> A culture that needs laws to protect it is already dead
This is not true. Look at the history...
Religion is one of the obvious example on making laws to protect some culture (a many other things like power). One can argue that some religion are declining, but other, with stronger restriction, are florishing.
When the US govt restricts it's citizen and businesses from doing business with Cuba, it does this to prevent the communist ideology of Cuba to infect it's culture.
Statisticaly, the Quebec culture is a lot more alive today then it was not so long ago. The french/english quotas on french radio stations made record company invest more in local artist than before thoes quotas where in place.
Other canadians are obviously not looking at what the CRTC does when they criticts the french language politicies of Quebec. The CRTC limits, in the same way, the ratio of canadian/alien content on any broadcast medium in the country. How is that different and more acceptable than Quebec policies?
What you say about the Quebec Government is absolutly false.
The federal has a lot more power than the provincial government. They also have a lot more money and they control how they transfer it to each province. The federal is also the one trying to remove power to the provinces by interfering in theire field of power (like education or healthcare).
I cannot see how requiring french display may be compared to nazi regime. They don't prevent anybody from displaying in any other language, they just require that they also display in french and that the french part is predominant. While I don't agree with many of the action taken by the "language police" (like requiring some non-commercial web site to have a french version), I think that this law is important to preserve the french language in that part of the world. When your population is only 6-7 millions in a market of >275 millions, big corporation don't care about you and your preference, they just impose their stuff on you.
Also the US are a lot more protectionist about a lot of other stuff than the Quebec Government.
The privacy laws in the province of Quebec are ones of the strongest in the world. They prevent the government agencies to exchange your personnal info to any one (even to other governement agencies) without your explicit agreement for every transaction. The province of Quebec is the only place in North America that put special restriction on business for exchanging your personnal info. One of those restriction is that they MUST have your agreement to exchange your personnal data. They cannot have just an opt-out box.
If Event A send you a signal FTL then you will receive it before you see that the event occured, but not before the event occured.
Event if A send the info à zillion time the speed of light. B will never be able to receive it before A sent it. It will only receive it before he can see it.
In the experiment, the amount of time it take for the pulse of light to travel from the start (when it's emitted - and not when it enter the chamber) to the end (when it's observed) is still positive. The only way you could send the back to the original sender would need that the amount of time from the emission of the information to the observation of that information should be negative.
I can't see any paradox going here.
As far as I know, the time dimension is only going in one way and I never heard any phycisist claiming otherwise. Unless you can make it go the other way, you will never be able to notify anybody of something before it really happen.
> I'm reminded of early Renderware (remember them?) demo's, though. There's a clankiness to the edges of some of the objects in these screenshots that harkens back to the > Renderware way of doing polygon transforms... can't place my finger on it, but it just 'feels' that way. Perhaps some other graphics guru's can explain what they see in those pics from a rendering perspective?
If I remember right, Rendeware was acquired by Microsoft at about the same time they bough SoftImage.
I suggest that all post that contain the full text of the offeding material to be replaced by a link to the Microsoft web page where the text can be downloaded.
Post where there is just part of the copyrighted material to explain a topic should stay there. The copyright law protect this kind of use.
By doing so, you will keep the substance of each post and conform to the law. Microsoft will have no choice but to back-off.
Split the output (before sending it out) in two. Then output1 goes to the amp. You then reverse the phase of output two and mix it with the microphone input.
Now you have the microphone input without any music (ok you have some due to the reverb effect in the car - but the level will be really low).
The major problem is if multiple person in the car start shouting command.
Again with multiple microphones you can cancel other people shouting from the driver microphone input.
It's pretty easy, it just going to take a little bit more processing power (unless you mix in analog instead of in digital).
From the ReadMe of BeOS Personnal Edition : --- - Disk Space (Part 1) When it's uncompressed, BeOS 5 Personal Edition inflates to 512 megabytes, no more, no less. This means that you need to have 512 megabytes of disk space available before you start the installation instructions (below). The BeOS 5 Pro Edition can be installed in a partition as small as 256 megabytes or as large as your largest hard drive.
[...]
To install BeOS 5 Personal Edition you need: - A Pentium-based computer with at least 32 megabytes of RAM (P90 or higher is recommended). - At least 512 megabytes of free disk space on a non-compressed FAT, FAT32, or NTFS drive. - Windows 95/98, 2000, or NT4.- A blank floppy. ---
Look at the LAST line. The BeOS *Personnal* edition REQUIRES Windows!
It comme in ONE big file that is 512Megs which is the BFS from wich BeOS will boot.
If you want to install it on a partition you MUST purchase the *Pro* edition.
