I've just realised that it apears (at least to me it does) that the acient greeks knew that the word was round ages before someone actually sailed around it to prove it was.
Was this mainly due to the churches influence on science or was it just an easier way to represent the world then as a flat block?
Anyone going out to sea will quickly discover the earth is round since tall buildings will be the last things to sink under the horizon. The ancient Greeks went beyond that and calculated the earth's approximate size based on the angle of sunlight in two different wells a known distance apart (with the help of some basic geometry).
How many more gigahertz do we need my life already?
After seeing my 2Ghz Athlon64 take 15 hours to convert my FLAC collection to mp3 for portable use, I think we need more Ghz, more parallelism or both. Having too much CPU speed is never a big deal, but not having enough can be a real pain sometimes.
Now, to the extent that BitTorrent's architecture lends itself to centralized control of content, as asserted by the original poster, Cohen has indeed opened up the owner/operators of said points of control to legal attack.
The centralized tracker will also gladly tell that IPs of everyone connected to it. That way the copyright holder can easily send nasty letters to all of them if the content isn't authorized for sharing.
This isn't accidental, and not necessarily a bad thing.
It's not a transaltion of the title, it is the title. "Howl's Moving Castle" is based on an english book written by Diana Wynne Jones. If you don't like it, talk to her about it.
What was the moral in Totoro? Travel by catbus when you visit your seriously ill mother? Don't plant seeds without doing a dance? If there is a moral there, it's so subtly hidden that I can't spot it; it just seemed like a charming children's adventure to me.
Totoro doesn't have a moral. It does have a theme about mystery in the natural world and their sick mother provides the conflict/plot. But it's not a lesson-teaching story like some sort of Aesop's fable ("a delivery of corn makes everything better", etc.).
Quake3 works just fine, right now, on Fedora 3 for x86-64. As does Return to Castle Wolfenstein based on the same engine. I played both of them yesterday. The only thing one needs to do is use the "setarch" program to trick the installer script into thinking the architecture is i386 so it won't get angry.
Both games come with their own C libraries and are, for all intents and purposes, statically compiled. That being the case, there's no reason why they won't run for years and years to come.
How does a moderator verify that this isn't a fake distro? Or do you go back to the site and verify all the checksums after the d/l?
Distros should ship with a signed MD5SUMs file containing the proper checksums of the ISOs, in case the tracker is serving up a hacked distro. By checking the signature against the distro's public key (downloaded long in advance) the MD5SUMs file can be validated. Then that file can validate the ISOs' integrity.
I use Firefox exclusively for web testing work because of all its nice development features. But when I'm browsing for the helluvit, plain old Mozilla suite never gives me any trouble with crashes and doesn't appear to leak memory to the extent Firefox does.
Given all the attention it's getting, I expect Firefox will eventually get as solid as the Mozilla suite is now. But I don't feel it's quite there yet.
What's the point of an audio player that can't play AIFF (the -standard- audio interchange file format)? And how do you write a WAV implementation that can't play AIFF? It's just a byte-swap on a bunch of header fields....
AIFF's Common Chunk is more than just a byte-swapped version of RIFF WAVE's Format Chunk. Though honestly, a player should be able to handle either format since the differences are quite small.
For example, when I want to kill a print job that is sending garbage to my printer, where's the admin gui that lets me browse queues, select the errant job, and kill it? I rely on lpq for that today.
Try pointing your browser to http://localhost:631 (or whatever machine you're interested in) for the CUPS gui. Go under "Administration" and manage printers/queues. It's a bit friendlier than using lprm and lpq, though not as fast.
Uhhh... so, you didn't care about William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, or Jon Pertwee (who Baker replaced)?
The trouble, of course, is that John Nathan-Turner arrived and fouled up the works. So we wound up with Adric (the original Wesley Crusher precursor) and a bunch of other unmemorable companions. And since Tom had already been around for 7 seasons, Davison really deserved the same sort of change in format Pertwee got. But since he wound up doing the same stories Tom did, there was no way he could measure up to expectations and the whole show starting going downhill.
do everyone a favor and post.flac files instead, smaller size for the same quality
Smaller size, same quality, you can tag them with labels (song name, composer, performer) and the files are checksummed to protect against corruption (though that's less of an issue when distributing over BitTorrent, which has its own checksum protection).
I dare python lovers to write something like that in python in one line.
for f in glob.glob("/tmp/*").sorted(): print f
Though you will need to import glob in a seperate line. But I fail to see how doing trivial things trivially is a helpful measure of a language's usefulness.
not really the speed. At the time I tried it, early in 2004, it seemed to be the only readily available distribution that actually worked with AMD64. Fedora Core claimed to have a distro for it, but I read a lot of horror stories; Mandrake and others only seemed to have commercial payware products for the platform.
I use an AMD64 box as my primary computer. I tried SuSE 9 with it and didn't care for it. Fedora Core 1 for x86-64 wouldn't even install so I went back to an i386 distro. Fedora Core 2 for x86-64 did install, but recommended a BIOS update which I did. It hasn't given me any problems since, nor has FC3.
I'd recommend trying FC again. It only costs some time and bandwidth so you've got little to lose.
Granted, they did show that, but I know Jackson said they never filmed the Scouring of the Shire. Perhaps the fountain scene showed bits of the burning of Rohan adapted to make it look like the Shire?
It's likely they filmed a little bit of burning Shire for the fountain scene, but that's it. The rest of the chapter never made it to film at all and will never make it into the theatrical LotR any more than Bombadil will. It's just a necessary compromise when adapting a book for a film.
Okay this makes sense except...wasn't CSS encryption 40-bit? That's obviously not as secure enough to be impossible to brute force...but it's still fairly difficult even by today's standards.
