In addition to SP-DIF it has lots of analog outputs (Front Right, Front Left etc.). I haven't checked how many or what configurations it supports because I use it with an analog TV and mono audio.
Mine cost me something like $20-$30. Works perfectly, plays everything from DVDs (all regions!) to mp3s and jpegs and has Scart, RCA, VGA video output. And 5.1 (or maybe even 7.1!) sound output. The only thing I don't like is that the remote control isn't really easy to use for tasks other than play/pause/menu navigation.
I use Anjuta when I'm developing GNOME stuff; however its next major revision (Anjuta 2) seems to be released just after Duke Nukem Forever. Two minor revisions were made in about two years. And Anjuta's autogen'd./configure can be as large as ONE MEGABYTE for a relatively simple apps.
HP's inkjets may be bad, but their laser printers are still worth the money. I have a LaserJet 1020 (had a LaserJet 6L before that) and it works perfectly. During the cost reduction of the 1020 they greatly simplified the whole thing, so it's actually simpler and more durable than the 6L. The only bad thing I found was that the 1020 had a tiny ROM (48Kb) and downloaded the rest via USB. But the issue is only noticable on older versions of Linux. (K)ubuntu 6.06 works perfectly.
This way you may name any software "badware" Fox example,
Windows: Installs additional software without disclosure - Reversi, Wordpad, Disk Defragmenter Forces users to take an action (Interferes with computer use) - BSODs, Add Hardware Wizard Updates software automatically (Deceptive installation) - Windows Update Fails to uninstall software completely (Unacceptable unistallation) - These's an uninstall?
Office 2003: Installs additional software without disclosure - Clipart organizer
Most antivirus apps: Forces users to take an action (Interferes with computer use) - "Virus found. Object blocked. Would you like to delete it?" Adds additional icons to default Internet Explorer toolbar (Makes changes to other software without disclosure) - Norton, Kaspersky and a few others do this Updates software automatically (Deceptive installation) - Virus definitions updates
A hash function is secure when it's difficult to do a brute-force password attack, e.g. you have the/etc/passwd contents and yet you still need weeks to get the real passwords. SHA-1 has thousands of iterations even for simple 6-character passwords. If a bug is found, the function can be simplified so that instead of two weeks the password can be found in two days, because the number of iterations is reduced.
My native language is not English and yet I mainly use English Wikipedia because it has more materials, better quality articles and is updated more frequently.
SHA-1 was proved to have insecurities years ago. Because of that SHA-2 ("SHA-256", "SHA-384", and "SHA-512") was released back in 2001 as a better version of SHA-1. SHA-2 was tested and no insecurities were found (yet). What's more, SHA-2 is now the official US standard. Complaining that SHA-1 is insecure is like complaining that Windows 98 is insecure. Oblig Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_hash_functions
Well, in Russia a lot of hardback textbooks cost about $1-$2, with the exception of about $15 for really large or well-made ones. What's more, a lot of technical books (such as O'Reilly, Wrox) cost two to three times cheaper than the original English version. And they're all legal!
In fact the discount may be the state's original goal - first threaten MS, then get a sweet deal. But I doubt that India wants to abandon Microsoft. MS's Indian HQ is providing a lot of jobs. And India seems to have lots of Visual C# programmers. Not to mention that Visual Studio 2005 shows photos of ONLY Indian people during installation - suggesting the biggest market target for VS2005.
Some PDAs with a 3.8" screen have 640x480 resolution. Stuff (especially digital photos) looks better than on traditional screens because pixels are so small. Fonts are smoother. And GNOME tries to adjust fonts to the screen size, so that they'll be the same size on a 8" 1280x960 and on a 17" 1280x1024 screen.
Office 2003 already has its own XML format (but it's not yet default). If MS invents another XML format (besides ODF and Office2003 XML) all I can say is WTF?
>But word by default capitalizes words I don't want capitalized, uncapitalizes things I do, and dissappears menu items. OpenOffice does exactly the same things, but because it lacks smart tags you have to hit Ctrl+Z exactly after some unwanted action is done. You can't go two paragraphs back and undo automatic correction.
