I fail to see the issue. According to the article, the guy clicked on the Xbox Live button on his dashboard, it hooked up, and started updating.
Should the Xbox ask 'would you like to update, or be booted off of the Xbox Live service?' Maybe. But, I ask, why? After all, there's no legitimate reason why you wouldn't want the patches installed, other than the basic "I don't want the patches installed," to which the answer is 'then don't click the little 'XBox Live' icon.'
That having been said, the little Xbox Live thingy shouldn't be on the dashboard until such time as you've activated an Xbox Live account on said Xbox.
By using the service, Xbox Live, which you need to go out of your way to do (i.e. you need to buy the kit, fill out an account subscription form, supply a credit card number) you agree to it's limitations. Those limitations include accepting patches and not using/installing hardware/software that could potentially allow you to cheat at games over the service.
If you're not on XBox Live, this isn't an issue for you.
I doubt it's the hardware license you need to worry about, so much as the Live license, which you by definition agreed to by giving them a credit card number (renumeration) in exchange for using the service (services rendered) which, under US law, I believe constitutes a binding contract.
No, probably not. What it *does* probably say, in the Xbox Live EULA, is that by using the service, at all, you agree to all patches, updates, et all.
The point behind Live has always been that it's controlled heavily, with an eye to reducing hacks. Well, a buffer overflow can allow you to hack a game as easily as install Linux, so they took it out.
Seconded. On Windows, you can do this with the unimodem drivers; it's pretty standard.
On linux, you're looking at vgetty to do the voice modem stuff, and something like festival to do the speech synth (if you want dynamic messages; if you just want to pre-record a bunch of.voc files and spew them out to the modem, that works too.)
With vgetty, make sure you get a supported modem; USR is generally a safe bet.
You had sandals? In MY day, you walked uphill, both ways, in head-deep snow, in BARE FEET! If you couldn't get enough traction, you jammed shards of broken glass into your soles! And you know what? We liked it! WE LOVED IT! We were walking to school on bloody stumps of frozen feet, and we were begging for more!
This was the next big thing for 3dfx; their 'T-buffer' was designed to do things like motion blur.
The idea being, of course, that yes, thirty or sixty FPS really is all you need *so long as you get the same blurring effects you get from film/video.*
Having 200 frames per second merely means that the jump from position to position gets smaller and smaller, in effect building in motion blur.
As an example, roll a ball across a table, at a speed that it takes one second. Film that with a film camera at five FPS; in othe words, the camera sutter will be open for 1/5th a second, five times. Watch the film; you'll get blurring and what not.
Now, do the same thing, but take five snapshots with a camera with a really fast shutter speed. You get five pictures of a ball, each picture showing the ball sitting motionless, in five separate spots. Now, flip the pictures like an old flipbook. That's how a computer currently does it.
Crosscut just means it takes longer, but it's still doable.
If you want to be extra sure, burn the shreddings. Or, mix with water, turn into a pulp, then make some paper, and send them back out as christmas cards of the like.
If the patent covers 'seamless' plugins; i.e. the browser sees that you want to open a Flash animation, so it grabs the Flash player, plugs it in, and goes, then make it not seamless; 'you need the flash plugin, and due to patent x, by So and So (call him at this number to tell him he's an idiot) you need to go here to download the plugin manually....'
The company I have a MasterCard from has an interesting service where you pay them something like ten bucks a year, and you register all of your credit cards (and possibly other stuff) with them. Then, in the event of a stolen wallet or whatever, you call them, and they then call everybody else to report the cards as stolen and what not.
Well, considering that Clam's virus database is a text file, and it comes with a tool to generate signatures for whatever files you'd like to see blocked...
A dozen people were on that coffee jury and saw all of the evidence, not one of them dissented.
Horribly off topic, but all that tells me is '12 people saw 81 year old woman, saw pictures of burned flesh, saw faceless corporation, and decided to 'strike a blow.'
At no point should a response be generated for a virus. Maybe five years ago, when viruses tagged along with legitimate data, but nowadays, a virus generates it's own delivery system, and there's no point to a bounce.
The problem isn't have 34 pounds of fissionables. The problem is having 34 pounds of fissionables in one nice big lump, then subjecting it to massive pressure, hence starting an uncontrolled nuclear reaction.
Neh. The courts shot it down, and I believe the argument was that it's unfair to the companies that *are* selling service in Canada, mainly Bell ExpressVu and Starchoice.
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Which you bloody well should. It's a speed *limit*, not a speed *suggestion*.
Similarly, if your employment contract states you show up at or before 7:30, then yes, 7:31 is late.
That having been said, if you have strict in/out hours, you're not salaried. They might say you are, but you're being screwed.
I fail to see the issue. According to the article, the guy clicked on the Xbox Live button on his dashboard, it hooked up, and started updating.
Should the Xbox ask 'would you like to update, or be booted off of the Xbox Live service?' Maybe. But, I ask, why? After all, there's no legitimate reason why you wouldn't want the patches installed, other than the basic "I don't want the patches installed," to which the answer is 'then don't click the little 'XBox Live' icon.'
That having been said, the little Xbox Live thingy shouldn't be on the dashboard until such time as you've activated an Xbox Live account on said Xbox.
Wrong. He went into the Dashboard, and he selected 'Xbox Live.'
