and my point was that if you have perfect feet, nike's running shoes are actually really nice, even though the construction sucks. i ran a loooong (~15-mile) slow workout in shox a few months ago, they actually seemed pretty nice - they have the same resilient feel as Air shoes, but without any of the squishiness. The impact absorbtion is much stiffer - not a harder percieved impact, it just seems there's less "give" with just as much "softness" (runners, you know what i mean). my legs felt pretty fresh afterwards, too; if the things weren't like $130 i'd consider investing in a pair (nothing to pop!)
...nike running shoes have always done me pretty well. of course, i have a damn near perfect landing, so i don't need any real support so to speak, and the damn things tend to break/pop/fall apart on me after ~600 miles, but they're actually one of the only shoe brands i've found that don't make my shins/knees/hips/back hurt. shame the quality sucks so badly, though.
no, i *know* this because the guards wear racks of handgun bullets on their belts. they aren't.357 JHPs, just plain round-nosed cast-lead bullets, look rather like the.38 wadcutters i learned to shoot Big Guns with. i haven't taken a real close look at the bullets, i don't care to get *that* close to a guar - but i am 100% sure they carry revolvers, not semi-auto sidearms.
damn straight - at my old college, the "guards" carry pepper spray and sticks...at the lab, the police all carry.38s loaded with wadcutters, about half the guys carry MP5s (the guys at the gate have them set to 3round, apparently Real Men don't use safties), and they have four M16s in the gate booth. and that's just what they let you see - and we aren't even a weapons lab, there's zip that terrorists would be interesting in stealing from here. if you've seen this month's national geographic, you've probably seen the DOE guard with the plutionium locker at rocky flats - i expect nothing less (M16, body armor, cold steely glare) from the gurads at Yucca .
i think our problem here is how we're all thinking of "pollution". yes, CO2 is a "pollutant", but i'd call a small engine that's emitting a lethal cocktail of NOx, CO, hydrocarbons, and the like a much more polluting engine than a huge SUV motor that only emits CO2, H20, and a trace of N2O, even though the total exhaust volume is three times as much as the small engine. [i do have a magic antipollutant device btw, it's called a catalytic converter]
of course a small new car is gonna pollute less than a huge new SUV...but it looks like his brother was fixed on getting the SUV, so he might as well do the environment at least a small favor.
...than beatup old cars with horrible emission-control systems. my old car, a 1988 Subaru GL, had at least three holes in the exhaust/before/ the catalytic converter, the thing spewed black smoke every time i ran it. i'll bet a year's earnings that the crap that came out of that 2.0-L engine was MUCH worse than what comes out of the tailpipe of a brand-new Ford Excursion with fresh, working dual cats and a much more advanced engine management system. THINK before you speak...he did say "more than five years old"...
my parents just got with the 21st century and got a cable modem from Optimum Online. i dunno what their deal is with bandwidth, but i peaked at 905.7K/sec last night, which works out to a little over 7Mbit download with the modem setup exactly as OOL told us to - no tricks. i don't know what's going on, but i can't complain.
i'd say so, since they are technically "circumvention devices" (yes, they're ostensibly making them for homebrew developers, but you CAN use them to copy games) they've been illegal since day 1 - M$ just hasn't made a stink about them until now. and even if they *can't*, they *will* - this IS M$ we're talking about, after all. like i said...gotta love the DMCA. bastards.
no, they'll just force ebay to give them a list of every buyer who got a modchip, then individually sue all of them for possessing circumvention devices. gotta love the DMCA.
yah, i just realized that since that post, i've dropped three more that have progressed from "it's just a TOS violation" to "yup, it's theft." maybe i should just start snorting pure caffeine, then i won't have that silly lagtime while i'm up, moving, and posting but before the coffee hits me
like i said, there was no need to get the FBI involved, and yes, i do think it's stupid to let the modem control the bandwidth - but it's still theft. if i drive off from a gas station i get arrested, even if the station didn't have a pay-first setup; i can't say "well they let me pump then trusted me to pay...so it's their fault for not taking measures to protect their assets."
everybody seems to be saying this is just a TOS violation, and they should have their service cut and be billed for the trouble, but it should end there.
now...these guys were sold a certain amount of bandwidth, which is basically a commodity. they uncapped their modems, which gave them access to more bandwidth (a commodity) than they had originally purchased. regardless of whether or not they actually used it...isn't that theft? IANAL (yet again i say it), but this seems analogous to paying for $10 of gas but pumping $15 worth. i mean...bandwidth isn't free. it costs money. and you bet i'd be DAMN pissed if i was paying $40 a month for 1Mbit, and the guy next door was paying the same, but stealing an extra 4Mbits...to the point of wanting him arrested (although sending in the FBI is way over the top for this...they don't do it to cable theives).
the code reads: No person shall intercept or receive or assist in intercepting or receiving any communications service offered over a cable system, unless specifically authorized to do so by a cable operator or as may otherwise be specifically authorized by law.
