Sig says: Grammer tip: 'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
Spelling tip: Grammar is spelled grammar, not grammer.
Grammar tip: From Merriam-Webster's dictionary: effect[2, transitive verb] 1. to cause to come into being. 2 a. to bring about often by surmounting obstacles : ACCOMPLISH <effect a settlement of a dispute> b : to put into operation <the duty of the legislature to effect the will of the citizens>
Personal pet peeve here.... Dates and times should be in ISO-8631 format, so that the fields are easily recognised. In your example, it is clear that this is 30th November, but suppose you did this tomorrow? You would write 1-12-2005, where I would have written 12-1-2005. So, is it 12th January, or 1st Decemeber? ISO-8631 solves this problem by writing the date with the fields in descending order, e.g. 2005-11-30. It has the additional advantage (not relevent here, but still noteworty) of sorting correctly in a lexical sort.
Whether or not dating your comments is a good idea will be left for others to bitch about.
Why couldn't they just allow you to pick it from the set-top box?
They could, I'm pretty sure. You can subscribe to packages that way. The difficulty would be in getting customers not to call Customer Service to make their selections, getting them instead to pick using their box or a web browser. It could become a customer service quality issue. These guys seem to take customer service pretty seriously, and try to steer around things that may tarnish the image.
Dish Network used to do this. They had a package called Dish Pix. You could purchase channels at $1.50/mo each, with a $5.00 minimum purchase.
Customers with the 50/100/150 channel packages (which have since become 60/120/180 channels) could also subscribe to individual channels (I had subscribed to 8)
The problem with this was that customers were tying up customer service reps hemming and hawing about what channels they wanted to have. It ended up costing too much to do, so they stopped.
People are happy with DVD, and will be for a while yet. I think that this storm will blow over before people become unhappy with DVD. Many do not even realise that their DVDs that they are watching on their HD TVs aren't HD, because they are better than analogue SD.
That said, I will consider HD-DVD or Blu-Ray only when it appears that there is a clear winner, and it is compatible with my TV. Compatible means that it either puts out a 1080i analogue signal on component jacks, or that I am ready to replace my TV for some other reason.
On another front, I noticed that there is now a HD version of Divx;-). It is capable of storing an HD movie in DVD-sized files.
Just as simple as that.... In stapling up your cables to walls, joists, studs or whatever, drive a staple through the cable.
I did that at least two times while setting up my home network. The first one shorted out a pair, and the cable was fine as soon as I removed the staple. The second one apparently severed a conductor, but then bridged it. That cable worked just fine until I removed the staple.
Needless to say, I have since acquired a cable-safe staple gun. It has a wire guide on its tip (you straddle the cable with the guide and it keeps the cable out of the way of the outcoming staple) and it uses rounded staples.
The subject says it all. There are a lot of extensions out there, but GreaseMonkey is effectively a meta-extension. Using it, I have Ad Blocker (clobbers flash ads), freetables (allows me to see table-formatted pages across the whole width of my 1600x1200 screen, not just the left-hand half), and Slashdot-Add Mirrors, which automagically adds links to Mirrordot, NYUD, and Google Cache for every link.
Second, a New York law firm will be next to join the bandwagon. Things are heating up faster than the article summary indicates
This is more important than you think.... Looking back to an earlier post, where the EULA was quoted, we have this:
THE VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION AND LEGAL EFFECT OF THIS EULA SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO AND PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ANY CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES UNDER NEW YORK LAW). THE NEW YORK COURTS (STATE AND FEDERAL), SHALL HAVE SOLE JURISDICTION OF ANY CONTROVERSIES REGARDING THIS AGREEMENT; ANY ACTION OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH INVOLVES SUCH A CONTROVERSY SHALL BE BROUGHT IN THOSE COURTS IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND NOT ELSEWHERE.
So, as you can see, we here in New York have the ability to toast this thing.
