I can't help you with your question, I have no experience with reverse engineering.
But for others who don't want to have the same problem: you should have checked www.linuxprinting.org, which says of the Samsung CLP-500:
Samsung supports this printer with proprietary drivers which come with the printer on its driver CD or can be downloaded on the web sites of Samsung. Unfortunately, these drivers do not work necessarily with all Linux distributions and there are no free drivers available. As it is also not sure whether Samsung will update their drivers for future Linux versions, this printer cannot be recommended.
I would try to get the proprietary driver to work, basically by getting the distro it was made for, or at least finding out why it works there but not on your distro - probably it needs some specific kernel image that it was compiled with, which would suck...
Unfortunately it isn't hot, and secondly since the main minister pushing it is D'66 and the other two coalition parties didn't support this motion, there's basically no way that that's going to happen - it'd never get a majority.
It would be extremely unusual though. The thing is that it's currently an "A item" on the agenda - meaning "everybody agrees, no vote needed". Government has explicitly said that they will have it removed from the agenda. To turn around and say five days later that there was no vote needed at all, right after the motion and right after saying they won't allow it, is almost equally inconceivable.
(Not that I'm that much of an expert, of course - and the fact that it was on that agenda in the first place is also quite ridiculous)
They must vote to accept all new laws, they have the power to change laws before accepting them, they can enter original laws and accept them, they vote on accepting the budget, they can send ministers home, etc.
But the thing that is called a "motie" is not binding to government. In this case they have said they will carry it out though.
Hey, suddenly I notice - it seems the entire LPF abstained then? The LPF ("List Pim Fortuyn") is the incompetent remains of the party murdered politician Pim Fortuyn was building. He was killed before the elections, and the people who are in government in his name since then are amateur chaotic right-wing morons who are only busy with internal fights, frauds, leadership changes etc. They do have 8 seats, and apparently they didn't vote.
Each country in the EU is sovereigen and has their own government, which is controlled by their own parliament.
The governments work together in the the Council of Ministers of the EU. Here political deals are made - governments that are against patents may agree if they can get some extra agriculture subsidies in return, whatever. They can claim at home that they were against but the pressure of other countries was too high.
In theory the EU parliament controls that process, but their powers are far too weak. Perhaps the proposed "EU Constitution" will meredy this, I don't know. Governments say that giving the EU parliament more power is giving up national sovereignity (i.e., the power countries have to make shady deals).
Voting in the Council must be unanymous. A directive that is finally accepted must be implemented by all the member countries.
71 voted in favour, 69 against. Note that the Dutch parliament has 150 seats, so an extremely close call - could have gone the other way if some more people bothered to vote, it seems.
Voting was along party lines, but the Dutch parliament is like a zoo: in favour were PvdA (labour, largest leftish-center party), SP (socialist, populist, at heart even maoist...), GroenLinks (merger of communist, pacifist, green parties), D'66 (center party, slightly leftish, pro-education, pro-democratic reform), ChristenUnie (leftish christian party). Against were CDA (traditional biggest party, center, christian), VVD (what we call "liberal", i.e. pro-free market, pro-business, traditional values, typical rightish), SGP (right wing hardline christians).
Currently government is formed by CDA, VVD and D'66, who together have a slim majority. So this win is because D'66 defected, and SGP is slightly smaller. D'66 is much the smallest party in government, and this is certainly not what government wanted (remember they pushed hard to pass the directive in the last few meetings of the Dutch EU presidency end of last year). The minister pushing then was Brinkhorst (D'66!).
Anyway, this is the first time I see D'66 do something that makes me actually happy with the vote I gave them:-)
Amazon delivers to Mozambique (linky). Just order some actual books and have them delivered. Some nice Penguin Classics paperback edition or so would probably be more practical to read than any of your ideas for delivering a Gutenberg text as well, I would think.
(Possibly giving this answer makes me a total moron because I obviously forgot about a number of problems with it, and it's not even an answer to the question. If so, kindly explain why it won't work. Ta)
Mozilla and its derivatives can't "lose" the next browser war per se, because they're open source and protected by the GPL.
Nitpick: not by the GPL, but by the Mozilla Public License. The two are similar, but not compatible. And the MPL is less readable... (source: cliking About Mozilla in my current browser, and http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html)
Strictly the speaking, Earth and the Moon are pretty much dual planets (their common center of gravity lies in between them, for instance). When you plot their orbits around the sun, they're very similar, just wobbling around each other twelve or so times per orbit - that's not so much.
Which would make them asteroids in your system, I think.
Boot doesn't really have to be its own partition. However, it is much safer to have it on its own partition, and not mounted in normal situations. That way you can never accidentally mess up something there and make your machine unbootable. It's a safety precaution.
Of course it is still bloody cold there - it's described as a jet steam in the Saturn atmosphere, i.e. more atmospheric activity than usual. Not hot springs.
The significance is that we don't have an explanation for it. It's something strange and unexpected. On other planets, the poles are colder than the rest.
Furthermore, if this were the result of seasons (the pole has been in continuous sunlight for 18 earth years, just like our poles have a continuous day during summer), then you'd expect the effect to be gradual, but it's apparently pretty abrupt.
