0% CPU time and only 10 megs of memory on my machine.
But how much user.exe memory is it using under Windows 98/ME? How much gdi.exe memory is it using under Windows 98/ME? None of the NT operating systems have this problem, but not everybody is running NT.
Knuth routinely doubles the bounty for finding an error in his TAoCP books or in his TeX program. This bounty doubles each time an error is found and corrected.
System Resource Usage (for a quick test): 16,308k ICQ
That's RAM. The term "System Resources" under Microsoft Windows operating systems does not refer to RAM. Under Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, and Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, there is only 64 KB of user.exe memory available, and there is only 64 KB of gdi.exe memory available, even if you do have 1 GB of RAM sticks seated in DIMM slots on your motherboard. All running applications must fit all icons, cursors, window control structures, event handlers, etc. into those tiny heaps.
NT-based Windows operating systems, on the other hand, pull user.exe and gdi.exe memory from the main heap (which is at least as big as your total physical RAM).
there's nothing stopping you from creating a server that uses the AIM protocol and hosting that on your server sucking up your bandwidth.
So, once I get my TOC or SIMPLE protocol instant messaging server network running, how do I peer with AOL Time Warner's network so that users on my network can communicate with those users still on AOL Instant Messenger? Jabber.org tried to peer with AOL, but AOL seems to have blocked Jabber.com's and Jabber.org's netblocks.
Make a repository of sites which break on non-IE browsers
As illsorted pointed out, you should look into Mozilla Tech Evangelism. If you find a site that discriminates against Mozilla or otherwise doesn't work, search Bugzilla for it, and if it's not already listed, add it using Bugzilla Helper.
(I had to use a workaround to link to Bugzilla because Bugzilla refuses links from OSDN referers. It's not the goat.)
Oh, and how many of you... are posting via IE on windows anyway?
I use a Mozilla nightly build on my home winbox, but when I'm on a public terminal, I don't have rights to install Mozilla, so I just use whatever's installed (IE 5.x, or NS 4.x with CSS turned off).
And if there's one thing that's true about the web, it's that there's *always* another site offering what your site offers.
What if your power company's web site is IE only? What about your natural gas company, your telephone company, your cable company, your ISP? What about a company that has a patent or copyright on the product you need?
If Mozilla supported document.all, the stuff would run unmodified.
But both Mozilla and IE 5 and later support document.getElementById, the W3C recommended DOM method. You could create your site with getElementById and then have a site-wide js file that emulates getElementById through document.all for IE 4 users.
Put an image in a table cell and IE will put it flush bottom but Netscape will put it on the font baseline (leaving space below for where decenders would go).
Just specify img { vertical-align: bottom; } in your CSS to get the IE behavior everywhere.
Why wait for Palladium to switch to Mac?
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The only reason why I'm using windows is because MS office is still superior
MS office for Mac is superior to MS office for Windows. Go figure.
So if palladium does become reality I'll have to swap over to Mac.
That's like saying a piece of Linux software is "for Mandrake 8.2".
No, it's like saying a piece of Linux software is "for Linux Standard Base x.xx". Microsoft introduces improvements to its standard libraries in every OS revision, and sometimes bug fixes break apps that had depended on buggy behavior.
The announcement was that Cygwin XFree86 had been 1. successfully ported to Windows XP, and 2. upgraded to XFree 4.2.0.
Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days
That's because they store uptime as centiseconds in a 32-bit integer. Windows 95 (before service packs) had a bug that limited uptime to 49.7 days because its count of milliseconds since startup would wrap, and it wasn't prepared to handle that situation.
Now explain how you can watch one show and tape another?
For the same reason you can have two television sets in the same house tuned to different channels. One TV (the one inside the VCR, connected to a tape recorder) is on one channel, while the other TV (the big one below the VCR) is on another.
After all, just who did Disney pay and ask permission from to use the characters in Mu-Lan, or the Lion King
DisneyCo pirated two movies from Japan. "The Lion King" is "Kimba the White Lion". "Atlantis" is "Nadia: Secret of Blue Water".
or any of the other non-Western cultural figures that they freely profit from?
