Okay, reading the scanty information they provide seems to indicate that it does its trick by bathing the room with IR light.
Somehow the camera is supposed to respond to this. My knee jerk reaction was that all you needed to do was put tape over the remote control sensor and you would be good to go.
But they would undoubtedly have thought to create a system more resistant to spoofing than that. So I am stumped. I assume they are relying on some response from the lens? The feature list says it can't be fooled by pinhole cameras or even filters on the lenses, so thats what I base my guess on.
The difference is, there is nothing stopping people who get upset about the direction of Firefox from forking, and producing versions that are slim and trim.
I was going to get one of these but then realized it wouldnt take long for wife wife to figure out how to disable it with an EMP grenade.
Really? If you and your wife ever decide to part ways - I would be glad to meet her. That's my kind of woman.
(She will likely have to defeat my current wife in combat first....)
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I would LOVE to see some evidence to back that up. I am not attacking your statement here, just saying that if true, its one of the most interesting things I have heard of in a long time.
Googling for more using the terms "Squaresoft release Final Fantasy weekends" gave me only the following link.
For a request like that to come down would indicate that someone in authority thought that a workday release of the software would actually have a serious impact on the attendance.
I would be very curious to learn if that was based on facts, or hype and knee jerk reactions. Of the top of my head, I can't think of a single other thing (excluding weather) that could cause that kind of widespread absenteeism.
Others have already pointed out that you have attributed the prize to the wrong person.
The rest of your statement is absurd. Don't like an American contest like this? Scrounge together your own 10 million and offer a contest of your own. Surely there are rich companies and coporations in your part of the world that can pony up the cash?
When I look to donate money to a cause, I don't donate to an "adopt an african child" program, I donate to a local foodbank. When I volunteer time, I don't go to South America and build schools, I help Habitat for Humanity.
I can't help the whole world, and these charities and organizations focus on my neighbours and the people in my community. One could even say that my actions are not altruistic, as these are the same neighbours and community my children and family live in. They may one day need the help of these services.
Not every action and event has to be balanced for some metric of global fairness.
A desire to foster innovation and advancement in your own country is only reasonable. Since this is private money, it can be used any way he wants to.
You forgot about the public. The NHS pissed away $800 million of public money that could have been spent on making people well, instead of lining the pockets of Microsoft and whoever had to be paid off to land the deal.
What a stupid comment. Obviously the NHS should be able to run their IT infrastructure for free. This is because it will be powered by hopes, and dreams, and maintained by leprachauns.
Then we would all join hands and sing about rainbows.
Amen to that. I had never seen a Tivo (we canadians still can't get em) My wife became addicted to daytime television while she was off work. So when she returned to work, I offered to put together something that would record her shows for her.
After two days installing Linux on my hardware and another two struggling to get MythTV set up. I sat down to show her how it all worked.
She struggled with it for a wekk or so, and then I went on a company trip to L.A. and saw a Tivo for the first time. The difference isnt even worth discussing - the Tivo kicks its ass.
MthyTV is fine for me - I can keep that sucker running. My wife hated it, and loves our new Scientific Atlanta DVR. It easy to use, and works exactly as specified.
Even I use it more that my Myth box - 90% of the shows I watch I record once, then delete and never watch again. I could care less if I can save it, transfer it to my computer, share it with my grandma. That attitude is shared by over 90% of the television watching population.
Targetting a product at that market is never a dumb idea.
There is no American continent. We have North America, and South America. Where you might use the term European, it is generally accepted to use 'North American' or 'South American'.
What the hell is a 'USAian'? Are you trying to create new terminology, or are you just being a dork?
Can you provide a justification for using this awkward word?
I'm not even American, and I find the term ridiculous. it instantly ejects you from the category of 'qualified to speak' into the 'drooling moron' category.
I hereby mod you (and myself) troll, despite your otherwise reasonable argument.
My regime plans to overthrow your regime using rhetoric and innuendo, and replace it with a mildly anarchistic commune run by warlords and charismatic pop idols. Then we will declare your supporters as non-humans, and hunt you through the streets.
I intend to make this country profitable by selling the right to watch the country on television to countries like Russia and China. This effectively combines their dislike of Americans with their youths addiction to our media.
Actually, I would even go further and say the problem was his boss. I have pretty clear memories of being that 12 year old kid (18 years ago!), and writing my first software applications.
They were as good as could be expected, but no one in their right mind would have employed them in a real environment.