IANAL (that acronym seems to be popping up on/. WAY too much these days...), but it seems that they were already authorized to recieve the service (they were paying for aceess), but they violated the terms of said service. which is purely a civil matter. although since bandwidth is limited and a commodity, *not* a God^H^H^Hunspecified-Deity-given right, i suppose they could be nailed for theft...but like i said, IANAL. peace.
what makes MS think people will start all over again when they wouldn't even shell out for XP and a new system
cuz Longhorn apps will requite Longhorn's functionality to work. Like you said, They are using the system they bought a few years ago that still works so you can probably be damn sure M$ will make the older systems NOT work...when all else fails, use force.
if it's truly a "ground-up" reimplementation, and assuming that you don't have any code in common with the original, isn't it basically a "cleanroom" design, held by the courts not to be infringing (a la VirtualGameStation PS emu?)? IANAL, so i'm probably totally wrong, but it seems worth a shot...
I'm not certain that he's exempted from prosecution by way of double jeopardy. the statute of limitations in nevada for these crimes is 5 years (says the article, at least), and all his breakins were prior to 95. he simply can't be prosecuted for these illegalities; the clock's run out.
oh please, NIN electronic? i'd call them heavily electronicized self-absorbed mope-metal...sorta tool meets prodigy. and while 18 does in fact suck, Go is "good" electronic music by any yardstick. Animal Rights is damn fine too, but it's not really electronica...
make a CD sound like an album? i understand everything you've said, but that's like saying you can make a print of Guernica look and feel like the original. AFAIK, you can't recover the aural data lost when you go from a perfectly smooth analog waveform to a choppy digital one. i'm not saying you're wrong, i'm just curious as to what you mean exactly when you say "convert the transfer function...to make it sound like an album".
i have a lacie (sony mechanism) that i got for xmas 1996...granted it's only 2x and won't write DAO, but the sucker's probably burnt at least two discs a day for over five years, and it still works just as well as the day i bought it. even without a fan (that died about a year ago). not the fastest or prettiest writer, but DAMN reliable. just my $0.02...
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and my point was that if you have perfect feet, nike's running shoes are actually really nice, even though the construction sucks.
i ran a loooong (~15-mile) slow workout in shox a few months ago, they actually seemed pretty nice - they have the same resilient feel as Air shoes, but without any of the squishiness. The impact absorbtion is much stiffer - not a harder percieved impact, it just seems there's less "give" with just as much "softness" (runners, you know what i mean). my legs felt pretty fresh afterwards, too; if the things weren't like $130 i'd consider investing in a pair (nothing to pop!)
...nike running shoes have always done me pretty well. of course, i have a damn near perfect landing, so i don't need any real support so to speak, and the damn things tend to break/pop/fall apart on me after ~600 miles, but they're actually one of the only shoe brands i've found that don't make my shins/knees/hips/back hurt. shame the quality sucks so badly, though.
no, i *know* this because the guards wear racks of handgun bullets on their belts. they aren't .357 JHPs, just plain round-nosed cast-lead bullets, look rather like the .38 wadcutters i learned to shoot Big Guns with. i haven't taken a real close look at the bullets, i don't care to get *that* close to a guar - but i am 100% sure they carry revolvers, not semi-auto sidearms.
They're not the rent-a-cops at the mall.
.38s loaded with wadcutters, about half the guys carry MP5s (the guys at the gate have them set to 3round, apparently Real Men don't use safties), and they have four M16s in the gate booth. and that's just what they let you see - and we aren't even a weapons lab, there's zip that terrorists would be interesting in stealing from here. if you've seen this month's national geographic, you've probably seen the DOE guard with the plutionium locker at rocky flats - i expect nothing less (M16, body armor, cold steely glare) from the gurads at Yucca .
damn straight - at my old college, the "guards" carry pepper spray and sticks...at the lab, the police all carry
didn't the original coffee cam (also) catch fire once? two-for-two...remind me not to mix coffee and hardware.
i think our problem here is how we're all thinking of "pollution". yes, CO2 is a "pollutant", but i'd call a small engine that's emitting a lethal cocktail of NOx, CO, hydrocarbons, and the like a much more polluting engine than a huge SUV motor that only emits CO2, H20, and a trace of N2O, even though the total exhaust volume is three times as much as the small engine. [i do have a magic antipollutant device btw, it's called a catalytic converter]
of course a small new car is gonna pollute less than a huge new SUV...but it looks like his brother was fixed on getting the SUV, so he might as well do the environment at least a small favor.
