I don't think I would even go that far. There a plenty of places in the US for example that have no cell coverage at all. Granted they are all in pretty rural areas but the exist nonetheless and are usually large areas.
It is built into Firefox. StartSSL is where I get the SSL certificate I use for my SVN server, works great. I know the root certificate is in Firefox from at least 3.0 forward.
No, it is still Microsoft. My 2011 Ford has sync and there is a small little thing in the car next to the USB port that says "SYNC Powered By Microsoft.". And sync works pretty damn well so far for me, I only wish you could customize the voice.
And why do you think the market would have gone that way? I highly doubt things would have turned out as rosy as you describe.
If IBM hadn't made a PC that was popular and easy to clone, things would be very different these days. Probably more like the game console market where there is only 3 big companies producing hardware. And the prices on computers might not have fallen as quick without such fierce competition. In the grand scheme of things I would say IBM is much more responsible for the current state of computing than Microsoft. IBM is the reason the majority of personal computers today are all compatible with each other.
If Microsoft wasn't around, there would have been some other company. You can blame Gary Kildall for Microsoft's dominance, if he hadn't turned IBM away when they came calling for an OS for their PC, Microsoft never would have become so huge. However we don't know what would have happened if IBM had gone with CP/M, maybe Digital Research would have been that other company. Things might be better today or they might be worse, hard to say.
While it would be useful for homework or in class, you'd never be allowed to use an iPhone on a test. Too easy to use the internet or send a picture of the question to someone to solve. So you'd need to buy a conventional calculator anyways. Plus having lots of dedicated buttons for math operations makes those calculators easier/faster to use than the iPhone version would be.
I am glad they won and I don't particularly care that the lawyers are getting paid the majority of the settlement. What I do care about is that the people actually responsible aren't going to be punished. The settlement will be paid by the district's insurance policy and the people actually responsible will get to walk away.
Well that isn't technically true, at least some of the people left PARC to found companies to make products based on their ideas because XEROX management failed to see the value in the technology they owned. Adobe and 3Com are two such examples.
Which is a legitimate worry, these community owned and ran ISPs that actually have good customer service and reasonable prices threaten their monopolies. The big companies have made it easy to compete against them, since they have terrible prices and worse customer service. If the city I lived in had a city owned ISP, even if it was slightly more expensive, if it had better customer service I would use that over any of the big ISPs.
I really hope we see more cities doing this. And with wireless technologies like WiMax the barriers to entry can be a lot easier.
I was hoping they would be adding bluetooth into the nano. That would have been a reason for me to buy a new one. I don't like those bluetooth add-on accessories, it would be a lot nicer if it was integrated in.
From what I was told, that update is a fail safe. Basically if the throttle is wide open or near wide open and you press on the brakes, it will cause the engine to ignore the throttle position and return to idle.
Not to say that it might not have bugs but also consider that they might be silently patching other bugs they found. If part of this whole sudden acceleration thing was a software glitch, they could use this to keep that under wraps. You probably should just get the update, then at least if there is a future problem they can't point to your refusal to update the software as the cause.
They have a similar service for the 360 where for $40-ish they will install all the XBox Live updates for you. When they tried to push it on me the salesman insisted that if I didn't get it, it would take about 5 hours for my XBox to update and be able to play games. Which obviously is complete bullshit unless you could only download at like 1KB/sec or something.
When I got home it took at most 5 minutes for it to download and apply the updates.
Get yourself a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive for it. Though finding one might be rather difficult or expensive. Or pull the hard drive out and track down an IDE adapter. I remember being able to access laptop hard drives a little bigger than that with adapters that would convert the smaller IDE connector on the drive to a standard 40-pin connector. You could hook it up to a desktop machine, install Linux and then put it back in the laptop.
Though I have to also agree with some other people that suggest getting a newer laptop, at least one with a CD drive.
As for the episode. It still amazes me how the writers handle "The Ancients". Come on. Someone sends out a robot spaceship for a indefinitely long journey and it doesn't have a way to repair itself? "The Ancients" are so omnipotent that they don't need spacesuits, supplies or tools to make repairs, but they do need spaceships? Either "The Ancients" are so overrated or the writers need to think before they write. Oops. I forgot we were talking about Hollywood.
Yeah, you would think they would have left supplies on board, maybe not tools but at least a few spare parts for critical systems. But I guess as they explained in the episode, the Ancients were planning on coming there and logically when they did, they would have probably brought spare parts. However despite that, as they said in the episode, the ship is huge and they had only explored a small part of it, there could be spare parts some place on the ship.
Isn't the ship supposed to be like 100k years old? If so, the fact that it would be working at all would is amazing.
