It's a real fight but since the costs of auto repair are so huge that people actually care about the possibility of repairing their cars, when auto manufacturers make repairs too difficult they lose market share. It's the only reason that every component isn't as horribly overpriced and artificially locked-down as Lexmark ink cartridges.
All the same, manufacturers will try their best to scare you into buying OEM shocks, air filters, brake rotors, brake pads, and other parts where the 3rd-party offerings are often both better and cheaper. As a general rule it's best to use OEM parts only for engine internals, brake hydraulic components, and steering components, and even then a big part of the last two is just in case you need to sue the manufacturer.
Reminds me of a "personal sport jet" Burt Rutan designed, can't remember the name of it. It was available in kit form and cost about $150k in mid-'90s dollars to build IIRC. It wasn't a canard design but was about the same size and had the same bubbly cute look.
Looks like a lot of fun, but good luck carrying any meaningful number of missiles on that thing, or fuel for that matter - another big limitation Rutan's personal sport jet shared IIRC.
Shoulda pirated the game, I enjoyed both Portal games and was even able to play LAN co-op with custom levels in Portal 2 using a LAN launcher. Plus you'd send a signal to Valve that DRM is not acceptable.
Because collectively we're a bunch of dumb bastards, that's why.
But the good news is that this new multi-bootloader is effectively a crack for UEFI secure boot. Virus writers could use it for boot sector viruses, putting the situation right back where it stood before, but with more complexity...which is probably the best we could hope for at this point. Boot sector viruses were an extreme rarity before, and I don't see them being any more common now that most Windows users aren't running with admin privileges all the time.
BUT the "superman" group had direct control while the helicopter group just rode around...too bad they didn't have a group that flew their own helicopter (with arcadey controls).
It's a little bit like saying busting one dealer will bring down the entire drug trade in a country. The Silk Road, or other sites like it (which I imagine the savvier users will have switched to as soon as the Silk Road got media heat), will continue for as long as there's a demand.
If you were a cop trying to catch drug dealers with invisibility cloaks, you'd brag and make an example of a stupid one you caught too.
Cars have brakes and steering so one squeeze of the gas doesn't send an irretrievable death projectile on it's way, hammers have limited range. You posted anon because you said a dumbass thing.
Oh but there are cracks! The cops are totally on top of this situation and will have it shut down any day now and you'd be an idiot to use it, yes sir!
That's a real thing, although the limiters are set well above the speed limit, usually around 180-210kph. The R35 GTR even uses a GPS database of manufacturer-approved tracks where the limiter will be disabled.
Of course it can be disabled with spoofing devices (anything from a resistor to a microcontroller-powered PWM signal generator) or by replacing the stock ECU with an aftermarket standalone EMS.
The private sector is working on exactly that...but I'm more interested in your metaphor. Gun control is like speed traps on race tracks? So you think the world is *supposed* to be like a PK arena where shootings are allowed? o_O
Who said those secret service agents and bodyguards aren't legal gun owners and wouldn't continue to be so afterwards, even if they end up using different guns?
Interesting idea around that joke, how many crippling diseases would still be haunting humanity if their cures were made by modern pharma companies instead of generous "anti-capitalist" people like Jonas Salk? I imagine the diseases would still thrive in the 3rd world.
The military had been flying drones around for a while 20 years ago, hybrid cars were around in the early 1900s but the battery capacity wasn't there, tablets are just smaller computers with touchscreens, which had been around in some form since the '80s. No more sci-fi than a smartphone which is a small computer with a phone in it.
You could argue that the miniaturization of computers in general is a major breakthrough.
The first two were highly educated (or had access to people who were) and put in a lot of investment. They were also in the right place at the right time to grab "low-hanging fruit:" make home computers cheap and easy, receive cash. Jobs later did this again with smartphones, except he didn't do any cost reduction or innovation on the hardware side that time.
The third is simply an extremely lucky villain whose closest relationship to innovation is starting a company that eventually came out with some innovative ideas and software for improving data center efficiency as a byproduct. Totally worth the commercialization of human relationships and destruction of privacy right?
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He would swoon over any murderers he saw in action though.
Writing complex applications in JavaScript is possible, but so is writing complex applications in assembly.
I was just going to say, I always saw JS as having the OOP-related language complexities of C++ combined with the power of assembly.
It's a real fight but since the costs of auto repair are so huge that people actually care about the possibility of repairing their cars, when auto manufacturers make repairs too difficult they lose market share. It's the only reason that every component isn't as horribly overpriced and artificially locked-down as Lexmark ink cartridges.
