Personally, I feel it's an argument for the opposite side...
Me too. There was a guy on TV the other night saying that if they can't have guaranteed rights to an artists work for at least 70 years, then there will be no incentive for record companies to release new music. It looks to me like longer copyright terms are holding back new music more than anything, as the record company is able to keep milking their back catalogue forever. Personally I think 20 years would be enough. Time to move on folks, the seventies is long gone, and yet most of the music we hear on the radio today is from that era.
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Most Swedish channels that transmit teletext in the analogue network do it in the digital version too. The only difference is that it's a lot quicker in the digital version.
The main reason Ceefax is quicker than Digital Text (AKA "Press the Red Button") in the UK is that the low numbered pages are broadcast more often. So pages in the 100-199 range come up almost instantly, 200-299 within a few seconds, and larger numbers take a long time. When I've browsed teletext in Scandinavia, it always seems like they give all pages the same priority, making the whole thing really slow.
They're only blocking direct dial calls. If you've got relatives in those countries, then you'll probably be using a calling card, as these countries are damn expensive to call through the standard phone companies. Otherwise you can always go via the operator, like in the old days.
Yeah, like Microsoft is going to protect your anonimity when the MPAA comes knocking.
Try:
ipiratemusic@newmail.ru
anonymimityismyfriend@satcom.ir
youcantfindme@offroader.com.cn
Its amazing how many people, even here on Slashdot, can't spot such an obvious scam. There was another company called "Edge Corporation" that used to sell a service where for $14.95/month they would let you know if your credit card number showed up on the lists being traded by fraudsters. Of course, you had to give them your credit card details so they could check on your card. The reason I found out, is a mysterious 39.95GBP showed up on my girlfriend's credit card bill, which I traced back to the same organization, and she hadn't even been stupid enough to sign up for their service.
I expect the same is going on here. Sign up for their service, and not only do you lose your $20, but you end up on a load more spammer's lists as well.
I'd be VERY surprised if they don't use automated filters as a first-line-of-defense
And I'd be VERY surprised if they did anything other than take your money and sell your address to the few spammers that don't already have it. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Removing BIOS would break Windows 98, Novell Netware, OS/2. It would also break bootcode in older versions of Linux/NT/BSD/etc.
Who in their right minds is going to buy a new PC and put such an old OS on it? If you need old versions of OS's around for testing, then keep a few old PCs to run them on. There is no point in keeping 16bit boot support around for hysterical raisons.
With any luck, I'd be guiding them through "installing" a power cord on a new iMac and telling them where to find the power button.
Brings back fond memories of losing a day's work by trying to eject the floppy on an early Power Mac (the one with a software floppy eject, and the power button next to the floppy drive). Apple sure could learn something about usability.
After installing SP2 on my girlfriend's laptop, it would load google.com, but no other websites. Up to date AVG and Spybot S&D on the machine, Firefox and Thunderbird her web and mail programs of choice, there was no malware on the machine I could blame. I spent 3 hours trying to figure out what was wrong, and eventually concluded it must be soemthing to do with TCP packet sizes. I set HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/TCPIP/Param eters/Interfaces/{wireless card's guid}/MTU to 1452 (it was the first value I tried, 1500 would probably have worked) and it came right.
How average Joe is supposed to figure out problems like that without spending loads of money on expensive computer repairs (who probably couldn't figure it out either), I don't know.
But thanks a lot Google for using a non-standard MTU. It is quite useful being able to search for hints and look at the Google cache when nothing else is working.
Across the Strait in Helsinki, you can pay for tram tickets by SMS. They are 10 cents cheaper than buying a paper ticket too.
When I was there recently, I was wondering if Finnish ticket inspectors carry signal blocking equipment to stop everyone from buying tickets only when an inspector boards, or are Finns just too honest?
