NFL = No Fun League
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Superbowling
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· Score: 4, Insightful
First the NFL says NO to ads for Las Vegas during the superbowl. Then CBS says NO to ads against Bush during the game. The NFL says NOWAY to Casinos in las vegas showing the game on anything bigger than a 55" TV. They say its copyright law, but last I checked copyright law didnt say anything about TV Size. Its just the NFL's arbitrary size. The Palms was planning to show it on their huge movie theater screens. Oh well, I guess the NFL doesnt like its superbowl party being upstaged by Vegas. Now they're just taking their ball and going back to Houston. Paul Tagliabue caused lots of casinos to lose lots of money because of the NFL's childlike behavior. Hello, only so many people can go to the game! What are the rest supposed to do, wait outside and be happy they're near the game?? Paul also threatened the players with fines or possibly suspensions for "excessive celebration" during the Superbowl.
I'd feel less pissed off at outsourcing if... 1. A worldwide minimum wage was created (based on local factors like food prices, housing, utilities) 2. Companies lowered their prices some when they found cheaper labor. And by that I mean willingly lower prices, not forced to find cheaper labor because Wal*Mart wont stock their products unless they under a certain price.
One of India's biggest advantages is that they speak English. If I were running a developing nation, I'd switch my national language to english in a hurry and spend all my money on education so one day greedy American corporations in search for an extra cent or two per share of profit can send their jobs to my country.
The coming America is a service-industry based country of people who will one day have the rug pulled out from under them by the rest of the world when they wake up and realize they dont need American Marketing agencies, PR departments, CEOs and stockholders taking their cut of the profits for not much work.
Its not that the court said it was OK for Shaman networks to sue, its that the judge dismissed the RIAA's request to have the charges thrown out of court. In effect, the judge said "this lawsuit isnt just frivilous bullshit, let it go forward"
If you got kick backs, you'd be eager to perscribe drugs too. I had strep throat a few months back, and instead of a shot (which I've always got for strep throat for the past 20 years) I got pills instead. I also saw a doctor I had never seen before (I have a GPs office I go to, there are 4 doctors at this office).
Wow, its funny Princess Fiorina can talk out of both sides of her mouth...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34804.htm l
"HP's CEO Carly Fiorina filled her keynote speech at CES with media piracy rhetoric, saying that consumers are undermining the economy and the morals of this nation by exchanging music. With this platform established, Fiorina went on to say HP will be the media industry's first rate lackey and do all it can to equip files with DRM (digital rights management) controls. The move by a technology company like HP to so wholly support a dying, old world empire shows how fragile the idea of an open PC has become."
Other reports also told of a system where a VHS tape couldnt be copied to DVD through a PC. They never said if it was a purchased movie, or someone's wedding tape they wanted to copy to DVD to send to their friends.
And thusly there was a class action lawsuit in the mid 1990's addressing this very thing. Thats why you see "19" (17.9" viewable area)" on advertisements for CRTs. They were required to specify veiwable area in addition to tube size since then.
I think you're talking abuot softmodded 9500s to 9700s. The Radeon 9500 had 8 pipelines, and so did the 9700, it was just that the 9500 was clocked slower. So people tinkered with the drivers and bioses and got a 9500 pro looking like a 9700 pro, provided the chip could take the speed. ATI saw this, and with the 9600, they changeed it so that the 9600 had 4 pipelines, and the 9800 had 8 pipes. Funnily enough, the 9800 XT's core runs at 412MHz or so, and the 9600 XT's core runs at 500MHz. It happens that the 9800XT chip is 150nm process, the 9600 XT is 130nm process. So yes, they are infact two different chips.
but if this turns out like the "no child left behind" act, the funding will be cut drastically once GW realizes how much it would actually cost. Besides, didnt we go through this hoopla a few months ago, Bush was supposed to announce a big space project and it never happened.
Legitimate e-mail shouldn't be coming through an unknown relay. Really, your e-mail server should be setup with a proper reverse lookup. There is absolutely nothing wrong with denying mail from unknown e-mail servers (e-mail servers that don't reverse look-up to the correct name). many people and ISPs do this specifically to get rid of SPAM, as anyone running a real mail server should be spending the time to setup his e-mail server correctly.
