I never said that it did. I'm saying that the ACLU is right for the wrong reason.
No. You said that "the detail" was irrelevant to their case when in actual fact it is totally relevant because the ACLU shouldn't be defending business deregulation. It's supposed to be there to defend civil liberties.
Um, with the system described in the article you share horizontal resolution refresh rate. The system uses a special lense not horrible flickering glasses/filters.
They're saying that the Utah state government is forcing ISP's to shell out for a copy of NetNanny or equivalent blocking software every time a customer asks for it. The fact is, whenever they're required to comply with this law, at the customer's request or otherwise, it costs them money. Why should it be the ISP's responsibility to filter content? It's like saying that a window manufacturer has to provide blinds if you ask for them, because kids might look into the sun.
WTF? Please explain to me how that relates to civil liberties?
Being individual means dressing up in black, putting on white makeup, black lipstick and listening to death metal -- just like all the other cool individualist, non-conformists out there.
And when he does step down after his second term and goes back to his ranch in texas to retire, you paranoid freaks will just say "oh, well he was just a puppet anyway...replacing a puppet with a puppet will change nothing".
Well he never said that it was using satellite internet. I can assure you that, from experience, VOIP using on-plane wifi internet access works and works very well.
but the jitter as your packet is relayed via satellite back to firma terra will be enough to discourage most calls (i have to imagine).
Well, despite what most people here on slashdot would have you believe (armchair critics who have no experience whatsoever which is nothing new around here), that's not the case. I had internet access on a singapore airlines flight from London to Singapore last week. I used MSN video conferencing as well as skype-out on my tablet pc and both worked flawlessly. Using a webcam and conversing in ink while on a plane was awesome.
Skype-out worked really well - a tiny lag (not annoying at all) and perfect audio quality. Calling someone from my tablet on a plane without paying the ridiculus $5.90/min charge for normal plane-land calls was awesome and despite the fact that I had to use the inbuilt microphone on my tablet, the people on the other end say they heard me suprisingly clearly. I got a bluetooth headset for my tablet as soon as I got to singapore airport:-).
I should also note that the service had a web based live "chat" support and they were very helpful with my queries regarding the usage costs.
Well Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of africa until that socialist idiot Mugabe started his land distribution project, destroying his country's economy.
Exactly. I'm seriously doubting the backwords compatability for Xbox 360. Not only is it going to have to emulate an x86 (which is damn hard, try running VirtualPC on a Mac)
Well Microsoft bought VirtualPC.
it needs to dynamically recompile the Nvidia GeForce 3 assembly back to DirectX. Caustik managed to get that working fairly well for his XBox emulator - but mind you it's still x86-x86, so all he had to do was hook the XBox's BIOS.
Um, what does x86-x86 have to do with the GF3->DX conversion? Surely if they have the PPC->X86 part done, this part could be done just like it was done for the various XBox emulators out there.
I doubt that. What makes Microsoft LookOut so appealing to big business, or even small business for that matter, is not that it's a great email client - it's the intergration with MS Exchange. Shared contact list, scheduling, folders, all from a central location. Is there a Mozilla server in the works?
Hmm...maybe that's why Oracle is involved? I hear they're pretty good at writing servers...
The heart of the system itself is made up of a custom-designed IBM PowerPC-based CPU with 3 symmetrical cores crunching data at 3.2GHz each (for a total of 6 hardware threads) at any one time.
Anybody else get a little creeped out by the possibility that alot of what CS Lewis was doing with his fantasy writings was really Christian propaganda?
No. I mean, WTF? It's damned great reading and I never turned into a Christian because of it. It doesn't creep me out at all.
Then THAT got me thinking that maybe he might be trying to do that with a lot more than just TSL...
This just in: Writers use writing as a way of conveying ideas and beliefs. Get the full news at 11.
I'm sorry, but "important" email being sent to a free email account?
Are you retarded? What do you suggest people use their gmail accounts for? Giving to spammers? Giving it to people you don't care to reply to? Not using it for anything except for sending gmail invites?
All email that isn't spam or mailing lists is important in some way or another. What if it was an email from your g/f? What if it was from an ebay sale or purchase?
Think about the people who would use free email services....just about everyone and for personal use. The email you get may not be about life or death or the next business deal but it's still important.
"Free" doesn't typically mean "great support", not even in the case of Google.
Duh. Noone implied otherwise. Free or not, people come to rely on their email address and saying that people can simply switch to another provider in the same way as they could simply switch search engines is simply ridiculous. It's like losing your phone (and phonebook) and having to somehow notify everyone of your new phone number.
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Class 1 bluetooth devices have 100m range.
Bluetooth is more appropriate in many areas because bluetooth profiles are easier to support and implement than IP networking.
I never said that it did. I'm saying that the ACLU is right for the wrong reason.
No. You said that "the detail" was irrelevant to their case when in actual fact it is totally relevant because the ACLU shouldn't be defending business deregulation. It's supposed to be there to defend civil liberties.
Um, cause this time it's being reported by the BBC perhaps?
Um, with the system described in the article you share horizontal resolution refresh rate. The system uses a special lense not horrible flickering glasses/filters.
If the color quality was much better than the originals then why was it "just ok".
Just curious....
