but I think the point is to offer a worthless settlement of your crappy used CDs -- similar to the RIAA's settlement where they just coughed up all the crap CDs they had growing moldy in a warehouse somewhere.
I made the mistake of 'activating' NFS3 that came with my tnt card I bought years back. I enjoyed the game, played it thoroughly, put the CD on the shelf somewhere.
Fast forward to earlier this year -- the machine where NFS3 was installed is gone, obsolete and recycled for parts. I have a newer machine that I'd like to play NFS3 on -- New force feedback steering wheel and everything.
I have the CD and it works fine, but I need to activate the product in order to play it. Surprise, doesn't work. The website and email address and phone number are all gone. Googling around finds that they went under and someone else bought up their assets.
Call them and finally reach someone who says "game is over 5 years old, we don't support new activations". Not new activation - reactivation on new machine. I'm allowed to do this eight times -- no mention of a time limit. I paid $20 to play this game that came with my vid card, and I wanna play it some more.
They were supposed to look into it and get back. Never heard from them. I guess this is a $20 lesson. I don't want to play the game badly enough to waste any more time over it.
In a recent rule change, the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), the group that governs international gymnastics competitions, responded to the persisting concerns in this area. As of January 1, 1997, FIG raised the age eligibility by 1 year, so that female gymnasts now must turn 16 the year they compete at the senior international level. The change affects senior American women, who must now turn 15, rather than 14, the year of their national competition. FIG also raised the age limit for junior international competitors from 12 to 13.
The age of female gymnasts has been an issue in the sport for 25 years. Jackie Fie, who helped found the American women's gymnastics program in the 1960s and is president of FIG's women's technical committee, recalls that the age threshold was 14 in the 1970s and changed to 15 in the 1980s. The present limit, she says, has been discussed since 1988 and was actually approved by FIG in 1994. Fie, who lives in Jefferson, Iowa, says the change was prompted by many concerns, including the musculoskeletal development of young competitors, lengthening gymnastic careers, preventing burnout, and countering negative publicity that the sport has received.
16 seems to be the societal threshold between 'pedophelia' and 'jailbait'. Still wrong, but...
cool -- I never really understood that before, thanks for the explanation.
Makes me wonder: did the inventors of the first color TV understand the way the human eye worked and come up with a method to simulate/synthesize color, or did they happen on this solution some other way?
To satisfy my curiosity about this, I googled and found
All color television picture displays synthesize the reproduction of a color picture by generating light, point by point, from three fluorescent phosphors, each of a different color. This is called an additive system. The chroma characteristic, or hue, of each of color light source is defined as a primary color. The most useful range of reproduced colors is obtained from the use of three primaries with hues of red, green, and blue. A combination of the proper intensities of red, green and blue light will be perceived by an observer as white.
Utilizing this phenomenon of physics, color television signals were first produced by optically combining the images from three color tubes, one for each of the red, green and blue primary transmitted colors. This early Trinescope, as it was called by RCA, demonstrated the feasibility of color television. The approach was, however, too cumbersome and costly to be a practical solution for viewing in the home.
The problem was solved by the invention of the shadow-mask picture tube in 1953. The first successful tube used a triad assembly of electron guns to produce three beams that scanned a screen composed of groups of red, green and blue phosphor dots. The dots were small enough not to be perceived as individual light sources at normal viewing distances. Directly behind the screen, a metal mask perforated with small holes approximately the size of each dot triad, was aligned so that each hole was behind an R-G-B dot cluster.
The three beams were aligned by purity magnetic fields so that the mask shadowed the green and blue dots from the beam driven by the red signal. Similarly, the mask shadowed the red and blue dots from the from green beam, and the red and green dots from the blue beam.
well, this says it is a phenomenon of physics, which I guess implies that they didn't really need to understand the physiology involved in color perception in order to create a device that the human eye would see as "color".
Well, that's technically true for orbit, not sure about flying.
Flying is the result of lift derived by differentiation of air pressure above and below an airfoil. The airspeed and shape of the airfoil (and other factors such as drag, no doubt) combine to provide lift and so long as the force is greater than the weightt of the craft it stays in the air.
Throwing yourself at the ground and missing is more of a philosophical statement -- has nothing to do with curvature of the earth, really.
