Hopefully this will mean that it will be easier to travel from a cell phone usability point of view... on the other hand, CDMA is superior to GSM, so is this a case of comprising technical superiority for the sake of compatibility?
correct me if I'm wrong, but don't newer GSM standards (certainly needed for 384kbp) use CDMA modulation?
The Philippines were an American colony, well, they never got around to putting their own people over there but when it was taken over it was viewed very openly as 'imperialism' We were going to go over and 'convert' the people Christianity. Never mind the fact they were majority catholic...
The only 'true' american colony was Libria, which was made up of freed slaves.
Well, not for most engineering. I can't believe anyone would be masochistic enough to use imperial measurements for anything involving types of measurements (as in time, space, mass, pressure, etc) due to the crazy constants needed to switch between them.
And anyway, in the us Imperial and Metric units are both used. You buy milk and gasoline in gallons, but you buy Soft drinks and pretty much every other liquid by the liter.
Inches are used frequently when you're talking about size offhand (want a 4"x6" or a 5"x8"?) but centimeters are used in any detailed spec (ie measurements 20x340x3cm).
Really, imperial is only used when only relative comparisons are needed. It doesn't really matter that much how tall exactly people are in every day life, you just want to know how big they are compared to other people, so we use imperial measures for that. Same with gas mileage or photo sizes. Things where absolute measurement is needed, metric is used.
The thing is, for the vast majority of everyday life, only relative comparisons are needed.
Yeah, it's not hard. But it seems that most people don't know anything more about their computers than how to use the start menu. A huge number of computers are infected with spyware, these days. And tons of them are left unpatched.
But why would non-geeks want to run Linux?
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I can think of one major reason. Security. Actually, given how bad windows security has been lately, I'd recommend that most users not use windows unless their geeks and know how to keep it clean, and free of Spyware. I already install mozilla whenever I come across a Spyware infected machine. There is some Spyware that infects mozilla on win32. (The user gets a warning about installing XPI, but it's not even as menacing as IE ActiveX warnings. On the other hand, many Spyware programs install themselves via security holes in IE)
Running as non-root on a Linux machine is much safer for the naiveté surfer then running windows.
We'll have to see how XP SP2 fares as far as protecting users from all the people who want to rape them.
Hmm, isn't your website part of a porn web ring? So I find your post quite interesting...
No it is not.
Are you telling me that these guys aren't selling addresses when you put in your credit card number?
I have no idea what 'these guys' do with the addresses. Autopr0n.com does not ask for an email address, except for people who want moderator access to the site (so that I can talk to them). Beyond that, people should know enough not to give their email address to some porn site.
That the Spyware popups ("Sorry! Your browser is not Win32 compatible" when you browse with Linux) are not trying to rape my computer for all it's worth?
Autopr0n does not link to any sites with popups or Spyware. If sites linked add popups, they are removed.
Doesn't this fly in the face of the cherished "right to remain silent"? I mean, how can you identify yourself without speaking?
I don't really know what to say about this, other then that it's a desturbing step backwards. I can see corrupt police arresting someone for identifying themselves "incorrectly" (i.e. if the cop dosn't belive them).
For one thing the ORBS blackhole has been doing this for quite some time. Testing relays, and blacklisting them if they're open. It was a widley used blacklist back in the day. Anymore? I'm not sure.
The fact is, no one leaves relays open anymore. You can't, all mail software comes with open relaying turned off. You have to actively turn it back on. The problem these days is open proxies, and hacked boxes. Machines from which no legitimate email will be sent.
523 euros is 634.056 USD. I'd hardly call that 'close' to $1000 dollars. In the US, it might be enough to live on if you had a really cheap apartment and only spent a couple hundred a month on food. But that would be pretty close to poverty.
First of all, the cost of spam has never fully been paid by the spammers. Back in the days of Open SMTP relays such the most of the actual cost of the bandwidth was payed by people giving out service for free, because it was cheap and made the internet easier to use by all. Thus spammers stole took free resources and squandered them.
And secondly, spammers never had to pay for the download bandwidth. Imagine if the post office made you pay half postage for every single letter you recived, and someone sent you 10,000 messages. Your choices is either paying thousands of dolars, or forgetting about ever getting postal mail again.
But this is exactly what happend. A mailbox full of spam for a dialup user meant wasted modem time, which whent for as much as $2.95 an hour.
know you don't want to believe that, but it's true. When you give your email to a website operator, and that website operator sells it, that money is what keeps your content cheap or free.
I've never given my email address to a website tht sold it (with the exception being the LA times. But by then I was smart enough to use unique addresses for everything, and all the mail from them gets deleted automaticaly).
Most websites make money by advertizing, not by selling information. On my website, I advertize various pay services, and when the small persentage of people intrested in that service buy something, I get a cut. Some services work pay per click, or by impressions.
