The BFD is that multiple search terms that only exists because Google fed them to bing via fake searches ended up on bing's search. Bing is copying search results because they can't compete otherwise. Anyone can make a search engine that returns results from popular search queries, it's very hard to make a search engine that returns results for one off queries. Since Bing's algorithms suck they just copy query results from Google. If you read about this you would see that google has something like 9 examples of blatant copying. The tarsorrhaphy example was just the search term that let google know there was a problem (bing gave the right result without stating that it was a misspelled word and there were no links with that misspelling on the internet).
These devices are most certainly are going to need to be "smart" in determining what an "unused" channel really is...
Umm... why would the devices have to be smart? The FCC would still regulate the band, just not dedicate it towards TV broadcasting. Then humans, not the transmitters, would determine the available frequencies. This is a definite "good thing" for broadband and the rural areas in perticular
Wow, one of these days I'll carefully read the article before posting. It's not hardware but software which is more in line with Microsoft's current PocketPC and media center strategies. This of course brings up another question: Why would iRiver plan to use this software when they already have a decent in-house solution? Why would any company out source the very thing that could separate them from the herd? I guess being able to throw you support behind your hardware/design guys is nice but is it the be all end all?
Why is Microsoft trying to get into the consumer hardware biz all of a sudden? Is there really that large of a market for them to make a decent profit off this or are they simply introducing this to hype there upcoming media box (XBox 2)? I personally still see no point in buying any handheld compressed music player until on has ogg support. I know I'm in the minority on this one but I have major problems being tied to a single vendor (WMA, AAC) and gaps between songs (mp3). I guess I'll just have to wait for someone brighter (and more bored) than I to write a firmware update for one of the existing players.
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Ummm... What? Employees currently are commonly subjected to no sunlight. Electric lights have lead to the creation of rooms within buildings without a need for direct sunlight. Furthermore what do you mean when you say water downstream of dams has no energy left? Dams create energy by harnessing the force of gravity as water moves downhill. There is no magical energy contained within water which dams extract.
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Read the article.
This company makes the material. It's similar to the guys who make silicon wafers now. They won't design chips, they will just sell carbon to both Intel and Motorola (or whoever is around at the time).
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Any known birth defects/oddities arrise from this which manifest themselves in the physical sence? IE if your trying to test someone's DNA and realise they have blond hair on one half of there skull and black on the other you would know something was up.
If people wanted physical copies of things why do things like netflix and Blockbuster (shudder) exist? Video on demand with a decent price and selection will do as well as these traditional rental companies. People don't buy copies soley to view them or listen to them, many people are interested in the extras (CD Labels, DVD extras, general packaging).
Personally I feel the future of Digital Video is in DVD players with ripping capabilites. Once HD space is cheap enough that a DVD player can hold 50+ hours of video for under $199 people will move there collections onto the players themselves. Have a sapranoes marathon without changing DVD's. Using a CDDB type of service will let you navigate your collection quicker than the traditional "flip through the boxes" technique. Furthermore people hate having to change disks. Blue laser DVD's will allivate this problem but personally I belive slapping in a 300 gig HD will be dirt cheap by the time those drives hit the market.
Time for me to get back to finals and quit reloading slashdot.....
I need no spell checker! It's much more fun to guess what I'm trying to say...
I'd implement FTP if your attempting to transfer large files. There are many excellent programs to resume FTP transfers yet I do not know of any such programs for HTTP transfers. Real Download might do it, but who in god's name would want to inflict that upon themselves.
Sorry to bust your bubble but final scratch was designed and available on BeOS about 2 years before making it to linux. It was Be's "killer app" (more of a look what we can do that anything else).
Mod this parent down. This list was created by Nathalie Welch of Apple's PR department and the blacklist is being enforced by IDG. Why would the event organizer ban newssites? They have no reason to. Apple on the other hand has damn good reason to stop these news sites.
You obviously haven't visited afganastan in the past 2 years. Kicking the talaban out was most definatly the right thing to do. As a group I'd put them up there with the brown coats.
Concidering that they: A) Didn't test it B) Strongly implied that it was true and not that they got that information from the article I would say that it is slashdot's fault for posting it as the truth. Not that it's the first time or that it matters one bit though. The face seems to be completly unaffected by mp3 compression (I saw it fine in my 192 kps version of the song).
A word on this song itself. The end of the song has a breakdown effect; an increase in dissanace at first which leads to "random" static. The last piece of static in the song is his face.
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So run the older version and take the security hit. Google updated the kernel to make or more secure, why shouldn't they use that new feature?
The BFD is that multiple search terms that only exists because Google fed them to bing via fake searches ended up on bing's search. Bing is copying search results because they can't compete otherwise. Anyone can make a search engine that returns results from popular search queries, it's very hard to make a search engine that returns results for one off queries. Since Bing's algorithms suck they just copy query results from Google. If you read about this you would see that google has something like 9 examples of blatant copying. The tarsorrhaphy example was just the search term that let google know there was a problem (bing gave the right result without stating that it was a misspelled word and there were no links with that misspelling on the internet).
