Yeah, but the "IP theft = terrorism" line came from Gonzales
In the blurb, I read it as "give the Justice department 'tools...' which are used to '...fund terrorism activities'".
Unless "which which" is supposed to mean something and wasn't a typo.
(TFA makes it clear that it is the copyright crimes that allegedly fund terrorism, not the tools, except where I say "allegedly" they say "quite frankly". Almost makes you want to accidentally run over his dog, Lionel Hutz-style.)
1920x1200 would be perfect, considering Blu-Ray/HD-DVD both use 1920x1080. Those extra 120 lines at the top or bottom would be just enough for a nice control strip, play/pause buttons, etc.
And a display capable of such a 16:10 display would also be better for those planning to run Final Cut HD in the field without a second, larger AC-connected display.
Which makes me wonder: does someone make batteries for external displays so you can plug them into a laptop, power down the laptop's display, and extend their joint battery life?
Who am I kidding? A power source would be needed for the large external drives to hold the footage being edited as well. I'd need a complete power solution like a portable generator with power conditioner. Still, a 1920x1080 or x1200 display built-in would be preferable.
Seagate documents have leaked out the two 750GB 7200.10 Barracuda hard drives. The drives are the first desktop hard drives to use perpendicular recording
to drive the price of the reasonable drives down. $60 250 gigs here I come.
Interesting price point you chose. I've seen Seagate 200 GB ATA drives sell for $20 at Best Buy (after two rebates and a downloadable coupon), and it wasn't even Black Friday.
Creating a system where the blind could stock shelves is an undue hardship. You think distributors are going to start shipping Kroger's boxes of produce with braille printed for a low price?
If I read his issue correctly it seems the problem... was the kiosk wasn't working ("machine miserably failed to get past the second page")
Then again, perhaps it decided that it didn't like what he put down on the first or second page and decided to feign malfunction as a way to keep certain types from applying. Bingo, a way to screen out/discriminate against applicants while claiming ignorance/innocence. Even for a stockboy position. They might even have a reject switch they use when they just don't like your looks.
Businesses use deceitful practices using technology to enforce their will at the expense of customers all the time. It's not just for aborting paid-for songs on the jukebox or rigging an election anymore.
'Attack of the Show' will be relaunched in June with a scaled-back focus on technology.
I don't see how they can do that; there's hardly any technology focus left on the show.
The only thing I still watch is X-Play. They've apparently dropped Anime Unleashed. Even the shows I used to watch on G4 before the takeover are either gone (Portal, Eye Drops) or I just stopped caring (Cinematech).
I'd even be prepared to watch the "STEALING IS BAD EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW YOU WON'T HAVE DONE IT BECAUSE WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD THEY RIP THIS BIT OUT" section in order to see the dvd
I'm tempted to rip every DVD in my collection, make a single compilation DVD of all the variations of those warnings, then upload that to the net. (I kinda like the FBI warning that graffitis facial hair over the guy's face (some FBI director?), but I can't remember which DVDs have that one.)
I also wish Giganews carried alt.binaries.multimedia.commercials.
I'm not much of a gamer, but I can see this being pretty useful while coding. I usually have more than one source file open at a time. More desktop real estate can come in handy.
Indeed, I want more real estate in my display as well, but company policy here will only allow us one display per desk due to (1) not knowing any studies that definitively show a productivity increase in a multi-head setup, (2) an unwillingness to perform our own study, and (3) it may cause resentment between employees to have one employee provide his own hardware for a multi-head setup.
Meanwhile some employees do have multiple monitors, but that's because they also have multiple computers.
I've thought about the best way to get three heads at lower cost. What if you used displays XGAs for the outer displays and What if you used a WSXGA (1600x1024) for the center and two XGAs rotated 90 degrees (768x1024) for the wings, for 3136x1024. That would let you retain your older investment or get by with cheaper displays, though matching the DPI between them may be harder. The portrait orientation of the wings lends itself to document presentation better.
Unfortunately so far only vertical resolutions of 800 and 1024 have equivalent horizontal counterparts; doubling up vertically to match a single rotated horizontal resolution requires eliminating bezels.
