Also, it is reviewing the Pro version, so the average user buying or downloading the non-Pro version really doesn't have much idea what to expect as far as app support goes.
While it may be a huge flourish that impresses the ladies, your signature is not as secure as it would seem. Forgeries are easy to make by skilled criminals.
Use a cryptographic key to sign. You'll be glad you did.
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Algorithms is pretty much finished. No one is coming up with anything better than heapsort and the list/tree/hash algorithms are pretty much done as far as research goes.
Crypto is done. The basics are already hashed out (pun!) all that's left is individual implementations of it.
I guess there's the fish-shaped Italian wine bottle, but aside from that, I am hard pressed (pun!) to think of any strangely-labeled or unusually shaped wine bottles.
The solution is to make the site more graphics-oriented and less text-oriented.
As much as possible use large graphics to convey the message of the site. Put appropriate captions under each picture, even duplicating the text of the graphic, in order to enable text2voice software to be able to read the site to visually impaired visitors.
Large text may be useful so long as the font is limited to 16pt. Any more than that and you'll likely offend the elderly more than help them.
I have three deaf children who were not born deaf, but slowly developed their loss of hearing over the span of several years.
I honestly thought that this article would point to some technique that would possibly bring back some of that hearing.
I know it's wrong to reach out for any silver bullet that comes along, but when you love your children as much as I love mine, you sometimes get a little trigger happy over news like this.
No, this game and games like it won't bring back my childrens' hearing. Nothing will.
Driver code is the biggest liability that a device maker has. It earns no money, it costs quite a bit to make, and it must be written multiple times for multiple platforms and operating systems.
Via's reluctance to free the driver software is pure evil. They sit like slavemasters on the code and hold it hostage as if it were a servant or slave.
Even if the reverse engineering works out and the code runs equally well as the enslaved code, what will become of the original unfree code? Will that unfortunate code be relegated to living out the rest of its days in slavery? Sadly, I think the answer is affirmative.
Who will fight for the rights of software? I only wish the FSF was more vocal about the Freedom of Software that they purportedly base their ideology upon.
Everyone knows Linux is quite a bit more stable than Windows. I really don't have any need to do this kind of redundant replication.
If you run Windows, I could see data loss having a pretty high likelihood of occurring, but with Unix and especially Linux, these things are Not a Problem(TM).
Maybe with systems like AIX that emulate Windows by ripping off untrustable, easily corruptible things like the Windows registry, data loss may be a big issue. However, with Linux it is a complete non-issue. I leave it to the MCSE monkeys to worry about their toy machines.
If you are going to lump all women over the age of 18 together and compare that to middle school and high school boys, I guess you could say that the numbers add up in favor of the disproportionately large population.
The holding hostage of ideas is completely contrary to the basic natural rights that ideas have. The GPL is one way of fighting for the rights of software, but there really isn't a way to fight for the freedom of ideas.
In this century, the war to free ideas from patents will be waged as long and hard as the war a century ago against slavery. Information slavery is still slavery.
If you really think about it, computers are in fact a form of life based on silicone (soon to be 84GHz diamond! Hooray) which has as its DNA simple codes written by humans. We are their Creator, to steal a line from the Christians.
Just as we can create these marvelous things, we can also devise and create terrible little niggles that are apt to take entire computer organisms out of commission. So eventually you end up with an ecosystem in which only the strongest and most successful computers survive. Hence, Unix-type systems and Windows systems.
It's like Intelligent Design and Evolution all rolled up into a neat little analogy.
Right, but are you mistaking the Freedoms granted to software by the GPL as freedoms granted to the user?
"Free as in speech" is a confusing phrase because it doesn't clearly explain what is Free. "Free as in Freedom" more clearly explains the idea that the software itself is Free, but even this phrase falls a little short.
The problem is that the concept is so foreign to the normal concept of "thingness" that it is hard to think of an inanimate thing could be Free or enslaved (the only word that really approaches the meaning of Free).
Everyone keeps making the incorrect assumption that Free software is "Free as in Speech". Wrong.
Free Software means "Free as in Freedom". The software itself is Free, unshackled by anything. The outcome of this is that the software would always carry its source around with it, and it couldn't lose its Freedom because it is legally protected from people who would seek to usurp that Freedom. The GPL specifies the rights of the Software, and it does a good job in protecting the Freedom of the Software.
Think of the GPL as a Bill Of Rights (U.S.) or Charter of Rights and Freedoms (CND) for software. It lists the Freedoms that cannot be taken away from the software.
Since the GPL and Free Software (and OSS by association) pertain to the Freedom of Software and not the matter of Choice, there is nothing to talk about except that it is up to the user whether they intend to use UnFree (enslaved) software on their system.
Perhaps one day we will all use unshackled software on our systems, but until then it is imperative that we focus on the ills of software enslavement rather than on welcoming software slave traders into our midst.
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Also, it is reviewing the Pro version, so the average user buying or downloading the non-Pro version really doesn't have much idea what to expect as far as app support goes.
What's this rumor that RPM is hosed?
While it may be a huge flourish that impresses the ladies, your signature is not as secure as it would seem. Forgeries are easy to make by skilled criminals.
Use a cryptographic key to sign. You'll be glad you did.
But nothing beats being downwind those damn reindeers after Mrs. Claus's famous Christmas Chili.
Is this a different numbering scheme?
Algorithms is pretty much finished. No one is coming up with anything better than heapsort and the list/tree/hash algorithms are pretty much done as far as research goes.
