*eyes mods* Flamebait, huh? Yeah, that's pretty much the treatment people with FF problems get in general, I guess. Thankfully there's also people like surveyork.

surveyork: I'll give that a shot, thanks! :)

Arnold's success at entrancing 12-year-old boys by shooting huge guns has vaulted him to a position of power from which he will blandly urge the Court to create a new exception to the First Amendment: violent entertainment aimed at 12-year-old boys.

The huge guns that he shot in movies which were all rated PG-13 or well above?
PG-13: The 6th Day, Last Action Hero
R: T1, T2, T3, Collateral Damage, End of Days, Eraser, True Lies, Total Recall (secondary rating), Red Heat, Running Man, Predator, Raw Deal, Commando, Conan the Barbarian*
X: Total Recall (original rating)
* Conan the Barbarian wasn't guns.. but what the hey.

There is no particular irony here on the part of Arnold Schwarzenegger even if he would have had a say about the ratings of these movies and whether or not legislation would be allowed to prevent the sale of these movies to 12-year olds.

The real irony is that despite these clear ratings that have been on the boxes since VHS and in many instances even included prior to the movie's starting, these 12-year olds and younger end up watching them anyway.

What that says about ratings and the proposed 'violent video game' legislation I'll leave to those who care. I just wish news sites would quit suggesting it's ironic that Arnold Schwarzenegger would be putting a signature under this thing and go back to watching Alanis Morisette videos unless they dig up a statement from him in which he encourages 12-year olds to watch the aforementioned movies.

That's what I first thought as well, but it doesn't make sense?

Let's say you set an event notification for "100 seconds from now". Let's say 'now' is 0s, so that you get the event at exactly 100s.

Now a time change comes along at 50s, which sets the clock back 50s.
So when the clock ticks through 100s for the event notification to occur, the clock ticks through to 50s, time change makes that 0s, then the clock again ticks through to 50s, triggering the event, and the clock ticks merrily onward from there.

The event thus comes at the new 50s, not at the new 100s.

I.e. the alarm goes off -before- it should have gone off. The bug as stated in the story, however, has the alarm going off -after-.. essentially at 150s. I think.

So if an alarm is set for "7 hours from now", and the clock ticks go like this:
0h, 1h, 2h, 3h/2h, 3h, 4h, 5h, 6h, 7h, 8h, 9h.

And the alarm says "in 7 hours I should go off", rather than "at 7am I should go off", it would look like this:
0h, 1h, 2h, 3h/3h, 4h, 5h, 6h, 7h, 8h, 9h, 10h.
Thus making the alarm go off at 6am - not the 8am in the story.

Did I mention I'm confused?
( I do hate DST as well, for this very reason, but I still can't fathom the bug. )

Dear Firef *waits 9 seconds* ox. Please di *waits 5 seconds* e.

Signed-
The *waits 30 seconds* Internet.

in before "what add-ons and plug-ins do you have installed":
A. The ones that make FireFox actually worth using.
B. None when I last reproduced the above scenario and that made for a very fun browsing experience all day long, let me tell you. Please, by all means, ask me to do that again after changing some undocumented about:config value. I have time and sanity to waste (as evidenced by posting comments at /.)

Time to give Chrome another shot, despite its inane UI (if I want more screen real estate for the page I'm visiting, I'll hit fullscreen, and keep my useful menus and button on-screen otherwise, thanks).

Reminds me more of Quikwriting, actually...
http://slashdot.org/hardware/99/04/29/1734246.shtml ...yup, 11 years old. Ken Perlin dabbled with input methods for a while there...
http://cs.nyu.edu/~perlin/

I see a lot of posts with hate for DST.. that's fine, I'd be happy if it were abolished as well.

But now back to there being a bug in how the alarm thing is handled on the iPhone. How does that bug even exist?

