Actually it is over the powerlines - 'convert data so they can be sent through the grid'.
The data just doesn't actually come out of the outlets in your house - you need a wifi card to make the jump from your house to the medium voltage power lines.
Replace SMTP with a more secure protocol. Give a 12 month window for everyone to upgrade their clients. Then make port 25 filtering mandatory for all ISPs.
and WHO is going to mandate this? SMTP is an ad hoc standard - ie people use it because people use it. If everybody's using it then that's a lot of people using it.
And as for the multimedia terminal, I'd personally rather have one machine that does it all; acts as tv recorder, multimedia player, storage server and even all that in silence, so it can stand next to the TV. Again the XBOX would most likely be better for this.
Ya know, I have one machine that does it all. It's a pain in the ass, unless you have multiple video cards, multiple audio cards and a SUPER fast processor (or two). For example I want to play a game on the console monitor while recording a tv program and watching a different TV program on the TV, while playing mp3's via the speakers in the den. The people in the den don't want to hear the TV sound, or the game sound, so I'd need 2 audio cards. I'd rather have the TV sound and the game sound separated, so that's 3, but they are in the same room, so I can get by with the mixer control on the PC. It's is encoding MPEG4 which is CPU intensive. And the game is CPU intensive too.
If I were to do it again, I'd have separate boxes that can talk to each other (wired or wireless ethernet). This would allow sharing of the information, but would also separate the functions so that you can do multiple things without them affecting each other.
It's kind of like taking the old fashioned Unix approach - have smaller dedicated devices and have the means to connect them together.
How about the price difference of your already existing gamecube compared to buying something new?
Sounds to me like that's a couple hundred dollars cheaper to go with someting you've already got vs buying something new.
If that were not the case, I'd expect to have Linux drivers for exactly one video card, one audio card, and network card. Because if you didn't have that particular brand and model of card, then why not go out and buy one instead of using the one you already have?
So how are we supposed to know to go into McDonalds to get the latest Britney song (or is Mcdonalds a Christina shop)?
We can listen to an ad on the radio?
What about finding out whether a big mac has special sauce, lettuce and cheese on a sesame seed bun? It's important things like this that the ads get us!
Either you didn't read the article or you are missing the point. I have an operating system. That operating systems vendor has already been slapped on the wrist for monopolistic actions.
So they added an option to define what web browser I would like to use by default. I chose something other than theirs. They put out another program that automatically starts the their browser that was a really big part of the reason they were slapped on the wrist in the first place.
The point isn't that it sends you to s predefined place to buy music. The problem is that it sends you there with IE, not with the browser I specifically asked their operatinfg system to use.
They should remove this check if enough users don't buy their product because they don't like the new 'features'.
That's how a market economy works. Ideally they will get wind of their users wishes, however when all else fails, attacking the bottom line is the best way to get a company's attention.
You'd also have to consider whether the customer has a choice or not. I can't get DSL to my house, and Cox cable, when I signed up, had one package to choose from.
So I didn't have a choice (besides to not have broadband) so I'm stuck paying $40/month for waaaayyyyy more bandwidth/megabytes than I need.
nd you seem to be forgetting that 98% of the population is NOT as savvy as a typical/. user
This reminds of the line in Picasso at the Lapin Agile when Picasso and Einstein look up at the night sky and Picasso says 'Wow - there must be millions of stars' and Einstein looks back and says 'You're way low!'
I'd say 99.99 percent of the population is not as savvy as the typical/. user.
but if other channels start doing this, the Tivo won't work well unless I just record from one channel per night.
Actually the more channels that do this the more options you would have. If ALL of them did it, then it would be no different from the good old days when they started right on the hour (or half hour).
Right - but then Photoshop wouldn't be worth your time...Elements isn't Photoshop.
So if you want to compare Elements to a dumbed down, easier to use version of The Gimp (if one existed) then your comparison would be fair. Now Elements may do everything you need to do, thus it is the right piece of software for you to use. It is not intended to be a replacement for Photoshop (or The Gimp, for that matter) but rather a piece of software that is easier to use because it does less.
When you create a password, write it down and keep it in a secure place. If you lose the password, you cannot open or gain access to the password-protected document.
Let me repeat that -> If you lose the password, you cannot open or gain access to the password-protected document.
Now the typical slashdotter realizes this is false. Your typical Microsoft Word non-power-user could (perhaps 'would') interpret this as If you lose the password (or someone else gets your document as does not know the password), you (they) cannot open or gain access to the password-protected document.
By the way, that blurb is from a section entitled: "Keep your Word documents secure"
Perhaps the MS rep who said: "If [users] are using it as a security feature then that is not correct," should read their help file.
