An owner of a theatre would probably argue that the airwaves inside the theatre belong to him, and as such they can be jammed.
Of course we wouldn't be talking about this if people would just turn off their cell phones when appopriate. But we've become a much too self-centered, rude society for that.......
With the hardware that most manufacturers build and work with, the sort which a broadcaster would use to both create and monitor their transport stream, the ability is needed to record and play back at will, thus, such a flag would pretty much be ignored by most systems if implemented. Besides, if you end up modifying the ATSC standard, in order to prevent breaking all previous encoders/decoders on the market, you would need to make such modifications to portions of the stream which are unused, and existing off the shelf parts would ignore such a modification. Thus, the protection starts off ineffective.
Even after the existing non compliant decoders/recorders/etc on the market are retired to due age or death, newer hardware which ignores such protections would still be available, you'd just have to pay a fair amount.
Wow. I'm just surprised it's not in COBOL.........
Don't let the religious zealots see this story.
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Religious zealots do not like science, because there is no 'believing' involved. Also Darwinist, being scientists, do not have as extreme prejudice in discussions as religious zealots. Scientists change their pov when they are proven wrong, they do not run away with fingers in their ears like some others do. Has there ever been a creationist in a court of law for telling about the Adam & Eve story?
I've heard it has some stupid name like 'The Creeping Death'. Is this true? I like 'Rise of the Dark Lord' or 'Annakin takes a Lava Bath' better.......
This is simply market forces at work. If Mandrake continues to produce a Linux distro and/or services people don't want, they will go out of business just like any other company.
About two months ago I decided to try and install Linux on my old K6-2 450mhz machine gathering dust in the basement. A friend of mine gave me a few cd's that had something called 'Mandrake' on it.
He said "This is supposed to be the most user-friendly 'distro' out there. Give it a try."
So with trepidation about wiping out my beloved win98se install on the old machine, I jumped right in.
On firing up the install disk, the Man-drake installer asked me if I wanted to remove the win98se partition that already existed. After pondering this for several minutes I though, 'what the hell, I can always reinstall it!' So I let it fly.
After what seemed like 45 minutes of swapping cd's in-and-out of the drive, the man-drake (isn't that some sort of bird?) installer ask me what I wanted to use this linux machine for. So many choices! games, office, mail server, web server, about 2 dozen choices flooded my screen. This is madness! So after carefully considerating my options I decided to choose them all! I would be a Linux power-user to end all linux power-users!
So after this decision was made I waited. And waited. And waited. During this I started to wonder. My Windows XP Home intallation on my other Peecee didn't ask me thse kind of questions, and it easily has the all the abilities that man-drake advertised to have. After all, I paid for WinXP Home. Sigh, I guess this it the price one pays for being part of the linux elite.
Approximately 50 mintues later I get another prompt from the man-drake installer asking me what kind of GUI I wanted to use, KDE or GNOME. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me! I selected both and let it fly.
After only about 20 mintues this time it appeared the install was completed. The mandrake installer told me it was going to reboot and then I would revel in Linux goodness. I waited with baited breath while the reboot churned away, eagerly waiting the opportuntity to use the KDE/GNOME interface. Page after page of command line stuff flew by my screen, seeming to get faster and faster as the time of my linux deliverance approached. Then, the screen flashed black (kinda like those scenes from the movie Wargames). I gasped and was presented with something like this:
bsh: blah/blah/blah/ ____
What the hell was this? Wasn't this man-drake linux supposed to be user friendly? Instead of the friendly confines of a WinXP like GUI instead I was given an ugly DOS like prompt, which looked supiciously like the TRS-80 system I first learned BASIC on in high school. Is this all the farther the great open-source movement has progressed?
After serveral minutes of sobbing and knashing of teeth, I came to a decision. All the linux fags out there were not going to defeat me! They were not going to cry "Bend over WinXP boy, you're going to take linux OUR WAY and like it!".
I quickly found my old musty copy of 'Unix in a Nutshell' from my college days and got to work. In a few hours I found out how to start the KDE GUI. This made life so much easier. After several days I was able to get the machine's 14.4 internal modem working with man-drake and connected to the internet, using a browser called Mozilla. Where oh where were the glorious pop-ups that appeared as I was surfing porn sites? Those bastards!
After several more days I was starting to feel somewhat comfortable. Using something called Gimp to manipulate my growing collection of adult images was becoming a habit. And because I was ashamed to let my friends and neighbors know I was using a gasp! free operating system like mandrake, I kept the pee-cee in the basement. Now my girlfriend thinks the sounds emanating from below are me just woodworking or lifting weights. I guess linux has freed me after all!
