You may be right; now that I look at more of his comment history I see that they are all like this, ha ha I must have left my sense of humour at home today. Please give me a moment to remove the egg from my face. It's a pretty poor sig when the comment above his is the comment that he's commenting on. Maybe it should be "This comment..." rather than "The above comment", or at the very least should have a "--" as the first line of the sig to make it obvious that it's a sig. If I made my sig "I hope you drop dead" and have it appended immediately after the message body how is the recipient to know that it's a sig and not a comment directed at them?
I just looked at the first few of your history of comments and they all state that the comment you are replying to is a troll and should be moderated as such. Man, don't you have something better to do with your time than act as the troll police?
Yes man, you did. How is it that you (Anonymous Coward) manages to get so many first posts? You should be really proud. If I ever pass you in the street I'd like to shake your hand.
India could argue from the position that they need a platform that everyone can openly develop and therefore are only interested if Microsoft license the source to everyone. Without such openness, Linux may still be their best bet.
I think it is theoretical. The tablets were only launched last week, and you want a published work on something that is bound to take longer than a week. It's kind of like when companies advertised for Java programmers with 5+ years experience when Jave had only been around for 3.
The owner of my previous local video store told me that the reason he is actively trying to get people to move from VHS to DVD is that he doesn't have such huge licensing costs for DVD's. I don't recall the details but I think he was saying that the cost to him for a rentable DVD is about the same as it costs to buy it in a retail store. He didn't seem to be doing anything dodgy like renting out "private viewing only" distros.
Yes, not much use unless you really want to roam between machines. Depending on what you use it for it could still be useful from dialup, for example for syncing bookmarks. If your local machine caches and pushes back changes it should be fine.
Replied too fast after only reading the abstract of the article. I'm not interested in sharing all of my data like on Napster. I just want some storage space on a server, with the option of sharing some of the files through some webpages.
With some storage space for any type of files that I want to push onto the server. I don't know if such a service is out there, but I'd use it is they were cheap enough.
This is pretty sad. One the one hand, the industry is trying to tell us not to copy, and then on the other they allow it. I'm confused, does this mean it's now okay for me to copy discs at home?
$5/disc seems kind of cheap too. I don't agree with the industry's prices, but why does the government have a right to decide how much money goes back to the record company and artists. Surely $25-$5 isn't the cost of manufacture and distribution for a single disc.
What's going to happen when we have 3D printers that can duplicate anything in the future. Will we be able to then copy a DVD player for $5 at some kiosk. Where's the incentive to design and produce DVD players going to come from if this happens?
I reserve the right to backup my own music collection, but piracy hurts us in the end, not just the musicians who's work the pirates supposedly appreciate. If you like the music, pay for it, and then hopefully there will be more. At the same time, hopefully some other royalty stream will open up and allow us to pay less while at the same time returning more percentage to the artists.
Maybe the "clean" the bits as the copy them. You know, if the one's and zero's are getting a bit furry around the edges the knock them back into shape and presto, crystal clear music.
Organisations putting up stuff that can potentially become space junk should have to pay a decommissioning fee upfront so that if they are unable to maintain the craft it gets taken down.
They seem to have two sites. There's another one here: http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/talking/ which if you follow the link to "500 Pages of Theory!" will give you some info similar to the book I mentioned. Book 13 seems to cover similar information to the one I read but the one I read was much better. There will always be "number systems" type info in these books that you can skip over having learnt it as a programmer, but you will still need to start out at this basic level.
Good luck.
Digital electronics is what you want to learn about. At this stage you will consider analog electronics a necessary evil, usually only having to deal with it when making a power supply or driving an LED. I first learned about this kind of stuff in the late 80's from a book called "Digital Electronics Revealed" (http://www.talktron.com.au/). It's really basic, starting with lightbulb and switch anologies, and getting into making basic circuits with CMOS and 74xx series TTL chips that you can get from most electronics shops for less than a dollar. Start at this level because it will give you the basic knowledge you need to tackle bigger projects. "The Art of Electronics" book mentioned above has lots of good info, but it is hard to read as a beginner (it's akin to the Foley and Van Damme book of computer graphics, a big bible).
Of course it wouldn't be illegal to stop these programs from entering your computer. What you said is similar to "The FBI uses bugs, is it now illegal to write on paper instead of say something".
Yes, screen updates is the biggest problem. The memory for the LCD is much slower to access than standard memory. Of course it's all easily solveable by double buffering, which you would be doing anyway.
I've got a book at home titled something like "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic". What's that quote that basically says that anything complex enough is indistiguishable from magic. Maybe analog and digital are black magic to people who can't understand it.
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You may be right; now that I look at more of his comment history I see that they are all like this, ha ha I must have left my sense of humour at home today. Please give me a moment to remove the egg from my face. It's a pretty poor sig when the comment above his is the comment that he's commenting on. Maybe it should be "This comment..." rather than "The above comment", or at the very least should have a "--" as the first line of the sig to make it obvious that it's a sig. If I made my sig "I hope you drop dead" and have it appended immediately after the message body how is the recipient to know that it's a sig and not a comment directed at them?
