We had a Canon LBP8-III which we used for years, I could be wrong but it might even have been getting on for a decade. It was likewise slow but it worked relentlesly up until the day it died only once needing the heat roller replaced because it got damaged. After that printer we seem to have got through several in the subsequent years.
The thought occurs that if you mine enough of the moon to significantly change it's mass, you'll have the knock on effect of changing the earths tidal patterns, since they're controled by the moon's gravitational pull on the water. With less mass, you have less gravitational attraction.
I could be wrong, it's a long time since I studied physics, but I remember something about big Gs and gravitational attraction being relative to the distance between two bodies...
Marconi was the man who invented the wireless, and transmitted the first ever radio signal. People with WLAN should probably say thank you to him. His first ever transmission was done 10 miles down the road from where I live (Maldon), in Chelmsford.
All that says is that the computer they attacked as to be within UK jurisdiction or the person commiting the offense has to be within UK jurisdiction. If they attack a server within the UK, they commit an offence under the law. It just stops you prosecuting people for doing things from outside the UK to outside the UK.
The UK's Computer Misuse Act says much the same, but I suspect extradicion is out of the question, you could however arrest them as soon as they stepped foot on British soil (or possibly European soil if Eurowide arrest warrants come in to force).
I like the prospect of arresting any RIAA offical entering Europe.
Text of the UK act can be found here. This is incidently the law which has an addition pending atm, specificly making DoS attacks illegal, mentioned in an earlier/. article, which I can't be bothered to try and find.
And when the hit UK based sites they'll get themselves charges under the UK's Anti Terrorism Act, which is now so loosely worded that DoS attacks can be considered a terrorist attack. I like the irony.
On a slightly more serious note, what makes the US think it can claim juristiction over systems in other countries, when no-one else is allowed to do it back to them; you can't your cake and eat it I'm affraid.
And I suspect all that will happen is the RIAA and anyone else trying it will find their routes getting droped at core routers all over the world. BGP can be wonderfuly selective.
Personaly I buy the CD, then rip it to MP3 because it's easier for me to listen to then.
In general I own the CD of every album I have in MP3, with a few minor exceptions where I can't easily get the CD, most of those I eventualy manage to get hold of eventualy and re-rip them myself because I prefer a slighly higher bitrate to the average 128kbps.
If it wasn't for friends giving me MP3s I would never have heard of several bands, such as HIM, Blind Guardian or VNV Nation, to mention a few, let alone gone out and bought their CDs and go to their gigs when they play in the UK (which I have, Blind Guardian gig in August *whoo*).
I couldn't however download ISO images for FreeBSD or Solaris (both fully legitimate downloads) on ISDN without going bankrupt very quickly. Not to mention possibly dying of old age.
CDE is possibly the most evil desktop enviroment I've ever used...and probably why I compiled KDE3 instead, once I figured out how to add KDE3 to dtlogin's menu that is (damned if I could actually find any docs on that on docs.sun.com).
I personaly think file formats should be standards, that way you choose software not based on what's compatible with your existing files, but what works best for you, whether that be feature set, interface, price, whatever. It should also make things much more competative, since all (like) programs will automaticly be able to read everyone elses data, as they'll be essentialy be the same.
You can even provide a mechanism with the file format standard to allow extensions so that programs can store pseudo proprietery data in the files too, so long as the format of that pseudo proprietry data is made available to everyone else (I'm thinking extra information not needed to actualy render the data containted in the file, but which acts as an extra helper or pointer for it).
If you think about all like applications essentialy store the same data, so you could have a Standard File Format for say word processor documents, one for spreadsheets, etc...you could of course just combine them all into one massive standard and used data IDs to identify what kind of data is in the file...which would open the possibility to have a single file containing multi-application data, which is independant, but related (great for distributing project files).
He's been doing this for 20 years, it's his lifes research, he's a professor now, he's been interestesd in this field since he was a student.
The electrodes as far as I can tell are implanted under the skin, which means to remove them you would have to break them out of the skin, they're not designed to be removed except under clinical conditions I suspect...security gaurds randomly grabbing things is hardly clinical.
Personaly anyone who believe in their research enough to get this involved with it deserves one hell of a lot of respect, this is the very definition of putting your money where your mouth is.
