I've seen this idea someplace quite a while ago. They were talking about using noise cancellation instead of mufflers. That way you'd reduce noise without any of the flow restriction from a muffler.
Wow, 10.4 kbps and 41.6 kbps with variable pulse width encoding. Annoying! There's no hope of simply using the serial port but there's no reason why you couldn't use a parallel port. I'm not sure if it'd reliably work in a multitasking OS but there's no reason why it wouldn't work without an OS in the way, eg. in DOS with interrupts disabled. I've dealt with simillar stuff that way.
It also shouldn't be hard to program a microcontroller to translate between that and RS232 at some sane baud rate. I'd be surprised if there weren't any instructions for building cheap PIC-based cables.
I had no real problems with Trillian 2.012. I never got disconnected for any significant length of time during the period.
I've never encountered a situation when Trillian won't connect to MSN but the official client will. That used to happen with Yahoo but they fixed it when Yahoo tried to ban them (must be ironic for Yahoo, their attempt to ban other clients improved Trillian). MSN tried to do a simillar thing but the patch was out way before the actual blocking happened.
Office XP SP3 also fixes the problem. You can get a version of SP3 that doesn't require access to the install CDs: OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe 58925 KB
Yes, it's simple. Crashes seem to only happen if you have defective hardware or drivers. Both Linux and XP seem totally stable otherwise. The only difference is that if they crash one has a Black Screen Of Death and the other has a Blue Screen Of Death.
I don't think concrete sticks to glass. Do they add something or somehow treat the glass so that it sticks or seal the sides? Otherwise I think you'd get air and water leakage. I'm not sure if the air leakage would be a problem but water leakage probably would. If the outside got wet capillarity would suck some water into the wall. Eventually you'd probably have mold growing on and even in the wall.
You can't always opt-out of advertising. There may be good reasons why you want to buy a particular product and not a competing one. In some cases you can't even find an unadvertised competing product.
Of course you can opt-out by not buying but that's not really a solution if you want it, and BTW you can "opt-out" of sales tax the same way (by not buying stuff).
And why should I be forced to pay for stuff I don't want? I don't care about free-to-air TV and most radio, I don't care about Nascar, and I don't care about most professional sports. It's almost like a tax, except it's imposed by corporations and not the government.
Heaters or hair dryers are much cheaper per watt, plus no worries about how to plug them or safety.
Once when testing a power supply I was building I just used unspooled wire in water. If it was on the spool it would have started smoking in no time but this way it just heated the water. The power supply did 35 V DC. Now try that with 120 VAC; that should be even more scary!
Directed group activity is very different from socializing for fun. People at least roughly know what needs to be done, they have to interact to accomplish it and they're stuck togeather. I've always found this much easier than socializing for pleasure..
Generally when socializing for fun there isn't a set job that needs to be accomplished, nobody has to interact and people can leave. In such cases I've often found myself not having any clue what to say/do and then just not interacting or even leaving.
Group activity can only really be an introduction to socializing.
I think Winamp video channels are pretty neat. There are some nice channels with music videos, party and DJ footage and so on. Plus as others have pointed out you can choose to not install video support.
Winamp 3 was the big attempt to ruin Winamp but fortunately that went away fast. Right now I think the worst part is the media library. It's inconvenient and kind of useless. For example being able to get a list of Shoutcast stations there could be neat but it involves far too much scrolling and an unfriendly interface. You can choose to not install media library but then you can't edit bookmarks (you can add them though). Since bookmark editing is done with a simple dialog box and they're kept in a simple text file, just like in old versions without media library, I have to wonder if this was meant to make you install Media Library.
Plus if you install the media library any stream can make you open URLs and pop-ups at start and whenever metadata is transmitted. You can disable this with a sort of out of the way option: Options -> Preferences -> Media Library -> Library Options -> Library Integration Options -> Do not allow media to automatically switch to "Now Playing"
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You can get a mad plugin for Winamp. I guess I can notice a difference. I notice a pretty big difference with QuickTime, but it doesn't seem to have playlist support.
