Why is Homer Simpson submitting articles about IBM breakthroughs? He works for Intel.
No, Homer Simpson was the CEO of Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net but his company was bought out by Bill Gates which makes Homer an employee of Microsoft, not Intel.
What advantage does a realtor have in spending time (and thus money) to put ads up on the internet? How much more money are they really going to make by selling to someone out of state/country?
I've been looking at homes lately and over half the ones I've looked at have been homes I've found on the internet. It's not about selling to people out of state, it's about getting people in-state to look at your homes.
Personally, I would be very concerned about buying a home over the internet
I don't think anyone is buying a home over the internet (yeah, charge that home to my Visa), even ebay says that the bids on their real estate auctions aren't binding.
Real estate websites like realtor.com and homebuilder.com are a lot more convenient than the local papers when it comes to finding homes that match your criteria and that's why they're used and that's why I hope they continue to exist in the future.
So how does Apache handle the Windows (NT or whatever) filesystem. Last time I looked that was case-insensitive too
Apache uses ap_os_canonical_filename() which on case sensitive unices is a macro to replace it with the filename, but the util_win32.c provides an ap_os_canonical_filename function which converts the name to lowercase thus allowing "This" and "ThiS" to match (both being returned as "this"), so something similar is needed on case-insensitive MacOS machines.
Many types of gambling are illegal in the US, so companies move their servers offshore to countries that have unrestricted gambling.
If you are an American company, the American legal system has already decided that moving your servers offshore does not protect you from the law. Jay Cohen was convicted in a New York court because his company was incorporated in America and therefore found to be operating in America even though he wasn't.
Maybe not, but it's certainly promising that all the testimonials are positive. Not one person has come forward saying that they have died after using the immortality ring.
The Nielsen/NetRatings report said nothing of the clickthrough rate of highly targeted advertising. From that report, there's no way to tell if 0.9% is good or bad for a search engine with targeted ads.
This is *not* piracy. It has nothing to do with stealing and murder on the high seas. It is
however *copying* and I suggest that that is what you call it.
The seas are *not* high. They are not under the influence of illegal drugs. The seas are however *very wavy* and I suggest that is what you call them.
Imagine 10 layers (not very many at all) and 1024x768x24 at 60Hz. This means you need a graphics card capable of handling over 12Gb/s of data. In comparison, my 1600x1200 monitor only needs 46Mb/s of bandwidth
Since the LCD is 24 bpp at 60 hz, don't you think you should figure the same for your monitor?
1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels
1,920,000 pixels * 24 bits/pixel = 46,080,000 bits
46,080,000 bits * 60 Hz = 2.76 Gb/s (where Gb = 1,000,000,000 bits)
I don't know where you got your 46Mb/s from, but it's quite a bit off. Rudimentary logic tells us that 10 layers of a lower resolution is going to take less than 10 times the bandwidth, not the 200+ times the bandwidth you claim.
Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows.
I like that they used the word "developers" rather than (h|cr)ackers. Unless I'm mistaken, they are saying that Linux is more secure because the Linux developers can find (and fix) security problems, whereas the Microsoft developers are not very good at that.
Microsoft started running print ads where they show a BSOD and have a caption which says something like "This won't happen with Windows 2000." So you might have a case against them since they've publicly acknowledged that it was a flaw with the OS (as opposed to previously being able to claim it was your video driver or some other program that was causing it) and have not issued a recall of their flawed operating systems.
There's an article at ZDNet which lists the requirements and recommendations. It does not say which are requirements and which are recommendations, so it's unknown whether the no upgrade policy will be a requirement.
Since when is this news? I'm assuming that the "new" in "news" means that this would be a new idea.
I'm assuming that the "stuff" in "stuff that matters" is a vague generality which encompasses pretty much everything. Extreme programming is a member of the set of pretty much everything.
this real-play thing is their software and hardware is it not?
No. Your cable box is usually the property of your cable provider and you rent it from them, but your ReplayTV box is yours, you bought it, you own it forever. When you bought it, you were purchasing a piece of hardware which had a freeze-frame button, they removed this functionality.
The ZDNet article you linked to states it is a set of "guidelines and recommendations for PC manufacturers... Some of the items I've listed are requirements and others are mere recommendations or best practices." While Microsoft may for some reason want you to not be able to upgrade your components, there is nothing to indicate it is a requirement and not just a recommendation, and the overall ridiculousness of it implies to me that it is more likely to be a recommendation than a requirement (though I wouldn't put anything past MS).
The only reason Gnutella seems to get coverage here is because there's "GNU" in the title.
