Don't give the money to the cops. You know about the corruption in the War on Drugs that really kicked in when they started giving the police departments a cut of the take. Next thing you know, they're seizing everything, even from innocent citizens.
On the other hand, I would really like to see them put resources into catching idiot driving -- which you rarely see punished -- rather than sitting on an almost empty highway at 3 a.m. catching people going 20mph over the limit.
The 3K is a BS number to get you to buy more oil and visit the dealer more often. The European car I bought in 2000 has a recommended interval of 9K miles.
They appear stock. Disassembly showed that although the drive plays the small discs, the laser pickup has enough traversing room to read a full-sized disc.
the best one i heard was from a friend using the first pet name - mothers maiden name,
It still reminds me of the Adobe upgrade to InDesign fiasco. Adobe came out with InDesign 1.0, which was exciting, but still very horribly beta quality. There was a long list of hugely important bugs (I couldn't even create a document and directly save it -- required a workaround), and we awaited a bug fix desperately.
Then Adobe announced InDesign 1.5 with a $100 upgrade price and most users went ballistic. Yes, they'd added a lot of features, but in order to fix these huge bugs, we had to buy the extra features too! Enough loud shouting and downright angry rants got the price down to $29 for us.
That's like this OS X upgrade (except you did have a couple post 1.0 fixes). You want the bugs and exceptional slowness fixed, but you have to buy a whole bunch of other stuff in order to get it.
The money saved by the studios will be absolutely enormous with digital distribution: no more thousands of prints, no more shipping them to tens of thousands of theaters.
As an incentive to theaters, they could offer a discount for theaters that is equal to the amount they save on distribution by going digital. Do this for the first several years to help the theaters offset the cost of the equipment.
This way, the studios get the digital projectors out there and some years down the line they'll reap the cost savings when the carrot discounts disappear.
Currently, that would be a weak case of attempted murder.
And that's why I hate this law aside from anything that's in it -- it's a law! If someone hacks into a control tower and tries to crash a plane, charge him with 235 counts of attempted murder. Why this law?
But noooo, the congresscritters need to look like they're doing something other than ruining the country, so they come up with a useles, redundant law where the only change is that we lose more privacy and rights.
IANAL, but this probably doesn't offer them protection from prosecution or lawsuit if they trash your computer for two reasons:
The legality of click-wrap license is still debatable, possibly making all text within useless
Even if you do have a contract with someone, law doesn't allow you to give up basic protections under law. In other words, your little law made by contract doesn't supersede legislated law. And them messing up your computer is illegal.
According to our system of copyright, yes. In the U.S., copyright is supposed to be a balance between letting producers be compensated enough to keep producing and the "advancement of the arts and sciences" (read: society, the people) with attendant fair use rights.
Producers taking this tact are trying to swing the fine balance we had for almost 200 years too far in their favor.
An important extension to #4 is to not only calculate the route to the next piece of junk, but to calculate the lowest fuel consumption route through as many pieces as possible. Hitting the next one in the database may put you way far out for hitting the next one after that; maybe orbits will make that one more fuel efficient to hit somewhere down the line.
It's kind of like thinking ahead in billiards about where your ball will be after the shot.
I'm constantly behind fairly new VW and Audi (same thing) diesels on the road that spew diesel smoke. The brand-new ones don't, but after a year or so they start spewing smoke when the driver hits the gas, and it goes downhill from there.
I'm very sensitive to diesel smoke (makes me sick), so I notice it every time.
$8.95 just to look up a few cars online? Are these guys nuts? That's why eco-friendly things rarely work in the real world, because many eco-people seem to have no grasp of economics or human nature. There are so few eco-people in the world, they can't make a difference -- the need is to convert the average person. In this case, we're trying to get the average person to look at buying greener cars. Not many are going to do that for $8.95, mainly the already converted will.
On the more practical side, the standard Lotus Elise, about 40 mpg with decent range and great performance. People freak when I tell them how much mileage I get.
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Don't give the money to the cops. You know about the corruption in the War on Drugs that really kicked in when they started giving the police departments a cut of the take. Next thing you know, they're seizing everything, even from innocent citizens.
On the other hand, I would really like to see them put resources into catching idiot driving -- which you rarely see punished -- rather than sitting on an almost empty highway at 3 a.m. catching people going 20mph over the limit.
The 3K is a BS number to get you to buy more oil and visit the dealer more often. The European car I bought in 2000 has a recommended interval of 9K miles.
