The TSA is *not* a private entity, it is tasked with the guarding of the airports by the FAA with support form the DOJ, both of which are fedral institutions who get their powers directly from congress (due to bogus use of the interstate commerce clause, but I won't go into that)....
HUGE difference betweent he TSA saying that and someone at a party.
Because "Subscribed Content" or "Subscription" or "Subscribed Stream" or anything like that is not a new buzzword, it's re-using existing words tp describe what they are meant to describe. Podcast is a buzzword - it just another synonymn for existing words. It pollutes the lexicon.
Why can't you guys see that "audio file + rss feed + support for chapter art and hyperlinks" is a combination that makes use easier in the same way that http made it easier than to manually ftp all the files on a website, and now rss makes it easier than http to check for changes?
Ok, let's take your assertion to it's logical conclusion.
If HTTP is to FTP as Podcasting is to manualy fetching MP3s from links, then it should follow the same type nomenclature transformation... but oh wait, *there was none*. You download files from FTP, you also download files from HTTP. So why is it when you download files with RSS instead of downloading them manually we get to come up with a new buzzword?
Answer? Marketing. Podcast is very "Web-2.0ish" AKA total bullshit PR fluff.
I never got the whole "podcast" BS. All a "podcast" is is a subscription to an audio stream - instead of getting a magazine or email newsletter, you get audio delivered to you. How is this not a subscription? And it isn't *ANYTHING*-cast, because you are not *sending* the information to the subscriber, he is *downloading it himself*.
I think this would be the end of self-serve fueling, the first driver who shorts a 380A 3.2kV capacitor charger with part of their body is going to become a very messy warning to others.
Why is it whenever people start talking about electric refil stations everyone on slashdot becomes a blithering idiot?
If you're icturing some joker waving around a huge metal conductor, you're crazy. It is perfectly simple to design a connector that would insulate this connection in such a way that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the operator to electrocute himself with it unless they did it on purpose (I am envisioning a system whereby the entire plug is covered in a thick insulator that is retracted as the connection is inserted into the vehicle.
Seriously, gasoline is much more dangerous, especially the way most pumps are designe dnow where you can just shoot gas all over the ground if you want!!!
Most modern houses constructed today have 200A panels, but houses older than 10-15 years (that don't have electric heat) often have 150A. 25-30 years old and you start hitting a lot of the 100A panels.
You can find the rare house that still has an 85A panel too. Never seen less than that for a main panel though myself.
I know the Toys R us here (Nb Canada) has been taking pre-orders for the Wii since late spring, before it was even *called* the "Wii" (basically they had "Revolution" then they stuck a Wii sticker over the sign later!). I think they were just taking a $100 deposit or something like that.
It's not like EB/Gamestop is the only place you can buy video game systems.
I think what may happen is alot of the people who skipped out on the gamecube may just get a Wii to play gamecube games they missed out on. I actually hope Nintendo does well this generation and doesn't turn into another Sega. I'd hate for the only players in the field to be Sony and Microsoft.
You *do* realize that, out of those three gaming companies/divisions (Nintendo worldwide, Sony Entertainment wordlwide, and Microsoft Home Entertainment), *NINTENDO* is the one the most in the black right now, right???
Microsoft is still way in the red, and Sony hasn't made much money at all this year since the 360 has been stealing PS2 sales and the PSP is a massive failure. Meanwhile Nintendo is still raking it in, as usual, with it's portable divison (DS sales are through the roof in every market).
That's ridiculous. Nintendo made money with the Gamecube, because they made profit on each box. They made a hell of a lot more money than Microsoft from gaming over the past few years. So does that mean you think Gamecube was more successful than Xbox?
Umm... YES?!?!?
This whole diatribe smacks of the type of dogma that brought about the bubble and the burst in 1999-2001.
It is not true. It has never been true, and businesses are now, for the most part, smarter. Very few stocks on the exchange now trade based on hundreds of times of potential future earnings.
Profitability *does matter*. Even Microsoft's $10 billion war chest is not infinite. They can not continue to lose hundreds of millions of dollars with every console release. it is simply not sustainable.
The success of a for-profit company is, by definition, the profit it generates. It is not the profit it *may someday* generate, that is merely what the stock is sometimes traded on.
The new device, available from Neuros Technology, is able to record MPEG-4 video from many media sources including cable, broadcast TV, and DVDs
Please allow firewire input... my cable boxes both allow raw firewire MPEG2 streams for SD and HD content. Currently I use MythTV with this, but would love the ability to buy cheap standalone boxes for ancillary TVs.
