For instance, if I can play raw.avi files, but don't have the DivX codec, I can't play DivX encoded.avi files at all. I need the DivX codec.
Yes, but why would you trust a codec from a site you've never heard of before? There are far more reliable and trustworthy download locations other than www.JimBobRoysEmporiumOfMusic.com....
It's the same idea with food. If someone on the street sells you a cheap hot dog, and turns away while adding "the Chef's secret sauce" under their trenchcoat, you're still the one ultimately responsible for the decision to eat said weiner.
With a corrected link directly to the story of the alternate program idea. What's annoying to me is this guy can't seem to make up his mind. FTLA:
But Cook said he is familiar with the Jupiter project, and he's not impressed. NASA informally reviewed plans for the rocket last fall and determined the idea to be a flawed scheme based on shaky numbers.
"It's not feasible. We said, 'It doesn't work' and moved on,'" Cook said.
Meanwhile, he said, work on the Ares I rocket is so far along that the first test flight is less than a year away.
So which is it? Is Ares doing jus' ducky, or should he start taking a closer look at Jupiter? Is this just another example of NASA bureaucracy at its worst?
When line voltage goes out of what's expected, a "tilt bit" is set. At least, that's what Vista hardware specs call for. Is it really that big of a jump to make?
Considering that any EMI source can cause voltage spikes/fluctuations, I'm pretty disgusted. I appreciate the info, though... I found this article that pretty much echos my gripe with this DRM scheme.
Damndest case I ever saw of this was a computer that'd reboot if a cell phone was set on top of it and called. Spiked along the PSU'S PG line and caused a reset.
The download will start, get x% finished and then just freeze. It'll look like it's still downloading but it's not, it just sits there until you cancel the download. I've emailed my ISP about it several times and they've never answered me...
If you're in the US, call their sales department. Get a name and email addy for the rep, and forward an article to 'em like this:
Set for a read receipt, and follow up with that rep. See if they change their minds...
I believe that there is a significant percentage of population (probably around 10%) that could be just as bright as the top people in sciences, but they just took a different path. They didn't get the encouragements, or maybe they just didn't meet a friend in the 5th grade that had the same interest as them.
In India, I'd bet the caste system has a bit to do with that as well...
You guys read copyright violation and then your brains just completely shut down. The way this was applied is reasonable...stop jumping to ridiculous conspiracy theories.
Rather interesting assumptions there.
I never cried conspiracy. I'm just saying this is opening a licensing can o' worms.
I would challenge the notion that ads are GOOD advice. Good marketing, maybe, but everytime some online service/portal tries to suggest items based on my search results, I keep getting ads for crap I don't need, wouldn't want, and can find cheaper elsewhere.
My dad and I both have Dermatographic urticaria, and he read about how nifty Seldane was. I was wasting my time with Benadryl, because Seldane has no drowsiness, he said. It's great! I should try it! The ad said so!
...until he realized that Seldane was exacerbating his heart condition. It was pulled from the market a year later for just that.
Good ad? Sure. Targeted to the audience. Yup. Good advice? Hell no.
But at the same time if a company has one program and doesn't like a different web browser (like Opera) they could ban you from using opera while their program is running.
"Your choice of software has been approved, Comrade. We'll be watching..."
How long before other major software developers start using this to stifle innovation and competition? 'specially {though I'll not name names} the "popular" OS firms...
I was arguing that an armed populace CAN overcome the might of the US military, and rather easily, given that the Iraqis gave them a run for their money, EVEN THOUGH guns were illegal, they are relatively poor and oppressed, etc.
Considering how tightly the government here is integrated with all of our communications mediums, I'd be willing to bet an insurrection would be a LOT harder to pull off in the US. In addition, there'd have to be an event even worse than what we've had so far to gain public support from the apathetic masses.... and I shudder to think what it'd have to be...
Presumably there would be no court time involved, so we would end up with an automated MediaSentry-like system spitting out demands for cash. No thanks.
