This isn't about doubting the Chinese ability to perform genuine science - the problem is the well documented ability of Chinese fossil smugglers to invent new fake fossils in order to make large quantities of cash.
From the description, it sounds like rather than blowing the thing apart they are trying to shoot the magnetic coil down the pipe fast enough to induce a massive current in it. When that reaches the little wire at the end it should radiate the pulse nicely, I think.
1) Every description so far makes it sound like its just a case of stockpiling Faraday cages. Surely it can't be that simple to protect against?
2) If a high power EMP device is as simple to make as several/. posters suggest, and a simple bit of work with some metal in (1) doesn't protect against them, how powerful a battery-powered one can you fit in a 40ft container on the back of a lorry on Wall Street, in the centre of London, or even, say, a suburb of Redmond as an example? This strikes me as a far more useful weapon of Terror than those messy chemicals and biological agents that Frys or Radio Shack wouldn't sell you.
If what Juhaz has just said is true, then that is correct behaviour. A new bubble for the 'next' slot is chosen randomly from the colours on-screen, not at the point of moving from the 'next' to the catapult.
Quite apart from the fact that Quake3 comes from the makers of Wolf3D, so accusations of ripoff don't exactly go far, the point is that no-one wrote an entire article about how gloriously original it was.
Mind you, I was about to say that having 3 in the title put paid to that, and then I remembered the number of times I've had to listen to people going on about GTA3, like the first two didn't do the exact same thing, so fair enough.
For those that don't want to dabble in emulation, or fork out for the original Neo Geo release, I've also bought legitimate releases of various Puzzle Bobble/Bust A Move and sequels for:
(I believe there is a Mac and Saturn release, but I don't own it)
Hell, Taito will even do you a Puzzle Bobble Online for the PC. There really is little chance of you owning a machine that will play Snood, and not Puzzle Bobble.
As a side thing, stay away from Super Bust A Move for the PS2 - its really painful on the eyes. A PS2 will play Bust A Move 4 just fine, so stick with that.
How? Its a buffer overflow exploit in the MP3 header tags, apparently. He has a history of finding expoits of this type in Apache etc, so it may well be true.
Its nice to know it relies on an infected mp3 being played in one of the standard players, and then relies on the p2p software to transmit itself elsewhere - I had visions of this getting onto machines that don't have p2p stuff on them, like mine.
http://www.johnlewis.com/stores/product.asp?sku=23 0169666&str=940 is a direct link, if you want one. Its quite amusing really, and works pretty well with Gran Tourismo 3.
"Awhile back, it was stated that XBox game discs spun backwards, thus making emulation and even making legitimate backups as close to impossible as anyone could ever imagine."
This isn't, indeed cannot be the case. Grab a legitimate XBox game disc off your shelf, any one whatsoever. Stick it in your nearest DVD player. See how it plays? If its capable of streaming that animation off the disc in full 5.1 surround, then there must be at least some info on there in a normal fashion.
"If I import clones from a country that has week IP laws into say the US then I'll probably be sued till the cows come home."
I think they would love to, but given that in the country of origin its a legal recording I don't see how this is different from me coming back from the US every time with my usual stack of cheap DVDs, which customs don't seem the slightest bit concerned about. I certainly agree that you'd be in very deep trouble if you then tried to sell any of these imports, but thats a different ballgame.
Congratulations my good sir. You are clearly far more mature than someone who is happy to watch monkeys roll around in balls for hours in a game.
Miyamoto will never be taken seriously until he takles more serious, adult themes, like what the stopping power and fire rate of an AK-47 assault rifle is.
Thanks for the info - I've heard so many scare stories about the devices 'phoning home' that I just assumed this was the case. Mind you, I'm really more concerned with the paying £10 a month than the initial outlay, so either way this box is for me. My digital satellite service already does a very good programme guide, so I don't want to pay extra to save myself the job of reading.
I've seen a few complaints in these posts about the fact that it acts like an old-fashioned VCR, and needs to be told when to record by time, rather than the Tivo-like functionality of downloading programme schedules. Thats a cool thing to have, but currently these devices charge a monthly contract fee for that, while this device is just a pay once and you're done box. Personally, I don't actually want a box that I have to pay a monthly subscription on, and doesn't dial home to let them know that I recorded last night's Scrapheap onto DVD to watch again later.
I know better than to think that there is a single/. hive-mind, but these people complaining they want programme guides are different ones to those that bang on about privacy rights, aren't they?
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My in-car CD player doesn't cope with CD-R media, and neither to several DVD players from major brands (Sony, for instance). If I purchase something labelled as a 'CD' but find out it won't play on my equipment, then the guy is going to get negative feedback, trust me. They also degrade much faster than a properly pressed CD.
CD-Rs are not normal CDs. Labelling them as such is bad.
"or the Robber would have seen the gun sticking out of the guy's pocket"
Possibly. However, if there aren't any convenient old ladies to mug, then he might just move straight to the shooting part, rather than risk the chances of not getting first shot in.
"Did'nt you ever hit the bully back when you were a kid?"
