Yes, the Blu-ray standard supports 1080p. Finding a movie encoded at 1080p and a player capable of 1080p output is the harder part. HD-DVD and Blu-ray supports flung so much misinformation at each other, it's hard to know what is truth and what is fiction these days. Suffice to say, both standards are more alike than they are different.
What this means is simple: Only if you're reachable (i.e. if your port is being forwarded), people will be able to send you data. If you're not, only you can send data.
That's not exactly true. If are not reachable (your definition), you can send and receive data from other people who are reachable. If you are reachable, you can send and receive data from people regardless of their port forwarding status. Therefore, if you get your P2P ports forwarded you have a larger pool of available peers.
UPnP was supposed to make the port forwarding problem a whole lot easier, but it's either not widely deployed, or often disabled by default on many routers. What's worse, the early history of UPnP was not good with some really nasty security flaws that were quickly exploited which led lots of people to suggest disabling it completely.
The problem? The problem is they aren't hearing everyone's opinions -- they announce the rules to specific lobbyists two weeks earlier than they announce it to the general public, and when they announce it to the public, they prohibit further lobbying. This is favouritism in every sense. Either allow all parties to lobby during those first two weeks, or allow no one to.
Be careful when you hear a few stories about something. It could be that you get to hear the occasional stray exceptions instead of the rule, because that's what furthers someone's agenda.
It has nothing to do with agendas. The exception is news, the rule is not ("man bites dog is news, dog bites man isn't"). No, what you should be suspect of is self-appointed experts like our friend Jack Thompson here, who use speculation as if it were well established fact in order to further their own personal crusade.
Society has survived Rock and Roll, television, comic books, Heavy Metal, and Rap, which were each charged with corrupting the youth of the world by Luddites. I'm confident that society will survive cellular phones, the Internet and video games just as easily, and that the Luddite's predictions of doom will be just as false in this matter.
What surprises me most is that the people who grew up with comic books and rock music as the boogiemen-du-jour are failing to see the parallels to these new social trends.
For a laptop, there is a more important reason to use noatime. Without that option the hard drives may never get the chance to spin down and save power because/bin/sync always has something to write to the disk (it's own atime update).
10 man stuff isn't common in BC. All we have is Kara. The rest are 25.
The problem with the 40 person raids is that you have to find and coordinate 40 people which effectively locks out all but the largest guilds.
Well, the reason we have low insurance premiums is not so much that MPIC is efficient, but rather the fact that huge cash awards are not given out by MPIC. If you get into an accident, you'll get your repairs paid for (or your car written off), and perhaps some medical expenses paid, but you won't pocket a few million for your "emotional trauma". On the upside, some of the most common insurance scams that is often pulled in places with private insurance just don't happen here.
And, no, we're not unusually safe drivers. The roads are awful, and no one remembers how to drive on ice when winter hits.
Standards bodies attract certain types of people, and it's no real surprise that the IETF is infested with them now. Read an ITU standard some day if you want to know how bad it can be. There's a reason why we use TCP/IP instead of the OSI protocol, why we use SMTP instead of X.400, LDAP instead of X.500, etc. For a rather depressing story about standards bodies, read the Wikipedia article about ATM about the choice of 48-byte payloads.
I seriously doubt the IETF will ever be able to exercise these people from it's midst. Many of them were placed there to represent the interests of a particular corporation. Even if you replace the IETF with another standards organization, these same people would simply be moved into that organization.
Wrong. Abstinence only sex education has become more and more popular in recent times, and specifically excludes all discussion of condoms and other forms of birth control. The rational for the program is that "traditional" sex education encourages these children to become sexually active, so not talking about contraception and instead focusing on pleading with the children to abstain from sex has become what the program has become about instead.
Frankly, the "education" from these programs is worse than no education at all, because not only does it fail to provide the children with any useful information, but also gives them something to rebel against. I have the distinct feeling that the support these programs get is less about education and more about social engineering via propaganda than anything else.
Buy $other_shiney_player, burn the songs to 100 cds, then laboriously remp3ify them, then tediously type in the id3 tag information. For 1000 songs. (Oh what fun). How long will that take?
