Since everyone's using gas to drive those miles... and it's losses from less gas they are worried about... why don't they just increase tax on gas itself? Seems cheaper than building this whole infrastructure.
If you're programming a simple program in Visual Studio and it won't compile when you try doing it with gcc/g++, it's probably a very simple problem.
Your main in Visual Studio is probably "void main(void)" and returns nothing. To compile it in gcc, declare "int main()" and make the last line of main "return 0;" and it will probably compile.
he won't respond (you know who i mean), theres no use mentioning his character gratuitously
it should be laforge who comes up with this technical idea, or data, if this is "typical" star trek plot stuff... wesley wasnt even a focus in the "typical" episode
IANAL and IRECTAL, but why do ISPs have to then shoulder the responsibility of policing all this traffic and enforcing this proposed law? I don't think it could even be accomplished, considering how many ISPs are out there, and how hard it would be to make them all put in the same effort and follow the same procedures. It seems to me the only way to force such an internet-wide filtering scheme would be to pass all the data through a government server (or servers), and that's not going to happen considering how everyones so used to things being the way they are now, infrastructure-wise.
The MPAA/RIAA need to realize that these measures they keep proposing time and again are futile. Even if your ISP started policing your traffic, you could switch to a smaller ISP that's being more lax in its enforcement and is "below the radar".
And how does the MPAA propose getting these digital fingerprints onto ALL media? And how long would it take for someone to figure out how to strip the fingerprint from the file?
When it comes down to it, *any* DRM in audio files is defeatable by playing it back on a high quality speaker and re-recording it with a high quality recorder. A similar set-up could be used (with more difficulty) for video I suppose as well.
The MPAA/RIAA need to change their tactics in a big way and figure out how they can give the market what they want at a price they want, so that everyone who's downloading movies and music today decides that the MPAA/RIAA's new way is easier, and downloading isn't worth the hassle. I think one of the big things they're releasing is that people will pay more for special features and other things that add value to their product which are simply unavailable online.
The MPAA/RIAA's realization will come, I just don't know how many more years it will take and how many eras we need to go through (Usenet era, Napster era, Kazaa era, BitTorrent era) before they realize that people out there are innovative enough to come up with a new filesharing means, always. Maybe the current crop of CEOs and managers need to be gone before that will ever happen.
I used to run Windows98 stripped of IE (via 98lite from litepc.com) and I think I only ever once ran across an application I wanted to install that NEEDED Internet Explorer as well... and I think it was a later version of MS Office... so I just ended up installing the last version of Office which didn't need IE and was happy.
Most programs that need WMP and IE are programs I don't want to run, anyway.
"People from 100 years ago, if told about MRIs, CAT scans, GeoSyncSats, GPS, Sat Phones, Computers, the Internet, and Microwave ovens would say you are crazy and such things would never be possible."
I don't know, if I were alive 100 years ago, I think I would actually understand how the things you mention are scientifically possible (even with just a small description of how they work). Whereas with this kind of stuff, I think even a century ago I'd recognize it's supernatural phenomenon, and all the scientists involved are clearly "believers" and not being as objective as they should be.
Mac OSX has full Unicode support and you can type in all sorts of weird scripts in any program, except Mozilla. If you go to a Chinese or Hindi website, the title bar will display correctly (since this falls under OSX's control) but the page contents will be messed up. Try it in Safari, which is OSX native, and the title bar and all the contents display perfectly.
"Nice with the Ghostbusters ref, though I doubt many people got it."
Because... afterall... Ghostbusters is such an obscure, cult movie that no one ever saw. I know only us cool people know about it. We are "in the know."
Astronomers would complain... as would most people... and who would regulate it? What about over areas viewable in different countries? What if more than one advertiser tries to use the same patch of sky and they ads overlap and make a bright mess? No one wants to mess up the night sky. It's bad enough you can't see stars in the city.
