you wont be interfering with the operation, you will just be moving the device somewhere unrelated to the object it was embedded in. the rfid tag will still work just fine after you rip it off/out. now, microwaving them is a different story...
Sony, via their Station.com service, already offers a MMOG bundle. You can pay one price, approx $25/mo iirc, and get access to every premium Sony game, including Star Wars Galaxies, Everquest, Tanarus, Cosmic Rift, etc.
You obviously wouldnt monitor them 100% to stop cheating, but you could check them when you suspect it. Again, as with the 'monitor teachers' idea, this system will be used less for constant monitoring than for spot checking specific incidents brought up in the future.
Bullying occurs a lot in the school. From throwing things at people, to tripping in the hallways, to outright broken bones right in the classroom (when the teacher isnt there of course).
If I had school to do all over again I would carry a pair of panoramic cameras on my person at all time, recording to media inside a not-trivially-breakable box in my backpack. I am currently considering a solution such as this for everyday life. There are just far too many cases of mistaken representations of what was/wasnt said or done these days, and I imagine it would be a boon in traffic accidents as well.
Yes. They are actually in seperate apartments. My downstairs neighbor is willing to share his broadband with me, *IF* I can get connected to it without running a wire through his walls and/or in his windows.
This looks like it could actually be a possible solution to my problem of wirelessly networking two PCs that are about 10 feet apart without using a wire. So far the cheapest solution I have found is to put two 802.11 NICs in ad-hoc mode, and thats just a tad too expensive (by about a factor of 10) for my tastes for such a simple problem
Screw monitoring teachers, the real purpose of these cameras is to monitor STUDENTS. Privacy freaks are all in a tizzy about one small aspect. The reason *I* want these cameras in school, and wish they had been in my schools as a child, is to stop students from cheating and stop bullies from kicking geeks asses (no, I do not mean picking on them, I mean bruise-inducing beat downs).
pretty good chance the cameras are inside the ubiquitous security domes, meaning hitting the dome with a spitwad would only block out a VERY tiny piece of the view, and only if the camera happened to look in that direction.
You seem to be under the common illusion that you NEED a "legitimate license" to use software, or to even possess it. Quick refresher course in copyright law: These are the only rights reserved for the copyright holder. HAVING a copy of a work is not on the list. USING a copy of a work is not on the list. And, if you will check out Section 109 youll see that whoever owns the copy is allowed to sell it.
If you like that then take a game like The Moon Project where you can code up your own unit AIs. Write some good ones, then let your units do their own micro management, you just concentrate on the strategy.
The sad part is that it took this long for someone to mention Project Entropia. For the uninformed, I will elaborate.
Project Entropia does EXACTLY as this story proposes. You can convert dollars into credits and vice versa from within the game. The game is *FREE*. Subscriptions are *FREE*. The company makes their money by taking a small percentage off each conversion. It is a very novel business model, unfortunately the game under it sucked last time I tried it. Worth trying again if only because you can start playing for as little as $0.
Why do people shout "fair use" about things like this? This is not fair use, nor does it need to be. Nothing in copyright law makes *HAVING* the copy illegal. Making it may have been illegal, but they would be damn hard pressed to prove that given the state of the company.
Well, its a lot more complex when you get into arguing actual law. You would have to deal with the issue of rejection (as covered in the UCC in the areas dealing with after-sale contract terms) of the product, as well as the possibility that the software and the PC constitute one "commercial unit", which would make them refund-ly inseperable. There are many more issues to cover as well. Unfortunately TN is a very bad state to try this in as there is no small claims court at all, anything up to $25000 (?) is handled in General Sessions Court where lawyers can and do ruin things:(
And just think... since "The odds of winning the Contest will be determined solely by the number of Entries submitted and deemed eligible for the Contest" (emphasis added) everyone has an equal chance of winning! Just submit a blank shirt and cross your fingers!
Maybe *I* cant see the difference in 10ms and 20ms, but my computer can. If you play Battlefield 1942 on a LAN youll notice that the serverclient physics coordination allows you to stand on top of a moving vehicle, and the lower your ping is the faster the vehicle can be moving before you fall off.
Depending on what state you live in $3000 may be (and probably is) above the limit for small claims court, which would mean you would have to get a lawyer or risk arguing actual law in court, in which case theres a damn good chance youd lose. Your company can probably afford the lawyer, but its definitely different from the example given here.
Make your own. [AA}[AA} arrangement is hard to duplicate, but two or three cells side by side can easily be replaced with a stack of flat rechargable cells from Kokam or another good Lithium Ion Polymer rechargable manufacturer
Youve obviously never seen a crystal radio either then... Go to Radio Shack and buy the kit for $10, build a radio that plays to an earphone without any external power source other than the radio signal.
Yes, and in laughing you out of the store they open all sorts of doors. First of all, you can reverse the credit card charge (or stop payment on the check, or what not) from when you bought the game. Secondly, they invalidate any sort of EULA, allowing you to do all sorts of neat things with the software that you wouldnt have been able to under the EULA.
You take the name "graphing calculator" too simply. Modern graphing calculators are computers at heart, capable of doing things in seconds that would take hours, if not days or even weeks, to do by hand.
The whole point here is the he is not an employee, she is not his boss. He is a consultant, and she is his customer. search up for "hair" for a perfect analogy.
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you wont be interfering with the operation, you will just be moving the device somewhere unrelated to the object it was embedded in. the rfid tag will still work just fine after you rip it off/out. now, microwaving them is a different story...
converting potential to kinetic energy, and vice versa, is very inefficient. much worse than making and burning hydrogen, although much less complex.
