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I've a region free DVD player and that can be set to output the picture in NTSC,PAL or auto. My TV does not care if it receives a PAL or a NTSC signal, it handles both. I have both zone 2 and zone 1 DVDs and it has never been a issue for me.
And even if not all TVs handle both the PS3 could easily reformat the output picture based on some system setting like my DVD player can.
"ABS didn't function because I was on a very slippery surface."
That's when the ABS works. If you try to brake without ABS the wheels will be blocked and you have no control of the direction of the car.
With ABS you still have some degree of control because the breakes are released often enough to give you some control.
"the ABS did not engage, and I slid, quite frustratingly to a stop just before hitting the car in front of me."
If you stopped right before hitting the car in front of you, chances are that you would probably have hit him if the ABS had engaged. The most effective way to stop is to have all the wheels blocked. This however gives you no control of direction.
Proffesional drivers will be able to maintain the same control that the ABS gives, but will be able to stop faster by controling the clutch and breakes correctly.
I agree, if anyone needs this let it be a plug-in.
The main reason why I use Firefox is because it's just a browser.
I used to use Opera, but they wants to be everything (chat-client,mail-client, etc), I just want a browser.
This has nothing to do with trolling, but with information. The information in the post above is well known facts in Norway. Maybe it's because of the climate in Norway, but it's still a problem.
So when someone advertises for Nokia on Slashdot, I think people has the right to know that Nokia isn't all that good. They have a reputation about accepting more quality problems than the other mobile-producers. Sure they have good features, but if they took some more time on QA they might have made quality products too.
I'll post the URLs (again), but I don't care to translate, I'm not that good an translater. I'll give a short summary though:
- The first two articles are about the same thing. basicly saying that the stores don't dare to recomend Nokia because of the quality problems.
- The last article is a bit older, saying that Nokia has the phones that need most repaires (1 out of 3).
Nokia most repaired:
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=1933591
From the last article:
"Mens hver tredje solgte Nokia-telefon ma inn til reparasjon, er tallene langt bedre for konkurrentene Siemens, Sony Ericsson og Motorola. Fra disse produsentene trenger bare hver tiende telefon service for det er gatt seks maneder."
translated to:
"While every third Nokia-phone sold have to have service, the numbers for Simens,Sony Ericsson and Motorola are much better. only 1 out of 10 need service within 6 months."
It really doesn't matter what Nokia put into their phones as long as they don't know how to make quality.
Here in Norway clerks in several stores where asked if they would recommend Nokia to their customers and almost everyone said no! They have too much customer complaints on Nokia phones. Every third Nokia phone sold in Norway has to get service within 6 months...
The most recommended phones where Siemens and Sony Ericson. They only have to have one out of ten phones into services within 6 months.
From the GPL:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Who says they need to give out a new source? As I have understood, the GPL doesn't as long as they haven't changed anything in the kernel. If they use MonteVistas version which propably are already ported for the processor they are using, they don't need to change anything. And you can download it yourself at MonteVistas site.
They can have all the interesting software in userspace, which don't need to be GPL.
If I've gotten anything wrong I'm sure enough people here will inform me about it
I would say some of the points of using Linux in embedded devices is that the developers get a lot for free.
1) There is noe license cost. This one is important since the licensing for other RTOS's make you pay a fee for every product you make or sells, etc.
2) They get TCP/IP stack, bluetooth-stack, etc for free (no need to buy it from somewhere or write it on your own)
3) Linux is good for marketing these days. Like java-phones sounded cool a few years ago.
It's no more offtopic than the rest of the comments commenting that specific line. My comment just state that implementing a future that notifies the authorities about anything would lead to abuse. At least in the US. If Bush could use something like that to do something HE think is important enough (like going to war on something, he likes that), he would do it.
Here comes the offtopic part:
To mod it offtopic shows that you either didn't understand what I was saying because you couldn't read between the lines, which is bad when you play moderator. Or that you are narrowminded enough to believe in what Bush is telling you (and afraid of the truth), which shows that you've abused your moderator-gift. How about reading the directions for being a moderator.
This will have absolutely no effect. The US political system is too corrupt for these kind of laws to end up functional. Gator and their fellow trash just need to donate enough money for the coming election and the new law will be watered out to have no effect.
In my experience most people I've heard speaking on the cellphone don't speak louder than many other on the bus do when talking to the person beside them... So, I can't really understand why people irritate themself so much about it. But I've come up with one theory, that people irritate themself because they can't hear the person on the other end. So they just hear half of the conversation. And may be sub-consciously they then focus more on that particular conversation?
Don't get me wrong. Of course we should try to help does who are unfortunate enough to be disfuntional or have illness (Or even better correct the problem pre-birth). But all I was trying to say is that just because in our eyes someone is not perfect enough or functional enough they might make something good out of their lives. And be perfectly happy about it.
