You know, "free" knowledge in no longer limited to developed world
Whaddya mean, developed world? Don't we all know that freedom, rights, free speech etc are totally limited to that glorious land called the United States of America?
Most Japanese phones use PDC, a 2G protocol developed and used ONLY in Japan. PDC has its advantages, but pretty much the rest of the world uses GSM.
Vodafone is Japan's GSM provider, so I am sure a regular GSM phone you buy anywhere should be able to provide roaming in Japan also, if your provide has a tie up to Vodafone Japan. Again, it's the provider who provides roaming not the phone.
A PDC/GSM phone will not provide roaming on a CDMA network, just like a regular GSM phone will not provide roaming on a PDC network, right?
During the time of Charles Dickens, there were no copyright laws for books in the USA. They didn't need them because very few books were written in the USA. All their books were written by English authors like Dickens - so not having copyright laws mean that US printers could print British books without paying any royalty & sell them for pennies.
Charles Dickens saw this on his visit to the USA & tried to fight against this.
However, USA started having copyright laws on books only after there were enough American authors whose rights needed to be protected. By that time the book industry was jumpstarted by having a good business of seeling cheap pirated books & they could build on it.
Every country starts respecting copyrights/patents only when they have more things to protect than to steal.
It's not quite the same thing but close enough (emergency situations), but I heard that the US Government voided many radio patents beginning/during WW2 in the interest of advancing that technology ASAP.
During the time of Charles Dickens, there were no copyright laws for books in the USA. They didn't need them because very few books were written in the USA. All their books were written by English authors like Dickens - so not having copyright laws mean that US printers could print British books without paying any royalty & sell them for pennies.
Charles Dickens saw this on his visit to the USA & tried to fight against this.
However, USA started having copyright laws on books only after there were enough American authors whose rights needed to be protected.
I think other countries shouldn't have drug patent laws till they themselves start patenting drugs.
The article doesn't understand about the Apple fans who have drunk the koolaid. They will buy the Video iPod, which gets scratched by cloth & paper. Then they will tubes & protectors for it. Then they would buy replacement batteries (the originals last only for 3 months) from Apple Store. Then they would buy videos regularly from the Apple Video Store. They would even buy Videos of Steve Jobs from the store.
I have used GAIM with Yahoo & MSN. The only thing I don't like about it is that with Yahoo Messenger you can sign in as invisible - but this option doesn't seem to be there with GAIM. Does Trillian support this?
He has actually gone out and complained in a column about the System Idle Process taking up 98% of cpu on his Windows machine and making the box thrash.
I bet the discussion did not go like "if you port lotus 1-2-3 to our new graphical interface and help make it popular, in a few years time we will use our position to write a competing app and wipe you off the mat."
I bet the head of lotus wished he had negotiated a non-compete clause.
You are wrong there. Lotus was very slow in getting 1-2-3 to Windows. They concentrated on OS/2. This gave Microsoft the chance to gain a lead in the Windows spreadsheet market with Excel.
What's it going to be 1) Google directs you to the staroffice website for you to download & install it locally on your machine & google provides a place for you to store your documents
OR
2) Google & Sun rebuild StarOffice as a Webservice & then allow you to edit your document through a webapp & also proves a place for you to store your documents
Model 1 -> In my opinion, doesn't provide anything new. You can do it now. Still doesn't solve the problem of people being locked to Microsoft's format.
Model 2 -> May be good - may solve the problem of people being bound to the Microsoft document format (i.e. the format isn't important if you have a service, which is always accessible to everyone to open/edit/print it, but there is one problem. 50% of the time, documents are edited offline. It's going to be some years, before people are online all the time. Even when that happens, what happens if your service goes down & you need to edit the document coz you have a presentation in 15 minutes. Plus can a webbased service really provide all the functionality & speed of a native application?
Slashdot Mirror
My copy is 24 seconds away from downloaded
So you will be reading Zonk's dupe of this story on your
newly downloaded & installed shiny Firefox.
You know, "free" knowledge in no longer limited to developed world
Whaddya mean, developed world? Don't we all know that freedom, rights, free speech etc
are totally limited to that glorious land called the United States of America?
And how does he choose a new washing machine?
Makes sure it doesn't get scratched easily?
A Microsoft Microsoft patch?
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
If there was just one Microsoft, they would have probably got
the patch right.
I wonder what Zonk Zonk is smoking.
I think you need to get a life.
Most Japanese phones use PDC, a 2G protocol developed and used ONLY in Japan. PDC has its advantages, but pretty much the rest of the world uses GSM.
Vodafone is Japan's GSM provider, so I am sure a regular GSM phone you buy anywhere should be able to
provide roaming in Japan also, if your provide has a tie up to Vodafone Japan.
Again, it's the provider who provides roaming not the phone.
A PDC/GSM phone will not provide roaming on a CDMA network, just like a regular GSM phone will not provide
roaming on a PDC network, right?
It's completely bilingual (although I don't think it has predictive text in English mode), has a 2 MB camera, global roaming
I have not heard of a phone which comes with roaming, global or otherwise.
It's the service provider who provides roaming on the phone.