I want to dedicate this small piece to his wife Cassie.
I did not know Jason very well, I saw his name a couple of time, but that's all.
What touch me in this story, is you (Cassie)... You seem to be a very strong person. It must be a really difficult time that you are going through. In one of youre e-mail you said that you need support. I'm sure that the community will do it's best to support you.
I know that it will be difficult for many month to come. I hope that the rehab will go well and that Jason will recover quickly.
When youre mood will be really down, don't forget that you have familly, friends and an entire community that is willing to help you.
Things will never be the same for you, I just hope that however different things are now, that they will increase in joy and happiness. You deserve this!
One of my friend as a VCR that can mark those commercial.
When it finish recording somthing, it rewind, the play back (faster that normal playing speed) and when it detect a commercial it marks it. When you play back the recorded program, then it automatically fast forward the commercial. Pretty neet!
I don't know how it detects commercial but it seems to rok really well.
One way I can thin of detecting commercials to to listen to the audio track. Commercial have the sound highly compressed (in audio terminology) and play a lot louder than movies or other programs.
Don't you find it odd that Coca-Cola registred the trademark only 3 years ago? The "coke" slang for the soft drink as been around for much longer than that.
Also, if the guy is opperating a cocaine addiction web site (that is not the case, apparently) then there is no trademark violation. Trademark apply to a specific market. I can register the "coke" trademark for a computer game (if the game is not related to soft drink in any way) and Coca-Cola will never be able to sue me and win (of course they could make me go under because I don't have enough $$$ to defend myself).
> And they already have the general idiot public convinced that regular crashes and reboots are a 'normal' part of the computing experience.
I'm sorry but it's Apple that did this with the nice looking "bomb".
At that time a PC with MS-DOS hardly crash. But at the same time a Mac would have "bombed" a comple of time a day.
When MS replicated Apple with Window, to be fully faithfull, they add to reproduce the multiple daily crash. The only difference is that a crash on Apple look better than one on Windows:-)
Note also that the Mac is a controlled hardware platform!
Microsoft will not allow that. Microsoft will write (adapt) a OS for this box. If the game developer don't use the OS functionnality and goes directly to the hardware, how is Microsoft going to add value?
> Look at the PlayStation 2, the Emotion Engine runs at 300MHz.
It may be only 300MHz but it's not x86. It's far more efficient than x86 processor. Look at WinCE vs Palm. The Palm has a 16-30MHz CPU, the WinCE's have >100Mhz CPU, wich one perform better for the application designed for it? The Palm.
It's the same thing with the console market. The hardware must be adapted for what it's going to run.
If Microsoft ship a repackaged PC Box with a repackaged OS, they will not succeed in the Console market.
> No machine before the iMac had any design similar to it
That's not true. If you take appart the color and the shape, the original Mac has all the elements an iMac have.
They offer the same kind of functionnality (if you look at the technology availlable when the first Mac came to the market), the same easy of use (plug it an turn it on and it work).
The iMac is just an update of the original Mac concept. There is nothing new in that design.
They just added nice colors. Even the shape of the box is not new, we've seen similar shape in computer case for long (they just has no monitor embeded).
A while back, I was working for a small programming shop. We used Clipper (anyone remember) to program some application. By convention, all keyword where in UPPERCASE. We had the idea of creating a shift pedal so we did not had to reach for the side of the keyboard to press shift, then keep the little finger there while we were typing the keys. With the pedal we could use one foot to press the shift key and type all along.
It did work great! But after a while we were not typing a lot faster with that device.
Can you please stop putting everything in the same basket.
While I agree that DCMA is a bad thing, I'm disgusted by this article FUD.
The DCMA does not prevent you from distributing free music. It prevent you from distributing music that you have to pay to get it.
If you are an artist and want to make your music freely availlable on the web, nobody and no law can prevent you from doing it.
If you want to argue against this act, do it in the sense that it remove you the right from faire use that is in the spirit of the people who wrote the first copryright act.
You can also say that the act protect the distributor and not the artists.
Mayby you can be subpoena to deliver your encryption key.
But if you encryption key is protected by a passphrase and that passphrase is only in your hear. They will not be able to get that passphrase. So you are protected. They cannot discover what's in your head.
And you can hide behind the constitution in the case that they ask you your passphrase in court.
So encrypt sensitive information and keep the key in your head!
1) Plug some wire in some holes 2) Punch holes into little paper card 3) Use a terminal to punch holes in little paper cards 4) Use terminal to type command and see response 5) Use a device to move a pointer on a ugly graphical screen 6) Use a device to move a pointer on an ugly complex grapical screen 7) Use a device to move an animated pointer on a good-looking complex graphical screen 8) use a device to move an [animated] pointer on a good-looking simple graphical or text screen.
