I still use the PS2 ports for my mouse and keyboard on the PC I built earlier this year. Simple input devices simply don't need the bandwidth of USB 2.0, and since I only have 6 USB slots available, and five of them used (printer, joystick, CF/MD/SD card reader (uses 2), PDA dock) full-time already, I don't have much left for another device unless I bought a USB card.
Though, I'd wouldn't mind dropping the PS/2 support (and serial and parallel) if mobo manufacturers replaced them with extra "new" ports, like USB 2.0 or firewire and other companies (like Logitech) quit making PS/2 devices.
"2278 - Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of "over-zealous" treatment. Here one does not will to cause death; one's ability to impede it is merely accepted. The decisions should be made by the patient if he is competent and able or, if not, by those legally entitled to act for the patient, whose reasonable will and legitimate interests must always be respected."
I guess we're both right, to a degree. Though there are some Catholics that would disagree on whether a procedure is "burdensome enough" to terminate, but the Catholic Church itself does spell it out with hardly any ambiguity.
And all people are loony; it only depends on what we're loony about;)
"Catholics and many other mainstream religions would probably consider refusing this type of medical care as suicide."
Catholics, nor do any other traditional Christians, equate refusal of medical care as suicide. In fact, it's the only form of euthanasia that they consider tolerable. The common belief is that taking someone off a ventilator (one example) is not actually going to directly kill that person, but allowing that person to die naturally of suffocation by their own body.
That said, active euthanasia, such as an injection that stops a healthy self-sustaining heart, is considered morally wrong.
I think your fears are unnecessary. People predicted the same a few decades ago when we were outsourcing a lot of jobs to Japan. What happened then was that Japan got wealthier, their cost of living rose to our level (presuming you're American), and now they even outsource jobs to us!
A good example is that certain Japanese auto manufacturers have caught flak in their own country because thousands of Honda Accords and Toyota trucks are built by American hands.
And Japan's post-WWII economy was pretty shitty. There's no reason why India shouldn't do the same.
"A quick lookup of my street address was extremely insightful. I recognized many of the names from my years in the business community and guess what? Most of the Republican donors are owners and officers of companies who have been laying off workers (and outsourcing their work) with most contributing $2000 checks from every person in their household. The Dems, on the other hand, had more contributors, but they were much smaller contributions ($50 - $500) and mostly from small business owners and average Joe's -- many retirees."
"It's interesting to see the torrent download rate gradually increase as more and more people start linking to the file from slashdot's site and get more and more of the file. Very cool. Isn't technology wonderful?"
Yeah, wonderful until the tracker itself gets/.ed... Considering that my Azureus client is now having a hard time trying to update the tracker status, I'd say that it's possible it may be starting to happen.
The sequels to the Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) books featured this technology as well. Ender would subvocalize with Jane, who travelled on the ansible.
Good story, good universe. I hear there's an Ender's Game movie in the works.
"Active Noise Cancellation stuff is a really cool technology. I wonder if this could be applied to cars and other "larger louder" things in the future."
The 2003 Dodge Viper SRT/10 has side exhaust with active noise cancellation. It can be switched on/off to allow for "stealth mode" or a throaty sound- though I can't imagine why... I love the sound of a V-10.
"Because it hadn't been patented before, at least not in the manner in which this patent application describes. Welcome to the wacky world of the USPTO..."
The feature doesn't need to be patented before to prevent someone else from patenting it. All one needs to challenge this patent is an example of prior art.
"The Internet has been all a-buzz with tin-foil-hat geeks have been in a tizzy over supposed government coverups of a soon-to-come super eruption in Yellowstone (especially see The Shadow Confederacy, but also Rense.com, or BlackVault for entertaining examples)."
"That may be justification alone for why the systems were underclocked at the factory. The clock in many games is based not on an actual clock but the speed of the processor... speed things up and you speed everything in the game up, and that's not very playable."
You're right. Even on newer consoles, like the Xbox, a 1.4 ghz cpu and 128 mb ram upgrade tends to have problems in certain games. Most console games, unlike their PC counterparts, run proportional to the CPU clock for actual game speed.
In a PC, overclocking the CPU will usually increase frame rate in newer games. Consoles, with their unified architecture, begin to run into compatibility problems when you make certain components run faster, or will usually speed up gameplay proportionally to the clock speed increase.
Yes, the above applies to the PC-like xbox too, but not to every game. From what I've been told, running Halo co-op splitscreen on that 1.4ghz xbox runs as smooth as silk.
But litigation tends to pay off more nowadays (look at SCO, duh) than actual innovation. I hate to say this, but it sounds as if lawyers are cheaper than R&D costs for larger businesses.
Let's face it, Real (tm) movies suck, and their streamed movies suck even more, especially over a DSL connection. I couldn't ever bring myself to even attempt to watch a game streamed with Real media- if any action (such as a ball being hit and camera quickly pans to wherever the ball goes) were to take place, the entire display turns into a mess of pixels, and I find it difficult to actually follow.
