"what's really being said here is not "you can't read a book out loud", but rather "you can't sell a product that converts one product (text book) into another (audio book)"
So that would make Windows Media Player/iTunes/etc an infringing product since it converts one product (audio representation of a file) into another (visual representation of a file) while presenting the original product at the same time no less !?!?!?
How much latency does that algorithm add? They are only testing one bit. Won't a controller and the wear-reducing slow it down a fair amount?
Still a ways to go: "The next challenge is to join an array together into a working memory chip, as the team has so far only tested single carbon nanotube elements. And although they have only proved capable of "remembering" data for several days after the power is cut, the team are confident this can be extended."
Several days is a pretty short life for SSD...and longer than i want my RAM to last;)
Me too. Never quite trusted LCD, etc after early trials.
However the color accuracy on old CRT leaves something to be desired. My 3 monitors all show a slightly different color:( Best one is the oldest and smallest IBM. Not enough to bother tweaking them further however.
The TV on the other hand may get replaced soon. Since going to digital with the convertor box the sub channels pixelate from compression and you get the worst of both worlds:(
Invariably it seems, the best 'whatever' is the one that was just discontinued.....
This is the problem i have at our office too. IF it wasn't for security it could run on 486's....
Our main accounting system uses a terminal emulator for access. Anything less than a 2GHz HT processor is noticeably slow with just basic firewall/AV running. The programs we use would be fine with anything capable of loading Win98 or higher.
The 'server' is still P3 tho:) Just a place to put some files and a convenient print server.
my balls are old and dried out after only 40 years i should look into this....
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lol, our oldest terminal was several years old at the time in early 80's. It had 2 8x10" boards and more inside to display simple monochrome text. It didn't even do bold, underline, or squares!
That includes purposely missing one i read the answer to here before trying:) I tried to guess what i would have guessed...
Kinda misread the last one:(
I don't really care what Socrates, etc believed....
Not sure why i missed the one on Puritans, guess the right answer just seemed too obvious, hehe.
Have to agree that the fail rate is pretty pathetic as half of those are easy to guess if you had any education. If anyone missed the one about the New Deal they should be failed also since the answer is like 5 questions down in question 8...i love tests like that.
"density is not something that enters in that equation."
Not entirely true is it? If you are building a spaceship around 2 feet of foam instead of around 1" of lead or something it would be bigger requiring more material for outside skin adding mass and size without gaining more shielding.
"The drugs used by three perps affected nobody but themselves..."
Exactly right.
The bad driving/DUI, theft and robbery on the other hand did. Coincidentally they are illegal in their own right even if we don't punish people enough for them:(
Not to mention in 2 of the 3 you don't even say they were on drugs, only that they wanted money. Not sure how you figure they wouldn't do the same for cigarettes, booze, food, or a new leather coat. They work for those and rob people for drug money i suppose.....
Maybe because those didn't exist for our last reunion but classmates did...
Of course i just got the same annoying crap we are talking about from reunion.com that is every bit as bad as classmates ! Exact same things saying someone is looking for me (altho the name was right) I don't see any interesting info (less than classmates as i recall) except every other page wanting me to pay them.
Only difference i see is a tagline on reunion.com saying 700 million profiles...huh, i must be the last HS graduate in the world to sign up i guess....?
Don't see the advantage in expecting everyone to make a new profile there before next reunion when the majority are already on classmates:(
Could have sworn i bought a lifetime membership at classmates when they started but can't prove it ATM. Of course the same applies for gamespy...no more lifetime anything for me.
Perhaps God created the planets in order so the last frame of reference is Venus where the 'day' is 243 earth days long:)
Perhaps the first planet he created had a day that was 729000 earth days long because he hadn't quite mastering the spinning part yet but that is the frame of reference 'he' continued to use.
I'll go with this too. Interference is not the issue;)
How much can they produce and wouldn't they mess up themselves? The Video card does not appear to be shielded from MB and vice-versa. Wouldn't the tape drive get messed up? Wouldn't locking it in a metal case bounce it back and mess up something?
