it probably will run linux, but that's as far as the 'nice' portion will go.
Call me a 'naysayer', but I strongly suspect that if google does not focus on it's core business instead of spinning off a new-and-not-so-great product every 24 hours or so that someone will come out with an easy to use not loaded with ads search engine any day now.
it's interesting how the largest copyright infringer on the planet (the owners of the google 'cache') find it necessary to make their own copyright protection.
Are they afraid someone might spider and index their video or what ?
as good as this patch is, it really annoys me that any user can just patch a part of a dll somewhere. It suggests that some other program can patch it right back to what it was.
You simply should not be able to go and mess around with system files like this.
I was dumb enough to think that a player bought in the netherlands would play my dvds that I bought while in canada, the region thing never even crossed my mind. Moving internationally is a lot harder than it seems, I could take about 1,000 kg (one metric tonne) in a crate, the crate was 998 kg by the time I was done packing and the dvd player didn't make it:) Since the voltages are different I figured a new dvd player would be cheaper than a stepdown transformer.
ariel sharon is personally responsible for the death of a lot of people, I'm not a believer, so this is probably biased, but for his sake I hope there is no god.
you don't have to be Einstein to remember that e=mv^2, and that if you want to reduce the damage to you, yours and the occupants of other vehicles you keep your speed down and your vehicle weight down.
Driving fast in an SUV loaded with kids is about as unresponsible as it gets, I see it quite often though...
The only way that can end honorably is by having the esteemed researcher committing hara-kiri or something to that effect, stem cell research has been dealt a tremendous blow, and this will surely have it's effects on the real researchers abilities to perform their job.
Especially those that will have their funding cut.
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I'm 40 years old, and have gained some experience since I was 20 or so and worked for these corporations.
I think it's the patent systems fault because it explicitly allows the abuse of the system. There is absolutely no oversight on what gets patented and what not, it's *WAY* too easy to get a patent on something frivolous, it should not be possible to get something patented without actual development and the presentation of a working device. Business methods and software should NOT be patentable at all, or only for an extremely short period.
The sort of people I worked (not WORK, I've been self employed for quite a while now) would do just about anything to make a buck, I was fairly young, fairly naive but I got wise and split with them and their ways.
Taking your 'idea' and underselling you is not the kind of abuse I was talking about. I'm specifically referring to submarine patents and patenting stuff with no intention whatsoever of ever marketing the device (or even developing a working prototype).
The kind of protection that is needed would push the cost of a patent up quite high, but in my opinion that would be a good thing. It would be an initial barrier that would get people (and especially the corporations that take out hundreds of patents annually) to pay attention to the filing process and the requirements. It would also make sure that you only patent those things that you actually intend to spend development capital on.
If it's 'just a good idea' you should not be able to patent it at all.
If it took you hundreds of hours of sweat and labour and mortgaging your house to research your idea your patent should be a solid one.
Right now a patent is just another gun in the armory of larger corps. As a small time inventor you will probably not have the stamina and the funds it will take to defend your patent, and as a larger corp you can use the patent system to beat up competitors smaller than you.
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as far as I'm concerned most patents aren't worth the paper they're printed on. I've been part of the 'process' several times because companies I was working for at the time pursued patents for their 'ideas' (not implementations), and it's pretty disgusting to see how patent attorneys and their clients conspire to create patents that have the exact opposite intention than what patents were originally created for.
For example, it's not unusual to word a patent in such a way that a genuinely innovative company that would not even compete with the patent 'taker' will have to go and license (overbroad patenting by design).
Then there's the 'suing for peace' group that basically takes out patents and then sues to settle for a number roughly $1 cheaper than what it will cost to litigate.
With such a high bandwidth they'll need a ton of base stations to get decent coverage.
There's only so much spectrum to go around and as the speeds go up the base frequency has to go up (otherwise you get less channels) so all the line-of-sight effects will go up as well.
(this will go on until we use lasers for communication like this).
Think about the overhead, here is a triple-layered game engine ! Wonder what you could really do with these machines if you hard coded them 80's style in assembler...
If you do any volume crawling of the net and look at what you 'harvest' you will find that large portions of the net contain utter trash. To index all of that stuff is wasted space and bandwidth.
It would be far more effective if search engines would concentrate on weeding the trash out and simply dropping it from the index and to never ever crawl it again. Sure that would reduce the sexyness of the numbers that you can quote but bigger in this case definitely isn't better.
thank you that's good info ! I have all kinds of apps conflicting using ctrl-c/ctrl-v and the highlight trick, so I guess I'll be reporting some bugs then.
I use KDE on Knoppix (hacked debian), I'm on a modem and can't download anything larger than a few hundred megs without going nuts so I'm limited to single CD distributions, and I really like Herr Knoppers work, he makes my life just about bearable. I had to fiddle a bit with the system to make apt-get work without trying to download a few hundred meg everytime I want to install a small package but for the most part it's doable.
I had not heard of Klipper yet and I don't see it running but it does seem to be installed, I'll give that a shot.
the beef is that it's inconsistent and most of the times it does not produce the desired effect.
here it's highlighting/middle button, there it's ctrl-c/ctrl-v
close the app you're pasting from and your cut buffer disappears, plenty of graphics programs don't understand cut&paste between applications at all and so on.
It's just a mess.
I use linux exclusively for my desktop (have been doing that for years, before that it was SGI), and I'm amazed that such a basic piece of funtionality has not been addressed properly by now.
It can't be that hard to establish ONE external representation for cut & paste in a clipboard that is running as a separate process, possibly based on MIME, or XML or something like that so that applications can figure out how to read that stuff without having to delve into the guts of the exporting application.
try copying and pasting an image from google images to say the gimp or so. For the life of me I can't make that work without using a temp file.
