You do know that urban legends aren't necessarily untrue, right? Read the snopes.com FAQ:
Q: Why do you have some true stories listed as "urban legends"?
A: An "urban legend" is not the same thing as a "fictional tale" or an "apocryphal anecdote," although many people mistakenly use the term in that sense (e.g., "That's not true; it's just an urban legend!"). A tale is considered to be an urban legend if it circulates widely, is told and re-told with differing details (or exists in multiple versions), and is said to be true. Whether or not the events described in the tale ever actually occurred is completely irrelevant to its classification as an urban legend.
Sure, I'm just disagreeing with Politburo's statement that, "With file sharing, no one is getting paid, except the bandwidth providers." One might argue that record labels aren't getting paid enough for the number of listeners (in fact, isn't that pretty much what this whole article is about?:), but it's incorrect to say that the labels aren't getting paid at all.
It's not about who pays the money, it's about whether or not the money is actually being paid. With radio, tv, libraries, video rentals, etc., someone is still paying the publishers. With file sharing, no one is getting paid, except the bandwidth providers.
With file sharing, the record labels are getting paid--someone bought and ripped all those songs that are on P2P networks.
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In some cases that hardware can cost as low as a buck.
Which cases would that be? The license I've seen says that a desktop OS (such as XP) must be distributed with either a fully assembled computer system, which "shall consist of at least a central processing unit, a motherboard, a hard drive, a power supply, and a case," or a "nonperipheral computer hardware component (that will be an integral part of
the computer system on which the Software Unit will be installed)." I can't see anyone selling either of those for $1. The "nonperipheral computer hardware component" is a bit vague, and I've seen some places try to claim that some dinky cable that probably won't even get used is "an integral part of the computer," but I'm doubtful if that'd hold up if MS called them on it.
FWIW, I bought an OEM copy of XP Pro for a system I put together for my dad, and in that case I really did buy a motherboard, CPU, HD, PS, and case to go with it. Was certainly a lot better than paying retail...
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I "might" fire up a linux box to use asterix though.
The Gaul? I don't think he's into being "used" in that manner.
The submitter mentions, "cool machine vision applications" and "direct capturing of video onto the hard drive," so I'd guess that's where the stream is going to.
I haven't tried streaming with the firewire, since I don't have the cable, but I don't see why you would need firewire instead of USB - unless you have some tremendous amount of upstream bandwidth.
If you're happy with the compressed and/or low-res video you can fit through the USB port, that's fine, but a full DV stream is around 25Mbps. "Full speed" USB can't do that; you'd need either firewire or "high speed" USB (2.0). However, I don't know of any cameras that have high speed USB ports--firewire is the standard for getting a DV stream out of a camera.
Come to think of it, your other expansions aren't quite correct either (though they're closer).
CDMA is Code Division Multiple Access, and doesn't have anything to do with "real & imaginary parts of the signal." Real and imaginary are useful ways to denote things in math and physics, but there's no such distinction in the real world. You can't broadcast a "real" or "imaginary" radio wave; it's just a radio wave.
No, GSM is Groupe Spe'ciale Mobile (or Global System for Mobile Communication, if you're allergic to French). "Gaussian shift keying" doesn't even abbreviate to "GSM":P
Nobody's trying to be uberelite. videomotion didn't say that he was getting live video streamed in, but the picture was too small and his question was whether he could get a full-sized image; he was wondering if it was even possible to get a live video stream. This implies that he didn't even try the basic step of setting the camcorder to camera mode before Asking Slashdot about it.
If you know that you can play prerecorded tapes through the 1394 port, how about flipping the switch on the camera from VTR mode to Camera mode and see what happens?
Can't the same be said about Windows since it was discovered that Microsoft implemented the TCP/IP stack straight from BSD? (ducks for cover)!:)
Man, I wish they really did... if Windows did use a good stack such as the BSD one, it wouldn't have been vulnerable to crap like the ping of death and teardrop.
If you're a US citizen (or probably just being a US resident is enough), go to the airport's customs office and fill out a Certificate of Registration. You write in your laptop's model number and serial number, the customs officer signs it, and you now how official record that you had the laptop when you left the US. If you get questioned about it when you come back, just show them the form. At least that's how it's supposed to work--I've never been questioned about my laptop, so I've never had to show the certificate.
Just because they're aware doesn't necessarily mean they take their own knowlege into account. Does Messenger support vertical text for Japanese (or AIM, or iChat for that matter...I honestly don't know)? Is the user interface assumed for these apps even usable for vertical text input and display?
