...I really do hope the US hits $6+ soon Guys its for your own good, everyone else manages. Once the US is forced into alternative cars they will start to make more sense, the industry just needs that boost to get things like battery advances and incentives for hydrogen stations (if that's the best way) and charging places. If I was in the US right now I wouldn't even consider buying a car that couldn't at least plow through a bull. They need fuel prices to go through the roof so people will start changing the cars they buy.
I think its almost certain that in a few years battery advances will mean pretty significant changes in price and performance, but those advances will only come if there's a market for it - i.e batteries will only get cheaper and better in the future if people show an interest now, so even if you don't buy one, make sure someone knows that you're interested.
Yes, really that's good for them. However, similar to many of the dozen articles i see links to every day with captions suggesting that there's an amazing picture of something to be found; upon viewing the article I am left asking the question: WHERE ARE THE FUCKING PICTURES?! Perhaps someone could fill me in on why so many online news articles are lacking pictures when the entire story is useless without them?
This is so much hype. Look at all the pathetic little MS fan boys running around, looking at throw-away hidden messages that are about as pretentious as they come and about as profound as the piece of shit 360 is going to be. Fuck, they're not even releasing the thing in 12 hours they're just opening a website about releasing it and people are flocking. Any product with this much PR bull shit around it has got to be a flop.
As we all know, the entire global consumer broadband industry is totally reliant on P2P file sharing to fuel it. Where are the video streams (that anyone wants to watch)? Where is this amazing 'rich multimedia content' (i don't count an embedded midi file). People watch dodgy streams like the winamp TV library (full of p0rn, ripped TV shows, music videos and home-made TV shows. There's also a few news feeds. After that its P2P which must account for even more than the geek software download bandwidth. I guess theres iTunes which is catching on but its in the ISP's best interests to make sure that there's enough pr0n, 0days, is0s & mp3z and of course torrentz to keep their customers wanting more and more broadband. OK OK, I know its useful for other things - emailing large attachments and getting work done but we all know the real reasons.
As with everything we're moving towards a kind of distributed mesh of systems. I think soon there will be devices that not only pickup GPS, GLONASS (whats left of it) and when it comes, Galileo, but will also have other fall-backs such as databases of cell-phone networks, TV and radio transmitters and other satellites such as TV, net and phone. Hell it could even go as far as using a camera to read the stars, and with a built-in detailed map of the entire earth you'll most likely be able to rely on terrain matching too, and accelerometers for dead reckoning, all this stuff can be used already but a single hand-held device doesn't seem far off. The US is really bitching over nothing with Galileo.
This is really disturbing, I hope this guy knows he has everyone on/. on his side. I can see that this was a relatively special case, with the things happening at his workplace before etc, but the police need to get the fuck off their high horses. I always felt they were approachable and decent people but recently that respect is slipping.
No, im not talking about layers im talking about adjustment layers and layer effects, gimp doesn't have these, unless you count making a plain layer, putting it over another layer and changing the blend mode and opacity to fake brightness/contrast etc. And the CMYK mixer you see is just that - a mixer, the colour information in the document is still being stored as RGB 8-bits per channel.
Agreed, I can't wait for the day when gimp is a photoshop killer but until then its pretty unusable, unless you like having allot of hard work and dont need CMYK. For me, adjustment layers and layer effects are something i couldnt live without, which is a shame because this is an area that the gimp could really take over photoshop on and its not even there in gimp2.
I'm sure Tivo arnt stupid, they will have realised that this is needed to shut the networks up and that this will also split their customer base into three:
- people who think its totally fair - people who don't like it but will live with it - people who will move to build-your-own PVR's and will probably end up creating something much better than Tivo anyway
Just as long as they know what they're doing from a business perspective.
I've never actually visited a uk.com address. No-one gives a shit about anything other than.com or.co.uk other TLD's just arn't prestigious enough. Although you could make an exception for.ac.uk.gov.uk.org and.net that's pretty much it..com really is _the_ TLD, everyone's first choice is a.com because no matter where you are in the world everyone recognises the phrase 'dot com' like coca-cola.
