Actually, my Nokia 1100 (don't laugh, its a great phone) does it on 08, too. If its locked, and you press zero, then eight, it comes out of lock mode. Then, if you press send, it says "dialing emergency number." I have no idea why.
If you forget the price difference, the monthly fee the iPhone requires, the shorter battery life of the iPhone (how long can it last if the display is lit nonstop?)...
Not to mention that the iPhone display is smaller and lower resolution. And that Amazon already has a lot of pull with book publishers. I'd buy a Kindle if I knew I could get all my college books on it.
Not so much. Remember that many many many companies never did switch over to XP from 2k. 2k, last I checked (about a year ago), was still the most wildly used Windows. People act as though XP has 100% entirely replaced every last 2k or something. It hasn't. Adoption wasn't as fast as MS would have liked, and you can see attempts at keeping MS from repeating XP all through Vista's launch.
What I don't remember about XP, either, was mass outcry about XP-only machines and vendors offering downgrade options. I don't remember that one bit.
No, this isn't like the release of XP at all.
I remember when I had 98 and was more or less forced to upgrade (try running 98 on 2Ghz+ hardware). I was EXTREMELY hesitant to upgrade, I mean, 98 was good, right? Games didn't work right, right? DOS stuff? It took me about 5 minutes to love 2k and I never looked back to 98. Trying out Vista, though, for the first time last week (and on the same machine I had tried to run 98 on years ago), the same thing certainly didn't happen. I was never so happy to reboot back into Gentoo before.
Yeah, we I know how to change my MAC addresses. Finding one that someone else registered and is not in use is, of course, the most difficult of all that. The managed switches can tell what port a computer is plugged into, but even that is easily bypassed (take a walk), and I doubt the log is kept long).
We used to have to change the MAC addresses of our X-boxes because my school banned all the X-box MACs. (actually, they were given an internal IP address instead, so you could still play LAN with them). The Issue with this is that I don't think it changes whether or not the school can be issued a subpoena.
My school does all sort of really strange stuff. For some reason network transfers INSIDE the dorms (like from me to guys down the hall) are limited to about 450Kbyte(!), but we can download FROM THE INTERNET at 2-3mbyte(!!) a second at night and on weekends. Makes for some SWEET BTing.
I'm wondering if anyone here knows anyone that's had to deal with this mess.
I have a friend at my school who was downloading illegal movies and got caught. But he wasn't charged or sued or anything; the MPAA basically told my school to "make this IP stop downloading our stuff" so he got kicked off for a while and told not to do it again.
Most schools probably have a very good idea who is using what IPs. Mine can tell what room a rogue router is plugged into, even without an IP. And our IPs (we don't use NAT) are linked to a specific MAC address (we register the MAC addresses, which is a PAIN). I don't really see why the RIAA can't keep doing this, even though its stupid.
Uh-huh. You go ahead and look at your car's computer. At home many wires are coming out of it. Then let me know how much fun that is.
There's probably several hundred, if you even find the right computer.
The only engine computer I've ever gotten a good look at is the one in our 1994 Diesel F250. It went bad and was $1400 to replace. It is pretty much in a Faraday cage; its enclosed in a solid metal case sealed along the edges with silicone.
A company that's about to be shut down, I'm afraid.
I've actually seen static electricity start up a 20hp milling machine. Dangerous for sure. turned out to be a bad ground when the maker came to look at it.
Really? The actions of TWO not-well-known people define the entire country for you? Where ever you're from must be full over-stereotyping sensationalists who classify hundreds of millions of people based on one person. You just 'proved' that.
I, for one, don't live in either of those States, so there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I could have done to prevent this bill from being introduced.
Not only that, but this is just a BILL. HUNDREDS of these get introduced a day. Some are insane and would destroy every right we have. Does it matter? No, its just a stupid bill that will get beat down instantly. Worried about it? Write your congressmen.
Lasers diffuse over a distance, just like normal light bulbs, albeit a much smaller rate. So, the farther away you go, the bigger the "dot" the beam casts is. The inverse square law applies. If it didn't, overall power would have been added as the beam travels (the dot would be bigger, but the same brightness). This is a law of physics.
I'd imagine you'd kinda have to aim carefully, but by the time it could 1.5 billion miles the beam would be, at least, hundreds of miles across. Which means you better have a sensitive photo detector, just as you would need sensitive antennae with radio waves.
