And then you accidently don't notice all the e-mail messages with username and password that keep being sent to your account. Yeah, could happen to anyone.
When mobile internet is cheap enough so that all locals who want wireless internet access will have a wireless mobile plan, then we (providers) will be able to leach off 10 euros a day from tourists, since coffee shops will not have wireless internet then - keeping it only for the tourists doesn't make sense.
Sadly, it is because things cost as much as people are willing to pay for them, not as much as it costs to make them. Luckily, most people aren't willing to pay $150 for a usb flash drive, so we do have 1GB flash drives for $10.
Dammit! When did "bricking" expand its meaning from "unbootable under any conditions due to CPU burning up" to "Oops, have to pull out the EEPROM programmer and flash my BIOS"?
In the linked video, you see water and foam on top of the water being pushed by wind, not rocks moving, as far as I could tell. The also mention something about vast sheets of ice forming, though no explaination how the ice fit in to the picture. In other words, what I understood was: it has something to do with wind, water, mud, ice, but we don't know exactly how or what.
Under $100: I don't agree. But I think they should bundle it with books to make it basically free.
Books half price: they should be cheaper than paperback. It isn't clear how much cheaper. CDs are basically free to make, and yet expensive to buy when filled with music.
No bullshit DRM: Here I totally agree. Even though books are available now in many formats and comparable volume (e.g. kindle/mobi, microsoft lit, sony lrf) I only buy microsoft lit books. Why? Because the format was broken, so I can save unprotected, and I'll be able to read the books no matter what device I buy in the future!
Reselling of digital books is a bit of a problem, without DRM. Are you sure you'll delete the book once you give it away? It is a bit similar to the problem of digital music. Say you ripped your CD collection to MP3, and then the CDs were stolen. Will you delete now your MP3s? Can you sell your used MP3s? But I think that borrowing of books from friends should be possible with digital books, and the library problem has to be solved.
Notice that the SI standard was published in 1998, and IEEE accepted these new units in 2005. Hard drive manufacturers have been fooling the public for much longer than that.
I will upgrade to vista.. (a) already have (b) in next 6 months (c) in next 12 months (d) in next 18 months (e) in next 24 months (f) when hell freezes over (g) what do you mean "upgrade"?
This is the relevent part: "Auf die Frage danach, ob denn Rage bzw. die zu Grunde liegende id-Tech-5-Engine neben Mac, Windows-PC, PlayStation 3 und Xbox 360 auch Linux-PCs unterstützen werden, antwortete Hollenshead, dass dazu noch nichts geplant oder angekündigt worden sei. Technisch möglich wäre es, zumal auch mit MacOS X ein Unix-System unterstützt würde. Hollenshead zufolge ist John Carmack mittlerweile nicht mehr so an Linux interessiert wie zuvor, auch wenn es noch einige Linux-Fans bei id Software gebe. Hier müssen Linux-Fans also noch abwarten."
Hollenshead answers that no linux version is planned or announced. From a technical point of view it would be possible, since OS X will be supported. According to Hollenshead, John Carmack isn't as interested in linux as he was earlier, though there are still some linux fans at id.
I agree that he was highly annoying, and maybe even prevented others from asking questions and Kerry from answering.
But so what? Should he have been shot? That would have also solved the problem. In the head, or knees?
Luckily this is not for you (and sadly also not for me) to decide. There are rules as to when to use tasers. And "highly annoying guy shouting loudly" doesn't cover it. He was of no danger to anyone, and was on the floor.
You don't "deserve" being tasered. A taser is not a punishment, and you can not be punished by a policeman, only by a judge/jury. A taser has defined aims - to protect others from harm, if other less violent means will not serve the same purpose. The policemen should be punished.
No, I think it simply means that when microsoft wrote microsoft update, they coded the update process twice: once for update itself, and once for everything else. Then, when they thought about allowing the user to not update the system automatically, they didn't think of applying it also to updating system update. Quite usual - code something X times, and forget where they all instances are. That is why you have to hunt through thousands of places to figure out where you turn off the annoying popup messages from the system tray, and this is why microsoft has to fix every bug fifty times. Actually, some pieces of code probably replicate themselves faster in microsoft's code then they are fixed. That would be a cool model...
Anyway. I'm also sure that somewhere deep in windows, microsoft has the ability to force an update down your throat. But this isn't it.
Because if we release killer bacteria into the atmosphere to create oxygen and everything goes horribly wrong we haven't lost the only planet we still have...
