A film version of Hitchhiker's may be interesting, but I think it's safe to say that a film simply cannot pick up on the wordplay of Douglas Adams. Adams is simply a master of twisting words that can make the reader laugh out loud.
Unless the director chooses to use lots of narration, which could ruin a film.
this is somehow a reverse-engineered date/time format?...i mean, clearly, humans knew mars existed well before 1873, after all....
The Mars epoch of 1873 was chosen for its precedence to a cosmic Martian event in 1877. Read the Mars time technical notes. for more info.
I think it's safe to say all epochs are "reverse-engineered" by being placed in the past. You don't see any ancient documents dated "1066 B.C.", do you?:)
Interesting how the Martian clock gives the Mars date like so: MSD 46218.763 This looks very similar to ye olde Star Trek stardates.
...the "Mars Sol Date" (MSD) defined by AM2000. This represents a sequential count of Mars solar days elapsed since 1873 December 29 at approximately Greenwich noon
a heads-up style television display for a car. It projected a large television image on the windshield...
It would be rather interesting for the driver if they were watching car chase flicks (i.e. Dukes of Hazzard or Fast and the Furious) on their windshield.
To allow a similar system w/ Wireless, you'd need some kind of 'accepted' universal ID system.
On some devices, this is already done. From the article:
The user is identified by his Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), [a tiny circuit board that identifies the wireless device and which the user must insert in his GSM phone to activate the device].
It's great that wireless Internet is moving in this direction, even if it's going to take some time since wireless ISPs aren't interconnected yet. But I'm sure as with many wireless phone companies, providers will charge fifty cents a nanosecond to roam on another provider's network.
If your wireless network doesn't reach you, just keep a look out for mysterious symbols on the sidewalk.
I don't completely get it... So a sound file was used again and again...isn't this common place?
Yes, but can you name another one-second sound clip that's used in nearly a hundred movies and TV shows?
What's interesting is that despite the popularity and cult following of the clip, the origins of it are unclear. They have an original recording of the Wilhelm, but the actor who actually made the clip remains a mystery. He should have set up some kind of royalty agreement, he'd be cashing in on it now.:)
In looking over the patent, it does seem to describe exactly what DirectCD does - allows the disc to be continually written upon and accessed by other computers with a DirectCD-like reader on it. So it looks like Roxio might be screwed.
But does this affect the general user? I've personally never used DirectCD for anything; around our office we just burn a CD once, close the disc, and ship it out wherever it needs to go. Is there really a need for a continually writable procedure on a CD when there are so many other mediums more suitable and with more capacity than a CD?
I guess gaming must be really big in South Korea, otherwise I don't see why you should sponsor people.
Such sponsorships are not limited to South Korea; there is a great deal of cash to be made in professional gaming all over the world...if you're good enough. It's not really being paid just "to play video games," any more than professional athletes are paid millions of dollars just "to play sports." It takes a great deal of talent and practice to get on a high-level team and make a living out of it.
There are a number of prominent professional gaming teams such as Team 3D (U.S.A), Schroet Kommando (Sweden), and mibr (Brazil) who are phenomenal at Counter-Strike. They have sponsors from all sorts of computing-related industries, such as mousepads, video cards, game hosting companies, motherboards, and more.
A securely encrypted message, hidden in a file with ostensibly another purpose, such that there is no way to prove the existence of the hidden message...
You make an excellent point. However, if the Department of Homeland Security suspected that you were hiding data within your own obscure files, they could search the files themselves for "extra" data. They can prove such a message exists, even if they can't discover what the message is.
Heck, within the steghide program itself you can see if a file contains embedded data (from the article):
The steghide info command is quite useful. It will tell me if a file contains hidden data (however, only from steghide-created files, as far as I know)
So if they suspect that your cute puppies are really plans for world domination, they could find out.
I see no reason why Internet sales should be treated any differently than catalog or telephone sales.
If I buy a widget from Company X via a catalog when I live in a different state than Company X, I'm not charged Company X's state's sales tax. But when this moratorium expires, I could be charged state sales tax if the purchase were over the Internet. And then, which state's sales tax would I have to pay?
Why should the medium of the purchase dictate the taxation rules? I, for one, would like to see sales tax laws universally applied for interstate commerce.
Does anyone know of any good alternatives to the "big two"?
For highway driving, I've found the absolute most accurate online tool is AutoPilot.
It's really only helpful in city-to-city routes (you can't search by address, only by town), but it's given me accurate results when both MapQuest and Yahoo! Maps would have sent me an hour or more out of my way.
switch them over to the dvorak keybord and make them practice.
