Digital cable has nothing to do with the Digital TV that the FCC is considering regulations for. Digital Cable simply converts regular analog TV signals to digital and then transmits this signal to cable boxes at people's homes. The cable box then converts the compressed digital signal to analog and sends it to the television. This makes the picture marginally clearer and allows cable companies to transmit more channels in the same bandwidth, but does not provide the major improvement in picture quality that High Definition digital TV provides.
The FCC is impatient because they granted broadcasters an extremely lucrative block of frequencies in return for broadcasters using the frequencies to broadcast digital high definition television. Believe me, nothing compares to a high definition signal. Simply amazing!
Nowadays, CHILDREN are getting pregnant in high school. Do we try to reinforce the values of abstinence? Teach safe sex? Alert them to the potential health risks and other consequences? Nope! They need The Morning After Pill! GIVE 'EM DRUGS!
The morning after pill is in no way is used as preventive medicine. Teaching abstinence or safe sex has nothing to do with the availability of the morning after pill. Both of these things are taught (with various levels of success).
Modern medicine does great in emergency situations (such as an accidental pregnancy or gunshot wound), but when treating chronic medical conditions (such as depression), it usually leaves a lot to be desired. While I think drugs are good in some treatments, other protocols should be tried first. Drugs should be used as last resort.
Kids these days are eating hundreds of grams of sugar every day, and are being reported as having ADT. Do doctors recommend a low carbohydrate diet? No, they prescribe stimulants! Now that doesn't make sense.
Wouldn't it be better to pay $10,000 now, rather than wait until you are successful? If you are working for a well-funded startup, it shouldn't be a big deal. People are very used to typing www.WHATEVER.com. The net ending could confuse your customers.
Remeber that Altavista failed to secure its domain name, Altavista.com, when they were first Digital was first starting the search engine because the guy who owned it wanted something like $10,000 for it and Digital never thought it would become a commercial venture. When Compaq bought them, they realized that they needed the Altavista domain name, and ended up paying $3,000,000 for it in the end. Anyway, I don't know what your business and maybe the net domain is okay. I'm just giving you a little food for thought.
The front page has commentary for all stories, and as long as the staff's commentary is obviously their own words, I don't see anything wrong. The italicized text is supposed to be the scoop, while the normal text is the staff's comments to the scoop. For the actual news, you have to click on the link. This is what Slashdot is.
Maybe there should be a preference to disable the staff's two cents. My only request is that they think about what they write first. They need to realize that Slashdot is a powerful medium, and many posters post without reading the article first. The summary is all they have.
Talking about how they don't like Fox's web site is one thing, but saying that a preliminary copyright ruling could, "destroy the web and all" is not responsible journalism. Obviously, CmdrTaco didn't read or think about the story before making the comment. How many people were at the water cooler today complaining that the web's days are numbered?
If they don't raise the price, the underwriters of the IPO will reap the extra cash. Who do you think deserves it more, VA Linux or the Banks? I think it is about time someono does this. Too many companies are giving massive amounts of money away by undervaluing their IPO's.
I'm sorry for the stupid previous post. Did any of you invest in the IPO. How many shares were you able to purchase?
Let's discuss Andover.net's impending IPO too.
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I'm sorry about this slightly off-topic post, but I know Slashdot really can't post a story about its IPO during the "quite period". I and I'm sure a lot of other readers would like to know more information about it. A news.c om story has info about both VA Systems' and Andover.net's respective IPO's.
Do you feel that either of these IPO's are good investment opportunities? Is Andover.net's auction style IPO a good idea? Some investors warn that since institutional investors are not among the initial holders of the stock, their share price could suffer as a result. What do you think?
You are right, and the "Nerds" have spoken. The previous postings have pointed out the flaws in writing an operating system in hard to maintain assembly, writing for a processor that is in very few embedded devices, and the uphill battle the OS faces.
A lesser site would be talking about how 1337/Kool these programmers are, and predicting this OS might take over the world. The readers of Slashdot expect more. The thoughtful discussion that is taking place right now is a prime example.
