Not being able to kill services in not a limitation of windows, it's a limitation of the task manager. Use Sysinternal's Process Explorer - it will let you kill any process, even if doing so will crash windows.
Ok, so if nothing every stops this positive feedback, why didn't all the oceans evaporate long ago? CO2 concentrations in the past have been higher, and obviously there was no run-away warming effect. There is obviously some effect that counterbalances this positive feedback cycle (most likely an increased rate of vegetation growth, which consumes and fixes CO2 and water vapor both).
So the temp increases, water evaporates, and it starts raining in the deserts again. They bloom, and start sucking down massive amounts of CO2 and water. Over the millenia temperature then drops, less and less rain comes to the deserts (now rain forests), deserts return, CO2 increases. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
Long ago I was 'bitch-slapped'. What did I do? I down-modded one comment, apparently the wrong one. For this crime all of my karma (which was significant at the time) was removed. Apparently the guy I downmodded was some buddy of the slashdot inner circle (if I remember correctly, the notorious Signal 11). I was not aware that one could be 'bitch-slapped' for downmodding a single comment.
I received no explanation and my karma was never restored. I tried to explain that even if my single moderation was incorrect (which is arguable), my overall pattern of moderation was consistent and sound (in fact I rarely downmod, then or now). My arguments fell on deaf ears.
The clock 'ticks' twice a day. In 10,000 years, this is 7.3 million ticks. I am imagining with a faster tick rate, say once a second, you could test the entire range of it's design life in short order (in fact, it would take 84 days). Thus it would be quite easy to root out any bugs in this 'too complex' device.
Use firefox. Install the Web-Developer plugin. Cntrl+Shift+S. Style free browsing. The Onion suddenly appears as one big friendly column, reminiscent of the olden days of yore.
Yes, they must, otherwise this tracking information is useless, right? They can't be that dumb. And most high-end color printers are sold to businesses and often have service contracts. It's not that hard. How many people buy a printer for cash?
Ummm. No. It goes like this. You buy printer. You use it to print funny money. You distribute the money. The government finds the money and tracks down the approximate source. They do a stake-out and catch you passing bad bills at your local pub. They raid your house - find printer. Serial number matches all of the bad bills you printed. You can't claim you got the bills from someone else. You can't claim you didn't print them. Don't pass GO, go directly to jail.
In real life it probably wouldn't be this simple, but they catch the counterfitters all of the time. Being able to definitively link the printer to the bills, even without a global printer registry, would be a godsend from an evidence standpoint.
And that $11.9 million is pure profit? None of it goes to pay for things like oh, say, salaries at local affiliates, broadcast hardware, electric bills, etc? An iTMS TV download costs Apple 200 MB of disk-space and the same amount of bandwidth per download. I think the margin on the download is a teeny bit higher.
Hey, if you consider VHS resolution files to be 'perfectly acceptable' then that's your problem
We're talking about TV here. Shot to be viewable over the air and over crappy Cable service. It's not like I am going to miss anything watching 'Lost' in anything less than 1080p - 320x240 is perfectly acceptable. I watched the show. I didn't miss anything, I could understand all the audio, the video artifacts were minimal and did not obscure any details that were necessary to the plot.
I've downloaded MP4 rips of hi-def TV content before that were worse than this quality-wise.
I think the big problem for Apple is the bandwidth bill - all very fixable if they'd think about using some bittorrent technology.
This is not about portable TV, this is about legitimate, for pay, TV downloads. I downloaded the season premiere of Lost this morning, it's playback quality was perfectly acceptable, full-screen on my 19" monitor. For the life of me I don't understand why Apple is marketting this as Video IPod only. It works great on a PC with I-Tunes. I too think the video IPod will be a market failure, but for-Pay TV downloads have a great future. Screw the cable companies. I only want to pay for the shows I watch, and I want to watch them on my own schedule.
Apple, when are you going to get the Sci-Fi channel on board? I want BSG downloads.
Downloaded it, installed it, loaded up a pic I took, and watched little trails of white dots speckle my picture as I moved the cursor over it. These persisted even as I moved the window. Doesn't happen in The Gimp, PS, or any other photo editor I've used. I think I'll take a pass.
This has a fundamental chicken and egg problem: So you store the information, you also need to store the format of that information. So then how do you read "format of the information" document? What format is *that* in?
You print it on archival quality paper. If the paper is infrequently accessed it can last hundreds of years. You retranscribe the documents and make copies every once in awhile.
I'd be more worried that over a long enough period of time we'd forget the language the documents are written in.
Yes, this sounds interesting. Let's replace a central point of fuel distribution that allows me to drive my car up to with a few feet of the fuel source and load up 50+ lbs of fuel, with, what - supermarket aisles? No way I am lugging 50lbs bags of fuel pellets back to the parking lot.
Additionally there are many people called 'long term non-progressors' who test positive for HIV and have as of yet not presented any clinical symptoms of AIDS. Some going on 20 years now.
