Most 400 MHz Xscale-based Pocket PCs 2000 and 2002 have a 100 MHz bus, and 206 MHz StrongARMs have a 103 MHz bus. The latest PPC 2003 models based on Xscale are faster partly because of a yet faster bus.
I think the Bavarian government made the best of a bad situation. They inherited the rights, and they seem to get lots of reprinting inquiries from around the world. Not to talk about illegal reprints from companies that don't even bother to ask...
What the Bavarian government allows is annotated/commented issues of Mein Kampf. Maybe that's the smartest way to deal with it.
the reason that you cannot buy Mein Kampf in germany is not due to any legal restrictions but rather because the (german language) copyright holder has chosen not to allow reprints.
The copyright holder is the Bavarian government and they are using copyright law to restrict distribution of that book. So, yes, it could be argued that this is censorship, and, yes, in this case I am glad they are doing it.
Yeah, I know. I'd love to have that feature in the trial. However, we haven't found a way to enable it and at the same time prevent people from installing the trial over and over again. In our own file format, we can save trial code information, in.doc files we cannot. Any better ideas?
Then look into TextMaker for Linux, for Windows, and for Pocket PCs. Much faster than OpenOffice (it's even fast enough on a lowly MIPS-based Pocket PC...) and many more features than Abiword.
Au contraire. Compressing first makes pattern-detection in encrypted data more difficult. That's why PGP compresses first, then encrypts (besides the fact that PGPing something increases its file size, and compressing offsets that).
Please... spend your energy on improving general Linux usability, not on just renaming a few folders.
There are many more important areas that could be improved, like a consistent clipboard, working drag & drop, unique hotkeys in menus (or: hotkeys at all!), KDE's Start menu in most distributions containing literally dozens of programs, etc. etc.
If somebody uses the Linux shell, remembering that/dev means "devices" and what/usr/bin is for is the least of his worries...
As a font producer - www.freefont.de - for over ten years, I can say one thing: The primary use of this program is to work around a major bug in Fontographer 4.1: It sets the embedding bits wrong for every font you generate -- mind you, not setting the values too relaxed or too restrictive, but just plain wrong.
This means that none of your fonts (even those created by yourself) can be embedded in PDF.
So, every font producer probably has written an EMBED-like program for themselves. I know 'cause I've written it twice: Sometime in 1992, but then lost the source code, and again a couple of weeks ago.
Agfa/ITC/Monotype/Letraset/whateverCorpWeAreGobbli ngUpThisWeek are bullying Tom around for a program which has a predominant legitimate use for every font producer.
Oh, BTW, Macromedia will never fix the endless amount of bugs in Fontographer. Development is on hold, the last version was published eight years ago. Click here for my take on this.
A 100 MHz SH3 or MIPS feels *worlds* slower than a 206 MHz StrongARM. So if Hitachi hasn't worked in any miracles in the SH4, any StrongARM/Xscale should be much zippier than SHx even at the same MHz.
Hmm, Foveon. Doesn't that name ring a bell with me? Isn't this the same company that for years has been claiming that their breakthrough CMOS sensors will kill CCD, but never delivered -- at least didn't deliver anything that fit into a standard camera body, as they wanted to.
I'll believe it when I see it. Maybe in 2005. Or 2020.
type II DVD-RAM discs can be removed and played in DVD drives.
Sure about that? I read some article that said that DVD-RAM drives can read DVDs, but DVD drives cannot read DVD-RAM.
Panasonic seems to be planning DVD drives that can also read DVD-RAM, but generic, run-of-the-mill DVD drives probably cannot. (It's hard to imagine how they could, with the completely different layout of the sectors).
What I meant to say is that there are no DVD+Rs available (although specced), not DVD-Rs.
In any case, with the prices of DVD(+/-)RW media going down, there is not much of a point in buying DVD-R media (which are available) or DVD+R media (which are not yet available).
Ignoring DVD-RAM (it needs cartridges and is not really DVD at all), and DVD-R (there are no DVD-Rs available AFAIK, but all DVD-R recorders can also burn DVD-RWs), it boils down to deciding whether to go with DVD-RW or DVD+RW.