But having to aim is the point (PUN), really. Concentrating the beam reduces the energy needed to get it there, because the energy is spread out over a smaller area.
You don't have to be "old" or even middle-aged to appreciate history.
I'm 21, and boy, I really want to see that RAMAC head moving from platter to platter in person! Then again, I do have 3 antique tractors in my Garage...
If it wasn't on the other side of the country, I would have gone.
Why can't Pittsburgh, the host of the winners of the DARPA competition, get some antique PC lovin'? All we got is washing machine engines.
Most people I know don't keep their cell phones in some snap-off carrier on their belt like a modern-geek pocket protector. They stay in pockets, where they can't see. And women keep them in purses. So only a few phones are actually going to be able to see without their owners holding them out on purpose.
You know, Microsoft isn't the only one annoying its customers with stupid anti-piracy "solutions." In fact, many companies are worse.
Mastercam requires a "HARDWARE KEY." I'm serious. Which plugs into your friggin' PARALLEL PORT. What if you don't have one!? What if you're using a LAPTOP? Of course, hacking around it is about as difficult as downloading a 1k crack. And what if I lose it or it breaks?
My University has the Education Version of Solidworks. Great software, but our IT department changed around our network a little, and now all the workstations can't connect to the "activation server," which has to be on the same subnet and have its IP hardcoded in. Now the entire campus's machines need to be reinstalled to a new server. Tell me that ain't ANNOYING. And I can tell you the activation server ain't easy to get going. Can you imagine a dozen engineers not being able to do anything over one IP address change?
Not that the old style confirmation was any good. XP has no 'no to all' or 'rename,' so if you don't want your data overwritten, you have to stop the operation.
And "Yes to all" doesn't seem to mean that. It only means "Yes to all to this particular question in this directory."
I just used Explorer to try to move an 8gig drive to a folder in another. It took a couple dozen tries.
Governing bodies make dozens of votes on bills a day. Do they expect people to read, understand, and vote intelligently on, dozens of bills dozens of pages long a week? There's reasons we have people that work do this crap (nearly) full-time.
Voter turnout for everyday things is gonna suck.
Senators do more than just vote, too. They talk about bills, argue them, control things in committees, and introduce bills themselves. How are you going to do that if you are supposed to be a puppet of the people without any ideas of your own?
Okay, I see where this is going to be used. For some reason, I figured it would be used for government purposes like classified documents.
Still, Coca-Cola will be pretty pissed it lets something containing their secret formula go...
This is a poor idea. It better be 100% accurate at marking classified data as classified. All it will take is one screw-up and some extremely important data out there can be leaked to the wrong people.
99.99% accurate isn't going to be good enough, is it?
Its not a matter of "if you care about the environment, you'll stop using electricity." The parent NEVER EVEN IMPLIED THAT. Who are you arguing against that said that?
I use electrity to great effect. I use it a lot. And I pay a bill for it. But his bill is thousands of dollars a month. That's more than many CNC machine shops. I realize the man lives in luxury, but that doesn't require THAT much electricity, does it?
No one is saying that he should stop using electricity. But he could, maybe, conserve a little. Does conservation require some hard limit? Most people get by on a fraction of what he does without conserving at all. Is it so much to ask that the mean who gets a NOBEL PRIZE over the issue do a little conservation of his own? I guess so.
You're equating Real Life and Virtual Life too tightly, and are throwing the technical aspects out the window, so yeah, bad analogy.
Let me ask you this: Are you going to download gigabytes and/or buy a game just to visit it for a few hours? No, you're gonna buy it to put time into it. And if its just like the game you already bought besides basic appearances, you're just gonna keep playing the first. Traveling and looking at stuff gets a tiresome a lot faster on a monitor than real life.
Its not just currency, too, like in the EU. There's all the landscapes and places to see in Europe. Are you going to buy a game just for that? If you make the games much more different than that, your avatar isn't going to carry much over. A Money Exchange would be far easier to implement than whole avatar sharing. I'm not sure even that's a good idea; you don't want a glitch in one game (say a reproduction glitch) to destroy the economy in dozens of games.
It would be a neat idea to "walk though a portal" in one MMO game and walk out another, but that obviously would require you to install both games, anyway.
