This will assign all the code to $_, replace "x" with "pack+" and then execute the code. Remove everything but "code here" and you have a piece of code that doesn't really work.
Oh - if you run the code through perl's B::Deparse module, it becomes a lot more readable.
I tried to paste the code here, but the lameness filter kicks inn:(
Every national TLD is two-letter, and every two-letter TLD is a national one.
The US already have the TLD.us, but it seems that nobody wants to use it.
> Microsoft, to use one example, released MS Office to destroy Lotus Bad example. Lotus did not want to help the MS Windows sales, so they refused to make a windows version of 1-2-3 for the longest time. Unfortunately for Lotus, people bought Windows anyway, and they started looking for Windows-based spreadsheets. When Lotus finally realised their mistake and got around to making a Windows version, it was way to late. --
> Open protocol standards are good but one has to > be able to make money from a idea
Uhm, Instant Messenger is just like 'write' with a GUI. What's the big revolutionary idea here?
Actually, I think that if AOL keeps the protocol closed, then Microsoft will create their own closed protocol in their new MS-message client that is pre-installed on Win2000. It will ofcourse also be included in the next security patch for IE4 and IE5.
Now - any messanger program is useless if you can't reach the people that you want to send messages to, and most people only want to run one message-client anyway. That means that as soon as the MS-message client has gained a certain market-share it's gonna snowball to total dominanse (it also means that it's gonna have a tough time to gain the first market-share though). With an open protocol everyone can make their own client with a various degrees of complexity and GUI-fancyness, and they can share the market. --
> I can answer your Panasonic A120 question though. > Simply put, the DVD laser isn't powerful enough > for the CD-R media to reflect properly (correct > me if i'm wrong).
Power has nothing to do with it, but wavelength has. The red laser from a DVD-player will simply shine right through the reflective layer of a CD-R. DVD-players that can read CD-R discs always has a separate infra-red laser. --
> A documentary would - in my opinion - be far more appropriate for this subject.
Then you should check out "Triumph of the nerds" from PBS. This is a pretty good documentary where Jobs, Gates, Allen, Wozniak and many more are interviewed. The documentary is based on the book "Accidental Empires". And as the book says: "Certainly Bill Gates doesn't like to be characterized as a megalomaniac, and Steve Jobs doesn't like to be described as a sociopath, but that's what they are. Trust me." So there's no need to expect a glossed over version of the reality here.
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Well, if CC wants to give people a fair deal, they should offer to replace all Silver DiVX-discs with it's DVD-counterpart, or any other DVD if the title hasn't been released on DVD. AFIAK there were less than 20.000 DiVX-accounts that had been opened. If everybody with an account has bought (converted) 2 discs, this would probably cost DiVX less than $1.000.000, which is close to nothing compared to their other DiVX related losses.
However - if CC wanted to give customers a fair deal, they wouldn't have developed DiVX in the first place, would they:) --
Well, being the happy owner of a Sony 200-disc CD-changer, I'm waiting anxiously for their DVD-version to be released this fall. Of course, I don't know how good this player/really/ is, but I can't imagine it's possible to own this player and not be happy with it:) --
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Well.. I tried to paste the unobfuscated version, but unfortunately it is caught by the lameness filter here :(
:-)
Anyway, to unobfuscate it do this:
First paste the code into your favourite editor and change eval to print
Then save the file as decss.pl and execute this command in the shell:
perl decss.pl | perl -MO=Deparse
Now it's almost readable
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Well, it's almost encoded already...
:(
The code is like this:
$_ = 'code here';s/x/pack+/;eval;
This will assign all the code to $_, replace "x" with "pack+" and then execute the code. Remove everything but "code here" and you have a piece of code that doesn't really work.
Oh - if you run the code through perl's B::Deparse module, it becomes a lot more readable.
I tried to paste the code here, but the lameness filter kicks inn
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Every national TLD is two-letter, and every two-letter TLD is a national one. .us, but it seems that nobody wants to use it.
The US already have the TLD
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You can always connnect an ethernet adapter to the pad's USB-port. Of course - then it's not wireless anymore.
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> Microsoft, to use one example, released MS Office to destroy Lotus Bad example. Lotus did not want to help the MS Windows sales, so they refused to make a windows version of 1-2-3 for the longest time. Unfortunately for Lotus, people bought Windows anyway, and they started looking for Windows-based spreadsheets. When Lotus finally realised their mistake and got around to making a Windows version, it was way to late.
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You aren't vague enough
> Typing on a 'keyboard' to create input for
> a 'computer'
Using an input-device to create input for a data-processing-device.
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It does the same as a mod_perl script running under Apache::Registry, but you can use Java instead of Perl.
So... if you know Java, but not Perl, you should use mod_jserv.
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Huh?
Run MySQL - It does nothing, but it does it really, really fast.
Seriously. If you want to use any of the semi-advanced features from the SQL92 standard, you can't use MySQL.
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> Open protocol standards are good but one has to
> be able to make money from a idea
Uhm, Instant Messenger is just like 'write' with a GUI. What's the big revolutionary idea here?
Actually, I think that if AOL keeps the protocol closed, then Microsoft will create their own closed protocol in their new MS-message client that is pre-installed on Win2000. It will ofcourse also be included in the next security patch for IE4 and IE5.
Now - any messanger program is useless if you can't reach the people that you want to send messages to, and most people only want to run one message-client anyway. That means that as soon as the MS-message client has gained a certain market-share it's gonna snowball to total dominanse (it also means that it's gonna have a tough time to gain the first market-share though). With an open protocol everyone can make their own client with a various degrees of complexity and GUI-fancyness, and they can share the market.
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> I can answer your Panasonic A120 question though.
> Simply put, the DVD laser isn't powerful enough
> for the CD-R media to reflect properly (correct
> me if i'm wrong).
Power has nothing to do with it, but wavelength has. The red laser from a DVD-player will simply shine right through the reflective layer of a CD-R.
DVD-players that can read CD-R discs always has a separate infra-red laser.
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> A documentary would - in my opinion - be far more appropriate for this subject.
Then you should check out "Triumph of the nerds" from PBS. This is a pretty good documentary where Jobs, Gates, Allen, Wozniak and many more are interviewed. The documentary is based on the book "Accidental Empires". And as the book says: "Certainly Bill Gates doesn't like to be characterized as a megalomaniac, and Steve Jobs doesn't like to be described as a sociopath, but that's what they are. Trust me." So there's no need to expect a glossed over version of the reality here.
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Well, if CC wants to give people a fair deal, they should offer to replace all Silver DiVX-discs with it's DVD-counterpart, or any other DVD if the title hasn't been released on DVD. AFIAK there were less than 20.000 DiVX-accounts that had been opened. If everybody with an account has bought (converted) 2 discs, this would probably cost DiVX less than $1.000.000, which is close to nothing compared to their other DiVX related losses.
:)
However - if CC wanted to give customers a fair deal, they wouldn't have developed DiVX in the first place, would they
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Well, being the happy owner of a Sony 200-disc CD-changer, I'm waiting anxiously for their DVD-version to be released this fall. Of course, I don't know how good this player /really/ is, but I can't imagine it's possible to own this player and not be happy with it :)
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