the technology behind this should have been really obvious. all you'd have to do is install a transponder on the plane that forces the cell phones to roam on the same network that the swipe-a-card phones use. the cost of using your cell in-flight on the 'roaming' network will be about $.001/min. cheaper than using the phone mounted to the headrest in front of you.
( perhaps southwest airlines could parlait the financial fruits of this gougery into an actual meal plan ) O o:)
hey, i'll bet that if Gordon, Davis, and Costner turned the master over to George Lucas he could remake it only to run it into the ground again and still manage to turn a few bucks.
the speed test demo on that site is fuQ'd. it says that 56k speeds are based on 56kbps speeds and DSL/Cable/T1 speeds are based on 1.5mb avg. interestingly enough, the 56k test bar goes at nearly half the speed of the DSL/Cable/T1 bar.
What 56k modem are they using and where can I find one!?
a friend of mine got this idea from somewhere, but i though it was a great (legal) act of civil disobediance.
said buddy got a ticket in the mail from the state of california. the ticket, which had been for $26 (or something like that), was mailed to him along with three pictures. one picture was of his car, another of his license plate, and a third of him at the wheel.
Friend grabbed his digital camera and his wallet. He laid out $26 in crisp american lardols on the table, snapped a picture, printed and mailed it back with the ticket.
He received a call from a DOT rep who laughingly told him that he was still responsible for the ticket. He went to court, fought it, and had the ticket waived by a judge who was also laughing.
social distortion rocks (and i don't mean the band)..
for the announcement of something so impressive you'd think they'd have at least had someone proof-read the press release. it looks like my 8-year-old nephew approved the final copy.
to get 1000x the performance of the playstation, Sony would need to have a supercomputer per console. even assuming that 10% (a high-end figure i think) of the PS3s in the world are online at any given time, the computing power necessary to get the results they're talking about is incredible.
they're not going to spend $2e9 to end up losing money. this is all a hype.
who is really surprised by this? it's not that we're being suddenly bombarded by these interstellar missiles. we just have technology that can detect them now..
go back to your gilmore girls, this is just a drill.
"yup, we're certain that Mr. Smith bought this DVD with a stolen credit card from Amazon and had it shipped to a field in Thailand. We'll get right on it!"
which is fantastic anti-piracy offensive until someone randomly generates a serial number for a DVD that you bought from Amazon with your legit cc. then the black suits in black helicopters are skidding down black nylon ropes and crashing through the cupola of your solarium.
yeah, the odds are pretty high.. but all it would take is once or twice. it has happened before..
the laser idea is cool, but woefully impractical.. it depends too much on line of sight and environmental conditions to be terribly useful. once power supplies for these things are portable we'll see grunts toting them into battle for use in land combat..
the REAL next big thing is microwave.. you could concentrate a blast of microwave radiation that would penetrate the walls of a bunker and cook human flesh at 3,000 degrees.
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well, for all the ad dollars they get, you'd think the weather channel would be able to get on top of their shit then.
I got a new pair of shoes!
News for WHO? Stuff that WHAT?
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What I need to know is how many drives the thing has in it!
95/96 sounds about right. it's probably a performa of some type. certainly from the performa/quadra era.
the technology behind this should have been really obvious. all you'd have to do is install a transponder on the plane that forces the cell phones to roam on the same network that the swipe-a-card phones use. the cost of using your cell in-flight on the 'roaming' network will be about $.001/min. cheaper than using the phone mounted to the headrest in front of you.
:)
( perhaps southwest airlines could parlait the financial fruits of this gougery into an actual meal plan ) O o
from a driver/application package belonging to a commodity..
"This program no work under this version Windows!!!"
you had best make sure you're in compliance. otherwise, you could be in a lot of trouble!
nice looking enclosure. too bad that article has nothing to do with 'building a subwoofer'.
now i can play quake 3 at 700,000fps!
I've already developed a front-end loader that loads at boot and filters outgoing OpenMG X traffic.
*door bursts open*
You can't do this! I have riiiiiiigggghhhhhhh....
hey, i'll bet that if Gordon, Davis, and Costner turned the master over to George Lucas he could remake it only to run it into the ground again and still manage to turn a few bucks.
Waterworld
Stephen King's The Stand
Debbie Does Dallas 2000
That Infomercial for The Spray-on Hair
does this mean that RIAA and company will have to back off of this P2P-DoS madness?
windows 256.. due out in 2256.
yeah.. it wasn't his idea.
;)
he tried it and shocked the magistrate such that the ticket was dropped with a smile and a fare-thee-well. true story..
maybe i should have put a disclaimer at the bottom of that first post though..
the speed test demo on that site is fuQ'd. it says that 56k speeds are based on 56kbps speeds and DSL/Cable/T1 speeds are based on 1.5mb avg. interestingly enough, the 56k test bar goes at nearly half the speed of the DSL/Cable/T1 bar.
What 56k modem are they using and where can I find one!?
a friend of mine got this idea from somewhere, but i though it was a great (legal) act of civil disobediance.
said buddy got a ticket in the mail from the state of california. the ticket, which had been for $26 (or something like that), was mailed to him along with three pictures. one picture was of his car, another of his license plate, and a third of him at the wheel.
Friend grabbed his digital camera and his wallet. He laid out $26 in crisp american lardols on the table, snapped a picture, printed and mailed it back with the ticket.
He received a call from a DOT rep who laughingly told him that he was still responsible for the ticket. He went to court, fought it, and had the ticket waived by a judge who was also laughing.
social distortion rocks (and i don't mean the band)..
i was thinking from the crackhead point of view. but, yes, i think it's almost impossible to live without a head.
except now we'll have chainsaw-wielding crackheads cutting peoples' hands off and going on days-long fingerprinting sprees.
maybe they should do a combination fingerprint/retinal scan. a head is a lot harder to get off and carry around.
for the announcement of something so impressive you'd think they'd have at least had someone proof-read the press release. it looks like my 8-year-old nephew approved the final copy.
to get 1000x the performance of the playstation, Sony would need to have a supercomputer per console. even assuming that 10% (a high-end figure i think) of the PS3s in the world are online at any given time, the computing power necessary to get the results they're talking about is incredible.
they're not going to spend $2e9 to end up losing money. this is all a hype.
who is really surprised by this? it's not that we're being suddenly bombarded by these interstellar missiles. we just have technology that can detect them now..
go back to your gilmore girls, this is just a drill.
"yup, we're certain that Mr. Smith bought this DVD with a stolen credit card from Amazon and had it shipped to a field in Thailand. We'll get right on it!"
which is fantastic anti-piracy offensive until someone randomly generates a serial number for a DVD that you bought from Amazon with your legit cc. then the black suits in black helicopters are skidding down black nylon ropes and crashing through the cupola of your solarium.
yeah, the odds are pretty high.. but all it would take is once or twice. it has happened before..
In addition, the adoption of a unique ID written on a Blu-ray Disc realizes high quality copyright protection functions.
:)
wonder how long it'll take for some 15-year-old to be tried as an adult and tossed in the pokey for cracking this one...
15 minutes.. a day maybe?
the laser idea is cool, but woefully impractical.. it depends too much on line of sight and environmental conditions to be terribly useful. once power supplies for these things are portable we'll see grunts toting them into battle for use in land combat..
the REAL next big thing is microwave.. you could concentrate a blast of microwave radiation that would penetrate the walls of a bunker and cook human flesh at 3,000 degrees.