If I was going crack the example you gave is trivial. You start by reducing the image to grayscale, adjust hte contrast till the background stuff is gone and then you search out the outside path and record its top left point. You end up with a list of (x,y) and sizes, you sort by x and look up the path length in a table and the result is a letter. How hard is that?
Advertising isn't about selling cars, its about selling the ads. Ad compaines are very good at selling their product (the ad) and the ads effectivness is inmaterial. When the web came around it was the 1st time where advertisers could guage how effective their ads were and get instant feed back. Most found out their ads were less than.001% as effective as the advertising companines claimed (and backed by Nelson or whoever). Their result wasn't to abandon the ads but to give up on any medium that allowed for instant stat verification.
But your right, we all get to pay for the ads even if they don't work.
A standard "make one partition full sized" uses only the parts of the drive that aren't reserverd. If there was a way to use the disk size including the bits reserverd to fixup bad sectors, then you could get more space. Now if your 1st partition is a full disk - reserved and your second partition is full sized including reserved and the reserved aren't all at the end of the disk, your going to end up with partitions of the ratios they talk about.
However what happens you start putting windows on this thing? Well block sizes of big drives aren't your friend and most small files will end up in reserve clustors. Since directories are small files too and if they don't conflict, you should be able to load up a few gig of data on one of these disks before you start to find out that its overwriting other bits of the other partiion. I expect one of these 180 gig drives could be loaded up with at least 90gig of data before the directorys started acting funny. One cool bit about this is block related files (like mp3) will show up on the dir just fine but when you play it, it might switch songs in the middle. I don't think the RIAA could ask for a better gift.
You can patent something that would be obvious if the reason behind it isn't. So did they compress the images so they didn't use so much memory or did they compress them because they wanted to export them as jpeg to be standard or some other reason? A 3rd reason could make the patent valid even if the other two are obvious.
One of the channels just started a huge bug with their logo and I feel motion sickness watching that channel whenever they pan a certain way. Considering I'm about as desensitized to motion sickness as anyone I know, I wonder how many people have real problems with some of the bugs.
Good ole accreditation boards. I went to University of Missouri- Columbia and was waiting for a computer engineering degree to get accredited. It never happened. I called the accreditation board and asked them what other schools were accredited and they couldn't name one that I would have wanted to go to. It was just a scam to get the school to pay some ivory tower guys an extra $20 grand. A few years after that someone was nailed for selling degrees from non-accredited schools. They guy then went on to set up his own accreditation board and started taking money from schools and students.
Since the LOTR took in over a billion dollars and is a known cash cow in an industry that is run by idoits that wouldn't know a good story if they saw one, there is no way MGM is going to back down on this and New Line isn't stupid enough to buy out the rights for $500,000,000 or so. I don't think the rights will ever get settled so the movie won't get made unless the two partnership and that will destroy the movie.
I do suspect that there will be a few attemtps to do some of the Silmarrilion stories in time but not till most of Holywood forgets about LOTR.
Sun's ability to patch OS problens with such a beast is why I run other things now.
A good solaris install is tiny and compact but sun has no clue about that these days and it will kill them as a company.
How many others do a command like find +atime | sed... | rm to clean up unwated stuff in the base distro? 95% of standard solaris distor will never be used so why is it ever installed?
make sure you cancel your sco license 1st. The problem apprears (according to SCO) that if you have an existing SCO license then you are covered under terms that prevent you from using Linux (and some licenced Unix). Of course if you cancel the sco license your name will float to the top of their list.
Airline tickes can move about every 15 minutes. Since they all use Saber or its offspring, they all can adjust quite quickly. Its too complicated for the FTC to invistigate (they have tried several times and failed). What is interesting is that the only airlines not having money problems don't seem to play the silly game like everyone else. TWA, Pan Am, Eastern... they all used to be major players in the game. Now they aren't:-)
It seems to me that one of the major problems is that the concept of public domain is going away at a very rapid pace. The database is just another part of that but most people don't understand and they don't want to.
So you have to bring it down to their level. I think that "Happy Birthday" should be in the public domain. So is "God Bless America." Did congress even considering asking about copyrights before they were on the steps singing it to an audience of billions (based on world wide tv coverage)? As congress critters are now answering questions in public, it might be a good question to ask.
Back to Happy Birthday... Who here has ever heard of live performance by the author of that song? Who learned the song from copyrighted sheet music? I contend that the vast numbers of people who have no idea that it is even copyright is very strong proof that it is in the public domain.
