DLP doesn't have window-screen effect, that's a plasma thing where you can see the grid of cells like a screen door overlaid on the picture. You're perhaps thinking of the rainbow effect caused by the color wheel on DLP, and that's pretty minimal on the latest sets (as in, I had to work hard to see it). They solved the problem by making the colored segments smaller and repeating them, giving a higher effective color change rate.
However, the current measures taken by the US government are going way too far, it's not worth reducing freedom for in any way whatsoever, the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack is extremely small.
Although in fact, MORE people have been killed by terrorists under Bush than were killed by terrorists under Clinton, even once you deduct the number killed on 9/11. That's according to the government's own official figures.
Yes, Sony used to be known for the quality of their products... back in the 80s.
Everything Sony I've bought after about 1995 has been pretty crappy. I wish the GameCube had the PS2's game library, it's a much better piece of hardware than the PS2.
I'm going to get a new PS2 anyway (I sold the old one), I'm hoping the new slimline design doesn't have a fan that sounds like a jet engine.
My Sony cordless phone died in under 2 years. The Discman is still running, but I don't imagine it'll last 15 years like my last one.
The t68i is a piece of crap--painfully slow, the buttons are all loose, sometimes it won't power up until I cold boot it. Unfortunately, it seems to be the only phone that works with my iBook, my car and my Palm device... but I'm probably going to ditch it for a Nokia anyway, it's that awful.
There's also the Tapwave Zodiac 2, which has 128MB of memory that's dynamically shared between working as "internal" Palm memory for pdb files, and working as if it was an SD card for other random files.
Plus, it has two SD card slots, so you can get files across that way as well.
It's worse than that: it's completely unnecessary.
Every permanent resident alien already has to carry an alien registration card with their photo, thumbprint, a bunch of holograms, and all kinds of other stuff encoded into it. Cops can just ask to see that.
All that's achieved by having another copy of the info on the driver's license is that there's one more place info needs to be updated, and a bigger chance of it being incorrect.
I have a hard time divorcing the right to live in the USA with the responsibility to pay taxes. I guess I believe in "pay to play".
I have a hard time divorcing the requirement to pay taxes from the right to vote how those taxes are spent. I believe in "No taxation without representation", a principle that the USA abandoned many years ago.
2. 2. They dont have a "middle" size powerbook. They go from tiny 12 to large 15+. Where is the 14 ?
The 15 is the middle size.
Personally, I think 12" is the middle size. My complaint is that Apple don't make any *small* laptops to compare with the Sony VAIO 505, Panasonic R3, etc.
The Chinese government was one of SEVERAL large investors. Not the only investor as the submittor tried to frame it.
So what? We've all seen plenty of examples of media outlets self-censoring at the request of organizations that have partial ownership of them.
Who in their right mind would trust a search engine that had any kind of financial dependence on the Chinese government? Next you'll be telling me I should support search engines run by the Church of Scientology.
Many adverts aren't rendering correctly on firefox, including some flash/dhtml combos and some dhtml ads.
It's worse than that. I'd estimate that about half the time when I click on an ad, it doesn't actually take me anywhere. Either I get a 404 page, or some totally unrelated site, or in some cases the click doesn't do anything.
I think it's because the advertisers have become so obsessed with adding dancing monkeys and stuff to their ads and making them "interactive" that they've forgotten the importance of making them actually clickable. I really think that a straightforward static image with plain a href link would be a better way of attracting actual paying customers than most of the broken Flash ads out there, assuming your product is something people might actually want and not a scam or a faux 'contest'.
1. A lot of people don't remember everyone they send e-mail to. I certainly don't.
2. Even if there was some magic software solution to the above, there are so many forwarding services that there's no guarantee that the e-mail address you'll get the challenge from is the one you sent to.
I haven't seen anyone post the BIG REASON why C/R systems won't work, so here it is again.
C/R relies on users being willing to respond to challenge messages, either by clicking a URL or by replying by e-mail.
As soon as C/R systems become commonplace enough, and users become accustomed to responding to the messages, spammers will simply craft their spam to look like challenge messages. Replying to e-mail will confirm the address (a win for the spammer), clicking the URL will deliver the reader to a web site full of pop-up ads and spyware (a win for the spammer).
Shortly after this, user willingness to respond to challenges will drop to zero, and challenge messages will be filtered out automatically by bayesian spam filters.
