A car is a not a good analogy as you do have a power source, try bus, train or just walking and then a 2nd battery can be very useful.
Some trains have mains sockets, but far from all, and then only if you get a window seat.
According to the gp poster we're on a freeway. Assuming we're in a car is the logical choice. It's generally not legal to walk on freeways. Trains don't run on freeways. And, much like a train, on a bus you are merely a passenger in a vehicle following a predetermined route, so you have little opportunity to do any "navigating".
If you wanted to navigate while on a bus then using a paper bus route map, which are often available in holders on the bus, is more useful, since it shows you were the bus is actually going to be making stops so you can map your path from your disembark point.
If we're on the freeway and it's not our own car we're in it's a taxi, where navigating is also not going to be your job.
Seems the new CDMA iPhone got Apple thinking about a Sim-less design.
Yes, a design that requires users to get their account information added to the phone by going through their carrier, thereby making their carrier a gatekeeper preventing people from using certain model devices if they desire.
I can't imagine why Apple would be attracted to a design that reduces customer control over their devices.:rolleyes:
If one group loses a favorite tax dodge, the system would seek a rebalancing of others to compensate.
There's should be "tax dodges" to start with. Either a tax is justified or not. The point of the system isn't that people should have little tricks to avoid paying their fair share.
"Aquarius" is a proper noun in this case, so it's not redundant with the descriptive term "underwater". Also, Aquarius could be a reference to the astrological sign, which would make sense given this is a space program. Would you have said the same thing about the Gemini program if the astronauts had always gone up in pairs.
It is also worth noting that Aquarius is an air sign, not a water sign as you would expect.
At some point you just have to wonder... Does it even matter anymore? These court cases drag on so long that the technology they're litigating about isn't even relevant when they're done.
A baby stroller has been discovered to trigger a false-positive on a high-tech bomb detecting scanner. Obviously we need better bomb-detecting methods. Plus it puts the effectiveness of these scanners at actually detecting bombs into question.
The Pirate Bay isn't exactly a possible source of revenue, so Comcast wouldn't have a good reason for throttling it, even if it soaks up bandwidth like a spark-gap transmitter.
Anything that causes customers to use copious amounts of data (be it torrenting or streaming video) is a potential source of revenue for an ISP that has transfer caps and overage fees.
It's free in the sense that you can download a fully functional copy from the developers website. You are supposed to register it after a trial period but the devs don't actually make any significant attempt to enforce that.
The fact they don't make the software cease to function completely after the trial period doesn't make it freeware magically. You're still using the software without paying for it.
Except Winrar isn't free (in any sense). The shell integration has been part of the installation options in 7-zip for years now. If you don't have a need to create rar archives, only open them. there really is no reason to give Rarlab your money or make it a pirated piece of software on your system.
I love comments of massive depth where clicking on the reply textbox will simply expand the above comment and defocus the reply text box. Yes great feature that one.
Oh, is that what it's doing? It was driving me crazy earlier because I'd click reply and it seemed like the page would jump back to the top and then I'd have to spend a few minutes trying to find my place again in the conversation so I could start typing in the editor.
I also notice none of the comments I've written since May 1st appear on my own user page.
You would be shocked how many really smart people don't know the difference between a week and a strong password.
These would be the people I have to reset their mail password for every seven days because they forgot it and then complain because I can't make it the name of their dog, right?:-D
I'm pretty sure that H.264 is todays most common high definition video format, not BluRay,
I'm pretty sure you're getting the physical media confused with the actual data on it. BluRay is a specification for an optical media format, and the most common encoding for the video on a BluRay disc is AVC -- which is H.264.
So the Apple TV becomes your console and the iPad becomes your controller.
AppleTV is unneeded when the iPad already has more horsepower. There's already a dock -> HDMI adapter.
You wouldn't play your typical games on it but with a bit of creativity I could see some rather interesting games coming out of it. Board games could work really well under this scenario. Especially quite complex ones.
Only on Linux. They don't support it on Windows because the developers aren't personally interested in V/V support and don't really care what their users want (and that's not an exaggeration if you've seen the discussions on it on Pidgin's site).
Apple said they would release FaceTime as a standard that others could implement, does anyone know if there is any non-Apple FaceTime software out there?
Apple said they'd release the video/audio codec combination as a standard IIRC, because the image and sound quality was supposedly much superior to what was out there at the time, not that they would allow anyone who wanted to the ability to connect to the FaceTime network.
It probably had more to do with it being the middle of the night and most places people would usually eat lunch being closed. Can't go out to eat when most restaurants aren't open and can't sit in a public park (nor would you want to) that time of night.
That's actually a very good idea. When a video-on-demand rental is 24 hours generally with cablecos, pricing them at a dollar would make them competitive with RedBox, and they would be more convenient since you wouldn't have to actually drive to a kiosk to get a DVD.
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A car is a not a good analogy as you do have a power source, try bus, train or just walking and then a 2nd battery can be very useful.
Some trains have mains sockets, but far from all, and then only if you get a window seat.
According to the gp poster we're on a freeway. Assuming we're in a car is the logical choice. It's generally not legal to walk on freeways. Trains don't run on freeways. And, much like a train, on a bus you are merely a passenger in a vehicle following a predetermined route, so you have little opportunity to do any "navigating".
