I always wondered about this sort of thing, for example, how many movies in the 1990s used the Aliens soundtrack for preview clips aired on TV, and how many of them actually had permission to do so... I mean there were roughly 10 seperate movies from 2-3 seperate movie companies other than Fox, all using the same track (I forget the title, but lets just say it's from the "escaping from the fusion atmospheric convertor plant" theme... You know which one I'm talking about...
Anyhoo, who did they get permission from? Did they get it from Fox (the copyright holder on Aliens at least), ASCAP, the guy who orchestrated and copyrighted said soundtrack? Who gave permission?
For that matter, isn't there some form of statute of limitations? Furthermore, as his "criminal" act did not result in bodily harm or property damage, is it really so ethical (well, yeah, we ARE talking about the MPAA here, but that's besides the point) to hold someone responsible for something that amounts to TP'ing the Hollywood sign when they were kids, only to seek perse- er- prosecution when they're old enough to lock away?
I mean jeeze, when I was a kid, I got drunk a lot before the whole zero tolerance thing, before I was legal age for drinking, and gave booze to my similarly underaged friends... Does that mean I should go to jail for corruption of minors (including myself)? That's just plain stupid, for lack of a better description...
After all, it doesn't reverse or completely negate gravity per se, and there is no evidence that it negates gravity other than that within immediate influence of the superconductors involved... Shouldn't the term be "gravity dampening" instead?
Is to yank the guts from an old TRS-80 Model III, replace the display with an old 13" CRT, and install a basic PC into it... Would look hella funny at a LAN party, IMO...
Don't forget that out of ANY TV series in the world, Cowboy Bebop also has the largest soundtrack, no holds barred... 5 CDs in total... Not those "Songs INSPIRED by such and such a movie or show" crap CDs you see advertised on late night teevee either, every track is an original (with a few remixed for incidental music, such as "Doggy Dog")...
For the anime OST geek, a bit of fun trivia as well (for those who haven't seen the series): Yoko Kanno (Macross Plus, Vision of Escaflowne) was the producer/composer of most of the soundtrack...
Actually that's erroneous, VCD standard is MPEG-1, SVCD is MPEG-2 (at lower resolution/bitrate than MPEG-2 used on DVD media)...
VCD, at adequate resolution (eg; as good as if not slightly lesser quality than VHS) consumes approximately 650 Mb per hour on the media...
SVCD tends to consume quite a bit more, usually 3-4 CD-Rs used to make one SVCD (hence why DVD-R is more appropriate)
Now what DOES make S/VCD a much better candidate for educational purposes, is the sheer price of the players... While one could purchase a DVD player with VCD capabilities, there are actually cheaper "dedicated" machines, some even the size of portable CD players, with the sole purpose of playing VCD media (basically a compact disc player with an extra chip for decoding and video playback of MPEG media through a spare RCA jack)... Those usually run $100 tops, with the bonus of being very portable...
But has anyone considered using this technology to take their home off the grid (if not actually attempt to run a small power plant)? There are some power plants that run off of refuse incinerators, but if a diesel turbine can be modified to run off of biodiesel, then you could kill two birds with one stone...
Has anyone considered the possibility of building a fuel cell along those lines as well? One that you could, say, start with a small fireplace in order to heat the vegetable oil/grease to a vapor state sufficient to combust?
While vehicles aren't the most efficient energy consumers, most homes are considerably worse...
And then there's possibilities for developing nations, to both do away with a large amount of pollution, where even small villages could have electricity with waste products as the fuel (some do this already with methane producing cesspits)... Just retrofitting old diesel generator rigs with a system like this could move a lot of areas into at least the 20th century...
You're wrong as well, Abe's brains were blown out, and he died on the scene at the Ford theater... The one they first used A/C for was president James Garfield, who was dying from an assasin's bullet... Specifically, it was in 1881, and was an evaporative air conditioner that worked in the manner you described...
The "modern" chemically cooled air conditioner was invented in 1902...
