On NT, minimized Windows apps use negligible system resources except swap space and toolbar space. On Windows 9x, on the other hand, there are two memory spaces called "user.exe heap" and the "gdi.exe heap". Each is 64 KB in size, for backward compatibility with Windows 2.x and 3.x, and cannot be enlarged nor swapped. Every window, minimized or not, will use some resources.
are they suggesting there weren't multi-tasking operating systems in the 1970s?
No. They are suggesting that software developers in the 1970s did not produce operating systems with all three following qualities: 1. multitasking, 2. ability to run on home computers, and 3. popularity.
Embedding signals leads to noise with cumulants different from zero for different times, and thus the noise is not white anymore, it becomes colored.
Your display probably isn't true white either; it's made of tiny red, green, and blue dots. This article is about perceptually hiding information in audio that humans hear as "white" but that machines can pick apart. It's steganography.
If we just accept everything that works great on WINE, then why would anyone bother writing applications for linux?
Often, you can throw a programmer out of Windows, but you can't throw the Windows out of the programmer. A Windows app will in most cases recompile just fine for a *n?x system using Winelib. Thus, I accept Winelib as just another widget set, analogous to GTK+ or Qt.
But if that commerce is an illegal activity under a federal law for which the federal government does have power to legislate (as say where it is a signatory to an international drug prohibition convention), then it can regulate that commerce as an activity illegal under federal law.
Are you claiming that international treaties give the Congress the right to ignore the grants of rights to the states and to the people? For instance, if a treaty directly contradicted the First Amendment, would the treaty be valid? And is the Tenth Amendment any less a part of the Constitution than the First?
There's really no suitable classroom application tat I can think of anyway
What about using AOL® Instant Messenger to call home to get a ride, when the parents are online with dial-up and thus cannot take a POTS telephone call? That actually happened to my lab partner in a course we took last summer at the local tech college.
Word is also expensive, to the tune of $250 per seat ($150 for Windows XP Professional in OEM packaging, and $100 for Works Suite, which includes Word). What makes Word worth the extra $7500 for a K-12 computer lab? Does it really take that much longer to teach kids how to do basic TeX than to teach kids how to do Word?
Just because brute-force is an inelegant method of breaking encryption doesn't mean it isn't valid.
Brute force just gives a baseline against which other attacks can be measured. With a brute-force break, it takes the same amount of time to break one key that it takes to break any other. With a cryptanalytic attack, on the other hand, you only need to successfully attack one key as a proof of concept; once you've expended the effort to break one key cryptanalytically, you've broken the system and probably reduced the effort to break a key by a couple dozen orders of magnitude relative to the baseline.
Nothing, but this is not copying. It is playing, then recording.
Playing, then recording is still "copying" under copyright law because the same music is fixed in the.ogg file that was fixed in the CD. Even if you perform a "cover" of a song, that is, you record your own performance, you still copy the original musical work.
Are there really people out there who haven't heard of Dijkstra?
In his paper dissing goto statements, Dijkstra didn't consider BASIC syntax harmful. He considered BASIC's distinctive "feature" at the time, namely overuse of goto, harmful. He considered languages without else, for, and while harmful. Guess what? Microsoft QBasic and most other semi-modern BASIC descendants have else, for, and while and rarely use goto.
So you're saying either have 8 year olds use Emacs
Problem where? How is Ctrl+W for cut, Alt+W for copy, Ctrl+Y for paste, Ctrl+X Ctrl+S for save, and Ctrl+S for find any harder to learn than Windows's shortcuts, other than they're not derived from the Macintosh brand UI standard?
If you stop paying for their products, the RIAA and MPAA won't have money to pay congressmen/women for laws like the DMCA.
I buy from members of the Big Nine media companies. But whenever I give $15 to (say) Interscope Records for the new Eminem album, I give an equal donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Consider analogies to Newton's Third Law of Motion: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
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owned his own land, consumed his own food, raised his own seed and even made his own farming implements. Yet when he grew a federally banned crop they cracked down.
Wickard v. Filburn was not about a banned crop but rather about private growth and consumption competing with a rationed crop. Marijuana, on the other hand, is banned; therefore, the precedent may not strictly apply.
Besides, the Lopez case seems to represent a turnaround in the Supreme Court's view of the loose interpretation of Congress's enumerated powers. A win for the "good guys" in Eldred v. Ashcroft would also show that there still exist some things outside Congress's enumerated powers.
