I'd leave Germany. Until things change. Too much hassle about Streetview? Sure, Germany. Poof! Gone. Happy now? Cr*p about news headlines and linking to articles? Sure. Poof. Gone. Oh and we'll also voluntarily remove any other links to your newspapers. Happy now? Oh? No? Oh we can do it again? Sure. Bang! Back. Just turn off Facebook.de with a nice explataory page with politicians' contact information to express unhappiness.
Nice all these plans, but for 45 years almost we've been stuck to Low Earth Orbit. Oh we're going... back to the Moon!!! Oh no we're going tooo.... the asteroid belt!! Oh no, we're going to Mars!! Oh no, we're going to have floating cities in the Venusian atmosphere where the air pressure is comparable to that of the surface of Earth.... all talk, and every time it comes up it's 10 years further out. Why can't Japan be a "team player" and stick to ELO as well? It would be so embarassing when the NASA/ESA mission to the Moon in the 2050s has to ask Japan permission to use one of their landing pads and pay top Yen to refuel for blast-off.
Let it henceforth be known and understood that the
SUPREME COURT OF BOKKI WOKKI
In a unanimous decision HAS RULED THAT: defendant Google/Alphabet is to delete all search results for "Microsoft", "Microsoft Corporation", "MSFT" and "Windows 10" with immediate effect and world-wide.
Big EGO, Chief Justice
But seriously, Google should shut down Google.ca and just say F it, goodbye Canada.
Admittedly I didn't watch the entire video, but I've seen enough of it to know that Anonymous didn't set out to claim that NASA *currently has* evidence of the existence of alien life. They claimed NASA would soon reveal the evidence, based on the amount of resources poured into finding said evidence.
Uummmmmmmm, last time I checked the "Government" IS the populace. So nothing happened to it. It's right there doing what it's supposed to do.
Hey there, old timer! That must have been a long, long time ago. Right now "the government" consists for 99% out of unelected bureaucrats and other government workers that, unionized or not, make way too much money and need way too many bodies to do their jobs. There are of course the exceptions, and with the sheer size of "the government" there are actually many, but exceptions exist to prove the existence of the rule. (The US Copyright Office is such an exception, that is why "the government" is trying to get it out of the Library of Congress' protection). This 99% of the government is a self-sustaining, self-justifying, self-vindicatory Blob that over the last 200 years grew and grew and grew. This 99% is funded directly by the taxpayer (or in other words: their checks come from "the government"). The 1% that is (re)elected needs considerable funding to do so, and the drive for self-preservation means they will do almost anything to keep this funding available to them. So ask yourself: where does this funding come from, and why is that funding being maintained? Are there that many benevolent patrons of the democratic (lowercase d) process? Or is there something to be gained, which otherwise would not have been? If it's all beneficial to the people that cast their votes... why the financial "incentives"?
This is of course great stuff if it allows you to enable features that are normally locked out unless you paid handsomely for the "upgrade". As an example, DVD-Burners are sometimes identical to their LightScribe-brethern except for the firmware. Flash the correct firmware and poof! Your cheap OEM drive is now a branded Retail unit with everything unlocked.
See e.g. here or here and there are tons more - I can't remember it being actually advertised by Sony as such, but many HDTV enthusiasts at the time knew about it. It also played Super Audio-CD (SACD) which was another plus.
How about a regular-sized laptop with:
- long life, exchangable battery with 12-16 hours of regular use
- plenty of USB ports (6 minimum)
- plenty of other useful ports
- line-out (analog) and SPDIF (digital) audio ports
- a VGA port to support old beamers.
- a physical 'off' switch for the internal microphone
- a large, very quiet chassis cooling fan
- a firmware that supports emergency recovery flashing from USB stick
- relatively easy to access and replace RAM and GPU board
- an easy way to support an external WiFi antenna
- etc.
From the past, we've seen plenty of linkages between 'software players' being hacked (i.e. encryption keys being grabbed from RAM) and encryption hacks. Perhaps it has to do with the recent release of the first software player being able to play UHD BD on PCs?
Fixing it will be a violation of the EULA and the next automatic "patch" will have the nasty side-effect of boot-looping your machine. Which you cannot complain about, since you're in violation of the EULA.
Hopefully the Mini SNES will contain Super Mario Kart (1992) and actually outsell MK8 Deluxe... notice how none of the journalists (or investors, for that matter) ask how Nintendo is going to avoid the "30 units per store' Mini NES debacle? In Canada regular retail Switches are hard to find so that affects MK8D sales as well. Personally still hoping for a Super Mario Odyssee Bundle around Black Friday.
Didn't read TFA but let me guess: red light cameras are in use and Oregon gets its cut from the take. So the whole discussion about the 'engineer' title (which is fine, you shouldn't be able to call yourself "Dr." "M.D." "Pharmacist" or even "meteorologist" without proper qualifacations) kind of overshadows the problem with the yelllow lights. Purposefully reducing the amount of time the light stays on yellow in order to trap more people "running a red light" is of course ehhhrrrmmmm "unethical" to say the least, and if someone says pure theft I won't contradict that.
