The Remote Framebuffer Protocol that VNC uses to export the display is not limited to rasterized GUIs. A very constrained device could run a VNC server that uses the colored rectangle primitive of RFB to directly paint some very simple shapes.
For example, check out this very simple rfb server here. It displays a counter using LCD-style digits, using filled rectangles. There is no fancy graphical toolkit required, and no rasterization step.
That's a good one. However, DHCP? That's a bit independent of making random TCP connections. And, speaking of TCP, let's throw in all the wonderful TCP flow control stuff, like slow-start, congestion avoidance, timeouts, etc. *8)
Start up Mozilla, click File, click New, click Composer Page. Voila, editor that does soft wrapping (since it's the default behavior of HTML browsers).
Also, what's wrong with continuation lines in emacs?
I'm all for new interesting things and change if it will help us. However, I just don't see how coloring the money helps-- as the press release states, it seems that $45 million in counterfeit money entered circulation in 2001. How much did the US companies spend on retrofitting their vending machines? According to this article pointed out by another reader, $350 million! It doesn't seem like a good idea to me...
That's incorrect. The original poster was right. If a bug was found in the library decoding a JPEG, it may be possible to design a JPEG file that makes the library run code carried in the image. Pretty neat.
I got to be a manager by writing code that is used by, literaly, millions of people.
Do you work for Microsoft by any chance?
The code used by millions of people, and the thing about not hiring whiners seem to indicate MS. (I recall this observation by MS management, stating that A people hire other A people, but that B people hire C people).
Because they're a monopoly, they may be able to get away with charging per use like electricity,
I see. Would you be willing to accept a flat-rate pricing scheme for electricity? Suppose you were a frugal kind of person, and conserved power whenever possible. Would you complain about paying exactly the same amount as a heavy-using neighbor?
I'm not worried. I am posting this comment from a laptop with 802.11b, while a 1.3KW microwave oven 10 feet away is cooking my dinner at full power. At the same time, my laptop is playing MP3s in the most gluttonous manner: using a remote esd connection to a box hooked up to a stereo, without any problems.
Now how am I to take seriously the rest of the points that the article makes, if even the one most obvious and easy to verify is wrong in this one instance?
Sounds like a bunch of FUD. Yes, there were some occasional problems. How about the incredible convenience this technology enabled, and the many people and organizations that were able to benefit? The article sounds like it was written by one of those negative people that always stand on the sidelines and comment about why things won't work, without trying to help. Pfft.
It turns out that multi-path "interference" can actually increases capacity
This makes intuitive sense. Consider two radios, A and B, communicating from either end of a long hallway; suppose A is sending data to B. It makes sense that the signal reaching B will be stronger here than if the two radios were outdoors, since the hallway acts as a waveguide, thus directing more energy to the receiver. Unfortunately, up to now radios could not take advantage of the extra energy, because it arrives in the form of multiple signals reflected off the walls, sometimes causing destructive interference. But now, thanks to the recent invention of space-time coding, this can be avoided.
It seems many people misinterpreted the quoted statement above as saying that same frequency signals coming from two different senders, carrying different data streams, will not interfere-- this is not true!
I found out about Clement after more digging. For example according to this link, Clement took the glagolitic, invented by Cyrill and Methodius, rewrote it into cyrillic, and spread in Bulgaria. Later it spread further east and north.
Actually, no. Glagolitic was indeed invented by Cyrill and Methodius, in the 9th century. I don't know where the previous poster got the St. Clement reference. See here for the character set and a bit of history.
These two also invented cyrillic. The difference is that glagolitic didn't survive very long, while the cyrillic is still in use today. The last country to use glagolitic in any quantity is Croatia, up to the end of the 19th century.
It may be a technical dream but he's just crazy enough to push that
button.
The goal is to go straight up 30 miles. There are no plans for orbit,
just to set the altitude record for a private citizen. Orbit requires
going at least 170 miles up and going 17,000 MPH around the
earth. Lots of up and lots of sideways. Going up to a straight up to a
stop and dropping back down is different.
He's talking about another source of stem cells mentioned in the linked article, where the cells are harvested from the fat tissues extracted using liposuction. Therefore, no embryos are involved. The procedure has nothing to do with the main article.
He is talking about not using autopayment. I think his suggested alternative to "write checks" covers online bill payments too, as long as they are not recurring.
Hey, remember that/. story about how the FTC was setting up fake investor-baiting scam websites to teach people a lesson about dangers of investing? Maybe this CoolChips plc. is one of those fake companies!
Slashdot Mirror
The Remote Framebuffer Protocol that VNC uses to export the display is not limited to rasterized GUIs. A very constrained device could run a VNC server that uses the colored rectangle primitive of RFB to directly paint some very simple shapes.
