Microsoft® Windows NT was developed as a completely new, state of the art, 32 bit operating system. As such, it has no connection with the UNIX system source code. However, market demand for POSIX.1 , POSIX.2 has led to developments by several companies of add-ons that provide partial functionality. Should the functionality meet the requirements of the UNIX brand then indeed it could become a registered UNIX system.
Could well destroy the value of the brand, though...
Sedna, the Inuit godess of the sea is the namesake of a trans-Neptonian Object. Toutatis, a Celtic war God, featured in the French comic [i]Asterix[/i], has a asteroid named after him, as do several Egyption gods. The transition away from Greco-Roman mythology has already begun.
In another test they were also told to remove metal objects like coins from their clothing to avoid local hot spots developing on their skin.
So, this countermeasure would require an extra-ordinary measure of dedication on the part of the activist. It converts "a gun that causes momentary (but severe) pain, but leaves no trace" into "a gun that leaves causes lasting pain, along with burns".
So, best wear some sort of heat protection underneath your tinfoil suit.
But a chemist can consult the periodic table to determine the structure of electron orbitals around a particular atom. From that data, he or she can make assumptions about how various chemicals react, the bond structure, and so on. With neutronium there's no such utility. A bare neutron? A bunch of quarks swimming in a gluon sea?
Most SF fans are at least familiar with the concept of neutronium-- a very dense form of matter that might be found in neutron stars. But several Wikipedia contributors scorn the concept. The article on Neuron Stars includes this discussion.
The exact nature of the superdense matter in the core is still not well understood. Some researchers refer to this theoretical substance as neutronium, though this term can be misleading and is more frequently used in science fiction. It could be a superfluid mixture of neutrons with a few protons and electrons, other high-energy particles like pions and kaons may be present, and even sub-atomic quark matter is possible. However so far observations have not indicated nor ruled out such exotic states of matter.
So, if neutron star matter can't even be described, why is it occupying a space on the periodic table?
Speakers capable of reproducing deep bass tend to be either very large, or power hungry. As it is rumored to be quite difficult to sell large speakers to married men (the industry term for this is waf-- wife acceptance factor), and power hungry speaker require large, expensive amplifiers, speaker designers took advantage of the fact that humans can't easily localize low frequency sounds and designed satellite--subwoofer systems.
But, in well designed systems of this type, the satellites contain woofers capable of reproducing middle bass. The subwoofer terminology refers not to the sub's infrasonic capabilities (although expensive subwoofers can produce useful bass below 20 Hz), but simply to the fact that it's tuned lower than a typical woofer.
Many subwoofers on the market only go down to about 50 Hz, although there's at least one (very inexpensive, and reasonably good) entry-level subwoofer that goes down to 25 Hz.
SVS, a subwoofer manufacturer. has a list of subsonic scenes in movies, with waterfall charts, that points to the presence of subsonic sound in some movies.
If you can get past the cost, an equally imposing roadblock awaits you (or a reviewer). The physical size of the XS is a big problem, not from an aesthetic perspective, but as a logistics equation. Let me explain. The XS is over eight feet tall and weighs over 700 pounds plus another hundred or so for the crate. The shipping company hired to deliver the XS to my home left a message on my answering machine that stated "you need to call our office as we need to discuss your receiving capabilities." At this point I began to realize that this was not just another component that I could unbox with a couple of buddies and then listen to. I had to plan.
Planning
The first question was where I could place the sub so that it would be out of the way (answer: nowhere) and sound good (you don't just play with its location). I had already moved the audio system out of my dedicated listening room and into the main living room of my house because of the impossibility of the former space to handle both the Wilson X-1s and the XS. Once a location was chosen from my available choices of one, I began planning for the XS's arrival. The sub would be placed along the side wall, but close to the back wall, of my new listening room. It would be approximately the same distance from the listening position as the X-1s, about 12 feet. Furniture was rearranged, and my very patient, loving wife helped assemble the new room for optimum equipment placement.
The day the XS arrived I was in a great mood as the sun was shining and a long weekend was ahead for tweaking the sub and listening to music. The shipping company assured me that they would have it in my house and in place without much ado. "We do this all the time," they said. Well, suffice it to say that after about two hours and a broken piano dolly later, the shipping-company folks left soundly defeated. The XS was not to be installed that weekend. After regrouping and developing a new plan that included professional piano movers, another attempt was made. It still took about two hours to go from my garage to the living room, but eventually it was in place. As I stared at the XS standing there, I curiously noted how small the X-1s seemed. "Kind of like minimonitors," I muttered. My wife cried. I could not help but curse David Wilson for creating such a product.
Still, if you want to listen to sound below 20 Hz, the necessary speakers are likely to be large and unwieldy.
