Do you have any idea how much security is actually involved with classified information? Obviously not, or you wouldn't be putting this idiotic suggestion forth because you don't know enough about what you're talking about to be talking about it other than from your rectum.
Suffice it to say there is a LOT of effort that goes into protecting classified information and it's a royal pain in the ass. There is no way in hell a college is going to actually go through such inconvenience to do it. Now go sit down.
One I got at the.NET launch party at George Mason Univ. in Virginia and one that I got from my Comp. Sci. Prof at college (the department has a license that grants a free copy with unique key to anyone who wants one).
Now I'm going to have to crack one of my legit copies so I don't have to call the overlords at Microsoft when I reinstall.
Here's what Microsoft is doing: "Look there's a software pirate crawling across my shoe!" *BLAM* "Ow my foot!!!@#"
Bullshit. Those crappy white headphones that come with it suck balls and you should only use them if you think the iPod is a status symbol rather than a solid device. People aren't using other headphones to hide the fact that they're using an iPod. They're using other headphones because the white ones suck ass.
They hurt and if you have to take them out - which, being a portable device you probably will frequently - they have to be held onto or something so they don't flop to the ground. Get a set of headphones that have some sort of connection between the two earpieces so they can be quickly hung around your neck and then replaced just easily.
I prefer Sony MDR-A44L's over anything but currently it costs half as much to have another pair shipped (mine finally broke after 5 years of abuse) as it does for the headphones themselves. Like $15 headphones with $7 shipping. grrrrr
My second favorite pair is are these Yamaha studio-like ones that are remarkably light and comfortable enough to wear for 8+ hours (as are the MDRs), but with a 6' cord. However they are basically like a pair of ear muffs they can make your head too hot in a hot room (my office is).
Didn't we completely eradicate smallpox like 70 years ago? Why don't we do the same thing with HIV? (Forgive me for not knowing the specifics.) If HIV is present in no human carriers, then the problem is solved.
As much as I like the idea of cutting of spammers' money, lets not go there. It will only lead to the same thing being done to other criminals, and then political enemies....people someone in power doesn't like, etc in the future.
I think some sort of nonviolent vigilante justice is required. Not necessarily something illegal either. Mark my words, no law will pass that will effectively stop email spam, ever. We're going to have to beat it with technology. Narcotics are illegal, but you know damn well anybody that wants them can get them if they try hard enough.
On a side note, all laws are really pointless anyway. The people who want laws in place don't need them to regulate their own behavior, the people who don't want laws in place will find a way around them or break them anyway. They're a Nice Idea(TM) and nothing more.
Beggar: "Will you fix my computer?" You: "Have I ever asked you for a blowjob?" Beggar: "WHAT?!" You: "If you don't know me well enough to blow me, I don't know you well enough to fix your for computer nothing. Fixing computers is like giving blowjobs. It's something you either volunteer to do, or you get paid to do it." You: *walk away*
Of course this method doesn't work with family members and may or may not work with members of the opposite sex depending on which way you swing; and of course a girl can't really receive a blowjob, but then girls don't know how to fix computers anyway. (That was a joke ladies, calm down. (Oh wait, girls don't read/. (Still joking......guys.)))
IF you'd RTFA you'd know that it doesn't render halves of the screen. It uses load balancing similar to that found in multiprocessor systems. While most applications aren't written to use two cpus simultaneously, the system can distribute the total system load very evenly provided no single process uses 100% of a CPU.
So it's not rendering "halves" of the screen, each GPU is doing an equal share of the rendering work so that while the work of one card may only be a small portion of the screen they both did the same amount of mathematical work. I read about this four days ago on http://www.hardocp.com/.
Trust me, I can't play the game without the DVD in the drive. And believe me it is doing CD/DVD checks, because a couple of times it failed and said, "Failed to detect original disc." and wouldn't let me play the game.
Is that the people who paid less money to get the game via Steam don't have to have the cd/DVD in their drive. I paid $80 for the Collector's edition (I wanted the DVD), so I get the privilage of being required to have the fucking DVD in my drive to play the game.
Anybody found a no DVD crack for it yet?
Speaking of that I think I'll call Valve right now and about this.... Damn, no phone support; they tell you to go to steampowered.com and there's no phone # there.