It's even worse, the domain name for a retro-gaming related website I consulted via wayback expired and was re-registered; the new robots.txt file now makes the old website inaccessible!
While you'd probably want to commend them for their positive attitude, it appears quite a lot of rap artists suffer from a mental disorder which results in an urge to be the center of attention. Let's call it the "Look at meeeee! Look at meeeeee!" complex. So when the music starts they have this uncontrollable urge to blurt out "Yeah!" within the first few seconds (at least it's better than "No!"). If that was taken as "start of voice" these results are skewed.
The problem is when "legitimate" devices can only run Kodi add-ons that have been signed by the MPA(A)/local chapter. And yes, that means the ones that don't have that "feature" are therefore automatically in the "illegitimate" category. Because the only reason you'd want one of those is "because of piracy". And that makes the circle round again.
See how the so-called "rightsholders" squeeze and squeeze... try to get a little bit more, and a little bit more, and a little bit more every time? And every time they get it? They learned from SOPA/PIPA. Don't go for the big bang. Go for it step by step. If you told Europeans 20 years ago that the Copyright Industry would have the power to block you at the ISP level from accessing websites (except for the Germans, they have a very strong Copyright Industry that made them pay fees on computer printers since forever since you "might print out a book with it") they would have said you were completely insane. Yet here we are. Soon the US will be on the block "internationals standards" etc. that they put in place themselves through endless, tireless lobbying and litigation.
How much fun it was to blast a new Anti-Commodore demo on the Atari 800XL (Atari's were on one side of the room where the monthly computer club meetings were) all the way to the other side (where the Commodore owners were sitting).
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I'd leave Germany. Until things change. Too much hassle about Streetview? Sure, Germany. Poof! Gone. Happy now? Cr*p about news headlines and linking to articles? Sure. Poof. Gone. Oh and we'll also voluntarily remove any other links to your newspapers. Happy now? Oh? No? Oh we can do it again? Sure. Bang! Back. Just turn off Facebook.de with a nice explataory page with politicians' contact information to express unhappiness.
Nice all these plans, but for 45 years almost we've been stuck to Low Earth Orbit. Oh we're going... back to the Moon!!! Oh no we're going tooo.... the asteroid belt!! Oh no, we're going to Mars!! Oh no, we're going to have floating cities in the Venusian atmosphere where the air pressure is comparable to that of the surface of Earth.... all talk, and every time it comes up it's 10 years further out. Why can't Japan be a "team player" and stick to ELO as well? It would be so embarassing when the NASA/ESA mission to the Moon in the 2050s has to ask Japan permission to use one of their landing pads and pay top Yen to refuel for blast-off.
Let it henceforth be known and understood that the
SUPREME COURT OF BOKKI WOKKI
In a unanimous decision HAS RULED THAT: defendant Google/Alphabet is to delete all search results for "Microsoft", "Microsoft Corporation", "MSFT" and "Windows 10" with immediate effect and world-wide.
Big EGO, Chief Justice
But seriously, Google should shut down Google.ca and just say F it, goodbye Canada.
Admittedly I didn't watch the entire video, but I've seen enough of it to know that Anonymous didn't set out to claim that NASA *currently has* evidence of the existence of alien life. They claimed NASA would soon reveal the evidence, based on the amount of resources poured into finding said evidence.
Uummmmmmmm, last time I checked the "Government" IS the populace. So nothing happened to it. It's right there doing what it's supposed to do.
Hey there, old timer! That must have been a long, long time ago. Right now "the government" consists for 99% out of unelected bureaucrats and other government workers that, unionized or not, make way too much money and need way too many bodies to do their jobs. There are of course the exceptions, and with the sheer size of "the government" there are actually many, but exceptions exist to prove the existence of the rule. (The US Copyright Office is such an exception, that is why "the government" is trying to get it out of the Library of Congress' protection). This 99% of the government is a self-sustaining, self-justifying, self-vindicatory Blob that over the last 200 years grew and grew and grew. This 99% is funded directly by the taxpayer (or in other words: their checks come from "the government"). The 1% that is (re)elected needs considerable funding to do so, and the drive for self-preservation means they will do almost anything to keep this funding available to them. So ask yourself: where does this funding come from, and why is that funding being maintained? Are there that many benevolent patrons of the democratic (lowercase d) process? Or is there something to be gained, which otherwise would not have been? If it's all beneficial to the people that cast their votes... why the financial "incentives"?
Dragon's Lair from 1983 was basically an 'interactive movie' on Laserdisc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That's usually a little bit more complicated than it sounds. Can I just use the name 'Studebaker' if I want to build cars? Defunct since 1967.