If the alarm is set for a particular time, say "7am".. then what does it matter whether or not the clock went back an hour at 3am?
I can understand the alarm app going a bit batty if the clock went back at 8am (essentially the alarm going off -twice- that day), but given the actual circumstances... how did the alarm decide that it should instead be going off at 8am? The clock, presumably, does give the correct time.. so it's not like its internal time functions don't know what time it actually is. I'm confused. Is this just some manner of shoddy coding going on?

What's worse is how Apple is handling it... i.e. 'not'. Most of America (some states ignore DST already) is up for its DST change next week. I guess most people are now warned by the media attention (where was that when it was NZ / AU?).

Speak for yourself when you say 'we'.

People who used daguerrotypes weren't exactly exactly numbering in the millions... the camera, plates, development equipment, etc. required cost a pretty penny even back then.

So let's take an objective look at things... I don't know which size that particular photo was, but one site on the interwebs lists as the largest daguerrotype plate a 6.5 x 8.5 inch plate. That's -huge-, but let's roll with it.

Now let's see what other photography equipment you're not likely to find with a typical tourist... how about a LEAF APTUS-II digital back? It's only 53.7mm x 40.3mm and has a resolution of 10,320 x 7,752 pixels.

Let's blow that sensor up to the size of that plate. The aspects don't quite match.. Losing a bit off the length there you're left with 52.7x40.3mm and 10,127 x 7,752 pixels.

So now on 8.5" we've got 10,127 pixels or ~1,191.4DPI and on 6.5" we've got 7,752 pixels or ~1192.6DPI.

Let's call it a round 1190DPI. I'd say that's pretty tight and you'd need at least a magnifying glass to see details no larger than a few pixels - which the blobby messes from the photograph discussed can pretty much be labeled as. (Note that the two photos in the article linked to are different photos - the detail from the photo referenced in the 'microscopy' section can be found on the original page: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/10/22/130754296/first-photo-of-a-human-being-ever )

That's not even counting large format digital camera backs or -scanning- digital backs (sure, exposure sucks, but daguerrotypes weren't exactly 1/800s wonders either - the second image was a 10-minute exposure) that will give you a much greater resolution yet.

And all that without the fuss and nasty chemicals and a result you can copy again and again and physically handle any which way you want (other than setting it on fire and electrocuting it, I suppose) without fear of smudging off the exposed elements, etc.

Then again.. most people don't care to have that much resolution in the first place. The primary mode of display these days is on the internet. While that's gone beyond the 800x600 'e-mail size' photos, by far the most gallery sites still do not post a full 5MP picture, never mind the 10MP that's just about standard now, unless it's a site specifically for great photos or panorama photos (which you most certainly would need a microscope for if printed out at the size specified above.).
In that respect.. it certainly is interesting.. and makes me wonder why so many people still buy into the megapixel race.

More to the point - although I too find GP poster's "get a life" assessment more than a little lacking in substance* - how does it explain people who are relatively new to games playing through them in just a day, too?

Perhaps it's the need for console games to 'help' the player a bit by simplifying things that also finds its way into PC gaming?

Perhaps it's simply the genre of games being released nowadays (a pretty much linear FPS can be played through in a few hours as long as you're familiar with FPS games in general.. shoot everything that moves, hope none of the victims were important (Half Life 1 - Can't shoot the scientists in Half Life 2.. how disappointing). Hunting down pixels in CountDown (Access Software) will still take you several days no matter how often you've played Monkey Island, LOOM, The Dig, etc.)

Perhaps it's the milking of games with downloadable content, 'episodes', and the focus on multiplayer, dimishing the single player experience.

Probably a combination of things.. but since the question doesn't ask for a cause, merely a yes/no answer, I'll go with: Yes.

* If you have a job, family, etc, then all that means is that instead of playing it through on the same day in 6 hours, you play it through over the course of two months in half hour stints. Guess what? That still means it was just 6 hours - where an older game might have been 12 hours.. whether that's 12 hours in 1 day or 12 hours over the course of 4 months doesn't change that it was 12 hours.

