How can they charge $0.05 for a photo to be sent to a company for printing? The way I read it is this charge is billed to the end user. Or is this 5 cents built in to some fees that the companies pay Microsoft to list them in their software?
If it is the first, what is to keep M$ from charging me to print to my HP printer or save a document? This just sounds really wack to me. Next M$ will send me a bill for posting on/.
After one use of my Kodak software I hopped in the car and went shopping for a Smartcard reader. It's just a heck of a lot more convenient than using my camera batteries for just one more thing. Not to mention is also acts as a shared drive on my network
Of course this isn't the issue here. *slap* Bad Microsoft. But we are talking about beta software here. I am quite sure it will be fixed.
Let's just hope that if Galactica is well received and becomes a new series Fox will give it a fair shot and not murder it with bad time slots like they did with Space: Above and Beyond.
I think the best slot and the worst slot for a TV show is following the NFL on Sunday. It's great when the games end on time but it sucks when there is overtime and they end up joining it in progress or skip it all together.
I have the Creative MPEG2 decoder as well as an ATI Rage 128 Pro with the TV Wonder. The reason it does a much better job than the ATI card is because it is dedicated to doing that and is hardware. The ATI card is mainly software decoding and requires much more horsepower. Most of the DVD decoders you see now are sotware based because processors are more powerful than they were a few years back. You just cant serve http requests and watch a DVD with them.:)
Well, my Windows and Free BSD PC's are grounded so well I have potatos growing in the dust in the fans. I use double redunant surge protectors and tie knots in the power cords because we all know lightning travels a straight path and will burn out the cord before striking my PC.
On my Linux machines I use nothing because we all know God smiles upon Linux users, just as the mods do on Slashdot. I have nothing to fear when I use Linux.
Oops, shit. I forgot I have to be Pro-Linux and Anti-Microsoft here or get modded down. God forbid I should share some positive experience that I've had with a Microsoft product. I'm so fucking tired of getting modded down because I disagree with some pasty Linux fucker. I pitty some of you knuckefucks who think the latest distro from Mandrake and a copy of MySQL could run a business better than Solaris and Oracle 8. Or dare I say NT and SQL Server?
Go ahead and mod me a troll you sorry ass geeks.
You can check with DirectTV to see if they are licensed to do business in Canada. They are not. Since they are not, it is not illegal to steal the signal in Canada. The problem is when the theft crosses into the US. When Americans get the pirated H cards from Canada or connect to these public servers, they will be breaking the law. The only problem is how do you stop the people from using the public servers? In order to prove they are doing it, you'd have to capture their packets to prove it. That alone is going to throw up all kinds of red flags with privacy advocates.
It seems that maybe some "script kiddies" have decided to tech Gibson a lesson. I have not been able to get grc.com all day. I am wondering if some hackers didn't read his article and take his advice and DDOS him on Windows 2000 or other OS's with a compliant TCP/IP stack. Perhaps someone even took the initiative to write a very efficient Zombie Bot in 100% pure assembly language.
Like Disney. Disney has stomped all over their culture and intellectual property rights. Ever visit the Polynesian Resort in WDW? If these guys go after Disney for royalties they could trade in their loin cloths for some boss Fubu threads. I'm kidding of course. This has got to be the the most mind boggling story I have seen in some time.
It actually mentions the MPEG encoding process, buffering, and all. I doubt they'll make me pay royalties for taping X-Files on my VCR since I can't really do all the Tivo can. We're really comparing apples and oranges here.
I like the "multimedia time warping system" bit. It might violate the Temporal Prime Directive however.
I think as long as these sites keep stats and "score" individuals or teams you're going to get cheating. It's kind of sad when you think about what can come out of the SETI program and people are out there sending false data just to make them look good. This won't stop 100% of the cheating, but I believe not showing or ranking individual stats might cut it back some.
Send the head guy at UGO a picture of his kid playing at school or a picture of his wife or mother out shopping. Follow it up with a phone call and say "What a lovely family you have. They look pretty healthy I hope they stay that way, now about this new contract you want me to sign...."
