but I thought VHF was already capable of broadcasting and recieving high speed data. Isn't HDTV in the high MB/s data rate? And they broadcast HDTV over regular OTA. Now I know that HDTV is asymmetrical but I remember back in the day there were people broadcasting data back and forth using small transmitters and regular UHF/VHF antennas. They were mainly used for weather data and such but I remember they were capable of massive speeds. It seems to me the structure for such a system has been up for a while, or has Australia just come up with a better way of redirecting the data?
They don't need as much speed as was quoted in the article. (500 kts) It would be intresting as a cheap, sub 200K range private general aviation plane. I'm surprised Boeing is taking a risk though with such a strange new craft, especially with their current financial troubles.
As I understand the people of NZ were more than gracious to the film crew. Also who can deny the lush beautiful landscapes that NZ provided. I think it's only fair they get to see the movie a few weeks before we do.
On a side note, with the success of a more than excellent translation of LOTR by Jackson, anyone else hoping that one day he may do a King Arthur tale? Perhaps a Once and Future King trilogy?
I'm not a professional accountant, but could this be a move for the stock? According to the article, they won't have to pay out all 1.1 billion but there will still be a good chunk of money paid out. If they can keep delaying this until after the end of the year, they wouldn't have to report it on this quarters accounting forms. It would seen to me, even for MS, a big cash payment like that will look serious on paper. I could be wrong in my facts though.
Is it me or by 2025 everything will be Walmart. I can see this orwellian type world, where 20 story tall Walmart stores dominate the landscape. And giant city sized Walmart's where the peons (everybody) work, like the middle age vassals all over again. Your overlord will be Baron Von Mildred, the silver haired 400 year old woman who greets you everyday with a smile and a cat o'nine tails. Gonna be fun!
just made my day. On a side note it's good to see people wasting these scammers time. The more time wasted for these scammers makes it more and more unprofitable to do what they do.
My logical reasoning would be AT&T plans to use this for their own ISP service. Ergo they get to provide spam filtered for their paying customers, but any other ISP chooses to filter in a certain way...down comes the lawsuit. Atleast that's what I think...
Is Nvidia doomed to not have learned from 3dfx? Seems to me all they're doing now is adding slightly faster/better boards, while charging the same prices. Where are the new cutting edge features and options? It seems ironic, 3dfx was put out of business by Nvidia, and now Nvidia may be put out of business by ATI, and 5 years from now we'll be talking about how ATI will be put out of business by XYZ. The problem I think is once the company starts making serious cash, the founders just don't care anymore.
It seems the paranoid folks think they're trying to sway childrens policital thoughts, but do you really want your child checking out the NRA and gun sites? It seems these companies are so inundated with lawsuits and complaints by all everyone under the sun. They probably felt it was easier to just censor the site and let the parents unblock if if they chose.
I mean really how stupid can you be to actually "phish" for credit card numbers now, that's so 1997. She should have become involved in a much safer fraud, like identity theft, penny stock pump and dump, or creating a company...sending a donation to the Bush election fund...getting 8 billion dollar contract for rebuilding iraq. Come on people, use your head!
Does MIT have a case to sue Loudeye? Seems Loudeye misrepresented themselves. It may be better/easier if MIT simply works in partnership with an organization that does has a lot of agreements with the music industry already, like Apple or such. Maybe an MIT branded iTunes?
For such a small nation, with access to a hell of a lot less funding than american conglomerates. These Israeli companies sure do make some intresting inventions. From supercomputers, to genetic engineering, etc. etc.
Sucessful downsizing of pesky animal and plant problem on planet.
Created science, religion, and McDonalds.
Created bureaucracy.
We're the ones sending out 50 year old "I Love Lucy" episodes in space.
Created the atomic bomb.
QUALIFICATIONS
Ability to split everything in to groups, reduce them to superficial views then discriminate.
Can eradicate anything you want in a quick, effeciant manner.
We laugh, we love, we play, we're like sea monkeys except we breathe air.
Terraforming.
Created computers, then made them useful enough to take over the jobs of 80% of our species, smart eh?
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Stone Age, Earth: (10KBC - 2000BC)
Mostly went around grunting at eachother.
Occasionaly raped and pillaged another cave.
Created art using feces and cave walls.
Dark Ages, Earth: (500AD- 800AD)
Not too much happened. We did kill off a shitload of our own people cause we lived like pigs and ended up catching the black plauge.
Technology Age, Earth: (1900AD - Current)
Created manned flight, space travel, robotics, computers, cloning and bio terrorism. Job seems risky right now and looking for new oppurtunities before recently created AI becomes new manager.
EDUCATION
Graduated first in class of 1,000,000,000,000 species on planet.
I'm sure it would be useful in a medical enviornment or a lab or such that needs 3D images of MRI's etc. but for the average person is it really needed? Does Joe Whitecollar need to see the annual reports in 3D Excel, though it could really show the descending barcharts of profits.