I just looked at the first few of your history of comments and they all state that the comment you are replying to is a troll and should be moderated as such. Man, don't you have something better to do with your time than act as the troll police?
Ok, maybe I got the date of her resignation incorrect, but how does that make it a troll? From this perspective I say that your comment is a troll.
Yes man, you did. How is it that you (Anonymous Coward) manages to get so many first posts? You should be really proud. If I ever pass you in the street I'd like to shake your hand.
not of the end user. They have been actively trying to get their software onto machines without the users' knowledge.
And, do they not realise the Hillary Rosen stepped down from the RIAA? Keep up.
What's that expression? Jack of all trades but expert of none?
That should help them continue the fight against Linux.
They're in there death throws and it's getting damn ugly.
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/review.asp?pid =468
India could argue from the position that they need a platform that everyone can openly develop and therefore are only interested if Microsoft license the source to everyone. Without such openness, Linux may still be their best bet.
I think it is theoretical. The tablets were only launched last week, and you want a published work on something that is bound to take longer than a week. It's kind of like when companies advertised for Java programmers with 5+ years experience when Jave had only been around for 3.
No, he already has already bought the camera to use as a camera. It's more like using your car as a golf buggy.
The owner of my previous local video store told me that the reason he is actively trying to get people to move from VHS to DVD is that he doesn't have such huge licensing costs for DVD's. I don't recall the details but I think he was saying that the cost to him for a rentable DVD is about the same as it costs to buy it in a retail store. He didn't seem to be doing anything dodgy like renting out "private viewing only" distros.
Yes, not much use unless you really want to roam between machines. Depending on what you use it for it could still be useful from dialup, for example for syncing bookmarks. If your local machine caches and pushes back changes it should be fine.
Replied too fast after only reading the abstract of the article. I'm not interested in sharing all of my data like on Napster. I just want some storage space on a server, with the option of sharing some of the files through some webpages.
With some storage space for any type of files that I want to push onto the server. I don't know if such a service is out there, but I'd use it is they were cheap enough.
This is pretty sad. One the one hand, the industry is trying to tell us not to copy, and then on the other they allow it. I'm confused, does this mean it's now okay for me to copy discs at home?
$5/disc seems kind of cheap too. I don't agree with the industry's prices, but why does the government have a right to decide how much money goes back to the record company and artists. Surely $25-$5 isn't the cost of manufacture and distribution for a single disc.
What's going to happen when we have 3D printers that can duplicate anything in the future. Will we be able to then copy a DVD player for $5 at some kiosk. Where's the incentive to design and produce DVD players going to come from if this happens?
I reserve the right to backup my own music collection, but piracy hurts us in the end, not just the musicians who's work the pirates supposedly appreciate. If you like the music, pay for it, and then hopefully there will be more. At the same time, hopefully some other royalty stream will open up and allow us to pay less while at the same time returning more percentage to the artists.
Maybe the "clean" the bits as the copy them. You know, if the one's and zero's are getting a bit furry around the edges the knock them back into shape and presto, crystal clear music.
Organisations putting up stuff that can potentially become space junk should have to pay a decommissioning fee upfront so that if they are unable to maintain the craft it gets taken down.
Will the system account for red/green color blindness?
They seem to have two sites. There's another one here: http://www4.tpg.com.au/users/talking/ which if you follow the link to "500 Pages of Theory!" will give you some info similar to the book I mentioned. Book 13 seems to cover similar information to the one I read but the one I read was much better. There will always be "number systems" type info in these books that you can skip over having learnt it as a programmer, but you will still need to start out at this basic level.
Good luck.
Digital electronics is what you want to learn about. At this stage you will consider analog electronics a necessary evil, usually only having to deal with it when making a power supply or driving an LED. I first learned about this kind of stuff in the late 80's from a book called "Digital Electronics Revealed" (http://www.talktron.com.au/). It's really basic, starting with lightbulb and switch anologies, and getting into making basic circuits with CMOS and 74xx series TTL chips that you can get from most electronics shops for less than a dollar. Start at this level because it will give you the basic knowledge you need to tackle bigger projects. "The Art of Electronics" book mentioned above has lots of good info, but it is hard to read as a beginner (it's akin to the Foley and Van Damme book of computer graphics, a big bible).
Of course it wouldn't be illegal to stop these programs from entering your computer. What you said is similar to "The FBI uses bugs, is it now illegal to write on paper instead of say something".
Yes, screen updates is the biggest problem. The memory for the LCD is much slower to access than standard memory. Of course it's all easily solveable by double buffering, which you would be doing anyway.
I've got a book at home titled something like "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic". What's that quote that basically says that anything complex enough is indistiguishable from magic. Maybe analog and digital are black magic to people who can't understand it.