Windows 98 can be shrunk to ~4MB, and has plenty of drivers. And I kid thee not, I have seen Windows 95 used as an embedded OS in some very expensive products. Scary.
Don't swallow too much of that sand while your head's down there. They don't need a centralized database, the same manufacturers that agreed to implement this tracking scheme will happily tell them which vendor received the shipment containing a particular serial number, and the vendor will happily tell them who that individual printer was sold to, it's in their records from when they scanned the barcode prior to selling you the printer.
"Disregard the specifications" - so are you saying that a nearly accurate hardware specification isn't a good starting point? You don't disregard the specs, you just don't assume they're perfect. Use 'em, don't trust 'em.
Look at the cost of a cheap Dell these days - the fact is you can't make a thin client much cheaper than a low end PC. And while much of what we do with PCs might in the future be doable with thin clients, not all of it will be - you can't play decent games on a thin client, for example. There's just no reason for the end user to not buy a full-feature PC, and it will be a long time before we think of them as relics.
Most CCD cameras have an IR cut filter, which reflects IR - I'm guessing that's exactly why they can look for strong IR retroreflection. If that's the case, then to defeat the system, you could simply remove the IR filter, though you might need to do some correction on your images after shooting.
It cancels the reductions out as far as meeting a particular target for overall emissions is concerned. Obviously overall emissions would have been worse if those reductions had not happened.
I for one am skeptical of their abilities, however, Netfront still reports itself as Netscape 4 to webpages.
No it doesn't, NetFront's default user-agent string is "Mozilla/4.08 (PDA; Windows CE/1.0.0) NetFront/3.1". If the "Mozilla/4.08" bit is confusing you, look at what IE6 gives - yes, is starts with "Mozilla/4.0" too. Moreover it has a user agent selector in the options, so you can set it up to report as whatever browser you want.
(1) I'm not so sure we want to be taking flood control advice from Bangladesh.
Based on what I've been seeing on CNN the last few days, I honestly can't see why not.
(2) I'm not sure that attempting to control nature is the best route here. Sure, there are significant historical and cultural aspects of NOLA that we don't want to lose, but wouldn't it be cheaper (and safer) to move them to a different location?
As the article mentions, half of Holland is below sea level - obviously they don't have the option of relocating, but they prove that adequate flood defences can be built. The cost really isn't that big, a tiny fraction of what Bush is spending in Iraq would provide adequate flood defences for the area. Seems to me like a perfectly reasonable way to spend money, compared to some things I could mention.
There is little reason to blame bit torrent for wrong or right... it's a senseless accussation. Next, were going to blame http servers and ftp servers for serving illegal content.
Who's talking about blame? The author of the article reflected the impression in the mainstream media that bittorrent is very widely used for distribution of pirated content. I pointed out to the OP that the article's author is quite correct about that, and shouldn't be criticised for displaying that opinion. I made no statement about bittorrent being to blame for the piracy, that would be silly.
Someone could easily reskin and redevelop the game using Madden's engine to make it far more interesting. Like how about a game of medieval football where you have to slit the guy's tendons with your sock-knife, like they used to do back in the day? Seriously... there are a lot of different avenues game developers could be taking to add some spice to these types of games.
Reminds me a little of Speedball 2 on the Amiga, or perhaps Brutal Sports Football - no knives, but lots of over-the-top violence. Speedball 2 is one of my favourite sports games ever, although I don't think a modern graphics engine would actually make it any more fun.
So am I the only one annoyed by the extremely negative connotations used by the "reporter"? Apparently World of Warcraft's use of bit torrent was illegal, or just plain unknown! Or perhaps those who distribute anime truly are the bane of good.
Probably. I mean, well done, you managed to think of one example of BT being used for a legal purpose, and if pressed you could probably think of a few more. But the vast majority of BT traffic is pirated content, and the reporters tone is pretty justified. I'm a fan of BT, and I hope it continues to find more mainstream legal uses, but let's not delude ourselves about the current state of play.
