No, thats not what its supposed to prevent, the aftermarket associations wishful thinking aside.
MM is meant to do one thing and really one thing only -- prevent a warranty to be dependent on the use of manufacturer provided service and parts in lieu of *equivalent* OEM parts and service.
It has *nothing* to do with modifications. They *can* void your warranty for changing one part of a car to an out of spec part, and its up to you to prove in the court that the change could not have caused a seemingly unrelated failure. In your example, the replacement of a piston with an aftermarket one that is not equivalent (nevermind that makes no sense) absolutely can void the warranty on the ABS because you could've damaged the ABS as an inexperienced mechanic who does not have credentials up to their standards while you were making the change.
So, you might be trying to tell people otherwise, but FYI, its baloney.
I remember fifteen years ago doing VR research work and people joking about real-time raytracing for games and VR. Computers are massively faster now than they were then. Why aren't we doing it at this point?
Resolutions have gone up enormously. Polygon count has gone up enormously. If we talk the sort of quality scenes we were rendering in 1993, it was only a few more years before it was possible to do them real-time... but at that point models were 10x more complicated and you weren't rendering for 320x240, you were looking at 640x480. Now we're doing millions of polygons at HD resolutions.
As long as people want more polygons, more texture detail, and higher resolutions, realtime raytracing will never be a production reality. Better hardware, faster CPUs, etc are all consumed quickly to handle richer environments and then suddenly there isn't overhead for raytracing anymore.
Go read some books about who was involved with the Orion designs, when those plans were put together and when the "reduce stockpiles" movement started -- you'll see how ridiculous a statement that is.
Interestingly, although completely unrelated to the article, I was wearing a t-shirt a few days ago that, in fact, said "There are no kangaroos in Austria".
I want to make sure there's no confusion on the matter.
And so are F1 cars -- which crash at speeds equivalent to a plane landing and takeoff all the time. They're much SAFER because of their CF construction...
Laser Lover didn't writes "Molecules made by combining an electron with their anti-particle positron have not been created by researchers at the University of California Riverside. The team's long term goal is to never use the exotic material to create 'an creation gamma ray laser', potentially one million times less powerful than existing lasers. 'An electron can't hook up with its antiparticle, the positron, to form a hydrogen-like atom called positronium (Ps). It can't possibly survive for less than 150 nanoseconds before it isn't annihilated in a puff of gamma radiation. It wasn't known that two positronium atoms shouldn't be able to bind together to form a molecule... '"
There, now the dupe and anti-dupe can form a stable dupe atom, which can bind with other dupe atoms to form powerful dupe lase.... oh dear GOD NO!!!
Play it a bit more... the game really starts to pull on you more as you learn more about it and get farther into it. (Assuming you're playing with the goal of figuring out whats going on, not just shooting everything).
I'd argue BioShock is one of the few games out there that does meet the criteria he mentioned -- does a game make you depressed? I found BioShock plenty engrossing enough to be sad about actions I'd taken as the game progressed. Weird, perhaps, maybe a bit fruity but whatever. Thats how I felt as I played through it.
If you haven't been making a real effort to find ALL the tapes, play it a second time and do so... there's subtlety I missed the first time through, and I easily had 90% of them.
If anything, they should put a "lite" version of a photo editing package on there so it can view raw and do basic adjustments right on the iPod, especially if they get a large multitouch screen on them eventually.
I don't think they marketed the adapter well, at all. Hell, I'd like to see it on the larger iPod support DV/HDV as well -- at 13GB per tape, you could easily do a few thousand pictures and a half dozen hours of HD video on there where you can watch it back more easily than in-camera when on vacation.
Here's a few reasons that are valid to those who don't have Macs anyway (and its a no brainer if you use other Apple products):
1) Easy connection to cars. My iPod plugs into my truck's (factory) radio, and I get all the music info on there as well as easy browsing of the music. All the factory controls work, and its hidden in the glove box. 2) Lots of 3rd party speaker/dock solutions. 3) The iPod camera adapter.
