It still comes with.bat batch file support too if you're going to count VBScript. I have to admit though, for something that could do basically nothing, those little batch files were supprisingly annoying to program.
The problem is that you're destroying the idea of "prime time" which is one way these guys make a lot of money. You're also probably sending the video to people in another area, so the locally inserted ads will be wrong (he won't get the ad for the car dealership down the street, he'll get the ad for the car dealership down your street).
I admit that these seem pretty weak, but they're the reason VCRs almost didn't come into being, and the reason Tivo and ReplayTV have such legal trouble. What it comes down to is that they own the copyright on the works, which gives them broad authority over what people do with the data, and they've decided that nothing is acceptable except the few narrowly defined modes of transmission they've made for themselves and whatever Congress said they coudln't get away with.
Actually, it depends what book your teacher used when they tought you cursive. I've seen several different variations on letters like captial F and Q from people who learned cursive in different schools. It's yet another reason people find cursive hard to read.
4 VTYs out of the box? You must have used FreeBSD during the early 3.x cycle. The installer is pretty much the same, but a lot of the support stuff is better now. FreeBSD still defaults to a fairly conservative interface, without excess services or many userland apps to install. The ports tree is even better now, with the advent of portupgrade and other sophisticated port tracking mechanisms. It still blows RPMs out of the water (at least compared to RH9's RPM system). There are options to install a desktop (Gnome or KDE) from the installer, which makes the whole experiance a bit more Linux-like.
Honestly, if you're happy with your current OS, there's not a lot of reason to bother switching. The differences are mostly minor, even if they are in FreeBSD's favor. Linux still has better hardware support, but it's mostly in oddball hardware that only has vendor-supplied binary only driver support in Linux.
The point is that Bluetooth is supposed to be the end of the connector conspiracy. Often times it's not as easy a "walk over to the printer, plug in and go" because the cable you need has some funky connector on one end and you don't have it. Worse, the cable costs like $50 down at Fry's or wherever. Bluetooth has a whole bunch of service discovery stuff built into it that should make everything just work automatically.
If only there were more bluetooth devices around to actually do this with.
There are two big issues that really work against a RaViO device (Radio TivO).
1. No centralized scheduling service. The biggest feature of the radio is that allows you to think about "shows" not "timeslots" when you're recording stuff. This can only be done if there are accurate and reasonably complete playlists somewhere for the device to use. A few years ago (I don't know about today) it was illegal to post a playlist, because the record companies were paranoid that people would tape stuff off of the radio, I think they even had some jockeys talking over the beginning and end of each song despite how obnoxious that is.
2. Hard to fast forward/rewind. Unless you are very good at making out chipmunk speak, it's hard to know when you've skipped past a boring part and are back on a song. On commercial radio it would be easy to skip past the one song they play per half hour and end up in another 10 minute block of continuous commercials.
That said, I would like something like this. It'd be great to record the Big Broadcast and then be able to skip over the badly dated sitcom segments to the good stuff.
I don't think that's true. There are basically two mindsets towards Computer Science: the Engineering approach and the Science approach. The Science approach is basically a match course with a few language classes and maybe a database or networking course at the senior level. The Engineering approach teaches project management, coding style, lots of languages, and the like. The Engineering approach often includes an MCSE component and lots of hands on stuff. You probably took an Engineering oriented CS class. Interestingly enough, 10 years ago most CS courses in the country were Science type, and were even in the "College of Sciences" or whatever the equivelent was in the university. These days more CS departments are in the College of Engineering than anything else.
Recently Virginia Tech dissolved its College of Arts and Sciences, and the CS department ended up as part of the College of Engineering. The CS professors were all wringing their hands worrying that the college was going to move away from the theoretical and focus on the skills of the trade.
I don't know, still playing with a NES in this day and age is one hallmark of a geek. It's not easy keeping those old boxes running, often times it requires soldering on a new connector in the back and other various trickery. Maybe your sister is a geek, but she doesn't want to tell you.