They're saying that the Utah state government is forcing ISP's to shell out for a copy of NetNanny or equivalent blocking software every time a customer asks for it. The fact is, whenever they're required to comply with this law, at the customer's request or otherwise, it costs them money. Why should it be the ISP's responsibility to filter content? It's like saying that a window manufacturer has to provide blinds if you ask for them, because kids might look into the sun.
WTF? Please explain to me how that relates to civil liberties?
No way!
/Some-Goth-Kid
Being individual means dressing up in black, putting on white makeup, black lipstick and listening to death metal -- just like all the other cool individualist, non-conformists out there.
Yes but when you try to steal the bench it screams and howls in terror.
So the nearest intelligent life with an advanced society is 85 million light years away
The milky way is only 100 thousand lightyears wide.
Unless the alien race has discovered a means to FTL travel, if they left 85 million years ago, they would be arriving right now
Well, if they discovered FTL (as in *FASTER* than light) travel then they could have left as early as this morning and be here by dinner time.
And when he does step down after his second term and goes back to his ranch in texas to retire, you paranoid freaks will just say "oh, well he was just a puppet anyway ...replacing a puppet with a puppet will change nothing".
Yes, I had the same experience on singapore airlines last week. I didn't notice any significant delay using skype.
Well he never said that it was using satellite internet. I can assure you that, from experience, VOIP using on-plane wifi internet access works and works very well.
but the jitter as your packet is relayed via satellite back to firma terra will be enough to discourage most calls (i have to imagine).
Well, despite what most people here on slashdot would have you believe (armchair critics who have no experience whatsoever which is nothing new around here), that's not the case. I had internet access on a singapore airlines flight from London to Singapore last week. I used MSN video conferencing as well as skype-out on my tablet pc and both worked flawlessly. Using a webcam and conversing in ink while on a plane was awesome.
Skype-out worked really well - a tiny lag (not annoying at all) and perfect audio quality. Calling someone from my tablet on a plane without paying the ridiculus $5.90/min charge for normal plane-land calls was awesome and despite the fact that I had to use the inbuilt microphone on my tablet, the people on the other end say they heard me suprisingly clearly. I got a bluetooth headset for my tablet as soon as I got to singapore airport
I should also note that the service had a web based live "chat" support and they were very helpful with my queries regarding the usage costs.
Oh sure, he spent a lot of time on it and submitted it to slashdot which means that he should only get praise and admiration.
Gee, maybe it's simply because it's annoying and time consuming to have to cater for older hardware?
It's like insisting that ID support DOOM3 on 486s running DOS6.
I've run it on a K6-200 with 96MB of ram. Slow to boot but works much nicer than 9x.
Well Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of africa until that socialist idiot Mugabe started his land distribution project, destroying his country's economy.
Yes. That's why DVDs are less reliable than floppy disk drives.
It's not like higher storage densities allow for more space for error correction or anything.
Exactly. I'm seriously doubting the backwords compatability for Xbox 360. Not only is it going to have to emulate an x86 (which is damn hard, try running VirtualPC on a Mac)
Well Microsoft bought VirtualPC.
it needs to dynamically recompile the Nvidia GeForce 3 assembly back to DirectX. Caustik managed to get that working fairly well for his XBox emulator - but mind you it's still x86-x86, so all he had to do was hook the XBox's BIOS.
Um, what does x86-x86 have to do with the GF3->DX conversion? Surely if they have the PPC->X86 part done, this part could be done just like it was done for the various XBox emulators out there.
I doubt that. What makes Microsoft LookOut so appealing to big business, or even small business for that matter, is not that it's a great email client - it's the intergration with MS Exchange. Shared contact list, scheduling, folders, all from a central location. Is there a Mozilla server in the works?
Hmm...maybe that's why Oracle is involved? I hear they're pretty good at writing servers...
OMFG he accused someone of being the "thought police" for thinking outside of /. group think.
MOD UP! MOD UP!
OMFG, he mentioned 1984 on slashdot.
MOD UP! MOD UP!
From the article:
The heart of the system itself is made up of a custom-designed IBM PowerPC-based CPU with 3 symmetrical cores crunching data at 3.2GHz each (for a total of 6 hardware threads) at any one time.
Anybody else get a little creeped out by the possibility that alot of what CS Lewis was doing with his fantasy writings was really Christian propaganda?
No. I mean, WTF? It's damned great reading and I never turned into a Christian because of it. It doesn't creep me out at all.
Then THAT got me thinking that maybe he might be trying to do that with a lot more than just TSL...
This just in: Writers use writing as a way of conveying ideas and beliefs. Get the full news at 11.
I'm sorry, but "important" email being sent to a free email account?
Are you retarded? What do you suggest people use their gmail accounts for? Giving to spammers? Giving it to people you don't care to reply to? Not using it for anything except for sending gmail invites?
All email that isn't spam or mailing lists is important in some way or another. What if it was an email from your g/f? What if it was from an ebay sale or purchase?
Think about the people who would use free email services....just about everyone and for personal use. The email you get may not be about life or death or the next business deal but it's still important.
"Free" doesn't typically mean "great support", not even in the case of Google.
Duh. Noone implied otherwise. Free or not, people come to rely on their email address and saying that people can simply switch to another provider in the same way as they could simply switch search engines is simply ridiculous. It's like losing your phone (and phonebook) and having to somehow notify everyone of your new phone number.