Uh, just hit F3, Windows people. You can search IRC,AIM,ICQ,MSN,etc logs. Chances are Outlook (which I never use) has its own search that's just as good. Only difference appears to be now I can search with a Google-branded software that does what I can already do. Fad.
Wow!! They made a dell desktop that's only 2 inches thick?!?!?
They did, about 6-12 months ago. It looks fairly similar to the g5 iMac, in that it's very narrow and is all inside an older-laptop-sized box behind the flat/thin monitor (with the CD/floppy coming out the side) and is set on a stand. As soon as I saw this new iMac I thought of the Dell version I'd seen probably pretty close to a year ago. I couldn't find it on their site, but I sent a customer support inquiry asking what the model was. This iMac design is not overly groundbreaking:-P
There is a hideously large number of people who spend so much on entertainment that they need to go on food stamps to eat. Making a video game as an instructional tool reflects this absurdly common liklihood. It's not that you don't have enough money, its that you can't spend it wisely.
You do have legal copyright on anything you create, without having to file it with the copyright office. If proof can be found that you published it beforehand (and webpublishing counts) then you own legal copyright to the name (not necessarily trademark, though). However, this still prevents me from writing a book called "slashdot.org" about a bottlecap collection (or whatever) and suing for millions.
Technically, although copyright may not protect names per se, the total website as a whole, which includes the name "katie.com" falls under a published/created body of work in text, and is copyrightable. If a book is copyrightten, regardless of trademarking the title, the title is copywritten along with the content therein. Katie Jones clearly has legal precendent to utterly smear Penguin Putnam into the ground for using her name, but mercifully she just wants the whole mess to go away. I'm (a) putting great hesitation before buying any Penguin Putnam book now because of their overboldness upon the innocent (an ironic charge indeed) and (b) glad I am not Putnam who should have otherwise backed off long before they lost so much business.
What next, are they going to sue Linux for having a penguin logo? Who came first, I wonder?
That's done, via a binaural recording. It's doesn't work in the same fashion as the speaker array described here.
Perhaps, but wouldn't it just be a matter of hooking up all the left speakers to the left side, and all the rights to right? Or just have 2 big speakers? It'd save you a load of dough on speakers and array fusses..?
I believe the audiobook of Steven King's "The Mist" did this a number of years ago, in at least 1995 or earlier? All it required was one set of headphones and you could hear a fly buzzing around your ear or could practically see someone walk past you if you closed your eyes.
The RIAAs attempts to sue the individuals that perpetuate "crimes" (I don't believe in intellectual property) against them are doing themselves (the RIAA) a terrible discredit, and are only fueling contempt and reason to pirate more. Pirates now will likely mass-distribute with the deliberate purpose of causing mass sales-figure-drops in order to annihilate this absurd tactic. The RIAA's angle should be to positively reinforce discouragement of duplication (similar to the way the "truth" campaign commercials do for smoking, which are quite good IMO) People who do not pirate may even take up the task of doing so to lash back at the seemingly oppressive RIAA. They (RIAA) are, in a sense, trying to put out the fire with kerosene.
These black holes were not "missing" because nobody thought they existed. This/. article calls the report "surprising", but their existence would not be surprising if they were known to exist but had not been located.
The thing surprising thing about it is if it revealed an opposite-of-the-consensus-guess, which might have been why it was so. If I were to look in the dishwasher and find a sock, it would be surprising because I had not anticipated or known that a sock would be in the dishwasher, although I was missing one and knew it existed somewhere.
What I'm wondering is what they mean by "galactic matter". Isn't that just a straining-to-be-scientific way to say "everything", as if black holes were picking about what they absorb? I have read that black holes are supposedly at the center of galaxies.. why not the white holes?
It doesn't count as spam if it's included in the sign-up agreement. If you agree to receive advertisements from 'marketers' that MS allows, then it doesn't count as 'unwanted/unrequested advertisements' (no matter how much you don't want it) because it was a prerequisite for using the service. Get a real email address if you want out, plain and simple.
