"...you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer..."
So that would mean that the Windows EULA overrules all other EULAs as far as remote use is concerned? As written, this seems to apply to vnc, sshd, apache, anything that can be used remotely in any way. Somehow I don't think that'll hold up in court.
I've always enjoyed Futurama, that is when I got a chance to watch it. Unfortunatly, on the East Coast, if Fox is showing any NFL game, it will inevitably run over the time slot for Futurama. This happened even with the SEASON PREMIER. So, as far as I'm concerned, I didn't watch it because they didn't air it. I seem to recall the same thing happening at back home in Miami with a Time Cop show. I never got to see it because the local ABC affiliate decided they should talk about monday night football instead.
given: they've succeeded in losslessly compressing random data (right...)
given: compressed data looks like random data
does this mean they can compress compressed data? So I can run their algorhythm over and over again and compress [arbitrary large thing] to [something really small]? Something's not right here. Though it would be fun to have this exchange:
me: I've got a linux distro on this floppy disk
foo: Wait, this disk is empty
me: No...see that bit there?
I actually went to a little seminar one day at the MIT Media Lab where we did this. It was really cool. You can make much more impressive holograms with the right equipment, but the fact that you can do it with a laser pointer and not this expensive monster of a laser is really neat
Well, then you have no ethics or morals. Leaving no damage is one of the things that makes the hacks cool. Anyone can do stuff that looks cool but causes damage (huh, let's nail this to the walls and, umm, yeah, it'll be cool, heh), but to pull a hack off without causing damage is more of an engineering feat, and actually challenges MIT students to think.
Right, that would have been so much more impressive. Stay up on the dome painting the thing and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage. Plus getting caught so they know exactly who to pin it on. I think if they had been foolish enough to do that, it would have been the *last* hack on the dome for a long time. I'm glad *you* don't go to MIT.
I'd think that a banner that was made ahead of time is just about as "pre-made" as a giant ring that was made ahead of time. Maybe it should actually be forged on the dome or something. Yeah, that'd be clever...might burn down the building as well.
I'll agree that it's not the most impressive hack ever, but it still took some ingenuity.
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The "clocking" is not an issue in clockless computers. The idea becomes a handshake signal between components. These tell relevant components that the data is ready to be processed at the next stage. When both components agree that they're ready to go, stuff happens. This happens without the other components needing to know.
To say that all Video Games are art would be tricky, but to say that none of them are would be downright impossible.
I've played some games that have completely sucked me into them. The Zelda series is my all time favorite. It may sound cheesy, but when I play, I become Link (no, not literally), I enjoy the game and I feel for the character. The same can happen in a good book or movie. Chrono Trigger (ask anyone who's played it and most likely it's among their favorites) and Chrono Cross (this game was just beautiful) also fall into this category for me. If these games aren't art, I don't know what is.
Umm...aren't fish and mammals both part of the Animal kingdom? Wow, now that I look at it, we're both even part of phylum Chordata. I'll leave finding more details as an excercise to the reader, or the next poster.
Indeed, the Bush Administration's order was directed at the Justice Department (Executive Branch) and not the Judicial Branch. There is a difference here. The Justice Department is prosecuting the case and can say "we don't want to break up Microsoft anymore" but the Court could say "We don't care, we think that Microsoft should be broken up."
That can happen, though my Magic 8-Ball says "Don't count on it"
Indeed. The MS JVM, while it was among the best JVMs in the past, is obsolete. Java2 is here, has been here for a while, and it has a lot of new features that are not availablie in Java 1.1.
For a while it'll still be that if you want the most compatable java applets you'll need to comply to java 1.1 (win 9x/2k are still out there with lots of users who haven't gotten Sun's JVM), now that JVM is dying. Hopefully the newer Sun Java VMs can take over on the Windows platform and the bulk of java on the web can catch up with what java has become.
Their freedom of speech stops at the SMTP envelope. Could you imagine postal service mailboxes where advertisers opened your mail and droped an ad in it before passing it on to the postal service for delivery? It's illegal for others to open my snail mail, the same should stand for email.
Yes, but if you make a sector copy of the drive you will duplicate the GUID. The OS looks like it will fix that, assigning a new GUID to one of the drives if there is a duplicate. I have no doubt that the chances of gettinga duplicate GUIDs that are generated properly are slim to none (read: nil).
The idea behind GUIDS is that they be Globally Unique, not just unique on your machine, hence the globally. However, it looks like the OS will fix this:
58. What happens if a duplicate Disk or Partition GUID is detected?
Windows Whistler will generate new GUIDs for any duplicate Disk GUID, MSR Partition GUID, or MSR basic data GUID upon detection. This is similar to the duplicate MBR signature handling in Windows 2000. Duplicate GUIDs on a dynamic container or database partition cause unpredictable results.
My guess is that this GUID will be based on the hard disk, your machine GUID, and some random element like perhaps the system time, though I may be wrong.
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"...you may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display, or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer..."
So that would mean that the Windows EULA overrules all other EULAs as far as remote use is concerned? As written, this seems to apply to vnc, sshd, apache, anything that can be used remotely in any way. Somehow I don't think that'll hold up in court.