Shit yes. How else could you deal with a loss that great?
These devices are most certainly are going to need to be "smart" in determining what an "unused" channel really is...
Umm... why would the devices have to be smart? The FCC would still regulate the band, just not dedicate it towards TV broadcasting. Then humans, not the transmitters, would determine the available frequencies. This is a definite "good thing" for broadband and the rural areas in perticular
Umm... How about "then we all went to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison and lived no so happily ever after."
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Sure he won the first round but he's being tried again. Also who wants to have to pay a lawyer twice? Once is bad enough.
Why release it with your name attached to it? Didn't he learn something after the whole De-CSS trial?
Wow, one of these days I'll carefully read the article before posting. It's not hardware but software which is more in line with Microsoft's current PocketPC and media center strategies. This of course brings up another question: Why would iRiver plan to use this software when they already have a decent in-house solution? Why would any company out source the very thing that could separate them from the herd? I guess being able to throw you support behind your hardware/design guys is nice but is it the be all end all?
Why is Microsoft trying to get into the consumer hardware biz all of a sudden? Is there really that large of a market for them to make a decent profit off this or are they simply introducing this to hype there upcoming media box (XBox 2)? I personally still see no point in buying any handheld compressed music player until on has ogg support. I know I'm in the minority on this one but I have major problems being tied to a single vendor (WMA, AAC) and gaps between songs (mp3). I guess I'll just have to wait for someone brighter (and more bored) than I to write a firmware update for one of the existing players.
Ummm... What? Employees currently are commonly subjected to no sunlight. Electric lights have lead to the creation of rooms within buildings without a need for direct sunlight. Furthermore what do you mean when you say water downstream of dams has no energy left? Dams create energy by harnessing the force of gravity as water moves downhill. There is no magical energy contained within water which dams extract.
Read the article.
This company makes the material. It's similar to the guys who make silicon wafers now. They won't design chips, they will just sell carbon to both Intel and Motorola (or whoever is around at the time).
Any known birth defects/oddities arrise from this which manifest themselves in the physical sence? IE if your trying to test someone's DNA and realise they have blond hair on one half of there skull and black on the other you would know something was up.
Yep, corporate run prisons have been around for a while now. Works like a normal prison but the overhead is lower and the gaurds have a union.
Bah!
If people wanted physical copies of things why do things like netflix and Blockbuster (shudder) exist? Video on demand with a decent price and selection will do as well as these traditional rental companies. People don't buy copies soley to view them or listen to them, many people are interested in the extras (CD Labels, DVD extras, general packaging).
Personally I feel the future of Digital Video is in DVD players with ripping capabilites. Once HD space is cheap enough that a DVD player can hold 50+ hours of video for under $199 people will move there collections onto the players themselves. Have a sapranoes marathon without changing DVD's. Using a CDDB type of service will let you navigate your collection quicker than the traditional "flip through the boxes" technique. Furthermore people hate having to change disks. Blue laser DVD's will allivate this problem but personally I belive slapping in a 300 gig HD will be dirt cheap by the time those drives hit the market.
Time for me to get back to finals and quit reloading slashdot.....
I need no spell checker! It's much more fun to guess what I'm trying to say...
You obviously haven't played metriod prime.
Metriod. Samus is both a complete badass and sexy to boot.
Patriot Act
He introduced that one. It came through the president but he authored it and it wasn't modified by Mr. Bush.
I'd implement FTP if your attempting to transfer large files. There are many excellent programs to resume FTP transfers yet I do not know of any such programs for HTTP transfers. Real Download might do it, but who in god's name would want to inflict that upon themselves.
It's seems to be every 3 months or change of season. I'm betting on am IIS bug in March.
But:
1) They don't sample and playback which is what this device does
2) The quality of ANYTHING made my American DJ leaves much to be desired. They are the mcdonalds of DJ equipment.
Sorry to bust your bubble but final scratch was designed and available on BeOS about 2 years before making it to linux. It was Be's "killer app" (more of a look what we can do that anything else).
Mod this parent down. This list was created by Nathalie Welch of Apple's PR department and the blacklist is being enforced by IDG. Why would the event organizer ban newssites? They have no reason to. Apple on the other hand has damn good reason to stop these news sites.
You obviously haven't visited afganastan in the past 2 years. Kicking the talaban out was most definatly the right thing to do. As a group I'd put them up there with the brown coats.
Concidering that they:
A) Didn't test it
B) Strongly implied that it was true and not that they got that information from the article
I would say that it is slashdot's fault for posting it as the truth. Not that it's the first time or that it matters one bit though. The face seems to be completly unaffected by mp3 compression (I saw it fine in my 192 kps version of the song).
A word on this song itself. The end of the song has a breakdown effect; an increase in dissanace at first which leads to "random" static. The last piece of static in the song is his face.