How does this solve the problem of the wire becoming an antenna? The whole point of twisting the wire is to eliminate interference isn't it? An untwisted wire (actually pair) is the basic component to an antenna isn't it?
I thought under Canadian copyright law you could rebroadcast if and only if the original content was unaltered. Wasn't there a Canadian website around a few years ago that did just that but got shutdown because they were rebroadcasting US stations? I think it was called iCraveTV or something like that.
I've found the same thing with my VCDs I make. If I burn them any faster than about 4x I get a CD that "skips" in my DVD player when played. (Not skipping per se but it pauses for a few seconds, rebuffers, and plays again, very very annoying towards the end of the disc.)
VCDs are incredibly sensitive to errors because they use are mode 2 CDs. That is the error correction bits are removed from the CD blocks in order to provide more space on to the disc. Error correcting is relying upon the error correction inside the mpeg stream itself.
So from the article it looks like they aren't collecting a levy to be paid to the music industry but an actual payment for service. What happens when I upload? Since I'm assisting them in providing the service do I get a credit to my account if I upload enough, thus keeping Kazaa in business?
What a great business idea. Charge for downloaded music but provide non of it your own thus they don't have to worry about failed downloads, poor quality recordings, just plain wrong filenames, etc. All they provide is a service.
In Canada at least, I thought the supreme court ruled that a non-compete clause could not prevent you from earning a living, supporting your family, etc etc. Basically it rendered the clause was rendered useless.
You know, most other news organizations do a little bit of April fools. Then they get back to business of reporting the news. Just because its April fool's doesn't mean the world stops. I'd still like to see the news. Please stop posting every damn link to an April fool's story already! The whole point is to get taken by the one that seems too good to be true, not have to weed through 30 lame assed April Fool's stories.
Good Lord. I forgot today was April 1. I actually started reading the article thinking it was a normal one. I'm thinking "Oh my god, they actually do this?"
I remember when I moved from DesqView to OS/2 for my BBS. Things were so much faster. Multi node BBS on the same box that could barely handle 2 lines. I was so happy that it could do things like share IRQs for the COM ports. The UI sucked but it ran windows apps, and supported DOS apps, AND had a great scripting language. For my needs it was way ahead of the rest of the pack. In fact based on 2.1 I went out and bought Warp, even got Warp 4 for crying out loud. It was good for serving but as a client OS sucked ass.
Advertisers aside aren't the customers protected by their credit card company? If I order a service with my credit card and the service isn't rendered or a goods not delivered aren't I only liable for up to a certain amount (terms of agreement defined by the credit card company, usually its $50 maximum)
Most likely this is due to inactivity. People who exercise regularily tend not to sleep for 12 hours at a time (at least in my experience). Its a correlation but it would be interesting to find out what percentage of the 8+ hours sleepers were very active people.
For pure escape stuff, I like dead tree books. You can read them in bed, on the john, out in the yard, etc. For tech manuals (not necessarily computers) and the like I like the electronic kind. I can search, etc. Take for example my wife's medical books. She's got a few that are Handspring modules that she can search through. Our professions are both technical (CS and medicine) so online books are useful. Having said all that, we still buy dead tree books for both our professions.
the instant it has smime support in email I'll be there. I'm stuck using OE on windows or netscape 4.77 on linux for its s/mime support. mozzilla is so close its not even funny.
Well, I wasn't forced to do it, but we had a class on it at my school, the University of Alberta. The class was officially called system and network management but was unofficially called "kernel hacking". Why? Well, the goal of the class was to put to practical use all of the OS concepts we had learned in previous years. Kernel hacking is perfect for that.
We were given a problem to solve: build a kernel patch to any version of the linux kernel that allowed a third party who is writing is driver to have the driver interact with a software emulator instead of real hardware. The end goal was to enable people to write drivers based only on the hardware specs and an emulator. The emulator would instruct the kernel to route certain hardware calls to it. After the driver was written the real hardware could be dropped in place and the driver would not have to be re-written, it could be used out of the box. Essentially it was hardware abstraction without knowing what hardware to abstract before hand.
Personally, if you are just looking at getting into it just find yourself a problem and solve it. It doesn't matter what problem it is, any problem, useful to the world or not. Remember that the end result of this step is to learn, not solve 2.4 VM problems, or to build a better SMP design. (That's the next step!)
Ok, I want the non broken version of the program though. I want the version as of 2 months ago that contained GPL code but was never released.
Isn't this akin to someone having a GNU license, then changing the license and hoping to get away with restricting access to the older versions with the previous license. By including GPL code in their product, haven't they by implication made any version up to this point a GPLed product? Well, I want a copy. (Not really, I just want an answer.:))
What happens if we get another Challenger incident? How far will that spread radioactive material? Will it be dangerous? I'm all for nuclear power, but when its moving at high altitude I get a bit nervous. Not because its going to go boom. But because if and when it goes boom it may spew radioactive material all over florida where as standard fuel will simply burn up. I could be wrong but that's what NASA has to convince me of.
How do you get around the IP clause in your contract with the company? Most companies I know of have clauses that state that ANY code you write during your employment with them that might even remotely be in their market area belongs to them. From the looks of it this applies. Are you sure your various contracts with them company allow this?
Actually, last time I checked the ISS was outside the 200 mile airspace limit (stratosphere?) agreed to in the UN by most nations as being part of their sovereign territory. Technically the ISS is whithin the same jurisdiction as the international seas are. Hollywood and the US govt can bitch all they want. (That's assuming they even are.) It ain't illegal up there.
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The idea was to try to provide the defendant with an unbiased jury.
Quaint indeeed...
