My calendar idea is similar to yours, but with a few minor differences:
1. Increase the number of months to 13. 2. Every week has 4 weeks / 28 days. 3. Each week has 7 days (same names as current.) 4. New Year's Day gets its own "month" that's 1 day. 5. Leap Year Day also gets its own "month" that's 1 day. 6. NYD / LYD are both holidays.
I have to whack my TV. The vertical stabilizer on the electron gun is going, and it sometimes gets stuck. The result is a white bar in the middle of the screen.
The only remedial step is to smack the crap out of the TV until the gun unjams. Other than that, it's a really, really good TV with excellent picture.
For now, the major reason keeping solid-state machines from taking over other media is cost. A 200 GB HDD costs about $100. 200 GB of flash will run you about $20 000. Plus, flash can only be re-written a limited number of times. It's 10k - 100k times, but then it's "lights out" for your SS media.
Hmm. I wonder what Joe Consumer will buy, considering they can't even put any quality into the drives, lest the cost goes up and JC doesn't buy it.
I've wondered why the folks who hate the new GTA series never mention that you can become a Paramedic, a volunteer Firefighter, or a Police Assistant and get greater rewards than killing the hookers.
Hell, even delivering pizzas gets you a greater reward than pulling a Jack the Ripper.
It just doesn't make sense. Oh, no, wait - it makes sense if they've never played or seen the game and just rely on what other people have told them.
I'm an Electrical Engineer with a wife and a kid. I guess I'm just a no-good hooligan for playing GTA.
No, the only thing that will stop spam is when it stops being economically viable. If you can make money doing something, someone will do it. I consider spamming to be a type of power-gaming: "Hey! There's no rule explicitly saying I can't email everyone in the world, so I can.
Laws and fines are what makes it impossible to get drugs and why nobody makes money selling drugs.
That's where they come up with bizarre revenge plots that wouldn't make it into a B-movie because it's too far-fetched. You know, like setting up porno screensavers at Suck-Mart, changing the passwords, then announcing a special on computers over the PA.
Generally, it's what they'd love to do but don't have the guts (nor inclination to spend years in jail / debt) to actually follow through.
I've had this sig for so long, it would be a shame to change it. It predates 9/11 by several years, back when Echelon used to look for these words.
It came out of a discussion in rec.games.ultima-online when someone found that a few packets were going elsewhere, and we talked about how much it would suck to be the guy at Echelon watching UO for criminal activity. "U GT Arr0wz?" "bank buy sell vendor rescu repu" "We strike at the infidels tonight and watch america burn!" "guards!" "om om om"
Note that it's different from Carnivore - Echelon is an exchange between several countries that check up on the other countries' emails. They'd trade emails so each country could honestly say, "Nope, we're not spying on our citizens."
My hope is that there's someone, somewhere, who spends an hour each day reading all my email. What a fucking waste.
Any time you do any work at all, you waste energy in the from of heat. Any type of power generation will thus force you to waste heat.
It might produce more because if people don't care how much it costs (since they've already spent the cash on the solar cells), they won't be as inclined to turn off the lights or keep the heat low.
Of course, solar panels produce a hell of a lot of waste when you make them. There are tradeoffs for any kind of power generation.
It's easy to understand why we can't mod down stories. Here's an example:
Look in any slashdot thread for one of the Step 1: Old Koreans Step 2: Soviet Russia Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit
And check out the scores. They're almost all positive. That means that Slashdot would end up with nothing but stories like TEH AKBAR IS TEH TRAP MORANS!
Besides, one of the greatest powers of Slashdot (and Fark) is to have the people in the community find out the truth, post it, and fuck over the guys involved. We've ruined lives. We've forced people to move. I'm sure there are deaths involved. Imagine that - someone might be dead because Slashdot found out the whole truth.
If we moderate stories, then anything with enough unpopularity (like praise for MS or pro-Bush/Kerry/Nerfherder) will get modded into oblivion before we, the freeloading masses, get to read and discuss the issue. There will be enough boneheads that vote for every cliche to make any system completely and totally useless.
Unless the flag's fetures are trivial, it's going to be software. For testing, I'm sure that the absolute last thing that the manufacturers are going to put in is the broadcast flag checking. It's going to be an absolute pain in the ass to get it to work correctly. The easiest way to test all the features is to check everything WITHOUT the flag, then put it in later. That may be bad coding practice, but that's my guess.
So, my hunch is that at the top of most of the firmware source code, there is a
#define BROADCAST_FLAG_ENABLE 1
and in the code, there will be more than a few places where you'll see:
#ifdef BROADCAST_FLAG_ENABLE//Do the silly flag checking
return();//Just abort this function if flag is set. (Hack) #endif
Seriously, do you guys forget that there are other countries in the world that won't put up with this kind of shit? They're not going to make extra firmware if they don't have to.