I did a domain WHOIS but unfortunately their domain registrations are handled through some sort of third party domain proxy so you can't use the WHOIS information to actually contact the company who really owns the domain. How lame.
Winamp stopped adding useful features / improvements (for me) after version 3.0... iTunes and WMP10 are much better, with song rating / automatic playlists (song I didn't heard in the past week I like, yes thank you).
Why anyone would pay for Winamp is beyond me. The free version does the job... like a bunch of programs out there. Of course, brand recognition, nostalgy and all...
Yes, they never added any wonderful features like WM & iTunes, such as DRM. I love winamp, I've used it since early 2.xx. It's small, works well, is minimilistic, tastefully designed, has responded to multimedia keyboard actions for a long time, it has great visualizations. I have a 20GB iPod, and the playlists I make in Winamp are usable by Ephpod to load onto my iPod. I don't use iTunes because it only allows you to synchronize your iPod with ONE computer. Ephod doesn't care if you plug your iPod into 9 different computers and get songs from all of them. If you tried that with iTunes it would replace everything on the iPod with what was on that particular computer.
Sure I kinda liked the rating thing, but iTunes' playlist support sucks ass.
Most succinctly put: WM, iTunes, Real Whateverthefuckthey'recallingitnow, and especially Musicmatch PieceOfShitBox are all bloated pieces of crap. Not to mention you can get a virtually limitless supply of plugins for winamp to do damn near anything. Some people want to be able to burn playlists from Winamp. The free version is plenty for me personally.
Install the game from 12x DVD-ROM drive (DVD edition of the game): 5 minutes.
Activate/Unlock/Enable the game I bought: 45 minutes. (I'm wtf'ing at this
point already.)
Start the game off a SCSI 3 RAID 0 Array of (4) Atlas 10K IIIs on a system
with 768MB of RAM: 2 minutes (More wtf'ing ensues.)
Have the game crash and hardlock a dual CPU computer: 45 seconds to fully
lock up & require a reboot.
Reboot: 2 minutes
Attempt to start the game and have steam tell me, "Sorry this game
is unavailable right now, please try again later.": (Extremely irate WTF'ing
ensues!) I bought the fucking game, I installed the fucking game, why can't
I PLAY THE FUCKING GAME!?!
Attempt to start the game again, (watching task manager): hl2.exe appears
after 5 seconds, then vanishes.
Attempt to start the game again, (watching task manager): hl2.exe appears
after 5 seconds, then vanishes.
Attempt to start the game again, (watching task manager): Game starts,
requires 2 minutes. (head shaking ensues)
55 minutes after I start installing the game, I get to play it.
To Valve: Steam is an atrocity, I just bought the collector's edition and
I'll probably crack the game anyway so I can run it without the atrocity that
is steam and without the disc. (The disc is required by
the way, at least to start the game if you installed from a DVD).
Yet another person who has taken the bait. Stop thinking "pretty" makes the game people. Games are supposed to be FUN above all, right? I imagine Doom III was beautiful on a machine that can run it at a reasonable framerate, but despite that I just simply didn't find it much fun so I uninstalled it and have no intention buying it, ever.
That said, I saw a demo vid of HL2 yesterday and I'm going to go buy it today. Why? It was pretty, yes, but I GET TO PLAY WITH A GRAVITY GUN!
The difference is taking 1000 from someone's account deprives them of that $1000. By downloading a song from wherever, is the original owner deprived of that song? No! That is the essence of the legal term for stealing. Depriving someone else of something. RIAA claims they're being deprived of profit, whether or not that is true is subject to proof, but as for being deprived of the music that was download, that's obviously not true.
Learn the difference between stealing and illegal copyright infringement. They are NOT one and the same.
I think he should have to spend 9 years doing tech support (not counting hours not on the job) without possibility of promotion; of course monitored heavily so that he can't just start spamming at work. Pay him minimum wage without possibility of a raise. If he doesn't show up for work, then send him to jail and let bubba spam his port.
Ergo, the experience has now been duplicated, and hence stolen.
Once again, copyright infringement and/or illegally downloading movies is not stealing. Stealing involves physical goods. Taking a physical CD from a music store is stealing. Downloading a cd you don't ownnot stealing.
