A keyboard doesn't know what keys are what. All it reports back is a scancode - e.g. that you pressed the 24th key. The OS does the mapping from scancodes to ascii.
Btw, you say "up to 240V".. A work collegue (electronics guy) found his mum's computer crashed all the time. She also lived right near a generator, and he found the input to be 270V. He sent graphs of his recordings to the company, and then sorted it out, which fixed the crashing;)
Just to add to this.. Make sure that if you buy a very cheap one, that it does run from mains->battery->computer, and not mains->computer, with battery outside the loop.
With the battery in the middle, it means the output is isolated from any nastyness in the input. Electric mains is +10%V normally - that's a difference of around 20V in just normal operation.
"It's sheer arrogance on the part of the software to insist that,.."
I've noticed geeks in general are rather touchy about 'arrogance', being generally smarter. This seems to cause other geeks/people to use the word arrogance to try to force their view across.
How else do explain people accusing software of being arrogant? A simple "I don't like the grammar checker because it's often wrong" would have done.
Then again, they do say never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity..
So... the viruses could email everyone in your email list, plus everyone that is in your email but also in someone elses email address? You do realise that this isn't going to make the list of possible email addresses any bigger right?
of course! How stupid of these people. I'm sure that with email addresses being around 15 characters, with around 40 different letters, that's only 40^15 different emails to try. That's 1 million million million million combinations. Shouldn't take too long to try.
I'm in the uk, and was in an auditarium with about 200 students watching a clip from SIGGRAPH. It had this bit where this small bird falls off a telegraph pole. The bird hits the ground, and the bass rumbling when it hits the ground is loud. Really loud, and the seats and tables start to shake visibile. I'm thinking "shit, this SIGGRAPH stuff is amazing!" and everyone start talking, and the shaking hit again. Turned out to be the first (and last) earthquake I've ever felt...
If I had a patent that was say infringed on by microsoft, I could legally demand that everyone using windows has to stop using it, until they get an update from MS that works around it (if possible) ?
And I'll be basically suing every single Windows user, but through MS, and MS would have to pay out for every single user? Wouldn't that cripple even MS?
On top, every user is going to want some money since they can't use windows until MS works a way around the patent.
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So.. you don't have any evidence for this happening, or any technical facts at all, but you have a fear for it happening?
I saw commits in kdm recently to allow you to make multiple sessions, and switch between them.
I've just finished listening to H.G. Wells, invisible man.
I download a load of texts, put them on my ipaq, then use flite to do text->speach and read them out.
Btw, has anyone thought of marking up any of the books so they can be read better by something like festival? (emotions, sex of character etc)
"Same keyboard layout" ?
A keyboard doesn't know what keys are what. All it reports back is a scancode - e.g. that you pressed the 24th key. The OS does the mapping from scancodes to ascii.
Interesting.
;)
Btw, you say "up to 240V"..
A work collegue (electronics guy) found his mum's computer crashed all the time. She also lived right near a generator, and he found the input to be 270V. He sent graphs of his recordings to the company, and then sorted it out, which fixed the crashing
Hmm, I don't really follow.
I'm guessing that you are refering to that the BNP say that aren't racist, they just don't want non-whites in the the uk, etc.
Do you feel that my post is saying that there aren't racist posts, just that americans/english deserve the jobs more?
Just to add to this..
Make sure that if you buy a very cheap one, that it does run from mains->battery->computer, and not mains->computer, with battery outside the loop.
With the battery in the middle, it means the output is isolated from any nastyness in the input.
Electric mains is +10%V normally - that's a difference of around 20V in just normal operation.
"Slashdot: where racism against Indians is OK..."
Like what? Stop trolling arsehole. Please point to a significant amount of racist posts, or shut the hell up.
"It's sheer arrogance on the part of the software to insist that,.."
I've noticed geeks in general are rather touchy about 'arrogance', being generally smarter.
This seems to cause other geeks/people to use the word arrogance to try to force their view across.
How else do explain people accusing software of being arrogant?
A simple "I don't like the grammar checker because it's often wrong" would have done.
Then again, they do say never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity..
You might understand when you get older.
So... the viruses could email everyone in your email list, plus everyone that is in your email but also in someone elses email address?
You do realise that this isn't going to make the list of possible email addresses any bigger right?
heh, I spent yesterday soldering in the pins on a male plug.
of course! How stupid of these people.
I'm sure that with email addresses being around 15 characters, with around 40 different letters, that's only 40^15 different emails to try.
That's 1 million million million million combinations.
Shouldn't take too long to try.
"This idea that Unisys "sinned" by asserting their patent rights and should now beg for forgiveness is childish. "
Seems from the post that it's the companies that are childish, and you are trying to excuse them by saying that they don't know better.
I say they should appologise, and try to be good little children.
Yeah I think it was ;)
haha, I never thought of that. Accidently revoking the disclaimers :)
Offtopic story..
I'm in the uk, and was in an auditarium with about 200 students watching a clip from SIGGRAPH. It had this bit where this small bird falls off a telegraph pole. The bird hits the ground, and the bass rumbling when it hits the ground is loud. Really loud, and the seats and tables start to shake visibile. I'm thinking "shit, this SIGGRAPH stuff is amazing!" and everyone start talking, and the shaking hit again. Turned out to be the first (and last) earthquake I've ever felt...
If I had a patent that was say infringed on by microsoft, I could legally demand that everyone using windows has to stop using it, until they get an update from MS that works around it (if possible) ?
And I'll be basically suing every single Windows user, but through MS, and MS would have to pay out for every single user?
Wouldn't that cripple even MS?
On top, every user is going to want some money since they can't use windows until MS works a way around the patent.
Right?
That said, something phrased like "Anyone that sues us has their license immediately revoked" would certaintly be interesting.
In the case of a patent infrigement, can't the patent owner demand that the infringer and all their customers cannot use the infringing software?
If so, no indemnity agreement is going to protect against that?
so you're saying if you are out of your depth, it's sad to even try?
Because developers can't contribute to it without assigning copyright over to novell.
The gnu situation is different. You sign it over, and they will protect it. At any time you can ask for the copyright ownership back.
I still insist remembering some law about the speed at which your computers are allowed to react, etc.
Won't there be problems with predicting what will happen, then acting on the predictions? Almost to the point of being self-fulling prophecy?
Also, I remember very vagually that there are laws about getting a computer buying and selling automatically, to try to curb this?