Just a thought, but why not read the link? It's all in there, in the Wiki. I've had success with both 6 and 9%, and others have had success with as low as 3%.
For me, an hour strong sunlight (I say strong, it's all relative: think February in Northern England) was preferable to overnight with a UV lamp... Not really surprising, I suppose.
Get the stuff, be appropriately careful with it, and have a go.
I *think* that it's not oxygenating at all: the chemistry is replacing oxygen that is bonded to a bromine (or bromide? dunno) compond with a hydrogen compound. Or something like that.
I think it's absolutely not oxidation: the "vanish oxy action" is used for its TAED content which may act as a catalyst, not the oxygenating properties.
Another vote for The Player of Games...
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quite possibly my favourite book, still... Although my username and URL probably give that away somewhat;-)
Excellent writing with a definite style all of his own, accessible plot which you can take the clues of where it's going and feel all clever as a reader... Just a superb book, as are most of Banks' works. I'd also agree on avoiding excession as a device to break into Banks: the parent poster's thoughts echo my own.
I downloaded this on the day it came out. I hadn't heard any tracks at all from the album.
They asked me how much I wanted to pay for it. I said zero. I got my download.
I think they're doing this the wrong way: download for free, and make a payment if you want to once you've heard it, enjoyed it, and decided what it's worth to you.
I was genuinely surprised to pay before hearing, but perhaps that was a step too far...
Shuttle Computer single-handedly invented the SFF PC or Small Form-Factor PC a few years back....
I've read some fanboi tosh on slashdot in my time, but that is so wrong it's not even ironically funny. I'd delve into prior art but I really can't be bothered: take your pick from any computer manufacturer and they'll have had something SFF.
I suppose they did attempt to make SFF attractive for the living room, but again that was nothing new: geeks have been doing that for years to try to appease other halves.
1. It's a shared secret. That's all. I was going to say "no better, no worse", but actually it's made significantly worse by being multiple choice. 2. Doesn't prevent MITM in any way whatsoever
Now the biometric of someone's typing rythm strikes me as a good thing, along with "PC fingerprinting" and trend analysis, but this suggestion is significantly worse than what we already have available on the market.
"3/10 - see me" would be my mark for this particular gem.
This is being seriously looked at by some financial institutions in the UK as a further way of protecting themselves: some institutions have got it into their head that two factor authentication (2FA) is the be all and end all of security. The press hasn't helped this misunderstanding.
I'm in talks with a bank to use this as part of their security strategy. If this fails for whatever reason, authentication will be moved to a separate channel, such as a challenge/response via SMS on your mobile phone. Shifting out of band drastically reduces risk and doesn't completely piss off the end user. It also doesn't mandate rolling out a token/reader/whatever to the end user as we're trying to authenticate who they are rather than what they have.
Combined with fingerprinting their usual access mechanisms and other bits of behavioural data, banks/FIs get get very cute, get high security and get wide acceptance from their userbase. 2FA is not, IMHO, the way of doing this as ABN Amro have found out despite the warnings that 2FA does not stop MITM attacks...
You can 'officially' only guarantee that a USB port will give you 100mA at 5V - 0.5 Watts. A device can ask to increase power consumption (to up to 500mA) in its descriptor following initial power up, but it should not do that until it's been allowed to. In practice, lots of devices just say, "aah, I'm ok to do this" and try to pull the full 500mA.
Other devices use more than 500mA, and they work in some instances and not in others.
But either way it's gonna take a long time to charge your 4460mAh/14.8V battery (237KJ of energy) on.5W - over 130 hours, excluding losses due to stepping up the voltage from 5V to something useful to charge laptop batteries. Even at 2.5W, that's still over a day of constant charging.
And that's excluding the fact that stepping from 5V to something useful to charge laptop batteries will not be a lossless operation;-)
The survey was indeed invalid - it was asking if British artists deserve the same level of protection as their colleagues in the good ol' US of A.
