You should look at the page source of a results page sometime. Right now the targets are to https://www.google.com/ with the rest of the URL encoded to tell google where to redirect you to. The HTTP/1.1 200 OK reply sets a cookie and then the HTML has a JS and meta refresh to send yo on your way to where you expect to go to. To get the referer to indicate it was from google, all they need to do for most browsers is have the targets still be to http://www.google.com/ instead if the real target is http instead of https. All this incidentally seems kind of pointless to me BTW, since now other parties cannot see your google searches, but they can still see the sites that you do visit from the results.
Google has given tens of millions of dollars to Mozilla. It's not Google that gets to sign the agreement between MPEG-LA and Mozilla. Mozilla decided to spend the money on other things rather than an AVC licence. Some think that was a good idea, others disagree.
Regarding jpeg2000, the devs did not like any of the available libraries due to (varying at different times) reasons such as: terms, fears of vulnerabilities, being short handed, timing (changing their own Gecko API at the moment), and not having a progressive display API.
Please educate yourself. When Google, MS, Adobe, or Apple as licensees of the MPEG-LA follow the terms for them, which they are for AVC, then you as the user get to use that software and do not violate anything as long as you follow the terms related to this in the End User License agreement or TOS for that software or site. Watching something from google is explicitly okay, there are ads, you did not pay so it is under the other remuneration scheme. Google has paid what it needs to and has not broken that agreement in any way, so you are fine. That's what the whole comercial vs non-comercial in ad supported site FUD was about.
Now if you use that software from MS, Adobe, or Apple, since they have paid what they need and have not broken anything in the agreement, you are fine if you use that software as spelled out by the terms in the EULA. Now if you start making hundreds of DVDs that you sell, you see now you are violating the terms in the EULA. You are now supposed to contact the MPEG-LA and work-out a royalty scheme. For something like a wedding videographer rumors are that it can be something like 4 cents per copy per work.
I too worry about this. I see so many of the interesting patents in software are simply: The naive approach is exponential. The greedy approach does not work. Let me throw dynamic programing/divide and conquer/linear programming at it, oh look the complexity is now tenable. Let me go and patent that. Any CS student after a good algorithms course could do this. Then there are all the patents that are cordic, fft, dct, numerical approximations, linear algebra, etc, textbook stuff.
"Thomas the Tank Engine" every single one that was made from about 3 to 2 years back. I bought a CyberHome cheapo DVD player so I could do the stop stop play trick and not have my boy sit there for 3-4 previews of other DVDs he enjoyed and I bought.
When Nick Denton couldn't resist showing off how cool he is and twittered that gawker paid $5K. I'm sure gawker legal counsel suggested he go right ahead and do that.
That's why I try to use python when I can. All that time I would have spent typing braces or withs, compiling, linking, and debugging, I spend commenting and writing tests.
Too bad m4 never caught on, sigh. It ticked me off when C++ programmers started using the.cpp extension, that was what I was using in my suffix rules to run the C preprocessor in my Makefiles. When you have to do that or put things in different files and #include them with two levels of redirection to get the behavior that you need, you know who to thank for such a good prepossessing system!
Sad books those students use. I used the TP books that came with TP4 or so. Pointer was called reference (been a long time, could be wrong) and they came-up when describing a linked list, where they made perfect sense. It was one of those aha moments for me when I was starting-out.
#define INSERT(t,s,b) \
t |= ((s * 0x01010101) >> b) & MASK(b) #define INSERT0(t, s) \
t |= (s * 0x01010101) & 0xff000000
#endif
Hint the PPC case has nothing to do with endianess, all to do with performance and disassembled code from the compiler. Here is what you need to know about posting code on slashdot: $ cat > foo ... ^D $ sed 's/&/\&/g; s/</\</g; s/>/\>/g' foo ... $
That's a very clever approach to making it work easily with what is there, wow. If Nintendo was interested in this that would be the right way to do it. Unfortunately with the dark half of the modding community shortly there would be a program to generate the code without wiping the memory. Just put yourself in Nintendo's shoes for a moment and realize how the flashcarts have hurt them on NDS. It's so bad that other parents are buying these for their kids here and bragging about it to me. It really upsets me.
So the first step might be to see which channels are installed and disallow it if the Homebrew channel is. Too bad for all the non-pirates I guess. Then there might be hashes of IOSs computed. What's next? Does Nintendo want to get into the escalating war between modders tha MS is in? I am very happy that I only very rarely connect the Wii to the wireless, basically when I want to buy something from WiiShop.
