...Did you just suggest using WinZip's password protection to protect media? I hope I'm reading what you wrote incorrectly, as it's a bit vague...but the last time I had a WinZip password protected file I needed to open, I opened the file in notepad and deleted the header, and it opened right up. It's not encryption at all. It's not even a strong password protection. Of course, that was several years ago when I did that so perhaps they've changed it since then.
The bill allows stations to cease analog transmissions at any point between Feb 17th (the old cutoff) and June 12th, and many have signaled they will do so.
Err, I should hope they _all_ signaled they will do so. They're required to by law, aren't they? I mean, what else are they going to do, cut off on Feb 12th? Or maybe June 23rd?
I think you meant to say 'and many have signaled they will wait.'
Eh, his statement is true in my case. Hell, replace Vista with XP and it's _still_ true in my case. Most of the _Windows apps_ that I want to run won't actually run on anything newer than Win98. Or Wine.
Never used Emusic, but the DRM and file format issue on iTunes kills it for me. I want mp3s or oggs that I can actually play. Not some weird file format that none of my devices can use.
Oh, and the whole not working on Linux thing doesn't help either.
Dude...you've got what appears to be about a 50px kinda round thing in a crater, and your first assumption is a man-made biosphere? Well, I've got about a hundred pictures of alien spacecraft for you to look at then....
Seriously though, different planets have vastly different conditions, so it's no surprise you don't see things like this on Earth. I'd say it's essentially a sand dune. There's a _lot_ of similar formations on Mars. In fact, there's a few more on the string of pictures that original is from: http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/m15012/m1501228.html
There's one in the first image, there's some somewhat similar phenomenon in the second and third, there appears to be one in the fourth, two in the fifth, and part of one in the sixth.
Well, I'll admit I didn't RTFA, but isn't Blizzard's stance basically that they don't have to _sell you a subscription_ if you aren't using it how they want? I mean, since you get the game client free with your subscription, you aren't really _buying_ anything.
All of my software doesn't even work in XP. No way in hell it'll work in 7. It's pretty funny when everything I want to run either runs just as well in Linux as it does in Windows, or runs _better_ in Linux than it does in Windows - despite being designed for Windows. And yes, I use Wine, but no, I don't have to do anything a normal user wouldn't understand. Well, other than not having autorun...but I put the disk in, konqueror pops up with the files. I double-click installer or setup, it runs, it installs, it adds an icon to my desktop and/or programs menu. Hell of a lot easier than on XP, where I put the disk in...nothing happens. I find it under my computer, double-click install or setup...and nothing happens. I go to properties and set up compatibility mode...and nothing happens. I mess with different compatibility mode settings...and still, nothing happens. I dig around online for a patch, and there isn't one. I try to install wine for windows, and I can't figure out how to do that. I try DOSBox, but that doesn't work either. So I give up and go back to Linux.
I think the ponit is that if something like that was released today, and gained millions of fans on YouTube, that they would also be able to sell a few DVDs. Which is what Monty Python just did. It's not as if they were selling Dead Parrot Plushies -- it was just DVDs.
Well, they could also perhaps monetize it on their own site - great thing about the internet, damn near anyone could set up their own simple store. Or hell, burn their own DVDs and sell them on eBay. But still, the point I'm trying to make is that YouTube is no replacement to TV. You don't get paid (or at least not near as much), you don't get a contract, and you don't get the benefit of getting viewers simply because there's only so many channels people can watch. I mean, let's face it, if you're on TV at 9 at night, you're going to have a pretty large amount of viewers. Doesn't matter what your show is. Once you're on TV, you're already famous. There's no real comparison with sites like YouTube. Sure, you can say anyone that makes it on the top whatever list is famous...but how long does that usually last? A week? Maybe a month?
I think YouTube is a great thing, but it's in no way a replacement for what TV does. It's maybe good for getting people discovered and getting on TV (though I'm not sure if that's ever happened yet - has it?) It's also good for things like this - reminding people of their old favorites or helping things be rediscovered. But if Monty Python wasn't already famous, they probably wouldn't have made near as much money off this. If they hadn't already been on TV, there would have been no DVDs to buy in the first place. Popularity on YouTube is short-lived. It can't (in its current form) replace TV...though it can certainly aid it.
