idiot driver should be prosecuted since everyone knows the third light from the top is regular green and not a turn signal.
Are LED fixtures made to follow these same rules? On an LED light, the same light can easily be used to display both by simply not turning on all the LEDs.
Or emphasis. It obviously loses its purpose if a whole post is in caps, but the OCCASIONAL capitalization for emphasis is a perfectly valid practice, especially in plain text where bold and italics are not available. That's not the case in slashdot, but is in many internet forums.
You could also enclose the phrase in asterisks instead of using caps, as people used to do so in email correspondence. I still remember holding discussions on BBS systems by exchanging QWK archives of posts, and my QWK reader automatically boldfaced text inside asterisks and italicized text between slashes, providing formatting not available on a terminal screen.
See, this is why those proprietary display adapters were so great.
If you took it away, the kid would have to go out and [i]buy[/i] another, now they can just reach into that electronics junk box and pull out a spare composite/component/HDMI cord that originally came with some other home entertainment device to hook up with.
It is a bit strong for Americans to accuse the French of being cowards considering that USA never gets involved in a war that you don't are completely and massively military superior in.
* The Pacific Theater of WWII wasn't exactly a cakewalk before we developed nuclear weapons. * Many people here consider Vietnam a war we lost.
USA wouldn't know anything about fighting such a war where you risk losing your country.
Well ignoring that little scuffle known as the American Civil War, It's not like we've been given a multitude of opportunities to find out. Is it our fault nobody has tried to start a war on our own soil? (I guess so. Damn us for seeking peace treaties with our near neighbors and defending ourselves too well; dissuading others from invading). I could easily phrase your statement as "the majority of wars Americans have gone to are not ones they really needed to get involved in to start with."
Yeah. America: Going out looking for a fight (they're real cowards).
Why is it they have to step forwards to color already? What I want is much larger greyscale displays with better contrast for cheaper. Seriously, give me a U.S. Letter size display with better contrast for under $100 and I will jump on the e-reader bandwagon.
Drat, I wish the writer had said what kind of D-Link router he's using. Our own Internet service was recently upgraded from 21 Mbps to 50 Mbps and we have been having issues with it since then. We also use a D-Link router (DIR-655) and haven't figured out if the issue is the modem (had to trade in our Motorola Surfboard 5100 for a new Arris that supports DOCSIS 3.0), the router, or the service itself since it is a new speed range for our provider, maybe they haven't gotten all the bugs worked out yet.
It will work great part of the time, sometimes it seems to be connected but service moves at such a trickle most things time out, sometimes resetting the router fixes this, sometimes we have to reset the modem, and it happens quite often late at night when it's hard to get support for the issue.
[blockquote]See, here's your problem. You're comparing competent players to an incompetent player. One that in particular has terrible support for ASS, by far the most popular subtitle format for fansubs. Try mplayer (or a GUI frontend if that's your thing) sometime.[/blockquote]
VLC gets it's SSA/ASS subtitle rendering support from the mplayer project. So except for being a step behind MPlayer's they are using the same code. Implementation, however, may be making a difference.
They need to fix SOUND in general in Linux, so it, like, just works. I have a dual boot system (WinXP64 and Kumubtu 9.10), and if there's one thing I'm having trouble with it's getting sound working on any video player. Regular system sound is fine, Amarok can play, too. But I haven't been able to get a video player that has a good interface, decent playback abilities for the latest codecs and subtitle formats, and sound working all at the same time. Some of this has to do with mplayer waiting forever to release a new "official version" so distributors would update their packages. Maybe some of it has to do with me using a USB audio device, but in general it's application and the O/S not working together on working with the "default" audio output setting in preferences and not supporting other methods (ALSA/PulseAudio/etc.) without config tweaking.
I can download and run VLC for Windows and it works as soon as it's installed, it should be the same on Linux, especially since all the VLC developers are Linux developers and not really focused on Windows.
Getting sound to work in video players (or audio players, web browsers, etc) has been a trial for me going back years.
