Not really. The "free" images offered by MS from that URL expire after 90 days and you can't (apparently) retrieve your data from the images after they expire. That's what the write-up on their website says, anyway.
Do you want to have to set your whole test environment up all over again every 90 days? I'd rather spend my time doing something useful, but that's just me. Since I have no use for MS stuff, so it doesn't matter to me anyway.
My wife's (Medtronic) pacemaker can be checked, logs read, and reprogrammed by hanging a device that's about the size and shape of a computer mouse on her chest. That device is connected to a computer that the cardiac technician sits in front of to do his thing.
As far as I'm aware, the entire pacemaker is controlled by the technician's computer. There is no phyiscal penetration required at all.
You would think that cinema speakers (those big honkin' speakers that sit behind the screen at the movie theatre - mine are about about six feet tall but there are many larger than that) would be impervious to damage but some movies occasionally overdrive the speakers to a point that the drivers are damaged. The most recent one that I'm aware of is Paranormal Activity 2: The Marked Ones, where there was 7 seconds of high pitched buzzing on reel 4 that could destroy the speakers.
Here is an email from Paramount that describes the problem:
QUOTE: Dear Projectionist, Paramount has had reports of speaker damage from some theatres playing PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES. In several cases we have been able to research, the volume had been turned up to high levels at patronsâ(TM) requests.
We are currently working to get information on speaker/amplifier brand and model to see if any particular combination of hardware might be more susceptible to damage. At this time, most of the damaged speakers have been identified as JBL model 4632â(TM)s, but this is preliminary data.
We are also working on an audio patch which may lessen the potential for damage.
For the time being, please do not set your volume at a high level on this film.
Thank you for your cooperation.
END OF QUOTE Technicolor sent out a new soundtrack for that movie without the 7 seconds of buzzing and as far as I know that solved the problem.
The point here is that even high-end cinema audio systems can be damaged by a poorly engineered soundtrack, so I'm not surprised to find that the speakers in a cheap laptop could be damaged the same way.
Good to know if I ever need a federal government job...
Sheesh.
This is either someone trying to beat the system, or perhaps the system beating itself to some degree. Why is the plain meaning of "foreign language" in an English-speaking country even up for debate?
I prefer to program in C. Not C++. Therefore, if I want a GUI I'm pretty much stuck with either motif or GTK+ and since I'm not really a huge fan of either one I avoid the issue whenever I can and try to do most of my stuff with ncurses.
However, one advantage that motif has over GTK+ is its inertia. In most cases I can compile a motif-based program that was written ten or twenty years back on an up-to-date Linux system and it will just work without modification. GTK+, on the other hand, changes so rapidly that an application written five years ago stands a really good chance of not working without modification. "Function X has been deprecated, now use function Y. Function Y has been deprecated, now use function Z and newly-added function A to do what it used to to."
Some of my software from written in the late 80's is still in use today doing things like logging oil well drilling and counting "beats" from water meters. None of that has a GUI, but it still works in the same way that it did on the first day it was installed.
C hasn't changed in any really fundamental way since the days of K&R, either. Why can't I have a long-term, slow-moving GUI framework like that, too?
The GCC digital cinema server, used for playing digital movies in theatres, has a GTK-based front-end for its user input such as setting up playlists, scheduling, managing the content on the server and so on.
You don't need javascript to read that article. The text and photo are at the bottom of the page. Just scroll past all of the whitespace at the top and you'll fine it.
With all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about.
I live in a town of 5000 people on the prairies. We have one post office, located on Main Street. Everyone in town has a mailbox at the post office, and when you want to pick up your mail you walk or drive to the post office with your key, open your mailbox, and collect your mail. If you have a parcel to pick up, something you have to sign for, or whatever, you get a card in your mailbox which you take to the service counter and they hand you your package.
Folks around here who live on farms also have a mailbox at the post office and have to come to town to pick up their mail. Nobody around here has rural delivery.
