Well, I have to admit that I block the pop up ads. However I do log them, and once a month I build a list of companies NOT to patronize from those ads. Any company that attempts to pop up an unwanted window on my browser, forever gets no money from me.
They are discriminating against mozilla.
Just go to BECU and see for yourself. We first found out about it when I tried it with konqueror. When I found out that they did not accept it, I fired them a email, asking them why they were accepting the browser produced by a convicted monopolist, but not from konqueror, which was produced by one of the organizations affiliated with what the convicted monopolist declared to be the enemy #1. A day later they started accepting konqueror, even tho' they never acknowledged that on their site.
I would send an email to my bank, if they did not accept my chosen browser..
There is another point to this issue also. With the new EULA, and forced updates, if your financial institution forces you to use IE, then it appears to me they and Microsoft may legally and financially become responsible/liable for whatever security compromising activity that may take place during transactions.
Assume that you are an organization ( corporate or educational) that has the source code for Microsoft OSs under the shared source program. As you go thru it you find that they have violated patents/licenses. What are your obligations as to the reporting of this to legal authorities, and if you do , then are you protected under any whistle-blower acts, or are held criminally responsible under nda or shared source license. I am really curious about this.
More than once I have been very interested in purchasing a piece of software for where I work. However , it always comes to the point that, what I ask my company to buy, I will not be able to afford at home. So it comes to the point that I'd rather not invest my time learning to use a piece of software , only not to be able to use it at home. So I stick to free aoftware, or software , such as Oracle which you can download free of charge for personal use. Same reason I stick with Linux when I can or Solaris when I can't.
This is the reason I decided not to use TogetherJ for example.
Where on the MSDN disks are the sources to >NET and Visual.NET? Or is there somewhere else I can download the whole thing from? Where can I download this Win XP you are talking about?
I disagree. First despite all the positive spin MS is trying to put on X-Box sales, they appear to be dismal. Retailers just don't seem to be willing to push it. Which indicates a lack of margin. So another $100 drop and it may pickup. Unfortunately that will also add to another $2,000,000,000 before it may become profitable. But then there is the problem of DVD region protection. Take me as an example. I live in Seattle, and own about 500 to 600 DVDs. a good portion of which are region 2 DVDs ( purchased in Europe.) . I have 14 computers in the house and 23 DVD players and 9 DVD drives. When I wish to watch European DVDs , I simply either change the hard disk drive ( they are removable) to another installation of Windows 2000 ( which thinks I am in Europe) or , anymore these days , to Linux.
Will I or anyone I know ever buy an X-Box. Not in this lifetime. Will I ever install Windows XP? not in next life either.
A lot of people I know are switching to network file servers in their homes, and having heard about secure music path, are installing Linux with samba. They don't trust Microsoft. This is the point of the news item. People don't trust their data , and to some extent, their hardware to Microsoft anymore. I am writing this on a dual boot laptop , whic is booted to Win 2k right now. I also am a member of MSDN. So I get Visual Studio and Visual Net. I somehow trust ( but don't like the non-standard compliance of Visual Studio), but I don't trust Visual Net as far as I can throw it. I'd rather develope in Linux and port to Microsoft when the API becomes available on MS, then trust Microsoft and develop on Visual Net, hoping it will be ported to Linux someday. That is a career limiting move.
Sure they have money. They can try to buy a lot of things. They can pay some registrars parking server to create the illusion of gaining against apache, but eventually, they will have to buy out about 40 million or so at a price of about 10,000 to 20,000 a piece, and that adds up to $400,000,000,000 to $800,000,000,000.
The dumbest things they have done in the last 7 years:
1) Accept Java ( make it credible) 2) Reject Java (Make it not only credible, but acceptable as well) 3) Secure Music path ( people are not dumb) 4) UltimateTV ( "Selling beyond our expectations!", sold 6,000?) 5) X-Box (combined with 4) 6) Windows XP embedded. 7) Invent XML only to have the competition embrace and extend it. 8) Invent Soap only to have competition embrace and extend it. 9) IIS ( Oh ! Boy!!!) 10) Charge developers for Back Office stuff, while trying to buy out web sites.