Anyway that was side-tracking, this thing is a pretty evil abuse of the system, although my hat goes off to them for their capitalist achievement.
Or, people will just stick with an older version of windows like they have been doing for the last 10 years every time a new version comes out! seriously, who comes up with this crap?
6630 and many newer phones are screwed, apparently they just ripped out all the useful software. Bluetooth should be easy - if i want to route winamps audio to my phone and then play it around the house wirelessly i should be able to do that in 5 seconds, bluetooth implementation is appauling.
If you put your name on a 'do not call' list then you are actually doing a favour to telemarketers - im sure they don't want to waste their time calling people who arn't interested, so why are telemarketing companies even thinking about calling people who put themselves on these lists?
If you call me I will tell you that I don't have a kitchen or any windows and I don't use phones so I don't need a better calling plan, sometimes I will tell you to hang on a minute while I get someone who's interested and then I'll leave the phone off the hook, Im doing the person on the phone a favour because they get a free break from calling people while their call-centre foots the bill.
How about just diverting it while its developing? If you could create some kind of area of 'attraction' or 'repulsion' right next to the hurricane you might be able to change its path, maybe divert it over the southern states so it doesn't hit anything important?*
Creating these areas could involve spraying something or heating something, yes its still a big area to cover/lots of energy to use even with the start of the storm but diverting it at the source seems far more feasable than stopping a full grown storm just before it enters territorial waters?
*I'm not American so I can say that, kinda, look! an eagle!
This should be pretty simple: any bluetooth phone and any bluetooth computer can connect and you can use the phone as an audio device for the computer or the computer as an audio device for the phone, you should even be able to stream the phones camera wirelessly to your computer and have net access on your phone for web-browsing/email around the house.
Unfortunately... in reality this doesn't work as I have spent the whole day finding out. If you have a reasonably new Nokia phone you are shit out of luck because they basically removed any kind of useful functionality in terms of bluetooth. If someone has managed to write the required software etc then that's amazing! Bluetooth should be so easy and yet its such a pathetic joke.
Why would this be any cheaper (per KWh) than land based power stations? I really don't see the point in putting a nuclear power station on a ship other than for powering remote places, which probably don't need that much power anyway. Im sure its as safe, if not safer than any other nuclear powered submarine or ship, because all of its space will be dedicated to safety measures, where is most of the space in nuclear powered submarines is dedicated to explosives and nuclear weapons... but still it doesn't sound much safer, at the end of the day if it sinks it sinks and getting it back to the surfice is going to be an absolute bitch just like with anything else nuclear.
I think the lession here is pretty clear: Free-roaming games are in, they make just about any game work and there is no excuse not to make a free-roaming game anymore.
I think extensions are going to bite firefox in the ass - sure there are lots of active developers now, but down the line there will be allot of extensions that don't get updated so often, even projects on source-forge etc. What if people get reluctant to upgrade firefox because half their extensions don't work and it takes weeks or months for them to be updated? some kind of compatability control might help?
Anyone can see: PSP looks neat, DS looks like a big piece of shit. PSP sticks to the tried and tested formula, DS tries to be clever. PSP just came out and is the new hotness, DS is about as hot as the N-GAGe SideTalker(tm). PSP is an all-round PDA designed for gaming, DS is for gaming nerds. PSP is naturally sexy, DS looks so shit they have to stretch out an entire advertising campaign based on a dirty joke that's just getting older every day. Without even getting into the technical comparison, all I can say is that the DS will be remembered as that touch-me thing that died because it was a gimmick and games had to be specially written for it while the PSP will be remembered as the portable playstation with grand theft auto.
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...I really do hope the US hits $6+ soon
Guys its for your own good, everyone else manages. Once the US is forced into alternative cars they will start to make more sense, the industry just needs that boost to get things like battery advances and incentives for hydrogen stations (if that's the best way) and charging places. If I was in the US right now I wouldn't even consider buying a car that couldn't at least plow through a bull. They need fuel prices to go through the roof so people will start changing the cars they buy.