Congratulations to the 12 year old for doing something other than wtching tv and playing games.....
Thats exactly what you form an association for. You form associations with like minded individuals to discuss, promote, organize and lobby on behalf of your interests.
The association (in this case the MPAA) provides a service to its members. If you think the money they make from suing people covers the costs of thier operations you are probably too naive to walk outside without an escort.
Members of the RIAA and MPAA pay for the priviledge of being members. In return they get access to a powerful lobby and promotional force, industry contacts and a library of resources relating to their industry.
Everything they do is about providing a service. Let go of your anti-*AA propaganda long enough to have a look at reality.
If you're not british and you get this, reply here...
I guess that would be me. For everyone else - here is the explanation. Tracey Emin is a sculpture artist who produces some very controversial works. Her work tends to produce intense hostility in the vein of "Thats not art!".
Her most famous exploit was her award winning entry to the Turner prize - titled "unmade bed". Evidently, the artist awoke from a night of hard drinking and bad sex and looked at the mess around her. The inspiration was to take the bed and the environment around it and use it as her entry.
The bed is filthy, there are food boxes, wrappers, dried used condoms, empty liquor bottles. There are even dirty underwear...it all points to a life badly spiralling out of control, a tightly contained nest of debauchery and self destruction.
Tracey Emin is a media favorite in London, they love to pick on her, and she loves to pick back.
The sculpture is one of many bizarre and intriguing pieces on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London. I highly reccommend a visit. From the room of oil, to the american tourist sculptures, I was off balance for my entire visit - which is high praise for a gallery of modern art.
If you plan to launch a commercial space tourism effort from this country, of course it needs regulation. Would you prefer if any moron could claim to have a rocket and start tossing people up into space?
Would you care when one of those morons built a rocket that came apart, killing everyone on board and raining down debris? You would certainly complain bitterly if it was one of your family on board, or if it was your house that was hit by debris.
Your local travel agencty is subject to regulation to prevent the worst of the scammers from coming into/staying into existence. Airflight is regulated tightly to ensure travel is safe for those who fly as well as those on the ground.
What made you think launching a ship of some sort into space would be subject to less regulation? If ytou plan to launch from N. American airspace, or operate your business from N. America, expect to be regulated.
Regulation can be stifling - but it can also be necessary.
Hardly true. The postal service is government run - the laws that make it illegal to read sealed mail are part of the system of trust that allows us to place our private corrospondence in the hands of the government. It is part of the service you purchase when you buy your stamps.
E-Mail is not run by the government. It is run mostly by private industry - though anyone can set up thier own mail server no one can argue that private industry does not own the vast majority of hardware and resources that process and transmit the bulk of email.
So - the question to ask yourselves is - do you believe it is the governments job to legislate how a company or even private individual uses and handles data that is hosted and or transferred through their property?
I don't really have an answer, but I find it a fascinating question.
By all means - encrypt your email if you feel the need, but lets not get the government into the habit of legisating the Internet.
Really. Aside from the usual paranoia and slashdot typical conspiracy ranting, what makes you say that many of commission members are 'buddies' with MS (in the corrupt sense of the word)
Do you actually have any facts to back your assertion, or are you just another of those people who defaults to assuming that this is the case as part of some baseless accusation?
Please cite examples of when the commission has specifically made life easier for Microsoft. I am always willing to learn more.
What a stupid comment. Seriously. I still return to some of my playstation I games because they provide amazing fun. I am hardly the only person for who graphics and framerate take a second seat to gameplay.
In fact, I have never played any of the games you listed, and don't care to.
The market for fun short easy to enter games is immense. My wife does not want to play Doom. She doesn't even want to play Sims. Give her a copy of Tetris, and she is one VERY happy woman though.
My dad is the same way.
Puzzle fighter is a brilliant game, as is Gish. If you can't see that because of your obsession with first person shooters, then the only person losing out is you.
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Except of course, that the article in Tom's hardware is just as useless, and only quotes the website. Smartass.
So we are back to my original post. So, how the hell does this work? Does it harness the miracle powers of Fudge?
One would be right. I missed the little story link, and only saw the link to the company website.
Thanks....
Okay, reading the scanty information they provide seems to indicate that it does its trick by bathing the room with IR light.
Somehow the camera is supposed to respond to this. My knee jerk reaction was that all you needed to do was put tape over the remote control sensor and you would be good to go.
