Page Triple Eight for subtitles:) - that was one I used pretty often.
Before we had the internet, ceefax (or teletext on other channels) was my main source of news. It was a great service, and one I'm slightly nostalgic about...
So, guys... how's that whole "Let the market decide" argument working out for you?
Ok I realise I'm replying to a troll, but here goes:
It's working out great, thanks. 4G is a new technology which has (at the moment) a very limited customer base. So, of course it's going to be expensive. When 3G first came out in the UK, there was a single network operator, 3. They didn't have great network coverage and prices were high. With time, new entrants came to the market and prices fell while service quality increased. The UK now has an excellent choice of cheap call and data plans.
The same will happen with 4G - of course it's going to be expensive to start with. Those new base stations are not free.
... when it gets its hands on something everybody needs, it's gonna take you to the cleaners. Every single time.
Everyone needs food. I don't see anyone (short of the real loony left) calling for state-owned farms and food distribution.
The source of this junk law is the European Union. It just so happens that the UK has implemented this directive. Others will follow suit if they haven't already!
"On 15 March 2006 the European Union adopted the Data Retention Directive, on "the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC".[1][2] The Directive requires Member States to ensure that communications providers retain, for a period of between 6 months and 2 years, necessary data as specified in the Directive"
I don't think it was the loudness of the ride that killed the Concorde...but rather the cost of the tickets (and the rising cost of fuel).
Nope. Concorde under British Airways at least was profitable, and would still have been at today's fuel prices. It was killed for entirely political reasons.
Wanted: Open-source code from banks By Ingrid Marson, ZDNet UK Thursday , April 27 2006 10:42 AM
Major open-source vendors on Tuesday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open-source community.
"How many here have open-source developers working at their company?" Carl Drisko, Novell's Linux and open-source principal, asked the audience during a panel at the Linux on Wall Street conference in New York. Advertisement
Relatively few members of the audience raised their hands, to which Drisko said, "It's pretty rare, the number of folks on the Street (Wall Street) that are making major contributions back. They are consumers of open source, but are not necessarily sharing well. We wish there were more that were going on."
In a separate talk at the conference, Larry Ryan, director of worldwide financial services at Hewlett-Packard, made a similar comment on the lack of open-source code contribution by the financial community.
"We've not seen a lot of participation yet from (the financial) community--I would be interested to hear your opinion on why that is," he said to the audience.
Banks are generally reluctant to collaborate with other members of the financial community as they are worried about giving advantages to competitors, Ike Garrido, the director of blade server vendor Egenera, said during the panel discussion.
Competitive-advantage concerns "What we've found is that our clients (in the financial industry) are ruthless--they want a competitive advantage," said Garrido. "I don't see them playing nice."
Concerns over competitive advantage mean that it can be difficult to persuade companies to share code with the open-source community, as it can then be easily accessed by competitors. But for technologies that have little impact on competitive advantage, financial companies could probably be encouraged to contribute code, the conference panel agreed.
Brian Behlendorf, the founder of development software vendor CollabNet, pointed out that if companies keep their bug fixes private, the next mainstream version of the product may not include their bug fix, meaning they would have to patch the system again manually.
"If you're using open-source technology on Wall Street, unless you're completely reliant on a vendor to provide a certified version, you will probably invest extra time to fix it," he said. "What will you do with your fix? You can keep it to yourself, but if you move it upstream by passing it on to the vendor or submitting it as a patch, you know it will be available in the next version of the product. That's what drives most open- source development--collective self-interest."
Behlendorf also said that if companies are spending a lot of money maintaining a piece of software in-house that does not give them much competitive advantage, they could save costs by releasing the source code or migrating to an open-source equivalent.
Although the financial industry seems to be particularly reluctant to participate in open source communities, Novell's Drisko said any industry sector that is highly competitive is likely to be equally reluctant.
"A lot of other industries are doing a whole lot better in terms of collaborating, but most are not competitive," he said. "For example, there are initiatives to make government systems open source and there is a lot of collaboration between universities. But the closer it comes to affecting the dollar, the less you will see people participating."