The US's biggest problem is not that they avoid trade barriers, it is that they rely on them too much. When Japan decided to ban the import of left-hand-drive vehicles a few years ago, based on accident statistics, the US motor industry went whining to the government, who dutifully threatened import tariffs if the Japanese Government didn't back down. Japanese and European manufacturers all manage to produce both left and right-hand drive versions of their vehicles, but with a few recent exceptions, the US has never bothered to cater to anyone who is different than themselves.
Do you think the Japanese motor and electronics industries have got where they are today by whining to their Government? They got there by making what people want to buy.
Windows Mobile uses.NET compact framework while XP uses the normal framework....You'd be better off you use a C++ compiler, or use a proper runtime Java where "write once, run anywhere" actually means something.
Do you think those Java capable mobile phones have the full blown Java API on them, and run standard non-preverified class files?
Like I said, there wasn't just one undersea earthquake off the coast of Japan last week, there were at least six. Your 2:05am UTC on 10 September was one of them, and there are another two at 11:40pm and 11:55pm Wednesday (Korean/Japanese time), which could be what this Yonhap chap is talking about.
Why are you looking at seismographs from Menlo Park anyway? North Korea is in Asia, not Northern California, it would take a trained expert to spot anything but a major earthquake on seismographs in the US. If you want to try and prove the experts wrong, at least go and look at the publically available images from seismographs in Japan.
Japan is very seismically active. Go to earthquake.usgs.gov and see if the times of those spikes line up with known earthquakes. Chances are they do, as in the last week there have been at least 5 earthquakes off the Izu peninsular and one off of Hokkaido.
Other news sites are reporting different ranges for the time of the cloud's formation (between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning on Reuters), so I wouldn't put too much faith in Yahoo's 11am (timezone not specified) either.
The Reuters article is more vague on the time, saying sometime between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. The only significant seismic event recorded in Fukuoka, the nearest station in Japan in that time period occured around 15:05 UTC on Wednesday (midnight local time) and lasted about 3 minutes. Someone else claimed an earthquake occured in Japan around that time, so whatever caused the mushroom cloud does not seem to have registered, ruling out a nuclear explosion.
There is a seismic monitoring station at Incheon (INCN), which might show up any smaller activity in North Korea, but it seems that only US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand post their seismic graphs online.
There seems to be a lot of that in any slashdot posts to do with Java. At least you're man enough to admit it.
A quick google search is all it takes. There are several OpenGL API libraries for Java, and Java3D (an official extension) is a thin abstraction layer over either OpenGL or DirectX (on Windows).
There are applications where gcj provides a significant speed-up, and there are others where Sun's JIT-VM runs faster.
I'd expect short lived applications where JVM startup time is significant, or ones with very few loops or other repeated code to be in the first category, while long lived processes that basically repeat the same sequence of instructions (eg video codecs) would be in the second category.
JRE 1.4 onwards should be using DirectDraw for their graphics output, though perhaps not as optimally as a purpose built codec that talks directly to the DirectX API.
"Designed for women and their funny way of looking at the world."...People wonder why we can't get laid?
Speak for yourself. You might have hangups that prevent you getting laid. OTOH, some of us prefer our girlfriends to have a sense of humour and be able to laugh at that type of comment.
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Me too. There was a guy on TV the other night saying that if they can't have guaranteed rights to an artists work for at least 70 years, then there will be no incentive for record companies to release new music. It looks to me like longer copyright terms are holding back new music more than anything, as the record company is able to keep milking their back catalogue forever. Personally I think 20 years would be enough. Time to move on folks, the seventies is long gone, and yet most of the music we hear on the radio today is from that era.
The main reason Ceefax is quicker than Digital Text (AKA "Press the Red Button") in the UK is that the low numbered pages are broadcast more often. So pages in the 100-199 range come up almost instantly, 200-299 within a few seconds, and larger numbers take a long time. When I've browsed teletext in Scandinavia, it always seems like they give all pages the same priority, making the whole thing really slow.