Will Fuji counter this with an new design of their Hexagonal sensor CCD? I wonder. Why is it called hexagonal? Every picture I see of the sensor seems octagonal. Hexagonal would be indeed better, and you wouldn't need to have 2 greens for 1 red and 1 blue. But pictures seem to indicate that fuji still has an extra green. Do they also have a real hexagonal design?
Thank you for the link! That is very interesting. So CMY was already tried in cameras. Once you have a digital pixel, it pretty much doesn't matter if you represent it in RGB or CMY - just a transform of the same information. But I don't understand why you don't have less noise. The wikipedia article mentions higher dynamic range. Isn't it true that twice as much light falls on each sensor, so you gain a stop, and because of that have less noise (because you need the shutter open for only half the time)? Or is it somehow that when you get noise, it is in two channels, and thus you have the same amount of noise?
The gain here seems to come from the fact that they use a white sensor (i.e. unfiltered), which sees ~3 times more light.
They divide each sensor of the regular bayer pattern to 4, half white, half color. This way one can also report a 4-fold increase in the number of pixels, without really increasing the resolution. (which actually will be a boon for digital photography, since no one needs the current resolution anyway, because the optics doesn't keep up, but a megapixel race is on...)
But does anyone know why sensors use RGB and not CMY? a Cyan filter would let green and blue through, but keep red out, instead of blocking two parts of the visible spectrum for each pixel. This way, by simply switching color space, the camera becomes twice as sensitive to light. I.e. instead of
R G G B
use
M C C Y
or something like that. One could even combine the two methods, and use white pixels, to gain a slight further increase in light sensitivity (from 8/12 to 10/12). Is there any reason that current cameras use RGB?
I think that many will agree that both Hitler and Mussolini stand very high up in the list of people who did "crimes against humanity", and I don't think there is any point in arguing who is higher up on the list - all I care about is that we will not get new entries. But could you please explain what you are talking about?
The mussolini killer file mentions "Over 400,000 Italians killed during the Second World War. At least 30,000 Ethiopians killed during Italian occupation of Ethiopia." (wikipedia cites "more than 275,000" Ethiopians killed)
For Hitler, it mentions "Directly responsible for the deaths of over 60 million worldwide as a result of the Second World War."
Who are the 20 million that were killed by Mussolini and his followers? Can you give me references?
As far as I understand, a copyright on the code will not prevent anyone from looking at it, and using the ideas in the code to write closed-source drivers. He would need to get a patent to protect from that possibility.
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And then you accidently don't notice all the e-mail messages with username and password that keep being sent to your account.
Yeah, could happen to anyone.
When mobile internet is cheap enough so that all locals who want wireless internet access will have a wireless mobile plan,
then we (providers) will be able to leach off 10 euros a day from tourists, since coffee shops will not have wireless internet then -
keeping it only for the tourists doesn't make sense.
as if.
What could go wrong? How about:
Music industry starts selling DRM-free mp3, stopping its decline and saving the RIAA for the next clueless battle.
Because you can't abuse a monopoly you don't have.
Not that apple is any less evil, its just slightly more legal, and won't help them as much.
sadly, playing on a plane isn't so "safe", because it'd require wireless.
Sadly, it is because things cost as much as people are willing to pay for them, not as much as it costs to make them.
Luckily, most people aren't willing to pay $150 for a usb flash drive, so we do have 1GB flash drives for $10.
Dammit! When did "bricking" expand its meaning from "unbootable under any conditions due to CPU burning up" to "Oops, have to pull out the EEPROM programmer and flash my BIOS"?
In the linked video, you see water and foam on top of the water being pushed by wind, not rocks moving, as far as I could tell. The also mention something about vast sheets of ice forming, though no explaination how the ice fit in to the picture. In other words, what I understood was: it has something to do with wind, water, mud, ice, but we don't know exactly how or what.
hmmm? Only as long as you read blogs on it. For books, the fee is simply included in the price, as for newspapers.
Notice that the SI standard was published in 1998, and IEEE accepted these new units in 2005.
Hard drive manufacturers have been fooling the public for much longer than that.
I will upgrade to vista..
(a) already have
(b) in next 6 months
(c) in next 12 months
(d) in next 18 months
(e) in next 24 months
(f) when hell freezes over
(g) what do you mean "upgrade"?
