This is true. Just as there are "special editions" available only on DVD, there are some titles which have specific content only ever released on LD. There are also some titles which have not yet made their way to DVD yet.
Are you kidding? If the option is "work overtime or lose your job", how many people are going to quit? How many are in a financial position to do so?
Don't forget too, that we're in a recovery period in the US economy right now, and a lot of these violations occurred during the recent past where jobs - and especially game programming jobs! - were very hard to come by.
Would you quit your job with no other job prospects and little or no savings just because you didn't want to work some overtime?
Employers have much more power than you apparently think.
What sort of crack are you smoking? Did you even read the parent's link before posting? There are a large number of "specific facts" in the article. Check your own facts before flaming someone else.
If all you've got are kneejerk reactions, how do you propose to have a serious debate? Read the article. THEN, and only then, come back here and contribute something useful.
Until that point you're just wasting everyone's time.
I'm not sure - I've been looking at the devices myself, but haven't actually bought or tested one yet.
There may be another alternative for you, though... Many cell phones actually have data and fax capability built in - I know my S/E T68i does. There are two ways to use it, IIRC; one is to connect through the data cable, the other is to connect using bluetooth. I prefer the bluetooth option myself. Since most PCs don't yet have BT connections, Belkin Components has some relatively inexpensive BT/USB adapters. I use this myself for communicating between the phone and the PC.
So you may already have the capability you're looking for without spending the extra on the cradle.
Here's one that does what you're talking about. I've seen several others, but the lack of a 'buzz-word' category for them makes them hard to google...
These are a little more specific (and hence a little more pricey, I'd imagine, but may fit the bill as well.
Ahhh, here we are! I found the one I was looking for... I think this is the one I stumbled acros awhile ago. It doesn't have a bluetooth option like the Dock-n-talk above, though, which might come in handy...
Anyone know what these devices are collectively called?
You're welcome to use my solo piano album, license-free. It is currently used at several other places as on-hold music, and some people actually ask to be put on hold to hear it from time to time!
There are twelve tracks, more than enough music to handle most on-hold situations without repitition.
All I ask is that you give me credit if anyone asks, and point them to my site. Oh, and please let me know if you use it - I like to know!
Not so. In most places in the U.S., a contract is legally binding once the signer has turned 16.
It is only the other rules of 'minority' (which is 18 for everything except alcohol, go figure) that prevent certain contracts from being enforced against those between 16 and 18.
I am not sure from whence your thoughts arose that RFCs would really exclude these Since RFCs can e'en apply to prose and truly be to anything with ease. That XML does not have one its own shows limitations not with this process Rather with those who thought to bring it forth Without an RFC, XML's a mess. And so to prove that RFCs stand tall Do you think this counts as a protocol?
In American English, the noun "station" is singular, so it gets a singular verb, "is". Only in British English do the contents of the noun - the employees at the station - receive the plural verb, "are".
--
Great Britain and the United States; two nations separated by a common language.
I can say empirically that this is not the case, as I am using a PS/2 Compaq keyboard (which did not come with a USB adapter) through a Belkin FSU119-E PS/2-to-USB adapter. My laptop (a Sony Vaio) does not have any PS/2 ports, but the Belkin adapter allows 2 PS/2 devices to be used in one USB port. I have also used other non-USB keyboards through other 3rd-party PS/2-to-USB adapters with success.
On a side note though, I have run into an issue where Windows 2000 and XP both ignore the keyboard repeat rate settings in the BIOS and in the Windows keyboard control panel when any USB keyboard is plugged in. I would much rather have 250ms delay and 30chars/sec instead of 1000/6 that is the default - it makes typing very frustrating! Anybody have any experience fixing this? I've googled, tweaked, and checked annoyances.org repeatedly to no avail.
That's an exceptionally ridiculous analogy, even by slashdot standards. How can you compare a profit margin for a non-living entity to the psychological, physical, and spiritual health of an innocent?
CD burning technology has been widespread for years now, as has file sharing. And it is a fact that CD sales continued to climb, despite illegal price fixing on the part of the record labels, until the demise of Napster. Let's face it, most people aren't making enough copies to warrant this sort of action by the labels.