If your body constantly uses something then it begins to expect it to be there, if you suddenly rip it all out you will seriously disorientate the body and it will not thankyou for it...think of it akin to someone who looses their sight or hearing during adulthood - it's seriously disorientating to them because it's always been there and they don't know how to function without it.
The whole fiasco sounds like someone on a powertrip to me...which went to far but by then they couldn't back down.
Imagine if we kept that mindset, geezus, none of us would of ever left dos.
Some people haven't - or have only just stopped using it, I created a SCADA system to replace an old system only last year, the old system was DOS based.:)
I for one fail to see what so many people are getting worked up about, all he's suggesting is some level of colaboration between the KDE and GNOME projects; which is a perfectly sensible idea imo.
I would love to be able to use which ever evnviroment I wanted, but maintain the overall apperance of desktop, if my gnome apps (such as X-Chat) would pickup the styling of my KDE enviroment (as I am want to use) it would be great.
Co-operation is a good thing, so is standardisation to a certain degree, it doesn't take away your choice, it gives you more, if you could compile your X applications against either KDE or GNOME libs without having to have conditional code things would be a lot easier, you can just pick whichever you wanted to link against; how is that reducing your options?
Why do I get the feeling so many people decide that nothing RMS says can be a good thing and go off half-cocked at the slightest excuse? I don't agree with all his POV's, but at least I'll give credit for when he does something I agree with and try to shoot him down for no reason.
Sometimes it seems Australia is the only place that actually has a good stance on the various region protection systems and copyrights. Shame they go and screw it all up with their censorship laws.
<troll>No, it's just we know the only the people worth talking to will understand it.<troll>
At least we're not affraid to post as ourselves - post and loose karma...hmm, possibly a slight paraphrase of Publish and Be Damned; if so appologies to the (then) Duke of Wellington.
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We had a Canon LBP8-III which we used for years, I could be wrong but it might even have been getting on for a decade. It was likewise slow but it worked relentlesly up until the day it died only once needing the heat roller replaced because it got damaged. After that printer we seem to have got through several in the subsequent years.
The thought occurs that if you mine enough of the moon to significantly change it's mass, you'll have the knock on effect of changing the earths tidal patterns, since they're controled by the moon's gravitational pull on the water. With less mass, you have less gravitational attraction.
I could be wrong, it's a long time since I studied physics, but I remember something about big Gs and gravitational attraction being relative to the distance between two bodies...
Marconi was the man who invented the wireless, and transmitted the first ever radio signal. People with WLAN should probably say thank you to him. His first ever transmission was done 10 miles down the road from where I live (Maldon), in Chelmsford.
They already tried that in 1812.
Why is everyone so damn cynical nowdays?
All that says is that the computer they attacked as to be within UK jurisdiction or the person commiting the offense has to be within UK jurisdiction. If they attack a server within the UK, they commit an offence under the law. It just stops you prosecuting people for doing things from outside the UK to outside the UK.
That's only useful if your servers have serial consoles from the time they switch on, which Suns do, but no PC I know of does.
The UK's Computer Misuse Act says much the same, but I suspect extradicion is out of the question, you could however arrest them as soon as they stepped foot on British soil (or possibly European soil if Eurowide arrest warrants come in to force).
I like the prospect of arresting any RIAA offical entering Europe.
Text of the UK act can be found here. This is incidently the law which has an addition pending atm, specificly making DoS attacks illegal, mentioned in an earlier /. article, which I can't be bothered to try and find.
And when the hit UK based sites they'll get themselves charges under the UK's Anti Terrorism Act, which is now so loosely worded that DoS attacks can be considered a terrorist attack. I like the irony.
On a slightly more serious note, what makes the US think it can claim juristiction over systems in other countries, when no-one else is allowed to do it back to them; you can't your cake and eat it I'm affraid.
And I suspect all that will happen is the RIAA and anyone else trying it will find their routes getting droped at core routers all over the world. BGP can be wonderfuly selective.
Personaly I buy the CD, then rip it to MP3 because it's easier for me to listen to then.
In general I own the CD of every album I have in MP3, with a few minor exceptions where I can't easily get the CD, most of those I eventualy manage to get hold of eventualy and re-rip them myself because I prefer a slighly higher bitrate to the average 128kbps.
