Here's a picture of the box a mousepad I bought recently came in. The mousepad is about 25x20x1cm, the box 70x50x20cm (conversion to inches is left as an excercise to the reader). But what made me really laugh is the fact that they apparently couldn't fit in the other item of the order, a Logitech V270. So they sent it in a second box. No wonder they charge $10 for shipping...
The best solution is to crack the new encryption (worst case use brute force harnessing setiathome-style P2P networks to speed up the process), obviously.
If they guys who designed the copy protection have just the slightest idea of encryption, I'm afraid brute force is not an option. With key lengths of 256 or 512 bit, we couldn't get through the whole key space in a reasonable timeframe, even with millions of high end machines. And if we did, they would change it and we'd be back at square one.
OTOH, this is the industry that brought us the disaster that is CSS, so there is hope that they fcked it up again and some russian hacker finds an easily crackable loophole once the system is out in the wild.
We keep hearing stories about people who regain consciousness in spite of the fact that the 'experts' say they can't. It worries me a lot that the doctors are quick to pronounce somebody brain dead so they can rip out the organs. Often, as was the case here, relatives will insist on keeping someone alive over the objections of the doctors.
I'd gladly give my heart to some poor soul with a perfectly working body, apart from the heart, instead of spending the rest of my live as a vegetable, even if it would be a self-conscious one.
question one is a fantastic question. i would love to see that answered
Well, good thing he already did (more or less):
Emil Stenström:
CSS got accepted as a recommendation and browsers started to implement the language. This was the real test to see if the specifications where clear enough. Are there sections or parts of the first specification that you wish that you had written differently or emphasized more?
Håkon Wium Lie:
All in all, I'm very happy with how CSS1 has stood the test of time. Compared to many other standards, there are few ugly compromises and not much feature creep. Looking back, I probably would have argued to drop a few features that havn't seen much use (first-letter and first-line), and I would have split a few overloaded properties ('display' and 'white-space' come to mind).
PS - Or another example, if everybody blocked Google ads, Google would die (99% of their income is from ads, which is verifiable).
Good you mention Google ads. Google is the only major ad provider which I don't block. You know why? Because their ads are unobtrusive, don't slow down my system to a crawl with some badly written Flash and, God forbid, sometimes they are helpful! If all the other ad providers where as consumer friendly as Google, we wouldn't even need AdBlock.
If you're question was whether XGL is the default, the answer is of course no. XGL is unstable and it's future is uncertain as it's 'competitor' AIGLX is included in Xorg 7.1.
Extortion is basically what it boils down to; "Amir, if you want to refund my money you know where to contact me, and this page will disappear forever."
The funny thing about the Internet is, once you've put something in the web, it'll never disappear again. This holds especially for content like this. Poor little Amir will be hunted by this 'incident' for a few years to come I'm afraid, whether the site is taken down or not.
Didja take a look at that website about the solarplane? All kinds of mumbo about "pushing the envelope", and by the language, it's pretty clear that anything resembling construction is a *long* way off.
You know, the guy behind Solar Impulse is Bertrand Piccard, the first man to travel around the world nonstop in a balloon, and AFAIK the only one to date (together with his copilot Brian Jones, of course). So he knows what he talks about when he talks about pushing the envelope.
Oh, and he got 15 million Swiss Francs (abous $12 million USD) from Omega yesterday, with a commitment to more if necessary, so that should help, too.
Even if you got dual-booting to work, it's really a pain in the neck isn't it? I mean, who wants to restart their computer just to run a Windows app or two?
I'd dualboot for games mostly. It's perfect: a slick, stable system for every day's work and Windows for the lunchtime break game session.
And no, you don't want to play games with WINE. It's a PITA, and that's the one thing you don't want games to be.
On the other hand, this is a test market. If it doesn't sell well at full DVD cost they'll change things.
Yeah, they'll say "The market doesn't accept electronic film distribution", blame the 'pirates' and shut the whole thing down. Then, they'll unleash DRM hell.
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Unclicking that little devil's box just dropped my start time from 15-20 seconds to 1.
Make sure that this speedup of the second startup(without Java) isn't the result of all the caching after the first start (with java).
I tried it myself on my P4 1.8GHz: the first start (with java) took about 15s, subsequent starts (with java) took 7s. After disabling java, the startup time didn't improve. All times are handstoped with a wrist watch, so YMMV.
would render as you expect (dunno how to show the result easily in slashdot, sorry).
This would look like this. Of course, you don't want to actually see those grouping brackets. That's why Math uses braces for grouping elements (x=sqrt{{a+b}over{c+d}}). Here's the result.
Slashdot Mirror
It glows blueish in the dark!
Oh, and it got an integrated USB hub, which is quite handy. But I have to get rid of that childish glow some time...
Here's a picture of the box a mousepad I bought recently came in. The mousepad is about 25x20x1cm, the box 70x50x20cm (conversion to inches is left as an excercise to the reader). But what made me really laugh is the fact that they apparently couldn't fit in the other item of the order, a Logitech V270. So they sent it in a second box. No wonder they charge $10 for shipping...
Wow! Thank you so much for bringing this great app to my attention. This thing is a killer!
If they guys who designed the copy protection have just the slightest idea of encryption, I'm afraid brute force is not an option. With key lengths of 256 or 512 bit, we couldn't get through the whole key space in a reasonable timeframe, even with millions of high end machines. And if we did, they would change it and we'd be back at square one.
OTOH, this is the industry that brought us the disaster that is CSS, so there is hope that they fcked it up again and some russian hacker finds an easily crackable loophole once the system is out in the wild.
I'd gladly give my heart to some poor soul with a perfectly working body, apart from the heart, instead of spending the rest of my live as a vegetable, even if it would be a self-conscious one.
Well, good thing he already did (more or less):
http://friendlybit.com/css/interview-why-did-css-s ucceed/
With a little work, yes.
If you're question was whether XGL is the default, the answer is of course no. XGL is unstable and it's future is uncertain as it's 'competitor' AIGLX is included in Xorg 7.1.
I'd dualboot for games mostly. It's perfect: a slick, stable system for every day's work and Windows for the lunchtime break game session.
And no, you don't want to play games with WINE. It's a PITA, and that's the one thing you don't want games to be.
So it is true, then...
Yeah, they'll say "The market doesn't accept electronic film distribution", blame the 'pirates' and shut the whole thing down. Then, they'll unleash DRM hell.
Yes, I'm paranoid, so what?! ;-)
No, it isn't genious. It's only the crap you'd expect from an asshole...
Man, this is Microsoft, we're talking BASIC!
I tried it myself on my P4 1.8GHz: the first start (with java) took about 15s, subsequent starts (with java) took 7s. After disabling java, the startup time didn't improve. All times are handstoped with a wrist watch, so YMMV.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I just reinstalled Linux and haven't found any time yet to finetune it to my openoffice configuration.
After some adjustments (which are necessary because of my setup, not because of Openoffice.org), this is the result.
Sincerely, your RIAA
Great job. You just fucked up ASUS' well paid commercial. Pay attention next time. ;-)
Notepad.
It doesn't get any more interoperable, does it? Well, except that CR+LF issue, but that's all Unix's fault! ;)