Too many others not worth mentioning.
Thing about Open Source Microsoft does not get is that, when you Open Source something, you still hold all the aces. You have the time element on your side. You can develop while others are learning and you are always ahead.
However there seems to be a problem with with Microsoft corporate thinking is that , they don't seem to be able to hang on to the people that develope the ideas.
I used tNt ( the NeWS toolkit) in early 90's. Those people are still largely at Sun. And look at Sun. Quietly but surely they are moving Solaris in the direction of Linux. I have 5 SparcStations in the house also,but do I develope in them anymore ? No, since the compiler costs eat me alive. Frankly Linux and dev tools are much superior to anything Microsoft could ever supply me with ( even though they are free now under MSDN) I use Eclipse and NetBeans. Why? Because they are Open Source. I will never ever ( except under contract) will use closed source developement tools again.
People have limited funds. So you want me to pay for Cable Modem ( which I have) and/or DSL ( which I have also) and DSS , and or Cable TV , and $18 per CD, and $25 per DVD and the phone bill and the movies and the computer and the OS and the office tools, and the websurfing, and games and games net and... the list goes on. Do you really think people have the money, let alone the time to do all this stuff? Everybody basicall robs Peter to pay Paul. Until last year Microsoft was Paul. It just has become Peter.
Well put. The law should be changed as you said. No one should be allowed to trademark common English words. Would you like to spearhead a boycott Intel campaign? You seem to be very clear headed and exactly what we need to get this going.
To make this work, all you have to do is turn 90 degrees and the universe will look the same. Imagine a sphere centered at the observer and with a radius of "PhysicsGenius" All the light beams turn 90 degrees at the surface of the sphere all in the same direction and they appear as combed hairs tangent to the sphere everywhere on the spheres surface.
You are absolutely correct. Since the calculations were based on simultaneous downloads and broadband connectivity, 1:1 ratio conclusion is not justifiable. However, the problem is number of broadband connectivities is probably less than number of people. If we assume up to 2 persons per connectivity, then the number of people jums to 6 million and 120 million. Makes the motion picture industry lose about $440 Billion per year or $3000 per person per year.
350,000 movies per day on the average 5 GB per movie (perfect digital reproduction) , download rates per second would be:
(350,000 * 5 GB )/(24*3600)= 20 GBytes/second.
Assuming broadband at both ends (128 Kbit/sec upload)
1.58 Million simultaneous downloads.
Since each "piracy involves an upload as well as a download site, this gives 3 million people involved in piracy simultaneously every second 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Mr. Valenti claims this will be 20 fold when broadband is more pervasive. In other words 60 million people would be involved in piracy continuously.
If piracy was not involved , these 30 million people would be going to movies everyday. In other words the 30 million people would be filling the 10 million seats in the theaters everyday ( assuming 100 seats per theater ) all the 100,000 theaters in the country would be continually filled. Of course we probably should add to this the current audiences, so probably all the 150,000 theaters would be continually filled, which is a theater for each 1000 person. So assuming a theater would make $3000 per day, it would mean each person in this country gives $3 per day to a theater of their choice or $1100 per year.
I am having problems making this come out right. Could someone help me??
"Well I was drunk the day my Momma got out of prison And I went to pick her up in the rain But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck My Momma, she got run over by a damned old train"
Steve Goodman "You Never Even Call Me By My Name"
( As sung by David Allen Coe )
Microsoft has continued it's exclusionary policies by forcing Microsoft browsers/outlook on Qwest to MSN migrated customers. Also certain sites such as
www.kvi.com
does not accept anything but IE an Netscape 6.2 (which is a recent addition. Couple of months ago they only accepted IE.)
I usually go there with Konqueror or Mozilla just to check it out see if it has changed yet or not.
So this is far from a first shot. It just has not been so loud before.
