According to this commweb article you can only disable the commercial services, not the E911 services. So for privacy measures, you'd still be able to be tracked.
The US has so many toys. The US has got myriad different payloads for those Tomahawk cruise missiles you hear so much about, from anti-personnell to anti-building to ones that shoot metal fibers everywhere and short out power plants. They've got the greatest mechanized infantry the world has ever seen, in the form of the M1A1 tank, that has a 120mm smoothbore cannon with an effective range of 4000 meters, many equipped with depleted uranium shells and armor, which really do a number on non-depleted-uranium armored tanks. They've got attack choppers that have a retina based targeting system that's effective from five miles away. An Apache pilot is capable of taking cover behind a hill, popping up, sighting an enemy tank miles away, firing, and ducking back under cover, all in a matter of seconds.
Even if the US has to commit to a ground war in Afghanistan, they are much better prepared than the Soviets ever were. Ford's auto plants are designed such that they can be at full production of tanks and armored vehicles within a week, if need be.
I'm not trying to imply that the article by securityfocus is wrong, in fact by reading the bill, I'm that much more sure that our civil liberties are about to be trampled. However, I'm just saying you should go read the bill and decide for yourself.
Here's the actual bill: http://www.eff.org/sc/ashcroft_proposal.html. Instead of getting it second-hand from a news source that puts its own spin on it, why not make the judgement for yourself.
I submitted this story earlier about how Microsoft donated $5 million in cash and $5 million in software and tech support to the relief fund, and it was rejected almost immediately. Typical/. bias.
I don't understand why this isn't Adobe's bill. If the legal system is set up such that lawyers only make money from stuff like this, it's no wonder we have frivilous lawsuits all over the place. This should be a routine part of their paid job for Adobe, if it's Adobe who wants this action taken.
How many corporate lawyers do you know of that don't charge on an hourly basis?
Hmmm... I can't see that being a true quote. Reason being, that the major Japanese game companies (Nintendo, Sony, Sega) usually gauge their successes and failures on how well their systems do in Japan, with the rest of the world being secondary. That's why even though N64 was pretty popular in the US, it was still considered somewhat of a failure by Yamauchi & co. This being the case, why would Yamauchi base GC's (non)production on an American tradeshow, over it's own Japanes tradeshow Spaceworld?
I know I'm splitting hairs here, but how can you be an executive editor for ZDnet and not know the difference between bits and Bytes? He's confusing the whole issue.
Mach 5 is the speed that the scramjet needs to kick in. When this happens, the plane will theoretically accelerate to Mach 7. It says right there in the article that the current record is Mach 6, set in 1967, not Mach 2.1, which is only about 1500 mph, depending.
Lead-acid batteries are not used in modern electrics AFAIK, because, well, they're crap.
Actually, lead-acid batteries are quite used in electronic cars. Check out The Center For Electric Car and Energy Conversion for more info. Ni-Cad's dont generate enough current to be able to cold-crank a car engine, or power the car continuously for that matter.
Plus, I could be mistaken, but the last time I checked, sulfuric acid and lead sulfate, byproducts of lead-acid batteries, isn't exactly sold in the health-food section of your local supermarket.
From the San Joaquin County Recycling Info Page:"The average lead-acid battery contains 17.5 pounds of lead and 1.5 gallons of sulfuric acid. An estimated 2.4 million lead-acid batteries are disposed of improperly-possibly exposing California's environment and water supply to 210,000 tons of lead and 3 million gallons of sulfuric acid.
Even an electric car that is recharged entirely from dirty coal power plants still produces ten to a hundred times less pollutants than a modern car at the end of the day.
Lead-acid batteries (used in electric cars) don't last forever. And when they have finally broken down to the point where they will no longer hold a charge, the resulting waste is much more environmentally harmful in the long run than combustion engine emissions. What did you plan to do with all the waste from dead lead-acid batteries in 15 years?
If you're talking about any normal video card, that's really not that impressive, but the fact that it's embedded on the die is pretty stinking cool, IMO.
"The numbers are astounding such as 256 mbits of on chip memory."
Wow, two hundred fifty six millibits of on chip memory. That's like, what, almost 1/20th of a byte?
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This isn't a small disparity. Access to computing -- to RPG and other forms of gaming, search engines, IM, file-sharing systems -- shapes creativity, vocabuliary, political awareness, culture and common language, not to mention economic opportunity.
Vocabuliary? Apparently you never had a computer as a kid either, eh, Jon?
In all seriousness, I'm not sure that "I play Quake 3 and am a 1337 haxor" counts as valid vocabulary, Jon. I'd say spelling tests and grammar books would probably help a *little* more than IM or Final Fantasy 7. And these things I used to have as a kid, what were they called? Oh, yeah, books.
1. Get matched speakers for all 5 (or 6, depending on whether you get an amp that supports DTS ES) channels, so all your impedances, ranges, etc. are the same.
