That might have been a good reason for the Xbox to be made hack proof, but not the 360. Unless I have mis-remembered something, M$ has opted out of the take-a-loss on the console for market share and volume in order to re-coup on game sales business plan. They intend to profit, or at least take no loss, on the console sales. Thus the appreciably higher prices and different levels of factory installed features.
The same hackability is still an attractive feature. Having one GP box that can play DVDs, surf IMDB and weather sites, play tunes and vids from my home file server, play games, etc. without hassling with reconnecting cables and chasing remotes is *very* nice compared to the heat and noise generating, cable tangling mess that is a 'normal' home audio/video/PC/game stack.
Note that I don't especially want to hack it. Instead, I want to use features that are enabled since it has been hacked.
I'm still looking for a box that will do all this and HD. Perhaps a hacked 360 will be it.
For the price of a Panasonic Toughbook, you could buy 5 or more cheapo laptops and just give them away as they start to come apart. Since he's not going to be working in truly hazardous conditions, ie dust only, he should be fine for months with any cheap LT and a vacuum cleaner.
Besides, he'll have a ready made beowulf cluster and backup space!
Just get it into the harbor of NYC or LA or Houston or...
There's no need to even bother with clearing customs. Hell, you might even *want* to make it conspicuous. Just booby-trap the container and let the gov detect the radiation. For example, set it up with a GPS that arms the device when it get's close to the big city. Then you call the gov and say that if you try to move it away, out to sea, it will blow itself. Also, if you don't do what we want you to do, we will blow it where it sits...
A steady state fusion rate and power output rate is *NOT* required. We already have net positive fusion based power devices. The problem is, they put out the energy they generate in a tremendous, explosive pulse that so far we cannot harness for any useful purpose but demolition. If we could somehow capture the energy produced by your basic every day H-bomb and convert it to something that is more generally useful, we'd be in business with pulsed thermonuclear generators.
So far, the only method that seems to have any hope of success is to reduce the size of the pulses to something manageable.
Why are emotions and logical understanding mutually incompatible? Show me the emotion that doesn't have a logical cause? If I'm angry with someone, I have a reason. If I'm afraid of something, then I have a reason. It is not always wise to act on these feelings straight away but that has little to do with whether I can comprehend them or not.
Sometimes you are angry at someone else when you should be upset with yourself. You fucked up, someone else caught you and who is the object of your anger? Logic and reason anywhere?
Sometimes you can be afraid of something and have no reason. Why are some people afraid of dark rooms? Fear of the unknown is often valid, but some fear even though they *know* that their bedroom is free of danger.
Emotions are instinct, first order evaluations of the universe around you and how you should deal with it. They are survival traits. In the wild, it is often better to be fast in reaction even if wrong sometimes rather than be right all the time and slow. Should I fear that lion? Hmm, I heard the roar nearby I wonder what caused her to be so excited? Was it a succesful hunt? Did a rival appear out of the brush? There she is, running towards me. Is there something behind me that...
OTOH, in much of today's world, logical, reasonable, slow, thought processes will often be advantageous. Should I invest in this product? It is a really cool idea, but the fundamentals are just not there. When I went to visit, the CEO's secretary gave me a really good time and I know that they want my money, but the numbers show that the risk is too great for the reward...
When she walks away from me and I watch her hair sway back and forth just above her ass it makes my groin twitch, but should I try to get wet or not? Reason and logic or emotion, which will be the better decision making process? What parameters will be used to evaluate the choice? What are your lifetime goals? Are they reasonable or emotional?
Yeah, how long until you can go into the local convenience store in GTA and not only rob the place, but you'll see a guy in front of the magazine rack thumbing through a copy of SI, MAXIM, Playboy or whatever.
Come on, anytime you hire someone else to handle your responsibilities, they are going to screw up sometimes.
You could hire someone to point out all of the interesting TV shows for you. They will miss some good ones and they will give you some that are boring.
You could hire someone to push the FF button on the remote to skip the commercials on the DVR. Will they skip over the 1 in 100 that is actually advertising something interesting? Yes.
People do hire others to teach their kids and listen to the noise about schools today!
Why do complaints about crappy SPAM filters make it onto/.?
