Imagine explaining your phone that your girlfriend dumped you for a guy with a better phone, so you don't need to buy her any gifts. Your phone may be very unhappy to learn about that.
What if your phone doesn't like your girlfriend, and tries to get rid of her by sending her faked data about your other contacts?
So if you really have to make the phones intelligent, at least don't give them emotions!
Also, the license is usually terminated as soon as you try a competitor's product. And then in most cases you'll still have to pay license fees after your license was terminated. And even if cou manage to keep your license, the functionality will be severely reduced.
That minimum resolution part may well be due to the MPEG stream. MPEG stores only some of the frames completely (called I frames or keyframes), the rest contains just the difference to the previous frame (actually it's even more complicated). Therefore jumping to a position where there is no keyframe isn't that easy (you'd have to go to the keyframe, and then step by step move through the frames to the destination frame). I don't know how far apart the keyframes are, but I can imagine that those ~30s might be just that.
Actually I seldom use it, too, but for a quite different reason: If I want to go back, I actually use Alt+Left. I only go to the back button to go back more than a few steps at once.
try documenting an idea like that in the manual that came with the software in a simple way that a technophobe can understand.
Ok, I'll try (using an imaginary product FooDesktop, but for real desktops, just the keys/mouse movements part has to be adapted):
FooDesktop supports multiple desktops. That is, it works as if you had several screens where you can put your applications on, except that only one of them is displayed at your physical screen at any given time. To switch between desktops, use Ctrl+Alt+Left and Ctrl+Alt+Right, or move your mouse to the left or right border of your screen. The latter behaviour can be switched off using the ScrollLock key.
What about comparing the MIPS (no, not the company, but the good old Mega Instructions Per Second)? Not that this would tell you everything about the performance, but it's at least independent from design details, and given that both use basically the same instruction set, it would be quite comparable.
Given the compression with gzip (note that this happens before sending over the network), I don't think it will help you much. Change a comressed file somewhere in the middle and then try to recover the data after the error from that file. I'm not sure if it is possible at all, but it will be at least hard.
That's not a grammatical error. Even the following sentence is grammatically correct: The invisible red ball is floating in a green love with very loud lemon flavour. Not that it made any sense, of course:-)
I just tested it, recorded a couple of minutes of chronicle of riddick from DVD; clear picture.
I, of course, Immediately destroyed the VHS tape so as to comply with our benevolent overlords at the MPAA.
You not only did an illegal copy, but then even destroyed every evidence of your doing? This more than proves that you were knowingly doing evil! Expect to hear from MPAA's lawyers soon!:-)
Except that a link to the redirected website wouldn't work, because it's redirected to the nice plaintext page explaining the situation with links to both websites...
But other than that, that's the right solution. Especially given that otherwise the target audience of the idol side won't know that they are using a wrong URI and will just hit the gay porn site at some later time when they try to connect again...
That's most probably not a typo, but slashcode modifying your text. However, what about just providing a Link? It's as easy as <a href="http://...">Text</a>
What would happen if some company started, in some country, a new organization also called "Free Software Foundation" and published a "GPL v. 10" which doesn't have anything from GPL v.2 (or 3), but say it's "a later version", arguing that a later version may very well be a complete rewrite of the previous version?
After all, is the term "later version" legally defined?
Actually, I'd like my CPU to support fork(2) as machine instruction. After all, it would be the cheapest way to get a dual processor system (and by executing the command repeatedly, you'd get a complete supercomputer out of a single CPU system!)
Ok, thinking about it, it would probably be too dangerous. After all, the code while(1) asm("fork"); would turn the earth into a black hole...
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Someone is needed to buy the phone.
Of course a phone which doesn't run Emacs isn't worth purchasing! Imagine just being able to type M-x doctor if you feel bad anywhere you are ...
What if your phone doesn't like your girlfriend, and tries to get rid of her by sending her faked data about your other contacts?
So if you really have to make the phones intelligent, at least don't give them emotions!
