When I had a CRT, the only reason I could see for using an LCD was desk space.
Then I bought one. The image just looks better after several hours of staring at it, there is virtually no eyestrain, and the geometry is always perfect, sharp and straight (so very good for CAD work).
I have yet to find a person (although I have the feeling I'm about to...) who has used a desktop LCD as a primary display for at least a month, and wants to switch back to a CRT for reasons other than size.
The PSU really is one of the most ignored parts of the computer. Take the Nidec/Power General PSU in the SGI Indy. The vast majority of the dead Indy's out there are dead due to a failed Nidec PSU. The one's with Sony PSUs keep working, but the Nidec's are dead. The moral of this story: this article is not only useful for end-users, but hopefully OEMs will read it too.
Reminds me of the time on Seinfeld that Kramer dumped a pile of Pottery Barn catalogs in front of the door to the store so that no one could get in. (I couldn't think of a Simpsons reference for/., so this had to do.)
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Also his assumption that the acceleration would be 9.8m/s^2 on the gyro is wrong. If the thing pivits, the center of mass would accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2, everywhere else would be different.
Minix/x86 will run on the HP-200LX Palmtop (See here.), but GNU/Linux ix86 won't. Very cool little computer, but you must run Minix or DOS. I'll take Minix any day.
Camcorder pirates could be VERY good, if the pirate had access to the theater without anyone else there (friend of the manager, etc.).
A film image is scaned (just vertically) with a prism, and that could be sync-locked to a camera, lined up just perfectly, with audio being recorded with very, very good mics.
I'll bet that if you did it just right, with editing and cropping, this would work pretty well.
My point is, if the environment where the protected media is being viewed is uncontrolled, as in a private home, there is nothing a dedicated pirate cannot copy, and copy well.
The best mouse gesture I've seen in Opera would not work under the current development of MozGest. To go back under Opera, first right-click, then quickly left click, like you are tapping your fingers on a desk. Go the other way for forward. Hard to explain, but very useful. It just feels right. There is no dragging involved.
I'm a slashdot reader. I've built by own computer. And you're damn right I want my computer to just work. I want someone to come quick when something breaks.
Not software wise, I'll do that myself, but most of the parts you'll buy at Fry's for your homebuilt computer won't put up with the abuse that my 12 year old SPARC 2 will. It's been running almost non-stop since it was made, and not a single part, from the fans to the power supply has failed. And if it ever did break, Sun would send a field engineer out (for a price, of course) to replace whatever went bad.
This is where Sun excels. They build expensive computers that have excellent support, and will run forever.
I don't know if something exists yet (if not, off to Apache module programming land for me), but the server should make sure that an IP has gotten an HTML page before it fetches an image or other large binary.
The referer: header is good for keeping people in sites, but there is no need for the system to keep track of people coming from other sites, and being to identify those sites.
Vorbis (ogg) makes a binary data stream. AC3 makes an encoded sound. That sound comes out of any system that can record and playback sound (standard compact disc, LaserDisc, etc.), and if that sound ends up in an AC3 surround processor, you get 5.1 music out.
You can put an AC3 disc into a CD player, and play it straight out (not recommended, hard on speakers). All you'll hear are sounds like a modem chatting.
Look at the middle image. Clearly a Win32 app running under WinXP, right? It would make sense that all the computers used for the same project would be running the same OS, and that is likely what is happening.
However, on the left, we see a Windows 2000 style window. The two machines could still be configured the same, and the system would look like the picture, if the app running on the left was a Win16 app. This would suggest that the system is much, much older than we are led to think.
This is how to get your point across in these matters. Good for the judge.
You (yes you) can try to meet with your lawmakers (or their advisors) and discuss issues. Not everyone can meet with someone, but it's worth a try. If every/.er tried to have a meeting with his or her senator about the DMCA, DRM or any other topic, we could really change things.
I know there will be Old Drive -> New Bus adapters, but will I be able to get something for the other way? For example, if the drive dies in my only SATA machine, am I screwed, or will I be able to use an adapter for PATA?
While MUCH more exotic than you were looking for, but for more long term use, the Nikon F5 has eye tracking. I don't know (I'm sure somebody does, though) who makes the eye-tracker, but something like that could be stripped, and interfaced through a computer.
She could learn Morse code (a good idea for someone who may lose the ability to speak even if you don't build this thing), and use the computer to decode to speech, perhaps even control the computer at some point.
How many Dutch children die during birth and never get reported?
If a child dies in a hospital (during birth, not an abortion), he or she WILL be issued a death certificate. If a child dies in Holland, things might be much quieter.
I don't live there, though, so I could be all wrong.
I'm sorry but the idea that we can hate the DMCA at times and use it at others is just plain wrong.
By invoking the DMCA against their ISP any claim against the DMCA by us becomes void, because we have been helped by it. It must not be all bad, because look, it helped a community... Remember when the Scientologists told Malda to remove a post? It was wrong then, and having an ISP remove somebody's account would be just as wrong now.
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When I had a CRT, the only reason I could see for using an LCD was desk space.
Then I bought one. The image just looks better after several hours of staring at it, there is virtually no eyestrain, and the geometry is always perfect, sharp and straight (so very good for CAD work).
I have yet to find a person (although I have the feeling I'm about to...) who has used a desktop LCD as a primary display for at least a month, and wants to switch back to a CRT for reasons other than size.
Fibre Pairs.
What carries light today'll carry the same light much faster next week, as fast as you can transmit it.
