I wonder if it is simply too much to ask of a free account anyway. If I were in such a service, in order to turn over an account because of death. I'd want to see the death certificate although someone might think it is insensitive or something. Death cert copies could be faked, so to avoid liability, check with the issuing body or require a notarized copy. Something short of that would invite liability issues.
I think keeping an open address book would be enough if all you needed to know is who someone corresponded with to let them know of a passing.
If a person were of the email forwarding kind (sad to say) then you'd often have a lot of email addresses attached to the immediate forward.
I would say that if you think someone might need information, it probably is a good idea to leave behind passwords somewhere for some types of things. Information that you don't want others to see should be expunged regularly or encrypted anyway, though I doubt many do either. I can see digital files such as family photos should be saved somehow.
I think any place that isn't a signatory of the Berne Convention doesn't have international copyright ownership. For example, Taiwan isn't, and aren't allowed to because officially (diplomatically) to most of the rest of the world, they are a rouge province of China. There are some other countries that aren't Berne Convention signatories, but I think they are mostly island chains.
Your comment does not fit reality as it is with Firefox. Individuals have to manually whitelist sites in Firefox in order to install an xpi. It isn't as if Mozilla isn't allowing third party extensions.
I agree. I have memories of the recent trials of anti-arthritis drugs have been cut short without a proper explaination as to why. The only reason this is widely known is because of the side-effects of Vioxx and such.
What bugs me is that nearly every time there is a Firefox update, half the extensions I use are broken or disabled by Firefox because the extension doesn't mark itself as being compatible with a version number that didn't exist when the last extension revision was made.
The foreign brands were pretty established in their own countries before they tried to break into the NA market.
I don't think there has not been a single surviving new car brand in the last 50 years that wasn't started by a major company with deep pockets. Certainly no one that started out as one man to eventually build a high volume carmaker. Of the US brands, I think Chrysler was the last to do so in the 30's.
Saleen is now a low volume, and I think there are a few others like this.
Delorean tried but he was hit by politics, conversion costs and the first year's worth of cars had some problems. I think he was indicted on false charges of drug running, despite the released video, the jury completely exhonorated him because it turned out the evidence was fake.
... and if it is that hard to find it being used legitimately, then maybe the tool or protocol itself is illegitimate? HTTP, FTP all have clear legit uses, I'd say they are in the clear. Kind of like fully automatic weapons. You could use it for self-defense, but it is so deadly and used so much for bad things that I can't support general citizens owning one. I realize that guns and P2P aren't nearly the same issue, I thought that part was similar enough for the illustration.
Even if it is legit, bittorrent is primarily a cost-shifting measure that I really can't support, IMO.
I think it is a different case because the size of media and media type wasn't remotely compatible back then.
While existing CD players probably won't die quickly, DVD and CD compatibility for a next generation format was known to be a must by pretty much all manufacturers. I think previous system prototypes used multiple optical assemblies to achieve the desired compatibility.
The market is highly steeped toward backward compatibility now, systems that aren't backward compatible don't have a chance.
The one-chip DLP method of displaying of an image basically paints the red, green and blue color parts of the image at different times rather than at the same time like most other display techs. This bothers some people, it is noticible to a lot of people if they move your eyes much when there are bright objects on a dark background. Some people feel nauseous because of this effect. It has been improved with faster color wheels but a lot of displays still use 2x speed color wheels.
I think it is because it creates an unbalanced load. I don't think it necessarily causes problems at 1x and 2x set-top DVD speeds, but in a high speed DVD drive, it could cause undue stress on the spindle motor and excess vibration.
Believe and do not believe. Has anyone actually tried testing it either way? I can't wholly trust anecdotal "evidence", and I can't wholly trust the manufacturer to be completely up-front about product flaws. They even admit that they haven't really done long term testing.
Granted, I use sharpies, but I usually try to write on sections with no data, the outer ring (if there isn't too much data) and the hub.
In part, it depends on the defect. As far as I'm concerned, a stuck pixel is cause for return because it sticks out on a black screen. A dead pixel is more tolerable but to be honest, I expect better from a monitor that costs a week's wages.
Maybe if the retailers and manufacturers were up-front about it and didn't hide it in the warranty info or in a paper tucked in the package, I wouldn't be concerned about it.
