Why does it need to be the EFF? I don't know how it is in the USA, but in some other countries, such as the UK, there is a student union. Other than provide certain student related services it also serves the roll of protecting the student interests. Surely this could be a case that could be brought up with a student union?
It is the purpose of a press-release. But its purpose does not include putting your own name to the release. You can only sign with your name if you actually wrote the article. Including the whole text as your article is not the same thing as writing the article. It is important to be clear when works are referenced.
Adium is a great multi-IM client IMHO. This application relies on libgaim for the low level comms related stuff. The developers have stated that voice chat will be part of Adium as soon as it is part of Gaim. In the meantime there is a Gizmo plugin for Adium, that allows voice chat for this system - the only catch is as this time you need Gizmo to add new entries.
One problem that Canada has is that any new skilled immigrant who wants to becomes a doctor or engineer is forced to do a three certfication. This means that a worker loses out three years of salery, when instead (s)he could be heading south of the border. South of the border that would not be necessary and they would also be better paid.
The TLDs are VERY important, since they help categorise the structure in terms of a tree and give a clear defintion of who is responsible for which subset of the tree.
Doing what they are doing could potentially screw up internal networks and cause more problems than it solves. Imagine that all your internal hosts have the prefix "internal" and another site pops up called "internal", we would then have the issue of myhost.internal being difficult to resolve. Is it inside the network or outside? I have already have seen something like this happen when internal domains use.local, yet at the same time.local is reserved for use by mDNS.
First, I would be curious to know what percentage of XBOX 360s have this issue? I ask this because only people having issues make any noise, with the rest spending too many hours playing with their new system.
One thing that is worth sharing is the answer 'makaveli87' (post #79 in the Xbox Forums) gave about his contact with MS Support:
"Ok I phoned tech support, I was on hold for about 40min. The first guy didn't really know what he was talking about, he kept trying to tell me to do things I had already tried like unplug everything or "read the manual" so he connected me to someone else. This guy seemed like a gamer or he at least knew what he was talking about. He told me that they were having several problems with the launch consoles, the hdd problem, overheating, something to do with the HD to SDTV thing on the back, game disks being scratched , problems with the operating system and a few disk read errors. He said the overheating problem will be the most common and that this is what I have. (If your console turns off or the screen freezes 90% of the time its an over heating issue. If you get one of the error screens its and OS problem.) he said for both of these problems they need to replace the console and that it would take 6-10 weeks!!! I asked why and he said that they are experiencing more problems then hey had hoped and that he is supposed to say 6-8 weeks, but last week he was telling people 4-6 and those people would be waiting until mid-january. He wouldn't go further into that though. He did tell me that I could hold onto the system and use it as much as I can for 2 or 3 weeks, send it in then and I would still get it back 6-10 weeks from now. Anyways the warranty covers any of those major problems I stated above so that's good. I guess #1 on MS list is to sell all of their consoles to new customers and let the people with problematic ones wait until after the holidays."
Have you ever tried to hire that One Smart Person? Hell, even if s/he existed, they'd never make it past HR.
Yup, especially since HR adheres to the "check-box" policy off hiring. Do you have such a skill yes/no? This totally eliminates the people who actually can learn the stuff. I was speaking to one headhunter who said that one company wanted someone who could hit the ground running, because they had a tight deadline, and then as the project got closer to the finish date, and they still hadn't found such a person, they became fussier about thre criteria. This is akin is trying to find the ideal girl friend and upping the criteria when you don't find her.
Okay must admit since taking a sabatical trying to find another job is proving to be a little harder than expected. And the fact that I am in IT doesn't seem to help me find the "beautiful girl, who is smart and funny and I spend my time with" ( match.com didn't help either;) I will get both one day, but I am not sure how (maybe just a hopeless optimist?)
The other day I was looking into a solution on how to display text only ads, when the advertisement image or flash player could not be loaded. Proves that trying to get something that works consistently across browsers is very difficult. I think the only real solution would be to use Javascript for this, since anything lighter just screws up. The simplest one that I tried was an image with an "alt" tag, but even that doesn't work. I can't stand ads, but I would rather have ads than have to pay for a site, within reason of course.
For those of you blocking adverts, do you tolerate the text ads better, or do they get blocked too?