That and the fact that i have a plastic case on each side of desk and the 2 CRTs in the middle show no signs of interference for the 4 years they have been that way. Nor does anything else on or next to the table. Or any of the vintage computers in the room. Couldn't tell about wireless as i dont care and a nuclear blast probably wouldn't phase the dsl modem so another non-issue;)
What exactly is it supposed to interfere with?
Those clear cases cost almost that much when i bought them before modding was common. Not sure i would do it again with this one even tho it is kinda cool. Besides it is too fat to fit on the desk with everything else anyway!!
Actually gave money to the firefighter one, they were selling concert tickets. Good deal and a decent concert.
That ended however when the matching policemans charity started calling the next year and i think it was the same guy even. Now neither gets anything....
Not to mention it got old the 9th time they called thanking me for my past support and do I.......
I did a travan-3 tape drive with windows XP altho it wasn't very happy about it. There are no drivers for floppy based tape drive but if you load up enough drivers for either older windows and/or parallel port drivers it will work eventually.
If anyone can convince XP to use a 360k floppy give me a yell:(
I ended up with 3 computers covering stuff back to the above mentioned 120MB tape drives, the travan-3 tape drive, syquest and iomega drives and a newer DDS4 tape drive as well as MFM HD and 360k floppy.
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That would be the 'specially trained' part i suppose since it would tough to read the advert with the cat laying on it's back being dragged around :)
"what's really being said here is not "you can't read a book out loud", but rather "you can't sell a product that converts one product (text book) into another (audio book)"
So that would make Windows Media Player/iTunes/etc an infringing product since it converts one product (audio representation of a file) into another (visual representation of a file) while presenting the original product at the same time no less !?!?!?
How much latency does that algorithm add? They are only testing one bit. Won't a controller and the wear-reducing slow it down a fair amount?
Still a ways to go:
"The next challenge is to join an array together into a working memory chip, as the team has so far only tested single carbon nanotube elements. And although they have only proved capable of "remembering" data for several days after the power is cut, the team are confident this can be extended."
Several days is a pretty short life for SSD...and longer than i want my RAM to last ;)
Me too. Never quite trusted LCD, etc after early trials.
However the color accuracy on old CRT leaves something to be desired. My 3 monitors all show a slightly different color :( Best one is the oldest and smallest IBM. Not enough to bother tweaking them further however.
The TV on the other hand may get replaced soon. Since going to digital with the convertor box the sub channels pixelate from compression and you get the worst of both worlds :(
Invariably it seems, the best 'whatever' is the one that was just discontinued.....
Qwest doesn't pay em :)
And I don't even have to check my home computer as my ISP only has a handful (literally) of residential customers.
Solved...we don't have enough bandwidth to send that out in less than X hours ;)
lol, now i have another reason for keeping my vintage DSL connection.
This is the problem i have at our office too. IF it wasn't for security it could run on 486's....
Our main accounting system uses a terminal emulator for access. Anything less than a 2GHz HT processor is noticeably slow with just basic firewall/AV running. The programs we use would be fine with anything capable of loading Win98 or higher.
The 'server' is still P3 tho :) Just a place to put some files and a convenient print server.
When it has no graphics out? It is still a GRAPHICS Processing Unit when it doesn't calculate any graphics and doesn't display any graphics. HUH? ;)
They have a whole lot of these boosting a whole lot of quad-cores.
my balls are old and dried out after only 40 years i should look into this....
lol, our oldest terminal was several years old at the time in early 80's. It had 2 8x10" boards and more inside to display simple monochrome text. It didn't even do bold, underline, or squares!
"On a side note, I frequently walk up to the drive up ATM whent he regular one is busy."
Not entirely sure i would recommend that to a blind person however....
Now explain the acronym ...
Society Of Composers, Authors and music publishers. ;) :)
Ok, I imagine SOCAMP got vetoed
N for noise makers in place of Music Publishers i guess
same here, missed 4
That includes purposely missing one i read the answer to here before trying :) I tried to guess what i would have guessed ...
Kinda misread the last one :(
I don't really care what Socrates, etc believed ....
Not sure why i missed the one on Puritans, guess the right answer just seemed too obvious, hehe.
