I admit that my original reply may have seemed a bit anti-US, but let's take Finland as an example since the article is finnish and I'm finnish. There isn't really all that much censorship here, so in that respect there is really nothing to give examples of. However, having followed some court cases recently, I can tell you that they are very boring. They are boring because there are no loudmouthed lawyers trying to convince a jury or a judge on why this or that particular tiny loophole or constitutional article should be used to aquit someone who has clearly committed a criminal act.
Up here lawyers state the facts and opinions and the issue is decided based on the applicable laws and Common Sense. If you don't like the results, you can appeal.
And when it comes to "Abuse of power"... I'd like to welcome you to study the recent history of Finland. Yes, there have been events of power abuse, but they haven't ended nicely for those involved and compared to certain figurehead *COUGH*gwb*COUGH* of one big country, any such abuses have been negligible in magnitude.
In fact, our recent prime minister lost her job and is on trial because before the Iraq war she received (arguably because she requested them) some documents regarding the Iraq debacle classified as secret from the president's advisor. The actual trial took a couple of days, was mostly broadcasted on national television and was completely fair towards everyone involved.
I honestly believe that although the Finnish administration does have its faults, it really does have everyone's best interests in mind. I'm sure many Finns agree.
Just because there are people at the helm of the US who care more about the $ than they do about the people doesn't mean that the situation is as desperate in the rest of the world.
Oh, and Mr. Mod. Before you mod me down, ask yourself if you're doing it because this post really should not be seen by anyone, or are you doing it just because you disagree with me. If the latter, I invite you to reply and state your opinion.
Many might.
Many might also start comparing the "law and order" of the US against the "law and order" of countries that use common sense in making and interpreting laws, including those regarding freedom of speech.
OLEDs die.
I was under the assumption that this was the main reason holding OLED displays back. Now it would seem that the panel described here is only for lighting purposes (white light only, no colors or even pixels for that matter), but presumably it will still die or at least dim after a few thousand hours of use.
I recognize that this is not a major problem with cell phone displays and such, but if you plan on building the lighting of your house with these, you won't be too happy if next year or the year after that you get only 300 lumens instead of the promised 1200.
You can create sparks with any empty cigarrette lighter but they won't light a candle. What you could possibly use to light a candle electrically would be a simple hand-crank generator and some resistor wire. If you tie the wire around the wick of the candle and then crank enough current through it, the wire will heat up enough to light the wick. It doesn't light easily though and some intermediary fuel would obviously help enormously. At that point though, it would cease to be an independent solution and no better than a cigarrette lighter.
The iPod uses a memory buffer so the HD doesn't spin all the time.
You could, however, attach small generators to all the joints in your body and have them feed the iPod. By doing that, you can keep listening to music as long as you keep dancing!
I disagree wholeheartedly.
One of the subtle things that makes the GTA games great compared to other PC titles is the fact that they never, I mean NEVER stutter, pause or drop framerate during gameplay.
It plays an immeasurably significant part in creating the proper immersion and "suspension of disbelief" that there are no loading pauses. Cars and buildings appearing where there were none a jiffy ago do naturally cause some problems with the immersion, but you and your brain get used to it. It's considerably more difficult and stressful to try to get used to some game that stutters every time you move to a new area.
GTA is fun because it's fluid and whatever technology has been used to make it that way should be praised, not deprecated. Remember that the PS2 is still the lowest common denominator here.
So far there has been a multitude of different virus scanning software on the market designed to eliminate viruses that spread so well because of the monoculture currently inherent in the operating system market. To my recollection, there have also been some viruses that particularly attack and disable Norton AntiVirus because it's the leading anti-virus software on the market.
Now let's make the assumption that the built-in virus scanner becomes the default in over 95% of Windows installations.
Who is going to write a virus that will be automatically removed at the very moment the built in virus scanner has updated its definitions? That's right, nobody. That's why every new Windows virus will simply disable the market's only virus scanner (or its auto-update facility) upon infection and the user will be under a false sense of security even though his/her system is infected.
Naturally the virus cannot infect computers with updated definitions, but the virus will always have some time to spread in the wild before new definitions are released. If each infection equals one machine with disabled virus protection (and a clueless user who doesn't know how or feel the need to re-enable it), it's not much better a situation than the one we have now.
