True, DreamCast didn't make it possible. As the movie 'hackers' demonstrates the first tool for network intrusion is to get the people inside the building to provide you with everything you need to hack in from the outside. And I realize that the DC has limitations, However, I'd like to point out that software designed to emulate a modem, and send it out over the DC's sound would allow you to hook an eternal radio and use a radio to dialup the Dreamcast. Besides, hacking is at least partially about the coolness factor. How cool is it to be able to say you hacked someone with a dreamcast? Sure, hacking them with a PDA is kinda cool, but doesn't require as much hardcore hacking, like writing a software dialup emulator that is tolerant to possible RF interfearance. It takes a lot more ingenuity to get a DreamCast set up as an effective network intrusion device. Any script kiddie can drop off a CD-r labled 'hardcore porn' with an autorun to install a pre-configured back orifice while showing a slideshow of usenet porn. Real hacking takes skill and ingenuity.
First off, have you tried using Virtualdub? I'm Certain that you can in fact produce an AVI with ogg streams for audio. Although vp3 isn't quite ready to replace mpeg-4 yet, you can at least reduce the amount of closed source software used to produce an avi. Oh, and Winamp 2.81 with the DivX movie plugin will play DivX'ed movies, even ones with ogg soundtracks.
I would like to point out that pdf files are not 'open' formats. As a matter of fact, you can't get any more closed or proprietary than the Patented 'Portable' Document Format, which has almost 102 related patents. Yes, PDF is 'free as in beer' but in no way is it an 'open' model, nor is it a 'standard' but rather a 'de facto standard' like 'flash.' Because it's patented, because it's owned Adobe can say "anyone who want's to sell or give away a program that can read or convert PDFs has to pay us $.75 cents per copy of software..." There is an industry standard, it's called PostScript, but unfortunately, that too is entangled with patents, and the main issue with PostScript is that the fonts needed to render PS files correctly are mostly owned (by adobe no less), although you can use free fonts to replace them, this can cause any munber of formatting issues. Adobe maimed postscript through insane fees on their fonts (to complement a laser printer with a full set of PostScript fonts may cost easily $600 or more), to force people into using pdf, which comes with all those owned adobe fonts supported 'free'. PDF isn't free, and adobe may well decide they need to crack down on programs that allow people to open pdfs or convert them to other formats. Especially if they believe there is money to be made from it.
But this IS slashdot, do you think he actually took the time to 'read' the "Thank You" letter? When you've only caught a glimpse of what other/.ers posted from the letter then you could easily miss the dripping sarcasm.
First of all, airports are the same as a border crossing, they're the exception to the constitutional rule. that's why for instance an airport can screen passangers the way they do now. Second of all, the constitution only applies to the government. Anything the government allows private buisness to do isn't protected by anything. The mall of america has 137 'police officers' they don't enforce any of america's laws thought. They enforce the facist rule of the mall owners. They kick anyone out who's causing a disturbance, and detain people until they can be turned over to the police if they're caught in a crime. Imagine what a place like that would pay for a way to read the minds of everyone through the doors (assuming there wasn't public backlash..)
That's old news, the far more user friendly dMac, vMac, and biMac provide all the hot lovin a PC(1) user could want. http://bbspot.com/News/2000/7/new_macs.html
(1) Where PC stands for "Personal Computer" and not "100% IBM comPatable Clone" and definitely not Politically Correct.
Easy, 700 megs is enough for about 50 minutes TOPS in 'good' quality mpeg-4, with 'good' quality sound tracks. If you really want not-humanly-percievable loss vs mpeg-2 you're lucky if 2.1 gigs a movie is enough for mpeg-4 video and mp3 audio. Maybe this guy want's to enjoy near DVD quality, with the convience of fitting more movies per disc. Speaking of which, even if you're willing to compress an hour and a half or more of video into a 700 meg package, you can then fit 7 movies per DVD instead of having to tote around a spindle of CD-r to even carry around a small movie archive. Yes, you need a PC to play them back, but if you have a HDTV a PC is the only device that can send full resolution HDTV images to it's display currently. (as no 1080 scanline DVD players are even made, since you'd need FSAA to make the 720 scanline convervion look any better at 1080 scanlines, and only a $300 PC graphic card can do that, with 1080 scanline HDTV output.) and yes, you'd have to pay the full price of yoru DVD-r drive in media (and use it all probably right away) But to a quality freak DVD-r provide a practical solution to a problem (storing video content at good quality at a low price) for everyone else they're worthless though.
