The problem with most HTML sites is everytime I go to a new page, the entire site reloads, that is absurd. In flash you can load your navigation in once, it will be persistant.
I think, therefore <iframe>.
The jsp, asp programmer doesnt need to know how that content will be presented.(ie. color, font size etc...).
Three words: Cascading Style Sheets.
Can Flash content be made accessible to all readers, even the visually impaired who use a speechreader or a Braille terminal? HTML can.
Perhaps its time you ditched that 56K dial-up connection in favour of cable or DSL.
For one thing, getting cable or DSL costs $200,000 in some situations, and for another, you can only get DSL from one physical location, whereas you can get dial-up anywhere your ISP has a modem pool. This is important for mobile people such as anybody in college where the college Internet connection isn't five-nines reliable.
Oh my God!! You want to put thousands of computers to factoring a large prime ?
For the record, grandparent probably meant either factoring a large candidate prime that has been tested a few times against Fermat's little theorem, or factoring a product of a small number of large primes.
HDCD is one label's trademark for noise-shaped mastering of 20-bit audio data to a 16-bit CD.
It still doesn't hide the fact that [noise-shaped mastering] isn't widely accepted.
Ever look at your CDs through Cool Edit's spectrograph? If, during quiet parts, you see a lot of noise (up to -40 dB) in the 16-22 kHz band, that's noise-shaping. (I see this on lots of albums.) If during a song's fade-out, the audio remains relatively clear even down to -70 or -80 dB, that's noise-shaping. (I'm still impressed by how clean the fade-outs on Genesis - Turn It On Again The Hits sound.) About half of the CDs that my family has bought and ripped recently had been mastered with a noise-shaping technology.
SVHS may be used elsewhere but it isn't really a consumer technology in that movies are not distributed in SVHS.
Likewise, hard drives may be used elsewhere but it isn't really a consumer technology in that movies are not (legitimately) distributed on hard drives.
Look back in history to other formats that were just better use of the same space. SVCD, HDCD (20 bit CD) SVHS, the list goes on. They didn't do too well did they?
SVCD did well, but not in the United States.
HDCD was not a new format but merely a mastering technique. The label made sure that the master data had at least 20 bits of precision, then they quantized to 16-bit in such a way as to shove all the dither noise into the 16-22 kHz band where humans can't hear very well.
SVHS and Betacam SP are still used in professional television equipment.
The article claims that the 1086 Book is still "perfectly usable". It is not. In order to understand it one has to know 1) Latin
In order to understand the source code to your precious Linux kernel one has to know 1) C
and 2) the odd medieval abbrevations common to Latin manuscripts in England at the time.
sed makes short work of those once the text has been ocr'd into a computer.
Both these skills are just as obsolete
Hardly. The Italian language is nothing more than the modern form of Latin. Any Italian speaker could be up to speed on Latin in a matter of weeks.
as BBC microcomputers.
The difference between knowledge of Latin and possession of a BBC micro is that Latin is software, whereas a BBC micro is hardware, and hardware costs much more to physically reproduce than software does.
There is no way in SGML [or XML] to say that [a particular markup] should have the effect of creating an underlined word that sends info to your browser when clicked on.
However, a Plain Old Ascii Text(tm) format document can describe the behavior of a particular application of SGML or XML. An example of such a document is the W3C HTML 4.01 spec.
TeX data actually defines specifically how it should be rendered.
Should have been '18 months' or '1.5 years'. Even a user at the Kap makes mistakes every once in a while, and sometimes, even the Preview Button doesn't catch every single one.
However, under the Freudian slip, after the current rate of doubling burns out, it may well slow down to 18 years per doubling.
Meanwhile, in other news, plans were just announced for(dalmatians; dalmatians<105; dalmatians++), Cinderella 3: I Just Want my Pumpkin Back, Your Honor, and Tron: The Musical.
Lastly, you rip an mp3 that is music you created to put up on mp3.com. I download it. If it has a copyright on it, and I didn't rip it, how do I play it?
"This europop remix of the Tetris theme has been arranged, performed, and ripped by Gregory Chekalin, who has authorized it for world distribution. This licence has been digitally signed by Gregory Chekalin." The SDMiPod verifies the signature, checks the license, and plays the MP3 file.
The artists should be signing up with web sites where they can sell their music directly to the public, say $3 per album with the profits split 50/50 with the distribution site, passing on the cost savings and still taking more per download than they get on each CD sold.
Vivendi Universal, one of the proponents of violating the Red Book standard, operates such a service, called MP3.com D.A.M. Artists like Gregory Chekalin who distribute their albums on D.A.M. for $10 a piece keep $5 a piece, and unlike Universal's other releases, D.A.M. discs are compatible with the Red Book, and they include cleartext 128 kbps MP3 files of all audio tracks.
