I think that Bethesda didn't release the model import/export plugins until a while after the release of Morrowind, so it might just be a matter of patience.
What you want is a PROM (Programmable Read-Only Memory) chip, not an EPROM (Erasable...), and hitting an EPROM with enough UV erases it. The main difference between EPROMs and PROMs of the same type, is the lack of a window on the PROM.
Replacement of a soldered down PROM chip is only slightly trickier than replacing one in a socket, though it does take more time. You can reduce the time it takes by cutting the leads on the soldered down PROM, but that means you won't be using it again easily.
Aside from that, I think what you've said about designing such voting boxes is reasonable. You'll still need some form of memory to store the names/races/proposition X text for display. Never having seen the inside of a voting machine, I can't say what they use, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were reasonably serious tamper-resistant (or at least tamper-flagging) chips in it. Useful methods of tamper proofing can include gluing important chips to the case, partially cutting PWBs and chips and gluing them to opposite sides of the case so opening breaks many connections, and if designed right, also breaks the PROM and ASIC/CPU. (Several of those suggestions are overkill in just about any application including voting)
Rocket computers also tend to use chips with larger feature size than terrestrial, to better handle radiation effects.
If you happen to check out that screenshot more closely, you'd realize that JM is posting as an administrator of the starforce forums, and I think he should be held to a higher standard than "if you were him, would you have posted ___".
To be honest, if I was him, I wouldn't have posted a link to a pirated torrent download of _anything_ on an official copy protection software forum (or anywhere else).
Best thing about Stardock Central is, once you've installed the games/desktop apps/etc. you want from Stardock, you can uninstall Stardock Central, and keep playing the games. You're all set;)
Unlike say, WildTangent, which requires you to have their rather large "WildTangent Web Client" installed in order to play any of their games. Most of those WT games are single-player, and have no reason to keep contacting the servers in order to play. They claim it's just to send back information on what game you play, and for how long (and that's probably all that gets sent back), but do they really need that info in order to keep it running? Nope. However, they want it, and since they designed the game, they get it.
If you've got a recent Compaq computer, it comes with WildTanget DRMed game demos installed.
Perhaps you're not looking in the right places to find a redirect removal tool? I think Privoxy.org, and at least 1 other privacy enhancing system, both have redirect link removal in several of the simpler cases. The others, well, yeah, you're screwed if the URL can't be determined straight from the link. Tinyurl is an example of one that tends to not be easy to determine from the link.
Things like "http://redirect.server.nowhere/goto?http://real.p age.here/" can be unscrewed fairly easily.
Yep, the "official" solution to that old Sun optical mouse, is to find the old bit of sheet metal with a grid on it, that came with it when Sun shipped them.
Welcome to 1980 or so... when optical mice did NOT include built-in single-purpose digital cameras.
No, you don't get a refund for any time prepaid. They did offer a refund of the purchase price of the latest expansion pack though. It went live approximately 2-4 days before NGE went live. If you bought ObiWan's Adventures (or whatever it was called) before NGE started, you could return it for a refund.
Refunding prepaid time? Official stance last I checked (3 weeks?) was "No way".
I'm guessing RedHat's enterprise-level support would be better than the phone company's, but if not... 3 levels of tech support, all requesting the same information before you finally get to convince them to send out a network guy to look at the remote switch DSL card directly. It was an odd problem though, from every indication, everything was "green light" with the network, from both sides, aside from actually being able to connect to the rest of the net.
I suppose the lesson with that is, if all of your software has been updated, and thinks it's working, and the machine still crashes randomly, check the hardware.
It also seems a bit like the old "'Dog bites man' isn't news, but 'Man bites dog' is" thing. "Windows Crashes" is more like "Dog bites man".
It all depends on how good your UPS is, how much higher the UPS rating is than the normal load, etc. Some laser printers these days are low enough power draw, that running them on a UPS is merely a drain on battery life, instead of an overload. Doesn't mean it's a good idea though, since you should probably be safely shutting down your systems instead of printing out the power-outage report forms.
You do want at least one low-powered light on your UPS, unless you enjoy typing by flashlight. You can get a lot done with a 13-watt flourescent. Don't run your 500 watt halogen lights off it though. UPSes aren't usually designed to run heating equipment like that.
One thing I noticed about my wireless mouse, if you use it on a dark surface (such as a black mouse pad), it uses much more battery power than if you use it on something lighter in color.
It probably has to do with having to keep the LED inside on high more often, or maybe more difficult for the CPU inside to determine where it's been moved.
