Re:Now if only it had a decent name
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Ogg Now An RFC
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Until I read more about it years ago, the name OGG always made me picture some wanna be Mac Addict listening to Mod files or something in a dark room prodding through OS7 while dreaming how elite he had become.
Languages should be preserved as best as we can hope for for archeological reasons, but the world needs less lingual diversity.
I propose 7 languages for now based on the number of people who speak them. Which I mean everyone should know atleast one of these 7 languages. I do think being multilingual is still a good idea.
Mandarin
English
Spanish
Hindi
Arabic
Russian
Bengali
And that's it. If you don't speak one of these languages, go learn one. If you do speak one of them, learn another one of them. and unless you have a particular reason to learn a different language than these, don't bother. For instance, If you are Jewish you should learn Hebrew, if you live in England and have to take the chunnel to France, you ought to learn French. But all of the French should learn one of these 7 other languages, since theirs didn't make my list - Sorry Francophones, you should have have even more imperialistic aspirations back in the day.
It's still ok to speak Gaelic, Welsh, Basq or French Creole, nothing wrong with it, but you should speak one of the 7 languages if you expect to be understood by anyone. Language is about understanding, once a language is on it's deathbed it does no one any practical good.
And then maybe in the future we'll elimate some more.
You know your language is on it's deathbed once governments start using it to communicate securely.
It could be a Vacuum tube, but that sounds like it could just be a filter capacitor. I've always found going to Amateur (HAM) Radio swap meets the best place to find tubes or other older electronic parts. Not just because you can get them cheap (although usually used) but usually they are being sold by a little old man who has had electronics as his hobby for 3/4 of a century and he probly can tell you more than you want to know about exactly what you need to fix your problem by just mentioning the word Decca, before even describing the problem.
Yes but both mainframe computers and crystal radio set are anceint technologies...
*ducks*
ok ok ok.... I make electronic toys too.
If you look hard enough you can find most anything you want or need. The only trick I have ever found to finding something is to know what hell you're looking for in the first place. Usually then finding it is pretty easy.
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Although it seems Microsoft will point you to their download center, where they will promptly give you the run around showing you everything but what you want.
I like to think of them as parasites. which explains why anti-virus programs don't remove them, because then they aren't viruses but they're still bad.
Hmmm I'm sorry, but are they gunna call this technique... Photoshop-LIFTING
I'm sorry I couldn't help myself
But it's hard to say. I mean where does art and science mix. How much is influenced by the person "fixing" the print. I've used photo enhancing software -If used correctly I see nothing wrong with it... But there is a fuzzy line as to how far you can go with "fixing" something until it's not got anything to do with the original image.
Nope. 802.1 Can not be considered broadcast. It is point to point (or point to specific multi-points at best) communication.
Broadcasting is BROAD and CASTING.... like throwing out a giant fishing net and scouping up every living thing in an area....
802.1 can be encrypted. As soon as you do ANYTHING to limit the number of intended receivers, it is no longer broadcasting.
As a matter of fact... even if others can receive it, if your intent is for the signal to only be received by one or a few persons it is not broadcasting.
Just cause I talk to someone on my ham radio, doesn't mean I'm broadcasting... even if I can be heard by anyone with a scanner... Broadcasting and transmitting are two very different concepts
What a hack... it looks like he hacked it with an axe.
C'mon... if you are going to drill a hole clean through the power supply, can't you just solder the power plug to the back of the 120v jack? -it would be safer.
What about that printed circuit board shoved into a conductive metal box... that board has 120v AC in it too! FIRE FIRE FIRE
This hack job is unsafe and should not be recommended to anyone.
..."Propagation in wine, this was the part in this particular case that I found so amusing. The computer was running a secure MTA (Mail Transport Agent) and the fake Windows registry for WINE was configured to use the localhost as the SMTP server for internet applications. Otherwise, the Klez would not have known how to send itself. It is possible, that, the Klez worm defaults to 'localhost' for the SMTP server if it cannot find one in the registry, this I don't know and it doesn't seem to be covered in Trend Micro's technical description. Anyway, because of the MTA being localhost, the worm was able to queue all of its outgoing email quite quickly. I actually had the opportunity to remotely shell in as root and view `ps aux` output, showing the various smtpd instances sending this email, while I tried to help John find the spooled emails and remove them"...
This is really interesting. It does show how with minor effort you could prevent this.
Software-Defined Radio
Every radio can be tuned to pick up a certain range of frequencies and it takes some
amount of time to change the tuning. Traditionally, these characteristics are fixed in the
radio hardware. Thus, for example, the same radio can't pick up both FM radio and
mobile phone transmissions, or both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz wireless LAN signals.
Software-defined radios, by contrast, can tune dynamically over a wider range of
frequencies. A software-defined radio can receive or transmit different kinds of
wireless transmissions automatically. If it is a so-called "agile radio," it could adapt to
the local environment and seek out open frequencies to communicate. Even in licensed
bands, most of the spectrum is empty most of the time. Agile radios could take
advantage of that empty space, moving out of the way when another transmission
appears.