Do you realize that for all the moaning and complaining the labels do, they are still making profits that would make any small business jealous? Never ever forget, that this stopped being about money a long time ago. Money is a secondary issue now. What these companies are really after now is control.
The most interesting bit is that in the grand scheme of things, speaking from an economic theory standpoint, it doesn't matter if consumers share music with 1 or 10 or 100 people. Most consumers will share less than 2% of their CDs with less than 5 people, and a portion of that sharing will generate new sales. So it all becomes a wash in the end.
The time, money, and energy the labels are spending trying to shut down music sharing is a utter waste, and won't even pay for itself in the end.
Really, the issue is getting Windows to mount a drive which is not FAT/FAT32/ISO9660/NTFS. In order for an OS to mount a filesystem, there must be logic coded into the OS which will allow it to parse the file allocation tables and other information (journaling, etc.) and read and write files from/to the disk in that format. To the best of my knowledge, Microsoft has never supported any FS other than its own for HDD usage.
Fortunately for you, MS does have a filesystem-abstraction mechanism known as SMB, which several projects (most notably the SAMBA project) have implemented. These systems communicate with Windows via SMB, presenting information to the OS with parameters it understands. By proxy, then, the MS OS doesn't care a whit about what back end FS it's writing to - as far as it's concerned, it's just like any other MS OS via the network.
So probably the best solution is to have a network-mounted drive connected via a high-speed link (gigabit ethernet, etc.) on a linux box running SMB. If you do it right, you should hopefully have enough bandwidth to do your video and have it hosted wherever you like.
Gee, that's funny... in my "Introduction to Intellectual Property Law" book, fair use is covered. Why? Because judicial precedent carries the weight of law. And judicial precedent says that I have the right to make backup copies of what I buy, no matter how the copyright law is currently worded.
So before you go around calling people 'butt breath', check your facts. 'Cause the shit that's coming out of your mouth is far more foul.
What I think is just as stupid is when a marketer practically begs for a less mature rating for a product which obviously deserves a higher one. I agree that patches for 'adult' content are the way to go - hell, I don't want to see mature content all the time; there are times when it's nice to have a fun game without nudity.
"I don't really think someone is going to get the same feeling of attraction in seeing a full frontal digital game character as they would from seeing that in an actor or actress."
At the same time, however, Wall Street doesn't look at businesses in terms of natural progression - increase, plateau, decline. WS has an unrealistic expectation that companies will continue to have exponential (at at least unchanged linear) growth, which often causes companies to do things which hurt their long-term viability for the sake of short-term gains.
I liked Larry Page's (Google co-founder) take on it: "A management team distracted by a series of short-term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half hour." Very nice.
However, there are a lot of things I (and many others like me, I'm sure) won't buy on eBay because of the lack of protection from the company. But I'm not sure that eBay should do this - the resources involved are purely losses; no revenue will be gained directly, only indirectly (hopefully) through increased traffic.
I think a better solution would be for a cottage industry to grow up (similar to Paypal or the escrow services already doing well b/c of eBay) offering transaction insurance or seller/buyer disputes for a reasonable price. If this business did well, eBay would probably purchase it the way it did Paypal.
Dia daoibh! What are the organizations doing this work? Links, info?
I think a distinction should be made between the people harmed by the tragedy there and the place itself. For anyone who's seen the biker girl's site on her rides through the area, it seems like an amazing and forbidding place to visit. I would go if given the opportunity.
That's awful!! Who the heck comes up with this stuff? I kept waiting for the punchline... then the girl kills herself, and I'm thinking ok, it's not a funny comic, just a comic... And then it turns out to be "Christian" paraphanelia!
I happen to be a fairly devout Christian, but that sort of FUD makes me sick! What were they thinking?
So if I get something for free, I should just expect to be spied on? That my privacy will be invaded?
