The drive in the Wii is NOT a DVD drive. In a DVD drive, the speed changes so the laser reads at the same speed all throughout the disk. This puts a strain on the motor (different speed and etc)
Our Global Warming cycle is the same as the Global Warmming cycle on Mars. My theory is our greenhouse gasses are not responsible for the warming on Mars, but I have no way to prove it one way or another. I also believe that what ever is causing the Mars global warming is also impacting our global warming to a great degree.
You're comparing yourself, who can apparently do system design, to bog standard programmers. Most programmers can't do system design well - regardless of ethnicity. I've met many Western programmers, who, when given a full spec, can muddle their way through until their code passes an acceptance test. But ask them how to design a complex, scalable system, and they end up talking about Java and web pages rather than bandwidth and computation requirements. That's why good systems architects get paid a lot more than average programmers!
German intelligence agents warned the US in a letter that there was no way to verify Mr Alwan's claims...The 60 Minutes report says the information was passed on by then CIA director George Tenet, who denies ever seeing the German intelligence letter....Back in November 2005, Col Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff to Mr Powell, told the BBC's Carolyn Quinn he was aware the Germans had said that they had told the CIA of the unreliability.
"And then you begin to speculate, you begin to wonder was this intelligence spun; was it politicised; was it cherry-picked; did in fact the American people get fooled?," Col Wilkerson said.
The data tariffs are reasonable for VoIP - depends where you live I suppose - in the UK cell calls to landlines and your provider's network are typically cheapest, calls to other networks are quite expensive, and international calls are extortionate. If it wasn't cheaper to use VoIP, then they wouldn't have to ban it. They also ban instant messaging with a data plan, trying instead to force you to pay 10p or so for every SMS you send.
As far as I can tell from observing the habits of my iPhone owning friends, YouTube (or RedTube..) is likely to be the biggest bandwidth hog. Possibly BBC would be second. The 300MB limit gives you 10MB/day, which would be fine for VoIP - you could probably get around 3 hours a day of calling. Of course, this will never happen, since the network operators would hate it and so the iPhone SDK doesn't support VoIP calls over non-Wifi connections.
Don't be confused; you're correct - the only difference between this and PocketPC VoIP is that this is the iPhone. Skype for mobile is slightly different - it uses the regular network for calls rather than a Wifi or other data connection, so you get charged at the usual rate for regular voice calls. However, Skype then proxy the call anywhere in the world for their usual tariff. The important point is you're still paying your mobile operator for the voice call.
VoIP calling is only over Wifi, so the data tariff limitations are irrelevant - the SDK simply doesn't allow call switching over non-Wifi data connections.
There's an official VoIP SDK for the iPhone, so expect similar apps to follow from other providers. The only limitation is that you can't VoIP over the GPRS/Edge/3G data connection.
Don't forget the huge disagreement between the US and Europe over the Galileo satellite system. The EU intended to use the GPS military band carrier frequencies for Galileo, so that the US couldn't jam it without also jamming the signal used by their own armed forces. Eventually the EU backed down and agreed to use separate frequencies.
It might be arrogance to *force* nVidia to support Linux, or to insist that Linux users have the *right* to open source drivers. However, that isn't what the authors of this statement are doing - they aren't storming nVidia HQ in an armed revolution, but merely pointing out that binary drivers are a PITA, and asked companies nicely to consider releasing open source drivers in the future. And that's fine.
A simple search would've answered your questions regarding the Patriot Act and indefinite detention.
As for your other comments: why do you think that comparing the judicial responses of two of the Western democratic nations engaged in the "war on terror" is inappropriate? It seems entirely reasonable - a rational comparison does not represent an "inferiority complex".
In his book "Beyond Dogma," he has written that "homosexuality, whether it is between men or between women, is not improper in itself. What is improper is the use of organs already defined as inappropriate for sexual contact." Tibetan Buddhism prohibits oral, manual and anal sex for everyone - both homosexuals and heterosexuals. However, these restrictions refer only to members of the Buddhist faith. 4 From "society's viewpoint," same-sex relations can be "of mutual benefit, enjoyable and harmless." He supports human rights "regardless of sexual orientation." At a subsequent meeting with gay and lesbian representatives, he expressed the "willingness to consider the possibility that some of the teachings may be specific to a particular cultural and historic context."
Which is the reason most Muslims are fundamentalist.
Right, most of the one billion Muslims in the world are fundamentalist. There are tens of millions of Muslims in Europe and the USA alone - don't you think if most of them were fundamentalist we would've seen quite a bit more violence by now?