In three days? They'd have to have quite a bit of motivation to accomplish this - I'd suggest breaking one of the family members' hands and forcing them to learn right- or left-handed Dvorak.
Legislation is one way to go about it - I personally think that if a spammer legitimately uses their own mail server to e-mail people, it should be legal...annoying, but legal. For the individual who's fed up with Spam I would stress the importance of spam filtering methods.
The best way of stopping spams from hitting your inbox seems to be using a Bayesian filter such as SpamBayes or a filter-enabled mail client such as Mozilla Thunderbird. I've recently started using the latter and have been quite relieved to see spam floods become a thing of the past.
Sure, it won't reduce the cost that mail servers endure to transfer the spams themselves, but the end user can save the time they would have used to sort through a delete what they find.
I can't be the only one that thinks holographic keyboards would be a great idea for public computers, just so we needn't worry about the disgusting pub-funk that seems to coat most public keyboards.
Instead you'll have to worry about the disgusting grunge that literally "floats in the air".:)
Many customers have stuck with the same provider since they first started using wireless services, and will never have to transfer their phone number from one provider to another. Yet they'll still have to shell out an additional surcharge each month for a service they'll never receive.
Obviously Verizon feels that it's appropriate to eat these costs!:)
Will this increase competition and lower the monthly rates? I know i'll be going back to voicestream (with my current sprint phone #) once this gets going
Most likely not. Most providers have announced they will pass the cost of number portability onto their customers, hidden within the already large number of fees and taxes one sees on their monthly bill.
This legislation is excellent, unfortunately the buck is passed to the end consumer.
How would non-profit organizations (animal humane society, volunteer firefighters, etc) who call for donations be affected by this law? I worked for a humane society during its pledge drive, and part of it involved cold calling people out of the phone book - many of whom did not want to be called and gave me the same responses I give to telemarketers who harass me.
Receiving a call for donations may be as equally annoying as a telemarketer to some people, but does it qualify as such?
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A film version of Hitchhiker's may be interesting, but I think it's safe to say that a film simply cannot pick up on the wordplay of Douglas Adams. Adams is simply a master of twisting words that can make the reader laugh out loud.
Unless the director chooses to use lots of narration, which could ruin a film.
In the UK, the loser would have the right to go to court and ask for (and probably get) a new election.
In the U.S., the loser has the right to go to court so that it can choose the winner. It happened in the U.S. in 2000.
You AREN'T going to believe it, but when I lived in the state of Delaware, they actually did this.
Ditto for the Fed, as a matter of fact. I've also received a check, from the Federal IRS, when I failed to recognize one of the deductions.
The odd thing is it wasn't supposed to be funny, yet it got modded up as such.
this is somehow a reverse-engineered date/time format?...i mean, clearly, humans knew mars existed well before 1873, after all....
:)
The Mars epoch of 1873 was chosen for its precedence to a cosmic Martian event in 1877. Read the Mars time technical notes. for more info.
I think it's safe to say all epochs are "reverse-engineered" by being placed in the past. You don't see any ancient documents dated "1066 B.C.", do you?
Interesting how the Martian clock gives the Mars date like so: MSD 46218.763 This looks very similar to ye olde Star Trek stardates.
...the "Mars Sol Date" (MSD) defined by AM2000. This represents a sequential count of Mars solar days elapsed since 1873 December 29 at approximately Greenwich noon
a heads-up style television display for a car. It projected a large television image on the windshield...
It would be rather interesting for the driver if they were watching car chase flicks (i.e. Dukes of Hazzard or Fast and the Furious) on their windshield.
On some devices, this is already done. From the article:
It's great that wireless Internet is moving in this direction, even if it's going to take some time since wireless ISPs aren't interconnected yet. But I'm sure as with many wireless phone companies, providers will charge fifty cents a nanosecond to roam on another provider's network. If your wireless network doesn't reach you, just keep a look out for mysterious symbols on the sidewalk.
I don't completely get it... So a sound file was used again and again...isn't this common place?
:)
Yes, but can you name another one-second sound clip that's used in nearly a hundred movies and TV shows?
What's interesting is that despite the popularity and cult following of the clip, the origins of it are unclear. They have an original recording of the Wilhelm, but the actor who actually made the clip remains a mystery. He should have set up some kind of royalty agreement, he'd be cashing in on it now.
In looking over the patent, it does seem to describe exactly what DirectCD does - allows the disc to be continually written upon and accessed by other computers with a DirectCD-like reader on it. So it looks like Roxio might be screwed.