You just got out of major litigation, now you want to swim back into it?
He just got out of major litigation which he won hands down...People can litigate for any reason - you think IBM should stop being involved with Linux because they got sued by SCO?
In a seperate issue, if I can legally copy someone else's music cd, can I not legally copy software?:)
Not sure if you really meant this as strictly a funny (as inidcated by your happy face:) ) but the answer is NO. You can copy music for personal use because of the tax on blank music media (cassettes and cd roms) that is distrubuted to the music people. Software people do not get a cut, thus the rules would not apply to software.
The 'control' is usually contained in the charger not the battery. Put a NiMH battery charger on a Li-ion battery and you will notice strange things like exploding batteries.
Lithium polymer and Lithium ion have different charging characteristics. The 'fast charge' controls used for most nicad and NiMH batteries will toast a li-po or li-ion battery, sometimes spectacularly and sometimes in the boring just won't hold a charge anymore way.
In any event in 3 years, lithium ion and li-po batteries lose their ability to charge whether you use them or not - I've seen tests that indicate it is 80% capacity after three years even if the battery isn't used at all.
You'll find a lot of battery info if you browse the electric RC plane world.
people driving at high speeds and not paying enough attention not to notice a big frickin' car stopping in front of them scares me more than anything else.
So you arrived early. Not to see the 'commercials' but to get a seat. Then you sat. You could have stared at a blank screen...or they could put ads up on it and help keep ticket prices from going up.
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Actually it is over the powerlines - 'convert data so they can be sent through the grid'.
The data just doesn't actually come out of the outlets in your house - you need a wifi card to make the jump from your house to the medium voltage power lines.
Replace SMTP with a more secure protocol. Give a 12 month window for everyone to upgrade their clients. Then make port 25 filtering mandatory for all ISPs.
and WHO is going to mandate this? SMTP is an ad hoc standard - ie people use it because people use it. If everybody's using it then that's a lot of people using it.
I'm guessing you didn't get the "HD" PVR for $99 - you got the normal version, which is nice, but not HD.
And as for the multimedia terminal, I'd personally rather have one machine that does it all; acts as tv recorder, multimedia player, storage server and even all that in silence, so it can stand next to the TV. Again the XBOX would most likely be better for this.
Ya know, I have one machine that does it all. It's a pain in the ass, unless you have multiple video cards, multiple audio cards and a SUPER fast processor (or two). For example I want to play a game on the console monitor while recording a tv program and watching a different TV program on the TV, while playing mp3's via the speakers in the den. The people in the den don't want to hear the TV sound, or the game sound, so I'd need 2 audio cards. I'd rather have the TV sound and the game sound separated, so that's 3, but they are in the same room, so I can get by with the mixer control on the PC. It's is encoding MPEG4 which is CPU intensive. And the game is CPU intensive too.
If I were to do it again, I'd have separate boxes that can talk to each other (wired or wireless ethernet). This would allow sharing of the information, but would also separate the functions so that you can do multiple things without them affecting each other.
It's kind of like taking the old fashioned Unix approach - have smaller dedicated devices and have the means to connect them together.
How about the price difference of your already existing gamecube compared to buying something new?
Sounds to me like that's a couple hundred dollars cheaper to go with someting you've already got vs buying something new.
If that were not the case, I'd expect to have Linux drivers for exactly one video card, one audio card, and network card. Because if you didn't have that particular brand and model of card, then why not go out and buy one instead of using the one you already have?
Huh?
So how are we supposed to know to go into McDonalds to get the latest Britney song (or is Mcdonalds a Christina shop)?
We can listen to an ad on the radio?
What about finding out whether a big mac has special sauce, lettuce and cheese on a sesame seed bun? It's important things like this that the ads get us!
I'd like to know how they take these statistics.
Ya know, reading the article is easier than it sounds...there's even a link to it in the story above - all you have to do is click!
And yes, I think they do know about all those things you mention.
Either you didn't read the article or you are missing the point. I have an operating system. That operating systems vendor has already been slapped on the wrist for monopolistic actions.
So they added an option to define what web browser I would like to use by default. I chose something other than theirs. They put out another program that automatically starts the their browser that was a really big part of the reason they were slapped on the wrist in the first place.
The point isn't that it sends you to s predefined place to buy music. The problem is that it sends you there with IE, not with the browser I specifically asked their operatinfg system to use.
They should remove this check if enough users don't buy their product because they don't like the new 'features'.