As someone said down below, eventually your cheap made-in-china DVR is going to break down and you'll have to get one with a broadcast flag built into it. I don't know why we continue to trade with china, but I guess our leaders don't read the fucking papers.
Anyway, my point is that once a few Jimmy Homeowners go out and spend $10k on a home theater that won't let them record TV shows like their old VCR used to do, then the resulting backlash of returns and freakouts will force your regulatory bodies to change their stance. No matter how you look at it, if people can't do with a DVR exactly what they used to do with their VCRs, then shit will hit fans.
Alternatively, you could wait for a few months and do one if the following: a) get a mod chip b) update the firmware c) get one with a bypass
That's it - since 1985! The CD was broken by impact. The HDD was garbage from Quantum, may they rot in hell. The PSU was overworked and gave up. It took the mobo with it, but not the RAM or CPU.
The worst part is that I only upgrade when I get a failure or when the parts are horribly antiquated. (My last upgrade was in 2002.)
It's true; I've had the same thing happen in under a minute. Here's why:
1. No firewall. 2. Unpatched. 3. Virus Scanner active but not up-to-date. 4. Broadband connection.
Don't forget that you have to get online to patch your system. Unless you've got a disk with SP2 installed, the firewall isn't active by default, and you don't have enough time to turn it on before your system gets compromised. It's that fast.
I did manage to fix the problem by using a hardware firewall and the "Guide to Surviving the First day fo Win XP."
That's what I've never understood. It's not an act of desecration to burn a flag. You're supposed to burn any flag that has ever touched the ground. End of story.
By the way, if you want a fun time, try pointing this out to people at your 4th of July* gathering. Those teenagers who are draping a flag on their shoulders and sitting down - those flags should be burnt.
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My calendar idea is similar to yours, but with a few minor differences:
1. Increase the number of months to 13.
2. Every week has 4 weeks / 28 days.
3. Each week has 7 days (same names as current.)
4. New Year's Day gets its own "month" that's 1 day.
5. Leap Year Day also gets its own "month" that's 1 day.
6. NYD / LYD are both holidays.
You're white, therefore you don't have any ties to terrorism.
You're male, thus there's no point in strip-searching you / checking body cavities.
Insightful or troll? It is now at the point where I can't tell either.
From what I've heard, getting TotalFark is like paying to read Slashdot at -1.
Brrr...
That's called a business model. It's what you use if you're a business and you want to make money.
I don't know if you've noticed, but they picked a flashlight as their clipart. I wonder if that will become the new official Firefox logo.
I have to whack my TV. The vertical stabilizer on the electron gun is going, and it sometimes gets stuck. The result is a white bar in the middle of the screen.
The only remedial step is to smack the crap out of the TV until the gun unjams. Other than that, it's a really, really good TV with excellent picture.
They made me do the backups here. I've just been handing in blank disks.
Cost.
For now, the major reason keeping solid-state machines from taking over other media is cost. A 200 GB HDD costs about $100. 200 GB of flash will run you about $20 000. Plus, flash can only be re-written a limited number of times. It's 10k - 100k times, but then it's "lights out" for your SS media.
Hmm. I wonder what Joe Consumer will buy, considering they can't even put any quality into the drives, lest the cost goes up and JC doesn't buy it.
I've wondered why the folks who hate the new GTA series never mention that you can become a Paramedic, a volunteer Firefighter, or a Police Assistant and get greater rewards than killing the hookers.
Hell, even delivering pizzas gets you a greater reward than pulling a Jack the Ripper.
It just doesn't make sense. Oh, no, wait - it makes sense if they've never played or seen the game and just rely on what other people have told them.
I'm an Electrical Engineer with a wife and a kid. I guess I'm just a no-good hooligan for playing GTA.
In Canada, you can freely download but it's illegal to upload. (That's the 20 second summary.)
Since he didn't post anonymously we can infer that he did want to take credit for the joke.
If the article is true, we've got more bots per capita. The US has ~10 times our population and only ~5 times as many bots.
We suck at the Internet, eh?
No, the only thing that will stop spam is when it stops being economically viable. If you can make money doing something, someone will do it. I consider spamming to be a type of power-gaming: "Hey! There's no rule explicitly saying I can't email everyone in the world, so I can.
Laws and fines are what makes it impossible to get drugs and why nobody makes money selling drugs.
That's where they come up with bizarre revenge plots that wouldn't make it into a B-movie because it's too far-fetched. You know, like setting up porno screensavers at Suck-Mart, changing the passwords, then announcing a special on computers over the PA.
Generally, it's what they'd love to do but don't have the guts (nor inclination to spend years in jail / debt) to actually follow through.
In Canada, we pay a fee on blank media.
I don't care if 99% or more of the money goes to line the CCPC pockets. I've paid my levy; the rest is bookkeeping semantics.
So it's perfectly ethical to download music. I pay money to do so.
Ah, but the cell companies will tell you that it's left- or right-handedness that's making the tumours show up on that side.
