KDE does contain X-specific code, but even assuming you could work around it, X windows allows KDE stuff like video card support and hardware cceleration. Running KDE in MS Windows (using the Qt framebuffer I assume) would require using the CPU to handle everything, which would slow down the system noticeably.
A new unnamed burglar is at large. More specifically, this new burglar targets homes with their front door left wide open while everyone is out. The burglar walks into the house, eats food out of the fridge, uses the toilet, doesn't flush, steals everything valuable, and leaves. Although this can be a fairly malicious burglar, it is very unlikely to attack many homes due to the fact that majority of homeowners lock their doors when they leave the house.
Here's the first paragraph of one of the Heise online articles:
The controversy over the translation of the US play Civilization 3 (Civ3) by fans of the play escalates. The company Infogrames, which possesses international rights to distribute the game, sent the 39-year old project manager Fiebach additionally for the provisional order an omission assertion and a lawyer bill of over 1,000 Marks...In the omission assertion Fiebach is requested by the lawyer of the company, Stephan Wiedorfer, to omit any processing of the computer program Civilization 3 and to cease distribution of 'processing' created so far. With an offence against this agreement Fiebach would have to pay a contractual penalty at a value of 20,000 Marks as well as attorney's fees.
The rub is that Fiebach is also being nailed for further distribution of his translation over the internet (not sure what copyright law precedent is in regards to this sort of thing):
(He is being held) responsible for further files which are based on his translation which are distributed by third parties over the internet.
Infogames' German-language version of Civ3 is not due to be released for four months, at least:
...a translation through third parties is out of the question, particularly since Infogrames Germany counts on significant incomes with the sales starting in March 2002 of the available German version of Civ 3.
Is the phenomenon of people naming their website something that has nothing to do with the content of the website so widespread that it necessitites a new metadata tag and the consequent alteration of search engines to recognize it?
Google seems to do a good enough job of filtering out irrelevant responses as it is.
Rumors about Salmon of Doubt's publication have been floating arount the 'net and elsewhere since the mid 1990's. I think if Adams sat on the work so long, he probably didn't think it was any good.
Will Salmon be Adams' Simarillion? Remains to be seen, I guess. But anyway, who would want to read an unfinished book?
I read where the Cactus Data Shield works by corrupting the table of contents on the CD so that a PC's CD player software can't play the music, but a standalone CD player can.
What's the difference between how the two types of CD players operate that makes this type of copy protection possible?
Perhaps the the title of the article referrs to the tight security at the Comdex show, which restricted from bringing bags, or laptops into the trade show. There was a message on the comdex web site that said: "please leave bags, briefcases, backpacks, laptops, etc. at home or in your hotel room". I guess the only gadget you could bring onto the floor would be a handheld.
Any attendees present? How was the secuirty? Was it lax, or was it long lines and metal-detectors galore?
The original trans-Atlanitc rowing record (Canary Islands to Barbados in 41 days) was set by two New Zealanders, Phil Stubbs, and Robbie Hamill back in 1997. Their fully-laden boat weighed over 2000 pounds. Stubbs later died in a plane crash.
There's been a lot of talk aobut how you can't use a Plam to reilably dial a phone. I've read that it was both a speaker limitation and a shortcoming of the dragonball CPU's ability to generate tones. Has anyone had any luck using a dragonball-based PDA for phone-dialing?
So MSFT's big killer app truns out to be a stripped-down PC. What a letdown. The PS2 is a superior console, since it was designed (hardware-wise) specifically as a gaming system. It's not just a computational device hacked up to turn it into a console. Plus it runs Linux (Somebody should port Linux to the Xbox. That would be a 1337 hack).
Certain firewalls are contained and operate from a write-protected floppy disk. Isn't it possible to run a whole DNS machine from a tiny distro contained on a write-protected floppy? This would sidestep encryption issues as well as having that Old Skool appeal that the kids are so into these days:)
Ths sounds suspiciously like the controversy last year over Cydoor adware being clandestiely installed when a user set up the antivirus app InVircible (anybody remember that?). People would find Cydoor on their systems and not know how it got there.
