I knew I was taking welding class for a reason! (I'm a mechanical engineering student.)
I can build my own backyard amusements! Seriously, though, I've seen and heard of plenty of fun side jobs done with welding- My girlfriends neighbor built himself a 1/8 (ride-able) scale steam locamotive (yes, really steam powered) and in my home town, some one has a large metal dragon in their front yard.
A little ingenuity, a lot of time, and a bunch of mild steel.... nothing you can't do:)
and sometimes the companies, i reason, like it that way. Consider for example, Pro-Engineer, a computer aided design program. The student edition sells for $300, which isn't a bad price considering it's about $40K per seat in industry- but it's still more than any of us Mech-E students would like to give up.
So we band together, buy one copy, and burn copies enough for everyone. Incidentally, I read the license, and it was pretty liberal- the only thing i saw anywhere restricting copying was somewhere along these lines- "There is no limit on the number of computers this software may be installed on, however, the cd must be in the drive for the program to run"
That's it.
I reason they probably want as many students to use Pro-Engineer as possible- so they're accustomed to it- and good with it- so when they start working for engineering firms, the firms are more likely to pay $20 - 40K per seat for an actual license, to make their engineers more productive.
It's really marketing. Of course, I may just be rationalizing my sins, but I've bought my fair share of windows software- and helped myself to the yearly upgrades. Do I feel sorry? no, cause I'm a piss poor college student. I'll pay for proper licenses when I'm a financially secure engineer.
Gee, I guess that means every body in my high school literature class is fucked now, cause we all read it.
Makes sense though- the protaganist, as the catcher in the rye- he's the only one who knows the cliff is there, and he's trying to keep all the kids from running over the edge, cause they're just playing, living their lives, and have no clue what's in store for them- death. So someone who thinks they're doing the world a favor by offing someone might want see themselves as Holdens "Catcher in the Rye".
I'd be busier trying to scrub all the "fuck you"'s off the walls, personally.
Midbar says it is continuing to upgrade its technology
Yep, they don't do it the same way twice, so you'll never know what these disks won't play on! Play hardware roullette!
Whereas, a bit for bit rip through a player that emulates an audio cd's error correction will work every time, regardless of their new and improved method.
Anybody think they'll ever figure out it's a little late in the Compact Disc Arena to try to make such a fundamental change as copy (fair use) prevention to the system?
Without an EULA, the user would be able to do as he pleases with the software, including making copies to his co-workers to his heart's content.
Not quite. Copyright still protects software, even in the abscence of an EULA. EULA's only serve as an attempt to further restrict a customer's use of the software. They're already protected against piracy.
Farsite, while ingenious, looks more like a fantastic file storage system than anything else. Is it possible that they've tweaked the UI that most of us are accostomed to the point where any more upgrades are aesthetic, feature or reliability driven, and aren't fundamental improvements on the current desktop analogy?
Will the majority of the computer using populace still be double clicking, dragging and dropping, and 'opening' folders and hard drives 10, 15 years from now?
Because for Otto combustion engines, the efficiency is primarily a factor of compression ratios, not temperature or density. You could get a very efficient engine if you could compress the fuel infinetly (of course, gasoline won't stand for much compression) before igniting it.
If you increased the density, then you could compress it less, probably resulting in less efficiency. Increasing air flow is usually a good thing though.
To an extent, There are a number of things you can do that you couldn't normally to retrieve your own property that has been stolen. I believe this includes entering other peoples property.
128 bit- HaHa, silly mortal! You'll never unlock my secrets before the apocolypse comes!!!
64 bit- You'll get my secrets when they're no longer of any use! (RC5 anyone?)
56 bit- Never! Never will you have my secrets. If never means three weeks from now anyway.
40 bit- You'll have to arm-wrestle me for access.
32 bit- You'll have to thumbwrestle me for access.
24 bit- You want access? You'll pry it from my cold, dead... Hey, give that back!!!
8 bit- What's your favorite color?
4 bit- Guess my shoe size
1 bit- Want access?
