While this might be true, you're ignoring a far more practical reason people go to work sick: Because they don't get paid otherwise. Many employees in the US these days don't get paid sick leave, so if they stay home sick, they don't get paid. For people who get paid a wage, this adds up very quickly, especially for anything worse than a cold. I'd lose 10 percent of my paycheck if I stayed home sick for one day.
The US is one of the few developed nations that doesn't require employers to provide paid sick days. Maybe it's time we started, as a matter of public health.
This might make smartphone videos worth a toss. The audio's pretty terrible on those. Demux the video, mux it with the audio, and you'd be good. Not perfect, but good enough for YouTube.
BTW, if anyone wants to experiment with this, Newegg's selling some refurbed Clip+ players for $26 here.
Seriously, this site helped shape my teenage years. It made me even more of a nerd that I probably would have ended up being. It's sad to see you go, but I can understand why you think it had to happen. I could say this place won't be the same without you, but I suppose that was the point, wasn't it?
Good luck in whatever you do next, and here's to another 15 years of Slashdot...hopefully without it getting sold out to CNet or something and becoming mindless drivel.
As it happens, the US -- as well as Britain and Germany, two of the coalition partners -- has signed such a treaty. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was created in 1929 to renounce war as "an instrument of national policy", barring acts of self-defence. The treaty remains in force to this day.
Of course, whether the argument can be made that invading Afghanistan could be considered self-defence is a different question. But for the signatories of this treaty, war outside the parameters of self-defence is indeed illegal.
Not true. The Droid Eris, like all variants of the HTC Hero, has 288 MB of RAM. This is more than, say, the Motorola Droid, which only has 256 MB of RAM. Given that the Droid was more or less designed to run Android 2, I can see how the Droid Eris can run it smoothly.
There are very few Android phones that have 128 MB of RAM; even the Dream/G1 has 192 MB. The only Android phones I've seen that have 128 MB of RAM have been the Chinese knockoff phones one occasionally finds on Engadget. Like this one.
This was a "truth-in-labeling" violation. Parents thought they knew what they were buying for their kids, and may have been okay with the violence but not the sexuality of the "hot coffee" scene.
I call BS. Said content wasn't even part of the game, and should not have been considered. Even so, GTA is sufficiently notorious that parents should've known what they were getting their kids into. If they didn't, the giant "M" on the cover was a not-so-subtle hint that this game may not be appropriate for Little Suzie. With current corporate policy, the parents have to buy the games.
Any parent that buys their child this game and then sues for being incensed by the game's contents is guilty of being a bad parent.
Serenity didn't make any money. In fact, including international box office sales, they just barely broke even. Most studio producers, therefore, would not agree that the best place to profit is making another movie. For the same price as Serenity, they could get almost 2 seasons of Firefly. This means more ad revenue, and more money when the show gets syndicated.
Problem is, Fox still owns the TV rights (as I recall). For some unexplained reason, Fox loves sticking it to innovative shows. I don't think they'll give up the rights for cheap.
However, according to the Browncoats website, the main reason the donation campaign was stopped was because they were afraid of possibly giving the producers NIH Syndrome by donating money to the cause.
I wouldn't worry too much about quantum encryption getting out if the open. I'll bet the NSA's just waiting until someone develops a good solution before they ste -- uh, appropriate it and apply secrecy orders all around.
Consider: they had encryption in the bag in the '50s and '60s. Nobody was safe from them, except possibly other intelligence agencies. Then Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman came up with a public-key encryption method that blew the NSA out of the water. After that, the NSA had no chance for redemption. Attempting to trick the encryption people to work for them (through co-opted NSF grants) didn't work. Secrecy orders backfired. Even their key escrow system fell flat on its face. And while their digital signature system did get adopted as a standard, almost nobody uses it.
Quantum computing, meanwhile, can return the NSA to their former place of being able to plug in a wire and listen in on anyone they wanted. And, with the War on Terra still raging on, the political climate is a lot more sympathetic to their cause. All they have to do is mention September 11th and terrorists with strong crypto as much as possible and Congress will surrender faster than the French, because who wants to be seen as supporting terrorists?
Let's face it: the general public won't see quantum computers for a long time -- if at all -- despite the technological advances. And quantum crypto will take longer. And then ITAR will get slapped in anyone's face who tries to get this beyond the US. It'll be like the '60s all over again.
