The general consensus is that Southwest will start charging for A passes.
Who's saying that? Starting next month, it'll definitely pay off to check in ASAP (warning: Flash content ahead), but I've not heard anything about having to pay extra for an A pass. It'll be nice to not have to camp out for an exit-row seat (or whatever kind of seat you prefer).
I have an Apple II. Can you move something half a pixel to the left?
The high bit causes a half-pixel shift to the right, so plotting the pixel on the left with the shift causes the same effect. Each high bit shifts a group of seven pixels, though, so in most cases you can't shift nearby pixels independently.
If I ever have to reinstall XP though, I would probably install all the updates.
Making an update DVD with ctupdate will allow you to go from a fresh install to fully-patched without picking up any of the malware Microsoft has been pushing out lately. WindizUpdate is good for incremental updates, and it works with Firefox.
Really, it doesn't even matter. Trademark is the weakest of the forms of "intellectual property." It's essentially designed to only prevent people from offering services under the same or confusingly similar names/logos as a trademarked one.
It's even weaker than that, as you can have names reused in unrelated businesses. Locally, there was a furniture retailer that called itself Best Buy Furniture. Their logo included a pricetag image tilted at an angle that bore a more than superficial similarity to that of a somewhat more widely known company. While both of them are retailers, one was primarily a furniture retailer and the other is primarily a consumer-electronics retailer (though they offer some RTA furniture on the side), so they left each other alone AFAIK.
Since my previous reply to the parent poster didn't have this link to the entire "phony soldier" conversation and since Slashdot doesn't allow editing of replies, I would strongly recommend that anyone interested in the matter read it to get the full context that Media Matters doesn't want you to know. You can't claim to speak with knowledge of the matter if all you have to go on is the out-of-context misrepresentation that Media Matters is serving up.
Slashdot really needs a -1, Ad Hominem option. Hanging your "argument" on the contention that "Rush is an idiot" is weak sauce. Besides, your "facts" are incorrect, and parroting Media Matters talking points repeatedly won't make them any less false. It was blatantly clear that Rush Limbaugh and his caller were referring to Jesse MacBeth, who made himself a darling of the moonbats by passing himself off as a Ranger and an Iraq vet...never mind that he washed out of boot camp after 44 days.
(Swerving somewhat back on topic, I could call the above "an inconvenient truth" for reality-deficient liberals, but then I'd have to worry about Al Gore coming after me to knock it off.:-| )
Oh, this is just a case of Google doing what it damn well pleases. They're showing their true colors and bias.
Even though this has been stated to not be the case,
are they, as a corporation, not allowed to have political leanings?
Let's say, for purposes of argument, Microsoft decided to go after people who used its trademarked names solely for identification purposes because those people were buying ad space at Google to tell everybody just how much Windows really sucks. It sounds to me like you'd have no problem with this blatant abuse of IP law.
This is exactly what MoveOn.org is doing: stifling their opposition by shutting down anybody who so much as refers to them by name. That they're often the ones bitching the loudest about their "dissent" being squelched stinks to high heaven of the worst sort of hypocrisy.
Factor in that somewhere around 98% of Google's political money goes to Democrats...it raises some questions about the real motives behind these ads getting spiked.
Actually, I think some forms of gambling are legal in all states. You might not find craps tables or roulette wheels, but I think all states have their own lottery or participate in a multi-state powerball.
Nevada doesn't have a lottery. I'd think the gaming companies would be pissed off if the state decided to start competing against them.
There have been periodic efforts to start a lottery here, but they've all failed. Those who haven't figured out that lotteries are an especially harsh tax on people who are bad at math have less than an hour's drive from Las Vegas to get California lottery tickets just outside Primm or Arizona lottery tickets on the other side of Hoover Dam.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen hard drive? (They all appear to come from Asia anymore, so there's no worrying about whether it's African or European.)
The Dhimmicrats started spamming me shortly after the 2006 election. The first few messages got passed along to SpamCop, and I posted a JE when it began. When it became clear that Mad Howard didn't get the memo, I started rejecting traffic from their address space. With their willingness to smear anyone who dares to disagree with them, it's not much of a surprise that they'd take up spamming and other sleazy practices.
And not only that, but there is no integration between the two products at all. I have to manually configure Thunderbird by editing some obscure configuration to tell it that my web browser is Firefox.
IME, that annoyance is limited to the Linux versions of Thunderbird & Firefox. They behave as you'd expect out-of-the-box on Windows & Mac OS X.
You don't get something for nothing. To fit the same amount of HD content onto a standard DVD with MPEG4, you have to use a vastly higher compression ratio, reducing quality significantly.
