Firefox didn't eat my boot sector, but after upgrading from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 firefox crashed with an error telling me to restart the computer every time I started it (it being firefox). I uninstalled and reinstalled and, and not only did it work fine, but I still had all of my extensions and bookmarks.
Check out the PDF if it's still loading. I have absolutely no knowledge of Japanese, but I was able to make out a lot of the stats on the PDF (well, the ones in English, but thats a lot of them).
For example, 128 bit AES is listed as a feature. Does anyone know what thats going to be for?
The transmission would be one of the hardest things to deal with. You want the gasoline engine to be at a peak efficiency RPM as much as possible. The best way to do this in a hybrid car is to have the electric motor generate electricity when spinning the engine at an efficient RPM would provide too much acceleration, and use electricity when an efficient engine RPM isn't enough acceleration.
The toyata prius has a very special system that deals with this, as this page shows. Especially with hybrid SUV's coming out soon, building your own hybrid seems like it would be way too much work.
Also keep in mind, that right now making a hybrid car (for a major automanufacturer) costs several thousand dollars more than making an equivalent conventional car mostly because they don't have enough mass production on the hybrid parts, and they are making thousands and thousands of cars. Buying the parts individually, the price would be outragous.
There would be no reason to implement the algorithms in all three. The point is that the implementation isn't so low level or complicated that it requires wireless cards to be designed for it. It can instead be implemented in firmware, hardware, or software.
Now, a speed increase sounds good to me, but as most of my wifi usage is for internet use, and I don't think i've ever been on an internet connection faster than my wifi connection, I'd like to know if it helps with range, and I'm too lazy to RTFA.
I've got a very simple yet effective security setup on my Access Point. I've got it set up to only accept connections from MAC Addresses on my filter list. Both Netstumbler and Windows can see my access point clearly, but Windows just fails to connect with no explaination when the MAC isn't on the list.
I don't have any WEP set up, so kismet users can see my packets, but by my logic, anyone knowledgeable enough to be using a linux WiFi tool is smart enough to crack WEP.
These RFID tags could be really useful for boarders. (Useful to the US government, that doesn't make it good for you). Whenever someone enters the country they are asked if they have $10,000 US or the equivalent or more in cash, travelers checks, etc. With this technology, boarder officers could scan you (and your vehicle) to see if you were lying. The system would obviously be flawed, as aluminum foil seems to block the signal, but many people try to smuggle things over boarders just by looking inconspicuous. (I'm reminded of the scene from Blow).
I used dialup for years and NEVER had to worry about messing with my modem to uncap it. My connection was burstable and had absolutely no cap!
This is not actually true; "56k" modems are actually capped at 53k due to FCC regulations. I looked quickly on google and I couldn't figure out why they are capped and it doesn't really matter because almost no-one has a high enough quality phone line to get this rate. But there could be some dial-up hackers out there trying to get an illegal 3k.
I don't care if my computer is 2-bit or 1000-bit as long as it works well.
I don't care if my computer is 100 MHz or 3 GHz as long as it runs fast. But the point is that a 3GHz computer will almost certainly run things faster than a 100 MHz computer. I don't know anything about writing software, but speed increases still interest me, and if 64 bit computing provides a speed increase then the end user will care. Even if 64 bit computing just allows for more than 4 Gigs of RAM it will become imporant to the end user in a couple of years when LongHorn XP Ultra-Professional demands at least 8 Gigs of RAM.
For the record, I use a Pentium I with 64 Megs of RAM almost every day.
The problem I and probably many other people have with the Windows Start button is that it just pops up a list of (almost) all of your installed programs. While I do fancy the alphebetical organization for quickly finding programs, it takes a second to get your bearings.
KDE and some other window managers organize applications by their function. This probably won't save you time when you know exactly what program you're looking for, but it can be helpful if you are looking for say, a midi player, but you don't know what its called. It also saves the confusion of having your whole screen fill up with application names at once.
As far as new age 3D menus go, I don't think that they'll end up saving you time. It may look cool in movies, but thats because its not exciting to watch a movie hacker sit in front of some xterms for an hour hacking, while it is exiting to watch them blast through firewalls using cyber missles. I think that the best advance will be better voice recognition. Even now, it probably wouldn't be too hard to patch together a system that could respond to "Computer, Open Office" (You decide whether thats Open office, or OpenOffice.)
...would really like to see Intel ship something with significant horsepower that doesn't require a heatsink with the mass of a black hole to keep running.
