What's funny is the NES is the only console I recall having this problem. They must have used a lousy socket in the actual NES unit. (the carts just have regular edge connectors like any other gaming system uses)
They had that weird "push the cartridge in, then lock it down" setup, rather than the simple friction method used by other consoles. Friction has this added benefit of wiping the cruft off contacts as you push the cart in, which I'm betting the NES didn't do as well, causing the problems.
In fact, one of the NES cart fixes I recall was pushing it down slightly so there was some friction, and squirming the cart around in the connector.;)
If I were to drive from Miami to LA or from New York to Dallas, it would take many days.
Flying starts to make more sense than driving once you're past the 12-13 hour mark, at least for me. That's when I start feeling fatigued and really need to rest.
SSL traffic needs to be passed untouched from the remote server to the client workstation. You can proxy SSL, but the bytes CANNOT be changed.
By accepting that incorrect certificate, you are opening your SSL connection to all sorts of potential attacks. The proxy server could be collecting usernames and passwords, for instance, or modifying pages. Even if you trust your employer (which is usually a bad idea), the proxy might be compromised.
I'd suggest talking to your IT department about having this fixed. It's a serious security issue.
This is because most cel phones don't have sidetone. Sidetone lets you hear yourself on the phone, and was originally invented in the early 1900s (!) just for the purpose of keeping folks from screaming.
The lack of sidetone on modern cel phones is unacceptable. This is 100 year old technology, damnit!
I haven't used Ekiga, but does it work through NAT routers and firewalls?
In my exprience, most SIP clients fail miserably unless the system they are running on has a fully routable IP.
A good majority of Internet users do not have routable IPs; their edge router is doing NAT. Hence we need software that can reliably get around that, like Skype.
A slap on the wrist may not be enough, but 38 years in prison? You just ruined this kid's life completely.
Why not just five years in a minimum security prison, with an emphasis on education? Rather than turn this kid into a hardened criminal by putting him in jail (where he will learn from other inmates) let's try to turn him around so he can be an asset to society instead of a liability when he gets out at age 56 with no life skills other than crime.
MY question is why are we treating the child porn imagery itself as something horrid and evil that anyone who possesses must be arrested for?
Why not go after the people who MAKE child porn? You know the ones ACTUALLY HURTING kids? Oh wait, that's because this requires actual police work, which is DIFFICULT. The prosecutors and lawmakers need someone to blame, so they blame the people who possess and distribute simply because they are easier to find.
It's laziness combined with a need to point a finger at someone. And it really stinks.
With a proper, modern cable plant, DSL isn't shitty at all.
I get 6Mbps down and 512kbps up. My line is capable of 10Mbps down and 2Mbps up, but Bellsouth/AT&T simply won't sell it to me; it's not a technical limitation.
With a well-designed cable plant, DSL can be just as good as cable. The problem is cheap telcos who don't want to update their 100 year old plant, and thus can't squeeze more than maybe a megabit out of the ancient wires.
Pride can be a good thing in the business world, but not when it trumps common sense. Can't toshiba see that consumers don't WANT multiple formats? They want ONE format, and is sold at a reasonable price.
I understand having to buy a new player when technology changes, but I shouldn't have to own two or three different players to be able to play all the movies I want to buy.
It doesn't matter how many promises are made. When you have more than one format, you will always have a studio that will release discs exclusively on one of the formats.
We learned this lesson with VHS versus BETA. Why can't companies see this?
Swallow your pride and embrace Bluray, Toshiba. For your own good, and for the good of everyone.
Apparently you've never flown into the US from Pearson (Toronto) airport.
They have a US Customs/border patrol station right there in Toronto, with US agents and everything. You have to clear US customs before you even get on the aircraft to leave.
This is convenient and awesome because you don't have to worry about dealing with customs when you arrive home. However, it most definitely is a US Customs checkpoint in Canadian territory.:)
The problem is professors who REQUIRE class attendance even if you fully understand the material.
I've had to take classes on subjects I was already fluent in, such as various programming courses, and in some cases the professors require attendance or they deduct points.
If I'm forced to be there even though I don't need to be, I'm going to sit in the back and either surf the web or do homework on my laptop. Why should my time go to waste?
