When you powered on the Commodore 64 (or computers of that age).. sure you were in a 'development environment".. a terse prompt and a blinking cursor.. period. There was no help, there was no internet, no youtube, there was no browser. You were on your own with no easy way to get help.
To play the Devil's Advocate - Sounds like a pretty easy case of being able to prove it wasn't you. And before you say 'It is their job to prove it was you, not the other way around', sending the picture of the vehicle doing it is their way of proving guilt.
On the surface, I might agree. Except if a human had processed the information it wouldn't have ever gotten to me.
But the machine found me guilty. The appeals process, as explained in the automated ticket, involves paying the fine first, and appealing second. If you win your appeal you will get the $50 back...
"pretty foolproof" Your kidding right? There have been many cases of the Red Light Companies moving sensors around to catch people who Hadn't run the red light. And the one time I got a ticket from this system, the plate was unreadable, the Dark 4 door sedan pictured didn't look anything like my white 2 seat convertible, and we (my car and I) were 800 miles away at the time on the time stamp.
I may have tossed mine, but if I still have it, and you have a need/desire you are welcome to it for the cost of shipping. (not an open offer, just the guy that had his stolen)
After these were discontinued, I sold 100 of these in a week. I was working at Radio Shack, and a company used them as portable serial terminals (w/ custom roms), bought every one of them in the District.
When you put money in a slot machine, you are not actualy required to play. You can hit cash out and get your money out.. Or, you can put $10 in at once, and play 25 cent rolls. It adds and subtracts credits as you go.
So.. If the customers were putting in a dollar and immediately hitting "cash out" and getting 10 back. Without playing (or minimally).. put those 10 back in, hit cash out.. put those 100 back in, and hit cashout.. lather rinse repeat.. then I think the casino has a case. Minimally I would expect the casino to black book the customer.
The casinos know exactly who played what and how.
If it's someone that put a roll if $1 coins in.. played, and cashed out w/o noticing the infraction.. The casino should ask nicely for the money back,and maybe offer to pay for a trip back to vegas, and take it on the chin.
I find it amusing that one of the reason the casinos know who these people were was by use of their frequent player cards. Without cards it would get harder to track (Look at hotel registration video/logs, etc).
The summary says: "' Notably, he does not plan on distributing movies online, calling online distribution a 'rathole.'"
the Article says: "That doesn't mean Lucasfilm is diving into online distribution, though. "Having had a lot of experience in this area, we're not rushing in," he said. "We're trying to find out exactly where the monetization is coming from. We're not interested in jumping down a rat hole until such time as it finally figures itself out.""
Are you saying a private business can't ask someone to leave and never come back?
In the US, any business can ask anyone to leave and not come back. Retail stores use this to keep shop lifters from coming back, and casinos use this to get rid of Black Jack card counters. If you do come back they have you arrested for trespassing.
In a casino's case they also publish your name, face, and description with a detective agency that gives the information to most of the other casino's in the country. Not too long after you enter another casino, you are asked to leave again.
In an earlier thread someone recommended "Bringing down the House" about some MIT students beating casinos at blackjack (Team card counting), great book.
I can pay someone to modify a a piece of GPL software for me. If they provide me with the Source and Binaries, and I don't redistribute either, I am free to use it. Neither of us have violated copyright law, or the spirit of the GPL.
The other half of us know that at $350/mo for a celeron 2.0, 120gb drive, and 1 gig of ram (about $65 from LT last I checked), their cheapest server, you are being ripped off. AJAX control panel or not.
Sad part is, it's not even a control panel company, it's a hosting company, who's dedicated servers START at $350/mo. (Celeron 2.0ghz, 120gb drive, 1gb drive, and 1300 gb of data transfer, That'll run ya about $65/mo from other providers so $285/mo markup), and sure they offer shared hosting at $7.50/mo.. but who doesn't?
