Sorry to burst your imaginery world, but it uses Windows CE. Only thing it has on Windows 9x/NT, is that it has a smaller footprint (Ye gads! A MS OS with small footprint?! IMPOSSIBLE!!)
Evolution in Action? That's from.. ah.. Oath of Fealty! Yeah! I think that was a Niven/Pournelle book but I might be wrong, it's at home, so I can't check myself:)
Heh, it didn't take me nearly so long as Katz to become linux savvy (but of course, I've been using computers since I was 6 or so.. books and computers the only way out of a harsh, depressing life).. tho the first 6 or 7 attempts of slack 3.0 all that time ago.. kept blowing up my partitions or doing other things wrong.. once miscompiled the kernel, had to reinstall..:)
of course by the time I had it all figured out I could do a full install in about 5 min (not counting time waiting on the 486 to copy from the 2x proprietary sony CDrom to the sloooow IDE 1GB)
I read Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" when I was 8, rarely needing help (and only then because I was too lazy to look up the words in the dictionary - it was easier to ask mom or dad, and usually faster - getting the dictionary out and turning to the right page usually took at least a minute longer, I'd guess:) )..
This is partly because I had to have some method of escaping my childhood. It wasn't happy. Not that I was beaten or anything, (spankings were as violent as dad got, and mom would never do that), but things just were generally unhappy.
Books and computers were my way out - hence my relateivly amazing grasp of computers despite never having taken any classes. I taught myself almost everything I know, including BASIC (well, ASIC, but it was the same thing - dunno why our clone XT ha ASIC instead of BASIC, but who knows). BASIC I started learning at 8, too... Tried VB but that got tossed REAL QUICK:) It was on to Turbo Pascal and C/C++ from there..
Hey, if half of what I hear of the naughtiness of AntiOnline is true, someone needs to walk over and smack him around until he backs off.. ye gads, someone needs to hit him with a slander/libel (whichever is appropriate) suit and make one of the demands that he shut down his site!
Geez.. someone wouldn't get away forever with this in the real world (say, if he was/worked for a newspaper), why should they get away with it in 'cyberspace' (argh! buzzword alert!)
shouldn't slander/libel with harmful intent be against some 'cyberlaw' (argh! again! NOOO!) and therefore be punishable somehow?
personally, I wouldn't shed a single tear if antionline suddenly had its servers raped..
of course that would likely be a Bad Thing, being against the 'cyberlaws' (DOH! again!)...
Does the ends justify the means? *insert philosophical discussion here*
It is much the same here - just the taxes aren't quite that high. Whether or not I ever use Medicare or Medicaid, I still have to pay the taxes to support those who are unable to do so. The charities should be put back in the hands of churches and such - I have no wish to help a man who cannot help himself.
Give a man a fish and he shall eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he shall eat for life.
How about this? set up a program on port X, which when sent data will output the data encrypted with a given key using 56bit encryption. repeat as many times as you want.
since the program does only 56bit, and something else has to rerun it through the program, would this work? after all the program itself is weak - and you'd have a hard time convincing anyone with a brain (hrm thats the crux of the matter tho.. none of the people making laws have em) that the software making use of this service is necessarily using strong crypto - it doesn't have to do it multiple times. and the data output might not be encrypted - you could have a dummy encrypter that spits out the same data, or maybe just gives it a date/time stamp. that way its just a general use port - not a crypto-specific port. then we can have another port and program that feeds the given data x times through the crypto port and returns the results. this isn't crypto-software, since the port could also be used to say, calculate CRCs or MD5 checksums or the like.
No, not trying to be flamebait (but any post on/. is ^_^)
Did a little hunting around and found several things..
Yes, the LZ part of LZW was published back in the late 70's - and Unisys's patent says 85 (issued - requested in 83).
There's a publication on the method, dating 84, by Terry Welch (The W in LZW) and since he stilled worked for Unisys, this is probably not considered prior art (and must it be prior to issue or request?).
However, all over the web in various LZW info pages, it is stated repeatedly that LZW was intended for speed, not optimal compression.
These days we have plenty of speed - so why not drop the W modifications and stick to old LZ ?
After all, even Welch said that LZ77/78 were better compressors than LZW!
Which brings to mind the question: Is it possible to create a LZ compressor that outputs data that a LZW decompressor would be able to decompress correctly? We could then avoid the whole problem.
Make GIF compressors that use LZ or some variant but output in a form that LZW decompressors decompress properly.
On CFCs... Guess what? the Earth puts out more CFCs in a year than we do by far - volcanic eruptions and the like. Last I heard, we were producing about 18% or so of the world's CFCs.
