I can't imagine what a single AV channel running through the walls could be used for. Obviously you're going to want to have Coax for broadcast/cable channels (to be selected individualy in the diffrent rooms). But really, what good would it do to have one global broadcast to the whole house?
My great fear is that every country in the world is going to pass its own version of a "decency" law, then attempt to require the conformance of every other country in the world. Soon enough, the Internet will have been watered down to contain only that content which is deemed acceptable, worldwide.
Either or that, or people start using location based IP filters. Not really that hard to do. (Although it would still suck)
yes, but guns have other uses than to kill people.
Um, guns may have other usages, like scaring people into thinking you might kill them. And killing large animals. But they were designed for the sole purpose of killing people
I've never gone through this phase and I have several certifications to date.
I'm not aware of any certs for actual coding out there. Anyway, having Certs doesn't make you any kind of a programmer (not to say your aren't, but there isn't any evidence that you are)
I guess you think the architects should have been held accountable for the twin towers not withstanding a plane hitting them
Actually the towers were designed to be able to withstand a collision with a 747 (witch is bigger then the a 767 or 757).
So they shouldn't have fallen, what happened was totally within their design specifications. (looks like the engineers didn't count on all the burning jet fuel)
M$ outlook allows you to disable all exicutable content from being sent through the mail. You also could easily have setup Exchange to filter out those messages.
In other words, its your own damn fault, and that of your users.
I'm a little confused by this: of course since they aren't in the U.S., they might actually be punished.
The US has the toughest Anti-hacking laws of almost anywhere, other then china of course, where you can be exicuted for it (actualy, that's pretty much the way things are with any crimes these days, the US punishes harder then any country other then china). And, our laws have only been made tougher by the new anti-terrorism bills. In fact, had these kids been in the US they could have been tried as terrorists. (and I mean they must be terrorists, they're from the middle east!)
I seriously dobut that many people would go for a/. subscription. It just isn't worth it, I mean, all the content is user generated. Salon, obviously, is a real magazine with paid reporters and all that and has a valid excuse to charge money for what they're doing./. just links to other stories and lets people post about it.
Maybe if the subscriptions were like $5/$10 a year or something.
Personally, I would pay only for Slashdot Unpremium (not Jon Katz, no Michael/Timothy, YRO, in other words, just the basic stuff that slashdot was founded on).
If you go to your user prefrences (if you have an account) you can filter out certan authors, (katz, michael, etc). Not that I don't think katz should be thrown off the site or anything.
No wonder they have 87 million in debt. Why the fuck do you need oracle to serve content? MySQL works fine for slashdot,
MySQL is a piece of shit. (no nested selects? WTF?) And incase you hadn't noticed, slashdot fails all the time. The only reason they stick with it is because the source was originally hard-coded with MySQL API calls. Andover even pored money into the company behind MySQL to beef it up when it was flush with IPO money. Nowadays they're using proprietary extensions (witch cost $$, btw).
MySQL was not designed for a lot of the things its being used for.
You're comment is a lot like saying: "Who the fuck needs a mainframe? my DOS LAN works fine!" or something.
"If the parties aren't satisfied with the outcome of the judge's decision or the trials through the UDRP, they have the right to have it tried in court," said Mary Hewitt, an ICANN spokeswoman. "It's always been that way; it's written that way...It's absolutely the prerogative of the parties involved. Either way, whatever the decision is, it doesn't matter; they have absolutely the right to go to court following a UDRP" proceeding.
This has always been the case, the UN has no direct legal authority to do anything at all, unless it involves wars between different countries.
WIPO arbitration has always been that, arbitration. Not legally binding. (of course, who knows what kind of contract stuff you implicitly signed on for when you purchased your domain)
The fact that IP owners get to pick the arena for the legal fight is a crock of shit... and in my opinion should cast a lot of doubt on any decision handed down by WIPO, who always vote with only business consideration in mind (the few cases where they have allowed the copyright holder to keep their domain, it was because they felt that the incumbent had a useful business reason for keeping the domain).
The US courts might not be the most fair organizations, but I'd imagine that they'd be a hell of a lot better then WIPO.
Well, that's just because the advertising company didn't bother to spend like 5 minutes getting the implementation to work in Moz, having done DHTML in both IE and Moz, I can say that it's can be a pain, and clutter up your code, to get something that will work in both, it's certainly possible
Ugh, what the hell is wrong with me?
Let's try that again: "Well, that's just because the advertising company didn't bother to spend 5 minutes getting these to work in Moz. Having done DHTML in both, I can safely say that while it can be a pain, and can clutter up your code, getting something to work in both isn't really all that difficult."
May a thousand scorpions sting me in my intimate places.
It is as if you were trying to watch TV and a guy with a "Buy M&Ms" sign would step in front of the TV while my show is going on.