The odds of getting sued for singing "Happy Brithyday" to someone is very, very small but the RIAA has gone after 12 yr olds in the past. Is that song worth your life savings? If more people understood that, then congress would be forced to protect the public domain.
You left out the word "most" before Christians. Life on mars would upset a great many people in the US and other places. Most large chruches change their teachings slowly over time and are willing to accept new variaions as long as the basis isn't changed. Facts will be questioned if they conflict with a major religion. For example look at Osiris who has many unique concepts in common with Jesus as far as Catholics are concerned (resurrection and concepts around communion are about the same). I've seen evidence that the old gods of Egypt were sort of seperate but one (holy trinity like) but that concept is discounted. I'm more concerned with why to discard the concept? Is it because its a bit too close for many Christians? The concept that the devil is part of the trinity would be hard to buy for people that spent too much time in a catholic school.
One man's garbage is anothers treasure. I've got nearly 200 meg of junk on my site but according to google some of the info is only on my site. For example, packet dumps of a nasty phone system as well as how get the thing to spit out the GPL. I've got obscure hints on fixing an old VW. This stuff is completely useless to 99.99+% of the population but when you need it, its there. I get a few messages a day from people that found it and when it saves someone a few hours, its worth it.
Has anyone played with "sound icons?" The idea is that a.wav is played when you mouseover a desktop icon or when its selected via alt-tab. Maybe one of the distros can look into doing this?
Now if the shuttle was high enough to make this expierment useful, then it would be a great idea but the shuttle is in a very low orbit well inside the protective magnetosphere of earth. While there isn't enough atmosphere to protect anyone from small particles, there is enough to slow its orbit down.
Re:Sensationalist. As usual. Thanks Australia.
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Notice this came out after MS said they were putting AV in their next big service pack? The existing AV compaines have about 18 month left to scare customers into paying them forever or else they will go the way of a very long list of other software players (diskdouble, stac, procomm, qemm, desqview).
This weekend I had a discussion with a market researcher (who clicked on the wrong stuff too many times) and I asked him how the most effective way to sell an AV program would be. His said press releases keeping the public in fear. He will be buying a mac in the next few weeks.
If Microsfot cared, they would force every software shop to sell or give away copies of this CD. But they don't care that much and won't till they get nailed by a consumer product group.
Now if the ISS was high enough to make this expierment useful, then it would be a great idea but the ISS is in a very low orbit well inside the protective magnetosphere of earth. While there isn't enough atmosphere to protect anyone from small particles, there is enough to slow its orbit down.
Not quite. The idea is to use a large area of vacuum to provide normal lift. Then a second ballast tank can be adjusted will cause the thing to decend. When it decending, it uses the forward energy to spin the turbines which then powers the compressors. The steady state of this thing will be floating at 100,000 ft or so.
I think it can work if they can solve the "magical box that can hold a total vacuum that weighs less than the air its going to displace" part of the problem but thats been know about since the days of Boyl and Dalton.
This system uses the energy of the wather system to move around a device that wants to float at a n altitude above ground level. In that way its much like a sail boat. The reality is if anyone can build a large vacuum chamber, they can stick engines on it and get from LA to London much quicker than current jets if they can get up high enough. I figure this will happen about the time someone finds the right stuff to make a space elevator out of.
I've been waiting for the OS comunity to pull Unisys's licenses for a decade. Had that happened, no other company would have even attempted to pull the sftware patent nonsense but FSF didn't want to hurt the acceptance of open source software and advised aginst it.
Whats the real problem with a backlash aginst the OSS community? So what if a bunch of PHB and other lusers don't want to use Linux. Whats the real problem with that? Some places understand the real vaule of OSS software and will let its workers contribute and the rest are just on the bandwangon of the month. I think OSS would be much better of the bandwangon of the month club rode off to spread their useless bloat to a new area.
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Sendmail is the only existing MTA that can do hacks like SPF with just changes to the config file.
Since sendmail may have been started with inetd on a slow machine, sendmail.cf was designed to be very fast to parse. How fast? A decade ago the parser could do millions of lines a second on fast hardware for the day. Thats not a major deal now but it did help on a pdp11 or an early vax.
Sendmail is not static and its still evolving. It was the 1st open source program that worked around insecure OS bugs and is the only major MTA that continues to do so.
The people sending the spam already got paid to send it. The sap that thinks hes going to get millions of hits to his web site or buy his product will have already sent $1000 or so to the spamer long before the ads attempt to hit your mailbox.
