I see a parallel to the./ article earlier on virtual child pornography. People often claim that there is no slippery slope, but this is it in action. This is then next thing that they take our rights away from. And then it's another, and another, and another.
Because the promary use of a blank audio tape is to put music on it. You can put other things on it, like PXL2000 videos and games for a ZX81, but for the most part it is for music. CD-RWs are only marginally musically related. If the RIAA is getting a cut of the tax, then so should software makers, especially game makers (for both PC and Playstation 1), and the movie industry. If we are talking about CD-RWs use for piracy, I'm willing to bet that software piracy beats MP3 piracy.
Java still doesn't hava a canonical binary form at the class file level. It is conceivable (and in fact happens) that two Java compilers would produce the different output for the same piece of code.
Even worse than this, I've had IE render an HTML page as text/plain because it did not have the tags on it. It only happened as I was using the back button to get to it, but it was highly annoying.
Gee, you'd think that patents were created so that they could allow companies to compete in a market where a competitor could easily reproduce their product. How shameless a twisting of the original intent this is.
If someone steals your car and then uses it in a robbery, it's still likely that you will not be charged with that robbery. If someone gais access to your network at home and starts attacking government sites, then it's hard to say what would happen.
Funny, I've been looking for the same thing for Jon Katz. I no longer even click on his articles, because I don't want to imply that/. should continue to carry his editorials.
.S.: "Voice recogintion" identifies people; "speech recognition" turns what they say into text
I used to think this too, until I was asked to work on a prototype palmtop app that used "voice recognition" to drive the interface. After searching around, the industry seems to think differently than you and I on these definitions. It's my opinion that if everyone else defines something differently, then I'm wrong, even if the dictionary agrees with me (then I and the dictionary are wrong).
As i saw, there are a lots of comments on now useless is speech recognition for coders. Of course it is.
I would have followed this statment with "there are no computer languages and programming tools that are designed with voice recognition in mind". As VR becomes more commonplace, I'm sure we will see better tools and languages that will take full advantage of all this.
Also, if you have VR, your code will change. You will no longer have "int c" but "int count" and other longer, more descriptive names (that I try to do, but int c just comes out).
Restaurants have this system call Squirrel that lets them input orders and it maintains the bills. Two of the common complaints with the touch screen interface is that the servers, who use the system, find it unintuative, and often have their hands full. This sounds like you can make a system where they just have to say "Table 13, burger with fries, philly steak no onions, 2 cokes", and it would do alright. Servers tend to have their own lingo for the meals they serve, and the system could understand them, in list format, with the exceptions. You wouldn't expect the populous to deal with such a system, but a server would pick it up quickly, and they could do it while clearing away dishes.
I don't understand this. This has been said many times, but IME it isn't true. Every night I hibernate my laptop, go home, and then boot it up again. The battery when it is running lasts an hour, it takes me a half hour to get home. But waking it doesn't consume half of the battery, or even 1% of the battery.
I do agree that shutting it down and bringing it back up will wear the parts down more.
This is the one thing I don't like about the Unix UI, it doesn't have the keyboard text selection capabilities of Windows. I rarely ever use the mouse to select text, certainly never when I'm in WinVi. I just go to the start of where I want to select (or the end) hold shift, and go to the end (or start) of my selection. Adding Ctrl to the keys I'm holding down always moves me by word. Then it's ctrl-c, ctrl-v and I'm done. The Unix experience just isn't the same. I find myself using the mouse a lot more in X than I do in windows.
I have been recently getting into laptops having been forced to use one at work, I have made the adjustment to the keyboard and touchpad and find I like them more that a normal mouse and keyboard (I like that home and end are modified left and right). Because of this I've been thinking about linux on a laptop.
One of the features I love about my laptop is that I have set up the power saving features to cause it to go into a mode called "hibernation". This effectively dumps all the RAM to disk and shuts the computer off. When I start it up again, Win2K sees that I have hibernated the OS and resurrects the state. There are some cool things about this, like the fact that it does a DHCP renew when it comes back up so that there's no problem moving it between my work and home networks.
Does linux have anything like this? I really don't like having to go through a shutdown when I leave, because I'll have documents and code in various states that I am not really ready to save them at. Plus, it just boots faster.
1. tv sets and video playback equipment is not an 'investment'. you don't sell it years later and make money on it (as always there are exceptions that prove the rule.)
True, a TV set is not part of an "investment portfolio," but the above is a very limited view on what an investment is. A TV is an investment because you lay out a large amount of cash with the expectation that it will eventually pay back in utility (that's the economic term, I prefer "happiness"). If you pay extra for the utility of a higher definition screen, and you cannot get that content, then the money you've invested (over the cost of a normal TV) is lost, because you can never get that utility.
They use a sugar based alcohol in Brazil. It tended to be about 1/4th the cost of regular gasoline, and it had no oil.
Also, the amount of oil may not be as finite as we thought. The idea that oil is decayed plant life is under serious question and there is evidence that the earth produces oil in the core and this oil works it's way upwards as little beads that pool together. There have been multiple cases of dry oil wells spontaneously filling up, suggesting there is more oil than we know of. Of course, you are right, it's still finite, as the mass of the Earth is finite, but there may be a cycle as there is with plants.
This still doesn't change the fact that pirate still use VHS tapes. For example, I borrowed a firends copy of the Dune miniseries which he recorded on tape. Maybe when everyone has computers hooked up to their TVs, pure digital pirating will take place, but until then, it's an analogue world, baby.
