I listen to last.fm thats a music stream in mp3 of copyrighted artist it helps that last.fm (CBS rather large firm) have the license so how is my ISP going to know that ?
If the IP address of the website, the music files are being downloaded from is on a registered IP address whitelist, those files can be assumed to be legal.
If the IP address is just a regular dynamic IP range, they can assume the download is illegal (You may already have a DRM license for those files, but as far as the ISP is concerned, it isn't a permitted transfer.
It will just force people to go back to exchanging files in person, rather than using the Internet.
The final straw for me to install an ad-blocker was those adverts which chose to expand to pop-up a flash animation window instead of remaining inside their banner. After then it was a game of whack-the-mole using Adblock as the hammer. The advertisers knew what they were buying (a side banner rental) yet choose to go over the line with full-screen adverts. They got greedy and now they have lost.
It is no different from those TV adverts which used sharp noises like kids screaming, plates or cutlery falling onto the floor, cars honking, or just generally loud music. My parents made sure they had a a sound-equalizing TV set which ensures that the decibel level of the TV set remains constant, as well as buying the entire DVD collection of their favourite TV series. They don't need premium satellite or cable subscriptions, so no need for advertisers.
Common sense would tell you that if a lake was pristine before someone started using fertilizers on farm fields, and that there were algae blooms after that time, that it was something to do with the fertilizers. Most articles in the past have talked about fertilizers and nitrates.
What the scientist guy has done, is proved scientifically through trial and error, that it is the phosphorous alone, and not anything else that controls how large the algae blooms get. If other scientists can reproduce his experiment, he gets to publish the paper with his name on it.
Buckminster had the idea of floating cities, where each city would be half a mile in radius and constructed using geodesic dome technology. The outside surface area of the sphere would completely enclose the volume of the sphere. If the internal temperature of the sphere volume were one degree above the surrounding air, that would create enough buoyancy to counteract the weight of the structure and make the sphere float in the surrounding atmosphere like a hot air balloon.
For most people programming is a long road of breaking your head against a problem until it gets solved. Long hours spent tapping away at the keyboard and honestly "normal" people think we're all out of our minds.
I started learning BASIC programming at the same time as learning high-school mathematics and physics. It was fun being able to take the algorithm used to solve a particular problem (polynomials, combinations/permutations, projectiles/acceleration/velocity) and write a little program that would take in the parameters,calculate then display the results or draw a graph. Then the process was repeated using C and C++.
Where would the homeowners fit into the power generator chain - do they go first before the wind turbines or do they go last just before the last plant to go online?
A light review CHRISTIAN BALE was banned from riding Batman's hi-tech motorbike on the set of The Dark Knight - because the producers considered it too dangerous.
The actor said: "Embarrassingly, I didn't get to ride it. There are other motorbikes in the film that I got to burn about on, but not the Batpod - it was deemed too dangerous; they needed me in one piece to finish the damn movie."
Bale says a stunt rider took his place in scenes involving the Batpod in case the actor came off it and injured himself. The machine - described as a steamroller combined with a motorbike and atomic missile - is the caped crusader's latest gadget.
He said the machine was so hard to handle that only one stuntman on the set could ride it without falling off. But he is determined to master the Batpod before the film has its world premiere in New York on July 14.
"I've asked the producers if I can have a go on it before the premiere, so that I really can ride it before I get asked any more of these questions - you can't be Batman and not have been on the bloody Bat bike!"
The Dark Knight is released in the US on July 18 and in the UK on July 25.
Happens with a lot of companies I have known. One company ordered around 40 new PCs' from IBM. The PC's arrived from IBM in a pair of 2m x 2m x 2m cube boxes on the inside of the container. The driver asked if our IT department happened to have a forklift truck available as it would save time unloading.
Well, we didn't, so we had to cut open the boxes and make a little door so we could get in - they had been filled to the brim with styrofoam peanuts and promptly flooded the back of the container before spilling onto the parking lot.
Then, one by one we got the monitors and main units out - all two hundred of them. By the time we were finished, there were enough styrofoam peanuts on the ground to visualize the airflow around the building. They would form streamlines and vortices all around the parking lot. It was our job to chase after every single one for recycling.
Now, mail-order companies seem to enjoy putting the smallest items in the largest boxes. Once ordered some new memory cards and hard disk drives. Each order arrived in a large desktop PC sized box filled with large plastic air-bubbles (empty sealed plastic bags filled with nothing but air), styrofoam peanuts or foam padding. In each case, the padding took up about 20 times as much space as the original item.
