Wow, and who authorizes these official fan sites? I mean, who's the "go to" guy to find out if a fan site is really official or if it's just a poser fan site?
Voyager finished it's seven season run (as did Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation).
Enterprise is the first series running the risk of being cut short (which would be unfortunate with Manny Coto now steering the show in a much more fun and interesting direction this season-- if you tuned out during the first 3 seasons, you should tune in and give it a shot).
I've never ran an anti-spyware tool before, so I ran Microsoft's. It came up with one hit, for eDonkey 2000 (which it says installs spyware). Problem was, I hadn't installed eDonkey 2000. What it detected was the presence of eMule being installed (it looked at the protocol handler for ed2k:// to determine that eDonkey 2000 was installed). It did, though, rank the threat level as "Low", but still a false positive nonetheless.
Other than that, it didn't find anything (I don't install anything that has spyware). It was also very quick, and the real-time monitoring is pretty informative about what apps are doing behind your back. I'll probably use it in the background regularly once they get out of beta with it (assuming it remains free).
I run a phpBB forum, and one thing I noticed (prior to adding the setting up the addon that puts up a random number image for validation) was that accounts on my forum were being automatically generated, usually 2-3 a day (which I promptly deleted). At first I was confused as to why someone would do that, but then I noticed that these accounts all had their homepages setup to point to various websites. Some of the accounts pointed to the same site, some pointed to different sites, but generally I'd always find a duplicate account pointing to the same site. It seems the person(s) doing this realized that with phpBB, if you setup a URL in your account's homepage field, you can get the URL linked on that account's info page. When Google comes along and caches the page, you get one more rank bump.
If you run phpBB and you have a problem with auto-generated accounts (and still have them after you setup the random number image validation addon), you might want to add this new tag to the home page links displayed on an account's profile page (as well as to URL's in posts, etc).
True, but isn't it a good thing that, for once, the connection being used won't be instantly out of date when we get it? I mean, we'll eventually get 1080P displays and HDMI will already be there to handle the load-- that's a plus for HDMI.
I take it you don't have a high quality home theatre setup or the answer would be obvious to you: fewer wires and connections to worry about during configuration. No more RCA connections for left/right audio. No more component video connections for high definition video. No more seperate audio/video cables either. For high quality audio sources (think: DVD Audio or SACD) no more cable terror going from your DVD player to your Receiver (FYI: for DVDA/SACD you must run ONE RCA cable per channel, so for 5.1 sources that works out to 6 cables going from DVD player to Receiver/Amp).
Useful for Home Entertaintment? For quality setups, its even less useful since the video and audio are going to different outputs (speakers and a TV for example)
I don't know anyone who does this. Most people route audio and video through their receivers so they can easily switch sources (DVD player, satellite/cable, game system, etc). Routing the video directly to the TV is a bad idea unless the ONLY use for your TV is to watch movies.
Pioneer was showing off a receiver at last year's CES with 2 HDMI inputs and 1 HDMI output. I suspect (and hope) it won't be long before we see HDMI switching in consumer receivers.
That's a common misconception, but that's exactly what it is... a misconception.
Sounds like you got a defective cheap cable and now you're taking it out on all cheap cables because you bought one overpriced "elite" cable and everything worked fine.
As far as digital connections go, could someone who actually knows explain why it is digital connections don't have error correction? It's been a staple of network protocols (TCP) and modems (ye olde 28.8) for decades-- how is it digital audio/video connections are lacking this (or are they)?
If they do have error correction, how could a poor cable make any difference in the output then? I mean, yes a cable with cuts in it would have problems, but a flakey cable would retry and get through possibly before the data needed to be rendered.
OLED will be what finally displaces CRTs-- the picture quality is supposed to improve dramatically with OLED, and the viewing angle (IIRC) becomes a non-issue. As they emit their own light, they don't need heavy backlighting which reduces both weight and depth, and the production costs are much cheaper on OLED as compared to LCD.
Hopefully in another 2-3 years (5 tops) we'll see these out in the mass consumer market at competitive prices.
God, what a bunch of whining losers replying to the guy.
No shit, obviously the folks replying don't have any future in store security or engineering defenses against being ripped off. They'd rather spend their time crying about it.
