Once Apple has enough hardware support, they are one step closer to porting Aqua and all the higher layers of MacOS X towards the x86 architechture and having a way of escaping the sluggish Motorola chips.
Given apple's preference for closed hardware, they could do this already now with the limited hardware darwin runs on. Just use an x86 chip and proprietary motherboard, and only let OSX run on that hardware.
Indeed, filesystem code would barely be necessary; just look into the boot partition, find out where the kernel is kept (using lilo-like code), and infect the kernel. Proceed to laugh in an evil fashion and take over the world.
The browser integration will more likely be in the next version of X11. Yes, I know you were kidding, but realistically, it might be useful to throw Gecko as a rendering module for X. Hell, if they have display Postscript and display PDF rendering interfaces, why not add a direct XML rendering interface?
Would make no difference. A company doing business in a foreign nation is still subject to that nation's laws. And patents are country-specific.
On the other hand, it would be a nice way to get rid of Gates and Ballmer, as they would be the only two people who would choose to live in the country.
Illegal immigrants are not refugees. Australia has a set number of refugees it allows in every year, and these people are cheating the system.
A refugee is one who seeks refuge. Period. Illegal immigrants can be (and most are) refugees.
It was important for them to be shipped to other countries instead of Australia because, once they make it to Australia, they are able to make use of our legal system to stall their deportation, when found not to be legitimate refugess.
They are doing this anyway, and have so far stalled the legal systems of Australian and the islands they are being kept on, the islands are getting fed up and they will probably be shipped back to Australia soon. But of greater concern is Australia's policy of indefinite detention without charge for these people.
You make it sound like Australia is still repressing the Aboriginals. This is simply not true. Aboriginals infact are entitled to more government funded assistance than white Australians these days.
Just because the government throws a little more money at them than the average welfare cheque does not mean they are better off than white Australians. At the same time they continue to remove Aborigines from their land (remember the Wik Ten-point-plan?). Coincidence that about 90% of people in gaol in the northern territory are aboriginal? No oppresion any more?
We are not proud of our past, however I'm certain that nor are you of your country's past with slaves, but to suggest that we apologise for something that our ancestors have done is absurd.
If your friend's mother was to die, you would tell your friend `I'm Sorry'. This is in no way an admission that you killed his/her mother, but extending your compassion, and wishing to make your friend feel better. Or you could say `I didn't kill your mother, stop whining to me'. Socially acceptable?
This is a complicated issue, and will not be solved with simplistic attitudes like yours
But back to the topic...
Australia's Competition watchdog, the ACCC, recently said they were investigating the DVD zoning system on the grounds it was anti-competitive as it favoured the US movie industry unfairly at the expense of the Aussie move industry. Looks like Aussies have a bone to pick with American controlled uber-corporations telling us what to do.
This is because with each release they are ripping out some bloated feature of mozilla. mail, news, irc are gone, next they'll drop the user interface, shortly afterwards, the html rendering engine will disappear. The windows release will stay above a certain size due to the installer, however.
Well, there's directFB. Technically a library not a windowing system, but gtk+ can run atop it, so if u don't mind recompiling...
The main problem with X is that it tries to do too much, and suffers as a result. But from my experience it does the job and I'm quite happy with it (particularly for running old SGI boxen as dumb X-terminals)
Any experiment involving gases can be turned into an experiment involving bubbles and gases. They form a nice visible barrier. Just put the gas-creating reation into a container with a small-ish neck, and cover this with a thin film of detergent.
Fill bubbles with H2 for nicely concentrated explosions.
Create smoke filled bubbles.
Blow bubbles over a tub of dry ice and water, and they `float' over the tub (the high density of the CO2 keeps them there).
Demonstrates both the properties of gases, and surface tension.
Not really sure if the students will respect you too much after you collapse into a giggling heap on the floor after demonstrating the voice lowering effects. Then again, if you let them try it for themselves... For that matter they could make it themselves by gently heating ammonium nitrate (added bonus: heating it too quickly will cause an explosion)
Experiments with nitrous oxide may encourage students to pursue a career in dentistry;)
freenet can be used as a truly distributed DNS system. Only problem is that conflicts can arise. But then `democracy' wins out; whichever name has more submissions will get it's IP returned; in the end a content-based searching/index system will win out regardless.
