"I can't think of any legitimate reason for a printer driver to know the current date, so there doesn't appear to be an immediate reason why this wouldn't work."
aren't they now required to print hidden info in very tiny yellow print on all documents printed so that they can be traced back to the printer that was used for it and thus to the shop that sold the printer and ultimately to the customer who bought the printer... that could explain why they refuse to print now if the colour cartridge is empty or missing even if you only want to do simple black and white only printing.
"The only way you can really make it go faster is to up the clock rate, and you find it's uneconomic to try to beat the main CPU, which remember has *already* been paid for. You have all that CPU for free; to then spend the kind of money you'd need to outpace the CPU makes no sense, let alone the money you'd need to spend to outpace the CPU by a decent margin"
what??? not when your doing multimedia decoding of compressed data... or other such tasks... offloading the networking stuff to hardware will have the same benefit as dumping a softmodem for a real modem... I want to dump the compute bound stuff to purpose built hardware so the CPU can get on with doing something else while the crunching is being done... why do you think your CPU has a floating point co-processor built in??? the cpu is busy doing something else and when the FPU has finished the calculation, it interrupts the cpu to notify it the result's ready... IT WILL BE EXACTLY THE SAME WITH THIS HARDWARE ASSIST FOR TCP/IP STACK...
"I've been seeing popups with Firefox for a couple months on certain sites, and now on a few others as well. Interestingly, if I use IE for those same sites, I get a other popups, but I don't get the ones that I was getting under Firefox."
so what happens with Firefox if you change your browser string then to something really weird or don't send it in the first place?
they could make a killing selling subscriptions to ad free torrents of these shows... say 99 cents per show...
Then if you want the DVD quality later with the extras, you wouldn't mind so much...
I'm convinced the networks have been brainwashed into the mindset of the only source of revenue being from the advertisers... and lack the ability now to see outside the box...
I mean... submitted by Roland Piquepaille and the banner strip across the top of that page has " Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends"
This is ridiculous... why aren't the editors kicking this guy out??? but then again, at least he's honest sorta about himself... other sneaky types probably are pushing their own ad revenue by making their submissions with a pseudonym slashdot account
don't know what your moaning about this time... I came upon it shortly after you and had no problems at all... even the two large images came in fast...
anyway, I'm gonna refresh the page a few times and watch the counter soar... it was at 5751 when I loaded it first... it's now 6183 merely a few short minutes later... holding up fine... now 6282... still holding fine... this guy's worked wonders proofing his home site... hmm 6324
nice one Cyril... excellent link... now my old ms-windows 98SE license is no longer fit for just using as a beermat... and it means the company I work for will have fewer excuses for not changing over to Linux... the power users will still be able to run their windows only apps
Mind you, the thing I've now got to attempt is to get w2k pro and OSX running simultaneously on a Linux box...
sounds like it's time for the residents of Michigan to get their butts in gear and get that law repealed...
Which basically is what's going to happen if many people get these tax demands...
Does Michigan have border customs posts in place to check people coming in from out of state for tobacco that hasn't been purchased in Michigan??? well if they're gonna tax internet sales, then they've gotta set up border posts as well
this is NOT the analogue hole... this is the digital input to the soundcard, not the analogue output... this is what Microsoft intend to plug with the trusted computing platform where the audio file will be able to get verification that there is no unauthorised software in the output chain to the soundcard before it will permit itself to be played...
howevern this won't stop really determined true "hackers" from connecting to the other side of the soundcard and getting the digital values on their way onto the soundcard from the bus...
ISTR a system being introduced in Athens a long time ago (please correct me Athenians if I'm wrong) where you could only drive into the city on certain days of the week depending upon whether your number plate was odd or even... this didn't effect the rich at all, they just got two cars... and made sure they had one of each.
As you can see, these taxes are very unfair in that those who can afford it carry on as they are, those who are running small businessess just pass the cost on to the customer, while those who can't afford them are the only ones who're suffering...
In developer space yes, but for the user experience, everything will be locked up tight... the only programs the user will be able to install are those they have purchased from a service provider... and those will be locked down such that they can only run on that handset. Open source content providers and developers will find it hard to get in... there's so much money to be milked out of the customer by using lockins and DRM to control the content delivery to the sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hconsumers and any development kits will be released with draconian licensing terms and NDAs to be able to get access to the DRM stuff. The service providers DO NOT want the customer being able to play content/install software aquired via other channels unless it has been paid for and has DRM.
it's not intended that the user can have a choice of toolkits or applications... the only choice the user will have is what "wallpaper" or ringtone he/she's going to rent this week... the entire market is designed entirely around the concept of the service provider locking the user up into the content delivery model. Not around any concept of the user having any choice.
Sadly, although these things are using Linux, it's basically locked away from the user and they're going to make it very hard for the user to actually get at it.
