I have the feeling that unless it's tied into a service that still charges you a per minute charge on the call, the Cellphone cartels ^H^H^H^H^H.. companies going to make sure it dies out real quick.
Whatever happened to the Motorola that had a Talkabout integrated into it so that you technically don't need to use your minutes if the person you want to talk to is within range??
But it's not. Microsoft is a Monopoly, Sony isn't. Sony isn't the only big company out there that makes good Stereos, or TVs or Laptops and PDA even. And besides, it's not like that thing plays ATRAC only, it plays mp3's as well.
I don't know about the US, but here in Malaysia, there is a RM20,000 - RM 100,000 (about US$5,200 - $26,000) to reward for turning in companies who use pirated software.
Not if the net admin is a moron. In college, the admins setup the XP boxed with restrictions on installing software.
The shit of the issue is that they way they did it, all the spyware and "toolbars" still manage to auto install, but if somebody pissed at the situation tried to install AdAware or Spybot S&D to fix eth mess themselves, they get blocked.
Trademarks and branding are important tools for product differentiation in mature markets, which is why they are strongly protected in capatalist economies.
While what you have said about trademarks is true, what has all of that got to do with Google? Google is a search engine, it is a privately published directory that is publicly accessible. At the end of the day, it is just like a magazine.
For example, pick up a PC magazine and you'll find that there are instances where there are articles published about product X and right on the next page is a full page advert for product X's competitor. Just like how you might find an Epson advert right after an article on HP printers.
Yet i don't see companies suing over the very standard practice of placing ad's based on a publications editorial calender.
Clearly it's the same thing no? You may argue that in this case users specifically searched for AXA and got to see their competitors also, but isn't the case the same when someone purposely flips the page to look at an article about HP printers and sees an Epson Ad beside it?
Whats happening here is not somebody telling you to get Coca-Cola out of a Pepsi ice box, but rather more like Pepsi paying for a billboard right next to every Coca-Cola billboard. Ironic? Maybe, but definitely not wrong.
You're not thinking. Do you know what humanity will be capable of if we live much much longer? We could finally build that big ship we've always wanted, go to the next star system and return to tell the tale.
Also, an increasing world population would finally justify our desire to go out and colonise other planets. Right now we just want to. I guarenteed the day we NEED to, we'll be there mighty quick. I do hope that human numbers will reach 50 billion. If it's 50 billion spread out between earth the moon and mars, why not?
What to do with infinite life? Explore the infinite. Space.
The Google bot respects it, so if you're up to no good, it's easy to get Google to not index your page.
Anyway, I'd like to see a version of google that didn't respect robot.txt. You'd used to be able to dig up alot of infermation on peopel on google before they started to use robot.txt on alot of sites.
I wonder what market segment nVidia is gunning for. Are they after some of Discreets market share or trying to offer a hardware solution that will beat the crap out of Adobe After Effects.
It would be really cool to have a hardware solution with Combustion like features for the price of After Effects.
Why waste a CD-RW? 'Burn' it into an image, insert image into Virtual Drive. Rip from virtual drive. Delete Image. Faster then writing to/reading from a CD-RW and burner not needed.
Not only that, i see another problem would be the distortion inherent in all camera lenses. Using a diffrent phone camera or even diffrent batches of the same phone might yeald a diffrent picture.
Because of lens geometry, even though a picture was taken from the same spot and the same angle, the distortions from the lens would make the image appear magnified, or concaved or simply have varying degrees of image detail.
Since this system works by identifying geometric shapes and outlines in an image and then compare it to a database, the diffrences in the lens curveture ought to give results that don't reflect the true geometry of a building.
So it'd be interesting to find out how, if they solved this problem.
Slashdot Mirror
I agree. I absolutely loved the scene where they first repelled an Xindi boarding party, and they beat the crap out of the borders.
Finally, somebody in Starfleet can actualy fire phasers and not miss 99% of the time.
I agree... But at least, that had a concept. The upbeat they did for season 3 is just plain horrible.
all we need is for soem nuts to decide to pack 1 full of explosives and fly it into a building.
I'd expect instead of building highways, all the money will be going to building shielding for buildings.
I have the feeling that unless it's tied into a service that still charges you a per minute charge on the call, the Cellphone cartels ^H^H^H^H^H.. companies going to make sure it dies out real quick.
Whatever happened to the Motorola that had a Talkabout integrated into it so that you technically don't need to use your minutes if the person you want to talk to is within range??