So HIV is not the 'AIDS virus', as it does not appear to cause AIDS in all cases where it is present, and not all cases of AIDS are marked by the presence of HIV. At best one can say the presence of HIV is strongly coorelated with AIDS symptoms.
Unless, of course, you really want to hook up an S-Video/etc. out plug to a digital camera or VCR, record the playback to the camera, and transfer it back. It's just not feasible.
Why is this not feasible? Someone only needs to do it once, and within hours hundreds of thousands of copies will have been downloaded. There are any number of ways of using this service to create a very high quality 'analog rip' - none of them are terribly easy, but I guarantee you there will be hundreds around the world competing to do it first each time a new movie is released on this service.
That's a great quote, and yes, Astronomy/Cosmology aren't really 'experimental' sciences in the true sense of the word. But there are observations that can be made to attempt to validate/invalidate the model. It's difficult, because we are stuck with the few photons that happen to make it to vicinity of our planet. Regardless, such observations can still be powerful enough to dethrone one model of the universe and suggest another
The best we can eventually hope for is a comsological model that agrees with all known astronomical observations. Which of course buys no guarantee than the next, bigger, supper telescope won't see something that proves the entire theory is crap.
I am saying if there were any entirely trust based system, it would be an incredibly vunerable system, as there would be no market incentive to create secure solutions.
Sure, as long as no one violates society's trust, we'd be fine. Be we all know that's not realistic. So I'd rather have a world where crackers and virus writers force vendors to secure their product, instead of an Internet with the security level of a circa 1992 university Unix lab.
Virus writers, crackers and their ilk are the predators and pathogens of the Internet ecosystem. They kill off the weak and make the rest stronger.
What would you prefer? An Internet full of weak hosts, with a wealth of unexploited security holes and weakly configured security systems, where your security is left up to the good will of others (everybody just play nice now)? Or one where leary vendors and service providers stand in constant vigilance over security issues, because they have to. The wolves are circling the herd.
What would happen if all the 'hackers' just went away? Everyone would get complacent. Security holes would proliferate, until the temptation just became too large and someone takes it all down in one fell swoop.
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I'm glad that you've always had the luxury of design web sites that look good no matter how big (or small) the browser viewport is. I don't.
Well, at least the folks that run slashdot seem to think large italicized blocks of text are readable. I beg to differ.
Please, find me that mythical $100 digital camera body with interchangeable lenses :)
Not being able to kill services in not a limitation of windows, it's a limitation of the task manager. Use Sysinternal's Process Explorer - it will let you kill any process, even if doing so will crash windows.
Slashdot = Digg + 2 days
Ok, so if nothing every stops this positive feedback, why didn't all the oceans evaporate long ago? CO2 concentrations in the past have been higher, and obviously there was no run-away warming effect. There is obviously some effect that counterbalances this positive feedback cycle (most likely an increased rate of vegetation growth, which consumes and fixes CO2 and water vapor both).
So the temp increases, water evaporates, and it starts raining in the deserts again. They bloom, and start sucking down massive amounts of CO2 and water. Over the millenia temperature then drops, less and less rain comes to the deserts (now rain forests), deserts return, CO2 increases. Wash, Rinse, Repeat.
Long ago I was 'bitch-slapped'. What did I do? I down-modded one comment, apparently the wrong one. For this crime all of my karma (which was significant at the time) was removed. Apparently the guy I downmodded was some buddy of the slashdot inner circle (if I remember correctly, the notorious Signal 11). I was not aware that one could be 'bitch-slapped' for downmodding a single comment.
I received no explanation and my karma was never restored. I tried to explain that even if my single moderation was incorrect (which is arguable), my overall pattern of moderation was consistent and sound (in fact I rarely downmod, then or now). My arguments fell on deaf ears.
Keep whining Malda. I hope they ignore you.
The clock 'ticks' twice a day. In 10,000 years, this is 7.3 million ticks. I am imagining with a faster tick rate, say once a second, you could test the entire range of it's design life in short order (in fact, it would take 84 days). Thus it would be quite easy to root out any bugs in this 'too complex' device.
Use firefox. Install the Web-Developer plugin. Cntrl+Shift+S. Style free browsing. The Onion suddenly appears as one big friendly column, reminiscent of the olden days of yore.
Slashdot is also very readable without styles.
Yes, they must, otherwise this tracking information is useless, right? They can't be that dumb. And most high-end color printers are sold to businesses and often have service contracts. It's not that hard. How many people buy a printer for cash?
Ummm. No. It goes like this. You buy printer. You use it to print funny money. You distribute the money. The government finds the money and tracks down the approximate source. They do a stake-out and catch you passing bad bills at your local pub. They raid your house - find printer. Serial number matches all of the bad bills you printed. You can't claim you got the bills from someone else. You can't claim you didn't print them. Don't pass GO, go directly to jail.
In real life it probably wouldn't be this simple, but they catch the counterfitters all of the time. Being able to definitively link the printer to the bills, even without a global printer registry, would be a godsend from an evidence standpoint.
