Forget detailed questions about the car's internal workings, having worked in the automotive serive industry I know that people often don't even know the year, make, and model of their car... People just usually don't spend to much time worrying about such things, in general. Though those in the industry may know about some major change that happened in x year on y car, most people don't care as long as their car is working.
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but... I have 2 words for you: Zelda, Metroid. by many counts the 2 best games out this past year, both only avalible from Nintendo, one developed in house, one jointly with another developer. For these reasons alone I bought a game cube. Also have gotten Super Monkey ball and Pikmin out of the deal, and anxiously awaiting Viewtiful Joe. I'm not a "hard core" gamer, and don't have enough time to be, but the inovative and fun games that Nintendo puts out not only set the standards for control systems used in future games(think Mario 64, Zelda:Ocarina), but continue to create new genres.
For math anyway... Here's some books I found to be very good.. Practical Algebra: A self teaching guide, by Peter Selby and Steve Slavin(second edition). One of the best math books I've found. Covers both concepts and details, has good excercises to do.. How to ace Calculus, The streetwise guide, by Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass. Not hugely detailed, mostly conceptual, but good. No excercises, made to be used in conjunction with a real text book.
Right. So you have to BUY it if you want to reverse engineer it. That's not unreasonable. He shouldn't have to provide you with a free copy to reverse engineer if he doesn't want to.. This thing has been blown WAY out of proportion...
Depends on who your engineers are. I'd have to sit down and "RTFM" for many hours to get anything running on windows. On any Unix variant, there's much less for me to figure out. The windows solutions are as hard to use at this point, it's just a matter of what you already are familiar with. The windows way of managing servers seems optimized for keyboard and mouse at each server, much different from the unix setup which is optimized for text usage and much more scriptable. I am personally much more comfortable making changes across 150 Unix machines then across 150 windows machines, and that's the sort of enterprise class applications I've worked with.
Basically, they've reinvented netnews(usenet) without the benifits of savings to the ISP and a multi-tier network. Every ISP I've had I would consider clueful has offered good netnews service, because it lets people download these kind of things without stressing their bandwith too much, IE they download it once, their customer can all download it from the internal network. The ISP becomes a file caching ultrapeer. Since some of the large providers these days don't provide netnews (Comcast bought out AT&T Broadband who did have netnews, and Comcast doesn't.. Sigh. I'll miss it.) this could still be quite useful.
And WEP's gonna keep someone out for what, 30 minutes tops? And in gaining that 30 minutes of security, on most cards you drop your transfer rates quite a bit. Real usefull..
The implementation is free, the codec algorithm is not. To actually use it, you legally have to pay money to patent holders. Theora is totally free and patent unencumbered(as far as we know so far anyway;-)
"...their only supported platform?" Meaning you are on your own in getting anything else to work. It may, it may not. These people are telling you it probably will...
No, in fact it would not. I could talk about killing neighbors in the abstract all day long and not be doing enything illegal. If I start saying that I'm going to kill Bob and Sue Worthright who live next to me, I'm making threats. 2600 talks about blackhat hacking, phone phreaking, etc, and is a perfectly legal magazine you can pick up at any bookstore. It talks about targeting specific stores, etc. There is no law against it. Networks are not people, and there are no laws against speaking of breaking into a network like there are about making death threats.
Sure can... Now, if you could understand what's comming over the line, you're smarter then everyone else in the whole world. The military doesn't rely soly on security by obscurity, and would be fools to do so..
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So? Any Joe can recreate Walmart too, but it would take a phenomenal amount of capital to get anywhere close to the point of competing with them. The same is true with amazon. We don't let walmart patent the "make a huge freaking store" method of business, why should we let amazon patent the "click to buy things" business? Should we give walmart a patent if they want to start selling used books next to their new books? Then why should we give a patent to amazon when the only difference is the venue?