So, try a blue or white colored mouse pad. I went from something like 2 days of use per set of batteries, to around 2 weeks (I think).
Livejournal has a "If you can't read the text, type "AUDIO" and take a sound test instead." thing, and other sites have other ways around the visual test.
Unfortunately, not all sites have non-visual humanity tests.
Hamill seems to have gotten $1000/week during filming, and 1/4 of 1% of the film's profits. It would make sense that characters with similar screen time would get similar deals.
Well, part of the problem with AutoCAD LT is that, originally, a license for it was around $100. In the past few years it tripled. Hence the complaint that LT's upgrade price was so high.
I'm also fairly sure he was looking for inexpensive vector software, and LT doesn't count as inexpensive anymore. It used to.
AutoCAD LT is also nowhere near as powerful as AutoCAD.
User-friendly and EULA don't belong in the same sentence, nearly by definition.
I've played this game (Project Entropia) before, and at least at the early levels, it seems more like a pretty, 3D MMO monster-killing version of a casino, only without the benefits of "free" drinks. The house take is rather high. The exchange rate of US dollars to PE dollars is 1:10, minus about 2-3% for "processing". You can't withdraw less than either 100 PED, or 100 USD, I can't remember which. I see no potential for actual profit, except for the makers of PE. If everyone who put in $10 could easily make $10 in the game, PE wouldn't have earned enough money to have stayed in business (through 2 game engines).
There's only one class, though you can be male or female (makes no difference aside from looks). Killing something at low levels takes about 5 cents of ammo (or weapon damage).
There's only one way to make money without spending it, and that way is truly strange. Trap monster between buildings/rocks... concentrate and collect its "sweat". Sell sweat to someone else in game who really wants to use those cool MindForce Powers.
Hmm... They've toned down the "crazed environment destroyer" a bit. I'm still reasonably sure CR won't like the current biggest, gas-guzzlingest SUV on the planet. A bias towards cleaner cars and trucks isn't such a bad thing.
Rate of repair figures based on cards returned by readers are useful. I'm assuming people who like their cars (and thus don't return "cards" to CR) like them because they don't need repairs all the time.
Perhaps the "our expert therefore concluded..." comment was a typo, and meant "our experts...". I'd rather read a report of one person's opinion, than a report of one advertiser's opinion.
I gave up on an entirely different review magazine, because the only reviews it published were positive reviews. No single review in the 6 issues (of that other mag I got) mentioned the slightest problem. Every product was amazing. CR doesn't have that flaw.
FCC==Federal Communication Commission FAA==Federal Aviation Administration
Please get it right. The FCC has pretty much nothing to do with airlines and flying.
Yeah, you are more comfortable in your own car, but you now get to explain to the person who just set up the interview that you can't fly. Any way you come up with of explaining that stands a good chance of prejudicing your chances in the interview.
than to ask permission", but it can be much more expensive.
I used to live in an apartment complex with 7 three-story building full of apartments, and there were many small TV sat dishes installed in varying locations. Pretty much anywhere was OK, as long as it didn't interfere with other uses of the property.
The most obvious example of stupid installers was the one that put their satellite dish post right next to the entry walkway, so that the dish hung at about head height over the walkway (yes, right where people would bump their heads on it). This one was forced to be repositioned. Shortly before I moved, I counted at least 14 dishes, several planted at the corners of buildings.
The only thing my credit card bill has told me about my purchases is "you spent $X dollars at store Y on day Z". It's not broken down into exactly what you bought, just by where you bought it from.
Even those "Year-End Summary of Activity" things you might get are split based on where you bought from, not what you bought. So, if you bought a TV from your local supermarket, it would show up under the grocery summary. If you brought a clock from a gas station, it would show up under the fuel list.
This folder renaming is somewhat harder than just some static javascript/CSS hacking. It still won't work. Just block images on size, or on the fact that they are images. This'll break some sites, but any good adblocker program can be programmed to allow certain useful images through (if any).
Anyone wanting me to see their ads so much that they start adding randomness into all their links (if I can't work around it easily), will be summarily dismissed from my version of the Web.
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How to get the meshes and textures out of Oblivion:t egory:Meshes_and_Textures for information on getting existing meshes out of the Oblivion data files for use in your own mod.
l k:Main_Page#Custom_Models for information on using other 3dsmax plug ins to get a new model into Oblivion, though the conversion is incomplete.
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I think that Bethesda didn't release the model import/export plugins until a while after the release of Morrowind, so it might just be a matter of patience.