Or is there something I am missing?
one system admin has the power to completely restructure the IT infrastructure in a huge, multinational accounting firm with no prior approval?
I see that no one has RTFA yet. It doesn't appear that the whole of PWC is changing to BSD.
Only PWC Japan.
Next question - how big is PWC Japan? Is it a small boutique accounting firm or
a big player like in many other countries?
During the time of Charles Dickens, there were no copyright laws for books in the USA. They didn't need
them because very few books were written in the USA. All their books were written by English authors
like Dickens - so not having copyright laws mean that US printers could print British books without
paying any royalty & sell them for pennies.
Charles Dickens saw this on his visit to the USA & tried to fight against this.
However, USA started having copyright laws on books only after there were enough American authors
whose rights needed to be protected. By that time the book industry was jumpstarted by having a
good business of seeling cheap pirated books & they could build on it.
Every country starts respecting copyrights/patents only when they have more things to
protect than to steal.
Does slashdot publish browser/system stats about slashdot readers ?
Taco collected stats once but was too ashamed to publish it
- this is what it looked like
IE - 99%
Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Lynx - 1%
Safari - 0%
Win95 - 29%
Win98 - 39%
WinXP - 19%
Win 3.1 - 6%
DOS - 5%
OS X - 1%
Linux - 1%
Honest question, is Minix compatable with Linux or something? Or do they just sound the same by coincidence?
They sound similiar because both the names are derived from Unix.
Check here for a famous 1992 flamewar between Linus Torvalds(creator of Linux) & Tanenbaum(creator of Minix).
Minix came before Linux.
It's not quite the same thing but close enough (emergency situations), but I heard that the US Government voided many radio patents beginning/during WW2 in the interest of advancing that technology ASAP.
During the time of Charles Dickens, there were no copyright laws for books in the USA. They didn't need
them because very few books were written in the USA. All their books were written by English authors
like Dickens - so not having copyright laws mean that US printers could print British books without
paying any royalty & sell them for pennies.
Charles Dickens saw this on his visit to the USA & tried to fight against this.
However, USA started having copyright laws on books only after there were enough American authors
whose rights needed to be protected.
I think other countries shouldn't have drug patent laws till they themselves start patenting drugs.
Ive been trying to buy a case for it but the local apple store is always sold out.
1. Sell faulty product
2. Sell expensive protectors.
3. Profit !!!!
Is there any way we can blame Microsoft for this?
Were they upgrading to one of the Beta builds of Windows Vista Home Edition?
Why not offer equal critiques, and understanding, for any product regardless
Because IE has more exploits. At least, that's what they told me the last
100 times, Mozilla/Firefox exploits were reported.
The article doesn't understand about the Apple fans who have drunk
the koolaid. They will buy the Video iPod, which gets scratched by
cloth & paper. Then they will tubes & protectors for it. Then they
would buy replacement batteries (the originals last only for 3
months) from Apple Store. Then they would buy videos regularly
from the Apple Video Store. They would even buy Videos of Steve
Jobs from the store.
Apple cannot lose with an audience like this.
Gaim does invisible just fine. It's just a little cumbersome. Click Away: : Invisible (or Hidden in MSN's case).
I think you can do that only after you logon.
Didn't RTFA but do you have to be in motion while trying to use the
phone?
I have used GAIM with Yahoo & MSN. The only thing I don't like about it is that
with Yahoo Messenger you can sign in as invisible - but this option doesn't seem
to be there with GAIM. Does Trillian support this?
Heree s/index.html
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu.nyud.net:8090/creatur
Everything isn't cached yet, I think.
Dogbert is, Diet Slice is. Haven't checked anything else.
He has actually gone out and complained in a column about the System Idle Process taking up 98% of cpu on his Windows machine and making the box thrash.
This is the said article.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1304348,00.a
I bet the discussion did not go like "if you port lotus 1-2-3 to our new graphical interface and help make it popular, in a few years time we will use our position to write a competing app and wipe you off the mat."
I bet the head of lotus wished he had negotiated a non-compete clause.
You are wrong there. Lotus was very slow in getting 1-2-3 to Windows. They concentrated on
OS/2. This gave Microsoft the chance to gain a lead in the Windows spreadsheet market
with Excel.
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The original seems to be very slow now.
What are the details?
What's it going to be
1) Google directs you to the staroffice website for you to download &
install it locally on your machine & google provides a place for you to
store your documents
OR
2) Google & Sun rebuild StarOffice as a Webservice & then allow you
to edit your document through a webapp & also proves a place for
you to store your documents
Model 1 -> In my opinion, doesn't provide anything new. You
can do it now. Still doesn't solve the problem of people being
locked to Microsoft's format.
Model 2 -> May be good - may solve the problem of people being bound to
the Microsoft document format (i.e. the format isn't important if you have
a service, which is always accessible to everyone to open/edit/print it,
but there is one problem.
50% of the time, documents are edited offline. It's going to be some
years, before people are online all the time. Even when that happens,
what happens if your service goes down & you need to edit the document
coz you have a presentation in 15 minutes.
Plus can a webbased service really provide all the functionality & speed of
a native application?
Here.