But it's not. Microsoft is a Monopoly, Sony isn't. Sony isn't the only big company out there that makes good Stereos, or TVs or Laptops and PDA even. And besides, it's not like that thing plays ATRAC only, it plays mp3's as well.
I thought SlashDot was supposed to turn useless ONLY on April 1st?
I don't know about the US, but here in Malaysia, there is a RM20,000 - RM 100,000 (about US$5,200 - $26,000) to reward for turning in companies who use pirated software.
And here's the link to the PPA for us to slashdo... i mean look at .
PPA
Since when was the Periodic table 1000 trillion elements big?
Not if the net admin is a moron. In college, the admins setup the XP boxed with restrictions on installing software.
The shit of the issue is that they way they did it, all the spyware and "toolbars" still manage to auto install, but if somebody pissed at the situation tried to install AdAware or Spybot S&D to fix eth mess themselves, they get blocked.
To answer your question, NO. SATA is still IDE and it has a CPU overhead associated with running it.
Being able to move around alot of data and not cost a very hight overhead (About 30% in SATA's case) is what SCSI is for.
In a stunning example of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing, back in 2000, Sony Sued ... guess who? Sony!
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http://www.s-t.com/daily/01-00/01-30-00/b03bu05
Trademarks and branding are important tools for product differentiation in mature markets, which is why they are strongly protected in capatalist economies.
While what you have said about trademarks is true, what has all of that got to do with Google? Google is a search engine, it is a privately published directory that is publicly accessible. At the end of the day, it is just like a magazine.
For example, pick up a PC magazine and you'll find that there are instances where there are articles published about product X and right on the next page is a full page advert for product X's competitor. Just like how you might find an Epson advert right after an article on HP printers.
Yet i don't see companies suing over the very standard practice of placing ad's based on a publications editorial calender.
Clearly it's the same thing no? You may argue that in this case users specifically searched for AXA and got to see their competitors also, but isn't the case the same when someone purposely flips the page to look at an article about HP printers and sees an Epson Ad beside it?
Whats happening here is not somebody telling you to get Coca-Cola out of a Pepsi ice box, but rather more like Pepsi paying for a billboard right next to every Coca-Cola billboard. Ironic? Maybe, but definitely not wrong.
You're not thinking. Do you know what humanity will be capable of if we live much much longer? We could finally build that big ship we've always wanted, go to the next star system and return to tell the tale.
Also, an increasing world population would finally justify our desire to go out and colonise other planets. Right now we just want to. I guarenteed the day we NEED to, we'll be there mighty quick. I do hope that human numbers will reach 50 billion. If it's 50 billion spread out between earth the moon and mars, why not?
What to do with infinite life? Explore the infinite. Space.
Robot.txt
The Google bot respects it, so if you're up to no good, it's easy to get Google to not index your page.
Anyway, I'd like to see a version of google that didn't respect robot.txt. You'd used to be able to dig up alot of infermation on peopel on google before they started to use robot.txt on alot of sites.
What fine? The settlement sounds more like an exercise in marketing then punishement. Punishement for MS is what my sig says.
What we need is a proper international effort, free of political grandstanding and nationalism
That is about as easy as getting the Isrealies and the Palestinians to share and live happily together on the same piece of land. Seriously.
Thats Roomba's job. www.roombavac.com
Not likely. The result of parthenogenesis is always female. So unless Jesus was the daughter of God, the theory still needs work.
On a slew of gmail accounts.
I wonder what market segment nVidia is gunning for. Are they after some of Discreets market share or trying to offer a hardware solution that will beat the crap out of Adobe After Effects.
It would be really cool to have a hardware solution with Combustion like features for the price of After Effects.
Nvidia releses Hardware-Accelerated video renderer?
Why waste a CD-RW? 'Burn' it into an image, insert image into Virtual Drive. Rip from virtual drive. Delete Image. Faster then writing to/reading from a CD-RW and burner not needed.
you're right... sounds more english then legalise. Maybe it's the way Indians write official letters?
Not only that, i see another problem would be the distortion inherent in all camera lenses. Using a diffrent phone camera or even diffrent batches of the same phone might yeald a diffrent picture.
Because of lens geometry, even though a picture was taken from the same spot and the same angle, the distortions from the lens would make the image appear magnified, or concaved or simply have varying degrees of image detail.
Since this system works by identifying geometric shapes and outlines in an image and then compare it to a database, the diffrences in the lens curveture ought to give results that don't reflect the true geometry of a building.
So it'd be interesting to find out how, if they solved this problem.
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