The big problem with USA notes is that not only are they the same size, but they are the same colour. There have already been studies showing the interpretation of text on a bank note is actually done after colour or size. This is why many countries use both size and distinct colour (blue vs green, as opposed to green vs some other shade of green) as clues to their different values. Examples: The EU bank notes does both, the UK bank notes are different colour, as are the Canadian bank notes are also of different colour. Add to all this the Australian bank notes, which are not only different colours, but are made out of plastic!!!
In fact it should be noted that the MacBook Pro supports sleep and hibernate at the same time. Basically if you close your lid or set it to stand-by the system will go into sleep AND save a hibernate image. This means that if you wake it up it will use the in memory image, but if you find your battery completly dead on the return, or have to change out the battery there is still the hibernate image to wake up to. This all means you don't have to think: stand-by or hibernate, since both are done.
Why don't you give that same tip to Apple, whose DRM is by far the most prevelant, and most restrictive to boot? (It *only* works on Apple hardware/software.)
It is the least restrictive ( source: http://www.cnet.com.au/mp3players/0,239028967,2400 54461,00.htm )
- Fairplay encumbered AAC:
- usic purchased can be played on up to five PCs
- Single songs can be burnt to CD an unlimited number of times
- Playlists can be burned up to seven times
- Music purchased can be transferred on an unlimited number of iPods
- Protected WMA:
- You can burn the song up to three times onto CD.
- You can transfer it an unlimited number of times to three portable music players that can play licensed WMA files.
- Up to four re-installs per year allowed
It should also be noted that the Fairplay AAC songs work on both MacOS and Windows (I know none that work on Linux), on the condition that you have iTunes of course. This still doesn't give an excuse to having DRM at all and if the online music sellers are having such a hard time, then they can thank the music industry for imposing DRM.
Tip to Microsoft, Sony and the media industry: Stop trying to control things absolutely and bullying anyone who doesn't play ball. These are actions of spoiled children and do everything to alienate the customer. The fact you still have customers is a testiment that many people don't realise how badly you are screwing them. The companies that end up getting the most support are those who have good balance of trying to be successful and appealing to the customers interests. Respect is earned not inforced.
Since you are such a big fan of Audible.com the iPod will do it with no problems. I can understand that you are tied WMP, out of choice, and I applaud trying to support the alternative media players, but given the issues you have had I wonder whether it would have been easier to go with the iPod.
I am an iPod owner, so I am biased, but the truth is in terms of formats supported and ease of use it still has a lot going for it. One example, the video support is MP4, which is an industry standard and therefore you aren't limited to the business decisions of Microsoft. The only time the iPod really limits you is if you start buying from the iTunes store, but that is the issue buying any DRM infested file.
I will say I get kinda fed up seeing everyone using iPods, since it is saying something about the sorry state of the media player market, which seems to be influenced by the bully boy antics of the music industry and their dependency of Microsoft's WMA and WMV, since WMP supports few other formats.
Um, you can always ask other teachers/students in the given situation what was going on. Heck, someone can always press charges and the justice system would take care of it. It would probably set a precedent either way discouraging the use of these phones.
I can remember watching a TV documentary the other day (W5?), that explained that teachers careers are shorter and shorter because they get little to no back up when an incident happens. In a fair number of cases for a case where the student should have been suspended or expelled, nothing was done to them and the blame was put on the teacher. Why? Not because the teacher was really in cause, but because the school was looking at the bottom line and didn't want to lose the students because they came from 'good families'.
Sure there may be some power hungry teachers, but I would suspect that most of them are trying to do a good job of providing a good education, using their knowledge and the resources available. Most teachers I would suspect aren't tough guys, since tough guy are usually busy doing something else, so when they not allowed to provide suitable punishment, then any tool they have for correcting bad behaviour is gone. This also means that the kids who do want to learn have a harder time, because of class disruption and changing teachers.
