Actually caffine in large doses is already banned by the IOC. You can get away with a coffee in the morning, but if you were to take caffine pills it'd show up on the tests and you'd be disqualified.
I disagree with all of the others, but if someone were to start the K-Free Software Foundation as long as it was a foundation dealing with free software I see nothing wrong with it.
I'm THE network admin for a small (2 rural towns, approx 5,000 homes) cable TV company, but my manager really believes in keeping up with technology. I get conferences and semenars paid for, and get to go on company time as long as they are related to my work. College courses I do on my own time I have to get a passing grade (not that hard) and they will re-imburse me for it.
I've never been turned down for anything that I asked to do. (and we run on a very tight budget, with a minimal staff)...mind you I'm a bit under paid for what I do, but that's life.
well, there was that time in between when I sold the cheap piece of junk s3 PCI card that came with my (then) new Pentium 133 to my dad who had just upgraded from a 386 to a p133 and hadn't yet recieved the matrox card I ordered... I was forced to use the ISA card form the old 386 and realized that it wasn't the 386 processor that was slowing me down back then after all...
I have to agree with this. There are many more (at least here on Earth) microorganisms that would NOT survive the trip. Entering the atmosphere attached to a rock is like going through our standard practices for sterilization.
If it is good enough to kill earth bacteria it would probably kill martian bacteria too.
Obviously someone didn't bother to read the link before posting a reply...
It is for watching a RECORDED program while recording another, something you couldn't do with a (single deck) VCR.
The patent also specifies that it is encoded in MPEG.
"The ACCC claim that the zoning system prevents small film companies from distributing their movies around the world, with their sales generally too small to justify catering for region four."
Um, isn't that what region 0 is for?
There are region free discs out there, Lumivision's discs for example.
I just want to say this is one of the coolest things I have ever seen anyone waste time on.
Why??
Because My BBS is on the list! (and no I'm not in the USA either)
That's not really true, the visor prism hasn't been out for two years, so you can't cut them up too much for only having 256 colour until now, they did get the 256 colour before Hanspring had any colour.
I do like the prices of those palm memory modules. (49.99 for 16 Megs!)
Well, Actually, the USB port does have a big advantage over the parallel port for printing...
speed. Most Cheap USB printers don't take advantage of that, but really you could have a fast printer attached to the usb port that 3 years ago would have had to be a network printer to get the same results.
Is it just me or does anyone else think it's really strange to take an MPEG signal (like the one sent to HDTVs) decompress it and THEN store it on tape?
What happened to the digital VCRS (that were designed for DSS) that just took the ALREADY compressed data and stored it. HD-Digital VCRs don't need to be decoders, that hardware is already built in to the TV set. The vcr just has to be a big bit-bucket. Just take the signal as it comes in and drop it onto the tape. Then during play back, you read it from the tape and send it to the TV that decodes it as if it were coming off the air.
Think of how many more sitcoms you could cram on that 4 hour tape if you didn't decompress the data first.
750 Ghz?
I don't even have a need for 750 Mhz. Something tells me there won't be a huge rush to buy the 750Ghz Pentium whatever.
...other than the insane Quake players who think the reason they keep getting killed is that 150fps is not sufficient for really smooth action scenes.
I think you missed the point, he wasn't trying to make the AOL CD unreadable, he was trying to make his friend think he had destroyed a CD that the friend let him borrow.
I'm with you all the way. I NEVER use floppies anymore. I don't even have a floppy drive in my home PC. I e-mail stuff back and forth beween home and work or stick it up on my private FTP at work. If I have to I burn a cd. CD-Rs only cost a buck..or less if you wait for them to go onsale.. and just about any cd-rom can read multisession cd-r, and CD-RWs are only $2 [and that's Canadian money]
The only time I have used a floppy in the past year was to load drivers for ethernet cards (the driver disk that came with the card)
Yeah, what is up with that huge price difference?
I actually did the math once (a couple of years ago, prices may have changed since then)
and discovered that unlike 99.999999% of magazine subcriptions, it was actually cheaper for me to buy wired at the 7-11 then to subscribe.
I kind of resent that remark about visor owners buying into the marketing hype.
(though now that I think of it, it's probably true for the majority)
I personally bought a visor because #1 it was cheaper than the equivalent palm, and #2 I liked some of the ideas they had for modules. Sure none of them have made it to reality yet, but when they do at least I have the option of using them.
I think I may be one of the very few who bought a Visor DLX and opted for the graphite version though.
I've always awed at the ignorance amounst the teachers who allow students to use Graphing Calculators where only simple computations are needed. They are an obvious threat, cheating wise.
My first year university math classes (I only had to take 1 calc, 1 stats and 1 algebra/geometry) Had a strict rule that, not only were you not allowed a graphing/programmable calculator, you had to have a specific model that the math department had aproved. If you were caught with any other calculator (even a simpler model) they would not let you use it.
