It's being adhered to more closely than ever before, at least in the realm of game coding.
Why, back in the old days, you had to write your own sound subroutines for each and every soundcard on the market... SB, SB Pro, SB16, Gravis UltraSound, PC (blech) Speaker... thanks to libraries like DirectSound, coders don't have to worry about that crap any more, and can focus on the game engine itself. Same thing happened with video hardware (particularly 3D accelerators) and input devices.
I think, unfortunately, that this will be much easier to attack than an airplane at 35,000 feet.
True, but a hijacked maglev train can't be redirected off the rail and crashed into a building. Plus the trains don't have large amounts of fuel in them, making it even more impractical to use one as a bomb.
Security on these will barely be more restrictive than security on any existing rail lines.
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Does anyone actually use MPG figures as an every day referance anymore?
You apparently use miles per liter, which I think is kind of weird...
Anyway, distance-per-unit-fuel ratios (in whatever units you prefer) are very relevant to fuel consumption. The worse your fuel efficiency is, the more often you refill the tank, thus the more fuel you use and the more it costs you to drive.
Many European countries are -- contrary to your statement -- interested in keeping the fuel prices up. To protect the environment and to force the car manufacturers to invent motors with more reasonable fuel consumption.
And to collect more tax monies on the sale of fuel.
No one sets governmental policy based solely on environmental concerns. Not even Europeans!
My 7-year-old Brother personal laser printer is parallel-only. I'll keep it as long as it continues to work and toner refills are available -- I print so infrequently that I have no reason to upgrade the printer.
If I upgrade my PC, and the new mobo doesn't have an onboard parallel port, no problem. I'll just buy a $10 I/O card and plug that in.
If you don't like the conditions that are being attached to a product
The issue is, if you BUY something, does the merchant have any authority to add restrictions on how you may use it, above those described by (copyright) law? Does the merchant have any authority to void rights which are explicitly granted to the consumer by law? Common sense says no.
I don't necessarily think "playing DVDs in Linux" is a right, but "decrypting the content for whatever personal use I desire" is. The dispute over the former would be resolved if someone writes and releases a legitimate commercial DVD-playing app for Linux -- but that's not what we're after, is it?
You have some sensible ideas about how to make the EFF a better organization. Have you considered donating some of your time to help them utilize the Internet more effectively?
The author of the story tells you exactly how he found the address of his House of Spam. Pretty clever subversion of the spammer's request not to release that information to the public, if you ask me.
A lot of times when doctors go to operate on someone with heart problems, they discover other defects or abnormalities with the heart and surrounding vessels.
Funny, my auto mechanic always seems to find a bunch of latent problems with several unrelated parts of my engine whenever I go in for a simple oil change...
The web sites still get the same amount of money, but if one 'net-network can provide a lower price but sell to more people, they can compete.
The content providers have no incentive to employ a middleman for selling subscription packages in this scenario. Not when there's more money to be made by setting the price and selling access themselves.
No no no! If you want a DVD player, buy a DVD player. Cheap ones that you can crack region encoding on can be had for as little as $60.
If you spend $200 to be able to play DVDs when you could have spent a third of that instead, just to hurt Microsoft's profits a tiny amount, well, you're dumb.
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Whatever happened to "Write Once, Run Anywhere"?
It's being adhered to more closely than ever before, at least in the realm of game coding.
Why, back in the old days, you had to write your own sound subroutines for each and every soundcard on the market... SB, SB Pro, SB16, Gravis UltraSound, PC (blech) Speaker... thanks to libraries like DirectSound, coders don't have to worry about that crap any more, and can focus on the game engine itself. Same thing happened with video hardware (particularly 3D accelerators) and input devices.
I think, unfortunately, that this will be much easier to attack than an airplane at 35,000 feet.
True, but a hijacked maglev train can't be redirected off the rail and crashed into a building. Plus the trains don't have large amounts of fuel in them, making it even more impractical to use one as a bomb.
Security on these will barely be more restrictive than security on any existing rail lines.
Does anyone actually use MPG figures as an every day referance anymore?
You apparently use miles per liter, which I think is kind of weird...
Anyway, distance-per-unit-fuel ratios (in whatever units you prefer) are very relevant to fuel consumption. The worse your fuel efficiency is, the more often you refill the tank, thus the more fuel you use and the more it costs you to drive.
