(Yes, you can get your cell carrier to disable texting to your phone, you just have to yell at them for a while until they give you to a supervisor who can actually do it.)
Why would you disable *receiving* text messages? It's sending them that costs money...
Most carriers charge for both sent and received text messages. Yes, this means that if you and your friend are on the same carrier, they get paid twice.
So you can now use Ruby on Microsoft's Flash/Java Applet clone browser plugin. Are we now going to have AFAX and AAAX for sending XML to Flash and Java Applets?
I mean, really, how is this new? If you're willing to use a browser plug-in instead of just what comes with the browser out of the box, who cares what language it runs (as mentioned in other comments, you could already put Ruby in a Java applet with JRuby), or what format it communicates with the server in?
See http://www.lipsum.com/ for information on the Lorem ipsum text (there's a translation there too). In summary, it's a set of text traditionally used by publishers to fill space.
I'd like to point out that at least one book publisher gets it. Baen sells their titles as eBooks in plain, DRM-free HTML as well as a variety of eBook reader formats (with infinite downloads) for a somewhat reasonable price ($4-6 for a book, $15 for selected bundles of 4). In addition, a selection of their books are online for free at the Baen Free Library, in the same formats.
(I have no association with Baen beyond being a happy customer.)
What seems to have been missed in the discussion so far is that this company is applying for a patent on their technique, which they claim is "revolutionary." I really hope that this doesn't get granted, as it would open a whole new realm of stupid patents for "X on a graphics card," which is about as stupid a patent as "X on the internet."
Nvidia's CUDA, which is what they're talking about, supports multiple graphics cards in the same computer. You don't actually use SLI, just run programs on multiple graphics cards. They've demoed systems with 3 8800GTXs (they take up 2 expansion card slots each, so you can't fit more than that in a single normal sized desktop case).
Voting is a right, not a privledge nor a requisite. I don't want there to be any other consequence to voting than the decision of the vote. I do want my neighbors, employer, city-state-nation governers to let me vote in private and based only on my conscience so I can make my choice without fear of reprisal or any other consequence; even if that choice is to not vote. In my hometown (and every other place in the US, I'm pretty sure), you can walk in, get your name checked off, and not actually vote for anything (or vote for any subset of the elections you'd like). Or you could just write in Mickey Mouse.
Wouldn't these "enhanced versions" be based on the original GPL'ed chip? Do they have to be opened up too?
Since Sun owns the copyrights to the chip designs, they can release their own chips under any license they want. This is similar to the dual-licensing that MySQL and other products are offered under.
$5/month, unlimited WAP day or night... and unlimited text and pix.
Or under any normal plan just use it after 9 or weekends (Verizon FTW)
Not if you have a Treo. Then it's $30/month for limited access (15? MB free, then $8/MB or so after that) or $70 or $80 for unlimited access. Plus as far as I can tell you can't even use the Treo as a modem via bluetooth (I have a 650). You may be right about unlimited access after 9 or on weekends, I haven't really wanted to risk a huge bill to find out.
Yes, especially since 58% of college graduates voted for Bush and 54% of high school drop outs voted for Kerry.
And the same site shows that 53% of people with a post graduate education voted for Kerry. So smarter people did vote for Kerry, then.
Note: If you combine the 2 statictics, then 53% of the people who graduated college voted for Bush. (Postgrads were 20% of the sample, plain college grads 15%. Feel free to insult my math.)
Bush essenitally ran on a divisive platform that put him back in the whitehouse. Why would he want to change that now?
Because now he doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected. Oh, and the Republicans control Congress, too, so he can do just about whatever he wants.
Quantum computing would allow us to solve encryption problems quickly because most encryption today is based on the difficulty of factoring a very large number into it's 2 prime factors. To a quantum computer, however, this problem is very simple to solve, thus a quantum computer could break difficult (by today's standards) encryption quickly.
I am not a quantum physicist, so I don't know how a quantum computer does this, but supposedly they can.