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The Wii has a built in advantage this analyst (as with most) seems to be forgetting, and that is, because the Wii sells at a profit from day 1, **Nintendo does not have to sell as many units to equal or better their competition** in terms of sales and revenue.
The 360 and PS3 may sell more consoles, and those people may buy more games. But you need a lot more more 360/PS3 games sold to compensate and surpass for the profit loss the companies are taking on the consoles.
I mean, look at the books of Nintendo vs. the Microsoft home entertainment division. Microsoft has way more boxes in the field, but is still way in the red. Nintendo is well in the black. And that's all that really matters in the long view.
I think what the parent meant is a large part of University is not just preparing for your job, but preparing through your life. A lot of the stuff you go through in Univeristy (partying,hangovers with an exam the next day, relationships succeeding, failing, and fucking your life over, prioritizing relationships vs. fun vs. school), prepare you for various aspects of your life as an adult.
This guy skipped all that, obsessed with the scholoarly aspect 24/7. He will probably do the same with his job, become quite wealthy, but ultimately very depressed. I wouldn't be surprised to see this guy on a suicide watch by the time he is 25 if he is not careful.
Have you seen OpenGL? All the eye candy, and it runs on my old laptop.
I think you mean Xgl, but your point is still valid. For anyone who has not seen Xgl in action, head over to YouTube and search up some videos.
I have Xgl running on my Xp1800 computer with a Geforce2MX video card from 2000 in it, and it is *smoking fast*, and the effects are far beyond anything that Vista does. The parent is really 100% correct - why does Microsoft need this much CPU power to do it's (relatively simple) GFX in Vista? Seems like they are a bit behind the times in terms of software here.
I want my computers to work when I pull them out of the box.
Having just bought my first "pre-made" computer in years (a new laptop from Compaq), I find this statement *hilarious*.
After taking this thing "out of the box", I spent no less than 30 minutes weaving my way through pre-setup wizards and registration dialogs. I then spent no less than *two hours* uninstyalling tosns of pre-loaded crap software I did not wan ton this machine - stupid toy games, trial versions of anti virus, trial versions of DVD burning software, trial this and trial that, all cluttering up my tray with 15+ icons.
In comparison, last time I built a computer, it took me about 30 minutes to put the pieces together, and 30 minutes to install the OS. Net savings of 1.5 hours and god knows how many hundred dollars.
Of course building your own laptop is not really an option, hence why I bought this one. But god, I buy pre-made PC's as little as humanly possible.
Macs on the other hand - I have not had any real experience with yet. From what I hear they funciton much better "out of box" - no pre-configuring, no trial craptastic software pre-installed.
If you know your enemy is eavesdropping on a method of communication, the prudent course is not to tell the world about it, it is to use that knowledge to send him *false* information, while continuing your real communication through some other (new) secure channel they hopefully do not know about.
Cell phones and laptops are often charged fully and run down below 50% for long battery run-time. This kills batteries.
Do you have any documentation to back up this claim?
Every single piece of advice I have ever heard or read on rechargeable NiMH batteries says that to ensure the longest lifetime of a battery, you should *always* "run it try" then give it a full recharge. It is the incomplete "halfway" charging cycles that give the battery "false memory" and cause the chemicals to not assume their full capacity after the next charge.
This is backed up with my personal experience as well, since I have **never**, going through 4 different cordless brands, had to replace a battery pack. In fact, the cordless set I just sold in my yard sale, was over 8 years old and the battery pack was still going strong.
IMO, this long life is because I always run my handsets, *without any charging at all*, until I get the "low battery" warning, then I place them on the charger for a minimum of 12-16 hours. This cycle of deep discharge / full recharge keeps them at their peak capacity for years.
Dorm fees have *nothing* to do with tution. Student's don't subsidize other students' housing, they are piad by dorm fees. It's akin to rent.
And when that rent lists "high speed internet included" as an option, and on top of that you are not allowed to procure your own alternative internet access, that Internet access should be as unencumbered as is reasonable.
You do have to question why the network is really there. Maybe you just need to tell your boss to get a grip.
I hate to say it, but does bittorrent (For non-uni use) really fall into the "supported" category?
I don't know if you've ever been to a University before (and if so if you've ever stayed in a dorm), but you've got to rememebr for most of these kids, the Internet pipe that comes with their dorm is *their only option*. Lots of caompuses do not let students get their own DSL/Cable installed in their dorm, they have to use the service that are privided with the dorm.,p>That said, you also gotta remember, these kids *are payig for* that dormroom Internet. If they can't use it for recreational use in their downtime, they're getting a really raw deal.
