I've been reading Slashdot for a number of years, and have learned to just quit looking at it on April Fools day. One clever posting would be OK, but instead they just get heaped on, one after another. You should remember the show-biz maxim "Always leave them wanting more".
They don't need any key to share their polarizer settings. They can put the settings in the newspaper if they want. By the time an eavesdropper would get the settings it would be too late to use them.
No key exists until the sender tells the receiver which of the receiver's settings were correct. Both sides then use some agreed-upon approach to turn the readings from the correct settings into a key. The only step at that point is to have both sides compare a subset of the resulting key to check that the data stream wasn't corrupted by an eavesdropper.
I love the high-res screen on the Clie. It looked nice, but then when I viewed some of the pictures that came with it I was really amazed. Photographs actually look like photographs, without dithering. I use my Clie for learning Chinese, and the characters come out very crisp and clear.
The downside to the screen is that it only looks this nice with the backlight on. The backlight gives the screen a white background that makes for good contrast. Without the backlight, though, the screen is very hard to read because it is too dim. I'll go without the backlight sometimes, but not for long. For this reason I have to make sure I charge it every night, because the backlight sucks the juice out of the batteries. I'm willing to live with this, though, because the screen is just so beautiful.
I started using free software before it was called Open Source, and before there was Linux, so I've always had a warm spot in my heart for RMS. I have always wondered about his full goals, though, and now that I know what they are I'm quite disappointed. In the end 2 people should be allowed to work out any terms of exchange they wish. A programmer has the right to sell RMS a program without the source, and he has the right not to buy it.
Ending software intellectual property protection won't help the cause. If free software fails when it has to compete with closed-source programs, it will only bring mediocrity if closed-source software is done away with. I know that RMS stands on principle and doesn't care, but it is not worth doing away with property rights for the convenience of the small number of programmers interested in seeing the source.
I hate AOL for the same reason, and was concerned when they bought Time Warner, since I have Roadrunner. So far, though, they haven't done anything to AOLize the service, so I can't really complain about them.
I do the same thing, but I didn't need a perl filter, I just set up some rules in procmail to catch the mail not addressed to me just before I dump it in my inbox. Before this rule, of course, are rules handling the mailing lists I belong to, since they aren't addressed to me either.
I don't know why the summary on Slashdot says "No Linux support". LizardTech has both decoders and encoders available for Linux.
Also the summary picks on LizardTech's use of speed as a feature. While this isn't a standard measurement, it is a way to tell people that you will get your images faster because the files are smaller. That's not a big crime. They also do talk more specifically about their format producing smaller files, so they do understand real measurements. BTW, while it is possible that they say elsewhere that DjVu compresses faster than pdf, what I saw was that the documents download faster, not compress faster.
The Slashdot write-up complains about LizardTech's comparison of DjVu with pdf, pointing out that pdf isn't an image format. True, but the LizardTech description refers to DjVu as "DjVu for Documents", and their web page describes why DjVu is good for documents. Images seem to be just part of the data they need to handle.
Finally, I haven't seen any source for Acrobat either, but it is very popular on the Internet, so lack of source won't necessarily keep LizardTech from succeeding with DjVu.
Is DjVu actually any good? I have no idea. Slamming the product with incorrect and misleading comments doesn't help one decide, though.
The person paying for the service gets to decide what is provided. If you are relying on the government to pay for your Internet service, the logical extension is that the government can control what you see. This is the same reasoning led to other Republican invasions of privacy in the 80's, when seat belt and drinking at 21 laws were pushed on states in order for them to get their highway funds. Under a Libertarian federal government this would never happen, because the federal government wouldn't be supporting the schools, libraries, etc. that provide free Internet access. Anyone willing to have the government pay for their Internet access deserves the restrictions they get. If the government controls or monitor what I do on my own Internet account, though, that is another thing.
Yes, its ugly, but the design does have one nice feature. My Visor slips out of my shirt pocket a lot less than my Palm did. The color and ridges make it look like a toy, but the ridges provide some useful friction compared to the sleek Palm units.
