We pay NASA how much and they can't even provide decent quality images of their findings? This always bothers me that the latest findings and images from space craft are not easily available to the public. I mean, with all that money NASA is given, you would think they could afford high resolution images of comets, planets, and such. Not tiny little useless GIF files.
I've seen real some aerogel (aerofoam) before. It's difficult to describe, it looks like a solid cloud of gas. It's very fragile, so it probably wouldn't be very useful to build vehicles out of. The best use of aerofoam is as an insulator.
Is it possible to trap helium inside of aerogel? If so, you could have a lighter than air solid. That would be very cool.
I just saw an old computer sitting next to the dumpster at my apartment complex. Looks like a pentium II or pentium III series. I didnt care to take it, as I could buy a brand new one, several times faster for about $300. I don't think there are very many people who want to waste the time trying to get an old computer to work anyway. It was obviously thrown away for some reason.
Exactly, that's why I'm saying it's important to be able to make back-up copies of your music. With licenced music, you have to worry about the songs only working on a few computers, if that. If it was one of your favorite songs, do you think those few systems could withstand say 20 years? Will the online music website be there to re-verify your license files on Windows 2023? Will all these online music stores survive that long? Maybe not. At least with physical CD media you don't have to worry about such things.
Yes, I probably did mean vorbis, but the point is most people associate file types with their extension: MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG. So saying OGG in this context was appropriate as most.ogg extensions on files are ogg vorbis. You probably wouldn't be downloading Ogg Speex or Ogg FLAC from a music site, although the latter would be a nice option.
"File Type: Songs bought from Napster were available as protected.wma files ripped at 128 k."
Great, not only is only 128k, it's probably lower quality than OGG, and I'm guessing that if you're computer hard drive were to fail (likely) you would lose every song you 'bought' because the license file is probably tied to your OS in some way.
Maybe paying $10/month and using it like a radio station wouldn't be to bad, but letting people think that they 'bought' the song when you have no ability to make back up copies is stupid. Yes it mentioned burning it to a CD, but that would be an extra step re-encoding it back into the PC, and the quality would be lower.
Wow, I remember the S3 ViRGE. I think I found one directX game that actually worked with that card (Shogo) and it ran so incredibly slow and had no ability to texture map anything. It was quite funny. And yet, it was called a 3D chip set?
What does Windows have to do with this? Windows is a product made in the U.S. and it is not very cheap at all ($200 for an upgrade to XP pro? $300 for office?). I don't know of any OS's that are made in other countries that cost that much, so there is no competition in that respect.
I avoid Walmart simply because so many people shop there and I hate being around crowds like that. It's not worth my time waiting in long lines or trying to find parking at a place like that.
$150 for a calculator? I wish they would port something like Mathcad or Mathematica to Pocket PC. I'm sick of seeing these ugly low resolution screens on calculators with slow CPU's, limited memory, etc. It's time to move beyond 1990's technology for calculators.
The solution then is to implement a federal law and I think this is appropriate considering the spam is sent throughout the U.S. (and world?).
Something that reads something like it's illegal to provide internet service of any form to any individual who uses such service to send unsolicited e-mail. I don't think this would be very difficult for an ISP to track. If the ISP was worried about losing revenue, they should be entitiled to some cash reward that is part of the customer's fine for violating said law.
In the end though, e-mail still needs to be augmented with some type of trust/authentication system so spam is no longer an issue.
I noticed the article mentions she pays $1000 a month for her internet connection, but through WHICH company, and why has that company not taken the responsibility to withdraw her account for abuse? I don't care how much you pay a month to your ISP, if you're using your service in an abusive manner such as spam it should be taken away from you.
Anyone have any info on her internet provider? There should really be laws against allowing this behavior at all in the U.S.
I'm not Canadian, but this is what I think about the issue: If they start charging such exorbitant taxes they are just sending the message that it's okay to pirate the music because you're already paying for it in taxes.
Of course, this would be completely unfair to those of us who make enough money and have the moral character to actually PURCHASE our own music. The additional tax would be like welfare to support those who didn't feel like they should have to pay for music.
Most people probably don't use digital media to store music on anyway. Flash memory cards are primarily used in digital cameras, hard drives are used in PC's, CD-R's can be used for back-up and fair use rights, DVD-R's are used for making home movies from camcorders. Taxing any of these just to give free money to someone who didn't earn it is just plain wrong.
My suggestion? They should just do more to educate consumers about copyright law, and why it's important.
I remember a battery comercial (durecell I think) that came out during Christmas specifically to market their battery because so many toys don't come with them.
I think "Battery Included!" really helps sell a product though. There is nothing worse than buying something and then knowing you have to go out and buy something else to get it to work. (Requires XYZ cpu, memory, etc...)
I just installed the adblock based on your suggestion. One word: Amazing.
It will instantly block all ads from sites I visit frequently just by adding a few wildcards. I can even block all of slashdot's ads! Actually, I will probably re-enable ones on slashdot, because some of those ads are actually for cool stuff.
