Yes, and if you stick to using those published APIs you will never be able to achieve the features and integration that a competing Microsoft product does. Good luck with that.
The Deep Space Network's 63 meter dishes were actually upgraded to 70 meter dishes specifically for the Voyager spacecraft around 1980. Access to the 70 meter dishes is hotly contested and likely ends up being more than a small fraction of that $4 million per year.
It is a bit extreme, but at the same time I was extremely disappointed. The reason I had wanted to replace my CRT paled in comparison to having a stuck white pixel (I shouldn't have called it dead, sorry).
My only complaint with my CRT is that the power-on circuitry seems gimpy, and sometimes it needs to be switched on multiple times before the electron guns will come on. (You can hear the transformers coming on and everything, it just never lights up). The reason I wanted to replace it with an LCD was that I figured it might be on its way out, and I might as well try to lower power consumption and have more room on my desk by getting an LCD. Ultimately, I decided that in combination with the vast irritation of dead/stuck pixels and generally reduced image quality, and lack of flexible resolutions it really just wasn't worth the tradeoff, and now I am using my CRT again and I am quite happy. I am a video gamers and digital photographer, and now I know why photographers almost always say to stick with a CRT.
What part of "Flagged for human review" does everyone not understand?
When a Google employee looks through the flagged sites, removing the ones which are clearly SEO-spam they will see www.redhat.com and think, "Gee, I am not so sure that is a spam site" and not remove it. Very simple. In fact, a particularly vindictive human reviewer may in fact go to his or her superiors and say "Hey, this site was unfairly submitted for review and I don't think that many people would accidentally do that. Why don't you look through the logs and try to figure out who did this and so we can remove their site instead?"
Alternatively (and I'm sure just as difficult to implement) would be a voting system. Allow users to vote on which links had the information they searched for. And figure in a sites vote tally into its rating
There's nothing at all difficult to implement about this. It's just wide open to abuse and ironically enough, SEO-spamming, by its very nature. Something the original poster's well-thought-out scheme is not even though everyone is claiming it is.
I know it is a common issue in manufacturing. That doesn't mean it should be a common issue in the marketplace.
My AST laptop 10 years ago had zero dead pixels. My IBM laptop after that had no dead pixels either. My Toshiba after that had no dead pixels. And my current Powerbook has no dead pixels. I'll note that cellphone for example has no dead pixels either, nor my Gameboy. Particularly noteworthy, I have not heard the same complaints about Gameboys having dead pixels that people are making about the PSP.
So why do modern LCDs suddenly have this problem, anyway? They always did. The difference is that while they used to throw them away and only sell the good ones, now they are simply saying "Well, we've always had this problem in manufacturing, and we've decided that since we can't fix it, we're just gonna start selling these broken screens and hope you have bad eyesight and don't notice. That way we can skimp on our QA budget and reduce our manufacturing expenses. If you do notice, we'll just throw up our hands in frustration and insist that that's just the way it is."
I did have a Samsung desktop LCD with a dead pixel which they wouldn't replace. It irritated me so much that I gave it to a friend and just pretend that I had accientally flushed the $500 down the toilet or something.
Listen, you're welcome to your opinion, but the FF7 fanboys are entitled to ours (yes, I include me) as well.
I love that game. I go back and play it often, and I still love it. It wasn't my first FF game (my online name is proof) and wasn't my last, but I do think it's the best, and in fact one of the best games I've ever played, right up there with Tales of Symphonia and Zelda 3, thanks.
I first played it on the PC on my spiffy Voodoo^2, for reference. I since bought the console version solely so I could extract the better-encoded videos from it to use in my wonderful copyright infringing music videos, linked in my sig.
Bush is an oil corporatist. There's no money in space for him and his friends, ergo, space gets cut.
While I agree that's why this program is on the chopping block, it has nothing to do with 'space' getting cut. Like you said, Bush seems to be a closet oil baron. That's why he LOVES space. That's why we are backing off from the space shuttle at the same time we are supposedly going to the moon and mars and finishing ISS and other scientifically pointless ventures.
When it comes to gas-guzzling, rockets put hummers to shame. Especially inter-planetary rockets. I predict a Saturn VI will be showing up soon.
You'd be surprised what XP's definition of 'firewall on by default' is. Among numerous other things, it leaves all of the *important* windows services unblocked, including XML-RPC and SMB/NetBIOS.
Because rightly or wrongly, if there were security incidents and people didn't feel like we were doing "all we can" to secure air carriers, air travel would suffer greatly and our economy would suffer as a result.
You say this as if it is already granted to be fact.
I note that fear of suicide bombings didn't destroy the demand for public transit in Israel.