I've always enjoyed Futurama, that is when I got a chance to watch it. Unfortunatly, on the East Coast, if Fox is showing any NFL game, it will inevitably run over the time slot for Futurama. This happened even with the SEASON PREMIER. So, as far as I'm concerned, I didn't watch it because they didn't air it. I seem to recall the same thing happening at back home in Miami with a Time Cop show. I never got to see it because the local ABC affiliate decided they should talk about monday night football instead.
reminds me of an old game I had called tapper. Ran great on my 8088, but was unplayable on my 286! I'd hate to see it on my machines today.
Oh wait! We got it all wrong! It's not 100:1, it's 0b100 to 0b1! That makes more sense.
given: they've succeeded in losslessly compressing random data (right...)
given: compressed data looks like random data
does this mean they can compress compressed data? So I can run their algorhythm over and over again and compress [arbitrary large thing] to [something really small]? Something's not right here. Though it would be fun to have this exchange:
me: I've got a linux distro on this floppy disk
foo: Wait, this disk is empty
me: No...see that bit there?
Personally, I'm waiting for this one.
I actually went to a little seminar one day at the MIT Media Lab where we did this. It was really cool. You can make much more impressive holograms with the right equipment, but the fact that you can do it with a laser pointer and not this expensive monster of a laser is really neat
Well, then you have no ethics or morals. Leaving no damage is one of the things that makes the hacks cool. Anyone can do stuff that looks cool but causes damage (huh, let's nail this to the walls and, umm, yeah, it'll be cool, heh), but to pull a hack off without causing damage is more of an engineering feat, and actually challenges MIT students to think.
I think I've wasted enough time with you...
Right, that would have been so much more impressive. Stay up on the dome painting the thing and causing thousands of dollars worth of damage. Plus getting caught so they know exactly who to pin it on. I think if they had been foolish enough to do that, it would have been the *last* hack on the dome for a long time. I'm glad *you* don't go to MIT.
I'd think that a banner that was made ahead of time is just about as "pre-made" as a giant ring that was made ahead of time. Maybe it should actually be forged on the dome or something. Yeah, that'd be clever...might burn down the building as well.
I'll agree that it's not the most impressive hack ever, but it still took some ingenuity.
The "clocking" is not an issue in clockless computers. The idea becomes a handshake signal between components. These tell relevant components that the data is ready to be processed at the next stage. When both components agree that they're ready to go, stuff happens. This happens without the other components needing to know.
To say that all Video Games are art would be tricky, but to say that none of them are would be downright impossible.
I've played some games that have completely sucked me into them. The Zelda series is my all time favorite. It may sound cheesy, but when I play, I become Link (no, not literally), I enjoy the game and I feel for the character. The same can happen in a good book or movie. Chrono Trigger (ask anyone who's played it and most likely it's among their favorites) and Chrono Cross (this game was just beautiful) also fall into this category for me. If these games aren't art, I don't know what is.
So did anyone notice that ebay is using MS Passport for an alternative sign-in?y .tcl?docid=205668)
There's a help page on passport that comes up as "last updated Oct/01/01" (http://webhelp.ebay.com/cgi-bin/eHNC/showdoc-eba
I hope this won't be a "transition"...
Yeah, the now dead Gene Roddenberry was in a perfect position to pen the lyrics to _TOS_.
Umm...aren't fish and mammals both part of the Animal kingdom? Wow, now that I look at it, we're both even part of phylum Chordata. I'll leave finding more details as an excercise to the reader, or the next poster.
Indeed, the Bush Administration's order was directed at the Justice Department (Executive Branch) and not the Judicial Branch. There is a difference here. The Justice Department is prosecuting the case and can say "we don't want to break up Microsoft anymore" but the Court could say "We don't care, we think that Microsoft should be broken up."
That can happen, though my Magic 8-Ball says "Don't count on it"
AFS for linux exists in both a Transarc (read: IBM) version and as OpenAFS which is a fork off the transarc client source.
>killing USB 2.0
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Umm...doesn't look like it. Perhaps it used to, but:
http://www.usb.org/developers/
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/usb/
http://www.wininformant.com/Articles/Index.cfm?
Indeed. The MS JVM, while it was among the best JVMs in the past, is obsolete. Java2 is here, has been here for a while, and it has a lot of new features that are not availablie in Java 1.1.
For a while it'll still be that if you want the most compatable java applets you'll need to comply to java 1.1 (win 9x/2k are still out there with lots of users who haven't gotten Sun's JVM), now that JVM is dying. Hopefully the newer Sun Java VMs can take over on the Windows platform and the bulk of java on the web can catch up with what java has become.
Clearly we should stop making new languages and start making new letters. =)
Their freedom of speech stops at the SMTP envelope. Could you imagine postal service mailboxes where advertisers opened your mail and droped an ad in it before passing it on to the postal service for delivery? It's illegal for others to open my snail mail, the same should stand for email.
Yes, but if you make a sector copy of the drive you will duplicate the GUID. The OS looks like it will fix that, assigning a new GUID to one of the drives if there is a duplicate. I have no doubt that the chances of gettinga duplicate GUIDs that are generated properly are slim to none (read: nil).