euh, they can get the jeans over there too you know... Actually they are quite a lot cheaper there... Get to think of it, they are actually made over there...
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So porn is like beer, you can enjoy it a little and if you do it too much, it destroys your life. What else is new? Oh yes, the most powerfull country on earth has just shown it has "disaster-recovery" capabilities on par with, give or take, Bangladesh. My country (Belgium) has 100 specialised rescue guys on a one-hour standby just in case your president would have the guts to say "yes please". Instead he orders troops home from a warzone to shoot on its own citizens. You have bigger problems than porn, mister bible-belt.
we are building a spacecraft which should be better then our current one, and if we find out it actually works, then we will try to build one which is even better!!! seesh, talk about vapourware...
I think the biggest problem is every manufacturor makes his own synchronisation software running some weird propietary protocol. It feels like the good old days where you spent half a day setting up your dotmatrix in WP 2.1, and then restarted from zero in Lotus 123. Somebody should set some standards here. A PDA/Phone should be hardware abstracted at the OS level, just like a printer. And on corporate networks, the PC should just be a USB/Bluetooth -to-ethernet router, with the PDA authenticating directly to Exchange/Notes/whatever.
Yes, what you say is true, but there are more examples of hypocrisy. The US is the world largest producer of porn, with a turnover bigger then hollywood. Even with this huge turnover, the supply of actors is still far larger than the demand. But you can't show "Saving private Ryan" on TV because people say "Fuck" when they get a bullet in their stomach. And then the Jackson nipple slip. By God were we Europeans laughing our asses off!
Hey what is this? Just because I suggest a perfectly good use for BPL I get modded a troll? Personally I think it is bullshit to use BPL to solve "the rural problem". This should be done through existing phone lines, by develloping a long-distance version of ADSL. Afterall, the GHz-es might die after a few miles, but if you remove the old speech-only filters, you still should be able to use at least 0 - 100 kHz. This should be enough to give acceptable web-surfing speeds. Americans see BPL as a step-up from dial-up, but for europeans the main problem is how to get rid of the monopoly from the (ex-) state owned phone companies. In my area, I can get broadband through cable and ADSL, but..... those are BOTH owned by TDC!!! This is where BPL could kick some serous ass.
about interference to HAM, please note that in city areas power cables can be UNDERGROUND, therefore not interfering. These areas probably have xDSL, but an extra competitor can do miracles to your monthly broadband bill!
So a couple of nerds will run OSX -sortish- on non Apple hardware. Any non-apple approved component will cause more instability. To get the full experience, (and be legal!!!!) you will still need to cough up the cash. At worst people will try it on their PC, and buy a real Apple as their next PC. How did Excel beet Lotus 123? Simple: Lotus 123 had copy protection. Where Apple will win big on their Intel-switch is servers. Think of them cooperating with Dell. Their market share for servers is marginal, and hardware esthetics doesn't matter for servers so they have nothing to lose. Suddenly a big player like Dell starts offering servers with Intel-like speed, Dell-like reliability, BSD-like stability and Mac-like userfriendliness. Heck, even I would have to think twice before saying no thanks!
Some VCR's can set time themselves based on teletext (Ceefax for the brits). Alarm clocks can set themselves based on a radio signal. Anything connected to the net can use NTP (or NET TIME for the 'softies:-) Frankly my life will not come to a halt if my microwave shows the wrong time 3 weeks a year. Next story?
Why does it have to be more complex? Imagine a WIFI access point with a small green button. If you press the button then any access attempt done in the next minute is accepted. Encryption keys are exchanged and from now on the client(s) which connected are accepted as "good". All the others are kicked out. For corporate networks, only accept clients which can authenticate with the domain server or firewall. Why does it have to be more difficult?
I haven't seen a 2 hour 3D IMAX movie, correct. I did spend an entire day in +/-10 different theaters watching 5-15 minute demo's. And I did feel a headache with some. I gues the active (LCD) glases are better because they will have less crossover (light destined for the left eye reaching the right eye and vice versa). They are however more cumbersome then the lightweight polaroid glasses. My point is that this is an extra burdon to the movie goer. It will be ok for the third sequel to starwars, but probably not for a mushy love-movie. Small girls crying over Britney's brake-up will probably make the glasses fog up.