Customize all you like, but the interface should be smart enough to recognize that certain cases is a "no no".
So how should it know that red on a green background is not a crash for a (color-blind) person's eyes? And how should it know that a 9-point default system font isn't a crash for somebody with vision problems? Heck, how does it handle the case of a blind user?
is cli the best way to browse the web? depends. lynx is good for news sites, not so good for porn!
Have you ever read an erotic novel? Or you just point-and-drool at the pictures?
is cli the best way to edit graphics? ummm.. let me know when the cli version of photoshop comes out and ill let you know.
Yes, drawing directly on a layer really needs a coordinate input device such as a mouse or tablet, but imagine the scriptability that could arise from a command-line image manipulator:
PS> layer background
PS> gamma red 1.2
PS> rotate 90deg
PS> scale 1/3 by 1/3
Levity aside, surely on a Linux system you do the simplest thing - log out of that user's system and log in again as yourself. Ta-da! Instant default interface. Or do as we do at work - share home directories, so that wherever you log in, you always get your very own preferences.
And either wait several minutes for your preferences and images to download over a 56K modem, or pay upwards of $200,000 in some areas to move to an area where broadband is available.
How's this: each point of karma earned (or whored, where's the distinction) allows the poster to "kill" (with sound and explosion effects please) upto 50 (!!) humongous animated ad banners.
You could probably just hack my Hampsterdeath game to do that, by replacing the five hamster bitmaps with stereotypical ad banners.
This story claims that it's all okay because a) it's within the law
Spam is already defined and illegal, according to the junk fax law (47 USC 227). The law defines "fax machine" so as to include any computer with a telephone modem.
When Beowulf clusters came out (obligitory reference) lots of 'unbreakable' encryption was considered suspect (eg DES) Any encryption system is only secure for a limited amount of time. When new hardware/software comes out the limit is shortened.
Not so fast. Moore's law states that transistor density (and thus computer power per square foot) doubles every 18 years, and a doubling of computer power reduces effective key length by only one bit. Given that one of the world's largest clusters hasn't yet cracked a 64-bit key, barring some sort of quantum breakthrough, I see a 128-bit key as potentially running into the limits of the silicon that underlies our current classical computing architecture. Do you really believe that Moore's law will hold for the next century (i.e. time for 64 doublings)?
Eg don't put a $40,000 dollar lock on a $2 product.
More like a $2 million product if you sell one copy to a pirate who makes 2 million copies through a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
NT is built upo an HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) which makes it actually seen as software so, it is obvious DRM hardware can't be 100% secure !?
Versions 5.0 and later of NT Kernel, used in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, include support for signed device drivers. When you install a device driver, the OS tells you whether or not Microsoft Hardware Compatibility Labs has digitally signed the driver. Signed audio drivers must support a function to turn off all cleartext digital outputs, and applications can choose to output only to signed drivers. See also Secure Audio Path.
However, without watermarks, Microsoft won't be able to stop D/A/D copying, and the standard SDMI watermarks have already been broken.
You forgot Hunchback of Notre Dame, Cinderella, Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, etc.
Winnie-the-Pooh isn't expired. Di$ney just bought the rights outright from the company that inherited them from the Milne family. Under the Bono Act, "The House at Pooh Corner" (1928) by A. A. Milne (d. 1956), which introduced many of the popular Pooh characters, doesn't expire in the US until 2024 (1928+96) or in the EU until 2027 (1956+71).
Gah. You're not "first world". America is the "new world" (aka 2nd).
No. The first world was countries that fought on the U.S. side in the cold war (U.S., Canada, western Europe, etc). The second world was the Soviet Bloc (no relation to Soviet blocks). Countries too small for either superpower (USSA or USSR) to notice came to be known collectively as the third world; after the cold war ended, "third world" continued to refer to developing countries.
Poll: Which world will achieve 50% adoption of IPv6 first?
We could have a cntral database where everybody applies for a unique, easy to remember computer name.
Yes, I know about DynDNS, but that doesn't help if all your access provider offers under $1000/mo is 15-minute DHCP leases on IPv6/128 (single) addresses.
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I think, therefore <iframe>.
The jsp, asp programmer doesnt need to know how that content will be presented.(ie. color, font size etc...).Three words: Cascading Style Sheets.
Can Flash content be made accessible to all readers, even the visually impaired who use a speechreader or a Braille terminal? HTML can.
Perhaps its time you ditched that 56K dial-up connection in favour of cable or DSL.
