Re:Backups shouldn't be fair use.
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Region-free PS3
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I'm guessing that you don't have any kids? CD/DVDs can easily be rendered useless by young ones, in fact they are more fragile than old audio cassettes.
RTFA. Why do you (and about half the other commenters so far) naturally assume that the technology is that simple?
"Even more importantly, if an unauthorized person tries to record the knocking sequence and play it back in order to open the door, the lock will not open since the knocking sequence changes every time"
As another commenter noted, the main reason this is a bad idea is that you're SOL if the battery or power is out.
I did actually mean to sound like that, I do not back up the newspaper. It was a childish thing to do, as it served no other purpose than to prove that we have freedom of speech, and in the process they insulted a lot of people.
Don't get me wrong, I value freedom of speech highly, but with it comes responsibility, it makes no sense to go around saying all sorts of things just because you can, if you have nothing to say.
Of course the death threats, flag-/building-burning is a totally unacceptable response.
Your comparison to a playground is unfortunately not that wrong, if everyone would act like adults shit like this wouldn't happen.
Actually the Danish newspaper that started this very recently considered publishing a cartoon of Jesus to show the muslims that they can offend christians too - but they won't do that anyway - possibly because someone told them that Jesus is in fact considered a prophet by the muslims too.
Just to clarify: Denmark did not publish any cartoons, an independent Danish newspaper published the cartoons.
I realize that you probably didn't mean it that way, but this is what is frustrating about this whole mess to a Dane, like myself, that millions of muslims suddenly hate all Danes, when the "crime" was commited by a single silly newspaper.
>I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers >can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
Yes, 1000 algorithms is the way to go..?...how about just using one that works..
From the website:
Record, Store and watch... Replacing VHS
The KiSS DP-558 DVD Player has it all. It can offer playback of many different formats, from DVD, Video with DivX(R) 3.11, 4 and 5 and MPEG-4, or Audio with MP3, Standard Audio CDs and Ogg Vorbis, or Pictures with JPEG. You will also find on it all the features that has made the KiSS DP-500 famous with an Ethernet Connection in the back. If connected to a Broadband Internet Connection it will enable the user to play Internet Radio Station on his Player with WebRadio or enable the user to view or play his Audio/Video/Picture files from his PC with the user Friendly Software KiSS PC-Link. On top of these well known features, the KiSS DP-558 offers recording facilities, thanks to its TV Tuner, recording TV on its built-in Hard Drive will be as easy as it was done on VHS, with some major advantages such as very high sound quality, a sharp and clear image, no alteration of the content with time or easy content search. The KiSS DP-558 comes with an 80GB Hard Disk where the user can record TV programmes (average of 34 hours depending quality on settings) or store up to 117 good quality DivX(R) movies, easily accessible and downloadable on the Player's Hard Disk from a PC. The KiSS DP-558 also comes complete with the standard CD/MP3, Ogg Vorbis, DivX(R), XviD, CD-RW and DVD+-RW playback.
I bet the piece of code causing this looks something like this:.../*
Check every second....
Maybe GetTickCount wraps, but I don't care,
something else will probably break before 49 days anyway */
if (m_dwLastTick-GetTickCount())>1000) {
DoSomeThingImportant();
m_dwLastTick=GetTickCount(); }
GetTickCount returns the number of millisecs since reboot, after 49 days it will wrap and start over, so lazy programmers using code such as above will have a problem.
Instead of policing your kids, a better location based service, if your concern is kidnapping, would be to alert the parents in the following situations:
1. Phone is turned off in a place other than home and other than school. Maybe somebody forced the kid to turn it off, or crushed it.
2. Phone has not moved for X hours/minutes in a place other than home/school. This may indicate that the phone was dropped or thrown away. This is a little more tricky, as your kid may just be hanging out someplace...
...would have been nice, before giving Nokia full ownership of Symbian.
As the article says the licensed software is optimised to run on Symbian, but it is not Symbian.
From the Symbian website:
"Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998 and is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Matsushita (Panasonic), Motorola, Psion, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Headquartered in the UK, it has offices in Japan, Sweden, UK and the USA."
