What copy protection attempts to do is to limit HOW you are able to copy data. Copy protection attempts to limit you in such a way that any duplication would be too costly, too time consuming or too laborious to be attempted on a large scale.
But that isn't what usually happens. What it does, is prevent the home user from making a copy of CD to use in the car, but those wanting to make copies on a large scale have the resources to find away around the protection.
My phone has a "Voice privacy" setting which it does indicate is voice encryption. But turning it on just informs me that that feature isn't supported by my network.
I wonder what type of encryption is it anyway? Probally something with a government supplied backdoor.
The only language I can write 100% on paper is COBOL, and I hate COBOL.
With C I need a compiler to catch the few typos or what ever I made. But I don't need all day, one or two compiles does it.
Luckly at my school the COBOL tests were on paper, and the C test was on a computer (and timed).
I liked my OS class. The UNIX tests were held in front of terminals. I couldn't remember the quite how to use the non-GNU `sort` command. So `man sort` saved me there. I told the teacher what I did after the test, he said, "excellent."
Yeah, we'll just route right around Europe. I just hope you aren't trying to talk to anyone in the hole.
The point everyone makes about routing around damage is just that, the Internet is designed to be able to route around sections that go away. But if half the ISPs in Europe are behind the routers that go away, they'll be gone. But everyone else will still be able to talk to Asia, Africa, or what ever.
I do know that just about every time I've tracerouted to a site in Europe I've seen "ebone" in the trace. I think this could be bad for a lot of people.
I want Apple to package an offical QuickTime for Linux with codecs compiled as proper Linux libs.
People have reverse enginered the QuickTime format and written wrapper executables that allow Linux to use Windows DLLs. A file format is one thing, a complete program like Shake is another.
I don't understand. Are these features you want? Or features included that will get users back?
1. Mozilla does this, and I guess Netscape can if you hand edit the prefs file.
2. Most of the time you wouldn't be able to do anything with the edited source, not like you can change other people's pages. Most of the time I just want to see how some effect on a page was done. Copy and Paste work from View, Source. But for when you want to edit, File, Edit Page works fine.
3. I don't want enter to submit a comment when I'm typing in a text box, I want it to add a new line. On input field it is differt, there aren't multiple lines so enter does what you want. Actually I wish tab didn't leave a text box sometimes.
I don't know how it is in UK. But she obviously won't be attenting the film alone. In the US underaged children can attend a film if accompanied by an adult (except kids under 2 can never go to an R rated movie).
So anyone under 12 will probally be with an adult anyway. So what does it matter? But still it is silly that 1 head butt changes the rating.
While it doens't paint pretty pictures, it shows some interesting results when pointed at a month of e-mail composed mostly by me. Given much more than a month or from too many people word use tends to normalize and the results seem very random.
Well Yahoo! is now spamming all my various e-mail addresses, after the fact, about their changes.
But you do have a point, so you sign up on a site, after reading their privacy policy you don't think it is too bad. But there is always that last statement, "We reserve the right to change these policies in the future...", some even go on to say, that it is your responcibility to check their policy page on your own to find out about any changes. But most are "kind" enough to e-mail you when they make changes to the policy.
So someone comes to them and says, "I'll give you $1 million" for your customer database. They are like, "cool, but give us a day to change our policy so it says we can do this."
I've said it before the keys to new patents is to take an exisiting technology and combine it with a network (another existing technology), or give it a HTML (XML is the rage now) interface (yet another existing technology), or give it a database backend (what do you know, an existing technology). Bonus points if you can use 2 or even all three.
So thanks to your patent I can now say...
A robot powered BurgerWorld with network interconnectivity between the robots, a web interface to place orders that is generated from a database that has all the different food that the robots know how to make.
I think I'm going to patent a process to go through the patent database (which hopefully I can access by a network with a web interface) to take all existing patents and resubmit them with my patented patent making system.
Anyone else slave away trying to match tones on the rocket ship?
I had a Gravis Ultrasound at the time, since it was a wavetable synth I could hear the sample looping. I just matched looping speeds rather than tones (to which I'm deaf).
I'll always watch a movie in widescreen, and it doesn't detract from the viewing for me. But I have some friends like your's who just seem to stare at the black bars for the whole movie. I read in a magizine a long time ago, that turning off the lights helps. I tried it one time with my friends, and they did agree that they didn't notice the bars as much. I even think that is looked better myself.