No, it doesn't support vertical text, but does anyone want vertical text in their IM client? I dunno about the Japanese, but I'm Chinese, and left-to-right, top-to-bottom is fine with me. Top-to-bottom, right-to-left is pretty much only used in traditional print publishing. FWIW, Word 2002 (and I think Word 2000 also) supports vertical Chinese/Japanese (Korean too?) text--go to the Format menu and select Text Direction and you'll have a choice of a couple of directions. You can also select some Chinese or Japanese text, go to Format -> Asian Layout -> Phonetic Guide, and Word will (try to) figure out the pronunciation of your text and add the phonetics (bopomofo or hiragana, depending on the language) as ruby text. Very slick.
There's a blacksmith for purchasing arms and armor, a house where the party can rest, and a special pirate named Bertram who flirts with a male member of the party.
A "special" pirate? C'mon, just say it: butt pirate.
What the heck is L18N? LNTERNATIONALIZATION? LOCALILILIZASAZATION?
Macs have had this for years with their Language Kits and I don't think Windows has ever matched it. What happens if you try to install Japanese Office 2K on English XP?
Windows has had Unicode support since the Windows NT line (NT 3.1 released in 1993), and starting with Win2000, you can even run non-Unicode apps from a different codepage. Japanese Office 2K, being a Unicode app, runs fine no matter what your settings are. For non-Unicode apps, you'll probably have to go to the regional settings control panel and set the system default codepage to the codepage that the app you're trying to run expects (e.g., Japanese for a Japanese app).
Unfortunately MS fails to realize that simple translation may not be enough.
Uh, "...fails to realize...?" MS has been making internationalized and localized software for over a decade, maybe even two decades (when did the Chinese and Japanese versions of MS-DOS come out? Mid-80s, IIRC). I think they are well aware of what it takes.
Speaking of ruby text, did you know that Mozilla still doesn't support the standard HTML <RUBY> tag (unless you download and install a 3rd party extension). IE has supported it for quite some time.
No, MS is far ahead of open source products in terms of localization... they're just looking for more ways to get other people to do their work for them.
Why do you never see them? Why is it always noble animals like wolves? Why not shrews? After all, they're both small, annoying and riddled with disease
I'll grant you that most users aren't browsing through their database server code looking for bugs. But if they do find one they can fix it without waiting weeks for Microsoft to get around to doing it.
You assume that the user is even capable of finding and fixing the bug. If it's some trivial bug, maybe so, but this is a relational database we're talking about here. Suppose it's a bug in the query optimizer--how many people know enough about relational algebra to debug that? If you have a degree in CS and specialize in databases, lucky you. If not, you're still waiting weeks for someone to fix it.
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Hmm... \nofwords2? Does that mean I used the "F" word twice in my document?:)
They discontinued their email unlock service months ago. You now have to call customer service, which is less convenient, but works fine. I got my phone unlocked and was able to use a prepaid SIM in Thailand.
You could do wonderful things with them, from 1.7-1.8 meg floppies, that were a bit slower and less reliable
I don't know if they were slower or less reliable... the disk still spins at the same rate, and there are still 80 tracks, same as a 1.44 floppy. However, there's more data on a track, therefore it's actually faster than a standard floppy.
MS distributed Windows 95, 98, and I think NT 3.5x and Office 95 on 1.7MB (1.68MB, actually) DMF floppies. For the poor guys who didn't have a CDROM drive:)
Linux supports these non-standard formats... for DMF, see/dev/fd0?1680. Also check out the fd(4) manpage.
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Not just samurai; it was a common practice for everyone back in the day. Even today, "Ichiro" is a very popular name for a first-born son.
Depends on the license. Retail copies of Windows are transferrable; OEM copies aren't.
Sure, I'm just disagreeing with Politburo's statement that, "With file sharing, no one is getting paid, except the bandwidth providers." One might argue that record labels aren't getting paid enough for the number of listeners (in fact, isn't that pretty much what this whole article is about? :), but it's incorrect to say that the labels aren't getting paid at all.
With file sharing, the record labels are getting paid--someone bought and ripped all those songs that are on P2P networks.
Which cases would that be? The license I've seen says that a desktop OS (such as XP) must be distributed with either a fully assembled computer system, which "shall consist of at least a central processing unit, a motherboard, a hard drive, a power supply, and a case," or a "nonperipheral computer hardware component (that will be an integral part of the computer system on which the Software Unit will be installed)." I can't see anyone selling either of those for $1. The "nonperipheral computer hardware component" is a bit vague, and I've seen some places try to claim that some dinky cable that probably won't even get used is "an integral part of the computer," but I'm doubtful if that'd hold up if MS called them on it.
FWIW, I bought an OEM copy of XP Pro for a system I put together for my dad, and in that case I really did buy a motherboard, CPU, HD, PS, and case to go with it. Was certainly a lot better than paying retail...
The Gaul? I don't think he's into being "used" in that manner.
I wish I could ride on that rocket...
The submitter mentions, "cool machine vision applications" and "direct capturing of video onto the hard drive," so I'd guess that's where the stream is going to.
