In fact, they claim that such a device would interfere with digital television signals when the viewer is 25 miles from the television tower and the whitespace device is 10m or less from the TV set. At 50 miles from the television tower, a whitespace device within 50m from a set could allegedly cause interference
Isn't that rebutted by basic physics? Both signals follow the simple inverse square law. A TV signal 50miles from the tower is 1/4 the signal strength of the signal 25miles, while a device 50m from a set is 1/25 the interference of a device 10m from a set.
A while after Google purchased Dejanews, they changed to format to something much more awkward... I think to promote their own Google Groups, which as far as I know haven't really ever taken off. For a while, you could log into Google Groups in other countries to access the old format, but it was like chasing a tiger; eventually, they converted every country over to the clumsier format. It's the only time I ever emailed a complaint into google.
Complaints won't help on this issue if Google is doing this as some sort of strategic business plan; when they deliberately screw something up, it is no doubt with the intent of forcing consumers to act a certain way, or to promote one of their services that normally wouldn't get used. When enough of that sort of stuff accumulates, Google will go the way of Yahoo, and another upstart company will take their place.
I'll stick up for Yahoo's mail accounts. I have mail accounts on Yahoo and Gmail, and I think Yahoo's is just as good. Granted, they were forced into improving because of gmail, but improve they did.
Nearly everything else yahoo has is pretty worthless, though. Last I checked, although you can customize your yahoo page, you can't remove the F***ING HOROSCOPE! That actively pisses me off every time I set eyes on the page.
...Makes it sound really interesting, and confirms that it really lives in an entirely different genre than the other games mentioned. It sounds more like a musical playground than a competitive game. (You give yourself a score based on how well you think you sounded? That's great!).
Check out parent post's post history. It's all spam. I'm sure he'll get modded down to -1, but does slashdot ever completely ban these sorts of posters?
Then why, as the summary itself asks, is there only one internet archive? Granted there's nothing stopping another archive from opening up, but yet... it hasn't happened. For one reason or another, it's not spawning clones.
I think it's simply because nobody's figured out how to make a buck off it. Once that happens, there'll be hundreds of them.
Chiropractic does have some benefits; it can provide temporary relief of some muscular tension, around the spine.
But prominent figures in the field claim it can help fight cancer, help the function of various bodily organs, and so forth. That's the magic hoodoo-voodoo part. If they admitted that they were really just glorified Massage Therapists, there wouldn't be a problem... but they make false claims.
I'm sure tribal shaman sometimes helped their patient with weird concoctions brewed from roots; but that doesn't mean the exorcism they're about to perform on you is true.
If you made it clear to the customers up front that your products were going to be obsoleted at your convenience, why not? It wasn't that hard to figure out that the music was going to be turned off at some point; everybody here certainly knew it. Any of Walmart's customers that actually read what they were paying for should have no complaint. And if they didn't read what they were paying for, too bad for them.
I don't think 2 was a piece of crap, but I played it first, so I probably didn't have your expectations. I thought it was a fairly typical example of FPS/RPG hybrid. Later, playing the first one, I understand how you feel. Going from superb to mediocre is a jolt, even if the mediocre game isn't really that bad.
Sounds like 3 will be worse, from the description.
Quantum physics was baffling to me (still is, actually), but I eventually came to see it as a way that nature avoided some inherent paradoxes and contradictions that were present when you took classic physics down to the level of fundamental particles. I have no doubt that, on a larger scale, the same principle applies: Somehow, someway, the laws of physics will always resolve with no singularities, no contradictions, no divide-by-zero-error, no infinities. If our formulas seem to indicate that one will be found, I suspect our understanding is incomplete.
The citizen jounalism isn't the problem; it's the ridiculously gullible stock investors. How many times most they be burned before they start learning basic fundamentals of life?
The fact that stocks can consistently be played by unverified rumors posted on an open public forum... well, money flows from the stupid to the smart. Note that the stock price has recovered, but Darwin has shifted it into better hands.
I think it has to do with success rates. A 20% success rate is all that a spammer cracking a captcha needs to be profitable.
The USPS might see a return on investment if their OCR equipment works on 75% of text, routing the hard-to-read 25% to humans. That's a huge reduction in workload, because otherwise every letter would need to be scanned by a human
Legal and government text, however, needs to be 99.9% or more accurate, because one flipped character in a page of text can cause severe problems; that means everything needs to be proof-read carefully, eliminating the cost advantage of OCR in the first place.
And here's a somewhat related question: Is there good freeware or GPL'd OCR software usable on windows? I have a few dozen pages, scanned in as high-res PNGs, that I need to convert. Snag: It has some Kanji characters sprinkled throughout.