I am not a parent, but if I were I would want my kid to learn the difference between right and wrong, at home and at school. If kids don't know when they've steped over the line, then they will continue until they do find one. If people don't learn the rules that help keep society together, then there is nothing ensuring that society will work beyond a chaotic mess.
This seems to be the order of the day. No matter how weird a case you have, if it gets turned down in the supreme court, take it to a human rights court instead.
Note sure what human rights has to do with this. Certainly can't see anything related to human language copyright, or IP, in there.
The problem is that converting heat energy directly into electricity violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics, not unlike perpetual motion machines.
Can you explain how heat (infrared photons, right?) is different in this regard than visible light (as in a photovoltaic cell)? I'm not busting your chops here, I just don't understand why the wavelength of the light matters in this context.
The other problem I have with the orginal comment, ignoring what the second law of thermodynamics may or may not say, is that we already have solutions that convert electricity directly into heat (electric stoves, radiators, etc), so I find it very difficult to believe that the opposite shouldn't be possible. If we are unable to reverse the process, then I think it is more a lack of understanding of the real processes going on than anything else.
The other thing is that unlike perpetual motion machines, there is a clear source of energy input, a clear source of energy output, and an acceptance that this is not a 100% efficient process. Perpertual motion machines make the promise of free energy, which this is clearly not.
Given that most portable are currently 0% efficient at converting heat into electricity, since they don't implement any conversion, surely 15% efficiency is a good start?
It should be noted that desperation comes in several forms, amongst them psychological and real. That is some one can feel they are in a desperate situation based on the influences around them (the classic tin-foil hat person or average teen-ager) and the other can be in a real desperate situation where the issues are there, like sanctions on their country, limited right of freedom, racial discrimination, etc - the later may or may not be perceived by the person in question. Knowing the subtlties involved will affect how you deal with the situation.
But for some reason it doesn't seem to cause the same outrage to watch the slaughter of innocent civilians - grandmothers, little kids, students and the like. As long as they're jews, the world seems to just shrug its shoulders and not care. But should anybody ever fight back and harm a single hair on the head of an arab, all hell breaks loose.
This is something of pet peeve of mine: that is people mixing up Judiasm and Israel, in much the same way people mix up Islam and the motivies of some group (though in this case it is the other way round). People are bothered about Israel, not about Judiasm (I am not taking a stance as to whether they are right or wrong in doing so). Every time someone complains about Israel they are accused of being anti-Semetic, which is unfair. If I complain about the actions of Italy, I am not being anti-Catholic.
I'll tell you that I am affected as much about what is said in the news as the next person, but at the same time I will try to keep a neutral position trying to understand both points of view.
Is there any suitable shielding for a passport? I was thinking of making a small pouch with something that would prevent my passport from being sniffed. Would an anti-static bag do the job?
I'll second this observation, but will note increasing my computer's physical memory seemed to help things. On the other hand I still not convinced about hibernate, where it usually took less time to restart the machine than wait for it to load the hibernate image.
- No one at work bothers switching their computer to stand-by, or their monitors for that matter.
The excuse is usually about needing VPN access - with a central wake-on-lan server, this is easily remidied
- MS-Windows XP will fail to go into stand-by if certain applications are running (my observation)
Though strangely this behaviour went away when I upgrade my memory, so maybe it was excess memory
usage causing the issue.
- MacOS X has a nice feature which will allow you to have it go into stand-by or power-down at specific times
and also power-up or wake-up at specific times
- MacOS X on Intel machines saves a hibernate image when going into stand-by, so if power is lost it can still
come back from where you left off. And if power isn't lost you get the quick wake.
A question for anyone in the know: is it possible to retrieve the DHCP->IP address mappings from a BIND server or a MS DHCP server?
Some other possibilities why there is no warden on the mac:
- something in the way memory access it done makes it more difficult on the Mac?
- most people wanting to cheat are running Windows?
