You aren't familiar with 500-dollar dollars? You get them from an ATM machine by punching in your PIN number. Just make sure the machine is plugged into AC current, or it won't work.
Just in case you're not trolling, there are quite a few other public broadcasting stations around the world. The BBC (UK) and NHK (Japan) have English podcasts available... CBC (Canada) does too, but I can't find a regularly-updated news podcast for them. I'm sure there's others too.
Because non-profit organizations have to pay for everything else. If Wikipedia could somehow get its bandwidth for free, it wouldn't have to do funding drives very often at all. But that's not fair, since bandwidth really does cost money, and somebody's got to pay for it, and the way it's always been done is that non-profits pay for their fair share, just like everyone else. I suppose one could make the distinction that IP doesn't cost money to duplicate, unlike real services or real property, but as far as I know, there's no precedent yet for saying "oh, you're right, this whole IP thing is a bit of a sham, we'll recognize that, but only for non-profits".
Free
* With the purchase of a PS3
* Clothes, wallpaper, and other items will cost money
* Since there will be freeloaders who avoid buying virtual goods, there's also streaming video advertisements galore to offset the cost of running the servers.
I'm not able to have my own apartment on the 360, I can't dress my avatar in super-detailed clothes. You just don't understand... Second Life is the killer app on the PS3.
So if employees needed to download an OSS utility, or look up some technical assistance on usenet/forums, as part of their job, they basically had to drive home or borrow their boss's computer to get that information?
It seems like the company was classifying the internet as wholly negative, that random unknown parts of the internet never contain things that might be important to getting one's job done? Certainly the Internet has more distractions than help, but there's been enough times in the past year or two where I really had to do random Google searches to complete a task for work that I think I'd end up with a large forehead-sized dent in my desk if my company did this.
The contract for software players could require that players work just like Firefox... when a new version is found, they automatically and silently download it, and when the player is started the next time, they offer to seamlessly install it for the user. From what I've heard, this may be built in to all/most software players, making it relatively painless to force-upgrade software players at least.
(which would mean that hardware keys are actually more valuable to extract, so maybe that's the hacker community's next step?)
As someone else noted, it runs Linux. So the virus really is just on the hard drive, so it can execute on computers that attach to the unit, but the virus doesn't actually execute on the GPS unit.
Nope. If you acquire a phone by yourself, and sign up for a plan with an unlocked phone, they'll still lock you into the exact same contract. I'm not really sure sure why, they just do.
Yahoo Mindset lets you search for sites that are more commercial, or more informational. Sites with the most nofollow incoming links may fit into the "more commercial" group. (by the way, does anybody know how Mindset actually works?)
Even if websites allow their text to go the full width, it's still somewhat difficult (or at least unusual) to read text where the lines are 300+ characters wide. (that's the reason websites specify a max width) The solution is to have columns of text like newspapers... but HTML support for that is very new, and it's not clear how well it'll work or how many sites will embrace it.
Mod parent up. Last year, I got a 1920x1080 display at home and work, and the most jarring thing was reading webpages, because they're all very tall and relatively narrow (most are designed for something closer to 1024 pixels wide). The trend these days is for larger monitors, so that ultimately means excess horizontal space, regardless if your display is 4:3 or 16:9/10.
Ultimately, HTML should may solve the problem by making it possible to automatically add extra columns to fill the width like newspapers do. But, still... the die is already cast, HTML is very oriented towards vertical scrolling, and widespread adoption of multiple columns is a long way off (eg. Mozilla is the only browser that supports it currently).
Is that true of patents in Europe as well? IMHO, the most onerous patent squatters are organizations who keep filing patents and never produce anything.
It's possible that HDDVD/Bluray won't overtake DVD's, I guess, and that SD channels on satellite/cable won't ever outnumber HD channels. But I think it's a bit preposterous to suggest that HD content is altogether going to die. 25% of consumers is still motivation enough to release most movies in HD, and enough to sustain a decent market for HD content.
So don't buy it if you're not interested in HDDVD/Bluray. I for one am. You may not be interested in jumping from 0.3MP to 2MP video, but others are.
Your 360 will let you download a few (very few) HD movies right now, but they're all ~5GB downloads, and currently in 720p only. Downloads might eventually broadly surpass disk media, but for now, the easiest way to get a 25/30/50GB chunk of video data is with physical media.
Also, in the eyes of the law, DVD's are DRM'd too. If DVD's are okay now, then Bluray/HDDVD will be okay once its DRM is cracked.
Link. Of course, the Smart car had a large motorcycle engine in it. And, if they would have kept the engine in the original (lighter) motorcycle, the motorcycle would have handily beat the Ferrari by 3 seconds rather than a single tenth.
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You aren't familiar with 500-dollar dollars? You get them from an ATM machine by punching in your PIN number. Just make sure the machine is plugged into AC current, or it won't work.
Just in case you're not trolling, there are quite a few other public broadcasting stations around the world. The BBC (UK) and NHK (Japan) have English podcasts available... CBC (Canada) does too, but I can't find a regularly-updated news podcast for them. I'm sure there's others too.
