the hearing is meant to discuss whether the government must step in and mandate standards -- which Hollywood believes will allow movies to be distributed safely online, spur high-speed Internet access, and boost hardware sales.
Sure, it'll boost hardware sales... I know that I would buy up as much hardware as possible as soon as possible, if copy "protection" were looming inevitably on the immediate horizon... But somehow I don't think that's what they were talking about...
We were having that problem big-time this year, with the opening of a new 300-bed dorm (at a school where the entire on-campus population isn't over 3000). The first few weeks of classes, our internet connection was all but unusable. What they did to fix it, and it worked really quite well, was to purchase a packet-sorting device. From what I understand, it checks out the packet type, and if it's "legitimate" (http) it gets high priority, but if it's "illigitimate" (file sharing, etc) it goes intoa bandwidth-limited priority. Once they installed this thing, browsing the internet was back up to full speed. Sadly, I can't even connect now through Morpheus or Bearshare or the like, but I'll pay that price, since I'm positive that a lot of the freshmen were sharing out gigs of mp3 and video, and this is probably the only way to stop them. Besides, I've got high-speed at work. I just feed my habit there.;^)
Second, I don't know what "non-destructive" means in this context, because when something terminates processes (ZONEALARM.EXE, SAFEWEB.EXE, and VSHWIN32.EXE to name a few) and tries to delete all files in the directory containing the executable of the process, I call that destructive.
Every time I hear someone talk about the ozone hole that we (humans) are creating, I have a little laugh to myself. I mean, seriously... Human beings populate such an insanely small percentage of the Earth's surface (I mean, far less than half is even land anyway), how can you believe that we could really have such an immediate (read: 80 years) impact on something like the global climate? Come on, I think that's getting just a little bit of a big head... We wish we could control the weather...
Couldn't I just get a kick-arse sound card with digital out, X feet of optical cable, and hook that into my receiver, running the mp3s straight from my computer, all for far less than half the cost?
the US Government, specifically the PTO, is hiring up to 500 electrical engineers to help assess the validity of new patent claims on technical gadgets. Good - and with the downturn in the high tech industry you can get them cheap
Am I the only one that sees a contradiction with that last part? If the downturn in the high-tech industry were having that much of an affect on EE's, why would they need 500 new hires to assess technical patents? Doesn't that mean that more technical patents are being submitted? Someone is being paid to develop these products and submit them for patent...
My view is of course somewhat biased though, being that I'm a securely employed EE, and I certainly ain't cheap;)
I haven't read them either, so you're certainly not the only one who hasn't read them.
As far as the appeal, I may be totally wrong here, but as far as I can tell, the books are written more toward an adult audience. The latest book in the series, Goblet of Fire, is 734 pages! I don't know about you, but as a kid, I never read any 734 page hardback novels. I think the main appeal for the kids is that the main character is a kid, not that the story content is childish.
As far as the CD burning capabilities, I really don't trust HP in that department. I had an HP CD burner, it didn't last longer than a year, and two other people I know experienced the same thing. I'd wait for about a year from now before buying any HP product that has CD burning as one of the features, as they don't seem to be up to par there.
It would seem that the people at Fox News are doing a little more than just reporting on the story...
"Sesame Street has always stood for mutual respect and understanding," a spokeswoman said. "We're outraged that our characters would be used in this unfortunate and distasteful manner. This is not at all humorous.The people responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves. We are exploring all legal options to stop this abuse and any similar abuses in the future."
When asked about Bert's current whereabouts, however, the spokeswoman replied: "No comment."
According to TVGuide, the list of songs rumor is untrue: "It's not true. No one has told us what we can or cannot play from a corporate level," says Tom Poleman, senior vice president of programming for Clear Channel Communications in New York. You decide who to believe. I'm not making any statement about whether it's true or not, but you should see that there is some doubt.
People walk away from the World Trade Center as ash rains down.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.
In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.
American Airlines Boeing 767 that had been hijacked after take-off from Boston. American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents," one leaving Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard, and the second leaving Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles
About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, part of which later collapsed.
