The original divx (3.11) WAS the Microsoft MPEG4 codec used in their WMV/ASF files. The intrepid hackers ripped the codec so it could also be used to encode unprotected AVI files. There's nothing really wrong with the codec, it just has a lame copy-protected patented file format wrapped around it.
That's right. The only state where radar detectors are illegal. Besides, the most likely place for tech employment is the DC suburbs, where real estate is as expensive as California and the weather sucks.
OK I know it was a joke, but seriously, a faster processor will save time with the compiles which is one of the few places where people really need the speed.
-In your car, in case of an accident or traffic stop.
-Hidden in your cellphone, to record in all those forbidden places. What do casinos and department stores have to hide?
Bandwidth? I'd be happy with just good cell phone reception. Fortunately, my place now has good reception with Verizon and shitty reception with AT&T, but AT&T is my work phone so who cares?
Aside from that, I don't have any geek-specific needs for an apartment. A garage to lock up the bikes and a location with a short commute to work, and I'm all set.
"do not underestimate the power of Office. A platform can not hope to succeed in the commercial desktop space without Office"
This is exactly the reason OS X will never have more than a minority share of the desktop market and will never be ported to x86 (aside from the nice hardware profits). Apple is hostage to Microsoft. If they ever pull the plug on MS Office for MacOS, Apple is dead in the business market. If there was ever a backroom deal where MS threatened this if Apple ported to x86, that would have been an antitrust violation, proposal to divide markets.
Why is this book being reviewed now? It wasn't that out of date when it was released Jan 9, 2001. I bought it sometime around Mar/Apr. It got boring in a few parts and I didn't finish it until sometime in Sept. Still a decent read in the end.
I'm curious about this. The article doesn't call this an immunity deal, and it doesn't say he is obligated to provide incriminating testimony. If he just tells the truth, there is still lots of leeway for him to spin the facts in favor of his employer.
"Sklyarov will be required to give a deposition in the case and possibly testify for either side, prosecutors and defense attorneys said Thursday."
MSN reliability already sucks. Remember the MSN Messenger 7 day outage? I use all three IM systems, and MSN has the worst reliability of them all. And they want us to rely on Passport for ALL our online authentication?
If our fearless leaders in bed with big oil actually wanted to help big oil, they'd be propping up prices to stop them from falling so low.
This is all about supply and demand. The summer road trip season is over. The economic downturn since 9/11 really cut into people's travel plans. Sucks to be you if you built a new refinery during the $2/gal gas days and it's just coming online now.
Most likely any fuel cell will be hydrocarbon based either directly or indirectly. I am not a chemical engineer, but the most economical process for creating hydrogen is from natural gas. How else are you going to get hydrogen? Electrolysis? Any business would be better off just selling the electricity unless natural gas gets a LOT more expensive.
The hydrocarbon fuel cells use a reformer to crack gasoline into hydrogen and CO2. It's just moving the chemical plant into the car.
Borax isn't the fuel. It's a binder for the hydrogen so you don't have to store it as a gas. The borohydride reacts with a catalyst to relase the hydrogen gas to power the fuel cell. Mercedes Benz did the same thing back in the 80s using metal hydrides to store hydrogen.
I've seen "get rich quick" spammers do it too. And you don't even need to encode a user ID. They just put something like- IMG SRC=http://theirserver/getrich.htm?user@domain.com and they can read the read receipts right off the web server logs. MS is so annoying about this too. If you turn off load images in Outlook, it does the same in IE. Just another reason to use a different browser.
Those servers aren't just for their internal network. They are hosting the Olympic website too.
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And if you rode your bicycle or IT on the street at 17 mph with cars flying by you at 45mph it would be a lot more dangerous. I have a motorcycle, and bicycle commuting is much more dangerous on these streets.
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That's definitely the biggest obstacle. Deciding where this fits in to the transportation system. They'd have to lobby very hard to allow this thing on sidewalks considering most places ban bicycles, skateboards and skates from sidewalks. Most bicycle paths also ban motorized vehicles, although I see people get away with electric bicycles and scooters.
Aside from the coolness of the way it moves, the practical benefits are not much better than a bicycle. You move about as fast, but without the exercise. Its footprint is shorter, but just as wide. It's just as heavy and you still have to lock it up when you get where you're going.
With all the launch partners like Amazon, Disney and city of Atlanta, they might have the lobbying power to get this thing allowed on bike paths.
