I really doubt they have the entire season in the can already like Farscape did.
And didn't I hear that there is a new Stargate movie for theaters in the works? OK, the source was The Feed on G4 during an episode of X-Play, but I distinctly remember wondering if it will follow the events of the series or will it be the other sequel the original creators wanted to make before SG-1 came along and killed off Kawalsky?
A 'chipped' passport would be susceptible to drive-by scanning, adds nothing a mag-stripe couldn't, and will likely be more expensive to implement. What's the point?
It's to help the terrorists target Americans, adding fuel to the fire of the War on Terror. And once the encryption is broken, not only will they know there's an American in their midst, they'll also be able to identify the specific target from the photo.
I can only think of one music video I'd like to see again, and that would be of "Bop 'Til You Drop" by Rick Springfield, from the album "Hard To Hold" (1984). Not for any love of the song but rather that I'm remembering the video correctly: the lyrics don't seem to call for a depiction of slave-drivers whipping chained aliens to do mining to be freed and rise up against their masters by a rock star.
the reason its such an emotive issue is that pluto was discovered by accident long before the belt in which it lies was discovered. so it has been in grade school textbooks as a "planet" for a long time.
Much in the same way that some people are very attached to "Under God" being in the US Pledge of Allegiance, even though it wasn't there when my parents learned to recite it.
Programmer: There is no speed issue that cannot be solved through the use of better hardware. Engineer: There is no hardware issue that cannot be solved through the use of well-written software.
The great thing about the Dish PVRs is they record the mpeg2 stream. They don't have to lose quality in the conversion of analog to digital.
Assuming of course you are happy with the amount of compression the digital satellite company places on the stream. I know I looked at getting a DirecTiVo box which also recorded the digital stream. They made the mistake of showing Boomerang on the floor display: jaggy artifacts all along every high-contrast line in the animation. Apparently someone thought they could recompress the animated channels far more than they can take.
If I bought a Tivo I'd have to hook it up to the Audio/Video jacks on the back of my Dish box.
Only if you were still set on using Dish. But I'll grant it is nice to get real 5.1 sound out of those satellite DVRs. It seems the analog TiVos can't handle preserving Dolby Surround.
Anyway, DRM paranoia seems to be preventing companies from letting another implement a secure digital recorder. Everyone seems to want to use their own proprietary devices.
I also did the ice water experiment in high school. I only took my hand out so I would still have class time left to finish my notes for the experiment.
What I'm getting at is, why ice water to test pain?
Because parents get upset when you set fire to their children. Or cut or stab them. Or whip, boil, fry, burn with acid, spindle, fold, or otherwise mutilate them. Temporary submergence of a limb in ice water is harmless.
Well, some of them do.
And they really object to the opposite test: determining your pleasure threshold.
I see this as being very useful in big cities where warwalking is easy. Imagine the data you could gather by walking around Manhatten for a day with this device.
Forget warwalking, think about warsmailing (war snail-mailing). Activate one of these devices and drop it in at the post office addressed to yourself. It'll ride in postal delivery vehicles, stopping in front of each house long enough to do some serious searching until it reaches yours. Then unwrap and see what you've harvested. Only cost is the postage and packing, virtually no gas or calories from you. Well, and the battery charge. Include a GPS device.
It will help to be near the end of the delivery route. Maybe address it to a house that doesn't exist and it'll come back undeliverable (though it risks not coming back at all).
Variations would be to use UPS, FedEx, etc., especially how their routing systems take it into interesting business areas. Route influencing could be done by including legitimate packages.
If anyone does this, please let me know of the results. I don't have the ability to do this, so I'm putting it out there for others to try. I've only just thought of it. (I'll be Googling for "warsmailing".)
Note: this opportunity will only last (in the US) until the DoHS decides that any packages with detectably active electronics or EM emissions must be intercepted and detonated, and they may be doing this already. Other countries may vary.
During installation, the Windows XP installer asks me to format the Windows partition using NTFS or FAT. Which should I use?
If the partition is 32 GB or smaller, you can use either FAT or NTFS. If it's larger than 32 GB, then you can only format it using NTFS. Mac OS X can read and write FAT volumes, but only read NTFS volumes. Refer to the Windows XP documentation if you are not sure which best suits your needs.
Another source says that while Windows XP won't format a volume larger than 32 GiB as FAT, it can in fact read and write FAT volumes formatted up to 2 TiB when formatted by another operating system:
The FastFAT driver can mount and support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system, such as those created locally by Windows 98 or ME in dual boot configuration, (subject to other limits listed here for Windows 98, ME and 2000 and here for Windows XP), but you cannot CREATE one using the Format tool from within either Windows 2000 Professional or XP Professional. If you attempt to format a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB, the format fails near the end of the process with the following error message: Logical Disk Manager: Volume size too big.
So, is there a tool for Mac OS X that will pre-format this partition as a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GiB, and will Mac OS X still be able to read and write to it?
My Mac Pro will be used primarily for video editing and I'd like to be able to put my captured video on a partition that can be read and written by both Mac OS X and Windows XP, but it'll have to be and support files much bigger than 32 GiB. (Unfortunately FAT32, even when breaking the 32 GiB volume barrier, still has a 4 GiB filesize limit.)