That's exactly what I was thinking. To scale with the standard action figures would mean it'd be larger than you could possibly ship (pun intended) and the five-year-old would probably be able to fit *inside* one of the circular engines on the back. Now, the rooms inside based on the photos look almost to scale, but there should be like umpteen thousand rooms inside one SSD. Compare to the regular sized tie fighters that the figures fit in. You might be able to house ten fighters in that whole model..
For every copy protection or filter, there are tons of easy ways to bypass them. It doesn't give much details on how exactly it checks for the "audio fingerprints". For example, does it only check files ending in *.mp3? Solution: rename the mp3 you want to send to a *.exe file, then the recipient renames it back. Does it check all zipped (zip, rar, lzh, etc.) files also?
from aac w/drm -> cd -> aac w/o drm. so the whole cracked scheme is not important. all it takes is a $.25 cd and a few minutes.
This is the solution that makes the most sense to me, in addition to the recommendation I was going to make -- that eliminates all copy protection -- just record it analog. Play it out the PC speakers, but have a laptop receive the input cord to its sound and record to wav, and compress. It's not "rip" speed, but it gets the job done and with identical quality.
Somewhat off-topic, but I always make a Self-Note "response to feedback" to the ones I receive and include the item's title so even though the page expires later I can (or others, too) still see what I bought/sold in past auctions..
Its cutting-edge, always-on, ready-to-use, "retro-input" features eliminate the need for power buttons or obselete devices such as batteries, drastically reducing the weight of the unit.
Might I also recommend the most comprehensive HTML encoding program, Windows Notepad?
But the optical bus between the memory and the eye is only line-of-sight!
Well, for the cognitive group out there, you can use the optional Hold-A-Page-Up-Backward-And-Read-The-Text-Through- The-Backside-Even-Though-It's-Backwards(R) technology, such a feat no known PDA can perform. For ease of transfer of data straight to PC, use the thankfully-unpatented PinkFinger (none of this silly BlueTooth nonsense) interface with any common keyboard!
But if you're doing something else when an appointment comes up, does the new-age graphite-wood memory system sound a loud alarm to remind you of the meeting you're about to miss?
This obselete function is replaced by something much better. It's called Just-Remember-You-Doofus(R), and is a new strategy in Mead technology. The concept is based on the threat of consequences of being late to a meeting, rather than have some cheap piece of electronics being smarter than you. Your pride as a higher life form will override the necessity of a lower form of electronics thus causing you to remember like you should and not depend on something with batteries to be your brain.
Or is it capable of re-sorting a giant to-do list by due date, priority, time required.
This too is a prehistorically obselete function. For the price of one Palm V (eBay for $50), you can get up to 200x replacement minipads for rearrangement of information (price of minipad at WalMart: $0.25).
Can you program the graphite-wood memory system to automatically schedule appointments for you for every three days for the next six weeks, and once a week after that (say, for physical therapy) without having to find each date manually?
Here on Earth, that's called a "slave" (in some areas known as "secretary") that does all those kinds of things anyway and having an electronic device for that would be redundant. For those few without a secretary (such as myself) you might check into a handy dandy device called neuropathways, which actually outclass the minipad by millenia and comes free with every life, using futuristic technology so advanced you can access the information even as you wake up without putting on your glasses or even moving yet. For the terribly forgetful, you might upgrade your minipad to the "dry erase board" which employs a similar technology to the minipad but doesn't require movement to access the information.
What about automatically remembering holidays, birthdays and anniversaries of friends & "significant others", every year? (Don't tell me you like having to re-copy 365 days worth of those each January 1!)
Chances are those who hold it to you for remembering their birthday really aren't your friends, but are actually con artists (or colloquially termed, "whiners") who want to scam you out of presents and unnecessary and/or undue attention. Real friends like you regardless whether you can recall the anniversary of the first spaghetti dinner you ate on a Wednesday together. If you get fired or divorced because you couldn't remember a birthday, a terrible burden has just been lifted from your shoulders! Rejoice my friend, because you had a minipad! If you couldn't remember it off the top of your head anyway, it really wasn't that important to you.
