Re:Well, just look at the technical documentation!
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Modem Accelerators?
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Umm...a cable "modem" doesn't actually MOdulate/DEModulate anything, because the signal it works with is entirly digital. Unless I am smoking crack, which I'm pretty sure I'm not, it is actually a *bridge* between two types of network. I bet if you cracked it open, you wouldn't find an ATD (analog to digital) or DTA (vice-versa) chip in there anywhere. They just call them modems because it is comforting to J. Random Luser, who doesn't want (or need) to learn new terms, when old ones do quite well.
I actually met him, a couple of years ago, at my parents' Swarthmore reunion. He was a interesting guy to talk to, but very very bitter. I asked him about hyperlinking, and he seemed to think that he had been robbed. He went on a five or ten minute rant about how they had taken all the credit away from him, and what was more, they had "fucked it up".
His business card advertises himself as a "programmer, teacher and contrarian." I'm not sure that he would make a very good witness, only because he's so bitter. But who knows?
When I met him, I really didn't have any idea who he was, and I was like 10 at the time. Wow. I wish I'd asked more intelligent questions.
Because the "tax" is on the "backup" copies that you are permitted to make for personal use, not on pirated music. The "backup" you make still nets the industry cents. Hope this clears things up.
My school told me the *exact* same thing when I asked about running Linux on my *personal* laptop. They said they had no way to stop me runing it at school, but if they caught me connecting it to the network that I would lose my network privileges. I asked why, and they said that they have "found that the only reason people want to use Linux on the network it to try to break in." It's a case of once-bitten, forever shy until the last syllable of recorded time.
I am not the original poster, but I would just like to tell you that you are a saint. If you look at all the other posts, they all say things like "on a side note..." You are the only person to have actually stepped up to the plate and taken action, and for that I commend you. You get (Score:5, Good Samaritan).
This has ben around for years. I remember reading in some magazine about how blind people use computers, and they mentioned just that. It must have been in 3-2-1 Contact magazine when I was about 7. No idea what happened to the idea, but it has always stuck in my head as brilliant.
As a bookseller, I think that Phillip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass is a much better choice, if you want to pick children's books. When I sell it (and the first two, The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife) I describe it as being "like Harry Potter, only with depth." The books are much more intricate, thought-provoking, complex, with (gasp!) subplots that seem (gasp!) unrelated at first, until they all come together. Now that is a book that deserves an award.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the Harry Potter books a lot, but they don't have nearly the complexity that a Hugo award winner should.
Go to Real's website and click on Realplayer at the top. Then scroll down somkewhat and click on the link that says "Realplayer 8 Basic -- is our free player". That's where to get the free player (they also seem to have a *NIX version). Good luck!
Connecting an SQL client to a server doesn't spew data at you (like a web server does). You have to enter a query and ask for data (reach in and turn the paper over). That is ILLEGAL.
A web site is not the same thing, as it's intent is public information (unless it is on a private network) and it presents data simply by connecting -- you don't have to "ask".
Ummm...
You do have to request data from a webserver. It doesn't just sit there and "spew out data". When you connect, you (or your browser) issues a request that looks something like this:
GET HTTP/1.1 /path/to/file.html
<CR> <LF>
That is most definitly a request for information, not a passive reading of stuff being "spewed out".
I've actually had the opportunity to use one of these, albeit a tabletop version in testing. It was interesting, especially becaus they hadn't yet worked out the color, and it was just red. It was really cool, though, because you could see right through the picture, but the picture was good, too. I coulld easily see myself using one in the future, if they got the color and portability worked out. One other thing I remember was that it was very sensitive to motion, that is, if you moved slightly, the image would disappear. That would need to be solved too, in order to make the device usable.
There is a project called CyPRG going on with several professors, one (Todd La Porte)at George Mason University in Virginia, one at U Arizona and one in Denmark at the University of Roskilde. They are rating government websites for what they call "openness" and are coming up with very interesting results. I happen to know Todd, and he and I are working together on some related stuff. Give them a look-see.
At my school the AUP states "I [the undersigned] reconize that I continuosly represent Georgetown Day School whenever and wherever I use email and World Wide Web resources, even if I am using these resources away from or outside of the school's network.[my emphasis]" They also state in their handbook that any drug use or other illegal activity outside of school may result in disciplinary action. I'm probably going to get in trouble for psting this on/., using the computer in the library, but who cares.
apple has a protection in place in os 9 that blanks out part of the screen when a screenshot is taken while a dvd movie is playing.