If it wasn't for friends giving me MP3s I would never have heard of several bands, such as HIM, Blind Guardian or VNV Nation, to mention a few, let alone gone out and bought their CDs and go to their gigs when they play in the UK (which I have, Blind Guardian gig in August *whoo*).
I couldn't however download ISO images for FreeBSD or Solaris (both fully legitimate downloads) on ISDN without going bankrupt very quickly. Not to mention possibly dying of old age.
Depends on your view of important.
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it -- George Santayana
CDE is possibly the most evil desktop enviroment I've ever used...and probably why I compiled KDE3 instead, once I figured out how to add KDE3 to dtlogin's menu that is (damned if I could actually find any docs on that on docs.sun.com).
Well, I must be right then *g*
I personaly think file formats should be standards, that way you choose software not based on what's compatible with your existing files, but what works best for you, whether that be feature set, interface, price, whatever. It should also make things much more competative, since all (like) programs will automaticly be able to read everyone elses data, as they'll be essentialy be the same.
You can even provide a mechanism with the file format standard to allow extensions so that programs can store pseudo proprietery data in the files too, so long as the format of that pseudo proprietry data is made available to everyone else (I'm thinking extra information not needed to actualy render the data containted in the file, but which acts as an extra helper or pointer for it).
If you think about all like applications essentialy store the same data, so you could have a Standard File Format for say word processor documents, one for spreadsheets, etc...you could of course just combine them all into one massive standard and used data IDs to identify what kind of data is in the file...which would open the possibility to have a single file containing multi-application data, which is independant, but related (great for distributing project files).
Just some random thoughts.
If you read any stories you'd know that's becuase of large free web hosting companies switching to IIS. Which is their problem.
He's been doing this for 20 years, it's his lifes research, he's a professor now, he's been interestesd in this field since he was a student.
The electrodes as far as I can tell are implanted under the skin, which means to remove them you would have to break them out of the skin, they're not designed to be removed except under clinical conditions I suspect...security gaurds randomly grabbing things is hardly clinical.
Personaly anyone who believe in their research enough to get this involved with it deserves one hell of a lot of respect, this is the very definition of putting your money where your mouth is.
If your body constantly uses something then it begins to expect it to be there, if you suddenly rip it all out you will seriously disorientate the body and it will not thankyou for it...think of it akin to someone who looses their sight or hearing during adulthood - it's seriously disorientating to them because it's always been there and they don't know how to function without it.
The whole fiasco sounds like someone on a powertrip to me...which went to far but by then they couldn't back down.
I figure it's Apple loss and we probably all think slightly less of them than we did 10mins ago - ageist swines ;)
Some people haven't - or have only just stopped using it, I created a SCADA system to replace an old system only last year, the old system was DOS based. :)
I for one fail to see what so many people are getting worked up about, all he's suggesting is some level of colaboration between the KDE and GNOME projects; which is a perfectly sensible idea imo.
I would love to be able to use which ever evnviroment I wanted, but maintain the overall apperance of desktop, if my gnome apps (such as X-Chat) would pickup the styling of my KDE enviroment (as I am want to use) it would be great.
Co-operation is a good thing, so is standardisation to a certain degree, it doesn't take away your choice, it gives you more, if you could compile your X applications against either KDE or GNOME libs without having to have conditional code things would be a lot easier, you can just pick whichever you wanted to link against; how is that reducing your options?
Why do I get the feeling so many people decide that nothing RMS says can be a good thing and go off half-cocked at the slightest excuse? I don't agree with all his POV's, but at least I'll give credit for when he does something I agree with and try to shoot him down for no reason.
Let the flames and recriminations begin.
Congrats to the both of you and Taco, you are far too much of a geek.
Fellowship of The Ring. HTH, HAND.
Sometimes it seems Australia is the only place that actually has a good stance on the various region protection systems and copyrights. Shame they go and screw it all up with their censorship laws.
Nothing to stop you learning how technology works once you have it, anyway I've checked and they developed it themselves after the Klingon Unifcation.
Yes I am sad. No, I don't care.
<troll>No, it's just we know the only the people worth talking to will understand it.<troll>
At least we're not affraid to post as ourselves - post and loose karma...hmm, possibly a slight paraphrase of Publish and Be Damned; if so appologies to the (then) Duke of Wellington.