You're encouraging the marketing department to spin new names? It's not like they don't do this enough already. What was wrong with the old name "Acura Integra" that it had to be replaced with "RSX"? Moreover, why is the "Acura RSX" distributed here by a company named "American Honda Motor Co"?
Yet another one... take a hacksaw to the steering wheel itself, which is actually fairly thin. Once there's a gap in the steering wheel, the club slips right through, no matter how thick or lockpick-proof.
Now that Penguin has released the book, katie.com's owner could potentially ask for an arbitrarily high selling price, since the book's title can't be changed anymore, so Penguin may be hesitant to negotiate at this point. The proper thing to do would have been for Penguin to offer a smaller price BEFORE the book's cover was finalized.
Multiple communications channels between chips can be used. Each channel uses an individual pad slightly embedded in each chip, and the pads in each chip have to be physically aligned to some extent. This has two advantages... because the pads are done on-die and not outside the chip, the pads can be two orders of magnitude smaller than external pins. Also, the pins are protected from electrostatic discharge. The summary at the end of the article says:
Our 350nm CMOS test chip demonstrates 16 channels operating simultaneously, each communicating pseudo random patterns at a rate of 1.35 Gbps, for an aggregate bandwidth of 21.6 Gbps.
You've never heard of exponential population growth, have you? Every 36 years, the world will have half as much space per person as we do now. In 72 years, a quarter. In two centuries, a 47th as much free space. In three centuries, one 322nd as much free space. In four centuries, 2200 times less space per person as we do now. Does the earth have enough space for that?
Or at least the frame the user uses most often. It's also annoying to hit page-down, and not get the result you want (eg. you're focused on a frame that can't scroll, for instance)
Sorry, but I'm going to turn this into my own little bitch-session, and this is buried deep in the discussion so it won't hurt.
400K attachments shouldn't be a big deal either, with the price of hard drives these days. Unfortunately, somehow we're only given 250mB network space. I'm actually an IT guy, but I'm seriously betting it wouldn't cost me near as much as it costs them to properly back up a modern disk drive.
I'd normally be inclined to agree, but in the Corporate World I have to spend so much time in, there are bigger problems like people sending.doc files and.xls, and practically requiring me to reply in.doc and.xls as well. This peeves me even when complex data presentation is necessary, because we could be using more open formats like.html or whatnot, but the chance of fixing that in Corporate World is approximately 0. What's even worse though, is when people SEND ONE-PAGE 400K WORD DOCUMENTS WHEN A SIMPLE TEXT EMAIL WOULD SUFFICE. People are so stupid it hurts sometimes.
Ummm.. You ever hear of HTML email, without which we'd have whacky unstandard ways to send colored text? Ever heard of ~/.mailcap, which allows mailreaders to not have to be able to parse and display every willy-nilly format out there? (for the record, my personal favorite for viewing HTML email, if it wasn't clear from the above link, is mutt+w3m, except for the aforementioned bug).
Yeah, but w3m doesn't farking support <font color="..."> tags, even though it DOES do color menus and such! I constantly get pressure at work to switch back to Outlook, and one of the arguments given is that I can't read "proper" email responses where people color-code their responses to separate them from others. I'm using an ansi terminal, why should I have problems displaying colored emails?
Eh? Where's the source code to PageRank? Was source code released to reflect the multiple recent changes to it?
I'm guessing the answers are "no" and "no". SEOs (search engine exploiters) would only damage google if google gave out their source code for pagerank. And each change to pagerank has been accompanied with much speculation in the SEO community about what the change was, with lots of graphs and experiments and gnashing of teeth. So no, I'm pretty sure we never have and never will see the source for PageRank.
Far be it from me to suggest people RTFA, but the issue was specifically covered:
Hiibel's contention that his conviction violates the Fifth
Amendment's prohibition on self-incrimination fails because disclosure
of his name and identity presented no reasonable danger of incrimination.
eg. you shouldn't be forced (by imprisonment, torture, or otherwise) to admit to some crime. But saying your name alone doesn't seem incriminating. If the authorities already have some evidence against you, then they do either way, and hiding your identity won't change that.
You're saying you DON'T want all these things to be always available to you, no matter where you go?
Google
Worldwide Phone Directory
Worldwide Maps
millions of online Recipes, while you shop at the grocery
etc...
No? You think that whole thing in the late 80's, the "oh my god, computers are ACTUALLY USEFUL for a lot of things, but ONLY IF YOU CONNECT THEM TO A NETWORK" thing that spread like wildfire among teenagers and grandparents alike, all that was overblown?
