Yeah, I have no idea how a couple magnets, by themselves, could pruduce any energy. But who knows, maybe one day we'll harness the Earth's shifting magnetic poles, or get the rotating core to drive something, magnetically.
Umm, why would there being "no identifiable environmental source of the energy" be a requirement for it to be "free"? I'd be pretty happy calling wind farms, solar panels, and hydro power "free", as long as the net energy produced is greater than the input cost to create the machines. As in, free, once having paid off the ammortised construction costs.
True, English is not phonetic, but I get the feeling that there's a false sense of disconnect between the written and verbal form due to mispronounciation. I mean, one should expect regional dialects, and influences from other languages, and discrepancies between different social classes. But we're getting to a point where, be it due to morphology, or rap songs insistence on rhyming words that simply don't rhyme, or whatever, that people are just slurring their words.
Take for example "different" which is "diff-er-ent", but tends to be pronounced as "diff-rent".
Or "preparation" which is "prep-a-ration" but becomes "prep-ration".
The thing is, the correct spellings, and pronounciations give clues to the roots and suffixes that the bastardised versions lose. In this case "simplifying" the language is a lossy compression, which I believe should be avoided.
As a Canadian, I can use Center and Centre interchangeably, but I tend towards using Centre for the noun and Center for the verb. Perhaps it's because the noun tends to lack emphasis being more passive, and the verb has a slight vocal gap between "Cent" and "er" requiring an "er" instead of an "re".
And maybe its also because buildings and locations tend to have the Centre spelling prominantly displayed, whereas the action falls more into the day-to-day nondescript usage, subconciously affected by American influences.
Most effects done on downsampled video suck. Oh yeah, and with most video being MPEG2 compressed, and dithering really only serving to mess of DCT compression, I should doubly take back that dithering idea.
The "Click of Death" term is already used to describe an Iomega Zip or Jazz drive failure issue. Sorry, but you'll have to come up with a new term for any Apple issue. May I suggest "Single mouse button click of death"?
Such as a targetted virus. Maybe it kills you, or maybe you just get sick and use up your work sick days and get fired. Hell, maybe you're not even the target per se, but are just a testing guinea pig.
Are you all so consumeristic that your world revolves around access to movies and music? It seems like every day on Slashdot there's yet another repetitive discussion about DRM, MPAA, RIAA...
Even this article, that's mostly about networking, has elicited a predominantly DRM focussed discussion. And no, telling me to use the filters doesn't count, because she wrote over 12 paragraphs on networking and technology, and 80%+ of the discussion here is on her one DRM paragraph.
Turn off your friggin TV, take the earphones off, and stop being a walking commercial for the media industry. Even arguing against them is advertising for them.
Yes, that could work, but it's still kindof heavy handed. How about some sort of interruptable voicemail feature. So, it would give a different message than usual. Instead of "I'm away from the phone, leave a message", you could have it say "I'm in a theatre or something like that, so please wait half a minute for me, but if you get bored, just press #, and leave a message." And it could play elevator music, or beep every 5 seconds, to the caller, but it'd be silent to the person in the theatre, until they press #, and then it would connect. On the cell phone screen it could show the status of the call, if they're still holding, or are leaving a message, or hung-up.
But to tie that back to your suggestion, maybe it could be part of the theatre's profile, like allowing ringing or vibrating, to conditionally allow interruptable voicemail, or handle it like the phone is off. Like if you're in a restaurant, it would allow the interruptable voicemail, but in the opera, it would just act like your phone is off.
Hell, they might even have different signals for inside the theatre watching area versus the lobby, so that you could only pickup once in the lobby.
All this talk about jamming or blocking cell phones makes no sense. It clearly infringes on people who may have a legitimate need, to pander to people who simply forget to adjust their ring volume or vibration intensity.
So, why not just make an open standard, that all cell phones could abide by, where the user could optionally enable a mode to allow the phone's ring volume to be overridden. A theatre could broadcast a signal that would say "zero volume ringer, any vibration allowed". A more serious venue might limit both the ringer and the vibration. A restaurant might allow a single ring. Etc...
The key is that it would be optional, but on by default with new phones. And it wouldn't interfere with your regular ring settings, but just temporarily override them.
It has SPDIF in and out. Apple uses combination analog/digital audio jacks, so you can plug in either an analog or a digital input into the one input jack. And the same for the output jack.
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HD-DVD-R is a standard for using regular old style red laser DVD-R disks, but with HD resolution content stored in the HD-DVD file format.
It's analogous to putting a short DVD clip on a CD-R disk.
Yeah, I have no idea how a couple magnets, by themselves, could pruduce any energy. But who knows, maybe one day we'll harness the Earth's shifting magnetic poles, or get the rotating core to drive something, magnetically.
Umm, why would there being "no identifiable environmental source of the energy" be a requirement for it to be "free"? I'd be pretty happy calling wind farms, solar panels, and hydro power "free", as long as the net energy produced is greater than the input cost to create the machines. As in, free, once having paid off the ammortised construction costs.