People need to relax and stop getting so paranoid about "the terrorists". The biggest killer in our society is heart disease from over eating and lack of exercise. Hundreds of people die in road accidents every week. Heck, upto 100,000 just died in a single day in Burma. Where is the war on fatty foods and sedentary lifestyles? The war on road accidents? The war on disruptive weather? Perspective, people.
Men are free to screw unbelieving women [timesonline.co.uk].
The article identifies those guys as Asian, not Muslim. Nick Griffin of the British National Party made the same attempts as you to portray Muslim men as paedophile rapists. Because of course, in Britain no white girl would ever get drunk and have underage sex, no, that would just never happen...
I fail to see what identity theft has to do with CCTV coverage. If you are suggesting that my government can't be trusted with my info, then I can assure you that my government already knows every detail printed in my passport. If you're suggesting that the government could abuse CCTV - well, we live in a democracy and can vote them out with little effort. Sure, the government controls the army and police, but we control the government.
There seems to be this pervading Slashdot meme that British people are dumb privacy hating idiots... yes, the majority of people in Britain support the CCTV cameras. No, there have been no major abuses yet. Yes, potentially, a CCTV network with facial recognition would be quite useful to a hypothetical future fascist government. But really, if Britain has already elected a fascist government, then we have already lost...
I hate to be the one to say it, but CCTV has been shown to reduce the severity of crime - reducing the police response time to muggings, for example, leading to less severe injuries to the victim. CCTV has also been invaluable in tracking perpetrators of serious attacks after the attacks have occurred - David Copeland and the 7/7 bombers being two prominent examples.
The bottom line is that CCTV, like any tool, has some good uses, and some bad. The issue isn't as black and white (hoho) as people make out.
Yes, KPDF is great. The Iliad runs linux and has many apps ported already. Maybe KPDF will be there someday. Unfortunately you have to ask for shell access on your own device...
One of my Serbian friends is still upset that NATO bombed the maternity ward of a hospital. "How can such a thing be an accident? It was no accident, it was to make us feel weak and powerless."
She has a point. I still wonder how the most powerful and advanced military the world has ever known could "accidentally" target a hospital, or an embassy, when both are clearly marked on maps, and everyone who actually lives in the city knows where they are...
I think the point is that most Americans believe that the United States is better than those other regimes you list. Very few citizens would be as willing as yourself to accept that the U.S. is an expansionist modern "empire", or that it has even been responsible for any atrocities around the world. Of course some other nations have as well, but the sheer power and scale of US influence on the world stage means it will inevitably be called to account for more abuses than other modern nations like, say, Iceland, or even Canada.
NDS was accused of cracking the ITV Digital cards in the UK shortly after the released of terrestrial digital TV. NDS UK alledgedly posted the crack on a pay-TV hacking web site (House of Ill Compute) which it had some shady financial links to. This led to widespread counterfeit cards, and was blamed for the financial collapse of ITV Digital. The major beneficiary of the ITV Digital collapse was the other pay-TV service launching at the time - Sky Digital, which was, funnily enough, also owned by Murdoch. Shady stuff. (source)
Shortly before the Sky Digital release Boris Floricic (aka Tron) gave a talk at a conference in the Netherlands on cracking pay-TV smart cards, and mentioned how much he was looking forward to the upcoming released of Sky Digital for a new challenge. A few months later he was found hanging dead in a park - supposedly going missing for five days, and then killing himself. The timing was very suspicious. Sky Digital remains uncracked.
I just saw the video (downloaded from Wikileaks), and I can tell you that from what I saw there, and from what I have read, it seems to me that Islam is a really fucked up religion. And this time I mean the religion, not the church.
People like you said the same thing about Judaism 70 years ago, and look how that turned out...
First, I reiterate the fact that federal spending on health care for Americans in general is unconstitutional.
Is a non-defensive "regime change" war constitutional? Just asking, since that was the point of discussion...
Truly universal coverage will cost more per year than the war, and, of course, will surely last much longer.
Singapore provides one of the best healthcare systems in the world, for a cost of only 3% of GDP. US healthcare is worse by all measures, and costs more at an estimated 15% of GDP. The US spends more per capita on administration of the healthcare insurance model than many other developed nations spend on entire non-insurance based healthcare models. I recommend reading "The Undercover Economist" for a convincing argument of how the insurance based model destroys the whole concept of a market based system.
