How about a house with sensors on the outside walls, and the projectors on the inside?
It would be like being outside, except the outside couldn't see or get in. And I'm sure it probably wouldn't transmit uva/uvb, so no sunburn. Imagine, no more sky windows. The ceiling could be the sky, complete with clouds. (Of course you could control the briteness, turn it off/on, etc.)
This could even replace windows in buildings you'd want more secured or where glass is a structural liability.
Yeah, I used to live less than a 100 yards from the transmitter station for 4 local radio stations.
I had constant computer problems, constant power problems, and my x10 stuff and wireless phone jack for my satellite wouldn't work. I could actually hear the main station on my corded telephone, and my cordless had a very loud hum to it. My 802.11b was slow as heck too (although there could have been other reasons for that).
I moved to a new apt. complex when my lease was up, and I have no such problems at my new place.
I say, stay away from radio stations and high voltage power lines if you want good wireless stuff, and don't want your hardware all freakin' out.
My point was, charging money for buggy releases is what Microsoft does on a regular basis. Looks like Apple's headed that way too.
Apparently you don't read macintouch.com, as the reader reports there indicate a host of problems. Some of them, such as broken 3rd party drivers are understandable. Some of them are just plain inexcusable bugs due to the fact that Apple ignored developer's bug reports indicating problems and pushed this release out the door a bit too fast.
I bought mine, and I love OSX, don't get me wrong. But this release has plenty more problems than it should have.
Yes, and I'm sure they're so into selling hardware, not software, that they'll not charge you for a very buggy OS update... oh wait, they want $129. Remind you of any software giant? If MS has the monopoly on software AND hardware like Apple does the PC industry would be in a very sorry state right now.
iDVD is only "free" if you a buy a new system with it preinstalled. Apple calls the version they'll ship you on cd "free", but they charge a $19.95 shipping and handling fee. I think they just want to avoid paying out the sales tax on it.
It's a shame the area codes to choose from are limited. I'd definately try it out, but most of my family and friends would have to call me long distance or on my cell.
Also, does data work over VoIP? I know it's not a "good" thing to do, but my DirecTivo needs to dial out about once a month via ppp (to report pay per views, etc. - long downloads are actually done over the tv now).
It doesn't seem to help. Sometimes when I reboot, it comes up fine, other times it doesn't. granted all I have to do is pull down the menubar airport menu and select the network, but still, it's an annoyance.
The little bugs in OSX are driving me batty. I love my fp imac, don't get me wrong, but there's two issues that are really driving me nuts - not automatically reconnecting to my 802.11b network after reboot, and losing my icon sizing/folder preferences after reboot. In either case, it doesn't matter if the reboot is a crash or a restart. If those are fixed, plus the new features, it might be worth my $79. maybe.
Racism is, and always will be, legal in the United States. The government can't control how people think, the most they can do is try to influence it through public policy. Acting on that racism in a discriminatory manner is for the most part illegal though.
I say for the most part because it is still, and will probably always be legal, to turn away someone at your door asking to use the bathroom, phone, etc., based on their race, eye color, whatever the hell you want.
And if you want to continue to pick on the U.S. about this, just look at South Africa and apartheid for a much more recent example.
I tried it out. It's pretty darn slow, not to mention ugly. The DirectX Filters can do a lot more too, like resizing images on the fly and such. But of course it's MS/IE/DirectX only.
At least IE for MacOS doesn't seem to have any problems with standard transparent png's.
You won't have to wait that long, plus WC3 contains a sneak peak of SC2. Check it out! Orcs and exploding sheep in space! (it's apparently an easter egg in wc3 retial, but the screenshots are pretty cool)
To go with all the other best buy bashing, they're also guilty (IANAL, but IMHO) of false advertising.
Just go in and say you want to try the new XYZ video game that's only for PC before you buy. Heh. Tell them you want to try that new audio cd, dvd, electric razor, george forman grill, or any of a number of other products.
Or just do it without asking.. Then watch yourself get banned from the store. I hate false advertising.;)
DVD's and CD's will inevitably degrade to being unusable as well. They have about a 200 year theoretical maxium life stored at the perfect temperature, humidity, and in complete darkness. In real world use, they will usually last less than 10 years, almost certainly less than 20, even with careful handling.
1-4 - are all quite legal, and all quite reasonable.
1 & 2 - not likely to happen because of public backlash. AIM actually has 2 protocols, a limited "open" protocol for 3rd parties to use, and the standard protocol, which they change frequently to break 3rd party clients.