Crypto is done. The basics are already hashed out (pun!) all that's left is individual implementations of it.
AI is a dead end as is proved over and over.
What's left?
What wines are you talking about?
I guess there's the fish-shaped Italian wine bottle, but aside from that, I am hard pressed (pun!) to think of any strangely-labeled or unusually shaped wine bottles.
The solution is to make the site more graphics-oriented and less text-oriented.
As much as possible use large graphics to convey the message of the site. Put appropriate captions under each picture, even duplicating the text of the graphic, in order to enable text2voice software to be able to read the site to visually impaired visitors.
Large text may be useful so long as the font is limited to 16pt. Any more than that and you'll likely offend the elderly more than help them.
I have three deaf children who were not born deaf, but slowly developed their loss of hearing over the span of several years.
I honestly thought that this article would point to some technique that would possibly bring back some of that hearing.
I know it's wrong to reach out for any silver bullet that comes along, but when you love your children as much as I love mine, you sometimes get a little trigger happy over news like this.
No, this game and games like it won't bring back my childrens' hearing. Nothing will.
Driver code is the biggest liability that a device maker has. It earns no money, it costs quite a bit to make, and it must be written multiple times for multiple platforms and operating systems.
Via's reluctance to free the driver software is pure evil. They sit like slavemasters on the code and hold it hostage as if it were a servant or slave.
Even if the reverse engineering works out and the code runs equally well as the enslaved code, what will become of the original unfree code? Will that unfortunate code be relegated to living out the rest of its days in slavery? Sadly, I think the answer is affirmative.
Who will fight for the rights of software? I only wish the FSF was more vocal about the Freedom of Software that they purportedly base their ideology upon.
I haven't ever seen one, nor have I heard of any stores stocking merchandise equipped with them, but the price of Freedom is eternal vigilantism.
Everyone knows Linux is quite a bit more stable than Windows. I really don't have any need to do this kind of redundant replication.
If you run Windows, I could see data loss having a pretty high likelihood of occurring, but with Unix and especially Linux, these things are Not a Problem(TM).
Maybe with systems like AIX that emulate Windows by ripping off untrustable, easily corruptible things like the Windows registry, data loss may be a big issue. However, with Linux it is a complete non-issue. I leave it to the MCSE monkeys to worry about their toy machines.
It may take a little more work, but the only solution to spam is the whitelist.
If you are going to lump all women over the age of 18 together and compare that to middle school and high school boys, I guess you could say that the numbers add up in favor of the disproportionately large population.
In Soviet Russia, old jokes wear out YOU!
Sorry about that. (I'm not really that sorry)
Ideas should be Free.
The holding hostage of ideas is completely contrary to the basic natural rights that ideas have. The GPL is one way of fighting for the rights of software, but there really isn't a way to fight for the freedom of ideas.
In this century, the war to free ideas from patents will be waged as long and hard as the war a century ago against slavery. Information slavery is still slavery.
Ideas have rights.
How fortuitous it was that the name of the satellites made up a perfect acronym. What are the odds!?
You have all the menus and mouse support built into the GUI already, and you can get a thin client to do remote logins for cheap.
Why, except for a pathetic fetish for obsolete technology, would you want to use a text-based interface to your X-Server?
You are all weirdos.
If you really think about it, computers are in fact a form of life based on silicone (soon to be 84GHz diamond! Hooray) which has as its DNA simple codes written by humans. We are their Creator, to steal a line from the Christians.
Just as we can create these marvelous things, we can also devise and create terrible little niggles that are apt to take entire computer organisms out of commission. So eventually you end up with an ecosystem in which only the strongest and most successful computers survive. Hence, Unix-type systems and Windows systems.
It's like Intelligent Design and Evolution all rolled up into a neat little analogy.
AOL hasn't sent me a single CD. Is this pain in my heart the feeling that bad children get when I deliver coal on Christmas eve?
Oh, the pain I have inflicted!
And we could use more of it.
Go AOL!
Enema of my enema is ma friend.
Those fucking Martians think they are hot shit.
Let's find the bombing sites, folks.
Right, but are you mistaking the Freedoms granted to software by the GPL as freedoms granted to the user?
"Free as in speech" is a confusing phrase because it doesn't clearly explain what is Free. "Free as in Freedom" more clearly explains the idea that the software itself is Free, but even this phrase falls a little short.
The problem is that the concept is so foreign to the normal concept of "thingness" that it is hard to think of an inanimate thing could be Free or enslaved (the only word that really approaches the meaning of Free).
Everyone keeps making the incorrect assumption that Free software is "Free as in Speech". Wrong.
Free Software means "Free as in Freedom". The software itself is Free, unshackled by anything. The outcome of this is that the software would always carry its source around with it, and it couldn't lose its Freedom because it is legally protected from people who would seek to usurp that Freedom. The GPL specifies the rights of the Software, and it does a good job in protecting the Freedom of the Software.
Think of the GPL as a Bill Of Rights (U.S.) or Charter of Rights and Freedoms (CND) for software. It lists the Freedoms that cannot be taken away from the software.
Since the GPL and Free Software (and OSS by association) pertain to the Freedom of Software and not the matter of Choice, there is nothing to talk about except that it is up to the user whether they intend to use UnFree (enslaved) software on their system.
Perhaps one day we will all use unshackled software on our systems, but until then it is imperative that we focus on the ills of software enslavement rather than on welcoming software slave traders into our midst.
You can use the Agent API to do network crawls like what you are talking about.
But why isn't everyone uploading their data to a central server anyway?