To quote an earlier post, you don't have to give cash, but help is always nice.
What would really put the Gimp into the same leagues as certain commercial programs (and undoubtedly, upset the companies concerned) is full CMYK support (with traps). This would allow the Gimp to replace said commercial programs.
The current version has converters but that isn't enough.
I am using a German point of view. There, cash is definitely preferred.
I understand what you say about debit cards, but I have yet to hear about one car salesroom here takng them. As for a Cashier's Cheque, what is that? I haven't seen them here in Germany, although I guess they exist.
There are a number of projects that have been introduced for the further protection of the Euro. There are particularly concerns about the new high-value notes, which are substantially greater in value than is commonly used in many EU countries.
RFID is just one of the technologies being examined. It has advantages as well as a pile of disadvantages that other have noted here. Certainly whilst you may spend 1 Euro to protect a 500 Euro note, even that is pretty expensive.
Although in the US, people like to use non-cash methods for large but legal sums, say for a car or a house, in may parts of the EU, people will make major purchases in cash, yes even houses and these people have their cash legally too! Well, some of them. Certainly, there are a lot of quite legitimate users of high value bills here.
The problem here is that counterfeit money costs the issuer. It certainly costs the Fed for all those dud greenbacks. However, no central banker likes to tell how much counterfeit money is being picked up (I have asked). WHther it costs enough that it justifies RFID tags is another matter.
The EU certainly likes to support domestic technology, i.e. Siemens and Phillips, but there are limits.
If you can not receive then you do not need a licence. This was tested in court back in the times of the early home micros (ironically enough, the BBC micro) and with no antenna, the receiver was deemed not to be functional as such ad the prosecution was dropped.
In Germany, I pay rather more than £100, but the state sponsored channels still carry the same crap advertisements as the commercial channels (however the breaks are slightly shorter). We also have to have a licence even if we only have a radio. Currently the use of Internet radios and licences is under question. The only people who avoid the TV and radio licence fees are the diplomats.
As a total side note, the German press wrote of Mohammed Atta and Co of September 11th fame, who were studying in Germany that they even paid their TV licenses!!!!!
We don't see Sauron. We see a suit of armour. We know he can wear things because he has the ring. What we see of his hand, bearing the ring dissappears after it is lopped off. Quite according to the book.
Watch out for the next episodes then, Peter Jackson has reportedly warned that:
But he has admitted that he has strayed from the original plot for the second and third films, risking the wrath of die-hard Tolkien fans.
The New Zealander expects some characters to be given expanded roles, such as Rohan King Theoden and his nephew Eomer.
Try going directly to the Hubble site. Thay have TIFFs and PDFs of the images. Even the jpegs are at much better quality. Space.com does not carry the good stuff, it eats too much bandwidth!!!!
The World Intellectual Property Organisation covers patent and copyright law. The US seems to be one of the main lobbying forces, so whichever country you are in, this will eventually affect you!
Canada may be ok now, but WTO membership tends to force compliance with the rules set by WIPO. IF WIPO rules change then Canada and the EU must follow. There is no way that Canada can keep sane if the lobbyists beneath them keep active.
That is unless all of the non-US citizens campaign for their own copyright-law to be kept more restricted in scope.
If free archives can exist elsewhere on the web, then the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention act is undermined.
What happens about the definition of 'in-print'? If the book is not available or deliverable in a reasobale period, then shouldn't the publisher's right automatically fail?
One issue here is that it is now quite easy for the publisher to use Print-On-Demand technology to russle up a couple of copies. Sure, it might be printable at a loss, but that may be good for the retention of copyright.
So the best thing would be to force the defintion of 'in-print' by a court case.
What is this packet of Sainsburys' Soluble Aspirin doing in my desk? Sainsburys is a major UK supermarket chain. Many other chains carry own-branded 'asprin' because in the UK, it is a registered generic name for a drug.
Bayer first producd 'Aspirin' around the turn of the last century. However, the drug was just a purified form of something dating back to Roman times.
There never was an operating system from Microsoft called 'Windows'. The correct names for the operating systems were: Windows 95, 98, NT and then 2000 and XP. Microsoft themselves were concerned about the defensibility of such a generic term, which is why the GUI was known as Microsoft Windows. A GUI called Macrosoft Windows could have a problem though.
X Windows, the GUI layer sitting on a lot of different operating systems (including, at one stage, MS Windows) has existed almost since MS Windows 1.0. There doesn't seem to have been a contest there.
