Epson is written "fGfvf\f""(E pu so n) (change your Encoding to Japanese to view the characters correctly)in Japanese. These letters are Katakana and usually used to write words from foreign languages. While your post was obviously meant to be funny, it would be much better when "Epson" would sound like a real japanese word.
Seiko would be a much better example, it translates to stuff like: sexual intercourse or crude; immature; unpolished
Windows code review - a nation security risk ?
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There should still be many hidden exploitable bugs and maybe some backdoors in the Microsoft Windows code. If Microsoft is now granting foreign goverments access to the windows code, isn't that a risk for the national security ? With open source everyone got access to the code and bugs are usually fixed quite soon after they were noticed, but when a goverment like China notices a bug or backdoor, how can we known that they are telling Microsoft about it and Microsoft fixes it ?
They could just fix it in their version and share the knowledge about the bug with their secret service. And while I don't think there will a "cyberwar" between China and the USA in the future, industry espionage is a common practice even between friendly states.
Asus S1 Series
Got everything you wanted, is thin & light and still got a 13,3" screen and you can purchase it without a OS. A internal WLAN nic is available,too.
Linux seems to work without (big) problems:
Howto from Linux-on-laptops
Xploit this bug to run Linux on a unchiped xbox ?
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One of the exploits allows you to run your own code on the machine running an unreal engined game. It should be possible to exploit this bug on the xbox with Unreal Championship, too. That would a way to run unsigned code on a unmoddified xbox. Unreal Championship would be something like a boot cd for linux. As far as I know Xbox games are running at Ring 0 for speed reasons, so it should be possible to get complete control over the xbox and run Linux or other code without a modchip. Other networked games could have similiar problems, so that scheme could work with other networked games too.
As long as you're sure that packets from your NATed pcs aren't fragmented, the fix is quite easy. You just need to rewrite the ipid of your outgoing packets with an internal counter, as you already need to rewrite ip and port of all outgoing packets, this isn't a problem. The no-fragmentation shouldn't also be a problem. You could also fix that problem by rewriting only the ipids of unfragmented packets, that should be at least 95% of all outgoing packets in common NAT. This should be enough to confuse that analysis technique.
A round of pyddr or Stepmania each two hours should be enough to prevent DVT and it is also a lot of fun. (Well, you probably won't want to do that in your office, but I think it should be ok at home.)
But you shouldn't do that when you already sat down for 10 hours, then you would maybe even trigger the DVT with that.
It supports all real MPEG-4 Codecs as long as they only use Advanced Simple Profile functions. As long as your XVID Video doesn't use QPel motion compensation or global motion compensation your xvid file will work. (You also can't use these features in DivX 5.0 files if you want to play them on this player.)
One persons pays and setups a NAT for the remainder of the plane, would that work ?
If you don't pay, can you still use the wlan to play some quake with other passengers ?
Region-free DVDs. They do exist. Why don't they make more in Europe & Asia?
They are quite common in Europe, in some countries in Europe more than 50% of all DVD players are codefree. On the other hand the movie industry is fighting against it. Codefree brandname players are often much more expensive than the regioncoded ones, they are also harder to get than their regioncoded counterparts.
The movie industry is also using minor protection laws to fight against imported DVDs. Imported DVDs don't got the local ratings marks. Many european countries got heavy restrictions on selling unrated videos and DVD. For example in UK selling DVDs not rated by the BBFC isn't permitted and in Germany mail-order of DVDs not rated by the FSK (and stuff rated 18) isn't allowed.
But it is PAL and R2. But that shouldn't be a problem if you use your computer to watch them. If you want to watch them on your TV, PAL could be serios problem. Some players can convert to NTSC but the picture won't be that good. Most new TVs sold in PAL countries can accept NTSC input but most TVs sold in NTSC countries are unable to accept a PAL input signal.
CN will show the second Lupin III TV series, you provided a link to a Lupin III Movie made much later. If someone is going to buy a Anime DVD why should he buy an edited version ? If you want to get an impression about Lupin III now, you should rather buy the famous Castle of Caliostro. It was made by Miyazaki and one of the top rated anime features in Japan. The other Lupin III features are nice entertainment, but they are not something that really stands out.