Sid Rich Physics undergrad on/off from 77-83 and yes I do recall $0.25 happy hour at Willy's, the real BB race, PL/1, APL, PASCAL(none of the three seen since), the birds of March, the floods, Octoberfest and 70+ kegs, TWU nursing school, A&M football games, the glass shop at ChemLab, gazilchers, and even Valhalla.
Secant Tangent Cosine Sine 3.14159 Cube Root Square Root BTU All for the Owls Shout Go Rice U!
In the crudest form of the definition so is any individual, of any age, of any species, that cannot provide for itself, yet survives by obtaining what it needs from others of its kind. However, I do not take on and provide for parasites willingly as I do my kids.
There are many *parasites* walking around on their own two legs that I'd gladly be rid of.
Why do parents have the right to tell their children what to do? Because the parents are responsible for the children.
I as a male and father have a responsibility for my children. This is something that I share with their mother. So I too should have a choice. The female can choose to discard her parental responsibilities. So the male who shares the responsibilities should also be able. Anything else is simply sex based discrimination, and we can't have any of that can we?
Don't bother with the "her body" argument. Join the modern world and realize that any decent DNA test would reveal that the flesh and blood that came out of her body is/was not part of her.
Until the law is changed, from the moment she becomes pregnant the male and female are joined in a set of obligations, responsibilities, and rights that bind them for a lifetime unless the court intervenes. As things stand, the set of obligations and rights are currently tilted far in favor of the female. So far in fact that they can be effectively used without regard for the children and against the welfare the father if the mother is so inclined.
Face it, if the female claims sole right to decide the fate of her child, then she should also be willing to accept sole responsibility for the child. Anything else is simply dishonest.
We got a treadmill. It is great for dialing in your heart rate. Adjust your speed in 1/10 of MPH increments and the incline with 1/2 degree resolution. Want 145 BPM and the monitor shows 139? It's easy, just speed up 1/10th MPH.
Problem is, it is smooth, very smooth, IOW boring as far as your body is concerned.
After months of watching TV while running on the 'mill, the weather was looking good and I got a wild hair and decided to run "in the wild". I ran the same distance(by GPS), in same amount of time, with the same heart rate monitor and maintained the same pulse rate. The next day, I was sore all over. My legs ached up and down as well as a variety of trunk muscles from hips to abs to ribs to shoulder blades.
The only difference was that I ran on grass, dirt, up and down curbs, wooden bridges, dried creek beds, and I actually had to turn corners. It's a lot more of a workout than the smooth, monotonous 'mill.
You should always be in fear of incriminating yourself, if you are a criminal. If not, you have nothing to fear.
Freedom of speech has always meant just that. It has not ever implied "freedom from results/response/responsibility". This has been decided in the courts ages ago. Ever hear of "Miranda"? I quote: "Anything you say can and will be used against you..." That clause is required today solely because of ignorance. Freedom of speech does not and never has given anyone the ability to say anything, anytime, anywhere without any possible consequences. Anyone with some wit and common sense can figure it out from scratch.
Our dear Mr. Torrent has knowingly been operating in a gray area. So, common sense would say, perhaps he should watch his mouth.
Nothing new and controversial here, just move along...
You really don't know much about much about farming do you?
Try blacksmithing when you don't control the fire or the availability of the quench water.
How well do you handle different ores? Can you actually make a decent alloy from the dirt on the ground?
Oh well, I'm still educating city kids.
I did spend this last weekend with an axe and some trees. It's great whole body physical exercise, and beats meditation to smithereens as far as the ease of mental focus and achievement of Zen is concerned.
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The ones that died went to heaven!
They are the lucky ones, the true benficiaries of God's will!
According to legend anyway.
That might have been a good reason for the Xbox to be made hack proof, but not the 360. Unless I have mis-remembered something, M$ has opted out of the take-a-loss on the console for market share and volume in order to re-coup on game sales business plan. They intend to profit, or at least take no loss, on the console sales. Thus the appreciably higher prices and different levels of factory installed features.
The same hackability is still an attractive feature. Having one GP box that can play DVDs, surf IMDB and weather sites, play tunes and vids from my home file server, play games, etc. without hassling with reconnecting cables and chasing remotes is *very* nice compared to the heat and noise generating, cable tangling mess that is a 'normal' home audio/video/PC/game stack.
