(the above comment will only be recognizable for Canadians who follow the news that the Prime Minister declared Quebec a nation within Canada, which is actually still somewhat on topic, since Quebec has more aspects of tort law for personal affairs, which makes legislation a little different than the rest of the country, which in turn makes a number of crimes either unenforcable or makes other acts into crimes. This may be a little strange to understand, but it's one of the reasons why a lot of lotteries and contests have to specifically exclude Quebec.)
Ok, now how will this help the loading of Slashdot? In that Slashdot has this terrible habit of occasionally slowing the browser to a halt when opening discussions with a lot of posts to parse (I'm using the new discussion system).
The problem, as I see it, is that issues like page load times are partly caused by browser issues (HTTP pipelining, cache, etc) and partly caused by server issues. (yes, yes, I know it's obvious) However, consider the idea of specialized configurations. Essentially a per-site set of conditions. For Slashdot.org, allow multiple HTTP connections (have to load that style file) and just load the images from the old cache (after all, the Microsoft Borg icon hasn't changed, has it?)
To a certain extent, this could be handled almost in a cookie-like fashion, except it's read before the initial HTTP request is made. You'd know that you're only requesting parts of the page, and could do a background query for elements which have been updated (i.e. a new category image, etc).
Then again, I also hate it when the loading of a PDF causes a loss of focus and slowing of the browser. Not the same, but in the same category of annoyance.
Wow, so many things wrong with this, it's hard to know where to begin.
If you bothered to check with some of the agencies that are doing sanity checks on photovoltaics (i.e. the SEIA), you'd see that they run at about 80% efficiency for about 300 days of the year. The first cutoff of 160 watts to 15 to 30 is a HUGE error. Given your latest posting, where you show it's only a loss of about 7 million USD. However, the difference between the 30 watts and the more likely 128 watts is fourfold, which means it would save 18 million USD, which yields a net profit of 6 million USD.
However, this fails to take into account the actual lifetimes of these devices. They're twenty years. I know the plural of anecdotal is not evidence, but twenty-five years is what I've been hearing in the boonies here in Canada. Incidentally, a surprising number of those setups have been busted for being large scale grow-ops. Go figure. Someone's got the capital to make this feasible.
I also find that price to be frightfully high. That sounds more like the price for a CSP (concentrating solar power) setup, which is on the scale of MEGAwatts, and those continue to output power throughout the night due to the thermal enclosures. (the US DOE has a website for CSP, and the american southwest is ideal for this...)
I have since downloaded iTunes 7 and successfully installed it. The link you provided dates back to April 2005, probably when XP x64 was still in beta.
As snarky as your response is, I agree. The Pandora's box that x64 has opened is frightening. I was hoping to do all my video editing and encoding and capture with this box but x64 support for most things is virtually nonexistent.
WDM codecs, video capture drivers (I have an ATI AIW), etc etc have little or no x64 counterparts. I thought XP x64 was relatively cheap (I got the upgrade) but now I am fearing the prospect of having to upgrade to Vista when it comes out in order to take advantage of drivers that companies will actually write drivers for.
Does this version of iTunes finally support the x64 for the PC? That was really annoying to not be able to install 6.0.5 on Windows XP x64 without having to use some sort of workaround.
The one year grace period is quite common in countries that have "first-to-file". Except Europe, they have six months.
The advantage here is that countries that have implemented "first-to-file" have the one year grace anywhere in the world, for all rights throughout the world.
Incidentally, as someone that works in this line of work (just north of you guys, in Canada), I can say that by moving to a "first-to-file", it will speed up the process of patenting, and make the examiner's job easier. PCT (Patent Coopeartion Treaty) applications can be sent to the US directly, instead of filing first in the US to establish 1st inventorship and application priority, followed by a regular PCT application.
Is there any info on exactly how similar this product will be? Given that a number of parts of the Blackberry are probably made in China, it's not too much of a stretch to conceive of an exact replica, but only with a red case.
If it is indeed exactly the same, this would mark the second time that a Chinese company used industrial sabotage to literally copy a product. The other time was back in the 70's when Chinese atomic energy officials visited Canada to see our SLOWPOKE reactor for five years in a row. The sixth year, they revealed to the world that they came up with their own. It was copied right down to the typo on the front panel. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited was none too happy.
...so they're still not going to actually DO it, just prepare and get ready? (that's the meaning of "gearing up" that I'm familiar with)
Rather than gear up, why not start right now? Sales of Hummers were up 174% from last year. If that's not going in the exact opposite direction, I don't know what is.
Seriously. Take a look at the websites and check it out. Movielink kicks me off to Zip.ca (which is a great service, love it) which means that I can't even try and give them my money. Oh well. Looking over at Cinemanow, I have to sign up before I even get a glimpse of the size of their catalog. The free video section amounts to the $0.99 rental bin at my favorite video store that distinctly smells of wee.
Why won't these new companies at least try and imitate the "let's at least take a look at what I'm getting into" look and feel of iTunes? However, iTunes does have a really irritating "feature".
