When it costs as much to see the movie in the theater as you can OWN the DVD for later on, it's a wonder they still make money at all.
That, and when you factor in that some of us, as nerds with jobs, might have nice home theater systems, there's really no incentive to go to see a movie in theatres if you can wait until it comes out on DVD. Except for my smallish TV, I get just as good sound as the movie theaters. I didn't see any of the LoTR movies in theaters, but holy cow they were awesome.
That has to be excruciatingly slow, even getting that set up and the software installed. A week to boot? I hope they didn't have to compile the kernel for that particular processor... What version of Debian is it, 0.01?
Plutonium239, for example, has a half-life of 24,300 years; Uranium238 has a half life of 4.5 billion years.
True, but if we use a pebble bed reactor, which can have the fuel pellets rotated for better use of all the fissible fuel, we can eliminate a large portion of the U238 in the fuel. If we can get down to mostly the "lesser" materials with shorter half-lives, that would be better.
Taking the half-life of Plutonium-239 as an example, 200k years is approx 4 half-lives, if I did my math right. So there will only be 6.25% of the original mass left. Still, I guess when you're talking tons of this material, 6.25% is still a substantial quantity.
I'm hoping that my performance this year, along with the increasing outlook for the job market (read: possibilities to go elsewhere) will allow my boss to give me a raise to a salary a little more suited to the type of crap and the load of work I have to put up with on a day to day basis.
At first it was "I'm just happy to have a job," but now it's more like "Is there something elsewhere? I'm definately getting the shaft."
When will companies learn how fucking retarded it is to do something like that? What about the lay-person who likes to game but doesn't know much about the inner workings of the computer? Will they want to uninstall the cd burner software? Call EA support, and bitch at them!
Pissing off your customers is not a sound business model. Its sad when you have to crack a game just to run your legitimate copy.
Not really. After reading that (and note that he said he was playing at 3am on the west coast), I tried a few games online on Friday night (Around 9pm EST). NOt only was the game browser slow (took about a minute for 5 games to be listed as "open", but I got kicked off after every game. Would always say something about not being able to connect to Live, then I get dumped out.
I've never had those types of problems with, say, Crimson Skies (one of the few other Xbox games I have).
If you watch enough subtitied stuff (anime, movies like Brotherhood of the Wolf, even close captioned tv) you sorta get used to it and learn how to "read" them while still watching the main action. I know a few words here and there in Japanese, not very many though, but enough that during action scenes (whe they're most annoying) I don't need to know they're shouting "Damn!" or "Hurry!" or "Let's go!".
You didn't mention that their showtime lookup sucks too. Yeah, I know it's not playing in my area. At least tell me where it's playing in my state and let me decide if I want to drive to Miami (no) or Jacksonville (still no) to see it. At least I found on another site that it will be playing in Sarasota (about an hour's drive probably) in mid-October. I guess I'll go see it then!
Both formats will probably have a ton of DRM in it anyways. It's all just a money making ploy to get us to buy new "special edition" disc sets... "Now with 15 seconds of additional footage and some interview with one of the extras!" That and new players of course.
4. I understand that the XBox 2 controllers will have a second set of shoulder buttons. They'll probably just be mapped to whatever black and white were mapped to.
I hope they redesign the shape of it a bit. I've been planing Burnout 3 and some other racing games quite heavily on Xbox in recent days. I must say, holding down that right trigger button is not very comfortable, even for a quick 3 minute challenge lap.
The right way to do this would be to use the password to generate an encryption key and encrypt the data with it. Then, the only possible vulnerabilities are the password itself and various known-plaintext attacks.
No, there's one more... the user forgetting that password. Not exactly a compromise situation, but a support nightmare.
But due to the nature of binary, couldn't you brute force it to find the original values? Because of XOR's properties, we know certain things about the original data based on the result.
A 1 means that each number in that slot was different. A 0 means either they were both 0's or 1's.
Hopefully Lexar doesn't take the path I'm afraid they will and bust out the DMCA against @stake. That is just a horrible excuse for "security" and it needs to be fixed. Security through obscurity just leaves more opportunity for the evil-minded to steal information (or spread viruses or whatever) by keeping the public unaware of the security flaws.
The password is in XOR'd form? Yeah. That's encryption.
Couldn't the software or driver have stored the password in a MD5 or SHA1 form, and still present a valid authentication mechanism for end users?
Aside from storing the password in XOR'd form, the software checking the password is flawed. It unencrypts the password first, then compared the password entered. Rather then encrypting the password entered and comparing it to the device?
