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Re:And you thought the trojans and spyware were ba
If major companies start promoting their products on your favorite P2P program, then perhaps the **IA will be less inclined to sue.
Somehow I doubt it. If anything the RIAA or MPAA will then start targeting companies that advertise on the P2P networks. Especially expect to see this if the Induce Act passes. These companies will be a good target simply because they have money which Joe Schmoe file-trader doesn't have. In fact, the **AA might be able to bankroll their lawsuits against Joe Schmoe by suing the larger companies and that way not even take a loss on the hundreds of lawsuits they file against the little guy.
Oh isn't it all just so disgustingly evil?
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The lawsuit is coming
Now, just wait for the authors of the Beagle virus to slap them down with a lawsuit for reverse engineering their software. Something to the effect of:
"You have violated the License Agreement of the Beagle virus through your reverse engineering activities. Your publication illustrating how to do this is a clear violation of the DMCA and induces others to also violate their license agreement. Please Cease and Desist all such activities and prepare to see us in court."
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Not free as in effort, but I'm willing to try it.
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Not dead on the Mac
The Mac platform has a pretty good shareware community that is helped by sites like MacUpdate and VersionTracker. The Mac, having a smaller percentage of the market, has the benefit (for shareware developers at least) of having more holes that shareware developers can fill. So if you have a great idea and can turn it into a great app, then you have a good chance of finding success in the Mac market. Watson, Konfabulator, and NetNewsWire are a few great shareware apps on the Mac. Unfortunately Apple might decide to fill the same holes that your app might fill as was the case with Watson and now Konfabulator.
I have found a small amount of success myself with my Shareware app, HyperSpell. But its nothing I could ever quit my day job over. Mainly its something to do in my spare time and it filled a hole that I wanted filled. The biggest problem most shareware developers face is just getting people to know that their app exists (marketing).
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Re:What is the Speed of Sound?The space shuttle isn't designed to fly like an airplane, it (like other rockets) are designed to get you into space. If you'll read a little more of the article:
The accomplishment will be included in the 2006 Guinness World Records book, set for release this time next year, as follows:
An airplane that goes Mach 10 will be an amazing achievement for an air-breathing engine (a.k.a. non-rocket) aircraft.
"On 27 March 2004, NASA's unmanned Hyper-X (X-43A) airplane reached Mach 6.83, almost seven times the speed of sound. The X-43A was boosted to an altitude of 29,000 m (95,000 ft) by a Pegasus rocket launched from beneath a B52-B aircraft. The revolutionary 'scramjet' aircraft then burned its engine for around 11 seconds during flight over the Pacific Ocean."
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The X-43A flight easily set a world speed record for an air-breathing engine aircraft. The previous known record was held by a ramjet-powered missile, which achieved slightly more than Mach 5. A ramjet operates by subsonic combustion of fuel in a stream of air compressed by the forward speed of the aircraft itself, as opposed to a normal jet engine, in which the compressor section (the fan blades) compresses the air. A scramjet (supersonic-combustion ramjet) is a ramjet engine in which the airflow through the whole engine remains supersonic.
The highest speed attained by a rocket-powered airplane, NASA's X-15 aircraft, was Mach 6.7. The fastest air-breathing, manned vehicle, the SR-71, achieved slightly more than Mach 3. The X-43A more than doubled the top speed of the jet-powered SR-71.
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Re:What is the Speed of Sound?
From the article:
The final flight in the Hyper-X program is scheduled to take place in October, when another X-43A aircraft will attempt to fly at Mach 10 -- ten times the speed of sound -- or 7,200 mph.
So if 10x the speed of sound is 7,200 mph, then the speed of sound is roughly 720 mph.
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Nope
And it won't until I get mine.
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Re:We make ATMs that work well...
it'd need to have a complete software re-write.
Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that. The idea is that ATMs are already accurate, scalable and speedy and widely available. Also, wouldn't it be great to use the huge network that ATMs already use to report the votes?
Basically my position/idea is that ATMs already do a good job at what they do and there are thousands of them. If we could use that existing infrastructure for electronic voting then it would be great. It does open electronic voting up to a lot of other problems, but it sure would be convenient.