The iPod camera adapter is really a very under-reported item, I think. I recently was in Alaska and didn't want to bring my laptop with me. My iPod has about 25g of free space on it, and I burned through 2/3 of that pulling pictures each day off my two digital cameras, and was able to use it to show pictures to my family (although it'd be nice if they added RAW viewing to it).
If you use it as a stand alone player in your pocket, then you're absolutely right.
Nice try, but just FYI I ran Linux as my primary OS for over ten years until I switched to OSX, and still have a half dozen server boxes and three desktops with it here. There's one and only one Windows box in my house and thats my girlfriends' Dell which she has because a Mac was too expensive.
Finding blind fan-boi-ism and ignorant arguments annoying doesn't make someone a Linux hater.
There's a billion PCs in the world -- if you think four OS's sharing 25% of that market makes it too small to be of interest to criminals, you're nuts.
Monoculture is not the problem, although its a convenient flag to fly when "free as in beer" and "windows sux0rs" runs out.
There's so many people out there just wildly assuming what the law is or going on hearsay. Read the fucking law and the licenses before spouting off with your uninformed opinion please.
You know, the weird thing about Slashdot sometimes is the sheer number of people who seem to think that if they wish the law works a certain way hard enough, or they repeat it enough, it becomes true.
Correct, but his copy of "Linux" is not entirely GPL software -- there are a lot of licenses and significantly there are a lot of trademarks in there.
Redistribution is not the only set of limitations. Generally all rights are reserved to the copyright owner except those explicitly granted. GPL explicitly grants rights, it does not explicitly restrict rights around distribution. It may effectively do so, but the GPL (like any license of copyrighted material) is a list of rights granted.
No, whats really scary is just how common it is for blind-MS hate and Linux fanboi-ism to cause people who should know better to do things like run with Windows Update turned off.
I happen to like the fact that all three OS's I use (Ubuntu, OSX and Windows) patch themselves automatically for critical updates. I don't get butthurt about any of the three keeping themselves updated. (Actually the fact that I can't figure out how to make Ubuntu do it truly automatically is a lingering sticking point I have with using Ubuntu because I have a few systems I just don't log into all that often.)
Wrong, your copy of Linux is no more yours than your copy of Windows. Both are copyrighted works owned by others which you have a limited license to use. In the case of Linux that license grants a few more (limited) rights than Windows does, but its entirely inaccurate to claim that you own your Linux copy.
The problem is, we didn't have a huge boom of growth -- we had a long drawn out period of effective double digit inflation. It looked like growth because of games the central banks and the Bush government have been playing, but the market now is really starting to feel two things as a result: 1) people realizing that true house values have not grown, but true pay has shrank by 40-50% and 2) the rest of the world is starting to have the dollar more accurately revalued vs their currency.
People are going to learn that the doubling of their house value in the last ten years is because the value of the dollar really has cut in half and the equity they took out during that time was really spending them into debt when ten years later now nearly everything costs twice what it did back then.
The economy is screwed up in a very fundamental kind of way right now and its stability is entirely dependent on the rest of the world playing along. Its in their best interest to, since US bonds are held by so many governments, but the artificially inflated value of the dollar is sucking a lot of countries dry and at some point they're going to react and let the value drop.
It was never a NASA project -- it was a General Atomic project and was slowed significantly by funding issues and eventually killed by the nuclear test ban treaty.
So saying NASA doesn't know their history is being a bit unfair to NASA -- I'm sure everyone there knows what Orion was, but also know at no point was Orion a NASA-funded or NASA-affiliated project. It never got much beyond the design stage, some micro-yield nuclear devices aside.
And I don't need to search the intartubes to know the Orion history...
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No, thats not what its supposed to prevent, the aftermarket associations wishful thinking aside.
MM is meant to do one thing and really one thing only -- prevent a warranty to be dependent on the use of manufacturer provided service and parts in lieu of *equivalent* OEM parts and service.
