Actually I seem to remember that before they started work on ISS there was some talk of doing a reality-tv series on board called Astronauts, heck I'd watch it. "This weeks we 'ave put the station-mates on a 'alf rations, lets see 'ow they're doin"
Why is everyone going on about converting their MP3's to MP3-SURROUND?
Pretty much all MP3s will be in stereo, converting them to a format who's only real purpose is to encode 5.1 sound better is like converting your JPEG collection to BMP to improve their quality.
At any rate transcoding from one lossy music format to another is asking for trouble, even going from 192kbit MP3 to 128kbit AAC sounds nasty.
The TV companies have been too slow to bring us TV on demand over the internet so it's no surprise this has filled the gap.
Infact I've been using UKNova (uk tv bittorrent site, tho it's down today...) pretty much as a UK TV on demand service. After all I pay my licence fee:)
ok article is readable after all, and it's not the same as the wacom tablets.
They used to use the tablet to sense the position of the mouse (so the movement was always relative to the pad, so it went a bit funny if you had the mouse at the wrong angle...), where as this one is an optical mouse powered by the pad.
Of course as I said in a different post it seems pretty pointless when you can get wireless mice with rechargable batteries and a docking station.
According to the box this mouse provides "wireless freedom", but the article says "The pad is what powers the mouse itself, using induction. It doesn't charge batteries in the mouse, or anything like that, so you cannot use the mouse anywhere else."
So what's the point? It's actually worse then a standard wired optical mouse because you have to use it on the pad.
If you want a "battery free" wireless optical mouse just get one with rechargable batteries and a charging station. No battery replacements and you can still actually use with wirelessly.
Surely fuel cells have potential to be more effecent then using a minature engine burning fuel, as that has to go through several energy conversions (chemical > mechanical+wasted heat > electrical) rather then converting the chemical energy straight to electricity
Crean describes the device as a chip located "way in the machine, right near the laser" that embeds the dots when the document "is about 20 billionths of a second" from printing.
what is this gibberish? Why can't the say it's on a chip built into the printer rather then spouting off about the time it takes the electrons to go from the printers CPU to the laser driver.
At the rate Longhorn's going they won't have anything to worry about for a _long_ time
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Unless you're using certain quirks of PHP4 (that you shouldn't really use if you're following good coding guidelines) then PHP5 is a dropin replacement for PHP4.
At work we've moved many complex database driven/CMS sites written in PHP4 to PHP5 with no modifications at all.
That's not really enough.
Last time I used my GBA I was on a 12 hour flight. While it's good that the battery is removable it I don't perticaully want to have to buy several (presumably expensive) custom batteries for it.
If they had used AA form factor (some digital cameras can take AAs and a special Lion pck) then I could just get a load of cheap rechargables for it.
Still I'd be interested to know if SP2's Data Execution Prevention would have stopped this if the holes hadn't been patched.
Doing proactive fixes like this should be better the reatively fixing holes as they appear so it would be interesting to know how well this latest feature works.
Also I never really understood why there are always so many buffer overrun problems in software, I know it's a bit more complex then while(readdata() && bufferlimit--){}
but still...
That's because Gmail is currently in BETA. They want to test it with a lot of accounts, but they still want to control the number of accounts so their system doesn't get overloaded before it's ready.
Having an invitation system seems a good way of getting a good number of test accounts.
I suggest you read the FAQ as it talks about this and POP access etc.
How the hell will this protect us from terrorism? I'm sick and tired of our governments trying to implement 1984 under our noses in the name of security.
For example, I'm sure no-one would notice if a farmer bought a load of fertilizer and diesel fuel, and no one would notice if he drove a van into the centre of some large city, but that's all he'd need to do to blow up a lot of people.
The only way we can truly protect ourselves is to quite literally monitor everyone's actions 24-7, but if that were the case I'd rather live in North Korea.
So by "spyware" you mean your program phones home when registering? That's hardly tracking peoples browser usage and keylogging everything they type which is what most programs known as "spyware" do. I don't mind Ad supported software either as long as its not sending any usage statistics back to a server anywhere.
