Don't know about the US, but all recordable media in EU comes with a "piracy" tax. That is, you pay extra for the allegedly pirated content you will put on the media.
It takes anything from two seconds to a minute. Microsoft is seriously lagging (no pun intended) behind Apple when it comes to all networking stuff, and is the one area where I hope there will be improvements.
sleep mode that actually fucking works like it's supposed to
My Acer laptop running WinXP has Stand By (draining the battery a little) and Hibernate (no drain) and both work like a charm. No problems whatsoever. Restarts are few and far in-between. Does this make my laptop unique?
what they were doing was not illegal under Swedish law.
But the question is: For how long will it stay legal? We (Sweden) have government elections in September so until then things will stay the same, but I'm wondering how soon after that the laws will change.
I'm thinking, should it be some sort of "I scratch your back, and you scratch mine" system? If I send a letter to another country I pay a transaction fee (the stamp) to my national postal company, but the other country's company doesn't get anything for delivering the letter. But then someone sends a letter back, and the roles are changed.
Just a thought (and I could be in the wrong about how post delivery works).
For my Master Thesis, I did a radio wave analysis program. On a 2.8GHz hyperthreading Intel CPU, I could do six transformations on three 70KHz signals (yes, 18 transformations in total!), then convert them with matrix algebra and finally present the result in six separate dialog boxes through DirectX (yes, on a WinXP box with Visual C++, no less), all in real time with clock cycles to spare.
Hmm, and I don't remember the Apple Macintosh Portable being as bad as written here. I mean, weren't most "portables" at the time of this size and weight? I remember my uncle bragging about his "portable" around this time. It was the size of a tool-box and weighted about as much. (And you had to write "park" at the command line before shutting down to park the hard drive head, otherwise it would just drop down on the disk surface and literally crash it.)
I don't care what format MSOffice uses to save and load a document. I'm concerned of the formats supported to export and import documents. There's a slight application difference there.
Free trade harms the local economy and increases unemployment?
I think that should read: harms the local economy and increases unemployment in the third world. The EU "free trade" is heavily subsidised and protected and has fucked up the economy quite badly in some third world countries.
No, it's not. The cost is hidden in the price of the OS.
This is what irritates me most about MS's offers (i. e. Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer). They have never been, never are, and will never be free. The cost is just hidden elsewhere. "Free" is just an illusion.
My guess is it's a question of intent. To approach this question from another angle: What if someone tries to sue food shelters because they take business away from grocery stores?
Is it possible to have something similar to W3C regulate this stuff? They seem to be doing a good job, although they don't have any "executive" power, or whatever it would be called.
Unfortunately, even knowledgable users don't care. My brother is an embedded systems developer/expert, and thus hacker by definition, and he likes it. And if he likes it, then what about Joe Shmoe?
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Don't know about the US, but all recordable media in EU comes with a "piracy" tax. That is, you pay extra for the allegedly pirated content you will put on the media.
No, no. This is /. ya know. You have to make it into a Star Wars or Monty Python quote:
"The more you content providers tighten your grip, the more consumers will slip through your fingers."
It takes anything from two seconds to a minute. Microsoft is seriously lagging (no pun intended) behind Apple when it comes to all networking stuff, and is the one area where I hope there will be improvements.
My Acer laptop running WinXP has Stand By (draining the battery a little) and Hibernate (no drain) and both work like a charm. No problems whatsoever. Restarts are few and far in-between. Does this make my laptop unique?
But the question is: For how long will it stay legal? We (Sweden) have government elections in September so until then things will stay the same, but I'm wondering how soon after that the laws will change.
There are several alternatives for WinXP and MacOS that are MSN compatible. Aren't there any for Linux?
The article made it sound like every new IE7 feature was ripped from Firefox, and as an Opera fanboi, that bothered me a bit.
I'm thinking, should it be some sort of "I scratch your back, and you scratch mine" system? If I send a letter to another country I pay a transaction fee (the stamp) to my national postal company, but the other country's company doesn't get anything for delivering the letter. But then someone sends a letter back, and the roles are changed.
Just a thought (and I could be in the wrong about how post delivery works).
I forgot to mention that the FFT routine I used was written in C. No assembly code.
mp3 uses wavelets which is a different beast, although some similarities exist (I think).
For my Master Thesis, I did a radio wave analysis program. On a 2.8GHz hyperthreading Intel CPU, I could do six transformations on three 70KHz signals (yes, 18 transformations in total!), then convert them with matrix algebra and finally present the result in six separate dialog boxes through DirectX (yes, on a WinXP box with Visual C++, no less), all in real time with clock cycles to spare.
It was sweet, I tell you.
Hmm, and I don't remember the Apple Macintosh Portable being as bad as written here. I mean, weren't most "portables" at the time of this size and weight? I remember my uncle bragging about his "portable" around this time. It was the size of a tool-box and weighted about as much. (And you had to write "park" at the command line before shutting down to park the hard drive head, otherwise it would just drop down on the disk surface and literally crash it.)
It's a topic I find hard to digest.
I don't care what format MSOffice uses to save and load a document. I'm concerned of the formats supported to export and import documents. There's a slight application difference there.
I think that should read: harms the local economy and increases unemployment in the third world. The EU "free trade" is heavily subsidised and protected and has fucked up the economy quite badly in some third world countries.
No, it's not. The cost is hidden in the price of the OS.
This is what irritates me most about MS's offers (i. e. Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer). They have never been, never are, and will never be free. The cost is just hidden elsewhere. "Free" is just an illusion.
My guess is it's a question of intent. To approach this question from another angle: What if someone tries to sue food shelters because they take business away from grocery stores?
Is it possible to have something similar to W3C regulate this stuff? They seem to be doing a good job, although they don't have any "executive" power, or whatever it would be called.
Do we have to revise the meaning of "Spanking the monkey"?
This sounds strangely familiar. What was that company's name again? Oh yeah, Microsoft.
Unfortunately, even knowledgable users don't care. My brother is an embedded systems developer/expert, and thus hacker by definition, and he likes it. And if he likes it, then what about Joe Shmoe?
D'oh! I meant:
Or set the <div> (or whichever block tag) to "clear: both".
Or set the
(or whichever block tag) to "clear: both".Hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?
I guess if Apple Computers wins (win?) nothing much happens, but what if Apple Corps wins (if that is still a possibility)? What are the implications?
Anyone care to give a brief answer to that, or point me to the info? I guess it's been explained before, but I'm not sure where to look.
The Authority, perhaps? Although it's a tad over the top.