If I had to decide NOW, I'd choose DVD+RW for the simple fact that it can burn at 2x while DVD-RW will always be written at 1x.
Better of course to wait for a couple of months for prices to come down and speed to go up...
It does for me. I feel insecure in events like these as long as I don't know everything. After absorbing as much news as possible, it settles in and I accept it. THEN I feel better.
Call me a news junkie, but that's the way it works for me.
Any news admin that provides only for a single feed for certain newsgroups ought to be shot. By using multiple feeds, the flow won't be interrupted if a single source fails.
The only thing that will be missing is Pacbell customers who cannot upload warez and porn through their ISP's newsserver (that is, until they find out that by crossposting to alt.test, they can even post to uncarried newsgroups... shhh!)
Regarding $10 services, I am quite satisfied with Newsguy. They have a cap of 500 MBytes a day, so for you VCDoholics that's quite a limitation; for me, it's more text-based groups than I could ever possibly read.
Though they have ulterior motives, I applaud the move. Anything that rids Usenet of the binaries is inherently good.
A full newsfeed is 200 to 250 *GBytes* a day, of which only around 5% is text-based discussion. Just by dropping binaries and keeping the same amount of disk space, a news provider increases retention time for *real* discussions immensely. If I had to decide whether I want my ISP to serve incomplete binaries to alt.fan.britney-spears.blow-job or have six months retention for comp.lang.*, I'd prefer the latter (others might have different preferences, though...)
Get used to it: If you want binaries, pay for it. It's not that bad: 10 bucks a month, and you're in business. Go to Newsguy, Giganews, Supernews, uncensored-news.com, newsfeeds.com but don't expect your ISP to provide everything.
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The days of 30 MHz buses are long behind us.
-Martin
I think the Bavarian government made the best of a bad situation. They inherited the rights, and they seem to get lots of reprinting inquiries from around the world. Not to talk about illegal reprints from companies that don't even bother to ask ...
What the Bavarian government allows is annotated/commented issues of Mein Kampf. Maybe that's the smartest way to deal with it.
The copyright holder is the Bavarian government and they are using copyright law to restrict distribution of that book. So, yes, it could be argued that this is censorship, and, yes, in this case I am glad they are doing it.
Yeah, I know. I'd love to have that feature in the trial. However, we haven't found a way to enable it and at the same time prevent people from installing the trial over and over again. In our own file format, we can save trial code information, in .doc files we cannot. Any better ideas?
Then look into TextMaker for Linux, for Windows, and for Pocket PCs. Much faster than OpenOffice (it's even fast enough on a lowly MIPS-based Pocket PC...) and many more features than Abiword.
With software out of the box, yes.
When you add third-party software to the picture, no - not by a long shot. See my sig.
Martin Kotulla
SoftMaker Software GmbH
There are many more important areas that could be improved, like a consistent clipboard, working drag & drop, unique hotkeys in menus (or: hotkeys at all!), KDE's Start menu in most distributions containing literally dozens of programs, etc. etc.
If somebody uses the Linux shell, remembering that /dev means "devices" and what /usr/bin is for is the least of his worries...
Martin Kotulla SoftMaker Software GmbH
And you were surprised they were laughing ...?
-Martin
Hehe, this way BillG can read his e-mail too ...
Oh, his real address for "I told you so" e-mails is keith@teare.com. His old keith@realnames.com probably won't work anymore, for obvious reasons.
-Martin
This means that none of your fonts (even those created by yourself) can be embedded in PDF.
So, every font producer probably has written an EMBED-like program for themselves. I know 'cause I've written it twice: Sometime in 1992, but then lost the source code, and again a couple of weeks ago.
Agfa/ITC/Monotype/Letraset/whateverCorpWeAreGobbli ngUpThisWeek are bullying Tom around for a program which has a predominant legitimate use for every font producer.
Oh, BTW, Macromedia will never fix the endless amount of bugs in Fontographer. Development is on hold, the last version was published eight years ago. Click here for my take on this.
-Martin
This thing is frightening. Absolutely frightening.
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I never subscribed to Big Brother hysteria. But this is as close to it as it gets.