Sony, via their Station.com service, already offers a MMOG bundle. You can pay one price, approx $25/mo iirc, and get access to every premium Sony game, including Star Wars Galaxies, Everquest, Tanarus, Cosmic Rift, etc.
In 50 years this post will be the equivalent of "640K ought to be enough for anyone". :)
You obviously wouldnt monitor them 100% to stop cheating, but you could check them when you suspect it. Again, as with the 'monitor teachers' idea, this system will be used less for constant monitoring than for spot checking specific incidents brought up in the future.
Bullying occurs a lot in the school. From throwing things at people, to tripping in the hallways, to outright broken bones right in the classroom (when the teacher isnt there of course).
If I had school to do all over again I would carry a pair of panoramic cameras on my person at all time, recording to media inside a not-trivially-breakable box in my backpack. I am currently considering a solution such as this for everyday life. There are just far too many cases of mistaken representations of what was/wasnt said or done these days, and I imagine it would be a boon in traffic accidents as well.
Yes. They are actually in seperate apartments. My downstairs neighbor is willing to share his broadband with me, *IF* I can get connected to it without running a wire through his walls and/or in his windows.
This looks like it could actually be a possible solution to my problem of wirelessly networking two PCs that are about 10 feet apart without using a wire. So far the cheapest solution I have found is to put two 802.11 NICs in ad-hoc mode, and thats just a tad too expensive (by about a factor of 10) for my tastes for such a simple problem
Screw monitoring teachers, the real purpose of these cameras is to monitor STUDENTS. Privacy freaks are all in a tizzy about one small aspect. The reason *I* want these cameras in school, and wish they had been in my schools as a child, is to stop students from cheating and stop bullies from kicking geeks asses (no, I do not mean picking on them, I mean bruise-inducing beat downs).
pretty good chance the cameras are inside the ubiquitous security domes, meaning hitting the dome with a spitwad would only block out a VERY tiny piece of the view, and only if the camera happened to look in that direction.
You seem to be under the common illusion that you NEED a "legitimate license" to use software, or to even possess it. Quick refresher course in copyright law: These are the only rights reserved for the copyright holder. HAVING a copy of a work is not on the list. USING a copy of a work is not on the list.
And, if you will check out Section 109 youll see that whoever owns the copy is allowed to sell it.
An alternative MMORTS is Time of Defiance. Go, Play, Now.
If you like that then take a game like The Moon Project where you can code up your own unit AIs. Write some good ones, then let your units do their own micro management, you just concentrate on the strategy.
Great! Now, we just need wine in a 5MB linux distro...
The number one thing you can do with Win95 that you cant do with Linux: Edit windows registry hive files.
The sad part is that it took this long for someone to mention Project Entropia. For the uninformed, I will elaborate.
Project Entropia does EXACTLY as this story proposes. You can convert dollars into credits and vice versa from within the game. The game is *FREE*. Subscriptions are *FREE*. The company makes their money by taking a small percentage off each conversion. It is a very novel business model, unfortunately the game under it sucked last time I tried it. Worth trying again if only because you can start playing for as little as $0.
Why do people shout "fair use" about things like this? This is not fair use, nor does it need to be. Nothing in copyright law makes *HAVING* the copy illegal. Making it may have been illegal, but they would be damn hard pressed to prove that given the state of the company.
Well, its a lot more complex when you get into arguing actual law. You would have to deal with the issue of rejection (as covered in the UCC in the areas dealing with after-sale contract terms) of the product, as well as the possibility that the software and the PC constitute one "commercial unit", which would make them refund-ly inseperable. There are many more issues to cover as well. Unfortunately TN is a very bad state to try this in as there is no small claims court at all, anything up to $25000 (?) is handled in General Sessions Court where lawyers can and do ruin things :(
And just think... since "The odds of winning the Contest will be determined solely by the number of Entries submitted and deemed eligible for the Contest" (emphasis added) everyone has an equal chance of winning! Just submit a blank shirt and cross your fingers!
Maybe *I* cant see the difference in 10ms and 20ms, but my computer can. If you play Battlefield 1942 on a LAN youll notice that the serverclient physics coordination allows you to stand on top of a moving vehicle, and the lower your ping is the faster the vehicle can be moving before you fall off.
Depending on what state you live in $3000 may be (and probably is) above the limit for small claims court, which would mean you would have to get a lawyer or risk arguing actual law in court, in which case theres a damn good chance youd lose. Your company can probably afford the lawyer, but its definitely different from the example given here.
Make your own. [AA}[AA} arrangement is hard to duplicate, but two or three cells side by side can easily be replaced with a stack of flat rechargable cells from Kokam or another good Lithium Ion Polymer rechargable manufacturer
Youve obviously never seen a crystal radio either then... Go to Radio Shack and buy the kit for $10, build a radio that plays to an earphone without any external power source other than the radio signal.
Yes, and in laughing you out of the store they open all sorts of doors. First of all, you can reverse the credit card charge (or stop payment on the check, or what not) from when you bought the game. Secondly, they invalidate any sort of EULA, allowing you to do all sorts of neat things with the software that you wouldnt have been able to under the EULA.
You take the name "graphing calculator" too simply. Modern graphing calculators are computers at heart, capable of doing things in seconds that would take hours, if not days or even weeks, to do by hand.
The whole point here is the he is not an employee, she is not his boss. He is a consultant, and she is his customer. search up for "hair" for a perfect analogy.