Guest what #8 is... Hyper Text Markup language... Who build that thing? No it's not a commercial entity but a buch of people who wanted to empower the user with an easy to use interface.
Guest who is going to make that kind of interface as THE user interface in the next consumer version of their OS... MICROSOFT...
Most of geek have no clues for UI design... But a handfull of geek did have great clues about UI. With theire great infrastructure skills they develpped a new kind of UI that is powerfull yes simple. They made the Internet a usefull tool for the average (and less than average) user. Now everyone is building on the geek UI.
Unfortunatly, most of today viruses do not exploit operating systems. They exploit applications.
A macro virus can be written to exploit a particular application. Like a mail client.
The biggest problem with viruses, is not that they infect your system. It's that they destroy/corrupt data or consume systems ressources (like bandwidth). Whenever your run as root or not, your system could be affected.
Virus are here, for now they attack the most visible software. As linux grows in popularity and get more visibility accross all kind of users, Virus that target specific Linux application will emerge and spread.
Being blinded by the fact that Linux has a better security model than NT or 98 and that source code solve everything will just make you more vulnerable to this threat.
SuperGel(TM) will allow you to apply a gel coating on self-destructing DVD.
The SuperGel(TM) patented Gel will merge with the DVD coating to prevent it from degrading when the laser beam hit it.
SuperGel(TM) will be availlable when the first degradingDVD will hit the market.
It will cost only 50cents per application. SuperGel(TM) will be sold in yet to be develop package that will hold enough SuperGel(TM) for 2^4 applications.
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> A culture that needs laws to protect it is already dead
This is not true. Look at the history...
Religion is one of the obvious example on making laws to protect some culture (a many other things like power). One can argue that some religion are declining, but other, with stronger restriction, are florishing.
When the US govt restricts it's citizen and businesses from doing business with Cuba, it does this to prevent the communist ideology of Cuba to infect it's culture.
Statisticaly, the Quebec culture is a lot more alive today then it was not so long ago. The french/english quotas on french radio stations made record company invest more in local artist than before thoes quotas where in place.
Other canadians are obviously not looking at what the CRTC does when they criticts the french language politicies of Quebec. The CRTC limits, in the same way, the ratio of canadian/alien content on any broadcast medium in the country. How is that different and more acceptable than Quebec policies?
What you say about the Quebec Government is absolutly false.
The federal has a lot more power than the provincial government. They also have a lot more money and they control how they transfer it to each province. The federal is also the one trying to remove power to the provinces by interfering in theire field of power (like education or healthcare).
I cannot see how requiring french display may be compared to nazi regime. They don't prevent anybody from displaying in any other language, they just require that they also display in french and that the french part is predominant. While I don't agree with many of the action taken by the "language police" (like requiring some non-commercial web site to have a french version), I think that this law is important to preserve the french language in that part of the world. When your population is only 6-7 millions in a market of >275 millions, big corporation don't care about you and your preference, they just impose their stuff on you.
Also the US are a lot more protectionist about a lot of other stuff than the Quebec Government.
The privacy laws in the province of Quebec are ones of the strongest in the world. They prevent the government agencies to exchange your personnal info to any one (even to other governement agencies) without your explicit agreement for every transaction. The province of Quebec is the only place in North America that put special restriction on business for exchanging your personnal info. One of those restriction is that they MUST have your agreement to exchange your personnal data. They cannot have just an opt-out box.
If Event A send you a signal FTL then you will receive it before you see that the event occured, but not before the event occured.
Event if A send the info à zillion time the speed of light. B will never be able to receive it before A sent it. It will only receive it before he can see it.
In the experiment, the amount of time it take for the pulse of light to travel from the start (when it's emitted - and not when it enter the chamber) to the end (when it's observed) is still positive. The only way you could send the back to the original sender would need that the amount of time from the emission of the information to the observation of that information should be negative.
I can't see any paradox going here.
As far as I know, the time dimension is only going in one way and I never heard any phycisist claiming otherwise. Unless you can make it go the other way, you will never be able to notify anybody of something before it really happen.
> I'm reminded of early Renderware (remember them?) demo's, though. There's a clankiness to the edges of some of the objects in these screenshots that harkens back to the
> Renderware way of doing polygon transforms... can't place my finger on it, but it just 'feels' that way. Perhaps some other graphics guru's can explain what they see in those pics from a rendering perspective?
If I remember right, Rendeware was acquired by Microsoft at about the same time they bough SoftImage.
