Great idea, but even in the suburbs, this can be problimatic. Many appartment complexes require you to use their provider. I guess if you get cut, and are in a major metro area, you could always go with something like Clear for a year.
I have the choice of Time Warner or AT&T in my area. AT&T caps at 250gb a month, and according to Time Warner's bandwidth monitoring thingy, I average about 300 gigs of transfers a month between Vudu and Netflix and my surfing (yeah, I guess streaming services can add up).AT&T also caps in my area at 15Mbps and is higher than what Time Warner charges for 20Mbps. Before I moved, I had 30Mbps with Charter, at half of what Time Warner charges.
Worse, before I moved, I pretty much had the choice of Charter or AT&T DSL, which maxes at 6Mbps. Hmmm, so I can pay $50 a month to AT&T for 6Mbps (actually, it was more like 4.8Mbps) or $35 a month to Charter for 30 Mbps (actually, it was more like 37Mbps - yeah, it was HIGHER than advertised). Oh, or I could pay $80 a month to Hughes Net for around 5-6Mbps with high ping times.
Needless to say, I don't want to piss off my cable provider, because the alternative sucks.
First, let's look at it from the standpoint of just how much junk you are going to collect. Shoot, I can spend weeks or months going through and sorting through what I take on a single trip (depending on the length of the trip). I have learned that just because it may seem neat to walk down a street somewhere, you really do not want to go back and rewatch it later - from 30 minutes to an hour of stuff I used to shoot like that (I don't anymore), you may pull out a 5 or 10 second clip to use later in a highlight video. And do you really want a first-person perspective of you sitting for an hour a day reading slashdot?
Second, any camera that is going to be small enough to wear is going to have horrible quality. Won't work well in low lighting, will have issues with motion (unless you start going with a bigger camera, but then it is just going to get annoying wearing all the time).
Lastly, people just do not like to be around people who are ALWAYS taking pictures or videos. In fact, over the past year and a half, I had to pretty much retire my camera in an effort to restore some relationships. It is a pitty, as I have a nice camera. No, you are taking pictures or videos enough, people get to where they just don't want to be around you. I am warning you from experience - DON'T DO THIS!
Do what everyone else on the planet does - get a smartphone, that way you always have a camera available when you do want a picture or video of something, and post it to Facebook if you want to share it with friends and family.
I used to be a heavy gamer, but now I just don't have the time. The games I DO play now are usually games I can pick up and play for about 5 or 10 minutes at a time. My PS3 has become a media server, and I just turned on my XBox for the first time in about a year.
Strangely, I still pick up games from time to time. Gamestop is my friend - I rarely pay more than $10 for a game. I play games so rarely, in fact, that usually a demo of a game is fine for me (I still play the DBZ demos on PS3).
If a system is going to restrict me from playing used games, then I simply won't buy the new system. I don't play enough anymore to justify paying $60 for a new game - the only games I bought new in the past 10 years were Duke Nukem Forever and Alice Madness Returns (strangely, they had the same release date) and those were for the PC (because those games need keyboard and mouse).
I just found Fable 3 the other day at Gamestop for $8 so I will probably go back and pick it up - I like the Fable games.
So yeah, with about how often I play, I am usually picking up games that are 2-3 years old at least.
Now, if you want to offer me a dowloadable copy or a "Greatest Hits" package for under $10, then I might consider buying a game new (I have actually bought a couple of classic games on the PS3 and my Wii before it was stollen that were under $10).
Let's just say that if you are going to lock out used games, you are going to drive away casual gamers like myself.
Actually, this has been done. The most useful progress indicators do the following:
1) Show overall progress 2) Show progress of subprocess 3) Have some type of message display that actually tells us what is happening (in fact having this may be more usefull than showing progress of the subprocesses).
Here are some examples of great progress indicators (granted, not all are installers, but they are informative):
The last one I want to show is actually from a game I like, and I was having a ton of issues trying to find a screenshot of the progress indicator, so instead, I found a Youtube video. The installer is about 5 minutes in - when you first launch the game, you have a progress indicator, but, its a little dark in this video, in the upper left hand corner, you can see how many files there are, what file it is on, if its downloading or installing, etc. Probably one of the most helpful progress indicators I have ever seen:
I got a Mountain Dew for breakfast this morning, because the coffee just wasn't doing the trick today. Under ingrediants: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Orange Juice.