Does not follow, actually. A large fraction of those without health insurance do so because they are healthy and have no use for it.
Substitute "have no use for it" with the correct "are unlikely to use it" and you have one of the main problems with the whole idea of "healthcare insurance"; information asymmetry leads people who are unlikely to need insurance to not purchase it, and those who need it to over-purchase it. Insurance markets cannot function like this, it leads to a feedback loop with rising prices and falling numbers of unlikely claimants. The book "The Undercover Economist" has a good explanation of why a market like the US healthcare system will inevitably fail, and how it can be made to function correctly (eg. he recommends switching to a Singapore model healthcare system).
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Let's get this straight.
The drive in the Wii is NOT a DVD drive. In a DVD drive, the speed changes so the laser reads at the same speed all throughout the disk. This puts a strain on the motor (different speed and etc)
You're talking about constant angular velocity" (CAV) versus constant linear velocity (CLV). Only old CD-ROM drives and DVD writers use CLV. A modern DVD or CD drive will use CAV when reading a disc.
Our Global Warming cycle is the same as the Global Warmming cycle on Mars.
My theory is our greenhouse gasses are not responsible for the warming on Mars, but I have no way to prove it one way or another. I also believe that what ever is causing the Mars global warming is also impacting our global warming to a great degree.
The Mars myth was debunked a long time ago...
You're comparing yourself, who can apparently do system design, to bog standard programmers. Most programmers can't do system design well - regardless of ethnicity. I've met many Western programmers, who, when given a full spec, can muddle their way through until their code passes an acceptance test. But ask them how to design a complex, scalable system, and they end up talking about Java and web pages rather than bandwidth and computation requirements. That's why good systems architects get paid a lot more than average programmers!
Germany Intelligence warned the U.S. that the Curveball evidence was unreliable, but the warning was ignored:
The data tariffs are reasonable for VoIP - depends where you live I suppose - in the UK cell calls to landlines and your provider's network are typically cheapest, calls to other networks are quite expensive, and international calls are extortionate. If it wasn't cheaper to use VoIP, then they wouldn't have to ban it. They also ban instant messaging with a data plan, trying instead to force you to pay 10p or so for every SMS you send.
As far as I can tell from observing the habits of my iPhone owning friends, YouTube (or RedTube..) is likely to be the biggest bandwidth hog. Possibly BBC would be second. The 300MB limit gives you 10MB/day, which would be fine for VoIP - you could probably get around 3 hours a day of calling. Of course, this will never happen, since the network operators would hate it and so the iPhone SDK doesn't support VoIP calls over non-Wifi connections.
Don't be confused; you're correct - the only difference between this and PocketPC VoIP is that this is the iPhone. Skype for mobile is slightly different - it uses the regular network for calls rather than a Wifi or other data connection, so you get charged at the usual rate for regular voice calls. However, Skype then proxy the call anywhere in the world for their usual tariff. The important point is you're still paying your mobile operator for the voice call.
VoIP calling is only over Wifi, so the data tariff limitations are irrelevant - the SDK simply doesn't allow call switching over non-Wifi data connections.
There's an official VoIP SDK for the iPhone, so expect similar apps to follow from other providers. The only limitation is that you can't VoIP over the GPRS/Edge/3G data connection.
Don't forget the huge disagreement between the US and Europe over the Galileo satellite system. The EU intended to use the GPS military band carrier frequencies for Galileo, so that the US couldn't jam it without also jamming the signal used by their own armed forces. Eventually the EU backed down and agreed to use separate frequencies.
It might be arrogance to *force* nVidia to support Linux, or to insist that Linux users have the *right* to open source drivers. However, that isn't what the authors of this statement are doing - they aren't storming nVidia HQ in an armed revolution, but merely pointing out that binary drivers are a PITA, and asked companies nicely to consider releasing open source drivers in the future. And that's fine.
A simple search would've answered your questions regarding the Patriot Act and indefinite detention.
As for your other comments: why do you think that comparing the judicial responses of two of the Western democratic nations engaged in the "war on terror" is inappropriate? It seems entirely reasonable - a rational comparison does not represent an "inferiority complex".
On the bright side, 28->42 days is only an extra 2 weeks... the Patriot Act allows the US government to lock people up FOREVER without charge.
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Right, most of the one billion Muslims in the world are fundamentalist. There are tens of millions of Muslims in Europe and the USA alone - don't you think if most of them were fundamentalist we would've seen quite a bit more violence by now?