Note that I don't especially want to hack it. Instead, I want to use features that are enabled since it has been hacked.
I'm still looking for a box that will do all this and HD. Perhaps a hacked 360 will be it.
I am sure that there are others like me, the only reason I bought an Xbox was because it *was* hackable!
I use it in a 'hacked state' far more often than 'straight'.
For the price of a Panasonic Toughbook, you could buy 5 or more cheapo laptops and just give them away as they start to come apart. Since he's not going to be working in truly hazardous conditions, ie dust only, he should be fine for months with any cheap LT and a vacuum cleaner.
Besides, he'll have a ready made beowulf cluster and backup space!
When you use a slogan made popular by a true hero for petty partisan purposes, and doubly so when you get modded up as insightful.
Are we going to have a "Return of Nancy" as well.?
Hell, that could be a decent horror movie...
...be shipped into the US.
...
Just get it into the harbor of NYC or LA or Houston or
There's no need to even bother with clearing customs. Hell, you might even *want* to make it conspicuous. Just booby-trap the container and let the gov detect the radiation. For example, set it up with a GPS that arms the device when it get's close to the big city. Then you call the gov and say that if you try to move it away, out to sea, it will blow itself. Also, if you don't do what we want you to do, we will blow it where it sits...
A steady state fusion rate and power output rate is *NOT* required. We already have net positive fusion based power devices. The problem is, they put out the energy they generate in a tremendous, explosive pulse that so far we cannot harness for any useful purpose but demolition. If we could somehow capture the energy produced by your basic every day H-bomb and convert it to something that is more generally useful, we'd be in business with pulsed thermonuclear generators.
So far, the only method that seems to have any hope of success is to reduce the size of the pulses to something manageable.
Sometimes you are angry at someone else when you should be upset with yourself. You fucked up, someone else caught you and who is the object of your anger? Logic and reason anywhere?
Sometimes you can be afraid of something and have no reason. Why are some people afraid of dark rooms? Fear of the unknown is often valid, but some fear even though they *know* that their bedroom is free of danger.
Emotions are instinct, first order evaluations of the universe around you and how you should deal with it. They are survival traits. In the wild, it is often better to be fast in reaction even if wrong sometimes rather than be right all the time and slow. Should I fear that lion? Hmm, I heard the roar nearby I wonder what caused her to be so excited? Was it a succesful hunt? Did a rival appear out of the brush? There she is, running towards me. Is there something behind me that...
OTOH, in much of today's world, logical, reasonable, slow, thought processes will often be advantageous. Should I invest in this product? It is a really cool idea, but the fundamentals are just not there. When I went to visit, the CEO's secretary gave me a really good time and I know that they want my money, but the numbers show that the risk is too great for the reward...
When she walks away from me and I watch her hair sway back and forth just above her ass it makes my groin twitch, but should I try to get wet or not? Reason and logic or emotion, which will be the better decision making process? What parameters will be used to evaluate the choice? What are your lifetime goals? Are they reasonable or emotional?
Yeah, how long until you can go into the local convenience store in GTA and not only rob the place, but you'll see a guy in front of the magazine rack thumbing through a copy of SI, MAXIM, Playboy or whatever.
You've got it right. They'd be thrilled if someone in the game took the time to "hack" a poster.
Show enough T&A in your ad and you will get eye-time, guaranteed.
It won't take long for the ad-execs to figure this out.
Come on, anytime you hire someone else to handle your responsibilities, they are going to screw up sometimes.
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You could hire someone to point out all of the interesting TV shows for you. They will miss some good ones and they will give you some that are boring.
You could hire someone to push the FF button on the remote to skip the commercials on the DVR. Will they skip over the 1 in 100 that is actually advertising something interesting? Yes.
People do hire others to teach their kids and listen to the noise about schools today!
Why do complaints about crappy SPAM filters make it onto
Sid Rich Physics undergrad on/off from 77-83 and yes I do recall $0.25 happy hour at Willy's, the real BB race, PL/1, APL, PASCAL(none of the three seen since), the birds of March, the floods, Octoberfest and 70+ kegs, TWU nursing school, A&M football games, the glass shop at ChemLab, gazilchers, and even Valhalla.
Secant Tangent Cosine Sine
3.14159
Cube Root Square Root BTU
All for the Owls Shout Go Rice U!