We actually had to pay a yearly rental fee for our mailbox at the post office at one time, and if you didn't or couldn't pay you didn't get a mailbox and all of your mail would be given to you over-the-counter upon request by the clerk as "General Delivery". They discontinued charging the rental fee for mailboxes here about 20 years ago. Now you get a card in your mailbox once per year stating that you must renew your mailbox. To do that, you take the card to the counter and sign a form stating that you still live in town.
I have never lived anywhere that mail was delivered to the door. I have always had to walk to the post office to pick it up. Walking to the post office on weekdays is part of my morning routine, and always has been.
I think Eatons houses were usually delivered by rail, not by post. My grandfather bought one and I'm pretty sure he picked it up at the rail station (with his wagon).
There's nothing wrong with C++. However, I do my programing in C (without the ++), and would love have something like this available that I could link to my C programs.
GTK+ works fine in its way, but it moves way too fast for my taste. Function x is deprecated, use function y instead. Function y is deprecated, use function z along with function z(1) now. Ok, it's great that you're improving that thing, but not so great for a guy like me who wants to write an application today and use it for the next ten or twenty years without having to re-invent the wheel over and over again.
Since I have no particular desire to learn C++, I now do most of my programming using ncurses to handle the screen, keyboard and (occasionally) mouse. Ncurses is a Text-UI rather than a GUI, but just like the C language itself, it works very well,it hasn't changed in many years, and it suits me fine.
A slow-moving GUI like wxwidgets would be a wonderful thing to add to my toolbox, if it was a C library. *sigh*
I wonder if Google's April Fool joke will count as prior art for invalidating the inevitable patents that MS will try to surround this technology with.
Not to mention the gesture interface operated by Tom Cruise in the Minority Report movie...
There's no point in pussy-footing around this. It's obvious that RSA was either forced or "rewarded" into using an insecure method. And that they knew it at the time (because they are cryptographers and because they don't live in the bottom of a well.)
Therefore, RSA has proven themselves untrustworthy at best, corrupt at worst, and quite likely both.
The question is what to do next? Rip out everything RSA in all infrastructure and replace it with something that works appears to be the best approach, but how should that be done and what should it be replaced with? And, most importantly, how can we verify that replacement?
TFA sez "The official IP allocation records maintained by the American Registry for Internet Numbers show the two Magneto-related IP addresses were part of a ghost block of eight addresses that have no organization listed. Those addresses trace no further than the Verizon Business data center in Ashburn, Virginia, 20 miles northwest of the Capital Beltway."
So it's not clear if those addresses belong to the FBI, the CIA, NSA, or anyone else.
Is this even "legal" on the Internet? Perhaps those IP addresses should be reclaimed and reassigned by ARIN since "nobody" is using them and IPV4 addresses are now in short (nonexistent) supply.
large areas currently under cultivation in the United States cease to arable, or at least cheaply arable. At the same time, Canada gains large amounts of arable land much farther north.
There are factors other than mere temperature that go into whether land can be used for growing crops. Much of the soil north of where Canadian farmers currently grow their crops is either very poor or next-to-nonexistent. The Canadian Shield consists largely of volcanic rock. You can't grow a crop in that even if the temperature appears to allow it.
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For other folks who are like me, and are wondering what this thing is, it's apparently an office suite like Openoffice, Libreoffice, etc.
I've never heard of it up to now, myself.
That exact same link is in the summary.
You were in such a hurry to get first post that you didn't read the summary.
No ccache?
Not really. The "free" images offered by MS from that URL expire after 90 days and you can't (apparently) retrieve your data from the images after they expire. That's what the write-up on their website says, anyway.
Do you want to have to set your whole test environment up all over again every 90 days? I'd rather spend my time doing something useful, but that's just me. Since I have no use for MS stuff, so it doesn't matter to me anyway.
My wife's (Medtronic) pacemaker can be checked, logs read, and reprogrammed by hanging a device that's about the size and shape of a computer mouse on her chest. That device is connected to a computer that the cardiac technician sits in front of to do his thing.
