At 30GB, you have enough for over three hours of HDTV, which means most movies, even with special features, won't need any more than that. Why use a more expensive format when you'll hardly ever need the extra space?
Of course, 50GB means each of the extended Lord of the Rings movies will fit on one disc, but the studios consider beaking movies of that length onto two discs to be reasonable.
Personally, I want the higher capacity, but I understand the support for HD-DVD.
One thing that I did was to disable ICMP echo reply. (I allowed it from IP ranges that I'm likely to be at, but in general, it's turned off.) That means if someone tries to ping me, they don't get a response, so many script kiddies will assume that there is no computer at my IP address and move on.
I've also set it up to drop incoming TCP requests for dead ports (actually, it blocks the outgoing connection refused packets). So if they scan ports that aren't open, they never get a single packet back.
Essentially, unless they're connecting to something I intentionally have open, they can't tell that my system exists.
I often copy borrowed DVDs to my hard drive to watch and delete later, but space is limited. I like to keep all the special features until I'm done, so I just do a raw copy now, but this will give me an option to keep all the menus and features, without consuming nearly as much disk space.
While obviously that's a completely different Divx from DivX, I'm surprised that they're able to claim trademark status on DivX. Did they actually buy the rights to it, or are they on thin ice?
This is something Microsoft is likely doing to compete with Apple, not Adobe. They've realized that while they have the business lock-in with Office, Apple is getting the home lock-in with iLife. We just saw earlier that they're going after iTunes and ITMS. Now they're going after iPhoto.
Isn't this the same pattern they followed last year? The first half of the season is aired in the US first, with a break, followed by the second half. During the US break, the UK shows the whole thing.
I have font issues when opening almost any PowerPoint presentation in OpenOffice. The bullets never look right, and the lines end up taking more vertical space so that what fits on a single slide in PowerPoint stretches below the bottom in OpenOffice.
Gnutella faces the key problem of any new p2p network: It's much easier to develop the technology than to get people to use it. The new technology has to be way better before people will switch to it, because switching to something new means giving up on the large user base of the old system.
What, you don't copy the DVD onto the hard drive before you leave home to avoid carrying discs around?
I do that with my MythTV recordings when traveling, especially if flying.
Granted, 16GB may leave you tight on space if you don't recompress and you want more than one DVD. Still, you could do a copy and play off the flash, and then you only have to spin for long enough to copy the disc, which is probably 1/4 or 1/8th of the time.
Yes, the life of the flash is a factor here, but you're missing a couple of points.
First, the life of modern parts if much higher than you stated. I think it's in the hundreds of thousands if not millions of writes.
Second, they can apply the same techniques as spinning drives to remap bad blocks so that when a block stops working, it gets replaced by a spare one that was never seen by the user. A similar remapping can be done to swap heavily-used and lightly-used blocks to even out the wear and extend the life.
The condition in the womb can, in theory, make a huge difference. There are differences in the sperm based on the chromosomes, so it's reasonable that hormones levels can impact the sex of the child.
And that's ignoring the fact that conception is just the first step. There's no reason that the conditions in the womb can't provide for higher survival rates based on sex.
I'm hoping that they're using good old-fashioned fraud, false advertising, and similar laws. So often we see lawmakers rushing out to tackle the latest problem instead of law enforcement agencies using existing laws to crack down on the new behaviour.
While I fully approve of this, it's important to note that this is clearly an attempt for the AG to boost his visibility and popularity for the 2006 gubernatorial election. It's no secret that Riley will be challenging Romney.
That makes me question if he'll take a hard line and go for not only shutting them down, but setting an example for others, or if he'll take the easy approach of getting a settlement that makes him look good, but doesn't act as a deterrent.
Depends on where you live. My town has about 15,000 people in it. More often than not, if I'm not at home, I'm in a different town, and that means a different 911 dispatch area.
What about using VMWare to give each user their own system? Then not only can you run different OSes for each user, including ones that don't support multiple keyboards, but you also can let users move virtual machines between physical work areas (or even between different servers).
I know that the higher-end VMWare products support migrating between servers. I don't know how well they support multiple physical input and display devices, but I suspect that if a major customer requested it, it could happen.
Disclaimer: I work for VMWare's parent company, but I have no inside information on the product, as I'm in a totally different division.
When you have a separate system for each user, you're pretty much relegated to using NFS/SMB for network data storage. But with a single system for a couple of dozen users, it suddenly becomes much more practical to put a fibre channel card in the system with a direct connection to a storage system. So the assumption that I/O would become a bottleneck in such a system may actually not only be wrong, it might be faster.
Just after the federal government emphasized the importance of being brand-neutral in purchasing (i.e., don't specify Intel chips when AMD will do the job), they turn around and do essentially the opposite with grants.
Sure, it's two totally different arms of the a giant bureaucracy.
If the shuttle's crew compartments are sufficient for long-term habitation, even if it requires borrowing power and such from the ISS, then wouldn't it make sense for the end of life plan be to leave them up there? Sure, they would need extra docking ports for the next generation system, but it might be a good way of providing more habitable space up there.
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It's a matter of what's good enough.
At 30GB, you have enough for over three hours of HDTV, which means most movies, even with special features, won't need any more than that. Why use a more expensive format when you'll hardly ever need the extra space?
Of course, 50GB means each of the extended Lord of the Rings movies will fit on one disc, but the studios consider beaking movies of that length onto two discs to be reasonable.
Personally, I want the higher capacity, but I understand the support for HD-DVD.
You mean like when my friend went back in time and killed President Barnes when he was in first grade?