And that is why the RIAA makes the rules, and you and I we live by them. For they have stood united against us, while we stand divided, to fall. As Benjamin Franklin once said, "We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately."
Apparently you didn't read the article on using a Dreamcast as a network intrusion device. just get physical access to a site you want to hack, and plug the Dreamcast into some power and LAN access and vioal it opens a backdoor the size of texas for you to exploit... and meanwhile that harmless looking dreamcast is sitting innocently in an unobtrusive corner of the building -- noone even noticed it..
The former is actually a workaround on the GPL. Say you have a rather large code based mp3 player (winamp for instance) and you have a plug-in model, and there is a GPL visialization for XMMS that you want to work with winamp's plugin's. You can simply modify the GPLed code to make a new plug-in, but any modifications to that plug-in have to be released under GPL, however, your mp3 player product (in this case, winamp) can remain closed source. GPL software can interact with non GPL software, and there is nothing in the GPL preventing that. The second case is pretty clear too, just look at how Sony released linux for the PS2. They provided all the GPL source open, including the modifications they made, but they made the modifications in such a way that linux became dependant on propritary PS2 software that sony doesn't offer the source code to. GPL doesn't require that you disclose secret information on specialized hardware -- it requires you to release GPLed code as GPLed code. So if you have secrets that need to be kept, they need to be kept outside the GPLed portion of the code, and it might not be a pretty or elegant solution. It also helps when you can design the hardware with the goal in mind too, like sony could.
The funny thing about javascript is... once you disable it you can right click again. F12+e in opera to toggle javascript. Then again, you can always mouse gesture instead (rolling a click from the right button to left button.)
tabbed browsing is an old idea. Prior to the introductions of frames I used a browser that had 'Works' in it's title. This was on a 486 25 with 8MB of ram, running win 3.11. This browser supported what they called 'panes' and also had tabs. 'panes' were esentially frames, only user defined. Each pane went to a different url. And Like I said they also had tabs, This was the first browser I could stand to use (because at the time on dial-up I couldn't stand to wait while pages loaded) I would just open in a new pane or tab, and after a half hour i'd have about 30 various sites open having read all the ones i needed to. All that with a footprint only slightly larger than netscape was using to show me one page at a time. Eventually the company got bought out by AOL so they dissapeared, and there were just a needle in the haystack of the thousand browsers that were available at that time. Tabs are an old idea. Too bad all the other browsers seem to think that they're 'too complex' or 'obsolete' to suport them.
IE allows you to create a Style sheet to override websites, however, they do not provide a default style sheet, nor is there a keystroke shortcut to apply to the current site. I believe mozilla also has CSS support, but I can't recall which milestone was reserved for implementing them. Likely, they have the same problem about having to enable them globally through the gui though. Quite often Opera just has a better solution to the common problems people face on the web.
Would require a constitutional ammendment, as current laws are thoroughly unconstitutional. Digital Prohibition, like Prohibition will only push digital copying underground. The mafia will see the oportunity and reinvent the speakeasy. A private club where you can buy/sell/trade illegal hardware and freely trade software movies and music all over high speed private WANs. People wanted their alchohol, and they want their mp3s. Any drop in record sales that can't be directly linked to the economy can be directly linked to public backlash against the record industry. None of it can be linked to peer-to-peer file swapping, as record sales were booming growing ABOVE inflation rates when napster, a simple and easy way to transfer music existed and was growing in popularity. the more napster grew, the faster record sales rose. People could finally seperate the wheat from the chaff, and they were rewarding the record instury with increased sales. Lesson learned, never bite the hand that feeds you. If only, now they want to virus all P2P users, and hack them, and DDoS their server nodes. Meanwhile, artists have learned that in the information age, you don't need a record contract to sell a million albums. and if you sell a milllion albums outside a contract you stand to net 5-9 million in profit, depending on how you sold them. meanwhile, if you sell a million albums with a record contract, you make $0 a year, and live based on the freebies the label contract gives you in echange for your freedom.