For one thing, getting cable or DSL costs $200,000 in some situations, and for another, you can only get DSL from one physical location, whereas you can get dial-up anywhere your ISP has a modem pool. This is important for mobile people such as anybody in college where the college Internet connection isn't five-nines reliable.
Oh my God!! You want to put thousands of computers to factoring a large prime ?
For the record, grandparent probably meant either factoring a large candidate prime that has been tested a few times against Fermat's little theorem, or factoring a product of a small number of large primes.
It still doesn't hide the fact that [noise-shaped mastering] isn't widely accepted.
Ever look at your CDs through Cool Edit's spectrograph? If, during quiet parts, you see a lot of noise (up to -40 dB) in the 16-22 kHz band, that's noise-shaping. (I see this on lots of albums.) If during a song's fade-out, the audio remains relatively clear even down to -70 or -80 dB, that's noise-shaping. (I'm still impressed by how clean the fade-outs on Genesis - Turn It On Again The Hits sound.) About half of the CDs that my family has bought and ripped recently had been mastered with a noise-shaping technology.
SVHS may be used elsewhere but it isn't really a consumer technology in that movies are not distributed in SVHS.
Likewise, hard drives may be used elsewhere but it isn't really a consumer technology in that movies are not (legitimately) distributed on hard drives.
Look back in history to other formats that were just better use of the same space. SVCD, HDCD (20 bit CD) SVHS, the list goes on. They didn't do too well did they?
SVCD did well, but not in the United States.
HDCD was not a new format but merely a mastering technique. The label made sure that the master data had at least 20 bits of precision, then they quantized to 16-bit in such a way as to shove all the dither noise into the 16-22 kHz band where humans can't hear very well.
SVHS and Betacam SP are still used in professional television equipment.
The article claims that the 1086 Book is still "perfectly usable". It is not. In order to understand it one has to know 1) Latin
In order to understand the source code to your precious Linux kernel one has to know 1) C
and 2) the odd medieval abbrevations common to Latin manuscripts in England at the time.
sed makes short work of those once the text has been ocr'd into a computer.
Both these skills are just as obsolete
Hardly. The Italian language is nothing more than the modern form of Latin. Any Italian speaker could be up to speed on Latin in a matter of weeks.
as BBC microcomputers.
The difference between knowledge of Latin and possession of a BBC micro is that Latin is software, whereas a BBC micro is hardware, and hardware costs much more to physically reproduce than software does.
There is no way in SGML [or XML] to say that [a particular markup] should have the effect of creating an underlined word that sends info to your browser when clicked on.
However, a Plain Old Ascii Text(tm) format document can describe the behavior of a particular application of SGML or XML. An example of such a document is the W3C HTML 4.01 spec.
TeX data actually defines specifically how it should be rendered.
So does XHTML + CSS.
Should have been '18 months' or '1.5 years'. Even a user at the Kap makes mistakes every once in a while, and sometimes, even the Preview Button doesn't catch every single one.
However, under the Freudian slip, after the current rate of doubling burns out, it may well slow down to 18 years per doubling.
Meanwhile, in other news, plans were just announced for(dalmatians; dalmatians<105; dalmatians++), Cinderella 3: I Just Want my Pumpkin Back, Your Honor, and Tron: The Musical.
Notably absent is Pinocchio II, possibly because another studio got there first and f*cked it up.
Lastly, you rip an mp3 that is music you created to put up on mp3.com. I download it. If it has a copyright on it, and I didn't rip it, how do I play it?
"This europop remix of the Tetris theme has been arranged, performed, and ripped by Gregory Chekalin, who has authorized it for world distribution. This licence has been digitally signed by Gregory Chekalin." The SDMiPod verifies the signature, checks the license, and plays the MP3 file.
If it doesn't have a copyright on it
Huh? Doesn't every work have a copyright on it from creation? Nothing expires into PD anymore.
The artists should be signing up with web sites where they can sell their music directly to the public, say $3 per album with the profits split 50/50 with the distribution site, passing on the cost savings and still taking more per download than they get on each CD sold.
Vivendi Universal, one of the proponents of violating the Red Book standard, operates such a service, called MP3.com D.A.M. Artists like Gregory Chekalin who distribute their albums on D.A.M. for $10 a piece keep $5 a piece, and unlike Universal's other releases, D.A.M. discs are compatible with the Red Book, and they include cleartext 128 kbps MP3 files of all audio tracks.
Customize all you like, but the interface should be smart enough to recognize that certain cases is a "no no".
So how should it know that red on a green background is not a crash for a (color-blind) person's eyes? And how should it know that a 9-point default system font isn't a crash for somebody with vision problems? Heck, how does it handle the case of a blind user?
is cli the best way to browse the web? depends. lynx is good for news sites, not so good for porn!
