Creating new laws to make already illegal things illegal is only going to make things worse for those people who do try and know the law.
Unfortunately, not passing redundant laws doesn't get politicians the publicity they crave. With nothing to do, they might have to take up more honest professions, such as prostitution or selling used cars...we can't have that happen, can we?
More or less the only reason to get 3G at all is to be able to do video calls.
How do you figure that? I think it's rather nice to be able to pull up websites and check email without waiting an eternity for a dialup-equivalent wireless data connection to get its thumb out of its butt. I don't have a webcam attached to any of my computers at home, and if I did, I wouldn't use it for video calls. Why, then, would I want that capability in my cellphone?
Fry's is *only* good in California. The one up here in Oregon is a complete and total rip off
The one here in Las Vegas isn't bad at all. More often than not, I'll buy stuff there rather than wait for Newegg to ship it. It'll cost a little bit more and I'll have to pay tax on it, but I'll have it now and can take it back if it doesn't work/doesn't do what I want it to do (as with the soundcard I bought last week whose Dolby Digital Live functionality is implemented in the (Windows) driver and not in hardware).
Here in the States, if you use another bank's ATM, both your bank and the other bank will usually add fees totaling $3-$5 to the transaction. They started doing this sometime in the early-to-mid '90s. The workaround when you're traveling outside your bank's ATM-coverage area is to get cash back with your purchases: go to Wal-Mart (or whatever) to pick up the razor and shaving cream you forgot to bring with you on your trip, and get $40 (or however much you want, usually up to $100) withdrawn as cash with your purchase. More than a few stores offer this service...especially most "big-box" stores of any type.
There are some banks (mostly smaller banks and online-only banks that have few (if any) ATMs of their own) that don't charge ATM fees and issue rebates against other banks' charges, but with sufficiently careful usage, ATM fees have mostly been a non-issue IME.
T-120s hold about 2 hours U.S., and 3 hours EU. Eventually JVC added a SP/2 speed for Europeans, but not until very late in the game (1990s).
LP mode on PAL goes further back than that. My parents bought a multisystem VCR in 1984, shortly after we'd moved to England. It supported SP and LP recording and playback for PAL and SP, LP, and EP recording and playback for NTSC. (It was a Hitachi of some sort; don't recall which model.)
So wait, special forces (who often don't wear uniforms or wear uniforms without insgnia) are excluded from POW statutes?
If they're going in like the guys in The Unit (assuming for the sake of argument that that show is anywhere close to the reality of things...I can't say whether it is or isn't), I suspect not. They're a bit smarter than the average bear, though, which means they're less likely to get caught.
What nation's uniform was he wearing when he was captured?
Yeah...didn't think so. He's not a soldier of any sort; referring to him as such is an insult to those who are. He's an unlawful combatant. He should consider himself lucky he didn't get a bullet to the head when he was captured.
So then, when he did get captured, he should be tried as a common criminal, in a court of law like other criminals, correct?
That's not what the Geneva Conventions provide for unlawful combatants. They're regarded no differently than spies and saboteurs, for whom summary execution is permitted. War is not a law-enforcement exercise; to treat it as such is a fool's errand. If he wanted the protections afforded common criminals, he should've taken up murder, rape, and/or other crimes against his own people. (Of course, if he had done so and been caught, he most likely would have long since become worm food...criminal justice in that part of the world is rather rough-and-ready.)
What nation's uniform was he wearing when he was captured?
Yeah...didn't think so. He's not a soldier of any sort; referring to him as such is an insult to those who are. He's an unlawful combatant. He should consider himself lucky he didn't get a bullet to the head when he was captured.
Can the [iPhone] connect in SSH2 to a server on the other side of the world?
Yes. Better yet, jailbreak it, install screen and OpenSSH on it, and use that to tunnel VNC traffic over SSH so you can also access desktops across town...or "on the other side of the world," if necessary.
Does your E90 have a web browser that doesn't suck like most phone-based browsers? My Treo 650 certainly didn't.
I'm still trying to figure out what to do with mt old G4 Dual 1ghz MDD.
My G4 mini still works for everyday web browsing/email/etc., plus it's set up as a print server and Subversion repository. It backs up my VPS across the Internet, so I have a local backup of my email and websites. Photos get dumped into it from my camera, and are then backed up (along with the music on my network) when I sync my iPod to it. My iPhone also syncs to it, grabbing podcasts, video (transcoded on one of my other computers from DVD or a MythTV recording), and subsets of music and photos.
OTOH, the MythTV frontend doesn't work too well on it for even non-HD playback. HD? Forget it!