We also already have Throwback, diet versions (doesn't that defeat the purpose of Mountain Dew?), Code Red, Live Wire, and those weird flavors you can only get at Taco Bell. Mountain Dew also has an Engergy Drink line.
A Breakfast Mountain Dew? Last I checked, it already exists. Just call it what it is - a new Mountain Dew flavor.
is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.
Um, yes, that is the defination of cybersquatting, according to the document that you linked to.
This was my thoughts. Usually, someone who picks up a domain name like this does it with the intention that the person / group / company in charge is eventually going to want it, and are planning to make a buck off of it. CyberSquatting has been an issue on the internet for as long as I can remember.
In a case like this, the group, as a fan page, should be thrilled that he wants the domain, and just ask for the cost of the domain registration and the cost (if there is any with their registar) for transfering. Asking for $250k sounds like extortion to me.
The four scenarios you listed all fall outside of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mindset.
Scenario 1 and 2 ) If you don't need the new features, and if you don't need the added performance (ie dedicated machine or someone who just surfs and uses office products), then there is no reason to perform a bios upgrade. Hence, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Scenario 3) Not an issue if your activities on the hardware / software would never hit the bug. Hence, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Scenario 4) On a motherboard? Not saying it couldn't / hasn't happened, but that is a bit of a stretch. However, even if we take this a bit futher to software - if we have a piece of dedicated hardware, with no outside connection, the patch really isn't necessary (and don't say that "well what if" scenario, pretty much anything you could come up with would involve bringing in software or data from the outside. Like a computer that runs a piece of machinery - if the machine is doing it's job, and is not on the network, then DON'T upgrade the machine). Hence, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Getting back on topic, though, should the companies be held responsible? Well, now, that depends. Let's say the motherboard is faulty to begin with. They should be held responsible for that. If the device is faulty, they release a patch, and the patch bricks the unit, then they should be held responsible.
If they release a BIOS update, and people all over the internet are complaining that it bricks their system, they should be held responsible for that.
If they release a BIOS update, and you install it, and it bricks your system, but only you seem to be having issues, and the update wasn't marked critical, and you got the warning message that you are installing this at your own risk, then it's your problem.
I don't think it should be just motherboard manufactorors that are held to this, though. I have bricked two PS3s in the past 5 years because of firmware updates they have forced on us. Now granted, you don't HAVE to upgrade the PS3, but if you want to connect to Netflix or Amazon or Hulu, or connect to the Playstation network, you have to have the newest firmware installed. If it bricks the system, that should be covered by Sony, not your extended warrenty, and it shouldn't matter how old your system is.
I agree - I live in Texas, and while we celebrate Cinco de Mayo, its not like the state shuts down for it. You get home, grab a Dos Equis, maybe throw a steak on the grill, and listen to your neighbors blare mariachie music. Everyone knows that Cinco de Mayo, while the event happened almost 200 years ago, was really not celebrated widely in the US until the 1980s, mainly out of marketing by beer companies
It's a fun day, but its neither a federal or a state holiday.
Now, back on topic, if you are going to establish Chinese New Year as a federal holiday, you need to establish Rosh Hashanah as a federal holiday as well:
Then, once we start doing that, every single religion is going to start demanding that we add their culture's or religion's special days as federal holidays. We did it for the Chinese and the Mexicans (ie people from Mexico, not a derogatory term), we now must do that for every group.Suddenly, we have a calendar full of federal holidays, and no work gets done.
I wouldn't mind having two or three more holidays on the calendar (one in early August would be nice, as well as one in late April, that way we would average about one holiday a month - there is about a two month gap between Good Friday and Memorial Day), but once you start letting in one additional holiday for a people group, there is really no stopping the train.
Let them have their celebrations. Companies should allow workers to request the days off if they are part of that ethnic or religious group. But establishing a federal holiday is going a bit far.
To be fair, though, if you want to get REALLY politically correct, you should remove Christian holidays (ie Christmas) as being Federal Holidays (Good Friday is not observed at the federal level, it is a state holiday - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_States#Good_Friday.2FEaster_in_the_United_States). Now, I guess that STATES with large populations of one culture or another could establish holidays to celebrate Chinese New Year or Cinco de Mayo or something. That would make sense.
