So is "ask" the trademark word pioneered by the just-as-good engine AskJeeves. It's even used figuratively outside the context of web searching - talk about capturing people's minds!
Google now uses stemming technology. Thus, when appropriate, it will search not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar to some or all of those terms. If you search for "pet lemur dietary needs", Google will also search for "pet lemur diet needs", and other related variations of your terms. Any variants of your terms that were searched for will be highlighted in the snippet of text accompanying each result.
But I guess being able to explicitly do it yourself would be nice. A Google search for "detect" as you suggested only seemed to yield results for detect, not detecting etc. but maybe it works better on less common words.
It depends on the situation which controller makes more sense.
Circular controllers:
can control an unbounded parameter (just continue turning)
can control a bounded parameter with arbitrary precision, e.g. one turn of the wheel doesn't have to go through to whole scale (ie. radio station tuning)
set the parameter relative to it's last value
Up-down controllers:
can not control unbounded parameters at all
offer a precision limited by their size
offer reference on where you are on an absolute scale (and thus a specific position always correlates to a specific value)
That said, up-down controllers can be made to emulate the behaviour of circular ones. You can make an up-down controller simulate relative behaviour by automatically returning the "knob" to the neutral position after the user is done. That way, the up-down controller can be used to set the current value +/- a certain range, and with enough phases the user can control an arbitrary range. Obviously this is very easy on the computer, and fairly difficult with real devices. I've seen it done a couple of days ago in ChaosPro, a fractal generator. It's not the way you'd expect a scroll bar in a computer to work, though, but it's a lot better than the various virtual circular controllers some applications insist on using - circular controller really don't lend themselves well in computer GUIs, I think.
I'm sure SuprNova has gotten numerous letters from various copyright holders and their proxies. But using the name of a copyrighted isn't illegal by itself, as this story has shown once more, and SuprNova will probably claim their files are, by themselves, just as innocuous as the ones hosted by Linux Australia.
I know that most p2p get around the "storing on a central server" issue by splitting the file into tiny pieces that no one person is offering the complete file at a single time.
Not really. Most recent P2P schemes - eMule and Bittorrent in particular - have huge sites dedicated to them. Those sites manage to survive because they are (arguably) not hosting any copyrighted works, not even tiny pieces of them. They just host checksums in the case of eMule, or files containing checksums and network data in the case of BT, which other people do use to copy protected works. The latter is still quite illegal, no matter how tiny the pieces are, and after all the purpose is to have the whole thing in the end, and not just pieces of it.
Note that the biggest eMule site - Sharereactor - was taken down by the authorities and the owner is facing serious charges. I don't know what exactly is the state of that trial. As far as I am aware, the whole "storing checksums is legal" thing has not been tested in court yet. From a technical point of view it's sound, but from a different point of view it's ridiculous: you're effectively linking to copyrighted works, the technical details on how the files arrive on your computer are irrelevant, could be HTTP (as in the geocities-hosted Warez of yore), FTP or it could be a distributed channel like P2P. As I said, two different ways of looking at it.
Judging by the evidence the mere fact that a file contains the name of a work is enough.
Enough to trigger those idiotic search engine/FUD spam programs they use. Not enough for anything else.
Copyright violation doesn't hurt the MPAA, quite to the contrary in fact. But copyright violation (arguably etc) does hurt other honest and decent persons.
No, probably they didn't even bother to check for the extension. Which I guess is for the good, because I'm sure they wouldn't be able to keep up with the extensions in use for distributing copied movies. "There are other archive types than zip? Unpossible!"
Well, Real doesn't seem to think so, it didn't set itself as the default application for *.rpm on my system. And Microsoft doesn't think so, either, judging by their display of ignorance on their internet extension database: "File Type: Unknown". (Granted, their database is often clueless when it comes to more obscure extensions, but they typically get the commercially used ones right, I think. It knows ra and rm.)
