This just won't do. Free video for the people? What sort of compa... country do you think this is? Hopefully Obama's media pals will set this straight and have this valuable IP properly secured and protected by the DMCA.
The odds are greater that the labs contracted to screen everyone will make a mistake and contaminate your sample with someone else's. You could find yourself facing undue scrutiny if that person grows up to be a rapist for instance.
What exactly is there to research about pi? Its digits are random. They change simply by switching to a different base so no pattern can be truly meaningful just an artifact of the chosen representation.
Even better would be to go back to the good ol' days and prohibit marketing prescription drugs to anyone without a license to prescribe drugs. Crazy, I know.
Challenging but not impossible. The processing could be implemented in a single DSP or FPGA. These are available in low quantities in Chip Scale Packages which can be assembled with other surface mount components using a toaster oven. You still need to manage the power and audio sections but miniature parts are readily available for these as well.
This would make a nice project for anyone in school looking to develop an affordable option to help less affluent people in the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st world.
Well I'd like to see telco's held to their promised speeds as much as possible.
I'm doubtful that there are any residential broadband providers that promise anything. All marketing materials will be found to include the wonderful lawyerly weasel words "up to" before any quoted estimate of potential speeds with their service. My DSL service dropped from 4.4Mbit down to 2.4Mbit down (upload speed remained the same) after a line quality issue cropped up at a junction box off my property. There's nothing I can do to complain about it because I only purchased "broadband" which is defined to be anything over 128Kbit (ISDN) by the FTC.
Get this. Up until 15-20 years ago (practically) no college students had cell phones. They all managed to survive and get through school despite that handicap. You may have to endure being a social pariah for a few years but it isn't necessary to have a smartphone.
I don't know if it's still available but you can use the Verizon WirelessWeb feature on a smartphone without getting a data plane. Whether they'll let you upgrade to a smartphone without upgrading to data is another thing. They allowed this for the first time with the Centro.
Do you use a DVR to skip commercials? If so, please explain how that's different from using adblock.
When you use a DVR you're not using up any resources from the content provider. You're either receiving a free OTA broadcast or a service you're paying for the privilege of viewing. On the internet, accessing content is a real expense to the provider. If you aren't engaged in commerce, serving up ads is the easiest way to bring in cash to run a web site. If everyone is leeching then they have to have an alternate source of revenue. A similar issue happens in television wherein ad rates are determined by viewership. If every television user never watched an ad there would be no free television outside of subsidized channels and subscription fees would skyrocket.
That being said, I'm a shameless adblocker user for many of the reasons stated here by others. I'm not interested in receiving malicious javascript, being bogged down by ponderous flash apps, or being delayed by non-responsive ad servers. When the ad industry cleans its act up and empowers me to choose what type of ads I'm willing to receive I'll end my blockade./. is the only site I have whitelisted and ironically it doesn't serve up ads because of my karma.
Never mind that inductive charging is an inefficient waste of power. I hope the EPA comes down hard on this and denies EnergyStar certification for anyone who attempts this with a full power computer.
Alfred Katzenbach, the director of information technology management at Daimler, has reportedly said that the radio and navigation system in the current S-class Mercedes-Benz requires over 20 million lines of code alone and that the car contains nearly as many ECUs as the new Airbus A380 (excluding the plane's in-flight entertainment system).
No deduction necessary. I would tend to give some credence to Mr. Katzenbach's statements about the makeup of Daimler's products.
Toyota's systems have over a 100 million lines of code:
Frankly, that statistic doesn't make much sense. In the article it's just a BS number that shouldn't have been quoted by the hack writer and it isn't even referring to Toyota. The rank and file microcontrollers that do most of the work in a modern car can't possibly have that much source code in them. The only place where a large amount of source code could be involved is for advanced accessory functions like entertainment, communication, and navigation systems. Those should all be properly isolated from the critical systems needed to operate the car safely. The Mercedes is stated to have 20M LOC and I'd bet the farm that 90% of that is in non-critical components. It's even less likely that a generic Toyota like the Camry has anywhere near that much code in its computers. Come on mods. If you can't even follow the links at least use your brains.