"I have paid up for INSERT SITE HERE and have written to hundreds of thousands of girls and none of them get back to me. Funnily enough two days after my subscription expiring this really great looking girl was interested in meeting, but more importantly, she's very smart and has a good sense of humour . After some hesitation I think maybe this is the girl for me, so I sign up again. Unfortunately I must have waited too long, since her profile is no longer active."
Or graphic novel. It is just a name, but "manga" is indicitive of the style of the artwork and story. People have preconceived ideas about what the different terms mean:
- comic: DC or Marvel style "fan boy" stories which are generally about good vs evil
- comic-strip: short drawin story you read in the back of your newspaper
- manga: Japanese style or influenced graphic-novels
- BDs: French style hard-back cover graphic-novels
- Graphic-Novel: the more accepted general term these days covering all the above
It should also be mentioned that it is far easier to make high performance, processor with high power consumption, than the a high performance processor with low power consumption. The later is what Apple was wanting, but IBM was not delivering and ironically I wonder whether the choice of both the Nintendo and Microsoft to use PowerPC, shifted IBM's priorities and thus forced Apple to make the shift?
As to whether the new Macs could come out as early as January, it certainly is possible, but I am not going to hold my breath and I won't get all depresive if it doesn't happen. At the end of the day, other than a different CPU everything else is the same. If it is a question of games, then the existence of D3D for Mac would be of more interest.
I think it would be AOLs interest to actually come up with clients for alternative OSs (MacOS X and Linux being the main two), since it would reduce the need for a third party to hack the system. Then again, there shouldn't be anything stopping AOL from using a Bit Torrent based solution, and then simply requiring that you visit their site to view the catalogue - ok I haven't thought about all the practical issues yet. If the ads are in the "master" copy as opposed to being tagged on prior to download, then this shouldn't cause too many problems.
Given the past history AOL has had with Apple (from Quantum Computer Services to eWorld to iChat) it would make sense for them to maintain this relationship and produce something in a format suitable for the iPod. MPEG4 and H.264 are both becoming more common and are considered industry standards, so in using this format the shows should potentially play on the iPod, most computers and then eventually any other portable video players. Sure the quality is not the best, but if you want good quality with no adverts, then you always have the option of buying the season DVDs.
Given that we are likely to see most future HDTV as pure digital systems, maybe using a VGA or DVI connector (not clear which one it will use) may actually be a better solution than the component connectors we have now.
I wonder whether that is really true. In fact I would say it is the opposite, since most of the other game consoles show off the "how many people can we kill" type games. Nintendogs as an example is actually a game that has actually brought a number of non-gamers into the fold.
Most of the other platforms seem to be sticking to what they know and are not really trying much that is new, if at all. What they are parading is more performant systems, $$$$ network play and a hard-disk. While I do feel that the revolution could have benefitted from an HD, especially for MMORPGS, I would be curious to see why they decided not to go with one. The Revolution actually has two USB 2.0 sockets which could actually be a better solution for expansion. This would potentially allow you to plug in any HD, or solid state storage, you want and not be limited by want the manufacturer forces upon you.
The truth is the market has already shown that what we thought was true may not be true tomorrow. I would like to see Nintendo do well because of their innovations and encouraging people to play different. At the same time the other platforms certainly have the macho type "bigger is better" approach. What will make the difference is marketing and what games come out. Nintendo already said in the past the many people buy their console because of one game, and it would seem that other companies recognise this in ensuring they have exclusive games for their platform.
For me everybody has got a running chance. All we have up to now is vapour, and only time will tell which system is the best. I'll buy the platform with the games that suit my tastes best.
If you like, you can think about it as having a 64-bit public address, and a 64-bit private address. The public address is assigned by your ISP, while the private address is made up my you (or your router)./I
I suppose my fear is whether in reality the ISPs will be willing to let you have more than one address. For example will they say well the whole 128-bit is ours and if you want any more, you'll have to pay for it (something which is not an issue at the moment).
Forcing everyone back into the bureaucratic process is exactly what the designers want to do. Imagine how much less money would be made by cell phone companies if you could pick up any phone and it would automatically choose a phone number, then register your name with a decentralized directory so anyone who wanted to reach you could. Instead, you have to pay that $50 activation fee, plus a sizable portion of every month's cell phone bill, just for the privilege of being told when and where you can make telephone calls. That is the ideal that our IPv6 overlords are shooting for. I for one welcome them.