2. Definitely, definitely invest ~$35 in an "Avia guide to home theater" or "Video essentials" video calibration disc. These discs show you the basics of calibrating your home theater system, and also have many different test patterns and signals to do these calibrations. You will definitely see the difference!
3. If you're more ambitious, call sony and order the XBR400 service manual. This gives you the ins and outs of service mode, which allows you to do even more advanced calibrations & tweaks on your set.
4. If your tv display mode is set to the factory standard "vivid," get it off of that mode as soon as possible. This mode is basically used because the fluorescent lights on most showroom floors are so bright, but the picture settings on this mode are cranked up so much that using this mode greatly shortens the life of your set.
Well, it doesent support a DTS bitstream and it doesent have component outs, which are both pretty standard in most decent DVD players these days. This leads me to believe that this is as much a POS (qualitywise) as the Apex, which is basically a DVD-ROM drive slapped into a black case. That's why it plays MP3's, and has no region code.
Plus, consider this: it is pretty cool that it plays Sega MS games (which, BTW, is probably not illegal- there are a ton of mainstream players out there that have Nuon, which lets you play 3D0 games on your DVD player), but you can do the same thing with an emulator on your PC.
Yeah, sorry about the Spitfire. I always get Spitfire and Sledgehammer confused. I'm almost positive there wasnt an K7 that was codenamed Camaro, however. There was, however, a P51 Mustang fighter plane in WWII.
er... sorry to burst your bubble, but AMD doesen't name their chips after slow cars, they name them after WWII planes. Didnt the fact that their next chip is named Spitfire kind of give that away?
hmm.. I've never used TiVo before, but I assume it's sort of the same idea as when you order a PPV off of a satellite dish. Maybe you could rig the phone jack on the TiVo to hook up to the in/out audio of your sound card, then dial into the TiVo service using dialpad or some other such internet long distance service. A big problem could be the bandwitdth limitations on your cellular/PCS phone, and so the sound quality might not be good enough for the TiVo to decipher.
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According to this commweb article you can only disable the commercial services, not the E911 services. So for privacy measures, you'd still be able to be tracked.
The US has so many toys. The US has got myriad different payloads for those Tomahawk cruise missiles you hear so much about, from anti-personnell to anti-building to ones that shoot metal fibers everywhere and short out power plants. They've got the greatest mechanized infantry the world has ever seen, in the form of the M1A1 tank, that has a 120mm smoothbore cannon with an effective range of 4000 meters, many equipped with depleted uranium shells and armor, which really do a number on non-depleted-uranium armored tanks. They've got attack choppers that have a retina based targeting system that's effective from five miles away. An Apache pilot is capable of taking cover behind a hill, popping up, sighting an enemy tank miles away, firing, and ducking back under cover, all in a matter of seconds.
Even if the US has to commit to a ground war in Afghanistan, they are much better prepared than the Soviets ever were. Ford's auto plants are designed such that they can be at full production of tanks and armored vehicles within a week, if need be.
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I'm not trying to imply that the article by securityfocus is wrong, in fact by reading the bill, I'm that much more sure that our civil liberties are about to be trampled. However, I'm just saying you should go read the bill and decide for yourself.
Here's the actual bill: http://www.eff.org/sc/ashcroft_proposal.html. Instead of getting it second-hand from a news source that puts its own spin on it, why not make the judgement for yourself.
I submitted this story earlier about how Microsoft donated $5 million in cash and $5 million in software and tech support to the relief fund, and it was rejected almost immediately. Typical /. bias.
I don't understand why this isn't Adobe's bill. If the legal system is set up such that lawyers only make money from stuff like this, it's no wonder we have frivilous lawsuits all over the place. This should be a routine part of their paid job for Adobe, if it's Adobe who wants this action taken.
How many corporate lawyers do you know of that don't charge on an hourly basis?
pocket.ign.com is reporting that there is a pot accessible from the back of the GBA that controls contrast. Check it out here.
Acrylic cases are old news. In fact, check out this LAN-party friendly case on hardforum.
There are quite a few acrylic cases in the case-mod forum.
Hmmm... I can't see that being a true quote. Reason being, that the major Japanese game companies (Nintendo, Sony, Sega) usually gauge their successes and failures on how well their systems do in Japan, with the rest of the world being secondary. That's why even though N64 was pretty popular in the US, it was still considered somewhat of a failure by Yamauchi & co. This being the case, why would Yamauchi base GC's (non)production on an American tradeshow, over it's own Japanes tradeshow Spaceworld?
I know I'm splitting hairs here, but how can you be an executive editor for ZDnet and not know the difference between bits and Bytes? He's confusing the whole issue.
Mach 5 is the speed that the scramjet needs to kick in. When this happens, the plane will theoretically accelerate to Mach 7. It says right there in the article that the current record is Mach 6, set in 1967, not Mach 2.1, which is only about 1500 mph, depending.
