Great... except that it resets the clock on all the devices. Not important for DVD players, but very important for VCRs, which a lot of us still use.
Interesting... I wonder if you could make a DVR or VCR the primary device on one of these strips. That might solve the problem in some situations. Otherwise, you could simply not plug your time-sensitive device into the strip and instead just plug in your DVD player, game console, speaker system, lava lamp, etc., as the auxiliary devices.
Around here you can buy power strips with a special "TV" socket. Plug the TV in the TV socket, and the rest (DVD etc.) in the other sockets. As soon as the power strip detects the TV using less than 20W, it powers off the other sockets. At least that way it's only the TV on stand by.
Is this the one you're talking about? Looks like a good solution, from what I can tell; I'm intrigued. Combine that with using compact fluorescent lights instead of incandescent light bulbs as possible, and you can significantly reduce your home's electricity consumption.
i don't know where his math is coming from but try this: 1 mile = 1609.344 meters 261,914 square miles of Texas are land areas. (nlm.gov/scr/outreach/texas.html) so 1609.344 * 261,914 = 421509724.416 square meters. 421509724.416 square meters/6,000,000,000 People = 0.070251620736 square meter per person. Sorry to squash your comment with facts and all.
Congratulations! Your command of mathematics indicates that you are suited for a career as chief executive of the United States of America. You can find detailed information about the application process here. Best of luck in your new career!
Strangely enough, I didn't grow up intellectually retarded or lacking in imagination.
How do you know? I'm not saying you're incorrect, but do you really have any more empirical basis for this assertion than person who made the argument in the article?
Such "sky is falling arguments" are difficult to either support or refute without empirical evidence.
My boss was telling me how he'd spent all morning with the IT manager removing a trojan off of his Windows machine.
I can't imagine that the problem was removing Trojan from his machine. He probably spent much more time trying to get rid of the sticky residue, though I shudder to think what could have led to that situation....
I hate "the masses are stupid" type arguments. It implies that both the person saying it and the person listening are stupid too. Maybe if lots of people disagree with you, it's your own fault for not properly presenting the arguments or teaching the facts. I think it's also a reflection of the "invididual over the group" mentality pushed by American conservatives, and cynicism with two-party politics, but that isn't really relevant here.
American conservatives like, for example, Socrates?
One thing I personally feel is you don't develop a bond with your co-workers if you don't see them face to face....
Although I heartily agree, I'm guessing that some of the Slashdot stereotypes who don't leave their mothers' basements except under cover of darkness may not be sympathetic to what I perceive as the advantages of working with colleagues face to face.
The problem is that anyone can buy this information. Of course it's disgraceful that the government is using illegal or questionably legal means to gether information, but it's even more outrageous that anyone at all with a modest stack of cash can get this information.
What if someone holding a grudge against you decided to avail themselves of these services? Anyone here been involved in an acrimonious legal proceeding?
As a matter of fact, the Times columnist quoted the enforcer for the Gambling Commission as telling him that the Seattle Times could get into trouble.
Sure, if you define "trouble" as paying a lawyer to ride the potential lawsuit into federal court where it gets struck down, while all the Washington State politicians say to their constituents (by which I mean the brick and mortar casino operators), "look, we passed the law you paid for, it's not my fault it's unconstitutional."
RTF Format: As an open spec that predates everything else in the opensource world
The Rich Text Format (RTF) is a specification that was used in Microsoft products starting in 1987. However, as far as I can tell, version 1.0 of the RTF specification was published in 1992. The assertion that RTF predates "everything else in the opensource world" is not just false, but amazingly out of touch with reality. For example, the RTF specification was published:
There appears to be some confusion, because the linked article doesn't quote the correct number. There's a similar, but more accurate, version of the story here. This article describes the potential dollars thus:
The new terms had Take-Two pay 3D Realms $4.25 million up front along with the aforementioned $500,000 promissory note
When I play rock/paper/scissors I always choose rock. Then when somebody claims to have beaten me with their paper I can punch them in the face with my already clenched fist and say, "Oh, I'm sorry I thought paper would protect you."
Apparently, the author of that "clever" rock beats paper scenario is unfamiliar with the power of the open hand, a.k.a. "paper".
I think you are a bit confused. At the time NT was release, most people didn't really know what a network was. My recollection was that NT stood for "New Technology". There are various other explanations for the NT designation, of course, some of which do not result in the redundant "technology"; see this article in Wikipedia for details.
