actually the worst case scenario is the bore shaft manages to intersect an undersea magma pocket that is already under high pressure, and nearly ready to blow. somthing like that, say the size of yello stone park could erupt with the force of a couple hundred hiroshimas... true there would be a lot of ocean to absorb it, but the long terms effects of something like could be very hard to predict, it could unleash a giant cloud of ash and water vapor that brings a mega snow storm (say 2048" of precipitation over a week) over canada and burries north america under glaciers, if enough water vapor were released, and enough ash blocked enough sunlight and cooled it enough for it to fall as snow or freezing rain it's not impossible...
well since your boss set you up to get fired in the first place, you have nothing to loose if you both wind up fired instead of just you? as long as you can be quite circumspect about the smuggling of said photographic equipment in, and using it... which one only had to do because it was a DRMed world and one couldn't even perform a basic screen grab in the first place.
Second, doing a "real" patent search is an expensive proposition (I'm not talking about your boss doing a 2 minute google search on a few key phrases).
this guy said they paid a Site license (probally ~$25k/year) for unlimited access to search an online patent library. now, google can get you each and every patent application that has been filed with the us patent office for free, but it is true that already issues patents are another matter.
still, your dubious point about nobody can search every little thing that goes on is silly, because with the right site license then yes, you CAN. unlimited site search licenses are _Unlimited_ they don't charge you after looking up 100,000 patents they already charged you a site licence that was more than enough to make them fully profitable no matter how many records you looked up.
i'm willing to bet you're on file with both those delivery services as having the Default signature requirement waived, so they can 'just leave the package' normally, that is NOT the case, normally they have to write up a slip saying 'sorry we missed you' which they had pre-written up, and left on the door when they rang and no-one came within 5 seconds...
you can always call those services to be taken off those lists, but then as i said you have to be ready to RUN when the doorbell rings because they don't wait around for people to answer. i don't know how many packages i had to pick up at fed-ex because i was in the bathroom when the doorbell rang, or wasn't decent and couldn't throw on clothes fast enough to answer the door...
and if you've spent 20+ years thinking about the 'security' of your institution a 'laptop box sized crack' might just come to you in a moment of inspiration.
now i know this doesn't apply to UPS or fedex, but the USPS can still leave packages at entry ways, unless the sender requires a signature. if you don't 'pay extra' you don't _get_ security from the usps.
Some of us buy hardware that was engineered better than an edsel.
you know the ones that can handle more than 5 cds before they like die.
i mean wtf. if they're enginnered right the moving parts should have no difficulty making it to 50k hours mtbf. 200k hours isn't that hard to do but costs signifigantly more. 50k hours is of course 50,000 CDs, you gonna rip and burn more than 25,000 CDS? wtf is up with you bitching about a cd drive that burns out after 'a hundred' because it was designed to fail?
junkware is NOT what i buy, I've never ever had a CD-rom drive fail, and although i've had many junkware DVD drives fail, I've finally found a well designed one that PUTS FUCKING HEATSINKS ON THE CHIPS THAT NEED THEM.
thank god someone didn't flunk thermodynamics and realizes 'hot chips melt, if heat is allowed to build up, and that pisses off the people who might otherwise tell others to buy your stuff'
btw, the drive I own and have burned over 100 DVDs with is an NEC it's the cheap one at newegg.com the burning laser runs hotter too, remember that folks, I have a 'mainstream' DVD-rom drive that couldn't 'read' 50 DVD movies before it fried, but i've Burned more than 100 with a Properly Designed burner.
Lust - I'm not sure how to articulate why this actually drives western progress, but I'm certain it's the keystone to all our social evolution.
lust is the 'pleasures of the body' sex, porn, masturbation... when the quest for these things drives you, then you will do great evil persuing them.
all things in moderation, it's the way western society has made nudity into a dirty thing, the way we associate everything with sex, and fixate on obtaining it even if we have to pay money for it. That is lust.
According to the article they're goal is to have them in mass production by 2016, just in time for the next US oil crisis, as we reach peak production and can no longer continually increase oil production... although to be fair, 2016 is the Earliest year that the USGS and DOE has predicted for the next US oil production peak...
the last production peak was in the 1970's, and oil production only shrank for a short while before new 'solutions' were found (taking over small middle eastern dictatorships, off shore drilling, etc)
anyways, unlike the 1970's we're importing oil pretty heavily so likely rather than 'shortages' the next production peak will just mean more sticker shock at the pump. sticker shock will be good though, if we haven't made the needed pushes to get more renewable fuels out there, the cost savings of using domesitcally produced ethanol and bio-diesel over post-peak oil pricing should seal the deal.