And the only reason Napster gets any coverage here is because there's "Nap" in the title... no wait, that's stupid, it's because there's "ster" in the title.
Who would own the copyright if you could mix and match mannerisms, such as if you had a CGI Frank Sinatra and gave him the mannerisms of of John Wayne?
At the end of movies, a disclaimer which goes something like "any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental". I assume they run this because a resemblance which is not coincidental can get them in legal trouble. If they decided to make a CGI character which resembled Frank Sinatra and John Wayne, that wouldn't be a coincidental resemblance.
Won't this make it that much easier for kiddies to find the algorithm that is used to verify these numbers?
The algorithm for credit card numbers is not a secret. You can determine if a card number is potentially correct yourself, but you need to contact the credit card company to ensure that a number is correct (and that they have enough money to cover their charge).
Why can't I just set the clock on my computer to the year 9 billion, install XP, and then fix my clock?
If the software detects that the clock is set to a time earlier than it was previously, this is a good indication that something funny is going on and it can refuse to run, some time-limited demos do this.
Changing the price of an item sold on the web is very similar to going into a store and putting your own price sticker on an item, or putting a UPC sticker of a cheaper item on. Seems to me that some kind of law must cover it.
I don't think he has a homophobic complex, I thought it was phrased awkwardly when I read it before I noticed your name. Most people use "he" or "she" when referring to someone after the first time, especially when you are not referring to someone by their name but by a descriptive term (my ex-boyfriend, some guy I just met, the girl in the green jacket, etc.).
There could be a licensing agreement, but how do you track pirated hardware?
There seems to be a new trend to have software contact a company's servers to see if it's been pirated or not. Hardware could do the same, and if it's pirated it could explode and leave an inky mess all over just like the capsules banks put in with stolen money.
Can a carmaker build a car named the Diablo? Wait, I think that was already done 8 years ago...
I realize that the same name is going to be used on different products, but game and movie companies are both in the entertainment industry, car manufacturers are not. If a company came out with a van called the Diablo, I'm sure lamborghini would have a legitimate complaint about it while Blizzard wouldn't.
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Why is Homer Simpson submitting articles about IBM breakthroughs? He works for Intel.
No, Homer Simpson was the CEO of Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net but his company was bought out by Bill Gates which makes Homer an employee of Microsoft, not Intel.
What advantage does a realtor have in spending time (and thus money) to put ads up on the internet? How much more money are they really going to make by selling to someone out of state/country?
I've been looking at homes lately and over half the ones I've looked at have been homes I've found on the internet. It's not about selling to people out of state, it's about getting people in-state to look at your homes.
Personally, I would be very concerned about buying a home over the internet
I don't think anyone is buying a home over the internet (yeah, charge that home to my Visa), even ebay says that the bids on their real estate auctions aren't binding.
Real estate websites like realtor.com and homebuilder.com are a lot more convenient than the local papers when it comes to finding homes that match your criteria and that's why they're used and that's why I hope they continue to exist in the future.
So how does Apache handle the Windows (NT or whatever) filesystem. Last time I looked that was case-insensitive too
Apache uses ap_os_canonical_filename() which on case sensitive unices is a macro to replace it with the filename, but the util_win32.c provides an ap_os_canonical_filename function which converts the name to lowercase thus allowing "This" and "ThiS" to match (both being returned as "this"), so something similar is needed on case-insensitive MacOS machines.
Many types of gambling are illegal in the US, so companies move their servers offshore to countries that have unrestricted gambling.
If you are an American company, the American legal system has already decided that moving your servers offshore does not protect you from the law. Jay Cohen was convicted in a New York court because his company was incorporated in America and therefore found to be operating in America even though he wasn't.
Testimonials ARE NOT a scientific evidence
Maybe not, but it's certainly promising that all the testimonials are positive. Not one person has come forward saying that they have died after using the immortality ring.
The Nielsen/NetRatings report said nothing of the clickthrough rate of highly targeted advertising. From that report, there's no way to tell if 0.9% is good or bad for a search engine with targeted ads.
This is *not* piracy. It has nothing to do with stealing and murder on the high seas. It is however *copying* and I suggest that that is what you call it.
The seas are *not* high. They are not under the influence of illegal drugs. The seas are however *very wavy* and I suggest that is what you call them.
Imagine 10 layers (not very many at all) and 1024x768x24 at 60Hz. This means you need a graphics card capable of handling over 12Gb/s of data. In comparison, my 1600x1200 monitor only needs 46Mb/s of bandwidth
Since the LCD is 24 bpp at 60 hz, don't you think you should figure the same for your monitor?
