No, it isn't missing that much functionality, and it has additional functionality that the Airport does not have, plus it is from a good company, Asus, and will be supported well for years. Expect many, many firmware updates, and of course it costs 1/2 the price. How many slashdotters actually use itunes? I brought the 330 to a couple of the Austin wireless meetings and it was a hit.
With a cursory read of the specs I only see that the ASUS has WDS (wireless bridging) while the Apple only acts as a extender. The Apple however is a USB print server and has audio out, and has no power brick, making it much more portable. Those both seem to appeal to a much broader group of people than the WDS. Worth twice as much? Maybe not for all. but an wireless XP/OS X compatible printer server is definitely of interesting to me, as is the portability.
Right, be he was talking about a 50" screen. The problem was that said "this resolution" which I took to mean 1440x900, whereas he actually meant 7680x4320
Good point..but I believe what his thinking was clear but his writing was not.
Are you sure about that? Most DLP theaters I've heard of use a three-panel 1280x1024 DLP projector with an anamorphic lens.
2048x1080 is what I read at DLP.com (see this and here at the bottom, and I've seen it other places) for the new theaters (the one I saw is brand new and high end, I'm assuming they have the latest in tech).
CRTs are analog so it's less clear, but only the best front-projection CRT projects can actually resolve 1920x1080. Most commercial HD RPTVs don't come anywhere near that
Could be but I'll have to look into that later (I don't recall hearing much about that at AVS forums or when I was doing my HDTV research). I do know that very very few HDTV cameras can do the full 1920 (but they can do the 1080), but I have not looked into that for at least 6 months so things could have changed.
Um, you're actually contradicting yourself here. If your parents have a 51" HDTV, it should be able to do 1920x1080, which is quite a bit higher than your "photoreal" 1440x900.
Actually he is not - the pixel size will be smaller and the pixels per inch will be greater on the 17" @ 1440x900 than the 51" @ 1920x1080. That extra PPI (pixels per inch) will give a more lifelike image. Depending on viewing distance I would guess that the pixels on the 51" TV would be more visible. When I saw Shrek 2 at a theater with an all digital DLP projection system I could see the individual pixels from the middle of the theater, depending on the content (high contrast made them visible, like credits and other text). DLP theaters use a 2048x1080 chip (three actually, one for each color) and I could see room for improvement. Next time I'll sit a few rows further back.
Now, there's the problem that most (maybe all) current HDTVs can't actually do 1080i natively, but that's a problem with the hardware, not the actual HDTV spec which has plenty of resolution for almost all viewing situations.
Not really, most fixed pixel TVs (Plasma, LCD, LCOS, DLP and rear projection LCD) are not native 1080i, they are 720p (1280x720, my preference as that has 60 progressive frames per second). All CRT based (both direct view and rear-projection) are 1080i native, with one or too that can also do 720p native too (but for cost reasons those are few and far between). From personal experience I would say the CRT based TVs are more common, I have a fixed pixel but most of my friends that have HDTVs have a CRT based system (they typically cost 50% or less than the equivalent fixed pixel display).
Not to mention all the other problems mentioned (pacemakers, credit cards, etc) a DVD-R camcorder would circumvent it if it was only strong enough to wipe the magnetic media but not strong enough to damage electronics (not even sure if that would be possible in the scale we are talking about).
Has anyone online ever called a "boycott" that actually turned out successfully?
Calling a boycott is the new fallback insult of today. "Well, I'll just call a boycott--take that!"
Apparently we're boycotting the RIAA, the MPAA, software patents, Microsoft, and more.
Not exactly a boycott but it was online discussions and emails that had a large influence over a company: when EV1 licensed linux from SCO they later regretted it.
Asbestos isn't nearly as dangerous as the hysteria about it would have us believe. It's really only a risk to those working with it in continuous, heavy concentration-- mining it, building with it, etc. Incidental exposure is nothing worth worrying about. Millions of acres of California are underlain with chrysotile asbetos bearing soil and rock-- most of San Francisco is built on it-- and people aren't dropping dead from mesothelioma every time they dig a new basement.