Well, wise guy, if you'd RTFA you'd know that a. the laptops contain both wifi, and cellular broadcast capabilities, now the normal wattage of the cellular antenna is going to be about 5-10 miles, but with say and extrnal antenna booster at the school a simple 3 watt antenna can easuly reach 50+ miles, and the laptop hooked up to that 50 mile antenna can use the wi-fi to connect all the little student laptops to the internet.
now don't you feel stupid? i do realize not every third world county is within 50 miles of a cellular tower, but quite a few are, especially if there is any kind of tourism, or major economic development in the region.
true 192kbps split between 40 students doesn't go far, and Someone has to pay the monthly cost for cellular internet, but they Will have internet access, where available.
no i think he was more going for e-lit short for e-literate, which is basically like another way to say skript kiddie.
these kids these days they're all e-literate and don't know how to hard code a crack in asm after having reverse engineered all traces of the hooks and calls from a compiled binary full of traps to make reverse engineering more difficult.
microsoft has made it far too easy, back in the day if you wanted to steal someone's data, you had to lug a 20lbs reel to reel magnetic tape, p[ull it over to a duplicatrion mainfraim and copy the contents onto anothe blank 20lbs reel to reel magnetic tape AND it Still only held 20 Megabytes AND WE LOVED IT.
Oh Via is Everything it used to be, and that's the problem, the law of averages suggests that a company that's trying to produce as many chipsets as cheaply as possible are going to wind up with a few that manage to exceed the typical quality level churned out..
if you're considering a via, you seriously need to go with a fully researched configuration, not just what the marketing department claims the board can run. now i'm typing this from a rock solid Via based solution as we speak, but there are a lot of pieces of hardware i cannot purchase for this unit, simply because they're Known Incompatabilities, of course most chipsets have "known incompatabilities" but i tend to hear of more for via than other chipset makers. It's very easy to design a system around a via chipset, even in this day and age, but as always one needs to know what Won't work, and what's going to cause you nightmares and headaches galore. that's what they make the internet for;) find out what people who like via are putting into their systems and what n00bs who know nothing about configuring a system are trying to do that is totally f00baring them.
color photography is more expensive, black and white is very straight forward, and the supplies are cheap, and readily available to enthusiasts who want to "DIY" as far as garish color schemes go there are two big things working against that OSHA (color schemes that cause eye strain will lead to workers comp claims and complaints with OSHA) and there is the americans with disabilities act. if any equipment that blantenly discriminates against someones disabilites as to prevent them from performing a job, that's arguably descrimination, and frankly workplaces are required to accomodate for disabilities, where it is reasonable to expect them to do so.
as someone else mentioned you can develop photos at home in your garage/den/server room/etc all you need is, a single white led (or a low wattage light bulb) two metal cans one which fits inside the other, something to hold the negatives firmly in place below the led, a lens, some material to build the framework, any power switches the led(s) need enough black out curtain to create a light proof tent, at least large enough for the photo paper, the exposing machine, both developing pans, and a place to hang the photos while they dry. optionally, a partially surrounded red LED that reflects light off the blackout curtain can be used for a developing tent large enough to fit you as well, otherwise you'll need to 'learn how to use the equipment blind' using a kinda clean room box setup where your hands protrude into the dark space in a way that no light is brought in with them (long elastic sleeves that extend up your arm perhaps) and you may also need a film developing bag, or make sure said blackout tent is completely pitch black, when leds are off.
of course you also need the B&W film deveoping chemicals, the film paper, the film itself, the developing and rinse solutions, and a stop watch would be useful for determining exposure times, and development times. of course they do also Sell said equiupment too, but half the fun is building it yourself;) anyways, B&W photography is easy to set up, and the materials are relatively cheap, and unless you're on the DHS watchlist, or a list of convicted sex criminals purchasing B&W photography equipment should be no problem and raise no questions.
since you can develop the film at home, and all the equipment used is pure analog (unlike most 1 hour photo places) there is no way DRM can interfear, and frankly anyone trying to 'kill' the B&W photo industry would face a LOT of protest from artists who love the B&W medium.
so now in order to fire you they have to claim you 'docotored' the B&W photos (very easy to do with the analog stuff it basically involves taking 2 pictures 1. an e-mail from your boss 2. a picture of the message text you want to claim he wrote; and using a pair of scissors on the negatives, prior to exposing the film paper) and prove it, which when you then show them the undoctored negative, is enough evidence to prove you didn't doctor the photo (or at least that if you did, you used 2 pieces of unexposed negative to create a 'positive' and then a 'negative' to create the illusion of proof that you took the photo, without doctoring it.) but hopefully your boss doesn't know that, or doesn't know that rolls of film have exposure counts pre exposed onto them, and that it would require 3 rolls of film, where one exactly and perfectly lined up the film rolls so that the exposure numbers all matched perfectly to create this 'fake negative' and even then, all the repeated duplication can cause some loss of detail, as well as show the differing grain of the two pieces of spliced photo, which would be noticable, and identifiable by an expert in cinematography... the master film always has the best detail, and obviously wouldn't have a sudden dramatic alteration in it's grain... so having an undoctored negative is evidence, as long as it was undoctored, or you have expert witness testamony stating as such...
whew, okay, so now you know why you can try to doctor a photo but are unlikely to convince anyone but the uninitiated. not to mention splicing together negatives is a very exact buisness, where your margin of error is directely related to the grain size of the photo-sensative crystals.
just to help the lazy, HDCP works over any DVI port, so any hdtv with a DVI port Will work with blu-ray video players. just because it has component inputs doesn't mean you're screwed, as long as it also has dvi. most of the better hd ready sets have dvi ports, as a mtter of fact i was weighing the pros and cons of getting an LCD HDTV vs buying a LCD monitor + HDTV tuner card.
