I haven't actually had a PSP title for a few years that I actually liked enough to play more than a week. Most didn't even last a day. Going the DS route won't help either. What they really need is good games that people want to play.
They are trying to outsmart the os and other programs by using non-standard areas for some of their code without bothering to check if something else is already using it. Ironically I saw a lot of this during the switchover to win95. The stupidly assume that if their test machine isn't using that chunk of drive, nothing else does either, at any time, ever. You'd be shocked at how many people got their MBRs blown out because of that kind of stupidity.
Well, it's been about 15 years, so there's a whole new crop of arrogant lazy s.o.b.s out there that have to learn that the computer is a shared environment.
There is a fair amount of hydrogen on/in our planet, but it's bound up in molecules with other stuff. To 'make' hydrogen, we really just break it out of whatever molecule it's already in. Some things, like natural gas, oil, even water, have a lot of hydrogen in them and so are good candidates for cracking. The main difficulty is the methods necessary and the byproducts of the process, and that's not even mentioning the fact that it takes energy input to do the work in the first place. Hydrogen isn't free, but it has the unique advantage that when burned, it becomes water vapor. There's still lots of work to be done if they really want the consumers to use it the same as their traditional petrochemicals, but that does have the advantage that you don't have to re-educate and convince them to do it. The day a consumer can pull into any station and say "Filler up with H, I'm getting a coffee, gotta drive all day", is the day consumers will accept it. Until then, only the fringe and scientists/inventors will go through the hassle.
Hydrogen is very flammable, nobody disputes that, but is has to be given enough oxygen before it can ignite. As to the Hindenburg, not a single person was harmed by the burning hydrogen which was up and away moments after the storage cells ruptured. It wasn't the hydrogen that caused the Hindenburg incident, it would have played out almost exactly the same if they'd used helium instead.
So stop either scaremongering or being afraid of hydrogen, it's no bigger danger than the other stuff we use all the time.
Considering the way some of them spaz out when they get photographed in a public place, they'd go totally ballistic. But it would be a great way to identify where the speed traps are.
I know he can't get away with trademarking Jawa. The year before Starwars came out my uncle gave me an old Jawa motorcycle. Mine had been made in the 60s, so that totally predates Lucas, and in a commercial enterprise.
CH 0000001 has 30 pieces of work that they want MD to monitor for and prevent from being displayed. CH 0000002 has 1700 pieces and wants the same thing.
MD gets about 2000 files uploaded everyday, so that means they have to check all 2000 against 1730 pieces of work. Not fun for them, and what liability do they have to face if they miss one? Ah... we forgot something... There are THOUSANDS of CH with quantities of works ranging from 1 to many thousands. The amount of work (and liability) that MD would have to deal with goes up at an insane rate. MD has NO vested interest in those pieces of work, and can not be expected to take on the task of policing the activities of other people, even though they use the service provided by MD. Are you expected to check the criminal record and intentions of everyone that walks down the sidewalk in front of your house because the police don't want to? No. It's up the the CH to defend their own copyright, and not to force someone else to do it for them.
Music, and musicians, existed and even thrived for thousands of years before anyone thought up copyrights. I think your theory needs a little more work since it would imply that such a situation couldn't ever have existed.
I remember hearing it as a little kid in the 70s, so I don't know how much further back it actually goes. Because of that, I'm guessing the Geek Squad won't have a slam dunk if they press charges. (That and parody stuff.) ianal (just like almost all of the rest of slashdot)
Secret? Turning off the wireless in a school full of kids with wireless devices? That's going to be like trying to keep 10,000 man nazi rally secret in downtown Jerusalem.
Of course there's the possibility of fumes of some sort from either the grounds, buildings, or even from a student or teacher that bathes in perfume/cologne. Are they near an industrial site of some kind, even heavy congested traffic with an excess of carbon monoxides among other possiblities. If you skip aerial causes, there's still the food or water. Heck, the water could get you depending on what's in it if you just shower after gym. And don't forget hysteria. Remember that town just recently that raised a fuss claiming EMF allergies from a new transmission tower? They even saw their symptoms vanish if they went away to another town. The owner of the tower was apparently upset by this when confronted about it, but he doubted it was the transmission tower as it wasn't even on. (EMF Allergies == New Age Hypochondria )
just one article about this kind of stupidity, namely the one I mentioned earlier: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/11099.html
A key secured storage space for things like usb thumb drives and my password mini-list. Stuff that's important enough to not leave lying around, but not so important it would really hurt if someone else got it. (like root passwords, full password logbook, credit/debit cards, etc.)