Standard video formats? Why would you need it? Many require powerful CPUs: decoding+resizing the video to fit on the tiny screen is a CPU-heavy task; in fact many PDAs aren't fast enough.
Forget about Linux! ATi doesn't make Windows drivers anymore for my Radeon 9200 (and certainly no Vista support in the future). Looks kind of bad considering Nvidia makes the latest drivers avaliable for the ancient TNT2 (but no Vista support for cards older that Geforce FX yet).
I know. I myself use a SonyEricsson T610 that I bought 2 years ago with ROM that was released in 2003. And I really don't see any reason to upgrade in the next two years.
Not only you advise to use a phone released 2 years ago, but you link to a search engine that virtually died in the early-2000s! (I hope I didn't insult anyone:-)
The touchscreens are fitted into every product out there. My dad bought a car stereo with a touchscreen and that's probably the worst application of technology. Imagine trying to press a button on a flat rectangular screen with no guides while looking at the road. If the stereo had normal buttons, you'd navigate the button by touching and then press it. On a touch screen you have to know the EXACT location of the button; if you try to navigate the button by touch, you'll probably trigger something else. I find touchscreens acceptable in the following cases: 1) dirtproof things (industrial PCs, kiosks, etc.) 2) where a big screen is needed yet the device should be as small as possible (PDAs) I don't see any reasons why a touchscreen would make a phone better. A QWERTY keyboard would be too small to use with your fingers and typos will be made when you move your fingers. And games (especially the kind we get on cellphones) on touchscreens suck.
That's what I'm speaking about - Nero, just like the US military, doesn't need to show the source if they carefully choose what to link and what to use completely (BSD-style).
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In addition to SP-DIF it has lots of analog outputs (Front Right, Front Left etc.). I haven't checked how many or what configurations it supports because I use it with an analog TV and mono audio.
Mine cost me something like $20-$30. Works perfectly, plays everything from DVDs (all regions!) to mp3s and jpegs and has Scart, RCA, VGA video output. And 5.1 (or maybe even 7.1!) sound output.
The only thing I don't like is that the remote control isn't really easy to use for tasks other than play/pause/menu navigation.
I use Anjuta when I'm developing GNOME stuff; however its next major revision (Anjuta 2) seems to be released just after Duke Nukem Forever. Two minor revisions were made in about two years. ./configure can be as large as ONE MEGABYTE for a relatively simple apps.
And Anjuta's autogen'd
HP's inkjets may be bad, but their laser printers are still worth the money. I have a LaserJet 1020 (had a LaserJet 6L before that) and it works perfectly. During the cost reduction of the 1020 they greatly simplified the whole thing, so it's actually simpler and more durable than the 6L. The only bad thing I found was that the 1020 had a tiny ROM (48Kb) and downloaded the rest via USB. But the issue is only noticable on older versions of Linux. (K)ubuntu 6.06 works perfectly.
This way you may name any software "badware"
Fox example,
Windows:
Installs additional software without disclosure - Reversi, Wordpad, Disk Defragmenter
Forces users to take an action (Interferes with computer use) - BSODs, Add Hardware Wizard
Updates software automatically (Deceptive installation) - Windows Update
Fails to uninstall software completely (Unacceptable unistallation) - These's an uninstall?
Office 2003:
Installs additional software without disclosure - Clipart organizer
Most antivirus apps:
Forces users to take an action (Interferes with computer use) - "Virus found. Object blocked. Would you like to delete it?"
Adds additional icons to default Internet Explorer toolbar (Makes changes to other software without disclosure) - Norton, Kaspersky and a few others do this
Updates software automatically (Deceptive installation) - Virus definitions updates
Joke involving Ballmer, chairs and throwing going 3... 2... 1...
A hash function is secure when it's difficult to do a brute-force password attack, e.g. you have the /etc/passwd contents and yet you still need weeks to get the real passwords. SHA-1 has thousands of iterations even for simple 6-character passwords.
