Oh, and countries should be required to have a standard usage of the tld space.
That would sort of go against the whole idea of national sovereignty over their own TLDs, and decentralisation of authority:-)
I'd say.fr is the best managed tld, from what I've heard.
.fr is a heavily managed domain and while this does have benefits, I'd reckon the drawbacks outweigh the benefits. The problem is that it is *extremely* difficult to register a.fr and there is a lot of red tape (at least the last time I tried, back in 2000, when I was working for a pan-European startup). The flip side of heavily managed country-code domains is that a lot of small businesses in the country, who are entitled to one, will go for a.com instead, just to avoid the hassle and paperwork (this is certainly the case with.ie, anyway; perhaps 50% of our Irish clients are.com even though.ie would be a much better fit for their businesses).
.tv and.fm are also in your "mismanaged country TLD" category - all the two-character TLDs are country code TLDs..tv is Tuvalu, and.fm the Federation of Micronesia, if I recall correctly (both in the Pacific Ocean). Both have signed over their domains to third parties for marketing (definately Tuvalu, not 100% sure about Micronesia).
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The U series doesn't have a built-in keyboard, camera, etc. The Picturebooks are 2.2lb rather than 1.2lb, besides being a traditional laptop form factor rather than a tablet form factor; they are a completely different class of computer.
Anyway, it all depends on what your needs and capacities are; I had a Picturebook myself (the first Crusoe one) and had absolutely no problem with the keyboard, speed, or battery life, although I did find the screen a little on the short side at 1024x480. I probably wouldn't have so much of a problem with the newer 1280x600 screens. At the same time it was great for carrying around everywhere; I got it because I was sick of carrying a 3kg (7lb) laptop on my back every morning and evening on a 5-mile bike commute. My gf has it now and wouldn't swap it for a larger laptop. It's particularly good for unobtrustively taking notes when doing research.
...is being attempted in Mildura, Australia with a 1km tall 'solar chimney'. The technology has already been operating at a smaller scale (200m tall IIRC) in Spain for some time.
Why do you feel the need to not only post your job, but also the acronym for it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that mean you'd have to type MORE than you would've anyway, thus taking away any point using the acronym had in the first place.
It's a standard/. (Slashdot) convention. IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer) is the original and most common, appended as a disclaimer when doling out legal interpretation.
As to why use the abbreviation _and_ the full job title? IAAUD itself is probably not common enough for people to know/guess quickly what it means, so the job title is necessary. The 'IANA__' or in this case 'IAA__' formula is however instantly recognisable and serves as a shorthand giving credibility the what follows.
There are actually very good reasons to limit movie playback to 2x. See, movie playback is intrinsically 1x. Going any faster is a waste. And by going more slowly you can prevent the start-stop behaviour, move more slowly across scratches and do any manner of tricks to ensure better quality of playback.
The main reason manufacturers put a movie speed limit in the firmware is not to frustrate people trying to copy a movie, nor better error correction, but rather to keep the drive quiet while watching one. Reading at 16x makes a horrendous noise, making a movie pretty intolerable, while 2x is pretty silent. What is actually 'locked' AFAICT is the rotational speed - so even with rip lock on, you will go from 2x at the start up to near 4x towards the end of the disc.
I agree that this should be user selectable, however (e.g. without a firmware hack, using something like DriveSpeed).
...from outside the US - this is mentioned in the Netcraft article. Certainly they were having something of a load problem so perhaps they just want to concentrate the site on where it would be most valuable for them (most people looking at it from outside the US wouldn't have a vote).
A lot of it has to do with designers and marketing departments that are overly concerned with pixel perfect "branding" and not so much with actual functionality/sales. They would actually prefer that someone who won't be getting the pixel-perfect "experience" not see the site at all.
Firewire can be usefully faster, for example with an external hard disk; all the benchmarks I've seen show Firewire performance to be superior to USB2 while using less CPU resources (and certainly this is the case with my own external Maxtor, connected to my desktop). The point is, USB 2 *doesn't* do 480Mbs for any sustained period, it is in fact well below 400Mbs and you can see a difference with 'normal' devices. (A 16x DVD is over 22MB/s, e.g. over 175Mb/s.)
