Even worse than sizeof(long) == 4 are the people who insist that Microsoft uses typedefs like BYTE, WORD, and DWORD in an attempt to proprietarize C instead of doing it to make the the definition of a file format (let's say.BMP) platform independent.
You just have an alpha components in addition to Red, Green, Blue components that indicates % transparency. So given two overlapping pixels RGBA-1 and RGBA-2, the new pixel is calculated at:
R = R1 * A1 + R2 * A2
G = G1 * A1 + G2 * A2
B = B1 * A1 + B2 * A2
A = A1 + A2
If you're using floats to show intensity, anything results greater than one equals one, with ints anything greater than 255 is 255.
Some people go the other way where 0 Alpha is opaque, so you'd substitute A with (1 - A).
There were also 19,000 ballots that were thrown out because they voted for more than one president. I highly doubt this was some sort of intentional civil disobedience.
It's called a macro-assember. You can still use jnz or beq or whatever the equivilants are if you're sadistic.
BTW, I've started a port of the Linux Kernel to the Amiga VM. Hopefully you'll be able to run X-11 on the VM in the near future! E-mail me if interested.
at www.xmanager.com. It's only $69 (compared to Exceed that's cheap) and it works pretty well. As far as I can tell the demo version doesn't expire.
It's also the only Windows X server that actaully provides an easy connect dialog so you don't have to manually telnet in and set your DISPLAY. Granted, it's not that dificult to do, but it gets annoying.
Aren't the ones who know what they're doing. And they're not the ones who don't know what they're doing (although they suck alot of time)
They're the ones who think they know what they're doing. There are plenty of people out there (and even here on/.) that think they're the shit because they can install RedHat (really not trying to slam redhat here) off of a bootable CD, or they can extract an Apache RPM and now they know how to run a web server, or they know how to 'program' in perl. Or the guy who used to program Z80 assembly and needs direct access to your SQL Server. These are the people with the most potential to screw things up.
And judging the general responses here, alot of/.'ers are going to loose alot of credibility/ respect with the company and coworkers when they get busted and start ranting about M$ Windoze/Bill Gates/Closed Source. Fair or not, it will happen.
This law would have no effect on MP3 since there actions were illegal at the time. Constitutionally, you can't have a law take place retroactively. This is done to protect people, so that (for lack of a better example) if abortion was made illegal today, doctors couldn't be prosecuted for what they did last year.
Some sort of amnesty could be arranged, but I doubt it in this case.
Didn't Amazon.com get started in some 'crazy inventors' garage?
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Can any kernel Guru's help me out? I'm under the impression that even if you use Linux modules, you still need a hardcoded stub in the kernel to access it. For example you can't compile a newly released module without recompiling the kernel.
If I'm right, that'd be the most appealing reason to use a micro-kernel in my opinion. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
Even before that you run into speed of light problems. Take the inverse of say 10 Ghz and multiply it by the distance light travels in a second.
1/10000000000 s * 299,792.458 km/s = 0.0000299792 km = 2.9 cm (or a little more than an inch)
Just sending a signal across the processor takes more distance than that.
Post Office Inspectors were very involved in the Uni-bomber case. It's illegal to send bombs through the mail, you don't really need to find a legal loophole.
It seems like the cool thing to do these days is make things out of DNA. This, using DNA to thwart counterfitters, hiding Morse code in DNA microdots.
But why do you need to do any of this? If you're coating DNA strands with metal why don't you just make really small wires? Instead of using DNA in a microdot, why not just use ANYTHING ELSE to hide the message. These alternatives would definately be cheaper and more efficient.
How long is it until someone just takes a couple of pounds of DNA and makes the worlds first DNA paperweight? "Why'd you use DNA?" "It's a proof of concept. Now we know you can make paperweights out of DNA."
On a different tangent, since 'DNA computers' are going to have four states for each bit instead of two, we'll need a different method define the states. Here's my proposal for the different values of each bit(Quadruple-state logic):
I'm glad to see there's some sort of standard behind it.
I was trying to figure out what the hell some guy did to his laptop, couldn't ID the IP. Google search on "169.254." turned up some microsoft stuff with a very "friendly" explaination.
Next time I'll remember to add ietf and RFC to the search criteria:)
If you've got a Windows 2000 machine running DHCP and it can't find a DHCP server, it just makes up a number, and then pings to see if anyone else is using it. It's an interesting idea for people who just bought a use-at-home hub without a server or any networking knowledge.
The wierd thing is that instead of using a 10. or 192.168. address from RFC 1918, they actually bought a class B subnet at 169.254. aren't using it on the internet(try tracerouting to an address), and assign a random number from that subnet when you don't get a response from a DCHP server.
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Even worse than sizeof(long) == 4 are the people who insist that Microsoft uses typedefs like BYTE, WORD, and DWORD in an attempt to proprietarize C instead of doing it to make the the definition of a file format (let's say .BMP) platform independent.
You just have an alpha components in addition to Red, Green, Blue components that indicates % transparency. So given two overlapping pixels RGBA-1 and RGBA-2, the new pixel is calculated at:
R = R1 * A1 + R2 * A2
G = G1 * A1 + G2 * A2
B = B1 * A1 + B2 * A2
A = A1 + A2
If you're using floats to show intensity, anything results greater than one equals one, with ints anything greater than 255 is 255.
