Posting way too late for anyone to actually read this, but c'est la guerre. Pre-IPO, baidu.com had video search which helped it increase market share pre-IPO. The button was removed before IPO, leaving just the MP3 button. Ergo, baidu.com knows what game it's playing.
In a separate action to that brought by EMI et al, a Beijing court has just ordered Baidu.com to pay RMB68,000 to Shanghai Busheng Music Cultural Media Company. Busheng had accused Baidu of allowing Internet users to use the Baidu search engine to find and download copyright-protected music. The court has also ordered Baidu to stop providing the download services to online users. Baidu says it plans to appeal the decision. See http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.as px?storyID=221757+19-Sep-2005+RTRS&srch=baidu.
So perhaps the copyright laws will be enforced more strictly when it's locally-generated content that is being pirated.
But I think he went for the "+5, sympathy" vote. If you met a post like that in the street, you'd smile encouragingly and pat it on the head, inwardly glad that all your own posts had grown up healthy.
I bumped into a guy via a cellphone mailing list, whose company has a dialling product that hangs up if it detects a human at the other end. But if it detects an answerphone, it delivers its advert. You have to wonder about people who actually design something like that, and the client companies that think it's the best way to get the message across. The guy does stuff for IBM, which we certainly filed away for future reference.
I'd forgotten that Visicalc was less than 30k. Elite for the Beeb Micro was minute in modern terms. The two computers that made all my money for me in the early days were the Osborne 1 and later the HP200LX. In both cases, it was the bundled software which sold them to me. I can't remember how large the Osborne's applications were, but they were less than a 183kB floppy each, anyway. I keep trying to reuse the HP200LX, but my eyes just aren't up to it now.
The most recent software install on my current notebook was 1.8GB.
Yes, I accept that, but the article referred to by the original poster seemed to be ignoring the existence of the boosters entirely. Who knows, a combination of "simple" throttleable and non-throttleable engines coupled with a high-altitude launch might be just fine: a 9-seater ship designed to stay aloft for an hour or two doesn't need a whole pile of stuff the Shuttle needs, ranging all the way from cargo bays, docking adapters, thermal radiators, sleeping quarters and experiment areas through to piddle tubes. Well, maybe keep the piddle tubes for Business Class.
You can record to the HDD and the DVD. It writes to DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD-R, and can read those formats plus DVD+R and DVD+RW. It supports recording modes from "VHS 1/3rd speed" (1700 hours) up to "Broadcast satellite HD mode" (68 hours).
The writeup you quote compares the Shuttle engines with the Scaled Composites engine, and says the former are complex enough to do the job, whilst the latter is too simple. But don't the Shuttle's two strap-on solid fuel boosters supply 75% of the thrust at launch? In other words, the Shuttle has three wildly complex engines and a whopping external fuel tank supplying 25% of the thrust, and two relatively simple solid boosters supplying the other 75%. So, in that context, the Shuttle's engines can't do the job by themselves either.
Actually, the Brits are way ahead of the US in this, with water collection facilities covering anything up to 2000 square miles, the water being carefully routed using what is known as the "Downhill Effect" to transport the working fluid to various rotary energy conversion devices.
CNN is just chewing gums for the eyes. Unless you're stuck in a hotel room, why would you voluntarily watch CNN? They're the nipple pasties of the body that is international news. Well, you know what I mean.
My friend is in the situation where his duaghter's school is pressing him to buy a tablet PC for his daughter. He must buy the one offered by the school. It's 2 generations old and weighs 3.6kg. He also has to buy Dreamweaver so they can learn about web pages. We've got an educational facility that thinks it needs pupils to carry PCs around every day of their scholastic lives, simply to learn how to make naff web pages. If a student buys any other PC, they may not connect it to the school network.
Well, there's no point asking my advice because the school's already decided to screw him over. But he's got a nice kid, so I've suggested he makes sure she knows how to move data to/from her iPod. And as a little prezzy, I've gotten her a 4GB USB memory stick and the promise of a second computer for home, if she decides that's a workable solution. Why the heck should schoolkids carry computers to and from school, especially one with such strange ideas about what a PC is used for?
