Except, of course, if you don't agree with the changed licencing agreement you don't have to download and install the new iTunes. If you don't get the new iTunes then you're not "hampered" by this restriction. There's nothing stopping you from doing that.
Limiting passwords to 6 characters or longer doesn't significantly reduce your keyspace. If you only allow lowercase letters, there are 12356630 possible combinations that are 5 characters and shorter, and there are 321272406 that are 6 characters and shorter. Thus if you don't allow anything shorter than 6 characters you've reduced your keyspace by roughly 3 percent.
If you allow upper and lowercase characters, there are 387659012 combinations that are 5 characters and shorter, and 20158268676 that are 6 characters and shorter. If you limit your passwords to being exactly 6 characters long then you've reduced your keyspace by 1.9 percent.
Those percentages only go up if you allow passwords that are longer than 6 characters, and if you allow characters other than letters in your passwords.
Sure, you're reducing your keyspace but it's not nearly as catastrophic as you make it sound.
You gotta watch out for things like this. One poster on Ars (Gendou) had one of these running on his computer, then went away for a few days without shutting it off. It posted a "hey, I'm dead" thread to Ars and it created quite an uproar.
If you use a dead man's handle make sure you use it. Don't forget about it and cause all kinds of misplaced grief.
What you do is you've got your two microphones, and a sound goes off. Suppose microphone 1 receives the sound 5 seconds before microphone 2 receives it. Now, the microphones aren't directional so you can't tell from which direction the sound came, all you know is that microphone 1 got the sound 5 seconds before microphone 2. Assuming that sound travels the same speed along both paths from the source to each microphone, you know that the source is 5 sound-seconds (pardon the horrible units) farther away from microphone 2 than from microphone 1.
Setting up a triangle between microphone 1, microphone 2, and the source, we find that one side of the triangle is a known distance (the distance between the two microphones) but the other two sides are unknown. If you work through the trigonometry you actually find that there are two possible triangles you can draw with these numbers, both the same size but mirror images of each other, mirrored about the side of the triangle between the two microphones.
If you introduce a third microphone then there's only one possible triangle you can draw, so long as the three microphones aren't lined up (those three microphones have to form a triangle themselves).
Only one fortune 100 company uses windows 2k3. (source: netcraft).
For web servers, yes. If you think that a company with a Linux webserver runs only Linux machines throughout that company you're sorely mistaken. Pointing to webserver statistics as a sign that companies are using Linux is so far from being right it's silly.
If you'd have read the article, you would have noticed that they mentioned a few albums on iTMS that are higher than their prices on Amazon or in stores. This section, for example:
And many high-profile albums from two of the big five music companies, Sony Corp.'s Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Group PLC, are now priced on iTunes and its competitors well above the $9.99 norm. Sony artist Pete Yorn's "Musicforthemorningafter," for example, costs $13.99 on iTunes and $10.88 on average in retail stores, according to the NPD Group. Albums by EMI artists from Kylie Minogue to Blur also cost more in digital than physical form. (EMI also distributes N.E.R.D.)
So no, iTMS isn't beyond this. Sure, tracks are still 99 cents but full albums are getting higher prices every day.
To risk using a Slashdot cliche, you're new here, aren't you? Thinking that the mods are going to do anything is rather naive around here. Most of the time they can't even be bothered to spell or grammar check submissions, and now you're expecting them to edit another person's survey?
Greencine already does this for select films. They do WMP streaming for Video On Demand (FAQ here). I can't say that I've tried it though, since I prefer watching movies on my TV than on my computer.
Negative! There's an alternative building process called cobbing that allows for free-form walls. A group called Cobworks is currently building a cob house in Mexico that's got a number of curved walls.
Curved walls are nowhere near impossible. And placing windows in them is nowhere near impossible either. Furniture and home decoration obviously also has to be bought to fit or placed properly in rooms (i.e. no six foot long paintings hung on a curved wall).
Hold down the + button on the front of the unit, then when the Mail light starts flashing, press the Info button on the front. The left/right arrow buttons on the unit can be used to cycle through the different pages.
Jesus yes. I was going to say that if it's anything like their Explorer 8000 then this game console is going to be a pile of shit.
"Features" of the Explorer 8000:
- if you're watching a show that's being recorded at the same time, when the show stops recording you get dumped to live TV rather than continue to watch off the recording.
- live pausing only appears to hold for an hour and a half.
- no easy way to find out how much space you've got left without going through an arcane developer's menu.
- if you have a recording conflict and choose to not record a show that you've set a "season pass" for, it won't record any of that show ever again, even if future episodes don't conflict.
- no way to remove repeat episodes from "season pass" recordings. Especially annoying for things you know are going to repeat, like Adult Swim that repeats three hours after initial showing.
I've had playback quality issues a couple of times where the playback freezes for a second or so. Fast-forwarding sometimes freezes too, although I'm not completely sure if only the video output freezes, because when it unfroze it looked like it was a few seconds past where it froze.
