So someone made a crappy version of Tivo? Why is that exciting? I have a crappy "Tivo" on my desk right now. It's called a vcr, and my vcr is still superior to Mystro because I choose what I can put on tape and what to do with the tape once I have it.
Well, I guess I could mail my cassettes to the cable company after recording them. Then I'll have my own Mystro.
There are two main approaches to programming, and I know people who do both.
I personally think of myself as an artist. I think the way to learn to program is similar to the one should learn art. This is by studying great pieces of code, and writing as much code as possible.
The other side of the coin is engineering. I have to take tons of engineering classes in school, and or CIS department is part of the college of engineering. So I also feel that if I take all these engineering classes (and pass) it is unfair to not call me an engineer, when I have done all of the work other engineers do.
You do realize, that even if there was one world language, that everyone understood by tomorrow, given enough time, dialects would sprout, then entire new languages?
Actually as the world becomes more "connected" and we have more communication across cultural and geographical boundaries, this would be less and less of a problem.
I am sure you can find many Japanese kids who can understand ebonics (something many adults in the United States can't do). As time passes cultural boundares will come closer together. Eventually all we'll have is generation gaps. Those however will become larger as life expectancy is increased by advances in medical technology.
Re:I'm for the war... but..
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What's different about us?
You conveniently forget that we have not signed a peace fire agreement saying we will disarm. Sadam has.
The US started as an attempt to liberate us from dictatorship rule,
This is ignorance at best, or a boldfaced lie at worst. The United States was ruled by a Parliamentary government before the Revolutionary War. The war was NOT fought because people felt a Parliamentary government was unfair. It was fought because the people were being taxed without having representatives in the government. That is what was unfair. Chances are if the Great Brittain would have wisened up and given us Parliamentarians, we would not exist today as the U.S.A. That said, am glad they didn't.
"In non-Beltway words, the "opening stages" of a vast military assault against a hopelessly undertrained and underequipped military are now underway."
Umm, Iraq was at one point the third largest military in the world. They still are the most militarily powerful country in the area that isn't named Israel.
I have put a lot of thought into this war. A lot of people in this country think we should go to war. I can't say whether we should or shouldn't, but I can say that wholeheartedly disagree with the idea of a "pre-emptive strike". There is nothing wrong with defending yourself or defending someone else, but attacking out of fear is not to be allowed. However, there is more to this war than that.
I started out firmly against this war, but after examining the facts, I believe it is a GOOD IDEA. Not because of any pre-emptive strike, but because I believe the Iraqi people could end up better off in the end. I was all out against war, until I read an interview with a guy whose wife was from Iraq. He was talking about how her family is still there and how awful it is. Everyone hates the regime, nobody can change it. Someone will make a comment at a dinner meeting one night, and be gone the next day. Udai runs wild in Baghdad doing what he pleases, raping both men and women, cutting the heads off of prostitutes, etc. If this war ends the regime this is good.
Typically I do not believe in "the ends justifies the means". However, I think that if this frees the Iraqi people, if it is good for them, I am for it. We will not know until the war is over if that is true, but what could be worse than the current situation?
Heh, on the one had I agree with you, but if I was making a game, there is no way I could resist porting to it windows. Sorry, some times I think only in dollar signs.
"our" being whose? Why do you assume that everyone reading Slashdot is American? They aren't. It's just this sort of mindset that makes people resent the US
You are just being a whiner. Slashdot (the server) is in the United States. It is fair enough to say our and be referring to the U.S. when posting on a site that uses U.S. English, is in the United States, and probably the plurality of hits are from people in the U.S.
That said, if you want to resent, resent away. The nice thing about being the U.S. is... we don't care what you think.
Compression is, by definition, dropping the kbps..
Wow, you define compression and prove you don't know anything about it in the same sentence! Don't get made, I'm just kidding with you. Anyways, lossy compression does is, effectively, dropping kbps, but there is plenty of lossless compression happening in there too. I am not sure what kind of compressions scheme ATRAC uses, but I imagine there is some run length coding, discrete cosine transforms, and a variety of other methods happening before you get to your final product.