Once. Then I learned that standing around making a poor attempt at fighting got my arse handed to me, while running away just made me feel a bit out of breath. That seemed a much better plan. Besides, my plan didn't involve persuading the bully to go pick on an old lady instead.
"It's a giant demon dripping fire from its skin looking really pissed off. You need a better reason than that to run away?"
Well, I kind of thought that myself, but to be fair they've been running away for a good five minutes already before you actually get to see the thing. I think her main problem, though, was that there are all these people being rushed onto screen and then off again at such a pace that we don't really get a chance to catch a breath and get our heads around the scale of the world. Jackson is running at such a pace to cram everything in that establishing the characters that those of us with the books already know has rather fallen by the wayside.
"I mean, this edition is meant to appease those that wanted more from the books in the movie, right?"
Actually, from what I see its more likely to perform a grand job of appeasing my wife, who wasn't that impressed with the original cut of the film. Never having read the book, she didn't know what was happening half the time with the endless series of random monsters we've never been warned about dragged on before they alternately run away or kill them.
This new cut is mainly adding in extra character background, so rather than simply going 'Hey! Its a Balrog' she will some idea why running away is a really good course of action.
Indeed, Dan pointed this out to Ron yesterday morning, and so he fixed the title. The body of the text wasn't updated, but if you follow the thread then you'll be aware.
I'm just glad I read the review yesterday, before it got posted here; even though the pipe to the HTF is pretty massive, its struggling with the combined weight of all its usual load as well as the slashdotters.
So this is why the HTF has turned to soup this afternoon. Thank goodness I read Ron's review when he posted it a couple of days ago. Now, if you wouldn't mind, we've got some seriously unimportant film trivia to talk about.
"But seriously, if they started making these games more girl-friendly, would guys want to play it?"
Actually, while we are talking about stereotypes that games get aimed at, it does occur to me that one of the big ones around is about 'mature' games. I'm 27, I'm male, I'm married and yet the three games that get the most play in our house are Super Monkey Ball, Mario Sunshine and Pikmin. Not to knock GTA3, which I do have time for, but I don't require dead bodies to enjoy games either.
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This isn't about doubting the Chinese ability to perform genuine science - the problem is the well documented ability of Chinese fossil smugglers to invent new fake fossils in order to make large quantities of cash.
From the description, it sounds like rather than blowing the thing apart they are trying to shoot the magnetic coil down the pipe fast enough to induce a massive current in it. When that reaches the little wire at the end it should radiate the pulse nicely, I think.
1) Every description so far makes it sound like its just a case of stockpiling Faraday cages. Surely it can't be that simple to protect against?
/. posters suggest, and a simple bit of work with some metal in (1) doesn't protect against them, how powerful a battery-powered one can you fit in a 40ft container on the back of a lorry on Wall Street, in the centre of London, or even, say, a suburb of Redmond as an example? This strikes me as a far more useful weapon of Terror than those messy chemicals and biological agents that Frys or Radio Shack wouldn't sell you.
2) If a high power EMP device is as simple to make as several
Surely the logical extension of the argument is actually:
Everybody is illegally copying CDs, so why don't we just lock up the entire country?
If what Juhaz has just said is true, then that is correct behaviour. A new bubble for the 'next' slot is chosen randomly from the colours on-screen, not at the point of moving from the 'next' to the catapult.
Quite apart from the fact that Quake3 comes from the makers of Wolf3D, so accusations of ripoff don't exactly go far, the point is that no-one wrote an entire article about how gloriously original it was.
Mind you, I was about to say that having 3 in the title put paid to that, and then I remembered the number of times I've had to listen to people going on about GTA3, like the first two didn't do the exact same thing, so fair enough.
For those that don't want to dabble in emulation, or fork out for the original Neo Geo release, I've also bought legitimate releases of various Puzzle Bobble/Bust A Move and sequels for:
PC
PS
PS2
Dreamcast
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
NeoGeo Pocket Colour
(I believe there is a Mac and Saturn release, but I don't own it)
Hell, Taito will even do you a Puzzle Bobble Online for the PC. There really is little chance of you owning a machine that will play Snood, and not Puzzle Bobble.
As a side thing, stay away from Super Bust A Move for the PS2 - its really painful on the eyes. A PS2 will play Bust A Move 4 just fine, so stick with that.
How? Its a buffer overflow exploit in the MP3 header tags, apparently. He has a history of finding expoits of this type in Apache etc, so it may well be true.
Its nice to know it relies on an infected mp3 being played in one of the standard players, and then relies on the p2p software to transmit itself elsewhere - I had visions of this getting onto machines that don't have p2p stuff on them, like mine.
http://www.johnlewis.com/stores/product.asp?sku=23 0169666&str=940 is a direct link, if you want one. Its quite amusing really, and works pretty well with Gran Tourismo 3.
"Awhile back, it was stated that XBox game discs spun backwards, thus making emulation and even making legitimate backups as close to impossible as anyone could ever imagine."