If your fears become reality, you are forced to confront them and deal with them real-damn-quick. The problem with us, is that our fears never become reality, and we never confront them, and we never get over them, and we end up living our entire lives in fear.
Don't forget the guy who runs the "There can be only one"-style warrior tournament:
Klannoc McLeod <The Islander>
*snickers*
I have no trouble with their occasional NPC parody name. On players on the other hand, it's a bit stupid, at least if you're on a roleplay server like I am.
is created by people who have chosen to use an established entity to help preserve their property rights and get them a paycheck.
Chosen is a strong word to use. Are you a musician? Do you know any musicians? Signing with the RIAA or MPAA is not a 'choice' in the way you're probably thinking of it. They have the entire industry by the nuts. They have distribution and radio/television advertising tied up tighter than you can possibly imagine. Their grip on clubs and tours gets tighter every day. Even with the advent of the Internet, there is still no way around them. Anything that challenges them gets sued (whether the complaint is legitimate or not), then gets bought at a bargain basement price, and finally is euthanized or utterly declawed (Select examples: mp3.com, Napster, and now LokiTorrent)
The only 'choice' in signing with the RIAA or MPAA is whether you'd like to make being an artist your full-time job, or whether you'd like to continue it as a hobby while you work at the gas station. For one, you sign with the *AA, for the other you continue being an indy. If you think it isn't really THAT bad, you're wrong. Even rich, successful, well-known artists have tried to go against the tide of the RIAA, and ended up as just so much wreckage shattered on the rocks. The RIAA is a 500 ton gorilla with a massive inferiority complex.
anyone consuming that work without paying what the artists ask is making slaves of those artists.
The RIAA is making slaves out of artists, not the "Pirates". The RIAA was making slaves out of artists long before the first bootleg tape was ever made. Please understand, Pirates (capital P) and the RIAA are at war, and it's not about getting music without paying for it. At its core it mirrors the "free software" movement in many ways. It's about artist's rights and the democratization of the music industry. This doesn't mean I agree with the tactics being used, (by either side) but this whole thing it goes much deeper than mere "stealing music is bad, mmkay?" that's just the surface of the conflict. There are clearly vendettas on both sides. Open source vs. closed source is a cold war/arms race right now, but in contrast the Pirates vs. RIAA is an all-out nuclear war.
And, making only part-time slaves out of people is OK?
Yes, yes it is. Go to any software development company for all your part-time slavery needs. Except EA, they specialize in full-time slavery.
Why Burt Rutan would offer his coattails to these other clowns I'll never know.
Because Burt Rutan wasn't always recognized as an aerospace genius. Once upon a time not all that long ago, he was the one being called a clown. You have to start somewhere. Burt Rutan realizes this. He also realizes that competition is GOOD. For the industry, even for him. Without people snapping at his heels, he probably wouldn't have nearly as much motivation to push the envelope and come up with some of the amazing work he has done.
This is trotted out every time that the space program needs justifying and guess what, its bogus. Non stick frying pans were being developed during the Napoleonic wars when the English embargo prevented the French getting their hands on enough cooking grease. Hence LeCreuset.
Guess what -- THAT's bogus.
Great example, by the way. LeCreuset is nonstick cookware, I'll give you that. However, they do not use Teflon for their ceramic cookware. They did not invent Teflon or anything at all similar. They do USE Teflon, however, in their kitchen textiles, as a fabric protector. Because, that's right, teflon is useful for more than non-stick cookware! Hooray!
In fact, Teflon is among the (at the top of the list I believe, but I'm not willing to back that up) most slippery materials known to man. Not simply the cheapest or most widely available, it is extremely unique.
I do agree with you in general that the Hubble has delivered far more science than any manned mission ever has. However, I believe both have their merits, and both deserve funding.
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If in doubt, polish your own mirror, build your own telescope, and point it at some film.
Seriously though, I'm not sure what you mean by "saturated out from other sources"... there really isn't much light pollution in space. It's very dark out there. As for gravity affecting light -- well, sure, it does. But all the photons we're seeing from Monoceros are travelling nearly parallel to each other, and are very close to one another. They will all be affected by any gravitational lensing the same way. This will not affect the sharpness of the image at all, in fact most photographers would love to get their hands on a lens so perfect.
Yeah, those fucking towelheads, or is "sand nigger" the preferred term nowadays?
Let's restart the motherfucking crusades... nevermind, I guess we already have. Bringing christianity, bringing democracy, the goal is the same -- kill anyone with different beliefs.