I was under the assumption that Longhorn was a total rewrite of the windows os based on the new.NET framework. Is that still the case, or is it just yet another revision tacked on to a ball of twine of years of code.
On a side note, i've been toying around with the new.NET stuff and it seems that their hope is to make the system more secure by basically having all the programs emulated by the framework, therefore nothing actually changes the OS, you guys think that's a good way to do things?
pay for any service like Kazaa where I can't be guarenteed the quality of the file I want to download. If i'm not guarenteed a mp3 of my choosing at a specific quality there's no point in me paying for it, I might as well just buy the damn cd.
When will these companies learn the only reason they have these huge numbers is because they're free and havens for mostly illegal activities, the second the piper comes along for money the people disappear. Happened with napster and many other apps, it will happen to kazaa, and the next big thing will pop up.
When you go see a movie with these watermarks, such as underworld, when the movie finishes go to the theater manager and demand your money back. Tell him there were marks and dots on the film that distracted you and shows their lack of quality control. Tell them you refuse to pay for a movie with marks and problems on it. When the theaters are paying out enough refunds, you'll see how fast the MPAA drops it when Loews, Sony, UA etc. demand it.
I wish them the best of luck, but from what I read in the article they just recently launched their first satellite. Seems very ambitous to think in 5 years they can get a man on the moon safely from this level of technology. The chinese are still having issues and imho they're far more advanced than india in terms of a space program. All in all, we can always use more countries giving the USA the proper boot in the ass to start a mars program. Our huge claim to fame has been that we were the only nation ever to get on the moon, when a moon landing is so common that eventually you're hearing about ethiopias moon landing, it devalues the achievement. We need to get to mars, and ensure that new plateu for the rest of the world to achieve.
Is keeping violent games out of the hands of minors really a bad thing? I don't believe violent games make people any more or less violent than they already are, but some games go to the extreme, and I really don't think putting in an age restriction is a bad thing. If the kid really wants the game, he can gladly go into the store with a parent, and they can buy it for them if they think their child is mature enough for said game. Think of it like pornography, sure kids can get it online for free, but legally there is an age restriction. Now I don't think some 13 year old boys checking out a penthouse will become raving serial rapists but there are age laws put in place, and for a good reason.
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but I thought VHF was already capable of broadcasting and recieving high speed data. Isn't HDTV in the high MB/s data rate? And they broadcast HDTV over regular OTA. Now I know that HDTV is asymmetrical but I remember back in the day there were people broadcasting data back and forth using small transmitters and regular UHF/VHF antennas. They were mainly used for weather data and such but I remember they were capable of massive speeds. It seems to me the structure for such a system has been up for a while, or has Australia just come up with a better way of redirecting the data?
They don't need as much speed as was quoted in the article. (500 kts) It would be intresting as a cheap, sub 200K range private general aviation plane. I'm surprised Boeing is taking a risk though with such a strange new craft, especially with their current financial troubles.
As I understand the people of NZ were more than gracious to the film crew. Also who can deny the lush beautiful landscapes that NZ provided. I think it's only fair they get to see the movie a few weeks before we do. On a side note, with the success of a more than excellent translation of LOTR by Jackson, anyone else hoping that one day he may do a King Arthur tale? Perhaps a Once and Future King trilogy?
I'm not a professional accountant, but could this be a move for the stock? According to the article, they won't have to pay out all 1.1 billion but there will still be a good chunk of money paid out. If they can keep delaying this until after the end of the year, they wouldn't have to report it on this quarters accounting forms. It would seen to me, even for MS, a big cash payment like that will look serious on paper. I could be wrong in my facts though.
Is it me or by 2025 everything will be Walmart. I can see this orwellian type world, where 20 story tall Walmart stores dominate the landscape. And giant city sized Walmart's where the peons (everybody) work, like the middle age vassals all over again. Your overlord will be Baron Von Mildred, the silver haired 400 year old woman who greets you everyday with a smile and a cat o'nine tails. Gonna be fun!
just made my day. On a side note it's good to see people wasting these scammers time. The more time wasted for these scammers makes it more and more unprofitable to do what they do.
I stand corrected!
My logical reasoning would be AT&T plans to use this for their own ISP service. Ergo they get to provide spam filtered for their paying customers, but any other ISP chooses to filter in a certain way...down comes the lawsuit. Atleast that's what I think...
That the dinosaur version of Slashdot released that same story on the Jurassicnet just 48 hours before they left the earth.
The funny part is this line "This Website is powered by PostNuke." I guess slashdot is now more powerful than a nuke?