Re:Cropping needs improving
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Making A Videowall
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Exactly my first thought when I saw the pictures. Why don't they just get rid of the monitor cases, so they can put the tubes closer together and make one huge box for the lot?
Naval fleet on Ericsson T68
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The Wireless Arcade
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The Ericsson T68 includes a Naval Fleet game that can be played by two players over Bluetooth. It may not be that exciting, but it would kill time a little faster when standing in line, although it may be difficult to find an opponent in the same line, with a T68, which is also looking for a Bluetooth game partner...
Great! Another Microsoft+virus story, I don't know why I bothered reading comments about this one, as always in these stories the first 20 highest rated stories are more or less obvious jokes about Microsoft and (lack of) security. Could we please have a separate rating system that gives more credit to interesting comments...
I have only used OpenOffice 641 a few times to read Word docs, unfornately my personal experience is that, for those 2-3 documents I tried, I had to fire up StarOffice 5.2 to read them, as OpenOffice would mess them up. The documents used tables in the header and/or lots of graphics.
Check this
site
There are some
pictures aswell.
Unfortunately most of the details are in Danish only, but the short story is that they offer a silent fan-less PC using a patented liquid cooling system, that doesn't use electricity.
If you would care to read what it says on your T68, Sony is not involved in the making of the T68!...and apart from that I think the T68 is a very excellent phone, but this is not the place for a flamewar...
Regarding 3) - this of course also has the downside that some companies tend to hire people who are technically unqualified for the job, but are better smoothtalkers than the guy actually able to do the job.....
Excuse me? You spend half the time documenting (nothing wrong with that, more people should do that), but you write the documentation as comments to the code you haven't written yet??? Am I missing something?
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I'm guessing that you don't have any kids? CD/DVDs can easily be rendered useless by young ones, in fact they are more fragile than old audio cassettes.
RTFA. Why do you (and about half the other commenters so far) naturally assume that the technology is that simple?
"Even more importantly, if an unauthorized person tries to record the knocking sequence and play it back in order to open the door, the lock will not open since the knocking sequence changes every time"
As another commenter noted, the main reason this is a bad idea is that you're SOL if the battery or power is out.
I did actually mean to sound like that, I do not back up the newspaper. It was a childish thing to do, as it served no other purpose than to prove that we have freedom of speech, and in the process they insulted a lot of people.
Don't get me wrong, I value freedom of speech highly, but with it comes responsibility, it makes no sense to go around saying all sorts of things just because you can, if you have nothing to say.
Of course the death threats, flag-/building-burning is a totally unacceptable response.
Your comparison to a playground is unfortunately not that wrong, if everyone would act like adults shit like this wouldn't happen.
Actually the Danish newspaper that started this very recently considered publishing a cartoon of Jesus to show the muslims that they can offend christians too - but they won't do that anyway - possibly because someone told them that Jesus is in fact considered a prophet by the muslims too.
I realize that you probably didn't mean it that way, but this is what is frustrating about this whole mess to a Dane, like myself, that millions of muslims suddenly hate all Danes, when the "crime" was commited by a single silly newspaper.
The XP requirement is due to the use of GDI+, which is included with XP.
= /library/en-us/gdicpp/GDIPlus/GDIPlus.asp
However, GDI+ can be installed on NT4,W2K,Win98,ME see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url
As Linux doesn't have GDI+ I doubt very much that it will work with Mono.
Maybe not impossible, but the discs would probably be quite expensive.
>can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.
Yes, 1000 algorithms is the way to go..? ...how about just using one that works..
Looks a lot more like it is based on JBuilder...and that would be more likely, wouldn't it?
Nice, I guess...but I think I'll wait for the KISS DP-558 to be released:
DivX!
Ethernet
Webradio
MP3, Ogg Vorbis
JPG
80 GB HD
TV-tuner
DVD
Extremely slow site here.