What about those of us who love our jobs and love to excel in them, but don't want to make work our entire life?
I really hate it when companies put employees down for not making work their entire life. I love my job, but when I get home I want to relax, enjoy my hobbies, go out with friends and have fun doing things that aren't work. It's part of living a healthy lifestyle.
People who love their job so much they do it even at home and do nothing but their job usually end up burning out within a decade or so. I've seen it happen.
It's all about balance. You don't want to wake up one day and realize "I put the last 15 years of my life into this company, but hardly any time into *myself*... I have no life outside work!"
Oh yeah, also interesting is that it mentions use of polarized glass to reduce headlight glare. Cross polarized headlamp glass and windshields in cars would make oncoming headlight glare completely vanish!
Of course the fact that polarized glass cuts out 50% of the light going through it was the likely reason why this never caught on. This could be a serious problem at night!
This technology isn't "newer", it's been around for decades.
I have a book published in the late 1930s or early 1940s at home called "The Marvels and Mysteries of Science", which is a very interesting read given our modern perspective. It has a complete section explaining how 3D movies work, including the polarization technique. Definitely nothing new!
Why can't they investigate these cases *discretely*, so that if the investigated party is innocent, his life isn't ruined? Do it in a way that neighbors, friends, and employers won't find out. It should be between the accused and the government until the person is proven guilty. This way, if they are found innocent, they can continue with their lives as if nothing happened.
Unfortunately, law enforcement and the government likes to make a big show of things. Breaking down doors at 6AM, multiple police cars, so much attention that it attracts news media. The result? The person's life is ruined before it's even known if he's guilty or not.
The reason people write these bots is because WoW requires that you spend massive amounts of time playing to get anywhere, and a lot of the stuff you do at the lower levels is mindless hack and slash.
If the game rewarded ingenuity and skill, rather than hours spent in game, these bots wouldn't be necessary. This is one of the reasons I despise WoW; it rewards *time* more than *skill* so people become hopelessly addicted to it to try to get to the next level.
Maybe this is why hardware companies like Nvidia and ATI aren't forthcoming with the source for their drivers. They're afraid they might be infringing on one or more patents, and that releasing source code would allow the patent holder to find out about the infringements.
Security from patent lawsuits through obscurity? It probably works quite well, especially when you consider how vague and far-reaching software patents can be. You practically can't write a block of code these days without infringing on some patent troll.
Electric heat is 100% efficient. All the energy that goes into the heater becomes heat.
Heck, all the energy that goes into any electrical device eventually becomes heat. The laws of thermodynamics, and all that jazz.
Sure, electricity is more expensive per KWH than oil and gas in most areas, but this isn't always the case. Some areas have very cheap electricity (like Florida) and thus most everyone has electric heat there.
It's up to me to decide whether to tell people I took a photo. I sometimes like to take photos discretely, because some people in public get agitated when there's a camera click. If I can do it silently and without being noticed, all the better.
This is also why I appreciate cameras with good light sensitivity. I can take loads of photos at parties without annoying everyone with bright flashes.
Add the "parent folders" button to your Finder's button bar. It's the one that looks like a down arrow with three horizontal offset lines to the left of it.
If you end up in a rooted folder, just click it and navigate to the parent. *wham*, you get the whole path.
A minor annoyance, and definitely not a reason to not upgrade. o.O
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What's funny is the NES is the only console I recall having this problem. They must have used a lousy socket in the actual NES unit. (the carts just have regular edge connectors like any other gaming system uses)
They had that weird "push the cartridge in, then lock it down" setup, rather than the simple friction method used by other consoles. Friction has this added benefit of wiping the cruft off contacts as you push the cart in, which I'm betting the NES didn't do as well, causing the problems.
In fact, one of the NES cart fixes I recall was pushing it down slightly so there was some friction, and squirming the cart around in the connector. ;)
That only works up to a certain distance.
If I were to drive from Miami to LA or from New York to Dallas, it would take many days.
Flying starts to make more sense than driving once you're past the 12-13 hour mark, at least for me. That's when I start feeling fatigued and really need to rest.
That proxy at your job is misconfigured.