But they would undoubtedly have thought to create a system more resistant to spoofing than that. So I am stumped. I assume they are relying on some response from the lens? The feature list says it can't be fooled by pinhole cameras or even filters on the lenses, so thats what I base my guess on.
Anyone with more information care to speak up?
Which i thought was pretty funny. Read
The difference is, there is nothing stopping people who get upset about the direction of Firefox from forking, and producing versions that are slim and trim.
Try that with IE.
I was going to get one of these but then realized it wouldnt take long for wife wife to figure out how to disable it with an EMP grenade.
Really? If you and your wife ever decide to part ways - I would be glad to meet her. That's my kind of woman.
(She will likely have to defeat my current wife in combat first....)
I would LOVE to see some evidence to back that up. I am not attacking your statement here, just saying that if true, its one of the most interesting things I have heard of in a long time.
Googling for more using the terms "Squaresoft release Final Fantasy weekends" gave me only the following link.
http://www.netjak.com/Reviews/ps2/ffx.htm
For a request like that to come down would indicate that someone in authority thought that a workday release of the software would actually have a serious impact on the attendance.
I would be very curious to learn if that was based on facts, or hype and knee jerk reactions. Of the top of my head, I can't think of a single other thing (excluding weather) that could cause that kind of widespread absenteeism.
It would be kind of cool if it was true.
Why was this modded informative? I use Skype regularly, and neither of these things ever happen.
Others have already pointed out that you have attributed the prize to the wrong person.
The rest of your statement is absurd. Don't like an American contest like this? Scrounge together your own 10 million and offer a contest of your own. Surely there are rich companies and coporations in your part of the world that can pony up the cash?
When I look to donate money to a cause, I don't donate to an "adopt an african child" program, I donate to a local foodbank. When I volunteer time, I don't go to South America and build schools, I help Habitat for Humanity.
I can't help the whole world, and these charities and organizations focus on my neighbours and the people in my community. One could even say that my actions are not altruistic, as these are the same neighbours and community my children and family live in. They may one day need the help of these services.
Not every action and event has to be balanced for some metric of global fairness.
A desire to foster innovation and advancement in your own country is only reasonable. Since this is private money, it can be used any way he wants to.
You forgot about the public. The NHS pissed away $800 million of public money that could have been spent on making people well, instead of lining the pockets of Microsoft and whoever had to be paid off to land the deal.
What a stupid comment. Obviously the NHS should be able to run their IT infrastructure for free. This is because it will be powered by hopes, and dreams, and maintained by leprachauns.
Then we would all join hands and sing about rainbows.
Meanwhile, back here in the real world.....
Amen to that. I had never seen a Tivo (we canadians still can't get em) My wife became addicted to daytime television while she was off work. So when she returned to work, I offered to put together something that would record her shows for her.
After two days installing Linux on my hardware and another two struggling to get MythTV set up. I sat down to show her how it all worked.
She struggled with it for a wekk or so, and then I went on a company trip to L.A. and saw a Tivo for the first time. The difference isnt even worth discussing - the Tivo kicks its ass.
MthyTV is fine for me - I can keep that sucker running. My wife hated it, and loves our new Scientific Atlanta DVR. It easy to use, and works exactly as specified.
Even I use it more that my Myth box - 90% of the shows I watch I record once, then delete and never watch again. I could care less if I can save it, transfer it to my computer, share it with my grandma. That attitude is shared by over 90% of the television watching population.
Targetting a product at that market is never a dumb idea.
That doesn't make it less interesting that someone has chosen to do so.
There is no American continent. We have North America, and South America. Where you might use the term European, it is generally accepted to use 'North American' or 'South American'.
What the hell is a 'USAian'? Are you trying to create new terminology, or are you just being a dork?
Can you provide a justification for using this awkward word?
I'm not even American, and I find the term ridiculous. it instantly ejects you from the category of 'qualified to speak' into the 'drooling moron' category.
I hereby mod you (and myself) troll, despite your otherwise reasonable argument.
My regime plans to overthrow your regime using rhetoric and innuendo, and replace it with a mildly anarchistic commune run by warlords and charismatic pop idols. Then we will declare your supporters as non-humans, and hunt you through the streets.
:->
I intend to make this country profitable by selling the right to watch the country on television to countries like Russia and China. This effectively combines their dislike of Americans with their youths addiction to our media.
Just kidding.
Actually, I would even go further and say the problem was his boss. I have pretty clear memories of being that 12 year old kid (18 years ago!), and writing my first software applications.