Stop believing what the RIAA/MPAA wants you to believe.
My god what a ripoff. That thing is an ipod mini with the buttons moved around, 1 more GB of space and released by a demonic company.
I just got a 4th gen (click wheel) ipod and its fantastic. There are minor innovations since at least the 2nd gen. Supposedly the 4th gen is all new stuff inside and out, but I haven't noticed much difference aside from the customizable menus and new games.
Things that are new to me: Games: Parachute (aim a turret with the wheel, shoot parachuting men and hellicopters) Solitare (my favorite time killing game when I'm on a calculator or other tiny device) And best of all: Music Quiz (It plays about 5 seconds of a song that is on your ipod and you try and pick which one it is from a list of 5 songs on displayed on screen. Your possible points counts down as well as the # of choices. The perfect game for a portable mp3 player, now if only it saved high scores & or let you "win" after so many songs or something)
I'm not an Apple fan, my iPod is the only Apple product I own & use. I don't even use iTunes, I use EphPod. But the iPod is tiny, holds 20GB, has a sleek interface, both physically and the menus, it can charge from the same cable you use to transfer music & data to it with. It's just an all around solid product. While I wish the iPod supported Ogg, and FM radio, its other features outshine the other mp3 players I looked at. Besides, creative's software is a legend among poor quality and bloatware. That and I don't have any USB 2.0 ports on my computer, but I do have IEEE 1394 (aka Firewire). Now I just wish the prices for cases/accessories for the ipod would come down out of the stratosphere.
P.S. I don't wear the idiotic looking, painful, white headphones that come with it. I'm in love with my Sony MDR-A44s.
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Imagine a cluster of these!
Those who think this is a real story.
Those who realize it's an April fool's joke without having to be told.
Those who think that was binary.
Do you have any idea how much security is actually involved with classified information? Obviously not, or you wouldn't be putting this idiotic suggestion forth because you don't know enough about what you're talking about to be talking about it other than from your rectum.
Suffice it to say there is a LOT of effort that goes into protecting classified information and it's a royal pain in the ass. There is no way in hell a college is going to actually go through such inconvenience to do it. Now go sit down.
In order to process claims from a reader like this you're going to need a merchant account.
So let's say you try it, I'll outline the events for you in chronological order:
One I got at the .NET launch party at George Mason Univ. in Virginia and one that I got from my Comp. Sci. Prof at college (the department has a license that grants a free copy with unique key to anyone who wants one).
Now I'm going to have to crack one of my legit copies so I don't have to call the overlords at Microsoft when I reinstall.
Here's what Microsoft is doing:
"Look there's a software pirate crawling across my shoe!" *BLAM* "Ow my foot!!!@#"
Bullshit. Those crappy white headphones that come with it suck balls and you should only use them if you think the iPod is a status symbol rather than a solid device. People aren't using other headphones to hide the fact that they're using an iPod. They're using other headphones because the white ones suck ass.
They hurt and if you have to take them out - which, being a portable device you probably will frequently - they have to be held onto or something so they don't flop to the ground. Get a set of headphones that have some sort of connection between the two earpieces so they can be quickly hung around your neck and then replaced just easily.
Newsflash Apple, people's ear canals aren't round.
I prefer Sony MDR-A44L's over anything but currently it costs half as much to have another pair shipped (mine finally broke after 5 years of abuse) as it does for the headphones themselves. Like $15 headphones with $7 shipping. grrrrr
My second favorite pair is are these Yamaha studio-like ones that are remarkably light and comfortable enough to wear for 8+ hours (as are the MDRs), but with a 6' cord. However they are basically like a pair of ear muffs they can make your head too hot in a hot room (my office is).
I miss my MDRs.
All hail Bill Hicks!
(The speaker behind that quote)
Might I suggest this tack:
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131121&cid=10
If it's a girl and you're interested....well you can exchange services.
That's not actually that hard.
If they're selling something, it's not a person speaking their mind/free speech, so screw'em DDOS away.
Free speech != direct marketing.
Get, Weather Watcher.
No ads, no spyware, just works, and works well.