Actually, some of the Western characters that Disney uses are still under copyright. Take Peter Pan for instance. Peter Pan is still under a limited form of copyright in the United Kingdom and will be forever, or at least until the hospital that owns the copyright goes out of business. No, this isn't Bono Act pseudo-perpetual copyright; it's the real thing. DisneyCo will get a dose of its own medicine when it tries to bring Return to Never Land into DVD Region 2.
Mario does not know where Shigeru Miyamoto (the god of Mario's universe) comes from, so how should we know any better where al-Lah came from?
Imagine a simulation running on a computer several times larger than our universe. Now imagine a college student in that universe named Albert Lah. How do you know we're not just bits in a computer (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, The Matrix) in Al Lah's senior project?
This solves nothing. In general, trust is not transitive.
Advogato seems to have developed a trust metric that does work transitively.
The question then becomes, how does one enter the community in the first place? On Advogato, you can't post anything, not even comments to stories, until you have already been certified to at least level 1 by another level 1 user. (There are three levels.)
Of course if that catches on, Congress might eventually decide that audio fingerprints are infringing after all.
Actually, these audio hashes already do infringe somebody's exclusive rights, but not the copyright owner's. Most of the audio hashing algorithms are patented out the @$$ in the United States and other jurisdictions that allow patenting of a generic computer running a specific algorithm.
Good thing patents last 20 years, unlike copyrights, which last effectively forever. No sound recording will enter the public domain in the United States until 2068, when copyrights on works from 1972 (sound recordings were first granted Federal copyright in 1972) are supposed to expire, barring a Chastity Bono Further Copyright Term Extension Act.
would it be possible for the software the read the file being downloaded, and check to see if it is looping over the firsts 20 seconds or so, and then alert you virus software style?
Yes, it would be possible to detect repetition using sophisticated audio hashing software, but some musical genres thrive on (controlled) repetition.
If files are looped, definitely the downloading software could spot the loop by analyzing the data and sounding an alarm as soon as the data repeats...
It's a bit harder than that. MP3 lossy compression will usually introduce slight variation in the exact composition of the signal unless 1. there hasn't been any hiss added to cause slight rounding differences in the quantizer, and 2. the repeated length is an exact multiple of the 576-sample MDCT window.
You have to do comparisons in the spectral domain and allow for a margin of error. Some companies are selling music hashing products based on this technology, so it must be possible, even though it may not be straightforward.
I'm sure these dumbasses at Overpeer are simply looping the data without adding any additional variants. It should be possible for P2P networks to intercept this and terminate downloads quickly.
MP3 transforms audio data using MDCT windows of 576 samples each. So unless the length of the looped data is exactly a multiple of 576 samples, quantization will introduce slight changes from one repetition of the data to the next. Besides, it wouldn't take much work to add some low (< 48 dB) noise to fool the quantizer into making slight rounding differences from one repetition to the next.
most of the non-programming computer books published these days are there to be the manuals the programs should have to start with. (One popular series is even called "The Missing Manual.")
Back in the day when most programs came with printed manuals, these books used to be called "pirate docs." They were the manuals you bought to use with software you obtained from somebody who broke the EULA.
A voice based device should have a voice interface. Standard.
And watch it cost 6,000 times more to support all 6,000 languages and dialects that telephone users speak. "You mean I have to learn to say 555-9157 in Japanese to use this phone?" Keypad dialing is cheaper because it needs to support only two options: all languages used by literate telephone users use either Euro-Arabic numerals (0123456789) or the older Hindu-Arabic numerals.
A phone should have a built in answering machine. Standard.
A telephone with voice mail costs extra because 1. flash memory for storing voice mail messages costs money, and 2. licensing a codec to compress those messages costs money. If there were no demand for a less expensive phone that did not include voice mail, then all phones would have voice mail.
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0% CPU time and only 10 megs of memory on my machine.
But how much user.exe memory is it using under Windows 98/ME? How much gdi.exe memory is it using under Windows 98/ME? None of the NT operating systems have this problem, but not everybody is running NT.
Its amazing that gaim's only mentioned a handfull of times while trillian is in almost every other post it seems.
Is Gaim ported to Windows? If not, then it's a lot more work to set up Cygwin, XFree86, Window Maker, and Gaim than it is to set up Trillian.
