If you don't think that this patent is valid, find some prior art.
The stock browser on my Android phone (2.1, which is Eclair, right?) has scroll 'indicators' which appear (right and/or bottom of the screen) when I move the view, showing where and what fraction of the overall canvas my viewport displays. After I've stopped moving the viewport, they disappear.
(Of course, in true/. tradition, I've not RTFA)
...It is as with kids - if they ask seemingly innocent question long enough they get an agreement not because we really agree but because we are tired of being asked the same question all the time...
Yes, but I can't send the Commission to its bedroom to think about how it chooses to communicate with me.
Where I work, a rule was recently introduced whereby holiday requests would only be authorised for an employee if their timesheet submissions were up to date.
So now we can book our holidays in January and ignore timesheets until next year.
Question: How much bandwidth would that run? [...] If he is like many of us they probably have bandwidth limits and/or have to share that bandwidth with other users so if it takes a big ass pipe I could see that possibly being a problem.
If the group is set up at a University, odds are it's on JANET. Those are big pipes (our connection was 155 Mb/s several years ago).
CE: Conformité Européenne (french) - Europe's equivalent of the UL
Bzzzt! Incorrect.
CE (it officially doesn't stand for anything) is a Manufacturer's attestation that they meet all relevant European CE-marking Directives.
Legally speaking, the manufacturer (or their European agent) must have documentation backing up this attestation - Declarations of Conformity, Technical Documentation (probably including test reports); and most Directives require some level of end-user information to be provided with the apparatus.
Interestingly, the "New Legislative Framework" (see Regs 764/2008/EC, 765/2008/EC & Decision 768/2008/EC for the gory/mind-numbing details) is going to beef up the level of market surveillance, allow enforcement authorities to prosecute retailers in cases where the manufacturer can't be traced, and trademark the CE marking.
[...] we put a coworker's iphone into a cookie tin [...]
Conclusions:
- The iPhone antenna is worse than that particular HTC
- Blocking radio signals is hard.
The next experiment we are going to do will involve grounding the tin can. (preferably in a new tin box so we have a change to eat pastries again).
It's more probable that it's the contact between the lid and the box that varied. Perhaps one of the tins was lacquered, or something else that prevented a good, low impedance, bare-metal to bare-metal bond being made.
speaking with friends in different specialisms, it seems that his fiction is just that. Often I'd hear "it was a good read, but he got $MY_SPECIALISM wrong"; physics, chemistry, biology, archaeology, you name it, he'd mangle it.
And I still don't know why you'd want a wireframe 3D VR view of a database.
In that time I've seen some *CRAZY* game protection schemes including Lenslok on Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, as well as unlock keys generated from coloured stripes in manuals (because in those days there were only black & white photocopiers).
For Worms (or was it Worms: Reinforcements), the anti-copying scheme was a booklet (~8 pages) of tables; you had to enter the code on page x, row y, column z.
The booklet was printed on matt black paper with shiny black writing. It took us a few hours to type the codes into a spreadsheet. Ho hum.
We don't know what the graphics in Metalabs' bid proposal looked like, so we can't compare the Mozilla mock-up with that.
The Mozilla mock-up used/cloned/"borrowed heavily" from Metalabs' web site. Still "not right", but not as egregious as many people seem to be inferring.
You must pay for a TV licence if you watch live TV (or record a broadcast). So, you can use the BBC iplayer (a "catch-up over the Internet" service), as long as its not a live stream.
Of course you can also listen to any of the 10 national radio stations (Radios 1 - 7, 1xtra, 5live extra and the Asian network) or numerous local stations, or browse the website.
Sometimes I think the entire "Buy this ringtone and customize your phone to represent YOU" scam is one of the telecom industry's biggest worthless marketing success.
Buy? Any phone that can play MP3 ringtones should be capable of uploading them, or is that different in the USA? And anyway, you try to find Blondie's 'Hanging on the telephone' as a ringtone.
But yes, it is particularly egregious that a 20-30 second clip from a song can cost 2-3 times that of the entire song.
... I simply check the query string for the following:
char( cast( convert(
If it contained any of these, add IP to bad list and redirect to/banned.htm page.
SIMPLE!!
Simple, and wrong. Do not enumerate badness when filtering.
Whatever interface you are using to whatever SQL database, there should be an "escape" function that lets you store strings containing string delimiters.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute's search page is at: http://pda.etsi.org/pda/queryform.asp Search for "pades" in the title will get you the five parts of the standard (well, Technical Specification).