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I'm Sorry for the rash post. How about adding citations in the future? That would REALLY add value to your site. I was telling someone about a law, and she told me I was full of shit. I couldn't contradict her because it was simply your site's word against hers. A citation would clear everything up.
Lucky for him, @HOME uses dynamic IP addresses. He can simply restart, and not update his new address with zugzug.com, and all will be well, except of course for the next person who gets his IP address.
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Oh come on! It is still a crappy decision. In Science class, one should learn the information that coincides with the prevailing view of the scientific community. By not testing students on this information, teachers are not required to teach it. Why waste time on something that isn't going to be tested on the standardized tests? As long as the scientific community strongly supports evaluation, it should definitely be in the curriculum. People with strong views on religion should not dictate the science curriculum. It is obvious that they were unable to get creationism into the curriculum (because there is extremely little scientific basis for it), so they removed evolution from the curriculum. This is clearly doing a disservice to the students in Kansas.
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In Flower Mound, the cutting of a tree on your property is illegal without a permit.
Why is this a dumb law? If everyone in Flower Mound cut their trees down it would become a less hospitable place to live. The city council should have some say regarding the look of the town. While a short-sighted home owner might want to cut down a fifty year old tree, in the long run it could hurt the surrounding land values.
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The juvenile people that put together this site probably thought that "molest butterflies" had some sore of sexual connotation. Failing to note that "molest" means "to bother or annoy". Stuff like this causes me to doubt the voracity of the entire site. Laws are funny enough without paraphrasing!
An Excite story explains this whole situation a lot better. Slashdot should really demand better citations.
It turns out Wonder has not made any public statements regarding the procedure. A tabloid reported that he told a congregation that he was planning on getting his site back, but the doctor that is running the clinic has said he has not made an apoitment. Besides, an examination would have to be done first to see if he is even a candidate. Still pretty cool even if Wonder is not planning the procedure.
Okay, I'm sure you are right. Can you please tell me why? I thought the following: 1) a=V/T 2) f=ma 3) Therefore if the stopping time is the same, 3V=3F. Could you tell me why it should be 9 times?
The goal of this mission is to have part of the probe stay on the surface, and part of the probe dig beneath the surface to search for water. The two parts will be connected by a cord, and the surface part will (hopefully) transmit data gathered by the part inside the Martian soil back to earth. It should be able to determine if any water is left in the soil of Mars. The truly amazing thing about this speed in which it is going: 3 times the speed of a free-fall decent on earth. Imagine the force of a airplane crash times 3! The mission will be considered a success if ANY data is transmitted. From a earlier USA Today article, it didn't sound like NASA was supremely confident that this thing would work.
AM Radio is great! Its signals bounce off the atmosphere allowing stations to broadcast incredible distances. At night, AM stations on the west coast of the US can be heard up and down the coast, east to the Rockies and by all the ships in the Pacific. That compares to the paultry few miles DSL works before slowing down.
Under the rules, a worker who has an ergonomic injury diagnosed by a doctor would be entitled to have the work environment fixed to relieve the cause -- by changing the height of an assembly line or computer keyboard, for example (abcnews). If a company can't fix the cause of the worker's injury, than the patient is granted benefits while he or she recovers away from the job. Basically this legislation relies on a doctor's diagnosis of an injury, not a nebulous definition of "safe working environment", and this is the only way it could work.
I think the goals of the new standards are to provide companies with more incentives to fix their workplace before injuries occur because now punishments are more severe if an injury occurs. The reason why you have to be injured before the new law kicks in is that you can't really legislate something without clearly defined parameters. Mandating an "ergonomically safe" working environment would be impossible. It could never be properly defined in legislature, while an injury can be defined.
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Digital cable has nothing to do with the Digital TV that the FCC is considering regulations for. Digital Cable simply converts regular analog TV signals to digital and then transmits this signal to cable boxes at people's homes. The cable box then converts the compressed digital signal to analog and sends it to the television. This makes the picture marginally clearer and allows cable companies to transmit more channels in the same bandwidth, but does not provide the major improvement in picture quality that High Definition digital TV provides.
