...and the work of other authors including my brother, wife, mother, friend. Many of these works have not circulated widely. I'd hate to see that work slip into the ether because no one was allowed to make a copy before every (sometimes one of only a few hundred) copy was lost or destroyed.
If any of them becomes huge in their field I'm sure they'd be willing to cough up a buck a year to maintain the control of their work. If not I dearly hope there is at least on crazy bastard out there willing to rejoice in the freedom to finally scan (OCR won't suck quite as much by then) the book, article, or poem in question into his computer workalike and pass it on to a few other crazy bastards who care. If not, things will DIE.
If you can exploit it, go you. If not do not let the work of your mind die with you.
The more features you put in a bill, the fancier they get, and that seems to me like more work to detect a counterfeit. How many stores actually have the time to spend even 15 seconds checking every $20 bill?
Actually the more features the bill has the more options the cashier has of ways to verify. The counterfeitter can't know which two things the people who work with me will take the time to check: chemical test (the pen), read the mylar strip, check for embedded red and blue fibers, look at the watermark, color shift the lower-right corner, put the strip under ultraviolet*, microprint check, etc. We don't have to use them all, but if different shops spend two seconds to check different things, the counterfeiters will have to take the time, and more importantly the expense, to make many of these things pass. The more hoops one has to jump through to make some money, the less likely it will seem like a profitable venture, and the fewer people will bother. O.K. just a smaller number of rational people, but you get the point.
I've spent almost a decade in retail one way or the other (mostly the other) and have personally stopped people from passing 4 counterfeits (offtopic side note - travellers cheques as often as cash - not being U.S. currency the potential penalty is far lower, IIRC only a class-two felony)
* The strip embedded in the "new" $20, $50, and $100 bills glow different colors and are in different positions on each bill. Sorry I can't find a pic online, but this looks frickin' cool when you first see it in person.
Kevin Mitnick knows how Slashdot works. His response to Question 1 is largely a consolidation from the unpublished first chapter of his book: Kevin Mitnick's 'lost' bio
Oh my goodness! You mean he wrote the information that was requested by the community at a point before we asked for it, and was rude enough to distill that same info here? How dare he? Perhaps now he can ask John Fogerty for legal advice.
Divx was created as a means of dvd rentals on the first generation of DVD players. I think circuit city came up with the format. Get the disc, watch it for a week, then it wouldnt work anymore, so you threw it away. My friend has a DVD player like 4 years ago that played Divx discs.
While true in and of itself, this is not at all the same thing as the DivX video compression codec that enterprising people are using to store their videos now.
Some folks are kind enough to help us see that distinction by refering to it at DivX;-) You can grab the codec over at http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.htm l if you want to take it for a test drive.
.....MP3 business cards for music distribution/promotion?
I seem to remember a format that will play on many more drives than an MP3 can, that can be burned onto a compact disc, and has been used for promotion and distribution of music in the past... What was that called?
And in fact, they do exactly that for patents. What the hell is so special about copyrights that they need to last for 70 to 190 years (max human lifespan of 120 years + 70 years copyright)?
Oh please God give me the link to the person who has gotten a copyright before their first birthday. You mean well, your numbers are good, but I really need the good laugh that would be provided by that work!
For the sake of us outside the US, just how big is a quarter, anyway?
An amazingly, entertainingly hokey "cartoon" comparing U.S. currency to that of the world (which apparently now consists only of France) can be found at The U.S. Mint's Coins of the World page
The short version is about.9 inches, a.k.a 2.3 cm in diameter.
Shouldn't you blame MS for this? Obviously WinME broke something that WP relied upon. This is a standard MS tactic. Of course WP could give you a cheeaper upgrade, but is it their fault that you need one?
Absolutely. But that was not my only lesson. The primary thing I got out of the whole experiance was to avoid saving important stuff in a closed propriatary format. (repeating to myself)seperate the text from the formatting...seperate the text from the formatting...se(/repeating to myself) I can see a possible near future where open standard formats will make formatting text as you go a good idea in the future, but I'm not ready to go back there yet.
If my wife's Master's Thesis had not been finished I would have had to reinstall Win95 and underclock my CPU again because I simply did not have the cash to upgrade WordPerfect after spending everything I had building a new computer and then having to pony up another chunk of change for the OS just to get up to the full speed I paid for. I'm not saying it's Corel's fault that the software wouldn't work under WinME, but they lost a customer and I lost access to a boatload of files nevertheless. (Until I found out recent releases of the good stuff include import filters.)
Umm.... Microsoft did release a patch for this problem.
I do appreciate the tip. However, kicking off my trend of jumping on something new too early; I had the first version of Win95 and the patch only works on OEM SR2. I simply underclocked the machine I built until the week WinME came out (see that jumping on something new thing bubbles back up again) and brought it up to speed after my "upgrade."