This is not actually true. The DVD software that comes with Mac OS uses a technology called "direct screen blast" (also used in some games) to dramatically accellerate the framerate. All the OS knows is that there is a blank space there. The traditional Command-Shift-3 keystroke goes through the OS, and since there is no data there (to the OS's knowledge) the screenshot turns out black. Same thing, incidentally, if you try to use a projector on certain laptops to project a DVD (using certain software, I don't know the details). It's not the fault of the OS, it's a way of getting you (the user) a better quality picture.
BTW, if you must capture DVDs while they are playing, there is a utiliy called Snapz (for the Mac) by Ambrosia Software can capture even direct screen blast images.
- MBA's: Can't live with 'em. Can't legally torture them to death.
I just thought that it was kind of ironic for you to be talkig about police brutality (you do actually use the word torture) and then you have something like this in your.sig. Just a bit strange...
Re:Karma needed for +1 clarification
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I think that CoyboyNeal was off by 5. Everything I've read says that you get a +1 bonus at 25, not at 20. I wouldn't know, I had 22 at one point but now I'm back down to 18 (pout!).
I opened the box to my Que! drive and there weren't any peanuts or anything. The whole thing came in the portable carrying case that they provided. The software had a compartment, along with the free CD-R and CD-RW they provide. Then there was a compartment for the drive itself, with velcro straps to secure the AC adapter and cables. The whole thing is made of pleather to make you vegan geeks happy.
I don't think that you want to do this. AFAIK, the TV is 480x320 or 512x384 or something, and the resoution is going to be absolute crap if you do it. Anyway, why do you want to use a monitor as a tiny TV screen? I don't think you'd like the size very much. Better to sell the monitor and use the $20 to buy a small TV set instead.
IANAL (I know, everyone says this just before delivering sage wisdom), but it seems to me that it's not a blow to Beowulf at all. You buy ten machines, all slow enough to pass under the wire, and then you put then together yourself. The software isn't designed specifically for a certain speed, and the machines don't have a specific use as Beowulf cluster machines. Anyway, a single cluster (no matter how big) is not a single machine, which means that it can't be treated as a single machine. I think that the restictions therefore won't apply.
Flight Engineer: "Three lavatories have been drawing 9 amps for 15 minutes. Tell the flight attendants to ask lavatories 3, 4, and 6 to quit playing wireless Quake or we'll have to turn off all their power."
Very cute, however...
You know the part in the in-flight safety lecture where they tell you not to use any cellphones or other broadcasting devices? I think that would turn the conversation into something like:
Pilot: "WTF! What's all the static on the air-to-ground loop? Where's my radar? The radio system is crapping out!
Flight Engineer: "Three lavatories have been drawing 9 amps for 15 minutes. Tell the flight attendants to ask lavatories 3, 4, and 6 to quit playing wireless Quake or we'll have to turn off all their power. Oh, and tell the ground control at <destination> to get the police ready to arrest the three guys for reckless endangerment."
I know that this sounds wacky, but in the bathrooms on most planes (at least ones designed for transoceanic flights) there is usually an outlet for plugging in an electric razor. I have actually used them to charge up a laptop, and I bet they would work even better for something like a Palm that charges in the cradle. Or, maybe you could work out a deal with the flight attendants to let you use one of the outlets in the galley (kitchen area). There's usually a couple there. Good luck.
Note he is charging $1/kb, and NOT $1/kB... bits versus bytes
Using that math, he would only be required to generate 1/1000th of that, or 800, visitors, which is well within the realm of possibility.
Ummm...
Last time I checked, a bit was only 1/8 byte, not 1/1000. By the math, he would still have needed to get 100,000 visitors, which is not within the realm of possibility.
Anyway, do you actually think that people would pay a lawyer to read every damn click-license that thye come accross on the web. I think not. It seems to me this kid is trying out as much legalese and restrictions as he can, in the hopes that one of his schemes will work and he'll get a bunch of money.
or (if this has become a criminal matter!?!), that you distributed it beyond the shadow of a doubt
Sorry, but in the US, and other countries wih fair criminal proceedings, it is only required to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, not beyond all shadow of doubt. If it had to be beyond all shadow of doubt, it would be impossble to convict anyone. Think about it. That's what those "big buck attorneys" do, they argue that there is still "reasonable doubt" that OJ didn't kill Nicole, or some such.
in highschool, visiting SlashDot is probably concidered an inappropriate web site.
Well, speaking as a high school student myself, I know that/. is not an inappropriate web site. OTOH, I've had my telnet program deleted from my space on the server three or four times now, and they will yell at me for a day or two, then go back to whatever it is they were doing. There's one admin guy that I can trust. He asked me to portscan their network, and then told the head of the IT department that he did it himself. Good guy.