/example/ Say, would you like a brand-new weather cover for your car? Oh, good. *small print* oh, by the way, we're going to watch everywhere you drive, everyone who gets in, what songs you like to listen to on the radio, what your gas mileage is, what sorts of add-ons you buy and install, what sort of add-ons you don't buy but feel compelled to install anyway, and what conversations you have while you're driving. Even when the weather cover isn't on. //
Sounds a little different when you're talking about a car, huh? Just because a company *chooses* to give something away does not mean that I should have to give up my privacy to them or anyone else!
Best to use EAP-TLS. It's based on x.509 certs instead of passwords, so there's no way to do a dictionary attack.
Problem is, most corporations don't have the wherewithal to deploy a PKI to all users just for wireless access. (Though if you're willing to reduce the strength of your PKI certs to the same assurance level as a username and password, you can use MS 2k3 Active Directory certificate services autoenrollment.)
And, I'm sure it won't happen with a speed of just 5 or 10 mph over the limit... Most stoplights with cameras to catch red light runners will only snap after a couple of seconds after the light turns red... (which is a long time).
Unfortunately that's not the case everywhere... In Baltimore I've seen the cameras trigger for a vehicle that was actually stopped for the red light, but had passed the white line by a couple of feet. There is no grace period there; if the light is red, and you enter the intersection, they snap your picture, no matter what.
I don't know which ones they choose to prosecute, though.
As an interesting aside, it turns out that most of the older cameras are film cameras, and they regularly run out of film. So it's almost russian roulette whether they're actually going to have a picture of you afterward anyway.
I will agree to this only if they make sure that the traffic light will be GREEN for non-speeding vehicles!
I can't stand driving down a deserted road and having the light ahead of me change to red for NO GOOD REASON - no cars coming the other way - and then change back to green as soon as I have come to a complete stop. Grrrr.
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This is true. Just as there are "special editions" available only on DVD, there are some titles which have specific content only ever released on LD. There are also some titles which have not yet made their way to DVD yet.
Are you kidding? If the option is "work overtime or lose your job", how many people are going to quit? How many are in a financial position to do so?
Don't forget too, that we're in a recovery period in the US economy right now, and a lot of these violations occurred during the recent past where jobs - and especially game programming jobs! - were very hard to come by.
Would you quit your job with no other job prospects and little or no savings just because you didn't want to work some overtime?
Employers have much more power than you apparently think.
What sort of crack are you smoking? Did you even read the parent's link before posting? There are a large number of "specific facts" in the article. Check your own facts before flaming someone else.
If all you've got are kneejerk reactions, how do you propose to have a serious debate? Read the article. THEN, and only then, come back here and contribute something useful.
Until that point you're just wasting everyone's time.
I'm not sure - I've been looking at the devices myself, but haven't actually bought or tested one yet.
There may be another alternative for you, though... Many cell phones actually have data and fax capability built in - I know my S/E T68i does. There are two ways to use it, IIRC; one is to connect through the data cable, the other is to connect using bluetooth. I prefer the bluetooth option myself. Since most PCs don't yet have BT connections, Belkin Components has some relatively inexpensive BT/USB adapters. I use this myself for communicating between the phone and the PC.
So you may already have the capability you're looking for without spending the extra on the cradle.
Hope that helps!
Mattcelt
Here's one that does what you're talking about. I've seen several others, but the lack of a 'buzz-word' category for them makes them hard to google...
These are a little more specific (and hence a little more pricey, I'd imagine, but may fit the bill as well.
Ahhh, here we are! I found the one I was looking for... I think this is the one I stumbled acros awhile ago. It doesn't have a bluetooth option like the Dock-n-talk above, though, which might come in handy...
Anyone know what these devices are collectively called?
There's an article about gene doping (which talks about myostatin) in Scientific American this month. You can read it here.
It's particularly interesting that this [the German child's case] is the first time it's been recorded from infancy - that seems very odd!
You're welcome to use my solo piano album, license-free. It is currently used at several other places as on-hold music, and some people actually ask to be put on hold to hear it from time to time!
There are twelve tracks, more than enough music to handle most on-hold situations without repitition.
All I ask is that you give me credit if anyone asks, and point them to my site. Oh, and please let me know if you use it - I like to know!