One of the reasons why Amnesty International infamously (and intemperately) referred to the US's detainee system as the "gulag of our time" is that the network of prison camps is quite a bit larger than just guantanamo, There are also (larger) prison camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well a number of prisons in "undisclosed locations." And should it be necessary, more cages can be built, more leash-holders can be trained, and more people can be exposed to the joys of "water-boarding." But perhaps you might get llucky, and remain in a United States prison as a warning to those hackers who might dare to follow in your footsteps.
A digression... The interrogator's question is not "How Long Have You Been Beating Your Wife?", as a loving husband could answer "0 months",
but rather "Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes or No?"
as a "Yes" could be an admission of abuse in the past, and a "No" is a admission of continuing abuse. Attempting a more complex answer could be taken as evidence of dissemblance...
If you read Microsoft's little plan for drm, you might notice subtle hints on video card design. These hints could be interpreted as:
"You may want to include lots of undocumented interfaces for you video card, as that will make it easier to certify your card. Try to conceal the exact functionality from the dirty Linux hippie thieves."
However, I haven't used Linux in a long time, having switched to Macs. Perhaps obfuscation of video hardware is now the norm.
In short - don't count on hardware DRM going the way of the dodo due to the public not liking it. And also, to the "Pah - it will be cracked in 5 minuntes!" crew - almost certainly not. It took ages to crack CSS, and even then it was only through a sheer, blind fluke. People coming up with DRM schemes learn from their past mistakes, and their progress will likely far out-strip that of those you produce the counter-measures.
High bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a system for preventing access to plaintext video data sent over Digital Visual Interface (DVI). Any technique that allows access to the plaintext data is considered breaking the system.
I show that with the public and private keys from 40 devices and O(40^2) work I can violate the design requirement--I can access the plaintext. Furthermore, with the 40 sets of keys and at most O(2^40) offline work I can usurp the central authority completely.
Imagine being able to program a DVI interface that can report, with confidence:
"Why yes, Hollywood. You are talking to the very expensive plasma screen that was recently installed in Jack Valenti's living room."
Apple quality MAY, and I say MAY have been something in the past (around the Apple/// days) but it's all the same crap now
Shipments of the [Apple///] started in 1981 or so and almost immediately there were problems. The biggest one: the chips would pop out of their sockets after only a few hours (primarily due to heat). This led to the famous "two-inch drop" where owners would pick their machine up and drop it two inches to reseat the chips.
HDCP is not all that expensive to implement. But displays with HDCP include a lot of extra crap, such as scalars, tuners, speakers-- perhaps even an overly fancy remote. So, if you happen to have a upsampling DVD player, or a HDTV box, or a scalar, it might be a bit galling to find out that the cheaper, better quality DVI-only displays can only be used on a computer... The "Secure Video Path" will probably allow those who have already accepted DRM in their home theatres, whether reluctantly or obeisantly, to tap more into an economy of scale. Hasn't HDCP been cracked, though?
FISA = Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. I've heard that the special FISA court has never rejected a warrant request. CAFC = Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The US Supreme Court is reluctant to accept appeals unless there is a disagreement among the circuits. A singular appeals court precludes such disagreements, so writs of certiori are quite rare, and the CAFC is largely free to pursue its own conception of patent law. Some think that it has "gone rogue".
That's a recipe for lax oversight. Look at FISA. Hell, look at what happened to the patent system after appellate jurisdiction was concentrated in CACF...
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Use the rss syndication link instead. Such links can be obtained from New York Times Link Generator
And unlike the USA it is still backed by gold
I suggest you revevaluate your investment strategy. The Rand floats. It is not convertible into gold
Could well destroy the value of the brand, though...
[i]Something non-Greek/Roman at last.[/i]
Sedna, the Inuit godess of the sea is the namesake of a trans-Neptonian Object. Toutatis, a Celtic war God, featured in the French comic [i]Asterix[/i], has a asteroid named after him, as do several Egyption gods. The transition away from Greco-Roman mythology has already begun.
Can aluminum foil reflect a 95 GHz wave? Sure, it will be hell on a microwave oven, but most ovens work at 2.45 GHz.
So, this countermeasure would require an extra-ordinary measure of dedication on the part of the activist. It converts "a gun that causes momentary (but severe) pain, but leaves no trace" into "a gun that leaves causes lasting pain, along with burns".
So, best wear some sort of heat protection underneath your tinfoil suit.
I find the ability to paste into unix applications to be somewhat useful.
Control-V scrolls down one page. Command-V pastes.
Moreover, in most cocoa applications, the control-keys are already used for an emacs compatibility mode...