Listings are not easy and keeping them current is a constant struggle. I tell you what, after I did all that work tracking down names, addresses, verifying the info, removing venues that closed, adding new ones, I don't want anyone taking my hard work and applying it to their product. Fuck them, they can pay me.
Have you considered that "paying" isn't always done with money? It can be done with an exchange of information instead. Kind of like how the internet backbone networks have peering agreements with each other rather than asking each other to pay for the data they transfer by the GB.
You're not thinking about what would benefit the businesses. You're thinking about a scenario that would benefit you. Pretty selfish for a guy advocating communalism and cooperation over the survival of the fittest.
Each business would require less resources to keep their information up to date if they weren't all duplicating each other's work on the same geographic area. Or even if they did, the info would be more up to date since multiple groups would be doing occasional verification of the info.
The interface and features were where they would be competing on. It's the basic listings of stuff and the communication method to this information that would be shared. Something as simple as "where is this business actually located" or even "does it really exist" are not things that should vary from company to company. If they want to cross-reference to their own personal listings of reviews for restaurant x or a movie ticket purchasing portal for theater y they can still do that. The simple nuts and bolts of what is what can be shared for more accurate information though, and that benefits all parties involved.
It's the separate companies' pigheaded insistence they can reinvent the map in a way where they get to own it that is keeping this from happening.
"This is the first review I have seen where all the browsers have been compared together; what's interesting is all the browsers use different data sources, and so either miss popular locations or give the wrong location."
Obviously. This is what happens when a bunch of separate teams all determined to own ALL the pie reach for it at the same time. Everyone gets a part but they also all leave some filling behind in the pan in the rush.
Imagine how much more complete the picture would be if the children all cooperated and worked together on the database content, developed the communication protocols for that database together, and gave each other free license to use them. Then differentiated themselves from the competition with the interface, hardware (if applicable), price, etc.
The FDA hasn't BANNED these mixtures. What they're asking for is proof that it's safe. The FDA operates under a null hypothesis that assumes all additives are dangerous until proven otherwise (proven as GRAS).
I think that is kind of silly. Prove it's safe? We're talking about two substances that are already consumed separately and have been deemed safe, and are consumed together mixed by the end user and have been treated as safe. Unless these manufacturers are putting in MASSIVE doses of caffeine compared to popular mixed drinks of the same volume, why would there be any difference in reaction?
I actually buy these 12-pack cases of these little 8 oz. cans of Coke (marketed as being "100 calorie"), because they're the perfect size for making single mixed drinks with and then you don't have a whole bottle of soda going flat in the fridge. After reading this I think I'll start buying the caffeine-free version of them. I thought it was odd such a rather unpopular variant of Coke was also available in this size but Cherry Coke wasn't at the store. Maybe others are already doing this.
This has nothing to do with banning Jack & Coke, Red Bull + Vodka, etc. You're free to get smashed and caffeinated at the same time until you keel over in twitchy delirium. All the FDA has indicated is that they haven't authorized caffeine as an additive to alcoholic beverages AS THEY COME FROM THE MANUFACTURER.
If there really is that big a danger the FDA shouldn't be targeting just pre-made drinks. It's still alcohol+caffeine, if it gets mixed by a bar.
As for the original post, they do make CAFFEINE-FREE Coke. And I'm sure it tastes close enough to the original that people wouldn't notice a difference in flavor in a mixed drink.
Watch them hire a consulting company and pay them millions of dollars to implement some sort of viewer embedded in the site pages that keeps google from seeing the stories.
As we all should know by now, impenetrable security doesn't exist. What we should probably have is tighter backup power for essential services and places like hospitals, where local redundancy could help in the face of a remote 'hacker' type attack
Places where there is a lot of danger for people without electrical power don't need billions spent on the security of their power systems. They need redundancy, generators in their buildings that could be used to keep people alive, batteries, and common sense.
We could also just decentralize the power grid so it isn't possible to crash the entire system by screwing around with one utility company. With many smaller independent companies the compromised system could be isolated and only a small number of customers would have interrupted power.
