As massive licence buyers are heavily negotiating the official prices, we won't get a Linux landslide... do not expect those prices to be applied to governments or big companies.
Yup that how it works in my humble French town (as in most French towns and cities) and it does works. Every vote is counted twice by a two different persons, and anyone can look over the shoulder of the people counting. Anyone can participate, I did twice. And it works.
Of course, sometimes fraud does happen, but it's usually spotted quite early and the fraud scale is rather small.
On Android, most devices do not have app2sd. But some, like the HTC ChaCha/Status have it. It's a vendor issue.
You can install it if you root your device. Same goes for Windows RT, without the rooting part, you can use junctions to work around this stupid limitation.
Many commenters here oversimplify the problem. Do not forget that Google is in a monopolistic position. Deindexing newspaper web pages could be considered as Google using their monopoly as an advantage.
And then, it becomes much more interesting as Europe is constantly probing many companies for such evil monopolistic behaviors. Europe could force google to index these newspapers, and France has much more legislative influence over Europe than Belgium which attempted the same kind of tax, several years ago.
Jobs has been dead for a year and I don't care. His being dead was news, but this is no news and totally uninteresting.
Has any new line of text popped up in his biography? No.
My father use to work for the French national police force. It's a half police, half military police corp.
One day, he visited a nuclear power plant for whatever security reason. With a group of people, he walked around one of these famous pool, then just clumsily fell in it. He was of course decontaminated as soon as I happened, and well, he still has no cancer decades after, even as a heavy smoker.
Sadly, he did not get any superpower either, just a smart kid, years later;)
I know that truth is not really popular around Slashdot, but nothing was actually hacked, as said here
A software alarm popped up for unauthorized login and that's all. It's just that it looked like a hack attempt of a critical national institution.
BTW, looking at the comments, it seems like people did not understand that Banque de France is not a real bank. It's a national administration, just printing money, loaning money to banks and insurance for collateral and managing over-indebtedness.
If you got loads of money and stacks of disposable fine paper, print at home. In any other case, print elsewhere.
Home printing is an enlightening experience, but a hard and incredibly expensive one.
About the same kind of technology emerged in France, It was actually quite popular (France wide), until the Internet superseeded it :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
You could rent the terminal for a real cheap price (about 50 cents) then you had pay per minute scheme for services.
A friend of mine used to work for a French special effects company and he had to work on this. He told me that this is basically a world of pain and it produces great piles of smocking shit. It just sucks, even when done properly by highly trained people. Can you imagine making 3D out of a 2D tree? Make every background 3D or properly cut out the character to get the desired effect?
It sucks, it's mostly manual, get over it.
As far as I can see, what we get on small apps store is 45 shitty apps. Have a look at the OVI app store. Did I make my point?
I do not know about the Window Phone 7 app store, but I bet that's the same.
Of course quantity != quality, but you have more quality apps on the android and on the iphone store than on any other application store. Furthermore, most people don't care about quality. They want their generic apps (Facebook, XYZ newspaper, etc...) and a lot of other apps, mostly free. Does Apple advertise apps quality or quantity? Think again.
Yup, a new CPU, more ram and more flash memory. Still, the difference is so small that Sense 3.0 can run flawlessly on my HTC Desire HD. I know about the brand new dual core architecture, but it's no magical breakthrough.
I did not know about the exclusive-naming in the US, that's an interesting piece of marketing bullshit.
Damn true.
Yeah, let's make another OS with no app. You know, the apps, the thing that nowadays make smartphones popular.
I really can't understand HTC strategy, even their lineup strategy. They talk about differentiation while most of their phones look the same, have similar specs and similar prices. HTC Sensation? Just like the HTC Desire HD... I am no Apple fan, but Apple's lineup, using old models as a cheap alternative make much more sense than throwing money at new models while retailers can't sell the old ones fast enough.
According a a perfectly baseless linear interpolation on several charts, SSD have similar failure rates as HDDs. Just great...