These lossless compressions get the file size down as low as possible before you have to start chopping out information. In this manner you preserve as much of the actual signal as possible.
I always love it how mathematicians start thinking they are physicists. Please...
You can call it "interference" if you want, but the fact is a properly designed reciever can still split the two signals apart with no loss of content. How far does this scale? Who knows.
You are right to use Shannon's theory and say that there IS a limit to the bandwidth. But for all we know that limit may be damn near infinite. It all depends on the intelligence of our protocols.
For those of you thinking this movie will only draw anime fans, I am pretty sure you are wrong. I am nota fan of most anime, but I have watched this show on cartoon network several times, and it seems like the kind of thing that would translate really well into a cinematic format.
The story revolves around adventures of a thief (Lupin) and some travelling companions. The episodes I saw had a lot of people with guns, jokes about sex, and camels. It is a devestating combination.
Any of those more versed in physics than myself care to comment on what lowering the mass of the moon could do? I am sure not enough would be mined to raise the mass of the earth enough to cause problems, but wouldn't a great enough reduction in lunar mass decrease the force of gravity between the earth and the moon, thus (possibely) destabilizing the orbit?
I'm all for mining, but we only have one "real" moon. The other planets will make fun of us if we lose it!
Re:Oh boy...
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Goodbye, Dolly
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It is my understanding (which doesn't mean too much) that telomeres weren't so much a clock as a failsafe. When chromosomes replicate a little genetic information tends to be lost during this dividing process. Telomeres are "spare" genetic material at the ends of the chromosome, so they get cut off first. When the chromosomes in a certain cell have no telomere left, the cell cannot successfully divide.
I played on bnetd to play the WC3 beta test because I wasn't in the "official" beta. I read a lot of comments from official beta testers who were enraged when they saw other people getting to play the beta. I thought that was funny. Now, it is all good and well for Blizzard to want to stop piracy, it isn't all good and well to trample other people's rights to do it. bnetd IS NOT a copyright circumvention tool. It is a way for people to play blizzard games on their own terms. I love blizzard games, but I won't make excuses for such low behavior. I am not saying it is wrong to want to protect your copyright, but they hurt a lot of honest players too when they killed bnetd. I hope with all my heart there is a special place in hell for the jackass who made that call.
I feel sad whenever I see Sony products like this. They are such a powerhouse when it comes to visually beautiful, yet powerful devices. They could easily be raking in profits off of their electronics division if it weren't for their commitment to sacrifice electronic quality to protect their media division. Sad, sad, sad...
Until now implies that something can be done if the judge rules in favor of Hollywood. This is simply untrue. As you can gather from the article, the CEO of Sharman Networks has not set foot in the U.S. and will not do so. Sure the company is on trial, but all that exists of them in the United States is lawyers. How they expect to get traditionally uncooperative countries to shut down servers I don't know. It will be interesting.
I am going to make some doors. Then sue every company that makes door knobs. These knobs allow people to open my doors! This defeats my anti-piracy measure. The door is intended to prevent people from the other side from getting in and stealing! How can companies manufacture door knobs in good conscience?
A better idea would be have the bike hooked to a generator instead of a wall outlet. Now you have to pay for your time playing by riding a bike. The more power your game consumes, the longer you'll have to ride to earn those precious moments. This will create a whole new generation of athletic nerds, the likes of which has never been known to man.
This may come as a huge surprise, but the lawyers actually earned that money. All you had to do was fill out a form on the web.
Are you fucking stupid? If you are getting money from it that is because you were ripped off. And you'll probably get much less than you were ripped off for.
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So someone made a crappy version of Tivo? Why is that exciting? I have a crappy "Tivo" on my desk right now. It's called a vcr, and my vcr is still superior to Mystro because I choose what I can put on tape and what to do with the tape once I have it.