First of all, if you have a windows xp licence (to be nice and legal;) then torrent a copy of TinyXP. Its a customised version of XP which someone has put together which doesn't come with Internet Exploder or any of the usual windows junk that you would want to get rid of anyway, but does come with some very useful freeware software packages (many of which I hadn't even heard of previously)
-Firefox, plus tabmix extension -Thunderbird (mail) -Putty (SSH client) -Notepad 2 -Lavasoft Adaware SE -Hijackthis -AVAST antivirus or AVG antivirus (both are good in my experience) -K-Lite Codec pack: all the codecs you'll ever need including quicktime (home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm) -eMule (p2p) -Trillian (multi IM client) -Gmail notifier (if applicable) -'Royale' XP theme (http://tinyurl.com/6vwkz) -7-Zip (handles most common archives and is fast, light, open) -Look 'n Stop firewall (not free but damn good) -Winamp -OpenOffice -K!TV (Tv viewing) -Paint.NET (replaces mspaint, free, open, powerful,) -DVDshrink (fit that pesky >4.5gb dvd vid onto a single layer dvd) -DVD decrypter (rip, decyrpt and burn dvds)
Hope that helps. Maybe you'll even switch away from MAC OSX:P
LONDON (Reuters) - The music industry launched a new wave of lawsuits and criminal proceedings against file-sharers across Europe on Tuesday, part of its drive to curb online piracy and encourage the use of legal music services.
About 2,000 cases were launched in 10 countries, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said, bringing the total to 5,500 people in 18 countries.
That figure does not include the United States, covered by its sister group the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed about 18,000 lawsuits.
Among the countries targeted was Portugal, where sales of physical formats like CDs have slumped by 40 percent in the past four years amid heavy file-sharing usage, especially by college students.
Other users targeted for legal action included a Finnish carpenter, a British postman, a Czech IT manager and a German judge, the IFPI said.
``A large number of cases involve men aged between 20 and 35 and parents who have not heeded successive education and warning campaigns,'' it stated.
In Italy authorities have seized more than 70 computers in the search for evidence of illegal file-sharing.
The IFPI's legal proceedings were aimed not at people who illicitly downloaded music but ``uploaders'' who put copyrighted music onto file-sharing networks.
The IFPI said last week that digital music sales soared in 2005, but not enough to make up for a continuing decline in physical formats like CDs, sending total sales down 3 percent.
Sure, this may well be true but look at the background processes Office loads on startup - its no wonder Word etc loads quicker. Surely you appreciate the fact that there are less annoying/bloaty/redundant features (did someone say Clippy?) in OO?
Sure, OO isn't perfect but for something free its bloody good. For the majority of tasks people would use MsOffice for OO is a perfect substitute. With every release OO just gets better....
I got a copy of the most recent Vista Beta and I have to say I really don't like it. I don't like the look or layout. I think its a very ugly looking OS. and after useing it I found for the first time EVER I missed Windows XP.
I rather MS just ditch Vista and just release XP SP3 with Vista's features.
I don't see alot of people upgradeing to this version, And Given the choice to Buy Vista or OSX I see more people leaning twords OSX then Vista. Its just not a worth wild upgrade.
I left it on my PC for about a week before I formated the HD and installed OSX on it.
I work for the CATO institute and helped write this paper, so I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you dont know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do.
Because some Slashdotters believe anything they hear.
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Page Triple Eight for subtitles :) - that was one I used pretty often.
Before we had the internet, ceefax (or teletext on other channels) was my main source of news. It was a great service, and one I'm slightly nostalgic about...
So, guys... how's that whole "Let the market decide" argument working out for you?
Ok I realise I'm replying to a troll, but here goes:
It's working out great, thanks. 4G is a new technology which has (at the moment) a very limited customer base. So, of course it's going to be expensive. When 3G first came out in the UK, there was a single network operator, 3. They didn't have great network coverage and prices were high. With time, new entrants came to the market and prices fell while service quality increased. The UK now has an excellent choice of cheap call and data plans.
The same will happen with 4G - of course it's going to be expensive to start with. Those new base stations are not free.
... when it gets its hands on something everybody needs, it's gonna take you to the cleaners. Every single time.
Everyone needs food. I don't see anyone (short of the real loony left) calling for state-owned farms and food distribution.
