Taking a look at AT&T's version of cell phone terms and conditions, they say that "These terms and conditions may be changed from time-to-time." There's a little about where to go to check for changed terms, and other stuff like that.
From a quick reading, there is no ability to cancel without penalty before the contract expires (well, except for the first 3 or 30 days), at least according to AT&T. Now, maybe AT&T would be nice, and give their customers the choice to terminate without penalty, but there's nothing in their terms that seems to require it.
"for signout" and "they are abused" pretty much go hand-in-hand. People who would be gentle to their own equipment aren't always gentle when using someone else's. Young kids also don't have the finger strength of a 250 pound ironworker.
23760 works on eZi;) Another example is kids beginning to call things "book" instead of "cool" because of the first guess by most quick-text software. Whether this has ever happened, or the kids lied to the old fart who wrote the article, is left as an exercise.
Almost all modern PCs do have MIDI support. The Joystick Port on most sound cards has MIDI pins on it, and for the cost of some minor hardware consisting mostly of connectors, you've got MIDI. I believe you can find joystick/MIDI cables for about $30 at your good local MIDI hardware supplier.
Mobile phones and mini mp3 players aren't good for recording music for a couple of reasons.
Mobile phones:
In the US, most are locked to certain providers, each of which wants to sell "content" of some sort to the captive audience. Providing a properly designed recording system would (in certain marketing theories) reduce "content" sales.
Many of the microphones and audio processing in cell phones are optimized for voice recording, which means that no matter how good the compression, you still won't get those 15kHz high tones.
Mini mp3 players:
Many are as cheap as possible, and barely play back anything more complex than 128-160 bps mp3s.
There's at least one single-chip solution to playing back MP3s, and adding another chip to record would cost more inventory and manufacturing time.
Both: In general, the smaller the space allotted for microphone hardware, the worse the recording will be.
Microsoft does have a team of lawyers on staff. The division is probably named "Legal/Corporate Affairs". From one of their career site's pages: "[Attorneys will] work on challenging, cutting-edge issues that have a positive impact on how the world does business". It's beginning to look like they're using the military sense of "positive impact".
The default avatars that you start out with are youngish adults (and a few odd-shaped other things I don't recall), not children. Smaller "child" avatars are player-designed.
So, it didn't have child avatars to begin with, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't originally designed for cyber sex. Emergent behaviors are difficult to predict accurately.
Do what I do, and assume all reasonably strong thin clear plastic blister packs are PETE (aka recyclable plastic #1 like coke bottles). Recycle them with the rest. They are recyclable even without the marking. The major recyclers know how to sort things even without markings.
There are still a lot of things these days not marked "recyclable" that can be recycled. Paper is an obvious example.
At the very least, "random" plastic can get recycled into shipping pallets, and plastic containers to hold recyclable materials for trash day.
URL blocking everything at *.doubleclick.* at the router works even better. It does consumer-useful things to certain media players, for instance. What? Certain video ads no longer play? The Horror...
From my point of view, doubleclick doesn't exist on the internet anymore. It's not the only company on the list. Problem solved.
Most laser printer drums, at low usage levels, last long enough that by the time you need to replace it, the drum is no longer made. At high usage levels, it's still cheaper than inkjet prices.
They're talking about blocking the framebuffer from access by anything other than the GPU.
The GPU itself does most of those special effects these days. So it shouldn't have any effect on gaming at all, other than maybe making screenshots more difficult to get.
Anyone want to try making a SVGA port to framebuffer card? Sort of the inverse of a GPU.
If something has a 1 in 10^100 chance of happening, then it has a 1 in 10^100 chance of happening (unless you are using the wrong odds). The chance of it happening in this universe is not "never", but exceedingly small. The likelihood of any of us being around to see it, is extremely small. We're talking small enough it seems to "never happen".
They don't call it Probability and Sadistics for nothing.
Despite them saying that it helps prevent phishing (which it might in some small way), the main purpose is so that the Bank feels more secure about it. Sitekey is more like a "known terminal personally accessed by this login holder, who answered security questions, and BofA has a stronger claim against someone fraudulently claiming his ID was stolen." It doesn't strike me as any more secure from my side of the transaction.
I'm confused. Why would someone who was told "you don't know X well enough", who does indeed believe he knows X, have any good claim to a discrimination lawsuit? By the definition of the hiring authority, he didn't know X well enough to get the job. He's not discrimated against because knowledge is not currently a protected reason for discrimination.
Sure, he could sue, but it doesn't appear that he's got anything that'd win.
PS3 has "games and simulations and dsp stuff" as significantly more than 5% of its apps. So, any improvement you might see in non-gaming related vector calculations will be swamped by the gaming-related use of the PS3.
Allofmp3 is not dead yet. The site still exists, and I think (though I've not tried it) you can still download MP3s from it. It's amazing that the RIAA has somehow convinced people that AoMp3 is dead, when it's not.
Actually, they're obligated to let you use it as long as they choose to let you use it. The WoW Eula is very similar to "At will" employment agreements, in that either side can terminate it at any time.
From section 6 of the EULA "Blizzard may terminate this Agreement at any time for any reason or no reason."
Adhering to their terms isn't sufficient to guarantee continued service, at least from a eula point of view.
Slashdot Mirror
That joke may be a bit _too_ technical for slashdot.