I think they realized that they have to do this every few years, and they've already limited themselves to 40 itereations due to the number they made up originally. If they actually dropped their made up number by some statistically significant looking amount, say 5%, then they would only have 8 iterations and could quickly run themselves out of business with their own lies.
It's pretty much impossible to make any tax 100% fair. That's life. The gas tax comes pretty close though, since you obviously have to be driving in the state to buy gas there (at least for a little bit). It certainly seems better than this crazy GPS idea at least.
Truckers are generally based in one state. I can see why they would like this bill though, as even truckers who are based in Oregon don't tend to spend a huge amount of time there.
Probably the biggest losers are the people who bought efficent cars, which save them on the current taxes, and drive around Oregon a lot, which will cost them a lot in the new taxes. This could be delivery people or even people who live in the suburbs. In general, it looks to me like a shifting of the tax burdon onto the poor so the state can subsidize the trucking industry and people why buy wasteful vehicles.
Maybe we can get the EPA to chime in on this and say that this new tax plan sends the wrong message to people and will hurt the environment by taking away one of the incentives for buying efficent vehicles.
Heck, I'd think it'd be great if companies had to do that. Have you ever tried to track down books from the 50s and 60s? It's a real hit and miss affair, especially if the book wasn't very popluar to begin with. No new book store is going to have something that has been out of print for decades, and used book stores/garage sales/ebay are a gamble. It doesn't take long to realize that public libraries have to throw away (or sell) old books all the time to make room for new books. Often times you can find people with a copy, but they don't want to sell it because they know they'll never get it back. This way everything would be in some sort of archive and kept up for future generations.
They could (and probably would), but trademark law is much looser than copyright law. They would have difficultly prosecuting people pirating Steamboat Willy for instance to protect their future profits if they ever want to release it again. Disney might be forced to create an original work to make money or, more likely, just re-tell and old public domain story. Won't somebody please think of the shareholders?
They claim they don't want to measure the Odometer because it could measure miles you've driven out of state. But they don't want to install these things on every vehicle in the US, so they're not going to be taxing out-of-state drivers for using the roads. It seems to me that if you just tax the odometer, it would even out.
What's even crazier is that they don't want to tax gas anymore because efficent vehicles end up paying less tax. Don't those little Toyota Priuses tend to tear up the roads less than those Lincoln Navigators? Doesn't it make sense to have a gas tax? Maybe these lawmakers are tired of being gouged at the pumps when they fill up their Ford Expeditions and feel envy at those little Honda Civic drivers that get by without paying nearly as much in tax?
Didn't anybody tell them that GPS recievers are expensive?
You've missed the point of copyrights. Copyright law was originally written to provide an incentive to create by allowing a temporary monopoly on the created work. It should be quite obvious why this is a good idea, it allows people who aren't doing something that can make a profit directly to increase the base of human knowledge and beauty. The fact that artists can make a nice profit on the side is secondary to the true purpose of copyright.
Now, if you extend copyright to cover your grandchildren, and your grandchildren's grandchildren, then you have effectively created a disincentive to create. many generations of people can add nothing to the nation and just sponge off of the greatness of their ancestors. This is obviously not what was intended when copyright was concieved, yet it is the direction we are headed in due to ill-advised extensions to Copyright law.
The problem is that coperations (and some artists) see copyright as merely a tool for making money, not something that improves the human condition, and they lobby to make changes to the law that makes it more suited towards making money than encouraging artists to create. Would an average author go and find work in another field if Copyright only lasted 20 or 30 years instead of the 90?
Oh, and nobody has a right to profit. They have a right to be treated according to the laws of the land, but there is no guarentee of profit.
15 years? I see you havn't talked about this idea in a crowd of real people. No industry is going to rush to a space based production system for a measly 15 year tax break. By the time they're finally getting stuff in orbit it'd be taxed again and you wouldn't even get back your ruinous launch costs, not to mention the enormous amount of R&D money, plus your competitors would no doubt invent better and cheaper ways to do whatever you're doing while you spend all of your time and effort trying to figure out how to do it in space.