I think Apple knows it's making a fine profit now, the company's not in danger. They will wait to see how their game with hardware sales pans out... if things become much worse and Apple gets desperate to save itself, they can always drop hardware sales and become a software only company and probably be pretty successful. It's their back up plan for when things get rough. Back in the 90's they were porting MacOS (pre-OSX) to intel x86 architecture and I guess it was running fine, but in the end they never furthered development of it or released it. But clearly this is an option they know that they have, and they do consider it from time to time pretty seriously.
It doesn't officially exist... and as India becomes more "modern" (Westernized), it's becoming less and less... but the caste system is part of the culture, not law... and traditions don't just disappear overnight... caste can still play a role for example, in arranging marriages. And I guess the caste system is almost nonexistent in the cities... but in the small villages it may be a different matter entirely.
I'm just remembering back to my skepticism when 3D platform games were coming out...
for instance, I remember when the Nintendo64 came out and I saw a demo of Mario64... I couldn't conceive how the game could be fun or intuitive at all... so used to 2d Mario.
But after a few minutes of using Mario64, it became second nature to move around in the 3d world and manipulate objects.
Maybe Nintendo should design the next 3d UI. In any case, I think it is possible to have a 3D UI without having that sense of added complexity... if it's designed smartly, then it could make some tasks much easier.
I posted some noticed about iMesh's spyware, Marketscore, getting coverage here and in Wired... (iMesh Forums)
and each time a moderator just deleted it...
My last post read:
The notice says that posts containing links to sites with "illegal content" will be removed... iMesh's spyware, Marketscore, has recently gotten coverage in Wired magazine, and on Slashdot.org (Dec 6, 9:34PM article)... neither of these sites contain illegal information. Wired's article is even pseudo-supporting iMesh's tactics (did you know that Marketscore can view your creditcard information even on secure websites? Wired magazine notes that it all your internet activity is routed through their servers and they have this ability, which you might not even know you agreed to in the License). However someone does not want you to even be aware that such a thing as Marketscore even exists... and so this post will be removed promptly as all the others have been which mention iMesh's little secret.
I challenge a moderator to post a thoughtful reply to this instead of just removing it... this is certainly related to Security, General information, User Support, as well as iMesh's P2P Revolution
And I wonder how long until they are deleted as well.
How many vehicles are we planning on crashing on the planet so that you can't look anywhere without seeing one of them? At the current rate we're sending out Mars missions... how long would it even take?
Slashdot Mirror
has NETCRAFT confirmed it yet!?
Since everyone's using gas to drive those miles... and it's losses from less gas they are worried about... why don't they just increase tax on gas itself? Seems cheaper than building this whole infrastructure.
If you're programming a simple program in Visual Studio and it won't compile when you try doing it with gcc/g++, it's probably a very simple problem.
Your main in Visual Studio is probably "void main(void)" and returns nothing. To compile it in gcc, declare "int main()" and make the last line of main "return 0;" and it will probably compile.
...top-secret US Government agencies had prior art.
he won't respond (you know who i mean), theres no use mentioning his character gratuitously
it should be laforge who comes up with this technical idea, or data, if this is "typical" star trek plot stuff... wesley wasnt even a focus in the "typical" episode
IANAL and IRECTAL, but why do ISPs have to then shoulder the responsibility of policing all this traffic and enforcing this proposed law? I don't think it could even be accomplished, considering how many ISPs are out there, and how hard it would be to make them all put in the same effort and follow the same procedures. It seems to me the only way to force such an internet-wide filtering scheme would be to pass all the data through a government server (or servers), and that's not going to happen considering how everyones so used to things being the way they are now, infrastructure-wise.
The MPAA/RIAA need to realize that these measures they keep proposing time and again are futile. Even if your ISP started policing your traffic, you could switch to a smaller ISP that's being more lax in its enforcement and is "below the radar".
And how does the MPAA propose getting these digital fingerprints onto ALL media? And how long would it take for someone to figure out how to strip the fingerprint from the file?
When it comes down to it, *any* DRM in audio files is defeatable by playing it back on a high quality speaker and re-recording it with a high quality recorder. A similar set-up could be used (with more difficulty) for video I suppose as well.