The requirements of a movie theater are a little different to those of a home theater. In a movie theater, everyone has to perceive the same sound level: the average theater is a big space and you can't deafen the people in the corners to give the people in the center the correct sound level. So you want more speakers along the sides to create a more even sound field. But then you have to make sure you're not distorting the sound stage, so the number of real or apparent channels go up.
This is a complete guess, but I imagine theaters are simply generating 13.1 audio from 5.1 to 7.1 to maintain the sound stage, rather than to improve, er, I don't know the word, so I'll say "spatial resolution".
That would be Finland's Turku archipelago, the world's largest. Alas, doomed to be a tourist backwater because visitors can't actually pronounce the island names. An entire nation based on T9 typos.
Noticed when you buy something now you can choose whether to pay the recycling tax now, or wait until the end-of-life in the hope it will be cheaper then? PET bottles in our area have to be returned to convenience stores and can't go in our trash. We also have to sort our trash into into abotu 6 categories. A fried down south has to sort into 12 categories. The ubiquitous water pot now uses up to 70% less electricity than models 3 years ago. All white goods have to carry efficiency ratings. 30% of the flat surface of new buildings must be grassed, including the roof. There's less wrapping on gifts at department stores now. Thermostats in government offices have been increased from 25 to 28 or 29 C for the summer. Government employees are being encouraged to stop wearing jackets and ties from June to September. Trucks and buses are encouraged not to idle when stationary. I dunno, maybe you don't watch Japanese TV.
Maybe "technology delayed" items like this need to name the backwaters where the tech isn't available.
I've got TV over IP which takes 6Mpbs of my 100/33Mbps feed. I'll get the HDTV feed when, well, I get an HDTV. The STB is basically an rtsp client. I've got "over-the-air" TV, "cable", PPV, VOD and all the usual goodies for around $35/month, including the 94Mbps left over for surfing. There are competing services in the area with similar pricing points.
Sorry about the acronym burp, but you get the idea.
I'm only commenting on one part of their complaint, not on decision-making process which follows on from that. But if one reads the full complaint, the situation is not as clear-cut as the average non-RTFAer would believe it to be.
If one reads the complaint (link below), points 28 onwards demonstrate that Google is using AFP's photos without attribution: in other words, for each news item, the news source is identified. However, for the photos, the photo source is NOT identified. So, AFP's photos are used without the site visitor being aware that the photos are from AFP. Also, AFP distributes its photos with a copyright line at the top of the image and several lines of descriptive text at the bottom of the image. When the images are used by Google, these lines have been automagically stripped out.
Everyone loves Google, so it's easy to mock AFP. But if this were being done by a site that everyone loves to hate, I think people would tend to side with AFP.
As a side note, Agence France Presse is one of the Big Three (with AP and Reuters). It takes great pride in the quality of its photography.
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So you're saying if the Dalek were cheaper, you'd have no problem sharing your house with a genocidal pepperpot?
In a separate action to that brought by EMI et al, a Beijing court has just ordered Baidu.com to pay RMB68,000 to Shanghai Busheng Music Cultural Media Company. Busheng had accused Baidu of allowing Internet users to use the Baidu search engine to find and download copyright-protected music. The court has also ordered Baidu to stop providing the download services to online users. Baidu says it plans to appeal the decision. See http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.as px?storyID=221757+19-Sep-2005+RTRS&srch=baidu.
So perhaps the copyright laws will be enforced more strictly when it's locally-generated content that is being pirated.
But I think he went for the "+5, sympathy" vote. If you met a post like that in the street, you'd smile encouragingly and pat it on the head, inwardly glad that all your own posts had grown up healthy.
I bumped into a guy via a cellphone mailing list, whose company has a dialling product that hangs up if it detects a human at the other end. But if it detects an answerphone, it delivers its advert. You have to wonder about people who actually design something like that, and the client companies that think it's the best way to get the message across. The guy does stuff for IBM, which we certainly filed away for future reference.
From http://www.polymervision.com/Technology/CurrentSpe cifications/Index.html, it seems the response time is 0.5 - 1 s with a reflectance of 35 - 40% and a contrast ratio of 10:1. Even given it's a first generation product, it's going to look a bit murky.
The most recent software install on my current notebook was 1.8GB.