Some people go the other way where 0 Alpha is opaque, so you'd substitute A with (1 - A).
It's really no big deal, just eats clock cycles.
Although it doesn't say so on the page, Steve Wozinak is designing the planes he's flying.
That way I can run linux on my x86
There were also 19,000 ballots that were thrown out because they voted for more than one president. I highly doubt this was some sort of intentional civil disobedience.
It's called a macro-assember. You can still use jnz or beq or whatever the equivilants are if you're sadistic.
BTW, I've started a port of the Linux Kernel to the Amiga VM. Hopefully you'll be able to run X-11 on the VM in the near future! E-mail me if interested.
I was just trying for a quick +1 insightful that would get the flames going. :)
One bad bit causes them to throw out a 4Kb page.
If they'd take advantage of x86's segmented memory model they could reduce that amount to 16 bytes.
at www.xmanager.com. It's only $69 (compared to Exceed that's cheap) and it works pretty well. As far as I can tell the demo version doesn't expire.
It's also the only Windows X server that actaully provides an easy connect dialog so you don't have to manually telnet in and set your DISPLAY. Granted, it's not that dificult to do, but it gets annoying.
More people watch the Televised Debates than vote. So it's not complete indifference.
:)
I say we replace the elections with an ABC News poll. That way we can account for people who otherwise wouldn't vote
Are you going to have to strap yourself onto someone over 21 while you have your learners permit?
Aren't the ones who know what they're doing. And they're not the ones who don't know what they're doing (although they suck alot of time)
They're the ones who think they know what they're doing. There are plenty of people out there (and even here on /.) that think they're the shit because they can install RedHat (really not trying to slam redhat here) off of a bootable CD, or they can extract an Apache RPM and now they know how to run a web server, or they know how to 'program' in perl. Or the guy who used to program Z80 assembly and needs direct access to your SQL Server. These are the people with the most potential to screw things up.
And judging the general responses here, alot of /.'ers are going to loose alot of credibility/ respect with the company and coworkers when they get busted and start ranting about M$ Windoze/Bill Gates/Closed Source. Fair or not, it will happen.
This law would have no effect on MP3 since there actions were illegal at the time. Constitutionally, you can't have a law take place retroactively. This is done to protect people, so that (for lack of a better example) if abortion was made illegal today, doctors couldn't be prosecuted for what they did last year.
Some sort of amnesty could be arranged, but I doubt it in this case.
until it's illegal to have a computer that's NOT hooked up to the internet?
Didn't Amazon.com get started in some 'crazy inventors' garage?
Can any kernel Guru's help me out? I'm under the impression that even if you use Linux modules, you still need a hardcoded stub in the kernel to access it. For example you can't compile a newly released module without recompiling the kernel.
If I'm right, that'd be the most appealing reason to use a micro-kernel in my opinion. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
Since the Supreme Court is refusing to hear the case, they're not doing the one important thing the Supreme Court does:
Setting a precident
Without a precident there's no reason a company won't do this again in another case with the same circumstances.
Anyone know of a mirror of the original site?
Even before that you run into speed of light problems. Take the inverse of say 10 Ghz and multiply it by the distance light travels in a second. 1/10000000000 s * 299,792.458 km/s = 0.0000299792 km = 2.9 cm (or a little more than an inch) Just sending a signal across the processor takes more distance than that.
On a more serious note... Microsoft's Xbox will punch the PC industry in the nuts
At least Hemos didn't say it this time
Post Office Inspectors were very involved in the Uni-bomber case. It's illegal to send bombs through the mail, you don't really need to find a legal loophole.
It seems like the cool thing to do these days is make things out of DNA. This, using DNA to thwart counterfitters, hiding Morse code in DNA microdots.
But why do you need to do any of this? If you're coating DNA strands with metal why don't you just make really small wires? Instead of using DNA in a microdot, why not just use ANYTHING ELSE to hide the message. These alternatives would definately be cheaper and more efficient.
How long is it until someone just takes a couple of pounds of DNA and makes the worlds first DNA paperweight? "Why'd you use DNA?" "It's a proof of concept. Now we know you can make paperweights out of DNA."
On a different tangent, since 'DNA computers' are going to have four states for each bit instead of two, we'll need a different method define the states. Here's my proposal for the different values of each bit(Quadruple-state logic):
I'm glad to see there's some sort of standard behind it.
I was trying to figure out what the hell some guy did to his laptop, couldn't ID the IP. Google search on "169.254." turned up some microsoft stuff with a very "friendly" explaination.
Next time I'll remember to add ietf and RFC to the search criteria :)
Just found this one out yesterday.
If you've got a Windows 2000 machine running DHCP and it can't find a DHCP server, it just makes up a number, and then pings to see if anyone else is using it. It's an interesting idea for people who just bought a use-at-home hub without a server or any networking knowledge.
The wierd thing is that instead of using a 10. or 192.168. address from RFC 1918, they actually bought a class B subnet at 169.254. aren't using it on the internet(try tracerouting to an address), and assign a random number from that subnet when you don't get a response from a DCHP server.
Why? I don't get it? Any conspiracy theories?
Why is it that hardcore gamers will pay $4,000 bucks for a tweaked computer, and then spend five hours downloading an ISO to save $40?