The parent is an idiot. I didn't get any kind of popup in Firefox, not even a blocked popup. IIRC the site the image is hosted on is one of those free web image hosting providers that people usually use to host their forum avatars or signatures.
Not without destroying most of the Island, plus where talking about a lot of rock here, This is more than just removing the top of some mountain ( which is hard enough ), I think you'd have to go down quite a way to the sea floor. Where talking trillions of tons of rock off an active volcano, which might even distrub it enough to set it off anyway.
Comparatively speaking a rapist gets a lot less than someone who infringes copyright law (note I didn't use the sympathy grabbing phrases "pirates [product]", or "steals [product]").
Nobodies saying a rapist should do more time, they're saying a copyright infringer should be doing a lot less time, if not no time and just a fine with a max cap of a few thousand dollars at that. That'd make a lot more sense than throwing someone in the klink for up to 15 years over a copyright violation...
I, of course, meant it in so far as it being a peaceful way of resisting rather than, say, people fed up with copyright laws organizing into a group and sending suicide bombers into Best Buys, Frys and so forth. That'd be just crazy.
I won't speak to his ideals as far as people having "things".
Nah, theft is the wrong word altogether. Theft implies that the victim is now unable to use the product (e.g. - if I steal a bike then the victim of the theft is now longer able to ride it). "Theft" as it relates to "intellectual property" is impossible. It's impossible for me to deprive members of the MPAA/RIAA of the use of their property-- they are still fully capable of playing it, listening to it, etc.
See, the reason we hear the words "theft", "stealing" and "piracy" is that those words are a lot sexier and carry easy to understand connotations for the public. "Copyright infringement" isn't going to ruffle anybodies feathers though, and the industries know this (or else they wouldn't be desperately trying to reprogram society to associate P2P with "stealing" and every deviation thereof).
BTW: As far as morals are concerned, well, heh, that's a two way street there buddy. And as soon as the various entertainment industries grouped together to try and deprive me of my pre-existing rights (e.g. - the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, the DMCA, the Betamax case (for once the consumer was protected from big mega-corps by a big mega-corp), etc.), I lost all sympathy for them. No, I don't feel guilty at all about downloading music or movies, not in the least.
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Actually, the episode is to be penned by Berman and Braga.
Yes, it could be awful. Here's hoping they don't screw it up too badly...
Wow, and who authorizes these official fan sites? I mean, who's the "go to" guy to find out if a fan site is really official or if it's just a poser fan site?
Voyager finished it's seven season run (as did Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation).
Enterprise is the first series running the risk of being cut short (which would be unfortunate with Manny Coto now steering the show in a much more fun and interesting direction this season-- if you tuned out during the first 3 seasons, you should tune in and give it a shot).
...I always prefer to call them "underlings" or "slackers".
Yeah, really.. better to have a couple of robots blown up by a suicide bomber than men and women serving in the military.
I've never ran an anti-spyware tool before, so I ran Microsoft's. It came up with one hit, for eDonkey 2000 (which it says installs spyware). Problem was, I hadn't installed eDonkey 2000. What it detected was the presence of eMule being installed (it looked at the protocol handler for ed2k:// to determine that eDonkey 2000 was installed). It did, though, rank the threat level as "Low", but still a false positive nonetheless.
Other than that, it didn't find anything (I don't install anything that has spyware). It was also very quick, and the real-time monitoring is pretty informative about what apps are doing behind your back. I'll probably use it in the background regularly once they get out of beta with it (assuming it remains free).
I run a phpBB forum, and one thing I noticed (prior to adding the setting up the addon that puts up a random number image for validation) was that accounts on my forum were being automatically generated, usually 2-3 a day (which I promptly deleted). At first I was confused as to why someone would do that, but then I noticed that these accounts all had their homepages setup to point to various websites. Some of the accounts pointed to the same site, some pointed to different sites, but generally I'd always find a duplicate account pointing to the same site. It seems the person(s) doing this realized that with phpBB, if you setup a URL in your account's homepage field, you can get the URL linked on that account's info page. When Google comes along and caches the page, you get one more rank bump.
If you run phpBB and you have a problem with auto-generated accounts (and still have them after you setup the random number image validation addon), you might want to add this new tag to the home page links displayed on an account's profile page (as well as to URL's in posts, etc).
