Most of the radioactive material used had a very short half life, but there are traces of the nasty stuff. A more complete version of the story is here.
Philips administers the trademark, but it is the property of the Philips/Sony joint venture. You might guess at other reasons than altruism why competing copy protection schemes might attract legal attention.
I'm sure it was a typo in the article, but the first step to doing the smart client for many companies was to use "screen scraping." A terminal emulator back-end would parse the output originally intended to show up on a character-cell terminal, digest it into a form some local peecee program could use, then spoof terminal keyboard activity to get the results back into the old mainframe hiding in the background.
At their core, Web browsers are more like dumb terminals than intelligent clients. Even with stuff like javascript you're still pretty much at what used to be called the "smart terminal" level of functionality.
Once you add something like Java, or embed browser code into some other program, yeah, the distinction evaporates.
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It's not a full-fledged emulator in the sense that there's a VM, but there is a mostly complete Unix API and the filesystem gets mapped.
One side effect of not being an emulator, is that Cygwin does allow you to use the native Windows APIs. Checking for API leakage could be interesting -- is a program using the native function, or an emulated version?
Those expensive blades are why Gillette is so interested in technology like this. They have the distinction of being the most-often-stolen retail items.
Why are people so afraid of registering copyright? This is a solved problem.
If you want your copyright claim to be strong enough that it would actually hold up in court, you really want to register it anyway, and using a pseudonym or anonymous authorship is allowed, at least in USAia (and the treaties should cover elsewhere).
You can get someone else (who you trust, obviously) to sign the paperwork as your authorized agent, no need to divulge who you are, and no need to assign.
Disclaimer on the Guinness Web site: "Can't find what your looking for? This site features only a selection of the 40,000 records in the Guinness World Records database."...followed by a link to Amazon to buy the book.
From the looks of things, you're not just releasing the sources but also getting away from hosting the system. I'd imagine that users are going to be a lot more concerned about who is doing the hosting from this point on than how the software is distributed.
One possibility would be to keep a page with a list of sites that offer the service. A nice plus would be to keep track of user ratings as well -- maybe even keep hosting one board (on your own site or even on SF) where users can discuss and review the options.
Steam compression has been available for a long time, using a process known as "cooling." Using it, you can fit incredible volumes of of the stuff into a cup and take it with you. Oh, stream. Never mind.
Which is it? Does Ogg require more hardware to decode, or do you not know how much hardware it takes to run that decoder?
Yes, adding codecs can be straightforward. That the hardware used in this week's models uses the minimum hardware to support the currently supported codecs doesn't automatically imply that it is insanely expensive to support other things.
This would be a good project for Clive Sinclair.
There really isn't any compelling difference between the two formats from a normal user perspective. One comes with license fees, the other doesn't.
The fees for MP3 software are small to the end user, but they are a big problem for those who would like to give away stuff that uses the format. That does ultimately limit your options, but if the comercial options already available to you do what you want or need, you might not care about that.
...as if the music industry's actions has nothing whatsoever to do with frustrating music pirates.
Thing is, there is an actual industry based around counterfeiting this stuff, and these things don't involve fair use at all, and the DRM attempts to date aren't going to do a damn thing to stop that business. I've run across "discounted" CDs that were really obvious recordsings of vinyl, complete with skips and pops. not being able to get that perfect digital copy isn't going to stop the stuff the RIAA and MPAA should legitimately be worried about. Sell these things in transient markets -- tourist/vacation spots, fairs, etc., for cash, and there isn't much the buyer can (or will bother to) do.
There seems to be a lot of skimming going on (what? on Slashdot? Never!).
Kapor isn't saying that the product won't be able to use centralized servers, just that it won't need to rely on them.
Why so little is made of the publish-subscribe feature is a mystery.
Most of these systems came out of research coordinated by DARPA and SRI. The designs do take latency and network failures into account -- original idea was to get war casualties patched up ASAP while keeping hard-to-replace surgeons a little bit more out of harm's way.
With the really old Linux kits, you really did have to have a copy of Minix to get anything up and running. It certainly was written as a minix clone, by someone with the minix sources handy. The dependencies were, of course, kicked out soon enough, but "based on minix" is a fair enough statement.
It's true, you don't get to charge a license fee for GPL'd software. You can charge all you like for packaging, distribution and support, but once you've granted the license to one party, you have in effect granted the license to everyone.
Let me get this straight: in the future office environment, every time you put together a slide show, Microsoft wants you to fill in all sorts of extra information that isn't relevant to the presentation and won't show up in the slideshow, in case at a later time someone wants to send an email? Huh?
Nah, it seems more like they're just using existing character regoc. stuff to find names. Shirley they are assuming Outlook would be handling the mail, and that already has some support for mapping names to email addresses.
most of the remote exploits and vulnerabilities that we see in un*x boxes nowdays are based on buffer overflows more or less.
Not just Unix, for example quite a few of the Windows exploits have had the same causes.
Now if someone used a language like say, Ada, that restricts many of these *unsafe* assumptions, wouldn't that make the programs a lot less vulnerable.
Maybe. The problem is that you still need to support the C-style string/buffer stuff for all the programs that rely on traditional Unix APIs, and any "safe language" implementation that runs on an existing OS is, at its back end, still going to be needing to play all those pointer games at the back end. So, the problem isn't really eliminated, just relocated.
