Won't there be a market for digital->analog downsamplers? Sure, you'd lose some resolution, but you wouldn't have to throw out that big screen that once cost a month's pay.
Maybe that's what the manufacturer's association is wary of...
The idea that frightens Americans is not being tagged
I don't think it's being tagged so much as not being able to change who you're tagged as. Americans love the idea of self-reinvention: that no matter how much you've screwed up your past, you can still start over... a cross-linked database of your history doesn't help that.
The game tranquility (TQworld.com [tqworld.com]) has, among many other things, a TQworld Builder option that allows you to create your own TQ levels.
Man, you just made my day! I used to absolutely love playing 'tq' on my old SGI, but finally gave up on finding a port from IRIX. I had no idea that anyone had continued its development...
Your snide comment is silly since it's said everywhere from CNN to/. that it was the FIRST! The only person closer to this, was himself. He beat his old record.
It's a valid comment (and a joke from the Leno monologue). We sent spacecraft around the moon thirty years ago, but now we're supposed to get excited about a person going around the world in a ballon, just because he's the FIRST to care enough to try it?
And he wasn't the first to round the earth in a balloon; he was the first to do it solo. Not too impressive, if you ask me.
I hope they will bring back the SimCity 2000 ability to have riots burn down your entire metropolis.
Grr.
I once managed to install the game on a 16mhz 386. (Somebody had given me the game as a gift, and at the time, I wasn't too motivated to upgrade my machine)
Took some kind of bizarre TSR driver to get the video card to pump out 8-bit VGA graphics, but I finally got it working. An hour into the game, an out-of-control Sim fire dragged the poor processor to a screeching halt. Computer froze up and never came back. Damned O(n^2) algorithms.
1. ensure that the entity that offers to manage the domain must be financially stable..
There are other ways to check that an organization is financially stable. ICANN could just do a little due diligence and review top candidates' financial statements. No statements, no registrar.
They are the first to predict 18 inches of snow for a storm that produces only six. News sources love reporting gloom, doom and disaster, for it increases viewership/readership
They do, they do.
But the weathermen also tend to overforcast because they'll take more flack if they leave the public underprepared. Better safe than sorry.
But virus reports are mostly hype, because the media outlets don't have anything to lose if they keep quiet. People don't yell at CNN for not mentioning a virus in time.
They are taking pro-active measures to protect themselves from being sued in the future.
Yup.
Judges are all-to-easily swayed by the MPAA/RIAA images of "evil hackers" stealing Disney content from our impressionable youth. Plus, they're more likely to buy into that image when it describes the defendant in a case.
321 stands to short circuit all of that, since they'll be the complaining party. The usual arguments will still be brought up, but they'll be cast with the movie studios will be sitting at the defendant table.
doesn't mean you can use radar detectors in Germany. In fact, you can't!
When did that happen? When I left Germany six years ago, there were still automated photoradar systems all over the place... you'd see a bright blue flash, and get a bill in the mail shortly thereafter. No fuss, no muss.
register.com's domain name parking service switching to mostly IIS servers, which account for over 2 million of the 38 million sites surveyed. Ironically, a large number of the websites were defaced shortly thereafter.
Hmm...the SecurityFocus article only mentions Verisign/NetSol and their IIS servers.
The yoga people are offering the Intel Exec's free lessons so that they can learn to be a little more "flexible."
Intel should take a lesson from Southwest Airlines. A few years back, some small North Carolina company called them up claiming to have prior rights to "Just Plane Smart". And instead of threatening legal action, they suggested an arm-wrestling match - i.e. winner takes the trademark.
Southwest actually sent a wrestler (who lost), and won a ton of PR points for it.
What would happen if an asteroid of a given size hit the moon?
If it had the same mass as the moon and collided on a tangent to the moon's orbit, it would replace the moon in our sky. Our "old" moon would go flying off into space.
That would be cool. Kind of like one of those executive toys. Of course, I'm assuming an unlikely inelastic reaction...
I think they're covering their own butts. With all these backdoor viruses floating around, I think MS is trying to prevent themselves from being taken to court if somebody is hacked.
For some reason, I read this and imagined a sign outside of a bank entrance: "By entering this bank, you agree not to steal our money."
Why are you even answering the loosly phrased original question when the answer is obvious?
Mostly because I was very bored, and felt like circular banter:)
I think I agree with you, though.
It's always up to the user to watch for piggy-backing. And with open-source, there is a chance they'll notice it *before* installation... but in the real world, those odds are pretty tiny.
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Won't there be a market for digital->analog downsamplers? Sure, you'd lose some resolution, but you wouldn't have to throw out that big screen that once cost a month's pay.
Maybe that's what the manufacturer's association is wary of...
The idea that frightens Americans is not being tagged
I don't think it's being tagged so much as not being able to change who you're tagged as. Americans love the idea of self-reinvention: that no matter how much you've screwed up your past, you can still start over... a cross-linked database of your history doesn't help that.
Obviously it's not going to be a good clone, if it's already out of Beta -- how can it be a good clone if it's worthy of a 1.0?
That's why they're planning on cloning up some quick Service Packs.
The game tranquility (TQworld.com [tqworld.com]) has, among many other things, a TQworld Builder option that allows you to create your own TQ levels.