Oh noes, teh port scans! A port scan from a worm is just that -- a scan. It's looking to see if you've got that port open. It's not an attack, just a test. The attack comes if the test succeeds and finds you are running MySQL on an open port.
If you keep all ports closed, how precisely do you suspect a connection may have been established? Why bother checking? Perhaps it would do you good to do a bit of learning about how connections and ports actually work. TCP is a pretty simple protocol, nmap's stealthy tricks with FINs and SYNs not withstanding.
Flat panel with built in computer... check. Wireless capability... check. Plays music, connects to Internet... check. Bluetooth Wireless keyboard... check.
They're not doing anything wrong. They're rating games, and usually doing a pretty fair job of it in my opinion. They are no more inconsistent than the movie ratings system. Besides, "Just remember what the MPAA says: Horrific deplorable violence is OK, as long as you don't say any naughty words!" It's sad, but true. Society today seems to have, if not agreed, at least acquiesced that violence is acceptable for teens.
The author of the article complains that Splinter Cell got a Teen rating (there is some ground for complaint there), but he suggests that it is more violent because you can break people's necks, rather than shooting them from afar? Is that more violent? Maybe. But let me play Devil's advocate for a second here:
Seeing someone grab a guy's head and have him fall down dead is not very instructional. You won't learn how to kill someone like that. Even if you did, it is entirely unlike playing a video game when you are up close and personal, fighting physically with someone in real life. The line between fantasy and reality in this context is very stark.
Shooting someone with a sniper rifle, on the other hand, is very much like a video game. Looking through the scope gives you an added disconnect from reality. You are far enough away that the target seems like a little figurine rather than a real live human being. Games that focus more on sniping are in my opinion much more dangerous.
So perhaps the rating is somewhat justified, if Splinter Cell took the emphasis off sniping and into less explicit, less likely to be replicated forms of violence.
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Yes, and if you stick to using those published APIs you will never be able to achieve the features and integration that a competing Microsoft product does. Good luck with that.
I wonder how much equipment is required to receive signals from the voyager?
Just a little.
The Deep Space Network's 63 meter dishes were actually upgraded to 70 meter dishes specifically for the Voyager spacecraft around 1980. Access to the 70 meter dishes is hotly contested and likely ends up being more than a small fraction of that $4 million per year.
It is a bit extreme, but at the same time I was extremely disappointed. The reason I had wanted to replace my CRT paled in comparison to having a stuck white pixel (I shouldn't have called it dead, sorry).
My only complaint with my CRT is that the power-on circuitry seems gimpy, and sometimes it needs to be switched on multiple times before the electron guns will come on. (You can hear the transformers coming on and everything, it just never lights up). The reason I wanted to replace it with an LCD was that I figured it might be on its way out, and I might as well try to lower power consumption and have more room on my desk by getting an LCD. Ultimately, I decided that in combination with the vast irritation of dead/stuck pixels and generally reduced image quality, and lack of flexible resolutions it really just wasn't worth the tradeoff, and now I am using my CRT again and I am quite happy. I am a video gamers and digital photographer, and now I know why photographers almost always say to stick with a CRT.
What part of "Flagged for human review" does everyone not understand?
When a Google employee looks through the flagged sites, removing the ones which are clearly SEO-spam they will see www.redhat.com and think, "Gee, I am not so sure that is a spam site" and not remove it. Very simple. In fact, a particularly vindictive human reviewer may in fact go to his or her superiors and say "Hey, this site was unfairly submitted for review and I don't think that many people would accidentally do that. Why don't you look through the logs and try to figure out who did this and so we can remove their site instead?"
Alternatively (and I'm sure just as difficult to implement) would be a voting system. Allow users to vote on which links had the information they searched for. And figure in a sites vote tally into its rating
There's nothing at all difficult to implement about this. It's just wide open to abuse and ironically enough, SEO-spamming, by its very nature. Something the original poster's well-thought-out scheme is not even though everyone is claiming it is.
I know it is a common issue in manufacturing. That doesn't mean it should be a common issue in the marketplace.
My AST laptop 10 years ago had zero dead pixels. My IBM laptop after that had no dead pixels either. My Toshiba after that had no dead pixels. And my current Powerbook has no dead pixels. I'll note that cellphone for example has no dead pixels either, nor my Gameboy. Particularly noteworthy, I have not heard the same complaints about Gameboys having dead pixels that people are making about the PSP.
So why do modern LCDs suddenly have this problem, anyway? They always did. The difference is that while they used to throw them away and only sell the good ones, now they are simply saying "Well, we've always had this problem in manufacturing, and we've decided that since we can't fix it, we're just gonna start selling these broken screens and hope you have bad eyesight and don't notice. That way we can skimp on our QA budget and reduce our manufacturing expenses. If you do notice, we'll just throw up our hands in frustration and insist that that's just the way it is."
