One of the RF techs at my company apparently modified his computer speakers to filter out the noise. I'd like to find out exactly what it was that he did.
I moved my phone about 17 inches to the right. Worked fine.
Seriously, just move the speakers and phone placement until they don't interfere with each other. A couple decades ago every bit of electronics you bought came with a piece of paper that told you to do this if you got radio or television interference. I always thought it was silly, but maybe that slip of paper needs to go back into boxes.
Heh. Same here, using the (k)Ubuntu current deb. The exploit works fine. It doesn't in Konqueror, for what it's worth.
I kind of which there was a way to change the location bar within the domain -- or at least give a dynamic "bookmark" url. That way AJAX and framed content could change the url based on what was being displayed so that the user could bookmark and come back to something inside the site.
For what it's worth, I've been though most of the links in this discussion, and the best I've found so far for nice cases that support very large laptops is Booq Bags. This link goes right to the cases that fit the 9300.
My analogy is just that -- an analogy. I tried to come up with a better one, but it suffices. I make no claims that you can't find ways it's different, but you aren't hitting them.
You say that MADD isn't a legal authority to enforce checkpoints. And yet the RIAA is setting up checkpoints and contacting people directly. They are then offering the option of going to court or settling by paying a fine that the RIAA suggests. All perfectly legal (just as MADD staffs their DUI checkpoints, which isn't a theoretical situation as somebody else has pointed out).
You say that MADD seizing cars would be an unacceptable hardship. But the RIAA suggesting that people drop out of college is acceptable? That their possessions be seized and auctioned off (as you suggest in the next paragraph)?
Look, I'm probably one of the few people in this discussion who has been part of a music copyright fight. My band had released a song for a compilation that was part of a fundraiser to support a local coffeehouse. Afterward, the person who compiled it continued selling the compilation and pocketing the money... several of the artists wound up filing lawsuits, at which point it was settled.
I am *hardly* defending the action of stealing music. I've started the process of legal action against music pirates myself to defend my own music. My brother has pondered doing the same with his music when he found a bootleg CD of his album in a used CD store. It's pretty cut and dry -- there's a legal system in place to handle it.
A large third party group approaching people and saying "you're guilty, give us money or we'll take you to court" is pretty nasty. It's legal, but it's still nasty. I'm one hundred percent behind defending copyrights (and also behind the artist choosing not to enforce them). But the idea of a large group wandering around and saying "you have committed a crime" and then pocketing money without using the legal system -- but rather using the legal system as a threat -- is not a good thing. Suggesting to people that they drop out of college is reprehensible. Legal does not mean it is good.
With everybody making suggestions, anybody know of a good case for the Inspiron 9300? 17" WUXGA screen... I'm a big guy and have zero problems hauling it around (I regularly carry a stack of books with me that easily outweighs any laptop), but I've found few cases that fit the beast. Preferably something I can toss a couple folders and/or four composition/sketch books into.
Yes, but this isn't the executive branch bringing somebody to the judicial branch who decides your guilt and sentence in a courtroom... this is a private organization acting as the police, judge, jury and determining the fine. How about if MADD started setting up DUI stops and fining people for their own coffers? How about if they suggested you sell your car if you couldn't pay the fine?
I'm all for prosecuting people who break the law -- but in a court system, not by an under-the-table system that borders on
(or may be) blackmail.
More than that, there's a camera on every person using a slot machine, and tapes are kept to look back into the past if a problem is found later. The casino can't lose more money than was loaded into the machine (well, plus the amount fed into it during the day).
Compare that with a space that is legally required to be private and have no observers. If somebody tweaks one, it's very hard to detect.
Oh, I'm betting the mayor hired him. That's why I'd suggest emailing the mayor. They are probably friends, and this won't get him fired. But it will likely make the mayor (and council) never take anything he says about the town's IT needs at face value. Which, in the end, is the best outcome (barring somebody else better suited to the job coming in). I care less about humiliating or even firing him as much as making it clear among his peers and those he has influence among that his knowledge regarding IT and his PR capabilities are suspect.
Significantly more useful is this fellow's information. Mayor Lonnie Paxton can be reached at mayor@cityoftuttle.org. He may not be aware of how large this ugly little spat has spread and unaware of how inflated and incorrect his manager's knowledge of IT is.
People associate overclocking with fancy cooling systems, but if this runs at normal operating paramaters hot enough to require a water cooling system, it's not exactly ideal for overclocking... it's already up toward the limit of heat dissipation at the default retail speed.
If you're puking you can't play. Any more than a man without arms can sail a normal sailboat. It's a physical limitation. If you can work around it, more power to you, but if you can't, don't obsess over it. Most preferences are very flexible; you can find other things to get into and enjoy.
Otherwise, you're getting really upset and obsessed over something you haven't really done much of anyway (since you get sick moments into doing it). You might as well pine over not being royalty or not being a twin. Obsessing over things that you can't do and have never done (other than a healthy occasional thought toward "is there an alternate way to do this?") doesn't seem to be a very rational approach. Every so often I try a game, about 90 seconds later I'm outside against the side of the building puking, and I don't try again for several years.