Have to agree that the fail rate is pretty pathetic as half of those are easy to guess if you had any education. If anyone missed the one about the New Deal they should be failed also since the answer is like 5 questions down in question 8...i love tests like that.
If only we could give this to candidates...
People scare me
"density is not something that enters in that equation."
Not entirely true is it?
If you are building a spaceship around 2 feet of foam instead of around 1" of lead or something it would be bigger requiring more material for outside skin adding mass and size without gaining more shielding.
"The drugs used by three perps affected nobody but themselves..."
Exactly right.
The bad driving/DUI, theft and robbery on the other hand did. Coincidentally they are illegal in their own right even if we don't punish people enough for them :(
Not to mention in 2 of the 3 you don't even say they were on drugs, only that they wanted money. Not sure how you figure they wouldn't do the same for cigarettes, booze, food, or a new leather coat. They work for those and rob people for drug money i suppose .....
Maybe because those didn't exist for our last reunion but classmates did...
Of course i just got the same annoying crap we are talking about from reunion.com that is every bit as bad as classmates ! Exact same things saying someone is looking for me (altho the name was right) I don't see any interesting info (less than classmates as i recall) except every other page wanting me to pay them.
Only difference i see is a tagline on reunion.com saying 700 million profiles...huh, i must be the last HS graduate in the world to sign up i guess....?
Don't see the advantage in expecting everyone to make a new profile there before next reunion when the majority are already on classmates :(
Could have sworn i bought a lifetime membership at classmates when they started but can't prove it ATM. Of course the same applies for gamespy...no more lifetime anything for me.
Perhaps God created the planets in order so the last frame of reference is Venus where the 'day' is 243 earth days long :)
Perhaps the first planet he created had a day that was 729000 earth days long because he hadn't quite mastering the spinning part yet but that is the frame of reference 'he' continued to use.
Try harder people ;)
Then again sometimes they do it would seem....
too cool :)
The building where my dad had a flight school is now the restoration room for the local air museum :) Big toys are fun
I'll go with this too. Interference is not the issue ;)
How much can they produce and wouldn't they mess up themselves? The Video card does not appear to be shielded from MB and vice-versa. Wouldn't the tape drive get messed up? Wouldn't locking it in a metal case bounce it back and mess up something?
That and the fact that i have a plastic case on each side of desk and the 2 CRTs in the middle show no signs of interference for the 4 years they have been that way. Nor does anything else on or next to the table. Or any of the vintage computers in the room. Couldn't tell about wireless as i dont care and a nuclear blast probably wouldn't phase the dsl modem so another non-issue ;)
What exactly is it supposed to interfere with?
Those clear cases cost almost that much when i bought them before modding was common. Not sure i would do it again with this one even tho it is kinda cool. Besides it is too fat to fit on the desk with everything else anyway!!
Actually gave money to the firefighter one, they were selling concert tickets. Good deal and a decent concert.
That ended however when the matching policemans charity started calling the next year and i think it was the same guy even. Now neither gets anything....
Not to mention it got old the 9th time they called thanking me for my past support and do I.......
Seriously, isn't this as old as caller ID?
I did a travan-3 tape drive with windows XP altho it wasn't very happy about it. There are no drivers for floppy based tape drive but if you load up enough drivers for either older windows and/or parallel port drivers it will work eventually.
If anyone can convince XP to use a 360k floppy give me a yell :(
I ended up with 3 computers covering stuff back to the above mentioned 120MB tape drives, the travan-3 tape drive, syquest and iomega drives and a newer DDS4 tape drive as well as MFM HD and 360k floppy.
"BTW buckyballs and carbon nanotubes occur naturally in soot. You might want to look into outlawing fire."
Too late
You can't generally use a wood burning stove at many times of the year here because of the ..umm... particulates emitted !?!
((hmm, time to update Firefox dictionary. It has buckboards but not buckyballs,lol))
"Hello, I am a 'generously proportioned' male (375 pounds) with a less than generous penile length (4 inches erect)"
How can he be sure?
Anyways...
Don't you have to touch the circle before you go off on a tangent?
These aren't as funny as someone thinks they are.
I think the bricks will come off our building before he/she/it gets very far up the wall !