Now if only somebody combined the Baboochi with the super pogo-stick and the move-around AI of that hedgehog...
It would be the ultimate, most satisfying shooting range target ever invented.
Frankly, I don't think anything will come of that--it's too late to retract the many things that have been said, and PR will probably keep him on the same path--but there was a glimmer of hope, at least.
McBride was seduced by the dark side ages ago. Many say that he has been consumed by the darkness completely and has no hope of turning back.
Yet, if what you say is true, if there is only a flicker of light left inside him, just a glimmer of hope as you say, maybe, just maybe, it is still possible to show Darth McBride the true meaning of the jedi code and to bring him back. To return him to the light side.
Go, young padawan. You must face the Dark Lord for one last time to see if there is a chance he could be shown the path of light again.
do FLAC and the like currently support 24bit/96K input files?
Based on tidbits of info found by googling, Wavpack, FLAC and Monkey's Audio all support 24-bit resolution at 96 kHz sampling rate, although I'm not 100% sure of 96kHz with wavpack.
With lossy formats, the whole 24/96 point is practically moot since they are designed to remove everything that is presumed non-audible by humans.
I cant see companies offering downloads in lossless format anytime in the near future
From the Bleep FAQ:
"We are also considering selling other files formats such as the second generation of lossy formats such as AAC or ogg or even lossless compressed formats such as FLAC or Monkeysaudio. If people are willing to pay a premium for the bandwidth cost they incur, then even 24bit versions of files could be sold."
Yes, I had a similar experience once. I got this huge-ass box, cut the strings around it with a knife, opened the box and found another box. I opened the box and found yet another box. By the time I had opened over ten boxes and realized there's no way the last tiny box could contain anything else than possibly an even smaller box, I decided that I'm not going to let my family ridicule me any further. On a moments whim I grabbed the knife and frustratedly stabbed the small box twice.
The high-capacity so-dimm inside didn't appreciate it.
TeliaSonera is a company formed by the merger of swedish Telia and finnish Sonera. Sonera is one of the largest Internet/telecommunications providers in Finland and their e-mail systems have become a laughingstock during the last month. Reason: they don't work. There have been delays of several days in message delivery, some messages are lost entirely and their SMTP server seems to be down.
Sonera is blaming this 100% on the W32.Swen.A virus and while there is ongoing debate regarding Sonera's e-mail administrators' competency, that certainly explains why Telia is scrambling to remedy this problem in Sweden. [Un]fortunately (ignore the part in brackets if you are a privacy advocate) the Finnish legislation doesn't allow Sonera to perform the same thing as even automatic monitoring of e-mail traffic is not permitted by the communication privacy laws.
Number portability got into effect in Finland a couple of months ago. Previously I hadn't felt the need to switch my operator, but now that I could keep my number I switched from Radiolinja to Saunalahti. They also supply my DSL so I don't have to pay a separate monthly fee. I pay.11 to.23 cents per minute (depending on destination operator) and only 1,50e per megabyte for GPRS which is cheap compared to my previous operator. Saunalahti also uses Sonera's network which is the best this country has to offer.
I'm not the only one to switch either. In fact, since number portability came into effect, almost all carriers have been swamped with orders. Some people switch because they are offered freebies, some switch due to low prices and some switch just because they have been pissed off by their original operator one too many times. One thing is for sure. People are switching and the competition is fierce.
I see no reason why it should be any less fierce in the US and as we all know, the more there is competition, the better it is for the consumer.
Thanks for the old news. The Linux community has known for quite some time that there's no infringing code in Linux. Those who invest in SCO haven't.
Why does SGI then release open letters addressed to the Linux community while SCO keeps spewing out financial press reports that are actually read by investors?
I would imagine that SGI had the resources to actually publish a press release while they are at it, but even after exhaustive thinking (I pondered for 37 seconds!) I couldn't come up with a reason why they are not bringing this to the knowledge of people who hold strings in their hands.
If successfully filing a patent cost x USD to the submitter and if unsuccessful filing of a patent (due to prior art, obviousness, etc...) cost 5*x USD, it would encourage PTO to seek ways to block a patent to generate revenue. It would also prevent companies from filing too obvious patents because it would just end up costing them.