MPEG-4 (and H.264, while we're at it) delivers considerably better quality at a given bitrate than MPEG-2. IME, you can get comparable quality at 1/4 to 1/5 of the bitrate you would use with MPEG-2. At that rate, you can fit an average-length movie in HD on a single-layer DVD-R with quality indistinguishable (or nearly indistinguishable) from the original.
I'll concede that I'm doing offline encoding (2-pass encoding, more specifically) to get that quality level. Live encoding at the same bitrate will be either of lower quality or will cost a pretty big chunk of change to deliver the same quality.
...and also, the classic Z80 CPU (plus peripherals like the CTC and PIO) is *still* manufactured - you can still homebrew an old-skool 8 bit computer.
More importantly, the 6502 is still available, along with the support chips it used. There's even a free-as-in-speech C cross-compiler available for it. I used it recently to rewrite the software for my Apple II beer-fridge controller, and that software will be ported to a 6502-based (65C02-based, really, but that's a minor difference) controller board I've designed (still need to send the board out for fabrication).
Another scam a lot like this is the Internet Speedway. They advertise on net radio alot.
Talk radio, too.
I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide if they think the basic website they provide and the products they offer to drop ship for you at the prices they sell to you at, are a good eal or not. The basic site is like $400.00 and a preminum site is like $3000.00.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. They make it sound like all you have to do is let them set up a website for you and you'll start raking in the money with no technical knowledge, no product knowledge...none of the hard work that it really takes to make a business work.
What makes Apple's offering any better than anyone else's?
The add-ons that are available for it, perhaps? What other portable media player can be integrated with your car's stereo system? A tape adapter or RF modulator with a mini-plug on the end doesn't constitute "integration." I added an adapter to one of my cars that ends in a plug for the iPod's dock connector. In addition to sending audio from the iPod to the factory head unit, the head unit can turn the iPod on/off along with itself, the seek/scan buttons skip between tracks, and the tuning knob moves around within a track. It also keeps the iPod's battery charged. Is there another media player for which that kind of integration is available?
What I don't get more than that is the people who buy the iPod just to put Linux on it.
I'll admit I tried Rockbox for a little while. The UI blows chunks, compared to the stock iPod UI. Dragging-and-dropping music (lack of which some people harp on as an iPod disadvantage) didn't work without a lengthy on-device database rebuild every time files are added (Rockbox maintains its own database instead of using the one iTunes already puts on there). Vorbis and FLAC compatibility aren't worth the hassle of dealing with the inferior UI. Maybe it's a different story on other devices. I wouldn't know, as my previous media players were a Palm Tungsten T (with AeroPlayer) and a Rio Volt SP90.
Several years ago I tried making a linux to windows cross compiler and failed. I think I put a decent amount of effort into my attempts and I definitely knew how to produce a standard linux hosted linux targeted instance of GCC that would produce working binaries.
A while back, I needed to do that at work. This is what I ended up doing, which was derived somewhat from this. In case Multiply doesn't let you in without registration, I'll copy the message here. (Newer versions might also work; what's given here is just what was current at the time. These instructions also assume you're using Gentoo. Step 2 in the toolchain setup would be sufficient by itself for cross-compiling Windows command-line apps or (maybe) for writing directly to the Win32 API.)
revised again: build wxWidgets for Linux (assumes GTK2 and libgnomeprint are already installed): ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --with-gnomeprint && make && make install
echo LDPATH=/usr/local/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/lib >/etc/env.d/80wxWidgets-2.8.0
env-update
build wxWidgets for Windows: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc --host=i586-mingw32msvc --target=i586-mingw32msvc --with-msw && make && make install
KDevelop build configuration (common)
create a new wxWidgets project
exit KDevelop
load foo.kdevelop into a text editor
copy "debug" configuration XML block to a new "debug-win32" config block (need to do this because the "add configuration" button is always grayed out...grr)
will need to copy DLLs from/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/usr/bin and/usr/local/i586-mingw32msvc/lib into same directory as foo.exe
When I went to try out the wxWidgets printing demo, the Linux build wouldn't print properly at first. Using libgnomeprint instead of direct PostScript fixed that problem. If your Linux box uses CUPS (and it probably does), libgnomeprint will enable users to tweak printer settings from within the app. Without it, wxWidgets will just (incorrectly) generate PostScript and hand it off to lpr. On Windows, I'm guessing wxWidgets just uses GDI calls, so that config is unaffected.
I doubt its that easy to just "get the hell out of China." Living and working in foreign countries can be quite difficult, even (especially) if you're a skilled laborer.