Just came back from the Futuroscope in France where they have plenty of this 3D shit. Some is with LCD glasses (heavy and annoying), but some also with simple polaroid filter glasses. This is great for 10 minutes demo movies, but I think that after 1 hour, a lot of people will leave the theatre with a serious headache. Not only are the polaroid glasses not perfect, but you are still tricking the eye: the eye is focussing on a fixed distance (screen), but seeing objects all over the depth field. This could be good for some wild action movies, but don't hold your breath for mainstream 3D movies.
How is GCC support for Itanium? If the chip leaves so much up to the compiler, then the easiest road to success would be for Intel to build support in GCC. Recompile your Gentoo, and you have a fully optimised OS to show off. Does anybody know how good Itanium does on GCC?
Powerline in rural areas will get nowhere because of the EM noise. Note it is still perfectly usable as a last mile technology for areas where power is underground. Satellite is expensive, and has a huge lag. WIMAX is an option, but if there is enough $$ to be made, it should be possible to make a long-distance version of ADSL, with perhaps less speed. This could be combined with fat-client compression: All ZIP files carry their own dictionary. If you instal 30 huge dictionaries for different media types (HTML, email,...) on the client, you could compress to a fraction of what is possible today. Re-encode all graphics as JPEG2000, etc... Of course this would require a lot of CPU cycles at the ISP. I think AOL is experimenting with something like that, no?
from the big labels. I mean, draw up a simple law which brings a level playing field? With no loopholes? Mark my words, before you know it somebody will start talking about this disgusting "fair use" thing again!
Could TLD's be usefull if they were properly restricted? I could imagine.CHAR which you can only get if you are a registered charity,.BANK if you are a real bank etc. Or would that be to easy to trick?
There are actually several french green politicians and activist who are pro nuclear fission (yes the old nukes!) because they see it as the only realistic way of cutting CO2 emissions in the short term.
Assuming you live in an area with outside temperatures below 40 C (104 F), is it not a lot more energy efficient to build strong ventilation with outside air rather then an AC?
Put a GPS and a laptop in the boot of a taxi. It collects updates, and every time it finds an unprotected AP, it uploads the data to a central database. Client computers could do the same thing for downloading. Parasitic navigation! Wonder if this would be legal?
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euh, they can get the jeans over there too you know... Actually they are quite a lot cheaper there... Get to think of it, they are actually made over there...
So porn is like beer, you can enjoy it a little and if you do it too much, it destroys your life. What else is new? Oh yes, the most powerfull country on earth has just shown it has "disaster-recovery" capabilities on par with, give or take, Bangladesh. My country (Belgium) has 100 specialised rescue guys on a one-hour standby just in case your president would have the guts to say "yes please". Instead he orders troops home from a warzone to shoot on its own citizens. You have bigger problems than porn, mister bible-belt.
we are building a spacecraft which should be better then our current one, and if we find out it actually works, then we will try to build one which is even better!!! seesh, talk about vapourware...
or you can call it "myBeautifullDistro", and not pay a cent either.
I think the biggest problem is every manufacturor makes his own synchronisation software running some weird propietary protocol. It feels like the good old days where you spent half a day setting up your dotmatrix in WP 2.1, and then restarted from zero in Lotus 123. Somebody should set some standards here. A PDA/Phone should be hardware abstracted at the OS level, just like a printer. And on corporate networks, the PC should just be a USB/Bluetooth -to-ethernet router, with the PDA authenticating directly to Exchange/Notes/whatever.
Yes, what you say is true, but there are more examples of hypocrisy. The US is the world largest producer of porn, with a turnover bigger then hollywood. Even with this huge turnover, the supply of actors is still far larger than the demand. But you can't show "Saving private Ryan" on TV because people say "Fuck" when they get a bullet in their stomach. And then the Jackson nipple slip. By God were we Europeans laughing our asses off!
Hey what is this? Just because I suggest a perfectly good use for BPL I get modded a troll? Personally I think it is bullshit to use BPL to solve "the rural problem". This should be done through existing phone lines, by develloping a long-distance version of ADSL. Afterall, the GHz-es might die after a few miles, but if you remove the old speech-only filters, you still should be able to use at least 0 - 100 kHz. This should be enough to give acceptable web-surfing speeds. Americans see BPL as a step-up from dial-up, but for europeans the main problem is how to get rid of the monopoly from the (ex-) state owned phone companies. In my area, I can get broadband through cable and ADSL, but..... those are BOTH owned by TDC!!! This is where BPL could kick some serous ass.
about interference to HAM, please note that in city areas power cables can be UNDERGROUND, therefore not interfering. These areas probably have xDSL, but an extra competitor can do miracles to your monthly broadband bill!