Have you actually seen the Surface, or are you just trying to appease the Slashdot crowd? It's actually a pretty slick device - pretty impressive for Microsoft's entry into the tablet market. Windows 8, while it sucks on laptops and desktops, is actually pretty slick on a tablet. The tablet appears to have the hardware specs to run it and its stock apps with ease.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy, and HATE Windows 8 like just about everyone else in the Slashdot community, but I must admit that the Surface (and for that matter, other tablets by Sony and a couple of others running Windows 8 or 8 RT) are actually pretty impressive. Microsoft has also had a great advertising campaign lately.
I wouldn't count Microsoft out this early in the game. While Windows 8 may turn into one of the biggest failures in the history of Desktop / Laptop, it looks like it could be a game changer in the tablet division. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Microsoft will dominate the tablet market, but if their early products are any indication, I can see them carving themselves out a nice niche of the market.
My thoughts exactly. This is an article appropriate for The Today Show or something where you are informing the illiterate masses, not something worthy of posting on Slashdot.
BTW, this reminds me - a couple of weeks ago on the Today show, they were talking about new cool comptuer terms. One they were talking about was "animated GIFs". I felt like I jumped into a time machine and went back 20 years into the past.
Emissions from drilling, including fracking, and leaks from transmission pipes totaled 225 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalents during 2011, second only to power plants, which emitted about 10 times that amount.
The article then goes on to talk about how horrible fracking is on the enviornment. But that is not what the report said, it says emissions from all drilling.
But, anyways, shouldn't this be a DUH statement? I mean, the whole point of fracking IS to release natual gases, which IS methane, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and other gases. Oh no, while drilling for gas, we release.... GAS!!!! OMG!
Okay, I am exagerating the OMG. I mean, there are greenhouse emissions, but considering it is cleaner than coal, shouldn't we be pushing for more electricity produced by gas and less from coal?
It looks to me like it has been restored again. Video played just fine. Not sure what people even found offensive about the video - it is a close up of someone loading a magazine into a gun and pulling the trigger, with a link to a website for more information.
I opened it up, and was like "oh, pretty, Slashdot is finally readable on my phone". Then I tried to scroll. Ugh! Good start, but can we move the article selection to where you have to tap on maybe the article title? It seems to open up a story right now if you tap anywhere in the area.
Glad that Slashdot has FINALLY rolled out a mobile site (been wanting one for years), but this needs a bit more tweaking before its ready for prime time.
I would be shocked if Amazon didn't have a little form or something that you couldn't fill out to appeal a copyright or trademark infringement. I had Copyright notices on YouTube, and I appealed a couple because they were music that was in the public domain, and the company in question didn't even own the copyright on the arrangement I used. It would shock me that Amazon wouldn't have something similar.
In the event of a DMCA takedown notice, the person accused normally just has to say that there is no copyright infringement, then the company claiming it has to offer proof that infringement happened. Or at least, that is my understanding (I could be wrong - while I have had companies claim copyright on stuff on Youtube, no one has actually requested a takedown).
The whole point - your friend doesn't have to pay to fight. Notify Amazon that the claim was in error, have them restore the material, and then force Games Workshop to prove their claim.
Statements like this aggrivate me - mainly coming from Apple Fanboys and ignorant masses. Apple's iPod was nothing new or revolutionary. The iPod is 12 years old - but the portable MP3 player is 16 years old. Apple did not even introduce the first MP3 player with a harddrive, it was NOT the largest capacity when it came out, did not work with Windows, and there was no iTunes when it came out.
Even though they have shut off people in other states for using too much bandwidth
The link provided is 4 years old. I moved to a TWC area a couple of months ago, and this was the first thing I asked, as I am a fairly heavy bandwidth user. (Usually between 80-150 gig a month, depending on the month, with 100 being average. I have gone as high as 400 gig with Charter when I was using newsgroups alot, and as little as 20 gig). I was assured that they no longer do this, and the bandwidth usage portion on their website is for informational use only (although I did read somewhere that if you go UNDER a certain amount of data a month, they will give you a discount).
If someone has a more recent story about TWC cutting user's services for abuse of bandwidth (say from 2011 or 2012), I would like to see it, and know exactly how much data those users were using.
I mean, you have to manually add it - it's not in the channel shop, or at least it wasn't last time I checked.