Nor are you even given the feeling that you're in a squad with computer team members which would assist in firefights.
Huh?!? Are you sure you are thinking of RTCW? You don't feel like you're in a squad in RTCW because you aren't. Jack is sent in everywhere by himself. Apparently he is the only field operative left alive or something.
As for the spiral staircase problem, what are you talking about? There are maybe 3 or 4 spiral staircases in the entire game. You also rarely have to do any backtracking (unless you missed something), or at least I didn't.
By the third paragraph I'm pretty sure you're trolling, as no version of GTA I've ever seen is a FPS.
Sorry, that must have been me. I was getting 950KB/s down and only 200KB/s up. It's done now though, and I've left the window open (but it's only doing 100KB/s up).
Hold on there sparky, you forgot to factor in the transmission loss for carrying that wind energy all across the country. I hope there aren't any bird species you like in that 14000 acre area either.
Have you considered what drawing that kind of energy out of the wind might do to the weather? Also, if you cram them all into a 14,000 acre area, the ones on the "front" will act like a windbrake and reduce the efficiency of the ones in the middle and back. I don't think you've thought this plan all the way through.
Well, that's a misleading statistic because Three Mile Island was a rather tame "disaster" compared with say Chernobyl. The media fallout from Three Mile Island was far more disasterous than the actual radioactive fallout[1].
Unfortunatly, the public perception of nuclear energy is not going to change any time soon, because there is little interest in working power plants. Thus, people tend to associate nuclear reactions with Hiroshima and Nagasaki or Chernobyl, not France.
[1] Actually, there was no fallout because no radioactive material actually escaped the containment dome.
What are you talking about? I didn't want to check everything in your post because it sounds like crazy troll blather, but the torrent files for Slashdot effect victims ist still live and well. The Original site is live and well also.
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It still comes with .bat batch file support too if you're going to count VBScript. I have to admit though, for something that could do basically nothing, those little batch files were supprisingly annoying to program.
The problem is that you're destroying the idea of "prime time" which is one way these guys make a lot of money. You're also probably sending the video to people in another area, so the locally inserted ads will be wrong (he won't get the ad for the car dealership down the street, he'll get the ad for the car dealership down your street).
I admit that these seem pretty weak, but they're the reason VCRs almost didn't come into being, and the reason Tivo and ReplayTV have such legal trouble. What it comes down to is that they own the copyright on the works, which gives them broad authority over what people do with the data, and they've decided that nothing is acceptable except the few narrowly defined modes of transmission they've made for themselves and whatever Congress said they coudln't get away with.
Actually, it depends what book your teacher used when they tought you cursive. I've seen several different variations on letters like captial F and Q from people who learned cursive in different schools. It's yet another reason people find cursive hard to read.
4 VTYs out of the box? You must have used FreeBSD during the early 3.x cycle. The installer is pretty much the same, but a lot of the support stuff is better now. FreeBSD still defaults to a fairly conservative interface, without excess services or many userland apps to install. The ports tree is even better now, with the advent of portupgrade and other sophisticated port tracking mechanisms. It still blows RPMs out of the water (at least compared to RH9's RPM system). There are options to install a desktop (Gnome or KDE) from the installer, which makes the whole experiance a bit more Linux-like.
Honestly, if you're happy with your current OS, there's not a lot of reason to bother switching. The differences are mostly minor, even if they are in FreeBSD's favor. Linux still has better hardware support, but it's mostly in oddball hardware that only has vendor-supplied binary only driver support in Linux.
The point is that Bluetooth is supposed to be the end of the connector conspiracy. Often times it's not as easy a "walk over to the printer, plug in and go" because the cable you need has some funky connector on one end and you don't have it. Worse, the cable costs like $50 down at Fry's or wherever. Bluetooth has a whole bunch of service discovery stuff built into it that should make everything just work automatically.