Not free as in effort, but I'm willing to try it.
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Re:We make ATMs that work well...
Well, yes, exactly, but taking it a bit further. Why not use the nation-wide ATM banking network for electronic voting? Instead of going to a polling place to vote, just go to your bank. This could introduce a bunch of other problems (as well as introduce a lot more conspiracy theories), but they could be solved and with this solution the infrastructure is already in place (with thousands of ATMs nation-wide). Only the ATM software would need to be modified to handle voting.
With this kind of voting maybe you could limit it to just bank ATMs as opposed to the ATMs at a gas station or convenience store. Also, make each bank go through a certification process to make sure that their ATM software is up to par AND that they have people on location to help and collect the printed ballot (since all ATMs can already print a receipt just have the voting software print a receipt and have the voter deposit it into a ballot box.
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We make ATMs that work well...
If we can make ATMs that work well then we should be able to make voting machines that work just as well. In fact, why don't we get the people that Make ATMs to make voting machines as well. Let's see, do ATMs stand up to his four criteria?
- Accuracy - Yep.
- Anonymity - No, but we could modify them.
- Scalability - Yep, there's bazillions of these things.
- Speed - Yep.
Let's take that a bit further, why not turn ATMs into voting machines? They're already part of a large, secure, nation-wide network, they're built for security, and there's bazillions of them. Wouldn't it be great to just go to your bank to vote? That would eliminate the need to go to a polling place and should reduce the lines tremendously.
Sure there might be other problems with this approach, but banks already have years of experience securing and relying on ATMs.
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They should Demand Profit Sharing
I think these guys should really demand some kind of profit sharing or a percentage of each game's revenues. Of course this probably won't work for the average code-monkey, but at least the lead engineers and game designers should have enough sway to be able to get it. The big game companies are making millions off of their backs so they should at least get some of it.
I imagine that behemoths like EA wouldn't give their workers this, but some of the senior developers should demand it. I've always been impressed with the OmniGroup's policy: (though they're not a game company)
Bonuses: We pay bonuses when our revenues and profitability allow it. Some years, it's a lot of money, and when we have an unprofitable year, it's not.
They seem to be a company that recognizes that their developers are important.
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Airpot Express
Apple's Airport Express has been the perfect solution to play music from my computer. It would be nice if you could play more than just stuff from iTunes, but it's a really great product and great for vacations too.
I'd love to see something like this that you could use to broadcast Video too, but for that I'll have to wait I guess.
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Re:Here we go
To go a little further down that road...
SCO claims Linux is "legally scary" because no Linux vendor will provide indemnification.
Linux vendors then provide indemnification (effectively saying SCO is full of it).
SCO then says, "See Linux has legal problems, otherwise why would you need indemnification?"
If we then follow SCO's logic...
Microsoft's products must have legal problems, otherwise why do they need to indemnify their customers?
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MOD PARENT DOWN
This is a re-direct to another site. These aren't Gmail invites.
And now for my shameless plug:
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Mr. President, we must not allow a savant gap!
"I think it would be extremely naive of us, Mr. President, to imagine that these new developments are going to cause any change in Chinese savant-expansionist policy. I mean, we must be... increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over other savant technology, in order to create savants more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out with superior savants!
Mr. President, we must not allow... a mega-savant gap!"
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But isn't Bluetooth dead?
From the article:
The three-year road map will help show that Bluetooth has staying power, Foley said.
Under the road map, the SIG plans to complete the Bluetooth Version 2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) specification by the end of this year, increasing the data rate to 3Mbit/sec., up from 1Mbit/sec. in the current Version 1.2, Foley said. Products are expected to appear with the EDR as early as June 2005, he said. The newer-version products will also be backward-compatible with older versions.
So it will go from 1 Mbit/sec. to 3Mbit/sec which isn't too bad considering its uses. I mean, really, how much bandwidth does your keyboard and mouse need? Or your cell phone earpiece? I don't think anyone needs to show that Bluetooth has "staying power." It targets a particular market and particular applications and does its job very well. You don't need 1Gbit/sec of bandwidth (which you'll get with UWB) to use your keyboard, mouse, or earpiece.