-Martin
P.S.: The mapping feature is lovely. This way, burglars know where you live when the indicators say you're away from home
Wrong. Look up "Intent To Use".
-Martin
A 100 MHz SH3 or MIPS feels *worlds* slower than a 206 MHz StrongARM. So if Hitachi hasn't worked in any miracles in the SH4, any StrongARM/Xscale should be much zippier than SHx even at the same MHz.
-Martin
I'll believe it when I see it. Maybe in 2005. Or 2020.
-Martin
Sure about that? I read some article that said that DVD-RAM drives can read DVDs, but DVD drives cannot read DVD-RAM.
Panasonic seems to be planning DVD drives that can also read DVD-RAM, but generic, run-of-the-mill DVD drives probably cannot. (It's hard to imagine how they could, with the completely different layout of the sectors).
-Martin
See? I got all those acronyms mixed up, too ...
What I meant to say is that there are no DVD+Rs available (although specced), not DVD-Rs.
In any case, with the prices of DVD(+/-)RW media going down, there is not much of a point in buying DVD-R media (which are available) or DVD+R media (which are not yet available).
-Martin
* DVD-R & DVD-RW (Pioneer/Apple)
* DVD+RW (HP, Ricoh et al.)
* DVD-RAM (Panasonic)
Ignoring DVD-RAM (it needs cartridges and is not really DVD at all), and DVD-R (there are no DVD-Rs available AFAIK, but all DVD-R recorders can also burn DVD-RWs), it boils down to deciding whether to go with DVD-RW or DVD+RW.
If I had to decide NOW, I'd choose DVD+RW for the simple fact that it can burn at 2x while DVD-RW will always be written at 1x.
Better of course to wait for a couple of months for prices to come down and speed to go up ...
-Martin
As though KNOWING more will somehow help.
It does for me. I feel insecure in events like these as long as I don't know everything. After absorbing as much news as possible, it settles in and I accept it. THEN I feel better.
Call me a news junkie, but that's the way it works for me.
-Martin
Why do most software projects (for example) use mailing lists rather than USENET? How can we take back USENET?
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Easy. It's too damn hard to set up a well-propagated newsgroup:
1. Big8 and national hierarchies: Complex voting process
2. alt.*: Get harrassed in alt.config and/or convince every single news admin around the world to carry your group
3. free.*: Not well-propagated
4. Set up your own newsserver: Lots of work involved to keep it running smoothly.
It should tell you something when the NNTP task force itself is running a mailing list instead of a newsgroup
-Martin
You are aware that there are (ISP-run) newsservers with retention of 2 hours in binaries and maybe 3 to 4 days in the text groups?
-Martin
Any news admin that provides only for a single feed for certain newsgroups ought to be shot. By using multiple feeds, the flow won't be interrupted if a single source fails.
... shhh!)
The only thing that will be missing is Pacbell customers who cannot upload warez and porn through their ISP's newsserver (that is, until they find out that by crossposting to alt.test, they can even post to uncarried newsgroups
Regarding $10 services, I am quite satisfied with Newsguy. They have a cap of 500 MBytes a day, so for you VCDoholics that's quite a limitation; for me, it's more text-based groups than I could ever possibly read.
-Martin
Though they have ulterior motives, I applaud the move. Anything that rids Usenet of the binaries is inherently good.
...)
A full newsfeed is 200 to 250 *GBytes* a day, of which only around 5% is text-based discussion. Just by dropping binaries and keeping the same amount of disk space, a news provider increases retention time for *real* discussions immensely. If I had to decide whether I want my ISP to serve incomplete binaries to alt.fan.britney-spears.blow-job or have six months retention for comp.lang.*, I'd prefer the latter (others might have different preferences, though
Get used to it: If you want binaries, pay for it. It's not that bad: 10 bucks a month, and you're in business. Go to Newsguy, Giganews, Supernews, uncensored-news.com, newsfeeds.com but don't expect your ISP to provide everything.
-Martin
Hey, that's a great idea. I'm tempted to start posting on Usenet as abuse@softmaker.co^H^Hinvalid ...
-Martin