Every now and then, a dead end technology pops up, only to disappear in the mists of history.
As long as widescreen isn't filling the entire screen, beacuse it isn't, it will never conquer the home market. For cinemas it's an entirely different thing, of course.
Those who tout widescreen as the next big thing, might be interested in the fact that there is not yet a single consumer widescreen camcoder on the market. Coincidence?
Streaming mono cd quality sound over Bluetooth works great. But why bother with monoaureal sound when you have hip new technologies like, for example, mpeg1 layer3 encoding?
If you don't believe me, check out these nice cans.
With these cans, a Bluetooth pcmcia card and a mini-pci 802.11b card in my ultraslim laptop, I'm so wireless it hurts (my back, lugging around all the batteries).
Of course it must be great to work in one of the biggest companies providing services in a sector that's routinely heavily subsidized by the government.
The corporate welfare programs, disguised as war/liberation, are the most sneaky socialist scheme ever devised.
I fucking hate the spineless fucking french frogs. Fucking lame masturbating smelly pigs. Garlic chewing frog eating white flag waving terrorist apologists, the fucking lot of them.
Now I've said what all you US jingoist had on your heart, please leave this discussion so we can have some sane comments.
Why are everybody going "no damn way, you'll pry this cell phone from my cold dead hands, I need scientific evidence". What about being a bit cautious, or are you all leet electrical engineers?
I have experienced cell phones interfering heavily with electronic equipment on the ground and also in flight, so this isn't a complete fabrication.
While I was flying in a dash8, the fire alarm went off, which was pretty damn scary, I tell you. Later it turned out that a cell phone recieving a call would almost always trigger the fire alaram system in a dash8.
I really don't understand why you are so negative towards this. Do you think it's some kind of airline conspiracy, forcing you to use their expensive phones?
I wonder, now that Iraq is liberated from Hussein, will they use their newfound democratic power to deploy Sharia-law and and make Iraq into another fundamentalist islamic state?
How can you even begin to pretend that there is something remotely just about the judicial system in the US?
Seen from a foreigners perspective, the only purpose of this system is for corporations to harass their customers and to extort each other.
As for criminal law, there seems to be a common perception that the more money you've got, the more likely you are to get off. And when people are shipped off to jail, most americans seem to enjoy making ass-raping jokes, like that should be a mandatory part of any criminal punishment. It makes your capital punishment look like mercy.
And don't get me started on bizarre laws and amendments, protecting certain corporations or industries. It can be quite amusing to compare the latest laws passed by your congress with the enlightening figures over at www.opensecrets.org.
Your country most be one of the most openly corrupt, by western standards. Your legal system looks like a complete sham, but all you seem to do about it is pass lame jokes like "too bad you're short on cash!" and "hope he likes it up the batty!".
Filing lawsuits purely as a form of harassment is frowned on by judges
If this was true, then why are all these lame ass lawsuits popping up in the news from the US, all the time? I understand that most of them are settled out of court, but why is this if the defendants could be sure of winning?
I think a country as litigous as yours, could really need a good public defense system like we have here. Top lawyers defend you, whatever the case, for just a small fee, affordable for all.
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Every now and then, a dead end technology pops up, only to disappear in the mists of history.
As long as widescreen isn't filling the entire screen, beacuse it isn't, it will never conquer the home market. For cinemas it's an entirely different thing, of course.
Those who tout widescreen as the next big thing, might be interested in the fact that there is not yet a single consumer widescreen camcoder on the market. Coincidence?
Streaming mono cd quality sound over Bluetooth works great. But why bother with monoaureal sound when you have hip new technologies like, for example, mpeg1 layer3 encoding?
If you don't believe me, check out these nice cans.
With these cans, a Bluetooth pcmcia card and a mini-pci 802.11b card in my ultraslim laptop, I'm so wireless it hurts (my back, lugging around all the batteries).
Revamping Prince of Persia is a good idea. Nice game that one.
Kinda timely, with the liberation of Iraq and all. There's a new prince of persia, y'know.
Btw, frist psot.
