For those of you who are arguing that RGB is the be-all and end all, this page might give you a hint of what the real world is like.
In particular the RGB vs CMKY color spectrum diagram, as you can see the RGB trangle is a sharp one, and cuts off many of the colors which add to the vibrance of pictures in the Cyan Yellow and Magenta regions. CMYK however also has it's failings, by combining these two they hope to push the envelope over a bit more of the visable spectrum. Pantone is given in the diagram as a reference, that's practically every color you'd ever want to see:)
Definately should come with an option to allow the mozilla foundation to collect revinue from the adverts, bit of a waste having it only in test mode where it doesn't cost anyone anything.
Or mabie a pull-down box of your favorite charities, EFF, Mozilla, etc:)
I highly doubt this would ever get off the ground, even if they managed to create a disk that is stable and managed to produce a drive which can cope with the tolerances being 8 times tighter than a bluray drive the write speeds would be horrid.
We can't continue using disks, there slow, access times are bad, and they tend to require excesive protection as the data is stored on the surface of the disk (CD's being an exception but the surface of the disk is still vunrible).
If I was going to back any storage medium past bluray it would have to be cartridge based, ideally ExpressCard sized, though optical expresscard would be even nicer, wonder if PCI SIG will make a specification for that:)
The critical point being that Opterons unlike there Athlon 64 cousins have more hyper-transport interfaces, allowing them to be used in a multy-processor enviroment, depending on the seriese number up to 8-way systems can be built, though I think the largest Tyan's only carry 4 at present.
There's other minor diferences but *goes off dreaming about a 4-way processor in a database server*
CD protection schemes are useless against anyone who really wants to copy the game. My guess as to why there used, to stop amateur copies being portrayed as the real thing and to detur 12 yearolds trying to copy the game.
Professionals will have the equipment to make a virtually perfect clone of the CD which will get around any CD Protection. The ameturs which are over 12 years of age will work out how to get around the CD protection.
Personally once the first patch is out, I'm seriously tempted to install a CD crack anyway, annoying having to switch CD's all the time.
It might not be the worst, but it's the worst I've seen in a long time, left me grieving for the90 minutes of my life I won't get back, a police officer pretending to be disabled kills his wife and his brother who happens to be sleeping with his wife.
Watching paint dry would be more interesting than the first 1/2 before he kills his wife and his brother as there is virtually no hint of a plot, then when it does happen oh shock horror the film gets even worse and your left with a increadably dull murder mistery with one cop trying to prove he's guilty and everyone else against him (hence the title of the film), he fails and by god that's a wet ending for a wet film.
Only good part about this film is the suspence of waiting for a good plot to come along, it doesn't, some people give this film some credit because of Christopher Reeve's condition being very similar t o that faked by the policeman in it, but I think it's better to tell it straight regardless, one truely bad film.
But I do find it insane that therers no prior art, or infact that it's not an inovative leap becase it's such a minor jump that everyone and his dog has thought of it.
Hell I came up with the idea without much mental stressing, took me a while before I knew what it was called.
But hey, someone else has probably got a patent on escape symbols which are used all over the shop.
What theve patented is probably used in some small part of some program there using regularly.
It's like eddison patenting the coiled electric fillament and then sueing the makers of electric fires even if he was only interested in making lightbulbs.
The ID card in itself isn't the problem, so much as the handing of a unique identifing key which is common accross every database ever stored on you, the goverment is then free to intergrate that database into one huge database, there designing proper leglislation to add to the number of things which are stored in the database but none to remove information.
And then what stops them from using the increased computational capacity of the future to look at the database and spot abnormalities, some bright spark might even find an alogrythum to predict the chances of a parent harming there child and just by pure fluke youre stasticly likely to harm your child and they take your children from you.
Yes I'm paranoid, but... Do I trust my goverment, fu*k no:)
For the university login, there was password expiray, by the time I had forgotten my 3rd password, my password became purple, it used to be things like ih43mimg (I have 43 moles in my garden) but I got sick of replacing my password, so they got the colors of the rainbow:)
For my own server, the password is only used for sudo/su everything else is done though SSH keys, though I'd really like to have a smart-card which would only agreed to partake in a authentication process if it could preform the queiries for a iris scan:)
It was probably a old version of mozilla but I lost every single email and the addressbook, should still be there and the person involved is more of a write it down on a bit of paper than use the PC's addressbook feature anyway:)
Though I was concidering chip-to-chip connections being optical, the benifit there being you can take your signals some length with a bit of fibre-optic.
But you can't get rid of a motherboard, youre always going to need power, optical power is probably a long way off, and proximity power is only really used in electric toothbrush rechargers.
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For those of you who are arguing that RGB is the be-all and end all, this page might give you a hint of what the real world is like.
:)
In particular the RGB vs CMKY color spectrum diagram, as you can see the RGB trangle is a sharp one, and cuts off many of the colors which add to the vibrance of pictures in the Cyan Yellow and Magenta regions. CMYK however also has it's failings, by combining these two they hope to push the envelope over a bit more of the visable spectrum. Pantone is given in the diagram as a reference, that's practically every color you'd ever want to see
There are quicker methods.
Drive C: contains a valid NTFS partion, are you sure you wish to format (y/N) y.
Definately should come with an option to allow the mozilla foundation to collect revinue from the adverts, bit of a waste having it only in test mode where it doesn't cost anyone anything.
