This thread reminds me a discussion I had with a friend for an idea for a "killer" app. With the megapix on camera on the rise, GPS, and little network intel, you can build an app that will tell you whether you should try to run the yellow light and beat the red-light camera.
G+ is a new class of "anti-social networks" that is why is different from Facebook. Maybe they have named it G-, it would have attracted more of its core audience.
In about 3 billion years our Milky Way galaxy will be merging the Andromeda Galaxy: http://www.galaxydynamics.org/tflops.html With the the expect rain of gamma rays and shock wave clouds from supernova that expected to be going at the rate of several per year, or the tidal forces from star passing through the solar system, the Earth might be freed from the solar grasp, if not totally destroyed in the process. Of course there might the more quiet possibility that solar system could be lucky enough to be flung out of the galaxy by slingshot to await the sun's bloat 4 billion years later.
It's simple, when they call tell them you can't talk right now, you are on another line with a "paying" customer. Not rude, but if done often enough I think they will get the message, either begin paying or don't call back.
- mandating a switch to ethanol or methanol biofuels for federal fleets - grant tax breaks for anyone switching to biofuels
- aid to cities to convert existing buses to biofuels
I don't a switch to biofuel or other carbon based fuels will help; carbon dioxide is release just a much (if not more; less pollutants) which is the primary green house gas. What is probably needed is more electric based engines that can be recharged with non carbon dioxide release energy production such as wind, solar, thermal, and yes nuclear.
I wonder if the code Windows XP for AMD64, first turns the page where the WMF is sitting on, "executable" before starting the thread to run at that location. I have been led to believe by M$ that in the AMD64 version of the OS they are using the executable bit to protect from attempting to execute in non-executable, ie, data memory section.
If it does then it would be obviously intentional.
"A company called PetsMobility has come out with PetCell, the first cell phone for dogs. The phone will allow users to call their dogs in case the dog gets away and also includes a GPS tracking device if the dog doesn't respond to the call."
You know, just on the one-in-a-million chance your dog either doesn't answer the phone at all or does answer it but can't quite make out the street signs so he can tell you where he is.
For an extra $9.95 a month you can get voicemail installed for those discerning dogs that want to screen their calls.
Given the "definition" above which states which medium is allowed I still do not understand my right or those Others. Am I considered a journalist if get an editorial published in a major newspaper, paid or not? If I reveal information am I protected from not having to reveal my source? If I am "protected" then the only difference is the medium, in which case the law is biased by the medium that I have chosen. If I am not then this law is biased against me by profession, (ie. what I actually do for a living).
You can even send the documents as encrypted doc imbedded into jpg files. So the causual observer thinks its just part of your growing porn collection.
I can just see the movie of the week trailers coming:
First scene, sitting in an empty immaculately clean computerize train complete with annoying computerize voice station announcer is playing the disgruntled unemployed former train conductor, reading "Train Cracking For Dummies"; he has a lot of free time on his hands.
At the risk of showing my age, empire on PLATO was my original game addiction back in high school. It and the entire PLATO system was very advanced for its time. My favorite thing was that the game was self-aware about its enviroment and each player had a quota of tps "tips" or transactions per second, the equivalent of cpu cycles. As you played and and especially when went into battle you would eat up your tps and occasionally die, because you had "tipped-out" and your ship was helplessly frozen and obvious cannon fodder to the other teams. There were 4 different teams and each had some advantage and some disadvantage, eg. the Romulans (also known as the Pigs) had big ships that were porking slow but could take out the enemy ship on one or two hits.
The other game that use to enjoy (a single user game), I forget the name, but it in you navigated through a city in eastern European cold war nation, trying to extracate a individual. You had a map (graphic) but it was not correct since their was constantly being rebuilt, lots of checkpoints, lots of closed streets. I never did get the bugger out there before finishing high school, damn!
Due to the popularity of the game our school had to enforce a rule that only allowed empire and other equally addictive games to after-hours (past 5pm) so that others who actually had class assignments (mostly remedial schooling) could do their work. Crowds would form at the computer lab to get first licks.
I did switch to VoIP with Vonage over cable and the quality of signal (to our ears) is better than the copper that we had with Verizon, which was BTW too far for DSL (26k feet). Our old POTS line was very noisy but the new VoIP is very quiet (except for the voice on the other end).
Oh, and I forgot to mention it cost about 1/3 of what the old POTS line did.
For the greater part of history, music was entirely live performance and freely shared with everybody. Then, one dreary Monday, that evil Thomas Alva Edison invented a way to capture the music, trapping it in small wax cylinders
It was actually sicker than than that! His original idea was to have people record themselves so that their loves ones could hear them after they were dead! Talk about non-'live' performances!
