Judges have no problems coming down on mothers of five because they truthfully don't care.
And judges SHOULDN'T care. Their role is to arbitrate matters of law, not make decisions based on the wealth level, pureness of heart, or appearance of either party to the case. "Justice is blind" is not intended as a derogatory statement.
I hope she wins on the merits of her case.
I would like to see that too... but if her planned defense centers on "Uh, it wasn't my kids. It was, like, other kids or something," I don't think she stands much chance of winning on the merits.
Does he really think that if Microsoft could fix every bug they wouldn't do it?
Well, they COULD. But at what cost? With the threat of Open Source competition ever-looming, Microsoft simply can't afford to let their feature lists stagnate for the next five years while every available developer is tasked with bug fixing and unit testing against the existing codebase.
I agree -- offended viewers should turn off the channel instead of forcing the government to turn it off for all of us.
Note that because of the cable TV industry's bundling practices, the offended viewer CANNOT make objectionable content truly unavailable in their households without losing access to desired content as well. If you want the Family Learning Channel, you have to accept the signal for Graphic Medical Surgery Footage Channel as well, because the parent company of both channels forces the carrier to bundle them.
Parental Controls and V-Chips are mere band-aids. Plus, you're still paying for the objectionable content even if you never access it.
If the threat of FCC involvement is the kick in the ass the cable industry needs to straighten up and fly right, I'm for it. We want A La Carte pricing--now.
I've had experience with many forms of transportation, and of the I have only been asked to show ID for two: airlines and car rentals. (And the car shouldn't really count, as having a valid driver's license is a reasonable requisite when they're considering alloweing you to drive their vehicle.)
Without an ID card I can travel by train, subway, boat, city bus, Greyhound, bicycle, foot, or Segway. And any diseases I may be carrying will be riding shotgun.
Let's not act like a firewall keeps us safe if we only have one port blocked.
I agree. This is why it is legal for toddlers to drive cars and drink booze. (Just as long as they don't do both at the same time.)
Anyway. This isn't discrimination based on age, it's discrimination based on how much hearing loss a person has experienced. The frequency will be just as irritating to a 45-year-old with perfect hearing, and it will be unnoticed by 14-year-olds who have damaged their ears listening to music too loud.
Fortunately for the inventor, it is well known that teenagers never listen to music too loud.
I doubt this thing will be fast enough to transcode a TV show in a timeframe deemed acceptable to Apple's high QA standards.
Maybe it won't have to transcode on docking.
Maybe it will record video in the iPod's native video format. This would be a BAD idea, though: iPod video maxes out at what, 320x240? That's not going to look good on a 40" plasma TV.
Maybe it will record video at TV or HDTV resolution, and transcode to a second copy at portable resolution using idle cycles. Most programming would then be ready-to-go when the iPod is docked, but would bump up the CPU and disk requirements of the PVR noticeably, and thus also the price.
Or maybe it's just a rumor and a true Apple PVR is still a year or more away from reality.
Or, if the professor wanted your code to match best practices in the software development industry, he should have set up the problem so that the optimum solution was a compromise between the briefest code and the most clear.
one of the reasons this wouldn't work is that it would force all porn transports (HTTP, Usenet, FTP, Bittorrent,...) to listen on the same port number.
This could be dealt with easily enough by changing the proposal from a single port to a fixed range of ports, e.g. 6900-6999.
That just leaves all the OTHER fundamental flaws of the idea to grapple with.
I seriously doubt that ANY video game console company does burn-in testing for 24-hours before shipping the unit to market.
That would be ridiculous. But with the kinds of flaws that are being reported, I have to wonder if Microsoft even did a 24-hour burn-in on a handful of representative production units before shipping out.
A lot of the problems appear to be related to the retail hardware being a tad lower in quality than the development kits that the software was originally developed on. What could Microsoft have done differently to avoid this fiasco?
I know a guy who insists that degaussing his CDs (i.e., with a magnetic tape eraser) makes them sound better.
Well... the substrate of a commercially pressed CD is metallic, right?
I suppose exposing a CD to a powerful magnet COULD alter the properties of the substrate in some way, to make the 1's more 1-ier and the 0's more 0-ish.
How that would translate into better sound is an issue left to those who suffer from the mental disorder known as "Audiophilia".
Do you realize that being unable to reproduce some event does not make that event impossible?
Do you realize that declaring a myth to be "busted" on the show is more akin to calling it "implausible" than "impossible"?
