If GE sold a coffee maker that magically permitted only GE-brand coffee filters, no one would give you a moral lecture for using a workaround and using non-GE filters. It's your coffee maker. If GM sold cars that accepted only GM-designed bolts, no one would lecture you for using an adapter or changing out the bolt thingy so you could use whatever bolts you wanted. Or it'd be like buying a printer and only being allowed to use that printer's brand of ink, which would be stupid and dumb. Especially if the printer manufacturer's then went to extreme lengths to prevent you from using any workarounds...
The point is that companies will, if they think they can get way with it, lock you into their product in every way possible. While it isn't, and shouldn't, be illegal to install other software on a console, you be damned sure that the manufacturers are working their butss off trying to figure out how to stop you.
Even if that doesn mean they sell less consoles...they want to control you, or they won't touch you.
I'd love to watch something like Sin City via ClearPlay - how much do you reckon would be left?:P
Surely the dividing line has to come down to two questions:
"Who is requesting the modification?" "Is it optional and reversable?"
In the CleanFlicks case, while it is the end user requesting the modification, the removal is permanent. For ClearPlay, it's optional, no different from just fast-forwarding past sections of the movie.
In the ISP's case, it's neither optional nor requested, or at least agreed to, by the user.
Back in dial-up only times, I had a modem that apparently was immune to the hang-up signal of my ISP.
I had free dial-up from 6pm Friday to midnight Sunday, with disconnects every two hours, but managed to regularly stay connected from Friday evening until about 6am Monday morning (when my body finally decided to sleep without my consent...).
When that modem died and I replaced it my connection suddenly respected the ISP limits:/ Very weird, but nice while it lasted.
People do seem to have varying resistance to heat - I can pick food off a frying pan with my bare fingers and eat it directly with no injuries or pain. I've held food flat onto a frying pan with my hands when it's started curling up and haven't had a utensil within reach.
Yeah, I've also taken the skin off my mouth when I've overestimated my limits (or underestimated the temperature), but it's rare.
Exactly - I found this absolutely/horrible/ to read and very much slower.
But then I speed read, so I'm taking in almost complete paragraphs at a time anyway - having the eye process several lines simultaneously is what enables me to do that.
This is like training wheels for readers...perhaps that's why children's books have traditionally used lots of indentation and numerous line-breaks?
A "cult" is usually defined by being based around a singular figure. It's broadened slightly by our use of "cult" films, but still the idea is similar - devotion to a specific and singular thing or person.
Naturally, said person doesn't include a Deity - a cult is devoted to a material, rather spiritual/imaginary existence.
The original version also had no max limits on some of the soldier's stats. My two scouts had their movement wrap around the integer limit back to 0.
They could no longer move anywhere, but anything that required a % of TU to operate could do so infinitely - give 'em a laser weapon and a psiamp and they could clear an entire map without ever leaving the transport...
Yup, did that at work a few weeks ago, after an all weekender playing CoH. I'd been working with SQL all day, so at the end, when I went to remove a temporary directory I typed:
rm -rf * replication/
instead of
rm -rf replication/*
'cos my head was still thinking in DELETE * FROM... syntax:/
I was there until 10pm trying to restore the directory from backup.
As a Jehovah's Witness, I cannot, and would not want, to lie.
The governmental request goes against my religious beliefs. Unfortunately, I bet I know which one would be considered most important in this situation by the government.
Between this, and the Linux support for SIM cards, how long until we can make our own linux phone? A completely DIY phone might even tempt me to get one...
Nightwish and Weird Al are two of my favourites, and from the descriptions I reckon I'd like the other three too. Among my favourites I also include Enya, Dire Straits, The Tea Party, 8stops7, Susanne Vega. My favourite genre is country (which gets me some very odd stares here in England), but my favourite piece of music is Terra's Theme from Final Fantasy 4.
I just like/music/. What type of music depends on my mood at the time.
It is arguable that this is a major failing of many modern programmers designing games. Who are the two biggest names in 3D graphic engines? Epic and iD - two long, long time PC games companies, who were pushing technical boundaries back when 1Mb of RAM was a lot. If you cut your teeth coding in an environment where every byte counts, it's hard to lose that tendency - I still write my loops to count down, where I can because it produces less assembly instructions (or used to - I can't imagine an optomiser would be willing to reverse a loop's direction so it still would I'd think).
Today's programmers are lazy (if my co-workers and www.thedailywtf.com are anything to go by) - people expect and don't seem to mind a little slowness anymore, "That's just the way things are." Stuff like this shows it doesn't have to be that way.
Did you actually read the article (silly question, I know, but it's nice to give people the benefit of the doubt...) ?