0 No
1 Yes
Export Level encryption proves insufficient. That's the point.
Don't you think one of the reasons the government would want weak encryption in foriegn (and therefor, possibly adversarial) computers, so it's easier to break into them?
Remember, for the most part, US laws protect US citizens, and are valid only within the confines of the United States. Since we don't really seem to care about how our government gathers information outside our country, It makes sense that the Government would want to make this easy, and one way is through export controls.
Don't like it? You have other options.
And note to Eurotrolls, who might take the chance to cry US-centric, or brute american, or whatever trash you usually spew, don't think for a second your government isn't engaged in every kind of spying it can.
I think that the biggest reason public transit won't work in the US is that people don't _want_ it to work (and don't want to put money into it, and...); and the biggest reason that people don't want it to work is that they're put off by the current, dysfunctional systems. Could be. Gotta hate circular problems like that.
BTW, ever been to Boston? As cities go, it's not the hugest- about 600K people- but they seem to have a good system of PT. I've never had to wait around long for a bus or a subway to get where I'm going, at least within the city.
So maybe Boston- Sized is the lower limit for a good system.
The United Kingdom has a population of around 60 million people, with 241,590 sq km of land.
That's a population density of 241 people per square Kilometer.
source The Continious 48 states have an area of 7.7 million square Kilometers, and a population of around 285 Million. That's 37 people per square kilometer, on average.
About 1/6 the density of the UK.
So that means in any given area in the United Kingdom, there are 6 times as many people there to use public transportation, making investing in public transportation far more economical, and also making it economical to run efficient, timely connections to just about any place one would want to go.
In the United States, because we are so spread out, for most of the US, there are not enough close points of interest to make it feasible to build usable public transportation. Where the population density is high in the United States, such as New York, Boston, Los angeles, or a number of other Cities, you have an advanced system of public transportation that would rival anything in Europe.
But outside of that, there just aren't enough people in the right places to make a good system.
That is why we are so hung up on our cars. Because we, for the most part, can not build a public transportation system that will get us where we want to be, when we want to be there. The economics just aren't there. I'm sure in most of the UK, you can get anywhere you want by PT within 15- 20 minutes of when you want to be there. Here, except in cities, if there is public transportation, it will get us to our destination within 40 to 120 minutes of when we want to be there.
I don't know about PBS for copyright information, but in general, any pictures, images, or film taken by State or Federal employees are public domain. There are certain limitations on this- for example, classified information, or the use of military insignia, but the overwhelming majority of the material put out is free for you to use. So yes, you could use it as source material in your own movies, though common decency demands you give credit where it's due.
This picture is a classic example. It was one of the most stunning photos to come out of the montana forest fires- the low resolution of the picture above doesn't do it justice- and any AP photographer would have killed to have the rights to it. But the picture was taken by an on-duty USGS employee, and hence, everyone gets to use it.
So in several cases, yes, publically funded stuff is in the public domain.
I think it all should be, but that would doubtless deprive my University of some much needed cash that the state will never give us.
One existing specification, called Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP), defines a cryptographic protocol for safeguarding audio/video entertainment content against illegal copying, intercepting and tampering as it traverses high-performance digital buses, such as the IEEE1394 standard.
Once again, we are shown that digital rights management hardware is by definition defective. They seem to think their only protection from profit stealing pirates (gasp! seeing stuff on another TV?) is to make broken equipment.
I, for one, will be voting with my wallet. F*** phillips, and anyone who follows them. I thought the hardware guys where on the side of logic and fair use...
Maybe I'll write to them and tell them that I won't buy crippled equipment from them that purposely interferes with radio transmissions- and I think the FCC would also take issue with this.
Ever heard of Mac OS? They happen to hide the file type within the resource fork, so you can name the file anything you please- call an word file trippin.mp3 and it will work fine. Of course, this only applies to documents created on a macintosh, as I believe Macs rely on the extension for files imported from PC's.
In CT, and I assume many other states, you can get a non-driver's liscence photo ID from the DMV. Same standards are used for Identification- birth certificate, utility bills, report cards, whatever, just no driving priveleges.