...and that's before you even take into consideration the lengths to which most communist countries go to keep people from escaping.
So, in short, wireless drivers are hard because wireless cards are really complicated.
Here's an idea: on one card, combine a wired network controller (RTL8139 or whatever) with a wireless bridge. It'd be like plugging a bridge into the network jack, but everything's already in one place. Conceptually, it's not much different than the way internal modems used to be built: combine a serial interface and the guts of an external modem on one board. Just as the internal modem appeared to your computer as just another serial port (that happened to have a modem hanging off of it), this would appear to your computer as just another wired NIC (that happens to have a wireless bridge hanging off of it). Configuration can be done with a web interface.
It'd cost a few bucks more for the wired network controller, but compatibility with Linux would be guaranteed.
It probably uses a mini pci wireless card. Replace the one in there with an Intel one and it should work.
Some notebooks have BIOS locks. I tried replacing the Broadcom WiFi NIC in my HP with an Atheros NIC...it wouldn't even POST.
Fortunately, bcm43xx has advanced enough that I can get a reliable connection at home or on the road with the travel router I pack with my notebook, but it has some signal-strength problems that can make using public APs in unknown locations a bit dicey. (The travel router takes care of some of those problems, and for when it doesn't, there's data service from my Treo over Bluetooth.)
(ndiswrapper has never worked IME, so it's not really an option.)
What on earth makes you think people like Microsoft and Google don't get hit by these people?
...especially since Google wasn't working for me a few hours ago. I have to wonder a bit if they had also been hit by this botnet, or if someone else in the connection between there and here was hit. Everything else I tried (/., Yahoo, my own website, etc.) worked, but Google's search and reader pages timed out.
(Google Reader is working now. Search works, too.)
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Who's saying that? Starting next month, it'll definitely pay off to check in ASAP (warning: Flash content ahead), but I've not heard anything about having to pay extra for an A pass. It'll be nice to not have to camp out for an exit-row seat (or whatever kind of seat you prefer).
The high bit causes a half-pixel shift to the right, so plotting the pixel on the left with the shift causes the same effect. Each high bit shifts a group of seven pixels, though, so in most cases you can't shift nearby pixels independently.
Making an update DVD with ctupdate will allow you to go from a fresh install to fully-patched without picking up any of the malware Microsoft has been pushing out lately. WindizUpdate is good for incremental updates, and it works with Firefox.
It's even weaker than that, as you can have names reused in unrelated businesses. Locally, there was a furniture retailer that called itself Best Buy Furniture. Their logo included a pricetag image tilted at an angle that bore a more than superficial similarity to that of a somewhat more widely known company. While both of them are retailers, one was primarily a furniture retailer and the other is primarily a consumer-electronics retailer (though they offer some RTA furniture on the side), so they left each other alone AFAIK.
Since my previous reply to the parent poster didn't have this link to the entire "phony soldier" conversation and since Slashdot doesn't allow editing of replies, I would strongly recommend that anyone interested in the matter read it to get the full context that Media Matters doesn't want you to know. You can't claim to speak with knowledge of the matter if all you have to go on is the out-of-context misrepresentation that Media Matters is serving up.
(Swerving somewhat back on topic, I could call the above "an inconvenient truth" for reality-deficient liberals, but then I'd have to worry about Al Gore coming after me to knock it off. :-| )
Let's say, for purposes of argument, Microsoft decided to go after people who used its trademarked names solely for identification purposes because those people were buying ad space at Google to tell everybody just how much Windows really sucks. It sounds to me like you'd have no problem with this blatant abuse of IP law.
This is exactly what MoveOn.org is doing: stifling their opposition by shutting down anybody who so much as refers to them by name. That they're often the ones bitching the loudest about their "dissent" being squelched stinks to high heaven of the worst sort of hypocrisy.
Factor in that somewhere around 98% of Google's political money goes to Democrats...it raises some questions about the real motives behind these ads getting spiked.
MoveOn.org: Thuggery in Action.
Maybe I'm running the risk of a "whoosh" with this, but yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as an aluminum bottle. (They're not just for Budmilloors megaswill, either...I've run across Moose Drool in 16-oz. aluminum bottles.)
Mexican Coke also turns up in Las Vegas Wal-Marts from time to time...kinda spendy at $1 per bottle, though.
Nevada doesn't have a lottery. I'd think the gaming companies would be pissed off if the state decided to start competing against them.
There have been periodic efforts to start a lottery here, but they've all failed. Those who haven't figured out that lotteries are an especially harsh tax on people who are bad at math have less than an hour's drive from Las Vegas to get California lottery tickets just outside Primm or Arizona lottery tickets on the other side of Hoover Dam.
