Hrm, the track record of doom, doom 2, quake, quake 2, quake 3 linux binarys being released? A quake 3 linux boxed edition being released... and you wouldn't be surprised if id just goes back on their word this time? When has id ever said anything that they did not meet?
Huh ? That's exactly what he said, read his sentence again : "Given the track record of id, I would be stunned if a Linux client does not appear." In my English, this translates to "considering how they've always lived up to their promises in the past, I would be very surprised if they didn't do it this time". Now where's your problem ?
Although I'd tend to adopt a neutral atitude regarding the issue of reg-only newspapers, I'd just like to point out that (by the very numbers you linked to):
NYT Company revenues in Q2 3004 : $ 823.900 M
Circulation : $ 222.453 M (27%)
Advertising revenue : $ 552.013 M (67%)
Other revenues : $ 49.434 M (6%)
NYT Company Costs and Expenses in Q2 3004 : $ 692.200 M
In addition : "Operating profit in the second quarter increased 1.3 percent to $131.8 million from $130.1 million in the second quarter of 2003, primarily because of an increase in advertising revenues."
Nobody said circulation doesn't make any money... But this alone is not enough, and advertising is required to pay for the rest of the expenses and turn in some profit.
We could argue that circulation by itself doesn't even compensate for 50% of the expenses, and therfore that the expression "advertising is what pays for the paper" is not as stupid as you make it sound.
What I find impressive is that people like Huffman are possibly defining new application fields for mathematics, maybe leading to new theories, all from (originally) a hobby.
This reminds me of former mathematicians such as Euler and his Konigsberg bridges...
Thirdly, last time I went to the store, I had options as to whether I wanted to buy an GeForce FX 5900 without a processor on the board, or with a processor on the board. That distinction made the card go from roughly $130 up to $400 (in my particular Fry's store).
Damn, this is hot news, video cards without the graphics chip can now be bought from Fry's ?
Would you please direct me to a store where I can also buy said graphic chips by the unit, in a form factor that's easily pluggable into these "processor-less" video boards ? Thanks !
I've noticed the same problem these last days (I'd say only one or two weeks) using Mozilla 1.6 under Win XP. As others have said, it's not permanent. When it shows up, hitting refresh a couple of times "fixes" the problem.
Since I've been running Moz 1.6 for a while now, I'm thinking it may some slight change in the "slashcode".
Are people seeing this from other platforms than Win XP ?
This smells fishy already... Apparently the parliament rapporteur is none else than the infamous Arlene McArthy (of Europen Softwre Patents fame). And she's already making propositions to have the Agency support TCPA / "Secure Computing" stuff...
I hust happened to be at a Cisco / Synstar presentation on security and products yesterday. Some engineer from Cisco talked about that.
It seems more like: - It is targeted at corporations who need to deal with more than just one entry point to their network, some of which are currently hard to deal with (VPNs from badly-secured home PCs, legacy dial-up access, laptops that have connected to other corporate networks and/or the Internet). - The idea seems more like having some sort of automated verification system that will check if you're remote computer / laptop is up to date with the current policy (patches, anti-virus...) before opening the firewall ports and allowing acces.
My first thoughts were "OK, what verifies the verification system for compliance, attacks or tampering ?" and "What if some malicious software somehow manages to disrupt the communication and makes the system believe that the infected host is actually clean ?".
OK, we don't really know yet what is the intented architecture behind the marketing linguo, but we soon will. Then we can start pondering if it's secure or not.
These numbers are for each nation independently. So I suppose they include imports/exports to other EU member states. I would have liked to come up with aggregate EU figures, because indeed there's a lot of internal trade going on, but couldn't find it with a quick lookup in the CIA Facts Book.
The EU sure has some import bans and quotas, but so does the US. The so-called free-market is mostly for domestic products.
How's this "nationalist" when every country in the workl, except European countries have understood how vital it is to keep their populations from consuming more foreign than local goods for economic sanity's sake ?