Exactly - not to mention the fact that the studies with the really nasty results were done using the blue (crocidolite) asbestos from S. Africa, not the same type (white IIRC) that was in general use in the US. In some areas the natural background levels of asbestos in the atmosphere are higher than the EPA allows in the buildings.
Are you an idiot just like Bill Gates??
You *cant* factor a prime number no matter how large it is.
The definition of a prime number is that, you cant factor it.
Uhhh, he didn't say anything about prime numbers, just factoring large numbers which is close enough to the truth for the current discussion on conventional encryption. People in glass houses should not throw stones.
More importantly to me, prebinding breaks tripwire. When a file is rebound, it triggers a tripwire event, adding noise to my reports. With so much noise, it's hard to tell what's important what's not. Tools like radmind from U of Mich alleviates this problem somewhat by integrating tripwire and system updates. But unless it, and other tools that use checksums are taught the horrors of prebinding, they won't work right.
Not to sound like a jerk but... should 90% of the mac community suffer a 10% speed reduction (ballpark numbers) because less than 10% of the mac users use programs that are not aware of how the OS works? To me it sounds like you should blame the Tripwire porters rather than blame Apple for attempting to speed up their (originally) sluggish OS.
Is PPC the one with the funny register shifting used for function calls? If that is the case finding the most efficient way to use registers is certainly nontrivial. In particular across context switches it get very tricky.
I believe you are thinking of SPARC. The SPARC architecture has a register window that rotates on function calls and returns. I believe they leave 8 general purpose registers for the functions. IIRC some researches found it was faster to not use the SPARC's fancy register windows that to use it, and supporting register windows have slowed down the development of the SPARC architecture (SPARC is typically the slowest CPU when compared to other contemporary generation CPUs). IA-64 uses something similar called register framing. The ALLOC instruction alters the mapping of an arbitrary number of logical registers to physical registers so it appears that functions are passing parameters through shared registers.
What color shirt you have on as you walk down the street is public (obviously) but what books or medications you have in you backpack is not currently but would be unless we have some regulations (again, IANAL but it would appear that unless otherwise regulated RFID tag info does appear public but I very well could be mistaken).
So they link all the data together and they figure out that you like red shirts since you wear them 3/4 of the time. Then they see what kind of magazins are you subscribed to and change the adds so that people in them are wearing clothes in your favourite colour. Since you like that you will be more tempted to buy their designer shirt.
So.. everyone is happy: you get targeted advertising to your tastes and companys sell more since..
And they all know you have crabs, are balding, have a AIDS test and need viagra because of the RFID tagged medications and products in your bag. Would you trust everyone that could have an RFID scanner with that information?
OK, so the new Library in Seattle uses RFID to keep track of their books, and uses an automatic sorting machine to deliver them to the correct location depending on their RFID. I see no harm in that. What next, the Patriot Act will allow the government access to the books you check out, heh.
Next step is the bookstore that you walk by on the way home reads what books you have from the library, reads what mp3 player you are using (bought from a company that has a cooporative agreement with the bookstore) and ties that back via to your email address that you ordered it from. When you get home and check you email you have spam about books/products that are similar to the ones that you checked out of the library. Could be benign sure, depends on what you are reading and who you want knowing that. Do you want kiddie porn spam being sent to you because you had a copy of Lolita in your bag? Maybe all those books on STDs?
Or the police read that info as you walk past a squad car which notes that you have an almanac and alerts the FBI that you are a 'person of interest.' (I know, the FBI is no longer on the lookout for almanac reading people, it was just an example).
IANAL but I would believe we need some regulation that RFID tags are 'private' information unless permission to read them is given. What color shirt you have on as you walk down the street is public (obviously) but what books or medications you have in you backpack is not currently but would be unless we have some regulations (again, IANAL but it would appear that unless otherwise regulated RFID tag info does appear public but I very well could be mistaken). Devices like the RSA RFID blocker could also be used to block reading of them but that really seems like a band-aid or part of a bigger solution.