Phillips had similar issues with the RIAA labeling DRM-enabled CD's as official "Compact Discs." Phillips owns the rights to that name, and since the DRM broke the ability for those disks to play in many players, Phillips felt it was damaging their IP to claim they were CD's. They sued and won.
I still have issues with DRM'd discs that have the CD logo on them still... it isn't until you take a good long close up look at that logo that you discover that the logo only states that the disc complies with the TEXT standard of the specifications... damned sneaky I say... and the damned things don't play using Linux... you have to use their player software to play the music on them...
because that would require the editors to actually do the job of setting up the mirrors first and adding appropriate links to them in the body of the story that's been submitted...
prep and start the coffee drip machine... turn the monitor back on... waggle the mouse... click the reload button on the browser window... that's it... fresh slashdot to read while the coffee's brewing...
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aren't they now required to print hidden info in very tiny yellow print on all documents printed so that they can be traced back to the printer that was used for it and thus to the shop that sold the printer and ultimately to the customer who bought the printer... that could explain why they refuse to print now if the colour cartridge is empty or missing even if you only want to do simple black and white only printing.
what??? not when your doing multimedia decoding of compressed data... or other such tasks... offloading the networking stuff to hardware will have the same benefit as dumping a softmodem for a real modem... I want to dump the compute bound stuff to purpose built hardware so the CPU can get on with doing something else while the crunching is being done... why do you think your CPU has a floating point co-processor built in??? the cpu is busy doing something else and when the FPU has finished the calculation, it interrupts the cpu to notify it the result's ready... IT WILL BE EXACTLY THE SAME WITH THIS HARDWARE ASSIST FOR TCP/IP STACK...
so what happens with Firefox if you change your browser string then to something really weird or don't send it in the first place?
Then if you want the DVD quality later with the extras, you wouldn't mind so much...
I'm convinced the networks have been brainwashed into the mindset of the only source of revenue being from the advertisers... and lack the ability now to see outside the box...
This is ridiculous... why aren't the editors kicking this guy out??? but then again, at least he's honest sorta about himself... other sneaky types probably are pushing their own ad revenue by making their submissions with a pseudonym slashdot account
anyway, I'm gonna refresh the page a few times and watch the counter soar... it was at 5751 when I loaded it first... it's now 6183 merely a few short minutes later... holding up fine... now 6282... still holding fine... this guy's worked wonders proofing his home site... hmm 6324
nice one Cyril... excellent link... now my old ms-windows 98SE license is no longer fit for just using as a beermat... and it means the company I work for will have fewer excuses for not changing over to Linux... the power users will still be able to run their windows only apps
Mind you, the thing I've now got to attempt is to get w2k pro and OSX running simultaneously on a Linux box...
a small suggestion... put a small para on your front page about it with a link to it... then we can find it using google... :)
bally cheek... you posted that exact same skit not hust the other day... talk about blatant Karma whoring...
Which basically is what's going to happen if many people get these tax demands...
Does Michigan have border customs posts in place to check people coming in from out of state for tobacco that hasn't been purchased in Michigan??? well if they're gonna tax internet sales, then they've gotta set up border posts as well
why make them faster??? why not just put more processors on the same board...
what's really amusing is that if you look at the pictures on the BBC website, it appears that the camera was tracking the perp as he moved around the room... either that, or the BBC have been creative with their cropping again...
this is NOT the analogue hole... this is the digital input to the soundcard, not the analogue output... this is what Microsoft intend to plug with the trusted computing platform where the audio file will be able to get verification that there is no unauthorised software in the output chain to the soundcard before it will permit itself to be played... howevern this won't stop really determined true "hackers" from connecting to the other side of the soundcard and getting the digital values on their way onto the soundcard from the bus...
As you can see, these taxes are very unfair in that those who can afford it carry on as they are, those who are running small businessess just pass the cost on to the customer, while those who can't afford them are the only ones who're suffering...
Sadly, one of the basic freedoms guaranteed by truly free software licenses effectively allows them to get away with it... Freedom 0, the fundamental freedom... the freedom to run the program for ANY purpose...
Sadly, although these things are using Linux, it's basically locked away from the user and they're going to make it very hard for the user to actually get at it.
EMACS or VI???
I still have issues with DRM'd discs that have the CD logo on them still... it isn't until you take a good long close up look at that logo that you discover that the logo only states that the disc complies with the TEXT standard of the specifications... damned sneaky I say... and the damned things don't play using Linux... you have to use their player software to play the music on them...
because that would require the editors to actually do the job of setting up the mirrors first and adding appropriate links to them in the body of the story that's been submitted...
when we finish, there won't be enough left for them to paint it white again...
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it's a vector processor... which means it will operate on multiple data on each instruction
the truth is, hubble isn't really up there at all... it's just some very talented graphics artists having fun with photoshop