I just got a Nomad II and Creative says that it will be able to support any future audio formats through firmware updates. There is already an update to support the WMA format.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I suppose that if you had a law degree you would only defend the innocent and fight for justice and the American way, etc. However, it is a lawyer's job to argue on behalf of his or her client, regardless of what he or she thinks about that client. I think that this is a rather bad way for things to be, but you can't blame one law firm more than another. It could have been any other law firm representing Digital Convergence or British Telecom, and it would be roughly the same. A better question would be "Is it possible to get a Slashdot interview with the law profession as an abstract whole? I would like to know just how a profession like this expects not to damage its reputation." But this is obviously a silly question and one could argue that the law profession has damaged its reputation already.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I'm guessing that cesium is an intermediate product of the decay of uranium. If that's the case, the cesium would be the uranium fuel after it has been used.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I can't remember too much of the nuclear stuff we did in chemistry, but based on what I can remember I can't imagine burning of coal releasing more radioactive materials (in the form of carbon-14 (and wasn't there another radioactive isotope of carbon?)).
These are the things to consider: Only a small fraction of naturally occurring carbon is radioactive. Uranium has only unstable isotopes. I'm pretty certain that uranium has a shorter half-life than carbon-14 (but I haven't checked). Also, each uranium atom has to emit a lot more beta particles than carbon-14 as it goes through the process of decaying into stable elements.
This means that uranium atoms decay more often and produce a lot more radiation before they become stable. The amount of radiation produced by 1 mole of naturally occurring carbon would be miniscule in comparison to that produced by 1 mole of uranium (or that produced by any of the intermediate products of uranium's decay process).
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I love French, however, my vote for best language is Latin. It has a few quirks, but as a whole it is more consistent than any other language. Memorize the conjugations and declensions and you've learned half the grammar. Also worth noting is that there are only five or so irregular verbs in Latin (not counting the other ones that are just compounds of the basic ones).
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Actually, Bill Gates claims its possible to clone the Windows API. In a statement that I find incredibly arrogant he claimed that he could have lead any other company and still ended up where he is today. He said if he were up against Microsoft he would have programmers in India cloning the Windows API.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Actually I don't think that every site uses the phone numbers they ask for. I'm not as paranoid or as irritated by advertisements as most slashdot readers so I give them my phone number. When I was in high school we had our phone number changed (to get phone service, cable, and cable modem in one package deal). This stopped all telemarketers from calling us (but not too many ever called in the first place). I gave internet sites the new number whenever it was asked for. This didn't seem to speed up the process since it still took the telemarketers about six months to start calling the new number (this was in spite of the fact that the old number had a message giving the new number). I would think that this would have taken less time if the various internet sites that had my phone number sold the information.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I'm a little sick of people bitching about the fact that Gnome and KDE have something like a start menu. What else can we do right now? There must be some way of organizing programs into groups. The start menu happens to be a good way to this and when not in use it takes up little screen space.
I suppose you think that we need some "innovative" way to start applications like speech recognition. I hate to flame so harshly (although it does bring a sort of sadistic pleasure to me), but everyone and there dog has thought of this. It would be nice to be able to say "Start AbiWord" and have it done, but this would have to be used in addition to a start menu of some sort. A new user cannot be expected to know what programs to ask to be run; he or she will have to browse through some listing of programs at some point. Even experienced users may not know all of the programs they have. I don't know all of the programs that are in the Utilities folder (I hate to use the term folder, but directory seems awkward in this case) of my Gnome menu.
Despite the claims of many, Gnome (I can't say anything about KDE since it has been a while since I used it) has made some wonderful innovations. Gnome panel applets are far more sophisticated than the system tray icons (or whatever they are called). Also I find that there are far more useful Gnome panel applets than there are useful system tray icons. The ability to create "cabinets" containing applications on the Gnome panel is very useful. Also one can create more Gnome panels to add more applets; I use this to add performance monitor applets.
What kind of machine are you running that you complain about being slow under Gnome and KDE? On my old machine Gnome was somewhat slow under Enlightenment. Switching the default window manager from Enlightenment to Sawmill has made Gnome *much* faster. In my opinion, Enlightenment is ten percent genius and ninety percent pure fudge. Due to Sawmill's Lisp scripting I would say that it is every bit as customizable as Enlightenment and yet manages not to have Enlightenment's bloat and slowness.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Sorry but it doesn't work out that simply. I don't feel like working it out either. Regardless, if each person had a one in ten thousand chance of being hit a LOT of people would die. In order for each person to have a one in ten thousand chance each satellite would have to have a high probability of hitting a large group of people.
