What will happen if I press that ominous "I'm feeling lucky" -button? Will Harry Callahan show up and shoot me with he's.44 leaving nothing than my fingerprints? Or does that only happen to punks?
I meant the EU should force MS to stop selling windows (at least) if MS does not cought up the fines within a few years. Like when you don't pay your fines you eventually go to prison instead. EU is a big market, though (bigger than the US) so MS is not going to let that happen.
He meant that the binaries, not the source, should be available for free. Freeware is probably better, since public domain could cause trouble for Adobe concerning patents.
I thought the idea with the button order was to always have the "accepting" to the right regardless of the button text. It could be "yes", "ok", "save", "close" or whatever, but the most commonly used button pressed to close dialogs would always be in the same place. That seems consistent to me.
I'd just like to point out that with the exception of some confused catholic priests in the "dark" ages wanting to overthrow science in every way, nobody has ever seriously believed that the earth is anything else than round. The ancient Greeks even calculated earths size surprisingly accurately. Later a smaller, erroneous estimate was made which among other things caused Columbus to be sure there could be no america - earth was just to small!
The border between France and Germany was so heavily fortified that any attack over that border would have been sheer folly. France would have had to attack the same way Gremany did: through Belgium and the Neatherlands. Perhaps they didn't consider marching their army through neutral nations an option.
I see tabs in browsers like a kind of MDI, with the document switching problem solved and that's not broken. But then again, the problem wasn't solved this way when mr Cooper wrote his first edition of 'About Face'.
Freetype, which is the font rendering library, supports some patented hinting support which makes the fonts look better, but this is turned off (= not compiled in) by default due to the patent. I suppose you could try compiling freetype yourself and turn this on. It's not a totally trivial thing to do, you have to read the installation docs and edit a header file before compiling. It's worth the trouble though.
Many cd:s have corrupted cd-rom or even audio layers which cause cd-roms trying to read them to malfunction and refuse to read the disc. They also cause a lot of "real" players to refuse to read the disc. I've heard of cases where a person would buy a cd. It would *not* work in his real cd-player, but it *would* work in his computer. So he would copy the cd, keep the copy and return the original. So, no. There are no working copy protection schemes.
SACD has watermarking which is much better: It allows you to rip the DSD stream through firewire (i-link) but an SACD-drive will not play discs without watermarking so it makes manufacturing of "pirate discs" harder. Of course, it means you cannot burn your own SACD:s..
24bit does give you a greater dynamic range (although popular music doesn't tend to use it)
This is a bit of an understatement. CD has a dynamic range of close to 100db. Even high-end quality classical recordings like Telarc's 1812 Overture use about half of that. "Modern" cd-sound often has less than 15db of dynamics. So even if DSD or 24bit allows greater dynamics, what's the point when recordings are compressed (dynamics compression) anyway?
Late last summer I stumbled upon a Windows Update bug at work. The update page installed a new version of WU on my machine and then just wanted to install i again and again and again... I tried removing WU according to the help available at the WU site (it was a known bug) but that didn't help, so I reported I had seen the bug too. It took over four months before it was finally fixed. Four months of installing security patches by hand. How is that newbie-proof?
The new DSOTM is remixed from 1st generation studio masters, while all the old releases were from 3rd generation master tapes (except for an old 4-track tape release which was from 2nd gen. tapes). So the new release can't be compared to any old release. You could compare it to the cd-layer of the same sacd, though. And of course the new vinyl release beats them all..:)
If you say "oil," please explain why we ousted Hussein instead of Hugo Chavez, since we import far more oil from Venezuela than from a country literally on the other side of the world.
Because Iraq *has* more oil than Venezuela and you would want to import more of it? The sanctions has pervented Iraq from selling much oil to anyone, so 5% is actually a pretty high number. And to have an arabian state outside of OPEC would be a boon to the western world and especially the US.
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Nautilus windows open much faster, Yelp (the help system) is faster as well. Otherwise it's pretty much the same.
What will happen if I press that ominous "I'm feeling lucky" -button? Will Harry Callahan show up and shoot me with he's .44 leaving nothing than my fingerprints? Or does that only happen to punks?
