I dont, I fire up netflix on the TV and watch a movie from there. No need to leave the house. If I really want to I can rent a first run just released movie from the appleTV for $2.99 same price as the local rental places plus it's in HD and I dont have to go out and hope the movie is in.
Part of the reason of required chipping is that if a dog gets lost (they sometimes do get away on their own; probably more common than being stolen) and are caught by the dog catcher as stray, then the government can easier FINE you.
Moral of the story: tell management CLEARLY the facts.
"This is a proof of concept, it will not work past the 10 clients we demo it at. we need XXX Days to complete it."
"install it and support it"
"No, you do not understand, it cant install. do you want us to finish this so we can do that?"
"...."
Having the balls to talk straight and say "NO" when you need to is important. the engineers were pussies that did not tell management NO I'm not installing this, I' will gladly take this prototype and create the real thing.
I have here a server that cost well over $450,000 new and I use it only to run Quake 3 tourneys after work.
Using worn out hardware to do other work is simply smart. the rovers are worn out, hell it's a engineering miracle they are still operating. have you SEEN photos of how dust covered they are?
You seem know nothing about trig and astrophysics so your assertions are completey bollocks. I can come up with at last 50 scenarios where that rock can simply plop there from space slow enough to make a smallish crater, bounce out and lay on the surface. And I only took classes up to the 101 level.
Are you assuming that everything in space has millions of miles per hour relative velocities? You know the soil composition of that location? Are you telling me that if it came in a very shallow angle it could not get any aerobraking? Strange.... as NASA thinks it can, and I am absolutely certain they know a WHOLE LOT MORE than you do on the subject.
Also given the gravity well strength of Mars, if that rock was simply captured because it was lazily floating about at only a couple hundred miles an hour, it's impact would be a low energy impact due to relative velocities calculated by any acceleration from mars's gravity well. These are only off the cuff in the head calculations. I'll leave it to you to crack out the calculator or mathlab and give us exact numbers. please calculate out at least 10 reentry angles and show us how you are right and NASA is wrong.
Unless it has the mass like the one that created the crater in the southwest USA. That one was far larger and had a entry trajectory that only had to deal with a few miles of atmosphere instead of coming in shallow and having a long time to do aerobraking.
that same meteorite on mars if it had came in straight on at high velocity would have made a big crater.
Plus one has to think of relative velocities. not everything in space is going 70 billion miles an hour, there is a good chance that that meteorite was floating along slowly relative to mars and simply got caught by it's gravity well. That would make it a slow decent.
Planet Earth BluRay series. Most of the content is transferred from Imax and Omnimax film that has 4X the resolution that 1080p has. the transfers are beautiful and the ONLY bluray (and HDDVD, I bought it in that format as well) discs that you can see a clear difference when you show at full 1080p and downres to 720p
It was one of the first real HD discs made and was used as a "example" to impress people of the technology.
If it takes advantage of holes that exists un-patched then the windows firewall will not stop it. This is the problem with a homogeneous network. If they all are equal, a flaw in one can be exploited in all the others. The windows firewall does not stop it because in a corporate environment you have to have print services open, as well as other services that all have had exploitable flaws. This is how the SCADA worm infected tons of secure systems. it walked right through all the firewalls with the print exploit.
The firewall is not magical, to be a usable workstation you have to open ports, and the second you open a port, something will find a way in. What is more effective is a dynamic firewall. it opens ports ONLY when needed and then shuts them closed when done. The windows firewall does not do this.
Plus most infections and attacks come from the user clicking on it, NOT roaming the network wild.
I have not seen any windows firewall protect the office pc's from an exploit that came in on a thumbdrive. If it can infect the machine it's running on, then it can infect all the others because it's using a 0day or other unpatched exploit that is getting past all the windows firewalls anyways.
Sally inserts thumbdrive and infects her machine, she then sends an email that BYPASSES ALL THE FIREWALLS and infects every single person that opens it.
The only use for per machine firewalls is to protect against a rogue machine.
Actually it's mostly due to degradation of society. The poor are so undereducated that they use a slang that is riddled with Fbombs and other derogatory terms. Plus you have far more 15 year old-18 year old high school dropouts that have a baby than you do educated people that decided to have a child. This skews the results.
Then you have the idiots that shine if it's not 1080p and saying "that's not HD!"