True, but isn't it a good thing that, for once, the connection being used won't be instantly out of date when we get it? I mean, we'll eventually get 1080P displays and HDMI will already be there to handle the load-- that's a plus for HDMI.
I don't know anyone who does this. Most people route audio and video through their receivers so they can easily switch sources (DVD player, satellite/cable, game system, etc). Routing the video directly to the TV is a bad idea unless the ONLY use for your TV is to watch movies.
Pioneer was showing off a receiver at last year's CES with 2 HDMI inputs and 1 HDMI output. I suspect (and hope) it won't be long before we see HDMI switching in consumer receivers.
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HDCP OTOH can take a flying leap.
Sounds like you got a defective cheap cable and now you're taking it out on all cheap cables because you bought one overpriced "elite" cable and everything worked fine.
As far as digital connections go, could someone who actually knows explain why it is digital connections don't have error correction? It's been a staple of network protocols (TCP) and modems (ye olde 28.8) for decades-- how is it digital audio/video connections are lacking this (or are they)?
If they do have error correction, how could a poor cable make any difference in the output then? I mean, yes a cable with cuts in it would have problems, but a flakey cable would retry and get through possibly before the data needed to be rendered.
Tread lightly, thar be facts here!
Sounds positively HOT, which cam was that? My wife never does the laundry!
OLED's are already in use in in-dash CD players for cars for example. They will (or are) also be use(d) in portable music devices for the display.
OLED is not vaporware or a theory. It exists.
OLED will be what finally displaces CRTs-- the picture quality is supposed to improve dramatically with OLED, and the viewing angle (IIRC) becomes a non-issue. As they emit their own light, they don't need heavy backlighting which reduces both weight and depth, and the production costs are much cheaper on OLED as compared to LCD.
Hopefully in another 2-3 years (5 tops) we'll see these out in the mass consumer market at competitive prices.
No shit, obviously the folks replying don't have any future in store security or engineering defenses against being ripped off. They'd rather spend their time crying about it.
Idiots.
The parent is an idiot. I didn't get any kind of popup in Firefox, not even a blocked popup. IIRC the site the image is hosted on is one of those free web image hosting providers that people usually use to host their forum avatars or signatures.
Wasn't replying to you, was replying to the AC. :P
I know you're a troll, but I can't help myself.
Comparatively speaking a rapist gets a lot less than someone who infringes copyright law (note I didn't use the sympathy grabbing phrases "pirates [product]", or "steals [product]").
Nobodies saying a rapist should do more time, they're saying a copyright infringer should be doing a lot less time, if not no time and just a fine with a max cap of a few thousand dollars at that. That'd make a lot more sense than throwing someone in the klink for up to 15 years over a copyright violation...
Er, there was a </annoyance> in there but it got ignored. Sorry.
...the United States of America.
I suppose the United States Postal Service will assign the two character abbreviation "FI" to Finland.
My understanding was that it was a new fee, not an old fee being reclassified.
I, of course, meant it in so far as it being a peaceful way of resisting rather than, say, people fed up with copyright laws organizing into a group and sending suicide bombers into Best Buys, Frys and so forth. That'd be just crazy.
I won't speak to his ideals as far as people having "things".
Nah, theft is the wrong word altogether. Theft implies that the victim is now unable to use the product (e.g. - if I steal a bike then the victim of the theft is now longer able to ride it). "Theft" as it relates to "intellectual property" is impossible. It's impossible for me to deprive members of the MPAA/RIAA of the use of their property-- they are still fully capable of playing it, listening to it, etc.
See, the reason we hear the words "theft", "stealing" and "piracy" is that those words are a lot sexier and carry easy to understand connotations for the public. "Copyright infringement" isn't going to ruffle anybodies feathers though, and the industries know this (or else they wouldn't be desperately trying to reprogram society to associate P2P with "stealing" and every deviation thereof).
BTW: As far as morals are concerned, well, heh, that's a two way street there buddy. And as soon as the various entertainment industries grouped together to try and deprive me of my pre-existing rights (e.g. - the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, the DMCA, the Betamax case (for once the consumer was protected from big mega-corps by a big mega-corp), etc.), I lost all sympathy for them. No, I don't feel guilty at all about downloading music or movies, not in the least.