now for something innocuous like lights, i turn on lights all teh time and it sometimes doesnt work (ie it burns out) but if I am away on vacation and insteon decides to turn on my AC full blast in the middle of summer for a week, well then that would suck.
No, I would expect that would blow...if it turned on your vacuum for a week now THAT would suck.
Why are they useless? Hook up a IR sender to control the cable box and go. The HD in my mythtv box died a couple of months agao, and I've since got digital cable and the Cox HD DVR. Compared to MythTV, Cox's DVR just plain sucks. The interface is slow, clunky, searching the guide is difficult at best and for most things the quality is not that much better.
There is quite a tradition of playing rugby barefoot. Perhaps letting the players talk via a website on whether to spend money on expensive equippement could end up transferring revenue from Nike to Coors.
Does any Soccer or Rugby player actually drink Coors?
Least make it something easy to spell please folks otherwise its going to get very confusion...
At least use proper grammar.
How much easier to spell than a 4 letter word that contains two consonants and two vowels, and no 'i before e' or silent letters?
If this were actaully an english word it would probably be in a grade 2 spelling book. In fact, it is probably in grade 2 spelling books across Portugal and Brazil.
Why shouldn't fair use apply to corporations? What's the cutoff point? Can someone quote someone else in a book? That book is making a multi-billion dollar corporation money - but that would be considered fair use.
Or consider that the document isn't really reproduced until someone (an individual) requests the page, then it is being reproduced for that individual. Wow - that's too philosophical.
Fair use applies just as much to old fashioned printed documents as it does to web documents. If you had a line in your Terms of Service that "No duplication allowed without expressed consent", your document could still be reproduced under the fair use laws of copyright law (by an individual or a corporation). You don't want someone doing this, then don't commit it to hardcopy and give it to them. You don't want something reproduced electronically (under the fair use laws) then don't put it on the web for everyone to see.
Why should a web author have to be technologically savvy to keep his or her content from being reproduced by a multi-billion dollar US company?
Because he's publishing it on a technological platform? Why should I have to learn to write in order to create a book? Well, I don't - I could hire someone to transcribe my words. A web author could hire someone to publish web pages too.
yup - and that kindergarten teacher (gov't employee you know) then sneaks Green Eggs in Ham into a back room with a scanner, scans it all and sneaks out all that top secret information out on an allegedly 'music' CD. Now everyone knows that Sam would not eat green eggs and ham in a box or with a fox or on a train or on a plain...
(b) TCP/IP itself works by packet relay through unknown computers.
Uhhh - and that differs from a telephone conversation how? Today, when you place a long-distance call, the switch in the local office accesses a database that contains a record for each phone number connected to the switch. The database contains what's called a PIC code (Primary Interchange Carrier code), which indicates which long-distance carrier you have chosen. (When you switch long-distance carriers, this PIC code is what changes.) The switch looks up the PIC code for your number and then connects to a long-distance switch for your long-distance carrier. Your long-distance carrier's switches route the call to the local carrier for your friend, and the local carrier completes the call to your friend.
This entire amazing and complicated transaction happens using billions of dollars worth of computers, switches, wire and fiber-optic cable, all in a blink of an eye.
I don't know about where you live, but it's $5 for a dixie cup full of beer here on top of a $45 ticket.... The new national sport will be soccer soon until the soccer players become overpaid, whiny, wimps too.
So I just paid $50 for tix to see Norway and the US mens team...and I expect to pay at least $5 for a dixie cup full of beer.
Perhaps you should ask Beckham if he thinks his $23 million a year is being overpaid or not...
Keep in mind they were saying 104 degree F - that's extrememly cool. I remember some of my older harddrives being too hot to touch comfortably when they are running. Seagate shows a max operating temperature for their 10Krpm drivesof 55C which is 131F - so 104 is way within spec.
Put a thermometer in your case and play something cpu and graphics intensive - your ram is probably at over 100F with air cooling.
2) Why in the world is the US government subsidizing television reception for outdated TVs in the first place? Couldn't they just announce the cut-off date and then say "sorry, the rest of you were warned"?
No, the government is making an estimated $10 billion on the deal (auctioning the spectrum), and has decided to allocate some of that money to help people out. Tell me what's wrong with that?
3) FTA, Sets hooked up to cable or satellite services should work fine no matter what. This means that coax input will remain constant, and this means that we've had digital-to-analog TV converters for YEARS. They're commonly called VCRs;
No - you have to have a device capable of translating the digital to analog. The satellite or cable boxes do this. Your VCR will not (unless you have some sort of new fangled HDTV VCR).