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One of them was if we should ban cockfighting or not.
Be careful: if you vote "Ban it!" then, depending on the way the bill is worded, Nintendo may be banned from selling its animal combat simulation products in your state. Yeah, sure, Nintendo's official line is that it's based on the Japanese sport of beetlefighting, but American kids know what really happens, especially in a Pidgeot vs. Fearow match.
a state can't legalize something that is federally outlawed.
The federal government can't outlaw commerce within a state, can it? According to the U.S. Constitution, article 1, "The Congress shall have power... To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes... To declare war... To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers" (my emphasis). The 10th Amendment gives the states the right to regulate anything not in Congress's exclusive domain. (The 14th Amendment limits that slightly by applying most of the Bill of Rights to the states.)
If banning beverages containing ethanol required an amendment to the Constitution, then how can Congress get away with banning pot? That should be the State of Nevada's right to put on the ballot.
They need a product that is going to sell hundreds of thousands of units, or even millions of units to make production worthwhile. There's no Linux based product that's even remotely close to that.
I don't think bad patents, especially those granted despite clear and present prior art, "promote the progress of... useful arts" either. I'm curious how this PanIP thing will turn out.
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Ok, yeah, I guess Windows also have that feature.
On NT, minimized Windows apps use negligible system resources except swap space and toolbar space. On Windows 9x, on the other hand, there are two memory spaces called "user.exe heap" and the "gdi.exe heap". Each is 64 KB in size, for backward compatibility with Windows 2.x and 3.x, and cannot be enlarged nor swapped. Every window, minimized or not, will use some resources.
are they suggesting there weren't multi-tasking operating systems in the 1970s?
No. They are suggesting that software developers in the 1970s did not produce operating systems with all three following qualities: 1. multitasking, 2. ability to run on home computers, and 3. popularity.
Just change the skin to something that doesn't have colorful, bubbly bitmaps!
Grandparent wants programs to use a simple, non-ugly skin by default.
Embedding signals leads to noise with cumulants different from zero for different times, and thus the noise is not white anymore, it becomes colored.
Your display probably isn't true white either; it's made of tiny red, green, and blue dots. This article is about perceptually hiding information in audio that humans hear as "white" but that machines can pick apart. It's steganography.
Who the hell is "Sendo"
Hi! How are you?
I hope you like the file that I sendo you
See you later. Thanks
(It's SirCam.)
If we just accept everything that works great on WINE, then why would anyone bother writing applications for linux?
Often, you can throw a programmer out of Windows, but you can't throw the Windows out of the programmer. A Windows app will in most cases recompile just fine for a *n?x system using Winelib. Thus, I accept Winelib as just another widget set, analogous to GTK+ or Qt.
Winelib on Cygwin... sick.
But if that commerce is an illegal activity under a federal law for which the federal government does have power to legislate (as say where it is a signatory to an international drug prohibition convention), then it can regulate that commerce as an activity illegal under federal law.
Are you claiming that international treaties give the Congress the right to ignore the grants of rights to the states and to the people? For instance, if a treaty directly contradicted the First Amendment, would the treaty be valid? And is the Tenth Amendment any less a part of the Constitution than the First?
(La)Tex on Windows is a royal pain in the arse.
Not if somebody makes a good TeX distribution for Windows.
Feh. Use plain text formatting
I actually do that. But unfortunately, it's very hard to get Notepad to word-wrap printed output correctly, so I just print .txt files from Wordpad.
There's really no suitable classroom application tat I can think of anyway
What about using AOL® Instant Messenger to call home to get a ride, when the parents are online with dial-up and thus cannot take a POTS telephone call? That actually happened to my lab partner in a course we took last summer at the local tech college.
Word CAN do those things
Word is also expensive, to the tune of $250 per seat ($150 for Windows XP Professional in OEM packaging, and $100 for Works Suite, which includes Word). What makes Word worth the extra $7500 for a K-12 computer lab? Does it really take that much longer to teach kids how to do basic TeX than to teach kids how to do Word?
Just because brute-force is an inelegant method of breaking encryption doesn't mean it isn't valid.
