This reminds me of the bit in Enemy of the State where the government operatives take the lingerie store security footage, and then use their computer to "rotate the camer 90 degrees." And on top of that, they then see something in the bag that wouldn't have been at all detectable from the actual camera's angle.
The technology is basically giving a computer the same information you are able to get by looking at a scene and moving slightly. Unless it's something really subtle, if you can't pick up the information the program can't either.
Didn't you hear? The PearPC developers don't have the code anymore because the CherryOS guys stole it. That's why they want the source of CherryOS released, so they can get it back!
While I usually get good service, sometimes the carrier never shows up [...]
I recently found out that the mail carrier doesn't go to our mailbox if there is no mail to deliver, so outgoing mail won't be picked up until I get new mail. Could this be what was happening in your case?
Half of consumers never even try to get the rebates. [...] Most who missed out on the rebates forgot to redeem them (41%). Others lost the forms, receipts or product bar codes (25%), didn't feel the rebate was worth the effort (20%) or thought the redemption process was too complicated (14%) [...]
The above is unclear to me (or incomplete). Does it mean the following?
50% successfully claimed
50% unclaimed
41% forgot
25% lost required materials
20% didn't bother; not worth it
14% didn't bother; too complex to figure out
If so, the first sentence is confusing because it only includes the last two categories. This would also mean that only 20% of consumers forgot their rebate (41% of the 50% who didn't get the rebate)
OK, say I download a 1MB file. 5% of 1MB is 51.2KB. So I have to pay about 52KB in tax. Now, how do I pay it? Do I upload 52KB of data somewhere, or do I have to download an extra 52KB of data, presumably to increase my bandwidth cost? I'm assuming this 52KB has to be pure random bits, otherwise it wouldn't really be a full 52KB "worth" of data, and you don't want to cheat the IRS.
Right, the answer to the question "if I my product is free, how do I get money?" is simple: charge for your services. By doing this, you don't waste any resources on limiting the use of the product, and you're getting paid for actual work you do, rather than how much you can get out of people by exerting legally-enforced control over people's use of the product. It costs next to nothing for someone to download a copy of a program, but it costs you time (and thus food, shelter, etc.) to give your services, thus compensation for the latter is justified.
If the directive is approved, it will make it clear that any software patent granted up until now was unlawful and is therefore null and void. This will mean that patent holders will be forced to re-apply for their patents as soon as the directive is made law!
Stealing is bad. If there's something I don't want you to do, I'll call it stealing; then I can explain its badness by pointing to the fact that stealing is bad. Now I don't have to explain why I don't want you do whatever it is.
Replying to this with criticism is stealing. Please don't steal from me!
Wouldn't using a live CD as your OS as an internet cafe owner save you megabucks on the hard drives you didn't have to buy? Not to mention no spyware dangers, or no users mucking up the configuration of the machines? And as a customer, simply rebooting when your done would clear all sensitive information.
I can see the Slashdot headline now... "Puppy Linux costs hard drive, spyware, encryption makers millions of dollars in lost sales."
But maybe it brings new business to data recovery companies... that is, data recovery from DRAM that's had its power removed before the data was re-written to the CD-R. I used to boot from a RAM disk and had to run a backup script periodically in case of unexpected power outage, which occurred a few times a year.
However, clipping a ferrite bead on the wire is suffcient to dampen radio coming off it to negligible levels. These beads are really easy to find online.
<silly>Sure, ferrite magic crystal healing energy! While I'm at it I'll pick up some magnetic copper bracelets.</silly>
The electrons were accelerated to a detector which observed an interference pattern since the detector had no idea which maximum produced the electron.
I, for one, welcome our new sentient interference pattern detector overlords.
I guess the article submitter speaks this other language and slipped the term in. Your google search reveals lots of web pages in this new language, but sadly doesn't offer to translate them. Oh well.
Right. About the only use I imagine is that Microsoft has little credibility for writing solid code, so the best they can do to persuade others is show them some solid code. It's hard to fake solid code, and they wouldn't have a reason to show you solid code but then ship a buggy version (unless perhaps the solid code doesn't even build).
Shared source doesn't provide any assurance of security and lack of back doors. The only way to do that is to be given the source code that you can use to build the program, and have a trusted compiler and OS to run it on.
You can't play mp3s with a GameBoy; not enough CPU. The best you can do is use the GameBoy as an oversized remote control and power source for an mp3 player (which is what these players do).
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This reminds me of the bit in Enemy of the State where the government operatives take the lingerie store security footage, and then use their computer to "rotate the camer 90 degrees." And on top of that, they then see something in the bag that wouldn't have been at all detectable from the actual camera's angle.
The technology is basically giving a computer the same information you are able to get by looking at a scene and moving slightly. Unless it's something really subtle, if you can't pick up the information the program can't either.
Didn't you hear? The PearPC developers don't have the code anymore because the CherryOS guys stole it. That's why they want the source of CherryOS released, so they can get it back!
While I usually get good service, sometimes the carrier never shows up [...]
I recently found out that the mail carrier doesn't go to our mailbox if there is no mail to deliver, so outgoing mail won't be picked up until I get new mail. Could this be what was happening in your case?