3 - I wouldn't doubt that they would. And they are within their rights to do so. The only problem would be getting people to upgrade when most MS admins have trouble installing a security fix. Not to mention it would probably require changes to the client.
4 - AOL has banned the use of Linux (by simply not providing a linux client). It's their network, they can control how, when, where, and with what you can access it.
bnetd is a totally different issue. The use of the DMCA is quite different from a technological barrier or a restrictive ToS.
You are mentally deficient. Lexx is the worst excuse for sophomoric soft-core wanna be sci-fi fantasy porn I've ever seen. Heck, just the idea of it is repulsive.
I have a 600A. The regionlessness and macrovision decoding are great. The problem is, it has major problems with seamless branching. I doubt the Farscape DVD's use that feature, but many movies do, and at the rates these sub-$200 dvd players (I got mine for about $125 about 2 years ago) are going for on ebay, I seriously doubt it's worth it, as you can get a brand new region/macro free for about the same price with no problems with seamless branching (or dual layer issues, like the pause and skip the Apex-600A's do, or the overheating issues, audio/video sync issues, etc.).
Hey, some of us web developers get bitched at when we tell our clients (in house people in my case), that we don't need or want super fancy graphics, flash animiation, distracting backgrounds, and an overall "geocities" kind of feel.
There's a lot of people in this world that think that's what the web should look like apparently.
*sigh* Every time we manage to convince one management type not to look at the web as a publication, but as a whole different medium with it's own set of rules, mores, norms... well, we get a new one that doesn't have a clue. "Why can't we force page breaks in HTML? How come we can't use this spiffy font? Why can't we just make all of our table images? How come it doesn't look the same on *MY* screen? ") *SIGH*
1) Malcolm Little == Malcolm X And if you didn't know, why didn't you go hit google or something?
2) No, most everybody who says America, no matter where they're from, usually mean folks from the USA. Most Europeans actually like Canadians (and probably South Americans and Mexicans too).
Heh. I actually have some Canadian friends that tried to argue that they're "Americans" too, and us folks from the U.S.A. shouldn't try to hijack the continent. I brought up the fact that the continent is North America, and they are North Americans, but just "Americans" is usually reserved for the USA because what else would we be called (ok, lets leave off the slurs and slanders a'ight?)?
"Citizen of the United States of America"? "USAian"? "United Statesian"?
I don't know where you live, but I happen to live in a state (Virginia) where all of the above is probably illegal:
sex with the lights on
all positions except missionary
oral, anal, and any other kind of intercourse except vaginal
any sex outside of a legal marraige
This, obviously, means that all homosexual relations are illegal in the state of VA. In fact, several years ago, a lesbian woman had her son taken away from her - because she was committing a crime (having sex with her partner), in the home the child was in. Apparently that sort of thing has changed a bit, and obviously these laws are rarely enforced, but they're still on the books.
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Carbon Leaf is a band from Richmond, VA. (where I happen to live). They have an mp3.com page too. They're a good recorded band, and an incredible live band, sort of a rock/country/bluegrass mix with increasingly heavy Celtic influences (their version of Mary Mac kicks arse!). The also won the American Music Award's New Music Award this past January, and the CMJ Music Marathon.
There's actually several decent live bands in Richmond, and I for one would rather pay for a live show than a CD. You wanna piss off the RIAA? Support local, unsigned bands. Spend your money on concert tickets (where most artists make their real $$) rather than CD's.
You can get rid of the advertisement. You just have to pay for it.
Opera Software makes it's living by selling ads or by selling the browser. They used to have a time limited trial version, but decided to get rid of the time limit by making it adware.
So shell out the $40 (or less, can't remember), get rid of the ads, and support the company directly if you like the product.
You even get a discount if you purchase licenses for multiple platforms at the same time.
The disks that are hosing the firmware are NOTmusic CD's. They do not confrom to the CD standard, and can't really be called such. So you really can't blame Apple. In fact this may have actually been intentional, to get people pissed off about this copy protection BS.
Quite frankly, Sony is guilty of Computer Vandalism, and should be charged with the criminal offense for every disk they release that does this, as well as civil suits from individuals with damaged hardware (or perhaps a class action).
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How about a house with sensors on the outside walls, and the projectors on the inside?
It would be like being outside, except the outside couldn't see or get in. And I'm sure it probably wouldn't transmit uva/uvb, so no sunburn. Imagine, no more sky windows. The ceiling could be the sky, complete with clouds. (Of course you could control the briteness, turn it off/on, etc.)