Just wait for it:
"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the RIAA's morality statute."
While, um, probably effective, what happens when one gets attached to the pilot and he gets shocked instead of the "terrorist"?
Flip side: What if miscreants get ahold of one of the controllers and hold all the passengers hostage? What happens when {and it'll happen} people get the wrong bracelet, and granny with the bad heart gets enough of a jolt to drop her?
Your government is the one who orchestrated all those planes craches in the first place.
Governments ares run by people even more deceptive than you could ever imagine.
...are you talking about the same people that couldn't even keep a simple blow-job quiet?
For a number of reasons, these operating systems are treated like firmware because they're embedded into a single image onto an IC. It's not (safely) possible to reflash portions of the image on the fly so the whole thing is written over for each change.
So who on the Sony team failed to foresee a failed flash? Motherboards have been out f'r a while with the "Dual BIOS" feature; other than cost, why couldn't this have been implemented in the PS3?
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For instance, if I can play raw .avi files, but don't have the DivX codec, I can't play DivX encoded .avi files at all. I need the DivX codec.
Yes, but why would you trust a codec from a site you've never heard of before? There are far more reliable and trustworthy download locations other than www.JimBobRoysEmporiumOfMusic.com....
It's the same idea with food. If someone on the street sells you a cheap hot dog, and turns away while adding "the Chef's secret sauce" under their trenchcoat, you're still the one ultimately responsible for the decision to eat said weiner.
Graphics aren't everything, as I'm sure many people here can attest to.
I would attest to that, but it appears I've been eaten by a grue.
Heck, just for nostalgia I occasionally whip out the ol' Trash-80 emulator and play Raaka-Tu every so often, or Bedlam...
Ditto for the DOS games. When a game is still enjoyable 20 years later, THAT, my friends, is value.
Whoa, there. Why would we want to adopt a pet which loathes our existence no matter how much good we do for it?
Sound like you need The Engineer's Guide to Cats...
...and if you still can't stand them, there's a simple method to make a cat sound like a dog:
1. Douse cat in gasoline.
2. Flick a lit match at the cat, and presto:
3. It goes "*WOOF!*"
Thank you, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitresses and bartenders, and please.... try the fish.
With a corrected link directly to the story of the alternate program idea. What's annoying to me is this guy can't seem to make up his mind. FTLA:
So which is it? Is Ares doing jus' ducky, or should he start taking a closer look at Jupiter? Is this just another example of NASA bureaucracy at its worst?
Film at 11....
When line voltage goes out of what's expected, a "tilt bit" is set. At least, that's what Vista hardware specs call for. Is it really that big of a jump to make?
Considering that any EMI source can cause voltage spikes/fluctuations, I'm pretty disgusted. I appreciate the info, though... I found this article that pretty much echos my gripe with this DRM scheme.
Damndest case I ever saw of this was a computer that'd reboot if a cell phone was set on top of it and called. Spiked along the PSU'S PG line and caused a reset.
http://www.momentaryfascinations.com/technology/vista.the.worlds.first.user-hostile.operating.system.html
Tilt bits.
...which have exactly what relation to the supposed ability to measure "line voltage"?
The download will start, get x% finished and then just freeze. It'll look like it's still downloading but it's not, it just sits there until you cancel the download. I've emailed my ISP about it several times and they've never answered me...
If you're in the US, call their sales department. Get a name and email addy for the rep, and forward an article to 'em like this:
Set for a read receipt, and follow up with that rep. See if they change their minds...
I believe that there is a significant percentage of population (probably around 10%) that could be just as bright as the top people in sciences, but they just took a different path. They didn't get the encouragements, or maybe they just didn't meet a friend in the 5th grade that had the same interest as them.
In India, I'd bet the caste system has a bit to do with that as well...
You guys read copyright violation and then your brains just completely shut down. The way this was applied is reasonable...stop jumping to ridiculous conspiracy theories.
Rather interesting assumptions there.