That seems a cool idea - I would happily give up any mouse just to have a simple little mini-tablet that I could just use a single finger to use. Although fingerpads do tend to get a little "trigger happy" if the input event times aren't set correctly.
My personal preference would be a touch-sensitive E-ink screen that could be used as a virtual notepad, so that it would be possible to draw diagrams, write handwritten text, then move these items around to create space, and even maintain a revision history, so that changes could be seen over a period of months over a whole set of pages, not just for the current edit session of the current page, and previous pages could be flipped backwards and forwards, cut and pasted. Current edit systems just seem to treat every image as a totally separate document, which requires great effort to transfer an image.
That is the Indian Hill C Coding Standard. It is almost mandatory to learn for certain areas of computer programming such as device driver development and applications programming. Mainly because it is the first documented coding standard that came out and was used by universities and corporations.
I've known some companies to make it a priority that all programmers used this standard when their greatest threat to survival was keeping up technologically with their competitors.
the transputer was a really slick idea that went nowhere... 4 high bandwidth connections, one for each neighbor CPU, with onboard memory. I recall that they were programmed in "Occam", a dataflow-oriented language.)
Mainly because CPU clock speed and data bus speed were doubling every year. By the time an accelerator card manufacturer had a card out for six months, Intel had already ensure that the CPU was faster and so the accelerator card rapidly became a de-accelerator card. If you look at the advert pages of old Byte magazines, you will see all sorts of accelerator card that tried to offload work away from the CPU (i860's, TMS34020's, quad transputers, video cards with built in networking). All of these were squelched one way or another (Intel created a custom video bus, added the 80x87 FPU, then put it on-core, created the Xeon with a built in i860, added a larger cache, multi-stage pipelines, superscalar architecture, doubled register size from 16-bits to 32-bits, and so on...)
Also, most applications that benefit from parallel processsing required data to be stored in three-dimensional grids, which needed both floating-point acceleration and six and more memory accesses (up and down as well as north, south, east and west). Both Parallel C and Fortran were available for the transputer, but the problem was cost - a transputer accelerator board cost well over 500 pounds just for a four transputer board.
It's a shame the transputer never made it, but in the PC world a manufacturer needed to have a new product out every six months to keep up against Intel.
There are many parallel processing and networking API's and out there - both past and present - OpenMP, pthreads, CUDA, sockets, etc...
There is a proposal by Apple to create a common API for parallel processing (OpenCL) which would be cross-platform compatible. The Guardian has an article on this topic.
Looks like they mis-spelled gaia, or they tried to mix gaia with maya, and got gaya. I wonder if the school boards and PTA's are going to pick up on this one?
The experts said, "mechanised rail travel was impossible because people would suffocate from the change in air pressure", then they said heavier-than-air flight was impossible", then they said "supersonic flight was impossible because the aircraft would shake itself apart". Up until 60 years ago, traveling between the USA and Europe was on the order of months of time, rather than hours.
But developing the technology to allow for high speed travel for long distances is an evolutionary process. Good examples are the evolution of sea-going craft from simple coracles, currachs, log rafts, then wooden ships, paddle-steamers, iron-hull craft up to ocean liners and nuclear powered air-craft carriers.
Any kind of interplanetary travel would be the same - protecting the crew from the elements (radiation) is the first obstacle, then there is the problem of propulsion over a long period of time. And then there is the actual process of manufacture if the vessel cannot travel from the surface of a planet.
Which is why it would be attractive to anyone dealing with illegal images. It's like having underground tunnels that nobody rarely visits, except to those knowing where the entrances leading to the surface are.
In the early of office LAN's when there was just one big Ethernet cable with repeaters for a whole building, there were basically three ways a network card could fail:
o It just stopped working - no problem, just replace the card.
o It just kept jabbering ie. kept sending out random data or the same packet over and over again. This would jam the entire network segment. The only way to fix this was to detach each segment onto an alternative backbone until the rest of the office could get back to work.
o It just sent out the occasional runt - a small packet consisting of less than a header's worth of data packet. Most network cards would just ignore them. Others would keel over faster than a drunk parrot.
o Two cards had the same MAC address. I'm not sure how this happened, but one card just seemed to lose one bit of MAC address. Nobody really complained.