Call me back when we have 5 years of solid data, not just conjectures et inference.
No, this piece of wrong is good because we're better off with no color management in browsers as most people don't even have a monitor good enough to actually make any use of it. It's a nice feature for photo-enthusiasts, but a huge pain for pros. I mean, of course it would be nice if it became a widespread standard implemented properly everywhere, but, so far, it only add a useless layer of complexity on the web. It has uses, but these are so few on the web that I don't see much benefit.
Disclaimer: I am a photo-enthusiast with a fully calibrated wide gamut monitor (AdobeRGB).
Actually, lack of ICC color profile is a good thing as it's happily ignored by Internet Explorer (ICC v2 and V4), Firefox (ICC V4, V2 ignored by default) and Opera (V2 and V4).
Lack of metadata is really strange, especially for a standard coming from Google itself. Yeah, I know that most people don't bother tagging their pics properly and that Facebook strips ehttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/24/2326250/Mozilla-Rejects-WebP-Image-Format-Google-Adds-It?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader#very metadata thingy in its process, but it's a nice feature for both photographers and webspiders.
Similar yet different issue with Janet Evanovitch novels, the Stephanie Plum series. Even more stupid: I can buy the first, second and third book, 12th too, from France but, god forbids, not the fourth, fifth and so on up to 11.
Region lock crazyness in all its splendor.
I work on a laptop so, I use a fast external SATA hard drive as the work copy. Once a week, I turn on my raid 1 NAS and I launch a rsync backup, then turn it off.
I will soon buy a second nas to have a second copy in case of a NAS malfunction, and another external drive for monthly out of site backup.
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As massive licence buyers are heavily negotiating the official prices, we won't get a Linux landslide... do not expect those prices to be applied to governments or big companies.
Yup that how it works in my humble French town (as in most French towns and cities) and it does works. Every vote is counted twice by a two different persons, and anyone can look over the shoulder of the people counting. Anyone can participate, I did twice. And it works.
Of course, sometimes fraud does happen, but it's usually spotted quite early and the fraud scale is rather small.
On Android, most devices do not have app2sd. But some, like the HTC ChaCha/Status have it. It's a vendor issue.
You can install it if you root your device. Same goes for Windows RT, without the rooting part, you can use junctions to work around this stupid limitation.
Many commenters here oversimplify the problem. Do not forget that Google is in a monopolistic position. Deindexing newspaper web pages could be considered as Google using their monopoly as an advantage.
And then, it becomes much more interesting as Europe is constantly probing many companies for such evil monopolistic behaviors. Europe could force google to index these newspapers, and France has much more legislative influence over Europe than Belgium which attempted the same kind of tax, several years ago.
I should have made myself clearer: I am not American , therefore the potential backdoors may be harmful to my country.
Why? Is my data safer when monitored by NSA made backdoors than by Chinese ones? Are the American ones of higher quality?
Jobs has been dead for a year and I don't care. His being dead was news, but this is no news and totally uninteresting.
Has any new line of text popped up in his biography? No.
Nope.
My father use to work for the French national police force. It's a half police, half military police corp. ;)
One day, he visited a nuclear power plant for whatever security reason. With a group of people, he walked around one of these famous pool, then just clumsily fell in it. He was of course decontaminated as soon as I happened, and well, he still has no cancer decades after, even as a heavy smoker.
Sadly, he did not get any superpower either, just a smart kid, years later
I know that truth is not really popular around Slashdot, but nothing was actually hacked, as said here
A software alarm popped up for unauthorized login and that's all. It's just that it looked like a hack attempt of a critical national institution.
BTW, looking at the comments, it seems like people did not understand that Banque de France is not a real bank. It's a national administration, just printing money, loaning money to banks and insurance for collateral and managing over-indebtedness.
If you got loads of money and stacks of disposable fine paper, print at home. In any other case, print elsewhere.
