I'm sure you'll find that some idiots have found ways to reassign the alt and f4 keys, using a bit of java script
function altf4key() { if (event.keyCode == 18 || event.keyCode == 115) alert("You are an idiot!"); } function ctrlkey() { if (event.keyCode == 17) alert("You are an idiot!"); } function delkey() { if (event.keyCode == 46) alert("You are an idiot!"); }
Of course, should you wish to secure the clock, you can (click the padlock icon). On macs, root login is disabled, and most everything is done through sudo. Administrators have, by default, full shell access. ("sudo su" works).
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The key thing in that article is "I am not a lawyer". So take it with a grain of salt. I suppose such articles will, nevertheless get recycled into anti-GPL fud. See! SCO dipped its feet into the the GPL waters and they lost their IP rights. Better go with the MS-approved "shared source" program! IANAL, but I still take issue with "Meanwhile, even though they would still hold the copyright on the infringing code, they would have released it under the GPL, and can't relicense it without running into yet another problem:" Quite simply, SCO owns the rights to republish their code. If it made it to Linux, any derived code would naturally be copyrighted by Linus Torvalds and company. SCO would not be able to use any of that new code unless they embraced the GPL. But SCO would retain all rights to the pre-Linux code tree.
Example: someone writes a "Hello World" program in C, which somehow enters the public domain. The FSF picks it up, and adds "--help" "--version" and similar rubbish, recopyrights it and places the derived work under the GPL. Obviously, any bloke who wants to work with GNU Hello has to abide by the rules of the GPL. But hackers using other versions of "Hello World" are not neccesarily bound by FSF's rules.
The founders copyright predates the 1841 case Folsom v Marsh which attempted to delineate fair use. So, do 1790 definitions of infringement apply to these books?
Don't worry. We'll learn some years from hence (or perhaps sooner) that Archer's adventures will lead to a radical restructuring of the universe. The Earth will be plunged into a technological dark age, and lose all technology more advanced than what would later appear on James T Kirk's enterprise. Earth will lose half of its astrogation knowledge, allowing Picard'e encounter with the Borg in "unexplored space" to seem novel. And the Klingons will indulge in cosmetic surgery.
And like a strong military deters foreign aggression, just having large quantities of military grade arms in private hands tends to deter governments such that the odds of actually needing a revolution is lowered.
function altf4key() { if (event.keyCode == 18 || event.keyCode == 115) alert("You are an idiot!"); } function ctrlkey() { if (event.keyCode == 17) alert("You are an idiot!"); } function delkey() { if (event.keyCode == 46) alert("You are an idiot!"); }
CD-DA isn't AIFF. CD-DA contains either 2 or four channels of 16 bit audio, sampled at 44.1 kHz, organized into blocks of 2352 bytes. It's big endian (unlike *.wav). AIFF is a rather more involved format. One of those formats is 16 bit, 44.1 KHz audio. The only benefit I could see to encoding directly from masters is that it is possible that the "master" could be less prone to jitter. It is concievable that higher resloution masters would be available (96Khz/24 bit) and the encoding process could take advantage of this extra data somehow.
Actually, it's the cathedral church of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington. Although the cathedral is somewhat ecumenical, the National Cathedral is no more associated with the Federal government than say, The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (a largish, non-parish Catholic basilica in DC.)
It's perfectly reasonable. Xerox PARC's mouse had three buttons. Apple simplified this down to one button. Presumably, some of their justifications for simplifying the mouse are still valid. Obviously, it kept costs down. Arguably, it was easier to write documentation for a single button mouse.
A multibutton mouse is useful with OSX, as X11 applications have been written with the assumption that a three button mouse would have been available. Similarly, once Microsoft figured out what the hell the right button would be used for, programmers with Windows experience started to import certain UI assumptions into their Mac programs.
In the beginning, the Mac GUI was designed around the assumption that all macs would have single button mice.
Single button mice still have two advantages. There's still no question as to which button must be pressed. And the single button can be made as large as possible, which might reduce RSI.
I suspect that if Apple offered a two button mouse, certain slashdotters would be asking why a three button mouse wasn't offered.
My father bought one of those cards for his 6100. Games comprised the vast majority of his PC software. Now he acomplishes the same thing with VirtualPC.