That being said, if you are paying for a service, whether in beta or not, the company needs to be on top of it. If the service doesn't work - or doesn't work properly during certain times, the company should give users at least a partial credit if they can't get the service restored in a couple of days.
I am actually really sad to hear about this - I installed the Funimation channel a couple of months ago, really enjoyed it, and was looking at subscribing this coming week. Only reason I am not a subscriber already is because I've been crazy-busy since mid-December, and have been working the past two weeks on getting caughtup on the backlog on the DVR (should be finishing that this week, which is why I was finally looking at subscribing to Funimation). However, after hearing this news, I guess I will put off subscribing until they can fix the issues.
Crunchyroll is the latest anime from Japan, subtitled. Funimation has a larger selection, especially of older anime, and most of their stuff is available either dubbed or subbed. I am normally a subbed person, but I must admit that Funimation has made an art out of dubbing Anime, many times with the English dub actually being better than the Japanese original soundtrack.
It's an odd bug, but how many people are really going to be using this command on a Mac? Let's rephrase that: how many people actually know of this command, Windows or Mac users? I have probably used this command maybe a half dozen times in probably 10 years, and that is because Explorer or something has hard locked on me, and killing and restarting the process doesn't work, and I need to save or copy or move something before I reboot.
Now I will grant that I know many more geeks and nerds on Macs now than even 5 years ago, so I am not going to make the joke that "no Mac user would use this". I am just wondering how many people this really effects, and even those users who know about the command, how many would know that it was broken if not for this article.
I was thinking the same thing - although you don't even need to go inside. A couple of years ago, my internet connection at home went down, and there were no 24 hour places near me. I just went and parked in the McDonald's parking lot for a couple of hours, using their connection.
They are also handy at airports that still charge for WiFi (yeah, there are a few). Just go to the McDonald's in the terminal, and you can use their WiFi for free, instead of having to pay the $5 an hour to the airport. And at several airports, I find the MdDonald's WiFi to be faster and more reliable than the airport's.
Another nice thing is that I have NEVER had an issue with the WiFi at McDonald's, whereas the WiFi at places like Starbucks, Taco Cabana, Denny's and iHop is usually down, or there is something wrong with their router - you can see the SSID, but it refuses to give out ip addresses (I think that whoeve set them up probably set too high of a time-limit on leased IPs). Considering that McCafe has just as good (actually I think better) coffee than Starbucks at half the price, and many newer McDonald's actually have a business-class theme, it is a great place for mobile computing.
Not only are the costs reasonable, but it makes me wonder how many other lawsuits will find their way to the courts now. Not sure how the courts work in New Zealand, but if they work on any type of precidence system, then this lawsuit set precidence that it is not going to be economically viable for the music and video industries to sue. Shoot, probably won't even cover a single lawyer's cost for a day.
Oh, that is not the way to go. You ought to see what you can do with VHS. Capture with MJPEG to Cinepak, then export to VCD. Rip that to Indeo 4, then convert to Indeo 5. Import into Adobe Premiere and run some filters on it. Export to SVCD. Rip and upconvert the SVCD into MPEG2 720x480 and export to a DIVX file. Convert to WMV with Windows Media Encoder. Import back into Adobe Premiere, add a few more filters, export to Quicktime. Upload to Youtube, using their video stabalizers and automatic filters. Use a Youtube grabber to download the FLV. Use AnyVideoConverter to convert to MP4 h264. Run through MovAVI to convert to 3D and upscale the image. Upload back to to Youtube, run through some more filters, then download the MP4 file. Upscale to 8k, convert to h.265.
What, each one of those codecs is better than the previous, surely your video must look amazing by now!
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Great idea, but even in the suburbs, this can be problimatic. Many appartment complexes require you to use their provider. I guess if you get cut, and are in a major metro area, you could always go with something like Clear for a year.
I have the choice of Time Warner or AT&T in my area. AT&T caps at 250gb a month, and according to Time Warner's bandwidth monitoring thingy, I average about 300 gigs of transfers a month between Vudu and Netflix and my surfing (yeah, I guess streaming services can add up).AT&T also caps in my area at 15Mbps and is higher than what Time Warner charges for 20Mbps. Before I moved, I had 30Mbps with Charter, at half of what Time Warner charges.
