I haven't checked printer boxes in a long time, but how many say they're for Windows or other OS's? If the box says its for Windows but doesn't say Linux, that's your damn fault for buying it. Research your potential purchase for Linux compatibility, and don't buy it if it won't work. The product tells the purchaser how to use it, but you have to have the software specified.
the real media format was created for streaming over the web at very low bitrates, like those for a modem. the videos are about 80kbps and look a hell of a lot better than they would in mpeg or avi at that bitrate. they might tie for quality against sorensen 3.
I know jack about hauling stuff to space, but I would venture it might be more economical to use 50Kg of fuel to move a 500Kg satelite to a stable orbit. Assuming a newer satelite will weigh more than 50Kg. I don't know how likely that scenario is. Once in space even 5Kg of fuel could move a satelite, just not very fast depending on the size.
and the terrorists will take down your flight with a walkman whose innards have been gutted and replaced with a timer and stuff to generate interference.
that's funny, but no. It was in Maxim's AvantGo PDA page just a week ago. No pictures unfortunately.
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From an issue of Maxim:
Someone wrote in asking if a penny dropped from the empire state building could kill someone on the ground. A physicist contacted by Maxim suggested fastening g a length of string to the penny and holding it out the window of a moving car. When the penny is at 45 degrees, check the spedometer and that is a very rough estimate of the object's terminal velocity. Maxim's penny only had a rough terminal velocity of 16mph. The metorite could be similar. We still don't know its speed entering the atmosphere and how long it took to fall through.
So long as average data storage capacities double within the life expectancy of your current media you should always have enough space to store all your data. So if you have 100GB now, in three years when you think you should make a copy of it all, so long as you can buy 200GB you're fine. Then in another three years you buy 400GB to hold 100GB+200GB and so on. Since the 100GB is already included in the 200GB its actually half. Tedious and kinda annoying, yeah, but it beats paper.
You miss my point. They won't be able to burn a copy, they'll have to download it. If the game is multi-CD that could take a long time. If piracy is primarily restricted to online downloading, it will be much easier to shut down file traders and make a difference. Sure private ftps where only trusted users can download will still exist, but the general public will have to know friends, who know friends, who know friends...
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As if you were neccessarily around when Automats were popular. How do you know they weren't as anti-social as my college cafeteria? You buy your food, sit at a table, eat, leave. Maybe you clear your place. Seems to me McDonalds replaced the Automat.
Fine, but most people, including most people who try to use CloneCD to copy their games for friends, can't. That avenue removed, people will have to download their games and apps off the internet. One less avenue is what JVC is going for.
So do you propose all suspicious activity results in the plane being grounded? A terrorist could hide a capsule of liquid swarming with infectious diseases under his tongue. He bites it, swigs his 7-up, spews it all over the place claiming it went down the wrong way. The diseases happen to infect through the air when their water base dries up. So you have an infected plane now. Think of the movie Outbreak.
Anyway, it was a AA battery. Contrary to what the movies portray, there isn't nearly as much power packable in that casing. The least the pilot ought to have done was asked for an expert opinion. Heck, the battery and lighter were taken away before he finished! Sure its possible the bomb was already activated and continued heating would ensure an explosion. More likely if it was a bomb the materials were confiscated before it could be activated.
Just wondering, do you support confiscating nail clippers from everyone? How about little old ladies in wheelchairs who need oxygen. (Can oxygen tanks be brought aboard? I have no idea.)
On behalf of Anonvmous Coward I'd like to thank all the clueless, humorless folks who replied to tps12's troll drive. Thanks to you, kind posters that you are, hundreds of little trolls are growing fat and healthy, while laughing their balls off at your foolishness.
Congratulations tps12, I look forward to your next troll drive.
You probably don't understand what makes pong or even computer tennis great, either. Or tetris, bust a move, sonic the hedgehog...Simple can still be fun. Sure simple games could get boring as the repetition grows, but for some people they don't get bored easily.
Can we say redundant? Read the other posts before chiming in. Yeah I know the story was posted only two minutes before you commented, that's still no excuse for not checking if 10 other people said the same thing before you.
It's kind of surprising to find as every duplicate post comes and goes, sometimes with spalling errors, how big of a pussy Taco is. You'd think he might give a flaming fuck about his site, instead of letting it become as stupid as he is.
Seriously, where have you been for the last 25 years. How is it you didn't notice that the Hz in the latest Intel processors double about every 18 months? So what if you have two 850MHz chips.