All the same, manufacturers will try their best to scare you into buying OEM shocks, air filters, brake rotors, brake pads, and other parts where the 3rd-party offerings are often both better and cheaper. As a general rule it's best to use OEM parts only for engine internals, brake hydraulic components, and steering components, and even then a big part of the last two is just in case you need to sue the manufacturer.
Don't forget network latency...lag will become far more furstrating, and affect your single-player games as well!
Yep that's it!
Not that one...it looked like a mini F-14. I might be misremembering it being a Rutan design.
It's like a little baby F-35!
Reminds me of a "personal sport jet" Burt Rutan designed, can't remember the name of it. It was available in kit form and cost about $150k in mid-'90s dollars to build IIRC. It wasn't a canard design but was about the same size and had the same bubbly cute look.
Looks like a lot of fun, but good luck carrying any meaningful number of missiles on that thing, or fuel for that matter - another big limitation Rutan's personal sport jet shared IIRC.
Shoulda pirated the game, I enjoyed both Portal games and was even able to play LAN co-op with custom levels in Portal 2 using a LAN launcher. Plus you'd send a signal to Valve that DRM is not acceptable.
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Likewise I'm sure they'll get right on that.
Because collectively we're a bunch of dumb bastards, that's why.
But the good news is that this new multi-bootloader is effectively a crack for UEFI secure boot. Virus writers could use it for boot sector viruses, putting the situation right back where it stood before, but with more complexity...which is probably the best we could hope for at this point. Boot sector viruses were an extreme rarity before, and I don't see them being any more common now that most Windows users aren't running with admin privileges all the time.
BUT the "superman" group had direct control while the helicopter group just rode around...too bad they didn't have a group that flew their own helicopter (with arcadey controls).
You just described the daily routine of many war criminals and the leaders of any awful destructive corporation of your choosing.
Weapons until recently? What happened? You'd expect a surge in the trade with all the gun nuts getting antsy these days.
It's a little bit like saying busting one dealer will bring down the entire drug trade in a country. The Silk Road, or other sites like it (which I imagine the savvier users will have switched to as soon as the Silk Road got media heat), will continue for as long as there's a demand.
If you were a cop trying to catch drug dealers with invisibility cloaks, you'd brag and make an example of a stupid one you caught too.
Cars have brakes and steering so one squeeze of the gas doesn't send an irretrievable death projectile on it's way, hammers have limited range. You posted anon because you said a dumbass thing.
Oh but there are cracks! The cops are totally on top of this situation and will have it shut down any day now and you'd be an idiot to use it, yes sir!
That's a real thing, although the limiters are set well above the speed limit, usually around 180-210kph. The R35 GTR even uses a GPS database of manufacturer-approved tracks where the limiter will be disabled.
Of course it can be disabled with spoofing devices (anything from a resistor to a microcontroller-powered PWM signal generator) or by replacing the stock ECU with an aftermarket standalone EMS.
Yet car guys aren't big babies about it.
The private sector is working on exactly that...but I'm more interested in your metaphor. Gun control is like speed traps on race tracks? So you think the world is *supposed* to be like a PK arena where shootings are allowed? o_O
If anyone thinks there isn't already a very large dossier on them they don't belong on Slashdot.
Who said those secret service agents and bodyguards aren't legal gun owners and wouldn't continue to be so afterwards, even if they end up using different guns?
The big moment for the Internet was when Average Joes could buy access.
Interesting idea around that joke, how many crippling diseases would still be haunting humanity if their cures were made by modern pharma companies instead of generous "anti-capitalist" people like Jonas Salk? I imagine the diseases would still thrive in the 3rd world.
The military had been flying drones around for a while 20 years ago, hybrid cars were around in the early 1900s but the battery capacity wasn't there, tablets are just smaller computers with touchscreens, which had been around in some form since the '80s. No more sci-fi than a smartphone which is a small computer with a phone in it.
You could argue that the miniaturization of computers in general is a major breakthrough.
The first two were highly educated (or had access to people who were) and put in a lot of investment. They were also in the right place at the right time to grab "low-hanging fruit:" make home computers cheap and easy, receive cash. Jobs later did this again with smartphones, except he didn't do any cost reduction or innovation on the hardware side that time.
The third is simply an extremely lucky villain whose closest relationship to innovation is starting a company that eventually came out with some innovative ideas and software for improving data center efficiency as a byproduct. Totally worth the commercialization of human relationships and destruction of privacy right?
That would be OpenGL+OpenAL, a few games do use it on Windows.