Aside from the whole Earth getting sucked into oblivion thing, a black hole would make an excelent heat sink. I mean, not even light can escape its gravity - heat wouldn't stand a chance.
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I for one welcome our new outerspace mouse overlords!
You're entirely right. There are some situations whose outcomes can be decided by whether the GPL is enforceable or not, but this is not one of them.
...then you're back to standard copyright law, which means you *cannot* distribute any derived works.
Now, lets assume that KISS Technology did take code from MPlayer. The only thing that gives them the right to use that code at all is the GPL. Whether the GPL is valid or not, MPlayer has the copyright to that code. Being the copyright owners, MPlayer was nice enough to release their code under a license that allows other people to use it pretty freely. If the GNU/GPL is found to be invalid, those rights die with it, and the code is covered by standard copyright laws. I'm sure that KISS does not want to have to return all of the nice open source code that they've been using (until they can contact all of the authors, up the ENTIRE chain of derivitive works).
That is only if KISS did steal code. If they didn't steal code then they are just mean for insulting the GPL.
The reason those guys make money is that:
1. Their comic isn't crappy.
2. They don't use MS-Paint
And they make their money from a store, they don't charge micropayments for viewing their comics.
I don't know if 99 cents costs as a micro (10^-6) payment. But Apple's iTunes Music Store sure seems to be doing well with the system.
I think this is a lesson that micropayments will work if you have an in demand item (like resonably restricted music), but you're never going to make money on your crappy MS-Paint web comic.
Not a big shock since the Segway's balancing system is patented.
I'm no patent lawyer, but I think that you might be able to use a unicycle as prior art. Although with a unicycle, you have a human doing the work of the gyroscope, computer, and motors.
It's personal. It's private. And it's no one's business but yours. You may be planning a political campaign, discussing your taxes, or having a secret romance. Or you may be communicating with a political dissident in a repressive country. Whatever it is, you don't want your private electronic mail (email) or confidential documents read by anyone else. There's nothing wrong with asserting your privacy. Privacy is as apple-pie as the Constitution.
The right to privacy is spread implicitly throughout the Bill of Rights. But when the United States Constitution was framed, the Founding Fathers saw no need to explicitly spell out the right to a private conversation. That would have been silly. Two hundred years ago, all conversations were private. If someone else was within earshot, you could just go out behind the barn and have your conversation there. No one could listen in without your knowledge. The right to a private conversation was a natural right, not just in a philosophical sense, but in a law-of-physics sense, given the technology of the time.
But with the coming of the information age, starting with the invention of the telephone, all that has changed. Now most of our conversations are conducted electronically. This allows our most intimate conversations to be exposed without our knowledge. Cellular phone calls may be monitored by anyone with a radio. Electronic mail, sent across the Internet, is no more secure than cellular phone calls. Email is rapidly replacing postal mail, becoming the norm for everyone, not the novelty it was in the past.
Until recently, if the government wanted to violate the privacy of ordinary citizens, they had to expend a certain amount of expense and labor to intercept and steam open and read paper mail. Or they had to listen to and possibly transcribe spoken telephone conversation, at least before automatic voice recognition technology became available. This kind of labor-intensive monitoring was not practical on a large scale. It was only done in important cases when it seemed worthwhile. This is like catching one fish at a time, with a hook and line. Today, email can be routinely and automatically scanned for interesting keywords, on a vast scale, without detection. This is like driftnet fishing. And exponential growth in computer power is making the same thing possible with voice traffic.
Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut? Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their email?
What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity.
Senate Bill 266, a 1991 omnibus anticrime bill, had an unsettling measure buried in it. If this non-binding resolution had become real law, it would have forced manufacturers of secure communications equipment to insert special "trap doors" in their products, so that the government could read anyone's encrypted messages. It reads, "It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications se
Am I the only one that finds it strange that Sony used to call the original playstation the PSX? I mean, it's a good name, but they already used it on a product thats similar enough that it might cause a lot of confusion for soccer moms on ebay and such.
Why did finishing Splinter Cell make me feel good? Because it makes me feel I've accomplished something. I've mastered the game...
There are an increasing number of single player games, even console ones (Metal Gear Solid 2 for the PS2), that let you upload your record to the internet after you have completed a game. In the future, "Hardest AI" may share a spot on online ranking ladders next to fastest time and most head shots.