Why spend 10 days doing something when you can spend 10 years automating it?
Explanation for those who do not understand software engineering: As soon as you've automated the 366th book, you've saved money.
What about inflation Prof. Knuth!?
Knuth routinely doubles the bounty for finding an error in his TAoCP books or in his TeX program. This bounty doubles each time an error is found and corrected.
System Resource Usage (for a quick test): 16,308k ICQ
That's RAM. The term "System Resources" under Microsoft Windows operating systems does not refer to RAM. Under Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, and Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, there is only 64 KB of user.exe memory available, and there is only 64 KB of gdi.exe memory available, even if you do have 1 GB of RAM sticks seated in DIMM slots on your motherboard. All running applications must fit all icons, cursors, window control structures, event handlers, etc. into those tiny heaps.
NT-based Windows operating systems, on the other hand, pull user.exe and gdi.exe memory from the main heap (which is at least as big as your total physical RAM).
there's nothing stopping you from creating a server that uses the AIM protocol and hosting that on your server sucking up your bandwidth.
So, once I get my TOC or SIMPLE protocol instant messaging server network running, how do I peer with AOL Time Warner's network so that users on my network can communicate with those users still on AOL Instant Messenger? Jabber.org tried to peer with AOL, but AOL seems to have blocked Jabber.com's and Jabber.org's netblocks.
they'll take a Win 2.0 bug from 1989 and attribute it to Win2k. :-)
Partly because some cultures write two thousand using the numeral "2.000"?
Make a repository of sites which break on non-IE browsers
As illsorted pointed out, you should look into Mozilla Tech Evangelism. If you find a site that discriminates against Mozilla or otherwise doesn't work, search Bugzilla for it, and if it's not already listed, add it using Bugzilla Helper.
(I had to use a workaround to link to Bugzilla because Bugzilla refuses links from OSDN referers. It's not the goat.)
Oh, and how many of you ... are posting via IE on windows anyway?
I use a Mozilla nightly build on my home winbox, but when I'm on a public terminal, I don't have rights to install Mozilla, so I just use whatever's installed (IE 5.x, or NS 4.x with CSS turned off).
And if there's one thing that's true about the web, it's that there's *always* another site offering what your site offers.
What if your power company's web site is IE only? What about your natural gas company, your telephone company, your cable company, your ISP? What about a company that has a patent or copyright on the product you need?
If Mozilla supported document.all, the stuff would run unmodified.
But both Mozilla and IE 5 and later support document.getElementById, the W3C recommended DOM method. You could create your site with getElementById and then have a site-wide js file that emulates getElementById through document.all for IE 4 users.
Put an image in a table cell and IE will put it flush bottom but Netscape will put it on the font baseline (leaving space below for where decenders would go).
Just specify img { vertical-align: bottom; } in your CSS to get the IE behavior everywhere.
The only reason why I'm using windows is because MS office is still superior
MS office for Mac is superior to MS office for Windows. Go figure.
So if palladium does become reality I'll have to swap over to Mac.
Why wait?
That's like saying a piece of Linux software is "for Mandrake 8.2".
No, it's like saying a piece of Linux software is "for Linux Standard Base x.xx". Microsoft introduces improvements to its standard libraries in every OS revision, and sometimes bug fixes break apps that had depended on buggy behavior.
The announcement was that Cygwin XFree86 had been 1. successfully ported to Windows XP, and 2. upgraded to XFree 4.2.0.
Additionally HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD cycle back to zero after 497 days
That's because they store uptime as centiseconds in a 32-bit integer. Windows 95 (before service packs) had a bug that limited uptime to 49.7 days because its count of milliseconds since startup would wrap, and it wasn't prepared to handle that situation.
Now explain how you can watch one show and tape another?
For the same reason you can have two television sets in the same house tuned to different channels. One TV (the one inside the VCR, connected to a tape recorder) is on one channel, while the other TV (the big one below the VCR) is on another.
After all, just who did Disney pay and ask permission from to use the characters in Mu-Lan, or the Lion King
DisneyCo pirated two movies from Japan. "The Lion King" is "Kimba the White Lion". "Atlantis" is "Nadia: Secret of Blue Water".
or any of the other non-Western cultural figures that they freely profit from?