If only there were more bluetooth devices around to actually do this with.
There are two big issues that really work against a RaViO device (Radio TivO).
1. No centralized scheduling service. The biggest feature of the radio is that allows you to think about "shows" not "timeslots" when you're recording stuff. This can only be done if there are accurate and reasonably complete playlists somewhere for the device to use. A few years ago (I don't know about today) it was illegal to post a playlist, because the record companies were paranoid that people would tape stuff off of the radio, I think they even had some jockeys talking over the beginning and end of each song despite how obnoxious that is.
2. Hard to fast forward/rewind. Unless you are very good at making out chipmunk speak, it's hard to know when you've skipped past a boring part and are back on a song. On commercial radio it would be easy to skip past the one song they play per half hour and end up in another 10 minute block of continuous commercials.
That said, I would like something like this. It'd be great to record the Big Broadcast and then be able to skip over the badly dated sitcom segments to the good stuff.
I don't think that's true. There are basically two mindsets towards Computer Science: the Engineering approach and the Science approach. The Science approach is basically a match course with a few language classes and maybe a database or networking course at the senior level. The Engineering approach teaches project management, coding style, lots of languages, and the like. The Engineering approach often includes an MCSE component and lots of hands on stuff. You probably took an Engineering oriented CS class. Interestingly enough, 10 years ago most CS courses in the country were Science type, and were even in the "College of Sciences" or whatever the equivelent was in the university. These days more CS departments are in the College of Engineering than anything else.
Recently Virginia Tech dissolved its College of Arts and Sciences, and the CS department ended up as part of the College of Engineering. The CS professors were all wringing their hands worrying that the college was going to move away from the theoretical and focus on the skills of the trade.
I don't know, still playing with a NES in this day and age is one hallmark of a geek. It's not easy keeping those old boxes running, often times it requires soldering on a new connector in the back and other various trickery. Maybe your sister is a geek, but she doesn't want to tell you.
I think they realized that they have to do this every few years, and they've already limited themselves to 40 itereations due to the number they made up originally. If they actually dropped their made up number by some statistically significant looking amount, say 5%, then they would only have 8 iterations and could quickly run themselves out of business with their own lies.
It's pretty much impossible to make any tax 100% fair. That's life. The gas tax comes pretty close though, since you obviously have to be driving in the state to buy gas there (at least for a little bit). It certainly seems better than this crazy GPS idea at least.
Truckers are generally based in one state. I can see why they would like this bill though, as even truckers who are based in Oregon don't tend to spend a huge amount of time there.
Probably the biggest losers are the people who bought efficent cars, which save them on the current taxes, and drive around Oregon a lot, which will cost them a lot in the new taxes. This could be delivery people or even people who live in the suburbs. In general, it looks to me like a shifting of the tax burdon onto the poor so the state can subsidize the trucking industry and people why buy wasteful vehicles.
Maybe we can get the EPA to chime in on this and say that this new tax plan sends the wrong message to people and will hurt the environment by taking away one of the incentives for buying efficent vehicles.
Heck, I'd think it'd be great if companies had to do that. Have you ever tried to track down books from the 50s and 60s? It's a real hit and miss affair, especially if the book wasn't very popluar to begin with. No new book store is going to have something that has been out of print for decades, and used book stores/garage sales/ebay are a gamble. It doesn't take long to realize that public libraries have to throw away (or sell) old books all the time to make room for new books. Often times you can find people with a copy, but they don't want to sell it because they know they'll never get it back. This way everything would be in some sort of archive and kept up for future generations.
They could (and probably would), but trademark law is much looser than copyright law. They would have difficultly prosecuting people pirating Steamboat Willy for instance to protect their future profits if they ever want to release it again. Disney might be forced to create an original work to make money or, more likely, just re-tell and old public domain story. Won't somebody please think of the shareholders?
