Consider "ATM machine" as opposed to "ATM data link" as opposed to "at the moment" abbreviated as opposed to "Adobe Type Manager" as opposed to everything else you find on. The pedantically redundant phrase "ATM machine" adds clarity.
People ignore Ninnle Linux because they believe it doesn't exist. To prove otherwise, please provide the URI of a publicly accesible web site where I can download Ninnle ISOs or purchase Ninnle CDs.
It would initially appear very easy, as the GNU Texinfo distribution includes HTML output support. Then use the w3m browser to read the documents. Oh, but then you'll have to write wrapper scripts to translate package names into file:/// URLs, implement your own search function... now you've just reimplemented info with different key bindings!
most distro makers out of pride, prejudice or whatever refuse to make [mplayer] the default player for media files.
You mentioned two P-words: pride and prejudice. What about a third? The codecs often used with mplayer are encumbered by patents that would typically[1] be too expensive for a distributor to secure a worldwide license. There are exceptions to every rule, but Sorenson, MPEG-4, AAC, and AC3 are not such exceptions.
Does a simple calculator require training to use effectively? Likewise a user will expect the same from a PC.
There's a lot of difference between a machine with possibly 256 bytes of memory and one with 256 megabytes. One will be more complicated than the other, just as a tractor-trailer is more complicated than a tricycle.
It says it's 5-10x the speed of the Super Nintendo, with 2-4x the graphic power. That's better than the current Gameboy Advance!
Are you sure? The Super NES had a 3.6 MHz 65c816 processor, essentially a 6502 with 16-bit registers and a 24-bit address bus. The sound side of the system had a Sony SPC700 processor at 2 MHz, which was in essence a 6502 with a reshuffled instruction set encoding. The GBA, on the other hand, has a 16.78 MHz ARM7TDMI processor with a halfway modern RISC design. This XGameStation has a "Third-generation Motorola 68HCS12 16-bit processor @ 25 MHz" according to the spec sheet. A speed rating in MHz is relevant only when combined with operations per clock, but because a couple minutes of Google searching didn't tell me whether or not the 68HCS12 is pipelined (the 6809 wasn't, and neither was the 68000), I can't guess an operations-per-clock value for the 68HCS12.
Also, it's projected to be $99.
Yeah, but the GBA is only $99 ($70 for the GBA and $29 for the coder's cable), and it's a handheld.
We should be able to rent the latest cd's from video stores and anything ancient, out of print or 10 years or older should be available in the public library.
In 1984, the U.S. Congress banned the "rental, lease, or lending" of phonorecords without the express consent of both the recording artists' record labels and the songwriters' music publishers. Find the details in 17 USC 109(b).
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Then why isn't Universal Music Group, no connection to Time Warner except through MPAA and RIAA, attacking America Online?
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why would the subpoena not come from a federal court instead of a locality?
GNU GPL section 7: "if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program." And IBM continues to distribute GNU/Linux.
If i want to change only 1 value, i can find that faster in a form than i can open a terminal window, than an editor, the file, search the correct line and than save it.
What's faster of the following?
log in to a terminal, start an editor with the file, search for the correct line and then save it
get X11 working with your video card (because most forms run only in X11, not from the terminal as in make menuconfig), log in, search for the correct form, and switch the setting
I tried copy-and-pasting a table from Mozilla into OOCalc, and it just worked.
Thanks for the data point. Now please try copying and pasting a bitmap image from one app to another, preferably between two apps using different toolkits (e.g. a GTK+ app and a Qt app), and tell us whether it worked.
IBM distributes copies of the Linux kernel and much of the GNU user environment under the GNU General Public License. Per the conditions of the GNU GPL, IBM grants a fully-paid-up license covering any patents that read on the software to all recipients of the software. (A patent "reads on" a device if all the elements of at least one of the patent's claims are present in the device.)
MacOS X is riddled with stupid usability problems, trivial example: dragging the CD to the trash can in order to eject it. Woo, intuitive.