Yes, I accept that, but the article referred to by the original poster seemed to be ignoring the existence of the boosters entirely. Who knows, a combination of "simple" throttleable and non-throttleable engines coupled with a high-altitude launch might be just fine: a 9-seater ship designed to stay aloft for an hour or two doesn't need a whole pile of stuff the Shuttle needs, ranging all the way from cargo bays, docking adapters, thermal radiators, sleeping quarters and experiment areas through to piddle tubes. Well, maybe keep the piddle tubes for Business Class.
See http://av.hitachi.co.jp/deck/product/dvdh1000w/ind ex.html.
The writeup you quote compares the Shuttle engines with the Scaled Composites engine, and says the former are complex enough to do the job, whilst the latter is too simple. But don't the Shuttle's two strap-on solid fuel boosters supply 75% of the thrust at launch? In other words, the Shuttle has three wildly complex engines and a whopping external fuel tank supplying 25% of the thrust, and two relatively simple solid boosters supplying the other 75%. So, in that context, the Shuttle's engines can't do the job by themselves either.
Chocolate.
Interestingly, there's an image of one being used here http://www.waterhistory.org/histories/waterwheels/ waterwheel2.jpg to process the fuel pellets for pebble-bed reactors for example.
CNN is just chewing gums for the eyes. Unless you're stuck in a hotel room, why would you voluntarily watch CNN? They're the nipple pasties of the body that is international news. Well, you know what I mean.
Well, there's no point asking my advice because the school's already decided to screw him over. But he's got a nice kid, so I've suggested he makes sure she knows how to move data to/from her iPod. And as a little prezzy, I've gotten her a 4GB USB memory stick and the promise of a second computer for home, if she decides that's a workable solution. Why the heck should schoolkids carry computers to and from school, especially one with such strange ideas about what a PC is used for?
You could try an app to limit the DVD's speed: there's one bundled with Nero, for example.
This is a complete guess, but I imagine theaters are simply generating 13.1 audio from 5.1 to 7.1 to maintain the sound stage, rather than to improve, er, I don't know the word, so I'll say "spatial resolution".
That would be Finland's Turku archipelago, the world's largest. Alas, doomed to be a tourist backwater because visitors can't actually pronounce the island names. An entire nation based on T9 typos.
Noticed when you buy something now you can choose whether to pay the recycling tax now, or wait until the end-of-life in the hope it will be cheaper then? PET bottles in our area have to be returned to convenience stores and can't go in our trash. We also have to sort our trash into into abotu 6 categories. A fried down south has to sort into 12 categories. The ubiquitous water pot now uses up to 70% less electricity than models 3 years ago. All white goods have to carry efficiency ratings. 30% of the flat surface of new buildings must be grassed, including the roof. There's less wrapping on gifts at department stores now. Thermostats in government offices have been increased from 25 to 28 or 29 C for the summer. Government employees are being encouraged to stop wearing jackets and ties from June to September. Trucks and buses are encouraged not to idle when stationary. I dunno, maybe you don't watch Japanese TV.
My old Sharp had this. Very powerful transmitter. Very handy for watching exactly what you want at airports without being too obvious about it.
I think they're using a metallic form of chocolate. Where's the graphite guy when you need him?
KDDI Hikari & SoftbankBB. I kinda collect internet connections.
I've got TV over IP which takes 6Mpbs of my 100/33Mbps feed. I'll get the HDTV feed when, well, I get an HDTV. The STB is basically an rtsp client. I've got "over-the-air" TV, "cable", PPV, VOD and all the usual goodies for around $35/month, including the 94Mbps left over for surfing. There are competing services in the area with similar pricing points.
Sorry about the acronym burp, but you get the idea.
I'm only commenting on one part of their complaint, not on decision-making process which follows on from that. But if one reads the full complaint, the situation is not as clear-cut as the average non-RTFAer would believe it to be.
British. Although the world's largest news outlet, 90% of its revenues come from selling financial data.
Everyone loves Google, so it's easy to mock AFP. But if this were being done by a site that everyone loves to hate, I think people would tend to side with AFP.
As a side note, Agence France Presse is one of the Big Three (with AP and Reuters). It takes great pride in the quality of its photography.
http://www.resourceshelf.com/legaldocs/afpvgoogle1 .pdf
They'll just sign termination agreements, like every other player on the planet.