Make that FOUR huge problems. Aircraft demand very careful maintenance and are very unforgiving of small damage in the wrong places. When there is a safety defect in a fleet, it must often be operated under restrictions and must be properly inspected and repaired. Forget having the average mechanic do this...
Speaking an an aircraft maintainer of 26 years (avionics, jet engines, and crew chief) the average person isn't competent to manage the ownership of a flying machine, let alone operate one. Flying cars are an exciting idea, a wonderful engineering challenge, but the public should not have them.
Thanks to your post I was inspired to Google, and there are many other capture cards that ignore Macrovision. There are forums like doom9 and videohelp where you can go for much more info.
That's why I got interested in computers years ago. Their "killer app" for me was finding tech info.
The internet also makes it profitable to produce many parts for old gear, because the parts maker can reach far more customers than in the days when you had to use dead tree media to find other dead tree media to (maybe) find a shop to call or write for info.
One may be an architect without ever, personally, physically building anything. The architect may have a grand design in mind but easily overlook details a building contractor would catch.
"In fact, using this as your defense in front of a court is likely to land you the maximum sentence (or largest fine) for demonstrated lack of respect for the law."
I wouldn't need it as a defense. Who is even going to recognize a cellphone jammer or suspect one? Used in press-to-transmit mode one can block annoying humans while not interfering with anyone else.
I don't fundamentally "respect" law. I respect power. Law is just something to factor into the cost/benefit analysis when choosing behaviors, and a tool to either exploit or avoid.
"Not if you're stealthy about it and can keep a straight face while some angry retard is blowing a gasket that his cell phone aint working..."
I'm not getting into a physical confrontation with someone who might assault me over their cell phone.
I WILL jam them if I think fit, and will simply play it cool and note that my cell does not work either if the question comes up. Trying to educate rude people is useless, and shooting them is usually illegal. Their rudeness give me the right (IMO) to do what I damn well please in return.
She is merely a murderer who got old. Her grandmotherliness is irrelevant.
I don't murder anyone, and I don't have a reason to care how much of my life the government knows about. If anything, what they find would constitute a recommendation for a job. Considering domestic criminals are a far greater threat to me than terrorists I favor data mining to catch them. Every interaction with other people where someone is identified is a chance to catch criminals.
"So the over-50's were never drink-addled undergrads?"
We were drink and drug-addled undergrads. Drugs were not nearly as demonized as they are today, they were affordable, and many colleges partied as hard or harder than they do now. It was fvcking great, and I am surprised that so many people in a generation that had that much fun turned into anal soccer mom/dad fear freaks.
"The larger nuclear powers could cut their arsenals by a factor of 10, and they would still have several hundred nukes in service as a deterrent."
They are not just a deterrent, they are a way to exterminate the enemy if deterrence fails.
If deterrence fails, it is logical to completely wipe out the enemy population. That would serve as an example to others who might join the fray, and ensure there is no enemy to reconstitute.
"Another huge technology gain for virgins living in their parents basements worried about their small penis."
I don't care what motivates their purchases. They are paying for the hardware the rest of us will buy cheaply later in its product life cycle. The basement lifestyle must make for lots of disposable income...
"You'd only need one sub, working its way along the coast."
Why go high tech? A container ship could toss ISO containers containing mines overboard (pitch them off the outboard upper levels) with little effort and simple tackle. It could make a normal delivery, then leave the area long before the mines went off.
"Incidents like Abu Ghraib and the CIA torture memos undermine that important distinction and begin to lower our society to the same level as our enemies."
We did all sorts of fun stuff like Dresden and Hiroshima during WWII.
What matters is winning. Morals have nothing to do with that. Note China firmly on the way to being a superpower, while the West wallows in self-hating "morality" despite most of its historical successes not being "moral" in a PC way. I don't care if terrorists are tortured, though IMO induced stress should be scientifically crafted to get useful results.
" And as an IT worker who sometimes have to do these driver updates or BIOS updates for flaws in them that cause problems, especially BIOS updates on laptops to get the fans or docking stations to work properly, this will become a real pain when the Vista upgrade comes."
That "pain" is also job security because it requires you to fix the problems. I don't WANT a flawless, easy-to-administer environment outside my own home.
I want to get paid, I wouldn't care if everybody else went back to a Win95/NT infrastructure. When computers are as reliable as toasters, IT jobs will be as common as toaster repairmen.
"wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that all government machines using vista suddenly shut down when china invades."
US military and civilian government effectiveness would skyrocket if the Giant Email Pump were turned off. It's amazing the useful stuff people find to do when the network goes down.
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Make that FOUR huge problems. Aircraft demand very careful maintenance and are very unforgiving of small damage in the wrong places. When there is a safety defect in a fleet, it must often be operated under restrictions and must be properly inspected and repaired. Forget having the average mechanic do this...
Speaking an an aircraft maintainer of 26 years (avionics, jet engines, and crew chief) the average person isn't competent to manage the ownership of a flying machine, let alone operate one. Flying cars are an exciting idea, a wonderful engineering challenge, but the public should not have them.
"Forget finding criminals, the Mafia isn't real."
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Convince Italy and I'll agree with that statement.
Thanks to your post I was inspired to Google, and there are many other capture cards that ignore Macrovision.
There are forums like doom9 and videohelp where you can go for much more info.
That's why I got interested in computers years ago. Their "killer app" for me was finding tech info.