ETSI TS 102 778-x
And thank goodness it's ETSI doing this, since they publish their standards without charge.
A shielded cable will cut down (somewhat) on coupling between the signal and power lines.
If you balance the signal on the keyboard wires, and use twisted pair, that'll have a much greater shielding effect, particularly at the low frequencies (a few kHz) mentioned in TFA. USB signals are balanced IIRC, and twisting is recommended (required for high-speed cables). So a USB keyboard probably would help - a bit - but not primarily because of the shiny braided shield on the cable.
But I'm not sure that's the whole problem solved, since there's still a direct connection (in the form of the PC) between the keyboard and the power/ground line. It's far more likely that the unwanted signal will simply couple through the PC.
If you don't keep your address and personal information up to date you have committed a criminal offence and you can be fined GBP1,000.
In earlier drafts of the legislation, while you were compelled to keep the information up to date, you didn't have a right to actually have the information updated. Whether that has been fixed, I don't know...
I dare you to name a language option offered by Ubuntu that Windows doesn't have. I'd be far more inclined to believe Windows has languages that Ubuntu doesn't.
British English, for one. I really would prefer that my son (he's almost three) be able to use a computer without being annoyed/confused by incorrect spellings. Ubuntu for him, then.
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If you don't think that this patent is valid, find some prior art.
The stock browser on my Android phone (2.1, which is Eclair, right?) has scroll 'indicators' which appear (right and/or bottom of the screen) when I move the view, showing where and what fraction of the overall canvas my viewport displays. After I've stopped moving the viewport, they disappear. (Of course, in true /. tradition, I've not RTFA)
...It is as with kids - if they ask seemingly innocent question long enough they get an agreement not because we really agree but because we are tired of being asked the same question all the time...
Yes, but I can't send the Commission to its bedroom to think about how it chooses to communicate with me.
even for someone who wants a full Linux stack, is: 'Can I play Angry Birds on it?'
Where I work, a rule was recently introduced whereby holiday requests would only be authorised for an employee if their timesheet submissions were up to date. So now we can book our holidays in January and ignore timesheets until next year.
Question: How much bandwidth would that run? [...] If he is like many of us they probably have bandwidth limits and/or have to share that bandwidth with other users so if it takes a big ass pipe I could see that possibly being a problem.
If the group is set up at a University, odds are it's on JANET. Those are big pipes (our connection was 155 Mb/s several years ago).
Why, yes, of course. (Just the first two I thought of.)
[...] there are now several bit transitions on a single 2m cable [...]
That part of your statement applies equally to USB 2 cables.
Cat 6 network cables are good for 10GbE, and they can be quite long.
I'll concede the different use case (and the price of 10GbE NICs) though.
CE: Conformité Européenne (french) - Europe's equivalent of the UL
Bzzzt! Incorrect.
CE (it officially doesn't stand for anything) is a Manufacturer's attestation that they meet all relevant European CE-marking Directives.
Legally speaking, the manufacturer (or their European agent) must have documentation backing up this attestation - Declarations of Conformity, Technical Documentation (probably including test reports); and most Directives require some level of end-user information to be provided with the apparatus.
Interestingly, the "New Legislative Framework" (see Regs 764/2008/EC, 765/2008/EC & Decision 768/2008/EC for the gory/mind-numbing details) is going to beef up the level of market surveillance, allow enforcement authorities to prosecute retailers in cases where the manufacturer can't be traced, and trademark the CE marking.
[...] we put a coworker's iphone into a cookie tin [...]
Conclusions:
- The iPhone antenna is worse than that particular HTC
- Blocking radio signals is hard.
The next experiment we are going to do will involve grounding the tin can. (preferably in a new tin box so we have a change to eat pastries again).
It's more probable that it's the contact between the lid and the box that varied. Perhaps one of the tins was lacquered, or something else that prevented a good, low impedance, bare-metal to bare-metal bond being made.
speaking with friends in different specialisms, it seems that his fiction is just that. Often I'd hear "it was a good read, but he got $MY_SPECIALISM wrong"; physics, chemistry, biology, archaeology, you name it, he'd mangle it.
And I still don't know why you'd want a wireframe 3D VR view of a database.