Yeah, this list sucks. 6 out of 13 are Sony, even a Memory Stick Walkman *gag*. Sure, it's small and sexy looking, but a 64MB flash memory player is woefully inadequate for most people's music needs. Does it natively play MP3 files now or does it still make you recode them to their copy protected ATRAC3?
If you want a flash memory player the Sonicblue Rios consistently get good reviews. My personal favorite is the Rio Volt SP250 MP3-CD player. I also feel better about supporting a company that fights the MPAA and RIAA.
It's not that easy. See these quotes from the guide.
"You can only safely write to the diskette or other data storage device with Rubberhose if you know all the passphrases. If you try to write to the disk without first decrypting the entire disk, you risk overwriting information stored in some other encrypted portion."
"it breaks up the pieces of the 400MB encrypted portion into tiny pieces and scatters them across the entire 1GB drive. This is done in a random manner, so the bits of data can not be tracked and re-assembled by an adversary. When you decrypt that 400MB section, it will look as though it is actually 1GB in size, with 600MB free space. This structure is how Rubberhose hides the existence of data in the remaining portion of the disk."
Yeah, battery life does suck on a Microdrive. It's a little more expensive per MB, but a 512MB Compactflash costs about the same as a 1GB Microdrive. Better battery life and no moving parts. 256MB are a little cheaper, about $.50/MB.
"and I know enough cops to know that they won't expend the energy without a good reason. My government doesn't care about me, which in this case is good."
This is really a head in the sand attitude. Most people don't need the protection of the law now because wiretaps are so expensive. They involve lots of manual labor. But what happens when someone builds a voice recognition AI that makes it cheap enough to spy on EVERYBODY? Will you still feel safe that the government doesn't care enough about you to spy on you?
Considering that smallpox isn't contagious during the incubation period, a suicide bio-terrorist wouldn't be very effective. A sick person covered with boils would have a hard time blending into the crowd.
I think it is part of the settlement, but there's always ways to hide discounts and payments. Like a "promotional partnership" where MS subsidizes an OEM's advertising expenses if they bundle MS software and exclude non-MS software.
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OK, maybe in the 80s there wasn't so much crap, but for the vast majority of it, archiving USENET is like keeping your old toilet paper.
The original divx (3.11) WAS the Microsoft MPEG4 codec used in their WMV/ASF files. The intrepid hackers ripped the codec so it could also be used to encode unprotected AVI files. There's nothing really wrong with the codec, it just has a lame copy-protected patented file format wrapped around it.
He may have mixed up his metaphors. Try "lone voice in the wilderness".
"I lived in VA for a while ... never again"
That's right. The only state where radar detectors are illegal. Besides, the most likely place for tech employment is the DC suburbs, where real estate is as expensive as California and the weather sucks.
OK I know it was a joke, but seriously, a faster processor will save time with the compiles which is one of the few places where people really need the speed.
-In your car, in case of an accident or traffic stop.
-Hidden in your cellphone, to record in all those forbidden places. What do casinos and department stores have to hide?
Bandwidth? I'd be happy with just good cell phone reception. Fortunately, my place now has good reception with Verizon and shitty reception with AT&T, but AT&T is my work phone so who cares?
Aside from that, I don't have any geek-specific needs for an apartment. A garage to lock up the bikes and a location with a short commute to work, and I'm all set.
"do not underestimate the power of Office. A platform can not hope to succeed in the commercial desktop space without Office"
This is exactly the reason OS X will never have more than a minority share of the desktop market and will never be ported to x86 (aside from the nice hardware profits). Apple is hostage to Microsoft. If they ever pull the plug on MS Office for MacOS, Apple is dead in the business market. If there was ever a backroom deal where MS threatened this if Apple ported to x86, that would have been an antitrust violation, proposal to divide markets.
Why is this book being reviewed now? It wasn't that out of date when it was released Jan 9, 2001. I bought it sometime around Mar/Apr. It got boring in a few parts and I didn't finish it until sometime in Sept. Still a decent read in the end.
I'm curious about this. The article doesn't call this an immunity deal, and it doesn't say he is obligated to provide incriminating testimony. If he just tells the truth, there is still lots of leeway for him to spin the facts in favor of his employer.
"Sklyarov will be required to give a deposition in the case and possibly testify for either side, prosecutors and defense attorneys said Thursday."
MSN reliability already sucks. Remember the MSN Messenger 7 day outage? I use all three IM systems, and MSN has the worst reliability of them all. And they want us to rely on Passport for ALL our online authentication?