It would be particularly peculiar, however, for Sony to launch something that did USB2 and *not* Firewire, as Sony are a major Firewire supporter - it has been impossible to buy a Sony Vaio without it for the last five years at least, while they have only added USB2 to their laptops relatively recently (typing this now on a Vaio with firewire but no USB2:-(
Annoyingly Sony use the 4-pin no power connector, and have the gall in their more recent laptops to situate a proprietary Sony DC output right beside the 4-pin firewire when they could just go with the standard 6-pin...
For example, do you think of web browsing as downloading a website, or do you think of browsing as the website uploading itself to your computer?
No, I think of it as my making a request to a server, and that server transferring the content to me. I don't think it is possible to reproduce what you don't have - you have to ask someone else to do it for you.
Is it not debatable as to who is doing the reproduction in this case, however? In many jurisdictions (e.g. Canada, at least parts of the EU) it seems to be held that it is the uploader who is making the reproduction, not the downloader. This would seem to be common sense, I don't however know what the code is in the US.
If you walk into a store ans steal a DVD and get busted, you will probably get probation/community service/small fine, depending on your previous convictions and jurisdiction.
If you go online and DOWNLOAD a DVD, that could cost you up to $250,000.
Not quite, you'll get the $250,000 fine for making copies available to others (e.g. uploading), not for downloading. The suits filed by the RIAA are all about people who are allegedly sharing files on P2P, not people who are downloading. Of course it goes without saying that a $250k fine is ridiculous for non-commercial copyright violation.
Well, correcting myself (I'm in Ireland) - while intra-bank payments from one account to another actually may be instant, the situation I was thinking about was when I transfer money into my credit card from my current account - even though the credit card is with the same bank, this only happens overnight. And inter-bank or international payments as you agree are not instant.
My point was simply that a lot of things in banking still seem to be processed in a batch transactional fashion overnight.
With most banks over here, if you make a transfer/web payment, it is only transferred overnight - and that is if it's an account in the same bank. Antother bank and you are talking around three days. Another EU county and it is longer still.
However, as the UK operators don't actually route emergency calls for phones that are not registered to there network, it won't actually work.
I'd be very surprised if the operators didn't route emergency calls from a subscriber on a different network; as they will route those very same calls if you don't have a SIM card in your phone at all (e.g. not registered to any network).
It wasn't that long ago, you know. Did parents never take a night off with a trusted babysitter at home? If you want to, you can call home yourself once or twice to check on things - just not in the middle of the movie!
People who *really* need to be contacted (doctors on call, for example) had pagers; and a blocking system based on a mini-cell station could be configured to allow such urgent calls/text messages through.
And you are quite wrong about the annoyance value of mobile phone conversations - a study has found them to be dramatically more annoying than face-to-face conversations, probably due to the one-way nature.
Wikipedia had this on their front page today. The test is that the invention could not be invented by a "Person having ordinary skill in the art". Which is essentially what you said.
10X as many automatic transmissions are sold as manuals in the U.S., and the numbers are somewhere around 7X for Europe. With an automatic transmission, as you know, the torque converter is driven off the output shaft of the engine.
It is nothing like 7:1 automatic:manual in Europe; if you inverted that you'd be closer to the truth (I work for an Irish used car website and out of 16,500 cars currently on the site well under 10% are automatic.)
The Vel Satis is a relatively high end Renault so the chances of it being an auto are higher; still however out of the six Vel Satis models sold here new, four are manual...
...I can't believe you are the first person to point this out. Notice how when you click on a NY Times story from Google, you don't have to register? This is because the NY Times sends Google special links to make it easier for the user to click through to the story!
Don't like appearing on Google News? Ever heard of robots.txt?
I know of a number of sources lobbying Google to be included on Google News, but don't know of that many lobbying to be taken off (which Google would do on request if you happen to be that insane.)
...but each 'pixel' in a 16 megapixel camera is R, G or B rather than being full colour. The different colour pixels are arranged in a matrix and the 'true colour' is interpolated from surrounding pixels. You're also right that there is are more green pixels than red or blue. So you don't have 16 million full colour pixels, you have 8 million green, 4 million red and 4 million blue. (Sigma/Foveon are an exception in that they have a sensor that can actually sense all three colours in one location by stacking the sensors, as the depth the light travels varies according to its wavelength.)
