It's like some weird disjointed conversation, almost 10,000 lines and no clicks.
joe o went thru his social sec files friday lawn mow do they keep prison records say no prisoners use to call here they don't get no social sec lists of them not social security mean no joe to ask you did he steal some of that money i ask you stole from us kids government would have caught if steal from them took from us
I am just getting things on my site converted over from when VeriSign bought the last provider I was using.
PayPal better not change a THING about the SDK or interface or web interface, as I don't really care for them and if I have to re-code anything I might as well find someone better.
Anyone know of any good, reliable processing systems for online stores? Perl SDK requred.
From a customer standpoint, "give everyone a free year" sounds great.
But that would put almost any business OUT of business.
I have no idea what the profit margin for them is.. but even if 25% of their income is pure profit, giving out a free year means they will make zero profit for four years.
What would be more realistic is to give back everyone a years PROFIT on their tuition. That way the schools expenses are covered, teachers get paid, ect.
Those old Atari joystics broke by the dozen. Flimsy plastic, cheap construction and too small.
Now Wico joystics.. THOSE were awesome. Wico made joystics for arcade cabinents. The Atari/C64 joystics they made had steel shafts and were tougher than anything else around, then or now.
[...the games companies won't have lost thier source, can't they just recombile for for the PowerPC... ]
You never worked for a game company before, have you?
The game industry moves so fast that in many companies by the time a gold CD ships, the team is already broken up and working on other projects that are late with nobody left over to tidy up.
If you like sports, there are a number of managment-style games out there that are mostly mouse driven and don't require quick reflexes.
The games that my company puts out are used by the blind due to our taking care with the interface to keep it accessable. You should find them easy to navigate.
You can download demos from out products here: http://www.sportsmogul.com/
Do a Google for "sports simulation" to bring up a whole list of other companies.
If you hate sports there are non-sports related games too. Think of a souped up game of "Lemonade Stand":-)
Newspapers can use player names and photos without permission.
Authors can write a book about a player and even put their name on the cover without permission. There are tons of unlicenced sports stat books as well.
Movies, TV shows and radio programs can use player names and show pictures without permission.
But video games... they can't use real player names?
I like the part of the article the parent mentioned that says this:
"Blu-ray discs not only have more storage capacity than traditional DVDs, but they also offer a new level of interactivity. Users will be able to connect to the Internet and instantly download subtitles and other interactive movie features."
They put the Internet on blu-ray disks? Amazing...
I have a book about him that I am sure has some made-up stuff in it, but a lot of factual events as well. Most of the tricks you read about in WWII was due to him.
The most amazing thing about this guy is he managed to walk into the war department and convince them to let him go to the front and construct illusions. Army folks are not prone to letting civillians wander in and start telling them what to do with their troops and supplies!
Don't ask why people in the US don't want to spend cash, but why people in Russia are not willing to put money into company cards.
It seems obvious to me that the reason we buy gift cards in the United States is because people here are very confident in the rule of law. If I go into a big chain I am very confident that the store is not going to blatantly steal my money. I also feel pretty good that they will exist tomorrow. I also am confident that any large store that DOES rip me off will be caught and dealt with by the authorities.
In Russia, this may not be the case since things are so chaotic from the switch to a free market. It may be that people in Russia are simply not willing to give money to somone without a product in return for fear of being ripped off. "I give you $50 and I get a card and a promise that I can get goods later? Yeah, right! Who is going to make you honor that promise?"
The first thought that entered my head when I read this was, "Great... now we can have hardware that can be designed to self-destruct on demand." Imagine you get sold a CPU with an expiry date... software licences for hardware, the old you don't own the chip but are just renting it.
IBM better be REAL carefull with this too. If it's possible to fool the chip into blowing these fuses, a virus could potentially damage millions of computers in a day of spreading.
As others mentioned, it is a neat trick, but a solution in search of a problem. CPU's just don't fail all that often to need something like this.
I set a full glass of water on an old Commodore 1541 disk drive. I then knocked it over and the entire glass of water poured into the drive via the top air vents. After drying for a few days it worked fine for years to come.
Spilled a glass of grape juice (real stuff, not cool aid) into the keyboard of my Commodore 128 computer. Again, after some washing and drying it worked fine. Well, except some keys would stay depressed if you were not real light with the typing.
