I know it, because I've seen it with my own eyes. A team from the epfl in switzerland did it as a semestrial work. They didn't use a flatbed scanner, they used a conventional turntable and some fiberoptics to follow and mesure the gap. They were able to detect scratches and to filter and repair those parts. The result was pretty amazing. Here is a link to the project link to the project.
It's an interesting read if you want to know how to build a DRM on top of an existing P2P Network. But the author doesn't go into the problems of what happens after the transmission is done.
I'm unimpressed.
Until now, it's either:
Big Brother on our computer or,
fighting back protection systems and be your own judge was is good and fair.
I don't see how the current power mongers with their lobby-money will ever create a system with is ok for everyone.
Sorry, but the only interface that is natural to use is the nipple. From then on, everything is learned. I've designed GUI's. You either go with something existing which almost fits your needs, or you go the "innovative" way. "Natural to use" doesn't enter into it.
Want to write something? Pull out a Bluetooth keyboard, and an 8.5 x 11 touch-screen OLED, what I like to call "Bluetooth paper". Start typing on the Bluetooth keyboard, and watch your text appear right on the paper, with quality as good as a laser printer. Or you can dictate it. Or you can handwrite it. It's completely up to you. [...and so on and so on]
You know, you inadvertatly gave me a good example of why programmers should not listen to users... or however that programmers should take users wishes
with a (big) grain of salt.
Users designing software are like kids in a store for sweeties: They know what want, but they dont know what is good for them.
I guess they could do that. I also guess many have thought of implementing such things into all kind of devices. But there are problems and risks involved for the company trying such a thing.
Especially in litigous America, if only one person finds out that his X-Box was crippled by intention, Microsoft will be in deep shit.
Hmmm, maybe reading
Userfriendly might help. It's a daily comic. Which each comic there is whole slew of ufis (that's how the fan's call themself's) discussing with each other. There is allways the "Translation-Thread" where the english comic gets translated (by ufis for ufis) into various languages. There is allways a german translation.
Der Papst hat in Spies der Speckbesteck zu spaet bestellt
The correct spelling would be: "Der Papst hat in Spiez das Speckbesteck zu spaet bestellt"
Translated to english it means: "The pope has ordered the ham cutlery to late in Spiez", where "Spiez" is pronounced "speeats" with 'a' pronounced like the first in 'a' in "agenda". "Spiez" is a town in Switzerland and has absolutly nothing to do with a collection of James Bonds.
If you have follwed my post until here, you know now how to spell the sentence in german. This was the easy part. But to be perfect, you'd need to spell it in swiss-german, the true origin of the sentence. Swiss-german is spelled pretty different than german. It's the dialect we use here in switzerland (switzerland is south next to germany and is not to be confused with sweden!). For swiss people german is a foreign language we learn in school and hear on TV/Radio. So the sentence pronounced in swiss-german would sound a lot different... I can't describe it in words how this would sounds. But nowadays there is allways the possibility to record and send wav-files around.
...and now the general discussion begins: "Does Flash delivering anything meaningful to the web." Some will say "Yes", some will say "Flash is annyoing, let's burn it", the rest will say "It depends..". blah blah blah.....
Those who like to use Flash: Good for you (better don't make it all to flashy, else I won't visit your page). For those who don't like Flash: Don't use Flash on your page.
But this shouldn't be our biggest concern.
What really bugs me: Where is the open-source implementation of a Flash alternativ?
If in the future everyone (or let's say, most of the non-geeks) and their grandmother will use Flash, will we need to pay tax to macromedia to be able to surf the web?
No, it's not a programming glitch. The protocol has changed, Morpheus can't connect to it anymore.
Heise claims Fastrack looked Morpheus out on purpose. They have an article about it. babelfish can't be directly linked to translate it from german, they seem to check the reffer now.
This guy you discribe clearly wasn't an anarchist.
This is simply deduced by the fact, that anarchists won't become and won't follow any leader. Anarchists would join together to exchange thoughts, discuss stuff and maybe raise a stink in groups. But they don't order someone else what to do and they don't follow orders.
By embedding something into a browser you're cutting down some tech support and installation problems.
I'd like to know where you get this from. From my work-experience, programming Java is nice thing to do... EXCEPT if you have to programm Applets, then Java-programming is a bitch. You can be sure that the different implementations in each browser will bite you in the ass if you don't do any thorough unit-testing on every browser. Even if you don't go into using the latest cutting-edge libraries it's difficult to get things running smoothly.
I say, ship the programm as a Java-application, with a nice "Setup.exe" for Windows users which will install the Application + JRE and for the rest of us the jar-File will be sufficent.
Oh well, nothing else to do right now. I might as well feed you. Guess I'm just overly optimisitic to get a interesting responds out of this.
Then on his 17th birthday he will take a machine gun to school and open fire on his classmates before killing himself. Linux creates social outcasts, and as JonKatz has written again and again, that is a recipe for heartbreak and death.
JonKatz said so? I seriously doubt it. A Link might be helpful here.
Now about Linux creates social outcasts stuff. Who sayz? Ah well, I get it. Maybe you think most geeks are social outcast (Don't think so, a "wierd geek" is just more visible than the "normal" type). And then social outcast people (geeks) have some kind of wierd urge to hurt/kill others.
I guess, it's not that spending your time doing obscure stuff with your computer makes you a social outcast. It's more the other way round: social outcast are more attracted into mind-games (like tinkering with computers) than others.
