I should put together a short film about videogame violence about a serial killer who goes out every Halloween in a yellow jumpsuit and with a can of blue spraypaint who cannibalizes children who go out dressed as ghosts, leaving behind only their eyes.
"The Silence of the Critics" seems to be the vision of the politicians/companies running the USA these days. See the emperor's new clothes, or go to jail. Orwell would be proud.
"It places the ballot in the box or else it gets the riot hose again."
Telemarketers moving their call centers over the border (say, Canada) would not be held by this law. The person making the call is out of the country, so no problem.
But is it really worth the international phone charges for them to telemarket to the US from outside of it? It may be fine for those relaying one call daily to maintain their DirecTV service near the border (not offered in Canada), but not if you're calling thousands upon thousands of people a day hawking your wares.
If only you could put multiple differnet-sized displays in that chassis. It'd be a great setup upon which to find out if the only winning move really is not to play.
This is the wax padlock which makes knowledge of fire illegal.
I hope that this does go to court. As clyde c posted, this puts the feet in the form of the "effective control" clause of the DMCA to the proverbial fire. (And he should be modded up.)
Do they have any idea how hard it is to post with proper capitalization using only the CAPS LOCK key/ i guess now you either have to post like e.e.cummings or TRIP THE LAMENESS FILTER1
Yes, it is a photoshop (and a simple one at that), but it is based on this offering. The company also has wall-mounted systems that let you build a display in an 8x8 grid (64 heads).
I've been looking to get a G4 rather than a G5 because of the large number of drive bays available in the G4 case (video editing). Could it be that the power supply doesn't have enough power to spin up all the drives in your system simultaneously?
If this is the case, TiVo hackers came up with a device to allow some of their units with less powerful hard drives to spin up two drives separately: the PTVupgrade SmartStart Power Supply Protector.
I have not used this device myself yet in a TiVo or Mac, so I can offer no testimonial, but the design concept is sound, and I've heard no complaints about it on TiVo-related forums.
Of course, you should first determine if it is the drives' load at spin-up that's causing your startup problems.
I think beige boxes are not officially supported but it should run.
But will it still work with ADB keyboards? I still have one on my Blue & White because the USB one it shipped with had poor action, tiny arrow keys, and no forward-delete key.
And then compare to what is commonly called the 137 GB limit, when if you were to call it the 128 GiB limit you'd have a better idea of why that is the limit. Calling it the 137 GB limit is just going along with the drive capacity numbers.
It wasn't always like this though. When storage capacities were under 1 MB, the units were in KiB (though the notation didn't exist). Then as they started to pass the 1000 KiB value, they starting having 1.44 "MB" disks which are really 1440 KiB disks, where the "MB" is a mixture of metric and binary measures (1,024,000 == 1000 * 1024).
Then they started with the all-metric units for hard drives. Everyone except apparently Maxtor which still has one factor of 1024 in their units, which is why a 45 "GB" drive from them was actually 46.1 GB (42.9 GiB).
Though not all. Some Maxtor models do use 1 GB == 1,000,000,000 bytes, but there are some where they apparently have 1 "GB" == 1,024,000,000 bytes. (Reminder: 1 GiB == 1,073,741,824 bytes.) This is the source of the drives that are larger than their metric capacity states. They're larger by 24 MB (metric) for every 1 "GB". That's what makes their 80 "GB" drives actually 81.92 GB.
How is this creeping into their figures? Because instead of a byte count, they're calculating capacity from a block count, and blocks on disks are still governed by binary units (usu. 512 or 1024 bytes per block, though I've seen filesystems with a block size of 1 MiB). They inherit the binary factor from that.
I paid $2 to see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and it too had these dots, twice in the same scene.
I can accept the dots in the upper right corner indicating reel changes. And I tolerate the glitch in the audio track after them. But not this, and certainly not for a movie that bad (terrible camera angle editing).
It looked like the movie had been branded with the Visitors' seal of approval.
Except before now, they could only know you read "The Catcher in the Rye" if you checked it out of the library. They couldn't know what you read without checking it out inside the library.
Now, with RFID tags active only inside the library, they can track it the moment it leaves the shelf and associate it with security camera footage to identify you and what you're reading, even if you're reading it behind another book's dust cover.
Or any other book they suspect would only be read by dissidents, subversives, and terrorists (as if they consider there to be any distinctions between the terms today).
I probably should post this anonymously, but I'm not. Disabled when you leave? Try "briefly enabled as you pass the threshold of the library" instead.
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I had perfect 20/20 vision, and after a few years of freeviewing, I became significantly far-sighted.
So since I'm naturally nearsighted, I should do it more so that my vision becomes normal?
I've been there once, but only by mistake. I was trying to find a site that would help me match some material I wanted to use for decorating my home.
I should put together a short film about videogame violence about a serial killer who goes out every Halloween in a yellow jumpsuit and with a can of blue spraypaint who cannibalizes children who go out dressed as ghosts, leaving behind only their eyes.
Roboteq
So, does this robot also transform into a jet fighter?
Only if it runs on protoqulture.
"The Silence of the Critics" seems to be the vision of the politicians/companies running the USA these days. See the emperor's new clothes, or go to jail. Orwell would be proud.
"It places the ballot in the box or else it gets the riot hose again."
