"May cause gas with oily discharge. Frequent bowel movements; an urgent need to have them and an inability to control them."
Are you talking about Olestra (or whatever that undigestable fat is called)?
I ate a large quantity of fat-free Olestra potato chips once. They didn't taste quite the same, but they weren't bad, and I don't recall any such side effects. However, I hear some people react to it very strongly in a negative way.
The device comes with a mandatory 'automatic purge' feature. Each recording is marked by a timestamp on disk and thirty one days after a recording has been made, it is automatically deleted. This feature fits in with Japanese copyright rules.
Once someone hacks it, they just have to set up a cron job that runs
find / -name *.mpg -exec touch {} \;
every week or so, so that the fs timestamps are updated (oh come on, you don't think they'd actually be smart enough to use something other than the filesystem time stamp, do you?).
Who on earth is this written for? It says at the bottom that at least two people contributed to the report. The language is like that of a 4th grader. Is this what all ABC News reports look and/or sound like?
This makes the BBC seem like something written by Stephen Hawking.
Do you also believe that car modifications (that don't affect safety of the vehicle) should be illegal? When people purchase a piece of hardware, they don't sign a contract saying they won't do anything to it. When buying a DVD, they don't sign an agreement that they will only watch it in Windows or on a standalone player. Why should some lame robot be any different, that just replaces CD audio data with very low bandwidth video data?
These things are fully within the limits of the law of any sane country. Sure, there are some exceptions, like the radio interference regulations of the FCC and equivalent organizations for electronics, and emissions laws for cars, but as long as the reverse engineering doesn't harm anybody else, it is (or should be) perfectly fine. Reverse engineering a dinky little video player doesn't harm anybody.
Profiting from someone else's creative work without their permission (publishing piracy) is indeed wrong. None of these things are intended for that.
I'm pretty sure there's a color laser out there that will print on banner paper (the zigzag stuff with perforations between pages and holes on the sides to pull the paper through). I know there are B/W lasers that do it. If you could make your labels in a similar format, I bet you could just use a wooden dowel with a simple stand in place of a stack of paper, and feed it into the printer.
There's a difference between a feature and a quantity.
Saying that X amount of RAM will always be enough is nothing like saying that API XYZ will always work for device class ABC.
Name one feature that was recently added to scanners as an "innovation." You can't. They only have increases in quality and speed, both measures of a quantity. The basic features, like an automatic document feeder or transparency scanner, can be handled by a standard API. A standard API can easily be designed to handle futuristic qualites. For example, to future-proof a scanner API, the API could specify 32 bits per color channel, arbitrary color spaces, an arbitrary number of color channels, and maximum speed limited only by the computer CPU and communication interface.
The people who don't see a use for broadband are usually consumers. For anybody who wants to contribute to the online society, broadband is a must. CVS, ssh, etc. all run dog slow over dialup. Even though upload is usually slower than download, it's still fast enough to allow anyone to start their own online webcast of music that's legal to share, upload music they created to an online repository, etc.
Only Microsoft has ever sold a console below cost. Some companies have sold at-cost in the past, but never below cost. Look it up on Google; maybe a search query like "myth game console money cost below" or something.
USB is just a low level data bus. Aside from basic descriptions of types of devices (mass storage, HID, etc.), USB doesn't specify the protocol those devices use to communicate. Most storage devices use the standard mass storage protocal, and all USB keyboards and mice use the standard HID protocol, but scanners and printers, even if they use the standard printer/imaging device protocols, usually won't work without a proprietary protocol on top of that.
Everything a scanner does can be abstracted by a common API. There's no feature that would ever be unique to a vendor.
Does VideoLAN support NAV? I use Ogle and Xine right now because I have several DVD's that don't use title 1 for the movie, and it seems wasteful to use a TOC listing program to find the longest title and play that, when the disc menus already know what the correct title is.