People, surprisingly, said "yes" without knowing what they were really saying yes to.
I should have mentioned that, but it was late, I was tired, I'd had a few glasses of wine and was waiting for my seven week old son to wake up demanding feeding. Mea culpa!
Read the linked article about the survey - the British public was asked a question to see if we should offer British artists the same level of copyright protection as our American cousins enjoy. Even then, only 62% said yes. It was a loaded question, and the point of including it was to show that I was surprised and very, very happy when I saw that the extension wasn't happening especially given the recent rumblings to sway opinion.
Extension of copyright is IMHO bad for so many reasons, and the linked discussion of the review of UK copyright is a very, very good starter for ten which, if nothing else, would allow fair use in law...
9 keys? I'm sure at a minimum they'd put 10 on there, as people will probably be used to dialling all numbers from 0 to 9. They might even do more. Or they might make it a touchscreen so it's only a software update when someone notices that they forgot 0 off the dialling pad.
Control is not in the hands of the consumer, nor in the hands of the producer: it's in the hands of the DRM controller.
At the moment, when I buy a CD I can listen to it on any CD player I like, when I like, how I like. I can play it in my car, at home, on my PC... I can shift it onto another format, even though this is not a legally protected right in the UK (we have no concept of fair use over here).
I have a large legal MP3 library that I have personally ripped. I like being able to play that on my MP101 in the living room, or on my PC, or wherever I choose. I've bought the music, it's mine to listen to how I want. I don't want to share it with the world, put it on any open network, or let it out of my control but I do want to be able to use it in a way that pleases me.
DRM removes the facilities and convenience that technology has given me, all on the risk that I might use the technology to infringe copyright.
Besides all that, DRM is destined to fail. Ultimately, the music has to be heard or the pictures displayed, and at that point they can be recorded without any DRM and that is what will be on the file sharing networks of the world. There is no way of stopping that, so they might as well stop spending money trying to push water uphill and trust their customers!
There is no expiry of DRM - there is expiry of copyright... The British LIbrary's manifesto is a good start, but I'd personally like to see fair use written in there too.
A lot of drummers use an earpiece with a simple click track to keep time... Complaints that it destroys a drummer's "groove" are fairly common, but on the other hand it does help pull you into a rigid tempo - use it as an aid, not a crutch.
If they could do that, don't you think they would have done that?
Perhaps, just perhaps, (assuming this is real) they need more cash to allow them to exploit it. My reckoning is that they've found something absolutely tiny, and they need cash to see if it will scale up. Of course, being tiny it could be experimental error or something equally daft...
Just a long shot, and what do I know, but I guess when you're doing things like this for real (and not as a vc scam, or publicity stunt, or whatever other nefarious motives) that you need money to take your device from producing/extracting/magicking a tiny but significant amount of something and turn it into a commercial success.
My best guess is that they're orders of magnitudes away from doing something commercially exploitable, assuming that this isn't one of the above or simply a cock up in experiments...
They either need money because they're scammers, or because they need serious investment to move this on.
Well, it depends if you're confusing "entirely voluntary purchase" with "question of legal license" really, doesn't it?
Just because there's no technology preventing someone from doing it - thankfully - it doesn't mean people will break the license agreement...
Carry on with your "voluntary purchase" idea and why bother to buy the OS at all - after all, you can get it from all good torrent sites, and if you've got mac hardware you've already paid for the os, so why pay for it again, eh?
I dunno, but at a guess perhaps people just like to be legal? (this being slashdot, I'm sure someone will point out that this isn't a metaphor at all;-) )
used to take me 1.5 to 2 hours to drive from Braintree to Cambridge during midday traffic. I did the same trip a month or so ago during a Friday afternoon rush hour in abut 20-25 minutes
Braintree is in Essex, Cambridge is in, well, Cambridgeshire. It's a 40 mile trip, and on a good day should take you under an hour via the M11 then A120. You'd have to be averaging 120MPH to do it in 20 minutes, which is pretty good going...
