Sorry to crash the party but... due to the fact that there are many *FREE* utilities, and ONE commercial utility (worldly famous), what made you think you could actually make money with yours?
It's not the first time something like this happens, anyway... sorry:(
it supports a new "deflate64" compression that is NOT supported by zlib
HAH, if you think that's exotic, you should google for the PPMd compression method. I never thought it could ACTUALLY be used (it's one of the best in the Calgary Corpus compression test, but requires equal memory for the compressor-decompressor - most of the PPM compression algorithms were created only for research, or just plain research pride, i.e. "my compressor is better than yours").
Kinda surprised me seeing PPMd supported in Winzip.
But if someone steals your CDs, and you make new copies from someone else, well that is a copyright violation. As excuses go it's semi-decent, after all in theory you paid for it in the first place... but that doesn't mean it's not a copyright violation.
Yes, but are there LEGAL means of having a second copy handed to you by the RIAA? (And I don't mean by paying for another one which is completely different)
I don't think so. This is like arresting people for not paying taxes when you don't give them the means of getting a job. (Which curiously, is exactly what happens with poor countries' external debts).
So, if it's the same data you're recovering by file sharing, where's the copyright violation? It's the case of two people who have separately bought copies of the same piece of information, interchange such information in the case of a loss (such as having a RAID array).
So, if there are NO legal means of recovering what rightfully belongs to you, there's no other choice than doing it "illegally".
Which is the aburd that I'm trying to point out: The laws are UNFAIR. And an unfair (AND illogical) law defies the very purpose of Law itself.
Problem is, someone else is enjoying their licensed copy of your old CD. While I personaly have no moral objection... you are violating the copyright plain and simple.
Oh look! Someone stole my car and used it to commit a crime! It was my car officer, arrest me.
It seems that the Windows (TM) are a little foggy and don't allow a very clear "Vista"(TM) (view) of the inner workings... we might need an XP(TM)-ert to clarify what's going in. If he can find the help of a "Search Assistant"(TM), the better. Just make sure his speech is not clippy(TM).
I know this sounds crazy, but given its bowl shape terrain, instead of pumping out the water and rebuild, why don't they rebuild over the water?
Well, the aztecs have done that. They built their city above the lake using chinampas. Of course, 500 years later, we have a very unstable city, very vulnerable to earthquakes, and some parts are beginning to sink.
Well yes, for the scientific community it's common knowledge (at least IMHO) that these papers are HARD to prove wrong, most are assumed true, but then again, what I learned most about image processing was in these papers. They do contain very valuable information, and a lot of these are works based upon previous works. (This is how science is done right now).
Even when some of these papers could be wrong in their conclusions, or maybe one or two algorithm flaws, but it was papers like these (image processing, etc) that contributed to technology used today, like MPEG4 video.
My point is, unlike these which are done with scientific methodology, in *medical* "research papers" there's oh so much money at stake. I'm sure the article could have said "most medicine research papers are wrong", and I would have believed that.
But science is much more than medicine, and as a scientist, I find it an insult to stain the name of Science because of commercial vias in medical research.
Curiously, I googled for "bias in medical research" (with quotes) and here's the top result, of 426 search results: Bias in Medical Research by Maria Spicer.
In contrast, googling for "bias in image processing research" (with quotes) yielded no results.
Of course, google is only a very statistical method for finding out whether something exists or not, but I think you get my point.
Gee, i didn't know most of "IEEE transactions on Image Processing", "Journal of Algorithms" or "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence" were probably wrong.
I've edited the registry, and haven't found it too hard. The controls are somewhat friendly, i can navigate in it and find out what's there.
On the contrary, if I *HAVE* to edit a conf file in Linux, it's mostly because i'm stuck in the commandline. So, what do I use to edit? emacs? vi? nano?
All these 3 programs have one thing in common: They're NOT windows-users friendly! In windows using the "primitive" notepad, All I have to do is press shift and move the cursor around. I go to the menu, Edit... cut (or just press ctrl-x), and then I paste (ctrl-v) around the area i want to edit.
In Linux, I have to RELEARN all the shortcuts to edit a text file.
Second: Linux *IS* a pain to set up.
The article says: "After all, with modern Linuxes like Xandros Desktop or SimplyMEPIS, you need to put in a CD or DVD, press the enter button, give your computer a name, and enter a password for the administrator account."
Yes, but I didn't have those two distros, I used Ubuntu and had a lot of problems trying to set up the PPPoE protocol so I could simply *update* my software (and don't even get me into CoLinux, I still haven't been able to use the Gnome desktop wth it. There are so many settings I have to meddle with, and I have to edit the conf files using this "nano" program.
