Depends on how your getting the education.
From the materials or for from the instructors and you fellow students.
In the first case, I understand why you are a bit disconcerted.
>it seems the EU has an unfair legal system where the judges are the jury and the prosecution.
The European Comission is just the prosecution.
May I draw an analogy:
You're driving too fast.
A policeman stops you and fines you.
Now you can try to convince the policeman not to fine you ("it's an emergency").
Then he may still fine you or maybe let you go depending on his judgement.
Is the policeman, judge, jury and prosecution?
Somehow yes. But not really, because you still have the right to appeal to court.
"Although the Commission makes the proposals, all the major decisions on important legislation are taken by the ministers of the Member States in the Council of the European Union, in co-decision (or, in some cases, consultation) with the democratically elected European Parliament."
So they don't enact law, but what is their task? Among other: (same source)
It acts as the guardian of the EU treaties to ensure that European legislation is applied correctly
As the Union's executive body, the Commission manages policies and negotiates international trade and cooperation agreements
Don't mix the European Commission (EC) with the European Council (EC).
It's no decision, neither an "objective statement" it's a "statement of objections". And Microsoft still has to explain its view.
Lastly they can still appeal the European Court of Justice
how on earth can windows media player be the KEY feature so Sun (the major complaining company in this case) sells less servers... Does the EU have any person on board with a clue or not?
Well, since they've drawn their own conclusions, and not just reiterated Suns demands, it seams they have at least one.
You're surely a competitor of the free market, please explain to me how bundling of products helps you as a consumer?
Do you get more choices?
Lower prices?
It seems to be a project to assure interoperability of different commercial products (and now obviously one GPL project) inencryption and to assist in developing a public key infrastructure (pki).
This all happens on international standards like S/MIME, X.509v3, PKIX.
So its not a (binary) program, but a system concept.
While writing this, there seems to be a different source
on english, which does not rely on my or google translation abilities and also has some pictures:).
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Something your colleague might to take a look at
PRC-Tools And then there is the Palm emulator POSE.
PilRC might come handy, too.
Nothing to pay for AFAIK.
Well, since he now has the iPaQ, you might not mention it to him (unless he overcame is general dislike for Windows)
This only explains that by employing spread spectrum modulation the signal to noise ratio is improved since it reduces the impact of
radiointerferences, may they be natural or artifical. (That's why the military uses it, they want to avoid jammer.) The advantage is that you can make larger cells. It don't save you from being in a shadow of a mountain or a building.
Is this a response to my question what the causal relationship between cell-size and employing digital technologies is?
CDMA is just a media access method and does not enforces you to transfer analogue data.
UMTS will use two CDMA derivates (one combining time and code multiplexing) and is digital for sure.
Is this a response to my question, how large a typical CDMA cell is?
I've never doubted that in theory CDMA cells can be larger, I was wondering is the higher range useful.
A 200km cell size as stated by this comment will do you no good in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains, neither in urban areas.
Assuming that the majority of cells is smaller than 64km in diameter, you probably can ignore the overhead occuring in using smaller cells.
This certainly does not apply for Australia but probably for the U.S.
1)
Well, there are several tri-band mobiles out there, and Europe and Japan there aren't many people, who use a 2 year old mobile.
2)
Actually, UMTS uses for paired bands UTRA FDD with W-CDMA (Wide-Band Code Division Multiple Access) and for unpaired bands UTRA TDD with TD-CDMA (Time Division Code Division Multiple Access) is employed.
IRC, UTRA FDD is used for symmetrical circuit-switched services like voice and video-telephone, so generally you will use W-CDMA.
Here some further explanations to UMTS and GSM.
A GSM cell has a range up to 64km (e.g. coastal region) and normally up to 32km. Those are protocol related limitations. Usually cells are smaller due to surrounding buildings or mountains. But those physical limitations apply to any radio signal.
Can you tell me what is the typical cell range of a CDMA or a D-AMPS system?
UMTS cell sizes, and CDMA-networks in general, depend on the number of users as the signal to noise ratio increases with the number of users.
This is unevitable, since one users will be noise for to the other users, which is the prinicple of CDMA.