Well, I guess I could mail my cassettes to the cable company after recording them. Then I'll have my own Mystro.
There are two main approaches to programming, and I know people who do both.
I personally think of myself as an artist. I think the way to learn to program is similar to the one should learn art. This is by studying great pieces of code, and writing as much code as possible.
The other side of the coin is engineering. I have to take tons of engineering classes in school, and or CIS department is part of the college of engineering. So I also feel that if I take all these engineering classes (and pass) it is unfair to not call me an engineer, when I have done all of the work other engineers do.
If there's a walk-through or tutorial guide on setting up gnucash for [preferrably simple-style] personal finances, please post.
open your terminal emulator and:
emerge gnucash
gnucash
You do realize, that even if there was one world language, that everyone understood by tomorrow, given enough time, dialects would sprout, then entire new languages?
Actually as the world becomes more "connected" and we have more communication across cultural and geographical boundaries, this would be less and less of a problem.
I am sure you can find many Japanese kids who can understand ebonics (something many adults in the United States can't do). As time passes cultural boundares will come closer together. Eventually all we'll have is generation gaps. Those however will become larger as life expectancy is increased by advances in medical technology.
What's different about us?
You conveniently forget that we have not signed a peace fire agreement saying we will disarm. Sadam has.
The US started as an attempt to liberate us from dictatorship rule,
This is ignorance at best, or a boldfaced lie at worst. The United States was ruled by a Parliamentary government before the Revolutionary War. The war was NOT fought because people felt a Parliamentary government was unfair. It was fought because the people were being taxed without having representatives in the government. That is what was unfair. Chances are if the Great Brittain would have wisened up and given us Parliamentarians, we would not exist today as the U.S.A. That said, am glad they didn't.
"In non-Beltway words, the "opening stages" of a vast military assault against a hopelessly undertrained and underequipped military are now underway."
Umm, Iraq was at one point the third largest military in the world. They still are the most militarily powerful country in the area that isn't named Israel.
This will be at the bottom, but oh well:
I have put a lot of thought into this war. A lot of people in this country think we should go to war. I can't say whether we should or shouldn't, but I can say that wholeheartedly disagree with the idea of a "pre-emptive strike". There is nothing wrong with defending yourself or defending someone else, but attacking out of fear is not to be allowed. However, there is more to this war than that.
I started out firmly against this war, but after examining the facts, I believe it is a GOOD IDEA. Not because of any pre-emptive strike, but because I believe the Iraqi people could end up better off in the end. I was all out against war, until I read an interview with a guy whose wife was from Iraq. He was talking about how her family is still there and how awful it is. Everyone hates the regime, nobody can change it. Someone will make a comment at a dinner meeting one night, and be gone the next day. Udai runs wild in Baghdad doing what he pleases, raping both men and women, cutting the heads off of prostitutes, etc. If this war ends the regime this is good.
Typically I do not believe in "the ends justifies the means". However, I think that if this frees the Iraqi people, if it is good for them, I am for it. We will not know until the war is over if that is true, but what could be worse than the current situation?
Heh, on the one had I agree with you, but if I was making a game, there is no way I could resist porting to it windows. Sorry, some times I think only in dollar signs.
"our" being whose? Why do you assume that everyone reading Slashdot is American? They aren't. It's just this sort of mindset that makes people resent the US
You are just being a whiner. Slashdot (the server) is in the United States. It is fair enough to say our and be referring to the U.S. when posting on a site that uses U.S. English, is in the United States, and probably the plurality of hits are from people in the U.S.
That said, if you want to resent, resent away. The nice thing about being the U.S. is... we don't care what you think.
Compression is, by definition, dropping the kbps..
Wow, you define compression and prove you don't know anything about it in the same sentence! Don't get made, I'm just kidding with you. Anyways, lossy compression does is, effectively, dropping kbps, but there is plenty of lossless compression happening in there too. I am not sure what kind of compressions scheme ATRAC uses, but I imagine there is some run length coding, discrete cosine transforms, and a variety of other methods happening before you get to your final product.