Home printing is an enlightening experience, but a hard and incredibly expensive one.
About the same kind of technology emerged in France, It was actually quite popular (France wide), until the Internet superseeded it : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
You could rent the terminal for a real cheap price (about 50 cents) then you had pay per minute scheme for services.
A friend of mine used to work for a French special effects company and he had to work on this. He told me that this is basically a world of pain and it produces great piles of smocking shit. It just sucks, even when done properly by highly trained people. Can you imagine making 3D out of a 2D tree? Make every background 3D or properly cut out the character to get the desired effect?
It sucks, it's mostly manual, get over it.
As far as I can see, what we get on small apps store is 45 shitty apps. Have a look at the OVI app store. Did I make my point?
I do not know about the Window Phone 7 app store, but I bet that's the same.
Of course quantity != quality, but you have more quality apps on the android and on the iphone store than on any other application store. Furthermore, most people don't care about quality. They want their generic apps (Facebook, XYZ newspaper, etc...) and a lot of other apps, mostly free.
Does Apple advertise apps quality or quantity? Think again.
Yup, a new CPU, more ram and more flash memory. Still, the difference is so small that Sense 3.0 can run flawlessly on my HTC Desire HD. I know about the brand new dual core architecture, but it's no magical breakthrough.
I did not know about the exclusive-naming in the US, that's an interesting piece of marketing bullshit.
Damn true.
Yeah, let's make another OS with no app. You know, the apps, the thing that nowadays make smartphones popular.
I really can't understand HTC strategy, even their lineup strategy. They talk about differentiation while most of their phones look the same, have similar specs and similar prices. HTC Sensation? Just like the HTC Desire HD... I am no Apple fan, but Apple's lineup, using old models as a cheap alternative make much more sense than throwing money at new models while retailers can't sell the old ones fast enough.
Members of the ministry of silly walks, we've recognized you.
According a a perfectly baseless linear interpolation on several charts, SSD have similar failure rates as HDDs. Just great... Call me back when we have 5 years of solid data, not just conjectures et inference.
No, this piece of wrong is good because we're better off with no color management in browsers as most people don't even have a monitor good enough to actually make any use of it. It's a nice feature for photo-enthusiasts, but a huge pain for pros. I mean, of course it would be nice if it became a widespread standard implemented properly everywhere, but, so far, it only add a useless layer of complexity on the web. It has uses, but these are so few on the web that I don't see much benefit.
Disclaimer: I am a photo-enthusiast with a fully calibrated wide gamut monitor (AdobeRGB).
Actually, lack of ICC color profile is a good thing as it's happily ignored by Internet Explorer (ICC v2 and V4), Firefox (ICC V4, V2 ignored by default) and Opera (V2 and V4).
Lack of metadata is really strange, especially for a standard coming from Google itself. Yeah, I know that most people don't bother tagging their pics properly and that Facebook strips ehttp://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/24/2326250/Mozilla-Rejects-WebP-Image-Format-Google-Adds-It?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Reader#very metadata thingy in its process, but it's a nice feature for both photographers and webspiders.
Similar yet different issue with Janet Evanovitch novels, the Stephanie Plum series. Even more stupid: I can buy the first, second and third book, 12th too, from France but, god forbids, not the fourth, fifth and so on up to 11. Region lock crazyness in all its splendor.
You will soon be wrong: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/04/amazon-to-launch-library-lending-for-kindle-books/1
I don't know if an american equivalent exists but there are several yearly subscription options on this website: http://librairie.immateriel.fr/ (sorry, it's french). It's probably not the only one of its kind.
I work on a laptop so, I use a fast external SATA hard drive as the work copy. Once a week, I turn on my raid 1 NAS and I launch a rsync backup, then turn it off.
I will soon buy a second nas to have a second copy in case of a NAS malfunction, and another external drive for monthly out of site backup.
There is a chrome extension working around that.
Wrong. It is "dégroupé".