First, wasn't XP the successor to ME? Of course, even benchmarks Microsoft was using to push XP showed ME was slower than 98. A bit more contrast for people upgrading from ME to XP, I suppose.
Second, the new Intel integrated graphics chips can handle Aero just fine, and I'm assuming the AMD integrated graphics chips do as well. You certainly don't need an expensive new graphics card, just a new computer. Of course, Compiz/Beryl works much better: it has cooler effects and runs on much less powerful hardware.
That's what I thought of. Although I didn't even notice the TimeSplitters 3 server being taken down as I didn't play it anymore, partially because my Xbox broke and the game doesn't work on a 360 AFAIK. I don't understand why they couldn't have programmed in a fallback to the Xbox LIVE servers. Did EA ever give a reason as to why it didn't use Microsoft's servers in the first place?
I'm not so sure about that. Anyone who's played GTA IV online here want to comment on how many kids you've encountered?
I know there are many who play the Halo series, but that's not quite as bad.
For anyone else who's never heard of a "Biro", it's apparently a ballpoint pen. The word is never used in the US. BIC might be used as a generic term for disposable pens, but it could just as likely be referring to cigarette lighters. The other trademarks are used generically in the US as well, though. Although as others have pointed out Xerox is losing popularity and around here many people do use "tissue".
It seems more like a supermarket putting store brand or other competing products next to the name brand products they compete with, maybe with some additional advertising (like the price difference) for the store brand products. Which happens all the time and doesn't seem to cause any problems.
By the way, what kind of example is Hoover, something UK specific? Around here in the US we usually just call them vacuums. Frisbees seem like a better example, who calls them "flying discs"?
I'd count the mobo revisions as new versions. Especially the ones that added HDMI to the Arcade and "Premium" models. And the Arcade is different than the Core, it includes a wireless controller and memory card.
I'm not sure if that's still only Wayport/McDonalds or all AT&T hotspots as well. They allow DSes to connect for Nintendo games, not sure about web browsing or homebrew. Anyone know how they implement that?
Not that it really matters to me, apparently I get free access by having a DSL account with them. Of course, I no longer have a laptop to actually use the WiFi.
What are these "anti-piracy" ads of which you speak? How long are they? I've experienced and been annoyed by other ads that have the no skip bit set (looking at DreamWorks).
Guess these companies are determined to give paying customers a worse experience than pirates.
The only reason Rapidshare has CAPTCHAs is to sell their premium service. It's certainly not to prevent spam like a majority of sites use CAPTCHAs for. They say it has to do with people not being able to steal the service, but it seems a properly configured service shouldn't need to do what they're doing.
One of the reasons I wish everyone would use MegaUpload, it's in general a far better site. Although I hear it's not as good for people outside of the US?
Hate to reply to my own post, but I did some searching. I found a blog post on the YouTomb study the GP mentioned, not sure if there's anything more.
A look at the API data reveals that it is the same mechanism used for music videos. I believe these restrictions have been in place for a while now, I believe some Canadians were complaining about not being able to watch some music video links last year (perhaps posters actually in Canada or another blocked country could clarify?). As mentioned in the blog post, I see no way to set country restrictions on an uploaded video myself. A search for "country" on YouTube help reveals information about YouTube's video identification tool which reveals "content owners" can block videos in chosen regions. In addition, this page about filing copyright complaints tells complainers to list which countries their copyright applies to. Although I'm not sure how often that's used as it seems videos removed for copyright violation are totally deleted rather than just blocked in the specified countries (although I guess if the content is stored/served from the US, they would need to remove everything that's under copyright in the US).
Sorry, by "example.com", I was referring to the actual domain of whoever was sending the email. I just used it in my post because others had mentioned that RFC.
The best reply-to email I saw was "UseTheYellowButton@ebay.com" for an email notification of an eBay message.
Most do. I just searched through my emails and found none that had a "donotreply.com"ish domain. Most were either something like donotreply@example.com or something@noreply.example.com.