My friend tried to overclock a his near new Amiga 3000. While trying to desolder a chip he managed to yank it off, along with a half dozen traces off the motherboard. He ripped apart some speaker wire, resoldered the lines and it booted up fine.
While working at a computer dealer, a co-worker tried to replace a hard drive on some IBM machine. Problem was it LOOKED like IDE but was really some wacky mainframe thing. When turned on, about 5 of the wires in the IDE cable turned red hot and exploded into flame. The HD was toast, but the computer was fine once the right HD was ordered from IBM.
While using my trusty old Pentium II I heard a SCSI drive inside make a PING-PING-PING and a horrid grinding noise as the platters ground to a halt. Opening up the drive case revealed a read write head had somehow come loose and gotten wedged under the arm against a platter. Carved a nice circular trench in the disk platter.
Umm, guess the last one isn't a survival story. But I did have backups...
Intel has decided that the motherboard/case manufactuers need to shoulder the cost of the cooling required by the newest Intel chips.
This of course is not going over well. Computers are such a mainstream industry that the profit margins are very low and Intel is basicly trying to shift some of the cost away and increase their profits at the expense of another part of the industry.
I only hope they get taught a lesson like IBM did with Microchannel. But I'm not hopefull. The changeover will be slower.. but it will happen.
Years ago when my laptop was my main computer I used to put phonebooks in the freezer and use them on my lap in the heat of summer with my laptop. Having 2 or 3 in there let me rotate them and stay cool all day.
Nothing like computing from the recliner...:-)
This was also when I lived in a smaller town and the phone books were only an inch or so high.
Before they start to degrade, new higher density formats will be out and you can copy your archive to that. I have backup tapes from 10 years ago that are still good, but do I care? I copied them to CD long ago... who WANTS to use 15 year old tech?
If it sounds like too much work, then maybe tehe data isn't that important in the first place.
I think this is the third, or maybe fourth story about the fact that CDs which have not been around for 100 years to do testing on, may not actually last 100 years. Duh.
One thing I am suprised I have not seen mentioned is what about various IP you bought?
Can all your I-Tunes be transfered? What about various lifetime subscriptions to online sites or compuiter programs? If I buy a lifetime account for some online video game, do the contracts state that it is terminated on my death?
"Man, my grampa died and all he left me was his 50 year old Everquest IV character..."
or
"Awesome, my grandpa left me his 54,294 level Mage that his father started 80 years ago."
I would love to have all cars computer controlled and eliminate human drivers completely. People drive dangerous, slow down traffic by being greedy with constant lane changes, don't understand simple driving rules, waste time and energy, falls asleep, get drunk, eat and talk on teh cellphone, continue driving when they are tool old and uncoordinated, start driving too young when they are inexperienced and reckless...
Of course we are so far away from totally computer driven vehicles that I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime. But I can dream.
I like to drive.. I love long cross country trips.. but would give it up if I never had to deal with city traffic or risk my life because somone else (or myself) is being stupid.
I should have stated that yes, I think the majority of MOD chip users are so they can play copied games.
That said, I have to add that I have always belived, and still do that most forms of copying INCREASE sales. People do copy games/programs/music/movies instead of buying them, but far, far more often they copy instead of NOT buying expensive music or games that simply can not afford.
This is a very difficult thing to try and calculate. If 100 copies of a game are passed around, how many of those people were going to actually buy that game and didn't, and how many friends of those 100 saw the game and bought it? How many never heard of the game before seeing a copied version?
Yes, sales ARE lost due top copying. But more are gained, at least in this game buyer and game writers opinion.
Relaited Point: Copying games/music is not a crime, it's copyright violation.:-)
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It's like some weird disjointed conversation, almost 10,000 lines and no clicks.
joe o
went thru his social sec files
friday lawn mow
do they keep prison records
say no
prisoners use to call here
they don't get no social sec
lists of them
not social security
mean no
joe to ask you
did he steal some of that money
i ask you
stole from us
kids
government would have caught
if steal from them
took from us
I got 25 hits to one of my sites, and have full logs for that time period.
I could not confirm a single hit either.
But... if I am not mistaken, AOL has a gigantic web cache. That could certainly be the cause.
I'll keep looking for hits though.. there has to be at least ONE somewhere I can validate.
I have to wonder if any AOL users have downloaded this and lookef dor, and found themseleves in it?