What's next? A DMCA that makes it illegal to possess any software that can circumvent advertising? Probably...
Yes, it's getting worse. Let's say you are trying to find a product review or even the official website of a digital camera. The odds are, the first 20 links Google gives will be advertised sites with no useful information on the camera. Result? You have to get more specific and even then it's a guessing game to find what you are looking for.
Ah... a story about Lexmark printers, and then I see an ad for an HP printer. Interesting. Can someone please start a printer company that guarantees lowest cost ink cartridges? You'll make millions instantly! Just imagine the marketing potential. I believe that once technology as far as resolution maxes out on inkjets, this will be the only way to go to stay competitive.
No, 400mbit is the maximum. They are marketing some USB2.0 devices that are only 12mbit/sec or less. Not very good when you are trying to transfer data from a device.
I remember using HyperCard in 6th grade. There really was not too much programming involved, just placing buttons and having them perform actions. It was really the first time I ever had experience with GUI based programming. It seemed to have some potential, but once Visual Basic 3.0 came out HyperCard really didnt seem to matter to most people.
I haven't checked it out myself but PythonCard is supposed to be good.
I got the adapter in some kind of accessory kit that included a nice case, headphone adapter, and link cable. Yeah, Nintendo should have known better to not include something that people want.
Advanced Wars 2 is pretty good if you like strategy games. I play it when I'm on the train and you can't hear the sound without headphones.
I'm always disappointed when I see these 'mods' where all they do is rip out the internal components and solder a few wires to the controller. How much engineering skill does that really require? Just a drill, a soldering iron, and some basic electronics. I mean really, you can't do very much considering all of the GBA is integrated into mostly one chip. I think a more interesting mod would be where you actually interface with the GBA directly through it's game card slot or it's input ports. Sure it would take a lot of research studying protocols, but you could do so much more than just put a bunch of console systems together.
I guess it's impressive though for what it is but I wouldn't consider it a complete solution for making the gameboy into a game console. It looks too bulky.
I can still tell a significant difference between 60, 75, and 85 Hz on monitor refresh rates. If you want to be any good at online games you must have at least 60fps (unrelated to refresh rate with vsync off). Otherwise, you can not track projectiles accurately.
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We pay NASA how much and they can't even provide decent quality images of their findings? This always bothers me that the latest findings and images from space craft are not easily available to the public. I mean, with all that money NASA is given, you would think they could afford high resolution images of comets, planets, and such. Not tiny little useless GIF files.
I was almost crazy enough to buy one of those, but then I came to my senses and bought a CDRW drive.
Who uses floppy drives now anyways and why would you ever want backwards compatibility?
I've seen real some aerogel (aerofoam) before. It's difficult to describe, it looks like a solid cloud of gas. It's very fragile, so it probably wouldn't be very useful to build vehicles out of. The best use of aerofoam is as an insulator.
Is it possible to trap helium inside of aerogel? If so, you could have a lighter than air solid. That would be very cool.
I guess it's common in silicon valley for people to throw computers away. That's where I live.
I just saw an old computer sitting next to the dumpster at my apartment complex. Looks like a pentium II or pentium III series. I didnt care to take it, as I could buy a brand new one, several times faster for about $300. I don't think there are very many people who want to waste the time trying to get an old computer to work anyway. It was obviously thrown away for some reason.
All those pickles... wasted!
Exactly, that's why I'm saying it's important to be able to make back-up copies of your music. With licenced music, you have to worry about the songs only working on a few computers, if that. If it was one of your favorite songs, do you think those few systems could withstand say 20 years? Will the online music website be there to re-verify your license files on Windows 2023? Will all these online music stores survive that long? Maybe not. At least with physical CD media you don't have to worry about such things.
Yes, I probably did mean vorbis, but the point is most people associate file types with their extension: MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG. So saying OGG in this context was appropriate as most .ogg extensions on files are ogg vorbis. You probably wouldn't be downloading Ogg Speex or Ogg FLAC from a music site, although the latter would be a nice option.
"File Type: Songs bought from Napster were available as protected .wma files ripped at 128 k."
Great, not only is only 128k, it's probably lower quality than OGG, and I'm guessing that if you're computer hard drive were to fail (likely) you would lose every song you 'bought' because the license file is probably tied to your OS in some way.
Maybe paying $10/month and using it like a radio station wouldn't be to bad, but letting people think that they 'bought' the song when you have no ability to make back up copies is stupid. Yes it mentioned burning it to a CD, but that would be an extra step re-encoding it back into the PC, and the quality would be lower.
Wow, I remember the S3 ViRGE. I think I found one directX game that actually worked with that card (Shogo) and it ran so incredibly slow and had no ability to texture map anything. It was quite funny. And yet, it was called a 3D chip set?