I don't get that impression from the article, so I guess it's a fairly subtle hint. That said, I think very late October, early November is a good guess. If it were gold now, it'd take at least another couple of weeks to be in the stores - and it's not (officially) gold yet. I don't know how you expected it to be ready earlier than October 8 - unless of course the release it on Steam before it's in the stores, which would be... something.
The web site information is provided by Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon. They are an internet directory of sorts, they also have a ranking of the most popular web sites. On their homepage is yet another web search engine... powered by Google.
Regardless of that, they mention a second bug, which, if true, could be fairly serious:
The value for the area set by default "Only for own network (Subnet)" only works, if the Internet Connection Sharing is activated. If this is not the case, your shared data are visible worldwide. This error can be corrected by choosing "User defined List" and entering the IP addresses that are supposed to have access - the IP addresses of your LAN. A whole range of an IP area can be entered as "192.168.x.0/255.255.255.0", if the respective addresses start with 192.168.x
There's a setting for every exception in your firewall allowing you to determine whether the exception is true for the global internet, your LAN, or a custom set of IPs and net masks. Obviously, most people will want their file sharing only available within the LAN, and not throughout the entire internet. Allegedly, unless you run internet connection sharing, the LAN setting doesn't work as you'd think it would and you have to set it up manually. Personally, I wouldn't have been affected since I do run ICS, but I'm sure this does apply to a number of people.
Does your printer have a global internet IP address as allocated to you by your ISP? Most network printers have IPs on those subnets reserved for internal usage, which aren't accessible from outside your LAN without special routing aides like NAT. Of course I guess maybe you do have several IP addresses at your disposal, although at least for private internet lines that is extremely rate. Or did I miss something here...
Huh? A perpetuum mobile has nothing to do with it. Biological fuels are basically solar powered. In the same vein, a solar cell or a water turbine also "creates" more energy than used during its production. Of course grandparent's original sentence is kind of wrong - of course there's not more energy "inside" corn-ethanol than it took to produce it, but most of the energy used to "produce" it comes from the sun, and wasn't "invested" when the corn is planted. (Sorry for all the quotes.)
Holy cripes, here we go again... why can't you people get it?
Most people who point out that Hydrogen is not an energy source are well aware of what you point out. However, the vast majority of people - if they even know what fuel cells are - still think that Hydrogen is in fact an energy source, and do not realize it's an energy storage solution, akin to a rechargable battery. (Note: Of course, Hydrogen can also be used like a fossil fuel, which in a manner of speaking makes it a source, but as far as I am aware that is not the typically intended usage. I'm virtually certain that if I hadn't pointed this out, somebody else would have corrected my perceived ignorance...)
Many people, even scientists, think that ubiquitous usage of fuel cells would be the solution to the energy crisis and a huge boon for environmental sustainability. It's absolutely not. It might be part of a solution, not more. And as others have pointed out, there remain still a lot of problems inherent to fuel cells. That doesn't mean I personally think we shouldn't keep looking into the technology, but lets keep some perspective.
Yes...? Initially I included the addendum, but I cut it because it's really not relevant. It's just ESR's way of making sure his position is clear to prevent a a casual observer from concluding ESR supports SCO's arguments because he is referenced in their filings. It's not really part of his definition of FUD although certainly SCO's case is a nice example for FUD in action.
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They're holding talks in IRC now? (The document AC linked to is an IRC log.) Cool. I never would have thought of that, but I guess why not? Is this commonly done? I'd like to have something to read.:)
Sorry for posting off-topic, but it's a slow news days, anyway - none of the stories today has gotten more than 250 comments.
Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products. The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon.
I think the term FUD is almost exlusively used derogatory; ie. FUD can (per this somewhat authoritative definition) not be "grounded in reality", it's disinformation.
Memory stats can be confusing. Looking at my Miranda (which I love), which is running nearly without any plugins apart from a history viewer, it has a working set of 6 MB and a virtual size of whopping 43 MB. As far as I know, the important number is the working set, that's the amount of physical RAM occupied by the program at the moment, while the virtual size includes stuff that's paged onto the hard drive. I'm not sure, though, as I said memory stats can be confusing. Sorting by working set size, Miranda is larger than my media player (foobar), smaller than the SysInternals process explorer, and a lot smaller than both explorer.exe and Opera.