In Mac OS 8, I could select any removable disk and choose Eject from the File menu, or I could ctrl+click any partition and choose Eject from the context menu, or I could drag the removable disk's icon on top of the Trash icon. All would accomplish the same thing.
(To those who remember Mac OS 1-7's eject command that produced an ejected-but-still-mounted "ghost disk", where the user who wanted to unmount a disk was supposed to "Put Away" the disk rather than "Eject" it, this behavior was changed in Mac OS 8.0.)
The 'auto' file system in Linux/etc/fstab does something similar.
So it goes like this: Detect that a disk has been inserted (most drive types provide a sense bit that can be polled twice a second), discover the type of file system, read the volume label (in some systems, it's the name of the root directory), and then create a symlink. Then, when the user holds down the eject button for more than half a second, sync and unmount the file system and kick out the disk. Notice that the last step won't work for disks that use completely mechanical ejects (e.g. 3.5" floppy), so I'd suggest syncing a second after a write and then unmounting based on polled drive door signals.
the Amiga did this by maintaining handles to named volumes, not devices.
I remember that Mac OS 1-9 did something similar, but I forget: how did this work? What if I format a floppy, name it, eject it, format another floppy, name it the same, put a file on it, open that file, eject it, and stick in the first floppy? How, if at all, does the OS tell them apart?
If someone can physicly touch the system, isn't it safe to assume that the he/she is the system admin?
Not under the DMCA and foreign counterparts. Look at what happens to companies that sell devices that connect to the Xbox game console to open up administrative access.
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"cash" is something individuals have. "finances/accounting" is something businesses have.
"Cash flow" is also something businesses have. See also this definition of "cash flow".
Just say no to redundancy!
Thn wh 'vn 's vwls?
Remember Sammy Jankis?
Consider "ATM machine" as opposed to "ATM data link" as opposed to "at the moment" abbreviated as opposed to "Adobe Type Manager" as opposed to everything else you find on. The pedantically redundant phrase "ATM machine" adds clarity.
People ignore Ninnle Linux because they believe it doesn't exist. To prove otherwise, please provide the URI of a publicly accesible web site where I can download Ninnle ISOs or purchase Ninnle CDs.
How hard would it be to use HTML instead?!
It would initially appear very easy, as the GNU Texinfo distribution includes HTML output support. Then use the w3m browser to read the documents. Oh, but then you'll have to write wrapper scripts to translate package names into file:/// URLs, implement your own search function... now you've just reimplemented info with different key bindings!
most distro makers out of pride, prejudice or whatever refuse to make [mplayer] the default player for media files.
You mentioned two P-words: pride and prejudice. What about a third? The codecs often used with mplayer are encumbered by patents that would typically[1] be too expensive for a distributor to secure a worldwide license. There are exceptions to every rule, but Sorenson, MPEG-4, AAC, and AC3 are not such exceptions.
Does a simple calculator require training to use effectively? Likewise a user will expect the same from a PC.
There's a lot of difference between a machine with possibly 256 bytes of memory and one with 256 megabytes. One will be more complicated than the other, just as a tractor-trailer is more complicated than a tricycle.
Where can I pick up an affordable oscilloscope?
along with the 'Phoenix Bios Loader' which proceeds to load whatever 3rd party or hacked retail BIOS I choose.
LAWSUIT! Phoenix makes BIOS programs for PCs.
It says it's 5-10x the speed of the Super Nintendo, with 2-4x the graphic power. That's better than the current Gameboy Advance!
Are you sure? The Super NES had a 3.6 MHz 65c816 processor, essentially a 6502 with 16-bit registers and a 24-bit address bus. The sound side of the system had a Sony SPC700 processor at 2 MHz, which was in essence a 6502 with a reshuffled instruction set encoding. The GBA, on the other hand, has a 16.78 MHz ARM7TDMI processor with a halfway modern RISC design. This XGameStation has a "Third-generation Motorola 68HCS12 16-bit processor @ 25 MHz" according to the spec sheet. A speed rating in MHz is relevant only when combined with operations per clock, but because a couple minutes of Google searching didn't tell me whether or not the 68HCS12 is pipelined (the 6809 wasn't, and neither was the 68000), I can't guess an operations-per-clock value for the 68HCS12.
