In 1990-1993, Romania just started to understand what democracy is, there was no concept of licenses, rights much like in other countries (see for example the story of Tetris and its licensing problems on Google Video). Even more, there was barely any economy and computers used to cost a fortune. A computer I think used to cost about 6 or 7 salaries, without software.
Also, even if you wanted to buy legally software, there were no companies that could legally license you software. You couldn't buy software legally because the percent of users buying software was so small, it was not profitable for companies to make stock of software products.
Later, companies started to build computers and offered preinstalled software and operating systems legally but even then there were problems with gray market (smaller companies could not afford to compete with large computer builders buying license in large volume and used to buy small volume of windows licenses from Hungary and other countries - later the BSA declared these licenses not valid and companies had problems).
Nowadays, almost all companies are using licensed software because there are laws about it and whenever the government has to prove something to the European Union or licking USA's ass.. police raids companies or finds hackers or people guilty of piracy.
With home users, piracy is larger but that's mostly because some people can not afford it. The minimum wage is about 120 dollars and Windows is about 140 dollars (if you included taxes).. Private companies offer wages usually starting from 300 dollars.
So our president is right, but you don't have to take it like he agreed to it and thought it was OK. It was not but you can't change the past.
My Leadtek TV/FM tuner has this CD cable that connects it to a CD in connector on a motherboard. It was my choice to connect it to CD because I could as well connect it to AUX in, Modem In or any stereo input connector that my soundcard supports.
I don't think Windows is able to detect what the software tuner supports because itself it does not generate any sound.It just sends a command to the tuner that tells him to go to a certain frequency and start output sound on it's audio out cable. Where that cable goes, it doesn't care (you actually have to configure the player from the configuration - Volume control CD, Recording CD ).
Just as if you would insert an Audio CD on your unit and press the Play button on it, Windows ( I don't think ) can't detect that something plays. There is no application telling Windows that it's generating a waveform on CD input. In the case of the tuner Windows can only detect that the application is running or query the tuner through IC2 to see what it uses (but not all tuners use IC2 for configuration). PLus, several times I've been able to end the Winfast FM process using the Task Manager and not resetting the tuner, thus having radio without any application running. It gets stopped when Winfast FM process is started again.
Right,
So.. let's pretend I'm talking on Skype with someone while having the FM tuner running at low volume in the background..News starts on radio, I'm talking, my friend is talking.. what happens now ? There are 3 voices in total.
According to your solution, Vista should mute the tuner and my friend on Skype because they may issue commands to my computer. Stupid..
This solution shouldn't have been implemented as long as the recognition software can not make a difference between MY voice and other voices/music.
Not really. I would say it means you can not use it as long as you use Vista.
When you uninstall Vista, you can install XP again. You just can't use both at the same time.
Provide a document or reference for what you say here or post on the Discussion page at Wikipedia for that article and people may consider your words. Without any proof you're wasting your time.
About four years ago in my country the prices to show a station on cable were about 8-12 cents/subscriber for an average station. A somewhat better, more recognized station (for example CNN) would cost about 15 cents/subscriber. A sport station called Eurosport almost lost the contract with major cable providers in my country because they dared to ask for 25 cents/subscriber. On average we get here about 50 tv stations for about 10 dollars/month now. HBO used to ask for about 2.5$/subscriber.
Then how about closing the f@#ing Firefox once every six hours ? Is that so damn hard ?
Seriously now, I'm using only Firefox and I close it even without realizing at least once every couple of hours. My uptime is usually 10-20 days.
If you don't want to lose the open tabs go to Tools > Options and select:
When Firefox starts : Show my windows and tabs from last time
Yeah..well... I would say XML would be much better than HTML, as it would be parsed easily. It would work for both ASCII and Unicode text, data...
PNG, TGA could be used for storing images.. both are relatively easy to decode and enough documentation exists.
Some vectorisation format and some layered photo format (not proprietary PSD format) would also be needed.
For music, two extensible open source formats would be needed, one lossless (OGG, MP3 when patent expires -though it is limited by the number of audio channels it supports) and at least one lossless format (FLAC is the first that comes to mind, APE the second)
For videos, there is already an open source format (container) called Matroska and some lossless codecs could be standardized.
It is possible, but indeed, very hard. And would not be possible as long as companies care more for their profits than...
So they've basically created a Xerox machine? Publishers all over this Earth and librarians were not able to ban these even though you can copy creations (books, articles) with them...
Well, instead of trying to fool bots with captchas and javascripts and invisible fields, I've thought about it and said to myself that all bots will probably look for these signs.
So I've done something really basic:
Code : [ (input box with random name) ] 1245
Where the number of sequence of characters (here 1245) is formed of plain characters. I could go on and use span tags, colors, UTF8/UTF16 characters that look fairly close to ASCII numbers for extra security but already, I get only about 1 spam message in 5-600 messages. So it's probably not worth the effort.
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In 1990-1993, Romania just started to understand what democracy is, there was no concept of licenses, rights much like in other countries (see for example the story of Tetris and its licensing problems on Google Video). Even more, there was barely any economy and computers used to cost a fortune. A computer I think used to cost about 6 or 7 salaries, without software.