On the other hand, I can deal with blood, fecal matter and other biological fluids with no problem. I can deal with helping and cleaning up after sick people and cleaning up maggoty dead animals with no problem while others are covering their mouths. Personally, I'd rather be able to deal with reality than lack the ability to play one very specific genre (FPSes) of one form (video games) of entertainment. It would be even better if I could do both, but hey... I'm not going to be a rock star playing to full arenas either. Limitations are part of life.
Interesting correlation. I also get sick from first person video games within a couple minutes, and I can't read in a car.
Personally, I found a great way to prevent getting sick -- don't play the game. It's not like it's something you're really into (since you can't do it). If I was blind, I wouldn't visit many art museums and stand in front of the paintings. There are a wide variety of games and entertainment out there other than FPSes... many don't even need a computer or console.
Note that you are on Slashdot, a self professed "News for Nerds" site. So not only are you (by posting here) a nerd, you're also lousy at it. You're a wannabe of the outcasts. You're not just a nerd -- you're the idiot nerd the other nerds make fun of.
It's only really being discussed in United States media. It's not even a real issue in schools (although it kind of sounds like it is, there's no actual ID classes being taught outside of private parochial schools despite various proposals). It's not like US scientists are suddenly debating Intelligent Design as a serious topic.
The "debate" is really just a method to sell newspapers and attract news show audiences. It will last until another very loud, vocal fringe group is found, especially if that fringe group's members can do something showy like sponsor a bill or shoot someone. That new topic will be equally non-relevent in reality... and will draw in more media consumers.
The Intellectual Design "debate" is as relevant to society as much as Tom Cruise's dating habits or who was voted off American Idol last week. They are all "issues" of the same urgency and fed by the same advertising and rating driven loop.
How so? I'm not saying that PHP classes are fully OO, but overloading, AFAIK, is completely supported.
They need to consider deprecating features and making a php.ini option to not allow the use of any deprecated features.
If backward compatibility could be turned on and off, I'd prefer some sort of php_compatibility( COMPAT_PHP4 ) type call, coupled with a error_reporting() flag that could be used to flag obsoleted things in order to make it easy to bring things in a old library to the latest version. It is a very "PHP-ish" way of doing it, especially if include and require could have a compatibility flag passed: require_once("new/mylib.php"); require_once("old/mylib.php",COMPAT_PHP5). (The "new" lib wouldn't need a COMPAT flag because it would presumably state its own compatability at the beginning).
At that point function names could be standardized and compatibility modes just provide aliases (the way a couple function names are already done) back to the old name... with a warning being raised if you have the E_OBSOLETE (or similar) flag on.
Not sure how it would work internally for more complex things changed between versions... maybe some compatibility will just have to be dropped.
Same with Konqueror -- all of KDE will treat war (web archive) files as being a multipart resource. In that case, it's simply a gzip'ed tarball with all the images, scripts, css, and other associated resources included in it. I've started archiving certain types of things rather than bookmarking them to make sure they are there later.
A gzip'ed tarball should be compatible long into the future. What format does Safari use?
As far as I can see, both sides are ignoring the realities of the situation.
The pro-Apple's rights people are ignoring your very valid (and well put) point that your property should be yours to do with as you wish. The pro-consumer's rights people are ignoring the fact that most of the people using this information do not have valid licenses or ownership of the operating system.
Hardliners on either side aren't acknowledging the validity of the other side's argument. There's also a nice free speech argument in this specific case, but that's one step removed from the core issue of running the software however you want.
Perhaps I worded it poorly... none of those mark *specific* individuals, i.e., function as identity that can be referenced per person a la a serial number (thus my use of the term "serialization"). Lots of group tattoos and marks that show affiliation, and several non-permanent things like dog tags that are worn, but I can't offhand think of anything like dog tags or drivers licenses (i.e., specific identity) that are forcibly and permanently marked upon an individual's body other than the Nazi tattoos.
Maybe there are, but none of the replies have been specific to more than just a group.
And there isn't one here. It says right on the story that it is NOT required to stay employed. If you don't like the idea, don't do it
I never said it was. Dammit, I knew somebody was going to go back to the article rather than accepting that a thread can mutate into a similar but different discussion. Yes, you are correct. The article does not say that. Now, in *this* thread we are discussing citizens and mandatory identifying marks required by an authority.
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I moved my phone about 17 inches to the right. Worked fine.
Seriously, just move the speakers and phone placement until they don't interfere with each other. A couple decades ago every bit of electronics you bought came with a piece of paper that told you to do this if you got radio or television interference. I always thought it was silly, but maybe that slip of paper needs to go back into boxes.
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I kind of which there was a way to change the location bar within the domain -- or at least give a dynamic "bookmark" url. That way AJAX and framed content could change the url based on what was being displayed so that the user could bookmark and come back to something inside the site.
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You say that MADD isn't a legal authority to enforce checkpoints. And yet the RIAA is setting up checkpoints and contacting people directly. They are then offering the option of going to court or settling by paying a fine that the RIAA suggests. All perfectly legal (just as MADD staffs their DUI checkpoints, which isn't a theoretical situation as somebody else has pointed out).
