"De Telegraaf" interviewed him? No wonder.. they are not thrustworthy in my oppinion.
De Telegraaf is a glossy magazine in newspaper format. Its mostly about what A said about B, what B thinks about this, and what the newspaper speculates C has to do with it. It also recently bought Hyves.nl, the dutch Facebook.com. Not sure why. It has the worst page layout i've ever seen in a newspaper. I recon each issue contains every font known to man, in all font sizes upto 3cm, and tries to apply every font style and linespacing imaginable. It often posts bullshit stories only to rectify them the day after -with another huge headline- as if its the news itself. Just like American newschannels do.
In the example picture in the article, the space actually occupied by characters is 282x203px. Not QVGA. Its readable though. I even cheated in my disadvantage by actually cropping of some antialiasing thats part of the characters at the edge. So really, its somewhat larger. That is 57246 pixels.
Vertical average line height: 203 / 43 lines = 5.9705882352941176470588235294118
I assume this is the whole text: (excuse me, my copy paste for some reasons stops working when visiting Slashdot.com in Chrome) link.. upto "the State remaining in the mean". This is 3106 characters, including spaces and not including linefeeds. Mind that due to the small width of the image, some spaces got dropped saving a major percentage of space. This is not accounted for. I'm to lazy to actually count the characters and spaces in his image.
Spread over 43 lines, this is 91,352941176470588235294117647059 characters per line average.
Horizontal average character width: 282 / 91,35..etcetera = 3,0867285254346426271732131358661.
I know that the characters A-Z 0..9 a..z and most punctuation fit in at least 5x3 pixels. In this case line height could be 6 pixels, or less if you interpolate on say, thirdh or half pixels.
At 5x3 pixels, the same text would require (minus 43 space characters at end of lines, so 3063 characters) a 3063*3*6 pixels, = 55134. 5 because lines are separated by a whole pixel.
My solution takes less pixels. There are aproximatly 2112 pixels left, good for another 117 characters.
(*) During second hour of job interview, the town may be overrun by test zombies.
I always wondered what name Googlers gave to unsolicited alpha testers.
( You know, the rare occasions that you see a slightly different resultspage with features that turn out to be only available to everyone several months later. )
Somewhat related, how this turned out for Philips and the place they did this (Eindhoven, Netherlands) in the previous era;
It is where Philips first put up office. Housing its own staff is what Philips did en masse after WW2 in the city of Eindhoven. These days the housings are part of Eindhoven itself, and the offices and factories are put to other uses. I especially like how Strijp (the former Philips campus ground) is now a cultural nexus for talented art, design, and tech folks with regular renowed festivals or other happenings for anyone. Eindhoven has much to thank Philips for, the city is still well known for both its design and its technology disciplines.
Verder werkt Microsoft uiteraard aan de volgende versie van Windows. Maar het zal nog zo'n twee jaar duren voordat 'Windows 8' op de markt komt.
Correctly translates to:
Furthermore Microsoft is ofcourse working on the next version of Windows. But it will take about two years before 'Windows 8' will arrive on the market.
I'm dutch. The translation was engrish, i thought this might help.
hankwang and timothy! Article title is misleading.
"Dutch Hotels Must Register As ISPs" is wrong (they do not) and should read "Dutch OPTA sues Hotels for being an ISP". It is the OPTA that is test-trialing 10 large hotels to find out (by ruling) whether they are (or not are) ISP's.
In what way exactly this move protects consumers i am not sure, but i reckon the OPTA wants to break down some vague holes in the law behind some ISP's might hide themselves.
Mind that: Option 2 is already implemented. (and i refer to the old US health insurance: its horror when compared to how free countries support their citizens health) Option 1 is merely a "test trial" thrown against ten large hotels because OPTA has its job to do.
On this situation: I view this as a protest against a bad law on what makes someone an internet provider. Perhaps a chess move in something that doesn't aim to make Hotels an ISP, but to make it so actual ISP's can't hide behind the same walls (like holes in a vague law) as hotels do. I can't ever imagine hotels beng labeled as ISP's, and i believe everyone (including OPTA and the Hotels) would enjoy knowing what they're supposed to do and what not.
Imagine not wearing your feet down on the gravel, rock and teeth on the floor by putting some skin on them. Now imagine buying those without waging war. Now imagine there are still places in the world where this could be considered news, but lets stop right there. Morphing metals? Are we to expect a lesson on how bricks where invented eons ago?
But not here, not on/. so please cut the crap, i'm not here to learn about something even teens understand. (ofcourse only if they exhibit any interest for that knowledge, thus making the point there is no point in pointing the pointless crap out that was a point over 50 years ago and isn't a point anymore)
I understand one can install homebrew applications directly via itunes, no app store required. And the OSX server can remotely install stuff to iphones, but not sure if it allows non-appstore apps..
I'm very interested.. but no mention of multitouch!? Does Apple have a patent on the single multitouch technology in existence that works as it should?
I'm glad my HTC Desire (Android) has multitouch, although 2-finger limited. My next big multitouch device should recognise all paterns i could make using both hands, and pressure sensitive pens. Is that so hard?