So it seems that falling satellites are attracted to areas of dense population. Head for the countryside!
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Java better than C++. I have to say most certainly not. More aesthetically pleasing perhaps. I'm not entirely certain what I mean by that, but I feel it's true.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
We're using Java for the second half of the CS course that I'm in. The first half was done in "pseudo-code", but it was far more structured and well defined than any pseudo-code I had ever seen.
Anyway, we're basically being taught to use get and set methods for everything. I see no reason to use get and set methods unless you are doing something special to the data. We make our variables private and then make them public again by providing get and set methods.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
They certainly can't support every OS. They are only obligated to support the OS that it shipped with. You certainly can't expect them to support whatever applications you install that break things.
A better target of your rage would be Microsoft and the makers of the components who don't have the drivers for 2000 up to speed.
Gateway sold you the laptop and the software that was installed on it. They did not sell you Windows 2000. The problem is not with the hardware in the laptop but with the drivers for Windows 2000. Gateway did not sell you Windows 2000 and as such there is no reason to expect them to support it.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I have a sneaking suspicion that the implementation details mentioned in the article are incorrect. Not using an SSL connection to Yahoo makes no sense and Yahoo has some competent employees. Can anyone confirm or deny the lack of an SSL connection to Yahoo for the encrypted mail?
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
You don't need to write compiler in binary yourself. It may be sufficient to audit first stage of gcc
compilation (first stage - compile gcc with your existing compiler, second stage - compile gcc with
compiler from first stage). You have got sources, so disassemble object files and check whether the binary
modules do what they are supposed to do. And don't forget to check the linker, whether it doesn't insert
something into your executable.
Also the hardware cannot recognize writing compiler for every possible platform. That requires
significantly more AI in silicon than currently available hardware has.
But what if the disassembler has been hacked to show the compiler as working fine when in reality it is not.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
It's not ultraviolet or anything fancy like that. The extra color this woman has is between red and green. Now if you took the gene generating the "gred"-sensitive cone and played with it until you had an ultraviolet-sensitive cone, you could put it back in place of the "gred" cone. Or you could leave the "gred" cone in and have 5 colors.
On the subject of seeing infrared, I remember playing with the remote to a camcorder and seeing that the camcorder could pick up the signal. It showed up on the screen as a white flash. Apparently the camcorder was sensitive to the infrared spectrum and for whatever reason shifted it into the visible spectrum in the signal it sent to the TV. Although, I imagine that the video signal doesn't have any means of storing infrared stuff.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
So, as for you stating about forking and it making us weak - well, I'm going to say one word - Linux. I'm
sure you've heard of it. It's affected the computing industry in a BIG way. Nuff' said.
One of the reasons (some say that it is _the_ reason) that Linux has come into popularity as opposed to BSD is that it hasn't forked. BSD is split among the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD factions. A guy down the hall from me will argue until he passes out that NetBSD is better than Linux. However, Linux has the user base because it has not forked. The project with the largest user base attracts more users and grows larger still.
There are some times when forking is good. This is definitely not one of them.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
The compiler isn't broken. It complains more, but it compiles fine. Also, they seem to have integrated some of the AthlonGCC stuff so it can do -march=athlon. My experience has been that most of the problems with Redhat 7 were not with gcc but with glibc. The QT interface for Nethack would not compile without commenting out some lines in system.h. Most of the problems I have seen with the Redhat 7 glibc can be solved by fiddling with the source a bit.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Ad Astra Per Aspera" means "To Stars, Aspiration" or, less literally (and more literately)
Asper is an adjective meaning rough, thus aspera means "rough things." I believe that the word aspire would be related to spirare, to breath. My literal translation would be "To the stars, through rough things"
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I am seriously pissed about this. I'm studying to be a mathematician and this site was the best place to learn my trade outside of class. As for a protest, my idea is a denial of service attack. It's not exactly legal, but it's fun. Maybe if all of the "gazillions of readers" of Slashdot contributed all of their bandwidth to flooding CRC press we could get their servers to catch fire and burn down the building, killing all of the employees and executives. The company would be wiped off of the face of the earth and as such there would be no lawsuit.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Slashdot Mirror
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
These are the things to consider: Only a small fraction of naturally occurring carbon is radioactive. Uranium has only unstable isotopes. I'm pretty certain that uranium has a shorter half-life than carbon-14 (but I haven't checked). Also, each uranium atom has to emit a lot more beta particles than carbon-14 as it goes through the process of decaying into stable elements.