The internet also makes it profitable to produce many parts for old gear, because the parts maker can reach far more customers than in the days when you had to use dead tree media to find other dead tree media to (maybe) find a shop to call or write for info.
Architect /= experienced builder.
One may be an architect without ever, personally, physically building anything.
The architect may have a grand design in mind but easily overlook details a building contractor would catch.
"In fact, using this as your defense in front of a court is likely to land you the maximum sentence (or largest fine) for demonstrated lack of respect for the law."
I wouldn't need it as a defense. Who is even going to recognize a cellphone jammer or suspect one?
Used in press-to-transmit mode one can block annoying humans while not interfering with anyone else.
I don't fundamentally "respect" law. I respect power.
Law is just something to factor into the cost/benefit analysis when choosing behaviors, and a tool to either exploit or avoid.
"Not if you're stealthy about it and can keep a straight face while some angry retard is blowing a gasket that his cell phone aint working..."
I'm not getting into a physical confrontation with someone who might assault me over their cell phone.
I WILL jam them if I think fit, and will simply play it cool and note that my cell does not work either if the question comes up. Trying to educate rude people is useless, and shooting them is usually illegal. Their rudeness give me the right (IMO) to do what I damn well please in return.
"now catching little 'ol grandmas "
She is merely a murderer who got old. Her grandmotherliness is irrelevant.
I don't murder anyone, and I don't have a reason to care how much of my life the government knows about. If anything, what they find would constitute a recommendation for a job. Considering domestic criminals are a far greater threat to me than terrorists I favor data mining to catch them. Every interaction with other people where someone is identified is a chance to catch criminals.
The ChiComs have arrived.
He even sounds like our public affairs flacks, and let's face it, human wave attacks are SO 1950s!
"You first."
Volunteers first. There will be plenty, given the option. Maybe not me, but that does not matter.
"So the over-50's were never drink-addled undergrads?"
We were drink and drug-addled undergrads.
Drugs were not nearly as demonized as they are today, they were affordable, and many colleges partied as hard or harder than they do now. It was fvcking great, and I am surprised that so many people in a generation that had that much fun turned into anal soccer mom/dad fear freaks.
"I saw this yesterday and was considering if it would as the next pc for my parents."
So are other people, who one may assume will install "free" 9x/ME/2K/XP.
"The larger nuclear powers could cut their arsenals by a factor of 10, and they would still have several hundred nukes in service as a deterrent."
They are not just a deterrent, they are a way to exterminate the enemy if deterrence fails.
If deterrence fails, it is logical to completely wipe out the enemy population. That would serve as an example to others who might join the fray, and ensure there is no enemy to reconstitute.
"Another huge technology gain for virgins living in their parents basements worried about their small penis."
I don't care what motivates their purchases. They are paying for the hardware the rest of us will buy cheaply later in its product life cycle. The basement lifestyle must make for lots of disposable income...
"You'd only need one sub, working its way along the coast."
Why go high tech? A container ship could toss ISO containers containing mines overboard (pitch them off the outboard upper levels) with little effort and simple tackle. It could make a normal delivery, then leave the area long before the mines went off.
Lots of containers fall off every year without human help.
http://www.cargolaw.com/2004nightmare_unstacked.html
"Sometimes after eating Jalapenos it feels like I have a surgical wound the next day!"
That's an effect of the Goatsaicin.
"Incidents like Abu Ghraib and the CIA torture memos undermine that important distinction and begin to lower our society to the same level as our enemies."
We did all sorts of fun stuff like Dresden and Hiroshima during WWII.
What matters is winning. Morals have nothing to do with that. Note China firmly on the way to being a superpower, while the West wallows in self-hating "morality" despite most of its historical successes not being "moral" in a PC way. I don't care if terrorists are tortured, though IMO induced stress should be scientifically crafted to get useful results.
Morals are dispensable. Power is not.
" And as an IT worker who sometimes have to do these driver updates or BIOS updates for flaws in them that cause problems, especially BIOS updates on laptops to get the fans or docking stations to work properly, this will become a real pain when the Vista upgrade comes."
That "pain" is also job security because it requires you to fix the problems. I don't WANT a flawless, easy-to-administer environment outside my own home.
I want to get paid, I wouldn't care if everybody else went back to a Win95/NT infrastructure.
When computers are as reliable as toasters, IT jobs will be as common as toaster repairmen.
"Good thing I'm a proctologist, the format for tests is a brown probe."
"This isn't a wristwatch sonny, it's a depth gauge!"
"Could most of the violence in the world be THIS simple? It would be incredible wouldn't it?"
Lead levels in the Roman Empire would be worth a look.
"wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn that all government machines using vista suddenly shut down when china invades."
US military and civilian government effectiveness would skyrocket if the Giant Email Pump were turned off. It's amazing the useful stuff people find to do when the network goes down.
I favor retroactive abortions to control crime.
"Greenpeace is to the environment and public safety as Pat Robertson is to Christianity."
An accurate representation of maintstream leadership appealing to the simple majority...
"Isn't the solution to kick all these dumbfuck Chinese manufacturers of ITX cases into supporting just a little MORE than ITX?"
That and a standard NOTEBOOK form-factor would be nice for the consumer, but makers of expendable items don't need to care about upgrades.
One can imagine the fate of the potato:
http://13gb.com/media.php?media_id=2194