The first and second Lupin III TV series was made with the help of the famous Hayao Miyazaki. (Princess Mononoke, Sprited Away)
I think J2ME is a good idea because platform independency is very important for cell phones. Performance is also quite important for games. All current J2ME phones seem to use a interpreter based VM, because a Just-in-Time compiler is too complex for a phone. What about network-side just-in-time compilation ? You could get nice speed and platform independency. The WAP gateway already compiles the ASCII based WML into a smaller and easier to render binary format. Why shouldn't it also compile J2ME midlets ? With caching that shouldn't require too much performance.
Reception & range is maybe a problem in the United States but in Europe or Japan, the quality of the cell phone networks is really good and most people do not need to care about that, so they pick their phones and phone providers based on other critia. Gaming seems to be feature requested by many people.
A gameboy advanced is way too big to carry around all the day. It just doesn't make sense to carry a GBA around for 7 minutes gaming in the train or something similar. A GBA also looks like a toy for kids and many people think it is embarassing to play with it in the public. A cell phone seems to be more acceptable.
If you only want to use a shared dual T1, I don't think you need three machines. One good machine with a better internet connection would be a much better configuration for most applications. Space is expensive at most hosters.
Right, they're slightly more obscure, but they aren't obscure enough to really show "the massive diversity of popular TV series and OAVs". Love Hina, Happy Lesson, Chobits, Onegai Teacher, I my me Strawberry Eggs, Ai yori Aoshi und Hanaukyo Maids are all quite similiar. They are all from the same genre and many of them aren't much better than average in my opionion. If you like the genre, they are entertaining, but if not, you don't miss much if you don't watch all of them but only 2-3 of them.
Beserk, Noir, Scyred and Hellsing are all quite regular action anime. Not bad, but I don't know if they are slightly obscure. I think they will maybe run on Cartoon Network or ADV's Anime cable anime channel sometimes.
In your pattern of obscurity, points b) and c) are a bit illogical. Nowadays only anime shown on tv is sometimes released as dub-only dvd. Everything else is released as Sub/Dub DVD or sometimes Sub-Only DVD. So your point b) is nearly identical with your point a). I think b) should be:
b)available on DVD in the west, but wasn't shown on tv
You also should add fansubs to your point c). I think they are much more common than bootleg HK DVDs.
These series aren't very obscure. Love Hina, Happy Lesson and Ai Yori Aoshi are quite similiar. If you like fanservice Hanaukyo Maids is an entertaining anime but it isn't a very ingenious anime. From your list I would suggest watching Love Hina, Noir and Onegai Teacher. (To be released by Bandai and ADV) Here is my suggestion list for some more obscure anime:
Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
Description from the fansubbers:
In the Middle of the jungle all is quite and peaceful, then came Guu. A mysterious little girl that seems to have a split personality and an appetite for, well, everything.
Hale's life is changed forever when his mother adopts this strange girl into the family. A lazy teacher, a perverted doctor, a beer drinking mom, Pokute, The Mysterious Guu, and Poor little Hale stuck in the middle of all this Is a recipie for comedy. Azumanga Daioh
Well, here another description from fansubbers, but no one can be told what "Azumanga Daioh" is, you have to see it for yourself.
Everyday life of highschool students? Experience Highschool with hilariously over-the-top characters and tempermental English teacher Yukari and her colleague, P.E. teacher Kurosawa.
Azumanga Daioh is a very "japanese" show, so I'm not sure if you will enjoy it if you know almost nothing about Japan and haven't watched a lot of anime.
Guu is very insane and just a lot of fun.
Azumanga and Guu aren't commericially available outside of Japan yet, but you can download them as fansubs. If you want to download them, just use google to find the homepages of the fansubbers.
DOS software written in DJGPP will work in the windows dos emulation, yes. But that doesn't make DJGPP a compiler for Windows. Most software needs access to some windows APIs that aren't avaible in the dos emulation like OpenGL, the TCP/IP stack or the registry.
Successfully applying traditional methods to Go would require much more than only 10, 100 or 1000x the processing power currenly available. It is like saying: "Oh cracking 2048 bit rsa keys isn't a problem, just wait until computers get fast enough." Just throwing more cpu power at it isn't going to work. Better algorithms are needed.
