Yes, Canadians will be making great discoveries while Jesuslanders argue about how may angels can dance on the head of a pin, are these end-times and if evolution is real, why didn't the apes evolve.
I would like to write to my Congressman and/or my Senators and tell them I oppose this, and I vote, but details are lacking. Is this a House bill of a Senate bill? What is the full name of the bill, and its number, such as HR-237 or SR-421? I don't want to come off as some yahoo responding to an urban legend when I write. I need the details that this BoinBoing article didn't offer.
James Randi has offered one million dollars to anyone who can prove the existence of anything supernatural or paranormal. No one has claimed the prize, and I say no one will. There may be things we don't understand the nature of yet, but there is no such thing as supernatural or paranormal.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I used to occasionally look at Forbes Magazine when some suit had left a copy behind, but I usually just used it to line the bottom of my birdcage. It wasn't long before my little birdie died. Maybe having to look at that rag was what killed the poor thing. I guess what I am really trying to say is that Forbes Magazine is not fit for the bottom of a birdcage.
Blockbusters? I thought blockbusters were highly successful and popular films, not box office poison. Maybe that word does not mean what I think it means, or maybe that word does not mean what the author of the article thinks it means.
No matter how this is handled, people will be caught unaware, and will blow a gasket when their idiot box stops working. The viewing public is stupid. Here is an example. When WCPO in Cincinnati first used their SAP channel to simulcast in Spanish, they were deluged with complaints demanding that channel 9 immediately go back to broadcasting in English. Even in 2005, they did not know what SAP was, and had it turned on. On the evening news the next day they tried to explain what SAP was, but still can't turn it on without idiots going ballistic about their TV "talkin' forin".
Similar devices from other manufacturers will be released NEXT YEAR. Getting your product to the market first is a good thing, not a slip up. Somebody is just an apple hater.
It has an ac adapter with a standard round connector that can provide a maximum of 2 amps at 12v. It relies on its circuit board to change some of that into 5v. The 200 gig WD drive I tried to use with it simply did not get enough power to operate reliably. If I remember the specs right it draws 1.2 amps of 12v and 0.75 amps of 5v. The Samsung in it now requires a lot less juice.
Other enclosures have a power brick with a 4-pin connector; 12v, 5v and two grounds. Those are more likely to work reliably. I also had driver problems with that enclosure's IEEE 1394, and had to use USB.
Avoid the plastic one from Ultra being sold at Tiger Direct. Its power supply is woefully inadequate for most hard drives. It does not even have separate 12v and 5v lines, a must for any WD drive, and many other power hungry ones as well. A Samsung 30 gig 5400 rpm drive is the best mine can accomodate. Also, the thing has no on/off switch unless they have re-designed it, and has a terrible vibration problem that will make yuu crazy with the noise unlesss you set it sideways on something soft like a plastic anti-skid pad.
If you get a drive cage made of aluminum, there is no need for a noise-making and dust-sucking fan.
Another reason this isn't a big deal is because HD-DVD won't be on the market by this X-mas gift buying season. If they were ready for this year and Blu-Ray was not until 2006, that would make the difference. Just being region free is something only a few techies even understand.
Those generic info pages at Symantec suck, much like Norton's Virus, which virus writers and hackers expect to encounter and know how to disabe. Not that McViruscan is any better.
They blame Apple for creating customer inconvenience, but if Apple instructed people how to get around Sony DRM, Sony would sue under the DMCA, and it would be a criminal offense if the Induce Act became law.
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Most people have no idea how all these high-tech whizbangs work, and never will. It looks like the politicians are equally clueless.
Yes, Canadians will be making great discoveries while Jesuslanders argue about how may angels can dance on the head of a pin, are these end-times and if evolution is real, why didn't the apes evolve.
That's a silly logo.
I would like to write to my Congressman and/or my Senators and tell them I oppose this, and I vote, but details are lacking. Is this a House bill of a Senate bill? What is the full name of the bill, and its number, such as HR-237 or SR-421? I don't want to come off as some yahoo responding to an urban legend when I write. I need the details that this BoinBoing article didn't offer.
James Randi has offered one million dollars to anyone who can prove the existence of anything supernatural or paranormal. No one has claimed the prize, and I say no one will. There may be things we don't understand the nature of yet, but there is no such thing as supernatural or paranormal.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I used to occasionally look at Forbes Magazine when some suit had left a copy behind, but I usually just used it to line the bottom of my birdcage. It wasn't long before my little birdie died. Maybe having to look at that rag was what killed the poor thing. I guess what I am really trying to say is that Forbes Magazine is not fit for the bottom of a birdcage.
If they want to do something really cool with "laserbeams", they need to put them on sharks' heads!
Blockbusters? I thought blockbusters were highly successful and popular films, not box office poison. Maybe that word does not mean what I think it means, or maybe that word does not mean what the author of the article thinks it means.
Then you use a magnifying glass, and Fire! Fire! I am surprised they didn't think of that, and I'll bet Archimedes did.
No matter how this is handled, people will be caught unaware, and will blow a gasket when their idiot box stops working. The viewing public is stupid. Here is an example. When WCPO in Cincinnati first used their SAP channel to simulcast in Spanish, they were deluged with complaints demanding that channel 9 immediately go back to broadcasting in English. Even in 2005, they did not know what SAP was, and had it turned on. On the evening news the next day they tried to explain what SAP was, but still can't turn it on without idiots going ballistic about their TV "talkin' forin".
Just a minizzle. He said rapped, he meant rapped. Word to yo mutha! fo shizzle.
Har ye bilgerat, Robbin' rapin' and killin' on the high seas is worth the risk because of the booty!
The archos jukebox had a tiny screen. The video iPod has a much bigger screen, and is a better looking device, too.
Similar devices from other manufacturers will be released NEXT YEAR. Getting your product to the market first is a good thing, not a slip up. Somebody is just an apple hater.
It has an ac adapter with a standard round connector that can provide a maximum of 2 amps at 12v. It relies on its circuit board to change some of that into 5v. The 200 gig WD drive I tried to use with it simply did not get enough power to operate reliably. If I remember the specs right it draws 1.2 amps of 12v and 0.75 amps of 5v. The Samsung in it now requires a lot less juice. Other enclosures have a power brick with a 4-pin connector; 12v, 5v and two grounds. Those are more likely to work reliably. I also had driver problems with that enclosure's IEEE 1394, and had to use USB.
If you get a drive cage made of aluminum, there is no need for a noise-making and dust-sucking fan.
A spokesman for the Chinese space program had this to say about a trip to the moon.
Another reason this isn't a big deal is because HD-DVD won't be on the market by this X-mas gift buying season. If they were ready for this year and Blu-Ray was not until 2006, that would make the difference. Just being region free is something only a few techies even understand.
No, they just forgot to remove the warhead from that old missile converted to a launch vehicle, and it blew the satellite to hell.
That cat in a microwave thing is an urban legend.
Those generic info pages at Symantec suck, much like Norton's Virus, which virus writers and hackers expect to encounter and know how to disabe. Not that McViruscan is any better.
Maybe Windows Vista is a hoax, too.
Episode IV was A New Hope, AKA the original Star Wars.
They blame Apple for creating customer inconvenience, but if Apple instructed people how to get around Sony DRM, Sony would sue under the DMCA, and it would be a criminal offense if the Induce Act became law.