I think Vista's failure was a result of XP's success; Microsoft didn't have a fire in their belly to improve their product. Instead, they took the OS in a direction that Microsoft wanted, not the customer. The consumer was not the driving factor in their design decisions.
That failed, as did Vista. Now, they are working on Windows 7... the quality of their coding is not going to be particularly better or worse than, but their priorities are going to be substantially different. Another release or two that bomb as badly as Vista did, and they'll finally start to see some market shrinkage. I think they are going to be much more focused on the consumer on the next release.
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Everybody else doesn't manage it just fine. I used GIMP for months before I figured that out. And I, just like the GP, am relatively intelligent and computer literate.
It's not a complicated process, and it even makes a bit of sense, looking at it in hind-sight. But it is not intuitive. When practically every new user of a program has the same issue, the user may not be the problem. Maybe the process is fine, but it needs to be told to the user more clearly.
I use GIMP nearly every day, and really like it. I'm a fan. I'm glad to see improvements.
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Here's the easy way: Clear your cache, watch a flash video, then do a search on your machine for all files modified today with a file size over, say, a few meg in size. You'll probably get a short list, and one of them should be the flash video in your cache directory. You may have to copy it out and rename it.
In round numbers, it's a trillion dollar bailout. That's about a 50% one year increase in the federal budget. In ten years or so, it'll probably be recompensed, maybe at a loss, maybe at a profit. Let's say it'll be at a 50% loss, so we'll get 500 billion back.
In scale, that's similar to a typical US household, earning $60,000, getting a loan for $30,000, buying a expensive car, then selling it for $15,000 ten years from now.
It's a bitch and a half, but it's not the ruin of the economy. Hell, if we simply instituted a freeze in government growth, we would be running a surplus in about four years, and would probably have made back the trillion dollars within ten years. Don't let the panic on the TV reports spook you. That's what they want.
Also, buying videogames, and other such pastimes, are absolutely necessarily to keep the economy growing.
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In fact, they claim that such a device would interfere with digital television signals when the viewer is 25 miles from the television tower and the whitespace device is 10m or less from the TV set. At 50 miles from the television tower, a whitespace device within 50m from a set could allegedly cause interference
Isn't that rebutted by basic physics? Both signals follow the simple inverse square law. A TV signal 50miles from the tower is 1/4 the signal strength of the signal 25miles, while a device 50m from a set is 1/25 the interference of a device 10m from a set.
So, you're saying that the massive bias of your media worked it's magic on you and most of your acquaintences?
Should I keep going?
Yeah. Who were the Germans better than?
Are you looking for an explanation? Because AJAX will often break tabbed browsing.
A while after Google purchased Dejanews, they changed to format to something much more awkward... I think to promote their own Google Groups, which as far as I know haven't really ever taken off. For a while, you could log into Google Groups in other countries to access the old format, but it was like chasing a tiger; eventually, they converted every country over to the clumsier format. It's the only time I ever emailed a complaint into google.
Complaints won't help on this issue if Google is doing this as some sort of strategic business plan; when they deliberately screw something up, it is no doubt with the intent of forcing consumers to act a certain way, or to promote one of their services that normally wouldn't get used. When enough of that sort of stuff accumulates, Google will go the way of Yahoo, and another upstart company will take their place.
I'll stick up for Yahoo's mail accounts. I have mail accounts on Yahoo and Gmail, and I think Yahoo's is just as good. Granted, they were forced into improving because of gmail, but improve they did.
Nearly everything else yahoo has is pretty worthless, though. Last I checked, although you can customize your yahoo page, you can't remove the F***ING HOROSCOPE! That actively pisses me off every time I set eyes on the page.
...Makes it sound really interesting, and confirms that it really lives in an entirely different genre than the other games mentioned. It sounds more like a musical playground than a competitive game. (You give yourself a score based on how well you think you sounded? That's great!).
Wow. At night, do you see racists under your bed and in your closet?
Check out parent post's post history. It's all spam. I'm sure he'll get modded down to -1, but does slashdot ever completely ban these sorts of posters?
Then why, as the summary itself asks, is there only one internet archive? Granted there's nothing stopping another archive from opening up, but yet... it hasn't happened. For one reason or another, it's not spawning clones.
I think it's simply because nobody's figured out how to make a buck off it. Once that happens, there'll be hundreds of them.
Perhaps you should have taken a moment to confirm that indeed, every other post in the thread says the exact same thing.
Including this one; their stated reason is untrue, this is a marketing ploy to sell more units.
Chiropractic does have some benefits; it can provide temporary relief of some muscular tension, around the spine.