Brute force just gives a baseline against which other attacks can be measured. With a brute-force break, it takes the same amount of time to break one key that it takes to break any other. With a cryptanalytic attack, on the other hand, you only need to successfully attack one key as a proof of concept; once you've expended the effort to break one key cryptanalytically, you've broken the system and probably reduced the effort to break a key by a couple dozen orders of magnitude relative to the baseline.
Nothing, but this is not copying. It is playing, then recording.
Playing, then recording is still "copying" under copyright law because the same music is fixed in the .ogg file that was fixed in the CD. Even if you perform a "cover" of a song, that is, you record your own performance, you still copy the original musical work.
Are there really people out there who haven't heard of Dijkstra?
In his paper dissing goto statements, Dijkstra didn't consider BASIC syntax harmful. He considered BASIC's distinctive "feature" at the time, namely overuse of goto, harmful. He considered languages without else, for, and while harmful. Guess what? Microsoft QBasic and most other semi-modern BASIC descendants have else, for, and while and rarely use goto.
So you're saying either have 8 year olds use Emacs
Problem where? How is Ctrl+W for cut, Alt+W for copy, Ctrl+Y for paste, Ctrl+X Ctrl+S for save, and Ctrl+S for find any harder to learn than Windows's shortcuts, other than they're not derived from the Macintosh brand UI standard?
So the Java plugin now runs like a turtle
Like an ordinary tortoise, or like a Ninja Turtle?
If you stop paying for their products, the RIAA and MPAA won't have money to pay congressmen/women for laws like the DMCA.
I buy from members of the Big Nine media companies. But whenever I give $15 to (say) Interscope Records for the new Eminem album, I give an equal donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Consider analogies to Newton's Third Law of Motion: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
[BMG owns] RCA Records
Strange. BMG, a major record label, owns RCA Records. Thomson Multimedia owns the rest of the RCA brand, and Thomson is also the exclusive USA sublicensor of the MP3 patents. Does that point toward a new method of fighting "Music Piracy 3" (the first two were player-pianos and tape decks)?
Would that be Michael Meyers? ... Where's the theme music?
Mike Myers? Theme song? Try here, here, here, and here. Then look here and here.
owned his own land, consumed his own food, raised his own seed and even made his own farming implements. Yet when he grew a federally banned crop they cracked down.
Wickard v. Filburn was not about a banned crop but rather about private growth and consumption competing with a rationed crop. Marijuana, on the other hand, is banned; therefore, the precedent may not strictly apply.
Besides, the Lopez case seems to represent a turnaround in the Supreme Court's view of the loose interpretation of Congress's enumerated powers. A win for the "good guys" in Eldred v. Ashcroft would also show that there still exist some things outside Congress's enumerated powers.
One of them was if we should ban cockfighting or not.
Be careful: if you vote "Ban it!" then, depending on the way the bill is worded, Nintendo may be banned from selling its animal combat simulation products in your state. Yeah, sure, Nintendo's official line is that it's based on the Japanese sport of beetlefighting, but American kids know what really happens, especially in a Pidgeot vs. Fearow match.
Vote Green.
Vote Libertarian.
Just don't get confused and vote Libertarian National Socialist Green.
a state can't legalize something that is federally outlawed.
The federal government can't outlaw commerce within a state, can it? According to the U.S. Constitution, article 1, "The Congress shall have power ... To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes ... To declare war ... To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers" (my emphasis). The 10th Amendment gives the states the right to regulate anything not in Congress's exclusive domain. (The 14th Amendment limits that slightly by applying most of the Bill of Rights to the states.)
If banning beverages containing ethanol required an amendment to the Constitution, then how can Congress get away with banning pot? That should be the State of Nevada's right to put on the ballot.
Case law citations welcome.
Can you get it here in time for Christmas?
You can deliver a source code tree, and you can deliver a pine tree, but not even a tree will help get rid of crazy American legislators that write counterproductive copyright laws.
They need a product that is going to sell hundreds of thousands of units, or even millions of units to make production worthwhile. There's no Linux based product that's even remotely close to that.
Welcome to No Linux Based Product Dot Com.
No, but it was worth $12 at Gandi for Losing Nemo. Let's see what Disney thinks about that. It's all part of my grand plan of civil disobedience against questionably constitutional laws bought by Disney.
I don't think bad patents, especially those granted despite clear and present prior art, "promote the progress of ... useful arts" either. I'm curious how this PanIP thing will turn out.