I think any state in the union will recognize that they are a corporation, just like you can be born in California but Missouri will recognize your birth certificate anyways, as required by the US Constitution (and common sense). I think the whole thing about being federally-recognized is just for tax stuff.
Except they are pretty cheap. And they're not really using hard drives - they're being archived, probably using one of those IBM backup systems with the robotic arm that have terabytes and terabytes (thank you Carl Sagan) of storage space.
If each message is 1024 characters (which they most certainly aren't that big usually) then 2.1 billion messages would be 1.96 terabytes. Which really ain't much, given the 200 gigabyte hard drives you can find at any Office Depot. And thats for a whole month.
Google has almost the whole internet on its hard drvies (and I think they use actual hard drives). SMS's are a drop in the bucket comparitivily.
Yea, cell phones started to become popular in the US when I was in high school, they are more or less electronic leash's. I certainly never felt envious of those with cell phones.
Yea, I don't understand how the claims they are making mean its better then Gentoo. Those claims are the same one Gentoo makes. Gentoo has the same goals in mind with its OOP-like ebuilds (to make each ebuild as simple as possible). A typical autoconf program takes just a few lines. Ditto for a typical KDE program.
In reality, most programs aren't typical of course.
If they're doing away with USE variables, that will make things simpler at the expense of losing a powerful feature.
I don't know where you shop, but linksys is usally the more expensive brand-name device. My Network Everywhere (a Linksys brand) seems to work fine just as a simple 4 port NAT router. Granted, if I were to ever do something complicated with Wireless I would start researching more. Straight forward incompatiblity isn't that uncommon from what I hear.
This is really the first time I've heard of a router being such a blantent security problem by any company. Remote access has been explotable before, but its OK since hardly anyone has it on. I mean, if you can access the admin page, you can 'update' the firmware to something malicious can't you?. So, this is in fact very bad.
Though with wireless you have to change the password regardless, since someone just has to get a connection 'behind' the router and then they can access the admin page.
The Linux kernel is a great example of what Linus is actually talking about it. Its modularized for sake of programming simplicity, but its not as broken up into little pieces like Darwin (since it comes at a performance cost).
So good programming practice: yes. Modularizing and breaking your program apart for no real reason: no.
It's an island and drink, not much of a trademark. Look at JavaScript (which was developed by Netscape corp. and indeed has nothing to do with Java Technology.)
They're aren't Sun, so Novell doesn't try and push Java every chance they get.
You could be correct about ironic characters and what not.
How does this relate in any way to the realism of the art? Can you not have ironic characters in live action movies?
Cartoons with more abstract styles can have plenty of depth character and story wise. Emoting is always more difficult (or at least should be more difficult) in animation when compared to live action.
true, even in Japan, a lot of anime is targeted at a smaller (aka geeky) audience. But other anime, like Perfect Blue or Tokyo Godfathers, is not geeky and targeted at a adult audience.
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Your missing the point. Shrek is a cartoon. They're not trying to make a movie that looks like its Live Action (like Final Fantasy was trying to do). They initially tone down the detail.
I thought they did a good job with the facial expressions given the kind of movie Shrek is. I guess it just depends.
Because I'd rather not bother and continue to use lame. And I don't really have the hardware to see what sounds all right - I plan on keeping these files for a while and I might get better speakers in the future.
Another problem I have with OGG is that all the comparisions I've seen for it have been for lower bit-rates.
There's the international sign - point to your wrist.
But man, being spit on? I hear the French don't like broken French (I don't know any French, so not an issue) but sheesh.
My feeling of Paris (I was there for only 3 days) was that it was indeed not particuarly impolite. Like any other large city. When I got there, folks were polite and could be quite helpful when I got lost looking for my hostel.
Having just came out of English-friendly Netherlands, I was annoyed that people in positions to deal with lots of foreigners didn't know any English (like the information both guy at a Paris Train Station, who didn't know Spanish either, so I waited in the wrong line). Given that English is the common language of choice in Europe (the 'lingua franca'), it doesn't seem too unreasonable.
Rome knows more English then Paris, I blame this on some French nationalist sentiment (rather similar to the US and our lack of foreign languages) which results in them not pushing English in schools as much as the rest of Europe. The lack of English in Spain is to be expected, having lived outside of Europe more-or-less while under Franco, until 30 years ago. The generation in college in Spain now were the first to have all been taught English while in school. But the French have no excuse.