Folks knowledgeable about what could have happened said the battery probably wouldn't have exploded. It might have leaked some chemicals, but that's it. Now if this passenger really was only stupid, he still might have figured out when it was leaking chemicals that it wasn't getting recharged. So there really wasn't much danger. Should the pilot have landed early? Not as I see it. Total overreaction. Dynamite should always be considered dangerous. Not so with a AA battery, so the punishment should be less. Just like comparing a pocket knife to a machete.
Its a very noble idea, but just leaving your door unlocked is the wrong way to go about it. Start by reading my second journal entry and responding. People will commit crimes when they don't know who is the victim and have been victimized themselves, including by society. Offer assistiance to help make sure everyone has the opportunity to succeed, then think about leaving your door unlocked. Unfortunately some humans won't help themselves even when others offer their hands to lift them up. It is these humans who still might steal your stereo when everyone else lives in a near-utopia.
Nevertheless I'll reserve the right to post signs all over town in the dead of night saying your door is unlocked because you're really stupid. These folks shouldn't have made a publicity grab or they shouldn't have mucked about inside the army systems. I wish some army heads would roll over this, but they won't.
Recently a guy who in an act of stupidity, started heating a battery with his lighter, on a plane. He thought it would recharge it a little. The pilot in an overreaction as I see it, landed the plane at Salt Lake City where the guy was taken away by the FBI for questioning. The plane was searched, and two hours later it departed for San Francisco where it was headed. Does this guy deserve jail time for a simple act of stupidity, no. Junk faxers on the other hand, must know what they are doing is illegal. To not know this law while owning a fax machine requires an astounding lack of intelligence. Etither these people should be put in a mental hospital because they are mentally incompetent, or they should do some time as punishment.
Actually Maxivision 48 uses only 50% more film because it eliminates the spaces between frames. I used to be wildly enthusiastic about Maxivision, but I'm not so sure now. It's a great idea that would cheaply improve picture quality at least twice what it is now, but digital seems to be inevitable, its just premature for it to rival film.
watermarks are not encryption, where a messed up byte can screw everything. if one watermark gets messed up there will undoubtedly be others still intact. Hell, the watermark could even be an image when the data is manipulated correctly. If the image on the SACD is close enough to what it should be, it passes and the disk plays.
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and the same people who ignore idiots typing in 1337 speak will ignore you because you come across as a stupid mac fanboy
I haven't checked printer boxes in a long time, but how many say they're for Windows or other OS's? If the box says its for Windows but doesn't say Linux, that's your damn fault for buying it. Research your potential purchase for Linux compatibility, and don't buy it if it won't work. The product tells the purchaser how to use it, but you have to have the software specified.
the real media format was created for streaming over the web at very low bitrates, like those for a modem. the videos are about 80kbps and look a hell of a lot better than they would in mpeg or avi at that bitrate. they might tie for quality against sorensen 3.
I know jack about hauling stuff to space, but I would venture it might be more economical to use 50Kg of fuel to move a 500Kg satelite to a stable orbit. Assuming a newer satelite will weigh more than 50Kg. I don't know how likely that scenario is. Once in space even 5Kg of fuel could move a satelite, just not very fast depending on the size.
Tim must've been talking on his cell phone while posting this duplicate article.
and the terrorists will take down your flight with a walkman whose innards have been gutted and replaced with a timer and stuff to generate interference.
try and come up with a solution, smart ass
that's funny, but no. It was in Maxim's AvantGo PDA page just a week ago. No pictures unfortunately.
From an issue of Maxim:
Someone wrote in asking if a penny dropped from the empire state building could kill someone on the ground. A physicist contacted by Maxim suggested fastening g a length of string to the penny and holding it out the window of a moving car. When the penny is at 45 degrees, check the spedometer and that is a very rough estimate of the object's terminal velocity. Maxim's penny only had a rough terminal velocity of 16mph. The metorite could be similar. We still don't know its speed entering the atmosphere and how long it took to fall through.
So long as average data storage capacities double within the life expectancy of your current media you should always have enough space to store all your data. So if you have 100GB now, in three years when you think you should make a copy of it all, so long as you can buy 200GB you're fine. Then in another three years you buy 400GB to hold 100GB+200GB and so on. Since the 100GB is already included in the 200GB its actually half. Tedious and kinda annoying, yeah, but it beats paper.
You miss my point. They won't be able to burn a copy, they'll have to download it. If the game is multi-CD that could take a long time. If piracy is primarily restricted to online downloading, it will be much easier to shut down file traders and make a difference. Sure private ftps where only trusted users can download will still exist, but the general public will have to know friends, who know friends, who know friends...