Not quite accurate. When you put things on TV, you get paid. And you have to be very good to get something on TV. When you put things on YouTube, you aren't getting paid and you're throwing yourself into the mix with every idiot who thinks they're entertaining. Now, it may be easier for people to get discovered on YouTube than it used to be...or it might be harder, simply because of the mass. But the true problem here is monetizing it. It's great for guys like Monty Python, who are already famous and already have merchandise in production and have millions of fans. But it's not in any way a replacement for TV. Not until YouTube starts putting in ads or something and paying the content producers.
Hah, yea, they just added it recently. And by recently I mean I think it was yesterday or the day before.
And yea, OGG would be nice, but then the majority of the population would probably say 'what the hell is this ogg thing?'. MP4 may not be the best, but it'll play on pretty much any OS, and if it doesn't it's easy enough to find a transcoder for it.
Seconded, though I prefer the Brother HL-2040. Got it from Amazon for $70. Hell, by the time I finished the toner it came with it had paid for itself. It's rated for 2,500 pages, and I get them refilled locally for $30. Compare that to HP's ink cartridges, which will run you $30+ for around 800 pages. So, you pay $90 for 2400 pages worth of HP ink, or $70 for a laser printer that comes with a full toner cartridge (and it was a _full_ cartridge, not one of those crappy half cartridges). I still have the old inkjet around for if I need color...though I can't remember the last time I used it...but it's actually cheaper to buy a laser printer and throw it out whenever you run out of ink than it is to buy ink for an inkjet. Plus my laser has _much_ better linux compatibility (plugged it in and it worked...the inkjet I've never gotten to work) and it's a lot more durable.
Just wanted to say that I gotta agree with you there. I didn't, but then they got YouTube to add a download option for their videos. You can play them in your browser with fairly standard tech (Even Linux has pretty good flash support now - I know, I use it. It's buggy at times, but YouTube always works fine) and you can download it in MPEG format if it won't play. Works for me.
That's essentially what I do already. Why do you need thousands of dollars in your checking account to begin with? Why not just transfer over only what you need? I mean, I can understand doing that a couple years ago, but my bank doesn't even really have physical banks anymore. If you walk into the building they have a few computers open to their website, an ATM, and one teller off to the side to help with things like opening new accounts. That's it. Everything is done online. And they reimburse you for ATM fees since they don't have too many of their own. But I generally keep less than $100 in my checking account. If I need more, I transfer it before I go. Or get on wifi when I'm there and transfer it. Or transfer it on the phone, which can also be done without ever talking to an actual person (though it's pretty easy to get one if you really want). Why would you need to keep all your money in your checking account?
I gotta agree with the GP. I mean, the term is 'bricked' as in 'it is now worthless as anything other than a brick (paper weight, building material, etc). If you can just reflash it, it's not bricked. Now of course there are a variety of levels of not being able to flash it anymore, but I would say that if you can flash it back using the same process you used to flash it in the first place...obviously you know how and are capable of doing it, therefore it should be reasonably simple for you to fix it and therefore it is still worth more than a brick. 'Bricked' means you can't fix it, you send it in for service, and all they can do is throw it in the trash and give you a new one.
The way it worked in my school is they had a rule in the student handbook that stated that if you were caught using your phone while school was in session it could be confiscated. And you ad your parent were required to sign a statement saying you had read and agreed to those rules. So by doing that, you've given up that freedom. Of course, in my school they still had no right to search the phone...and in fact, students fairly frequently removed the batteries before giving up the phones. That or put them in lock mode.
It'd be quite nice for people like me who _can't stand_ python. Purely a personal preference, but I just can't stand any language that has specific rules about where you can and cannot put a space. Hell, I had a python script I was writing the other day that wouldn't run because in one place I had used a tab to indent after an if statement rather than a series of spaces. I like my damn curly braces! They're easier!
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The bigger question I have is how they managed to trap all these photons in someone's hand and who counted them all.
Besides, it seems like you could fit a lot of photons in your hand...surely our scientific instruments can detect less than a handful...
I had Gateway send me a free motherboard for a computer that was two years out of warranty. Would Apple do that?
...Did you just suggest using WinZip's password protection to protect media? I hope I'm reading what you wrote incorrectly, as it's a bit vague...but the last time I had a WinZip password protected file I needed to open, I opened the file in notepad and deleted the header, and it opened right up. It's not encryption at all. It's not even a strong password protection. Of course, that was several years ago when I did that so perhaps they've changed it since then.