This could even replace windows in buildings you'd want more secured or where glass is a structural liability.
Yeah, I used to live less than a 100 yards from the transmitter station for 4 local radio stations.
I had constant computer problems, constant power problems, and my x10 stuff and wireless phone jack for my satellite wouldn't work. I could actually hear the main station on my corded telephone, and my cordless had a very loud hum to it. My 802.11b was slow as heck too (although there could have been other reasons for that).
I moved to a new apt. complex when my lease was up, and I have no such problems at my new place.
I say, stay away from radio stations and high voltage power lines if you want good wireless stuff, and don't want your hardware all freakin' out.
My point was, charging money for buggy releases is what Microsoft does on a regular basis. Looks like Apple's headed that way too.
Apparently you don't read macintouch.com, as the reader reports there indicate a host of problems. Some of them, such as broken 3rd party drivers are understandable. Some of them are just plain inexcusable bugs due to the fact that Apple ignored developer's bug reports indicating problems and pushed this release out the door a bit too fast.
I bought mine, and I love OSX, don't get me wrong. But this release has plenty more problems than it should have.
Yes, and I'm sure they're so into selling hardware, not software, that they'll not charge you for a very buggy OS update... oh wait, they want $129. Remind you of any software giant? If MS has the monopoly on software AND hardware like Apple does the PC industry would be in a very sorry state right now.
iDVD is only "free" if you a buy a new system with it preinstalled. Apple calls the version they'll ship you on cd "free", but they charge a $19.95 shipping and handling fee. I think they just want to avoid paying out the sales tax on it.
It's a shame the area codes to choose from are limited. I'd definately try it out, but most of my family and friends would have to call me long distance or on my cell.
Also, does data work over VoIP? I know it's not a "good" thing to do, but my DirecTivo needs to dial out about once a month via ppp (to report pay per views, etc. - long downloads are actually done over the tv now).
It doesn't seem to help. Sometimes when I reboot, it comes up fine, other times it doesn't. granted
all I have to do is pull down the menubar airport menu and select the network, but still, it's an annoyance.
The little bugs in OSX are driving me batty. I love my fp imac, don't get me wrong, but there's two issues that are really driving me nuts - not automatically reconnecting to my 802.11b network after reboot, and losing my icon sizing/folder preferences after reboot. In either case, it doesn't matter if the reboot is a crash or a restart. If those are fixed, plus the new features, it might be worth my $79. maybe.
Why not do a bit of research? Sure, it's gross, but it works:
DirectX Filter for displaying transparent png's in ie
Racism is, and always will be, legal in the United States. The government can't control how people think, the most they can do is try to influence it through public policy. Acting on that racism in a discriminatory manner is for the most part illegal though.
I say for the most part because it is still, and will probably always be legal, to turn away someone at your door asking to use the bathroom, phone, etc., based on their race, eye color, whatever the hell you want.
And if you want to continue to pick on the U.S. about this, just look at South Africa and apartheid for a much more recent example.
To get IE to support PNG alpha transparency you have to use pass the PNG through a DirectX filter, and it's pretty darn nasty.
r l= /workshop/author/filter/reference/filters/AlphaIma geLoader.asp
Documentation on how to do it is here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?u
I tried it out. It's pretty darn slow, not to mention ugly. The DirectX Filters can do a lot more too, like resizing images on the fly and such. But of course it's MS/IE/DirectX only.
At least IE for MacOS doesn't seem to have any problems with standard transparent png's.
> Starcraft 2!
You won't have to wait that long, plus WC3 contains a sneak peak of SC2. Check it out! Orcs and exploding sheep in space! (it's apparently an easter egg in wc3 retial, but the screenshots are pretty cool)
Starcraft 2 Teaser
Yes, but Opera doesn't seem to support the TITLE attribute (and neither does the latest Mozilla I played with).
To go with all the other best buy bashing, they're also guilty (IANAL, but IMHO) of false advertising.
;)
Just go in and say you want to try the new XYZ video
game that's only for PC before you buy. Heh. Tell them you want to try that new audio cd, dvd, electric razor, george forman grill, or any of a number of other products.
Or just do it without asking.. Then watch yourself get banned from the store. I hate false advertising.
DVD's and CD's will inevitably degrade to being unusable as well. They have about a 200 year theoretical maxium life stored at the perfect temperature, humidity, and in complete darkness. In real world use, they will usually last less than 10 years, almost certainly less
than 20, even with careful handling.
1-4 - are all quite legal, and all quite reasonable.
