I'd suggest looking at pricing for radiation-hardened parts sometime.
A radiation-hardened 2 Megabyte SRAM on a programs I am working on costs around $40,000, and it's not even particularly quick. There are very real code size considerations for space programs, especially when all of this has to run on a battery!
One such institution that has conducted such a change is the University of Idaho. The information is available here. The ITS department has further clarified that they aren't even going to support Windows Live Mail Desktop (which is also in beta).
It's been somewhat well-known on various consumer sites that OfficeMax has been looking for ways of reducing rebates on their products for awhile, especially after Staples came out with EasyRebates. This is only going to reduce the amount of money I spend at OfficeMax. Of course, that's a benefit for OfficeMax. Over the past three years, I have received back more in rebates and coupons than I have actually spent at the store (that includes postage and the like). It's really quite easy to get rebates if you know the game. You fill out a form, scan the paperwork you send in, and wait. In three years with 300+ rebates, I have had precisely two problems with rebates. Once, it was taken care of over the phone and the other time, I messed up a rebate for a $2 pen. I didn't even bother to pursue that one.
This is not going to be a benefit for consumers. They are simply going to take the money they spend on rebates and put 50% of it toward reducing prices and pocket the rest. It's free publicity for them and they get to make their balance sheet look better at the end of the year. I guess that's better than getting nothing back from a rebate, but it's not as if they're going to be offering their products for free instead of free after rebate.
It has always been legal to lend out copyrighted books for free since Bobbs-Merrill v. Strauss. It's called the right of first sale. Copyright does not cover redistributing a legal copy of a work, only making a copy of it. That's why it's called a copy right.
Completely wrong. LAME right now is an full-fledged MP3 compiler, but before May 2000, it was simply a patch to the Fraunhofer demonstration code (which was not open). Hence, it was not a MP3 encoder. It couldn't even be compiled without the Fraunhofer code. Now, it is an MP3 compiler. The fact that it's in source code format or executable is irrelevent.
As others have noted, you're missing basically every building on campus; even some of the dorms which are specifically not supposed to have wireless access have it if you're in just the right spot. I prefer the fact that one can get a signal outside of buildings so that one can sit on the Admin lawn and work. Or not, as is most of the time.
Except for that thing called colour film and colour negative paper, both of which are sensative to all colours of light.
Even most black and white film now is sensative to red light, especially the chromagenic ones.
Except you can pay for a $150 grocery bill in pennies. I've done it. Unless the store explicitly states that they will not accept legal tender, they have to accept it. Now, there's no reason a store can't demand payment in something other than legal tender (like rubberbands or something), but the moment they ask for legal tender (ie, displaying prices in dollars and cents), they have to accept all legal tender - including pennies.
IANAL either, but that really doesn't matter; I don't believe wealth is covered under selective enforcement statutes. The biggest problem though is that selective enforcement does not come into play when a business sues/sends C&D letters. Anyone can threaten whomever they want; there's no reason, for instance, that someone couldn't sue only black people. Discrimination isn't a crime always.
However, in this case, you didn't build the house. You interacted with a game engine which flipped bits on EA's servers. You didn't write the code that did it, you don't own the hardware it is stored on. You're merely playing a game on someone else's machine/network, and paying money for the privilege.
Do you really think most homebuilders cut down every log themselves and assemble it themselves? Does using others' help deny value? If I hired someone else to build me a house on some land I don't own yet (because it's on a mortgage) and with materials I don't own (because they're paid for by a mortgage), does it not have any value? I agree with the rest of your points though.
"Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors."
I wondered what a 10 giagbyte harddrive was, so I searched for it on google. All the links are these "Giagbyte" motherboards. I guess this has ten of them. That makes me wonder, how do they fit ten motherboards in a car stereo?
The more important question I have is, what's a Beowolf cluster doing in my car?
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Let's see here... Open KaZaA (Lite, of course), go to Tools - Options - Traffic. Select "Disable sharing of files with other KaZaA users." Click "OK". No need to even restart the client.
It's not that hard. Of course, it's not in install, but it's not like one has to manually reconfigure the registry to disable it (unlike the reported bandwidth, which people already do).