Such a feat would be a great side benefit from adopting more renewable energy sources, having a collective metropolitan area served by several small solar/wind/hydroelectric stations interspersed geographically within the area, rather than a big traditional power plant outside of town. Not to mention higher efficiency from less line transport to the customer.
I was following right along with what you said, until I got to the part about The ignition coil (if your car has one), and then my mind went blank with imagery of sheer stupidy.
Every modern gasoline-fired car has an ignition coil. As does every single genuine antique gas-powered vehicle that I can think of. It is, essentially, a prerequisite of making spark plugs spark.
That was a brain fart on my part. I was remembering a '75 Maverick I bought parts for to do a tuneup, and then realized the ignition points I bought were not needed, because the engine I had mas the model with the electronic ignition module, not mechanical points as some other engine options did. They both had coils obviously.
My point is if you leave the ignition switch in "On" to keep the steering wheel unlocked, the car may continue to charge the ignition coil (since it is supposed to be operating in that mode), but since the engine is not actually running (since you never restarted it) the coil is not being discharged, and therefore may be getting overcharged depending on how sophisticated your ignition setup is.
If you left you car in the garage this way, you would eventually burn out your ignition coil. But that wouldn't be anything to worry about in the time it takes your to deal with this emergency.
mmm so what's this mean about VOIP? and phone service that Comcast might sell you vs Vonage or MagicJack?
If it's phone service Comcast is selling you, nothing will happen. Their VoIP packets will be tagged to get a higher priority, they may not even be running in the same band as your regular Internet service to start with. If you're using Vonage or MagicJack, you're S.O.L. These are third-party services and are nothing more than another device using your internet connection as far as Comcast is concerned.
If your VoIP stops working properly, there's no one to really blame. Vonage has no control over the data transport service so they can't fix it, Comcast is selling you Internet service meant for being used for browsing the web with a computer (there's a clause somewhere in all ISP's TOS that states exactly this). They aren't providing you phone so they have no responsibility to make sure your Vonage works. You can put up with what happens, or change providers. But since they all are going to behave in a similar fashion when it comes to VoIP companies that are directly competing with their own services, none are going to make dealing with these issues a very high priority.
Welcome to that little secret the VoIP companies don't tell you about in their sales brochure.
Try to ignore the ear-shattering whine as your engine tears itself to pieces.
You underestimate the stress-taking ability of your car's engine. Unless you're going to let your car roar at maximum RPM for a few hours it will be okay. I personally plan to pull over once I regain control and have the engine off within a minute or so, but maybe you're different. Also remember that most cars nowadays have rev limiters in the ignition system.
Catch on fire? Would you mind explaining how that's likely to happen? Even if you throw a rod the engine will just begin knocking VERY loudly. Once it's unable to keep the assembly rotating it will stall and maybe smoke. You're not getting much fresh air inside a stalled engine to feed a fire, and unless it's way overheated there isn't going to be anything igniting.
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Are LED fixtures made to follow these same rules? On an LED light, the same light can easily be used to display both by simply not turning on all the LEDs.
You could also enclose the phrase in asterisks instead of using caps, as people used to do so in email correspondence. I still remember holding discussions on BBS systems by exchanging QWK archives of posts, and my QWK reader automatically boldfaced text inside asterisks and italicized text between slashes, providing formatting not available on a terminal screen.
There is, but you can't take it with you on the go.
Hey! Guys like chocolate too, you insensitive clod!
See, this is why those proprietary display adapters were so great.
If you took it away, the kid would have to go out and [i]buy[/i] another, now they can just reach into that electronics junk box and pull out a spare composite/component/HDMI cord that originally came with some other home entertainment device to hook up with.
Because even if he earned his license he wouldn't be able to just take out a jumbo jet for joyride over a scenic desert?
* The Pacific Theater of WWII wasn't exactly a cakewalk before we developed nuclear weapons.
* Many people here consider Vietnam a war we lost.
Well ignoring that little scuffle known as the American Civil War, It's not like we've been given a multitude of opportunities to find out. Is it our fault nobody has tried to start a war on our own soil? (I guess so. Damn us for seeking peace treaties with our near neighbors and defending ourselves too well; dissuading others from invading). I could easily phrase your statement as "the majority of wars Americans have gone to are not ones they really needed to get involved in to start with."