Actually sending the Halliburton board out to tussle with bears and wolves is a sterling idea, although of course I meant boar.
As far as the wolves are concerned, the reason they were hunted to extinction in the UK is that they were viewed as a threat, mainly to sheep mind you, but dangerous nonetheless. I'm sure you're right about them, but I wouldn't personally want to go hiking in amongst packs of wolves.
In Scotland, there's a scheme in the offing to reintroduce bison, wild board and wolves to a reserve. ISTR bears may have been mentioned as well. The reserve will be protected by a 50 foot fence, but ramblers will be allowed free access! I hope they put CCTV cameras up so we can watch ramblers vs wolves in realtime:).
It even confirms that on the IO2 "technology" page:
The image is display into two-dimensional space (i.e.planar). Heliodisplay images appear 3D when viewed from more than a few feet away because there is no physical depth reference.
It appears to be 2D. While the articles calls it 3D, the product page simply says "Free-space multimedia display/projector", I'd have thought they'd mention 3D capabilities if it had them. Also look at the inputs it accepts, you'd think it would say something about what kind of input was required for a 3D image, it just lists standard 2D video sources.
It's the plugins that make Firefox for me, unfortunately there are problems here. There's no guarantee that plugins won't cause problems with Firefox or with each other, or that they'll continue to work after an update. Firefox breakage by this method has turned several non-technical types I know back to IE.
Plugins are so important to Firefox that I'd like to see a bunch of the most popular ones made "official", i.e. they will be tested to make sure that they work together, they will auto-update from the official site, and they will work after an update.
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Windows 98 can be shrunk to ~4MB, and has plenty of drivers. And I kid thee not, I have seen Windows 95 used as an embedded OS in some very expensive products. Scary.
Don't swallow too much of that sand while your head's down there. They don't need a centralized database, the same manufacturers that agreed to implement this tracking scheme will happily tell them which vendor received the shipment containing a particular serial number, and the vendor will happily tell them who that individual printer was sold to, it's in their records from when they scanned the barcode prior to selling you the printer.
"Disregard the specifications" - so are you saying that a nearly accurate hardware specification isn't a good starting point? You don't disregard the specs, you just don't assume they're perfect. Use 'em, don't trust 'em.
You misspelled "paying customers".
Look at the cost of a cheap Dell these days - the fact is you can't make a thin client much cheaper than a low end PC. And while much of what we do with PCs might in the future be doable with thin clients, not all of it will be - you can't play decent games on a thin client, for example. There's just no reason for the end user to not buy a full-feature PC, and it will be a long time before we think of them as relics.
Most CCD cameras have an IR cut filter, which reflects IR - I'm guessing that's exactly why they can look for strong IR retroreflection. If that's the case, then to defeat the system, you could simply remove the IR filter, though you might need to do some correction on your images after shooting.
1. RTFA. The people in this case claim they were not sharing files. They are not trying to argue that file sharing should be legal.
2. It's spelt "LEGAL", not "LEAGLE"
Your post completely misses the point.
Today, I had a couple guys come out and install a WildBlue satellite, they just finished about a half hour ago.
Wait, you get a satellite to yourself? And shouldn't they be launching it, not installing it at your house?
It cancels the reductions out as far as meeting a particular target for overall emissions is concerned. Obviously overall emissions would have been worse if those reductions had not happened.
I for one am skeptical of their abilities, however, Netfront still reports itself as Netscape 4 to webpages.
No it doesn't, NetFront's default user-agent string is "Mozilla/4.08 (PDA; Windows CE/1.0.0) NetFront/3.1". If the "Mozilla/4.08" bit is confusing you, look at what IE6 gives - yes, is starts with "Mozilla/4.0" too. Moreover it has a user agent selector in the options, so you can set it up to report as whatever browser you want.
It would be ironic if all the gamblers stopped playing poker so they could bet their poker money on partygaming.com stocks instead :).
(1) I'm not so sure we want to be taking flood control advice from Bangladesh.
Based on what I've been seeing on CNN the last few days, I honestly can't see why not.