BTW What's going on here? Decoder tests show that later versions of Winamp are among the best. Why do mad and QuickTime seem better.
Martin Lueck, the lawyer who represented Eolas, said it was not uncommon for the patent office to invalidate a claim as the first step of a review process, but said he was confident that the patent office would ultimately uphold Eolas' claim on the Web technology.
That makes it seem as if this is far from over. I don't know much about the process. How much of a chance does Eolas really have still?
Yes some other firewall programs can catch external connections by programs. However there are ways around that though, like pretending to be another program or messing with another program and doing your work from it.
Tiny Personal Firewallhas the ability to restrict applications (even local actions). What they claim seems pretty impressive though I've never actually used the program.
With just XP itself you can actually right click on an executable, select "Run as...", select "Current user" and check "Protect my computer and data from unauthorised program activity" but I'm not sure how much protection is offered there and many programs to fail.
Yes, many are simple, but not all. Have you looked at the MyDoom source? (sync-src-1.00.tbz, pretty easy to find) There are plenty of viruses that took plenty of skill to write.
Here is part of the agreement that you have to accept when you run ie6setup.exe. It was originally all caps and the slashdot lameness filter wouldn't let me post it so I made it all lowercase.
note: if you do not have a valid eula for any "os product" (including, without limitation, microsoft windows 98, microsoft windows nt 4.0, microsoft windows 2000, microsoft millennium edition, microsoft windows xp, or any other microsoft operating system that is a successor to any of the foregoing operating systems) you are not authorized to install, copy, or otherwise use the os components and you have no rights under this supplemental eula.
Well, I'm sure there's no RFID tag in 20 dollar bills but there definitely is a metal strip on them and that's enough to explain why they would burn in a microwave.
You've probably heard of microwaving CDs. The metal layer on CDs is very thin, after all you can see through it, yet it makes a very impressive display and it obviously melts and burns the plastic.
There could be a simple explanation for that. If you microwave a single bill heat is still produced but it's easy for it to get out. If you stick a bunch togeather and microwave that more or less the same amount of heat is produced per bill meaning a lot more heat, and paper is a good insulator, so the middle gets really hot and starts burning. Note how the amount of burning seems to have a progression from large to small.
Yes, that is terrible. However, I don't think they can refund if they lose because they wouldn't have the money. They're spending a lot on laywers and on the path to defeat they'll spend a lot more. Then they'd probably get hit with some big lawsuits over their claims. They'd lose every last penny that they don't stick in a hidden offshore bank account. How could they give refunds?
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However, the icon tends to remind me of a DEC TK50 tape instead of a hard drive.
I've seen this idea someplace quite a while ago. They were talking about using noise cancellation instead of mufflers. That way you'd reduce noise without any of the flow restriction from a muffler.
It also shouldn't be hard to program a microcontroller to translate between that and RS232 at some sane baud rate. I'd be surprised if there weren't any instructions for building cheap PIC-based cables.
I've never encountered a situation when Trillian won't connect to MSN but the official client will. That used to happen with Yahoo but they fixed it when Yahoo tried to ban them (must be ironic for Yahoo, their attempt to ban other clients improved Trillian). MSN tried to do a simillar thing but the patch was out way before the actual blocking happened.
Office XP SP3 also fixes the problem. You can get a version of SP3 that doesn't require access to the install CDs:
OfficeXpSp3-kb832671-fullfile-enu.exe 58925 KB
Yes, it's simple. Crashes seem to only happen if you have defective hardware or drivers. Both Linux and XP seem totally stable otherwise. The only difference is that if they crash one has a Black Screen Of Death and the other has a Blue Screen Of Death.
They'll win over most people with the pretty pictures and then Hubble will have to be saved.
I don't think concrete sticks to glass. Do they add something or somehow treat the glass so that it sticks or seal the sides? Otherwise I think you'd get air and water leakage. I'm not sure if the air leakage would be a problem but water leakage probably would. If the outside got wet capillarity would suck some water into the wall. Eventually you'd probably have mold growing on and even in the wall.