Actually the tech support fella over at MicroSoft was more helpful than I'm supposed to say on/. but the fact remains that new my closed source OS had a bug that was fixed in a version that I had to pay money to fix, which caused a problem in my closed source office suite (which I refused to pay money to fix.) And for the record, this bug is a MicroSoft bug, not an AMD bug.
All of this goes a long way to explain why despite what a PITA some of the open source stuff can be, I will fight through for it wherever I can and get my brain up to speed. At least that I can improve myself.
Here was the issue for me: I specifically (in 1997) shopped for a computer that came with WordPerfect installed. I Bought it. It rocked for its time.
When I finally "upgraded" the OS from Win95 to WinME (I know I know but I was told that it was basically Win98 3rd edition... anyhow) WordPerfect would not function. Uninstall, reinstall. Nothing.
One call to tech support later I had a solution given to me: Just pay $100 to upgrade to WordPerfect2000. This did not quite fit my budget at the time (and still doesn't) given the fact that the only added functionality I needed was the ability to work under the operating system I had bought to fix the Microsoft glitch of not recognizing AMD processors in Win95 that were faster than 300MHz.
Needless to say I have been glad to see StarOffice evolve and ecstatic to see OpenOffice mature. If I already bought your software, please don't make me suffer just because time has moved on...
It was fine software but I am not going back. They had their chance and blew it.
Alright! Shot in the dark time. The way I see it, if you click the words Goodcle.pl?sid=02/07/1 Omens and end up in the same place you started; then recursive references show some good today. So (with apologies to someone if I miss: Are links to your own post also a good omen?
In all seriousness; here is a marginally relevant link for the lazy.
It sounds all fine and good to manage the construction of your own home, and even buy the lumber and whatever else you need. But you'd better have some carprentry experience before you do so.
Habitat for Humanity can give you experience and knowledge while doing something good for people that could use something good in their lives...
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This leads to a couple questions I do not personally know the answer to:
Is there a way to uninstall ActiveX controls?!?
Can I get a list of the ActiveX controls installed on my machine??!?
For my Windows box the best utility I've every used is OnTrack's SystemSuite. Included is a top rate anti-virus program (although I wish the damned thing was turned on by default) as well as a clutch of utilities that allow the management of cookies, temp files, registry repair / editing, viewing and unistalling activeX controls etc. etc. etc.
Face it, no matter how much you dislike MS, they are basically unassailable. They have the US government in one pocket, and a boatload of high-class lawyers in the other.
Thank you.
The thought of "high-class lawyers" brought a smile to my day, and the fact that you are referring to lawyers in Microsoft's pay makes it all the sweeter...
Oh what the hell, that doesn't seem to bother anyone else here, might as well just submit and get my down mod, just like they posted and got my lame rebuke number 389... 8^)
So sorry - I just couln't resist. I swear I will never do this again! 8^)
Oh what the hell, that doesn't seem to bother anyone else here, might as well just submit and get my down mod, just like they posted and got my lame rebuke number 389...
Do you build your own TV? Probably not. Microwave?
I build my own PCs because of two reasons:
1) If there are parts I care about I can put in exactly what i want.
2) If there are parts that don't matter with respect to the use of that machine, I probably have them lying around in the form of components on some old dead box someone gave me for fixing their newer one.
I never really cared what the lightbulb in my microwave looked like or where it was placed. My TV gets all of the channels? Great!! What else will I be asking of it...?
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If any of them becomes huge in their field I'm sure they'd be willing to cough up a buck a year to maintain the control of their work. If not I dearly hope there is at least on crazy bastard out there willing to rejoice in the freedom to finally scan (OCR won't suck quite as much by then) the book, article, or poem in question into his computer workalike and pass it on to a few other crazy bastards who care. If not, things will DIE.
If you can exploit it, go you. If not do not let the work of your mind die with you.
Actually the more features the bill has the more options the cashier has of ways to verify. The counterfeitter can't know which two things the people who work with me will take the time to check: chemical test (the pen), read the mylar strip, check for embedded red and blue fibers, look at the watermark, color shift the lower-right corner, put the strip under ultraviolet*, microprint check, etc. We don't have to use them all, but if different shops spend two seconds to check different things, the counterfeiters will have to take the time, and more importantly the expense, to make many of these things pass. The more hoops one has to jump through to make some money, the less likely it will seem like a profitable venture, and the fewer people will bother. O.K. just a smaller number of rational people, but you get the point.
I've spent almost a decade in retail one way or the other (mostly the other) and have personally stopped people from passing 4 counterfeits (offtopic side note - travellers cheques as often as cash - not being U.S. currency the potential penalty is far lower, IIRC only a class-two felony)
* The strip embedded in the "new" $20, $50, and $100 bills glow different colors and are in different positions on each bill. Sorry I can't find a pic online, but this looks frickin' cool when you first see it in person.