Also a side note is that HDCP is not implemented by blu-ray drives themselves, but rather by the players software, so PC based blu-ray drives will not be incapable of processing the video data from a blu-ray discs, it's just that in order to recieve the signal from a blu-ray player one will need a DVI input that can negotiate HDCP in order to aquire a digital signal.
If the ps3 is still supposedly using blu-ray, then all one will need to make the ps3 output HD over component video from a blu-ray movie is a simple ModChip. Since PS3's will have a slew of modchips developed for it, at least one of them will support removing the HD playback restrictions to do what the hardware is capable of and the movie studios are afraid of. unprotected analog high definition video. unlike other aftermarket players there Will be huge demand for ps3 modchips, so it is likely people are already working on what kind of modchip design they might need to build based on the rumours and any leaked information on the ps3.
...There are plans to use the same facility for email and documents--resulting in email that disappears in two weeks, or documents that can only be read on the computers in one company.
Imagine if you get an email from your boss telling you to do something that you think is risky; a month later, when it backfires, you can't use the email to show that the decision was not yours.
Imagine if there was a button labeled 'print screen' on the keyboard that sent the screen data to the printer... or at least the clipboard... oh wait there IS and last i checked browsers lack a fancy 'screen overlay' feature that would cause you to print a page of nothing but pink or blue... of course the latest and greatest verion of IE could always 'fix' that so unless the drm is so pervasive as to disable the ability to take a screen grab and use the print button... well, even in that scenario they make these things called 'digital cameras' if you try hard enough you can manage to get a snapshot of the screen displaying said e-mail, and unless DRM is so pervasive that the bluetooth on the camera is syncing it with you computer, and disabling the shutter button when it's aimed at the monitor.. well you can still always use some tinfoil to block the blue tooth radio signals. it might take a couple layers, or perhaps hooking up a battery and a small wattage microvave tranciever set to the same frequency as blue tooth (2.4 ghz, an old cordless handset you picked up at the local pawn shop. perhaps) set to transmit static data that interfears with the signal... long enough to make the photo take... and viola, a month later when the 'risky' idea bombs you say, I have photographic evidence my boss sent me an e-mail, i know it self deleted, but i'm sure that our DHS mandated carnivore software still kept a copy of it anyways.
it's not just tarrifs, brazillian cane sugar is being converted into ethanol, which the vast majority of brazillian drivers use because the cost is so much lower. Brazil wants to export ethanol to the states too, because they'd make as much or more money as they were making exporting sugar before we had rediculous tarrifs. of course big corn doesn't want cheap brazilian ethanol flooding their market. ethanol production has propped up the corn price, which is already at pretty impressive lows, and big corn states like minnesota are planning on going to E20 and more states are mandating the use of E10, so basically the only way to allow brazillian ethanol imports without a tarrif would be to require a nation wide e-10 or better roll out.. not something the corn lobby could easily push through as say a tarrif on ethanol.
Just going to E-10 would shift billions of dollars into local agroculture and away from mid-east oil dependancy, and it's been proven that e-10 has reduced emmisions over straight up gasoline. would be nice if we had a president who would have championed alternative fuels instead of passing billions in oil industry subsidies*...
*= if one counts the iraq war is an oil indiustry subsidy, because it basically is.
i wonder if powerhungry processors and the electric generators necessary to power them are the actual root of global warming.
wonder not, it has nothing to do with how much power is being used, but rather the _source_ of the power is fossil fuels. the earth used to be a lot hotter, in fact at one point in time the entire planet was covered with magma. global warming won't quite acheive that level, but we can easily reach jurassic era warmth... just a few more decades of reliance on good old coal and oil, and we'll have the co2 levels needed to bring the earth to a level of warmth not seen since dinosaurs ruled the earth.
There are alternatives, thankfully, we already have a fusion reactor with about 10 trillion times the energy reserves of every molecule of hyrdogen and helium on the surface of the earth. some people call it the 'sun.' and currently there are this things called 'algea' that are up to 65% efficient at converting that energy into hydrocarbons (in this case vegatable oil). keep in mind photovotaics are lucky to see efficiencies in the 30% range (and much more likely in the 10-15% range) and keep in mind that the original design for the diesel engine ran on straight up vegatable oil. luckily, biodiesel conversion is a fairly low energy consumption process, so you only loose a few points of the efficiency of the plant in converting it into a readily usable form.
another thing to note is that vegitable oil can be readily stockpiled, as can biodiesel, whereas photovotaics leaves you completely at the mercy of available sunlight. algae will simply grow more slowly when there is insuficient sunlight. by simply growing 'more than demand' one can stockpile the oils and always have a stable source of electricity or fuel for automobiles.
