Illegal meaning the country being visited might consider a GPS to be "military equipment". The US and most if not all Western countries don't care, but 3rd world countries may. Checking with the local consulate of the country being visited should clear the matter up.
They work all right, but depending on the model you might need to fork over extra money for the maps. You get the maps either on disc as a separate purchase, or they are already on the unit and need and unlock code.
Simple Lat/Long models without mapping work fine though.
Somehow I doubt there will be maps of undeveloped countries. One word of warning though - GPS are illegal in some countries. I would check before bringing one.
Sony was "working on" an HDTV device that would make the set (KV-36XBR200) able to receive HDTV as well as solve the problem with digital inputs.
Sony's website said as much about 1-2 years ago. I went back just yesterday to get the link for my post above and what to you know, the site's changed and the old statement is now missing.
Of course it's missing. There's no way to "add on" to the TV to put in digital inputs and DRM on the set without completely overhauling it. This set only has analog component inputs.
The market is moving towards DVI, HDMI and HDCP and I and lots of others have been left in a lurch. I can get HD off of satellite and over the air via a 3rd party box, but that's not the point. Where's the promised decoder box? It was never coming.
Never is a strong word, but I stand by it. Yes, someone may come up with a box that decodes the signals, but they will be illegal in the U.S. There will not be a consumer device that does this. The whole purpose of the HDMI/HDCP was to encrypt the digital signal and plug the analog hole.
No. That's the point. There will never be a processor box that will convert the DRM signal to analog. The purpose of the new DRM is to encrypt the signal from source to display.
What needs to wake up the industry is a nice class-action for those of us who bought HDTV and HDTV-ready sets who never actually go HDTV. I bought my XBR set in 2001 and I am STILL waiting for the "converter box".
It's hard to get people to buy into the new format if they change their minds every 2 years and screw over the consumer. First it was component, then DVI and iLink(firewire), now it's HDMI. All over a roughly 4-year span.
Well look at me for opening my mouth. I last saw that series when it was being fansubbed about a year ago. I wondered why the hell no one would pick it up. Looks like someone did.
What's someone to do then? There were tons of great stuff released back in the late 70's and 80's that are either licensed by some US companies that simply don't care or will never see the light of day.
Reji Matsumoto released some really good SF stories around that time (Harlock, GE999, Queen Millenia) that have great stories. Because they now look "dated" no one will touch them. Compare that to Yamato (AKA Star Blazers), another immensely popular series whose US license holder releases crap quality VHS to DVD transfers and won't put a cent into improving the product.
Buying Japanese DVD releases or getting fansubs of the older stuff is the only way. Even fansubbers tend to go after the latest stuff and ignore the older material.
Some good stuff still makes it out, but most does not. Big boobs and big guns usually make it while great shows like PlanetES don't. At least PlanetES can be enjoyed as a fansub on the torrents.
What is alarming is that fansubs are getting more attention lately because they moved from low-volume tape trading to torrents. That's the issue. It moved from being a way to get free market research as to what was liked by US viewers to a way to kill a license when the entire series is available for free as "DVD Rips" or straight off of Japanese HDTV and usually without any "objectionable" material cut out or altered.
Dunno. I was always told that "Yellow Journalism" name had to do with the "Yellow Kid" comics and was a war between two rival newspaper publishers Pulitzer and Hearst.
Lucky for me, the "other party" has a stranglehold on my blue state and voting Republican would be pissing my vote away as well as leaving me feeling rather disgusted. I was pleased that since my state's electoral votes were never in jeopardy (guaranteed Gore/Kerry state) I could afford to toss my vote over to a well-deserving 3rd party where it would be appreciated and make a difference by boosting their ranks - even though it would not affect the election outcome.
I have that movie on DVD. I still regret watching it, even though I thought the film was wonderful at the same time.
Yes, this is what I was thinking of when I posted the Japanese song above (though I don't recall it being in the film). I do see the hard candy tins on store shelves in Japanese supermarkets. The packaging is basically the same since the war. Since seeing the film I get depressed every time I see them.
Just like that lovely Japanese song "Fushigi na Poketto." This is the song about where you have a biscuit in your pocket, you slap it, wow! Now you have two. Repeat, now you have three... Your fantastic pocket makes more biscuits!
This wonderful song used to cheer up the Japanese kids while they starving during WWII.
I dunno how drunk someone would be to go after an 11 year old (or younger).
What you have to worry about is the "slippery slope". While I find it farfetched to say this would apply to all felons, all it will take is for some scumbag to go after a 12 or 13 year old and the knee-jerk reaction will be to raise the age threshold for this law.
So it will go to 13, or perhaps 16 or under. Maybe they'll change it to "minor". Then you'll have need to worry.
Funny yes. Tiger must have known about this for a while, since searching for "tiger" on their website yields 4 Powermac systems with (you guessed it) Tiger!...with an additional 5% markup on the Macs over MSRP.
