Actually, there are three undo shortcut commands by default in Emacs: Ctrl-X followed by U (which is clearly a bit tricky to key), Ctrl-Shift-minus (still a bit tough), and Ctrl-/. For happiest Emacs/vi use, map Control to Caps-Lock, or better yet, get a "Happy Hacking" keyboard (has Ctrl, Esc in more sensible places, gets rid of function keys and numeric keypad, saves desk space).
In the UK where you can drink at 18, the Mac can already drink. As I proved a couple of years ago by spilling a glass of whisky on a friend's Powerbook. Until it dried out, the keyboard was a bit dodgy though.
So the proposal seems to be, content on DVD is encrypted with AES, using some random key. The key is stored on the DVD, but encrypted against another key, which is part of the player. How do you distribute this key inside players, without people being able to dig it out? Is it by putting it in a hardware-only form, like the chip on a smart-card? How easy is it to hide such a key in compiled software?
Conduct the radiation up to your head? Its radiation, from the word radiate! It goes out in all directions! Radiation (at least certain types) needs thick lead to block it. Other types are stopped by your skin. Now why in the world would radiation be conducted by a wire? It would either pass through the wire or be stopped by it.
Okay, I've probably been a bit careless in my use of word "conduct". A wire can channel radiation by acting as an aerial - in that radiation induces currents to flow in the wire, and these subsequently cause reradiation. So the wire conducts an electrical signal, capabable of reradiating, rather than strictly speaking conducting radiation. Read this link to understand what I'm trying to say.
From TFA: Adlkofer... recommended the use of a headset connected to a cellphone whenever possible.
I thought the prevailing wisdom was that using a headset actually made things worse: If you use a headset, you place the phone in your pocket; it needs to run at higher power to get reception; the skull is good at blocking radiation anyway; and the wires connecting the headset to the phone can also conduct the radiation up to your head.
There is frequently junk in spam that looks like noise, but encrypted data also can look like noise. If you send out a million spams and just make sure that a couple of them go to the people you want to get the message
Pah! Real men have a 28-hour day! Actually, I tried this for a while and found it worked, but was too impractical as the rest of the world didn't try it.
Since when did people start drinking coffee for the taste?
Probably since people started drinking wine and beer for the taste. Obviously caffeine and alcohol are clear bonuses, but it's quite possible to appreciate a drink beyond it's psychoactive ingredients.
Now, there are those times when you say "I really need a coffee/beer." Then it probably doesn't matter how it tastes.
But it's not really aimed at the average users. It's aimed at the system administrator dudes to migrate other people's desktops in such a way that they won't moan too much.
It would be amusing if the War of the Worlds TV trailer (which is refusing to play on my machine), was engineered to look like a news broadcast, and managed to cause panic like the radio series.
Wow. Why do people think the only place Macs are used are in "design"? My world is also a University. One of the largest public research Universities in the country, the University of Wisconsin - Madison. I don't know where you are, but there are ridiculously far more Mac OS X users here than Linux users.
I work in experimental physics, at a UK university. All the lab machines are Windows (hardware support reasons), but the office machines are a completely mixed bag. I use a Mac, and do work with Matlab and Mathematica on it, there are three other Mac users in my group, two Linux, and six Windows. People just use what they like best, but there isn't any reason not to use a Mac in science.
Wine is not an emulator, but a reimplementation of the Win32 API. The various system calls that are made available to Windows programs are reinterpreted by the Wine libraries, so as to perform similar functionality, sometimes by making system calls to Linux. In the case of DirectX stuff, 3D calls are converted to OpenGL. Some people have found that games can even run a little faster under Wine, but in most cases there is a small performance hit, probably equivalent to a few frames per second.
TV runs at 30 fps (actually it's something like 29.97), not 25.