I did have a Samsung desktop LCD with a dead pixel which they wouldn't replace. It irritated me so much that I gave it to a friend and just pretend that I had accientally flushed the $500 down the toilet or something.
Newfoundland has lots of funny town names. I refer you to the lyrics for Arrogant Worms - A Night On Dildo.
Listen, you're welcome to your opinion, but the FF7 fanboys are entitled to ours (yes, I include me) as well.
I love that game. I go back and play it often, and I still love it. It wasn't my first FF game (my online name is proof) and wasn't my last, but I do think it's the best, and in fact one of the best games I've ever played, right up there with Tales of Symphonia and Zelda 3, thanks.
I first played it on the PC on my spiffy Voodoo^2, for reference. I since bought the console version solely so I could extract the better-encoded videos from it to use in my wonderful copyright infringing music videos, linked in my sig.
Where do you imagine they get the hydrogen from, huh?
They're called "hydrocarbons" for a reason.
It's much more of a tragedy
I'll drink to that, Lucas.
Bush is an oil corporatist. There's no money in space for him and his friends, ergo, space gets cut.
While I agree that's why this program is on the chopping block, it has nothing to do with 'space' getting cut. Like you said, Bush seems to be a closet oil baron. That's why he LOVES space. That's why we are backing off from the space shuttle at the same time we are supposedly going to the moon and mars and finishing ISS and other scientifically pointless ventures.
When it comes to gas-guzzling, rockets put hummers to shame. Especially inter-planetary rockets. I predict a Saturn VI will be showing up soon.
You'd be surprised what XP's definition of 'firewall on by default' is. Among numerous other things, it leaves all of the *important* windows services unblocked, including XML-RPC and SMB/NetBIOS.
It's impenetrable like a wet paper towel.
Because rightly or wrongly, if there were security incidents and people didn't feel like we were doing "all we can" to secure air carriers, air travel would suffer greatly and our economy would suffer as a result.
You say this as if it is already granted to be fact.
I note that fear of suicide bombings didn't destroy the demand for public transit in Israel.
If your fears become reality, you are forced to confront them and deal with them real-damn-quick. The problem with us, is that our fears never become reality, and we never confront them, and we never get over them, and we end up living our entire lives in fear.
It's really sad.
Don't forget the guy who runs the "There can be only one"-style warrior tournament:
Klannoc McLeod
<The Islander>
*snickers*
I have no trouble with their occasional NPC parody name. On players on the other hand, it's a bit stupid, at least if you're on a roleplay server like I am.
is created by people who have chosen to use an established entity to help preserve their property rights and get them a paycheck.
Chosen is a strong word to use. Are you a musician? Do you know any musicians? Signing with the RIAA or MPAA is not a 'choice' in the way you're probably thinking of it. They have the entire industry by the nuts. They have distribution and radio/television advertising tied up tighter than you can possibly imagine. Their grip on clubs and tours gets tighter every day. Even with the advent of the Internet, there is still no way around them. Anything that challenges them gets sued (whether the complaint is legitimate or not), then gets bought at a bargain basement price, and finally is euthanized or utterly declawed (Select examples: mp3.com, Napster, and now LokiTorrent)
The only 'choice' in signing with the RIAA or MPAA is whether you'd like to make being an artist your full-time job, or whether you'd like to continue it as a hobby while you work at the gas station. For one, you sign with the *AA, for the other you continue being an indy. If you think it isn't really THAT bad, you're wrong. Even rich, successful, well-known artists have tried to go against the tide of the RIAA, and ended up as just so much wreckage shattered on the rocks. The RIAA is a 500 ton gorilla with a massive inferiority complex.
anyone consuming that work without paying what the artists ask is making slaves of those artists.
The RIAA is making slaves out of artists, not the "Pirates". The RIAA was making slaves out of artists long before the first bootleg tape was ever made. Please understand, Pirates (capital P) and the RIAA are at war, and it's not about getting music without paying for it. At its core it mirrors the "free software" movement in many ways. It's about artist's rights and the democratization of the music industry. This doesn't mean I agree with the tactics being used, (by either side) but this whole thing it goes much deeper than mere "stealing music is bad, mmkay?" that's just the surface of the conflict. There are clearly vendettas on both sides. Open source vs. closed source is a cold war/arms race right now, but in contrast the Pirates vs. RIAA is an all-out nuclear war.
And, making only part-time slaves out of people is OK?
Yes, yes it is. Go to any software development company for all your part-time slavery needs. Except EA, they specialize in full-time slavery.