If it wasn't for the fact that you need a US credit card for buying videos at iTunes, I'd be downloading them like crazy. I'm willing to bet that there's a large UK (or any non-American english-speakers, for that matter) who would love to give iTunes money, but can't because they don't have a US credit card.
It's really disappointing to see the industry try and reach for the stars (already talking about the end of the 360 lifecycle when titles are still coming out for the original Xbox) with vague promises of better engines.
How much better? What is there left to make totally realistic?
From text adventures where you interacted with set definite objects, to games like Wolf3D, to Doom (and the beginning of the whole multiplayer craze) to the first Unreal (which made the whole looking up and down really important) to the second and third Unreal engines. Is there anyone who can really say that there is really that much more to be done in terms of physics and movement?
One would figure that once you iron out the engine and it works well, you then improve the artwork, and after that, you should really improve gameplay and build on the replay value. Too many games these days could damn well be one game with different maps and skins.
The second one went live, I think. You will see that they still return pretty much the same results, but the first one will have more. I should add that the string "experimental google server" (with quotes) always returns zero results. This has always bugged me, since I figured that someome, somewhere, would have used that combination of words. Maybe not. Maybe it's a googlebomb.
There have been a number of stories that compared how fast the different A/V companies respond to a threat. I seem to recall that for really bothersome stuff, the updates are usually ready to go around 48-56 hours after they're picked up.
Having said that, it wouldn't hurt to install a free A/V scanner such as ClamAV, AVG or even something like Trend Micro's free online scanner.
Moreover, one of the key issues is that some companies are not picking up on some of the malware, which makes the occasional install of a free product worthwhile, in addition to an AdAware/Spybot/foo scan.
Finally, a frivolous lawsuit that got its just desserts. We can only hope that will herald a new age, where the insanely stupid lawsuits are going to fianlly the death they so rightly deserve.
This is hardly surprising, but it would be interesting to see if there was a price difference in titles that were released simultaneously on previous and next-gen consoles.
Slashdot Mirror
in order to avoid a costly land invasion
*grin* of course, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia!"
If you look up the application number in the USPTO, you will see that it has indeed matured to patent: US 7,055,140
The enforcability of this patent, however, is left to the discretion of the patent owner.
Are we using the EU definition of a rhetorical question or the Slashdot Natalie Portman definition of a rhetorical question?
Yeah, but is the device Y2K compliant?
Surely you mean the Glorious Nation of Quebec.
(the above comment will only be recognizable for Canadians who follow the news that the Prime Minister declared Quebec a nation within Canada, which is actually still somewhat on topic, since Quebec has more aspects of tort law for personal affairs, which makes legislation a little different than the rest of the country, which in turn makes a number of crimes either unenforcable or makes other acts into crimes. This may be a little strange to understand, but it's one of the reasons why a lot of lotteries and contests have to specifically exclude Quebec.)
Ok, now how will this help the loading of Slashdot? In that Slashdot has this terrible habit of occasionally slowing the browser to a halt when opening discussions with a lot of posts to parse (I'm using the new discussion system).
The problem, as I see it, is that issues like page load times are partly caused by browser issues (HTTP pipelining, cache, etc) and partly caused by server issues. (yes, yes, I know it's obvious) However, consider the idea of specialized configurations. Essentially a per-site set of conditions. For Slashdot.org, allow multiple HTTP connections (have to load that style file) and just load the images from the old cache (after all, the Microsoft Borg icon hasn't changed, has it?)
To a certain extent, this could be handled almost in a cookie-like fashion, except it's read before the initial HTTP request is made. You'd know that you're only requesting parts of the page, and could do a background query for elements which have been updated (i.e. a new category image, etc).
Then again, I also hate it when the loading of a PDF causes a loss of focus and slowing of the browser. Not the same, but in the same category of annoyance.
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Oh, those directives... I wonder what browser they recommend using to avoid that.
Hey, that sounds like a great idea to get people to notice someone when they next look for work.
"Experience in x, y, and z... but who cares about that? I have a four digit slashdot ID."
Or three, or five, or whatever is currently admired.
Wow, so many things wrong with this, it's hard to know where to begin.
If you bothered to check with some of the agencies that are doing sanity checks on photovoltaics (i.e. the SEIA), you'd see that they run at about 80% efficiency for about 300 days of the year. The first cutoff of 160 watts to 15 to 30 is a HUGE error. Given your latest posting, where you show it's only a loss of about 7 million USD. However, the difference between the 30 watts and the more likely 128 watts is fourfold, which means it would save 18 million USD, which yields a net profit of 6 million USD.
However, this fails to take into account the actual lifetimes of these devices. They're twenty years. I know the plural of anecdotal is not evidence, but twenty-five years is what I've been hearing in the boonies here in Canada. Incidentally, a surprising number of those setups have been busted for being large scale grow-ops. Go figure. Someone's got the capital to make this feasible.
I also find that price to be frightfully high. That sounds more like the price for a CSP (concentrating solar power) setup, which is on the scale of MEGAwatts, and those continue to output power throughout the night due to the thermal enclosures. (the US DOE has a website for CSP, and the american southwest is ideal for this...)