I never cried conspiracy. I'm just saying this is opening a licensing can o' worms.
...and I hate worms.
Allow me to rephrase:
I would challenge the notion that ads are GOOD advice. Good marketing, maybe, but everytime some online service/portal tries to suggest items based on my search results, I keep getting ads for crap I don't need, wouldn't want, and can find cheaper elsewhere.
My dad and I both have Dermatographic urticaria, and he read about how nifty Seldane was. I was wasting my time with Benadryl, because Seldane has no drowsiness, he said. It's great! I should try it! The ad said so!
...until he realized that Seldane was exacerbating his heart condition. It was pulled from the market a year later for just that.
Good ad? Sure. Targeted to the audience. Yup. Good advice? Hell no.
Besides, at some point ads stop being ads and start being advice.
No, IMHO they're NOT advice. Advice given should primarily focus on benefits for the givee, not the giver.
They don't give a rat's kazoo if you have a full head of hair and will STILL take your cash for a Rogaine prescription.
I'm not THAT new....
....and don't call me Shirley....
Call me crazy, but that code looks like it'd be royally forked. ;)
Not having seriously programmed since the TRS-80, I was curious... Jus' how hard IS it to develop decent multi-threaded/multi-core code....?
...I just really hate how 'technology' has been used to God-ify everything so every instance of it inspires me to, like, be mean and stuff...
Then this article headline should drive you off your rocker...
But at the same time if a company has one program and doesn't like a different web browser (like Opera) they could ban you from using opera while their program is running.
"Your choice of software has been approved, Comrade. We'll be watching..."
How long before other major software developers start using this to stifle innovation and competition? 'specially {though I'll not name names} the "popular" OS firms...
Right and that explains the crashes....the system was not free of bugs.
Was it the system, or the sensor? The article points to the sensor, and like most systems, GIGO...
I was arguing that an armed populace CAN overcome the might of the US military, and rather easily, given that the Iraqis gave them a run for their money, EVEN THOUGH guns were illegal, they are relatively poor and oppressed, etc.
Considering how tightly the government here is integrated with all of our communications mediums, I'd be willing to bet an insurrection would be a LOT harder to pull off in the US. In addition, there'd have to be an event even worse than what we've had so far to gain public support from the apathetic masses.... and I shudder to think what it'd have to be...
Presumably there would be no court time involved, so we would end up with an automated MediaSentry-like system spitting out demands for cash. No thanks.
Just wait for it:
Flip side: What if miscreants get ahold of one of the controllers and hold all the passengers hostage? What happens when {and it'll happen} people get the wrong bracelet, and granny with the bad heart gets enough of a jolt to drop her?
Your government is the one who orchestrated all those planes craches in the first place.
Governments ares run by people even more deceptive than you could ever imagine.
...are you talking about the same people that couldn't even keep a simple blow-job quiet?
Well as I doubt that 'Ethanol-fueled' is really your real name you have just commited a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment
...which is why I do what celebs do... I sign legal documents as Uncle Togie, and have even appeared on local public access as such.
...flip side to this: Does this mean Ozzy has to sign up online as John Michael now?
clicked the bio link to see if she's hot and didn't bother to click the article ?
Never occurred to me 'til you suggested it...
But since you did, can I borrow some eye-bleach?
If the contract's for a few million, they could set my hair on fire and I wouldn't gripe...
Last I checked, the military was not to be used against the citizenry. Why should that be any different in cyberspace than in meatspace?
Easy answer:
They can if threatened/attacked. For example, check the response you'd get if you tried to drive on-base without stopping at the gate...
For a number of reasons, these operating systems are treated like firmware because they're embedded into a single image onto an IC. It's not (safely) possible to reflash portions of the image on the fly so the whole thing is written over for each change.
So who on the Sony team failed to foresee a failed flash? Motherboards have been out f'r a while with the "Dual BIOS" feature; other than cost, why couldn't this have been implemented in the PS3?