So a couple of nerds will run OSX -sortish- on non Apple hardware. Any non-apple approved component will cause more instability. To get the full experience, (and be legal!!!!) you will still need to cough up the cash. At worst people will try it on their PC, and buy a real Apple as their next PC. How did Excel beet Lotus 123? Simple: Lotus 123 had copy protection. Where Apple will win big on their Intel-switch is servers. Think of them cooperating with Dell. Their market share for servers is marginal, and hardware esthetics doesn't matter for servers so they have nothing to lose. Suddenly a big player like Dell starts offering servers with Intel-like speed, Dell-like reliability, BSD-like stability and Mac-like userfriendliness. Heck, even I would have to think twice before saying no thanks!
hey, I'm at work and that never stopped me so far!
Some VCR's can set time themselves based on teletext (Ceefax for the brits). Alarm clocks can set themselves based on a radio signal. Anything connected to the net can use NTP (or NET TIME for the 'softies :-) Frankly my life will not come to a halt if my microwave shows the wrong time 3 weeks a year. Next story?
How to select an inkjet printer where the cartridges are not more expensive then the printer itself!
this morning, NASA called off today's landing. are they flying it in a holding pattern over the airport?
Why does it have to be more complex? Imagine a WIFI access point with a small green button. If you press the button then any access attempt done in the next minute is accepted. Encryption keys are exchanged and from now on the client(s) which connected are accepted as "good". All the others are kicked out. For corporate networks, only accept clients which can authenticate with the domain server or firewall. Why does it have to be more difficult?
I haven't seen a 2 hour 3D IMAX movie, correct. I did spend an entire day in +/-10 different theaters watching 5-15 minute demo's. And I did feel a headache with some. I gues the active (LCD) glases are better because they will have less crossover (light destined for the left eye reaching the right eye and vice versa). They are however more cumbersome then the lightweight polaroid glasses. My point is that this is an extra burdon to the movie goer. It will be ok for the third sequel to starwars, but probably not for a mushy love-movie. Small girls crying over Britney's brake-up will probably make the glasses fog up.
Just came back from the Futuroscope in France where they have plenty of this 3D shit. Some is with LCD glasses (heavy and annoying), but some also with simple polaroid filter glasses. This is great for 10 minutes demo movies, but I think that after 1 hour, a lot of people will leave the theatre with a serious headache. Not only are the polaroid glasses not perfect, but you are still tricking the eye: the eye is focussing on a fixed distance (screen), but seeing objects all over the depth field. This could be good for some wild action movies, but don't hold your breath for mainstream 3D movies.
How is GCC support for Itanium? If the chip leaves so much up to the compiler, then the easiest road to success would be for Intel to build support in GCC. Recompile your Gentoo, and you have a fully optimised OS to show off. Does anybody know how good Itanium does on GCC?
Powerline in rural areas will get nowhere because of the EM noise. Note it is still perfectly usable as a last mile technology for areas where power is underground. Satellite is expensive, and has a huge lag. WIMAX is an option, but if there is enough $$ to be made, it should be possible to make a long-distance version of ADSL, with perhaps less speed. This could be combined with fat-client compression: All ZIP files carry their own dictionary. If you instal 30 huge dictionaries for different media types (HTML, email,...) on the client, you could compress to a fraction of what is possible today. Re-encode all graphics as JPEG2000, etc... Of course this would require a lot of CPU cycles at the ISP. I think AOL is experimenting with something like that, no?
from the big labels. I mean, draw up a simple law which brings a level playing field? With no loopholes? Mark my words, before you know it somebody will start talking about this disgusting "fair use" thing again!
What is your favourite open source cross-platform toolkit for making scientific graphs?
Could TLD's be usefull if they were properly restricted? I could imagine .CHAR which you can only get if you are a registered charity, .BANK if you are a real bank etc. Or would that be to easy to trick?
There are actually several french green politicians and activist who are pro nuclear fission (yes the old nukes!) because they see it as the only realistic way of cutting CO2 emissions in the short term.
Assuming you live in an area with outside temperatures below 40 C (104 F), is it not a lot more energy efficient to build strong ventilation with outside air rather then an AC?
Our intraweb apps (mostly SAP) are IE only. And these should be made by people who actually know something about coding. Seesh..
Put a GPS and a laptop in the boot of a taxi. It collects updates, and every time it finds an unprotected AP, it uploads the data to a central database. Client computers could do the same thing for downloading. Parasitic navigation! Wonder if this would be legal?