I wonder if Systemax is getting sued. They are selling:
Systemax(TM) Tiger AMD Sempron(TM) 2800+ / Microsoft® Windows® XP Home / 256MB DDR / 40GB HDD / DVD±RW Dual-Layer / Desktop PC
and have the nerve to sell it on Tiger Direct's website.
Well for the media, I have to give them credit. They did try to break a couple of scandals about the Minutemen abusing illegal immigrants.
None of the stories held up to any scrutiny.
The Minutemen are nothing but a glorified neighborhood watch. It's no different than if I spotted someone climbing over the neighbor's fence and called the police. They (Minutemen) don't detain or arrest anyone. They just spot some border crossers and call the border patrol.
Oh, and carrying a firearm (exposed) in Arizona is legal.
It ships with 512MB by default. Pull the extra RAM and if the problem remains, ship the machine sans RAM to Apple. If not, ship the funky RAM module to Crucial.
There's plenty of methods describing how to determine if RAM is the problem on the 'net. Use them.
Ram can be ordered from a reputable dealer, like Crucial. You can order the RAM at the same time you order the computer. Crucial ships fast - one or two days depending on your location.
As for the video card I can understand the concern. However, the Mac as much as I like it is not a gaming platform. If you aren't interested in pushing high FPS for your shooter, then even a lowly card like my Geforce2 MX is perfectly adequate for most Mac tasks.
None at all. In fact it is a benefit. Lots of savvy people like to wait a short while after a software update or new OS release to make sure things like corrupted firewire drives or boot failures or java cockups are sorted out.
Think of it as a limited pre-release. By the time I get my copy these issues are usually already sorted out by those who got it early and couldn't wait.
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Illegal meaning the country being visited might consider a GPS to be "military equipment". The US and most if not all Western countries don't care, but 3rd world countries may. Checking with the local consulate of the country being visited should clear the matter up.
Check here.
They work all right, but depending on the model you might need to fork over extra money for the maps. You get the maps either on disc as a separate purchase, or they are already on the unit and need and unlock code.
Simple Lat/Long models without mapping work fine though.
Somehow I doubt there will be maps of undeveloped countries. One word of warning though - GPS are illegal in some countries. I would check before bringing one.
How sweet!
Yes, you'd better get one now before it's noticed and customs starts interdicting them like they did Dreamcast serial cables from Lik Sang.
Sony was "working on" an HDTV device that would make the set (KV-36XBR200) able to receive HDTV as well as solve the problem with digital inputs.
Sony's website said as much about 1-2 years ago. I went back just yesterday to get the link for my post above and what to you know, the site's changed and the old statement is now missing.
Of course it's missing. There's no way to "add on" to the TV to put in digital inputs and DRM on the set without completely overhauling it. This set only has analog component inputs.
The market is moving towards DVI, HDMI and HDCP and I and lots of others have been left in a lurch. I can get HD off of satellite and over the air via a 3rd party box, but that's not the point. Where's the promised decoder box? It was never coming.
Never is a strong word, but I stand by it. Yes, someone may come up with a box that decodes the signals, but they will be illegal in the U.S. There will not be a consumer device that does this. The whole purpose of the HDMI/HDCP was to encrypt the digital signal and plug the analog hole.
No. That's the point. There will never be a processor box that will convert the DRM signal to analog. The purpose of the new DRM is to encrypt the signal from source to display.
What needs to wake up the industry is a nice class-action for those of us who bought HDTV and HDTV-ready sets who never actually go HDTV. I bought my XBR set in 2001 and I am STILL waiting for the "converter box".
It's hard to get people to buy into the new format if they change their minds every 2 years and screw over the consumer. First it was component, then DVI and iLink(firewire), now it's HDMI. All over a roughly 4-year span.
Actually it is far more profitable for them to use the spammers for organ harvesting.
Well look at me for opening my mouth. I last saw that series when it was being fansubbed about a year ago. I wondered why the hell no one would pick it up. Looks like someone did.
What's someone to do then? There were tons of great stuff released back in the late 70's and 80's that are either licensed by some US companies that simply don't care or will never see the light of day.
Reji Matsumoto released some really good SF stories around that time (Harlock, GE999, Queen Millenia) that have great stories. Because they now look "dated" no one will touch them. Compare that to Yamato (AKA Star Blazers), another immensely popular series whose US license holder releases crap quality VHS to DVD transfers and won't put a cent into improving the product.
Buying Japanese DVD releases or getting fansubs of the older stuff is the only way. Even fansubbers tend to go after the latest stuff and ignore the older material.
Some good stuff still makes it out, but most does not. Big boobs and big guns usually make it while great shows like PlanetES don't. At least PlanetES can be enjoyed as a fansub on the torrents.
What is alarming is that fansubs are getting more attention lately because they moved from low-volume tape trading to torrents. That's the issue. It moved from being a way to get free market research as to what was liked by US viewers to a way to kill a license when the entire series is available for free as "DVD Rips" or straight off of Japanese HDTV and usually without any "objectionable" material cut out or altered.