Huh? No way! I have a business level cable modem plan, and my ISP (cox) refuses to change the RDNS of my static to the domain I have it pointed to unless I register the domain through them (with a nice markup) and pay them to hold my DNS entries too. I've got to the point where I have to funnel all my outbound mail through cox's server to keep it from getting bounced. And my friends who used my SMTP server (account auth req'd to send mail) dont use it anymore to send mail. And what about webhosting? Say my friend owns abcxyz.com and wants to send mail from it, and I own foo-bar.com and want to send email from that. I'm not going to get a seperate physical computer and IP for each customer that wants to send mail, I'm going to virtualhost in apache and run a mail server that can do multiple domains. Can I have multiple RDNS names?
Not much, but I think his father knows some peoeple...
The price better be low
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The Return of S3
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· Score: 2, Informative
Because the card is only an "adequate" performer so far. Of course, that review left a lot to be desired, synthetic benchmarks arent a good basis. More real games, less 3DMark2xxx. nVidia showed how easy it is to cheat at synth benches.
I remember back in high school I had created a bunch of accounts on my linux box and used some program to try and decipher the passwords. 1-4 charecter passwords were found in 30 minutes (on my blazing-fast-at-the-time 200MHz Pentium 1), 5 charecter passwords took 2 days, 6 charecter passwords took... well, forever more or less. I figured at the time, a 7 charecter password would be sufficient forever (at least for my life time), but I guess not. Now I use 10 charecter passwords for most of my stuff... Do I need to move to 15 charecters? A passphrase instead of a password?
As fraud has increased, I've resorted to using only ATMs at the various branches of the bank I'm with, and I've switched (back) to using credit cards instead of debit cards for point-of-service purchases, so that if I get defrauded, I end up with a huge CC bill (relatively) instead of an empty bank account.
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First the NFL says NO to ads for Las Vegas during the superbowl. Then CBS says NO to ads against Bush during the game. The NFL says NO WAY to Casinos in las vegas showing the game on anything bigger than a 55" TV. They say its copyright law, but last I checked copyright law didnt say anything about TV Size. Its just the NFL's arbitrary size. The Palms was planning to show it on their huge movie theater screens. Oh well, I guess the NFL doesnt like its superbowl party being upstaged by Vegas. Now they're just taking their ball and going back to Houston. Paul Tagliabue caused lots of casinos to lose lots of money because of the NFL's childlike behavior. Hello, only so many people can go to the game! What are the rest supposed to do, wait outside and be happy they're near the game?? Paul also threatened the players with fines or possibly suspensions for "excessive celebration" during the Superbowl.
The NFL is definately the No Fun League.
I'd feel less pissed off at outsourcing if...
1. A worldwide minimum wage was created (based on local factors like food prices, housing, utilities)
2. Companies lowered their prices some when they found cheaper labor. And by that I mean willingly lower prices, not forced to find cheaper labor because Wal*Mart wont stock their products unless they under a certain price.
One of India's biggest advantages is that they speak English. If I were running a developing nation, I'd switch my national language to english in a hurry and spend all my money on education so one day greedy American corporations in search for an extra cent or two per share of profit can send their jobs to my country.
The coming America is a service-industry based country of people who will one day have the rug pulled out from under them by the rest of the world when they wake up and realize they dont need American Marketing agencies, PR departments, CEOs and stockholders taking their cut of the profits for not much work.
Its not that the court said it was OK for Shaman networks to sue, its that the judge dismissed the RIAA's request to have the charges thrown out of court. In effect, the judge said "this lawsuit isnt just frivilous bullshit, let it go forward"
And to make up for not having the advertised amount of silver in their thermal compound, OCZ announced a recall.
And some of us don't.
If you got kick backs, you'd be eager to perscribe drugs too. I had strep throat a few months back, and instead of a shot (which I've always got for strep throat for the past 20 years) I got pills instead. I also saw a doctor I had never seen before (I have a GPs office I go to, there are 4 doctors at this office).
This is a good read
Wow, its funny Princess Fiorina can talk out of both sides of her mouth...
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34804.ht
"HP's CEO Carly Fiorina filled her keynote speech at CES with media piracy rhetoric, saying that consumers are undermining the economy and the morals of this nation by exchanging music. With this platform established, Fiorina went on to say HP will be the media industry's first rate lackey and do all it can to equip files with DRM (digital rights management) controls. The move by a technology company like HP to so wholly support a dying, old world empire shows how fragile the idea of an open PC has become."