Um, like uh ok.
Are you likening a radio with a wide receive and transmit to a um Win Modem?
I understand what you mean but I really hate your terminology. Software defined agile radio, OMG lets just make all this kewl stuff sound like a pansy made it.
This really isn't anything new the idea in some forms exists now and has for some time and has been implemented. The only new thing is trying to convince the FCC to allow you to work in unused TV channels and other under-utilized bandwidth because your equipment is smart enough to know there isn't anything in there......kewl
Coulda said that in one line rather than such a verbose article.
They have all those 80% infected computers sending us all their spam. china.com
What was this we heard about the Great FireWall of Chinanot so great now is it? -- (maybe that's why thy are slowly invading Panama)
And we wonder why they all want to move to Linux
The chi-comms are probably blaming us capitolist Americans for ruining their party.
This isn't so hard to believe though, think about it... how many illegal Windows installations are floating around China anyway? I mean put Windows on a computer is bad enough, but then a pirated version on top of it... that's worse, yet add the quantity of these and multiply by the ignorance factor of the users and you have a perfect virus breeding ground.
Actually check this out AOL 7.0 for LindowsOS - Sneak Preview . There is AOL for LindowsOS - Is it real or vapor.. I dunno. Is it Linux or Wine? I dunno.
The isn't anything wrong with "l33t speak" in and of itself. It is good for the language and it is essentially just slang and abbriviations
However... It has no place in homework. If you use it in your homework assignment, you should get an F. Schoolwork isn't always just about the assignment in question, it also is about the quality of work. Using "l33t speak" in homework just shows that you are unwilling to make an effort to do a good job. You deserve an F or alteast the homework should be returned as Incomplete.
Same thing with Ebonics!
Use slang when with friends or in an appropriate venue, but not for homework or the business world. Here on slashdot I see nothing wrong with virii, boxen, or l33t hax0rs. I would have a different opinon if i saw that in my local newspaper.
The answer is YES... provided there is no "prior art" or it wasn't around before.
Think of windows, macintosh, linux, os/2 and what not. Xerox essentially developed much of what is a GUI, It would be quite easy to proove who did it, however Microsoft and Apple did not invent the GUI so they couldn't patent it and sue each other over it, and Xerox gave it away...
Xerox could have patented it (did they?) and enforced the patent or sold the idea or what, but they didn't - but they could have.
same thing with steering wheels in cars
you can't patent whiskey now or copyright its name because it already exists. But if it didn't, you could have.
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Until I read more about it years ago, the name OGG always made me picture some wanna be Mac Addict listening to Mod files or something in a dark room prodding through OS7 while dreaming how elite he had become.
Languages should be preserved as best as we can hope for for archeological reasons, but the world needs less lingual diversity.
I propose 7 languages for now based on the number of people who speak them. Which I mean everyone should know atleast one of these 7 languages. I do think being multilingual is still a good idea.
And that's it. If you don't speak one of these languages, go learn one. If you do speak one of them, learn another one of them. and unless you have a particular reason to learn a different language than these, don't bother. For instance, If you are Jewish you should learn Hebrew, if you live in England and have to take the chunnel to France, you ought to learn French. But all of the French should learn one of these 7 other languages, since theirs didn't make my list - Sorry Francophones, you should have have even more imperialistic aspirations back in the day.
It's still ok to speak Gaelic, Welsh, Basq or French Creole, nothing wrong with it, but you should speak one of the 7 languages if you expect to be understood by anyone. Language is about understanding, once a language is on it's deathbed it does no one any practical good.
And then maybe in the future we'll elimate some more.
You know your language is on it's deathbed once governments start using it to communicate securely.
It could be a Vacuum tube, but that sounds like it could just be a filter capacitor. I've always found going to Amateur (HAM) Radio swap meets the best place to find tubes or other older electronic parts. Not just because you can get them cheap (although usually used) but usually they are being sold by a little old man who has had electronics as his hobby for 3/4 of a century and he probly can tell you more than you want to know about exactly what you need to fix your problem by just mentioning the word Decca, before even describing the problem.
Yes but both mainframe computers and crystal radio set are anceint technologies...
*ducks*ok ok ok.... I make electronic toys too.
If you look hard enough you can find most anything you want or need. The only trick I have ever found to finding something is to know what hell you're looking for in the first place. Usually then finding it is pretty easy.
"Thank you for your interest in Windows Update
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You need to be running a version of Internet Explorer 5 or higher in order to use Windows Update.
Download the latest version of Internet Explorer
Once Internet Explorer is installed, you can go to the Windows Update site by typing http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com into the address bar of Internet Explorer.
If you prefer to use a different Web browser, updates to Windows may be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center."
Although it seems Microsoft will point you to their download center, where they will promptly give you the run around showing you everything but what you want.
I like to think of them as parasites. which explains why anti-virus programs don't remove them, because then they aren't viruses but they're still bad.
