You might want to indicate that googling Santorum (or at least clicking on the links in that search result) is probably not safe for work. I already knew what it meant, just thought the rest of the community should know..
regarding family entertainment. It legalized the ability of third parties to edit movies to cut out the "obscene" parts and then make it available to the public. Its *very* big business in Utah, since they're more or less all bible-thumping Mormons.
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If they could devleop this, and replace those big power lines that carry electricity from plants to cities, they could save the power loss. I dont know any figures, but I'm sure utilities would like to decrease or eliminate power loss due to transmission.
Uh, you do realize your Tivo would probably work with the TV off, right? I record stuff at night too (Family Guy, Futurama off Adult Swim - one of the highest rated networks on cable) but my TV's sleep timer kicks in around midnight, and shuts off.
AMD chips have multipliers unlocked downwards. That means if its got a 10x or 12x multiplier, you can chose 8, 9, 10, up to the default number. It works well, even if you dont want to OC, you can turn down the multiplier and crank up the FSB for better performance.
Its not like we dont have these satellites and stuff that can beam programming around the planet in the course of a few seconds, especially for english speaking countries like the UK and Australia... even if its a few days behind, its better than 8 months.
DirecTV will be moving to a 8PSK signal modulation system and to MPEG-4 for HD for the SpaceWay satellite system, both of which are incompatible with the HD DirecTivo. You'll still get the old HD channels broadcast over the older satellites (Ku band, QPSK and MPEG-2), but none of the new fancy stuff (Ka band, 8PSK and MPEG-4).
Mostly irrelevant. Whether your sell widgets or software, you can use FOSS software to do stuff like have a website, track bugs and feedback, etc for free (more or less) - instead of spending money on Win2k3 Server, MS SQL, VS.Net 2k3, etc. Using GPL'd software wont encumber your product.
I like the last question in the article. Basically it poses the question that since MGM admitted its legal, vis a vis fair use, to rip CDs to put on an iPod, shouldn't fair use cover ripping DVDs to another device (like a PSP, or some portable media jukebox).
The answer involves the DMCA and encryption and how the DMCA is worded to excerpt fair use, even though you broke the encryption. I'm quite interested to see what legal geeks say about this (since IANAL).
In TFA, it said the price of adding plug-in tech was $3,000 to a hybrid vehicle. However, to recoup that $3,000 would require you to save about 1,300 gallons of gas (at 2.25/gal). If you were getting 50MPG, and bumped it up to 100MPG, you'd have to drive at least 130,000 miles to recoup it - and that doesnt even count the fact that you'd be spending money on electricity, that would only increase the amount of miles driven.
It can help in other ways, perhaps the power plant where you are getting the electricity from is cleaner burning (or nuclear) than your car, and it reduces overall air pollution.
I surely wont pay for movies I can only watch on my PSP. Get it to DVD or stream it over my home network to some device to get it into my TV for viewing.
I just downloaded WordPress last night - to replace my homespun blog software I wrote back in 2001 (for my blog that I started all the way back in 1996 - it was just me writing HTML for everything). I guess I'll be sticking with my code for a bit longer now, until I find a suitale replacement. I surely dont want to support a company that does this...
Perhaps I'll be even rewriting my software, since I cant find anything that I like.
At my University there is a strict honor code. Every Winter semester students must be endorsed, meaning that they have met with an advisor and have committed to abide by the rules of the honor code.
BYU? I figure it some ultra-religious university...
Why should somebody have the right to run up credit card debt and get a way out later on?
Because, as it turns out, most credit card debt related bankruptices are not due to Joe Q Public buying a $10,000 plasma TV and stuff and then just filing. It turns out half are due to life-threatening medical expenses (cancer, coronary, etc). The new legislation just creates a sort of indentured servitude to the medical industry. They can charge whatever they want (you do want to live right?) and then even if you declare bankruptcy you cant escape.
If your password is something you've ever written on your computer, its likely they'll crack it? Interesting.... moral of the story: dont use words found in the dictionary as your password. Inject spaces or numbers or punctuation into the word if you do. And dont write it down on a sticky note under your keyboard.
Its VERY hard. Want to standarize on Spec_INT? Intel has optimized their compiler to perform better (that it actually can in real world conditions) in the SPEC benchmarks.
Flops (floating point Ops per second) arent that good because while a processor can process so many Flops per second, stuff like branch mispredicts and caching strategy can affect operation throughput and deliver a lower than theoretical FLOPS figure.
I'd mod ya down if I werent replying, but not because you're pro intel, just because your logic is flawed.
Its called marketing, you do whatever you can thats legal to get people to buy your product.
If a dumbass consumer things 4000+ is 4000MHz, especially when there is a asterik saying that the processor actually runs at 2.4GHz, then they're probably the ones who dont understand the 9/10ths of a cent at the end of all gas prices. Intel made processors all about MHZ and thats what AMD has to compete on. The processor ratings are somewhat accurate (varies depending on benchmark).
In a thousand years, provided humanity hasn't wiped itself out by then, the internet archive (and by extension, ourmedia.org) will be what archaeologists use to learn about us.
Yes, because thats what I want to be remembered by, porn, All Your Base..., the star wars kid and NumaNuma. Yea... right...
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the anti-discrimination bill was one of the bills that they didn't have the resources to follow.
Really. Microsoft, with $50B USD in the bank, didn't have the resources to follow this and support it. Riiiiiiight....
You might want to indicate that googling Santorum (or at least clicking on the links in that search result) is probably not safe for work. I already knew what it meant, just thought the rest of the community should know..
regarding family entertainment. It legalized the ability of third parties to edit movies to cut out the "obscene" parts and then make it available to the public. Its *very* big business in Utah, since they're more or less all bible-thumping Mormons.
