I suppose you could browse the same way you do at a video store.
There can still be display boxes. You'd take em to the checkout (burnout?) counter, get your CDs, and the display boxes would be returned to the shelf.
I used to work for UPS, unloading trucks. You'd work for 4 hours only, because that was all you could take. The job was quick, dirty, and very physical. Completely unsupervised.
The packages in the trucks are stacked to the top - about 10 feet, and a roller track lead to the rear of the containter. You were supposed to take packages from the top first and send them down the roller track, but most people pulled them from the middle until a wall of boxes came crashing down, and you'd have a low, handy pile to pull from. Falls from 10 feet to the floor were constant.
And this was only one tiny aspect of the process. Really rough handling. And, as stated before, packages with 19 fragile stickers got the worst treatment.
Unless you were 8 feet tall, you couldn't keep the unloading schedule without this kind of behavior. I'm not, so I quit. This was 15 years ago, and I'm still not tall enough.
Pioneer and Apple have created what they call the Superdrive that can read/burn both CDs and DVDs. In Jobs MacWorld Expo keynote, he noted that other drives were in development for other companies for release this summer that would do everything but burn DVDs. Read about it here.
So there is no technical reason it can't be done. Maybe a patent reason though.
The equation 2**n - 1 was once thought to produce only prime numbers, at least for exponents that gave numbers that were practical to factor by hand (circa 1500 - 1600). This was later disproved, by Fermat and Euler. Marin Mersenne conjectured which results for n < 257 were composite and which were prime. He was wrong, but we call prime numbers of this form Mersenne primes anyway.
I recognized it only because Mersenne primes were covered in a book I read as a kid (Excursions in Number Theory). This formula was considered interesting for a couple of other reasons (which I forget) from Euler.
A society with a history in number theory may have run across this same thing; I've never seen it anywhere else.
Naturally there's a web page for it.
Uncle Boo wrote you and said:
"DeCSS creates the potential for a user to violate copyright laws."
That's true, but I just wanted to point out:
Creating an encryption scheme creates the potential for a company to violate the fair use doctrine.
Under the DMCA, the burden of proof lay with the user. This is backwards. Fair use is well established. It should be the creators of protection schemes that must prove they do not violate fair use, and if they can't, we must be allowed to accommodate ourselves.
Love,
Grandson
P.S. Folks may write you saying bad things about this letter. They're lies!
P.P.S. Uncle Boo isn't a lawyer either. Duh.
The laws in these places will probably change when there is enough money to be made.
But aside from what foreign IP owners would do in cases like 'Napster in Angola', I'd like to know how this model is working inside the country. Does OSS fare better or worse when there's a more level playing field? Do the OSS communities still respect OSS/GNU licenses even though they don't have to, just out of good spirit?
As a consultant, I keep a lot of disk images of my client's installers on my laptop. I don't use the software myself (unless I own it too), but it is a great convenience for reinstalls and the like.
What will the BS(A) spooks think of this? I bet they don't say 'hey, handy idea'.
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It has three buttons and a scroll slider instead of a wheel (which may also act as a button).
More at their site, plus a few more details in their sales sheet (pdf).
(On some Kensington models, the third button doesn't do anything without the drivers. Not sure about the StudioMouse).
"an Ipod might store upto 4,000 dongs"
Whoa. Pianist Envy.
I suppose you could browse the same way you do at a video store.
There can still be display boxes. You'd take em to the checkout (burnout?) counter, get your CDs, and the display boxes would be returned to the shelf.
The serial number is stored in /Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/BBEdit Preferences/BBEdit Serial Number
You can toss that file and experiment again, or perhaps copy that file to the corresponding place in each user folder.
What was said is that Keynote's file format is open (and XML based) to encourage third party tie ins with databases and the like.
It's this picture that was a popup at the top of the page.
I don't have 1300 useful items in my whole house.
You can see the reboot screen at http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo= 6332
I used to work for UPS, unloading trucks. You'd work for 4 hours only, because that was all you could take. The job was quick, dirty, and very physical. Completely unsupervised.
The packages in the trucks are stacked to the top - about 10 feet, and a roller track lead to the rear of the containter. You were supposed to take packages from the top first and send them down the roller track, but most people pulled them from the middle until a wall of boxes came crashing down, and you'd have a low, handy pile to pull from. Falls from 10 feet to the floor were constant.
And this was only one tiny aspect of the process. Really rough handling. And, as stated before, packages with 19 fragile stickers got the worst treatment. Unless you were 8 feet tall, you couldn't keep the unloading schedule without this kind of behavior. I'm not, so I quit. This was 15 years ago, and I'm still not tall enough.
whilst typing in 'google' i have often typed in gogole by accident. it takes you to a confusingly dissimilar place.
So there is no technical reason it can't be done. Maybe a patent reason though.
I recognized it only because Mersenne primes were covered in a book I read as a kid (Excursions in Number Theory). This formula was considered interesting for a couple of other reasons (which I forget) from Euler.
A society with a history in number theory may have run across this same thing; I've never seen it anywhere else. Naturally there's a web page for it.
Dear Grandma,
Uncle Boo wrote you and said:
"DeCSS creates the potential for a user to violate copyright laws."
That's true, but I just wanted to point out:
Creating an encryption scheme creates the potential for a company to violate the fair use doctrine.
Under the DMCA, the burden of proof lay with the user. This is backwards. Fair use is well established. It should be the creators of protection schemes that must prove they do not violate fair use, and if they can't, we must be allowed to accommodate ourselves.
Love,
Grandson
P.S. Folks may write you saying bad things about this letter. They're lies!
P.P.S. Uncle Boo isn't a lawyer either. Duh.
The laws in these places will probably change when there is enough money to be made.
But aside from what foreign IP owners would do in cases like 'Napster in Angola', I'd like to know how this model is working inside the country. Does OSS fare better or worse when there's a more level playing field? Do the OSS communities still respect OSS/GNU licenses even though they don't have to, just out of good spirit?
Can anyone from one of these nations comment?
As a consultant, I keep a lot of disk images of my client's installers on my laptop. I don't use the software myself (unless I own it too), but it is a great convenience for reinstalls and the like. What will the BS(A) spooks think of this? I bet they don't say 'hey, handy idea'.