You'll be reducing individual screen resolutions, color depth, or both to account for the memory shortfall on the video card. Just because you can connect a big screen to the card doesn't necessarily mean the card has enough memory to feed it all in 24-bit color.
But what if they didn't throw away the earlier work, and as you advanced in the game, it would change to more and more advanced rendering engines? And what if the transition between engines were seamless?
Imagine the typical "evolution of man" image, but instead depicting the increasing qualities of rendering Duke Nukem and the world around him. Kinda like this image from ReBoot.
They should not have started the idea with marketing in mind. Instead they should have suggested that every cell phone be turned into monitors for the audio signature for gunfire similar to that used in high-crime cities and anti-sniper targeting systems in Iraq. Combined with the GPS in the same phone crime locations can be identified. If the shot is considered very proximal to the phone owner's location, it could call 911 for you, similar to the OnStar automatic emergency call triggered when air bags are deployed.
Start with the public safety and anti-gun crime angle, then slowly work in the commercial angle under the reasoning that monitoring these systems is expensive and to maintain the public good it needs private funding.
Consider that the speed of light really is just the maximum speed at which causality can propogate and you'll understand why gravitational effects cannot propogate faster.
Now whether gravity can propogate slower than light would be an interesting question.
I don't claim to know all the details of this case, but I do know that just adding the word "wirelessly" to a description of information technology should fail the obviousness test just as much as if it was the word "telepathically", regardless of whether telepathy itself had been invented or discovered yet or not.
Telepathy created through technology (but not by biology) would be patentable, but not any utilization of it for a particular purpose.
I'd also invalidate any patent created through serendipity, even if its discovery required the use of a particle accelerator.
The single most annoying thing to me as far as GUIs on any system is when I'm trying to type or click something and some self-important GUI app steals my focus and pops up on top of what I'm working on.
This is one of the things I miss about Mac OS 9 and earlier. It used to be that focus could only go from one application to another if the application you were in launched the other one. You could switch from an application to the Finder, launch three programs, and go back to the original before any of them started, and none of them would open in front of your current application. When you brought one application forward, all of its windows would come forward. If you had an application launching helper apps, if that application is not in the foreground, neither are those helper apps.
Under Mac OS X, not only can applications come forward while you're using another one, and applications can have some of their windows forward and some behind other applications, but that it is also possible for an active application be completely covered by another's windows that filled the screen.
The worst is when you start adding X applications like OpenOffice.org to the mix. I want to open OOo in the background while I load up a web page with data I plan to put in the launching spreadsheet, but OOo steals focus away from my browser at least three times. "I'm displaying my splash screen!" "I've opened an empty window!" "I'm now loading a document; watch my progress!" "Hey, I said, `Watch my progress!'" "I've finished loading, watch me render!" "I've rendered the cells!" "I've rendered the data in the cells!" Meanwhile I'm just trying to type a URL into Mozilla to pull up my credit card statement to enter into the opening checkbook spreadsheet, repeatedly clicking on the Mozilla icon on the dock to bring it forward again. Instead I'm punished for daring to try to do more than one thing at a time.
Having multiple desktops wouldn't help if they're like those implemented in a Linux system. Launch an application on one desktop, switch to another before it finishes, and the launched application assumes you want to see it on the one currently being displayed, not the one where you launched it.
OSes need to re-establish the rules of who gets to come forward and when. I liked the chain-of-foreground-custody rule Mac OS 9 an earlier had. I shouldn't have to "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!" my applications forward!
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Yeah, but the "IP theft = terrorism" line came from Gonzales
In the blurb, I read it as "give the Justice department 'tools...' which are used to '...fund terrorism activities'".
Unless "which which" is supposed to mean something and wasn't a typo.
(TFA makes it clear that it is the copyright crimes that allegedly fund terrorism, not the tools, except where I say "allegedly" they say "quite frankly". Almost makes you want to accidentally run over his dog, Lionel Hutz-style.)
1920x1200 would be perfect, considering Blu-Ray/HD-DVD both use 1920x1080. Those extra 120 lines at the top or bottom would be just enough for a nice control strip, play/pause buttons, etc.