Now you can stick a large display on the ceiling, for that simulated mirror on the ceiling effect with the porno actress/actor of your choice! (not responsible for emotional damages in the event Ron Jeremy appears upon your ceiling)
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Does that mean, therefore, that anyone running Linux without the fix for the 1i0n (or however that's spelled) exploit, can sue Linus Torvald, Redhat, et al for damages? How about anyone running a Micro$oft OS that has an exploit taken advantage of with a worm, virus, etc, that was created on a Linux system with the sole purpose of damaging as many M$ OSs as possible?
If you get shot by someone and suffer horrendous injuries, do you sue every bullet proof vest manufacturer, or gun manufacturer because they didn't base their business model around you? Or do you sue (or at least lock up) the one who pointed the gun at you and pull the trigger? Do you go around your neighborhood, testing each doorknob to see if the house is locked, then rob and burn down each house that isn't? Is it the homeowner's fault for not locking the door, or you for entering in the first place?
If you want to hold anyone responsible, try the guy/s who code viruses and worms... Anyone with sufficient pathological incentive to wreak havoc and trash a computer system (or, basically, anything else) will do so...
Responsibility goes two ways, on one hand, those who have known for a substantial period of time that there was a problem that needed addressing, and those who take advantage of that problem... The net makes this all more obvious, at least to those of us with a smidgen of common sense...
Considering that despite the worm being in the wild for over a year, that either installing a *nix varient, applying a service pack, or simply running a decent antivirus app were alternatives to being infected? All of which are conscientious actions of the user, admin, etc? All actions that are made on the part of the user? All options undertaken or not by the user?
Sounds an awful lot like the fault of the user to me...
From scratch for $500 or under, and I'll buy your precious OS... Otherwise, Apple holds a monopoly on the PowerPC market, and in addition, an unfair and artificially inflated pricing scheme for their hardware...
The difficulty is twofold in regards to case design... One, coming up with a design that is truly innovative and original, second is coming up with a design that appeals to the masses at large...
Case in point, the monstrosities that are unveiled by the major manufacturers, who are concentrating more on the bottom line, selling new machines, as opposed to actual innovation...
There are a few exceptions, such as Lian-Li and others, but the primary difficulty is as old as the PC itself: The PC, from etching bath through soldering, testing, wiring and assembly, is an engineering task first, and a creative job second (or third, or fourth, etc)... It's overwhelmingly the "all" of using a PC... And unfortunately, there's little to no way for as vast an industry to make any real profitability from eclectic quirks and traits...
Apple, in the meanwhile, has developed as a result of that very eclecticness, by essentially combining both the engineering AND artistic aspects towards the same goal...
The (x86) PC market won't advance into that range until they learn to "think out of the box" as it were...
And no, I have several unused aging Macs on a shelf in a closet, and a 1.5 Ghz PC on my desk, either are adequate as tools IMO, both have benefits and drawbacks... A terribly unpopular view in regards to technology, but hey, a wine drinker only drinks what brand is handy, a wine *taster* drinks all brands of wine one sip at a time...
One: Windows XP can be adjusted so that you don't have skinning slowing the system down (under system properties, advanced, performance, lookie, a checkbox option for best performance that magically turns all of that off! Wow!)... Not only that, but unlike Win98 and ME, you can turn off ALL unnessesary eye candy from just one window, instead of digging through display properties, folder properties, AND system properties...
Two: Microsoft's prior OSs (Win9x, NT4, 2000, ME) were designed to be backwards compatible... That is why you can put a SB-16 from 1993 into your PC running such an OS without any problems... However, the consumer market, eg: the ones who put money back into the PC industry and MS's pockets, are always buying new hardware... So MS decided that it wasn't as profitable to be 100% backwards compatible... Don't like it? Use Linux, Mac, whatever... Or buy a used Mac or PC from Goodwill and run System 7x or whatever can be shoehorned onto a 20MB HD these days...
For the record though, XP supports hardware built within the last 3-4 years, which isn't so unusual for any OS, since at least 1/4 of hardware made 3-4 years ago aren't even supported by their own manufacturers (Try looking up drivers for any Cirrus Logic 6454 video chipset sometime, and you'll see what I mean)...
Out of all hardware issues I've had (one total), it was a Microtek 3630 USB scanner, read by WinXP as a Visioneer scanner... Despite that, however, it works properly, and tricking WinXP into recognising the scanner as it's proper model/manufacturer was fairly simple as well...
