"Unless you use special (patented?) envelope that can't be opened without leaving a mark with 100% confidence."
This is all bull. What's to stop you from sending an empty, unsealed envelope and then putting whatever you want in it afterwards. Look. I mailed the front page of today's newspaper to myself last week. I'll open it up in front of you.
"IMHO the term 'jamming' implies it it active jamming, I don't believe there is any other kind of 'jamming'."
The American Heritage Dictionary defines electronics jamming as such:
"To interfere with or prevent the clear reception of (broadcast signals) by electronic means."
So your argument is fair enough. HOWEVER, since, as we all know, 'electronic' means using electrons, then I was right all along, unless you can prove there are no electrons in the wall panels, at which point I will concede.
I learned back in my teens that camcorders' photosensors display remote control patterns as bright white light. I don't know, but I imagine that this is still true for modern cameras, to a degree. To do otherwise would be to ultra-refine photosensors to only capture visible wavelength, for no legitimate purpose. How difficult would it be to set up UV "floodlights" on the edges and corners of a movie theater's screen? Like remote controls, it's beyond the range of human sight, and that would sure fsck up any recorded image.
Oh yeah, and I hereby claim first thought on this subject 10/11/02 at 13:56 EST.:)
"Another cool feature is that you can change the font size just by holding down the "Ctrl" key and using the mouse scroll button. (No messing with drop down menu's for this anymore. I think they learned this trick from Opera.) "
Wow, that's so cool! How cool? So cool that you can do the same thing with the shift key in IE, since version 3. Wonder where almighty Opera got it...
Good review, and I downloaded it, but check the competition's features before you rave about one:)
"..and I recon he sues the airline because he feels (somehow) discriminated"
If you're going to talk like a redneck, atleast spell "reckon" correctly.
Anyways, I'm not at all surprised that a public gov't-subsidized (ala 9-11) business (i.e. you don't need a membership) is expected to do something as simple as putting a link to a text-only page as the very first link at the top of the homepage. I've seen it in enough places. That's not tough, it's not expensive, and I would think they would have done it a long time ago.
"Its possible [...] to have a sea underneath the water [...]"
You stole this straight from talking heads!
"Water dissolving...and water removing There is water at the bottom of the ocean Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!"
Hrmph. Pluto is so small, there's a debate as to whether it can even be called a planet. Not much room for a "biosphere" large enough to promote an evolving species through genetic diversity, but, who knows...
For something this precise, the diagram in the link indicates that you have very little leeway as to how far to the left or right you can move your head from the center of the screen. Doesn't sound like a great joy to have to hold your head in some sweet-spot.
"it is going to ask Lindows to change its promotional material after concluding that Lindows is misleading people into thinking that it has a strategic relationship with AOL."
They appear to me to simply be afraid of the wrath of M$. What other legitimate reason could there be? It's promoting AOL in a positive light. Any exposure is good exposure right? So WTF?
"The going rate is less than $1 per 1000 impressions. Most advertisers only like to buy from sites that have a lot of inventory. We're talking hundreds of thousands of impressions per month, generally."
So a site with half-a-million impressions a month gets $125 a week. Scheise. If that's true, that's pathetic.
Oh, I also wanted to reccomend a great book on string theory, Elegant Universe. String theoryvirtually requires toe situation that all matter is actually tightly packed energy, in that matter and energy are not made of two different things. Check it out.
"Does this mean that I have to remove my e=mc^2 tatoo? Really?!?"
Even if the speed of light was somehow broken, it has nothing to do with E=mc^2. This just states that a small amount of matter has an incredible amount of energy (and all corollaries).
Energy=matter*speed of light^2
No matter what happens with light speed experiments, nobody can disprove a nuclear bomb:-P
"Before deciding to start over, you should decide if it's worth doing at all. Do we really need a manned space program? There is nothing that we can do which is worthwhile doing, which can't be done with an unmanned program."
Unhhhhh... Closed-minded thinking like this is waayyyyyy to prevalent. Look back. Now look forward. We need to study the effects of space on people because (sitting down?) it will, in time, become incredibly easy to send people far into space, to other planets. It might not be for hundreds of years, but it will happen. Just like cars, and guns, computers, and airplanes, people like you said people shouldn't bother with such dreams.
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"people scream bloody murder about who 'evil' you ware!"
That's easy for you to say...
"Unless you use special (patented?) envelope that can't be opened without leaving a mark with 100% confidence."
This is all bull. What's to stop you from sending an empty, unsealed envelope and then putting whatever you want in it afterwards. Look. I mailed the front page of today's newspaper to myself last week. I'll open it up in front of you.
Utter nonsense.
"Could a Mekon-led Treen invasion of Earth be imminent?"
Imagine a beowolf cluster of THOSE!
Maybe this means they can do something about the strange lifeforms infesting uranus!
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:)
:) I meant no more sub-700kbps quality. :)
Actually, you'll still have to reduce your bitrate for movies that are that long.
Bitrate * Time = total size.
Merely having a spiffy new codec won't change that simple equation
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I knew someone would catch that
".. this means that ALL those ripped movies are going to be worthless... people will have to re-encode it all AGAIN ..."
Shit. Hadn't thought of that. It's going to be like all the ogg files that are converted MP3s, complete with generation loss...
But this is very cool. No more having to go sub-700kbps for movies over 2 hours! :-D
"Now, a screaming baby jammer, that I can agree with."
