Sure, they're flexible...however, flexing them will in some cases render them useless despite their outward appearance of being "in one piece".
CF is too large and inflexible to carry, say, in your wallet.
CF, IMHO, is a much safer media to carry in your wallet. Due to the rigidity of CF cards, they won't flex, and since the pins (pin holes) are on the end of the card, there is no wear or static electricity being passed directly to the card. When I got my first digital camera, a cheap Olympus that used SmartMedia, I carried a SM card in my wallet for a month. I then tried to use it, and it didn't work. It looked fine, but the camera didn't like it. I am now a working professional photographer shooting 90% digital, and shoot with a Nikon D1x that uses only CF cards. I have never had a CF card fail, and frequently keep them in my pocket. I have even run one through the laundry, and it has emerged safe.
I'm in college now, and the thing I realy wish I had is a Kegerator. It's a mini-fridge just big enough to hold a keg on the inside, with some kind of gas that keeps the keg pressurized so you never have to pump it. It also has a tap on the top, so you always have frosty beer!
we really hope that number will increase since such a huge number of readers expressed support for the subscription system, but distaste for paypal.
Distaste for PayPal? That's a pretty mild way of putting it. How about extreme distrust and fear of lost funds. Or just distaste, I guess.
Good job, anyway.
You could organize your files by rooms in your house. No wait -- you could have a filing cabinet in one of these rooms, filled with folders. In each folder you could have documents that you've 'created'. If you want to get rid of a document, just drop it in the 'waste basket.'
Yeah, it's called Microsoft Bob(TM). That went real far...
Uh, instead of joking about changing the speed of light, why don't you change something that IS changeable? Though it would require massive hardware upgrades, why can't we get some LEO (low-earth orbit) sats up there that are dedicated for low-latency high-bandwidth communications?
Well, it is illegal to call their software IOS, since some company called Cisco uses something called IOS to do something probably totally unimportant...</sarcasm>. Call up the USPTO? They probably wouldn't care. So, can I call my new ebonics-education software "Word"?
The hoax was a PCI card with onboard processors to work on Distributed.net's challenge. The perpetrators of the hoax pulled the plug after some people started actually trying to purchase the product.
There was a story on here a while ago about a police department posting hundreds of candid pictures of rioters, asking for assistance in identification. Would this not be the exact same scenario? ----
How about people posting to USENET then complaining about the whole Deja/Google thing? They have no right to complain that the archives are offline because they are not contributing to sustaining its existance.
Nobody that contributed to CDDB gave them money to keep up the listings...then Napster comes along, gives them KashMoney, and people complain because their personal submissions....their hard work that they let into "public record"...are now out of their reach. ----
Like it or not, words and actions have consequences. If you insist on saying stupid things, you might have to pay for it. This is just life.
Just for argument's sake, I'm taking this in the context of a public school.
The school should have responded in a manner corresponding to the offense...if the offense was by means of speech or the press, the school should have responded verbally only. The school system has freedom of speech as well, so they have the right to make comments about the students' offenses. If I walk up to someone on the street and say "f--k you!", they can say the same to me legally, but cannot legally punch me...although they may do that. ----
Getting back at those damn old people with pacemakers that drive slow in the fast lane....just mount it on your front bumper, and it'll cause a traffic disturbance ahead. ----
So pretty much by turning off the digital outputs, Napster is only allowing you to play your payNapster MP3's through POS computer speakers? What if you have a kickass home stereo with a digital input? "Digital output is not licensed" is what Napster would tell you! Bullshit! If you license music, they shouldn't be able to dictate what speakers you play it through.... ----
What about the Sony Mavica that writes digital images right to 156MB CD-R discs? Yes, it doesn't work in the DVD player...but how can you even think Sony is turning their back on CD-R technology (if it can be called such)? While these are not standard full-size CD-R discs, they are CD-R's. The home entertainment sector may not support them, but this does not reflect Sony as a whole, nor does it denote any conspiracy within Sony. ----
I propose a patent for...