"Because so many young adults played such games as kids, they ought to be able to learn more easily from them, too, said the project's director"
This kind of education game is a good idea for very young children (before the age that cynicism gets the better of them), but adults?? If I was hard up, I would feel very patronised if I received a computer game telling me to store perishables in the fridge.
Using XUL through HTTP can be _very_ useful, we're looking at it to replace using HTML in our web applications and it looks like it would be do a very good job at it (I think that's one of the things it was built for).
As for ActiveX, that's actually running code on your computer, XUL is just an interface language. You can't run XUL that'll install spyware on your machine for example.
> I wonder why people like announcing problems like these without trying to implement a solution themselves, so at least they know if its possible before causing havoc online for everyone..
Oh dear, the old "if you can't fix it yourself don't complain about it" attitude.
If he can figure it out on his own then so can hackers, not telling anyone just means that *no-one* can work on a fix (which is why no bugs should ever be maked as confidential unless one of the main developers plans to release a fix for it very soon, eg not after 5 years).
At any rate I can't see how this could possibly create havoc, the spoof didn't look anything like my toolbar and I think most phishermen (or whatever they're being called these days) will still be targeting IE while it's userbase is +90% (and there are plenty of ways of spoofing with IE just as well)
I certainly think having confidential bugs was a very bad idea (who gets to see them I wonder?) but running XUL code is hard not to without making it quite useless, at work we plan to look at it with the view to using it in our web applications instead of HTML (which I think is one of the things it was originally for).
I mean, it's basically the same as using images to spoof the IE toolbars, Firefox just gives you the tools to do a better job of it.
The only thing I can think of that wouldn't make using XUL a total pita is to warn the users first time a site trys to use it, something like
"Do you want this site to create an interface in XUL (phishing warning blah blah blah). [Yes] [No] [x] remember this for xyz.com
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Actually I seem to remember that before they started work on ISS there was some talk of doing a reality-tv series on board called Astronauts, heck I'd watch it. "This weeks we 'ave put the station-mates on a 'alf rations, lets see 'ow they're doin"
Forget CO2, methane is a much stronger green-house gas, therefore the unregulated sale of baked beans should be stopped immediately.
Why is everyone going on about converting their MP3's to MP3-SURROUND?
Pretty much all MP3s will be in stereo, converting them to a format who's only real purpose is to encode 5.1 sound better is like converting your JPEG collection to BMP to improve their quality.
At any rate transcoding from one lossy music format to another is asking for trouble, even going from 192kbit MP3 to 128kbit AAC sounds nasty.
The TV companies have been too slow to bring us TV on demand over the internet so it's no surprise this has filled the gap.
:)
Infact I've been using UKNova (uk tv bittorrent site, tho it's down today...) pretty much as a UK TV on demand service. After all I pay my licence fee
ok article is readable after all, and it's not the same as the wacom tablets.
They used to use the tablet to sense the position of the mouse (so the movement was always relative to the pad, so it went a bit funny if you had the mouse at the wrong angle...), where as this one is an optical mouse powered by the pad.
Of course as I said in a different post it seems pretty pointless when you can get wireless mice with rechargable batteries and a docking station.
According to the box this mouse provides "wireless freedom", but the article says "The pad is what powers the mouse itself, using induction. It doesn't charge batteries in the mouse, or anything like that, so you cannot use the mouse anywhere else."
So what's the point? It's actually worse then a standard wired optical mouse because you have to use it on the pad.
If you want a "battery free" wireless optical mouse just get one with rechargable batteries and a charging station. No battery replacements and you can still actually use with wirelessly.
Articles dotted so can't be sure, but are these actually any different to the mice that used to come with Wacom tablets about 4 years ago?
Surely fuel cells have potential to be more effecent then using a minature engine burning fuel, as that has to go through several energy conversions (chemical > mechanical+wasted heat > electrical) rather then converting the chemical energy straight to electricity
Crean describes the device as a chip located "way in the machine, right near the laser" that embeds the dots when the document "is about 20 billionths of a second" from printing.
what is this gibberish? Why can't the say it's on a chip built into the printer rather then spouting off about the time it takes the electrons to go from the printers CPU to the laser driver.