People need to relax and stop getting so paranoid about "the terrorists". The biggest killer in our society is heart disease from over eating and lack of exercise. Hundreds of people die in road accidents every week. Heck, upto 100,000 just died in a single day in Burma. Where is the war on fatty foods and sedentary lifestyles? The war on road accidents? The war on disruptive weather? Perspective, people.
The article identifies those guys as Asian, not Muslim. Nick Griffin of the British National Party made the same attempts as you to portray Muslim men as paedophile rapists. Because of course, in Britain no white girl would ever get drunk and have underage sex, no, that would just never happen...
I fail to see what identity theft has to do with CCTV coverage. If you are suggesting that my government can't be trusted with my info, then I can assure you that my government already knows every detail printed in my passport. If you're suggesting that the government could abuse CCTV - well, we live in a democracy and can vote them out with little effort. Sure, the government controls the army and police, but we control the government.
There seems to be this pervading Slashdot meme that British people are dumb privacy hating idiots... yes, the majority of people in Britain support the CCTV cameras. No, there have been no major abuses yet. Yes, potentially, a CCTV network with facial recognition would be quite useful to a hypothetical future fascist government. But really, if Britain has already elected a fascist government, then we have already lost...
I hate to be the one to say it, but CCTV has been shown to reduce the severity of crime - reducing the police response time to muggings, for example, leading to less severe injuries to the victim. CCTV has also been invaluable in tracking perpetrators of serious attacks after the attacks have occurred - David Copeland and the 7/7 bombers being two prominent examples. The bottom line is that CCTV, like any tool, has some good uses, and some bad. The issue isn't as black and white (hoho) as people make out.
Yes, KPDF is great. The Iliad runs linux and has many apps ported already. Maybe KPDF will be there someday. Unfortunately you have to ask for shell access on your own device...
One of my Serbian friends is still upset that NATO bombed the maternity ward of a hospital. "How can such a thing be an accident? It was no accident, it was to make us feel weak and powerless."
She has a point. I still wonder how the most powerful and advanced military the world has ever known could "accidentally" target a hospital, or an embassy, when both are clearly marked on maps, and everyone who actually lives in the city knows where they are...
I think the point is that most Americans believe that the United States is better than those other regimes you list. Very few citizens would be as willing as yourself to accept that the U.S. is an expansionist modern "empire", or that it has even been responsible for any atrocities around the world. Of course some other nations have as well, but the sheer power and scale of US influence on the world stage means it will inevitably be called to account for more abuses than other modern nations like, say, Iceland, or even Canada.
NDS was accused of cracking the ITV Digital cards in the UK shortly after the released of terrestrial digital TV. NDS UK alledgedly posted the crack on a pay-TV hacking web site (House of Ill Compute) which it had some shady financial links to. This led to widespread counterfeit cards, and was blamed for the financial collapse of ITV Digital. The major beneficiary of the ITV Digital collapse was the other pay-TV service launching at the time - Sky Digital, which was, funnily enough, also owned by Murdoch. Shady stuff. (source)
Shortly before the Sky Digital release Boris Floricic (aka Tron) gave a talk at a conference in the Netherlands on cracking pay-TV smart cards, and mentioned how much he was looking forward to the upcoming released of Sky Digital for a new challenge. A few months later he was found hanging dead in a park - supposedly going missing for five days, and then killing himself. The timing was very suspicious. Sky Digital remains uncracked.
People like you said the same thing about Judaism 70 years ago, and look how that turned out...
Is a non-defensive "regime change" war constitutional? Just asking, since that was the point of discussion...
Singapore provides one of the best healthcare systems in the world, for a cost of only 3% of GDP. US healthcare is worse by all measures, and costs more at an estimated 15% of GDP. The US spends more per capita on administration of the healthcare insurance model than many other developed nations spend on entire non-insurance based healthcare models. I recommend reading "The Undercover Economist" for a convincing argument of how the insurance based model destroys the whole concept of a market based system.
Substitute "have no use for it" with the correct "are unlikely to use it" and you have one of the main problems with the whole idea of "healthcare insurance"; information asymmetry leads people who are unlikely to need insurance to not purchase it, and those who need it to over-purchase it. Insurance markets cannot function like this, it leads to a feedback loop with rising prices and falling numbers of unlikely claimants. The book "The Undercover Economist" has a good explanation of why a market like the US healthcare system will inevitably fail, and how it can be made to function correctly (eg. he recommends switching to a Singapore model healthcare system).