I hate to say it, but MS's video looks better at the bitrates that I can enjoy (about 512k).
To top it all off, Realplayer isn't free (except that the free version is littered with adware/spyware). MS mediaplayer is (provided you're running Windows, of course), and requires no payment or ads, outside of the video.
Realplayer's suit in this case may have merit (if MLB didn't abide by the contract), but I wouldn't install Realplayer if they were broadcasting free porn, let alone baseball.
I don't know about statistics, but I found this site helpful.
Then again, I'm more interested in theoretical mathematics (abstract alebra, topology, etc) than statistics. You'll find a basic probability text that may or may not help, depending on your ability.
"The question is, will the radioactivity fog your film?"
No worries. Just shoot it with digital cameras and transmit the footage via satellite. That way, there's no need to recover your equipment if it becomes hot through contact with lethally radioactive dust (which may be likely if your machines go indoors or dangerously close to the Chernobyl reactor).
I doubt any science fiction filmakers would take advantage of robotic tech to do something like this, but maybe a documentary might. It would be interesting to see the inside of the reactor today without worrying about the risks.
Just wait until the RIAA tries to slap Ogg with a DMCA because it believes that the codec is circumventing copy protection by not utilizing any DRM-like technology to prevent unauthorized copying
I don't agree with it; it's just that I wouldn't put it past lawyers to do that.
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"Did, I go way offtopic, it's monday."
;)
No, but your punctuation could use some work.
PCI-X is not PCI-E (or PCI-Express). PCI-E is a completely new interface and is not backwards-compatible like PCI-X.
To read the specs on both, click right here.
I still use the PS2 ports for my mouse and keyboard on the PC I built earlier this year. Simple input devices simply don't need the bandwidth of USB 2.0, and since I only have 6 USB slots available, and five of them used (printer, joystick, CF/MD/SD card reader (uses 2), PDA dock) full-time already, I don't have much left for another device unless I bought a USB card.
Though, I'd wouldn't mind dropping the PS/2 support (and serial and parallel) if mobo manufacturers replaced them with extra "new" ports, like USB 2.0 or firewire and other companies (like Logitech) quit making PS/2 devices.
"...or some sort of testicle electrode device (like a "home detention" prisoner, goes off whenever the spyware "calls home")"
Some spyware authors probably wouldn't consider that a punishment, but rather a bonus.
Nevermind, ebay's fine... it seems the pics were from sdk-team.com, so I'm not surprised.
Carry on.
It looks like you forgot the most obvious and important thing: Ebay got slashdotted!!!
I'm serious though, the page has been taking nearly five minutes, and only three pictures have loaded up. Damn, what next? Google?
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church:
;)
"2278 - Discontinuing medical procedures that are burdensome, dangerous, extraordinary, or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be legitimate; it is the refusal of "over-zealous" treatment. Here one does not will to cause death; one's ability to impede it is merely accepted. The decisions should be made by the patient if he is competent and able or, if not, by those legally entitled to act for the patient, whose reasonable will and legitimate interests must always be respected."
I guess we're both right, to a degree. Though there are some Catholics that would disagree on whether a procedure is "burdensome enough" to terminate, but the Catholic Church itself does spell it out with hardly any ambiguity.
And all people are loony; it only depends on what we're loony about
"Catholics and many other mainstream religions would probably consider refusing this type of medical care as suicide."
Catholics, nor do any other traditional Christians, equate refusal of medical care as suicide. In fact, it's the only form of euthanasia that they consider tolerable. The common belief is that taking someone off a ventilator (one example) is not actually going to directly kill that person, but allowing that person to die naturally of suffocation by their own body.
That said, active euthanasia, such as an injection that stops a healthy self-sustaining heart, is considered morally wrong.
Yes they have.
Provided that SCO ever gets beyond IBM, then with Linux vendors/customers/users, they promised they'd move on to attacking BSD.
But we all know that's never going to happen. Methinks SCO already bit off more than it could chew when it tried to tackle IBM.
I think your fears are unnecessary. People predicted the same a few decades ago when we were outsourcing a lot of jobs to Japan. What happened then was that Japan got wealthier, their cost of living rose to our level (presuming you're American), and now they even outsource jobs to us!
A good example is that certain Japanese auto manufacturers have caught flak in their own country because thousands of Honda Accords and Toyota trucks are built by American hands.
And Japan's post-WWII economy was pretty shitty. There's no reason why India shouldn't do the same.
"A quick lookup of my street address was extremely insightful. I recognized many of the names from my years in the business community and guess what? Most of the Republican donors are owners and officers of companies who have been laying off workers (and outsourcing their work) with most contributing $2000 checks from every person in their household. The Dems, on the other hand, had more contributors, but they were much smaller contributions ($50 - $500) and mostly from small business owners and average Joe's -- many retirees."