...than beatup old cars with horrible emission-control systems. my old car, a 1988 Subaru GL, had at least three holes in the exhaust /before/ the catalytic converter, the thing spewed black smoke every time i ran it. i'll bet a year's earnings that the crap that came out of that 2.0-L engine was MUCH worse than what comes out of the tailpipe of a brand-new Ford Excursion with fresh, working dual cats and a much more advanced engine management system. THINK before you speak...he did say "more than five years old"...
my parents just got with the 21st century and got a cable modem from Optimum Online. i dunno what their deal is with bandwidth, but i peaked at 905.7K/sec last night, which works out to a little over 7Mbit download with the modem setup exactly as OOL told us to - no tricks. i don't know what's going on, but i can't complain.
i'd say so, since they are technically "circumvention devices" (yes, they're ostensibly making them for homebrew developers, but you CAN use them to copy games) they've been illegal since day 1 - M$ just hasn't made a stink about them until now. and even if they *can't*, they *will* - this IS M$ we're talking about, after all. like i said...gotta love the DMCA. bastards.
no, they'll just force ebay to give them a list of every buyer who got a modchip, then individually sue all of them for possessing circumvention devices. gotta love the DMCA.
totally. on both points.
yah, i just realized that since that post, i've dropped three more that have progressed from "it's just a TOS violation" to "yup, it's theft." maybe i should just start snorting pure caffeine, then i won't have that silly lagtime while i'm up, moving, and posting but before the coffee hits me
like i said, there was no need to get the FBI involved, and yes, i do think it's stupid to let the modem control the bandwidth - but it's still theft. if i drive off from a gas station i get arrested, even if the station didn't have a pay-first setup; i can't say "well they let me pump then trusted me to pay...so it's their fault for not taking measures to protect their assets."
everybody seems to be saying this is just a TOS violation, and they should have their service cut and be billed for the trouble, but it should end there.
now...these guys were sold a certain amount of bandwidth, which is basically a commodity. they uncapped their modems, which gave them access to more bandwidth (a commodity) than they had originally purchased. regardless of whether or not they actually used it...isn't that theft? IANAL (yet again i say it), but this seems analogous to paying for $10 of gas but pumping $15 worth. i mean...bandwidth isn't free. it costs money. and you bet i'd be DAMN pissed if i was paying $40 a month for 1Mbit, and the guy next door was paying the same, but stealing an extra 4Mbits...to the point of wanting him arrested (although sending in the FBI is way over the top for this...they don't do it to cable theives).
the code reads:
/. WAY too much these days...), but it seems that they were already authorized to recieve the service (they were paying for aceess), but they violated the terms of said service. which is purely a civil matter. although since bandwidth is limited and a commodity, *not* a God^H^H^Hunspecified-Deity-given right, i suppose they could be nailed for theft...but like i said, IANAL. peace.
No person shall intercept or receive or assist in intercepting or receiving any communications service offered over a cable system, unless specifically authorized to do so by a cable operator or as may otherwise be specifically authorized by law.
IANAL (that acronym seems to be popping up on
what makes MS think people will start all over again when they wouldn't even shell out for XP and a new system
cuz Longhorn apps will requite Longhorn's functionality to work. Like you said,
They are using the system they bought a few years ago that still works
so you can probably be damn sure M$ will make the older systems NOT work...when all else fails, use force.
if it's truly a "ground-up" reimplementation, and assuming that you don't have any code in common with the original, isn't it basically a "cleanroom" design, held by the courts not to be infringing (a la VirtualGameStation PS emu?)?
IANAL, so i'm probably totally wrong, but it seems worth a shot...
...ski11z sux0r? (0r s0m3such, i'm n0t th4t up 0n my h4cksp34k)
jealous script kiddie.
I'm not certain that he's exempted from prosecution by way of double jeopardy.
the statute of limitations in nevada for these crimes is 5 years (says the article, at least), and all his breakins were prior to 95. he simply can't be prosecuted for these illegalities; the clock's run out.
...deserve a reply? sounds like somebody's been watching a bit too mcuh Chain Reaction.
(and the link doesn't even mention propulsion, just storage)
oh please, NIN electronic? i'd call them heavily electronicized self-absorbed mope-metal...sorta tool meets prodigy.
and while 18 does in fact suck, Go is "good" electronic music by any yardstick. Animal Rights is damn fine too, but it's not really electronica...
make a CD sound like an album? i understand everything you've said, but that's like saying you can make a print of Guernica look and feel like the original. AFAIK, you can't recover the aural data lost when you go from a perfectly smooth analog waveform to a choppy digital one. i'm not saying you're wrong, i'm just curious as to what you mean exactly when you say "convert the transfer function...to make it sound like an album".
wow, she must heal up mighty fast :)
And the NY Times, invented the username/password idea?
for simply getting news, yes, they did. i could be wrong, but they're the first news site i can recall that required a login.
i have a lacie (sony mechanism) that i got for xmas 1996...granted it's only 2x and won't write DAO, but the sucker's probably burnt at least two discs a day for over five years, and it still works just as well as the day i bought it. even without a fan (that died about a year ago). not the fastest or prettiest writer, but DAMN reliable.
just my $0.02...