incorrect. mercury and mars, have varying atmospheric or environmental conditions shaping them. there is a reason why they are that flat, and uniform.
Mars is flat?? I don't know where you get that idea from. Mars has mountains and valleys that dwarf anything we have on earth. Olympus Mons is over 21km tall, almost 3 times the height of anything on earth.
But then most of these 'old classics' that are making the jump to "high def" BluRay are just upscales from old laserdisk (sub DVD quality) copies anyway. 'See the movie as you've never seen it before' is likely a byword for 'see the movie with all kind of crappy video artifacts that weren't noticable on your forgiving old 28" cathode ray tube TV but will just be painful to watch in glorious 60" high definition'.
That may be true for old movies, but there are plenty of new movies that look much better on bluray than they do on dvd. Which makes a bluray player a worthwhile purchase for someone who watches new movies.
What people need is a broadcast of the current energy price, so they can optimize their usage. Reporting peoples usage habits has NO value to either the customer or overall energy consumption. The power company is not going to control the customer usage (except with interruptabe servive).
In order for the power company to charge you the price of power from 1pm to 2pm they need to know how much power you used from 1pm to 2pm, so yes, the power company needs this information to do exactly what you are requesting.
Localization I can almost understand. OS X is the only platform I know of that lets you specify a per-thread locale that functions like this respect. But memory allocator? It's converting a string to a double - it shouldn't need a memory allocator at all, it just scans a string and collects the digits into a mantissa and exponent then. And thread safety? It's a pure function! It doesn't need any thread safety!
each thread in windows has its own independent localization settings also.
It was never disabled so there's nothing to enable again. It was only available on the first few models of the PS3 because they included PS2 hardware inside them. Hardware which was removed in later models.
But it might let people built a ps2 emulator that can directly play ps2 disks.
Why is it impressive that a smaller solid state drive performs as well as a standard size one? What does the size have to do with anything relating to these performance benchmarks?
PA is going "de-regulation", and all it's proving to do is raise rates (even the electric co's tell you so) while everyone's pocket already contains only lint.
And by raising rates we aren't talking about 5%... No, our bills jumped 30% minimum, 40% in some cases.
What kinds of protections? There's really not much that a bot can do to require the Warden to circumvent a countermeasure in order to detect its presence. Scanning memory for a certain memory string doesn't require circumvention, for instance.
It could have its data encrypted, or have another process that detects when some other program is probing its memory space. This should be enough to qualify as protection under the DMCA. Warden doesn't just detect the presence of the program, it actively tries to shut it down according to wikipedia.
What would happen if you had the bot software installed first and it had protections in it to stop warden from doing things to it... If you then installed the game, and Warden messed up your bot, wouldn't Blizzard now be guilty of the same thing they are accusing MDY of?
Net neutrality will give and take according to the whims of those who claim the moral high ground and the term. It will be as effective at promoting true neutrality as our wars on drugs and poverty in their respective realms. The current opponents of what most/.ers think would be neutral will eventually embrace the term and subvert its meaning.
That doesn't change what net neutrality is though. If that happens then what is happening ISN'T net neutrality any more, it's something else. Just because there are some "bad" people out there who might subvert something doesn't mean the ideal version isn't worth fighting for.
Did you forget about comcast and bit torrents already?
Why should they NOT have the right to provide even faster service to Netflix if you (or Netflix) offered to pay them additional money?
If I wanted to pay my ISP so that my connection was faster then it's perfectly fine, I am directly attached to my ISP and I am their direct customer. My ISP and Netflix have no direct connections. The connections are all handled by peering agreements which determine the price each ISP charges their customer.
If I pay for 20mb/sec service, and netflix is capable of sending 20mb/sec, why do you think my ISP should be able to charge twice for my 20mb/sec connection? I've already paid for it. If they can't provide the service for the price they charge me, then they should raise MY price. I am the one using the ISP's resources, not netflix.
Also you could get the 8 second time if all the bombs were exploded inside their launchers / storage facilities. People in this thread are assuming the missiles need to be launched to cause world wide destruction.
That doesn't mention anything about the Cobalt Bomb, or any other specific weapon... It's about an automated general launch system of their standard weapons.
Regulation never "gives" power to anyone. It can only take away some power from those that already have it.
