The X Window version of Nethack has a nice default icon set for character classes, monsters, floors, walls... Why not propose this icon set as an addition to the Unicode categories and then use those characters ?
I'm wondering why my tv hasn't been hacked with air waves : one morning, I switched it on and it told me a firmware update had been uploaded over the air during the night.
What can stop hackers to send rogue fw updates over the air ?
Also, is it possible to exploit mpeg2 video decoder bugs to takecontrol of tv ?
Any info of previously discovered hacks of this kind ?
2. mp3 is only useful for compatibility with portable players. its compression ratio sucks compared with aac and other lossy formats. there is nothing superior about mp3 compared with cd audio except for the fact that it's smaller.
mp3 directly riped from CD have worst quality, OK. But I'm wonder wich format wins if mp3 is produced from 24-bit audio @ 96 KHz... This new mp3 or the 44 KHz CD ?
Images and sounds have to be played ASAP in a video game, when the real time event occurs. Draw images ASAP, play sounds ASAP, never try to synchronise (i.e. make drawing wait for sounds or make sounds wait for drawings) theim or your game will feel shitty. Images and sounds have to be synchronized only for movie playback, where lag doesn't matter.
Huh... In this case, the problem is not the USB connection, it is the webcam communication protocol, it would be the same if the camera were RJ11/45, firewire, serial, ata or sata connected...
You don't read/write data only from hard drives, other peripherals exists: video cameras, (hd)tv screens, printers, network connections... Hard drives can be parallelised in arrays to gain datarates higher than a lone hard drive...
RTFA: The longer connector is for backward compat: if the socket is too short, then it is an old USB1/2 socket and the device works in USB1/2 back compat mode.
In previous cases of violations of the GPL, FSF agreed to "forget" about the violation when the violator released the source code. For the second paragraph, I never talked of the fourniture of the compiler, only of a way to execute the resulting compiled program on the unmoded hardware.
First, where in the GPL does it say that you have to release the source? I'm not very fluent in english, but concerning the source code, this text from the GPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt) seems pretty clear:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
explain what legal fact would make it true that they'd need to provide the supporting compilers, etc And just after this section is the part which says the user must be able to modify the source and execute the produced exectable:
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
To be able to install the executable, you have to be able to put it on a CD, you have to be able to run this CD, so you don't need a modchip.
If ICO violates the GPL, Sony not only has to give the source, they have to give ways to recompile it and to execute it on a PS2 ; i.e., to give a way to compile and execute any program on an unmoded PS2 machine. This has more implications than just giving a source code...
You have text books and you have technical books and artbooks. Technical papers and books have plenty of illustrations, artbooks have memory hungry images. Memory is more important than you think for ebook readers.
Concerning the price, I hardly can only buy a 40Gb right now:-( I don't complain, I just wish Sony marketroids change their mind and reintroduce the cost free software backward compatibility.
Of course I course I know, _you_ sound stupid not noting the irony here.
PS2 backward compatibility was done in software on the 60 Gb PS3 models, so it costed nothing ; removing is not related with the $100 price drop. Removing it was just a (stupid) marketing decision.
DivX codecs are implemented in software, ok, but DivX is not a Sony property : these codecs are licenced, licences cost money ; like for the rumble controllers, Sony will have to pay to get DivX playback on the PS3.
So : PS2 backcompat costs nothing, DivX codec costs money. Hope you learned something today...
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The X Window version of Nethack has a nice default icon set for character classes, monsters, floors, walls... Why not propose this icon set as an addition to the Unicode categories and then use those characters ?
... Like Apple dumbified the NextSetp interface for Mac OSX, is the design for kid specifications the thing Google calls "Material Design"?
I'm always wondering why dogs who have a such good and sensible odorate have to be so close to other dogs arses to sniff 'em.
http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/102000_102099/102006/01.03.02_60/ts_102006v010302p.pdf
My set is a Sony KDL40ex600. Many manufacturers have contract with channels and push firmware updates via OTA broadcasts, it is not uncommon.
I'm wondering why my tv hasn't been hacked with air waves : one morning, I switched it on and it told me a firmware update had been uploaded over the air during the night.
What can stop hackers to send rogue fw updates over the air ?
Also, is it possible to exploit mpeg2 video decoder bugs to takecontrol of tv ?
Any info of previously discovered hacks of this kind ?
2. mp3 is only useful for compatibility with portable players. its compression ratio sucks compared with aac and other lossy formats. there is nothing superior about mp3 compared with cd audio except for the fact that it's smaller.
mp3 directly riped from CD have worst quality, OK. But I'm wonder wich format wins if mp3 is produced from 24-bit audio @ 96 KHz... This new mp3 or the 44 KHz CD ?
Serial midi, on the Atari ST
Images and sounds have to be played ASAP in a video game, when the real time event occurs. Draw images ASAP, play sounds ASAP, never try to synchronise (i.e. make drawing wait for sounds or make sounds wait for drawings) theim or your game will feel shitty. Images and sounds have to be synchronized only for movie playback, where lag doesn't matter.
Huh... In this case, the problem is not the USB connection, it is the webcam communication protocol, it would be the same if the camera were RJ11/45, firewire, serial, ata or sata connected...
You don't read/write data only from hard drives, other peripherals exists: video cameras, (hd)tv screens, printers, network connections... Hard drives can be parallelised in arrays to gain datarates higher than a lone hard drive...
RTFA: The longer connector is for backward compat: if the socket is too short, then it is an old USB1/2 socket and the device works in USB1/2 back compat mode.
Nice!
Have been serching for this kind of thing from quite q long time.
Do you have any link to a similar site for european customers ?
.. please insert coin !
In previous cases of violations of the GPL, FSF agreed to "forget" about the violation when the violator released the source code. For the second paragraph, I never talked of the fourniture of the compiler, only of a way to execute the resulting compiled program on the unmoded hardware.
To be able to install the executable, you have to be able to put it on a CD, you have to be able to run this CD, so you don't need a modchip.
If ICO violates the GPL, Sony not only has to give the source, they have to give ways to recompile it and to execute it on a PS2 ; i.e., to give a way to compile and execute any program on an unmoded PS2 machine. This has more implications than just giving a source code...
You have text books and you have technical books and artbooks. Technical papers and books have plenty of illustrations, artbooks have memory hungry images. Memory is more important than you think for ebook readers.
Concerning the price, I hardly can only buy a 40Gb right now :-( I don't complain, I just wish Sony marketroids change their mind and reintroduce the cost free software backward compatibility.
Of course I course I know, _you_ sound stupid not noting the irony here.
PS2 backward compatibility was done in software on the 60 Gb PS3 models, so it costed nothing ; removing is not related with the $100 price drop. Removing it was just a (stupid) marketing decision.
DivX codecs are implemented in software, ok, but DivX is not a Sony property : these codecs are licenced, licences cost money ; like for the rumble controllers, Sony will have to pay to get DivX playback on the PS3.
So : PS2 backcompat costs nothing, DivX codec costs money. Hope you learned something today...
They removed the PS2 BC codec and added divx ? Is the PS3 a game console ?
Rumour says he had an affair with Stuart Scott...
And if your computer is stolen or your house burned/flooded, the insurance companies will need these receipts to compensate you.
Sorry but Abiword is only a word processor, not an office suite, and is not full-featured...
Nice idea, jedi could also fall on the dark side.