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I've noticed that in the intro for the past couple of episodes, the members formerly known as "the build team" (Tory, Kari, and Grant) have received full recognition as co-Mythbusters. How come they aren't involved in this Ask Slashdot opportunity?
Is it because Kari doesn't want to be bombarded with questions from creeps?
Have you been to your local poor neighbourhood, read "ghetto" (oops karma -%25). You will see mostly black teenagers with parents on welfare but who wear $100 Nike or Fubu shoes and have $200 cellphones.
Actually, in my local poor neighborhood it's Hispanic kids that throw away every cent of disposable income on status-symbol merchandise. And I'm sure you could find ghettoes where it's poor Asian kids wasting their money, or white kids, or whomever.
I don't know whether you meant to imply any racial cause for this behavior, as though overreaching consumerism were unique to poor blacks. I hope you didn't. It's an economic-level phenomenon, not a race-based one.
Mario Kart is mostly unchanged from system to system. Yet people will shell-out (pun intended!) money for the same game for each new console they get.
Have you played the games in the series? The true 3-D Kart games (Kart 64, Double Dash, and now DS) are a HUGELY different experience than the lower-tech 2-D + perspective titles (the original SNES Super Mario Kart, and Super Circuit on the Gameboy Advance).
But people should boycott the XBOX 360 until it supports all the XBOX games in their collection.
No. People should buy the 360 if they feel it has value, and refuse to buy it if they think it does not.
Also, it would be about one generation that has even dealt with this issue, not 'generations' as if file-sharing was something people did back in the Bronze Age.
Home duplication of records has been around for about 30 years -- it's just that for the first 20, the medium used was typically audiocassettes.
The whole conveyor belt of signing promising bands into hideously restrictive contracts with big labels is very bad, but it is not "theft".
Correct. It is not theft, it is fraud.
Let's none of us pretend that the RIAA labels actually intend in good faith to pay out to the artists the amounts stipulated in their contracts. The promises their A&R flunkies make to artists about fame and fortune are lies. The contracts are unfair.
Is he talking about alt. groups or not? Why make a distinction and then act like usenet is nothing but alt.* ?
Strictly speaking, "Usenet" doesn't include the alt.* hierarchy at all. The term classically refers to the "Big Seven" hierarchies for newsgroups: comp.*, sci.*, misc.*, rec.*, soc.*, talk.*, and news.* (with humanities.* being an eighth and recent addition).
A more appropriate term for the full set of hierarchies, including alt.*, k12.*, and all the other arbitrary designations, would be simply "newsgroups".
Nor was MS-DOS originally coded for a "4-bit microprocessor". The Intel 8086, the first CPU on which IBM PC-DOS (and QDOS for that matter) ran, was a 16-bit processor.
Moreover, the work was preformed by First4Internet as agents of Sony.
Not having seen the language of the contract between Sony and F4I, I don't know how you could credibly claim to know that.
It may have been a work-for-hire, in which case Sony would bear the liabilities. On, it may have been a product which is owned by F4I and licensed to Sony, in which case First4Internet would be on the hook.
The Mega-Hertz Myth is truer now that it has ever been, though.
There has never been any point to comparing different CPU architectures by clock speed alone, but now with some chip designers abandoning out-of-order instruction in favor of multiple cores, others focusing on improving not just raw performance but rather the performance/power ratio, etc. etc., there's no reason to believe that just because 2.26 is a larger number than 1.67, the former would "definitely destroy performance-wise" the latter.
So a dual core new offering might be as good as a 2+ year old G4??
A brand new dual-core x86 will have better performance at running native code than an ancient G4, sure.
But if you're using older Mac software for which the binaries were written for a PowerPC CPU--or even a 680X0;)--the overhead of emulating binary compatibility might result in performance being the same or worse on a new Yonah than on a slightly outdated G4.
Could he come up with a more generic and confusion-prone buzzword than 'Type Manager'?!
How about "Thing Do-er"?
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If those original database holders (data OEMs if you will) decide to plug in here, many of those sites just took a giant step toward redundancy.
But the "data OEMs" don't WANT the middleman sites like Vehix.com or Orbitz.com to go away. Those are their paying customers.
Data OEMs are B2B (business-to-business) companies. To migrate their offerings to Google Base would mean they'd have to become B2C (business-to-consumer) companies as well.
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Judges have no problems coming down on mothers of five because they truthfully don't care.
And judges SHOULDN'T care. Their role is to arbitrate matters of law, not make decisions based on the wealth level, pureness of heart, or appearance of either party to the case. "Justice is blind" is not intended as a derogatory statement.