That's in the Ars article too.
They appear stock. Disassembly showed that although the drive plays the small discs, the laser pickup has enough traversing room to read a full-sized disc.
It also appears to apply to video transmission, and they're stretching it to cover still images.
the best one i heard was from a friend using the first pet name - mothers maiden name,
It still reminds me of the Adobe upgrade to InDesign fiasco. Adobe came out with InDesign 1.0, which was exciting, but still very horribly beta quality. There was a long list of hugely important bugs (I couldn't even create a document and directly save it -- required a workaround), and we awaited a bug fix desperately.
Then Adobe announced InDesign 1.5 with a $100 upgrade price and most users went ballistic. Yes, they'd added a lot of features, but in order to fix these huge bugs, we had to buy the extra features too! Enough loud shouting and downright angry rants got the price down to $29 for us.
That's like this OS X upgrade (except you did have a couple post 1.0 fixes). You want the bugs and exceptional slowness fixed, but you have to buy a whole bunch of other stuff in order to get it.
The money saved by the studios will be absolutely enormous with digital distribution: no more thousands of prints, no more shipping them to tens of thousands of theaters.
As an incentive to theaters, they could offer a discount for theaters that is equal to the amount they save on distribution by going digital. Do this for the first several years to help the theaters offset the cost of the equipment.
This way, the studios get the digital projectors out there and some years down the line they'll reap the cost savings when the carrot discounts disappear.
I believe "You have the right to remain silent" includes not telling them your key.
Yes, except that the juicy stuff in the government runs on closed-off networks anyway.
I was waiting for that one. I loved that movie, but I haven't seen anything else of Pennebaker's. Now I've GOT to see the treatment he gives Ziggy.
'A mouse can be just as dangerous as a bullet or a bomb.'
Just great, now we'll have a five-day waiting period on mice, and export controls.
And now that he's equated mice with weapons, wouldn't the 2nd Amendment kick in to guarantee your right to keep and bear mice?
Last question in relation to that statement: If a cracker only uses the keyboard, is he safe from prosecution?
And that's why I hate this law aside from anything that's in it -- it's a law! If someone hacks into a control tower and tries to crash a plane, charge him with 235 counts of attempted murder. Why this law?
But noooo, the congresscritters need to look like they're doing something other than ruining the country, so they come up with a useles, redundant law where the only change is that we lose more privacy and rights.
Is there anything ammoral with this?
According to our system of copyright, yes. In the U.S., copyright is supposed to be a balance between letting producers be compensated enough to keep producing and the "advancement of the arts and sciences" (read: society, the people) with attendant fair use rights.
Producers taking this tact are trying to swing the fine balance we had for almost 200 years too far in their favor.
Been watching too much SG-1 lately? You know what happened to them, don't you? If NASA takes your idea, the Asgard are gonna be pissed.
There's been some initial work using cold plasma.
An important extension to #4 is to not only calculate the route to the next piece of junk, but to calculate the lowest fuel consumption route through as many pieces as possible. Hitting the next one in the database may put you way far out for hitting the next one after that; maybe orbits will make that one more fuel efficient to hit somewhere down the line.
It's kind of like thinking ahead in billiards about where your ball will be after the shot.
But the big question is, does it fit in a standard hangar?
My '86 Scirocco started clunking somewhere in the engine after I filled up with gas with too much ethanol. Never again.
I haven't seen another of my car in about four months, and that's with a round-trip commute of 75 miles a day in traffic. I love the Elise.
GM - Generally haven't heard much bad about them
Ross Perot got kicked off their board by complaining about the poor quality of cars.
That's one I never thought of. "Zero emissions, high efficiency" just moved the emissions and efficiency loss further up the line.
I'm constantly behind fairly new VW and Audi (same thing) diesels on the road that spew diesel smoke. The brand-new ones don't, but after a year or so they start spewing smoke when the driver hits the gas, and it goes downhill from there.
I'm very sensitive to diesel smoke (makes me sick), so I notice it every time.
$8.95 just to look up a few cars online? Are these guys nuts? That's why eco-friendly things rarely work in the real world, because many eco-people seem to have no grasp of economics or human nature. There are so few eco-people in the world, they can't make a difference -- the need is to convert the average person. In this case, we're trying to get the average person to look at buying greener cars. Not many are going to do that for $8.95, mainly the already converted will.
On the more practical side, the standard Lotus Elise, about 40 mpg with decent range and great performance. People freak when I tell them how much mileage I get.