As for DTS I'll agree there too, I love DTS, makes things go BOOM! I'm going to get a Yamaha DTS 6.1 receiver next time.
Wow, this is getting off topic. But what speed was the AOL dial-up? 2400 for the Cumberland number, and 4800 for a LaVale? I do remember those two numbers which weren't really AOL numbers, but a network (I forget it's name) that would connect you to AOL.
The 2400bps number was located at Two Way Radio service. Which is now TWR Communications who is the company I work for that as I mentioned in other posts is providing a couple tower sites for the Allconet (yay, back on topic).
After Mindsping bought out MicroIntegration and NetBiz, TWR started their own Internet service, hereintown.net, which is still flurishing today. So there really was never a lack of a local provider, at least since 1995.
I don't know when you were here, but AOL was never the only ISP. It was a long distance call to Frederick until just recently.
There have always been a few ISPs in the area though. There was the Crystal Palace which started operateing in 1995, followed quickly by MicroIntegration, both located in Frostburg, and NetBiz.
Still I don't think this Allconet project will have an antenna facing Frostburg (I could be wrong you can see the Dan's Rock tower from Frostburg), but FSU has ethernet in the dorms coming out of University of Maryland.
How quickly you forget. It is Allegany county, we are the only ones who spell it right.
True FM isn't the best, but this are point to multi-point fixed wireless. Each subscriber will have a small parabolic dish fixed on their building focused on the tower.
And yes the towers are on all the highest peaks, the company I work for owns a couple of the tower sites.
P.S. I don't drink, but movies are still cheap, $3.50 if I tell 'em I'm a student (4.50 if not).
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I don't see why a court wouldn't. You agreed to the license, and thus relinquished your rights.
What copy protection attempts to do is to limit HOW you are able to copy data. Copy protection attempts to limit you in such a way that any duplication would be too costly, too time consuming or too laborious to be attempted on a large scale.
But that isn't what usually happens. What it does, is prevent the home user from making a copy of CD to use in the car, but those wanting to make copies on a large scale have the resources to find away around the protection.
My phone has a "Voice privacy" setting which it does indicate is voice encryption. But turning it on just informs me that that feature isn't supported by my network.
I wonder what type of encryption is it anyway? Probally something with a government supplied backdoor.
So make it a timed test.
The only language I can write 100% on paper is COBOL, and I hate COBOL.
With C I need a compiler to catch the few typos or what ever I made. But I don't need all day, one or two compiles does it.
Luckly at my school the COBOL tests were on paper, and the C test was on a computer (and timed).
I liked my OS class. The UNIX tests were held in front of terminals. I couldn't remember the quite how to use the non-GNU `sort` command. So `man sort` saved me there. I told the teacher what I did after the test, he said, "excellent."
Yeah, we'll just route right around Europe. I just hope you aren't trying to talk to anyone in the hole.
The point everyone makes about routing around damage is just that, the Internet is designed to be able to route around sections that go away. But if half the ISPs in Europe are behind the routers that go away, they'll be gone. But everyone else will still be able to talk to Asia, Africa, or what ever.
I do know that just about every time I've tracerouted to a site in Europe I've seen "ebone" in the trace. I think this could be bad for a lot of people.
I want Apple to package an offical QuickTime for Linux with codecs compiled as proper Linux libs.
People have reverse enginered the QuickTime format and written wrapper executables that allow Linux to use Windows DLLs. A file format is one thing, a complete program like Shake is another.
But the point is, Apple didn't release QuickTime for Linux.
Except now, consoles are getting Internet access and hard disks, how long before history repeats?
I don't know. I tend to find junk, ads, whatnot on multiple sources. I think people are just lazy, and don't delete the junk.
I know I do, as quickly as I find it, but sometimes I'm downloading something through the night, and may miss a file for 10 hours or so.
So the multi-source thing doesn't work that well.
Then the spin offs, Star Wars vs. Star Trek.
Maybe we could play as the individual units?
"Stop poking..."
I don't understand. Are these features you want? Or features included that will get users back?
1. Mozilla does this, and I guess Netscape can if you hand edit the prefs file.
2. Most of the time you wouldn't be able to do anything with the edited source, not like you can change other people's pages. Most of the time I just want to see how some effect on a page was done. Copy and Paste work from View, Source. But for when you want to edit, File, Edit Page works fine.
