For example, a file full of 0's, is perfectly possible from a true random number generator, and just as likely as any other set of numbers.
which isn't true because if this were true every number would be a random number (because every number could potentially be generated by this number-generator). This obviously isn't true. A true random number generator doesn't randomly generate numbers but generates numbers that are truly random, that is, you can't predict what digit (x+1) will be based on the previous x digits. That is why the only true random numbers can be generated if the source is completely random such as the background noise in space, or timing nuclear disintegrations.
there's implicit information present in the split files that is not present in the whole file such as the sizes of the files and the order of the files (which is implicitly included in the filenames). That's why the split files tarred and gzipped together produce a larger archive than the orginal file (because this information will have to be stored also in the archive). That's why mr. Goldman asks for "a decompressor and a compressed file" and not multiple files. Now if mr. Craig delivered ONE file that is smaller than the original which dearchives into the 218 files which in turn decompress to the original file, he might have won (but it would never work).
I remember that time quite well. not the explosion that I remember best, but the resulting radioactive cloud that floated across Europe. We were planning to go to Italy for a holiday, but we almost didn't since the cloud was heading towards the south of Europe and my parents would take the risk (even if it wasn't such a big risk I think). But then the cloud changed direction so we could go after all and I was a happy kid again. If I remember correctly, even in the Netherlands (were I live), the government warned us and took precautions.
When I think back of it now, a lot of people in Russia risked their lives when they (unknowingly?) were exposed to the radiation and things could have gotten a lot worse even for Europe if they had not attempted to stop the fire from spreading to the other reactors. A lot of these people are dead already, mostly from diseases caused by the radiation. The lives of the people who are still alive today are getting tougher because the Russian government can't affort to pay their benefits anymore. I think this is a shame, because they are true heroes....
is regionfree preferably, but must be able to play at least region 1+2
plays the new warner bros system dvd's that I don't recall the exact name of but its supposed to detect if your player is regiofree and then it doesn't play the disc
can be connected to my crappy old PAL tv with scart connector
is <$500
Is this possible?
I've been looking for some suggestions on that since I don't know much about DVD players myself. Especially: can any dvd player connect to a scart connector or do I have to check for that feature specifically?
2. quickly reading the 'Stanford Poynter Project Study' headline while remembering having read about it this morning in the newspaper. Otherwise this headline would have been bad for me since I wouldn't have known what 'Stanford Poynter' was all about.
3. Clicking on the 'read more' link using the middle mousebutton (=open in new window). I use the middle button far more than I use the left one.
4. Returning to the main slahdot window and middle click on the link to the project since I know that on our slow compagny line the slashdot comments take a while to load.
5. Skimming through the 'introducery highlights' table on the right of the screen (why do they place that on the right of the screen and not on the left???).
6. click on the slashdot comments window. Nice, the comments have loaded. Skimming through the comments, noticing the comment about Jacob Nielssens alertbox.
7. Middle click on the alertbox link.
8. Skim through the alertbox reading the part dealing with the main findings (inverted pyramid scheme at work!!!)
9. Send the alertbox text to the printer so I can read the whole alertbox on my way home.
10. Add the Poynter page to my bookmarks.
11. Close the stanford window and the alert window and start writing this comment.
Ah... this article brought back great memories... tweaking the vga card registers to get the perfect x-mode... looking over and over again just to make the inner loop of that triangle filler run a few clockticks faster...
In fifteen years I'll be 40 and most young programmers won't probably even know what Bresenham does or how to optimize a texture mapper (unless they're designing a new 3d card perhaps)...
It's a shame... I'm getting old and sentimental...;)
(that does not mean I don't keep up with new developments ofcourse)
CACTUS DATA SHIELD is fully transparent to the consumer.
Unlike conventional protection methods or identification technologies, there is no need for software keys, hardware dongles, plugs or other external equipment or processes.
Why would you need software keys or hardware dongles if you can't use the cd in a cdrom drive?
In the Netherlands they have already been tested, and I am sure in other countries also. I think they should be used as soon as they are ready. After all, we use cars to get somewhere and not to drive. Computer controlled cars (using a system where sensors are placed in the cars and along the roads) are a lot safer than the cars we have now and as an additional bonus they are more environment friendly and they will reduce traffic jams greatly (and we do have a lot of those in Holland). And it allows you to do other things while you are driving like phone, read the newspaper, doing some work, etc.
