Agreed...can we hear from a subscriber that DOESN'T copy the DVDs and still got throttled? The firsthand accounts I've seen in this thread so far involve copying.
Not to mention the fact that people trying to recognize troublemakers probably have a couple of 2D mugshots to work with, at best. Seems that looking at someone in a vastly different perspective would make it harder to match up.
Easier method: Place all components inside bottle-shaped mold. Fill mold with acrylic. If you really wanted a hollow cavity for true bottle-ness, first mold around the components a wax that will melt at low temperature.
While Microsoft has a poor track record and no one really expects much from them, never forget that Microsoft has the great enabler, money. They have absolutely no barriers whatsoever to creating the most innovative, amazing software that everyone will be clamoring to use; it's just a matter of hiring the right programmers and some intelligent project leads and good market analysis.
Not that Microsoft has yet DONE anything universally acclaimed with their great potential, but it could happen.
I was going to respond with exactly this logic, but some strange reason my post instantly dropped from 5 Insightful to 0 Flamebait AND by IP was blocked "for bad posts" by Slashdot. I'm ready to join the conspiracy theorists now.
Why does the Slashdot community have to hear about you fretting over some consumer decision? Go to a freaking Apple Store and LISTEN to one. If it sounds good and you care more about image than price, buy it. Soccer moms are capable of this, why aren't you?
I've been starting to notice that a lot of my extra time was spent in Second Life, though I have no easy way of tracking it all...I really should cut back.
Despite the often lackluster performance, frequent crashes, copious bugs, and strange userbase: it's still THAT fun and addictive. Imagine walking along and suddenly getting an idea for something; you whisk basic objects out of nowhere and mold them to the right shape, then write some code in a language similar to Java or PHP. Voila, a spaceship. Or hummingbird. Or peanut-butter sandwich. Second Life satisfies an urge many of us have, the desire to see ideas come to life NOW.
The property of gamma rays to pass through anything is actually used to make shielded sensors and cameras. The optical wavelengths are bounced into the sensor with mirrors or prisms, while the gamma radiation goes through the mirror and past the sensor. It's not perfect, and you need a point radiation source and enough shielding to matter around the sensor itself, but it can be done.
Large corporations, despite longevity and the very best in consumer research, DO MAKE MISTAKES. Very big mistakes. Crystal Pepsi? New Coke? Firestone? Enron? The ability to recover from a huge mistake depends on how much effort was put into the mistake to begin with. This one involves lawmaking and massive redesign of all consumer devices, not a simple formula change and can paint scheme.
It's a waste of our lawmaker's time and energy, and it's a waste of our taxpayer's hard-earned money. On top of that, if it actually passes, it'll be a massive waste of our country's engineering and programming expertise as every device is put through the revision mill, and it'll be a huge waste of the law enforcement and judicial system after the aforemention wastes become apparent and there is a panicked rush to justify the huge blunder.
In a way, I hope this bill does go through and is put into effect. It is the last gasp of a floundering industry, and could truly spell their end by revealing their true nature to every American.
I don't see there being that low of a birth rate, there are PLENTY of stupid people who just go ahead and drink lots of beer until they look good to each other and then resign themselves to subsistence living and whatever escape drugs/alcohol can offer.
I see a lot of truth in this, the guy in the next cube frequently and fervently calls on His Name in situations sometimes related to file saving. And says a lot of the stuff you said about the Delete button too.
I totally fucking agree with you. I've been poking around this shitbox Geode SBC I have to get working, and it's been a swim in Shit Lake. For me the serial ports do OK but I've had a hell of a time getting a simple, standard Prism chipset wireless card to be minimally reliable. Signs point to retard-smithed interrupt handling. If you turn on shadowing in the BIOS it actually reaches the boot screen in less than 20 seconds, but framebuffer is still slow as fingerpainting on my wall with my own shit. A hobby I'm thinking of starting when this finally drives me crazy.
From your post just now: I wasn't thinking of sending the actual raw file as part of the email.
Yes, you fucking were.
From your own post that I responded to: You could remove the whole iTunes store and have stores that send out purchased media files via email attachments.
Search for "single board" and you'll find plenty. Buying direct is not really an option because, yes, they are expensive. Get them secondhand, after a company's already gotten their quantity discount. You can get almost any architecture and performance level.
I used Lotus Notes for years at my last job. At my current job, we use Outlook.
Lotus Notes. Is. BETTER!
Who cares if it looks a little ugly, there are some themes you can skin it with too. If you're thinking about the workspaces with big square icons, that's now a legacy feature: Notes now uses a sidebar with essentially what are folders.
But the real meat is in usability. Maybe it takes a little getting used to, but the interface actually gets pretty efficient when you've used it for a while. Lotus Notes is also 100 times better for mobile users, or even remote users on slow VPN connections. Ever tried to use Outlook remotely? You can be editing an email and the editor will freeze every couple minutes, for a minute or two, while the client check for new mail. Lotus Notes doesn't lock up your client when a connection is lost, and Replication has always been handled well.