By making it a goal to do so well that the game gets harder, you are adding another level of replay value for the advanced gamers, while making the game beatable for the novice players. Some games alreay do this on a less advanced level; the offer special extra difficult settings once you've beaten the game.
Shamelessly quoted from http://peripherals.about.com/cs/buildyourpc/a/aa03 1215a_2.htm
To understand how 64-bit technology gives your computer more RAM memory, you need to do a little math. Don't worry, it's easy math. Your computer's processor uses 8-bit blocks of memory (called bytes) in powers of 2. A 32-bit processor can address up to 2^32 bytes of RAM, or 4294967296 bytes. That's 4 gigabytes (a gigabyte is 2^30 bytes).
Theoretically, 64-bit processors can use 2^64 bytes of RAM, or 18446744073709551616 bytes. That's 17179869184 gigabytes, or 16777216 terabytes (units of 2^40 bytes).
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Unfortunately, the new slogan - Great 'till they're gone! - May be more appropriate.
Firefox didn't eat my boot sector, but after upgrading from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 firefox crashed with an error telling me to restart the computer every time I started it (it being firefox). I uninstalled and reinstalled and, and not only did it work fine, but I still had all of my extensions and bookmarks.
Check out the PDF if it's still loading. I have absolutely no knowledge of Japanese, but I was able to make out a lot of the stats on the PDF (well, the ones in English, but thats a lot of them).
For example, 128 bit AES is listed as a feature. Does anyone know what thats going to be for?
The toyata prius has a very special system that deals with this, as this page shows. Especially with hybrid SUV's coming out soon, building your own hybrid seems like it would be way too much work.
Also keep in mind, that right now making a hybrid car (for a major automanufacturer) costs several thousand dollars more than making an equivalent conventional car mostly because they don't have enough mass production on the hybrid parts, and they are making thousands and thousands of cars. Buying the parts individually, the price would be outragous.
... but does it tell time?
(Sorry, had to be said.)
That may be true, but I support any technology that makes it easier for slashdoters to get laid.
In all seriousness though, this is very very cool. Anyone interested in the original HIV genome (it's like sourcecode) can find it here.
There would be no reason to implement the algorithms in all three. The point is that the implementation isn't so low level or complicated that it requires wireless cards to be designed for it. It can instead be implemented in firmware, hardware, or software.
Now, a speed increase sounds good to me, but as most of my wifi usage is for internet use, and I don't think i've ever been on an internet connection faster than my wifi connection, I'd like to know if it helps with range, and I'm too lazy to RTFA.
I've got a very simple yet effective security setup on my Access Point. I've got it set up to only accept connections from MAC Addresses on my filter list. Both Netstumbler and Windows can see my access point clearly, but Windows just fails to connect with no explaination when the MAC isn't on the list.
I don't have any WEP set up, so kismet users can see my packets, but by my logic, anyone knowledgeable enough to be using a linux WiFi tool is smart enough to crack WEP.
This is not actually true; "56k" modems are actually capped at 53k due to FCC regulations. I looked quickly on google and I couldn't figure out why they are capped and it doesn't really matter because almost no-one has a high enough quality phone line to get this rate. But there could be some dial-up hackers out there trying to get an illegal 3k.
I don't care if my computer is 100 MHz or 3 GHz as long as it runs fast. But the point is that a 3GHz computer will almost certainly run things faster than a 100 MHz computer. I don't know anything about writing software, but speed increases still interest me, and if 64 bit computing provides a speed increase then the end user will care. Even if 64 bit computing just allows for more than 4 Gigs of RAM it will become imporant to the end user in a couple of years when LongHorn XP Ultra-Professional demands at least 8 Gigs of RAM.
For the record, I use a Pentium I with 64 Megs of RAM almost every day.
The problem I and probably many other people have with the Windows Start button is that it just pops up a list of (almost) all of your installed programs. While I do fancy the alphebetical organization for quickly finding programs, it takes a second to get your bearings.
KDE and some other window managers organize applications by their function. This probably won't save you time when you know exactly what program you're looking for, but it can be helpful if you are looking for say, a midi player, but you don't know what its called. It also saves the confusion of having your whole screen fill up with application names at once.
As far as new age 3D menus go, I don't think that they'll end up saving you time. It may look cool in movies, but thats because its not exciting to watch a movie hacker sit in front of some xterms for an hour hacking, while it is exiting to watch them blast through firewalls using cyber missles. I think that the best advance will be better voice recognition. Even now, it probably wouldn't be too hard to patch together a system that could respond to "Computer, Open Office" (You decide whether thats Open office, or OpenOffice.)