A DIY version of this was just on hackaday today actually.
http://hackaday.com/2009/02/05/haptic-compass/
It's apparently _very_ easy to build...so if you want one, build it! :)
Yes. Which is between Feb 17th and June 23rd
The bill allows stations to cease analog transmissions at any point between Feb 17th (the old cutoff) and June 12th, and many have signaled they will do so.
Err, I should hope they _all_ signaled they will do so. They're required to by law, aren't they? I mean, what else are they going to do, cut off on Feb 12th? Or maybe June 23rd?
I think you meant to say 'and many have signaled they will wait.'
Eh, his statement is true in my case. Hell, replace Vista with XP and it's _still_ true in my case. Most of the _Windows apps_ that I want to run won't actually run on anything newer than Win98. Or Wine.
Yea, I seem to recall iTunes refusing to update without also installing Safari.
Never used Emusic, but the DRM and file format issue on iTunes kills it for me. I want mp3s or oggs that I can actually play. Not some weird file format that none of my devices can use.
Oh, and the whole not working on Linux thing doesn't help either.
Dude...you've got what appears to be about a 50px kinda round thing in a crater, and your first assumption is a man-made biosphere? Well, I've got about a hundred pictures of alien spacecraft for you to look at then....
Seriously though, different planets have vastly different conditions, so it's no surprise you don't see things like this on Earth. I'd say it's essentially a sand dune. There's a _lot_ of similar formations on Mars. In fact, there's a few more on the string of pictures that original is from:
http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/m15012/m1501228.html
There's one in the first image, there's some somewhat similar phenomenon in the second and third, there appears to be one in the fourth, two in the fifth, and part of one in the sixth.
Well, I'll admit I didn't RTFA, but isn't Blizzard's stance basically that they don't have to _sell you a subscription_ if you aren't using it how they want? I mean, since you get the game client free with your subscription, you aren't really _buying_ anything.
All of my software doesn't even work in XP. No way in hell it'll work in 7. It's pretty funny when everything I want to run either runs just as well in Linux as it does in Windows, or runs _better_ in Linux than it does in Windows - despite being designed for Windows. And yes, I use Wine, but no, I don't have to do anything a normal user wouldn't understand. Well, other than not having autorun...but I put the disk in, konqueror pops up with the files. I double-click installer or setup, it runs, it installs, it adds an icon to my desktop and/or programs menu. Hell of a lot easier than on XP, where I put the disk in...nothing happens. I find it under my computer, double-click install or setup...and nothing happens. I go to properties and set up compatibility mode...and nothing happens. I mess with different compatibility mode settings...and still, nothing happens. I dig around online for a patch, and there isn't one. I try to install wine for windows, and I can't figure out how to do that. I try DOSBox, but that doesn't work either. So I give up and go back to Linux.
Many in Egypt fear that if free elections were allowed, the Muslim Brotherhood would quickly achieve a dominant position in their legislature.
So freedom is great as long as it's only used to promote ideas that you think are morally OK?
I think the ponit is that if something like that was released today, and gained millions of fans on YouTube, that they would also be able to sell a few DVDs. Which is what Monty Python just did. It's not as if they were selling Dead Parrot Plushies -- it was just DVDs.
Well, they could also perhaps monetize it on their own site - great thing about the internet, damn near anyone could set up their own simple store. Or hell, burn their own DVDs and sell them on eBay. But still, the point I'm trying to make is that YouTube is no replacement to TV. You don't get paid (or at least not near as much), you don't get a contract, and you don't get the benefit of getting viewers simply because there's only so many channels people can watch. I mean, let's face it, if you're on TV at 9 at night, you're going to have a pretty large amount of viewers. Doesn't matter what your show is. Once you're on TV, you're already famous. There's no real comparison with sites like YouTube. Sure, you can say anyone that makes it on the top whatever list is famous...but how long does that usually last? A week? Maybe a month?
I think YouTube is a great thing, but it's in no way a replacement for what TV does. It's maybe good for getting people discovered and getting on TV (though I'm not sure if that's ever happened yet - has it?) It's also good for things like this - reminding people of their old favorites or helping things be rediscovered. But if Monty Python wasn't already famous, they probably wouldn't have made near as much money off this. If they hadn't already been on TV, there would have been no DVDs to buy in the first place. Popularity on YouTube is short-lived. It can't (in its current form) replace TV...though it can certainly aid it.