In my short stint at working for the local hospital, I was exposed to the computer system that the doctors used for ordering lab tests. It was basically a bunch of dumb terminals (or, rather, Windows boxen running nothing but a telnet program) connected to an antiquated mainframe using Digital UNIX. The specific program used, called MISYS, required all of your commands to be typed in all caps. Thus, the Caps Lock key was essential in using the system. Any keyboard whose Caps Lock key was broken was quickly removed and replaced with something less aggravating to work with.
Just because it's unpopular doesn't mean it should be gotten rid of.
I'm sick of having to have two video cards in my computer - one shitty Trident or Intel onboard POS and one Radeon. Just put a freaking 9600 in there.
Why not just take out the onboard video/sound card altogether for gaming mobos? Most gamers don't use them anyway, and it would save on cost.
What should be included is an integrated NIC. That's pretty standard by now, and while many mobo manufacturers do that now, many others do not. I'm just sick of it taking up a PCI slot when it's basically a gaming necessity.
How so? For me, it was a simple procedure...download the package and run a shell script as root. The only problem I had was when the script couldn't find my kernel headers to configure the drivers. And that was solved in later versions. And it worked flawlessly on X.org.
Have you ever tried picking one of those things up? I have. I worked on the G5 cluster. Those SOBs were heavy. Nice to look at, but they suck to bring to LAN parties.
What civilization are you referring to that possesses precise laws? Because last time I checked, it wasn't ours. Laws are made, followed, and enforced by human beings. Humans can and do make mistakes. If the law was as precise as you claim, there would not be such things as test cases in our system of jurisprudence. Indeed, sometimes lawmakers are intentionally vague about the details of laws.
In the end, though, laws are stipulations in the social contract that is government; the only thing keeping it valid is the people's compliance with it and the government's attempts at enforcing it.
Probably not. There is a MNG add-on for Seamonkey/Firebird; however, I could not get it to work with a recent nightly build of Firebird (20030720). Maybe you'll have better luck than I.
As I understand it, you could play the discs in the computer as well, as it reads audio CDs at 1x. I'm afraid if Britney Spears wants to bring down a 747, she'll have to do something creative. Which means the world will be safe from falling airplanes for a while.
While this trend is indeed fascinating, I also find it alarming. The main problem I have with it is the fact that there are no real existing standards for small computer systems. This leads, as evidenced by the laptop industry, to proprietary systems with components that are incompatible with other comparably sized systems. While people such as Compaq/HP and such would be licking their lips over this prospect, it is not a favorable setup for consumers, especially since Microsoft's new OSes force you to upgrade every 18 months or so. Even *NIX would have a problem with this; there would be so many systems (and so many individual ways of controlling said systems) that hardware driver coders would be hard-pressed to keep up.
There is also a problem with using existing standards (IDE, PCI, etc.) with small cases; namely, they were built for ATX motherboards. A check of the open case screenshots before and after the IDE cables are in place confirms this theory. Clearly, using existing standards in smaller cases is not the answer either.
What there must be, in order for small-case computers to succeed in this world, is hardware standards designed around a smaller, common size. These standards should be universal (not proprietary to any company) and utilize the latest modern technology. Without these standards, the small computer will be mired in the past.
...how this might look to some overzealous FBI agents? After all, they don't call it the World TRADE Center for nothing. I bet 50 bucks that some ambitious right-wing government nutjob blames the whole thing on "those god-damned anti-globalization Nazis! We need more military weaponry and constitutional suspensions to get at these pinko commie liberals who want to destroy the democracy of America!"
"The DivX technology lineage is based on using Microsoft technology and re-branding it as its own,"
So...it's OK for you guys to steal technology from others and claim it as your own, but it's not OK for other people to do the same thing to you? Boy, you guys can dish it out, but you sure can't take it, can you? Can't stand the thought of somebody else using your strategy so much that you go hiding under the coattails of your attorneys? Why don't you go try something original for once instead of buying out your competition so you can dominate the world?
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While this might be true, you're ignoring a far more practical reason people go to work sick: Because they don't get paid otherwise. Many employees in the US these days don't get paid sick leave, so if they stay home sick, they don't get paid. For people who get paid a wage, this adds up very quickly, especially for anything worse than a cold. I'd lose 10 percent of my paycheck if I stayed home sick for one day.
