That is very hilarious, I'm downloading it via torrent now and I can't wait.
I like Jon Stewart's wit and he is very smart on his feet in fast political discussions. I just don't like Stewart on The Daily Show because the jokes are repetitive and biased which is from the writers. When Jon interviews some guests, you can see the wit come out though. I'm still waiting for Jon to rise to a better medium because Comedy Central and The Daily Show isn't good enough for him.
A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea... a South Korean news agency reported Sunday.
Not all segments of the media runs at the same speed, and not all segments of the media can watch every corner of the world, calm down. Plus, that's South Korea that reported about North Korea. As you'll recall, South Korea is the US's friend and North Korea is communist backed by China in the mid 50's. I'm sure North Korea doesn't want us to know about their capabilities because our President might go there looking for WMD's (which I desperately don't want, I think NK is a powder keg).
I'm sure intelligence agencies knew about it. However, it's not in their best interest to alert everyone to get everyone worked up.
Not at all, I bought some PC wipes to use on my LCD panel and they have Isopropyl alcohol in it and it works very well. It turns out it's best to use a 50-50 solution of Isopropyl Alcohol and water on an LCD if you're going to brew your own mixture.
What fair use laws? Since when does paying $3.99 to rent a movie entitle you to watch a movie for the rest of your life? That's just total shit. The entire idea behind rental movies is you get to watch the movie for a small price and you give it back, if you want to keep the movie, you purchase it from a retailer. Sorry pal, but this isn't a case of fair use, this is a case of copying a movie and breaking your contract with the rental agency. $3.99 doesn't entitle you to unlimited viewings, the $20 DVD price does.
You can rent a movie and make a copy but that's stealing and don't give me that bullshit about "but I didn't deprive the rental store of anything", you deprived the studio of the money owed to them had you purchased the movie legally through a retail outlet.
As someone else pointed out on here, the Home Recording Act only entitles you to time-shift (meaning only watch a program later, as in once), it doesn't allow you to keep a movie forever. The Home Recording Act is fair use but people like you (anyone that copies movies like this) think it's a ticket to do anything you want.
You're last point is what I've been trying to say all along. You can wrap whatever IP-speak you want, but in the end you're still depriving motion picture studios of money. Now, you may not agree with some of their politics or whatever, but you can't break the law (although it sounds like you do anyway, which is sad).
But he said it was PPV. If it was shown on regular network TV, then to me it's considered released to the entire world and fair game. But PPV is different, you pay for the convenience of not going to a video store, fighting for copies, scratched disc, etc... If you kept a video store movie after it was due, there are late charges, and eventually collections will call and place a charge on your account, ruin your credit, etc... Shouldn't there be a limit on PPV too, you are entering in the same type of contract as a movie store. There is still a limited time window because there's a time when the home watcher can begin to watch the movie and a time when they cannot watch any more which is enforced by the cable/satellite provider
You can't pay $3.99 (or whatever the going rate for PPV is) and keep the movie forever whereas Johnny DVD-buyer goes out and buys the same thing on DVD for $20. Johnny DVD-buyer is legally entitled to watch the movie for as long as he wants, Mr. PPV cannot because his time is up.
It doesn't matter if you were there or not. When you rent PPV, you pay and view it in a limited time window. It's an implied contract with you and the provider. The provider gives you access to something for a period of time, and you give them money. It's the same as renting a movie at a store, you play by their rules or don't play the game. If you treasure a life experience, film it yourself. You're breaking the contract you have with the cable provider.
You can't just do whatever you want, because in instances like these, what you think is right isn't the same as what you think is being legal. Your provider has rights too.
I chose my school not for it's scholastic qualities, I chose it because of all the fabled women that are there. It's a general college, nothing special except the fact it's near a beach and hot girls tend to want to go to the beach. Being less than 30 minutes from Virginia Beach and all the girls that come with it are all the perks I need.
girls > geek perks (begin the "You're new here, aren't you" remarks)
The best use of a GPS system besides using it to find your way around is to tie it to a wireless network sniffer. Drive around in your car and when the sniffer picks up something, it can trigger the GPS software to record where that is, what type of network, the network strength and what day and time so you can estimate how stale the information is. If you want free internet, just get mapping software to find a route from where you are now to the nearest free wireless network.