It's the all-in-2 combined social restructuralizing device for the modern age. Lose worthless connections you thought were your friends! Be liberated from undue and tedious quests for more batteries (which are overpriced anyway)! Those few hours copying 365 days worth of notes are good memory refreshers, especially when you lose the device you never really needed anyway!
People always make good, funny jokes about how much wiser it is to save your money and go for the spiral notebook with pencil method, but there are so many disadvantages. A Palm Zire costs less than $100. I lost that much money worth in paper and school supplies one semester in college. But I never lost my Palm, and it was a much better investment than all that paper-based stuff.
You might fall into the 2% of people that require something to keep track of that much information, but the 98% of the people who don't, which I would estimate comes out to at least 90% of PDA owners, possibly including you, are really clogging up their own lives with a seemingly stress-reducing device. It's a trojan horse, my friend. You're funnelling all your life, it seems, into a Etch-A-Sketch Advance, and whe
And I don't need to waste money on a Game Boy Advance!
Or on a Palm V! I have a spiral notepad and a pencil stuck through the wire. The nub on the end of the wooden stylus acts as a special deleting function, and text is automatically saved into the new-age graphite-wood memory system. Guaranteed never to crash.
I was more interested in their Laptop Stockpile. They might be older, but they've gotta be newer than my TI 33mhz laptop that I got on eBay for $30 (works fine).
Unfortunately, they won't ship any of it to you, you have to go pick it up or arrange for someone to get it for you before a deadline or you lose it even if you paid for it, according to the terms.
'Officials in the telemarketing industry did not immediately return calls seeking comment.'
This little sentence is not a key part of the story -- it is a common phrase used in journalism (I have been a reporter for 2 newspapers) to basically mean, "We left a message at the last minute on their machine but they didn't call back before my deadline" but actually sounds like it's the source's fault.
Slashdot Mirror
America is a paper dictatorship (the constitution), and will eventually fail also.
Uh, just hit F3, Windows people. You can search IRC,AIM,ICQ,MSN,etc logs. Chances are Outlook (which I never use) has its own search that's just as good. Only difference appears to be now I can search with a Google-branded software that does what I can already do. Fad.
Wow!! They made a dell desktop that's only 2 inches thick?!?!?
:-P
They did, about 6-12 months ago. It looks fairly similar to the g5 iMac, in that it's very narrow and is all inside an older-laptop-sized box behind the flat/thin monitor (with the CD/floppy coming out the side) and is set on a stand. As soon as I saw this new iMac I thought of the Dell version I'd seen probably pretty close to a year ago. I couldn't find it on their site, but I sent a customer support inquiry asking what the model was. This iMac design is not overly groundbreaking
There is a hideously large number of people who spend so much on entertainment that they need to go on food stamps to eat. Making a video game as an instructional tool reflects this absurdly common liklihood. It's not that you don't have enough money, its that you can't spend it wisely.
You do have legal copyright on anything you create, without having to file it with the copyright office. If proof can be found that you published it beforehand (and webpublishing counts) then you own legal copyright to the name (not necessarily trademark, though). However, this still prevents me from writing a book called "slashdot.org" about a bottlecap collection (or whatever) and suing for millions.
Technically, although copyright may not protect names per se, the total website as a whole, which includes the name "katie.com" falls under a published/created body of work in text, and is copyrightable. If a book is copyrightten, regardless of trademarking the title, the title is copywritten along with the content therein. Katie Jones clearly has legal precendent to utterly smear Penguin Putnam into the ground for using her name, but mercifully she just wants the whole mess to go away. I'm (a) putting great hesitation before buying any Penguin Putnam book now because of their overboldness upon the innocent (an ironic charge indeed) and (b) glad I am not Putnam who should have otherwise backed off long before they lost so much business.
What next, are they going to sue Linux for having a penguin logo? Who came first, I wonder?
That's done, via a binaural recording. It's doesn't work in the same fashion as the speaker array described here.
Perhaps, but wouldn't it just be a matter of hooking up all the left speakers to the left side, and all the rights to right? Or just have 2 big speakers? It'd save you a load of dough on speakers and array fusses..?