Sources say a second plane was heading toward the Pentagon; F-16 jets were in the air monitoring it.
The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.
In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports.
All international flights were diverted to Canada.
Israel has evacuated all its missions around the world.
President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."
In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated; United Nations in New York evacuated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta was evacuated.
The New York Port Authority said it had closed all bridges and tunnels into the city.
New York's Bellevue Hospital was designated command central for handling the catastrophe. Several hospitals have already reported receiving victims with burns and head injuries.
Large plane crashed 80 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but it was unknown if this crash was connected to terrorist attacks.
U.S. stock markets were closed after the New York attacks.
Grim Fandango is also an excellent problem-solving game. And it has an amusing and engrossing story line.
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You can still buy plain old bricks in large quantities, they're just not easy to find. I've found that the best deal for my money is set #3033. The contents of this set can be found here. Sure, there's a somewhat large number of the stupid 1x1s, but it still comes with a lot of useful bricks. My personal collection is up to 11 or 12 tubs now.
For general LEGOs, I've found that Lugnet is quite a good reference for shopping for LEGO as well as just plain fun LEGO pages and info.
I was pissed when I found out that Patrick Stewart had been considered for Mr. Freeze then dropped in Batman & Robin. But I suspect that this movie will kick butt compared to that one. Heh, I guess that's not saying much though, since pretty much any movie kicked butt compared to that one.
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the hearing is meant to discuss whether the government must step in and mandate standards -- which Hollywood believes will allow movies to be distributed safely online, spur high-speed Internet access, and boost hardware sales.
Sure, it'll boost hardware sales... I know that I would buy up as much hardware as possible as soon as possible, if copy "protection" were looming inevitably on the immediate horizon... But somehow I don't think that's what they were talking about...
The same could be said for prostitution, or for underage drinking. Just because there's money to be made on something doesn't make it right.
We were having that problem big-time this year, with the opening of a new 300-bed dorm (at a school where the entire on-campus population isn't over 3000). The first few weeks of classes, our internet connection was all but unusable. What they did to fix it, and it worked really quite well, was to purchase a packet-sorting device. From what I understand, it checks out the packet type, and if it's "legitimate" (http) it gets high priority, but if it's "illigitimate" (file sharing, etc) it goes intoa bandwidth-limited priority. Once they installed this thing, browsing the internet was back up to full speed. Sadly, I can't even connect now through Morpheus or Bearshare or the like, but I'll pay that price, since I'm positive that a lot of the freshmen were sharing out gigs of mp3 and video, and this is probably the only way to stop them. Besides, I've got high-speed at work. I just feed my habit there. ;^)
First off, the McAffee link in the story is broken. The real link is http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99272& .
Second, I don't know what "non-destructive" means in this context, because when something terminates processes (ZONEALARM.EXE, SAFEWEB.EXE, and VSHWIN32.EXE to name a few) and tries to delete all files in the directory containing the executable of the process, I call that destructive.
More info on the same subject.
Every time I hear someone talk about the ozone hole that we (humans) are creating, I have a little laugh to myself. I mean, seriously... Human beings populate such an insanely small percentage of the Earth's surface (I mean, far less than half is even land anyway), how can you believe that we could really have such an immediate (read: 80 years) impact on something like the global climate? Come on, I think that's getting just a little bit of a big head... We wish we could control the weather...
Couldn't I just get a kick-arse sound card with digital out, X feet of optical cable, and hook that into my receiver, running the mp3s straight from my computer, all for far less than half the cost?
the US Government, specifically the PTO, is hiring up to 500 electrical engineers to help assess the validity of new patent claims on technical gadgets. Good - and with the downturn in the high tech industry you can get them cheap
;)
Am I the only one that sees a contradiction with that last part? If the downturn in the high-tech industry were having that much of an affect on EE's, why would they need 500 new hires to assess technical patents? Doesn't that mean that more technical patents are being submitted? Someone is being paid to develop these products and submit them for patent...
