Don't radio stations have all sorts of restrictions on how much control the users have over the playlists? IIRC, the restrictions range from: the radio station being strictly prohibited from publishing its playlist, request shows requiring at least an hour between when someone calls in a song to when they actually play it, DJs being required to talk over the beginning and end of the songs, and requring the DJ to not tell you the name of the song until after it has played.
This MIT system seems to put a lot of power in the hands of the students, which is just the sort of thing the RIAA hates.
What groups are trying to shut down the public library system? I don't think I've ever heard or read anything about people who are actually opposed to public libraries. Do you have a link?
It is somewhat distressing to me that public libraries, if they were invented today, would be sued out of existance by short-sighted publishers. Despite what the above poster suggests, I don't think there are many people who do not realize what boon to civilization the public library system is. For contrast, look back in history to the "pay library" concept where the books would be chained to the shelves and only the rich were allowed to read.
That original Netscape icon (big blue raised "N") was god awful though, especially when you loaded a page and it started throbbing. I remember seeing programs on the web that would cover it up because it annoyed people so much. The N over a globe with stars was much better IMHO. The captains wheel logo was pretty blase.
On the other hand, if you only have a few pounds of fat to remove, if you're already in lean condition, or if you just want to give Superhydration an informal trial for whatever reason, here are the most efficient guidelines to utilize:
1) Purchase a 32-ounce, insulated, plastic bottle from which to sip your water.
2) Start by sipping one gallon, or 128 ounces, of water a day. Do not go higher than 128 ounces per day for this informal trial period.
3) Drink most of the water before 5pm.
4) Keep the water ice cold. Remember, each ounce of 40 degrees Fahrenheit water requires approximately 1 calorie to warm it to a core body temperature of 98.6.
5) Apply the above recommendations for at least 14 days.
Wow, so if I spent all day drinking 128oz of ~3 degree C water, I could burn a whole 128 kcals? That's a little more than a single apple. And I get to spend half of the day looking for the nearest bathroom? I think actual exercise would be less effort and more effective, unless you're looking to exercise your bladder muscles.
That's nothing, last time I benchmarked my Big Mac Cluster (100 Big Macs) it came to almost 57.6 megacalories. Those Apples will never be able to match that!
It's low power...for a generalized processor. The "low" power consumption on the X-Scale still cuts into the battery life of my Sharp Zaurus quite a bit. It's certainly not week-of-normal-use level though, which I consider to be the absolute minimum for cell phones.
The camera wasn't so much a concern as that X-Scale in there. That's a lot of compurons for a cell phone, and there doesn't appear to be much room in that thing for big batteries.
Well, since this camera doesn't have zoom, you're probably going to be able to crop out tons of useless background from the images unless you're willing to run all over the place trying to get the subject to fill the frame. In this case, the large number of pixels comes in handy as a sort of pseudo-zoom feature.
You know what's crazy though? Those blades are not top of the line, but they'll hold their own anyday. The saw seems uselessly small, but in fact has come in handy on many occasions (usually cutting off small brances for various projects). The tweezers are worthless, but the toothpick is handy. The tiny scissors are great for tons and tons of projects, the can-opener is barbairc but works fine, and so on. Those knives are popular because they have an 80% solution to a huge number of problems that you can carry around all day long. I don't know how many time I've pulled out my knife when working on computer hardware, but I almost never waste time looking for a proper screwdriver (unless I'm rebuilding the whole thing).
The Swiss army knife may not be the absolute best tool for the job, but it's extremely convienent and it is usually good enough. There's something to be said for being pratical.
What is the battery life on this thing? How hot does it get when you're using it? How expensive is it? What standards does it support? What kind of range can you expect to get out of it? This article is a little light on the important statistics for the cell phone part of the device.
I love it when people don't read the article. I assume this small hand grenade is one of the "bunker busting" variety? If you read the article, you'd discover that due to the design of the reactor, it is virtually impossible to make it go critical. Even if you found a way (neutron enhancement ray?), the damn thing is buried underground, where most of the shock of an explosion would be absorbed by the surrounding dirt.
Damn, I hope he isn't predicting that everybody's going to move to webmail. The last thing I need is another halfassed webmail provider somewhere trying to get me to stop using Sylpheed and mutt. Hint: mailreader authors consider things like advanced filtering a feature, webmail providers seem to consider popup advertising a feature.