They've made it illegal to lie to AOL about who you are?
THAT my friends is the STUPIDEST law I have ever heard of. Just for that I think I'll go change my ICQ info. Until now I have always put in true info... no longer. My "real name" will from this point forward will be Tux Penguin
If AOL doesn't like it screw em. If the US legal system doesn't like it screw them too. They can't touch me anyway.
I know that it's hard to tell, even from the pictures on the current oversized boxes, what a program is like. I think that the retailers wanting a standard size box excuse is just that, an excuse. Jewel cases are a standard size and take up far less of a retailer's valuable shelf space. What software retailers should have is a CD shelf like a music store, or even like the shelves many of them use for shareware, OEM and budget titles that don't come in cardboard boxes. Then, to show off the artwork that would normally be on the boxes they could use small posters, a scrapbook or best of all a terminal that displays screenshots, info and even demos of the software. This is a far more environmentally friendly approach and doesn't cost the retailer as much in their #1 commodity... space.
I went in expecting to see something along the lines of some of the better anime films I've seen. That is to say something aimed at the teenage to young adult audience. apparently Fox hasn't got the guts to put anything higher than a PG rating on an animated film.
Sure there were some serious flaws in the script and the plot was pretty poorly constructed, but it could have been at least partly saved if they had let the writers give it a little more adult script. If the dialog matched the type of story they seemed to be trying to tell it could have been a bit better. They seemed to have run short on cash too. The "Kale!" scream from the trailer wasn't in the same spot in the movie so it stuck out in my mind, and I noticed that they used that same scream 3 times. How hard is it to get Drew Berrymore to scream Kale? That's not too bad, what really stood out was the fact that the computer rendering was absolutely amazing through 90% of the movie, but at the end when they do a sort of flyby panning shot of the landscape, all of a sudden the computer graphics drop off to really poor levels. (what's it cost for a few more hours of rendereing to finish off the scene?)
No, I'm pretty sure that even here in the G.W.North redisributing music in MP3 format is considered re-distributing a recording not re-broadcasting. Besides the re-broadcast has to be done at the same time (within reasonable delays for satellite transmission etc) as the original broadcast.
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Actually caffine in large doses is already banned by the IOC. You can get away with a coffee in the morning, but if you were to take caffine pills it'd show up on the tests and you'd be disqualified.
I disagree with all of the others, but if someone were to start the K-Free Software Foundation as long as it was a foundation dealing with free software I see nothing wrong with it.
I'm THE network admin for a small (2 rural towns, approx 5,000 homes) cable TV company, but my manager really believes in keeping up with technology. I get conferences and semenars paid for, and get to go on company time as long as they are related to my work. College courses I do on my own time I have to get a passing grade (not that hard) and they will re-imburse me for it. ...mind you I'm a bit under paid for what I do, but that's life.
I've never been turned down for anything that I asked to do. (and we run on a very tight budget, with a minimal staff)
well, there was that time in between when I sold the cheap piece of junk s3 PCI card that came with my (then) new Pentium 133 to my dad who had just upgraded from a 386 to a p133 and hadn't yet recieved the matrox card I ordered... I was forced to use the ISA card form the old 386 and realized that it wasn't the 386 processor that was slowing me down back then after all...
I have to agree with this. There are many more (at least here on Earth) microorganisms that would NOT survive the trip. Entering the atmosphere attached to a rock is like going through our standard practices for sterilization.
If it is good enough to kill earth bacteria it would probably kill martian bacteria too.
Obviously someone didn't bother to read the link before posting a reply...
It is for watching a RECORDED program while recording another, something you couldn't do with a (single deck) VCR.
The patent also specifies that it is encoded in MPEG.
"The ACCC claim that the zoning system prevents small film companies from distributing their movies around the world, with their sales generally too small to justify catering for region four."
Um, isn't that what region 0 is for?
There are region free discs out there, Lumivision's discs for example.
I just want to say this is one of the coolest things I have ever seen anyone waste time on. Why?? Because My BBS is on the list! (and no I'm not in the USA either)
I hate to be nit picky like this, but shouldn't that be third millenium? 1-1000= 1st, 1001-2000= 2nd, 2001-3000= 3rd
The Keyboard layout is still not the same, and no more similar than it is to any other qwerty layout.
That's not really true, the visor prism hasn't been out for two years, so you can't cut them up too much for only having 256 colour until now, they did get the 256 colour before Hanspring had any colour.
I do like the prices of those palm memory modules. (49.99 for 16 Megs!)
Well, Actually, the USB port does have a big advantage over the parallel port for printing...
speed. Most Cheap USB printers don't take advantage of that, but really you could have a fast printer attached to the usb port that 3 years ago would have had to be a network printer to get the same results.