A picture of a pure copper CPU mock-up, and then a picture of an evaluation opteron. And about 4 pages of months old regurgitated AMD press releases. I wouldn't really consider this news, since AMD's been showing off the evaluation chip for a few months now.
Well, my largest Warcraft III replay is only 423 k yet it encompases over two hours of 'footage', with an adjustable camera angle, and a very large potential resolution. I can move the camera across a canvas that is easily a hundred fold larger than a TV resolution image, and so to capture the entire canvas at a single camera angle (disabling the ability to tilt the camera angle that you can do in WC3) you would end up with an image in the gigabytes-per-frame-per-angle, instead of a 423k file. Even if you had to send the whole WC3 CD and keygen it would save massive bandwith over sending a single frame of an entire map. Besides, if you wanted to record to a different media, just enable TV output, and do the replay to a VHS tape, and be sure to click where the action is happening. For those not prone to doing math, that means I can save ~7 hours of warcraft 3 replays to a single floppy disk. Or 3150 hours of replays to a singe CD-rom. roughly 22,030 hours of replays to a DVD-rom. Nearly 704,000 hours on a 160 GB HDD. Now let's see, 2 hours to a DVD or 22,000 hours? I think 11,000:1 compression over DVD is well worth requiring special software to play it back. Especially since w3g files are mathematically lossless, the same cannot be said of DVDs. Maybe Blizzard should release a w3g player, they could compete with flash..
I don't get why anyone would expect their employeer to pay for them to sit on IRC all day. I've had times where i wanted to sit on irc all day, but I wouldn't expect an employer to fund that habit. I recently decided that IRC (and IM clients too) are simply too sapping of any productivity I might have, so I only use them on the weekend, when I can afford to be unproductive. Also, there is a very corrupting nature to the kind of power that IRC server admins have. Some people can handle that kind of power, but many more especially the people drawn to those positions get drunk off the power to censor anyone, anytime they want to. Invariably they all have various charters, and rules, but in practice the parties in power prefer to use secrecy to cloak their actions, and expect that noone should even dare question their rights to those powers. "it's a private network after all.." They don't care about justice, or about honest human interactions. I've yet to see any IRC network promise anything close to due process prior to banning a user. I can speak from experience, as I've been on both sides of the fence here. I've admined, I've hosted, I've IRCoped I've even been Services admin. But even for me the way the systems are set up are too much for me to handle. And I realize that so I will no longer oper, for anyone. The people in power on IRC are judge, jury, and executioner. The worst combination prossible, for everyone involved.
Okay, Fair use rights are already under siege. Okay this case won't reduce fair use any more than it already is. But the RIAA IS using the DMCA that evil vile law to press this case. The backbones providers of the internet have a chance to take a tooth or two out of the DMCA here, by preserving the rights of a common-carrier. If the DMCA doesn't apply to the common carriers, then the DMCA only takes away fair-use in america. Watch google set up shop overseas to reduce legal defense costs. This is a chance to take a tooth out of the DMCA, obviously it still has a lot of teeth left, but it's good if Common-carrier status is protected, and those living in america can kiss fair-use of any type whatsoever goodbye, because the DMCA will apply to common-carriers providing access to sites operating outsides the bounds of the DMCA now. This case is about pirated music, but it's also about the DMCA, and how it applies to common carrier protection status here in the US. If the DMCA can be used against a common carrier... *shudders*
http://www.alalinc.net/library/index.cfm http://w ww.state.ak.us/courts/ http://www.acjc.state.az.u s/ http://courts.state.ar.us/ http://www.courtin fo.ca.gov/ And on and on and on.... What part of 'freely accessable' don't you understand? Yes, there are expensive books that sumarize and explain the importance of decisions and how they change the laws. but every single bit of information those expensive books are based on is Freely available to anyone. You can go to city hall and request information on laws, and they're REQUIRED to give you as much help as they can for FREE unless a judge has sealed the records. His point is valid, Lincoln never spent a dime on his law schooling, he took advantage of the fact that all the information those expensive books and schools provide is all available for free and self-taught himself to be a lawyer. Yes, it's a harder path, but noone said it would be easy, they only said the information is free, as the constitution demands it be.
