I own a CD, a friend owns the same CD. He doesn't have a CD-ROM on his computer.
What if my friend makes a copy of his CD using my computer, then downloads it onto his computer from mine (assume we don't have any external memory storage device). Is it okay then?
Commercials aren't a huge deal for me, but I really don't want to wait more to download the extra X megabytes per commercial, especially seeing as how my crummy "high-speed" internet connection my apartment provides becomes as slow as dial-up at times. While it hasn't been incredibly bad lately, my speed does seem to get capped at 40-50 KB/sec frequently.
I for one, am not looking forward to the ability to turn off the console by the controller. I can already imagine sore losers turning off the system right when you're about to beat them in some head-to-head game or just hitting it by accident. And don't bring that "The button is in a place where you can't press it by accident." People claim to push the start button "by accident" all the time when you're trying to do something timed (like say, perform a super strike in Mario Strikers which has those golf-like meters you have to align in the right spot, which is also similar to how most free throws / football field goals are performed in sports games).
Now I'll admit I've never seen the power button mechanism on the wii-motes, and I have no clue where it's located and how it works. But if it's there, I hope they at least made it so that you have to hold it down for like 4 seconds before it turns the Wii off.
If I want to know general information about a certain topic, I can look it up on wikipedia for an overview of info, but if I'm looking to learn how to do something specific, say how to solve a technical problem, then google is the only choice.
an anti-mosquito device passed by the FCC isn't reason to go trapsing onto other people's property to destroy things
It's not a device to drive mosquitoes away! It's nicknamed "The Mosquito" because the noise is so annoying to those who can hear it and it's specifically designed to annoy younger people. You didn't even look at the link provided in the summary! Of course this is Slashdot, so I shouldn't expect you to.
I, for one, welcome our new Microrobot overlords...
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by
small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you."
"There are some companies that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique than others. It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."
Well what if you wish to transfer this data in a timely fashion? Sending less (read: compressed) data would take less time in this regard, though it's worth noting that the time required to decompress the data may make the total time to retrieve the original data longer than it would to just send the uncompressed data. So I think compression and decompression speed are also important factors.
The only good thing about Best Buy is that they print multiple copies of your receipt for each rebate offer, and only one offer ever seems to need the UPC / bar code. I got a monitor at Office Max once, and I had to make several copies of the rebate and UPC / bar code myself. But still, I figure there's got to be a substantial amount of people who think they're getting a great deal, but forget to mail off the rebates.
Sorry, I don't have a link, but I recall reading about two female life partners who used a sperm donor to have a child. That relationship went sour, and the one that kept the child won child support from the donor in court. Talk about rough breaks.
Even if Microsoft includes support for an OpenDocument format, the only thing it will do is enable MS Word users to read documents from other word processors such as OpenOffice or StarOffice. However, I'm sure MS will still have the default save setting be their proprietary.doc format, which Joe User will automatically choose when he saves his document which someone who only has OpenOffice will try to read. Sure, OpenOffice does its best to render.doc files, but sometimes it still looks disfigured. What MS really needs to do is open up its.doc format.
I had a friend on Roadrunner who complained he couldn't connect to many sites. I think he happened to know that they used Level 3. Is there a way to determine what backbone your ISP or a particular site uses?
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague." -Edsgar Dijkstra
DS9 was superior to all of the Treks. You can't beat the Dominion War arc that spanned the last 3 seasons. All the characters were great, though I was disappointed they killed off Jadzia and replaced her with Ezri. Though I'll admit maybe they overdid it with Vic's sometimes, the one where they have to put the jack-in-the-box away was pretty good. Ronald Moore writes great storylines.
Voyager was pretty bad, I thought. I can't believe they put that in the top 50 and not DS9. Too many episodes about the doctor or how holograms have taken over their ship. I mean, how many times did Voyager get captured by aliens in the delta quadrant? I remember one episode in particular about how they had an opportunity to return to the alpha quadrant via a wormhole, but a couple of Ferengi in an inferior ship outsmarted the Voyager crew and they ended up not being able to return home themselves. And don't even get me started on that one episode where Paris mutates into a frog and impregnates Janeway...