(2) I'm not sure that attempting to control nature is the best route here. Sure, there are significant historical and cultural aspects of NOLA that we don't want to lose, but wouldn't it be cheaper (and safer) to move them to a different location?
As the article mentions, half of Holland is below sea level - obviously they don't have the option of relocating, but they prove that adequate flood defences can be built. The cost really isn't that big, a tiny fraction of what Bush is spending in Iraq would provide adequate flood defences for the area. Seems to me like a perfectly reasonable way to spend money, compared to some things I could mention.
I don't know about "plastisteel", but in Dune by Frank Herbert, lots of stuff was from a substance called "plasteel".
...using heuristic detection rules that generate a high number of false positives as well, if scanned files are simply runtime-compressed.
Thanks, but I prefer not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I got "Nothing to see here" on some topics for like hours today, that's some pretty effective content protection :(
There is little reason to blame bit torrent for wrong or right... it's a senseless accussation. Next, were going to blame http servers and ftp servers for serving illegal content.
Who's talking about blame? The author of the article reflected the impression in the mainstream media that bittorrent is very widely used for distribution of pirated content. I pointed out to the OP that the article's author is quite correct about that, and shouldn't be criticised for displaying that opinion. I made no statement about bittorrent being to blame for the piracy, that would be silly.
Someone could easily reskin and redevelop the game using Madden's engine to make it far more interesting. Like how about a game of medieval football where you have to slit the guy's tendons with your sock-knife, like they used to do back in the day? Seriously... there are a lot of different avenues game developers could be taking to add some spice to these types of games.
Reminds me a little of Speedball 2 on the Amiga, or perhaps Brutal Sports Football - no knives, but lots of over-the-top violence. Speedball 2 is one of my favourite sports games ever, although I don't think a modern graphics engine would actually make it any more fun.
So am I the only one annoyed by the extremely negative connotations used by the "reporter"? Apparently World of Warcraft's use of bit torrent was illegal, or just plain unknown! Or perhaps those who distribute anime truly are the bane of good.
Probably. I mean, well done, you managed to think of one example of BT being used for a legal purpose, and if pressed you could probably think of a few more. But the vast majority of BT traffic is pirated content, and the reporters tone is pretty justified. I'm a fan of BT, and I hope it continues to find more mainstream legal uses, but let's not delude ourselves about the current state of play.
Yep, they should make one of the full-time editors part-time, and spend the money saved on decent web design.
Actually sending the Halliburton board out to tussle with bears and wolves is a sterling idea, although of course I meant boar.
As far as the wolves are concerned, the reason they were hunted to extinction in the UK is that they were viewed as a threat, mainly to sheep mind you, but dangerous nonetheless. I'm sure you're right about them, but I wouldn't personally want to go hiking in amongst packs of wolves.
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In Scotland, there's a scheme in the offing to reintroduce bison, wild board and wolves to a reserve. ISTR bears may have been mentioned as well. The reserve will be protected by a 50 foot fence, but ramblers will be allowed free access! I hope they put CCTV cameras up so we can watch ramblers vs wolves in realtime :).
It even confirms that on the IO2 "technology" page:
The image is display into two-dimensional space (i.e.planar). Heliodisplay images appear 3D when viewed from more than a few feet away because there is no physical depth reference.
It appears to be 2D. While the articles calls it 3D, the product page simply says "Free-space multimedia display/projector", I'd have thought they'd mention 3D capabilities if it had them. Also look at the inputs it accepts, you'd think it would say something about what kind of input was required for a 3D image, it just lists standard 2D video sources.
It's the plugins that make Firefox for me, unfortunately there are problems here. There's no guarantee that plugins won't cause problems with Firefox or with each other, or that they'll continue to work after an update. Firefox breakage by this method has turned several non-technical types I know back to IE.
Plugins are so important to Firefox that I'd like to see a bunch of the most popular ones made "official", i.e. they will be tested to make sure that they work together, they will auto-update from the official site, and they will work after an update.