On (+V), Off (grounded), and Float (no connection)
Modern CPUs already use this. Say you have several things connected to a bus, any of which may need to write to the bus at times. You wouldn't want more than one of them to write to the bus at one time, because you'll run into some nasty problems (the circuit won't work) if, for example, both 0s and 1s are being written to the bus at the same time. Solution? Schedule bus writes so that only one thing writes to the bus at a time, and tri-state everything else at that time.
Microsoft has been sending out quite a bit of MSN-related spam to Hotmail users lately. What really irritates me about this is that not only can this not be filtered out (they send it as a member announcement from staff@hotmail.com), but they also blatantly lie and say that their policy is and always has been to send such emails only to inform Hotmail users of new services that are related to Hotmail. How in the hell is MSN a service that is directly related to Hotmail?
They're not AOL's commercials. They are the station's. AOL and the station are (usually) two entirely different companies; your cable bill compensates AOL while your watching commercials compensates the station.
Well the U.S. government didn't do anything - it was quite legal and proper for Singapore to enforce it laws upon them.
Clinton talked and talked and talked to Singapore's government and convinced them to reduce the punishment from eight lashes with the cane to four. This I clearly remember. Although you're right -- Singapore had every right to enforce its laws, and probably should have given them all eight lashes. What I don't understand is why (as in the Singapore case) the US doesn't like other countries enforcing their laws on US citizens while (as in the Sklyarov/Elcomsoft case) it is so zealous about enforcing its own laws on citizens/corporations from other countries.
If it's true that AbiWord is 20 times smaller than OpenOffice and still provides comparable capabilities, those coders sure know what they are doing!
Keep in mind that OpenOffice has a lot more than AbiWord does, though...like a spreadsheet program, presentation program, etc. To say that AbiWord is 20x smaller than OpenOffice is misleading; it is, but this is because it is just a word processor and not a full-fledged office suite.
Doctors who can't pass the Medical Boards for one reason or another can have "training verification", where someone who has passed their boards verifies that they know what they're doing.
Apply this analogy to Microsoft and its programmers and tell me that doesn't scare you (or make you laugh).
Chances are, it'll be faster and have better output... and just imageine all the dead printers you can use to make decorative borders for your garden!
Better yet, just sell the old printer on eBay and get a little bit of money back from it. If you were lucky, this could actually make getting a new printer cheaper than getting the new ink cartridges.
But get a couple inch long PCB trace with a 2.4GHz signal on it, and things get more interesting
Get too many of those and you won't be able to meet gigahertz timings, much less multigigahertz timings. Also, at frequencies like that, you start running into transmission line issues with the longer PCB traces. If the PCB trace isn't an integral fraction of a wavelength (1/4 of a wavelength, 1/2 of a wavelength, it's really too complicated to explain here), the traces start to introduce complex impedances. This is more of a design issue for the engineers than anything, but it's another reason why you probably won't see much, if any PCB traces running at the full 2.4 GHz.
Unfortunately, it looks as though other major players -- the EU, for example -- are lining up to pass similarly ill-thought-out and draconian legislation just as soon as they can.
They are passing these laws for the same reason the US passed the DMCA -- the WIPO treaty that requires signees to do so. If I'm not mistaken, WIPO is tied into the World Trade Organization. I used to wonder why people got so upset and had all those large-scale protests against the WTO; now I know.
This is the main problem. It is also the reason why DMCA threats tend to be more successful in getting the complainants what they want than less successful; the mere thought of being sued and removed of what little money they usually have is enough to intimidate most people into compliance, regardless of the nature of the law that is being used against them.
But WHY do they always have to go against the population and not work with them?
One word: Money. They get large campaign contributions from various corporate sources, and in return, they cater to the needs of these same corporations. They're in somewhat of a difficult situation because if they don't cater to the corporations, they won't get any more campaign contributions. If they don't have campaign money, their chances of getting elected or reelected drop sharply.
Over the past year, we've seen so much god-awful M&A activity - think Vivendi-U or, even worse, AOLTW - none of which adds any value to the resulting company.
And if you think of it from the consumer's perspective, the resulting companies are usually worse. Which begs the question -- why merge in the first place? I don't think I've ever really figured this one out; the only things mergers are good at as far as the average tech consumer is concerned are expanding monopolies *ahem*AOLTW and reducing product quality. They may be good in the short term for the companies involved, but they're inevitably bad for the consumer, and this in turn results in a long-term loss for all companies involved.
