Okay. So, prices go down. Everyone can afford a trip up, and then down again. We're still not exactly in orbit. We're just in a place arbitrarily define as "space". What are people going to do up there?
Not really fair. The MPAA haven't sued nearly as many people. They are at least media savvy enough to realise that people don't like them when they do that.
> > "I work in a largish company, heavily into IT, and in a complex and quickly changing market. > > Employees are predominantly in the 30 or younger age-bracket, and as you might expect we > > rely on a lot of internal e-mail. Despite that, lately I'm finding myself increasingly frustrated > > by a complete lack of e-mail etiquette in the company. A typical thread might look like a > > hundred-message-long chain of one-line replies, with full quoting and hundreds of recipients in > > the 'To:' field. It feels like it is happening more and more often. I don't seem to be seeing > > much success in explaining to my co-workers what the problem is here. How do you deal with this > > at your place of business, and does your company care? Does the company take any policing or > > educating measures?" > > no.
Does the text of the patent include terms suchas "a plurality", "providing in the instance of" and other obscure legalese? It's not valid if it doesn't.
Graffiti is a good analogy. It's a public art that abuses someone else's resource as a canvas. I used to find this sort of thing annoying. These days I figure it's pretty harmless, and I can find it sort of amusing as long as it's done well. A "good troll" has to be funny, quite ludicrous, but just convincing enough to rope people in to argue against something completely illogical.
I remember a an early flight sim where it was assumed that planes can't fly backwards. Pointing the plane straight up and stalling meant that your speed suddenly went up to 65536 knots.
I've met a person who believed in creationism (but really didn't exactly preach it), several people who were pretty comfortable with evolution, and hundreds of people who have no opinion either way.
This is Secular Britain though, where loud pronouncements of ones faith are considered undignified.
To be fair, people would have to run against people of the exact same size, wieght, shape and metabolism,.
I do wonder why they don't do at least some of this. They have a dozen or so different weight classes in boxing why not classify runners by height or something? But they do make a distinction between male and female.
It's all arbitrary. High tech training aids? Perfectly allowable. High tech running aids? Sometime allowable. Drugs? Not allowable. Medical conditions that require treatments that may give you an advantage? Sometimes allowable. Sometime not.
You seem to think these cost a lot more than they do. The processing power needed is about the same as that required by an iPod. The hard disks need only be 160GB or so and don't need to be particularly fast. The software already exists. They use it in standalone PVRs
And while it may not be as good as a TiVo, not everyone wants a TiVo. It will be about as good as most of the existing recorders on the market, and mean that you only need one plug socket, one remote control, and considerably less spaghetti at the back of the TV. And since manufacturing and transport costs of one device are less than that for two, it costs less.
So, my own ask/. , is it possible to set up a properly integrated PVR that will work with British digital cable (ex-NTL)?
Yes. Option One: Get a V+ Box.
Option Two: Get a second had TiVo. Pay for a lifetime subscription. It's not "properly integrated" if by that you mean records the digital stream directly but it does control the cable box remotely (the older Pace boxes need an adaptor), and it gives you a very nice guide and does all the channel changing automatically using an IR emitter.
The reason TiVo took off so rapidly in the states was that it was actually marketed there. The reason DVD recorders haven't sold in the US? I'm guessing because TiVo is really good! Most of Europe didn't see it at all. Britain had series one TiVos available for a short time before they were discontinued. Not sure about the rest of Europe. This meant that recordable DVD had to duke it out with the PVRs available here. PVRs seem to be competing for the value end of the market. Until recently it hasn't been possible to produce a cheap DVD recorder, so they've been aiming at the high end.
PVR's are becoming more popular as people start to realise what they are. And since all of them are pretty much the same, manufacturers have started to add record capability to TVs. And why not? Even if you already have a recorder, the ability to record another channel is always useful.
But you do presumably expect to have a tuner inside your television. And speakers. Why those and not a hard disk? Personally I quite like having everything in a single box. PVR functionality doesn't add a lot to the price, and if it's really that bad you can still buy a standalone PVR. I hate having a huge pile of boxes and all these remote controls.
A door can be set to allow visitors to enter or block them. That the owner of a house could configure his door to allow visitors to enter and then claim such entrances are trespass is simply stunning.
I'm not saying this is the case, but it's possible the server was misconfigured, and it's possible that the "hacker" knew it was misconfigured but took advantage of this.
Hasbro believe they have the copyright on the game and the board layout. They may be right, but it would require a court to determine this absolutely. As such they have the right to go to court to establish this copyright. However, they need to actually sue someone. Facebook is protected by the DMCA's safe Harbor provisions as long as they abide by the rules, and remove the game from the system. The makers of Scrabulous - if they disagree that they're breaching copyright - are entitled to file a counter notice, and at that point Hasbro are forced to accept that they don't own a copyright on the scrabble board, or to sue Scrabulous (or whichver company is responsible for the game).
The DMCA is a nasty word on Slashdot but really it's being used in a fairly reasonable way between two companies with a legal dispute.
They might... After all, transistor computers were up to 32 and 36 bits before the first 4-bit microprocessor was introduced. It is possible that a revolutionary new concept in processing will result in an insanely fast processor but technological limitations will force it to only be 8 bits.
And then any US company that does business with any EU company would also delay new releases by 6-12 months. MS doesn't have any bargaining chips here.
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Okay. So, prices go down. Everyone can afford a trip up, and then down again. We're still not exactly in orbit. We're just in a place arbitrarily define as "space". What are people going to do up there?
What's it for? Is it only to get rich tourists to a high altitude to see what shape the earth is?
Not really fair. The MPAA haven't sued nearly as many people. They are at least media savvy enough to realise that people don't like them when they do that.