That was my first reaction, who uses 128. What I want is a blind test with experts and thousand dollar audio systems to find at what point the experts are no longer able to tell the difference between the compressed and uncompressed audio.
I use `lame --preset standard`, which ends up being VBR in with a max of 110-290, hovering mostly around 190-210 range. It's one of the reasons I don't use OGG, it doesn't have any preset's so I'm supposed to just decide on a good level myself. I'd rather use something that it appears someone has put some thought into.
Note that fairplay requires you to have a valid license. It's not about piracy. Its that simple. Someone who wanted to pirate could just as easily buy the CD.
DRM is about adding extra restrictions that don't exist with CDs.
I work at my University's ITS dept., we get emails from the MPAA demanding port shutoff's. Which we do, and don't turn it on until they come in and get a talking to. Paternalistic I guess, but thats how universities seem to be.
This is just some new software to make turning off ports easier I guess... for a smaller university like ours it wouldn't be worth it. We only get a copyright infringement notice a few times a month.
I assumed by the headline it was something that would search people Windows Shares for pirated files. That would be bad news, as there would be plenty to find.
Yes, thank goodness reality television != real life.
I do watch the Daily Show on Comedy Central regularly. And Extreme Elimation Challenge on Spike TV (a Japanese gameshow with mocking dubs) is entertaining to watch with a group of people. If I had TechTV I would watch Unscrewed, but thats just good stuff. But I do spend far more time online and luckly don't get all my news from the Daily Show.
I think it is a good point about the multitasking though. I find having the TV on annoying (I hate ads), but I know people who might have MTV (when its *gasp* playing music videos) on while checking email or something.
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So, really anyone with less then a couple thousand dollars could store all SMS messages from the United States for the month of December.
I think any state in the union will recognize that they are a corporation, just like you can be born in California but Missouri will recognize your birth certificate anyways, as required by the US Constitution (and common sense). I think the whole thing about being federally-recognized is just for tax stuff.
Except they are pretty cheap. And they're not really using hard drives - they're being archived, probably using one of those IBM backup systems with the robotic arm that have terabytes and terabytes (thank you Carl Sagan) of storage space.
If each message is 1024 characters (which they most certainly aren't that big usually) then 2.1 billion messages would be 1.96 terabytes. Which really ain't much, given the 200 gigabyte hard drives you can find at any Office Depot. And thats for a whole month.
Google has almost the whole internet on its hard drvies (and I think they use actual hard drives). SMS's are a drop in the bucket comparitivily.
Yea, cell phones started to become popular in the US when I was in high school, they are more or less electronic leash's. I certainly never felt envious of those with cell phones.
except thats exactly what the blurb says
Yea, I don't understand how the claims they are making mean its better then Gentoo. Those claims are the same one Gentoo makes. Gentoo has the same goals in mind with its OOP-like ebuilds (to make each ebuild as simple as possible). A typical autoconf program takes just a few lines. Ditto for a typical KDE program.
In reality, most programs aren't typical of course.
If they're doing away with USE variables, that will make things simpler at the expense of losing a powerful feature.
From what I remember, they weren't planning those to be really powerful.
I don't know where you shop, but linksys is usally the more expensive brand-name device. My Network Everywhere (a Linksys brand) seems to work fine just as a simple 4 port NAT router. Granted, if I were to ever do something complicated with Wireless I would start researching more. Straight forward incompatiblity isn't that uncommon from what I hear.
This is really the first time I've heard of a router being such a blantent security problem by any company. Remote access has been explotable before, but its OK since hardly anyone has it on. I mean, if you can access the admin page, you can 'update' the firmware to something malicious can't you?. So, this is in fact very bad.
Though with wireless you have to change the password regardless, since someone just has to get a connection 'behind' the router and then they can access the admin page.
And Linksys is owned by Cisco, BTW.
The Linux kernel is a great example of what Linus is actually talking about it. Its modularized for sake of programming simplicity, but its not as broken up into little pieces like Darwin (since it comes at a performance cost).
So good programming practice: yes. Modularizing and breaking your program apart for no real reason: no.
It's an island and drink, not much of a trademark. Look at JavaScript (which was developed by Netscape corp. and indeed has nothing to do with Java Technology.)
They're aren't Sun, so Novell doesn't try and push Java every chance they get.
You could be correct about ironic characters and what not.
How does this relate in any way to the realism of the art? Can you not have ironic characters in live action movies?