Yeah. America: Going out looking for a fight (they're real cowards).
Uhh, Doesn't the Wii have an online marketplace where you can get those games from systems past and play them on your new Wii under emulation?
I'm sure they aren't making these two items just to look pretty on a shelf.
Why is it they have to step forwards to color already? What I want is much larger greyscale displays with better contrast for cheaper. Seriously, give me a U.S. Letter size display with better contrast for under $100 and I will jump on the e-reader bandwagon.
Drat, I wish the writer had said what kind of D-Link router he's using. Our own Internet service was recently upgraded from 21 Mbps to 50 Mbps and we have been having issues with it since then. We also use a D-Link router (DIR-655) and haven't figured out if the issue is the modem (had to trade in our Motorola Surfboard 5100 for a new Arris that supports DOCSIS 3.0), the router, or the service itself since it is a new speed range for our provider, maybe they haven't gotten all the bugs worked out yet.
It will work great part of the time, sometimes it seems to be connected but service moves at such a trickle most things time out, sometimes resetting the router fixes this, sometimes we have to reset the modem, and it happens quite often late at night when it's hard to get support for the issue.
It can also be read as the unnamed vacuum-cleaner manufacturer was one of the things sold to Naval Sea Systems Command along with the chips.
[blockquote]See, here's your problem. You're comparing competent players to an incompetent player. One that in particular has terrible support for ASS, by far the most popular subtitle format for fansubs. Try mplayer (or a GUI frontend if that's your thing) sometime.[/blockquote]
VLC gets it's SSA/ASS subtitle rendering support from the mplayer project. So except for being a step behind MPlayer's they are using the same code. Implementation, however, may be making a difference.
At least I can get sound to work on VLC.
Japan and the U.S are in the same BluRay Region (A).
Hello. Anime fan here.
They need to fix SOUND in general in Linux, so it, like, just works. I have a dual boot system (WinXP64 and Kumubtu 9.10), and if there's one thing I'm having trouble with it's getting sound working on any video player. Regular system sound is fine, Amarok can play, too. But I haven't been able to get a video player that has a good interface, decent playback abilities for the latest codecs and subtitle formats, and sound working all at the same time. Some of this has to do with mplayer waiting forever to release a new "official version" so distributors would update their packages. Maybe some of it has to do with me using a USB audio device, but in general it's application and the O/S not working together on working with the "default" audio output setting in preferences and not supporting other methods (ALSA/PulseAudio/etc.) without config tweaking.
I can download and run VLC for Windows and it works as soon as it's installed, it should be the same on Linux, especially since all the VLC developers are Linux developers and not really focused on Windows.
Getting sound to work in video players (or audio players, web browsers, etc) has been a trial for me going back years.
Have you considered that "paying" isn't always done with money? It can be done with an exchange of information instead. Kind of like how the internet backbone networks have peering agreements with each other rather than asking each other to pay for the data they transfer by the GB.
Each business would require less resources to keep their information up to date if they weren't all duplicating each other's work on the same geographic area. Or even if they did, the info would be more up to date since multiple groups would be doing occasional verification of the info.
Yeah, this wouldn't benefit businesses at all...
Go back and read what I said again.
The interface and features were where they would be competing on. It's the basic listings of stuff and the communication method to this information that would be shared. Something as simple as "where is this business actually located" or even "does it really exist" are not things that should vary from company to company. If they want to cross-reference to their own personal listings of reviews for restaurant x or a movie ticket purchasing portal for theater y they can still do that. The simple nuts and bolts of what is what can be shared for more accurate information though, and that benefits all parties involved.
It's the separate companies' pigheaded insistence they can reinvent the map in a way where they get to own it that is keeping this from happening.
Obviously. This is what happens when a bunch of separate teams all determined to own ALL the pie reach for it at the same time. Everyone gets a part but they also all leave some filling behind in the pan in the rush.