You are right on that point. I should have said "Keeps" instead of "Gives".
If you take away the power to price some service according to use, then that service will go away or suffer loss of quality.
I don't have a problem with price being set based on use. But I paid my ISP for my connection, and Netflix paid their ISP for theirs. My ISP should not have the right to degrade the incoming connection from Netflix just because my ISP has their own competing television service, or feel that Netflix "owes" them money.
I am against network neutrality exactly because I want to see network access reach the largest number of people in the most open manner possible. Not a locked-down internet with the regulators eventually able to control blacklists that give the ISP's sites they cannot allow you to see. After all, the government already went after the DNS servers of some companies they deemed to be breaking the law. If the FCC had sway over ISP's why would the ISP's not also be told ti disallow access to those sites by IP as well?
That isn't net neutrality, but it is a nice straw man. Net neutrality is about preventing outside influence.
Net neutrality gives more freedom to the few (the connectivity companies) and takes away from the rest (content providers, consumers).
It's pretty much the exact opposite of that. Net Neutrality gives power to the people who create and consume content, and prevents the people who provide the connections from tampering with it.
no where in there does it say it is exclusively the right to vote. In fact it says "or of some privilege" and "a legal right". Neither of these are specific to voting.
That's quite a hack, depriving users of their right to vote...
disenfranchise verb \dis-in-fran-chz\ Definition of DISENFRANCHISE transitive verb : to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity
Can't this backfire on Comcast? I mean, if a Comcast customer tried watching Netflix and they can't get a good connection because of congested links, the user isn't going to think "Netflix is crappy" they're going to complain aboyt how they've got such a crap connection through Comcast.
And the very next thing the customer thinks after that is "Hmm, I can't get DSL or fios out here, I guess I don't really have any choice but to live with it."
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Ofcourse Mars has bigger mountains, its smaller than Earth
That doesn't doesn't make much sense... Thats like saying "Of course it has taller mountains, it's RED"
incorrect. mercury and mars, have varying atmospheric or environmental conditions shaping them. there is a reason why they are that flat, and uniform.
Mars is flat?? I don't know where you get that idea from. Mars has mountains and valleys that dwarf anything we have on earth. Olympus Mons is over 21km tall, almost 3 times the height of anything on earth.
Or if your meter knew the rate, it just needs to report a cost to the power company.
How is that any different than reporting usage?
It still has to report back some number either autonomously, or via meter reader.
But then most of these 'old classics' that are making the jump to "high def" BluRay are just upscales from old laserdisk (sub DVD quality) copies anyway. 'See the movie as you've never seen it before' is likely a byword for 'see the movie with all kind of crappy video artifacts that weren't noticable on your forgiving old 28" cathode ray tube TV but will just be painful to watch in glorious 60" high definition'.
That may be true for old movies, but there are plenty of new movies that look much better on bluray than they do on dvd. Which makes a bluray player a worthwhile purchase for someone who watches new movies.
What people need is a broadcast of the current energy price, so they can optimize their usage. Reporting peoples usage habits has NO value to either the customer or overall energy consumption. The power company is not going to control the customer usage (except with interruptabe servive).
In order for the power company to charge you the price of power from 1pm to 2pm they need to know how much power you used from 1pm to 2pm, so yes, the power company needs this information to do exactly what you are requesting.
I still chuckle when someone tells me they just bought a bluray player.
I ask why because
1. powerdvd (and it's equivalents) will upconvert
2. you can buy a upconvert dvd player for $35
My tinfoil hat tells me that they just want us to buy the same shit in a different format.
Up converting will never give the same quality as a source image in the correct format.
Localization I can almost understand. OS X is the only platform I know of that lets you specify a per-thread locale that functions like this respect. But memory allocator? It's converting a string to a double - it shouldn't need a memory allocator at all, it just scans a string and collects the digits into a mantissa and exponent then. And thread safety? It's a pure function! It doesn't need any thread safety!
each thread in windows has its own independent localization settings also.
...that would be "Houston we have an issue".
Or, as my current boss would say "Houston, we have a challenge".
I take it you weren't a fan of the colorized version of Casablanca?
The one with the happier ending?
