Come on, the MA Dept. of Revenue? It's news when an entire government switches to Linux, but do we need to hear about every little subgroup that considers the switch? How about a yearly round-up of Linux's use in government instead?
I think it's all going fade away since manufacturers love to make things of cheap plastic parts. Simple devices like portable CD players barely last 2 years anymore.
Since MAC addresses are so easy to spoof, authentication will become necessary.
My school's wireless network requires logging on to a VPN using your usual (e-mail, etc) user ID and password. This was designed to keep non-students and non-faculty from using it, but I imagine it would be easy to track individual use this way as well.
Cost of audio equipment capable of detecting the difference between an MP3 and CD, in case you're also one of the gifted 10% of people who can detect the difference= $5000
Funny, I can readily tell the difference with my $30 headphones and $130 computer speakers.
It is a myth that only audiophiles with systems more expensive than their car can tell the difference between MP3 and CD.
I live in Ireland, a country of around 4 million people compared to the U.K. (our closest neighbour and fellow island just north-west of France, in Europe, about 4000k east of New York) at about 60 million.
It's a sad day when a group of English-speaking people need to be told where Ireland is. I wonder how many of my college classmates know; probably not enough.
I entered RPI a year later and got a T20 notebook and have had the same problems. While I haven't had to replace the battery, it only works long enough to boot Windows and go into sleep mode. Most of my friends also have this problem, and we all took care in properly charging the batteries. Seems like it's an Thinkpad problem, not just a 600 problem.
I chose PS2 because I had a PS1 that I loved, and I still had a lot of PS1 games.
I never understood why people liked how the PS2 plays PS1 games. There are two groups of people, those with PS1 games and those without. Those with PS1 games already have a PS1 console, and don't need the PS2's capabilities to play them. Of those without PS1 games, most of them, upon (re)entering the console market in 2000 are not going to want to buy the games of the 90s, they'll only want PS2 games. I doubt very many people bought a PS2 then picked up a bunch of PS1 games (that is, people that bought them and didn't pirate them).
and soaks up bandwidth that Microsoft has to pay for. It's a win-win.
Why is this win-win? Microsoft has nothing to do with Real, why make them suffer as well? The best thing to do would be to, as someone else mentioned, put down a Real.com e-mail address, such as abuse@real.com.
This way:
Real suffers twice (once for not having a legit address to send spam to, and once for having to deal with all that misplaced spam)
you don't have to drag a third party into Real's mess
there's a chance Real will realize there's a flaw in their system when they have to deal with the mess.
the millions of cell phones - and proprietary batteries - that are starting to be thrown out... Kids in Japan who keep up with "fashion" replace their cell phone every 3 months
How about the phones that are thrown out when someone changes plans and the new service provider forces them to buy one of their phones?
People need to be educated. Almost everyone I know complains about widescreen movies, but after I explain it to them or, if possible, show some side-by-side comparisons of the two versions, they usually get it. The most common reason for still not liking widescreen, even after understanding it: size. More picture or not, unless they've got a 50"+ TV they want the picture to fill the whole screen.
Also, people have been subjected to years and years of pan & scan movies on broadcast TV, cable, HBO, etc. The movies fill their screen, and at the theatre the movies fill that screen too. When the DVD doesn't fit their screen (a 4:3 TV), they get confused and annoyed. Many don't realize that movies are wider than their sets.
Not necessarily. Let's assume a person must drive 10 miles each way to school, with a car that gets 25 mpg, and the price of gas stays around $1.50.
15 weeks * 5 days/week * 20 miles per day = 1500 miles 1500 miles / 25 mpg = 60 gallons of gas 60 gallons * $1.50 = $90 per semester, or $180 for the year, or $230 with a parking permit.
Compare that to >$5000, which is a low-end estimate (I actually pay close to $10k). You've got >$4800 left to deal with maintenance.
The reason people commute is to save the >$5000 cost of room and board. Why would they trade that savings in for a $2000 laptop that they can't even keep? One would be much better off buying their own iBook and commuting -- total savings of $3000, rather than plunking down $3000 ($5000 room/board minus laptop) for the 'rental' of an iBook.
