But the lines (tubes) that the content is travelling across is privately owned. If ISPs don't want certain kinds of content travelling over their private networks, are they, by the same logic, allowed to block it? I'm a net neutrality supporter, but I'm kind of playing devil's advocate here. Why would a service provider like flickr for instance, be within their rights to remove sites they didn't like, and the ISP not be within their rights by blocking access to the same site over their network?
Well, the default config should make it so that if you do absolutely nothing, then you are safe. The default password should be set to the serial number already printed on the bottom of the router. Or something else that is sufficiently hard to guess.
From what I remember, The HD-DVD standard required the use of h.264 or VC-1, and had no provisions for the use of MPEG2. Basically, they set a high minimum standard. BluRay on the other hand, while supporting these high def formats, also suppored MPEG2, and a lot of studios chose to use it.
Well DVD Audio and SACD never really caught on, because CDs are good enough quality for 99% of the population. The advantages of BluRay over upconverted DVD is minimal at best. Even if BluRay catches on, I can't see anybody wanting to move to yet another format. Especially since we don't even have TVs that go beyond 1080p, which BluRay already supports.
I think that the road users should pay for the roads. I realize that everybody uses the roads, as a form of infrastructure, even if not everyone uses them directly. However, those who use more of the roads should pay a higher percentage of the upkeep of the roads. A gas tax seems to work pretty well in this respect. If the taxes are collected at a state/federal level, then the cities should get kickbacks to support the roads in their city. Charging internet users, or users of any other service for something not related to what they actually are paying for is not the right answer. I say if it only costs $15 a month for the city to provide broadband, then that is what it should cost.
But how do you ensure the line is still up and working? I guess you could call the hookup service every few days, which is usually also permitted (at least where I live), just to ensure the line is still operational. I wouldn't want to be stuck in a life or death emergency, only to find out that the lines were damaged in the last storm. I assume you could pick up and check for a dial-tone every once in a while, but would that be enough to ensure you could reach 911 if you needed to?
From what I read, it seemed more like you had a VM running inside your browser window. So you'd get something more like VMWare or Parallels but only in the browser window. You can get pretty good speed running a VM outside the browser. As long as you aren't running on a different architecture, I don't see why this couldn't very responsive.
It could be useful depending on where you want to work. If you want to work just in the US, I don't think another language would be all that much of an advantage. If you want to go work in Europe, or some other place with lots of cultures, then English should be somewhat standard. Other good languages to know would probably include French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Cantonese, or Mandarin. For an English speaker, the first three would probably be the easiest to learn, because you already know the character set. I wish my university would have pushed this more. I'm in Canada, and it was a fully billingual university. But they wouldn't let you take second language courses for credit. I think the logic was that it would be too easy for a native speaker to take a course in their native language and get an A+. I think that a rule like that hurts the learning of more people than those that would end up taking a course in a language they already knew. Besides, is it any different than a student taking a C++ language course when they already taught themselves the language in high school?
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Wouldn't the n00bs already be familiar with object oriented techniques since every language they have ever used had OO as a major feature. I would much more expect that seasoned veterans would be more likely to not be familiar with OO concepts, especially if they are experienced in Assembly, C, or PHP (yes I know PHP supports OO, but it's not really necessary to understand). Either way, I would rather have people learn object oriented concepts from a book about OO design, then to learn about it in the context of learning about a specific language.
I don't know. I think that it couldn't be done without permission from the publisher, but I think that a lot of publishers would go for it. MS could even make a few bucks off of it. Just submit your updates to MS, and all your users can easily update all their software from one easy source. I certainly don't like having 10 different apps running to check for updates, but it's the only way to ensure that things are kept up to date. Having one app that would run once every day or two, and get all my updates would be a big relief.
Looking at the pentathlon, it seems interesting, but kind of a downer that they put shooting, and fencing as the first two events. I am of course assuming that they listed the events in the order in which they are usually done. It would be much more challenging to try and steady a gun after running and biking, than at the beginning of the competition. Which is why I find the biathlon kind of interesting. I have enough trouble aiming a gun that accurately (although I've only ever shot pellet guns, which are notorious for bad aim). I can't imagine having good aim after cross country skiing for any length of time.