So, if there are any spammers reading this, PLEASE PLEASE start your next major spamming campaign by disguising it as a challenge message from one of these stupid C/R systems. That way we'll kill off the idea once and for all, people won't waste any more time building new (and mutually incompatible) C/R systems, and people with a clue won't have to put up with any more C/R advocacy from well-meaning idiots.
I *am* using Debian and I can never remember what the stupid code names refer to. When I read the headline I had no idea whether it meant that GNOME was going into stable, unstable, or what.
Then again, since tried GNOME and switched to KDE for performance and stability reasons, I also didn't give a flying one...
Right, the way all software development should be done is to make frequent regular releases with some internal meaningless version number.
Then at some interval determined by market requirements, marketing approach you and say "We need another release to call 5.0". You take a look at your recent internal releases, pick one that has a good blend of reliability and features, and hand them that to label "5.0" and give to QA. If QA fail it, you can pick another one to try. If QA pass it, it gets a "5.0" sticker put on it and it's shipped to users.
It's not a big deal to use strncpy with a buffer size of 1 smaller than the actual buffer size, and always put a zero at the end of the actual buffer.
The problem is careless programmers. It doesn't matter if you build a safe alternative to strcpy; as long as the original is still laying around looking handy, careless programmers will use it. I mean, strncpy way predates GNOME, so frankly if there are any strcpy calls in GNOME's code base the offending programmer ought to be taken out and shot.
I imagine the ridiculous reactions of closet case SUV drivers could be amusing. I see some of that with the Prius, some people really can't stand being behind one.
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Dear AC,
I used to be able to see rainbows clearly.
On the latest Samsung DLP, I can't see rainbows.
And the horse you rode in on.
DLP doesn't have window-screen effect, that's a plasma thing where you can see the grid of cells like a screen door overlaid on the picture. You're perhaps thinking of the rainbow effect caused by the color wheel on DLP, and that's pretty minimal on the latest sets (as in, I had to work hard to see it). They solved the problem by making the colored segments smaller and repeating them, giving a higher effective color change rate.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Dream on. Have you ever looked at 35mm negatives from the 1960s?
I've been scanning and restoring photos from the 60s and 70s, carefully fixing the fading.
Although in fact, MORE people have been killed by terrorists under Bush than were killed by terrorists under Clinton, even once you deduct the number killed on 9/11. That's according to the government's own official figures.
See http://www.xciv.org/~meta/2004/09/30#2004-09-29 for graphic, data source, etc.
and www.hand.jobs, www.big.jobs, ...
Yes, Sony used to be known for the quality of their products... back in the 80s.
Everything Sony I've bought after about 1995 has been pretty crappy. I wish the GameCube had the PS2's game library, it's a much better piece of hardware than the PS2.
I'm going to get a new PS2 anyway (I sold the old one), I'm hoping the new slimline design doesn't have a fan that sounds like a jet engine.
My Sony cordless phone died in under 2 years. The Discman is still running, but I don't imagine it'll last 15 years like my last one.
The t68i is a piece of crap--painfully slow, the buttons are all loose, sometimes it won't power up until I cold boot it. Unfortunately, it seems to be the only phone that works with my iBook, my car and my Palm device... but I'm probably going to ditch it for a Nokia anyway, it's that awful.
There's also the Tapwave Zodiac 2, which has 128MB of memory that's dynamically shared between working as "internal" Palm memory for pdb files, and working as if it was an SD card for other random files.
Plus, it has two SD card slots, so you can get files across that way as well.
It's worse than that: it's completely unnecessary.
Every permanent resident alien already has to carry an alien registration card with their photo, thumbprint, a bunch of holograms, and all kinds of other stuff encoded into it. Cops can just ask to see that.
All that's achieved by having another copy of the info on the driver's license is that there's one more place info needs to be updated, and a bigger chance of it being incorrect.
I have a hard time divorcing the requirement to pay taxes from the right to vote how those taxes are spent. I believe in "No taxation without representation", a principle that the USA abandoned many years ago.
I think of it as the Curse of Gassee, as it predates Be.
Gassee was also responsible for the decision not to license Mac OS in 1985, and for the Macintosh Portable. 'nuff said.
I'd have bought a clamshell Zaurus if they'd actually been interested in selling me one. As it was, I got a Palm OS device instead.