That's how I got out of gym class in elementary school.
True, English is not phonetic, but I get the feeling that there's a false sense of disconnect between the written and verbal form due to mispronounciation. I mean, one should expect regional dialects, and influences from other languages, and discrepancies between different social classes. But we're getting to a point where, be it due to morphology, or rap songs insistence on rhyming words that simply don't rhyme, or whatever, that people are just slurring their words.
Take for example "different" which is "diff-er-ent", but tends to be pronounced as "diff-rent".
Or "preparation" which is "prep-a-ration" but becomes "prep-ration".
The thing is, the correct spellings, and pronounciations give clues to the roots and suffixes that the bastardised versions lose. In this case "simplifying" the language is a lossy compression, which I believe should be avoided.
As a Canadian, I can use Center and Centre interchangeably, but I tend towards using Centre for the noun and Center for the verb. Perhaps it's because the noun tends to lack emphasis being more passive, and the verb has a slight vocal gap between "Cent" and "er" requiring an "er" instead of an "re".
And maybe its also because buildings and locations tend to have the Centre spelling prominantly displayed, whereas the action falls more into the day-to-day nondescript usage, subconciously affected by American influences.
What do they do with the bodies? Because that'd be a lot of meat going to waste...
Most effects done on downsampled video suck. Oh yeah, and with most video being MPEG2 compressed, and dithering really only serving to mess of DCT compression, I should doubly take back that dithering idea.
We can already address that issue with dithering, instead of making some new incompatible standard.
That would require me to have some dignigty preview-ously.
Ouch, you know a joke's fallen flat when someone has to post an encyclopedia link to refute your punchline.
Just so you know, some people like to have their cake and eat it to.
The "Click of Death" term is already used to describe an Iomega Zip or Jazz drive failure issue. Sorry, but you'll have to come up with a new term for any Apple issue. May I suggest "Single mouse button click of death"?
Please do a quick reply to me when you reply to the other guy's question, so I can read it too :)
Apparently the MacBooks have user upgradeable hard drives now.
Such as a targetted virus. Maybe it kills you, or maybe you just get sick and use up your work sick days and get fired. Hell, maybe you're not even the target per se, but are just a testing guinea pig.
Are you all so consumeristic that your world revolves around access to movies and music? It seems like every day on Slashdot there's yet another repetitive discussion about DRM, MPAA, RIAA...
Even this article, that's mostly about networking, has elicited a predominantly DRM focussed discussion. And no, telling me to use the filters doesn't count, because she wrote over 12 paragraphs on networking and technology, and 80%+ of the discussion here is on her one DRM paragraph.
Turn off your friggin TV, take the earphones off, and stop being a walking commercial for the media industry. Even arguing against them is advertising for them.
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Hi Hank. I'm a guy, and straight, but your sales pitch was good that even I'm convinced.
/At least my mockery wasn't crude like the others :)
Yes, that could work, but it's still kindof heavy handed. How about some sort of interruptable voicemail feature. So, it would give a different message than usual. Instead of "I'm away from the phone, leave a message", you could have it say "I'm in a theatre or something like that, so please wait half a minute for me, but if you get bored, just press #, and leave a message." And it could play elevator music, or beep every 5 seconds, to the caller, but it'd be silent to the person in the theatre, until they press #, and then it would connect. On the cell phone screen it could show the status of the call, if they're still holding, or are leaving a message, or hung-up.
But to tie that back to your suggestion, maybe it could be part of the theatre's profile, like allowing ringing or vibrating, to conditionally allow interruptable voicemail, or handle it like the phone is off. Like if you're in a restaurant, it would allow the interruptable voicemail, but in the opera, it would just act like your phone is off.
Hell, they might even have different signals for inside the theatre watching area versus the lobby, so that you could only pickup once in the lobby.
Do they at least give you an estimate of how long you'll wait in the queue, or do you have to sit their and busy wait? Can you make a reservation?
All this talk about jamming or blocking cell phones makes no sense. It clearly infringes on people who may have a legitimate need, to pander to people who simply forget to adjust their ring volume or vibration intensity.
So, why not just make an open standard, that all cell phones could abide by, where the user could optionally enable a mode to allow the phone's ring volume to be overridden. A theatre could broadcast a signal that would say "zero volume ringer, any vibration allowed". A more serious venue might limit both the ringer and the vibration. A restaurant might allow a single ring. Etc...
The key is that it would be optional, but on by default with new phones. And it wouldn't interfere with your regular ring settings, but just temporarily override them.
It has SPDIF in and out. Apple uses combination analog/digital audio jacks, so you can plug in either an analog or a digital input into the one input jack. And the same for the output jack.
And let's not forget how it revolutionised amateur Internet porn.
/Surely this deserves an award?
//Nobel?
Great work, gentlemen. Great work.
How can it be a virus if it is a Trojan?
You have to execute it yourself, and that is why it is _not_ a virus.
Sure it is. Remember when the Greeks invaded Troy, and used a virus to infect a horse, to kill the aliens defending Troy?