Just because higher sound quality in reduced file size, freedom from patents, etc. are not important to you doesn't mean they're not important to someone else.
Just because something offers no advantage that you care about doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done.
If you don't want to be flamed, then lose the arrogant attitude. Your needs and wants are not necessarily the same as mine.
and remember hitting shift-run/stop after the ",8,1" part to automatically run what was loaded?
I don't remember any such thing. The trick behind LOAD "*",8,1 was that it loaded a short assembly-language program on top of certain addresses that the Kernal or the BASIC interpreter used as pointers to their internal routines. The load would replace this pointer with the address of its own routine, a trick not unlike the cracker's stock-in-trade of smashing the stack, and by doing so would seize control of the machine and load the real program from a different file.
The,1 was needed to load the program into the address specified in the first two bytes of the file, and not at the start of the area reserved for BASIC programs.
You're forgetting something. Padilla is being denied his day in court. He is locked up on nothing more than Ayatollah Ashcroft's say-so.
Does the gummint have evidence aganst Padilla? Fine. Charge him with a crime. Put him on trial. Show us the evidence. What they're doing to Padilla, even if he's guilty, amounts to a suspension of habeas corpus; and since the war on civil lib^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hterrorism is unlikely ever to end, that means we'll never get it back.
There is no security without rule of law. If we allow Ayatollah Ashcroft to have his way, we may manage to hunt down that last terrorist -- but we will only replace the terror of Al Qaeda with the terror of the midnight knock on the door.
Part 15 devices may operate from 902 to 928 MHz with certain power and bandwidth limits. Hams use the same spectrum and are permitted more power, but must not interfere with the primary users (ISM, vehicle monitoring systems, and government allocations). Furthermore, parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, and New Mexico are off limits to hams at 33 cm.
Another ham band, 13 cm (2.30-2.31 GHz and 2.39-2.45 GHz), overlaps the Part 15 spectrum at 2.435-2.465 GHz.
Theoretically, hams (and everyone else) have priority over Part 15 devices, but just try explaining that to an angry neighbor.
The complete amateur radio regulations for the USA can be found here. The USA is in ITU region 2, except for some Pacific islands in region 3.
Others have mentioned eccentricity, but an orbit can also be "irregular" by being inclined. Most objects in the solar system orbit in nearly the same plane; a few do not.
Re:There is only ONE *real* submarine movie.
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Naw. The one true submarine movie is Titanic.
Re:GCC (any version) in a nutshell
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It seems that GCC generates rather simple-minded code and relies on the optimizer to make it fast. I've never had a GCC-compiled program that was not significantly faster when compiled with -O2.
And if -O2 is not enough, well, that's what gprof and inline assembly is for. GCC's inline assembly feature is unmatched by any compiler I've ever seen (though Borland's register pseudovariable feature comes in handy if used carefully).
2.1 You may use, reproduce, display, perform, modify and distribute Original Code, with or without Modifications, solely for Your internal research and development and/or
Personal Use...
where "Personal Use" is defined as:
1.8 "Personal Use" means use of Covered Code by an individual solely for his or her personal, private and non-commercial purposes. An individual's use of Covered Code in
his or her capacity as an officer, employee, member, independent contractor or agent of a corporation, business or organization (commercial or non-commercial) does not
qualify as Personal Use.
This is not an Open Source license. Sybase has misunderstood the meaning of the term. Yes, the submitted this to the OSI. May the OSI swiftly reject it.
This tool was also used for Fight Club and will be (is currently) used in the Matrix II. Combine this with the render farms at Pixar and Disney, it seems like Linux is making HUGE inroads in the movie business!!!
So how long's that going to last once the unholy trinity of Eisner, Valenti, and Rosen get their way with S.2048 or its successors?
Patents, like copyrights, remain in force until they expire (though patents, unlike copyrights, require maintenance fees). Consider that no one has raised lack of enforcement in the BT hyperlink case; the main defense there is that hyperlinks as used on the Web do not infringe the patent. Indeed, a patent holder may not know for years that a given technology infringes; such was probably the case with GIF.
Trademarks differ from patents and copyrights in that they are words, phrases, or symbols, and as such they have an annoying tendency to become generic. How many of you have "xeroxed" a document, driven a "jeep" made by Ford, or used a "band-aid" that came from a box marked Curad? Thus a company is required to actively police use of its trademarks, writing nastygrams to those who say "xerox" when they mean "photocopy", for instance.
