If the content is good enough that you want access to it, you either have to pay for it, or accept a small but nonzero chance of being sued and fined for copyright infringement.
We often don't have that choice. There are plenty of DVDs that are not sold and cannot be played in certain parts of the world (no Battlestar Galactica season 3 in North America, for example). And here in Canada it's hard to buy major-label music for an MP3 player that's not an iPod. (Most of us think it's OK to buy and rip CDs, but apparently the record companies disagree.)
In many cases the only way for us to get "content" is to download it illegally. The content producers have very deliberately set it up that way,
so why are they suing us?
However, in order to take advantage of the improved standards compliance in IE8, Web developers will have to opt-in by adding an additional meta tag to their web pages. This improved standards mode is the same that was recently reported to pass the Acid 2 test, as was discussed here.
So how could IE8 possibly have passed the Acid2 test? The test page doesn't contain the magic META tag that IE needs to pass the test!
and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to program, and he'll pwn you.
Seriously, giving more truckloads of rice to poor countries will do nothing to prepare their next generations for survival in a world dominated by people who grew up with Playstations, computers, and education.
I don't know a single phone that doesn't power down its display to save battery.
Nokia 5300. There, now you know one.
When my phone is in standby mode, it displays the date, time and a status icon, with no backlight. And it's got an "Off" button. When I press that, it turns the phone off.
Passports are supposed to be easy to read! Airports have to read thousands per hour, without making the lineups any more horrendous than they already are.
The purpose of the encryption is to ensure that it can only be read when you open it up and put it on a passport scanner, and not when you walk past Kevin Mitnick.
You're talking about two different beasts. An RFID tag is just supposed to contain an ID number for tracking purposes. It's dirt cheap, so you can attach one to every item in Walmart.
The chips in smartcards and e-passports are a lot more sophisticated. They hold 64 kilobytes of data typically, and they have a processor that can do encryption and stuff. Some of them even run Java.
If my passport gets stolen, I report it. It gets cloned, I've no idea somebody is impersonating me, screwing up my life (and others).
But if someone clones your passport, he gets a passport with your biometrics encoded on the chip - your face and maybe a fingerprint. That's not going to work for impersonation, unless he clones your face and fingers too. Which isn't so easy. (The chip data is digitally signed so it's hard to alter.)
The existence of digital media adapters will totally remove the need to have a media centre PC taking up space in your living room, unless you're one of the few users that finds it practical to do anything other than passively soak up multimedia content whilst relaxing on the couch.
Since I got my media PC, I find that I can't watch TV or movies without periodically consulting IMDB and Google. Not sure if that's a good thing or not, but it's a habit now.
I remember when Apple used to help me hack their OS. I've got an Apple II manual with a listing of the ROM source code - including comments - that let me add some cool features like printing text on the graphics screen.
Now, you're a "pirate" if you try to "decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, or create derivative works of the Apple Software or any part thereof."
You don't have to use it only for games if they sell it as an add-on for PCs. I sit on the sofa when I'm watching TV or videos on my media PC. When I need to surf the web during commercials or whatever, I put a keyboard on my lap and run the mouse on the sofa.
The Lapboard still doesn't seem to have a point, though. It looks like it would be more cumbersome and not do anything better than what I have now.
Just use the weather for Ottawa, ON. It has the current temperature completely wrong, so it'll be just as useful in Hamilton as it is here. (And all but one of the numbers are in American units. Yay.)
But consider how much more they had to do than other TV shows. A typical TV show didn't have any fires on set, or motion shots of detailed spaceship models. And the furniture, costumes and props could be borrowed from Universal's warehouse instead of buying or making everything especially for the show.
The code path that is super-optimized for Pentium 4 chips wouldn't be the best code for an Athlon chip anyway. For example, if the instructions are arranged to minimize pipeline stalls on a Pentium 4 (which I assume they would be if the code is "fully optimized"), that would not be the most optimal arrangement for running on an Athlon, which has a different internal design.
