And they are displaying this even to GoogleBot/2.1, which I'm usually using as User-Agent. It also kind of breaks google's indexing, they seem to have spidered hundreds of those pages, and cached almost none, since they are all the same.
Joe Sixpack presses onscreen button for Candidate X and gets to see a printed receipt of his vote under a closed glass window. [...] Then presses the, "Yes, that is my final answer" button and then he^W the machine deposits his receipt.
That's the way it should be. No way for Joe Voter to take the receipt with him. If there's a problem with the receipt, call one of the official people, have them unlock the machine, remove the receipt and allow him to vote again.
Of those that actually reached the surface, almost all worked until their batteries ran out or the Spacecraft bus which was used as a relay left radio range, whichever happened first. If I'm not mistaken, the early ones were cracked by pressure and not cooked - the immense pressure on the surface wasn't known until Venera 7. There's a very interesting website on the russian missions to Venus. And at least Venera 9, 10 13 and 14 returned pictures from the surface, that's 4.
You really don't need the pocket PC. For many devices, the codes used to control them via infrared are available in "Pronto Raw Format" in places like remotecentral. In many cases, there are more codes than on the original remote control, i.e. a code to turn the device on and another one to turn it off instead of one that toggles between the two. Now, the "Pronto Raw Format" is really, really trivial, and it should be possible to turn it into a wav file with only minimal effort - resampling from the arbitrary frequency to 44.1 or 48kHz should be the hardest part, but I think sox should work.
Well, another example of an award only a braindead monkey could have given is the one for this useless website. And I thought that things couldn't get worse after a flash only intro page without a skip link. I do however like the font they used.
I'm not quite sure how anyone could possibly have been reading that into my comment, but let me answer anyway:
The reason you never want it on? Simple, the system fails to power the drives back up 90% of the time (except on a rare magical system that decides to work all the time).
Sorry to hear that. Complain to your IDE drives (or their manufacturers), because it's their job to power on/off all by themselves. You send a command once to the drive, after how much time of inactivity it's supposed to spin down, and it should automatically spin up again when it receives a command it cannot fulfill from its buffer. SCSI drives on the other hand must be spun up and down explicitly, and will just return errors to read or write commands while spun down.
As for SCSI vs IDE, you rarely use SCSI drives in desktops and notebooks? Surely your not suggesting anyone would ever consider power management on a SERVER???
All my noteboks - and that's three of them - use SCSI drives. So do all my desktops, but I'm using power management only on the notebooks. If you consider a router a Server then, yes, power management does reduce the noise of my router considerably, but that one's the only box that uses an IDE drive in this household. If you re-read my original post, you will find that I do quite clearly state that SCSI drives are not really suited for power management, the notebook drives I use are a rare exception.
I'm sure if I checked I'd find you right about the physical behavior of the drives, it's purely a software issue.
Please do. It is not, unless you consider the drives firmware "software", at least as far as IDE drives are concerned. Have a look at the definition of the "-S" parameter of the linux hdparm tool, the man page also provides references to the ATA and ATAPI specifications.
-S Set the standby (spindown) timeout for the drive.
This value is used by the drive to determine how
long to wait (with no disk activity) before turning
off the spindle motor to save power. Under such
circumstances, the drive may take as long as 30
seconds to respond to a subsequent disk access,
though most drives are much quicker.
[...]
They'd better send someone up again, because the early flags planted on the moon are all lying in the dirt because they were blown over during the launch back to earth.
And guess what, most modern TVs are constantly monitoring the video stream for exactly that. This is to ensure they pickup the change to 3-2 pulldown within the first 3 frames.
Interlaced video. That's what they monitor to properly de-interlace it. The standard deinterlacer chips available today can only accept standard 480i or 576i video, so deinterlacing will be some trivial method with almost not time wasted for pulldown detection for 1080i if it takes place at all (i.e. not for CRT-base displays, for fixed pixel displays they will just do a weave or bob). There's no way they can de-interlace 480p, 576p or 720p, so there should be no delay. Some CRTs admittedly down-convert 720p to 540p and then re-interlace that to 1080i, but that's just because they are crap and can't run at 45kHz which is required for 720p - 1080i uses just 34kHz. However, there's almost no delay associated with this anyway, 3 lines - that's 1/150000s are sufficient for optimal scaleing.