Half of consumers never even try to get the rebates. [...] Most who missed out on the rebates forgot to redeem them (41%). Others lost the forms, receipts or product bar codes (25%), didn't feel the rebate was worth the effort (20%) or thought the redemption process was too complicated (14%) [...]
The above is unclear to me (or incomplete). Does it mean the following?
If so, the first sentence is confusing because it only includes the last two categories. This would also mean that only 20% of consumers forgot their rebate (41% of the 50% who didn't get the rebate)
This article describes how you can remove PC noise without turning the inside of your PC case into a small oven.
OK, I've got my PC case open but I'm not finding anything called "PC noise". Is it a PCI card, or some custom dealie elsewhere on the motherboard?
And I'll bet that the artists and performers never see a single cent of it!
Nor anyone except the lawyers.
You know, you had me going until the toilet paper part. I'm not going to use a phone that's been used... uh, yeah.
And you left out the most important of all, the kitchen sink.
OK, say I download a 1MB file. 5% of 1MB is 51.2KB. So I have to pay about 52KB in tax. Now, how do I pay it? Do I upload 52KB of data somewhere, or do I have to download an extra 52KB of data, presumably to increase my bandwidth cost? I'm assuming this 52KB has to be pure random bits, otherwise it wouldn't really be a full 52KB "worth" of data, and you don't want to cheat the IRS.
I'll have this figured out eventually...
For instance, did you know the labels still take money for R&D costs on the "new technology" of the Compact Disc?
Well, they have to pay for all those complex copy-protection schemes for the latest CDs, the ones that you just hold the ***** key to defeat.
Right, the answer to the question "if I my product is free, how do I get money?" is simple: charge for your services. By doing this, you don't waste any resources on limiting the use of the product, and you're getting paid for actual work you do, rather than how much you can get out of people by exerting legally-enforced control over people's use of the product. It costs next to nothing for someone to download a copy of a program, but it costs you time (and thus food, shelter, etc.) to give your services, thus compensation for the latter is justified.
If the directive is approved, it will make it clear that any software patent granted up until now was unlawful and is therefore null and void. This will mean that patent holders will be forced to re-apply for their patents as soon as the directive is made law!
Even better, they will all be prior art!
Stealing is bad. If there's something I don't want you to do, I'll call it stealing; then I can explain its badness by pointing to the fact that stealing is bad. Now I don't have to explain why I don't want you do whatever it is.
Replying to this with criticism is stealing. Please don't steal from me!
Wouldn't using a live CD as your OS as an internet cafe owner save you megabucks on the hard drives you didn't have to buy? Not to mention no spyware dangers, or no users mucking up the configuration of the machines? And as a customer, simply rebooting when your done would clear all sensitive information.
I can see the Slashdot headline now... "Puppy Linux costs hard drive, spyware, encryption makers millions of dollars in lost sales."
But maybe it brings new business to data recovery companies... that is, data recovery from DRAM that's had its power removed before the data was re-written to the CD-R. I used to boot from a RAM disk and had to run a backup script periodically in case of unexpected power outage, which occurred a few times a year.
hmm.. *scratching head* ~14.4GB?
My modem ran at that speed years ago!
However, clipping a ferrite bead on the wire is suffcient to dampen radio coming off it to negligible levels. These beads are really easy to find online.
<silly>Sure, ferrite magic crystal healing energy! While I'm at it I'll pick up some magnetic copper bracelets.</silly>
Below is an example of afor loop.
... wasn't a valid statement.
for (int i = 0; i
Man, I tried to compile it and got several errors! x was undefined, and
Slap the lever to eat the most!
The electrons were accelerated to a detector which observed an interference pattern since the detector had no idea which maximum produced the electron.
I, for one, welcome our new sentient interference pattern detector overlords.
I guess the article submitter speaks this other language and slipped the term in. Your google search reveals lots of web pages in this new language, but sadly doesn't offer to translate them. Oh well.
In a quiet room, in a meeting, this phone's gonna go off-- what are they going to hear?
Let's see...if the phone goes off, they'll hear... silence!
Millipede? I played that game almost twenty years ago! That's old tech!
Right. About the only use I imagine is that Microsoft has little credibility for writing solid code, so the best they can do to persuade others is show them some solid code. It's hard to fake solid code, and they wouldn't have a reason to show you solid code but then ship a buggy version (unless perhaps the solid code doesn't even build).
Shared source doesn't provide any assurance of security and lack of back doors. The only way to do that is to be given the source code that you can use to build the program, and have a trusted compiler and OS to run it on.
You can't play mp3s with a GameBoy; not enough CPU. The best you can do is use the GameBoy as an oversized remote control and power source for an mp3 player (which is what these players do).
If it is hosted on one, I bet it's making a hell of a chime right now. Or maybe this guy has already tied fishing line around it.
Yes, it is possible, but not that pretty:
struct never_defined_t;
bool operator == ( const smart_ptr& ptr, never_defined_t* null ) {
return ptr.get() == NULL;
}
bool operator != ( const smart_ptr& ptr, never_defined_t* null ) {
return ptr.get() != NULL;
}
(also add in definitions with the arguments reversed, so someone can do
NULL == ptr and NULL != ptr)
By using never_defined_t*, smart_ptr can only be compared to 0 (which
implicitly converts to a NULL never_defined_t*).