it's not like you go calling your DVD's CD's either, do you?
I'm pretty sure everyone will be calling them Blu-Ray DVDs.. The only reason the terms DVD and VCD caught on was because they distinguished between CD as audio media, and the former two as video media.
And, copyrights aside, the abbreviation itself is no more (or less) applicable.
In all fairness, CDs were leaps and bounds ahead of contemporary storage media.. Hell, CDs held more information than my HDD when they started becoming popular, and the only other common removable media was a 1.44MB floppy (or not-as-widely adopted 2.88MB). As far as ubiquitous portable storage, CDs held massively more information than their previous generation counterparts. (I'm not counting Zip drives, or other proprietary magneto-optical storage, since they really weren't as widespread as floppies and CDs). DVDs only hold several times as much data as a CD. If there had been an equal leap forward after CDs, you'd see discs (or whatever) with 340GB capacities.
Encryption wouldn't solve anything.. the problem isn't ISPs examining the content and then calling the **AA; it's the **AA launching their own clients, then gathering a list of IP adresses. Since you're sending to an untrusted audience, there's always a possibility you're sending to the **AA. Sure, you could encrypt the files and not advertise their contents, but that sort of defeats the goal of content distribution.
"Dear Slashdot, I live on a coral island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, and the only way for me to get broadband is to drain all the water out of the ocean, but those damn environmentalists keep trying to stop me."
Actually, I do live on a coral island in the middle of the Pacific, and it's the first time I've ever lived somewhere with broadband. I pay $90/mo, and obviously ping times aren't great, so playing games is somewhat out of the question, but it's just fine for most other things.
As it turns out, you don't really need to drain the ocean, just lay a transpacific fiber, as you're wont to do in order to connect, say, continents. Islands, as it turns out, are good spots to split the trunks to various locations, with the added benefit of providing broadband access for the residents.
R&D?!?!? They added 256MB of RAM to a reference design created by another company. I realize this isn't the same RAM you pop in a DIMM slot, but really.. $500 for 256MB? That's ridiculous.
Apparently nobody's explained to you the difference between a rural and an urban existance. You're obviously going to give up the conveniences of living in a city, but the trade off is that you don't live in a sardine-can apartment with noise/air pollution and excessive crime. Also, it's probably physically possible for you to exceed the speed limit due to a lack of bumper-to-bumper traffic.
But more to the point, BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES DOESN'T WORK. There. Read it once again if you didn't get it the first time. Let's pretend we don't care that it interferes with all forms of RF communication, because surfing pr0n at broadband speeds is obviously more important to you than, say, emergency response services. The more pressing issues are:
a) It's blocked by transformers. That means it won't go through substations or, more importantly, from the street to your house. See that cylinder on the phone pole out there? That's a transformer. Theoritically, you could put a WIFI from the pole to your house, but you just said you're in the NRQZ. (Which would seem to indicate that RF leakage from BPL would be a federal violation in the first place).
b) It receives interference. That's right. Antennas work both ways. What does that mean for you? Well, unfortunately it means that the broadband transmissions are highly prone to errors, and, in fact, an RF broadcast could disrupt your broadband completely if it's within 5 miles of the power line that carries your broadband.
So, what's a viable alternative? Write your representative and ask him to introduce legislation to subsidise fiber to rural locations, just like they did with electricity back in the day. Until then, maybe try satellite, or TCP via avian carrier. Alternatively, you could make a friend at UVA and use their broadband.
Apollo created diamonds are inherently upper grade stones, with low inclusion, and a high brilliance. Apollo created diamonds can be used in jewelry products requiring the highest quality gemstones. Apollo grown Diamonds are produced in matched color sets and range in size from 5 points to 1 carat, fully faceted diamonds.
Is it true that diamonds have fractional resale value? And if so, why isn't cheap diamond jewelry more widely available? I've searched the ebay and the internet at large, but I haven't found a good source for secondhand stones.
Those curved buildings are kinda cool, but how long would those buildings even be in your field of vision if you were blasting past them at the speed of light?
First of all, it's near lightspeed.
More importantly, they simulated light moving at 30km/h rather than 300km/s. Fortunately this had no effect on the real speed of light, so you're free to continue driving at highway speeds. Good thing too, because it would add a whole new dimension to traffic violations.