Thanks for taking the time to post that, I really appreciate it. I'm currently working through Cohen's Mac XCode 2 book, and have yet to write any code but was leaning towards carbon - your post does help me to rethink that! I hadn't realised about GnuStep, either, which means I'm not wasting effort.
The threat of hacking to allow OSX to run on white box computers?
It's already hacked, and working stunningly well: I've used OSX on a Dell C640 laptop and it's that good that I'll buy a MacBook Pro when it goes Merom. Everything I want is on OSX, and it really does appear that Apple has taken the greatest ideas from OSS and polished them to the point of near perfection.
Part of me does wonder if Apple doesn't mind people running OSX on unsupported boxes to get them hooked to the point that they go out and buy the apple hardware. I now know many, many people who have done this: dip toes in OSX, find all is wonderful, buy Apple.
Only bit I don't like is the development environment, as I'm not convinced I want to learn Objective C, but the CARBON APIs may be the way to go there I suppose.
But back to the point - the white box argument for not opening source doesn't fly IMHO, as OSX is already on vanilla boxes near you right now.
I just wanted to thank you for running p2p constantly, and also for providing an advert for bulk DVD writers/copiers/duplicators. It's obvious that you're pulling the latest and greatest builds of every distro nightly and are distributing them for free or small amounts of money on physical media
So from everyone, thanks for that!
After all, there's nothing else you'd be doing running P2P and disc duplicators, is there?;-)
(PS - this is an attempt at humour and should not be taken seriously or internally)
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I know he asked for the flamefest, but that's a tad obvious is it not? ;-)
Just a thought, but why not read the link? It's all in there, in the Wiki. I've had success with both 6 and 9%, and others have had success with as low as 3%.
For me, an hour strong sunlight (I say strong, it's all relative: think February in Northern England) was preferable to overnight with a UV lamp... Not really surprising, I suppose.
Get the stuff, be appropriately careful with it, and have a go.
My results are at the eab gallery
I *think* that it's not oxygenating at all: the chemistry is replacing oxygen that is bonded to a bromine (or bromide? dunno) compond with a hydrogen compound. Or something like that.
I think it's absolutely not oxidation: the "vanish oxy action" is used for its TAED content which may act as a catalyst, not the oxygenating properties.
quite possibly my favourite book, still... Although my username and URL probably give that away somewhat ;-)
Excellent writing with a definite style all of his own, accessible plot which you can take the clues of where it's going and feel all clever as a reader... Just a superb book, as are most of Banks' works. I'd also agree on avoiding excession as a device to break into Banks: the parent poster's thoughts echo my own.
I downloaded this on the day it came out. I hadn't heard any tracks at all from the album.
They asked me how much I wanted to pay for it. I said zero. I got my download.
I think they're doing this the wrong way: download for free, and make a payment if you want to once you've heard it, enjoyed it, and decided what it's worth to you.
I was genuinely surprised to pay before hearing, but perhaps that was a step too far...
Shuttle Computer single-handedly invented the SFF PC or Small Form-Factor PC a few years back....
I've read some fanboi tosh on slashdot in my time, but that is so wrong it's not even ironically funny. I'd delve into prior art but I really can't be bothered: take your pick from any computer manufacturer and they'll have had something SFF.
I suppose they did attempt to make SFF attractive for the living room, but again that was nothing new: geeks have been doing that for years to try to appease other halves.
1. It's a shared secret. That's all. I was going to say "no better, no worse", but actually it's made significantly worse by being multiple choice.
2. Doesn't prevent MITM in any way whatsoever
Now the biometric of someone's typing rythm strikes me as a good thing, along with "PC fingerprinting" and trend analysis, but this suggestion is significantly worse than what we already have available on the market.
"3/10 - see me" would be my mark for this particular gem.