The agents in the field, however, are usually from poverty stricken nations with little hope for anything else. They hear a rallying call, and with no hope left of any other method working to attain their goals, they are convinced by a few maniacal individuals that terrorism is the one true way to live. If all wealth was distributed as described in this article, not just in the US but worldwide, everyone would have enough money to survive and live a middle class lifestyle. Nobody would have any excuses for a lack of success. Anyone who wants more than the middle class lifestyle they are provided, such as entertainment, faster or more luxurious cars, bigger homes, and so on, will have to learn and develop their own innovative products.
The difference between terrorism and the various guerilla tactics, etc. used by the United States to escape the rule of Great Britain lies mostly in the fact that the US soldiers only attacked Britis soldiers. Terrorists typically try to cause the deaths of thousands of innocents, or the destruction of resources on which those people depend, in order to get the government to cave in to their demands to stop the suffering of those who don't deserve to suffer.
Effectively, this means that functional aspects of code cannot be copyrighted. So, the steps that are absolutely necessary to perform a task are not protected. I think that this would especially be the case when dealing with hardware interfaces.
Note that I am not a lawyer. I'm a software developer who is doing something similar to the process described in the article. However, I'm not just doing a translation from ASM to C. Such a translation would be useless anyway, since the driver is for Windows.
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What the crafriggiap are you talking about? You just spouted a bunch of nonsense! Nonsense troll! SMP has nothing to do with frame buffer has nothing to do with GART API (what the crap??) has nothing to do with GTK+ has nothing to do with ncurses!
By the way, I'm using an AthlonXP 1800+ with 512MB of RAM (256MB right now since I'm loaning a PC2700 DIMM to my brother). When mixing audio in Acid or another program, low latency and realtime performance are essential. Mixing 32 tracks of audio with effects (reverbs, choruses, filters, equalizers, compressors) and software synthesizers into 256 sample buffers (5ms ASIO -- DirectSound skips below 50-80ms on simple apps; Winamp uses ~2000ms buffers) only takes about 30-50 percent CPU power, yet when I open a menu with GUI effects turned on, the 256 sample buffer that was last played repeats until the menu is done scrolling/fading, causing a very annoying buzzing sound and a dropout in the audio. 50-80 percent of the CPU is plenty for opening a menu. There's no reason the GUI should take the CPU over from more important tasks just to make the menus animate a little smoother.
It's not a senseless bash against Windows. It's a legitimate concern that makes it difficult to use Windows for professional applications like audio production. It makes absolutely no sense to optimize for the eyes when the ears are much more sensitive to dropouts. If there's a momentary delay opening a menu, people won't notice that as much as their audio buzzing while the menu is opening.
(paraphrase) sound card sharing bandwidth of CPU bus with video card
No, sound skips when scrolling IE because the GUI operates at realtime priority, preempting any other tasks. It's been this way for a very long time. Back in the day of serial mice and 486's, it was possible to measure a significant difference in hard disk data throughput when moving the mouse.
An 81GHz processor won't change the fact that Windows sacrifices all sense and sensibility to improve the user's first impression. Sure, the UI seems responsive, but when you actually try to do anything, it's a really convoluted system, where the GUI has higher priority than tasks that are actually truly important, like rendering my 35 tracks of audio in Acid Pro 4 in realtime into 256 sample long buffers.
You can disable all GUI effects like animated and fading menus, show window contents when moving, and IE smooth scrolling to improve the situation until your favorite software is available for a better designed OS, like Linux, probably MacOS X (haven't used it myself though so I can't comment definitively) or if we're lucky, OpenBeOS some day.
I can't believe some of the things those people would and wouldn't believe. One of the most outrageous in my opinion is that copying a file from one hard drive to another noticably changed the sound. Of course, they didn't try copying it back over the original file to determine if the data itself was altered... The only possible explanation for what they were hearing was that the read/write head was in a different position, which caused different resonances in the hard drive that would ordinarily be below the noise floor, but contributed to other below-noise signals in the original song, pushing those signals just barely above the threshold of hearing.