-- Okay now I'm looking at the process properties in the process explorer, and there's a statistic on "private bytes" displayed prominently (ie along with CPU usage). So maybe that's the relevant number. *sigh*
Some do, yeah, I guess the more recent ones. Stop lights don't have to be all that bright, though, since they don't have to light up anything so that you can see it (like head lights do), but just have to be bright enough that others can. That said, I don't know how bright stop lights actually are, maybe they are bright enough to light up a room. Regardless, those stop lights are all realised with an array of multiple LEDs, which is the only way to get good brightness out of them. I think you can actually see the individual dots if you look at them. That's not to say this isn't a viable solution; in fact most of the brighter LED flashlights come equipped with two or more high-end LEDs to get a level of brightness similar to incandescent flashlights (while at the same time running a lot longer). Some traffic lights are also LED-driven, I heard more so in the USA than in Europe, since here many traffic lights were equipped with other, non-incandescent lights some years ago which are equally good. The main reason to use LEDs there, apart from the greater efficiency, is that they're maintenance free, once in place there's a good chance you won't have to replace them for 10 years.
I wonder what they do with the addresses of individual end users they get using that form. I can't imagine they actually let loose any of their lawyers on an individual (on a company, maybe), but will they send that person snail mail recommending them to upgrade to a legal variant of Windows? Ie. something similar to their reaction to any copyright infringers detected using the online test referred to in the story. Anybody ever tried it?:)
Yep, a night light rated at 40W would be brighter than my normal bedside lamp. And of course, it'd draw about 2 to 3 times the power any decent power saving light bulb (as opposed to an incandescent one) would.
Actually, that reminds me: If you're looking for power savings like the guy who requested this Ask Slashdot, have a look at replacing your lighting solutions. Incandescent lights not only have a really terrible efficiency, but also have to be replaced than good power saving light bulbs. Night lights - if you really need them (why?) - would be very well suited for LEDs, which are reasonably efficient (WAY more so than incandescents), work forever, with their main downside being that they can't really be made bright enough for normal lighting applications, which isn't an issue for a night light.
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What about Google? It's a used as a verb now.
So is "ask" the trademark word pioneered by the just-as-good engine AskJeeves. It's even used figuratively outside the context of web searching - talk about capturing people's minds!
Google now uses stemming technology. Thus, when appropriate, it will search not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar to some or all of those terms. If you search for "pet lemur dietary needs", Google will also search for "pet lemur diet needs", and other related variations of your terms. Any variants of your terms that were searched for will be highlighted in the snippet of text accompanying each result.
But I guess being able to explicitly do it yourself would be nice. A Google search for "detect" as you suggested only seemed to yield results for detect, not detecting etc. but maybe it works better on less common words.
Physical wheels offer some tactile feedback, which is worth a lot.
Circular controllers:
- can control an unbounded parameter (just continue turning)
- can control a bounded parameter with arbitrary precision, e.g. one turn of the wheel doesn't have to go through to whole scale (ie. radio station tuning)
- set the parameter relative to it's last value
Up-down controllers:- can not control unbounded parameters at all
- offer a precision limited by their size
- offer reference on where you are on an absolute scale (and thus a specific position always correlates to a specific value)
That said, up-down controllers can be made to emulate the behaviour of circular ones. You can make an up-down controller simulate relative behaviour by automatically returning the "knob" to the neutral position after the user is done. That way, the up-down controller can be used to set the current value +/- a certain range, and with enough phases the user can control an arbitrary range.Obviously this is very easy on the computer, and fairly difficult with real devices. I've seen it done a couple of days ago in ChaosPro, a fractal generator. It's not the way you'd expect a scroll bar in a computer to work, though, but it's a lot better than the various virtual circular controllers some applications insist on using - circular controller really don't lend themselves well in computer GUIs, I think.