One thing that I did was to disable ICMP echo reply. (I allowed it from IP ranges that I'm likely to be at, but in general, it's turned off.) That means if someone tries to ping me, they don't get a response, so many script kiddies will assume that there is no computer at my IP address and move on.
I've also set it up to drop incoming TCP requests for dead ports (actually, it blocks the outgoing connection refused packets). So if they scan ports that aren't open, they never get a single packet back.
Essentially, unless they're connecting to something I intentionally have open, they can't tell that my system exists.
I often copy borrowed DVDs to my hard drive to watch and delete later, but space is limited. I like to keep all the special features until I'm done, so I just do a raw copy now, but this will give me an option to keep all the menus and features, without consuming nearly as much disk space.
While obviously that's a completely different Divx from DivX, I'm surprised that they're able to claim trademark status on DivX. Did they actually buy the rights to it, or are they on thin ice?
This is something Microsoft is likely doing to compete with Apple, not Adobe. They've realized that while they have the business lock-in with Office, Apple is getting the home lock-in with iLife. We just saw earlier that they're going after iTunes and ITMS. Now they're going after iPhoto.
My new Dell laser printer came with a shipping label to ship back my old printer to be recycled at their expense.
Isn't this the same pattern they followed last year? The first half of the season is aired in the US first, with a break, followed by the second half. During the US break, the UK shows the whole thing.
I have font issues when opening almost any PowerPoint presentation in OpenOffice. The bullets never look right, and the lines end up taking more vertical space so that what fits on a single slide in PowerPoint stretches below the bottom in OpenOffice.
Gnutella faces the key problem of any new p2p network: It's much easier to develop the technology than to get people to use it. The new technology has to be way better before people will switch to it, because switching to something new means giving up on the large user base of the old system.
What, you don't copy the DVD onto the hard drive before you leave home to avoid carrying discs around?
I do that with my MythTV recordings when traveling, especially if flying.
Granted, 16GB may leave you tight on space if you don't recompress and you want more than one DVD. Still, you could do a copy and play off the flash, and then you only have to spin for long enough to copy the disc, which is probably 1/4 or 1/8th of the time.
Yes, the life of the flash is a factor here, but you're missing a couple of points.
First, the life of modern parts if much higher than you stated. I think it's in the hundreds of thousands if not millions of writes.
Second, they can apply the same techniques as spinning drives to remap bad blocks so that when a block stops working, it gets replaced by a spare one that was never seen by the user. A similar remapping can be done to swap heavily-used and lightly-used blocks to even out the wear and extend the life.
In Massachusetts, there are essentially two ATM networks, and you pay a fee if you use the wrong one.
There's the Bank Boston/Fleet/Bank of America network, and there's the SUM network that almost everyone else has joined.
In my case, my credit union doesn't charge fees for much of anything, and I can avoid ATM fees by avoiding the Bank of America ATMs.
The condition in the womb can, in theory, make a huge difference. There are differences in the sperm based on the chromosomes, so it's reasonable that hormones levels can impact the sex of the child.
And that's ignoring the fact that conception is just the first step. There's no reason that the conditions in the womb can't provide for higher survival rates based on sex.
It passed the test for my wife, and that was after she first got used to a ReplayTV, which has one of the best interfaces available.
She *loves* having the weather module.
Having the future recordings, and being able to tell it to avoid recording upcoming shows that we know we've seen is incredibly useful.
So what is the legal basis for this suit?
I'm hoping that they're using good old-fashioned fraud, false advertising, and similar laws. So often we see lawmakers rushing out to tackle the latest problem instead of law enforcement agencies using existing laws to crack down on the new behaviour.
While I fully approve of this, it's important to note that this is clearly an attempt for the AG to boost his visibility and popularity for the 2006 gubernatorial election. It's no secret that Riley will be challenging Romney.
That makes me question if he'll take a hard line and go for not only shutting them down, but setting an example for others, or if he'll take the easy approach of getting a settlement that makes him look good, but doesn't act as a deterrent.
There's the problem of ex-post-facto laws. If you add new penalties, they can't apply to crimes from before the law was passed.
Depends on where you live. My town has about 15,000 people in it. More often than not, if I'm not at home, I'm in a different town, and that means a different 911 dispatch area.
What about using VMWare to give each user their own system? Then not only can you run different OSes for each user, including ones that don't support multiple keyboards, but you also can let users move virtual machines between physical work areas (or even between different servers).
I know that the higher-end VMWare products support migrating between servers. I don't know how well they support multiple physical input and display devices, but I suspect that if a major customer requested it, it could happen.
Disclaimer: I work for VMWare's parent company, but I have no inside information on the product, as I'm in a totally different division.
When you have a separate system for each user, you're pretty much relegated to using NFS/SMB for network data storage. But with a single system for a couple of dozen users, it suddenly becomes much more practical to put a fibre channel card in the system with a direct connection to a storage system. So the assumption that I/O would become a bottleneck in such a system may actually not only be wrong, it might be faster.
Does this apply to sharing things that have been released in the UK (e.g., Doctor Who or Battlestar Galactica), but not in the USA?
Just after the federal government emphasized the importance of being brand-neutral in purchasing (i.e., don't specify Intel chips when AMD will do the job), they turn around and do essentially the opposite with grants.
Sure, it's two totally different arms of the a giant bureaucracy.
If the shuttle's crew compartments are sufficient for long-term habitation, even if it requires borrowing power and such from the ISS, then wouldn't it make sense for the end of life plan be to leave them up there? Sure, they would need extra docking ports for the next generation system, but it might be a good way of providing more habitable space up there.
If they've genetically modified it, is it still a rose?