6) For 20 million people who have been watching TV over radio spectrum, the digital-to-analog converters are going to be rather useless. Why? Because one of the reasons that they were watching free TV is because they couldn't afford to pay for cable/satellite in the first place! Why does the government figure that these people can suddenly afford to have cable/satellite installed and pay the monthly fees? This is a modern-day rendition of "let them eat cake!"
WTF?? If you have one of the boxes you won't need cable. Just like today - I can get all the major stations HD feed over the air (for free) because I have a new TV with an HD tuner built in. If i had one of these boxes, then I wouldn't need an HDTV with a tuner built in - i could watch free digital signals today.
Not only do a lot of HDTVs come with an HDTV tuner (mine did and I bought it two years ago), you can buy a frickin' card for linux or if you have an HDTV without a tuner, you an buy one of these or another of the many like it.
I threw a chair once - landed on a network cable, dragged the switch on the floor and we lost our internet connection for a while. So apparently you CAN throw a chair on the internet.
Choice is always better than no choice. ITMS may (or may not) be the best right now (personal preference is a very strange thing) but may or may not be in the future.
If I was an avid bowler and I was in a town with no bowling alleys but 10 pool halls I might consider myself 'stuck', However a pool player may not feel the same way. In a town with both bowling alleys and pool halls both would be happy.
But Linux is what it is. If it were anything else it wouldn't be Linux now would it?
Defining success is the problem. If the original goal of linux was to create a popular Unix-like operating system that was freely available with code licensed under the GPL then changing that license to something else would definitely not make it more 'successful'.
If you try to fail and succeed what have you done?
You've hit the nail on the head, probably without even knowing or trying.
You don't use a homepage, I do.
I don't open and close my browser much during the day - I dock my laptop in the morning, start the browser which takes me to my homepage (which has a series of links that I often use) and I go from there.
You can set your homepage to 'blank', I can set mine to the page I desire. You are happy, and so am I.
Tabbed browsing should have the same option - open new tabs to a blank display, clone the existing tab, or bring up the homeapge in new tabs. Then everyone would be happy and the world would be a better place.
What I would really like is the history to be carried over to the new tab.
I think the original poster is implying that most scanners have >600dpi resolution which for text and normal photographs is plenty - most colour prints are 300dpi and in general scanning at a higher DPI setting than that is a waste of time and disk space.
Also a high quality 1200 dpi scanner can in fact create better scans than a low quality 2400dpi scanner.
There are special cases where huge DPI is necessary (scanning negatives for example) but for sheet music and normal photos, I'm not sure you could even buy a new scanner that doesn't have sufficient resolution, which really means it doesn't matter - quality/price/compatibility are the attributes that are going to be considered.
Yahoo being a "publicly traded company" doesn't absolve them of being complicit with dictatorships.
I don't mind buying Chinese manufactured goods, unless they are made by, for example, prisoners who are being used as slave labor.
So Yahoo complies with local chinese laws in order to business there and make money and you support the chinese government by purchasing items made in China. What's the difference again?
BTW, do you check to make sure each item you buy is not being made by prisoners being used as slave labour, or children being forced to work in sweathops?
Just go there and see for yourself: a search on the word "a" (letter "a", whatever) yield 11.5bn results. If you admit there may be twice as many pages without "a" in it (say, all non-latin webpages, files, jpgs and such), that's pretty close to their 20bn entries.
Hmm - actually that would be nowhere near 20 billion entries - it'd be closer to 35 billion. 11.5 bn for the 'a' pages, plus twice as many without 'a' would be another 23bn so that's 34.5bn.
People don't use an OS - they use applications. Getting them to switch OS's is easy if the applications they use are still available - assuming there are other benefits of the new OS (more reliable, cheaper, more robust etc).
Now it makes it somewhat harder to get them to switch if they can still functionally get their tasks completed but things are 'different' - ie switching from Excel to another spreadsheet that doesn't emulate excel exactly.
It would be almost impossible to get someone to switch to a 'better' OS if they needed to do spreadsheet work and there was no spreadsheet available on that OS. It doesn't matter how much better the OS is, if they cannot complete the tasks they must complete on that OS,it is compeltely irrelevant.
Unfortunately the task that many people have to complete is "create a document that is 100% compatible with MS-Word" or create a document that is 100% compatible with Excel.
It's kind of 'the ends justify the means' sort of thing.
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now for something innocuous like lights, i turn on lights all teh time and it sometimes doesnt work (ie it burns out) but if I am away on vacation and insteon decides to turn on my AC full blast in the middle of summer for a week, well then that would suck.
No, I would expect that would blow...if it turned on your vacuum for a week now THAT would suck.