Not completely true. The PS2 and Gamecube were both being sold for a small loss at launch, but this was changed into profit fairly quickly as production got underway. The XBox was sold at a much larger loss than either of the other two, and thus maintained it's loss for far longer (Maybe it still is being sold at a loss? I don't know).
This may have been intended to be funny, but in all seriousness, MOO3 should be ready. It has been in final regession testing for the past couple of months and the beta testers report that it has gone from unplayable to nearly perfact. In an hours long 8-player online MP game near the end of December they only encountered one bug, which had already been fixed. (The most recent build had not reached some of the beta testers.) So the game should be ready to play as soon as its in stores!
Very true. It claims complaince just to the draft standard and on their website promises free replacement if necessary to meet IEEE 802.11g when it is finalized. I still wouldn't buy it b/c you'll probably have to send it back, but in the end you will end up with 802.11g compliant stuff.
I'm a Junior in High School and I've got a Handspring Visor Deluxe with the Stowaway Keyboard. Both fit together in my pocket and I use it for taking notes, keeping track of homework, and the occanional game. I also browse Slashdot with AvantGo (no, not wireless internet, it downloads in every time it syncs.) It works great, I only have to take written notes for math, and I can start writting essays and stuff in school. I take the Visor everywhere I go, as I keep lots of phone numbers and addresses on it and I can always play a game when I'm bored.
On the other hand, I know several kids who have PDAs and never use them at all. As someone up above said, different strokes for different folks.
You can do sorting by time recieved (by your mail server) in Outlook Express (& Probably outlook). Just right click on the list of columns at the top, hit "Columns..." and select "Recieved" to display the time recieved, then click on the column to sort by it.
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I don't know about arcarde ROMs, but all console games come with a license that says that you cannot make any copies of the game, including for back-up purposes. So even if you own the game, it might now be legal to emulate on the computer. See here for Nintendo's policy.
Or try a google search for emulation legal
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(Yes, you can get your cell carrier to disable texting to your phone, you just have to yell at them for a while until they give you to a supervisor who can actually do it.)
Why would you disable *receiving* text messages? It's sending them that costs money...
Most carriers charge for both sent and received text messages. Yes, this means that if you and your friend are on the same carrier, they get paid twice.
So you can now use Ruby on Microsoft's Flash/Java Applet clone browser plugin. Are we now going to have AFAX and AAAX for sending XML to Flash and Java Applets?
I mean, really, how is this new? If you're willing to use a browser plug-in instead of just what comes with the browser out of the box, who cares what language it runs (as mentioned in other comments, you could already put Ruby in a Java applet with JRuby), or what format it communicates with the server in?
See http://www.lipsum.com/ for information on the Lorem ipsum text (there's a translation there too). In summary, it's a set of text traditionally used by publishers to fill space.
I'd like to point out that at least one book publisher gets it. Baen sells their titles as eBooks in plain, DRM-free HTML as well as a variety of eBook reader formats (with infinite downloads) for a somewhat reasonable price ($4-6 for a book, $15 for selected bundles of 4). In addition, a selection of their books are online for free at the Baen Free Library, in the same formats.
(I have no association with Baen beyond being a happy customer.)
Really? My next T61 with Vista takes forever (well, 1-2 minutes) to go into standby, and sometimes just crashes and never makes it.
What seems to have been missed in the discussion so far is that this company is applying for a patent on their technique, which they claim is "revolutionary." I really hope that this doesn't get granted, as it would open a whole new realm of stupid patents for "X on a graphics card," which is about as stupid a patent as "X on the internet."
Nvidia's CUDA, which is what they're talking about, supports multiple graphics cards in the same computer. You don't actually use SLI, just run programs on multiple graphics cards. They've demoed systems with 3 8800GTXs (they take up 2 expansion card slots each, so you can't fit more than that in a single normal sized desktop case).