Dodged that bullet!
Oh my goodness! You mean he wrote the information that was requested by the community at a point before we asked for it, and was rude enough to distill that same info here? How dare he? Perhaps now he can ask John Fogerty for legal advice.
Um... Since the item after it is listed as late-breaking, I'm guessing that at one point the item in question was the final item...
While true in and of itself, this is not at all the same thing as the DivX video compression codec that enterprising people are using to store their videos now.
Some folks are kind enough to help us see that distinction by refering to it at DivX ;-) You can grab the codec over at http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.htm l if you want to take it for a test drive.
If .cda is available, why reinvent the wheel?
Oh please God give me the link to the person who has gotten a copyright before their first birthday. You mean well, your numbers are good, but I really need the good laugh that would be provided by that work!
An amazingly, entertainingly hokey "cartoon" comparing U.S. currency to that of the world (which apparently now consists only of France) can be found at The U.S. Mint's Coins of the World page
The short version is about .9 inches, a.k.a 2.3 cm in diameter.
What am I missing here? $35 X 3.5 = $122.50
Um... tell me more about that bridge of yours...
Absolutely. But that was not my only lesson. The primary thing I got out of the whole experiance was to avoid saving important stuff in a closed propriatary format. (repeating to myself)seperate the text from the formatting...seperate the text from the formatting...se(/repeating to myself) I can see a possible near future where open standard formats will make formatting text as you go a good idea in the future, but I'm not ready to go back there yet.
If my wife's Master's Thesis had not been finished I would have had to reinstall Win95 and underclock my CPU again because I simply did not have the cash to upgrade WordPerfect after spending everything I had building a new computer and then having to pony up another chunk of change for the OS just to get up to the full speed I paid for. I'm not saying it's Corel's fault that the software wouldn't work under WinME, but they lost a customer and I lost access to a boatload of files nevertheless. (Until I found out recent releases of the good stuff include import filters.)
I do appreciate the tip. However, kicking off my trend of jumping on something new too early; I had the first version of Win95 and the patch only works on OEM SR2. I simply underclocked the machine I built until the week WinME came out (see that jumping on something new thing bubbles back up again) and brought it up to speed after my "upgrade."
Actually the tech support fella over at MicroSoft was more helpful than I'm supposed to say on /. but the fact remains that new my closed source OS had a bug that was fixed in a version that I had to pay money to fix, which caused a problem in my closed source office suite (which I refused to pay money to fix.) And for the record, this bug is a MicroSoft bug, not an AMD bug.
All of this goes a long way to explain why despite what a PITA some of the open source stuff can be, I will fight through for it wherever I can and get my brain up to speed. At least that I can improve myself.
When I finally "upgraded" the OS from Win95 to WinME (I know I know but I was told that it was basically Win98 3rd edition... anyhow) WordPerfect would not function.
Uninstall, reinstall.
Nothing.
One call to tech support later I had a solution given to me: Just pay $100 to upgrade to WordPerfect2000. This did not quite fit my budget at the time (and still doesn't) given the fact that the only added functionality I needed was the ability to work under the operating system I had bought to fix the Microsoft glitch of not recognizing AMD processors in Win95 that were faster than 300MHz.
Needless to say I have been glad to see StarOffice evolve and ecstatic to see OpenOffice mature. If I already bought your software, please don't make me suffer just because time has moved on...
It was fine software but I am not going back. They had their chance and blew it.
In all seriousness; here is a marginally relevant link for the lazy.
Habitat for Humanity can give you experience and knowledge while doing something good for people that could use something good in their lives...
Oooh, did you get to see the one where they almost got off the island??
For my Windows box the best utility I've every used is OnTrack's SystemSuite. Included is a top rate anti-virus program (although I wish the damned thing was turned on by default) as well as a clutch of utilities that allow the management of cookies, temp files, registry repair / editing, viewing and unistalling activeX controls etc. etc. etc.
Check it out.
Thank you.
The thought of "high-class lawyers" brought a smile to my day, and the fact that you are referring to lawyers in Microsoft's pay makes it all the sweeter...
I know I'm being redundant.
Oh what the hell, that doesn't seem to bother anyone else here, might as well just submit and get my down mod, just like they posted and got my lame rebuke number 389... 8^)
So sorry - I just couln't resist. I swear I will never do this again! 8^)
I know I'm being redundant.
Oh what the hell, that doesn't seem to bother anyone else here, might as well just submit and get my down mod, just like they posted and got my lame rebuke number 389...
I build my own PCs because of two reasons:
1) If there are parts I care about I can put in exactly what i want.
2) If there are parts that don't matter with respect to the use of that machine, I probably have them lying around in the form of components on some old dead box someone gave me for fixing their newer one.
I never really cared what the lightbulb in my microwave looked like or where it was placed. My TV gets all of the channels? Great!! What else will I be asking of it...?