A RAW image isn't like a TIFF, where each pixel is true colour, it's simply a raw dump of the actual sensor matrix - the interpolation can then be done on the computer rather than in the camera.
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That would sort of go against the whole idea of national sovereignty over their own TLDs, and decentralisation of authority :-)
I'd say .fr is the best managed tld, from what I've heard.
.tv and .fm are also in your "mismanaged country TLD" category - all the two-character TLDs are country code TLDs. .tv is Tuvalu, and .fm the Federation of Micronesia, if I recall correctly (both in the Pacific Ocean). Both have signed over their domains to third parties for marketing (definately Tuvalu, not 100% sure about Micronesia).
...it only works for words with a certain minimum level of popularity.
The U series doesn't have a built-in keyboard, camera, etc. The Picturebooks are 2.2lb rather than 1.2lb, besides being a traditional laptop form factor rather than a tablet form factor; they are a completely different class of computer.
Anyway, it all depends on what your needs and capacities are; I had a Picturebook myself (the first Crusoe one) and had absolutely no problem with the keyboard, speed, or battery life, although I did find the screen a little on the short side at 1024x480. I probably wouldn't have so much of a problem with the newer 1280x600 screens. At the same time it was great for carrying around everywhere; I got it because I was sick of carrying a 3kg (7lb) laptop on my back every morning and evening on a 5-mile bike commute. My gf has it now and wouldn't swap it for a larger laptop. It's particularly good for unobtrustively taking notes when doing research.
...is being attempted in Mildura, Australia with a 1km tall 'solar chimney'. The technology has already been operating at a smaller scale (200m tall IIRC) in Spain for some time.
Why do you feel the need to not only post your job, but also the acronym for it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that mean you'd have to type MORE than you would've anyway, thus taking away any point using the acronym had in the first place.
/. (Slashdot) convention. IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer) is the original and most common, appended as a disclaimer when doling out legal interpretation.
It's a standard
As to why use the abbreviation _and_ the full job title? IAAUD itself is probably not common enough for people to know/guess quickly what it means, so the job title is necessary. The 'IANA__' or in this case 'IAA__' formula is however instantly recognisable and serves as a shorthand giving credibility the what follows.
There are actually very good reasons to limit movie playback to 2x. See, movie playback is intrinsically 1x. Going any faster is a waste. And by going more slowly you can prevent the start-stop behaviour, move more slowly across scratches and do any manner of tricks to ensure better quality of playback.
The main reason manufacturers put a movie speed limit in the firmware is not to frustrate people trying to copy a movie, nor better error correction, but rather to keep the drive quiet while watching one. Reading at 16x makes a horrendous noise, making a movie pretty intolerable, while 2x is pretty silent. What is actually 'locked' AFAICT is the rotational speed - so even with rip lock on, you will go from 2x at the start up to near 4x towards the end of the disc.
I agree that this should be user selectable, however (e.g. without a firmware hack, using something like DriveSpeed).
...from outside the US - this is mentioned in the Netcraft article. Certainly they were having something of a load problem so perhaps they just want to concentrate the site on where it would be most valuable for them (most people looking at it from outside the US wouldn't have a vote).
...but it loads up fine on our server in California.
Interestingly, we don't get any ads on yahoo.com searches, while from the CA server there are lots (we do get ads on yahoo.ie searches).
A lot of it has to do with designers and marketing departments that are overly concerned with pixel perfect "branding" and not so much with actual functionality/sales. They would actually prefer that someone who won't be getting the pixel-perfect "experience" not see the site at all.
Firewire can be usefully faster, for example with an external hard disk; all the benchmarks I've seen show Firewire performance to be superior to USB2 while using less CPU resources (and certainly this is the case with my own external Maxtor, connected to my desktop). The point is, USB 2 *doesn't* do 480Mbs for any sustained period, it is in fact well below 400Mbs and you can see a difference with 'normal' devices. (A 16x DVD is over 22MB/s, e.g. over 175Mb/s.)
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It would be particularly peculiar, however, for Sony to launch something that did USB2 and *not* Firewire, as Sony are a major Firewire supporter - it has been impossible to buy a Sony Vaio without it for the last five years at least, while they have only added USB2 to their laptops relatively recently (typing this now on a Vaio with firewire but no USB2
Annoyingly Sony use the 4-pin no power connector, and have the gall in their more recent laptops to situate a proprietary Sony DC output right beside the 4-pin firewire when they could just go with the standard 6-pin...
