It says that they're being sued for posting nintendo titles. Now to me that means...
*drum roll*
Mario Kart!
uh oh, now they're going to sue Slashdot cuz I posted a game title without permission! Even if they were referring to ROMS or images, why would it say they did it without permission? As if Nintendo would ever give permission to distribute that sort of thing! Could this article be any less specific?
lol did you miss the list of what their physics are used in? I read half those and was like "What physics?" I don't think there's an ounce of real physics in all of Halo 2. I mean there's no weight and seriously flawed gravity and inaccurate object reactions to energy. If they want to turn this into some killer commercial 3D simulation technology, they've got A LOT of developing to do. Plus, you know, the whole integrating it into a chip thing lol.
It could be as high as 150GB cuz I'd estimate average songs at 5MB each. Even on my Road Runner cable connection I'd have a hard time even breaking 90GB a month though! I metered it one time and used it extremely heavily for downloading stuff and gaming, usually at the same time, and got like 40-something GB. I mean come on, even 1GB a day every single day for a month would be a little much. I wouldn't be too worried
I don't think they're exactly using top of the line hardware that comes down in price ever. A stick of 256 MB of RDRAM for my 5 year old dell is still like $55 and has been at that price for years. I'd expect it's like surplus or offbrand and pretty old and outdated stuff already. If anything they'll run out of or stop making some parts that it needs within 6 months.
Anyway, you're missing the bigger picture. What do Nigerians do when they get internet equipped computers? So either they're all gonna get rich off scamming people and buy high end Lenovos or the countries that have been working on the program will get pissed about getting 100 "help the nigerian prince transfer his money" e-mails a day and destroy them all.
It would have to run on magic, not solar particles. If a solar sail that's millions of miles wide can just barely move a ship pretty fast, and that uses close to 100% of the particles' forward energy, using 10000000000x smaller solar panels to collect 10000000000x less particles can't net more energy output than the particles have in inertial energy since almost all energy that the particles have is being used in movement. Btw by particles I mean mostly photons. So unless they find out how to stick like a dozen nuclear power plants + fuel for them on a rocket, it's just not gonna work.
Cybersitter is a useless, EXTREMELY glitchy piece of shit. Trust me, we have it. You do know that they make a very similar filter called BSafe that's based on a really fast proxy that also functions as a firewall. It's offsite so you can't disable it without knowing the password, which of course it gettable by a keylogger but other measures can prevent that pretty well. There's only so many free good ones and they're none too sneaky. And technically BSafe is an off the shelf sort of product but it's really easily customizeable. I'd recommend that one just because it would take more skill than some kids have to disable (no matter what browser they use)
Anyone know why they keep trying to make extremely super low energy particles and modes of movement into rocket thrusters? If you turn on a flashlight or laser pointer, do you go flying backwards from the kick back? How about if you light off a flashlight sized model rocket motor while holding it? I mean seriously, if they'd been focusing on technologies that are traditionally used to create thrust instead of seeing how they can trick the weakest possible thrust methods into working as an engine, I'd be posting this FROM MARS! This is almost as bad as that giant million mile wide solar sail thing that was supposed to capture the forward energy from particles that barely qualifiy as mass. Oh here's an idea, why don't they take a billion of those little handheld electric fans and try and thrust it out of our atmosphere with that. One of them creates more thrust in an atmoshpere than the equal volume of photon's for God's sake.
There's stealing something physical and then there's a general broadcast. So the RIAA should be able to tell people speakers are illegal because they let multiple people listen to music when clearly only the buyer has a license to it? Get an account here then delete it cuz you have no idea what you're talking about. It's like an RF signal going everywhere and saying nobody should ever listen to it unless they have permission.
