Unless you're finally able to hear... and you hear a loud noise that startles you... and you have a heart attach. What, it could happen.
So could being broke and unemployed, win the state lottery and then get mugged on the way to the store with the lottery ticket. Which is also bound to increase the risk of a heart attack.
Also, try to pack all that electronics into such a small package, including feedback cancellation (that really loud whine that older hearing aids were prone to produce) and and it has to be able to run on a single battery for at least a few hours at a time.
Add doctors fees for fitting, set-up and production of the ear piece which is (supposedly) moulded to fit your ear perfectly.
Headkase and Gription have good points as well. It all adds up.
Can it be a date bug in the PS3's hypervisor (or other internal 'security' functions)? The units that that maintains among other things the DRM and copyrights.
If that insists that the date is 29/2-2010, I can hardly imagine the number of things that will get decoded wrong. We may be lucky, that tomorrow the clock will claim it's March 1, at least that is a valid date. or the hardware will continue being 1 day behind, screwing up the DRM again tomorrow.
Agreed, Kevin Smith is not the smallest of people. However I was merely reacting to the Anonymous Coward's comment. As for the second line in my comment, that is also true. As big as Kevin Smith is, he seems to be on the slim side of the statistics if I recall, which is why Southwest will now have to kick off a fair percentage of their American passengers for being fat, if this is indeed an example of their policy.
Id's say, if you can sit in the seat, you should be able to fly, or pay for two.
However it is quite well known that just about ALL medicine have side effects, however more often than not the side effects are uncommon enough, or less problematic than the ailment they are supposed to cure. No one can argue that any side effects there may have been on the smallpox vaccine weren't acceptable, seeing that it prevented a disease with a near 90% fatality rate.
They are like any other group of rabid fanatics, they will always refuse to acknowledge any information that does not already conform to their preconceived delusions.
It is sad sight indeed, when rational though is in short supply.
Agreed. And where people tend to upgrade their phones more or less as often as they change underwear, a portable gaming console will have to last longer simply because of the investment in software people make. Just look at the media cost on the PSP to see why that is. Besides, the high powered CPU and GPU needed for decent gaming would slurp a phone battery dry too fast, phones these days are expected to last at least a few days between recharging.
This one just keeps changing it's media and means of transport.
The original: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
- Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. pp. 83. ISBN 0-13-349945-6.
I found this tide-bit rather interesting in the BBC article :
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"Several recommendations have, in the past, been made to the customer but none of these have, to date, been accepted," Telkom's Troy Hector told South Africa's Sapa news agency in an e-mail.
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I'm sure they (Telkom) have made recommendations, but at what cost?
I must applaud the IT company for trying out a 'green' alternative to large volume data transfer, but I wonder how long it will take for Telkom to get new legislation passed that will outlaw this form of data transfer.
South Africans just do not do that, at least not in great numbers. It is too expensive. And as for downloading DVD's, it's almost cheaper just to buy the original [copy off a street vendor..]
IIRC, Maersk Line did something similar, though they moved their US data centre to Denmark, but they loaded up a plane with hard drives instead of a truck. They had to move the data between COB Friday, and be ready to run Monday morning in Denmark. I can't remember if they succeeded.
They should have tested this on the Comrades Marathon 2009 (89km), giving one of the runners the memory stick, and see him/her finish before the 4GB download completes at the finish line.
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I guess that at 1000mph, anything can fly.
Unless you're finally able to hear ... and you hear a loud noise that startles you ... and you have a heart attach. What, it could happen.
So could being broke and unemployed, win the state lottery and then get mugged on the way to the store with the lottery ticket. Which is also bound to increase the risk of a heart attack.
Just not all that likely. :)
Also, try to pack all that electronics into such a small package, including feedback cancellation (that really loud whine that older hearing aids were prone to produce) and and it has to be able to run on a single battery for at least a few hours at a time.
Add doctors fees for fitting, set-up and production of the ear piece which is (supposedly) moulded to fit your ear perfectly.