Many European countries are -- contrary to your statement -- interested in keeping the fuel prices up. To protect the environment and to force the car manufacturers to invent motors with more reasonable fuel consumption.
And to collect more tax monies on the sale of fuel.
No one sets governmental policy based solely on environmental concerns. Not even Europeans!
So the Russian space program is more interested in making millions of dollars than spending millions of dollars?
Whoa!
Somebody keeps taking my stippler
Bill said I'm supposed to have my own stippler
I'm going to set the building on fire
The problem I have with the idea is basically you would be designing your home in the likeness of a sewer..
I always thought the Hobbit homes in the movie resembled the hut-in-the-hill from Teletubbies...
Six of one, half dozen of the other I guess.
Arithmetic according to C: float x = 3.14159; int y = 1/2 * x; Value of y? zero.
Well, duh.
Why would you try to express pi/2 as an integer, anyway?
Oh boy, the anti-MS FUD team is working hard this afternoon.
MSIE is a web browser, and it's utterly absurd of you to claim otherwise.
The BBC is a news organization, not a consulting firm.
Just because a story is carried by them reflecting a certain viewpoint does not, by any stretch, mean that the BBC backs that viewpoint.
My 7-year-old Brother personal laser printer is parallel-only. I'll keep it as long as it continues to work and toner refills are available -- I print so infrequently that I have no reason to upgrade the printer.
If I upgrade my PC, and the new mobo doesn't have an onboard parallel port, no problem. I'll just buy a $10 I/O card and plug that in.
Is it really 'civil disobediance' (sic) if no one ever knows you're doing it except you?
Civil protest is ineffective when practiced in the privacy of your own house.
If you don't like the conditions that are being attached to a product
The issue is, if you BUY something, does the merchant have any authority to add restrictions on how you may use it, above those described by (copyright) law? Does the merchant have any authority to void rights which are explicitly granted to the consumer by law? Common sense says no.
I don't necessarily think "playing DVDs in Linux" is a right, but "decrypting the content for whatever personal use I desire" is. The dispute over the former would be resolved if someone writes and releases a legitimate commercial DVD-playing app for Linux -- but that's not what we're after, is it?
You have some sensible ideas about how to make the EFF a better organization. Have you considered donating some of your time to help them utilize the Internet more effectively?
Well, I've heard that in Great Britain the Ministry of Housinge has developed a working Cat Detector Van...
The author of the story tells you exactly how he found the address of his House of Spam. Pretty clever subversion of the spammer's request not to release that information to the public, if you ask me.
You're kidding, right? Wireless access to a piece of hospital equipment?
What protocol do you expect it to speak, exactly?
A lot of times when doctors go to operate on someone with heart problems, they discover
other defects or abnormalities with the heart and surrounding vessels.
Funny, my auto mechanic always seems to find a bunch of latent problems with several unrelated parts of my engine whenever I go in for a simple oil change...
The web sites still get the same amount of money, but if one 'net-network can provide a lower price but sell to more people, they can compete.
The content providers have no incentive to employ a middleman for selling subscription packages in this scenario. Not when there's more money to be made by setting the price and selling access themselves.
It would only increase technical complexity too.
They are a web site. What am I missing?
It's the fact that web sites have to have content.
And Salon has a LOT of unique content, meaning writers and editors who all deserve to get paid.
They should have just let Milton have his stapler...
http://www.cluebomb.com/comics/cluebomb/cartoon
This hack didn't work for me! I plugged the game into the NES and turned the power on but all I got was a blinking screen full of gibberish.
Maybe I need to blow on the connectors again...?
No no no! If you want a DVD player, buy a DVD player. Cheap ones that you can crack region encoding on can be had for as little as $60.
If you spend $200 to be able to play DVDs when you could have spent a third of that instead, just to hurt Microsoft's profits a tiny amount, well, you're dumb.
You dont turn away customers because you dont support them, you still collect the monthly
fee and turn them away for support.
But we're talking about an online service here, where every additional user can add additional complexity to support and troubleshooting.
It could (in theory) only take one user with a bad mod to infect the entire commuinity and ruin the fun for everyone.
PS. your a troll.
P.S. You're childish and barely literate.