But prominent figures in the field claim it can help fight cancer, help the function of various bodily organs, and so forth. That's the magic hoodoo-voodoo part. If they admitted that they were really just glorified Massage Therapists, there wouldn't be a problem... but they make false claims.
I'm sure tribal shaman sometimes helped their patient with weird concoctions brewed from roots; but that doesn't mean the exorcism they're about to perform on you is true.
If you made it clear to the customers up front that your products were going to be obsoleted at your convenience, why not? It wasn't that hard to figure out that the music was going to be turned off at some point; everybody here certainly knew it. Any of Walmart's customers that actually read what they were paying for should have no complaint. And if they didn't read what they were paying for, too bad for them.
He can't name them! Don't you understand! They have systems in place to wipe all evidence!
I don't think 2 was a piece of crap, but I played it first, so I probably didn't have your expectations. I thought it was a fairly typical example of FPS/RPG hybrid. Later, playing the first one, I understand how you feel. Going from superb to mediocre is a jolt, even if the mediocre game isn't really that bad.
Sounds like 3 will be worse, from the description.
Quantum physics was baffling to me (still is, actually), but I eventually came to see it as a way that nature avoided some inherent paradoxes and contradictions that were present when you took classic physics down to the level of fundamental particles. I have no doubt that, on a larger scale, the same principle applies: Somehow, someway, the laws of physics will always resolve with no singularities, no contradictions, no divide-by-zero-error, no infinities. If our formulas seem to indicate that one will be found, I suspect our understanding is incomplete.
The citizen jounalism isn't the problem; it's the ridiculously gullible stock investors. How many times most they be burned before they start learning basic fundamentals of life?
The fact that stocks can consistently be played by unverified rumors posted on an open public forum... well, money flows from the stupid to the smart. Note that the stock price has recovered, but Darwin has shifted it into better hands.
I think it has to do with success rates. A 20% success rate is all that a spammer cracking a captcha needs to be profitable.
The USPS might see a return on investment if their OCR equipment works on 75% of text, routing the hard-to-read 25% to humans. That's a huge reduction in workload, because otherwise every letter would need to be scanned by a human
Legal and government text, however, needs to be 99.9% or more accurate, because one flipped character in a page of text can cause severe problems; that means everything needs to be proof-read carefully, eliminating the cost advantage of OCR in the first place.
And here's a somewhat related question: Is there good freeware or GPL'd OCR software usable on windows? I have a few dozen pages, scanned in as high-res PNGs, that I need to convert. Snag: It has some Kanji characters sprinkled throughout.
I think Vista's failure was a result of XP's success; Microsoft didn't have a fire in their belly to improve their product. Instead, they took the OS in a direction that Microsoft wanted, not the customer. The consumer was not the driving factor in their design decisions.
That failed, as did Vista. Now, they are working on Windows 7... the quality of their coding is not going to be particularly better or worse than, but their priorities are going to be substantially different. Another release or two that bomb as badly as Vista did, and they'll finally start to see some market shrinkage. I think they are going to be much more focused on the consumer on the next release.
Everybody else doesn't manage it just fine. I used GIMP for months before I figured that out. And I, just like the GP, am relatively intelligent and computer literate.
It's not a complicated process, and it even makes a bit of sense, looking at it in hind-sight. But it is not intuitive. When practically every new user of a program has the same issue, the user may not be the problem. Maybe the process is fine, but it needs to be told to the user more clearly.
I use GIMP nearly every day, and really like it. I'm a fan. I'm glad to see improvements.
As are books. Have you ever read one of them?
Beautiful.
You probably should have saved your pity for an occasion when RMS wasn't right on the ball. He'll give you opportunities, trust me.
But cloud computing is a buzzword for a marketing campaign. It's the newest renaming of renting software as services.
Here's the easy way: Clear your cache, watch a flash video, then do a search on your machine for all files modified today with a file size over, say, a few meg in size. You'll probably get a short list, and one of them should be the flash video in your cache directory. You may have to copy it out and rename it.
In round numbers, it's a trillion dollar bailout. That's about a 50% one year increase in the federal budget. In ten years or so, it'll probably be recompensed, maybe at a loss, maybe at a profit. Let's say it'll be at a 50% loss, so we'll get 500 billion back.
In scale, that's similar to a typical US household, earning $60,000, getting a loan for $30,000, buying a expensive car, then selling it for $15,000 ten years from now.
It's a bitch and a half, but it's not the ruin of the economy. Hell, if we simply instituted a freeze in government growth, we would be running a surplus in about four years, and would probably have made back the trillion dollars within ten years. Don't let the panic on the TV reports spook you. That's what they want.
Also, buying videogames, and other such pastimes, are absolutely necessarily to keep the economy growing.