Thats the way the vast majority of websites make money. Anyone selling email addresses should be shot.
*sigh* I wish the government was more intrested in prosecuting spammers. I recently got a new email (gmail:), and now I'm paranoid about giving it away. An idiot friend of mine actualy put my last email into crushlink, a retarded email harvesting system. I also used in on a few web forms before wising up and using whatImSigningUpFor@mydomain for everything.
It's unbeliveably annoying. Yet ashcroft is more intrested in prosicuting indecency cases then stopping spammers, even with the idiotic CAN-SPAM act, lots of spammers could be shut down.
I know what a ramdrive is. I also know they go bybye when power is lost. It's possible they might let people store their data on Xbox live servers, but it wouldn't work that well with older games. And people would have to pay to keep their saved games. Not something needed on older Xboxes.
The question isn't "can it be done" but rather "can it be done well enough to be a selling point."
t needs to get back to its roots. Let the characters have flaws, let them make mistakes. Put irony and humor into it in difficult situations. Make the leaders make difficult choices. Make it interesting again with good stories, not practically perfect people and a lot of references to Shakespeare.
Heck, Klingons were a cold-war type adversary -- make up some nasty race like Al Qaeda and have the characters discuss how the federation got into a mess with them and try to find a way out of it.
Thats what the "Suliban" were meant to be. Taliban, Suliban. Get the idea?
I don't watch the show, and I have no idea what ever happened with them. I've only read articles on it. That said.
It needs to get back to its roots. Let the characters have flaws, let them make mistakes. Put irony and humor into it in difficult situations. Make the leaders make difficult choices. Make it interesting again with good stories, not practically perfect people and a lot of references to Shakespeare.
So in other words, your suggestion is to "make it good". Wow, that's really helpful. And also, how were Picard, Ricker, etc. 'flawed' They may have had some minor weaknesses, but in general they were pretty functional people (hardly dysfunctional anti-heroes). The DS9 crew was more human, (and I thought it was a better show). But yeah, I've seen like half of an ep. Of Enterprise, so I have no idea.
If they really want to fix the show, they just need to hire good writers.
My back of the envelope (pun not intended) calculations showed that the mass that would have been used for a ballon would be better spent on a bigger booster.
I'm sure it would be cheaper and much less dangerous though. I doubt the Xprise people would care.
Sure, but you can't emulate a hard drive in ram (unless they're using flash ram, which I kinda doubt). I mean, you can during the game's run, but any game that uses the hard drive for persistence (most of them, I think) won't work on the new Xbox, even if CPU emulation was perfect.
Maybe they were planning some crazy networked filesystem (keep your data on xbox live or something) but that wouldn't be helpful for people who didn't want to pay xbox live fees...
MS is changing the architecture, the design, and the graphics chip (ATI, no HD, and non-Intel) which will obviously force emulation (which, according to the article, was being planned)
Err... how can you "emulate" a hard drive, if you don't have one?
I mean, the Xbox is a single x86 CPU, and the Xbox2 is a dual PPC design. So simply running in a 'compatibility' mode (like how DOS/win16 aps run on the current windows OSs) would have been out of the question. In order to play older Xbox games, emulation would be needed.
And how could it be done? For one thing, part of what makes the unit faster is the Dual CPUs. But you can't use two CPUs to emulate one. Xbox emulation would have to be done primarily on only one CPU. You might be able to get somewhere with dynamic recompiling, but any app that does anything 'tricky' is going to pose a huge problem. You might be able to get somewhere with Ultra HLE style emulation. But you're not going to get it perfect. And if it's not perfect, it can't be a selling point.
SCO dosn't have a case, but not because of this. If they didn't intentionaly release their code under the GPL, then they havn't give up their rights to it. If SCO didn't know, origionaly, that Linux had their code in it, their distribution dosn't mean they gave up their code. You can't agree to something without knowing that you've agreed.
And also, you can distribute GPL'd code without GPLing it, it's just a violation of copyright law. If the author finds out, you'll have to stop, or be fined by the courts. But the author can't claim that all your code is now GPL'd.
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Hopefully this will mean that it will be easier to travel from a cell phone usability point of view... on the other hand, CDMA is superior to GSM, so is this a case of comprising technical superiority for the sake of compatibility?
correct me if I'm wrong, but don't newer GSM standards (certainly needed for 384kbp) use CDMA modulation?
The Philippines were an American colony, well, they never got around to putting their own people over there but when it was taken over it was viewed very openly as 'imperialism' We were going to go over and 'convert' the people Christianity. Never mind the fact they were majority catholic...
The only 'true' american colony was Libria, which was made up of freed slaves.