"Your honor, I literally couldn't see him until after we collided."
"$500 fine for exceeding the speed of light."
"Your honor, I didn't realize.. I thought I was just drunk!"
From TFA: What if, instead of carrying the broadcaster's station ID, the bug contained an advertiser's payload?
Oh, oh, I've got an idea! What if, instead of carrying the advertiser's logo in the corner, the program contained words like, "Enjoy Coke!" These would be displayed in a single frame randomly throughout the program. The viewers won't be consciously aware of it, but it will garner their attention nonetheless. I'll call this form of advertisment "Subliminal Messaging."
The point of laws like this, and others (viruses, spam, etc) isn't to solve the problems legally. Obviously nobody except perhaps the very naive expects stealing to stop just because there are laws against thievery. Rather they provide some means of justice (or retribution, or whatever you want to call it) when people are caught. Will some people be deterred? Maybe. But I don't think anyone breaks the law expecting to get caught.
With the exception of a few hardcore swappers, most of us simply don't have the disk space to store dozens or hundreds of movies.
Who needs to store it? Watch it, delete it, good to go.
That said, I have 4 200GB drives that I've bought over the course of a year, which is enough to hold several seasons of a variety of TV shows, along with every decent (in my opinion) movie released in the same amount of time in xvid, and still not be hurting for space. I don't have a desire to re-watch most things, so I would just start deleting things if it came to that, but if I wanted to keep it I'd just burn it to DVD.
It's the first dupe in one post. We've all just seen history folks. In 20 years, your kids (or clones, for those of you who don't/can't breed) will ask you about this moment. Remember it well.
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it's not like you go calling your DVD's CD's either, do you?
I'm pretty sure everyone will be calling them Blu-Ray DVDs.. The only reason the terms DVD and VCD caught on was because they distinguished between CD as audio media, and the former two as video media.
And, copyrights aside, the abbreviation itself is no more (or less) applicable.
In all fairness, CDs were leaps and bounds ahead of contemporary storage media.. Hell, CDs held more information than my HDD when they started becoming popular, and the only other common removable media was a 1.44MB floppy (or not-as-widely adopted 2.88MB). As far as ubiquitous portable storage, CDs held massively more information than their previous generation counterparts. (I'm not counting Zip drives, or other proprietary magneto-optical storage, since they really weren't as widespread as floppies and CDs). DVDs only hold several times as much data as a CD. If there had been an equal leap forward after CDs, you'd see discs (or whatever) with 340GB capacities.
So what really killed her daughter was a lack of CPR training.
Emergency services would have arrived too late to do any good if she wasn't breathing.
Forgot to mention, key exchange would still be vulnerable to MITM attacks, which your ISP could do pretty easily.
Encryption wouldn't solve anything.. the problem isn't ISPs examining the content and then calling the **AA; it's the **AA launching their own clients, then gathering a list of IP adresses. Since you're sending to an untrusted audience, there's always a possibility you're sending to the **AA. Sure, you could encrypt the files and not advertise their contents, but that sort of defeats the goal of content distribution.
"Dear Slashdot, I live on a coral island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, and the only way for me to get broadband is to drain all the water out of the ocean, but those damn environmentalists keep trying to stop me."
Actually, I do live on a coral island in the middle of the Pacific, and it's the first time I've ever lived somewhere with broadband. I pay $90/mo, and obviously ping times aren't great, so playing games is somewhat out of the question, but it's just fine for most other things.
As it turns out, you don't really need to drain the ocean, just lay a transpacific fiber, as you're wont to do in order to connect, say, continents. Islands, as it turns out, are good spots to split the trunks to various locations, with the added benefit of providing broadband access for the residents.
I have absolutely no problem with this. I'd love a second income, and I'd be more than happy to sell my att.. oooh, shiny!
R&D?!?!? They added 256MB of RAM to a reference design created by another company. I realize this isn't the same RAM you pop in a DIMM slot, but really.. $500 for 256MB? That's ridiculous.
Apparently nobody's explained to you the difference between a rural and an urban existance. You're obviously going to give up the conveniences of living in a city, but the trade off is that you don't live in a sardine-can apartment with noise/air pollution and excessive crime. Also, it's probably physically possible for you to exceed the speed limit due to a lack of bumper-to-bumper traffic.