Even though half the teams never planned on winning or even doing well, many teams of 3 from my high school went to local programming contests that allowed many teams from the same school just because it was fun to hang out with your friends and peers. Many who spent the whole two hour programming period and only getting one or two problems still enjoyed the competitions, maybe because they liked attempting to solve problems.
I guess it also helped that there's usually pizza and soda, and we'd play ultimate frisbee or some other sport after the contest while waiting for the hosts to tally the results. Yes, nerds and geeks can play sports, too -- and many students you'd consider to be non-geeks competed as well.
I used to compete in programming competitions during my junior and senior years in a Texas high school. I competed in TCEA and UIL. I did pretty well, though there were never any cash prizes. I always had a lot of fun due to the camaraderie with fellow classmates from my school, and I guess I got recognition for winning. However, the problems were relatively easy, with no complicated graph theory problems and the like.
My school had a great computer club with a enthusiastic sponsor that went to local programming contests held by other high schools about once or twice a month. HP (previously Compaq) also holds their own annual competition in Houston, called Code Wars. I guess it was easy for me to get involved because this was part of a school club.
Now I'm in college and the ACM ICPC and high level TopCoder problems kick my butt. I need to learn more algorithms.
I'm not sure either. I have a desktop and a laptop. I keep my video media on my desktop's large hard drives and play it on my laptop over the network. When both computers are on a LAN cable, video streams much smoother than over wireless.
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Play 24. But it's almost always a matter of working it to either 6*4 or 8*3.
Same scenario as far as What if my friend makes a copy of his CD using my computer, then downloads it onto his computer from mine (assume we don't have any external memory storage device). Is it okay then?
Commercials aren't a huge deal for me, but I really don't want to wait more to download the extra X megabytes per commercial, especially seeing as how my crummy "high-speed" internet connection my apartment provides becomes as slow as dial-up at times. While it hasn't been incredibly bad lately, my speed does seem to get capped at 40-50 KB/sec frequently.
From the summary: "And these cell-phone-service companies are no dummies."
However, George Vaccaro proves otherwise.
I for one, am not looking forward to the ability to turn off the console by the controller. I can already imagine sore losers turning off the system right when you're about to beat them in some head-to-head game or just hitting it by accident. And don't bring that "The button is in a place where you can't press it by accident." People claim to push the start button "by accident" all the time when you're trying to do something timed (like say, perform a super strike in Mario Strikers which has those golf-like meters you have to align in the right spot, which is also similar to how most free throws / football field goals are performed in sports games).
Now I'll admit I've never seen the power button mechanism on the wii-motes, and I have no clue where it's located and how it works. But if it's there, I hope they at least made it so that you have to hold it down for like 4 seconds before it turns the Wii off.
If I want to know general information about a certain topic, I can look it up on wikipedia for an overview of info, but if I'm looking to learn how to do something specific, say how to solve a technical problem, then google is the only choice.
It's not a device to drive mosquitoes away! It's nicknamed "The Mosquito" because the noise is so annoying to those who can hear it and it's specifically designed to annoy younger people. You didn't even look at the link provided in the summary! Of course this is Slashdot, so I shouldn't expect you to.
http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/teenage_control
If you compress an HD movie to fit on a DVD... is it still considered High-Definition?
I, for one, welcome our new Microrobot overlords...
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you."
"There are some companies that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique than others. It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."
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It would appear at least Microsoft is no stranger to booth babes. A quick glance at e3girls.com easily reveals one of many pages of Microsoft using so-called "booth babes" to promote products.
http://www.e3girls.com/display.cfm?startrow=1909&
What? I was only visiting that site for uh... proof to refute the summary's claim... yeah...
Well what if you wish to transfer this data in a timely fashion? Sending less (read: compressed) data would take less time in this regard, though it's worth noting that the time required to decompress the data may make the total time to retrieve the original data longer than it would to just send the uncompressed data. So I think compression and decompression speed are also important factors.