How does this solve the problem of the wire becoming an antenna? The whole point of twisting the wire is to eliminate interference isn't it? An untwisted wire (actually pair) is the basic component to an antenna isn't it?
A quick search finds this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/29/001020 3&tid=129
There is a lot more on Slashdot's search page: http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=&query=icravetv& author=&sort=1&op=stories
Screenshot for proof. I got one yesterday.
mod this up,
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hmmm... I wonder what that means
I've found the same thing with my VCDs I make. If I burn them any faster than about 4x I get a CD that "skips" in my DVD player when played. (Not skipping per se but it pauses for a few seconds, rebuffers, and plays again, very very annoying towards the end of the disc.)
VCDs are incredibly sensitive to errors because they use are mode 2 CDs. That is the error correction bits are removed from the CD blocks in order to provide more space on to the disc. Error correcting is relying upon the error correction inside the mpeg stream itself.
So from the article it looks like they aren't collecting a levy to be paid to the music industry but an actual payment for service. What happens when I upload? Since I'm assisting them in providing the service do I get a credit to my account if I upload enough, thus keeping Kazaa in business?
What a great business idea. Charge for downloaded music but provide non of it your own thus they don't have to worry about failed downloads, poor quality recordings, just plain wrong filenames, etc. All they provide is a service.
In Canada at least, I thought the supreme court ruled that a non-compete clause could not prevent you from earning a living, supporting your family, etc etc. Basically it rendered the clause was rendered useless.
http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html might come in handy for some
Ruby Ranch sets up the DSL, Slashdot effect takes it down...
Mod this guy up. If something real were to happen today nobody would even know.
You know, most other news organizations do a little bit of April fools. Then they get back to business of reporting the news. Just because its April fool's doesn't mean the world stops. I'd still like to see the news. Please stop posting every damn link to an April fool's story already! The whole point is to get taken by the one that seems too good to be true, not have to weed through 30 lame assed April Fool's stories.
Good Lord. I forgot today was April 1. I actually started reading the article thinking it was a normal one. I'm thinking "Oh my god, they actually do this?"
Its only 9 am and time for a beer already!
I remember when I moved from DesqView to OS/2 for my BBS. Things were so much faster. Multi node BBS on the same box that could barely handle 2 lines. I was so happy that it could do things like share IRQs for the COM ports. The UI sucked but it ran windows apps, and supported DOS apps, AND had a great scripting language. For my needs it was way ahead of the rest of the pack. In fact based on 2.1 I went out and bought Warp, even got Warp 4 for crying out loud. It was good for serving but as a client OS sucked ass.
In Canada, with the new levy $21 per Gig goes to the recording industry. $21 * 40 gigs = $840. Ouch. Time for CD based MP3 players I guess.
Advertisers aside aren't the customers protected by their credit card company? If I order a service with my credit card and the service isn't rendered or a goods not delivered aren't I only liable for up to a certain amount (terms of agreement defined by the credit card company, usually its $50 maximum)
Most likely this is due to inactivity. People who exercise regularily tend not to sleep for 12 hours at a time (at least in my experience). Its a correlation but it would be interesting to find out what percentage of the 8+ hours sleepers were very active people.
For pure escape stuff, I like dead tree books. You can read them in bed, on the john, out in the yard, etc. For tech manuals (not necessarily computers) and the like I like the electronic kind. I can search, etc. Take for example my wife's medical books. She's got a few that are Handspring modules that she can search through. Our professions are both technical (CS and medicine) so online books are useful. Having said all that, we still buy dead tree books for both our professions.
the instant it has smime support in email I'll be there. I'm stuck using OE on windows or netscape 4.77 on linux for its s/mime support. mozzilla is so close its not even funny.
We were given a problem to solve: build a kernel patch to any version of the linux kernel that allowed a third party who is writing is driver to have the driver interact with a software emulator instead of real hardware. The end goal was to enable people to write drivers based only on the hardware specs and an emulator. The emulator would instruct the kernel to route certain hardware calls to it. After the driver was written the real hardware could be dropped in place and the driver would not have to be re-written, it could be used out of the box. Essentially it was hardware abstraction without knowing what hardware to abstract before hand.
Personally, if you are just looking at getting into it just find yourself a problem and solve it. It doesn't matter what problem it is, any problem, useful to the world or not. Remember that the end result of this step is to learn, not solve 2.4 VM problems, or to build a better SMP design. (That's the next step!)
I always thought a blahbyte as the closest power of 2 to the power of 10 value. hence the 1024 magic number
Isn't this akin to someone having a GNU license, then changing the license and hoping to get away with restricting access to the older versions with the previous license. By including GPL code in their product, haven't they by implication made any version up to this point a GPLed product? Well, I want a copy. (Not really, I just want an answer. :))
What happens if we get another Challenger incident? How far will that spread radioactive material? Will it be dangerous? I'm all for nuclear power, but when its moving at high altitude I get a bit nervous. Not because its going to go boom. But because if and when it goes boom it may spew radioactive material all over florida where as standard fuel will simply burn up. I could be wrong but that's what NASA has to convince me of.
How do you get around the IP clause in your contract with the company? Most companies I know of have clauses that state that ANY code you write during your employment with them that might even remotely be in their market area belongs to them. From the looks of it this applies. Are you sure your various contracts with them company allow this?
Actually, last time I checked the ISS was outside the 200 mile airspace limit (stratosphere?) agreed to in the UN by most nations as being part of their sovereign territory. Technically the ISS is whithin the same jurisdiction as the international seas are. Hollywood and the US govt can bitch all they want. (That's assuming they even are.) It ain't illegal up there.