<darkhelmet>So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard! That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage!</darkhelmet>
I do have a linux masq/firewall box and I don't have ports open to the outside world other than http, smtp, etc.
>you could run a proper OS like linux
thanks for the advice.:-P
I run multiple OS on different machines depending on the need. My web server, mail server, name server, database, etc run whatever I found interesting/educational at the time (linux, *bsd, solaris, windows nt, etc).
My gaming comupter that I bought from Dell (because I didn't have time/inclination to build myself and it was a good deal and I needed a new machine to run D3 and HL2) runs XP pro and I have it locked down pretty good.
I have an APC UPS on that machine and the software uses messenger. I'd rather not have it turned off.
BTW, I found the tone of your comment to be somewhat condescending and insulting.
If you are a business, and your fax # is in in the yellow pages, sure.
If you are a home user and (like me) you primarily use the fax to send and receive with a small number of people/business that you have given your number, that's different.
If someone gets hold of my number and starts filling my fax with adverts, I have a recourse:
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 47 U.S.C. 227, makes it a violation of federal law for a person to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement (a "junk fax") to a telephone facsimile machine. The Act gives private citizens a right to sue to: (i) enjoin future transmissions, (ii) recover the greater of actual monetary damages or $500 in damages for each junk fax, or (iii) an injunction plus damages. If the court finds that the sender willfully or knowingly violated the Act, the court may increase the award up to three times the amount of damages.
>I'd like to see the executive stock options have some kind of clause that forces the buyers to hold onto the stock for a long time
Yeah - it's called capital gains tax
The capital gains tax is different from almost all other forms of federal taxation in that it is a voluntary tax. Since the tax is paid only when an asset is sold, taxpayers can legally avoid payment by holding on to their assets--a phenomenon known as the "lock-in effect." Today there is an estimated $7.5 trillion in unrealized capital gains that have not been taxed. Over the past 40 years the appreciation of capital assets has outpaced realized capital gains 40-fold. That suggests that a capital gains tax reduction has the potential of "unlocking" hundreds of billions of dollars of stored up wealth.[11]
The most controversial provision of the Republicans' tax reduction package to be voted on later this fall is the proposal to cut the capital gains tax. The Contract with America proposal would provide a 50 percent exclusion for capital gains, lowering the top effective tax rate to 19.8 percent, and index capital gains for inflation. Opponents charge that those changes would provide a huge tax cut for the rich and substantially reduce federal tax revenues...so the idea is to lessen the pressure to hold investments after they have appreciated by reducing the tax penalty.
Word History: The French used pétard, "a loud discharge of intestinal gas," for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. "To be hoist by one's own petard," a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means "to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices." The French noun pet, "fart," developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, "fart."/i
Yeah, really. At one point in my life I was 'addicted' to sleeping past noon and staying out all night having fun. Then I graduated and got a job. I had to go cold turkey -- man that was a bitch.
Funny thing, my corp firewall likes to block games.slashdot.org, so I just edit the url and I get to the page -- and as an added bonus, _not_ in the goofy purple colors!
Software supplied to run a Russian pipeline was deliberately planned to go haywire, causing the biggest non-nuclear explosion the world had ever seen...
as I recall, this wasn't a case of sabotaging legitimately acquired software for the hell of it. The CIA became aware of the Soviet's intent to steal western technology, including control software for their pipeline project, through an agent recruited by the French.
Reagan was aware of, and approved the plan. The CIA managed to get inside the deal, and instead of stopping the transaction, sabotaged the code so that the pump speeds and valve settings would go haywire after some period of time.
I'm certainly not excusing the sabotage that, while not causing any loss of life, caused immense damage to the Soviet economy. I won't argue wether it was justified... but the US government made it illegal for them to import certain technology. They circumvented this ban, and paid a heavy price.
I noticed that too, but then wondered if that was the date the registration was completed.. ie he submitted his registration on 9/7 and it just happened to have been procesed on 9/11?
Kind of reminds me of the guy that got held up at the airport because his ticket had been purchased 9/11 -- the day before the attacks he had arranged travel, and the tickets were actually issued the next morning. He had booked several weeks in advance, and there was no reason not to travel by the time his flight date came around.