CFCs may destroy the ozone layer.. but ozone is a regenerative thing. Know what happens when ultraviolet light hits loose Oxygen atoms? The form ozone..
The whole CFC thing was a hoax, to be blunt.
Remember all the panicing about the ozone at the poles?
Now we've noticed that it tends to come and go in cycles...
We've only been able to observe the ozone layer for about 50 years. what kind of idiot 'scientists' jumped to the conclusion we were causing the ozone fluctuations? It's likely been going on for 1000s of years!
I've got a 3 year old pickup, used, but it beats my dad's new SUV in the comfort department. His SUV (with the newer, 'cleaner' AC coolant) takes about 10 times as long to cool off the inside as my older, CFC coolant equip'd, truck does..
Before you comment that the SUV has more spce to cool than a pickup, my pickup is extended cab. Yes, that's still not as much space - but the SUV's back half is cooled by its own seperate AC unit, with seperate temp controls. With both of those at max cool it takes the SUV longer to cool than my truck... and my truck is black, whereas his SUV is a sort of teal color.
There's a variation on PNG, called MNG (Multiple Network Graphics format) that is to PNG as animated gif is to gif..
Altho, when I looked at the spec a year or so ago, it didn't specify how to treat them as animations (time between frames, etc) IIRC. Maybe that's changed, maybe I just don't RC..
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Sorry to burst your imaginery world, but it uses Windows CE. Only thing it has on Windows 9x/NT, is that it has a smaller footprint (Ye gads! A MS OS with small footprint?! IMPOSSIBLE!!)
Hah! English IS better! :)
:)
:)
Seriously tho, English is a meta-language.
Whenever there's a better word to be used we steal it or make it up.
in about 100 years I bet English would sound like someone today randomly speaking words from every known language
ah, read [Red|Blue|Green] Mars eh? :)
:)
*gets the 'gator hemoglobin gene spliced in next longlivity treatment*
*attempts to quantify the bandwidth in an understandable mesaurement..*
*keeps trying..*
Brain Panic!
Overflow while using 30486203968203962bit integer!
You mean to say all his stories ARE researched? Wow.. fooled me.
Well, if the janitor's name was Good Will Hunting... :)
TARIFF AGAINST TAIWAN!??!
*stomps around in anger*
Dumb politicians, only hurt us..
(But not them - obviously as usually the majority
is in the pockets of the industr[y|ies]!)
So when do I get implants a la Batau from Ghost in the Shell? With infrared mode? And zoom lenses?
Evolution in Action? :)
That's from.. ah.. Oath of Fealty! Yeah!
I think that was a Niven/Pournelle book but I might be wrong, it's at home, so I can't check myself
*wants an implant*
DITTO! someone smack the moderator who did this with a big talking paperclip! That should fix him! :P
not only is it hot air, it'll generate it too! :D
LOL!
.. :)
Heh, it didn't take me nearly so long as Katz to become linux savvy (but of course, I've been using computers since I was 6 or so.. books and computers the only way out of a harsh, depressing life).. tho the first 6 or 7 attempts of slack 3.0 all that time ago.. kept blowing up my partitions or doing other things wrong.. once miscompiled the kernel, had to reinstall
of course by the time I had it all figured out I could do a full install in about 5 min (not counting time waiting on the 486 to copy from the 2x proprietary sony CDrom to the sloooow IDE 1GB)
...but this actually brought tears to my eyes.
Bravo, Katz!
Two words: The Matrix
Whoever moderated this as Offtopic should be slapped! It's funny! Give it the correct description, you ah... something or other!
Only the name of the fix - the fix you need to patent.. wait.. oh .. DOH!
I DEMAND MY RIGHT TO STUB MY TOE, DAMNIT!
:)
won't be too far from now when...
I learned to read in less than 10 years :)
:) )..
:) It was on to
I read Asimov's "The Caves of Steel" when I was
8, rarely needing help (and only then because
I was too lazy to look up the words in the
dictionary - it was easier to ask mom or dad,
and usually faster - getting the dictionary out
and turning to the right page usually took at
least a minute longer, I'd guess
This is partly because I had to have some method
of escaping my childhood. It wasn't happy. Not
that I was beaten or anything, (spankings were
as violent as dad got, and mom would never do that), but things just were generally unhappy.
Books and computers were my way out - hence my
relateivly amazing grasp of computers despite
never having taken any classes. I taught myself
almost everything I know, including BASIC (well,
ASIC, but it was the same thing - dunno why our
clone XT ha ASIC instead of BASIC, but who knows).