I never realised the Nintendo DS ran windows
By the look if it, this only refers to BASIC code and to an operator to check if two pointers point to the same object.
At any rate there's still plenty of prior art in other languages
At the rate Longhorn's going they won't have anything to worry about for a _long_ time
Unless you're using certain quirks of PHP4 (that you shouldn't really use if you're following good coding guidelines) then PHP5 is a dropin replacement for PHP4.
At work we've moved many complex database driven/CMS sites written in PHP4 to PHP5 with no modifications at all.
That's not really enough. Last time I used my GBA I was on a 12 hour flight. While it's good that the battery is removable it I don't perticaully want to have to buy several (presumably expensive) custom batteries for it. If they had used AA form factor (some digital cameras can take AAs and a special Lion pck) then I could just get a load of cheap rechargables for it.
They're hardly starting a space program, just buying into Scaled Composites'
and apparently it's safer, too
Still I'd be interested to know if SP2's Data Execution Prevention would have stopped this if the holes hadn't been patched.
Doing proactive fixes like this should be better the reatively fixing holes as they appear so it would be interesting to know how well this latest feature works.
Also I never really understood why there are always so many buffer overrun problems in software, I know it's a bit more complex then
while(readdata() && bufferlimit--){}
but still...
I thought Google already provided a free blogging service?
That's because Gmail is currently in BETA. They want to test it with a lot of accounts, but they still want to control the number of accounts so their system doesn't get overloaded before it's ready.
Having an invitation system seems a good way of getting a good number of test accounts.
I suggest you read the FAQ as it talks about this and POP access etc.
How the hell will this protect us from terrorism? I'm sick and tired of our governments trying to implement 1984 under our noses in the name of security.
For example, I'm sure no-one would notice if a farmer bought a load of fertilizer and diesel fuel, and no one would notice if he drove a van into the centre of some large city, but that's all he'd need to do to blow up a lot of people.
The only way we can truly protect ourselves is to quite literally monitor everyone's actions 24-7, but if that were the case I'd rather live in North Korea.
So by "spyware" you mean your program phones home when registering? That's hardly tracking peoples browser usage and keylogging everything they type which is what most programs known as "spyware" do. I don't mind Ad supported software either as long as its not sending any usage statistics back to a server anywhere.
"Because so many young adults played such games as kids, they ought to be able to learn more easily from them, too, said the project's director"
This kind of education game is a good idea for very young children (before the age that cynicism gets the better of them), but adults?? If I was hard up, I would feel very patronised if I received a computer game telling me to store perishables in the fridge.
Using XUL through HTTP can be _very_ useful, we're looking at it to replace using HTML in our web applications and it looks like it would be do a very good job at it (I think that's one of the things it was built for).
As for ActiveX, that's actually running code on your computer, XUL is just an interface language. You can't run XUL that'll install spyware on your machine for example.
> I wonder why people like announcing problems like these without trying to implement a solution themselves, so at least they know if its possible before causing havoc online for everyone..
Oh dear, the old "if you can't fix it yourself don't complain about it" attitude.
If he can figure it out on his own then so can hackers, not telling anyone just means that *no-one* can work on a fix (which is why no bugs should ever be maked as confidential unless one of the main developers plans to release a fix for it very soon, eg not after 5 years).
At any rate I can't see how this could possibly create havoc, the spoof didn't look anything like my toolbar and I think most phishermen (or whatever they're being called these days) will still be targeting IE while it's userbase is +90% (and there are plenty of ways of spoofing with IE just as well)
I certainly think having confidential bugs was a very bad idea (who gets to see them I wonder?) but running XUL code is hard not to without making it quite useless, at work we plan to look at it with the view to using it in our web applications instead of HTML (which I think is one of the things it was originally for).
I mean, it's basically the same as using images to spoof the IE toolbars, Firefox just gives you the tools to do a better job of it.
The only thing I can think of that wouldn't make using XUL a total pita is to warn the users first time a site trys to use it, something like
"Do you want this site to create an interface in XUL (phishing warning blah blah blah).
[Yes] [No] [x] remember this for xyz.com