Sure, Virtual PC works fine for that kind of thing. It _is_ an emulator, so don't go expecting performance miracles. Order the Mac with as much memory as it can take, you're going to be carrying a full copy of Windows in that emulatoed system.
We're already seeing that kind of thing in the form of those little "legacy-free" PC appliance thingies, even the Xbox. I'm not convinced it's a bad trend, that integration has a lot to do with the availability of $199 systems. That's fine for the _vast_ majority of PC buyers, who are usually stuck paying for expansion capabilities they'll never use.
The server and pro markets will keep slotted systems on the market for a long time to come. Yes, they'll be at the higher end of the price range, but I'd still expect to see something decent at the traditional $1000 spot. Somebody's got to pay for the additional layout, assembly and testing.
If you're worried that machines that can only run Windows will take over completely, don't. Companies like IBM have invested way too much in supporting things like Lunix, and the board manufacturers will surely want to keep having something to sell them.
On the lower end of the price spectrum, the trend could open up opportunities for specialist manufacturers who see a market in cheap hackable boards.
The WEP stuff is still useful as "windowshade privacy." It's not useful so much as a security measure but to keep out accidental glances at your naughty bits, and it does at least put observers on notice that they're not supposed to be there. That's good enough to keep out most people, who are basiclly honest.
To work on the remainder, who can either be an overly curious set of those bascicaly honest folks or even plain old bad guys, you can use a VPN, SSL/TLS and so on. WEll actualy in many cases you can't do that, because the networks or servers you want to use haven't been set up to offer those facilities. I know it's fun to blame those silly ignorant end usrs for this, but the responsibility really does fall with admins on this one, to at least make encryption available, and perhaps even mandatory.
The commentary in the article did make sense. Mandrake will resize existing Windows partitions to make room for itself, but it can gag if you don't defragment your Windows partitions first.
Yeah, Caldera did buy the rights from SCO to the remaining encumbered UNIX code (there is a limited 3-year revenue sharing deal with Tarantella that might make the transfer's appearance murky), but even before that SCO had already released early versions under a rather open license. What Caldera actually owns is relatively slim.
The UNIX trademark belongs to The Open Group (formerly X/Open), which Novell spun off as a separate entity before the sale to old SCO. So, UNIX branding no longer means anything with regard to the underlying source code.
Yeah, it's confusing. After selling the SCO business and rights to Caldera,the original SCO company changed its name to Tarantella. Caldera then took over the SCO name to go with the product line. So, the company called SCO today really isn't the same SCO from the Xenix days.
Caldera started distributing Lunix products well before they bought the SCO rights, and they've had close to three years to take a peek at the stuff they bought. It's not as though Caldera/SCO is some one-person operation operating out of a kitchen or bedroom, it's got ~800 employees and VC backing. It took them 3 years to start code reviews of products they've got on the market? Okay...
The USPS does, in fact, have the equivalent to a perpetual patent on delivering letters within the country. Parcels and international letters are open to competition. See this.
Np medical research funding was harmed in the production of this performance art piece. It was paid for by Vivaria and Arts Council England. Why MSN chose to report it as research? Well, media outlets are funny like that.
A wild guess would be that Intel and HP really didn't have the emulation and compiler expertise to do decent emulation right off the bat, but things changed when they got hold of all the DEC/Compaq experience with this kind of thing.
It's generally not going to be worth the spammer's bother with a program that targets much else than Windows, since that's what the vast majority of people are running. But, stuff of this nature doesn't necesarily need to encounter specific mail programs, anything that will save attachments will do the job.
All the scammer needs to do is convince a few of many recipients that they'll get something for nothing, and they will gladly save and run the program by hand if necessary. If that seems hard to believe, just remember that people do fall for the Nigerian banking scam, and the stakes for this spam deal are going to be a lot lower.
That's why they call them trojan horses. The recipient is told that the program will enable access to unlimited free prawns or a faster internet connection or some other crap along those lines.
Even though Python has a fairly nice interactive mode, it makes for a really lousy general purpose shell. You certainly can create processes, plumb them together, redirect their stdio and all that, but not in the concise manner one expects from a CLI. People have tried to write shells around Perl, Python and similar languages, but these things tend to fail in the usability department, which is why hardly anyone actually uses them. Possibly such a thing could be written and not suck, but it hasn't happened yet.
