The government does take action to prevent age discrimation because an individual is old, but they outright encourage discrimination against the young.
NeoMagic, the bane of Linux Laptop users everywhere, has an extremely popular chip (the magicgraph) because it serves as a sound chip, video chip, TV out chip, and also slices and dices.
However, it also is entirely proprietary. I have contacted the manufacturer of my laptop (gateway, who has disowned me) and neomagic directly, and both have said, in not so many words, "fsck off".
The product's website has a page where you can download and play some sibelius scores. But you have to install a plugin to do so, which is only availible for Windows.:\
Erhm, actually if you're not careful it's very easy to have finger end up being a finger relay, where I could finger someuser@someothercomp@yourcomp.;)
(Observe as I am moderated down for being offtopic)
Ehrm, this implies that windows works. Based on my limited experience with windows, which was enough to drive me to linux, this implication is not correct.
Unless, of course, you consider random crashes combined with patronizing language ("You didn't restart your computer properly, fool.") and frequent forced restarts ("You have moved your chair. Please restart windows") which oftentimes crash the system themselves to be features you encounter in something that works.
I have been using dvorak for about a year now, and I have to disagree with you.
Christopher Scholes did design the QWERTY keyboard to maximize the mechanical seperation, but he also tried to get you to type many words with the same hand. Try to type with only one hand on your QWERTY keyboard and you'll find it moves a lot less than on two-handed dvorak.
I switched to Dvorak about a year ago. At the time I could do 90 AWPM on QWERTY on a good day. Although Dvorak hasn't given me a significant increase in speed, I am much more accurate. Even this, however, is not the greatest benefit -- the real benefit has been in the reduced fatigue. In Dvorak your fingers move 10 times less distance on average English prose, and it really shows.
Finally, I would like to point out that learning Dvorak has improved my QWERTY speed. It's much the same way that learning a second language can improve your skills in the first.
Screw cyberterrorism, given the effect of the recent fiber cut, a few well-placed wire cutters could cripple the internet. Sad but true, the fault-tolerancy of the internet is no more.
Actually, I believe that some Dell motherboards can operate in redundancy mode where if one CPU fails the other will take over. Dun' remember if it can switch from SMP -> 1 cpu, though.
Erhm, actually I think this ruling is not saying that source code is protected, but that the speech within encrypted data could be protected. 's the difference between a printer and a printed page.
IIRC, the reason that you don't see transparent laptops (or very many transparent computers) is that the FCC mandates that all the components be shielded. In the iMac this accomplish this with a piece of metal going around the circuit boards and the neck of the CRT. In a notebook, however, there's not really enough room to do this.
This is also why you see many knock-off iMac PC cases, but none of them are translucent. The components have to be shielded.
I switched to Dvorak just about a year ago. I didn't get the supposed 50% increase in speed and accuracy, perhaps because I was already typing at 90 WPM on QWERTY. I did, however, end up with fewer typos and _much_ less stress to the fingers.
My other problem is that there is a buffer underrun when my brain is providing the data to type.;)
Dvortyboards makes a regular keyborard that is switchable between dvorak and qwerty with the press of a button. The quality of the keyboard itself hasn't totally impressed me, though. You can buy one at www.dvortyboards.com.
Erhm, actually winzip does a fine job of opening tarballs. It's actually a pretty good format, if there is an error in the middle you can recover both before and after that, and it allows you to have lots of metadata (ie., permissions, owner) about the file, in addition to supporting neat things like symlinks, etc. True, it's designed (and mostly used) under UNIX, but it's a decent format for any platform to use.
It also features single-pass operation, something many other compression programs can't offer.
It's important to note that you have always been able to sue anyone, for any reason.
"I sue you because I don't like your haircut!" - dosen't mean you'll win. In many cases, though, tho companies will settle rather than pay expensive attorney's fees.:\
Well, no, not really. If you're not on a metered plan, they'd just assume you _don't_ use it. Particularly on something like DSL, which is packet switched - The less you use it, the less traffic on their networks.
Sendmail owns the rights to their program. So they can make changes to the program and license them under something other than the open source license it was initially licensed under.
They can never deny you the privelage of distributing previous, open-sourced versions, but they can make newer versions closed-source.
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The hackers wrote of their own "rooting" exploits (that is, hacking the root directory of a server) ...
:o
Man, how could they get something so wrong?
The government does take action to prevent age discrimation because an individual is old, but they outright encourage discrimination against the young.
NeoMagic, the bane of Linux Laptop users everywhere, has an extremely popular chip (the magicgraph) because it serves as a sound chip, video chip, TV out chip, and also slices and dices.
However, it also is entirely proprietary. I have contacted the manufacturer of my laptop (gateway, who has disowned me) and neomagic directly, and both have said, in not so many words, "fsck off".