I started playing Go 2 month ago, and I can beat the computer in an even game most of the time. (igowin or gnugo 3.2) There are some computer go programms out there that are slightly better but not much better. Playing Go is very different from chess. Many moves are choosen by intuition and it thinking about the next move is often a shape recognition problem. Computers suck at shape recognition and humans are quite good at it. I don't think I will see a go playing software that can beat a human professional go player in my lifetime. Pro go players can beat go software with a 20 stones handicap.
There are some GSM networks in the US but they are using other frequencies.(T-Mobil is operating one) GSM networks outside of the US are using frequencies at around 900 Mhz and around 1800 Mhz. US GSM networks are using 1900 Mhz.
You need a so called TriBand GSM phone to be able to use it in USA and in Europe. Most european phones are DualBand phones that support only 900 and 1800 Mhz. You also may need to select 1900 Mhz in the setup of your phone.
the cola with the most caffeine is Afri-cola [africola.com].
That was true, some time ago. But another company bought afri-cola and changed the recipe. Some people protested but the new owner is still using his new regular cola recipe with only low to average amounts of caffeine.
But some of the people that liked the old afri-cola, got together and are now producing a cola with the old recipe (and very high amounts of caffeine). Premium cola (use the fish)
Compared to the fees required by the CARP, the cost of bandwith for the 128kbit/s MP3 stream is quite small. If they are going to use a subscription modell, they should try to make everything that else as pleasant as possible. Why not give the user the choice which format he wants to use ? 128kbit MP3, 128kbit OGG and 192kbit MP3 would be a selection of possible formats.
Changing to a subscription modell and changing to RealAudio is a step in the wrong direction. Nobody is going to pay for something that is much worser than the free version that existed before. DRM isn't required by CARP, they just seem to be silly.
The RPG needs a core with a high density to work. You won't find anything that doesn't conduct much better than air with these properties. Fill the capacitor with air or even better with some noble gas and charge it with enough charge and it will fry almost everything, even things that don't conduct very good.
It would be a problem, if the core would conducts too good. Then all of the charge could just discharge over the bridge made by the core and the core would not be fried.
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Epson is written "fGfvf\f""(E pu so n) (change your Encoding to Japanese to view the characters correctly)in Japanese. These letters are Katakana and usually used to write words from foreign languages. While your post was obviously meant to be funny, it would be much better when "Epson" would sound like a real japanese word.
Seiko would be a much better example, it translates to stuff like:
sexual intercourse or crude; immature; unpolished
There should still be many hidden exploitable bugs and maybe some backdoors in the Microsoft Windows code. If Microsoft is now granting foreign goverments access to the windows code, isn't that a risk for the national security ?
With open source everyone got access to the code and bugs are usually fixed quite soon after they were noticed, but when a goverment like China notices a bug or backdoor, how can we known that they are telling Microsoft about it and Microsoft fixes it ?
They could just fix it in their version and share the knowledge about the bug with their secret service. And while I don't think there will a "cyberwar" between China and the USA in the future, industry espionage is a common practice even between friendly states.
Asus S1 Series
Got everything you wanted, is thin & light and still got a 13,3" screen and you can purchase it without a OS. A internal WLAN nic is available,too.
Linux seems to work without (big) problems: Howto from Linux-on-laptops
One of the exploits allows you to run your own code on the machine running an unreal engined game. It should be possible to exploit this bug on the xbox with Unreal Championship, too. That would a way to run unsigned code on a unmoddified xbox. Unreal Championship would be something like a boot cd for linux.
As far as I know Xbox games are running at Ring 0 for speed reasons, so it should be possible to get complete control over the xbox and run Linux or other code without a modchip. Other networked games could have similiar problems, so that scheme could work with other networked games too.
As long as you're sure that packets from your NATed pcs aren't fragmented, the fix is quite easy. You just need to rewrite the ipid of your outgoing packets with an internal counter, as you already need to rewrite ip and port of all outgoing packets, this isn't a problem. The no-fragmentation shouldn't also be a problem. You could also fix that problem by rewriting only the ipids of unfragmented packets, that should be at least 95% of all outgoing packets in common NAT. This should be enough to confuse that analysis technique.
A round of pyddr or Stepmania each two hours should be enough to prevent DVT and it is also a lot of fun. (Well, you probably won't want to do that in your office, but I think it should be ok at home.)