This is the relevent part: "Auf die Frage danach, ob denn Rage bzw. die zu Grunde liegende id-Tech-5-Engine neben Mac, Windows-PC, PlayStation 3 und Xbox 360 auch Linux-PCs unterstützen werden, antwortete Hollenshead, dass dazu noch nichts geplant oder angekündigt worden sei. Technisch möglich wäre es, zumal auch mit MacOS X ein Unix-System unterstützt würde. Hollenshead zufolge ist John Carmack mittlerweile nicht mehr so an Linux interessiert wie zuvor, auch wenn es noch einige Linux-Fans bei id Software gebe. Hier müssen Linux-Fans also noch abwarten."
Hollenshead answers that no linux version is planned or announced. From a technical point of view it would be possible, since OS X will be supported.
According to Hollenshead, John Carmack isn't as interested in linux as he was earlier, though there are still some linux fans at id.
This is not about freedom of speech. It is about being tasered.
It is simple: no danger - don't taser.
I agree that he was highly annoying, and maybe even prevented others from asking questions and Kerry from answering.
But so what?
Should he have been shot? That would have also solved the problem. In the head, or knees?
Luckily this is not for you (and sadly also not for me) to decide. There are rules as to when to use tasers. And "highly annoying guy shouting loudly" doesn't cover it. He was of no danger to anyone, and was on the floor.
You don't "deserve" being tasered. A taser is not a punishment, and you can not be punished by a policeman, only by a judge/jury. A taser has defined aims - to protect others from harm, if other less violent means will not serve the same purpose. The policemen should be punished.
No, I think it simply means that when microsoft wrote microsoft update, they coded the update process twice: once for update itself, and once for everything else. Then, when they thought about allowing the user to not update the system automatically, they didn't think of applying it also to updating system update.
Quite usual - code something X times, and forget where they all instances are. That is why you have to hunt through thousands of places to figure out where you turn off the annoying popup messages from the system tray, and this is why microsoft has to fix every bug fifty times. Actually, some pieces of code probably replicate themselves faster in microsoft's code then they are fixed. That would be a cool model...
Anyway. I'm also sure that somewhere deep in windows, microsoft has the ability to force an update down your throat. But this isn't it.
If I propose to upgrade your car to a pumpkin for free, the upgrade might end up costing you money.
I don't live in the US. But Britain??? Don't you know that every time you have your picture taken you lose a small part of your soul?
Because if we release killer bacteria into the atmosphere to create oxygen and everything goes horribly wrong we haven't lost the only planet we still have...
Thank you for the link! That is very interesting. So CMY was already tried in cameras. Once you have a digital pixel, it pretty much doesn't matter if you represent it in RGB or CMY - just a transform of the same information.
But I don't understand why you don't have less noise. The wikipedia article mentions higher dynamic range. Isn't it true that twice as much light falls on each sensor, so you gain a stop, and because of that have less noise (because you need the shutter open for only half the time)? Or is it somehow that when you get noise, it is in two channels, and thus you have the same amount of noise?
They divide each sensor of the regular bayer pattern to 4, half white, half color. This way one can also report a 4-fold increase in the number of pixels, without really increasing the resolution. (which actually will be a boon for digital photography, since no one needs the current resolution anyway, because the optics doesn't keep up, but a megapixel race is on...)
But does anyone know why sensors use RGB and not CMY? a Cyan filter would let green and blue through, but keep red out, instead of blocking two parts of the visible spectrum for each pixel. This way, by simply switching color space, the camera becomes twice as sensitive to light. I.e. instead of use or something like that. One could even combine the two methods, and use white pixels, to gain a slight further increase in light sensitivity (from 8/12 to 10/12). Is there any reason that current cameras use RGB?
I think that many will agree that both Hitler and Mussolini stand very high up in the list of people who did "crimes against humanity", and I don't think there is any point in arguing who is higher up on the list - all I care about is that we will not get new entries. But could you please explain what you are talking about?
The mussolini killer file mentions "Over 400,000 Italians killed during the Second World War. At least 30,000 Ethiopians killed during Italian occupation of Ethiopia." (wikipedia cites "more than 275,000" Ethiopians killed)
For Hitler, it mentions "Directly responsible for the deaths of over 60 million worldwide as a result of the Second World War."
Who are the 20 million that were killed by Mussolini and his followers? Can you give me references?
As far as I understand, a copyright on the code will not prevent anyone from looking at it, and using the ideas in the code to write closed-source drivers. He would need to get a patent to protect from that possibility.