Windows media player will not play DVDs out of the box. However it will play them if you install other DVD software, eg. PowerDVD or WinDVD.
I also recommend VLC, it plays everything media related I have ever found.
At risk of flying wildly off topic, FFDShow (IIRC) provides some codecs for windows and is on Sourceforge, but it doesn't enable WMP to play DVDs, I don't know of any free software (GPL or similar) that does, but would be interested to hear if anyone knows of any.
The consensus of the mathematics professors I have spoken to is that:
Gauss was a more talented mathematician that Fermat, and if he didn't see the solution then it was not possible with the mathematics that Fermat had.
I know its not wuite what you asked, but hwy not just ssh into your own machine to play nethack there?
SDF accounts might have nethack, or allow you to install it in your user area, again you would need to telnet or ssh.
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Google actually dings you on pagerank if people are linking to you currently.
Isn't this because the distortion of pagerank that dense crosslinking of blogs was creating and thus making it harder to find the information you were looking for?
I remember doing google searches and finding the first page to be blog results, but I haven't recently had a similar experience.
Does this make sense, or is my brain not working at half two in the morning?
Would those using these seeds obtained from fruit be guilty of patent infringement though? (either knowingly or unknowingly).
If they were what would the courts say (I refuse to believe a court would fine a person for planting seeds they legally obtained with no contract attached, provided they didn't know they were from genetically modified stock -- there is no way to know if you infringe or not (unless you have a handy lab)).
Also, how many of these genetically modified fruits contain seeds?
Thanks for the clarification, I could not understand what they would sue for.
Would the patent infringement be the resultant crops (ie the duplicated patented material in the seeds), or the patented genetic material in the plant cells themselves? Or some other patent infringement? (Am I correct in assuming you are only guilty of patent infringement if you produce a "product" which contains/uses patented material?)
Personally, I think it sets a dangerous precedent for self replicating products to be patented -- there is far too wide a scope for patent infringement
Genetic code can be mapped to number exactly (ie each number has a unique genetic code, and each genetic code has a unique number (a bijective map iirc))
Why do we care? Because numbers cannot be patented, and genetic code is numbers?
Simplistic and idealistic? Yes! Overly broad (the same could be said of text -- ASCII or Unicode is a mapping) - possibly. But food for thought.
In addition there is almost certainly prior art for all genetic material surely? (DISCLAIMER:I'm a mathematician (well undergraduate) not a biologist)
You mean the neightbor who specifically picked up those GE seeds and knowingly replanted them?
I'm intrigued.
Why does it matter if he knowingly replanted them? He didn't agree to a contract about planting seeds, so how can he be sued for breach of contract?
I can understand a case for theft or similar, assuming the farmer who bought the seed did not give consent (if he did then he would likely to be breaking his contract).
Do you have any more details on this incident?
How do you/did they prove he replanted knowingly, and how is this a crime? If I obtained that seed by legal methods say (I found it on my land and assumed it was mine for example, or I was given some) what would be the basis of a case against me?
if somebody refuses to secure their pc, sod them. If theyre being DDOS'ed, they cant send as much spam - its their problem
My question was more if it was ethical to DDOS then, bot whether it was effective. I do not doubt that DDOS would be effective in reducing the capability of that particular system to produce information for spammers.
There is also the question of changing IP addresses, so the IP address being DDOS'ed might not be the one that is aiding spammers.
You are right in that security of your pc is your problem though.
You now have an IP address, and a known port number.
You're going to sit here and ask a crowd of slashdotter what to do with that list?
Publish it. Right here baby.;)
As they note on the site, some of the IP addresses may be hijacked, and that's hardly a nice use of the power of slashdot.
Although I am sure that some people would say that people should be responsible for their own system hijacked or not (indeed many/most ISPs would agree). Is DDOS ethical when used against spammers? Or were you suggesting an IP address blacklist?;-), somehow I suspect you weren't
Not where is that spam idea checklist to categorise it....
The vulnerability (shock horror I actually read it) affects browsers when a window name is known, and thus can be targeted.
Should Wine magically detect what website opens and thus owns IE windows, and then do what?
I think you should not be allowed to use WINE sir, if that is your attitude towards the developers. It's not like they replicated a WINSOCK vulnerability or something. This vulnerability exists within the web browser.
Quoth the FAQ:
These devices will play video, music and photos that are transferred from a PC running Windows XP. The devices will playback Windows Media® Video (.wmv), Windows Media Audio (.wma), MP3 and display JPG images. The device is also compatible with other file types including MPEG, MPEG2, DVR-MS, ASF, WAV and MIDI.
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This is yet another example of the broken window fallacy
That money could be better spent on productive IT, not fighting fires, at greater net benefit to the economy.
does a natively compiled Linux application run on Windows?
Yes, it can, using coLinux, provided it was built for x86 linux.
Or it could be ported using MSYS, or Cygwin.
Windows media player will not play DVDs out of the box. However it will play them if you install other DVD software, eg. PowerDVD or WinDVD. I also recommend VLC, it plays everything media related I have ever found. At risk of flying wildly off topic, FFDShow (IIRC) provides some codecs for windows and is on Sourceforge, but it doesn't enable WMP to play DVDs, I don't know of any free software (GPL or similar) that does, but would be interested to hear if anyone knows of any.