:)
Or mabie a pull-down box of your favorite charities, EFF, Mozilla, etc
I highly doubt this would ever get off the ground, even if they managed to create a disk that is stable and managed to produce a drive which can cope with the tolerances being 8 times tighter than a bluray drive the write speeds would be horrid.
:)
We can't continue using disks, there slow, access times are bad, and they tend to require excesive protection as the data is stored on the surface of the disk (CD's being an exception but the surface of the disk is still vunrible).
If I was going to back any storage medium past bluray it would have to be cartridge based, ideally ExpressCard sized, though optical expresscard would be even nicer, wonder if PCI SIG will make a specification for that
The critical point being that Opterons unlike there Athlon 64 cousins have more hyper-transport interfaces, allowing them to be used in a multy-processor enviroment, depending on the seriese number up to 8-way systems can be built, though I think the largest Tyan's only carry 4 at present.
There's other minor diferences but *goes off dreaming about a 4-way processor in a database server*
CD protection schemes are useless against anyone who really wants to copy the game. My guess as to why there used, to stop amateur copies being portrayed as the real thing and to detur 12 yearolds trying to copy the game.
Professionals will have the equipment to make a virtually perfect clone of the CD which will get around any CD Protection. The ameturs which are over 12 years of age will work out how to get around the CD protection.
Personally once the first patch is out, I'm seriously tempted to install a CD crack anyway, annoying having to switch CD's all the time.
It might not be the worst, but it's the worst I've seen in a long time, left me grieving for the90 minutes of my life I won't get back, a police officer pretending to be disabled kills his wife and his brother who happens to be sleeping with his wife.
Watching paint dry would be more interesting than the first 1/2 before he kills his wife and his brother as there is virtually no hint of a plot, then when it does happen oh shock horror the film gets even worse and your left with a increadably dull murder mistery with one cop trying to prove he's guilty and everyone else against him (hence the title of the film), he fails and by god that's a wet ending for a wet film.
Only good part about this film is the suspence of waiting for a good plot to come along, it doesn't, some people give this film some credit because of Christopher Reeve's condition being very similar t o that faked by the policeman in it, but I think it's better to tell it straight regardless, one truely bad film.
Use of the technology in your product, or use of your product?
Most of the girls I knew back in school treeted computers as tools, ok for doing the things there supposed to do, but that's about it.
There is a overly-male culture in such areas, but apart from guys being guys I havn't seen any active exclusion of the girls.
The question is when was it filed, not issued.
But I do find it insane that therers no prior art, or infact that it's not an inovative leap becase it's such a minor jump that everyone and his dog has thought of it.
Hell I came up with the idea without much mental stressing, took me a while before I knew what it was called.
But hey, someone else has probably got a patent on escape symbols which are used all over the shop.
What theve patented is probably used in some small part of some program there using regularly.
It's like eddison patenting the coiled electric fillament and then sueing the makers of electric fires even if he was only interested in making lightbulbs.
Tempting to push XSLT to the client, I know it works because viewing the raw XML files from my server generates the page perfectly in IE and Firefox :)
Only becasue I cheated though and changed the default XSLT to one which uses tags to pull in the CSS, as oposed to using the XML delcaration.
Sounds like a great idea for a firefox extention to me, find valid URL's and make them clickable :)
Least in the UK we still have parties which are diferent, we have Bad, Worse, and Terrible :)
Why'd you get rid of them/reject there pay rise?
Do I trust my goverment, fu*k no :)
:)
The ID card in itself isn't the problem, so much as the handing of a unique identifing key which is common accross every database ever stored on you, the goverment is then free to intergrate that database into one huge database, there designing proper leglislation to add to the number of things which are stored in the database but none to remove information.
And then what stops them from using the increased computational capacity of the future to look at the database and spot abnormalities, some bright spark might even find an alogrythum to predict the chances of a parent harming there child and just by pure fluke youre stasticly likely to harm your child and they take your children from you.
Yes I'm paranoid, but...
Do I trust my goverment, fu*k no
So here's an antiquated feature which no-one ever uses, now it's illegal to use it.
The mind boggles when you concider that a search engine could have used in-accurate headers to lower a pages ranking.
For the university login, there was password expiray, by the time I had forgotten my 3rd password, my password became purple, it used to be things like ih43mimg (I have 43 moles in my garden) but I got sick of replacing my password, so they got the colors of the rainbow :)
:)
For my own server, the password is only used for sudo/su everything else is done though SSH keys, though I'd really like to have a smart-card which would only agreed to partake in a authentication process if it could preform the queiries for a iris scan
Patents on non-physical technologies only lasting 3 years... sounds short but really that's how long a generation of software lives these days.
And give us intergrated LCD shutters.
It was probably a old version of mozilla but I lost every single email and the addressbook, should still be there and the person involved is more of a write it down on a bit of paper than use the PC's addressbook feature anyway :)
Opera annoys me to hell, as a power user It's just got to much to do, firefox is quick, simple and I can use it fast, very fast :)
Tempting, isn't it :)
Though I was concidering chip-to-chip connections being optical, the benifit there being you can take your signals some length with a bit of fibre-optic.
But you can't get rid of a motherboard, youre always going to need power, optical power is probably a long way off, and proximity power is only really used in electric toothbrush rechargers.
TV repair men need to be licenced since they are modifing radio communications equipment, not because the systems deal with audio/video.
IANAL but if you presented that case to any judge he'd probably see the logic in it and rule in your favor.