They were as good as could be expected, but no one in their right mind would have employed them in a real environment.
Congratulations to the 12 year old for doing something other than wtching tv and playing games.....
Some applications have hardwired to launch iexplore.exe - so changing your default browser won't help if NetZero is one of those applications.
Thats when you complain to NetZero so they know its not appreciated.
Well DUH.
Thats exactly what you form an association for. You form associations with like minded individuals to discuss, promote, organize and lobby on behalf of your interests.
The association (in this case the MPAA) provides a service to its members. If you think the money they make from suing people covers the costs of thier operations you are probably too naive to walk outside without an escort.
Members of the RIAA and MPAA pay for the priviledge of being members. In return they get access to a powerful lobby and promotional force, industry contacts and a library of resources relating to their industry.
Everything they do is about providing a service. Let go of your anti-*AA propaganda long enough to have a look at reality.
Hmm, I think the word you are looking for isn't 'bounce' or 'squelch'. It's 'ooze'.
If you're not british and you get this, reply here...
I guess that would be me. For everyone else - here is the explanation. Tracey Emin is a sculpture artist who produces some very controversial works. Her work tends to produce intense hostility in the vein of "Thats not art!".
Her most famous exploit was her award winning entry to the Turner prize - titled "unmade bed". Evidently, the artist awoke from a night of hard drinking and bad sex and looked at the mess around her. The inspiration was to take the bed and the environment around it and use it as her entry.
The bed is filthy, there are food boxes, wrappers, dried used condoms, empty liquor bottles. There are even dirty underwear...it all points to a life badly spiralling out of control, a tightly contained nest of debauchery and self destruction.
Tracey Emin is a media favorite in London, they love to pick on her, and she loves to pick back.
The sculpture is one of many bizarre and intriguing pieces on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London. I highly reccommend a visit. From the room of oil, to the american tourist sculptures, I was off balance for my entire visit - which is high praise for a gallery of modern art.
This discussion is just begging for the obligatory penny arcade link....
7 -05&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-0
There is bound to be a website for you somewhere......
Your insane right?
If you plan to launch a commercial space tourism effort from this country, of course it needs regulation. Would you prefer if any moron could claim to have a rocket and start tossing people up into space?
Would you care when one of those morons built a rocket that came apart, killing everyone on board and raining down debris? You would certainly complain bitterly if it was one of your family on board, or if it was your house that was hit by debris.
Your local travel agencty is subject to regulation to prevent the worst of the scammers from coming into/staying into existence. Airflight is regulated tightly to ensure travel is safe for those who fly as well as those on the ground.
What made you think launching a ship of some sort into space would be subject to less regulation? If ytou plan to launch from N. American airspace, or operate your business from N. America, expect to be regulated.
Regulation can be stifling - but it can also be necessary.
Hardly true. The postal service is government run - the laws that make it illegal to read sealed mail are part of the system of trust that allows us to place our private corrospondence in the hands of the government. It is part of the service you purchase when you buy your stamps.
E-Mail is not run by the government. It is run mostly by private industry - though anyone can set up thier own mail server no one can argue that private industry does not own the vast majority of hardware and resources that process and transmit the bulk of email.
So - the question to ask yourselves is - do you believe it is the governments job to legislate how a company or even private individual uses and handles data that is hosted and or transferred through their property?
I don't really have an answer, but I find it a fascinating question.
By all means - encrypt your email if you feel the need, but lets not get the government into the habit of legisating the Internet.
Really. Aside from the usual paranoia and slashdot typical conspiracy ranting, what makes you say that many of commission members are 'buddies' with MS (in the corrupt sense of the word)
Do you actually have any facts to back your assertion, or are you just another of those people who defaults to assuming that this is the case as part of some baseless accusation?
Please cite examples of when the commission has specifically made life easier for Microsoft. I am always willing to learn more.
What a stupid comment. Seriously. I still return to some of my playstation I games because they provide amazing fun. I am hardly the only person for who graphics and framerate take a second seat to gameplay.
In fact, I have never played any of the games you listed, and don't care to.
The market for fun short easy to enter games is immense. My wife does not want to play Doom. She doesn't even want to play Sims. Give her a copy of Tetris, and she is one VERY happy woman though.
My dad is the same way.
Puzzle fighter is a brilliant game, as is Gish. If you can't see that because of your obsession with first person shooters, then the only person losing out is you.
We won't miss you.