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· Score: 2
The process of:
1. Using neurochemical impulses to control human tissue
2. Controlling, via said impulses, certain tissue in the abdomen of a human
3. Having this tissue lower pressure inside the abdomen, facilitating human respiration
GET REAL! Take away the internet, and you're taking away our breath or our voice. Going to patent the motion of the solar system now? ----
I sure hope Deja doesn't fall into the wrong hands - it could easily be mined privately for millions of e-mail addresses, as it sort of is already. ----
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Slashdot's such a great place for news because the best minds in the world (programmers, of course) get together and add their two cents to not only answer a simple question, but also to provoke thought and further questions...and also answers. The world is becoming like a Beowulf cluser, where each little part can add their two cents, and when you have 500,000 people adding $0.02, you end up with around $10k (just from a few pennies from a few people). It's a great step in the world of journalism, and I think this trend should continue in all fields of news. There are people out there who know anything and everything about something as obscure as....child psychology, and these people could culminate in a Slashdot-type forum to come up with a lot better answers about Columbine than CNN can give us (Props to Salon.com for their great piece!). Just a thought.... but IMHO this is a very positive turn for us "want-to-be" journalists who stare in frustration at their monitors, reading all the FUD on major news sites.
If your employer's doing this, it should be a case of invasion of privacy. However, it isn't since your employer owns the machine and network, and all rights to monitoring thereof. That's why you need to install Linux on it, and just fire up fvwm95 as a WM and your stupid Dilbert-boss will never know the difference...
There is simply no substiture for Slashdot. Sure, there are other news sites but I don't know what I would do if I couldn't read/. in the morning...it would be like going to work without having coffee or taking a shower. Thanks to all of the crew at/. , you guys get serious props for making it all happen.
Slashdot Mirror
Check it out here...he just went over his data transfer on Yahoo =P.
Heh...keep an eye out for the white vans outside your house, after that comment...and don't take your tinfoil hat off!
The cards are physically flexible
Sure, they're flexible...however, flexing them will in some cases render them useless despite their outward appearance of being "in one piece".
CF is too large and inflexible to carry, say, in your wallet.
CF, IMHO, is a much safer media to carry in your wallet. Due to the rigidity of CF cards, they won't flex, and since the pins (pin holes) are on the end of the card, there is no wear or static electricity being passed directly to the card. When I got my first digital camera, a cheap Olympus that used SmartMedia, I carried a SM card in my wallet for a month. I then tried to use it, and it didn't work. It looked fine, but the camera didn't like it. I am now a working professional photographer shooting 90% digital, and shoot with a Nikon D1x that uses only CF cards. I have never had a CF card fail, and frequently keep them in my pocket. I have even run one through the laundry, and it has emerged safe.
I'm in college now, and the thing I realy wish I had is a Kegerator. It's a mini-fridge just big enough to hold a keg on the inside, with some kind of gas that keeps the keg pressurized so you never have to pump it. It also has a tap on the top, so you always have frosty beer!
we really hope that number will increase since such a huge number of readers expressed support for the subscription system, but distaste for paypal.
Distaste for PayPal? That's a pretty mild way of putting it. How about extreme distrust and fear of lost funds. Or just distaste, I guess. Good job, anyway.
You could organize your files by rooms in your house. No wait -- you could have a filing cabinet in one of these rooms, filled with folders. In each folder you could have documents that you've 'created'. If you want to get rid of a document, just drop it in the 'waste basket.'
Yeah, it's called Microsoft Bob(TM). That went real far...
"All your base are belong to us!"
Uh, instead of joking about changing the speed of light, why don't you change something that IS changeable? Though it would require massive hardware upgrades, why can't we get some LEO (low-earth orbit) sats up there that are dedicated for low-latency high-bandwidth communications?
Well, it is illegal to call their software IOS, since some company called Cisco uses something called IOS to do something probably totally unimportant ...</sarcasm>. Call up the USPTO? They probably wouldn't care. So, can I call my new ebonics-education software "Word"?
The hoax was a PCI card with onboard processors to work on Distributed.net's challenge. The perpetrators of the hoax pulled the plug after some people started actually trying to purchase the product.