You all should know it's "Doctor Who", not "Dr. Who" by now.
It was never disabled so there's nothing to enable again. It was only available on the first few models of the PS3 because they included PS2 hardware inside them. Hardware which was removed in later models.
But it might let people built a ps2 emulator that can directly play ps2 disks.
my iphone is my camcorder
history has proved many times that cheap and mobile wins over single use and cool gee whiz tech
Ahh the irony.
Why is it impressive that a smaller solid state drive performs as well as a standard size one? What does the size have to do with anything relating to these performance benchmarks?
PA is going "de-regulation", and all it's proving to do is raise rates (even the electric co's tell you so) while everyone's pocket already contains only lint.
And by raising rates we aren't talking about 5%... No, our bills jumped 30% minimum, 40% in some cases.
What kinds of protections? There's really not much that a bot can do to require the Warden to circumvent a countermeasure in order to detect its presence. Scanning memory for a certain memory string doesn't require circumvention, for instance.
It could have its data encrypted, or have another process that detects when some other program is probing its memory space. This should be enough to qualify as protection under the DMCA. Warden doesn't just detect the presence of the program, it actively tries to shut it down according to wikipedia.
What would happen if you had the bot software installed first and it had protections in it to stop warden from doing things to it... If you then installed the game, and Warden messed up your bot, wouldn't Blizzard now be guilty of the same thing they are accusing MDY of?
Net neutrality will give and take according to the whims of those who claim the moral high ground and the term. It will be as effective at promoting true neutrality as our wars on drugs and poverty in their respective realms. The current opponents of what most /.ers think would be neutral will eventually embrace the term and subvert its meaning.
That doesn't change what net neutrality is though. If that happens then what is happening ISN'T net neutrality any more, it's something else. Just because there are some "bad" people out there who might subvert something doesn't mean the ideal version isn't worth fighting for.
Did you forget about comcast and bit torrents already?
If I wanted to pay my ISP so that my connection was faster then it's perfectly fine, I am directly attached to my ISP and I am their direct customer. My ISP and Netflix have no direct connections. The connections are all handled by peering agreements which determine the price each ISP charges their customer.
If I pay for 20mb/sec service, and netflix is capable of sending 20mb/sec, why do you think my ISP should be able to charge twice for my 20mb/sec connection? I've already paid for it. If they can't provide the service for the price they charge me, then they should raise MY price. I am the one using the ISP's resources, not netflix.
Actually, they did build it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_(nuclear_war)
Also you could get the 8 second time if all the bombs were exploded inside their launchers / storage facilities. People in this thread are assuming the missiles need to be launched to cause world wide destruction.
That doesn't mention anything about the Cobalt Bomb, or any other specific weapon... It's about an automated general launch system of their standard weapons.
You are right on that point. I should have said "Keeps" instead of "Gives".
I don't have a problem with price being set based on use. But I paid my ISP for my connection, and Netflix paid their ISP for theirs. My ISP should not have the right to degrade the incoming connection from Netflix just because my ISP has their own competing television service, or feel that Netflix "owes" them money.
That isn't net neutrality, but it is a nice straw man. Net neutrality is about preventing outside influence.
Net neutrality gives more freedom to the few (the connectivity companies) and takes away from the rest (content providers, consumers).
It's pretty much the exact opposite of that. Net Neutrality gives power to the people who create and consume content, and prevents the people who provide the connections from tampering with it.
no where in there does it say it is exclusively the right to vote. In fact it says "or of some privilege" and "a legal right". Neither of these are specific to voting.
The Gawker hack has completely disenfranchised their users
That's quite a hack, depriving users of their right to vote...
disenfranchise
verb \dis-in-fran-chz\
Definition of DISENFRANCHISE
transitive verb
: to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity
Can't this backfire on Comcast? I mean, if a Comcast customer tried watching Netflix and they can't get a good connection because of congested links, the user isn't going to think "Netflix is crappy" they're going to complain aboyt how they've got such a crap connection through Comcast.
And the very next thing the customer thinks after that is "Hmm, I can't get DSL or fios out here, I guess I don't really have any choice but to live with it."
ohh, and get more than 4 voice actors. And stop making the old lady randomly switch between "Old Hag" and "Young Maiden" voice with every sentence.