SSL traffic needs to be passed untouched from the remote server to the client workstation. You can proxy SSL, but the bytes CANNOT be changed.
By accepting that incorrect certificate, you are opening your SSL connection to all sorts of potential attacks. The proxy server could be collecting usernames and passwords, for instance, or modifying pages. Even if you trust your employer (which is usually a bad idea), the proxy might be compromised.
I'd suggest talking to your IT department about having this fixed. It's a serious security issue.
This is because most cel phones don't have sidetone. Sidetone lets you hear yourself on the phone, and was originally invented in the early 1900s (!) just for the purpose of keeping folks from screaming.
The lack of sidetone on modern cel phones is unacceptable. This is 100 year old technology, damnit!
>Skype is a problem - what's wrong with Ekiga?
I haven't used Ekiga, but does it work through NAT routers and firewalls?
In my exprience, most SIP clients fail miserably unless the system they are running on has a fully routable IP.
A good majority of Internet users do not have routable IPs; their edge router is doing NAT. Hence we need software that can reliably get around that, like Skype.
A slap on the wrist may not be enough, but 38 years in prison? You just ruined this kid's life completely.
Why not just five years in a minimum security prison, with an emphasis on education? Rather than turn this kid into a hardened criminal by putting him in jail (where he will learn from other inmates) let's try to turn him around so he can be an asset to society instead of a liability when he gets out at age 56 with no life skills other than crime.
>2. The HLW (high level waste) from reprocessing is hotter longer after final use than once through methods.
Is this a big deal, though, if we generate that much less of it?
MY question is why are we treating the child porn imagery itself as something horrid and evil that anyone who possesses must be arrested for?
Why not go after the people who MAKE child porn? You know the ones ACTUALLY HURTING kids? Oh wait, that's because this requires actual police work, which is DIFFICULT. The prosecutors and lawmakers need someone to blame, so they blame the people who possess and distribute simply because they are easier to find.
It's laziness combined with a need to point a finger at someone. And it really stinks.
With a proper, modern cable plant, DSL isn't shitty at all.
I get 6Mbps down and 512kbps up. My line is capable of 10Mbps down and 2Mbps up, but Bellsouth/AT&T simply won't sell it to me; it's not a technical limitation.
With a well-designed cable plant, DSL can be just as good as cable. The problem is cheap telcos who don't want to update their 100 year old plant, and thus can't squeeze more than maybe a megabit out of the ancient wires.
I'd say so too.
Pride can be a good thing in the business world, but not when it trumps common sense. Can't toshiba see that consumers don't WANT multiple formats? They want ONE format, and is sold at a reasonable price.
I understand having to buy a new player when technology changes, but I shouldn't have to own two or three different players to be able to play all the movies I want to buy.
It doesn't matter how many promises are made. When you have more than one format, you will always have a studio that will release discs exclusively on one of the formats.
We learned this lesson with VHS versus BETA. Why can't companies see this?
Swallow your pride and embrace Bluray, Toshiba. For your own good, and for the good of everyone.
This story was amusing! Why is everyone bitching about it?
Gods, people, get a grip. If a story doesn't interest you, DON'T FREAKING CLICK ON IT. Duhh. It's not rocket science.
This is the same attitude that people have when they want to ban/censor TV shows and video games they don't like.
If you don't like it, ignore it.
What kind of place doesn't allow phones, even left in the car?
Pretty much every business and organization uses cel phones these days; what kind of company is paranoid enough to ban them that completely?
Apparently you've never flown into the US from Pearson (Toronto) airport.
:)
They have a US Customs/border patrol station right there in Toronto, with US agents and everything. You have to clear US customs before you even get on the aircraft to leave.
This is convenient and awesome because you don't have to worry about dealing with customs when you arrive home. However, it most definitely is a US Customs checkpoint in Canadian territory.
The problem is professors who REQUIRE class attendance even if you fully understand the material.
I've had to take classes on subjects I was already fluent in, such as various programming courses, and in some cases the professors require attendance or they deduct points.
If I'm forced to be there even though I don't need to be, I'm going to sit in the back and either surf the web or do homework on my laptop. Why should my time go to waste?
>Except the Apple laptops have the worst keyboard known to man.