Perhaps a lawyer would care to explain how a restraining order issued in the United States affects a website hosted outside the USA and/or a website owned by people who live outside the USA??? And what about the status of reverse enginering. Remember the xing thing was reverse enginered in Norway. Aside from the question whether the reverse enginering of the xing player was legal or not in Norway, certainly (I may hope so) a court in the USA can't decide on that.
Anyways for the time being, my protest (and the DeCSS files) are also here.
One of the most common statistical misconceptions: the connection between the increase of violence on tv/in videogames and the increase of violence in society. I'm not argueing that there could be a connection, but there could as well be a million factors that have caused the rise in violence (if there is one). The point is, you just can't tie two pieces of statistical data to one another, even if it seems on the surface logical. And to my knowledge (although I must admit I'm not an expert) a direct connection between tv/games and violence has never been shown. And yes, some people that watched a lot of tv/played a lot of games have committed violence acts. That's to be expected ofcourse since people in general watch more and more tv and play more and more games. I could as well be stating that there is a connection between the depletion of the ozone layer and the increase in violence.
Some humorous examples of statistical data abuse (forgive me for not giving exact references): - The research a year or so ago that tried to show that computers/internet makes people depressed (do YOU feel depressed?) - In a program that I heared on the radio once a doctor claimed that computer (screens) caused epilepsy because lately he got more and more epileptic children that also played a lot of video games (well... DUH!) - Some researchers once showed that when there were more storks in the land there was also an increase in the amount of children born (luckily they didn't make a connection)
PNG may be a better format than GIF, but nobody on the web is using it. Why not? Well, for one thing, people are comfortable with using the old trusted GIF format and since Unisys totally failed to enforce his patents some five years ago, people have been using it on their webpages because it served its purpose good enough and their was no alternative. PNG was to become that alternative. But, in terms of browser compatibility, you can't use PNG simply because the PNG support sucks. In our Internet publishing compagny, we want all our Internet sites to be supported by at least Internet explorer 3.02 and higher and Netscape 3 and higher. The PNG support is still limited to the >=4 versions of these browsers and even then the support is often broken. Netscape Navigator, for example, still doesn't support transparency (haven't checked the latest Mozilla releases though). I must say the broken support for PNG is partly because the PNG format has a lot more features than the GIF format (I mean, I just have to see about the support for arithmetic coded JPegs which is patented also btw) So it seems that Unisys is trying to enforce it's patent again and the GD library is their (first) victim in this round, which is a shame because f.e. the PHP server side scripting language (http://www.php3.org) uses the GD library to create GIFs on the fly, a feature that we have been using a few times and which has proven itself quite valuable.
see http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngapbr.html for information on PNG browser support.
It seems to me that more and more people dislike a GUI just because it looks like Windows, without giving any good reasons. That's just Windows-bashing, very unprofessional. I admit I like Gnome better than KDE, but though Windows sucks like hell from a technical/OS viewpoint, the Windows GUI actually has some very good things like the start-menu/taskbar and the filemanager amongst others. And that's probably the reason why Gnome, KDE, gmc, kfm, etc. have borrowed these features from Windows. Why abandon a good idea, just because M$ thought of it first?
I can get the whole film in mpg format on cdrom? A very sneaky preview for us people in Europe who still have to wait months for the film to be released (september 30th in Holland). Personally, I'd rather see the film on the big screen first (wouldn't want to spoil the event of the year)...
I must have missed something, but how much money did VA pay for the domain and to whom? I believe the previous owner of linux.com was Fred van Kempen, so do we have another dutch millionaire now?
In Holland on the 4th of May, we commemorate the many victims that fell during World War II. Although my generation was born long after WWII, the deeper lesson behind this celebration still stands and will always be standing. Millions of Jews, Gypsies, handicapped and homosexuals were murdered because a large group of people acted without thinking. You should always think. Always look deep into your heart and act upon THAT and not what other people are telling you. NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED! Even if all the people are telling you X, and your heart thinks Y, do Y. You can be in a group, but you can never belong to a group. You are an INDIVIDUAL.