TV in the US (NTSC) is at 59.94 fields per second interlaced, so it is equivalent to 29.97 frames per second. However, in Europe TV (PAL) is 50 fields per second interlaced, or 25 frames per second. The reason for the difference is the difference in the mains AC frequency on opposite sides of the pond. (The 60/59.94 disparity is due to a complication of colour TV). This has annoying consequences when transferring video, as conversion is required (also in terms of number of lines). Cinema film tends to run at 24 full frames per second, just to make things a little more complicated. Here is a comparison of TV formats.
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I decided to look at the article, and somehow, he believes that downloading the music isn't illegal, but burning it to CD is.
Well, it has been the practice of the RIAA only to go after the people sharing their music with others. Also from the article: "I don't think there has been a single song pirated from my collection."
So it appears he isn't King of the Pirates, but King of the Freeloaders. (Not that I condone either.)
As TFA seems to state, the principal problem in the patenting system is that it is too easy to get a patent granted on what, after a lengthy legal trial will probably turn out not to have been patentable. The difficulty is that patenting stuff is already a bit expensive, putting off people who aren't big corporations. So how can a better vetting system be introduced to force patent offices to look harder at each application for obviousness/prior-artiness?
The article suggests that competitors could perform this task if the application process were made more open. This makes the patent process somewhat similar to obtaining planning permission (putting up notices saying what you plan, and giving people a chance to object in some period of time).
One thing seems certain, that only if more patents are rejected by the patent office, will people file fewer frivolous patents. But as the system stands, the patent office has little incentive - they just want to collect their fee without too much hassle. Only by changing the system so that the patent office suffers each time a patent it granted is later found in court to be dubious, will they be motivated to improve the quality of the vetting procedure.
Virus are not protected by copyright, patents etc.
Is that strictly true? Suppose I write a virus. That in itself isn't illegal, as long as I don't release it in the wild. But it is a creative work, just like any other software, so I automatically get the copyright as its author. Sure, it's unlikely that a virus author is going to sue people for breaching copyright, and there will be various fair-use arguments (dissassembling something for compatibility is allowed; to make a virus compatible with the rest of the computer it needs to be destroyed?).
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Does the Great Firewall of China block all of .tw then as the TLD system also recognizes Taiwan?
I thought it was Rock Paper Scissors Spock Lizard
Actually, there are three undo shortcut commands by default in Emacs: Ctrl-X followed by U (which is clearly a bit tricky to key), Ctrl-Shift-minus (still a bit tough), and Ctrl-/. For happiest Emacs/vi use, map Control to Caps-Lock, or better yet, get a "Happy Hacking" keyboard (has Ctrl, Esc in more sensible places, gets rid of function keys and numeric keypad, saves desk space).
In the UK where you can drink at 18, the Mac can already drink. As I proved a couple of years ago by spilling a glass of whisky on a friend's Powerbook. Until it dried out, the keyboard was a bit dodgy though.
It's sad that I spot stuff like this, but in your .sig, which is:
you need to add some parentheses as the precedence of == (logical equals) is higher than that of | (bitwise or).
So the proposal seems to be, content on DVD is encrypted with AES, using some random key. The key is stored on the DVD, but encrypted against another key, which is part of the player. How do you distribute this key inside players, without people being able to dig it out? Is it by putting it in a hardware-only form, like the chip on a smart-card? How easy is it to hide such a key in compiled software?
Well, with this /. article and another from earlier today, who knows what havoc we can wreak?
Conduct the radiation up to your head? Its radiation, from the word radiate! It goes out in all directions! Radiation (at least certain types) needs thick lead to block it. Other types are stopped by your skin. Now why in the world would radiation be conducted by a wire? It would either pass through the wire or be stopped by it.
Okay, I've probably been a bit careless in my use of word "conduct". A wire can channel radiation by acting as an aerial - in that radiation induces currents to flow in the wire, and these subsequently cause reradiation. So the wire conducts an electrical signal, capabable of reradiating, rather than strictly speaking conducting radiation. Read this link to understand what I'm trying to say.
From TFA: Adlkofer ... recommended the use of a headset connected to a cellphone whenever possible.