The auto industry made its money convincing consumers that they had to have a new car, never mind that it was mechanically almost identical to the last three they had. Computers actually do develop new technologies, more power, and new end-user features at a fairly brisk pace
Maybe so but since 1986, I am on my second car. My first ran from 1986 to 1996, while my second is still happily running. During that time I have gone through 14 different computers, from TI-99 (if you can call it that) to my current set. Mind you some are still running (4 to be exact) but the rest have died along the way.
I try to take good care of my cars and my computers, its just that computers fail pretty much in the short term, usually right after the warranty expires and of course the lure of a new machine, at a mere multiple of the price to fix the old one always seems to win out. Case in point a laptop died recently, it would need a motherboard replacement (out of warranty of course) at a cost of $600 dollars. Instead I bought my wife a new laptop for $900, which was about 4 times faster.
Anytime you set up laws whose intent is to "prevent" a crime you moving one step closer to that police state that Hollywood is always writing about (how ironic eh?). We already hgave many of these stupid laws already DCMA, ECPA, etc. It opens a can of worms that make it seem ok to "prevent" other crimes, which will actually mean preventing fair use. Why not outlaw cars, since they are occasionally used to commit crimes like speeding and manslaughter. Whats next sharp objects that can used hurt people. Finally they will implant chips to control our sex lives to "prevent" rape. Actually these would make more sense since their is a real "hypothetical" victim.
Okay, let's run with the idea that this suspect committed the crime in Australia. Doesn't Australia have copyright laws? Since Australia does, in fact, have copyright laws which are similar to those in the U.S., at the time the crime was committed that act was illegal where the action took place.
With all of the focus being addressed on extradition. I think this poster has the nail squarely on the head (if not his thumb). (Most) countries have reciprocal copyright agreements that basic say they they will protect our copyrights if we protect theirs. Now what does copyrights protection mean. It usually means that those engaging in copyrights infrigement will be procecuted. However we have a disagreement with respect to laws here (US vs AU). The problems is that they are bound by one international agreement and the legal problem that they are not breaking any local laws. Lawyers (er, I mean Anonymous Cowards) correct me if I a wrong but, in agreeing with the reciprocal copyrights agreement and the portions dealing with protection of them, the AU has implciticly stated they they will abide by US copyright laws within AU (as well as US abiding by AU copyright laws, state-side).
As an aside to this discussion of MP3 quality, I have notice (and I am sure others have too) that certain songs encode horibbly in MP3 (even with much tweaking of bitrates, etc). A good example of this Layla by Eric Clapton, it seems that background percussion starts to modulate the whole song (and no I was not on drugs at the time). Does anyone know of a website that gives suggestions for these tough nuts?
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This thread reminds me a discussion I had with a friend for an idea for a "killer" app. With the megapix on camera on the rise, GPS, and little network intel, you can build an app that will tell you whether you should try to run the yellow light and beat the red-light camera.
If we build it, they will die.
G+ is a new class of "anti-social networks" that is why is different from Facebook. Maybe they have named it G-, it would have attracted more of its core audience.
In about 3 billion years our Milky Way galaxy will be merging the Andromeda Galaxy: http://www.galaxydynamics.org/tflops.html With the the expect rain of gamma rays and shock wave clouds from supernova that expected to be going at the rate of several per year, or the tidal forces from star passing through the solar system, the Earth might be freed from the solar grasp, if not totally destroyed in the process. Of course there might the more quiet possibility that solar system could be lucky enough to be flung out of the galaxy by slingshot to await the sun's bloat 4 billion years later.
It's simple, when they call tell them you can't talk right now, you are on another line with a "paying" customer. Not rude, but if done often enough I think they will get the message, either begin paying or don't call back.
--gr00t
I don't a switch to biofuel or other carbon based fuels will help; carbon dioxide is release just a much (if not more; less pollutants) which is the primary green house gas. What is probably needed is more electric based engines that can be recharged with non carbon dioxide release energy production such as wind, solar, thermal, and yes nuclear.
-gr00t
I wonder if the code Windows XP for AMD64, first turns the page where the WMF is sitting on, "executable" before starting the thread to run at that location. I have been led to believe by M$ that in the AMD64 version of the OS they are using the executable bit to protect from attempting to execute in non-executable, ie, data memory section.
If it does then it would be obviously intentional.
Won't work, the KDE team dons the "Miami Vice" look.
In Soviet Russia, jokes laugh at you!
For an extra $9.95 a month you can get voicemail installed for those discerning dogs that want to screen their calls.
Hey wait a minute! Drew Carey invented that on his show, remember Buzz Beer, although in the show he did have to sell it off, maybe it was to Nestle?!
They should wait 'til December when their pee rings can make a real dent in the snow.
--laz
Given the "definition" above which states which medium is allowed I still do not understand my right or those Others. Am I considered a journalist if get an editorial published in a major newspaper, paid or not? If I reveal information am I protected from not having to reveal my source? If I am "protected" then the only difference is the medium, in which case the law is biased by the medium that I have chosen. If I am not then this law is biased against me by profession, (ie. what I actually do for a living).