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hell, you can even do
$ DISPLAY= tar xvf foo.tar
if you just didn't want to see the UI that time.
I see a parallel to the ./ article earlier on virtual child pornography. People often claim that there is no slippery slope, but this is it in action. This is then next thing that they take our rights away from. And then it's another, and another, and another.
Because the promary use of a blank audio tape is to put music on it. You can put other things on it, like PXL2000 videos and games for a ZX81, but for the most part it is for music. CD-RWs are only marginally musically related. If the RIAA is getting a cut of the tax, then so should software makers, especially game makers (for both PC and Playstation 1), and the movie industry. If we are talking about CD-RWs use for piracy, I'm willing to bet that software piracy beats MP3 piracy.
Java still doesn't hava a canonical binary form at the class file level. It is conceivable (and in fact happens) that two Java compilers would produce the different output for the same piece of code.
Even worse than this, I've had IE render an HTML page as text/plain because it did not have the tags on it. It only happened as I was using the back button to get to it, but it was highly annoying.
Gee, you'd think that patents were created so that they could allow companies to compete in a market where a competitor could easily reproduce their product. How shameless a twisting of the original intent this is.
That is sarcasm.
If someone steals your car and then uses it in a robbery, it's still likely that you will not be charged with that robbery. If someone gais access to your network at home and starts attacking government sites, then it's hard to say what would happen.
Funny, I've been looking for the same thing for Jon Katz. I no longer even click on his articles, because I don't want to imply that /. should continue to carry his editorials.
I used to think this too, until I was asked to work on a prototype palmtop app that used "voice recognition" to drive the interface. After searching around, the industry seems to think differently than you and I on these definitions. It's my opinion that if everyone else defines something differently, then I'm wrong, even if the dictionary agrees with me (then I and the dictionary are wrong).
I would have followed this statment with "there are no computer languages and programming tools that are designed with voice recognition in mind". As VR becomes more commonplace, I'm sure we will see better tools and languages that will take full advantage of all this. Also, if you have VR, your code will change. You will no longer have "int c" but "int count" and other longer, more descriptive names (that I try to do, but int c just comes out).
Restaurants have this system call Squirrel that lets them input orders and it maintains the bills. Two of the common complaints with the touch screen interface is that the servers, who use the system, find it unintuative, and often have their hands full. This sounds like you can make a system where they just have to say "Table 13, burger with fries, philly steak no onions, 2 cokes", and it would do alright. Servers tend to have their own lingo for the meals they serve, and the system could understand them, in list format, with the exceptions. You wouldn't expect the populous to deal with such a system, but a server would pick it up quickly, and they could do it while clearing away dishes.
I do agree that shutting it down and bringing it back up will wear the parts down more.
This is the one thing I don't like about the Unix UI, it doesn't have the keyboard text selection capabilities of Windows. I rarely ever use the mouse to select text, certainly never when I'm in WinVi. I just go to the start of where I want to select (or the end) hold shift, and go to the end (or start) of my selection. Adding Ctrl to the keys I'm holding down always moves me by word. Then it's ctrl-c, ctrl-v and I'm done. The Unix experience just isn't the same. I find myself using the mouse a lot more in X than I do in windows.
Whoever bought Win98
One of the features I love about my laptop is that I have set up the power saving features to cause it to go into a mode called "hibernation". This effectively dumps all the RAM to disk and shuts the computer off. When I start it up again, Win2K sees that I have hibernated the OS and resurrects the state. There are some cool things about this, like the fact that it does a DHCP renew when it comes back up so that there's no problem moving it between my work and home networks.
Does linux have anything like this? I really don't like having to go through a shutdown when I leave, because I'll have documents and code in various states that I am not really ready to save them at. Plus, it just boots faster.
Thanks for any help
So then why are they reading /.?
No references or links. I was in Brazil in '94. Every gas station had them.
True, a TV set is not part of an "investment portfolio," but the above is a very limited view on what an investment is. A TV is an investment because you lay out a large amount of cash with the expectation that it will eventually pay back in utility (that's the economic term, I prefer "happiness"). If you pay extra for the utility of a higher definition screen, and you cannot get that content, then the money you've invested (over the cost of a normal TV) is lost, because you can never get that utility.
libel and slander are covered under tort law, not criminal.
So where do you think the carbon in trees comes from?
Also, the amount of oil may not be as finite as we thought. The idea that oil is decayed plant life is under serious question and there is evidence that the earth produces oil in the core and this oil works it's way upwards as little beads that pool together. There have been multiple cases of dry oil wells spontaneously filling up, suggesting there is more oil than we know of. Of course, you are right, it's still finite, as the mass of the Earth is finite, but there may be a cycle as there is with plants.
This simply isn't true. RH7 shipped with wu-ftpd 2.6.1. According to WU-FTP the bug only effects before 2.6.0. It also has 2.6.1 as te latest release.
Except that RH7 isn't effected by this, and they have a page for RH7 security patches that link to the appropriate RPMs, and one linking to this and other Bug fixes and package enhancements
RedHat claims that the wu-ftp bug (RHSA-2000-039-02) only effects RH5.2 and RH6.2
This still doesn't change the fact that pirate still use VHS tapes. For example, I borrowed a firends copy of the Dune miniseries which he recorded on tape. Maybe when everyone has computers hooked up to their TVs, pure digital pirating will take place, but until then, it's an analogue world, baby.