Because archos has better mp3 players with more capacity for a lower price. not to mention they support images and video with a color LCD. They don't corrupt data and are very very fast.
it's funny reading all these comments about slashdotters admitting to not knowing how to protect their computers from adware. turn in your geek license, now.
So if it couldn't be turned off by software that would mean...? that would mean that MS is abusing their monopoly.
The whole point of the firewall is so that bad applications (like the ones that would turn a firewall off) don't get installed in the first place.
And as far as I can tell, all the article is talking about is the fact that it asks you if you want to keep blocking a program or not. And it DOES ask you for every program that uses the LAN/internet/whatever.
And do you honestly think that it's impossible to turn off Zone Alarm and those other ones with an application? I'm willing to bet that it's possible
you know, i was thinking "what a dumb article, who cares? it's not like they have a video camera, and they're not forcing it on you," until i read your comment.
This will probably cause insurance rates to go up for people who don't have this device, since they still have to make money. -- then if everyone gets one, insurance rates will be the exact same (if you're driving safely)... although, you have to wonder if something like this will cause more people to become safer drivers...
I'm currently running Raven Shield at 1400x1050 and the refresh rate is perfectly fine. And did I mention that I'm using a 64 MB NVIDIA 5600? Nowhere near top of the line. If that machine is for gamers, and it obviously has an incredibly nice graphics card, then it should be made for recently made games as well, not just Doom III.
You'd be surprised. There are a lot of TI programmers who are 13.
and besides, VTI is not the only program it blocks. It blocks many perfectly fine programs. It looks through the binaries for any of a number of words which can simply be part of an excecution string that happens to form the ascii characters associated with a bad word.
And yes, this was a few years ago, so there's a good chance that it's less buggy, but just the concepts of how the program works is part of what sucks about it.
It comes bundled with ContentWatch's Internet filtering tools and multimedia children's software called Disney Flix, Pix and Mix.
I believe their biggest mistake here is using Content Watch. My wonderful mother had that lousy filter installed on our computer when I was just a young-in and it is the buggiest thing I have ever seen. It crashes the computer, takes up the resources, and DOESN'T work. It blocks programs from running that are perfectly fine programs (like VTI from ticalc.org). (and one of the bugs present here is that if you leave the "this program uses a bad word 'sex'" window on and open the program again, it doesn't catch it).
Anyway, I don't mind filtering the internet for children (i know i'll get flamed by the 'yro' crowd here at/.), but content-watch is a bad program.
No, because kids don't type correctly. Go to a middle school computer classroom (that's either not typing or at the beginning of a typing class), and you will see that there are way too many kids who type with two fingers. They may get up to 40 wpm with two fingers, but that's as fast as they'll get unless they are taught how to type properly.
BOTH. Teach kids how to type in 6th grade with a 1 semester course. They won't be great at it but most of them will do it correctly and they will learn from then on with experience. Once they know how to use 10 fingers (I'm including alt and stuff, so that would include using your left thumb for the left alt) they will be able to learn and develop faster speeds and accuracy without a class, but just with experience.
how would this database prove it once and for all? it doesn't account for all the things that people have downloaded and NOT purchased even if they liked it.
I'm not claiming either way, but this database isn't going to prove anything; it's just going to show a large amount of people who have bought stuff.. but guess what. there's also a large amount of people who don't buy stuff.
yeah, that two years thing makes me question the credibility. Not because they were able to keep them alive that long, but because it took that long for the "disease" to come about. I hope they had other mice without this prion that were taken care of the exact same way that did not show symptoms. Otherwise I'm guessing that the thing they injected had nothing to do with it.
I had to go through the quiz twice. The first time I went through I said they were all fraudulent because the links weren't to the place they said they were to... Then I realized that was the protection the mail website had... So then I took it again assuming that the link in the status bar was the link they meant for us to think was the real link... That's really all you have to do to get them all correct. (I got 10/10)
What do you mean by "stop"? do you think that they are in battle 100% of the time? It mentions that they can use urine to hydrate it, not that they will do it very often. They will only pee on their food when that's the only option, and when that happens it won't be during combat.
i'm pretty sure, with this information, that i got a glimpse of these at my grad night. there were about 100 schools there for grad night that night, and at the kiis music area they did a fireworks show every hour after 2 am and i didn't notice any smoke from the launching.
anyhow i think it's horrible that you are all making jokes about this. this kid is gonna die before he turns 20 (and probably well before then). it's not a joking matter.
this shouldn't have ever been mentioned in the first place. It's nowhere near usable no matter how much they develop it. there will always be other lights that ruin the image and the only practical uses (like the ones they mention: seeing an aircraft runway) can be accomplished using a normal camera and a normal monitor... Which is all this is! (with the exception of these "wonder beads" and a projector instead of a monitor). This is the type of stuff most of us nerds think up when we're 5 years old but we soon realize that it's not feasable and not practical and not useful unless you get billions of these beads and can project the light to them from WITHIN your "cloak" and if each bead can display at least a few hundred thousand angles (like a hologram, but thousands of times better).
Then there's the refresh rate problem... it would have to be pretty dang fast.
Then there's the texture problem... if you want to get the proper texture of your surroundings, you'd need billions of beads, each with their own light source, along with millions of cameras.
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Because archos has better mp3 players with more capacity for a lower price. not to mention they support images and video with a color LCD. They don't corrupt data and are very very fast.
how can any consumer intelligently know which one to buy into?
by being intelligent maybe?
things change over 65 million years.
it's funny reading all these comments about slashdotters admitting to not knowing how to protect their computers from adware. turn in your geek license, now.
So if it couldn't be turned off by software that would mean...? that would mean that MS is abusing their monopoly.