But does this affect the general user? I've personally never used DirectCD for anything; around our office we just burn a CD once, close the disc, and ship it out wherever it needs to go. Is there really a need for a continually writable procedure on a CD when there are so many other mediums more suitable and with more capacity than a CD?
I guess gaming must be really big in South Korea, otherwise I don't see why you should sponsor people.
Such sponsorships are not limited to South Korea; there is a great deal of cash to be made in professional gaming all over the world...if you're good enough. It's not really being paid just "to play video games," any more than professional athletes are paid millions of dollars just "to play sports." It takes a great deal of talent and practice to get on a high-level team and make a living out of it.
There are a number of prominent professional gaming teams such as Team 3D (U.S.A), Schroet Kommando (Sweden), and mibr (Brazil) who are phenomenal at Counter-Strike. They have sponsors from all sorts of computing-related industries, such as mousepads, video cards, game hosting companies, motherboards, and more.
You make an excellent point. However, if the Department of Homeland Security suspected that you were hiding data within your own obscure files, they could search the files themselves for "extra" data. They can prove such a message exists, even if they can't discover what the message is.
Heck, within the steghide program itself you can see if a file contains embedded data (from the article):
So if they suspect that your cute puppies are really plans for world domination, they could find out.
Maybe they should require an "execute bit" to be set on a file before it can be executed
Not a bad idea, but probably unnecessary, considering the Evil Bit already identifies malicious packets.
"The Post has learned?" "according to sources familiar"? Now that's some journalistic integrity. In fact, they went so far as to say: How were they able to get any information regarding a deal between these two companies when they didn't even talk to anyone IN these two companies?
I see no reason why Internet sales should be treated any differently than catalog or telephone sales.
If I buy a widget from Company X via a catalog when I live in a different state than Company X, I'm not charged Company X's state's sales tax. But when this moratorium expires, I could be charged state sales tax if the purchase were over the Internet. And then, which state's sales tax would I have to pay?
Why should the medium of the purchase dictate the taxation rules? I, for one, would like to see sales tax laws universally applied for interstate commerce.
Does anyone know of any good alternatives to the "big two"?
For highway driving, I've found the absolute most accurate online tool is AutoPilot.
It's really only helpful in city-to-city routes (you can't search by address, only by town), but it's given me accurate results when both MapQuest and Yahoo! Maps would have sent me an hour or more out of my way.
looking at the napster site i can see why it is so important that itunes be the standard. (check out the partners bit)
Yes, perhaps it's more important to be partners with major record labels than with tech companies when it comes to selling music.
It will be interesting to see how much iTunes' two-week head start will affect Napster 2.0.
Obviously the porn is the stuff with the dirty bits
...and the copyrighted material's packets apparently have the evil bit.
switch them over to the dvorak keybord and make them practice.
In three days? They'd have to have quite a bit of motivation to accomplish this - I'd suggest breaking one of the family members' hands and forcing them to learn right- or left-handed Dvorak.
Legislation is one way to go about it - I personally think that if a spammer legitimately uses their own mail server to e-mail people, it should be legal...annoying, but legal. For the individual who's fed up with Spam I would stress the importance of spam filtering methods.
The best way of stopping spams from hitting your inbox seems to be using a Bayesian filter such as SpamBayes or a filter-enabled mail client such as Mozilla Thunderbird. I've recently started using the latter and have been quite relieved to see spam floods become a thing of the past.
Sure, it won't reduce the cost that mail servers endure to transfer the spams themselves, but the end user can save the time they would have used to sort through a delete what they find.
I can't be the only one that thinks holographic keyboards would be a great idea for public computers, just so we needn't worry about the disgusting pub-funk that seems to coat most public keyboards.
:)
Instead you'll have to worry about the disgusting grunge that literally "floats in the air".
Many customers have stuck with the same provider since they first started using wireless services, and will never have to transfer their phone number from one provider to another. Yet they'll still have to shell out an additional surcharge each month for a service they'll never receive.
:)
Obviously Verizon feels that it's appropriate to eat these costs!
Will this increase competition and lower the monthly rates? I know i'll be going back to voicestream (with my current sprint phone #) once this gets going
Most likely not. Most providers have announced they will pass the cost of number portability onto their customers, hidden within the already large number of fees and taxes one sees on their monthly bill.
This legislation is excellent, unfortunately the buck is passed to the end consumer.
How would non-profit organizations (animal humane society, volunteer firefighters, etc) who call for donations be affected by this law? I worked for a humane society during its pledge drive, and part of it involved cold calling people out of the phone book - many of whom did not want to be called and gave me the same responses I give to telemarketers who harass me.
Receiving a call for donations may be as equally annoying as a telemarketer to some people, but does it qualify as such?