So , mpaa wants $20B, Microsoft wants $20B, riaa wants $20B. Altogether that comes to about $600 per year per household. DSS/Cable wants $600 per year at a minimum AOL/Time Warner would be happy with $3000 per household. Telco wants about $1000 per year.
Suddenly average household is out of $5200 per year , and they still haven't paid taxes, bought food, paid the rent let alone pay for their childrens education and put money aside for savings.
When will these people realize that there is a limited amount of discretionary income that people have and the well has already run dry.....
Let's do the math. $45 per month. It costs about $100 to send a technician to your house for customer service. One service call and they are out of two and a half months revenues. That is revenues, not profit. If you amortize it with profits, then they are out more like a years profits. So if 8 percent of people have a truck roll once a year , that is a zero profit situation. I always said the service model is unsustainable at $45 per month. I think they have to go to a tiered service model. No customer service should be $45 per month. For that you should only get line problem calls and no service once the signal is in your house. If you want customer service it should be around $80 per month. Only one false alarm , on premises call would be allowed per year for that price. Anyhting after that would be chargable to the customer at $50 per call. Computer help would be available thru their installed software by remote access. I've had @home for 4 years, and very happy with it. The last time I called them was 30 months ago, when the modem died and they replaced it. I pay for 3 computers. I also have 5-static IP DSL from Qwest ( for 3 years now) and that costs me $80 per month. I am happy to pay the price as long as it assures my ISP's survival.
The way it is now it is unsustainable. In my opinion the service (@home) is worth easily $80 per month, and I'd be willing to pay $120 per month if they allowed me to run httpd .
However, if you take the original (O) and make a copy (C1). Then, record both (O) and (C1) thru the SPDIF output of CD player, then you can find the defective bits and create new track files with only the correction bits by subtracting the from each other.
Now, since C1 and O are identical ( in theory) the correction bits tracks will contain all zeroes.(In practice they will not.)
Next you subtract the corrective tracks from C1 and creating C2.
1) You have not violated DMCA since the corrective bits tracks are theoretically zeroes, thus you have not created any new info from the CDs.
2) You have (theoretically) not altered C1 since what you have subtracted from it is (theoretically) all zeroes.
Thus you have derived nothing from the original, and you have added nothing to it.
Thanks for the link. I just joined also($100). Also found out that my company matches. So will send them the forms(for another $100). Check the matching company list when you are there, you may be pleasantly surprised.
BTW, I just wanted to say that I have over 900 CDs that I have bought in last 10 years or so. Which makes about 80 CDs per year. With Napster guidance,last year I bought over 100 CDs. Since RIAA/MPAA started suing Napster? I have bought 0 CDs . And will not buy another one until Napster is restored back to it's previous glory or RIAA backers go bankrupt.
Interesting thing about this that my personal boycott actually saves me money and hurts the record companies. It is a win-win for me. Kinda like Linux vs. Microsoft. Everytime Microsoft spends money agains Linux , Microsoft loses , but Linux (not being a financial entity) does not and wins publicity.
Maybe, but it is beginning to appear not..... We have multiple SparcStations and PC's in our house, and until this week, on couple of PCs, We had Win2K/WinME and Linux Installed on separate carriage Hard Disks. Because when it came to certain things, still it was hard to beat Win2k. As a matter of fact , just for that reason, I had been a professional subscriber to MSDN. (Last update was just this January.) However after installing 2.4.1 and then 2.4.1 with KDE 2.1.x beta and loading the ALSA drivers ( now up to version 0.9), I am totally impressed. Now I can do things with my RME Hammerfall (full) , MidiMan DIO2448 , SBLive platinum and Ensoniq 1371 cards that I could not even dream of before. We started salvaging the HDs that win2k/Win98/WinME were taking and changing them into nfs shared disks. This is a diffusion equation with exponentially growing distributed sources. Any one with some physics/math background already knows that the outcome is inevitable. With the LiVid's latest DVD players, and Matrox's support for G400 dual head(one machine) and G450 dual head (in the other) and with my Sony PCG-XG18 and my wife's Fujitsu Lifebook, we are in heaven. However I will keep all the 600 or so MSDN CDs and 50 or so MSDN DVDs for future reference. As it stands now they are relegated to the upper shelf ( and yes I did see a whistler beta there, but frankly I don't care anymore. Not with ASP/.NET concept and the secure path.... I even stopped downloading Win2k updates after they screwed up my multi region DVD player hw/sw...) I basically do not trust any closed source s/w anymore. The last s/w I am ordering is Mathematica 4.1 , but I am also coming up on Maxima (open source Macsyma). I already use {Star,Open}Office. Word 2000 came with my Sony PCG-XG18, but I never installed it. StarOffice/Cygwin/Forte/Netbeans catered to every need I had on Win2k, and they do just fine on Linux. Oh BTW, Konqueror is great. Now I no longer need Netscape or IE either....