1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels
1,920,000 pixels * 24 bits/pixel = 46,080,000 bits
46,080,000 bits * 60 Hz = 2.76 Gb/s (where Gb = 1,000,000,000 bits)
I don't know where you got your 46Mb/s from, but it's quite a bit off. Rudimentary logic tells us that 10 layers of a lower resolution is going to take less than 10 times the bandwidth, not the 200+ times the bandwidth you claim.
Developers can find security weaknesses very easily with Linux. The same is not true with Microsoft Windows.
I like that they used the word "developers" rather than (h|cr)ackers. Unless I'm mistaken, they are saying that Linux is more secure because the Linux developers can find (and fix) security problems, whereas the Microsoft developers are not very good at that.
Microsoft started running print ads where they show a BSOD and have a caption which says something like "This won't happen with Windows 2000." So you might have a case against them since they've publicly acknowledged that it was a flaw with the OS (as opposed to previously being able to claim it was your video driver or some other program that was causing it) and have not issued a recall of their flawed operating systems.
There's an article at ZDNet which lists the requirements and recommendations. It does not say which are requirements and which are recommendations, so it's unknown whether the no upgrade policy will be a requirement.
Since when is this news? I'm assuming that the "new" in "news" means that this would be a new idea.
I'm assuming that the "stuff" in "stuff that matters" is a vague generality which encompasses pretty much everything. Extreme programming is a member of the set of pretty much everything.
this real-play thing is their software and hardware is it not?
No. Your cable box is usually the property of your cable provider and you rent it from them, but your ReplayTV box is yours, you bought it, you own it forever. When you bought it, you were purchasing a piece of hardware which had a freeze-frame button, they removed this functionality.
Go to your Customize Homepage and choose the appropriate Daylight timezone.
The ZDNet article you linked to states it is a set of "guidelines and recommendations for PC manufacturers... Some of the items I've listed are requirements and others are mere recommendations or best practices." While Microsoft may for some reason want you to not be able to upgrade your components, there is nothing to indicate it is a requirement and not just a recommendation, and the overall ridiculousness of it implies to me that it is more likely to be a recommendation than a requirement (though I wouldn't put anything past MS).
The only reason Gnutella seems to get coverage here is because there's "GNU" in the title.
And the only reason Napster gets any coverage here is because there's "Nap" in the title... no wait, that's stupid, it's because there's "ster" in the title.
Who would own the copyright if you could mix and match mannerisms, such as if you had a CGI Frank Sinatra and gave him the mannerisms of of John Wayne?
At the end of movies, a disclaimer which goes something like "any resemblance to persons living or dead is coincidental". I assume they run this because a resemblance which is not coincidental can get them in legal trouble. If they decided to make a CGI character which resembled Frank Sinatra and John Wayne, that wouldn't be a coincidental resemblance.
Won't this make it that much easier for kiddies to find the algorithm that is used to verify these numbers?
The algorithm for credit card numbers is not a secret. You can determine if a card number is potentially correct yourself, but you need to contact the credit card company to ensure that a number is correct (and that they have enough money to cover their charge).
Why can't I just set the clock on my computer to the year 9 billion, install XP, and then fix my clock?
If the software detects that the clock is set to a time earlier than it was previously, this is a good indication that something funny is going on and it can refuse to run, some time-limited demos do this.
Changing the price of an item sold on the web is very similar to going into a store and putting your own price sticker on an item, or putting a UPC sticker of a cheaper item on. Seems to me that some kind of law must cover it.
I don't think he has a homophobic complex, I thought it was phrased awkwardly when I read it before I noticed your name. Most people use "he" or "she" when referring to someone after the first time, especially when you are not referring to someone by their name but by a descriptive term (my ex-boyfriend, some guy I just met, the girl in the green jacket, etc.).
I have a Sony KP-53V75 projection TV and have experienced no problems with Macrovision from either my DVD player or VCR.
Is this the first pair of pants to be Slashdotted?
If it's not, it's probably the first pair of pants to be slashdotted twice
There could be a licensing agreement, but how do you track pirated hardware?
There seems to be a new trend to have software contact a company's servers to see if it's been pirated or not. Hardware could do the same, and if it's pirated it could explode and leave an inky mess all over just like the capsules banks put in with stolen money.
Can a carmaker build a car named the Diablo? Wait, I think that was already done 8 years ago...
I realize that the same name is going to be used on different products, but game and movie companies are both in the entertainment industry, car manufacturers are not. If a company came out with a van called the Diablo, I'm sure lamborghini would have a legitimate complaint about it while Blizzard wouldn't.