Lead-acid batteries are not used in modern electrics AFAIK, because, well, they're crap.
Actually, lead-acid batteries are quite used in electronic cars. Check out The Center For Electric Car and Energy Conversion for more info. Ni-Cad's dont generate enough current to be able to cold-crank a car engine, or power the car continuously for that matter.
Plus, I could be mistaken, but the last time I checked, sulfuric acid and lead sulfate, byproducts of lead-acid batteries, isn't exactly sold in the health-food section of your local supermarket.
From the San Joaquin County Recycling Info Page:"The average lead-acid battery contains 17.5 pounds of lead and 1.5 gallons of sulfuric acid. An estimated 2.4 million lead-acid batteries are disposed of improperly-possibly exposing California's environment and water supply to 210,000 tons of lead and 3 million gallons of sulfuric acid.
Sounds like a problem to me.
Even an electric car that is recharged entirely from dirty coal power plants still produces ten to a hundred times less pollutants than a modern car at the end of the day.
Lead-acid batteries (used in electric cars) don't last forever. And when they have finally broken down to the point where they will no longer hold a charge, the resulting waste is much more environmentally harmful in the long run than combustion engine emissions. What did you plan to do with all the waste from dead lead-acid batteries in 15 years?
Erm. Whatever. Taco posted as 256mbits, which in SI notation is millibits. Hence, the title of the post.
But I guess the humor was lost on some folks.
Anyways, it's not funny anymore because I had to explain it twice.
If you're talking about any normal video card, that's really not that impressive, but the fact that it's embedded on the die is pretty stinking cool, IMO.
Except that the article says 256 millibits.
The Shave and a Haircut chip doesen't debut until 2004.
"The numbers are astounding such as 256 mbits of on chip memory."
Wow, two hundred fifty six millibits of on chip memory. That's like, what, almost 1/20th of a byte?
If kids don't want N2H2 selling their info, they can just install zonealarm (freeware) and configure it to block all outgoing packets from Bess. Uninformed/ignorant parents/teachers would probably see it and not even think twice- just the name "zonealarm" sounds like it's protecting their computers/children's morality.
This isn't a small disparity. Access to computing -- to RPG and other forms of gaming, search engines, IM, file-sharing systems -- shapes creativity, vocabuliary, political awareness, culture and common language, not to mention economic opportunity.
Vocabuliary? Apparently you never had a computer as a kid either, eh, Jon?
In all seriousness, I'm not sure that "I play Quake 3 and am a 1337 haxor" counts as valid vocabulary, Jon. I'd say spelling tests and grammar books would probably help a *little* more than IM or Final Fantasy 7. And these things I used to have as a kid, what were they called? Oh, yeah, books.
1. Get matched speakers for all 5 (or 6, depending on whether you get an amp that supports DTS ES) channels, so all your impedances, ranges, etc. are the same. 2. Definitely, definitely invest ~$35 in an "Avia guide to home theater" or "Video essentials" video calibration disc. These discs show you the basics of calibrating your home theater system, and also have many different test patterns and signals to do these calibrations. You will definitely see the difference! 3. If you're more ambitious, call sony and order the XBR400 service manual. This gives you the ins and outs of service mode, which allows you to do even more advanced calibrations & tweaks on your set. 4. If your tv display mode is set to the factory standard "vivid," get it off of that mode as soon as possible. This mode is basically used because the fluorescent lights on most showroom floors are so bright, but the picture settings on this mode are cranked up so much that using this mode greatly shortens the life of your set.
Well, it doesent support a DTS bitstream and it doesent have component outs, which are both pretty standard in most decent DVD players these days. This leads me to believe that this is as much a POS (qualitywise) as the Apex, which is basically a DVD-ROM drive slapped into a black case. That's why it plays MP3's, and has no region code. Plus, consider this: it is pretty cool that it plays Sega MS games (which, BTW, is probably not illegal- there are a ton of mainstream players out there that have Nuon, which lets you play 3D0 games on your DVD player), but you can do the same thing with an emulator on your PC.
Yeah, sorry about the Spitfire. I always get Spitfire and Sledgehammer confused. I'm almost positive there wasnt an K7 that was codenamed Camaro, however. There was, however, a P51 Mustang fighter plane in WWII.
t-bird, mustang, corvette, spitfire, are all WWII fighter planes.
er... sorry to burst your bubble, but AMD doesen't name their chips after slow cars, they name them after WWII planes. Didnt the fact that their next chip is named Spitfire kind of give that away?
hmm.. I've never used TiVo before, but I assume it's sort of the same idea as when you order a PPV off of a satellite dish. Maybe you could rig the phone jack on the TiVo to hook up to the in/out audio of your sound card, then dial into the TiVo service using dialpad or some other such internet long distance service. A big problem could be the bandwitdth limitations on your cellular/PCS phone, and so the sound quality might not be good enough for the TiVo to decipher.