Obviously one can try 0xa1a2a3 0x123456 or output of any encryption algorithm with this. Which makes the original encrypted message look like spam. If it's intercepted, it is still encoded. Thus additional security is gained.
I had Bill Watson for 1 quarter in 1972 at University of Washington. Which got me hooked for life to Differential Geomery, and Mr. Hulot's Holiday for life.
I just love the way Microsoft lawyers keep on shooting Microsoft in the foot. Kerberos, then Samba and now this. No one has to do any badmouthing of Microsoft. Their lawyers are doing a stellar job at that.;-)
When I was little ( i.e. when I was 30 yrs. old in 1977) , there was a program that did this on an HP 2108 CPU with a paper tape reader. I don't remember the tune now tho'...
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I have to admit that I block the pop up ads. However I do log them, and once a month I build a list of companies NOT to patronize from those ads. Any company that attempts to pop up an unwanted window on my browser, forever gets no money from me.
That is my right to do so.
They are discriminating against mozilla.
Just go to BECU and see for yourself. We first found out about it when I tried it with konqueror. When I found out that they did not accept it, I fired them a email, asking them why they were accepting the browser produced by a convicted monopolist, but not from konqueror, which was produced by one of the organizations affiliated with what the convicted monopolist declared to be the enemy #1. A day later they started accepting konqueror, even tho' they never acknowledged that on their site.
I would send an email to my bank, if they did not accept my chosen browser..
There is another point to this issue also. With the new EULA, and forced updates, if your financial institution forces you to use IE, then it appears to me they and Microsoft may legally and financially become responsible/liable for whatever security compromising activity that may take place during transactions.
Do they have a back door into the router?
c am pbell_270400_microsoft.htm
How could one verify , if there is a back door or not?
http://encryption_policies.tripod.com/industry/
sinan
Assume that you are an organization ( corporate or educational) that has the source code for Microsoft OSs under the shared source program. As you go thru it you find that they have violated patents/licenses. What are your obligations as to the reporting of this to legal authorities, and if you do , then are you protected under any whistle-blower acts, or are held criminally responsible under nda or shared source license. I am really curious about this.
Yep. I just tried it on my Sharp/Zaurus 5000 PDA and got the same result with Opera. They seem to be discriminating against Zaurus users also.
Sinan
More than once I have been very interested in purchasing a piece of software for where I work. However , it always comes to the point that, what I ask my company to buy, I will not be able to afford at home. So it comes to the point that I'd rather not invest my time learning to use a piece of software , only not to be able to use it at home. So I stick to free aoftware, or software , such as Oracle which you can download free of charge for personal use. Same reason I stick with Linux when I can or Solaris when I can't.
This is the reason I decided not to use TogetherJ for example.
Where on the MSDN disks are the sources to >NET and Visual .NET? Or is there somewhere else I can download the whole thing from? Where can I download this Win XP you are talking about?
Could you point me to it please??