Another ridiculous one is that they refuse to believe that lifting a computer off a hardwood floor by two inch thick vibration isolators was changing the sound in a similar manner as above or just maybe (though highly unlikely) the resonant characteristics of the floor/room. Most likely vibrations from the computer were transferred to the floor, which also pushed some parts of the original signal above the threshold of hearing, or induced subtle vibrations in their feet/chairs that caused them to believe that the music "felt" different. No, they insist on believing that lifting the computer up off the floor changed the data being sent from the digital output, or some other "magical" thing, rather than the obvious and testable explanation (just hook a sensitive microphone to an oscilloscope and the floor, and measure the vibrations in the floor in both settings).
I do believe that analog signals can be more pure than digital signals, simply because in theory a very good analog cable can have near infinite frequency and impulse response (as far as human ears are concerned), but high resolution digital signals should not be distinguishable because of limitations of human hearing. I don't know much about the physics behind the operation of tubes (will learn more when I go to college for EE degree), but I wonder if tubes might be able to produce a signal without distortion if not overdriven, and people who prefer tubes simply prefer them for their overdrive characteristics.
Of course, when I saw this, I immediately thought of yesterday's Dave Barry column about The Doofus State title. I knew it was only a matter of time before someone mentioned it.
MP3's are covered by copyright, which protects expression of ideas. Trade secret laws protect those ideas themselves, but only until the idea is conceived by someone else, or discovered in a legal way.
Copyright is used to protect artistic creations while widely distributing them. Trade secrets are protected by not distributing them.
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It is possible to use large quantities of the byproduct waste of fission reactors in dirty bombs.
Dirty bombs are nasty though, so only someone who doesn't care would want to use them.
Sure; it's easiest to attack those on top.
It's only a simple matter of transcoding to Theora. You'll need to download the file, then encode it, probably using mplayer.
p rodigy.asf ; mv stream.dump ibm-linux-prodigy.asf ; mplayer ibm-linux-prodigy.asf
Here's a command line to download the IBM ad to a file and play it:
mplayer -dumpstream mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/ibm-linux-
To transcode, use mencoder.
"May cause gas with oily discharge. Frequent bowel movements; an urgent need to have them and an inability to control them."
Are you talking about Olestra (or whatever that undigestable fat is called)?
I ate a large quantity of fat-free Olestra potato chips once. They didn't taste quite the same, but they weren't bad, and I don't recall any such side effects. However, I hear some people react to it very strongly in a negative way.
Okay, so you want a conspiracy theory. Fine.
So you want that conspiracy theory to involve tampering with elections. Also okay.
Now you want that to be electronic tampering by the company who makes the voting machines. Cool.
But now you're blaming it all on the Republicans? Come on.. That's just ridiculous.
The device comes with a mandatory 'automatic purge' feature. Each recording is marked by a timestamp on disk and thirty one days after a recording has been made, it is automatically deleted. This feature fits in with Japanese copyright rules.
Once someone hacks it, they just have to set up a cron job that runs
find / -name *.mpg -exec touch {} \;
every week or so, so that the fs timestamps are updated (oh come on, you don't think they'd actually be smart enough to use something other than the filesystem time stamp, do you?).
Who on earth is this written for? It says at the bottom that at least two people contributed to the report. The language is like that of a 4th grader. Is this what all ABC News reports look and/or sound like?
This makes the BBC seem like something written by Stephen Hawking.
Do you also believe that car modifications (that don't affect safety of the vehicle) should be illegal? When people purchase a piece of hardware, they don't sign a contract saying they won't do anything to it. When buying a DVD, they don't sign an agreement that they will only watch it in Windows or on a standalone player. Why should some lame robot be any different, that just replaces CD audio data with very low bandwidth video data?
These things are fully within the limits of the law of any sane country. Sure, there are some exceptions, like the radio interference regulations of the FCC and equivalent organizations for electronics, and emissions laws for cars, but as long as the reverse engineering doesn't harm anybody else, it is (or should be) perfectly fine. Reverse engineering a dinky little video player doesn't harm anybody.