Actually, I think they allow people growing up Amish to experience technology at 18 years old. That way they let everyone make their own conscious choice to leave the Amish lifestyle or embrace it. If they ever want to come back, they can but they have to commit themselves 100% to the Amish lifestyle.
I have a Dell i8600 and I did have problems with SP2. When I installed the last public beta of SP2 before it went gold, whenever I pulled the AC cord out while Windows was running, I'd get a STOP error with gv3.sys. Searching on those same Dell forums, I found out I had to update my CPU driver. My original driver was dated sometime in 2002, but a nice and quick upgrade over the net from Microsoft gave me a April 2004 driver that has done away with the STOP errors.
On another note, I don't have any performance problems with SP2. It runs pretty much the same as with just SP1. Then again, I hear lots of stories about Dell computers and I don't give them any weight because I've never experienced any. The forums are interesting to wander through, complete lists of drivers for machines, nothing but a positive experience.
Dateline on NBC did a piece on how unreliable witnesses are like 3 years ago and did something a little different. Someone came into a class, walked non-chalantly towards the teachers desk and stole her purse and ran out. A student followed to try to get it back. The students were asked to describe that purp and sure enough, most people didn't even get what clothes he wore, height, facial hair.
I may be a dummy, but how do I install this cache?
The torrent consists of: base source shared materials.gcf (about 1GB) base source shared.gcf (57.4MB)
I see other.gcf files in the SteamApps directory in Steam, but do I just move them there and restart Steam and poof, it says "hey, it's the HL2 preload!" ?
I'd like to download Half-Life 2 now because servers will be even more swamped when Half-Life 2 is released to buy and download, and there won't be any shelved copies in a 100-mile radius.
I got a returned email saying a user with that username doesn't exist, did you type it incorrectly? Reply here with a correct email to claim the invite.
I was watching CNN and they did a little 4 minute joint on Google. The final point the narrator makes is that it questions Google's adjustment to the market. It questions if Google that has been used to doing things it's own way, that now it's responsible to investors, not just in-house management.
I love Google too, but I can't help to get the sense that Google is a remnant of the dot-com bust but never busted... yet. I hope I'm wrong though...
We do have an extra phone line but it doesn't cost $20. Also, the plan we have, it's a 1-year agreement paid upfront, and we only get 15 hours usage each day. However, the provider is a small time joint and know not to nickle and dime us to death on the days we do go over because they need our business more than the bigger providers that care about their bottom line than customers. We just don't abuse the system; some periods in the month we use it heavily, maybe 24 hours a day, and other times not at all.
$14/month for 49.2kbps (my current modem connection speed) is a lot of money given the price per speed ratio and given the $60 for 3Mbps broadband is a fair price. If the ratio was respected, for $14 I could achieve 700kbps but I only get 14% of that fair speed ratio in real life.
The extra phone line is just for convenience and doesn't effect the speed at which I connect to the internet. It just makes having dialup that much more expensive, plus we got this extra phone line when DSL was presented as where the fastest internet access was.
As someone moving from home (dialup) and to school (broadband), the answer is price. My parents get dialup for something like $14 a month, whereas 3Mbps cable internet is a shade under $60. People that get dialup don't get it for it's speed, they get it for the price. My parents don't use the internet at home so they don't know the aggrevation of trying to download a 266MB Windows XP SP2 update over modem.
I had a teacher one time speak about patent law in how it applied to Polaroid instant cameras. Now, come and sit around me in a semi-circle pattern and stare in amazement as I tell you a story...
Polaroid knew that once these new fangled instant cameras came out that everyone and their cousin would try and copy it. They would patent their initial design and would patent it and release it. They would continue to work on it but not update the cameras and a year before the old patent expires, they take out another patent based on their new and improved design and issue cameras using the new design.