Well, not for most engineering. I can't believe anyone would be masochistic enough to use imperial measurements for anything involving types of measurements (as in time, space, mass, pressure, etc) due to the crazy constants needed to switch between them.
And anyway, in the us Imperial and Metric units are both used. You buy milk and gasoline in gallons, but you buy Soft drinks and pretty much every other liquid by the liter.
Inches are used frequently when you're talking about size offhand (want a 4"x6" or a 5"x8"?) but centimeters are used in any detailed spec (ie measurements 20x340x3cm).
Really, imperial is only used when only relative comparisons are needed. It doesn't really matter that much how tall exactly people are in every day life, you just want to know how big they are compared to other people, so we use imperial measures for that. Same with gas mileage or photo sizes. Things where absolute measurement is needed, metric is used.
The thing is, for the vast majority of everyday life, only relative comparisons are needed.
The problem is, if you try and make a bussnes around winning those prizes you might lose even if you have a good idea if someone else finishes first.
And that would, you know, kinda suck.
Well, I wouldn't really call cookies *spyware*. If you're really getting 10 exe files installed a week, um, you're doing something really wrong.
Yeah, it's not hard. But it seems that most people don't know anything more about their computers than how to use the start menu. A huge number of computers are infected with spyware, these days. And tons of them are left unpatched.
I can think of one major reason. Security. Actually, given how bad windows security has been lately, I'd recommend that most users not use windows unless their geeks and know how to keep it clean, and free of Spyware. I already install mozilla whenever I come across a Spyware infected machine. There is some Spyware that infects mozilla on win32. (The user gets a warning about installing XPI, but it's not even as menacing as IE ActiveX warnings. On the other hand, many Spyware programs install themselves via security holes in IE)
Running as non-root on a Linux machine is much safer for the naiveté surfer then running windows.
We'll have to see how XP SP2 fares as far as protecting users from all the people who want to rape them.
I don't run sinfulshirts.com, a friend of mine just started it. Yeah, if you're talking aobu the stileproject webring, then yes.
I just told him that he should take the link down, and he just did.
Hmm, isn't your website part of a porn web ring? So I find your post quite interesting...
No it is not.
Are you telling me that these guys aren't selling addresses when you put in your credit card number?
I have no idea what 'these guys' do with the addresses. Autopr0n.com does not ask for an email address, except for people who want moderator access to the site (so that I can talk to them). Beyond that, people should know enough not to give their email address to some porn site.
That the Spyware popups ("Sorry! Your browser is not Win32 compatible" when you browse with Linux) are not trying to rape my computer for all it's worth?
Autopr0n does not link to any sites with popups or Spyware. If sites linked add popups, they are removed.
Doesn't this fly in the face of the cherished "right to remain silent"? I mean, how can you identify yourself without speaking?
I don't really know what to say about this, other then that it's a desturbing step backwards. I can see corrupt police arresting someone for identifying themselves "incorrectly" (i.e. if the cop dosn't belive them).
Very dissapointed in SCOTUS.
For one thing the ORBS blackhole has been doing this for quite some time. Testing relays, and blacklisting them if they're open. It was a widley used blacklist back in the day. Anymore? I'm not sure.
The fact is, no one leaves relays open anymore. You can't, all mail software comes with open relaying turned off. You have to actively turn it back on. The problem these days is open proxies, and hacked boxes. Machines from which no legitimate email will be sent.
523 euros is 634.056 USD. I'd hardly call that 'close' to $1000 dollars. In the US, it might be enough to live on if you had a really cheap apartment and only spent a couple hundred a month on food. But that would be pretty close to poverty.
ISPs need to buy extra bandwidth, which is reflected in the users' bill.
And, while you may not realize this, some people value their time, and in many cases a monitary figure can be placed on it.
First of all, the cost of spam has never fully been paid by the spammers. Back in the days of Open SMTP relays such the most of the actual cost of the bandwidth was payed by people giving out service for free, because it was cheap and made the internet easier to use by all. Thus spammers stole took free resources and squandered them.
And secondly, spammers never had to pay for the download bandwidth. Imagine if the post office made you pay half postage for every single letter you recived, and someone sent you 10,000 messages. Your choices is either paying thousands of dolars, or forgetting about ever getting postal mail again.
But this is exactly what happend. A mailbox full of spam for a dialup user meant wasted modem time, which whent for as much as $2.95 an hour.
know you don't want to believe that, but it's true. When you give your email to a website operator, and that website operator sells it, that money is what keeps your content cheap or free.
I've never given my email address to a website tht sold it (with the exception being the LA times. But by then I was smart enough to use unique addresses for everything, and all the mail from them gets deleted automaticaly).
Most websites make money by advertizing, not by selling information. On my website, I advertize various pay services, and when the small persentage of people intrested in that service buy something, I get a cut. Some services work pay per click, or by impressions.