30 years ago when everyone last thought we were running out of oil, there was heavy research into bio fuel alternatives, but by the time the research had concluded oil prices had fallen to much lower price figures. currently known reserves of oil that could be tapped have about 100 years worth of fuel at the current rate of consumption growth, but some of that oil will be vastly more expensive to exploit, and some of it is too high in sulpher to be usable without first processing it to remove the sulphur, which would drastically increase the cost. luckily biofuels (produced from less efficient soybeans etc, which have energy yeilds in the 1-3% range) are already profitable at the $2-3 a gallon range, so hopefully someone gets on the ball with mass producing algea oil to make bio fuel, because just looking at the raw energy yeild numbers, algea should be able to produce a lot more oil for a lot less cost than soybeans... of course since the obvious place to locate algea is out to sea the cost of ships, aquaculture nets, etc to harvest and grow it is higher, but the fact that one doesn't need to own the ocean to put the aquaculture nets out there, offsets that slightly...
the big problem is the lack of people with vision, to develop and gamble in the future of bio fuels... back in the 1980's people risked big putting money into these companies that were going to grow this asian plant here in the states called 'soybeans' and well, soybeans didn't pan out quite as good as the people hoped, but soybean oil is a lot cheaper than other oils because of all the people who put money into growing a plant that people thought had no market... and most of the biofuels we make come from common crops like corn and soybeans...
i think it goes something like get junk patent, find dumb rich investor looking to get in on the newest technology, show them your junk patent and lots opf silly videos and get cash and then make sure they can't find you when they realize you just wanted the cash for yourself... and don't have a real company...
parent is right. clear channel is the real 'threat' to local radio broadcasting. they buy out entire markets, shut down all the local djs and replaces them with satelite mix music they produce somewhere in nashville. if in the course of their market take overs they aquire 'too many country' stations etc, after the 'clear channel effect' has killed a popular local radio station that had talented djs who distinguished the station from the 'noise' they then proceed to do focus group studies to figure out which 'format' to change the now bombing station to 'keep market share' for that station.
Satelite radio didn't kill local DJs, FCC deregulation that allowed companies like Clear channel to 'exceed ownership of 50% of the stations in a market' that fucked over the local djs. yeah, technology is enabling 'podcasting' etc, but when the fcc loosened regulations they cost a lot of jobs in a lot of markets, there were thousands of licensed DJs out of work as a result one little change in the law, and those who remained were the ones with loyal fan bases, or those who worked for peanuts. all the podcasting in the world isn't going to bring back those dj jobs that have been lost.
even though i've been using compuers since the z-80 era when it comes to e-mail I'm not a power user, which is why for the past 6 years the Only e-mail account I've used on a regular basis is one I have set up through yahoo. Sure I _could_ set up sendmail(editing the config by hand), and have a zillion little @someurl addresses, that i could access with pine or something a little more modern like thunderbird... but screw it, much easier to just have a webmail account.
And even though i don't use it i Love gmail. Hotmail and yahoo had set their grounds for what should be 'given free' in quota, and yahoo was loosing ground fast. then google threatend to enter the space. with a full gig of storage per user for free. Now i have more space on yahoo that i'll use in my lifetime. like i said not a power user, once yahoo made 'spam mail' not count towards quota, well i never had another quota problem with 6 MB.
And don't forget that cell phones can now be used to access webmail too, and set to alert you when you recieve new webmail, and integrate with your IM buddy lists...
'normal users' don't even ask for nntp access anymore, and for the most part they don't care about e-mail accounts with isps..
biodiesel production seems like it's the technology that is the most 'realistic' and 'ready to go' for solving our fossil fuel based transportation issues. fuel cells? shift the burden from oil to coal. same with electric vehicles. Bio diesel is the only substance that can easily be refined entirely from naturally occuring compounds (at least now it can) although relying on kerosene to use it in cold weather seems like a bad idea since kerosene can only be produced from coal and oil. perhaps some better anti-gelling substance can be formulated from organic materials...
now if only we had enough people growing enough cheap oil bearing plants (like algeas) to replace the dependance on pertrol diesel and enough bio diesel refineries, and had a solution ready to go to combat gelling... any country with the resources to build and deploy a suitable bio diesel industry could completely stop depending on 'mid east oil' and then we wouldn't be getting involved in these horrible bloody wars over oil all the time.
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actually the worst case scenario is the bore shaft manages to intersect an undersea magma pocket that is already under high pressure, and nearly ready to blow. somthing like that, say the size of yello stone park could erupt with the force of a couple hundred hiroshimas... true there would be a lot of ocean to absorb it, but the long terms effects of something like could be very hard to predict, it could unleash a giant cloud of ash and water vapor that brings a mega snow storm (say 2048" of precipitation over a week) over canada and burries north america under glaciers, if enough water vapor were released, and enough ash blocked enough sunlight and cooled it enough for it to fall as snow or freezing rain it's not impossible...
a bit fanciful, but not impossible.