Claiming that Google News practices censorship is utterly ridiculous given the amount, diversity, and accomodated bias of their news sources, and the human-out-of-the-loop (as they claim) algorithm that selects the actual headliner stories. You want to fight censorship? Try starting with the US Federal government and its media practices, or if you feel cosmopolitan, a country like Russia where most mainstream media is bought out by the government.
Dude, you seriously need to get a grip on your audience here on Slashdot--"News for Nerds". We don't actually care about censorship....
What we care about is Google, the coolest software company ever, whose motto is "Dont' be evil", that finally sold out to The Man and went public and is therefore inevitably spiraling down into hypocrisy and evilitude due to it's sudden big corporation trappings. In fact, this is so damaging to my inexplicable smugness as a 1337 software developer that I may need to express myself more eloquently by using ALL CAPITAL LETTERS!!!
I mean, if Google has gone bad, why, anybody could, and nothing except my relentless whining on old green-and-white is capable of stopping the world from going to H311 in a handcart! GAHHH!!! MOD ME UP!!!!!
Are you saying the following clause is illegal for a contract?: "Any future performance of any of the songs on the album Sony produced for Pearl Jam is the property of Sony."
My (layman's) understanding is that such a clause (or just about any other clause which is not supported by the laws of your jurisdiction) is not "illegal" in a contract, but is likely to be unenforceable. So, the clause probably wouldn't invalidate the contract, but it may be no more than a lot of hot air from the person who wrote the clause into the contract. Similarly, you're likely to find unenforceable language in many employment contracts... so likely, in fact, that most employment contracts I have seen also contain a clause that acknowledges that parts of the contract may be unenforceable, in which case the remainder of the contract is still valid.
First off, no one on the jury is going to explain anything to anyone else. They're not experts and can't testify about the case. They can only examine what's been presented. (I'm not a lawyer, but I do watch L&O every Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesay.)
That is not accurate. The jury can't testify in court, but jury members can certainly talk to each other. This is something lawyers are very aware of when they screen potential jurors. The lawyers generally want to avoid having an expert on the jury who is able to sway the other jurors.
Now take a night off from watching Law & Order to watch Twelve Angry Men.
where as people don't watch Lara Croft types swinging from cave walls, because they don't exist.
I would agree, except that, well... thank you for reminding me of the only redeeming virtue of the otherwise abominable Fear Factor. And, much as it pains me to acknowledge it, that show was (is?) real.
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I was really excited about that feature when it appeared, so I tried to fold code while using vim, but my monitor spit out sparks and shards of glass while I was bending it in half.
Since then I have studiously avoided attempting to fold code with any editor, and bought a larger monitor instead.
Now that Indiana U has thrown down the gauntlet, I wouldn't be surprised if MIT responds. Hopefully it will result in an even better paper-writing robot. Ideally, it will lead to dissertation-writing robots.:)
Hmmm.... Have you ever read a dissertation? You'd have a hard time convincing me that such a robot hasn't been in common use for quite a while.
To clarify: I agree with the concept of First Sale and a person's right to control their property. I'm referring to someone making new copies.
Interesting. If you truly agree with a person's right to control his property, then you agree that the person has a right to recreate, share, or sell his property or the recreations thereof. There are many people who think the government should control whether a person is allowed to create, distribute, or sell his property or duplicates thereof.
For example, someone who believes in property rights, as you do, would agree that it is my right to produce and sell duplicates of a tree stump in my yard that happens to function as a chair, regardless of any copyrights or patents related to chairs of that appearance or other physical characteristics. By contrast, an artist, engineer, or lawyer who did not believe in property rights might not only insist that I do not duplicate or sell my tree stump, but might insist that the government steal my property from me or destroy it, claiming that it infringed his so-called "intellectual property".
Another perspective: If a person claims that his intellectual property was stolen, someone who believes in property rights would not be inclined to take the claimant seriously unless the theft required a bonesaw.
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Great... except that it resets the clock on all the devices. Not important for DVD players, but very important for VCRs, which a lot of us still use.
Interesting... I wonder if you could make a DVR or VCR the primary device on one of these strips. That might solve the problem in some situations. Otherwise, you could simply not plug your time-sensitive device into the strip and instead just plug in your DVD player, game console, speaker system, lava lamp, etc., as the auxiliary devices.
