I don't mind the actual.flv format as much as watching the videos with the crashy, memory-hungry CPU hog that is Flash. Playing back flv containers in VLC is perfectly fine. The video is mostly H.264 anyway.
Global warming is clearly false. My evidence: It's so cold right now! And those emails which someone told me meant that all climate research was a scam. Give it up, hippies. You lost, we won, get over it.
I love when a local ad comes on, trying to be loud like the big boys, but somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong, so the result is just distorted, clipped noise that barely sounds like speech at all.
WE-OME TO FU-IL-UND W-RE WE ALW-S H-E THE B-ST PR-ES ON ALL - -ND US- VEHICLES!!!!
The only problem is if it's late at night, the humor of the failure is often not enough to overcome the anger.
Find out what sites go higher and what sites go lower in quoted prices. Fake a cookie to maximize savings or delete it altogether if it gets you a uniformly higher price.
That's the behavior I'd expect from/. . None of this Newsweek / Dateline NBC alarmist "They're using COMPUTER MACHINES to scam us!!!" Get on it, people.
If the US switched off GPS, then we wouldn't have GPS either. Plus, there's not a chance any first world nation would ever wage an actual war with another. The stakes are way too high.
Having absolutely no experience with any farming techniques, any real knowledge of the chemical composition of cooled diesel exhaust or even having read the article, I still somehow feel confident enough to give a vague denouncement of this farming technique.
AHEM.
This will never work because the gas will escape/it will poison the ground/I am so much smarter than whoever came up with this.
Thank you, thank you. Love ya Slashdot. Never change.
I like how this is suddenly news because Windows 7 has a GUI for this and touts it as a feature.
Pretty much every modern OS can act as a router, even previous versions of Windows, without additional software. We don't use PCs as routers because it's wasteful and inconvenient. Think about it for 5 seconds: Why do people use dedicated router rather than using this feature that's been in the OS forever? It's because using a PC as a router is annoying and wasteful, even at home. One machine always needs to be on for the others to get a connection. If that one machine breaks, the whole network goes down. Apply this to the road where power and space are more scarce. Even less convenient.
Not sex lines necessarily, but "free" or cheap teleconference services that you call in to using a standard area code number. Connecting to this area code costs the phone company a fortune, but you never see an additional charge on your bill because you get charged by the minute.
If someone is going to be snooping, it's only fair to have everyone snooping. The only oppressive element of CCTV is the idea that only a select few people get to snoop and thereby gain some sort of advantage over everyone else. If everyone gets access, you still lose privacy but at least no one gains power.
Part of what's nice about the current periodic table is that it's totally squared off. Even if it should wrap around in places, that information should be conveyed in words of symbols, rather than warping the entire thing into some odd shape.
The second image on the linked page, the one that shows the new layout in grid form? That's the one they should use if it's really more helpful that the current setup.
I don't think Apple has it out for Woolworth's and I don't think Woolworth's meant to make a logo that's similar to Apple's. I see the similar shape but no one would ever mistake the two. This is really just reflexive litigation where the party that potentially faces dilution issues just wants to get the issue in front of a judge for some ass covering. Whether they win or lose, Apple can point to this and say they tried to defend their trademark. And if they lose and in the future, the logo condenses and the bent dash starts to straighten out and it really does look like the Apple logo, they can point to this case again and use it as leverage to say "yeah, we saw this coming, we're not only suing now that it's established".
tl;dr: It's just some cover your ass litigation and nothing more.
Or just write your own damn sync software that can read off the iTunes library as well as other sources! This isn't rocket science. Then their much touted feature goes from "clever and constantly breaking cat-and-mouse hack" to supported by Apple.
Reading the library is dead simple. It's plain XML that has been extended gracefully but not fundamentally changed in years. It's also well-documented.
Apple's concern is that the Pre shows up in iTunes as an iPod and people have been calling them about problems with the Pre.
That's both a trademark violation and annoying. Imagine how pissed Microsoft would be if a device maker had their device show up as a Zune to the Zune software and they kept getting support calls about some 3rd party device.
Yeah, yeah, it is funny that Apple is getting their first taste of how irritating it is to be the big bad guy, but it's not really fair because unlike Microsoft, they go out of their way to do things like maintain a plain text XML version of their library for interoperability. Sure, a plugin architecture would be better, but let's be honest, does iTunes really need more bloat? The program is already a war crime on Windows and it's getting that way on Mac OS too.
I get the whole racket thing, and it's a joke, etc, etc, but it's worth noting that you can turn the entire Core Location framework off on a system-wide basis. You just go in to Settings->General and turn off "Location Services".