PFNPRFE: People For Local Number Portability Remade For Email
Hmmmph... nope that doesn't roll of the tongue well enough to be a PAC.
Taking a look at AT&T's version of cell phone terms and conditions, they say that "These terms and conditions may be changed from time-to-time." There's a little about where to go to check for changed terms, and other stuff like that.
From a quick reading, there is no ability to cancel without penalty before the contract expires (well, except for the first 3 or 30 days), at least according to AT&T. Now, maybe AT&T would be nice, and give their customers the choice to terminate without penalty, but there's nothing in their terms that seems to require it.
"for signout" and "they are abused" pretty much go hand-in-hand. People who would be gentle to their own equipment aren't always gentle when using someone else's. Young kids also don't have the finger strength of a 250 pound ironworker.
23760 works on eZi ;)
Another example is kids beginning to call things "book" instead of "cool" because of the first guess by most quick-text software. Whether this has ever happened, or the kids lied to the old fart who wrote the article, is left as an exercise.
Almost all modern PCs do have MIDI support. The Joystick Port on most sound cards has MIDI pins on it, and for the cost of some minor hardware consisting mostly of connectors, you've got MIDI. I believe you can find joystick/MIDI cables for about $30 at your good local MIDI hardware supplier.
Mobile phones:
Mini mp3 players:
Both:
In general, the smaller the space allotted for microphone hardware, the worse the recording will be.
Easy, click on the "Alter Relationship" button next to their name, and change em to "friend". Done :)
Bravo Romeo Bravo, Bravo India Oscar...
Oscar Kilo, Bravo Alfa Charlie Kilo.
For those _Really Noisy_ channels.
Microsoft does have a team of lawyers on staff. The division is probably named "Legal/Corporate Affairs". From one of their career site's pages: "[Attorneys will] work on challenging, cutting-edge issues that have a positive impact on how the world does business". It's beginning to look like they're using the military sense of "positive impact".
The default avatars that you start out with are youngish adults (and a few odd-shaped other things I don't recall), not children. Smaller "child" avatars are player-designed.
So, it didn't have child avatars to begin with, and I'm fairly sure it wasn't originally designed for cyber sex. Emergent behaviors are difficult to predict accurately.
Right, but ... oh, wait ... I see what you mean!
*goes to buy a good logic analyzer*
Whaddaya mean, it's a circumvention device? I use it to debug embedded devices for work.
Do what I do, and assume all reasonably strong thin clear plastic blister packs are PETE (aka recyclable plastic #1 like coke bottles). Recycle them with the rest. They are recyclable even without the marking. The major recyclers know how to sort things even without markings.
There are still a lot of things these days not marked "recyclable" that can be recycled. Paper is an obvious example.
At the very least, "random" plastic can get recycled into shipping pallets, and plastic containers to hold recyclable materials for trash day.
"We have been watching you for some time, Ms. Anderson"
URL blocking everything at *.doubleclick.* at the router works even better. It does consumer-useful things to certain media players, for instance. What? Certain video ads no longer play? The Horror...
From my point of view, doubleclick doesn't exist on the internet anymore. It's not the only company on the list. Problem solved.
Back when I was carbon dating, we didn't even have a donkey.
Most laser printer drums, at low usage levels, last long enough that by the time you need to replace it, the drum is no longer made. At high usage levels, it's still cheaper than inkjet prices.
They're talking about blocking the framebuffer from access by anything other than the GPU.
The GPU itself does most of those special effects these days. So it shouldn't have any effect on gaming at all, other than maybe making screenshots more difficult to get.
Anyone want to try making a SVGA port to framebuffer card? Sort of the inverse of a GPU.
If something has a 1 in 10^100 chance of happening, then it has a 1 in 10^100 chance of happening (unless you are using the wrong odds). The chance of it happening in this universe is not "never", but exceedingly small. The likelihood of any of us being around to see it, is extremely small. We're talking small enough it seems to "never happen".
They don't call it Probability and Sadistics for nothing.
Despite them saying that it helps prevent phishing (which it might in some small way), the main purpose is so that the Bank feels more secure about it. Sitekey is more like a "known terminal personally accessed by this login holder, who answered security questions, and BofA has a stronger claim against someone fraudulently claiming his ID was stolen." It doesn't strike me as any more secure from my side of the transaction.
No, no, there can be more than one evil one... I say they're all evil, except me.
I'm confused. Why would someone who was told "you don't know X well enough", who does indeed believe he knows X, have any good claim to a discrimination lawsuit? By the definition of the hiring authority, he didn't know X well enough to get the job. He's not discrimated against because knowledge is not currently a protected reason for discrimination.
Sure, he could sue, but it doesn't appear that he's got anything that'd win.
PS3 has "games and simulations and dsp stuff" as significantly more than 5% of its apps. So, any improvement you might see in non-gaming related vector calculations will be swamped by the gaming-related use of the PS3.
Allofmp3 is not dead yet. The site still exists, and I think (though I've not tried it) you can still download MP3s from it. It's amazing that the RIAA has somehow convinced people that AoMp3 is dead, when it's not.
Actually, they're obligated to let you use it as long as they choose to let you use it. The WoW Eula is very similar to "At will" employment agreements, in that either side can terminate it at any time.
From section 6 of the EULA
"Blizzard may terminate this Agreement at any time for any reason or no reason."
Adhering to their terms isn't sufficient to guarantee continued service, at least from a eula point of view.