You know the problem is usually managment in stores like that. The poor girl (and i feel for her) probably gets shuffled from position to position, and has to suffer through drive thru without any real time to clear her thoughts... it's all pressing buttons like mad trying to keep the flow going so you have time to fill drinks, collect money, take orders, pass the food out everything... all durring the rush. I'm willing to bet she just called up the wrong script from her fast food muddled brain. In stores like that they expect every employee to multi-task constantly through a rush... i consider myself exceptionally good at multi-tasking and the fast food pace burns me out in minutes... (I worked lunch rush, usually solo on drive, with an equally fast food maker on the drive side of line) up to 50% of the store volume moving through 1/3 of the staff working at that store... not fun, nor easy. especially when everyone else acts like they're so busy... when they're only doing two things at once... I'm doing four, and only complaining if I fall behind on them.
exactly, Drink sizes are supposed to be an industry standard, like shirt sizes... that being said When i worked at fastfoods i did my best to realtime translate what the customer wanted into what was really available from our menu. if you want precise orders you should know what sizes the place has to offer. otherwise you're putting it all up to chance that the employee knows what you're asking for.
At Taco bell, the combo meals are always large drinks, sometimes I would save the customer money by ringing up a combo meal instead, because I hated the greedy bastard who owned the store. Are you _sure_ you're paying more? The other problem that could be happening is bad training. If they have 'regular' 'large' and 'extra-large' sizes they might default to medium as meaning 'large' when in fact medium and regular are within 2 ounces of the same size. (22 and 20 ounces)
Seriously, having worked at a fast food, I can understand what the person was thinking when they gave you the confused look. Because small medium large etc... are all usually industry size terms for the cup. cups come in 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 32, 44 ounce sizes. 4 ounce is trial size, 8 ounce is almost not in use anymore, but at once time was a water-only-size cup. 12 ounce is usually a 'child' sized cup. 16 is a 'small' 20 is a 'regular' 22 is a 'medium' 32 is a large, and 44 is an extra large. (for those not in the know medium and regular ARE different sizes, but it's possible i mixed them up, and besides the menuboards don't tell you if they're using 20 oz or 22 oz cups.) The sizes are standardized for easy comparison with competitors it would get out of hand if one soda place called a 16 ounce a 'extra large' and the other place called it a small... but anyways, if you 'ask' for a small, you'll generally get the smallest size they have, if the person isn't a rookie. people who work at fastfoods for more than 3 months realize that the poulous doesn't WANT to be educated , they just want to get the food in 5 minutes. I actually ran into problems because of that though, because I would read back orders the _correct_ way instead of the way the customer ordered it if they'd spent more than a few minutes taking the order. And thus I'd have to explain why I rang it up differently. Like people who try to order kid's size drinks. when small was the smallest we had.
Keep in mind your basic physics. Your bladder is more than a sack of waste fluid, it's a muscularly controlled valved sack for storing waste fluids. the 'need' to take a leak is based in part on how tired that muscle is of holding in the pee. so if you've got about 12 ounces of fluid in that sack the need to pee will arise at half the speed as if you had 24 ounces of fluid in there. To get an idea of how much harder it is, just take a bottle, put a baloon on the end of it and compare how difficult it is to hold in 12 ounces vs 24... it takes a greater amount of pressure, and the strain of holding pee in has everything to do with the muscular valve for your bladder, not the volumeteric displacement that it's capable of handling. As for where your body finds the room for it, that is also simple physics, when you drank the cola in the first place, you expanded your mass and volume, starting in the stomache and then moving on to the blood stream, and finally ending up in your bladder, and when you relieve it, your mass/volume is restored to where it was before, since the volume being talkeed about is under 2% you'd never notice such a miniscule change or variation unless you habitually measured your weight or diameter 10-20 times a day. Also keep in mind that the flow rate of urine is affected by the gravitational and muscular forces on the urine inside the body, so the only accurate mesurement is to measure the actual volume of urine, and ignoring the time elapsed, since that is such a highly volitatle variable. A slight disclaimer, I'm not an expert, but it's pretty clear that bladders follow basic physics the same as anything else.
I'd like to point out that Sims Survivor is played by setting up a house with 8 sims and then letting it run without human interaction on the sims part... so if you've got a few PCs and use the 'infinite money' house trick it really only takes a few hours (total) of actual human effort to do. I also understand your feeling left out on 'having enough time.' I've been unemployed a while too, and I've had to ration the time I spend at my PC or else nothing gets done.
