Well in theory at least. Instead of bitching on slashdot, why dont people ever do anything? Think about how many people read slashdot per day thousands of people, and not just any people. The people who read slashdot are all, whether they like to believe it or not, in quite powerful (and often underrated) positions of society. There are lots of us and we all come here to read every day. If someone were to organise people into actually doing something, we could get a lot done very fast.
For example, assuming the Internet was to be commercialized how long do you thing that proposal would last without techies to actualy keep it running.
A slashdot union (of sorts) could have a devistating effect if it were coordinated correctly and would make sort work of stupid laws (DMCA) outdated associations (MPAA, RIAA) and rediculious yet plausably possible scenerios (current story, SCO)
The United States is a major violator of International Law pertaining to access to contreception by minors clicky It seems once again that the merger between state and religion has failed
Show us an example of a bad product placement, one that would be changed by requirements of "honesty and fair dealing," and then perhaps we can consider laws to rectify the problem.
Ahem... The Nintendo Powerglove as seen in The Wizard.
Quoth Lucas:
"I love the powerglove. It's so bad!"
The Nintendo Powerglove:
a. Did not make those beepy sounds when you pressed the buttons and,
So, in the case of speeding we have (at least here in Australia) these wonderful little boxes that get hidden on the side of the road. If they detect you're over the limit, they photograph your number plate.
Not in Queensland, up here the police have to place a sign warning of an impending speedcamera.. otherwise it just wouldn't be sporting.
What I find interesting is that they are allowed to claim (as they do in Australia) that they are selling unlimited internet and then go on to explain in the small print that it does infact have a limit! How can you have unlimited internet that is infact limited.
On a slightly related note. I had a friend who received a personal signed letter from the head sys admin at Austar satelite internet congratulating him on breaking the maximum monthly download record. A cool 120gb back when four speed burners were top of the line.
District Court of New South Wales -
The District Court has jurisdiction to hear all indictable criminal offences (except murder, treason and piracy); and civil matters with a monetary value up to $750,000, - or greater with the consent of the parties. The Court also has an unlimited jurisdiction in respect of motor accident cases.
The Court can also deal with applications under the De Facto Relationships Act 1984, and the Family Provision Act 1982, that involve property worth not more than $250,000.
The Court's judges hear appeals from the Local Court and also preside over a range of administrative and disciplinary tribunals.
The Supreme Court of New South Wales -
The highest court in the State is the Supreme Court of NSW. It has unlimited civil jurisdiction and handles the most serious criminal matters.
The Court of Appeal and Court of Criminal Appeal hear appeals from decisions made in most of the Courts of New South Wales and from decisions made by a single judge of the Supreme Court.
Federal Court - The Court's jurisdiction is broad, covering almost all civil matters arising under Australian federal law and some summary criminal matters.
High Court - The High Court is the highest court in the Australian judicial system. It was established in 1901 by Section 71 of the Constitution. The functions of the High Court are to interpret and apply the law of Australia; to decide cases of special federal significance including challenges to the constitutional validity of laws and to hear appeals, by special leave, from Federal, State and Territory courts.
It also should be noted that any court decision techinicaly could be overturned by the hourse of lords in England and ultimately our Queen by way of our Governer General, of course this wouldn't happen unless there was a very extreme circumstance
It seems to me the answer is simple, here in Australia the commercials are louder then the television programs, this of course is illegal but the networks just use "Compression" rather then increasing the decebels. This effectively makes the commercial _sound_ louder even though it isn't, as far as im concerned if something sounds louder then it is louder... but I digress. To detect when a commercial is beginning you would have to analyse the sound for compression, im no sound engineer but that seems possible.
The producers of this site wanted to make an impressive multi-media rich site to make people want to go see their film. The only way to really do that effectively is with Flash. The vast majority of people have the Flash plug-in, and won't really care (or even know) what format the site is in.
I care because, on a 56k modem, heaps of useless sounds and animations that I need not see are downloaded. Sounds on webpages are a bad idea in general, ever got one of those flash banner ads with the loud repetitive music? What about the blind (Granted I doubt many blind people are itching to go see this movie) flash is a bit hard to appreciate on a brail display. Not everyone is on broardband, flash is annoying and people who use it should introduce themselves to css.
For those who dont know these students ran mp3wmaland mirrors: http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-tiscal i/mandymoo re/index2.html
http://mp3wma.spydar.com/
http://mp3wma.4-all.org/
http://mp3wma.funurl.com/
http://mp3wma.shorturl.com/
http://mp3wma.myacen.com/
and so on.
I can personaly say that these sites were good to download music videos if you didnt mind poor quality. Most of the clips are taped off "Rage" or "V" (Australias version of MTV) or they were downloaded off IRC. Im gonna miss these sites personaly.
I agree, current computer hardware is taxed to run Doom 3 and when its released the general gamer population will be upgrading their computers to play it. I honestly believe that Id software is the main drive behind graphics hardware advancement. Doom made people upgrade their Wolfinstien grade computeres, Quake made people upgrade their Doom grade computers, Quake 2 made people upgrade their Quake grade computers, People ignored Dakitana because it was crap, then Quake 3 made people upgrade their Computers once again. I believe Doom 3's release will be followed by a huge leap in graphics hardware sales. However you cannot upgrade your Xbox and there is no way that an Xbox is running Doom 3 on its current hardware, who wants an inferior version of a game?
The simple way to get a better throughput on your wireless network is to make it all token ring... after all who is going to have more then five computers in their house/neighbourhood?
Slashdot Mirror
Doesnt this technology cause intollerable interference over licenced radio frequencies?
I give it four weeks before Pirates have "links" to terrorist organizations
You would definitly have my vote, thats 499 members needed now.