It eventually turned out that Cydoor was causing urlParse errors on some users' machines, and there followed a big to-do about whether it was possible to remove Cydoor without having to remove InVircible. Wotta mess. The Cydoor people really ought to go back to honest work, like developing those porn-site popup windows that keep reappearing
The Israelis came up with a dna-based nanowire a couple years back. There's some talk on nanotech mailing lists about using ribosomes (the things inside cells that assemble proteins from instructions encoded in RNA) as organic nano-assemlers. Theroretically (once someone figured out how to code RNA to produce the right molecules), the ribosomes could be used as self-assemblers to churn out miles of organic nanowire. You could even code robosomes to assemble other ribosomes, thus exponentially increasing output. The only costly part would be the (gold) electrodes.
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KDE does contain X-specific code, but even assuming you could work around it, X windows allows KDE stuff like video card support and hardware cceleration. Running KDE in MS Windows (using the Qt framebuffer I assume) would require using the CPU to handle everything, which would slow down the system noticeably.
A new unnamed burglar is at large. More specifically, this new burglar targets homes with their front door left wide open while everyone is out. The burglar walks into the house, eats food out of the fridge, uses the toilet, doesn't flush, steals everything valuable, and leaves. Although this can be a fairly malicious burglar, it is very unlikely to attack many homes due to the fact that majority of homeowners lock their doors when they leave the house.
The controversy over the translation of the US play Civilization 3 (Civ3) by fans of the play escalates. The company Infogrames, which possesses international rights to distribute the game, sent the 39-year old project manager Fiebach additionally for the provisional order an omission assertion and a lawyer bill of over 1,000 Marks...In the omission assertion Fiebach is requested by the lawyer of the company, Stephan Wiedorfer, to omit any processing of the computer program Civilization 3 and to cease distribution of 'processing' created so far. With an offence against this agreement Fiebach would have to pay a contractual penalty at a value of 20,000 Marks as well as attorney's fees.
The rub is that Fiebach is also being nailed for further distribution of his translation over the internet (not sure what copyright law precedent is in regards to this sort of thing):
(He is being held) responsible for further files which are based on his translation which are distributed by third parties over the internet.
Infogames' German-language version of Civ3 is not due to be released for four months, at least:
Google seems to do a good enough job of filtering out irrelevant responses as it is.
Wahington State went after spammers. The state was the first to pass anti-spamming legislation. More info here: http://www.wa.gov/ago/clearinghouse/consumer/junke mail/home.html
Will Salmon be Adams' Simarillion? Remains to be seen, I guess. But anyway, who would want to read an unfinished book?
I read where the Cactus Data Shield works by corrupting the table of contents on the CD so that a PC's CD player software can't play the music, but a standalone CD player can. What's the difference between how the two types of CD players operate that makes this type of copy protection possible?
Any attendees present? How was the secuirty? Was it lax, or was it long lines and metal-detectors galore?
The original trans-Atlanitc rowing record (Canary Islands to Barbados in 41 days) was set by two New Zealanders, Phil Stubbs, and Robbie Hamill back in 1997. Their fully-laden boat weighed over 2000 pounds. Stubbs later died in a plane crash.
There's been a lot of talk aobut how you can't use a Plam to reilably dial a phone. I've read that it was both a speaker limitation and a shortcoming of the dragonball CPU's ability to generate tones. Has anyone had any luck using a dragonball-based PDA for phone-dialing?
So MSFT's big killer app truns out to be a stripped-down PC. What a letdown. The PS2 is a superior console, since it was designed (hardware-wise) specifically as a gaming system. It's not just a computational device hacked up to turn it into a console. Plus it runs Linux (Somebody should port Linux to the Xbox. That would be a 1337 hack).
Certain firewalls are contained and operate from a write-protected floppy disk. Isn't it possible to run a whole DNS machine from a tiny distro contained on a write-protected floppy? This would sidestep encryption issues as well as having that Old Skool appeal that the kids are so into these days :)
It eventually turned out that Cydoor was causing urlParse errors on some users' machines, and there followed a big to-do about whether it was possible to remove Cydoor without having to remove InVircible. Wotta mess. The Cydoor people really ought to go back to honest work, like developing those porn-site popup windows that keep reappearing
The Israelis came up with a dna-based nanowire a couple years back. There's some talk on nanotech mailing lists about using ribosomes (the things inside cells that assemble proteins from instructions encoded in RNA) as organic nano-assemlers. Theroretically (once someone figured out how to code RNA to produce the right molecules), the ribosomes could be used as self-assemblers to churn out miles of organic nanowire. You could even code robosomes to assemble other ribosomes, thus exponentially increasing output. The only costly part would be the (gold) electrodes.