It might be that the data on CD and CD-R are identical, but because the physical medium differs some players cannot play CD-Rs eg. some DVD-players don't support CD-R, but do often support CD-RW.
Except that your push actually moves as a wave because there is empty space between atoms and molecules. To make this work you need a stick made of neutrons and it must be so dense that neutrons touch each other. Oh, but inside neutrons is also space. Better make that stick of quarks. And also quarks seem to made of something smaller..
Unless you can make a stick of material without any gaps, you cannot push it faster than light. And if you could make that stick it would be too heavy and would collapse under it's own weight.
P2P networking with mobilephones.. blah.. They speak about Java and Wap, but don't mention that on most phones Java midlets can't store anything on the phone, sometimes the midlet cannot even connect to internet. And when they mentioned Wap I figured out the whole thing.
Simply make a PHP (or JSP whatever) wap site that works as a fileserver that you can browse. Then let other people browse your files too. Now we have "P2P" sharing with mobilephones. But there are several problems. Ringtones etc aren't compatible, or if combatible format is used they sound really crappy. Also logos and picturemessages differ from phone to phone. And it's often impossible to send stuff out from your phone. (except with never models that use "real" OS like Symbian OS).
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In this section, we review a number of operating systems that were either identified as not satisfactory in the original publication, or were not covered by our research at the time. Several systems,
such as Linux, use the same, satisfactory ISN generator as the one used a year ago, and because of that, are not covered here in any more detail.
IRCC JPEG2000 uses wavelets but JPEG uses discrete cosine transform. And these are complitely different techniques to compress images. Wavelets compress the whole image and DCT only small blocks. But then again, I might be wrong:)
And why shouldn't they make stupid people pay? If you can't download your GPL software for free, but instead want someone to configure, compile and install the software for you, then you should be charged for it.
And also, they only have to give the source code for the apps you have downloaded and installed.
IMHO the idea of adsl etc is that the connection is always open, so it doesn't really matter how fast it is. With 28.8kbps you can download almost 300megs a day and 8.9gigs a month. Isn't that enough?
But where does it say that you must have comments and macros there? I've done some assebler programs (even big ones) without comments or macros. It might be good to have good coding practices but it isn't mandatory. You could also have all the comments on a different file and let the IDE combine the code and the comments for you.
IMHO you're allowed to port a GPL project to another programming language, eg. C to Pascal. But what if you port it to Assembler? Are you still complying GPL because you distribute the software with.ASM-files created with GCC or some other compiler? Or just dump your executables through de-assembler and claim that those are the source code.
Why can't Blizzard change the CD-Key check route so that is always checks the key from Battle.net servers and not from the server you might use to play. This should be fairly easy to implement and would catch some pirates (but not the ones with key generator). You could ofcourse fake DNS entries or forward packets to your own server, but this would be too hard for "normal" people and anyways you can play directly with your friends without Battle.net and CD-Key check.
Best think would be if Blizzard starts to sell official Battle.net servers (or it could come with the game). That would be great and also would fix many problems due to over populated Battle.net servers. And people still would use to official Battle.net server because there you can collect fame, score, be number one in ladder etc..
1) ftp one kernel from eg. ftp.kernel.org
2) untar it to/usr/src/linux
3) make menuconfig
4) make-kpkg clean
5) make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
6) dpkg the created new kernel.deb
and now you have custom configured kernel for you 386sx box.
I newer use precompiled kernels (except to install Debian), because it is so easy to compile just the drivers you need, so kernel won't bloat. Ah and 386sx-16 compiles kernel for about 28hours:-)
But are they using alfa, beta or gamma radiation? Alfa rays stop on the paper of the envelope, beta would go a bit further, but not through metal and gamma rays will go through any envelope you could mail.
If they are using beta radiation what prevents the terrorist to mail the spores with aluminium foil protected envelope??
Actually you can right-click a form submit button and save as from there. I use this often to save PDF documents after some long EULA page that you must agree with. If I don't save the file IE loads PDF-plugin and shows the damn document.
Furthermore even with windows if you want support for many of these codecs you still have to go out and hunt down the codec. One of the most annoying things with avi files is the you never know what format they are in. The avi format actually can use as many as 15 separate formats (codecs) which are incompatable with each other.
Also a Quicktime video (mov) can be encoded with any number of codecs and there is no way to know this while you download the file. Once it's in the player you can go to Get Info and see the codec of audio/video streams. Unfortunately the Windows Mediaplayer doesn't do this anymore, the old version used to print the name of the missing codec to screen.
Same goes in Finland, except you usually have to ask the dealer to mod the player (costs from 50-100$). I don't actually have anything against regions if the DVDs were same here in R2 as in R1 (but in PAL please:).