I don't think "unlimited" plans ever made much sense because some people will abuse it.
Abuse is suggestive. So is a fair use policy. Well here in the Netherlands its pretty close to unlimited. I can do whatever i want (am a heavy user) and without problems.
My mobile internet has been truly unlimited since 2003. And i use it all_the_time. Theres a fair use policy, and i did not get blocked. Even tethered it for a few months, used torrents and still no pain. Of course it all depends on the company and how it defines fair use.
Vodafone for example says "10MB per month is enough for anybody!" and stupidly calls that unlimited. Tmobile says "We don't have a number for that, it depends on usage. Using 2GB in a month is no problem."
For home ISP: using about 80% of my broadband connection capacity 24/7. Nothing there as well. Fair use!
"Most products i intend to buy haven't been invented yet" - The Big Bang Theory
Well, i'd buy this. I'm all for dualscreens and like the fact that it supports both fingertouch and pens. I've never been apt at writing in anything other than italic with my pointy finger.
I tried to prove him lazy, but actually.. after reading this code.. its overcomplicated.
I understand that the bucket and filekey concept is excelent, but this adds a few lines. This could be easily overcome if its a function, but the fact that this function supports managing duplicates, redundancy, security and simply mutating several files at once this gets complicated.
Don't compare this code to the MS-DOS file copy command, don't expect it to be that easy. But yes on first glance this interface could be simplified without neglecting features. Suggestion: put it in brackets, choose which supported features you'd like to drop for simplicity and make it a function. Done. badabingbadaboomCopyObjectsToNewInstance(config_boto, bucket_source, bucket_destination, array of object_names) returns horses
I've been interested in "1 eeepc + 8 x USB HDD" nodes for GFS, but its not that apt in dealing with raid-less systems containing lots of volumes. Thats a pitty.
"Geohot was doing something with his console, which he acquired legally."
And then released the hack into the wild.
Hmm, I wonder which step Sony cares about more. That one (1) guy figured out how to hack their system or that it is now no longer just one (1) guy that can do it since he put the hack up for download.
Is that why Sony gave all customers reason to hack their system as well?
Besides, putting information on the internet is ok. I won't have to clarify that here on slashdot.
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"De Telegraaf" interviewed him? No wonder.. they are not thrustworthy in my oppinion.
De Telegraaf is a glossy magazine in newspaper format. Its mostly about what A said about B, what B thinks about this, and what the newspaper speculates C has to do with it.
It also recently bought Hyves.nl, the dutch Facebook.com. Not sure why.
It has the worst page layout i've ever seen in a newspaper. I recon each issue contains every font known to man, in all font sizes upto 3cm, and tries to apply every font style and linespacing imaginable.
It often posts bullshit stories only to rectify them the day after -with another huge headline- as if its the news itself. Just like American newschannels do.
In the example picture in the article, the space actually occupied by characters is 282x203px. Not QVGA. Its readable though.
I even cheated in my disadvantage by actually cropping of some antialiasing thats part of the characters at the edge. So really, its somewhat larger. That is 57246 pixels.
Vertical average line height: 203 / 43 lines = 5.9705882352941176470588235294118
I assume this is the whole text: (excuse me, my copy paste for some reasons stops working when visiting Slashdot.com in Chrome) .. upto "the State remaining in the mean".
link
This is 3106 characters, including spaces and not including linefeeds. Mind that due to the small width of the image, some spaces got dropped saving a major percentage of space. This is not accounted for. I'm to lazy to actually count the characters and spaces in his image.
Spread over 43 lines, this is 91,352941176470588235294117647059 characters per line average.
Horizontal average character width: 282 / 91,35..etcetera = 3,0867285254346426271732131358661.
I know that the characters A-Z 0..9 a..z and most punctuation fit in at least 5x3 pixels. In this case line height could be 6 pixels, or less if you interpolate on say, thirdh or half pixels.
At 5x3 pixels, the same text would require (minus 43 space characters at end of lines, so 3063 characters) a 3063*3*6 pixels, = 55134.
5 because lines are separated by a whole pixel.
My solution takes less pixels. There are aproximatly 2112 pixels left, good for another 117 characters.
(*) During second hour of job interview, the town may be overrun by test zombies.
I always wondered what name Googlers gave to unsolicited alpha testers.
( You know, the rare occasions that you see a slightly different resultspage with features that turn out to be only available to everyone several months later. )
Somewhat related, how this turned out for Philips and the place they did this (Eindhoven, Netherlands) in the previous era;
It is where Philips first put up office. Housing its own staff is what Philips did en masse after WW2 in the city of Eindhoven. These days the housings are part of Eindhoven itself, and the offices and factories are put to other uses. I especially like how Strijp (the former Philips campus ground) is now a cultural nexus for talented art, design, and tech folks with regular renowed festivals or other happenings for anyone. Eindhoven has much to thank Philips for, the city is still well known for both its design and its technology disciplines.
