I have never understood the appeal of those portable DVD players, the one good thing about I suppose is that you can plug them into your television if you have one handy. So its not surprising that the video ipod has a tv out, i had no real desire for a portable video player, but that tv out instantly gets me interested, I can put anything I can get from the internet on to the ipod video and watch it on my telly in my living room.
I think there is a good chance now that sony will re-release the PSP with a tv out, if they did I would definitely pick one up.
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Not to side with Disney, but I doubt anyone would hold the copyright for fairy tales 3 and 4 hundred years old.
Thats kinda my point.
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Either what Google is doing is allowed by copyright law, or it's not. The courts will decide, the losers will appeal, and eventually we will have a final ruling.
But what if the law is wrong ?. Copyright was originally supposed to be a contract between an artist and soceity, the deal is that your work will be protected for a period of time in order to encourage you to make further cultural contributions. How many of these books that google is scanning are over 30 years old ?, has the author not had enough time to profit from his work ?.
Copyright in the US (and also in the UK shamefully) is now effectively infinite. Copyright is a anti capitalist monopoly that rewards people for the work of others and puts a price on our culture. Imagine if shaespeare's plays were under copyright today.
One of the great ironies of this copyright law is that Disney, one of the main proponents of extensions, would have been unable to rip off the all those fairy tales had todays copyright laws existed a 100 years ago.
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My dad gets his secretary to print off his emails everyday.
Xbox.com: Tell me another cool thing about the guts.
JR: Well, we want to discourage hackers, so this time around we didn't put any screws on the outside of the box and have multiple tamper evident labels. So with Xbox 360 we'll be able to tell if they've cracked the case.
I am not sure about this, the norway thing obviously looks incriminating but I think Microsoft is probably incapable of producing enough 360's to prevent a shortage. I don't know why but this console is hugely anticipated (I'm a pc gamer), the combination of early adopters and parents wanting to make sure that their kid gets what they want for christmas means that demand will inevitably outstrip supply. Most importantly MS wants to build up a massive lead before the PS3 lands, they want as many 360's in living rooms as possible. It doesn't make sense for them to do anything else but move as many 360's as they can while the competition is absent.
When I got my 6600gt the box that it came said it could do hardware mpeg2 encoding, obviously this is not the case. I remember reading somewhere that nvidia orginally wanted the 6XXX series to be able to do loads of on board video stuff but they couldn't get it working on time. Its a real shame.
ermm, wouldn't it just be america's problem ?, if the rest of the world decided on a common root zone and america kept on using its own it would only cause problems accessing american sites right ?. I reckon patriotism and national pride would soon be forgotten as soon as the DOW plumets.
5) Waste - heres the big one. You can probably solve the other problems, but the waste one is the biggy. You dont want to transport this stuff all over the world for security reasons, and you need somewhere to store it for a LONG time, we are talking tens of thousands of years here. Thats so long it almost seems like fantasty. If the romans had used nuclear, we'd still be guarding their waste now, long after their whole civlisation ahs crumbled. We lecture kids about not getting big debst in their teens that might take 5 years to pay off. we get scared about taking on 25 year mortagges, but we are happy to dump a serious waste problem on our descendents for the next ten thousand?
I am one of those people who beleives that every problem has a solution, one possible solution for nuclear waste is vitrification. If you can turn liquid nuclear waste into a solid then it becomes a hell of a lot easier to manage.
Seems to me that energy wise fossil fuels and nuclear produce similar amounts (although different types) of waste, just that nuclear waste is highly concentrated. The status quo is not a option, we will run out of fossil fuels, if we want civilized soceity to thrive we need energy.
Of course it is worth reminding ourselves that the drive in the 360 is a normal dvd drive, Sony's PS3 will be the first console to offer HD video, and it will be using a blu ray drive.
Think of it, the horror of not be able to access the internet for an hour or two.
You realise you are more likely to get run over today than you are to have any kind of contact with a terrorist ?. Where is the mass hysteria over cars ?.
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Makes it possible to cite a stable version of a wikipedia page in an academic work without it being completely screwed up at a later date. (They should be archived quarterly/yearly/whatever).
BZZZT. Wrong answer buddy. You should never reference an encyclopedia in any kind of serious academic work. One of the things that makes wikipedia so useful is that in most cases they have a list of external links that the researcher can check and verify themselves, if they do check out they can be refrenced themselves.
This isnt really a chicken and egg situation. Whats the answer to 99 out of a 100 questions ?, Money.
Spammers used email to sell things whilst at the same time pissing everybody off. Eventually people hate spam so much that they are willing to pay for services that try and and eliminate spam.
It may not always be so but spammers have always been one step ahead, they have more incentive.
I don't understand how you can make sure that the disc will only play once, unless the disc is physically altered after the first play (mission impossible style) it won't take much to hack around this limitation. Silly idea, bound to fail.
On the other hand, games that can be played well by non-cheating AI are often lame themselves. Chess is the major exception, of course.
If your talking about Deep Blue then the only reason it plays so well is because a hell of a lot of money and clever people spent loads of time making sure it did. If only games comapanies had the same resources....
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They had a chip which gave off a musky odour but was irresistable. Unfortunately the "Cuntium" never made it out of the lab.
Sounds like a cunning stunt.
I have never understood the appeal of those portable DVD players, the one good thing about I suppose is that you can plug them into your television if you have one handy. So its not surprising that the video ipod has a tv out, i had no real desire for a portable video player, but that tv out instantly gets me interested, I can put anything I can get from the internet on to the ipod video and watch it on my telly in my living room.
