When I upgraded to Windows 2000 my sound card stopped working. Seems the company went out of business and no new drivers were released for anything later than WinMe. On the other hand there was plenty of info on getting the sound card to work in linux.
I have to admit I've only browsed Wikipedia a few times but the open nature of it seems like it would be rife with abuse. From what I understand there is moderation in place but how long before something like Wikipedia succombs to the trolls and such.
I know I'm preaching to the converted here but frankly this is BS. Do they consider that for generations the movie theater experience has been an integral part of people's lives? Just go to the theater on a Friday and Saturday night and count the couples. Dinner and a movie is still a part of courtship. And renting a movie and watching it on my home theater is no substitute for taking a person out to the theater.
This is like saying that TV will kill radio or radio will kill literature. Hogwash!
Most people don't have a home theater. Many don't have a DVD player. Many people have crappy 13" televisions with mono sound. Even the most apathetic can still tell the difference between that and the megaplex down the street.
Finally people won't just stop making movies either. The industry is huge and the budgets might get a little smaller but the industry is not going to collapse. There will always be independents that do it just for the love of telling a story. IF the big company stop making movies the independents will take over where the big companies left off.
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Cable companies just have to install a trap on the pole which fitlers out the TV channels. But many times they don't bother to. In fact didn't Slashdot post a story about this earlier where a man inadvertently got sued by his cable provider because they forgot to install the filter?
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So how is this really different from what happens already. Currently Police or other security personnel look for odd behavior including rapid breathing and other signs of nervousness. An eye in the sky then usually follows that person. If anything this is just another tool of detecting nervous people. This just seems like a new tool for better detection instead of relying on non-empirical data (intuition).
This is esentially the same idea as a school projector. The idea works but TVs don't put out enough light to make a very briliant picture. So you can only watch at night. You also still need a flat white screen to project your image onto. Essentially this is your poor man's big screen. It will never rival a real big screen TV but it will be cool to impress your frineds or at least for a fun physics project on light. Here's a link that I found that contains instructions as well as comments. http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg. tcl?msg_id=0038A5
Perhaps you didn't read the article. He found the security hole and then proceeded to steal scripts from them. His intention was to rewrite them and then sell them for a profit. What he did is called corporate espionage.
For the ugliest thing I have ever seen. That thing reminds me of backyard inventer airplanes back in the 30's. Those were the days. Toss an engine on your back and glue some metal sheeting to your arms and you could barely yell the word crackpot before you hit the ground in a flaming ball of fire.
I don't think Loki died because people bought windows versions of games but rather people didn't buy enough Linux versions. In the end Loki had a poor business model with a market that was too small too support it. Many ideas get abandoned becasue they just can't make money. Hence the concept of a capitalist society. While the ideas of Loki was great the substance behind just wasn't there.
Perhaps I'm not the first to say it but didn't we all see this coming. Linux while tops in the server market is the clear minority in the Desktop market and hence also in the Games market. The volume just isn't there for a game company to support itself. I have to imagine that it was extremely hard to break even.
I used to respect this person but now I have to wonder what kind of technical background he has and if that background is backed up by ay sound reasoning ability. I remember watching conspiracy theory in the theaters (You know with Mel Gipson). That had some pretty crazy ideas but this is just nuts. At one point in this article he suggests that everyone loose his or her anonymity. Then at another point in the article he criticizes Microsoft for their supposed protocol, which will remove anonymity. This article seems more like a rant by a frustrated Windows user than an actual intelligent discussion on the security problems of Windows.
The real cost of any operating system doesn't lie in the box and on the price tag. It is in how long it takes to configure and setup and then how long it takes to maintain. Of course this is offset by the benefits it provides for example Linux can mean hoirs of headaches but it can also mean extremely high flexibility in the software available. Then there is Windows which is fairly easy to install for the average user and easy to maintain. Although it's flexibility is extremely low.
If data can be stored at the molecular level then can data be hidden at the molecular level? Interesting concept. Why bother with decoding if transporting large files is as easy as sewing on a button containing a molecular sized hard drive. Customs would probably never spy it. Well maybe if they saw the IDE cable protruding from the button;-)
So what happens when half time of the superbowl comes and everyone flushes their toilets? Does the Internet connection for half the city go out becasue of the high volume of sewage being pumped through the pipes? And Can you imagine the pain in the ass these would be for maintenance crews? I can just imagine the looks on some poor maintenance person as he crawls through sewage to fix a fiber line.