And I also think we should be very carefull about messing with the nature, after all the after effects could be far worse than we can imagine. And they might show up to late, when nature is all fucked up.
Nature? The same nature that created cancer and spina bifida and cystic fibrosis and hemophilia and hundreds of other genetic diseases? I don't trust nature at all.
Sure there are some bad things going around, but are you really sure nature is to blame for all of it (sure some sickness would have arrived without our help), but a lot of reasons for cancer are believed to come from industrial waste, pollution, some modern unhealty food, lack of excercise etc. Maybe if everyone didn't insist on driving everywhere, industrial outlets are cleaned before the waste gets out in nature etc. it would make a difference? I just believe some things we blame on nature are really the after effects from human pollution and abuse of nature. I'm not some enviromental nutcase, but denial is not the way to go either...Like Bush managed to say: "The pollution is not the problem, the impurities in the air are". Right...
[Quote]So the repugnance is motivated by sour grapes.
Fear of competition shouldn't justify laws that require parents to risk the heath of their offspring by passing defective DNA on to the next generation.[/Quote]
You're aware that some of the greatest minds propably wouldn't have been born if genetic manipulation and selective breating had been involved?
You can hardly say Stephen Hawkins are fully functional? But he has trained his mind into understanding things most of us can hardly dream of.
I read somewhere about Albert Einstein that they think his brain functioned like it did because his brain was a bit deformed...giving better contact between the to halfes.
Of course you could argue that we can study Albert Einsteins genes and manipulate the future generations into having a brain like his. But the way I see it is that we can be better than our genes have foretold. It's not sure that Hawkins would have been so smart if he had a fully functional body. Maybe he is so smart because he does not? We do not know enough about the body to tell, at least not yet. Besides the nature have proven to be a good system until now...
The point above was about cloning with a breathing human as a result. On the topic of cloning just cells I'm not sure what my opinions are. But I still think it's an ethical debate and not an religious debate. And it needs a lot more discussion before we can just let anyone play around with it.
Actually I don't see this as a religious debate, but an ethical. We don't know what impacts this will have on society. That's why we put it on hold until we understand more what negative effects it could have.
One negative effect could be that (rich?) people get to perfect their kids by cloning or genetic modifications. Creating kids that are geneticly better adapted, and in doing so creates a class society where normal people will not get good jobs and so on.
What scare a lot of people about cloning and genetic modifications is that they are afraid it will be used to create a society where humans will be perfected (breathing people who is only "perfect").
They are afraid that people who isn't perfect looking or functional will be valued as lesser humans.
If you haven't seen the film Gattaca it shows a bit how extreme it could become...
The connection to anti-spam systems is there since it's done at DNS level. It messes up the way the internet works.
And you argued positivly for having this feature, so I thought I should mention the negative effect from it.
And on the point that we're not going to see anything else of use there...well I consider something like site not found a usefull response. Then I can set up something myself if I want to handle that response.
And as understand it some anti-spam programs does a lookup on the senders hostname to see if it's a valid hostname. If the lookup returns an error (not found) they send the mail directly to the trash.
But with this service you will always get a hit. Which in turn renders this anti-spam program ineffective.
Of course you could use other anti-spam tool, but this stops a lot of spam with fake hostnames.
Don't know if you got the virus, but I got a few variations of it.
The first one i got was actually very smart. If it hadn't been for the fact that I knew of the virus and that I know who I've sent mail to even I could have opened it. (I've never been infected with a virus in the 15 years I've used computers).
The virus presented itself as a reply-mail from an administrator telling me it couldn't find the receipent. And the mail I sent was attached as readme.txt
That's what it looked like. But since I've read of the virus and knew I hadn't sent that mail I checked a bit more and found that behind the.txt there was a lot of %20 (space) before.scr
For the nontechnical officeworker who sends a lot of e-mail during the normal workday it wouldn't be strange if the user would open the attatchment, after all it was only a.txt-file right. What harm can a text-file do?
Btw, I use Thunderbird as my mailprogram. So this wasn't a Outlook problem hiding the.scr, just a lot of spaces pushing it of the screen.
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I've a region free DVD player and that can be set to output the picture in NTSC,PAL or auto. My TV does not care if it receives a PAL or a NTSC signal, it handles both. I have both zone 2 and zone 1 DVDs and it has never been a issue for me.
And even if not all TVs handle both the PS3 could easily reformat the output picture based on some system setting like my DVD player can.
"ABS didn't function because I was on a very slippery surface."
That's when the ABS works. If you try to brake without ABS the wheels will be blocked and you have no control of the direction of the car. With ABS you still have some degree of control because the breakes are released often enough to give you some control.