For example, do you think of web browsing as downloading a website, or do you think of browsing as the website uploading itself to your computer?
No, I think of it as my making a request to a server, and that server transferring the content to me. I don't think it is possible to reproduce what you don't have - you have to ask someone else to do it for you.
Is it not debatable as to who is doing the reproduction in this case, however? In many jurisdictions (e.g. Canada, at least parts of the EU) it seems to be held that it is the uploader who is making the reproduction, not the downloader. This would seem to be common sense, I don't however know what the code is in the US.
...*couldn't* care less.
If you walk into a store ans steal a DVD and get busted, you will probably get probation/community service/small fine, depending on your previous convictions and jurisdiction.
If you go online and DOWNLOAD a DVD, that could cost you up to $250,000.
Not quite, you'll get the $250,000 fine for making copies available to others (e.g. uploading), not for downloading. The suits filed by the RIAA are all about people who are allegedly sharing files on P2P, not people who are downloading. Of course it goes without saying that a $250k fine is ridiculous for non-commercial copyright violation.
Well, correcting myself (I'm in Ireland) - while intra-bank payments from one account to another actually may be instant, the situation I was thinking about was when I transfer money into my credit card from my current account - even though the credit card is with the same bank, this only happens overnight. And inter-bank or international payments as you agree are not instant.
My point was simply that a lot of things in banking still seem to be processed in a batch transactional fashion overnight.
With most banks over here, if you make a transfer/web payment, it is only transferred overnight - and that is if it's an account in the same bank. Antother bank and you are talking around three days. Another EU county and it is longer still.
That is amazing, but a quick google shows you to be right. It's not like that in other countries, I presumed it would be the same in the UK.
However, as the UK operators don't actually route emergency calls for phones that are not registered to there network, it won't actually work.
I'd be very surprised if the operators didn't route emergency calls from a subscriber on a different network; as they will route those very same calls if you don't have a SIM card in your phone at all (e.g. not registered to any network).
It wasn't that long ago, you know. Did parents never take a night off with a trusted babysitter at home? If you want to, you can call home yourself once or twice to check on things - just not in the middle of the movie!
People who *really* need to be contacted (doctors on call, for example) had pagers; and a blocking system based on a mini-cell station could be configured to allow such urgent calls/text messages through.
And you are quite wrong about the annoyance value of mobile phone conversations - a study has found them to be dramatically more annoying than face-to-face conversations, probably due to the one-way nature.
Wikipedia had this on their front page today. The test is that the invention could not be invented by a "Person having ordinary skill in the art". Which is essentially what you said.
10X as many automatic transmissions are sold as manuals in the U.S., and the numbers are somewhere around 7X for Europe. With an automatic transmission, as you know, the torque converter is driven off the output shaft of the engine.
It is nothing like 7:1 automatic:manual in Europe; if you inverted that you'd be closer to the truth (I work for an Irish used car website and out of 16,500 cars currently on the site well under 10% are automatic.)
The Vel Satis is a relatively high end Renault so the chances of it being an auto are higher; still however out of the six Vel Satis models sold here new, four are manual...
...I can't believe you are the first person to point this out. Notice how when you click on a NY Times story from Google, you don't have to register? This is because the NY Times sends Google special links to make it easier for the user to click through to the story!
Don't like appearing on Google News? Ever heard of robots.txt?
I know of a number of sources lobbying Google to be included on Google News, but don't know of that many lobbying to be taken off (which Google would do on request if you happen to be that insane.)
...scandles.
...but each 'pixel' in a 16 megapixel camera is R, G or B rather than being full colour. The different colour pixels are arranged in a matrix and the 'true colour' is interpolated from surrounding pixels. You're also right that there is are more green pixels than red or blue. So you don't have 16 million full colour pixels, you have 8 million green, 4 million red and 4 million blue. (Sigma/Foveon are an exception in that they have a sensor that can actually sense all three colours in one location by stacking the sensors, as the depth the light travels varies according to its wavelength.)
A RAW image isn't like a TIFF, where each pixel is true colour, it's simply a raw dump of the actual sensor matrix - the interpolation can then be done on the computer rather than in the camera.