1 & 2 - not likely to happen because of public backlash. AIM actually has 2 protocols, a limited "open" protocol for 3rd parties to use, and the standard protocol, which they change frequently to break 3rd party clients.
3 - I wouldn't doubt that they would. And they are within their rights to do so. The only problem would be getting people to upgrade when most MS admins have trouble installing a security fix. Not to mention it would probably require changes to the client.
4 - AOL has banned the use of Linux (by simply not providing a linux client). It's their network, they can control how, when, where, and with what you can access it.
bnetd is a totally different issue. The use of the DMCA is quite different from a technological barrier or a restrictive ToS.
You are mentally deficient. Lexx is the worst excuse for sophomoric soft-core wanna be sci-fi fantasy porn I've ever seen. Heck, just the idea of it is repulsive.
I have a 600A. The regionlessness and macrovision decoding are great. The problem is, it has major problems with seamless branching. I doubt the Farscape DVD's use that feature, but many movies do, and at the rates these sub-$200 dvd players (I got mine for about $125 about 2 years ago) are going for on ebay, I seriously doubt it's worth it, as you can get a brand new region/macro free for about the same price with no problems with seamless branching (or dual layer issues, like the pause and skip the Apex-600A's do, or the overheating issues, audio/video sync issues, etc.).
Hey, some of us web developers get bitched at when we tell our clients (in house people in my case), that we don't need or want super fancy graphics, flash animiation, distracting backgrounds, and an overall "geocities" kind of feel.
There's a lot of people in this world that think that's what the web should look like apparently.
*sigh* Every time we manage to convince one management type not to look at the web as a publication, but as a whole different medium with it's own set of rules, mores, norms... well, we get a new one that doesn't have a clue. "Why can't we force page breaks in HTML? How come we can't use this spiffy font? Why can't we just make all of our table images? How come it doesn't look the same on *MY* screen? ") *SIGH*
1) Malcolm Little == Malcolm X
And if you didn't know, why didn't you go hit google or something?
2) No, most everybody who says America, no matter where they're from, usually mean folks from the USA. Most Europeans actually like Canadians (and probably South Americans and Mexicans too).
Heh. I actually have some Canadian friends that tried to argue that they're "Americans" too, and us folks from the U.S.A. shouldn't try to hijack the continent. I brought up the fact that the continent is North America, and they are North Americans, but just "Americans" is usually reserved for the USA because what else would we be called (ok, lets leave off the slurs and slanders a'ight?)?
"Citizen of the United States of America"?
"USAian"?
"United Statesian"?
Gimmie a break!
sex with the lights on
all positions except missionary
oral, anal, and any other kind of intercourse except vaginal
any sex outside of a legal marraige
This, obviously, means that all homosexual relations are illegal in the state of VA. In fact,
several years ago, a lesbian woman had her son taken away from her - because she was committing a crime (having sex with her partner), in the home the child was in. Apparently that sort of thing has changed a bit, and obviously these laws are rarely enforced, but they're still on the books.
For more stupid laws see: http://www.dumblaws.com/
Carbon Leaf is a band from Richmond, VA. (where I happen to live). They have an mp3.com page too. They're a good recorded band, and an incredible live band, sort of a rock/country/bluegrass mix with increasingly heavy Celtic influences (their version of Mary Mac kicks arse!). The also won the American Music Award's New Music Award this past January, and the CMJ Music Marathon.
There's actually several decent live bands in Richmond, and I for one would rather pay for a live show than a CD. You wanna piss off the RIAA? Support local, unsigned bands. Spend your money on concert tickets (where most artists make their real $$) rather than CD's.
The point is Descartes' "evil genius", and the file got the point quite well.
You can get rid of the advertisement. You just have to pay for it.
Opera Software makes it's living by selling ads or by selling the browser. They used to have a time limited trial version, but decided to get rid of the time limit by making it adware.
So shell out the $40 (or less, can't remember), get rid of the ads, and support the company directly if you like the product.
You even get a discount if you purchase licenses for multiple platforms at the same time.
The disks that are hosing the firmware are NOT music CD's. They do not confrom to the CD standard, and can't really be called such. So you really can't blame Apple. In fact this may have actually been intentional, to get people pissed off about this copy protection BS.
Quite frankly, Sony is guilty of Computer Vandalism, and should be charged with the criminal offense for every disk they release that does this, as well as civil suits from individuals with damaged hardware (or perhaps a class action).
Yeah, some reviews are saying it's going to be bad.
Oh, wait... you're talking about the image quality?