Is MacDrive 6 the only solution for Windows XP being able to read/write the varieties of HFS volumes? Well, other than CrossStripe, a special version of MacDrive 5. I may be OK with a solution that denies XP's ability to modify HFS volumes/partitions (safer that way).
And we that prefer the superior editor can replace it with Ctrl, to ease the strain on the wrist.
I'd have taken that to be the opinion of a die-hard Apple II user which swapped the position of the two. I used to use my old Apple IIgs ADB keyboard with my Macs for that layout until I decided I couldn't do without the cluster between the main keyboard and numeric keypad (really just the forward-delete key). Though the IIgs still had better positioning for the tilde/backquote and pipe/backslash keys on either side of the spacebar (US model), which the HHKB places more inconveniently for Unix/Linux users.
Yes, you can toggle Insert functionality on or off with the Help key if your keyboard doesn't have an "Insert" key.
I instead would like to disable the Help key when under Mac OS X. I keep hitting it when I want to backspace or delete, but I don't want to pop the keycap off.
Has anyone tried using Boot Camp to multiboot a Mac between Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Linux or other options?
My new Mac Pro should be arriving this week. I plan to use both Boot Camp and Parallels with it. I'd like as much flexibility to run different OSes as possible.
What if the Windows programs only think they have a shared registry, only think they have put files in 40 different paths, but in reality it is all sitting in a pkg file that is only temporarily merged with a virtual and disposable Windows API environment and can be trashed by the user at any time with no repercussions?
Oh, and fix the vulnerabilities of the API so the viruses and trojans can't run (or at least alert the user), and add (similarly protected).NET support.
Basically, put Windows applications in a sandbox that only appears to be integrated to the OS (from both the user's and Windows application's perspectives).
I'm sick of sites that, say, put up a Linux boot CD up as a.iso file and don't configure their website to treat *.iso as application/octet-stream and serve it as text/plain, but I hate even more that Internet Explorer will download the file to disk where all HTTP-compliant browsers will properly render the ISO file in the browser window as plain text, resulting in the server never being reconfigured to serve the file as the proper type because the person who set it up only tests with IE!
I used to be an American. But then they changed what being an American was. Now what I am isn't American, and what is American is weird and scary to me.
no- they definitely wouldn't.. the iPods are generating more revenue than their computers
Just because one part of a company generates more revenue than another doesn't mean it can survive losing that lesser revenue stream. You wouldn't dispose of the left half of your body just because you're right-handed.
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I really doubt they have the entire season in the can already like Farscape did.
And didn't I hear that there is a new Stargate movie for theaters in the works? OK, the source was The Feed on G4 during an episode of X-Play, but I distinctly remember wondering if it will follow the events of the series or will it be the other sequel the original creators wanted to make before SG-1 came along and killed off Kawalsky?
A 'chipped' passport would be susceptible to drive-by scanning, adds nothing a mag-stripe couldn't, and will likely be more expensive to implement. What's the point?
It's to help the terrorists target Americans, adding fuel to the fire of the War on Terror. And once the encryption is broken, not only will they know there's an American in their midst, they'll also be able to identify the specific target from the photo.
I can only think of one music video I'd like to see again, and that would be of "Bop 'Til You Drop" by Rick Springfield, from the album "Hard To Hold" (1984). Not for any love of the song but rather that I'm remembering the video correctly: the lyrics don't seem to call for a depiction of slave-drivers whipping chained aliens to do mining to be freed and rise up against their masters by a rock star.
the reason its such an emotive issue is that pluto was discovered by accident long before the belt in which it lies was discovered. so it has been in grade school textbooks as a "planet" for a long time.
Much in the same way that some people are very attached to "Under God" being in the US Pledge of Allegiance, even though it wasn't there when my parents learned to recite it.
In the end, everything goes down the memory hole.
If what?
Programmer: There is no speed issue that cannot be solved through the use of better hardware.
Engineer: There is no hardware issue that cannot be solved through the use of well-written software.
Discuss.
It's not plugged in?
The great thing about the Dish PVRs is they record the mpeg2 stream. They don't have to lose quality in the conversion of analog to digital.
Assuming of course you are happy with the amount of compression the digital satellite company places on the stream. I know I looked at getting a DirecTiVo box which also recorded the digital stream. They made the mistake of showing Boomerang on the floor display: jaggy artifacts all along every high-contrast line in the animation. Apparently someone thought they could recompress the animated channels far more than they can take.
If I bought a Tivo I'd have to hook it up to the Audio/Video jacks on the back of my Dish box.
Only if you were still set on using Dish. But I'll grant it is nice to get real 5.1 sound out of those satellite DVRs. It seems the analog TiVos can't handle preserving Dolby Surround.
Anyway, DRM paranoia seems to be preventing companies from letting another implement a secure digital recorder. Everyone seems to want to use their own proprietary devices.
I also did the ice water experiment in high school. I only took my hand out so I would still have class time left to finish my notes for the experiment.
What I'm getting at is, why ice water to test pain?