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What's this 'TV' thing I hear everybody talking about ? Is it something like the net ?
Call me a 'naysayer', but I strongly suspect that if google does not focus on it's core business instead of spinning off a new-and-not-so-great product every 24 hours or so that someone will come out with an easy to use not loaded with ads search engine any day now.
Are they afraid someone might spider and index their video or what ?
You simply should not be able to go and mess around with system files like this.
backwards compatibility only goes so far I guess.
anybody have a solution to that I'd be really greatful.
Driving fast in an SUV loaded with kids is about as unresponsible as it gets, I see it quite often though...
The only way that can end honorably is by having the esteemed researcher committing hara-kiri or something to that effect, stem cell research has been dealt a tremendous blow, and this will surely have it's effects on the real researchers abilities to perform their job.
Especially those that will have their funding cut.
well, errr, some people like hot chicks :)
I think it's the patent systems fault because it explicitly allows the abuse of the system. There is absolutely no oversight on what gets patented and what not, it's *WAY* too easy to get a patent on something frivolous, it should not be possible to get something patented without actual development and the presentation of a working device. Business methods and software should NOT be patentable at all, or only for an extremely short period.
The sort of people I worked (not WORK, I've been self employed for quite a while now) would do just about anything to make a buck, I was fairly young, fairly naive but I got wise and split with them and their ways.
Taking your 'idea' and underselling you is not the kind of abuse I was talking about. I'm specifically referring to submarine patents and patenting stuff with no intention whatsoever of ever marketing the device (or even developing a working prototype).
The kind of protection that is needed would push the cost of a patent up quite high, but in my opinion that would be a good thing. It would be an initial barrier that would get people (and especially the corporations that take out hundreds of patents annually) to pay attention to the filing process and the requirements. It would also make sure that you only patent those things that you actually intend to spend development capital on.
If it's 'just a good idea' you should not be able to patent it at all.
If it took you hundreds of hours of sweat and labour and mortgaging your house to research your idea your patent should be a solid one.
Right now a patent is just another gun in the armory of larger corps. As a small time inventor you will probably not have the stamina and the funds it will take to defend your patent, and as a larger corp you can use the patent system to beat up competitors smaller than you.
as far as I'm concerned most patents aren't worth the paper they're printed on. I've been part of the 'process' several times because companies I was working for at the time pursued patents for their 'ideas' (not implementations), and it's pretty disgusting to see how patent attorneys and their clients conspire to create patents that have the exact opposite intention than what patents were originally created for.
For example, it's not unusual to word a patent in such a way that a genuinely innovative company that would not even compete with the patent 'taker' will have to go and license (overbroad patenting by design).
Then there's the 'suing for peace' group that basically takes out patents and then sues to settle for a number roughly $1 cheaper than what it will cost to litigate.
I hate patents with a passion.
Some Hot Chick
With such a high bandwidth they'll need a ton of base stations to get decent coverage.
There's only so much spectrum to go around and as the speeds go up the base frequency has to go up (otherwise you get less channels) so all the line-of-sight effects will go up as well. (this will go on until we use lasers for communication like this).
some hot chick...
I would suggest you join http://www.fieldlines.com/ , there's a lot of knowledgeable people out there.
enjoy !
I spent a good year designing and building a 2.5 KW wind generator, I wished NL wasn't so anal about 'horizon pollution' or I would have it up today.
:)
mandatory viewing, MS vs IBM
Think about the overhead, here is a triple-layered game engine ! Wonder what you could really do with these machines if you hard coded them 80's style in assembler...
man, I can see it coming: Canabis is good for memory, beer is good against cancer. Time to move to Holland for all of you !
let me clarify that a bit.
If you do any volume crawling of the net and look at what you 'harvest' you will find that large portions of the net contain utter trash. To index all of that stuff is wasted space and bandwidth.
It would be far more effective if search engines would concentrate on weeding the trash out and simply dropping it from the index and to never ever crawl it again. Sure that would reduce the sexyness of the numbers that you can quote but bigger in this case definitely isn't better.
nope, it doesn't
I tried that and the gimp segfaults
thank you that's good info ! I have all kinds of apps conflicting using ctrl-c/ctrl-v and the highlight trick, so I guess I'll be reporting some bugs then.
I use KDE on Knoppix (hacked debian), I'm on a modem and can't download anything larger than a few hundred megs without going nuts so I'm limited to single CD distributions, and I really like Herr Knoppers work, he makes my life just about bearable. I had to fiddle a bit with the system to make apt-get work without trying to download a few hundred meg everytime I want to install a small package but for the most part it's doable.
I had not heard of Klipper yet and I don't see it running but it does seem to be installed, I'll give that a shot.
once again thanks !
the beef is that it's inconsistent and most of the times it does not produce the desired effect.
here it's highlighting/middle button, there it's ctrl-c/ctrl-v
close the app you're pasting from and your cut buffer disappears, plenty of graphics programs don't understand cut&paste between applications at all and so on.
It's just a mess.
I use linux exclusively for my desktop (have been doing that for years, before that it was SGI), and I'm amazed that such a basic piece of funtionality has not been addressed properly by now.
It can't be that hard to establish ONE external representation for cut & paste in a clipboard that is running as a separate process, possibly based on MIME, or XML or something like that so that applications can figure out how to read that stuff without having to delve into the guts of the exporting application.
try copying and pasting an image from google images to say the gimp or so. For the life of me I can't make that work without using a temp file.
21 M ???
aarghhh
I'm on a modem... (the orginal fit on one 360 K floppy!!)
great job anyway, I'll see if I can download it somehow
screw the candy give me consistent and functional cut & paste across all apps. If bloody MS can do it why can't X...