I was really lucky, one of the most fun exercises we had was we made mastermind solvers. Then we pitted all against each other with the time and wc commands. I still remember saying when first being taught Prolog by the TA, "This is just like make," and he replied, "like make on steroids." It certainly is a neat language and valuable to being exposed to think in that way, just like the exposure to Lisp is as well.
Your college experience was similar to mine. We started with Scheme, then learned PPC assembly while creating MIPS like architecture. Then we learned C together with C++, and only then were we exposed to Java. In systems classes we used a simulator where the imaginary machine was very like a SPARC and logic courses were in Prolog when they were not mathematical proofs but exercises. Theory courses were largely in algol like pseudocode.
Too bad it has no C pre-processor, checks the bounds of arrays, the standard runtime is about 4 times as big, and it is such a PITA to add a smattering of assembly. (All of those points have non-standard ways of dealing with them, just like casting.) C is a lot like a quirky assembler with a pretty lousy macro system, I love it. So it may be as low level as C in the same way that C++ is but adds just a smidge more in practice (like the stack unwinding and RTTI stuff in C++).
I used to love TP, then I started using not DOS and the only viable tool for reusing my years of TP code was p2c (thank you thank you thank you). On Mac with MPW that pascal was completely different than TP in how it did things like casts, and without a real pre-processor, oh god man was it annoying! It quickly dawned on my younger mind then that if I did not want to get trapped like that again I would start using C/C++. Little did I realize that the compatibility of C++ was lacking roughly to an order of magnitude more than with C. So this young moron had to learn the hard way twice. I won't make the same mistake again, C for life baby!
Oh wait I fell for that Java tripe, I guess I just never learn do I.
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You should look at the page source of a results page sometime. Right now the targets are to https://www.google.com/ with the rest of the URL encoded to tell google where to redirect you to. The HTTP/1.1 200 OK reply sets a cookie and then the HTML has a JS and meta refresh to send yo on your way to where you expect to go to. To get the referer to indicate it was from google, all they need to do for most browsers is have the targets still be to http://www.google.com/ instead if the real target is http instead of https. All this incidentally seems kind of pointless to me BTW, since now other parties cannot see your google searches, but they can still see the sites that you do visit from the results.
I watched Winter Olympics ice hockey at Walmart with my kids. I was not the only one.
Can you get sports that way?
No, but you can watch at a sports bar.
With evidence from the book of Revelations and numbers that varied in value AND units from paragraph to paragraph, so you know it was a good one.
Google has given tens of millions of dollars to Mozilla. It's not Google that gets to sign the agreement between MPEG-LA and Mozilla. Mozilla decided to spend the money on other things rather than an AVC licence. Some think that was a good idea, others disagree.
Regarding jpeg2000, the devs did not like any of the available libraries due to (varying at different times) reasons such as: terms, fears of vulnerabilities, being short handed, timing (changing their own Gecko API at the moment), and not having a progressive display API.
Please educate yourself. When Google, MS, Adobe, or Apple as licensees of the MPEG-LA follow the terms for them, which they are for AVC, then you as the user get to use that software and do not violate anything as long as you follow the terms related to this in the End User License agreement or TOS for that software or site. Watching something from google is explicitly okay, there are ads, you did not pay so it is under the other remuneration scheme. Google has paid what it needs to and has not broken that agreement in any way, so you are fine. That's what the whole comercial vs non-comercial in ad supported site FUD was about.
Now if you use that software from MS, Adobe, or Apple, since they have paid what they need and have not broken anything in the agreement, you are fine if you use that software as spelled out by the terms in the EULA. Now if you start making hundreds of DVDs that you sell, you see now you are violating the terms in the EULA. You are now supposed to contact the MPEG-LA and work-out a royalty scheme. For something like a wedding videographer rumors are that it can be something like 4 cents per copy per work.
Google being a licensee has no bearing. This is WebM and VP8 not AVC. They have entered a licensing agreement to use those patents for AVC (H.264).
DR. SBAITSO is how I learned to touch type by accident, it was so much fun to play.
I too worry about this. I see so many of the interesting patents in software are simply: The naive approach is exponential. The greedy approach does not work. Let me throw dynamic programing/divide and conquer/linear programming at it, oh look the complexity is now tenable. Let me go and patent that. Any CS student after a good algorithms course could do this. Then there are all the patents that are cordic, fft, dct, numerical approximations, linear algebra, etc, textbook stuff.
What do you think all those links labeled 'source' (right next to the links to the png files) point to?