For what it's worth, here is a list of the allowed books, sorted by price. The top couple are listed here, so I guess the poster costs at a minimum $12.
Why do they have to make it hard to order a copy of the poster? What if I don't want two extra o'reilly books, and just want the poster? Penny Arcade does this with some of their stuff... the only way to get some of their posters is to fly across the US to visit their conference of choice. Why do they do this?
The formal FTC charges in 1959 regarding payola referenced unfair competition. In New York, they were trying to bring misdemeanour commercial bribery charges against DJs.
It seems like part of the problem was that the money was paid directly to DJs, rather than the company that employed the DJs, and was done in a way to not be explicit about the payments (eg. free vacations for DJs).
I think a modern-day analogy would be computer game reviewers getting free vacations from game companies and publishing glowing reviews without being forthright about the connection between them and the game distributor. I think this is one of the main reasons why newspapers, magazines, and such are so careful to delineate exactly what's written by their employees as independant commentators, and exactly what sections are ads written by the distributors themselves, and to not blur the line between the two. (eg. see the NPR linking policy brouhaha).
Though if something like this were codified into law, it would seem to prevent companies from placing "plants" in local bars who try to get people to think a particular product is cool or whatnot, in that they're trying to pass off paid direct-from-distributors marketing as independant recommendations.
I live in the US, so my long-range wireless network alternatives are pretty slim. I currently am getting unlimited GPRS bandwidth through T-Mobile for $20/month. The only problem (other than the meager 2.5kBps) is the consistent 1000ms ping. Does anybody else with GPRS have latency this bad?
1000ms all by itself would effectively kill most use of VoIP, as the noticable delays for some reason causes really annoying conversations... you don't know whether to start respond to what the other person just said, or whether they're going to follow it up with something else, causing you to accidentally start talking over them. Latency is so important to voice calls that the International Telecommunications Union recommends latency no greater than 150ms.
So is this just my conspiracy theory that T-Mobile GPRS provides way worse than 150ms for data, while providing better than 150ms latency for the voice side of things?
Is it pretty clear that google falls under the "common carrier" clause of the DMCA in the US? From recent court cases, it seemed like a lot of judges don't grok "common carrier" where it regards the internet, especially when it doesn't look or smell like an ISP.
Also, I don't know the details of other country's laws, but given that there's a lot of variety of opinions out there, even on big stuff like prostitution, marijuana, death penalty, etc... is it obvious that Italy does or should have a common-carrier exception in their copyright laws?
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Not only are Scions hideous, but they're killing the better Toyota MR2 to do that. :'(
You're encouraging the marketing department to spin new names? It's not like they don't do this enough already. What was wrong with the old name "Acura Integra" that it had to be replaced with "RSX"? Moreover, why is the "Acura RSX" distributed here by a company named "American Honda Motor Co"?
Yet another one... take a hacksaw to the steering wheel itself, which is actually fairly thin. Once there's a gap in the steering wheel, the club slips right through, no matter how thick or lockpick-proof.
Now that Penguin has released the book, katie.com's owner could potentially ask for an arbitrarily high selling price, since the book's title can't be changed anymore, so Penguin may be hesitant to negotiate at this point. The proper thing to do would have been for Penguin to offer a smaller price BEFORE the book's cover was finalized.
Multiple communications channels between chips can be used. Each channel uses an individual pad slightly embedded in each chip, and the pads in each chip have to be physically aligned to some extent. This has two advantages... because the pads are done on-die and not outside the chip, the pads can be two orders of magnitude smaller than external pins. Also, the pins are protected from electrostatic discharge. The summary at the end of the article says:
- Our 350nm CMOS test chip demonstrates 16 channels operating simultaneously, each communicating pseudo random patterns at a rate of 1.35 Gbps, for an aggregate bandwidth of 21.6 Gbps.
In other words, it looks pretty viable...The article mentions "capacitive coupling". Here is the relevant WikiPedia entry, and here's a paper on the specifics at Sun.
Swap the letters around to get NSLU2. Fortunately, it's a lot like the Linksys WRT54G... eg. infinitely hackable.
You've never heard of exponential population growth, have you? Every 36 years, the world will have half as much space per person as we do now. In 72 years, a quarter. In two centuries, a 47th as much free space. In three centuries, one 322nd as much free space. In four centuries, 2200 times less space per person as we do now. Does the earth have enough space for that?
Or at least the frame the user uses most often. It's also annoying to hit page-down, and not get the result you want (eg. you're focused on a frame that can't scroll, for instance)
400K attachments shouldn't be a big deal either, with the price of hard drives these days. Unfortunately, somehow we're only given 250mB network space. I'm actually an IT guy, but I'm seriously betting it wouldn't cost me near as much as it costs them to properly back up a modern disk drive.
