OK, here's the deal. People don't start companies without the intention of making money. Period. If they just wanted to give stuff to the world they'd start a non-profit charity.
That's not to say that they can't make money as a company doing things and offering products that are genuinely useful and reasonably priced. How many of their tools are available to you for essentially nothing?
As long as they are making an honest attempt to provide useful services and products, this bitching about how they're just in it to make cash has to stop. If you don't like what they're doing/offering, don't use their products and services.
Does using a free service cost them more than boycotting it?
I bought a VGA Silencer for my 6800GT (Which could already overclock to Ultra specs with the stock cooler) and it definitely allowed for a marked improvement in running temp for my card.
I was fairly disappointed with the machining on the underside of the heatsink. It has pads that are supposed to make contact with the ram chips situated around the GPU, however when applying some Arctic Silver to the chips I found some contacted fully and some did not. I also noticed that the outermost edges of the GPU and ram were more likely to touch then the portions toward the center.
I ended up having to make the screws that attached between the GPU and memory significantly tigher in an effort to pull the PCB up and fit against the heatsink. If it didn't have rubber grommets under the fasteners to allow some give I would have simply returned it as unusable.
They may not lock their phones from being used by other providers but they definitely do block ESN sets known to be associated with other providers.
I've been told this by techs at my local Verizon store and experienced it firsthand when I was automatically blocked from activating another carrier's phone via their website as well.
Anyone that remembers their high school chemistry class should remember you could get anything from a deep orange flame to a bright blue flame from a Bunsen Burner just by adjusting the amount of air being allowed into the reaction.
This is the same thing, just with H2 and O2 instead of Natural Gas
You need a subwoofer to feel it but you don't need one to hear it.
I could hear it with my Sennheiser HD 280 Pros (and I could actually feel them shaking on my head), but hey, this MP3 is only one reason to get a set of Sennheisers. They're worth it.
Forget thumbing our nose at the federal government. We have more daylight than we want here in arizona. Nothing like driving home from work at 11pm and having it still be 102F out. We don't stand to gain much, if anything from changing.
As for the reservations, they pretty much do whatever they want within reason, and if they want to screw around with daylight savings time we're not going to stop them.
This thing can't come anywhere close to the type of playing a human is capable of.
First comes frets; It's only going to play chords in those first 4 frets, which eliminates almost every barred chord.
In it's current design it can't play harmonic notes, bend or tremelo (which could be handled through an appropriate bridge, but they're using an acoutsic).
Hammer-ons may be possible but pull-offs or pinch harmonics don't appear possible with this design.
Beyond that, the places where strings can be picked are static. This alone can change the sound of a song greatly and can be infinitely varible with a human player.
In all honesty, they'd be better off trying to come up with an actual robotic set of hands and programming all the necessary logic/movements if they want a serious contender to human guitar players.
I don't know if the status quo has changed since then, but the last time femptosecond lasers were mentioned on slashdot (in an article about storing a TByte in a 1cm^3 cube of glass), a researcher confirmed that they took up most of a room sizewise.
You aren't going to see this in use anytime soon, if ever.
I'm not sure about programs, but you can install drivers. I'm sure some enterprising individual will come up with some scripting system to make it happen... hopefully
Well, they'll probably never give it to you, but you can definitely have it.
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html allows you to pull unwanted components from your windows install cd's, including media player, messenger and internet explorer. If you're so inclined I highly recommend making your own personalized install.
It also comes in particularly handy when you want to keep people from using IE after their machine gets hosed by malware.
As an aside, I find it much easier to just write the new install files into my CD image rather than burn a new one from folders on the disk and as a bonus the CD is typically smaller that way as well.
"There is one big drawback, though. Users won't be able to install Service Pack 2, unless they integrate SP2 in the installation CD. And that's probably too much trouble for most users..."
So, pulling files from the boot portion of the disk, editing keys in regedit and reburning is conceivable, but going the extra step of slipstreaming SP2 into the disk before reburning is too difficult?
They covered the use of VR for phobia patients on Scientific American Frontiers years back. Doctors used old school VR helmets to place acrophobics on virtual bridges and buildings to help them overcome their fears.
If I'm not mistaken, there was no pure red rose. The roses of the time were crossbred with a red asian flower to get the red hue available today. If anything this modified version is closer to the rose it was created from than a red rose itself.
Slashdot Mirror
I count 4 clearly visible dust devils.
I wonder how common they are in that area...
Not to be an asshole, but which is more useful to the chinese people, a censored google or no google at all.
I'd bet if they didn't go along with the filtering they wouldn't be available there at all.
They could protest the filtering, but I doubt it would make any positive difference to *anyone* there.
OK, here's the deal. People don't start companies without the intention of making money. Period. If they just wanted to give stuff to the world they'd start a non-profit charity.
That's not to say that they can't make money as a company doing things and offering products that are genuinely useful and reasonably priced. How many of their tools are available to you for essentially nothing?