And a display capable of such a 16:10 display would also be better for those planning to run Final Cut HD in the field without a second, larger AC-connected display.
Which makes me wonder: does someone make batteries for external displays so you can plug them into a laptop, power down the laptop's display, and extend their joint battery life?
Who am I kidding? A power source would be needed for the large external drives to hold the footage being edited as well. I'd need a complete power solution like a portable generator with power conditioner. Still, a 1920x1080 or x1200 display built-in would be preferable.
Seagate documents have leaked out the two 750GB 7200.10 Barracuda hard drives. The drives are the first desktop hard drives to use perpendicular recording
So that's what you can't do in horizontal mode!
why re-invent the wheel?
Because we don't like the color.
to drive the price of the reasonable drives down. $60 250 gigs here I come.
Interesting price point you chose. I've seen Seagate 200 GB ATA drives sell for $20 at Best Buy (after two rebates and a downloadable coupon), and it wasn't even Black Friday.
the dreaded ID10T error [/obvious]
He's an... idyllicallist?
Creating a system where the blind could stock shelves is an undue hardship. You think distributors are going to start shipping Kroger's boxes of produce with braille printed for a low price?
How about investing in a verbal barcode reader?
If I read his issue correctly it seems the problem... was the kiosk wasn't working ("machine miserably failed to get past the second page")
Then again, perhaps it decided that it didn't like what he put down on the first or second page and decided to feign malfunction as a way to keep certain types from applying. Bingo, a way to screen out/discriminate against applicants while claiming ignorance/innocence. Even for a stockboy position. They might even have a reject switch they use when they just don't like your looks.
Businesses use deceitful practices using technology to enforce their will at the expense of customers all the time. It's not just for aborting paid-for songs on the jukebox or rigging an election anymore.
'Attack of the Show' will be relaunched in June with a scaled-back focus on technology.
I don't see how they can do that; there's hardly any technology focus left on the show.
The only thing I still watch is X-Play. They've apparently dropped Anime Unleashed. Even the shows I used to watch on G4 before the takeover are either gone (Portal, Eye Drops) or I just stopped caring (Cinematech).
People who skip commercials are stealing television in exactly the same way as soldiers wearing effective body armor are stealing veterans benefits.
I'd even be prepared to watch the "STEALING IS BAD EVEN THOUGH WE KNOW YOU WON'T HAVE DONE IT BECAUSE WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD THEY RIP THIS BIT OUT" section in order to see the dvd
I'm tempted to rip every DVD in my collection, make a single compilation DVD of all the variations of those warnings, then upload that to the net. (I kinda like the FBI warning that graffitis facial hair over the guy's face (some FBI director?), but I can't remember which DVDs have that one.)
I also wish Giganews carried alt.binaries.multimedia.commercials.
I'm not much of a gamer, but I can see this being pretty useful while coding. I usually have more than one source file open at a time. More desktop real estate can come in handy.
Indeed, I want more real estate in my display as well, but company policy here will only allow us one display per desk due to (1) not knowing any studies that definitively show a productivity increase in a multi-head setup, (2) an unwillingness to perform our own study, and (3) it may cause resentment between employees to have one employee provide his own hardware for a multi-head setup.
Meanwhile some employees do have multiple monitors, but that's because they also have multiple computers.
I've thought about the best way to get three heads at lower cost. What if you used displays XGAs for the outer displays and What if you used a WSXGA (1600x1024) for the center and two XGAs rotated 90 degrees (768x1024) for the wings, for 3136x1024. That would let you retain your older investment or get by with cheaper displays, though matching the DPI between them may be harder. The portrait orientation of the wings lends itself to document presentation better.
Unfortunately so far only vertical resolutions of 800 and 1024 have equivalent horizontal counterparts; doubling up vertically to match a single rotated horizontal resolution requires eliminating bezels.
You'll be reducing individual screen resolutions, color depth, or both to account for the memory shortfall on the video card. Just because you can connect a big screen to the card doesn't necessarily mean the card has enough memory to feed it all in 24-bit color.
and constitutes an SCO commitment
"An SCO"? Have I been wrong all this time in not reading SCO as three letters ("ess-see-oh") and instead as the monosyllabic "skoh"?