So, unexplained surprising phenomenon. Always interesting.
For what it's worth, as a New Zealander, I also find myself using "gray" as well as "colour":)
And here in the Netherlands (where English is a foreign language), we're just exposed to this mass of different spellings and we can't tell which belongs to the American set and which to the English. So they'll always get mixed up. It's the future, man!
That only holds true if the the public key to private key ratio is 1:1 and it isn't yet I have never seen such a claim published in a paper.
The private key is a pair of two primes. The public key is the product of those two primes.
Every composite (non prime) number can be written as a product of its prime factors, in exactly one way (apart from different ordering and redundant factors 1).
Therefore, the public to private key ratio is 1:1 by the way they are constructed. Every public key has exactly one private key associated with it, namely the two primes that are its factors, and the pair of primes has their product associated with it as the public key.
That's pretty trivial, so I'm not sure what you mean there.
All it does is provide a tool to parents enabling them to throttle the sort of world their child is exposed to. Whether or not you agree that a parent should do this, it's not your decision on the matter. It's the right of that parent to control what their kid has access to.
Following this logic, why are kids allowed to buy anything by themselves?
The fee is logical. It costs money to recycle. What's not logical is that it's a fixed fee. There is no incentive to buy computers that are easier to recycle, or for the manufacturers to build them.
Instead of this plan, manufacturers should be forced to pay for the real cost of recycling of all their products. They will of course factor the costs for this into the price; but they will also choose designs that are easier to recycle, so the cost will be lower. And consumers will be able to choose the manufacturer who is the best recycler (keeps his prices lowest).
There is no need to keep this restricted to computers, of course. It would be a good thing if the cost of garbage disposal were factored into the price of goods - then the capitalist system can do its thing. No more state subsidies for companies making redundant trash.
Luckily, in Europe it's not all about the Benjamins. We have politically correct, culturally-neutral drawings of fictional bridges on our Euros... blech:-)
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I can't help you with your question, I have no experience with reverse engineering.
But for others who don't want to have the same problem: you should have checked www.linuxprinting.org, which says of the Samsung CLP-500:
Samsung supports this printer with proprietary drivers which come with the printer on its driver CD or can be downloaded on the web sites of Samsung. Unfortunately, these drivers do not work necessarily with all Linux distributions and there are no free drivers available. As it is also not sure whether Samsung will update their drivers for future Linux versions, this printer cannot be recommended.
I would try to get the proprietary driver to work, basically by getting the distro it was made for, or at least finding out why it works there but not on your distro - probably it needs some specific kernel image that it was compiled with, which would suck...
The new system would protect the invention for 3 weeks, or until it gives $2000 (whichever comes first).
And why exactly is that a problem? Why does such an idea deserve $18 billion?
Unfortunately it isn't hot, and secondly since the main minister pushing it is D'66 and the other two coalition parties didn't support this motion, there's basically no way that that's going to happen - it'd never get a majority.
It would be extremely unusual though. The thing is that it's currently an "A item" on the agenda - meaning "everybody agrees, no vote needed". Government has explicitly said that they will have it removed from the agenda. To turn around and say five days later that there was no vote needed at all, right after the motion and right after saying they won't allow it, is almost equally inconceivable.
(Not that I'm that much of an expert, of course - and the fact that it was on that agenda in the first place is also quite ridiculous)
They must vote to accept all new laws, they have the power to change laws before accepting them, they can enter original laws and accept them, they vote on accepting the budget, they can send ministers home, etc.
But the thing that is called a "motie" is not binding to government. In this case they have said they will carry it out though.
Hey, suddenly I notice - it seems the entire LPF abstained then? The LPF ("List Pim Fortuyn") is the incompetent remains of the party murdered politician Pim Fortuyn was building. He was killed before the elections, and the people who are in government in his name since then are amateur chaotic right-wing morons who are only busy with internal fights, frauds, leadership changes etc. They do have 8 seats, and apparently they didn't vote.
Unfortunately I don't really agree with the rest of their viewpoints...
Each country in the EU is sovereigen and has their own government, which is controlled by their own parliament.
The governments work together in the the Council of Ministers of the EU. Here political deals are made - governments that are against patents may agree if they can get some extra agriculture subsidies in return, whatever. They can claim at home that they were against but the pressure of other countries was too high.
In theory the EU parliament controls that process, but their powers are far too weak. Perhaps the proposed "EU Constitution" will meredy this, I don't know. Governments say that giving the EU parliament more power is giving up national sovereignity (i.e., the power countries have to make shady deals).
Voting in the Council must be unanymous. A directive that is finally accepted must be implemented by all the member countries.
FWIW, last year I saw some report that mentioned the total number of software patents held by Dutch companies was 4.
71 voted in favour, 69 against. Note that the Dutch parliament has 150 seats, so an extremely close call - could have gone the other way if some more people bothered to vote, it seems.