Worse, before I moved, I pretty much had the choice of Charter or AT&T DSL, which maxes at 6Mbps. Hmmm, so I can pay $50 a month to AT&T for 6Mbps (actually, it was more like 4.8Mbps) or $35 a month to Charter for 30 Mbps (actually, it was more like 37Mbps - yeah, it was HIGHER than advertised). Oh, or I could pay $80 a month to Hughes Net for around 5-6Mbps with high ping times.
Needless to say, I don't want to piss off my cable provider, because the alternative sucks.
First, let's look at it from the standpoint of just how much junk you are going to collect. Shoot, I can spend weeks or months going through and sorting through what I take on a single trip (depending on the length of the trip). I have learned that just because it may seem neat to walk down a street somewhere, you really do not want to go back and rewatch it later - from 30 minutes to an hour of stuff I used to shoot like that (I don't anymore), you may pull out a 5 or 10 second clip to use later in a highlight video. And do you really want a first-person perspective of you sitting for an hour a day reading slashdot?
Second, any camera that is going to be small enough to wear is going to have horrible quality. Won't work well in low lighting, will have issues with motion (unless you start going with a bigger camera, but then it is just going to get annoying wearing all the time).
Lastly, people just do not like to be around people who are ALWAYS taking pictures or videos. In fact, over the past year and a half, I had to pretty much retire my camera in an effort to restore some relationships. It is a pitty, as I have a nice camera. No, you are taking pictures or videos enough, people get to where they just don't want to be around you. I am warning you from experience - DON'T DO THIS!
Do what everyone else on the planet does - get a smartphone, that way you always have a camera available when you do want a picture or video of something, and post it to Facebook if you want to share it with friends and family.
I used to be a heavy gamer, but now I just don't have the time. The games I DO play now are usually games I can pick up and play for about 5 or 10 minutes at a time. My PS3 has become a media server, and I just turned on my XBox for the first time in about a year.
Strangely, I still pick up games from time to time. Gamestop is my friend - I rarely pay more than $10 for a game. I play games so rarely, in fact, that usually a demo of a game is fine for me (I still play the DBZ demos on PS3).
If a system is going to restrict me from playing used games, then I simply won't buy the new system. I don't play enough anymore to justify paying $60 for a new game - the only games I bought new in the past 10 years were Duke Nukem Forever and Alice Madness Returns (strangely, they had the same release date) and those were for the PC (because those games need keyboard and mouse).
I just found Fable 3 the other day at Gamestop for $8 so I will probably go back and pick it up - I like the Fable games.
So yeah, with about how often I play, I am usually picking up games that are 2-3 years old at least.
Now, if you want to offer me a dowloadable copy or a "Greatest Hits" package for under $10, then I might consider buying a game new (I have actually bought a couple of classic games on the PS3 and my Wii before it was stollen that were under $10).
Let's just say that if you are going to lock out used games, you are going to drive away casual gamers like myself.
LOL, didn't notice that, my point was thtat it is useful in that it displays what is going on. But good catch!
Actually, this has been done. The most useful progress indicators do the following:
1) Show overall progress
2) Show progress of subprocess
3) Have some type of message display that actually tells us what is happening (in fact having this may be more usefull than showing progress of the subprocesses).
Here are some examples of great progress indicators (granted, not all are installers, but they are informative):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14684652/how-do-create-progress-bar-while-clicking-remove-button-in-nsis
http://doc.zarafa.com/7.0/Migration_Manual/en-US/html/images/MGR_Progress.png
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/files/Copy_files_with_Progress/copyfiles.jpg
http://help.comodo.com/uploads/Comodo%20Backup/b11a8045cb003891d886ace8f138a534/5eac818f1e1c4adc19d335055b06586b/d871fb826e82b18c4d9d5f28f76278a5/cbu_restore_final1_022012.png
http://openchrom.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/openchrom-installer-unpack.jpg?w=640
The last one I want to show is actually from a game I like, and I was having a ton of issues trying to find a screenshot of the progress indicator, so instead, I found a Youtube video. The installer is about 5 minutes in - when you first launch the game, you have a progress indicator, but, its a little dark in this video, in the upper left hand corner, you can see how many files there are, what file it is on, if its downloading or installing, etc. Probably one of the most helpful progress indicators I have ever seen:
http://youtu.be/ROOJFT6ae7M?t=5m2s
Ah, those 9-core Ataris! Super Custer's Revenge! Now with more pixels!