Lotus Notes is much more flexible than Outlook, too. We had thousands of forms and applications in Notes, making it easy to do things like get a production report or submit change requests and purchase orders. It's easy to keep them organized and see who did what, and when. I spent several million dollars of company money through that system. Maybe you can set a similar system up in Outlook, I don't know, but at least where I now work no one has bothered. Everything is done via Word documents and no one knows what the most recent version is, and they all look different.
I've used both, and my opinion is that for the users, if you just want to get work done, Notes does the job. Maybe Outlook is easier for you IT administrators to set up, but a few hours of YOUR time is nothing compared to a few hours of everyone in the company's time. I seriously waste time now waiting for Outlook to do something and creating new forms or hunting down a document in a folder somewhere.
Metal halide bulbs are actually more efficient than LEDs, lumens-per-watt. The HDR display with the LED array behind it (can't remember name) uses watercooling, and it's not even trying to project anything.
The answer is that they don't cost that much. ywh on the DIYAudio forums was selling a bunch of short-arc UHP bulbs for $40, straight from a supplier in China (where ywh lives).
I built one. My favorite reference, and probably the largest information collection and most active discussion, is at DIYAudio in the "Moving Images" section.
The white bar on the lefthand side indicates one problem you'll have: the internal components of an LCD are very delicate. I can solder 0603 SMD resistors without breaking a sweat, or lift a 208-pin FPGA from a circuit board without damaging either, but I still managed to tear one of the mylar edge connector ribbons loose. Fortunately it was right along the edge and there's still plenty of usable viewing area. I do have another monitor I'll use to replace the broken one, but for now it works.
You do need a fairly dim room, but the image is definitely bright enough. I use a 400W metal halide, but I don't have a reflector so that's one possible way I could upgrade the projector another 30% in brightness. And the cheap lenses have a short focal length, there is no zoom control and to fill an entire 8-foot-high wall, the lens is only 10 feet away. Makes couch placement difficult. I ended up putting my couches in an angled arrangement with the projector in between. Kind of like this: \./ except a shallower angle.
Anyway I like it and it was definitely worth the pain, misfortune, and expense.
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Agreed...can we hear from a subscriber that DOESN'T copy the DVDs and still got throttled? The firsthand accounts I've seen in this thread so far involve copying.
Not to mention the fact that people trying to recognize troublemakers probably have a couple of 2D mugshots to work with, at best. Seems that looking at someone in a vastly different perspective would make it harder to match up.
Easier method: Place all components inside bottle-shaped mold. Fill mold with acrylic. If you really wanted a hollow cavity for true bottle-ness, first mold around the components a wax that will melt at low temperature.
While Microsoft has a poor track record and no one really expects much from them, never forget that Microsoft has the great enabler, money. They have absolutely no barriers whatsoever to creating the most innovative, amazing software that everyone will be clamoring to use; it's just a matter of hiring the right programmers and some intelligent project leads and good market analysis.
Not that Microsoft has yet DONE anything universally acclaimed with their great potential, but it could happen.
I was going to respond with exactly this logic, but some strange reason my post instantly dropped from 5 Insightful to 0 Flamebait AND by IP was blocked "for bad posts" by Slashdot. I'm ready to join the conspiracy theorists now.
Why does the Slashdot community have to hear about you fretting over some consumer decision? Go to a freaking Apple Store and LISTEN to one. If it sounds good and you care more about image than price, buy it. Soccer moms are capable of this, why aren't you?
For the record, I care, even if no one else does.
I've been starting to notice that a lot of my extra time was spent in Second Life, though I have no easy way of tracking it all...I really should cut back.
Despite the often lackluster performance, frequent crashes, copious bugs, and strange userbase: it's still THAT fun and addictive. Imagine walking along and suddenly getting an idea for something; you whisk basic objects out of nowhere and mold them to the right shape, then write some code in a language similar to Java or PHP. Voila, a spaceship. Or hummingbird. Or peanut-butter sandwich. Second Life satisfies an urge many of us have, the desire to see ideas come to life NOW.
The property of gamma rays to pass through anything is actually used to make shielded sensors and cameras. The optical wavelengths are bounced into the sensor with mirrors or prisms, while the gamma radiation goes through the mirror and past the sensor. It's not perfect, and you need a point radiation source and enough shielding to matter around the sensor itself, but it can be done.
Large corporations, despite longevity and the very best in consumer research, DO MAKE MISTAKES. Very big mistakes. Crystal Pepsi? New Coke? Firestone? Enron? The ability to recover from a huge mistake depends on how much effort was put into the mistake to begin with. This one involves lawmaking and massive redesign of all consumer devices, not a simple formula change and can paint scheme.
It's a waste of our lawmaker's time and energy, and it's a waste of our taxpayer's hard-earned money. On top of that, if it actually passes, it'll be a massive waste of our country's engineering and programming expertise as every device is put through the revision mill, and it'll be a huge waste of the law enforcement and judicial system after the aforemention wastes become apparent and there is a panicked rush to justify the huge blunder.