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well since your boss set you up to get fired in the first place, you have nothing to loose if you both wind up fired instead of just you? as long as you can be quite circumspect about the smuggling of said photographic equipment in, and using it... which one only had to do because it was a DRMed world and one couldn't even perform a basic screen grab in the first place.
AOL isn't a 'failing' company. pandering to the mentially defficient masses is a _very_ profitable business. mainly because there are SO many of them.
Well, clearly S3 and matrox took 1st and 2nd place if ATI Nvidia and XGI are tied for 3rd place!
Second, doing a "real" patent search is an expensive proposition (I'm not talking about your boss doing a 2 minute google search on a few key phrases).
you mean like this?
this guy said they paid a Site license (probally ~$25k/year) for unlimited access to search an online patent library. now, google can get you each and every patent application that has been filed with the us patent office for free, but it is true that already issues patents are another matter.
still, your dubious point about nobody can search every little thing that goes on is silly, because with the right site license then yes, you CAN. unlimited site search licenses are _Unlimited_ they don't charge you after looking up 100,000 patents they already charged you a site licence that was more than enough to make them fully profitable no matter how many records you looked up.
i'm willing to bet you're on file with both those delivery services as having the Default signature requirement waived, so they can 'just leave the package' normally, that is NOT the case, normally they have to write up a slip saying 'sorry we missed you' which they had pre-written up, and left on the door when they rang and no-one came within 5 seconds...
you can always call those services to be taken off those lists, but then as i said you have to be ready to RUN when the doorbell rings because they don't wait around for people to answer. i don't know how many packages i had to pick up at fed-ex because i was in the bathroom when the doorbell rang, or wasn't decent and couldn't throw on clothes fast enough to answer the door...
and if you've spent 20+ years thinking about the 'security' of your institution a 'laptop box sized crack' might just come to you in a moment of inspiration.
now i know this doesn't apply to UPS or fedex, but the USPS can still leave packages at entry ways, unless the sender requires a signature. if you don't 'pay extra' you don't _get_ security from the usps.
Some of us buy hardware that was engineered better than an edsel.
you know the ones that can handle more than 5 cds before they like die.
i mean wtf. if they're enginnered right the moving parts should have no difficulty making it to 50k hours mtbf. 200k hours isn't that hard to do but costs signifigantly more. 50k hours is of course 50,000 CDs, you gonna rip and burn more than 25,000 CDS? wtf is up with you bitching about a cd drive that burns out after 'a hundred' because it was designed to fail?
junkware is NOT what i buy, I've never ever had a CD-rom drive fail, and although i've had many junkware DVD drives fail, I've finally found a well designed one that PUTS FUCKING HEATSINKS ON THE CHIPS THAT NEED THEM.
thank god someone didn't flunk thermodynamics and realizes 'hot chips melt, if heat is allowed to build up, and that pisses off the people who might otherwise tell others to buy your stuff'
btw, the drive I own and have burned over 100 DVDs with is an NEC it's the cheap one at newegg.com the burning laser runs hotter too, remember that folks, I have a 'mainstream' DVD-rom drive that couldn't 'read' 50 DVD movies before it fried, but i've Burned more than 100 with a Properly Designed burner.
Lust - I'm not sure how to articulate why this actually drives western progress, but I'm certain it's the keystone to all our social evolution.
lust is the 'pleasures of the body' sex, porn, masturbation... when the quest for these things drives you, then you will do great evil persuing them.
all things in moderation, it's the way western society has made nudity into a dirty thing, the way we associate everything with sex, and fixate on obtaining it even if we have to pay money for it. That is lust.
I'm sure that, in 2035...
According to the article they're goal is to have them in mass production by 2016, just in time for the next US oil crisis, as we reach peak production and can no longer continually increase oil production... although to be fair, 2016 is the Earliest year that the USGS and DOE has predicted for the next US oil production peak...
the last production peak was in the 1970's, and oil production only shrank for a short while before new 'solutions' were found (taking over small middle eastern dictatorships, off shore drilling, etc)
anyways, unlike the 1970's we're importing oil pretty heavily so likely rather than 'shortages' the next production peak will just mean more sticker shock at the pump. sticker shock will be good though, if we haven't made the needed pushes to get more renewable fuels out there, the cost savings of using domesitcally produced ethanol and bio-diesel over post-peak oil pricing should seal the deal.