This is a ridiculous argument. Of course when someone first delivers a service, it's a monopoly. Outlawing that would require outlawing "first movers" into markets, which would prevent any motion. Monopoly is as monopoly does. And the modern definition of a monopoly does not require literally "one" player in a space, just a market controlling share which is abused. Like M$, even though you seem willing to ignore their actual practice in favor of some kind of semantic argument.
He wasn't defending Microsoft at all, he was just pointing out you were wrong in saying monopolies were illegal. I'm no fan of corporations but he is correct, having a monopoly is not illegal, it is the abusing of the monopoly that is illegal.
So what if the changes of the last few hundred years were actually normal climate variation (recovery from the little ice age, etc.) and all the sudden we try to "compensate" for it? For all we know that could be like taking a curve too quick and heading towards the embankment, overcompensating, and running off the cliff on the other side of the road. We would've been better off if we hadn't tried "fixing" the problem.
I believe by 'compensate' he meant reduce our emissions , in effect 'do nothing' in respect to the whole system (planet) as the grandparent said (but obviously did not mean). The grandparent advocated 'do nothing' to reduce our impact and continue with the current high level of emissions but that is false theory as continuing with high levels of emissions is 'doing something' as far as the whole planet is concerned. Reducing our emissions (but leaving the natural ones there) only removes humans from the equation and lets nature takes its own course.
Totally stopping all emissions of course is totally unrealistic but that doesn't mean we should not at least reduce them a bit.
We simply do NOT know enough about climate change to go off on some crusade to try to "fix" it, which is itself a very subjective term.
I don't think anyone but the extremely naive think that we can 'fix' climate change, as you said it could be natural. There is plenty of evidence that CO2 does have an effect on the climate and we are dumping tons of it into the atmosphere. I (and many others) think we should just do our best to reduce our impact so as not to exacerbate (or even trigger) changes.
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On my 'virgin' 10.3.3 machine unchecking "Open Safe files after downloading" in Safari preferences stops at least this exploit. No matter what it mounts the image, but with "Open Safe files after downloading" unchecked it will not run the script that is in the image.
But what's keeping some ordinary person from collecting 5000 smoke detectors, extracting the (weakly) radioactive material, doing some rudimentary enriching and coming up with a "dirty bomb"?
Pretty much nothing... check the story of the Radioactive Boyscout, he wasn't after a dirty bomb but he could have made one by accident. As others have pointed out, we are overly scared of radiation. It can be deadly and should be handled with care but so are many other things we deal with on a daily basis (drain cleaner, bleach, ammonia, lead acid batteries, lawn mowers).
However, casinos can and will kick you out/blacklist you if you're caught doing it.
I've heard that not all casinos black list card counters, some actually like it as novice card counters tend to make very expensive mistakes. I can't recall what casinos were mentioned as being counter friendly.
Of course I bet as soon as they see that you are doing well I bet they would then ask you to move along.
you fucking retard...RUMMY IS THE LAST PERSON TO KNOW because he is in the damn command structure and they are by law not permitted to have anything to do with JAG proceedings.
people in command are not to know of any of the facts of the case, be involved in the case, or even watch the case!!!! the reason? so that command can not get accused of interfering in the trial.
Well, this fucking retard actually reads the news from more than one source, you should try it too. Rummy said he said he knew of it *before* he addressed congress but just decided not to tell them. If fact White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that Rumsfeld told Bush about the abuses in late January to early February, implying he knew about it way before it CBS broke it over two months later - plenty of time to come clean about it. Bush claims ignorance of the photos but not of the actual abuses. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and pretty damn high in the command structure, asked CBS to hold off on the story, he certainly knew and it really looks like they ALL were watching the case.