I have thought about this for a while. Wasn't the gamecube one of the best selling systems over the past holiday season? Is so you would think publishers would be drooling over game releases for the 'cube.
Or does Nintendo hold some kind of draconian hold over development houses that want to make gamecube games? Restrictive licenses, exorbitant fees, overly complicated SDK's, etc. There are many ways Nintendo could be making it difficult, but you wonder for what purpose?
But then got offered a job at Oracle. I'll take the stability of a regular paycheck over working for a struggling game company (or even worse, developing something to be published by EA) anyday.
Can this organization force a.mail designation on a site? If not, what's keeping somebody from designating a domain for porn sites to sex.mail, or a spammer naming his domain iminnocent.org?
"Hoagland's claims irritate me because he is promoting uncritical thinking," Plait said. "He doesn't want you to think about what you're seeing. He's trying to bamboozle you into believing what he's saying."
lol, this sounds just like certain/. trolls.......
This is great news! I was considering purchasing an LCD monitor the always found the refresh rates were always way to slow for most gaming (unless I wanted to spend big $). Now with this new technique maybe the LCD refresh rates will be comparable to CRT's......
I am half way through reading this book and I have to say it is a very good book! It is well organized and structured. The author spent the first few chapters giving you an intro to networking, what wireless technology is all about, how it is used, all the wireless standards, etc etc. It gets very technical when the author starts talking about the wireless MAC and PHY, but that is sort of expected. The author has written two books before and his style of explaining complicated topics in a fairly easy to understand way is highly appreciated...
In general, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about wireless technology.
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I've had an MSI K7N2-L motherboard which has the Nforce2 chipset for over a year now. It's rock solid with no problems.
But Schilling used to 'swing his magic wand' when he played for the Diamondbacks (an NL team).....
Dear Editors,
Today is not April Fool's day...........
Of course we wouldn't be talking about this if people would just turn off their cell phones when appopriate. But we've become a much too self-centered, rude society for that.......
With the hardware that most manufacturers build and work with, the sort which a broadcaster would use to both create and monitor their transport stream, the ability is needed to record and play back at will, thus, such a flag would pretty much be ignored by most systems if implemented. Besides, if you end up modifying the ATSC standard, in order to prevent breaking all previous encoders/decoders on the market, you would need to make such modifications to portions of the stream which are unused, and existing off the shelf parts would ignore such a modification. Thus, the protection starts off ineffective.
Even after the existing non compliant decoders/recorders/etc on the market are retired to due age or death, newer hardware which ignores such protections would still be available, you'd just have to pay a fair amount.
I would like to see some of Sid's classic games like Pirates! and Civilization......
Wow. I'm just surprised it's not in COBOL.........
Religious zealots do not like science, because there is no 'believing' involved. Also Darwinist, being scientists, do not have as extreme prejudice in discussions as religious zealots. Scientists change their pov when they are proven wrong, they do not run away with fingers in their ears like some others do. Has there ever been a creationist in a court of law for telling about the Adam & Eve story?
I've heard it has some stupid name like 'The Creeping Death'. Is this true?
I like 'Rise of the Dark Lord' or 'Annakin takes a Lava Bath' better.......
This place NSWC Crane used to design such systems. Don't know if they do anymore......
This is simply market forces at work. If Mandrake continues to produce a Linux distro and/or services people don't want, they will go out of business just like any other company.
About two months ago I decided to try and install Linux on my old K6-2 450mhz machine gathering dust in the basement. A friend of mine gave me a few cd's that had something called 'Mandrake' on it.
He said "This is supposed to be the most user-friendly 'distro' out there. Give it a try."
So with trepidation about wiping out my beloved win98se install on the old machine, I jumped right in.
On firing up the install disk, the Man-drake installer asked me if I wanted to remove the win98se partition that already existed. After pondering this for several minutes I though, 'what the hell, I can always reinstall it!' So I let it fly.
After what seemed like 45 minutes of swapping cd's in-and-out of the drive, the man-drake (isn't that some sort of bird?) installer ask me what I wanted to use this linux machine for. So many choices! games, office, mail server, web server, about 2 dozen choices flooded my screen. This is madness! So after carefully considerating my options
I decided to choose them all! I would be a Linux power-user to end all linux power-users!