ATSC 720p/1080i is HD and that is all you will EVER get from CableTV, Sattelite, or OTA broadcast.
That said, you CAN rip a BLuRay to a full quality non drm encumbered file. It's just not worth it. Even on my 1080p 92" screen it is very hard to tell the difference between 720p content and 1080p content simply because most of the content on the Discs are NOT CLEAN and CRISP 1080p content to begin with.
Yup, I have had ONE client ask for a BluRay of their event. When I told them that the pressing price was more than giving out thumbdrives with the video on them they were happy. Although we still get the random idiot that asks, How do I use this... but then I also got that with bluray discs...
The conversation went as follows.....
These BluRay discs do not work in my DVD player...
That is correct, they work in a blu ray player.
But I have a DVD player....
Then you wanted a DVD....
No I wanted a BluRay....
You were hit on the head a lot as a child weren't you......
I buy the bluray and then rip it to a non DRM file format for use on my XBMC box.
Works great. 720p looks fantastic but I can always rip to 1080p if I ever desire to. AND they cant take the files away from me or invoke any control at all.
And I get that warm fuzzy feeling that I am violating a unjust law by doing it.
Honestly, give me a Android pad that has plain old android on it not your locked down shit, or your stupid ereader on it. PLAIN ANDROID, LATEST RELEASE...
These devices makers are not interested in making something that sells. all that make is crash prone underpowered crap like the Archos products.
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I dont, I fire up netflix on the TV and watch a movie from there. No need to leave the house. If I really want to I can rent a first run just released movie from the appleTV for $2.99 same price as the local rental places plus it's in HD and I dont have to go out and hope the movie is in.
Merde Pute!
No..
declare only terrorists own vacuums..
Then point out to the moron senators that space is full of vacuum and we should declare war on it.
Suddenly NASA has all the money it needs.
Part of the reason of required chipping is that if a dog gets lost (they sometimes do get away on their own; probably more common than being stolen) and are caught by the dog catcher as stray, then the government can easier FINE you.
I fixed that for you.
Moral of the story: tell management CLEARLY the facts.
"This is a proof of concept, it will not work past the 10 clients we demo it at. we need XXX Days to complete it."
"install it and support it"
"No, you do not understand, it cant install. do you want us to finish this so we can do that?"
"...."
Having the balls to talk straight and say "NO" when you need to is important. the engineers were pussies that did not tell management NO I'm not installing this, I' will gladly take this prototype and create the real thing.
tell that to phb's and Microsoft.
Yes.
Handbrake for conversion
DVD fab for the DRM cracking.
DVD fab demo works great, let it expire and it still will crack the DRM for you.
I have here a server that cost well over $450,000 new and I use it only to run Quake 3 tourneys after work.
Using worn out hardware to do other work is simply smart. the rovers are worn out, hell it's a engineering miracle they are still operating. have you SEEN photos of how dust covered they are?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Mars_Spirit_rover's_solar_panels_covered_with_Dust_-_October_2007.jpg
this was in 2007, it now has 3 more years of dirt and dust on them.
You seem know nothing about trig and astrophysics so your assertions are completey bollocks. I can come up with at last 50 scenarios where that rock can simply plop there from space slow enough to make a smallish crater, bounce out and lay on the surface. And I only took classes up to the 101 level.
Are you assuming that everything in space has millions of miles per hour relative velocities? You know the soil composition of that location?
Are you telling me that if it came in a very shallow angle it could not get any aerobraking? Strange.... as NASA thinks it can, and I am absolutely certain they know a WHOLE LOT MORE than you do on the subject.
Also given the gravity well strength of Mars, if that rock was simply captured because it was lazily floating about at only a couple hundred miles an hour, it's impact would be a low energy impact due to relative velocities calculated by any acceleration from mars's gravity well. These are only off the cuff in the head calculations. I'll leave it to you to crack out the calculator or mathlab and give us exact numbers. please calculate out at least 10 reentry angles and show us how you are right and NASA is wrong.
Unless it has the mass like the one that created the crater in the southwest USA. That one was far larger and had a entry trajectory that only had to deal with a few miles of atmosphere instead of coming in shallow and having a long time to do aerobraking.
that same meteorite on mars if it had came in straight on at high velocity would have made a big crater.