Go take off your blinders and figure out the differences between patriotism and nationalism - we have a great country and a great military but they all can fuck up sometimes, even at the highest levels. Freedom of information is crucial for our country to be the best that it can be and to halt the mistakes as soon as they start.
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
yeah, and for good reason. the Pentagon was in the midst of its judicial process to indite and convict these people. by releasing the information to the command structure is in direct violation of the soldiers' due process, and now, the convictions of some of these people are at risk of not holding because of this crap.
And without the photos you think they would actually pursue the cases with the same vigor that they will (hopefully) now? With the photos we now have more than some 'internal investigation' that would hang the enlisted man rather than see if someone with some stars might actually be partially culpable too.
I would argue that that the violation of the soldiers' due process reasoning is FUD from the pentagon - they had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing before the photos came out (the Red Cross was on their case at least 9 months before the CBS story), Rummy could have clued congress in when he addressed them *in private* the day of the CBS story. The pentagon was hoping they could suppress the story, clear and simple. We have a 1st amendment for a reason and this tragedy is a prime example of why.
If the FCC is doing this I have a hard time believing the average consumer is not going to get screwed by this. I somehow think we'll see higher prices and smaller boutique channels will go offline.
In fact, algae might be a way to re-sequester some of that carbon, by growing large masses of algae then simply burying it deep, somewhere where it will not decay and release CO2 again.
This also has a cool side benefit - now our descendants 100 million years from now can have their own fossil fuels, conveniently stored underground for them by us!
Mike Powell? Please. Unless you're a lobbying group who can line his pockets so well that he has trouble walking, you're not affecting anything. Consumer opinion has no bearing; the FCC is operating strictly on a highest-bidder policy at the moment, and the MPAA has him in pocket to the tune of millions. Think you can beat that? Go ahead.
It looks like the electronics industry will give it a shot and start a lobby. After some further reading it looks like they are not going all out against the flag though. Sad...
It's not long before some kid from Norway writes another version of DeCSS or DeDRM. All he has to do is move to Japan for a month or two...
Very true but it's not going to help the older consumers that are the ones purchasing the new digital TVs. They have a hard time grasping what the restrictions are let alone how to circumvent them.
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With a cursory read of the specs I only see that the ASUS has WDS (wireless bridging) while the Apple only acts as a extender. The Apple however is a USB print server and has audio out, and has no power brick, making it much more portable. Those both seem to appeal to a much broader group of people than the WDS. Worth twice as much? Maybe not for all. but an wireless XP/OS X compatible printer server is definitely of interesting to me, as is the portability.
The last FM transmitter I used pretty much... sucked. The audio quality was horrible and on the one I had always suffered from interference.
Good point..but I believe what his thinking was clear but his writing was not.
Are you sure about that? Most DLP theaters I've heard of use a three-panel 1280x1024 DLP projector with an anamorphic lens.
2048x1080 is what I read at DLP.com (see this and here at the bottom, and I've seen it other places) for the new theaters (the one I saw is brand new and high end, I'm assuming they have the latest in tech).
CRTs are analog so it's less clear, but only the best front-projection CRT projects can actually resolve 1920x1080. Most commercial HD RPTVs don't come anywhere near that
Could be but I'll have to look into that later (I don't recall hearing much about that at AVS forums or when I was doing my HDTV research). I do know that very very few HDTV cameras can do the full 1920 (but they can do the 1080), but I have not looked into that for at least 6 months so things could have changed.
Actually he is not - the pixel size will be smaller and the pixels per inch will be greater on the 17" @ 1440x900 than the 51" @ 1920x1080. That extra PPI (pixels per inch) will give a more lifelike image. Depending on viewing distance I would guess that the pixels on the 51" TV would be more visible. When I saw Shrek 2 at a theater with an all digital DLP projection system I could see the individual pixels from the middle of the theater, depending on the content (high contrast made them visible, like credits and other text). DLP theaters use a 2048x1080 chip (three actually, one for each color) and I could see room for improvement. Next time I'll sit a few rows further back.