As long as they are making an honest attempt to provide useful services and products, this bitching about how they're just in it to make cash has to stop. If you don't like what they're doing/offering, don't use their products and services.
Does using a free service cost them more than boycotting it?
Go to Comedy Central and watch some of the clips posted from the Daily Show, It may just be what you're looking for.
I bought a VGA Silencer for my 6800GT (Which could already overclock to Ultra specs with the stock cooler) and it definitely allowed for a marked improvement in running temp for my card.
I was fairly disappointed with the machining on the underside of the heatsink. It has pads that are supposed to make contact with the ram chips situated around the GPU, however when applying some Arctic Silver to the chips I found some contacted fully and some did not. I also noticed that the outermost edges of the GPU and ram were more likely to touch then the portions toward the center.
I ended up having to make the screws that attached between the GPU and memory significantly tigher in an effort to pull the PCB up and fit against the heatsink. If it didn't have rubber grommets under the fasteners to allow some give I would have simply returned it as unusable.
YMMV
They may not lock their phones from being used by other providers but they definitely do block ESN sets known to be associated with other providers.
I've been told this by techs at my local Verizon store and experienced it firsthand when I was automatically blocked from activating another carrier's phone via their website as well.
I stand corrected. ::bow::
Anyone that remembers their high school chemistry class should remember you could get anything from a deep orange flame to a bright blue flame from a Bunsen Burner just by adjusting the amount of air being allowed into the reaction.
This is the same thing, just with H2 and O2 instead of Natural Gas
Paste this link into google and click through for a single page version
n ey/31hack.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/business/yourmo
no reg required
Indeed
BSD actually. It'll run on anything.
You need a subwoofer to feel it but you don't need one to hear it.
I could hear it with my Sennheiser HD 280 Pros (and I could actually feel them shaking on my head), but hey, this MP3 is only one reason to get a set of Sennheisers. They're worth it.
Forget thumbing our nose at the federal government. We have more daylight than we want here in arizona. Nothing like driving home from work at 11pm and having it still be 102F out. We don't stand to gain much, if anything from changing.
As for the reservations, they pretty much do whatever they want within reason, and if they want to screw around with daylight savings time we're not going to stop them.
(Score:5, Insightful) Doesn't begin to measure that comment.
My hat is off to you sir...
sounds like a variation on the concept discussed here:
e wsletterarchives/id2.html
http://oaktreep.ehost.com/oaktreephysicaltherapyn
They've been talking about this for 2-3 years now
This thing can't come anywhere close to the type of playing a human is capable of.
First comes frets; It's only going to play chords in those first 4 frets, which eliminates almost every barred chord.
In it's current design it can't play harmonic notes, bend or tremelo (which could be handled through an appropriate bridge, but they're using an acoutsic).
Hammer-ons may be possible but pull-offs or pinch harmonics don't appear possible with this design.
Beyond that, the places where strings can be picked are static. This alone can change the sound of a song greatly and can be infinitely varible with a human player.
In all honesty, they'd be better off trying to come up with an actual robotic set of hands and programming all the necessary logic/movements if they want a serious contender to human guitar players.
I don't know if the status quo has changed since then, but the last time femptosecond lasers were mentioned on slashdot (in an article about storing a TByte in a 1cm^3 cube of glass), a researcher confirmed that they took up most of a room sizewise.
You aren't going to see this in use anytime soon, if ever.
I'm not sure about programs, but you can install drivers. I'm sure some enterprising individual will come up with some scripting system to make it happen... hopefully
Well, they'll probably never give it to you, but you can definitely have it.
http://www.nliteos.com/nlite.html allows you to pull unwanted components from your windows install cd's, including media player, messenger and internet explorer. If you're so inclined I highly recommend making your own personalized install.
It also comes in particularly handy when you want to keep people from using IE after their machine gets hosed by malware.
As an aside, I find it much easier to just write the new install files into my CD image rather than burn a new one from folders on the disk and as a bonus the CD is typically smaller that way as well.
Out of curiosity, do you use Nextel? My friend has the same problem, but none of us have seen the behavior by anything but his Nextel phone...
"There is one big drawback, though. Users won't be able to install Service Pack 2, unless they integrate SP2 in the installation CD. And that's probably too much trouble for most users..."
So, pulling files from the boot portion of the disk, editing keys in regedit and reburning is conceivable, but going the extra step of slipstreaming SP2 into the disk before reburning is too difficult?
Methinks these guys were reaching to fill a page.
They covered the use of VR for phobia patients on Scientific American Frontiers years back. Doctors used old school VR helmets to place acrophobics on virtual bridges and buildings to help them overcome their fears.
Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones, which are all really the same thing, aren't really a problem at the equator...
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http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/hurricanes.htm
If I'm not mistaken, there was no pure red rose. The roses of the time were crossbred with a red asian flower to get the red hue available today. If anything this modified version is closer to the rose it was created from than a red rose itself.