I complained to the local Microsoft office and they basically admitted that they had no way to force the shops to accept their "return to shop" policy even if it is printed on the box.
So what makes them think they have any way to force you to accept all the little policies in the EULA?
I have a lot of Excel spreadsheets[1] but upgrading the format every time M$ decides to release a new version is the pits.
Don't use M$ Office then. OpenOffice, WordPerfect Office, etc. have spreadsheet programs that are just as good as Excel. And they don't change their file formats anywhere near as often as M$ likes to.
But keep in mind that many artists only sign with major record labels because they have no other choice. Sure, they could refuse to sign, but in most cases, that effectively prevents a musician's career from taking off.
Commerce Secretary James Rogan claims that 'the DMCA carefully balances the interests of all stakeholders,'
Of course it carefully balances the interests of all stakeholders. Thing is, they don't see customers as stakeholders. An argument could be made that customers aren't stakeholders in this sense -- after all, they have no financial stake in whether most CBDTPA-protected works succeed or fail. Never mind the principles that are involved, it's all about money to corporations and to Congress.
a claim that marks him for a corporate whore, but it seems that there are some things even whores won't do
Like pay any attention to whether their customers care about what they're being exposed to? You could make some interesting comparisons here. The corporate whores are exposing their customers to CBDTPA; the rest of the analogy is left to the reader's imagination.
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On (+V), Off (grounded), and Float (no connection)
Modern CPUs already use this. Say you have several things connected to a bus, any of which may need to write to the bus at times. You wouldn't want more than one of them to write to the bus at one time, because you'll run into some nasty problems (the circuit won't work) if, for example, both 0s and 1s are being written to the bus at the same time. Solution? Schedule bus writes so that only one thing writes to the bus at a time, and tri-state everything else at that time.
Microsoft has been sending out quite a bit of MSN-related spam to Hotmail users lately. What really irritates me about this is that not only can this not be filtered out (they send it as a member announcement from staff@hotmail.com), but they also blatantly lie and say that their policy is and always has been to send such emails only to inform Hotmail users of new services that are related to Hotmail. How in the hell is MSN a service that is directly related to Hotmail?
You sing the songs of those whose movies you buy, remember that. I don't wanna hear another whine about copy protection or elbow tactics.
Of course the MPAA is good right now. This is Thursday! We'll hate the MPAA tomorrow.
so I owe it to AOL/TW to watch their commercials?
They're not AOL's commercials. They are the station's. AOL and the station are (usually) two entirely different companies; your cable bill compensates AOL while your watching commercials compensates the station.
Just don't sit in anything wet or lick your hands afterwards and you'll be fine. That goes for using both a computer and a toilet.
If you're sitting in something wet at your workstation, it's time to lay off the pr0n sites.
Well the U.S. government didn't do anything - it was quite legal and proper for Singapore to enforce it laws upon them.
Clinton talked and talked and talked to Singapore's government and convinced them to reduce the punishment from eight lashes with the cane to four. This I clearly remember. Although you're right -- Singapore had every right to enforce its laws, and probably should have given them all eight lashes. What I don't understand is why (as in the Singapore case) the US doesn't like other countries enforcing their laws on US citizens while (as in the Sklyarov/Elcomsoft case) it is so zealous about enforcing its own laws on citizens/corporations from other countries.
If it's true that AbiWord is 20 times smaller than OpenOffice and still provides comparable capabilities, those coders sure know what they are doing!
Keep in mind that OpenOffice has a lot more than AbiWord does, though...like a spreadsheet program, presentation program, etc. To say that AbiWord is 20x smaller than OpenOffice is misleading; it is, but this is because it is just a word processor and not a full-fledged office suite.
Now it's going to start crapping batteries on my neighbor's lawn. Take that!
Doctors who can't pass the Medical Boards for one reason or another can have "training verification", where someone who has passed their boards verifies that they know what they're doing.
Apply this analogy to Microsoft and its programmers and tell me that doesn't scare you (or make you laugh).
Chances are, it'll be faster and have better output... and just imageine all the dead printers you can use to make decorative borders for your garden!
Better yet, just sell the old printer on eBay and get a little bit of money back from it. If you were lucky, this could actually make getting a new printer cheaper than getting the new ink cartridges.