Does Yahoo even offer it anymore? I know they offer a subscription service where you can listen to the music on a Windows PC, but they seem to have removed all mentions of transferring to portable devices using Janus. They did offer the service for $5 a month including transfer to portables, which doesn't seem too bad.
Apple would definitely have the market share advantage. If they can get it working with all iPods rather than just the current gen, they'd have a definite simplicity advantage over Microsoft whose "Play For Sure" is anything but.
The official AIM client can send off-line IMs now (the server holds them until the recipient is online). Pidgin can receive them, but as far as I know it can not send them.
That's what TLS is for. Of course, I've accepted certificates before even though they weren't valid / weren't issued by a trusted CA (obviously not for PayPal, though).
How often are signatures checked? I've made quite a few purchases without signing the back of my card. Also, I've often run out of space while signing and had to jumble the last few letters of my name together (it seems many signature spaces aren't designed to fit 19 characters).
I'm assuming this is the page, although I don't speak Arabic. It has no pictures of Muhammad. It also appears to always use 'peace be upon him' after after mention of Muhammad (at least if the SVG name is names accurately).
As pointed out earlier, iranet.ir is still connectible. And a traceroute from within the US shows the traffic going to Paris (te10-2.passe1.Paris.opentransit.net) before Iran.
I agree. But the articles say that Matel is accusing the makers of copyright infringement, which as your title states it clearly is not.
Why doesn't the headline say "Carbon Offsets"?
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I was confused and curious at the thought of the FTC being offput (which Firefox tells me is not a real word, confirmed by Google as this article is the third result) by memory offsets.
If not, then I don't believe the suit has any merit. Even if the cost is 'only' $800,000. I'm guessing Apple still must license WMA playback even if the iPod contains a chip which is capable.
Where's the Ogg Vorbis support? I hear Microsoft specifies that player which can play protected WMA can not play Ogg Vorbis. Where's the lawsuit about that?
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First, wasn't XP the successor to ME? Of course, even benchmarks Microsoft was using to push XP showed ME was slower than 98. A bit more contrast for people upgrading from ME to XP, I suppose.
Second, the new Intel integrated graphics chips can handle Aero just fine, and I'm assuming the AMD integrated graphics chips do as well. You certainly don't need an expensive new graphics card, just a new computer. Of course, Compiz/Beryl works much better: it has cooler effects and runs on much less powerful hardware.
That's what I thought of. Although I didn't even notice the TimeSplitters 3 server being taken down as I didn't play it anymore, partially because my Xbox broke and the game doesn't work on a 360 AFAIK.
I don't understand why they couldn't have programmed in a fallback to the Xbox LIVE servers. Did EA ever give a reason as to why it didn't use Microsoft's servers in the first place?
I'm not so sure about that. Anyone who's played GTA IV online here want to comment on how many kids you've encountered?
I know there are many who play the Halo series, but that's not quite as bad.
For anyone else who's never heard of a "Biro", it's apparently a ballpoint pen. The word is never used in the US. BIC might be used as a generic term for disposable pens, but it could just as likely be referring to cigarette lighters.
The other trademarks are used generically in the US as well, though. Although as others have pointed out Xerox is losing popularity and around here many people do use "tissue".
It seems more like a supermarket putting store brand or other competing products next to the name brand products they compete with, maybe with some additional advertising (like the price difference) for the store brand products. Which happens all the time and doesn't seem to cause any problems.
By the way, what kind of example is Hoover, something UK specific? Around here in the US we usually just call them vacuums. Frisbees seem like a better example, who calls them "flying discs"?
I'd count the mobo revisions as new versions. Especially the ones that added HDMI to the Arcade and "Premium" models. And the Arcade is different than the Core, it includes a wireless controller and memory card.
I'm not sure if that's still only Wayport/McDonalds or all AT&T hotspots as well. They allow DSes to connect for Nintendo games, not sure about web browsing or homebrew. Anyone know how they implement that?
Not that it really matters to me, apparently I get free access by having a DSL account with them. Of course, I no longer have a laptop to actually use the WiFi.