Modems aren't fast and they aren't cool. I don't even own one anymore since I have Roadrunner. From Tivo's point of view, though, support issues make a modem much more attractive. Most peoples telephone wiring works pretty well, but they don't know what to expect with people's network connections, between Internet outages, misconfigured proxies and IP masquerading, and who knows what else. The term appliance should help explain this; the goal is a device that you just plug in and use.
I've been there a few times (I'm from Cuyahoga Falls). You go past a bunch of plaques with descriptions of the members, which interests some and bores others (they interest me). In the basement is an hands on area with a variety of exhibits to encourage people's creativity. It is well worth a trip.
This is a really sorry release. I tried going to My Yahoo, but it was extremely slow, and it didn't hold the cookie, so I keep having to log in. When I submitted my feedback to Netscape I got an error saying that there were server problems. I'm not sure how much effort I'm going to put into testing this.
I'm about to close my account at my bank, because their online bill paying is unreliable. I've had trouble with a number of payments not arriving on time, and these were electronic payments. It is no fun getting dunned because of your bank. The thing is is that I like the concept, so I'm going to switch my account to another bank that offers the service.
I'm not so sure a show about the Lone Gunmen would be a good idea. Often characters are best left mysterious; if you know too much about them it takes away half the fun. Fonzie was more interesting when he was a mysterious side character, and Hawk from Spencer for Hire shouldn't have gotten his own series.
My favorite lame product name is Potted Meat Food Product, which I think is a Hormel product. I hate to be too hard on it though, because it is at least an honest name, assuming that potting accurately describes the process they perform on the meat. This product shows what happens when you name a product with no marketing considerations whatsoever.
I thought the interface on the windows version was bad too, but when I got the real game I found that the fixed the annoying parts of the demo version.
There is one thing that really disturbs me about Windows 2000, and that is that it requires a 300MHz or higher processor. What kind of baggage is it carrying that it requires a processor that fast? Didn't Microsoft tune the operating system? How will this affect future benchmark comparisons?
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I've been reading Slashdot for a number of years, and have learned to just quit looking at it on April Fools day. One clever posting would be OK, but instead they just get heaped on, one after another. You should remember the show-biz maxim "Always leave them wanting more".
No key exists until the sender tells the receiver which of the receiver's settings were correct. Both sides then use some agreed-upon approach to turn the readings from the correct settings into a key. The only step at that point is to have both sides compare a subset of the resulting key to check that the data stream wasn't corrupted by an eavesdropper.
I love the high-res screen on the Clie. It looked nice, but then when I viewed some of the pictures that came with it I was really amazed. Photographs actually look like photographs, without dithering. I use my Clie for learning Chinese, and the characters come out very crisp and clear.
The downside to the screen is that it only looks this nice with the backlight on. The backlight gives the screen a white background that makes for good contrast. Without the backlight, though, the screen is very hard to read because it is too dim. I'll go without the backlight sometimes, but not for long. For this reason I have to make sure I charge it every night, because the backlight sucks the juice out of the batteries. I'm willing to live with this, though, because the screen is just so beautiful.
Ending software intellectual property protection won't help the cause. If free software fails when it has to compete with closed-source programs, it will only bring mediocrity if closed-source software is done away with. I know that RMS stands on principle and doesn't care, but it is not worth doing away with property rights for the convenience of the small number of programmers interested in seeing the source.
I hate AOL for the same reason, and was concerned when they bought Time Warner, since I have Roadrunner. So far, though, they haven't done anything to AOLize the service, so I can't really complain about them.
I do the same thing, but I didn't need a perl filter, I just set up some rules in procmail to catch the mail not addressed to me just before I dump it in my inbox. Before this rule, of course, are rules handling the mailing lists I belong to, since they aren't addressed to me either.
I don't know why the summary on Slashdot says "No Linux support". LizardTech has both decoders and encoders available for Linux.