Comments like this are the reason I keep coming back to Slashdot. A damn fine read.
Just do the preemptive thing and remove all earthlink subscribers from any mailing list you admin.
Protocols like this are bad, especially when people like earthlink are the masterminds.
Of course it must be great to work in one of the biggest companies providing services in a sector that's routinely heavily subsidized by the government.
The corporate welfare programs, disguised as war/liberation, are the most sneaky socialist scheme ever devised.
The US justice system is a tool for people/companies with money
I don't understand your complaint. This is part of the so called american dream, is it not?
I fucking hate the spineless fucking french frogs. Fucking lame masturbating smelly pigs. Garlic chewing frog eating white flag waving terrorist apologists, the fucking lot of them.
Now I've said what all you US jingoist had on your heart, please leave this discussion so we can have some sane comments.
Didn't you get the memo?
Er.. yes.
Where have you been the latest thirty years?
Why are everybody going "no damn way, you'll pry this cell phone from my cold dead hands, I need scientific evidence". What about being a bit cautious, or are you all leet electrical engineers?
I have experienced cell phones interfering heavily with electronic equipment on the ground and also in flight, so this isn't a complete fabrication.
While I was flying in a dash8, the fire alarm went off, which was pretty damn scary, I tell you. Later it turned out that a cell phone recieving a call would almost always trigger the fire alaram system in a dash8.
I really don't understand why you are so negative towards this. Do you think it's some kind of airline conspiracy, forcing you to use their expensive phones?
I wonder, now that Iraq is liberated from Hussein, will they use their newfound democratic power to deploy Sharia-law and and make Iraq into another fundamentalist islamic state?
Or will the us fix the elections?
it's an anagram..
And again.. I'm all alone on it if I so wish. :)
Also, how did you compile libc?
Who said anything about logging into a public Itanium server? I've got one in the office next to mine.
Ok, so the standard version of gcc can compile for both Itanium and x86-64? I'll try that then (when I can borrow some x86-64 hw too).
Anybody know about any (realatively new) versions of Linux for Itanium that one could benchmark this against? Preferably free of charge?
Sorry matey. There's no such thing as the "humanity". There's the US of A and then there is the rest of the world.
Incidently, it's the US that are developing (and using) most of the weapons.
How can you even begin to pretend that there is something remotely just about the judicial system in the US?
Seen from a foreigners perspective, the only purpose of this system is for corporations to harass their customers and to extort each other.
As for criminal law, there seems to be a common perception that the more money you've got, the more likely you are to get off. And when people are shipped off to jail, most americans seem to enjoy making ass-raping jokes, like that should be a mandatory part of any criminal punishment. It makes your capital punishment look like mercy.
And don't get me started on bizarre laws and amendments, protecting certain corporations or industries. It can be quite amusing to compare the latest laws passed by your congress with the enlightening figures over at www.opensecrets.org.
Your country most be one of the most openly corrupt, by western standards. Your legal system looks like a complete sham, but all you seem to do about it is pass lame jokes like "too bad you're short on cash!" and "hope he likes it up the batty!".
Filing lawsuits purely as a form of harassment is frowned on by judges
If this was true, then why are all these lame ass lawsuits popping up in the news from the US, all the time? I understand that most of them are settled out of court, but why is this if the defendants could be sure of winning?
I think a country as litigous as yours, could really need a good public defense system like we have here. Top lawyers defend you, whatever the case, for just a small fee, affordable for all.
must you Americans turn everything into a war? (yeah yeah, cheap shot ;^)
Cheap shot? More like an astute observation, if you were to ask me.
What I found to be most appealing about that book, was the sex.
I mean, they were procreating without permission. Gotta love that. Made me feel like I was thirteen again.
Exactly how are you planning to use military toys in the software wars?
Whoa, Nelly. Hold on to your belly.
I just added this vaugely scientific sounding paragraph so I wouldn't be modded into oblivion for my remark about the asstronauts.
Software Wars, Star Wars, War On Drugs, War On Terrorism..
You're one war crazed people.