Listen to others, but act YOURSELF!
Jaap (24)
[I realize that this sounds like a sermon, but at least it's coming from my heart]
Slashdot Mirror
(or to do it anonymously ofcourse). Now please don't flame me ;-)
which isn't true because if this were true every number would be a random number (because every number could potentially be generated by this number-generator). This obviously isn't true. A true random number generator doesn't randomly generate numbers but generates numbers that are truly random, that is, you can't predict what digit (x+1) will be based on the previous x digits. That is why the only true random numbers can be generated if the source is completely random such as the background noise in space, or timing nuclear disintegrations.
there's implicit information present in the split files that is not present in the whole file such as the sizes of the files and the order of the files (which is implicitly included in the filenames). That's why the split files tarred and gzipped together produce a larger archive than the orginal file (because this information will have to be stored also in the archive). That's why mr. Goldman asks for "a decompressor and a compressed file" and not multiple files. Now if mr. Craig delivered ONE file that is smaller than the original which dearchives into the 218 files which in turn decompress to the original file, he might have won (but it would never work).
I remember that time quite well. not the explosion that I remember best, but the resulting radioactive cloud that floated across Europe. We were planning to go to Italy for a holiday, but we almost didn't since the cloud was heading towards the south of Europe and my parents would take the risk (even if it wasn't such a big risk I think). But then the cloud changed direction so we could go after all and I was a happy kid again. If I remember correctly, even in the Netherlands (were I live), the government warned us and took precautions. When I think back of it now, a lot of people in Russia risked their lives when they (unknowingly?) were exposed to the radiation and things could have gotten a lot worse even for Europe if they had not attempted to stop the fire from spreading to the other reactors. A lot of these people are dead already, mostly from diseases caused by the radiation. The lives of the people who are still alive today are getting tougher because the Russian government can't affort to pay their benefits anymore. I think this is a shame, because they are true heroes....
Is this possible? I've been looking for some suggestions on that since I don't know much about DVD players myself. Especially: can any dvd player connect to a scart connector or do I have to check for that feature specifically?
System Stats:
6:27am up 116 days, 12:08, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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If a computer had a heart it would have sorely missed him )-:
1. skim through the slashdot headlines
2. quickly reading the 'Stanford Poynter Project Study' headline while remembering having read about it this morning in the newspaper. Otherwise this headline would have been bad for me since I wouldn't have known what 'Stanford Poynter' was all about.
3. Clicking on the 'read more' link using the middle mousebutton (=open in new window). I use the middle button far more than I use the left one.
4. Returning to the main slahdot window and middle click on the link to the project since I know that on our slow compagny line the slashdot comments take a while to load.
5. Skimming through the 'introducery highlights' table on the right of the screen (why do they place that on the right of the screen and not on the left???).
6. click on the slashdot comments window. Nice, the comments have loaded. Skimming through the comments, noticing the comment about Jacob Nielssens alertbox.
7. Middle click on the alertbox link.
8. Skim through the alertbox reading the part dealing with the main findings (inverted pyramid scheme at work!!!)
9. Send the alertbox text to the printer so I can read the whole alertbox on my way home.
10. Add the Poynter page to my bookmarks.
11. Close the stanford window and the alert window and start writing this comment.
In fifteen years I'll be 40 and most young programmers won't probably even know what Bresenham does or how to optimize a texture mapper (unless they're designing a new 3d card perhaps)...
It's a shame... I'm getting old and sentimental... ;)
(that does not mean I don't keep up with new developments ofcourse)
CACTUS DATA SHIELD is fully transparent to the consumer.
Unlike conventional protection methods or identification technologies, there is no need for software keys, hardware dongles, plugs or other external equipment or processes.
Why would you need software keys or hardware dongles if you can't use the cd in a cdrom drive?
This is what the universities are going to tell you and it is a perfectly valid point, imho.
just my $0.02
And what about the status of reverse enginering. Remember the xing thing was reverse enginered in Norway. Aside from the question whether the reverse enginering of the xing player was legal or not in Norway, certainly (I may hope so) a court in the USA can't decide on that.
Anyways for the time being, my protest (and the DeCSS files) are also here.