And if they have.. are any innocent or brave enough to admit it here?
I am just getting things on my site converted over from when VeriSign bought the last provider I was using.
PayPal better not change a THING about the SDK or interface or web interface, as I don't really care for them and if I have to re-code anything I might as well find someone better.
Anyone know of any good, reliable processing systems for online stores? Perl SDK requred.
From a customer standpoint, "give everyone a free year" sounds great.
But that would put almost any business OUT of business.
I have no idea what the profit margin for them is.. but even if 25% of their income is pure profit, giving out a free year means they will make zero profit for four years.
What would be more realistic is to give back everyone a years PROFIT on their tuition. That way the schools expenses are covered, teachers get paid, ect.
Kidding, yes?
Those old Atari joystics broke by the dozen. Flimsy plastic, cheap construction and too small.
Now Wico joystics.. THOSE were awesome. Wico made joystics for arcade cabinents. The Atari/C64 joystics they made had steel shafts and were tougher than anything else around, then or now.
However since they BOUGHT this from another company, you would think they could buy non-buggy code to start with.
[ ...the games companies won't have lost thier source, can't they just recombile for for the PowerPC... ]
You never worked for a game company before, have you?
The game industry moves so fast that in many companies by the time a gold CD ships, the team is already broken up and working on other projects that are late with nobody left over to tidy up.
DISCLAIMER: I work for Sports Mogul.
:-)
If you like sports, there are a number of managment-style games out there that are mostly mouse driven and don't require quick reflexes.
The games that my company puts out are used by the blind due to our taking care with the interface to keep it accessable. You should find them easy to navigate.
You can download demos from out products here: http://www.sportsmogul.com/
Do a Google for "sports simulation" to bring up a whole list of other companies.
If you hate sports there are non-sports related games too. Think of a souped up game of "Lemonade Stand"
Why are player names restricted?
Newspapers can use player names and photos without permission.
Authors can write a book about a player and even put their name on the cover without permission. There are tons of unlicenced sports stat books as well.
Movies, TV shows and radio programs can use player names and show pictures without permission.
But video games... they can't use real player names?
Thats crazy.
I like the part of the article the parent mentioned that says this:
"Blu-ray discs not only have more storage capacity than traditional DVDs, but they also offer a new level of interactivity. Users will be able to connect to the Internet and instantly download subtitles and other interactive movie features."
They put the Internet on blu-ray disks? Amazing...
You are thinking about Jasper Maskelyne.
I have a book about him that I am sure has some made-up stuff in it, but a lot of factual events as well. Most of the tricks you read about in WWII was due to him.
The most amazing thing about this guy is he managed to walk into the war department and convince them to let him go to the front and construct illusions. Army folks are not prone to letting civillians wander in and start telling them what to do with their troops and supplies!
The story said they saw a laser beam inside the cockpit. To do that from the ground would take some pretty quick targeting work.
Could a first class prankster have used a pointer through a small hole or something similar? Maybe the door was open?
Grasping at straws here.
I think you are asking the wrong question.
Don't ask why people in the US don't want to spend cash, but why people in Russia are not willing to put money into company cards.
It seems obvious to me that the reason we buy gift cards in the United States is because people here are very confident in the rule of law. If I go into a big chain I am very confident that the store is not going to blatantly steal my money. I also feel pretty good that they will exist tomorrow. I also am confident that any large store that DOES rip me off will be caught and dealt with by the authorities.
In Russia, this may not be the case since things are so chaotic from the switch to a free market. It may be that people in Russia are simply not willing to give money to somone without a product in return for fear of being ripped off. "I give you $50 and I get a card and a promise that I can get goods later? Yeah, right! Who is going to make you honor that promise?"
The first thought that entered my head when I read this was, "Great... now we can have hardware that can be designed to self-destruct on demand." Imagine you get sold a CPU with an expiry date... software licences for hardware, the old you don't own the chip but are just renting it.
IBM better be REAL carefull with this too. If it's possible to fool the chip into blowing these fuses, a virus could potentially damage millions of computers in a day of spreading.
As others mentioned, it is a neat trick, but a solution in search of a problem. CPU's just don't fail all that often to need something like this.
I set a full glass of water on an old Commodore 1541 disk drive. I then knocked it over and the entire glass of water poured into the drive via the top air vents. After drying for a few days it worked fine for years to come.