Now, there's the problem that most (maybe all) current HDTVs can't actually do 1080i natively, but that's a problem with the hardware, not the actual HDTV spec which has plenty of resolution for almost all viewing situations.
Not really, most fixed pixel TVs (Plasma, LCD, LCOS, DLP and rear projection LCD) are not native 1080i, they are 720p (1280x720, my preference as that has 60 progressive frames per second). All CRT based (both direct view and rear-projection) are 1080i native, with one or too that can also do 720p native too (but for cost reasons those are few and far between). From personal experience I would say the CRT based TVs are more common, I have a fixed pixel but most of my friends that have HDTVs have a CRT based system (they typically cost 50% or less than the equivalent fixed pixel display).
Not to mention all the other problems mentioned (pacemakers, credit cards, etc) a DVD-R camcorder would circumvent it if it was only strong enough to wipe the magnetic media but not strong enough to damage electronics (not even sure if that would be possible in the scale we are talking about).
Calling a boycott is the new fallback insult of today. "Well, I'll just call a boycott--take that!"
Apparently we're boycotting the RIAA, the MPAA, software patents, Microsoft, and more.
Not exactly a boycott but it was online discussions and emails that had a large influence over a company: when EV1 licensed linux from SCO they later regretted it.
Exactly - not to mention the fact that the studies with the really nasty results were done using the blue (crocidolite) asbestos from S. Africa, not the same type (white IIRC) that was in general use in the US. In some areas the natural background levels of asbestos in the atmosphere are higher than the EPA allows in the buildings.
Uhhh, he didn't say anything about prime numbers, just factoring large numbers which is close enough to the truth for the current discussion on conventional encryption. People in glass houses should not throw stones.
Not to sound like a jerk but... should 90% of the mac community suffer a 10% speed reduction (ballpark numbers) because less than 10% of the mac users use programs that are not aware of how the OS works? To me it sounds like you should blame the Tripwire porters rather than blame Apple for attempting to speed up their (originally) sluggish OS.
I believe you are thinking of SPARC. The SPARC architecture has a register window that rotates on function calls and returns. I believe they leave 8 general purpose registers for the functions. IIRC some researches found it was faster to not use the SPARC's fancy register windows that to use it, and supporting register windows have slowed down the development of the SPARC architecture (SPARC is typically the slowest CPU when compared to other contemporary generation CPUs). IA-64 uses something similar called register framing. The ALLOC instruction alters the mapping of an arbitrary number of logical registers to physical registers so it appears that functions are passing parameters through shared registers.
Next step is the bookstore that you walk by on the way home reads what books you have from the library, reads what mp3 player you are using (bought from a company that has a cooporative agreement with the bookstore) and ties that back via to your email address that you ordered it from. When you get home and check you email you have spam about books/products that are similar to the ones that you checked out of the library. Could be benign sure, depends on what you are reading and who you want knowing that. Do you want kiddie porn spam being sent to you because you had a copy of Lolita in your bag? Maybe all those books on STDs?
Or the police read that info as you walk past a squad car which notes that you have an almanac and alerts the FBI that you are a 'person of interest.' (I know, the FBI is no longer on the lookout for almanac reading people, it was just an example).
IANAL but I would believe we need some regulation that RFID tags are 'private' information unless permission to read them is given. What color shirt you have on as you walk down the street is public (obviously) but what books or medications you have in you backpack is not currently but would be unless we have some regulations (again, IANAL but it would appear that unless otherwise regulated RFID tag info does appear public but I very well could be mistaken). Devices like the RSA RFID blocker could also be used to block reading of them but that really seems like a band-aid or part of a bigger solution.
I wonder what they qualify as a 'Low End Server'? Only uniprocessor? Quad Xeon with an ultra320 hardware RAID? Any x86 Linux box?
He wasn't defending Microsoft at all, he was just pointing out you were wrong in saying monopolies were illegal. I'm no fan of corporations but he is correct, having a monopoly is not illegal, it is the abusing of the monopoly that is illegal.