I don't remember all of the details, but seems like there were other issues/circumstances that kept him off the plane at the time?
interesting -- I've been googling right along this morning without any apparent interruption since about 6am central. I had no idea this was going on.
When I try to do a search with the term 'email' and something that looks like a domain, I get the 403:
Your client does not have permission to get URL/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=email+domain.com&btnG =Search from this server. (Client IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
but any other search works just fine and has all morning.
wonder what condition that flag is in after 25 years exposed to direct sunlight with no atmosphere?
I assume it was just a normal flag made of what, cotton or somesuch? I would imagine if nothing else it is faded to match the surrounding grey moonscape.
But then again, it isn't standing anymore at all, is it? The thing was sent flying by the eagle's ascent engines, wasn't it?
http://www.universetoday.com/html/articles/2001-02 07a.html Apollo 11's flag got knocked over when the LM Eagle ascent stage took off on July 21, 1969. Arthur C. Clarke predicted a future issue in his 1976 SF novel Imperial Earth, where historians of the year 2276 debate whether to stand up the flag or leave it lying in the lunar regolith.
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You did see Fifth Element, right?
.. 5 points .. remaining on your license.
You have
Yes, thank you very much...
but I think the point is to offer a worthless settlement of your crappy used CDs -- similar to the RIAA's settlement where they just coughed up all the crap CDs they had growing moldy in a warehouse somewhere.
RIAA Continues Distributing Dud CDs to Satisfy Settlement
I think that the tilt of the earth's axis relative to the orbital plane causing winter/summer is not the same mechanism on mars.
b italparameters.html
I think it probably has more to do with Mars having a somewhat eliptical orbit:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/mars/Marshtml/2or
Yup, I hear that.
I made the mistake of 'activating' NFS3 that came with my tnt card I bought years back. I enjoyed the game, played it thoroughly, put the CD on the shelf somewhere.
Fast forward to earlier this year -- the machine where NFS3 was installed is gone, obsolete and recycled for parts. I have a newer machine that I'd like to play NFS3 on -- New force feedback steering wheel and everything.
I have the CD and it works fine, but I need to activate the product in order to play it. Surprise, doesn't work. The website and email address and phone number are all gone. Googling around finds that they went under and someone else bought up their assets.
Call them and finally reach someone who says "game is over 5 years old, we don't support new activations". Not new activation - reactivation on new machine. I'm allowed to do this eight times -- no mention of a time limit. I paid $20 to play this game that came with my vid card, and I wanna play it some more.
They were supposed to look into it and get back. Never heard from them. I guess this is a $20 lesson. I don't want to play the game badly enough to waste any more time over it.
heh - but actually women's gymnastics is no longer the exclusive province of the 12-14 set.
Female gymnasts: older--and healthier?
In a recent rule change, the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), the group that governs international gymnastics competitions, responded to the persisting concerns in this area. As of January 1, 1997, FIG raised the age eligibility by 1 year, so that female gymnasts now must turn 16 the year they compete at the senior international level. The change affects senior American women, who must now turn 15, rather than 14, the year of their national competition. FIG also raised the age limit for junior international competitors from 12 to 13.
The age of female gymnasts has been an issue in the sport for 25 years. Jackie Fie, who helped found the American women's gymnastics program in the 1960s and is president of FIG's women's technical committee, recalls that the age threshold was 14 in the 1970s and changed to 15 in the 1980s. The present limit, she says, has been discussed since 1988 and was actually approved by FIG in 1994. Fie, who lives in Jefferson, Iowa, says the change was prompted by many concerns, including the musculoskeletal development of young competitors, lengthening gymnastic careers, preventing burnout, and countering negative publicity that the sport has received.
16 seems to be the societal threshold between 'pedophelia' and 'jailbait'. Still wrong, but...
cool -- I never really understood that before, thanks for the explanation.
Makes me wonder: did the inventors of the first color TV understand the way the human eye worked and come up with a method to simulate/synthesize color, or did they happen on this solution some other way?