Competing companies could use the 20 year old design but Polaroid already had excellent market position. If a customer wanted to buy an instant camera, do they get a Polaroid camera, a company with 20 years in the instant camera business, a household name with a now cheap price (once manufacturing prices go down to sane levels) or another company new to the market with a more expensive camera based on 20 year old technology.
I got the chance to view a presentation about shielding aircraft from travellers electronics that send out signals (cellular phones, laptops, whatever).
They proposed installing waveguides around the cabin of the airplane. It would be too complex to surround only airplane equipment that would be affected.
You all have waveguides in your house in your microwave. Go to your microwave and look in the door, see the metal grate with a pattern of holes? That's a waveguide specifically made to protect your face from melting like your nacho cheese you're cooking when the magentron fires up.
I think the presenters figured out the proper design of a waveguide (material, thickness, diameter of holes, distance apart, et al) and from that could estimate the rough financial and weight cost of fitting a plane with a protective basket.
I don't know about you but the last plane I was on, I was in an upright fetal position for 2 hours. It's not easy being tall in an Embraer RJ-145.
If your mom gave you a fullscreen edition of Matrix, I bet you'd throw it in the trash and yell at her then storm back down the basement and turn on Rush and write down a wishlist of ThinkGeek stuff.
Only widescreen DVD's and "Got Root?" bucket hats for you, huh?
If say the new Ford Focus came out with a black box, people are going to open it and see exactly what it does. If it does anything more than record for the past 40 seconds, I'm sure Slashdot in it's zeal to provide more pro-privacy stories will tell us.
Until then, we can't foam at the mouth at all the what-if's that we can come up with. I'm as much for privacy as the next guy, but we can't reach a fevered pitch of animosity simply from conjecture. 1984 is further away than some of us think.
I'd like to know what history you are referring to in which power like this becomes abused. This is a good discussion.
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That is very hilarious, I'm downloading it via torrent now and I can't wait.
I like Jon Stewart's wit and he is very smart on his feet in fast political discussions. I just don't like Stewart on The Daily Show because the jokes are repetitive and biased which is from the writers. When Jon interviews some guests, you can see the wit come out though. I'm still waiting for Jon to rise to a better medium because Comedy Central and The Daily Show isn't good enough for him.
I know... I know... Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
A large explosion occurred in the northern part of North Korea ... a South Korean news agency reported Sunday.
Not all segments of the media runs at the same speed, and not all segments of the media can watch every corner of the world, calm down. Plus, that's South Korea that reported about North Korea. As you'll recall, South Korea is the US's friend and North Korea is communist backed by China in the mid 50's. I'm sure North Korea doesn't want us to know about their capabilities because our President might go there looking for WMD's (which I desperately don't want, I think NK is a powder keg).
I'm sure intelligence agencies knew about it. However, it's not in their best interest to alert everyone to get everyone worked up.
Not at all, I bought some PC wipes to use on my LCD panel and they have Isopropyl alcohol in it and it works very well. It turns out it's best to use a 50-50 solution of Isopropyl Alcohol and water on an LCD if you're going to brew your own mixture.
What fair use laws? Since when does paying $3.99 to rent a movie entitle you to watch a movie for the rest of your life? That's just total shit. The entire idea behind rental movies is you get to watch the movie for a small price and you give it back, if you want to keep the movie, you purchase it from a retailer. Sorry pal, but this isn't a case of fair use, this is a case of copying a movie and breaking your contract with the rental agency. $3.99 doesn't entitle you to unlimited viewings, the $20 DVD price does.
You can rent a movie and make a copy but that's stealing and don't give me that bullshit about "but I didn't deprive the rental store of anything", you deprived the studio of the money owed to them had you purchased the movie legally through a retail outlet.
As someone else pointed out on here, the Home Recording Act only entitles you to time-shift (meaning only watch a program later, as in once), it doesn't allow you to keep a movie forever. The Home Recording Act is fair use but people like you (anyone that copies movies like this) think it's a ticket to do anything you want.