Well, wise guy, if you'd RTFA you'd know that a. the laptops contain both wifi, and cellular broadcast capabilities, now the normal wattage of the cellular antenna is going to be about 5-10 miles, but with say and extrnal antenna booster at the school a simple 3 watt antenna can easuly reach 50+ miles, and the laptop hooked up to that 50 mile antenna can use the wi-fi to connect all the little student laptops to the internet.
now don't you feel stupid? i do realize not every third world county is within 50 miles of a cellular tower, but quite a few are, especially if there is any kind of tourism, or major economic development in the region.
true 192kbps split between 40 students doesn't go far, and Someone has to pay the monthly cost for cellular internet, but they Will have internet access, where available.
no i think he was more going for e-lit short for e-literate, which is basically like another way to say skript kiddie.
these kids these days they're all e-literate and don't know how to hard code a crack in asm after having reverse engineered all traces of the hooks and calls from a compiled binary full of traps to make reverse engineering more difficult.
microsoft has made it far too easy, back in the day if you wanted to steal someone's data, you had to lug a 20lbs reel to reel magnetic tape, p[ull it over to a duplicatrion mainfraim and copy the contents onto anothe blank 20lbs reel to reel magnetic tape AND it Still only held 20 Megabytes AND WE LOVED IT.
Via chipsets are not what they used to be
;) find out what people who like via are putting into their systems and what n00bs who know nothing about configuring a system are trying to do that is totally f00baring them.
Oh Via is Everything it used to be, and that's the problem, the law of averages suggests that a company that's trying to produce as many chipsets as cheaply as possible are going to wind up with a few that manage to exceed the typical quality level churned out..
if you're considering a via, you seriously need to go with a fully researched configuration, not just what the marketing department claims the board can run. now i'm typing this from a rock solid Via based solution as we speak, but there are a lot of pieces of hardware i cannot purchase for this unit, simply because they're Known Incompatabilities, of course most chipsets have "known incompatabilities" but i tend to hear of more for via than other chipset makers. It's very easy to design a system around a via chipset, even in this day and age, but as always one needs to know what Won't work, and what's going to cause you nightmares and headaches galore. that's what they make the internet for
If not, what is it I'm paying for?
You're paying to support a network of door to door soliciters who sold you the book using their people skills and slick convincing talk...
color photography is more expensive, black and white is very straight forward, and the supplies are cheap, and readily available to enthusiasts who want to "DIY" as far as garish color schemes go there are two big things working against that OSHA (color schemes that cause eye strain will lead to workers comp claims and complaints with OSHA) and there is the americans with disabilities act. if any equipment that blantenly discriminates against someones disabilites as to prevent them from performing a job, that's arguably descrimination, and frankly workplaces are required to accomodate for disabilities, where it is reasonable to expect them to do so.
as someone else mentioned you can develop photos at home in your garage/den/server room/etc all you need is, a single white led (or a low wattage light bulb) two metal cans one which fits inside the other, something to hold the negatives firmly in place below the led, a lens, some material to build the framework, any power switches the led(s) need enough black out curtain to create a light proof tent, at least large enough for the photo paper, the exposing machine, both developing pans, and a place to hang the photos while they dry. optionally, a partially surrounded red LED that reflects light off the blackout curtain can be used for a developing tent large enough to fit you as well, otherwise you'll need to 'learn how to use the equipment blind' using a kinda clean room box setup where your hands protrude into the dark space in a way that no light is brought in with them (long elastic sleeves that extend up your arm perhaps) and you may also need a film developing bag, or make sure said blackout tent is completely pitch black, when leds are off.
;) anyways, B&W photography is easy to set up, and the materials are relatively cheap, and unless you're on the DHS watchlist, or a list of convicted sex criminals purchasing B&W photography equipment should be no problem and raise no questions.
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of course you also need the B&W film deveoping chemicals, the film paper, the film itself, the developing and rinse solutions, and a stop watch would be useful for determining exposure times, and development times. of course they do also Sell said equiupment too, but half the fun is building it yourself
since you can develop the film at home, and all the equipment used is pure analog (unlike most 1 hour photo places) there is no way DRM can interfear, and frankly anyone trying to 'kill' the B&W photo industry would face a LOT of protest from artists who love the B&W medium.
so now in order to fire you they have to claim you 'docotored' the B&W photos (very easy to do with the analog stuff it basically involves taking 2 pictures 1. an e-mail from your boss 2. a picture of the message text you want to claim he wrote; and using a pair of scissors on the negatives, prior to exposing the film paper) and prove it, which when you then show them the undoctored negative, is enough evidence to prove you didn't doctor the photo (or at least that if you did, you used 2 pieces of unexposed negative to create a 'positive' and then a 'negative' to create the illusion of proof that you took the photo, without doctoring it.) but hopefully your boss doesn't know that, or doesn't know that rolls of film have exposure counts pre exposed onto them, and that it would require 3 rolls of film, where one exactly and perfectly lined up the film rolls so that the exposure numbers all matched perfectly to create this 'fake negative' and even then, all the repeated duplication can cause some loss of detail, as well as show the differing grain of the two pieces of spliced photo, which would be noticable, and identifiable by an expert in cinematography... the master film always has the best detail, and obviously wouldn't have a sudden dramatic alteration in it's grain... so having an undoctored negative is evidence, as long as it was undoctored, or you have expert witness testamony stating as such...