But what you do have in common is you're both potential terrorist targets lol. But seriously, if they stole or damaged all of the copies made, this article makes it sound like the entire US would collapse. That's just stupid. Count the number of damn atoms in it, write it down, and melt the stupid things. It's stupid to rely on them
unfortunately this is a just plain windows glitch:P I think there was a "click here to start BITS service because it's not running" button somewhere along the lines so I clicked it and it started and windows update still wouldn't run and said BITS wasn't running even when it was. That's when I had to reboot. So yeah it can turn it back on but it just plain doesn't work when you do until you restart. Good thing Vista "never has to be rebooted" rofl.
and you know what the worst part is that makes this even more ridiculous tha guns? They're the ones who had the bright idea to blast their programming everywhere. That's like laying out guns on every sidewalk and telling nobody to take them unless they paid for them. I'm sick of companies complaining that all their customers should stop doing something when it's because of their own crappy technology and business choices.
In my experience, if you turn BITS off you can't run Windows Update even if you wanted to. Even if you re-enable it, it doesn't work until you restart the computer once.
Since when does the IT department not have permission to snoop through someone's computers? They're company computers and we have remote viewing tools for a reason. Plus almost all companies have a policy that says that the computers are owned by the company and we can look at anything on them at any time. Even if someone's snooping for a bad reason, it's still a company computer so if they find something questionable or disallowed by company rules then hurray for them and if they find something personal or embarrassing it shouldn't have been on the company computer in the first place. We shouldn't have to sneak around and be all cautious like the network is a minefield of stuff we shouldn't look at when we have jobs to do!
No matter how famous and credible someone is if they invent something and sell the patent rights to a company that will just sit on it like most vaporware ends up, we'll never see it. Hopefully he's smarter than that (and not that much of a greedy jackass)
The smallest computer to run Windows Vista on page 7 is soon to be overtaken by the first computer to actually run-run Windows Vista, like without crashing and stuff
They're obviously trying to do this to stop political opponents and maybe some criminals if they have time left over. Hasn't anyone noticed a trend in countries that aren't the US? They're all throwing free speech out the window and jailing whoever's convenient for whatever dumb reason. If you bitch about the US's free speech violations try living in India...or China!
oh now we're getting Google involved? For God's sake people, how many servers does it take to tell you what time it is? Isn't it more likely that some of 1000 servers somehow report wrong information instead of one single atomic clock? Seriously, what's wrong with one atomic clock? I hear they're KINDA accurate. I just don't get the point of using tons of servers for it. Is it supposed to compensate for time passing at slightly different rates in different places on Earth or something? Are they concerned that if half the world suddenly blows up that that we'd all not know precisely what time it is? I think that'd be the least of my worries lol. Can someone please explain this whole concept for us?
You know signal or radiation or whatever in wireless is measured in dB which means it gets exponentially stronger when you get closer. So yeah you could have the RFID chip an inch form your skin for a century and not get cancer but when it's literally touching your living cells, that's an extremely high dose of radiation over a very small area of a couple of cells.
if they handed out night vision goggles to everyone, nobody would need any lights on to walk around and drive and stuff. That's the real solution. Then it'd be real dark [i]every[/i] day
Boy I hope someone doesn't already hold a patent for reforming the patent system in this way. Then they'd sue the government for using it. You might think I'm joking but theoretically if someone did hold tons of patents for patent reform and sat on them, that would stop anyone from reforming the patent system and invalidating their patents. Ahhh see, it's like one big circle of patent doom lol.
I take a screenshot of every story about famous people here too! I've got a whole collection lol. But hey, I can't do that at my real work cuz that's a hospital so that'd be illegal to take pics of everyone famous who came in there lol.
It's not even just a lack of features. It's downright not fixing things people hate! Is it gonna let me record from my sound card's stereo mixer to catch streaming music? NO! Is it gonna make my TV Tuner card work with it by magically creating a driver for it? NO! That's the vendor's problem. Is it gonna fix the networking problems between it and XP? No, that's not a bug, that's a feature! So basically the major reasons I didn't want to upgrade to Vista are all still there except now it's going to stop crashing and freezing a little? I'm not buying it just for that pathetic attempt.
I dunno unicode too well but heiroglyphics aren't in it, right? So...without being able to paste it in, it'd go REALLY slow. Like Stargate slow lol. Still pretty neat though
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It says that they're being sued for posting nintendo titles. Now to me that means...