Alright, let's forget about coLinux for a while. The freaking GRUB didn't tell me how to specify that I wanted to boot Windows by default, not Linux. There isn't a button that says "boot this by default from now on". No, I have to boot into Linux, edit a conf file, no wait, it's not even a.conf. It's menu.lst or something. Easy to set up? Gimme a break.
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applications
I've TRIED to set up XMMS. It always crashes. Now how the heck am I gonna play my MP3's? The default player app (NOT xmms) doesn't even handle mp3's! I not only want enough applications, I could do with ONE applications that WORKS.
Reason number 4: Linux isn't secure
I'd remove that from the list, but I'd apprecieate it if you guys told me how to configure a firewall in Linux. Yes, I'm a n00b. As the grand majority of mere mortals are. Oh,yeah. "RTFM" is taboo, and I'm sick tired of having to scroll thru pages of pages of manpages.
Reason number 5: Linux is more expensive
Who cares? With reasons 1-3 I've tried to avoid Linux, I want things that "just work". Give me a distro that emulates the windows control panel, notepad and has a decent media player app that doesn't crash or hang when I try to play an mp3.
And to the detriment of Linux zealots, the "easy to install" distros are the works of people who DID admit Linux is hard to install. It's the zealots or RTFM uber-geek sysadmins who just tried to ignore the problem. They didn't move A FINGER to try to solve the problem. After all, what problem?
Well, after years of saying the Gimp was NOT user friendly, FINALLY we get a usability group working on it.
Until linux fans start admitting that Linux isn't perfect, or not as user-friendly as it SHOULD be, we will HAVE to be stuck with Windows.
The author of the article seemed to think that all the people who don't want to use (or don't still feel comfortable using) Linux, are Microsoft-fooled sheeps. Well I'm not. I _DO_ want Linux, after all I have tried to install various distros on my machine, just to find them too hard to stay - this is why I keep coming back to windows.
For starters, why isn't there a shell that emulates the windows CMD? As useful greps / finds / pipe chains are, they can't match the simplicity of a DIR/S. I've been using MS-DOS for more than 15 years, moving to Linux is restarting everything from scratch. Is that really NECESSARY?
Unix Tarzans may be accustomed to swinging in command line ropes and fighting against.conf beasts in the wild, but we're Windows people, we need a little help in here, and I don't just mean a nifty graphical interface.
Seriously, for any network they "shut down" 10 new will popup.
You think they want to KILL p2p? That'd be like killing the golden-eggs goose.
They're not after justice, or even revenge, they're after the MONEY. And if 10 new networks will popup, do you think the **AA will have a heart attack? "Oh no, we can't stop them, they multiply, ahhhhhhh!".
Au contraire, I bet they're just rubbing their palms thinking about the money they'll collect by suing.
but i've been very comfortable with the Gnutella network. I use shareaza and I've found eDonkey to be awfully slow - I want to download some anime chapter and what do I find: 804 people before me in the queue!
I've NEVER been able to download a single file from eDonkey.
Dude, you MUST study basic cryptography. Even MD5 is one way. Sure, you can guess WHICH strings can produce a determinate hash. But of those thousands (maybe millions) of combinations, can you really guess which one was ACTUALLY used?
Anyway, the RSA is constantly working on getting better and better hashes. We got SHA-256, SHA-512 and SHA-1024. And these are way more advanced than SHA1.
Unless of course, you're running quantum cryptography.
Anyway, all it has to be done to create a "virtually unbreakable" hash is to make it large enough so that it can't be "cracked", so to speak. When SHA-2 collisions are found, we'll have SHA-3 and its variants, which will probably be 2048, 4096, 8192 bits... and so on.
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It stopped growing, but it's still the largest on earth.
:D
Ta-da!
The person who pays for the work deserves to own the work.
Thanks for supporting us! We'd really appreciate it if you become our official dungeon keeper erm, manager.
Sincerely,
The EA executives.
Sorry to crash the party but... due to the fact that there are many *FREE* utilities, and ONE commercial utility (worldly famous), what made you think you could actually make money with yours?
:(
It's not the first time something like this happens, anyway... sorry
The body piercing people are going to hate this.
:)
Not if you use adamantium!
it supports a new "deflate64" compression that is NOT supported by zlib
HAH, if you think that's exotic, you should google for the PPMd compression method. I never thought it could ACTUALLY be used (it's one of the best in the Calgary Corpus compression test, but requires equal memory for the compressor-decompressor - most of the PPM compression algorithms were created only for research, or just plain research pride, i.e. "my compressor is better than yours").
Kinda surprised me seeing PPMd supported in Winzip.