Why are they useless? Hook up a IR sender to control the cable box and go. The HD in my mythtv box died a couple of months agao, and I've since got digital cable and the Cox HD DVR. Compared to MythTV, Cox's DVR just plain sucks. The interface is slow, clunky, searching the guide is difficult at best and for most things the quality is not that much better.
There is quite a tradition of playing rugby barefoot. Perhaps letting the players talk via a website on whether to spend money on expensive equippement could end up transferring revenue from Nike to Coors.
Does any Soccer or Rugby player actually drink Coors?
Least make it something easy to spell please folks otherwise its going to get very confusion...
At least use proper grammar.
How much easier to spell than a 4 letter word that contains two consonants and two vowels, and no 'i before e' or silent letters?
If this were actaully an english word it would probably be in a grade 2 spelling book. In fact, it is probably in grade 2 spelling books across Portugal and Brazil.
I'd rather just go consult a source I already trust.
err - and there's a source you trust?
Why shouldn't fair use apply to corporations? What's the cutoff point? Can someone quote someone else in a book? That book is making a multi-billion dollar corporation money - but that would be considered fair use.
Or consider that the document isn't really reproduced until someone (an individual) requests the page, then it is being reproduced for that individual. Wow - that's too philosophical.
Fair use applies just as much to old fashioned printed documents as it does to web documents. If you had a line in your Terms of Service that "No duplication allowed without expressed consent", your document could still be reproduced under the fair use laws of copyright law (by an individual or a corporation). You don't want someone doing this, then don't commit it to hardcopy and give it to them. You don't want something reproduced electronically (under the fair use laws) then don't put it on the web for everyone to see.
Why should a web author have to be technologically savvy to keep his or her content from being reproduced by a multi-billion dollar US company?
Because he's publishing it on a technological platform? Why should I have to learn to write in order to create a book? Well, I don't - I could hire someone to transcribe my words. A web author could hire someone to publish web pages too.
yup - and that kindergarten teacher (gov't employee you know) then sneaks Green Eggs in Ham into a back room with a scanner, scans it all and sneaks out all that top secret information out on an allegedly 'music' CD. Now everyone knows that Sam would not eat green eggs and ham in a box or with a fox or on a train or on a plain...
(b) TCP/IP itself works by packet relay through unknown computers.
Uhhh - and that differs from a telephone conversation how?
Today, when you place a long-distance call, the switch in the local office accesses a database that contains a record for each phone number connected to the switch. The database contains what's called a PIC code (Primary Interchange Carrier code), which indicates which long-distance carrier you have chosen. (When you switch long-distance carriers, this PIC code is what changes.) The switch looks up the PIC code for your number and then connects to a long-distance switch for your long-distance carrier. Your long-distance carrier's switches route the call to the local carrier for your friend, and the local carrier completes the call to your friend.
This entire amazing and complicated transaction happens using billions of dollars worth of computers, switches, wire and fiber-optic cable, all in a blink of an eye.
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I don't know about where you live, but it's $5 for a dixie cup full of beer here on top of a $45 ticket .... The new national sport will be soccer soon until the soccer players become overpaid, whiny, wimps too.
So I just paid $50 for tix to see Norway and the US mens team...and I expect to pay at least $5 for a dixie cup full of beer.
Perhaps you should ask Beckham if he thinks his $23 million a year is being overpaid or not...
Keep in mind they were saying 104 degree F - that's extrememly cool. I remember some of my older harddrives being too hot to touch comfortably when they are running. Seagate shows a max operating temperature for their 10Krpm drivesof 55C which is 131F - so 104 is way within spec.
Put a thermometer in your case and play something cpu and graphics intensive - your ram is probably at over 100F with air cooling.
2) Why in the world is the US government subsidizing television reception for outdated TVs in the first place? Couldn't they just announce the cut-off date and then say "sorry, the rest of you were warned"?
No, the government is making an estimated $10 billion on the deal (auctioning the spectrum), and has decided to allocate some of that money to help people out. Tell me what's wrong with that?
3) FTA, Sets hooked up to cable or satellite services should work fine no matter what. This means that coax input will remain constant, and this means that we've had digital-to-analog TV converters for YEARS. They're commonly called VCRs;
No - you have to have a device capable of translating the digital to analog. The satellite or cable boxes do this. Your VCR will not (unless you have some sort of new fangled HDTV VCR).
6) For 20 million people who have been watching TV over radio spectrum, the digital-to-analog converters are going to be rather useless. Why? Because one of the reasons that they were watching free TV is because they couldn't afford to pay for cable/satellite in the first place! Why does the government figure that these people can suddenly afford to have cable/satellite installed and pay the monthly fees? This is a modern-day rendition of "let them eat cake!"
