I can do time travel easily. I lie down in my bed, close my eyes and count slowly to 3. When I open my eyes it's eight hours later with no time lost. Actually, I do it daily.
In addition this fee now also applies to people who decided NOT to have a TV or radio but run a computer. A friend of mine is not paying the fee because he owns neither. Now with the change in law he will have to pay this fee (called GEZ), although he does not watch the public TV and never will.
In my opinion this fee should also be applied for telephones, as I could use them to call a public radio station and listen to their program that is played to the phone. If you think this is stupid, I do as well, but with the internet tax it's the same principle.
On the other hand I do think that the tax funded public TV and radio stations do have a good program and should be subsidized, however there must be a better way then the current GEZ fee.
While I was studying computational linguistics at http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/en_contents/ index.php me and three other students implemented such a system in C on HP-UX within 6 weeks for German-English and English-German wordform translation during an internship. That was about 13 years ago, if I remember correctly. So really nothing new and extraordinary.
If somebody needs a reference for prior art, feel free to contact me.
Just my bad English, actually I enjoyed it a cuple of times since I bought it once.
I really like the movie
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The movie is absolutely great. I saw it in the cinema twice. The DVD version I have contains a great making-of and I enjoyed the movie again since I bought it a couple of times. Actually I always wondered why this is a Disney film...
I'm looking forward to see MySQL come up with a real good open source transactional engine. MySQL has done a very good job in my point of view for the community, and besides that employes a fair amout of people. Getting a good engine as response to Oracles maneuver would be great. My company uses the commercial version of MySQL in projects here and then, and I'd like to see it on more critical projects as well.
My first computer was a Heathkit ET-3400 educational system with an 8 bit microprocessor, as few bytes of ram and a LED display. Next came a Sinclair ZX81, and after that a Commodore C64.
I wonder how many others here have had such a system as a child?
It's somewhat funny in my company. The group wide controller has encouraged all employees world wide (16 countries, many many offices) to use skype for internal calls. Our local IT department however has discouraged us to use skype due to bandwidth reasons. In reality hoewever, nobody cares. Some have adopted the use in daily work, others don't. For telephone conferences and joint work on documents, netmeeting is still the tool of choice here (regrettably).
The statement "Too late" is out of context here. It relates to an email thread on the SUSE internal kernel mailing list that has been disclosed to a number of external people. If someone could post the full email?
GSM home base station exists, unreleased
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A Private GSM Cell?
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I know that a big nordic telecommunications company had a so called home base station developed a couple of years ago and has it ready in the cupboard. However they decided regulatory barriers to be too high and didn't launch it as a product.
It really makes me sad that Arkeia now gets a bad reputation. They have been one of the first companies that had belief on Linux and provided a commercial software. A good backup tool for Linux was needed at that time (long before IBM or Oracle got aware of Linux) and we at SUSE then decided to promote their product. I didn't follow the development of Arkeia for a couple of years now, but this bad press, although I cannot judge wether the accusation is correct or not and a response hasn't been seen, makes me sad.
I have 3 friends which were supposed to be in Asia at the time. 2 have come back before the desaster happened and on had some water around his feet, not realizing the dramatic extend of the desaster. He's safe home now. Lucky day for my friends, but other people are far from that. I'll donate this evening.
What I'm actually missing across the different versions of *NIX is interchangable device drivers. Maybe I missed that but there doesn't seem to be a common defined interface. Compare the commercial Unices with Linux and tell me which one supports the most hardware?
Furthermore I'd like to see some principles of Plan9 in *NIX and Linux, but I believe the concepts are not compatible.
As a former employee of SuSE I'm actually delighted to hear that SuSE has managed to partner with one of the upper league software companies besides Oracle and SAP. This is good for both SuSE and Linux in general, at least here in europe.
Another related problem is that some of the transports that connect the Jabber network with the MSN network don't work anymore. The Jabber network supports connections to most of the other IM networks such as MSN, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo. But people using an affected MSN transport can't contact their MSN buddies anymore. Maybe we can gather a list of currently working MSN transports here?
Ive a masters degree in computational linguistics, and I predict this effort will totally fail. Research on automatic translation is about 40 years now and a lot of money has been spent.
However there is still no working solutions, as problems are still far too big. Id suggest everybody participating in discussion should read a good book on linguistics.
As far as I can remember from my time studying computer science, there is a DIN standard in Germany that also defines what an OS is. I dont remember the details any more, but mermory management was required (and therefore MS DOS isnt an OS in that defitition).
Maybe there is an ISO or ASCII definition for this as well?
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There is some technology out there which does positioning based on Wifi. It's not open source, though, but I have seen it in action and it works pretty well: http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/bf/ln/technologie/rssi/index.jsp
eGroupware is a great piece of software, I sincerely recommend anybody looking for a groupware solution to have a look at this project.