He specifically states that it won't block all spam, and that many spammers try the secondary first for the very reasons you give. However, it will stop quite a lot, and for very little effort and zero maintenance. Every little helps, and when it's this simple, I don't see a reason not to.
As for your advanced technique, you'll notice at the end of the article he refers to Unilisting, which sounds very similar - only allowing connections to the secondary if the primary has been tried recently.
Actually, even (or "especially") if all you do is download music, I'd recommend RAID. I recently picked up a 300Gb HDD for GBP70, so getting two or three is unlikely to break the bank, and with the current RIAA offensive frenzy, re-digitising lost music content may well be impossible. I'm planning on doing this in the near future, for exactly this reason/
I've always enjoyed the Fortean Times, though I'm not sure how easy it is to get hold of outside England (though I've seen it in a library in Toronto, so hey...). As an added plug, I do some of the comuter game reviews in the back:P
*blink* As a Jehovah's Witness, I'm not quite sure why you'd conflate our religion with not taking their kids to the hospital? I think you might be suffering some denominational confusion - our kids are, in the Bible's own words, a gift from God, and parents are under responsibility to care for them. Whatever the background, I can assure our beliefs would/not/ be the reason for not taking the kid to hospital.
Do a Google for "Quicktime Alternative" - supports all the Quicktime codecs, without any of the annoyances. There is also a "Real Alternative" too, for real player, and as AFAIK, malware free.
Whoa. I know this old but I just gotta reply to these two.
You're both way overcomplicating things...
10 for 7. 16 for 9.
So if the first ten cost seven dollars, the next six must only cost two. If that isn't obvious enough (hopefully it would be for any reasonably intelligent person), then you might have to add that if you can buy six for two, then you can buy three for one, which together makes nine for three. And if nine for three dollars compared to ten for seven dollars isn't clear enough, you've got bigger problems.
Makes sense, since that's a common strategy for dealing with spam: Block anything except emails from a known source. That comment just triggered an odd thought in my head......in the future, will we look back at spam gratefully, for all the practice it's given us in blocking unwanted intrusions into our systems in a (realtively) benign way? Or does it just demonstrate how easily the majority of people will ignore privacy and real security and make life hell for the rest of us?
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The point is that companies will, if they think they can get way with it, lock you into their product in every way possible. While it isn't, and shouldn't, be illegal to install other software on a console, you be damned sure that the manufacturers are working their butss off trying to figure out how to stop you.
Even if that doesn mean they sell less consoles...they want to control you, or they won't touch you.
roflmao
Dang, I wish I had mod points for that one...
I'd love to watch something like Sin City via ClearPlay - how much do you reckon would be left? :P
Surely the dividing line has to come down to two questions:
"Who is requesting the modification?"
"Is it optional and reversable?"
In the CleanFlicks case, while it is the end user requesting the modification, the removal is permanent. For ClearPlay, it's optional, no different from just fast-forwarding past sections of the movie.
In the ISP's case, it's neither optional nor requested, or at least agreed to, by the user.
No TV, no mobile phone. I have an MP3 player...somewhere. It's a Rio500 with a staggering 64mb of storage space...yeah, I don't use it that often.
:P
Admittedly there are 6 PC's in my one bed-flat - but half of 'em are my wife's, and several of them are currently non-functional.
I never take a PC with me on holiday or such - there's books, board and card games, and just good old-fashioned conversation.
But yeah, I will dive back onto my PC when I get back, I admit
Errr. "Insightful"!? Red Dwarf = comedy. Comment = funny.
/. Moderators think Red Dwarf is real, and we're surprised when a judge asks someone to hand over their RAM?
Sheesh -
Back in dial-up only times, I had a modem that apparently was immune to the hang-up signal of my ISP.
:/ Very weird, but nice while it lasted.
I had free dial-up from 6pm Friday to midnight Sunday, with disconnects every two hours, but managed to regularly stay connected from Friday evening until about 6am Monday morning (when my body finally decided to sleep without my consent...).
When that modem died and I replaced it my connection suddenly respected the ISP limits
Sorry...couldn't resist
People do seem to have varying resistance to heat - I can pick food off a frying pan with my bare fingers and eat it directly with no injuries or pain. I've held food flat onto a frying pan with my hands when it's started curling up and haven't had a utensil within reach.
Yeah, I've also taken the skin off my mouth when I've overestimated my limits (or underestimated the temperature), but it's rare.
Exactly - I found this absolutely /horrible/ to read and very much slower.
But then I speed read, so I'm taking in almost complete paragraphs at a time anyway - having the eye process several lines simultaneously is what enables me to do that.
This is like training wheels for readers...perhaps that's why children's books have traditionally used lots of indentation and numerous line-breaks?
Yup, multiples times over in fact.
:P
Why do you ask?
