There's no point in waiting and hasn't been for a while. There's only a significant difference between formats when writing, so your only concern has ever been getting new media, not compatibility of written media. Since dual format drives came out, there's nothing to stop you.
I've had a dual-format sony for a couple of years. I just buy whatever media is in stock and cheap.
And as you say, the recorders are cheap. I saw Office-somebody had dual-format writers for $40 last week. Just go get one.
Laziness = not patching your systems when you know you should.
Stupidity = being willfully ignorant - anyone who wants to be safe can easily find out how. But it seems that most people not only don't bother, they're proud to stay ignorant. That = stupidity.
Oh, and my biggest DVD gripe, STOP WITH THE ADVERTISING THAT CAN'T BE SKIPPED.
1) Buy movie on DVD 2) http://www.dvdshrink.org 3) Select "Remove Prohibited User Operations" 4) enjoy pressing "Menu" during previews and having it work.
That's why there's bittorrent, my son. There are currently 3 copies of the movie made from the Definitive Edition laserdiscs, all with great care, probably better than most people could do themselves. Check it out. They're all good.
From the article: Spammers, after forking over money to the hackers for access, then flood those hacked computers with unsolicited messages, or spam, that often advertise products or get people to spend money.
That makes it sound like they take over your machine so they can send you spam. No, they take over your machine so that they can USE your machine to send spam to millions of other users.
How are they going to make USB devices that work on legacy OSs like Windows XP but won't work on Linux or OS X?
Is he suggesting that hardware manufacturers are going to build a piece of hardware that will only work on Longhorn?
OK, I'm starting to see devices that require Windows XP so I guess so, but I can't imagine that one day we'll wake up and find that it's impossible to buy USB drives that work under Linux. If they do start making these drives that are compatible with the Longhorn standard, they'll be reverse-compatible with the older standard as well so they can maintain the OS X/WinXP/etc market. No problem.
The result if this happened would be that those with Longhorn would be unable to use their existing devices except as read-only, and those with older/different OS's would be able to use whatever they heck they wanted. Not exactly good publicity.
The only way something else would happen is if Microsoft told vendors "You can't make dual-mode driver chips; we own the standard and we'll hunt you down if you try to mix our new standard with the old standard." This seems like asking for a lawsuit though.
See, the problem is that these car alarms all set off sirens to alert people that the car's being broken into. Guess what? Nobody gives a damn; nobody even looks.
Get a car alarm, get the loudest goddamn siren you can; it should cause serious pain if you're within 10 feet of it.
By the time Longhorn ships, we'll have pocket-sized multi-gigabyte network storage appliances. Who cares if your machine will let you plug in a thumb drive if you can just plug a 10GB keychain samba share into the hub?
After R'ing the FA, they claim that they are doing this because people who want to connect to the university WAPs are being DOSd because the signal of the private WAP is too strong.
If you read the details in any RF device that uses an unlicensed frequency, it says something like "This device must accept any interference generated from outside sources, and if this device interferes with the operation of any other equipment, the operator must take steps to remedy the interference or cease usage of this device."
So if it's interfering, the owner may have to reduce output power (which many WAPs can do), shield the antenna until it's barely enough power to run within their dorm or whatever, install a directional antenna if they're trying to network with someone else, so as to reduce the stray signal, or shut the thing off.
The RAs at our school certainly had master keys. Almost every day someone would get locked out by their roommate leaving for class while they were in the bathroom or down at breakfast, and the RA would have to let them in.
That's assuming that you have a lens that takes a perfectly flat image. OK, if the horizon is lined up exactly with the centerline of distortion of the lens, you might be right. But 90 degrees is a very wide angle lens (25mm, generally considered a super-wide angle lens, on the verge of "fisheye"). Just a touch above or below the centerline, and lens distortion will vastly outweigh the earth's curvature.
I'd like to think that if asked not to link, the editors wouldn't link.
But if slashdot contacted me and said they were going to link to my web page, I'd probably make a mirror myself on a limited-bandwidth site and ask them to point to that. If they refused, I'd wait until the article posted and immediately move the page until it left the/. front page.
