This law according to TFA would regulate class 3 and 4 lasers. I agree that people generally don't have a personal use for class 4 lasers. The weaker class 3 lasers though have plenty of legitimate uses no matter who you are.
In any case much of it is a driver issue - the synaptics touchpad drivers for windows suck and have very few features, but the same touchpad under linux has things like two-finger scroll. I suspect someone who wanted to hack on the drivers could make pinching and other gestures visible to user apps.
He means using the SSE simd instructions, which is as simultaneous as you get using just one processor/core, and is much much faster than doing the four operations separately.
I believe his point was that if you played against PC players when you were on the Xbox, you would get slaughtered due to mouse/keyboard >>> controller for an FPS.
You can write a compiler without writing assembly for the compiler, yes. But you must know assembly (or the bytecode/IL/whatever you are targeting) in order to write a compiler, otherwise it isn't a compiler. Whether or not you call this writing assembly code is pretty arbitrary, as you'll still have to know it and use it.
Only if the person running the machine hasn't required a password for the GRUB command line. Of course, you can do the boot disc/clear CMOS/whatever method anyway, so its still insecure.
Don't you just need write access to/dev/sda or/dev/hda? Thats all you should need. Now root should probably be the only one with write access to disks, but thats another matter.
So, they should be mentioned in history class when appropriate, maybe in the english/writing/reading class to discuss reasons someone wrote a book or why it is interpreted that way, etc. It has no real use in a science classroom, because religion is not, and really cannot be, science. Maybe you could mention the opposition darwin + others faced from religion, if you want to do a bit of history in there too.
How bout wishing for synaptics to just release a decent windows touchpad driver. Under linux I get nice features like different buttons for 2+3 finger tap, ipod-style scrolling or two-finger scrolling, and a gazillion other features. Under windows I get a broken scroll along the edges (cause they decided not to just produce scroll wheel events properly).
Besides the issues others have mentioned, many AJAXy sites play havoc with the back button, and very few support open in new tab or open in new window. The same issues can lead to problems with bookmarks.
(there's actually a personal hygiene course you have to pass as a CS major at CMU) Not anymore there isn't. Assuming you're talking about the integration course, then it no longer has that sort of thing on it. The list of points activities includes more get out and see Pittsburgh, get involved in activities, and socialize sorts of things now.
Just from looking around on my university campus, in terms of laptops I too see a ton of macs. Probably the next most common type of hardware I see is the Thinkpad. Of the windows users, I do see a lot of Vista installs, but I also see a significant number of XP ones.
And then every single game that does hosting a networked game the simple way will no longer work unless all players happen to be behind the same NAT. Expect major complaints at any ISP that does this.
It wouldn't be literally free no matter what - it would still have been paid out of taxes of some sort, which then couldn't be used for something else.
it does enable some valuable applications so it's going to happen. Umm, what valuable applications? The only things I've heard for it are for DRM and similar things. I guess it could be useful to protect against rootkits or similar things... But the reason "it's going to happen" would be far more in the first column than the second.
Agreed, I've been using this HP laserjet 4L for years to print b/w and I think its cartridge has been replaced like once. The ink holders for modern inkjet printers are tiny.
They could just do proper multiplayer asset protection - you may note that this isn't a problem for most moddable PC games. In a decent PC game with multiplayer you'd never see totally broken assets like "cars capable of 600MPH".
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transition al.dtd">
That whole PUBLIC thing means that the browser can have its own copy so that it doesn't have to fetch it off the website. Is there a reason that this is not the standard way of doing this?
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This law according to TFA would regulate class 3 and 4 lasers. I agree that people generally don't have a personal use for class 4 lasers. The weaker class 3 lasers though have plenty of legitimate uses no matter who you are.
In any case much of it is a driver issue - the synaptics touchpad drivers for windows suck and have very few features, but the same touchpad under linux has things like two-finger scroll. I suspect someone who wanted to hack on the drivers could make pinching and other gestures visible to user apps.
He means using the SSE simd instructions, which is as simultaneous as you get using just one processor/core, and is much much faster than doing the four operations separately.
I believe his point was that if you played against PC players when you were on the Xbox, you would get slaughtered due to mouse/keyboard >>> controller for an FPS.
You can write a compiler without writing assembly for the compiler, yes. But you must know assembly (or the bytecode/IL/whatever you are targeting) in order to write a compiler, otherwise it isn't a compiler. Whether or not you call this writing assembly code is pretty arbitrary, as you'll still have to know it and use it.
Only if the person running the machine hasn't required a password for the GRUB command line. Of course, you can do the boot disc/clear CMOS/whatever method anyway, so its still insecure.
Don't you just need write access to /dev/sda or /dev/hda? Thats all you should need. Now root should probably be the only one with write access to disks, but thats another matter.
So, they should be mentioned in history class when appropriate, maybe in the english/writing/reading class to discuss reasons someone wrote a book or why it is interpreted that way, etc. It has no real use in a science classroom, because religion is not, and really cannot be, science. Maybe you could mention the opposition darwin + others faced from religion, if you want to do a bit of history in there too.
The New Yorker really needs to cite its sources too if you want people to be satisfied.
How bout wishing for synaptics to just release a decent windows touchpad driver. Under linux I get nice features like different buttons for 2+3 finger tap, ipod-style scrolling or two-finger scrolling, and a gazillion other features. Under windows I get a broken scroll along the edges (cause they decided not to just produce scroll wheel events properly).
Besides the issues others have mentioned, many AJAXy sites play havoc with the back button, and very few support open in new tab or open in new window. The same issues can lead to problems with bookmarks.
And because that is so incredibly obvious, hidden volumes don't actually work like that.
Just from looking around on my university campus, in terms of laptops I too see a ton of macs. Probably the next most common type of hardware I see is the Thinkpad. Of the windows users, I do see a lot of Vista installs, but I also see a significant number of XP ones.
And then every single game that does hosting a networked game the simple way will no longer work unless all players happen to be behind the same NAT. Expect major complaints at any ISP that does this.
But for some of the programs that would be sold as SAS, you don't buy an upgrade every year unless you're nuts.
Newer versions of X.org have a decent autodetect setup, if the hardware support is available. Try "X -configure"
Overkill. Just use a nonstandard keyboard layout and people will use your computer for about 10 seconds max before going WTF and running away.
Sigh, standby yes (although I expect some would differ on "significant"), hibernate NO. Hibernate is off with the ram written to the hard drive.
It wouldn't be literally free no matter what - it would still have been paid out of taxes of some sort, which then couldn't be used for something else.
Agreed, I've been using this HP laserjet 4L for years to print b/w and I think its cartridge has been replaced like once. The ink holders for modern inkjet printers are tiny.
They could just do proper multiplayer asset protection - you may note that this isn't a problem for most moddable PC games. In a decent PC game with multiplayer you'd never see totally broken assets like "cars capable of 600MPH".
Isn't this what doctypes like this are for:
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitio
That whole PUBLIC thing means that the browser can have its own copy so that it doesn't have to fetch it off the website. Is there a reason that this is not the standard way of doing this?
Well looking here it seems like he's still able to carry on with his FOSS work. False alarm people.