Define low bitrate. At 64k, vorbis absolutly eats MP3's lunch. Pretty much anything 128kb or under, vorbis has an advantage. The lame is still better tuned for getting the maximum possible sound quality for the minimum amount of space, and for that reason it's my general choice if space doesn't allow for lossless compression. For anything less then 128k, vorbis and AAC have a pretty good lead over mp3.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. This is MUCH better then what we have now, and if you need stronger security, you can use something else instead of/also. It is foolish to completely trust any internet connections. It is foolish to completely trust anything. There may be a video camera watching your typing and screen, a keyboard logger or rootkit installed on your computer, etc. Limited security and authentication is so far better then none at all, and you can still do more authentication manually if you want. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Every tried to take a sledge to a monitor? Computer monitor glass is FREAKING tough. Try it sometime... Never imagined it would take more then one swing of a sledge to break through glass.. (well, lead impregnated glass, but still...)
Depends on what you wanna do. I hack on webpages and retouch some images from my digital camera. I trust and love the GIMP. My wife is an artist, and the small nuances of the picture (most noticably color matching) affect if she makes money or not. Nothing less then Photoshop will do. The GIMP is a complete image editor the equal of CorelDRAW and fufilling most of the used of Photoshop, but is not a complete photoshop replacement. The situation is similar in most every other catagory on linux app. There is an alternitive to do whatever you want to in Linux, but it's usually not up to par with the best software avalible for Windows or Mac. Of course, I can't afford a licence of Lightwave, or autocad, or any of the other "best in breed" software in windows, so the free linux alternatives are great for me. I wouldn't bet my job on them though.
Film GIMP(now CinePaint) is NOTHING like Adobe Premiere.
Adobe Premiere is a non-linear video editor, CinePaint is a high dynamic range picture editor, basically just the Gimp with 64-bit RGBA color capability.
Cinelerra is a non-linear editor, but not quite on par with Premiere IMHO.
Kino and kdenlive are promising projects I have yet to use to do that same thing.
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Forget detailed questions about the car's internal workings, having worked in the automotive serive industry I know that people often don't even know the year, make, and model of their car...
People just usually don't spend to much time worrying about such things, in general. Though those in the industry may know about some major change that happened in x year on y car, most people don't care as long as their car is working.
I know I shouldn't feed the troll, but...
I have 2 words for you:
Zelda, Metroid.
by many counts the 2 best games out this past year, both only avalible from Nintendo, one developed in house, one jointly with another developer.
For these reasons alone I bought a game cube. Also have gotten Super Monkey ball and Pikmin out of the deal, and anxiously awaiting Viewtiful Joe. I'm not a "hard core" gamer, and don't have enough time to be, but the inovative and fun games that Nintendo puts out not only set the standards for control systems used in future games(think Mario 64, Zelda:Ocarina), but continue to create new genres.
For math anyway...
Here's some books I found to be very good..
Practical Algebra: A self teaching guide, by Peter Selby and Steve Slavin(second edition). One of the best math books I've found. Covers both concepts and details, has good excercises to do..
How to ace Calculus, The streetwise guide, by Colin Adams, Abigail Thompson, and Joel Hass. Not hugely detailed, mostly conceptual, but good. No excercises, made to be used in conjunction with a real text book.
Note that when you transmit with ham priviliges, you are not allowed to use encryption, making it sort of useless in my view...
Right. So you have to BUY it if you want to reverse engineer it.
That's not unreasonable. He shouldn't have to provide you with a free copy to reverse engineer if he doesn't want to..
This thing has been blown WAY out of proportion...
Depends on who your engineers are.
I'd have to sit down and "RTFM" for many hours to get anything running on windows. On any Unix variant, there's much less for me to figure out.
The windows solutions are as hard to use at this point, it's just a matter of what you already are familiar with. The windows way of managing servers seems optimized for keyboard and mouse at each server, much different from the unix setup which is optimized for text usage and much more scriptable.
I am personally much more comfortable making changes across 150 Unix machines then across 150 windows machines, and that's the sort of enterprise class applications I've worked with.
Heck, I can solve the "OS XI" problem... :o)
Call it "OS X++"
Basically, they've reinvented netnews(usenet) without the benifits of savings to the ISP and a multi-tier network.
Every ISP I've had I would consider clueful has offered good netnews service, because it lets people download these kind of things without stressing their bandwith too much, IE they download it once, their customer can all download it from the internal network. The ISP becomes a file caching ultrapeer.
