There is a remote island in the South Pacific called 'Polynosia' (not to be confused with 'Polynesia').
The island has a number of strange customs.
1) All the women on this island are called 'Polly' in reverence to the island's god, Polynose.
2) The men of the island are very philosphical (maybe because all the women are called Polly, so it gets very confusing). They spend most of their time poring over mathematical problems.
3) The island has strict laws on the use of technology. Telephones are not allowed, aircraft are not allowed to land there, in fact the only way to reach the island is by boat, nevertheless it is very popular with tourists.
4) It is considered offensive to Polynose for anyone who is not a Polynosian woman (a Polly) to prepare food. Since the island is popular with holiday makers though, all of the enterprising Polly's have opened small restaurants called 'Polly-meal-time'.
The men of the island, in order to discuss their mathematical musings, recently opened a cafe. To distinguish this from all the restaurants, they named it 'Polly-no-meal-time'.
The article reports that recently a boatload of mathematicians visited Polynose, and told the island's men how to check if a number is prime.
Thus the headline 'Primes can now be solved in Polly-no-meal-time'.
Not sure about Dreamweaver, but I have heard very good things about Quanta Gold, and it runs natively in Linux. (And no, I don't work for the Kompany !)
I'd happily pay 25c a track rather than use a p2p client, if the following were met:
I could get the file instantly; it was guaranteed to be CD quality or better; and it was in an open format (mp3, or much better, ogg).
Even if the track were available for free elsewhere, it just wouldn't be worth the hassle of locating it, queueing it, and then hoping that it was the right track at a decent quality.
The use of 'G' as a measure of force is common in avionics. For example, you might say that during a certain manouvre, a pilot feels a force of 6G. This means that he will experience 6 times the force of the Earth's gravity at the surface.
I guess your point is correct that they should use (lower case) g, but it's clear enough when used in the right context what 'G' means.
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I have been suspicious of/. for a while now. I used to get moderator privileges every two or three weeks, but I've not been able to moderate for about six months now (despite the fact that I can always metamoderate, and my karma is 'excellent').
The artist crowd is not predisposed to working with the intricacies of Linux
I disagree. They were predisposed to working with the Atari ST and Amiga (check out some of the fine music around the net composed with these two machines) when those systems were popular. This will be no more difficult, and given the advances in GUI technology since then, probably even easier.
As somebody else pointed out already, what is the point of this bill ? If somebody steals a mobile phone, they're already risking jail time, so they are very unlikely to be put off by the idea that changing the number is illegal.
In fact you've even provided an example of where changing the number might have a legitimate use - for those people that bought one of the Nokia phones you mentioned.
So tell me again, what is the point of this bill ?
The IP address is of the machine which was hosting the ssh tarball. The attacker was obviously hoping to 0wn the machine and then pick up all the incoming connections.
Ah, but will you necessarily know what equipment is DRM compliant and which isn't before you buy it ?
Given how many people have been stung by 'copy protected' CD's, you may not know until you get the thing home. Will the store be willing to refund you because your new mp3 (or wma or whatever) player won't play your home made files ?
Also, if the CBDTPA goes through, DRM will be forced into every device anyway, so you may not even have the option of buying non-DRM equipment.
Well, I would agree with it if the bill mandated that public domain watermarks be created which could be used by anybody to create DRM compliant files.
However, as the bill stands (unless I am very much mistaken), if you create your own mp3 files, say, you will only have three options:
Not include a watermark (in other words, your file will probably not be playable on DRM compliant equipment), or
Pay lots of money to get your own watermark, or
Use a 'fake' watermark.
This bill seeks to eliminate the last option, thus essentially handing a monopoly on artistic production to the big players.
Even if a 2% reduction in mass was the limit to this technology, it would still save the airline industry hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in fuel consumption per year.
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The island has a number of strange customs.
1) All the women on this island are called 'Polly' in reverence to the island's god, Polynose.
2) The men of the island are very philosphical (maybe because all the women are called Polly, so it gets very confusing). They spend most of their time poring over mathematical problems.
3) The island has strict laws on the use of technology. Telephones are not allowed, aircraft are not allowed to land there, in fact the only way to reach the island is by boat, nevertheless it is very popular with tourists.
4) It is considered offensive to Polynose for anyone who is not a Polynosian woman (a Polly) to prepare food. Since the island is popular with holiday makers though, all of the enterprising Polly's have opened small restaurants called 'Polly-meal-time'.
The men of the island, in order to discuss their mathematical musings, recently opened a cafe. To distinguish this from all the restaurants, they named it 'Polly-no-meal-time'.
The article reports that recently a boatload of mathematicians visited Polynose, and told the island's men how to check if a number is prime.
Thus the headline 'Primes can now be solved in Polly-no-meal-time'.
Huh ? All the divx's I've ever watched have been recorded of broadcast TV. How is deCSS necessary for that ?
Not sure about Dreamweaver, but I have heard very good things about Quanta Gold, and it runs natively in Linux. (And no, I don't work for the Kompany !)
I could get the file instantly; it was guaranteed to be CD quality or better; and it was in an open format (mp3, or much better, ogg).
Even if the track were available for free elsewhere, it just wouldn't be worth the hassle of locating it, queueing it, and then hoping that it was the right track at a decent quality.
Do they really expect that people are going to download this plugin and install it ? Why would anyone want to do that ?
I guess your point is correct that they should use (lower case) g, but it's clear enough when used in the right context what 'G' means.
...is a 'passel' ? I looked it up on dict.org, but I couldn't find a definition.
Surely whats sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
More vapourware then.
I have been suspicious of /. for a while now. I used to get moderator privileges every two or three weeks, but I've not been able to moderate for about six months now (despite the fact that I can always metamoderate, and my karma is 'excellent').
There could also be a huge market for that, from digital effects studios to professional sound engineers.
I disagree. They were predisposed to working with the Atari ST and Amiga (check out some of the fine music around the net composed with these two machines) when those systems were popular. This will be no more difficult, and given the advances in GUI technology since then, probably even easier.
IANAL, but...
In fact you've even provided an example of where changing the number might have a legitimate use - for those people that bought one of the Nokia phones you mentioned.
So tell me again, what is the point of this bill ?
The IP address is of the machine which was hosting the ssh tarball. The attacker was obviously hoping to 0wn the machine and then pick up all the incoming connections.
Dihydrogen monoxide is much more dangerous. We should be more concerned about that instead.
It looked to me from the results that mp3pro performed about equal with ogg at 64K, but would you really want to play 64K files in your car ?
Exactly. Just remember how fast 'All your base...' got around the net.
Given how many people have been stung by 'copy protected' CD's, you may not know until you get the thing home. Will the store be willing to refund you because your new mp3 (or wma or whatever) player won't play your home made files ?
Also, if the CBDTPA goes through, DRM will be forced into every device anyway, so you may not even have the option of buying non-DRM equipment.
Hmmm...so what happens when you stack 51 disks on top of each other ?
However, as the bill stands (unless I am very much mistaken), if you create your own mp3 files, say, you will only have three options:
Not include a watermark (in other words, your file will probably not be playable on DRM compliant equipment), or
Pay lots of money to get your own watermark, or
Use a 'fake' watermark.
This bill seeks to eliminate the last option, thus essentially handing a monopoly on artistic production to the big players.
"Every episode of "Seinfeld" is now available to download free (from commercials) to anyone with access to the Internet."
Even if a 2% reduction in mass was the limit to this technology, it would still save the airline industry hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in fuel consumption per year.
But according to trhe story, Purify only works with 'doze.
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.