Well in theory at least. Instead of bitching on slashdot, why dont people ever do anything? Think about how many people read slashdot per day thousands of people, and not just any people. The people who read slashdot are all, whether they like to believe it or not, in quite powerful (and often underrated) positions of society. There are lots of us and we all come here to read every day. If someone were to organise people into actually doing something, we could get a lot done very fast.
For example, assuming the Internet was to be commercialized how long do you thing that proposal would last without techies to actualy keep it running.
A slashdot union (of sorts) could have a devistating effect if it were coordinated correctly and would make sort work of stupid laws (DMCA) outdated associations (MPAA, RIAA) and rediculious yet plausably possible scenerios (current story, SCO)
Just a thought.
The United States is a major violator of International Law pertaining to access to contreception by minors clicky It seems once again that the merger between state and religion has failed
Oi Veh!
King Harald Baatand II (Bluetooth) of Denmark died around 986 A.D. Geeze slashdot get with the times!
I'm currently using my commodore monitor for my playstation and dvd player. Those babys have great quality and never stop working.
Ahem... The Nintendo Powerglove as seen in The Wizard.
Quoth Lucas:"I love the powerglove. It's so bad!"
The Nintendo Powerglove:
What I find interesting is that they are allowed to claim (as they do in Australia) that they are selling unlimited internet and then go on to explain in the small print that it does infact have a limit! How can you have unlimited internet that is infact limited.
On a slightly related note. I had a friend who received a personal signed letter from the head sys admin at Austar satelite internet congratulating him on breaking the maximum monthly download record. A cool 120gb back when four speed burners were top of the line.
No matter what the tax rate, Second life is at least four times better then Half-Life is.
Great! Now all I need is a flying car and a house on the moon.
In australia its rated aRrrrrgh!
Not only bash_history this technique could let you read chuck sixpack's mail or Jon Everyteens midterm
In a nutshell:
District Court of New South Wales - The District Court has jurisdiction to hear all indictable criminal offences (except murder, treason and piracy); and civil matters with a monetary value up to $750,000, - or greater with the consent of the parties. The Court also has an unlimited jurisdiction in respect of motor accident cases.
The Court can also deal with applications under the De Facto Relationships Act 1984, and the Family Provision Act 1982, that involve property worth not more than $250,000.
The Court's judges hear appeals from the Local Court and also preside over a range of administrative and disciplinary tribunals.
The Supreme Court of New South Wales - The highest court in the State is the Supreme Court of NSW. It has unlimited civil jurisdiction and handles the most serious criminal matters.
The Court of Appeal and Court of Criminal Appeal hear appeals from decisions made in most of the Courts of New South Wales and from decisions made by a single judge of the Supreme Court.
Federal Court - The Court's jurisdiction is broad, covering almost all civil matters arising under Australian federal law and some summary criminal matters.
High Court - The High Court is the highest court in the Australian judicial system. It was established in 1901 by Section 71 of the Constitution. The functions of the High Court are to interpret and apply the law of Australia; to decide cases of special federal significance including challenges to the constitutional validity of laws and to hear appeals, by special leave, from Federal, State and Territory courts.
It also should be noted that any court decision techinicaly could be overturned by the hourse of lords in England and ultimately our Queen by way of our Governer General, of course this wouldn't happen unless there was a very extreme circumstance
It's been well known for years that you can easily get V-D in China, but untill now its never been a good thing.
It'll be just like Americas war on drugs, you certainly can't buy drugs in America anymore can you?
It seems to me the answer is simple, here in Australia the commercials are louder then the television programs, this of course is illegal but the networks just use "Compression" rather then increasing the decebels. This effectively makes the commercial _sound_ louder even though it isn't, as far as im concerned if something sounds louder then it is louder... but I digress. To detect when a commercial is beginning you would have to analyse the sound for compression, im no sound engineer but that seems possible.
Why is it a "major sin" that it is Flash only?
The producers of this site wanted to make an impressive multi-media rich site to make people want to go see their film. The only way to really do that effectively is with Flash. The vast majority of people have the Flash plug-in, and won't really care (or even know) what format the site is in.
I care because, on a 56k modem, heaps of useless sounds and animations that I need not see are downloaded. Sounds on webpages are a bad idea in general, ever got one of those flash banner ads with the loud repetitive music? What about the blind (Granted I doubt many blind people are itching to go see this movie) flash is a bit hard to appreciate on a brail display. Not everyone is on broardband, flash is annoying and people who use it should introduce themselves to css.
For those who dont know these students ran mp3wmaland mirrors:l i/mandymoo re/index2.html
http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-tisca
http://mp3wma.spydar.com/
http://mp3wma.4-all.org/
http://mp3wma.funurl.com/
http://mp3wma.shorturl.com/
http://mp3wma.myacen.com/
and so on.
I can personaly say that these sites were good to download music videos if you didnt mind poor quality. Most of the clips are taped off "Rage" or "V" (Australias version of MTV) or they were downloaded off IRC. Im gonna miss these sites personaly.
I agree, current computer hardware is taxed to run Doom 3 and when its released the general gamer population will be upgrading their computers to play it. I honestly believe that Id software is the main drive behind graphics hardware advancement. Doom made people upgrade their Wolfinstien grade computeres, Quake made people upgrade their Doom grade computers, Quake 2 made people upgrade their Quake grade computers, People ignored Dakitana because it was crap, then Quake 3 made people upgrade their Computers once again. I believe Doom 3's release will be followed by a huge leap in graphics hardware sales. However you cannot upgrade your Xbox and there is no way that an Xbox is running Doom 3 on its current hardware, who wants an inferior version of a game?
The simple way to get a better throughput on your wireless network is to make it all token ring... after all who is going to have more then five computers in their house/neighbourhood?