No, the only difference with this particular GM corn crop is it is resistant to the pesticide RoundUp (hence the name RoundUp-Ready). Guess who manufactures RoundUp? None other than Monsanto. So the only advantage is that they can plant these crops, and completely nuke the field with RoundUp. The fact the crop is GM doesn't worry me as much as the increasing amount of residual chemicals this causes. And guess what other things Monsanto has hidden in its closet? yes kids, they are the good people who supplied the world with DDT and Agent Orange (still causing problems in Vietnam). And guess who is supplying the chemicals (mostly RoundUp) that the US military is bombing Columbia with right now to destroy cocaine crops (never mind the food crops of thousands of farmers that get in the way)? You guessed it....
vinyl = prevention of creation of exact copies by forcing an analog data path. thus, it is a copy protection mechanism, and this overcomes this mechanism, thus violating the DMCA.
I'm sure that the major labels will be embracing this new protection mechanism with fervour.
enable the BIOS password, and disable booting from a floppy. Then the only way to own the box would be to physically open it and clear the BIOS with a jumper. Which could be solved by locking the box (most recent cases have a little hole u can put a padlock in). If all of this is done, the only way to own the box is to get busy with a drill/hacksaw/boltcutters/[insert name of heavy duty hardware here]. In which case ur prolly stuffed anyway...
As mentioned b4, it is already possible to track a mobile's position by triangulating from the phone towers. I was working on such a system in australia, where the government is trying to make mobile phone tracking mandatory (again, for `emergency services'). The main problem with this, and with GPS in a phone, is that most phones are used in cities. Cities have large buildings. radio signals reflect off large buildings. So it is very difficult to avoid false positional data due to reflected signals. The easiest way to get around this is to keep track of the unit over a period of time; sudden `jumps' in the position will be able to be seen as errors. But this would require quite an amount of computational power to be used all the time to firstly track, then to filter the data.
probably talking about an increase of.25 to.50 cents. A substantial difference for the lightbulb world.
Given that currently small flourescent bulbs (drop-in replacements for incandescents), which use less than a fifth of the power of incandescents cost about $10 (australian), 50c isn't much, really. I can't imagine these new bulbs will be particularly cheaper. at least nowhere near the 50c or so for incandescents.
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And I'll be ready to try it out when Debian-GNU/Darwin comes out.
Given apple's preference for closed hardware, they could do this already now with the limited hardware darwin runs on. Just use an x86 chip and proprietary motherboard, and only let OSX run on that hardware.
u needed lisp to prove that there is something wrong with capitalism?
Indeed, filesystem code would barely be necessary; just look into the boot partition, find out where the kernel is kept (using lilo-like code), and infect the kernel. Proceed to laugh in an evil fashion and take over the world.
Gee I'm glad I don't dual boot.
Oh dear, now we're going to have some people using USB2.0 to upload their brains, others firewire, and get something worse than apartheid.
The browser integration will more likely be in the next version of X11. Yes, I know you were kidding, but realistically, it might be useful to throw Gecko as a rendering module for X. Hell, if they have display Postscript and display PDF rendering interfaces, why not add a direct XML rendering interface?
you throw one of these into a small private lake?
`Could not delete file: not enough disk space left on drive C. Please delete some files and try again'
Also, a windows 3.11 machine once tried to tell me a 3.5 inch floppy had 2 gigabytes of free space on it. DOS told me it had negative free space.
Would make no difference. A company doing business in a foreign nation is still subject to that nation's laws. And patents are country-specific.
On the other hand, it would be a nice way to get rid of Gates and Ballmer, as they would be the only two people who would choose to live in the country.
A refugee is one who seeks refuge. Period. Illegal immigrants can be (and most are) refugees.
It was important for them to be shipped to other countries instead of Australia because, once they make it to Australia, they are able to make use of our legal system to stall their deportation, when found not to be legitimate refugess.
They are doing this anyway, and have so far stalled the legal systems of Australian and the islands they are being kept on, the islands are getting fed up and they will probably be shipped back to Australia soon. But of greater concern is Australia's policy of indefinite detention without charge for these people.
You make it sound like Australia is still repressing the Aboriginals. This is simply not true. Aboriginals infact are entitled to more government funded assistance than white Australians these days.
Just because the government throws a little more money at them than the average welfare cheque does not mean they are better off than white Australians. At the same time they continue to remove Aborigines from their land (remember the Wik Ten-point-plan?). Coincidence that about 90% of people in gaol in the northern territory are aboriginal? No oppresion any more?
We are not proud of our past, however I'm certain that nor are you of your country's past with slaves, but to suggest that we apologise for something that our ancestors have done is absurd.