What does Windows have to do with this? Windows is a product made in the U.S. and it is not very cheap at all ($200 for an upgrade to XP pro? $300 for office?). I don't know of any OS's that are made in other countries that cost that much, so there is no competition in that respect.
I avoid Walmart simply because so many people shop there and I hate being around crowds like that. It's not worth my time waiting in long lines or trying to find parking at a place like that.
$150 for a calculator? I wish they would port something like Mathcad or Mathematica to Pocket PC. I'm sick of seeing these ugly low resolution screens on calculators with slow CPU's, limited memory, etc. It's time to move beyond 1990's technology for calculators.
5 grams put out 75 watts? That doesn't sound right.
Besides, we can't have people throwing radioactive materials in dumpsters now.
The solution then is to implement a federal law and I think this is appropriate considering the spam is sent throughout the U.S. (and world?).
Something that reads something like it's illegal to provide internet service of any form to any individual who uses such service to send unsolicited e-mail. I don't think this would be very difficult for an ISP to track. If the ISP was worried about losing revenue, they should be entitiled to some cash reward that is part of the customer's fine for violating said law.
In the end though, e-mail still needs to be augmented with some type of trust/authentication system so spam is no longer an issue.
I noticed the article mentions she pays $1000 a month for her internet connection, but through WHICH company, and why has that company not taken the responsibility to withdraw her account for abuse? I don't care how much you pay a month to your ISP, if you're using your service in an abusive manner such as spam it should be taken away from you.
Anyone have any info on her internet provider? There should really be laws against allowing this behavior at all in the U.S.
I'm not Canadian, but this is what I think about the issue: If they start charging such exorbitant taxes they are just sending the message that it's okay to pirate the music because you're already paying for it in taxes.
Of course, this would be completely unfair to those of us who make enough money and have the moral character to actually PURCHASE our own music. The additional tax would be like welfare to support those who didn't feel like they should have to pay for music.
Most people probably don't use digital media to store music on anyway. Flash memory cards are primarily used in digital cameras, hard drives are used in PC's, CD-R's can be used for back-up and fair use rights, DVD-R's are used for making home movies from camcorders. Taxing any of these just to give free money to someone who didn't earn it is just plain wrong.
My suggestion? They should just do more to educate consumers about copyright law, and why it's important.
I remember a battery comercial (durecell I think) that came out during Christmas specifically to market their battery because so many toys don't come with them.
I think "Battery Included!" really helps sell a product though. There is nothing worse than buying something and then knowing you have to go out and buy something else to get it to work. (Requires XYZ cpu, memory, etc...)
I just installed the adblock based on your suggestion. One word: Amazing.
It will instantly block all ads from sites I visit frequently just by adding a few wildcards. I can even block all of slashdot's ads! Actually, I will probably re-enable ones on slashdot, because some of those ads are actually for cool stuff.
What's next? A DMCA that makes it illegal to possess any software that can circumvent advertising? Probably...
Yes, it's getting worse. Let's say you are trying to find a product review or even the official website of a digital camera. The odds are, the first 20 links Google gives will be advertised sites with no useful information on the camera. Result? You have to get more specific and even then it's a guessing game to find what you are looking for.
Ah... a story about Lexmark printers, and then I see an ad for an HP printer. Interesting. Can someone please start a printer company that guarantees lowest cost ink cartridges? You'll make millions instantly! Just imagine the marketing potential. I believe that once technology as far as resolution maxes out on inkjets, this will be the only way to go to stay competitive.
No, 400mbit is the maximum. They are marketing some USB2.0 devices that are only 12mbit/sec or less. Not very good when you are trying to transfer data from a device.
I remember using HyperCard in 6th grade. There really was not too much programming involved, just placing buttons and having them perform actions. It was really the first time I ever had experience with GUI based programming. It seemed to have some potential, but once Visual Basic 3.0 came out HyperCard really didnt seem to matter to most people.
I haven't checked it out myself but PythonCard is supposed to be good.
I got the adapter in some kind of accessory kit that included a nice case, headphone adapter, and link cable. Yeah, Nintendo should have known better to not include something that people want.
Advanced Wars 2 is pretty good if you like strategy games. I play it when I'm on the train and you can't hear the sound without headphones.
I'm always disappointed when I see these 'mods' where all they do is rip out the internal components and solder a few wires to the controller. How much engineering skill does that really require? Just a drill, a soldering iron, and some basic electronics. I mean really, you can't do very much considering all of the GBA is integrated into mostly one chip. I think a more interesting mod would be where you actually interface with the GBA directly through it's game card slot or it's input ports. Sure it would take a lot of research studying protocols, but you could do so much more than just put a bunch of console systems together.
I guess it's impressive though for what it is but I wouldn't consider it a complete solution for making the gameboy into a game console. It looks too bulky.
I can still tell a significant difference between 60, 75, and 85 Hz on monitor refresh rates. If you want to be any good at online games you must have at least 60fps (unrelated to refresh rate with vsync off). Otherwise, you can not track projectiles accurately.