I only go to the Myer computer section these days to see if the Asus Eee is in stock. They had one out on display on Boxing Day, dunno if they are actually selling them yet. Pretty slick little device.
Most modern houses these days have power sockets at ground level, whereas it's the older ones that have them at hand height. Where do you live? I've never seen a home with power outlets at any level but hand level in a 'normal room' (kitchens and bathrooms are often exceptions) in the US.
My local Big W store, on the other hand, has these self service checkouts. You scan the products yourself and put them on some kind of weight verification thing, then spend five or 10 minutes doing a credit card transaction.
And after that you still have to wait until the attendant has time to come over and verify your signature...
Anyway if a real apple store opens here in Melbourne I might take a look but I can't see myself buying anything there.
I'm not sure on the official status, but the Apple store in Myer downtown has been remodelled and it's basically exactly the same as the real Apple stores, complete with black-shirted Apple employees.
It's all well and good to debate the general case of whether there is an expectation of privacy when you hire someone to work on your PC. But what matters in this case is the specific agreement. I'm sure the store has a standard form with lots of boilerplate where the customer grants them rights to do such and such with their computer, waives certain liabilities, etc. The specifics of that agreement are really what's important, without that you can't say whether it was legal or not.
The MPAA, for one. MPAA head Dan Glickman, in a statement praising the new bill, said that "films left costs foreign and domestic distributors, retailers and others $18 billion a year,"
I had a hard parsing Glickman's quote until I realized what he probably meant was "film theft costs..."
The license of the code is completely orthogonal to its copyright. Specifying a liberal license such as "do what you want" in no way weakens the strength of the author's copyright. They are two separate things. It is the constancy of the author's copyright that gives him the right to specify his licensing terms.
It matters a hell of a lot if you call a mobile from a land line. Calling a local land line is 30c for unlimited time. Calling a mobile is 40c a minute. Ridiculous! Granted, I'm on the cheapest plan but even on Telstra's highest premium plan charges 37c a minute for non-Telstra mobile numbers. Plus a 39c connection fee.
I can get a calling card for dozens of countries for less than 1c a minute, so why in the world are these calls so expensive?
iTunes is not just the iTunes store. The iTunes program existed for a good 9 months before the first iPod came out. It was well known, used and liked before then, giving the iPod a much better complete used experience than most players, which came often came with half-hearted "file copy" utilities, if anything at all.
I'm surprised that we haven't seen a single/. user so far say that they ordered one. With the early adopter tech-happy geeks here, you'd think there'd be at least one, even with a limited supply. Unless the quantity was quite suspiciously small.
Q: What must I do to trigger Autorun on my USB storage device? The Autorun capabilities are restricted to CD-ROM drives and fixed disk drives. If you need to make a USB storage device perform Autorun, the device must not be marked as a removable media device and the device must contain an Autorun.inf file and a startup application.
The removable media device setting is a flag contained within the SCSI Inquiry Data response to the SCSI Inquiry command. Bit 7 of byte 1 (indexed from 0) is the Removable Media Bit (RMB). A RMB set to zero indicates that the device is not a removable media device. A RMB of one indicates that the device is a removable media device. Drivers obtain this information by using the StorageDeviceProperty request.
There's more to it in this case. Windows does not autorun executables for USB drives, presumably as a security measure. The way that U3-enabled flash drives get around it is by having a special controller and a read-only area that presents itself to Windows as a CD-ROM drive, for which the OS allows autorun. So in case you were ever wondering, yes, there is a difference between U3 flash drives and normal ones, it's not just branding.
It's interesting to realize that the newest generation of urban planners and civil engineers were young enough to have been influenced by SimCity growing up.
When I was in college at Case Western Reserve University, they built a new Frank Gehry building for the economics department. They had rope off part of the walkway near the entrance in the winter because of the giant icicles that would form on the edge of the swooping metal overhang.
Using the mouse with Wolf3D and DOOM was rather uncommon, though. Since neither game was 3D there wasn't much need for looking up and down. Keyboard was sufficient for the vast majority of players who kept on using the same old arrow keys they were used. Some elite Doom players began using the mouse but they were a small minority.
It wasn't until the true 3D Quake, which required vertical aiming, that mouse use became the norm. Since the right hand, previously seated comfortably on the arrow keys, was now occupied with the mouse, it was only natural that the left hand took over movement duty, using keys closer to where the left hand normally resides on the keyboard.
I always preferred to use ESDF for movement keys instead of WASD, for two main reasons. First, since F is one of the home keys, it makes it easy to be sure your fingers are in the right position without looking down at the keyboard, since the F normally has a raised nub on it. Second, shifting the movement keys over to the right one from WASD adds 3 more keys that are easy to hit with your pinky for binding to useful game actions.
We probably do not, however, have software that can efficiently calculate the at-rest dimensions of an elastic, mobile object(Jessica Alba) beneath a nonstatic/elastic layer (clothes). We've just barely reached the point where we can depict the behavior of the squishy, bony, muscular, hairy human body accurately, much less interpolate a hidden body.