Typical R2 DVD has English, German, French, Italian soundtrack (5.1 sound on English, rest is Dolby Surround), 10+ subtitles (Hebrew, Hungary, Danish etc), and the extras are INTERACTIVE MENU and maybe a trailer. This is so unfair!!
There are some good R2 DVDs like Matrix, Aliens collectors boxset etc.
You may not have noticed, but the corner logos have been there for literally years before PVRs became popular. And are they really that common online? Even a twenty-minute sitcom would take me so long to download via broadband, it's more worth my while to wait for the rerun.
Hmm, broadband speed is something like 256kbps to 2Mbps and a 25min sitcom compressed with average quality takes 200MB space and 22-106 minutes to download. So where is the problem?
The logos are for brand awareness, pure and simple. When there are 500 channels via cable for people to choose from, NBC needs to do *something* to make theirs stand out.
But before that I'll read Terry Brooks (Shannara saga), David&Leigh Eddings (Belgariad etc) and Raymond E. Feist (Magician, Krondor etc) many many times. And H2G2 is also in the list.
Paint Shop Pro, Ulead programs, Photoshop and many more support Gif87 format, both read & write. And I still use it often. It creates smaller files than Gif89 if the source image is around 5000 pixels b&w or 16 colors.
IIRC at that time there was no opengl drivers for Voodoo cards. Many games used the Glide for Voodoo and opengl/direct3d for other cards, or more often offered only software rendering for other cards. MiniGL was a dirty hack to get some level of opengl support for Voodoo cards (because Carmack would only release opengl version of quake).
And what about Matrox G200, they had a opengl2direct3d driver before they were able to produce a working opengl driver.
But in all these cases the customer was informed what was going on. This is what ATI is lacking. They should tell people that their driver is "optimized" for Quake3 and that this "optimization" actually degrades the image quality (and there should be a way to disable this in the drivers).
Ah, this reminds me of some beta SB Annihilator drivers. There was some program that would set the best quality vs speed settings for each game you'd run. But it was fully configuratable program and you could choose not to install it with the drivers.
Your analogy doesn't work. In this case ATI detects quake3.exe and applies optimizations that actually degrade the image quality. In your database example this would mean that when you do a query for all opensource programs installed you might get Windows included in your query.
This isn't the first time when display drivers have been optimized for benchmarks. Some years ago many drivers detected Winstone and alike 2d benchmarks.
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It might be that the data on CD and CD-R are identical, but because the physical medium differs some players cannot play CD-Rs eg. some DVD-players don't support CD-R, but do often support CD-RW.
Except that your push actually moves as a wave because there is empty space between atoms and molecules. To make this work you need a stick made of neutrons and it must be so dense that neutrons touch each other. Oh, but inside neutrons is also space. Better make that stick of quarks. And also quarks seem to made of something smaller..
Unless you can make a stick of material without any gaps, you cannot push it faster than light. And if you could make that stick it would be too heavy and would collapse under it's own weight.
P2P networking with mobilephones.. blah.. They speak about Java and Wap, but don't mention that on most phones Java midlets can't store anything on the phone, sometimes the midlet cannot even connect to internet. And when they mentioned Wap I figured out the whole thing.
Simply make a PHP (or JSP whatever) wap site that works as a fileserver that you can browse. Then let other people browse your files too. Now we have "P2P" sharing with mobilephones. But there are several problems. Ringtones etc aren't compatible, or if combatible format is used they sound really crappy. Also logos and picturemessages differ from phone to phone. And it's often impossible to send stuff out from your phone. (except with never models that use "real" OS like Symbian OS).
If you read the article is says:
IRCC JPEG2000 uses wavelets but JPEG uses discrete cosine transform. And these are complitely different techniques to compress images. Wavelets compress the whole image and DCT only small blocks. But then again, I might be wrong :)
And why shouldn't they make stupid people pay? If you can't download your GPL software for free, but instead want someone to configure, compile and install the software for you, then you should be charged for it.
And also, they only have to give the source code for the apps you have downloaded and installed.
IMHO the idea of adsl etc is that the connection is always open, so it doesn't really matter how fast it is. With 28.8kbps you can download almost 300megs a day and 8.9gigs a month. Isn't that enough?
But where does it say that you must have comments and macros there? I've done some assebler programs (even big ones) without comments or macros. It might be good to have good coding practices but it isn't mandatory. You could also have all the comments on a different file and let the IDE combine the code and the comments for you.
IMHO you're allowed to port a GPL project to another programming language, eg. C to Pascal. But what if you port it to Assembler? Are you still complying GPL because you distribute the software with .ASM-files created with GCC or some other compiler? Or just dump your executables through de-assembler and claim that those are the source code.
Why can't Blizzard change the CD-Key check route so that is always checks the key from Battle.net servers and not from the server you might use to play. This should be fairly easy to implement and would catch some pirates (but not the ones with key generator). You could ofcourse fake DNS entries or forward packets to your own server, but this would be too hard for "normal" people and anyways you can play directly with your friends without Battle.net and CD-Key check.