Headkase and Gription have good points as well. It all adds up.
Can it be a date bug in the PS3's hypervisor (or other internal 'security' functions)? The units that that maintains among other things the DRM and copyrights.
If that insists that the date is 29/2-2010, I can hardly imagine the number of things that will get decoded wrong.
We may be lucky, that tomorrow the clock will claim it's March 1, at least that is a valid date. or the hardware will continue being 1 day behind, screwing up the DRM again tomorrow.
The Sony supports a wide range of formats, Not just plain text, with or without DRM.
Agreed, Kevin Smith is not the smallest of people. However I was merely reacting to the Anonymous Coward's comment.
As for the second line in my comment, that is also true. As big as Kevin Smith is, he seems to be on the slim side of the statistics if I recall, which is why Southwest will now have to kick off a fair percentage of their American passengers for being fat, if this is indeed an example of their policy.
Id's say, if you can sit in the seat, you should be able to fly, or pay for two.
I am personally very happy with my Sony PRS-505, and are taking a really good look at their new 600. It's light, sturdy, and surprisingly DRM free.
for being a fat ugly bastard
There's being fat, and there's being stupid. One of which IS curable, sadly for you it ain't stupidity.
If Kevin Smith was thrown off the plane, then Southwest would have to bar most Americans.
I have no intention of reading through all THAT.
However it is quite well known that just about ALL medicine have side effects, however more often than not the side effects are uncommon enough, or less problematic than the ailment they are supposed to cure. No one can argue that any side effects there may have been on the smallpox vaccine weren't acceptable, seeing that it prevented a disease with a near 90% fatality rate.
They are like any other group of rabid fanatics, they will always refuse to acknowledge any information that does not already conform to their preconceived delusions.
It is sad sight indeed, when rational though is in short supply.
Agreed. And where people tend to upgrade their phones more or less as often as they change underwear, a portable gaming console will have to last longer simply because of the investment in software people make. Just look at the media cost on the PSP to see why that is.
Besides, the high powered CPU and GPU needed for decent gaming would slurp a phone battery dry too fast, phones these days are expected to last at least a few days between recharging.
Agreed, I only block the annoying ones, or the ones that slow down my browsing, like Adtech.de.
That I very rarely react to the rest is besides the point.
Because they didn't make 20 billion.
I wonder how long it'll take it to break it if the perp uses "id10t". Still, they are probably not using brute force.
" Naturally this is only being used to break encryption on computers seized with a warrant and suspected of harboring child pornography."
You know, if you buy that one, I have this little red bridge I'd like to sell you.
This one just keeps changing it's media and means of transport.
The original:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
- Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. pp. 83. ISBN 0-13-349945-6.
Pigeons don't use fossil fuels either...
I found this tide-bit rather interesting in the BBC article :
--
"Several recommendations have, in the past, been made to the customer but none of these have, to date, been accepted," Telkom's Troy Hector told South Africa's Sapa news agency in an e-mail.
--
I'm sure they (Telkom) have made recommendations, but at what cost?
I must applaud the IT company for trying out a 'green' alternative to large volume data transfer, but I wonder how long it will take for Telkom to get new legislation passed that will outlaw this form of data transfer.
That is the second problem with SA Telkom, their lines ARE slow (low bit rates) as well as high latency (high 'ping' times), at high cost.
South Africans just do not do that, at least not in great numbers. It is too expensive. And as for downloading DVD's, it's almost cheaper just to buy the original [copy off a street vendor..]
/me *faints*
IIRC, Maersk Line did something similar, though they moved their US data centre to Denmark, but they loaded up a plane with hard drives instead of a truck.
They had to move the data between COB Friday, and be ready to run Monday morning in Denmark.
I can't remember if they succeeded.
As someone else mentioned, it would be RAIP, not RAID
RAIP: Redundant Array of Independent Pigeons.
They should have tested this on the Comrades Marathon 2009 (89km), giving one of the runners the memory stick, and see him/her finish before the 4GB download completes at the finish line.