The PSU really is one of the most ignored parts of the computer. Take the Nidec/Power General PSU in the SGI Indy. The vast majority of the dead Indy's out there are dead due to a failed Nidec PSU. The one's with Sony PSUs keep working, but the Nidec's are dead. The moral of this story: this article is not only useful for end-users, but hopefully OEMs will read it too.
His posting record seems to say otherwise.
Several posts at 5 for Informative.
Reminds me of the time on Seinfeld that Kramer dumped a pile of Pottery Barn catalogs in front of the door to the store so that no one could get in. /., so this had to do.)
(I couldn't think of a Simpsons reference for
Also his assumption that the acceleration would be 9.8m/s^2 on the gyro is wrong. If the thing pivits, the center of mass would accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2, everywhere else would be different.
Yeah, because Slashdot would never post a link to a site that might not be available for very long...
Minix/x86 will run on the HP-200LX Palmtop (See here.), but GNU/Linux ix86 won't. Very cool little computer, but you must run Minix or DOS.
I'll take Minix any day.
Founded by the same world class engineering team behind the highly regarded Divx(TM) encrypted DVD system
Yeah. I'd really be bragging about that.
Camcorder pirates could be VERY good, if the pirate had access to the theater without anyone else there (friend of the manager, etc.).
A film image is scaned (just vertically) with a prism, and that could be sync-locked to a camera, lined up just perfectly, with audio being recorded with very, very good mics.
I'll bet that if you did it just right, with editing and cropping, this would work pretty well.
My point is, if the environment where the protected media is being viewed is uncontrolled, as in a private home, there is nothing a dedicated pirate cannot copy, and copy well.
The best mouse gesture I've seen in Opera would not work under the current development of MozGest. To go back under Opera, first right-click, then quickly left click, like you are tapping your fingers on a desk. Go the other way for forward. Hard to explain, but very useful. It just feels right. There is no dragging involved.
I'm a slashdot reader. I've built by own computer.
And you're damn right I want my computer to just work.
I want someone to come quick when something breaks.
Not software wise, I'll do that myself, but most of the parts you'll buy at Fry's for your homebuilt computer won't put up with the abuse that my 12 year old SPARC 2 will. It's been running almost non-stop since it was made, and not a single part, from the fans to the power supply has failed. And if it ever did break, Sun would send a field engineer out (for a price, of course) to replace whatever went bad.
This is where Sun excels. They build expensive computers that have excellent support, and will run forever.
Server side systems.
I don't know if something exists yet (if not, off to Apache module programming land for me), but the server should make sure that an IP has gotten an HTML page before it fetches an image or other large binary.
The referer: header is good for keeping people in sites, but there is no need for the system to keep track of people coming from other sites, and being to identify those sites.
Vorbis (ogg) makes a binary data stream. AC3 makes an encoded sound. That sound comes out of any system that can record and playback sound (standard compact disc, LaserDisc, etc.), and if that sound ends up in an AC3 surround processor, you get 5.1 music out.
You can put an AC3 disc into a CD player, and play it straight out (not recommended, hard on speakers). All you'll hear are sounds like a modem chatting.
Global Crossing?
As you sig says, Stand up and be counted!
What I mean is, by not checking 'Identify as Opera' web surveys that rely on HTTP User Agents will just say there's another IE user.
Check identify as Opera, and webmasters will see the real percentage of Opera users, and fix pages for real HTML, and therefore Opera.
Look at the middle image. Clearly a Win32 app running under WinXP, right? It would make sense that all the computers used for the same project would be running the same OS, and that is likely what is happening.
However, on the left, we see a Windows 2000 style window. The two machines could still be configured the same, and the system would look like the picture, if the app running on the left was a Win16 app. This would suggest that the system is much, much older than we are led to think.
This is how to get your point across in these matters. Good for the judge.
/.er tried to have a meeting with his or her senator about the DMCA, DRM or any other topic, we could really change things.
You (yes you) can try to meet with your lawmakers (or their advisors) and discuss issues. Not everyone can meet with someone, but it's worth a try. If every
Write a letter. Now.
I know there will be Old Drive -> New Bus adapters, but will I be able to get something for the other way?
For example, if the drive dies in my only SATA machine, am I screwed, or will I be able to use an adapter for PATA?
CD erasable.
See this.
This all happened with CD-Rs.
Remember CD-E? That went away and so will all DVD systems besides two. One for writeable, and one for rewrite.
Hardware support comes from OEMs. I'm sure that if BeOS shipped on a machine from, say, Dell, it'd have all the drivers it needed.
Every OEM ships Windows (and, for the most part, Linux) drivers with their products. BeOS would be the same if machines shipped with the BeOS.
While MUCH more exotic than you were looking for, but for more long term use, the Nikon F5 has eye tracking. I don't know (I'm sure somebody does, though) who makes the eye-tracker, but something like that could be stripped, and interfaced through a computer.
She could learn Morse code (a good idea for someone who may lose the ability to speak even if you don't build this thing), and use the computer to decode to speech, perhaps even control the computer at some point.
How many Dutch children die during birth and never get reported?
If a child dies in a hospital (during birth, not an abortion), he or she WILL be issued a death certificate. If a child dies in Holland, things might be much quieter.
I don't live there, though, so I could be all wrong.
I'm sorry but the idea that we can hate the DMCA at times and use it at others is just plain wrong.
By invoking the DMCA against their ISP any claim against the DMCA by us becomes void, because we have been helped by it. It must not be all bad, because look, it helped a community... Remember when the Scientologists told Malda to remove a post? It was wrong then, and having an ISP remove somebody's account would be just as wrong now.