Three: To those whining how XP doesn't work for them, try burning your warezed ISOs at a lower speed, then do the "change CD key" trick to avoid timebombs in the SP1 release when it comes out... And last but not least, RTFM...
For all intents and purposes, WinXP is a *good* OS... Even adequate... Friendlier than Win2K, and faster to boot (literally and figuratively) if you know how to tweak it (took me 2-3 days after installing it to figure it out, without needing outside assistance)...
Oh, and for the rumormongers: WinAmp, DiVX, all codecs, DVD and CD ripping with outside applications still works despite the alleged WMP 6.4+ security patch... In fact, while everyone is ready and eager to take the wording of a EULA as gospel, can anyone provide documented proof that anything remotely similar to the claims made actually occured? Has WMP magically made your WinAmp, DiVX Playa, codecs or ripping software either vanish or cease to function?
Or are you simply spreading FUD to promote Linux further than it has to? Hate to tell you this, but the Windows/Mac users aren't going to conscientiously throw away an OS they grew experienced with using, just to satiate your egos, and when you spread FUD to those who *have* already converted and those who were already Linux zealots, you're preaching to the choir...
Hacking was beginning. What happen? Someone set up us the uplink! We get signal! What? Main screen turn on! How are you gentlemen. All your comsat are belong to us.
This concludes the 9,238,973rd reiteration of Zero Wing, though perhaps if the banner repeated "All Your Comsat Are Belong To Us!" on every network, it would have been much, MUCH funnier...
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Semi intelligent post, actually...
I always wondered about this sort of thing, for example, how many movies in the 1990s used the Aliens soundtrack for preview clips aired on TV, and how many of them actually had permission to do so... I mean there were roughly 10 seperate movies from 2-3 seperate movie companies other than Fox, all using the same track (I forget the title, but lets just say it's from the "escaping from the fusion atmospheric convertor plant" theme... You know which one I'm talking about...
Anyhoo, who did they get permission from? Did they get it from Fox (the copyright holder on Aliens at least), ASCAP, the guy who orchestrated and copyrighted said soundtrack? Who gave permission?
2. if they do find his code used for piracy why would they not find VCRs, analog cables, DVD drives, and computers to be piracy tools also.
A) They tried to (see Universal V. Sony, 1984) but couldn't...
B) They couldn't, since such would require making all wiring illegal (anyone can jury rig an RCA patch cable)...
C)They can and are, since they can pretty much buy any congressman they want to...
For that matter, isn't there some form of statute of limitations? Furthermore, as his "criminal" act did not result in bodily harm or property damage, is it really so ethical (well, yeah, we ARE talking about the MPAA here, but that's besides the point) to hold someone responsible for something that amounts to TP'ing the Hollywood sign when they were kids, only to seek perse- er- prosecution when they're old enough to lock away?
I mean jeeze, when I was a kid, I got drunk a lot before the whole zero tolerance thing, before I was legal age for drinking, and gave booze to my similarly underaged friends... Does that mean I should go to jail for corruption of minors (including myself)? That's just plain stupid, for lack of a better description...
If they used a Dreamcast to crack Sony's corporate office network?
Or at least to introduce new "leg lifting" behavior models to their Aibo software...
After all, it doesn't reverse or completely negate gravity per se, and there is no evidence that it negates gravity other than that within immediate influence of the superconductors involved... Shouldn't the term be "gravity dampening" instead?
Collecting and redistributing EULAs be in fact a violation of the terms of the EULA in the first place? Oh the irony...
How about a robot that does The Robot?
Is to yank the guts from an old TRS-80 Model III, replace the display with an old 13" CRT, and install a basic PC into it... Would look hella funny at a LAN party, IMO...
Can you imagine a RAID array of these?
(rimshot)
Don't forget that out of ANY TV series in the world, Cowboy Bebop also has the largest soundtrack, no holds barred... 5 CDs in total... Not those "Songs INSPIRED by such and such a movie or show" crap CDs you see advertised on late night teevee either, every track is an original (with a few remixed for incidental music, such as "Doggy Dog")...