If you play your games on a hdtv via s-video or yuv interlaced video, you're probably better off with cheap a console anyway.
Analog RF carries composite, so composite rules apply. Either one will top out at about 300X480. If the coax is carrying digital RF, then digital and/or HDTV rules apply.
I don't know where you got this from, but that's probably 300 TV-lines of resolution, i.e. alternating black/white lines. The NTSC spec says it's 330 lines. Wait, there is more: the horizontal resolution is given in lines per picture height, so for a standard NTSC 4:3 picture, that's the number of lines you can cram into 3/4 of the picture width, resulting in 440 lines. How may pixels that would require is left as an exercise to the reader, because that's where things get even more confusing.
# Screen Saver tab: Blank, wait 2 minutes, check "On resume, password protect", and for Power have it turn the monitor off after 3 minutes (and never turn off the hard drives). This is so if I forget to lock it when I leave my workstation, there'll be a very small window where I can be "rooted" by my coworkers (it happens, best protect yourself from it).
You're probably not doing your monitor a favor by turning it off and back on frequently. It doesn't matter if it's a CRT or an LCD, it's probably better not to turn them off while you're away for 4 minutes taking a leak.
Also, if you have IDE harddisks, most of them are designed to be turned on and off at times - If you compare the specs for SCSI server disks and IDE disks, you'll find that the number of startup/shutdown cycles they are specified for is an order of magnitude larger for IDE drives (and even more for notebook drives), while the run time is usually smaller. In some cases, you actually do them a favor by turning them off at times as some clean the gunk off the heads in a special area where the heads rest - some IBM SCSI harddisks had a firmware patch to spin down and back up every few days for a similar reason if I am not mistaken. So unless cron and syslog turn it on after a few seconds anyway, you can just as well let it spin down during lunch.
OK, time to dig out the wikipedia entry on contracts. Consideration is one point, "proper subject matter" is another and totally unrelated. Does a contract have to be enforcable for the defection of one party to become fraud? I don't think so, for the same reasons that stealing from a thief is illegal.
From the article: "He then tried to hit me for $18,000 for processing fees for transferring millions," Mike says.
He wrote back as Father Hector, saying that the church had plenty of money, but there was a withdrawal fee of $80.
"I persuaded him to send me the $80, which he did, inside a birthday card, by courier," Mike says.
It was not a donation. The expressed purpose of the US$ 80 was to pay for the withdrawal fee for the US$18000. Let's look up the definition of "consideration":
7. Law. Something promised, given, or done that has the effect of making an agreement a legally enforceable contract.
Now, US$18k have been promised, US$80 have been sent. No careful thought or good feelings needed, so where exactly is your lack of consideration? And from where did you get that "The jury's still out on where the law applies on email isn't it?" ? Contract law applies regardless of the form of communication, although a printout of an email or the mail as stored in your mbox may not be considered a proof in court. Admittedly, some contracts must be in writing to be valid, (depending on jurisdiction of course, over here one such case would be selling real estate), but I don't think it's the case here.
The concept of "contract" and "fraud" seem to be quite similar in most jurisdiction, so this is probably frau, no matter whether the laws of Nigeria or the UK are applied.
You really have to look up what a contract is. Contracts do not require handshakes, face-to-face meeting, anything wirtten whasoever or whatever else you may associate with contracts. All that is required for a contract to form is that two parties agree to it. This can be done in written form, by phone, email signalling flags or whatever - the form doesn't matter, but one would probably prefer to have something in written, so as to be able to proove that the contract (and its exact conditions) has been formed. There are some more conditions (the parties must be adults, the matter of the contract must be legal, the parties must have had a choice to enter the contract etc..) for a contract to be binding. This is pretty much standard in legislatures all over the world.
IMHO, the reason why no contract has been formed in this case is simply that the Nigerian had no intention to follow through with his part, but if he had, "Father Barnett" would be guilty of fraud.