So My question is wheter we will see the klingons and whether they'll have god damn ridges on their foreheads. When will they ever tell us where they came from.
What you need to realize is that you are going to be Cheap Labor almost all of the way through high school and in to college. An internship gives you valuable skills but it isn't tutoring. You'll find yourselves getting coffe and doing a lot of scut work for low pay. Near the end of any Internship you could find yourselves with a small non-mission critical project. But this project is of no real importance to the company. The reason behind this is that the business doesn't know how reliable you are and while you may have a high oppinion of your ability you have no real expiernce to back it up. For that reason you can expect to be doing scut work for 3 or 4 more years. Or yo can apply for a real job and accept real responsibility.
I know that there are a lot of projects that provide support services for their product for a consulting fee. This would certainly provide some revenue and would get you the trademark you need.
So one day the rocket goes up it deploys thousands of these little buggers for 50K a pop. Then there is a problem. They are deployed at the wrong time. Suddenly a major catastrophe is on it's way. hundreds of little cubes are going to start raining down on earth (ala Skylab). Sure some might burn up in the atmosphere but Should we really be forgetting that "What comes up must come down". Personally I'd hate to see little mini cubes falling from the sky and smashing into a heavily populated metropolis
Can you imagine running Quake 3 at the higest detail level at the higest resolution. Spilling the blood of your opponents on a big monitor with no noticeable frame rate drops would be heaven for me. (Forgive the Pun)
I can't imagine something that is able to go this fast being very sea worthy. Sems like we'll see a little bad weather and a few hundred of these boats on the Atlantic floor. Also last time I checked a plane could go over the atlantic in something under 8 hours. So these things are certainly not passenger carriers.
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This counts the spare battery. I get about 4 hours each.
My Dell can get about 8 hours of battery life under minimal load. Of course it does have a spare battery in the media bay.
When I upgraded to Windows 2000 my sound card stopped working. Seems the company went out of business and no new drivers were released for anything later than WinMe. On the other hand there was plenty of info on getting the sound card to work in linux.
I have to admit I've only browsed Wikipedia a few times but the open nature of it seems like it would be rife with abuse. From what I understand there is moderation in place but how long before something like Wikipedia succombs to the trolls and such.
Thats right I saw this three weeks ago when my story submission got rejected.
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But I'm not bitter.
I know I'm preaching to the converted here but frankly this is BS. Do they consider that for generations the movie theater experience has been an integral part of people's lives? Just go to the theater on a Friday and Saturday night and count the couples. Dinner and a movie is still a part of courtship. And renting a movie and watching it on my home theater is no substitute for taking a person out to the theater.
This is like saying that TV will kill radio or radio will kill literature. Hogwash!
Most people don't have a home theater. Many don't have a DVD player. Many people have crappy 13" televisions with mono sound. Even the most apathetic can still tell the difference between that and the megaplex down the street.
Finally people won't just stop making movies either. The industry is huge and the budgets might get a little smaller but the industry is not going to collapse. There will always be independents that do it just for the love of telling a story. IF the big company stop making movies the independents will take over where the big companies left off.
Cable companies just have to install a trap on the pole which fitlers out the TV channels. But many times they don't bother to. In fact didn't Slashdot post a story about this earlier where a man inadvertently got sued by his cable provider because they forgot to install the filter?
So how is this really different from what happens already. Currently Police or other security personnel look for odd behavior including rapid breathing and other signs of nervousness. An eye in the sky then usually follows that person. If anything this is just another tool of detecting nervous people. This just seems like a new tool for better detection instead of relying on non-empirical data (intuition).
This is esentially the same idea as a school projector. The idea works but TVs don't put out enough light to make a very briliant picture. So you can only watch at night. You also still need a flat white screen to project your image onto. Essentially this is your poor man's big screen. It will never rival a real big screen TV but it will be cool to impress your frineds or at least for a fun physics project on light. Here's a link that I found that contains instructions as well as comments. http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg. tcl?msg_id=0038A5
Perhaps you didn't read the article. He found the security hole and then proceeded to steal scripts from them. His intention was to rewrite them and then sell them for a profit. What he did is called corporate espionage.
