Right I'd hate to be a negative nelly, but in an age of cable and adsl internet reaching several tens (and even hundreds) of megabits per second, and even wireless (3g) speeds of well over 128k, what's the friggin point of trying to squeeze more speed out of an infrastructure that could never handle it?
Telephone cables were barely high enough quality to get 56kbps most the time, let alone any more! Plus the fact that aren't most calls these days converted to digital (at 64kbps) at some points along the lines??
Wrong, we have that in the UK and believe me the top player's get paid A LOT (Apparently premiership footballers earn an average of £676,000, possibly twice that including performance bonuses)
I think this is a great idea (as long as the price is right)... A convenient format to copy to MP3 players (no waiting around for songs to rip from CD or transcoding from "higher quality" formats) and presumably I could move the songs off the memory card and use that for whatever I wanted.
Sounds like the industry is finally coming round, now if on-line music stores were better value...
On a more serious note CDs have been around for 23 years and still going strong so there's no reason to think it'll be difficult to get a CD-ROM drive in another 25. Anyway the trend so far (CD -> DVD -> Bluray) has been for backward compatible media. Whether the discs'll last that long is another thing, probably not.
How long does flash memory last un-accessed? if it'll last long enough I'd put several different SD cards and a usb sd card reader in a sealed box (Tupperware or something), then encase that box in big block of wax. (I remember blue peter's time capsules were full of water, I reckon a thick layer of wax should be completely watertight?)
I noticed the "If you use only the Latitude ON system, battery life lasts not hours but days, according to Dell." too, I can't see how it could possibly last days with the full sized backlit screen running constantly (probably not a huge amount longer then any other OS running on it). Maybe if you kept the lid down or plugged it into a separate monitor it could go for that long but it's a pretty misleading statement
Given the small number of results here I'd say that those pages were linked from somewhere else (a forum or someones homepage maybe?) which allowed google to index them.
Google's spider isn't magic, it can only find things that are linked to from another public site (given google's don't be evil mantra I doubt they'd start indexing links from emails etc.)
Still O2 should probably add some no index tags as it does give people a way to list all O2's public mms', with probably a broader audience then whoever posted them would like
A link coming from (what used to be) an official simpsons address is hardly random, don't think you can blame that many people for clicking on the link (running without a virus checker tho... especially as free ones like anti-vir are perfectly good!)
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I'm sure some shady arms dealer can get them the red mercury they require
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Hey don't be so disappointed, it sounds like a _lot_ of fun!
You mean like this one?
http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/skywalker_jet_packs_it_works.html
This is obviously a program for kids, why is everyone getting worked up about it??
This is the equivalent of having an article on how Barney is destroying television.
Right I'd hate to be a negative nelly, but in an age of cable and adsl internet reaching several tens (and even hundreds) of megabits per second, and even wireless (3g) speeds of well over 128k, what's the friggin point of trying to squeeze more speed out of an infrastructure that could never handle it?
Telephone cables were barely high enough quality to get 56kbps most the time, let alone any more! Plus the fact that aren't most calls these days converted to digital (at 64kbps) at some points along the lines??
The picture posted of the problem looks like the dithering's gone wrong and it's just showing lines rather then the usual checkerboard pattern
On the Moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with Moonrocks
It's not a big truck ... oh wait yes it is!
Somebody needs to check the source control history for init.c and then give a certain someone a damn good thrashing!
Wrong, we have that in the UK and believe me the top player's get paid A LOT (Apparently premiership footballers earn an average of £676,000, possibly twice that including performance bonuses)
I think this is a great idea (as long as the price is right)... A convenient format to copy to MP3 players (no waiting around for songs to rip from CD or transcoding from "higher quality" formats) and presumably I could move the songs off the memory card and use that for whatever I wanted.
Sounds like the industry is finally coming round, now if on-line music stores were better value...
Over here in the UK we have a bit of paper with everyone's names in a grid next to a box.
You put a X in the box next to the MP you're voting for.
Tricky, no?
Did they let professor Frink name this one?
"Now I'd like to announce Nasa's new Mars spacecraft, the HOYVIN-Maven"
How about something along the lines of this?
On a more serious note CDs have been around for 23 years and still going strong so there's no reason to think it'll be difficult to get a CD-ROM drive in another 25. Anyway the trend so far (CD -> DVD -> Bluray) has been for backward compatible media. Whether the discs'll last that long is another thing, probably not.
How long does flash memory last un-accessed? if it'll last long enough I'd put several different SD cards and a usb sd card reader in a sealed box (Tupperware or something), then encase that box in big block of wax. (I remember blue peter's time capsules were full of water, I reckon a thick layer of wax should be completely watertight?)
Regexp != Perl.
Give me an example of one modern language that *doesn't* have regexp support.
I noticed the "If you use only the Latitude ON system, battery life lasts not hours but days, according to Dell." too, I can't see how it could possibly last days with the full sized backlit screen running constantly (probably not a huge amount longer then any other OS running on it). Maybe if you kept the lid down or plugged it into a separate monitor it could go for that long but it's a pretty misleading statement
I was wondering how they could actually turn this into an attack vector, but that sounds about right, quite a clever hack too
Presumably any resizing / processing done on the image by the server would destroy the hack tho...
Given the small number of results here I'd say that those pages were linked from somewhere else (a forum or someones homepage maybe?) which allowed google to index them.
Google's spider isn't magic, it can only find things that are linked to from another public site (given google's don't be evil mantra I doubt they'd start indexing links from emails etc.)
Still O2 should probably add some no index tags as it does give people a way to list all O2's public mms', with probably a broader audience then whoever posted them would like
Drifting OT but I've found that MD5 passwords are a great way to have unique passwords for a site, eg.
md5("MySecretPassword-www.somesite.com")
Means you can use 1 password for everything without revealing it to any sites
A link coming from (what used to be) an official simpsons address is hardly random, don't think you can blame that many people for clicking on the link (running without a virus checker tho... especially as free ones like anti-vir are perfectly good!)
The cost of some Apple h/w is a f'in JOKE
For example, adding an extra 2 gigs of RAM to a Mac Pro costs £320.
A quick price check on Dabs shows that similar spec ram costs anywhere from £40 to £80, that's almost a 10x difference.
I would have bought a mac but their desktops are total ripoffs so I just made myself a cheap PC out of components again
That's no moon! It's a, um, what are they calling it these days, "Plutoid" ?
Plus you can create the Library of Babel while you're there
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