I meant the EU should force MS to stop selling windows (at least) if MS does not cought up the fines within a few years. Like when you don't pay your fines you eventually go to prison instead. EU is a big market, though (bigger than the US) so MS is not going to let that happen.
That will surely combat the MS monopoly..not. Either MS should pay hard cash or eventually be forced to simply stop selling their products in the EU.
He meant that the binaries, not the source, should be available for free. Freeware is probably better, since public domain could cause trouble for Adobe concerning patents.
I thought the idea with the button order was to always have the "accepting" to the right regardless of the button text. It could be "yes", "ok", "save", "close" or whatever, but the most commonly used button pressed to close dialogs would always be in the same place. That seems consistent to me.
Naming a KDE and Gnome merging project "doomed" sounds very fitting to me.
..or QT into Ximian Gnome. Which I find more likely since they own Ximian.
I'd just like to point out that with the exception of some confused catholic priests in the "dark" ages wanting to overthrow science in every way, nobody has ever seriously believed that the earth is anything else than round. The ancient Greeks even calculated earths size surprisingly accurately. Later a smaller, erroneous estimate was made which among other things caused Columbus to be sure there could be no america - earth was just to small!
Gotta love that quote, though.
The border between France and Germany was so heavily fortified that any attack over that border would have been sheer folly. France would have had to attack the same way Gremany did: through Belgium and the Neatherlands. Perhaps they didn't consider marching their army through neutral nations an option.
The default GTK2 dialog is worse than the GTK1 version.
I see tabs in browsers like a kind of MDI, with the document switching problem solved and that's not broken. But then again, the problem wasn't solved this way when mr Cooper wrote his first edition of 'About Face'.
Freetype, which is the font rendering library, supports some patented hinting support which makes the fonts look better, but this is turned off (= not compiled in) by default due to the patent. I suppose you could try compiling freetype yourself and turn this on. It's not a totally trivial thing to do, you have to read the installation docs and edit a header file before compiling. It's worth the trouble though.
It might not run Doom III, but why would you want to play that when you can play Doom II?
SACD has watermarking which is much better: It allows you to rip the DSD stream through firewire (i-link) but an SACD-drive will not play discs without watermarking so it makes manufacturing of "pirate discs" harder. Of course, it means you cannot burn your own SACD:s..
This is a bit of an understatement. CD has a dynamic range of close to 100db. Even high-end quality classical recordings like Telarc's 1812 Overture use about half of that. "Modern" cd-sound often has less than 15db of dynamics. So even if DSD or 24bit allows greater dynamics, what's the point when recordings are compressed (dynamics compression) anyway?
Late last summer I stumbled upon a Windows Update bug at work. The update page installed a new version of WU on my machine and then just wanted to install i again and again and again... I tried removing WU according to the help available at the WU site (it was a known bug) but that didn't help, so I reported I had seen the bug too. It took over four months before it was finally fixed. Four months of installing security patches by hand. How is that newbie-proof?
If you shut down the alleys the drug pushers would simply move somewher else. Like the mall. Shut down that and they move again and again and again..
No. I remember reading this on lkml sometime last year, but I'm too lazy to come up with a link so you'll just have to take my word for it.
The new DSOTM is remixed from 1st generation studio masters, while all the old releases were from 3rd generation master tapes (except for an old 4-track tape release which was from 2nd gen. tapes). So the new release can't be compared to any old release. You could compare it to the cd-layer of the same sacd, though. And of course the new vinyl release beats them all.. :)
Because Iraq *has* more oil than Venezuela and you would want to import more of it? The sanctions has pervented Iraq from selling much oil to anyone, so 5% is actually a pretty high number. And to have an arabian state outside of OPEC would be a boon to the western world and especially the US.
You can run applications remotely with ssh using x11 forwarding.
It's neither. n^log(2)n grows faster than any polynomial, but more slowly than 2^cn for any c>0.
You'll pass that exam just fine. O(N^2) is polynomial, not exponential. Now for a harder problem: is O(N^(log(2)N)) polynomial or exponential?
Thanks. The list is hopelessly outdated and I'm too lazy to bring it up to date anymore.
Did you see Wigwam and Tasavallin Presidentti in the Savoy Theatre last night?
No I wasn't at that gig, I attend too few concerts for my own good (whatever that means).