Uhm. YES you can. That's the whole point of a PILOT. Systems are separate, and in fact the "pouring coffee" was more of a joke, but you can simply pull the circuit breaker for the autopilot to take just that system offline...
Sometimes I just don't understand why people post who don't know what they're talking about.
Uhm... so what's preventing someone from taking a baseball bat or some coffee to the system? If the autopilot system is out of comission, it simply can't work...
Charities, surveys and calls on behalf of politicians would be exempt.
What is going to happen:
Telemarketer: Good evening sir, would you care to take a quick survey? (no pause for answer) How many times are you asking yourself, "Why do I pay so much for long distance?"? (no pause for answer) Have you ever considered switching your long distance provider to Megacorp? Did you know that Megacorp offers the lowest rates possible? Did you know that I could sign you up after we complete this survey? Well sir, thank you for taking this survey. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Amazon "felt it would be evident to people that since the store was so new, we wouldn't have the transaction history to create database similarities."
Ok, that makes sense
Amazon earlier told the USPTO it's able to use product viewing histories to determine the similarity or relatedness between products for which little or no purchase history data exists. So which claim should you believe?"
Both statements can be true. Amazon.com uses VIEWING information, and since you haven't viewed any clothes, they can't give you good recomendations. But once you look at maybe 10 articles of clothing you like, it will be able to make good recomendations for other clothes. At this point, you still have no PURCHASE history.
I think that the long life of X speaks to how well it actually was designed. The modularity of the X core has allowed for over a decade of innovation to occur WITHOUT hindering backwards compatibility. Can you say that about the past 10 years of any MS code base?
I do not see xft2 support for kde mentioned on Mosfet's web page. I know it's in qt 3.1, but I'd like to know whether it's in kde. And before people reply with the 'kde uses qt, so of course' replys, examine 3.0.*'s kdebase/kcontrol/kfontinst/kfontinst/xftint.h to see it's using XftFreetype.h.
He's talking lossless compression. You could probably use some form of lossless compression on the base pair "string" (gzip, bzip2, rar, zip, etc). Your divx "compression" is actually a different encodeing that aims at dropping less signifigant information for the sake of being "close enough". This is the same idea as encodeing mp3/ogg from straight pcm.
"Maybe someday we'll look back fondly on the golden age of privacy."
When quantum computers come around, it'll be easy for them to break, say, 1024 bit RSA encryption, but by then, we'll all be using 1024 Terabit encryption (or something gross like that). As long as we (as individuals) have access to computing power within a few orders of magnitude of those trying to break our encryption, everything will work out fine
So, you're saying that if I see one of my users running 100s of different processes and using up all my resources to sniff out ports on other computers on the internet, I should have to wait for a warrent before terminating their account? No. As a user of the ISP, it is YOUR responsibility to read the privacy policy of the ISP, but seeing as how the ISPs are providing a service to you, and they are a private entity, they can terminate your account as they so desire.
or just use syslog to catch a "securitywarning" type of message for logging... That way people that care about this can actually log it and update their software, and people that don't can just disable that warning level.
I seem to remember some little factoid somewhere that said PERPETUAL MOTION IS IMPOSSIBLE! The kinetic energy (your speed for the illiterate) when you ski comes from your potential energy (your height) at the top of the hill... assuming this contraption works, you will be constantly at the same elevation meaning your change in potential energy is 0 meaning your change in kinetic energy down the hill is 0. All that this thing is is a giant teacup ride.
He wasn't saying that they will turn a profit from tax deductions.
Basically, they will not have to pay taxes on the money used for this purpose... in other words, you're kinda getting Uncle Sam to pitch in when you give to a non-profit
MS's proposal is no doubt an attempt to extend their monopoly, and I'm sure they'll have a huge celebration if they get their way. On the other hand, Red Hat is taking a huge gamble with this move. This can potentially cause paying schools to take a second look at the lower cost of Red Hat systems to replace the old Macs and Win9x/NT boxes, but I think it has a huge risk of backfireing as many (if not all) of these lower income schools lack the technical staff to maintain the machines. On the other hand, some children are really quick to learn linux, and it may be that the children will in the end help with the maintainance of the machines and take the burden off of Red Hat. Can you say "Susie got 3 gold stars for sysadmin skills"?
Well believe it or not that CGI in the PSX version was actually not in the SNES version... =) I know I know I had to be stupid and say that... Anyhow, as far as buying a psx2 to not have to play old looking games, have you actually SEEN PSX2 games? They look horrible. Dreamcast, now that's a console I'd like to work with.
That's what I said, but if you look at Teken Tag (A true PS2 game) that identical problem is there. It is not a problem of teh PS2 harware emulating the PS1 hardware. If it were then Teken 3 would look bad and Teken Tag would look fine, but IT DOESN'T! Just play Teken Tag and look at the seam between the ground and the background... Wathc the background move. All I'm saying is that people right now with no system would be better off buying a PS One than a PS2. Plain and simple. As I said and noone has yet addressed... Why would they be selling for $40 in Japan if they were so good? BTW, Square's contract with Sony is almost up, and since programmers aren't finding the PS2 great for game development, where do you think they'll go? Most likely back to Nintendo. Many PS1 key hitters have jumped to X-Box exclusively, and if Square jumps ship, then theres not going to be many good PS developers... So to summarize, you'll have a lousy hardware system with very little game support. Sounds more like LaserDisc than BetaMax to me...
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".0001% (or less) of people actually interested in it"
.0001% of people in the US is: roughly 300 people (300,000,000 * .0001% = 300)
I love people who pull stats out of their asses.
I think more than 300 people in the US want to see ogg vorbis support...
Or you can just remove the .dll from the plugins directory...
