I see the linked "Notices received from search engines" page has several low quality screen shot images showing the Google "notice of removal from Google Search". The links can barely be made out from these images.
How about actually copying and pasting the list of URLs as text? Let's crank the Streisand effect up to 11!
If we can trust Betteridge's law of headlines, the answer is no, he is not leaving, and yes, a headline in the form of a question does not sound like proper news. Even for nerds. And especially for stuff that matters.
It looks to me like the Upverter web site stores your design in the cloud, using their own proprietary web based tool, and you can't save or edit it on your own machine. So it Upverter's site goes down, or if they decide to make you pay for it, or they go out of business, or whatever, your design is lost!
I would much prefer to use a truly open solution like gEDA or KiCAD. At least with proprietary and limited Eagle, you can save stuff locally and use it forever.
I put forth a compelling argument for the United States to join the world with the International System of Units.
Forward this to your friends who still think that ounces (fluid ounce or international avoirdupois ounce? British or U.S. fluid ounce? Apothecary ounce?), pints, and inches are the way to go.
After giving it some thought, I have decided that "Sentence case" is superior to "Title Case" from the viewpoint of precision. By capitalizing words in headings and titles of publications (of which there are many different ways to do it!), information is lost as to whether a particular word was a proper noun or not.
Wow, it's good to hear that someone else has that same problem with '/usrsr/binin/'... while I try not to trash Gnome too much (I think every DE/WM has its problems) this little annoyance makes me wonder... what were they thinking?
I did come up with a bit of a workaround when you want to type a full path, however. Suppose you want to enter '/usr/bin/gvim' in the file chooser--since it's much faster to just type it than click, click, scroll, click all over the filesystem to find the file, but I digress--you can type 'gvim', then put the cursor at the beginning of the input field and type '/usr/bin/'. This prevents Gnome (or GTK+??) from destroying your input.
The Perl foundation's move to Git took so long primarily because they had to gather decades of history from scattered sources: "Some of the patch sets were apparently recovered from old hard drives".
I just have to say thanks for mentioning 'parkour'! I looked it up on Wikipedia and learned about it. I played Mirror's Edge and thought that the whole idea of the runners and their movement techniques was really cool, and now I learn there is an actual word for the movement techniques! That's great.
It's not that hard to do this attack, but it does take some resources. They used a farm of 200 Playstation 2 machines to attack MD5. This is well within the capabilities of, say, the Russian Business Network.
Actually, they were PlayStation 3 machines.
"Luckily it is also very suited for the special SPU cores of the Cell Processor that the Sony PlayStation 3 uses. We had about 200 PS3s at our disposal, located at the 'PlayStation Lab' of Arjen Lenstra at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland"
I don't understand how they expect to get accurate measurements of the number of illegitimately spread copies of the game in order to compare the numbers with a DRM-infected game.
No, the reason that gcc/binutils are part of the suit is because binary releases are made available on the Linksys web site for download.
From the complaint:
29. On May 12, 2006, Plaintiff notified Defendant of Defendantâ(TM)s unlawful conduct based
upon its failure to comply with the Licenses for GCC and Binutils, which it distributed in object
code form on its website.
their ad showed it to be 4x as good as it really is. If i went to wendys and got a 1/16th pounder i'd be pretty pissed
I'm hardly defending Apple here, but I think "4x as good" is rather ridiculous. While you seem to think a 1lb'r would be "4x as good" as a 1/4lb, in the Wendy's example I consider what I got 1/10th as satisfying as what's promised on the board (and it would be even worse if they just stuck more meat on it). Instead of a burger bursting with delicious veg, I got some piece of crap that I considered just tossing.
10x size and 5x speed are objective measures. Your satisfaction is subjective and personally defined.
The ad had someone doing tasks at a rate that no one would ever do them. No, people don't jump around pages like that generally, scrolling a PDF for a second and looking up an address (with zero text entry) in milliseconds, instantly absorbing it.
Sometimes you're in a hurry, and you know what you want. I hate wasting my time waiting for my computer and other devices.
The Doom9 thread is a really fascinating read, and worth checking out. It's really cool to follow how they reverse engineered the BDVM instruction set and built a tight C++ disassembler for it. Since I usually don't get to sit in on this kind of awesome discovery/development, following the thread is like sitting in the room with these brilliant hackers.
Write the reference program, which implements the algorithm all other programs use (so that we are comparing language implementations, not the quality of a bunch of different algorithms).
Everyone pitch in and port that program to other languages!
Don't the 'square' Lego blocks actually have a 2x2 'pinout'? Thus greg_barton's suggestion in the GP sounds correct to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong (I want to know), but I think greg_barton is right --- his algorithm does sound both correct and simple.