I'm sure SuprNova has gotten numerous letters from various copyright holders and their proxies. But using the name of a copyrighted isn't illegal by itself, as this story has shown once more, and SuprNova will probably claim their files are, by themselves, just as innocuous as the ones hosted by Linux Australia.
I know that most p2p get around the "storing on a central server" issue by splitting the file into tiny pieces that no one person is offering the complete file at a single time.
Not really. Most recent P2P schemes - eMule and Bittorrent in particular - have huge sites dedicated to them. Those sites manage to survive because they are (arguably) not hosting any copyrighted works, not even tiny pieces of them. They just host checksums in the case of eMule, or files containing checksums and network data in the case of BT, which other people do use to copy protected works. The latter is still quite illegal, no matter how tiny the pieces are, and after all the purpose is to have the whole thing in the end, and not just pieces of it.
Note that the biggest eMule site - Sharereactor - was taken down by the authorities and the owner is facing serious charges. I don't know what exactly is the state of that trial.
As far as I am aware, the whole "storing checksums is legal" thing has not been tested in court yet. From a technical point of view it's sound, but from a different point of view it's ridiculous: you're effectively linking to copyrighted works, the technical details on how the files arrive on your computer are irrelevant, could be HTTP (as in the geocities-hosted Warez of yore), FTP or it could be a distributed channel like P2P. As I said, two different ways of looking at it.
Judging by the evidence the mere fact that a file contains the name of a work is enough.
Enough to trigger those idiotic search engine/FUD spam programs they use. Not enough for anything else.
Copyright violation doesn't hurt the MPAA, quite to the contrary in fact. But copyright violation (arguably etc) does hurt other honest and decent persons.
No, probably they didn't even bother to check for the extension. Which I guess is for the good, because I'm sure they wouldn't be able to keep up with the extensions in use for distributing copied movies. "There are other archive types than zip? Unpossible!"
Well, Real doesn't seem to think so, it didn't set itself as the default application for *.rpm on my system. And Microsoft doesn't think so, either, judging by their display of ignorance on their internet extension database: "File Type: Unknown". (Granted, their database is often clueless when it comes to more obscure extensions, but they typically get the commercially used ones right, I think. It knows ra and rm.)
I don't get that impression from the article, so I guess it's a fairly subtle hint. That said, I think very late October, early November is a good guess. If it were gold now, it'd take at least another couple of weeks to be in the stores - and it's not (officially) gold yet. I don't know how you expected it to be ready earlier than October 8 - unless of course the release it on Steam before it's in the stores, which would be... something.
Considering how the GMail invite scene was early on, I can only imagine what the beta for GBrowser will be like.
You can copy betas, you can't copy accounts.
The web site information is provided by Alexa, a subsidiary of Amazon. They are an internet directory of sorts, they also have a ranking of the most popular web sites. On their homepage is yet another web search engine... powered by Google.
Sorry, I'm really not into scat. But I'm not judging you.
Does your printer have a global internet IP address as allocated to you by your ISP? Most network printers have IPs on those subnets reserved for internal usage, which aren't accessible from outside your LAN without special routing aides like NAT. Of course I guess maybe you do have several IP addresses at your disposal, although at least for private internet lines that is extremely rate. Or did I miss something here...
If Bush win's this election it's mostly a catastrophic failure of the American people. No offense intended.
I don't get where the angst at having to drive your car short distances is coming from...
Because it's not politically correct, and for good reasons.
Huh? A perpetuum mobile has nothing to do with it. Biological fuels are basically solar powered. In the same vein, a solar cell or a water turbine also "creates" more energy than used during its production.
Of course grandparent's original sentence is kind of wrong - of course there's not more energy "inside" corn-ethanol than it took to produce it, but most of the energy used to "produce" it comes from the sun, and wasn't "invested" when the corn is planted. (Sorry for all the quotes.)
Holy cripes, here we go again... why can't you people get it?