You can even send the documents as encrypted doc imbedded into jpg files. So the causual observer thinks its just part of your growing porn collection.
I can just see the movie of the week trailers coming:
First scene, sitting in an empty immaculately clean computerize train complete with annoying computerize voice station announcer is playing the disgruntled unemployed former train conductor, reading "Train Cracking For Dummies"; he has a lot of free time on his hands.
He gets up, and spit on the floor...
--riveting--
In XML, no? ;)
Not by much!
At the risk of showing my age, empire on PLATO was my original game addiction back in high school. It and the entire PLATO system was very advanced for its time. My favorite thing was that the game was self-aware about its enviroment and each player had a quota of tps "tips" or transactions per second, the equivalent of cpu cycles. As you played and and especially when went into battle you would eat up your tps and occasionally die, because you had "tipped-out" and your ship was helplessly frozen and obvious cannon fodder to the other teams. There were 4 different teams and each had some advantage and some disadvantage, eg. the Romulans (also known as the Pigs) had big ships that were porking slow but could take out the enemy ship on one or two hits.
The other game that use to enjoy (a single user game), I forget the name, but it in you navigated through a city in eastern European cold war nation, trying to extracate a individual. You had a map (graphic) but it was not correct since their was constantly being rebuilt, lots of checkpoints, lots of closed streets. I never did get the bugger out there before finishing high school, damn!
Due to the popularity of the game our school had to enforce a rule that only allowed empire and other equally addictive games to after-hours (past 5pm) so that others who actually had class assignments (mostly remedial schooling) could do their work. Crowds would form at the computer lab to get first licks.
I did switch to VoIP with Vonage over cable and the quality of signal (to our ears) is better than the copper that we had with Verizon, which was BTW too far for DSL (26k feet). Our old POTS line was very noisy but the new VoIP is very quiet (except for the voice on the other end).
Oh, and I forgot to mention it cost about 1/3 of what the old POTS line did.
--laz
It was actually sicker than than that! His original idea was to have people record themselves so that their loves ones could hear them after they were dead! Talk about non-'live' performances!
--laz
Maybe so but since 1986, I am on my second car. My first ran from 1986 to 1996, while my second is still happily running. During that time I have gone through 14 different computers, from TI-99 (if you can call it that) to my current set. Mind you some are still running (4 to be exact) but the rest have died along the way.
I try to take good care of my cars and my computers, its just that computers fail pretty much in the short term, usually right after the warranty expires and of course the lure of a new machine, at a mere multiple of the price to fix the old one always seems to win out. Case in point a laptop died recently, it would need a motherboard replacement (out of warranty of course) at a cost of $600 dollars. Instead I bought my wife a new laptop for $900, which was about 4 times faster.
--laz
Vatican City!
Anytime you set up laws whose intent is to "prevent" a crime you moving one step closer to that police state that Hollywood is always writing about (how ironic eh?). We already hgave many of these stupid laws already DCMA, ECPA, etc. It opens a can of worms that make it seem ok to "prevent" other crimes, which will actually mean preventing fair use. Why not outlaw cars, since they are occasionally used to commit crimes like speeding and manslaughter. Whats next sharp objects that can used hurt people. Finally they will implant chips to control our sex lives to "prevent" rape. Actually these would make more sense since their is a real "hypothetical" victim.
We have to "prevent" this from happening.
Okay, let's run with the idea that this suspect committed the crime in Australia. Doesn't Australia have copyright laws? Since Australia does, in fact, have copyright laws which are similar to those in the U.S., at the time the crime was committed that act was illegal where the action took place.
With all of the focus being addressed on extradition. I think this poster has the nail squarely on the head (if not his thumb). (Most) countries have reciprocal copyright agreements that basic say they they will protect our copyrights if we protect theirs. Now what does copyrights protection mean. It usually means that those engaging in copyrights infrigement will be procecuted. However we have a disagreement with respect to laws here (US vs AU). The problems is that they are bound by one international agreement and the legal problem that they are not breaking any local laws.
Lawyers (er, I mean Anonymous Cowards) correct me if I a wrong but, in agreeing with the reciprocal copyrights agreement and the portions dealing with protection of them, the AU has implciticly stated they they will abide by US copyright laws within AU (as well as US abiding by AU copyright laws, state-side).
As an aside to this discussion of MP3 quality, I have notice (and I am sure others have too) that certain songs encode horibbly in MP3 (even with much tweaking of bitrates, etc). A good example of this Layla by Eric Clapton, it seems that background percussion starts to modulate the whole song (and no I was not on drugs at the time). Does anyone know of a website that gives suggestions for these tough nuts?
That won't work after the new 'Don't-Drive' rules take into effect on our nations hiways.
Mr. Kennedy (if that is really your name) please step away from the vehicle...
--laz