With up to 5 users you have a cell range of about 1.4km with 40 users the cell range is only 0.6km, with 42 users the cell range is 0.3km.
CDMA cells tend to "breathe".
The numbers are of no importance for CDMA in general, but the tendency is.
How do you plan coverage for breathing cells?
>Digital technologies, especially GSM, require smaller cell sizes
Please explain to me, what the causal relationship between cell-size and employing digital technologies is.
GPS will aid GSM, but you can do without it.
In cities, GSM can give you position information in with an accuracy of about 100m. Which suffices for several location based information.
PHS systems will provide an accuracy from up to 100m, too.
Telcos currently know in which cell you are and how far you're away from its base station. Sometimes, they even know your distance from a second base station.
This is already used to offer differentiated price schemes and (e.g cheaper rates in your home cell (no pun intended)) location based services in at least Japan and Germany, and BT has invested quite a amount for wcities, some location-based information service provider (a new buzzword, rejoice).
As you may see it's not far fetched, it's already (to some degree) there and it is considered as the next goldmine (or at least the investors hope so)
This doesn't necessarily requires advertisement as it can be seen as a advertisement in itself.
The providing telco can use it as argument to differentiate itself from other telcos.
Nonetheless, I think it'll surely lead to advertisement. The whole thing reminds somehow of yahoo.com.
No, I didn't, neither did I read the book. So most I know about it is kind of hearsay which may disqualify me in commenting this.
AFAIK, it illustrated a erotic relationship between a mature man and girl in a favourable way. The book was hotly discussed for the same reasons we are discussing here.
Still, I would not disapprove them.
The difference lies in the intent and target audience.
The intent of Lolita was to depict a relationship which included sexuality.
The pictures depict only sexuality.
Everyone can make their guess about the targeted audience of both of them.
Of course, this weakens my "promote" argument, as both can be considered as promoting sex with children. But I think they differ in the scale they do it.
This makes the difference for my stance from "not disapprove" towards the film/book to "don't know" with tendencies to "disapprove" towards pictures.
For me, it's not a black/white decision.
I think there is a greater similarity between TV and Internet than shop and Internet.
At least where I come from, the parents (may/should?) control what their children see. The TV stations aid the parents by not sending unappropriate material at unappropriate times. They are not forced to screen only PG shows around the clock. If you want more control, you'll have to buy the appropriate equipment or spend the
In essence, the parents buy the TV and pay for the feed, they have to control it. They buy a PC and get Internet,...
>As for the child porn...
Well, I don't find that one so easy. One could say, no child is harmed, so what does it matter.
On the other hand, a (virtual) crime is depicted and thereby probably even promoted (nonvirtual).
Doesn't promoting a crime you in some degree guilty of the same crime?
One could say that Hollywood is depicting murder and robbery in almost every film and we surely don't want to outlaw them. But are they promoting the crimes?
Lastly, a crime depends on the deed but also on the intent. (murder/manslaughter/self-defence)
>remember people in my CS classes, where all they wanted to do is learn how to code...
Those people exist in other school-systems, too, I assure you.
I think most people seam to miss that it's computer science, not programming and I can only emphasise internic's post.
>Just like it would be imposible to build a entire peice of useful software
Well, how about building it in collaberation?
Or building a part of software according certain requirements?
My problem is not about learning turing machines, ALUs, trees and the like (in fact, I really liked it), but solving casebook problems.
How does solving casebook problems in Software Design help you learning how to design?
Usually the solution to these problems are easily found (and differ only in minor aspects).
>it is not about the details, they are unimportant
I think, I agree with you, but I'm not sure.
Let me try to clarify.
Yes. It's not important to know a certain programming language (maybe not even programming paradigm), CPU, toolkit, design-process, software/hardware modeling language.
But No. It does not suffice to know that you need to put one feet before the other to walk.
I think Software Design is a essential part of CS. I think that I can only learn software design by solving real world problems. Modelling casebook-problems teaches me only design patterns and the modelling language.
But when your principles included less tangible knowledge, I agree with you.
As opposed to Intel CPUs, which have overheating protection and therefor run only with half the speed as labeled and sold.
