Google doesn't cache images. Those are often the largest parts of the page. Also some browsers might not display the page at all if they can't load some images.
Plus as others have said Google doesn't convert links.
The story begins with: "It's fair to say that most people love PNG images (or at least hate GIFs)." No, it's not fair to say that; it's wrong. Most computer users don't even know the difference and don't care as long as they can see the image. Most people don't know about the GIF patent issues and anyways GIF is now free. Plus why hate a file format? If you really want to hate something then hate what Unisys did.
I don't know where one can get a free POP3/SMTP account without any sort of ads. Also even with POP3 it can be useful to leave mail on the server if you access the account from multiple locations.
Maybe they're worried about Pop Goes the GMail, which provides a POP3 interface to a Gmail account. This is a real threat to them because if you use it you don't see any of the ads.
Yeah, I doubt they would sue someone who used a pirate key or crack to install an operating system they paid for. However, if someone developed some way around activation and publicized and distributed it non-anonymously they might be in trouble. I suppose it's possible they'd win in court but they'd at least have to spend money on fighting it.
If it was some change to XP that caused it to not ask for activation that would be a crack. Of course this is possible but the legality in various countries is questionable. (eg. DMCA)
If it gave you a code like M$ can then it'd be a keygen. Perhaps activation is cryptographically secure and it's practically impossible to generate the code because you'd need Microsoft's private key. I don't know if it's secure though, and for example there is an activation keygen for Photoshop CS. In this case too the legality is questionable in various countries.
Will Microsoft use activation to force me to upgrade? In other words, will Microsoft ever stop giving out activation codes for any of the products that require activation?
No, Microsoft will not use activation as a tool to force people to upgrade. Activation is merely an anti-piracy tool, nothing else.
Microsoft will also support the activation of Windows XP throughout its life and will likely provide an update that turns activation off at the end of the product's lifecycle so users would no longer be required to activate the product.
I'd like to see a true colour image. It'd be interesting to see different colours of light corresponding to high pressure sodium, mercury, incandescent and fluorescent lighting. A colour picture would make better wallpaper too.;)
My Intel PC Camera Pro has a nice shutter that you can slide over the lens. I always use it, kind of automatically. IMHO most webcams should have something like that but it seems many don't.
Compression is here now. It won't last a few years. CD-R and DVD-R sized rips will appear just like they do now. Perhaps the larger file format will slow down compression a bit but it won't be a real deterrent.
I think they mean the height of the board if it was placed horizontally. Stuff like the CPU heat sink and fan makes it pretty high then. If the board was placed vertically in a flat screen TV the TV would have to be thicker because of that.
I think the study may be seriously flawed. How do you disentangle the effect of power plant shutdowns from effects of other shutdowns.
What about affected transportation? A lot of people didn't go to work during the blackout. People would also go to stores a lot less because a lot of stores were closed during the blackout. Here people were even told on the radio to not drive if it's not essential. IIRC there was also a decrease in air traffic in the affected area.
What about factories? I'm sure a lot of polluting factories shut down during the blackout?
Some spacecraft used vidicon tubes (what was used in video cameras before) and others used photomultipliers with mechanical scanning. Some spy satellites even just record on actual film which is later recovered. I don't know what Pioneer used.
I built an 72x7 LED sign and did this. It uses a Motorola MC68705P3S microcontroller (now discontinued) driving a chain of 74HC374 octal D flip-flops. The columns are driven by 7407 open collector buffers, through current limiting resistors, and the rows are driven by transistors. The microcontroller multiplexes the display, does serial communication in software and has a character generator. You can see a block diagram and the firmware
It was fun to build though LED signs aren't very useful. Posting a link to a newsgroup was the best thing I did with it. My webcam was pointed at it so anyone could see what it was displaying, there was a log of messages, and you could even draw on it.
What makes it a robot? It's just an alternative to an iron. It's a fairly dumb machine. It just has to pre-heat and then blow hot air for a set time. You have to put the shirt on and everything.