Fly to the UK .... Us 18 year olds can buy as much beer as we want!
No, miguel refused the patch ....
The consensus of the mathematics professors I have spoken to is that:
Gauss was a more talented mathematician that Fermat, and if he didn't see the solution then it was not possible with the mathematics that Fermat had.
Actually the open source part isn't currently available.
http://www.neurosaudio.com/is/tempunavail.html
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, not Universe.
Only question uis, can you go without beer for two days to get yourself a dedicated swap/temp files drive.
I think I speak for the students of the world when I say NO!
Well, Mono is running for the new platform and it will support VB.NET so in a way it is.
I know its not wuite what you asked, but hwy not just ssh into your own machine to play nethack there? SDF accounts might have nethack, or allow you to install it in your user area, again you would need to telnet or ssh.
If you didn't agree to a EULA, what allows you to copy MS applications onto your hard drive? Just a question ...
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Google actually dings you on pagerank if people are linking to you currently.
Isn't this because the distortion of pagerank that dense crosslinking of blogs was creating and thus making it harder to find the information you were looking for?
I remember doing google searches and finding the first page to be blog results, but I haven't recently had a similar experience.
Does this make sense, or is my brain not working at half two in the morning?
Would those using these seeds obtained from fruit be guilty of patent infringement though? (either knowingly or unknowingly).
If they were what would the courts say (I refuse to believe a court would fine a person for planting seeds they legally obtained with no contract attached, provided they didn't know they were from genetically modified stock -- there is no way to know if you infringe or not (unless you have a handy lab)).
Also, how many of these genetically modified fruits contain seeds?
Specious argument; genetic codes have semantics beyond that of numbers with nothing attached to them.
True.
Thanks for the clarification, I could not understand what they would sue for.
Would the patent infringement be the resultant crops (ie the duplicated patented material in the seeds), or the patented genetic material in the plant cells themselves? Or some other patent infringement? (Am I correct in assuming you are only guilty of patent infringement if you produce a "product" which contains/uses patented material?)
Personally, I think it sets a dangerous precedent for self replicating products to be patented -- there is far too wide a scope for patent infringement
Genetic code can be mapped to number exactly (ie each number has a unique genetic code, and each genetic code has a unique number (a bijective map iirc))
Why do we care? Because numbers cannot be patented, and genetic code is numbers?
Simplistic and idealistic? Yes! Overly broad (the same could be said of text -- ASCII or Unicode is a mapping) - possibly. But food for thought.
In addition there is almost certainly prior art for all genetic material surely?
(DISCLAIMER:I'm a mathematician (well undergraduate) not a biologist)
You mean the neightbor who specifically picked up those GE seeds and knowingly replanted them?
I'm intrigued.
Why does it matter if he knowingly replanted them? He didn't agree to a contract about planting seeds, so how can he be sued for breach of contract?
I can understand a case for theft or similar, assuming the farmer who bought the seed did not give consent (if he did then he would likely to be breaking his contract).
Do you have any more details on this incident?
How do you/did they prove he replanted knowingly, and how is this a crime? If I obtained that seed by legal methods say (I found it on my land and assumed it was mine for example, or I was given some) what would be the basis of a case against me?
if somebody refuses to secure their pc, sod them. If theyre being DDOS'ed, they cant send as much spam - its their problem
My question was more if it was ethical to DDOS then, bot whether it was effective. I do not doubt that DDOS would be effective in reducing the capability of that particular system to produce information for spammers.
There is also the question of changing IP addresses, so the IP address being DDOS'ed might not be the one that is aiding spammers.
You are right in that security of your pc is your problem though.
You now have an IP address, and a known port number.
;)
;-), somehow I suspect you weren't
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You're going to sit here and ask a crowd of slashdotter what to do with that list?
Publish it. Right here baby.
As they note on the site, some of the IP addresses may be hijacked, and that's hardly a nice use of the power of slashdot.
Although I am sure that some people would say that people should be responsible for their own system hijacked or not (indeed many/most ISPs would agree). Is DDOS ethical when used against spammers? Or were you suggesting an IP address blacklist?
Not where is that spam idea checklist to categorise it
true i am having a bad week, and i mistakenly thought you were criticising the wine team....
apologies
I'm sorry but what?
You expect the wine team to fix IE for you?
How exactly do you expect them to do this?
The vulnerability (shock horror I actually read it) affects browsers when a window name is known, and thus can be targeted.
Should Wine magically detect what website opens and thus owns IE windows, and then do what?
I think you should not be allowed to use WINE sir, if that is your attitude towards the developers. It's not like they replicated a WINSOCK vulnerability or something. This vulnerability exists within the web browser.
Quoth the FAQ:
These devices will play video, music and photos that are transferred from a PC running Windows XP. The devices will playback Windows Media® Video (.wmv), Windows Media Audio (.wma), MP3 and display JPG images. The device is also compatible with other file types including MPEG, MPEG2, DVR-MS, ASF, WAV and MIDI.
So we can stick to MPEG for no DRM.