Wow, I was not aware that connection types had fanboys.
No, I'm not a fan of HDCP. I think it's bullshit and makes the HDMI standard less reliable while taking away options from the consumer. It's despicable and stupid. However, I will say that in terms of cable cost, durability, and expandability, running multiple TMDS lines in twisted pair though an HDMI cable is a very good solution for home theaters. Especially nice are signal-level compatibility with DVI and the ability of devices in an HDMI chain to communicate with one another and automatically choose inputs. Sometimes the product with more features and backward compatibility wins, even if it does have an unfortunate downside.
You don't have to buy a $40 HDMI cable. If the cables you buy are that expensive, then you're just getting fleeced. Do the barest amount of research before you purchase.
Also, the cheap HDMI cables are more expensive than "ethernet patch cables" because of licensing, a more expensive connector, more wires, and more stringent requirements on the quality of materials. The cable costs more than a dollar because it's the equivalent of several CAT-6a cables. It's designed to transmit raw video data at 1920x1080p30. That's roughly 1.4Gbps. The standard even defines faster rates. You'd need 2-3 CAT6a cables to transfer video at that rate and still cover everything else HDMI takes care of.
There used to be a plugin architecture for devices, but that's super old. From back in the pre-iPod days. People might be thinking of that and not remembering that it was phased out entirely some 6 years ago.
I think the API that grandparent is referring to is the iLife Media Browser framework, but it's Mac OS-only, private, undocumented, and subject to change. A much better, cross-platform solution is to just read and parse the XML version of the iTunes library. It's super easy, robust in the face of change, and gives you full access to all the music files, playlists and metadata in a form that makes it easy to pick and choose what data you want syncing with your device.
That way, you're not jacking Apple's software, getting in trouble with USB-IF, and you don't have to reverse engineer and conform your designs to the iPod sync process. The only downside is that you have to write your own sync software.
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I don't mind the actual .flv format as much as watching the videos with the crashy, memory-hungry CPU hog that is Flash. Playing back flv containers in VLC is perfectly fine. The video is mostly H.264 anyway.
Poe's Law strikes again!
Global warming is clearly false. My evidence: It's so cold right now! And those emails which someone told me meant that all climate research was a scam. Give it up, hippies. You lost, we won, get over it.
I love when a local ad comes on, trying to be loud like the big boys, but somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong, so the result is just distorted, clipped noise that barely sounds like speech at all.
WE-OME TO FU-IL-UND W-RE WE ALW-S H-E THE B-ST PR-ES ON ALL - -ND US- VEHICLES!!!!
The only problem is if it's late at night, the humor of the failure is often not enough to overcome the anger.
Because they didn't have an example interface from Apple to crib off of at that point.
No, really.
Find out what sites go higher and what sites go lower in quoted prices. Fake a cookie to maximize savings or delete it altogether if it gets you a uniformly higher price.
That's the behavior I'd expect from /. . None of this Newsweek / Dateline NBC alarmist "They're using COMPUTER MACHINES to scam us!!!" Get on it, people.
If the US switched off GPS, then we wouldn't have GPS either. Plus, there's not a chance any first world nation would ever wage an actual war with another. The stakes are way too high.
I just went there and clicked a purchase button that said I needed to log in, but my SSN would do just fine to log in.
This is a pretty great scam.
Having absolutely no experience with any farming techniques, any real knowledge of the chemical composition of cooled diesel exhaust or even having read the article, I still somehow feel confident enough to give a vague denouncement of this farming technique.
AHEM.
This will never work because the gas will escape/it will poison the ground/I am so much smarter than whoever came up with this.
Thank you, thank you. Love ya Slashdot. Never change.
I like how this is suddenly news because Windows 7 has a GUI for this and touts it as a feature.
Pretty much every modern OS can act as a router, even previous versions of Windows, without additional software. We don't use PCs as routers because it's wasteful and inconvenient. Think about it for 5 seconds: Why do people use dedicated router rather than using this feature that's been in the OS forever? It's because using a PC as a router is annoying and wasteful, even at home. One machine always needs to be on for the others to get a connection. If that one machine breaks, the whole network goes down. Apply this to the road where power and space are more scarce. Even less convenient.
They should just design a few tier labels to classify online interaction types.
Controlled - Anonymous multiplay only. All user content must be approved. Chat limited to preset phrases.
Friends only - Unfiltered user content and open chat from Friends Only.
Unfiltered - Open online community. Supervision recommended under 17.