whew, okay, so now you know why you can try to doctor a photo but are unlikely to convince anyone but the uninitiated. not to mention splicing together negatives is a very exact buisness, where your margin of error is directely related to the grain size of the photo-sensative crystals.
sorry to have rambled on
just to help the lazy, HDCP works over any DVI port, so any hdtv with a DVI port Will work with blu-ray video players. just because it has component inputs doesn't mean you're screwed, as long as it also has dvi. most of the better hd ready sets have dvi ports, as a mtter of fact i was weighing the pros and cons of getting an LCD HDTV vs buying a LCD monitor + HDTV tuner card.
Also a side note is that HDCP is not implemented by blu-ray drives themselves, but rather by the players software, so PC based blu-ray drives will not be incapable of processing the video data from a blu-ray discs, it's just that in order to recieve the signal from a blu-ray player one will need a DVI input that can negotiate HDCP in order to aquire a digital signal.
If the ps3 is still supposedly using blu-ray, then all one will need to make the ps3 output HD over component video from a blu-ray movie is a simple ModChip. Since PS3's will have a slew of modchips developed for it, at least one of them will support removing the HD playback restrictions to do what the hardware is capable of and the movie studios are afraid of. unprotected analog high definition video. unlike other aftermarket players there Will be huge demand for ps3 modchips, so it is likely people are already working on what kind of modchip design they might need to build based on the rumours and any leaked information on the ps3.
...There are plans to use the same facility for email and documents--resulting in email that disappears in two weeks, or documents that can only be read on the computers in one company.
Imagine if you get an email from your boss telling you to do something that you think is risky; a month later, when it backfires, you can't use the email to show that the decision was not yours.
Imagine if there was a button labeled 'print screen' on the keyboard that sent the screen data to the printer... or at least the clipboard... oh wait there IS and last i checked browsers lack a fancy 'screen overlay' feature that would cause you to print a page of nothing but pink or blue... of course the latest and greatest verion of IE could always 'fix' that so unless the drm is so pervasive as to disable the ability to take a screen grab and use the print button... well, even in that scenario they make these things called 'digital cameras' if you try hard enough you can manage to get a snapshot of the screen displaying said e-mail, and unless DRM is so pervasive that the bluetooth on the camera is syncing it with you computer, and disabling the shutter button when it's aimed at the monitor.. well you can still always use some tinfoil to block the blue tooth radio signals. it might take a couple layers, or perhaps hooking up a battery and a small wattage microvave tranciever set to the same frequency as blue tooth (2.4 ghz, an old cordless handset you picked up at the local pawn shop. perhaps) set to transmit static data that interfears with the signal... long enough to make the photo take... and viola, a month later when the 'risky' idea bombs you say, I have photographic evidence my boss sent me an e-mail, i know it self deleted, but i'm sure that our DHS mandated carnivore software still kept a copy of it anyways.
it's not just tarrifs, brazillian cane sugar is being converted into ethanol, which the vast majority of brazillian drivers use because the cost is so much lower. Brazil wants to export ethanol to the states too, because they'd make as much or more money as they were making exporting sugar before we had rediculous tarrifs. of course big corn doesn't want cheap brazilian ethanol flooding their market. ethanol production has propped up the corn price, which is already at pretty impressive lows, and big corn states like minnesota are planning on going to E20 and more states are mandating the use of E10, so basically the only way to allow brazillian ethanol imports without a tarrif would be to require a nation wide e-10 or better roll out.. not something the corn lobby could easily push through as say a tarrif on ethanol.
Just going to E-10 would shift billions of dollars into local agroculture and away from mid-east oil dependancy, and it's been proven that e-10 has reduced emmisions over straight up gasoline. would be nice if we had a president who would have championed alternative fuels instead of passing billions in oil industry subsidies*...
*= if one counts the iraq war is an oil indiustry subsidy, because it basically is.
i wonder if powerhungry processors and the electric generators necessary to power them are the actual root of global warming.
wonder not, it has nothing to do with how much power is being used, but rather the _source_ of the power is fossil fuels. the earth used to be a lot hotter, in fact at one point in time the entire planet was covered with magma. global warming won't quite acheive that level, but we can easily reach jurassic era warmth... just a few more decades of reliance on good old coal and oil, and we'll have the co2 levels needed to bring the earth to a level of warmth not seen since dinosaurs ruled the earth.
