megapixels Sinarback 54
Anyway, the problem with digital photographs is not really the definition, but the very narrow luminance range the sensors are able to record. That's where the photo-chemical process makes a huge difference: it is able to keep much more detail in the very bright areas. That wouldn't matter for advertizing photography in a studio with controlled lighting, but in the real world, our eye sees a huge range, photographic film much less, and digital sensors far less.
Whether the French do or do not hate America is irrelevant to the Cannes prize.
The jury was presided by an American (Quentin Trantino). Members were two more Americans, one Belgian, one British, one Chinese, and two unknown.
The French, and Europeans in general, are very grateful to the Americans for liberating them in the two WWs. Even the younger are aware of that.
The problem is that in the last 50+ years (mainy during the cold war), things have changed, and America actively supported or put into power about all non-communist dictators, even when it required overthrowing democratically elected governments.
So the Europeans slowly learned that the country which once liberated them had changed...
if it was a sci/fi or fantasy movie, I could understand, but this was simply a politically charged documentary
Well, a political documentary sounds more important than sci/fi or fantasy, doesn't it?
Besides, this particular one is also related to censorship, since Disney doesn't want it to be released.
It may not be "news for nerds", but to me, it certainly looks like "stuff that matters".