You're last point is what I've been trying to say all along. You can wrap whatever IP-speak you want, but in the end you're still depriving motion picture studios of money. Now, you may not agree with some of their politics or whatever, but you can't break the law (although it sounds like you do anyway, which is sad).
But he said it was PPV. If it was shown on regular network TV, then to me it's considered released to the entire world and fair game. But PPV is different, you pay for the convenience of not going to a video store, fighting for copies, scratched disc, etc... If you kept a video store movie after it was due, there are late charges, and eventually collections will call and place a charge on your account, ruin your credit, etc... Shouldn't there be a limit on PPV too, you are entering in the same type of contract as a movie store. There is still a limited time window because there's a time when the home watcher can begin to watch the movie and a time when they cannot watch any more which is enforced by the cable/satellite provider
You can't pay $3.99 (or whatever the going rate for PPV is) and keep the movie forever whereas Johnny DVD-buyer goes out and buys the same thing on DVD for $20. Johnny DVD-buyer is legally entitled to watch the movie for as long as he wants, Mr. PPV cannot because his time is up.
It doesn't matter if you were there or not. When you rent PPV, you pay and view it in a limited time window. It's an implied contract with you and the provider. The provider gives you access to something for a period of time, and you give them money. It's the same as renting a movie at a store, you play by their rules or don't play the game. If you treasure a life experience, film it yourself. You're breaking the contract you have with the cable provider.
You can't just do whatever you want, because in instances like these, what you think is right isn't the same as what you think is being legal. Your provider has rights too.
If you don't like it, then don't come back. I'm sure I can speak for a lot of people when I say you won't be missed, Coward.
I chose my school not for it's scholastic qualities, I chose it because of all the fabled women that are there. It's a general college, nothing special except the fact it's near a beach and hot girls tend to want to go to the beach. Being less than 30 minutes from Virginia Beach and all the girls that come with it are all the perks I need.
girls > geek perks
(begin the "You're new here, aren't you" remarks)
I am joking, just the fact that it was changed to transexual was odd. It would have been just as odd to use feminists or what-have-you. Relax.
man, I wish I had some mod points left, you'd get a Funny from me.
The best use of a GPS system besides using it to find your way around is to tie it to a wireless network sniffer. Drive around in your car and when the sniffer picks up something, it can trigger the GPS software to record where that is, what type of network, the network strength and what day and time so you can estimate how stale the information is. If you want free internet, just get mapping software to find a route from where you are now to the nearest free wireless network.
anyone else except me read that part a couple times to make sure it's true? Generally you don't hear about transexuals in media.
Actually, I think they allow people growing up Amish to experience technology at 18 years old. That way they let everyone make their own conscious choice to leave the Amish lifestyle or embrace it. If they ever want to come back, they can but they have to commit themselves 100% to the Amish lifestyle.
I have a Dell i8600 and I did have problems with SP2. When I installed the last public beta of SP2 before it went gold, whenever I pulled the AC cord out while Windows was running, I'd get a STOP error with gv3.sys. Searching on those same Dell forums, I found out I had to update my CPU driver. My original driver was dated sometime in 2002, but a nice and quick upgrade over the net from Microsoft gave me a April 2004 driver that has done away with the STOP errors.
On another note, I don't have any performance problems with SP2. It runs pretty much the same as with just SP1. Then again, I hear lots of stories about Dell computers and I don't give them any weight because I've never experienced any. The forums are interesting to wander through, complete lists of drivers for machines, nothing but a positive experience.
Dateline on NBC did a piece on how unreliable witnesses are like 3 years ago and did something a little different. Someone came into a class, walked non-chalantly towards the teachers desk and stole her purse and ran out. A student followed to try to get it back. The students were asked to describe that purp and sure enough, most people didn't even get what clothes he wore, height, facial hair.
I may be a dummy, but how do I install this cache?
.gcf files in the SteamApps directory in Steam, but do I just move them there and restart Steam and poof, it says "hey, it's the HL2 preload!" ?
The torrent consists of:
base source shared materials.gcf (about 1GB)
base source shared.gcf (57.4MB)
I see other
I'd like to download Half-Life 2 now because servers will be even more swamped when Half-Life 2 is released to buy and download, and there won't be any shelved copies in a 100-mile radius.