In a way, I hope this bill does go through and is put into effect. It is the last gasp of a floundering industry, and could truly spell their end by revealing their true nature to every American.
Do you have a girfriend?
Face it, this is too much of a common factor among nerds to be ignored.
I don't see there being that low of a birth rate, there are PLENTY of stupid people who just go ahead and drink lots of beer until they look good to each other and then resign themselves to subsistence living and whatever escape drugs/alcohol can offer.
I see a lot of truth in this, the guy in the next cube frequently and fervently calls on His Name in situations sometimes related to file saving. And says a lot of the stuff you said about the Delete button too.
So the answer to the original question takes the form of another question: WWJD?
I totally fucking agree with you. I've been poking around this shitbox Geode SBC I have to get working, and it's been a swim in Shit Lake. For me the serial ports do OK but I've had a hell of a time getting a simple, standard Prism chipset wireless card to be minimally reliable. Signs point to retard-smithed interrupt handling. If you turn on shadowing in the BIOS it actually reaches the boot screen in less than 20 seconds, but framebuffer is still slow as fingerpainting on my wall with my own shit. A hobby I'm thinking of starting when this finally drives me crazy.
Since there's no way we'll be moving away from Outlook/Exchange, I might have to find a pointy stick and start jabbing IS repeatedly.
From your post just now: I wasn't thinking of sending the actual raw file as part of the email.
Yes, you fucking were.
From your own post that I responded to: You could remove the whole iTunes store and have stores that send out purchased media files via email attachments.
What the hell else is that supposed to mean?
I'm using Outlook 2002; is there a big difference?
Too bad that MIME blows up the size of the file by around 50%, making it a very stupid way to distribute large amounts of big files.
eBay.
Search for "single board" and you'll find plenty. Buying direct is not really an option because, yes, they are expensive. Get them secondhand, after a company's already gotten their quantity discount. You can get almost any architecture and performance level.
I used Lotus Notes for years at my last job. At my current job, we use Outlook.
Lotus Notes. Is. BETTER!
Who cares if it looks a little ugly, there are some themes you can skin it with too. If you're thinking about the workspaces with big square icons, that's now a legacy feature: Notes now uses a sidebar with essentially what are folders.
But the real meat is in usability. Maybe it takes a little getting used to, but the interface actually gets pretty efficient when you've used it for a while. Lotus Notes is also 100 times better for mobile users, or even remote users on slow VPN connections. Ever tried to use Outlook remotely? You can be editing an email and the editor will freeze every couple minutes, for a minute or two, while the client check for new mail. Lotus Notes doesn't lock up your client when a connection is lost, and Replication has always been handled well.
Lotus Notes is much more flexible than Outlook, too. We had thousands of forms and applications in Notes, making it easy to do things like get a production report or submit change requests and purchase orders. It's easy to keep them organized and see who did what, and when. I spent several million dollars of company money through that system. Maybe you can set a similar system up in Outlook, I don't know, but at least where I now work no one has bothered. Everything is done via Word documents and no one knows what the most recent version is, and they all look different.
I've used both, and my opinion is that for the users, if you just want to get work done, Notes does the job. Maybe Outlook is easier for you IT administrators to set up, but a few hours of YOUR time is nothing compared to a few hours of everyone in the company's time. I seriously waste time now waiting for Outlook to do something and creating new forms or hunting down a document in a folder somewhere.
Metal halide bulbs are actually more efficient than LEDs, lumens-per-watt. The HDR display with the LED array behind it (can't remember name) uses watercooling, and it's not even trying to project anything.
The answer is that they don't cost that much. ywh on the DIYAudio forums was selling a bunch of short-arc UHP bulbs for $40, straight from a supplier in China (where ywh lives).
I built one. My favorite reference, and probably the largest information collection and most active discussion, is at DIYAudio in the "Moving Images" section.
Here's two photos of my results:
http://lserve.homelinux.net:7780/PICT0056.jpg
http://lserve.homelinux.net:7780/PICT0141.jpg
The white bar on the lefthand side indicates one problem you'll have: the internal components of an LCD are very delicate. I can solder 0603 SMD resistors without breaking a sweat, or lift a 208-pin FPGA from a circuit board without damaging either, but I still managed to tear one of the mylar edge connector ribbons loose. Fortunately it was right along the edge and there's still plenty of usable viewing area. I do have another monitor I'll use to replace the broken one, but for now it works.
You do need a fairly dim room, but the image is definitely bright enough. I use a 400W metal halide, but I don't have a reflector so that's one possible way I could upgrade the projector another 30% in brightness. And the cheap lenses have a short focal length, there is no zoom control and to fill an entire 8-foot-high wall, the lens is only 10 feet away. Makes couch placement difficult. I ended up putting my couches in an angled arrangement with the projector in between. Kind of like this: \./ except a shallower angle.
Anyway I like it and it was definitely worth the pain, misfortune, and expense.