And having the same appearance in all games? Would anyone even WANT that? Where's the variety? I'm guessing that your avatar is transmitted by metadata (your eyes are GREEN and x big) ala Spore, but all you're saving then is the creation of the character, and it could end up wrong without hand-adjusting it. I don't think that you could carry things like clothing and armor over, so you'd just end up with different avatar with the same face.
And you couldn't carry over in-game data (like what level you are in an RPG) unless everyone used the same basic battle engine.
Might have a bit of use in different "Second lives," but you're gonna end up linking economies such that you end up with essentially one giant world economy with exchange rates. I guess that's the idea.
I dunno, I think its going to either make all the games seem the same, or end up carrying over very little.
Varies from State to State. Some (only a few, I think) require a good reason.
I live in Pennsylvania, and here you can fire anyone for any reason at all. Or no reason at all.
Having a valid reason, however, DOES make a difference: it makes a difference between the government classifying the firee as Laid Off or Fired. If you were fired for a good reason, your unemployment compensation could be shafted or eliminated. Good luck on trying to get unemployment if you were fired for stealing, job-searching on the job (big no-no), abusing company property, etc.
And the PA Unemployment office WILL check with your former employer to make sure you didn't lie on your forms. Of course, the decision can be appealed and a hearing held.
If a company fires to many people for stupid reasons, their taxes will increase, because the the government has to pay more unemployment.
Yes, you can send a on/off signal to a speaker, sure.
But it won't be USED digitally. That is, the speaker won't have the on/off "swing" that is present in digital. Any loss, gain, or distortion in that 'digital' signal would change the sound that comes out of speaker, while it wouldn't have any effect if it was being received by digital equipment (becuase the digital equipment only recognizes the two states.)
Class D amps aren't digital; in fact, they use an analog computer (op-amp). Their output just happens to be a square(ish) wave. Don't confuse that with digital signals.
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Actually, my Nokia 1100 (don't laugh, its a great phone) does it on 08, too. If its locked, and you press zero, then eight, it comes out of lock mode. Then, if you press send, it says "dialing emergency number." I have no idea why.
If you forget the price difference, the monthly fee the iPhone requires, the shorter battery life of the iPhone (how long can it last if the display is lit nonstop?)...
Not to mention that the iPhone display is smaller and lower resolution.
And that Amazon already has a lot of pull with book publishers.
I'd buy a Kindle if I knew I could get all my college books on it.
Hm, must be something in the English-Metric conversion, because TFA says there's 25 million lost.
Anyway, Names and phone addresses aren't really that hard to get, but to have your bank account information compromised must SUCK.
Of course, banks should require more than that to allow a withdrawal. Its a lot easier to put money into an account than to take it out.
Not so much. Remember that many many many companies never did switch over to XP from 2k. 2k, last I checked (about a year ago), was still the most wildly used Windows. People act as though XP has 100% entirely replaced every last 2k or something. It hasn't. Adoption wasn't as fast as MS would have liked, and you can see attempts at keeping MS from repeating XP all through Vista's launch.
What I don't remember about XP, either, was mass outcry about XP-only machines and vendors offering downgrade options. I don't remember that one bit.
No, this isn't like the release of XP at all.
I remember when I had 98 and was more or less forced to upgrade (try running 98 on 2Ghz+ hardware). I was EXTREMELY hesitant to upgrade, I mean, 98 was good, right? Games didn't work right, right? DOS stuff? It took me about 5 minutes to love 2k and I never looked back to 98. Trying out Vista, though, for the first time last week (and on the same machine I had tried to run 98 on years ago), the same thing certainly didn't happen. I was never so happy to reboot back into Gentoo before.
Yeah, we I know how to change my MAC addresses. Finding one that someone else registered and is not in use is, of course, the most difficult of all that. The managed switches can tell what port a computer is plugged into, but even that is easily bypassed (take a walk), and I doubt the log is kept long). We used to have to change the MAC addresses of our X-boxes because my school banned all the X-box MACs. (actually, they were given an internal IP address instead, so you could still play LAN with them). The Issue with this is that I don't think it changes whether or not the school can be issued a subpoena. My school does all sort of really strange stuff. For some reason network transfers INSIDE the dorms (like from me to guys down the hall) are limited to about 450Kbyte(!), but we can download FROM THE INTERNET at 2-3mbyte(!!) a second at night and on weekends. Makes for some SWEET BTing.