I believe the audiobook of Steven King's "The Mist" did this a number of years ago, in at least 1995 or earlier? All it required was one set of headphones and you could hear a fly buzzing around your ear or could practically see someone walk past you if you closed your eyes.
Analog recording. Play it on your stereo and record it thru the in-plug on your soundcard. If you can hear it, you can share it.
Who exactly is the official who tracks down which sites to block, and how do they know? Shouldn't the ban be for that official also?
Guess that means the yogurt industry is screwed.
The RIAAs attempts to sue the individuals that perpetuate "crimes" (I don't believe in intellectual property) against them are doing themselves (the RIAA) a terrible discredit, and are only fueling contempt and reason to pirate more. Pirates now will likely mass-distribute with the deliberate purpose of causing mass sales-figure-drops in order to annihilate this absurd tactic. The RIAA's angle should be to positively reinforce discouragement of duplication (similar to the way the "truth" campaign commercials do for smoking, which are quite good IMO) People who do not pirate may even take up the task of doing so to lash back at the seemingly oppressive RIAA. They (RIAA) are, in a sense, trying to put out the fire with kerosene.
These black holes were not "missing" because nobody thought they existed. This /. article calls the report "surprising", but their existence would not be surprising if they were known to exist but had not been located.
The thing surprising thing about it is if it revealed an opposite-of-the-consensus-guess, which might have been why it was so. If I were to look in the dishwasher and find a sock, it would be surprising because I had not anticipated or known that a sock would be in the dishwasher, although I was missing one and knew it existed somewhere.
What I'm wondering is what they mean by "galactic matter". Isn't that just a straining-to-be-scientific way to say "everything", as if black holes were picking about what they absorb? I have read that black holes are supposedly at the center of galaxies.. why not the white holes?
It doesn't count as spam if it's included in the sign-up agreement. If you agree to receive advertisements from 'marketers' that MS allows, then it doesn't count as 'unwanted/unrequested advertisements' (no matter how much you don't want it) because it was a prerequisite for using the service. Get a real email address if you want out, plain and simple.
... it would need to be over 75 meters long!
That's exactly what I was thinking. To scale with the standard action figures would mean it'd be larger than you could possibly ship (pun intended) and the five-year-old would probably be able to fit *inside* one of the circular engines on the back. Now, the rooms inside based on the photos look almost to scale, but there should be like umpteen thousand rooms inside one SSD. Compare to the regular sized tie fighters that the figures fit in. You might be able to house ten fighters in that whole model..
For every copy protection or filter, there are tons of easy ways to bypass them. It doesn't give much details on how exactly it checks for the "audio fingerprints". For example, does it only check files ending in *.mp3? Solution: rename the mp3 you want to send to a *.exe file, then the recipient renames it back. Does it check all zipped (zip, rar, lzh, etc.) files also?
from aac w/drm -> cd -> aac w/o drm. so the whole cracked scheme is not important. all it takes is a $.25 cd and a few minutes.
This is the solution that makes the most sense to me, in addition to the recommendation I was going to make -- that eliminates all copy protection -- just record it analog. Play it out the PC speakers, but have a laptop receive the input cord to its sound and record to wav, and compress. It's not "rip" speed, but it gets the job done and with identical quality.
W2EMF
Thanks! Now I can send him nasty letters now that I have his home address!
Save as... here (21.0mb) ..instead of hunting through all the pages. I was surprised it wasn't one of those crappy streaming gateways!
Somewhat off-topic, but I always make a Self-Note "response to feedback" to the ones I receive and include the item's title so even though the page expires later I can (or others, too) still see what I bought/sold in past auctions..
Can't find the 'on' button though.
Its cutting-edge, always-on, ready-to-use, "retro-input" features eliminate the need for power buttons or obselete devices such as batteries, drastically reducing the weight of the unit.
Might I also recommend the most comprehensive HTML encoding program, Windows Notepad?
But the optical bus between the memory and the eye is only line-of-sight!
- The-Backside-Even-Though-It's-Backwards(R) technology, such a feat no known PDA can perform. For ease of transfer of data straight to PC, use the thankfully-unpatented PinkFinger (none of this silly BlueTooth nonsense) interface with any common keyboard!
