This is a gas turbine: flow of gas turns the rotor. The similar thing that is used in dams to generate electricity. It is not a machine that burns the gas so it is has nothing to do with carnot cycle.
There is something wrong with your XP machine if you NEED to shut it down every night. I use XP at work too and never shut down my machine. The only time I need to restart it is when I install programs that need to change something that is already running and as it does not happen so often, I'm sure there has been periods over months that I have not restarted or turned off my XP machine. It is my second computer at work and the fifth year that I'm running XP (used 2000 before that) without turning my machine off during the nights. Guess SETI is very happy with me:)
In galactic scales, for an event to accure only once every 60,000 year, the word is not "unusual". The correct word in these situations is "normal" or even "quite often"!.
I guess you've forgotten that Microsoft's profit is secured as the VC-1 codec is used in BOTH Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats. Moreover, Xbox360 only includs a noraml DVD drive on the initial release so Microsoft can always switch sides.
Quite nice, no?;) Now, I made one last step and used the RDTSC instruction to actually count how many clock cycles it takes to run each version of the function to reverese a 80 characters string. This way we can also see the effect of the parts not inside the loop. This is the result:
function with the array: 661 cycles
fucntion with the pointer: 616 cycles
function with the STL: 607 cycles
So although the core loop section is almost identical with the STL and pointer version, the STL version is tiny bit better with the setup section. All in all, I think this an example to show nice and neat C++ code can compete fairly well with optimized C.
But you can not transfer the perpetual royalty free rights you were granted.
Wrong. Where did you get that from? There is no such a limitation in the licence text. In fact in the FAQ section MS clearly says:
Q. Are the licenses that Microsoft offers under the Open and Royalty-Free Office 2003 XML Reference Schema program perpetual in nature?
A. Yes. The licenses for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas are perpetual. There is no term limit on the licenses.
Q. Can I distribute a program that can read and/or write files that support the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas in source code form?
A. Yes. You can distribute your program in source code form. But, note that the patent and copyright provisions in the license for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas require you to include a notice of attribution in your program.
But you can not transfer the perpetual royalty free rights you were granted. So what happens if MS stops giving it away next year? Would I have to prove that I made use of their offer while it existed?
I'm not so sure of that. If you take a look at FAQ section of the MS shemas pages you see their answer:
Q. Are the licenses that Microsoft offers under the Open and Royalty-Free Office 2003 XML Reference Schema program perpetual in nature?
A. Yes. The licenses for the Office 2003 XML Reference Schemas are perpetual. There is no term limit on the licenses.
This making it impossible to implement in Free and most Open Source software? Not very useful to OpenOffice.
Which is not really the point here, is it? The question was if generating/reading MS XML as simple as generating/reading OO.o XML or not. With documentations of both formats publicly available, I don't see any difference here. What you refer to is the distribution of the source of any such program, which is an entirely different topic.
Exactly how does Microsoft and Intel "backing" a format affect my choice in buying a new-generation DVD drive?
hmmmm, maybe by providing the components needed to make the drive, codec and data format to store the data, the needed support in the OS to use the drive?
Just for comparision, here is a list of SOME of the main members HD DVD promotion group:
Canon Co.
Fuji Photo Film Co.
Hitachi Maxell Ltd.
Imation Co.
Intel Co.
InterVideo Inc.
Kenwood Co.
Konica Minolta Opto Inc.
Microsoft Co.
Mitsubishi / Verbatim
NEC Electronics Co.
ONKYO Co.
Paramount Home Entertainment
Ricoh Co.
Ritek Co.
Teac Co.
Toshiba Co.
Universal Pictures
Warner Home Video Inc.
(yeah, some companies are in both sides and yeah, many of the DVD media producers are in this list).
Why every 10+million Korean citizen need a personal certificate to use ebanking in the first place?? There are far simpler and as secure (or even better) methods for e-banking. Example? Look at the methods some Swiss banks like UBS use. The web interface is a simple SSL secured page. Each e-banking user receives a smart-card and a smart-card reader (the size and shape of a small pocket calculator). Now, user should set a password for the smart-card the first time he/she receives it and the hash key will be stored inside the smart-card itself so even the bank do not know the user's passwords.