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True, DreamCast didn't make it possible. As the movie 'hackers' demonstrates the first tool for network intrusion is to get the people inside the building to provide you with everything you need to hack in from the outside. And I realize that the DC has limitations, However, I'd like to point out that software designed to emulate a modem, and send it out over the DC's sound would allow you to hook an eternal radio and use a radio to dialup the Dreamcast. Besides, hacking is at least partially about the coolness factor. How cool is it to be able to say you hacked someone with a dreamcast? Sure, hacking them with a PDA is kinda cool, but doesn't require as much hardcore hacking, like writing a software dialup emulator that is tolerant to possible RF interfearance.
It takes a lot more ingenuity to get a DreamCast set up as an effective network intrusion device.
Any script kiddie can drop off a CD-r labled 'hardcore porn' with an autorun to install a pre-configured back orifice while showing a slideshow of usenet porn. Real hacking takes skill and ingenuity.
First off, have you tried using Virtualdub? I'm Certain that you can in fact produce an AVI with ogg streams for audio. Although vp3 isn't quite ready to replace mpeg-4 yet, you can at least reduce the amount of closed source software used to produce an avi.
Oh, and Winamp 2.81 with the DivX movie plugin will play DivX'ed movies, even ones with ogg soundtracks.
I would like to point out that pdf files are not 'open' formats. As a matter of fact, you can't get any more closed or proprietary than the Patented 'Portable' Document Format, which has almost 102 related patents.
Yes, PDF is 'free as in beer' but in no way is it an 'open' model, nor is it a 'standard' but rather a 'de facto standard' like 'flash.' Because it's patented, because it's owned Adobe can say "anyone who want's to sell or give away a program that can read or convert PDFs has to pay us $.75 cents per copy of software..."
There is an industry standard, it's called PostScript, but unfortunately, that too is entangled with patents, and the main issue with PostScript is that the fonts needed to render PS files correctly are mostly owned (by adobe no less), although you can use free fonts to replace them, this can cause any munber of formatting issues. Adobe maimed postscript through insane fees on their fonts (to complement a laser printer with a full set of PostScript fonts may cost easily $600 or more), to force people into using pdf, which comes with all those owned adobe fonts supported 'free'.
PDF isn't free, and adobe may well decide they need to crack down on programs that allow people to open pdfs or convert them to other formats. Especially if they believe there is money to be made from it.
But this IS slashdot, do you think he actually took the time to 'read' the "Thank You" letter? When you've only caught a glimpse of what other /.ers posted from the letter then you could easily miss the dripping sarcasm.
First of all, airports are the same as a border crossing, they're the exception to the constitutional rule. that's why for instance an airport can screen passangers the way they do now.
Second of all, the constitution only applies to the government. Anything the government allows private buisness to do isn't protected by anything.
The mall of america has 137 'police officers' they don't enforce any of america's laws thought. They enforce the facist rule of the mall owners. They kick anyone out who's causing a disturbance, and detain people until they can be turned over to the police if they're caught in a crime.
Imagine what a place like that would pay for a way to read the minds of everyone through the doors (assuming there wasn't public backlash..)
That's old news, the far more user friendly dMac, vMac, and biMac provide all the hot lovin a PC(1) user could want. http://bbspot.com/News/2000/7/new_macs.html
(1) Where PC stands for "Personal Computer" and not "100% IBM comPatable Clone" and definitely not Politically Correct.
Easy, 700 megs is enough for about 50 minutes TOPS in 'good' quality mpeg-4, with 'good' quality sound tracks. If you really want not-humanly-percievable loss vs mpeg-2 you're lucky if 2.1 gigs a movie is enough for mpeg-4 video and mp3 audio.
Maybe this guy want's to enjoy near DVD quality, with the convience of fitting more movies per disc.
Speaking of which, even if you're willing to compress an hour and a half or more of video into a 700 meg package, you can then fit 7 movies per DVD instead of having to tote around a spindle of CD-r to even carry around a small movie archive.