At this point, because all of the legal boilerplate that Sony put in is in all caps, I am going to just blather on for a bit because Slashdot's fucking lameness filter kicked in. It really sucks that I can't get a legitimate post through. Really. I honestly had a solid point, but the lameness filter is, well, lame.
Redmond startup Vista.com raised similar questions when Microsoft announced plans to call the next version of its operating system Windows Vista. Microsoft defended the choice by saying the combination of "Windows" and "Vista" would avoid confusion.
Logical conclusion: I can produce a product called "Word for Linux" and avoid confusion.
...but somehow, I don't think Microsoft would see it that way.
Sorry, couldn't resist the Speedy Gonsalez reference.
I very much like the Via Epia platform. It is a basic Intel-clone platform. It's not screaming fast (1.2GHz last I checked), but it can run Linux and runs it well, and it doesn't need a lot of power.
I would suggest combining it with a 12V power supply from Mini Box and a battery equalizer so that you can run it off of the DC side of your RE system (so as to eliminate both the DC->AC and AC->DC overheads).
The board is a mini-ITX form factor, and as such, will fit not just a mini-ITX case, but also Flex-ATX, Micro-ATX and ATX cases. You can use the larger cases if you need more space for HDDs, etc.
The Epia MII-12000 is what I am using (I am on grid power, though). It has video, audio, USB, Firewire, PCMCIA, CF and ethernet all built in. For a server (keeping in mind that the ethernet will be the bottleneck), you can always add more storage to the system by firewire if you run out of space on the IDE busses (though I don't recommend going to USB).
There are three down sides besides the low clock speed that you should be aware of. First, it cannot boot from PCMCIA or CF.... probably not an issue for you. Second, it has only one PCI slot, so expansion can be a tad limited there. Third, video drivers (probably not an issue on a server) for Linux for the built-in hardware can be a bitch to set up.
Surely science classes canot operate without science teachers, i myself would leave in disgust, realising that the occupation i chose as my path is being mocked, and twisted for some egotistical and fundamentalist enjoyment.
Martydom is also an option, don't you think? Consider this: If you need to get out of the state in order to maintain your ethics, you will need to get something on your record demonstrating clearly that you are not an IDer. Otherwise, you might not look appealing to other school districts outside of Kansas. What better than getting fired for refusing to teach Kansas' version of "science"?
Better yet, in the process, you might actually be able to teach something scientific to your students between the start of the school year and the end of your employment.
There was a problem with some early model wind turbines killing birds. Newer turbines may hit a bird once in a while, but are generally not so hazardous, or at least, that is my understanding of the situation.
There was no octopus, spider, bee, or ant on Noah's ark... Again, this is only implied. But the bible is meant to be taken purely at face value, right?
This presents and interesting concept.
Yahweh (to the other gods): Hey guys, I need to reformat the Earth. Any objections?
Other gods: No, just make sure you back up our stuff.
Yahweh: Okay, no problem. I'll just have this guy named Noah take care of it.
(Forty days later)
Yahweh (to the god who created unicorns): Um.... I have some bad news....
On another note, I have often expressed the idea that there is ample evidence of multiple gods.... Look at the universe and tell me, honestly, that this doesn't look like the work of a committee.
The difficulty here is that the Latin phrase that would most likely indicate the period before Christ's birth would probably be "Ante Domini" (Before the Lord), ergo you would have a clash of abbreviations, since "Anno Domini" and "ante Domini" both abbreviate AD. Ergo, one phrase ends up in English, the other in Latin, purely by convention. Alternately, the politically correct terms (and the terms I use as a non-Christian) of BCE and CE, for "Before the Common Era" and "Common Era" eliminate this error.
BTW, this is most emphatically not an attempt to push the politically correct names on anyone. If you are comfortable with BC/AD, use them. They have the same definitions.
Does anyone know how safely detect and remove this without relying on the Sony download? For some reason, I don't trust it not to install the software if I don't already have it.