One of the most common statistical misconceptions: the connection between the increase of violence on tv/in videogames and the increase of violence in society. I'm not argueing that there could be a connection, but there could as well be a million factors that have caused the rise in violence (if there is one). The point is, you just can't tie two pieces of statistical data to one another, even if it seems on the surface logical. And to my knowledge (although I must admit I'm not an expert) a direct connection between tv/games and violence has never been shown. And yes, some people that watched a lot of tv/played a lot of games have committed violence acts. That's to be expected ofcourse since people in general watch more and more tv and play more and more games. I could as well be stating that there is a connection between the depletion of the ozone layer and the increase in violence.
Some humorous examples of statistical data abuse (forgive me for not giving exact references):
- The research a year or so ago that tried to show that computers/internet makes people depressed (do YOU feel depressed?)
- In a program that I heared on the radio once a doctor claimed that computer (screens) caused epilepsy because lately he got more and more epileptic children that also played a lot of video games (well... DUH!)
- Some researchers once showed that when there were more storks in the land there was also an increase in the amount of children born (luckily they didn't make a connection)
that make me wish I could handle a soldering iron as good as I can handle a C compiler...
Hotmail doesn't disconnect their service like eh.... right now seems a good time! I mean... this seems like the sensible thing to do now...
PNG may be a better format than GIF, but nobody on the web is using it. Why not? Well, for one thing, people are comfortable with using the old trusted GIF format and since Unisys totally failed to enforce his patents some five years ago, people have been using it on their webpages because it served its purpose good enough and their was no alternative. PNG was to become that alternative. But, in terms of browser compatibility, you can't use PNG simply because the PNG support sucks. In our Internet publishing compagny, we want all our Internet sites to be supported by at least Internet explorer 3.02 and higher and Netscape 3 and higher. The PNG support is still limited to the >=4 versions of these browsers and even then the support is often broken. Netscape Navigator, for example, still doesn't support transparency (haven't checked the latest Mozilla releases though). I must say the broken support for PNG is partly because the PNG format has a lot more features than the GIF format (I mean, I just have to see about the support for arithmetic coded JPegs which is patented also btw)
So it seems that Unisys is trying to enforce it's patent again and the GD library is their (first) victim in this round, which is a shame because f.e. the PHP server side scripting language (http://www.php3.org) uses the GD library to create GIFs on the fly, a feature that we have been using a few times and which has proven itself quite valuable.
see http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/pngapbr.html for information on PNG browser support.
TlighT
It seems to me that more and more people dislike a GUI just because it looks like Windows, without giving any good reasons. That's just Windows-bashing, very unprofessional. I admit I like Gnome better than KDE, but though Windows sucks like hell from a technical/OS viewpoint, the Windows GUI actually has some very good things like the start-menu/taskbar and the filemanager amongst others.
And that's probably the reason why Gnome, KDE, gmc, kfm, etc. have borrowed these features from Windows. Why abandon a good idea, just because M$ thought of it first?
I can get the whole film in mpg format on cdrom?
A very sneaky preview for us people in Europe who still have to wait months for the film to be released (september 30th in Holland).
Personally, I'd rather see the film on the big screen first (wouldn't want to spoil the event of the year)...
I must have missed something, but how much money did VA pay for the domain and to whom? I believe the previous owner of linux.com was Fred van Kempen, so do we have another dutch millionaire now?
In Holland on the 4th of May, we commemorate the many victims that fell during World War II. Although my generation was born long after WWII, the deeper lesson behind this celebration still stands and will always be standing. Millions of Jews, Gypsies, handicapped and homosexuals were murdered because a large group of people acted without thinking.
You should always think. Always look deep into your heart and act upon THAT and not what other people are telling you. NEVER TAKE ANYTHING FOR GRANTED! Even if all the people are telling you X, and your heart thinks Y, do Y. You can be in a group, but you can never belong to a group. You are an INDIVIDUAL.
Listen to others, but act YOURSELF!
Jaap (24)
[I realize that this sounds like a sermon, but at least it's coming from my heart]
CIH source still at:
http://users.skynet.be/somnus/virshop.html
(sssh! don't tell anyone)
Isn't is easier to get to ring0 the CIH way (modify IDT, generate exception)? I guess ;-)
you wouldn't have to reboot that way (I can't test it