So what you're saying is we need naked pictures of Jessica Alba... for science.
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My local Big W store, on the other hand, has these self service checkouts. You scan the products yourself and put them on some kind of weight verification thing, then spend five or 10 minutes doing a credit card transaction.
And after that you still have to wait until the attendant has time to come over and verify your signature...
Anyway if a real apple store opens here in Melbourne I might take a look but I can't see myself buying anything there.
I'm not sure on the official status, but the Apple store in Myer downtown has been remodelled and it's basically exactly the same as the real Apple stores, complete with black-shirted Apple employees.
The US stopped encoding the GPS signals under executive directive a year or more ago
Much more than a year ago, the US shut off selective availability in May 2000.
It's all well and good to debate the general case of whether there is an expectation of privacy when you hire someone to work on your PC. But what matters in this case is the specific agreement. I'm sure the store has a standard form with lots of boilerplate where the customer grants them rights to do such and such with their computer, waives certain liabilities, etc. The specifics of that agreement are really what's important, without that you can't say whether it was legal or not.
One point in their favor is that the Russians have a much bigger backyard to aim for than we do.
The bill is H.R.4279.
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I had a hard parsing Glickman's quote until I realized what he probably meant was "film theft costs
The license of the code is completely orthogonal to its copyright. Specifying a liberal license such as "do what you want" in no way weakens the strength of the author's copyright. They are two separate things. It is the constancy of the author's copyright that gives him the right to specify his licensing terms.
Look! Rare Soviet Retro-Future Space Art!
It matters a hell of a lot if you call a mobile from a land line. Calling a local land line is 30c for unlimited time. Calling a mobile is 40c a minute. Ridiculous! Granted, I'm on the cheapest plan but even on Telstra's highest premium plan charges 37c a minute for non-Telstra mobile numbers. Plus a 39c connection fee.
I can get a calling card for dozens of countries for less than 1c a minute, so why in the world are these calls so expensive?
iTunes is not just the iTunes store. The iTunes program existed for a good 9 months before the first iPod came out. It was well known, used and liked before then, giving the iPod a much better complete used experience than most players, which came often came with half-hearted "file copy" utilities, if anything at all.
I'm surprised that we haven't seen a single /. user so far say that they ordered one. With the early adopter tech-happy geeks here, you'd think there'd be at least one, even with a limited supply. Unless the quantity was quite suspiciously small.
I'm still waiting for the GPS adapter. The DS could make a killer GPS system...
(yes I'm aware of this hack but it's not exactly ready for prime time and doesn't seem to have come to much beyond the first announcement)
Would you mine annotating this a bit more? I'm not that familiar with 386 assembly, thanks.
There's more to it in this case. Windows does not autorun executables for USB drives, presumably as a security measure. The way that U3-enabled flash drives get around it is by having a special controller and a read-only area that presents itself to Windows as a CD-ROM drive, for which the OS allows autorun. So in case you were ever wondering, yes, there is a difference between U3 flash drives and normal ones, it's not just branding.
Yes, but that's external to the power outlets themselves, which do not have switches on them.
In Australia, it's standard for power outlets to have switches directly on the faceplate, one per outlet. Wikipedia has a photo of a standard Aussie mains power point.
No, power outlets in the US do not have switches on them. They're always live.
It's interesting to realize that the newest generation of urban planners and civil engineers were young enough to have been influenced by SimCity growing up.
Wow, that's really cool, it hardly looks real. Thanks for putting it online.
When I was in college at Case Western Reserve University, they built a new Frank Gehry building for the economics department. They had rope off part of the walkway near the entrance in the winter because of the giant icicles that would form on the edge of the swooping metal overhang.
Using the mouse with Wolf3D and DOOM was rather uncommon, though. Since neither game was 3D there wasn't much need for looking up and down. Keyboard was sufficient for the vast majority of players who kept on using the same old arrow keys they were used. Some elite Doom players began using the mouse but they were a small minority.
It wasn't until the true 3D Quake, which required vertical aiming, that mouse use became the norm. Since the right hand, previously seated comfortably on the arrow keys, was now occupied with the mouse, it was only natural that the left hand took over movement duty, using keys closer to where the left hand normally resides on the keyboard.
I always preferred to use ESDF for movement keys instead of WASD, for two main reasons. First, since F is one of the home keys, it makes it easy to be sure your fingers are in the right position without looking down at the keyboard, since the F normally has a raised nub on it. Second, shifting the movement keys over to the right one from WASD adds 3 more keys that are easy to hit with your pinky for binding to useful game actions.
We probably do not, however, have software that can efficiently calculate the at-rest dimensions of an elastic, mobile object(Jessica Alba) beneath a nonstatic/elastic layer (clothes). We've just barely reached the point where we can depict the behavior of the squishy, bony, muscular, hairy human body accurately, much less interpolate a hidden body.
So what you're saying is we need naked pictures of Jessica Alba... for science.