But a chemist can consult the periodic table to determine the structure of electron orbitals around a particular atom. From that data, he or she can make assumptions about how various chemicals react, the bond structure, and so on.
With neutronium there's no such utility. A bare neutron? A bunch of quarks swimming in a gluon sea?
So, if neutron star matter can't even be described, why is it occupying a space on the periodic table?
Speakers capable of reproducing deep bass tend to be either very large, or power hungry. As it is rumored to be quite difficult to sell large speakers to married men (the industry term for this is waf-- wife acceptance factor), and power hungry speaker require large, expensive amplifiers, speaker designers took advantage of the fact that humans can't easily localize low frequency sounds and designed satellite--subwoofer systems.
But, in well designed systems of this type, the satellites contain woofers capable of reproducing middle bass. The subwoofer terminology refers not to the sub's infrasonic capabilities (although expensive subwoofers can produce useful bass below 20 Hz), but simply to the fact that it's tuned lower than a typical woofer.
Many subwoofers on the market only go down to about 50 Hz, although there's at least one (very inexpensive, and reasonably good) entry-level subwoofer that goes down to 25 Hz.
SVS, a subwoofer manufacturer. has a list of subsonic scenes in movies, with waterfall charts, that points to the presence of subsonic sound in some movies.
Still, if you want to listen to sound below 20 Hz, the necessary speakers are likely to be large and unwieldy.
One of the reasons why Amnesty International infamously (and intemperately) referred to the US's detainee system as the "gulag of our time" is that the network of prison camps is quite a bit larger than just guantanamo, There are also (larger) prison camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well a number of prisons in "undisclosed locations." And should it be necessary, more cages can be built, more leash-holders can be trained, and more people can be exposed to the joys of "water-boarding."
But perhaps you might get llucky, and remain in a United States prison as a warning to those hackers who might dare to follow in your footsteps.
Is it some kind of "windows-only" replacement for PDF?
A digression...
The interrogator's question is not
"How Long Have You Been Beating Your Wife?", as a loving husband could answer "0 months",
but rather
"Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes or No?"
as a "Yes" could be an admission of abuse in the past, and a "No" is a admission of continuing abuse. Attempting a more complex answer could be taken as evidence of dissemblance...
Orwell pointed out that many writers, too lazy to invent novel metaphors capable of evoking a powerful visual image, use worn out ones instead, and sometimes mix incompatible phrases together: "a sure sign that the author is not interested in what he is saying."
It depends on what the meaning of "was" was.
I've seen a pickup truck campaign that seemed to place a lot of emphasis on the quality of its bolts. It may have been for a Ford G160.
If you read Microsoft's little plan for drm, you might notice subtle hints on video card design. These hints could be interpreted as:
"You may want to include lots of undocumented interfaces for you video card, as that will make it easier to certify your card. Try to conceal the exact functionality from the dirty Linux hippie thieves."
However, I haven't used Linux in a long time, having switched to Macs. Perhaps obfuscation of video hardware is now the norm.
Think Again. HDCP is broken
Imagine being able to program a DVI interface that can report, with confidence:
"Why yes, Hollywood. You are talking to the very expensive plasma screen that was recently installed in Jack Valenti's living room."
Many of the cheaper HDTV sets don't incorporate DVI or HDMI. Of course, this omission does tend to limit the display's PC connectivity.
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HDCP is not all that expensive to implement. But displays with HDCP include a lot of extra crap, such as scalars, tuners, speakers-- perhaps even an overly fancy remote. So, if you happen to have a upsampling DVD player, or a HDTV box, or a scalar, it might be a bit galling to find out that the cheaper, better quality DVI-only displays can only be used on a computer...
The "Secure Video Path" will probably allow those who have already accepted DRM in their home theatres, whether reluctantly or obeisantly, to tap more into an economy of scale.
Hasn't HDCP been cracked, though?
FISA = Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. I've heard that the special FISA court has never rejected a warrant request.
CAFC = Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The US Supreme Court is reluctant to accept appeals unless there is a disagreement among the circuits. A singular appeals court precludes such disagreements, so writs of certiori are quite rare, and the CAFC is largely free to pursue its own conception of patent law. Some think that it has "gone rogue".
It seems somewhat better than, say, Delta Force (Novalogic), where you can kill with one round to the foot from a .45, anyway.
Not fond of the Ghost Recon games, are you?
[i]A[/i] court?
That's a recipe for lax oversight. Look at FISA. Hell, look at what happened to the patent system after appellate jurisdiction was concentrated in CACF...
One of the advantages of the MacoSX environment is that the programming tools are free, often in both senses of the word.
Does gcc produce fast Itanium code? If not, how much would it have cost Apple to bundle in a good VLIW compiler with their systems?