3. I don't want enter to submit a comment when I'm typing in a text box, I want it to add a new line. On input field it is differt, there aren't multiple lines so enter does what you want. Actually I wish tab didn't leave a text box sometimes.
Warner Communications sold Atari to JTS i think, which sold it to Hasbro Interactive which Hasbro sold off to Infogrames of France.
JTS was the company that made the CD-ROM drive for the Atari Jaguar.
The also made a 1.7GB hard disk that had a 95% failure rate.
I don't know how it is in UK. But she obviously won't be attenting the film alone. In the US underaged children can attend a film if accompanied by an adult (except kids under 2 can never go to an R rated movie).
So anyone under 12 will probally be with an adult anyway. So what does it matter? But still it is silly that 1 head butt changes the rating.
Closer to a play on oxen being the plural to ox.
I always liked jwz's DadaDodo
While it doens't paint pretty pictures, it shows some interesting results when pointed at a month of e-mail composed mostly by me. Given much more than a month or from too many people word use tends to normalize and the results seem very random.
Well Yahoo! is now spamming all my various e-mail addresses, after the fact, about their changes.
But you do have a point, so you sign up on a site, after reading their privacy policy you don't think it is too bad. But there is always that last statement, "We reserve the right to change these policies in the future...", some even go on to say, that it is your responcibility to check their policy page on your own to find out about any changes. But most are "kind" enough to e-mail you when they make changes to the policy.
So someone comes to them and says, "I'll give you $1 million" for your customer database. They are like, "cool, but give us a day to change our policy so it says we can do this."
I've said it before the keys to new patents is to take an exisiting technology and combine it with a network (another existing technology), or give it a HTML (XML is the rage now) interface (yet another existing technology), or give it a database backend (what do you know, an existing technology). Bonus points if you can use 2 or even all three.
So thanks to your patent I can now say...
A robot powered BurgerWorld with network interconnectivity between the robots, a web interface to place orders that is generated from a database that has all the different food that the robots know how to make.
I think I'm going to patent a process to go through the patent database (which hopefully I can access by a network with a web interface) to take all existing patents and resubmit them with my patented patent making system.
I know I'm not supposed to feed the trolls...
Google doesn't position a search listing within a search result, they position an add to the side of the search listings.
Actually Rob wants http://slashdot.dot
Anyone else slave away trying to match tones on the rocket ship?
I had a Gravis Ultrasound at the time, since it was a wavetable synth I could hear the sample looping. I just matched looping speeds rather than tones (to which I'm deaf).
Try turning off the lights.
I'll always watch a movie in widescreen, and it doesn't detract from the viewing for me. But I have some friends like your's who just seem to stare at the black bars for the whole movie. I read in a magizine a long time ago, that turning off the lights helps. I tried it one time with my friends, and they did agree that they didn't notice the bars as much. I even think that is looked better myself.
As for DTS I'll agree there too, I love DTS, makes things go BOOM! I'm going to get a Yamaha DTS 6.1 receiver next time.
Wow, this is getting off topic. But what speed was the AOL dial-up? 2400 for the Cumberland number, and 4800 for a LaVale? I do remember those two numbers which weren't really AOL numbers, but a network (I forget it's name) that would connect you to AOL.
The 2400bps number was located at Two Way Radio service. Which is now TWR Communications who is the company I work for that as I mentioned in other posts is providing a couple tower sites for the Allconet (yay, back on topic).
After Mindsping bought out MicroIntegration and NetBiz, TWR started their own Internet service, hereintown.net, which is still flurishing today. So there really was never a lack of a local provider, at least since 1995.
I don't know when you were here, but AOL was never the only ISP. It was a long distance call to Frederick until just recently.
There have always been a few ISPs in the area though. There was the Crystal Palace which started operateing in 1995, followed quickly by MicroIntegration, both located in Frostburg, and NetBiz.
Still I don't think this Allconet project will have an antenna facing Frostburg (I could be wrong you can see the Dan's Rock tower from Frostburg), but FSU has ethernet in the dorms coming out of University of Maryland.
How quickly you forget. It is Allegany county, we are the only ones who spell it right.
True FM isn't the best, but this are point to multi-point fixed wireless. Each subscriber will have a small parabolic dish fixed on their building focused on the tower.
And yes the towers are on all the highest peaks, the company I work for owns a couple of the tower sites.
P.S. I don't drink, but movies are still cheap, $3.50 if I tell 'em I'm a student (4.50 if not).