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If I was going crack the example you gave is trivial. You start by reducing the image to grayscale, adjust hte contrast till the background stuff is gone and then you search out the outside path and record its top left point. You end up with a list of (x,y) and sizes, you sort by x and look up the path length in a table and the result is a letter. How hard is that?
Advertising isn't about selling cars, its about selling the ads. Ad compaines are very good at selling their product (the ad) and the ads effectivness is inmaterial. When the web came around it was the 1st time where advertisers could guage how effective their ads were and get instant feed back. Most found out their ads were less than .001% as effective as the advertising companines claimed (and backed by Nelson or whoever). Their result wasn't to abandon the ads but to give up on any medium that allowed for instant stat verification.
But your right, we all get to pay for the ads even if they don't work.
A standard "make one partition full sized" uses only the parts of the drive that aren't reserverd. If there was a way to use the disk size including the bits reserverd to fixup bad sectors, then you could get more space.
Now if your 1st partition is a full disk - reserved and your second partition is full sized including reserved and the reserved aren't all at the end of the disk, your going to end up with partitions of the ratios they talk about.
However what happens you start putting windows on this thing? Well block sizes of big drives aren't your friend and most small files will end up in reserve clustors. Since directories are small files too and if they don't conflict, you should be able to load up a few gig of data on one of these disks before you start to find out that its overwriting other bits of the other partiion. I expect one of these 180 gig drives could be loaded up with at least 90gig of data before the directorys started acting funny. One cool bit about this is block related files (like mp3) will show up on the dir just fine but when you play it, it might switch songs in the middle. I don't think the RIAA could ask for a better gift.
You can patent something that would be obvious if the reason behind it isn't. So did they compress the images so they didn't use so much memory or did they compress them because they wanted to export them as jpeg to be standard or some other reason? A 3rd reason could make the patent valid even if the other two are obvious.
One of the channels just started a huge bug with their logo and I feel motion sickness watching that channel whenever they pan a certain way. Considering I'm about as desensitized to motion sickness as anyone I know, I wonder how many people have real problems with some of the bugs.
Good ole accreditation boards. I went to University of Missouri- Columbia and was waiting for a computer engineering degree to get accredited. It never happened. I called the accreditation board and asked them what other schools were accredited and they couldn't name one that I would have wanted to go to. It was just a scam to get the school to pay some ivory tower guys an extra $20 grand. A few years after that someone was nailed for selling degrees from non-accredited schools. They guy then went on to set up his own accreditation board and started taking money from schools and students.
Since the LOTR took in over a billion dollars and is a known cash cow in an industry that is run by idoits that wouldn't know a good story if they saw one, there is no way MGM is going to back down on this and New Line isn't stupid enough to buy out the rights for $500,000,000 or so. I don't think the rights will ever get settled so the movie won't get made unless the two partnership and that will destroy the movie.
I do suspect that there will be a few attemtps to do some of the Silmarrilion stories in time but not till most of Holywood forgets about LOTR.
I keep running into people who have been doing web design since before Mosaic came out. I would say its very impressive to do that kind of prediction.
Has anyone called Canter and Siegel about this recently? You know I got the T-shirt but they still haven't sued me like they claimed they would.
Sun's ability to patch OS problens with such a beast is why I run other things now.
... | rm to clean up unwated stuff in the base distro? 95% of standard solaris distor will never be used so why is it ever installed?
A good solaris install is tiny and compact but sun has no clue about that these days and it will kill them as a company.
How many others do a command like find +atime | sed
make sure you cancel your sco license 1st. The problem apprears (according to SCO) that if you have an existing SCO license then you are covered under terms that prevent you from using Linux (and some licenced Unix). Of course if you cancel the sco license your name will float to the top of their list.
Airline tickes can move about every 15 minutes. Since they all use Saber or its offspring, they all can adjust quite quickly. Its too complicated for the FTC to invistigate (they have tried several times and failed). What is interesting is that the only airlines not having money problems don't seem to play the silly game like everyone else. TWA, Pan Am, Eastern... they all used to be major players in the game. Now they aren't :-)
It seems to me that one of the major problems is that the concept of public domain is going away at a very rapid pace. The database is just another part of that but most people don't understand and they don't want to.
So you have to bring it down to their level. I think that "Happy Birthday" should be in the public domain. So is "God Bless America." Did congress even considering asking about copyrights before they were on the steps singing it to an audience of billions (based on world wide tv coverage)? As congress critters are now answering questions in public, it might be a good question to ask.
Back to Happy Birthday... Who here has ever heard of live performance by the author of that song? Who learned the song from copyrighted sheet music? I contend that the vast numbers of people who have no idea that it is even copyright is very strong proof that it is in the public domain.