So even if there was only one code path, it would be optimized more for Pentiums than for Athlons. One can't expect Intel to put lots of effort into optimizing for their competitor's products!
However, that doesn't explain why there would be a separate code path for Athlons. They could just produce the one code path, which would work OK but not optimally for Athlons.
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And not then, either! America's post-war rocket technology and expertise came from Germany.
We often don't have that choice. There are plenty of DVDs that are not sold and cannot be played in certain parts of the world (no Battlestar Galactica season 3 in North America, for example). And here in Canada it's hard to buy major-label music for an MP3 player that's not an iPod. (Most of us think it's OK to buy and rip CDs, but apparently the record companies disagree.)
In many cases the only way for us to get "content" is to download it illegally. The content producers have very deliberately set it up that way, so why are they suing us?
The Register has an article about Qtrax. They're pretty skeptical about it.
According to Wikipedia,
"Secondary" means that this sodium didn't pass through the reactor core so it didn't become radioactive.
Last month Microsoft said that they do pass the Acid2 test. Mozilla hasn't made that claim for Firefox 2.
So how could IE8 possibly have passed the Acid2 test? The test page doesn't contain the magic META tag that IE needs to pass the test!
and he'll eat for a day. Teach him to program, and he'll pwn you.
Seriously, giving more truckloads of rice to poor countries will do nothing to prepare their next generations for survival in a world dominated by people who grew up with Playstations, computers, and education.
Nokia 5300. There, now you know one.
When my phone is in standby mode, it displays the date, time and a status icon, with no backlight. And it's got an "Off" button. When I press that, it turns the phone off.
SCO could hire the same experts for this that they used to prove that Linux was copied from Darl McBride's dog's pawprints.
I'm not planning to upgrade any of my Windows machines to Vista, and I bet you're not either.
Passports are supposed to be easy to read! Airports have to read thousands per hour, without making the lineups any more horrendous than they already are.
The purpose of the encryption is to ensure that it can only be read when you open it up and put it on a passport scanner, and not when you walk past Kevin Mitnick.
The chips in smartcards and e-passports are a lot more sophisticated. They hold 64 kilobytes of data typically, and they have a processor that can do encryption and stuff. Some of them even run Java.
What I have to ask is, "Is CSS to blame for the tiny text in boxes with horizontal scrollbars?"
Now, you're a "pirate" if you try to "decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify, or create derivative works of the Apple Software or any part thereof."
Whatever happened to "1984 won't be like 1984"?
You don't have to use it only for games if they sell it as an add-on for PCs. I sit on the sofa when I'm watching TV or videos on my media PC. When I need to surf the web during commercials or whatever, I put a keyboard on my lap and run the mouse on the sofa.
The Lapboard still doesn't seem to have a point, though. It looks like it would be more cumbersome and not do anything better than what I have now.
Which really annoys Forbes because that's their turf.
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Len of Len Corp.
I doubt it. Somehow they've managed to survive the previous 17 reorgs.
Just use the weather for Ottawa, ON. It has the current temperature completely wrong, so it'll be just as useful in Hamilton as it is here. (And all but one of the numbers are in American units. Yay.)
But consider how much more they had to do than other TV shows. A typical TV show didn't have any fires on set, or motion shots of detailed spaceship models. And the furniture, costumes and props could be borrowed from Universal's warehouse instead of buying or making everything especially for the show.
The code path that is super-optimized for Pentium 4 chips wouldn't be the best code for an Athlon chip anyway. For example, if the instructions are arranged to minimize pipeline stalls on a Pentium 4 (which I assume they would be if the code is "fully optimized"), that would not be the most optimal arrangement for running on an Athlon, which has a different internal design.
So even if there was only one code path, it would be optimized more for Pentiums than for Athlons. One can't expect Intel to put lots of effort into optimizing for their competitor's products!
However, that doesn't explain why there would be a separate code path for Athlons. They could just produce the one code path, which would work OK but not optimally for Athlons.
From the release notes:
So I won't be upgrading any time soon.