I like them; they're among the better laptop keyboard's I've used. (subjective)
>And a distinct lack of external ports, especially on the Air.
The Air is lacking ports, but the Macbook and MBP both have plenty of ports, including 6 pin firewire which is rare on other laptops.
> And are expensive.
No more than similarly powered non-Apple laptops. I will concede that they don't have bargain-basement laptops.
>And are difficult to upgrade.
What is there to upgrade besides disk and RAM, which can be upgraded just fine in Apple laptops other than the Air (which is special case)?
>And don't have dual-battery support. And don't have port-replicators/docking stations. Etc...
I'll condede on these points, but I've never felt a need for these features myself.
What about those of us who love our jobs and love to excel in them, but don't want to make work our entire life?
I really hate it when companies put employees down for not making work their entire life. I love my job, but when I get home I want to relax, enjoy my hobbies, go out with friends and have fun doing things that aren't work. It's part of living a healthy lifestyle.
People who love their job so much they do it even at home and do nothing but their job usually end up burning out within a decade or so. I've seen it happen.
It's all about balance. You don't want to wake up one day and realize "I put the last 15 years of my life into this company, but hardly any time into *myself*... I have no life outside work!"
Oh yeah, also interesting is that it mentions use of polarized glass to reduce headlight glare. Cross polarized headlamp glass and windshields in cars would make oncoming headlight glare completely vanish!
Of course the fact that polarized glass cuts out 50% of the light going through it was the likely reason why this never caught on. This could be a serious problem at night!
This technology isn't "newer", it's been around for decades.
I have a book published in the late 1930s or early 1940s at home called "The Marvels and Mysteries of Science", which is a very interesting read given our modern perspective. It has a complete section explaining how 3D movies work, including the polarization technique. Definitely nothing new!
I've always wondered this as well.
Why can't they investigate these cases *discretely*, so that if the investigated party is innocent, his life isn't ruined? Do it in a way that neighbors, friends, and employers won't find out. It should be between the accused and the government until the person is proven guilty. This way, if they are found innocent, they can continue with their lives as if nothing happened.
Unfortunately, law enforcement and the government likes to make a big show of things. Breaking down doors at 6AM, multiple police cars, so much attention that it attracts news media. The result? The person's life is ruined before it's even known if he's guilty or not.
Discretion. Is it really that hard?
The reason people write these bots is because WoW requires that you spend massive amounts of time playing to get anywhere, and a lot of the stuff you do at the lower levels is mindless hack and slash.
If the game rewarded ingenuity and skill, rather than hours spent in game, these bots wouldn't be necessary. This is one of the reasons I despise WoW; it rewards *time* more than *skill* so people become hopelessly addicted to it to try to get to the next level.
Maybe this is why hardware companies like Nvidia and ATI aren't forthcoming with the source for their drivers. They're afraid they might be infringing on one or more patents, and that releasing source code would allow the patent holder to find out about the infringements.
Security from patent lawsuits through obscurity? It probably works quite well, especially when you consider how vague and far-reaching software patents can be. You practically can't write a block of code these days without infringing on some patent troll.
Electric heat is 100% efficient. All the energy that goes into the heater becomes heat.
Heck, all the energy that goes into any electrical device eventually becomes heat. The laws of thermodynamics, and all that jazz.
Sure, electricity is more expensive per KWH than oil and gas in most areas, but this isn't always the case. Some areas have very cheap electricity (like Florida) and thus most everyone has electric heat there.
I wonder why all the geeks working at the NOC don't just get together and REFUSE to cut the connectivity.
They can't fire everyone or the network would fall apart.
It's up to me to decide whether to tell people I took a photo. I sometimes like to take photos discretely, because some people in public get agitated when there's a camera click. If I can do it silently and without being noticed, all the better.
This is also why I appreciate cameras with good light sensitivity. I can take loads of photos at parties without annoying everyone with bright flashes.
Add the "parent folders" button to your Finder's button bar. It's the one that looks like a down arrow with three horizontal offset lines to the left of it.
If you end up in a rooted folder, just click it and navigate to the parent. *wham*, you get the whole path.
A minor annoyance, and definitely not a reason to not upgrade. o.O