There are alternatives, thankfully, we already have a fusion reactor with about 10 trillion times the energy reserves of every molecule of hyrdogen and helium on the surface of the earth. some people call it the 'sun.' and currently there are this things called 'algea' that are up to 65% efficient at converting that energy into hydrocarbons (in this case vegatable oil). keep in mind photovotaics are lucky to see efficiencies in the 30% range (and much more likely in the 10-15% range)
and keep in mind that the original design for the diesel engine ran on straight up vegatable oil. luckily, biodiesel conversion is a fairly low energy consumption process, so you only loose a few points of the efficiency of the plant in converting it into a readily usable form.
another thing to note is that vegitable oil can be readily stockpiled, as can biodiesel, whereas photovotaics leaves you completely at the mercy of available sunlight. algae will simply grow more slowly when there is insuficient sunlight. by simply growing 'more than demand' one can stockpile the oils and always have a stable source of electricity or fuel for automobiles.
30 years ago when everyone last thought we were running out of oil, there was heavy research into bio fuel alternatives, but by the time the research had concluded oil prices had fallen to much lower price figures. currently known reserves of oil that could be tapped have about 100 years worth of fuel at the current rate of consumption growth, but some of that oil will be vastly more expensive to exploit, and some of it is too high in sulpher to be usable without first processing it to remove the sulphur, which would drastically increase the cost. luckily biofuels (produced from less efficient soybeans etc, which have energy yeilds in the 1-3% range) are already profitable at the $2-3 a gallon range, so hopefully someone gets on the ball with mass producing algea oil to make bio fuel, because just looking at the raw energy yeild numbers, algea should be able to produce a lot more oil for a lot less cost than soybeans... of course since the obvious place to locate algea is out to sea the cost of ships, aquaculture nets, etc to harvest and grow it is higher, but the fact that one doesn't need to own the ocean to put the aquaculture nets out there, offsets that slightly...
the big problem is the lack of people with vision, to develop and gamble in the future of bio fuels... back in the 1980's people risked big putting money into these companies that were going to grow this asian plant here in the states called 'soybeans' and well, soybeans didn't pan out quite as good as the people hoped, but soybean oil is a lot cheaper than other oils because of all the people who put money into growing a plant that people thought had no market... and most of the biofuels we make come from common crops like corn and soybeans...
I'm not sure how one would fake a concept.
you might wanna take notes from http://atomchip.com/ that guy.
i think it goes something like get junk patent, find dumb rich investor looking to get in on the newest technology, show them your junk patent and lots opf silly videos and get cash and then make sure they can't find you when they realize you just wanted the cash for yourself... and don't have a real company...
parent is right. clear channel is the real 'threat' to local radio broadcasting. they buy out entire markets, shut down all the local djs and replaces them with satelite mix music they produce somewhere in nashville. if in the course of their market take overs they aquire 'too many country' stations etc, after the 'clear channel effect' has killed a popular local radio station that had talented djs who distinguished the station from the 'noise' they then proceed to do focus group studies to figure out which 'format' to change the now bombing station to 'keep market share' for that station.
Satelite radio didn't kill local DJs, FCC deregulation that allowed companies like Clear channel to 'exceed ownership of 50% of the stations in a market' that fucked over the local djs. yeah, technology is enabling 'podcasting' etc, but when the fcc loosened regulations they cost a lot of jobs in a lot of markets, there were thousands of licensed DJs out of work as a result one little change in the law, and those who remained were the ones with loyal fan bases, or those who worked for peanuts. all the podcasting in the world isn't going to bring back those dj jobs that have been lost.
even though i've been using compuers since the z-80 era when it comes to e-mail I'm not a power user, which is why for the past 6 years the Only e-mail account I've used on a regular basis is one I have set up through yahoo. Sure I _could_ set up sendmail(editing the config by hand), and have a zillion little @someurl addresses, that i could access with pine or something a little more modern like thunderbird... but screw it, much easier to just have a webmail account.
And even though i don't use it i Love gmail. Hotmail and yahoo had set their grounds for what should be 'given free' in quota, and yahoo was loosing ground fast. then google threatend to enter the space. with a full gig of storage per user for free. Now i have more space on yahoo that i'll use in my lifetime. like i said not a power user, once yahoo made 'spam mail' not count towards quota, well i never had another quota problem with 6 MB.
And don't forget that cell phones can now be used to access webmail too, and set to alert you when you recieve new webmail, and integrate with your IM buddy lists...
'normal users' don't even ask for nntp access anymore, and for the most part they don't care about e-mail accounts with isps..
Thanks for the clarification.
biodiesel production seems like it's the technology that is the most 'realistic' and 'ready to go' for solving our fossil fuel based transportation issues. fuel cells? shift the burden from oil to coal. same with electric vehicles. Bio diesel is the only substance that can easily be refined entirely from naturally occuring compounds (at least now it can) although relying on kerosene to use it in cold weather seems like a bad idea since kerosene can only be produced from coal and oil. perhaps some better anti-gelling substance can be formulated from organic materials...
now if only we had enough people growing enough cheap oil bearing plants (like algeas) to replace the dependance on pertrol diesel and enough bio diesel refineries, and had a solution ready to go to combat gelling... any country with the resources to build and deploy a suitable bio diesel industry could completely stop depending on 'mid east oil' and then we wouldn't be getting involved in these horrible bloody wars over oil all the time.