If that is the case then I will welcome anyone breaking IPv6 with a new NAT solution, for this reason. I don't pay for installing an extra phone in my house, so I don't expect to have to do the same with IPv6.
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Why does it need to be the EFF? I don't know how it is in the USA, but in some other countries, such as the UK, there is a student union. Other than provide certain student related services it also serves the roll of protecting the student interests. Surely this could be a case that could be brought up with a student union?
Besides, if he were, he'd hate me; I'm a diehard Mac user.
Not necessarily. There have been rumours indicating he is a closet Mac user.
It is the purpose of a press-release. But its purpose does not include putting your own name to the release. You can only sign with your name if you actually wrote the article. Including the whole text as your article is not the same thing as writing the article. It is important to be clear when works are referenced.
You will only understand the above if yo actually read the referenced links.
The better example would have been Russia or Turkey. For the former would it be .ru.asia or .eu.euro?
If it is in Limbo then it is likely to gone for good. The Vatican seems to have abolished it.
I also get the feeling that DRM is given a higher priorty than bug fixes. No good evidence, but it just feels that way.
Adium is a great multi-IM client IMHO. This application relies on libgaim for the low level comms related stuff. The developers have stated that voice chat will be part of Adium as soon as it is part of Gaim. In the meantime there is a Gizmo plugin for Adium, that allows voice chat for this system - the only catch is as this time you need Gizmo to add new entries.
This version uses "JOGL", which is a Java wrapper to OpenGL.
Whole cities will be suffering brownouts, because of excessive A/C use just for the XBox. ;)
One problem that Canada has is that any new skilled immigrant who wants to becomes a doctor or engineer is forced to do a three certfication. This means that a worker loses out three years of salery, when instead (s)he could be heading south of the border. South of the border that would not be necessary and they would also be better paid.
So immigrate to the US or to Canada. Hmmm?
The TLDs are VERY important, since they help categorise the structure in terms of a tree and give a clear defintion of who is responsible for which subset of the tree.
.local, yet at the same time .local is reserved for use by mDNS.
Doing what they are doing could potentially screw up internal networks and cause more problems than it solves. Imagine that all your internal hosts have the prefix "internal" and another site pops up called "internal", we would then have the issue of myhost.internal being difficult to resolve. Is it inside the network or outside? I have already have seen something like this happen when internal domains use
And we the though that the Simpons intro with Maggie was just for a laugh - hmmm.
Detected multiple RFIDs, using first found: Levis Jean from Walmart
Action: Find anything related to Jeans and Walmart
One thing that is worth sharing is the answer 'makaveli87' (post #79 in the Xbox Forums) gave about his contact with MS Support:
Have you ever tried to hire that One Smart Person? Hell, even if s/he existed, they'd never make it past HR.
;) I will get both one day, but I am not sure how (maybe just a hopeless optimist?)
Yup, especially since HR adheres to the "check-box" policy off hiring. Do you have such a skill yes/no? This totally eliminates the people who actually can learn the stuff. I was speaking to one headhunter who said that one company wanted someone who could hit the ground running, because they had a tight deadline, and then as the project got closer to the finish date, and they still hadn't found such a person, they became fussier about thre criteria. This is akin is trying to find the ideal girl friend and upping the criteria when you don't find her.
Okay must admit since taking a sabatical trying to find another job is proving to be a little harder than expected. And the fact that I am in IT doesn't seem to help me find the "beautiful girl, who is smart and funny and I spend my time with" ( match.com didn't help either
The other day I was looking into a solution on how to display text only ads, when the advertisement image or flash player could not be loaded. Proves that trying to get something that works consistently across browsers is very difficult. I think the only real solution would be to use Javascript for this, since anything lighter just screws up. The simplest one that I tried was an image with an "alt" tag, but even that doesn't work. I can't stand ads, but I would rather have ads than have to pay for a site, within reason of course.
For those of you blocking adverts, do you tolerate the text ads better, or do they get blocked too?
Or the more classic:
"I have paid up for INSERT SITE HERE and have written to hundreds of thousands of girls and none of them get back to me. Funnily enough two days after my subscription expiring this really great looking girl was interested in meeting, but more importantly, she's very smart and has a good sense of humour . After some hesitation I think maybe this is the girl for me, so I sign up again. Unfortunately I must have waited too long, since her profile is no longer active."