If they could devleop this, and replace those big power lines that carry electricity from plants to cities, they could save the power loss. I dont know any figures, but I'm sure utilities would like to decrease or eliminate power loss due to transmission.
I mean, shit, I'm very tempted to stop reading this site.
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Uh, you do realize your Tivo would probably work with the TV off, right? I record stuff at night too (Family Guy, Futurama off Adult Swim - one of the highest rated networks on cable) but my TV's sleep timer kicks in around midnight, and shuts off.
AMD chips have multipliers unlocked downwards. That means if its got a 10x or 12x multiplier, you can chose 8, 9, 10, up to the default number. It works well, even if you dont want to OC, you can turn down the multiplier and crank up the FSB for better performance.
Because Apple is introducing new versions of lots of software at NAB for video editing and whatnot (shake, etc). NAB starts next tuesday.
Its not like we dont have these satellites and stuff that can beam programming around the planet in the course of a few seconds, especially for english speaking countries like the UK and Australia... even if its a few days behind, its better than 8 months.
DirecTV will be moving to a 8PSK signal modulation system and to MPEG-4 for HD for the SpaceWay satellite system, both of which are incompatible with the HD DirecTivo. You'll still get the old HD channels broadcast over the older satellites (Ku band, QPSK and MPEG-2), but none of the new fancy stuff (Ka band, 8PSK and MPEG-4).
Mostly irrelevant. Whether your sell widgets or software, you can use FOSS software to do stuff like have a website, track bugs and feedback, etc for free (more or less) - instead of spending money on Win2k3 Server, MS SQL, VS.Net 2k3, etc. Using GPL'd software wont encumber your product.
I like the last question in the article. Basically it poses the question that since MGM admitted its legal, vis a vis fair use, to rip CDs to put on an iPod, shouldn't fair use cover ripping DVDs to another device (like a PSP, or some portable media jukebox).
The answer involves the DMCA and encryption and how the DMCA is worded to excerpt fair use, even though you broke the encryption. I'm quite interested to see what legal geeks say about this (since IANAL).
In TFA, it said the price of adding plug-in tech was $3,000 to a hybrid vehicle. However, to recoup that $3,000 would require you to save about 1,300 gallons of gas (at 2.25/gal). If you were getting 50MPG, and bumped it up to 100MPG, you'd have to drive at least 130,000 miles to recoup it - and that doesnt even count the fact that you'd be spending money on electricity, that would only increase the amount of miles driven.
It can help in other ways, perhaps the power plant where you are getting the electricity from is cleaner burning (or nuclear) than your car, and it reduces overall air pollution.
Its good to know slashdot isn't joking around when it comes to its regularly scheduled dupes...
I surely wont pay for movies I can only watch on my PSP. Get it to DVD or stream it over my home network to some device to get it into my TV for viewing.
Seriously, people don't like other people who smell.
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I just downloaded WordPress last night - to replace my homespun blog software I wrote back in 2001 (for my blog that I started all the way back in 1996 - it was just me writing HTML for everything). I guess I'll be sticking with my code for a bit longer now, until I find a suitale replacement. I surely dont want to support a company that does this...
Perhaps I'll be even rewriting my software, since I cant find anything that I like.
At my University there is a strict honor code. Every Winter semester students must be endorsed, meaning that they have met with an advisor and have committed to abide by the rules of the honor code.
BYU? I figure it some ultra-religious university...
Why should somebody have the right to run up credit card debt and get a way out later on?
Because, as it turns out, most credit card debt related bankruptices are not due to Joe Q Public buying a $10,000 plasma TV and stuff and then just filing. It turns out half are due to life-threatening medical expenses (cancer, coronary, etc). The new legislation just creates a sort of indentured servitude to the medical industry. They can charge whatever they want (you do want to live right?) and then even if you declare bankruptcy you cant escape.
If your password is something you've ever written on your computer, its likely they'll crack it? Interesting.... moral of the story: dont use words found in the dictionary as your password. Inject spaces or numbers or punctuation into the word if you do. And dont write it down on a sticky note under your keyboard.
The OC meets Star Trek. May God save us from such garbage.
(Its not like the women's starfleet uniforms are all that revealing anyways)
I'll probably be waiting a while for the 1GB.
Its VERY hard. Want to standarize on Spec_INT? Intel has optimized their compiler to perform better (that it actually can in real world conditions) in the SPEC benchmarks.
Flops (floating point Ops per second) arent that good because while a processor can process so many Flops per second, stuff like branch mispredicts and caching strategy can affect operation throughput and deliver a lower than theoretical FLOPS figure.
I'd mod ya down if I werent replying, but not because you're pro intel, just because your logic is flawed.
Its called marketing, you do whatever you can thats legal to get people to buy your product.
If a dumbass consumer things 4000+ is 4000MHz, especially when there is a asterik saying that the processor actually runs at 2.4GHz, then they're probably the ones who dont understand the 9/10ths of a cent at the end of all gas prices. Intel made processors all about MHZ and thats what AMD has to compete on. The processor ratings are somewhat accurate (varies depending on benchmark).
And FWIW, a 4000+ does outperform a P4-2.8GHz.
In a thousand years, provided humanity hasn't wiped itself out by then, the internet archive (and by extension, ourmedia.org) will be what archaeologists use to learn about us.
Yes, because thats what I want to be remembered by, porn, All Your Base..., the star wars kid and NumaNuma. Yea... right...