It's hard to compete with free.
Dunno. I was always told that "Yellow Journalism" name had to do with the "Yellow Kid" comics and was a war between two rival newspaper publishers Pulitzer and Hearst.
Thank you for that fine assessment.
Lucky for me, the "other party" has a stranglehold on my blue state and voting Republican would be pissing my vote away as well as leaving me feeling rather disgusted. I was pleased that since my state's electoral votes were never in jeopardy (guaranteed Gore/Kerry state) I could afford to toss my vote over to a well-deserving 3rd party where it would be appreciated and make a difference by boosting their ranks - even though it would not affect the election outcome.
I'm using 4.8 (31) On Tiger.
See here for a screenshot:
http://www.oriole.net/~robert/screengrab.gif
It shows Genre, Artist, Album with the song list on the bottom and the Picture and Library.
No they didn't.
If you go to Preferences->General->Show Genre when Browsing
You can make a screen that looks exactly like their exhibit.
Note that this means in no way that I support this kind of patent.
Hmmm, I remember in the past MS wanted to buy Quicken/Intuit and dump their inferior Money product. That got stomped out rather quickly by the DOJ, but I don't see that happening again anytime soon.
I knwo what you mean, but I didn't write the song.
Here's a link with the song and translation. As a bonus, it includes the non-dirty version of the "Elephant Song".
I have that movie on DVD. I still regret watching it, even though I thought the film was wonderful at the same time.
Yes, this is what I was thinking of when I posted the Japanese song above (though I don't recall it being in the film). I do see the hard candy tins on store shelves in Japanese supermarkets. The packaging is basically the same since the war. Since seeing the film I get depressed every time I see them.
Just like that lovely Japanese song "Fushigi na Poketto." This is the song about where you have a biscuit in your pocket, you slap it, wow! Now you have two. Repeat, now you have three... Your fantastic pocket makes more biscuits!
This wonderful song used to cheer up the Japanese kids while they starving during WWII.
What if grandma dies? What then?
Dunno about his sources, but I get 2 million *possible* drivers. Before anyone attacks that number, note it comes from an immigrant activist site
Another state says there are one million driving currently.
There were 24.1 million licensed drivers in 2003. So that makes illegals at most 8.3% of the drivers in California.
That's quite significant.
I dunno how drunk someone would be to go after an 11 year old (or younger).
What you have to worry about is the "slippery slope". While I find it farfetched to say this would apply to all felons, all it will take is for some scumbag to go after a 12 or 13 year old and the knee-jerk reaction will be to raise the age threshold for this law.
So it will go to 13, or perhaps 16 or under. Maybe they'll change it to "minor". Then you'll have need to worry.
Funny yes. Tiger must have known about this for a while, since searching for "tiger" on their website yields 4 Powermac systems with (you guessed it) Tiger! ...with an additional 5% markup on the Macs over MSRP.
I wonder if Systemax is getting sued. They are selling:
Systemax(TM) Tiger
AMD Sempron(TM) 2800+ / Microsoft® Windows® XP Home / 256MB DDR / 40GB HDD / DVD±RW Dual-Layer / Desktop PC
and have the nerve to sell it on Tiger Direct's website.
Well, the bill allows the editing of "offensive material" from what I've read.
Know what I find offensive?
FBI warnings, MPAA "messages" and commercials on DVDs that I cannot skip or circumvent. Now THAT's offensive.
Using this law, we might be able to get user restrictions removed from DVDs.
Well for the media, I have to give them credit. They did try to break a couple of scandals about the Minutemen abusing illegal immigrants.
None of the stories held up to any scrutiny.
The Minutemen are nothing but a glorified neighborhood watch. It's no different than if I spotted someone climbing over the neighbor's fence and called the police. They (Minutemen) don't detain or arrest anyone. They just spot some border crossers and call the border patrol.
Oh, and carrying a firearm (exposed) in Arizona is legal.
Alright I'll bite.
It ships with 512MB by default. Pull the extra RAM and if the problem remains, ship the machine sans RAM to Apple. If not, ship the funky RAM module to Crucial.
There's plenty of methods describing how to determine if RAM is the problem on the 'net. Use them.
Ram can be ordered from a reputable dealer, like Crucial. You can order the RAM at the same time you order the computer. Crucial ships fast - one or two days depending on your location.
As for the video card I can understand the concern. However, the Mac as much as I like it is not a gaming platform. If you aren't interested in pushing high FPS for your shooter, then even a lowly card like my Geforce2 MX is perfectly adequate for most Mac tasks.
None at all. In fact it is a benefit. Lots of savvy people like to wait a short while after a software update or new OS release to make sure things like corrupted firewire drives or boot failures or java cockups are sorted out.
Think of it as a limited pre-release. By the time I get my copy these issues are usually already sorted out by those who got it early and couldn't wait.