Actually Chevron sells those little plastic cars that look like the claymation cars in their commercials.
But you seem to have missed my point. Nobody cares about Kodak film cameras, they are irrelevant. Kodak makes film, and will continue to do so. An announcement that Kodak isn't going to make cameras anymore is just as relevant as an announcement that Chevron isn't going to make cars. This announcement indicates pretty much nothing.
If they had announced that they won't be making film anymore this would be an interesting announcement. As it is, this is like Cheveron or Shell announcing that they aren't going to make automobiles anymore without mentioning if they are going to stop selling gasoline or not.
7-Eleven in Taiwan was quite interesting to me. They had canned soda, but no fountain drinks. They seemed to sell a lot of pickled eggs, which as far as I can tell are the quickie lunch/snack of choice. There are also large numbers of Circle-K stores, which are nearly identical to the 7-Elevens.
The Coke that I bought tasted great, better than in the USA, probably due to the cane sugar instead of corn syrup. The Pepsi was awful. I think that Pepsi allows its formula to be tweaked for local tastes while Coke has world-wide quality and taste control measures. The Yakult tasted like all the other Yakult that I have had.
For the gas station example I can see how at many intersections it is much easy to go to the gas station that is on the side of the street that you are already on. If you are low on gas and late for work you might even pay a few more cents per gallon to go the the nearest one. That said, I have never seen two 7-Elevens across the street from each other in the USA. I have in Taiwan, but 7-Eleven doesn't sell gas in Taiwan (they don't sell Slurpees either) and it can take a very long time to cross the street. Two have two CVS stores basically next to each other except for the Walgreens in between still strikes me as odd.
On a related note, there was an intersection near my home town that for a while had a gas station on each of the four corners. Recently they torn one gas station down and put up what else? A Walgreens!
On Coolidge Corner in Brookline, MA there is a Walgreens drug store. On another corner at the same instersection there is a CVS drug store. Now if you go up the street from Walgreens what is the next store that you run into? Another CVS, less than a half a block from the other one. And these aren't drugstores that are set at the back of a gigantic parking lot. The storefront is on the sidewalk. You could throw a rock from any one of the drugstores and hit any of the other ones. I am sure there is some reason for this, but I have yet to be told what it is. Of course you have to go up the street to find the three toy stores within a block of each other (at least one is going out of business) and none of them has a good selection of Legos.
we need to fully consider the ramifications of such permanent ideas on future generations.
What are "permanent ideas"? How are these ideas harmful? I am confused. I also don't see how gecko tape or mollusk glue are harmful to recycling efforts. If anything they help. If something breaks I can "permanently" fix it with gecko tape or mollusk glue instead of throwing it away. How does this harm future generations?
Now nuclear waste is the sort of problem that we shouldn't be passing on to future generations, but I fail to see how glue is going to destroy your grandchildren. Unless they sniff too much of it.
I am adding some text here because the above somehow does not meet the strict requirements of the lameness filter. Perhaps it is too compressible? I don't know. This verbage should lower the average amount of repetion in my post.
The post still comes back as unacceptable. This is Slashdot censorship. Someone is messing with me here. I would like to know what the problem is. Help?
In an act of good will in the mid 90s, Stanford (the only other school with a Class A network) gave theirs up. They did this for the greater good while knowing that it would leave MIT with bragging rights as the only remaining university with a Class A. Sometimes doing the right thing is more important than bragging rights. Even so, many of the geeks at Stanford thought it was a real tragedy. The other 50% of the sutdent body didn't even know there was a change.
So would the hardware add on be used for capture and playback or only for capture? Could you then playback a sampled sound without specialized hardware?
That said, some people in my organization do use Linux as their primary desktop. IBM has a "standard load" based on Red Hat that some use, others use the distro of their choice, which they end up supporting themselves. Notes works under WINE, so the major obstacle is gone.
That would be great. I googled for it a bit and couldn't find any documentation of how it was generated, but I did find a.au file, and I have to admit it sounds even better than I remember. It might be sampled. It would be interesting to know how that would work.
Do you have a link? I subscribed to Compute's Gazette (the C=64 specific version) for years and never heard of such a thing. If it were easy to do, as you claim, then lots of games would have excellent samples, but that isn't the case. I still think that all sounds coming out of the C=64 speaker were produced algorithmically. I remember there being a big shock over the quality of the two synthesized voices in Impossible Mission.
Now the Atari 400/800 series had a feature that could play an audio track from a data tape while loading data. The first time I heard that I was shocked, since the quality of the audio was so impressive. Once it was explained to me though it seemed kind of dumb.
so I could mark you as a friend. It is so rare to read something reasonable about RFID on/. Sure RFID can be used to take away your privacy, but that doesn't mean that every use of it will do that.