The increase in power consumption and the resulting heat developement in current desktop microprocessor is not restricted to AMD. It is a common trend.
Compare the social system in the US and countries that ban at will policies.
If you don't get any money, you surely want the hassle with the bureaucracy (at least that tendency is exposed)
Furthermore, unemployment-rates of different countries are acquired differently. Some relay only on the registered unemployed people to determine their unemployment-rates. Some estimate them (statistically). In some countries the unemployed people include housewives, people in further training, disabled people and similar people, in others countries not.
>If someone cracks into a big ass server and steals credit cards
Well, I think the point lies in the little word "and".
Discovering ways to bypassing security measurements is usually called hacking. The stealing of credit cards is called theft and has always been a crime.
The most simple method to store data is to store them in the low order bits of an picture, but
the low order bits in an original picture are anything but random.
If you have a random distribution in the lower bits then you surely have hidden information in that picture.
There some are more sophisticated means to hide information in other information (steganography), like JSTEG.
But most steganographical systems are suspectible against statistical analysis.
AFAIK, there is currently no provable secure steganographical system.
1. Posts complaining that linux can't do anything right because it is open source, and if it was company controlled source they wouldn't have these problems.
2. Posts arguing that open source programmer do not take the apropriate care.
3. Posts asking why anyone is using Linux since it is obviously inferior to Windows.
Although, I have to admit, in a much smaller number:)
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Depends on how your getting the education.
From the materials or for from the instructors and you fellow students.
In the first case, I understand why you are a bit disconcerted.
It does mean up to 10% of the annual revenue which roughly equates to a $2.5 billion for MS.
>it seems the EU has an unfair legal system where the judges are the jury and the prosecution.
The European Comission is just the prosecution.
May I draw an analogy:
You're driving too fast.
A policeman stops you and fines you.
Now you can try to convince the policeman not to fine you ("it's an emergency").
Then he may still fine you or maybe let you go depending on his judgement.
Is the policeman, judge, jury and prosecution?
Somehow yes. But not really, because you still have the right to appeal to court.
Same with MS, there is still the European Court.
No, the executive branch does, the police.
But you have the right to appeal the decision at a court.
From the official site, more exactly from here.
So they don't enact law, but what is their task?
Among other: (same source)
Don't mix the European Commission (EC) with the European Council (EC).
It's no decision, neither an "objective statement" it's a "statement of objections". And Microsoft still has to explain its view.
Lastly they can still appeal the European Court of Justice
how on earth can windows media player be the KEY feature so Sun (the major complaining company in this case) sells less servers... Does the EU have any person on board with a clue or not?
Well, since they've drawn their own conclusions, and not just reiterated Suns demands, it seams they have at least one.
You're surely a competitor of the free market, please explain to me how bundling of products helps you as a consumer?
Do you get more choices?
Lower prices?
Here some information about Sphinx as translated by google and here the original in german.
:).
It seems to be a project to assure interoperability of different commercial products (and now obviously one GPL project) inencryption and to assist in developing a public key infrastructure (pki).
This all happens on international standards like S/MIME, X.509v3, PKIX.
So its not a (binary) program, but a system concept.
While writing this, there seems to be a different source
on english, which does not rely on my or google translation abilities and also has some pictures
Something your colleague might to take a look at
PRC-Tools
And then there is the Palm emulator POSE.
PilRC might come handy, too.
Nothing to pay for AFAIK.
Well, since he now has the iPaQ, you might not mention it to him (unless he overcame is general dislike for Windows)
Is it just me, or is this not so impressing as it may sound.
While being a fan of Linux, I don't find this very impressive. This only shows the practical limits of pipes in the various OSs.
May ask for what purposes one uses pipes?
To copy several MB/s between some processes?
I don't think so.
This only explains that by employing spread spectrum modulation the signal to noise ratio is improved since it reduces the impact of
radiointerferences, may they be natural or artifical. (That's why the military uses it, they want to avoid jammer.) The advantage is that you can make larger cells. It don't save you from being in a shadow of a mountain or a building.
Is this a response to my question what the causal relationship between cell-size and employing digital technologies is?
CDMA is just a media access method and does not enforces you to transfer analogue data.