As Dilbert's mom said, Gift Certificates: all the (lack of) thought of cash, but not as good.
Give me cash any day.
As was stated in another gift card story before, you're not just giving the retailer an interest-free loan; 12% of the value of gift cards are NEVER REDEEMED.
You hit the nail on the head. As I've already posted elsewhere, I use a floppy maybe once a year. When I do, the drive is invariably full of dust. Sometimes I can get it to work but not often. If it's a necessity I have even had to go buy a drive to just read that one floppy.
OTOH I know a couple of people who do nothing but word processing on their machines, they save all their docs ONLY to floppy, and CLAIM that they rarely have a failure.
I haven't put a floppy drive in a machine I've built for about 2 years. My laptop has one but it's never in, it lives in the bag or on a shelf.
Before a couple years ago, I put them in machines but didn't use them. In fact on the rare instance when someone gave me a floppy disk, it never worked because the drive was full of dust.
Basically it came down to having to buy a new floppy drive every time I needed to use a floppy (about once a year or so). Sometimes I could just vacuum them out. Finally I just gave up and told people to email the stuff to me or put it on my FTP server.
The one on the left is a foreground star, much closer. Kind of like a match a foot from your face might appear brighter than a 10-million-candlepower searchlight 100 miles away.
Slashdot Mirror
There's no point in waiting and hasn't been for a while. There's only a significant difference between formats when writing, so your only concern has ever been getting new media, not compatibility of written media. Since dual format drives came out, there's nothing to stop you.
I've had a dual-format sony for a couple of years. I just buy whatever media is in stock and cheap.
And as you say, the recorders are cheap. I saw Office-somebody had dual-format writers for $40 last week. Just go get one.
Laziness and stupidity.
Laziness = not patching your systems when you know you should.
Stupidity = being willfully ignorant - anyone who wants to be safe can easily find out how. But it seems that most people not only don't bother, they're proud to stay ignorant. That = stupidity.
Oh, and my biggest DVD gripe, STOP WITH THE ADVERTISING THAT CAN'T BE SKIPPED.
1) Buy movie on DVD
2) http://www.dvdshrink.org
3) Select "Remove Prohibited User Operations"
4) enjoy pressing "Menu" during previews and having it work.
That's why there's bittorrent, my son. There are currently 3 copies of the movie made from the Definitive Edition laserdiscs, all with great care, probably better than most people could do themselves. Check it out. They're all good.
From the article:
Spammers, after forking over money to the hackers for access, then flood those hacked computers with unsolicited messages, or spam, that often advertise products or get people to spend money.
That makes it sound like they take over your machine so they can send you spam. No, they take over your machine so that they can USE your machine to send spam to millions of other users.
How are they going to make USB devices that work on legacy OSs like Windows XP but won't work on Linux or OS X?
Is he suggesting that hardware manufacturers are going to build a piece of hardware that will only work on Longhorn?
OK, I'm starting to see devices that require Windows XP so I guess so, but I can't imagine that one day we'll wake up and find that it's impossible to buy USB drives that work under Linux. If they do start making these drives that are compatible with the Longhorn standard, they'll be reverse-compatible with the older standard as well so they can maintain the OS X/WinXP/etc market. No problem.
The result if this happened would be that those with Longhorn would be unable to use their existing devices except as read-only, and those with older/different OS's would be able to use whatever they heck they wanted. Not exactly good publicity.
The only way something else would happen is if Microsoft told vendors "You can't make dual-mode driver chips; we own the standard and we'll hunt you down if you try to mix our new standard with the old standard." This seems like asking for a lawsuit though.
You may be right. Thank God it isn't Lucas doing the maiming.
Hines feels there will be room for both films to exist, as they will be drastically different in story and scope.
Spielberg's hacked version will suck but will make millions. Hine's version will be sweet, but will make far less (if anything).
Why does Hollywood think everything has to be brought into present day? Remember Godzilla 2K? (not if you're lucky).