As far as I'm aware, the entire pacemaker is controlled by the technician's computer. There is no phyiscal penetration required at all.
You would think that cinema speakers (those big honkin' speakers that sit behind the screen at the movie theatre - mine are about about six feet tall but there are many larger than that) would be impervious to damage but some movies occasionally overdrive the speakers to a point that the drivers are damaged. The most recent one that I'm aware of is Paranormal Activity 2: The Marked Ones, where there was 7 seconds of high pitched buzzing on reel 4 that could destroy the speakers.
Here is an email from Paramount that describes the problem:
QUOTE:
Dear Projectionist,
Paramount has had reports of speaker damage from some theatres playing PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES. In several cases we have been able to research, the volume had been turned up to high levels at patronsâ(TM) requests.
We are currently working to get information on speaker/amplifier brand and model to see if any particular combination of hardware might be more susceptible to damage. At this time, most of the damaged speakers have been identified as JBL model 4632â(TM)s, but this is preliminary data.
We are also working on an audio patch which may lessen the potential for damage.
For the time being, please do not set your volume at a high level on this film.
Thank you for your cooperation.
END OF QUOTE
Technicolor sent out a new soundtrack for that movie without the 7 seconds of buzzing and as far as I know that solved the problem.
The point here is that even high-end cinema audio systems can be damaged by a poorly engineered soundtrack, so I'm not surprised to find that the speakers in a cheap laptop could be damaged the same way.
Just use noscript to disallow javascript on slashdot (and pretty much everything else, actually) and you'll never see that beta thing at all.
Good to know if I ever need a federal government job...
Sheesh.
This is either someone trying to beat the system, or perhaps the system beating itself to some degree. Why is the plain meaning of "foreign language" in an English-speaking country even up for debate?
fslint is a toolkit to find all redundant disk usage (duplicate files
for e.g.). It includes a GUI as well as a command line interface.
http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslin...
Is it really, though?
I prefer to program in C. Not C++. Therefore, if I want a GUI I'm pretty much stuck with either motif or GTK+ and since I'm not really a huge fan of either one I avoid the issue whenever I can and try to do most of my stuff with ncurses.
However, one advantage that motif has over GTK+ is its inertia. In most cases I can compile a motif-based program that was written ten or twenty years back on an up-to-date Linux system and it will just work without modification. GTK+, on the other hand, changes so rapidly that an application written five years ago stands a really good chance of not working without modification. "Function X has been deprecated, now use function Y. Function Y has been deprecated, now use function Z and newly-added function A to do what it used to to."
Some of my software from written in the late 80's is still in use today doing things like logging oil well drilling and counting "beats" from water meters. None of that has a GUI, but it still works in the same way that it did on the first day it was installed.
C hasn't changed in any really fundamental way since the days of K&R, either. Why can't I have a long-term, slow-moving GUI framework like that, too?
The GCC digital cinema server, used for playing digital movies in theatres, has a GTK-based front-end for its user input such as setting up playlists, scheduling, managing the content on the server and so on.
I know because I've got one and use it every day.
You don't need javascript to read that article. The text and photo are at the bottom of the page. Just scroll past all of the whitespace at the top and you'll fine it.
Actually, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain. It took a court order to shake it loose, though.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-new-sherlock-holmes-copyright-20131230,0,5610784.story
Tempest and S-Boxes? I'm wondering about se-linux, myself..
With all due respect, you have no idea what you're talking about.
I live in a town of 5000 people on the prairies. We have one post office, located on Main Street. Everyone in town has a mailbox at the post office, and when you want to pick up your mail you walk or drive to the post office with your key, open your mailbox, and collect your mail. If you have a parcel to pick up, something you have to sign for, or whatever, you get a card in your mailbox which you take to the service counter and they hand you your package.