MIT plus Digital and a few other companies were behind the first version and it has spread to be an industry standard. They don't seem to have any problems.
Lindows is a fantasy name composed from Linux and windows, which is already genericised with respect to computers. It is distinctly different. However MS will win. IP law in the US depends upon one thing, the dollar. If you have more of them, you win, whatever the merits of the case.
Hey, I got this brilliant firewall from Microsoft. Evrytime I do anything important, the screen turns blue and shows me lots of random garbage!!!!!
Nobody can access my computer then - pretty neat, eh?
Seriously, 2K is much better than NT was but I wonder whether Microsoft actually knows what computer security is? We were taught the initials C.I.A. That is Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.
It doesn't matter how a product fits into these categories as long as the customer knows what it is being provided. If you are selling a system and application to a customer and telling them that they can bet their business on it, then it had better not go down every other day or let the whole world and their dog every time you connect to the Internet.
Manufacturining is a continuous process of quality monitoring and assurance, you test your inputs, you train your staff and you validate your processes. That is all that ISO9000 stuff. Developing s/w isn't different.
With software, testing starts at the requirements stage. When you have captured the requirements you then force the customer to review them. You don't just get them to sign off documents, because they will happily do that without reading them. You get them to sit through a presentation. The same applies after the functional specs and you cross check the functional specs against the requirments.
All this before you have written one line of code!!!
As regards exploits if you code defensively against exploits, you will produce better code. You should never trust data that hasn't come out of a checked process and only through a failure-free path.
I also agree that Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire is a good book. It is a pity that Microsoft seems to regard the practices described in these books as a luxury!!!!
QBW now allows export as Excel tables. It may even allow direct export as CSV files. It would be a bit of hacking but once you have the tables extracted, reloading them into SQL Ledger shouldn't be a major issue.
According to my Finnish friends, Finland is part of the Nordic countries but not Scandinavia. This was even to the point of having an event, originally called Inter-Scandi renamed Inter-Nordic.
Some less kind Russian friends have commented that Finland is what remains of a Russian-Swedish argument. Certainly a large part of Finland used to be a part of Sweden (which is why Linus Torvalds is Swedish-Finnish) so certainly part (the West) can be said to be originally Scandinavian by any definition.
I'm impressed but not surpised that Tolkein could speak Finnish though. He certainly knew enough of the other Northern-European languages and in their ancient form.
Changing the subject, I would love to know what he was like as a teacher. With such a background, he must have seemed a little formidable.
Not true, Finish is not a Scandanavian country (that is Denmark, Sweden and Norway). Finnish has no relationship to any other western languages, except at a pinch, Hungarian. It is Indo-European, but that is about all.
The grammar is terrible for a non-Finn to learn, but some have!
Wine works, but sometimes it works better with Microsoft DLLs. Not everything is completly ported yet, or even ported well. This will get fixed over time, but if you want to use certain areas, for example, OLE, then you need to keep that Win Distro.
Bellona concentrates on the Russian Navy's handling of toxic wastes, particularly those that are radioactive. The page does not so much about their non-nuclear stuff.
Amongst the other interesting stuff are some very large hovercraft (that I have seen in shipyards in St. Petersburg) and some ground-effect ships (mostly in/around the Black Sea).
Janes is very good as a source of information, but they cost big bucks for a subscription.
Actually apart from a few remarkable exceptions (i.e., ID) I have not been to impressed by the ongoing support for games.
An album is not a standalone product, in fact considerably less so than a Game. An album needs a video. These don't usually make money directly because you give it to MTV or whatever in the hope that it will make people buy the song. Then there is the concert tour. Again, this is not usually a direct profit-making item in its own right. The concert helps to promote the CD. There is also the issue of buying needle time.
The last point is the hit/miss ratio. A lot of CDs basically don't sell, so the entire cost has to be written off over the successful ones.
The last point is relative enjoyment. How many games will you dig out to play again after twelve months? How many audio CDs? Sorry, the $50 we pay is too expensive!!!!
This is basically what the guys doing reliable multicast get up to plus what you do for tape backups. It isn't particularly new.
You create your data in records and groups. Each group contains a longitudenal XOR of the other records within the block. This comes from tape backups that were proof against bad-spots and was later used in RAID.
You then sequence and shoot your data in records across the network. If one record is dropped, it can be recreated through the XOR redundancy record. If two records are dropped, you need a rerequest mechanism. This can be either on UDP or via a separate TCP link.