Didn't we completely eradicate smallpox like 70 years ago? Why don't we do the same thing with HIV? (Forgive me for not knowing the specifics.) If HIV is present in no human carriers, then the problem is solved.
As much as I like the idea of cutting of spammers' money, lets not go there. It will only lead to the same thing being done to other criminals, and then political enemies....people someone in power doesn't like, etc in the future.
I think some sort of nonviolent vigilante justice is required. Not necessarily something illegal either. Mark my words, no law will pass that will effectively stop email spam, ever. We're going to have to beat it with technology. Narcotics are illegal, but you know damn well anybody that wants them can get them if they try hard enough.
On a side note, all laws are really pointless anyway. The people who want laws in place don't need them to regulate their own behavior, the people who don't want laws in place will find a way around them or break them anyway. They're a Nice Idea(TM) and nothing more.
Beggar: "Will you fix my computer?"
/. (Still joking......guys.)))
You: "Have I ever asked you for a blowjob?"
Beggar: "WHAT?!"
You: "If you don't know me well enough to blow me, I don't know you well enough to fix your for computer nothing. Fixing computers is like giving blowjobs. It's something you either volunteer to do, or you get paid to do it."
You: *walk away*
Of course this method doesn't work with family members and may or may not work with members of the opposite sex depending on which way you swing; and of course a girl can't really receive a blowjob, but then girls don't know how to fix computers anyway. (That was a joke ladies, calm down. (Oh wait, girls don't read
Please tell me someone else caught the "Suport" spelling of the article title before I did.
IF you'd RTFA you'd know that it doesn't render halves of the screen. It uses load balancing similar to that found in multiprocessor systems. While most applications aren't written to use two cpus simultaneously, the system can distribute the total system load very evenly provided no single process uses 100% of a CPU.
So it's not rendering "halves" of the screen, each GPU is doing an equal share of the rendering work so that while the work of one card may only be a small portion of the screen they both did the same amount of mathematical work. I read about this four days ago on http://www.hardocp.com/.
Trust me, I can't play the game without the DVD in the drive. And believe me it is doing CD/DVD checks, because a couple of times it failed and said, "Failed to detect original disc." and wouldn't let me play the game.
Is that the people who paid less money to get the game via Steam don't have to have the cd/DVD in their drive. I paid $80 for the Collector's edition (I wanted the DVD), so I get the privilage of being required to have the fucking DVD in my drive to play the game.
Anybody found a no DVD crack for it yet?
Speaking of that I think I'll call Valve right now and about this....
Damn, no phone support; they tell you to go to steampowered.com and there's no phone # there.
I did a domain WHOIS but unfortunately their domain registrations are handled through some sort of third party domain proxy so you can't use the WHOIS information to actually contact the company who really owns the domain. How lame.
Winamp stopped adding useful features / improvements (for me) after version 3.0... iTunes and WMP10 are much better, with song rating / automatic playlists (song I didn't heard in the past week I like, yes thank you).
Why anyone would pay for Winamp is beyond me. The free version does the job... like a bunch of programs out there. Of course, brand recognition, nostalgy and all...
Yes, they never added any wonderful features like WM & iTunes, such as DRM. I love winamp, I've used it since early 2.xx. It's small, works well, is minimilistic, tastefully designed, has responded to multimedia keyboard actions for a long time, it has great visualizations. I have a 20GB iPod, and the playlists I make in Winamp are usable by Ephpod to load onto my iPod. I don't use iTunes because it only allows you to synchronize your iPod with ONE computer. Ephod doesn't care if you plug your iPod into 9 different computers and get songs from all of them. If you tried that with iTunes it would replace everything on the iPod with what was on that particular computer.
Sure I kinda liked the rating thing, but iTunes' playlist support sucks ass.
Most succinctly put: WM, iTunes, Real Whateverthefuckthey'recallingitnow, and especially Musicmatch PieceOfShitBox are all bloated pieces of crap. Not to mention you can get a virtually limitless supply of plugins for winamp to do damn near anything. Some people want to be able to burn playlists from Winamp. The free version is plenty for me personally.
- Install the game from 12x DVD-ROM drive (DVD edition of the game): 5 minutes.
- Activate/Unlock/Enable the game I bought: 45 minutes. (I'm wtf'ing at this
point already.)
