It's not enough that the liberal media broadcast a *nipple* during a family show, now they have to fill the bits between stations with the internet, which Fox News told me is full of degrading pornography!.
I for one am angry about this political correctness gone mad, and would like the FCC or DoJ to take some of my rights away in response.
The Apple Powerbook G4 I have (12 inch) comes with a single speed DVD burner - one firmware hack later, and I've got a 2 x writer.
Companies suck when they cripple perfectly capable hardware for marketing reasons, but then I do have a DVD burner, LinkSys WAP, Xbox, TiVo, SonyEricsson phone and car(!) that cost me much less than what they would of cost if they did what they do now, when sold. If that makes any sense.
In essence; marketdroids bad, hackers good.
"Seperated at Birth"; it was used to give a celebrity that a suspect looked like, as apparently people have an area of the brain devoted to tracking celebs or something.
Very, very, very similar, actually. I fully expect much more of Gibson's stuff to appear on this page in the coming years.
If only there were somelargeorganisations who'd stand up for Linux when this kind of crap came out.
That's the trouble with having no shareholders - no-one to start litigation.
You don't hear much from Mr. Plame since his book came out. The book that says his sources in Niger confirmed that Iraq was fishing for yellow cake in Niger.
Umm, BZZT. The documents the whole case was built on were fraudulent. Go study current affairs.
His wife wasn't a "CIA spy", either. Just because someone works for the CIA, doesn't mean they are operating under official cover
She was an undercover operative for the CIA, who 'worked' for a shell company. Everyone who ever had any dealings with this company or lady was put at risk by this (illegal) disclosure.
You're wrong on both counts. Watch a lot of Fox?
Mine has played everything I've thrown at it without a hitch, with the exception of a 5.1 channel WMV file, which had a slight pause every 5 seconds or so.
If THG couldn't play QT6, they should have updated their mplayer codecs. As they don't even mention that it runs on mplayer, I don't think they realised they could do this. I play 1400Mb Xvids over SMB daily, without a single problem. You can also imdb films from thwe dashboard, and it uses a thumb of the poster as the icon.
Overall that review sucked ass. Buy an Xbox, get the component video output box (I had to import mine...) and use it for all of your DivX, Xvid etc. It even plays tivo files, so I can watch stuff from my modded tivo on my modded xbox in my bedroom.
Corporate stuff is shit. Community built stuff does *exactly* what you want, without all this standards-and-IP bullshit.
I'm sure I read somewhere reputable a moratorium was agreed to the effect that no-one could start a project to initiate ccontact with ETs without some sort of agreement, but obviously I can't find anything on Google. Grr.
The AGP port spec lays it out; AGP is a preferred slot on the PCI bus, with four main enhancements (pipeline depth etc) designed to... Accelerate Graphics.
Therefore, if you had more than one PCI bus, you could technically have more than one AGP port. However, I cannot find a single motherboard that offers 2 AGP slots, including looking in numerous AV/editing specialists, where I'd expect this osrt of thing to tip up.
He also seems to miss out the option whereby we atract the attention of "agents of free will" who have already discovered evil. Am I right in thinking that currently it's illegal to attempt to communicate with an ET without UN approval, or something? In case they wander over and rape our planet/enslave us all/demand McNeal.
My government could block off sites written in 5th Century Mongolian and I'd shout blue murder.
If no-one cares enough to read what they are blocking, why do they have to block it?
Please remember the source when discussing this; Xinhua is the state news agency, and will print whatever they are told. The last "cafes are evil" story they ran was about a couple of kids who used the internet for 48 hours straight, and then sat on railway tracks to recover. El Reg has a decent write-up on the subject.
You don't close 8600 internet cafes for "safety reasons", you close them because the population is suddenly aware of their alternatives.
Much as I like the new "Google" articles category, I can't help but feel that Google may have something along the lines of "trademark confusion" in mind when they write and ask/. to stop using their logo at the top of their page...
I was speaking in the context of a foreign-issued card. AmEx apart, we have not been offered a way to verify the names and addresses of people using foreign cards to such a level of trust/liability that we would be comfortable with.