This means that uranium atoms decay more often and produce a lot more radiation before they become stable. The amount of radiation produced by 1 mole of naturally occurring carbon would be miniscule in comparison to that produced by 1 mole of uranium (or that produced by any of the intermediate products of uranium's decay process).
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I'm glad to find that I'm not the only one who is irritated to death by this nonsense.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I'm a little sick of people bitching about the fact that Gnome and KDE have something like a start menu. What else can we do right now? There must be some way of organizing programs into groups. The start menu happens to be a good way to this and when not in use it takes up little screen space.
I suppose you think that we need some "innovative" way to start applications like speech recognition. I hate to flame so harshly (although it does bring a sort of sadistic pleasure to me), but everyone and there dog has thought of this. It would be nice to be able to say "Start AbiWord" and have it done, but this would have to be used in addition to a start menu of some sort. A new user cannot be expected to know what programs to ask to be run; he or she will have to browse through some listing of programs at some point. Even experienced users may not know all of the programs they have. I don't know all of the programs that are in the Utilities folder (I hate to use the term folder, but directory seems awkward in this case) of my Gnome menu.
Despite the claims of many, Gnome (I can't say anything about KDE since it has been a while since I used it) has made some wonderful innovations. Gnome panel applets are far more sophisticated than the system tray icons (or whatever they are called). Also I find that there are far more useful Gnome panel applets than there are useful system tray icons. The ability to create "cabinets" containing applications on the Gnome panel is very useful. Also one can create more Gnome panels to add more applets; I use this to add performance monitor applets.
What kind of machine are you running that you complain about being slow under Gnome and KDE? On my old machine Gnome was somewhat slow under Enlightenment. Switching the default window manager from Enlightenment to Sawmill has made Gnome *much* faster. In my opinion, Enlightenment is ten percent genius and ninety percent pure fudge. Due to Sawmill's Lisp scripting I would say that it is every bit as customizable as Enlightenment and yet manages not to have Enlightenment's bloat and slowness.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
I think it's quite likely that she is reading this article.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
So it seems that falling satellites are attracted to areas of dense population. Head for the countryside!
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
That is the most horrible lie I have ever heard.
If keeping track of pieces of paper were easy I might have had a 4.0 GPA in high school.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Anyway, we're basically being taught to use get and set methods for everything. I see no reason to use get and set methods unless you are doing something special to the data. We make our variables private and then make them public again by providing get and set methods.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
They certainly can't support every OS. They are only obligated to support the OS that it shipped with. You certainly can't expect them to support whatever applications you install that break things.
A better target of your rage would be Microsoft and the makers of the components who don't have the drivers for 2000 up to speed.
Gateway sold you the laptop and the software that was installed on it. They did not sell you Windows 2000. The problem is not with the hardware in the laptop but with the drivers for Windows 2000. Gateway did not sell you Windows 2000 and as such there is no reason to expect them to support it.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
But what if the disassembler has been hacked to show the compiler as working fine when in reality it is not.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
On the subject of seeing infrared, I remember playing with the remote to a camcorder and seeing that the camcorder could pick up the signal. It showed up on the screen as a white flash. Apparently the camcorder was sensitive to the infrared spectrum and for whatever reason shifted it into the visible spectrum in the signal it sent to the TV. Although, I imagine that the video signal doesn't have any means of storing infrared stuff.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
One of the reasons (some say that it is _the_ reason) that Linux has come into popularity as opposed to BSD is that it hasn't forked. BSD is split among the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD factions. A guy down the hall from me will argue until he passes out that NetBSD is better than Linux. However, Linux has the user base because it has not forked. The project with the largest user base attracts more users and grows larger still.
There are some times when forking is good. This is definitely not one of them.
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
Asper is an adjective meaning rough, thus aspera means "rough things." I believe that the word aspire would be related to spirare, to breath. My literal translation would be "To the stars, through rough things"
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)
"Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto"
(I am a man: nothing human is alien to me)