But get a couple inch long PCB trace with a 2.4GHz signal on it, and things get more interesting
Get too many of those and you won't be able to meet gigahertz timings, much less multigigahertz timings. Also, at frequencies like that, you start running into transmission line issues with the longer PCB traces. If the PCB trace isn't an integral fraction of a wavelength (1/4 of a wavelength, 1/2 of a wavelength, it's really too complicated to explain here), the traces start to introduce complex impedances. This is more of a design issue for the engineers than anything, but it's another reason why you probably won't see much, if any PCB traces running at the full 2.4 GHz.
Catastrophe (Hedging) Program
:)
I though this was the code name of their last OS!
Nope, their last OS was called Catastrophe Generating Program.
Unfortunately, it looks as though other major players -- the EU, for example -- are lining up to pass similarly ill-thought-out and draconian legislation just as soon as they can.
They are passing these laws for the same reason the US passed the DMCA -- the WIPO treaty that requires signees to do so. If I'm not mistaken, WIPO is tied into the World Trade Organization. I used to wonder why people got so upset and had all those large-scale protests against the WTO; now I know.
Either the techies don't have a lot of money
This is the main problem. It is also the reason why DMCA threats tend to be more successful in getting the complainants what they want than less successful; the mere thought of being sued and removed of what little money they usually have is enough to intimidate most people into compliance, regardless of the nature of the law that is being used against them.
Avoid The Rush, Hate OU Early!!!
Nice, very nice. I'm an OSU student.
But WHY do they always have to go against the population and not work with them?
One word: Money. They get large campaign contributions from various corporate sources, and in return, they cater to the needs of these same corporations. They're in somewhat of a difficult situation because if they don't cater to the corporations, they won't get any more campaign contributions. If they don't have campaign money, their chances of getting elected or reelected drop sharply.
Over the past year, we've seen so much god-awful M&A activity - think Vivendi-U or, even worse, AOLTW - none of which adds any value to the resulting company.
And if you think of it from the consumer's perspective, the resulting companies are usually worse. Which begs the question -- why merge in the first place? I don't think I've ever really figured this one out; the only things mergers are good at as far as the average tech consumer is concerned are expanding monopolies *ahem*AOLTW and reducing product quality. They may be good in the short term for the companies involved, but they're inevitably bad for the consumer, and this in turn results in a long-term loss for all companies involved.
The RIAA/MPAA DO NOT ATTACK INDIVIDUALS
My ass they don't. Remember Jon Johansen?
I complained to the local Microsoft office and they basically admitted that they had no way to force the shops to accept their "return to shop" policy even if it is printed on the box.
So what makes them think they have any way to force you to accept all the little policies in the EULA?
I have a lot of Excel spreadsheets[1] but upgrading the format every time M$ decides to release a new version is the pits.
Don't use M$ Office then. OpenOffice, WordPerfect Office, etc. have spreadsheet programs that are just as good as Excel. And they don't change their file formats anywhere near as often as M$ likes to.
and porno spam appearing to be sent from a priest, I think "Don't Believe the 'From' Line" is the correct lesson
Unless he's a Catholic priest, that is.
They choose to be on the lable [sic], not you
But keep in mind that many artists only sign with major record labels because they have no other choice. Sure, they could refuse to sign, but in most cases, that effectively prevents a musician's career from taking off.
They have fought (and lost) against EVERY technological device since the invention of the player piano. They have NEVER won. Not even ONCE.
DAT tapes come to mind as something they managed to kill.
According to SOT, it is the only office application you will ever need, as it is fully compatible with MS Office and StarOffice
.wpd format...
Is it compatible with WordPerfect? Nearly all of the word processor files I have are in
Commerce Secretary James Rogan claims that 'the DMCA carefully balances the interests of all stakeholders,'
Of course it carefully balances the interests of all stakeholders. Thing is, they don't see customers as stakeholders. An argument could be made that customers aren't stakeholders in this sense -- after all, they have no financial stake in whether most CBDTPA-protected works succeed or fail. Never mind the principles that are involved, it's all about money to corporations and to Congress.
a claim that marks him for a corporate whore, but it seems that there are some things even whores won't do
Like pay any attention to whether their customers care about what they're being exposed to? You could make some interesting comparisons here. The corporate whores are exposing their customers to CBDTPA; the rest of the analogy is left to the reader's imagination.
the EULA is a contract
No it isn't. Courts have not ruled this way so far.