But if someone steals your CDs, and you make new copies from someone else, well that is a copyright violation. As excuses go it's semi-decent, after all in theory you paid for it in the first place... but that doesn't mean it's not a copyright violation.
Yes, but are there LEGAL means of having a second copy handed to you by the RIAA? (And I don't mean by paying for another one which is completely different)
I don't think so. This is like arresting people for not paying taxes when you don't give them the means of getting a job. (Which curiously, is exactly what happens with poor countries' external debts).
So, if it's the same data you're recovering by file sharing, where's the copyright violation? It's the case of two people who have separately bought copies of the same piece of information, interchange such information in the case of a loss (such as having a RAID array).
So, if there are NO legal means of recovering what rightfully belongs to you, there's no other choice than doing it "illegally".
Which is the aburd that I'm trying to point out: The laws are UNFAIR. And an unfair (AND illogical) law defies the very purpose of Law itself.
Either interesting or insightful.
Because you see... it's the perfect example of "only outlaws will use encryption".
Instead, by legalising file sharing, the govt. would give less incentives for people to develop more secure tools that would aid terrorists / etc.
I know, the sole concept of terrorists becoming more powerful because of unrelated government actions is far fetched... but still interesting.
Problem is, someone else is enjoying their licensed copy of your old CD. While I personaly have no moral objection... you are violating the copyright plain and simple.
Oh look! Someone stole my car and used it to commit a crime! It was my car officer, arrest me.
You'd be surprised how many high level IT decisions are based more on who the CEO plays golf with
:P
An idea: Teach your boss to play World of Warcraft and the trends will slowly shift to Linux / Open Source
I agree, but now there's no way to change his post from 'FIRST POST' to 'FOURTH POST' without rechecking the PGP signature.
Perhaps she was suffering from a heart condition, narcolepsy or something.
what personal problems do these people have that make them want to spend so much time in gaming?
Want them to stop playing? Get them a psychologist. Addiction is only a symptom.
It seems that the Windows (TM) are a little foggy and don't allow a very clear "Vista"(TM) (view) of the inner workings... we might need an XP(TM)-ert to clarify what's going in. If he can find the help of a "Search Assistant"(TM), the better. Just make sure his speech is not clippy(TM).
Finally! After all these years..."but does [ridiculously incongruous device] run Linux?" is actually on-topic!
:) This post merits to be included in the Wikipedia slashdot article!
AND a first post, too!
I know this sounds crazy, but given its bowl shape terrain, instead of pumping out the water and rebuild, why don't they rebuild over the water?
Well, the aztecs have done that. They built their city above the lake using chinampas. Of course, 500 years later, we have a very unstable city, very vulnerable to earthquakes, and some parts are beginning to sink.
So I think I'd vote for the 9-week pumping.
Of course, google is only a very statistical method
:)
Should read:
"Of course, google is only a very gross statistical method".
And yes, errata is a fundamental part of Scientific research, too!
Well yes, for the scientific community it's common knowledge (at least IMHO) that these papers are HARD to prove wrong, most are assumed true, but then again, what I learned most about image processing was in these papers. They do contain very valuable information, and a lot of these are works based upon previous works. (This is how science is done right now).
Even when some of these papers could be wrong in their conclusions, or maybe one or two algorithm flaws, but it was papers like these (image processing, etc) that contributed to technology used today, like MPEG4 video.
My point is, unlike these which are done with scientific methodology, in *medical* "research papers" there's oh so much money at stake. I'm sure the article could have said "most medicine research papers are wrong", and I would have believed that.
But science is much more than medicine, and as a scientist, I find it an insult to stain the name of Science because of commercial vias in medical research.
Curiously, I googled for "bias in medical research" (with quotes) and here's the top result, of 426 search results:
Bias in Medical Research by Maria Spicer.
In contrast, googling for "bias in image processing research" (with quotes) yielded no results.
Of course, google is only a very statistical method for finding out whether something exists or not, but I think you get my point.
Gee, i didn't know most of "IEEE transactions on Image Processing", "Journal of Algorithms" or "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence" were probably wrong.
Please be more specific next time. Thank you.
I don't know who patented stupidity, but I bet he is one rich man.
Yes, he is.
I've edited the registry, and haven't found it too hard. The controls are somewhat friendly, i can navigate in it and find out what's there.
.conf. It's menu.lst or something. Easy to set up? Gimme a break.
/S. I've been using MS-DOS for more than 15 years, moving to Linux is restarting everything from scratch. Is that really NECESSARY?
.conf beasts in the wild, but we're Windows people, we need a little help in here, and I don't just mean a nifty graphical interface.