I got a Mountain Dew for breakfast this morning, because the coffee just wasn't doing the trick today. Under ingrediants: Carbonated Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Orange Juice.
We also already have Throwback, diet versions (doesn't that defeat the purpose of Mountain Dew?), Code Red, Live Wire, and those weird flavors you can only get at Taco Bell. Mountain Dew also has an Engergy Drink line.
A Breakfast Mountain Dew? Last I checked, it already exists. Just call it what it is - a new Mountain Dew flavor.
From the article you linked to:
is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cybersquatter then offers to sell the domain to the person or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an inflated price.
Um, yes, that is the defination of cybersquatting, according to the document that you linked to.
This was my thoughts. Usually, someone who picks up a domain name like this does it with the intention that the person / group / company in charge is eventually going to want it, and are planning to make a buck off of it. CyberSquatting has been an issue on the internet for as long as I can remember.
In a case like this, the group, as a fan page, should be thrilled that he wants the domain, and just ask for the cost of the domain registration and the cost (if there is any with their registar) for transfering. Asking for $250k sounds like extortion to me.
The four scenarios you listed all fall outside of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mindset.
Scenario 1 and 2 ) If you don't need the new features, and if you don't need the added performance (ie dedicated machine or someone who just surfs and uses office products), then there is no reason to perform a bios upgrade. Hence, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Scenario 3) Not an issue if your activities on the hardware / software would never hit the bug. Hence, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Scenario 4) On a motherboard? Not saying it couldn't / hasn't happened, but that is a bit of a stretch. However, even if we take this a bit futher to software - if we have a piece of dedicated hardware, with no outside connection, the patch really isn't necessary (and don't say that "well what if" scenario, pretty much anything you could come up with would involve bringing in software or data from the outside. Like a computer that runs a piece of machinery - if the machine is doing it's job, and is not on the network, then DON'T upgrade the machine). Hence, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Getting back on topic, though, should the companies be held responsible? Well, now, that depends. Let's say the motherboard is faulty to begin with. They should be held responsible for that. If the device is faulty, they release a patch, and the patch bricks the unit, then they should be held responsible.
If they release a BIOS update, and people all over the internet are complaining that it bricks their system, they should be held responsible for that.
If they release a BIOS update, and you install it, and it bricks your system, but only you seem to be having issues, and the update wasn't marked critical, and you got the warning message that you are installing this at your own risk, then it's your problem.
I don't think it should be just motherboard manufactorors that are held to this, though. I have bricked two PS3s in the past 5 years because of firmware updates they have forced on us. Now granted, you don't HAVE to upgrade the PS3, but if you want to connect to Netflix or Amazon or Hulu, or connect to the Playstation network, you have to have the newest firmware installed. If it bricks the system, that should be covered by Sony, not your extended warrenty, and it shouldn't matter how old your system is.
I agree - I live in Texas, and while we celebrate Cinco de Mayo, its not like the state shuts down for it. You get home, grab a Dos Equis, maybe throw a steak on the grill, and listen to your neighbors blare mariachie music. Everyone knows that Cinco de Mayo, while the event happened almost 200 years ago, was really not celebrated widely in the US until the 1980s, mainly out of marketing by beer companies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_mayo#History_of_observance
It's a fun day, but its neither a federal or a state holiday.
Now, back on topic, if you are going to establish Chinese New Year as a federal holiday, you need to establish Rosh Hashanah as a federal holiday as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_hashana
So, let's see, we have now established Chinese New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and Cinco de Mayo as federal holidays, we should add Islamic New Year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_new_year
All of the New Year days from India:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_New_Year
Then, once we start doing that, every single religion is going to start demanding that we add their culture's or religion's special days as federal holidays. We did it for the Chinese and the Mexicans (ie people from Mexico, not a derogatory term), we now must do that for every group.Suddenly, we have a calendar full of federal holidays, and no work gets done.
I wouldn't mind having two or three more holidays on the calendar (one in early August would be nice, as well as one in late April, that way we would average about one holiday a month - there is about a two month gap between Good Friday and Memorial Day), but once you start letting in one additional holiday for a people group, there is really no stopping the train.
Let them have their celebrations. Companies should allow workers to request the days off if they are part of that ethnic or religious group. But establishing a federal holiday is going a bit far.