Because non-profit organizations have to pay for everything else. If Wikipedia could somehow get its bandwidth for free, it wouldn't have to do funding drives very often at all. But that's not fair, since bandwidth really does cost money, and somebody's got to pay for it, and the way it's always been done is that non-profits pay for their fair share, just like everyone else. I suppose one could make the distinction that IP doesn't cost money to duplicate, unlike real services or real property, but as far as I know, there's no precedent yet for saying "oh, you're right, this whole IP thing is a bit of a sham, we'll recognize that, but only for non-profits".
Well, the peer-reviewed study entitled "New analysis of a rat feeding study with a genetically modified maize reveals signs of hepatorenal toxicity" is being published soon, so that should be at least semi-reliable backup to Greenpeace's conclusions, since Greenpeace neither authored the paper, nor, obviously, peer-reviewed it.
Which is why NPOV is Wikipedia's other core policy, to recognize that "all sources have biases".
Free
* With the purchase of a PS3
* Clothes, wallpaper, and other items will cost money
* Since there will be freeloaders who avoid buying virtual goods, there's also streaming video advertisements galore to offset the cost of running the servers.
"Free" is one word for it, I guess...
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If there's an asteroid that's big enough to strip off Earth's crust, a trivial thing like the atmosphere is going to be a rather trivial defense.
The site appears to be very slow. In cases this helps anyone else, here are direct download links for the mp3's. Part 1, part 2, part 3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_(electronics)#H alf_adder
So if employees needed to download an OSS utility, or look up some technical assistance on usenet/forums, as part of their job, they basically had to drive home or borrow their boss's computer to get that information?
It seems like the company was classifying the internet as wholly negative, that random unknown parts of the internet never contain things that might be important to getting one's job done? Certainly the Internet has more distractions than help, but there's been enough times in the past year or two where I really had to do random Google searches to complete a task for work that I think I'd end up with a large forehead-sized dent in my desk if my company did this.
The contract for software players could require that players work just like Firefox... when a new version is found, they automatically and silently download it, and when the player is started the next time, they offer to seamlessly install it for the user. From what I've heard, this may be built in to all/most software players, making it relatively painless to force-upgrade software players at least.
(which would mean that hardware keys are actually more valuable to extract, so maybe that's the hacker community's next step?)
Yeah, well, I've got mod points, but the post is at 5 already. The post should be bumped up to a 6.
As someone else noted, it runs Linux. So the virus really is just on the hard drive, so it can execute on computers that attach to the unit, but the virus doesn't actually execute on the GPS unit.
Nope. If you acquire a phone by yourself, and sign up for a plan with an unlocked phone, they'll still lock you into the exact same contract. I'm not really sure sure why, they just do.
Reposting other people's comments from old stories, are we? Welcome to my foe list.
Yahoo Mindset lets you search for sites that are more commercial, or more informational. Sites with the most nofollow incoming links may fit into the "more commercial" group. (by the way, does anybody know how Mindset actually works?)
Even if websites allow their text to go the full width, it's still somewhat difficult (or at least unusual) to read text where the lines are 300+ characters wide. (that's the reason websites specify a max width) The solution is to have columns of text like newspapers... but HTML support for that is very new, and it's not clear how well it'll work or how many sites will embrace it.
Mod parent up. Last year, I got a 1920x1080 display at home and work, and the most jarring thing was reading webpages, because they're all very tall and relatively narrow (most are designed for something closer to 1024 pixels wide). The trend these days is for larger monitors, so that ultimately means excess horizontal space, regardless if your display is 4:3 or 16:9/10.
Ultimately, HTML should may solve the problem by making it possible to automatically add extra columns to fill the width like newspapers do. But, still... the die is already cast, HTML is very oriented towards vertical scrolling, and widespread adoption of multiple columns is a long way off (eg. Mozilla is the only browser that supports it currently).
Is that true of patents in Europe as well? IMHO, the most onerous patent squatters are organizations who keep filing patents and never produce anything.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superluminal_communic ation
It's possible that HDDVD/Bluray won't overtake DVD's, I guess, and that SD channels on satellite/cable won't ever outnumber HD channels. But I think it's a bit preposterous to suggest that HD content is altogether going to die. 25% of consumers is still motivation enough to release most movies in HD, and enough to sustain a decent market for HD content.
So don't buy it if you're not interested in HDDVD/Bluray. I for one am. You may not be interested in jumping from 0.3MP to 2MP video, but others are.
Your 360 will let you download a few (very few) HD movies right now, but they're all ~5GB downloads, and currently in 720p only. Downloads might eventually broadly surpass disk media, but for now, the easiest way to get a 25/30/50GB chunk of video data is with physical media.
Also, in the eyes of the law, DVD's are DRM'd too. If DVD's are okay now, then Bluray/HDDVD will be okay once its DRM is cracked.
Link. Of course, the Smart car had a large motorcycle engine in it. And, if they would have kept the engine in the original (lighter) motorcycle, the motorcycle would have handily beat the Ferrari by 3 seconds rather than a single tenth.
The Wikipedia article implies that it's more efficient to have a single engine (in terms of fuel consumption, at least).