Somehow this implies McDonalds has a kitchen and i don't like it. Its more like a plastic mold factory. I'm actually upset they call this meat.
capitalism is that those with a ton of money can do the stupidest shit and still come out okay.
Man i would like to be a capitalist. Because then i can.
Are you suggesting light migrates?
Correctly translates to:
I'm dutch. The translation was engrish, i thought this might help.
hankwang and timothy! Article title is misleading.
"Dutch Hotels Must Register As ISPs" is wrong (they do not) and should read "Dutch OPTA sues Hotels for being an ISP".
It is the OPTA that is test-trialing 10 large hotels to find out (by ruling) whether they are (or not are) ISP's.
"OPTA checks whether market parties comply with the law in order to protect consumers." - http://www.opta.nl/en/about-opta/
In what way exactly this move protects consumers i am not sure, but i reckon the OPTA wants to break down some vague holes in the law behind some ISP's might hide themselves.
Mind that:
Option 2 is already implemented. (and i refer to the old US health insurance: its horror when compared to how free countries support their citizens health)
Option 1 is merely a "test trial" thrown against ten large hotels because OPTA has its job to do.
On this situation:
I view this as a protest against a bad law on what makes someone an internet provider. Perhaps a chess move in something that doesn't aim to make Hotels an ISP, but to make it so actual ISP's can't hide behind the same walls (like holes in a vague law) as hotels do. I can't ever imagine hotels beng labeled as ISP's, and i believe everyone (including OPTA and the Hotels) would enjoy knowing what they're supposed to do and what not.
Disclaimer; i am dutch.
I wonder what the personnel reads in that..
Misspelling personnel names has been proven to be harmful. [citation needles]
Imagine not wearing your feet down on the gravel, rock and teeth on the floor by putting some skin on them. Now imagine buying those without waging war. Now imagine there are still places in the world where this could be considered news, but lets stop right there. Morphing metals? Are we to expect a lesson on how bricks where invented eons ago?
But not here, not on /. so please cut the crap, i'm not here to learn about something even teens understand. (ofcourse only if they exhibit any interest for that knowledge, thus making the point there is no point in pointing the pointless crap out that was a point over 50 years ago and isn't a point anymore)
Where are those mod-points when i need 'm. Its a plot!
The photoslides end with a mere broken wing on the takeoff strip. Did it actually fly?
I understand one can install homebrew applications directly via itunes, no app store required. And the OSX server can remotely install stuff to iphones, but not sure if it allows non-appstore apps..
I'm very interested.. but no mention of multitouch!?
Does Apple have a patent on the single multitouch technology in existence that works as it should?
I'm glad my HTC Desire (Android) has multitouch, although 2-finger limited. My next big multitouch device should recognise all paterns i could make using both hands, and pressure sensitive pens. Is that so hard?
I don't think "unlimited" plans ever made much sense because some people will abuse it.
Abuse is suggestive. So is a fair use policy. Well here in the Netherlands its pretty close to unlimited. I can do whatever i want (am a heavy user) and without problems.
My mobile internet has been truly unlimited since 2003. And i use it all_the_time. Theres a fair use policy, and i did not get blocked. Even tethered it for a few months, used torrents and still no pain. Of course it all depends on the company and how it defines fair use.
Vodafone for example says "10MB per month is enough for anybody!" and stupidly calls that unlimited. Tmobile says "We don't have a number for that, it depends on usage. Using 2GB in a month is no problem."
For home ISP: using about 80% of my broadband connection capacity 24/7. Nothing there as well. Fair use!
"Most products i intend to buy haven't been invented yet" - The Big Bang Theory
Well, i'd buy this. I'm all for dualscreens and like the fact that it supports both fingertouch and pens. I've never been apt at writing in anything other than italic with my pointy finger.
I tried to prove him lazy, but actually.. after reading this code .. its overcomplicated.
I understand that the bucket and filekey concept is excelent, but this adds a few lines.
This could be easily overcome if its a function, but the fact that this function supports managing duplicates, redundancy, security and simply mutating several files at once this gets complicated.
Don't compare this code to the MS-DOS file copy command, don't expect it to be that easy.
But yes on first glance this interface could be simplified without neglecting features. Suggestion: put it in brackets, choose which supported features you'd like to drop for simplicity and make it a function. Done.
badabingbadaboomCopyObjectsToNewInstance(config_boto, bucket_source, bucket_destination, array of object_names) returns horses
mod parent parent up.
mod parent up.
I wish there was more on GlusterFS here.
I've been interested in "1 eeepc + 8 x USB HDD" nodes for GFS, but its not that apt in dealing with raid-less systems containing lots of volumes. Thats a pitty.
Is that why Sony gave all customers reason to hack their system as well?
Besides, putting information on the internet is ok.
I won't have to clarify that here on slashdot.
I can imagine Google decides to replace Gaia. They might opensource parts of authentication or encryption code. A public audit if you will.
Must be very frustrating. What is your disability called?
I imagine you'd like some motion-blur glasses.. how do you cope with the streets and airports lined with displays?
AC:
For starters, i can assure you the city Eindhoven in the Netherlands really exists.