My cousin actually owns a neoprene jacket with microcapsules of wax. The wax melts at room temperature and can store quite a bit of energy. When it's cold outside, the wax slowly releases the heat to the body.
I'm not sure whether this jacket is on the market. He was jobbing for a sports fashion producer when he got it (Adidas?).
The song is "Meine Freunde" by "Die Ärzte". The text translates to "is this allowed?".
After the Eisbach got popular and accidents cumulated, police tried to drive the surfers away. Until is was decided that it is not legally possible to disallow the surfing.
If you think about it, there are natural perpetual slopes: Standing waves (wakes?) on rivers. I even found a very cool video (8MB) demonstrating riversurfing on the Eisbach in Munich.
The article says nothing about the nature of
the supposedly infringed patents. Here's their
titles:
US05206951 Integration of data between typed objects by mutual, direct invocation between object managers corresponding to object types
US05421012 Multitasking computer system for integrating the operation of different application programs which manipulate data objects of different types
US05226161 Integration of data between typed data structures by mutual direct invocation between data managers corresponding to data types
I wasn't sure if privacy is really mentioned in the
human rights. To safe others the work of looking it
up:
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
AFAIK MkLinix runs on a Mach32 kernel and MacOS X
runs on a modified Mach32 kernel. One feature of
the kernel is that it can run several OSes at the
same time (as 'personalities').
So theoretically it should be possible to run Linux
and MacOS X at the same time.
This point has already been raised in the debate.
As a result, MS has offered to disclose the source.
This move isn't really too unusual for MS, and the
usual (ND-) agreements would apply.
But I have to say that I doubt that the necessary
resources exist to check the code thoroughly.
I would prefer our government to use Linux.
Well - Darwin, the base of MacOS X, is open source.
And if you use the cluster for number crunching,
you'll most likely not need to patch the high-level
APIs.
Norton will have to extend its product line
on
Spyware in Audio Galaxy
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
I've just run Ad-aware on my Windows configuration,
and I'm just glad that I don't seem to have caught
anything.
This kind of spyware is at least as dangerous as
any worm or virus I've heard about. I think Norton
and McAffe will have to extend their products /
product lines.
Look at the sample image. Most of the details are reconstructed correctly. But some errors like the spikes are obvious.
If you use a classic technique like interpolation through splines, diff the images and remove the gross errors created by this new method, the result might be quite convincing.
Have a look at BeBits.com. There's loads of software
for BeOS. And some of it is really good.
There's a lot more man-years in the 3rd party software
than in the OS. I think these developers do have a
certain right to the OS. Because when it ceases to
run on standard PCs in a few years, all this work
will become worthless.
People will pay to punish - suggesting that their
notions of fairness outweigh selfish considerations.
This quote reminds me of an experiment. It runs something like this: A group of people is divided into two groups of equal size. Then each group is asked this simple question: We will either give both groups $2 per person or we'll give each of you three bucks and each of them four bucks. What would you prefer?
1. Will I be able to burn songs I bought at Napster on CDR (mostly for my car player)?
2. My friends produce music. Can they share their own songs using Napster?
I read up a bit about the topic and it looks
like I have been really misinformed.
I could only find one serious problem mentioned for the one and two Euro coins:
Ring to core interface oxidation problems. If the conductivity of this interface is not controlled very carefully, then coin validators will have to operate with wide acceptance windows, lowering security.
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My cousin actually owns a neoprene jacket with
microcapsules of wax. The wax melts at room
temperature and can store quite a bit of energy.
When it's cold outside, the wax slowly releases
the heat to the body.
I'm not sure whether this jacket is on the market.
He was jobbing for a sports fashion producer when
he got it (Adidas?).
The song is "Meine Freunde" by "Die Ärzte".
The text translates to "is this allowed?".
After the Eisbach got popular and accidents
cumulated, police tried to drive the surfers
away. Until is was decided that it is not
legally possible to disallow the surfing.
In case you're interested in river surfing, I found a couple
;-)
of shorter videos of the Eisbach. Looks
spectacular. I gotta try this.
PS: I hope I didn't spoil the evening of some sysadmins in
magdeburg by linking the first movie.
If you think about it, there are natural perpetual slopes: Standing waves (wakes?) on rivers.
I even found a very cool video (8MB) demonstrating riversurfing on the Eisbach in Munich.