My god, that's *IT*. We're running low on oil because the tubes are stuffed with spam, preventing the oil from flowing.
(I'm trying to be funny, not sarcastic)
that would only be true in the case where the Spamhaus mirror server is indeed in Illinois, and even then it'd be tenuous link.
I have since downloaded iTunes 7 and successfully installed it. The link you provided dates back to April 2005, probably when XP x64 was still in beta.
As snarky as your response is, I agree. The Pandora's box that x64 has opened is frightening. I was hoping to do all my video editing and encoding and capture with this box but x64 support for most things is virtually nonexistent.
WDM codecs, video capture drivers (I have an ATI AIW), etc etc have little or no x64 counterparts. I thought XP x64 was relatively cheap (I got the upgrade) but now I am fearing the prospect of having to upgrade to Vista when it comes out in order to take advantage of drivers that companies will actually write drivers for.
Does this version of iTunes finally support the x64 for the PC? That was really annoying to not be able to install 6.0.5 on Windows XP x64 without having to use some sort of workaround.
I must have drank the stupid coffee this morning. Could you walk me through this joke?
The one year grace period is quite common in countries that have "first-to-file".
Except Europe, they have six months.
The advantage here is that countries that have implemented "first-to-file" have the one year grace anywhere in the world, for all rights throughout the world.
Incidentally, as someone that works in this line of work (just north of you guys, in Canada), I can say that by moving to a "first-to-file", it will speed up the process of patenting, and make the examiner's job easier. PCT (Patent Coopeartion Treaty) applications can be sent to the US directly, instead of filing first in the US to establish 1st inventorship and application priority, followed by a regular PCT application.
Is there any info on exactly how similar this product will be? Given that a number of parts of the Blackberry are probably made in China, it's not too much of a stretch to conceive of an exact replica, but only with a red case.
If it is indeed exactly the same, this would mark the second time that a Chinese company used industrial sabotage to literally copy a product. The other time was back in the 70's when Chinese atomic energy officials visited Canada to see our SLOWPOKE reactor for five years in a row. The sixth year, they revealed to the world that they came up with their own. It was copied right down to the typo on the front panel. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited was none too happy.
...so they're still not going to actually DO it, just prepare and get ready? (that's the meaning of "gearing up" that I'm familiar with)
Rather than gear up, why not start right now? Sales of Hummers were up 174% from last year. If that's not going in the exact opposite direction, I don't know what is.
Seriously. Take a look at the websites and check it out. Movielink kicks me off to Zip.ca (which is a great service, love it) which means that I can't even try and give them my money. Oh well. Looking over at Cinemanow, I have to sign up before I even get a glimpse of the size of their catalog. The free video section amounts to the $0.99 rental bin at my favorite video store that distinctly smells of wee.
Why won't these new companies at least try and imitate the "let's at least take a look at what I'm getting into" look and feel of iTunes? However, iTunes does have a really irritating "feature".
If it wasn't for the fact that you need a US credit card for buying videos at iTunes, I'd be downloading them like crazy. I'm willing to bet that there's a large UK (or any non-American english-speakers, for that matter) who would love to give iTunes money, but can't because they don't have a US credit card.
It's really disappointing to see the industry try and reach for the stars (already talking about the end of the 360 lifecycle when titles are still coming out for the original Xbox) with vague promises of better engines.
How much better? What is there left to make totally realistic?
From text adventures where you interacted with set definite objects, to games like Wolf3D, to Doom (and the beginning of the whole multiplayer craze) to the first Unreal (which made the whole looking up and down really important) to the second and third Unreal engines. Is there anyone who can really say that there is really that much more to be done in terms of physics and movement?
One would figure that once you iron out the engine and it works well, you then improve the artwork, and after that, you should really improve gameplay and build on the replay value. Too many games these days could damn well be one game with different maps and skins.
http://66.249.93.104/
http://64.233.187.104/
The second one went live, I think. You will see that they still return pretty much the same results, but the first one will have more. I should add that the string "experimental google server" (with quotes) always returns zero results. This has always bugged me, since I figured that someome, somewhere, would have used that combination of words. Maybe not. Maybe it's a googlebomb.
There have been a number of stories that compared how fast the different A/V companies respond to a threat. I seem to recall that for really bothersome stuff, the updates are usually ready to go around 48-56 hours after they're picked up.
Having said that, it wouldn't hurt to install a free A/V scanner such as ClamAV, AVG or even something like Trend Micro's free online scanner.
Moreover, one of the key issues is that some companies are not picking up on some of the malware, which makes the occasional install of a free product worthwhile, in addition to an AdAware/Spybot/foo scan.
I get 92, but if you go to the last page, and click the "repeat the search with the omitted results included." link, I get 96.
Moreover, I can get 125 if I use the new experimental Google server.
Finally, a frivolous lawsuit that got its just desserts. We can only hope that will herald a new age, where the insanely stupid lawsuits are going to fianlly the death they so rightly deserve.
This is hardly surprising, but it would be interesting to see if there was a price difference in titles that were released simultaneously on previous and next-gen consoles.