For the hurt/kill part. I don't see more social-apt murderers than social outcast ones. I guess most people don't understand geeks and thus fear them. Just another minority beeing pointed at.
As stated in the article, the satilite will work for 3 years if they are lucky. What I'd like to known is what happens after the thing stops working.
Will it end as some more orbiting trash or is there a way to bring the satilite down again?
Thank you so much. Really. I allways thought only Japanesse would use those dead-wrong english words in my favorite mangas. I'm so glad someone made the same error the other way 'round. Maybe now some japanesse people understand what I am going through. (Sindbad, Kamikaze Joan of Arc, Checkmate..... ARGHHHH!!)
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http://metwww.epfl.ch//lecteur_disques/LectDisc
Enjoy
I'm unimpressed.
Until now, it's either:
I don't see how the current power mongers with their lobby-money will ever create a system with is ok for everyone.
Sorry, but the only interface that is natural to use is the nipple. From then on, everything is learned.
I've designed GUI's. You either go with something existing which almost fits your needs, or you go the "innovative" way. "Natural to use" doesn't enter into it.
You know, you inadvertatly gave me a good example of why programmers should not listen to users... or however that programmers should take users wishes with a (big) grain of salt.
Users designing software are like kids in a store for sweeties: They know what want, but they dont know what is good for them.
'Nuf said.
Especially in litigous America, if only one person finds out that his X-Box was crippled by intention, Microsoft will be in deep shit.
I always thought courts are about law. But as it seems it's just another way to make money.
That's what I call sick.
Hmmm, maybe reading Userfriendly might help. It's a daily comic. Which each comic there is whole slew of ufis (that's how the fan's call themself's) discussing with each other. There is allways the "Translation-Thread" where the english comic gets translated (by ufis for ufis) into various languages. There is allways a german translation.
You are welcome. No need to apology. I guess my english is bad too.
Greets MadMike
The correct spelling would be: "Der Papst hat in Spiez das Speckbesteck zu spaet bestellt" Translated to english it means: "The pope has ordered the ham cutlery to late in Spiez", where "Spiez" is pronounced "speeats" with 'a' pronounced like the first in 'a' in "agenda". "Spiez" is a town in Switzerland and has absolutly nothing to do with a collection of James Bonds.
If you have follwed my post until here, you know now how to spell the sentence in german. This was the easy part. But to be perfect, you'd need to spell it in swiss-german, the true origin of the sentence. Swiss-german is spelled pretty different than german. It's the dialect we use here in switzerland (switzerland is south next to germany and is not to be confused with sweden!). For swiss people german is a foreign language we learn in school and hear on TV/Radio. So the sentence pronounced in swiss-german would sound a lot different... I can't describe it in words how this would sounds. But nowadays there is allways the possibility to record and send wav-files around.
Greets Madmike (a swiss geek)
Now, getting energie from the moon. I guess we would receive 13,000 luna-watts.
Seriously, what is the current state of p2p-networking when serving common html-pages would be the thing to do?
Ah, I know, I know. Because your own baby will allways be the most beautiful on the world.
Ahhhh, well. I just have to ask it. Who won in the end?
Karma-whoring at its best. Congrats :)
At least, that's what Monty Python's "Hungarian Phrasebook"-sketch teaches us.
Those who like to use Flash: Good for you (better don't make it all to flashy, else I won't visit your page). For those who don't like Flash: Don't use Flash on your page.
But this shouldn't be our biggest concern.
What really bugs me: Where is the open-source implementation of a Flash alternativ?
If in the future everyone (or let's say, most of the non-geeks) and their grandmother will use Flash, will we need to pay tax to macromedia to be able to surf the web?
I for myself wouldn't like that.
Heise claims Fastrack looked Morpheus out on purpose. They have an article about it. babelfish can't be directly linked to translate it from german, they seem to check the reffer now.
This is simply deduced by the fact, that anarchists won't become and won't follow any leader. Anarchists would join together to exchange thoughts, discuss stuff and maybe raise a stink in groups. But they don't order someone else what to do and they don't follow orders.
It's really as simple as that.
Now about Linux creates social outcasts stuff. Who sayz? Ah well, I get it. Maybe you think most geeks are social outcast (Don't think so, a "wierd geek" is just more visible than the "normal" type). And then social outcast people (geeks) have some kind of wierd urge to hurt/kill others.
I guess, it's not that spending your time doing obscure stuff with your computer makes you a social outcast. It's more the other way round: social outcast are more attracted into mind-games (like tinkering with computers) than others.
For the hurt/kill part. I don't see more social-apt murderers than social outcast ones. I guess most people don't understand geeks and thus fear them. Just another minority beeing pointed at.
I can picture it now. Just unplug Internet- and the Power-Connection and you are ready roll the whole thing to the next LAN-Party.
Thanks for the reply.
As stated in the article, the satilite will work for 3 years if they are lucky. What I'd like to known is what happens after the thing stops working.
Will it end as some more orbiting trash or is there a way to bring the satilite down again?
Thank you so much. Really. I allways thought only Japanesse would use those dead-wrong english words in my favorite mangas. I'm so glad someone made the same error the other way 'round. Maybe now some japanesse people understand what I am going through. (Sindbad, Kamikaze Joan of Arc, Checkmate..... ARGHHHH!!)