Whether old hardware is still useful depends on your expectations for it. I know what the mini can handle reasonably well, and what it can't. If the mini can't handle a task, there's a homebrew Core 2 Quad box next to it that can.
Obama's not even in office yet and he's already got the beginnings of a corruption scandal going.
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Corruption? From a Chicago-machine hack? Inconceivable!
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Re:Present state of development: WxWidgets vs. Qt?
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On Windows, how does WxWidgets compare in ease of programming and quality with Qt?
I've not used Qt on Windows yet (or on Linux, for that matter).
For the one cross-platform project I did, wxWidgets turned out to be fairly easy to pick up; as I recall, most of the calls aren't too different from how Windows does things. I even had a Linux-based toolchain set up within KDevelop that would build both Linux and Windows binaries. Whether Qt would be easier or more difficult, though, isn't something I can answer.
How does this affect the open source cross-platform GUI toolkit WxWidgets?
Since wxWidgets uses Gtk+ on Linux and platform-native widgets on Windows and Mac OS X, I'd think that LGPLing Qt wouldn't have much (if any) effect on you if you're already using wxWidgets. If you're looking at cross-platform toolkits for your next project and want something with relatively permissive licensing, Qt is now a more viable alternative to wxWidgets than it had been previously (the GPL is a showstopper for commercial development).
Not even close. I have a nokia here that's so small I keep damned losing it. They make some *really* small phones. It's about the size/height of 2 ipod shuddles end to end and about half as thick.
If it's that small, it has to be a pain in the ass to dial, most likely has crappy battery life due to the necessarily small battery, and picks up tons of ambient noise because the microphone is nowhere near where it needs to be. Why would anyone buy such a thing? I had an Ericsson T610 once (still have it, but I've not used it in years); its keypad is annoyingly small. Despite this, it's only about a half-inch shorter and narrower than my iPhone 3G. It is at least half again as thick...maybe twice as thick. That was the smallest phone I've used, and I wouldn't want to go any smaller.
To the poster further upstream who thinks the iPhone is ill-proportioned: What are you, six years old or something? The iPhone (and devices of similar size) comfortably fits in an adult-sized hand, which is where it'll be if you're making a call, browsing websites, checking email, or whatever. I don't want a phone like the one Ben Stiller was using in Zoolander...a phone so small that you have to pinch it between your thumb and index finger to hold it up to your ear isn't my idea of "ergonomic."
My guess is that this feature exists in the 25th Anniversary Mac, we just don't know it yet.
Given that the 20th Anniversary Mac is already 12 years old, what machine would you propose as the "25th Anniversary Mac?" The iMac G4 and 14" iBook were introduced about five years after the 20th Anniversary Mac.
what's under the hood? Linux? Some update to the old PalmOS? Apple's Copland OS? Windows for Workgroups 3.11?
No mention of backward compatibility, either. If you have to make a clean break with the Palm OS apps you've been using for a decade or more, it loses a big advantage it could have over the competition.
(In my case, that "clean break" happened about a month ago, when I replaced a Treo 650 with an iPhone 3G. So far, the iPhone does nearly everything the Treo did and a bunch of other stuff that it didn't...only annoyance so far is that the iPhone's notepad app doesn't sync to anything on the desktop. (WTF?) I've installed Evernote, but that seems to be a suboptimal fix.)
You say that like it'd be a Good Thing. Having tried using Opera Mini on my Treo, I have just one question: Why would you want to do that? AFAICT, it didn't really do anything better than Blazer; given that that's not a particularly high hurdle to jump, that makes it somewhat of a disappointment. If Opera couldn't even beat Blazer, what makes you think it'd outdo Safari on the iPhone?
at least in my experience, the connection afforded by PDAnet is very limited in what you can use it for
In my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience with it so far, it's handled every sort of traffic I've thrown at it. The only bit of weirdness is that links at Multiply often don't load on the first try, but a refresh gets it working. Web browsing, mail reading (over IMAPS), and SSH all work. That covers pretty much everything I do on a regular basis (I tunnel SMTP and VNC traffic through SSH).
You mentioned not being able to pass UDP traffic; since your iPhone (or whatever device you're using to run PdaNet) is acting as a router, inbound UDP traffic to your computer gets blocked the same as it would if you put something like a WRT54GL or an old PC running LRP between your net connection and your computer. If there's a way to tweak the phone's routing tables to pass UDP traffic through to your computer, that might work. (That might be doable on an iPhone...haven't mucked around enough at its command line yet. On something like a CrackBerry or a Treo? Things get a bit more iffy.)