"Thomas the Tank Engine" every single one that was made from about 3 to 2 years back. I bought a CyberHome cheapo DVD player so I could do the stop stop play trick and not have my boy sit there for 3-4 previews of other DVDs he enjoyed and I bought.
When Nick Denton couldn't resist showing off how cool he is and twittered that gawker paid $5K. I'm sure gawker legal counsel suggested he go right ahead and do that.
See that's something to potentially get upset about. Having to send in a Wii to get DLC transferred and wait a couple of weeks pales in comparison.
So true, though mom never played Drugwars.
That's why I try to use python when I can. All that time I would have spent typing braces or withs, compiling, linking, and debugging, I spend commenting and writing tests.
Too bad m4 never caught on, sigh. It ticked me off when C++ programmers started using the .cpp extension, that was what I was using in my suffix rules to run the C preprocessor in my Makefiles. When you have to do that or put things in different files and #include them with two levels of redirection to get the behavior that you need, you know who to thank for such a good prepossessing system!
Sad books those students use. I used the TP books that came with TP4 or so. Pointer was called reference (been a long time, could be wrong) and they came-up when describing a linked list, where they made perfect sense. It was one of those aha moments for me when I was starting-out.
For extra credit, what manipulation is this for?
#define MASK(b) ((1 << (32 - b)) - (1 << (24 - b)))
#if CPU_FAMILY == PPC
#define INSERT(t,s,b) \
t = (t & (~MASK(b))) | (((s * 0x01010101) >> b) & MASK(b))
#define INSERT0(t, s) \
t = (t & 0x00ffffff) | ((s * 0x01010101) & 0xff000000)
#else
#define INSERT(t,s,b) \
t |= ((s * 0x01010101) >> b) & MASK(b)
#define INSERT0(t, s) \
t |= (s * 0x01010101) & 0xff000000
#endif
...
...
Hint the PPC case has nothing to do with endianess, all to do with performance and disassembled code from the compiler. Here is what you need to know about posting code on slashdot:
$ cat > foo
^D
$ sed 's/&/\&/g; s/</\</g; s/>/\>/g' foo
$
<code>
...
</code>
Indeed, the less-than, this is the BITCLR macro.
That's a very clever approach to making it work easily with what is there, wow. If Nintendo was interested in this that would be the right way to do it. Unfortunately with the dark half of the modding community shortly there would be a program to generate the code without wiping the memory. Just put yourself in Nintendo's shoes for a moment and realize how the flashcarts have hurt them on NDS. It's so bad that other parents are buying these for their kids here and bragging about it to me. It really upsets me.
So the first step might be to see which channels are installed and disallow it if the Homebrew channel is. Too bad for all the non-pirates I guess. Then there might be hashes of IOSs computed. What's next? Does Nintendo want to get into the escalating war between modders tha MS is in? I am very happy that I only very rarely connect the Wii to the wireless, basically when I want to buy something from WiiShop.
I was really lucky, one of the most fun exercises we had was we made mastermind solvers. Then we pitted all against each other with the time and wc commands. I still remember saying when first being taught Prolog by the TA, "This is just like make," and he replied, "like make on steroids." It certainly is a neat language and valuable to being exposed to think in that way, just like the exposure to Lisp is as well.
Mod this up.
Your college experience was similar to mine. We started with Scheme, then learned PPC assembly while creating MIPS like architecture. Then we learned C together with C++, and only then were we exposed to Java. In systems classes we used a simulator where the imaginary machine was very like a SPARC and logic courses were in Prolog when they were not mathematical proofs but exercises. Theory courses were largely in algol like pseudocode.
Too bad it has no C pre-processor, checks the bounds of arrays, the standard runtime is about 4 times as big, and it is such a PITA to add a smattering of assembly. (All of those points have non-standard ways of dealing with them, just like casting.) C is a lot like a quirky assembler with a pretty lousy macro system, I love it. So it may be as low level as C in the same way that C++ is but adds just a smidge more in practice (like the stack unwinding and RTTI stuff in C++).
I used to love TP, then I started using not DOS and the only viable tool for reusing my years of TP code was p2c (thank you thank you thank you). On Mac with MPW that pascal was completely different than TP in how it did things like casts, and without a real pre-processor, oh god man was it annoying! It quickly dawned on my younger mind then that if I did not want to get trapped like that again I would start using C/C++. Little did I realize that the compatibility of C++ was lacking roughly to an order of magnitude more than with C. So this young moron had to learn the hard way twice. I won't make the same mistake again, C for life baby!
Oh wait I fell for that Java tripe, I guess I just never learn do I.