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But if you start now, you have some chance of finding the solution (in the case of breaking codes) within those 3 years.
I suggest that all post that contain the full text of the offeding material to be replaced by a link to the Microsoft web page where the text can be downloaded.
Post where there is just part of the copyrighted material to explain a topic should stay there. The copyright law protect this kind of use.
By doing so, you will keep the substance of each post and conform to the law. Microsoft will have no choice but to back-off.
It's easy to vercome this problem.
Split the output (before sending it out) in two. Then output1 goes to the amp. You then reverse the phase of output two and mix it with the microphone input.
Now you have the microphone input without any music (ok you have some due to the reverb effect in the car - but the level will be really low).
The major problem is if multiple person in the car start shouting command.
Again with multiple microphones you can cancel other people shouting from the driver microphone input.
It's pretty easy, it just going to take a little bit more processing power (unless you mix in analog instead of in digital).
From the ReadMe of BeOS Personnal Edition :
---
- Disk Space (Part 1)
When it's uncompressed, BeOS 5 Personal Edition inflates to 512 megabytes, no more, no less. This means that you need to have 512 megabytes of disk space available before you start the installation instructions (below). The BeOS 5 Pro Edition can be installed in a partition as small as 256 megabytes or as large as your largest hard drive.
[...]
To install BeOS 5 Personal Edition you need:
- A Pentium-based computer with at least 32 megabytes of RAM (P90 or higher is recommended).
- At least 512 megabytes of free disk space on a non-compressed FAT, FAT32, or NTFS drive.
- Windows 95/98, 2000, or NT4.- A blank floppy.
---
Look at the LAST line. The BeOS *Personnal* edition REQUIRES Windows!
It comme in ONE big file that is 512Megs which is the BFS from wich BeOS will boot.
If you want to install it on a partition you MUST purchase the *Pro* edition.
From their FAQ.
---
Q. Will I be able to install BeOS 5 Personal Edition within operating systems other than Windows?
A: Not at this time.
---
Forget about it if you want to install it on it's own partition.
Now that's cool, I just have to install VMWare. Put a windows95/98 on a VM then install BeOS Personnal Edition.
Now that's trully innovative!
I want to dedicate this small piece to his wife Cassie.
I did not know Jason very well, I saw his name a couple of time, but that's all.
What touch me in this story, is you (Cassie)... You seem to be a very strong person. It must be a really difficult time that you are going through. In one of youre e-mail you said that you need support. I'm sure that the community will do it's best to support you.
I know that it will be difficult for many month to come. I hope that the rehab will go well and that Jason will recover quickly.
When youre mood will be really down, don't forget that you have familly, friends and an entire community that is willing to help you.
Things will never be the same for you, I just hope that however different things are now, that they will increase in joy and happiness. You deserve this!
One of my friend as a VCR that can mark those commercial.
When it finish recording somthing, it rewind, the play back (faster that normal playing speed) and when it detect a commercial it marks it. When you play back the recorded program, then it automatically fast forward the commercial. Pretty neet!
I don't know how it detects commercial but it seems to rok really well.
One way I can thin of detecting commercials to to listen to the audio track. Commercial have the sound highly compressed (in audio terminology) and play a lot louder than movies or other programs.
> Registration Date: April 15, 1997
Don't you find it odd that Coca-Cola registred the trademark only 3 years ago? The "coke" slang for the soft drink as been around for much longer than that.
Also, if the guy is opperating a cocaine addiction web site (that is not the case, apparently) then there is no trademark violation. Trademark apply to a specific market. I can register the "coke" trademark for a computer game (if the game is not related to soft drink in any way) and Coca-Cola will never be able to sue me and win (of course they could make me go under because I don't have enough $$$ to defend myself).
> And they already have the general idiot public convinced that regular crashes and reboots are a 'normal' part of the computing experience.
:-)
I'm sorry but it's Apple that did this with the nice looking "bomb".
At that time a PC with MS-DOS hardly crash. But at the same time a Mac would have "bombed" a comple of time a day.
When MS replicated Apple with Window, to be fully faithfull, they add to reproduce the multiple daily crash. The only difference is that a crash on Apple look better than one on Windows
Note also that the Mac is a controlled hardware platform!
> they will be able to write for that hardware
Microsoft will not allow that. Microsoft will write (adapt) a OS for this box. If the game developer don't use the OS functionnality and goes directly to the hardware, how is Microsoft going to add value?
> Look at the PlayStation 2, the Emotion Engine runs at 300MHz.
It may be only 300MHz but it's not x86. It's far more efficient than x86 processor. Look at WinCE vs Palm. The Palm has a 16-30MHz CPU, the WinCE's have >100Mhz CPU, wich one perform better for the application designed for it? The Palm.