It felt like the leadership conflict between the SG team leader (Scott then Young) and Doctor Rush once they were on the Destiny was a bit forced and artificial feeling. Especially when you contrast it to Rush before they went through the gate.
However despite a few small flaws like that, it was pretty good. But the real question isn't if this episode was good or the next one, it is what they will do with the premise, that will be interesting to see. Hopefully they don't waste it.
And they better not do many "We found a way home!!! Oh crap it didn't pan out at the last second!!!" type episodes like Star Trek Voyager did.
No, I'm saying that the issue with Internet access is different between a MMORPG and an RTS. With an RTS having LAN play facilitates LAN parties where there might not be Internet access or the bandwidth would be relatively limited for the number of people on the connection. Not to mention the silliness of having 2-8 people in the same room and on the same network playing the same together and all having to go out onto the Internet unnecessarily. If they make the game smart enough to realize the other players are on the same local network, that would at least eliminate the bandwidth argument. But there is no evidence they will since it sounds like they don't even know what they are going to do yet.
Or situations where Internet access is unavailable, I've played RTS and FPS games with friends before using an ad-hoc wireless network when there was no Internet access available or the Internet access was prohibitively too expensive for the short time we wanted to use it. Obviously that particular example falls into a relatively uncommon use case.
Of course Blizzard is free to not include LAN play, it's their game but I think they don't really know why they aren't. Or at least not everyone has the same story. My complaint is that their logic in comparing an MMORPG's usage to an RTS.
We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play. There are some cases out there, some legitimate-use cases â" that aren't just people that refuse to buy a modem or are crazy and weird and living in a closet. We want to make sure we are able to support these legitimate-use cases for LAN play and make it accessible to those users, but we're still trying to identify all of those and decide which cases are legitimate and which are not. These are definitely legitimate concerns, and we're certainly looking to address them.
So they think since the people that play WoW, which is online only, have Internet that SC2 players don't need LAN support? That's great logic.
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I don't think I would even go that far. There a plenty of places in the US for example that have no cell coverage at all. Granted they are all in pretty rural areas but the exist nonetheless and are usually large areas.
It is built into Firefox. StartSSL is where I get the SSL certificate I use for my SVN server, works great. I know the root certificate is in Firefox from at least 3.0 forward.
About a week ago it was announced that there would be a BSG spin off movie and which might also be a backdoor pilot: http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/10/22/syfy-adama-blood-and-chrome/
No, it is still Microsoft. My 2011 Ford has sync and there is a small little thing in the car next to the USB port that says "SYNC Powered By Microsoft.". And sync works pretty damn well so far for me, I only wish you could customize the voice.
And why do you think the market would have gone that way? I highly doubt things would have turned out as rosy as you describe.
If IBM hadn't made a PC that was popular and easy to clone, things would be very different these days. Probably more like the game console market where there is only 3 big companies producing hardware. And the prices on computers might not have fallen as quick without such fierce competition. In the grand scheme of things I would say IBM is much more responsible for the current state of computing than Microsoft. IBM is the reason the majority of personal computers today are all compatible with each other.
If Microsoft wasn't around, there would have been some other company. You can blame Gary Kildall for Microsoft's dominance, if he hadn't turned IBM away when they came calling for an OS for their PC, Microsoft never would have become so huge. However we don't know what would have happened if IBM had gone with CP/M, maybe Digital Research would have been that other company. Things might be better today or they might be worse, hard to say.
It seems appropriate to bring up that C++ was all one big joke: http://www.ariel.com.au/jokes/An_Interview_with_Bjarne_Stroustrup.html
While it would be useful for homework or in class, you'd never be allowed to use an iPhone on a test. Too easy to use the internet or send a picture of the question to someone to solve. So you'd need to buy a conventional calculator anyways. Plus having lots of dedicated buttons for math operations makes those calculators easier/faster to use than the iPhone version would be.
I am glad they won and I don't particularly care that the lawyers are getting paid the majority of the settlement. What I do care about is that the people actually responsible aren't going to be punished. The settlement will be paid by the district's insurance policy and the people actually responsible will get to walk away.
Well that isn't technically true, at least some of the people left PARC to found companies to make products based on their ideas because XEROX management failed to see the value in the technology they owned. Adobe and 3Com are two such examples.
Which is a legitimate worry, these community owned and ran ISPs that actually have good customer service and reasonable prices threaten their monopolies. The big companies have made it easy to compete against them, since they have terrible prices and worse customer service. If the city I lived in had a city owned ISP, even if it was slightly more expensive, if it had better customer service I would use that over any of the big ISPs.
I really hope we see more cities doing this. And with wireless technologies like WiMax the barriers to entry can be a lot easier.