I've tried out the old style click-matic, and don't see the point. All it gets are buttons that are needlessly hard to press, needlessly loud, and a good keyboard can be tactile and not click-omatic.
I have been buying used CRTs for more than the last ten years. I have yet to regret a purchase, and have yet to have one die on me, the last four being 21" CRTs. I did sell an old 15" to a relative who had a 14" monitor that died.
I'm certain you could do a web search for new, old stock monitors if you don't like used.
Despite the news, airplanes are safer per passenger than I think any other means of travel. Maybe rail is safer, I don't know. To my understanding, automobiles are quite a bit less safe than airplanes.
IIRC, the Apple / Motorola venture to ad iTunes compatibility to cell phones was announced. The flash music-only thing was just a distortion by people that didn't know about the deal when it was made many months ago.
I am not sure what you are using, but the Linksys POE injector puts 48 volts in, just like the standard says. The Linksys POE splitter converts to 12V but that's only to be compatible with equipment that doesnt have a POE port.
I have another brand injector that also puts in 48 volts.
Soon, there might be cheap LCD-screens hanging everywhere in your house, displaying pictures or whatever. You press one button, the decoration changes.
Until then, printing is okay, I guess... but in maybe five years..
I think you are well overestimating the price drop for LCD panels, which seems to be halving no faster than every two years. You also seem to be ignoring how much power they require to operate. Even in best case, I don't think a non-dumb 17" screen can be had in five years, unless it is a five year old used unit. These screens also need a significant resolution increase, IMO. The best I know about in production now is 200dpi, a 22" $6000 monitor. Most LCD panels are only 100dpi.
The backlights also have a limited lifetime (50k hours on the high end, IIRC), and are rarely replaceable. So you'd need a truly reflective screen for adequate life.
That does seem pretty bad. If even the best student doesn't even has a slightest chance at an A, then I'd question the course and the mental issues of the teacher.
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I wonder if it is simply too much to ask of a free account anyway. If I were in such a service, in order to turn over an account because of death. I'd want to see the death certificate although someone might think it is insensitive or something. Death cert copies could be faked, so to avoid liability, check with the issuing body or require a notarized copy. Something short of that would invite liability issues.
I think keeping an open address book would be enough if all you needed to know is who someone corresponded with to let them know of a passing.
If a person were of the email forwarding kind (sad to say) then you'd often have a lot of email addresses attached to the immediate forward.
I would say that if you think someone might need information, it probably is a good idea to leave behind passwords somewhere for some types of things. Information that you don't want others to see should be expunged regularly or encrypted anyway, though I doubt many do either. I can see digital files such as family photos should be saved somehow.
I think any place that isn't a signatory of the Berne Convention doesn't have international copyright ownership. For example, Taiwan isn't, and aren't allowed to because officially (diplomatically) to most of the rest of the world, they are a rouge province of China. There are some other countries that aren't Berne Convention signatories, but I think they are mostly island chains.
Your comment does not fit reality as it is with Firefox. Individuals have to manually whitelist sites in Firefox in order to install an xpi. It isn't as if Mozilla isn't allowing third party extensions.
I agree. I have memories of the recent trials of anti-arthritis drugs have been cut short without a proper explaination as to why. The only reason this is widely known is because of the side-effects of Vioxx and such.
I'm not getting how that is any different than Linux, where no distribution is officially supported by any other.
What bugs me is that nearly every time there is a Firefox update, half the extensions I use are broken or disabled by Firefox because the extension doesn't mark itself as being compatible with a version number that didn't exist when the last extension revision was made.
The foreign brands were pretty established in their own countries before they tried to break into the NA market.
I don't think there has not been a single surviving new car brand in the last 50 years that wasn't started by a major company with deep pockets. Certainly no one that started out as one man to eventually build a high volume carmaker. Of the US brands, I think Chrysler was the last to do so in the 30's.
Saleen is now a low volume, and I think there are a few others like this.
Delorean tried but he was hit by politics, conversion costs and the first year's worth of cars had some problems. I think he was indicted on false charges of drug running, despite the released video, the jury completely exhonorated him because it turned out the evidence was fake.
