Don't forget the burn in associated with CRT projection. If any games are going to be played or letter boxed or pillar boxed content is going to be played careful attention is needed. LCDs and DLPs really don't have long term burn in (some LCDs exhibit short time image retention but it goes away pretty quickly. I've never seen it in my LCD rear projector)
I didn't say that we should not complain about the system. By complain I hope you mean to elected representative. Complaining on/. doesn't really do much, it's just preaching to the choir.
Suggesting that people should support this malpractice by working with the system, is like saying that a law which allows the police to lock up people based on merely a hint of suspicious activity is good, and instead of complaining about it, people should gather evidence that proves that wrongly locked up people are innocent, so they can be set free again by the authorities. It's just the world turned upside-down.
In that case, I would hope people did both things, it's not an exclusive either/or proposition. The system definitely needs to change, but we can do something about it now while we petition for an overall change. Many patents may not be obvious, but many of the patent claims that are lamented about on/. have prior art. Your expression was fine but I think of it more as bailing a boat with a leak. You still need to bail while the leak is repaired - without doing either one the boat still sinks.
At least the EFF is doing something about it. I'm getting to like them more and more everyday.
One thing I can see is that many people in the OS community spend quite a bit of time bellyaching about patents, software and non-software (I bet reading/. to much has colored my perception) but if they actually spent the same amount of time actually doing something about it (sending in a 'Hey - that is obvious' or 'Hey - prior art' message to the patent office) they would actually get quite a bit further than just complaining.
Having said all this, I have done my fair share of bellyaching and have yet to refute one patent.
23 days is ok but not fantastic (wait - unless of course this is windows, then you need a bottle of champagne). Yesterday I had a linux machine that went down after 55 days and I was upset about the short uptime (previous reboot was related to a power outage). It didn't crash entirely but needed a reboot to bring back a RAID controller (&@*!"# aacraid driver).
Having said all this, I have no VIA experience so I cannot vouch for or criticize them.
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I'm sure on rural intestates that is fine, but in any freeway with many on and off ramps driving in the right lane is positively dangerous. People come flying into the lane to exit at the last minute, or cars come onto the freeway going way too slow.
I've heard that in some European countries the custom is to only use the right lane (or left if it was the UK) for people that are merging on or off the freeway, making things much safer overall.
Hmm, but then if they cannot charge a rental fee then the cost to the cable co could be the same or more. Which then leads to the question is there any reason they would not charge extra for a trap? Some regulations?
For the rare occasion that I want to identify music on the radio, I use the free www.yes.net. Give it a station and time and it will tell you the artist and song. Works pretty well, seems to use similar technology to AT&T, they have a phone interface (never used it myself) and, most importantly, it is free.
Or 1 programmable trap. This IS the 21st century, we DO have the technology.
Yes, we call them cable boxes.
Sort of. I see what you mean, they could use field-programmable traps, but that would have a high labor cost and people would have to wait for the cable guy to change what channels they want. Or a remotely addressable trap, but that would pretty much cost the same as a cable box and require the infrastructure upgrades (if digital/addressable cable boxes did not already exist on the system).
What about syndication? I don't think those extreme reality shows that they are putting on are going to do well in syndication, because (1) they generally don't have enough episodes for syndication in the first place, and (2) there will be new extreme reality shows on that people will be watching--they aren't like sitcoms or dramas that be interesting years later.
I'm no TV exec, but I believe that most networks buy their big shows from 3rd party studios and don't necessarily get any later syndication cash. For example I looked up ER and found that it is produced by Constant c Productions, Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Television, I didn't see any NBC in any production credits that I could find. The studios that actually make the shows tend to lose money when they sell a show to a network, but make it back when they sell them in syndication to other networks/stations.
Poking around more it appears that networks are getting into the role or producing their own shows by doing what is easy, reality shows, from a business standpoint, this makes a hell of a lot of sense to the networks.
I dont think CO2 is dangerous unless you are getting in INSTEAD of oxygen. In which case anything is dangerous... Nitrogen, or even Water for example.
I do believe that is his point.
Nice to see Cray has a solid lock on positions 19, 20 and 21, really shows Cray's superiority to those clusters (in many positions above it). Of course that is just a GFLOPs measure so it needs to be taken with a cellar of salt, just like Cray's execs.
Could be, but this exploit actually does not use any part of QuickTime. Actually, quicktime indirectly helps find this trojan as the preview (powered by quicktime when it works) does not show up for the supposed mp3 as it is not an mp3.