But more to the point, BROADBAND OVER POWER LINES DOESN'T WORK. There. Read it once again if you didn't get it the first time. Let's pretend we don't care that it interferes with all forms of RF communication, because surfing pr0n at broadband speeds is obviously more important to you than, say, emergency response services. The more pressing issues are:
a) It's blocked by transformers. That means it won't go through substations or, more importantly, from the street to your house. See that cylinder on the phone pole out there? That's a transformer. Theoritically, you could put a WIFI from the pole to your house, but you just said you're in the NRQZ. (Which would seem to indicate that RF leakage from BPL would be a federal violation in the first place).
b) It receives interference. That's right. Antennas work both ways. What does that mean for you? Well, unfortunately it means that the broadband transmissions are highly prone to errors, and, in fact, an RF broadcast could disrupt your broadband completely if it's within 5 miles of the power line that carries your broadband.
So, what's a viable alternative? Write your representative and ask him to introduce legislation to subsidise fiber to rural locations, just like they did with electricity back in the day. Until then, maybe try satellite, or TCP via avian carrier. Alternatively, you could make a friend at UVA and use their broadband.
Good day, sir.
Thanks for straightening me out.
According to their own page, they are producing gem quality diamonds as well.
Unfortunately, the prices for Gemesis stones seem to be equal or higher to those of natural stones...
While it may actually cost a lot of money to create the stones due to slow production, to me it seems like half a dozen of one..
Here's the link to Apollo Diamond's homepage..
No information about purchasing though.. anyone have further info?
Since you're a jeweler, I was wondering..
Is it true that diamonds have fractional resale value? And if so, why isn't cheap diamond jewelry more widely available? I've searched the ebay and the internet at large, but I haven't found a good source for secondhand stones.
Also, what's your take on moissanite?
That type if mistake
Keep digging...
In the near future, we'll all be paying a monthly fee for having a memory, too!
Whew.. I'll be exempt from that fee. Now as long as they don't start charging a fee for memory, I'll be fine.
Those curved buildings are kinda cool, but how long would those buildings even be in your field of vision if you were blasting past them at the speed of light?
First of all, it's near lightspeed.
More importantly, they simulated light moving at 30km/h rather than 300km/s. Fortunately this had no effect on the real speed of light, so you're free to continue driving at highway speeds. Good thing too, because it would add a whole new dimension to traffic violations.
"Your honor, I literally couldn't see him until after we collided."
"$500 fine for exceeding the speed of light."
"Your honor, I didn't realize.. I thought I was just drunk!"
They changed C to 30km/h in order to see the relativistic effects without that annoying windburn.
From TFA: What if, instead of carrying the broadcaster's station ID, the bug contained an advertiser's payload?
Oh, oh, I've got an idea! What if, instead of carrying the advertiser's logo in the corner, the program contained words like, "Enjoy Coke!" These would be displayed in a single frame randomly throughout the program. The viewers won't be consciously aware of it, but it will garner their attention nonetheless. I'll call this form of advertisment "Subliminal Messaging."
The point of laws like this, and others (viruses, spam, etc) isn't to solve the problems legally. Obviously nobody except perhaps the very naive expects stealing to stop just because there are laws against thievery. Rather they provide some means of justice (or retribution, or whatever you want to call it) when people are caught. Will some people be deterred? Maybe. But I don't think anyone breaks the law expecting to get caught.
Right. Pretentious people who read cartoons.
I was giving an example of an argument that doesn't make sense.
It's called a non sequitur..
If elephants are large, then meatballs must be happy.
With the exception of a few hardcore swappers, most of us simply don't have the disk space to store dozens or hundreds of movies.
Who needs to store it? Watch it, delete it, good to go.
That said, I have 4 200GB drives that I've bought over the course of a year, which is enough to hold several seasons of a variety of TV shows, along with every decent (in my opinion) movie released in the same amount of time in xvid, and still not be hurting for space. I don't have a desire to re-watch most things, so I would just start deleting things if it came to that, but if I wanted to keep it I'd just burn it to DVD.
Hypothetically, of course.
It's the first dupe in one post. We've all just seen history folks. In 20 years, your kids (or clones, for those of you who don't/can't breed) will ask you about this moment. Remember it well.
My guess is they'll have to carry all that money home in a pirate's chest.
Now if only Britney would become a pirate. Yarr!