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen hard drive? (They all appear to come from Asia anymore, so there's no worrying about whether it's African or European.)
The Dhimmicrats started spamming me shortly after the 2006 election. The first few messages got passed along to SpamCop, and I posted a JE when it began. When it became clear that Mad Howard didn't get the memo, I started rejecting traffic from their address space. With their willingness to smear anyone who dares to disagree with them, it's not much of a surprise that they'd take up spamming and other sleazy practices.
IME, that annoyance is limited to the Linux versions of Thunderbird & Firefox. They behave as you'd expect out-of-the-box on Windows & Mac OS X.
Yes. For new work, it's also available in PLCC and QFP packages; the latter is what I'm going to use for my project.
MPEG-4 (and H.264, while we're at it) delivers considerably better quality at a given bitrate than MPEG-2. IME, you can get comparable quality at 1/4 to 1/5 of the bitrate you would use with MPEG-2. At that rate, you can fit an average-length movie in HD on a single-layer DVD-R with quality indistinguishable (or nearly indistinguishable) from the original.
I'll concede that I'm doing offline encoding (2-pass encoding, more specifically) to get that quality level. Live encoding at the same bitrate will be either of lower quality or will cost a pretty big chunk of change to deliver the same quality.
More importantly, the 6502 is still available, along with the support chips it used. There's even a free-as-in-speech C cross-compiler available for it. I used it recently to rewrite the software for my Apple II beer-fridge controller, and that software will be ported to a 6502-based (65C02-based, really, but that's a minor difference) controller board I've designed (still need to send the board out for fabrication).
Talk radio, too.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. They make it sound like all you have to do is let them set up a website for you and you'll start raking in the money with no technical knowledge, no product knowledge...none of the hard work that it really takes to make a business work.
Adblock terminates Flash ads with the same sort of extreme prejudice it uses with any other sort of ad. It's highly recommended.
The add-ons that are available for it, perhaps? What other portable media player can be integrated with your car's stereo system? A tape adapter or RF modulator with a mini-plug on the end doesn't constitute "integration." I added an adapter to one of my cars that ends in a plug for the iPod's dock connector. In addition to sending audio from the iPod to the factory head unit, the head unit can turn the iPod on/off along with itself, the seek/scan buttons skip between tracks, and the tuning knob moves around within a track. It also keeps the iPod's battery charged. Is there another media player for which that kind of integration is available?
I'll admit I tried Rockbox for a little while. The UI blows chunks, compared to the stock iPod UI. Dragging-and-dropping music (lack of which some people harp on as an iPod disadvantage) didn't work without a lengthy on-device database rebuild every time files are added (Rockbox maintains its own database instead of using the one iTunes already puts on there). Vorbis and FLAC compatibility aren't worth the hassle of dealing with the inferior UI. Maybe it's a different story on other devices. I wouldn't know, as my previous media players were a Palm Tungsten T (with AeroPlayer) and a Rio Volt SP90.
A while back, I needed to do that at work. This is what I ended up doing, which was derived somewhat from this. In case Multiply doesn't let you in without registration, I'll copy the message here. (Newer versions might also work; what's given here is just what was current at the time. These instructions also assume you're using Gentoo. Step 2 in the toolchain setup would be sufficient by itself for cross-compiling Windows command-line apps or (maybe) for writing directly to the Win32 API.)
We now know, however, that you're dyslexic. :-)
Here's an idea: on one card, combine a wired network controller (RTL8139 or whatever) with a wireless bridge. It'd be like plugging a bridge into the network jack, but everything's already in one place. Conceptually, it's not much different than the way internal modems used to be built: combine a serial interface and the guts of an external modem on one board. Just as the internal modem appeared to your computer as just another serial port (that happened to have a modem hanging off of it), this would appear to your computer as just another wired NIC (that happens to have a wireless bridge hanging off of it). Configuration can be done with a web interface.
It'd cost a few bucks more for the wired network controller, but compatibility with Linux would be guaranteed.
Some notebooks have BIOS locks. I tried replacing the Broadcom WiFi NIC in my HP with an Atheros NIC...it wouldn't even POST.
Fortunately, bcm43xx has advanced enough that I can get a reliable connection at home or on the road with the travel router I pack with my notebook, but it has some signal-strength problems that can make using public APs in unknown locations a bit dicey. (The travel router takes care of some of those problems, and for when it doesn't, there's data service from my Treo over Bluetooth.)
(ndiswrapper has never worked IME, so it's not really an option.)
(Google Reader is working now. Search works, too.)