This guy has no clue what he's talking about. I *also* tried yahoo! mail abotu a year ago.. what it lacks that GMail does right:
Filtering - Yahoo! mail's filtering continues to be crappy to non-existant. GMail on the other hand has excellent filtering. I can easily assign labels to emails based on lots of different rules.
Speed - GMail is much faster than Yahoo! mail. Yahoo! mail is trying to use AJAX to load message headers as yous croll, rather than paging like Gmail. The problem is, because of the unreliability of AJAX, the headers often *fail to load) if you're too quick or jerky in your scrolling. So you have to re-load the whole interfac eto fix it!
Ads - Yahoo! mail is still littered with ads. GMail's ads ar every unobtrusive
Extras - Gmail is full of extras. Send someone a word document? Hey - they can view it ats HTML. Send someone an date? Hey - it can be automatically be added to your Google calender. Location? Link to google maps appears. This is just the beginnning - GMail has tons of little "extra" features like this. Yahoo! mail has none.
This is just the tip of the iceburg. There's lot of other things too, like free POP access (though I wish GMail has IMAP), threading, ability to label a message mor ethan once, etc - that Yahoo! just does *not* have.
I have the Westinghouse LVM-42w2, which has 1 HDMI port and two DVI ports. All three are HDCP enabled, so I can use HDMIDVI converters on the two DVI ports if needed in the future.
Frankly I find HDMI a stupid cabling standard to begin with. Audio and video *should* be connected discreetly - how many people actually *use* the speakers on their TV??? If you aren't using them, then of what use is piping the audio over an HDMI cable? I can see some use if your reciever supports full HDMI switching, since it woudl reduce the overall number of cables needed. But really, I don't care about that much.
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The TSA is *not* a private entity, it is tasked with the guarding of the airports by the FAA with support form the DOJ, both of which are fedral institutions who get their powers directly from congress (due to bogus use of the interstate commerce clause, but I won't go into that)....
HUGE difference betweent he TSA saying that and someone at a party.
Because "Subscribed Content" or "Subscription" or "Subscribed Stream" or anything like that is not a new buzzword, it's re-using existing words tp describe what they are meant to describe. Podcast is a buzzword - it just another synonymn for existing words. It pollutes the lexicon.
Why can't you guys see that "audio file + rss feed + support for chapter art and hyperlinks" is a combination that makes use easier in the same way that http made it easier than to manually ftp all the files on a website, and now rss makes it easier than http to check for changes?
Ok, let's take your assertion to it's logical conclusion.
If HTTP is to FTP as Podcasting is to manualy fetching MP3s from links, then it should follow the same type nomenclature transformation... but oh wait, *there was none*. You download files from FTP, you also download files from HTTP. So why is it when you download files with RSS instead of downloading them manually we get to come up with a new buzzword?
Answer? Marketing. Podcast is very "Web-2.0ish" AKA total bullshit PR fluff.
I never got the whole "podcast" BS. All a "podcast" is is a subscription to an audio stream - instead of getting a magazine or email newsletter, you get audio delivered to you. How is this not a subscription? And it isn't *ANYTHING*-cast, because you are not *sending* the information to the subscriber, he is *downloading it himself*.
I think this would be the end of self-serve fueling, the first driver who shorts a 380A 3.2kV capacitor charger with part of their body is going to become a very messy warning to others.
Why is it whenever people start talking about electric refil stations everyone on slashdot becomes a blithering idiot?
If you're icturing some joker waving around a huge metal conductor, you're crazy. It is perfectly simple to design a connector that would insulate this connection in such a way that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for the operator to electrocute himself with it unless they did it on purpose (I am envisioning a system whereby the entire plug is covered in a thick insulator that is retracted as the connection is inserted into the vehicle.
Seriously, gasoline is much more dangerous, especially the way most pumps are designe dnow where you can just shoot gas all over the ground if you want!!!
Most modern houses constructed today have 200A panels, but houses older than 10-15 years (that don't have electric heat) often have 150A. 25-30 years old and you start hitting a lot of the 100A panels.
You can find the rare house that still has an 85A panel too. Never seen less than that for a main panel though myself.
Why not just pre-order it elsewhere?
I know the Toys R us here (Nb Canada) has been taking pre-orders for the Wii since late spring, before it was even *called* the "Wii" (basically they had "Revolution" then they stuck a Wii sticker over the sign later!). I think they were just taking a $100 deposit or something like that.