*drum roll*
Mario Kart!
uh oh, now they're going to sue Slashdot cuz I posted a game title without permission! Even if they were referring to ROMS or images, why would it say they did it without permission? As if Nintendo would ever give permission to distribute that sort of thing! Could this article be any less specific?
lol did you miss the list of what their physics are used in? I read half those and was like "What physics?" I don't think there's an ounce of real physics in all of Halo 2. I mean there's no weight and seriously flawed gravity and inaccurate object reactions to energy. If they want to turn this into some killer commercial 3D simulation technology, they've got A LOT of developing to do. Plus, you know, the whole integrating it into a chip thing lol.
It could be as high as 150GB cuz I'd estimate average songs at 5MB each. Even on my Road Runner cable connection I'd have a hard time even breaking 90GB a month though! I metered it one time and used it extremely heavily for downloading stuff and gaming, usually at the same time, and got like 40-something GB. I mean come on, even 1GB a day every single day for a month would be a little much. I wouldn't be too worried
I don't think they're exactly using top of the line hardware that comes down in price ever. A stick of 256 MB of RDRAM for my 5 year old dell is still like $55 and has been at that price for years. I'd expect it's like surplus or offbrand and pretty old and outdated stuff already. If anything they'll run out of or stop making some parts that it needs within 6 months.
Anyway, you're missing the bigger picture. What do Nigerians do when they get internet equipped computers? So either they're all gonna get rich off scamming people and buy high end Lenovos or the countries that have been working on the program will get pissed about getting 100 "help the nigerian prince transfer his money" e-mails a day and destroy them all.
It would have to run on magic, not solar particles. If a solar sail that's millions of miles wide can just barely move a ship pretty fast, and that uses close to 100% of the particles' forward energy, using 10000000000x smaller solar panels to collect 10000000000x less particles can't net more energy output than the particles have in inertial energy since almost all energy that the particles have is being used in movement. Btw by particles I mean mostly photons. So unless they find out how to stick like a dozen nuclear power plants + fuel for them on a rocket, it's just not gonna work.
Cybersitter is a useless, EXTREMELY glitchy piece of shit. Trust me, we have it. You do know that they make a very similar filter called BSafe that's based on a really fast proxy that also functions as a firewall. It's offsite so you can't disable it without knowing the password, which of course it gettable by a keylogger but other measures can prevent that pretty well. There's only so many free good ones and they're none too sneaky. And technically BSafe is an off the shelf sort of product but it's really easily customizeable. I'd recommend that one just because it would take more skill than some kids have to disable (no matter what browser they use)
Anyone know why they keep trying to make extremely super low energy particles and modes of movement into rocket thrusters? If you turn on a flashlight or laser pointer, do you go flying backwards from the kick back? How about if you light off a flashlight sized model rocket motor while holding it? I mean seriously, if they'd been focusing on technologies that are traditionally used to create thrust instead of seeing how they can trick the weakest possible thrust methods into working as an engine, I'd be posting this FROM MARS! This is almost as bad as that giant million mile wide solar sail thing that was supposed to capture the forward energy from particles that barely qualifiy as mass. Oh here's an idea, why don't they take a billion of those little handheld electric fans and try and thrust it out of our atmosphere with that. One of them creates more thrust in an atmoshpere than the equal volume of photon's for God's sake.
There's stealing something physical and then there's a general broadcast. So the RIAA should be able to tell people speakers are illegal because they let multiple people listen to music when clearly only the buyer has a license to it? Get an account here then delete it cuz you have no idea what you're talking about. It's like an RF signal going everywhere and saying nobody should ever listen to it unless they have permission.