Better for what? If you like the way tubes distort the sound ("mellow"?) then maybe tubes are for you. Otherwise, if you are after precise reproduction (low distortion, low noise, linear frequency response) then solid state is what you're looking for. All good amplifiers sound alike as long as you don't run them into clipping, that is, if they have sufficiently low noise, distortion etc. All that sound significantly different suck.
The most important features in a browser are stability, security and speed. And since it's been neglected in mozilla/gecko let me mention speed again.
Correctnes is another topic that I think has been neglected in the past. There's a number of problems with drawing things 1 pixel off at times, both in the UI and gecko part of mozilla.
I'm also missing the capability to see all relevant "cookie sites" for the current page, so that I can re-enable cookies for bla.com, www.bla.com and cgi.bla.com without manually pageing through thousands of alphabetically sorted hostnames. I'd also like to enable/disable cookies by name (i.e. allow SESSION_ID but deny PREFERENCES), of trim their lifetime.
Proper multithreading: The tab and menus/dialogs that I'm currently interacting with should get higher priority over everything else. Also. mutithreading should be finer-grained, so that no activities in any tab/windows block other windows or even the UI.
Similar the the adblocker for images, I'd like to block iframes loading from certain sites. Currently the only way to find out where Iframes come from is by looking in the source, and to block them, one has to edit one's hosts file, auto-proxy-config file or junkbuster config.
I'd love to be able to increase (adjust) the width of certain columns of some pages. With display resolutions beyond 140dpi and sizes of 1920x1200 and more, pages that are fixed at less than 800 pixels wide with menus and advertisements on both sides, leaving a small column of content that can only be read with the original 5 pixel high font the page author loves so much, and only leave two or three words per line with even a moderate increase in text size.
Did I mention speed? In this respect, Netscape 4 is the browser to beat, in all disciplines except deeply nested tables.
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No, it doesn't and it's been like this for 3 months now, I think, so they really do care about security. There's a workaround - choose "switzerland (german)" and later, when giving your address, select "germany" for both billing and shipping address before filling in anything else (otherwise you'll end up writing everything 4 times, since they left out the useful "copy" button for the shipping address).
There are only few parts that dell lets you replace by yourself, and the keyboard is the most complicated one, although 4 or 5 screws and one or two compression connectors would seem trivial to most/. readers.
Dell does not check if you display is really broken - their contractors couldn't care less why they are exchanging the parts, most don't even check if the display works before starting to take the notebook apart. Once you've managed to convince the support drone on the phone that your display is actually broken (some of them fight for it like they had to pay for the parts out of their own pocket), it will get exchanged, even if the repairman finds out that its either the graphics card or the cable connecting them.
AFAIR, this was different: the music industry complained to the ISPs, listing the IP addresses and the times the alleged offenses happened, the ISPs passed that complaint on to the users (and attached a warning regarding their own acceeptable use policies). Logging the IP addresses is questionable if people are using flat rate plans, but has been ruled to be legal.
I think this has already been reported on/. around November 2003, about the time sgi introduced this thing. They also sell the proper graphics hardware to attach 10 of those to a single box. No need to use a wimpy PCI based Parhelia.
Single chip DLPs use the same types of lamps, and, for the sake of higher light output, should also use filters that remove only the minimal amount of light possible, instead of reducing the output to a narrow bandwidth gap. Worse, there are DPL projectors with a clear, unfiltered segment on the color wheel.
Three chip DLPs are the same as LCDs, using Dichoic mirrors.
except the wavelengths that the projector produces
LCD projectors use dichroic mirrors to split the white light from the (incandescent) bulb (which does emit more or less not just the entire visible spectrum, but also the adjacent infrared and ultraviolet frequencies) into red green and blue - in theory, the result of recombining those behind the LCDs should again be white light with a continuous spectrum. Now, which part of that does the screen absorb?
I also find the jpeg describing species filters quite irritating, as the "white" light should also contain red, green and blue and should be partially reflected.