The FCC is impatient because they granted broadcasters an extremely lucrative block of frequencies in return for broadcasters using the frequencies to broadcast digital high definition television. Believe me, nothing compares to a high definition signal. Simply amazing!
Nowadays, CHILDREN are getting pregnant in high school. Do we try to reinforce the values of abstinence? Teach safe sex? Alert them to the potential health risks and other consequences? Nope! They need The Morning After Pill! GIVE 'EM DRUGS!
The morning after pill is in no way is used as preventive medicine. Teaching abstinence or safe sex has nothing to do with the availability of the morning after pill. Both of these things are taught (with various levels of success).
Modern medicine does great in emergency situations (such as an accidental pregnancy or gunshot wound), but when treating chronic medical conditions (such as depression), it usually leaves a lot to be desired. While I think drugs are good in some treatments, other protocols should be tried first. Drugs should be used as last resort.
Kids these days are eating hundreds of grams of sugar every day, and are being reported as having ADT. Do doctors recommend a low carbohydrate diet? No, they prescribe stimulants! Now that doesn't make sense.
Stay inside. 20% of the population is crazy.
Wouldn't it be better to pay $10,000 now, rather than wait until you are successful? If you are working for a well-funded startup, it shouldn't be a big deal. People are very used to typing www.WHATEVER.com. The net ending could confuse your customers.
Remeber that Altavista failed to secure its domain name, Altavista.com, when they were first Digital was first starting the search engine because the guy who owned it wanted something like $10,000 for it and Digital never thought it would become a commercial venture. When Compaq bought them, they realized that they needed the Altavista domain name, and ended up paying $3,000,000 for it in the end. Anyway, I don't know what your business and maybe the net domain is okay. I'm just giving you a little food for thought.
We already have received Meterites that are believed to be from Mars, so it is possible. But you are right, that is an incredible amount of force.
The front page has commentary for all stories, and as long as the staff's commentary is obviously their own words, I don't see anything wrong. The italicized text is supposed to be the scoop, while the normal text is the staff's comments to the scoop. For the actual news, you have to click on the link. This is what Slashdot is.
Maybe there should be a preference to disable the staff's two cents. My only request is that they think about what they write first. They need to realize that Slashdot is a powerful medium, and many posters post without reading the article first. The summary is all they have.
Talking about how they don't like Fox's web site is one thing, but saying that a preliminary copyright ruling could, "destroy the web and all" is not responsible journalism. Obviously, CmdrTaco didn't read or think about the story before making the comment. How many people were at the water cooler today complaining that the web's days are numbered?
Wouldn't it be:
char a[10];
int i;
a[i] = 'x' is equivalent to (a+i) = 'x';
...is equivalent to (i+a) = 'x';
The last one makes no sense. If it were allowed by the compiler it would be accessing some random bit of piece of memory. (*i+a)
Your other two examples are wrong because a is already a pointer, so a+i would already be accessing the memory address.
If they don't raise the price, the underwriters of the IPO will reap the extra cash. Who do you think deserves it more, VA Linux or the Banks? I think it is about time someono does this. Too many companies are giving massive amounts of money away by undervaluing their IPO's.
I'm sorry for the stupid previous post. Did any of you invest in the IPO. How many shares were you able to purchase?
I'm sorry about this slightly off-topic post, but I know Slashdot really can't post a story about its IPO during the "quite period". I and I'm sure a lot of other readers would like to know more information about it. A news.c om story has info about both VA Systems' and Andover.net's respective IPO's.
Do you feel that either of these IPO's are good investment opportunities? Is Andover.net's auction style IPO a good idea? Some investors warn that since institutional investors are not among the initial holders of the stock, their share price could suffer as a result. What do you think?
You are right, and the "Nerds" have spoken. The previous postings have pointed out the flaws in writing an operating system in hard to maintain assembly, writing for a processor that is in very few embedded devices, and the uphill battle the OS faces.