See, the problem is that these car alarms all set off sirens to alert people that the car's being broken into. Guess what? Nobody gives a damn; nobody even looks.
Get a car alarm, get the loudest goddamn siren you can; it should cause serious pain if you're within 10 feet of it.
Mount it INSIDE the car.
If that's so, then this rider is just a poison pill to stop the main bill from passing.
By the time Longhorn ships, we'll have pocket-sized multi-gigabyte network storage appliances. Who cares if your machine will let you plug in a thumb drive if you can just plug a 10GB keychain samba share into the hub?
OK, the slugbot rings a bell. I think I even saw it on TV once. Yuck.
Thanks for the backup. Yeah, it probably was 4 or 5 years ago.
After R'ing the FA, they claim that they are doing this because people who want to connect to the university WAPs are being DOSd because the signal of the private WAP is too strong.
If you read the details in any RF device that uses an unlicensed frequency, it says something like
"This device must accept any interference generated from outside sources, and if this device interferes with the operation of any other equipment, the operator must take steps to remedy the interference or cease usage of this device."
So if it's interfering, the owner may have to reduce output power (which many WAPs can do), shield the antenna until it's barely enough power to run within their dorm or whatever, install a directional antenna if they're trying to network with someone else, so as to reduce the stray signal, or shut the thing off.
The RAs at our school certainly had master keys. Almost every day someone would get locked out by their roommate leaving for class while they were in the bathroom or down at breakfast, and the RA would have to let them in.
OK, all that aside, did you look at the photos? If that's the curvature of the earth, the earth is about 1000 kilometers in diameter.
is this "news"? I think I first heard this story something like 5 to 7 years ago.
That's assuming that you have a lens that takes a perfectly flat image. OK, if the horizon is lined up exactly with the centerline of distortion of the lens, you might be right. But 90 degrees is a very wide angle lens (25mm, generally considered a super-wide angle lens, on the verge of "fisheye"). Just a touch above or below the centerline, and lens distortion will vastly outweigh the earth's curvature.
Mod parent funny.
Actually you can see the lens distortion of the earth!
I'd like to think that if asked not to link, the editors wouldn't link.
/. front page.
But if slashdot contacted me and said they were going to link to my web page, I'd probably make a mirror myself on a limited-bandwidth site and ask them to point to that. If they refused, I'd wait until the article posted and immediately move the page until it left the
As Dilbert's mom said, Gift Certificates: all the (lack of) thought of cash, but not as good.
Give me cash any day.
As was stated in another gift card story before, you're not just giving the retailer an interest-free loan; 12% of the value of gift cards are NEVER REDEEMED.
You hit the nail on the head. As I've already posted elsewhere, I use a floppy maybe once a year. When I do, the drive is invariably full of dust. Sometimes I can get it to work but not often. If it's a necessity I have even had to go buy a drive to just read that one floppy.
OTOH I know a couple of people who do nothing but word processing on their machines, they save all their docs ONLY to floppy, and CLAIM that they rarely have a failure.
I haven't put a floppy drive in a machine I've built for about 2 years. My laptop has one but it's never in, it lives in the bag or on a shelf.
Before a couple years ago, I put them in machines but didn't use them. In fact on the rare instance when someone gave me a floppy disk, it never worked because the drive was full of dust.
Basically it came down to having to buy a new floppy drive every time I needed to use a floppy (about once a year or so). Sometimes I could just vacuum them out. Finally I just gave up and told people to email the stuff to me or put it on my FTP server.
The one on the left is a foreground star, much closer. Kind of like a match a foot from your face might appear brighter than a 10-million-candlepower searchlight 100 miles away.
If the card gets used the same day as issued, or more than 250 (pick a number) miles away, ask for and record picture ID.
This should pretty quickly turn up the culprits.
He doesn't want to be contactable all the time but he wants to be able to contact others at any time
So does he expect everyone else to be contactable at any time?
If everyone did what he did, the phone would only work via voice mail.
In general I agree with you though.