Is it just me or does anyone else think it's really strange to take an MPEG signal (like the one sent to HDTVs) decompress it and THEN store it on tape? What happened to the digital VCRS (that were designed for DSS) that just took the ALREADY compressed data and stored it. HD-Digital VCRs don't need to be decoders, that hardware is already built in to the TV set. The vcr just has to be a big bit-bucket. Just take the signal as it comes in and drop it onto the tape. Then during play back, you read it from the tape and send it to the TV that decodes it as if it were coming off the air. Think of how many more sitcoms you could cram on that 4 hour tape if you didn't decompress the data first.
750 Ghz?
I don't even have a need for 750 Mhz. Something tells me there won't be a huge rush to buy the 750Ghz Pentium whatever.
...other than the insane Quake players who think the reason they keep getting killed is that 150fps is not sufficient for really smooth action scenes.
I think you missed the point, he wasn't trying to make the AOL CD unreadable, he was trying to make his friend think he had destroyed a CD that the friend let him borrow.
I'm with you all the way. I NEVER use floppies anymore. I don't even have a floppy drive in my home PC. I e-mail stuff back and forth beween home and work or stick it up on my private FTP at work. If I have to I burn a cd. CD-Rs only cost a buck ..or less if you wait for them to go onsale.. and just about any cd-rom can read multisession cd-r, and CD-RWs are only $2 [and that's Canadian money]
The only time I have used a floppy in the past year was to load drivers for ethernet cards (the driver disk that came with the card)
Yeah, what is up with that huge price difference? I actually did the math once (a couple of years ago, prices may have changed since then) and discovered that unlike 99.999999% of magazine subcriptions, it was actually cheaper for me to buy wired at the 7-11 then to subscribe.
I kind of resent that remark about visor owners buying into the marketing hype.
(though now that I think of it, it's probably true for the majority)
I personally bought a visor because #1 it was cheaper than the equivalent palm, and #2 I liked some of the ideas they had for modules. Sure none of them have made it to reality yet, but when they do at least I have the option of using them.
I think I may be one of the very few who bought a Visor DLX and opted for the graphite version though.
I've always awed at the ignorance amounst the teachers who allow students to use Graphing Calculators where only simple computations are needed. They are an obvious threat, cheating wise.
My first year university math classes (I only had to take 1 calc, 1 stats and 1 algebra/geometry) Had a strict rule that, not only were you not allowed a graphing/programmable calculator, you had to have a specific model that the math department had aproved. If you were caught with any other calculator (even a simpler model) they would not let you use it.
What direct revenue?
ICQ doesn't cost the user a penny.
ICQ doesn't even have ads.
You have to be kidding.
They've made it illegal to lie to AOL about who you are?
THAT my friends is the STUPIDEST law I have ever heard of. Just for that I think I'll go change my ICQ info. Until now I have always put in true info... no longer. My "real name" will from this point forward will be Tux Penguin
If AOL doesn't like it screw em. If the US legal system doesn't like it screw them too. They can't touch me anyway.
I know that it's hard to tell, even from the pictures on the current oversized boxes, what a program is like. I think that the retailers wanting a standard size box excuse is just that, an excuse. Jewel cases are a standard size and take up far less of a retailer's valuable shelf space. What software retailers should have is a CD shelf like a music store, or even like the shelves many of them use for shareware, OEM and budget titles that don't come in cardboard boxes. Then, to show off the artwork that would normally be on the boxes they could use small posters, a scrapbook or best of all a terminal that displays screenshots, info and even demos of the software. This is a far more environmentally friendly approach and doesn't cost the retailer as much in their #1 commodity... space.
I went in expecting to see something along the lines of some of the better anime films I've seen. That is to say something aimed at the teenage to young adult audience. apparently Fox hasn't got the guts to put anything higher than a PG rating on an animated film.
Sure there were some serious flaws in the script and the plot was pretty poorly constructed, but it could have been at least partly saved if they had let the writers give it a little more adult script. If the dialog matched the type of story they seemed to be trying to tell it could have been a bit better.
They seemed to have run short on cash too. The "Kale!" scream from the trailer wasn't in the same spot in the movie so it stuck out in my mind, and I noticed that they used that same scream 3 times. How hard is it to get Drew Berrymore to scream Kale? That's not too bad, what really stood out was the fact that the computer rendering was absolutely amazing through 90% of the movie, but at the end when they do a sort of flyby panning shot of the landscape, all of a sudden the computer graphics drop off to really poor levels. (what's it cost for a few more hours of rendereing to finish off the scene?)
All homes should come pre-wired with gigabit fiber backbones, dammit! Heh...
..or just fiber period. Let the home owner and his/her ISP decide what equipment to put on either end.
No, I'm pretty sure that even here in the G.W.North redisributing music in MP3 format is considered re-distributing a recording not re-broadcasting. Besides the re-broadcast has to be done at the same time (within reasonable delays for satellite transmission etc) as the original broadcast.