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Umm...a cable "modem" doesn't actually MOdulate/DEModulate anything, because the signal it works with is entirly digital. Unless I am smoking crack, which I'm pretty sure I'm not, it is actually a *bridge* between two types of network. I bet if you cracked it open, you wouldn't find an ATD (analog to digital) or DTA (vice-versa) chip in there anywhere. They just call them modems because it is comforting to J. Random Luser, who doesn't want (or need) to learn new terms, when old ones do quite well.
I actually met him, a couple of years ago, at my parents' Swarthmore reunion. He was a interesting guy to talk to, but very very bitter. I asked him about hyperlinking, and he seemed to think that he had been robbed. He went on a five or ten minute rant about how they had taken all the credit away from him, and what was more, they had "fucked it up".
His business card advertises himself as a "programmer, teacher and contrarian." I'm not sure that he would make a very good witness, only because he's so bitter. But who knows?
When I met him, I really didn't have any idea who he was, and I was like 10 at the time. Wow. I wish I'd asked more intelligent questions.
Because the "tax" is on the "backup" copies that you are permitted to make for personal use, not on pirated music. The "backup" you make still nets the industry cents. Hope this clears things up.
My school told me the *exact* same thing when I asked about running Linux on my *personal* laptop. They said they had no way to stop me runing it at school, but if they caught me connecting it to the network that I would lose my network privileges. I asked why, and they said that they have "found that the only reason people want to use Linux on the network it to try to break in." It's a case of once-bitten, forever shy until the last syllable of recorded time.
I am not the original poster, but I would just like to tell you that you are a saint. If you look at all the other posts, they all say things like "on a side note..." You are the only person to have actually stepped up to the plate and taken action, and for that I commend you. You get (Score:5, Good Samaritan).
This has ben around for years. I remember reading in some magazine about how blind people use computers, and they mentioned just that. It must have been in 3-2-1 Contact magazine when I was about 7. No idea what happened to the idea, but it has always stuck in my head as brilliant.
As a bookseller, I think that Phillip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass is a much better choice, if you want to pick children's books. When I sell it (and the first two, The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife) I describe it as being "like Harry Potter, only with depth." The books are much more intricate, thought-provoking, complex, with (gasp!) subplots that seem (gasp!) unrelated at first, until they all come together. Now that is a book that deserves an award.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the Harry Potter books a lot, but they don't have nearly the complexity that a Hugo award winner should.
Go to Real's website and click on Realplayer at the top. Then scroll down somkewhat and click on the link that says "Realplayer 8 Basic -- is our free player". That's where to get the free player (they also seem to have a *NIX version). Good luck!
Connecting an SQL client to a server doesn't spew data at you (like a web server does). You have to enter a query and ask for data (reach in and turn the paper over). That is ILLEGAL.
/path/to/file.html
A web site is not the same thing, as it's intent is public information (unless it is on a private network) and it presents data simply by connecting -- you don't have to "ask". Ummm...
You do have to request data from a webserver. It doesn't just sit there and "spew out data". When you connect, you (or your browser) issues a request that looks something like this:
GET HTTP/1.1
<CR> <LF>
That is most definitly a request for information, not a passive reading of stuff being "spewed out".
I've actually had the opportunity to use one of these, albeit a tabletop version in testing. It was interesting, especially becaus they hadn't yet worked out the color, and it was just red. It was really cool, though, because you could see right through the picture, but the picture was good, too. I coulld easily see myself using one in the future, if they got the color and portability worked out. One other thing I remember was that it was very sensitive to motion, that is, if you moved slightly, the image would disappear. That would need to be solved too, in order to make the device usable.
There is a project called CyPRG going on with several professors, one (Todd La Porte)at George Mason University in Virginia, one at U Arizona and one in Denmark at the University of Roskilde. They are rating government websites for what they call "openness" and are coming up with very interesting results. I happen to know Todd, and he and I are working together on some related stuff. Give them a look-see.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
At my school the AUP states "I [the undersigned] reconize that I continuosly represent Georgetown Day School whenever and wherever I use email and World Wide Web resources, even if I am using these resources away from or outside of the school's network.[my emphasis]" They also state in their handbook that any drug use or other illegal activity outside of school may result in disciplinary action. I'm probably going to get in trouble for psting this on /., using the computer in the library, but who cares.
I stand corrected. Who's the guy, BTW?
apple has a protection in place in os 9 that blanks out part of the screen when a screenshot is taken while a dvd movie is playing.