In ancient Egypt, in the time of the Pharoahs, medicine was stored in specially made clay pots which had a face moulded into the pot. In that way, the patients could differentiate between cooking herbs and medicinal products.
Maybe a giant scary face would be one way. But there was an early slashot article where the solution was to have the area covered with black marble and have lots of sharp points triangles sticking up out of the ground.
I am sure that is a contradiction in terms. Having take a jounrney by taxi in Central London, there never seemed to be any place where the taxi driver could go over 15 mph.
The UK has a little bit of a problem with egg collectors, particularly endangered species. It was a tradition which started in Victorian times. People read about the adventures of the explorers in Arabia, Africa, America, and Asia, so they decide to make up their own adventures at home. Except there wasn't much treasure to find locally except for egg hunting (metal detectors weren't invented yet), so that's what they did and passed the tradition onto their children. Combined with the urbanization of the country and modern farming practices, there has been a gradual decline in species.
The problem with being an egg-collector is that they can't boast about your collections, except to other egg-collectors, which means that they have to resort to trusted-rings to communicate about their explorations. If they just took photographs of the eggs in nests, it wouldn't be a problem.
It has been illegal to take the eggs of most wild birds since the Wild Birds Protection Act 1954 and it is illegal to possess or control any wild birds' eggs taken since that time under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
It is illegal to sell any wild bird's egg, irrespective of its age.
Possession of wild birds' eggs is an offence of strict liability so that anyone who chooses to be in possession of eggs is obliged to show, on a balance of probabilities, that their possession is lawful. The potential maximum fine for each wild bird's egg is £5,000 and/or six month's imprisonment.
Egg collectors in the UK (an illegal activity in this country) used to correspond to each other through the snail-mail system, referring to each other as No.2, No.7 etc.. Music fans would exchange bootleg tapes of concerts. Anyone trading digital files will probably end up exchanging memory cards/sticks under the guise of an mom'n'pop shop.
Slashdot Mirror
I listen to last.fm thats a music stream in mp3 of copyrighted artist it helps that last.fm (CBS rather large firm) have the license so how is my ISP going to know that ?
If the IP address of the website, the music files are being downloaded from is on a registered IP address whitelist, those files can be assumed to be legal.
If the IP address is just a regular dynamic IP range, they can assume the download is illegal (You may already have a DRM license for those files, but as far as
the ISP is concerned, it isn't a permitted transfer.
It will just force people to go back to exchanging files in person, rather than using the Internet.
As stated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Christianity is offensive to Muslims
The final straw for me to install an ad-blocker was those adverts which chose to expand to pop-up a flash animation window instead of remaining inside their banner. After then it was a game of whack-the-mole using Adblock as the hammer. The advertisers knew what they were buying (a side banner rental) yet choose to go over the line with full-screen adverts. They got greedy and now they have lost.
It is no different from those TV adverts which used sharp noises like kids screaming, plates or cutlery falling onto the floor, cars honking, or just generally loud music. My parents made sure they had a a sound-equalizing TV set which ensures that the decibel level of the TV set remains constant, as well as buying the entire DVD collection of their favourite TV series. They don't need premium satellite or cable subscriptions, so no need for advertisers.
Common sense would tell you that if a lake was pristine before someone started using fertilizers on farm fields, and that there were algae blooms after that time, that it was something to do with the fertilizers. Most articles in the past have talked about fertilizers and nitrates.
What the scientist guy has done, is proved scientifically through trial and error, that it is the phosphorous alone, and not anything else that controls how large the algae blooms get. If other scientists can reproduce his experiment, he gets to publish the paper with his name on it.
Buckminster had the idea of floating cities, where each city would be half a mile in radius and constructed using geodesic dome technology. The outside surface area of the sphere would completely enclose the volume of the sphere. If the internal temperature of the sphere volume were one degree above the surrounding air, that would create enough buoyancy to counteract the weight of the structure and make the sphere float in the surrounding atmosphere like a hot air balloon.
The Cloud Nine project
For most people programming is a long road of breaking your head against a problem until it gets solved. Long hours spent tapping away at the keyboard and honestly "normal" people think we're all out of our minds.
I started learning BASIC programming at the same time as learning high-school mathematics and physics. It was fun being able to take the algorithm used to solve a particular problem (polynomials, combinations/permutations, projectiles/acceleration/velocity) and write a little program that would take in the parameters,calculate then display the results or draw a graph. Then the process was repeated using C and C++.