Email me privately if you want more information.
Mattcelt
Not so. In most places in the U.S., a contract is legally binding once the signer has turned 16.
It is only the other rules of 'minority' (which is 18 for everything except alcohol, go figure) that prevent certain contracts from being enforced against those between 16 and 18.
I am not sure from whence your thoughts arose
that RFCs would really exclude these
Since RFCs can e'en apply to prose
and truly be to anything with ease.
That XML does not have one its own
shows limitations not with this process
Rather with those who thought to bring it forth
Without an RFC, XML's a mess.
And so to prove that RFCs stand tall
Do you think this counts as a protocol?
In American English, the noun "station" is singular, so it gets a singular verb, "is". Only in British English do the contents of the noun - the employees at the station - receive the plural verb, "are".
--
Great Britain and the United States; two nations separated by a common language.
I can say empirically that this is not the case, as I am using a PS/2 Compaq keyboard (which did not come with a USB adapter) through a Belkin FSU119-E PS/2-to-USB adapter. My laptop (a Sony Vaio) does not have any PS/2 ports, but the Belkin adapter allows 2 PS/2 devices to be used in one USB port. I have also used other non-USB keyboards through other 3rd-party PS/2-to-USB adapters with success.
On a side note though, I have run into an issue where Windows 2000 and XP both ignore the keyboard repeat rate settings in the BIOS and in the Windows keyboard control panel when any USB keyboard is plugged in. I would much rather have 250ms delay and 30chars/sec instead of 1000/6 that is the default - it makes typing very frustrating! Anybody have any experience fixing this? I've googled, tweaked, and checked annoyances.org repeatedly to no avail.
That's an exceptionally ridiculous analogy, even by slashdot standards. How can you compare a profit margin for a non-living entity to the psychological, physical, and spiritual health of an innocent?
CD burning technology has been widespread for years now, as has file sharing. And it is a fact that CD sales continued to climb, despite illegal price fixing on the part of the record labels, until the demise of Napster. Let's face it, most people aren't making enough copies to warrant this sort of action by the labels.
Do you realize that for all the moaning and complaining the labels do, they are still making profits that would make any small business jealous? Never ever forget, that this stopped being about money a long time ago. Money is a secondary issue now. What these companies are really after now is control.
The most interesting bit is that in the grand scheme of things, speaking from an economic theory standpoint, it doesn't matter if consumers share music with 1 or 10 or 100 people. Most consumers will share less than 2% of their CDs with less than 5 people, and a portion of that sharing will generate new sales. So it all becomes a wash in the end.
The time, money, and energy the labels are spending trying to shut down music sharing is a utter waste, and won't even pay for itself in the end.
Really, the issue is getting Windows to mount a drive which is not FAT/FAT32/ISO9660/NTFS. In order for an OS to mount a filesystem, there must be logic coded into the OS which will allow it to parse the file allocation tables and other information (journaling, etc.) and read and write files from/to the disk in that format. To the best of my knowledge, Microsoft has never supported any FS other than its own for HDD usage.
Fortunately for you, MS does have a filesystem-abstraction mechanism known as SMB, which several projects (most notably the SAMBA project) have implemented. These systems communicate with Windows via SMB, presenting information to the OS with parameters it understands. By proxy, then, the MS OS doesn't care a whit about what back end FS it's writing to - as far as it's concerned, it's just like any other MS OS via the network.
So probably the best solution is to have a network-mounted drive connected via a high-speed link (gigabit ethernet, etc.) on a linux box running SMB. If you do it right, you should hopefully have enough bandwidth to do your video and have it hosted wherever you like.
Good luck!
but what is 3 miles between slashdot posters?
Not enough.
Gee, that's funny... in my "Introduction to Intellectual Property Law" book, fair use is covered. Why? Because judicial precedent carries the weight of law. And judicial precedent says that I have the right to make backup copies of what I buy, no matter how the copyright law is currently worded.
So before you go around calling people 'butt breath', check your facts. 'Cause the shit that's coming out of your mouth is far more foul.