But you shouldn't do that when you already sat down for 10 hours, then you would maybe even trigger the DVT with that.
It supports all real MPEG-4 Codecs as long as they only use Advanced Simple Profile functions. As long as your XVID Video doesn't use QPel motion compensation or global motion compensation your xvid file will work. (You also can't use these features in DivX 5.0 files if you want to play them on this player.)
One persons pays and setups a NAT for the remainder of the plane, would that work ?
If you don't pay, can you still use the wlan to play some quake with other passengers ?
They are quite common in Europe, in some countries in Europe more than 50% of all DVD players are codefree. On the other hand the movie industry is fighting against it. Codefree brandname players are often much more expensive than the regioncoded ones, they are also harder to get than their regioncoded counterparts.
The movie industry is also using minor protection laws to fight against imported DVDs. Imported DVDs don't got the local ratings marks. Many european countries got heavy restrictions on selling unrated videos and DVD. For example in UK selling DVDs not rated by the BBFC isn't permitted and in Germany mail-order of DVDs not rated by the FSK (and stuff rated 18) isn't allowed.
But it is PAL and R2. But that shouldn't be a problem if you use your computer to watch them. If you want to watch them on your TV, PAL could be serios problem. Some players can convert to NTSC but the picture won't be that good. Most new TVs sold in PAL countries can accept NTSC input but most TVs sold in NTSC countries are unable to accept a PAL input signal.
CN will show the second Lupin III TV series, you provided a link to a Lupin III Movie made much later. If someone is going to buy a Anime DVD why should he buy an edited version ?
If you want to get an impression about Lupin III now, you should rather buy the famous Castle of Caliostro. It was made by Miyazaki and one of the top rated anime features in Japan. The other Lupin III features are nice entertainment, but they are not something that really stands out.
The first and second Lupin III TV series was made with the help of the famous Hayao Miyazaki. (Princess Mononoke, Sprited Away)
I think J2ME is a good idea because platform independency is very important for cell phones. Performance is also quite important for games. All current J2ME phones seem to use a interpreter based VM, because a Just-in-Time compiler is too complex for a phone. What about network-side just-in-time compilation ? You could get nice speed and platform independency. The WAP gateway already compiles the ASCII based WML into a smaller and easier to render binary format. Why shouldn't it also compile J2ME midlets ? With caching that shouldn't require too much performance.
Reception & range is maybe a problem in the United States but in Europe or Japan, the quality of the cell phone networks is really good and most people do not need to care about that, so they pick their phones and phone providers based on other critia. Gaming seems to be feature requested by many people.
A gameboy advanced is way too big to carry around all the day. It just doesn't make sense to carry a GBA around for 7 minutes gaming in the train or something similar. A GBA also looks like a toy for kids and many people think it is embarassing to play with it in the public. A cell phone seems to be more acceptable.
If you only want to use a shared dual T1, I don't think you need three machines. One good machine with a better internet connection would be a much better configuration for most applications. Space is expensive at most hosters.
Right, they're slightly more obscure, but they aren't obscure enough to really show "the massive diversity of popular TV series and OAVs". Love Hina, Happy Lesson, Chobits, Onegai Teacher, I my me Strawberry Eggs, Ai yori Aoshi und Hanaukyo Maids are all quite similiar. They are all from the same genre and many of them aren't much better than average in my opionion. If you like the genre, they are entertaining, but if not, you don't miss much if you don't watch all of them but only 2-3 of them.
Beserk, Noir, Scyred and Hellsing are all quite regular action anime. Not bad, but I don't know if they are slightly obscure. I think they will maybe run on Cartoon Network or ADV's Anime cable anime channel sometimes.
In your pattern of obscurity, points b) and c) are a bit illogical. Nowadays only anime shown on tv is sometimes released as dub-only dvd. Everything else is released as Sub/Dub DVD or sometimes Sub-Only DVD. So your point b) is nearly identical with your point a). I think b) should be:
b)available on DVD in the west, but wasn't shown on tv
You also should add fansubs to your point c). I think they are much more common than bootleg HK DVDs.
These series aren't very obscure.