Casinos SHOULD be using it. There are all sorts of applications. The most interesting to me are making sure that somebody doesn't sneak an extra chip in after the betting is closed and making sure that payouts are accurate in games such as craps and roulette.
They will probably also use it to tune their games, catch card counters, and watch the flow of money more carefully. Stuff like seeing what happens to a bunch of chips when somebody wins big on a particular table. Where do those chips go? Does the location of the table matter? Does the game matter? This would aid them in making the layout of casinos even more mind-bending but isn't an invasion of privacy.
The difference could be easily explained. This is not general purpose speech synth. It is one or two sounds in a game. They could have put a lot of time into the functions used to generate the sound without acutally sampling it. I am unaware of any sampled audio on the C=64.
I recently downloaded a Windows reimplementation of Telengard, a C=64 dungeon crawler. It uses the original gameplay and graphics. It is not nearly as fun as I remember it being.
Do you have a reference for that? I didn't know that there was such a thing as sampled speech for the C=64. There were several speech synthesis packages for it though.
Your attack gets cc info from one store. This guy claims he could get it for everyone using the website. Which is the bigger problem?
Interestingly, the article does not mention if there was an actual security flaw or if they fixed it. I would guess that in the process of arresting this idiot they confiscated his computer and can see what tools he was using. If he was very "professional" about his demands he might have had the document describing the exploit all ready to go, so he could send it to them as soon as the $2.5 million showed up in his bank account.
So was there an exploit? This is some pretty shoddy reporting if they are going to simply trumpet what the FBI did without investigating whether this guy posed a serious threat or not.
This is reciprocity for reciprocity's sake and nothing more. Even if a digital fingerprint system was deployed (at huge cost) what would they be comparing the fingerprints against? Who will pay for a big fat AFIS system? Even a small one is expensive.
Which actually raises a good question. What is the US comparing fingerprints against? Do we have terrorist fingerprints on file? I would guess that we don't have too many.
While I love Brazil (lived there for two years) I think this policy of knee-jerk reciprocity is a bit immature. Brazil needs to realize that people visiting the USA from Brazil are far more likely to simply make their visit permanent (illegally) than people visiting Brazil from the USA. Once that situation has changed then we can start talking about lifting visa requirements. Somehow I don't think that Lula is going to make much progress on the matter, but I wish him the best of luck.
I want to know whose products they are using to do the one-to-many match on the backend. How much hardware do they need for an "instantaneous" match? How big is the database? Are they keeping fingerprints that don't show up in the DB or discarding them? All these would be more interesting to me than what box they use to initially capture the prints. Perhaps someone from Cross Match submitted the article? The article itself doesn't mention Cross Match at all.
http://www.pcwebshopper.com/mp3.html is where I got it. They appear to be out of stock right now. This was the only store I could find with a 512 MB model, and it also had the lowest prices for the other sizes. I have been very happy with it. There is no discernable brand of any kind of than "Pen Drive".
Steve kept talking about how the iPod mini competes with 256MB flash players but never mentioned that it isn't a flash player. Why is that?
I was anticipating a serious case of buyer's remorse given that I had just bought a 512MB flash player/USB pen drive for $150. The iPod mini is certainly more impressive than my little player, but given that it is hard drive based and $100 more I don't feel so bad.
Also, I can pop in a new AAA battery when mine runs out. All by myself.
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But you seem to have missed my point. Nobody cares about Kodak film cameras, they are irrelevant. Kodak makes film, and will continue to do so. An announcement that Kodak isn't going to make cameras anymore is just as relevant as an announcement that Chevron isn't going to make cars. This announcement indicates pretty much nothing.
If they had announced that they won't be making film anymore this would be an interesting announcement. As it is, this is like Cheveron or Shell announcing that they aren't going to make automobiles anymore without mentioning if they are going to stop selling gasoline or not.
The Coke that I bought tasted great, better than in the USA, probably due to the cane sugar instead of corn syrup. The Pepsi was awful. I think that Pepsi allows its formula to be tweaked for local tastes while Coke has world-wide quality and taste control measures. The Yakult tasted like all the other Yakult that I have had.
On a related note, there was an intersection near my home town that for a while had a gas station on each of the four corners. Recently they torn one gas station down and put up what else? A Walgreens!
On Coolidge Corner in Brookline, MA there is a Walgreens drug store. On another corner at the same instersection there is a CVS drug store. Now if you go up the street from Walgreens what is the next store that you run into? Another CVS, less than a half a block from the other one. And these aren't drugstores that are set at the back of a gigantic parking lot. The storefront is on the sidewalk. You could throw a rock from any one of the drugstores and hit any of the other ones. I am sure there is some reason for this, but I have yet to be told what it is. Of course you have to go up the street to find the three toy stores within a block of each other (at least one is going out of business) and none of them has a good selection of Legos.