Plus one has to think of relative velocities. not everything in space is going 70 billion miles an hour, there is a good chance that that meteorite was floating along slowly relative to mars and simply got caught by it's gravity well. That would make it a slow decent.
Actually yes, I have one.
Planet Earth BluRay series. Most of the content is transferred from Imax and Omnimax film that has 4X the resolution that 1080p has. the transfers are beautiful and the ONLY bluray (and HDDVD, I bought it in that format as well) discs that you can see a clear difference when you show at full 1080p and downres to 720p
It was one of the first real HD discs made and was used as a "example" to impress people of the technology.
If it takes advantage of holes that exists un-patched then the windows firewall will not stop it. This is the problem with a homogeneous network. If they all are equal, a flaw in one can be exploited in all the others. The windows firewall does not stop it because in a corporate environment you have to have print services open, as well as other services that all have had exploitable flaws. This is how the SCADA worm infected tons of secure systems. it walked right through all the firewalls with the print exploit.
The firewall is not magical, to be a usable workstation you have to open ports, and the second you open a port, something will find a way in. What is more effective is a dynamic firewall. it opens ports ONLY when needed and then shuts them closed when done. The windows firewall does not do this.
Plus most infections and attacks come from the user clicking on it, NOT roaming the network wild.
add a helmet and a head-hook... I've seen you drive.
I have not seen any windows firewall protect the office pc's from an exploit that came in on a thumbdrive. If it can infect the machine it's running on, then it can infect all the others because it's using a 0day or other unpatched exploit that is getting past all the windows firewalls anyways.
Sally inserts thumbdrive and infects her machine, she then sends an email that BYPASSES ALL THE FIREWALLS and infects every single person that opens it.
The only use for per machine firewalls is to protect against a rogue machine.
PC Pro was useless and irrelevant years ago. The only people that pay attention to that rag is PHB's or really really dumb executives.
Actually it's mostly due to degradation of society. The poor are so undereducated that they use a slang that is riddled with Fbombs and other derogatory terms. Plus you have far more 15 year old-18 year old high school dropouts that have a baby than you do educated people that decided to have a child. This skews the results.
Then you have the idiots that shine if it's not 1080p and saying "that's not HD!"
ATSC 720p/1080i is HD and that is all you will EVER get from CableTV, Sattelite, or OTA broadcast.
That said, you CAN rip a BLuRay to a full quality non drm encumbered file. It's just not worth it. Even on my 1080p 92" screen it is very hard to tell the difference between 720p content and 1080p content simply because most of the content on the Discs are NOT CLEAN and CRISP 1080p content to begin with.
Yup, I have had ONE client ask for a BluRay of their event. When I told them that the pressing price was more than giving out thumbdrives with the video on them they were happy. Although we still get the random idiot that asks, How do I use this... but then I also got that with bluray discs...
The conversation went as follows.....
These BluRay discs do not work in my DVD player...
That is correct, they work in a blu ray player.
But I have a DVD player....
Then you wanted a DVD....
No I wanted a BluRay....
You were hit on the head a lot as a child weren't you......
I buy the bluray and then rip it to a non DRM file format for use on my XBMC box.
Works great. 720p looks fantastic but I can always rip to 1080p if I ever desire to. AND they cant take the files away from me or invoke any control at all.
And I get that warm fuzzy feeling that I am violating a unjust law by doing it.
buddy of mine did this.. made the car look "already robbed".
he could park where all cars get stolen and it would not be touched.
Easiest is to wire in a switch to cut power to the fuel pump.
Defeats ALL car thieves except for the ones with flatbed trucks.
You just want a speak and trig...
Robotic voice:" What is the cosine of the hypotenuse?..... that is incorrect!"
Actually you only have to buy one copy of each.... crack the DRM.... now all the students have the books.
Or stop being idiot school administrators and use some of the great open education texts already available in ebook format.
http://www.ck12.org/flexr/
Have you ever used a kindle? they utterly suck for technical or non linear books. the Sony ereaders as well are crap for such uses.
But it's the only choice.
All the android pads are utter and complete crap.
Honestly, give me a Android pad that has plain old android on it not your locked down shit, or your stupid ereader on it. PLAIN ANDROID, LATEST RELEASE...
These devices makers are not interested in making something that sells. all that make is crash prone underpowered crap like the Archos products.