UMTS will use two CDMA derivates (one combining time and code multiplexing) and is digital for sure.
Is this a response to my question, how large a typical CDMA cell is?
I've never doubted that in theory CDMA cells can be larger, I was wondering is the higher range useful.
A 200km cell size as stated by this comment will do you no good in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains, neither in urban areas.
Assuming that the majority of cells is smaller than 64km in diameter, you probably can ignore the overhead occuring in using smaller cells.
This certainly does not apply for Australia but probably for the U.S.
1)
Well, there are several tri-band mobiles out there, and Europe and Japan there aren't many people, who use a 2 year old mobile.
2)
Actually, UMTS uses for paired bands UTRA FDD with W-CDMA (Wide-Band Code Division Multiple Access) and for unpaired bands UTRA TDD with TD-CDMA (Time Division Code Division Multiple Access) is employed.
IRC, UTRA FDD is used for symmetrical circuit-switched services like voice and video-telephone, so generally you will use W-CDMA.
Here some further explanations to UMTS and GSM.
A GSM cell has a range up to 64km (e.g. coastal region) and normally up to 32km. Those are protocol related limitations. Usually cells are smaller due to surrounding buildings or mountains. But those physical limitations apply to any radio signal.
Can you tell me what is the typical cell range of a CDMA or a D-AMPS system?
UMTS cell sizes, and CDMA-networks in general, depend on the number of users as the signal to noise ratio increases with the number of users.
This is unevitable, since one users will be noise for to the other users, which is the prinicple of CDMA.
With up to 5 users you have a cell range of about 1.4km with 40 users the cell range is only 0.6km, with 42 users the cell range is 0.3km.
CDMA cells tend to "breathe".
The numbers are of no importance for CDMA in general, but the tendency is.
How do you plan coverage for breathing cells?
>Digital technologies, especially GSM, require smaller cell sizes
Please explain to me, what the causal relationship between cell-size and employing digital technologies is.
GPS will aid GSM, but you can do without it.
In cities, GSM can give you position information in with an accuracy of about 100m. Which suffices for several location based information.
PHS systems will provide an accuracy from up to 100m, too.
Telcos currently know in which cell you are and how far you're away from its base station. Sometimes, they even know your distance from a second base station.
This is already used to offer differentiated price schemes and (e.g cheaper rates in your home cell (no pun intended)) location based services in at least Japan and Germany, and BT has invested quite a amount for wcities, some location-based information service provider (a new buzzword, rejoice).
As you may see it's not far fetched, it's already (to some degree) there and it is considered as the next goldmine (or at least the investors hope so)
This doesn't necessarily requires advertisement as it can be seen as a advertisement in itself.
The providing telco can use it as argument to differentiate itself from other telcos.
Nonetheless, I think it'll surely lead to advertisement. The whole thing reminds somehow of yahoo.com.
No, I didn't, neither did I read the book. So most I know about it is kind of hearsay which may disqualify me in commenting this.
AFAIK, it illustrated a erotic relationship between a mature man and girl in a favourable way. The book was hotly discussed for the same reasons we are discussing here.
Still, I would not disapprove them.
The difference lies in the intent and target audience.
The intent of Lolita was to depict a relationship which included sexuality.
The pictures depict only sexuality.
Everyone can make their guess about the targeted audience of both of them.
Of course, this weakens my "promote" argument, as both can be considered as promoting sex with children. But I think they differ in the scale they do it.
This makes the difference for my stance from "not disapprove" towards the film/book to "don't know" with tendencies to "disapprove" towards pictures.
For me, it's not a black/white decision.
>Except for the fact ...
...
As alcohol increases the number of various crimes including murder or manslaughter.
>But one shouldn't endulge
Shouldn't we prohibit several movies then?
How about "Natural Born Killers"?
I think it's not as easy as it seams.
I think there is a greater similarity between TV and Internet than shop and Internet.
...
At least where I come from, the parents (may/should?) control what their children see. The TV stations aid the parents by not sending unappropriate material at unappropriate times. They are not forced to screen only PG shows around the clock. If you want more control, you'll have to buy the appropriate equipment or spend the
In essence, the parents buy the TV and pay for the feed, they have to control it. They buy a PC and get Internet,
>As for the child porn...