Posted by JavaManJim
Re:Something to keep in mind
Where would the homeowners fit into the power generator chain - do they go first before the wind turbines or do they go last
just before the last plant to go online?
Debate flares over wind power in Texas
From some of the view pages:
Bat Bike in use
View from the back
Video preview
This picture was also thought to be the Bat-Bike
The new bat-bike?
Some super-big pictures:
Front
Back
A light review
CHRISTIAN BALE was banned from riding Batman's hi-tech motorbike on the set of The Dark Knight - because the producers considered it too dangerous.
The actor said: "Embarrassingly, I didn't get to ride it. There are other motorbikes in the film that I got to burn about on, but not the Batpod - it was deemed too dangerous; they needed me in one piece to finish the damn movie."
Bale says a stunt rider took his place in scenes involving the Batpod in case the actor came off it and injured himself. The machine - described as a steamroller combined with a motorbike and atomic missile - is the caped crusader's latest gadget.
He said the machine was so hard to handle that only one stuntman on the set could ride it without falling off. But he is determined to master the Batpod before the film has its world premiere in New York on July 14.
"I've asked the producers if I can have a go on it before the premiere, so that I really can ride it before I get asked any more of these questions - you can't be Batman and not have been on the bloody Bat bike!"
The Dark Knight is released in the US on July 18 and in the UK on July 25.
Happens with a lot of companies I have known. One company ordered around 40 new PCs' from IBM. The PC's arrived from IBM in a pair of 2m x 2m x 2m cube boxes on the inside of the container. The driver asked if our IT department happened to have a forklift truck available as it would save time unloading.
Well, we didn't, so we had to cut open the boxes and make a little door so we could get in - they had been filled to the brim with styrofoam peanuts and promptly flooded the back of the container before spilling onto the parking lot.
Then, one by one we got the monitors and main units out - all two hundred of them. By the time we were finished, there were enough styrofoam peanuts on the ground to visualize the airflow around the building. They would form streamlines and vortices all around the parking lot. It was our job to chase after every single one for recycling.
Now, mail-order companies seem to enjoy putting the smallest items in the largest boxes. Once ordered some new memory cards and hard disk drives. Each order arrived in a large desktop PC sized box filled with large plastic air-bubbles (empty sealed plastic bags filled with nothing but air), styrofoam peanuts or foam padding. In each case, the padding took up about 20 times as much space as the original item.
int multiply( int a, int b )
{
int x=0;
x += b * (a== 1) + (b
That seems a cool idea - I would happily give up any mouse just to have a simple little mini-tablet that I could just use a single finger to use. Although fingerpads do tend to get a little "trigger happy" if the input event times aren't set correctly.
My personal preference would be a touch-sensitive E-ink screen that could be used as a virtual notepad, so that it would be possible to draw diagrams, write handwritten text, then move these items around to create space, and even maintain a revision history, so that changes could be seen over a period of months over a whole set of pages, not just for the current edit session of the current page, and previous pages could be flipped backwards and forwards, cut and pasted. Current edit systems just seem to treat every image as a totally separate document, which requires great effort to transfer an image.
Why not just have:
if ( flag )
salute();
And save an extra line?
That is the Indian Hill C Coding Standard. It is almost mandatory to learn for certain areas of computer programming such as device driver development and applications programming. Mainly because it is the first documented coding standard that came out and was used by universities and corporations.
I've known some companies to make it a priority that all programmers used this standard when their greatest threat to survival was keeping up technologically with their competitors.
Most article seem to think it took twelve weeks.
the transputer was a really slick idea that went nowhere... 4 high bandwidth connections, one for each neighbor CPU, with onboard memory. I recall that they were programmed in "Occam", a dataflow-oriented language.)
Mainly because CPU clock speed and data bus speed were doubling every year. By the time an accelerator card manufacturer had a card out for six months, Intel had already ensure that the CPU was faster and so the accelerator card rapidly became a de-accelerator card. If you look at the advert pages of old Byte magazines, you will see all sorts of accelerator card that tried to offload work away from the CPU (i860's, TMS34020's, quad transputers, video cards with built in networking). All of these were squelched one way or another (Intel created a custom video bus, added the 80x87 FPU, then put it on-core, created the Xeon with a built in i860, added a larger cache, multi-stage pipelines, superscalar architecture, doubled register size from 16-bits to 32-bits, and so on...)