I think the most interesting thing is the multicasting to seven other devices. That should allow a lot of fun and interesting applications.
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That's nothing
I could obfuscate code so bad that it would crash the compiler, impregnate the linker and produce a fat binary.
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Didn't CBS get the memo?
I don't think anyone has suggested that bloggers are going to be replacing journalists anytime soon or that blogs are going to be taking over the media. But bloggers can be very good fact-checkers as was displayed in the CBS/Dan Rather memo flap.
That incident was a great example of a large group of volunteers rallying together experts that could show a news story to be false.
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Heh.Looks like the Bush did not get flushed down the John. =)
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Hybernating and the future...
I belive that we will someday be able to hybernate, only that scientists need to figure out how to do it. Of course we can, if mammals and other animals can do it, we can too. It would diffently help our space flights! -Pat
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You can get fiber in Keller Texas already."Verizon has begun an ambitious rollout of fiber optics to businesses and residences with the deployment of 440,000 feet of cabling in suburban Dallas. The carrier this week announced that it is about halfway through the build-out of a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network to every home and business in Keller, Texas, a city of 25,000. When completed, Verizon will string 1.2 million feet of fiber through Keller." "Verizon reiterated plans to pass about 1 million homes in nine states with FTTP by the end of the year. Earlier this year, analysts stated expectations that Verizon would fall short of that goal by about 200,000 to 300,000 homes, reportedly due to problems with initial equipment shipments from vendor AFC." http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2004/0519foa.ht
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Want the truth.....If you really want the truth about global warming then I suggest you visit this site: http://www.co2science.org/ushcn/ushcn.htm The official temperature data for the United States shows no sign of global warming. Go see for yourself if you want the truth.
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Re:Some of you guys are missing the pointI am well aware of how some people who play FPS's competitively always try to get obscene FPS's. That does not mean they are right. If I ran a game at 100 FPS and asked someone "is this running at 60 or 100" they would not be able to tell me. Anything above 60 and it gets VERY difficult to see the difference. Monitor hertz is a little different. Most people can see the difference up to 72 hertz and some can see it up to 75. The difference in screen refresh is a little easier to detect though, then the FPS of on screen movement. Its easier to see "flicker" then the changes in FPS of on screen movement.
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P2P is great.........P2P is great, I am glad its getting more popular. Piracy is bad though.... Not that any of you pirate.;) I actually think more companies should be using P2P in a legitimate way (to distribute game demo's movie trailers, etc).
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Hmmm....I actually think the Hotmail backdoor was fairly similar to this (you used a login form on a site other then Hotmail.com and you did not have to enter a password).
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Why not?As long as the game has some kind of educational value I see nothing wrong. They do put TV programs on in the classroom so why not games? I don't think they should be playing Smash Brothers Melee or anything but games like Myst can promote problem solving skills.
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Re:Not really newsThe safety record of the shuttles are much worse than any commercial jet. Very few shuttles exist compared to the amount that have been destroyed. Not only that, but very few shuttle flights occur compared to airline flights. I don't even need to look up the statistics to know that the safety record of the shuttle is very poor compared to airliners. Of course thats to be expected; space flight has inherent risks.
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Re:Some of you guys are missing the pointWell, anything over 60 FPS is not going to help you anyway. The eye can't see much over 60 FPS. A dual card setup will allow you to run Doom III at very high detail levels though. If you want to run a game like Doom III with everything turned on then by all means buy two video cards. Graphics just don't mean that much to me, I don't mind turning down the detail levels a little bit.
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Expensive.....I wonder how many people will actually use this. Two 6800 GT's at 400 dollars each equals 800 dollars. Plus your going to need a massive power supply. One 6800 GT requires a 350 watt power supply so would two require a 700 watt power supply?! Yeeeesh....
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Real money?If you can get real money seems like the incentive to hAxXoR and cheat the game would be very high....... Not that I would hAxXoR and cheat.
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Re:Uh.....It is in the article and post but lots of people were assuming it WAS a typo so thats why I pointed it out. I even made sure it had not been pointed out before I posted. Bleh, there is nothing more for me to say on this subject.