What are "permanent ideas"? How are these ideas harmful? I am confused. I also don't see how gecko tape or mollusk glue are harmful to recycling efforts. If anything they help. If something breaks I can "permanently" fix it with gecko tape or mollusk glue instead of throwing it away. How does this harm future generations?
Now nuclear waste is the sort of problem that we shouldn't be passing on to future generations, but I fail to see how glue is going to destroy your grandchildren. Unless they sniff too much of it.
I am adding some text here because the above somehow does not meet the strict requirements of the lameness filter. Perhaps it is too compressible? I don't know. This verbage should lower the average amount of repetion in my post.
The post still comes back as unacceptable. This is Slashdot censorship. Someone is messing with me here. I would like to know what the problem is. Help?
In an act of good will in the mid 90s, Stanford (the only other school with a Class A network) gave theirs up. They did this for the greater good while knowing that it would leave MIT with bragging rights as the only remaining university with a Class A. Sometimes doing the right thing is more important than bragging rights. Even so, many of the geeks at Stanford thought it was a real tragedy. The other 50% of the sutdent body didn't even know there was a change.
So would the hardware add on be used for capture and playback or only for capture? Could you then playback a sampled sound without specialized hardware?
That said, some people in my organization do use Linux as their primary desktop. IBM has a "standard load" based on Red Hat that some use, others use the distro of their choice, which they end up supporting themselves. Notes works under WINE, so the major obstacle is gone.
That would be great. I googled for it a bit and couldn't find any documentation of how it was generated, but I did find a .au file, and I have to admit it sounds even better than I remember. It might be sampled. It would be interesting to know how that would work.
Now the Atari 400/800 series had a feature that could play an audio track from a data tape while loading data. The first time I heard that I was shocked, since the quality of the audio was so impressive. Once it was explained to me though it seemed kind of dumb.
Casinos SHOULD be using it. There are all sorts of applications. The most interesting to me are making sure that somebody doesn't sneak an extra chip in after the betting is closed and making sure that payouts are accurate in games such as craps and roulette.
They will probably also use it to tune their games, catch card counters, and watch the flow of money more carefully. Stuff like seeing what happens to a bunch of chips when somebody wins big on a particular table. Where do those chips go? Does the location of the table matter? Does the game matter? This would aid them in making the layout of casinos even more mind-bending but isn't an invasion of privacy.
The difference could be easily explained. This is not general purpose speech synth. It is one or two sounds in a game. They could have put a lot of time into the functions used to generate the sound without acutally sampling it. I am unaware of any sampled audio on the C=64.
Michael is not a homosexual.
Of course then Michael would mod it into oblivion.
I leave it as a study for the reader to deconstruct.
Yeah, that was a tough one. Took forever to complete.
I recently downloaded a Windows reimplementation of Telengard, a C=64 dungeon crawler. It uses the original gameplay and graphics. It is not nearly as fun as I remember it being.
Do you have a reference for that? I didn't know that there was such a thing as sampled speech for the C=64. There were several speech synthesis packages for it though.
Prices are a bit higher, but they have other brands as well.
Interestingly, the article does not mention if there was an actual security flaw or if they fixed it. I would guess that in the process of arresting this idiot they confiscated his computer and can see what tools he was using. If he was very "professional" about his demands he might have had the document describing the exploit all ready to go, so he could send it to them as soon as the $2.5 million showed up in his bank account.
So was there an exploit? This is some pretty shoddy reporting if they are going to simply trumpet what the FBI did without investigating whether this guy posed a serious threat or not.
I think that you are missing the point of the other joke.
Which actually raises a good question. What is the US comparing fingerprints against? Do we have terrorist fingerprints on file? I would guess that we don't have too many.
While I love Brazil (lived there for two years) I think this policy of knee-jerk reciprocity is a bit immature. Brazil needs to realize that people visiting the USA from Brazil are far more likely to simply make their visit permanent (illegally) than people visiting Brazil from the USA. Once that situation has changed then we can start talking about lifting visa requirements. Somehow I don't think that Lula is going to make much progress on the matter, but I wish him the best of luck.
I want to know whose products they are using to do the one-to-many match on the backend. How much hardware do they need for an "instantaneous" match? How big is the database? Are they keeping fingerprints that don't show up in the DB or discarding them? All these would be more interesting to me than what box they use to initially capture the prints. Perhaps someone from Cross Match submitted the article? The article itself doesn't mention Cross Match at all.
I was anticipating a serious case of buyer's remorse given that I had just bought a 512MB flash player/USB pen drive for $150. The iPod mini is certainly more impressive than my little player, but given that it is hard drive based and $100 more I don't feel so bad.
Also, I can pop in a new AAA battery when mine runs out. All by myself.