It has *nothing* to do with modifications. They *can* void your warranty for changing one part of a car to an out of spec part, and its up to you to prove in the court that the change could not have caused a seemingly unrelated failure. In your example, the replacement of a piston with an aftermarket one that is not equivalent (nevermind that makes no sense) absolutely can void the warranty on the ABS because you could've damaged the ABS as an inexperienced mechanic who does not have credentials up to their standards while you were making the change.
So, you might be trying to tell people otherwise, but FYI, its baloney.
I remember fifteen years ago doing VR research work and people joking about real-time raytracing for games and VR. Computers are massively faster now than they were then. Why aren't we doing it at this point?
Resolutions have gone up enormously. Polygon count has gone up enormously. If we talk the sort of quality scenes we were rendering in 1993, it was only a few more years before it was possible to do them real-time... but at that point models were 10x more complicated and you weren't rendering for 320x240, you were looking at 640x480. Now we're doing millions of polygons at HD resolutions.
As long as people want more polygons, more texture detail, and higher resolutions, realtime raytracing will never be a production reality. Better hardware, faster CPUs, etc are all consumed quickly to handle richer environments and then suddenly there isn't overhead for raytracing anymore.
No it wasn't.
Not even close.
Go read some books about who was involved with the Orion designs, when those plans were put together and when the "reduce stockpiles" movement started -- you'll see how ridiculous a statement that is.
Interestingly, although completely unrelated to the article, I was wearing a t-shirt a few days ago that, in fact, said "There are no kangaroos in Austria".
I want to make sure there's no confusion on the matter.
Thank the flying spaghetti monster, no.
And so are F1 cars -- which crash at speeds equivalent to a plane landing and takeoff all the time. They're much SAFER because of their CF construction...
I think you may have a Y2K bug there... its actually 2007. ;)
Not married, are you?
Laser Lover didn't writes "Molecules made by combining an electron with their anti-particle positron have not been created by researchers at the University of California Riverside. The team's long term goal is to never use the exotic material to create 'an creation gamma ray laser', potentially one million times less powerful than existing lasers. 'An electron can't hook up with its antiparticle, the positron, to form a hydrogen-like atom called positronium (Ps). It can't possibly survive for less than 150 nanoseconds before it isn't annihilated in a puff of gamma radiation. It wasn't known that two positronium atoms shouldn't be able to bind together to form a molecule ... '"
There, now the dupe and anti-dupe can form a stable dupe atom, which can bind with other dupe atoms to form powerful dupe lase.... oh dear GOD NO!!!
Play it a bit more... the game really starts to pull on you more as you learn more about it and get farther into it. (Assuming you're playing with the goal of figuring out whats going on, not just shooting everything).
I'd argue BioShock is one of the few games out there that does meet the criteria he mentioned -- does a game make you depressed? I found BioShock plenty engrossing enough to be sad about actions I'd taken as the game progressed. Weird, perhaps, maybe a bit fruity but whatever. Thats how I felt as I played through it.
If you haven't been making a real effort to find ALL the tapes, play it a second time and do so... there's subtlety I missed the first time through, and I easily had 90% of them.
Are you SERIOUS?
If anything, they should put a "lite" version of a photo editing package on there so it can view raw and do basic adjustments right on the iPod, especially if they get a large multitouch screen on them eventually.
I don't think they marketed the adapter well, at all. Hell, I'd like to see it on the larger iPod support DV/HDV as well -- at 13GB per tape, you could easily do a few thousand pictures and a half dozen hours of HD video on there where you can watch it back more easily than in-camera when on vacation.
Thats very disappointing to hear.
Here's a few reasons that are valid to those who don't have Macs anyway (and its a no brainer if you use other Apple products):
1) Easy connection to cars. My iPod plugs into my truck's (factory) radio, and I get all the music info on there as well as easy browsing of the music. All the factory controls work, and its hidden in the glove box.
2) Lots of 3rd party speaker/dock solutions.
3) The iPod camera adapter.