Sinan
I disagree. First despite all the positive spin MS is trying to put on X-Box sales, they appear to be dismal. Retailers just don't seem to be willing to push it. Which indicates a lack of margin. So another $100 drop and it may pickup. Unfortunately that will also add to another $2,000,000,000 before it may become profitable. But then there is the problem of DVD region protection. Take me as an example. I live in Seattle, and own about 500 to 600 DVDs. a good portion of which are region 2 DVDs ( purchased in Europe.) . I have 14 computers in the house and 23 DVD players and 9 DVD drives. When I wish to watch European DVDs , I simply either change the hard disk drive ( they are removable) to another installation of Windows 2000 ( which thinks I am in Europe) or , anymore these days , to Linux.
Will I or anyone I know ever buy an X-Box. Not in this lifetime. Will I ever install Windows XP? not in next life either.
A lot of people I know are switching to network file servers in their homes, and having heard about secure music path, are installing Linux with samba. They don't trust Microsoft. This is the point of the news item. People don't trust their data , and to some extent, their hardware to Microsoft anymore. I am writing this on a dual boot laptop , whic is booted to Win 2k right now. I also am a member of MSDN. So I get Visual Studio and Visual Net. I somehow trust ( but don't like the non-standard compliance of Visual Studio), but I don't trust Visual Net as far as I can throw it. I'd rather develope in Linux and port to Microsoft when the API becomes available on MS, then trust Microsoft and develop on Visual Net, hoping it will be ported to Linux someday. That is a career limiting move.
Sure they have money. They can try to buy a lot of things. They can pay some registrars parking server to create the illusion of gaining against apache, but eventually, they will have to buy out about 40 million or so at a price of about 10,000 to 20,000 a piece, and that adds up to $400,000,000,000 to $800,000,000,000.
The dumbest things they have done in the last 7 years:
1) Accept Java ( make it credible)
2) Reject Java (Make it not only credible, but acceptable as well)
3) Secure Music path ( people are not dumb)
4) UltimateTV ( "Selling beyond our expectations!", sold 6,000?)
5) X-Box (combined with 4)
6) Windows XP embedded.
7) Invent XML only to have the competition embrace and extend it.
8) Invent Soap only to have competition embrace and extend it.
9) IIS ( Oh ! Boy!!!)
10) Charge developers for Back Office stuff, while trying to buy out web sites.
Too many others not worth mentioning.
Thing about Open Source Microsoft does not get is that, when you Open Source something, you still hold all the aces. You have the time element on your side. You can develop while others are learning and you are always ahead.
However there seems to be a problem with with Microsoft corporate thinking is that , they don't seem to be able to hang on to the people that develope the ideas.
I used tNt ( the NeWS toolkit) in early 90's. Those people are still largely at Sun. And look at Sun. Quietly but surely they are moving Solaris in the direction of Linux. I have 5 SparcStations in the house also,but do I develope in them anymore ? No, since the compiler costs eat me alive. Frankly Linux and dev tools are much superior to anything Microsoft could ever supply me with ( even though they are free now under MSDN) I use Eclipse and NetBeans. Why? Because they are Open Source. I will never ever ( except under contract) will use closed source developement tools again.
People have limited funds. So you want me to pay for Cable Modem ( which I have) and/or DSL ( which I have also) and DSS , and or Cable TV , and $18 per CD, and $25 per DVD and the phone bill and the movies and the computer and the OS and the office tools, and the websurfing, and games and games net and
Sinan
Well put. The law should be changed as you said. No one should be allowed to trademark common English words. Would you like to spearhead a boycott Intel campaign? You seem to be very clear headed and exactly what we need to get this going.
Thanx...
To make this work, all you have to do is turn 90 degrees and the universe will look the same. Imagine a sphere centered at the observer and with a radius of "PhysicsGenius" All the light beams turn 90 degrees at the surface of the sphere all in the same direction and they appear as combed hairs tangent to the sphere everywhere on the spheres surface.
