I wish there was some indication in the summary that this isn't really news. It's just a lamentation of the bygone days of Usenet. The details about ISPs dropping alt.* have already been repeatedly reported on/.
As with all the other stories on this: Boo-hoo, ISPs aren't giving away free usenet. If you really want it, find a 3rd party usenet server. If my ISP took away email, I wouldn't notice because I use a different address. Verizon took away my usenet and I didn't notice, because I use a 3rd party usenet server.
And again if you haven't read it in the comments of previous postings on this story, a 3rd party usenet server is practically REQUIRED for anonymous viewing/posting of the illicit content they are trying to prevent. The pedos all sign up with offshore providers and pay for it with anonymously mailed money-orders, and access it through anonymizing proxies. The ones who don't are quickly and easily arrested with a single warrant to the ISP. The smart ones, who survive, and are thus the big-time posters, are not and can not be prevented in this manner.
alt.binaries.* isn't killed by ISPs, it's killed by spam and superior communication mechanisms.
It's not like you have to transport into your own brain and rip out your common sense in order to can pick up the Tea and the No Tea at the same time so you can so impress the ship computer that he opens the door for you. Discussing any puzzle less complicated than that is just whining.
Man this story is getting interesting. This guy could potentially be spun into a hero; last of a dying breed; a lone man against the corrupt machine. Someone secure the movie rights. It could be like Office Space meets Serpico.
How it's made was one of the knock-offs, however, Discovery Channel did show the actual Lego factory in a segment of the show "How do they do that". It was mystifying to see that they are still hand-carving their new pieces, as opposed to CAD/CNC prototyping.
A major reason for their cost (beyond brand name familiarity and novelty) is that they use ABS plastic to cast their pieces. This is choosen for reasons of safety and strength. It is one of the more expensive plastics on the market.
I don't see any explanation of how this process is any different from Thermal depolymerization, which was popularly announced in Discover Magazine back in May 2003. Nothing has really come of that, certainly not their grandios claims. So why should this be any different?
Companies believe, and often jusifiably so, that it makes little business sense to do this. Even though they abandon it now, they reserve the right to "unabandon" it later (granted this makes more sense for properties like out-of-print books than for out of date software titles). Maintaining the rights allow companies to do things like charge you ten dollars to play the original Super Mario Brothers on your Wii.
Second, since the old software can do some of the same things as the new software, consumers could for certain applications, go with the public domain OS when otherwise they would be forced to pay for the current OS. Microsoft does not want to be in competition with it's own now-profitless product, that would just be silly.
It's "mostly synthetic" DNA? Does that also mean it is mostly dead and therefore slightly alive? If so, I know a guy named Max who can do some miraculous things with it.
Federal government is an excellent way to go, particularly if you are elligible for a security clearance, and able to take the time needed to get one. I'm a code monkey myself, but many of my friends went into Department of Defense fresh out of a CS undergrad and the most coding they seem to do is the occasional bit of scripting to make their true task easier.
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Don't say doing your wife....Doing your....son?
Dear God, an entire movie done in simspeak. "Tira-na!!"
I wish there was some indication in the summary that this isn't really news. It's just a lamentation of the bygone days of Usenet. The details about ISPs dropping alt.* have already been repeatedly reported on /.
As with all the other stories on this: Boo-hoo, ISPs aren't giving away free usenet. If you really want it, find a 3rd party usenet server. If my ISP took away email, I wouldn't notice because I use a different address. Verizon took away my usenet and I didn't notice, because I use a 3rd party usenet server.
And again if you haven't read it in the comments of previous postings on this story, a 3rd party usenet server is practically REQUIRED for anonymous viewing/posting of the illicit content they are trying to prevent. The pedos all sign up with offshore providers and pay for it with anonymously mailed money-orders, and access it through anonymizing proxies. The ones who don't are quickly and easily arrested with a single warrant to the ISP. The smart ones, who survive, and are thus the big-time posters, are not and can not be prevented in this manner.
alt.binaries.* isn't killed by ISPs, it's killed by spam and superior communication mechanisms.
It's not like you have to transport into your own brain and rip out your common sense in order to can pick up the Tea and the No Tea at the same time so you can so impress the ship computer that he opens the door for you. Discussing any puzzle less complicated than that is just whining.
Man this story is getting interesting. This guy could potentially be spun into a hero; last of a dying breed; a lone man against the corrupt machine. Someone secure the movie rights. It could be like Office Space meets Serpico.
How it's made was one of the knock-offs, however, Discovery Channel did show the actual Lego factory in a segment of the show "How do they do that". It was mystifying to see that they are still hand-carving their new pieces, as opposed to CAD/CNC prototyping.
Not true. They just won a lawsuit against Megablocks about this 3 years ago. http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/trial-procedure-suits-claims/4999649-1.html
A major reason for their cost (beyond brand name familiarity and novelty) is that they use ABS plastic to cast their pieces. This is choosen for reasons of safety and strength. It is one of the more expensive plastics on the market.
...And the only prescription, is more Clippy!
No LTE. Less space than a blue-ray disk. Lame.
And those prices are only slightly less due to government subsidy.
I don't see any explanation of how this process is any different from Thermal depolymerization, which was popularly announced in Discover Magazine back in May 2003. Nothing has really come of that, certainly not their grandios claims. So why should this be any different?
Companies believe, and often jusifiably so, that it makes little business sense to do this. Even though they abandon it now, they reserve the right to "unabandon" it later (granted this makes more sense for properties like out-of-print books than for out of date software titles). Maintaining the rights allow companies to do things like charge you ten dollars to play the original Super Mario Brothers on your Wii. Second, since the old software can do some of the same things as the new software, consumers could for certain applications, go with the public domain OS when otherwise they would be forced to pay for the current OS. Microsoft does not want to be in competition with it's own now-profitless product, that would just be silly.
It's "mostly synthetic" DNA? Does that also mean it is mostly dead and therefore slightly alive? If so, I know a guy named Max who can do some miraculous things with it.
Federal government is an excellent way to go, particularly if you are elligible for a security clearance, and able to take the time needed to get one. I'm a code monkey myself, but many of my friends went into Department of Defense fresh out of a CS undergrad and the most coding they seem to do is the occasional bit of scripting to make their true task easier.
Laserbeams....oh yeah...and Ninjas!!!
It's not as big as a shoebox, it (OpenMicoServer) is as big as a shoebox _lid_.
(Flamebait) Oh dear. Score-wise, Yokko Kano is much cooler than John Williams.