Just wait. In a couple of years, when the price of PVRs go down enough so that everyone can afford them, TV stations are going to start doing just that. Shoving advertising on top of regular TV content. Probably taking up portions of the screen like the side/top whatever. Maybe shrinking down the image and filling the borders with advertisements.
Long gone will be the days of bathroom breaks and channel surfing.
Actually, to me these seem a lot less annoying then popups/popunders. At least for the fact they can't spawn all over your desktop resulting in minutes of annoyance. And they disappear on their own, which is a huge bonus.
The sound part is really obnoxious, though.
Also, this isn't the first time something like this has been tried, although it may be the first time the crap appeared on top of the content you're trying to get, yahoo used something similar a while back on their main page.
As for these only working in IE? Well, that's just because the advertising company didn't bother to spend like 5 minutes getting the implementation to work in Moz, having done DHTML in both IE and Moz, I can say that it's can be a pain, and clutter up your code, to get something that will work in both, it's certainly possible.
Oh look, boston.com also threw in a pup under, just for fun. Advertising a broken image, apparently.
I agree. For the most dramatic example, look at the original NES games, compared to the last few produced NES games. It was a completely different console
That's because it *WAS* a completely different console! NES carts had several generations of 'enhancer' chips embedded in them, especially memory map chips. The original NES had an insanely small amount of ram (like half a k or something, IIRC) and the new carts increased that to reasonable levels. I don't know all the details but it's similar to what happened with the SuperFX and FXII chips that came in some SNES games... but more prevalent.
Thats one of the advantages of using carts over disks. There isn't going to be any way to increase the CPU power with a DVD:P
The most popular z80 machine, I'm sure, was the game boy.
Anyway, z-80 isn't going to die, the company is just going for bankruptcy, not dissolving. And if it did dissolve I'm sure that people would continue to make chips.
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They were designed to withstand one hit from a 707. They were NEVER designed to withstand a hit in each tower
whats the diffrenc between one hit to one hit to each tower? I mean, its still one hit/tower.
I can't imagine what a single AV channel running through the walls could be used for. Obviously you're going to want to have Coax for broadcast/cable channels (to be selected individualy in the diffrent rooms). But really, what good would it do to have one global broadcast to the whole house?
My great fear is that every country in the world is going to pass its own version of a "decency" law, then attempt to require the conformance of every other country in the world. Soon enough, the Internet will have been watered down to contain only that content which is deemed acceptable, worldwide.
Either or that, or people start using location based IP filters. Not really that hard to do. (Although it would still suck)
Actually, American porn sites would have to be up from around 7am to like 4pm, depending on where in the country they are.
So yeh, it doesn't seem to probable.
yes, but guns have other uses than to kill people.
Um, guns may have other usages, like scaring people into thinking you might kill them. And killing large animals. But they were designed for the sole purpose of killing people
I've never gone through this phase and I have several certifications to date.
I'm not aware of any certs for actual coding out there. Anyway, having Certs doesn't make you any kind of a programmer (not to say your aren't, but there isn't any evidence that you are)
perhaps if you had a degree or something.
I guess you think the architects should have been held accountable for the twin towers not withstanding a plane hitting them
Actually the towers were designed to be able to withstand a collision with a 747 (witch is bigger then the a 767 or 757).
So they shouldn't have fallen, what happened was totally within their design specifications. (looks like the engineers didn't count on all the burning jet fuel)
M$ outlook allows you to disable all exicutable content from being sent through the mail. You also could easily have setup Exchange to filter out those messages.
In other words, its your own damn fault, and that of your users.
I'm a little confused by this:
of course since they aren't in the U.S., they might actually be punished.
The US has the toughest Anti-hacking laws of almost anywhere, other then china of course, where you can be exicuted for it (actualy, that's pretty much the way things are with any crimes these days, the US punishes harder then any country other then china). And, our laws have only been made tougher by the new anti-terrorism bills. In fact, had these kids been in the US they could have been tried as terrorists. (and I mean they must be terrorists, they're from the middle east!)
I seriously dobut that many people would go for a /. subscription. It just isn't worth it, I mean, all the content is user generated. Salon, obviously, is a real magazine with paid reporters and all that and has a valid excuse to charge money for what they're doing. /. just links to other stories and lets people post about it.
Maybe if the subscriptions were like $5/$10 a year or something.
Personally, I would pay only for Slashdot Unpremium (not Jon Katz, no Michael/Timothy, YRO, in other words, just the basic stuff that slashdot was founded on).
If you go to your user prefrences (if you have an account) you can filter out certan authors, (katz, michael, etc). Not that I don't think katz should be thrown off the site or anything.