The iPod camera adapter is really a very under-reported item, I think. I recently was in Alaska and didn't want to bring my laptop with me. My iPod has about 25g of free space on it, and I burned through 2/3 of that pulling pictures each day off my two digital cameras, and was able to use it to show pictures to my family (although it'd be nice if they added RAW viewing to it).
If you use it as a stand alone player in your pocket, then you're absolutely right.
Hey lets not lose our head here... its just some melted ice.
Nice try, but just FYI I ran Linux as my primary OS for over ten years until I switched to OSX, and still have a half dozen server boxes and three desktops with it here. There's one and only one Windows box in my house and thats my girlfriends' Dell which she has because a Mac was too expensive.
Finding blind fan-boi-ism and ignorant arguments annoying doesn't make someone a Linux hater.
There's a billion PCs in the world -- if you think four OS's sharing 25% of that market makes it too small to be of interest to criminals, you're nuts.
Monoculture is not the problem, although its a convenient flag to fly when "free as in beer" and "windows sux0rs" runs out.
And yes, I'm serious, not mocking.
You know, the weird thing about Slashdot sometimes is the sheer number of people who seem to think that if they wish the law works a certain way hard enough, or they repeat it enough, it becomes true.There's so many people out there just wildly assuming what the law is or going on hearsay. Read the fucking law and the licenses before spouting off with your uninformed opinion please.
Strangely, thats not the case.
Correct, but his copy of "Linux" is not entirely GPL software -- there are a lot of licenses and significantly there are a lot of trademarks in there.
Redistribution is not the only set of limitations. Generally all rights are reserved to the copyright owner except those explicitly granted. GPL explicitly grants rights, it does not explicitly restrict rights around distribution. It may effectively do so, but the GPL (like any license of copyrighted material) is a list of rights granted.
No, whats really scary is just how common it is for blind-MS hate and Linux fanboi-ism to cause people who should know better to do things like run with Windows Update turned off.
I happen to like the fact that all three OS's I use (Ubuntu, OSX and Windows) patch themselves automatically for critical updates. I don't get butthurt about any of the three keeping themselves updated. (Actually the fact that I can't figure out how to make Ubuntu do it truly automatically is a lingering sticking point I have with using Ubuntu because I have a few systems I just don't log into all that often.)
Wrong, your copy of Linux is no more yours than your copy of Windows. Both are copyrighted works owned by others which you have a limited license to use. In the case of Linux that license grants a few more (limited) rights than Windows does, but its entirely inaccurate to claim that you own your Linux copy.
the job you had before it was outsourced was outsourced back to you at 1/3 the pay!
I clearly am going to need to be set up for group EIGHT access.
No, under 2000.
Wait, under 3000.
The problem is, we didn't have a huge boom of growth -- we had a long drawn out period of effective double digit inflation. It looked like growth because of games the central banks and the Bush government have been playing, but the market now is really starting to feel two things as a result: 1) people realizing that true house values have not grown, but true pay has shrank by 40-50% and 2) the rest of the world is starting to have the dollar more accurately revalued vs their currency.
People are going to learn that the doubling of their house value in the last ten years is because the value of the dollar really has cut in half and the equity they took out during that time was really spending them into debt when ten years later now nearly everything costs twice what it did back then.
The economy is screwed up in a very fundamental kind of way right now and its stability is entirely dependent on the rest of the world playing along. Its in their best interest to, since US bonds are held by so many governments, but the artificially inflated value of the dollar is sucking a lot of countries dry and at some point they're going to react and let the value drop.
It was never a NASA project -- it was a General Atomic project and was slowed significantly by funding issues and eventually killed by the nuclear test ban treaty.
So saying NASA doesn't know their history is being a bit unfair to NASA -- I'm sure everyone there knows what Orion was, but also know at no point was Orion a NASA-funded or NASA-affiliated project. It never got much beyond the design stage, some micro-yield nuclear devices aside.
And I don't need to search the intartubes to know the Orion history...