They're only blocking direct dial calls. If you've got relatives in those countries, then you'll probably be using a calling card, as these countries are damn expensive to call through the standard phone companies. Otherwise you can always go via the operator, like in the old days.
Yeah, like Microsoft is going to protect your anonimity when the MPAA comes knocking. Try: ipiratemusic@newmail.ru anonymimityismyfriend@satcom.ir youcantfindme@offroader.com.cn
No, but under the new RIAA/MPAA DCMA regime, you will be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
I expect the same is going on here. Sign up for their service, and not only do you lose your $20, but you end up on a load more spammer's lists as well.
And I'd be VERY surprised if they did anything other than take your money and sell your address to the few spammers that don't already have it. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Who in their right minds is going to buy a new PC and put such an old OS on it? If you need old versions of OS's around for testing, then keep a few old PCs to run them on. There is no point in keeping 16bit boot support around for hysterical raisons.
Brings back fond memories of losing a day's work by trying to eject the floppy on an early Power Mac (the one with a software floppy eject, and the power button next to the floppy drive). Apple sure could learn something about usability.
How average Joe is supposed to figure out problems like that without spending loads of money on expensive computer repairs (who probably couldn't figure it out either), I don't know.
But thanks a lot Google for using a non-standard MTU. It is quite useful being able to search for hints and look at the Google cache when nothing else is working.
When I was there recently, I was wondering if Finnish ticket inspectors carry signal blocking equipment to stop everyone from buying tickets only when an inspector boards, or are Finns just too honest?
Tracking them down is the easy part. The reward is for finding someone in law enforcement who cares.
Do you think the Japanese motor and electronics industries have got where they are today by whining to their Government? They got there by making what people want to buy.
Do you think those Java capable mobile phones have the full blown Java API on them, and run standard non-preverified class files?
Like I said, there wasn't just one undersea earthquake off the coast of Japan last week, there were at least six. Your 2:05am UTC on 10 September was one of them, and there are another two at 11:40pm and 11:55pm Wednesday (Korean/Japanese time), which could be what this Yonhap chap is talking about.
Why are you looking at seismographs from Menlo Park anyway? North Korea is in Asia, not Northern California, it would take a trained expert to spot anything but a major earthquake on seismographs in the US. If you want to try and prove the experts wrong, at least go and look at the publically available images from seismographs in Japan.
Other news sites are reporting different ranges for the time of the cloud's formation (between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning on Reuters), so I wouldn't put too much faith in Yahoo's 11am (timezone not specified) either.
It an Earthquake off the coast of Japan.
The Reuters article is more vague on the time, saying sometime between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. The only significant seismic event recorded in Fukuoka, the nearest station in Japan in that time period occured around 15:05 UTC on Wednesday (midnight local time) and lasted about 3 minutes. Someone else claimed an earthquake occured in Japan around that time, so whatever caused the mushroom cloud does not seem to have registered, ruling out a nuclear explosion. There is a seismic monitoring station at Incheon (INCN), which might show up any smaller activity in North Korea, but it seems that only US, Canada, Japan and New Zealand post their seismic graphs online.
There seems to be a lot of that in any slashdot posts to do with Java. At least you're man enough to admit it.
A quick google search is all it takes. There are several OpenGL API libraries for Java, and Java3D (an official extension) is a thin abstraction layer over either OpenGL or DirectX (on Windows).
So why do I see recommendations in Sun's bug database to use the command-line option -Dsun.java2d.noddraw to work around certain display bugs?
I'd expect short lived applications where JVM startup time is significant, or ones with very few loops or other repeated code to be in the first category, while long lived processes that basically repeat the same sequence of instructions (eg video codecs) would be in the second category.
JRE 1.4 onwards should be using DirectDraw for their graphics output, though perhaps not as optimally as a purpose built codec that talks directly to the DirectX API.
Speak for yourself. You might have hangups that prevent you getting laid. OTOH, some of us prefer our girlfriends to have a sense of humour and be able to laugh at that type of comment.