It's not like EB/Gamestop is the only place you can buy video game systems.
When whizkid sits down by the fence control computers.
Starts flying around in some 3D interface. In 1996.
"This is a UNIX system! I know this!!!".
Yeah. Real UNIX like...
I think what may happen is alot of the people who skipped out on the gamecube may just get a Wii to play gamecube games they missed out on. I actually hope Nintendo does well this generation and doesn't turn into another Sega. I'd hate for the only players in the field to be Sony and Microsoft.
You *do* realize that, out of those three gaming companies/divisions (Nintendo worldwide, Sony Entertainment wordlwide, and Microsoft Home Entertainment), *NINTENDO* is the one the most in the black right now, right???
Microsoft is still way in the red, and Sony hasn't made much money at all this year since the 360 has been stealing PS2 sales and the PSP is a massive failure. Meanwhile Nintendo is still raking it in, as usual, with it's portable divison (DS sales are through the roof in every market).
If you don't believe me, look up the numbers.
That's ridiculous. Nintendo made money with the Gamecube, because they made profit on each box. They made a hell of a lot more money than Microsoft from gaming over the past few years. So does that mean you think Gamecube was more successful than Xbox?
Umm... YES?!?!?
This whole diatribe smacks of the type of dogma that brought about the bubble and the burst in 1999-2001.
It is not true. It has never been true, and businesses are now, for the most part, smarter. Very few stocks on the exchange now trade based on hundreds of times of potential future earnings.
Profitability *does matter*. Even Microsoft's $10 billion war chest is not infinite. They can not continue to lose hundreds of millions of dollars with every console release. it is simply not sustainable.
The success of a for-profit company is, by definition, the profit it generates. It is not the profit it *may someday* generate, that is merely what the stock is sometimes traded on.
The new device, available from Neuros Technology, is able to record MPEG-4 video from many media sources including cable, broadcast TV, and DVDs
Please allow firewire input... my cable boxes both allow raw firewire MPEG2 streams for SD and HD content. Currently I use MythTV with this, but would love the ability to buy cheap standalone boxes for ancillary TVs.
The Wii has a built in advantage this analyst (as with most) seems to be forgetting, and that is, because the Wii sells at a profit from day 1, **Nintendo does not have to sell as many units to equal or better their competition** in terms of sales and revenue.
The 360 and PS3 may sell more consoles, and those people may buy more games. But you need a lot more more 360/PS3 games sold to compensate and surpass for the profit loss the companies are taking on the consoles.
I mean, look at the books of Nintendo vs. the Microsoft home entertainment division. Microsoft has way more boxes in the field, but is still way in the red. Nintendo is well in the black. And that's all that really matters in the long view.
I think what the parent meant is a large part of University is not just preparing for your job, but preparing through your life. A lot of the stuff you go through in Univeristy (partying,hangovers with an exam the next day, relationships succeeding, failing, and fucking your life over, prioritizing relationships vs. fun vs. school), prepare you for various aspects of your life as an adult.
This guy skipped all that, obsessed with the scholoarly aspect 24/7. He will probably do the same with his job, become quite wealthy, but ultimately very depressed. I wouldn't be surprised to see this guy on a suicide watch by the time he is 25 if he is not careful.
They don't mean they want to run OO.org *on top of* Eclipse or XUL
They mean they want to re-structure OO.org to be modularly based and run on a GUI framework, *like Eclipse and XUL do*.
I can just see the kitchen computer sending a message to the bathroom computer telling the person in there that their microwave burrito is ready...
You've got things reversed there. The microwave burrito comes first, then the bathroom.
Have you seen OpenGL? All the eye candy, and it runs on my old laptop.
I think you mean Xgl, but your point is still valid. For anyone who has not seen Xgl in action, head over to YouTube and search up some videos.
I have Xgl running on my Xp1800 computer with a Geforce2MX video card from 2000 in it, and it is *smoking fast*, and the effects are far beyond anything that Vista does. The parent is really 100% correct - why does Microsoft need this much CPU power to do it's (relatively simple) GFX in Vista? Seems like they are a bit behind the times in terms of software here.
I want my computers to work when I pull them out of the box.
Having just bought my first "pre-made" computer in years (a new laptop from Compaq), I find this statement *hilarious*.