"the ABS did not engage, and I slid, quite frustratingly to a stop just before hitting the car in front of me."
If you stopped right before hitting the car in front of you, chances are that you would probably have hit him if the ABS had engaged. The most effective way to stop is to have all the wheels blocked. This however gives you no control of direction.
Proffesional drivers will be able to maintain the same control that the ABS gives, but will be able to stop faster by controling the clutch and breakes correctly.
I agree, if anyone needs this let it be a plug-in. The main reason why I use Firefox is because it's just a browser.
I used to use Opera, but they wants to be everything (chat-client,mail-client, etc), I just want a browser.
This has nothing to do with trolling, but with information. The information in the post above is well known facts in Norway.
t ml?articleID=740523b s?artid=1933591
Maybe it's because of the climate in Norway, but it's still a problem.
So when someone advertises for Nokia on Slashdot, I think people has the right to know that Nokia isn't all that good. They have a reputation about accepting more quality problems than the other mobile-producers.
Sure they have good features, but if they took some more time on QA they might have made quality products too.
I'll post the URLs (again), but I don't care to translate, I'm not that good an translater. I'll give a short summary though:
- The first two articles are about the same thing. basicly saying that the stores don't dare to recomend Nokia because of the quality problems.
- The last article is a bit older, saying that Nokia has the phones that need most repaires (1 out of 3).
http://www.itavisen.no/art/1302995.html
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/nett/article.jh
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.h
So again...this is not a troll, but informative.
I'm no translator, So anyone else please do the translating. But here are the articles.
t ml?articleID=740523
Noone recomends Nokia:
http://www.itavisen.no/art/1302995.html
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/nett/article.jh
Nokia most repaired:
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=1933591
From the last article:
"Mens hver tredje solgte Nokia-telefon ma inn til reparasjon, er tallene langt bedre for konkurrentene Siemens, Sony Ericsson og Motorola. Fra disse produsentene trenger bare hver tiende telefon service for det er gatt seks maneder."
translated to: "While every third Nokia-phone sold have to have service, the numbers for Simens,Sony Ericsson and Motorola are much better. only 1 out of 10 need service within 6 months."
It's no troll, I'm serious. And I can document the numbers from norwegian newspapers.
It really doesn't matter what Nokia put into their phones as long as they don't know how to make quality.
Here in Norway clerks in several stores where asked if they would recommend Nokia to their customers and almost everyone said no! They have too much customer complaints on Nokia phones. Every third Nokia phone sold in Norway has to get service within 6 months...
The most recommended phones where Siemens and Sony Ericson. They only have to have one out of ten phones into services within 6 months.
Ok, thanx for correcting me :)
That's enough.
From the GPL:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Who says they need to give out a new source? As I have understood, the GPL doesn't as long as they haven't changed anything in the kernel. If they use MonteVistas version which propably are already ported for the processor they are using, they don't need to change anything. And you can download it yourself at MonteVistas site.
They can have all the interesting software in userspace, which don't need to be GPL.
If I've gotten anything wrong I'm sure enough people here will inform me about it
I would say some of the points of using Linux in embedded devices is that the developers get a lot for free.
1) There is noe license cost. This one is important since the licensing for other RTOS's make you pay a fee for every product you make or sells, etc.
2) They get TCP/IP stack, bluetooth-stack, etc for free (no need to buy it from somewhere or write it on your own)
3) Linux is good for marketing these days. Like java-phones sounded cool a few years ago.
How about reading the article?
From the article: But a late amendment limited them to organised counterfeiters and not people downloading music at home.
One amendment said action should not be taken against consumers who download music "in good faith" for their own use.
It's no more offtopic than the rest of the comments commenting that specific line.
My comment just state that implementing a future that notifies the authorities about anything would lead to abuse. At least in the US.
If Bush could use something like that to do something HE think is important enough (like going to war on something, he likes that), he would do it.
Here comes the offtopic part:
To mod it offtopic shows that you either didn't understand what I was saying because you couldn't read between the lines, which is bad when you play moderator. Or that you are narrowminded enough to believe in what Bush is telling you (and afraid of the truth), which shows that you've abused your moderator-gift. How about reading the directions for being a moderator.
...even notify the authorities if the owner doesn't move for more than a specified time.
;)
Sounds like a good tool to prevent people from getting too fat. Maybe something for Bush's next war, the war on fat.
This will have absolutely no effect. The US political system is too corrupt for these kind of laws to end up functional. Gator and their fellow trash just need to donate enough money for the coming election and the new law will be watered out to have no effect.
...and high pitch high volume speaking
In my experience most people I've heard speaking on the cellphone don't speak louder than many other on the bus do when talking to the person beside them...