I can imagine the speaking clock:
"At the third stroke, it will be, most likely, sixish"
Globally-installed extensions can't be uninstalled from the browser UI (see /. passim for the Sun & Microsoft extensions which highlighted this).
And if you're locking down a desktop, you can restrict r/w access to the Program Files hierarchy, and the registry bits that matter.
So, yes, it can be locked down.
In that time I've seen some *CRAZY* game protection schemes including Lenslok on Sinclair ZX Spectrum games, as well as unlock keys generated from coloured stripes in manuals (because in those days there were only black & white photocopiers).
For Worms (or was it Worms: Reinforcements), the anti-copying scheme was a booklet (~8 pages) of tables; you had to enter the code on page x, row y, column z.
The booklet was printed on matt black paper with shiny black writing. It took us a few hours to type the codes into a spreadsheet. Ho hum.
Not quite.
We don't know what the graphics in Metalabs' bid proposal looked like, so we can't compare the Mozilla mock-up with that.
The Mozilla mock-up used/cloned/"borrowed heavily" from Metalabs' web site. Still "not right", but not as egregious as many people seem to be inferring.
You must pay for a TV licence if you watch live TV (or record a broadcast). So, you can use the BBC iplayer (a "catch-up over the Internet" service), as long as its not a live stream.
Of course you can also listen to any of the 10 national radio stations (Radios 1 - 7, 1xtra, 5live extra and the Asian network) or numerous local stations, or browse the website.
Sometimes I think the entire "Buy this ringtone and customize your phone to represent YOU" scam is one of the telecom industry's biggest worthless marketing success.
Buy? Any phone that can play MP3 ringtones should be capable of uploading them, or is that different in the USA? And anyway, you try to find Blondie's 'Hanging on the telephone' as a ringtone.
But yes, it is particularly egregious that a 20-30 second clip from a song can cost 2-3 times that of the entire song.
That driver also needs to officially support Windows 7.
On RC1, I have to (re-)assign drive letters on every boot into Windows.
... I simply check the query string for the following:
char(
cast(
convert(
If it contained any of these, add IP to bad list and redirect to /banned.htm page.
SIMPLE!!
Simple, and wrong. Do not enumerate badness when filtering.
Whatever interface you are using to whatever SQL database, there should be an "escape" function that lets you store strings containing string delimiters.
Find that function. Use that function.
... all while producing light that is less pleasing, causing headaches, depression, and other negative health effects, ...
I've just kitted out my lounge with 'daylight' CFLs, which have a colour temperature of 6400K. The light quality is abso-flipping-lutely marvellous.
Ditto the pair of LED spots for bedtime reading.
I for one welcome our energy-saving lighting overlords...
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute's search page is at:
http://pda.etsi.org/pda/queryform.asp
Search for "pades" in the title will get you the five parts of the standard (well, Technical Specification).
ETSI TS 102 778-x
And thank goodness it's ETSI doing this, since they publish their standards without charge.
To which the correct response must surely be
sudo find my shipment
A shielded cable will cut down (somewhat) on coupling between the signal and power lines.
If you balance the signal on the keyboard wires, and use twisted pair, that'll have a much greater shielding effect, particularly at the low frequencies (a few kHz) mentioned in TFA. USB signals are balanced IIRC, and twisting is recommended (required for high-speed cables). So a USB keyboard probably would help - a bit - but not primarily because of the shiny braided shield on the cable.
But I'm not sure that's the whole problem solved, since there's still a direct connection (in the form of the PC) between the keyboard and the power/ground line. It's far more likely that the unwanted signal will simply couple through the PC.
The Stanford team's abstract is at
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-17-12-10019
and the full paper is downloadable there
The MIT abstract is at
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-34-11-1738
but you have to pay to read the paper
If you don't keep your address and personal information up to date you have committed a criminal offence and you can be fined GBP1,000.
In earlier drafts of the legislation, while you were compelled to keep the information up to date, you didn't have a right to actually have the information updated. Whether that has been fixed, I don't know...
I dare you to name a language option offered by Ubuntu that Windows doesn't have. I'd be far more inclined to believe Windows has languages that Ubuntu doesn't.
British English, for one. I really would prefer that my son (he's almost three) be able to use a computer without being annoyed/confused by incorrect spellings. Ubuntu for him, then.
Apparently MS can't see how they'll be able to get British English spellings in Windows.
http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2008/07/11/8720420.aspx