This is being seriously looked at by some financial institutions in the UK as a further way of protecting themselves: some institutions have got it into their head that two factor authentication (2FA) is the be all and end all of security. The press hasn't helped this misunderstanding.
I'm in talks with a bank to use this as part of their security strategy. If this fails for whatever reason, authentication will be moved to a separate channel, such as a challenge/response via SMS on your mobile phone. Shifting out of band drastically reduces risk and doesn't completely piss off the end user. It also doesn't mandate rolling out a token/reader/whatever to the end user as we're trying to authenticate who they are rather than what they have.
Combined with fingerprinting their usual access mechanisms and other bits of behavioural data, banks/FIs get get very cute, get high security and get wide acceptance from their userbase. 2FA is not, IMHO, the way of doing this as ABN Amro have found out despite the warnings that 2FA does not stop MITM attacks...
Raise your glasses to the spirit of Bacchus - he gave us a lot.
You can 'officially' only guarantee that a USB port will give you 100mA at 5V - 0.5 Watts. A device can ask to increase power consumption (to up to 500mA) in its descriptor following initial power up, but it should not do that until it's been allowed to. In practice, lots of devices just say, "aah, I'm ok to do this" and try to pull the full 500mA.
.5W - over 130 hours, excluding losses due to stepping up the voltage from 5V to something useful to charge laptop batteries. Even at 2.5W, that's still over a day of constant charging.
;-)
Other devices use more than 500mA, and they work in some instances and not in others.
But either way it's gonna take a long time to charge your 4460mAh/14.8V battery (237KJ of energy) on
And that's excluding the fact that stepping from 5V to something useful to charge laptop batteries will not be a lossless operation
The survey was indeed invalid - it was asking if British artists deserve the same level of protection as their colleagues in the good ol' US of A.
People, surprisingly, said "yes" without knowing what they were really saying yes to.
I should have mentioned that, but it was late, I was tired, I'd had a few glasses of wine and was waiting for my seven week old son to wake up demanding feeding. Mea culpa!
Read the linked article about the survey - the British public was asked a question to see if we should offer British artists the same level of copyright protection as our American cousins enjoy. Even then, only 62% said yes. It was a loaded question, and the point of including it was to show that I was surprised and very, very happy when I saw that the extension wasn't happening especially given the recent rumblings to sway opinion.
Extension of copyright is IMHO bad for so many reasons, and the linked discussion of the review of UK copyright is a very, very good starter for ten which, if nothing else, would allow fair use in law...
9 keys? I'm sure at a minimum they'd put 10 on there, as people will probably be used to dialling all numbers from 0 to 9.
They might even do more. Or they might make it a touchscreen so it's only a software update when someone notices that they forgot 0 off the dialling pad.
Merom is the mobile version, Conroe is the desktop version...
Control is not in the hands of the consumer, nor in the hands of the producer: it's in the hands of the DRM controller.
At the moment, when I buy a CD I can listen to it on any CD player I like, when I like, how I like. I can play it in my car,
at home, on my PC... I can shift it onto another format, even though this is not a legally protected right in the UK (we have
no concept of fair use over here).
I have a large legal MP3 library that I have personally ripped. I like being able to play that on my MP101 in the living room, or on my PC, or wherever I choose. I've bought the music, it's mine to listen to how I want. I don't want to share it with the world, put it on any open network, or let it out of my control but I do want to be able to use it in a way that pleases me.
DRM removes the facilities and convenience that technology has given me, all on the risk that I might use the technology to infringe copyright.
Besides all that, DRM is destined to fail. Ultimately, the music has to be heard or the pictures displayed, and at that point they can be recorded without any DRM and that is what will be on the file sharing networks of the world. There is no way of stopping that, so they might as well stop spending money trying to push water uphill and trust their customers!
There is no expiry of DRM - there is expiry of copyright... The British LIbrary's manifesto is a good start, but I'd personally like to see fair use written in there too.
http://www.google.com/search?q=hsbc
First words returned: "Headquartered in London".