And in all fairness quicktime has been around for more than a decade and IE has been around for what, half that? Looking at the number of exploits for each I would not be doing that many comparisons yet.
As countless other pointed out, the WMP on Macs does not support v2 of the DRM, not to mention WMP on Macs sucks. Really sucks. Bad UI. Uses up way too much CPU time. With MS adding a 'time bomb' to WMA it's not looking like I'm going to be sending them a lot of love. When I buy music, I want to be able to play it forever. Hopefully market forces will do to this what it has done to previous attempts at this.
Also of note HP has licensed Apple's iPod, so add one more player to the market. (albeit a iPod clone as far as I can tell). HP will use iTunes so there will still only be one software player, but from what I can tell iTunes wipes the floor with WMP when it comes to managing and playing my music on both my Macs and my PCs.
You might want to do your own research before accusing others of not doing it.
Opps, linked got hosed. Not only stupid, it is not even an original April fools. In fact, there are way toomany Apple iPod related hoaxes, even in one April 1st, shows lack of creativity on the hoaxers.
Emulsifiers are substances that allow fat (oil, dairy fat) and a liquid (usually water) to mix and stay mixed. For mayo, lecithin in eggs is the emulsifier. Lecithin prevents the droplets of oil from recombining by bonding with the oil and coating it; it also bonds with the water a bit too helping things. Mustard is another emulsifier, but not as good (IIRC it only bonds with the oil, not the water).
I had a few friends in the humanities in college that did not like me pointing out how smoke detectors work. Or how hot their gas lantern mantels were (for those back to nature camping trips).
Most 802.11b routers have a 'WAN' port, but that is the uplink port, the port that connects your LAN (local) to the WAN (wide).
WLAN is maybe what you are thinking about.
Tax the gambling and prostitutes and drug dealers. Use the taxes to create rehab programs for the small percent of the population that is an addictive type and ruins their life with it, rather than not tax it, keep it illegal and have to incarcerate them at our expense.
Well, depending on what you call an e-book they can get quite a bit larger. I would like to call an Encyclopedia an E-book, and (and this was shown in a picture of the device) a comic book an e-book, then 10MB is hardly enough.
Looking through the e-books that i have around here, I have an IMDB reference book, at 14.5MB, and Darwin's Origin Of Species at 492k, the june release wikipedia at 134MB (the more recent ones are over 160MB IIRC). If we use Origin Of Species as a baseline for 'normal' books then we can store 20 books in that memory (assuming all 10MB is available, the 500 books was using the 512MB expansion card, IIRC. I would like more native). But for me the point of having a ebook reader is to be able to have reference books and books that are *way* too big to cary around. I'm not everyone, but that is what I would look for.
If MS went down people's insatiable need to have something to gripe about would focus on the next large company that dominates a sector. If that were to happen soon google looks to replace it. Large, dominates the space, and can be abusuve with its powers.
When I read it I saw 10GB, and I was thinking, hmm - that seems about right. But 10MB? Paltry. I would need about 512MB to start thinking about using it as I would also use it as a reference library (I have the wikipedia on my PDA and love it). If you start including any diagrams/pictures (like the b&w manga or just tech drawings) it will eat up space pretty quick.
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Wait, this is another joke right? Fox, neutral?
For some it could be both...
Don't forget the burn in associated with CRT projection. If any games are going to be played or letter boxed or pillar boxed content is going to be played careful attention is needed. LCDs and DLPs really don't have long term burn in (some LCDs exhibit short time image retention but it goes away pretty quickly. I've never seen it in my LCD rear projector)
Suggesting that people should support this malpractice by working with the system, is like saying that a law which allows the police to lock up people based on merely a hint of suspicious activity is good, and instead of complaining about it, people should gather evidence that proves that wrongly locked up people are innocent, so they can be set free again by the authorities. It's just the world turned upside-down.
In that case, I would hope people did both things, it's not an exclusive either/or proposition. The system definitely needs to change, but we can do something about it now while we petition for an overall change. Many patents may not be obvious, but many of the patent claims that are lamented about on /. have prior art. Your expression was fine but I think of it more as bailing a boat with a leak. You still need to bail while the leak is repaired - without doing either one the boat still sinks.
At least the EFF is doing something about it. I'm getting to like them more and more everyday.
Having said all this, I have done my fair share of bellyaching and have yet to refute one patent.