Profiting from someone else's creative work without their permission (publishing piracy) is indeed wrong. None of these things are intended for that.
I'm pretty sure there's a color laser out there that will print on banner paper (the zigzag stuff with perforations between pages and holes on the sides to pull the paper through). I know there are B/W lasers that do it. If you could make your labels in a similar format, I bet you could just use a wooden dowel with a simple stand in place of a stack of paper, and feed it into the printer.
There's a difference between a feature and a quantity.
Saying that X amount of RAM will always be enough is nothing like saying that API XYZ will always work for device class ABC.
Name one feature that was recently added to scanners as an "innovation." You can't. They only have increases in quality and speed, both measures of a quantity. The basic features, like an automatic document feeder or transparency scanner, can be handled by a standard API. A standard API can easily be designed to handle futuristic qualites. For example, to future-proof a scanner API, the API could specify 32 bits per color channel, arbitrary color spaces, an arbitrary number of color channels, and maximum speed limited only by the computer CPU and communication interface.
I saw $9700, then $7800. When I just checked it was at:
Current bid:
US $15,099.00
surfguru is the leading bidder.
One of surfguru's feedbacks says something like, "Warning this guy is only 15 and only pays via PayPal."
The people who don't see a use for broadband are usually consumers. For anybody who wants to contribute to the online society, broadband is a must. CVS, ssh, etc. all run dog slow over dialup. Even though upload is usually slower than download, it's still fast enough to allow anyone to start their own online webcast of music that's legal to share, upload music they created to an online repository, etc.
Only Microsoft has ever sold a console below cost. Some companies have sold at-cost in the past, but never below cost. Look it up on Google; maybe a search query like "myth game console money cost below" or something.
USB is just a low level data bus. Aside from basic descriptions of types of devices (mass storage, HID, etc.), USB doesn't specify the protocol those devices use to communicate. Most storage devices use the standard mass storage protocal, and all USB keyboards and mice use the standard HID protocol, but scanners and printers, even if they use the standard printer/imaging device protocols, usually won't work without a proprietary protocol on top of that.
Everything a scanner does can be abstracted by a common API. There's no feature that would ever be unique to a vendor.
Does VideoLAN support NAV? I use Ogle and Xine right now because I have several DVD's that don't use title 1 for the movie, and it seems wasteful to use a TOC listing program to find the longest title and play that, when the disc menus already know what the correct title is.
The agents in the field, however, are usually from poverty stricken nations with little hope for anything else. They hear a rallying call, and with no hope left of any other method working to attain their goals, they are convinced by a few maniacal individuals that terrorism is the one true way to live. If all wealth was distributed as described in this article, not just in the US but worldwide, everyone would have enough money to survive and live a middle class lifestyle. Nobody would have any excuses for a lack of success. Anyone who wants more than the middle class lifestyle they are provided, such as entertainment, faster or more luxurious cars, bigger homes, and so on, will have to learn and develop their own innovative products.
The difference between terrorism and the various guerilla tactics, etc. used by the United States to escape the rule of Great Britain lies mostly in the fact that the US soldiers only attacked Britis soldiers. Terrorists typically try to cause the deaths of thousands of innocents, or the destruction of resources on which those people depend, in order to get the government to cave in to their demands to stop the suffering of those who don't deserve to suffer.
Effectively, this means that functional aspects of code cannot be copyrighted. So, the steps that are absolutely necessary to perform a task are not protected. I think that this would especially be the case when dealing with hardware interfaces.
Note that I am not a lawyer. I'm a software developer who is doing something similar to the process described in the article. However, I'm not just doing a translation from ASM to C. Such a translation would be useless anyway, since the driver is for Windows.
Okay, no problem.
What the crafriggiap are you talking about? You just spouted a bunch of nonsense! Nonsense troll! SMP has nothing to do with frame buffer has nothing to do with GART API (what the crap??) has nothing to do with GTK+ has nothing to do with ncurses!
Move along folks. This one's just plain pathetic.