What you want is a PROM (Programmable Read-Only Memory) chip, not an EPROM (Erasable ...), and hitting an EPROM with enough UV erases it. The main difference between EPROMs and PROMs of the same type, is the lack of a window on the PROM.
;)
Replacement of a soldered down PROM chip is only slightly trickier than replacing one in a socket, though it does take more time. You can reduce the time it takes by cutting the leads on the soldered down PROM, but that means you won't be using it again easily.
Aside from that, I think what you've said about designing such voting boxes is reasonable. You'll still need some form of memory to store the names/races/proposition X text for display. Never having seen the inside of a voting machine, I can't say what they use, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were reasonably serious tamper-resistant (or at least tamper-flagging) chips in it. Useful methods of tamper proofing can include gluing important chips to the case, partially cutting PWBs and chips and gluing them to opposite sides of the case so opening breaks many connections, and if designed right, also breaks the PROM and ASIC/CPU. (Several of those suggestions are overkill in just about any application including voting)
Rocket computers also tend to use chips with larger feature size than terrestrial, to better handle radiation effects.
I know, too much information
If you happen to check out that screenshot more closely, you'd realize that JM is posting as an administrator of the starforce forums, and I think he should be held to a higher standard than "if you were him, would you have posted ___".
To be honest, if I was him, I wouldn't have posted a link to a pirated torrent download of _anything_ on an official copy protection software forum (or anywhere else).
Best thing about Stardock Central is, once you've installed the games/desktop apps/etc. you want from Stardock, you can uninstall Stardock Central, and keep playing the games. You're all set ;)
Unlike say, WildTangent, which requires you to have their rather large "WildTangent Web Client" installed in order to play any of their games. Most of those WT games are single-player, and have no reason to keep contacting the servers in order to play. They claim it's just to send back information on what game you play, and for how long (and that's probably all that gets sent back), but do they really need that info in order to keep it running? Nope. However, they want it, and since they designed the game, they get it.
If you've got a recent Compaq computer, it comes with WildTanget DRMed game demos installed.
Yep, but it's much easier to search the log of one server, than it is to search the logs of 200 servers in multiple countries in a loose coalition.
An appropriately designed magnetron is a great radar transmitter ;) A magentron is the slightly odd son of two electrons.
Perhaps you're not looking in the right places to find a redirect removal tool? I think Privoxy.org, and at least 1 other privacy enhancing system, both have redirect link removal in several of the simpler cases. The others, well, yeah, you're screwed if the URL can't be determined straight from the link. Tinyurl is an example of one that tends to not be easy to determine from the link.
p age.here/" can be unscrewed fairly easily.
Things like "http://redirect.server.nowhere/goto?http://real.
Yep, the "official" solution to that old Sun optical mouse, is to find the old bit of sheet metal with a grid on it, that came with it when Sun shipped them.
Welcome to 1980 or so... when optical mice did NOT include built-in single-purpose digital cameras.
No, you don't get a refund for any time prepaid. They did offer a refund of the purchase price of the latest expansion pack though. It went live approximately 2-4 days before NGE went live. If you bought ObiWan's Adventures (or whatever it was called) before NGE started, you could return it for a refund.
Refunding prepaid time? Official stance last I checked (3 weeks?) was "No way".
Hah, yes, you can. This one was certainly a "Novel" patent application.
that you have to eat lunch at McDonald's :(
Please don't use www.tpc.int for that, it wasn't designed for attacking fax machines.
I'm guessing RedHat's enterprise-level support would be better than the phone company's, but if not ... 3 levels of tech support, all requesting the same information before you finally get to convince them to send out a network guy to look at the remote switch DSL card directly. It was an odd problem though, from every indication, everything was "green light" with the network, from both sides, aside from actually being able to connect to the rest of the net.
I suppose the lesson with that is, if all of your software has been updated, and thinks it's working, and the machine still crashes randomly, check the hardware.
It also seems a bit like the old "'Dog bites man' isn't news, but 'Man bites dog' is" thing. "Windows Crashes" is more like "Dog bites man".
It all depends on how good your UPS is, how much higher the UPS rating is than the normal load, etc. Some laser printers these days are low enough power draw, that running them on a UPS is merely a drain on battery life, instead of an overload. Doesn't mean it's a good idea though, since you should probably be safely shutting down your systems instead of printing out the power-outage report forms.
You do want at least one low-powered light on your UPS, unless you enjoy typing by flashlight. You can get a lot done with a 13-watt flourescent. Don't run your 500 watt halogen lights off it though. UPSes aren't usually designed to run heating equipment like that.