Unless you have a lot of DOS or Unixware machines lying around, those USB CF keychains work pretty much exactly like this, with the advantages of having a much higher capacity, faster, and smaller form factor. Dang near every machine built since Mhz ratings went into the triple digits has USB ports (although not always on the front of the machine.:/, and the USB Mass Storage protocol is implemented across most OSes). The big advantage over floppies is that you don't have to dust the thing out before using it (unless you like loosing sectors on your disks). It's also damming that most floppy disks manufactured these days are total crap. Last time I used a floppy disk, I copied my files onto it three time in the hopes that at least one of them wouldn't have bad sectors in it by the time I got it to its destination. Plus, there is an alarming number of just plain broken floppy drives out there, which most people don't notice because they never use it.
Now I'm rambling again. I'm just annoyed that most PC manufacturers don't have the courage to finally ditch that archaic piece of crap technology once and for all.
While it's not exactly a "consumer" model, the Lexmark C910's we have at work print out _pixel accurate_ reproduction of the original file. These things put out the closest thing to a perfect printout I've ever seen on stock printer paper. There is none of that smear you get when you don't buy the expensive glossy paper for your inkjets, and the toner is cheaper per page than inkjet ink. It's fast to boot. The big problem with Color lasers right now is that they are still too expensive for people buying $600 computers.
I find this a little hard to believe. Maybe we don't have any left in the States (the steel industry has not been very healthy lately), but I find it hard to believe that there is nobody in the world that could build the required beams/cables.
Er, the industrial infrastructure didn't really exist the first time we went to the moon either. A lot of the stuff had to be custom built. We would have to create new production lines for the stuff, but it seems to me that modern improvements (computer aided design for instance) might make it even faster. Of course all of that is expensive and right now nobody is going to spend that kind of money without a good cause (like discovering oil on the moon, or an Al-Quida training camp)
Which always leads to the conundrum with those old/cheap ATX power supplies that don't have a switch on the back. I know one guy who actually took an old power cable, and cut off the two "live" prongs (leaving only the ground) and used that whenever working on one of those old power supplies.
I don't think those issues are so much technologoical as they are bureaucratic, except that the Golden Gate bridge wouldn't pass modern day safety standards for new bridges.
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Nah, it was easier to just register it while they were still free.
What's this? I smell a contender for the next round of IgNobel prizes.
Ah, it appears that I was misinformed. I guess these are merely corporate radio limitations, not anything mandated by the song licensing agencies.
Don't radio stations have all sorts of restrictions on how much control the users have over the playlists? IIRC, the restrictions range from: the radio station being strictly prohibited from publishing its playlist, request shows requiring at least an hour between when someone calls in a song to when they actually play it, DJs being required to talk over the beginning and end of the songs, and requring the DJ to not tell you the name of the song until after it has played.
This MIT system seems to put a lot of power in the hands of the students, which is just the sort of thing the RIAA hates.
Can authors opt-out of having their book included in the Library of Congress?
What groups are trying to shut down the public library system? I don't think I've ever heard or read anything about people who are actually opposed to public libraries. Do you have a link?
It is somewhat distressing to me that public libraries, if they were invented today, would be sued out of existance by short-sighted publishers. Despite what the above poster suggests, I don't think there are many people who do not realize what boon to civilization the public library system is. For contrast, look back in history to the "pay library" concept where the books would be chained to the shelves and only the rich were allowed to read.
That original Netscape icon (big blue raised "N") was god awful though, especially when you loaded a page and it started throbbing. I remember seeing programs on the web that would cover it up because it annoyed people so much. The N over a globe with stars was much better IMHO. The captains wheel logo was pretty blase.
That's nothing, last time I benchmarked my Big Mac Cluster (100 Big Macs) it came to almost 57.6 megacalories. Those Apples will never be able to match that!
It's low power...for a generalized processor. The "low" power consumption on the X-Scale still cuts into the battery life of my Sharp Zaurus quite a bit. It's certainly not week-of-normal-use level though, which I consider to be the absolute minimum for cell phones.
The camera wasn't so much a concern as that X-Scale in there. That's a lot of compurons for a cell phone, and there doesn't appear to be much room in that thing for big batteries.