Sitting in the basement at Rice University ~1983 sometime after midnight communicating in near real-time with a professional astronomer in Australia.
Very cool.
In the crudest form of the definition so is any individual, of any age, of any species, that cannot provide for itself, yet survives by obtaining what it needs from others of its kind. However, I do not take on and provide for parasites willingly as I do my kids.
There are many *parasites* walking around on their own two legs that I'd gladly be rid of.
The foundation of right is responsibility.
Why do parents have the right to tell their children what to do? Because the parents are responsible for the children.
I as a male and father have a responsibility for my children. This is something that I share with their mother. So I too should have a choice. The female can choose to discard her parental responsibilities. So the male who shares the responsibilities should also be able. Anything else is simply sex based discrimination, and we can't have any of that can we?
Don't bother with the "her body" argument. Join the modern world and realize that any decent DNA test would reveal that the flesh and blood that came out of her body is/was not part of her.
Until the law is changed, from the moment she becomes pregnant the male and female are joined in a set of obligations, responsibilities, and rights that bind them for a lifetime unless the court intervenes. As things stand, the set of obligations and rights are currently tilted far in favor of the female. So far in fact that they can be effectively used without regard for the children and against the welfare the father if the mother is so inclined.
Face it, if the female claims sole right to decide the fate of her child, then she should also be willing to accept sole responsibility for the child. Anything else is simply dishonest.
Whether there is a 'D' in there or not it is still denial of service.
If you are on the north side of the launch site, look to the south.
If you are on the south side of the launch site, look to the north.
Can't miss it.
An article that produces dozens of quacks and counter-quacks then I get to read this!
Superb!
Personal experience:
We got a treadmill. It is great for dialing in your heart rate. Adjust your speed in 1/10 of MPH increments and the incline with 1/2 degree resolution. Want 145 BPM and the monitor shows 139? It's easy, just speed up 1/10th MPH.
Problem is, it is smooth, very smooth, IOW boring as far as your body is concerned.
After months of watching TV while running on the 'mill, the weather was looking good and I got a wild hair and decided to run "in the wild". I ran the same distance(by GPS), in same amount of time, with the same heart rate monitor and maintained the same pulse rate. The next day, I was sore all over. My legs ached up and down as well as a variety of trunk muscles from hips to abs to ribs to shoulder blades.
The only difference was that I ran on grass, dirt, up and down curbs, wooden bridges, dried creek beds, and I actually had to turn corners. It's a lot more of a workout than the smooth, monotonous 'mill.
Just the first in less than 72 hours.
See: United States Navy NC4
You should always be in fear of incriminating yourself, if you are a criminal. If not, you have nothing to fear.
Freedom of speech has always meant just that. It has not ever implied "freedom from results/response/responsibility". This has been decided in the courts ages ago. Ever hear of "Miranda"? I quote: "Anything you say can and will be used against you..." That clause is required today solely because of ignorance. Freedom of speech does not and never has given anyone the ability to say anything, anytime, anywhere without any possible consequences. Anyone with some wit and common sense can figure it out from scratch.
Our dear Mr. Torrent has knowingly been operating in a gray area. So, common sense would say, perhaps he should watch his mouth.
Nothing new and controversial here, just move along...
You really don't know much about much about farming do you?
Try blacksmithing when you don't control the fire or the availability of the quench water.
How well do you handle different ores? Can you actually make a decent alloy from the dirt on the ground?
Oh well, I'm still educating city kids.
I did spend this last weekend with an axe and some trees. It's great whole body physical exercise, and beats meditation to smithereens as far as the ease of mental focus and achievement of Zen is concerned.
These ideas are just the beginning...
How about, not just mods, but variable, adjustable ones?
Heading for the tropics? Forget sunscreen, turn your skin black, really.
Going to do ocean research, in the ocean? Grow yourself a sleek torpdeo shaped body with fins.
Time to head back to the lab? Grow your body into an eight armed lab 'bot.
Want to go hiking and backpacking this Summer? Start growing our feet into hooves and an extra pair of legs. Become a centaur for the Summer.
Having kids and need to watch everything? Grow some more eyes, even in the back of your head.
You should start saving your pennies now, ANYWAY.
Otherwise you will be broke when you are old, ANYWAY.