Interestingly, but OT, the only people that can enter your house in the UK, without search warrant, are Railtrack employees. (Railtrack is the company that runs British, err, rail track)
Haven't heard that. Apparently customs can as well though.
It doesn't even need to be encrypted kiddie porn. It could just be a holiday snap that he accidentally encrypted. It might even be possible that its random data that got corrupted somewhere that looks like it could have been encrypted.
It's exactly this sort of mindless stereotyping that has led to the other great piece of civil-liberties bashing legislation this month,
Yes. We really need some heavy changes, like making our legal system based on an assumption of innocence. Since the Criminal Justice act, this was seriously weakened. The Football Disorders Bill seems to give draconian powers to act against hooligans with little or no evidence at all.
Unless you use it professionally or religiously. Which seems to mean that if you happen to have a part time job as a butcher, there's nothing stopping you from carrying around a huge meat cleaver.
Or if you belong to the cult of the big vicious knife carriers, and its part of your religious clothing.
Anything else would be like not installing airbags in cars, but instead threatening drivers that cause accidents with more severe punishment. I disagree. We end up with a fairly ludicrous situation at both extremes.
Extreme 1 - You drove 1 cm closer to the side of the road than was neccesary. The sentence is death! Extreme 2 - All cars are filled with and surrounded with padding. It obscures your vision, but it prevents tehm from doing any harm to the driver, other drivers, and pedestrians, so it doesn't matter.
In practice, we have a level in between. Cars are fitted with seat belts, but its illegal to go faster than x mph, and to drink more than y. Its a reasonable compromise.
Although publishing books in PDF/PS format rarely seems to affect sales of dead tree format significantly. I wouldn't be surprised if Katz would agree to release free online versions.
Does the US have regional groups? the uk.* heirarchy has a pretty good sig/noise ratio still, but I haven't been able to handle any of the alt or rec groups for a while.
On any given group, you can almost guarentee various flavours of spam, a couple of "You all suck" posts, some people having a private crossposted flamewar about something unrelated to most of the groups (Apple vs. MS crossposted to all Apple, MS, Linux, BeOS, Amiga, and programming groups is quite common), and a few quiet people talking on topic.
I seem to remember there were a lot of complaints about the university switching from tin to pine for usenet because pine wasn't threaded. Is this tright, or was that just an old version of pine?
As far as newsreaders go, slrn is pretty cool by all accounts. I use tin and leafnode. tin seems to be designed for fast networks.
Are you saying there is actually an American movie which acknowledges the existence of the rest of the world? Wow.
Independence day did- "Oh, I say old chap. It seems that those splendid American chaps have found a way to defeat those bally flying saucers" "Gosh, about time too, what old boy."
The design of a typical 500 year old cathedral is actually mainly based on functionality. The curved roof is essentially an arch. This has been designed to be self supporting, and also such that the rain runs off. Because of the outward forces this causes, buttresses are used.
Medieval architects realised that it was only neccesary to support the top of the wall, and so created flying buttresses, which when nested give that elegant multiple arch that most cathedral have. Try to build a box that size out of stone, and the roof would fall in, or the walls would fall outwards.
I've just used up 3 lines of screen space in 12 bytes. If on the other hand I wrote 160 characters of random junk, I would take up 2 lines. The calculation shouldn't be totally bytes based. Assume an 80 character line, and use bytes/80 + number of newline tags to decide when to cut. It only has to be approximate after all.
Hitting a shield with a lasgun would cause the shield and the gun to explode. Therefore nobody in their right mind would use a lasgun. There's a certain level of safety there, as long as you aren't up against someone not in their right mind. Fortunately this sort of person doesn't last long. There were apparently rules against using a lasgun on an automatic timer.
Speedwise - yes, probably. Although a lot of the fast cards sacrifice some image quality for speed. SG probably go for a high quality output. For the type of applications that are used, a jerky display can be forgiven more easily than a display which screws up occasional polys.
My office computer seems to have a soundcard on the mainboard. They could probably go for a different model, but I get the feeling that this would make not having a soundcard more expensive.
I get the impression that its more that the cost of 3D rendering is considerably lower than the cost of 2D.
Of course, this means that what they should be doing is putting a lot of money into computer generated cel animation, and create systems that can do a very good job of inbetweening, and speculatively calculating what a character would look like from a different angle automatically.
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Interestingly, but OT, the only people that can enter your house in the UK, without search warrant, are Railtrack employees. (Railtrack is the company that runs British, err, rail track)
Haven't heard that. Apparently customs can as well though.
A FOAF got stopped and questioned for having juggling clubs. She was even using the things for juggling!
It doesn't even need to be encrypted kiddie porn. It could just be a holiday snap that he accidentally encrypted. It might even be possible that its random data that got corrupted somewhere that looks like it could have been encrypted.
It's exactly this sort of mindless stereotyping that has led to the other great piece of civil-liberties bashing legislation this month,
Yes. We really need some heavy changes, like making our legal system based on an assumption of innocence. Since the Criminal Justice act, this was seriously weakened. The Football Disorders Bill seems to give draconian powers to act against hooligans with little or no evidence at all.