I talked to some Sharp guys at a show. They all wanted the clamshells too. It was Sharp in Japan that decided America didn't want them.
Personally, I think 12" is the middle size. My complaint is that Apple don't make any *small* laptops to compare with the Sony VAIO 505, Panasonic R3, etc.
The 17" I refer to as the SUVbook...
So what? We've all seen plenty of examples of media outlets self-censoring at the request of organizations that have partial ownership of them.
Who in their right mind would trust a search engine that had any kind of financial dependence on the Chinese government? Next you'll be telling me I should support search engines run by the Church of Scientology.
Who favors giving permanent Most Favored Nation status to China?
who favors admitting China to the WTO?
Who officially maintains that Taiwan is part of "one China"?
Who bolsters China's power by relying on them to broker relations with North Korea?
Could it be George W. Bush? I think it could...
So I guess you didn't vote for him, huh?
It's worse than that. I'd estimate that about half the time when I click on an ad, it doesn't actually take me anywhere. Either I get a 404 page, or some totally unrelated site, or in some cases the click doesn't do anything.
I think it's because the advertisers have become so obsessed with adding dancing monkeys and stuff to their ads and making them "interactive" that they've forgotten the importance of making them actually clickable. I really think that a straightforward static image with plain a href link would be a better way of attracting actual paying customers than most of the broken Flash ads out there, assuming your product is something people might actually want and not a scam or a faux 'contest'.
Two problems:
1. A lot of people don't remember everyone they send e-mail to. I certainly don't.
2. Even if there was some magic software solution to the above, there are so many forwarding services that there's no guarantee that the e-mail address you'll get the challenge from is the one you sent to.
People shilling products for free is nothing! Look at how many people pay money for the privilege of shilling products on their clothes.
Minnesota is also the home of 3M and the Post-It Note.
Terry Gilliam is Minnesotan, which I think explains the SPAM / vikings / Python connection.
I haven't seen anyone post the BIG REASON why C/R systems won't work, so here it is again.
C/R relies on users being willing to respond to challenge messages, either by clicking a URL or by replying by e-mail.
As soon as C/R systems become commonplace enough, and users become accustomed to responding to the messages, spammers will simply craft their spam to look like challenge messages. Replying to e-mail will confirm the address (a win for the spammer), clicking the URL will deliver the reader to a web site full of pop-up ads and spyware (a win for the spammer).
Shortly after this, user willingness to respond to challenges will drop to zero, and challenge messages will be filtered out automatically by bayesian spam filters.
So, if there are any spammers reading this, PLEASE PLEASE start your next major spamming campaign by disguising it as a challenge message from one of these stupid C/R systems. That way we'll kill off the idea once and for all, people won't waste any more time building new (and mutually incompatible) C/R systems, and people with a clue won't have to put up with any more C/R advocacy from well-meaning idiots.
I *am* using Debian and I can never remember what the stupid code names refer to. When I read the headline I had no idea whether it meant that GNOME was going into stable, unstable, or what.
Then again, since tried GNOME and switched to KDE for performance and stability reasons, I also didn't give a flying one...
Right, the way all software development should be done is to make frequent regular releases with some internal meaningless version number.
Then at some interval determined by market requirements, marketing approach you and say "We need another release to call 5.0". You take a look at your recent internal releases, pick one that has a good blend of reliability and features, and hand them that to label "5.0" and give to QA. If QA fail it, you can pick another one to try. If QA pass it, it gets a "5.0" sticker put on it and it's shipped to users.
It's not a big deal to use strncpy with a buffer size of 1 smaller than the actual buffer size, and always put a zero at the end of the actual buffer.
The problem is careless programmers. It doesn't matter if you build a safe alternative to strcpy; as long as the original is still laying around looking handy, careless programmers will use it. I mean, strncpy way predates GNOME, so frankly if there are any strcpy calls in GNOME's code base the offending programmer ought to be taken out and shot.
I'd buy one as a second car.
That said, my first car is a Prius.
I imagine the ridiculous reactions of closet case SUV drivers could be amusing. I see some of that with the Prius, some people really can't stand being behind one.
I was considering a Tungsten T5, but this problem combined with the lack of a silent vibrate alarm made me decide to get a Tapwave Zodiac instead.
So, the screwup made them lose at least one customer...