Also, most applications that benefit from parallel processsing required data to be stored in three-dimensional grids, which needed both floating-point acceleration and six and more memory accesses (up and down as well as north, south, east and west). Both Parallel C and Fortran were available for the transputer, but the problem was cost - a transputer accelerator board cost well over 500 pounds just for a four transputer board.
It's a shame the transputer never made it, but in the PC world a manufacturer needed to have a new product out every six months to keep up against Intel.
There are many parallel processing and networking API's and out there - both past and present - OpenMP, pthreads, CUDA, sockets, etc...
There is a proposal by Apple to create a common API for parallel processing (OpenCL) which would be cross-platform compatible. The Guardian has an article on this topic.
Looks like they mis-spelled gaia, or they tried to mix gaia with maya, and got gaya. I wonder if the school boards and PTA's are going to pick up on this one?
The experts said, "mechanised rail travel was impossible because people would suffocate from the change in air pressure", then they said heavier-than-air flight was impossible", then they said "supersonic flight was impossible because the aircraft would shake itself apart". Up until 60 years ago, traveling between the USA and Europe was on the order of months of time, rather than hours.
But developing the technology to allow for high speed travel for long distances is an evolutionary process. Good examples are the evolution of sea-going craft from simple coracles, currachs, log rafts, then wooden ships, paddle-steamers, iron-hull craft up to ocean liners and nuclear powered air-craft carriers.
Any kind of interplanetary travel would be the same - protecting the crew from the elements (radiation) is the first obstacle, then there is the problem of propulsion over a long period of time. And then there is the actual process of manufacture if the vessel cannot travel from the surface of a planet.
furthermore, nntp is a dying protocol.
Which is why it would be attractive to anyone dealing with illegal images. It's like having underground tunnels that nobody rarely visits, except to those knowing where the entrances leading to the surface are.
In the early of office LAN's when there was just one big Ethernet cable with repeaters for a whole building, there were basically three ways a network card could fail:
o It just stopped working - no problem, just replace the card.
o It just kept jabbering ie. kept sending out random data or the same packet over and over again. This would jam the entire network segment. The only way to fix this was to detach each segment onto an alternative backbone until the rest of the office could get back to work.
o It just sent out the occasional runt - a small packet consisting of less than a header's worth of data packet. Most network cards would just ignore them. Others would keel over faster than a drunk parrot.
o Two cards had the same MAC address. I'm not sure how this happened, but one card just seemed to lose one bit of MAC address. Nobody really complained.
In ancient Egypt, in the time of the Pharoahs, medicine was stored in specially made clay pots which had a face moulded into the pot. In that way, the patients could differentiate between cooking herbs and medicinal products.
Maybe a giant scary face would be one way. But there was an early slashot article where the solution was to have the area covered with black marble and have lots of sharp points triangles sticking up out of the ground.
Speeders in central London
I am sure that is a contradiction in terms. Having take a jounrney by taxi in Central London, there never seemed to be any place where the taxi driver could go over 15 mph.
The UK has a little bit of a problem with egg collectors, particularly endangered species. It was a tradition which started in Victorian times. People read about the adventures of the explorers in Arabia, Africa, America, and Asia, so they decide to make up their own adventures at home. Except there wasn't much treasure to find locally except for egg hunting (metal detectors weren't invented yet), so that's what they did and passed the tradition onto their children. Combined with the urbanization of the country and modern farming practices, there has been a gradual decline in species.
The problem with being an egg-collector is that they can't boast about your collections, except to other egg-collectors, which means that they have to resort to trusted-rings to communicate about their explorations. If they just took photographs of the eggs in nests, it wouldn't be a problem.
Egg Collecting Laws
It has been illegal to take the eggs of most wild birds since the Wild Birds Protection Act 1954 and it is illegal to possess or control any wild birds' eggs taken since that time under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.
It is illegal to sell any wild bird's egg, irrespective of its age.
Possession of wild birds' eggs is an offence of strict liability so that anyone who chooses to be in possession of eggs is obliged to show, on a balance of probabilities, that their possession is lawful. The potential maximum fine for each wild bird's egg is £5,000 and/or six month's imprisonment.
Egg collectors in the UK (an illegal activity in this country) used to correspond to each other through the snail-mail system, referring to each other as No.2, No.7 etc.. Music fans would exchange bootleg tapes of concerts. Anyone trading digital files will probably end up exchanging memory cards/sticks under the guise of an mom'n'pop shop.