The MPAA/RIAA need to change their tactics in a big way and figure out how they can give the market what they want at a price they want, so that everyone who's downloading movies and music today decides that the MPAA/RIAA's new way is easier, and downloading isn't worth the hassle. I think one of the big things they're releasing is that people will pay more for special features and other things that add value to their product which are simply unavailable online.
The MPAA/RIAA's realization will come, I just don't know how many more years it will take and how many eras we need to go through (Usenet era, Napster era, Kazaa era, BitTorrent era) before they realize that people out there are innovative enough to come up with a new filesharing means, always. Maybe the current crop of CEOs and managers need to be gone before that will ever happen.
I used to run Windows98 stripped of IE (via 98lite from litepc.com) and I think I only ever once ran across an application I wanted to install that NEEDED Internet Explorer as well... and I think it was a later version of MS Office... so I just ended up installing the last version of Office which didn't need IE and was happy.
Most programs that need WMP and IE are programs I don't want to run, anyway.
I don't know, if I were alive 100 years ago, I think I would actually understand how the things you mention are scientifically possible (even with just a small description of how they work). Whereas with this kind of stuff, I think even a century ago I'd recognize it's supernatural phenomenon, and all the scientists involved are clearly "believers" and not being as objective as they should be.
Johnny 5 could recognize a chair or a face... he could even see shapes in the clouds! Your whole argument fell apart at the end, hah!
Please stop, the shark is tired now.
Yes!
Mac OSX has full Unicode support and you can type in all sorts of weird scripts in any program, except Mozilla. If you go to a Chinese or Hindi website, the title bar will display correctly (since this falls under OSX's control) but the page contents will be messed up. Try it in Safari, which is OSX native, and the title bar and all the contents display perfectly.
I reccomend the number 8
my favorite movie
Because... afterall... Ghostbusters is such an obscure, cult movie that no one ever saw. I know only us cool people know about it. We are "in the know."
It could never happen.
Astronomers would complain... as would most people... and who would regulate it? What about over areas viewable in different countries? What if more than one advertiser tries to use the same patch of sky and they ads overlap and make a bright mess? No one wants to mess up the night sky. It's bad enough you can't see stars in the city.
I think Apple knows it's making a fine profit now, the company's not in danger. They will wait to see how their game with hardware sales pans out... if things become much worse and Apple gets desperate to save itself, they can always drop hardware sales and become a software only company and probably be pretty successful. It's their back up plan for when things get rough. Back in the 90's they were porting MacOS (pre-OSX) to intel x86 architecture and I guess it was running fine, but in the end they never furthered development of it or released it. But clearly this is an option they know that they have, and they do consider it from time to time pretty seriously.
It doesn't officially exist... and as India becomes more "modern" (Westernized), it's becoming less and less... but the caste system is part of the culture, not law... and traditions don't just disappear overnight... caste can still play a role for example, in arranging marriages. And I guess the caste system is almost nonexistent in the cities... but in the small villages it may be a different matter entirely.
Back when their products were still made in Japan instead of Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Korea, Singapore...
I'm just remembering back to my skepticism when 3D platform games were coming out...
for instance, I remember when the Nintendo64 came out and I saw a demo of Mario64... I couldn't conceive how the game could be fun or intuitive at all... so used to 2d Mario.
But after a few minutes of using Mario64, it became second nature to move around in the 3d world and manipulate objects.
Maybe Nintendo should design the next 3d UI. In any case, I think it is possible to have a 3D UI without having that sense of added complexity... if it's designed smartly, then it could make some tasks much easier.
that was my first thought
and each time a moderator just deleted it...
My last post read:
And I wonder how long until they are deleted as well.
In Soviet Russia, Article about how in Korea, Hearing about how "in Japan, Old People Talk to Robots," is only for Old People! reads YOU!
How many vehicles are we planning on crashing on the planet so that you can't look anywhere without seeing one of them? At the current rate we're sending out Mars missions... how long would it even take?