Just bite it and pay the $700 bucks for the 24bit PCMIA card, and consider it an investment in your production capabilities. Between your $500 or better keyboard, $200 amp, $400 4-track, and all the other stuff you've bought, maybe it would be an appropriate expense, at least in line with your other gear, considering you seem to have a fondness for quality.
hey, maybe since this involves 5" diameter pipes for protecting the fiber and copper, it won't cost that much? ya know, compared to removing a couple cubic kilometers from underdeath a busy metropolis?
And keep in mind the only disaster about the big dig is the cost- I hear it's dead-on schedule and a civic engineering marvel- not to say the cost doesn't suck, but look at the brightside, eh?
Well, it's great that Chicago will be wired, but I see problems with the city owning the network. Some *ahem* well-meaning civic leaders might feel the need to impose draconian policies on the network...
like trying to filter pr0n
or blocking gaming ports
or anything else the city councils feels is 'bad for the children'
I'd be more cautious than celebratory. Stinks like China.net.
Yes, it's a tragedy, I won't dispute that. My point is that we cannot create public policy because of extremely rare events that do not overall impact the public health.
Is this a bit cold? Perhaps.
But if we are to live in a free society, as I and most of my fellow Americans desire, we must pay the occasional price.
Basically, picture a US high school student going nuts with a small pistol and compare the damage to when he has a big high power, semi-automatic.
I hate it when people bring up crap like this. There are on order of 30 million kids in the US public school system. In the worst year recently, there where 3 school shootings.
Even if there where 300 such events, schools would still be one of the safest places to be. Don't fall under the spell of the alarmist crap the media throws at you because it's a slow year for the news.
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I'd probably be bored of canada after a few eons too. THough I hear the beer is good.
Yeah, but too bad interfering with Radio Communications like that will get you in trouble with the FCC- big time.
I suppose the only way to legally do it would be to build a faraday cage around the entire theater.
I knew I was taking welding class for a reason! (I'm a mechanical engineering student.)
:)
I can build my own backyard amusements!
Seriously, though, I've seen and heard of plenty of fun side jobs done with welding- My girlfriends neighbor built himself a 1/8 (ride-able) scale steam locamotive (yes, really steam powered) and in my home town, some one has a large metal dragon in their front yard.
A little ingenuity, a lot of time, and a bunch of mild steel.... nothing you can't do
and sometimes the companies, i reason, like it that way. Consider for example, Pro-Engineer, a computer aided design program. The student edition sells for $300, which isn't a bad price considering it's about $40K per seat in industry- but it's still more than any of us Mech-E students would like to give up.
So we band together, buy one copy, and burn copies enough for everyone. Incidentally, I read the license, and it was pretty liberal- the only thing i saw anywhere restricting copying was somewhere along these lines- "There is no limit on the number of computers this software may be installed on, however, the cd must be in the drive for the program to run"
That's it.
I reason they probably want as many students to use Pro-Engineer as possible- so they're accustomed to it- and good with it- so when they start working for engineering firms, the firms are more likely to pay $20 - 40K per seat for an actual license, to make their engineers more productive.
It's really marketing. Of course, I may just be rationalizing my sins, but I've bought my fair share of windows software- and helped myself to the yearly upgrades. Do I feel sorry? no, cause I'm a piss poor college student. I'll pay for proper licenses when I'm a financially secure engineer.
But i forget which one- The Saint, maybe?
Who is getting their physics PHD's from the university of Hollywood?
Gee, I guess that means every body in my high school literature class is fucked now, cause we all read it.
Makes sense though- the protaganist, as the catcher in the rye- he's the only one who knows the cliff is there, and he's trying to keep all the kids from running over the edge, cause they're just playing, living their lives, and have no clue what's in store for them- death. So someone who thinks they're doing the world a favor by offing someone might want see themselves as Holdens "Catcher in the Rye".
I'd be busier trying to scrub all the "fuck you"'s off the walls, personally.