Slashdot Mirror
As long as your "privacy" is based on "opt-out", you don't have any. Wake me up when the US changes their data protection laws to "opt-in".
It's not just java script - it's a server-side feature. Just check the results in google yourself.
And they are displaying this even to GoogleBot/2.1, which I'm usually using as User-Agent. It also kind of breaks google's indexing, they seem to have spidered hundreds of those pages, and cached almost none, since they are all the same.
now I'll go back to browsing with telnet and openssl s_client.
Joe Sixpack presses onscreen button for Candidate X and gets to see a printed receipt of his vote under a closed glass window. [...] Then presses the, "Yes, that is my final answer" button and then he^W the machine deposits his receipt.
That's the way it should be. No way for Joe Voter to take the receipt with him. If there's a problem with the receipt, call one of the official people, have them unlock the machine, remove the receipt and allow him to vote again.
Of those that actually reached the surface, almost all worked until their batteries ran out or the Spacecraft bus which was used as a relay left radio range, whichever happened first. If I'm not mistaken, the early ones were cracked by pressure and not cooked - the immense pressure on the surface wasn't known until Venera 7. There's a very interesting website on the russian missions to Venus. And at least Venera 9, 10 13 and 14 returned pictures from the surface, that's 4.
You really don't need the pocket PC. For many devices, the codes used to control them via infrared are available in "Pronto Raw Format" in places like remotecentral. In many cases, there are more codes than on the original remote control, i.e. a code to turn the device on and another one to turn it off instead of one that toggles between the two. Now, the "Pronto Raw Format" is really, really trivial, and it should be possible to turn it into a wav file with only minimal effort - resampling from the arbitrary frequency to 44.1 or 48kHz should be the hardest part, but I think sox should work.
Well, another example of an award only a braindead monkey could have given is the one for this useless website. And I thought that things couldn't get worse after a flash only intro page without a skip link. I do however like the font they used.
The reason you never want it on? Simple, the system fails to power the drives back up 90% of the time (except on a rare magical system that decides to work all the time).
Sorry to hear that. Complain to your IDE drives (or their manufacturers), because it's their job to power on/off all by themselves. You send a command once to the drive, after how much time of inactivity it's supposed to spin down, and it should automatically spin up again when it receives a command it cannot fulfill from its buffer. SCSI drives on the other hand must be spun up and down explicitly, and will just return errors to read or write commands while spun down.
As for SCSI vs IDE, you rarely use SCSI drives in desktops and notebooks? Surely your not suggesting anyone would ever consider power management on a SERVER???
All my noteboks - and that's three of them - use SCSI drives. So do all my desktops, but I'm using power management only on the notebooks. If you consider a router a Server then, yes, power management does reduce the noise of my router considerably, but that one's the only box that uses an IDE drive in this household. If you re-read my original post, you will find that I do quite clearly state that SCSI drives are not really suited for power management, the notebook drives I use are a rare exception.
I'm sure if I checked I'd find you right about the physical behavior of the drives, it's purely a software issue.
Please do. It is not, unless you consider the drives firmware "software", at least as far as IDE drives are concerned. Have a look at the definition of the "-S" parameter of the linux hdparm tool, the man page also provides references to the ATA and ATAPI specifications.
They'd better send someone up again, because the early flags planted on the moon are all lying in the dirt because they were blown over during the launch back to earth.
And guess what, most modern TVs are constantly monitoring the video stream for exactly that. This is to ensure they pickup the change to 3-2 pulldown within the first 3 frames.
Interlaced video. That's what they monitor to properly de-interlace it. The standard deinterlacer chips available today can only accept standard 480i or 576i video, so deinterlacing will be some trivial method with almost not time wasted for pulldown detection for 1080i if it takes place at all (i.e. not for CRT-base displays, for fixed pixel displays they will just do a weave or bob). There's no way they can de-interlace 480p, 576p or 720p, so there should be no delay. Some CRTs admittedly down-convert 720p to 540p and then re-interlace that to 1080i, but that's just because they are crap and can't run at 45kHz which is required for 720p - 1080i uses just 34kHz. However, there's almost no delay associated with this anyway, 3 lines - that's 1/150000s are sufficient for optimal scaleing.