- Start the game off a SCSI 3 RAID 0 Array of (4) Atlas 10K IIIs on a system
with 768MB of RAM: 2 minutes (More wtf'ing ensues.)
- Have the game crash and hardlock a dual CPU computer: 45 seconds to fully
lock up & require a reboot.
- Reboot: 2 minutes
- Attempt to start the game and have steam tell me, "Sorry this game
is unavailable right now, please try again later.": (Extremely irate WTF'ing
ensues!) I bought the fucking game, I installed the fucking game, why can't
I PLAY THE FUCKING GAME!?!
- Attempt to start the game again, (watching task manager): hl2.exe appears
after 5 seconds, then vanishes.
- Attempt to start the game again, (watching task manager): hl2.exe appears
after 5 seconds, then vanishes.
- Attempt to start the game again, (watching task manager): Game starts,
requires 2 minutes. (head shaking ensues)
55 minutes after I start installing the game, I get to play it.To Valve: Steam is an atrocity, I just bought the collector's edition and I'll probably crack the game anyway so I can run it without the atrocity that is steam and without the disc. (The disc is required by the way, at least to start the game if you installed from a DVD).
Yet another person who has taken the bait. Stop thinking "pretty" makes the game people. Games are supposed to be FUN above all, right? I imagine Doom III was beautiful on a machine that can run it at a reasonable framerate, but despite that I just simply didn't find it much fun so I uninstalled it and have no intention buying it, ever.
That said, I saw a demo vid of HL2 yesterday and I'm going to go buy it today. Why? It was pretty, yes, but I GET TO PLAY WITH A GRAVITY GUN!
The difference is taking 1000 from someone's account deprives them of that $1000. By downloading a song from wherever, is the original owner deprived of that song? No! That is the essence of the legal term for stealing. Depriving someone else of something. RIAA claims they're being deprived of profit, whether or not that is true is subject to proof, but as for being deprived of the music that was download, that's obviously not true.
Learn the difference between stealing and illegal copyright infringement. They are NOT one and the same.
I think he should have to spend 9 years doing tech support (not counting hours not on the job) without possibility of promotion; of course monitored heavily so that he can't just start spamming at work. Pay him minimum wage without possibility of a raise. If he doesn't show up for work, then send him to jail and let bubba spam his port.
Wow that was more than anyone needed to know about the Rubix cube.
Ergo, the experience has now been duplicated, and hence stolen.
Once again, copyright infringement and/or illegally downloading movies is not stealing. Stealing involves physical goods. Taking a physical CD from a music store is stealing. Downloading a cd you don't own not stealing.
Stop believing what the RIAA/MPAA wants you to believe.
My god what a ripoff. That thing is an ipod mini with the buttons moved around, 1 more GB of space and released by a demonic company.
I just got a 4th gen (click wheel) ipod and its fantastic. There are minor innovations since at least the 2nd gen. Supposedly the 4th gen is all new stuff inside and out, but I haven't noticed much difference aside from the customizable menus and new games.
Things that are new to me:
Games:
Parachute (aim a turret with the wheel, shoot parachuting men and hellicopters)
Solitare (my favorite time killing game when I'm on a calculator or other tiny device)
And best of all:
Music Quiz (It plays about 5 seconds of a song that is on your ipod and you try and pick which one it is from a list of 5 songs on displayed on screen. Your possible points counts down as well as the # of choices. The perfect game for a portable mp3 player, now if only it saved high scores & or let you "win" after so many songs or something)
I'm not an Apple fan, my iPod is the only Apple product I own & use. I don't even use iTunes, I use EphPod. But the iPod is tiny, holds 20GB, has a sleek interface, both physically and the menus, it can charge from the same cable you use to transfer music & data to it with. It's just an all around solid product. While I wish the iPod supported Ogg, and FM radio, its other features outshine the other mp3 players I looked at. Besides, creative's software is a legend among poor quality and bloatware. That and I don't have any USB 2.0 ports on my computer, but I do have IEEE 1394 (aka Firewire). Now I just wish the prices for cases/accessories for the ipod would come down out of the stratosphere.
P.S. I don't wear the idiotic looking, painful, white headphones that come with it. I'm in love with my Sony MDR-A44s.