There was a story on here a while ago about a police department posting hundreds of candid pictures of rioters, asking for assistance in identification. Would this not be the exact same scenario?
----
How about people posting to USENET then complaining about the whole Deja/Google thing? They have no right to complain that the archives are offline because they are not contributing to sustaining its existance.
Nobody that contributed to CDDB gave them money to keep up the listings...then Napster comes along, gives them KashMoney, and people complain because their personal submissions....their hard work that they let into "public record"...are now out of their reach.
----
Like it or not, words and actions have consequences. If you insist on saying stupid things, you might have to pay for it. This is just life.
Just for argument's sake, I'm taking this in the context of a public school.
The school should have responded in a manner corresponding to the offense...if the offense was by means of speech or the press, the school should have responded verbally only. The school system has freedom of speech as well, so they have the right to make comments about the students' offenses. If I walk up to someone on the street and say "f--k you!", they can say the same to me legally, but cannot legally punch me...although they may do that.
----
Getting back at those damn old people with pacemakers that drive slow in the fast lane....just mount it on your front bumper, and it'll cause a traffic disturbance ahead.
----
So pretty much by turning off the digital outputs, Napster is only allowing you to play your payNapster MP3's through POS computer speakers? What if you have a kickass home stereo with a digital input? "Digital output is not licensed" is what Napster would tell you! Bullshit! If you license music, they shouldn't be able to dictate what speakers you play it through....
----
What about the Sony Mavica that writes digital images right to 156MB CD-R discs? Yes, it doesn't work in the DVD player...but how can you even think Sony is turning their back on CD-R technology (if it can be called such)? While these are not standard full-size CD-R discs, they are CD-R's. The home entertainment sector may not support them, but this does not reflect Sony as a whole, nor does it denote any conspiracy within Sony.
----
The process of:
1. Using neurochemical impulses to control human tissue
2. Controlling, via said impulses, certain tissue in the abdomen of a human
3. Having this tissue lower pressure inside the abdomen, facilitating human respiration
GET REAL! Take away the internet, and you're taking away our breath or our voice. Going to patent the motion of the solar system now?
----
I sure hope Deja doesn't fall into the wrong hands - it could easily be mined privately for millions of e-mail addresses, as it sort of is already.
----
Since JonKatz's account has been gone, Slashdot's bandwidth usage has dropped 50% due to lack of his monotonous ramblings.
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You won't find it in the dictionary. Hypocracy might have a useful definition though....
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24 months at $24.95 per month. Account must be in good standing at time of
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monthly fee of $14.95 in addition to the cost of their Internet access (may not
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A one-time, non-refundable activation fee of $49.90 applies to all accounts at
time of registration which includes full registration and free upgrades.
Jeezus....from the screenshots, it looks like looking into "The Matrix"...minus the tacky green terminal and how text went down instead of across. :)
Slashdot's such a great place for news because the best minds in the world (programmers, of course) get together and add their two cents to not only answer a simple question, but also to provoke thought and further questions...and also answers. The world is becoming like a Beowulf cluser, where each little part can add their two cents, and when you have 500,000 people adding $0.02, you end up with around $10k (just from a few pennies from a few people). It's a great step in the world of journalism, and I think this trend should continue in all fields of news. There are people out there who know anything and everything about something as obscure as....child psychology, and these people could culminate in a Slashdot-type forum to come up with a lot better answers about Columbine than CNN can give us (Props to Salon.com for their great piece!). Just a thought.... but IMHO this is a very positive turn for us "want-to-be" journalists who stare in frustration at their monitors, reading all the FUD on major news sites.
If your employer's doing this, it should be a case of invasion of privacy. However, it isn't since your employer owns the machine and network, and all rights to monitoring thereof. That's why you need to install Linux on it, and just fire up fvwm95 as a WM and your stupid Dilbert-boss will never know the difference...
There is simply no substiture for Slashdot. Sure, there are other news sites but I don't know what I would do if I couldn't read /. in the morning...it would be like going to work without having coffee or taking a shower. Thanks to all of the crew at /. , you guys get serious props for making it all happen.