Uhm. YES you can. That's the whole point of a PILOT. Systems are separate, and in fact the "pouring coffee" was more of a joke, but you can simply pull the circuit breaker for the autopilot to take just that system offline...
Sometimes I just don't understand why people post who don't know what they're talking about.
Uhm... so what's preventing someone from taking a baseball bat or some coffee to the system? If the autopilot system is out of comission, it simply can't work...
Wasn't it "Mosaic Killa"
What is going to happen:
Telemarketer: Good evening sir, would you care to take a quick survey? (no pause for answer) How many times are you asking yourself, "Why do I pay so much for long distance?"? (no pause for answer) Have you ever considered switching your long distance provider to Megacorp? Did you know that Megacorp offers the lowest rates possible? Did you know that I could sign you up after we complete this survey? Well sir, thank you for taking this survey. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Ok, that makes sense
Both statements can be true. Amazon.com uses VIEWING information, and since you haven't viewed any clothes, they can't give you good recomendations. But once you look at maybe 10 articles of clothing you like, it will be able to make good recomendations for other clothes. At this point, you still have no PURCHASE history.
Win32 was introduced with NT 3.51, and the first non NT windows to have it was 3.11 (November 1993)
For starters, Win32 has not been around for 10 years yet...
I think that the long life of X speaks to how well it actually was designed. The modularity of the X core has allowed for over a decade of innovation to occur WITHOUT hindering backwards compatibility. Can you say that about the past 10 years of any MS code base?
I do not see xft2 support for kde mentioned on Mosfet's web page. I know it's in qt 3.1, but I'd like to know whether it's in kde. And before people reply with the 'kde uses qt, so of course' replys, examine 3.0.*'s kdebase/kcontrol/kfontinst/kfontinst/xftint.h to see it's using XftFreetype.h.
Mosfet can do whatever the hell Mosfet wants. It's called volunteer work, and you're not paying 1 cent for it.
He's talking lossless compression. You could probably use some form of lossless compression on the base pair "string" (gzip, bzip2, rar, zip, etc). Your divx "compression" is actually a different encodeing that aims at dropping less signifigant information for the sake of being "close enough". This is the same idea as encodeing mp3/ogg from straight pcm.
nVidia doesn't have its own 3d API, but it has propriatary extensions to OpenGL
"Maybe someday we'll look back fondly on the golden age of privacy."
When quantum computers come around, it'll be easy for them to break, say, 1024 bit RSA encryption, but by then, we'll all be using 1024 Terabit encryption (or something gross like that). As long as we (as individuals) have access to computing power within a few orders of magnitude of those trying to break our encryption, everything will work out fine
So, you're saying that if I see one of my users running 100s of different processes and using up all my resources to sniff out ports on other computers on the internet, I should have to wait for a warrent before terminating their account? No. As a user of the ISP, it is YOUR responsibility to read the privacy policy of the ISP, but seeing as how the ISPs are providing a service to you, and they are a private entity, they can terminate your account as they so desire.
So, we're one step closer to those cool data crystals in B5. I sure would love to carry around everything in a rockin my pocket...
or just use syslog to catch a "securitywarning" type of message for logging... That way people that care about this can actually log it and update their software, and people that don't can just disable that warning level.
uhm... yeah kinetic energy is (at low velocities) .5 m * v^2. That's why I said "for the illiterate".
That's what I'm saying... so this whole idea is bogus BECAUSE you stay in the same place...
I seem to remember some little factoid somewhere that said PERPETUAL MOTION IS IMPOSSIBLE! The kinetic energy (your speed for the illiterate) when you ski comes from your potential energy (your height) at the top of the hill... assuming this contraption works, you will be constantly at the same elevation meaning your change in potential energy is 0 meaning your change in kinetic energy down the hill is 0. All that this thing is is a giant teacup ride.
He wasn't saying that they will turn a profit from tax deductions.
Basically, they will not have to pay taxes on the money used for this purpose... in other words, you're kinda getting Uncle Sam to pitch in when you give to a non-profit
MS's proposal is no doubt an attempt to extend their monopoly, and I'm sure they'll have a huge celebration if they get their way. On the other hand, Red Hat is taking a huge gamble with this move. This can potentially cause paying schools to take a second look at the lower cost of Red Hat systems to replace the old Macs and Win9x/NT boxes, but I think it has a huge risk of backfireing as many (if not all) of these lower income schools lack the technical staff to maintain the machines. On the other hand, some children are really quick to learn linux, and it may be that the children will in the end help with the maintainance of the machines and take the burden off of Red Hat. Can you say "Susie got 3 gold stars for sysadmin skills"?
Well believe it or not that CGI in the PSX version was actually not in the SNES version... =) I know I know I had to be stupid and say that... Anyhow, as far as buying a psx2 to not have to play old looking games, have you actually SEEN PSX2 games? They look horrible. Dreamcast, now that's a console I'd like to work with.
That's what I said, but if you look at Teken Tag (A true PS2 game) that identical problem is there. It is not a problem of teh PS2 harware emulating the PS1 hardware. If it were then Teken 3 would look bad and Teken Tag would look fine, but IT DOESN'T! Just play Teken Tag and look at the seam between the ground and the background... Wathc the background move. All I'm saying is that people right now with no system would be better off buying a PS One than a PS2. Plain and simple. As I said and noone has yet addressed... Why would they be selling for $40 in Japan if they were so good? BTW, Square's contract with Sony is almost up, and since programmers aren't finding the PS2 great for game development, where do you think they'll go? Most likely back to Nintendo. Many PS1 key hitters have jumped to X-Box exclusively, and if Square jumps ship, then theres not going to be many good PS developers... So to summarize, you'll have a lousy hardware system with very little game support. Sounds more like LaserDisc than BetaMax to me...