But what if they didn't throw away the earlier work, and as you advanced in the game, it would change to more and more advanced rendering engines? And what if the transition between engines were seamless?
Imagine the typical "evolution of man" image, but instead depicting the increasing qualities of rendering Duke Nukem and the world around him. Kinda like this image from ReBoot.
They should not have started the idea with marketing in mind. Instead they should have suggested that every cell phone be turned into monitors for the audio signature for gunfire similar to that used in high-crime cities and anti-sniper targeting systems in Iraq. Combined with the GPS in the same phone crime locations can be identified. If the shot is considered very proximal to the phone owner's location, it could call 911 for you, similar to the OnStar automatic emergency call triggered when air bags are deployed.
Start with the public safety and anti-gun crime angle, then slowly work in the commercial angle under the reasoning that monitoring these systems is expensive and to maintain the public good it needs private funding.
Such mods are made for "Funny deserving Karma". Perhaps Funny should grant a token karma when it hits 5.
Water or mercury manometers? Either way, that's a big virus.
At least it's not torgometers.
Consider that the speed of light really is just the maximum speed at which causality can propogate and you'll understand why gravitational effects cannot propogate faster.
Now whether gravity can propogate slower than light would be an interesting question.
I don't claim to know all the details of this case, but I do know that just adding the word "wirelessly" to a description of information technology should fail the obviousness test just as much as if it was the word "telepathically", regardless of whether telepathy itself had been invented or discovered yet or not.
Telepathy created through technology (but not by biology) would be patentable, but not any utilization of it for a particular purpose.
I'd also invalidate any patent created through serendipity, even if its discovery required the use of a particle accelerator.
I can't imagine that being too effective with vendors who sell only used games.
I'd also like to know how this study compares with a study of places that sell R-rated and unrated DVDs to the same age group.
The single most annoying thing to me as far as GUIs on any system is when I'm trying to type or click something and some self-important GUI app steals my focus and pops up on top of what I'm working on.
This is one of the things I miss about Mac OS 9 and earlier. It used to be that focus could only go from one application to another if the application you were in launched the other one. You could switch from an application to the Finder, launch three programs, and go back to the original before any of them started, and none of them would open in front of your current application. When you brought one application forward, all of its windows would come forward. If you had an application launching helper apps, if that application is not in the foreground, neither are those helper apps.
Under Mac OS X, not only can applications come forward while you're using another one, and applications can have some of their windows forward and some behind other applications, but that it is also possible for an active application be completely covered by another's windows that filled the screen.
The worst is when you start adding X applications like OpenOffice.org to the mix. I want to open OOo in the background while I load up a web page with data I plan to put in the launching spreadsheet, but OOo steals focus away from my browser at least three times. "I'm displaying my splash screen!" "I've opened an empty window!" "I'm now loading a document; watch my progress!" "Hey, I said, `Watch my progress!'" "I've finished loading, watch me render!" "I've rendered the cells!" "I've rendered the data in the cells!" Meanwhile I'm just trying to type a URL into Mozilla to pull up my credit card statement to enter into the opening checkbook spreadsheet, repeatedly clicking on the Mozilla icon on the dock to bring it forward again. Instead I'm punished for daring to try to do more than one thing at a time.
Having multiple desktops wouldn't help if they're like those implemented in a Linux system. Launch an application on one desktop, switch to another before it finishes, and the launched application assumes you want to see it on the one currently being displayed, not the one where you launched it.
OSes need to re-establish the rules of who gets to come forward and when. I liked the chain-of-foreground-custody rule Mac OS 9 an earlier had. I shouldn't have to "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice!" my applications forward!
A suicide is not a light subject to be throwing it around like it's some joke...
Yeah, it's only not having an announcement on their 30th Anniversary. It isn't something suicide-worthy like cancelling Battlestar Galactica.
BTW, the UB version of Final Cut Studio is finally out.
Winning Eleven 9
which just beat out the alternative title, "Winning Nine 11".