But what you do have in common is you're both potential terrorist targets lol. But seriously, if they stole or damaged all of the copies made, this article makes it sound like the entire US would collapse. That's just stupid. Count the number of damn atoms in it, write it down, and melt the stupid things. It's stupid to rely on them
unfortunately this is a just plain windows glitch :P I think there was a "click here to start BITS service because it's not running" button somewhere along the lines so I clicked it and it started and windows update still wouldn't run and said BITS wasn't running even when it was. That's when I had to reboot. So yeah it can turn it back on but it just plain doesn't work when you do until you restart. Good thing Vista "never has to be rebooted" rofl.
and you know what the worst part is that makes this even more ridiculous tha guns? They're the ones who had the bright idea to blast their programming everywhere. That's like laying out guns on every sidewalk and telling nobody to take them unless they paid for them. I'm sick of companies complaining that all their customers should stop doing something when it's because of their own crappy technology and business choices.
In my experience, if you turn BITS off you can't run Windows Update even if you wanted to. Even if you re-enable it, it doesn't work until you restart the computer once.
Since when does the IT department not have permission to snoop through someone's computers? They're company computers and we have remote viewing tools for a reason. Plus almost all companies have a policy that says that the computers are owned by the company and we can look at anything on them at any time. Even if someone's snooping for a bad reason, it's still a company computer so if they find something questionable or disallowed by company rules then hurray for them and if they find something personal or embarrassing it shouldn't have been on the company computer in the first place. We shouldn't have to sneak around and be all cautious like the network is a minefield of stuff we shouldn't look at when we have jobs to do!
No matter how famous and credible someone is if they invent something and sell the patent rights to a company that will just sit on it like most vaporware ends up, we'll never see it. Hopefully he's smarter than that (and not that much of a greedy jackass)
The smallest computer to run Windows Vista on page 7 is soon to be overtaken by the first computer to actually run-run Windows Vista, like without crashing and stuff
They're obviously trying to do this to stop political opponents and maybe some criminals if they have time left over. Hasn't anyone noticed a trend in countries that aren't the US? They're all throwing free speech out the window and jailing whoever's convenient for whatever dumb reason. If you bitch about the US's free speech violations try living in India...or China!
oh now we're getting Google involved? For God's sake people, how many servers does it take to tell you what time it is? Isn't it more likely that some of 1000 servers somehow report wrong information instead of one single atomic clock? Seriously, what's wrong with one atomic clock? I hear they're KINDA accurate. I just don't get the point of using tons of servers for it. Is it supposed to compensate for time passing at slightly different rates in different places on Earth or something? Are they concerned that if half the world suddenly blows up that that we'd all not know precisely what time it is? I think that'd be the least of my worries lol. Can someone please explain this whole concept for us?
You know signal or radiation or whatever in wireless is measured in dB which means it gets exponentially stronger when you get closer. So yeah you could have the RFID chip an inch form your skin for a century and not get cancer but when it's literally touching your living cells, that's an extremely high dose of radiation over a very small area of a couple of cells.
if they handed out night vision goggles to everyone, nobody would need any lights on to walk around and drive and stuff. That's the real solution. Then it'd be real dark [i]every[/i] day
Boy I hope someone doesn't already hold a patent for reforming the patent system in this way. Then they'd sue the government for using it. You might think I'm joking but theoretically if someone did hold tons of patents for patent reform and sat on them, that would stop anyone from reforming the patent system and invalidating their patents. Ahhh see, it's like one big circle of patent doom lol.
I take a screenshot of every story about famous people here too! I've got a whole collection lol. But hey, I can't do that at my real work cuz that's a hospital so that'd be illegal to take pics of everyone famous who came in there lol.
OMG women like mindless gab and talking about their thoughts and feelings more than men?! That has thrown my entire perception of reality into chaos.
It's not even just a lack of features. It's downright not fixing things people hate! Is it gonna let me record from my sound card's stereo mixer to catch streaming music? NO! Is it gonna make my TV Tuner card work with it by magically creating a driver for it? NO! That's the vendor's problem. Is it gonna fix the networking problems between it and XP? No, that's not a bug, that's a feature! So basically the major reasons I didn't want to upgrade to Vista are all still there except now it's going to stop crashing and freezing a little? I'm not buying it just for that pathetic attempt.
I dunno unicode too well but heiroglyphics aren't in it, right? So...without being able to paste it in, it'd go REALLY slow. Like Stargate slow lol. Still pretty neat though