Around here you can buy power strips with a special "TV" socket. Plug the TV in the TV socket, and the rest (DVD etc.) in the other sockets. As soon as the power strip detects the TV using less than 20W, it powers off the other sockets. At least that way it's only the TV on stand by.
Is this the one you're talking about? Looks like a good solution, from what I can tell; I'm intrigued. Combine that with using compact fluorescent lights instead of incandescent light bulbs as possible, and you can significantly reduce your home's electricity consumption.
i don't know where his math is coming from but try this: 1 mile = 1609.344 meters 261,914 square miles of Texas are land areas. (nlm.gov/scr/outreach/texas.html) so 1609.344 * 261,914 = 421509724.416 square meters. 421509724.416 square meters/6,000,000,000 People = 0.070251620736 square meter per person. Sorry to squash your comment with facts and all.
Congratulations! Your command of mathematics indicates that you are suited for a career as chief executive of the United States of America. You can find detailed information about the application process here. Best of luck in your new career!
As an example, if you had asked scientists in 1890 if it were possible to travel faster than light, you'd find a clear consensus that it was.
Huh? Oh, I get it, we're talking about people making up spurious claims, and this is a demonstration of how it's done.
Seriously, this type of argument is best known as the Chewbacca Defense. The difference is that on South Park, it was funny.
Strangely enough, I didn't grow up intellectually retarded or lacking in imagination.
How do you know? I'm not saying you're incorrect, but do you really have any more empirical basis for this assertion than person who made the argument in the article?
Such "sky is falling arguments" are difficult to either support or refute without empirical evidence.
Well, thanks so much, Apple, for bringing us this "new" technology!
It's not that it hasn't been done before. It's that it hasn't been marketed by the best smoke and mirrors artist in the industry before.
My boss was telling me how he'd spent all morning with the IT manager removing a trojan off of his Windows machine.
I can't imagine that the problem was removing Trojan from his machine. He probably spent much more time trying to get rid of the sticky residue, though I shudder to think what could have led to that situation....
I hate "the masses are stupid" type arguments. It implies that both the person saying it and the person listening are stupid too. Maybe if lots of people disagree with you, it's your own fault for not properly presenting the arguments or teaching the facts. I think it's also a reflection of the "invididual over the group" mentality pushed by American conservatives, and cynicism with two-party politics, but that isn't really relevant here.
American conservatives like, for example, Socrates?
One thing I personally feel is you don't develop a bond with your co-workers if you don't see them face to face....
Although I heartily agree, I'm guessing that some of the Slashdot stereotypes who don't leave their mothers' basements except under cover of darkness may not be sympathetic to what I perceive as the advantages of working with colleagues face to face.
The problem is that anyone can buy this information. Of course it's disgraceful that the government is using illegal or questionably legal means to gether information, but it's even more outrageous that anyone at all with a modest stack of cash can get this information.
What if someone holding a grudge against you decided to avail themselves of these services? Anyone here been involved in an acrimonious legal proceeding?
As a matter of fact, the Times columnist quoted the enforcer for the Gambling Commission as telling him that the Seattle Times could get into trouble.
Sure, if you define "trouble" as paying a lawyer to ride the potential lawsuit into federal court where it gets struck down, while all the Washington State politicians say to their constituents (by which I mean the brick and mortar casino operators), "look, we passed the law you paid for, it's not my fault it's unconstitutional."
The Rich Text Format (RTF) is a specification that was used in Microsoft products starting in 1987. However, as far as I can tell, version 1.0 of the RTF specification was published in 1992. The assertion that RTF predates "everything else in the opensource world" is not just false, but amazingly out of touch with reality. For example, the RTF specification was published:
There's a similar, but more accurate, version of the story here. This article describes the potential dollars thus:
Interesting. You know another way to make "moniey"? Have sex with strangers who will pay you.
Now
Of course there is. Following the well-thought-out logic of the GP, the word you are looking for is caterer.
Parent quoted the following:
When I play rock/paper/scissors I always choose rock. Then when somebody claims to have beaten me with their paper I can punch them in the face with my already clenched fist and say, "Oh, I'm sorry I thought paper would protect you."
Apparently, the author of that "clever" rock beats paper scenario is unfamiliar with the power of the open hand, a.k.a. "paper".
NT itself stood for "Net Technology"
I think you are a bit confused. At the time NT was release, most people didn't really know what a network was. My recollection was that NT stood for "New Technology". There are various other explanations for the NT designation, of course, some of which do not result in the redundant "technology"; see this article in Wikipedia for details.
