Here is a MSIE plugin (with source) that allows you to highlight any text in the browser window and press a hotkey to perform a Google search of the text, for instance. It is configurable so you can do anything you want with text. It's a bit rough but it works well.
You are truly naive... The reason region-free DVD players cost more than regioned DVD players is because the HW companies manufacturing them pay a higher licensing fee to the media companies who own and control CSS. No one is "stealing" from the movie companies. The cost is naturally passed on to the consumer who is now being denied the privilege she paid for...
Roxio can do whatever they want. They are not obligated to anyone for anything and that includes CD writing software. Why do you think they owe you their software?
Anyway, there will always be a need for data CDs and there is no way to diffrentiate between kinds of data. As longs as those mp3 CD players keep coming out, this partnership is meaningless.
By their logic, if I trademark ".com", I own the internet, right? I think I'd better start getting those nastygrams out to MS, Network Solutions and Oracle. That should be a good start...
Rampant pirating will still occur as people view precious encrypted content with their corneas and obviously vulnerable optic nerves. Unscrupulous people will no doubt exploit this vulnerability to violate copyright (recollection, dreaming, etc.) and so the optic nerve must be encrypted too!!
These violations must be stopped!! If not for our own sake, then for our community and if not for our community, then for the sake of our children.
"we should take this as a warning that climate change may affect the carbon cycle in previously unexpected way"
This strange assertion is completely bogus and doesn't follow from anything written in the article. Climate is not mentioned anywhere else in the article and seems to have no connection with the actual research being done. It seems that Mr. Beck knew he would get more press coverage if he added some hip buzz words to his comments.
"They'll probably have touchy feely pseudo-philosophy crap and hardly any explosions."
But you can rest assured that when Moog kills 35 of his fellow Loseroids through oversight, it was because of Moog's pious religious beliefs and good intentions backed by Moog's solid morals...
Most of the ideas in XP seem reasonable. Most except the idea of programming in pairs. Programming in pairs almost NEVER works for the simple fact that people rarely have similar skill sets. The result of the usual disparity is that one programmer does the work while the other watches and quickly gets bored. I've seen this through the 4 years of my degree where we received many pair programming assignments and I can't remember one single pair (out of a hundred or so) that didn't have the skill disparity problem.
People who copy papers verbatim are probably dumb.
People who write their own papers are usually intelligent, if somewhat misguided.
Those who can produce a copy that bears no resemblance to the original paper are the geniuses.
BeOS - BeOS is far more useful than Linux or Windows. Boot time is minimal (15 sec. at worst), the file system supports rudimentary DB capabilities so you don't need to install MySQL, Perl and other monstrosities just to play a couple mp3s and there seems to be some work in this area. I would post some links I had but my computer died.
Heat - Get an old Celeron and underclock it to about 100Mhz. That should give you more processing power than you need for mp3s (I don't know about DVD, though) and consume less power than a 486 - don't need a CPU fan.
Form factor - you can try to find used NLX form factor boards and cases. Some NLX mobos come with Ethernet and TV output built in which is ideal. Sometimes they come with sound but you are probably better off getting a better sound card. The only problem with NLX is that you might have trouble finding a board that will let you underclock. Don't know.
IP business did not bring the exponential growth we see, rather it was FREE software and OPEN standards. Let's see now...
TCP/IP sprouted in universities; Dido FTP; Unix was originally AT&T property but became the de facto standard for networked computing because the government forced AT&T to give it away practically free; The WWW was started by a bunch of professor types who gave it to the world for nothing.
M$ are a bit confused, I think...
Why is it so difficult for the 2600 lawyers to demonstrate that DeCSS does not stop copyright infringement? The demonstration is very simple. All they have to do is bring a coupld DVD movies to the courtroom and make several copies of them in the courtroom (without using DeCSS) for the judges to take home for their viewing pleasure.
DeCSS is all about micro-managing distribution and creating artificial prices. It has nothing to do with copyright protection.
The basic problem is that one +1 mod creates 5 new mod points. This is classic runaway chain reaction stuff. In whole, the moderation system seems inherently unstable. If everyone mods up, everyone gets points and if everyone mods down, no points are rewarded to anyone (which probably explains the moderation guidelines...)
An elegant solution would be to create a variable number of given mod points per +1 mod based on the current ratings in the system. My guess is that you probably want to keep the threshold low (+1 mod point gives x moderation points no matter what), otherwise the system would run out of moderators quickly.
Or the moderation system in/. is breaking down because there is too much Karma running around. I'm not too familiar with the way/. works but I have noticed that after one or two comments being modded up (by just one point) the poster gets moderation points to play with. It is conceivable that this system would snowball if the points are spread evenly enough to create more moderators who in turn would rate up more people and thus create more moderators - lather, rinse, repeat. The result is/. meltdown with +5 comments everywhere. One reasonable way to stop this is to enforce a global moderation point limit as a function of the number of comments.
Anybody actually know that this kind chain reaction can't happen?