I got a returned email saying a user with that username doesn't exist, did you type it incorrectly? Reply here with a correct email to claim the invite.
I was watching CNN and they did a little 4 minute joint on Google. The final point the narrator makes is that it questions Google's adjustment to the market. It questions if Google that has been used to doing things it's own way, that now it's responsible to investors, not just in-house management.
I love Google too, but I can't help to get the sense that Google is a remnant of the dot-com bust but never busted... yet. I hope I'm wrong though...
We do have an extra phone line but it doesn't cost $20. Also, the plan we have, it's a 1-year agreement paid upfront, and we only get 15 hours usage each day. However, the provider is a small time joint and know not to nickle and dime us to death on the days we do go over because they need our business more than the bigger providers that care about their bottom line than customers. We just don't abuse the system; some periods in the month we use it heavily, maybe 24 hours a day, and other times not at all.
$14/month for 49.2kbps (my current modem connection speed) is a lot of money given the price per speed ratio and given the $60 for 3Mbps broadband is a fair price. If the ratio was respected, for $14 I could achieve 700kbps but I only get 14% of that fair speed ratio in real life.
The extra phone line is just for convenience and doesn't effect the speed at which I connect to the internet. It just makes having dialup that much more expensive, plus we got this extra phone line when DSL was presented as where the fastest internet access was.
As someone moving from home (dialup) and to school (broadband), the answer is price. My parents get dialup for something like $14 a month, whereas 3Mbps cable internet is a shade under $60. People that get dialup don't get it for it's speed, they get it for the price. My parents don't use the internet at home so they don't know the aggrevation of trying to download a 266MB Windows XP SP2 update over modem.
I had a teacher one time speak about patent law in how it applied to Polaroid instant cameras. Now, come and sit around me in a semi-circle pattern and stare in amazement as I tell you a story...
Polaroid knew that once these new fangled instant cameras came out that everyone and their cousin would try and copy it. They would patent their initial design and would patent it and release it. They would continue to work on it but not update the cameras and a year before the old patent expires, they take out another patent based on their new and improved design and issue cameras using the new design.
Competing companies could use the 20 year old design but Polaroid already had excellent market position. If a customer wanted to buy an instant camera, do they get a Polaroid camera, a company with 20 years in the instant camera business, a household name with a now cheap price (once manufacturing prices go down to sane levels) or another company new to the market with a more expensive camera based on 20 year old technology.
I got the chance to view a presentation about shielding aircraft from travellers electronics that send out signals (cellular phones, laptops, whatever).
They proposed installing waveguides around the cabin of the airplane. It would be too complex to surround only airplane equipment that would be affected.
You all have waveguides in your house in your microwave. Go to your microwave and look in the door, see the metal grate with a pattern of holes? That's a waveguide specifically made to protect your face from melting like your nacho cheese you're cooking when the magentron fires up.
I think the presenters figured out the proper design of a waveguide (material, thickness, diameter of holes, distance apart, et al) and from that could estimate the rough financial and weight cost of fitting a plane with a protective basket.
I don't know about you but the last plane I was on, I was in an upright fetal position for 2 hours. It's not easy being tall in an Embraer RJ-145.
If your mom gave you a fullscreen edition of Matrix, I bet you'd throw it in the trash and yell at her then storm back down the basement and turn on Rush and write down a wishlist of ThinkGeek stuff.
Only widescreen DVD's and "Got Root?" bucket hats for you, huh?
If say the new Ford Focus came out with a black box, people are going to open it and see exactly what it does. If it does anything more than record for the past 40 seconds, I'm sure Slashdot in it's zeal to provide more pro-privacy stories will tell us.
Until then, we can't foam at the mouth at all the what-if's that we can come up with. I'm as much for privacy as the next guy, but we can't reach a fevered pitch of animosity simply from conjecture. 1984 is further away than some of us think.
I'd like to know what history you are referring to in which power like this becomes abused. This is a good discussion.