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Re:Uh.....Will you two stop being such jerks..... I was trying to point something out and be helpful. I was the first one to point out what "spim" stands for and I get labeled "redundant"? How is that redundant? Geeze........ All I ask is that when you moderate please use a LITTLE thought.......=/
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Re:WTFGah, its not a typo.....:P SPIM is instant messanger spam.
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Uh.....For those who don't know, "SPIM" means instant messanging spam. Thats why it has an "IM" at the end.
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Hmm...Its going to be hard avoiding all the sprite flicker and slowdown that plagues the NES in a game like GTA 3 which has so many moving sprites......=/ It can be done though (as is demonstrated in Smash TV on the NES).
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Yahoo.......Blegh, Yahoo needs to focus on making their search engine on par with Googles before trying to compete with them in the mobile arena. I see no reason why anyone would use Yahoo to search....=/
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I am......I am going to be trick or treating on Halloween not playing games. I am uh, a little old for it but I am planning on selling all the candy on eBay to make huge profits. Yeeeeeeep.
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Nah.......I wonder if something like the seti project results in a super computer even faster then this? Millions of desktops linked together could be. Something like that is probably not counted though (although I still consider it a supercomputer myself).
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Re:The thing is.......By the way, here is a link that tells you how to trick that chip in your ink cartridge so it won't expire: http://pcbuyersguide.com/hardware/printers/smart_
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The thing is.......The thing is, the ink cartridges did not really use "copy protection", except at a very basic level. I doubt it was very hard to "hack" it. The main problem I have with these chips is they can make the cartridges "expire". But this can be gotten around by editing an INI file before printing using the cartridge (so the date can't be written to the cartridges chip).
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Re:First Valve, now BiowareThe main thing that has been holding online distribution back is lack of broadband. But now since over 50 percent of the population (at least in the USA) has broadband its starting to catch on. I think that in 10 years you will probably not even buy software in stores.
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TAReminds me of what Total Annihilation did (except they gave away units for free). I really hope they do the same thing for Total Annihilation 2.
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Eating?LOL, you have to eat? Whats next, having to go the bathroom?=) AH MY BLADDER METER IS FULL!
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The interesting........The interesting thing about this is you can create your own levels. I wish they would make something like this for Link to the Past.
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I think.....I think the bandwidth requirments would have been to high (having to send the positions of all the enemies and everything to the other Xbox). The way to fix this is to have both Xbox's run the full game simulation and only send controller input data to each other. They must not have time to implement that though.
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Firefox.The official stats are that IE has 95 percent of the browser market currently. I don't really see that changing much. Firefox is a great browser, but I don't think its going to catch on with the average guy. The average joe just wants something that works, and Firefox is not as compatible with as many websites as IE. Firefox is still more secure but the security of IE has improved greatly since SP2, so thats not as much of an issue anymore. I also disagree that Firefox is faster, I have seen tests and IE is slightly faster overall (not enough to matter really). Anyway, I just don't see Firefox taking over as long as IE is included with Windows.
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Re:Well.......Oh by the way, don't forget it has to be NEW (used PC's don't count).=)
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Well.......I would say the Xbox or PS2 but those cost 150. The Gamecube, however, only costs 100 and I read some guys were trying to get Linux running on it a year ago. So I have proved Ballmer wrong, MWHAHAHA.
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Interesting idea.....Interesting idea, although I don't think the mainstream average joe will bother with sifting through clues on a website for hours. Of course it could work like video cards. The main purpose of high end ATI video cards for example, is to get high end computer users to buy them, then brag about the company to average joe's so they to will want an ATI card. The average joe will not buy a high end card though. This tie in with the show works the same way. The geeks will spend hours looking for clues and via word of mouth, will help make the show more popular.
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Eh...Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I have heard, on TV in the UK they are much stricter about violence but much more leniant about swearing and nudity. My guess is its probably like that in Australia also. The USA is the other way around.
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I don't think......I don't think this is really THAT bad or anything. Sure it could be considered "suggestive" but its done in a very subtle way. I don't think an 8 year old reading the ad would really get "get it". Also, Nintendo has done things like this before. Most of you probably don't know this, but Nintendo actually had a Mario Sunshine ad in Playboy magazine.=)