(Come to think of it, that means a videoconferencing app I wrote a while back that sends audio and video over UDP wouldn't work through PdaNet either. I had it half-working over a 1xRTT connection provided by a cellphone tethered by USB; bandwidth (or lack thereof) was the main problem.)
I use At&T also to tether (iPhone) and I'm a but confused about the PPP, isn't that used for dial-up?
Until recently, I was using a Treo 650 and Bluetooth tethering. PPP is used to set up and tear down the connection, same as if you were still using a dialup connection. It was a pain to set up on Linux at first, but once set up, it was easy to connect and disconnect.
I'm now using a jailbroken iPhone 3G and PdaNet to tether over WiFi; if PdaNet used infrastructure mode instead of ad-hoc mode, it'd be easier to set up. AFAICT, you have to bring up a command-line rootprompt to kick the wireless NIC into ad-hoc mode (knetworkmanager won't do it), and there's a sequence of actions that must be coordinated between the iPhone and the computer to get them to connect. The increased speed once it's running is worth it, though.
Don't be ridiculous. Contradictions? I thought [the Bible] is supposed to be the infallible word of God, without error. If it has no error, then how can there be contradictions? If there's contradictions, then obviously the religion is false.
You must have the Bible and the Koran mixed up. The Bible is not the literal word of God; if it is, how do you explain that various parts of the New Testament are called "the Gospel according to $APOSTLE?" If they were considered to be the literal word of God, that kind of identification wouldn't make sense. Mohammedans, OTOH, do regard the Koran as the literal word of Allah...so much so that translations to languages other than Arabic are considered non-canonical. (There's no such restriction on translations of the Bible.)
What old(er) accessories no longer work with current video capable iPods?
The composite-video cable (the one that plugs into the headphone jack) and universal dock (the older one with the S-video jack) I bought for my iPod photo don't work with my iPhone 3G. (The dock worked for charging and syncing once I switched from a FireWire cable to a USB cable, but it doesn't pass through audio or video.) A newer cable that plugs into the dock connector is about $50 from Apple...or you can find an equivalent cable at Amazon for about $15 shipped (will know more in a few days whether it really works, but other people's comments indicate it should).
The adapter that hooks my iPod into my car stereo needed an adapter dongle to get it to work with my iPhone. The iPhone still pops up a "this device isn't compatible" message when it's plugged in, but it still works anyway. WIthout the dongle, the iPhone wouldn't charge, but it worked otherwise. (I suspect the adapter takes FireWire power and converts it to USB power, while leaving everything else alone.)
I have speakers with a dock, but I've not tried docking the iPhone yet.
to add to this, I can't seem to find a way to deauthorize a computer remotely. What if I'd given my PowerBook to someone prior to doing this? I just hit one of my DRM limits through ignorance with no wrong doing.
To deauthorize all computers associated with your account
If you find you have reached 5 authorizations, you can reset your authorization count by clicking Deauthorize All in the Account Information screen.
Click iTunes Store in the menu on the left side of iTunes.
If you're not signed in to the store, click the Account button, then enter your account name and password.
Click the Account button again (your ID appears on the button), enter your password, and then click View Account.
In the Account Information window, click Deauthorize All.
Once that's done, you reauthorize the computers you want to be authorized; you'll be prompted to do so the first time you play a download. They'll let you do that once a year, assuming that you have 5 computers authorized (you don't really need it if you've not run into the limit yet).
Tired internet memes usually get rewarded (modded up) around here. All you need now are some pants, hot grits, Natalie Portman, sharks with lasers on their heads, flying chairs, the ability to imagine a Beowulf cluster of those, and maybe some frosty piss.
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Unfortunately, not passing redundant laws doesn't get politicians the publicity they crave. With nothing to do, they might have to take up more honest professions, such as prostitution or selling used cars...we can't have that happen, can we?
How do you figure that? I think it's rather nice to be able to pull up websites and check email without waiting an eternity for a dialup-equivalent wireless data connection to get its thumb out of its butt. I don't have a webcam attached to any of my computers at home, and if I did, I wouldn't use it for video calls. Why, then, would I want that capability in my cellphone?
The one here in Las Vegas isn't bad at all. More often than not, I'll buy stuff there rather than wait for Newegg to ship it. It'll cost a little bit more and I'll have to pay tax on it, but I'll have it now and can take it back if it doesn't work/doesn't do what I want it to do (as with the soundcard I bought last week whose Dolby Digital Live functionality is implemented in the (Windows) driver and not in hardware).