And that $11.9 million is pure profit? None of it goes to pay for things like oh, say, salaries at local affiliates, broadcast hardware, electric bills, etc? An iTMS TV download costs Apple 200 MB of disk-space and the same amount of bandwidth per download. I think the margin on the download is a teeny bit higher.
And how would this work behind a corporate firewall?
Hey, if you consider VHS resolution files to be 'perfectly acceptable' then that's your problem
We're talking about TV here. Shot to be viewable over the air and over crappy Cable service. It's not like I am going to miss anything watching 'Lost' in anything less than 1080p - 320x240 is perfectly acceptable. I watched the show. I didn't miss anything, I could understand all the audio, the video artifacts were minimal and did not obscure any details that were necessary to the plot.
I've downloaded MP4 rips of hi-def TV content before that were worse than this quality-wise.
I think the big problem for Apple is the bandwidth bill - all very fixable if they'd think about using some bittorrent technology.
-josh
This is not about portable TV, this is about legitimate, for pay, TV downloads. I downloaded the season premiere of Lost this morning, it's playback quality was perfectly acceptable, full-screen on my 19" monitor. For the life of me I don't understand why Apple is marketting this as Video IPod only. It works great on a PC with I-Tunes. I too think the video IPod will be a market failure, but for-Pay TV downloads have a great future. Screw the cable companies. I only want to pay for the shows I watch, and I want to watch them on my own schedule.
Apple, when are you going to get the Sci-Fi channel on board? I want BSG downloads.
Try eating low carb. Do it for at least a month.
Downloaded it, installed it, loaded up a pic I took, and watched little trails of white dots speckle my picture as I moved the cursor over it. These persisted even as I moved the window. Doesn't happen in The Gimp, PS, or any other photo editor I've used. I think I'll take a pass.
This has a fundamental chicken and egg problem: So you store the information, you also need to store the format of that information. So then how do you read "format of the information" document? What format is *that* in?
You print it on archival quality paper. If the paper is infrequently accessed it can last hundreds of years. You retranscribe the documents and make copies every once in awhile.
I'd be more worried that over a long enough period of time we'd forget the language the documents are written in.
Yes, this sounds interesting. Let's replace a central point of fuel distribution that allows me to drive my car up to with a few feet of the fuel source and load up 50+ lbs of fuel, with, what - supermarket aisles? No way I am lugging 50lbs bags of fuel pellets back to the parking lot.
I just ordered the book on Amazon. One of the options was to have it rush shipped to me by tomorrow.
Yes, but one can have all of the clinical symptoms of AIDS while testing negative for the HIV virus. http://www.autoimmune.com/Non-HIVAIDSGen.html
Additionally there are many people called 'long term non-progressors' who test positive for HIV and have as of yet not presented any clinical symptoms of AIDS. Some going on 20 years now.
So HIV is not the 'AIDS virus', as it does not appear to cause AIDS in all cases where it is present, and not all cases of AIDS are marked by the presence of HIV. At best one can say the presence of HIV is strongly coorelated with AIDS symptoms.
Unless, of course, you really want to hook up an S-Video/etc. out plug to a digital camera or VCR, record the playback to the camera, and transfer it back. It's just not feasible.
Why is this not feasible? Someone only needs to do it once, and within hours hundreds of thousands of copies will have been downloaded. There are any number of ways of using this service to create a very high quality 'analog rip' - none of them are terribly easy, but I guarantee you there will be hundreds around the world competing to do it first each time a new movie is released on this service.
That's a great quote, and yes, Astronomy/Cosmology aren't really 'experimental' sciences in the true sense of the word. But there are observations that can be made to attempt to validate/invalidate the model. It's difficult, because we are stuck with the few photons that happen to make it to vicinity of our planet. Regardless, such observations can still be powerful enough to dethrone one model of the universe and suggest another
The best we can eventually hope for is a comsological model that agrees with all known astronomical observations. Which of course buys no guarantee than the next, bigger, supper telescope won't see something that proves the entire theory is crap.
I am saying if there were any entirely trust based system, it would be an incredibly vunerable system, as there would be no market incentive to create secure solutions.
Sure, as long as no one violates society's trust, we'd be fine. Be we all know that's not realistic. So I'd rather have a world where crackers and virus writers force vendors to secure their product, instead of an Internet with the security level of a circa 1992 university Unix lab.
Care to refute the point I actually made? I find false analogies unconvincing.
Virus writers, crackers and their ilk are the predators and pathogens of the Internet ecosystem. They kill off the weak and make the rest stronger.
What would you prefer? An Internet full of weak hosts, with a wealth of unexploited security holes and weakly configured security systems, where your security is left up to the good will of others (everybody just play nice now)? Or one where leary vendors and service providers stand in constant vigilance over security issues, because they have to. The wolves are circling the herd.
What would happen if all the 'hackers' just went away? Everyone would get complacent. Security holes would proliferate, until the temptation just became too large and someone takes it all down in one fell swoop.