Thats the way the vast majority of websites make money. Anyone selling email addresses should be shot.
*sigh* I wish the government was more intrested in prosecuting spammers. I recently got a new email (gmail :), and now I'm paranoid about giving it away. An idiot friend of mine actualy put my last email into crushlink, a retarded email harvesting system. I also used in on a few web forms before wising up and using whatImSigningUpFor@mydomain for everything.
It's unbeliveably annoying. Yet ashcroft is more intrested in prosicuting indecency cases then stopping spammers, even with the idiotic CAN-SPAM act, lots of spammers could be shut down.
Send the gmail invite to yourself. Then, you can take the text and paste it anywhere. Send it inside a word doc, an attachment. Anything.
All people need to activate a Gmail account is the URL. It dosn't actualy have to go through the email system.
I know what a ramdrive is. I also know they go bybye when power is lost. It's possible they might let people store their data on Xbox live servers, but it wouldn't work that well with older games. And people would have to pay to keep their saved games. Not something needed on older Xboxes.
The question isn't "can it be done" but rather "can it be done well enough to be a selling point."
The point isn't that you'll be able to store the data, it's what you do with it after the system is rebooted.
I'm assuming most xbox games use the hard drive for persistance (i.e. saved games), losing it would be a disaster for RPGs and the like.
t needs to get back to its roots. Let the characters have flaws, let them make mistakes. Put irony and humor into it in difficult situations. Make the leaders make difficult choices. Make it interesting again with good stories, not practically perfect people and a lot of references to Shakespeare.
Heck, Klingons were a cold-war type adversary -- make up some nasty race like Al Qaeda and have the characters discuss how the federation got into a mess with them and try to find a way out of it.
Thats what the "Suliban" were meant to be. Taliban, Suliban. Get the idea?
I don't watch the show, and I have no idea what ever happened with them. I've only read articles on it. That said.
It needs to get back to its roots. Let the characters have flaws, let them make mistakes. Put irony and humor into it in difficult situations. Make the leaders make difficult choices. Make it interesting again with good stories, not practically perfect people and a lot of references to Shakespeare.
So in other words, your suggestion is to "make it good". Wow, that's really helpful. And also, how were Picard, Ricker, etc. 'flawed' They may have had some minor weaknesses, but in general they were pretty functional people (hardly dysfunctional anti-heroes). The DS9 crew was more human, (and I thought it was a better show). But yeah, I've seen like half of an ep. Of Enterprise, so I have no idea.
If they really want to fix the show, they just need to hire good writers.
My back of the envelope (pun not intended) calculations showed that the mass that would have been used for a ballon would be better spent on a bigger booster.
I'm sure it would be cheaper and much less dangerous though. I doubt the Xprise people would care.
Sure, but you can't emulate a hard drive in ram (unless they're using flash ram, which I kinda doubt). I mean, you can during the game's run, but any game that uses the hard drive for persistence (most of them, I think) won't work on the new Xbox, even if CPU emulation was perfect.
Maybe they were planning some crazy networked filesystem (keep your data on xbox live or something) but that wouldn't be helpful for people who didn't want to pay xbox live fees...
MS is changing the architecture, the design, and the graphics chip (ATI, no HD, and non-Intel) which will obviously force emulation (which, according to the article, was being planned)
Err... how can you "emulate" a hard drive, if you don't have one?
I mean, the Xbox is a single x86 CPU, and the Xbox2 is a dual PPC design. So simply running in a 'compatibility' mode (like how DOS/win16 aps run on the current windows OSs) would have been out of the question. In order to play older Xbox games, emulation would be needed.
And how could it be done? For one thing, part of what makes the unit faster is the Dual CPUs. But you can't use two CPUs to emulate one. Xbox emulation would have to be done primarily on only one CPU. You might be able to get somewhere with dynamic recompiling, but any app that does anything 'tricky' is going to pose a huge problem. You might be able to get somewhere with Ultra HLE style emulation. But you're not going to get it perfect. And if it's not perfect, it can't be a selling point.
To my knowledge, a software license is a contractual agreement.
The GPL is not a contractual agreement. It says so itself, right in the first paragraph or so.
Can I join into two conflicting contractual agreements, and then later pick which one to ge oblicated to?
No, but you can decide who you'd rather be sued by.
SCO dosn't have a case, but not because of this. If they didn't intentionaly release their code under the GPL, then they havn't give up their rights to it. If SCO didn't know, origionaly, that Linux had their code in it, their distribution dosn't mean they gave up their code. You can't agree to something without knowing that you've agreed.
And also, you can distribute GPL'd code without GPLing it, it's just a violation of copyright law. If the author finds out, you'll have to stop, or be fined by the courts. But the author can't claim that all your code is now GPL'd.