An article in the Montreal Gazette (that I just finished reading -- what a coincidence!) says that if necessary the police might release the photos with the girl's face, the reason being that they believe that it might help the girl escape a "life of abuse"...
If you follow the link to USPTO from TFA -- here -- you'll see that the US Govt. has 829 patents for 2004. I find it interesting how/why a government can patent things.
Anyone can explain why the US Govt. patents stuff?
For those in Canada, a good selection (and a nice website) is The Phone Card Store -- I can attest to having bought many cards through them and it worked all fine. They sell pretty much all the phone cards in existence and they also offer some nice discounts (25-50c on a $5 card).
The German equivalent is Verivox -- it also has a nice English interface.
Oh, and I am not in any way affiliated with these sites -- I'm just a happy customer. A word of warning: ALWAYS read the fine print of these phone cards...
What's the point (pun intended) of having flash-animated menus that ask for your PIN?! Or should we now expect LCD touchscreens at places where needs to press the sequence "OK-CHQ-PIN"?
Isn't this just a variant of greylisting? (the link is the first hit on google for 'greylisting')
In case of our university mailserver it worked like magic. I was getting 100 spams per day and now I get 4-5 and these are mostly from 'professional' "spamming houses" (the ones with proper mailing lists and proper mailservers, but which don't like poeople who try to unsubscribe).
UoP has extremely annoying ads on pretty much all the websites that I visit. I don't know anything about the quality of its programs, but they surely invested a hell lot of money in promoting their 'accredited online degrees' and thereby pissed off lots of people.
Why would you use an extensions for FireFox, which needs the browser open anyway, if you could just have a tab open with GMail and periodically check yourself (it refreshes automatically and even changes the title of the page so that you can see how many new messages you have)?
Well, as far as I remember, GTray has one annoying problem with it taking the focus from the current window when displaying the baloon tip. This is / was annoying.
The GMail notifier has this nice feature that is also shows you the subject line and a short excerpt from the email. GTray doesn't / didn't.
The GMail notifier is also bound to work -- whereas if the GMail people change somehow their code, GTray won't work for a while until it can be fixed.
Finally, the GMail Notifier only checks every 2 minutes, and you can't change this interval. With GTray you can. But that's not really THAT important, IMHO.
Perhaps I didn't get the question right, but it seems very trivial to me and just about any semi-professional audio editing tool could do it.
But have you also considered using Matlab? Its DSP Toolbox (and other ones as well) is fantastic and manipulating audio data is almost a trivial thing to do (assuming you've already found a way to have your data recorded into a readable format -- which includes many popular choices). Matlab is also suitable for all kinds of manipulations with vectors and you can do an enormous amount of things (FFT, etc.) with some very simple and intuitive commands. Resampling, random number generation, time commands -- all these are provided.
So... check out www.mathworks.com -- the drawback is the price (but you can get very good deals for educational purposes).
PS: Of course, I am not affiliated in any way with Mathworks Inc.
I have not experienced absolutely any problem with SP2, perhaps with the exception of the terribly long install time -- it took 1-2 hours on my relatively fast machine (the backing up of files is not fast at all).
For the normal "Joe Average" user there won't be too much of a difference -- a simple reboot and the system looks just the same. IE has the pop-up blocker, which has a semi-intuitive way of adding a sites to the white-list and is a bit imperfect, IMHO (if the pop-up displays a page which has a different URL than the originating page, then the "normal" user will be confused why adding the URL of the originating site doesn't work and the pop-up still doesn't display... this is the case even for subdomains of the same principal domain).
The firewall is pretty nice, the default being to ask when some program is trying to access "the internet". BitTorrent works very fine with me and I haven't had any problems with IM programs.
So, overall, after 2 days of SP2 experience, I can only recommend it to people who still use XP.
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Well, in case your soul is kind enough to give away a spare invitation to a poor student who has nothing else to do at 3am, then just drop me a line at d.erhan@iu-bremen.de
Well, FYI, 8X10' is probably not the most common format that there is. At least in Europe, 10x15cm is the norm for print-outs -- and these look very fine for 2MP files!
Netflix might be alright, but, last time I checked it, it was only available to US residents.
This service though can be easily made available to non-US people, too. However (I haven't -- of course -- RTFA) something tells me the licensing issues "prevent" Hollywood from allowing non-US customers to download movies... sadly
As far as I know, the width of the rails is standardized by now
Not quite -- the width in Europe is pretty standard up until as eastwards as the ex-USSR countries. When going by train to Moldova, Ukraine or Belarus one has the quite unique experience of the trains being lifted up and the wheels being changed to accomodate the new gauge (is that how it's called?).
Since most of these countries have no intention whatsoever to spend so much money to "integrate" with the rest of Europe, the old continent still has this sort of "divide"...
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An article in the Montreal Gazette (that I just finished reading -- what a coincidence!) says that if necessary the police might release the photos with the girl's face, the reason being that they believe that it might help the girl escape a "life of abuse"...
If you follow the link to USPTO from TFA -- here -- you'll see that the US Govt. has 829 patents for 2004. I find it interesting how/why a government can patent things.
Anyone can explain why the US Govt. patents stuff?
For those in Canada, a good selection (and a nice website) is The Phone Card Store -- I can attest to having bought many cards through them and it worked all fine. They sell pretty much all the phone cards in existence and they also offer some nice discounts (25-50c on a $5 card).
The German equivalent is Verivox -- it also has a nice English interface.