Sinan
You are absolutely correct. Since the calculations were based on simultaneous downloads and broadband connectivity, 1:1 ratio conclusion is not justifiable. However, the problem is number of broadband connectivities is probably less than number of people. If we assume up to 2 persons per connectivity, then the number of people jums to 6 million and 120 million. Makes the motion picture industry lose about $440 Billion per year or $3000 per person per year.
I still can't reconcile those numbers.
Following on Mr. Valenti's math:
350,000 movies per day on the average 5 GB per movie (perfect digital reproduction) , download rates per second would be:
(350,000 * 5 GB )/(24*3600)= 20 GBytes/second.
Assuming broadband at both ends (128 Kbit/sec upload)
1.58 Million simultaneous downloads.
Since each "piracy involves an upload as well as a download site, this gives 3 million people involved in piracy simultaneously every second 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Mr. Valenti claims this will be 20 fold when broadband is more pervasive. In other words 60 million people would be involved in piracy continuously.
If piracy was not involved , these 30 million people would be going to movies everyday. In other words the 30 million people would be filling the 10 million seats in the theaters everyday ( assuming 100 seats per theater ) all the 100,000 theaters in the country would be continually filled. Of course we probably should add to this the current audiences, so probably all the 150,000 theaters would be continually filled, which is a theater for each 1000 person. So assuming a theater would make $3000 per day, it would mean each person in this country gives $3 per day to a theater of their choice or $1100 per year.
I am having problems making this come out right. Could someone help me??
"Well I was drunk the day my Momma got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
My Momma, she got run over by a damned old train"
Steve Goodman "You Never Even Call Me By My Name"
( As sung by David Allen Coe )
Microsoft has continued it's exclusionary policies by forcing Microsoft browsers/outlook on Qwest to MSN migrated customers. Also certain sites such as www.kvi.com does not accept anything but IE an Netscape 6.2 (which is a recent addition. Couple of months ago they only accepted IE.) I usually go there with Konqueror or Mozilla just to check it out see if it has changed yet or not. So this is far from a first shot. It just has not been so loud before.
So , mpaa wants $20B, Microsoft wants $20B, riaa wants $20B. Altogether that comes to about $600 per year per household. DSS/Cable wants $600 per year at a minimum AOL/Time Warner would be happy with $3000 per household. Telco wants about $1000 per year.
Suddenly average household is out of $5200 per year , and they still haven't paid taxes, bought food, paid the rent let alone pay for their childrens education and put money aside for savings.
When will these people realize that there is a limited amount of discretionary income that people have and the well has already run dry.....
Sinan
Let's do the math. $45 per month. It costs about $100 to send a technician to your house for customer service. One service call and they are out of two and a half months revenues. That is revenues, not profit. If you amortize it with profits, then they are out more like a years profits. So if 8 percent of people have a truck roll once a year , that is a zero profit situation. I always said the service model is unsustainable at $45 per month. I think they have to go to a tiered service model. No customer service should be $45 per month. For that you should only get line problem calls and no service once the signal is in your house. If you want customer service it should be around $80 per month. Only one false alarm , on premises call would be allowed per year for that price. Anyhting after that would be chargable to the customer at $50 per call. Computer help would be available thru their installed software by remote access. I've had @home for 4 years, and very happy with it. The last time I called them was 30 months ago, when the modem died and they replaced it. I pay for 3 computers. I also have 5-static IP DSL from Qwest ( for 3 years now) and that costs me $80 per month. I am happy to pay the price as long as it assures my ISP's survival.
The way it is now it is unsustainable. In my opinion the service (@home) is worth easily $80 per month, and I'd be willing to pay $120 per month if they allowed me to run httpd .
sinan
However, if you take the original (O) and make a copy (C1). Then, record both (O) and (C1) thru the SPDIF output of CD player, then you can find the defective bits and create new track files with only the correction bits by subtracting the from each other.
Now, since C1 and O are identical ( in theory) the correction bits tracks will contain all zeroes.(In practice they will not.)
Next you subtract the corrective tracks from C1 and creating C2.
1) You have not violated DMCA since the corrective bits tracks are theoretically zeroes, thus you have not created any new info from the CDs.