Well, I don't find that one so easy. One could say, no child is harmed, so what does it matter.
On the other hand, a (virtual) crime is depicted and thereby probably even promoted (nonvirtual).
Doesn't promoting a crime you in some degree guilty of the same crime?
One could say that Hollywood is depicting murder and robbery in almost every film and we surely don't want to outlaw them. But are they promoting the crimes?
Lastly, a crime depends on the deed but also on the intent. (murder/manslaughter/self-defence)
>remember people in my CS classes, where all they wanted to do is learn how to code ...
:)
Those people exist in other school-systems, too, I assure you.
I think most people seam to miss that it's computer science, not programming and I can only emphasise internic's post.
>Just like it would be imposible to build a entire peice of useful software
Well, how about building it in collaberation?
Or building a part of software according certain requirements?
My problem is not about learning turing machines, ALUs, trees and the like (in fact, I really liked it), but solving casebook problems.
How does solving casebook problems in Software Design help you learning how to design?
Usually the solution to these problems are easily found (and differ only in minor aspects).
>it is not about the details, they are unimportant
I think, I agree with you, but I'm not sure.
Let me try to clarify.
Yes. It's not important to know a certain programming language (maybe not even programming paradigm), CPU, toolkit, design-process, software/hardware modeling language.
But No. It does not suffice to know that you need to put one feet before the other to walk.
I think Software Design is a essential part of CS. I think that I can only learn software design by solving real world problems. Modelling casebook-problems teaches me only design patterns and the modelling language.
But when your principles included less tangible knowledge, I agree with you.
>the computer stores that in decimal
Well, that has to be a quite old one
Haven't used ext3, but AFAIK all you need is a kernel with ext3 support and mount the ext2 partition as ext3. No conversion utilities are needed.
Actually, in this case with non-Pentium they mean { x86 | 2 < x < 5 }.
The default release is compiled for Pentium and therefor may use instructions not aviable on previous processors.
As opposed to Intel CPUs, which have overheating protection and therefor run only with half the speed as labeled and sold.
The increase in power consumption and the resulting heat developement in current desktop microprocessor is not restricted to AMD. It is a common trend.
Compare the social system in the US and countries that ban at will policies.
If you don't get any money, you surely want the hassle with the bureaucracy (at least that tendency is exposed)
Furthermore, unemployment-rates of different countries are acquired differently. Some relay only on the registered unemployed people to determine their unemployment-rates. Some estimate them (statistically). In some countries the unemployed people include housewives, people in further training, disabled people and similar people, in others countries not.
DX9 will be hardware independent again.
The text explicitly states that they don't want to repeat Microsoft errors in doing such a thing.
To quote from slide 6:
>If someone cracks into a big ass server and steals credit cards
Well, I think the point lies in the little word "and".
Discovering ways to bypassing security measurements is usually called hacking. The stealing of credit cards is called theft and has always been a crime.
Maybe take a look at Hackers by Stephen Levy.
The most simple method to store data is to store them in the low order bits of an picture, but
the low order bits in an original picture are anything but random.
If you have a random distribution in the lower bits then you surely have hidden information in that picture.
There some are more sophisticated means to hide information in other information (steganography), like JSTEG.
But most steganographical systems are suspectible against statistical analysis.
AFAIK, there is currently no provable secure steganographical system.
Don't know about your configuration, but mine has no problem with it. (Reminds me at some Opera Beta Version)
:) ?
Just "cd c:\\jakarta", but about that startup.bat, how am I supposed to run that thing
So instead we get
:)
1. Posts complaining that linux can't do anything right because it is open source, and if it was company controlled source they wouldn't have these problems.
2. Posts arguing that open source programmer do not take the apropriate care.
3. Posts asking why anyone is using Linux since it is obviously inferior to Windows.
Although, I have to admit, in a much smaller number
The article states:
It's intended to replace wires, therefor it has been limited by design, in order to make it cheap.
Among others, mice, headsets, keyboards and apparently printers are the targets for Bluetooth.
Granted, a WLAN printer would make sense, but show me a WLAN mouse/headset/keyboard, that makes sense.