WTF?? If you have one of the boxes you won't need cable. Just like today - I can get all the major stations HD feed over the air (for free) because I have a new TV with an HD tuner built in. If i had one of these boxes, then I wouldn't need an HDTV with a tuner built in - i could watch free digital signals today.
You joking?
Seriously?
Not only do a lot of HDTVs come with an HDTV tuner (mine did and I bought it two years ago), you can buy a frickin' card for linux or if you have an HDTV without a tuner, you an buy one of these or another of the many like it.
Sheesh!
I threw a chair once - landed on a network cable, dragged the switch on the floor and we lost our internet connection for a while. So apparently you CAN throw a chair on the internet.
I would have expected the web page of a web browser to at least be standards-compliant. The Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror pages all validate cleanly:
Ya think www.microsoft.com/ie would pass????
Geez - are we a little touchy???
Choice is always better than no choice. ITMS may (or may not) be the best right now (personal preference is a very strange thing) but may or may not be in the future.
If I was an avid bowler and I was in a town with no bowling alleys but 10 pool halls I might consider myself 'stuck', However a pool player may not feel the same way. In a town with both bowling alleys and pool halls both would be happy.
But Linux is what it is. If it were anything else it wouldn't be Linux now would it?
Defining success is the problem. If the original goal of linux was to create a popular Unix-like operating system that was freely available with code licensed under the GPL then changing that license to something else would definitely not make it more 'successful'.
If you try to fail and succeed what have you done?
Gee whiz - I'd like to see the USB drive that could hold all that stuff!!!
Makes the old 'Bag of Holding' seem a little bulky by comparison.
You've hit the nail on the head, probably without even knowing or trying.
You don't use a homepage, I do.
I don't open and close my browser much during the day - I dock my laptop in the morning, start the browser which takes me to my homepage (which has a series of links that I often use) and I go from there.
You can set your homepage to 'blank', I can set mine to the page I desire. You are happy, and so am I.
Tabbed browsing should have the same option - open new tabs to a blank display, clone the existing tab, or bring up the homeapge in new tabs. Then everyone would be happy and the world would be a better place.
What I would really like is the history to be carried over to the new tab.
I think the original poster is implying that most scanners have >600dpi resolution which for text and normal photographs is plenty - most colour prints are 300dpi and in general scanning at a higher DPI setting than that is a waste of time and disk space.
Also a high quality 1200 dpi scanner can in fact create better scans than a low quality 2400dpi scanner.
There are special cases where huge DPI is necessary (scanning negatives for example) but for sheet music and normal photos, I'm not sure you could even buy a new scanner that doesn't have sufficient resolution, which really means it doesn't matter - quality/price/compatibility are the attributes that are going to be considered.
No, i'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic...I'm sure the dept of homeland security is not really afraid of FreeBSD finding their last bug.
Although perhaps the voices were right...who's to say...
Yahoo being a "publicly traded company" doesn't absolve them of being complicit with dictatorships.
I don't mind buying Chinese manufactured goods, unless they are made by, for example, prisoners who are being used as slave labor.
So Yahoo complies with local chinese laws in order to business there and make money and you support the chinese government by purchasing items made in China. What's the difference again?
BTW, do you check to make sure each item you buy is not being made by prisoners being used as slave labour, or children being forced to work in sweathops?
Sounds rather hypocritical to me.
Please know that communism and authoritarian government are not the same!
Couldn't agree more, however according to the CIA World factbook, China is a Communist state
Even if you have a bigger dictionnary, if you can't speak English at all it won't do you much good.
What if the dictionary is a German dictionary and you speak German?
Just go there and see for yourself: a search on the word "a" (letter "a", whatever) yield 11.5bn results. If you admit there may be twice as many pages without "a" in it (say, all non-latin webpages, files, jpgs and such), that's pretty close to their 20bn entries.
Hmm - actually that would be nowhere near 20 billion entries - it'd be closer to 35 billion. 11.5 bn for the 'a' pages, plus twice as many without 'a' would be another 23bn so that's 34.5bn.
People don't use an OS - they use applications. Getting them to switch OS's is easy if the applications they use are still available - assuming there are other benefits of the new OS (more reliable, cheaper, more robust etc).
Now it makes it somewhat harder to get them to switch if they can still functionally get their tasks completed but things are 'different' - ie switching from Excel to another spreadsheet that doesn't emulate excel exactly.
It would be almost impossible to get someone to switch to a 'better' OS if they needed to do spreadsheet work and there was no spreadsheet available on that OS. It doesn't matter how much better the OS is, if they cannot complete the tasks they must complete on that OS,it is compeltely irrelevant.
Unfortunately the task that many people have to complete is "create a document that is 100% compatible with MS-Word" or create a document that is 100% compatible with Excel.
It's kind of 'the ends justify the means' sort of thing.