In an open-source solution you can download the source and a debugger and see exactly which bytes you need to patch to break the DRM.. Finding 09 F9 was hard when hackers had a 15MB memory dump to scour, but it wouldn't be hard at all with the full source code. You don't seem to realize that an "encryption system" needs to store its key (or a method of obtaining the key) in the source or else the client can't view the content at all.
You can do some Bad Things like using a weird memory manager that puts instructions in unpredictable places but that only increases headaches all around and is still breakable.
Oh man, girl gamers. Anyone remember these comics?
Anyway my take on the headline is that girls are less likely to be one of the xbox-rockin beer-chugging football broes that play games casually and ruin the Male team's hardcore percentage.
and civilisation has accumulated vast amounts of ubiquitous computing power and memory which is distributed internationally and is traded in a public market called the QIPS Exchange (QIPS from MIPS, where the Q is Quadrillions)
I wouldn't mention OpenOffice while talking about how secure, stable, and worthwhile OSS can be. This is really only meaningful because people are starting to wake up and realize there are superior alternatives out there. But that doesn't apply to OO - OpenOffice is freer but it's not better. OpenOffice is a total mess of staggeringly bloated Java components. It's by far the most sluggish, memory-devouring application on my machine and integrates badly with my GTK theme. And there aren't any good ideas in OO, it's like someone bought Office 2003, made a list of features they saw, and tried to implement as many as possible throwing everything together without any kind of purpose or vision other than to take as much market share as possible away from MS office.
Gnumeric and AbiWord, on the other hand, are actually usable. The project knows what it wants, and continually refines toward that purpose, while OpenOffice scrambles to throw in new features every time someone discovers a use case that Office handles and they don't. A good sign that a project is maturing is when someone asks for a relevant feature that makes sense, and the project says no. I don't think openoffice has ever said no.
No, it's important to congress to see expected goals met, since they've been funneling billions of dollars into NASA with the understanding that they're investing in programs like Constellation. NASA is funded by congress, not slashdot.
For the same reason that we have multiple windows per desktop instead of putting every window on its own desktop. Looking at things side-to-side and dragging and dropping are very important, and you can't do that with separate desktops. Fluxbox has had tabbed windows for eons, try that.
Yesterday I started xmoto while a video was playing and my system slowed to a crawl. I could move the mouse at a frame every few seconds, but nothing else responded, even trying to change to a virtual console and zapping X.
I don't know who's to blame but I do know that this wouldn't happen to a Haiku or SkyOS user. I'm tired of the Linux kernel; it's really not that great. Everyone seems obsessed with C, going as far as to spawn these kind of monstrosities just to force modern features into a traditional platform. Give me a stable microkernel with user-mode graphics so the above bug can never happen. Don't break it every few months and fix it later like Linux.
Maybe we just need a systems technology reboot. So much of GNU/Linux is just horribly broken and needs a sanity check, particularly desktop environment stuff. We can probably do a much better job if we start over.
The GPU sensor in my Thinkpad T60 (infamous for heat problems) runs around 95C under high load, and still runs fine after this kind of abuse for years.
The machine powers off when it hits 102C though. But it just shows that if you don't use Dell-quality components your machine will survive without aggressive thermal policies.
I don't think there even is such a thing as long-distance over cell phones. Maybe if you're calling Africa or something, but anything within the continental US is just your regular minutes..
Compare flac vc flac and look at the results. You can get all sorts of false information from this type of test. The 192kbps MP3 being distinguished from the FLAC could be just as significant as the Flac vs Flac graph
Programming language theory is computer science. I'll even concede that programming with a FP language is very computer science-y. Techniques for writing maintainable code is not.
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In an open-source solution you can download the source and a debugger and see exactly which bytes you need to patch to break the DRM.. Finding 09 F9 was hard when hackers had a 15MB memory dump to scour, but it wouldn't be hard at all with the full source code. You don't seem to realize that an "encryption system" needs to store its key (or a method of obtaining the key) in the source or else the client can't view the content at all.