Sure.... I'm not sure about detection, but format C: seems to be pretty good at removal:-P
Seriously, though, if you are at that level of paranoia (and I'm not knocking you for it if you are), you can backup your "stuff" and reinstall the OS. Personally, I'd like to recommend going to something non-windows, but that part is really up to you. I don't want to be the typical knee-jerking slashbot that says "use Linux" as the solution to every Windows problem...although I do use Linux almost exclusively...
You might also want to consider making periodic drive images in the future, so you can always "undo" to a certain point. I guess Ghost is the most commonly chosen app for this purpose. If you just put an image on a second or external drive every now and then, you have something to go back to.
How do you find out how much calories you burn during a day?
You track your caloric intake and body mass over a period of time. At the end of the period of time, you take the difference in your weight at the beginning and end of the test period.
A pound of body fat is equal to 3500Cal, a kg is 7700Cal, a stone is 49000Cal. Multiply this by your weight gain/loss.
Now, if you lost weight, add this to your caloric intake. If you gained weight, subtract it from your caloric intake. Take this new number and divide by the number of days in your test period, and you have your metabolic rate.
Expressed another way: $metabolic_rate=($calories_in - ($finish_weight - $start_weight) * $conversion_factor)/$days_in_test;
Again, $conversion_factor is 3500, 7700, 49000 for pounds, kg, stone, respectively.
Typical figures are 2000Cal/day for women, 2400Cal/day for men. Mine came out to 2395Cal/day when I did this test over a two-month period.
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Let's face it: The spirit of this band died with its leader. The Grateful Dead have turned into a bunch of ingrates.
Barlow and Lesh need to be very vocal about this if they truly disagree. It is the only thing that can hold them together at this point.
Sig says: Grammer tip: 'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
Spelling tip: Grammar is spelled grammar, not grammer.
Grammar tip: From Merriam-Webster's dictionary: effect[2, transitive verb] 1. to cause to come into being. 2 a. to bring about often by surmounting obstacles : ACCOMPLISH <effect a settlement of a dispute> b : to put into operation <the duty of the legislature to effect the will of the citizens>
You didn't do your homework.
Personal pet peeve here.... Dates and times should be in ISO-8631 format, so that the fields are easily recognised. In your example, it is clear that this is 30th November, but suppose you did this tomorrow? You would write 1-12-2005, where I would have written 12-1-2005. So, is it 12th January, or 1st Decemeber? ISO-8631 solves this problem by writing the date with the fields in descending order, e.g. 2005-11-30. It has the additional advantage (not relevent here, but still noteworty) of sorting correctly in a lexical sort.
Whether or not dating your comments is a good idea will be left for others to bitch about.
Why couldn't they just allow you to pick it from the set-top box?
They could, I'm pretty sure. You can subscribe to packages that way. The difficulty would be in getting customers not to call Customer Service to make their selections, getting them instead to pick using their box or a web browser. It could become a customer service quality issue. These guys seem to take customer service pretty seriously, and try to steer around things that may tarnish the image.
Dish Network used to do this. They had a package called Dish Pix. You could purchase channels at $1.50/mo each, with a $5.00 minimum purchase.
Customers with the 50/100/150 channel packages (which have since become 60/120/180 channels) could also subscribe to individual channels (I had subscribed to 8)
The problem with this was that customers were tying up customer service reps hemming and hawing about what channels they wanted to have. It ended up costing too much to do, so they stopped.
Next, an imaginary audience that actually applauds.
Does Karaoke Revolution count?
People are happy with DVD, and will be for a while yet. I think that this storm will blow over before people become unhappy with DVD. Many do not even realise that their DVDs that they are watching on their HD TVs aren't HD, because they are better than analogue SD.
That said, I will consider HD-DVD or Blu-Ray only when it appears that there is a clear winner, and it is compatible with my TV. Compatible means that it either puts out a 1080i analogue signal on component jacks, or that I am ready to replace my TV for some other reason.
On another front, I noticed that there is now a HD version of Divx ;-). It is capable of storing an HD movie in DVD-sized files.
Just as simple as that.... In stapling up your cables to walls, joists, studs or whatever, drive a staple through the cable.