But at the same time, take a company like Dell, or HP. If they weren't selling Windows at all, Microsoft would feel it. So at the same time, Microsoft is dependent on them.
This may be true, but in many ways the computer manufactures depend more on Microsoft, than Microsoft depends on them. Imagine a drug user, where there is only one dealer in town for their particular drug, then the drug user is dependent on what the dealer pushes on them, but the drug dealer isn't bothered about losing the drug user since there are plenty of others - not necessarily the best analogy, but you get the idea.
The problem that we have is that we have a society where most people have been brought up on MS-Windows, and changing to anything else feel like chaning religion. Sure there are alternatives such as Linux and MacOS X, but most people like to stick to what they know. I own a MacBook Pro, which I sometimes bring into work. I sometimes get people admiring it and then saying "A Mac, wow that's a nice looking computer but its a shame it doesn't run Office or any games". When I get remark like that its hard not to feel you are turning into an invangelist explain that Office is indeed available for the Mac, and yes it does open word documents and stuff. As for the games, yup there arent many, but I tend to use my game console for that anyhow. So this is in many ways illustrates the fact, that while people might admire the alternatives not everyone want to go an convert to something else. This is what Microsoft has going for them.
Anyone who thinks one OS or another lacks issues, I think its a misnomer. I think all OSs have issues, you just need to choose the one whoes issues you can live with the best.
An example of efficient flash built by developers is google finance's charting. It loads fast, it is powerful and it isn't intrusive.
I'll agree there, though this tends to be the exception rather than the norm. Google also provides a non-flash UI for those who don't have or want flash. I think in general Google does well on the accessibility front.
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The big problem with USA notes is that not only are they the same size, but they are the same colour. There have already been studies showing the interpretation of text on a bank note is actually done after colour or size. This is why many countries use both size and distinct colour (blue vs green, as opposed to green vs some other shade of green) as clues to their different values. Examples: The EU bank notes does both, the UK bank notes are different colour, as are the Canadian bank notes are also of different colour. Add to all this the Australian bank notes, which are not only different colours, but are made out of plastic!!!
The RIAA needs to sue the Mafia and the Mafia will send in the hit men.
I am kinda confused, what's the difference?
In fact it should be noted that the MacBook Pro supports sleep and hibernate at the same time. Basically if you close your lid or set it to stand-by the system will go into sleep AND save a hibernate image. This means that if you wake it up it will use the in memory image, but if you find your battery completly dead on the return, or have to change out the battery there is still the hibernate image to wake up to. This all means you don't have to think: stand-by or hibernate, since both are done.
teacher: so why don't you have you homework, don't tell me your dog ate it?
student: no madam, it recycled itself
Why don't you give that same tip to Apple, whose DRM is by far the most prevelant, and most restrictive to boot? (It *only* works on Apple hardware/software.)
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It is the least restrictive ( source: http://www.cnet.com.au/mp3players/0,239028967,240
- Fairplay encumbered AAC:
- usic purchased can be played on up to five PCs
- Single songs can be burnt to CD an unlimited number of times
- Playlists can be burned up to seven times
- Music purchased can be transferred on an unlimited number of iPods
- Protected WMA:
- You can burn the song up to three times onto CD.
- You can transfer it an unlimited number of times to three portable music players that can play licensed WMA files.
- Up to four re-installs per year allowed
It should also be noted that the Fairplay AAC songs work on both MacOS and Windows (I know none that work on Linux), on the condition that you have iTunes of course. This still doesn't give an excuse to having DRM at all and if the online music sellers are having such a hard time, then they can thank the music industry for imposing DRM.
Tip to Microsoft, Sony and the media industry: Stop trying to control things absolutely and bullying anyone who doesn't play ball. These are actions of spoiled children and do everything to alienate the customer. The fact you still have customers is a testiment that many people don't realise how badly you are screwing them. The companies that end up getting the most support are those who have good balance of trying to be successful and appealing to the customers interests. Respect is earned not inforced.