This is not actually true. The DVD software that comes with Mac OS uses a technology called "direct screen blast" (also used in some games) to dramatically accellerate the framerate. All the OS knows is that there is a blank space there. The traditional Command-Shift-3 keystroke goes through the OS, and since there is no data there (to the OS's knowledge) the screenshot turns out black. Same thing, incidentally, if you try to use a projector on certain laptops to project a DVD (using certain software, I don't know the details). It's not the fault of the OS, it's a way of getting you (the user) a better quality picture.
BTW, if you must capture DVDs while they are playing, there is a utiliy called Snapz (for the Mac) by Ambrosia Software can capture even direct screen blast images.
- MBA's: Can't live with 'em. Can't legally torture them to death.
.sig. Just a bit strange...
I just thought that it was kind of ironic for you to be talkig about police brutality (you do actually use the word torture) and then you have something like this in your
I think that CoyboyNeal was off by 5. Everything I've read says that you get a +1 bonus at 25, not at 20. I wouldn't know, I had 22 at one point but now I'm back down to 18 (pout!).
I opened the box to my Que! drive and there weren't any peanuts or anything. The whole thing came in the portable carrying case that they provided. The software had a compartment, along with the free CD-R and CD-RW they provide. Then there was a compartment for the drive itself, with velcro straps to secure the AC adapter and cables. The whole thing is made of pleather to make you vegan geeks happy.
I don't think that you want to do this. AFAIK, the TV is 480x320 or 512x384 or something, and the resoution is going to be absolute crap if you do it. Anyway, why do you want to use a monitor as a tiny TV screen? I don't think you'd like the size very much. Better to sell the monitor and use the $20 to buy a small TV set instead.
IANAL (I know, everyone says this just before delivering sage wisdom), but it seems to me that it's not a blow to Beowulf at all. You buy ten machines, all slow enough to pass under the wire, and then you put then together yourself. The software isn't designed specifically for a certain speed, and the machines don't have a specific use as Beowulf cluster machines. Anyway, a single cluster (no matter how big) is not a single machine, which means that it can't be treated as a single machine. I think that the restictions therefore won't apply.
Flight Engineer: "Three lavatories have been drawing 9 amps for 15 minutes. Tell the flight attendants to ask lavatories 3, 4, and 6 to quit playing wireless Quake or we'll have to turn off all their power."
Very cute, however...
You know the part in the in-flight safety lecture where they tell you not to use any cellphones or other broadcasting devices? I think that would turn the conversation into something like:
Pilot: "WTF! What's all the static on the air-to-ground loop? Where's my radar? The radio system is crapping out!
Flight Engineer: "Three lavatories have been drawing 9 amps for 15 minutes. Tell the flight attendants to ask lavatories 3, 4, and 6 to quit playing wireless Quake or we'll have to turn off all their power. Oh, and tell the ground control at <destination> to get the police ready to arrest the three guys for reckless endangerment."
I know that this sounds wacky, but in the bathrooms on most planes (at least ones designed for transoceanic flights) there is usually an outlet for plugging in an electric razor. I have actually used them to charge up a laptop, and I bet they would work even better for something like a Palm that charges in the cradle. Or, maybe you could work out a deal with the flight attendants to let you use one of the outlets in the galley (kitchen area). There's usually a couple there. Good luck.
Note he is charging $1/kb, and NOT $1/kB... bits versus bytes
Using that math, he would only be required to generate 1/1000th of that, or 800, visitors, which is well within the realm of possibility.
Ummm...
Last time I checked, a bit was only 1/8 byte, not 1/1000. By the math, he would still have needed to get 100,000 visitors, which is not within the realm of possibility.
Anyway, do you actually think that people would pay a lawyer to read every damn click-license that thye come accross on the web. I think not. It seems to me this kid is trying out as much legalese and restrictions as he can, in the hopes that one of his schemes will work and he'll get a bunch of money.
or (if this has become a criminal matter!?!), that you distributed it beyond the shadow of a doubt
Sorry, but in the US, and other countries wih fair criminal proceedings, it is only required to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt, not beyond all shadow of doubt. If it had to be beyond all shadow of doubt, it would be impossble to convict anyone. Think about it. That's what those "big buck attorneys" do, they argue that there is still "reasonable doubt" that OJ didn't kill Nicole, or some such.
in highschool, visiting SlashDot is probably concidered an inappropriate web site.
/. is not an inappropriate web site. OTOH, I've had my telnet program deleted from my space on the server three or four times now, and they will yell at me for a day or two, then go back to whatever it is they were doing. There's one admin guy that I can trust. He asked me to portscan their network, and then told the head of the IT department that he did it himself. Good guy.
Well, speaking as a high school student myself, I know that