A lot of drummers use an earpiece with a simple click track to keep time... Complaints that it destroys a drummer's "groove" are fairly common, but on the other hand it does help pull you into a rigid tempo - use it as an aid, not a crutch.
If they could do that, don't you think they would have done that?
Perhaps, just perhaps, (assuming this is real) they need more cash to allow them to exploit it. My reckoning is that they've found something absolutely tiny, and they need cash to see if it will scale up. Of course, being tiny it could be experimental error or something equally daft...
Just a long shot, and what do I know, but I guess when you're doing things like this for real (and not as a vc scam, or publicity stunt, or whatever other nefarious motives) that you need money to take your device from producing/extracting/magicking a tiny but significant amount of something and turn it into a commercial success.
My best guess is that they're orders of magnitudes away from doing something commercially exploitable, assuming that this isn't one of the above or simply a cock up in experiments...
They either need money because they're scammers, or because they need serious investment to move this on.
Well, it depends if you're confusing "entirely voluntary purchase" with "question of legal license" really, doesn't it?
;-) )
Just because there's no technology preventing someone from doing it - thankfully - it doesn't mean people will break the license agreement...
Carry on with your "voluntary purchase" idea and why bother to buy the OS at all - after all, you can get it from all good torrent sites, and if you've got mac hardware you've already paid for the os, so why pay for it again, eh?
I dunno, but at a guess perhaps people just like to be legal?
(this being slashdot, I'm sure someone will point out that this isn't a metaphor at all
used to take me 1.5 to 2 hours to drive from Braintree to Cambridge during midday traffic. I did the same trip a month or so ago during a Friday afternoon rush hour in abut 20-25 minutes
o %20cambridge&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wl
% 20lincolnshire%20to%20cambridge&btnG=Search&sa=N&t ab=wl
;-)
Braintree is in Essex, Cambridge is in, well, Cambridgeshire. It's a 40 mile trip, and on a good day should take you under an hour via the M11 then A120. You'd have to be averaging 120MPH to do it in 20 minutes, which is pretty good going...
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=braintree%20t
Boston, on the other hand, is 80 miles north of Cambridge in Lincolnshire so you'd be absolutely daft to try and go to Braintree via Boston... you'd be adding like 160 miles to the journey!
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&lr=&q=boston%2C
Honestly, I don't know where you're living but your routing is just silly
Thanks for taking the time to post that, I really appreciate it. I'm currently working through Cohen's Mac XCode 2 book, and have yet to write any code but was leaning towards carbon - your post does help me to rethink that! I hadn't realised about GnuStep, either, which means I'm not wasting effort.
The threat of hacking to allow OSX to run on white box computers?
It's already hacked, and working stunningly well: I've used OSX on a Dell C640 laptop and it's that good that I'll buy a MacBook Pro when it goes Merom. Everything I want is on OSX, and it really does appear that Apple has taken the greatest ideas from OSS and polished them to the point of near perfection.
Part of me does wonder if Apple doesn't mind people running OSX on unsupported boxes to get them hooked to the point that they go out and buy the apple hardware. I now know many, many people who have done this: dip toes in OSX, find all is wonderful, buy Apple.
Only bit I don't like is the development environment, as I'm not convinced I want to learn Objective C, but the CARBON APIs may be the way to go there I suppose.
But back to the point - the white box argument for not opening source doesn't fly IMHO, as OSX is already on vanilla boxes near you right now.
I just wanted to thank you for running p2p constantly, and also for providing an advert for bulk DVD writers/copiers/duplicators. It's obvious that you're pulling the latest and greatest builds of every distro nightly and are distributing them for free or small amounts of money on physical media
;-)
So from everyone, thanks for that!
After all, there's nothing else you'd be doing running P2P and disc duplicators, is there?
(PS - this is an attempt at humour and should not be taken seriously or internally)
Yes, you get idiots in any organisation. Some call them evangelists...