Hmmm, here are some facts (paid for by the American taxpayers, should I add):
USA Exports : $687 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.) USA Imports : $1.165 trillion f.o.b. (2002 est.) USA balance : - $487 billion
France Exports : $307.8 billion f.o.b. (2002) France Imports : $303.7 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.) France balance : $4.1 billion
Finland Exports : $40.1 billion f.o.b. (2002) Finland Imports : $31.8 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.) Finland balance : $8.3 billion
Come on now, who hasn't figured your statement yet ? The USA is widely known for having a hugely negative trade balance. These few figures are just examples.
1. In response to "The V-Chip in newer TV's allows the viewer to decide what not to watch."... The power-button in all TV's allows the viewer to decide what to watch... The V-Chip lets you decide if you want to watch something that someone else thought you shouldn't watch.
2. I'm from Belgium and have a fairly goog understanding of the English language and of American culture, but I still don't get it... Is this somehow related to the recent Irak crisi, or is this some pun, or else... ?
I'm not sure if that many people "think" that "Google is the Internet" as you stated. Most fairly computer-litterate people realize that Google is a tool. Others (a.k.a. Joe Blow and his grand'ma) tend to think that the Internet is whatever their provider's portal is (ISP portal and/or MSN/AOL).
What really bothers me is most people that think the Internet is the Web (i.e. the html/http protocols suit and their applications) or, worse, the Internet is Internet Explorer. I remember a friend's girlfriend who couldn't understand that we each needed a copy of some game to play on the Internet ("But, if it's on the Internet you just need to all go to the game site, right ?").
Oh well, in the end the human kind will get what it deserves.
I don't know my (geek) (computer science master) and his (geek) (history and information science master) girlfriend once made a series of "hardware pr0n" pictures with a motherboard getting gangbanged by a bunch of DIMM's, PCI cards, and even a philips screwdriver stuffed in the AGP slot ! On the other hand, they DO have a social life and they DO get laid.
Bunch of new toys/fun stuff, just in time for the summer vacations... Harry Potter, end of the US LZW pattent, new PowerMacs and now a NWN Linux client.
Luxemburg and Koweit are far from being "just a city"... And you might as well have mentionned Liechtenstein and Andora. Because someplace isn't the size of Texas does not make it insignificant;)
A few months back, in October 2002, we organized an Open Source promotion event on our Campus. It took place during a well-known (in our country) 24 hours bicycle race.
We had an indoor training bike connected to a game interface and we ran Tux Racer GPL under Debian. Great fun ! You had to pedal at mid-speed just to release the brake (i.e. no pedaling meant actually clowing down) and you had to pedal real fast to start paddling in the snow. Then of course steering was, well, steering.
Younger kids liked it a lot... So did drunken students later at night !
Quit off topic, but regarding L&H it should be noted that the technology was indeed there.
These guys made great products... But that just wasn't enough for them... So they got into these fraudulent revenues schemes with daughter-companies in distant countries...
Next time some random user needs "more room to store my stuff in the computer" he/she goes out and gets him/herself a larger monitor rather than a larger hard disk !!!
I could not find anything on the American Red Cross site about this... But I found this disclaimer :
"The American National Red Cross is aware that false Red Cross Websites and e-mail campaigns directing donations to sites other than those authorized by the American Red Cross have begun to appear. We have also learned of a number of Websites soliciting donations, allegedly on our behalf." at this address : http://www.redcross.org/press/mediarel/me_pr/01091 3fraud.html.
Most of the requested hardware has probably already been donated/paid for by corporations. Of cours eit has to get there fast. On the other hand, volunteering for technical works will probably help.
Ah, if I could find a way to go from Belgium to NYC...
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Hrm, the track record of doom, doom 2, quake, quake 2, quake 3 linux binarys being released?
A quake 3 linux boxed edition being released...
and you wouldn't be surprised if id just goes back on their word this time?
When has id ever said anything that they did not meet?
Huh ? That's exactly what he said, read his sentence again : "Given the track record of id, I would be stunned if a Linux client does not appear."
In my English, this translates to "considering how they've always lived up to their promises in the past, I would be very surprised if they didn't do it this time".
Now where's your problem ?