The major problem with supporting multiple hardware platforms is the fragmentation of the market. Although it is possible to create Fat binaries, containing executables for AMD, PowerPC and SPARC, some publishing houses won't bother to support every architecture.
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Linus is giving up. The problem seems to be that digitally signing a kernel image is potentially useful when the objective for the owner to secure his box, it can also be used to deny the owner the right to hack. The difference, is in his view political.
However, "Free Software"ists would probably beg to differ. The intent of the GPL was to protect the rights of hackers. Stallman himself was given access to source code (somehat valuable for tracking down bugs) but no rights to modify or distribute such modifications (rather more valuable, as such a right would have given him the ability to actually fix those bugs.)
A signed system tells a user: "Look but don't touch". This rankles.
Digital projectors allow movie houses to employ untrained monkeys to run films. The resulting image quality might be less than what a trained projectionist would be ableto coax out of a clean, well maintained projector running a clean, undamaged print, but most theatres don't emply highly trained projectionists anymore.
You can download audio of many articles directly from the site. Unfortunately, Apple's web browser of choice (Safari) thinks that the audio links are served up as *.smi files--perhaps "self mounting image files".
Safari will, instead of opening these files with RealPlayer, Quicktime or downloading them to a desiganted directory, will open them up directly with Disk Copy-- an operation that wil surely fail.
And because NPR uses javascript to decide what kind of stream to serve up, it's rather difficult to cut and paste a link directly into one of the audio streaming clients. I suppose you could uncheck the "open safe files automatically,", and control click the downloaded file, select "Open With RealOne Player" and enjoy the results, but that solution is rather complicated.
NPR blames Apple for this. I'm sure that in the confusion, angry Safari users have jammed already strained technical support queues. So NPR does the only sensible thing-- it seeks petty revenge by dropping Quicktime.
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Of course, incompatibilities between different text encoding systems can easily destroy the asethetic advantage of using special characters.
for french
option c =ç
for German
option s= ß
option \ =
for Latin
option ' = æ
option q = ?
For Spanish
option 1 =
option ? =
for corresponding with Europeans
option 3 = £
option @ =?
for lawyers
option 2 = ?
option 6 =
option 7 =
option g = ©
Have you ever tried to type C code when using the International Keyboard? It's maddening.
That's because there was a space character in your Hard drive's name. This is a known problem, and will be fixed shortly.
Of course, should you wish to secure the clock, you can (click the padlock icon). On macs, root login is disabled, and most everything is done through sudo. Administrators have, by default, full shell access. ("sudo su" works).
The key thing in that article is "I am not a lawyer". So take it with a grain of salt. I suppose such articles will, nevertheless get recycled into anti-GPL fud. See! SCO dipped its feet into the the GPL waters and they lost their IP rights. Better go with the MS-approved "shared source" program!
IANAL, but I still take issue with "Meanwhile, even though they would still hold the copyright on the infringing code, they would have released it under the GPL, and can't relicense it without running into yet another problem:" Quite simply, SCO owns the rights to republish their code. If it made it to Linux, any derived code would naturally be copyrighted by Linus Torvalds and company. SCO would not be able to use any of that new code unless they embraced the GPL. But SCO would retain all rights to the pre-Linux code tree.
Example: someone writes a "Hello World" program in C, which somehow enters the public domain. The FSF picks it up, and adds "--help" "--version" and similar rubbish, recopyrights it and places the derived work under the GPL. Obviously, any bloke who wants to work with GNU Hello has to abide by the rules of the GPL. But hackers using other versions of "Hello World" are not neccesarily bound by FSF's rules.
The founders copyright predates the 1841 case Folsom v Marsh which attempted to delineate fair use. So, do 1790 definitions of infringement apply to these books?
Nah. The Borg are old hat. Now, species 8472 might make a good Enterprise alien.
Don't worry. We'll learn some years from hence (or perhaps sooner) that Archer's adventures will lead to a radical restructuring of the universe. The Earth will be plunged into a technological dark age, and lose all technology more advanced than what would later appear on James T Kirk's enterprise. Earth will lose half of its astrogation knowledge, allowing Picard'e encounter with the Borg in "unexplored space" to seem novel. And the Klingons will indulge in cosmetic surgery.