Not quite accurate. When you put things on TV, you get paid. And you have to be very good to get something on TV. When you put things on YouTube, you aren't getting paid and you're throwing yourself into the mix with every idiot who thinks they're entertaining. Now, it may be easier for people to get discovered on YouTube than it used to be...or it might be harder, simply because of the mass. But the true problem here is monetizing it. It's great for guys like Monty Python, who are already famous and already have merchandise in production and have millions of fans. But it's not in any way a replacement for TV. Not until YouTube starts putting in ads or something and paying the content producers.
If it operated itself it would require no input from the user. It's the system for operating, not the system that operates.
How does that not make sense? You _don't_ operate your system?
Hah, yea, they just added it recently. And by recently I mean I think it was yesterday or the day before.
And yea, OGG would be nice, but then the majority of the population would probably say 'what the hell is this ogg thing?'. MP4 may not be the best, but it'll play on pretty much any OS, and if it doesn't it's easy enough to find a transcoder for it.
Seconded, though I prefer the Brother HL-2040. Got it from Amazon for $70. Hell, by the time I finished the toner it came with it had paid for itself. It's rated for 2,500 pages, and I get them refilled locally for $30. Compare that to HP's ink cartridges, which will run you $30+ for around 800 pages. So, you pay $90 for 2400 pages worth of HP ink, or $70 for a laser printer that comes with a full toner cartridge (and it was a _full_ cartridge, not one of those crappy half cartridges). I still have the old inkjet around for if I need color...though I can't remember the last time I used it...but it's actually cheaper to buy a laser printer and throw it out whenever you run out of ink than it is to buy ink for an inkjet. Plus my laser has _much_ better linux compatibility (plugged it in and it worked...the inkjet I've never gotten to work) and it's a lot more durable.
Just wanted to say that I gotta agree with you there. I didn't, but then they got YouTube to add a download option for their videos. You can play them in your browser with fairly standard tech (Even Linux has pretty good flash support now - I know, I use it. It's buggy at times, but YouTube always works fine) and you can download it in MPEG format if it won't play. Works for me.
That's essentially what I do already. Why do you need thousands of dollars in your checking account to begin with? Why not just transfer over only what you need? I mean, I can understand doing that a couple years ago, but my bank doesn't even really have physical banks anymore. If you walk into the building they have a few computers open to their website, an ATM, and one teller off to the side to help with things like opening new accounts. That's it. Everything is done online. And they reimburse you for ATM fees since they don't have too many of their own. But I generally keep less than $100 in my checking account. If I need more, I transfer it before I go. Or get on wifi when I'm there and transfer it. Or transfer it on the phone, which can also be done without ever talking to an actual person (though it's pretty easy to get one if you really want). Why would you need to keep all your money in your checking account?
Yup, I did the same thing. But I did it mostly by P2P rather than websites. I'd like to see them try to block that...
I gotta agree with the GP. I mean, the term is 'bricked' as in 'it is now worthless as anything other than a brick (paper weight, building material, etc). If you can just reflash it, it's not bricked. Now of course there are a variety of levels of not being able to flash it anymore, but I would say that if you can flash it back using the same process you used to flash it in the first place...obviously you know how and are capable of doing it, therefore it should be reasonably simple for you to fix it and therefore it is still worth more than a brick. 'Bricked' means you can't fix it, you send it in for service, and all they can do is throw it in the trash and give you a new one.
The way it worked in my school is they had a rule in the student handbook that stated that if you were caught using your phone while school was in session it could be confiscated. And you ad your parent were required to sign a statement saying you had read and agreed to those rules. So by doing that, you've given up that freedom. Of course, in my school they still had no right to search the phone...and in fact, students fairly frequently removed the batteries before giving up the phones. That or put them in lock mode.
It'd be quite nice for people like me who _can't stand_ python. Purely a personal preference, but I just can't stand any language that has specific rules about where you can and cannot put a space. Hell, I had a python script I was writing the other day that wouldn't run because in one place I had used a tab to indent after an if statement rather than a series of spaces. I like my damn curly braces! They're easier!