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They say they put in more T cells than they took out. Has this sort of thing been tried before? It makes sense; if a disease depletes some cells why not create more in a laboratory and put them into the patient. I'm guessing this doesn't work in general for some reason with AIDS.
There are Java applications for phones which can interface with GPS receivers through bluetooth. One good example is Mobile GMaps, which is a J2ME client for Google Maps which can interface with an external GPS over bluetooth or directly use the GPS receiver in some phones. (Not to be confused with Google Maps Mobile which is actually from Google.)
When I read "additional material" my very first thought was that they would yet again try to prevent ripping and put WMA files with DRM on the CD. Oh and I'm sure the music industry wishes the CD would die because it is a DRM-free format.
You can get some information on Dell TrueLife screens from ScreenTek. It is not just a shiny screen. Basically the screen deals with reflections with an anti-reflection coating which minimizes the amount of reflected light instead of a rough texture which scatters light so you don't see reflected shapes. Overall, it reflects less light and you're supposed to get better contrast.
I have one and I'm not disappointed. Yes, the screen reflects like a mirror, and you could actually use it instead of a mirror in some situations when it is off. However, in most situations when it is on reflections are not a problem.
I don't think Microsoft is being particularly evil here. If anything they're being pretty nice offering a free Vista beta and an almost free Office beta. For example, did Apple give out free Tiger betas? $1.50 isn't much. I first thought it was kind of ridiculous to bother charging that but then I noted the article says the beta has been downloaded 3 million times so far so it'll certainly add up.
The one thing that bothers me about this is that they haven't considered P2P. They say the price is to offset the cost of downloading from their servers. Well, why don't they offer the beta via BitTorrent for free and just charge for downloading from their servers? I reallize their cost still wouldn't be zero per download but it should be quite small and acceptable.
Yes, it has been resized, cropped and compressed. Someone else posted a link to an MPEG file from NASA that was twice the resolution. Apparently it was from an analog NTSC source. It was full of interlacing artifacts, and it had black bars on both sides. Whoever released the WMV apparently just discarded one set of fields and halved the horizontal resolution instead of deinterlacing. They also cropped to remove the black bars and compressed it to a pretty low bitrate.
This is not like the VeriSign SiteFinder. They're not redirecting unused domains to advertisement pages for everyone. They only do it for those who use their DNS servers. It is a free service which is supported by advertising. That sort of thing is common and accepted on the Internet. The article also says that if they can figure out the misspelling they will re-direct you to the site you wanted.
It seems that this is about companies who exchange original for censored media. I understand why creating a derivative work without permission would be copyright infringement. Even Creative Commons has "no derivative works" licenses. I don't see anything about the DVD player which automatically plays only certain parts of the original DVD. I don't think that could be made illegal.
When a website wants you to go through a bunch of hoops like WGA to download a file there's often a very simple way around that. You can probably find the URL on FileMirrors. If it's something popular like an IE beta it'll probably be on the front page so you won't even have to search. Oh, and here's a link to IE7BETA3-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe.
So when will SCO get sued for what it's done? It wasted others' time and money with frivolous lawsuits. It lied. It got some fools to pay for their Linux licenses, which might be fraudulent. SCO needs to be buried for all this sometime soon.
I'm pretty sure that shutting down unlicensed copies of Windows would be legally risky. I'm sure that their program couldn't be 100% accurate and so some properly licensed copies would be shut down. They'd probably be liable for damages for this. It might even be criminal, like gaining unauthorised access to a computer. Even shutting down unlicensed copies may be dangerous legally. It might be okay if they display obvious warning messages for a month and then shut them down, but I'm not sure.
I remember a case where a company accessed a client's system and disabled some software they wrote because the client didn't pay them. I think they got in trouble for that. I wish I could find the link now.
I have Windows update set to download and then prompt before installing. WGA did not auto-install itself. However, the KB900485update did install itself without prompting. I just found out about it from the shutdown message. One friend said that it also installed without prompting on his computer. I did a search and found that it installed for some other people too.
The virus must use some memory. This probably makes it detectable. It would probably appear that your computer has less memory than is actually installed.
What could the virus do? I doubt it could swap to disk to cover that. I guess it could try using compression on a small part of the guest OS.
Yeah, to make this truly undetectable you would need to provide access to some hardware. That is not straightforward. Some drivers deal with physical memory addresses. Physical addresses seen from a guest operating system might not correspond to actual physical addresses. Also this is an area where virtualization overhead might be significant and easy to detect.
I thought this only trapped writes which were done through the BIOS. Modern operating systems deal with the hardware directly. That is much harder to trap.
Look at what happened to BeOS. It had various innovative features and some people were quite excited about it but it was a failure in the marketplace. SkyOS doesn't even seem to have such innovative features. It's not that nobody will use it. It's just that it doesn't seem to have any chance in the marketplace.
The US exports a lot of intellectual property. Think of Hollywood, famous american pop stars and all the software companies based in the US. This might be the only thing which the US exports much more than it imports. It'd expect the government to do something to try to protect this.
I thought the molasses was heated. I don't see any references to it in the Wikipedia article but I remember references from other sites. Here's an article I found that says some people were cooked by the molasses.
That sounds like a troll but I feel like replying anyways because I had a really good experience with MPlayer. It uses a lot less resources than WMP or other Windows software. It also seemed to use about half the CPU time WMP+DivX without post-processing. Because of this I used it while I had an Athlon 650 whenever my computer had trouble playing some video. The only downside is that you don't get the slick-looking WMP GUI.