Unless you use it professionally or religiously. Which seems to mean that if you happen to have a part time job as a butcher, there's nothing stopping you from carrying around a huge meat cleaver.
Or if you belong to the cult of the big vicious knife carriers, and its part of your religious clothing.
Anything else would be like not installing airbags in cars, but instead threatening drivers that cause accidents with more severe punishment.
I disagree. We end up with a fairly ludicrous situation at both extremes.
Extreme 1 - You drove 1 cm closer to the side of the road than was neccesary. The sentence is death!
Extreme 2 - All cars are filled with and surrounded with padding. It obscures your vision, but it prevents tehm from doing any harm to the driver, other drivers, and pedestrians, so it doesn't matter.
In practice, we have a level in between. Cars are fitted with seat belts, but its illegal to go faster than x mph, and to drink more than y. Its a reasonable compromise.
Although publishing books in PDF/PS format rarely seems to affect sales of dead tree format significantly. I wouldn't be surprised if Katz would agree to release free online versions.
The physical phenonemon exclusion would also apply to genetic code I presume.
You could always patent a process of creating a spark or hot ashes in order to cause combustion in flammable materials.
Does the US have regional groups? the uk.* heirarchy has a pretty good sig/noise ratio still, but I haven't been able to handle any of the alt or rec groups for a while.
On any given group, you can almost guarentee various flavours of spam, a couple of "You all suck" posts, some people having a private crossposted flamewar about something unrelated to most of the groups (Apple vs. MS crossposted to all Apple, MS, Linux, BeOS, Amiga, and programming groups is quite common), and a few quiet people talking on topic.
I seem to remember there were a lot of complaints about the university switching from tin to pine for usenet because pine wasn't threaded. Is this tright, or was that just an old version of pine?
As far as newsreaders go, slrn is pretty cool by all accounts. I use tin and leafnode. tin seems to be designed for fast networks.
Thats what should happen. The first ammendment should be unneccesary, since everyone should consider it wrong to try to restrict information.
Are you saying there is actually an American movie which acknowledges the existence of the rest of the world? Wow.
Independence day did-
"Oh, I say old chap. It seems that those splendid American chaps have found a way to defeat those bally flying saucers"
"Gosh, about time too, what old boy."
The design of a typical 500 year old cathedral is actually mainly based on functionality. The curved roof is essentially an arch. This has been designed to be self supporting, and also such that the rain runs off. Because of the outward forces this causes, buttresses are used.
Medieval architects realised that it was only neccesary to support the top of the wall, and so created flying buttresses, which when nested give that elegant multiple arch that most cathedral have. Try to build a box that size out of stone, and the roof would fall in, or the walls would fall outwards.
This The Register article suggests that the judge will only rule whether this breaks the DMCA, and leave the constitutionality of it to other courts.
It could go either way, depending on whether the MPAA convince him that DeCSS does break the law, but freedom of speech could be n influence.
I've just used up 3 lines of screen space in 12 bytes. If on the other hand I wrote 160 characters of random junk, I would take up 2 lines. The calculation shouldn't be totally bytes based. Assume an 80 character line, and use bytes/80 + number of newline tags to decide when to cut. It only has to be approximate after all.
Hitting a shield with a lasgun would cause the shield and the gun to explode. Therefore nobody in their right mind would use a lasgun. There's a certain level of safety there, as long as you aren't up against someone not in their right mind. Fortunately this sort of person doesn't last long. There were apparently rules against using a lasgun on an automatic timer.
The first general purpose digital computer was ATLAS, built by the Brits at Bletchley Park to crack the German Enigma Code
Wasn't that Collossus, or am I getting machines mixed up?
Sounds like Gattaca. Well, not a gene sequencer, but genetic ID testers were all over the place.
Speedwise - yes, probably. Although a lot of the fast cards sacrifice some image quality for speed. SG probably go for a high quality output. For the type of applications that are used, a jerky display can be forgiven more easily than a display which screws up occasional polys.
Use a VR cave or one of those 120 degree triple projector screens. Peripheral vision is more important than a big screen.
My office computer seems to have a soundcard on the mainboard. They could probably go for a different model, but I get the feeling that this would make not having a soundcard more expensive.
What they do do, though, is run a fairly low-key ad campaign to point out that the profits of bootlegging get used to finance drug dealing
Yep, genuinely seen that one. I wouldn't have thought that drug dealing was a loss making business.
I get the impression that its more that the cost of 3D rendering is considerably lower than the cost of 2D.
Of course, this means that what they should be doing is putting a lot of money into computer generated cel animation, and create systems that can do a very good job of inbetweening, and speculatively calculating what a character would look like from a different angle automatically.
On the condition that ALL the money goes into helping smaller groups, non-profit arts groups, and those organisations that actually need the money.
If it isn't, then its ludicrous. How exactly can you quantify sales that weren't made?
$speak =~ s/me/meesa/g;
$speak =~ s/you/yousa/g;
$speak =~ s/I am/meesas/g;
$speak =~ s/going to/gonna/g;