Also, it's projected to be $99.
Yeah, but the GBA is only $99 ($70 for the GBA and $29 for the coder's cable), and it's a handheld.
We should be able to rent the latest cd's from video stores and anything ancient, out of print or 10 years or older should be available in the public library.
In 1984, the U.S. Congress banned the "rental, lease, or lending" of phonorecords without the express consent of both the recording artists' record labels and the songwriters' music publishers. Find the details in 17 USC 109(b).
Then why isn't Universal Music Group, no connection to Time Warner except through MPAA and RIAA, attacking America Online?
why would the subpoena not come from a federal court instead of a locality?
Because, as it has been pointed out several times, there are scores of federal courts, one in each locality.
IBM distributes kernel patches, licensed under the GNU GPL, that let the Linux kernel run on IBM zSeries hardware.
Could you post a link to more info about that?
GNU GPL section 7: "if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program." And IBM continues to distribute GNU/Linux.
If i want to change only 1 value, i can find that faster in a form than i can open a terminal window, than an editor, the file, search the correct line and than save it.
What's faster of the following?
I tried copy-and-pasting a table from Mozilla into OOCalc, and it just worked.
Thanks for the data point. Now please try copying and pasting a bitmap image from one app to another, preferably between two apps using different toolkits (e.g. a GTK+ app and a Qt app), and tell us whether it worked.
See if anyone else has already asked the question and see if it's been answered.
But what if the question has been asked and answered, but it has been worded differently from how a particular user in need of help would word it?
IBM distributes copies of the Linux kernel and much of the GNU user environment under the GNU General Public License. Per the conditions of the GNU GPL, IBM grants a fully-paid-up license covering any patents that read on the software to all recipients of the software. (A patent "reads on" a device if all the elements of at least one of the patent's claims are present in the device.)
MacOS X is riddled with stupid usability problems, trivial example: dragging the CD to the trash can in order to eject it. Woo, intuitive.
In Mac OS 8, I could select any removable disk and choose Eject from the File menu, or I could ctrl+click any partition and choose Eject from the context menu, or I could drag the removable disk's icon on top of the Trash icon. All would accomplish the same thing.
(To those who remember Mac OS 1-7's eject command that produced an ejected-but-still-mounted "ghost disk", where the user who wanted to unmount a disk was supposed to "Put Away" the disk rather than "Eject" it, this behavior was changed in Mac OS 8.0.)
So a program would look for lemmings2: and you could put it in any drive and find it.
Then what if I rename another disk to lemmings2: and insert it? What fireworks will ensue?
Besides how do you easilly find the volume name of a media with an unknown filesystem?
man 1 file
The 'auto' file system in Linux /etc/fstab does something similar.
So it goes like this: Detect that a disk has been inserted (most drive types provide a sense bit that can be polled twice a second), discover the type of file system, read the volume label (in some systems, it's the name of the root directory), and then create a symlink. Then, when the user holds down the eject button for more than half a second, sync and unmount the file system and kick out the disk. Notice that the last step won't work for disks that use completely mechanical ejects (e.g. 3.5" floppy), so I'd suggest syncing a second after a write and then unmounting based on polled drive door signals.
the Amiga did this by maintaining handles to named volumes, not devices.
I remember that Mac OS 1-9 did something similar, but I forget: how did this work? What if I format a floppy, name it, eject it, format another floppy, name it the same, put a file on it, open that file, eject it, and stick in the first floppy? How, if at all, does the OS tell them apart?
If someone can physicly touch the system, isn't it safe to assume that the he/she is the system admin?
Not under the DMCA and foreign counterparts. Look at what happens to companies that sell devices that connect to the Xbox game console to open up administrative access.