Because parents get upset when you set fire to their children. Or cut or stab them. Or whip, boil, fry, burn with acid, spindle, fold, or otherwise mutilate them. Temporary submergence of a limb in ice water is harmless.
Well, some of them do.
And they really object to the opposite test: determining your pleasure threshold.
and... where do you get your figures?
The Colbert Report?
It doesn't mean they won't keep doing it anyway.
I only wonder what logic Apple is using to sue these companies using the term Pods.
"You didn't sue us to defend your trademark against our use, so you've already lost it; now we're suing you to defend our trademark against your use"?
"Or maybe we can Beatle out a deal?"
Are they also going after Burger King for packaging their medium size fries in a "FryPod"?
I see this as being very useful in big cities where warwalking is easy. Imagine the data you could gather by walking around Manhatten for a day with this device.
Forget warwalking, think about warsmailing (war snail-mailing). Activate one of these devices and drop it in at the post office addressed to yourself. It'll ride in postal delivery vehicles, stopping in front of each house long enough to do some serious searching until it reaches yours. Then unwrap and see what you've harvested. Only cost is the postage and packing, virtually no gas or calories from you. Well, and the battery charge. Include a GPS device.
It will help to be near the end of the delivery route. Maybe address it to a house that doesn't exist and it'll come back undeliverable (though it risks not coming back at all).
Variations would be to use UPS, FedEx, etc., especially how their routing systems take it into interesting business areas. Route influencing could be done by including legitimate packages.
If anyone does this, please let me know of the results. I don't have the ability to do this, so I'm putting it out there for others to try. I've only just thought of it. (I'll be Googling for "warsmailing".)
Note: this opportunity will only last (in the US) until the DoHS decides that any packages with detectably active electronics or EM emissions must be intercepted and detonated, and they may be doing this already. Other countries may vary.
So, is there a tool for Mac OS X that will pre-format this partition as a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GiB, and will Mac OS X still be able to read and write to it?
My Mac Pro will be used primarily for video editing and I'd like to be able to put my captured video on a partition that can be read and written by both Mac OS X and Windows XP, but it'll have to be and support files much bigger than 32 GiB. (Unfortunately FAT32, even when breaking the 32 GiB volume barrier, still has a 4 GiB filesize limit.)
Is MacDrive 6 the only solution for Windows XP being able to read/write the varieties of HFS volumes? Well, other than CrossStripe, a special version of MacDrive 5. I may be OK with a solution that denies XP's ability to modify HFS volumes/partitions (safer that way).
And we that prefer the superior editor can replace it with Ctrl, to ease the strain on the wrist.
I'd have taken that to be the opinion of a die-hard Apple II user which swapped the position of the two. I used to use my old Apple IIgs ADB keyboard with my Macs for that layout until I decided I couldn't do without the cluster between the main keyboard and numeric keypad (really just the forward-delete key). Though the IIgs still had better positioning for the tilde/backquote and pipe/backslash keys on either side of the spacebar (US model), which the HHKB places more inconveniently for Unix/Linux users.
There is a lot of bartering more than outright payola. Influence for influence.
But do the laws against payola even apply to cable television?
I thought it was "Empty Vision".
I instead would like to disable the Help key when under Mac OS X. I keep hitting it when I want to backspace or delete, but I don't want to pop the keycap off.
Has anyone tried using Boot Camp to multiboot a Mac between Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Linux or other options?
My new Mac Pro should be arriving this week. I plan to use both Boot Camp and Parallels with it. I'd like as much flexibility to run different OSes as possible.
What if the Windows programs only think they have a shared registry, only think they have put files in 40 different paths, but in reality it is all sitting in a pkg file that is only temporarily merged with a virtual and disposable Windows API environment and can be trashed by the user at any time with no repercussions?
.NET support.
Oh, and fix the vulnerabilities of the API so the viruses and trojans can't run (or at least alert the user), and add (similarly protected)
Basically, put Windows applications in a sandbox that only appears to be integrated to the OS (from both the user's and Windows application's perspectives).
But is it yet HTTP-compliant? Specifically, does IE 7 treat the Content-Type header provided by the server as authoritative as required by RFC 2616 Sectino 7.2.1?
.iso file and don't configure their website to treat *.iso as application/octet-stream and serve it as text/plain, but I hate even more that Internet Explorer will download the file to disk where all HTTP-compliant browsers will properly render the ISO file in the browser window as plain text, resulting in the server never being reconfigured to serve the file as the proper type because the person who set it up only tests with IE!
I'm sick of sites that, say, put up a Linux boot CD up as a
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Uhm...
Nah, I like barbecue better. It's funnier, in a kinda cannibalistic way.
I used to be an American. But then they changed what being an American was. Now what I am isn't American, and what is American is weird and scary to me.
It has already happened to you.
They therefore conclude that there must be MORE [deuterium] than what they expect, but in a place/form that is invisible.
Please, don't let it be in the form of deuterium ore.
no- they definitely wouldn't.. the iPods are generating more revenue than their computers
Just because one part of a company generates more revenue than another doesn't mean it can survive losing that lesser revenue stream. You wouldn't dispose of the left half of your body just because you're right-handed.