Time Warner has started to offer their own PVR for $5 a month. It includes two tuners (for recording two shows at once), it can hold 50 hours, it works directly with an on-screen guide, and I highly doubt TW is going out of business anytime soon. Hopefully more cable providers will pick up on this venture.
One Nine inch nails strack features the words ' erase your head' stretched to the duration of the track (ummh, 5 minutes or so), so you can hear the words if you fast forward the track.
For the sake of being nitpicky, it's "erase me" and it's repeated a few times over the track. When listened to at normal speed, it sounds like Trent Reznor screaming, so I never noticed anything odd until I went to fast forward it.
What if someone only cares about putting songs onto their 64MB mp3 player? I've seen people with songs encoded at 32 and 64kb/s and through the stock earbud headphones the artifacts aren't too apparent. If watermarking can survive that much compression, it must have quite an impact on the source copy.
You can... burn to CD... copy the burned CDs, and use the CD to make MP3s. Keep in mind there is supposed to be some form of digital watermarking on the tracks though.
How are their watermarks supposed to stay intact once you use lossy MP3 compression?
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Come on, the MA Dept. of Revenue? It's news when an entire government switches to Linux, but do we need to hear about every little subgroup that considers the switch? How about a yearly round-up of Linux's use in government instead?
And being a poor college kid, I've got a 20 year old car that, by the looks of it, has been through hell and back.
I think it's all going fade away since manufacturers love to make things of cheap plastic parts. Simple devices like portable CD players barely last 2 years anymore.
It is a myth that only audiophiles with systems more expensive than their car can tell the difference between MP3 and CD.
50, unless that computer has dual 3GHz processors and 2GB RAM, in which case the RIAA might convince Microsoft that it's equivalent to 123 computers.
I entered RPI a year later and got a T20 notebook and have had the same problems. While I haven't had to replace the battery, it only works long enough to boot Windows and go into sleep mode. Most of my friends also have this problem, and we all took care in properly charging the batteries. Seems like it's an Thinkpad problem, not just a 600 problem.
It's even better if they do because then their list of addresses to sell to spammers shrinks.
This way:
Also, people have been subjected to years and years of pan & scan movies on broadcast TV, cable, HBO, etc. The movies fill their screen, and at the theatre the movies fill that screen too. When the DVD doesn't fit their screen (a 4:3 TV), they get confused and annoyed. Many don't realize that movies are wider than their sets.
James Cameron is not in this one. Maybe that's why it doesn't look so good?
15 weeks * 5 days/week * 20 miles per day = 1500 miles
1500 miles / 25 mpg = 60 gallons of gas
60 gallons * $1.50 = $90 per semester, or $180 for the year, or $230 with a parking permit.
Compare that to >$5000, which is a low-end estimate (I actually pay close to $10k). You've got >$4800 left to deal with maintenance.
The reason people commute is to save the >$5000 cost of room and board. Why would they trade that savings in for a $2000 laptop that they can't even keep? One would be much better off buying their own iBook and commuting -- total savings of $3000, rather than plunking down $3000 ($5000 room/board minus laptop) for the 'rental' of an iBook.
Time Warner has started to offer their own PVR for $5 a month. It includes two tuners (for recording two shows at once), it can hold 50 hours, it works directly with an on-screen guide, and I highly doubt TW is going out of business anytime soon. Hopefully more cable providers will pick up on this venture.
Today's CPU: 3 GHz
2012's CPU: 192 GHz
Today's RAM: 512 MB
2012's RAM: 32 GB
Today's hard disks: 200 GB
2012's hard disks: 12.5 TB
And just for fun...
Today's Quake III fps: 120 fps
2012's Quake III fps: 7,680 fps
What if someone only cares about putting songs onto their 64MB mp3 player? I've seen people with songs encoded at 32 and 64kb/s and through the stock earbud headphones the artifacts aren't too apparent. If watermarking can survive that much compression, it must have quite an impact on the source copy.
Sorry, but I think they've got a ways to go, and I'm really interested to see what these movies can do to raise the bar.