I'm wondering if anyone here knows anyone that's had to deal with this mess. I have a friend at my school who was downloading illegal movies and got caught. But he wasn't charged or sued or anything; the MPAA basically told my school to "make this IP stop downloading our stuff" so he got kicked off for a while and told not to do it again. Most schools probably have a very good idea who is using what IPs. Mine can tell what room a rogue router is plugged into, even without an IP. And our IPs (we don't use NAT) are linked to a specific MAC address (we register the MAC addresses, which is a PAIN). I don't really see why the RIAA can't keep doing this, even though its stupid.
Uh-huh. You go ahead and look at your car's computer. At home many wires are coming out of it. Then let me know how much fun that is.
There's probably several hundred, if you even find the right computer.
The only engine computer I've ever gotten a good look at is the one in our 1994 Diesel F250. It went bad and was $1400 to replace.
It is pretty much in a Faraday cage; its enclosed in a solid metal case sealed along the edges with silicone.
A company that's about to be shut down, I'm afraid. I've actually seen static electricity start up a 20hp milling machine. Dangerous for sure. turned out to be a bad ground when the maker came to look at it.
Really? The actions of TWO not-well-known people define the entire country for you? Where ever you're from must be full over-stereotyping sensationalists who classify hundreds of millions of people based on one person. You just 'proved' that.
I, for one, don't live in either of those States, so there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING I could have done to prevent this bill from being introduced.
Not only that, but this is just a BILL. HUNDREDS of these get introduced a day. Some are insane and would destroy every right we have. Does it matter? No, its just a stupid bill that will get beat down instantly. Worried about it? Write your congressmen.
This will never pass.
Lasers diffuse over a distance, just like normal light bulbs, albeit a much smaller rate.
So, the farther away you go, the bigger the "dot" the beam casts is. The inverse square law applies. If it didn't, overall power would have been added as the beam travels (the dot would be bigger, but the same brightness). This is a law of physics.
I'd imagine you'd kinda have to aim carefully, but by the time it could 1.5 billion miles the beam would be, at least, hundreds of miles across. Which means you better have a sensitive photo detector, just as you would need sensitive antennae with radio waves.
But having to aim is the point (PUN), really. Concentrating the beam reduces the energy needed to get it there, because the energy is spread out over a smaller area.
You don't have to be "old" or even middle-aged to appreciate history.
I'm 21, and boy, I really want to see that RAMAC head moving from platter to platter in person! Then again, I do have 3 antique tractors in my Garage...
If it wasn't on the other side of the country, I would have gone.
Why can't Pittsburgh, the host of the winners of the DARPA competition, get some antique PC lovin'? All we got is washing machine engines.
Most people I know don't keep their cell phones in some snap-off carrier on their belt like a modern-geek pocket protector. They stay in pockets, where they can't see. And women keep them in purses. So only a few phones are actually going to be able to see without their owners holding them out on purpose.
What's the point of this, again?
5 bux says Thomson is actually employed by the Video Game industry in order to drum up free publicity for them.
I called it first.
That would suck.
Now what?
You know, Microsoft isn't the only one annoying its customers with stupid anti-piracy "solutions." In fact, many companies are worse.
Mastercam requires a "HARDWARE KEY." I'm serious. Which plugs into your friggin' PARALLEL PORT. What if you don't have one!? What if you're using a LAPTOP? Of course, hacking around it is about as difficult as downloading a 1k crack. And what if I lose it or it breaks?
My University has the Education Version of Solidworks. Great software, but our IT department changed around our network a little, and now all the workstations can't connect to the "activation server," which has to be on the same subnet and have its IP hardcoded in. Now the entire campus's machines need to be reinstalled to a new server. Tell me that ain't ANNOYING. And I can tell you the activation server ain't easy to get going. Can you imagine a dozen engineers not being able to do anything over one IP address change?
So, do I make my own Helicopter or my own Sputnik? Hmm...
I say Helicopter. Cooler and Deadlier.
Not that the old style confirmation was any good. XP has no 'no to all' or 'rename,' so if you don't want your data overwritten, you have to stop the operation.
And "Yes to all" doesn't seem to mean that. It only means "Yes to all to this particular question in this directory."