To satisfy my curiosity about this, I googled and found
http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_TV.htm which says
All color television picture displays synthesize the reproduction of a color picture by generating light, point by point, from three fluorescent phosphors, each of a different color. This is called an additive system. The chroma characteristic, or hue, of each of color light source is defined as a primary color. The most useful range of reproduced colors is obtained from the use of three primaries with hues of red, green, and blue. A combination of the proper intensities of red, green and blue light will be perceived by an observer as white.
Utilizing this phenomenon of physics, color television signals were first produced by optically combining the images from three color tubes, one for each of the red, green and blue primary transmitted colors. This early Trinescope, as it was called by RCA, demonstrated the feasibility of color television. The approach was, however, too cumbersome and costly to be a practical solution for viewing in the home.
The problem was solved by the invention of the shadow-mask picture tube in 1953. The first successful tube used a triad assembly of electron guns to produce three beams that scanned a screen composed of groups of red, green and blue phosphor dots. The dots were small enough not to be perceived as individual light sources at normal viewing distances. Directly behind the screen, a metal mask perforated with small holes approximately the size of each dot triad, was aligned so that each hole was behind an R-G-B dot cluster.
The three beams were aligned by purity magnetic fields so that the mask shadowed the green and blue dots from the beam driven by the red signal. Similarly, the mask shadowed the red and blue dots from the from green beam, and the red and green dots from the blue beam.
well, this says it is a phenomenon of physics, which I guess implies that they didn't really need to understand the physiology involved in color perception in order to create a device that the human eye would see as "color".
guess it didn't work
Flying is the result
actually, now that I re-read it, it would been more precise as
Atmospheric flight by heavier-than-air craft is the result...
to avoid comments like "what about baloons, don't they fly?" and crap like that.
Well, that's technically true for orbit, not sure about flying.
Flying is the result of lift derived by differentiation of air pressure above and below an airfoil. The airspeed and shape of the airfoil (and other factors such as drag, no doubt) combine to provide lift and so long as the force is greater than the weightt of the craft it stays in the air.
Throwing yourself at the ground and missing is more of a philosophical statement -- has nothing to do with curvature of the earth, really.
Oh that's great -- you are my hero!
Now to find a good quality color printer...
hey, why not? After all, a cartoon character camel/human cross-breed in a leather jacket and jeans got them to smoke, right.
Oh, wait...
what's the combination?
ok, one... two... three... four... five!
<darkhelmet>So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard! That's the kind of combination an idiot would put on his luggage!</darkhelmet>
(sorry, couldn't resist)
FWIW - I'm not having a problem.
:-P
I do have a linux masq/firewall box and I don't have ports open to the outside world other than http, smtp, etc.
>you could run a proper OS like linux
thanks for the advice.
I run multiple OS on different machines depending on the need. My web server, mail server, name server, database, etc run whatever I found interesting/educational at the time (linux, *bsd, solaris, windows nt, etc).
My gaming comupter that I bought from Dell (because I didn't have time/inclination to build myself and it was a good deal and I needed a new machine to run D3 and HL2) runs XP pro and I have it locked down pretty good.
I have an APC UPS on that machine and the software uses messenger. I'd rather not have it turned off.
BTW, I found the tone of your comment to be somewhat condescending and insulting.
If you are a business, and your fax # is in in the yellow pages, sure.
If you are a home user and (like me) you primarily use the fax to send and receive with a small number of people/business that you have given your number, that's different.
If someone gets hold of my number and starts filling my fax with adverts, I have a recourse:
Junk Fax Law - the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, 47 U.S.C. 227, makes it a violation of federal law for a person to use any telephone facsimile machine, computer, or other device to send an unsolicited advertisement (a "junk fax") to a telephone facsimile machine. The Act gives private citizens a right to sue to: (i) enjoin future transmissions, (ii) recover the greater of actual monetary damages or $500 in damages for each junk fax, or (iii) an injunction plus damages. If the court finds that the sender willfully or knowingly violated the Act, the court may increase the award up to three times the amount of damages.
That's like saying you authorized unwanted junk faxes when you signed up for a second phone line and attached a fax machine.
I happen to want to run messenger because software on my home network uses it to notify me of issues like UPS battery problems and the like.
I can live without messenger, but just because I choose to run software on my PC doesn't give anyone the right to abuse it.