What flavor of engineering are you attendiong school to learn? There is still lots and lots of test and measurement equipment being produced that uses good old serial communications. It's cheap, reliable and still more universal than Ethernet and its friends.
Even if later in life you end up using, say, TCP for your data collection, what is that TCP stream? Little more than an emulated serial connection.
You want to know how this stuff works, really.
Yep, it is true that white LEDs aren't yet any more effiecient than incandescents if you want general room lighting.
They do currently have some advantages if you want controlled directional lighting, but that does limit the applications quite a bit. A comparative chart of energy vs. light output can be found here.
At present, fluorescents are much more energy efficient than other practical alternatives for home use. There is still the issue that they contain mercury, though.
One big problem for a long time was that a lot of (badly) "optimized" versions of the reference Fraunhofer code were in circulation. There were also some commercial outfits (I think Xing was one) that tended to put out just plain buggy libraries. All this code ended up embedded into lots of front ends.
So it's definitely worth pipng the mpeg streams into a variety of decoders to see if the results improve.
A less-than-great decoder can cause that too, and a really common mistake is to assume that because a player is popular, it must be a good one. There's lots of good stuff out there, lots of crap too. This applies equally to commercial and open-source offerings.
Good deal, but when looking at analog recoders pay lots of attention to those boring little charts in the manual. Those smallish multitracks that use cassettes can do a nice job in lots of cases, but they do have limitations. Make sure you can live with them before you plunk down the cash.
Oh gee, no, this has potential to be really nifty, probably more for recording than for live performance. This lets the physical motions of the strings get captured, rather than what happens after the pickups and amps have colored it, so you get a second (or third...) chance to capture a nice recording if the playing was just right but the signal sucked.
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One of the compilers used by arashiakari is PowerBASIC, which pretty well implies that the target platform is Windows.
Sure, Virtual PC works fine for that kind of thing. It _is_ an emulator, so don't go expecting performance miracles. Order the Mac with as much memory as it can take, you're going to be carrying a full copy of Windows in that emulatoed system.
We're already seeing that kind of thing in the form of those little "legacy-free" PC appliance thingies, even the Xbox. I'm not convinced it's a bad trend, that integration has a lot to do with the availability of $199 systems. That's fine for the _vast_ majority of PC buyers, who are usually stuck paying for expansion capabilities they'll never use.
The server and pro markets will keep slotted systems on the market for a long time to come. Yes, they'll be at the higher end of the price range, but I'd still expect to see something decent at the traditional $1000 spot. Somebody's got to pay for the additional layout, assembly and testing.
If you're worried that machines that can only run Windows will take over completely, don't. Companies like IBM have invested way too much in supporting things like Lunix, and the board manufacturers will surely want to keep having something to sell them.
On the lower end of the price spectrum, the trend could open up opportunities for specialist manufacturers who see a market in cheap hackable boards.
The WEP stuff is still useful as "windowshade privacy." It's not useful so much as a security measure but to keep out accidental glances at your naughty bits, and it does at least put observers on notice that they're not supposed to be there. That's good enough to keep out most people, who are basiclly honest. To work on the remainder, who can either be an overly curious set of those bascicaly honest folks or even plain old bad guys, you can use a VPN, SSL/TLS and so on. WEll actualy in many cases you can't do that, because the networks or servers you want to use haven't been set up to offer those facilities. I know it's fun to blame those silly ignorant end usrs for this, but the responsibility really does fall with admins on this one, to at least make encryption available, and perhaps even mandatory.
The commentary in the article did make sense. Mandrake will resize existing Windows partitions to make room for itself, but it can gag if you don't defragment your Windows partitions first.
Eh? I have a set of Windows 1.01 floppies right here in the drawer. I didn't really do much of anything, but it certainly was released.
That's the former British Aerospace. Huge corporation, but they seem to prefer a low profile.
