I was contemplating asking Slashdot if people were finding that the DNC list was starting to lose effectiveness. I've had 2 calls from 2 different mortgage companies in 2 days, after months without any calls.
Maybe the mortgage companies are just getting desparate now that everyone has already re-financed and the rates are creeping up.
"Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act of 2004."
What!!??? Using peoples' fear of child exploitation as a tool to push through draconian copyright measures to help BigCorp Inc. is despicable.
Surely this _is_ child exploitation.
It's bad enough that there are sickos in society preying on children for their bodies without someone to then abusing that exploitation to steal their legal rights.
If you had you would have seen that the discussion was a technical one explaining why the current iPods can't play Ogg Vorbis and speculated that the next generation iPod probably would have the horsepower to do so.
It was hardly a "My Karma is better than your iPod" article.
Face it - It took a Rio engineer to answer the question that most of Slashdot have been asking for years. It's not like Apple have been forthcoming with it.
Very easy to use on the lap, knee or armrest. Now if only Logitech made one with a 12ft range rather than a 6ft range, life would be perfect. If it meant 2 AA batteries instead of 1 then so be it.
If there are any Logitech engineers here, please fix this!
Ever since their inception laptops have been marketed to the business sector where the purchasing price is less relevant than the total cost of ownership. In a nutshell, most companies would rather pay more to buy a laptop that has solid hardware support than pay to hire someone who was capable of doing that job. Upgrades for laptops have typically been either proprietory and limited - memory and network, or via pccard which is still limited.
Many personal users, especially gamers, have held the opposing view - buying the best machine that their cash can buy and supporting the machine themselves. Many machines have been given new leases of life through CPU, memory, sound- and graphics- card upgrades. Desktop PCs architecture is incredibly open.
I wonder if the manufacturers will cater to this new breeed of laptop buyers. Will we see upgradable graphics cards? How about an upgradeable motherboard? Will there eventually be a range of components from different manufacturers that could be used to build a completely custom laptop?
I guess that it's time for a new standard. Desktop PCs have had the AT and ATX standards to help ensure physical interoperability between components. Newer standards (FlexATX, MicroATX etc) have helped spawn smaller desktops.
1. Sell 'spamless'.mail domains for big $$$ to fortune 500 companies. 2. Sell 'spamless'.mail domains for smaller $$$ to established companies. 3. Sell 'spamless'.mail domains for $9.99 per annum to any Tom, Dick or Harry with the cash. 4. ??? 5. Profit.
This updated concept of a tried and proven technology takes lighter-than-air vehicles beyond the surface exclamations of: "Look, there's the Goodyear blimp." As a matter of fact, the Akron, Ohio, Lockheed Martin business unit supports the tire company's blimp fleet as the FAA
certificated manufacturer and maintenance provider.
Lockheed Martin's unique experience with certificating the GZ-22 airship with the FAA allows it to understand and address the concerns of flight through controlled airspace, especially with an unmanned airship. Safety of flight issues, operation of an unmanned vehicle, and operation over populated areas are all concerns that we have addressed during the design evolution. While most of the issues noted are not unique to special aircraft designers, it is the combination of these factors along with the long endurance that makes the design problem a difficult one.
Hehe, You have no idea how good it felt when that auction finished. I wasn't the only bidder, but the other bidders obviously weren't that interested or had forgotten. I was convinced that I was going to get sniped well beyond my maximum in the final minutes. I know I got lucky.
One thing that everyone overlooks with a soundcard 'scope'. It's AC coupled only - there is no way to measure DC offsets. The other thing that should be mentioned is the fact that the line input doesn't exactly qualify as calibrated. Whilst this doesn't always matter too much, it is still a limitation. You'd need a good known signal level (AC signal, obviously) to provide any form of (non-NIST-traceable) calibration.
Also, don't forget that the input range is very limited. In order to provide a useful voltage range you'd need to build an instrumentation amplifier. This entails time, money and effort. By the time you've added a couple of useable probes, you've spent over $100 for a 2 channel 22KHz bandwidth non-calibrated AC-coupled only scope.And we haven't even discussed software:o
Personally, I think that trawling ebay is a much better proposition. I know from experience, having built a soundcard scope previously. After a few months trawling ebay I hit the jackpot and won a poorly described auction resulting in a Tek TDS360 for about $150. It also came with a Tek PS280 power supply and a BK Precision 4040A. Yep, about $3200 from reputable dealers...
Granted, that was a case of extreme luck, but if you're patient and you brush up on your ebay searchfu you should still do way better than a soundcard scope.
There are some reasonable PC-based scopes, (eg the Bitscope mentioned in the submitted article), but second hand Tektronix scopes from ebay are still better value IMO.
The seal, marked by the "FBI Anti-Piracy Warning" label, is accompanied by a statement that
criminal copyright infringement is punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
...and what about the old plain-jane civil copyright infringments?
Not. People with high end projectors use something like one of the deinterlacers from Faroudja. The video output from a PC doesn't begin to approach the limits of a high-end projector system.
1) Play DVDs. More advanced features than standalone players, such as bookmarking (that allows you to skip that pesky 'forced' content), multiregion playback etc. 2) Play games on a big TV with decent 5.1 sound. 3) Play MP3s from a central server through your stereo. 4) Used by people with high end projectors to deinterlace video signals. 5) Confirm your geekiness.
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I was contemplating asking Slashdot if people were finding that the DNC list was starting to lose effectiveness. I've had 2 calls from 2 different mortgage companies in 2 days, after months without any calls.