Man, you just made my day! I used to absolutely love playing 'tq' on my old SGI, but finally gave up on finding a port from IRIX. I had no idea that anyone had continued its development...
Your snide comment is silly since it's said everywhere from CNN to /. that it was the FIRST! The only person closer to this, was himself. He beat his old record.
It's a valid comment (and a joke from the Leno monologue). We sent spacecraft around the moon thirty years ago, but now we're supposed to get excited about a person going around the world in a ballon, just because he's the FIRST to care enough to try it?
And he wasn't the first to round the earth in a balloon; he was the first to do it solo. Not too impressive, if you ask me.
They say it's BAD, real BAD to look directly at an eclipse. Personally, I think it's an old wives' tale.
It's always bad to look at the sun. But people tend to stare at it more during an eclipse (duh), so that's why it comes up.
I live in Denver, where the sun is still dark red from all of the smoke moving through town. Should make for an incredible sunset.
That title belongs to Earth. Everybody knows that who has read the Hitchhiker's Guide.
Maybe the Earth is just the universe's floating point unit.
I hope they will bring back the SimCity 2000 ability to have riots burn down your entire metropolis.
Grr.
I once managed to install the game on a 16mhz 386. (Somebody had given me the game as a gift, and at the time, I wasn't too motivated to upgrade my machine)
Took some kind of bizarre TSR driver to get the video card to pump out 8-bit VGA graphics, but I finally got it working. An hour into the game, an out-of-control Sim fire dragged the poor processor to a screeching halt. Computer froze up and never came back. Damned O(n^2) algorithms.
Ironically, you seem to be guilty of the exact same behavior. You're accusing others of automatically labelling anyone who disagrees
:)
This thread could get very circular, very fast
Open every file, see if it meets certain criteria, then check for certain regexes. That's it
The equivalent of two lines of Perl code. Hehe.
1. ensure that the entity that offers to manage the domain must be financially stable..
There are other ways to check that an organization is financially stable. ICANN could just do a little due diligence and review top candidates' financial statements. No statements, no registrar.
They are the first to predict 18 inches of snow for a storm that produces only six. News sources love reporting gloom, doom and disaster, for it increases viewership/readership
They do, they do.
But the weathermen also tend to overforcast because they'll take more flack if they leave the public underprepared. Better safe than sorry.
But virus reports are mostly hype, because the media outlets don't have anything to lose if they keep quiet. People don't yell at CNN for not mentioning a virus in time.
Doh!
They are taking pro-active measures to protect themselves from being sued in the future.
Yup.
Judges are all-to-easily swayed by the MPAA/RIAA images of "evil hackers" stealing Disney content from our impressionable youth. Plus, they're more likely to buy into that image when it describes the defendant in a case.
321 stands to short circuit all of that, since they'll be the complaining party. The usual arguments will still be brought up, but they'll be cast with the movie studios will be sitting at the defendant table.
doesn't mean you can use radar detectors in Germany. In fact, you can't!
When did that happen? When I left Germany six years ago, there were still automated photoradar systems all over the place... you'd see a bright blue flash, and get a bill in the mail shortly thereafter. No fuss, no muss.
which still would have to be ported as Apache::ASP still requires you to use perl
And I'll admit that Apache::ASP has performed very poorly for me. A great idea, but probably not implemented too cleanly.
so I'm writing Perl functions to serve as drop-in replacements for people porting asp applications to perl.
Ummmm... you can cover a lot of ground if you just install Apache::ASP.
register.com's domain name parking service switching to mostly IIS servers, which account for over 2 million of the 38 million sites surveyed. Ironically, a large number of the websites were defaced shortly thereafter.
Hmm...the SecurityFocus article only mentions Verisign/NetSol and their IIS servers.
The yoga people are offering the Intel Exec's free lessons so that they can learn to be a little more "flexible."
Intel should take a lesson from Southwest Airlines. A few years back, some small North Carolina company called them up claiming to have prior rights to "Just Plane Smart". And instead of threatening legal action, they suggested an arm-wrestling match - i.e. winner takes the trademark.
Southwest actually sent a wrestler (who lost), and won a ton of PR points for it.
And hope that the recipient is also using Outlook
Ummm...return receipt isn't a Microsoft standard:
RFC 1891.
You just ripped that off from an old TV show [imdb.com]. 8^)
Um, I'm talking about the moon being replaced by an asteroid. Not quite the same thing...
What would happen if an asteroid of a given size hit the moon?
If it had the same mass as the moon and collided on a tangent to the moon's orbit, it would replace the moon in our sky. Our "old" moon would go flying off into space.
That would be cool. Kind of like one of those executive toys. Of course, I'm assuming an unlikely inelastic reaction...
I wonder where they put the Memory Stick slot.
I think they're covering their own butts. With all these backdoor viruses floating around, I think MS is trying to prevent themselves from being taken to court if somebody is hacked.
For some reason, I read this and imagined a sign outside of a bank entrance: "By entering this bank, you agree not to steal our money."
Why are you even answering the loosly phrased original question when the answer is obvious?
:)
Mostly because I was very bored, and felt like circular banter
I think I agree with you, though.
It's always up to the user to watch for piggy-backing. And with open-source, there is a chance they'll notice it *before* installation... but in the real world, those odds are pretty tiny.