It's the most depressing article ever on Slashdot. It makes it sound like Slashdot is dying.
Let's not jump to conclusions - after all, Netcraft hasn't confirmed anything yet...
The source of this junk law is the European Union. It just so happens that the UK has implemented this directive. Others will follow suit if they haven't already!
"On 15 March 2006 the European Union adopted the Data Retention Directive, on "the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC".[1][2] The Directive requires Member States to ensure that communications providers retain, for a period of between 6 months and 2 years, necessary data as specified in the Directive"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#European_Union
I don't think it was the loudness of the ride that killed the Concorde...but rather the cost of the tickets (and the rising cost of fuel).
Nope. Concorde under British Airways at least was profitable, and would still have been at today's fuel prices. It was killed for entirely political reasons.
http://www.concorde-spirit-tours.com/concorde.htm
Gnome3 has killed the Linux Desktop. Thanks.
It would be like worrying about gunk stuck in your colander while your colander was sitting in a fire-hose 24/7.
Ok, but wouldn't this cause a problem for the edges of the holes in the graphene being worn away by the water flowing past them?
Sorry but electrons don't have human rights.
Haven't the RC got famines to deal with rather than being a trolling NGO?
Can you even get the CPUs separately? I doubt it.
in other words.....GAY PRIDE day
I think you have the right balance in your parenting and definitely the right attitude. If I had mod points, you'd get 'em.
Wanted: Open-source code from banks
By Ingrid Marson, ZDNet UK
Thursday , April 27 2006 10:42 AM
Major open-source vendors on Tuesday called for financial companies to contribute more code to the open-source community.
"How many here have open-source developers working at their company?" Carl Drisko, Novell's Linux and open-source principal, asked the audience during a panel at the Linux on Wall Street conference in New York.
Advertisement
Relatively few members of the audience raised their hands, to which Drisko said, "It's pretty rare, the number of folks on the Street (Wall Street) that are making major contributions back. They are consumers of open source, but are not necessarily sharing well. We wish there were more that were going on."
In a separate talk at the conference, Larry Ryan, director of worldwide financial services at Hewlett-Packard, made a similar comment on the lack of open-source code contribution by the financial community.
"We've not seen a lot of participation yet from (the financial) community--I would be interested to hear your opinion on why that is," he said to the audience.
Banks are generally reluctant to collaborate with other members of the financial community as they are worried about giving advantages to competitors, Ike Garrido, the director of blade server vendor Egenera, said during the panel discussion.
Competitive-advantage concerns
"What we've found is that our clients (in the financial industry) are ruthless--they want a competitive advantage," said Garrido. "I don't see them playing nice."
Concerns over competitive advantage mean that it can be difficult to persuade companies to share code with the open-source community, as it can then be easily accessed by competitors. But for technologies that have little impact on competitive advantage, financial companies could probably be encouraged to contribute code, the conference panel agreed.
Brian Behlendorf, the founder of development software vendor CollabNet, pointed out that if companies keep their bug fixes private, the next mainstream version of the product may not include their bug fix, meaning they would have to patch the system again manually.
"If you're using open-source technology on Wall Street, unless you're completely reliant on a vendor to provide a certified version, you will probably invest extra time to fix it," he said. "What will you do with your fix? You can keep it to yourself, but if you move it upstream by passing it on to the vendor or submitting it as a patch, you know it will be available in the next version of the product. That's what drives most open- source development--collective self-interest."
Behlendorf also said that if companies are spending a lot of money maintaining a piece of software in-house that does not give them much competitive advantage, they could save costs by releasing the source code or migrating to an open-source equivalent.
Although the financial industry seems to be particularly reluctant to participate in open source communities, Novell's Drisko said any industry sector that is highly competitive is likely to be equally reluctant.
"A lot of other industries are doing a whole lot better in terms of collaborating, but most are not competitive," he said. "For example, there are initiatives to make government systems open source and there is a lot of collaboration between universities. But the closer it comes to affecting the dollar, the less you will see people participating."
Madpenguin recently had a really good review of some of the new features in 6.0.6.
http://tinyurl.com/j3hyq
Could more powerful or modified scanners be used to read the RFID chips only designed to be read from a short distance?