That may be true where you live, but according to the FatCats index on fundrace.org, Kerry has more wealthy contributors than Bush.
I am not a statistician, so I wouldn't put too much faith in these results.
"It's interesting to see the torrent download rate gradually increase as more and more people start linking to the file from slashdot's site and get more and more of the file. Very cool. Isn't technology wonderful?"
/.ed... Considering that my Azureus client is now having a hard time trying to update the tracker status, I'd say that it's possible it may be starting to happen.
Yeah, wonderful until the tracker itself gets
The sequels to the Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) books featured this technology as well. Ender would subvocalize with Jane, who travelled on the ansible.
Good story, good universe. I hear there's an Ender's Game movie in the works.
"Active Noise Cancellation stuff is a really cool technology. I wonder if this could be applied to cars and other "larger louder" things in the future."
The 2003 Dodge Viper SRT/10 has side exhaust with active noise cancellation. It can be switched on/off to allow for "stealth mode" or a throaty sound- though I can't imagine why... I love the sound of a V-10.
Jealousy.
If I gave a job to a girlfriend, then all subsequent girlfriends might feel that they have the right to work for your company as well.
This is of course, assuming that someone who owns an IT business actually has many girlfriends. For those of us on slashdot, we can only dream.
"Because it hadn't been patented before, at least not in the manner in which this patent application describes. Welcome to the wacky world of the USPTO..."
The feature doesn't need to be patented before to prevent someone else from patenting it. All one needs to challenge this patent is an example of prior art.
"The Internet has been all a-buzz with tin-foil-hat geeks have been in a tizzy over supposed government coverups of a soon-to-come super eruption in Yellowstone (especially see The Shadow Confederacy, but also Rense.com, or BlackVault for entertaining examples)."
You seem to have forgotten this gem.
I got your tin foil hat right here!
"That may be justification alone for why the systems were underclocked at the factory. The clock in many games is based not on an actual clock but the speed of the processor... speed things up and you speed everything in the game up, and that's not very playable."
You're right. Even on newer consoles, like the Xbox, a 1.4 ghz cpu and 128 mb ram upgrade tends to have problems in certain games. Most console games, unlike their PC counterparts, run proportional to the CPU clock for actual game speed.
In a PC, overclocking the CPU will usually increase frame rate in newer games. Consoles, with their unified architecture, begin to run into compatibility problems when you make certain components run faster, or will usually speed up gameplay proportionally to the clock speed increase.
Yes, the above applies to the PC-like xbox too, but not to every game. From what I've been told, running Halo co-op splitscreen on that 1.4ghz xbox runs as smooth as silk.
But litigation tends to pay off more nowadays (look at SCO, duh) than actual innovation. I hate to say this, but it sounds as if lawyers are cheaper than R&D costs for larger businesses.
Let's face it, Real (tm) movies suck, and their streamed movies suck even more, especially over a DSL connection. I couldn't ever bring myself to even attempt to watch a game streamed with Real media- if any action (such as a ball being hit and camera quickly pans to wherever the ball goes) were to take place, the entire display turns into a mess of pixels, and I find it difficult to actually follow.
I hate to say it, but MS's video looks better at the bitrates that I can enjoy (about 512k).
To top it all off, Realplayer isn't free (except that the free version is littered with adware/spyware). MS mediaplayer is (provided you're running Windows, of course), and requires no payment or ads, outside of the video.
Realplayer's suit in this case may have merit (if MLB didn't abide by the contract), but I wouldn't install Realplayer if they were broadcasting free porn, let alone baseball.
"Indeed. I can't tell you how many fights erupt when a Brit asks a Yank for a cigarette."
Did you just call me a fag?
I don't know about statistics, but I found this site helpful.
Then again, I'm more interested in theoretical mathematics (abstract alebra, topology, etc) than statistics. You'll find a basic probability text that may or may not help, depending on your ability.
"The question is, will the radioactivity fog your film?"
No worries. Just shoot it with digital cameras and transmit the footage via satellite. That way, there's no need to recover your equipment if it becomes hot through contact with lethally radioactive dust (which may be likely if your machines go indoors or dangerously close to the Chernobyl reactor).
I doubt any science fiction filmakers would take advantage of robotic tech to do something like this, but maybe a documentary might. It would be interesting to see the inside of the reactor today without worrying about the risks.
Just wait until the RIAA tries to slap Ogg with a DMCA because it believes that the codec is circumventing copy protection by not utilizing any DRM-like technology to prevent unauthorized copying
I don't agree with it; it's just that I wouldn't put it past lawyers to do that.
It's the least of what the Oscars could do after what they did in 1978 by passing up Star Wars IV: A New Hope.
C'mon, a Woody Allen film beat out Star Wars?
Yeah, it was the least they could do.
"Microsoft should buy Rockstar, then sit back and watch Sony die."
Monopolizing developers thereby forcing competitors out of business???
How Microsoft of you to consider that!