Other reports also told of a system where a VHS tape couldnt be copied to DVD through a PC. They never said if it was a purchased movie, or someone's wedding tape they wanted to copy to DVD to send to their friends.
And thusly there was a class action lawsuit in the mid 1990's addressing this very thing. Thats why you see "19" (17.9" viewable area)" on advertisements for CRTs. They were required to specify veiwable area in addition to tube size since then.
Hacked driver? Not really...
I think you're talking abuot softmodded 9500s to 9700s. The Radeon 9500 had 8 pipelines, and so did the 9700, it was just that the 9500 was clocked slower. So people tinkered with the drivers and bioses and got a 9500 pro looking like a 9700 pro, provided the chip could take the speed. ATI saw this, and with the 9600, they changeed it so that the 9600 had 4 pipelines, and the 9800 had 8 pipes. Funnily enough, the 9800 XT's core runs at 412MHz or so, and the 9600 XT's core runs at 500MHz. It happens that the 9800XT chip is 150nm process, the 9600 XT is 130nm process. So yes, they are infact two different chips.
Comercial level broadband w/ Cox, $70/mo SOHO plan, 3m/256k
Scientific atlanta 8000.
but if this turns out like the "no child left behind" act, the funding will be cut drastically once GW realizes how much it would actually cost. Besides, didnt we go through this hoopla a few months ago, Bush was supposed to announce a big space project and it never happened.
The first PVR on the market? I remember it being out before Tivos were. Maybe my history is skewed but maybe E* has prior art?
Huh? No way! I have a business level cable modem plan, and my ISP (cox) refuses to change the RDNS of my static to the domain I have it pointed to unless I register the domain through them (with a nice markup) and pay them to hold my DNS entries too. I've got to the point where I have to funnel all my outbound mail through cox's server to keep it from getting bounced. And my friends who used my SMTP server (account auth req'd to send mail) dont use it anymore to send mail. And what about webhosting? Say my friend owns abcxyz.com and wants to send mail from it, and I own foo-bar.com and want to send email from that. I'm not going to get a seperate physical computer and IP for each customer that wants to send mail, I'm going to virtualhost in apache and run a mail server that can do multiple domains. Can I have multiple RDNS names?
It really depends on the movie type...
500MB divx @1.5mbit/s = 45 min
1.2GB VCD @1.5mbit/s = 106 min
2.4GB 3 disc SVCD @1.5mbit = 212 min (almost 4 hrs)
However......
22 min TV show in VCD @1.5mbit/s = 20 min
22 min TV show in SVCD @1.5mbit/s = 35 min
I think people downloading tv shows is a far bigger threat right now. Of course, I havent seen anything on TV worth downloading lately.
Not much, but I think his father knows some peoeple...
Because the card is only an "adequate" performer so far. Of course, that review left a lot to be desired, synthetic benchmarks arent a good basis. More real games, less 3DMark2xxx. nVidia showed how easy it is to cheat at synth benches.
"Anyway, my original point; bringing back a series after it's been cancelled is unnatural"
We can find out for sure next december, when Family Guy comes back to air after it sold 1M+ volume 1 DVDs.
Yea, and the 100th aniversary of flight. December 17th, 2003. What a day!!
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Dec-14 -Sun-2003/news/22615610.html
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"Have some light balls"
The Remote control car is already done.
"minimum advertised price" is what the music industry got nailed on for their price fixing stuff, so I'd assume its pretty much illegal.
I remember back in high school I had created a bunch of accounts on my linux box and used some program to try and decipher the passwords. 1-4 charecter passwords were found in 30 minutes (on my blazing-fast-at-the-time 200MHz Pentium 1), 5 charecter passwords took 2 days, 6 charecter passwords took... well, forever more or less. I figured at the time, a 7 charecter password would be sufficient forever (at least for my life time), but I guess not. Now I use 10 charecter passwords for most of my stuff... Do I need to move to 15 charecters? A passphrase instead of a password?
As fraud has increased, I've resorted to using only ATMs at the various branches of the bank I'm with, and I've switched (back) to using credit cards instead of debit cards for point-of-service purchases, so that if I get defrauded, I end up with a huge CC bill (relatively) instead of an empty bank account.