On the contrary, if I *HAVE* to edit a conf file in Linux, it's mostly because i'm stuck in the commandline. So, what do I use to edit? emacs? vi? nano?
All these 3 programs have one thing in common: They're NOT windows-users friendly! In windows using the "primitive" notepad, All I have to do is press shift and move the cursor around. I go to the menu, Edit... cut (or just press ctrl-x), and then I paste (ctrl-v) around the area i want to edit.
In Linux, I have to RELEARN all the shortcuts to edit a text file.
Second: Linux *IS* a pain to set up.
The article says:
"After all, with modern Linuxes like Xandros Desktop or SimplyMEPIS, you need to put in a CD or DVD, press the enter button, give your computer a name, and enter a password for the administrator account."
Yes, but I didn't have those two distros, I used Ubuntu and had a lot of problems trying to set up the PPPoE protocol so I could simply *update* my software (and don't even get me into CoLinux, I still haven't been able to use the Gnome desktop wth it. There are so many settings I have to meddle with, and I have to edit the conf files using this "nano" program.
Alright, let's forget about coLinux for a while. The freaking GRUB didn't tell me how to specify that I wanted to boot Windows by default, not Linux. There isn't a button that says "boot this by default from now on". No, I have to boot into Linux, edit a conf file, no wait, it's not even a
Reason number three: Linux doesn't have enough applications
I've TRIED to set up XMMS. It always crashes. Now how the heck am I gonna play my MP3's? The default player app (NOT xmms) doesn't even handle mp3's! I not only want enough applications, I could do with ONE applications that WORKS.
Reason number 4: Linux isn't secure
I'd remove that from the list, but I'd apprecieate it if you guys told me how to configure a firewall in Linux. Yes, I'm a n00b. As the grand majority of mere mortals are. Oh,yeah. "RTFM" is taboo, and I'm sick tired of having to scroll thru pages of pages of manpages.
Reason number 5: Linux is more expensive
Who cares? With reasons 1-3 I've tried to avoid Linux, I want things that "just work". Give me a distro that emulates the windows control panel, notepad and has a decent media player app that doesn't crash or hang when I try to play an mp3.
And to the detriment of Linux zealots, the "easy to install" distros are the works of people who DID admit Linux is hard to install. It's the zealots or RTFM uber-geek sysadmins who just tried to ignore the problem. They didn't move A FINGER to try to solve the problem. After all, what problem?
Well, after years of saying the Gimp was NOT user friendly, FINALLY we get a usability group working on it.
Until linux fans start admitting that Linux isn't perfect, or not as user-friendly as it SHOULD be, we will HAVE to be stuck with Windows.
The author of the article seemed to think that all the people who don't want to use (or don't still feel comfortable using) Linux, are Microsoft-fooled sheeps. Well I'm not. I _DO_ want Linux, after all I have tried to install various distros on my machine, just to find them too hard to stay - this is why I keep coming back to windows.
For starters, why isn't there a shell that emulates the windows CMD? As useful greps / finds / pipe chains are, they can't match the simplicity of a DIR
Unix Tarzans may be accustomed to swinging in command line ropes and fighting against
Seriously, for any network they "shut down" 10 new will popup.
You think they want to KILL p2p? That'd be like killing the golden-eggs goose.
They're not after justice, or even revenge, they're after the MONEY. And if 10 new networks will popup, do you think the **AA will have a heart attack? "Oh no, we can't stop them, they multiply, ahhhhhhh!".
Au contraire, I bet they're just rubbing their palms thinking about the money they'll collect by suing.
Of course I'll delete it... in 10 years or so... :)
hey, that's AFTER I've watched it, right?
but i've been very comfortable with the Gnutella network. I use shareaza and I've found eDonkey to be awfully slow - I want to download some anime chapter and what do I find: 804 people before me in the queue!
I've NEVER been able to download a single file from eDonkey.
Dude, you MUST study basic cryptography. Even MD5 is one way. Sure, you can guess WHICH strings can produce a determinate hash. But of those thousands (maybe millions) of combinations, can you really guess which one was ACTUALLY used?
Anyway, the RSA is constantly working on getting better and better hashes. We got SHA-256, SHA-512 and SHA-1024. And these are way more advanced than SHA1.
Unless of course, you're running quantum cryptography.
Anyway, all it has to be done to create a "virtually unbreakable" hash is to make it large enough so that it can't be "cracked", so to speak. When SHA-2 collisions are found, we'll have SHA-3 and its variants, which will probably be 2048, 4096, 8192 bits... and so on.
good thinking. they better write my name using some damn good calculus equations or trig equations.
Nah. I think we should better send a poet.