They claim they don't want to measure the Odometer because it could measure miles you've driven out of state. But they don't want to install these things on every vehicle in the US, so they're not going to be taxing out-of-state drivers for using the roads. It seems to me that if you just tax the odometer, it would even out.
What's even crazier is that they don't want to tax gas anymore because efficent vehicles end up paying less tax. Don't those little Toyota Priuses tend to tear up the roads less than those Lincoln Navigators? Doesn't it make sense to have a gas tax? Maybe these lawmakers are tired of being gouged at the pumps when they fill up their Ford Expeditions and feel envy at those little Honda Civic drivers that get by without paying nearly as much in tax?
Didn't anybody tell them that GPS recievers are expensive?
You've missed the point of copyrights. Copyright law was originally written to provide an incentive to create by allowing a temporary monopoly on the created work. It should be quite obvious why this is a good idea, it allows people who aren't doing something that can make a profit directly to increase the base of human knowledge and beauty. The fact that artists can make a nice profit on the side is secondary to the true purpose of copyright.
Now, if you extend copyright to cover your grandchildren, and your grandchildren's grandchildren, then you have effectively created a disincentive to create. many generations of people can add nothing to the nation and just sponge off of the greatness of their ancestors. This is obviously not what was intended when copyright was concieved, yet it is the direction we are headed in due to ill-advised extensions to Copyright law.
The problem is that coperations (and some artists) see copyright as merely a tool for making money, not something that improves the human condition, and they lobby to make changes to the law that makes it more suited towards making money than encouraging artists to create. Would an average author go and find work in another field if Copyright only lasted 20 or 30 years instead of the 90?
Oh, and nobody has a right to profit. They have a right to be treated according to the laws of the land, but there is no guarentee of profit.
15 years? I see you havn't talked about this idea in a crowd of real people. No industry is going to rush to a space based production system for a measly 15 year tax break. By the time they're finally getting stuff in orbit it'd be taxed again and you wouldn't even get back your ruinous launch costs, not to mention the enormous amount of R&D money, plus your competitors would no doubt invent better and cheaper ways to do whatever you're doing while you spend all of your time and effort trying to figure out how to do it in space.
IIRC, the "reflector" part of Arecibo is actually pretty flimsy, and if anybody rolled around on it like that they would damage the telescope.
I think the technical term is "kitbashing".
Have you ever looked at Metacard? It's like Hypercard without the braindamage. The only problem is the cost ($1000/seat).
Shoot, if you're going to pay twice as much for the storage, you might as well go with SCSI.
As for the spiral staircase problem, what are you talking about? There are maybe 3 or 4 spiral staircases in the entire game. You also rarely have to do any backtracking (unless you missed something), or at least I didn't.
By the third paragraph I'm pretty sure you're trolling, as no version of GTA I've ever seen is a FPS.
Sorry, that must have been me. I was getting 950KB/s down and only 200KB/s up. It's done now though, and I've left the window open (but it's only doing 100KB/s up).
Hold on there sparky, you forgot to factor in the transmission loss for carrying that wind energy all across the country. I hope there aren't any bird species you like in that 14000 acre area either.
Have you considered what drawing that kind of energy out of the wind might do to the weather? Also, if you cram them all into a 14,000 acre area, the ones on the "front" will act like a windbrake and reduce the efficiency of the ones in the middle and back. I don't think you've thought this plan all the way through.
Well, that's a misleading statistic because Three Mile Island was a rather tame "disaster" compared with say Chernobyl. The media fallout from Three Mile Island was far more disasterous than the actual radioactive fallout[1].
Unfortunatly, the public perception of nuclear energy is not going to change any time soon, because there is little interest in working power plants. Thus, people tend to associate nuclear reactions with Hiroshima and Nagasaki or Chernobyl, not France.
[1] Actually, there was no fallout because no radioactive material actually escaped the containment dome.
What are you talking about? I didn't want to check everything in your post because it sounds like crazy troll blather, but the torrent files for Slashdot effect victims ist still live and well. The Original site is live and well also.