Maybe the mortgage companies are just getting desparate now that everyone has already re-financed and the rates are creeping up.
"Inducement Devolves into Unlawful Child Exploitation Act of 2004."
What!!???
Using peoples' fear of child exploitation as a tool to push through draconian copyright measures to help BigCorp Inc. is despicable.
Surely this _is_ child exploitation.
It's bad enough that there are sickos in society preying on children for their bodies without someone to then abusing that exploitation to steal their legal rights.
Fascist Alert.
Because I'd arrive at my destination before it had finised the memory check.
On the positive side, my car would have that cool whoosh sound like Kitt in Knight Rider.
Not really. After all, we all know about all those Windoze-powered hard drive in-car mp3 players right?
Can you name any?
Can you name any that made it to market before the linux-based Empeg? (Don't waste too much time on this one...)
Yeah, this guy is so full of shit that he designed and produced the first in-car mp3 player before Apple had even heard of music compression.
I submit to you, Sir, that you are the one full of shit.
If you had you would have seen that the discussion was a technical one explaining why the current iPods can't play Ogg Vorbis and speculated that the next generation iPod probably would have the horsepower to do so.
It was hardly a "My Karma is better than your iPod" article.
Face it - It took a Rio engineer to answer the question that most of Slashdot have been asking for years. It's not like Apple have been forthcoming with it.
Might want to try an empeg in your plane. I'm currently installing a memory upgrade on a friend's 160GB model.
Very easy to use on the lap, knee or armrest. Now if only Logitech made one with a 12ft range rather than a 6ft range, life would be perfect. If it meant 2 AA batteries instead of 1 then so be it.
If there are any Logitech engineers here, please fix this!
Remember that Massachussets gets a lot of snow in the winter. It's not like the salt will go to waste.
Ever since their inception laptops have been marketed to the business sector where the purchasing price is less relevant than the total cost of ownership. In a nutshell, most companies would rather pay more to buy a laptop that has solid hardware support than pay to hire someone who was capable of doing that job. Upgrades for laptops have typically been either proprietory and limited - memory and network, or via pccard which is still limited.
Many personal users, especially gamers, have held the opposing view - buying the best machine that their cash can buy and supporting the machine themselves. Many machines have been given new leases of life through CPU, memory, sound- and graphics- card upgrades. Desktop PCs architecture is incredibly open.
I wonder if the manufacturers will cater to this new breeed of laptop buyers. Will we see upgradable graphics cards? How about an upgradeable motherboard? Will there eventually be a range of components from different manufacturers that could be used to build a completely custom laptop?
I guess that it's time for a new standard. Desktop PCs have had the AT and ATX standards to help ensure physical interoperability between components. Newer standards (FlexATX, MicroATX etc) have helped spawn smaller desktops.
AFAIK, no such standard exists for laptops. Yet.
1. Sell 'spamless' .mail domains for big $$$ to fortune 500 companies. .mail domains for smaller $$$ to established companies. .mail domains for $9.99 per annum to any Tom, Dick or Harry with the cash.
2. Sell 'spamless'
3. Sell 'spamless'
4. ???
5. Profit.
Does anyone think that this wouldn't happen?
Why? You could run apache/sshd on your .mail mailserver if you were really that cheap.
You might want to check your geography. Surrey is actually south of London.
Anyway, have you ever read a Michael Creighton book? Now you know where he got all of his endings.
Hehe, You have no idea how good it felt when that auction finished. I wasn't the only bidder, but the other bidders obviously weren't that interested or had forgotten. I was convinced that I was going to get sniped well beyond my maximum in the final minutes. I know I got lucky.
The other thing that should be mentioned is the fact that the line input doesn't exactly qualify as calibrated. Whilst this doesn't always matter too much, it is still a limitation. You'd need a good known signal level (AC signal, obviously) to provide any form of (non-NIST-traceable) calibration.
Also, don't forget that the input range is very limited. In order to provide a useful voltage range you'd need to build an instrumentation amplifier. This entails time, money and effort. By the time you've added a couple of useable probes, you've spent over $100 for a 2 channel 22KHz bandwidth non-calibrated AC-coupled only scope.And we haven't even discussed software :o
Personally, I think that trawling ebay is a much better proposition. I know from experience, having built a soundcard scope previously. After a few months trawling ebay I hit the jackpot and won a poorly described auction resulting in a Tek TDS360 for about $150. It also came with a Tek PS280 power supply and a BK Precision 4040A. Yep, about $3200 from reputable dealers...
Granted, that was a case of extreme luck, but if you're patient and you brush up on your ebay searchfu you should still do way better than a soundcard scope.
There are some reasonable PC-based scopes, (eg the Bitscope mentioned in the submitted article), but second hand Tektronix scopes from ebay are still better value IMO.
What the fsck relevance does this have to the OSS community? Since when did /. become the official or even the de-facto mouthpiece of said community?
I've got news for you, since you obviously missed the memo. Slashdot has degraded so much that most of the OSS community laugh at it.
You've obviously never heard of www.avsforum.com.
1) Play DVDs. More advanced features than standalone players, such as bookmarking (that allows you to skip that pesky 'forced' content), multiregion playback etc.
2) Play games on a big TV with decent 5.1 sound.
3) Play MP3s from a central server through your stereo.
4) Used by people with high end projectors to deinterlace video signals.
5) Confirm your geekiness.