You're right, but Sandisk's site explicitly lists XP as a requirement.
You mean, the product site for, say, a Sandisk MP3 player? It is indeed true that Windows XP is listed... as is MacOS.
Claiming that Google News practices censorship is utterly ridiculous given the amount, diversity, and accomodated bias of their news sources, and the human-out-of-the-loop (as they claim) algorithm that selects the actual headliner stories. You want to fight censorship? Try starting with the US Federal government and its media practices, or if you feel cosmopolitan, a country like Russia where most mainstream media is bought out by the government.
Dude, you seriously need to get a grip on your audience here on Slashdot--"News for Nerds". We don't actually care about censorship....
What we care about is Google, the coolest software company ever, whose motto is "Dont' be evil", that finally sold out to The Man and went public and is therefore inevitably spiraling down into hypocrisy and evilitude due to it's sudden big corporation trappings. In fact, this is so damaging to my inexplicable smugness as a 1337 software developer that I may need to express myself more eloquently by using ALL CAPITAL LETTERS!!!
I mean, if Google has gone bad, why, anybody could, and nothing except my relentless whining on old green-and-white is capable of stopping the world from going to H311 in a handcart! GAHHH!!! MOD ME UP!!!!!
Are you saying the following clause is illegal for a contract?: "Any future performance of any of the songs on the album Sony produced for Pearl Jam is the property of Sony."
My (layman's) understanding is that such a clause (or just about any other clause which is not supported by the laws of your jurisdiction) is not "illegal" in a contract, but is likely to be unenforceable. So, the clause probably wouldn't invalidate the contract, but it may be no more than a lot of hot air from the person who wrote the clause into the contract. Similarly, you're likely to find unenforceable language in many employment contracts... so likely, in fact, that most employment contracts I have seen also contain a clause that acknowledges that parts of the contract may be unenforceable, in which case the remainder of the contract is still valid.
First off, no one on the jury is going to explain anything to anyone else. They're not experts and can't testify about the case. They can only examine what's been presented. (I'm not a lawyer, but I do watch L&O every Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesay.)
That is not accurate. The jury can't testify in court, but jury members can certainly talk to each other. This is something lawyers are very aware of when they screen potential jurors. The lawyers generally want to avoid having an expert on the jury who is able to sway the other jurors.
Now take a night off from watching Law & Order to watch Twelve Angry Men.
where as people don't watch Lara Croft types swinging from cave walls, because they don't exist.
I would agree, except that, well... thank you for reminding me of the only redeeming virtue of the otherwise abominable Fear Factor. And, much as it pains me to acknowledge it, that show was (is?) real.
I was really excited about that feature when it appeared, so I tried to fold code while using vim, but my monitor spit out sparks and shards of glass while I was bending it in half.
Since then I have studiously avoided attempting to fold code with any editor, and bought a larger monitor instead.
Created the universe in one giant gang bang
** I hope I don't get smited for that
For some reason, when I conjugate the verb word "smite" in that context, I get "smut".
(Yes, I know, it should be "smitten", but that's hardly humorous.)
Now that Indiana U has thrown down the gauntlet, I wouldn't be surprised if MIT responds. Hopefully it will result in an even better paper-writing robot. Ideally, it will lead to dissertation-writing robots. :)
Hmmm.... Have you ever read a dissertation? You'd have a hard time convincing me that such a robot hasn't been in common use for quite a while.
To clarify: I agree with the concept of First Sale and a person's right to control their property. I'm referring to someone making new copies.
Interesting. If you truly agree with a person's right to control his property, then you agree that the person has a right to recreate, share, or sell his property or the recreations thereof. There are many people who think the government should control whether a person is allowed to create, distribute, or sell his property or duplicates thereof.
For example, someone who believes in property rights, as you do, would agree that it is my right to produce and sell duplicates of a tree stump in my yard that happens to function as a chair, regardless of any copyrights or patents related to chairs of that appearance or other physical characteristics. By contrast, an artist, engineer, or lawyer who did not believe in property rights might not only insist that I do not duplicate or sell my tree stump, but might insist that the government steal my property from me or destroy it, claiming that it infringed his so-called "intellectual property".
Another perspective: If a person claims that his intellectual property was stolen, someone who believes in property rights would not be inclined to take the claimant seriously unless the theft required a bonesaw.