From the website:
Record, Store and watch... Replacing VHS The KiSS DP-558 DVD Player has it all. It can offer playback of many different formats, from DVD, Video with DivX(R) 3.11, 4 and 5 and MPEG-4, or Audio with MP3, Standard Audio CDs and Ogg Vorbis, or Pictures with JPEG. You will also find on it all the features that has made the KiSS DP-500 famous with an Ethernet Connection in the back. If connected to a Broadband Internet Connection it will enable the user to play Internet Radio Station on his Player with WebRadio or enable the user to view or play his Audio/Video/Picture files from his PC with the user Friendly Software KiSS PC-Link. On top of these well known features, the KiSS DP-558 offers recording facilities, thanks to its TV Tuner, recording TV on its built-in Hard Drive will be as easy as it was done on VHS, with some major advantages such as very high sound quality, a sharp and clear image, no alteration of the content with time or easy content search. The KiSS DP-558 comes with an 80GB Hard Disk where the user can record TV programmes (average of 34 hours depending quality on settings) or store up to 117 good quality DivX(R) movies, easily accessible and downloadable on the Player's Hard Disk from a PC. The KiSS DP-558 also comes complete with the standard CD/MP3, Ogg Vorbis, DivX(R), XviD, CD-RW and DVD+-RW playback.
if you'd allowed the pirates to receive patches instead of trying to screw them with an insecure version of the OS
;-)
Good one, you steal their software, and then accuse them of screwing you?
I bet the piece of code causing this looks something like this: ... /*
Check every second....
Maybe GetTickCount wraps, but I don't care,
something else will probably break before 49 days anyway
*/
if (m_dwLastTick-GetTickCount())>1000)
{
DoSomeThingImportant();
m_dwLastTick=GetTickCount();
}
GetTickCount returns the number of millisecs since reboot, after 49 days it will wrap and start over, so lazy programmers using code such as above will have a problem.
Instead of policing your kids, a better location based service, if your concern is kidnapping, would be to alert the parents in the following situations:
1. Phone is turned off in a place other than home and other than school. Maybe somebody forced the kid to turn it off, or crushed it.
2. Phone has not moved for X hours/minutes in a place other than home/school. This may indicate that the phone was dropped or thrown away. This is a little more tricky, as your kid may just be hanging out someplace...
Very good advice. Actually T68 has exactly the same hardware as T68i and hence can use the same firmware, making it just as fast (or slow..)
...would have been nice, before giving Nokia full ownership of Symbian. As the article says the licensed software is optimised to run on Symbian, but it is not Symbian. From the Symbian website: "Symbian was established as a private independent company in June 1998 and is owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Matsushita (Panasonic), Motorola, Psion, Siemens and Sony Ericsson. Headquartered in the UK, it has offices in Japan, Sweden, UK and the USA."
Exactly my first thought when I saw the pictures. Why don't they just get rid of the monitor cases, so they can put the tubes closer together and make one huge box for the lot?
The Ericsson T68 includes a Naval Fleet game that can be played by two players over Bluetooth. It may not be that exciting, but it would kill time a little faster when standing in line, although it may be difficult to find an opponent in the same line, with a T68, which is also looking for a Bluetooth game partner...
Great! Another Microsoft+virus story, I don't know why I bothered reading comments about this one, as always in these stories the first 20 highest rated stories are more or less obvious jokes about Microsoft and (lack of) security. Could we please have a separate rating system that gives more credit to interesting comments...
I have only used OpenOffice 641 a few times to read Word docs, unfornately my personal experience is that, for those 2-3 documents I tried, I had to fire up StarOffice 5.2 to read them, as OpenOffice would mess them up. The documents used tables in the header and/or lots of graphics.
It seems your CAPS LOCK key has a habit of getting stuck from time to time, I suggest you check your keyboard, and ,if necessary, buy a new one ;-)
Check this site
There are some pictures aswell. Unfortunately most of the details are in Danish only, but the short story is that they offer a silent fan-less PC using a patented liquid cooling system, that doesn't use electricity.
If you would care to read what it says on your T68, Sony is not involved in the making of the T68! ...and apart from that I think the T68 is a very excellent phone, but this is not the place for a flamewar...
Regarding 3) - this of course also has the downside that some companies tend to hire people who are technically unqualified for the job, but are better smoothtalkers than the guy actually able to do the job.....
Excuse me? You spend half the time documenting (nothing wrong with that, more people should do that), but you write the documentation as comments to the code you haven't written yet??? Am I missing something?