You had a broom and a dust pan? All I had was a toothbrush, and I had to brush my teeth with it as well.
I for one welcome our new outerspace mouse overlords!
Ironicly, Low Rider was one of the first MP3's I downloaded.
Now, lets assume that KISS Technology did take code from MPlayer. The only thing that gives them the right to use that code at all is the GPL. Whether the GPL is valid or not, MPlayer has the copyright to that code. Being the copyright owners, MPlayer was nice enough to release their code under a license that allows other people to use it pretty freely. If the GNU/GPL is found to be invalid, those rights die with it, and the code is covered by standard copyright laws. I'm sure that KISS does not want to have to return all of the nice open source code that they've been using (until they can contact all of the authors, up the ENTIRE chain of derivitive works).
That is only if KISS did steal code. If they didn't steal code then they are just mean for insulting the GPL.
The reason those guys make money is that: 1. Their comic isn't crappy. 2. They don't use MS-Paint And they make their money from a store, they don't charge micropayments for viewing their comics.
I think this is a lesson that micropayments will work if you have an in demand item (like resonably restricted music), but you're never going to make money on your crappy MS-Paint web comic.
I'm no patent lawyer, but I think that you might be able to use a unicycle as prior art. Although with a unicycle, you have a human doing the work of the gyroscope, computer, and motors.
The right to privacy is spread implicitly throughout the Bill of Rights. But when the United States Constitution was framed, the Founding Fathers saw no need to explicitly spell out the right to a private conversation. That would have been silly. Two hundred years ago, all conversations were private. If someone else was within earshot, you could just go out behind the barn and have your conversation there. No one could listen in without your knowledge. The right to a private conversation was a natural right, not just in a philosophical sense, but in a law-of-physics sense, given the technology of the time.
But with the coming of the information age, starting with the invention of the telephone, all that has changed. Now most of our conversations are conducted electronically. This allows our most intimate conversations to be exposed without our knowledge. Cellular phone calls may be monitored by anyone with a radio. Electronic mail, sent across the Internet, is no more secure than cellular phone calls. Email is rapidly replacing postal mail, becoming the norm for everyone, not the novelty it was in the past.
Until recently, if the government wanted to violate the privacy of ordinary citizens, they had to expend a certain amount of expense and labor to intercept and steam open and read paper mail. Or they had to listen to and possibly transcribe spoken telephone conversation, at least before automatic voice recognition technology became available. This kind of labor-intensive monitoring was not practical on a large scale. It was only done in important cases when it seemed worthwhile. This is like catching one fish at a time, with a hook and line. Today, email can be routinely and automatically scanned for interesting keywords, on a vast scale, without detection. This is like driftnet fishing. And exponential growth in computer power is making the same thing possible with voice traffic.
Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut? Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their email?
What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity.
Senate Bill 266, a 1991 omnibus anticrime bill, had an unsettling measure buried in it. If this non-binding resolution had become real law, it would have forced manufacturers of secure communications equipment to insert special "trap doors" in their products, so that the government could read anyone's encrypted messages. It reads, "It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications se
1984 was never meant to be a how-to guide.
There are an increasing number of single player games, even console ones (Metal Gear Solid 2 for the PS2), that let you upload your record to the internet after you have completed a game. In the future, "Hardest AI" may share a spot on online ranking ladders next to fastest time and most head shots.
By making it a goal to do so well that the game gets harder, you are adding another level of replay value for the advanced gamers, while making the game beatable for the novice players. Some games alreay do this on a less advanced level; the offer special extra difficult settings once you've beaten the game.
I for one welcome our new nanotube based overlords.
Links to Goatse and tubgirl.
The unknown step is supposed to be step 2, as step 3 is Profit.
To understand how 64-bit technology gives your computer more RAM memory, you need to do a little math. Don't worry, it's easy math. Your computer's processor uses 8-bit blocks of memory (called bytes) in powers of 2. A 32-bit processor can address up to 2^32 bytes of RAM, or 4294967296 bytes. That's 4 gigabytes (a gigabyte is 2^30 bytes).
Theoretically, 64-bit processors can use 2^64 bytes of RAM, or 18446744073709551616 bytes. That's 17179869184 gigabytes, or 16777216 terabytes (units of 2^40 bytes).