I did that at least two times while setting up my home network. The first one shorted out a pair, and the cable was fine as soon as I removed the staple. The second one apparently severed a conductor, but then bridged it. That cable worked just fine until I removed the staple.
Needless to say, I have since acquired a cable-safe staple gun. It has a wire guide on its tip (you straddle the cable with the guide and it keeps the cable out of the way of the outcoming staple) and it uses rounded staples.
I sure hope that they've fixed the VIA C3 bug that was present on the last distribution
I did not encounter this problem, but I am also running a newer C3.... I have a 1.2GHz Nehemiah core.
it just doesn't translate well.
Nonsense it doesn't translate well. You just have to understand that Linus has a wry sense of humour and it all just falls into place.
As the heading on /. sometimes says.... It's funny. Laugh.
The subject says it all. There are a lot of extensions out there, but GreaseMonkey is effectively a meta-extension. Using it, I have Ad Blocker (clobbers flash ads), freetables (allows me to see table-formatted pages across the whole width of my 1600x1200 screen, not just the left-hand half), and Slashdot-Add Mirrors, which automagically adds links to Mirrordot, NYUD, and Google Cache for every link.
how about applying it to music that people would want to download?
I think this may have been a test market. Try it out on some popular, but not too popular, titles, and see if it flies. They now have their answer.
what if Intel and AMD both DRM there (sic) chips?
That leaves Via. Unfortunately, their chips aren't very powerful, but they are very energy-efficient and don't generate a lot of heat.
Second, a New York law firm will be next to join the bandwagon. Things are heating up faster than the article summary indicates
This is more important than you think.... Looking back to an earlier post, where the EULA was quoted, we have this:
THE VALIDITY, INTERPRETATION AND LEGAL EFFECT OF THIS EULA SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO AND PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO ANY CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES UNDER NEW YORK LAW). THE NEW YORK COURTS (STATE AND FEDERAL), SHALL HAVE SOLE JURISDICTION OF ANY CONTROVERSIES REGARDING THIS AGREEMENT; ANY ACTION OR OTHER PROCEEDING WHICH INVOLVES SUCH A CONTROVERSY SHALL BE BROUGHT IN THOSE COURTS IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND NOT ELSEWHERE.
So, as you can see, we here in New York have the ability to toast this thing.
At this point, because all of the legal boilerplate that Sony put in is in all caps, I am going to just blather on for a bit because Slashdot's fucking lameness filter kicked in. It really sucks that I can't get a legitimate post through. Really. I honestly had a solid point, but the lameness filter is, well, lame.
From TFA:
Redmond startup Vista.com raised similar questions when Microsoft announced plans to call the next version of its operating system Windows Vista. Microsoft defended the choice by saying the combination of "Windows" and "Vista" would avoid confusion.
Logical conclusion: I can produce a product called "Word for Linux" and avoid confusion.
...but somehow, I don't think Microsoft would see it that way.
Sorry, couldn't resist the Speedy Gonsalez reference.
I very much like the Via Epia platform. It is a basic Intel-clone platform. It's not screaming fast (1.2GHz last I checked), but it can run Linux and runs it well, and it doesn't need a lot of power.
I would suggest combining it with a 12V power supply from Mini Box and a battery equalizer so that you can run it off of the DC side of your RE system (so as to eliminate both the DC->AC and AC->DC overheads).
The board is a mini-ITX form factor, and as such, will fit not just a mini-ITX case, but also Flex-ATX, Micro-ATX and ATX cases. You can use the larger cases if you need more space for HDDs, etc.
The Epia MII-12000 is what I am using (I am on grid power, though). It has video, audio, USB, Firewire, PCMCIA, CF and ethernet all built in. For a server (keeping in mind that the ethernet will be the bottleneck), you can always add more storage to the system by firewire if you run out of space on the IDE busses (though I don't recommend going to USB).