Actually, some of the Western characters that Disney uses are still under copyright. Take Peter Pan for instance. Peter Pan is still under a limited form of copyright in the United Kingdom and will be forever, or at least until the hospital that owns the copyright goes out of business. No, this isn't Bono Act pseudo-perpetual copyright; it's the real thing. DisneyCo will get a dose of its own medicine when it tries to bring Return to Never Land into DVD Region 2.
Where did God come from?
Mario does not know where Shigeru Miyamoto (the god of Mario's universe) comes from, so how should we know any better where al-Lah came from?
Imagine a simulation running on a computer several times larger than our universe. Now imagine a college student in that universe named Albert Lah. How do you know we're not just bits in a computer (Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, The Matrix) in Al Lah's senior project?
This solves nothing. In general, trust is not transitive.
Advogato seems to have developed a trust metric that does work transitively.
The question then becomes, how does one enter the community in the first place? On Advogato, you can't post anything, not even comments to stories, until you have already been certified to at least level 1 by another level 1 user. (There are three levels.)
Of course if that catches on, Congress might eventually decide that audio fingerprints are infringing after all.
Actually, these audio hashes already do infringe somebody's exclusive rights, but not the copyright owner's. Most of the audio hashing algorithms are patented out the @$$ in the United States and other jurisdictions that allow patenting of a generic computer running a specific algorithm.
Good thing patents last 20 years, unlike copyrights, which last effectively forever. No sound recording will enter the public domain in the United States until 2068, when copyrights on works from 1972 (sound recordings were first granted Federal copyright in 1972) are supposed to expire, barring a Chastity Bono Further Copyright Term Extension Act.
would it be possible for the software the read the file being downloaded, and check to see if it is looping over the firsts 20 seconds or so, and then alert you virus software style?
Yes, it would be possible to detect repetition using sophisticated audio hashing software, but some musical genres thrive on (controlled) repetition.
If files are looped, definitely the downloading software could spot the loop by analyzing the data and sounding an alarm as soon as the data repeats...
It's a bit harder than that. MP3 lossy compression will usually introduce slight variation in the exact composition of the signal unless 1. there hasn't been any hiss added to cause slight rounding differences in the quantizer, and 2. the repeated length is an exact multiple of the 576-sample MDCT window.
You have to do comparisons in the spectral domain and allow for a margin of error. Some companies are selling music hashing products based on this technology, so it must be possible, even though it may not be straightforward.
I'm sure these dumbasses at Overpeer are simply looping the data without adding any additional variants. It should be possible for P2P networks to intercept this and terminate downloads quickly.
MP3 transforms audio data using MDCT windows of 576 samples each. So unless the length of the looped data is exactly a multiple of 576 samples, quantization will introduce slight changes from one repetition of the data to the next. Besides, it wouldn't take much work to add some low (< 48 dB) noise to fool the quantizer into making slight rounding differences from one repetition to the next.
most of the non-programming computer books published these days are there to be the manuals the programs should have to start with. (One popular series is even called "The Missing Manual.")
Back in the day when most programs came with printed manuals, these books used to be called "pirate docs." They were the manuals you bought to use with software you obtained from somebody who broke the EULA.
A voice based device should have a voice interface. Standard.
And watch it cost 6,000 times more to support all 6,000 languages and dialects that telephone users speak. "You mean I have to learn to say 555-9157 in Japanese to use this phone?" Keypad dialing is cheaper because it needs to support only two options: all languages used by literate telephone users use either Euro-Arabic numerals (0123456789) or the older Hindu-Arabic numerals.
A phone should have a built in answering machine. Standard.
A telephone with voice mail costs extra because 1. flash memory for storing voice mail messages costs money, and 2. licensing a codec to compress those messages costs money. If there were no demand for a less expensive phone that did not include voice mail, then all phones would have voice mail.
everytime my girlfriend unplugs it to hoover (vacuum for those in the USA).
Has Maytag really lost the trademark on Hoover® outside the United States? Or is it in the same limbo where Kleenex® and Xerox® seem to fit?