For example, check out this very simple rfb server here. It displays a counter using LCD-style digits, using filled rectangles. There is no fancy graphical toolkit required, and no rasterization step.
Smart people don't read coding books, they just look stuff up using a search engine. Google comes to mind.
That's a good one. However, DHCP? That's a bit independent of making random TCP connections. And, speaking of TCP, let's throw in all the wonderful TCP flow control stuff, like slow-start, congestion avoidance, timeouts, etc. *8)
Start up Mozilla, click File, click New, click Composer Page. Voila, editor that does soft wrapping (since it's the default behavior of HTML browsers).
Also, what's wrong with continuation lines in emacs?
Yeah, that game was great. It made me see things from the Empire's perspective. Give the Emperor some credit!
"The Empire is on the verge of success. Soon, peace shall be restored throughout the galaxy." Don't you just love that?
~
Looks like I will have to. It seems my folklore is not 100%.
Thanks,
~
PC = Problem Code
I'm guessing it's Scott McNealy. It sounds like something he would do.
I'm all for new interesting things and change if it will help us. However, I just don't see how coloring the money helps-- as the press release states, it seems that $45 million in counterfeit money entered circulation in 2001. How much did the US companies spend on retrofitting their vending machines? According to this article pointed out by another reader, $350 million! It doesn't seem like a good idea to me...
I do not have my words mixed. I did not promise the mirror to be any faster than the original.
That's incorrect. The original poster was right. If a bug was found in the library decoding a JPEG, it may be possible to design a JPEG file that makes the library run code carried in the image. Pretty neat.
I got to be a manager by writing code that is used by, literaly, millions of people.
Do you work for Microsoft by any chance?
The code used by millions of people, and the thing about not hiring whiners seem to indicate MS. (I recall this observation by MS management, stating that A people hire other A people, but that B people hire C people).
Because they're a monopoly, they may be able to get away with charging per use like electricity,
I see. Would you be willing to accept a flat-rate pricing scheme for electricity? Suppose you were a frugal kind of person, and conserved power whenever possible. Would you complain about paying exactly the same amount as a heavy-using neighbor?
I'm not worried. I am posting this comment from a laptop with 802.11b, while a 1.3KW microwave oven 10 feet away is cooking my dinner at full power. At the same time, my laptop is playing MP3s in the most gluttonous manner: using a remote esd connection to a box hooked up to a stereo, without any problems.
Now how am I to take seriously the rest of the points that the article makes, if even the one most obvious and easy to verify is wrong in this one instance?
Sounds like a bunch of FUD. Yes, there were some occasional problems. How about the incredible convenience this technology enabled, and the many people and organizations that were able to benefit? The article sounds like it was written by one of those negative people that always stand on the sidelines and comment about why things won't work, without trying to help. Pfft.
It turns out that multi-path "interference" can actually increases capacity
This makes intuitive sense. Consider two radios, A and B, communicating from either end of a long hallway; suppose A is sending data to B. It makes sense that the signal reaching B will be stronger here than if the two radios were outdoors, since the hallway acts as a waveguide, thus directing more energy to the receiver. Unfortunately, up to now radios could not take advantage of the extra energy, because it arrives in the form of multiple signals reflected off the walls, sometimes causing destructive interference. But now, thanks to the recent invention of space-time coding, this can be avoided.
It seems many people misinterpreted the quoted statement above as saying that same frequency signals coming from two different senders, carrying different data streams, will not interfere-- this is not true!
I found out about Clement after more digging. For example according to this link, Clement took the glagolitic, invented by Cyrill and Methodius, rewrote it into cyrillic, and spread in Bulgaria. Later it spread further east and north.
Actually, no. Glagolitic was indeed invented by Cyrill and Methodius, in the 9th century. I don't know where the previous poster got the St. Clement reference. See here for the character set and a bit of history.
These two also invented cyrillic. The difference is that glagolitic didn't survive very long, while the cyrillic is still in use today. The last country to use glagolitic in any quantity is Croatia, up to the end of the 19th century.
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And of course, the obligatoryHe's talking about another source of stem cells mentioned in the linked article, where the cells are harvested from the fat tissues extracted using liposuction. Therefore, no embryos are involved. The procedure has nothing to do with the main article.
He is talking about not using autopayment. I think his suggested alternative to "write checks" covers online bill payments too, as long as they are not recurring.
Hey, remember that /. story about how the FTC was setting up fake investor-baiting scam websites to teach people a lesson about dangers of investing? Maybe this CoolChips plc. is one of those fake companies!
cat coke | nose > keyboard