All these game consoles in the making is giving me a major sense of deja-vu. I was just a lad when Atari, Mattel, Magnavox, and Coleco (did I leave anyone out?) all went head to head with their consoles.
At least now when these consoles fail you can at least throw Apache on them and get some use from them rather than using them as an over priced doorstop.:)
It is interesting that a company like Nokia would get into this market. I'm almost afraid they are entering this market just a little too late.
Next thing you know they'll have LCD clocks powered by potatos.
I'm wondering if it would be possible to make a supplimentary power source that would use a peltier cooler to create power from the body heat generated by your hand holding the device. How much current can be created by one of those gizmos?
A multi user PDA would be an oxymoron wouldn't it? But if is based on linux I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. This is truly a versitile PDA if stop to think about it. The best thing though, to me at least, no SDK to learn.
I could see running a MUD on one just for shits and giggles.
Will we ever see Motif or CDE again?
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When I originally picked up RedHat Linux 5.0 the first thing I bought was your distribution of OSF Motif. I've always prefered a Linux desktop that was virtually identical to my corporate desktop. With Motif and CDE I was able to do that. What were your resons for dropping these producs, and will we ever see them again perhaps even bundled in an enterprise workstation edition of RedHat Linux?
I always thought what made the Amiga great back in its time was the hardware architecture. Here was a machine (out of the box) with 512k of RAM that could smoke the competition (at the time an 80286 with VGA) as far as sound, graphics, and multitasking went. If it wasn't for the Amiga's custom chips, Fat Agnes comes to mind, all you'd have was just another home computer and perhaps the Atari ST would have been a little more popular.
Wow! Someone did a first post without bragging about the first post.
I don't think the miniseries was well received. I personally enjoyed it and I enjoyed the first movie as well. When I watch a movie or a TV series based on a book I don't sit and look for inconsistencies, instead I watch it to be entertained. You're not going to enjoy anything if you're scanning it for flaws.
Some of the special effects were pretty bad while others were pretty good. Some of the hand to hand combat scenes reminded me of old Dr Who sequences with the Cybermen. Sometimes if looked really cheap but I still enjoyed it.
It used to be all applications would evolve into something that would send email. Now it seems that all hardware is evolving into something that will play MP3's. Personally I have nothing against this. I'd probably buy an MP3 module for my Handspring if I didn't already own a Rio. But since I hardly use the Rio anymore I'd probably just be wasting my money.
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If it is the first, what is to keep M$ from charging me to print to my HP printer or save a document? This just sounds really wack to me. Next M$ will send me a bill for posting on /.
Of course this isn't the issue here. *slap* Bad Microsoft. But we are talking about beta software here. I am quite sure it will be fixed.
I think the best slot and the worst slot for a TV show is following the NFL on Sunday. It's great when the games end on time but it sucks when there is overtime and they end up joining it in progress or skip it all together.
Maybe the author just needs to reply to Adobe with an apology and change the name of the software and remove all reference to the old name.
I have the Creative MPEG2 decoder as well as an ATI Rage 128 Pro with the TV Wonder. The reason it does a much better job than the ATI card is because it is dedicated to doing that and is hardware. The ATI card is mainly software decoding and requires much more horsepower. Most of the DVD decoders you see now are sotware based because processors are more powerful than they were a few years back. You just cant serve http requests and watch a DVD with them. :)
I doubt heat is a factor. This thing has less power than an iPaq.
Everyone knows we never have reboot our Linux boxen anyway. ('cept to add new hardware of course.)
Unless it was a site that said "here, link to these images" I don't think you have much to complain about.
On my Linux machines I use nothing because we all know God smiles upon Linux users, just as the mods do on Slashdot. I have nothing to fear when I use Linux.
Just kidding about the taters.
