Other way around. Theora was apparently released in 2004. H.264 (according to Wikipedia), was formally approved in March 2003, but it had already been worked on since at least 2000.
For the motherboard controllers, they keep the same controller chip. Removing the support from the chip would require designing, verifying, validating, debugging new silicon which has no value. To save cost, they'll remove the connectors and change the BIOS so that the devices don't show up.
Higher end motherboards and workstation class PC's seem to support more legacy hardware interfaces than mainstream ones. My Dell Precision Workstation (2 dual core xeon's) has 2 serial ports, a parallel port, PS/2 mouse and keyboard, something like 8 USB 2.0's and Firewire 800.
For software, there are better alternatives:
Real-mode DOS or Full-screen DOS: FreeDOS or MS-DOS in a VirtualPC. Or DOSBox is great for a lot of stuff. Qbasic: Visual Studio Express Edition
Most MUDs are also CRPG's with levels, equipment, quests/missions, et cetera. Little to no puzzle solving necessary. Thus they share more in common with World of Warcraft than they do with adventure games.
Survival horror games (e.g., Resident Evil, Silent Hill, et cetera) even though they have a lot of first person or third person shooter characteristics actually have more in common with adventure games because of the perpetual "find key to open door and advance storyline" situation.
It's voluntary though, and it's only on a limited number of roads. If you use the toll roads regularly, you can get a FasTrack box that you put inside your windshield. The pay stations have a RFID reader. You just drive through and the system will automatically bill you. Even if you don't have the box and pay cash, they have cameras that monitor the license plate of everyone who drives through. If you were to run through the pay station without paying, you'd get a bill from your car registration (and a ticket for not following the instructions).
I have a feeling that this system is going to show up on all freeways in Southern California. It's pretty much the only way to cut down on traffic congestion. Either that or wait until the comet hits.
Google is operating in Japan and wants to continue Japanese operations. Therefore, they will comply with the laws. They may hire Japanese lawyers and contest the requirement by questioning the Japanese laws that they are alleged to be violating, or they may not. They may simply remove the offending material or block its distribution to Japanese IP addresses.
Yes, however a hundred years ago the forestry industry realized that they needed to start planting trees in order to have a long-term sustainable business. Now they plant more trees than they cut down.
Don't fool yourself. If their parents just let them do whatever they want, they'd be trying drugs and having sex when they're 13 and dropping out of school and running away. Then they wouldn't be able to get jobs as strippers because they'd be under 18, so they'd become prostitutes instead. And they'd be doing drugs because you can't buy alcohol when you're under 21. So by forcibly keeping them out of that stuff until they're 18, the parents are protecting them until they have more options.
Which world would you prefer to live in, Huxley's "Brave New World" or the Orwell's "1894"? (If you haven't read Brave New World, basically, everyone's on drugs and has a lot of sex.)
A fighter is designed to engage other aircraft. It will have machine guns and missiles for destroying air targets, but not necessarily bombs for destroying ground targets.
First of all, the U.S. was not founded by Puritans. If I recall correctly, the Puritans were pacifists and believed in creating a pure religious society. The founding fathers of the United States rejected the idea of official state religion (though they may have been religious themselves) and they were certainly not pacifists when they organized a military secession from England.
As for colonization, that wasn't the American way, it was the European way. The English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Russians all took colonies in the Americas.
They've been saying that for years. And they've been doing more and more sex education for those years. Every young girl who's having sex knows what a condom is, knows what it does, and knows that it's a good idea to use it. However, young teenagers are also notoriously irresponsible, so they routinely throw caution to the wind. Some people say that we should try to stop teens from having sex (the abstinence movement). Others say that we should do more sex education. The real solution is that we need to teach teenagers to be more responsible.
I doubt this is about terrorism. Terrorists want to kill human targets in order to change public opinion. Once a large enough number of people have been killed, the remaining majority will soon come to the conclusion, "Damn. We should just get out of Kashmir. Too many of our people are being killed." In a democracy, an opportunistic politician will soon say, "Vote for me and I will pull our people out of Kashmir within six months!"
Targets identifiable by satellite imagery would be infrastructure (water processing, power plants, bridges, train tracks, roads, communication, ports, government). Attacks on these would be to disrupt order within the country. This would draw attention and resources away from the actual target.
Suppose it is the Indian held areas in Kashmir. Imagine attacks on infrastructure in large Indian cities. Imagine millions of people without water because the water distribution systems are down. Imagine there's no food in the cities because the bridges are destroyed. Imagine some ships have been sunk blocking access to the ports. Imagine the power is out for millions of people. It would be a real mess. And it would be a mess in Kashmir too. That's when the Pakistani forces would come in to provide relief and help restore order.
That's not the point. I am sure that NAVTEQ and the other satellite imagery companies are frequently in communication with people from various three-letter organizations (FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security). A business request to NAVTEQ for high resolution images of some government facility in India has the opportunity to draw more attention an investigation than an anonymous access to Google Maps/Earth from an internet cafe in Pakistan.
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Google basically was/is the sole supporter of Mozilla anyway.
One call from Google and this guy's gone.
A few minutes longer than.. what?
A few minutes longer than they currently do, obviously.
Other way around. Theora was apparently released in 2004. H.264 (according to Wikipedia), was formally approved in March 2003, but it had already been worked on since at least 2000.
I don't get it. A post is marked "Interesting" for asking a question that is already covered IN DETAIL in TFA!