Oh, and I am not in any way affiliated with these sites -- I'm just a happy customer. A word of warning: ALWAYS read the fine print of these phone cards...
What's the point (pun intended) of having flash-animated menus that ask for your PIN?! Or should we now expect LCD touchscreens at places where needs to press the sequence "OK-CHQ-PIN"?
What a dumb idea.
Isn't this just a variant of greylisting? (the link is the first hit on google for 'greylisting')
In case of our university mailserver it worked like magic. I was getting 100 spams per day and now I get 4-5 and these are mostly from 'professional' "spamming houses" (the ones with proper mailing lists and proper mailservers, but which don't like poeople who try to unsubscribe).
UoP has extremely annoying ads on pretty much all the websites that I visit. I don't know anything about the quality of its programs, but they surely invested a hell lot of money in promoting their 'accredited online degrees' and thereby pissed off lots of people.
I can understand that there's not much need to recognize authorship in something like a science textbook, but for a news site, it is essential.
Well, The Economist has no authors as such for the articles published in it. It doesn't diminish from its value, though...
Well, there is one reason to use a POP3 account (managable easily through Gmail without paying extra): spell checking.
Gmail has a spell-checker and it's quite fast/reliable!
Why would you use an extensions for FireFox, which needs the browser open anyway, if you could just have a tab open with GMail and periodically check yourself (it refreshes automatically and even changes the title of the page so that you can see how many new messages you have)?
Well, as far as I remember, GTray has one annoying problem with it taking the focus from the current window when displaying the baloon tip. This is / was annoying.
The GMail notifier has this nice feature that is also shows you the subject line and a short excerpt from the email. GTray doesn't / didn't.
The GMail notifier is also bound to work -- whereas if the GMail people change somehow their code, GTray won't work for a while until it can be fixed.
Finally, the GMail Notifier only checks every 2 minutes, and you can't change this interval. With GTray you can. But that's not really THAT important, IMHO.
Perhaps I didn't get the question right, but it seems very trivial to me and just about any semi-professional audio editing tool could do it.
But have you also considered using Matlab? Its DSP Toolbox (and other ones as well) is fantastic and manipulating audio data is almost a trivial thing to do (assuming you've already found a way to have your data recorded into a readable format -- which includes many popular choices). Matlab is also suitable for all kinds of manipulations with vectors and you can do an enormous amount of things (FFT, etc.) with some very simple and intuitive commands. Resampling, random number generation, time commands -- all these are provided.
So... check out www.mathworks.com -- the drawback is the price (but you can get very good deals for educational purposes).
PS: Of course, I am not affiliated in any way with Mathworks Inc.
Let all the Spider-Man 2 jokes begin! :)
I have not experienced absolutely any problem with SP2, perhaps with the exception of the terribly long install time -- it took 1-2 hours on my relatively fast machine (the backing up of files is not fast at all).
For the normal "Joe Average" user there won't be too much of a difference -- a simple reboot and the system looks just the same. IE has the pop-up blocker, which has a semi-intuitive way of adding a sites to the white-list and is a bit imperfect, IMHO (if the pop-up displays a page which has a different URL than the originating page, then the "normal" user will be confused why adding the URL of the originating site doesn't work and the pop-up still doesn't display... this is the case even for subdomains of the same principal domain).
The firewall is pretty nice, the default being to ask when some program is trying to access "the internet". BitTorrent works very fine with me and I haven't had any problems with IM programs.
So, overall, after 2 days of SP2 experience, I can only recommend it to people who still use XP.
Unbelievable:
:)
Netspace is not dead!
Doom III is out!
And both of them on the same day... Crazy... This must be some conspiracy against slashdot users
Gmail actually has https support. Just type https://www.gmail.com
:)
As far as POP3 is concerned -- check out the previous slashdot article about Gmail. There are "hacks" for this.
Moreover, they say that they might introduce POP/IMP support, and maybe for a fee. We can only sit and wait until they launch the service
if it's a Gaussian distribution with mean at 10000 (or 15000), and some small standard deviation, then 1337 should appear quite rarely.
but if's a uniform distribution, then yet, you're right
I already receive 100 spams per day. I don't thik it will really make a difference in the end
13337 and 13377 got me :)
Well, in case your soul is kind enough to give away a spare invitation to a poor student who has nothing else to do at 3am, then just drop me a line at d.erhan@iu-bremen.de
Many thanks in advance!
Well, FYI, 8X10' is probably not the most common format that there is. At least in Europe, 10x15cm is the norm for print-outs -- and these look very fine for 2MP files!
The application should contain
;-)
"3) A suggestion on where Site Editor Brendan Greeley should live in Boston. He just moved here and needs an apartment."
Funny
Netflix might be alright, but, last time I checked it, it was only available to US residents.
This service though can be easily made available to non-US people, too. However (I haven't -- of course -- RTFA) something tells me the licensing issues "prevent" Hollywood from allowing non-US customers to download movies... sadly
When you are at the result for the IE lik -- hover to the "site info" you notice "Speed: very slow". Fishy indeed :-)
Interestingly, there are over 16000 pdf files on microsoft.com and its subdomains :)
Not quite -- the width in Europe is pretty standard up until as eastwards as the ex-USSR countries. When going by train to Moldova, Ukraine or Belarus one has the quite unique experience of the trains being lifted up and the wheels being changed to accomodate the new gauge (is that how it's called?).
Since most of these countries have no intention whatsoever to spend so much money to "integrate" with the rest of Europe, the old continent still has this sort of "divide"...