Of course you can opt-out by not buying but that's not really a solution if you want it, and BTW you can "opt-out" of sales tax the same way (by not buying stuff).
And why should I be forced to pay for stuff I don't want? I don't care about free-to-air TV and most radio, I don't care about Nascar, and I don't care about most professional sports. It's almost like a tax, except it's imposed by corporations and not the government.
Heaters or hair dryers are much cheaper per watt, plus no worries about how to plug them or safety.
Once when testing a power supply I was building I just used unspooled wire in water. If it was on the spool it would have started smoking in no time but this way it just heated the water. The power supply did 35 V DC. Now try that with 120 VAC; that should be even more scary!
Generally when socializing for fun there isn't a set job that needs to be accomplished, nobody has to interact and people can leave. In such cases I've often found myself not having any clue what to say/do and then just not interacting or even leaving.
Group activity can only really be an introduction to socializing.
Winamp 3 was the big attempt to ruin Winamp but fortunately that went away fast. Right now I think the worst part is the media library. It's inconvenient and kind of useless. For example being able to get a list of Shoutcast stations there could be neat but it involves far too much scrolling and an unfriendly interface. You can choose to not install media library but then you can't edit bookmarks (you can add them though). Since bookmark editing is done with a simple dialog box and they're kept in a simple text file, just like in old versions without media library, I have to wonder if this was meant to make you install Media Library.
Plus if you install the media library any stream can make you open URLs and pop-ups at start and whenever metadata is transmitted. You can disable this with a sort of out of the way option: Options -> Preferences -> Media Library -> Library Options -> Library Integration Options -> Do not allow media to automatically switch to "Now Playing"
BTW What's going on here? Decoder tests show that later versions of Winamp are among the best. Why do mad and QuickTime seem better.
Is it really free though? What if you don't have Windows license? Can you run it on Wine or some other emulator?
Martin Lueck, the lawyer who represented Eolas, said it was not uncommon for the patent office to invalidate a claim as the first step of a review process, but said he was confident that the patent office would ultimately uphold Eolas' claim on the Web technology.
That makes it seem as if this is far from over. I don't know much about the process. How much of a chance does Eolas really have still?
Tiny Personal Firewallhas the ability to restrict applications (even local actions). What they claim seems pretty impressive though I've never actually used the program.
With just XP itself you can actually right click on an executable, select "Run as...", select "Current user" and check "Protect my computer and data from unauthorised program activity" but I'm not sure how much protection is offered there and many programs to fail.
Yes, many are simple, but not all. Have you looked at the MyDoom source? (sync-src-1.00.tbz, pretty easy to find) There are plenty of viruses that took plenty of skill to write.
Aren't many people having trouble finding IT jobs? There was the dot-com crash and then outsourcing...
note: if you do not have a valid eula for any "os product" (including, without limitation, microsoft windows 98, microsoft windows nt 4.0, microsoft windows 2000, microsoft millennium edition, microsoft windows xp, or any other microsoft operating system that is a successor to any of the foregoing operating systems) you are not authorized to install, copy, or otherwise use the os components and you have no rights under this supplemental eula.
They're suggesting something illegal too! IE 6 isn't free. You're only allowed to run it on a legal copy of Windows.
You've probably heard of microwaving CDs. The metal layer on CDs is very thin, after all you can see through it, yet it makes a very impressive display and it obviously melts and burns the plastic.
There could be a simple explanation for that. If you microwave a single bill heat is still produced but it's easy for it to get out. If you stick a bunch togeather and microwave that more or less the same amount of heat is produced per bill meaning a lot more heat, and paper is a good insulator, so the middle gets really hot and starts burning. Note how the amount of burning seems to have a progression from large to small.
Yes, that is terrible. However, I don't think they can refund if they lose because they wouldn't have the money. They're spending a lot on laywers and on the path to defeat they'll spend a lot more. Then they'd probably get hit with some big lawsuits over their claims. They'd lose every last penny that they don't stick in a hidden offshore bank account. How could they give refunds?