From his blog, looks like the website should be: http://utopianet.org/
Wouldn't these "enhanced versions" be based on the original GPL'ed chip? Do they have to be opened up too?
Since Sun owns the copyrights to the chip designs, they can release their own chips under any license they want. This is similar to the dual-licensing that MySQL and other products are offered under.
$5/month, unlimited WAP day or night... and unlimited text and pix.
Or under any normal plan just use it after 9 or weekends (Verizon FTW)
Not if you have a Treo. Then it's $30/month for limited access (15? MB free, then $8/MB or so after that) or $70 or $80 for unlimited access. Plus as far as I can tell you can't even use the Treo as a modem via bluetooth (I have a 650). You may be right about unlimited access after 9 or on weekends, I haven't really wanted to risk a huge bill to find out.
The first column on that site is the percentage of voters in each subgroup. Therefore, you can combine the 2 percentages by weighting them approaitly.
Yes, especially since 58% of college graduates voted for Bush and 54% of high school drop outs voted for Kerry.
And the same site shows that 53% of people with a post graduate education voted for Kerry. So smarter people did vote for Kerry, then.
Note: If you combine the 2 statictics, then 53% of the people who graduated college voted for Bush. (Postgrads were 20% of the sample, plain college grads 15%. Feel free to insult my math.)
Bush essenitally ran on a divisive platform that put him back in the whitehouse. Why would he want to change that now?
Because now he doesn't have to worry about getting re-elected. Oh, and the Republicans control Congress, too, so he can do just about whatever he wants.
Quantum computing would allow us to solve encryption problems quickly because most encryption today is based on the difficulty of factoring a very large number into it's 2 prime factors. To a quantum computer, however, this problem is very simple to solve, thus a quantum computer could break difficult (by today's standards) encryption quickly.
I am not a quantum physicist, so I don't know how a quantum computer does this, but supposedly they can.
Not completely true. The PS2 and Gamecube were both being sold for a small loss at launch, but this was changed into profit fairly quickly as production got underway. The XBox was sold at a much larger loss than either of the other two, and thus maintained it's loss for far longer (Maybe it still is being sold at a loss? I don't know).
This may have been intended to be funny, but in all seriousness, MOO3 should be ready. It has been in final regession testing for the past couple of months and the beta testers report that it has gone from unplayable to nearly perfact. In an hours long 8-player online MP game near the end of December they only encountered one bug, which had already been fixed. (The most recent build had not reached some of the beta testers.) So the game should be ready to play as soon as its in stores!
Very true. It claims complaince just to the draft standard and on their website promises free replacement if necessary to meet IEEE 802.11g when it is finalized. I still wouldn't buy it b/c you'll probably have to send it back, but in the end you will end up with 802.11g compliant stuff.
base 13. 4*13 + 2*1 = 54
What do you get if you multiply six by nine?
Actually it would just be pi.0 in base 2Pi.
Yes, it does include open source projects as FreeLinux said here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=46820&cid=4810 355
I'm a Junior in High School and I've got a Handspring Visor Deluxe with the Stowaway Keyboard. Both fit together in my pocket and I use it for taking notes, keeping track of homework, and the occanional game. I also browse Slashdot with AvantGo (no, not wireless internet, it downloads in every time it syncs.) It works great, I only have to take written notes for math, and I can start writting essays and stuff in school. I take the Visor everywhere I go, as I keep lots of phone numbers and addresses on it and I can always play a game when I'm bored.
On the other hand, I know several kids who have PDAs and never use them at all. As someone up above said, different strokes for different folks.
You can do sorting by time recieved (by your mail server) in Outlook Express (& Probably outlook). Just right click on the list of columns at the top, hit "Columns..." and select "Recieved" to display the time recieved, then click on the column to sort by it.
I don't know about arcarde ROMs, but all console games come with a license that says that you cannot make any copies of the game, including for back-up purposes. So even if you own the game, it might now be legal to emulate on the computer.
See here for Nintendo's policy.
Or try a google search for emulation legal