I think its almost certain that in a few years battery advances will mean pretty significant changes in price and performance, but those advances will only come if there's a market for it - i.e batteries will only get cheaper and better in the future if people show an interest now, so even if you don't buy one, make sure someone knows that you're interested.
My phone just says that the program is not from a trusted source and do I want to install anyway?
Yes, really that's good for them. However, similar to many of the dozen articles i see links to every day with captions suggesting that there's an amazing picture of something to be found; upon viewing the article I am left asking the question: WHERE ARE THE FUCKING PICTURES?! Perhaps someone could fill me in on why so many online news articles are lacking pictures when the entire story is useless without them?
This is so much hype. Look at all the pathetic little MS fan boys running around, looking at throw-away hidden messages that are about as pretentious as they come and about as profound as the piece of shit 360 is going to be. Fuck, they're not even releasing the thing in 12 hours they're just opening a website about releasing it and people are flocking. Any product with this much PR bull shit around it has got to be a flop.
As we all know, the entire global consumer broadband industry is totally reliant on P2P file sharing to fuel it. Where are the video streams (that anyone wants to watch)? Where is this amazing 'rich multimedia content' (i don't count an embedded midi file). People watch dodgy streams like the winamp TV library (full of p0rn, ripped TV shows, music videos and home-made TV shows. There's also a few news feeds. After that its P2P which must account for even more than the geek software download bandwidth. I guess theres iTunes which is catching on but its in the ISP's best interests to make sure that there's enough pr0n, 0days, is0s & mp3z and of course torrentz to keep their customers wanting more and more broadband. OK OK, I know its useful for other things - emailing large attachments and getting work done but we all know the real reasons.
As with everything we're moving towards a kind of distributed mesh of systems. I think soon there will be devices that not only pickup GPS, GLONASS (whats left of it) and when it comes, Galileo, but will also have other fall-backs such as databases of cell-phone networks, TV and radio transmitters and other satellites such as TV, net and phone. Hell it could even go as far as using a camera to read the stars, and with a built-in detailed map of the entire earth you'll most likely be able to rely on terrain matching too, and accelerometers for dead reckoning, all this stuff can be used already but a single hand-held device doesn't seem far off. The US is really bitching over nothing with Galileo.
This is really disturbing, I hope this guy knows he has everyone on /. on his side. I can see that this was a relatively special case, with the things happening at his workplace before etc, but the police need to get the fuck off their high horses. I always felt they were approachable and decent people but recently that respect is slipping.
Just don't even think about trying to make one at home without paying licensing fees.
No, im not talking about layers im talking about adjustment layers and layer effects, gimp doesn't have these, unless you count making a plain layer, putting it over another layer and changing the blend mode and opacity to fake brightness/contrast etc. And the CMYK mixer you see is just that - a mixer, the colour information in the document is still being stored as RGB 8-bits per channel.
I think some firing is in order, seriously they need to fucking throw the book at anyone who is running this sort of facility without proper security.
Agreed, I can't wait for the day when gimp is a photoshop killer but until then its pretty unusable, unless you like having allot of hard work and dont need CMYK. For me, adjustment layers and layer effects are something i couldnt live without, which is a shame because this is an area that the gimp could really take over photoshop on and its not even there in gimp2.
I'm sure Tivo arnt stupid, they will have realised that this is needed to shut the networks up and that this will also split their customer base into three:
- people who think its totally fair
- people who don't like it but will live with it
- people who will move to build-your-own PVR's and will probably end up creating something much better than Tivo anyway
Just as long as they know what they're doing from a business perspective.
I've never actually visited a uk.com address. No-one gives a shit about anything other than .com or .co.uk other TLD's just arn't prestigious enough. Although you could make an exception for .ac.uk .gov.uk .org and .net that's pretty much it. .com really is _the_ TLD, everyone's first choice is a .com because no matter where you are in the world everyone recognises the phrase 'dot com' like coca-cola.