This isn't, indeed cannot be the case. Grab a legitimate XBox game disc off your shelf, any one whatsoever. Stick it in your nearest DVD player. See how it plays? If its capable of streaming that animation off the disc in full 5.1 surround, then there must be at least some info on there in a normal fashion.
"If I import clones from a country that has week IP laws into say the US then I'll probably be sued till the cows come home."
I think they would love to, but given that in the country of origin its a legal recording I don't see how this is different from me coming back from the US every time with my usual stack of cheap DVDs, which customs don't seem the slightest bit concerned about. I certainly agree that you'd be in very deep trouble if you then tried to sell any of these imports, but thats a different ballgame.
Congratulations my good sir. You are clearly far more mature than someone who is happy to watch monkeys roll around in balls for hours in a game.
Miyamoto will never be taken seriously until he takles more serious, adult themes, like what the stopping power and fire rate of an AK-47 assault rifle is.
I'm guessing this is one of the tracks from Further Down... but I don't suppose you could tell me which, could you? I'm now deeply curious.
Oh please, can we? Pretty pretty please with cherries on top?
It'd get my vote.
Thanks for the info - I've heard so many scare stories about the devices 'phoning home' that I just assumed this was the case. Mind you, I'm really more concerned with the paying £10 a month than the initial outlay, so either way this box is for me. My digital satellite service already does a very good programme guide, so I don't want to pay extra to save myself the job of reading.
I've seen a few complaints in these posts about the fact that it acts like an old-fashioned VCR, and needs to be told when to record by time, rather than the Tivo-like functionality of downloading programme schedules. Thats a cool thing to have, but currently these devices charge a monthly contract fee for that, while this device is just a pay once and you're done box. Personally, I don't actually want a box that I have to pay a monthly subscription on, and doesn't dial home to let them know that I recorded last night's Scrapheap onto DVD to watch again later.
/. hive-mind, but these people complaining they want programme guides are different ones to those that bang on about privacy rights, aren't they?
I know better than to think that there is a single
My in-car CD player doesn't cope with CD-R media, and neither to several DVD players from major brands (Sony, for instance). If I purchase something labelled as a 'CD' but find out it won't play on my equipment, then the guy is going to get negative feedback, trust me. They also degrade much faster than a properly pressed CD.
CD-Rs are not normal CDs. Labelling them as such is bad.
"(Please don't respond with a torrent of "u ID10T, u w0n7 hur7 ur scrn!!!!" --Call it voodoo.)"
;-)
Actually, I was going to insult you for not just turning the screen off. Is that ok?
"Everyone seems to like Lucy the dog, though... let's appoint her Home Secretary ;-)"
Lucy is great. Certainly my favorite member of Parliament. Even cuter than Arthur Scargill's dog, who is was much a pushover as he wasn't.
"or the Robber would have seen the gun sticking out of the guy's pocket"
Possibly. However, if there aren't any convenient old ladies to mug, then he might just move straight to the shooting part, rather than risk the chances of not getting first shot in.
"Did'nt you ever hit the bully back when you were a kid?"
Once. Then I learned that standing around making a poor attempt at fighting got my arse handed to me, while running away just made me feel a bit out of breath. That seemed a much better plan. Besides, my plan didn't involve persuading the bully to go pick on an old lady instead.
"It's a giant demon dripping fire from its skin looking really pissed off. You need a better reason than that to run away?"
Well, I kind of thought that myself, but to be fair they've been running away for a good five minutes already before you actually get to see the thing. I think her main problem, though, was that there are all these people being rushed onto screen and then off again at such a pace that we don't really get a chance to catch a breath and get our heads around the scale of the world. Jackson is running at such a pace to cram everything in that establishing the characters that those of us with the books already know has rather fallen by the wayside.
"I mean, this edition is meant to appease those that wanted more from the books in the movie, right?"
Actually, from what I see its more likely to perform a grand job of appeasing my wife, who wasn't that impressed with the original cut of the film. Never having read the book, she didn't know what was happening half the time with the endless series of random monsters we've never been warned about dragged on before they alternately run away or kill them.
This new cut is mainly adding in extra character background, so rather than simply going 'Hey! Its a Balrog' she will some idea why running away is a really good course of action.
Indeed, Dan pointed this out to Ron yesterday morning, and so he fixed the title. The body of the text wasn't updated, but if you follow the thread then you'll be aware.
I'm just glad I read the review yesterday, before it got posted here; even though the pipe to the HTF is pretty massive, its struggling with the combined weight of all its usual load as well as the slashdotters.
God Damn You All To Hell!!!
So this is why the HTF has turned to soup this afternoon. Thank goodness I read Ron's review when he posted it a couple of days ago. Now, if you wouldn't mind, we've got some seriously unimportant film trivia to talk about.
"But seriously, if they started making these games more girl-friendly, would guys want to play it?"
Actually, while we are talking about stereotypes that games get aimed at, it does occur to me that one of the big ones around is about 'mature' games. I'm 27, I'm male, I'm married and yet the three games that get the most play in our house are Super Monkey Ball, Mario Sunshine and Pikmin. Not to knock GTA3, which I do have time for, but I don't require dead bodies to enjoy games either.