Yeah, Caldera did buy the rights from SCO to the remaining encumbered UNIX code (there is a limited 3-year revenue sharing deal with Tarantella that might make the transfer's appearance murky), but even before that SCO had already released early versions under a rather open license. What Caldera actually owns is relatively slim. The UNIX trademark belongs to The Open Group (formerly X/Open), which Novell spun off as a separate entity before the sale to old SCO. So, UNIX branding no longer means anything with regard to the underlying source code.
Yeah, it's confusing. After selling the SCO business and rights to Caldera,the original SCO company changed its name to Tarantella. Caldera then took over the SCO name to go with the product line. So, the company called SCO today really isn't the same SCO from the Xenix days.
Caldera started distributing Lunix products well before they bought the SCO rights, and they've had close to three years to take a peek at the stuff they bought. It's not as though Caldera/SCO is some one-person operation operating out of a kitchen or bedroom, it's got ~800 employees and VC backing. It took them 3 years to start code reviews of products they've got on the market? Okay...
The USPS does, in fact, have the equivalent to a perpetual patent on delivering letters within the country. Parcels and international letters are open to competition. See this.
Np medical research funding was harmed in the production of this performance art piece. It was paid for by Vivaria and Arts Council England. Why MSN chose to report it as research? Well, media outlets are funny like that.
If you stick a crystal on the scanner, a hologram of Marlon Brando will appear and tell you the secrets of the universe.
It's legit. Try the search as thermal pump-out (with the hyphen) and you'll find plenty of references.
A wild guess would be that Intel and HP really didn't have the emulation and compiler expertise to do decent emulation right off the bat, but things changed when they got hold of all the DEC/Compaq experience with this kind of thing.
All the scammer needs to do is convince a few of many recipients that they'll get something for nothing, and they will gladly save and run the program by hand if necessary. If that seems hard to believe, just remember that people do fall for the Nigerian banking scam, and the stakes for this spam deal are going to be a lot lower.
That's why they call them trojan horses. The recipient is told that the program will enable access to unlimited free prawns or a faster internet connection or some other crap along those lines.
RTFA. That's exactly one of the potential problems this technology is trying to address.
Even though Python has a fairly nice interactive mode, it makes for a really lousy general purpose shell. You certainly can create processes, plumb them together, redirect their stdio and all that, but not in the concise manner one expects from a CLI. People have tried to write shells around Perl, Python and similar languages, but these things tend to fail in the usability department, which is why hardly anyone actually uses them. Possibly such a thing could be written and not suck, but it hasn't happened yet.
What flavor of engineering are you attendiong school to learn? There is still lots and lots of test and measurement equipment being produced that uses good old serial communications. It's cheap, reliable and still more universal than Ethernet and its friends. Even if later in life you end up using, say, TCP for your data collection, what is that TCP stream? Little more than an emulated serial connection. You want to know how this stuff works, really.
Yep, it is true that white LEDs aren't yet any more effiecient than incandescents if you want general room lighting.
They do currently have some advantages if you want controlled directional lighting, but that does limit the applications quite a bit. A comparative chart of energy vs. light output can be found here.
At present, fluorescents are much more energy efficient than other practical alternatives for home use. There is still the issue that they contain mercury, though.
One big problem for a long time was that a lot of (badly) "optimized" versions of the reference Fraunhofer code were in circulation. There were also some commercial outfits (I think Xing was one) that tended to put out just plain buggy libraries. All this code ended up embedded into lots of front ends.
So it's definitely worth pipng the mpeg streams into a variety of decoders to see if the results improve.
A less-than-great decoder can cause that too, and a really common mistake is to assume that because a player is popular, it must be a good one. There's lots of good stuff out there, lots of crap too. This applies equally to commercial and open-source offerings.
Good deal, but when looking at analog recoders pay lots of attention to those boring little charts in the manual. Those smallish multitracks that use cassettes can do a nice job in lots of cases, but they do have limitations. Make sure you can live with them before you plunk down the cash.
Oh gee, no, this has potential to be really nifty, probably more for recording than for live performance. This lets the physical motions of the strings get captured, rather than what happens after the pickups and amps have colored it, so you get a second (or third...) chance to capture a nice recording if the playing was just right but the signal sucked.