Thanks for pointing out their other stuff. IMHO it discredits them. The Vapour Trace technology certainly isn't new, and I doubt that Acoustic Core could compete with the scanners that are already out there. As for a keyless cipher, I don't see how you could do cryptography without keys except if it's quantum cryptography or something like that. Security thorough obscurity?
NT4 has poor DirectX support. DirectX provides high-performance relatively low level access to graphics, audio and input.
ActiveX is used for IE components that can be downloaded from the net. They're native code, with full access to your machine, and they're often used for spyware. NT4 supports this perfectly if you have IE installed. You can disable it in IE if you want, and of course you can get rid of IE.
You're missing the point! Did you even read what I wrote? I said that I was running NT4 on a machine with 32 megs of RAM and that it was faster than Win98SE. Explorer is bloated on Win98SE and the whole VM system seems much worse.
As for needing 128 megs, NT4 definitely doesn't need that (though of course some applications might). I seem to remember even Windows 2000 ran acceptably with 128 megs. XP definitely needs more.
As for security, critical updates for NT4 and Win98 still come out. I wouldn't ever connect any Windows to the net without a firewall though.
I prefer NT4. It's more stable and faster. My old computer is a Pentium 133 with 32 megs of RAM. I used to have Win98SE on it. Explorer was slow opening new windows because of all the web view crap that M$ added and while the OS itself tended to not totally crash I had to reboot it far too often because an app crashed and then wouldn't work right if I tried to run it again.
When I installed NT4 with SP6a there was a big improvement! Getting all the right drivers was a pain, and until I got that there was some instability, but now it's rock solid. Explorer is amazingly fast. (The "desktop upgrade" that you can get with IE4 makes it slower but it's still faster than Win98SE. I uninstalled it.) IE seemed to run faster. Applications in general don't crash, and if something crashes it won't mess anything up and can be run again without a reboot.
I ended up IERadicating IE and installing Opera and then web browsing was fast. For IM I installed Miranda IM and that is fast too. It's almost like I never needed to upgrade from a 133 MHz Pentium. NT4 may be a pain to install but it's fast and quite usable.
The only bad things about NT4 are the poor DirectX support and worse support for DOS games than Win9x. In this case I can live with that. That computer is too slow for most DirectX stuff anyways, and I don't care about old DOS games nowdays.
It's like they never heard of the obvious solution of using shift registers, D flip flops or other IO expansion devices to allow one processor to control *lots* of stuff. Those are cheaper and they don't need to be programmed. They are all ridiculously easy to get and use, and I can't believe that people designing this chandelier were retarded enough to not know all this.
I guess they probably thought they could impress people by saying it has lots of processors.
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The people will be in spacesuits. That makes it easier. I guess the main problem would be stuff coming out of the spaceship or base as people exit from it. Perhaps disinfection of the outside of the space suit, tools and on the way back samples can be done in the airlock. I certainly don't think it's unsolvable.
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Plus as others have said Google doesn't convert links.
The story begins with: "It's fair to say that most people love PNG images (or at least hate GIFs)." No, it's not fair to say that; it's wrong. Most computer users don't even know the difference and don't care as long as they can see the image. Most people don't know about the GIF patent issues and anyways GIF is now free. Plus why hate a file format? If you really want to hate something then hate what Unisys did.
I don't know where one can get a free POP3/SMTP account without any sort of ads. Also even with POP3 it can be useful to leave mail on the server if you access the account from multiple locations.
Maybe they're worried about Pop Goes the GMail, which provides a POP3 interface to a Gmail account. This is a real threat to them because if you use it you don't see any of the ads.
Check out this article. It talks about "altruistic punishment," which is exacting revenge on behalf of a stranger.
Yeah, I doubt they would sue someone who used a pirate key or crack to install an operating system they paid for. However, if someone developed some way around activation and publicized and distributed it non-anonymously they might be in trouble. I suppose it's possible they'd win in court but they'd at least have to spend money on fighting it.
If it gave you a code like M$ can then it'd be a keygen. Perhaps activation is cryptographically secure and it's practically impossible to generate the code because you'd need Microsoft's private key. I don't know if it's secure though, and for example there is an activation keygen for Photoshop CS. In this case too the legality is questionable in various countries.