My imaginary girlfriend would totally agree with you if she didn't live in Canada.
I believe by 'compensate' he meant reduce our emissions , in effect 'do nothing' in respect to the whole system (planet) as the grandparent said (but obviously did not mean). The grandparent advocated 'do nothing' to reduce our impact and continue with the current high level of emissions but that is false theory as continuing with high levels of emissions is 'doing something' as far as the whole planet is concerned. Reducing our emissions (but leaving the natural ones there) only removes humans from the equation and lets nature takes its own course.
Totally stopping all emissions of course is totally unrealistic but that doesn't mean we should not at least reduce them a bit.
We simply do NOT know enough about climate change to go off on some crusade to try to "fix" it, which is itself a very subjective term.
I don't think anyone but the extremely naive think that we can 'fix' climate change, as you said it could be natural. There is plenty of evidence that CO2 does have an effect on the climate and we are dumping tons of it into the atmosphere. I (and many others) think we should just do our best to reduce our impact so as not to exacerbate (or even trigger) changes.
On my 'virgin' 10.3.3 machine unchecking "Open Safe files after downloading" in Safari preferences stops at least this exploit. No matter what it mounts the image, but with "Open Safe files after downloading" unchecked it will not run the script that is in the image.
Pretty much nothing... check the story of the Radioactive Boyscout, he wasn't after a dirty bomb but he could have made one by accident. As others have pointed out, we are overly scared of radiation. It can be deadly and should be handled with care but so are many other things we deal with on a daily basis (drain cleaner, bleach, ammonia, lead acid batteries, lawn mowers).
I've heard that not all casinos black list card counters, some actually like it as novice card counters tend to make very expensive mistakes. I can't recall what casinos were mentioned as being counter friendly.
Of course I bet as soon as they see that you are doing well I bet they would then ask you to move along.
people in command are not to know of any of the facts of the case, be involved in the case, or even watch the case!!!! the reason? so that command can not get accused of interfering in the trial.
Well, this fucking retard actually reads the news from more than one source, you should try it too. Rummy said he said he knew of it *before* he addressed congress but just decided not to tell them. If fact White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that Rumsfeld told Bush about the abuses in late January to early February, implying he knew about it way before it CBS broke it over two months later - plenty of time to come clean about it. Bush claims ignorance of the photos but not of the actual abuses. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and pretty damn high in the command structure, asked CBS to hold off on the story, he certainly knew and it really looks like they ALL were watching the case.
Go take off your blinders and figure out the differences between patriotism and nationalism - we have a great country and a great military but they all can fuck up sometimes, even at the highest levels. Freedom of information is crucial for our country to be the best that it can be and to halt the mistakes as soon as they start.
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." - Benjamin Franklin
And without the photos you think they would actually pursue the cases with the same vigor that they will (hopefully) now? With the photos we now have more than some 'internal investigation' that would hang the enlisted man rather than see if someone with some stars might actually be partially culpable too.
I would argue that that the violation of the soldiers' due process reasoning is FUD from the pentagon - they had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing before the photos came out (the Red Cross was on their case at least 9 months before the CBS story), Rummy could have clued congress in when he addressed them *in private* the day of the CBS story. The pentagon was hoping they could suppress the story, clear and simple. We have a 1st amendment for a reason and this tragedy is a prime example of why.
If the FCC is doing this I have a hard time believing the average consumer is not going to get screwed by this. I somehow think we'll see higher prices and smaller boutique channels will go offline.
This also has a cool side benefit - now our descendants 100 million years from now can have their own fossil fuels, conveniently stored underground for them by us!
It looks like the electronics industry will give it a shot and start a lobby. After some further reading it looks like they are not going all out against the flag though. Sad...
Very true but it's not going to help the older consumers that are the ones purchasing the new digital TVs. They have a hard time grasping what the restrictions are let alone how to circumvent them.