There may even be better ways than that. I'm not a cryptography person, but that's the first thing that comes to mind.
Think of it as a general purpose home PC.... I built a mythtv box for my folks
I showed mine to my parents and my dad was very impressed. He asked how much it cost and how long it would take to set it up. Once I tinker with it some more and see if I can make it a little more stable in certain items (like trying to browse the program guide while watching tv could hard-lock the system) I may set one up for him.
I also would like to pimp that link. I was using a guide that used Gentoo instead of FC1. It took me about a week off and on before I finally gave up on the Gentoo OS install (I didn't even get close to it booting).
I installed FC1 and set up Myth using that guide in an afternoon. It's an excellent article.
I built one out of an old P3 Dell I had laying around, as an experiment. I used a Hauppauge WinPVR 350. I just rebooted it earlier today but this is about usual:
22:34:59 up 3:21, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
An added plus, I can have as many tuners in there as I have PCI slots, should I want. I could purchase a WinPVR 250 for the encoding, use that as the primary recorder, and get another one for PiP. Or any multitude of other options, like putting a card in my dual Opteron server. It's quite flexible.
Anyways, what I was getting at is, you don't need an uber powerful computer just to watch/record tv. Playing Divx might take horsepower. I had priced out a computer with a low power Athlon XP, 2 tuners, monster hd, etc. I happened to score a 160gb drive on sale at Newegg, a PVR350 card, and a dvd burner (also on sale). So I built a Tivo for about $350, no monthly fees, expandable, and the most expensive item was the PVR350.
(For reference, the computer I had priced out was about $750, including a nice case and good heatsink for the CPU so it runs cool and quiet)
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When it costs as much to see the movie in the theater as you can OWN the DVD for later on, it's a wonder they still make money at all.
That, and when you factor in that some of us, as nerds with jobs, might have nice home theater systems, there's really no incentive to go to see a movie in theatres if you can wait until it comes out on DVD. Except for my smallish TV, I get just as good sound as the movie theaters. I didn't see any of the LoTR movies in theaters, but holy cow they were awesome.
That has to be excruciatingly slow, even getting that set up and the software installed. A week to boot? I hope they didn't have to compile the kernel for that particular processor... What version of Debian is it, 0.01?
The title reminded me of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law...
HA ha ha! Server fire.
That, and they're a member of the Dow Jones Industrial average, along with GE, GM, IBM, and Microsoft... among others too (evidence: this link)
It just seem sucudial to polute the air we breath fot the sake of the bottom line.
Welcome to Capitalism... where its all about the shareholder. If they don't make their money, they get mad. Its all about the "near term" problems.
But in a WRX (you must have a bugeye since you have the seat bolt recall, I have an 04), why would you want to slow down? ;-)
The clip thing is a precaution. They issued a recall notice only because if it did happen, and it could, it would be really bad.
Plutonium239, for example, has a half-life of 24,300 years; Uranium238 has a half life of 4.5 billion years.
True, but if we use a pebble bed reactor, which can have the fuel pellets rotated for better use of all the fissible fuel, we can eliminate a large portion of the U238 in the fuel. If we can get down to mostly the "lesser" materials with shorter half-lives, that would be better.
Taking the half-life of Plutonium-239 as an example, 200k years is approx 4 half-lives, if I did my math right. So there will only be 6.25% of the original mass left. Still, I guess when you're talking tons of this material, 6.25% is still a substantial quantity.
I'm hoping that my performance this year, along with the increasing outlook for the job market (read: possibilities to go elsewhere) will allow my boss to give me a raise to a salary a little more suited to the type of crap and the load of work I have to put up with on a day to day basis.
At first it was "I'm just happy to have a job," but now it's more like "Is there something elsewhere? I'm definately getting the shaft."
When will companies learn how fucking retarded it is to do something like that? What about the lay-person who likes to game but doesn't know much about the inner workings of the computer? Will they want to uninstall the cd burner software? Call EA support, and bitch at them!
Pissing off your customers is not a sound business model. Its sad when you have to crack a game just to run your legitimate copy.
Not really. After reading that (and note that he said he was playing at 3am on the west coast), I tried a few games online on Friday night (Around 9pm EST). NOt only was the game browser slow (took about a minute for 5 games to be listed as "open", but I got kicked off after every game. Would always say something about not being able to connect to Live, then I get dumped out.
I've never had those types of problems with, say, Crimson Skies (one of the few other Xbox games I have).