This may seem obvious to you, but to an 8-year-old, it's a legitimate question, you insensitive clod!
It's all relative - there are things you don't understand that we laugh at you for, too.
Like this, for instance.
What I think is just as stupid is when a marketer practically begs for a less mature rating for a product which obviously deserves a higher one. I agree that patches for 'adult' content are the way to go - hell, I don't want to see mature content all the time; there are times when it's nice to have a fun game without nudity.
"I don't really think someone is going to get the same feeling of attraction in seeing a full frontal digital game character as they would from seeing that in an actor or actress."
It's obvious that this guy has never seen hentai!
At the same time, however, Wall Street doesn't look at businesses in terms of natural progression - increase, plateau, decline. WS has an unrealistic expectation that companies will continue to have exponential (at at least unchanged linear) growth, which often causes companies to do things which hurt their long-term viability for the sake of short-term gains.
I liked Larry Page's (Google co-founder) take on it: "A management team distracted by a series of short-term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half hour." Very nice.
However, there are a lot of things I (and many others like me, I'm sure) won't buy on eBay because of the lack of protection from the company. But I'm not sure that eBay should do this - the resources involved are purely losses; no revenue will be gained directly, only indirectly (hopefully) through increased traffic.
I think a better solution would be for a cottage industry to grow up (similar to Paypal or the escrow services already doing well b/c of eBay) offering transaction insurance or seller/buyer disputes for a reasonable price. If this business did well, eBay would probably purchase it the way it did Paypal.
So... you're saying they got !'d in the (_!_)? Or #'d in the *?
Somebody was definitely smoking some # those days.
Dia daoibh!
What are the organizations doing this work? Links, info?
I think a distinction should be made between the people harmed by the tragedy there and the place itself. For anyone who's seen the biker girl's site on her rides through the area, it seems like an amazing and forbidding place to visit. I would go if given the opportunity.
That's awful!! Who the heck comes up with this stuff? I kept waiting for the punchline... then the girl kills herself, and I'm thinking ok, it's not a funny comic, just a comic... And then it turns out to be "Christian" paraphanelia!
I happen to be a fairly devout Christian, but that sort of FUD makes me sick! What were they thinking?
So if I get something for free, I should just expect to be spied on? That my privacy will be invaded?
/example/
//
Say, would you like a brand-new weather cover for your car? Oh, good. *small print* oh, by the way, we're going to watch everywhere you drive, everyone who gets in, what songs you like to listen to on the radio, what your gas mileage is, what sorts of add-ons you buy and install, what sort of add-ons you don't buy but feel compelled to install anyway, and what conversations you have while you're driving. Even when the weather cover isn't on.
Sounds a little different when you're talking about a car, huh? Just because a company *chooses* to give something away does not mean that I should have to give up my privacy to them or anyone else!
Best to use EAP-TLS. It's based on x.509 certs instead of passwords, so there's no way to do a dictionary attack.
Problem is, most corporations don't have the wherewithal to deploy a PKI to all users just for wireless access. (Though if you're willing to reduce the strength of your PKI certs to the same assurance level as a username and password, you can use MS 2k3 Active Directory certificate services autoenrollment.)
And, I'm sure it won't happen with a speed of just 5 or 10 mph over the limit... Most stoplights with cameras to catch red light runners will only snap after a couple of seconds after the light turns red... (which is a long time).
Unfortunately that's not the case everywhere... In Baltimore I've seen the cameras trigger for a vehicle that was actually stopped for the red light, but had passed the white line by a couple of feet. There is no grace period there; if the light is red, and you enter the intersection, they snap your picture, no matter what.
I don't know which ones they choose to prosecute, though.
As an interesting aside, it turns out that most of the older cameras are film cameras, and they regularly run out of film. So it's almost russian roulette whether they're actually going to have a picture of you afterward anyway.
I will agree to this only if they make sure that the traffic light will be GREEN for non-speeding vehicles!
I can't stand driving down a deserted road and having the light ahead of me change to red for NO GOOD REASON - no cars coming the other way - and then change back to green as soon as I have come to a complete stop. Grrrr.