Right. It's almost like Slashdot is made of more than one person or something. What's up with that?
Well, since this camera doesn't have zoom, you're probably going to be able to crop out tons of useless background from the images unless you're willing to run all over the place trying to get the subject to fill the frame. In this case, the large number of pixels comes in handy as a sort of pseudo-zoom feature.
You know what's crazy though? Those blades are not top of the line, but they'll hold their own anyday. The saw seems uselessly small, but in fact has come in handy on many occasions (usually cutting off small brances for various projects). The tweezers are worthless, but the toothpick is handy. The tiny scissors are great for tons and tons of projects, the can-opener is barbairc but works fine, and so on. Those knives are popular because they have an 80% solution to a huge number of problems that you can carry around all day long. I don't know how many time I've pulled out my knife when working on computer hardware, but I almost never waste time looking for a proper screwdriver (unless I'm rebuilding the whole thing).
The Swiss army knife may not be the absolute best tool for the job, but it's extremely convienent and it is usually good enough. There's something to be said for being pratical.
What is the battery life on this thing? How hot does it get when you're using it? How expensive is it? What standards does it support? What kind of range can you expect to get out of it? This article is a little light on the important statistics for the cell phone part of the device.
I love it when people don't read the article. I assume this small hand grenade is one of the "bunker busting" variety? If you read the article, you'd discover that due to the design of the reactor, it is virtually impossible to make it go critical. Even if you found a way (neutron enhancement ray?), the damn thing is buried underground, where most of the shock of an explosion would be absorbed by the surrounding dirt.
Damn, I hope he isn't predicting that everybody's going to move to webmail. The last thing I need is another halfassed webmail provider somewhere trying to get me to stop using Sylpheed and mutt. Hint: mailreader authors consider things like advanced filtering a feature, webmail providers seem to consider popup advertising a feature.
Unless you have a lot of DOS or Unixware machines lying around, those USB CF keychains work pretty much exactly like this, with the advantages of having a much higher capacity, faster, and smaller form factor. Dang near every machine built since Mhz ratings went into the triple digits has USB ports (although not always on the front of the machine. :/, and the USB Mass Storage protocol is implemented across most OSes). The big advantage over floppies is that you don't have to dust the thing out before using it (unless you like loosing sectors on your disks). It's also damming that most floppy disks manufactured these days are total crap. Last time I used a floppy disk, I copied my files onto it three time in the hopes that at least one of them wouldn't have bad sectors in it by the time I got it to its destination. Plus, there is an alarming number of just plain broken floppy drives out there, which most people don't notice because they never use it.
Now I'm rambling again. I'm just annoyed that most PC manufacturers don't have the courage to finally ditch that archaic piece of crap technology once and for all.
While it's not exactly a "consumer" model, the Lexmark C910's we have at work print out _pixel accurate_ reproduction of the original file. These things put out the closest thing to a perfect printout I've ever seen on stock printer paper. There is none of that smear you get when you don't buy the expensive glossy paper for your inkjets, and the toner is cheaper per page than inkjet ink. It's fast to boot. The big problem with Color lasers right now is that they are still too expensive for people buying $600 computers.
I find this a little hard to believe. Maybe we don't have any left in the States (the steel industry has not been very healthy lately), but I find it hard to believe that there is nobody in the world that could build the required beams/cables.
Er, the industrial infrastructure didn't really exist the first time we went to the moon either. A lot of the stuff had to be custom built. We would have to create new production lines for the stuff, but it seems to me that modern improvements (computer aided design for instance) might make it even faster. Of course all of that is expensive and right now nobody is going to spend that kind of money without a good cause (like discovering oil on the moon, or an Al-Quida training camp)
Which always leads to the conundrum with those old/cheap ATX power supplies that don't have a switch on the back. I know one guy who actually took an old power cable, and cut off the two "live" prongs (leaving only the ground) and used that whenever working on one of those old power supplies.
I don't think those issues are so much technologoical as they are bureaucratic, except that the Golden Gate bridge wouldn't pass modern day safety standards for new bridges.
You forgot to read the amendment, look up "DMCA" in your legal repository.
Jon Johansen never signed a contract with DVD player manufacturers, yet he was prosecuted under international copyright laws.