I hope she wins on the merits of her case.
I would like to see that too... but if her planned defense centers on "Uh, it wasn't my kids. It was, like, other kids or something," I don't think she stands much chance of winning on the merits.
Does he really think that if Microsoft could fix every bug they wouldn't do it?
Well, they COULD. But at what cost? With the threat of Open Source competition ever-looming, Microsoft simply can't afford to let their feature lists stagnate for the next five years while every available developer is tasked with bug fixing and unit testing against the existing codebase.
I agree -- offended viewers should turn off the channel instead of forcing the government to turn it off for all of us.
Note that because of the cable TV industry's bundling practices, the offended viewer CANNOT make objectionable content truly unavailable in their households without losing access to desired content as well. If you want the Family Learning Channel, you have to accept the signal for Graphic Medical Surgery Footage Channel as well, because the parent company of both channels forces the carrier to bundle them.
Parental Controls and V-Chips are mere band-aids. Plus, you're still paying for the objectionable content even if you never access it.
If the threat of FCC involvement is the kick in the ass the cable industry needs to straighten up and fly right, I'm for it. We want A La Carte pricing--now.
No government issued ID, no travel.
No way.
I've had experience with many forms of transportation, and of the I have only been asked to show ID for two: airlines and car rentals. (And the car shouldn't really count, as having a valid driver's license is a reasonable requisite when they're considering alloweing you to drive their vehicle.)
Without an ID card I can travel by train, subway, boat, city bus, Greyhound, bicycle, foot, or Segway. And any diseases I may be carrying will be riding shotgun.
Let's not act like a firewall keeps us safe if we only have one port blocked.
you can't discriminate on the basis of age.
I agree. This is why it is legal for toddlers to drive cars and drink booze. (Just as long as they don't do both at the same time.)
Anyway. This isn't discrimination based on age, it's discrimination based on how much hearing loss a person has experienced. The frequency will be just as irritating to a 45-year-old with perfect hearing, and it will be unnoticed by 14-year-olds who have damaged their ears listening to music too loud.
Fortunately for the inventor, it is well known that teenagers never listen to music too loud.
I doubt this thing will be fast enough to transcode a TV show in a timeframe deemed acceptable to Apple's high QA standards.
Maybe it won't have to transcode on docking.
Maybe it will record video in the iPod's native video format. This would be a BAD idea, though: iPod video maxes out at what, 320x240? That's not going to look good on a 40" plasma TV.
Maybe it will record video at TV or HDTV resolution, and transcode to a second copy at portable resolution using idle cycles. Most programming would then be ready-to-go when the iPod is docked, but would bump up the CPU and disk requirements of the PVR noticeably, and thus also the price.
Or maybe it's just a rumor and a true Apple PVR is still a year or more away from reality.
I also see MCE and some Linux solutions. The first is proprietary [...]
And that's different from this phantom Apple FrontRow PVR how, exactly?
Or, if the professor wanted your code to match best practices in the software development industry, he should have set up the problem so that the optimum solution was a compromise between the briefest code and the most clear.
one of the reasons this wouldn't work is that it would force all porn transports (HTTP, Usenet, FTP, Bittorrent, ...) to listen on the same port number.
This could be dealt with easily enough by changing the proposal from a single port to a fixed range of ports, e.g. 6900-6999.
That just leaves all the OTHER fundamental flaws of the idea to grapple with.
I seriously doubt that ANY video game console company does burn-in testing for 24-hours before shipping the unit to market.
That would be ridiculous. But with the kinds of flaws that are being reported, I have to wonder if Microsoft even did a 24-hour burn-in on a handful of representative production units before shipping out.
A lot of the problems appear to be related to the retail hardware being a tad lower in quality than the development kits that the software was originally developed on. What could Microsoft have done differently to avoid this fiasco?
I know a guy who insists that degaussing his CDs (i.e., with a magnetic tape eraser) makes them sound better.
Well... the substrate of a commercially pressed CD is metallic, right?
I suppose exposing a CD to a powerful magnet COULD alter the properties of the substrate in some way, to make the 1's more 1-ier and the 0's more 0-ish.
How that would translate into better sound is an issue left to those who suffer from the mental disorder known as "Audiophilia".
Do you realize that being unable to reproduce some event does not make that event impossible?
Do you realize that declaring a myth to be "busted" on the show is more akin to calling it "implausible" than "impossible"?
I've noticed that in the intro for the past couple of episodes, the members formerly known as "the build team" (Tory, Kari, and Grant) have received full recognition as co-Mythbusters. How come they aren't involved in this Ask Slashdot opportunity?