(microsoft security failures aside)
>I'd like to see the executive stock options have some kind of clause that forces the buyers to hold onto the stock for a long time
...so the idea is to lessen the pressure to hold investments after they have appreciated by reducing the tax penalty.
Yeah - it's called capital gains tax
The capital gains tax is different from almost all other forms of federal taxation in that it is a voluntary tax. Since the tax is paid only when an asset is sold, taxpayers can legally avoid payment by holding on to their assets--a phenomenon known as the "lock-in effect." Today there is an estimated $7.5 trillion in unrealized capital gains that have not been taxed. Over the past 40 years the appreciation of capital assets has outpaced realized capital gains 40-fold. That suggests that a capital gains tax reduction has the potential of "unlocking" hundreds of billions of dollars of stored up wealth.[11]
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-242.html
The most controversial provision of the Republicans' tax reduction package to be voted on later this fall is the proposal to cut the capital gains tax. The Contract with America proposal would provide a 50 percent exclusion for capital gains, lowering the top effective tax rate to 19.8 percent, and index capital gains for inflation. Opponents charge that those changes would provide a huge tax cut for the rich and substantially reduce federal tax revenues
tell it to the bard:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=petard
Word History: The French used pétard, "a loud discharge of intestinal gas," for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. "To be hoist by one's own petard," a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means "to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices." The French noun pet, "fart," developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, "fart."/i
Yeah, really. At one point in my life I was 'addicted' to sleeping past noon and staying out all night having fun. Then I graduated and got a job. I had to go cold turkey -- man that was a bitch.
>Personally I'd rather never see the games.
Funny thing, my corp firewall likes to block games.slashdot.org, so I just edit the url and I get to the page -- and as an added bonus, _not_ in the goofy purple colors!
this one?
9 17,00.htm
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020381,39147
Software supplied to run a Russian pipeline was deliberately planned to go haywire, causing the biggest non-nuclear explosion the world had ever seen...
as I recall, this wasn't a case of sabotaging legitimately acquired software for the hell of it. The CIA became aware of the Soviet's intent to steal western technology, including control software for their pipeline project, through an agent recruited by the French.
Reagan was aware of, and approved the plan. The CIA managed to get inside the deal, and instead of stopping the transaction, sabotaged the code so that the pump speeds and valve settings would go haywire after some period of time.
I'm certainly not excusing the sabotage that, while not causing any loss of life, caused immense damage to the Soviet economy. I won't argue wether it was justified... but the US government made it illegal for them to import certain technology. They circumvented this ban, and paid a heavy price.
I noticed that too, but then wondered if that was the date the registration was completed.. ie he submitted his registration on 9/7 and it just happened to have been procesed on 9/11?
Kind of reminds me of the guy that got held up at the airport because his ticket had been purchased 9/11 -- the day before the attacks he had arranged travel, and the tickets were actually issued the next morning. He had booked several weeks in advance, and there was no reason not to travel by the time his flight date came around.
I don't remember all of the details, but seems like there were other issues/circumstances that kept him off the plane at the time?
interesting -- I've been googling right along this morning without any apparent interruption since about 6am central. I had no idea this was going on.
/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=email+domain.com&btnG =Search from this server. (Client IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
When I try to do a search with the term 'email' and something that looks like a domain, I get the 403:
Your client does not have permission to get URL
but any other search works just fine and has all morning.
hmm, never thought about it before....
2 07a.html
wonder what condition that flag is in after 25 years exposed to direct sunlight with no atmosphere?
I assume it was just a normal flag made of what, cotton or somesuch? I would imagine if nothing else it is faded to match the surrounding grey moonscape.
But then again, it isn't standing anymore at all, is it? The thing was sent flying by the eagle's ascent engines, wasn't it?
http://www.universetoday.com/html/articles/2001-0
Apollo 11's flag got knocked over when the LM Eagle ascent stage took off on July 21, 1969. Arthur C. Clarke predicted a future issue in his 1976 SF novel Imperial Earth, where historians of the year 2276 debate whether to stand up the flag or leave it lying in the lunar regolith.
Search Google for Ehanced SMTP
Google:
Did you mean: Enhanced SMTP ?
That would be Union Aerospace Corporation
http://www.ua-corp.com/nosound.html nosound version for those that prefer that thier bowser remain silent!