Here in the States, if you use another bank's ATM, both your bank and the other bank will usually add fees totaling $3-$5 to the transaction. They started doing this sometime in the early-to-mid '90s. The workaround when you're traveling outside your bank's ATM-coverage area is to get cash back with your purchases: go to Wal-Mart (or whatever) to pick up the razor and shaving cream you forgot to bring with you on your trip, and get $40 (or however much you want, usually up to $100) withdrawn as cash with your purchase. More than a few stores offer this service...especially most "big-box" stores of any type.
There are some banks (mostly smaller banks and online-only banks that have few (if any) ATMs of their own) that don't charge ATM fees and issue rebates against other banks' charges, but with sufficiently careful usage, ATM fees have mostly been a non-issue IME.
LP mode on PAL goes further back than that. My parents bought a multisystem VCR in 1984, shortly after we'd moved to England. It supported SP and LP recording and playback for PAL and SP, LP, and EP recording and playback for NTSC. (It was a Hitachi of some sort; don't recall which model.)
If they're going in like the guys in The Unit (assuming for the sake of argument that that show is anywhere close to the reality of things...I can't say whether it is or isn't), I suspect not. They're a bit smarter than the average bear, though, which means they're less likely to get caught.
That's not what the Geneva Conventions provide for unlawful combatants. They're regarded no differently than spies and saboteurs, for whom summary execution is permitted. War is not a law-enforcement exercise; to treat it as such is a fool's errand. If he wanted the protections afforded common criminals, he should've taken up murder, rape, and/or other crimes against his own people. (Of course, if he had done so and been caught, he most likely would have long since become worm food...criminal justice in that part of the world is rather rough-and-ready.)
What nation's uniform was he wearing when he was captured?
Yeah...didn't think so. He's not a soldier of any sort; referring to him as such is an insult to those who are. He's an unlawful combatant. He should consider himself lucky he didn't get a bullet to the head when he was captured.
Yes. Better yet, jailbreak it, install screen and OpenSSH on it, and use that to tunnel VNC traffic over SSH so you can also access desktops across town...or "on the other side of the world," if necessary.
Does your E90 have a web browser that doesn't suck like most phone-based browsers? My Treo 650 certainly didn't.
My G4 mini still works for everyday web browsing/email/etc., plus it's set up as a print server and Subversion repository. It backs up my VPS across the Internet, so I have a local backup of my email and websites. Photos get dumped into it from my camera, and are then backed up (along with the music on my network) when I sync my iPod to it. My iPhone also syncs to it, grabbing podcasts, video (transcoded on one of my other computers from DVD or a MythTV recording), and subsets of music and photos.
OTOH, the MythTV frontend doesn't work too well on it for even non-HD playback. HD? Forget it!
Whether old hardware is still useful depends on your expectations for it. I know what the mini can handle reasonably well, and what it can't. If the mini can't handle a task, there's a homebrew Core 2 Quad box next to it that can.
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Corruption? From a Chicago-machine hack? Inconceivable!
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I've not used Qt on Windows yet (or on Linux, for that matter).
For the one cross-platform project I did, wxWidgets turned out to be fairly easy to pick up; as I recall, most of the calls aren't too different from how Windows does things. I even had a Linux-based toolchain set up within KDevelop that would build both Linux and Windows binaries. Whether Qt would be easier or more difficult, though, isn't something I can answer.
Since wxWidgets uses Gtk+ on Linux and platform-native widgets on Windows and Mac OS X, I'd think that LGPLing Qt wouldn't have much (if any) effect on you if you're already using wxWidgets. If you're looking at cross-platform toolkits for your next project and want something with relatively permissive licensing, Qt is now a more viable alternative to wxWidgets than it had been previously (the GPL is a showstopper for commercial development).
If it's that small, it has to be a pain in the ass to dial, most likely has crappy battery life due to the necessarily small battery, and picks up tons of ambient noise because the microphone is nowhere near where it needs to be. Why would anyone buy such a thing? I had an Ericsson T610 once (still have it, but I've not used it in years); its keypad is annoyingly small. Despite this, it's only about a half-inch shorter and narrower than my iPhone 3G. It is at least half again as thick...maybe twice as thick. That was the smallest phone I've used, and I wouldn't want to go any smaller.
To the poster further upstream who thinks the iPhone is ill-proportioned: What are you, six years old or something? The iPhone (and devices of similar size) comfortably fits in an adult-sized hand, which is where it'll be if you're making a call, browsing websites, checking email, or whatever. I don't want a phone like the one Ben Stiller was using in Zoolander...a phone so small that you have to pinch it between your thumb and index finger to hold it up to your ear isn't my idea of "ergonomic."