Folks around here who live on farms also have a mailbox at the post office and have to come to town to pick up their mail. Nobody around here has rural delivery.
We actually had to pay a yearly rental fee for our mailbox at the post office at one time, and if you didn't or couldn't pay you didn't get a mailbox and all of your mail would be given to you over-the-counter upon request by the clerk as "General Delivery". They discontinued charging the rental fee for mailboxes here about 20 years ago. Now you get a card in your mailbox once per year stating that you must renew your mailbox. To do that, you take the card to the counter and sign a form stating that you still live in town.
I have never lived anywhere that mail was delivered to the door. I have always had to walk to the post office to pick it up. Walking to the post office on weekdays is part of my morning routine, and always has been.
I think Eatons houses were usually delivered by rail, not by post. My grandfather bought one and I'm pretty sure he picked it up at the rail station (with his wagon).
The C128 had a GREAT keyboard! Much better than the keyboard on the C64 and any of the IBM clones that I used around then.
No idea if it was as good as or better than a "real" IBM keyboard, though, since I never had the opportunity to use one of those.
After reading the article I still don't quite get how this technique works.
From the article: âoewhen the color is the same, the mirror edge disappears."
Come again? One of the accompanying photos shows Mr. Jenison with a mirror near his eye and a paintbrush in his hand.
But I still don't understand what's happening here.
It's being "made available" but it "may not be reproduced."
How does that work, again?
There's nothing wrong with C++. However, I do my programing in C (without the ++), and would love have something like this available that I could link to my C programs.
GTK+ works fine in its way, but it moves way too fast for my taste. Function x is deprecated, use function y instead. Function y is deprecated, use function z along with function z(1) now. Ok, it's great that you're improving that thing, but not so great for a guy like me who wants to write an application today and use it for the next ten or twenty years without having to re-invent the wheel over and over again.
Since I have no particular desire to learn C++, I now do most of my programming using ncurses to handle the screen, keyboard and (occasionally) mouse. Ncurses is a Text-UI rather than a GUI, but just like the C language itself, it works very well,it hasn't changed in many years, and it suits me fine.
A slow-moving GUI like wxwidgets would be a wonderful thing to add to my toolbox, if it was a C library. *sigh*
Yep, a whole $44,400 fine. That's got to sting a multi-billion dollar company. Bet they won't dare try that again.
I wonder if Google's April Fool joke will count as prior art for invalidating the inevitable patents that MS will try to surround this technology with.
Not to mention the gesture interface operated by Tom Cruise in the Minority Report movie...
There's no point in pussy-footing around this. It's obvious that RSA was either forced or "rewarded" into using an insecure method. And that they knew it at the time (because they are cryptographers and because they don't live in the bottom of a well.)
Therefore, RSA has proven themselves untrustworthy at best, corrupt at worst, and quite likely both.
The question is what to do next? Rip out everything RSA in all infrastructure and replace it with something that works appears to be the best approach, but how should that be done and what should it be replaced with? And, most importantly, how can we verify that replacement?
TFA sez "The official IP allocation records maintained by the American Registry for Internet Numbers show the two Magneto-related IP addresses were part of a ghost block of eight addresses that have no organization listed. Those addresses trace no further than the Verizon Business data center in Ashburn, Virginia, 20 miles northwest of the Capital Beltway."
So it's not clear if those addresses belong to the FBI, the CIA, NSA, or anyone else.
Is this even "legal" on the Internet? Perhaps those IP addresses should be reclaimed and reassigned by ARIN since "nobody" is using them and IPV4 addresses are now in short (nonexistent) supply.
large areas currently under cultivation in the United States cease to arable, or at least cheaply arable. At the same time, Canada gains large amounts of arable land much farther north.
There are factors other than mere temperature that go into whether land can be used for growing crops. Much of the soil north of where Canadian farmers currently grow their crops is either very poor or next-to-nonexistent. The Canadian Shield consists largely of volcanic rock. You can't grow a crop in that even if the temperature appears to allow it.