Oops, shit. I forgot I have to be Pro-Linux and Anti-Microsoft here or get modded down. God forbid I should share some positive experience that I've had with a Microsoft product. I'm so fucking tired of getting modded down because I disagree with some pasty Linux fucker. I pitty some of you knuckefucks who think the latest distro from Mandrake and a copy of MySQL could run a business better than Solaris and Oracle 8. Or dare I say NT and SQL Server? Go ahead and mod me a troll you sorry ass geeks.
You can check with DirectTV to see if they are licensed to do business in Canada. They are not. Since they are not, it is not illegal to steal the signal in Canada. The problem is when the theft crosses into the US. When Americans get the pirated H cards from Canada or connect to these public servers, they will be breaking the law. The only problem is how do you stop the people from using the public servers? In order to prove they are doing it, you'd have to capture their packets to prove it. That alone is going to throw up all kinds of red flags with privacy advocates.
The Mile High Club netcam. I can earn my "virtual" wings.
It seems that maybe some "script kiddies" have decided to tech Gibson a lesson. I have not been able to get grc.com all day. I am wondering if some hackers didn't read his article and take his advice and DDOS him on Windows 2000 or other OS's with a compliant TCP/IP stack. Perhaps someone even took the initiative to write a very efficient Zombie Bot in 100% pure assembly language.
Like Disney. Disney has stomped all over their culture and intellectual property rights. Ever visit the Polynesian Resort in WDW? If these guys go after Disney for royalties they could trade in their loin cloths for some boss Fubu threads. I'm kidding of course. This has got to be the the most mind boggling story I have seen in some time.
I like the "multimedia time warping system" bit. It might violate the Temporal Prime Directive however.
I think as long as these sites keep stats and "score" individuals or teams you're going to get cheating. It's kind of sad when you think about what can come out of the SETI program and people are out there sending false data just to make them look good. This won't stop 100% of the cheating, but I believe not showing or ranking individual stats might cut it back some.
It works in the movies.
At least now when these consoles fail you can at least throw Apache on them and get some use from them rather than using them as an over priced doorstop. :)
It is interesting that a company like Nokia would get into this market. I'm almost afraid they are entering this market just a little too late.
Are AI routines still computed during the vertical refresh with today's multi-threaded OSes?
I'm wondering if it would be possible to make a supplimentary power source that would use a peltier cooler to create power from the body heat generated by your hand holding the device. How much current can be created by one of those gizmos?
A multi user PDA would be an oxymoron wouldn't it? But if is based on linux I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. This is truly a versitile PDA if stop to think about it. The best thing though, to me at least, no SDK to learn. I could see running a MUD on one just for shits and giggles.
When I originally picked up RedHat Linux 5.0 the first thing I bought was your distribution of OSF Motif. I've always prefered a Linux desktop that was virtually identical to my corporate desktop. With Motif and CDE I was able to do that. What were your resons for dropping these producs, and will we ever see them again perhaps even bundled in an enterprise workstation edition of RedHat Linux?
I always thought what made the Amiga great back in its time was the hardware architecture. Here was a machine (out of the box) with 512k of RAM that could smoke the competition (at the time an 80286 with VGA) as far as sound, graphics, and multitasking went. If it wasn't for the Amiga's custom chips, Fat Agnes comes to mind, all you'd have was just another home computer and perhaps the Atari ST would have been a little more popular.
I don't think the miniseries was well received. I personally enjoyed it and I enjoyed the first movie as well. When I watch a movie or a TV series based on a book I don't sit and look for inconsistencies, instead I watch it to be entertained. You're not going to enjoy anything if you're scanning it for flaws.
Some of the special effects were pretty bad while others were pretty good. Some of the hand to hand combat scenes reminded me of old Dr Who sequences with the Cybermen. Sometimes if looked really cheap but I still enjoyed it.
It used to be all applications would evolve into something that would send email. Now it seems that all hardware is evolving into something that will play MP3's. Personally I have nothing against this. I'd probably buy an MP3 module for my Handspring if I didn't already own a Rio. But since I hardly use the Rio anymore I'd probably just be wasting my money.