These lossless compressions get the file size down as low as possible before you have to start chopping out information. In this manner you preserve as much of the actual signal as possible.
Ah, but when you started cutting molecules in half you would no longer have bread.
Most wi-fi devices have to accept any interference they recieve as per regulation by the fcc. That's just how it is.
I always love it how mathematicians start thinking they are physicists. Please... You can call it "interference" if you want, but the fact is a properly designed reciever can still split the two signals apart with no loss of content. How far does this scale? Who knows. You are right to use Shannon's theory and say that there IS a limit to the bandwidth. But for all we know that limit may be damn near infinite. It all depends on the intelligence of our protocols.
For those of you thinking this movie will only draw anime fans, I am pretty sure you are wrong. I am nota fan of most anime, but I have watched this show on cartoon network several times, and it seems like the kind of thing that would translate really well into a cinematic format.
The story revolves around adventures of a thief (Lupin) and some travelling companions. The episodes I saw had a lot of people with guns, jokes about sex, and camels. It is a devestating combination.
Doh, never mind. I just realized that the mass would be being moved from the moon to the earth, so the combined mass of the bodies would be the same.
Any of those more versed in physics than myself care to comment on what lowering the mass of the moon could do? I am sure not enough would be mined to raise the mass of the earth enough to cause problems, but wouldn't a great enough reduction in lunar mass decrease the force of gravity between the earth and the moon, thus (possibely) destabilizing the orbit?
I'm all for mining, but we only have one "real" moon. The other planets will make fun of us if we lose it!
It is my understanding (which doesn't mean too much) that telomeres weren't so much a clock as a failsafe. When chromosomes replicate a little genetic information tends to be lost during this dividing process. Telomeres are "spare" genetic material at the ends of the chromosome, so they get cut off first. When the chromosomes in a certain cell have no telomere left, the cell cannot successfully divide.
I played on bnetd to play the WC3 beta test because I wasn't in the "official" beta. I read a lot of comments from official beta testers who were enraged when they saw other people getting to play the beta. I thought that was funny. Now, it is all good and well for Blizzard to want to stop piracy, it isn't all good and well to trample other people's rights to do it. bnetd IS NOT a copyright circumvention tool. It is a way for people to play blizzard games on their own terms. I love blizzard games, but I won't make excuses for such low behavior.
I am not saying it is wrong to want to protect your copyright, but they hurt a lot of honest players too when they killed bnetd. I hope with all my heart there is a special place in hell for the jackass who made that call.
I feel sad whenever I see Sony products like this. They are such a powerhouse when it comes to visually beautiful, yet powerful devices. They could easily be raking in profits off of their electronics division if it weren't for their commitment to sacrifice electronic quality to protect their media division. Sad, sad, sad...
Until now implies that something can be done if the judge rules in favor of Hollywood. This is simply untrue. As you can gather from the article, the CEO of Sharman Networks has not set foot in the U.S. and will not do so. Sure the company is on trial, but all that exists of them in the United States is lawyers. How they expect to get traditionally uncooperative countries to shut down servers I don't know. It will be interesting.
I am going to make some doors. Then sue every company that makes door knobs. These knobs allow people to open my doors! This defeats my anti-piracy measure. The door is intended to prevent people from the other side from getting in and stealing! How can companies manufacture door knobs in good conscience?
Should someone remind these guys that the garage door opener is analog?
A better idea would be have the bike hooked to a generator instead of a wall outlet. Now you have to pay for your time playing by riding a bike. The more power your game consumes, the longer you'll have to ride to earn those precious moments. This will create a whole new generation of athletic nerds, the likes of which has never been known to man.
This may come as a huge surprise, but the lawyers actually earned that money. All you had to do was fill out a form on the web.
Are you fucking stupid? If you are getting money from it that is because you were ripped off. And you'll probably get much less than you were ripped off for.