Also, the license is usually terminated as soon as you try a competitor's product. And then in most cases you'll still have to pay license fees after your license was terminated. And even if cou manage to keep your license, the functionality will be severely reduced.
That minimum resolution part may well be due to the MPEG stream. MPEG stores only some of the frames completely (called I frames or keyframes), the rest contains just the difference to the previous frame (actually it's even more complicated). Therefore jumping to a position where there is no keyframe isn't that easy (you'd have to go to the keyframe, and then step by step move through the frames to the destination frame). I don't know how far apart the keyframes are, but I can imagine that those ~30s might be just that.
But then it's probably easier to hit Alt+Left than to hit the back button, too?
Actually I seldom use it, too, but for a quite different reason: If I want to go back, I actually use Alt+Left. I only go to the back button to go back more than a few steps at once.
Ok, I'll try (using an imaginary product FooDesktop, but for real desktops, just the keys/mouse movements part has to be adapted):
FooDesktop supports multiple desktops. That is, it works as if you had several screens where you can put your applications on, except that only one of them is displayed at your physical screen at any given time. To switch between desktops, use Ctrl+Alt+Left and Ctrl+Alt+Right, or move your mouse to the left or right border of your screen. The latter behaviour can be switched off using the ScrollLock key.
Well, unless MS owns the patent on the business method of avoiding patent lawsuits by not using patented code, of course
What about comparing the MIPS (no, not the company, but the good old Mega Instructions Per Second)? Not that this would tell you everything about the performance, but it's at least independent from design details, and given that both use basically the same instruction set, it would be quite comparable.
Given the compression with gzip (note that this happens before sending over the network), I don't think it will help you much. Change a comressed file somewhere in the middle and then try to recover the data after the error from that file. I'm not sure if it is possible at all, but it will be at least hard.
That's not a grammatical error. Even the following sentence is grammatically correct: :-)
The invisible red ball is floating in a green love with very loud lemon flavour.
Not that it made any sense, of course
Well, maybe Sun should consider selling an MP3 player, too? :-)
So what? My PC is four years old and I still don't see an urgent need for upgrade. Ah, yes, it's 700 MHz, too
You not only did an illegal copy, but then even destroyed every evidence of your doing? This more than proves that you were knowingly doing evil! Expect to hear from MPAA's lawyers soon!
You think so? I think the beginning was a bit salty. And the end could have had a bit more curry.
Well, at least they do extend them.
Except that a link to the redirected website wouldn't work, because it's redirected to the nice plaintext page explaining the situation with links to both websites ...
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But other than that, that's the right solution. Especially given that otherwise the target audience of the idol side won't know that they are using a wrong URI and will just hit the gay porn site at some later time when they try to connect again
You typed www.linux.org - we are sure you wanted to go to www.microsoft.com instead ...
From the FSF page about GIF:
Of the places whose patent databases we were able to search, the latest expiration date seems to be Friday 11 August 2006.
Note that the patent which expires at that date is not the Unisys patent, but an IBM patent also covering LZW (and therefore GIF).
Now, I guess IBM is unlikely to sue (it would probably hurt their Linux strategy), but that doesn't make that patent disappear.
That's most probably not a typo, but slashcode modifying your text. However, what about just providing a Link? It's as easy as <a href="http://...">Text</a>
What would happen if some company started, in some country, a new organization also called "Free Software Foundation" and published a "GPL v. 10" which doesn't have anything from GPL v.2 (or 3), but say it's "a later version", arguing that a later version may very well be a complete rewrite of the previous version?
After all, is the term "later version" legally defined?
Well, that's not true. At least all of the PCs I've seen yet have to be explicitly turned on after plugging them in.
Actually, I'd like my CPU to support fork(2) as machine instruction. After all, it would be the cheapest way to get a dual processor system (and by executing the command repeatedly, you'd get a complete supercomputer out of a single CPU system!)
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Ok, thinking about it, it would probably be too dangerous. After all, the code while(1) asm("fork"); would turn the earth into a black hole
2x CD or 2x DVD?
Ah, I get it, you mean a double density 5.25" floppy!
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