If you want an example of prior art, go to the trading room of a bank. How do you think all those prices are delivered to every workstation?
I have 2*450MHz PIIIs, yeah, I know this is slow but I can't afford to upgrade at the moment. The graphics card is a Riva TNT2 but the audio is over a Creative Soundblaster Live. The O/S is Win 2K both pro and server. B&W runs but ocassionally crashes, always though on the audio, thus confirming what someone else has been saying here.
Sorry this is complete BS. Why should a game cost more than a music CD? A music CD requires a lot more marketing and promotion. A good album is easily a year in the making and a full team behind it.
Every so often there is a game that is significantly better than the others and it can be interesting enough to buy. Some, my son borrows from his friends and tries at home. They are keyed to the CD and stop working when he gives it back. Luckily, he doesn't know about CloneCD et al.
Sorry, I can't afford to buy new games all the time and we pay more like $50 in Europe.
People have a vote, but in general they follow campaigns. Campaigns need a lot of money. Where do the politicians get the money, out of the lobby, of course.
Of course, people can organise themselves, but again that costs money. In the end, it is often easier for a corporation to buy influence through a lobbying movement than it is for people to persuade a politician themselves.
The usual rule is when there is a sequel to release the DVD about two or three months before the sequel appears. The reasoning is 1) Generate interest in the sequel and 2) Do not clash with it.
Given the time-lines, I would guess that we will see the DVD in Sept '02. However, this is just a guess, although based on a misbegotten youth tied to cinema and video/DVD/whatever.
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Reconfigurable FPGAs would be better because they get around the problem where the message was encrypted using something other than DES.
What would really put the Gimp into the same leagues as certain commercial programs (and undoubtedly, upset the companies concerned) is full CMYK support (with traps). This would allow the Gimp to replace said commercial programs.
The current version has converters but that isn't enough.
I understand what you say about debit cards, but I have yet to hear about one car salesroom here takng them. As for a Cashier's Cheque, what is that? I haven't seen them here in Germany, although I guess they exist.
RFID is just one of the technologies being examined. It has advantages as well as a pile of disadvantages that other have noted here. Certainly whilst you may spend 1 Euro to protect a 500 Euro note, even that is pretty expensive.
Although in the US, people like to use non-cash methods for large but legal sums, say for a car or a house, in may parts of the EU, people will make major purchases in cash, yes even houses and these people have their cash legally too! Well, some of them. Certainly, there are a lot of quite legitimate users of high value bills here.
The problem here is that counterfeit money costs the issuer. It certainly costs the Fed for all those dud greenbacks. However, no central banker likes to tell how much counterfeit money is being picked up (I have asked). WHther it costs enough that it justifies RFID tags is another matter.
The EU certainly likes to support domestic technology, i.e. Siemens and Phillips, but there are limits.
In Germany, I pay rather more than £100, but the state sponsored channels still carry the same crap advertisements as the commercial channels (however the breaks are slightly shorter). We also have to have a licence even if we only have a radio. Currently the use of Internet radios and licences is under question. The only people who avoid the TV and radio licence fees are the diplomats.
As a total side note, the German press wrote of Mohammed Atta and Co of September 11th fame, who were studying in Germany that they even paid their TV licenses!!!!!
Watch out for the next episodes then, Peter Jackson has reportedly warned that:
Worrying eh?Try going directly to the Hubble site. Thay have TIFFs and PDFs of the images. Even the jpegs are at much better quality. Space.com does not carry the good stuff, it eats too much bandwidth!!!!
Canada may be ok now, but WTO membership tends to force compliance with the rules set by WIPO. IF WIPO rules change then Canada and the EU must follow. There is no way that Canada can keep sane if the lobbyists beneath them keep active.
That is unless all of the non-US citizens campaign for their own copyright-law to be kept more restricted in scope.
If free archives can exist elsewhere on the web, then the Sonny Bono Copyright Extention act is undermined.
One issue here is that it is now quite easy for the publisher to use Print-On-Demand technology to russle up a couple of copies. Sure, it might be printable at a loss, but that may be good for the retention of copyright.
So the best thing would be to force the defintion of 'in-print' by a court case.
Bayer first producd 'Aspirin' around the turn of the last century. However, the drug was just a purified form of something dating back to Roman times.
X Windows, the GUI layer sitting on a lot of different operating systems (including, at one stage, MS Windows) has existed almost since MS Windows 1.0. There doesn't seem to have been a contest there.