I was hoping they would be adding bluetooth into the nano. That would have been a reason for me to buy a new one. I don't like those bluetooth add-on accessories, it would be a lot nicer if it was integrated in.
I wish I had mod points for you; this is exactly right.
Here is the always working link on the actual Daily Show site: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-16-2010/an-energy-independent-future
Yes since cell jammers stop land lines from working.
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You can rent the DVD from Netflix as well.
From what I was told, that update is a fail safe. Basically if the throttle is wide open or near wide open and you press on the brakes, it will cause the engine to ignore the throttle position and return to idle.
Not to say that it might not have bugs but also consider that they might be silently patching other bugs they found. If part of this whole sudden acceleration thing was a software glitch, they could use this to keep that under wraps. You probably should just get the update, then at least if there is a future problem they can't point to your refusal to update the software as the cause.
They have a similar service for the 360 where for $40-ish they will install all the XBox Live updates for you. When they tried to push it on me the salesman insisted that if I didn't get it, it would take about 5 hours for my XBox to update and be able to play games. Which obviously is complete bullshit unless you could only download at like 1KB/sec or something.
When I got home it took at most 5 minutes for it to download and apply the updates.
Not all of the 8 series cards support VDPAU. However there is a handy list on Wikipedia of which NVIDIA cards support VDPAU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDPAU#Table_of_NVIDIA_GPUs
I think that was sarcasm in the summary. But you aren't wrong about encrypting the files.
Get yourself a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive for it. Though finding one might be rather difficult or expensive. Or pull the hard drive out and track down an IDE adapter. I remember being able to access laptop hard drives a little bigger than that with adapters that would convert the smaller IDE connector on the drive to a standard 40-pin connector. You could hook it up to a desktop machine, install Linux and then put it back in the laptop.
Though I have to also agree with some other people that suggest getting a newer laptop, at least one with a CD drive.
As for the episode. It still amazes me how the writers handle "The Ancients". Come on. Someone sends out a robot spaceship for a indefinitely long journey and it doesn't have a way to repair itself? "The Ancients" are so omnipotent that they don't need spacesuits, supplies or tools to make repairs, but they do need spaceships? Either "The Ancients" are so overrated or the writers need to think before they write. Oops. I forgot we were talking about Hollywood.
Yeah, you would think they would have left supplies on board, maybe not tools but at least a few spare parts for critical systems. But I guess as they explained in the episode, the Ancients were planning on coming there and logically when they did, they would have probably brought spare parts. However despite that, as they said in the episode, the ship is huge and they had only explored a small part of it, there could be spare parts some place on the ship.
Isn't the ship supposed to be like 100k years old? If so, the fact that it would be working at all would is amazing.
It felt like the leadership conflict between the SG team leader (Scott then Young) and Doctor Rush once they were on the Destiny was a bit forced and artificial feeling. Especially when you contrast it to Rush before they went through the gate.
However despite a few small flaws like that, it was pretty good. But the real question isn't if this episode was good or the next one, it is what they will do with the premise, that will be interesting to see. Hopefully they don't waste it.
And they better not do many "We found a way home!!! Oh crap it didn't pan out at the last second!!!" type episodes like Star Trek Voyager did.
No, I'm saying that the issue with Internet access is different between a MMORPG and an RTS. With an RTS having LAN play facilitates LAN parties where there might not be Internet access or the bandwidth would be relatively limited for the number of people on the connection. Not to mention the silliness of having 2-8 people in the same room and on the same network playing the same together and all having to go out onto the Internet unnecessarily. If they make the game smart enough to realize the other players are on the same local network, that would at least eliminate the bandwidth argument. But there is no evidence they will since it sounds like they don't even know what they are going to do yet.
Or situations where Internet access is unavailable, I've played RTS and FPS games with friends before using an ad-hoc wireless network when there was no Internet access available or the Internet access was prohibitively too expensive for the short time we wanted to use it. Obviously that particular example falls into a relatively uncommon use case.
Of course Blizzard is free to not include LAN play, it's their game but I think they don't really know why they aren't. Or at least not everyone has the same story. My complaint is that their logic in comparing an MMORPG's usage to an RTS.
We just know from WoW that most people can connect online and play. There are some cases out there, some legitimate-use cases â" that aren't just people that refuse to buy a modem or are crazy and weird and living in a closet. We want to make sure we are able to support these legitimate-use cases for LAN play and make it accessible to those users, but we're still trying to identify all of those and decide which cases are legitimate and which are not. These are definitely legitimate concerns, and we're certainly looking to address them.
So they think since the people that play WoW, which is online only, have Internet that SC2 players don't need LAN support? That's great logic.