You forgot the bit about the insurance policy on the property that was purchased one week before the publication of the story.
[Text of the article in case it gets Slashdotted. Posting AC so I can't be accused of karma whoring.]
/.! You think /. is going to /. itself?
Can I accuse you of being an idiot instead?
"The article" is entirely hosted on
Here's a clue: if you're going to repost an article, repost them only if they're on another site, such as the Ars Technica review.
You might as well reprint it here. Those with cookies blocked get stuck in a redirection loop when accessing forums.prospero.com.
Telemarketers moving their call centers over the border (say, Canada) would not be held by this law. The person making the call is out of the country, so no problem.
But is it really worth the international phone charges for them to telemarket to the US from outside of it? It may be fine for those relaying one call daily to maintain their DirecTV service near the border (not offered in Canada), but not if you're calling thousands upon thousands of people a day hawking your wares.
"OK, I want channels 18, 24, 63, 109, 87 and the Weather Channel." -- Marty McFly Jr.
If only you could put multiple differnet-sized displays in that chassis. It'd be a great setup upon which to find out if the only winning move really is not to play.
This is the wax padlock which makes knowledge of fire illegal.
I hope that this does go to court. As clyde c posted, this puts the feet in the form of the "effective control" clause of the DMCA to the proverbial fire. (And he should be modded up.)
Do they have any idea how hard it is to post with proper capitalization using only the CAPS LOCK key/ i guess now you either have to post like e.e.cummings or TRIP THE LAMENESS FILTER1
No, holograms.
Once you get your head wrapped around how to use them efficently, your productivity goes up.
Isn't it more about getting them wrapped around your head efficiently? (Insert "Soviet Russia" joke here.)
I'd like one of these.
Yes, it is a photoshop (and a simple one at that), but it is based on this offering. The company also has wall-mounted systems that let you build a display in an 8x8 grid (64 heads).
I've been looking to get a G4 rather than a G5 because of the large number of drive bays available in the G4 case (video editing). Could it be that the power supply doesn't have enough power to spin up all the drives in your system simultaneously?
If this is the case, TiVo hackers came up with a device to allow some of their units with less powerful hard drives to spin up two drives separately: the PTVupgrade SmartStart Power Supply Protector.
I have not used this device myself yet in a TiVo or Mac, so I can offer no testimonial, but the design concept is sound, and I've heard no complaints about it on TiVo-related forums.
Of course, you should first determine if it is the drives' load at spin-up that's causing your startup problems.
It is likely that the sentences will run concurrently rather than sequentially.
I think beige boxes are not officially supported but it should run.
But will it still work with ADB keyboards? I still have one on my Blue & White because the USB one it shipped with had poor action, tiny arrow keys, and no forward-delete key.
And then compare to what is commonly called the 137 GB limit, when if you were to call it the 128 GiB limit you'd have a better idea of why that is the limit. Calling it the 137 GB limit is just going along with the drive capacity numbers.
It wasn't always like this though. When storage capacities were under 1 MB, the units were in KiB (though the notation didn't exist). Then as they started to pass the 1000 KiB value, they starting having 1.44 "MB" disks which are really 1440 KiB disks, where the "MB" is a mixture of metric and binary measures (1,024,000 == 1000 * 1024).
Then they started with the all-metric units for hard drives. Everyone except apparently Maxtor which still has one factor of 1024 in their units, which is why a 45 "GB" drive from them was actually 46.1 GB (42.9 GiB).
Though not all. Some Maxtor models do use 1 GB == 1,000,000,000 bytes, but there are some where they apparently have 1 "GB" == 1,024,000,000 bytes. (Reminder: 1 GiB == 1,073,741,824 bytes.) This is the source of the drives that are larger than their metric capacity states. They're larger by 24 MB (metric) for every 1 "GB". That's what makes their 80 "GB" drives actually 81.92 GB.
How is this creeping into their figures? Because instead of a byte count, they're calculating capacity from a block count, and blocks on disks are still governed by binary units (usu. 512 or 1024 bytes per block, though I've seen filesystems with a block size of 1 MiB). They inherit the binary factor from that.
...the end user of a DRM-enabled operating system.
And that's below luddites.
See signature.
I paid $2 to see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and it too had these dots, twice in the same scene.
I can accept the dots in the upper right corner indicating reel changes. And I tolerate the glitch in the audio track after them. But not this, and certainly not for a movie that bad (terrible camera angle editing).
It looked like the movie had been branded with the Visitors' seal of approval.
Of course, I'll tend to see some matches that don't contain all of the search terms I specify, but ususally contain most of them.
Because it also finds pages that have the search terms in the name of the link to the page.
In soviet russia, they put books in chips!
Just ask Dmitry Skylarov.
Except before now, they could only know you read "The Catcher in the Rye" if you checked it out of the library. They couldn't know what you read without checking it out inside the library.
Now, with RFID tags active only inside the library, they can track it the moment it leaves the shelf and associate it with security camera footage to identify you and what you're reading, even if you're reading it behind another book's dust cover.
Or any other book they suspect would only be read by dissidents, subversives, and terrorists (as if they consider there to be any distinctions between the terms today).
I probably should post this anonymously, but I'm not. Disabled when you leave? Try "briefly enabled as you pass the threshold of the library" instead.