If you play your games on a hdtv via s-video or yuv interlaced video, you're probably better off with cheap a console anyway.
Analog RF carries composite, so composite rules apply. Either one will top out at about 300X480. If the coax is carrying digital RF, then digital and/or HDTV rules apply.
I don't know where you got this from, but that's probably 300 TV-lines of resolution, i.e. alternating black/white lines. The NTSC spec says it's 330 lines. Wait, there is more: the horizontal resolution is given in lines per picture height, so for a standard NTSC 4:3 picture, that's the number of lines you can cram into 3/4 of the picture width, resulting in 440 lines. How may pixels that would require is left as an exercise to the reader, because that's where things get even more confusing.
# Screen Saver tab: Blank, wait 2 minutes, check "On resume, password protect", and for Power have it turn the monitor off after 3 minutes (and never turn off the hard drives). This is so if I forget to lock it when I leave my workstation, there'll be a very small window where I can be "rooted" by my coworkers (it happens, best protect yourself from it).
You're probably not doing your monitor a favor by turning it off and back on frequently. It doesn't matter if it's a CRT or an LCD, it's probably better not to turn them off while you're away for 4 minutes taking a leak.
Also, if you have IDE harddisks, most of them are designed to be turned on and off at times - If you compare the specs for SCSI server disks and IDE disks, you'll find that the number of startup/shutdown cycles they are specified for is an order of magnitude larger for IDE drives (and even more for notebook drives), while the run time is usually smaller. In some cases, you actually do them a favor by turning them off at times as some clean the gunk off the heads in a special area where the heads rest - some IBM SCSI harddisks had a firmware patch to spin down and back up every few days for a similar reason if I am not mistaken. So unless cron and syslog turn it on after a few seconds anyway, you can just as well let it spin down during lunch.
OK, time to dig out the wikipedia entry on contracts. Consideration is one point, "proper subject matter" is another and totally unrelated. Does a contract have to be enforcable for the defection of one party to become fraud? I don't think so, for the same reasons that stealing from a thief is illegal.
From the article:
"He then tried to hit me for $18,000 for processing fees for transferring millions," Mike says.
He wrote back as Father Hector, saying that the church had plenty of money, but there was a withdrawal fee of $80.
"I persuaded him to send me the $80, which he did, inside a birthday card, by courier," Mike says.
It was not a donation. The expressed purpose of the US$ 80 was to pay for the withdrawal fee for the US$18000. Let's look up the definition of "consideration":
7. Law. Something promised, given, or done that has the effect of making an agreement a legally enforceable contract.
Now, US$18k have been promised, US$80 have been sent. No careful thought or good feelings needed, so where exactly is your lack of consideration? And from where did you get that "The jury's still out on where the law applies on email isn't it?" ? Contract law applies regardless of the form of communication, although a printout of an email or the mail as stored in your mbox may not be considered a proof in court. Admittedly, some contracts must be in writing to be valid, (depending on jurisdiction of course, over here one such case would be selling real estate), but I don't think it's the case here.
The concept of "contract" and "fraud" seem to be quite similar in most jurisdiction, so this is probably frau, no matter whether the laws of Nigeria or the UK are applied.
I didn't become a lawyer in the meantime.
You really have to look up what a contract is. Contracts do not require handshakes, face-to-face meeting, anything wirtten whasoever or whatever else you may associate with contracts. All that is required for a contract to form is that two parties agree to it. This can be done in written form, by phone, email signalling flags or whatever - the form doesn't matter, but one would probably prefer to have something in written, so as to be able to proove that the contract (and its exact conditions) has been formed. There are some more conditions (the parties must be adults, the matter of the contract must be legal, the parties must have had a choice to enter the contract etc..) for a contract to be binding. This is pretty much standard in legislatures all over the world.
IMHO, the reason why no contract has been formed in this case is simply that the Nigerian had no intention to follow through with his part, but if he had, "Father Barnett" would be guilty of fraud.
of couse, IANAL.