So after this decision was made I waited. And waited. And waited. During this I started to wonder. My Windows XP Home intallation on my other Peecee didn't ask me thse kind of questions, and it easily has the all the abilities that man-drake advertised to have. After all, I paid for WinXP Home. Sigh, I guess this it the price one pays
for being part of the linux elite.
Approximately 50 mintues later I get another prompt from the man-drake installer asking me what kind of GUI I wanted to use, KDE or GNOME. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me! I selected both and let it fly.
After only about 20 mintues this time it appeared the install was completed. The mandrake installer told me it was going to reboot and then I would revel in Linux goodness. I waited with baited breath while the reboot churned away, eagerly waiting the opportuntity to use the KDE/GNOME interface. Page after page of command line
stuff flew by my screen, seeming to get faster and faster as the time of my linux deliverance approached. Then, the screen flashed black (kinda like those scenes from the movie Wargames). I gasped and was presented with something like this:
bsh: blah/blah/blah/ ____
What the hell was this? Wasn't this man-drake linux supposed to be user friendly? Instead of the friendly confines of a WinXP like GUI instead I was given an ugly DOS like prompt, which looked supiciously like the TRS-80 system I first learned BASIC on in high school. Is this all the farther the great open-source movement has progressed?
After serveral minutes of sobbing and knashing of teeth, I came to a decision. All the linux fags out there were not going to defeat me! They were not going to cry "Bend over WinXP boy, you're going to take linux OUR WAY and like it!".
I quickly found my old musty copy of 'Unix in a Nutshell' from my college days and got to work. In a few hours I found out how to start the KDE GUI. This made life so much easier. After several days I was able to get the machine's 14.4 internal modem working with man-drake and connected to the internet, using a browser called Mozilla. Where oh where were the glorious pop-ups that appeared as I was surfing porn sites? Those bastards!
After several more days I was starting to feel somewhat comfortable. Using something called Gimp to manipulate my growing collection of adult images was becoming a habit. And because I was ashamed to let my friends and neighbors know I was using a gasp! free operating system like mandrake, I kept the pee-cee in the basement. Now
my girlfriend thinks the sounds emanating from below are me just woodworking or lifting weights. I guess linux has freed me after all!
I have thought about this for a while. Wasn't the gamecube one of the best selling systems over the past holiday season? Is so you would think publishers would be drooling over game releases for the 'cube.
Or does Nintendo hold some kind of draconian hold over development houses that want to make gamecube games? Restrictive licenses, exorbitant fees, overly complicated SDK's, etc. There are many ways Nintendo could be making it difficult, but you wonder for what purpose?
I can't wait to buy Slim Whitman and Zamphir: Master of the Pan Flute songs over the internet at Wal-Mart!
And I'll be first in line when the new album 'Dale Earnhardt Jr. Sings the Blues' goes on sale!
But if there are more than 40,000 people waiting, they will open another server. At least they do this was my Wal-Mart.......
But then got offered a job at Oracle. I'll take the stability of a regular paycheck over working for a struggling game company (or even worse, developing something to be published by EA) anyday.
Can this organization force a .mail designation on a site? If not, what's keeping somebody from designating a domain for porn sites to sex.mail, or a spammer naming his domain iminnocent.org?
IRC is my social network. Forget that orkut crap.....
#slashdot is my home-away-from home.
"Hoagland's claims irritate me because he is promoting uncritical thinking," Plait said. "He doesn't want you to think about what you're seeing. He's trying to bamboozle you into believing what he's saying."
/. trolls.......
lol, this sounds just like certain
oops, my bad info. Well I guess Sony and MS will have to come down a little more.......
I thought this was to compete with Nintendo's Gamecube, which as been at $150 for a while now and sold out not long after the Christmas season ended.
You still can't find 'cubes in many places......
I was looking at the sponsors list and was surprised NOT to see DARPA there. You would think they would be interested in combat robots.........
This is great news! I was considering purchasing an LCD monitor the always found the refresh rates were always way to slow for most gaming (unless I wanted to spend big $). Now with this new technique maybe the LCD refresh rates will be comparable to CRT's......
You turd. I posted the same review on Amazon back in November. How can you repost something you actually wrote? Stop with the bogus 'repost' posts!
I am half way through reading this book and I have to say it is a very good book! It is well organized and structured. The author spent the first few chapters giving you an intro to networking, what wireless technology is all about, how it is used, all the wireless standards, etc etc. It gets very technical when the author starts talking about the wireless MAC and PHY, but that is sort of expected. The author has written two books before and his style of explaining complicated topics in a fairly easy to understand way is highly appreciated...
In general, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about wireless technology.