[Laughs] "Of course you're not."
The only good thing about Best Buy is that they print multiple copies of your receipt for each rebate offer, and only one offer ever seems to need the UPC / bar code. I got a monitor at Office Max once, and I had to make several copies of the rebate and UPC / bar code myself. But still, I figure there's got to be a substantial amount of people who think they're getting a great deal, but forget to mail off the rebates.
Sorry, I don't have a link, but I recall reading about two female life partners who used a sperm donor to have a child. That relationship went sour, and the one that kept the child won child support from the donor in court. Talk about rough breaks.
Even if Microsoft includes support for an OpenDocument format, the only thing it will do is enable MS Word users to read documents from other word processors such as OpenOffice or StarOffice. However, I'm sure MS will still have the default save setting be their proprietary .doc format, which Joe User will automatically choose when he saves his document which someone who only has OpenOffice will try to read. Sure, OpenOffice does its best to render .doc files, but sometimes it still looks disfigured. What MS really needs to do is open up its .doc format.
I had a friend on Roadrunner who complained he couldn't connect to many sites. I think he happened to know that they used Level 3. Is there a way to determine what backbone your ISP or a particular site uses?
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague." -Edsgar Dijkstra
computers talk slow: "You...have...(pause) [new voice]three[/new voice] (pause)...search...results. (pause)To...read...aloud...press...
... Please... be... reminded... you... are... being... charged... a... small... [new voice] large fee of $5.99 [/new voice] a [new voice] minute [/new voice]... for... this... service. (pause) Have... a... nice... day...
DS9 was superior to all of the Treks. You can't beat the Dominion War arc that spanned the last 3 seasons. All the characters were great, though I was disappointed they killed off Jadzia and replaced her with Ezri. Though I'll admit maybe they overdid it with Vic's sometimes, the one where they have to put the jack-in-the-box away was pretty good. Ronald Moore writes great storylines.
Voyager was pretty bad, I thought. I can't believe they put that in the top 50 and not DS9. Too many episodes about the doctor or how holograms have taken over their ship. I mean, how many times did Voyager get captured by aliens in the delta quadrant? I remember one episode in particular about how they had an opportunity to return to the alpha quadrant via a wormhole, but a couple of Ferengi in an inferior ship outsmarted the Voyager crew and they ended up not being able to return home themselves. And don't even get me started on that one episode where Paris mutates into a frog and impregnates Janeway...
Even though half the teams never planned on winning or even doing well, many teams of 3 from my high school went to local programming contests that allowed many teams from the same school just because it was fun to hang out with your friends and peers. Many who spent the whole two hour programming period and only getting one or two problems still enjoyed the competitions, maybe because they liked attempting to solve problems.
I guess it also helped that there's usually pizza and soda, and we'd play ultimate frisbee or some other sport after the contest while waiting for the hosts to tally the results. Yes, nerds and geeks can play sports, too -- and many students you'd consider to be non-geeks competed as well.
I used to compete in programming competitions during my junior and senior years in a Texas high school. I competed in TCEA and UIL. I did pretty well, though there were never any cash prizes. I always had a lot of fun due to the camaraderie with fellow classmates from my school, and I guess I got recognition for winning. However, the problems were relatively easy, with no complicated graph theory problems and the like.
My school had a great computer club with a enthusiastic sponsor that went to local programming contests held by other high schools about once or twice a month. HP (previously Compaq) also holds their own annual competition in Houston, called Code Wars. I guess it was easy for me to get involved because this was part of a school club.
Now I'm in college and the ACM ICPC and high level TopCoder problems kick my butt. I need to learn more algorithms.
Yes, "I could care less" never made any sense to me. If you aren't interested in something then you "couldn't care less," right?
I'm not sure either. I have a desktop and a laptop. I keep my video media on my desktop's large hard drives and play it on my laptop over the network. When both computers are on a LAN cable, video streams much smoother than over wireless.
Hey, hey now. "Scruffy-looking nerf herder" is still my favorite line.
How do you account for cuts and other things that could change your fingerprint?