;)
IANARFIDE (I Am Not An RFID Engineer)
Hey, thanks very much for the info about LyX - I really need something like this right now for my thesis...looks really great.
First of all, if you have a windows xp licence (to be nice and legal ;) then torrent a copy of TinyXP. Its a customised version of XP which someone has put together which doesn't come with Internet Exploder or any of the usual windows junk that you would want to get rid of anyway, but does come with some very useful freeware software packages (many of which I hadn't even heard of previously)
:P
Torrent here: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3437080
Ok, on to software, in no particular order:
-Firefox, plus tabmix extension
-Thunderbird (mail)
-Putty (SSH client)
-Notepad 2
-Lavasoft Adaware SE
-Hijackthis
-AVAST antivirus or AVG antivirus (both are good in my experience)
-K-Lite Codec pack: all the codecs you'll ever need including quicktime (home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm)
-eMule (p2p)
-Trillian (multi IM client)
-Gmail notifier (if applicable)
-'Royale' XP theme (http://tinyurl.com/6vwkz)
-7-Zip (handles most common archives and is fast, light, open)
-Look 'n Stop firewall (not free but damn good)
-Winamp
-OpenOffice
-K!TV (Tv viewing)
-Paint.NET (replaces mspaint, free, open, powerful,)
-DVDshrink (fit that pesky >4.5gb dvd vid onto a single layer dvd)
-DVD decrypter (rip, decyrpt and burn dvds)
Hope that helps. Maybe you'll even switch away from MAC OSX
--Onymous Hero
That should get you going....
But its pointless talking about policies that would be good for the American people until we get our democracy back.
That assumes you had one in the first place, which you didn't
I don't think the biodiesel idea is bad actually - its not too hard to do, depending on the car of course.
More info here: www.greasecar.com
Music Industry Unleashes More Lawsuits in Europe
By REUTERS
Published: April 4, 2006
LONDON (Reuters) - The music industry launched a new wave of lawsuits and criminal proceedings against file-sharers across Europe on Tuesday, part of its drive to curb online piracy and encourage the use of legal music services.
About 2,000 cases were launched in 10 countries, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said, bringing the total to 5,500 people in 18 countries.
That figure does not include the United States, covered by its sister group the Recording Industry Association of America, which has filed about 18,000 lawsuits.
Among the countries targeted was Portugal, where sales of physical formats like CDs have slumped by 40 percent in the past four years amid heavy file-sharing usage, especially by college students.
Other users targeted for legal action included a Finnish carpenter, a British postman, a Czech IT manager and a German judge, the IFPI said.
``A large number of cases involve men aged between 20 and 35 and parents who have not heeded successive education and warning campaigns,'' it stated.
In Italy authorities have seized more than 70 computers in the search for evidence of illegal file-sharing.
The IFPI's legal proceedings were aimed not at people who illicitly downloaded music but ``uploaders'' who put copyrighted music onto file-sharing networks.
The IFPI said last week that digital music sales soared in 2005, but not enough to make up for a continuing decline in physical formats like CDs, sending total sales down 3 percent.
When will this end?
Does file sharing stop? No.
I could give a rat fuck about -1 troll.
So you do care about being modded down?
Sure, this may well be true but look at the background processes Office loads on startup - its no wonder Word etc loads quicker. Surely you appreciate the fact that there are less annoying/bloaty/redundant features (did someone say Clippy?) in OO?
Sure, OO isn't perfect but for something free its bloody good. For the majority of tasks people would use MsOffice for OO is a perfect substitute. With every release OO just gets better....
Will it use less memory than 0.x / 1.x ??
I got a copy of the most recent Vista Beta and I have to say I really don't like it. I don't like the look or layout. I think its a very ugly looking OS. and after useing it I found for the first time EVER I missed Windows XP.
I rather MS just ditch Vista and just release XP SP3 with Vista's features.
I don't see alot of people upgradeing to this version, And Given the choice to Buy Vista or OSX I see more people leaning twords OSX then Vista. Its just not a worth wild upgrade.
I left it on my PC for about a week before I formated the HD and installed OSX on it.
I work for the CATO institute and helped write this paper, so I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you dont know about the topic....Don't make yourself sound like you do.
Because some Slashdotters believe anything they hear.