To really eliminate that kind pf problem, you'd have to redo the OS and user space from scratch, and toss lots of portability out the window. That would be a really, really tough sell.
Now now, be nice, While Baird didn't invent even mechanical television, he did perfect the photocell in the process of commericalizing Nipkow's discovery. Just think about all the applications that one has made possible!
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Check your food and medicine labels for cellulose. Most of it comes from wood pulp.
Most of the radioactive material used had a very short half life, but there are traces of the nasty stuff. A more complete version of the story is here.
Philips administers the trademark, but it is the property of the Philips/Sony joint venture. You might guess at other reasons than altruism why competing copy protection schemes might attract legal attention.
I'm sure it was a typo in the article, but the first step to doing the smart client for many companies was to use "screen scraping." A terminal emulator back-end would parse the output originally intended to show up on a character-cell terminal, digest it into a form some local peecee program could use, then spoof terminal keyboard activity to get the results back into the old mainframe hiding in the background.
At their core, Web browsers are more like dumb terminals than intelligent clients. Even with stuff like javascript you're still pretty much at what used to be called the "smart terminal" level of functionality.
Once you add something like Java, or embed browser code into some other program, yeah, the distinction evaporates.
It's not a full-fledged emulator in the sense that there's a VM, but there is a mostly complete Unix API and the filesystem gets mapped. One side effect of not being an emulator, is that Cygwin does allow you to use the native Windows APIs. Checking for API leakage could be interesting -- is a program using the native function, or an emulated version?
Those expensive blades are why Gillette is so interested in technology like this. They have the distinction of being the most-often-stolen retail items.
Right, the country just south of Canadia.
Why are people so afraid of registering copyright? This is a solved problem.
If you want your copyright claim to be strong enough that it would actually hold up in court, you really want to register it anyway, and using a pseudonym or anonymous authorship is allowed, at least in USAia (and the treaties should cover elsewhere).
You can get someone else (who you trust, obviously) to sign the paperwork as your authorized agent, no need to divulge who you are, and no need to assign.
Disclaimer on the Guinness Web site: "Can't find what your looking for? This site features only a selection of the 40,000 records in the Guinness World Records database." ...followed by a link to Amazon to buy the book.
From the looks of things, you're not just releasing the sources but also getting away from hosting the system. I'd imagine that users are going to be a lot more concerned about who is doing the hosting from this point on than how the software is distributed.
One possibility would be to keep a page with a list of sites that offer the service. A nice plus would be to keep track of user ratings as well -- maybe even keep hosting one board (on your own site or even on SF) where users can discuss and review the options.
Steam compression has been available for a long time, using a process known as "cooling." Using it, you can fit incredible volumes of of the stuff into a cup and take it with you. Oh, stream. Never mind.
Which is it? Does Ogg require more hardware to decode, or do you not know how much hardware it takes to run that decoder? Yes, adding codecs can be straightforward. That the hardware used in this week's models uses the minimum hardware to support the currently supported codecs doesn't automatically imply that it is insanely expensive to support other things. This would be a good project for Clive Sinclair.
There really isn't any compelling difference between the two formats from a normal user perspective. One comes with license fees, the other doesn't.
The fees for MP3 software are small to the end user, but they are a big problem for those who would like to give away stuff that uses the format. That does ultimately limit your options, but if the comercial options already available to you do what you want or need, you might not care about that.
There seems to be a lot of skimming going on (what? on Slashdot? Never!). Kapor isn't saying that the product won't be able to use centralized servers, just that it won't need to rely on them. Why so little is made of the publish-subscribe feature is a mystery.
Good question. Last I read, these things could last for up to 7000 hours, figure 9 months for the typical Slashdot reader glued to the screen 24/7.
If they can manage semi-affordable, disposable panels that drop into a frame, this could be a scam as good as HP's injket business.
Most of these systems came out of research coordinated by DARPA and SRI. The designs do take latency and network failures into account -- original idea was to get war casualties patched up ASAP while keeping hard-to-replace surgeons a little bit more out of harm's way.
Of course it can be done. The native Xbox kernel is Windows 2000.
With the really old Linux kits, you really did have to have a copy of Minix to get anything up and running. It certainly was written as a minix clone, by someone with the minix sources handy. The dependencies were, of course, kicked out soon enough, but "based on minix" is a fair enough statement.
It's true, you don't get to charge a license fee for GPL'd software. You can charge all you like for packaging, distribution and support, but once you've granted the license to one party, you have in effect granted the license to everyone.
Nah, it seems more like they're just using existing character regoc. stuff to find names. Shirley they are assuming Outlook would be handling the mail, and that already has some support for mapping names to email addresses.
Not just Unix, for example quite a few of the Windows exploits have had the same causes.
Maybe. The problem is that you still need to support the C-style string/buffer stuff for all the programs that rely on traditional Unix APIs, and any "safe language" implementation that runs on an existing OS is, at its back end, still going to be needing to play all those pointer games at the back end. So, the problem isn't really eliminated, just relocated.
To really eliminate that kind pf problem, you'd have to redo the OS and user space from scratch, and toss lots of portability out the window. That would be a really, really tough sell.
Now now, be nice, While Baird didn't invent even mechanical television, he did perfect the photocell in the process of commericalizing Nipkow's discovery. Just think about all the applications that one has made possible!