IMO, all citizens have a right to see and know all government symbols and identifications as well laws, even if for no other reason that secret laws and symbols and identifications are unenforceable and meaningless.
You can't follow a law they won't tell you about. You can't recognize the authority of someone who's 'proof' is probably something they made with a drawing program, you won't obey any idiot in a suit that claims they're from an unknown government agency. (If you want some of those, go to any bar on a weekend and wait.)
Now using a reproduction of their symbol and going around saying, "hey baby, I'm with the FBI" should get you slapped, and slapped in handcuffs, which is probably the law the FBI was referring to. But they have too many brain-dead egotistical douchebags there, and one of them apparently mistook Wikipedia for someone trying to impersonate an FBI agent. Hope his supervisor kicks him in the ass and demotes him to the guy that cleans out their robot mowers.
IMO, no. They are simply a modern media format of an old form of data. Computers are pretty much ubiquitous in a modern 1st world nation anymore, you can even use them at your school and library. Have you hit the unemployment offices in the past few years? They only let you do the searching and stuff on computers now. (At least in this state.) So having your entertainment and knowledge data in a computer compliant format is pretty much expected these days.
Besides, for many many decades the publishers have whined that the biggest part of their costs were printing, and that's why books weren't cheaper. Well, guess what, digital format and distribution eliminates printing costs. (I don't have exact numbers, but for arguments sake, let's just say digital distribution is the same as physical distribution for costs, though I believe it's significantly lower.) Ok, now you've killed the lion's share of the costs (unless they've been lying to us) and they INCREASE prices?!?!?! Yeah, like that's fair.
I'm not saying there aren't some people out there that understand, check out the Baen Free Library, but the majority of them just want to burn you for as much as they think they can get away with.
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Of course not, anything they do, but not what anyone else does... Freaking hypocrites.
there are nutcases for every subject and type, but this one is a really bizarre one
I haven't actually had a PSP title for a few years that I actually liked enough to play more than a week. Most didn't even last a day. Going the DS route won't help either. What they really need is good games that people want to play.
They are trying to outsmart the os and other programs by using non-standard areas for some of their code without bothering to check if something else is already using it.
Ironically I saw a lot of this during the switchover to win95.
The stupidly assume that if their test machine isn't using that chunk of drive, nothing else does either, at any time, ever.
You'd be shocked at how many people got their MBRs blown out because of that kind of stupidity.
Well, it's been about 15 years, so there's a whole new crop of arrogant lazy s.o.b.s out there that have to learn that the computer is a shared environment.
There is a fair amount of hydrogen on/in our planet, but it's bound up in molecules with other stuff. To 'make' hydrogen, we really just break it out of whatever molecule it's already in. Some things, like natural gas, oil, even water, have a lot of hydrogen in them and so are good candidates for cracking. The main difficulty is the methods necessary and the byproducts of the process, and that's not even mentioning the fact that it takes energy input to do the work in the first place. Hydrogen isn't free, but it has the unique advantage that when burned, it becomes water vapor.
There's still lots of work to be done if they really want the consumers to use it the same as their traditional petrochemicals, but that does have the advantage that you don't have to re-educate and convince them to do it. The day a consumer can pull into any station and say "Filler up with H, I'm getting a coffee, gotta drive all day", is the day consumers will accept it. Until then, only the fringe and scientists/inventors will go through the hassle.
Yep, I even know someone that has a nasty scar on his arm from when a mainspring blew and slashed him.
Hydrogen is very flammable, nobody disputes that, but is has to be given enough oxygen before it can ignite. As to the Hindenburg, not a single person was harmed by the burning hydrogen which was up and away moments after the storage cells ruptured. It wasn't the hydrogen that caused the Hindenburg incident, it would have played out almost exactly the same if they'd used helium instead.
So stop either scaremongering or being afraid of hydrogen, it's no bigger danger than the other stuff we use all the time.
it's just another troll that wants to blame Obama for everything, even the BP gulf mess and probably even lag when playing WoW.
Considering the way some of them spaz out when they get photographed in a public place, they'd go totally ballistic. But it would be a great way to identify where the speed traps are.
I know he can't get away with trademarking Jawa. The year before Starwars came out my uncle gave me an old Jawa motorcycle. Mine had been made in the 60s, so that totally predates Lucas, and in a commercial enterprise.
Makes me want to hack and repurpose them.
MD = Media Dump
CH = Copyright Holder
CH 0000001 has 30 pieces of work that they want MD to monitor for and prevent from being displayed.
CH 0000002 has 1700 pieces and wants the same thing.