Voting was along party lines, but the Dutch parliament is like a zoo: in favour were PvdA (labour, largest leftish-center party), SP (socialist, populist, at heart even maoist...), GroenLinks (merger of communist, pacifist, green parties), D'66 (center party, slightly leftish, pro-education, pro-democratic reform), ChristenUnie (leftish christian party). Against were CDA (traditional biggest party, center, christian), VVD (what we call "liberal", i.e. pro-free market, pro-business, traditional values, typical rightish), SGP (right wing hardline christians).
Currently government is formed by CDA, VVD and D'66, who together have a slim majority. So this win is because D'66 defected, and SGP is slightly smaller. D'66 is much the smallest party in government, and this is certainly not what government wanted (remember they pushed hard to pass the directive in the last few meetings of the Dutch EU presidency end of last year). The minister pushing then was Brinkhorst (D'66!).
Anyway, this is the first time I see D'66 do something that makes me actually happy with the vote I gave them :-)
Amazon delivers to Mozambique (linky). Just order some actual books and have them delivered. Some nice Penguin Classics paperback edition or so would probably be more practical to read than any of your ideas for delivering a Gutenberg text as well, I would think.
(Possibly giving this answer makes me a total moron because I obviously forgot about a number of problems with it, and it's not even an answer to the question. If so, kindly explain why it won't work. Ta)
Mozilla and its derivatives can't "lose" the next browser war per se, because they're open source and protected by the GPL.
Nitpick: not by the GPL, but by the Mozilla Public License. The two are similar, but not compatible. And the MPL is less readable... (source: cliking About Mozilla in my current browser, and http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html)
Oops. I stand corrected. I thought it was outside the earth (obviously, the fact that the center is between the two centers is a bit trivial...)
Which makes my whole point irrelevant. Please treat that insightful mod someone gave me as belonging to you.
Strictly the speaking, Earth and the Moon are pretty much dual planets (their common center of gravity lies in between them, for instance). When you plot their orbits around the sun, they're very similar, just wobbling around each other twelve or so times per orbit - that's not so much.
Which would make them asteroids in your system, I think.
Boot doesn't really have to be its own partition. However, it is much safer to have it on its own partition, and not mounted in normal situations. That way you can never accidentally mess up something there and make your machine unbootable. It's a safety precaution.
No no, this isn't language evolving, it's just stupidity.
I'm afraid it's worse than that - I think it's both.
There are so many stupid people that their continuous mistakes are probably the driving force behind language evolution.
Heh, I didn't know that. Ironically, in Dutch (and Flemish), that word is 'geest' nowadays...
Of course it is still bloody cold there - it's described as a jet steam in the Saturn atmosphere, i.e. more atmospheric activity than usual. Not hot springs.
The significance is that we don't have an explanation for it. It's something strange and unexpected. On other planets, the poles are colder than the rest.
Furthermore, if this were the result of seasons (the pole has been in continuous sunlight for 18 earth years, just like our poles have a continuous day during summer), then you'd expect the effect to be gradual, but it's apparently pretty abrupt.
So, unexplained surprising phenomenon. Always interesting.
For what it's worth, as a New Zealander, I also find myself using "gray" as well as "colour" :)
And here in the Netherlands (where English is a foreign language), we're just exposed to this mass of different spellings and we can't tell which belongs to the American set and which to the English. So they'll always get mixed up. It's the future, man!
That only holds true if the the public key to private key ratio is 1:1 and it isn't yet I have never seen such a claim published in a paper.
The private key is a pair of two primes. The public key is the product of those two primes.
Every composite (non prime) number can be written as a product of its prime factors, in exactly one way (apart from different ordering and redundant factors 1).
Therefore, the public to private key ratio is 1:1 by the way they are constructed. Every public key has exactly one private key associated with it, namely the two primes that are its factors, and the pair of primes has their product associated with it as the public key.
That's pretty trivial, so I'm not sure what you mean there.
Obviously that is prior art, but the whole point of his post is that the patent office has completely stopped caring about such things.
All it does is provide a tool to parents enabling them to throttle the sort of world their child is exposed to. Whether or not you agree that a parent should do this, it's not your decision on the matter. It's the right of that parent to control what their kid has access to.
Following this logic, why are kids allowed to buy anything by themselves?
None.
The fee is logical. It costs money to recycle. What's not logical is that it's a fixed fee. There is no incentive to buy computers that are easier to recycle, or for the manufacturers to build them.
Instead of this plan, manufacturers should be forced to pay for the real cost of recycling of all their products. They will of course factor the costs for this into the price; but they will also choose designs that are easier to recycle, so the cost will be lower. And consumers will be able to choose the manufacturer who is the best recycler (keeps his prices lowest).
There is no need to keep this restricted to computers, of course. It would be a good thing if the cost of garbage disposal were factored into the price of goods - then the capitalist system can do its thing. No more state subsidies for companies making redundant trash.
My company's biggest complaint with GPL is anything developed using GPL libraries must be GPL and released.
Well, that's not even true. There is no need to release anything.
The GPL only states that if you choose to release (distribute) the code, it must be under the GPL.
Luckily, in Europe it's not all about the Benjamins. We have politically correct, culturally-neutral drawings of fictional bridges on our Euros... blech :-)