A lot of the audio compression done on cell signals can, and will, completely ruin a data connection. And even if the compression doesn't get you, the occasional dropped packet with silence fill enabled will cause the modem to give up entirely.
So, I realize that this is impossible, but I definately noticed almost no lag time (a second at most) both for initial playback and pause-restart. The longest lag point is when the page itself is being loaded. (DSL, highest transfer rate I've ever seen coming down it is 110KBps (Torrent).)
The prostate is important. I have heard from those who have lost them that orgasms are worse than pointless without them. Also, if you happen to like anal sex, chances are you won't without your prostate.
Both sound like very good reasons for existance to me.
While it uses the same number of instructions xor tends to take a lot less time than mov, because those movs have to go to and from memory, while the xors tend to stay within the registers. This is possible to avoid if you hand-tweak, of course, but again, many architectures are very register-poor (*cough* x86 *cough*), and if you're hand-tweaking register-swapping, don't you have something better to do?;-)
You fail to understand retail. If they are supposedly selling at a loss, the money is already gone. The number of people purchasing the system amortizes this loss quite nicely. Watch this:
($250) -- Sony's cost to produce
$150 -- Sony sells to retailer
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($100)
The money is already gone, see? And anyways, The more kits they sell at the retail level, the more kits are bought by the retailers, reducing the net cost. And eventually, it will beat out the marginal cost of producing more PSPs, thus generating a profit. And, everyone knows the profits on game sales to the console manufacturer/licensor are quite nice, so even if you only buy the PSP to play one game, that one game is yet another chunk of change to Sony and the game authors.
Every county in New York State (and a few cities) have different sales taxes on top of the state rate of 4%. See this 0.4MB PDF, Publication 718, for more information.
As far as I know, most states in the union have this same problem.
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The grandparent is referring to the US (and possibly elsewhere) rarely-used practice of Jury Nullifcation. The jury essentially says that, yes, the accused is guilty of the crime stated, but the activity should not be a crime, and so we will not convict. Judges and prosecutors hate that, and will often refuse a juror if he mentions knowledge of the statute.
Its for office automation. I used to use Outlook at work, and the one awesome feature was that my boss could just send me appointments, and I could accept them into my schedule.
One thing ever went wrong with a shipment from them. The case that went with a barebones kit got smashed. I sent it back to them, and they sent the replacement to my billing address, not where I was at school. My dad had to remail the package, but they gladly reimbursed me the cost of the re-ship. Verdict: Sometimes dumb (who isn't?) but generally helpful.
I go to RIT, they have an IT program. So do a lot of other universities. Hell, they are giving out Masters degrees in IT, whick makes no sense to me, but it happens.
TFSummary says that a drop in CS students will lead to a shortage of IT workers. Most CS students I know do not want to do IT. They want to code, either academically or commercially, but they do not want to do IT. IT is for IT majors (or Cisco/A+/MCSE certs), not for Computer Scientists
I think hacking the revocation keys could be more interesting.
A: Dude, I got this great new movie, wanna see it?
B: Yeah!
[A puts in an HD-DVD-R with all major revoke keys on it]
A: Oh shit, its not working man.
[A enjoys the little prank he played on B who will never be able to watch a movie again on his player...]
Except that using flash for swap is an intensely stupid idea. Flash has a relatively small number of rewrites available before it goes bad. Most flash drives have controllers onboard to try and combat this, but there's only so many rewrites.
Reverse-engineering for compatibility purposes is still legal under the DMCA. Reverse-engineering is OK as long as you don't do it to infringe upon copyright.
Source, The text of the DMCA, Chapter 12, Section 1201.f (find within page for "reverse engineering")
Actually, the three magic fingers doesn't do what its supposed to anymore. You can now create a virtual desktop, and do whatever you like with that key combo. I read about it in DDJ. MS is happy to have made it, since it makes the kiosk software people happy.
In the Gimp, you can change the sensitivity. When you click on the Magic Wand ("fuzzy select" they call it), you will see a slider marked "Threshold". The larger this number, the more forgiving the fuzzy select is.
That's weird. All of T-Mobile's messages to me are free. And I get about two ads from them a year. (It may be because the voicemail notifications are over txt, I dunno).
Am I the only one whose first thought was, "Heroin? WTF does that have to do with mice? Isn't that against some law, or at the least, a good waste of H?"
No shit, how did you think the Abu Gharib photos got traded? On the internet, from Iraq, with love.
Actually, according to Chain of Command: from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, by Sy Hersh (the guy who broke the story), they came home with a vet. The wife found them on the computer and emailed them from the US. So it was sneakernet (air-liftnet?) until the States.
No, you say "a u in the words" because when you spell "u" phonetically its spelt "yew". Or at least I think so. Not too sure here [As the poster removes his Karma Bonus], but that's my gut reaction.
OTOH, there's the word "ewe", and I don't think anyone would say "a ewe" and expect that be accepted.
Any device that uses or produces electricity produces electromagnetic waves. Otherwise known as EMF and EMI.