To be fair, though, if you want to get REALLY politically correct, you should remove Christian holidays (ie Christmas) as being Federal Holidays (Good Friday is not observed at the federal level, it is a state holiday - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_States#Good_Friday.2FEaster_in_the_United_States). Now, I guess that STATES with large populations of one culture or another could establish holidays to celebrate Chinese New Year or Cinco de Mayo or something. That would make sense.
Have you actually seen the Surface, or are you just trying to appease the Slashdot crowd? It's actually a pretty slick device - pretty impressive for Microsoft's entry into the tablet market. Windows 8, while it sucks on laptops and desktops, is actually pretty slick on a tablet. The tablet appears to have the hardware specs to run it and its stock apps with ease.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy, and HATE Windows 8 like just about everyone else in the Slashdot community, but I must admit that the Surface (and for that matter, other tablets by Sony and a couple of others running Windows 8 or 8 RT) are actually pretty impressive. Microsoft has also had a great advertising campaign lately.
I wouldn't count Microsoft out this early in the game. While Windows 8 may turn into one of the biggest failures in the history of Desktop / Laptop, it looks like it could be a game changer in the tablet division. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Microsoft will dominate the tablet market, but if their early products are any indication, I can see them carving themselves out a nice niche of the market.
My thoughts exactly. This is an article appropriate for The Today Show or something where you are informing the illiterate masses, not something worthy of posting on Slashdot.
BTW, this reminds me - a couple of weeks ago on the Today show, they were talking about new cool comptuer terms. One they were talking about was "animated GIFs". I felt like I jumped into a time machine and went back 20 years into the past.
It does state:
Emissions from drilling, including fracking, and leaks from transmission pipes totaled 225 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide equivalents during 2011, second only to power plants, which emitted about 10 times that amount.
The article then goes on to talk about how horrible fracking is on the enviornment. But that is not what the report said, it says emissions from all drilling.
But, anyways, shouldn't this be a DUH statement? I mean, the whole point of fracking IS to release natual gases, which IS methane, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and other gases. Oh no, while drilling for gas, we release.... GAS!!!! OMG!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas
Okay, I am exagerating the OMG. I mean, there are greenhouse emissions, but considering it is cleaner than coal, shouldn't we be pushing for more electricity produced by gas and less from coal?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas#CO2_emissions
It looks to me like it has been restored again. Video played just fine. Not sure what people even found offensive about the video - it is a close up of someone loading a magazine into a gun and pulling the trigger, with a link to a website for more information.
I opened it up, and was like "oh, pretty, Slashdot is finally readable on my phone". Then I tried to scroll. Ugh! Good start, but can we move the article selection to where you have to tap on maybe the article title? It seems to open up a story right now if you tap anywhere in the area.
Glad that Slashdot has FINALLY rolled out a mobile site (been wanting one for years), but this needs a bit more tweaking before its ready for prime time.
I would be shocked if Amazon didn't have a little form or something that you couldn't fill out to appeal a copyright or trademark infringement. I had Copyright notices on YouTube, and I appealed a couple because they were music that was in the public domain, and the company in question didn't even own the copyright on the arrangement I used. It would shock me that Amazon wouldn't have something similar.
In the event of a DMCA takedown notice, the person accused normally just has to say that there is no copyright infringement, then the company claiming it has to offer proof that infringement happened. Or at least, that is my understanding (I could be wrong - while I have had companies claim copyright on stuff on Youtube, no one has actually requested a takedown).
The whole point - your friend doesn't have to pay to fight. Notify Amazon that the claim was in error, have them restore the material, and then force Games Workshop to prove their claim.
over ten years after the first iPod
Statements like this aggrivate me - mainly coming from Apple Fanboys and ignorant masses. Apple's iPod was nothing new or revolutionary. The iPod is 12 years old - but the portable MP3 player is 16 years old. Apple did not even introduce the first MP3 player with a harddrive, it was NOT the largest capacity when it came out, did not work with Windows, and there was no iTunes when it came out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3_player#History
In fact, the iPod did not really even sell that well until around 2005 - roughly 8 years after the first MP3 player came out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_ipod_sales.svg
Even though they have shut off people in other states for using too much bandwidth
The link provided is 4 years old. I moved to a TWC area a couple of months ago, and this was the first thing I asked, as I am a fairly heavy bandwidth user. (Usually between 80-150 gig a month, depending on the month, with 100 being average. I have gone as high as 400 gig with Charter when I was using newsgroups alot, and as little as 20 gig). I was assured that they no longer do this, and the bandwidth usage portion on their website is for informational use only (although I did read somewhere that if you go UNDER a certain amount of data a month, they will give you a discount).