There are three down sides besides the low clock speed that you should be aware of. First, it cannot boot from PCMCIA or CF.... probably not an issue for you. Second, it has only one PCI slot, so expansion can be a tad limited there. Third, video drivers (probably not an issue on a server) for Linux for the built-in hardware can be a bitch to set up.
Surely science classes canot operate without science teachers, i myself would leave in disgust, realising that the occupation i chose as my path is being mocked, and twisted for some egotistical and fundamentalist enjoyment.
Martydom is also an option, don't you think? Consider this: If you need to get out of the state in order to maintain your ethics, you will need to get something on your record demonstrating clearly that you are not an IDer. Otherwise, you might not look appealing to other school districts outside of Kansas. What better than getting fired for refusing to teach Kansas' version of "science"?
Better yet, in the process, you might actually be able to teach something scientific to your students between the start of the school year and the end of your employment.
that would probably be too simple I suppose.
Most likely.
There was a problem with some early model wind turbines killing birds. Newer turbines may hit a bird once in a while, but are generally not so hazardous, or at least, that is my understanding of the situation.
There was no octopus, spider, bee, or ant on Noah's ark... Again, this is only implied. But the bible is meant to be taken purely at face value, right?
This presents and interesting concept.
Yahweh (to the other gods): Hey guys, I need to reformat the Earth. Any objections?
Other gods: No, just make sure you back up our stuff.
Yahweh: Okay, no problem. I'll just have this guy named Noah take care of it.
(Forty days later)
Yahweh (to the god who created unicorns): Um.... I have some bad news....
On another note, I have often expressed the idea that there is ample evidence of multiple gods.... Look at the universe and tell me, honestly, that this doesn't look like the work of a committee.
The difficulty here is that the Latin phrase that would most likely indicate the period before Christ's birth would probably be "Ante Domini" (Before the Lord), ergo you would have a clash of abbreviations, since "Anno Domini" and "ante Domini" both abbreviate AD. Ergo, one phrase ends up in English, the other in Latin, purely by convention. Alternately, the politically correct terms (and the terms I use as a non-Christian) of BCE and CE, for "Before the Common Era" and "Common Era" eliminate this error.
BTW, this is most emphatically not an attempt to push the politically correct names on anyone. If you are comfortable with BC/AD, use them. They have the same definitions.
Good grief, people! You all sound like you need to take a vowel movement!
(/me ducks)
This is good information. Thank you.
I don't guarantee it will work, because I have a terrible sweet tooth (always have), but it is certainly worth a try.
Does anyone know how safely detect and remove this without relying on the Sony download? For some reason, I don't trust it not to install the software if I don't already have it.
Sure.... I'm not sure about detection, but format C: seems to be pretty good at removal :-P
Seriously, though, if you are at that level of paranoia (and I'm not knocking you for it if you are), you can backup your "stuff" and reinstall the OS. Personally, I'd like to recommend going to something non-windows, but that part is really up to you. I don't want to be the typical knee-jerking slashbot that says "use Linux" as the solution to every Windows problem...although I do use Linux almost exclusively...
You might also want to consider making periodic drive images in the future, so you can always "undo" to a certain point. I guess Ghost is the most commonly chosen app for this purpose. If you just put an image on a second or external drive every now and then, you have something to go back to.
How do you find out how much calories you burn during a day?
You track your caloric intake and body mass over a period of time. At the end of the period of time, you take the difference in your weight at the beginning and end of the test period.
A pound of body fat is equal to 3500Cal, a kg is 7700Cal, a stone is 49000Cal. Multiply this by your weight gain/loss.
Now, if you lost weight, add this to your caloric intake. If you gained weight, subtract it from your caloric intake. Take this new number and divide by the number of days in your test period, and you have your metabolic rate.
Expressed another way:
$metabolic_rate=($calories_in - ($finish_weight - $start_weight) * $conversion_factor)/$days_in_test;
Again, $conversion_factor is 3500, 7700, 49000 for pounds, kg, stone, respectively.
Typical figures are 2000Cal/day for women, 2400Cal/day for men. Mine came out to 2395Cal/day when I did this test over a two-month period.