You must be new here.
For the motherboard controllers, they keep the same controller chip. Removing the support from the chip would require designing, verifying, validating, debugging new silicon which has no value. To save cost, they'll remove the connectors and change the BIOS so that the devices don't show up.
Higher end motherboards and workstation class PC's seem to support more legacy hardware interfaces than mainstream ones. My Dell Precision Workstation (2 dual core xeon's) has 2 serial ports, a parallel port, PS/2 mouse and keyboard, something like 8 USB 2.0's and Firewire 800.
For software, there are better alternatives:
Real-mode DOS or Full-screen DOS: FreeDOS or MS-DOS in a VirtualPC. Or DOSBox is great for a lot of stuff.
Qbasic: Visual Studio Express Edition
Most MUDs are also CRPG's with levels, equipment, quests/missions, et cetera. Little to no puzzle solving necessary. Thus they share more in common with World of Warcraft than they do with adventure games.
Survival horror games (e.g., Resident Evil, Silent Hill, et cetera) even though they have a lot of first person or third person shooter characteristics actually have more in common with adventure games because of the perpetual "find key to open door and advance storyline" situation.
srsly.
Perhaps his wife is just watching that he doesn't squander the remains of the family fortune before he dies.
The current FS X is DX9 only. DX10 rendering is part of the first service pack, which is not due out until fall 2007.
It's voluntary though, and it's only on a limited number of roads. If you use the toll roads regularly, you can get a FasTrack box that you put inside your windshield. The pay stations have a RFID reader. You just drive through and the system will automatically bill you. Even if you don't have the box and pay cash, they have cameras that monitor the license plate of everyone who drives through. If you were to run through the pay station without paying, you'd get a bill from your car registration (and a ticket for not following the instructions).
http://www.thetollroads.com/home/getfastrak.htm
I have a feeling that this system is going to show up on all freeways in Southern California. It's pretty much the only way to cut down on traffic congestion. Either that or wait until the comet hits.
Google is operating in Japan and wants to continue Japanese operations. Therefore, they will comply with the laws. They may hire Japanese lawyers and contest the requirement by questioning the Japanese laws that they are alleged to be violating, or they may not. They may simply remove the offending material or block its distribution to Japanese IP addresses.
Yes, however a hundred years ago the forestry industry realized that they needed to start planting trees in order to have a long-term sustainable business. Now they plant more trees than they cut down.
Now hacking is some kind of precrime.
I wonder if the precogs saw this one coming.
Don't be a hater.
Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here.
been going downhill ever since....
Don't fool yourself. If their parents just let them do whatever they want, they'd be trying drugs and having sex when they're 13 and dropping out of school and running away. Then they wouldn't be able to get jobs as strippers because they'd be under 18, so they'd become prostitutes instead. And they'd be doing drugs because you can't buy alcohol when you're under 21. So by forcibly keeping them out of that stuff until they're 18, the parents are protecting them until they have more options.
Which world would you prefer to live in, Huxley's "Brave New World" or the Orwell's "1894"?
(If you haven't read Brave New World, basically, everyone's on drugs and has a lot of sex.)
A fighter is designed to engage other aircraft. It will have machine guns and missiles for destroying air targets, but not necessarily bombs for destroying ground targets.
Bird flu could choke your chicken.
First of all, the U.S. was not founded by Puritans. If I recall correctly, the Puritans were pacifists and believed in creating a pure religious society. The founding fathers of the United States rejected the idea of official state religion (though they may have been religious themselves) and they were certainly not pacifists when they organized a military secession from England.
As for colonization, that wasn't the American way, it was the European way. The English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Russians all took colonies in the Americas.
They've been saying that for years. And they've been doing more and more sex education for those years. Every young girl who's having sex knows what a condom is, knows what it does, and knows that it's a good idea to use it. However, young teenagers are also notoriously irresponsible, so they routinely throw caution to the wind. Some people say that we should try to stop teens from having sex (the abstinence movement). Others say that we should do more sex education. The real solution is that we need to teach teenagers to be more responsible.
I doubt this is about terrorism. Terrorists want to kill human targets in order to change public opinion. Once a large enough number of people have been killed, the remaining majority will soon come to the conclusion, "Damn. We should just get out of Kashmir. Too many of our people are being killed." In a democracy, an opportunistic politician will soon say, "Vote for me and I will pull our people out of Kashmir within six months!"
Targets identifiable by satellite imagery would be infrastructure (water processing, power plants, bridges, train tracks, roads, communication, ports, government). Attacks on these would be to disrupt order within the country. This would draw attention and resources away from the actual target.
Suppose it is the Indian held areas in Kashmir. Imagine attacks on infrastructure in large Indian cities. Imagine millions of people without water because the water distribution systems are down. Imagine there's no food in the cities because the bridges are destroyed. Imagine some ships have been sunk blocking access to the ports. Imagine the power is out for millions of people. It would be a real mess. And it would be a mess in Kashmir too. That's when the Pakistani forces would come in to provide relief and help restore order.
That's just one scenario.
That's not the point. I am sure that NAVTEQ and the other satellite imagery companies are frequently in communication with people from various three-letter organizations (FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security). A business request to NAVTEQ for high resolution images of some government facility in India has the opportunity to draw more attention an investigation than an anonymous access to Google Maps/Earth from an internet cafe in Pakistan.