Yes, you need a PC to play them back, but if you have a HDTV a PC is the only device that can send full resolution HDTV images to it's display currently. (as no 1080 scanline DVD players are even made, since you'd need FSAA to make the 720 scanline convervion look any better at 1080 scanlines, and only a $300 PC graphic card can do that, with 1080 scanline HDTV output.) and yes, you'd have to pay the full price of yoru DVD-r drive in media (and use it all probably right away) But to a quality freak DVD-r provide a practical solution to a problem (storing video content at good quality at a low price) for everyone else they're worthless though.
And that is why the RIAA makes the rules, and you and I we live by them. For they have stood united against us, while we stand divided, to fall.
As Benjamin Franklin once said, "We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang seperately."
Apparently you didn't read the article on using a Dreamcast as a network intrusion device. just get physical access to a site you want to hack, and plug the Dreamcast into some power and LAN access and vioal it opens a backdoor the size of texas for you to exploit... and meanwhile that harmless looking dreamcast is sitting innocently in an unobtrusive corner of the building -- noone even noticed it..
The former is actually a workaround on the GPL. Say you have a rather large code based mp3 player (winamp for instance) and you have a plug-in model, and there is a GPL visialization for XMMS that you want to work with winamp's plugin's. You can simply modify the GPLed code to make a new plug-in, but any modifications to that plug-in have to be released under GPL, however, your mp3 player product (in this case, winamp) can remain closed source. GPL software can interact with non GPL software, and there is nothing in the GPL preventing that.
The second case is pretty clear too, just look at how Sony released linux for the PS2. They provided all the GPL source open, including the modifications they made, but they made the modifications in such a way that linux became dependant on propritary PS2 software that sony doesn't offer the source code to. GPL doesn't require that you disclose secret information on specialized hardware -- it requires you to release GPLed code as GPLed code. So if you have secrets that need to be kept, they need to be kept outside the GPLed portion of the code, and it might not be a pretty or elegant solution. It also helps when you can design the hardware with the goal in mind too, like sony could.
The funny thing about javascript is... once you disable it you can right click again. F12+e in opera to toggle javascript. Then again, you can always mouse gesture instead (rolling a click from the right button to left button.)
tabbed browsing is an old idea. Prior to the introductions of frames I used a browser that had 'Works' in it's title. This was on a 486 25 with 8MB of ram, running win 3.11. This browser supported what they called 'panes' and also had tabs. 'panes' were esentially frames, only user defined. Each pane went to a different url. And Like I said they also had tabs, This was the first browser I could stand to use (because at the time on dial-up I couldn't stand to wait while pages loaded) I would just open in a new pane or tab, and after a half hour i'd have about 30 various sites open having read all the ones i needed to. All that with a footprint only slightly larger than netscape was using to show me one page at a time. Eventually the company got bought out by AOL so they dissapeared, and there were just a needle in the haystack of the thousand browsers that were available at that time. Tabs are an old idea. Too bad all the other browsers seem to think that they're 'too complex' or 'obsolete' to suport them.
IE allows you to create a Style sheet to override websites, however, they do not provide a default style sheet, nor is there a keystroke shortcut to apply to the current site. I believe mozilla also has CSS support, but I can't recall which milestone was reserved for implementing them. Likely, they have the same problem about having to enable them globally through the gui though. Quite often Opera just has a better solution to the common problems people face on the web.
Would require a constitutional ammendment, as current laws are thoroughly unconstitutional. Digital Prohibition, like Prohibition will only push digital copying underground. The mafia will see the oportunity and reinvent the speakeasy. A private club where you can buy/sell/trade illegal hardware and freely trade software movies and music all over high speed private WANs.
People wanted their alchohol, and they want their mp3s. Any drop in record sales that can't be directly linked to the economy can be directly linked to public backlash against the record industry. None of it can be linked to peer-to-peer file swapping, as record sales were booming growing ABOVE inflation rates when napster, a simple and easy way to transfer music existed and was growing in popularity. the more napster grew, the faster record sales rose. People could finally seperate the wheat from the chaff, and they were rewarding the record instury with increased sales. Lesson learned, never bite the hand that feeds you. If only, now they want to virus all P2P users, and hack them, and DDoS their server nodes. Meanwhile, artists have learned that in the information age, you don't need a record contract to sell a million albums.
and if you sell a milllion albums outside a contract you stand to net 5-9 million in profit, depending on how you sold them. meanwhile, if you sell a million albums with a record contract, you make $0 a year, and live based on the freebies the label contract gives you in echange for your freedom.