Except that this device works at DC, so there's no EM waves (which would require a frequency greater than the 0 Hz of DC). There would be a (small) magnetic field.
Also they never said that they were bad and need to be absorbed. The material reflects the waves back into the battery at a different frequency to increase battery preformance. That is why the IonX material is sandwiched between 2 layers of silcon and produces a small negitve charge.
If they can make a passive device that can change the frequency of incoming EM waves, they're wasting their money on cell phone batteries.
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A lot of the audio compression done on cell signals can, and will, completely ruin a data connection. And even if the compression doesn't get you, the occasional dropped packet with silence fill enabled will cause the modem to give up entirely.
So, I realize that this is impossible, but I definately noticed almost no lag time (a second at most) both for initial playback and pause-restart. The longest lag point is when the page itself is being loaded. (DSL, highest transfer rate I've ever seen coming down it is 110KBps (Torrent).)
The prostate is important. I have heard from those who have lost them that orgasms are worse than pointless without them. Also, if you happen to like anal sex, chances are you won't without your prostate.
Both sound like very good reasons for existance to me.
While it uses the same number of instructions xor tends to take a lot less time than mov, because those movs have to go to and from memory, while the xors tend to stay within the registers. This is possible to avoid if you hand-tweak, of course, but again, many architectures are very register-poor (*cough* x86 *cough*), and if you're hand-tweaking register-swapping, don't you have something better to do? ;-)
Every county in New York State (and a few cities) have different sales taxes on top of the state rate of 4%. See this 0.4MB PDF, Publication 718, for more information.
As far as I know, most states in the union have this same problem.
You mean like Perri-air?
The grandparent is referring to the US (and possibly elsewhere) rarely-used practice of Jury Nullifcation. The jury essentially says that, yes, the accused is guilty of the crime stated, but the activity should not be a crime, and so we will not convict. Judges and prosecutors hate that, and will often refuse a juror if he mentions knowledge of the statute.
Its for office automation. I used to use Outlook at work, and the one awesome feature was that my boss could just send me appointments, and I could accept them into my schedule.
Rest of the program was shit, though.
One thing ever went wrong with a shipment from them. The case that went with a barebones kit got smashed. I sent it back to them, and they sent the replacement to my billing address, not where I was at school. My dad had to remail the package, but they gladly reimbursed me the cost of the re-ship. Verdict: Sometimes dumb (who isn't?) but generally helpful.
I go to RIT, they have an IT program. So do a lot of other universities. Hell, they are giving out Masters degrees in IT, whick makes no sense to me, but it happens.
TFSummary says that a drop in CS students will lead to a shortage of IT workers. Most CS students I know do not want to do IT. They want to code, either academically or commercially, but they do not want to do IT. IT is for IT majors (or Cisco/A+/MCSE certs), not for Computer Scientists
This is one of those times I wish I could double-friend someone on /.
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I think hacking the revocation keys could be more interesting.
A: Dude, I got this great new movie, wanna see it?
B: Yeah!
[A puts in an HD-DVD-R with all major revoke keys on it]
A: Oh shit, its not working man.
[A enjoys the little prank he played on B who will never be able to watch a movie again on his player...]
Except that using flash for swap is an intensely stupid idea. Flash has a relatively small number of rewrites available before it goes bad. Most flash drives have controllers onboard to try and combat this, but there's only so many rewrites.
Yes, it would be "clean" in that sense, as long as the initial GPL-ed software was also clean-room reverse engineered.
But why are you doing reverse engineering when there is already a published spec of sorts (the GPL-ed program)?
Reverse-engineering for compatibility purposes is still legal under the DMCA. Reverse-engineering is OK as long as you don't do it to infringe upon copyright.
Source, The text of the DMCA, Chapter 12, Section 1201.f (find within page for "reverse engineering")
Actually, the three magic fingers doesn't do what its supposed to anymore. You can now create a virtual desktop, and do whatever you like with that key combo. I read about it in DDJ. MS is happy to have made it, since it makes the kiosk software people happy.
and Re: the script: devilishly clever, sir.
In the Gimp, you can change the sensitivity. When you click on the Magic Wand ("fuzzy select" they call it), you will see a slider marked "Threshold". The larger this number, the more forgiving the fuzzy select is.
That's weird. All of T-Mobile's messages to me are free. And I get about two ads from them a year. (It may be because the voicemail notifications are over txt, I dunno).
Am I the only one whose first thought was, "Heroin? WTF does that have to do with mice? Isn't that against some law, or at the least, a good waste of H?"
No, you say "a u in the words" because when you spell "u" phonetically its spelt "yew". Or at least I think so. Not too sure here [As the poster removes his Karma Bonus], but that's my gut reaction.
OTOH, there's the word "ewe", and I don't think anyone would say "a ewe" and expect that be accepted.
If they can make a passive device that can change the frequency of incoming EM waves, they're wasting their money on cell phone batteries.
And I am an Electrical Engineer.
Happy to be of service, happily.
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