Combine this with an independent free-for-all prior art submission period and it just might turn out to be something sane.
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I believe people do, myself included.
I admit that my original reply may have seemed a bit anti-US, but let's take Finland as an example since the article is finnish and I'm finnish. There isn't really all that much censorship here, so in that respect there is really nothing to give examples of. However, having followed some court cases recently, I can tell you that they are very boring. They are boring because there are no loudmouthed lawyers trying to convince a jury or a judge on why this or that particular tiny loophole or constitutional article should be used to aquit someone who has clearly committed a criminal act.
Up here lawyers state the facts and opinions and the issue is decided based on the applicable laws and Common Sense. If you don't like the results, you can appeal.
And when it comes to "Abuse of power"... I'd like to welcome you to study the recent history of Finland. Yes, there have been events of power abuse, but they haven't ended nicely for those involved and compared to certain figurehead *COUGH*gwb*COUGH* of one big country, any such abuses have been negligible in magnitude.
In fact, our recent prime minister lost her job and is on trial because before the Iraq war she received (arguably because she requested them) some documents regarding the Iraq debacle classified as secret from the president's advisor. The actual trial took a couple of days, was mostly broadcasted on national television and was completely fair towards everyone involved.
I honestly believe that although the Finnish administration does have its faults, it really does have everyone's best interests in mind. I'm sure many Finns agree.
Just because there are people at the helm of the US who care more about the $ than they do about the people doesn't mean that the situation is as desperate in the rest of the world.
Oh, and Mr. Mod. Before you mod me down, ask yourself if you're doing it because this post really should not be seen by anyone, or are you doing it just because you disagree with me. If the latter, I invite you to reply and state your opinion.
Many might.
Many might also start comparing the "law and order" of the US against the "law and order" of countries that use common sense in making and interpreting laws, including those regarding freedom of speech.
food for thought...
OLEDs die.
I was under the assumption that this was the main reason holding OLED displays back. Now it would seem that the panel described here is only for lighting purposes (white light only, no colors or even pixels for that matter), but presumably it will still die or at least dim after a few thousand hours of use.
I recognize that this is not a major problem with cell phone displays and such, but if you plan on building the lighting of your house with these, you won't be too happy if next year or the year after that you get only 300 lumens instead of the promised 1200.
I'm going to enjoy printing, framing and hanging that graph on the wall in a few months...
You can create sparks with any empty cigarrette lighter but they won't light a candle. What you could possibly use to light a candle electrically would be a simple hand-crank generator and some resistor wire. If you tie the wire around the wick of the candle and then crank enough current through it, the wire will heat up enough to light the wick. It doesn't light easily though and some intermediary fuel would obviously help enormously. At that point though, it would cease to be an independent solution and no better than a cigarrette lighter.
The iPod uses a memory buffer so the HD doesn't spin all the time.
You could, however, attach small generators to all the joints in your body and have them feed the iPod. By doing that, you can keep listening to music as long as you keep dancing!
... or how successful the wheel motor might be in countries like Finland where everyone has different sets of tires for summer and winter.
From that diagram, it doesn't look like the tyre part is easily detachable from the motor part.
That's because Full Throttle was also cancelled a while ago.
I disagree wholeheartedly.
One of the subtle things that makes the GTA games great compared to other PC titles is the fact that they never, I mean NEVER stutter, pause or drop framerate during gameplay.
It plays an immeasurably significant part in creating the proper immersion and "suspension of disbelief" that there are no loading pauses. Cars and buildings appearing where there were none a jiffy ago do naturally cause some problems with the immersion, but you and your brain get used to it. It's considerably more difficult and stressful to try to get used to some game that stutters every time you move to a new area.
GTA is fun because it's fluid and whatever technology has been used to make it that way should be praised, not deprecated. Remember that the PS2 is still the lowest common denominator here.
So far there has been a multitude of different virus scanning software on the market designed to eliminate viruses that spread so well because of the monoculture currently inherent in the operating system market. To my recollection, there have also been some viruses that particularly attack and disable Norton AntiVirus because it's the leading anti-virus software on the market.