If our fearless leaders in bed with big oil actually wanted to help big oil, they'd be propping up prices to stop them from falling so low.
This is all about supply and demand. The summer road trip season is over. The economic downturn since 9/11 really cut into people's travel plans. Sucks to be you if you built a new refinery during the $2/gal gas days and it's just coming online now.
Most likely any fuel cell will be hydrocarbon based either directly or indirectly. I am not a chemical engineer, but the most economical process for creating hydrogen is from natural gas. How else are you going to get hydrogen? Electrolysis? Any business would be better off just selling the electricity unless natural gas gets a LOT more expensive.
The hydrocarbon fuel cells use a reformer to crack gasoline into hydrogen and CO2. It's just moving the chemical plant into the car.
Borax isn't the fuel. It's a binder for the hydrogen so you don't have to store it as a gas. The borohydride reacts with a catalyst to relase the hydrogen gas to power the fuel cell. Mercedes Benz did the same thing back in the 80s using metal hydrides to store hydrogen.
I've seen "get rich quick" spammers do it too. And you don't even need to encode a user ID. They just put something like- IMG SRC=http://theirserver/getrich.htm?user@domain.com and they can read the read receipts right off the web server logs. MS is so annoying about this too. If you turn off load images in Outlook, it does the same in IE. Just another reason to use a different browser.
Those servers aren't just for their internal network. They are hosting the Olympic website too.
And if you rode your bicycle or IT on the street at 17 mph with cars flying by you at 45mph it would be a lot more dangerous. I have a motorcycle, and bicycle commuting is much more dangerous on these streets.
That's definitely the biggest obstacle. Deciding where this fits in to the transportation system. They'd have to lobby very hard to allow this thing on sidewalks considering most places ban bicycles, skateboards and skates from sidewalks. Most bicycle paths also ban motorized vehicles, although I see people get away with electric bicycles and scooters.
Aside from the coolness of the way it moves, the practical benefits are not much better than a bicycle. You move about as fast, but without the exercise. Its footprint is shorter, but just as wide. It's just as heavy and you still have to lock it up when you get where you're going.
With all the launch partners like Amazon, Disney and city of Atlanta, they might have the lobbying power to get this thing allowed on bike paths.
Yeah, this list sucks. 6 out of 13 are Sony, even a Memory Stick Walkman *gag*. Sure, it's small and sexy looking, but a 64MB flash memory player is woefully inadequate for most people's music needs. Does it natively play MP3 files now or does it still make you recode them to their copy protected ATRAC3?
If you want a flash memory player the Sonicblue Rios consistently get good reviews. My personal favorite is the Rio Volt SP250 MP3-CD player. I also feel better about supporting a company that fights the MPAA and RIAA.
It's not that easy. See these quotes from the guide.
"You can only safely write to the diskette or other data storage device with Rubberhose if you know all the passphrases. If you try to write to the disk without first decrypting the entire disk, you risk overwriting information stored in some other encrypted portion."
"it breaks up the pieces of the 400MB encrypted portion into tiny pieces and scatters them across the entire 1GB drive. This is done in a random manner, so the bits of data can not be tracked and re-assembled by an adversary. When you decrypt that 400MB section, it will look as though it is actually 1GB in size, with 600MB free space. This structure is how Rubberhose hides the existence of data in the remaining portion of the disk."
Yeah, battery life does suck on a Microdrive. It's a little more expensive per MB, but a 512MB Compactflash costs about the same as a 1GB Microdrive. Better battery life and no moving parts. 256MB are a little cheaper, about $.50/MB.
"and I know enough cops to know that they won't expend the energy without a good reason. My government doesn't care about me, which in this case is good."
This is really a head in the sand attitude. Most people don't need the protection of the law now because wiretaps are so expensive. They involve lots of manual labor. But what happens when someone builds a voice recognition AI that makes it cheap enough to spy on EVERYBODY? Will you still feel safe that the government doesn't care enough about you to spy on you?
Excuse me? Xrays erase undeveloped film. They don't erase magnetic media. Big giant magnetic fields erase magnetic media.
Considering that smallpox isn't contagious during the incubation period, a suicide bio-terrorist wouldn't be very effective. A sick person covered with boils would have a hard time blending into the crowd.
I think it is part of the settlement, but there's always ways to hide discounts and payments. Like a "promotional partnership" where MS subsidizes an OEM's advertising expenses if they bundle MS software and exclude non-MS software.