If you wanted to navigate while on a bus then using a paper bus route map, which are often available in holders on the bus, is more useful, since it shows you were the bus is actually going to be making stops so you can map your path from your disembark point.
If we're on the freeway and it's not our own car we're in it's a taxi, where navigating is also not going to be your job.
Try again.
Yes, but you can carry a replacement battery in your pocket so when your battery is flat, you are not stuck on the freeway with no navigation.
If you're in your car, why can't you just plug in your mobile charger?
Seems the new CDMA iPhone got Apple thinking about a Sim-less design.
Yes, a design that requires users to get their account information added to the phone by going through their carrier, thereby making their carrier a gatekeeper preventing people from using certain model devices if they desire.
I can't imagine why Apple would be attracted to a design that reduces customer control over their devices. :rolleyes:
:facepalm:
"There SHOULDN'T be tax dodges...."
If one group loses a favorite tax dodge, the system would seek a rebalancing of others to compensate.
There's should be "tax dodges" to start with. Either a tax is justified or not. The point of the system isn't that people should have little tricks to avoid paying their fair share.
Or bluray movies.
Fail reply is fail.
"Aquarius" is a proper noun in this case, so it's not redundant with the descriptive term "underwater". Also, Aquarius could be a reference to the astrological sign, which would make sense given this is a space program. Would you have said the same thing about the Gemini program if the astronauts had always gone up in pairs.
It is also worth noting that Aquarius is an air sign, not a water sign as you would expect.
At some point you just have to wonder... Does it even matter anymore? These court cases drag on so long that the technology they're litigating about isn't even relevant when they're done.
Wouldn't nonsecure -> secure give viruses an avenue of entry?
Sure it is. :-)
A baby stroller has been discovered to trigger a false-positive on a high-tech bomb detecting scanner. Obviously we need better bomb-detecting methods. Plus it puts the effectiveness of these scanners at actually detecting bombs into question.
Not only that, this is Domesday Reloaded. Where the mechanical squid make their coordinated assault on the domes that protect us.
The Pirate Bay isn't exactly a possible source of revenue, so Comcast wouldn't have a good reason for throttling it, even if it soaks up bandwidth like a spark-gap transmitter.
Anything that causes customers to use copious amounts of data (be it torrenting or streaming video) is a potential source of revenue for an ISP that has transfer caps and overage fees.
The old are far to wise for that malarkey!
But not wise enough to use the proper form of "too" I notice.
It's free in the sense that you can download a fully functional copy from the developers website. You are supposed to register it after a trial period but the devs don't actually make any significant attempt to enforce that.
The fact they don't make the software cease to function completely after the trial period doesn't make it freeware magically. You're still using the software without paying for it.
Except Winrar isn't free (in any sense). The shell integration has been part of the installation options in 7-zip for years now. If you don't have a need to create rar archives, only open them. there really is no reason to give Rarlab your money or make it a pirated piece of software on your system.
I love comments of massive depth where clicking on the reply textbox will simply expand the above comment and defocus the reply text box. Yes great feature that one.
Oh, is that what it's doing? It was driving me crazy earlier because I'd click reply and it seemed like the page would jump back to the top and then I'd have to spend a few minutes trying to find my place again in the conversation so I could start typing in the editor.
I also notice none of the comments I've written since May 1st appear on my own user page.
You would be shocked how many really smart people don't know the difference between a week and a strong password.
These would be the people I have to reset their mail password for every seven days because they forgot it and then complain because I can't make it the name of their dog, right? :-D
I'm pretty sure that H.264 is todays most common high definition video format, not BluRay,
I'm pretty sure you're getting the physical media confused with the actual data on it. BluRay is a specification for an optical media format, and the most common encoding for the video on a BluRay disc is AVC -- which is H.264.
So the Apple TV becomes your console and the iPad becomes your controller.
AppleTV is unneeded when the iPad already has more horsepower.
There's already a dock -> HDMI adapter.
You wouldn't play your typical games on it but with a bit of creativity I could see some rather interesting games coming out of it. Board games could work really well under this scenario. Especially quite complex ones.
Why wouldn't we play typical games?
Politicians are incompetent for the leadership positions they hold, news at 11.
Only on Linux. They don't support it on Windows because the developers aren't personally interested in V/V support and don't really care what their users want (and that's not an exaggeration if you've seen the discussions on it on Pidgin's site).
Apple said they would release FaceTime as a standard that others could implement, does anyone know if there is any non-Apple FaceTime software out there?
Apple said they'd release the video/audio codec combination as a standard IIRC, because the image and sound quality was supposedly much superior to what was out there at the time, not that they would allow anyone who wanted to the ability to connect to the FaceTime network.
It probably had more to do with it being the middle of the night and most places people would usually eat lunch being closed. Can't go out to eat when most restaurants aren't open and can't sit in a public park (nor would you want to) that time of night.
Funny, investigating external intrusions just feels like something I'd expect the CIA or NSA to be handling instead.
That's actually a very good idea. When a video-on-demand rental is 24 hours generally with cablecos, pricing them at a dollar would make them competitive with RedBox, and they would be more convenient since you wouldn't have to actually drive to a kiosk to get a DVD.