Best think would be if Blizzard starts to sell official Battle.net servers (or it could come with the game). That would be great and also would fix many problems due to over populated Battle.net servers. And people still would use to official Battle.net server because there you can collect fame, score, be number one in ladder etc..
Debian and new kernels are soo simple to use:
/usr/src/linux
:-)
1) ftp one kernel from eg. ftp.kernel.org
2) untar it to
3) make menuconfig
4) make-kpkg clean
5) make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image
6) dpkg the created new kernel.deb
and now you have custom configured kernel for you 386sx box.
I newer use precompiled kernels (except to install Debian), because it is so easy to compile just the drivers you need, so kernel won't bloat. Ah and 386sx-16 compiles kernel for about 28hours
But are they using alfa, beta or gamma radiation? Alfa rays stop on the paper of the envelope, beta would go a bit further, but not through metal and gamma rays will go through any envelope you could mail.
If they are using beta radiation what prevents the terrorist to mail the spores with aluminium foil protected envelope??
IIRC DVDs are required to have either Dolby Digital or MPEG Layer II soundtrack. All other formats are optional.
You can use:
Content-Type: Application/Download
Content-Disposition: filename=blah.pdf
in IE to open Save As -dialog with blah.pdf as filename.
Actually you can right-click a form submit button and save as from there. I use this often to save PDF documents after some long EULA page that you must agree with. If I don't save the file IE loads PDF-plugin and shows the damn document.
Also a Quicktime video (mov) can be encoded with any number of codecs and there is no way to know this while you download the file. Once it's in the player you can go to Get Info and see the codec of audio/video streams. Unfortunately the Windows Mediaplayer doesn't do this anymore, the old version used to print the name of the missing codec to screen.
Same goes in Finland, except you usually have to ask the dealer to mod the player (costs from 50-100$). I don't actually have anything against regions if the DVDs were same here in R2 as in R1 (but in PAL please :).
Typical R2 DVD has English, German, French, Italian soundtrack (5.1 sound on English, rest is Dolby Surround), 10+ subtitles (Hebrew, Hungary, Danish etc), and the extras are INTERACTIVE MENU and maybe a trailer. This is so unfair!!
There are some good R2 DVDs like Matrix, Aliens collectors boxset etc.
using javascript to change URLs is stupid and wont work with Lynx etc. (Or with my IE because I have javascript turned off)
Just use HTTP-authentication (Apache or Perl/PHP-script [or IIS]) and you have no probs.
Or if you really have a secret page use HTTPS or SSH and less.
AIM is available for Symbian OS so it should work on 7650.
You may not have noticed, but the corner logos have been there for literally years before PVRs became popular. And are they really that common online? Even a twenty-minute sitcom would take me so long to download via broadband, it's more worth my while to wait for the rerun.
Hmm, broadband speed is something like 256kbps to 2Mbps and a 25min sitcom compressed with average quality takes 200MB space and 22-106 minutes to download. So where is the problem?
The logos are for brand awareness, pure and simple. When there are 500 channels via cable for people to choose from, NBC needs to do *something* to make theirs stand out.
That *something* could be good programs..
But before that I'll read Terry Brooks (Shannara saga), David&Leigh Eddings (Belgariad etc) and Raymond E. Feist (Magician, Krondor etc) many many times. And H2G2 is also in the list.
And next time I remember to read that NOT word in the post I'm replying to :P
Paint Shop Pro, Ulead programs, Photoshop and many more support Gif87 format, both read & write. And I still use it often. It creates smaller files than Gif89 if the source image is around 5000 pixels b&w or 16 colors.
IIRC at that time there was no opengl drivers for Voodoo cards. Many games used the Glide for Voodoo and opengl/direct3d for other cards, or more often offered only software rendering for other cards. MiniGL was a dirty hack to get some level of opengl support for Voodoo cards (because Carmack would only release opengl version of quake).
And what about Matrox G200, they had a opengl2direct3d driver before they were able to produce a working opengl driver.
But in all these cases the customer was informed what was going on. This is what ATI is lacking. They should tell people that their driver is "optimized" for Quake3 and that this "optimization" actually degrades the image quality (and there should be a way to disable this in the drivers).
Ah, this reminds me of some beta SB Annihilator drivers. There was some program that would set the best quality vs speed settings for each game you'd run. But it was fully configuratable program and you could choose not to install it with the drivers.
Your analogy doesn't work. In this case ATI detects quake3.exe and applies optimizations that actually degrade the image quality. In your database example this would mean that when you do a query for all opensource programs installed you might get Windows included in your query.
This isn't the first time when display drivers have been optimized for benchmarks. Some years ago many drivers detected Winstone and alike 2d benchmarks.