That would at least let parents know what's going on in the game. It's a lot more informative than a simple: "Online interactions not Rated"
Not sex lines necessarily, but "free" or cheap teleconference services that you call in to using a standard area code number. Connecting to this area code costs the phone company a fortune, but you never see an additional charge on your bill because you get charged by the minute.
If someone is going to be snooping, it's only fair to have everyone snooping. The only oppressive element of CCTV is the idea that only a select few people get to snoop and thereby gain some sort of advantage over everyone else. If everyone gets access, you still lose privacy but at least no one gains power.
Part of what's nice about the current periodic table is that it's totally squared off. Even if it should wrap around in places, that information should be conveyed in words of symbols, rather than warping the entire thing into some odd shape.
The second image on the linked page, the one that shows the new layout in grid form? That's the one they should use if it's really more helpful that the current setup.
I don't think Apple has it out for Woolworth's and I don't think Woolworth's meant to make a logo that's similar to Apple's. I see the similar shape but no one would ever mistake the two. This is really just reflexive litigation where the party that potentially faces dilution issues just wants to get the issue in front of a judge for some ass covering. Whether they win or lose, Apple can point to this and say they tried to defend their trademark. And if they lose and in the future, the logo condenses and the bent dash starts to straighten out and it really does look like the Apple logo, they can point to this case again and use it as leverage to say "yeah, we saw this coming, we're not only suing now that it's established".
tl;dr: It's just some cover your ass litigation and nothing more.
Or just write your own damn sync software that can read off the iTunes library as well as other sources! This isn't rocket science. Then their much touted feature goes from "clever and constantly breaking cat-and-mouse hack" to supported by Apple.
Reading the library is dead simple. It's plain XML that has been extended gracefully but not fundamentally changed in years. It's also well-documented.
Apple's concern is that the Pre shows up in iTunes as an iPod and people have been calling them about problems with the Pre.
That's both a trademark violation and annoying. Imagine how pissed Microsoft would be if a device maker had their device show up as a Zune to the Zune software and they kept getting support calls about some 3rd party device.
Yeah, yeah, it is funny that Apple is getting their first taste of how irritating it is to be the big bad guy, but it's not really fair because unlike Microsoft, they go out of their way to do things like maintain a plain text XML version of their library for interoperability. Sure, a plugin architecture would be better, but let's be honest, does iTunes really need more bloat? The program is already a war crime on Windows and it's getting that way on Mac OS too.
Public schools do not have a monopoly. Private schools (and their students!) are thriving. All you have to be is either rich or smart and lucky.
I get the whole racket thing, and it's a joke, etc, etc, but it's worth noting that you can turn the entire Core Location framework off on a system-wide basis. You just go in to Settings->General and turn off "Location Services".
Wow, I was not aware that connection types had fanboys.
No, I'm not a fan of HDCP. I think it's bullshit and makes the HDMI standard less reliable while taking away options from the consumer. It's despicable and stupid. However, I will say that in terms of cable cost, durability, and expandability, running multiple TMDS lines in twisted pair though an HDMI cable is a very good solution for home theaters. Especially nice are signal-level compatibility with DVI and the ability of devices in an HDMI chain to communicate with one another and automatically choose inputs. Sometimes the product with more features and backward compatibility wins, even if it does have an unfortunate downside.
You don't have to buy a $40 HDMI cable. If the cables you buy are that expensive, then you're just getting fleeced. Do the barest amount of research before you purchase.
Also, the cheap HDMI cables are more expensive than "ethernet patch cables" because of licensing, a more expensive connector, more wires, and more stringent requirements on the quality of materials. The cable costs more than a dollar because it's the equivalent of several CAT-6a cables. It's designed to transmit raw video data at 1920x1080p30. That's roughly 1.4Gbps. The standard even defines faster rates. You'd need 2-3 CAT6a cables to transfer video at that rate and still cover everything else HDMI takes care of.
Yes, we wouldn't want to be subjected to more than one at a time.
There used to be a plugin architecture for devices, but that's super old. From back in the pre-iPod days. People might be thinking of that and not remembering that it was phased out entirely some 6 years ago.
This is the worst car analogy I've ever heard.
I think the API that grandparent is referring to is the iLife Media Browser framework, but it's Mac OS-only, private, undocumented, and subject to change. A much better, cross-platform solution is to just read and parse the XML version of the iTunes library. It's super easy, robust in the face of change, and gives you full access to all the music files, playlists and metadata in a form that makes it easy to pick and choose what data you want syncing with your device.
That way, you're not jacking Apple's software, getting in trouble with USB-IF, and you don't have to reverse engineer and conform your designs to the iPod sync process. The only downside is that you have to write your own sync software.