And like a strong military deters foreign aggression, just having large quantities of military grade arms in private hands tends to deter governments such that the odds of actually needing a revolution is lowered.
Or it contributes to a massive festering war
I do wonder why, however, they offer this bit of codeWhy do advertisers think that 20 year old cookies are useful?
CD-DA isn't AIFF. CD-DA contains either 2 or four channels of 16 bit audio, sampled at 44.1 kHz, organized into blocks of 2352 bytes. It's big endian (unlike *.wav).
AIFF is a rather more involved format. One of those formats is 16 bit, 44.1 KHz audio.
The only benefit I could see to encoding directly from masters is that it is possible that the "master" could be less prone to jitter. It is concievable that higher resloution masters would be available (96Khz/24 bit) and the encoding process could take advantage of this extra data somehow.
Actually, it's the cathedral church of the Episcopal Bishop of Washington. Although the cathedral is somewhat ecumenical, the National Cathedral is no more associated with the Federal government than say, The National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (a largish, non-parish Catholic basilica in DC.)
It's perfectly reasonable. Xerox PARC's mouse had three buttons. Apple simplified this down to one button. Presumably, some of their justifications for simplifying the mouse are still valid.
Obviously, it kept costs down. Arguably, it was easier to write documentation for a single button mouse.
A multibutton mouse is useful with OSX, as X11 applications have been written with the assumption that a three button mouse would have been available. Similarly, once Microsoft figured out what the hell the right button would be used for, programmers with Windows experience started to import certain UI assumptions into their Mac programs.
In the beginning, the Mac GUI was designed around the assumption that all macs would have single button mice.
Single button mice still have two advantages. There's still no question as to which button must be pressed. And the single button can be made as large as possible, which might reduce RSI.
I suspect that if Apple offered a two button mouse, certain slashdotters would be asking why a three button mouse wasn't offered.
My father bought one of those cards for his 6100. Games comprised the vast majority of his PC software. Now he acomplishes the same thing with VirtualPC.
The PowerMacs are already dual processor machines.
The major problem with supporting multiple hardware platforms is the fragmentation of the market. Although it is possible to create Fat binaries, containing executables for AMD, PowerPC and SPARC, some publishing houses won't bother to support every architecture.
Linus is giving up. The problem seems to be that digitally signing a kernel image is potentially useful when the objective for the owner to secure his box, it can also be used to deny the owner the right to hack. The difference, is in his view political.
However, "Free Software"ists would probably beg to differ. The intent of the GPL was to protect the rights of hackers. Stallman himself was given access to source code (somehat valuable for tracking down bugs) but no rights to modify or distribute such modifications (rather more valuable, as such a right would have given him the ability to actually fix those bugs.)
A signed system tells a user: "Look but don't touch". This rankles.
It's very simple. In NYC, choose the Times. In DC, choose the Post. Mixing the two up is likely to earn one a tabloid and a Moonie paper.
The article, however, is from neither paper. The author works for Reuters. (The Washington Times, BTW, eschews Reuters for UPI)
Digital projectors allow movie houses to employ untrained monkeys to run films. The resulting image quality might be less than what a trained projectionist would be ableto coax out of a clean, well maintained projector running a clean, undamaged print, but most theatres don't emply highly trained projectionists anymore.
You can download audio of many articles directly from the site. Unfortunately, Apple's web browser of choice (Safari) thinks that the audio links are served up as *.smi files--perhaps "self mounting image files".
Safari will, instead of opening these files with RealPlayer, Quicktime or downloading them to a desiganted directory, will open them up directly with Disk Copy-- an operation that wil surely fail.
And because NPR uses javascript to decide what kind of stream to serve up, it's rather difficult to cut and paste a link directly into one of the audio streaming clients. I suppose you could uncheck the "open safe files automatically,", and control click the downloaded file, select "Open With RealOne Player" and enjoy the results, but that solution is rather complicated.
NPR blames Apple for this. I'm sure that in the confusion, angry Safari users have jammed already strained technical support queues. So NPR does the only sensible thing-- it seeks petty revenge by dropping Quicktime.
The "previous" slashdot story. Ah the brave new world beyond that pesky concept of backwards compatibility.