So, I can't really understand why people irritate themself so much about it.
But I've come up with one theory, that people irritate themself because they can't hear the person on the other end. So they just hear half of the conversation. And may be sub-consciously they then focus more on that particular conversation?
Don't get me wrong. Of course we should try to help does who are unfortunate enough to be disfuntional or have illness (Or even better correct the problem pre-birth). But all I was trying to say is that just because in our eyes someone is not perfect enough or functional enough they might make something good out of their lives. And be perfectly happy about it.
And I also think we should be very carefull about messing with the nature, after all the after effects could be far worse than we can imagine. And they might show up to late, when nature is all fucked up.
Nature? The same nature that created cancer and spina bifida and cystic fibrosis and hemophilia and hundreds of other genetic diseases? I don't trust nature at all.
Sure there are some bad things going around, but are you really sure nature is to blame for all of it (sure some sickness would have arrived without our help), but a lot of reasons for cancer are believed to come from industrial waste, pollution, some modern unhealty food, lack of excercise etc.
Maybe if everyone didn't insist on driving everywhere, industrial outlets are cleaned before the waste gets out in nature etc. it would make a difference?
I just believe some things we blame on nature are really the after effects from human pollution and abuse of nature.
I'm not some enviromental nutcase, but denial is not the way to go either...Like Bush managed to say: "The pollution is not the problem, the impurities in the air are". Right...
[Quote]So the repugnance is motivated by sour grapes.
Fear of competition shouldn't justify laws that require parents to risk the heath of their offspring by passing defective DNA on to the next generation.[/Quote]
You're aware that some of the greatest minds propably wouldn't have been born if genetic manipulation and selective breating had been involved?
You can hardly say Stephen Hawkins are fully functional? But he has trained his mind into understanding things most of us can hardly dream of.
I read somewhere about Albert Einstein that they think his brain functioned like it did because his brain was a bit deformed...giving better contact between the to halfes.
Of course you could argue that we can study Albert Einsteins genes and manipulate the future generations into having a brain like his.
But the way I see it is that we can be better than our genes have foretold. It's not sure that Hawkins would have been so smart if he had a fully functional body. Maybe he is so smart because he does not? We do not know enough about the body to tell, at least not yet.
Besides the nature have proven to be a good system until now...
Of course I didn't mod myself up...
Don't even think you can mod in the same debate as you post in...
Just to be precise I'll reply to my own post :)
The point above was about cloning with a breathing human as a result.
On the topic of cloning just cells I'm not sure what my opinions are. But I still think it's an ethical debate and not an religious debate. And it needs a lot more discussion before we can just let anyone play around with it.
Actually I don't see this as a religious debate, but an ethical. We don't know what impacts this will have on society. That's why we put it on hold until we understand more what negative effects it could have.
One negative effect could be that (rich?) people get to perfect their kids by cloning or genetic modifications. Creating kids that are geneticly better adapted, and in doing so creates a class society where normal people will not get good jobs and so on.
What scare a lot of people about cloning and genetic modifications is that they are afraid it will be used to create a society where humans will be perfected (breathing people who is only "perfect"). They are afraid that people who isn't perfect looking or functional will be valued as lesser humans.
If you haven't seen the film Gattaca it shows a bit how extreme it could become...
The connection to anti-spam systems is there since it's done at DNS level. It messes up the way the internet works.
And you argued positivly for having this feature, so I thought I should mention the negative effect from it.
And on the point that we're not going to see anything else of use there...well I consider something like site not found a usefull response. Then I can set up something myself if I want to handle that response.
And as understand it some anti-spam programs does a lookup on the senders hostname to see if it's a valid hostname. If the lookup returns an error (not found) they send the mail directly to the trash.
But with this service you will always get a hit. Which in turn renders this anti-spam program ineffective.
Of course you could use other anti-spam tool, but this stops a lot of spam with fake hostnames.
Don't know if you got the virus, but I got a few variations of it. The first one i got was actually very smart. If it hadn't been for the fact that I knew of the virus and that I know who I've sent mail to even I could have opened it. (I've never been infected with a virus in the 15 years I've used computers).
.txt there was a lot of %20 (space) before .scr
.txt-file right. What harm can a text-file do?
.scr, just a lot of spaces pushing it of the screen.
The virus presented itself as a reply-mail from an administrator telling me it couldn't find the receipent. And the mail I sent was attached as readme.txt
That's what it looked like. But since I've read of the virus and knew I hadn't sent that mail I checked a bit more and found that behind the
For the nontechnical officeworker who sends a lot of e-mail during the normal workday it wouldn't be strange if the user would open the attatchment, after all it was only a
Btw, I use Thunderbird as my mailprogram. So this wasn't a Outlook problem hiding the