BASIC I started learning at 8, too... Tried VB
but that got tossed REAL QUICK
Turbo Pascal and C/C++ from there..
Hey, if half of what I hear of the naughtiness of AntiOnline is true, someone needs to walk over and smack him around until he backs off.. ye gads, someone needs to hit him with a slander/libel (whichever is appropriate) suit and make one of the demands that he shut down his site!
Geez.. someone wouldn't get away forever with this in the real world (say, if he was/worked for a newspaper), why should they get away with it in 'cyberspace' (argh! buzzword alert!)
shouldn't slander/libel with harmful intent be against some 'cyberlaw' (argh! again! NOOO!) and therefore be punishable somehow?
personally, I wouldn't shed a single tear if antionline suddenly had its servers raped..
of course that would likely be a Bad Thing, being against the 'cyberlaws' (DOH! again!)...
Does the ends justify the means? *insert philosophical discussion here*
It is much the same here - just the taxes aren't quite that high. Whether or not I ever use Medicare or Medicaid, I still have to pay the taxes to support those who are unable to do so. The charities should be put back in the hands of churches and such - I have no wish to help a man who cannot help himself.
Give a man a fish and he shall eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he shall eat for life.
And if it wasn't being paranoid to think they'd do that - then someone with great resources is already out to get you! DOH! :)
How about this? set up a program on port X,
:)
which when sent data will output the data encrypted with a given key using 56bit encryption.
repeat as many times as you want.
since the program does only 56bit, and something else has to rerun it through the program, would this work? after all the program itself is weak - and you'd have a hard time convincing anyone with a brain (hrm thats the crux of the matter tho.. none of the people making laws have em) that the software making use of this service is necessarily using strong crypto - it doesn't have to do it multiple times. and the data output might not be encrypted - you could have a dummy encrypter that spits out the same data, or maybe just gives it a date/time stamp. that way its just a general use port - not a crypto-specific port. then we can have another port and program that feeds the given data x times through the crypto port and returns the results. this isn't crypto-software, since the port could also be used to say, calculate CRCs or MD5 checksums or the like.
The usual disclaimers apply.. IANAL, etc
No, not trying to be flamebait (but any post on /. is ^_^)
Did a little hunting around and found several things..
Yes, the LZ part of LZW was published back in the late 70's - and Unisys's patent says 85 (issued - requested in 83).
There's a publication on the method, dating 84, by Terry Welch (The W in LZW) and since he stilled worked for Unisys, this is probably not considered prior art (and must it be prior to issue or request?).
However, all over the web in various LZW info pages, it is stated repeatedly that LZW was intended for speed, not optimal compression.
These days we have plenty of speed - so why not drop the W modifications and stick to old LZ ?
After all, even Welch said that LZ77/78 were better compressors than LZW!
Which brings to mind the question: Is it possible to create a LZ compressor that outputs data that a LZW decompressor would be able to decompress correctly? We could then avoid the whole problem.
Make GIF compressors that use LZ or some variant but output in a form that LZW decompressors decompress properly.
Anyone wanna give it a try?
On CFCs...
Guess what? the Earth puts out more CFCs in a year than we do by far - volcanic eruptions and the like. Last I heard, we were producing about 18% or so of the world's CFCs.
CFCs may destroy the ozone layer.. but ozone is a regenerative thing. Know what happens when ultraviolet light hits loose Oxygen atoms? The form ozone..
The whole CFC thing was a hoax, to be blunt.
Remember all the panicing about the ozone at the poles?
Now we've noticed that it tends to come and go in cycles...
We've only been able to observe the ozone layer for about 50 years. what kind of idiot 'scientists' jumped to the conclusion we were causing the ozone fluctuations? It's likely been going on for 1000s of years!
I've got a 3 year old pickup, used, but it beats my dad's new SUV in the comfort department. His SUV (with the newer, 'cleaner' AC coolant) takes about 10 times as long to cool off the inside as my older, CFC coolant equip'd, truck does..
Before you comment that the SUV has more spce to cool than a pickup, my pickup is extended cab. Yes, that's still not as much space - but the SUV's back half is cooled by its own seperate AC unit, with seperate temp controls. With both of those at max cool it takes the SUV longer to cool than my truck... and my truck is black, whereas his SUV is a sort of teal color.
There's a variation on PNG, called MNG (Multiple Network Graphics format) that is to PNG as animated gif is to gif..
Altho, when I looked at the spec a year or so ago, it didn't specify how to treat them as animations (time between frames, etc) IIRC. Maybe that's changed, maybe I just don't RC..