I have yet to meet an "astrologist" who has any interest in science or whether things add up at all.
"Astronomers", on the other hand... (disclaimer: I am one)
Why Burt Rutan would offer his coattails to these other clowns I'll never know.
Because Burt Rutan wasn't always recognized as an aerospace genius. Once upon a time not all that long ago, he was the one being called a clown. You have to start somewhere. Burt Rutan realizes this. He also realizes that competition is GOOD. For the industry, even for him. Without people snapping at his heels, he probably wouldn't have nearly as much motivation to push the envelope and come up with some of the amazing work he has done.
No. It would be 100 nines.
A goolgol is 1 followed by 100 zeroes, in other words 101 digits. Subtract one, and you still have 100 digits, all nines.
This is trotted out every time that the space program needs justifying and guess what, its bogus. Non stick frying pans were being developed during the Napoleonic wars when the English embargo prevented the French getting their hands on enough cooking grease. Hence LeCreuset.
Guess what -- THAT's bogus.
Great example, by the way. LeCreuset is nonstick cookware, I'll give you that. However, they do not use Teflon for their ceramic cookware. They did not invent Teflon or anything at all similar. They do USE Teflon, however, in their kitchen textiles, as a fabric protector. Because, that's right, teflon is useful for more than non-stick cookware! Hooray!
In fact, Teflon is among the (at the top of the list I believe, but I'm not willing to back that up) most slippery materials known to man. Not simply the cheapest or most widely available, it is extremely unique.
I do agree with you in general that the Hubble has delivered far more science than any manned mission ever has. However, I believe both have their merits, and both deserve funding.
If in doubt, polish your own mirror, build your own telescope, and point it at some film.
Seriously though, I'm not sure what you mean by "saturated out from other sources"... there really isn't much light pollution in space. It's very dark out there. As for gravity affecting light -- well, sure, it does. But all the photons we're seeing from Monoceros are travelling nearly parallel to each other, and are very close to one another. They will all be affected by any gravitational lensing the same way. This will not affect the sharpness of the image at all, in fact most photographers would love to get their hands on a lens so perfect.
There are those of us who only have a laptop, y'know.
A PDA is a mighty expensive 802.11 detector.
These days savage arabs, mainly.
Yeah, those fucking towelheads, or is "sand nigger" the preferred term nowadays?
Let's restart the motherfucking crusades... nevermind, I guess we already have. Bringing christianity, bringing democracy, the goal is the same -- kill anyone with different beliefs.
What an enlightened bunch you are.
Oh noes, teh port scans! A port scan from a worm is just that -- a scan. It's looking to see if you've got that port open. It's not an attack, just a test. The attack comes if the test succeeds and finds you are running MySQL on an open port.
If you keep all ports closed, how precisely do you suspect a connection may have been established? Why bother checking? Perhaps it would do you good to do a bit of learning about how connections and ports actually work. TCP is a pretty simple protocol, nmap's stealthy tricks with FINs and SYNs not withstanding.
So the question is, why hasn't anyone invented this yet?
Psst. They have.
Flat panel with built in computer... check.
Wireless capability... check.
Plays music, connects to Internet... check.
Bluetooth Wireless keyboard... check.
At random intervals, from a dead stop, refuse the transmission permission to leave 1st gear.
Pfft, you talk like this is innovative. My friend's van already has this feature, and it's 15 years old!
They're not doing anything wrong. They're rating games, and usually doing a pretty fair job of it in my opinion. They are no more inconsistent than the movie ratings system. Besides, "Just remember what the MPAA says: Horrific deplorable violence is OK, as long as you don't say any naughty words!" It's sad, but true. Society today seems to have, if not agreed, at least acquiesced that violence is acceptable for teens.
The author of the article complains that Splinter Cell got a Teen rating (there is some ground for complaint there), but he suggests that it is more violent because you can break people's necks, rather than shooting them from afar? Is that more violent? Maybe. But let me play Devil's advocate for a second here:
Seeing someone grab a guy's head and have him fall down dead is not very instructional. You won't learn how to kill someone like that. Even if you did, it is entirely unlike playing a video game when you are up close and personal, fighting physically with someone in real life. The line between fantasy and reality in this context is very stark.
Shooting someone with a sniper rifle, on the other hand, is very much like a video game. Looking through the scope gives you an added disconnect from reality. You are far enough away that the target seems like a little figurine rather than a real live human being. Games that focus more on sniping are in my opinion much more dangerous.
So perhaps the rating is somewhat justified, if Splinter Cell took the emphasis off sniping and into less explicit, less likely to be replicated forms of violence.