Also the summary picks on LizardTech's use of speed as a feature. While this isn't a standard measurement, it is a way to tell people that you will get your images faster because the files are smaller. That's not a big crime. They also do talk more specifically about their format producing smaller files, so they do understand real measurements. BTW, while it is possible that they say elsewhere that DjVu compresses faster than pdf, what I saw was that the documents download faster, not compress faster.
The Slashdot write-up complains about LizardTech's comparison of DjVu with pdf, pointing out that pdf isn't an image format. True, but the LizardTech description refers to DjVu as "DjVu for Documents", and their web page describes why DjVu is good for documents. Images seem to be just part of the data they need to handle.
Finally, I haven't seen any source for Acrobat either, but it is very popular on the Internet, so lack of source won't necessarily keep LizardTech from succeeding with DjVu.
Is DjVu actually any good? I have no idea. Slamming the product with incorrect and misleading comments doesn't help one decide, though.
The person paying for the service gets to decide what is provided. If you are relying on the government to pay for your Internet service, the logical extension is that the government can control what you see. This is the same reasoning led to other Republican invasions of privacy in the 80's, when seat belt and drinking at 21 laws were pushed on states in order for them to get their highway funds. Under a Libertarian federal government this would never happen, because the federal government wouldn't be supporting the schools, libraries, etc. that provide free Internet access. Anyone willing to have the government pay for their Internet access deserves the restrictions they get. If the government controls or monitor what I do on my own Internet account, though, that is another thing.
Yes, its ugly, but the design does have one nice feature. My Visor slips out of my shirt pocket a lot less than my Palm did. The color and ridges make it look like a toy, but the ridges provide some useful friction compared to the sleek Palm units.
Modems aren't fast and they aren't cool. I don't even own one anymore since I have Roadrunner. From Tivo's point of view, though, support issues make a modem much more attractive. Most peoples telephone wiring works pretty well, but they don't know what to expect with people's network connections, between Internet outages, misconfigured proxies and IP masquerading, and who knows what else. The term appliance should help explain this; the goal is a device that you just plug in and use.
I've been there a few times (I'm from Cuyahoga Falls). You go past a bunch of plaques with descriptions of the members, which interests some and bores others (they interest me). In the basement is an hands on area with a variety of exhibits to encourage people's creativity. It is well worth a trip.
Akron, OH, downtown near Quaker Square and the University of Akron on Broadway.
This is a really sorry release. I tried going to My Yahoo, but it was extremely slow, and it didn't hold the cookie, so I keep having to log in. When I submitted my feedback to Netscape I got an error saying that there were server problems. I'm not sure how much effort I'm going to put into testing this.
I'm about to close my account at my bank, because their online bill paying is unreliable. I've had trouble with a number of payments not arriving on time, and these were electronic payments. It is no fun getting dunned because of your bank. The thing is is that I like the concept, so I'm going to switch my account to another bank that offers the service.
I'm not so sure a show about the Lone Gunmen would be a good idea. Often characters are best left mysterious; if you know too much about them it takes away half the fun. Fonzie was more interesting when he was a mysterious side character, and Hawk from Spencer for Hire shouldn't have gotten his own series.
My favorite lame product name is Potted Meat Food Product, which I think is a Hormel product. I hate to be too hard on it though, because it is at least an honest name, assuming that potting accurately describes the process they perform on the meat. This product shows what happens when you name a product with no marketing considerations whatsoever.
I took his TCP/IP class at Uniforum years ago when UNIX Network Programming first came out. He was an excellent teacher, and a very nice guy.
I thought the interface on the windows version was bad too, but when I got the real game I found that the fixed the annoying parts of the demo version.
There is one thing that really disturbs me about Windows 2000, and that is that it requires a 300MHz or higher processor. What kind of baggage is it carrying that it requires a processor that fast? Didn't Microsoft tune the operating system? How will this affect future benchmark comparisons?