Now let's make the assumption that the built-in virus scanner becomes the default in over 95% of Windows installations.
Who is going to write a virus that will be automatically removed at the very moment the built in virus scanner has updated its definitions?
That's right, nobody. That's why every new Windows virus will simply disable the market's only virus scanner (or its auto-update facility) upon infection and the user will be under a false sense of security even though his/her system is infected.
Naturally the virus cannot infect computers with updated definitions, but the virus will always have some time to spread in the wild before new definitions are released. If each infection equals one machine with disabled virus protection (and a clueless user who doesn't know how or feel the need to re-enable it), it's not much better a situation than the one we have now.
Now if only somebody combined the Baboochi with the super pogo-stick and the move-around AI of that hedgehog...
It would be the ultimate, most satisfying shooting range target ever invented.
"The case had tested the limits of 1998's Digital Millenium Copyright Act"
no limits, it seems.
He's not the only one named after a Ford either.
That number's been disconnected, honey.
Yet, if what you say is true, if there is only a flicker of light left inside him, just a glimmer of hope as you say, maybe, just maybe, it is still possible to show Darth McBride the true meaning of the jedi code and to bring him back. To return him to the light side.
Go, young padawan. You must face the Dark Lord for one last time to see if there is a chance he could be shown the path of light again.
Go. It is your destiny.
With lossy formats, the whole 24/96 point is practically moot since they are designed to remove everything that is presumed non-audible by humans.
"We are also considering selling other files formats such as the second generation of lossy formats such as AAC or ogg or even lossless compressed formats such as FLAC or Monkeysaudio. If people are willing to pay a premium for the bandwidth cost they incur, then even 24bit versions of files could be sold."
The high-capacity so-dimm inside didn't appreciate it.
I would have to say that that is still too similar. My suggestion is "Windoux."
TeliaSonera is a company formed by the merger of swedish Telia and finnish Sonera. Sonera is one of the largest Internet/telecommunications providers in Finland and their e-mail systems have become a laughingstock during the last month. Reason: they don't work. There have been delays of several days in message delivery, some messages are lost entirely and their SMTP server seems to be down.
Sonera is blaming this 100% on the W32.Swen.A virus and while there is ongoing debate regarding Sonera's e-mail administrators' competency, that certainly explains why Telia is scrambling to remedy this problem in Sweden. [Un]fortunately (ignore the part in brackets if you are a privacy advocate) the Finnish legislation doesn't allow Sonera to perform the same thing as even automatic monitoring of e-mail traffic is not permitted by the communication privacy laws.
Number portability got into effect in Finland a couple of months ago. Previously I hadn't felt the need to switch my operator, but now that I could keep my number I switched from Radiolinja to Saunalahti. They also supply my DSL so I don't have to pay a separate monthly fee. I pay .11 to .23 cents per minute (depending on destination operator) and only 1,50e per megabyte for GPRS which is cheap compared to my previous operator. Saunalahti also uses Sonera's network which is the best this country has to offer.
I'm not the only one to switch either. In fact, since number portability came into effect, almost all carriers have been swamped with orders. Some people switch because they are offered freebies, some switch due to low prices and some switch just because they have been pissed off by their original operator one too many times. One thing is for sure. People are switching and the competition is fierce.
I see no reason why it should be any less fierce in the US and as we all know, the more there is competition, the better it is for the consumer.
Thanks for the old news. The Linux community has known for quite some time that there's no infringing code in Linux.
Those who invest in SCO haven't.
Why does SGI then release open letters addressed to the Linux community while SCO keeps spewing out financial press reports that are actually read by investors?
I would imagine that SGI had the resources to actually publish a press release while they are at it, but even after exhaustive thinking (I pondered for 37 seconds!) I couldn't come up with a reason why they are not bringing this to the knowledge of people who hold strings in their hands.
If successfully filing a patent cost x USD to the submitter and if unsuccessful filing of a patent (due to prior art, obviousness, etc...) cost 5*x USD, it would encourage PTO to seek ways to block a patent to generate revenue. It would also prevent companies from filing too obvious patents because it would just end up costing them.
Combine this with an independent free-for-all prior art submission period and it just might turn out to be something sane.