The US is one of the few developed nations that doesn't require employers to provide paid sick days. Maybe it's time we started, as a matter of public health.
This might make smartphone videos worth a toss. The audio's pretty terrible on those. Demux the video, mux it with the audio, and you'd be good. Not perfect, but good enough for YouTube.
BTW, if anyone wants to experiment with this, Newegg's selling some refurbed Clip+ players for $26 here.
Seriously, this site helped shape my teenage years. It made me even more of a nerd that I probably would have ended up being. It's sad to see you go, but I can understand why you think it had to happen. I could say this place won't be the same without you, but I suppose that was the point, wasn't it?
Good luck in whatever you do next, and here's to another 15 years of Slashdot...hopefully without it getting sold out to CNet or something and becoming mindless drivel.
As it happens, the US -- as well as Britain and Germany, two of the coalition partners -- has signed such a treaty. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was created in 1929 to renounce war as "an instrument of national policy", barring acts of self-defence. The treaty remains in force to this day.
Of course, whether the argument can be made that invading Afghanistan could be considered self-defence is a different question. But for the signatories of this treaty, war outside the parameters of self-defence is indeed illegal.
Not true. The Droid Eris, like all variants of the HTC Hero, has 288 MB of RAM. This is more than, say, the Motorola Droid, which only has 256 MB of RAM. Given that the Droid was more or less designed to run Android 2, I can see how the Droid Eris can run it smoothly.
There are very few Android phones that have 128 MB of RAM; even the Dream/G1 has 192 MB. The only Android phones I've seen that have 128 MB of RAM have been the Chinese knockoff phones one occasionally finds on Engadget. Like this one.
I call BS. Said content wasn't even part of the game, and should not have been considered. Even so, GTA is sufficiently notorious that parents should've known what they were getting their kids into. If they didn't, the giant "M" on the cover was a not-so-subtle hint that this game may not be appropriate for Little Suzie. With current corporate policy, the parents have to buy the games.
Any parent that buys their child this game and then sues for being incensed by the game's contents is guilty of being a bad parent.
Serenity didn't make any money. In fact, including international box office sales, they just barely broke even. Most studio producers, therefore, would not agree that the best place to profit is making another movie. For the same price as Serenity, they could get almost 2 seasons of Firefly. This means more ad revenue, and more money when the show gets syndicated.
Problem is, Fox still owns the TV rights (as I recall). For some unexplained reason, Fox loves sticking it to innovative shows. I don't think they'll give up the rights for cheap.
However, according to the Browncoats website, the main reason the donation campaign was stopped was because they were afraid of possibly giving the producers NIH Syndrome by donating money to the cause.
I wouldn't worry too much about quantum encryption getting out if the open. I'll bet the NSA's just waiting until someone develops a good solution before they ste -- uh, appropriate it and apply secrecy orders all around.
Consider: they had encryption in the bag in the '50s and '60s. Nobody was safe from them, except possibly other intelligence agencies. Then Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman came up with a public-key encryption method that blew the NSA out of the water. After that, the NSA had no chance for redemption. Attempting to trick the encryption people to work for them (through co-opted NSF grants) didn't work. Secrecy orders backfired. Even their key escrow system fell flat on its face. And while their digital signature system did get adopted as a standard, almost nobody uses it.
Quantum computing, meanwhile, can return the NSA to their former place of being able to plug in a wire and listen in on anyone they wanted. And, with the War on Terra still raging on, the political climate is a lot more sympathetic to their cause. All they have to do is mention September 11th and terrorists with strong crypto as much as possible and Congress will surrender faster than the French, because who wants to be seen as supporting terrorists?
Let's face it: the general public won't see quantum computers for a long time -- if at all -- despite the technological advances. And quantum crypto will take longer. And then ITAR will get slapped in anyone's face who tries to get this beyond the US. It'll be like the '60s all over again.
In my short stint at working for the local hospital, I was exposed to the computer system that the doctors used for ordering lab tests. It was basically a bunch of dumb terminals (or, rather, Windows boxen running nothing but a telnet program) connected to an antiquated mainframe using Digital UNIX. The specific program used, called MISYS, required all of your commands to be typed in all caps. Thus, the Caps Lock key was essential in using the system. Any keyboard whose Caps Lock key was broken was quickly removed and replaced with something less aggravating to work with.