Since you are such a big fan of Audible.com the iPod will do it with no problems. I can understand that you are tied WMP, out of choice, and I applaud trying to support the alternative media players, but given the issues you have had I wonder whether it would have been easier to go with the iPod.
I am an iPod owner, so I am biased, but the truth is in terms of formats supported and ease of use it still has a lot going for it. One example, the video support is MP4, which is an industry standard and therefore you aren't limited to the business decisions of Microsoft. The only time the iPod really limits you is if you start buying from the iTunes store, but that is the issue buying any DRM infested file.
I will say I get kinda fed up seeing everyone using iPods, since it is saying something about the sorry state of the media player market, which seems to be influenced by the bully boy antics of the music industry and their dependency of Microsoft's WMA and WMV, since WMP supports few other formats.
Um, you can always ask other teachers/students in the given situation what was going on. Heck, someone can always press charges and the justice system would take care of it. It would probably set a precedent either way discouraging the use of these phones.
I can remember watching a TV documentary the other day (W5?), that explained that teachers careers are shorter and shorter because they get little to no back up when an incident happens. In a fair number of cases for a case where the student should have been suspended or expelled, nothing was done to them and the blame was put on the teacher. Why? Not because the teacher was really in cause, but because the school was looking at the bottom line and didn't want to lose the students because they came from 'good families'.
Sure there may be some power hungry teachers, but I would suspect that most of them are trying to do a good job of providing a good education, using their knowledge and the resources available. Most teachers I would suspect aren't tough guys, since tough guy are usually busy doing something else, so when they not allowed to provide suitable punishment, then any tool they have for correcting bad behaviour is gone. This also means that the kids who do want to learn have a harder time, because of class disruption and changing teachers.
I am not a parent, but if I were I would want my kid to learn the difference between right and wrong, at home and at school. If kids don't know when they've steped over the line, then they will continue until they do find one. If people don't learn the rules that help keep society together, then there is nothing ensuring that society will work beyond a chaotic mess.
I just want to know how long before we get some good DDR games, with a supporte mat, for the Wii.
This seems to be the order of the day. No matter how weird a case you have, if it gets turned down in the supreme court, take it to a human rights court instead.
Note sure what human rights has to do with this. Certainly can't see anything related to human language copyright, or IP, in there.
Isn't reverse engineering the Wii packets to figure out the proper browser user string a DMCA violation?
Depends. Reverse engineering is not a violation, but cracking encryption is.
Note I haven't ever read the DMCA, so am I am relying on what I have heard on forums and new sites.
I assume the phrase "signed code" has never entered your mind?
;)
Well that has never been cracked before
The other problem I have with the orginal comment, ignoring what the second law of thermodynamics may or may not say, is that we already have solutions that convert electricity directly into heat (electric stoves, radiators, etc), so I find it very difficult to believe that the opposite shouldn't be possible. If we are unable to reverse the process, then I think it is more a lack of understanding of the real processes going on than anything else.
The other thing is that unlike perpetual motion machines, there is a clear source of energy input, a clear source of energy output, and an acceptance that this is not a 100% efficient process. Perpertual motion machines make the promise of free energy, which this is clearly not.
Given that most portable are currently 0% efficient at converting heat into electricity, since they don't implement any conversion, surely 15% efficiency is a good start?
Can anyone tell me if they get dark blue on black for the Wii topic page? I can't read a damn thing of the article intro.
It should be noted that desperation comes in several forms, amongst them psychological and real. That is some one can feel they are in a desperate situation based on the influences around them (the classic tin-foil hat person or average teen-ager) and the other can be in a real desperate situation where the issues are there, like sanctions on their country, limited right of freedom, racial discrimination, etc - the later may or may not be perceived by the person in question. Knowing the subtlties involved will affect how you deal with the situation.