Cartoons with more abstract styles can have plenty of depth character and story wise. Emoting is always more difficult (or at least should be more difficult) in animation when compared to live action.
anime fanboy otaku != anime's general audience
true, even in Japan, a lot of anime is targeted at a smaller (aka geeky) audience. But other anime, like Perfect Blue or Tokyo Godfathers, is not geeky and targeted at a adult audience.
Your missing the point. Shrek is a cartoon. They're not trying to make a movie that looks like its Live Action (like Final Fantasy was trying to do). They initially tone down the detail.
I thought they did a good job with the facial expressions given the kind of movie Shrek is. I guess it just depends.
Because I'd rather not bother and continue to use lame. And I don't really have the hardware to see what sounds all right - I plan on keeping these files for a while and I might get better speakers in the future.
Another problem I have with OGG is that all the comparisions I've seen for it have been for lower bit-rates.
There's the international sign - point to your wrist.
But man, being spit on? I hear the French don't like broken French (I don't know any French, so not an issue) but sheesh.
My feeling of Paris (I was there for only 3 days) was that it was indeed not particuarly impolite. Like any other large city. When I got there, folks were polite and could be quite helpful when I got lost looking for my hostel.
Having just came out of English-friendly Netherlands, I was annoyed that people in positions to deal with lots of foreigners didn't know any English (like the information both guy at a Paris Train Station, who didn't know Spanish either, so I waited in the wrong line). Given that English is the common language of choice in Europe (the 'lingua franca'), it doesn't seem too unreasonable.
Rome knows more English then Paris, I blame this on some French nationalist sentiment (rather similar to the US and our lack of foreign languages) which results in them not pushing English in schools as much as the rest of Europe. The lack of English in Spain is to be expected, having lived outside of Europe more-or-less while under Franco, until 30 years ago. The generation in college in Spain now were the first to have all been taught English while in school. But the French have no excuse.
That was my first reaction, who uses 128. What I want is a blind test with experts and thousand dollar audio systems to find at what point the experts are no longer able to tell the difference between the compressed and uncompressed audio.
I use `lame --preset standard`, which ends up being VBR in with a max of 110-290, hovering mostly around 190-210 range. It's one of the reasons I don't use OGG, it doesn't have any preset's so I'm supposed to just decide on a good level myself. I'd rather use something that it appears someone has put some thought into.
Note that fairplay requires you to have a valid license. It's not about piracy. Its that simple. Someone who wanted to pirate could just as easily buy the CD.
DRM is about adding extra restrictions that don't exist with CDs.
apparently, running wine as root can improve things sometimes, since some windows software doesn't play well with secure OS's.
So I guess the reason to have no pity is that they're trying to run a worm in the first place.
Whats so bad about New York State getting money? Doesn't seem like a motive to get upset about. A lot of state governments are short of money.
And I bet it works like Social Security, they'll spend the money and then just give other money if someone comes to claim it.
I agree, some of the commercial distros used to be pretty unresponsible.
These days, even they install lots of services, have a firewall on by default that closes up the various servers.
I prefer something like Gentoo where you know exactly what your installing. None of this 'install everything since its hard to install it later' crap.
I agree. The only thing I use console text editors for is text configuration files. Nano does a fine job.
I work at my University's ITS dept., we get emails from the MPAA demanding port shutoff's. Which we do, and don't turn it on until they come in and get a talking to. Paternalistic I guess, but thats how universities seem to be.
This is just some new software to make turning off ports easier I guess... for a smaller university like ours it wouldn't be worth it. We only get a copyright infringement notice a few times a month.
I assumed by the headline it was something that would search people Windows Shares for pirated files. That would be bad news, as there would be plenty to find.
Right, GPS just makes more sense, especially given that the European Union is making their own GPS network.
Yea, and I've grown to hate those smart-ass ads where they know you don't buy into the ads and they let you know it by poking fun at themselves.
Yes, thank goodness reality television != real life.
I do watch the Daily Show on Comedy Central regularly. And Extreme Elimation Challenge on Spike TV (a Japanese gameshow with mocking dubs) is entertaining to watch with a group of people. If I had TechTV I would watch Unscrewed, but thats just good stuff. But I do spend far more time online and luckly don't get all my news from the Daily Show.
I think it is a good point about the multitasking though. I find having the TV on annoying (I hate ads), but I know people who might have MTV (when its *gasp* playing music videos) on while checking email or something.