That's how a market economy works. Ideally they will get wind of their users wishes, however when all else fails, attacking the bottom line is the best way to get a company's attention.
technology is not evil or good, it does not pose new moral problems
:)
Right and genetic engineering is really just implementing darwinian evolution in an expedited manner - no new moral issue there.
Clone away boys and girls!
If you have $50K to spend on lights, you don't need to worry about cars...
You'd also have to consider whether the customer has a choice or not. I can't get DSL to my house, and Cox cable, when I signed up, had one package to choose from.
So I didn't have a choice (besides to not have broadband) so I'm stuck paying $40/month for waaaayyyyy more bandwidth/megabytes than I need.
nd you seem to be forgetting that 98% of the population is NOT as savvy as a typical /. user
/. user.
This reminds of the line in Picasso at the Lapin Agile when Picasso and Einstein look up at the night sky and Picasso says 'Wow - there must be millions of stars' and Einstein looks back and says 'You're way low!'
I'd say 99.99 percent of the population is not as savvy as the typical
but if other channels start doing this, the Tivo won't work well unless I just record from one channel per night.
Actually the more channels that do this the more options you would have. If ALL of them did it, then it would be no different from the good old days when they started right on the hour (or half hour).
Right - but then Photoshop wouldn't be worth your time...Elements isn't Photoshop.
So if you want to compare Elements to a dumbed down, easier to use version of The Gimp (if one existed) then your comparison would be fair. Now Elements may do everything you need to do, thus it is the right piece of software for you to use. It is not intended to be a replacement for Photoshop (or The Gimp, for that matter) but rather a piece of software that is easier to use because it does less.
With Photoshop, I still can't get over the initial user interface feature of $649US. Maybe after that the interface is better than the Gimp.
Now $649 ain't a big deal for a professional, but for some of us home/hobby/casual users it's a big deal!
According to Microsoft Help...
When you create a password, write it down and keep it in a secure place. If you lose the password, you cannot open or gain access to the password-protected document.
Let me repeat that -> If you lose the password, you cannot open or gain access to the password-protected document.
Now the typical slashdotter realizes this is false. Your typical Microsoft Word non-power-user could (perhaps 'would') interpret this as If you lose the password (or someone else gets your document as does not know the password), you (they) cannot open or gain access to the password-protected document.
By the way, that blurb is from a section entitled:
"Keep your Word documents secure"
Perhaps the MS rep who said: "If [users] are using it as a security feature then that is not correct," should read their help file.
Uh, don't you mean pine or elm or mutt? Lynx is a web browser.
No, he meant Lynx to read your WEB mail...it would be rather difficult to read WEB mail without a WEB browser.
now pop mail would be a different story...
You just got out of major litigation, now you want to swim back into it?
He just got out of major litigation which he won hands down...People can litigate for any reason - you think IBM should stop being involved with Linux because they got sued by SCO?
Let's assume 5MB per song. Might be a bit low if you've ripped at a super high quality, but most of mine seem to be around there.
/5 MB = 400 songs
2000 MB
You would load up 400 songs one day, and then load up a different 400 the next? You listen to roughly 40 albums per day?
You have them on fast forward or something? Have you noticed that all the songs sound like the chipmunks are singing them?
I would guess that it would be more like 10 minutes per week max, for me it would probably be 10 minutes per month.
In a seperate issue, if I can legally copy someone else's music cd, can I not legally copy software? :)
:) ) but the answer is NO. You can copy music for personal use because of the tax on blank music media (cassettes and cd roms) that is distrubuted to the music people. Software people do not get a cut, thus the rules would not apply to software.
Not sure if you really meant this as strictly a funny (as inidcated by your happy face
The 'control' is usually contained in the charger not the battery. Put a NiMH battery charger on a Li-ion battery and you will notice strange things like exploding batteries.
Lithium polymer and Lithium ion have different charging characteristics. The 'fast charge' controls used for most nicad and NiMH batteries will toast a li-po or li-ion battery, sometimes spectacularly and sometimes in the boring just won't hold a charge anymore way.
In any event in 3 years, lithium ion and li-po batteries lose their ability to charge whether you use them or not - I've seen tests that indicate it is 80% capacity after three years even if the battery isn't used at all.
You'll find a lot of battery info if you browse the electric RC plane world.
people driving at high speeds and not paying enough attention not to notice a big frickin' car stopping in front of them scares me more than anything else.
If I'd arrived late to any showing of LotR: RotK
So you arrived early. Not to see the 'commercials' but to get a seat. Then you sat. You could have stared at a blank screen...or they could put ads up on it and help keep ticket prices from going up.
Not seeing the big deal.
A good landing is one you can walk away from - it's a great landing if you can walk away and use the plane afterwards.