The whole point of the firewall is so that bad applications (like the ones that would turn a firewall off) don't get installed in the first place.
And as far as I can tell, all the article is talking about is the fact that it asks you if you want to keep blocking a program or not. And it DOES ask you for every program that uses the LAN/internet/whatever.
And do you honestly think that it's impossible to turn off Zone Alarm and those other ones with an application? I'm willing to bet that it's possible
you know, i was thinking "what a dumb article, who cares? it's not like they have a video camera, and they're not forcing it on you," until i read your comment.
This will probably cause insurance rates to go up for people who don't have this device, since they still have to make money. -- then if everyone gets one, insurance rates will be the exact same (if you're driving safely)... although, you have to wonder if something like this will cause more people to become safer drivers...
I'm currently running Raven Shield at 1400x1050 and the refresh rate is perfectly fine. And did I mention that I'm using a 64 MB NVIDIA 5600? Nowhere near top of the line. If that machine is for gamers, and it obviously has an incredibly nice graphics card, then it should be made for recently made games as well, not just Doom III.
If the max resolution is 1280x1024.
You'd be surprised. There are a lot of TI programmers who are 13.
and besides, VTI is not the only program it blocks. It blocks many perfectly fine programs. It looks through the binaries for any of a number of words which can simply be part of an excecution string that happens to form the ascii characters associated with a bad word.
And yes, this was a few years ago, so there's a good chance that it's less buggy, but just the concepts of how the program works is part of what sucks about it.
It comes bundled with ContentWatch's Internet filtering tools and multimedia children's software called Disney Flix, Pix and Mix.
/.), but content-watch is a bad program.
I believe their biggest mistake here is using Content Watch. My wonderful mother had that lousy filter installed on our computer when I was just a young-in and it is the buggiest thing I have ever seen. It crashes the computer, takes up the resources, and DOESN'T work. It blocks programs from running that are perfectly fine programs (like VTI from ticalc.org). (and one of the bugs present here is that if you leave the "this program uses a bad word 'sex'" window on and open the program again, it doesn't catch it).
Anyway, I don't mind filtering the internet for children (i know i'll get flamed by the 'yro' crowd here at
go to the blu-ray link. it states in plain english that it can also read CDs and DVDs.
No, because kids don't type correctly. Go to a middle school computer classroom (that's either not typing or at the beginning of a typing class), and you will see that there are way too many kids who type with two fingers. They may get up to 40 wpm with two fingers, but that's as fast as they'll get unless they are taught how to type properly.
BOTH. Teach kids how to type in 6th grade with a 1 semester course. They won't be great at it but most of them will do it correctly and they will learn from then on with experience. Once they know how to use 10 fingers (I'm including alt and stuff, so that would include using your left thumb for the left alt) they will be able to learn and develop faster speeds and accuracy without a class, but just with experience.
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VoIP for $30 a month? you'd better hope that's unlimitted.
there's only so much room for fame and popularity. more accessiblity doesn't mean that more people will get famous/popular.
And another one:
$650 | Software | Adobe Photoshop | Downloaded it, loved it, cracked it. Made $650 in the process
I found this line interesting:
$700 | Software | Adobe Premiere | Downloaded it, loved it, cracked it.
how would this database prove it once and for all? it doesn't account for all the things that people have downloaded and NOT purchased even if they liked it.
I'm not claiming either way, but this database isn't going to prove anything; it's just going to show a large amount of people who have bought stuff.. but guess what. there's also a large amount of people who don't buy stuff.
yeah, that two years thing makes me question the credibility. Not because they were able to keep them alive that long, but because it took that long for the "disease" to come about. I hope they had other mice without this prion that were taken care of the exact same way that did not show symptoms. Otherwise I'm guessing that the thing they injected had nothing to do with it.
I had to go through the quiz twice. The first time I went through I said they were all fraudulent because the links weren't to the place they said they were to... Then I realized that was the protection the mail website had... So then I took it again assuming that the link in the status bar was the link they meant for us to think was the real link... That's really all you have to do to get them all correct. (I got 10/10)
why would anyone mod that up insightful?
What do you mean by "stop"? do you think that they are in battle 100% of the time? It mentions that they can use urine to hydrate it, not that they will do it very often. They will only pee on their food when that's the only option, and when that happens it won't be during combat.
i'm pretty sure, with this information, that i got a glimpse of these at my grad night. there were about 100 schools there for grad night that night, and at the kiis music area they did a fireworks show every hour after 2 am and i didn't notice any smoke from the launching.
why utah?
anyhow i think it's horrible that you are all making jokes about this. this kid is gonna die before he turns 20 (and probably well before then). it's not a joking matter.
One possible flaw:
Whenever the molecule is hit by a neutrino, it performs the reverse.
We're using neutrinos! They go through EVERYTHING!
but that's a really good idea... i had never thought of that.
this shouldn't have ever been mentioned in the first place. It's nowhere near usable no matter how much they develop it. there will always be other lights that ruin the image and the only practical uses (like the ones they mention: seeing an aircraft runway) can be accomplished using a normal camera and a normal monitor... Which is all this is! (with the exception of these "wonder beads" and a projector instead of a monitor). This is the type of stuff most of us nerds think up when we're 5 years old but we soon realize that it's not feasable and not practical and not useful unless you get billions of these beads and can project the light to them from WITHIN your "cloak" and if each bead can display at least a few hundred thousand angles (like a hologram, but thousands of times better).
Then there's the refresh rate problem... it would have to be pretty dang fast.
Then there's the texture problem... if you want to get the proper texture of your surroundings, you'd need billions of beads, each with their own light source, along with millions of cameras.