After taking this thing "out of the box", I spent no less than 30 minutes weaving my way through pre-setup wizards and registration dialogs. I then spent no less than *two hours* uninstyalling tosns of pre-loaded crap software I did not wan ton this machine - stupid toy games, trial versions of anti virus, trial versions of DVD burning software, trial this and trial that, all cluttering up my tray with 15+ icons.
In comparison, last time I built a computer, it took me about 30 minutes to put the pieces together, and 30 minutes to install the OS. Net savings of 1.5 hours and god knows how many hundred dollars.
Of course building your own laptop is not really an option, hence why I bought this one. But god, I buy pre-made PC's as little as humanly possible.
Macs on the other hand - I have not had any real experience with yet. From what I hear they funciton much better "out of box" - no pre-configuring, no trial craptastic software pre-installed.
If you know your enemy is eavesdropping on a method of communication, the prudent course is not to tell the world about it, it is to use that knowledge to send him *false* information, while continuing your real communication through some other (new) secure channel they hopefully do not know about.
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Cell phones and laptops are often charged fully and run down below 50% for long battery run-time. This kills batteries.
Do you have any documentation to back up this claim?
Every single piece of advice I have ever heard or read on rechargeable NiMH batteries says that to ensure the longest lifetime of a battery, you should *always* "run it try" then give it a full recharge. It is the incomplete "halfway" charging cycles that give the battery "false memory" and cause the chemicals to not assume their full capacity after the next charge.
This is backed up with my personal experience as well, since I have **never**, going through 4 different cordless brands, had to replace a battery pack. In fact, the cordless set I just sold in my yard sale, was over 8 years old and the battery pack was still going strong.
IMO, this long life is because I always run my handsets, *without any charging at all*, until I get the "low battery" warning, then I place them on the charger for a minimum of 12-16 hours. This cycle of deep discharge / full recharge keeps them at their peak capacity for years.
Dorm fees have *nothing* to do with tution. Student's don't subsidize other students' housing, they are piad by dorm fees. It's akin to rent.
And when that rent lists "high speed internet included" as an option, and on top of that you are not allowed to procure your own alternative internet access, that Internet access should be as unencumbered as is reasonable.
You do have to question why the network is really there. Maybe you just need to tell your boss to get a grip.
I hate to say it, but does bittorrent (For non-uni use) really fall into the "supported" category?
I don't know if you've ever been to a University before (and if so if you've ever stayed in a dorm), but you've got to rememebr for most of these kids, the Internet pipe that comes with their dorm is *their only option*. Lots of caompuses do not let students get their own DSL/Cable installed in their dorm, they have to use the service that are privided with the dorm.,p>That said, you also gotta remember, these kids *are payig for* that dormroom Internet. If they can't use it for recreational use in their downtime, they're getting a really raw deal.
"Broadcasting it"? Can I get it on DVD?
Actually if they're re-mastering it in HD, this may be the series that would convince me to make the jump to HD-DVD...
This guy has no clue what he's talking about. I *also* tried yahoo! mail abotu a year ago.. what it lacks that GMail does right:
Filtering - Yahoo! mail's filtering continues to be crappy to non-existant. GMail on the other hand has excellent filtering. I can easily assign labels to emails based on lots of different rules.
Speed - GMail is much faster than Yahoo! mail. Yahoo! mail is trying to use AJAX to load message headers as yous croll, rather than paging like Gmail. The problem is, because of the unreliability of AJAX, the headers often *fail to load) if you're too quick or jerky in your scrolling. So you have to re-load the whole interfac eto fix it!
Ads - Yahoo! mail is still littered with ads. GMail's ads ar every unobtrusive
Extras - Gmail is full of extras. Send someone a word document? Hey - they can view it ats HTML. Send someone an date? Hey - it can be automatically be added to your Google calender. Location? Link to google maps appears. This is just the beginnning - GMail has tons of little "extra" features like this. Yahoo! mail has none.
This is just the tip of the iceburg. There's lot of other things too, like free POP access (though I wish GMail has IMAP), threading, ability to label a message mor ethan once, etc - that Yahoo! just does *not* have.
I have the Westinghouse LVM-42w2, which has 1 HDMI port and two DVI ports. All three are HDCP enabled, so I can use HDMIDVI converters on the two DVI ports if needed in the future.
Frankly I find HDMI a stupid cabling standard to begin with. Audio and video *should* be connected discreetly - how many people actually *use* the speakers on their TV??? If you aren't using them, then of what use is piping the audio over an HDMI cable? I can see some use if your reciever supports full HDMI switching, since it woudl reduce the overall number of cables needed. But really, I don't care about that much.