It's the same thing with the console market. The hardware must be adapted for what it's going to run.
If Microsoft ship a repackaged PC Box with a repackaged OS, they will not succeed in the Console market.
> No machine before the iMac had any design similar to it
That's not true. If you take appart the color and the shape, the original Mac has all the elements an iMac have.
They offer the same kind of functionnality (if you look at the technology availlable when the first Mac came to the market), the same easy of use (plug it an turn it on and it work).
The iMac is just an update of the original Mac concept. There is nothing new in that design.
They just added nice colors. Even the shape of the box is not new, we've seen similar shape in computer case for long (they just has no monitor embeded).
> What about a 'driving' interface?
:-)
A while back, I was working for a small programming shop. We used Clipper (anyone remember) to program some application. By convention, all keyword where in UPPERCASE. We had the idea of creating a shift pedal so we did not had to reach for the side of the keyboard to press shift, then keep the little finger there while we were typing the keys. With the pedal we could use one foot to press the shift key and type all along.
It did work great! But after a while we were not typing a lot faster with that device.
Anyway it was a fun hack
Can you please stop putting everything in the same basket.
While I agree that DCMA is a bad thing, I'm disgusted by this article FUD.
The DCMA does not prevent you from distributing free music. It prevent you from distributing music that you have to pay to get it.
If you are an artist and want to make your music freely availlable on the web, nobody and no law can prevent you from doing it.
If you want to argue against this act, do it in the sense that it remove you the right from faire use that is in the spirit of the people who wrote the first copryright act.
You can also say that the act protect the distributor and not the artists.
Mayby you can be subpoena to deliver your encryption key.
But if you encryption key is protected by a passphrase and that passphrase is only in your hear. They will not be able to get that passphrase. So you are protected. They cannot discover what's in your head.
And you can hide behind the constitution in the case that they ask you your passphrase in court.
So encrypt sensitive information and keep the key in your head!
L0phtCrack has an SMB sniffer. You do not need access to the password file (or registry in the case of NT) to be able to steal the password.
Nobody can do anything about that unless Microsoft fix their software so they have a better password transmission protocol.
It comes with a web-browser and e-mail client. The web page state that it's Internet ready.
So I can conclude that it HAS a TCP/IP stack.
have been unable to hear those faint sounds, the sounds were probably terrestrial in origin.
Surely the sounds where from terrestrial originin. Everybody knows that sound do not travel in space ;-)
I did not know that Radio telescope where in fact giant microphones.
Hi All,
Let's see the evolution of UI...
1) Plug some wire in some holes
2) Punch holes into little paper card
3) Use a terminal to punch holes in little paper cards
4) Use terminal to type command and see response
5) Use a device to move a pointer on a ugly graphical screen
6) Use a device to move a pointer on an ugly complex grapical screen
7) Use a device to move an animated pointer on a good-looking complex graphical screen
8) use a device to move an [animated] pointer on a good-looking simple graphical or text screen.
Guest what #8 is... Hyper Text Markup language... Who build that thing? No it's not a commercial entity but a buch of people who wanted to empower the user with an easy to use interface.
Guest who is going to make that kind of interface as THE user interface in the next consumer version of their OS... MICROSOFT...
Most of geek have no clues for UI design... But a handfull of geek did have great clues about UI. With theire great infrastructure skills they develpped a new kind of UI that is powerfull yes simple. They made the Internet a usefull tool for the average (and less than average) user. Now everyone is building on the geek UI.
Unfortunatly, most of today viruses do not exploit operating systems. They exploit applications.
A macro virus can be written to exploit a particular application. Like a mail client.
The biggest problem with viruses, is not that they infect your system. It's that they destroy/corrupt data or consume systems ressources (like bandwidth). Whenever your run as root or not, your system could be affected.
Virus are here, for now they attack the most visible software. As linux grows in popularity and get more visibility accross all kind of users, Virus that target specific Linux application will emerge and spread.
Being blinded by the fact that Linux has a better security model than NT or 98 and that source code solve everything will just make you more vulnerable to this threat.
I got funding....
Yup, I got funding to develop SuperGel(TM).
SuperGel(TM) will allow you to apply a gel coating on self-destructing DVD.
The SuperGel(TM) patented Gel will merge with the DVD coating to prevent it from degrading when the laser beam hit it.
SuperGel(TM) will be availlable when the first degradingDVD will hit the market.
It will cost only 50cents per application. SuperGel(TM) will be sold in yet to be develop package that will hold enough SuperGel(TM) for 2^4 applications.