To access the account, the web page gives you an 8 digits random number and you should enter it in your smart-card reader and answer back with a 6 character generated hash code. Simple, right? The advantage? Even if somebody stoles the smart card, without your password he can't use it and the password is never sent over the net and the web interface generates random codes each time you connect to it so a previously used hash code can not be used again. The password to the card itself is not even inside the smart card (there is only the salt value there, if you can ever read the salt...).
Now with this system, one can access his banking info securely with his PC, laptop, PDA, mobile phone with secure WAP and so on. No need to tell the user what web browser to use!
The amount of articles on silent PCs is getting tedious
Agreed. In the context of HTPCs, I'd also like to add that it seems that noise the only factor all the reviewers are focusing on. Yes it is important but just think of it, is the only problem with the HTPCs? In my opinion, there are other problems that are at least of the same importance. For example, the boot time. Consider this: how long does it takes to turn on your stand alnoe DVD player, press the eject, put in a new DVD, press eject(?) again and finally press the play button to start watching a film? How long this process takes on a HTPC? How about turning on your sat receiver and getting the picture on your TV and comparing it to a solution based on a DVB PCI card and HTPC?
I think in terms of ease of use, HTPCs have yet a long long way to go.
Wow, this thing looks almost EXACTLY like the RAM add-in cards we stuck into ISA slots in the mid/late 80's for our zippy '286 and '386 based machines.
No it is not. If you cared to RTFA, you'd see that this card is NOT using any of the PCI logic and only gets its power from it. It has a SATA connector and should be connected to a SATA controller and emulated the functionality of a normal SATA hard disk. Why? Because you don't need any new device-driver for your OS (whatever it is) to you this card if your computer can already work with SATA.
You are right. The spec does not say clearly obligatory but says recommmended, should and then only suggests one solution that is HDCP. In practical terms, everybody needs to support HDCP as it is the only recommended protection by the standard and nobody likes to produce something that lacks some features on the specs list. This is why all those HDTV TVs with HDMI have a big, proud HDCP logo;)
The Hitachi 32LD7200 LCD TV has two such inputs: One HDMI and one DVI+HDCP. This is a nice TV and besides these 2 inputs it has 3 SCART (2 of them are RGB), 2 VGA, 1 S-Video and 1 component inputs! Yep, a monster of connections!
Data protection is obligatory in HDMI protocol. Look at this phrase from part 9.1 of the HDMI 1.1 spec:
Content protection capability is recommended for all HDMI compliant devices. An HDMI
compliant Source should protect all of the protected audiovisual data. Amongst adequate copy
protection technologies that are compatible with HDMI, HDCP is available.
Honestly, what does the Google toolbar offer that Firefox doesn't already have, or that isn't already adequately covered by another extension?
Highlighting the search terms (no, it is not the same as / or control+F), Showing the page ranks, One click translation of the page, Backward links, Showing the google cache for the page.
The other feature I really missed in Firefox was google bar's excellent AutoFill feature to fill the forms with a relatively very high accuracy and the option to fill specific fields only by typing a password (like credit card info...)
Why are people so interested in searching their own desktops?...I get to have someone else write code so I can waste processor cycles searching my machine for files I should have been smart enough to organize in the first place.
I'm researcher and I have a well organized structure of directories for the code and data of many projects I'm or I've been working on. My hard disk is not full but already has more than 300,000 files on it. Now, no matter how I organize the directory structures, the easies way to find "that report I worte 2 years ago where I said X and Y" is to search using a desktop search. Heck, it's even simpler to use the desktop search to find "that email I sent to John 6 months ago where I reported Z".
The point is, desktop search is method to find files based on content. Each file can belong to so many categories and directory structure can only represent one set of them.
And guess what, this is not a particularly good scientific study either. From TFA:
The researchers admit that their analysis is based on one contentious assumption: that all the songs presented are equally good, so that votes are a reflection of national taste rather than the absolute quality of the entries.