Or you can find a ton of PC/104 vendors at www.pc104.com
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Just in case this is not a joke...
"Are we really saying that the human body is no more complex that a copy of Windows 2000?"
You are making the false assumption that since two pieces of data can fit in the same space they are equivalent in data content. The most intuitive contradiction to this assumption is that I could just as easily fill a CD-ROM with "0"s. Does that make my CD-ROM a "data equivalent" to Windows 2000? I think not.
Another far more interesting answer is that many natural phenomena can be fully described in a short mathematical form, yet exhibit behavior that is unpredictable, always changing and essentialy random (randomness being ultimate complexity). The classic example is the Mandelbrot set which can be expressed in one simple mathematical expression but exhibits completely unpredictable behavior.
"Obviously, it is. So where is this extra information located? It is obvious that there must be some other mechanism at work. I would posit that the mechanism is supernatural.
Your "missing" information could be the way in which the result of expressed genes reacts with the enviornment. To relcutantly return to your Windows 2000 comparison. The information that Windows 2000 will often lock up (the behavior) on Athlon based motherboards with AGP video cards lays in several places - in Windows 2000 (the expressed genes) and in the Athlon board (the enviornment).
"When a man impregnates a woman..."
Can't stop thinking about sex?
"But really, the Church has known this for thousands of years, and now we are being proved correct.
The church also "knew" for well over a thousand years that the earth was flat. People died over this assertion.
True... However, parts of the unmemorial can be accessed with this link.
In general you can take any URL at the top of the home page and replace the number 5661 with 5713 to get at the unmemorial equivalent.
The Chinese government has recently put up a "memorial" web site for the pilot who crashed into the American spy plane. This is a great example of a government using the internet for propoganda.
Of course, this could backfire for the Chinese because of "memorials" like this.
What is their function naming convention? Why is one function Bonobo_Unknown_query_interface() while another bonobo_object_query_interface() and yet another creature is CORBA_Object_is_equivalent()? (Is the last one a define?!?)
Why is an underscore preceeding a commonly used variable?! "... if (ev._major == CORBA_NO_EXCEPTION)..."
In addition, there is a formatting error which is trivial and meaningless but goes a long way to hint at carelessness. Why is the "Error" printf() statement not terminated with a carriage return while the "OK" is?
And this is from looking at 10 lines of code...
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Here is a MSIE plugin (with source) that allows you to highlight any text in the browser window and press a hotkey to perform a Google search of the text, for instance. It is configurable so you can do anything you want with text. It's a bit rough but it works well.
You are truly naive... The reason region-free DVD players cost more than regioned DVD players is because the HW companies manufacturing them pay a higher licensing fee to the media companies who own and control CSS. No one is "stealing" from the movie companies. The cost is naturally passed on to the consumer who is now being denied the privilege she paid for...
Better yet, get off your arses, shut off that damned TV and go play outside...
Roxio can do whatever they want. They are not obligated to anyone for anything and that includes CD writing software. Why do you think they owe you their software?
Anyway, there will always be a need for data CDs and there is no way to diffrentiate between kinds of data. As longs as those mp3 CD players keep coming out, this partnership is meaningless.
By their logic, if I trademark ".com", I own the internet, right? I think I'd better start getting those nastygrams out to MS, Network Solutions and Oracle. That should be a good start...
Rampant pirating will still occur as people view precious encrypted content with their corneas and obviously vulnerable optic nerves. Unscrupulous people will no doubt exploit this vulnerability to violate copyright (recollection, dreaming, etc.) and so the optic nerve must be encrypted too!! These violations must be stopped!! If not for our own sake, then for our community and if not for our community, then for the sake of our children.
"we should take this as a warning that climate change may affect the carbon cycle in previously unexpected way"
This strange assertion is completely bogus and doesn't follow from anything written in the article. Climate is not mentioned anywhere else in the article and seems to have no connection with the actual research being done. It seems that Mr. Beck knew he would get more press coverage if he added some hip buzz words to his comments.
"They'll probably have touchy feely pseudo-philosophy crap and hardly any explosions."
But you can rest assured that when Moog kills 35 of his fellow Loseroids through oversight, it was because of Moog's pious religious beliefs and good intentions backed by Moog's solid morals...
Puke....Most of the ideas in XP seem reasonable. Most except the idea of programming in pairs. Programming in pairs almost NEVER works for the simple fact that people rarely have similar skill sets. The result of the usual disparity is that one programmer does the work while the other watches and quickly gets bored. I've seen this through the 4 years of my degree where we received many pair programming assignments and I can't remember one single pair (out of a hundred or so) that didn't have the skill disparity problem.
Or you can learn the fine art of cheating...
People who copy papers verbatim are probably dumb.
People who write their own papers are usually intelligent, if somewhat misguided.
Those who can produce a copy that bears no resemblance to the original paper are the geniuses.
Actually, it was an NT machine that died on me, troll.