Midbar says it is continuing to upgrade its technology
Yep, they don't do it the same way twice, so you'll never know what these disks won't play on! Play hardware roullette!
Whereas, a bit for bit rip through a player that emulates an audio cd's error correction will work every time, regardless of their new and improved method.
Anybody think they'll ever figure out it's a little late in the Compact Disc Arena to try to make such a fundamental change as copy (fair use) prevention to the system?
Without an EULA, the user would be able to do as he pleases with the software, including making copies to his co-workers to his heart's content.
Not quite. Copyright still protects software, even in the abscence of an EULA. EULA's only serve as an attempt to further restrict a customer's use of the software. They're already protected against piracy.
Farsite, while ingenious, looks more like a fantastic file storage system than anything else. Is it possible that they've tweaked the UI that most of us are accostomed to the point where any more upgrades are aesthetic, feature or reliability driven, and aren't fundamental improvements on the current desktop analogy?
Will the majority of the computer using populace still be double clicking, dragging and dropping, and 'opening' folders and hard drives 10, 15 years from now?
Could be. Could be.
Because for Otto combustion engines, the efficiency is primarily a factor of compression ratios, not temperature or density. You could get a very efficient engine if you could compress the fuel infinetly (of course, gasoline won't stand for much compression) before igniting it.
If you increased the density, then you could compress it less, probably resulting in less efficiency. Increasing air flow is usually a good thing though.
To an extent, There are a number of things you can do that you couldn't normally to retrieve your own property that has been stolen. I believe this includes entering other peoples property.
128 bit- HaHa, silly mortal! You'll never unlock my secrets before the apocolypse comes!!!
64 bit- You'll get my secrets when they're no longer of any use! (RC5 anyone?)
56 bit- Never! Never will you have my secrets. If never means three weeks from now anyway.
40 bit- You'll have to arm-wrestle me for access.
32 bit- You'll have to thumbwrestle me for access.
24 bit- You want access? You'll pry it from my cold, dead... Hey, give that back!!!
8 bit- What's your favorite color?
4 bit- Guess my shoe size
1 bit- Want access?
0 No
1 Yes
Export Level encryption proves insufficient.
That's the point.
Don't you think one of the reasons the government would want weak encryption in foriegn (and therefor, possibly adversarial) computers, so it's easier to break into them?
Remember, for the most part, US laws protect US citizens, and are valid only within the confines of the United States. Since we don't really seem to care about how our government gathers information outside our country, It makes sense that the Government would want to make this easy, and one way is through export controls.
Don't like it? You have other options.
And note to Eurotrolls, who might take the chance to cry US-centric, or brute american, or whatever trash you usually spew, don't think for a second your government isn't engaged in every kind of spying it can.
I think that the biggest reason public transit won't work in the US is that people don't _want_ it to work (and don't want to put money into it, and...); and the biggest reason that people don't want it to work is that they're put off by the current, dysfunctional systems.
Could be. Gotta hate circular problems like that.
BTW, ever been to Boston? As cities go, it's not the hugest- about 600K people- but they seem to have a good system of PT. I've never had to wait around long for a bus or a subway to get where I'm going, at least within the city.
So maybe Boston- Sized is the lower limit for a good system.
The United Kingdom has a population of around 60 million people, with 241,590 sq km of land.
That's a population density of 241 people per square Kilometer.
source
The Continious 48 states have an area of 7.7 million square Kilometers, and a population of around 285 Million. That's 37 people per square kilometer, on average.
About 1/6 the density of the UK.
So that means in any given area in the United Kingdom, there are 6 times as many people there to use public transportation, making investing in public transportation far more economical, and also making it economical to run efficient, timely connections to just about any place one would want to go.
In the United States, because we are so spread out, for most of the US, there are not enough close points of interest to make it feasible to build usable public transportation. Where the population density is high in the United States, such as New York, Boston, Los angeles, or a number of other Cities, you have an advanced system of public transportation that would rival anything in Europe.
But outside of that, there just aren't enough people in the right places to make a good system.