If you watch enough subtitied stuff (anime, movies like Brotherhood of the Wolf, even close captioned tv) you sorta get used to it and learn how to "read" them while still watching the main action. I know a few words here and there in Japanese, not very many though, but enough that during action scenes (whe they're most annoying) I don't need to know they're shouting "Damn!" or "Hurry!" or "Let's go!".
If the plot summaries imply what I think they do, you probably should.
You didn't mention that their showtime lookup sucks too. Yeah, I know it's not playing in my area. At least tell me where it's playing in my state and let me decide if I want to drive to Miami (no) or Jacksonville (still no) to see it. At least I found on another site that it will be playing in Sarasota (about an hour's drive probably) in mid-October. I guess I'll go see it then!
If I email you my resume, could you sent it to somebody who might hire me? I'm a computer scientist with a love for weather, especially hurricanes!
:-) (And I'm serious too)
My long term goal is to have a PhD in CS and meteorology, probably combining both theses into one big project.
I hope that drivers who see that can still pay attention to the road. Regardless of whether they are trying to think about it or not.
Both formats will probably have a ton of DRM in it anyways. It's all just a money making ploy to get us to buy new "special edition" disc sets... "Now with 15 seconds of additional footage and some interview with one of the extras!" That and new players of course.
And isn't DVD already in 480p?
4. I understand that the XBox 2 controllers will have a second set of shoulder buttons. They'll probably just be mapped to whatever black and white were mapped to.
I hope they redesign the shape of it a bit. I've been planing Burnout 3 and some other racing games quite heavily on Xbox in recent days. I must say, holding down that right trigger button is not very comfortable, even for a quick 3 minute challenge lap.
The right way to do this would be to use the password to generate an encryption key and encrypt the data with it. Then, the only possible vulnerabilities are the password itself and various known-plaintext attacks.
No, there's one more... the user forgetting that password. Not exactly a compromise situation, but a support nightmare.
But due to the nature of binary, couldn't you brute force it to find the original values? Because of XOR's properties, we know certain things about the original data based on the result.
A 1 means that each number in that slot was different. A 0 means either they were both 0's or 1's.
Hopefully Lexar doesn't take the path I'm afraid they will and bust out the DMCA against @stake. That is just a horrible excuse for "security" and it needs to be fixed. Security through obscurity just leaves more opportunity for the evil-minded to steal information (or spread viruses or whatever) by keeping the public unaware of the security flaws.
The password is in XOR'd form? Yeah. That's encryption.
Couldn't the software or driver have stored the password in a MD5 or SHA1 form, and still present a valid authentication mechanism for end users?
Aside from storing the password in XOR'd form, the software checking the password is flawed. It unencrypts the password first, then compared the password entered. Rather then encrypting the password entered and comparing it to the device?
There may even be better ways than that. I'm not a cryptography person, but that's the first thing that comes to mind.
Think of it as a general purpose home PC.... I built a mythtv box for my folks
I showed mine to my parents and my dad was very impressed. He asked how much it cost and how long it would take to set it up. Once I tinker with it some more and see if I can make it a little more stable in certain items (like trying to browse the program guide while watching tv could hard-lock the system) I may set one up for him.
I also would like to pimp that link. I was using a guide that used Gentoo instead of FC1. It took me about a week off and on before I finally gave up on the Gentoo OS install (I didn't even get close to it booting).
I installed FC1 and set up Myth using that guide in an afternoon. It's an excellent article.
I built one out of an old P3 Dell I had laying around, as an experiment. I used a Hauppauge WinPVR 350. I just rebooted it earlier today but this is about usual:
22:34:59 up 3:21, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
An added plus, I can have as many tuners in there as I have PCI slots, should I want. I could purchase a WinPVR 250 for the encoding, use that as the primary recorder, and get another one for PiP. Or any multitude of other options, like putting a card in my dual Opteron server. It's quite flexible.
Anyways, what I was getting at is, you don't need an uber powerful computer just to watch/record tv. Playing Divx might take horsepower. I had priced out a computer with a low power Athlon XP, 2 tuners, monster hd, etc. I happened to score a 160gb drive on sale at Newegg, a PVR350 card, and a dvd burner (also on sale). So I built a Tivo for about $350, no monthly fees, expandable, and the most expensive item was the PVR350.
(For reference, the computer I had priced out was about $750, including a nice case and good heatsink for the CPU so it runs cool and quiet)
That may be so, but watching DBZ in Japanese is what got me into anime in the first place!