Love Hina, Happy Lesson and Ai Yori Aoshi are quite similiar. If you like fanservice Hanaukyo Maids is an entertaining anime but it isn't a very ingenious anime. From your list I would suggest watching Love Hina, Noir and Onegai Teacher. (To be released by Bandai and ADV)
Here is my suggestion list for some more obscure anime:
Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
Description from the fansubbers: In the Middle of the jungle all is quite and peaceful, then came Guu. A mysterious little girl that seems to have a split personality and an appetite for, well, everything.
Hale's life is changed forever when his mother adopts this strange girl into the family. A lazy teacher, a perverted doctor, a beer drinking mom, Pokute, The Mysterious Guu, and Poor little Hale stuck in the middle of all this Is a recipie for comedy.
Azumanga Daioh
Well, here another description from fansubbers, but no one can be told what "Azumanga Daioh" is, you have to see it for yourself.
Everyday life of highschool students? Experience Highschool with hilariously over-the-top characters and tempermental English teacher Yukari and her colleague, P.E. teacher Kurosawa.
Azumanga Daioh is a very "japanese" show, so I'm not sure if you will enjoy it if you know almost nothing about Japan and haven't watched a lot of anime.
Guu is very insane and just a lot of fun.
Azumanga and Guu aren't commericially available outside of Japan yet, but you can download them as fansubs. If you want to download them, just use google to find the homepages of the fansubbers.
DOS software written in DJGPP will work in the windows dos emulation, yes. But that doesn't make DJGPP a compiler for Windows. Most software needs access to some windows APIs that aren't avaible in the dos emulation like OpenGL, the TCP/IP stack or the registry.
DJGPP is gcc for DOS not for Windows. mingw or cygwin are gcc ports for Windows.
Successfully applying traditional methods to Go would require much more than only 10, 100 or 1000x the processing power currenly available. It is like saying: "Oh cracking 2048 bit rsa keys isn't a problem, just wait until computers get fast enough." Just throwing more cpu power at it isn't going to work. Better algorithms are needed.
I started playing Go 2 month ago, and I can beat the computer in an even game most of the time. (igowin or gnugo 3.2) There are some computer go programms out there that are slightly better but not much better. Playing Go is very different from chess. Many moves are choosen by intuition and it thinking about the next move is often a shape recognition problem. Computers suck at shape recognition and humans are quite good at it. I don't think I will see a go playing software that can beat a human professional go player in my lifetime. Pro go players can beat go software with a 20 stones handicap.
There are some GSM networks in the US but they are using other frequencies.(T-Mobil is operating one) GSM networks outside of the US are using frequencies at around 900 Mhz and around 1800 Mhz. US GSM networks are using 1900 Mhz.
You need a so called TriBand GSM phone to be able to use it in USA and in Europe. Most european phones are DualBand phones that support only 900 and 1800 Mhz. You also may need to select 1900 Mhz in the setup of your phone.
znet.org just gives me:
This Site is Planned for Development. In the Meantime, Try Searching the Internet for These Topics.[...(Search Engine advertising follows))
Znet.org may contained interessting things, but they seem to be gone or moved now. Or the url was just wrong.
Maybe because there isn't anything interessting to see at znet.org ?
That was true, some time ago. But another company bought afri-cola and changed the recipe. Some people protested but the new owner is still using his new regular cola recipe with only low to average amounts of caffeine.
But some of the people that liked the old afri-cola, got together and are now producing a cola with the old recipe (and very high amounts of caffeine). Premium cola (use the fish)
Compared to the fees required by the CARP, the cost of bandwith for the 128kbit/s MP3 stream is quite small. If they are going to use a subscription modell, they should try to make everything that else as pleasant as possible. Why not give the user the choice which format he wants to use ? 128kbit MP3, 128kbit OGG and 192kbit MP3 would be a selection of possible formats.
Changing to a subscription modell and changing to RealAudio is a step in the wrong direction. Nobody is going to pay for something that is much worser than the free version that existed before. DRM isn't required by CARP, they just seem to be silly.
The RPG needs a core with a high density to work. You won't find anything that doesn't conduct much better than air with these properties. Fill the capacitor with air or even better with some noble gas and charge it with enough charge and it will fry almost everything, even things that don't conduct very good.
It would be a problem, if the core would conducts too good. Then all of the charge could just discharge over the bridge made by the core and the core would not be fried.