MIT plus Digital and a few other companies were behind the first version and it has spread to be an industry standard. They don't seem to have any problems.
Lindows is a fantasy name composed from Linux and windows, which is already genericised with respect to computers. It is distinctly different. However MS will win. IP law in the US depends upon one thing, the dollar. If you have more of them, you win, whatever the merits of the case.
Nobody can access my computer then - pretty neat, eh?
Seriously, 2K is much better than NT was but I wonder whether Microsoft actually knows what computer security is? We were taught the initials C.I.A. That is Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability.
It doesn't matter how a product fits into these categories as long as the customer knows what it is being provided. If you are selling a system and application to a customer and telling them that they can bet their business on it, then it had better not go down every other day or let the whole world and their dog every time you connect to the Internet.
With software, testing starts at the requirements stage. When you have captured the requirements you then force the customer to review them. You don't just get them to sign off documents, because they will happily do that without reading them. You get them to sit through a presentation. The same applies after the functional specs and you cross check the functional specs against the requirments.
All this before you have written one line of code!!!
As regards exploits if you code defensively against exploits, you will produce better code. You should never trust data that hasn't come out of a checked process and only through a failure-free path.
I also agree that Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire is a good book. It is a pity that Microsoft seems to regard the practices described in these books as a luxury!!!!
QBW now allows export as Excel tables. It may even allow direct export as CSV files. It would be a bit of hacking but once you have the tables extracted, reloading them into SQL Ledger shouldn't be a major issue.
Some less kind Russian friends have commented that Finland is what remains of a Russian-Swedish argument. Certainly a large part of Finland used to be a part of Sweden (which is why Linus Torvalds is Swedish-Finnish) so certainly part (the West) can be said to be originally Scandinavian by any definition.
I'm impressed but not surpised that Tolkein could speak Finnish though. He certainly knew enough of the other Northern-European languages and in their ancient form.
Changing the subject, I would love to know what he was like as a teacher. With such a background, he must have seemed a little formidable.
The grammar is terrible for a non-Finn to learn, but some have!
Wine works, but sometimes it works better with Microsoft DLLs. Not everything is completly ported yet, or even ported well. This will get fixed over time, but if you want to use certain areas, for example, OLE, then you need to keep that Win Distro.
Amongst the other interesting stuff are some very large hovercraft (that I have seen in shipyards in St. Petersburg) and some ground-effect ships (mostly in/around the Black Sea).
Janes is very good as a source of information, but they cost big bucks for a subscription.
An album is not a standalone product, in fact considerably less so than a Game. An album needs a video. These don't usually make money directly because you give it to MTV or whatever in the hope that it will make people buy the song. Then there is the concert tour. Again, this is not usually a direct profit-making item in its own right. The concert helps to promote the CD. There is also the issue of buying needle time.
The last point is the hit/miss ratio. A lot of CDs basically don't sell, so the entire cost has to be written off over the successful ones.
The last point is relative enjoyment. How many games will you dig out to play again after twelve months? How many audio CDs? Sorry, the $50 we pay is too expensive!!!!
You create your data in records and groups. Each group contains a longitudenal XOR of the other records within the block. This comes from tape backups that were proof against bad-spots and was later used in RAID.
You then sequence and shoot your data in records across the network. If one record is dropped, it can be recreated through the XOR redundancy record. If two records are dropped, you need a rerequest mechanism. This can be either on UDP or via a separate TCP link.
If you want an example of prior art, go to the trading room of a bank. How do you think all those prices are delivered to every workstation?
I have 2*450MHz PIIIs, yeah, I know this is slow but I can't afford to upgrade at the moment. The graphics card is a Riva TNT2 but the audio is over a Creative Soundblaster Live. The O/S is Win 2K both pro and server. B&W runs but ocassionally crashes, always though on the audio, thus confirming what someone else has been saying here.
Every so often there is a game that is significantly better than the others and it can be interesting enough to buy. Some, my son borrows from his friends and tries at home. They are keyed to the CD and stop working when he gives it back. Luckily, he doesn't know about CloneCD et al.
Sorry, I can't afford to buy new games all the time and we pay more like $50 in Europe.
Of course, people can organise themselves, but again that costs money. In the end, it is often easier for a corporation to buy influence through a lobbying movement than it is for people to persuade a politician themselves.
Please remember that more than one liquid could have this effect!
Given the time-lines, I would guess that we will see the DVD in Sept '02. However, this is just a guess, although based on a misbegotten youth tied to cinema and video/DVD/whatever.