Since some of the large providers these days don't provide netnews (Comcast bought out AT&T Broadband who did have netnews, and Comcast doesn't.. Sigh. I'll miss it.) this could still be quite useful.
And WEP's gonna keep someone out for what, 30 minutes tops? And in gaining that 30 minutes of security, on most cards you drop your transfer rates quite a bit. Real usefull..
The implementation is free, the codec algorithm is not. ;-)
To actually use it, you legally have to pay money to patent holders.
Theora is totally free and patent unencumbered(as far as we know so far anyway
"...their only supported platform?"
Meaning you are on your own in getting anything else to work. It may, it may not. These people are telling you it probably will...
There's lots of other "microbrews" for soda that use cane sugar also..
Root 66 Root beer is one of my favorite, brewed rootbeer made with cane sugar.
That fits in the sugar catagory
No, in fact it would not. I could talk about killing neighbors in the abstract all day long and not be doing enything illegal.
If I start saying that I'm going to kill Bob and Sue Worthright who live next to me, I'm making threats.
2600 talks about blackhat hacking, phone phreaking, etc, and is a perfectly legal magazine you can pick up at any bookstore. It talks about targeting specific stores, etc. There is no law against it. Networks are not people, and there are no laws against speaking of breaking into a network like there are about making death threats.
Sure can... Now, if you could understand what's comming over the line, you're smarter then everyone else in the whole world. The military doesn't rely soly on security by obscurity, and would be fools to do so..
So? Any Joe can recreate Walmart too, but it would take a phenomenal amount of capital to get anywhere close to the point of competing with them.
The same is true with amazon. We don't let walmart patent the "make a huge freaking store" method of business, why should we let amazon patent the "click to buy things" business?
Should we give walmart a patent if they want to start selling used books next to their new books? Then why should we give a patent to amazon when the only difference is the venue?
Define low bitrate.
At 64k, vorbis absolutly eats MP3's lunch. Pretty much anything 128kb or under, vorbis has an advantage. The lame is still better tuned for getting the maximum possible sound quality for the minimum amount of space, and for that reason it's my general choice if space doesn't allow for lossless compression. For anything less then 128k, vorbis and AAC have a pretty good lead over mp3.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
This is MUCH better then what we have now, and if you need stronger security, you can use something else instead of/also.
It is foolish to completely trust any internet connections. It is foolish to completely trust anything. There may be a video camera watching your typing and screen, a keyboard logger or rootkit installed on your computer, etc.
Limited security and authentication is so far better then none at all, and you can still do more authentication manually if you want.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Every tried to take a sledge to a monitor? Computer monitor glass is FREAKING tough. Try it sometime... Never imagined it would take more then one swing of a sledge to break through glass.. (well, lead impregnated glass, but still...)
Except OpenOffice.org is feature-rich, free, and cross-platform, making it a better then average choice for standardization.
Point taken. I have the CorelDraw Suite wich includes Draw and Photopaint.
Depends on what you wanna do.
I hack on webpages and retouch some images from my digital camera. I trust and love the GIMP.
My wife is an artist, and the small nuances of the picture (most noticably color matching) affect if she makes money or not. Nothing less then Photoshop will do.
The GIMP is a complete image editor the equal of CorelDRAW and fufilling most of the used of Photoshop, but is not a complete photoshop replacement.
The situation is similar in most every other catagory on linux app. There is an alternitive to do whatever you want to in Linux, but it's usually not up to par with the best software avalible for Windows or Mac.
Of course, I can't afford a licence of Lightwave, or autocad, or any of the other "best in breed" software in windows, so the free linux alternatives are great for me. I wouldn't bet my job on them though.
Film GIMP(now CinePaint) is NOTHING like Adobe Premiere. Adobe Premiere is a non-linear video editor, CinePaint is a high dynamic range picture editor, basically just the Gimp with 64-bit RGBA color capability. Cinelerra is a non-linear editor, but not quite on par with Premiere IMHO. Kino and kdenlive are promising projects I have yet to use to do that same thing.
zsnes also has a linux port.
http://www.snes9x.com/
http://www.zsnes.com/
Wasn't funny the first time, now it's just beating the long dead horse.