Just because it's unpopular doesn't mean it should be gotten rid of.
I'm sick of having to have two video cards in my computer - one shitty Trident or Intel onboard POS and one Radeon. Just put a freaking 9600 in there.
Why not just take out the onboard video/sound card altogether for gaming mobos? Most gamers don't use them anyway, and it would save on cost.
What should be included is an integrated NIC. That's pretty standard by now, and while many mobo manufacturers do that now, many others do not. I'm just sick of it taking up a PCI slot when it's basically a gaming necessity.
How so? For me, it was a simple procedure...download the package and run a shell script as root. The only problem I had was when the script couldn't find my kernel headers to configure the drivers. And that was solved in later versions. And it worked flawlessly on X.org.
Seriously, dude...you're on crack.
There is no Avalon, only XUL.
Have you ever tried picking one of those things up? I have. I worked on the G5 cluster. Those SOBs were heavy. Nice to look at, but they suck to bring to LAN parties.
What civilization are you referring to that possesses precise laws? Because last time I checked, it wasn't ours. Laws are made, followed, and enforced by human beings. Humans can and do make mistakes. If the law was as precise as you claim, there would not be such things as test cases in our system of jurisprudence. Indeed, sometimes lawmakers are intentionally vague about the details of laws.
In the end, though, laws are stipulations in the social contract that is government; the only thing keeping it valid is the people's compliance with it and the government's attempts at enforcing it.
Probably not. There is a MNG add-on for Seamonkey/Firebird; however, I could not get it to work with a recent nightly build of Firebird (20030720). Maybe you'll have better luck than I.
HTH.
Yes, but, to the androids in Congress, that is an eternity.
Plus, knowing Hatch and the rest of them, it would be considered attacking the government, and thus an act of terrorism.
As I understand it, you could play the discs in the computer as well, as it reads audio CDs at 1x. I'm afraid if Britney Spears wants to bring down a 747, she'll have to do something creative. Which means the world will be safe from falling airplanes for a while.
It makes sense. Only aliens could have invented something like UNIX.
Knoppix doesn't recognize my Audigy card. Is there a driver for this on the CD or am I SOL?
...any portable player capable of playing Ogg Vorbis. Is there one, and if so, what is it?
Also, here's a really cheap MP3 player...in more ways than one.
While this trend is indeed fascinating, I also find it alarming. The main problem I have with it is the fact that there are no real existing standards for small computer systems. This leads, as evidenced by the laptop industry, to proprietary systems with components that are incompatible with other comparably sized systems. While people such as Compaq/HP and such would be licking their lips over this prospect, it is not a favorable setup for consumers, especially since Microsoft's new OSes force you to upgrade every 18 months or so. Even *NIX would have a problem with this; there would be so many systems (and so many individual ways of controlling said systems) that hardware driver coders would be hard-pressed to keep up.
There is also a problem with using existing standards (IDE, PCI, etc.) with small cases; namely, they were built for ATX motherboards. A check of the open case screenshots before and after the IDE cables are in place confirms this theory. Clearly, using existing standards in smaller cases is not the answer either.
What there must be, in order for small-case computers to succeed in this world, is hardware standards designed around a smaller, common size. These standards should be universal (not proprietary to any company) and utilize the latest modern technology. Without these standards, the small computer will be mired in the past.
...how this might look to some overzealous FBI agents? After all, they don't call it the World TRADE Center for nothing. I bet 50 bucks that some ambitious right-wing government nutjob blames the whole thing on "those god-damned anti-globalization Nazis! We need more military weaponry and constitutional suspensions to get at these pinko commie liberals who want to destroy the democracy of America!"
I'm guessing John Ashcroft.
So...it's OK for you guys to steal technology from others and claim it as your own, but it's not OK for other people to do the same thing to you? Boy, you guys can dish it out, but you sure can't take it, can you? Can't stand the thought of somebody else using your strategy so much that you go hiding under the coattails of your attorneys? Why don't you go try something original for once instead of buying out your competition so you can dominate the world?
These guys make me sick.Seems like the Emmys are really scraping the bottom of the barrel this time. Man, it's getting harder to find good TV shows nowadays, isn't it?