> I do wonder who is paying for the attornies, since I doubt the debt holders would do that.
I think the attorneys work at their own risk. If they win the case, they get a share.
In Europe you cannot patent algorithms themselves.
However, you can build a hardware device that
implements the algorithm, and patent the machine.
AFAIK the patent will then cover the algorithm, too.
The article says nothing about the nature of
the supposedly infringed patents. Here's their
titles:
US05206951
Integration of data between typed objects by mutual, direct invocation between object managers corresponding to object types
US05421012
Multitasking computer system for integrating the operation of different application programs which manipulate data objects of different types
US05226161
Integration of data between typed data structures by mutual direct invocation between data managers corresponding to data types
I wasn't sure if privacy is really mentioned in the
human rights. To safe others the work of looking it
up:
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
AFAIK MkLinix runs on a Mach32 kernel and MacOS X
runs on a modified Mach32 kernel. One feature of
the kernel is that it can run several OSes at the
same time (as 'personalities').
So theoretically it should be possible to run Linux
and MacOS X at the same time.
Are any efforts being made in that direction?
Have you ever programmed serious math?
Numeric simulations? Crypto? Even basic
vector graphics?
If you're doing any math that isn't totally
trivial, you'll want operator overloading.
This point has already been raised in the debate.
As a result, MS has offered to disclose the source.
This move isn't really too unusual for MS, and the
usual (ND-) agreements would apply.
But I have to say that I doubt that the necessary
resources exist to check the code thoroughly.
I would prefer our government to use Linux.
BOFH goes America is worth a read because it
:-)
tells you how life in the US really is.
Oh - and if you're from the US, it teaches you
all the unfounded lies and cliches we Europeans
believe in about the Ameican way of life.
AFAIK broadcasting is part of the IPv4 specs.
It's just that many routers don't implement it.
So yes, you're restricted to LANs for broadcasting
messages.
Well - Darwin, the base of MacOS X, is open source.
And if you use the cluster for number crunching,
you'll most likely not need to patch the high-level
APIs.
I've just run Ad-aware on my Windows configuration,
and I'm just glad that I don't seem to have caught
anything.
This kind of spyware is at least as dangerous as
any worm or virus I've heard about. I think Norton
and McAffe will have to extend their products /
product lines.
I think I heard about the BeOS version in 95 or so.
What's the problem?
Wheel= left - right
button1= fire
button2= forward
button3= backward
Compare that to the Quake interface of your PalmPilot.
With 649,- EUR, I think it's a bit on the expensive
side. Especially since I'm perfectly content with a
paper address book.
But if I can install my own sowftware easily, it
could still be a neat toy.
Antialiased fonts can look extremely good and
make reading less stressful for the eyes.
Look at text in newer versions of MacOS, BeOS
or Windows XP. Especially at LCD screens the
quality is absolutely convincing.
BUT you need not only a good font renderer, but
also fonts that are hinted correctly.
Look at the sample image. Most of the details are reconstructed correctly. But some errors like the spikes are obvious.
If you use a classic technique like interpolation through splines, diff the images and remove the gross errors created by this new method, the result might be quite convincing.
Have a look at BeBits.com. There's loads of software
for BeOS. And some of it is really good.
There's a lot more man-years in the 3rd party software
than in the OS. I think these developers do have a
certain right to the OS. Because when it ceases to
run on standard PCs in a few years, all this work
will become worthless.
And yes, they knew their risk.
This is a real experiment that has been done
several times. I think groups were typically
2*10 people.
People will pay to punish - suggesting that their
notions of fairness outweigh selfish considerations.
This quote reminds me of an experiment. It runs something like this: A group of people is divided into two groups of equal size. Then each group is asked this simple question: We will either give both groups $2 per person or we'll give each of you three bucks and each of them four bucks. What would you prefer?
85% of the participants go for the two bucks.
1. Will I be able to burn songs I bought at Napster on CDR (mostly for my car player)?
2. My friends produce music. Can they share their own songs using Napster?
I read up a bit about the topic and it looks
like I have been really misinformed.
I could only find one serious problem mentioned for the one and two Euro coins:
Ring to core interface oxidation problems. If the conductivity of this interface is not controlled very carefully, then coin validators will have to operate with wide acceptance windows, lowering security.