That is why we are so hung up on our cars. Because we, for the most part, can not build a public transportation system that will get us where we want to be, when we want to be there. The economics just aren't there. I'm sure in most of the UK, you can get anywhere you want by PT within 15- 20 minutes of when you want to be there. Here, except in cities, if there is public transportation, it will get us to our destination within 40 to 120 minutes of when we want to be there.
Would you find that acceptable?
I don't know about PBS for copyright information, but in general, any pictures, images, or film taken by State or Federal employees are public domain. There are certain limitations on this- for example, classified information, or the use of military insignia, but the overwhelming majority of the material put out is free for you to use. So yes, you could use it as source material in your own movies, though common decency demands you give credit where it's due.
This picture is a classic example. It was one of the most stunning photos to come out of the montana forest fires- the low resolution of the picture above doesn't do it justice- and any AP photographer would have killed to have the rights to it. But the picture was taken by an on-duty USGS employee, and hence, everyone gets to use it.
So in several cases, yes, publically funded stuff is in the public domain.
I think it all should be, but that would doubtless deprive my University of some much needed cash that the state will never give us.
One existing specification, called Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP), defines a cryptographic protocol for safeguarding audio/video entertainment content against illegal copying, intercepting and tampering as it traverses high-performance digital buses, such as the IEEE1394 standard.
Once again, we are shown that digital rights management hardware is by definition defective. They seem to think their only protection from profit stealing pirates (gasp! seeing stuff on another TV?) is to make broken equipment.
I, for one, will be voting with my wallet. F*** phillips, and anyone who follows them. I thought the hardware guys where on the side of logic and fair use...
Maybe I'll write to them and tell them that I won't buy crippled equipment from them that purposely interferes with radio transmissions- and I think the FCC would also take issue with this.
Ever heard of Mac OS? They happen to hide the file type within the resource fork, so you can name the file anything you please- call an word file trippin.mp3 and it will work fine. Of course, this only applies to documents created on a macintosh, as I believe Macs rely on the extension for files imported from PC's.
In CT, and I assume many other states, you can get a non-driver's liscence photo ID from the DMV. Same standards are used for Identification- birth certificate, utility bills, report cards, whatever, just no driving priveleges.
So, no, you wouldn't need to get a drivers lic.
Just bite it and pay the $700 bucks for the 24bit PCMIA card, and consider it an investment in your production capabilities. Between your $500 or better keyboard, $200 amp, $400 4-track, and all the other stuff you've bought, maybe it would be an appropriate expense, at least in line with your other gear, considering you seem to have a fondness for quality.
hey, maybe since this involves 5" diameter pipes for protecting the fiber and copper, it won't cost that much? ya know, compared to removing a couple cubic kilometers from underdeath a busy metropolis?
And keep in mind the only disaster about the big dig is the cost- I hear it's dead-on schedule and a civic engineering marvel- not to say the cost doesn't suck, but look at the brightside, eh?
and weeeeeee!!!!!
Well, it's great that Chicago will be wired, but I see problems with the city owning the network. Some *ahem* well-meaning civic leaders might feel the need to impose draconian policies on the network...
like trying to filter pr0n
or blocking gaming ports
or anything else the city councils feels is 'bad for the children'
I'd be more cautious than celebratory. Stinks like China.net.
Yes, it's a tragedy, I won't dispute that. My point is that we cannot create public policy because of extremely rare events that do not overall impact the public health.
Is this a bit cold? Perhaps.
But if we are to live in a free society, as I and most of my fellow Americans desire, we must pay the occasional price.
it's in the game- you need to put in a cheat code to hear it. the code escapes me but I'm sure you can find it on blizzards site.
Basically, picture a US high school student going nuts with a small pistol and compare the damage to when he has a big high power, semi-automatic.
I hate it when people bring up crap like this. There are on order of 30 million kids in the US public school system. In the worst year recently, there where 3 school shootings.
Even if there where 300 such events, schools would still be one of the safest places to be. Don't fall under the spell of the alarmist crap the media throws at you because it's a slow year for the news.