Well, I'd agree with you on all points except the "tediously type in the id3 tag information". I bought a song from iTunes, burned it to a CD(RW), and then ripped them to MP3 with iTunes on the same computer I burned it from (could've probably done it from another computer if I had enabled CD Text). I now have an MP3 I can play on my non-Apple player, complete with ID3 tags. Perhaps Apple will prohibit this from being possible in the future, but for now, I can't complain.
Now, I do, however, have plenty of complaints about iTunes itself, but that's a topic for a separate rant.
I don't think there are quite enough HD capable sets out there for it to hit the mass market right now, either. TV sets tend to have an extremely long life relative to most other consumer electronics. Plenty of people run 10 year old sets, only replacing them when they finally die. Add to this the fact that your average Walmart probably sells far more SDTV sets than HDTV sets. Suppose for a moment that you're an average Joe on the street, and faced the choice between a nice-looking 27" SDTV at something like $399, versus a 27" HDTV for $599, which would you choose? Would you get the HDTV one which is probably showing the same video source as the SDTV one in the store (both of which would've gone through way too many cheap video repeaters), or would you spend the money you would've used on the HDTV set and get a 32" SDTV set instead?
One thing I'll mention is that you might want to be cautious with the PsTools kit. Some overzealous antivirus software detect some of the programs as a virus, even though they're not. You may want to keep a copy of the zip file (appropriately renamed to something non-.zip) alongside the tools themselves for that annoying day when some stupid AV software decides to delete them.
ennunciation at times helps.. pausing between #'s helps.
Not to mention that often systems that are programmed for IVR recognition of voice numbers will also accept touchtone numbers. Microsoft's Windows XP activation phone number is the most obvious example I can think of, where using DTMF (touch tone) is much faster than IVR when it comes to entering all those numbers (the voice recognition delay is eliminated, and no chance of misrecognition).
Researching stem cells is just not the same as taking the genes from a fish and splicing them into a tomato.
Which has ONLY happened in the lab. That, of course, doesn't stop Greenpeace fanatics from repeating it as if all the tomatos in supermarkets were spliced with fish DNA right now! It was an experiment done to better understand the mechanics behind DNA, and indeed it has.
Most people's fears come from the business world constantly (and consistently) putting profits ahead of public health.
Except no one has provided any evidence whatsoever that genetically modified foods are less healthy. All you have is Greenpeace's paranoid ravings about frankenfood, and how it's "not natural". We do not require labels for hybridized foods, or any other type of food we might breed inside or outside of a laboratory, so why single out GM? Is it simply because people have watched far too many monster movies where an unwitting scientist unleashes a monster on the world?
Less than a year? So, what am I doing with this 4 or 5 year old Logitech wheel mouse? Granted the colour on the buttons has yellowed where my fingers rest on it, and the textured plastic on the sides of the mouse have turned smooth, and the red light in a blue mouse bothered me, so I replaced it with a white one, but it still works great. Maybe when the price of laser mice goes down a bit, I'll consider picking up one of those and finally retire this one.
Maybe rethinking retail displays is in hand. Put everything behind-the-counter.
Yes, but then staff would need to be increased. For a $40 mouse, I'm betting the small chance of losing one or two occasionally is cheaper than keeping additional staff on hand at all times.
It's so much easier to put words in someone else's mouth, and then tear that straw man down, isn't it? I do not see Al-Qaeda mentioned at all in the linked article, nor do I see them single out the U.S. military. You know, it used to be possible to say you disagreed with someone without stamping them as an "idiot-savant" or as a traitor helping terrorists hurt Americans. Furthermore, the authors aren't even Americans, and the example one of the authors gave was about the Dutch military.
If you want to criticise their pacifism, that's fine (there is plenty to say about pacifism in general), but at least criticise their pacifism instead of putting words in their mouths, and then turning around to criticise those words.
The problem with the Dell, of course, is trying to time your purchase with the stupid weekly deals Dell always has. Sure, you picked up that printer for $320, but right now is $374 (for the 3110cn, which replaced the 3100cn), and could go back up to it's list price of $499 (which is what it's sitting at for non-US buyers) at any time. At least with HP, Lexmark, Brother, etc, you can find retailers with persistent low prices on them.