For the anime OST geek, a bit of fun trivia as well (for those who haven't seen the series): Yoko Kanno (Macross Plus, Vision of Escaflowne) was the producer/composer of most of the soundtrack...
Actually, they're surprisingly unedited/uncensored... Only part they really cut was the "money shot" with the kid from Sympathy for the Devil...
Actually that's erroneous, VCD standard is MPEG-1, SVCD is MPEG-2 (at lower resolution/bitrate than MPEG-2 used on DVD media)...
VCD, at adequate resolution (eg; as good as if not slightly lesser quality than VHS) consumes approximately 650 Mb per hour on the media...
SVCD tends to consume quite a bit more, usually 3-4 CD-Rs used to make one SVCD (hence why DVD-R is more appropriate)
Now what DOES make S/VCD a much better candidate for educational purposes, is the sheer price of the players... While one could purchase a DVD player with VCD capabilities, there are actually cheaper "dedicated" machines, some even the size of portable CD players, with the sole purpose of playing VCD media (basically a compact disc player with an extra chip for decoding and video playback of MPEG media through a spare RCA jack)... Those usually run $100 tops, with the bonus of being very portable...
But has anyone considered using this technology to take their home off the grid (if not actually attempt to run a small power plant)? There are some power plants that run off of refuse incinerators, but if a diesel turbine can be modified to run off of biodiesel, then you could kill two birds with one stone...
Has anyone considered the possibility of building a fuel cell along those lines as well? One that you could, say, start with a small fireplace in order to heat the vegetable oil/grease to a vapor state sufficient to combust?
While vehicles aren't the most efficient energy consumers, most homes are considerably worse...
And then there's possibilities for developing nations, to both do away with a large amount of pollution, where even small villages could have electricity with waste products as the fuel (some do this already with methane producing cesspits)... Just retrofitting old diesel generator rigs with a system like this could move a lot of areas into at least the 20th century...
You're wrong as well, Abe's brains were blown out, and he died on the scene at the Ford theater... The one they first used A/C for was president James Garfield, who was dying from an assasin's bullet... Specifically, it was in 1881, and was an evaporative air conditioner that worked in the manner you described...
The "modern" chemically cooled air conditioner was invented in 1902...
Now you can stick a large display on the ceiling, for that simulated mirror on the ceiling effect with the porno actress/actor of your choice! (not responsible for emotional damages in the event Ron Jeremy appears upon your ceiling)
You, sir, are an utter retard...
Does that mean, therefore, that anyone running Linux without the fix for the 1i0n (or however that's spelled) exploit, can sue Linus Torvald, Redhat, et al for damages? How about anyone running a Micro$oft OS that has an exploit taken advantage of with a worm, virus, etc, that was created on a Linux system with the sole purpose of damaging as many M$ OSs as possible?
If you get shot by someone and suffer horrendous injuries, do you sue every bullet proof vest manufacturer, or gun manufacturer because they didn't base their business model around you? Or do you sue (or at least lock up) the one who pointed the gun at you and pull the trigger? Do you go around your neighborhood, testing each doorknob to see if the house is locked, then rob and burn down each house that isn't? Is it the homeowner's fault for not locking the door, or you for entering in the first place?
If you want to hold anyone responsible, try the guy/s who code viruses and worms... Anyone with sufficient pathological incentive to wreak havoc and trash a computer system (or, basically, anything else) will do so...
Responsibility goes two ways, on one hand, those who have known for a substantial period of time that there was a problem that needed addressing, and those who take advantage of that problem... The net makes this all more obvious, at least to those of us with a smidgen of common sense...
Considering that despite the worm being in the wild for over a year, that either installing a *nix varient, applying a service pack, or simply running a decent antivirus app were alternatives to being infected? All of which are conscientious actions of the user, admin, etc? All actions that are made on the part of the user? All options undertaken or not by the user?
Sounds an awful lot like the fault of the user to me...
From scratch for $500 or under, and I'll buy your precious OS... Otherwise, Apple holds a monopoly on the PowerPC market, and in addition, an unfair and artificially inflated pricing scheme for their hardware...
As in March 2002...
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The difficulty is twofold in regards to case design... One, coming up with a design that is truly innovative and original, second is coming up with a design that appeals to the masses at large...