Spilled a glass of grape juice (real stuff, not cool aid) into the keyboard of my Commodore 128 computer. Again, after some washing and drying it worked fine. Well, except some keys would stay depressed if you were not real light with the typing.
My friend tried to overclock a his near new Amiga 3000. While trying to desolder a chip he managed to yank it off, along with a half dozen traces off the motherboard. He ripped apart some speaker wire, resoldered the lines and it booted up fine.
While working at a computer dealer, a co-worker tried to replace a hard drive on some IBM machine. Problem was it LOOKED like IDE but was really some wacky mainframe thing. When turned on, about 5 of the wires in the IDE cable turned red hot and exploded into flame. The HD was toast, but the computer was fine once the right HD was ordered from IBM.
While using my trusty old Pentium II I heard a SCSI drive inside make a PING-PING-PING and a horrid grinding noise as the platters ground to a halt. Opening up the drive case revealed a read write head had somehow come loose and gotten wedged under the arm against a platter. Carved a nice circular trench in the disk platter.
Umm, guess the last one isn't a survival story. But I did have backups...
I can understand why they are resisting.
Intel has decided that the motherboard/case manufactuers need to shoulder the cost of the cooling required by the newest Intel chips.
This of course is not going over well. Computers are such a mainstream industry that the profit margins are very low and Intel is basicly trying to shift some of the cost away and increase their profits at the expense of another part of the industry.
I only hope they get taught a lesson like IBM did with Microchannel. But I'm not hopefull. The changeover will be slower.. but it will happen.
Years ago when my laptop was my main computer I used to put phonebooks in the freezer and use them on my lap in the heat of summer with my laptop. Having 2 or 3 in there let me rotate them and stay cool all day.
:-)
Nothing like computing from the recliner...
This was also when I lived in a smaller town and the phone books were only an inch or so high.
A report that people who use hacks to upgrade their burners produce DVD's that don't last 100 years and are full of errors.
:-)
And people will be *suprised* to read this. Gasp, hacked dual layer DVD's don't last forever!
And Slashdot will report on this. Once a month. For a year.
This just sounds like trouble.
When that beard turns white he will make a great Gandolf though.
I would say... ...CDs and DVDs!
Before they start to degrade, new higher density formats will be out and you can copy your archive to that. I have backup tapes from 10 years ago that are still good, but do I care? I copied them to CD long ago... who WANTS to use 15 year old tech?
If it sounds like too much work, then maybe tehe data isn't that important in the first place.
I think this is the third, or maybe fourth story about the fact that CDs which have not been around for 100 years to do testing on, may not actually last 100 years. Duh.
I think this is the third...
One thing I am suprised I have not seen mentioned is what about various IP you bought?
Can all your I-Tunes be transfered? What about various lifetime subscriptions to online sites or compuiter programs? If I buy a lifetime account for some online video game, do the contracts state that it is terminated on my death?
"Man, my grampa died and all he left me was his 50 year old Everquest IV character..."
or
"Awesome, my grandpa left me his 54,294 level Mage that his father started 80 years ago."
I would love to have all cars computer controlled and eliminate human drivers completely. People drive dangerous, slow down traffic by being greedy with constant lane changes, don't understand simple driving rules, waste time and energy, falls asleep, get drunk, eat and talk on teh cellphone, continue driving when they are tool old and uncoordinated, start driving too young when they are inexperienced and reckless...
Of course we are so far away from totally computer driven vehicles that I doubt I'll see it in my lifetime. But I can dream.
I like to drive.. I love long cross country trips.. but would give it up if I never had to deal with city traffic or risk my life because somone else (or myself) is being stupid.
I should have stated that yes, I think the majority of MOD chip users are so they can play copied games.
:-)
That said, I have to add that I have always belived, and still do that most forms of copying INCREASE sales. People do copy games/programs/music/movies instead of buying them, but far, far more often they copy instead of NOT buying expensive music or games that simply can not afford.
This is a very difficult thing to try and calculate. If 100 copies of a game are passed around, how many of those people were going to actually buy that game and didn't, and how many friends of those 100 saw the game and bought it? How many never heard of the game before seeing a copied version?
Yes, sales ARE lost due top copying. But more are gained, at least in this game buyer and game writers opinion.
Relaited Point: Copying games/music is not a crime, it's copyright violation.