I can't speak for the poster, I've been working on a project where I had to overlay text on top of a animated gif and output the merged animated gif. No way, at least that I know of, GD would handle it, and ImageMagick did it with very little fuss. I ended up using exec, since I didn't want to mess with perl.
My Wife hasn't played a ps2 game since Twisted metal black. She is mad addicted to Guitar Hero, and has been since the day I brought it home. Although we only recently got a second guitar so for a long time she was "Dualshock hero".
As for other versions I'd love to see stand-up bass hero..
and as everyone else has said.. Cow Bell Hero would indeed ROCK.
1) Buy a crate of USB drives cheap.. 2) Install images and Trojans on all of them 3) sell them on ebay one at a time. 4) Harvest the spoils. 5) Profit!
The time it's in the theater is just part of the reason Theaters want to delay the release. You may very well make your decision (DVD/Theater) Based on how long your gong to have to wait to see it on DVD.. People are much more likely to choose "Seeing it in the Theater Today" over "Seeing it on DVD in 6-8 Months" than they are if the choice is "Seeing it in the Theater Today" vs "Seeing it on DVD Tomorrow."
Slashdot Mirror
When you powered on the Commodore 64 (or computers of that age).. sure you were in a 'development environment".. a terse prompt and a blinking cursor.. period. There was no help, there was no internet, no youtube, there was no browser. You were on your own with no easy way to get help.
If you go to "change plan" in your account, the new pricing structure is there..
3 DVDs and streaming with Blue-Ray is $28/mo.
To play the Devil's Advocate - Sounds like a pretty easy case of being able to prove it wasn't you. And before you say 'It is their job to prove it was you, not the other way around', sending the picture of the vehicle doing it is their way of proving guilt.
On the surface, I might agree. Except if a human had processed the information it wouldn't have ever gotten to me.
But the machine found me guilty. The appeals process, as explained in the automated ticket, involves paying the fine first, and appealing second. If you win your appeal you will get the $50 back...
-Jason
"pretty foolproof"
Your kidding right? There have been many cases of the Red Light Companies moving sensors around to catch people who Hadn't run the red light. And the one time I got a ticket from this system, the plate was unreadable, the Dark 4 door sedan pictured didn't look anything like my white 2 seat convertible, and we (my car and I) were 800 miles away at the time on the time stamp.
-J
Tandy 100, Acoustic Coupler, and a courtesy phone an ATM.... Could call BBSs around the country... Ahh the '80s.
Kids these days and their cell phones, and their intertubes.. GET OFF MY LAWN!
-J
I may have tossed mine, but if I still have it, and you have a need/desire you are welcome to it for the cost of shipping. (not an open offer, just the guy that had his stolen)
After these were discontinued, I sold 100 of these in a week. I was working at Radio Shack, and a company used them as portable serial terminals (w/ custom roms), bought every one of them in the District.
-J
Dark Tower/Gunslinger fans wished for an ending.. and look where that got us?
(I wish I had never picked up any book after the third..)
-Jason
Not recommended, but I have had to do it...
There is the old Hot Bios swap.. Pop out the Bios chip, pop in a donor Bios chip that works, but don't seat it all the way.
Boot.. Then with the machine still on remove the donor Bios, Swap in the bad bios in, and reflash it...
Power off, Reseat properly, and power on.. No more brick.
-Jason
Are their any competitors that you'd recomend?
-Jason
When you put money in a slot machine, you are not actualy required to play. You can hit cash out and get your money out.. Or, you can put $10 in at once, and play 25 cent rolls. It adds and subtracts credits as you go.
So.. If the customers were putting in a dollar and immediately hitting "cash out" and getting 10 back. Without playing (or minimally).. put those 10 back in, hit cash out.. put those 100 back in, and hit cashout.. lather rinse repeat.. then I think the casino has a case. Minimally I would expect the casino to black book the customer.
The casinos know exactly who played what and how.
If it's someone that put a roll if $1 coins in.. played, and cashed out w/o noticing the infraction.. The casino should ask nicely for the money back,and maybe offer to pay for a trip back to vegas, and take it on the chin.