If you're happy with the compressed and/or low-res video you can fit through the USB port, that's fine, but a full DV stream is around 25Mbps. "Full speed" USB can't do that; you'd need either firewire or "high speed" USB (2.0). However, I don't know of any cameras that have high speed USB ports--firewire is the standard for getting a DV stream out of a camera.
CDMA is Code Division Multiple Access, and doesn't have anything to do with "real & imaginary parts of the signal." Real and imaginary are useful ways to denote things in math and physics, but there's no such distinction in the real world. You can't broadcast a "real" or "imaginary" radio wave; it's just a radio wave.
TDMA is Time Division Multiple Access.
This page has a brief explanation of the two.
No, GSM is Groupe Spe'ciale Mobile (or Global System for Mobile Communication, if you're allergic to French). "Gaussian shift keying" doesn't even abbreviate to "GSM" :P
Nobody's trying to be uberelite. videomotion didn't say that he was getting live video streamed in, but the picture was too small and his question was whether he could get a full-sized image; he was wondering if it was even possible to get a live video stream. This implies that he didn't even try the basic step of setting the camcorder to camera mode before Asking Slashdot about it.
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If you know that you can play prerecorded tapes through the 1394 port, how about flipping the switch on the camera from VTR mode to Camera mode and see what happens?
Man, I wish they really did... if Windows did use a good stack such as the BSD one, it wouldn't have been vulnerable to crap like the ping of death and teardrop.
If you're a US citizen (or probably just being a US resident is enough), go to the airport's customs office and fill out a Certificate of Registration. You write in your laptop's model number and serial number, the customs officer signs it, and you now how official record that you had the laptop when you left the US. If you get questioned about it when you come back, just show them the form. At least that's how it's supposed to work--I've never been questioned about my laptop, so I've never had to show the certificate.
No, it doesn't support vertical text, but does anyone want vertical text in their IM client? I dunno about the Japanese, but I'm Chinese, and left-to-right, top-to-bottom is fine with me. Top-to-bottom, right-to-left is pretty much only used in traditional print publishing. FWIW, Word 2002 (and I think Word 2000 also) supports vertical Chinese/Japanese (Korean too?) text--go to the Format menu and select Text Direction and you'll have a choice of a couple of directions. You can also select some Chinese or Japanese text, go to Format -> Asian Layout -> Phonetic Guide, and Word will (try to) figure out the pronunciation of your text and add the phonetics (bopomofo or hiragana, depending on the language) as ruby text. Very slick.
A "special" pirate? C'mon, just say it: butt pirate.
Macs have had this for years with their Language Kits and I don't think Windows has ever matched it. What happens if you try to install Japanese Office 2K on English XP?
Windows has had Unicode support since the Windows NT line (NT 3.1 released in 1993), and starting with Win2000, you can even run non-Unicode apps from a different codepage. Japanese Office 2K, being a Unicode app, runs fine no matter what your settings are. For non-Unicode apps, you'll probably have to go to the regional settings control panel and set the system default codepage to the codepage that the app you're trying to run expects (e.g., Japanese for a Japanese app).
Uh, "...fails to realize...?" MS has been making internationalized and localized software for over a decade, maybe even two decades (when did the Chinese and Japanese versions of MS-DOS come out? Mid-80s, IIRC). I think they are well aware of what it takes.
Speaking of ruby text, did you know that Mozilla still doesn't support the standard HTML <RUBY> tag (unless you download and install a 3rd party extension). IE has supported it for quite some time.
Also, Office already has spelling and grammar checkers for other languages. The English version even comes with French, German, and Spanish proofing tools, and you can get it for many more languages.
No, MS is far ahead of open source products in terms of localization... they're just looking for more ways to get other people to do their work for them.
Shrews are insects?
You assume that the user is even capable of finding and fixing the bug. If it's some trivial bug, maybe so, but this is a relational database we're talking about here. Suppose it's a bug in the query optimizer--how many people know enough about relational algebra to debug that? If you have a degree in CS and specialize in databases, lucky you. If not, you're still waiting weeks for someone to fix it.
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{\*\company Azeotropic Solutions}{\nofcharsws16}{\vern16389}} Hmm... \nofwords2? Does that mean I used the "F" word twice in my document?
They discontinued their email unlock service months ago. You now have to call customer service, which is less convenient, but works fine. I got my phone unlocked and was able to use a prepaid SIM in Thailand.
I don't know if they were slower or less reliable... the disk still spins at the same rate, and there are still 80 tracks, same as a 1.44 floppy. However, there's more data on a track, therefore it's actually faster than a standard floppy.
MS distributed Windows 95, 98, and I think NT 3.5x and Office 95 on 1.7MB (1.68MB, actually) DMF floppies. For the poor guys who didn't have a CDROM drive :)
Linux supports these non-standard formats... for DMF, see /dev/fd0?1680. Also check out the fd(4) manpage.