We're just starting to move to VBV, which should be an improvement.
We do, of course, verify each and every order with the issuer. I agree to not do so would be demented - any business would be bust in a matter of weeks, when the undefendable clawbacks start arriving.
I once thought that the best way to hinder Windows adoption and prevalence would be to get together a Groklaw-style community devoted to stopping piracy of MS products.
Don't blame the store - blame all those lads trying to get stuff shipped to Nigeria, or the UAE, or any one of a dozen other third-world crime holes.
It's about 10 gajillion times easier to just flat out say "No foreign cards or deliveries" than it is trying to train up a gormless local to spot fraud. Costs a hella lot less, too.
And don't forget that most UK businesses will have no way of verifying your name and address as they relate to the card's genuine holder.
All in all, I'm glad that you can't just use any card from any country. It's a pain if you're living in Brittany, but I'm sure you've found numerous things that make up for it. I'll trade the ability to painlessly buy a keyboard for your rail system, for one.
The "98% of Japanese crimes are solved" statistic that so many are quoting without quite remembering where they heard it from, they have probably heard from Sean Connery in Rising Sun. It is broadly accurate.
If you're confused about 2ch's actual mode of operation, Wikipedia has this to say:
"What is unique about this BBS is its scale and its management style. It has more than 100 "board groups" ("ita"(board)) each with its own categorical topic (ex. "Social News", "Computer", "Cooking"). Each "ita" usually has hundreds of "threads", which are actual discussion pages created by anonymous visitors for each detailed topic (ex. "Coming election in Tokyo, 4th vote", "P4 vs. Athlon, overheating 51 times", "Best wheat for making Pizza, 3rd slice"). Every posting in a thread has an "age" (up) and "sage" (down) attribute, and once posted with "age" attribute (default), that thread goes to the top of the recent active thread in its board group. Each thread is limited to 1000 postings at maximum, and must be created again (by some anonymous user, self-elected during discussion) to continue discussion. This prevents the rottening of old threads and keeps active topics refreshed. Most "old" threads will be stored in a thread archive after deprecation for future reference. Nearly everything is done anonymously (and voluntarily).
Depending upon how you define artificial, most of us humans are already physically 'artificial' in that we have in some way technologically augmented our organic selves - lasik, pacemakers, structural implants, cochlea implants, neural prostheses, electroactive polymer actuators
I guess I was busy with something when "most of us" got handed out neural prostheses then.
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You sure it wasn't #spookyblondes?
Won't someone think of the children?
It's not enough that the liberal media broadcast a *nipple* during a family show, now they have to fill the bits between stations with the internet, which Fox News told me is full of degrading pornography!.
I for one am angry about this political correctness gone mad, and would like the FCC or DoJ to take some of my rights away in response.
The Apple Powerbook G4 I have (12 inch) comes with a single speed DVD burner - one firmware hack later, and I've got a 2 x writer. Companies suck when they cripple perfectly capable hardware for marketing reasons, but then I do have a DVD burner, LinkSys WAP, Xbox, TiVo, SonyEricsson phone and car(!) that cost me much less than what they would of cost if they did what they do now, when sold. If that makes any sense. In essence; marketdroids bad, hackers good.
"Seperated at Birth"; it was used to give a celebrity that a suspect looked like, as apparently people have an area of the brain devoted to tracking celebs or something. Very, very, very similar, actually. I fully expect much more of Gibson's stuff to appear on this page in the coming years.
We can't trust them, they sound a bit... French.
If only there were some large organisations who'd stand up for Linux when this kind of crap came out. That's the trouble with having no shareholders - no-one to start litigation.
You don't hear much from Mr. Plame since his book came out. The book that says his sources in Niger confirmed that Iraq was fishing for yellow cake in Niger.
Umm, BZZT. The documents the whole case was built on were fraudulent. Go study current affairs.
His wife wasn't a "CIA spy", either. Just because someone works for the CIA, doesn't mean they are operating under official cover
She was an undercover operative for the CIA, who 'worked' for a shell company. Everyone who ever had any dealings with this company or lady was put at risk by this (illegal) disclosure. You're wrong on both counts. Watch a lot of Fox?