I find it amusing that one of the reason the casinos know who these people were was by use of their frequent player cards. Without cards it would get harder to track (Look at hotel registration video/logs, etc).
-Jason
The Summary is wrong, welcome to Slashdot.
The summary says:
"' Notably, he does not plan on distributing movies online, calling online distribution a 'rathole.'"
the Article says:
"That doesn't mean Lucasfilm is diving into online distribution, though. "Having had a lot of experience in this area, we're not rushing in," he said. "We're trying to find out exactly where the monetization is coming from. We're not interested in jumping down a rat hole until such time as it finally figures itself out.""
-Jason
Mod this up. It made me spew my water.
-Jason
Are you saying a private business can't ask someone to leave and never come back?
In the US, any business can ask anyone to leave and not come back. Retail stores use this to keep shop lifters from coming back, and casinos use this to get rid of Black Jack card counters. If you do come back they have you arrested for trespassing.
In a casino's case they also publish your name, face, and description with a detective agency that gives the information to most of the other casino's in the country. Not too long after you enter another casino, you are asked to leave again.
In an earlier thread someone recommended "Bringing down the House" about some MIT students beating casinos at blackjack (Team card counting), great book.
-Jason
Your argument doesn't hold up.
I can pay someone to modify a a piece of GPL software for me. If they provide me with the Source and Binaries, and I don't redistribute either, I am free to use it. Neither of us have violated copyright law, or the spirit of the GPL.
-Jason
Hmm.. All my Tivos have 30 second Skip.. You can enable it via a back door. I Don't beleive it was ever "standard". That was ReplayTV's "deal".
-Jason
I stumbled across this the other day, in firefox, escape will halt all animated gifs.
-jason
The other half of us know that at $350/mo for a celeron 2.0, 120gb drive, and 1 gig of ram (about $65 from LT last I checked), their cheapest server, you are being ripped off. AJAX control panel or not.
-Jason
Sad part is, it's not even a control panel company, it's a hosting company, who's dedicated servers START at $350/mo. (Celeron 2.0ghz, 120gb drive, 1gb drive, and 1300 gb of data transfer, That'll run ya about $65/mo from other providers so $285/mo markup), and sure they offer shared hosting at $7.50/mo.. but who doesn't?
-Jason
I can't speak for the poster, I've been working on a project where I had to overlay text on top of a animated gif and output the merged animated gif. No way, at least that I know of, GD would handle it, and ImageMagick did it with very little fuss. I ended up using exec, since I didn't want to mess with perl.
-Jason
"Wizards has elected not to make the three core rulebooks for Dungeons & Dragons available as eBooks at this time,"
Perhaps the title should be reworded to say, all but the best selling ones.
-Jason
My Wife hasn't played a ps2 game since Twisted metal black. She is mad addicted to Guitar Hero, and has been since the day I brought it home. Although we only recently got a second guitar so for a long time she was "Dualshock hero".
As for other versions I'd love to see stand-up bass hero..
and as everyone else has said.. Cow Bell Hero would indeed ROCK.
-Jason
Sounds like a perfect parody of Wierd Al himself...
Record it!
-Jason
1) Buy a crate of USB drives cheap..
2) Install images and Trojans on all of them
3) sell them on ebay one at a time.
4) Harvest the spoils.
5) Profit!
-Jason
SUV 20mpg.. $6/2.50=2.4 Gallons
2.4X20=48 Miles round trip.
24 Miles one way.
I live 30 miles from the nearest Theater.. But only 2 miles from Blockbuster/walmart.
-Jason
The time it's in the theater is just part of the reason Theaters want to delay the release. You may very well make your decision (DVD/Theater) Based on how long your gong to have to wait to see it on DVD.. People are much more likely to choose "Seeing it in the Theater Today" over "Seeing it on DVD in 6-8 Months" than they are if the choice is "Seeing it in the Theater Today" vs "Seeing it on DVD Tomorrow."
-Jason