IANAL and if you get professional advice of any kind from Slashdot then you are insane.
f only 20% of your movies are making money, I'd say you have bigger problems than little Johnny downloading your movie.
Try limiting your expenses next time. That's how the rest of the world works.
Even better...how about making movies that someone actually wants to watch. Is it our fault if Battlefield Earth was such a stinker?
Hopefully, this will influence other marketers toward more responsible use of e-mail.
Maybe it's true what the Brits say about us Americans, that we tend to miss sarcasm. I can't imagine anyone's having written this whopper with a straight face, unless s/he was a stooge for the DMA, and yet it just doesn't have the proper ironic tone.
I suppose you just copied that list off of xfree86.org. I don't blame you, but they need to strike freesoftware.com from that list. It's been AWOL for months.
What do we really need universal broadband for? To view the latest shit from Hollywood or hear the latest garbage from Britney Spears, all copy-protected and available only under Windoze of course?
The Department of (In)Justice has not asked for crypto backdoors in that wish list that Congress calls the ATA. Geez, could it be because the Feds don't think they need them?
After all, the Feds can install keystroke loggers on your 'puter, or they can call out a van full of TEMPEST equipment. The keystroke loggers require agents to physically enter the premises, which obviously requires a warrant. As for the TEMPEST equipment, no precedent exists AFAIK, but the ruling regarding thermal imaging may be helpful.
Would you be willing to tear down the White House and the Capitol, build a big effing mosque from the stones, with the Washington Monument for a minaret, and then invite the Taliban bastards to come and rule over us, if it would make us secure from terrorist attacks?
I probably should boycott, but I don't feel particularly inclined to make my life uncomfortable and principles are clearly getting thrown out the window on the other side, so what the hell.
If we choose convenience instead of freedom, then convenience instead of freedom is exactly what we will get. Tell me, is your life really that much poorer without the bilgewater that gushes from Hollywood and Big Music these days?
Yeah, if video games really affect kids can you imagine the result of Pacman. We'd all be hanging out in dark places, eating pills, and listening to electronic music...
Is this how raves got started?
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Inputs to the fusion reaction are hydrogen isotopes (safe) the outputs are helium isotopes (safe).
That's true of the helium (both helium 3 and helium 4 are stable, while helium 2 and helium 5 have half-lives measured in very small fractions of a second) but not of the hydrogen. Tritium is beta-radioactive, with a half-life of about 11 years.
Worse is that tritium is not found in nature; it must be made in nuclear reactors. There have been incidents of tritium escaping into groundwater around plants made for that purpose.
Furthermore, you need energy to make the tritium, which raises your breakeven point.
A deuterium-deuterium reactor would be cleaner, requiring no tritium and having only neutrons as a radiological hazard; the waste would be helium 3, which lacks the superfluid properties of helium 4 but would still be useful for cryogenic cooling and lighter-than-air craft. --
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Just because something offers no advantage that you care about doesn't mean that it shouldn't be done.
If you don't want to be flamed, then lose the arrogant attitude. Your needs and wants are not necessarily the same as mine.
The Unisys patent expires June 30, 2003, 20 years from filing.
I don't remember any such thing. The trick behind LOAD "*",8,1 was that it loaded a short assembly-language program on top of certain addresses that the Kernal or the BASIC interpreter used as pointers to their internal routines. The load would replace this pointer with the address of its own routine, a trick not unlike the cracker's stock-in-trade of smashing the stack, and by doing so would seize control of the machine and load the real program from a different file.
The ,1 was needed to load the program into the address specified in the first two bytes of the file, and not at the start of the area reserved for BASIC programs.
You're forgetting something. Padilla is being denied his day in court. He is locked up on nothing more than Ayatollah Ashcroft's say-so.
Does the gummint have evidence aganst Padilla? Fine. Charge him with a crime. Put him on trial. Show us the evidence. What they're doing to Padilla, even if he's guilty, amounts to a suspension of habeas corpus; and since the war on civil lib^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hterrorism is unlikely ever to end, that means we'll never get it back.
There is no security without rule of law. If we allow Ayatollah Ashcroft to have his way, we may manage to hunt down that last terrorist -- but we will only replace the terror of Al Qaeda with the terror of the midnight knock on the door.
Another ham band, 13 cm (2.30-2.31 GHz and 2.39-2.45 GHz), overlaps the Part 15 spectrum at 2.435-2.465 GHz.
