Comment Re:Work yourself around it (Score 1) 271
I agree, but we'll have to wait for XP to die to switch everyone over to IPv6, too. :)
Sheeple! Wake up!
but when you receive mail from business people, it's usually an image embedded in a Word document, or at the very least a pdf. This is where mutt fails.
I'm not sure about images, but mutt has a really fantastic auto_view feature, which will automatically decode HTML email, PDFs, Word documents, etc into text and display it inline in your viewer. When people email me PDFs, I can not only view them without spawning an external viewer, but the PDF/MSWord text gets included in the quoted text when I hit "reply", so I can just reply to their PDF/MSWord text in-line.
You seem to misunderstand what DRM, a.k.a. "copy protection", is advertised to do. It's about preventing copies of the content that is "protected" by DRM from becoming widely available to non-paying users.
The negative effects of implementing DRM systems, which is that users' devices remain out of their control (for most users), are alive and well. That doesn't mean that DRM is accomplishing its stated purpose.
The rest of the world doesn't celebrate thanksgiving, so there is no black Friday here!
You think you're safe, eh? Consider that Canada's Thanksgiving is *on a completely different day* from U.S. Thanksgiving, and yet somehow, Black Friday still happened in Canada on Nov 23.
No one is safe.
If I come up with a concept that it is utterly new, and difficult, but it can run on a PC... Why shouldn't I be able to patent it?
Because over the past decades, we've learned that allowing people like you to patent all of these thigs actually results in a "patent thicket" that punishes innovation. Today, if you try to build your utterly new and difficult invention in the US, you have a high risk of losing a patent infringement lawsuit (or spending a ton of money defending yourself against one), because doing so would infringe on dozens of other people's patents.
Only if you look at it from the perspective of digital 1's and 0's. If you look at it from the perspective of analog signals, you'll see square waves or sine waves on a frequency.
Actually, if you're using something like direct-sequence spread spectrum modulation over a wide bandwidth, it's really going to just look like noise that's *quieter* than the noise floor at the receiver. Unless you know what you're looking for, you're not going to be able to distinguish the signal from the background noise.
Of course, if aliens are at least as concerned about battery life as we are, they aren't going to be transmitting signals with so much excess power and with so much redundancy that the signals will reach us AND that we'll be able to decode them.
Happiness is twin floppies.