A "cult" is usually defined by being based around a singular figure. It's broadened slightly by our use of "cult" films, but still the idea is similar - devotion to a specific and singular thing or person.
Naturally, said person doesn't include a Deity - a cult is devoted to a material, rather spiritual/imaginary existence.
A web-developer where I work was fired for "borrowing" HTML in exactly this way.
Admittedly, selling other companies' publicity photos we were hosting didn't help his case any...
I have no idea what the legal position on it would be however.
The original version also had no max limits on some of the soldier's stats. My two scouts had their movement wrap around the integer limit back to 0.
They could no longer move anywhere, but anything that required a % of TU to operate could do so infinitely - give 'em a laser weapon and a psiamp and they could clear an entire map without ever leaving the transport...
Yup, did that at work a few weeks ago, after an all weekender playing CoH. I'd been working with SQL all day, so at the end, when I went to remove a temporary directory I typed:
... syntax :/
rm -rf * replication/
instead of
rm -rf replication/*
'cos my head was still thinking in DELETE * FROM
I was there until 10pm trying to restore the directory from backup.
This is an interesting question for myself.
As a Jehovah's Witness, I cannot, and would not want, to lie.
The governmental request goes against my religious beliefs. Unfortunately, I bet I know which one would be considered most important in this situation by the government.
Between this, and the Linux support for SIM cards, how long until we can make our own linux phone? A completely DIY phone might even tempt me to get one...
I'd say you sound like me :P
/music/. What type of music depends on my mood at the time.
Nightwish and Weird Al are two of my favourites, and from the descriptions I reckon I'd like the other three too.
Among my favourites I also include Enya, Dire Straits, The Tea Party, 8stops7, Susanne Vega. My favourite genre is country (which gets me some very odd stares here in England), but my favourite piece of music is Terra's Theme from Final Fantasy 4.
I just like
It is arguable that this is a major failing of many modern programmers designing games. Who are the two biggest names in 3D graphic engines? Epic and iD - two long, long time PC games companies, who were pushing technical boundaries back when 1Mb of RAM was a lot. If you cut your teeth coding in an environment where every byte counts, it's hard to lose that tendency - I still write my loops to count down, where I can because it produces less assembly instructions (or used to - I can't imagine an optomiser would be willing to reverse a loop's direction so it still would I'd think).
Today's programmers are lazy (if my co-workers and www.thedailywtf.com are anything to go by) - people expect and don't seem to mind a little slowness anymore, "That's just the way things are." Stuff like this shows it doesn't have to be that way.
Did you actually read the article (silly question, I know, but it's nice to give people the benefit of the doubt...) ?
He specifically states that it won't block all spam, and that many spammers try the secondary first for the very reasons you give. However, it will stop quite a lot, and for very little effort and zero maintenance. Every little helps, and when it's this simple, I don't see a reason not to.
As for your advanced technique, you'll notice at the end of the article he refers to Unilisting, which sounds very similar - only allowing connections to the secondary if the primary has been tried recently.
Actually, even (or "especially") if all you do is download music, I'd recommend RAID. I recently picked up a 300Gb HDD for GBP70, so getting two or three is unlikely to break the bank, and with the current RIAA offensive frenzy, re-digitising lost music content may well be impossible. I'm planning on doing this in the near future, for exactly this reason/
I've always enjoyed the Fortean Times, though I'm not sure how easy it is to get hold of outside England (though I've seen it in a library in Toronto, so hey...). As an added plug, I do some of the comuter game reviews in the back :P
*blink* /not/ be the reason for not taking the kid to hospital.
As a Jehovah's Witness, I'm not quite sure why you'd conflate our religion with not taking their kids to the hospital? I think you might be suffering some denominational confusion - our kids are, in the Bible's own words, a gift from God, and parents are under responsibility to care for them.
Whatever the background, I can assure our beliefs would
Do a Google for "Quicktime Alternative" - supports all the Quicktime codecs, without any of the annoyances. There is also a "Real Alternative" too, for real player, and as AFAIK, malware free.
Whoa. I know this old but I just gotta reply to these two.
You're both way overcomplicating things...
10 for 7.
16 for 9.
So if the first ten cost seven dollars, the next six must only cost two. If that isn't obvious enough (hopefully it would be for any reasonably intelligent person), then you might have to add that if you can buy six for two, then you can buy three for one, which together makes nine for three. And if nine for three dollars compared to ten for seven dollars isn't clear enough, you've got bigger problems.
Makes sense, since that's a common strategy for dealing with spam: Block anything except emails from a known source. ...in the future, will we look back at spam gratefully, for all the practice it's given us in blocking unwanted intrusions into our systems in a (realtively) benign way? Or does it just demonstrate how easily the majority of people will ignore privacy and real security and make life hell for the rest of us?
That comment just triggered an odd thought in my head...