So, to summarize, if you want to see judges actually strike down unconstitutional laws, vote Republican. Because (generally) the judges they appoint will at least read the constitution before deciding a law. Liberal judges (like Ginsberg) will ignore the constitution if foreign law or "world opinion" differs.
You mean, the same party that complains endlessly about "activist judges" who strike down unconstitutional laws that Republicans like? There are plenty of Republicans actually considering taking away the ability of judges to judge laws unconstitional and strike them from the books, because they believe that the ability to make and disolve laws should be solely granted to the elected government. Sorry, but bad behaviour doesn't obey political boundaries.
Even though I'm not a libertarian, I'm reminded of one of their quotes. "Liberals want to be your mother, taking care of you, and protecting you. Conservatives want to be your father, controlling what you do, and enforcing their morality on you." This is why we get bi-paritsan bad ideas like the video game laws that have recently become popular.
Better yet would be SAS, so you can choose either 7.2k RPM Serial ATA or 10k or 15k RPM Serial Attached SCSI drives. The only vendor with a SAS SAN is HP, but you have to use those small form factor SATA and SAS drives, which are very expensive!
Yes, but you export Bud, Miller and Coors, not any of this "damn good beer". And I assure you that ridiculing American beer is a passtime that is far more than 20 years old.
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Yes, the Blu-ray standard supports 1080p. Finding a movie encoded at 1080p and a player capable of 1080p output is the harder part. HD-DVD and Blu-ray supports flung so much misinformation at each other, it's hard to know what is truth and what is fiction these days. Suffice to say, both standards are more alike than they are different.
That's not exactly true. If are not reachable (your definition), you can send and receive data from other people who are reachable. If you are reachable, you can send and receive data from people regardless of their port forwarding status. Therefore, if you get your P2P ports forwarded you have a larger pool of available peers.
UPnP was supposed to make the port forwarding problem a whole lot easier, but it's either not widely deployed, or often disabled by default on many routers. What's worse, the early history of UPnP was not good with some really nasty security flaws that were quickly exploited which led lots of people to suggest disabling it completely.
The problem? The problem is they aren't hearing everyone's opinions -- they announce the rules to specific lobbyists two weeks earlier than they announce it to the general public, and when they announce it to the public, they prohibit further lobbying. This is favouritism in every sense. Either allow all parties to lobby during those first two weeks, or allow no one to.
It has nothing to do with agendas. The exception is news, the rule is not ("man bites dog is news, dog bites man isn't"). No, what you should be suspect of is self-appointed experts like our friend Jack Thompson here, who use speculation as if it were well established fact in order to further their own personal crusade.
Society has survived Rock and Roll, television, comic books, Heavy Metal, and Rap, which were each charged with corrupting the youth of the world by Luddites. I'm confident that society will survive cellular phones, the Internet and video games just as easily, and that the Luddite's predictions of doom will be just as false in this matter.
What surprises me most is that the people who grew up with comic books and rock music as the boogiemen-du-jour are failing to see the parallels to these new social trends.
For a laptop, there is a more important reason to use noatime. Without that option the hard drives may never get the chance to spin down and save power because /bin/sync always has something to write to the disk (it's own atime update).
10 man stuff isn't common in BC. All we have is Kara. The rest are 25. The problem with the 40 person raids is that you have to find and coordinate 40 people which effectively locks out all but the largest guilds.
It wasn't the need for sun protection, but rather the need for vitamin D that caused those who migrated north to slowly lose their skin pigmentation.
Which province is full of sniveling whiners? Quebec? Alberta? Ontario? Newfoundland? BC?
Well, the reason we have low insurance premiums is not so much that MPIC is efficient, but rather the fact that huge cash awards are not given out by MPIC. If you get into an accident, you'll get your repairs paid for (or your car written off), and perhaps some medical expenses paid, but you won't pocket a few million for your "emotional trauma". On the upside, some of the most common insurance scams that is often pulled in places with private insurance just don't happen here. And, no, we're not unusually safe drivers. The roads are awful, and no one remembers how to drive on ice when winter hits.