But for some reason it doesn't seem to cause the same outrage to watch the slaughter of innocent civilians - grandmothers, little kids, students and the like. As long as they're jews, the world seems to just shrug its shoulders and not care. But should anybody ever fight back and harm a single hair on the head of an arab, all hell breaks loose.
This is something of pet peeve of mine: that is people mixing up Judiasm and Israel, in much the same way people mix up Islam and the motivies of some group (though in this case it is the other way round). People are bothered about Israel, not about Judiasm (I am not taking a stance as to whether they are right or wrong in doing so). Every time someone complains about Israel they are accused of being anti-Semetic, which is unfair. If I complain about the actions of Italy, I am not being anti-Catholic.
I'll tell you that I am affected as much about what is said in the news as the next person, but at the same time I will try to keep a neutral position trying to understand both points of view.
Is there any suitable shielding for a passport? I was thinking of making a small pouch with something that would prevent my passport from being sniffed. Would an anti-static bag do the job?
I'll second this observation, but will note increasing my computer's physical memory seemed to help things. On the other hand I still not convinced about hibernate, where it usually took less time to restart the machine than wait for it to load the hibernate image.
Some power saving observations:
- No one at work bothers switching their computer to stand-by, or their monitors for that matter.
The excuse is usually about needing VPN access - with a central wake-on-lan server, this is easily remidied
- MS-Windows XP will fail to go into stand-by if certain applications are running (my observation)
Though strangely this behaviour went away when I upgrade my memory, so maybe it was excess memory
usage causing the issue.
- MacOS X has a nice feature which will allow you to have it go into stand-by or power-down at specific times
and also power-up or wake-up at specific times
- MacOS X on Intel machines saves a hibernate image when going into stand-by, so if power is lost it can still
come back from where you left off. And if power isn't lost you get the quick wake.
A question for anyone in the know: is it possible to retrieve the DHCP->IP address mappings from a BIND server or a MS DHCP server?
Some other possibilities why there is no warden on the mac:
- something in the way memory access it done makes it more difficult on the Mac?
- most people wanting to cheat are running Windows?
Does Hodgman become the Mac?
:) "I used to be a PC, but now I'm a Mac".
Actually that would be the ultimate switcher message
But at the same time, take a company like Dell, or HP. If they weren't selling Windows at all, Microsoft would feel it. So at the same time, Microsoft is dependent on them.
This may be true, but in many ways the computer manufactures depend more on Microsoft, than Microsoft depends on them. Imagine a drug user, where there is only one dealer in town for their particular drug, then the drug user is dependent on what the dealer pushes on them, but the drug dealer isn't bothered about losing the drug user since there are plenty of others - not necessarily the best analogy, but you get the idea.
The problem that we have is that we have a society where most people have been brought up on MS-Windows, and changing to anything else feel like chaning religion. Sure there are alternatives such as Linux and MacOS X, but most people like to stick to what they know. I own a MacBook Pro, which I sometimes bring into work. I sometimes get people admiring it and then saying "A Mac, wow that's a nice looking computer but its a shame it doesn't run Office or any games". When I get remark like that its hard not to feel you are turning into an invangelist explain that Office is indeed available for the Mac, and yes it does open word documents and stuff. As for the games, yup there arent many, but I tend to use my game console for that anyhow. So this is in many ways illustrates the fact, that while people might admire the alternatives not everyone want to go an convert to something else. This is what Microsoft has going for them.
Anyone who thinks one OS or another lacks issues, I think its a misnomer. I think all OSs have issues, you just need to choose the one whoes issues you can live with the best.
Can anyone recommend appropriate, and easily accessable, shielding for RFID equipped stuff? For example would an antistatic bag be sufficient?
An example of efficient flash built by developers is google finance's charting. It loads fast, it is powerful and it isn't intrusive.
I'll agree there, though this tends to be the exception rather than the norm. Google also provides a non-flash UI for those who don't have or want flash. I think in general Google does well on the accessibility front.