Theoretically, hams (and everyone else) have priority over Part 15 devices, but just try explaining that to an angry neighbor.
The complete amateur radio regulations for the USA can be found here. The USA is in ITU region 2, except for some Pacific islands in region 3.
Others have mentioned eccentricity, but an orbit can also be "irregular" by being inclined. Most objects in the solar system orbit in nearly the same plane; a few do not.
Naw. The one true submarine movie is Titanic.
And if -O2 is not enough, well, that's what gprof and inline assembly is for. GCC's inline assembly feature is unmatched by any compiler I've ever seen (though Borland's register pseudovariable feature comes in handy if used carefully).
2.1 You may use, reproduce, display, perform, modify and distribute Original Code, with or without Modifications, solely for Your internal research and development and/or Personal Use...
where "Personal Use" is defined as:
1.8 "Personal Use" means use of Covered Code by an individual solely for his or her personal, private and non-commercial purposes. An individual's use of Covered Code in his or her capacity as an officer, employee, member, independent contractor or agent of a corporation, business or organization (commercial or non-commercial) does not qualify as Personal Use.
This is not an Open Source license. Sybase has misunderstood the meaning of the term. Yes, the submitted this to the OSI. May the OSI swiftly reject it.
So how long's that going to last once the unholy trinity of Eisner, Valenti, and Rosen get their way with S.2048 or its successors?
Even better are the Instructions for Marriage.
Now, IANAL, but I read that as saying: No nicknames, no ads and banners, no mp3's, and no software piracy.
I don't see this banning MP3s as long as their transmission isn't copyright infringement, as an MP3 isn't a "phone emission".
Trademarks differ from patents and copyrights in that they are words, phrases, or symbols, and as such they have an annoying tendency to become generic. How many of you have "xeroxed" a document, driven a "jeep" made by Ford, or used a "band-aid" that came from a box marked Curad? Thus a company is required to actively police use of its trademarks, writing nastygrams to those who say "xerox" when they mean "photocopy", for instance.
IANAL and if you get professional advice of any kind from Slashdot then you are insane.
Even better...how about making movies that someone actually wants to watch. Is it our fault if Battlefield Earth was such a stinker?
Maybe it's true what the Brits say about us Americans, that we tend to miss sarcasm. I can't imagine anyone's having written this whopper with a straight face, unless s/he was a stooge for the DMA, and yet it just doesn't have the proper ironic tone.
Cursed be Wind River for all eternity.
What do we really need universal broadband for? To view the latest shit from Hollywood or hear the latest garbage from Britney Spears, all copy-protected and available only under Windoze of course?
The 2.4.15 bug didn't bite me. Of course, Slackware's shutdown script runs sync automatically.
Since in Australia, "root" is another word for "f--k", it may be a good idea to say "rowt" there as well.
OK, fine, let's call it "aluminium". Let's also speak of lanthanium, molybdenium, tantalium, and platinium.
After all, the Feds can install keystroke loggers on your 'puter, or they can call out a van full of TEMPEST equipment. The keystroke loggers require agents to physically enter the premises, which obviously requires a warrant. As for the TEMPEST equipment, no precedent exists AFAIK, but the ruling regarding thermal imaging may be helpful.
Would you be willing to tear down the White House and the Capitol, build a big effing mosque from the stones, with the Washington Monument for a minaret, and then invite the Taliban bastards to come and rule over us, if it would make us secure from terrorist attacks?
If we choose convenience instead of freedom, then convenience instead of freedom is exactly what we will get. Tell me, is your life really that much poorer without the bilgewater that gushes from Hollywood and Big Music these days?
Is this how raves got started?
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That's true of the helium (both helium 3 and helium 4 are stable, while helium 2 and helium 5 have half-lives measured in very small fractions of a second) but not of the hydrogen. Tritium is beta-radioactive, with a half-life of about 11 years.
Worse is that tritium is not found in nature; it must be made in nuclear reactors. There have been incidents of tritium escaping into groundwater around plants made for that purpose.
Furthermore, you need energy to make the tritium, which raises your breakeven point.
A deuterium-deuterium reactor would be cleaner, requiring no tritium and having only neutrons as a radiological hazard; the waste would be helium 3, which lacks the superfluid properties of helium 4 but would still be useful for cryogenic cooling and lighter-than-air craft.
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