The Wikipedia article claims a home computer can brute-force CSS in 24 hours. I don't doubt it. But DeCSS runs in seconds, so it's largely a matter of convenience now.
That is incorrect. CSS was designed to use lots of keys so that some could be revoked on future DVDs if they were compromised. The problem is, because CSS' encryption method was so poor, Xing's unencrypted key was all that was needed to break the algorithm. So no matter what keys CSS uses on a disc, DeCSS can find a matching one in a very short amount of time.
The Xing key helped get to this point, but it's far from necessary now.
After playing games on a PC with a mouse, playing on a console is frustrating, not fun. And, I can not imagine playing a game that puts console based players up against PC players (unless you handicap the PC's hardware). The console players would be out of luck.
Playing first-person shooters on a console is frustrating, since the control is designed for a keyboard and mouse. Similarly, playing a typical console 3D platformer like Wind Waker on a PC will be equally frustrating since the control is designed for console pads.
It's the nature of the beast. And until someone sorts out the control differences, PC vs. console play will always fall short for one of the two.
A mouse would suffice for that. That'll require the rest of the DS' controls to be shifted to the keyboard, which isn't ideal but should be enough to make it playable.
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Anyone going out to sea will quickly discover the earth is round since tall buildings will be the last things to sink under the horizon. The ancient Greeks went beyond that and calculated the earth's approximate size based on the angle of sunlight in two different wells a known distance apart (with the help of some basic geometry).
btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate=20
To limit one's upload to 20KB/sec.
After seeing my 2Ghz Athlon64 take 15 hours to convert my FLAC collection to mp3 for portable use, I think we need more Ghz, more parallelism or both. Having too much CPU speed is never a big deal, but not having enough can be a real pain sometimes.
The centralized tracker will also gladly tell that IPs of everyone connected to it. That way the copyright holder can easily send nasty letters to all of them if the content isn't authorized for sharing.
This isn't accidental, and not necessarily a bad thing.
Grand Theft Zamboni perhaps?
It's not a transaltion of the title, it is the title. "Howl's Moving Castle" is based on an english book written by Diana Wynne Jones. If you don't like it, talk to her about it.
Totoro doesn't have a moral. It does have a theme about mystery in the natural world and their sick mother provides the conflict/plot. But it's not a lesson-teaching story like some sort of Aesop's fable ("a delivery of corn makes everything better", etc.).
Quake3 works just fine, right now, on Fedora 3 for x86-64. As does Return to Castle Wolfenstein based on the same engine. I played both of them yesterday. The only thing one needs to do is use the "setarch" program to trick the installer script into thinking the architecture is i386 so it won't get angry.
Both games come with their own C libraries and are, for all intents and purposes, statically compiled. That being the case, there's no reason why they won't run for years and years to come.
Distros should ship with a signed MD5SUMs file containing the proper checksums of the ISOs, in case the tracker is serving up a hacked distro. By checking the signature against the distro's public key (downloaded long in advance) the MD5SUMs file can be validated. Then that file can validate the ISOs' integrity.
Given all the attention it's getting, I expect Firefox will eventually get as solid as the Mozilla suite is now. But I don't feel it's quite there yet.
AIFF's Common Chunk is more than just a byte-swapped version of RIFF WAVE's Format Chunk. Though honestly, a player should be able to handle either format since the differences are quite small.
They just did, in essence. Think of all the .jobs possibilities.
Try pointing your browser to http://localhost:631 (or whatever machine you're interested in) for the CUPS gui. Go under "Administration" and manage printers/queues. It's a bit friendlier than using lprm and lpq, though not as fast.
666 clearly means the contest is readable and writable by the Gimp's owner, people in the Gimp's group and everybody.
The trouble, of course, is that John Nathan-Turner arrived and fouled up the works. So we wound up with Adric (the original Wesley Crusher precursor) and a bunch of other unmemorable companions. And since Tom had already been around for 7 seasons, Davison really deserved the same sort of change in format Pertwee got. But since he wound up doing the same stories Tom did, there was no way he could measure up to expectations and the whole show starting going downhill.
Smaller size, same quality, you can tag them with labels (song name, composer, performer) and the files are checksummed to protect against corruption (though that's less of an issue when distributing over BitTorrent, which has its own checksum protection).
Normallly yes, but using them between an "import" and a "for" triggers a syntax error. Try it yourself and see:
I use an AMD64 box as my primary computer. I tried SuSE 9 with it and didn't care for it. Fedora Core 1 for x86-64 wouldn't even install so I went back to an i386 distro. Fedora Core 2 for x86-64 did install, but recommended a BIOS update which I did. It hasn't given me any problems since, nor has FC3.
I'd recommend trying FC again. It only costs some time and bandwidth so you've got little to lose.
It's likely they filmed a little bit of burning Shire for the fountain scene, but that's it. The rest of the chapter never made it to film at all and will never make it into the theatrical LotR any more than Bombadil will. It's just a necessary compromise when adapting a book for a film.
The Wikipedia article claims a home computer can brute-force CSS in 24 hours. I don't doubt it. But DeCSS runs in seconds, so it's largely a matter of convenience now.
The Xing key helped get to this point, but it's far from necessary now.
Playing first-person shooters on a console is frustrating, since the control is designed for a keyboard and mouse. Similarly, playing a typical console 3D platformer like Wind Waker on a PC will be equally frustrating since the control is designed for console pads.
It's the nature of the beast. And until someone sorts out the control differences, PC vs. console play will always fall short for one of the two.
A mouse would suffice for that. That'll require the rest of the DS' controls to be shifted to the keyboard, which isn't ideal but should be enough to make it playable.