Better for what? If you like the way tubes distort the sound ("mellow"?) then maybe tubes are for you. Otherwise, if you are after precise reproduction (low distortion, low noise, linear frequency response) then solid state is what you're looking for. All good amplifiers sound alike as long as you don't run them into clipping, that is, if they have sufficiently low noise, distortion etc. All that sound significantly different suck.
The most important features in a browser are stability, security and speed. And since it's been neglected in mozilla/gecko let me mention speed again.
Correctnes is another topic that I think has been neglected in the past. There's a number of problems with drawing things 1 pixel off at times, both in the UI and gecko part of mozilla.
I'm also missing the capability to see all relevant "cookie sites" for the current page, so that I can re-enable cookies for bla.com, www.bla.com and cgi.bla.com without manually pageing through thousands of alphabetically sorted hostnames. I'd also like to enable/disable cookies by name (i.e. allow SESSION_ID but deny PREFERENCES), of trim their lifetime.
Proper multithreading: The tab and menus/dialogs that I'm currently interacting with should get higher priority over everything else. Also. mutithreading should be finer-grained, so that no activities in any tab/windows block other windows or even the UI.
Similar the the adblocker for images, I'd like to block iframes loading from certain sites. Currently the only way to find out where Iframes come from is by looking in the source, and to block them, one has to edit one's hosts file, auto-proxy-config file or junkbuster config.
I'd love to be able to increase (adjust) the width of certain columns of some pages. With display resolutions beyond 140dpi and sizes of 1920x1200 and more, pages that are fixed at less than 800 pixels wide with menus and advertisements on both sides, leaving a small column of content that can only be read with the original 5 pixel high font the page author loves so much, and only leave two or three words per line with even a moderate increase in text size.
Did I mention speed? In this respect, Netscape 4 is the browser to beat, in all disciplines except deeply nested tables.
Try ordering one for germany:
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No, it doesn't and it's been like this for 3 months now, I think, so they really do care about security. There's a workaround - choose "switzerland (german)" and later, when giving your address, select "germany" for both billing and shipping address before filling in anything else (otherwise you'll end up writing everything 4 times, since they left out the useful "copy" button for the shipping address).
SUN can't really call anything "seven of nine", because SGI already had a product with this name. And it was flat.
There are only few parts that dell lets you replace by yourself, and the keyboard is the most complicated one, although 4 or 5 screws and one or two compression connectors would seem trivial to most /. readers.
Dell does not check if you display is really broken - their contractors couldn't care less why they are exchanging the parts, most don't even check if the display works before starting to take the notebook apart. Once you've managed to convince the support drone on the phone that your display is actually broken (some of them fight for it like they had to pay for the parts out of their own pocket), it will get exchanged, even if the repairman finds out that its either the graphics card or the cable connecting them.
AFAIR, this was different: the music industry complained to the ISPs, listing the IP addresses and the times the alleged offenses happened, the ISPs passed that complaint on to the users (and attached a warning regarding their own acceeptable use policies). Logging the IP addresses is questionable if people are using flat rate plans, but has been ruled to be legal.
I think this has already been reported on /. around November 2003, about the time sgi introduced this thing. They also sell the proper graphics hardware to attach 10 of those to a single box. No need to use a wimpy PCI based Parhelia.
Single chip DLPs use the same types of lamps, and, for the sake of higher light output, should also use filters that remove only the minimal amount of light possible, instead of reducing the output to a narrow bandwidth gap. Worse, there are DPL projectors with a clear, unfiltered segment on the color wheel.
Three chip DLPs are the same as LCDs, using Dichoic mirrors.
except the wavelengths that the projector produces
LCD projectors use dichroic mirrors to split the white light from the (incandescent) bulb (which does emit more or less not just the entire visible spectrum, but also the adjacent infrared and ultraviolet frequencies) into red green and blue - in theory, the result of recombining those behind the LCDs should again be white light with a continuous spectrum. Now, which part of that does the screen absorb?
I also find the jpeg describing species filters quite irritating, as the "white" light should also contain red, green and blue and should be partially reflected.