This is of course great stuff if it allows you to enable features that are normally locked out unless you paid handsomely for the "upgrade". As an example, DVD-Burners are sometimes identical to their LightScribe-brethern except for the firmware. Flash the correct firmware and poof! Your cheap OEM drive is now a branded Retail unit with everything unlocked.
The previous Pirates movie also got 32% and grossed over a billion dollars.
Indeed. Those people that went and spent their money are now saying "fool me once..."
See e.g. here or here and there are tons more - I can't remember it being actually advertised by Sony as such, but many HDTV enthusiasts at the time knew about it. It also played Super Audio-CD (SACD) which was another plus.
Missing from the overview are the people that bought PS3's as a cheap BluRay player and those that used clusters of PS3's running linux.
How about a regular-sized laptop with:
- long life, exchangable battery with 12-16 hours of regular use
- plenty of USB ports (6 minimum)
- plenty of other useful ports
- line-out (analog) and SPDIF (digital) audio ports
- a VGA port to support old beamers.
- a physical 'off' switch for the internal microphone
- a large, very quiet chassis cooling fan
- a firmware that supports emergency recovery flashing from USB stick
- relatively easy to access and replace RAM and GPU board
- an easy way to support an external WiFi antenna
- etc.
(Also, I'm surprised no one's mentioned it, but Hillary's "Arrow-H" logo works perfectly for an "I'm with Stupid" t-shirt.)
Is that your public opinion, or your private opinion? *ducks*
Just disable automatic downloading by enabling the "ask every time" for the file location. That's a good idea anyway.
From the past, we've seen plenty of linkages between 'software players' being hacked (i.e. encryption keys being grabbed from RAM) and encryption hacks. Perhaps it has to do with the recent release of the first software player being able to play UHD BD on PCs?
And that's when Microsoft will release a Windows 10 S N for Europe, an edition nobody will use ever.
Actually it'll be a single, generic edition called Windows 10 N S A, licensed for use outside the USA.
Fixing it will be a violation of the EULA and the next automatic "patch" will have the nasty side-effect of boot-looping your machine. Which you cannot complain about, since you're in violation of the EULA.
The only quibble I have is with the Windows Telemetry crap which is difficult to turn-off/thwart. It's do-able though.
There are several options, e.g. O&O's ShutUp10 (awful non-intuitive interface alert) or Spybot's Anti-Beacon which also works for Win7 and 8/8.1.
Hopefully the Mini SNES will contain Super Mario Kart (1992) and actually outsell MK8 Deluxe... notice how none of the journalists (or investors, for that matter) ask how Nintendo is going to avoid the "30 units per store' Mini NES debacle? In Canada regular retail Switches are hard to find so that affects MK8D sales as well. Personally still hoping for a Super Mario Odyssee Bundle around Black Friday.
Didn't read TFA but let me guess: red light cameras are in use and Oregon gets its cut from the take. So the whole discussion about the 'engineer' title (which is fine, you shouldn't be able to call yourself "Dr." "M.D." "Pharmacist" or even "meteorologist" without proper qualifacations) kind of overshadows the problem with the yelllow lights. Purposefully reducing the amount of time the light stays on yellow in order to trap more people "running a red light" is of course ehhhrrrmmmm "unethical" to say the least, and if someone says pure theft I won't contradict that.
It's even worse, the domain name for a retro-gaming related website I consulted via wayback expired and was re-registered; the new robots.txt file now makes the old website inaccessible!
While you'd probably want to commend them for their positive attitude, it appears quite a lot of rap artists suffer from a mental disorder which results in an urge to be the center of attention. Let's call it the "Look at meeeee! Look at meeeeee!" complex. So when the music starts they have this uncontrollable urge to blurt out "Yeah!" within the first few seconds (at least it's better than "No!"). If that was taken as "start of voice" these results are skewed.
The problem is when "legitimate" devices can only run Kodi add-ons that have been signed by the MPA(A)/local chapter. And yes, that means the ones that don't have that "feature" are therefore automatically in the "illegitimate" category. Because the only reason you'd want one of those is "because of piracy". And that makes the circle round again.
See how the so-called "rightsholders" squeeze and squeeze... try to get a little bit more, and a little bit more, and a little bit more every time? And every time they get it? They learned from SOPA/PIPA. Don't go for the big bang. Go for it step by step. If you told Europeans 20 years ago that the Copyright Industry would have the power to block you at the ISP level from accessing websites (except for the Germans, they have a very strong Copyright Industry that made them pay fees on computer printers since forever since you "might print out a book with it") they would have said you were completely insane. Yet here we are. Soon the US will be on the block "internationals standards" etc. that they put in place themselves through endless, tireless lobbying and litigation.
How much fun it was to blast a new Anti-Commodore demo on the Atari 800XL (Atari's were on one side of the room where the monthly computer club meetings were) all the way to the other side (where the Commodore owners were sitting).