Shuttleworth or someone else with decisive control over the default theme is most likely colorblind. I find that colorblind people tend to chose odd muddy browns, greens, and yellows when coloring things on the computer. You can frequently spot them when they prepare Powerpoint presentations.
All matrix codes have enough redundancy to allow successful decoding when the image is partially damaged. Some have so much redundancy that you can tear them in half and still recover the contents.
Even better is to finish off with Gatorade or an equivalent sports drink. Most of the effects of a hangover can be replicated by severe dehydration. Cotton mouth, hiccups, headache, they're all from the dehydration. Only the liver toxicity is specific to the after effects of alcohol.
You should be so lucky. I have a DVD recorder that I use as an OTA TV receiver. Unfortunately it has the same video processor as the Xbox 360. If allowed to stay in standby mode it will overheat behave erratically and randomly lock up. When standby is turned off it takes 30 seconds to boot itself up. This is one of many reasons (it can't play an audio CD without crashing) why that POS is the last Panasonic product I'll ever buy.
The song is fine. There are tons of completely unbearable 80's pop and this one is among the few that stand out today. it's the cheeziness of the video that makes it work. The acrobatic bartender is just so out of place. It doesn't make any sense and is a mismatch to the theme of the song.
We believe that the web error redirection function of Comcast Domain Helper is technically incompatible with DNSSEC.
It's technically incompatible with the internet in general. This is at least part of the reason why ISPs have been dragging their feet on deployment. Now if only the FCC or FTC had some balls and mandated a time frame for full support of DNSSEC. To bad that would require change in how the government operates.
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This just won't do. Free video for the people? What sort of compa... country do you think this is? Hopefully Obama's media pals will set this straight and have this valuable IP properly secured and protected by the DMCA.
The odds are greater that the labs contracted to screen everyone will make a mistake and contaminate your sample with someone else's. You could find yourself facing undue scrutiny if that person grows up to be a rapist for instance.
What exactly is there to research about pi? Its digits are random. They change simply by switching to a different base so no pattern can be truly meaningful just an artifact of the chosen representation.
Sometimes I wonder if the glossy brochure and a few free pens & notepads is all the professional is working off as well.
That and the Powerpoint slides from their gratis "training" seminar in the Caribbean.
Even better would be to go back to the good ol' days and prohibit marketing prescription drugs to anyone without a license to prescribe drugs. Crazy, I know.
Challenging but not impossible. The processing could be implemented in a single DSP or FPGA. These are available in low quantities in Chip Scale Packages which can be assembled with other surface mount components using a toaster oven. You still need to manage the power and audio sections but miniature parts are readily available for these as well.
This would make a nice project for anyone in school looking to develop an affordable option to help less affluent people in the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st world.
Well I'd like to see telco's held to their promised speeds as much as possible.
I'm doubtful that there are any residential broadband providers that promise anything. All marketing materials will be found to include the wonderful lawyerly weasel words "up to" before any quoted estimate of potential speeds with their service. My DSL service dropped from 4.4Mbit down to 2.4Mbit down (upload speed remained the same) after a line quality issue cropped up at a junction box off my property. There's nothing I can do to complain about it because I only purchased "broadband" which is defined to be anything over 128Kbit (ISDN) by the FTC.
I realize that, but being /. some smart aleck was sure to pipe up that he had a bag phone in the 80's while in college.
Get this. Up until 15-20 years ago (practically) no college students had cell phones. They all managed to survive and get through school despite that handicap. You may have to endure being a social pariah for a few years but it isn't necessary to have a smartphone.
I don't know if it's still available but you can use the Verizon WirelessWeb feature on a smartphone without getting a data plane. Whether they'll let you upgrade to a smartphone without upgrading to data is another thing. They allowed this for the first time with the Centro.
Do you use a DVR to skip commercials?
If so, please explain how that's different from using adblock.