If someone has a more recent story about TWC cutting user's services for abuse of bandwidth (say from 2011 or 2012), I would like to see it, and know exactly how much data those users were using.
I mean, you have to manually add it - it's not in the channel shop, or at least it wasn't last time I checked.
That being said, if you are paying for a service, whether in beta or not, the company needs to be on top of it. If the service doesn't work - or doesn't work properly during certain times, the company should give users at least a partial credit if they can't get the service restored in a couple of days.
I am actually really sad to hear about this - I installed the Funimation channel a couple of months ago, really enjoyed it, and was looking at subscribing this coming week. Only reason I am not a subscriber already is because I've been crazy-busy since mid-December, and have been working the past two weeks on getting caughtup on the backlog on the DVR (should be finishing that this week, which is why I was finally looking at subscribing to Funimation). However, after hearing this news, I guess I will put off subscribing until they can fix the issues.
Crunchyroll is the latest anime from Japan, subtitled. Funimation has a larger selection, especially of older anime, and most of their stuff is available either dubbed or subbed. I am normally a subbed person, but I must admit that Funimation has made an art out of dubbing Anime, many times with the English dub actually being better than the Japanese original soundtrack.
It's an odd bug, but how many people are really going to be using this command on a Mac? Let's rephrase that: how many people actually know of this command, Windows or Mac users? I have probably used this command maybe a half dozen times in probably 10 years, and that is because Explorer or something has hard locked on me, and killing and restarting the process doesn't work, and I need to save or copy or move something before I reboot.
Now I will grant that I know many more geeks and nerds on Macs now than even 5 years ago, so I am not going to make the joke that "no Mac user would use this". I am just wondering how many people this really effects, and even those users who know about the command, how many would know that it was broken if not for this article.
I was thinking the same thing - although you don't even need to go inside. A couple of years ago, my internet connection at home went down, and there were no 24 hour places near me. I just went and parked in the McDonald's parking lot for a couple of hours, using their connection.
They are also handy at airports that still charge for WiFi (yeah, there are a few). Just go to the McDonald's in the terminal, and you can use their WiFi for free, instead of having to pay the $5 an hour to the airport. And at several airports, I find the MdDonald's WiFi to be faster and more reliable than the airport's.
Another nice thing is that I have NEVER had an issue with the WiFi at McDonald's, whereas the WiFi at places like Starbucks, Taco Cabana, Denny's and iHop is usually down, or there is something wrong with their router - you can see the SSID, but it refuses to give out ip addresses (I think that whoeve set them up probably set too high of a time-limit on leased IPs). Considering that McCafe has just as good (actually I think better) coffee than Starbucks at half the price, and many newer McDonald's actually have a business-class theme, it is a great place for mobile computing.
Not only are the costs reasonable, but it makes me wonder how many other lawsuits will find their way to the courts now. Not sure how the courts work in New Zealand, but if they work on any type of precidence system, then this lawsuit set precidence that it is not going to be economically viable for the music and video industries to sue. Shoot, probably won't even cover a single lawyer's cost for a day.
Oh, that is not the way to go. You ought to see what you can do with VHS. Capture with MJPEG to Cinepak, then export to VCD. Rip that to Indeo 4, then convert to Indeo 5. Import into Adobe Premiere and run some filters on it. Export to SVCD. Rip and upconvert the SVCD into MPEG2 720x480 and export to a DIVX file. Convert to WMV with Windows Media Encoder. Import back into Adobe Premiere, add a few more filters, export to Quicktime. Upload to Youtube, using their video stabalizers and automatic filters. Use a Youtube grabber to download the FLV. Use AnyVideoConverter to convert to MP4 h264. Run through MovAVI to convert to 3D and upscale the image. Upload back to to Youtube, run through some more filters, then download the MP4 file. Upscale to 8k, convert to h.265.
What, each one of those codecs is better than the previous, surely your video must look amazing by now!