Most people who point out that Hydrogen is not an energy source are well aware of what you point out. However, the vast majority of people - if they even know what fuel cells are - still think that Hydrogen is in fact an energy source, and do not realize it's an energy storage solution, akin to a rechargable battery. (Note: Of course, Hydrogen can also be used like a fossil fuel, which in a manner of speaking makes it a source, but as far as I am aware that is not the typically intended usage. I'm virtually certain that if I hadn't pointed this out, somebody else would have corrected my perceived ignorance...)
Many people, even scientists, think that ubiquitous usage of fuel cells would be the solution to the energy crisis and a huge boon for environmental sustainability. It's absolutely not. It might be part of a solution, not more. And as others have pointed out, there remain still a lot of problems inherent to fuel cells. That doesn't mean I personally think we shouldn't keep looking into the technology, but lets keep some perspective.
Yes...? Initially I included the addendum, but I cut it because it's really not relevant. It's just ESR's way of making sure his position is clear to prevent a a casual observer from concluding ESR supports SCO's arguments because he is referenced in their filings. It's not really part of his definition of FUD although certainly SCO's case is a nice example for FUD in action.
They're holding talks in IRC now? (The document AC linked to is an IRC log.) Cool. I never would have thought of that, but I guess why not? Is this commonly done? I'd like to have something to read. :)
Sorry for posting off-topic, but it's a slow news days, anyway - none of the stories today has gotten more than 250 comments.
Memory stats can be confusing. Looking at my Miranda (which I love), which is running nearly without any plugins apart from a history viewer, it has a working set of 6 MB and a virtual size of whopping 43 MB. As far as I know, the important number is the working set, that's the amount of physical RAM occupied by the program at the moment, while the virtual size includes stuff that's paged onto the hard drive. I'm not sure, though, as I said memory stats can be confusing.
Sorting by working set size, Miranda is larger than my media player (foobar), smaller than the SysInternals process explorer, and a lot smaller than both explorer.exe and Opera.
-- Okay now I'm looking at the process properties in the process explorer, and there's a statistic on "private bytes" displayed prominently (ie along with CPU usage). So maybe that's the relevant number. *sigh*
Some do, yeah, I guess the more recent ones. Stop lights don't have to be all that bright, though, since they don't have to light up anything so that you can see it (like head lights do), but just have to be bright enough that others can. That said, I don't know how bright stop lights actually are, maybe they are bright enough to light up a room.
Regardless, those stop lights are all realised with an array of multiple LEDs, which is the only way to get good brightness out of them. I think you can actually see the individual dots if you look at them. That's not to say this isn't a viable solution; in fact most of the brighter LED flashlights come equipped with two or more high-end LEDs to get a level of brightness similar to incandescent flashlights (while at the same time running a lot longer).
Some traffic lights are also LED-driven, I heard more so in the USA than in Europe, since here many traffic lights were equipped with other, non-incandescent lights some years ago which are equally good. The main reason to use LEDs there, apart from the greater efficiency, is that they're maintenance free, once in place there's a good chance you won't have to replace them for 10 years.
I wonder what they do with the addresses of individual end users they get using that form. I can't imagine they actually let loose any of their lawyers on an individual (on a company, maybe), but will they send that person snail mail recommending them to upgrade to a legal variant of Windows? Ie. something similar to their reaction to any copyright infringers detected using the online test referred to in the story. Anybody ever tried it? :)
Yep, a night light rated at 40W would be brighter than my normal bedside lamp. And of course, it'd draw about 2 to 3 times the power any decent power saving light bulb (as opposed to an incandescent one) would.
Actually, that reminds me: If you're looking for power savings like the guy who requested this Ask Slashdot, have a look at replacing your lighting solutions. Incandescent lights not only have a really terrible efficiency, but also have to be replaced than good power saving light bulbs. Night lights - if you really need them (why?) - would be very well suited for LEDs, which are reasonably efficient (WAY more so than incandescents), work forever, with their main downside being that they can't really be made bright enough for normal lighting applications, which isn't an issue for a night light.