Will Microsoft use activation to force me to upgrade? In other words, will Microsoft ever stop giving out activation codes for any of the products that require activation?
No, Microsoft will not use activation as a tool to force people to upgrade. Activation is merely an anti-piracy tool, nothing else.
Microsoft will also support the activation of Windows XP throughout its life and will likely provide an update that turns activation off at the end of the product's lifecycle so users would no longer be required to activate the product.
I'd like to see a true colour image. It'd be interesting to see different colours of light corresponding to high pressure sodium, mercury, incandescent and fluorescent lighting. A colour picture would make better wallpaper too. ;)
My Intel PC Camera Pro has a nice shutter that you can slide over the lens. I always use it, kind of automatically. IMHO most webcams should have something like that but it seems many don't.
Compression is here now. It won't last a few years. CD-R and DVD-R sized rips will appear just like they do now. Perhaps the larger file format will slow down compression a bit but it won't be a real deterrent.
Maybe the point is that there's a lot of shit that's far worse than carbon dioxide.
I wish I had mod points now!
I think they mean the height of the board if it was placed horizontally. Stuff like the CPU heat sink and fan makes it pretty high then. If the board was placed vertically in a flat screen TV the TV would have to be thicker because of that.
What about affected transportation? A lot of people didn't go to work during the blackout. People would also go to stores a lot less because a lot of stores were closed during the blackout. Here people were even told on the radio to not drive if it's not essential. IIRC there was also a decrease in air traffic in the affected area.
What about factories? I'm sure a lot of polluting factories shut down during the blackout?
Some spacecraft used vidicon tubes (what was used in video cameras before) and others used photomultipliers with mechanical scanning. Some spy satellites even just record on actual film which is later recovered. I don't know what Pioneer used.
California had some pretty serious problems with power a few years ago.
It was fun to build though LED signs aren't very useful. Posting a link to a newsgroup was the best thing I did with it. My webcam was pointed at it so anyone could see what it was displaying, there was a log of messages, and you could even draw on it.
What makes it a robot? It's just an alternative to an iron. It's a fairly dumb machine. It just has to pre-heat and then blow hot air for a set time. You have to put the shirt on and everything.
Thanks for pointing out their other stuff. IMHO it discredits them. The Vapour Trace technology certainly isn't new, and I doubt that Acoustic Core could compete with the scanners that are already out there. As for a keyless cipher, I don't see how you could do cryptography without keys except if it's quantum cryptography or something like that. Security thorough obscurity?
ActiveX is used for IE components that can be downloaded from the net. They're native code, with full access to your machine, and they're often used for spyware. NT4 supports this perfectly if you have IE installed. You can disable it in IE if you want, and of course you can get rid of IE.
As for needing 128 megs, NT4 definitely doesn't need that (though of course some applications might). I seem to remember even Windows 2000 ran acceptably with 128 megs. XP definitely needs more.
As for security, critical updates for NT4 and Win98 still come out. I wouldn't ever connect any Windows to the net without a firewall though.
When I installed NT4 with SP6a there was a big improvement! Getting all the right drivers was a pain, and until I got that there was some instability, but now it's rock solid. Explorer is amazingly fast. (The "desktop upgrade" that you can get with IE4 makes it slower but it's still faster than Win98SE. I uninstalled it.) IE seemed to run faster. Applications in general don't crash, and if something crashes it won't mess anything up and can be run again without a reboot.
I ended up IERadicating IE and installing Opera and then web browsing was fast. For IM I installed Miranda IM and that is fast too. It's almost like I never needed to upgrade from a 133 MHz Pentium. NT4 may be a pain to install but it's fast and quite usable.
The only bad things about NT4 are the poor DirectX support and worse support for DOS games than Win9x. In this case I can live with that. That computer is too slow for most DirectX stuff anyways, and I don't care about old DOS games nowdays.
I guess they probably thought they could impress people by saying it has lots of processors.
The people will be in spacesuits. That makes it easier. I guess the main problem would be stuff coming out of the spaceship or base as people exit from it. Perhaps disinfection of the outside of the space suit, tools and on the way back samples can be done in the airlock. I certainly don't think it's unsolvable.