> > "I work in a largish company, heavily into IT, and in a complex and quickly changing market.
> > Employees are predominantly in the 30 or younger age-bracket, and as you might expect we
> > rely on a lot of internal e-mail. Despite that, lately I'm finding myself increasingly frustrated
> > by a complete lack of e-mail etiquette in the company. A typical thread might look like a
> > hundred-message-long chain of one-line replies, with full quoting and hundreds of recipients in
> > the 'To:' field. It feels like it is happening more and more often. I don't seem to be seeing
> > much success in explaining to my co-workers what the problem is here. How do you deal with this
> > at your place of business, and does your company care? Does the company take any policing or
> > educating measures?"
>
> no.
me too
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Does the text of the patent include terms suchas "a plurality", "providing in the instance of" and other obscure legalese? It's not valid if it doesn't.
Graffiti is a good analogy. It's a public art that abuses someone else's resource as a canvas. I used to find this sort of thing annoying. These days I figure it's pretty harmless, and I can find it sort of amusing as long as it's done well. A "good troll" has to be funny, quite ludicrous, but just convincing enough to rope people in to argue against something completely illogical.
Presumably the idea is that this will lead to better designs for reentry craft.
But what does this have to do with Ron Paul?
I remember a an early flight sim where it was assumed that planes can't fly backwards. Pointing the plane straight up and stalling meant that your speed suddenly went up to 65536 knots.
Pretty impressive as Trolls go. Surprised people still bother responding to the tired "Evolution is just a theory" one.
Ray tracing has been around for a very long time. There were ray tracing applications for the Amiga.
If you had a verifiable 6000 year old Mastadon skull, it would be quite a remarkable find considering they died out 4000 years earlier.
I've met a person who believed in creationism (but really didn't exactly preach it), several people who were pretty comfortable with evolution, and hundreds of people who have no opinion either way.
This is Secular Britain though, where loud pronouncements of ones faith are considered undignified.
The movie industry could conceivably be wrong.
To be fair, people would have to run against people of the exact same size, wieght, shape and metabolism, .
I do wonder why they don't do at least some of this. They have a dozen or so different weight classes in boxing why not classify runners by height or something? But they do make a distinction between male and female.
It's all arbitrary. High tech training aids? Perfectly allowable. High tech running aids? Sometime allowable. Drugs? Not allowable. Medical conditions that require treatments that may give you an advantage? Sometimes allowable. Sometime not.
You seem to think these cost a lot more than they do. The processing power needed is about the same as that required by an iPod. The hard disks need only be 160GB or so and don't need to be particularly fast. The software already exists. They use it in standalone PVRs
And while it may not be as good as a TiVo, not everyone wants a TiVo. It will be about as good as most of the existing recorders on the market, and mean that you only need one plug socket, one remote control, and considerably less spaghetti at the back of the TV. And since manufacturing and transport costs of one device are less than that for two, it costs less.
So, my own ask /. , is it possible to set up a properly integrated PVR that will work with British digital cable (ex-NTL)?
Yes. Option One: Get a V+ Box.
Option Two: Get a second had TiVo. Pay for a lifetime subscription. It's not "properly integrated" if by that you mean records the digital stream directly but it does control the cable box remotely (the older Pace boxes need an adaptor), and it gives you a very nice guide and does all the channel changing automatically using an IR emitter.
The reason TiVo took off so rapidly in the states was that it was actually marketed there. The reason DVD recorders haven't sold in the US? I'm guessing because TiVo is really good! Most of Europe didn't see it at all. Britain had series one TiVos available for a short time before they were discontinued. Not sure about the rest of Europe. This meant that recordable DVD had to duke it out with the PVRs available here. PVRs seem to be competing for the value end of the market. Until recently it hasn't been possible to produce a cheap DVD recorder, so they've been aiming at the high end.
PVR's are becoming more popular as people start to realise what they are. And since all of them are pretty much the same, manufacturers have started to add record capability to TVs. And why not? Even if you already have a recorder, the ability to record another channel is always useful.
But you do presumably expect to have a tuner inside your television. And speakers. Why those and not a hard disk? Personally I quite like having everything in a single box. PVR functionality doesn't add a lot to the price, and if it's really that bad you can still buy a standalone PVR. I hate having a huge pile of boxes and all these remote controls.
But we've already established that there are situations where making a DNS request is legal. Your analogy is pointless here.
A door can be set to allow visitors to enter or block them. That the owner of a house could configure his door to allow visitors to enter and then claim such entrances are trespass is simply stunning.
I'm not saying this is the case, but it's possible the server was misconfigured, and it's possible that the "hacker" knew it was misconfigured but took advantage of this.
Hasbro believe they have the copyright on the game and the board layout. They may be right, but it would require a court to determine this absolutely. As such they have the right to go to court to establish this copyright. However, they need to actually sue someone. Facebook is protected by the DMCA's safe Harbor provisions as long as they abide by the rules, and remove the game from the system. The makers of Scrabulous - if they disagree that they're breaching copyright - are entitled to file a counter notice, and at that point Hasbro are forced to accept that they don't own a copyright on the scrabble board, or to sue Scrabulous (or whichver company is responsible for the game).
The DMCA is a nasty word on Slashdot but really it's being used in a fairly reasonable way between two companies with a legal dispute.
They might... After all, transistor computers were up to 32 and 36 bits before the first 4-bit microprocessor was introduced. It is possible that a revolutionary new concept in processing will result in an insanely fast processor but technological limitations will force it to only be 8 bits.
And then any US company that does business with any EU company would also delay new releases by 6-12 months. MS doesn't have any bargaining chips here.