I thought the prevailing wisdom was that using a headset actually made things worse: If you use a headset, you place the phone in your pocket; it needs to run at higher power to get reception; the skull is good at blocking radiation anyway; and the wires connecting the headset to the phone can also conduct the radiation up to your head.
Sounds a bit like an internet version of the "numbers stations".
10 hour day
Pah! Real men have a 28-hour day! Actually, I tried this for a while and found it worked, but was too impractical as the rest of the world didn't try it.
Probably since people started drinking wine and beer for the taste. Obviously caffeine and alcohol are clear bonuses, but it's quite possible to appreciate a drink beyond it's psychoactive ingredients.
Now, there are those times when you say "I really need a coffee/beer." Then it probably doesn't matter how it tastes.
But it's not really aimed at the average users. It's aimed at the system administrator dudes to migrate other people's desktops in such a way that they won't moan too much.
It would be amusing if the War of the Worlds TV trailer (which is refusing to play on my machine), was engineered to look like a news broadcast, and managed to cause panic like the radio series.
As I said in a post to a previous topic, if getting a patent were more like getting planning permission, the system would be much improved.
I work in experimental physics, at a UK university. All the lab machines are Windows (hardware support reasons), but the office machines are a completely mixed bag. I use a Mac, and do work with Matlab and Mathematica on it, there are three other Mac users in my group, two Linux, and six Windows. People just use what they like best, but there isn't any reason not to use a Mac in science.
Or add ".03599976" to the end, although those last two or three digits may be subject to change.
I keep my room at 530 degrees Rankine, and that's the way it's going to stay.
Except it probably wouldn't be able to read Advanced Optical Discs. Yay for format wars!
Wine is not an emulator, but a reimplementation of the Win32 API. The various system calls that are made available to Windows programs are reinterpreted by the Wine libraries, so as to perform similar functionality, sometimes by making system calls to Linux. In the case of DirectX stuff, 3D calls are converted to OpenGL. Some people have found that games can even run a little faster under Wine, but in most cases there is a small performance hit, probably equivalent to a few frames per second.
TV in the US (NTSC) is at 59.94 fields per second interlaced, so it is equivalent to 29.97 frames per second. However, in Europe TV (PAL) is 50 fields per second interlaced, or 25 frames per second. The reason for the difference is the difference in the mains AC frequency on opposite sides of the pond. (The 60/59.94 disparity is due to a complication of colour TV). This has annoying consequences when transferring video, as conversion is required (also in terms of number of lines). Cinema film tends to run at 24 full frames per second, just to make things a little more complicated. Here is a comparison of TV formats.
Well, it has been the practice of the RIAA only to go after the people sharing their music with others. Also from the article: "I don't think there has been a single song pirated from my collection."
So it appears he isn't King of the Pirates, but King of the Freeloaders. (Not that I condone either.)
As TFA seems to state, the principal problem in the patenting system is that it is too easy to get a patent granted on what, after a lengthy legal trial will probably turn out not to have been patentable. The difficulty is that patenting stuff is already a bit expensive, putting off people who aren't big corporations. So how can a better vetting system be introduced to force patent offices to look harder at each application for obviousness/prior-artiness?
The article suggests that competitors could perform this task if the application process were made more open. This makes the patent process somewhat similar to obtaining planning permission (putting up notices saying what you plan, and giving people a chance to object in some period of time).
One thing seems certain, that only if more patents are rejected by the patent office, will people file fewer frivolous patents. But as the system stands, the patent office has little incentive - they just want to collect their fee without too much hassle. Only by changing the system so that the patent office suffers each time a patent it granted is later found in court to be dubious, will they be motivated to improve the quality of the vetting procedure.
Is that strictly true? Suppose I write a virus. That in itself isn't illegal, as long as I don't release it in the wild. But it is a creative work, just like any other software, so I automatically get the copyright as its author. Sure, it's unlikely that a virus author is going to sue people for breaching copyright, and there will be various fair-use arguments (dissassembling something for compatibility is allowed; to make a virus compatible with the rest of the computer it needs to be destroyed?).