I just used Explorer to try to move an 8gig drive to a folder in another. It took a couple dozen tries.
Governing bodies make dozens of votes on bills a day. Do they expect people to read, understand, and vote intelligently on, dozens of bills dozens of pages long a week? There's reasons we have people that work do this crap (nearly) full-time.
Voter turnout for everyday things is gonna suck.
Senators do more than just vote, too. They talk about bills, argue them, control things in committees, and introduce bills themselves. How are you going to do that if you are supposed to be a puppet of the people without any ideas of your own?
I wouldn't vote this party in.
Okay, I see where this is going to be used. For some reason, I figured it would be used for government purposes like classified documents. Still, Coca-Cola will be pretty pissed it lets something containing their secret formula go...
This is a poor idea. It better be 100% accurate at marking classified data as classified. All it will take is one screw-up and some extremely important data out there can be leaked to the wrong people.
99.99% accurate isn't going to be good enough, is it?
Its not a matter of "if you care about the environment, you'll stop using electricity." The parent NEVER EVEN IMPLIED THAT. Who are you arguing against that said that?
I use electrity to great effect. I use it a lot. And I pay a bill for it. But his bill is thousands of dollars a month. That's more than many CNC machine shops. I realize the man lives in luxury, but that doesn't require THAT much electricity, does it?
No one is saying that he should stop using electricity. But he could, maybe, conserve a little. Does conservation require some hard limit? Most people get by on a fraction of what he does without conserving at all. Is it so much to ask that the mean who gets a NOBEL PRIZE over the issue do a little conservation of his own? I guess so.
You're equating Real Life and Virtual Life too tightly, and are throwing the technical aspects out the window, so yeah, bad analogy.
Let me ask you this: Are you going to download gigabytes and/or buy a game just to visit it for a few hours? No, you're gonna buy it to put time into it. And if its just like the game you already bought besides basic appearances, you're just gonna keep playing the first. Traveling and looking at stuff gets a tiresome a lot faster on a monitor than real life.
Its not just currency, too, like in the EU. There's all the landscapes and places to see in Europe. Are you going to buy a game just for that? If you make the games much more different than that, your avatar isn't going to carry much over. A Money Exchange would be far easier to implement than whole avatar sharing. I'm not sure even that's a good idea; you don't want a glitch in one game (say a reproduction glitch) to destroy the economy in dozens of games.
It would be a neat idea to "walk though a portal" in one MMO game and walk out another, but that obviously would require you to install both games, anyway.
And having the same appearance in all games? Would anyone even WANT that? Where's the variety? I'm guessing that your avatar is transmitted by metadata (your eyes are GREEN and x big) ala Spore, but all you're saving then is the creation of the character, and it could end up wrong without hand-adjusting it. I don't think that you could carry things like clothing and armor over, so you'd just end up with different avatar with the same face.
And you couldn't carry over in-game data (like what level you are in an RPG) unless everyone used the same basic battle engine.
Might have a bit of use in different "Second lives," but you're gonna end up linking economies such that you end up with essentially one giant world economy with exchange rates. I guess that's the idea.
I dunno, I think its going to either make all the games seem the same, or end up carrying over very little.
Varies from State to State. Some (only a few, I think) require a good reason.
I live in Pennsylvania, and here you can fire anyone for any reason at all. Or no reason at all.
Having a valid reason, however, DOES make a difference: it makes a difference between the government classifying the firee as Laid Off or Fired. If you were fired for a good reason, your unemployment compensation could be shafted or eliminated. Good luck on trying to get unemployment if you were fired for stealing, job-searching on the job (big no-no), abusing company property, etc.
And the PA Unemployment office WILL check with your former employer to make sure you didn't lie on your forms. Of course, the decision can be appealed and a hearing held.
If a company fires to many people for stupid reasons, their taxes will increase, because the the government has to pay more unemployment.
Yes, you can send a on/off signal to a speaker, sure.
But it won't be USED digitally. That is, the speaker won't have the on/off "swing" that is present in digital. Any loss, gain, or distortion in that 'digital' signal would change the sound that comes out of speaker, while it wouldn't have any effect if it was being received by digital equipment (becuase the digital equipment only recognizes the two states.)
Class D amps aren't digital; in fact, they use an analog computer (op-amp). Their output just happens to be a square(ish) wave. Don't confuse that with digital signals.