This has little to do with trade secrets, which are often published, and which are protected by patents.
You are completely and totally wrong on this.
FACTS
1. Trade secrets are never published. In fact the holder of a trade secret fails to protect it well enough and it is discovered, then it becomes public domain information.
2. Trade secrets and patents are mutually exclusive concepts. You either (a) choose to make something a trade secret and keep it secret, or (b) choose to publish information and patent the thing.
The reason patents were introduced is to create an incentive for companies to knowledge of an invention with the world around, and in exchange for that, the government gives the inventor exclusive rights to make money from that invention for a reasonable and limited time.
My parents recently returned from a trip that included visiting Croatia and Serbia. One of the things that touched them the most was the tall, gray, nondescript cement block apartment buildings that stretched for miles and miles, built by the fascist communist government. In these dreary buildings, the interior walls were intentionally built thinner than usual. It was not only for cost reasons, however... it is said that over 50% of people eavesdropped on and informed on their neighbors to the communist government, and the paper-thin walls made it so that people had to constantly whisper for fear of being overheard.
P.S. how is pointing out my one error more insightful than my previous comment?
Your comment was indeed insightful. But I thought CD playback was Free, so I was interested in finding out the reason it was not.
It would actually be nice if the Ubuntu package that you pay money for included all the widely-used but non-Free stuff like MP3, MPEG, DVD, etc., though I wonder how likely that is.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that IPv6 adresses are not a superset of IPv4 ones.
That means, that absolutely no current internet site is reachable by IPv6.
... IPv6 address should be a superset of IPv4 ones.
(or example : 1.2.3.4 is IPv4, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 would be IPvX. you type the former in IPvX, it gets padded to 1.2.3.4.0.0.0.0 and still works).
I fail to understand why it isn't so.
Well, it would be hard to expect old software to be able to send and receive packets in a new format automatically--the packet header would at least require a longer address field, but probably other changes as well that will improve performance and flexibility. On the other hand, it should be possible for programs that use the new version of the networking API to communicate with machines on IPv4. And this is possible using IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses (RFC reference).
Slashdot Mirror
I see the linked "Notices received from search engines" page has several low quality screen shot images showing the Google "notice of removal from Google Search". The links can barely be made out from these images. How about actually copying and pasting the list of URLs as text? Let's crank the Streisand effect up to 11!
If we can trust Betteridge's law of headlines, the answer is no, he is not leaving, and yes, a headline in the form of a question does not sound like proper news. Even for nerds. And especially for stuff that matters.
It looks to me like the Upverter web site stores your design in the cloud, using their own proprietary web based tool, and you can't save or edit it on your own machine. So it Upverter's site goes down, or if they decide to make you pay for it, or they go out of business, or whatever, your design is lost! I would much prefer to use a truly open solution like gEDA or KiCAD. At least with proprietary and limited Eagle, you can save stuff locally and use it forever.
modern imperial system
That, sir, is an oxymoron.
I put forth a compelling argument for the United States to join the world with the International System of Units. Forward this to your friends who still think that ounces (fluid ounce or international avoirdupois ounce? British or U.S. fluid ounce? Apothecary ounce?), pints, and inches are the way to go.
After giving it some thought, I have decided that "Sentence case" is superior to "Title Case" from the viewpoint of precision. By capitalizing words in headings and titles of publications (of which there are many different ways to do it!), information is lost as to whether a particular word was a proper noun or not.
Furthermore, there are words (capitonyms) that completely change meaning and possibly pronunciation depending on the capitalization. For instance, "polish your shoes" vs. "eat a Polish sausage", or "measure the mass" vs. "go to Mass".
Using title case is a lossy operation.
Dunno. Has he stopped beating his wife?
Just because he hasn't stopped doesn't mean he ever started.
I did come up with a bit of a workaround when you want to type a full path, however. Suppose you want to enter '/usr/bin/gvim' in the file chooser--since it's much faster to just type it than click, click, scroll, click all over the filesystem to find the file, but I digress--you can type 'gvim', then put the cursor at the beginning of the input field and type '/usr/bin/'. This prevents Gnome (or GTK+??) from destroying your input.
The Perl foundation's move to Git took so long primarily because they had to gather decades of history from scattered sources: "Some of the patch sets were apparently recovered from old hard drives".
For instance, the MySQL project moved to Bazaar last year, apparently very smoothly. Getting started with Bazaar for MySQL.
I just have to say thanks for mentioning 'parkour'! I looked it up on Wikipedia and learned about it. I played Mirror's Edge and thought that the whole idea of the runners and their movement techniques was really cool, and now I learn there is an actual word for the movement techniques! That's great.
Now I'm off to learn parkour IRL.