And there are a bundle of UI problems, like the practically useless favourite channel list (oh boy, you get to scroll up through them, heaven forbid you should want to filter your guide to only show you your favourite channels!).
The only good thing (besides two tuners) about it is that it costs $5 a month over regular digital service. If it cost any more I'd be cancelling my service.
People seem to consistently miss the point of open source software. As an OSS user, you ARE the Beta tester, developer, end user and marketing department. Software is developed to scratch an itch, sent to the general public who then complain that it doesn't scratch their particular itch, the software is tweaked, made better, and before you know it we all have fleas!
And people expect Open Source Software to be adopted by the unwashed masses? What about the OSS people who, upon reading about bugs in various Microsoft programs, go "damned Microsoft, we're not supposed to beta test for them! Don't they test things before releasing them?" and then turn around and say "oh but Open Source Software means that whoever uses it is a beta tester!" It smacks of hypocracy.
Unless the point of this whole OSS thing isn't to have the general public use it, of course.
One thing to keep in mind is that if you leave on an international flight, clueless airline personnel may try to remove your I-94 (even though it's plainly stamped "Multiple Entry"). You can try to argue with them on this, but it may come down to not boarding the flight unless you give up the I-94. It's a good idea to make a copy of the I-94 and put it in your luggage so that if this happens, you can show customs the copy when you re-enter. They'll just give you a new I-94.
Amen to that. A year and a half ago I was on a TN-1 and I flew down to Australia on Qantas. The guy at the Qantas ticket counter took my I-94. When I came back into the country the guy at US Immigration asked for my I-94, so I had to explain that it got taken away by the Qantas guy. Luckily the immigration official was a nice guy, he just gave me a new one (my passport was stamped with my original entry date and a note that said "TN-1"). He said I could have filed to get a replacement, but that'd cost $125 that I didn't have, or I could have applied for a whole new one, but that'd cost $50 and I'd need all of my documents that I didn't have.
I'm a Canadian citizen currently in the US on a TN-1 visa, but getting transferred to an H1-B visa. I've been here just over two years.
Some of your information is just plain wrong.
In all likelihood you are still classed as a permanent resident of Canada, and will still have to report to Revenue Canada. (It takes very little to maintain that status - even one bank account will do it).
Not true. This is why the first time you have to file taxes in either country (the first spring you've spent in the US) you fill out an IT221R3 form and send it in. They determine your residency status. Don't do it yourself, get it done officially. That determines how you pay taxes and to whom.
One Canadian bank account doesn't automatically mean you're classified as a Canadian resident for tax purposes. If you're a landowner in Canada then you're probably a Canadian resident for tax purposes, but you can still have other kinds of ties and be considered a non-resident. I have a Canadian bank account, two Canadian credit cards, and a savings account with ING Canada. The vast majority of my furniture is still in Canada. My family lives in Canada. My girlfriend lives in Canada. I have Canada Savings Bonds. All this and I'm still considered a Canadian non-resident for tax purposes.
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Except, of course, if you don't agree with the changed licencing agreement you don't have to download and install the new iTunes. If you don't get the new iTunes then you're not "hampered" by this restriction. There's nothing stopping you from doing that.
No, there's a limit on how many times you can encode the same playlist to CD. You can burn a song to CD as many times as you want.
Limiting passwords to 6 characters or longer doesn't significantly reduce your keyspace. If you only allow lowercase letters, there are 12356630 possible combinations that are 5 characters and shorter, and there are 321272406 that are 6 characters and shorter. Thus if you don't allow anything shorter than 6 characters you've reduced your keyspace by roughly 3 percent.
If you allow upper and lowercase characters, there are 387659012 combinations that are 5 characters and shorter, and 20158268676 that are 6 characters and shorter. If you limit your passwords to being exactly 6 characters long then you've reduced your keyspace by 1.9 percent.
Those percentages only go up if you allow passwords that are longer than 6 characters, and if you allow characters other than letters in your passwords.
Sure, you're reducing your keyspace but it's not nearly as catastrophic as you make it sound.
You gotta watch out for things like this. One poster on Ars (Gendou) had one of these running on his computer, then went away for a few days without shutting it off. It posted a "hey, I'm dead" thread to Ars and it created quite an uproar.
If you use a dead man's handle make sure you use it. Don't forget about it and cause all kinds of misplaced grief.
No sir. Depends on which DVR you get. I'm with Time Warner and my DVR doesn't allow first-run recordings. It's either everything or nothing.
I have an SA8000.
No, that's just plain wrong.
What you do is you've got your two microphones, and a sound goes off. Suppose microphone 1 receives the sound 5 seconds before microphone 2 receives it. Now, the microphones aren't directional so you can't tell from which direction the sound came, all you know is that microphone 1 got the sound 5 seconds before microphone 2. Assuming that sound travels the same speed along both paths from the source to each microphone, you know that the source is 5 sound-seconds (pardon the horrible units) farther away from microphone 2 than from microphone 1.