I can. The RIAA has been getting away with "intended illegal use" rather than "potential legal use" as a standard for determining copyright infringement, which has been heavily helped with laws like the DMCA. It's not like Google - 99.9% (completely random estimate) of the MP3s on the FTP servers indexed on AudioGalaxy's FTP server are most likely illegal. While not providing direct links, it does give a list of matching files on each server, allowing just a cut and paste to get to the results. I think it'd be ridiculous to sue them - especially with other "targets" to sue, but remember, common sense was outlawed quite a while ago;)
In addition to eating up free disk space Benjamin takes additional actions: under the name of the infected computer's owner it opens an anonymous web site from which it displays advertising banners. This way Benjamin's creator profits by the resulting increase in advertising displays.
I might be wrong, but I'd think it'd be quite easy to find where the money from the advertising banners is going to. Quite simple to find the virus writer.
Of course, the recipient of the advertising revenue may not be the virus writer, but it's a good place to start.
Who would voluntarily put this on their TV? I know the rating devices that're used now are used voluntarily, but I don't think people would like a motion detector on their TV.
$1500 for the EveryDay Use Bundle (it includes Linux, so no $250 charge for a free OS, and I'd like to be able to use the computer for more than 2 hours)
$875 for the TM5800 (I'm not going back to a 266 mhz processor and I'd like to be able to listen to my MP3s with this thing)
$2500 for the CO-3 monitor (so I can actually see what I'm doing)
That'd be a bit expensive for something that's not even as powerful as a laptop. I don't think it's even as useful - those Twiddlers are confusing (I've tried), and I doubt a 1" high screen would be particularly easy to focus on when it's 1 inch away from your eye.
If I really wanted all that, why not just get a Xybernaut poma for $1499?
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I'd suggest looking at pricing for radiation-hardened parts sometime. A radiation-hardened 2 Megabyte SRAM on a programs I am working on costs around $40,000, and it's not even particularly quick. There are very real code size considerations for space programs, especially when all of this has to run on a battery!
One such institution that has conducted such a change is the University of Idaho. The information is available here. The ITS department has further clarified that they aren't even going to support Windows Live Mail Desktop (which is also in beta).
It's been somewhat well-known on various consumer sites that OfficeMax has been looking for ways of reducing rebates on their products for awhile, especially after Staples came out with EasyRebates. This is only going to reduce the amount of money I spend at OfficeMax. Of course, that's a benefit for OfficeMax. Over the past three years, I have received back more in rebates and coupons than I have actually spent at the store (that includes postage and the like). It's really quite easy to get rebates if you know the game. You fill out a form, scan the paperwork you send in, and wait. In three years with 300+ rebates, I have had precisely two problems with rebates. Once, it was taken care of over the phone and the other time, I messed up a rebate for a $2 pen. I didn't even bother to pursue that one.
This is not going to be a benefit for consumers. They are simply going to take the money they spend on rebates and put 50% of it toward reducing prices and pocket the rest. It's free publicity for them and they get to make their balance sheet look better at the end of the year. I guess that's better than getting nothing back from a rebate, but it's not as if they're going to be offering their products for free instead of free after rebate.
Wow, the parent scares me.
It has always been legal to lend out copyrighted books for free since Bobbs-Merrill v. Strauss. It's called the right of first sale. Copyright does not cover redistributing a legal copy of a work, only making a copy of it. That's why it's called a copy right.
Why would anyone replace the onboard sound with an Advanced Graphics Port sound card?
More appropriately, where are you finding one?
I'd certainly hope your statistic is true.
No, really. Do you really expect 16-year-olds working for 2.5 months in the summer to make more than $20k?
Completely wrong. LAME right now is an full-fledged MP3 compiler, but before May 2000, it was simply a patch to the Fraunhofer demonstration code (which was not open). Hence, it was not a MP3 encoder. It couldn't even be compiled without the Fraunhofer code. Now, it is an MP3 compiler. The fact that it's in source code format or executable is irrelevent.
Hi Marcus.
As others have noted, you're missing basically every building on campus; even some of the dorms which are specifically not supposed to have wireless access have it if you're in just the right spot. I prefer the fact that one can get a signal outside of buildings so that one can sit on the Admin lawn and work. Or not, as is most of the time.
How do you manage to print a 20x30 print on a machine that can only print up to 11 inch paper?
Except for that thing called colour film and colour negative paper, both of which are sensative to all colours of light. Even most black and white film now is sensative to red light, especially the chromagenic ones.