It's not that hard to do this attack, but it does take some resources. They used a farm of 200 Playstation 2 machines to attack MD5. This is well within the capabilities of, say, the Russian Business Network.
Actually, they were PlayStation 3 machines. "Luckily it is also very suited for the special SPU cores of the Cell Processor that the Sony PlayStation 3 uses. We had about 200 PS3s at our disposal, located at the 'PlayStation Lab' of Arjen Lenstra at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland"
All right, enough of these silly antiks.
I take it you hail from the planet KDE?
I don't understand how they expect to get accurate measurements of the number of illegitimately spread copies of the game in order to compare the numbers with a DRM-infected game.
No, the reason that gcc/binutils are part of the suit is because binary releases are made available on the Linksys web site for download.
From the complaint:
I'm hardly defending Apple here, but I think "4x as good" is rather ridiculous. While you seem to think a 1lb'r would be "4x as good" as a 1/4lb, in the Wendy's example I consider what I got 1/10th as satisfying as what's promised on the board (and it would be even worse if they just stuck more meat on it). Instead of a burger bursting with delicious veg, I got some piece of crap that I considered just tossing.
10x size and 5x speed are objective measures. Your satisfaction is subjective and personally defined.
The ad had someone doing tasks at a rate that no one would ever do them. No, people don't jump around pages like that generally, scrolling a PDF for a second and looking up an address (with zero text entry) in milliseconds, instantly absorbing it.
Sometimes you're in a hurry, and you know what you want. I hate wasting my time waiting for my computer and other devices.
Hello, McFly! It's Kent Beck, not Brock.
The Doom9 thread is a really fascinating read, and worth checking out. It's really cool to follow how they reverse engineered the BDVM instruction set and built a tight C++ disassembler for it. Since I usually don't get to sit in on this kind of awesome discovery/development, following the thread is like sitting in the room with these brilliant hackers.
Perhaps this is a candidate for a new benchmark for The Computer Language Benchmarks Game.
Don't the 'square' Lego blocks actually have a 2x2 'pinout'? Thus greg_barton's suggestion in the GP sounds correct to me. Please correct me if I'm wrong (I want to know), but I think greg_barton is right --- his algorithm does sound both correct and simple.
This has little to do with trade secrets, which are often published, and which are protected by patents.
You are completely and totally wrong on this.
FACTS
1. Trade secrets are never published. In fact the holder of a trade secret fails to protect it well enough and it is discovered, then it becomes public domain information.
2. Trade secrets and patents are mutually exclusive concepts. You either (a) choose to make something a trade secret and keep it secret, or (b) choose to publish information and patent the thing.
The reason patents were introduced is to create an incentive for companies to knowledge of an invention with the world around, and in exchange for that, the government gives the inventor exclusive rights to make money from that invention for a reasonable and limited time.
References
Patent or trade secret?
Patent, Trademark, and Trade Secret
My parents recently returned from a trip that included visiting Croatia and Serbia. One of the things that touched them the most was the tall, gray, nondescript cement block apartment buildings that stretched for miles and miles, built by the fascist communist government. In these dreary buildings, the interior walls were intentionally built thinner than usual. It was not only for cost reasons, however... it is said that over 50% of people eavesdropped on and informed on their neighbors to the communist government, and the paper-thin walls made it so that people had to constantly whisper for fear of being overheard.
Not to mention that the money you are paying for the purchase with is already taxed through income tax!! (Federal, and often state too)
Why would you whitelist google-analytics? Isn't it some sort of usage-tracking service? I'd rather minimize the information collected on me.
I use the NoScript Firefox 3 extension, and I set google-analytics to UNTRUSTED. I have no problems browsing with that.
P.S. how is pointing out my one error more insightful than my previous comment?
Your comment was indeed insightful. But I thought CD playback was Free, so I was interested in finding out the reason it was not.
It would actually be nice if the Ubuntu package that you pay money for included all the widely-used but non-Free stuff like MP3, MPEG, DVD, etc., though I wonder how likely that is.
Ubuntu may be free, but MP3, CD, WMA, and MPEG playback aren't.
In what way is CD playback not free?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that IPv6 adresses are not a superset of IPv4 ones. That means, that absolutely no current internet site is reachable by IPv6.
...
IPv6 address should be a superset of IPv4 ones. (or example : 1.2.3.4 is IPv4, 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8 would be IPvX. you type the former in IPvX, it gets padded to 1.2.3.4.0.0.0.0 and still works). I fail to understand why it isn't so.
Well, it would be hard to expect old software to be able to send and receive packets in a new format automatically--the packet header would at least require a longer address field, but probably other changes as well that will improve performance and flexibility. On the other hand, it should be possible for programs that use the new version of the networking API to communicate with machines on IPv4. And this is possible using IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses (RFC reference).