No wonder they have 87 million in debt. Why the fuck do you need oracle to serve content? MySQL works fine for slashdot,
MySQL is a piece of shit. (no nested selects? WTF?) And incase you hadn't noticed, slashdot fails all the time. The only reason they stick with it is because the source was originally hard-coded with MySQL API calls. Andover even pored money into the company behind MySQL to beef it up when it was flush with IPO money. Nowadays they're using proprietary extensions (witch cost $$, btw).
MySQL was not designed for a lot of the things its being used for.
You're comment is a lot like saying: "Who the fuck needs a mainframe? my DOS LAN works fine!" or something.
Of company X buys dead wireless broadband company Y stories on slashdot. How disappointing.
For those of you who didn't read the story *ahem*
"If the parties aren't satisfied with the outcome of the judge's decision or the trials through the UDRP, they have the right to have it tried in court," said Mary Hewitt, an ICANN spokeswoman. "It's always been that way; it's written that way...It's absolutely the prerogative of the parties involved. Either way, whatever the decision is, it doesn't matter; they have absolutely the right to go to court following a UDRP" proceeding.
This has always been the case, the UN has no direct legal authority to do anything at all, unless it involves wars between different countries.
WIPO arbitration has always been that, arbitration. Not legally binding. (of course, who knows what kind of contract stuff you implicitly signed on for when you purchased your domain)
The fact that IP owners get to pick the arena for the legal fight is a crock of shit... and in my opinion should cast a lot of doubt on any decision handed down by WIPO, who always vote with only business consideration in mind (the few cases where they have allowed the copyright holder to keep their domain, it was because they felt that the incumbent had a useful business reason for keeping the domain).
The US courts might not be the most fair organizations, but I'd imagine that they'd be a hell of a lot better then WIPO.
Well, that's just because the advertising company didn't bother to spend like 5 minutes getting the implementation to work in Moz, having done DHTML in both IE and Moz, I can say that it's can be a pain, and clutter up your code, to get something that will work in both, it's certainly possible
Ugh, what the hell is wrong with me?
Let's try that again: "Well, that's just because the advertising company didn't bother to spend 5 minutes getting these to work in Moz. Having done DHTML in both, I can safely say that while it can be a pain, and can clutter up your code, getting something to work in both isn't really all that difficult."
May a thousand scorpions sting me in my intimate places.
It is as if you were trying to watch TV and a guy with a "Buy M&Ms" sign would step in front of the TV while my show is going on.
Just wait. In a couple of years, when the price of PVRs go down enough so that everyone can afford them, TV stations are going to start doing just that. Shoving advertising on top of regular TV content. Probably taking up portions of the screen like the side/top whatever. Maybe shrinking down the image and filling the borders with advertisements.
Long gone will be the days of bathroom breaks and channel surfing.
Actually, to me these seem a lot less annoying then popups/popunders. At least for the fact they can't spawn all over your desktop resulting in minutes of annoyance. And they disappear on their own, which is a huge bonus.
The sound part is really obnoxious, though.
Also, this isn't the first time something like this has been tried, although it may be the first time the crap appeared on top of the content you're trying to get, yahoo used something similar a while back on their main page.
As for these only working in IE? Well, that's just because the advertising company didn't bother to spend like 5 minutes getting the implementation to work in Moz, having done DHTML in both IE and Moz, I can say that it's can be a pain, and clutter up your code, to get something that will work in both, it's certainly possible. Oh look, boston.com also threw in a pup under, just for fun. Advertising a broken image, apparently.
(The highest resolution a regular TV can support -- 240 lines of horizontal resolution.)
WTF?
NTSC has 525 scanlines (480 visible), and PAL has 625 (576 visible).
480i is exactly the same as NTSC but digital, 480p gives you a better picture due to non-interlacing (NTSC updates every other line each sweep).
I agree. For the most dramatic example, look at the original NES games, compared to the last few produced NES games. It was a completely different console
... but more prevalent.
:P
That's because it *WAS* a completely different console! NES carts had several generations of 'enhancer' chips embedded in them, especially memory map chips. The original NES had an insanely small amount of ram (like half a k or something, IIRC) and the new carts increased that to reasonable levels. I don't know all the details but it's similar to what happened with the SuperFX and FXII chips that came in some SNES games
Thats one of the advantages of using carts over disks. There isn't going to be any way to increase the CPU power with a DVD
The Xbox looks like it can crunch any other console
Yeh, maybe if you dropped it on one...
thats funny dude :P
The most popular z80 machine, I'm sure, was the game boy.
Anyway, z-80 isn't going to die, the company is just going for bankruptcy, not dissolving. And if it did dissolve I'm sure that people would continue to make chips.
Free domain names, $$$-free and restriction-free. Cool aTLDs, that make sense. Built in DynDNS. http://www.freenic.ntwrk
Just so you know, no one can actualy get to the URL you have posted unless they've already hooked up to your DNS servers.
Or is it a joke?
There are a lot of 'boxes' that do convergance. the G4 cube was never meant for the livingroom.