You say that MADD seizing cars would be an unacceptable hardship. But the RIAA suggesting that people drop out of college is acceptable? That their possessions be seized and auctioned off (as you suggest in the next paragraph)?
Look, I'm probably one of the few people in this discussion who has been part of a music copyright fight. My band had released a song for a compilation that was part of a fundraiser to support a local coffeehouse. Afterward, the person who compiled it continued selling the compilation and pocketing the money... several of the artists wound up filing lawsuits, at which point it was settled.
I am *hardly* defending the action of stealing music. I've started the process of legal action against music pirates myself to defend my own music. My brother has pondered doing the same with his music when he found a bootleg CD of his album in a used CD store. It's pretty cut and dry -- there's a legal system in place to handle it.
A large third party group approaching people and saying "you're guilty, give us money or we'll take you to court" is pretty nasty. It's legal, but it's still nasty. I'm one hundred percent behind defending copyrights (and also behind the artist choosing not to enforce them). But the idea of a large group wandering around and saying "you have committed a crime" and then pocketing money without using the legal system -- but rather using the legal system as a threat -- is not a good thing. Suggesting to people that they drop out of college is reprehensible. Legal does not mean it is good.
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I'm all for prosecuting people who break the law -- but in a court system, not by an under-the-table system that borders on (or may be) blackmail.
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Compare that with a space that is legally required to be private and have no observers. If somebody tweaks one, it's very hard to detect.
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Otherwise, you're getting really upset and obsessed over something you haven't really done much of anyway (since you get sick moments into doing it). You might as well pine over not being royalty or not being a twin. Obsessing over things that you can't do and have never done (other than a healthy occasional thought toward "is there an alternate way to do this?") doesn't seem to be a very rational approach. Every so often I try a game, about 90 seconds later I'm outside against the side of the building puking, and I don't try again for several years.
On the other hand, I can deal with blood, fecal matter and other biological fluids with no problem. I can deal with helping and cleaning up after sick people and cleaning up maggoty dead animals with no problem while others are covering their mouths. Personally, I'd rather be able to deal with reality than lack the ability to play one very specific genre (FPSes) of one form (video games) of entertainment. It would be even better if I could do both, but hey... I'm not going to be a rock star playing to full arenas either. Limitations are part of life.
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Personally, I found a great way to prevent getting sick -- don't play the game. It's not like it's something you're really into (since you can't do it). If I was blind, I wouldn't visit many art museums and stand in front of the paintings. There are a wide variety of games and entertainment out there other than FPSes... many don't even need a computer or console.
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Note that you are on Slashdot, a self professed "News for Nerds" site. So not only are you (by posting here) a nerd, you're also lousy at it. You're a wannabe of the outcasts. You're not just a nerd -- you're the idiot nerd the other nerds make fun of.
Sucks to be you.
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The "debate" is really just a method to sell newspapers and attract news show audiences. It will last until another very loud, vocal fringe group is found, especially if that fringe group's members can do something showy like sponsor a bill or shoot someone. That new topic will be equally non-relevent in reality... and will draw in more media consumers.
The Intellectual Design "debate" is as relevant to society as much as Tom Cruise's dating habits or who was voted off American Idol last week. They are all "issues" of the same urgency and fed by the same advertising and rating driven loop.
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How terribly surprising it must be to you.
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Michael Brown's certainly doing well.
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How so? I'm not saying that PHP classes are fully OO, but overloading, AFAIK, is completely supported.
They need to consider deprecating features and making a php.ini option to not allow the use of any deprecated features.
If backward compatibility could be turned on and off, I'd prefer some sort of php_compatibility( COMPAT_PHP4 ) type call, coupled with a error_reporting() flag that could be used to flag obsoleted things in order to make it easy to bring things in a old library to the latest version. It is a very "PHP-ish" way of doing it, especially if include and require could have a compatibility flag passed: require_once("new/mylib.php"); require_once("old/mylib.php",COMPAT_PHP5). (The "new" lib wouldn't need a COMPAT flag because it would presumably state its own compatability at the beginning).
At that point function names could be standardized and compatibility modes just provide aliases (the way a couple function names are already done) back to the old name... with a warning being raised if you have the E_OBSOLETE (or similar) flag on.
Not sure how it would work internally for more complex things changed between versions... maybe some compatibility will just have to be dropped.
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A gzip'ed tarball should be compatible long into the future. What format does Safari use?
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The pro-Apple's rights people are ignoring your very valid (and well put) point that your property should be yours to do with as you wish. The pro-consumer's rights people are ignoring the fact that most of the people using this information do not have valid licenses or ownership of the operating system.
Hardliners on either side aren't acknowledging the validity of the other side's argument. There's also a nice free speech argument in this specific case, but that's one step removed from the core issue of running the software however you want.
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Maybe there are, but none of the replies have been specific to more than just a group.
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I never said it was. Dammit, I knew somebody was going to go back to the article rather than accepting that a thread can mutate into a similar but different discussion. Yes, you are correct. The article does not say that. Now, in *this* thread we are discussing citizens and mandatory identifying marks required by an authority.
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