One thing I noticed about my wireless mouse, if you use it on a dark surface (such as a black mouse pad), it uses much more battery power than if you use it on something lighter in color.
It probably has to do with having to keep the LED inside on high more often, or maybe more difficult for the CPU inside to determine where it's been moved.
So, try a blue or white colored mouse pad. I went from something like 2 days of use per set of batteries, to around 2 weeks (I think).
Livejournal has a "If you can't read the text, type "AUDIO" and take a sound test instead." thing, and other sites have other ways around the visual test.
Unfortunately, not all sites have non-visual humanity tests.
If you want to make claims like that, it'd be much easier to believe if you had some references to back it up with.
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For example, in a People article quoted here:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/7880/
Hamill seems to have gotten $1000/week during filming, and 1/4 of 1% of the film's profits. It would make sense that characters with similar screen time would get similar deals.
Well, part of the problem with AutoCAD LT is that, originally, a license for it was around $100. In the past few years it tripled. Hence the complaint that LT's upgrade price was so high.
I'm also fairly sure he was looking for inexpensive vector software, and LT doesn't count as inexpensive anymore. It used to.
AutoCAD LT is also nowhere near as powerful as AutoCAD.
User-friendly and EULA don't belong in the same sentence, nearly by definition.
I've played this game (Project Entropia) before, and at least at the early levels, it seems more like a pretty, 3D MMO monster-killing version of a casino, only without the benefits of "free" drinks. The house take is rather high. The exchange rate of US dollars to PE dollars is 1:10, minus about 2-3% for "processing". You can't withdraw less than either 100 PED, or 100 USD, I can't remember which. I see no potential for actual profit, except for the makers of PE. If everyone who put in $10 could easily make $10 in the game, PE wouldn't have earned enough money to have stayed in business (through 2 game engines).
There's only one class, though you can be male or female (makes no difference aside from looks). Killing something at low levels takes about 5 cents of ammo (or weapon damage).
There's only one way to make money without spending it, and that way is truly strange. Trap monster between buildings/rocks... concentrate and collect its "sweat". Sell sweat to someone else in game who really wants to use those cool MindForce Powers.
It does have some nice scenery, though.
Hmm... They've toned down the "crazed environment destroyer" a bit. I'm still reasonably sure CR won't like the current biggest, gas-guzzlingest SUV on the planet. A bias towards cleaner cars and trucks isn't such a bad thing.
...". I'd rather read a report of one person's opinion, than a report of one advertiser's opinion.
Rate of repair figures based on cards returned by readers are useful. I'm assuming people who like their cars (and thus don't return "cards" to CR) like them because they don't need repairs all the time.
Perhaps the "our expert therefore concluded..." comment was a typo, and meant "our experts
I gave up on an entirely different review magazine, because the only reviews it published were positive reviews. No single review in the 6 issues (of that other mag I got) mentioned the slightest problem. Every product was amazing. CR doesn't have that flaw.
FCC==Federal Communication Commission
FAA==Federal Aviation Administration
Please get it right. The FCC has pretty much nothing to do with airlines and flying.
Yeah, you are more comfortable in your own car, but you now get to explain to the person who just set up the interview that you can't fly. Any way you come up with of explaining that stands a good chance of prejudicing your chances in the interview.
Welcome to 1984
than to ask permission", but it can be much more expensive.
I used to live in an apartment complex with 7 three-story building full of apartments, and there were many small TV sat dishes installed in varying locations. Pretty much anywhere was OK, as long as it didn't interfere with other uses of the property.
The most obvious example of stupid installers was the one that put their satellite dish post right next to the entry walkway, so that the dish hung at about head height over the walkway (yes, right where people would bump their heads on it). This one was forced to be repositioned. Shortly before I moved, I counted at least 14 dishes, several planted at the corners of buildings.
The only thing my credit card bill has told me about my purchases is "you spent $X dollars at store Y on day Z". It's not broken down into exactly what you bought, just by where you bought it from.
Even those "Year-End Summary of Activity" things you might get are split based on where you bought from, not what you bought. So, if you bought a TV from your local supermarket, it would show up under the grocery summary. If you brought a clock from a gas station, it would show up under the fuel list.
This folder renaming is somewhat harder than just some static javascript/CSS hacking. It still won't work. Just block images on size, or on the fact that they are images. This'll break some sites, but any good adblocker program can be programmed to allow certain useful images through (if any).
Anyone wanting me to see their ads so much that they start adding randomness into all their links (if I can't work around it easily), will be summarily dismissed from my version of the Web.