Case in point, the monstrosities that are unveiled by the major manufacturers, who are concentrating more on the bottom line, selling new machines, as opposed to actual innovation...
There are a few exceptions, such as Lian-Li and others, but the primary difficulty is as old as the PC itself: The PC, from etching bath through soldering, testing, wiring and assembly, is an engineering task first, and a creative job second (or third, or fourth, etc)... It's overwhelmingly the "all" of using a PC... And unfortunately, there's little to no way for as vast an industry to make any real profitability from eclectic quirks and traits...
Apple, in the meanwhile, has developed as a result of that very eclecticness, by essentially combining both the engineering AND artistic aspects towards the same goal...
The (x86) PC market won't advance into that range until they learn to "think out of the box" as it were...
And no, I have several unused aging Macs on a shelf in a closet, and a 1.5 Ghz PC on my desk, either are adequate as tools IMO, both have benefits and drawbacks... A terribly unpopular view in regards to technology, but hey, a wine drinker only drinks what brand is handy, a wine *taster* drinks all brands of wine one sip at a time...
Yes, you can do it that way too, sifting through two seperate windows... OR you could do it in one window via the system properties...
One: Windows XP can be adjusted so that you don't have skinning slowing the system down (under system properties, advanced, performance, lookie, a checkbox option for best performance that magically turns all of that off! Wow!)... Not only that, but unlike Win98 and ME, you can turn off ALL unnessesary eye candy from just one window, instead of digging through display properties, folder properties, AND system properties...
Two: Microsoft's prior OSs (Win9x, NT4, 2000, ME) were designed to be backwards compatible... That is why you can put a SB-16 from 1993 into your PC running such an OS without any problems... However, the consumer market, eg: the ones who put money back into the PC industry and MS's pockets, are always buying new hardware... So MS decided that it wasn't as profitable to be 100% backwards compatible... Don't like it? Use Linux, Mac, whatever... Or buy a used Mac or PC from Goodwill and run System 7x or whatever can be shoehorned onto a 20MB HD these days...
For the record though, XP supports hardware built within the last 3-4 years, which isn't so unusual for any OS, since at least 1/4 of hardware made 3-4 years ago aren't even supported by their own manufacturers (Try looking up drivers for any Cirrus Logic 6454 video chipset sometime, and you'll see what I mean)...
Out of all hardware issues I've had (one total), it was a Microtek 3630 USB scanner, read by WinXP as a Visioneer scanner... Despite that, however, it works properly, and tricking WinXP into recognising the scanner as it's proper model/manufacturer was fairly simple as well...
Three: To those whining how XP doesn't work for them, try burning your warezed ISOs at a lower speed, then do the "change CD key" trick to avoid timebombs in the SP1 release when it comes out... And last but not least, RTFM...
For all intents and purposes, WinXP is a *good* OS... Even adequate... Friendlier than Win2K, and faster to boot (literally and figuratively) if you know how to tweak it (took me 2-3 days after installing it to figure it out, without needing outside assistance)...
Oh, and for the rumormongers: WinAmp, DiVX, all codecs, DVD and CD ripping with outside applications still works despite the alleged WMP 6.4+ security patch... In fact, while everyone is ready and eager to take the wording of a EULA as gospel, can anyone provide documented proof that anything remotely similar to the claims made actually occured? Has WMP magically made your WinAmp, DiVX Playa, codecs or ripping software either vanish or cease to function?
Or are you simply spreading FUD to promote Linux further than it has to? Hate to tell you this, but the Windows/Mac users aren't going to conscientiously throw away an OS they grew experienced with using, just to satiate your egos, and when you spread FUD to those who *have* already converted and those who were already Linux zealots, you're preaching to the choir...
Chicken Plucking Unit?
Ironically, the guy who came up with this is named "Wool"...
Hacking was beginning.
What happen?
Someone set up us the uplink!
We get signal!
What?
Main screen turn on!
How are you gentlemen.
All your comsat are belong to us.
This concludes the 9,238,973rd reiteration of Zero Wing, though perhaps if the banner repeated "All Your Comsat Are Belong To Us!" on every network, it would have been much, MUCH funnier...