Standards bodies attract certain types of people, and it's no real surprise that the IETF is infested with them now. Read an ITU standard some day if you want to know how bad it can be. There's a reason why we use TCP/IP instead of the OSI protocol, why we use SMTP instead of X.400, LDAP instead of X.500, etc. For a rather depressing story about standards bodies, read the Wikipedia article about ATM about the choice of 48-byte payloads. I seriously doubt the IETF will ever be able to exercise these people from it's midst. Many of them were placed there to represent the interests of a particular corporation. Even if you replace the IETF with another standards organization, these same people would simply be moved into that organization.
Wrong. Abstinence only sex education has become more and more popular in recent times, and specifically excludes all discussion of condoms and other forms of birth control. The rational for the program is that "traditional" sex education encourages these children to become sexually active, so not talking about contraception and instead focusing on pleading with the children to abstain from sex has become what the program has become about instead. Frankly, the "education" from these programs is worse than no education at all, because not only does it fail to provide the children with any useful information, but also gives them something to rebel against. I have the distinct feeling that the support these programs get is less about education and more about social engineering via propaganda than anything else.
Our planet doesn't need protecting. It'll do just fine with or without us. On the other hand, we may want to protect OUR place on this planet.
Well, I'd agree with you on all points except the "tediously type in the id3 tag information". I bought a song from iTunes, burned it to a CD(RW), and then ripped them to MP3 with iTunes on the same computer I burned it from (could've probably done it from another computer if I had enabled CD Text). I now have an MP3 I can play on my non-Apple player, complete with ID3 tags. Perhaps Apple will prohibit this from being possible in the future, but for now, I can't complain.
Now, I do, however, have plenty of complaints about iTunes itself, but that's a topic for a separate rant.
I don't think there are quite enough HD capable sets out there for it to hit the mass market right now, either. TV sets tend to have an extremely long life relative to most other consumer electronics. Plenty of people run 10 year old sets, only replacing them when they finally die. Add to this the fact that your average Walmart probably sells far more SDTV sets than HDTV sets. Suppose for a moment that you're an average Joe on the street, and faced the choice between a nice-looking 27" SDTV at something like $399, versus a 27" HDTV for $599, which would you choose? Would you get the HDTV one which is probably showing the same video source as the SDTV one in the store (both of which would've gone through way too many cheap video repeaters), or would you spend the money you would've used on the HDTV set and get a 32" SDTV set instead?
One thing I'll mention is that you might want to be cautious with the PsTools kit. Some overzealous antivirus software detect some of the programs as a virus, even though they're not. You may want to keep a copy of the zip file (appropriately renamed to something non-.zip) alongside the tools themselves for that annoying day when some stupid AV software decides to delete them.
If you want to criticise their pacifism, that's fine (there is plenty to say about pacifism in general), but at least criticise their pacifism instead of putting words in their mouths, and then turning around to criticise those words.
The problem with the Dell, of course, is trying to time your purchase with the stupid weekly deals Dell always has. Sure, you picked up that printer for $320, but right now is $374 (for the 3110cn, which replaced the 3100cn), and could go back up to it's list price of $499 (which is what it's sitting at for non-US buyers) at any time. At least with HP, Lexmark, Brother, etc, you can find retailers with persistent low prices on them.
Even though I'm not a libertarian, I'm reminded of one of their quotes. "Liberals want to be your mother, taking care of you, and protecting you. Conservatives want to be your father, controlling what you do, and enforcing their morality on you." This is why we get bi-paritsan bad ideas like the video game laws that have recently become popular.
Indeed. I hear that rock and roll music, comic books, and video games all cause ADHD.
Better yet would be SAS, so you can choose either 7.2k RPM Serial ATA or 10k or 15k RPM Serial Attached SCSI drives. The only vendor with a SAS SAN is HP, but you have to use those small form factor SATA and SAS drives, which are very expensive!
Yes, but you export Bud, Miller and Coors, not any of this "damn good beer". And I assure you that ridiculing American beer is a passtime that is far more than 20 years old.