I'm an EE and I don't have a cell phone.
I've had this sig for so long, it would be a shame to change it. It predates 9/11 by several years, back when Echelon used to look for these words.
It came out of a discussion in rec.games.ultima-online when someone found that a few packets were going elsewhere, and we talked about how much it would suck to be the guy at Echelon watching UO for criminal activity. "U GT Arr0wz?" "bank buy sell vendor rescu repu" "We strike at the infidels tonight and watch america burn!" "guards!" "om om om"
Note that it's different from Carnivore - Echelon is an exchange between several countries that check up on the other countries' emails. They'd trade emails so each country could honestly say, "Nope, we're not spying on our citizens."
My hope is that there's someone, somewhere, who spends an hour each day reading all my email. What a fucking waste.
Uh...
Any time you do any work at all, you waste energy in the from of heat. Any type of power generation will thus force you to waste heat.
It might produce more because if people don't care how much it costs (since they've already spent the cash on the solar cells), they won't be as inclined to turn off the lights or keep the heat low.
Of course, solar panels produce a hell of a lot of waste when you make them. There are tradeoffs for any kind of power generation.
It's easy to understand why we can't mod down stories. Here's an example:
Look in any slashdot thread for one of the
Step 1: Old Koreans
Step 2: Soviet Russia
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
And check out the scores. They're almost all positive. That means that Slashdot would end up with nothing but stories like TEH AKBAR IS TEH TRAP MORANS!
Besides, one of the greatest powers of Slashdot (and Fark) is to have the people in the community find out the truth, post it, and fuck over the guys involved. We've ruined lives. We've forced people to move. I'm sure there are deaths involved. Imagine that - someone might be dead because Slashdot found out the whole truth.
If we moderate stories, then anything with enough unpopularity (like praise for MS or pro-Bush/Kerry/Nerfherder) will get modded into oblivion before we, the freeloading masses, get to read and discuss the issue. There will be enough boneheads that vote for every cliche to make any system completely and totally useless.
You can just ignore stories that you don't like.
Unless the flag's fetures are trivial, it's going to be software. For testing, I'm sure that the absolute last thing that the manufacturers are going to put in is the broadcast flag checking. It's going to be an absolute pain in the ass to get it to work correctly. The easiest way to test all the features is to check everything WITHOUT the flag, then put it in later. That may be bad coding practice, but that's my guess.
//Do the silly flag checking //Just abort this function if flag is set. (Hack)
So, my hunch is that at the top of most of the firmware source code, there is a
#define BROADCAST_FLAG_ENABLE 1
and in the code, there will be more than a few places where you'll see:
#ifdef BROADCAST_FLAG_ENABLE
return();
#endif
Seriously, do you guys forget that there are other countries in the world that won't put up with this kind of shit? They're not going to make extra firmware if they don't have to.
As someone said down below, eventually your cheap made-in-china DVR is going to break down and you'll have to get one with a broadcast flag built into it. I don't know why we continue to trade with china, but I guess our leaders don't read the fucking papers.
Anyway, my point is that once a few Jimmy Homeowners go out and spend $10k on a home theater that won't let them record TV shows like their old VCR used to do, then the resulting backlash of returns and freakouts will force your regulatory bodies to change their stance. No matter how you look at it, if people can't do with a DVR exactly what they used to do with their VCRs, then shit will hit fans.
Alternatively, you could wait for a few months and do one if the following:
a) get a mod chip
b) update the firmware
c) get one with a bypass
1998: CD
2000: HDD
2004: PSU
That's it - since 1985! The CD was broken by impact. The HDD was garbage from Quantum, may they rot in hell. The PSU was overworked and gave up. It took the mobo with it, but not the RAM or CPU.
The worst part is that I only upgrade when I get a failure or when the parts are horribly antiquated. (My last upgrade was in 2002.)
It's true; I've had the same thing happen in under a minute. Here's why:
1. No firewall.
2. Unpatched.
3. Virus Scanner active but not up-to-date.
4. Broadband connection.
Don't forget that you have to get online to patch your system. Unless you've got a disk with SP2 installed, the firewall isn't active by default, and you don't have enough time to turn it on before your system gets compromised. It's that fast.
I did manage to fix the problem by using a hardware firewall and the "Guide to Surviving the First day fo Win XP."
Or preview and submit, apparently. ;)
That's what I've never understood. It's not an act of desecration to burn a flag. You're supposed to burn any flag that has ever touched the ground. End of story.
By the way, if you want a fun time, try pointing this out to people at your 4th of July* gathering. Those teenagers who are draping a flag on their shoulders and sitting down - those flags should be burnt.
*I do this 3 days before Americans.
I'm the same way - I like to use some_clear_name rather than SomeClearName for my variables.
;)
I'd say that my code is about 50% comments.
Of course, I have to set a good example since I'm the lead software guy.