A picture of a pure copper CPU mock-up, and then a picture of an evaluation opteron. And about 4 pages of months old regurgitated AMD press releases. I wouldn't really consider this news, since AMD's been showing off the evaluation chip for a few months now.
Well, my largest Warcraft III replay is only 423 k yet it encompases over two hours of 'footage', with an adjustable camera angle, and a very large potential resolution. I can move the camera across a canvas that is easily a hundred fold larger than a TV resolution image, and so to capture the entire canvas at a single camera angle (disabling the ability to tilt the camera angle that you can do in WC3) you would end up with an image in the gigabytes-per-frame-per-angle, instead of a 423k file. Even if you had to send the whole WC3 CD and keygen it would save massive bandwith over sending a single frame of an entire map. Besides, if you wanted to record to a different media, just enable TV output, and do the replay to a VHS tape, and be sure to click where the action is happening.
For those not prone to doing math, that means I can save ~7 hours of warcraft 3 replays to a single floppy disk. Or 3150 hours of replays to a singe CD-rom. roughly 22,030 hours of replays to a DVD-rom. Nearly 704,000 hours on a 160 GB HDD. Now let's see, 2 hours to a DVD or 22,000 hours? I think 11,000:1 compression over DVD is well worth requiring special software to play it back. Especially since w3g files are mathematically lossless, the same cannot be said of DVDs. Maybe Blizzard should release a w3g player, they could compete with flash..
I don't get why anyone would expect their employeer to pay for them to sit on IRC all day. I've had times where i wanted to sit on irc all day, but I wouldn't expect an employer to fund that habit. I recently decided that IRC (and IM clients too) are simply too sapping of any productivity I might have, so I only use them on the weekend, when I can afford to be unproductive.
Also, there is a very corrupting nature to the kind of power that IRC server admins have. Some people can handle that kind of power, but many more especially the people drawn to those positions get drunk off the power to censor anyone, anytime they want to. Invariably they all have various charters, and rules, but in practice the parties in power prefer to use secrecy to cloak their actions, and expect that noone should even dare question their rights to those powers. "it's a private network after all.."
They don't care about justice, or about honest human interactions. I've yet to see any IRC network promise anything close to due process prior to banning a user. I can speak from experience, as I've been on both sides of the fence here. I've admined, I've hosted, I've IRCoped I've even been Services admin. But even for me the way the systems are set up are too much for me to handle. And I realize that so I will no longer oper, for anyone. The people in power on IRC are judge, jury, and executioner. The worst combination prossible, for everyone involved.
Okay, Fair use rights are already under siege. Okay this case won't reduce fair use any more than it already is. But the RIAA IS using the DMCA that evil vile law to press this case. The backbones providers of the internet have a chance to take a tooth or two out of the DMCA here, by preserving the rights of a common-carrier.
If the DMCA doesn't apply to the common carriers, then the DMCA only takes away fair-use in america. Watch google set up shop overseas to reduce legal defense costs. This is a chance to take a tooth out of the DMCA, obviously it still has a lot of teeth left, but it's good if Common-carrier status is protected, and those living in america can kiss fair-use of any type whatsoever goodbye, because the DMCA will apply to common-carriers providing access to sites operating outsides the bounds of the DMCA now.
This case is about pirated music, but it's also about the DMCA, and how it applies to common carrier protection status here in the US. If the DMCA can be used against a common carrier... *shudders*
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And on and on and on.... What part of 'freely accessable' don't you understand? Yes, there are expensive books that sumarize and explain the importance of decisions and how they change the laws. but every single bit of information those expensive books are based on is Freely available to anyone. You can go to city hall and request information on laws, and they're REQUIRED to give you as much help as they can for FREE unless a judge has sealed the records.
His point is valid, Lincoln never spent a dime on his law schooling, he took advantage of the fact that all the information those expensive books and schools provide is all available for free and self-taught himself to be a lawyer. Yes, it's a harder path, but noone said it would be easy, they only said the information is free, as the constitution demands it be.