Except you can pay for a $150 grocery bill in pennies. I've done it. Unless the store explicitly states that they will not accept legal tender, they have to accept it. Now, there's no reason a store can't demand payment in something other than legal tender (like rubberbands or something), but the moment they ask for legal tender (ie, displaying prices in dollars and cents), they have to accept all legal tender - including pennies.
IANAL either, but that really doesn't matter; I don't believe wealth is covered under selective enforcement statutes. The biggest problem though is that selective enforcement does not come into play when a business sues/sends C&D letters. Anyone can threaten whomever they want; there's no reason, for instance, that someone couldn't sue only black people. Discrimination isn't a crime always.
However, in this case, you didn't build the house. You interacted with a game engine which flipped bits on EA's servers. You didn't write the code that did it, you don't own the hardware it is stored on. You're merely playing a game on someone else's machine/network, and paying money for the privilege.
Do you really think most homebuilders cut down every log themselves and assemble it themselves? Does using others' help deny value? If I hired someone else to build me a house on some land I don't own yet (because it's on a mortgage) and with materials I don't own (because they're paid for by a mortgage), does it not have any value? I agree with the rest of your points though.
Actually, you already do that every time you boot up the computer.
x86 processors emulate a 8088 4.77 MHz processor until the bootstrap shifts it into 32 bit mode.
I have a Compaq Presario 6000. It only runs at 1.53 GHz.
LAME actually is an MP3 encoder now.
"Following the great history of GNU naming, LAME originally stood for LAME Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. LAME started life as a GPL'd patch against the dist10 ISO demonstration source, and thus was incapable of producing an mp3 stream or even being compiled by itself. But in May 2000, the last remnants of the ISO source code were replaced, and now LAME is the source code for a fully LGPL'd MP3 encoder, with speed and quality to rival all commercial competitors."
http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ - the LAME project.
"Martin Koerber and Alpha-Omega"
I wondered what a 10 giagbyte harddrive was, so I searched for it on google. All the links are these "Giagbyte" motherboards. I guess this has ten of them. That makes me wonder, how do they fit ten motherboards in a car stereo? The more important question I have is, what's a Beowolf cluster doing in my car?
Let's see here... Open KaZaA (Lite, of course), go to Tools - Options - Traffic. Select "Disable sharing of files with other KaZaA users." Click "OK". No need to even restart the client.
It's not that hard. Of course, it's not in install, but it's not like one has to manually reconfigure the registry to disable it (unlike the reported bandwidth, which people already do).
I can. The RIAA has been getting away with "intended illegal use" rather than "potential legal use" as a standard for determining copyright infringement, which has been heavily helped with laws like the DMCA. It's not like Google - 99.9% (completely random estimate) of the MP3s on the FTP servers indexed on AudioGalaxy's FTP server are most likely illegal. While not providing direct links, it does give a list of matching files on each server, allowing just a cut and paste to get to the results. I think it'd be ridiculous to sue them - especially with other "targets" to sue, but remember, common sense was outlawed quite a while ago ;)
Back to AudioGalaxy's FTP Search. It doesn't even need Satellite. However, it might be RIAA's next target, right after other FTP search sites.
From the article...
In addition to eating up free disk space Benjamin takes additional actions: under the name of the infected computer's owner it opens an anonymous web site from which it displays advertising banners. This way Benjamin's creator profits by the resulting increase in advertising displays.
I might be wrong, but I'd think it'd be quite easy to find where the money from the advertising banners is going to. Quite simple to find the virus writer.
Of course, the recipient of the advertising revenue may not be the virus writer, but it's a good place to start.
Stupid people amuse me.
Welcome to capitalism, my friend.
Who would voluntarily put this on their TV? I know the rating devices that're used now are used voluntarily, but I don't think people would like a motion detector on their TV.
Let's see here...
$1995 for the basic board.
$1500 for the EveryDay Use Bundle (it includes Linux, so no $250 charge for a free OS, and I'd like to be able to use the computer for more than 2 hours)
$875 for the TM5800 (I'm not going back to a 266 mhz processor and I'd like to be able to listen to my MP3s with this thing)
$2500 for the CO-3 monitor (so I can actually see what I'm doing)
That'd be a bit expensive for something that's not even as powerful as a laptop. I don't think it's even as useful - those Twiddlers are confusing (I've tried), and I doubt a 1" high screen would be particularly easy to focus on when it's 1 inch away from your eye.
If I really wanted all that, why not just get a Xybernaut poma for $1499?