I think there is a good chance now that sony will re-release the PSP with a tv out, if they did I would definitely pick one up.
Not to side with Disney, but I doubt anyone would hold the copyright for fairy tales 3 and 4 hundred years old.
Thats kinda my point.
Either what Google is doing is allowed by copyright law, or it's not. The courts will decide, the losers will appeal, and eventually we will have a final ruling.
But what if the law is wrong ?. Copyright was originally supposed to be a contract between an artist and soceity, the deal is that your work will be protected for a period of time in order to encourage you to make further cultural contributions. How many of these books that google is scanning are over 30 years old ?, has the author not had enough time to profit from his work ?.
Copyright in the US (and also in the UK shamefully) is now effectively infinite. Copyright is a anti capitalist monopoly that rewards people for the work of others and puts a price on our culture. Imagine if shaespeare's plays were under copyright today.
One of the great ironies of this copyright law is that Disney, one of the main proponents of extensions, would have been unable to rip off the all those fairy tales had todays copyright laws existed a 100 years ago.
My dad gets his secretary to print off his emails everyday.
They provide a search engine that has served millions for a decade [or so]
Or even just five years, yes I am picky.
Really, is anybody chomping at the bit to get one of these *now*? Maybe in about 6-12 months, but there's nothing compelling about this right now.
I think there is a reason they are launching in November.
Good read, I liked this part...
Xbox.com: Tell me another cool thing about the guts.
JR: Well, we want to discourage hackers, so this time around we didn't put any screws on the outside of the box and have multiple tamper evident labels. So with Xbox 360 we'll be able to tell if they've cracked the case.
Sounds like a challenge !
I am not sure about this, the norway thing obviously looks incriminating but I think Microsoft is probably incapable of producing enough 360's to prevent a shortage. I don't know why but this console is hugely anticipated (I'm a pc gamer), the combination of early adopters and parents wanting to make sure that their kid gets what they want for christmas means that demand will inevitably outstrip supply. Most importantly MS wants to build up a massive lead before the PS3 lands, they want as many 360's in living rooms as possible. It doesn't make sense for them to do anything else but move as many 360's as they can while the competition is absent.
When I got my 6600gt the box that it came said it could do hardware mpeg2 encoding, obviously this is not the case. I remember reading somewhere that nvidia orginally wanted the 6XXX series to be able to do loads of on board video stuff but they couldn't get it working on time. Its a real shame.
Show me another error free encyclopedia.
This is slashdot, you will now get modded up for pointing out the microsoft hypocrisy.
ermm, wouldn't it just be america's problem ?, if the rest of the world decided on a common root zone and america kept on using its own it would only cause problems accessing american sites right ?. I reckon patriotism and national pride would soon be forgotten as soon as the DOW plumets.
Forget global warming, judgement day is upon us !
5) Waste - heres the big one. You can probably solve the other problems, but the waste one is the biggy. You dont want to transport this stuff all over the world for security reasons, and you need somewhere to store it for a LONG time, we are talking tens of thousands of years here. Thats so long it almost seems like fantasty. If the romans had used nuclear, we'd still be guarding their waste now, long after their whole civlisation ahs crumbled. We lecture kids about not getting big debst in their teens that might take 5 years to pay off. we get scared about taking on 25 year mortagges, but we are happy to dump a serious waste problem on our descendents for the next ten thousand?
I am one of those people who beleives that every problem has a solution, one possible solution for nuclear waste is vitrification. If you can turn liquid nuclear waste into a solid then it becomes a hell of a lot easier to manage.
Seems to me that energy wise fossil fuels and nuclear produce similar amounts (although different types) of waste, just that nuclear waste is highly concentrated. The status quo is not a option, we will run out of fossil fuels, if we want civilized soceity to thrive we need energy.
Of course it is worth reminding ourselves that the drive in the 360 is a normal dvd drive, Sony's PS3 will be the first console to offer HD video, and it will be using a blu ray drive.
Think of it, the horror of not be able to access the internet for an hour or two.
You realise you are more likely to get run over today than you are to have any kind of contact with a terrorist ?. Where is the mass hysteria over cars ?.
And this is why gamers prefer windows...
http://ftp.idilis.ro/mirrors/openoffice.org/stable /2.0.0/s table/2.0.0/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/openoffice.org/
couple of mirrors
Still sucks though.
Sorry if you were hoping for something more insightful.
Makes it possible to cite a stable version of a wikipedia page in an academic work without it being completely screwed up at a later date. (They should be archived quarterly/yearly/whatever).
BZZZT. Wrong answer buddy. You should never reference an encyclopedia in any kind of serious academic work. One of the things that makes wikipedia so useful is that in most cases they have a list of external links that the researcher can check and verify themselves, if they do check out they can be refrenced themselves.
This isnt really a chicken and egg situation. Whats the answer to 99 out of a 100 questions ?, Money.
Spammers used email to sell things whilst at the same time pissing everybody off. Eventually people hate spam so much that they are willing to pay for services that try and and eliminate spam.
It may not always be so but spammers have always been one step ahead, they have more incentive.
I don't understand how you can make sure that the disc will only play once, unless the disc is physically altered after the first play (mission impossible style) it won't take much to hack around this limitation. Silly idea, bound to fail.
It looks like a microscopic picture of a grain of salt or something, wonder what it would look like if you were standing on the surface...
On the other hand, games that can be played well by non-cheating AI are often lame themselves. Chess is the major exception, of course.
If your talking about Deep Blue then the only reason it plays so well is because a hell of a lot of money and clever people spent loads of time making sure it did. If only games comapanies had the same resources....