You know the problem is usually managment in stores like that. The poor girl (and i feel for her) probably gets shuffled from position to position, and has to suffer through drive thru without any real time to clear her thoughts... it's all pressing buttons like mad trying to keep the flow going so you have time to fill drinks, collect money, take orders, pass the food out everything... all durring the rush. I'm willing to bet she just called up the wrong script from her fast food muddled brain. In stores like that they expect every employee to multi-task constantly through a rush... i consider myself exceptionally good at multi-tasking and the fast food pace burns me out in minutes... (I worked lunch rush, usually solo on drive, with an equally fast food maker on the drive side of line) up to 50% of the store volume moving through 1/3 of the staff working at that store... not fun, nor easy. especially when everyone else acts like they're so busy... when they're only doing two things at once... I'm doing four, and only complaining if I fall behind on them.
exactly, Drink sizes are supposed to be an industry standard, like shirt sizes... that being said When i worked at fastfoods i did my best to realtime translate what the customer wanted into what was really available from our menu. if you want precise orders you should know what sizes the place has to offer. otherwise you're putting it all up to chance that the employee knows what you're asking for.
At Taco bell, the combo meals are always large drinks, sometimes I would save the customer money by ringing up a combo meal instead, because I hated the greedy bastard who owned the store. Are you _sure_ you're paying more? The other problem that could be happening is bad training. If they have 'regular' 'large' and 'extra-large' sizes they might default to medium as meaning 'large' when in fact medium and regular are within 2 ounces of the same size. (22 and 20 ounces)
Seriously, having worked at a fast food, I can understand what the person was thinking when they gave you the confused look. Because small medium large etc... are all usually industry size terms for the cup. cups come in 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22, 32, 44 ounce sizes. 4 ounce is trial size, 8 ounce is almost not in use anymore, but at once time was a water-only-size cup. 12 ounce is usually a 'child' sized cup. 16 is a 'small' 20 is a 'regular' 22 is a 'medium' 32 is a large, and 44 is an extra large. (for those not in the know medium and regular ARE different sizes, but it's possible i mixed them up, and besides the menuboards don't tell you if they're using 20 oz or 22 oz cups.) The sizes are standardized for easy comparison with competitors it would get out of hand if one soda place called a 16 ounce a 'extra large' and the other place called it a small... but anyways, if you 'ask' for a small, you'll generally get the smallest size they have, if the person isn't a rookie. people who work at fastfoods for more than 3 months realize that the poulous doesn't WANT to be educated , they just want to get the food in 5 minutes. I actually ran into problems because of that though, because I would read back orders the _correct_ way instead of the way the customer ordered it if they'd spent more than a few minutes taking the order. And thus I'd have to explain why I rang it up differently. Like people who try to order kid's size drinks. when small was the smallest we had.
Keep in mind your basic physics. Your bladder is more than a sack of waste fluid, it's a muscularly controlled valved sack for storing waste fluids. the 'need' to take a leak is based in part on how tired that muscle is of holding in the pee. so if you've got about 12 ounces of fluid in that sack the need to pee will arise at half the speed as if you had 24 ounces of fluid in there. To get an idea of how much harder it is, just take a bottle, put a baloon on the end of it and compare how difficult it is to hold in 12 ounces vs 24... it takes a greater amount of pressure, and the strain of holding pee in has everything to do with the muscular valve for your bladder, not the volumeteric displacement that it's capable of handling.
As for where your body finds the room for it, that is also simple physics, when you drank the cola in the first place, you expanded your mass and volume, starting in the stomache and then moving on to the blood stream, and finally ending up in your bladder, and when you relieve it, your mass/volume is restored to where it was before, since the volume being talkeed about is under 2% you'd never notice such a miniscule change or variation unless you habitually measured your weight or diameter 10-20 times a day.
Also keep in mind that the flow rate of urine is affected by the gravitational and muscular forces on the urine inside the body, so the only accurate mesurement is to measure the actual volume of urine, and ignoring the time elapsed, since that is such a highly volitatle variable.
A slight disclaimer, I'm not an expert, but it's pretty clear that bladders follow basic physics the same as anything else.
I'd like to point out that Sims Survivor is played by setting up a house with 8 sims and then letting it run without human interaction on the sims part... so if you've got a few PCs and use the 'infinite money' house trick it really only takes a few hours (total) of actual human effort to do.
I also understand your feeling left out on 'having enough time.' I've been unemployed a while too, and I've had to ration the time I spend at my PC or else nothing gets done.