These criteria should be used when deciding what the punishment should be:
Thanks for the link... The page has all the info, but IT IS THE UGLIEST PAGE MADE WITH FRONTPAGE 4.0 I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Hmmm I'm sorry, but are they gunna call this technique... Photoshop-LIFTING
I'm sorry I couldn't help myself
But it's hard to say. I mean where does art and science mix. How much is influenced by the person "fixing" the print. I've used photo enhancing software -If used correctly I see nothing wrong with it... But there is a fuzzy line as to how far you can go with "fixing" something until it's not got anything to do with the original image.
Nope. 802.1 Can not be considered broadcast. It is point to point (or point to specific multi-points at best) communication.
Broadcasting is BROAD and CASTING.... like throwing out a giant fishing net and scouping up every living thing in an area....
802.1 can be encrypted. As soon as you do ANYTHING to limit the number of intended receivers, it is no longer broadcasting.
As a matter of fact... even if others can receive it, if your intent is for the signal to only be received by one or a few persons it is not broadcasting.
Just cause I talk to someone on my ham radio, doesn't mean I'm broadcasting... even if I can be heard by anyone with a scanner... Broadcasting and transmitting are two very different concepts
I like looking forward to what will come in the future. This article was drab and boring. No Excitement. Too dry. YAWN
Everyone knows the future is more exciting then the presentWhen you can't tell if it's your anatomy or appliances that are talking to you, it's time to call it a day.
That's about $330 Million not $184 Million depending on exchange. The article says it's £184 Million which is considerably more.
What a hack... it looks like he hacked it with an axe.
C'mon... if you are going to drill a hole clean through the power supply, can't you just solder the power plug to the back of the 120v jack? -it would be safer.
What about that printed circuit board shoved into a conductive metal box... that board has 120v AC in it too! FIRE FIRE FIRE
This hack job is unsafe and should not be recommended to anyone.PLUS IT'S UGLY!
The only problem with this over other new display technologies is that it still uses glass.
Too bad. It seems although Nokia could make a phone that has a batteries that last, the screen will still crack and break for no apparent reason. :(
We all know and love the JoyStick.
for your pr0n now available: The interactive Joy-Port
Think of the possibilitiesHow do I itegrate that with AIM-n-Yahoo???
This is really interesting. It does show how with minor effort you could prevent this.
Um, like uh ok.
Are you likening a radio with a wide receive and transmit to a um Win Modem?
I understand what you mean but I really hate your terminology. Software defined agile radio, OMG lets just make all this kewl stuff sound like a pansy made it.
This really isn't anything new the idea in some forms exists now and has for some time and has been implemented. The only new thing is trying to convince the FCC to allow you to work in unused TV channels and other under-utilized bandwidth because your equipment is smart enough to know there isn't anything in there... ...kewl
Coulda said that in one line rather than such a verbose article.
They have all those 80% infected computers sending us all their spam. china.com
What was this we heard about the Great FireWall of China not so great now is it? -- (maybe that's why thy are slowly invading Panama)
And we wonder why they all want to move to Linux
The chi-comms are probably blaming us capitolist Americans for ruining their party.
This isn't so hard to believe though, think about it... how many illegal Windows installations are floating around China anyway? I mean put Windows on a computer is bad enough, but then a pirated version on top of it... that's worse, yet add the quantity of these and multiply by the ignorance factor of the users and you have a perfect virus breeding ground.
Actually check this out AOL 7.0 for LindowsOS - Sneak Preview . There is AOL for LindowsOS - Is it real or vapor.. I dunno. Is it Linux or Wine? I dunno.
I see nothing wrong with any of the spellings on here :) - but again I wouldn't want them in my local paper either!
The isn't anything wrong with "l33t speak" in and of itself. It is good for the language and it is essentially just slang and abbriviations
However... It has no place in homework. If you use it in your homework assignment, you should get an F. Schoolwork isn't always just about the assignment in question, it also is about the quality of work. Using "l33t speak" in homework just shows that you are unwilling to make an effort to do a good job. You deserve an F or alteast the homework should be returned as Incomplete.
Same thing with Ebonics!
Use slang when with friends or in an appropriate venue, but not for homework or the business world. Here on slashdot I see nothing wrong with virii, boxen, or l33t hax0rs. I would have a different opinon if i saw that in my local newspaper.
The answer is YES... provided there is no "prior art" or it wasn't around before.
Think of windows, macintosh, linux, os/2 and what not. Xerox essentially developed much of what is a GUI, It would be quite easy to proove who did it, however Microsoft and Apple did not invent the GUI so they couldn't patent it and sue each other over it, and Xerox gave it away...
Xerox could have patented it (did they?) and enforced the patent or sold the idea or what, but they didn't - but they could have.
same thing with steering wheels in cars
you can't patent whiskey now or copyright its name because it already exists. But if it didn't, you could have.
Doing it yourself isn't always the same as doing a half fast job.
Mailing something to yourself to use the postmark to establish prior art is also known as a "poor man's copyright"
IANAL -- though I am not anal.