Having said all this, I have no VIA experience so I cannot vouch for or criticize them.
I've heard that in some European countries the custom is to only use the right lane (or left if it was the UK) for people that are merging on or off the freeway, making things much safer overall.
Hmm, but then if they cannot charge a rental fee then the cost to the cable co could be the same or more. Which then leads to the question is there any reason they would not charge extra for a trap? Some regulations?
For the rare occasion that I want to identify music on the radio, I use the free www.yes.net. Give it a station and time and it will tell you the artist and song. Works pretty well, seems to use similar technology to AT&T, they have a phone interface (never used it myself) and, most importantly, it is free.
Yes, we call them cable boxes.
Sort of. I see what you mean, they could use field-programmable traps, but that would have a high labor cost and people would have to wait for the cable guy to change what channels they want. Or a remotely addressable trap, but that would pretty much cost the same as a cable box and require the infrastructure upgrades (if digital/addressable cable boxes did not already exist on the system).
I'm no TV exec, but I believe that most networks buy their big shows from 3rd party studios and don't necessarily get any later syndication cash. For example I looked up ER and found that it is produced by Constant c Productions, Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Television, I didn't see any NBC in any production credits that I could find. The studios that actually make the shows tend to lose money when they sell a show to a network, but make it back when they sell them in syndication to other networks/stations.
Poking around more it appears that networks are getting into the role or producing their own shows by doing what is easy, reality shows, from a business standpoint, this makes a hell of a lot of sense to the networks.
I dont think CO2 is dangerous unless you are getting in INSTEAD of oxygen. In which case anything is dangerous... Nitrogen, or even Water for example. I do believe that is his point.
Nice to see Cray has a solid lock on positions 19, 20 and 21, really shows Cray's superiority to those clusters (in many positions above it). Of course that is just a GFLOPs measure so it needs to be taken with a cellar of salt, just like Cray's execs.
And in all fairness quicktime has been around for more than a decade and IE has been around for what, half that? Looking at the number of exploits for each I would not be doing that many comparisons yet.
Also of note HP has licensed Apple's iPod, so add one more player to the market. (albeit a iPod clone as far as I can tell). HP will use iTunes so there will still only be one software player, but from what I can tell iTunes wipes the floor with WMP when it comes to managing and playing my music on both my Macs and my PCs.
You might want to do your own research before accusing others of not doing it.
Opps, linked got hosed. Not only stupid, it is not even an original April fools. In fact, there are way too many Apple iPod related hoaxes, even in one April 1st, shows lack of creativity on the hoaxers.
Not only stupid, it is not even an original april fools.
Truth hurts, but the 'fact' that texas has a 'Great School System' is a falsehood.
Emulsifiers are substances that allow fat (oil, dairy fat) and a liquid (usually water) to mix and stay mixed. For mayo, lecithin in eggs is the emulsifier. Lecithin prevents the droplets of oil from recombining by bonding with the oil and coating it; it also bonds with the water a bit too helping things. Mustard is another emulsifier, but not as good (IIRC it only bonds with the oil, not the water).
I had a few friends in the humanities in college that did not like me pointing out how smoke detectors work. Or how hot their gas lantern mantels were (for those back to nature camping trips).
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Tax the gambling and prostitutes and drug dealers. Use the taxes to create rehab programs for the small percent of the population that is an addictive type and ruins their life with it, rather than not tax it, keep it illegal and have to incarcerate them at our expense.
Looking through the e-books that i have around here, I have an IMDB reference book, at 14.5MB, and Darwin's Origin Of Species at 492k, the june release wikipedia at 134MB (the more recent ones are over 160MB IIRC). If we use Origin Of Species as a baseline for 'normal' books then we can store 20 books in that memory (assuming all 10MB is available, the 500 books was using the 512MB expansion card, IIRC. I would like more native). But for me the point of having a ebook reader is to be able to have reference books and books that are *way* too big to cary around. I'm not everyone, but that is what I would look for.
If MS went down people's insatiable need to have something to gripe about would focus on the next large company that dominates a sector. If that were to happen soon google looks to replace it. Large, dominates the space, and can be abusuve with its powers.
When I read it I saw 10GB, and I was thinking, hmm - that seems about right. But 10MB? Paltry.
I would need about 512MB to start thinking about using it as I would also use it as a reference library (I have the wikipedia on my PDA and love it). If you start including any diagrams/pictures (like the b&w manga or just tech drawings) it will eat up space pretty quick.