Which is why I like the idea of the Momentus line from Seagate. It's an HDD (e.g. 500 GBB, 7200rpm) coupled with an SSD (e.g. 4GB), with the SSD taking care of frequently read files (or sectors, however that works internally), and the HDD taking care of infrequently read files and all write ops. If it could also be used as a non-volatile cache for write ops, it'd be even better.
Pricing is not too particularly competitive compared to buying a HDD 500GB + SSD 32GB together, but it does have the advantage of taking up only one 2.5" slot and having the logic described above offered on-board, instead of having to deal with that in software somehow (i.e. installing your operating system non-statically across two volumes in a transparent manner to itself).

Are you sure it's Facebook-the-company doing this, and not Facebook-the-social-community-site with plenty of people who disagree with WikiLeaks' publishing of these documents who can hit a "flag this message as ..." button?

You can see some of these questions on the ESTA form on-line:
https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/esta.html?_flowExecutionKey=_cAA87A45D-BB10-BD69-546C-3A6C110CDB26_kC5D1910B-3EF3-ABDD-96D4-8BFFE65F97A5

This replaces the I94 (Visa Waiver) form that you'd fill out on the flight / at arrival.

For the privilege of filling it in online now, you pay $4 administration costs (by credit card only... you're welcome to have the info, Uncle Sam)... and an additional $10 if the application has been approved*, which is used to promote tourism (Travel Promotion Act) to the U.S**.

* of course it's only the application that's been approved.. if the border-control-person is having an off day and you look at 'm funny, they'll still send you back after a little chat.

** not charging and getting rid of the security theater might promote tourism better, eh? But the act is loved all-around as it practically costs U.S. taxpayers and businesses squat.. seeing as previous visitors effectively end up paying a good chunk of it. Well played!

The questions start after the two "yeah, yeah... I understand I must bend over.. take me to the form" pages.
I wonder what happened to the questions of whether or not the person has been to any farmland/soil recently. Come to think of it.. maybe that was Australia.

Because some people enjoy the challenge of creating something fun, new, original and, yes, pointless.

...I'm sure it was fun and pointless, but as fo for the new and original...

http://www.stylehive.com/bookmark/thinkgeek-usb-mug-warmer-hub-59352

That's like saying 5 blades is "new, original" compared to 4 blades.

Those endorsements / badges are typically by choice of the vendor, though.

I don't think this applies to a list of compatible systems on the back of a box (i.e. "Compatible with: Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu* (*For a complete list, visit www.vendor.com/support/"). These are just the little logos and stickers that you get to slap on the box/product -if- you meet certain requirements. For example: your installer must be Windows Installer based. If you use NSIS or InnoSetup: no sticker for you. But conversely, it doesn't mean that if you use WiX that you then -must- put the sticker on there.

So I don't see the problem except with managers (led by marketers) who deeply believe the sticker is something people look for and base purchasing decisions on and is vital to the success of the product.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Autorun. (another reply already notes that Autorun on 7 (and Vista) pops up the choice dialog anyway (and XP can easily be configured to do so.))

It's a keyboard emulator. Put differently - it's 'a keyboard'.. except that instead of a person typing on it, a little chip is doing the typing.
This would probably work on Linux as well, if the Linux distro of choice happens to respond to the keycodes in the same manner as Windows, and the device were smart enough to interface with Linux. If you can plug any random 10x-key keyboard into a Linux machine, then you don't even have to install any fancy drivers.

The only way to prevent things like that is to make input devices be allowed (via prompt) by the user first, too. Doesn't sound -entirely- unreasonable, except for those who plug in/unplug peripherals frequently. Windows already recognizes my one mouse from the other via several of the various IDs, though, so it could easily remember which ones were authenticated in the past.

TL;DR: 0.999... != 1. It's just really, really close.

Perhaps you should add that one to...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ConMan/Proof_that_0.999..._does_not_equal_1 ;)