... and if it is that hard to find it being used legitimately, then maybe the tool or protocol itself is illegitimate? HTTP, FTP all have clear legit uses, I'd say they are in the clear. Kind of like fully automatic weapons. You could use it for self-defense, but it is so deadly and used so much for bad things that I can't support general citizens owning one. I realize that guns and P2P aren't nearly the same issue, I thought that part was similar enough for the illustration.
Even if it is legit, bittorrent is primarily a cost-shifting measure that I really can't support, IMO.
I think it is a different case because the size of media and media type wasn't remotely compatible back then.
While existing CD players probably won't die quickly, DVD and CD compatibility for a next generation format was known to be a must by pretty much all manufacturers. I think previous system prototypes used multiple optical assemblies to achieve the desired compatibility.
The market is highly steeped toward backward compatibility now, systems that aren't backward compatible don't have a chance.
DLP does have another drawback.
The one-chip DLP method of displaying of an image basically paints the red, green and blue color parts of the image at different times rather than at the same time like most other display techs. This bothers some people, it is noticible to a lot of people if they move your eyes much when there are bright objects on a dark background. Some people feel nauseous because of this effect. It has been improved with faster color wheels but a lot of displays still use 2x speed color wheels.
I think it is because it creates an unbalanced load. I don't think it necessarily causes problems at 1x and 2x set-top DVD speeds, but in a high speed DVD drive, it could cause undue stress on the spindle motor and excess vibration.
Believe and do not believe. Has anyone actually tried testing it either way? I can't wholly trust anecdotal "evidence", and I can't wholly trust the manufacturer to be completely up-front about product flaws. They even admit that they haven't really done long term testing.
Granted, I use sharpies, but I usually try to write on sections with no data, the outer ring (if there isn't too much data) and the hub.
In part, it depends on the defect. As far as I'm concerned, a stuck pixel is cause for return because it sticks out on a black screen. A dead pixel is more tolerable but to be honest, I expect better from a monitor that costs a week's wages.
Maybe if the retailers and manufacturers were up-front about it and didn't hide it in the warranty info or in a paper tucked in the package, I wouldn't be concerned about it.
I've tried out the old style click-matic, and don't see the point. All it gets are buttons that are needlessly hard to press, needlessly loud, and a good keyboard can be tactile and not click-omatic.
Stencils, plexiglass? Computer cases shouldn't be the third-rate crafts projects that they usually are. Might as well rice a car while you are at it.
I have been buying used CRTs for more than the last ten years. I have yet to regret a purchase, and have yet to have one die on me, the last four being 21" CRTs. I did sell an old 15" to a relative who had a 14" monitor that died.
I'm certain you could do a web search for new, old stock monitors if you don't like used.
Despite the news, airplanes are safer per passenger than I think any other means of travel. Maybe rail is safer, I don't know. To my understanding, automobiles are quite a bit less safe than airplanes.
IIRC, the Apple / Motorola venture to ad iTunes compatibility to cell phones was announced. The flash music-only thing was just a distortion by people that didn't know about the deal when it was made many months ago.
Industrial diamonds are of a lower grade than jewelry diamonds.
Since most PoE is around 12v,
I am not sure what you are using, but the Linksys POE injector puts 48 volts in, just like the standard says. The Linksys POE splitter converts to 12V but that's only to be compatible with equipment that doesnt have a POE port.
I have another brand injector that also puts in 48 volts.
Soon, there might be cheap LCD-screens hanging everywhere in your house, displaying pictures or whatever. You press one button, the decoration changes.
Until then, printing is okay, I guess... but in maybe five years..
I think you are well overestimating the price drop for LCD panels, which seems to be halving no faster than every two years. You also seem to be ignoring how much power they require to operate. Even in best case, I don't think a non-dumb 17" screen can be had in five years, unless it is a five year old used unit. These screens also need a significant resolution increase, IMO. The best I know about in production now is 200dpi, a 22" $6000 monitor. Most LCD panels are only 100dpi.
The backlights also have a limited lifetime (50k hours on the high end, IIRC), and are rarely replaceable. So you'd need a truly reflective screen for adequate life.
There is the matter of cost, graphics RAM appears to cost more than simple system RAM. They aren't the same kind or speed of memory.
That does seem pretty bad. If even the best student doesn't even has a slightest chance at an A, then I'd question the course and the mental issues of the teacher.
I kill me.
My guess is that if you don't finish the job, some other slashdotter will.