If we totally deregulate the airwaves except, we'd have problems for a while, but eventually it would FORCE efficient allocation of the spectrum, ala CDMA or other means, as the only way to reliably get a signal through the newly created mass of noise
Select a frequency
Discharge a massive (multi GW) pulse on this frequency, burning out all receivers and causing massive feedback on transmitters.
You forgot about their black ops attempts to pay for ownership of intelligent children with stock options
Funny how that bit of satire forecasts the medium term: "Bill knows Windows is about to peak" and "In its long-term plans, Narayan believes, Microsoft has all but conceded the next five years of the operating system market to Linux".
People drill them for simple questions that have already been answered in the FAQ. Why do they deserve polite responses if they can't be bothered to look at the standard docs for the group?
I used to be polite to newbies, but after the first 50, i gave that up. Now, I either ignore them or else flame them if they're being dicks.
don't be a tool. The problem with newbies is that they show up, don't bother to read the charter for the group they're in, and then get all pissy when nobody likes them. All the time spent asking stupid questions could be better spent reading the fucking manual. If you can't be bothered to respect the existing culture, then don't bother to show up.
I'd be pretty amazed if that encryption is hardware based as opposed to implemented in win2000.
That'd be a trick, as the win2k kernel is bound to everything else on the game disc.
What I'm talking about is wiping the Xbox completely and loading it up with a (probably somewhat modified) version of *NIX. when you do this you remove any form of "encryption" that MS has put in there to annoy you.
Goood luck. There isn't anything to wipe, and the encryption is most likely not accessible to anything you can load from disc.
What could be more wasteful than letting that connection sit all day doing nothing?
What exactly are you wasting? An idle line on the fringe of a network means less load on the core and less cost to the ISP. If you have no need for it during the day, then any usage is wasteful. Likewise, you shouldn't be repeatedly downloading the same ISO all day.
The main reason for the 'roll your own' ethic is that, back in the day, no sane hardware manufacturer would write a driver for a hobbyist OS with ~20K users. Nowadays, with IBM getting behind Linux and seeing it widely deployed as a fast and reliable server, it's reasonable to ask for some hardware support out of the box.
Perhaps we need a law. Specifically, one that restricts a store's right to discriminate against someone based on facial recognition and similar techniques. I'm thinking about something like: "If you sell necessary goods (food, clothing, gasoline,...), then you may only discriminate against a potential criminal based on the immediate situation."
Well, yes. Some places, WalMart is the only department store for 40 miles. If you look like someone who got caught shoplifting at WalMart, you can't buy shoes or, for that matter, a lamp.
If it were me, I'd probably sic a lawyer on them at that point.
What he probably meant was that High school level Math and history are fairly constant. At my high school, we didn't use the book for anything past WW2. Instead, our English teacher talked about the time in Chicago when he and a couple of friends attempted to nimonate a pig for president.
Jesus Christ, AC, do you really think latin makes you sound smart? Besides, if the necessity of reading and writing skills were at all obvious, people wouldn't be throwing money at the computer fad.
America doesn't produce a lot of scientific elites among Americans. There is significant portions of PhD students are from foriegn countries
I don't know the specifics of your situation, but i'm a software developer; PhDs in my field are way over produced and command a relatively low salary premium. In addition, they take a long time and tend to lock you out of a lot of jobs because it is assumed that you'll jump ship for a better job rather quickly. This all means that I, like many others, will only get a PhD for personal enrichment.
On the other hand, if I win the current powerball ($300M), I can seriously consider getting a PhD or two
As they derive from inalienable rights like the right to your own body, the right to property (property must be used to survive), and the right to deal with other people freely (right to your own body and their right to their own body), profits certainly are a *right*.
How did this ever get marked as insightful?! Profits don't derive from those things, they derive from selling something for more than it costs. You have a right to attempt this, but no guarantee of success.
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How about Loompanics? They publish guides on such topics as murder and, guess what? They're legal.
I recall a court case where somebody sued them because some other person used their guide to commit murder. I think that ended with a ruling that Loompanics was protected.
Now, if writing a guide on how to kill some random person is legal, what would a judge say about a guide to cracking hotmail and reading their email?
Some people use laptops where RAM isn't as cheap or as easy to obtain as you think
Some people like me. I have a portege (PII-266) that i just upgraded to 160 MB. The ram (128M) cost $30 and took a week to get here from across the country. If your memory is expensive and old, that probably means that it's time to upgrade, before you can't get any parts at all.
For the record, my laptop runs pretty much everything plenty fast, including IE and NS
Well, pirating is huge and hollywood needs to protect its intellectual property from criminals and decss makes it very easy to steal via decryption
My response would be "Well, then they should go after the professional pirates in Taiwan and China who actually make enough actual pirate copies (complete with liner notes) to make a difference. They don't use DeCss; they use DVD presses. I have yet to see somebody actually 1: produce a pirate copy of some hollywood movie using DeCss that wasn't immediately obvious or 2: show reliably that the DeCss related piracy amounted to more than rounding error for the major studios."
Um, no.
DVD has provisions for various capacities from 4.7G to about 17. Every DVD player must support all (4) possible formats, although it's okay to require flipping for dual sided disks. The manufacturer chooses the size to use based on data requirements (duh).
The current popular size is dual layer single side - you get about 8.5G (less than twice single layer due to requirements in focusing & stuff) and you don't have to flip.
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If we totally deregulate the airwaves except, we'd have problems for a while, but eventually it would FORCE efficient allocation of the spectrum, ala CDMA or other means, as the only way to reliably get a signal through the newly created mass of noise
80% of today's applications are bottlenecked by slow hardware 80% of the time
Huh? most software runs faster than it absolutely needs to, so it spends most of its time waiting for the user.