What are these "anti-piracy" ads of which you speak? How long are they? I've experienced and been annoyed by other ads that have the no skip bit set (looking at DreamWorks).
Guess these companies are determined to give paying customers a worse experience than pirates.
The only reason Rapidshare has CAPTCHAs is to sell their premium service. It's certainly not to prevent spam like a majority of sites use CAPTCHAs for. They say it has to do with people not being able to steal the service, but it seems a properly configured service shouldn't need to do what they're doing.
One of the reasons I wish everyone would use MegaUpload, it's in general a far better site. Although I hear it's not as good for people outside of the US?
How does that compare to running Firefox on Vista with UAC/DEP? And is there any way to implement something similar to the other things in Firefox?
Wikipedia has your answer. It seems most states don't require a periodic safety inspection.
I hadn't heard of it either, living in Michigan.
Hate to reply to my own post, but I did some searching. I found a blog post on the YouTomb study the GP mentioned, not sure if there's anything more.
A look at the API data reveals that it is the same mechanism used for music videos. I believe these restrictions have been in place for a while now, I believe some Canadians were complaining about not being able to watch some music video links last year (perhaps posters actually in Canada or another blocked country could clarify?). As mentioned in the blog post, I see no way to set country restrictions on an uploaded video myself. A search for "country" on YouTube help reveals information about YouTube's video identification tool which reveals "content owners" can block videos in chosen regions. In addition, this page about filing copyright complaints tells complainers to list which countries their copyright applies to. Although I'm not sure how often that's used as it seems videos removed for copyright violation are totally deleted rather than just blocked in the specified countries (although I guess if the content is stored/served from the US, they would need to remove everything that's under copyright in the US).
Is that how they restrict the viewing of music videos uploaded by the record companies to certain countries (US only, I think)? Example.
Sorry, by "example.com", I was referring to the actual domain of whoever was sending the email. I just used it in my post because others had mentioned that RFC.
The best reply-to email I saw was "UseTheYellowButton@ebay.com" for an email notification of an eBay message.
Most do. I just searched through my emails and found none that had a "donotreply.com"ish domain. Most were either something like donotreply@example.com or something@noreply.example.com.
Does Yahoo even offer it anymore? I know they offer a subscription service where you can listen to the music on a Windows PC, but they seem to have removed all mentions of transferring to portable devices using Janus. They did offer the service for $5 a month including transfer to portables, which doesn't seem too bad.
Apple would definitely have the market share advantage. If they can get it working with all iPods rather than just the current gen, they'd have a definite simplicity advantage over Microsoft whose "Play For Sure" is anything but.
The official AIM client can send off-line IMs now (the server holds them until the recipient is online). Pidgin can receive them, but as far as I know it can not send them.
That's what TLS is for. Of course, I've accepted certificates before even though they weren't valid / weren't issued by a trusted CA (obviously not for PayPal, though).
How often are signatures checked? I've made quite a few purchases without signing the back of my card. Also, I've often run out of space while signing and had to jumble the last few letters of my name together (it seems many signature spaces aren't designed to fit 19 characters).
The video bitrate is 34kbps. Absolutely horrid. Do they reserve the decent quality video for people inside the UK?
I'm assuming this is the page, although I don't speak Arabic. It has no pictures of Muhammad. It also appears to always use 'peace be upon him' after after mention of Muhammad (at least if the SVG name is names accurately).
As pointed out earlier, iranet.ir is still connectible. And a traceroute from within the US shows the traffic going to Paris (te10-2.passe1.Paris.opentransit.net) before Iran.
I agree. But the articles say that Matel is accusing the makers of copyright infringement, which as your title states it clearly is not.
I was confused and curious at the thought of the FTC being offput (which Firefox tells me is not a real word, confirmed by Google as this article is the third result) by memory offsets.
If not, then I don't believe the suit has any merit. Even if the cost is 'only' $800,000. I'm guessing Apple still must license WMA playback even if the iPod contains a chip which is capable.
Where's the Ogg Vorbis support? I hear Microsoft specifies that player which can play protected WMA can not play Ogg Vorbis. Where's the lawsuit about that?