I can do time travel easily. I lie down in my bed, close my eyes and count slowly to 3. When I open my eyes it's eight hours later with no time lost. Actually, I do it daily.
In addition this fee now also applies to people who decided NOT to have a TV or radio but run a computer. A friend of mine is not paying the fee because he owns neither. Now with the change in law he will have to pay this fee (called GEZ), although he does not watch the public TV and never will.
In my opinion this fee should also be applied for telephones, as I could use them to call a public radio station and listen to their program that is played to the phone. If you think this is stupid, I do as well, but with the internet tax it's the same principle.
On the other hand I do think that the tax funded public TV and radio stations do have a good program and should be subsidized, however there must be a better way then the current GEZ fee.
While I was studying computational linguistics at http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/en_contents/ index.php me and three other students implemented such a system in C on HP-UX within 6 weeks for German-English and English-German wordform translation during an internship. That was about 13 years ago, if I remember correctly. So really nothing new and extraordinary.
If somebody needs a reference for prior art, feel free to contact me.
Ah, forget about the show, and blackjack.
Just my bad English, actually I enjoyed it a cuple of times since I bought it once.
The movie is absolutely great. I saw it in the cinema twice. The DVD version I have contains a great making-of and I enjoyed the movie again since I bought it a couple of times. Actually I always wondered why this is a Disney film...
I'm looking forward to see MySQL come up with a real good open source transactional engine. MySQL has done a very good job in my point of view for the community, and besides that employes a fair amout of people. Getting a good engine as response to Oracles maneuver would be great.
My company uses the commercial version of MySQL in projects here and then, and I'd like to see it on more critical projects as well.
My first computer was a Heathkit ET-3400 educational system with an 8 bit microprocessor, as few bytes of ram and a LED display.
Next came a Sinclair ZX81, and after that a Commodore C64.
I wonder how many others here have had such a system as a child?
It's somewhat funny in my company. The group wide controller has encouraged all employees world wide (16 countries, many many offices) to use skype for internal calls. Our local IT department however has discouraged us to use skype due to bandwidth reasons. In reality hoewever, nobody cares. Some have adopted the use in daily work, others don't.
For telephone conferences and joint work on documents, netmeeting is still the tool of choice here (regrettably).
As I'm using wikipedia in both German and English quite a lot, I did donate quite a reasonable sum. I hope many others here do the same.
The statement "Too late" is out of context here. It relates to an email thread on the SUSE internal kernel mailing list that has been disclosed to a number of external people. If someone could post the full email?
I know that a big nordic telecommunications company had a so called home base station developed a couple of years ago and has it ready in the cupboard. However they decided regulatory barriers to be too high and didn't launch it as a product.
It really makes me sad that Arkeia now gets a bad reputation. They have been one of the first companies that had belief on Linux and provided a commercial software. A good backup tool for Linux was needed at that time (long before IBM or Oracle got aware of Linux) and we at SUSE then decided to promote their product. I didn't follow the development of Arkeia for a couple of years now, but this bad press, although I cannot judge wether the accusation is correct or not and a response hasn't been seen, makes me sad.
I have 3 friends which were supposed to be in Asia at the time. 2 have come back before the desaster happened and on had some water around his feet, not realizing the dramatic extend of the desaster. He's safe home now.
Lucky day for my friends, but other people are far from that. I'll donate this evening.
What I'm actually missing across the different versions of *NIX is interchangable device drivers. Maybe I missed that but there doesn't seem to be a common defined interface.
Compare the commercial Unices with Linux and tell me which one supports the most hardware?
Furthermore I'd like to see some principles of Plan9 in *NIX and Linux, but I believe the concepts are not compatible.
Sh*t, I especially liked SN to get hold of my SUSE Linux torrents and some audio books which are not available overseas.
Done with style. Laughed over my coffee. Makes me curious why SCO hasn't fixed it yet, but maybe they still think it's their official motto.
As a former employee of SuSE I'm actually delighted to hear that SuSE has managed to partner with one of the upper league software companies besides Oracle and SAP. This is good for both SuSE and Linux in general, at least here in europe.
Another related problem is that some of the transports that connect the Jabber network with the MSN network don't work anymore. The Jabber network supports connections to most of the other IM networks such as MSN, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo. But people using an affected MSN transport can't contact their MSN buddies anymore.
Maybe we can gather a list of currently working MSN transports here?
1. msn.gate.amessage.de
2. ?
Hello,
Ive a masters degree in computational linguistics, and I predict this effort will totally fail. Research on automatic translation is about 40 years now and a lot of money has been spent.
However there is still no working solutions, as problems are still far too big. Id suggest everybody participating in discussion should read a good book on linguistics.
As far as I can remember from my time studying computer science, there is a DIN standard in Germany that also defines what an OS is. I dont remember the details any more, but mermory management was required (and therefore MS DOS isnt an OS in that defitition).
Maybe there is an ISO or ASCII definition for this as well?