Would any of us really flame someone in public, in front of thousands of people
YES. Newbies are the ones running through the crowd screaming "Help! I just formatted my CPU!"
You forgot about their black ops attempts to pay for ownership of intelligent children with stock options
Funny how that bit of satire forecasts the medium term: "Bill knows Windows is about to peak" and "In its long-term plans, Narayan believes, Microsoft has all but conceded the next five years of the operating system market to Linux".
People drill them for simple questions that have already been answered in the FAQ. Why do they deserve polite responses if they can't be bothered to look at the standard docs for the group?
I used to be polite to newbies, but after the first 50, i gave that up. Now, I either ignore them or else flame them if they're being dicks.
don't be a tool. The problem with newbies is that they show up, don't bother to read the charter for the group they're in, and then get all pissy when nobody likes them. All the time spent asking stupid questions could be better spent reading the fucking manual. If you can't be bothered to respect the existing culture, then don't bother to show up.
I doubt anybody is going to confuse a defense contractor with an art school...
I'd be pretty amazed if that encryption is hardware based as opposed to implemented in win2000.
That'd be a trick, as the win2k kernel is bound to everything else on the game disc.
What I'm talking about is wiping the Xbox completely and loading it up with a (probably somewhat modified) version of *NIX. when you do this you remove any form of "encryption" that MS has put in there to annoy you.
Goood luck. There isn't anything to wipe, and the encryption is most likely not accessible to anything you can load from disc.
What could be more wasteful than letting that connection sit all day doing nothing?
What exactly are you wasting? An idle line on the fringe of a network means less load on the core and less cost to the ISP. If you have no need for it during the day, then any usage is wasteful. Likewise, you shouldn't be repeatedly downloading the same ISO all day.
It doesn't. This is just FUD coming from the Linux crowd.
In windows 9x, you do need to reboot to change your static IP. WinNT claims the same, but you actually don't need to.
The main reason for the 'roll your own' ethic is that, back in the day, no sane hardware manufacturer would write a driver for a hobbyist OS with ~20K users. Nowadays, with IBM getting behind Linux and seeing it widely deployed as a fast and reliable server, it's reasonable to ask for some hardware support out of the box.
Perhaps we need a law. Specifically, one that restricts a store's right to discriminate against someone based on facial recognition and similar techniques. I'm thinking about something like: "If you sell necessary goods (food, clothing, gasoline,
Machines aren't perfect, so they'll end up denying service to people who got caught as well as people who look like them.
Is every shoe store gone?
Well, yes. Some places, WalMart is the only department store for 40 miles. If you look like someone who got caught shoplifting at WalMart, you can't buy shoes or, for that matter, a lamp.
If it were me, I'd probably sic a lawyer on them at that point.
What he probably meant was that High school level Math and history are fairly constant. At my high school, we didn't use the book for anything past WW2. Instead, our English teacher talked about the time in Chicago when he and a couple of friends attempted to nimonate a pig for president.
Jesus Christ, AC, do you really think latin makes you sound smart? Besides, if the necessity of reading and writing skills were at all obvious, people wouldn't be throwing money at the computer fad.
America doesn't produce a lot of scientific elites among Americans. There is significant portions of PhD students are from foriegn countries
I don't know the specifics of your situation, but i'm a software developer; PhDs in my field are way over produced and command a relatively low salary premium. In addition, they take a long time and tend to lock you out of a lot of jobs because it is assumed that you'll jump ship for a better job rather quickly. This all means that I, like many others, will only get a PhD for personal enrichment.
On the other hand, if I win the current powerball ($300M), I can seriously consider getting a PhD or two
As they derive from inalienable rights like the right to your own body, the right to property (property must be used to survive), and the right to deal with other people freely (right to your own body and their right to their own body), profits certainly are a *right*.
How did this ever get marked as insightful?! Profits don't derive from those things, they derive from selling something for more than it costs. You have a right to attempt this, but no guarantee of success.
How about Loompanics? They publish guides on such topics as murder and, guess what? They're legal. I recall a court case where somebody sued them because some other person used their guide to commit murder. I think that ended with a ruling that Loompanics was protected.
Now, if writing a guide on how to kill some random person is legal, what would a judge say about a guide to cracking hotmail and reading their email?
Some people use laptops where RAM isn't as cheap or as easy to obtain as you think
Some people like me. I have a portege (PII-266) that i just upgraded to 160 MB. The ram (128M) cost $30 and took a week to get here from across the country. If your memory is expensive and old, that probably means that it's time to upgrade, before you can't get any parts at all.
For the record, my laptop runs pretty much everything plenty fast, including IE and NS
Funny, i always thought that communism failed in Russia because it was never economically viable
Well, pirating is huge and hollywood needs to protect its intellectual property from criminals and decss makes it very easy to steal via decryption
My response would be "Well, then they should go after the professional pirates in Taiwan and China who actually make enough actual pirate copies (complete with liner notes) to make a difference. They don't use DeCss; they use DVD presses. I have yet to see somebody actually 1: produce a pirate copy of some hollywood movie using DeCss that wasn't immediately obvious or 2: show reliably that the DeCss related piracy amounted to more than rounding error for the major studios."
Um, no.
DVD has provisions for various capacities from 4.7G to about 17. Every DVD player must support all (4) possible formats, although it's okay to require flipping for dual sided disks. The manufacturer chooses the size to use based on data requirements (duh).
The current popular size is dual layer single side - you get about 8.5G (less than twice single layer due to requirements in focusing & stuff) and you don't have to flip.
I could see a 'Hang in there' poster with a noose. It might cause problems with the management, but everything interesting does that.
I think they used a replica sword and dummies
Perhaps they wouldn't have had to resharpen so much if they had used a real sword; they're still made, you know.