Well, for the cognitive group out there, you can use the optional Hold-A-Page-Up-Backward-And-Read-The-Text-Through
But if you're doing something else when an appointment comes up, does the new-age graphite-wood memory system sound a loud alarm to remind you of the meeting you're about to miss?
This obselete function is replaced by something much better. It's called Just-Remember-You-Doofus(R), and is a new strategy in Mead technology. The concept is based on the threat of consequences of being late to a meeting, rather than have some cheap piece of electronics being smarter than you. Your pride as a higher life form will override the necessity of a lower form of electronics thus causing you to remember like you should and not depend on something with batteries to be your brain.
Or is it capable of re-sorting a giant to-do list by due date, priority, time required.
This too is a prehistorically obselete function. For the price of one Palm V (eBay for $50), you can get up to 200x replacement minipads for rearrangement of information (price of minipad at WalMart: $0.25).
Can you program the graphite-wood memory system to automatically schedule appointments for you for every three days for the next six weeks, and once a week after that (say, for physical therapy) without having to find each date manually?
Here on Earth, that's called a "slave" (in some areas known as "secretary") that does all those kinds of things anyway and having an electronic device for that would be redundant. For those few without a secretary (such as myself) you might check into a handy dandy device called neuropathways, which actually outclass the minipad by millenia and comes free with every life, using futuristic technology so advanced you can access the information even as you wake up without putting on your glasses or even moving yet. For the terribly forgetful, you might upgrade your minipad to the "dry erase board" which employs a similar technology to the minipad but doesn't require movement to access the information.
What about automatically remembering holidays, birthdays and anniversaries of friends & "significant others", every year? (Don't tell me you like having to re-copy 365 days worth of those each January 1!)
Chances are those who hold it to you for remembering their birthday really aren't your friends, but are actually con artists (or colloquially termed, "whiners") who want to scam you out of presents and unnecessary and/or undue attention. Real friends like you regardless whether you can recall the anniversary of the first spaghetti dinner you ate on a Wednesday together. If you get fired or divorced because you couldn't remember a birthday, a terrible burden has just been lifted from your shoulders! Rejoice my friend, because you had a minipad! If you couldn't remember it off the top of your head anyway, it really wasn't that important to you.
It's the all-in-2 combined social restructuralizing device for the modern age. Lose worthless connections you thought were your friends! Be liberated from undue and tedious quests for more batteries (which are overpriced anyway)! Those few hours copying 365 days worth of notes are good memory refreshers, especially when you lose the device you never really needed anyway!
People always make good, funny jokes about how much wiser it is to save your money and go for the spiral notebook with pencil method, but there are so many disadvantages. A Palm Zire costs less than $100. I lost that much money worth in paper and school supplies one semester in college. But I never lost my Palm, and it was a much better investment than all that paper-based stuff.
You might fall into the 2% of people that require something to keep track of that much information, but the 98% of the people who don't, which I would estimate comes out to at least 90% of PDA owners, possibly including you, are really clogging up their own lives with a seemingly stress-reducing device. It's a trojan horse, my friend. You're funnelling all your life, it seems, into a Etch-A-Sketch Advance, and whe
And I don't need to waste money on a Game Boy Advance!
Or on a Palm V! I have a spiral notepad and a pencil stuck through the wire. The nub on the end of the wooden stylus acts as a special deleting function, and text is automatically saved into the new-age graphite-wood memory system. Guaranteed never to crash.
I was more interested in their Laptop Stockpile. They might be older, but they've gotta be newer than my TI 33mhz laptop that I got on eBay for $30 (works fine).
Unfortunately, they won't ship any of it to you, you have to go pick it up or arrange for someone to get it for you before a deadline or you lose it even if you paid for it, according to the terms.
'Officials in the telemarketing industry did not immediately return calls seeking comment.'
This little sentence is not a key part of the story -- it is a common phrase used in journalism (I have been a reporter for 2 newspapers) to basically mean, "We left a message at the last minute on their machine but they didn't call back before my deadline" but actually sounds like it's the source's fault.