Mine has played everything I've thrown at it without a hitch, with the exception of a 5.1 channel WMV file, which had a slight pause every 5 seconds or so.
If THG couldn't play QT6, they should have updated their mplayer codecs. As they don't even mention that it runs on mplayer, I don't think they realised they could do this. I play 1400Mb Xvids over SMB daily, without a single problem. You can also imdb films from thwe dashboard, and it uses a thumb of the poster as the icon.
Overall that review sucked ass. Buy an Xbox, get the component video output box (I had to import mine...) and use it for all of your DivX, Xvid etc. It even plays tivo files, so I can watch stuff from my modded tivo on my modded xbox in my bedroom. Corporate stuff is shit. Community built stuff does *exactly* what you want, without all this standards-and-IP bullshit.
I'm sure I read somewhere reputable a moratorium was agreed to the effect that no-one could start a project to initiate ccontact with ETs without some sort of agreement, but obviously I can't find anything on Google. Grr.
The AGP port spec lays it out; AGP is a preferred slot on the PCI bus, with four main enhancements (pipeline depth etc) designed to... Accelerate Graphics. Therefore, if you had more than one PCI bus, you could technically have more than one AGP port. However, I cannot find a single motherboard that offers 2 AGP slots, including looking in numerous AV/editing specialists, where I'd expect this osrt of thing to tip up.
He also seems to miss out the option whereby we atract the attention of "agents of free will" who have already discovered evil. Am I right in thinking that currently it's illegal to attempt to communicate with an ET without UN approval, or something? In case they wander over and rape our planet/enslave us all/demand McNeal.
My government could block off sites written in 5th Century Mongolian and I'd shout blue murder. If no-one cares enough to read what they are blocking, why do they have to block it?
Please remember the source when discussing this; Xinhua is the state news agency, and will print whatever they are told. The last "cafes are evil" story they ran was about a couple of kids who used the internet for 48 hours straight, and then sat on railway tracks to recover. El Reg has a decent write-up on the subject. You don't close 8600 internet cafes for "safety reasons", you close them because the population is suddenly aware of their alternatives.
Much as I like the new "Google" articles category, I can't help but feel that Google may have something along the lines of "trademark confusion" in mind when they write and ask /. to stop using their logo at the top of their page...
a) It's 24.5V on the powerbook, for some reason. b) Comedic license.
I was speaking in the context of a foreign-issued card. AmEx apart, we have not been offered a way to verify the names and addresses of people using foreign cards to such a level of trust/liability that we would be comfortable with. We're just starting to move to VBV, which should be an improvement. We do, of course, verify each and every order with the issuer. I agree to not do so would be demented - any business would be bust in a matter of weeks, when the undefendable clawbacks start arriving.
I once thought that the best way to hinder Windows adoption and prevalence would be to get together a Groklaw-style community devoted to stopping piracy of MS products.
Quite a breakthrough.
I work at a mail order place.
Don't blame the store - blame all those lads trying to get stuff shipped to Nigeria, or the UAE, or any one of a dozen other third-world crime holes.
It's about 10 gajillion times easier to just flat out say "No foreign cards or deliveries" than it is trying to train up a gormless local to spot fraud. Costs a hella lot less, too.
And don't forget that most UK businesses will have no way of verifying your name and address as they relate to the card's genuine holder.
All in all, I'm glad that you can't just use any card from any country. It's a pain if you're living in Brittany, but I'm sure you've found numerous things that make up for it. I'll trade the ability to painlessly buy a keyboard for your rail system, for one.
The "98% of Japanese crimes are solved" statistic that so many are quoting without quite remembering where they heard it from, they have probably heard from Sean Connery in Rising Sun. It is broadly accurate.
What the hell has a worm that attacks through non-HTTP traffic and downloads its body through a built-in FTP client got to do with Internet Explorer?
If you're going to bash Microsoft, at least bash the right frickin' part...
He's going to need some of Mr Robertson's cash to pay his overage bills... It's slashdotted already.