Ah great!! They could easily assume that they are right from the beginning and don't even waste so much time to analyze that data!
If you want a more objective approach to the popularity of a film, you should look at sites that provide an overview of all reviews for a given film.
Sounds good on paper when I remember that Rotten Tomatoes has given a silly movie like Rock School a perfect, 100% score and some unforgetable movie like Dogville 70%, I start to doubt this method.
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This is a gas turbine: flow of gas turns the rotor. The similar thing that is used in dams to generate electricity. It is not a machine that burns the gas so it is has nothing to do with carnot cycle.
Does it support VPN?
There is something wrong with your XP machine if you NEED to shut it down every night. I use XP at work too and never shut down my machine. The only time I need to restart it is when I install programs that need to change something that is already running and as it does not happen so often, I'm sure there has been periods over months that I have not restarted or turned off my XP machine. It is my second computer at work and the fifth year that I'm running XP (used 2000 before that) without turning my machine off during the nights. Guess SETI is very happy with me :)
In galactic scales, for an event to accure only once every 60,000 year, the word is not "unusual". The correct word in these situations is "normal" or even "quite often"!.
I guess you've forgotten that Microsoft's profit is secured as the VC-1 codec is used in BOTH Blu-Ray and HD-DVD formats. Moreover, Xbox360 only includs a noraml DVD drive on the initial release so Microsoft can always switch sides.
function with the array: 661 cycles
fucntion with the pointer: 616 cycles
function with the STL: 607 cycles
So although the core loop section is almost identical with the STL and pointer version, the STL version is tiny bit better with the setup section. All in all, I think this an example to show nice and neat C++ code can compete fairly well with optimized C.
Just for comparision, here is a list of SOME of the main members HD DVD promotion group:
Canon Co.
Fuji Photo Film Co.
Hitachi Maxell Ltd.
Imation Co.
Intel Co.
InterVideo Inc.
Kenwood Co.
Konica Minolta Opto Inc.
Microsoft Co.
Mitsubishi / Verbatim
NEC Electronics Co.
ONKYO Co.
Paramount Home Entertainment
Ricoh Co.
Ritek Co.
Teac Co.
Toshiba Co.
Universal Pictures
Warner Home Video Inc.
(yeah, some companies are in both sides and yeah, many of the DVD media producers are in this list).
Why every 10+million Korean citizen need a personal certificate to use ebanking in the first place?? There are far simpler and as secure (or even better) methods for e-banking. Example? Look at the methods some Swiss banks like UBS use. The web interface is a simple SSL secured page. Each e-banking user receives a smart-card and a smart-card reader (the size and shape of a small pocket calculator). Now, user should set a password for the smart-card the first time he/she receives it and the hash key will be stored inside the smart-card itself so even the bank do not know the user's passwords. To access the account, the web page gives you an 8 digits random number and you should enter it in your smart-card reader and answer back with a 6 character generated hash code. Simple, right? The advantage? Even if somebody stoles the smart card, without your password he can't use it and the password is never sent over the net and the web interface generates random codes each time you connect to it so a previously used hash code can not be used again. The password to the card itself is not even inside the smart card (there is only the salt value there, if you can ever read the salt...). Now with this system, one can access his banking info securely with his PC, laptop, PDA, mobile phone with secure WAP and so on. No need to tell the user what web browser to use!
She has got a MCAD degree and apparantly knows programming in C#.
You are right. The spec does not say clearly obligatory but says recommmended, should and then only suggests one solution that is HDCP. In practical terms, everybody needs to support HDCP as it is the only recommended protection by the standard and nobody likes to produce something that lacks some features on the specs list. This is why all those HDTV TVs with HDMI have a big, proud HDCP logo ;)
The Hitachi 32LD7200 LCD TV has two such inputs: One HDMI and one DVI+HDCP. This is a nice TV and besides these 2 inputs it has 3 SCART (2 of them are RGB), 2 VGA, 1 S-Video and 1 component inputs! Yep, a monster of connections!