2) You have (theoretically) not altered C1 since what you have subtracted from it is (theoretically) all zeroes.
Thus you have derived nothing from the original, and you have added nothing to it.
Sinan
Thanks for the link. I just joined also($100). Also found out that my company matches. So will send them the forms(for another $100). Check the matching company list when you are there, you may be pleasantly surprised.
,last year I bought over 100 CDs. Since RIAA/MPAA started suing Napster? I have bought 0 CDs . And will not buy another one until Napster is restored back to it's previous glory or RIAA backers go bankrupt.
BTW, I just wanted to say that I have over 900 CDs that I have bought in last 10 years or so. Which makes about 80 CDs per year. With Napster guidance
Interesting thing about this that my personal boycott actually saves me money and hurts the record companies. It is a win-win for me. Kinda like Linux vs. Microsoft. Everytime Microsoft spends money agains Linux , Microsoft loses , but Linux (not being a financial entity) does not and wins publicity.
So attrition is our best friend.
Sinan
Maybe, but it is beginning to appear not..... We have multiple SparcStations and PC's in our house, and until this week, on couple of PCs, We had Win2K/WinME and Linux Installed on separate carriage Hard Disks. Because when it came to certain things, still it was hard to beat Win2k. As a matter of fact , just for that reason, I had been a professional subscriber to MSDN. (Last update was just this January.) However after installing 2.4.1 and then 2.4.1 with KDE 2.1.x beta and loading the ALSA drivers ( now up to version 0.9), I am totally impressed. Now I can do things with my RME Hammerfall (full) , MidiMan DIO2448 , SBLive platinum and Ensoniq 1371 cards that I could not even dream of before. We started salvaging the HDs that win2k/Win98/WinME were taking and changing them into nfs shared disks. This is a diffusion equation with exponentially growing distributed sources. Any one with some physics/math background already knows that the outcome is inevitable. With the LiVid's latest DVD players, and Matrox's support for G400 dual head(one machine) and G450 dual head (in the other) and with my Sony PCG-XG18 and my wife's Fujitsu Lifebook, we are in heaven. However I will keep all the 600 or so MSDN CDs and 50 or so MSDN DVDs for future reference. As it stands now they are relegated to the upper shelf ( and yes I did see a whistler beta there, but frankly I don't care anymore. Not with ASP/.NET concept and the secure path .... I even stopped downloading Win2k updates after they screwed up my multi region DVD player hw/sw...) I basically do not trust any closed source s/w anymore. The last s/w I am ordering is Mathematica 4.1 , but I am also coming up on Maxima (open source Macsyma). I already use {Star,Open}Office. Word 2000 came with my Sony PCG-XG18, but I never installed it. StarOffice/Cygwin/Forte/Netbeans catered to every need I had on Win2k, and they do just fine on Linux. Oh BTW, Konqueror is great. Now I no longer need Netscape or IE either....
YMMV
sinan
Obviously one can try 0xa1a2a3 0x123456 or output of any encryption algorithm with this. Which makes the original encrypted message look like spam. If it's intercepted, it is still encoded. Thus additional security is gained.
sinan
Of course it would help if I could spell Differential Geometry right ( or at least the same twice in a row....)
Sorry....
Sinan
I had Bill Watson for 1 quarter in 1972 at University of Washington. Which got me hooked for life to Differential Geomery, and Mr. Hulot's Holiday for life.
You can read about this wonderful teacher at:
http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~watsonw/
/. is not ignoring the obvious. This is not an argument over which EULA has what, but about what Microsoft attorney's did.
Sinan
I just love the way Microsoft lawyers keep on shooting Microsoft in the foot. Kerberos, then Samba and now this. No one has to do any badmouthing of Microsoft. Their lawyers are doing a stellar job at that. ;-)
Sinan
When I was little ( i.e. when I was 30 yrs. old in 1977) , there was a program that did this on an HP 2108 CPU with a paper tape reader. I don't remember the tune now tho'...
Sinan