By the way, I'm using an AthlonXP 1800+ with 512MB of RAM (256MB right now since I'm loaning a PC2700 DIMM to my brother). When mixing audio in Acid or another program, low latency and realtime performance are essential. Mixing 32 tracks of audio with effects (reverbs, choruses, filters, equalizers, compressors) and software synthesizers into 256 sample buffers (5ms ASIO -- DirectSound skips below 50-80ms on simple apps; Winamp uses ~2000ms buffers) only takes about 30-50 percent CPU power, yet when I open a menu with GUI effects turned on, the 256 sample buffer that was last played repeats until the menu is done scrolling/fading, causing a very annoying buzzing sound and a dropout in the audio. 50-80 percent of the CPU is plenty for opening a menu. There's no reason the GUI should take the CPU over from more important tasks just to make the menus animate a little smoother.
It's not a senseless bash against Windows. It's a legitimate concern that makes it difficult to use Windows for professional applications like audio production. It makes absolutely no sense to optimize for the eyes when the ears are much more sensitive to dropouts. If there's a momentary delay opening a menu, people won't notice that as much as their audio buzzing while the menu is opening.
(paraphrase) sound card sharing bandwidth of CPU bus with video card
No, sound skips when scrolling IE because the GUI operates at realtime priority, preempting any other tasks. It's been this way for a very long time. Back in the day of serial mice and 486's, it was possible to measure a significant difference in hard disk data throughput when moving the mouse.
An 81GHz processor won't change the fact that Windows sacrifices all sense and sensibility to improve the user's first impression. Sure, the UI seems responsive, but when you actually try to do anything, it's a really convoluted system, where the GUI has higher priority than tasks that are actually truly important, like rendering my 35 tracks of audio in Acid Pro 4 in realtime into 256 sample long buffers.
You can disable all GUI effects like animated and fading menus, show window contents when moving, and IE smooth scrolling to improve the situation until your favorite software is available for a better designed OS, like Linux, probably MacOS X (haven't used it myself though so I can't comment definitively) or if we're lucky, OpenBeOS some day.
I can't believe some of the things those people would and wouldn't believe. One of the most outrageous in my opinion is that copying a file from one hard drive to another noticably changed the sound. Of course, they didn't try copying it back over the original file to determine if the data itself was altered... The only possible explanation for what they were hearing was that the read/write head was in a different position, which caused different resonances in the hard drive that would ordinarily be below the noise floor, but contributed to other below-noise signals in the original song, pushing those signals just barely above the threshold of hearing.
Another ridiculous one is that they refuse to believe that lifting a computer off a hardwood floor by two inch thick vibration isolators was changing the sound in a similar manner as above or just maybe (though highly unlikely) the resonant characteristics of the floor/room. Most likely vibrations from the computer were transferred to the floor, which also pushed some parts of the original signal above the threshold of hearing, or induced subtle vibrations in their feet/chairs that caused them to believe that the music "felt" different. No, they insist on believing that lifting the computer up off the floor changed the data being sent from the digital output, or some other "magical" thing, rather than the obvious and testable explanation (just hook a sensitive microphone to an oscilloscope and the floor, and measure the vibrations in the floor in both settings).
I do believe that analog signals can be more pure than digital signals, simply because in theory a very good analog cable can have near infinite frequency and impulse response (as far as human ears are concerned), but high resolution digital signals should not be distinguishable because of limitations of human hearing. I don't know much about the physics behind the operation of tubes (will learn more when I go to college for EE degree), but I wonder if tubes might be able to produce a signal without distortion if not overdriven, and people who prefer tubes simply prefer them for their overdrive characteristics.
Of course, when I saw this, I immediately thought of yesterday's Dave Barry column about The Doofus State title. I knew it was only a matter of time before someone mentioned it.
MP3's are covered by copyright, which protects expression of ideas. Trade secret laws protect those ideas themselves, but only until the idea is conceived by someone else, or discovered in a legal way.
Copyright is used to protect artistic creations while widely distributing them. Trade secrets are protected by not distributing them.