Also known as a "comic"
Or graphic novel. It is just a name, but "manga" is indicitive of the style of the artwork and story. People have preconceived ideas about what the different terms mean:
- comic: DC or Marvel style "fan boy" stories which are generally about good vs evil
- comic-strip: short drawin story you read in the back of your newspaper
- manga: Japanese style or influenced graphic-novels
- BDs: French style hard-back cover graphic-novels
- Graphic-Novel: the more accepted general term these days covering all the above
It should also be mentioned that it is far easier to make high performance, processor with high power consumption, than the a high performance processor with low power consumption. The later is what Apple was wanting, but IBM was not delivering and ironically I wonder whether the choice of both the Nintendo and Microsoft to use PowerPC, shifted IBM's priorities and thus forced Apple to make the shift?
As to whether the new Macs could come out as early as January, it certainly is possible, but I am not going to hold my breath and I won't get all depresive if it doesn't happen. At the end of the day, other than a different CPU everything else is the same. If it is a question of games, then the existence of D3D for Mac would be of more interest.
I think it would be AOLs interest to actually come up with clients for alternative OSs (MacOS X and Linux being the main two), since it would reduce the need for a third party to hack the system. Then again, there shouldn't be anything stopping AOL from using a Bit Torrent based solution, and then simply requiring that you visit their site to view the catalogue - ok I haven't thought about all the practical issues yet. If the ads are in the "master" copy as opposed to being tagged on prior to download, then this shouldn't cause too many problems.
Given the past history AOL has had with Apple (from Quantum Computer Services to eWorld to iChat) it would make sense for them to maintain this relationship and produce something in a format suitable for the iPod. MPEG4 and H.264 are both becoming more common and are considered industry standards, so in using this format the shows should potentially play on the iPod, most computers and then eventually any other portable video players. Sure the quality is not the best, but if you want good quality with no adverts, then you always have the option of buying the season DVDs.
One thing that should be noted is that the Revolution will be able to plug into a computer screen:
http://cube.ign.com/articles/522/522559p2.html
Given that we are likely to see most future HDTV as pure digital systems, maybe using a VGA or DVI connector (not clear which one it will use) may actually be a better solution than the component connectors we have now.
I wonder whether that is really true. In fact I would say it is the opposite, since most of the other game consoles show off the "how many people can we kill" type games. Nintendogs as an example is actually a game that has actually brought a number of non-gamers into the fold.
Most of the other platforms seem to be sticking to what they know and are not really trying much that is new, if at all. What they are parading is more performant systems, $$$$ network play and a hard-disk. While I do feel that the revolution could have benefitted from an HD, especially for MMORPGS, I would be curious to see why they decided not to go with one. The Revolution actually has two USB 2.0 sockets which could actually be a better solution for expansion. This would potentially allow you to plug in any HD, or solid state storage, you want and not be limited by want the manufacturer forces upon you.
The truth is the market has already shown that what we thought was true may not be true tomorrow. I would like to see Nintendo do well because of their innovations and encouraging people to play different. At the same time the other platforms certainly have the macho type "bigger is better" approach. What will make the difference is marketing and what games come out. Nintendo already said in the past the many people buy their console because of one game, and it would seem that other companies recognise this in ensuring they have exclusive games for their platform.
For me everybody has got a running chance. All we have up to now is vapour, and only time will tell which system is the best. I'll buy the platform with the games that suit my tastes best.
If you like, you can think about it as having a 64-bit public address, and a 64-bit private address. The public address is assigned by your ISP, while the private address is made up my you (or your router)./I
I suppose my fear is whether in reality the ISPs will be willing to let you have more than one address. For example will they say well the whole 128-bit is ours and if you want any more, you'll have to pay for it (something which is not an issue at the moment).
Forcing everyone back into the bureaucratic process is exactly what the designers want to do. Imagine how much less money would be made by cell phone companies if you could pick up any phone and it would automatically choose a phone number, then register your name with a decentralized directory so anyone who wanted to reach you could. Instead, you have to pay that $50 activation fee, plus a sizable portion of every month's cell phone bill, just for the privilege of being told when and where you can make telephone calls. That is the ideal that our IPv6 overlords are shooting for. I for one welcome them.
If that is the case then I will welcome anyone breaking IPv6 with a new NAT solution, for this reason. I don't pay for installing an extra phone in my house, so I don't expect to have to do the same with IPv6.