BeOS - BeOS is far more useful than Linux or Windows. Boot time is minimal (15 sec. at worst), the file system supports rudimentary DB capabilities so you don't need to install MySQL, Perl and other monstrosities just to play a couple mp3s and there seems to be some work in this area. I would post some links I had but my computer died.
Heat - Get an old Celeron and underclock it to about 100Mhz. That should give you more processing power than you need for mp3s (I don't know about DVD, though) and consume less power than a 486 - don't need a CPU fan.
Form factor - you can try to find used NLX form factor boards and cases. Some NLX mobos come with Ethernet and TV output built in which is ideal. Sometimes they come with sound but you are probably better off getting a better sound card. The only problem with NLX is that you might have trouble finding a board that will let you underclock. Don't know.
IP business did not bring the exponential growth we see, rather it was FREE software and OPEN standards. Let's see now...
TCP/IP sprouted in universities; Dido FTP; Unix was originally AT&T property but became the de facto standard for networked computing because the government forced AT&T to give it away practically free; The WWW was started by a bunch of professor types who gave it to the world for nothing.
M$ are a bit confused, I think...
Why is it so difficult for the 2600 lawyers to demonstrate that DeCSS does not stop copyright infringement? The demonstration is very simple. All they have to do is bring a coupld DVD movies to the courtroom and make several copies of them in the courtroom (without using DeCSS) for the judges to take home for their viewing pleasure.
DeCSS is all about micro-managing distribution and creating artificial prices. It has nothing to do with copyright protection.
The basic problem is that one +1 mod creates 5 new mod points. This is classic runaway chain reaction stuff. In whole, the moderation system seems inherently unstable. If everyone mods up, everyone gets points and if everyone mods down, no points are rewarded to anyone (which probably explains the moderation guidelines...)
An elegant solution would be to create a variable number of given mod points per +1 mod based on the current ratings in the system. My guess is that you probably want to keep the threshold low (+1 mod point gives x moderation points no matter what), otherwise the system would run out of moderators quickly.
Or the moderation system in /. is breaking down because there is too much Karma running around. I'm not too familiar with the way /. works but I have noticed that after one or two comments being modded up (by just one point) the poster gets moderation points to play with. It is conceivable that this system would snowball if the points are spread evenly enough to create more moderators who in turn would rate up more people and thus create more moderators - lather, rinse, repeat. The result is /. meltdown with +5 comments everywhere. One reasonable way to stop this is to enforce a global moderation point limit as a function of the number of comments.
Anybody actually know that this kind chain reaction can't happen?
What's the point of using MD5?!? What does MD5 give you that simple indexing doesn't?
Or you can find a ton of PC/104 vendors at www.pc104.com
"Are we really saying that the human body is no more complex that a copy of Windows 2000?"
You are making the false assumption that since two pieces of data can fit in the same space they are equivalent in data content. The most intuitive contradiction to this assumption is that I could just as easily fill a CD-ROM with "0"s. Does that make my CD-ROM a "data equivalent" to Windows 2000? I think not.
Another far more interesting answer is that many natural phenomena can be fully described in a short mathematical form, yet exhibit behavior that is unpredictable, always changing and essentialy random (randomness being ultimate complexity). The classic example is the Mandelbrot set which can be expressed in one simple mathematical expression but exhibits completely unpredictable behavior.
"Obviously, it is. So where is this extra information located? It is obvious that there must be some other mechanism at work. I would posit that the mechanism is supernatural.
Your "missing" information could be the way in which the result of expressed genes reacts with the enviornment. To relcutantly return to your Windows 2000 comparison. The information that Windows 2000 will often lock up (the behavior) on Athlon based motherboards with AGP video cards lays in several places - in Windows 2000 (the expressed genes) and in the Athlon board (the enviornment).
"When a man impregnates a woman..."
Can't stop thinking about sex?
"But really, the Church has known this for thousands of years, and now we are being proved correct.
The church also "knew" for well over a thousand years that the earth was flat. People died over this assertion.You can also try this link
True... However, parts of the unmemorial can be accessed with this link. In general you can take any URL at the top of the home page and replace the number 5661 with 5713 to get at the unmemorial equivalent.
I don't see the American pilots as heroes either and I do take issue with the media frenzy casting them as such.
Like the Chinese government really cares about this pilot. Who are you trying to kid? Since when have governments become so benevolent?
The Chinese government has recently put up a "memorial" web site for the pilot who crashed into the American spy plane. This is a great example of a government using the internet for propoganda.
Of course, this could backfire for the Chinese because of "memorials" like this.
- What is their function naming convention? Why is one function Bonobo_Unknown_query_interface() while another bonobo_object_query_interface() and yet another creature is CORBA_Object_is_equivalent()? (Is the last one a define?!?)
- Why is an underscore preceeding a commonly used variable?! "... if (ev._major == CORBA_NO_EXCEPTION)
..."
In addition, there is a formatting error which is trivial and meaningless but goes a long way to hint at carelessness. Why is the "Error" printf() statement not terminated with a carriage return while the "OK" is?And this is from looking at 10 lines of code...