Is Nvidia doomed to not have learned from 3dfx? Seems to me all they're doing now is adding slightly faster/better boards, while charging the same prices. Where are the new cutting edge features and options? It seems ironic, 3dfx was put out of business by Nvidia, and now Nvidia may be put out of business by ATI, and 5 years from now we'll be talking about how ATI will be put out of business by XYZ. The problem I think is once the company starts making serious cash, the founders just don't care anymore.
to hire 10,000 new employees. The important question is what country will these 10,000 new employees be in, if you know what I mean,
It seems the paranoid folks think they're trying to sway childrens policital thoughts, but do you really want your child checking out the NRA and gun sites? It seems these companies are so inundated with lawsuits and complaints by all everyone under the sun. They probably felt it was easier to just censor the site and let the parents unblock if if they chose.
/nelson muntz voice
I mean really how stupid can you be to actually "phish" for credit card numbers now, that's so 1997. She should have become involved in a much safer fraud, like identity theft, penny stock pump and dump, or creating a company...sending a donation to the Bush election fund...getting 8 billion dollar contract for rebuilding iraq. Come on people, use your head!
Does MIT have a case to sue Loudeye? Seems Loudeye misrepresented themselves. It may be better/easier if MIT simply works in partnership with an organization that does has a lot of agreements with the music industry already, like Apple or such. Maybe an MIT branded iTunes?
For such a small nation, with access to a hell of a lot less funding than american conglomerates. These Israeli companies sure do make some intresting inventions. From supercomputers, to genetic engineering, etc. etc.
Vietnam striking first against american intrests...yeah this is gonna end well.
Human Race
humanrace@earth.com
Third Planet from Sun
Sol, Milky Way 90210
(555)0000001
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Sucessful downsizing of pesky animal and plant problem on planet.
Created science, religion, and McDonalds.
Created bureaucracy.
We're the ones sending out 50 year old "I Love Lucy" episodes in space.
Created the atomic bomb.
QUALIFICATIONS
Ability to split everything in to groups, reduce them to superficial views then discriminate.
Can eradicate anything you want in a quick, effeciant manner.
We laugh, we love, we play, we're like sea monkeys except we breathe air.
Terraforming.
Created computers, then made them useful enough to take over the jobs of 80% of our species, smart eh?
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Stone Age, Earth: (10KBC - 2000BC)
Mostly went around grunting at eachother.
Occasionaly raped and pillaged another cave.
Created art using feces and cave walls.
Dark Ages, Earth: (500AD- 800AD)
Not too much happened. We did kill off a shitload of our own people cause we lived like pigs and ended up catching the black plauge.
Technology Age, Earth: (1900AD - Current)
Created manned flight, space travel, robotics, computers, cloning and bio terrorism. Job seems risky right now and looking for new oppurtunities before recently created AI becomes new manager.
EDUCATION
Graduated first in class of 1,000,000,000,000 species on planet.
Top 1% of tool using monkeys.
HONORS
Created especially by this God fellow.
Yeah bad joke :)
I'm sure it would be useful in a medical enviornment or a lab or such that needs 3D images of MRI's etc. but for the average person is it really needed? Does Joe Whitecollar need to see the annual reports in 3D Excel, though it could really show the descending barcharts of profits.
On a side note, i've been toying around with the new .NET stuff and it seems that their hope is to make the system more secure by basically having all the programs emulated by the framework, therefore nothing actually changes the OS, you guys think that's a good way to do things?
When will these companies learn the only reason they have these huge numbers is because they're free and havens for mostly illegal activities, the second the piper comes along for money the people disappear. Happened with napster and many other apps, it will happen to kazaa, and the next big thing will pop up.
When you go see a movie with these watermarks, such as underworld, when the movie finishes go to the theater manager and demand your money back. Tell him there were marks and dots on the film that distracted you and shows their lack of quality control. Tell them you refuse to pay for a movie with marks and problems on it. When the theaters are paying out enough refunds, you'll see how fast the MPAA drops it when Loews, Sony, UA etc. demand it.
I wish them the best of luck, but from what I read in the article they just recently launched their first satellite. Seems very ambitous to think in 5 years they can get a man on the moon safely from this level of technology. The chinese are still having issues and imho they're far more advanced than india in terms of a space program. All in all, we can always use more countries giving the USA the proper boot in the ass to start a mars program. Our huge claim to fame has been that we were the only nation ever to get on the moon, when a moon landing is so common that eventually you're hearing about ethiopias moon landing, it devalues the achievement. We need to get to mars, and ensure that new plateu for the rest of the world to achieve.
Is keeping violent games out of the hands of minors really a bad thing? I don't believe violent games make people any more or less violent than they already are, but some games go to the extreme, and I really don't think putting in an age restriction is a bad thing. If the kid really wants the game, he can gladly go into the store with a parent, and they can buy it for them if they think their child is mature enough for said game. Think of it like pornography, sure kids can get it online for free, but legally there is an age restriction. Now I don't think some 13 year old boys checking out a penthouse will become raving serial rapists but there are age laws put in place, and for a good reason.