Maybe it would be something like this?
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom -- Gandalf the Grey"
I think you misquote. If I recall correctly, that's not Gandalf, but rather the framers of the DMCA.
"IMHO the term 'jamming' implies it it active jamming, I don't believe there is any other kind of 'jamming'."
The American Heritage Dictionary defines electronics jamming as such:
"To interfere with or prevent the clear reception of (broadcast signals) by electronic means."
So your argument is fair enough. HOWEVER, since, as we all know, 'electronic' means using electrons, then I was right all along, unless you can prove there are no electrons in the wall panels, at which point I will concede.
Active jamming is illegal.
Passive jamming is not.
I learned back in my teens that camcorders' photosensors display remote control patterns as bright white light. I don't know, but I imagine that this is still true for modern cameras, to a degree. To do otherwise would be to ultra-refine photosensors to only capture visible wavelength, for no legitimate purpose. How difficult would it be to set up UV "floodlights" on the edges and corners of a movie theater's screen? Like remote controls, it's beyond the range of human sight, and that would sure fsck up any recorded image.
:)
Oh yeah, and I hereby claim first thought on this subject 10/11/02 at 13:56 EST.
"Another cool feature is that you can change the font size just by holding down the "Ctrl" key and using the mouse scroll button. (No messing with drop down menu's for this anymore. I think they learned this trick from Opera.) "
:)
Wow, that's so cool! How cool? So cool that you can do the same thing with the shift key in IE, since version 3. Wonder where almighty Opera got it...
Good review, and I downloaded it, but check the competition's features before you rave about one
"..and I recon he sues the airline because he feels (somehow) discriminated"
If you're going to talk like a redneck, atleast spell "reckon" correctly.
Anyways, I'm not at all surprised that a public gov't-subsidized (ala 9-11) business (i.e. you don't need a membership) is expected to do something as simple as putting a link to a text-only page as the very first link at the top of the homepage. I've seen it in enough places. That's not tough, it's not expensive, and I would think they would have done it a long time ago.
You are full of shit. There's no way in hell we're going to oppose any Iraq attack. That fuck is gone.
Here's why, you uneducated fucking moron:
A) We KNOW "Sodom" hates the US because we didn't let him fucking rape his neighbor's country.
B) We KNOW he's trying to get nuclear weapons.
C) We KNOW that he would work with anyone that wanted to harm the US.
D) We KNOW he has offered ransoms for capturing americans and shooting down american jets.
E) We KNOW that he would gladly, once he had nukes, do everything he could to see that one damaged the US.
We will fucking erase him.
We will fucking erase him.
We will fucking erase him.
"Its possible [...] to have a sea underneath the water [...]"
:-P
You stole this straight from talking heads!
"Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!"
Nice try.
Hrmph. Pluto is so small, there's a debate as to whether it can even be called a planet. Not much room for a "biosphere" large enough to promote an evolving species through genetic diversity, but, who knows...
For something this precise, the diagram in the link indicates that you have very little leeway as to how far to the left or right you can move your head from the center of the screen. Doesn't sound like a great joy to have to hold your head in some sweet-spot.
"it is going to ask Lindows to change its promotional material after concluding that Lindows is misleading people into thinking that it has a strategic relationship with AOL."
They appear to me to simply be afraid of the wrath of M$. What other legitimate reason could there be? It's promoting AOL in a positive light. Any exposure is good exposure right? So WTF?
"The going rate is less than $1 per 1000 impressions. Most advertisers only like to buy from sites that have a lot of inventory. We're talking hundreds of thousands of impressions per month, generally."
So a site with half-a-million impressions a month gets $125 a week. Scheise. If that's true, that's pathetic.
"According to this story on CNET's News.com, two Texas companies will offer software to give your PS2, Tivo-like functionality."
There is no reason whatsoever for a comma to be placed after PS2.
If you feel the need to put a comma, or a semicolon, or an asterISK somewhere, chances are your sentence needs to be rewritten.
In the future, try this:
Instead of "will offer software to give your PS2, Tivo-like functionality."
Try "will offer software to give Tivo-like functionality to your PS2."
" but is roten from the inside"
what the fuck?
let me see if I can g'sparfle a new word too.
Cool! That *is* fun!
"Energy=matter*speed of light^2"
Oh, I also wanted to reccomend a great book on string theory, Elegant Universe. String theoryvirtually requires toe situation that all matter is actually tightly packed energy, in that matter and energy are not made of two different things. Check it out.
"Does this mean that I have to remove my e=mc^2 tatoo? Really?!?"
:-P
Even if the speed of light was somehow broken, it has nothing to do with E=mc^2. This just states that a small amount of matter has an incredible amount of energy (and all corollaries).
Energy=matter*speed of light^2
No matter what happens with light speed experiments, nobody can disprove a nuclear bomb
"Before deciding to start over, you should decide if it's worth doing at all. Do we really need a manned space program? There is nothing that we can do which is worthwhile doing, which can't be done with an unmanned program."
Unhhhhh... Closed-minded thinking like this is waayyyyyy to prevalent. Look back. Now look forward. We need to study the effects of space on people because (sitting down?) it will, in time, become incredibly easy to send people far into space, to other planets. It might not be for hundreds of years, but it will happen. Just like cars, and guns, computers, and airplanes, people like you said people shouldn't bother with such dreams.
I'm glad we don't listen to people like you.