Although I'd tend to adopt a neutral atitude regarding the issue of reg-only newspapers, I'd just like to point out that (by the very numbers you linked to) :
NYT Company revenues in Q2 3004 : $ 823.900 M
Circulation : $ 222.453 M (27%)
Advertising revenue : $ 552.013 M (67%)
Other revenues : $ 49.434 M (6%)
NYT Company Costs and Expenses in Q2 3004 : $ 692.200 M
In addition : "Operating profit in the second quarter increased 1.3 percent to $131.8 million from $130.1 million in the second quarter of 2003, primarily because of an increase in advertising revenues."
Nobody said circulation doesn't make any money... But this alone is not enough, and advertising is required to pay for the rest of the expenses and turn in some profit.
We could argue that circulation by itself doesn't even compensate for 50% of the expenses, and therfore that the expression "advertising is what pays for the paper" is not as stupid as you make it sound.
Q: How does one make good business with a Frenchman ?
;-)
A : Buy him for what he's worth, and sell him for what he thinks he's worth...
See, you can also make fun of stupides français
What I find impressive is that people like Huffman are possibly defining new application fields for mathematics, maybe leading to new theories, all from (originally) a hobby.
This reminds me of former mathematicians such as Euler and his Konigsberg bridges...
What about the "i-Move" Smart with its custom iPod ?
- 00 00013462-0000005165-1087849573-enm-smart/content/b e/fr/smart/modelle/imove/flash
http://www.smart.com/-snm-0135155096-1087392676
Leonidas is Belgian !!! So are Neuhaus, Daskalies, Cote d'Or...
Switzerland has good stuff too. France, not awesome but decent. Italian chocolates ? Never heard of them, couldn't tell !
Thirdly, last time I went to the store, I had options as to whether I wanted to buy an GeForce FX 5900 without a processor on the board, or with a processor on the board. That distinction made the card go from roughly $130 up to $400 (in my particular Fry's store).
Damn, this is hot news, video cards without the graphics chip can now be bought from Fry's ?
Would you please direct me to a store where I can also buy said graphic chips by the unit, in a form factor that's easily pluggable into these "processor-less" video boards ? Thanks !
Either you're high on crack or veeery confused !
I've noticed the same problem these last days (I'd say only one or two weeks) using Mozilla 1.6 under Win XP. As others have said, it's not permanent. When it shows up, hitting refresh a couple of times "fixes" the problem.
Since I've been running Moz 1.6 for a while now, I'm thinking it may some slight change in the "slashcode".
Are people seeing this from other platforms than Win XP ?
Creativity always builds on the past !
This smells fishy already... Apparently the parliament rapporteur is none else than the infamous Arlene McArthy (of Europen Softwre Patents fame). And she's already making propositions to have the Agency support TCPA / "Secure Computing" stuff...
Check it here...
I hust happened to be at a Cisco / Synstar presentation on security and products yesterday. Some engineer from Cisco talked about that.
:
It seems more like
- It is targeted at corporations who need to deal with more than just one entry point to their network, some of which are currently hard to deal with (VPNs from badly-secured home PCs, legacy dial-up access, laptops that have connected to other corporate networks and/or the Internet).
- The idea seems more like having some sort of automated verification system that will check if you're remote computer / laptop is up to date with the current policy (patches, anti-virus...) before opening the firewall ports and allowing acces.
My first thoughts were "OK, what verifies the verification system for compliance, attacks or tampering ?" and "What if some malicious software somehow manages to disrupt the communication and makes the system believe that the infected host is actually clean ?".
OK, we don't really know yet what is the intented architecture behind the marketing linguo, but we soon will. Then we can start pondering if it's secure or not.
These numbers are for each nation independently. So I suppose they include imports/exports to other EU member states. I would have liked to come up with aggregate EU figures, because indeed there's a lot of internal trade going on, but couldn't find it with a quick lookup in the CIA Facts Book.
The EU sure has some import bans and quotas, but so does the US. The so-called free-market is mostly for domestic products.
How's this "nationalist" when every country in the workl, except European countries have understood how vital it is to keep their populations from consuming more foreign than local goods for economic sanity's sake ?