Anyway that was side-tracking, this thing is a pretty evil abuse of the system, although my hat goes off to them for their capitalist achievement.
Or, people will just stick with an older version of windows like they have been doing for the last 10 years every time a new version comes out! seriously, who comes up with this crap?
6630 and many newer phones are screwed, apparently they just ripped out all the useful software. Bluetooth should be easy - if i want to route winamps audio to my phone and then play it around the house wirelessly i should be able to do that in 5 seconds, bluetooth implementation is appauling.
If you put your name on a 'do not call' list then you are actually doing a favour to telemarketers - im sure they don't want to waste their time calling people who arn't interested, so why are telemarketing companies even thinking about calling people who put themselves on these lists?
If you call me I will tell you that I don't have a kitchen or any windows and I don't use phones so I don't need a better calling plan, sometimes I will tell you to hang on a minute while I get someone who's interested and then I'll leave the phone off the hook, Im doing the person on the phone a favour because they get a free break from calling people while their call-centre foots the bill.
How about just diverting it while its developing? If you could create some kind of area of 'attraction' or 'repulsion' right next to the hurricane you might be able to change its path, maybe divert it over the southern states so it doesn't hit anything important?*
Creating these areas could involve spraying something or heating something, yes its still a big area to cover/lots of energy to use even with the start of the storm but diverting it at the source seems far more feasable than stopping a full grown storm just before it enters territorial waters?
*I'm not American so I can say that, kinda, look! an eagle!
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Firefox 1.5 broke my spell checker
This should be pretty simple: any bluetooth phone and any bluetooth computer can connect and you can use the phone as an audio device for the computer or the computer as an audio device for the phone, you should even be able to stream the phones camera wirelessly to your computer and have net access on your phone for web-browsing/email around the house.
Unfortunately... in reality this doesn't work as I have spent the whole day finding out. If you have a reasonably new Nokia phone you are shit out of luck because they basically removed any kind of useful functionality in terms of bluetooth. If someone has managed to write the required software etc then that's amazing! Bluetooth should be so easy and yet its such a pathetic joke.
Why would this be any cheaper (per KWh) than land based power stations? I really don't see the point in putting a nuclear power station on a ship other than for powering remote places, which probably don't need that much power anyway. Im sure its as safe, if not safer than any other nuclear powered submarine or ship, because all of its space will be dedicated to safety measures, where is most of the space in nuclear powered submarines is dedicated to explosives and nuclear weapons... but still it doesn't sound much safer, at the end of the day if it sinks it sinks and getting it back to the surfice is going to be an absolute bitch just like with anything else nuclear.
Make sure you print something every week or so, if you leave it for more than a few weeks most printers will dry up and need a head replacement.
I think the lession here is pretty clear: Free-roaming games are in, they make just about any game work and there is no excuse not to make a free-roaming game anymore.
I think extensions are going to bite firefox in the ass - sure there are lots of active developers now, but down the line there will be allot of extensions that don't get updated so often, even projects on source-forge etc. What if people get reluctant to upgrade firefox because half their extensions don't work and it takes weeks or months for them to be updated? some kind of compatability control might help?
I'll feel safer when Galileo is up and running.
Anyone can see: PSP looks neat, DS looks like a big piece of shit. PSP sticks to the tried and tested formula, DS tries to be clever. PSP just came out and is the new hotness, DS is about as hot as the N-GAGe SideTalker(tm). PSP is an all-round PDA designed for gaming, DS is for gaming nerds. PSP is naturally sexy, DS looks so shit they have to stretch out an entire advertising campaign based on a dirty joke that's just getting older every day. Without even getting into the technical comparison, all I can say is that the DS will be remembered as that touch-me thing that died because it was a gimmick and games had to be specially written for it while the PSP will be remembered as the portable playstation with grand theft auto.