Imagine how much more complete the picture would be if the children all cooperated and worked together on the database content, developed the communication protocols for that database together, and gave each other free license to use them. Then differentiated themselves from the competition with the interface, hardware (if applicable), price, etc.
I think that is kind of silly. Prove it's safe? We're talking about two substances that are already consumed separately and have been deemed safe, and are consumed together mixed by the end user and have been treated as safe. Unless these manufacturers are putting in MASSIVE doses of caffeine compared to popular mixed drinks of the same volume, why would there be any difference in reaction?
I actually buy these 12-pack cases of these little 8 oz. cans of Coke (marketed as being "100 calorie"), because they're the perfect size for making single mixed drinks with and then you don't have a whole bottle of soda going flat in the fridge. After reading this I think I'll start buying the caffeine-free version of them. I thought it was odd such a rather unpopular variant of Coke was also available in this size but Cherry Coke wasn't at the store. Maybe others are already doing this.
If there really is that big a danger the FDA shouldn't be targeting just pre-made drinks. It's still alcohol+caffeine, if it gets mixed by a bar.
As for the original post, they do make CAFFEINE-FREE Coke. And I'm sure it tastes close enough to the original that people wouldn't notice a difference in flavor in a mixed drink.
Watch them hire a consulting company and pay them millions of dollars to implement some sort of viewer embedded in the site pages that keeps google from seeing the stories.
We could also just decentralize the power grid so it isn't possible to crash the entire system by screwing around with one utility company. With many smaller independent companies the compromised system could be isolated and only a small number of customers would have interrupted power.
Such a feat would be a great side benefit from adopting more renewable energy sources, having a collective metropolitan area served by several small solar/wind/hydroelectric stations interspersed geographically within the area, rather than a big traditional power plant outside of town. Not to mention higher efficiency from less line transport to the customer.
Um, you mean this?
http://hothardware.com/News/Asus-Eee-Keyboard-With-BuiltIn-PC-Shipping-Next-Month/
That was a brain fart on my part. I was remembering a '75 Maverick I bought parts for to do a tuneup, and then realized the ignition points I bought were not needed, because the engine I had mas the model with the electronic ignition module, not mechanical points as some other engine options did. They both had coils obviously.
My point is if you leave the ignition switch in "On" to keep the steering wheel unlocked, the car may continue to charge the ignition coil (since it is supposed to be operating in that mode), but since the engine is not actually running (since you never restarted it) the coil is not being discharged, and therefore may be getting overcharged depending on how sophisticated your ignition setup is.
If you left you car in the garage this way, you would eventually burn out your ignition coil. But that wouldn't be anything to worry about in the time it takes your to deal with this emergency.
If it's phone service Comcast is selling you, nothing will happen. Their VoIP packets will be tagged to get a higher priority, they may not even be running in the same band as your regular Internet service to start with. If you're using Vonage or MagicJack, you're S.O.L. These are third-party services and are nothing more than another device using your internet connection as far as Comcast is concerned.
If your VoIP stops working properly, there's no one to really blame. Vonage has no control over the data transport service so they can't fix it, Comcast is selling you Internet service meant for being used for browsing the web with a computer (there's a clause somewhere in all ISP's TOS that states exactly this). They aren't providing you phone so they have no responsibility to make sure your Vonage works. You can put up with what happens, or change providers. But since they all are going to behave in a similar fashion when it comes to VoIP companies that are directly competing with their own services, none are going to make dealing with these issues a very high priority.
Welcome to that little secret the VoIP companies don't tell you about in their sales brochure.
You underestimate the stress-taking ability of your car's engine. Unless you're going to let your car roar at maximum RPM for a few hours it will be okay. I personally plan to pull over once I regain control and have the engine off within a minute or so, but maybe you're different. Also remember that most cars nowadays have rev limiters in the ignition system.
Catch on fire? Would you mind explaining how that's likely to happen? Even if you throw a rod the engine will just begin knocking VERY loudly. Once it's unable to keep the assembly rotating it will stall and maybe smoke. You're not getting much fresh air inside a stalled engine to feed a fire, and unless it's way overheated there isn't going to be anything igniting.