.. police raids companies or finds hackers or people guilty of piracy.
Also, even if you wanted to buy legally software, there were no companies that could legally license you software. You couldn't buy software legally because the percent of users buying software was so small, it was not profitable for companies to make stock of software products.
Later, companies started to build computers and offered preinstalled software and operating systems legally but even then there were problems with gray market (smaller companies could not afford to compete with large computer builders buying license in large volume and used to buy small volume of windows licenses from Hungary and other countries - later the BSA declared these licenses not valid and companies had problems).
Nowadays, almost all companies are using licensed software because there are laws about it and whenever the government has to prove something to the European Union or licking USA's ass
With home users, piracy is larger but that's mostly because some people can not afford it. The minimum wage is about 120 dollars and Windows is about 140 dollars (if you included taxes).. Private companies offer wages usually starting from 300 dollars.
So our president is right, but you don't have to take it like he agreed to it and thought it was OK. It was not but you can't change the past.
My Leadtek TV/FM tuner has this CD cable that connects it to a CD in connector on a motherboard. It was my choice to connect it to CD because I could as well connect it to AUX in, Modem In or any stereo input connector that my soundcard supports.
I don't think Windows is able to detect what the software tuner supports because itself it does not generate any sound.It just sends a command to the tuner that tells him to go to a certain frequency and start output sound on it's audio out cable. Where that cable goes, it doesn't care (you actually have to configure the player from the configuration - Volume control CD, Recording CD ).
Just as if you would insert an Audio CD on your unit and press the Play button on it, Windows ( I don't think ) can't detect that something plays. There is no application telling Windows that it's generating a waveform on CD input. In the case of the tuner Windows can only detect that the application is running or query the tuner through IC2 to see what it uses (but not all tuners use IC2 for configuration). PLus, several times I've been able to end the Winfast FM process using the Task Manager and not resetting the tuner, thus having radio without any application running. It gets stopped when Winfast FM process is started again.
Right, So.. let's pretend I'm talking on Skype with someone while having the FM tuner running at low volume in the background..News starts on radio, I'm talking, my friend is talking .. what happens now ? There are 3 voices in total.
According to your solution, Vista should mute the tuner and my friend on Skype because they may issue commands to my computer. Stupid..
This solution shouldn't have been implemented as long as the recognition software can not make a difference between MY voice and other voices/music.
Not really. I would say it means you can not use it as long as you use Vista. When you uninstall Vista, you can install XP again. You just can't use both at the same time.
I guess this means you're essentially buying a service pack for Windows XP...
I am actually more impressed with the 3rd result, obtained using a PII originally clocked at 333 Mhz.
It managed to reach 7640.28 Mhz. Reference here : http://valid.x86-secret.com/records.php .
Direct link to results here: http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=159352
Provide a document or reference for what you say here or post on the Discussion page at Wikipedia for that article and people may consider your words. Without any proof you're wasting your time.
It's far easier to search for mp3s using this url : Google
About four years ago in my country the prices to show a station on cable were about 8-12 cents/subscriber for an average station. A somewhat better, more recognized station (for example CNN) would cost about 15 cents/subscriber. A sport station called Eurosport almost lost the contract with major cable providers in my country because they dared to ask for 25 cents/subscriber. On average we get here about 50 tv stations for about 10 dollars/month now. HBO used to ask for about 2.5$/subscriber.
Then how about closing the f@#ing Firefox once every six hours ? Is that so damn hard ? Seriously now, I'm using only Firefox and I close it even without realizing at least once every couple of hours. My uptime is usually 10-20 days. If you don't want to lose the open tabs go to Tools > Options and select: When Firefox starts : Show my windows and tabs from last time
Yeah ..well... I would say XML would be much better than HTML, as it would be parsed easily. It would work for both ASCII and Unicode text, data ...
PNG, TGA could be used for storing images .. both are relatively easy to decode and enough documentation exists.
Some vectorisation format and some layered photo format (not proprietary PSD format) would also be needed.
For music, two extensible open source formats would be needed, one lossless (OGG, MP3 when patent expires -though it is limited by the number of audio channels it supports) and at least one lossless format (FLAC is the first that comes to mind, APE the second)
For videos, there is already an open source format (container) called Matroska and some lossless codecs could be standardized.
It is possible, but indeed, very hard. And would not be possible as long as companies care more for their profits than ...
So they've basically created a Xerox machine? Publishers all over this Earth and librarians were not able to ban these even though you can copy creations (books, articles) with them...
Well, instead of trying to fool bots with captchas and javascripts and invisible fields, I've thought about it and said to myself that all bots will probably look for these signs.
So I've done something really basic:
Code : [ (input box with random name) ] 1245
Where the number of sequence of characters (here 1245) is formed of plain characters.
I could go on and use span tags, colors, UTF8/UTF16 characters that look fairly close to ASCII numbers for extra security but already, I get only about 1 spam message in 5-600 messages. So it's probably not worth the effort.