Is it because Kari doesn't want to be bombarded with questions from creeps?
Have you been to your local poor neighbourhood, read "ghetto" (oops karma -%25). You will see mostly black teenagers with parents on welfare but who wear $100 Nike or Fubu shoes and have $200 cellphones.
Actually, in my local poor neighborhood it's Hispanic kids that throw away every cent of disposable income on status-symbol merchandise. And I'm sure you could find ghettoes where it's poor Asian kids wasting their money, or white kids, or whomever.
I don't know whether you meant to imply any racial cause for this behavior, as though overreaching consumerism were unique to poor blacks. I hope you didn't. It's an economic-level phenomenon, not a race-based one.
Mario Kart is mostly unchanged from system to system. Yet people will shell-out (pun intended!) money for the same game for each new console they get.
Have you played the games in the series? The true 3-D Kart games (Kart 64, Double Dash, and now DS) are a HUGELY different experience than the lower-tech 2-D + perspective titles (the original SNES Super Mario Kart, and Super Circuit on the Gameboy Advance).
But people should boycott the XBOX 360 until it supports all the XBOX games in their collection.
No. People should buy the 360 if they feel it has value, and refuse to buy it if they think it does not.
Also, it would be about one generation that has even dealt with this issue, not 'generations' as if file-sharing was something people did back in the Bronze Age.
Home duplication of records has been around for about 30 years -- it's just that for the first 20, the medium used was typically audiocassettes.
That's more than one generation.
The whole conveyor belt of signing promising bands into hideously restrictive contracts with big labels is very bad, but it is not "theft".
Correct. It is not theft, it is fraud.
Let's none of us pretend that the RIAA labels actually intend in good faith to pay out to the artists the amounts stipulated in their contracts. The promises their A&R flunkies make to artists about fame and fortune are lies. The contracts are unfair.
Is he talking about alt. groups or not? Why make a distinction and then act like usenet is nothing but alt.* ?
Strictly speaking, "Usenet" doesn't include the alt.* hierarchy at all. The term classically refers to the "Big Seven" hierarchies for newsgroups: comp.*, sci.*, misc.*, rec.*, soc.*, talk.*, and news.* (with humanities.* being an eighth and recent addition).
A more appropriate term for the full set of hierarchies, including alt.*, k12.*, and all the other arbitrary designations, would be simply "newsgroups".
when he said "good but not great" he was talking about the games, not the system. Poster needs to learn how to read, very wrong statement.
How else are you supposed to measure the worth of a game console other than by the games available for it?
If the Xbox 360's launch title lineup is "good but not great", then at launch the Xbox 360 is "good but not great".
Nor was MS-DOS originally coded for a "4-bit microprocessor". The Intel 8086, the first CPU on which IBM PC-DOS (and QDOS for that matter) ran, was a 16-bit processor.
Moreover, the work was preformed by First4Internet as agents of Sony.
Not having seen the language of the contract between Sony and F4I, I don't know how you could credibly claim to know that.
It may have been a work-for-hire, in which case Sony would bear the liabilities. On, it may have been a product which is owned by F4I and licensed to Sony, in which case First4Internet would be on the hook.
PS: IANAL.
The Mega-Hertz Myth is truer now that it has ever been, though.
There has never been any point to comparing different CPU architectures by clock speed alone, but now with some chip designers abandoning out-of-order instruction in favor of multiple cores, others focusing on improving not just raw performance but rather the performance/power ratio, etc. etc., there's no reason to believe that just because 2.26 is a larger number than 1.67, the former would "definitely destroy performance-wise" the latter.
So a dual core new offering might be as good as a 2+ year old G4??
;)--the overhead of emulating binary compatibility might result in performance being the same or worse on a new Yonah than on a slightly outdated G4.
A brand new dual-core x86 will have better performance at running native code than an ancient G4, sure.
But if you're using older Mac software for which the binaries were written for a PowerPC CPU--or even a 680X0
Could he come up with a more generic and confusion-prone buzzword than 'Type Manager'?!
How about "Thing Do-er"?
If those original database holders (data OEMs if you will) decide to plug in here, many of those sites just took a giant step toward redundancy.
But the "data OEMs" don't WANT the middleman sites like Vehix.com or Orbitz.com to go away. Those are their paying customers.
Data OEMs are B2B (business-to-business) companies. To migrate their offerings to Google Base would mean they'd have to become B2C (business-to-consumer) companies as well.