For the ugliest thing I have ever seen. That thing reminds me of backyard inventer airplanes back in the 30's. Those were the days. Toss an engine on your back and glue some metal sheeting to your arms and you could barely yell the word crackpot before you hit the ground in a flaming ball of fire.
I don't think Loki died because people bought windows versions of games but rather people didn't buy enough Linux versions. In the end Loki had a poor business model with a market that was too small too support it. Many ideas get abandoned becasue they just can't make money. Hence the concept of a capitalist society. While the ideas of Loki was great the substance behind just wasn't there.
Perhaps I'm not the first to say it but didn't we all see this coming. Linux while tops in the server market is the clear minority in the Desktop market and hence also in the Games market. The volume just isn't there for a game company to support itself. I have to imagine that it was extremely hard to break even.
I used to respect this person but now I have to wonder what kind of technical background he has and if that background is backed up by ay sound reasoning ability. I remember watching conspiracy theory in the theaters (You know with Mel Gipson). That had some pretty crazy ideas but this is just nuts. At one point in this article he suggests that everyone loose his or her anonymity. Then at another point in the article he criticizes Microsoft for their supposed protocol, which will remove anonymity. This article seems more like a rant by a frustrated Windows user than an actual intelligent discussion on the security problems of Windows.
The real cost of any operating system doesn't lie in the box and on the price tag. It is in how long it takes to configure and setup and then how long it takes to maintain. Of course this is offset by the benefits it provides for example Linux can mean hoirs of headaches but it can also mean extremely high flexibility in the software available. Then there is Windows which is fairly easy to install for the average user and easy to maintain. Although it's flexibility is extremely low.
If data can be stored at the molecular level then can data be hidden at the molecular level? Interesting concept. Why bother with decoding if transporting large files is as easy as sewing on a button containing a molecular sized hard drive. Customs would probably never spy it. Well maybe if they saw the IDE cable protruding from the button ;-)
It's nice to hear that even space can't escape american bureaucracy. I can just imagine the customs official "Anything to declare?".
So what happens when half time of the superbowl comes and everyone flushes their toilets? Does the Internet connection for half the city go out becasue of the high volume of sewage being pumped through the pipes? And Can you imagine the pain in the ass these would be for maintenance crews? I can just imagine the looks on some poor maintenance person as he crawls through sewage to fix a fiber line.
So My question is wheter we will see the klingons and whether they'll have god damn ridges on their foreheads. When will they ever tell us where they came from.
What you need to realize is that you are going to be Cheap Labor almost all of the way through high school and in to college. An internship gives you valuable skills but it isn't tutoring. You'll find yourselves getting coffe and doing a lot of scut work for low pay. Near the end of any Internship you could find yourselves with a small non-mission critical project. But this project is of no real importance to the company. The reason behind this is that the business doesn't know how reliable you are and while you may have a high oppinion of your ability you have no real expiernce to back it up. For that reason you can expect to be doing scut work for 3 or 4 more years. Or yo can apply for a real job and accept real responsibility.
I know that there are a lot of projects that provide support services for their product for a consulting fee. This would certainly provide some revenue and would get you the trademark you need.
So one day the rocket goes up it deploys thousands of these little buggers for 50K a pop. Then there is a problem. They are deployed at the wrong time. Suddenly a major catastrophe is on it's way. hundreds of little cubes are going to start raining down on earth (ala Skylab). Sure some might burn up in the atmosphere but Should we really be forgetting that "What comes up must come down". Personally I'd hate to see little mini cubes falling from the sky and smashing into a heavily populated metropolis
How in the world could a device that relies on GRAVITY be used during flight? Seems like that would be more of a feat then the device itself.
Can you imagine running Quake 3 at the higest detail level at the higest resolution. Spilling the blood of your opponents on a big monitor with no noticeable frame rate drops would be heaven for me. (Forgive the Pun)
I can't imagine something that is able to go this fast being very sea worthy. Sems like we'll see a little bad weather and a few hundred of these boats on the Atlantic floor. Also last time I checked a plane could go over the atlantic in something under 8 hours. So these things are certainly not passenger carriers.