You can do some Bad Things like using a weird memory manager that puts instructions in unpredictable places but that only increases headaches all around and is still breakable.
Oh man, girl gamers. Anyone remember these comics?
Anyway my take on the headline is that girls are less likely to be one of the xbox-rockin beer-chugging football broes that play games casually and ruin the Male team's hardcore percentage.
Right, there's already a good free alternative: Yahoo Answers
Now all we need are criminals who will stand still for 176 minutes so we can get a good shot of them.
You don't even need to change your name; you just have to maintain that anyone who uses the word The owes you $500,000.
Reminds me of:
Great book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_city.
Shift-enter (single line break) and control-enter (page break) work fine on my abiword..
I wouldn't mention OpenOffice while talking about how secure, stable, and worthwhile OSS can be. This is really only meaningful because people are starting to wake up and realize there are superior alternatives out there. But that doesn't apply to OO - OpenOffice is freer but it's not better. OpenOffice is a total mess of staggeringly bloated Java components. It's by far the most sluggish, memory-devouring application on my machine and integrates badly with my GTK theme. And there aren't any good ideas in OO, it's like someone bought Office 2003, made a list of features they saw, and tried to implement as many as possible throwing everything together without any kind of purpose or vision other than to take as much market share as possible away from MS office.
Gnumeric and AbiWord, on the other hand, are actually usable. The project knows what it wants, and continually refines toward that purpose, while OpenOffice scrambles to throw in new features every time someone discovers a use case that Office handles and they don't. A good sign that a project is maturing is when someone asks for a relevant feature that makes sense, and the project says no. I don't think openoffice has ever said no.
No, it's important to congress to see expected goals met, since they've been funneling billions of dollars into NASA with the understanding that they're investing in programs like Constellation. NASA is funded by congress, not slashdot.
For the same reason that we have multiple windows per desktop instead of putting every window on its own desktop. Looking at things side-to-side and dragging and dropping are very important, and you can't do that with separate desktops. Fluxbox has had tabbed windows for eons, try that.
Yesterday I started xmoto while a video was playing and my system slowed to a crawl. I could move the mouse at a frame every few seconds, but nothing else responded, even trying to change to a virtual console and zapping X.
I don't know who's to blame but I do know that this wouldn't happen to a Haiku or SkyOS user. I'm tired of the Linux kernel; it's really not that great. Everyone seems obsessed with C, going as far as to spawn these kind of monstrosities just to force modern features into a traditional platform. Give me a stable microkernel with user-mode graphics so the above bug can never happen. Don't break it every few months and fix it later like Linux.
Maybe we just need a systems technology reboot. So much of GNU/Linux is just horribly broken and needs a sanity check, particularly desktop environment stuff. We can probably do a much better job if we start over.
The GPU sensor in my Thinkpad T60 (infamous for heat problems) runs around 95C under high load, and still runs fine after this kind of abuse for years.
The machine powers off when it hits 102C though. But it just shows that if you don't use Dell-quality components your machine will survive without aggressive thermal policies.
Who cares about the name, they sued their own customers to shut them up about being scammed. That's more than enough evidence of a scam.
It's not a minor point in the article, it's the entire article. This is the article, the other link in the summary was just an aside...
The article really takes video professor apart. It's a total scam and there's no more doubt about it.
Reminds me of this famous forum post.
Whose idea was it to put light peach text on a white background?
Well it's their own fault. Why doesn't Germany, I don't know, stop electing these people?
I don't think there even is such a thing as long-distance over cell phones. Maybe if you're calling Africa or something, but anything within the continental US is just your regular minutes..
You mean like clothes?
300 people.
Sounds like something to add to the jargon file :)
Compare flac vc flac and look at the results. You can get all sorts of false information from this type of test. The 192kbps MP3 being distinguished from the FLAC could be just as significant as the Flac vs Flac graph
You mean, as science advances fields will get more and more specialized and specialization won't stop?
Programming language theory is computer science. I'll even concede that programming with a FP language is very computer science-y. Techniques for writing maintainable code is not.
Development methodologies have nothing to do with computer science either.