As if you were neccessarily around when Automats were popular. How do you know they weren't as anti-social as my college cafeteria? You buy your food, sit at a table, eat, leave. Maybe you clear your place. Seems to me McDonalds replaced the Automat.
Fine, but most people, including most people who try to use CloneCD to copy their games for friends, can't. That avenue removed, people will have to download their games and apps off the internet. One less avenue is what JVC is going for.
Better keep the CD's in the computer or in a secure case at LAN parties. It's a bad idea leaving CD's out in the open anywhere.
So do you propose all suspicious activity results in the plane being grounded? A terrorist could hide a capsule of liquid swarming with infectious diseases under his tongue. He bites it, swigs his 7-up, spews it all over the place claiming it went down the wrong way. The diseases happen to infect through the air when their water base dries up. So you have an infected plane now. Think of the movie Outbreak.
Anyway, it was a AA battery. Contrary to what the movies portray, there isn't nearly as much power packable in that casing. The least the pilot ought to have done was asked for an expert opinion. Heck, the battery and lighter were taken away before he finished! Sure its possible the bomb was already activated and continued heating would ensure an explosion. More likely if it was a bomb the materials were confiscated before it could be activated.
Just wondering, do you support confiscating nail clippers from everyone? How about little old ladies in wheelchairs who need oxygen. (Can oxygen tanks be brought aboard? I have no idea.)
On behalf of Anonvmous Coward I'd like to thank all the clueless, humorless folks who replied to tps12's troll drive. Thanks to you, kind posters that you are, hundreds of little trolls are growing fat and healthy, while laughing their balls off at your foolishness.
Congratulations tps12, I look forward to your next troll drive.
You probably don't understand what makes pong or even computer tennis great, either. Or tetris, bust a move, sonic the hedgehog...Simple can still be fun. Sure simple games could get boring as the repetition grows, but for some people they don't get bored easily.
Can we say redundant? Read the other posts before chiming in. Yeah I know the story was posted only two minutes before you commented, that's still no excuse for not checking if 10 other people said the same thing before you.
It's kind of surprising to find as every duplicate post comes and goes, sometimes with spalling errors, how big of a pussy Taco is. You'd think he might give a flaming fuck about his site, instead of letting it become as stupid as he is.
Seriously, where have you been for the last 25 years. How is it you didn't notice that the Hz in the latest Intel processors double about every 18 months? So what if you have two 850MHz chips.
Folks knowledgeable about what could have happened said the battery probably wouldn't have exploded. It might have leaked some chemicals, but that's it. Now if this passenger really was only stupid, he still might have figured out when it was leaking chemicals that it wasn't getting recharged. So there really wasn't much danger. Should the pilot have landed early? Not as I see it. Total overreaction. Dynamite should always be considered dangerous. Not so with a AA battery, so the punishment should be less. Just like comparing a pocket knife to a machete.
Its a very noble idea, but just leaving your door unlocked is the wrong way to go about it. Start by reading my second journal entry and responding. People will commit crimes when they don't know who is the victim and have been victimized themselves, including by society. Offer assistiance to help make sure everyone has the opportunity to succeed, then think about leaving your door unlocked. Unfortunately some humans won't help themselves even when others offer their hands to lift them up. It is these humans who still might steal your stereo when everyone else lives in a near-utopia.
Nevertheless I'll reserve the right to post signs all over town in the dead of night saying your door is unlocked because you're really stupid. These folks shouldn't have made a publicity grab or they shouldn't have mucked about inside the army systems. I wish some army heads would roll over this, but they won't.
Recently a guy who in an act of stupidity, started heating a battery with his lighter, on a plane. He thought it would recharge it a little. The pilot in an overreaction as I see it, landed the plane at Salt Lake City where the guy was taken away by the FBI for questioning. The plane was searched, and two hours later it departed for San Francisco where it was headed. Does this guy deserve jail time for a simple act of stupidity, no. Junk faxers on the other hand, must know what they are doing is illegal. To not know this law while owning a fax machine requires an astounding lack of intelligence. Etither these people should be put in a mental hospital because they are mentally incompetent, or they should do some time as punishment.
Actually Maxivision 48 uses only 50% more film because it eliminates the spaces between frames. I used to be wildly enthusiastic about Maxivision, but I'm not so sure now. It's a great idea that would cheaply improve picture quality at least twice what it is now, but digital seems to be inevitable, its just premature for it to rival film.
watermarks are not encryption, where a messed up byte can screw everything. if one watermark gets messed up there will undoubtedly be others still intact. Hell, the watermark could even be an image when the data is manipulated correctly. If the image on the SACD is close enough to what it should be, it passes and the disk plays.