A lesser site would be talking about how 1337/Kool these programmers are, and predicting this OS might take over the world. The readers of Slashdot expect more. The thoughtful discussion that is taking place right now is a prime example.
I'm Sorry for the rash post. How about adding citations in the future? That would REALLY add value to your site. I was telling someone about a law, and she told me I was full of shit. I couldn't contradict her because it was simply your site's word against hers. A citation would clear everything up.
The new area code is actually 615. 510 is Oakland and Berkeley I think.
Lucky for him, @HOME uses dynamic IP addresses. He can simply restart, and not update his new address with zugzug.com, and all will be well, except of course for the next person who gets his IP address.
Oh come on! It is still a crappy decision. In Science class, one should learn the information that coincides with the prevailing view of the scientific community. By not testing students on this information, teachers are not required to teach it. Why waste time on something that isn't going to be tested on the standardized tests? As long as the scientific community strongly supports evaluation, it should definitely be in the curriculum.
People with strong views on religion should not dictate the science curriculum. It is obvious that they were unable to get creationism into the curriculum (because there is extremely little scientific basis for it), so they removed evolution from the curriculum. This is clearly doing a disservice to the students in Kansas.
In Flower Mound, the cutting of a tree on your property is illegal without a permit.
Why is this a dumb law? If everyone in Flower Mound cut their trees down it would become a less hospitable place to live. The city council should have some say regarding the look of the town. While a short-sighted home owner might want to cut down a fifty year old tree, in the long run it could hurt the surrounding land values.
The juvenile people that put together this site probably thought that "molest butterflies" had some sore of sexual connotation. Failing to note that "molest" means "to bother or annoy". Stuff like this causes me to doubt the voracity of the entire site. Laws are funny enough without paraphrasing!
An Excite story explains this whole situation a lot better. Slashdot should really demand better citations.
It turns out Wonder has not made any public statements regarding the procedure. A tabloid reported that he told a congregation that he was planning on getting his site back, but the doctor that is running the clinic has said he has not made an apoitment. Besides, an examination would have to be done first to see if he is even a candidate. Still pretty cool even if Wonder is not planning the procedure.
Okay, I'm sure you are right. Can you please tell me why? I thought the following:
1) a=V/T
2) f=ma
3) Therefore if the stopping time is the same, 3V=3F.
Could you tell me why it should be 9 times?
The goal of this mission is to have part of the probe stay on the surface, and part of the probe dig beneath the surface to search for water. The two parts will be connected by a cord, and the surface part will (hopefully) transmit data gathered by the part inside the Martian soil back to earth. It should be able to determine if any water is left in the soil of Mars. The truly amazing thing about this speed in which it is going: 3 times the speed of a free-fall decent on earth. Imagine the force of a airplane crash times 3! The mission will be considered a success if ANY data is transmitted. From a earlier USA Today article, it didn't sound like NASA was supremely confident that this thing would work.
AM Radio is great! Its signals bounce off the atmosphere allowing stations to broadcast incredible distances. At night, AM stations on the west coast of the US can be heard up and down the coast, east to the Rockies and by all the ships in the Pacific. That compares to the paultry few miles DSL works before slowing down.
No, your wrong.
Under the rules, a worker who has an ergonomic injury diagnosed by a doctor would be entitled to have the work environment fixed to relieve the cause -- by changing the height of an assembly line or computer keyboard, for example (abcnews). If a company can't fix the cause of the worker's injury, than the patient is granted benefits while he or she recovers away from the job. Basically this legislation relies on a doctor's diagnosis of an injury, not a nebulous definition of "safe working environment", and this is the only way it could work.
I think the goals of the new standards are to provide companies with more incentives to fix their workplace before injuries occur because now punishments are more severe if an injury occurs. The reason why you have to be injured before the new law kicks in is that you can't really legislate something without clearly defined parameters. Mandating an "ergonomically safe" working environment would be impossible. It could never be properly defined in legislature, while an injury can be defined.
Wow, those are eary to hear. They are very natural. Thank you very much for the links!
But you could think that it was either a Disney property or someway endorsed by Disney.