I'm repairing such a problem on a friend's Archos Jukebox Recorder V2. The problem was broken solder connections between the headphone jack and a small daughterboard which is directly attached to the jack. You can see it in the bottom right hand corner of this image. (That's the FM recorder. The V2 recorder is like an FM recorder without the FM circuitry.) Several wires connect to the board. I guess it is a fix that was added pretty late during the design process.
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They say they put in more T cells than they took out. Has this sort of thing been tried before? It makes sense; if a disease depletes some cells why not create more in a laboratory and put them into the patient. I'm guessing this doesn't work in general for some reason with AIDS.
There are Java applications for phones which can interface with GPS receivers through bluetooth. One good example is Mobile GMaps, which is a J2ME client for Google Maps which can interface with an external GPS over bluetooth or directly use the GPS receiver in some phones. (Not to be confused with Google Maps Mobile which is actually from Google.)
When I read "additional material" my very first thought was that they would yet again try to prevent ripping and put WMA files with DRM on the CD. Oh and I'm sure the music industry wishes the CD would die because it is a DRM-free format.
I have one and I'm not disappointed. Yes, the screen reflects like a mirror, and you could actually use it instead of a mirror in some situations when it is off. However, in most situations when it is on reflections are not a problem.
The one thing that bothers me about this is that they haven't considered P2P. They say the price is to offset the cost of downloading from their servers. Well, why don't they offer the beta via BitTorrent for free and just charge for downloading from their servers? I reallize their cost still wouldn't be zero per download but it should be quite small and acceptable.
Yes, it has been resized, cropped and compressed. Someone else posted a link to an MPEG file from NASA that was twice the resolution. Apparently it was from an analog NTSC source. It was full of interlacing artifacts, and it had black bars on both sides. Whoever released the WMV apparently just discarded one set of fields and halved the horizontal resolution instead of deinterlacing. They also cropped to remove the black bars and compressed it to a pretty low bitrate.
This is not like the VeriSign SiteFinder. They're not redirecting unused domains to advertisement pages for everyone. They only do it for those who use their DNS servers. It is a free service which is supported by advertising. That sort of thing is common and accepted on the Internet. The article also says that if they can figure out the misspelling they will re-direct you to the site you wanted.
It seems that this is about companies who exchange original for censored media. I understand why creating a derivative work without permission would be copyright infringement. Even Creative Commons has "no derivative works" licenses. I don't see anything about the DVD player which automatically plays only certain parts of the original DVD. I don't think that could be made illegal.
When a website wants you to go through a bunch of hoops like WGA to download a file there's often a very simple way around that. You can probably find the URL on FileMirrors. If it's something popular like an IE beta it'll probably be on the front page so you won't even have to search. Oh, and here's a link to IE7BETA3-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe.
So when will SCO get sued for what it's done? It wasted others' time and money with frivolous lawsuits. It lied. It got some fools to pay for their Linux licenses, which might be fraudulent. SCO needs to be buried for all this sometime soon.
I remember a case where a company accessed a client's system and disabled some software they wrote because the client didn't pay them. I think they got in trouble for that. I wish I could find the link now.
I have Windows update set to download and then prompt before installing. WGA did not auto-install itself. However, the KB900485 update did install itself without prompting. I just found out about it from the shutdown message. One friend said that it also installed without prompting on his computer. I did a search and found that it installed for some other people too.
What could the virus do? I doubt it could swap to disk to cover that. I guess it could try using compression on a small part of the guest OS.
Yeah, to make this truly undetectable you would need to provide access to some hardware. That is not straightforward. Some drivers deal with physical memory addresses. Physical addresses seen from a guest operating system might not correspond to actual physical addresses. Also this is an area where virtualization overhead might be significant and easy to detect.
I thought this only trapped writes which were done through the BIOS. Modern operating systems deal with the hardware directly. That is much harder to trap.
Look at what happened to BeOS. It had various innovative features and some people were quite excited about it but it was a failure in the marketplace. SkyOS doesn't even seem to have such innovative features. It's not that nobody will use it. It's just that it doesn't seem to have any chance in the marketplace.
The US exports a lot of intellectual property. Think of Hollywood, famous american pop stars and all the software companies based in the US. This might be the only thing which the US exports much more than it imports. It'd expect the government to do something to try to protect this.
Have you looked at the picture link that someone else posted? It looks like it'd at most damage one building.
Can't you disable those checks somewhere, like maybe Edit -> Preferences -> Workspace -> Software updates?
Here's a link to the museum. They have some information on the ship and a few photos.
Yes, the Texas City Disaster was big, but it doesn't seem like an engineering mistake.
I thought the molasses was heated. I don't see any references to it in the Wikipedia article but I remember references from other sites. Here's an article I found that says some people were cooked by the molasses.
That sounds like a troll but I feel like replying anyways because I had a really good experience with MPlayer. It uses a lot less resources than WMP or other Windows software. It also seemed to use about half the CPU time WMP+DivX without post-processing. Because of this I used it while I had an Athlon 650 whenever my computer had trouble playing some video. The only downside is that you don't get the slick-looking WMP GUI.
You're probably thinking about mineral oil. USP grade mineral oil can be purchased without a prescription in drug stores and it is a laxative.
I'm repairing such a problem on a friend's Archos Jukebox Recorder V2. The problem was broken solder connections between the headphone jack and a small daughterboard which is directly attached to the jack. You can see it in the bottom right hand corner of this image. (That's the FM recorder. The V2 recorder is like an FM recorder without the FM circuitry.) Several wires connect to the board. I guess it is a fix that was added pretty late during the design process.