If your friend's mother was to die, you would tell your friend `I'm Sorry'. This is in no way an admission that you killed his/her mother, but extending your compassion, and wishing to make your friend feel better. Or you could say `I didn't kill your mother, stop whining to me'. Socially acceptable?
This is a complicated issue, and will not be solved with simplistic attitudes like yours
But back to the topic...
Australia's Competition watchdog, the ACCC, recently said they were investigating the DVD zoning system on the grounds it was anti-competitive as it favoured the US movie industry unfairly at the expense of the Aussie move industry. Looks like Aussies have a bone to pick with American controlled uber-corporations telling us what to do.
This is because with each release they are ripping out some bloated feature of mozilla. mail, news, irc are gone, next they'll drop the user interface, shortly afterwards, the html rendering engine will disappear. The windows release will stay above a certain size due to the installer, however.
The main problem with X is that it tries to do too much, and suffers as a result. But from my experience it does the job and I'm quite happy with it (particularly for running old SGI boxen as dumb X-terminals)
Any experiment involving gases can be turned into an experiment involving bubbles and gases. They form a nice visible barrier. Just put the gas-creating reation into a container with a small-ish neck, and cover this with a thin film of detergent.
Fill bubbles with H2 for nicely concentrated explosions.
Create smoke filled bubbles.
Blow bubbles over a tub of dry ice and water, and they `float' over the tub (the high density of the CO2 keeps them there).
Demonstrates both the properties of gases, and surface tension.
hehehehe.
;)
HAHAHAHA
(btw that should be N2O; NO2 is poisonous)
Not really sure if the students will respect you too much after you collapse into a giggling heap on the floor after demonstrating the voice lowering effects. Then again, if you let them try it for themselves... For that matter they could make it themselves by gently heating ammonium nitrate (added bonus: heating it too quickly will cause an explosion)
Experiments with nitrous oxide may encourage students to pursue a career in dentistry
Maybe by many-time-pad he just means many one-time-pads.
Also seems to work without parter=foo.
freenet can be used as a truly distributed DNS system. Only problem is that conflicts can arise. But then `democracy' wins out; whichever name has more submissions will get it's IP returned; in the end a content-based searching/index system will win out regardless.
No, the only difference with this particular GM corn crop is it is resistant to the pesticide RoundUp (hence the name RoundUp-Ready). Guess who manufactures RoundUp? None other than Monsanto. So the only advantage is that they can plant these crops, and completely nuke the field with RoundUp. The fact the crop is GM doesn't worry me as much as the increasing amount of residual chemicals this causes. And guess what other things Monsanto has hidden in its closet? yes kids, they are the good people who supplied the world with DDT and Agent Orange (still causing problems in Vietnam). And guess who is supplying the chemicals (mostly RoundUp) that the US military is bombing Columbia with right now to destroy cocaine crops (never mind the food crops of thousands of farmers that get in the way)? You guessed it ....
vinyl = prevention of creation of exact copies by forcing an analog data path. thus, it is a copy protection mechanism, and this overcomes this mechanism, thus violating the DMCA.
I'm sure that the major labels will be embracing this new protection mechanism with fervour.
enable the BIOS password, and disable booting from a floppy. Then the only way to own the box would be to physically open it and clear the BIOS with a jumper. Which could be solved by locking the box (most recent cases have a little hole u can put a padlock in). If all of this is done, the only way to own the box is to get busy with a drill/hacksaw/boltcutters/[insert name of heavy duty hardware here]. In which case ur prolly stuffed anyway...
Did no-one else see the logo at DARPA's IAO website? Either the conspiracy is about to be exposed; or they're taking the piss ;)
As mentioned b4, it is already possible to track a mobile's position by triangulating from the phone towers. I was working on such a system in australia, where the government is trying to make mobile phone tracking mandatory (again, for `emergency services'). The main problem with this, and with GPS in a phone, is that most phones are used in cities. Cities have large buildings. radio signals reflect off large buildings. So it is very difficult to avoid false positional data due to reflected signals. The easiest way to get around this is to keep track of the unit over a period of time; sudden `jumps' in the position will be able to be seen as errors. But this would require quite an amount of computational power to be used all the time to firstly track, then to filter the data.
Given that currently small flourescent bulbs (drop-in replacements for incandescents), which use less than a fifth of the power of incandescents cost about $10 (australian), 50c isn't much, really. I can't imagine these new bulbs will be particularly cheaper. at least nowhere near the 50c or so for incandescents.