The odds of getting sued for singing "Happy Brithyday" to someone is very, very small but the RIAA has gone after 12 yr olds in the past. Is that song worth your life savings? If more people understood that, then congress would be forced to protect the public domain.
You left out the word "most" before Christians. Life on mars would upset a great many people in the US and other places. Most large chruches change their teachings slowly over time and are willing to accept new variaions as long as the basis isn't changed. Facts will be questioned if they conflict with a major religion. For example look at Osiris who has many unique concepts in common with Jesus as far as Catholics are concerned (resurrection and concepts around communion are about the same). I've seen evidence that the old gods of Egypt were sort of seperate but one (holy trinity like) but that concept is discounted. I'm more concerned with why to discard the concept? Is it because its a bit too close for many Christians? The concept that the devil is part of the trinity would be hard to buy for people that spent too much time in a catholic school.
sun?
One man's garbage is anothers treasure. I've got nearly 200 meg of junk on my site but according to google some of the info is only on my site. For example, packet dumps of a nasty phone system as well as how get the thing to spit out the GPL. I've got obscure hints on fixing an old VW. This stuff is completely useless to 99.99+% of the population but when you need it, its there. I get a few messages a day from people that found it and when it saves someone a few hours, its worth it.
Has anyone played with "sound icons?" The idea is that a .wav is played when you mouseover a desktop icon or when its selected via alt-tab. Maybe one of the distros can look into doing this?
Now if the shuttle was high enough to make this expierment useful, then it would be a great idea but the shuttle is in a very low orbit well inside the protective magnetosphere of earth. While there isn't enough atmosphere to protect anyone from small particles, there is enough to slow its orbit down.
Notice this came out after MS said they were putting AV in their next big service pack? The existing AV compaines have about 18 month left to scare customers into paying them forever or else they will go the way of a very long list of other software players (diskdouble, stac, procomm, qemm, desqview).
This weekend I had a discussion with a market researcher (who clicked on the wrong stuff too many times) and I asked him how the most effective way to sell an AV program would be. His said press releases keeping the public in fear. He will be buying a mac in the next few weeks.
If Microsfot cared, they would force every software shop to sell or give away copies of this CD. But they don't care that much and won't till they get nailed by a consumer product group.
Now if the ISS was high enough to make this expierment useful, then it would be a great idea but the ISS is in a very low orbit well inside the protective magnetosphere of earth. While there isn't enough atmosphere to protect anyone from small particles, there is enough to slow its orbit down.
Not quite. The idea is to use a large area of vacuum to provide normal lift. Then a second ballast tank can be adjusted will cause the thing to decend. When it decending, it uses the forward energy to spin the turbines which then powers the compressors. The steady state of this thing will be floating at 100,000 ft or so.
I think it can work if they can solve the "magical box that can hold a total vacuum that weighs less than the air its going to displace" part of the problem but thats been know about since the days of Boyl and Dalton.
This system uses the energy of the wather system to move around a device that wants to float at a n altitude above ground level. In that way its much like a sail boat. The reality is if anyone can build a large vacuum chamber, they can stick engines on it and get from LA to London much quicker than current jets if they can get up high enough. I figure this will happen about the time someone finds the right stuff to make a space elevator out of.
I've been waiting for the OS comunity to pull Unisys's licenses for a decade. Had that happened, no other company would have even attempted to pull the sftware patent nonsense but FSF didn't want to hurt the acceptance of open source software and advised aginst it.
Whats the real problem with a backlash aginst the OSS community? So what if a bunch of PHB and other lusers don't want to use Linux. Whats the real problem with that? Some places understand the real vaule of OSS software and will let its workers contribute and the rest are just on the bandwangon of the month. I think OSS would be much better of the bandwangon of the month club rode off to spread their useless bloat to a new area.
Sendmail is the only existing MTA that can do hacks like SPF with just changes to the config file.
Since sendmail may have been started with inetd on a slow machine, sendmail.cf was designed to be very fast to parse. How fast? A decade ago the parser could do millions of lines a second on fast hardware for the day. Thats not a major deal now but it did help on a pdp11 or an early vax.
Sendmail is not static and its still evolving. It was the 1st open source program that worked around insecure OS bugs and is the only major MTA that continues to do so.
The people sending the spam already got paid to send it. The sap that thinks hes going to get millions of hits to his web site or buy his product will have already sent $1000 or so to the spamer long before the ads attempt to hit your mailbox.