Setting up a triangle between microphone 1, microphone 2, and the source, we find that one side of the triangle is a known distance (the distance between the two microphones) but the other two sides are unknown. If you work through the trigonometry you actually find that there are two possible triangles you can draw with these numbers, both the same size but mirror images of each other, mirrored about the side of the triangle between the two microphones.
If you introduce a third microphone then there's only one possible triangle you can draw, so long as the three microphones aren't lined up (those three microphones have to form a triangle themselves).
So no, iTMS isn't beyond this. Sure, tracks are still 99 cents but full albums are getting higher prices every day.
To risk using a Slashdot cliche, you're new here, aren't you? Thinking that the mods are going to do anything is rather naive around here. Most of the time they can't even be bothered to spell or grammar check submissions, and now you're expecting them to edit another person's survey?
Greencine already does this for select films. They do WMP streaming for Video On Demand (FAQ here). I can't say that I've tried it though, since I prefer watching movies on my TV than on my computer.
Hope he's got a spare webserver in that bag because they're going to need a new one.
Negative! There's an alternative building process called cobbing that allows for free-form walls. A group called Cobworks is currently building a cob house in Mexico that's got a number of curved walls.
Curved walls are nowhere near impossible. And placing windows in them is nowhere near impossible either. Furniture and home decoration obviously also has to be bought to fit or placed properly in rooms (i.e. no six foot long paintings hung on a curved wall).
"Just released" in this case means three months ago, of course.
And you can also go read the comments in the first Slashdot story released for this press release back in December.
Sure, there's a longer write-up, but the pictures weren't "just released".
Hold down the + button on the front of the unit, then when the Mail light starts flashing, press the Info button on the front. The left/right arrow buttons on the unit can be used to cycle through the different pages.
The dreaded Mars Metric Conversion Curse rears its ugly head again.
Jesus yes. I was going to say that if it's anything like their Explorer 8000 then this game console is going to be a pile of shit.
"Features" of the Explorer 8000:
- if you're watching a show that's being recorded at the same time, when the show stops recording you get dumped to live TV rather than continue to watch off the recording.
- live pausing only appears to hold for an hour and a half.
- no easy way to find out how much space you've got left without going through an arcane developer's menu.
- if you have a recording conflict and choose to not record a show that you've set a "season pass" for, it won't record any of that show ever again, even if future episodes don't conflict.
- no way to remove repeat episodes from "season pass" recordings. Especially annoying for things you know are going to repeat, like Adult Swim that repeats three hours after initial showing.
I've had playback quality issues a couple of times where the playback freezes for a second or so. Fast-forwarding sometimes freezes too, although I'm not completely sure if only the video output freezes, because when it unfroze it looked like it was a few seconds past where it froze.
And there are a bundle of UI problems, like the practically useless favourite channel list (oh boy, you get to scroll up through them, heaven forbid you should want to filter your guide to only show you your favourite channels!).
The only good thing (besides two tuners) about it is that it costs $5 a month over regular digital service. If it cost any more I'd be cancelling my service.
The only time Windows blue-screens on me is when I close Firefox.
Exercise left to the reader: spot the irony.
Unless the point of this whole OSS thing isn't to have the general public use it, of course.
Then why don't they distribute it with some little Hello, World program?
Amen to that. A year and a half ago I was on a TN-1 and I flew down to Australia on Qantas. The guy at the Qantas ticket counter took my I-94. When I came back into the country the guy at US Immigration asked for my I-94, so I had to explain that it got taken away by the Qantas guy. Luckily the immigration official was a nice guy, he just gave me a new one (my passport was stamped with my original entry date and a note that said "TN-1"). He said I could have filed to get a replacement, but that'd cost $125 that I didn't have, or I could have applied for a whole new one, but that'd cost $50 and I'd need all of my documents that I didn't have.
Some of your information is just plain wrong.
Not true. This is why the first time you have to file taxes in either country (the first spring you've spent in the US) you fill out an IT221R3 form and send it in. They determine your residency status. Don't do it yourself, get it done officially. That determines how you pay taxes and to whom.
One Canadian bank account doesn't automatically mean you're classified as a Canadian resident for tax purposes. If you're a landowner in Canada then you're probably a Canadian resident for tax purposes, but you can still have other kinds of ties and be considered a non-resident. I have a Canadian bank account, two Canadian credit cards, and a savings account with ING Canada. The vast majority of my furniture is still in Canada. My family lives in Canada. My girlfriend lives in Canada. I have Canada Savings Bonds. All this and I'm still considered a Canadian non-resident for tax purposes.
Yeah, how dare they. It should be amd, not AMD.
Yeah, they seem to be like the Royal Canadian Mint, who produces both circulation coins and collectible coins. And their silver double-image hologram $20 coin looks quite cool.
Sounds like Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), but that was set in times before guns. Hell, before the Inuit had metal.