The product's website has a page where you can download and play some sibelius scores. But you have to install a plugin to do so, which is only availible for Windows. :\
Erhm, actually if you're not careful it's very easy to have finger end up being a finger relay, where I could finger someuser@someothercomp@yourcomp. ;)
Still, I think your point holds.
Erhm, I remember seeing the SB Live! driver on Creative's website somewhere. It's free beer, not free speech. :\ So I won't be running it on my box.
Then again, he has a karma of 6.
(observe as I am moderated down for being offtopic) ;)
Let's put it in a beowulf cluster!
(Observe as I am moderated down for being offtopic)
Ehrm, this implies that windows works. Based on my limited experience with windows, which was enough to drive me to linux, this implication is not correct.
Unless, of course, you consider random crashes combined with patronizing language ("You didn't restart your computer properly, fool.") and frequent forced restarts ("You have moved your chair. Please restart windows") which oftentimes crash the system themselves to be features you encounter in something that works.
I have been using dvorak for about a year now, and I have to disagree with you.
Christopher Scholes did design the QWERTY keyboard to maximize the mechanical seperation, but he also tried to get you to type many words with the same hand. Try to type with only one hand on your QWERTY keyboard and you'll find it moves a lot less than on two-handed dvorak.
I switched to Dvorak about a year ago. At the time I could do 90 AWPM on QWERTY on a good day. Although Dvorak hasn't given me a significant increase in speed, I am much more accurate. Even this, however, is not the greatest benefit -- the real benefit has been in the reduced fatigue. In Dvorak your fingers move 10 times less distance on average English prose, and it really shows.
Finally, I would like to point out that learning Dvorak has improved my QWERTY speed. It's much the same way that learning a second language can improve your skills in the first.
Actually, on Dvorak, l is right above s. It's rather easy to hit both. I'm typing this post in dvorak on my dvortyboard right now.
Screw cyberterrorism, given the effect of the recent fiber cut, a few well-placed wire cutters could cripple the internet. Sad but true, the fault-tolerancy of the internet is no more.
Erhm, everyone _already_ hates spammers.
Actually, I believe that some Dell motherboards can operate in redundancy mode where if one CPU fails the other will take over. Dun' remember if it can switch from SMP -> 1 cpu, though.
The thing I want to know, is how come my UNIX box dosen't have a cool 3D GUI like that?
Erhm, actually I think this ruling is not saying that source code is protected, but that the speech within encrypted data could be protected. 's the difference between a printer and a printed page.
IIRC, the reason that you don't see transparent laptops (or very many transparent computers) is that the FCC mandates that all the components be shielded. In the iMac this accomplish this with a piece of metal going around the circuit boards and the neck of the CRT. In a notebook, however, there's not really enough room to do this.
This is also why you see many knock-off iMac PC cases, but none of them are translucent. The components have to be shielded.
Not that I agree with the article, but who would pay for an article to support the QWERTY keyboard? :o
I switched to Dvorak just about a year ago. I didn't get the supposed 50% increase in speed and accuracy, perhaps because I was already typing at 90 WPM on QWERTY. I did, however, end up with fewer typos and _much_ less stress to the fingers.
;)
My other problem is that there is a buffer underrun when my brain is providing the data to type.
Dvortyboards makes a regular keyborard that is switchable between dvorak and qwerty with the press of a button. The quality of the keyboard itself hasn't totally impressed me, though. You can buy one at www.dvortyboards.com.
Mabye someone should write a FEMALE-HACKER-HOWTO. ;)
Different type of encryption. 128 bits would be woefully inadequate for RSA; I imagine you could crack it on your PC in about 5 hours.
Erhm, actually winzip does a fine job of opening tarballs. It's actually a pretty good format, if there is an error in the middle you can recover both before and after that, and it allows you to have lots of metadata (ie., permissions, owner) about the file, in addition to supporting neat things like symlinks, etc. True, it's designed (and mostly used) under UNIX, but it's a decent format for any platform to use.
It also features single-pass operation, something many other compression programs can't offer.
It's important to note that you have always been able to sue anyone, for any reason.
:\
"I sue you because I don't like your haircut!" - dosen't mean you'll win. In many cases, though, tho companies will settle rather than pay expensive attorney's fees.
Well, no, not really. If you're not on a metered plan, they'd just assume you _don't_ use it. Particularly on something like DSL, which is packet switched - The less you use it, the less traffic on their networks.
Sendmail owns the rights to their program. So they can make changes to the program and license them under something other than the open source license it was initially licensed under.
They can never deny you the privelage of distributing previous, open-sourced versions, but they can make newer versions closed-source.