My view is of course somewhat biased though, being that I'm a securely employed EE, and I certainly ain't cheap
I haven't read them either, so you're certainly not the only one who hasn't read them.
As far as the appeal, I may be totally wrong here, but as far as I can tell, the books are written more toward an adult audience. The latest book in the series, Goblet of Fire, is 734 pages! I don't know about you, but as a kid, I never read any 734 page hardback novels. I think the main appeal for the kids is that the main character is a kid, not that the story content is childish.
That's what I think anyway.
As far as the CD burning capabilities, I really don't trust HP in that department. I had an HP CD burner, it didn't last longer than a year, and two other people I know experienced the same thing. I'd wait for about a year from now before buying any HP product that has CD burning as one of the features, as they don't seem to be up to par there.
It would seem that the people at Fox News are doing a little more than just reporting on the story...
"Sesame Street has always stood for mutual respect and understanding," a spokeswoman said. "We're outraged that our characters would be used in this unfortunate and distasteful manner. This is not at all humorous.The people responsible for this should be ashamed of themselves. We are exploring all legal options to stop this abuse and any similar abuses in the future."
When asked about Bert's current whereabouts, however, the spokeswoman replied: "No comment."
According to TVGuide, the list of songs rumor is untrue: "It's not true. No one has told us what we can or cannot play from a corporate level," says Tom Poleman, senior vice president of programming for Clear Channel Communications in New York. You decide who to believe. I'm not making any statement about whether it's true or not, but you should see that there is some doubt.
September 11, 2001 Posted: 1457 GMT
People walk away from the World Trade Center as ash rains down.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Terrorists struck the United States Tuesday morning in harrowing, widespread attacks that included at least three commercial jet crashes into significant buildings.
In the first attack, a plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan shortly before 9 a.m., followed by another plane into the second tower about 20 minutes later. Both towers later collapsed.
American Airlines Boeing 767 that had been hijacked after take-off from Boston. American Airlines told CNN that it lost two planes in "tragic accidents," one leaving Boston with 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard, and the second leaving Washington Dulles airport with 58 passengers and six crew aboard. Both planes were en route to Los Angeles
About an hour later, a plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, part of which later collapsed.
Sources say a second plane was heading toward the Pentagon; F-16 jets were in the air monitoring it.
The Pentagon, the White House, the State Department, the Justice Department, the Capitol, the CIA and all other government buildings in Washington evacuated.
In the first ever national ground stop of aircraft, all flights nationwide have been stopped at their departure airports.
All international flights were diverted to Canada.
Israel has evacuated all its missions around the world.
President Bush cancelled an appearance in Florida to return to Washington, calling the crashes "apparent terrorist attacks" and "a national tragedy."
In Chicago, the Sears Tower was evacuated; United Nations in New York evacuated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta was evacuated.
The New York Port Authority said it had closed all bridges and tunnels into the city.
New York's Bellevue Hospital was designated command central for handling the catastrophe. Several hospitals have already reported receiving victims with burns and head injuries.
Large plane crashed 80 miles south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but it was unknown if this crash was connected to terrorist attacks.
U.S. stock markets were closed after the New York attacks.
Grim Fandango is also an excellent problem-solving game. And it has an amusing and engrossing story line.
You can still buy plain old bricks in large quantities, they're just not easy to find. I've found that the best deal for my money is set #3033. The contents of this set can be found here. Sure, there's a somewhat large number of the stupid 1x1s, but it still comes with a lot of useful bricks. My personal collection is up to 11 or 12 tubs now.
For general LEGOs, I've found that Lugnet is quite a good reference for shopping for LEGO as well as just plain fun LEGO pages and info.
Site down. Found at the Google cache here:w ww.plantraco.com/product_dtr.html+&hl=en
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I was pissed when I found out that Patrick Stewart had been considered for Mr. Freeze then dropped in Batman & Robin. But I suspect that this movie will kick butt compared to that one. Heh, I guess that's not saying much though, since pretty much any movie kicked butt compared to that one.