I'd normally be inclined to agree, but in the Corporate World I have to spend so much time in, there are bigger problems like people sending .doc files and .xls, and practically requiring me to reply in .doc and .xls as well. This peeves me even when complex data presentation is necessary, because we could be using more open formats like .html or whatnot, but the chance of fixing that in Corporate World is approximately 0. What's even worse though, is when people SEND ONE-PAGE 400K WORD DOCUMENTS WHEN A SIMPLE TEXT EMAIL WOULD SUFFICE. People are so stupid it hurts sometimes.
Ummm.. You ever hear of HTML email, without which we'd have whacky unstandard ways to send colored text? Ever heard of ~/.mailcap , which allows mailreaders to not have to be able to parse and display every willy-nilly format out there? (for the record, my personal favorite for viewing HTML email, if it wasn't clear from the above link, is mutt+w3m, except for the aforementioned bug).
Yeah, but w3m doesn't farking support <font color="..."> tags, even though it DOES do color menus and such! I constantly get pressure at work to switch back to Outlook, and one of the arguments given is that I can't read "proper" email responses where people color-code their responses to separate them from others. I'm using an ansi terminal, why should I have problems displaying colored emails?
I'm guessing the answers are "no" and "no". SEOs (search engine exploiters) would only damage google if google gave out their source code for pagerank. And each change to pagerank has been accompanied with much speculation in the SEO community about what the change was, with lots of graphs and experiments and gnashing of teeth. So no, I'm pretty sure we never have and never will see the source for PageRank.
Appears to be from this ACLU page. *shrug* Either way, how did his identity ever come into play in the police abuse?
- Hiibel's contention that his conviction violates the Fifth
Amendment's prohibition on self-incrimination fails because disclosure
of his name and identity presented no reasonable danger of incrimination.
eg. you shouldn't be forced (by imprisonment, torture, or otherwise) to admit to some crime. But saying your name alone doesn't seem incriminating. If the authorities already have some evidence against you, then they do either way, and hiding your identity won't change that.No? You think that whole thing in the late 80's, the "oh my god, computers are ACTUALLY USEFUL for a lot of things, but ONLY IF YOU CONNECT THEM TO A NETWORK" thing that spread like wildfire among teenagers and grandparents alike, all that was overblown?
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Scott Adams, is that you?
Why do they have to make it hard to order a copy of the poster? What if I don't want two extra o'reilly books, and just want the poster? Penny Arcade does this with some of their stuff... the only way to get some of their posters is to fly across the US to visit their conference of choice. Why do they do this?
It seems like part of the problem was that the money was paid directly to DJs, rather than the company that employed the DJs, and was done in a way to not be explicit about the payments (eg. free vacations for DJs).
I think a modern-day analogy would be computer game reviewers getting free vacations from game companies and publishing glowing reviews without being forthright about the connection between them and the game distributor. I think this is one of the main reasons why newspapers, magazines, and such are so careful to delineate exactly what's written by their employees as independant commentators, and exactly what sections are ads written by the distributors themselves, and to not blur the line between the two. (eg. see the NPR linking policy brouhaha).
Though if something like this were codified into law, it would seem to prevent companies from placing "plants" in local bars who try to get people to think a particular product is cool or whatnot, in that they're trying to pass off paid direct-from-distributors marketing as independant recommendations.
Even if you DO buy them directly, half the time they'll still make you sign a contract, so you're their bitch no matter what.
1000ms all by itself would effectively kill most use of VoIP, as the noticable delays for some reason causes really annoying conversations... you don't know whether to start respond to what the other person just said, or whether they're going to follow it up with something else, causing you to accidentally start talking over them. Latency is so important to voice calls that the International Telecommunications Union recommends latency no greater than 150ms.
So is this just my conspiracy theory that T-Mobile GPRS provides way worse than 150ms for data, while providing better than 150ms latency for the voice side of things?
Actually, the answers weren't as hard to google as I thought. Italy approved the EUCD (EU Copyright Directive) on March 28, 2003. The EUCD was based on US's DMCA, and includes a similar Take-Down clause. So it seems pretty clear that nobody at Google would be jailed as long as they complied with take-down notices.
Also, I don't know the details of other country's laws, but given that there's a lot of variety of opinions out there, even on big stuff like prostitution, marijuana, death penalty, etc... is it obvious that Italy does or should have a common-carrier exception in their copyright laws?