With the introduction of virtual console for Wii, couldn't one argue that there is quite a bit of commercial value in these games now? I can't believe it took them so long to do it. I was playing emulated game-boy and NES games in the 90s. 10 years later you can finally get them legally by paying for them. Anybody have any idea how well those virtual console games are selling. I can see games like SMB 3 getting a lot of sales, but a lot of them I can't see anybody wanting to actually pay for.
Yes, but there have been big attempts at people swapping votes in order to obtain a more favorable outcome. Sure you really have to trust the other guy, otherwise your candidate is losing a vote. However, when there is no money changing hands, and your preferred candidate has no chance of winning your voting district, then you really don't have much to lose if the other guy reneges on the deal.
It was pretty painful. Even with just a small part on my chest, and another on my back. The reason it hurts so much, is because it's an infection in the nerves. I only had a week of the antibiotics. I was only 25 when I got it. The doctor said the older you are, the more pain, and the more likely it is to stick around. Some older people end up never having the pain go away, and have to use steroid creams to make the pain bearable. At $100 CDN for 1 weeks worth of treatments from a canadian pharmacy, for a generic brand pill, I'm just happy I didn't have to take the pill for 8 weeks.
Our public health unit actually has ads on the bus promoting the virtues of washing your hands. It really does have a large effect on reducing the transmission of disease. It's probably the easiest thing we can do to defend against viruses and bad bacteria.
Just be happy you never got shingles. Now that is painful. My dad had it when he was younger too. Apparently he had his arm broken around the same time. Shingles is much worse.
Depends on the variety of dial-up. When I go visit my mother in law out in the country, the only thing available is dial-up. Not just regular dial-up, but real country dial-up. It connects at around 26 kbps, when you're lucky. And then there's dropped packets, latency, disconnections. Not a usuable experience at all. I find it painful to check my web-email via squirrel-mail. Browsing the actual internet, on sites like slashdot, is a complete no-go. Even with images turned off. If you're talking full 56 K connections, it's pretty tollerable. But country dial-up isn't anything most people would choose to use.
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Just make sure you use the paperback version. Otherwise, you might:
a) hurt the kid.
b) hurt your arm.
But the lines (tubes) that the content is travelling across is privately owned. If ISPs don't want certain kinds of content travelling over their private networks, are they, by the same logic, allowed to block it? I'm a net neutrality supporter, but I'm kind of playing devil's advocate here. Why would a service provider like flickr for instance, be within their rights to remove sites they didn't like, and the ISP not be within their rights by blocking access to the same site over their network?
Well, the default config should make it so that if you do absolutely nothing, then you are safe. The default password should be set to the serial number already printed on the bottom of the router. Or something else that is sufficiently hard to guess.
From what I remember, The HD-DVD standard required the use of h.264 or VC-1, and had no provisions for the use of MPEG2. Basically, they set a high minimum standard. BluRay on the other hand, while supporting these high def formats, also suppored MPEG2, and a lot of studios chose to use it.
Well DVD Audio and SACD never really caught on, because CDs are good enough quality for 99% of the population. The advantages of BluRay over upconverted DVD is minimal at best. Even if BluRay catches on, I can't see anybody wanting to move to yet another format. Especially since we don't even have TVs that go beyond 1080p, which BluRay already supports.
You're on idle.slashdot.org, and your only question is why the quote tags aren't working? This page has bigger problems.
I think that the road users should pay for the roads. I realize that everybody uses the roads, as a form of infrastructure, even if not everyone uses them directly. However, those who use more of the roads should pay a higher percentage of the upkeep of the roads. A gas tax seems to work pretty well in this respect. If the taxes are collected at a state/federal level, then the cities should get kickbacks to support the roads in their city. Charging internet users, or users of any other service for something not related to what they actually are paying for is not the right answer. I say if it only costs $15 a month for the city to provide broadband, then that is what it should cost.
But how do you ensure the line is still up and working? I guess you could call the hookup service every few days, which is usually also permitted (at least where I live), just to ensure the line is still operational. I wouldn't want to be stuck in a life or death emergency, only to find out that the lines were damaged in the last storm. I assume you could pick up and check for a dial-tone every once in a while, but would that be enough to ensure you could reach 911 if you needed to?
From what I read, it seemed more like you had a VM running inside your browser window. So you'd get something more like VMWare or Parallels but only in the browser window. You can get pretty good speed running a VM outside the browser. As long as you aren't running on a different architecture, I don't see why this couldn't very responsive.