When you use a DVR you're not using up any resources from the content provider. You're either receiving a free OTA broadcast or a service you're paying for the privilege of viewing. On the internet, accessing content is a real expense to the provider. If you aren't engaged in commerce, serving up ads is the easiest way to bring in cash to run a web site. If everyone is leeching then they have to have an alternate source of revenue. A similar issue happens in television wherein ad rates are determined by viewership. If every television user never watched an ad there would be no free television outside of subsidized channels and subscription fees would skyrocket.
That being said, I'm a shameless adblocker user for many of the reasons stated here by others. I'm not interested in receiving malicious javascript, being bogged down by ponderous flash apps, or being delayed by non-responsive ad servers. When the ad industry cleans its act up and empowers me to choose what type of ads I'm willing to receive I'll end my blockade. /. is the only site I have whitelisted and ironically it doesn't serve up ads because of my karma.
Why exactly is there a congressional case going on about this?
It's an election year. 'Nuff said.
Never mind that inductive charging is an inefficient waste of power. I hope the EPA comes down hard on this and denies EnergyStar certification for anyone who attempts this with a full power computer.
Since you can't follow the link either:
Alfred Katzenbach, the director of information technology management at Daimler, has reportedly said that the radio and navigation system in the current S-class Mercedes-Benz requires over 20 million lines of code alone and that the car contains nearly as many ECUs as the new Airbus A380 (excluding the plane's in-flight entertainment system).
No deduction necessary. I would tend to give some credence to Mr. Katzenbach's statements about the makeup of Daimler's products.
Toyota's systems have over a 100 million lines of code:
Frankly, that statistic doesn't make much sense. In the article it's just a BS number that shouldn't have been quoted by the hack writer and it isn't even referring to Toyota. The rank and file microcontrollers that do most of the work in a modern car can't possibly have that much source code in them. The only place where a large amount of source code could be involved is for advanced accessory functions like entertainment, communication, and navigation systems. Those should all be properly isolated from the critical systems needed to operate the car safely. The Mercedes is stated to have 20M LOC and I'd bet the farm that 90% of that is in non-critical components. It's even less likely that a generic Toyota like the Camry has anywhere near that much code in its computers. Come on mods. If you can't even follow the links at least use your brains.
Shuttleworth or someone else with decisive control over the default theme is most likely colorblind. I find that colorblind people tend to chose odd muddy browns, greens, and yellows when coloring things on the computer. You can frequently spot them when they prepare Powerpoint presentations.
All matrix codes have enough redundancy to allow successful decoding when the image is partially damaged. Some have so much redundancy that you can tear them in half and still recover the contents.
He's just pumping SCO again so he can make up for his losses. There's always a pool of sucker gamb... investors who will lap this shit up.
Even better is to finish off with Gatorade or an equivalent sports drink. Most of the effects of a hangover can be replicated by severe dehydration. Cotton mouth, hiccups, headache, they're all from the dehydration. Only the liver toxicity is specific to the after effects of alcohol.
You should be so lucky. I have a DVD recorder that I use as an OTA TV receiver. Unfortunately it has the same video processor as the Xbox 360. If allowed to stay in standby mode it will overheat behave erratically and randomly lock up. When standby is turned off it takes 30 seconds to boot itself up. This is one of many reasons (it can't play an audio CD without crashing) why that POS is the last Panasonic product I'll ever buy.
The song is fine. There are tons of completely unbearable 80's pop and this one is among the few that stand out today. it's the cheeziness of the video that makes it work. The acrobatic bartender is just so out of place. It doesn't make any sense and is a mismatch to the theme of the song.
This isn't surprising coming from a company founded on Christian* values.
*The distorted Protestant American version of the faith.
I agree, but how will we convince all 535 members of Congress to get on the space ship?
Somehow, I think the solution involves telephone sanitizers.
Good Lord! Lordy me.
It would be bogus to claim otherwise.
We believe that the web error redirection function of Comcast Domain Helper is technically incompatible with DNSSEC.
It's technically incompatible with the internet in general. This is at least part of the reason why ISPs have been dragging their feet on deployment. Now if only the FCC or FTC had some balls and mandated a time frame for full support of DNSSEC. To bad that would require change in how the government operates.