If it says that its still a trojan because it doesn't need to install anything to function. It actually installs software that prevents some functionality from functioning. This is misleading information!
What pisses me of is that Word messes up its own documents even when they are made with the same version of Word (not to mention if the document comes from an older version). Ever worked with a document containing images anchored to the paragraphs. When the paragraph moves word happily shifts the image outside the margins! Then when you have finally all images where they should go suddenly several of them have been replaced with red crosses! This is why at my work the user manual is written using OpenOffice.org. We can trust OOo with our documents. OOo allways behaves predictable and its style system is much more powerfull then that of Word.
Strange how people allways bitch about it when OOo imports a word document incorrectly but they never mention that Word doesn't read sxw.
When a company doesn't dare to give a three year warranty its a clear signal that they will expect many drives to fail within three years. So you shoudn't trust the drive even if you do trust the company.
While a large zoom range is very handy (have a Minolta Z1 with 10x optical zoom myself) you will need resolution for large prints. To reach analogue quality on a 15cm x 10cm print you need 3 megapixel. For a 20 x 30 print this would be 12 megapixel
Also notice the fact that each pixel on the CCD only records a single channel (red, green or blue). The other channels are interpolated from the surrounding pixels to get the final image. Thus the image does not contain as much detail as the pixel count suggests.
Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
Blinking lights on a modem can be decoded to yield the byte values sent and received? DUH... also obvious... that's why they are labelled "TD" and "RD"! Also easily defeated by simple piece of black tape.
These LEDs are only supposed to signal the fact that a byte is received or send. They should not also give the bit patterns.
It does seem very bulky, it would be really interesting if they could provide some spec's.
I have read an article one (in a dutch magazine about radio controlled models so I can't provide a link) about someone who build his own turbojet. All parts were home made and it actually was installed in a model that could fly! That was in the early 80's so these guys seem to be a bit behind times...
When your hands and wrists are cold the friction of the sinew is higher then when your arm is warm which can cause RSI. This is also part of the reason why you shouldn't rest your wrist on the table. The angle of the wrist increases the friction and at the same time the table cools your wrist increasing the friction even further.
The market dominance however, has shown us the benefit of having "standard" file types such as.doc that just about everybody in certain industries uses exclusively.
.doc a standard!?
Allmost every version of Word uses another format, yes it has the same extension but internally its different. Transfering complex documents from one version of word to another is allmost impossible without loosing the correct formatting.
Java programs ain't portable in the true sence of the word. Java programs run on a virtual machine which is just a nice word for an emulator.
Ofcourse you are right about C++, there are many problems when trying to keep your program portable. However I have for example done some OpenGL graphics portable between Linux and Windows by using the SDL library for graphics and user input and libpng for texture loading. So its just a case of choosing the right libs.
a hefty $4 levy on blank digital media such as CD-ROMs.
Is it not a bit strange to outlaw copying and then add a $4 levy on blank media because everbody is going to do it anyway...
Also if you put a $4 levy on media you can argue that the user has allready paid the copyrights of the material he or she is copying and thus it should be legal to do so.
It wont scare Intel and AMD a bit those GPU's cannot replace the CPU. They may be fast but they simple can't run a preemptive multitasking operating system and make sure processes don't mess up each other memory.
The reason they are so fast is that they are designed to do one thing (graphics) and do it good and everything which isn't needed for that one thing has been thrown out.
This also applies to other specialized processors like DSP's.
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If it says that its still a trojan because it doesn't need to install anything to function. It actually installs software that prevents some functionality from functioning. This is misleading information!
What pisses me of is that Word messes up its own documents even when they are made with the same version of Word (not to mention if the document comes from an older version). Ever worked with a document containing images anchored to the paragraphs. When the paragraph moves word happily shifts the image outside the margins! Then when you have finally all images where they should go suddenly several of them have been replaced with red crosses! This is why at my work the user manual is written using OpenOffice.org. We can trust OOo with our documents. OOo allways behaves predictable and its style system is much more powerfull then that of Word.
Strange how people allways bitch about it when OOo imports a word document incorrectly but they never mention that Word doesn't read sxw.
When a company doesn't dare to give a three year warranty its a clear signal that they will expect many drives to fail within three years. So you shoudn't trust the drive even if you do trust the company.
Its not the quantity of programmers that's important but the quality of the programmers...
While a large zoom range is very handy (have a Minolta Z1 with 10x optical zoom myself) you will need resolution for large prints. To reach analogue quality on a 15cm x 10cm print you need 3 megapixel. For a 20 x 30 print this would be 12 megapixel
Also notice the fact that each pixel on the CCD only records a single channel (red, green or blue). The other channels are interpolated from the surrounding pixels to get the final image. Thus the image does not contain as much detail as the pixel count suggests.
Read: Google history
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Google is a play on the word googol, which was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. It refers to the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. Google's use of the term reflects the company's mission to organize the immense, seemingly infinite amount of information available on the web.
Blinking lights on a modem can be decoded to yield the byte values sent and received? DUH ... also obvious ... that's why they are labelled "TD" and "RD"! Also easily defeated by simple piece of black tape.
These LEDs are only supposed to signal the fact that a byte is received or send. They should not also give the bit patterns.
It does seem very bulky, it would be really interesting if they could provide some spec's.
I have read an article one (in a dutch magazine about radio controlled models so I can't provide a link) about someone who build his own turbojet. All parts were home made and it actually was installed in a model that could fly! That was in the early 80's so these guys seem to be a bit behind times...
When your hands and wrists are cold the friction of the sinew is higher then when your arm is warm which can cause RSI. This is also part of the reason why you shouldn't rest your wrist on the table. The angle of the wrist increases the friction and at the same time the table cools your wrist increasing the friction even further.
The market dominance however, has shown us the benefit of having "standard" file types such as .doc that just about everybody in certain industries uses exclusively.
.doc a standard!?
Allmost every version of Word uses another format, yes it has the same extension but internally its different. Transfering complex documents from one version of word to another is allmost impossible without loosing the correct formatting.
Java programs ain't portable in the true sence of the word. Java programs run on a virtual machine which is just a nice word for an emulator.
Ofcourse you are right about C++, there are many problems when trying to keep your program portable. However I have for example done some OpenGL graphics portable between Linux and Windows by using the SDL library for graphics and user input and libpng for texture loading. So its just a case of choosing the right libs.
I actually prefer my own big 21" over the two 17" at my work ofcourse two 21" inch would be even better.
a hefty $4 levy on blank digital media such as CD-ROMs.
Is it not a bit strange to outlaw copying and then add a $4 levy on blank media because everbody is going to do it anyway...
Also if you put a $4 levy on media you can argue that the user has allready paid the copyrights of the material he or she is copying and thus it should be legal to do so.
There are several reasons why everybody should have the same speed limit.
First speed limits are not only to reduce the risk of an accident, they are also to reduce the amount of noise and to reduce polution.
Giving people different speedlimits reduces safety as the people who are allowed to drive fast will have to overtake the others.
If they do not have a memory managemnt unit and facilities for multiple tasks they will not be able to replace the CPU.
Adding these parts will make those GPU's much more complex, which will slow them down.
It wont scare Intel and AMD a bit those GPU's cannot replace the CPU. They may be fast but they simple can't run a preemptive multitasking operating system and make sure processes don't mess up each other memory. The reason they are so fast is that they are designed to do one thing (graphics) and do it good and everything which isn't needed for that one thing has been thrown out. This also applies to other specialized processors like DSP's.