It's like saying 'Dammit, when I typed in 'rm -rf, I DIDN'T MEAN IT!' Yeah, well.
By using the service, Xbox Live, which you need to go out of your way to do (i.e. you need to buy the kit, fill out an account subscription form, supply a credit card number) you agree to it's limitations. Those limitations include accepting patches and not using/installing hardware/software that could potentially allow you to cheat at games over the service.
If you're not on XBox Live, this isn't an issue for you.
See, that's funny, because Canada (is possibly the only country to?) already fought off an American invasion of conquest.
Read this.
I doubt it's the hardware license you need to worry about, so much as the Live license, which you by definition agreed to by giving them a credit card number (renumeration) in exchange for using the service (services rendered) which, under US law, I believe constitutes a binding contract.
No, probably not. What it *does* probably say, in the Xbox Live EULA, is that by using the service, at all, you agree to all patches, updates, et all.
The point behind Live has always been that it's controlled heavily, with an eye to reducing hacks. Well, a buffer overflow can allow you to hack a game as easily as install Linux, so they took it out.
Seconded. On Windows, you can do this with the unimodem drivers; it's pretty standard.
On linux, you're looking at vgetty to do the voice modem stuff, and something like festival to do the speech synth (if you want dynamic messages; if you just want to pre-record a bunch of .voc files and spew them out to the modem, that works too.)
With vgetty, make sure you get a supported modem; USR is generally a safe bet.
Hrm. According to the trip log I keep in my palm, I average, in my 99 Cavalier, 7.75 l/100KM. A good long highway drive nets me 6.5 l/100KM.
You had sandals? In MY day, you walked uphill, both ways, in head-deep snow, in BARE FEET! If you couldn't get enough traction, you jammed shards of broken glass into your soles! And you know what? We liked it! WE LOVED IT! We were walking to school on bloody stumps of frozen feet, and we were begging for more!
NASA hasn't squandered anything; if any, several successive Presidencies have squandered NASA.
Walking on the Moon should have been a milestone, not an end goal, for example.
ISS? Pah. The whole space station thing happened in the late seventies with Skylab.
This was the next big thing for 3dfx; their 'T-buffer' was designed to do things like motion blur.
The idea being, of course, that yes, thirty or sixty FPS really is all you need *so long as you get the same blurring effects you get from film/video.*
Having 200 frames per second merely means that the jump from position to position gets smaller and smaller, in effect building in motion blur.
As an example, roll a ball across a table, at a speed that it takes one second. Film that with a film camera at five FPS; in othe words, the camera sutter will be open for 1/5th a second, five times. Watch the film; you'll get blurring and what not.
Now, do the same thing, but take five snapshots with a camera with a really fast shutter speed. You get five pictures of a ball, each picture showing the ball sitting motionless, in five separate spots. Now, flip the pictures like an old flipbook. That's how a computer currently does it.
Crosscut just means it takes longer, but it's still doable.
If you want to be extra sure, burn the shreddings. Or, mix with water, turn into a pulp, then make some paper, and send them back out as christmas cards of the like.
If the patent covers 'seamless' plugins; i.e. the browser sees that you want to open a Flash animation, so it grabs the Flash player, plugs it in, and goes, then make it not seamless; 'you need the flash plugin, and due to patent x, by So and So (call him at this number to tell him he's an idiot) you need to go here to download the plugin manually....'
The company I have a MasterCard from has an interesting service where you pay them something like ten bucks a year, and you register all of your credit cards (and possibly other stuff) with them. Then, in the event of a stolen wallet or whatever, you call them, and they then call everybody else to report the cards as stolen and what not.
Well, considering that Clam's virus database is a text file, and it comes with a tool to generate signatures for whatever files you'd like to see blocked...
Horribly off topic, but all that tells me is '12 people saw 81 year old woman, saw pictures of burned flesh, saw faceless corporation, and decided to 'strike a blow.'
At no point should a response be generated for a virus. Maybe five years ago, when viruses tagged along with legitimate data, but nowadays, a virus generates it's own delivery system, and there's no point to a bounce.
Strangely enough, it might be illegal, in the States, to actively look for child porn to block.
In The Beginning, you had Demons, Devils and so on, many named for, or drawn from, ones present in various histories/myths.
Then, they changed them to Tanar'ri, Baalor (or something like that) and 'generified' them. At least they stopped calling them 'Type VII' and so on...
The first time I saw Blade, I thought the same thing, but there are important differences.
The first, of course, is Blade being a rather interesting take-off of a dhampir.
The Houses of Blade aren't anything like the Clans of V:tM, which are closer to 'species of vampires' than anything else.
Blade uses silver and magnesium, which aren't more or less deadly than anything else sharp, or fire.
The vampires in Blade don't seem all that concerned with hiding themselves from mortal eyes.
Ah, but was the energy released by said comet impact of the type to start a fission reaction?
I don't think there's anything to worry about either, myself.
The problem isn't have 34 pounds of fissionables. The problem is having 34 pounds of fissionables in one nice big lump, then subjecting it to massive pressure, hence starting an uncontrolled nuclear reaction.
Neh. The courts shot it down, and I believe the argument was that it's unfair to the companies that *are* selling service in Canada, mainly Bell ExpressVu and Starchoice.