MD gets about 2000 files uploaded everyday, so that means they have to check all 2000 against 1730 pieces of work. Not fun for them, and what liability do they have to face if they miss one?
Ah... we forgot something... There are THOUSANDS of CH with quantities of works ranging from 1 to many thousands. The amount of work (and liability) that MD would have to deal with goes up at an insane rate. MD has NO vested interest in those pieces of work, and can not be expected to take on the task of policing the activities of other people, even though they use the service provided by MD. Are you expected to check the criminal record and intentions of everyone that walks down the sidewalk in front of your house because the police don't want to? No. It's up the the CH to defend their own copyright, and not to force someone else to do it for them.
Music, and musicians, existed and even thrived for thousands of years before anyone thought up copyrights.
I think your theory needs a little more work since it would imply that such a situation couldn't ever have existed.
Didn't they already try to get the safe haven provisions in the DMCA revoked? (and failed)
when you're down to your last piece of tableware, you just have to make do with what's left, unless it's a butter knife and the meal is soup...
(if it was a real knife, you could at least carve a spoon out of something)
Guess the USA isn't the only one with world class conspiracy nutjobs.
I remember hearing it as a little kid in the 70s, so I don't know how much further back it actually goes.
Because of that, I'm guessing the Geek Squad won't have a slam dunk if they press charges.
(That and parody stuff.)
ianal (just like almost all of the rest of slashdot)
Secret? Turning off the wireless in a school full of kids with wireless devices? That's going to be like trying to keep 10,000 man nazi rally secret in downtown Jerusalem.
Bugger! I'm in Oregon, I really should have thought of mold specifically, it's like a statewide crop here.
Of course there's the possibility of fumes of some sort from either the grounds, buildings, or even from a student or teacher that bathes in perfume/cologne.
Are they near an industrial site of some kind, even heavy congested traffic with an excess of carbon monoxides among other possiblities.
If you skip aerial causes, there's still the food or water. Heck, the water could get you depending on what's in it if you just shower after gym.
And don't forget hysteria. Remember that town just recently that raised a fuss claiming EMF allergies from a new transmission tower? They even saw their symptoms vanish if they went away to another town. The owner of the tower was apparently upset by this when confronted about it, but he doubted it was the transmission tower as it wasn't even on.
(EMF Allergies == New Age Hypochondria )
just one article about this kind of stupidity, namely the one I mentioned earlier: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/11099.html
Sharing of data and ideas to further the cause of science and humanity.
Then greed took over and corrupted it completely.
It's nice to see a gleam of the dreams of progress can still exist somewhere.
It can't be authentic because Klingons are Fictional.
There, I said it, now go back to your basements and cry!
A key secured storage space for things like usb thumb drives and my password mini-list. Stuff that's important enough to not leave lying around, but not so important it would really hurt if someone else got it. (like root passwords, full password logbook, credit/debit cards, etc.)
IMO, all citizens have a right to see and know all government symbols and identifications as well laws, even if for no other reason that secret laws and symbols and identifications are unenforceable and meaningless.
You can't follow a law they won't tell you about. You can't recognize the authority of someone who's 'proof' is probably something they made with a drawing program, you won't obey any idiot in a suit that claims they're from an unknown government agency. (If you want some of those, go to any bar on a weekend and wait.)
Now using a reproduction of their symbol and going around saying, "hey baby, I'm with the FBI" should get you slapped, and slapped in handcuffs, which is probably the law the FBI was referring to. But they have too many brain-dead egotistical douchebags there, and one of them apparently mistook Wikipedia for someone trying to impersonate an FBI agent. Hope his supervisor kicks him in the ass and demotes him to the guy that cleans out their robot mowers.
"Aren't they luxury items in the first place?"
IMO, no. They are simply a modern media format of an old form of data. Computers are pretty much ubiquitous in a modern 1st world nation anymore, you can even use them at your school and library. Have you hit the unemployment offices in the past few years? They only let you do the searching and stuff on computers now. (At least in this state.)
So having your entertainment and knowledge data in a computer compliant format is pretty much expected these days.
Besides, for many many decades the publishers have whined that the biggest part of their costs were printing, and that's why books weren't cheaper. Well, guess what, digital format and distribution eliminates printing costs. (I don't have exact numbers, but for arguments sake, let's just say digital distribution is the same as physical distribution for costs, though I believe it's significantly lower.) Ok, now you've killed the lion's share of the costs (unless they've been lying to us) and they INCREASE prices?!?!?! Yeah, like that's fair.
I'm not saying there aren't some people out there that understand, check out the Baen Free Library, but the majority of them just want to burn you for as much as they think they can get away with.