:
Hmmm, here are some facts (paid for by the American taxpayers, should I add)
USA Exports : $687 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
USA Imports : $1.165 trillion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
USA balance : - $487 billion
France Exports : $307.8 billion f.o.b. (2002)
France Imports : $303.7 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
France balance : $4.1 billion
Germany Exports : $608 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Germany Imports : $487.3 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Germany balance : $120.7 billion
Belgium Exports : $162 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Belgium Imports : $152 billion f.o.b. (2001)
Belgium balance : $10 billion
Finland Exports : $40.1 billion f.o.b. (2002)
Finland Imports : $31.8 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)
Finland balance : $8.3 billion
Come on now, who hasn't figured your statement yet ? The USA is widely known for having a hugely negative trade balance. These few figures are just examples.
Two comments here :
1. In response to "The V-Chip in newer TV's allows the viewer to decide what not to watch."...
The power-button in all TV's allows the viewer to decide what to watch...
The V-Chip lets you decide if you want to watch something that someone else thought you shouldn't watch.
2. I'm from Belgium and have a fairly goog understanding of the English language and of American culture, but I still don't get it... Is this somehow related to the recent Irak crisi, or is this some pun, or else... ?
A cubic kilometer is the volume of a cube of 1km*1km*1km = 1km^3.
Therefore 10 cubic kilometers is the volume of 10 such cubes. For example, a volume of 10km*1km*1km is 10 cubic kilometers.
If you want a cube of 10 cubic kilometers, it would have a height (and width and depth, of course) of [cubic-root of 10]km, which is about 2.15km.
I'm not sure if that many people "think" that "Google is the Internet" as you stated. Most fairly computer-litterate people realize that Google is a tool. Others (a.k.a. Joe Blow and his grand'ma) tend to think that the Internet is whatever their provider's portal is (ISP portal and/or MSN/AOL).
What really bothers me is most people that think the Internet is the Web (i.e. the html/http protocols suit and their applications) or, worse, the Internet is Internet Explorer. I remember a friend's girlfriend who couldn't understand that we each needed a copy of some game to play on the Internet ("But, if it's on the Internet you just need to all go to the game site, right ?").
Oh well, in the end the human kind will get what it deserves.
Confirmation of the parent post... The vote has been posponed to the end of September. Check out this article (in French).
I don't know my (geek) (computer science master) and his (geek) (history and information science master) girlfriend once made a series of "hardware pr0n" pictures with a motherboard getting gangbanged by a bunch of DIMM's, PCI cards, and even a philips screwdriver stuffed in the AGP slot ! On the other hand, they DO have a social life and they DO get laid.
Bunch of new toys/fun stuff, just in time for the summer vacations... Harry Potter, end of the US LZW pattent, new PowerMacs and now a NWN Linux client.
Luxemburg and Koweit are far from being "just a city"... And you might as well have mentionned Liechtenstein and Andora. ;)
Because someplace isn't the size of Texas does not make it insignificant
A few months back, in October 2002, we organized an Open Source promotion event on our Campus. It took place during a well-known (in our country) 24 hours bicycle race.
We had an indoor training bike connected to a game interface and we ran Tux Racer GPL under Debian. Great fun ! You had to pedal at mid-speed just to release the brake (i.e. no pedaling meant actually clowing down) and you had to pedal real fast to start paddling in the snow. Then of course steering was, well, steering.
Younger kids liked it a lot... So did drunken students later at night !
Quit off topic, but regarding L&H it should be noted that the technology was indeed there.
These guys made great products... But that just wasn't enough for them... So they got into these fraudulent revenues schemes with daughter-companies in distant countries...
Just my 2 cents.
I mostly agree with you...
If you're a female, get in touch with me about this trip to Mars, I'd be glad to help !
Great...
Next time some random user needs "more room to store my stuff in the computer" he/she goes out and gets him/herself a larger monitor rather than a larger hard disk !!!
I could not find anything on the American Red Cross site about this... But I found this disclaimer :
1 3fraud.html.
"The American National Red Cross is aware that false Red Cross Websites and e-mail campaigns directing donations to sites other than those authorized by the American Red Cross have begun to appear. We have also learned of a number of Websites soliciting donations, allegedly on our behalf." at this address : http://www.redcross.org/press/mediarel/me_pr/0109
Most of the requested hardware has probably already been donated/paid for by corporations. Of cours eit has to get there fast. On the other hand, volunteering for technical works will probably help.
Ah, if I could find a way to go from Belgium to NYC...