If a bug is found, the function can be simplified so that instead of two weeks the password can be found in two days, because the number of iterations is reduced.
My native language is not English and yet I mainly use English Wikipedia because it has more materials, better quality articles and is updated more frequently.
Conclusion: don't work for Microsoft because you lunch will be always stolen :-)
SHA-1 was proved to have insecurities years ago. Because of that SHA-2 ("SHA-256", "SHA-384", and "SHA-512") was released back in 2001 as a better version of SHA-1. SHA-2 was tested and no insecurities were found (yet). What's more, SHA-2 is now the official US standard.
Complaining that SHA-1 is insecure is like complaining that Windows 98 is insecure.
Oblig Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_hash_functions
Well, in Russia a lot of hardback textbooks cost about $1-$2, with the exception of about $15 for really large or well-made ones. What's more, a lot of technical books (such as O'Reilly, Wrox) cost two to three times cheaper than the original English version. And they're all legal!
As far as I know, killing a panda in China results in dealth penalty.
In fact the discount may be the state's original goal - first threaten MS, then get a sweet deal. But I doubt that India wants to abandon Microsoft.
MS's Indian HQ is providing a lot of jobs. And India seems to have lots of Visual C# programmers. Not to mention that Visual Studio 2005 shows photos of ONLY Indian people during installation - suggesting the biggest market target for VS2005.
I totally agree with you. Until Windows is replaced with something more secure, the network can be easily accessible from outside.
Oh wait...
Some PDAs with a 3.8" screen have 640x480 resolution. Stuff (especially digital photos) looks better than on traditional screens because pixels are so small. Fonts are smoother. And GNOME tries to adjust fonts to the screen size, so that they'll be the same size on a 8" 1280x960 and on a 17" 1280x1024 screen.
Office 2003 already has its own XML format (but it's not yet default). If MS invents another XML format (besides ODF and Office2003 XML) all I can say is WTF?
>But word by default capitalizes words I don't want capitalized, uncapitalizes things I do, and dissappears menu items.
OpenOffice does exactly the same things, but because it lacks smart tags you have to hit Ctrl+Z exactly after some unwanted action is done. You can't go two paragraphs back and undo automatic correction.
Forget about headcrabs! An included gravity gun will definetly boost sales!
Hehe... Half-life 2 Episode 2 sounds almost as bad as Intel Dual Core 2 Duo Second Edition :-)
Standard video formats? Why would you need it? Many require powerful CPUs: decoding+resizing the video to fit on the tiny screen is a CPU-heavy task; in fact many PDAs aren't fast enough.
Forget about Linux!
ATi doesn't make Windows drivers anymore for my Radeon 9200 (and certainly no Vista support in the future). Looks kind of bad considering Nvidia makes the latest drivers avaliable for the ancient TNT2 (but no Vista support for cards older that Geforce FX yet).
I know. I myself use a SonyEricsson T610 that I bought 2 years ago with ROM that was released in 2003. And I really don't see any reason to upgrade in the next two years.
Not only you advise to use a phone released 2 years ago, but you link to a search engine that virtually died in the early-2000s! :-)
(I hope I didn't insult anyone
The touchscreens are fitted into every product out there. My dad bought a car stereo with a touchscreen and that's probably the worst application of technology. Imagine trying to press a button on a flat rectangular screen with no guides while looking at the road. If the stereo had normal buttons, you'd navigate the button by touching and then press it. On a touch screen you have to know the EXACT location of the button; if you try to navigate the button by touch, you'll probably trigger something else.
I find touchscreens acceptable in the following cases:
1) dirtproof things (industrial PCs, kiosks, etc.)
2) where a big screen is needed yet the device should be as small as possible (PDAs)
I don't see any reasons why a touchscreen would make a phone better. A QWERTY keyboard would be too small to use with your fingers and typos will be made when you move your fingers. And games (especially the kind we get on cellphones) on touchscreens suck.
That's what I'm speaking about - Nero, just like the US military, doesn't need to show the source if they carefully choose what to link and what to use completely (BSD-style).