Given that the 20th Anniversary Mac is already 12 years old, what machine would you propose as the "25th Anniversary Mac?" The iMac G4 and 14" iBook were introduced about five years after the 20th Anniversary Mac.
No mention of backward compatibility, either. If you have to make a clean break with the Palm OS apps you've been using for a decade or more, it loses a big advantage it could have over the competition.
(In my case, that "clean break" happened about a month ago, when I replaced a Treo 650 with an iPhone 3G. So far, the iPhone does nearly everything the Treo did and a bunch of other stuff that it didn't...only annoyance so far is that the iPhone's notepad app doesn't sync to anything on the desktop. (WTF?) I've installed Evernote, but that seems to be a suboptimal fix.)
You say that like it'd be a Good Thing. Having tried using Opera Mini on my Treo, I have just one question: Why would you want to do that? AFAICT, it didn't really do anything better than Blazer; given that that's not a particularly high hurdle to jump, that makes it somewhat of a disappointment. If Opera couldn't even beat Blazer, what makes you think it'd outdo Safari on the iPhone?
That video was from the '80s, but a comment from 3 weeks ago states that they were still using their Apple IIs. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Apple II Forever! :-)
In my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience with it so far, it's handled every sort of traffic I've thrown at it. The only bit of weirdness is that links at Multiply often don't load on the first try, but a refresh gets it working. Web browsing, mail reading (over IMAPS), and SSH all work. That covers pretty much everything I do on a regular basis (I tunnel SMTP and VNC traffic through SSH).
You mentioned not being able to pass UDP traffic; since your iPhone (or whatever device you're using to run PdaNet) is acting as a router, inbound UDP traffic to your computer gets blocked the same as it would if you put something like a WRT54GL or an old PC running LRP between your net connection and your computer. If there's a way to tweak the phone's routing tables to pass UDP traffic through to your computer, that might work. (That might be doable on an iPhone...haven't mucked around enough at its command line yet. On something like a CrackBerry or a Treo? Things get a bit more iffy.)
(Come to think of it, that means a videoconferencing app I wrote a while back that sends audio and video over UDP wouldn't work through PdaNet either. I had it half-working over a 1xRTT connection provided by a cellphone tethered by USB; bandwidth (or lack thereof) was the main problem.)
Until recently, I was using a Treo 650 and Bluetooth tethering. PPP is used to set up and tear down the connection, same as if you were still using a dialup connection. It was a pain to set up on Linux at first, but once set up, it was easy to connect and disconnect.
I'm now using a jailbroken iPhone 3G and PdaNet to tether over WiFi; if PdaNet used infrastructure mode instead of ad-hoc mode, it'd be easier to set up. AFAICT, you have to bring up a command-line rootprompt to kick the wireless NIC into ad-hoc mode (knetworkmanager won't do it), and there's a sequence of actions that must be coordinated between the iPhone and the computer to get them to connect. The increased speed once it's running is worth it, though.
Consider yourself lucky that the infestation hasn't spread further. :-P
You must have the Bible and the Koran mixed up. The Bible is not the literal word of God; if it is, how do you explain that various parts of the New Testament are called "the Gospel according to $APOSTLE?" If they were considered to be the literal word of God, that kind of identification wouldn't make sense. Mohammedans, OTOH, do regard the Koran as the literal word of Allah...so much so that translations to languages other than Arabic are considered non-canonical. (There's no such restriction on translations of the Bible.)
The composite-video cable (the one that plugs into the headphone jack) and universal dock (the older one with the S-video jack) I bought for my iPod photo don't work with my iPhone 3G. (The dock worked for charging and syncing once I switched from a FireWire cable to a USB cable, but it doesn't pass through audio or video.) A newer cable that plugs into the dock connector is about $50 from Apple...or you can find an equivalent cable at Amazon for about $15 shipped (will know more in a few days whether it really works, but other people's comments indicate it should).
The adapter that hooks my iPod into my car stereo needed an adapter dongle to get it to work with my iPhone. The iPhone still pops up a "this device isn't compatible" message when it's plugged in, but it still works anyway. WIthout the dongle, the iPhone wouldn't charge, but it worked otherwise. (I suspect the adapter takes FireWire power and converts it to USB power, while leaving everything else alone.)
I have speakers with a dock, but I've not tried docking the iPhone yet.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
Once that's done, you reauthorize the computers you want to be authorized; you'll be prompted to do so the first time you play a download. They'll let you do that once a year, assuming that you have 5 computers authorized (you don't really need it if you've not run into the limit yet).
In Soviet Russia, all of that stuff needs you!