It could be useful depending on where you want to work. If you want to work just in the US, I don't think another language would be all that much of an advantage. If you want to go work in Europe, or some other place with lots of cultures, then English should be somewhat standard. Other good languages to know would probably include French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Cantonese, or Mandarin. For an English speaker, the first three would probably be the easiest to learn, because you already know the character set. I wish my university would have pushed this more. I'm in Canada, and it was a fully billingual university. But they wouldn't let you take second language courses for credit. I think the logic was that it would be too easy for a native speaker to take a course in their native language and get an A+. I think that a rule like that hurts the learning of more people than those that would end up taking a course in a language they already knew. Besides, is it any different than a student taking a C++ language course when they already taught themselves the language in high school?
Wouldn't the n00bs already be familiar with object oriented techniques since every language they have ever used had OO as a major feature. I would much more expect that seasoned veterans would be more likely to not be familiar with OO concepts, especially if they are experienced in Assembly, C, or PHP (yes I know PHP supports OO, but it's not really necessary to understand). Either way, I would rather have people learn object oriented concepts from a book about OO design, then to learn about it in the context of learning about a specific language.
Personally, I prefer C!@|!$. You should try it. Check you spam box for places to get it.
Yeah. Defintely Walmart guns.
I don't know. I think that it couldn't be done without permission from the publisher, but I think that a lot of publishers would go for it. MS could even make a few bucks off of it. Just submit your updates to MS, and all your users can easily update all their software from one easy source. I certainly don't like having 10 different apps running to check for updates, but it's the only way to ensure that things are kept up to date. Having one app that would run once every day or two, and get all my updates would be a big relief.
Looking at the pentathlon, it seems interesting, but kind of a downer that they put shooting, and fencing as the first two events. I am of course assuming that they listed the events in the order in which they are usually done. It would be much more challenging to try and steady a gun after running and biking, than at the beginning of the competition. Which is why I find the biathlon kind of interesting. I have enough trouble aiming a gun that accurately (although I've only ever shot pellet guns, which are notorious for bad aim). I can't imagine having good aim after cross country skiing for any length of time.
With the introduction of virtual console for Wii, couldn't one argue that there is quite a bit of commercial value in these games now? I can't believe it took them so long to do it. I was playing emulated game-boy and NES games in the 90s. 10 years later you can finally get them legally by paying for them. Anybody have any idea how well those virtual console games are selling. I can see games like SMB 3 getting a lot of sales, but a lot of them I can't see anybody wanting to actually pay for.
Why does that remind me of 8-bit Dungeons and Dragons?
Yes, but there have been big attempts at people swapping votes in order to obtain a more favorable outcome. Sure you really have to trust the other guy, otherwise your candidate is losing a vote. However, when there is no money changing hands, and your preferred candidate has no chance of winning your voting district, then you really don't have much to lose if the other guy reneges on the deal.
It was pretty painful. Even with just a small part on my chest, and another on my back. The reason it hurts so much, is because it's an infection in the nerves. I only had a week of the antibiotics. I was only 25 when I got it. The doctor said the older you are, the more pain, and the more likely it is to stick around. Some older people end up never having the pain go away, and have to use steroid creams to make the pain bearable. At $100 CDN for 1 weeks worth of treatments from a canadian pharmacy, for a generic brand pill, I'm just happy I didn't have to take the pill for 8 weeks.
Our public health unit actually has ads on the bus promoting the virtues of washing your hands. It really does have a large effect on reducing the transmission of disease. It's probably the easiest thing we can do to defend against viruses and bad bacteria.
This is Slashdot. I think you need to go into more explanation about this whole sunlight thing.
Just be happy you never got shingles. Now that is painful. My dad had it when he was younger too. Apparently he had his arm broken around the same time. Shingles is much worse.
Try downloading a service pack over dial-up, and then tell me that dial-up users aren't likely to have more unpatched flaws in their system.
GMail mobile actually works respectably over dial-up. I do however find the actual gmail way too slow.
Depends on the variety of dial-up. When I go visit my mother in law out in the country, the only thing available is dial-up. Not just regular dial-up, but real country dial-up. It connects at around 26 kbps, when you're lucky. And then there's dropped packets, latency, disconnections. Not a usuable experience at all. I find it painful to check my web-email via squirrel-mail. Browsing the actual internet, on sites like slashdot, is a complete no-go. Even with images turned off. If you're talking full 56 K connections, it's pretty tollerable. But country dial-up isn't anything most people would choose to use.