Have you ever read an erotic novel? Or you just point-and-drool at the pictures?
is cli the best way to edit graphics? ummm.. let me know when the cli version of photoshop comes out and ill let you know.
Yes, drawing directly on a layer really needs a coordinate input device such as a mouse or tablet, but imagine the scriptability that could arise from a command-line image manipulator:
Here's a clone of Photoshop Elements with a command-line.
Levity aside, surely on a Linux system you do the simplest thing - log out of that user's system and log in again as yourself. Ta-da! Instant default interface. Or do as we do at work - share home directories, so that wherever you log in, you always get your very own preferences.
And either wait several minutes for your preferences and images to download over a 56K modem, or pay upwards of $200,000 in some areas to move to an area where broadband is available.
How's this: each point of karma earned (or whored, where's the distinction) allows the poster to "kill" (with sound and explosion effects please) upto 50 (!!) humongous animated ad banners.
You could probably just hack my Hampsterdeath game to do that, by replacing the five hamster bitmaps with stereotypical ad banners.
Patent laws will be pending
I have the prior art.
Unless this was pre-cap, in which case low UIDs would have been common at the time and hence worth less. When was the cap introduced?
Worth not very much less. The Karma Kap wasn't introduced until at least 200000.
This story claims that it's all okay because a) it's within the law
Spam is already defined and illegal, according to the junk fax law (47 USC 227). The law defines "fax machine" so as to include any computer with a telephone modem.
Check out some of the winning entries from IOCCC competitions and then tell me code can't be completely obfuscated.
Many if not most of the IOCCC entries can be effectively de-obfuscated by running `cpp' (C pre-processor) then GNU `indent' on the code.
When Beowulf clusters came out (obligitory reference) lots of 'unbreakable' encryption was considered suspect (eg DES) Any encryption system is only secure for a limited amount of time. When new hardware/software comes out the limit is shortened.
Not so fast. Moore's law states that transistor density (and thus computer power per square foot) doubles every 18 years, and a doubling of computer power reduces effective key length by only one bit. Given that one of the world's largest clusters hasn't yet cracked a 64-bit key, barring some sort of quantum breakthrough, I see a 128-bit key as potentially running into the limits of the silicon that underlies our current classical computing architecture. Do you really believe that Moore's law will hold for the next century (i.e. time for 64 doublings)?
Eg don't put a $40,000 dollar lock on a $2 product.
More like a $2 million product if you sell one copy to a pirate who makes 2 million copies through a peer-to-peer file sharing network.
NT is built upo an HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) which makes it actually seen as software so, it is obvious DRM hardware can't be 100% secure !?
Versions 5.0 and later of NT Kernel, used in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, include support for signed device drivers. When you install a device driver, the OS tells you whether or not Microsoft Hardware Compatibility Labs has digitally signed the driver. Signed audio drivers must support a function to turn off all cleartext digital outputs, and applications can choose to output only to signed drivers. See also Secure Audio Path.
However, without watermarks, Microsoft won't be able to stop D/A/D copying, and the standard SDMI watermarks have already been broken.
You forgot Hunchback of Notre Dame, Cinderella, Snow White, Winnie the Pooh, etc.
Winnie-the-Pooh isn't expired. Di$ney just bought the rights outright from the company that inherited them from the Milne family. Under the Bono Act, "The House at Pooh Corner" (1928) by A. A. Milne (d. 1956), which introduced many of the popular Pooh characters, doesn't expire in the US until 2024 (1928+96) or in the EU until 2027 (1956+71).
Ahh yes, but [Disney] don't derive, look at their view of such things as: 'anastasia'
Di$ney never animated Anastasia. That was Fox.
Gah. You're not "first world". America is the "new world" (aka 2nd).
No. The first world was countries that fought on the U.S. side in the cold war (U.S., Canada, western Europe, etc). The second world was the Soviet Bloc (no relation to Soviet blocks). Countries too small for either superpower (USSA or USSR) to notice came to be known collectively as the third world; after the cold war ended, "third world" continued to refer to developing countries.
Poll: Which world will achieve 50% adoption of IPv6 first?
We could have a cntral database where everybody applies for a unique, easy to remember computer name.
Yes, I know about DynDNS, but that doesn't help if all your access provider offers under $1000/mo is 15-minute DHCP leases on IPv6 /128 (single) addresses.
a slightly corrupt Google is better than no Google at all!!!
A slightly corrupt Google ceases to be Google. I can see no reason why Google would have to mix its sponsored links with the rest of the results.