Nice job of being an ignorant heterosexual male. I think this is a very legitimate question. 11% of the World's population is homosexual.
And if they meant happy geeks, well, how many of those are there right now? 5, maybe 10, excluding Bill Gates?
And the developers' old hardware goes where?
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I would certainly consider giving it a good home here. I'm not discriminate. You can give me an 8086 and I'll be happy. All that copper will be good to keep away the evil mind-controlling radio waves.
Hey, as long as they don't allow it to be called over the Internet, it might just do something to the whole 2 countries that use computers instead of paper for their terroristic activities.
Apart from the practical problems involved (like introducing a third measurement system and getting everyone to switch-again, for many), you mean? Well, yeah, of course.:)
In normal life, who cares about the definition of a unit? Um...me?;) Seriously though, as we build more and more things of smaller and smaller size, we're going to need a better definition than 1/299,792,458 of a second for units of measurement, and I can't imagine AMUs working that well, even modified for the express purpose of length instead of weight. We've come up with a lot of stupid, arbitrary systems. I like the metric system (and yes, I unfortunately have grown up and currently live in the United States). Multiples of 10 make sense. 12 inches per foot, three feet per yard, 5280 feet per mile... ridiculous. The argument has been made that these are better measurements for aerospace things, but I'm not so sure that is true. While the smallest units (1/12 of an inch and whatnot) might correspond better to certain things, the fact that it is 1/12 instead of 1/10 is, well, dumb.
According to the letter that was (supposedly) sent, PCI-SIG Incorporated is a non-profit organization, which is why this pretty much boggles my mind. What would a non-profit have to gain by threatening to sue some guy that was using their logo and their freaking three-letter acronym that is used on billions of other sites to describe their technology? Hopefully someone reads this and responds. I'd appreciate it.
Why are we not using measurements that the Universe has handed to us? I am, of course, speaking of the fact that a metre (or meter, if you're like that) is "the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second". How crappy a definition of a size is this? Why not create a unit that is the size of 1000 trillion Carbon-12 molecules strung end-to-end? That would make a lot more sense. I know that there is a unit type "dalton" that is 1/12 the size of a Carbon-12 atom, but that's rather ridiculous. While I would say "use Hydrogen", I'm thinking that would probably be WAY too small.:P
For anyone that speaks Japanese, you might want to listen to the song by Ayumi Hamasaki entitled "Endless Sorrow". Much more convincing, however, is the music video. Try to find it on a P2P network, or email me for it... it's a really powerful piece about big brother and laws exactly like this.
Hmm, as long as they're stopping, how about adding support for x86? As much as I'd like to see AMD kick Intel's arse with their x86-64, I always worry that they are going to go out of business and then I'll never be able to buy new computers (though with TCPA and Palladium, I might not anyway) because I'll still need backward-compatibility. Imagine not being able to use ANY of your old programs from long-defunct companies -- games, especially. It's already hard enough to get developers to release source for their 10-year-old games.
Snood is primarily a cheap rip-off of the arcade game Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-a-Move in the USA). Mame does an excellent job of playing the ORIGINAL versions, and there are also plenty of less "hacked" alternative (by hacked, I mean that Snood has removed a lot of the original features of the game that made it really fun).
It's a fairly simple thing to remove region encoding on modern DVD-ROM "RPC2" drives. This site has firmware for practically every DVD-ROM drive available, patched to RPC1, which does not check for region encoding on the DVD. Couple this with a software DVD player such as InterVideo WinDVD and it's a simple matter to go into the registry and delete the key that tells the player how many times you can change the region encoding. You can even use this tool to do it automatically. I'm not positive about the legality of this, for IANAL, but I don't believe after recent rulings on DeCSS (which this does not bypass) that there is much of a risk of any kind of legal problem.
Similarily, as the UK is paying for 3G subscriptions as written in this article, perhaps, rather than taxing all business on the web, they focus instead on taxing just a certain sector, such as 'adult sites'. The libido of men doesn't move a whole lot alongside the economy, as far as I can tell (except possibly inversely, which is double-plus-good in this case), and I know that most adult sites make enormous profits. The rest of the internet economy could go on blistfully, while the adult sector earns slightly less money, while the government collects a lot from the tax. Of course, this could run into problems, as lots of stuff is hosted outside of the USA, but as far as I can tell that can only lead to a reduction in the amount of stuff that people are 'banned' from doing in the US.
Well, okay, it wasn't a great thought, but it was a thought, okay? The really sad thing is if they legalized kiddie pr0n and then took 50% of profits from that they'd probably make a TON of money. ~_~
"YOUR DOMAINS ARE EXPIRING! RE-REGISTER THEM NOW WITH NETWORK SOLUTIONS! ONLY $35/YEAR! THAT'S LESS THAN $($) PER DAY!...if you do not wish to receive these messages, please purchase SpamAssassin. Now available for only $250." And then, of course, NSI is whitelisted in the SA database through some "mysterious corruption".
Any transation that cannot be completed over the phone is exempt from the do-not-call list. That means most of those annoying recorded messages that end up on your answering machine -- "Sorry I missed you, but let me tell you about a great deal on clothes at..."
I know this is late in the lifecycle of this article, but I figured I'd post it anyway. Some sites actually PREVENT you from using them if you use a program to block pop-ups. This includes Mozilla and Opera's built-in functions. The script? AntiAdBlocker. (Not that it's very hard to get around, since the script is so dumb that you pass it the URL in the GET header, but it could dissuade Joe Sixpack from using Mozilla because they can't access sites.)
One of the things I *hate* about streaming video sites is that they categorize things qualitatively instead of quantitatively. "Modem 28.8k", "Modem 56.6k," "ISDN", "Cable Modem/DSL" (aka Broadband), and "T1 or higher" are NOT good ways of calculating connection speed. Give us NUMBERS. This connection is for people capable of receiving 28.8Kbps. This connection is for people capable of receiving 56.6Kbps. This connection is for people capable of receiving 256Kbps. This connection is for people capable of receiving 512Kbps. This connection is for people capable of receiving 1Mbit. This connection is capable of receiving 2Mbps. This connection is capable of receiving 4Mbps, etc. You can get a 256Kbps DSL line, or you can get an 8Mbit DSL line. LOOOOTS of difference between the two, but still the same technology that would show up as "Cable Modem/DSL".
Eh, I dunno.. I still haven't seen any cracks for digital cable boxes. Been looking for a while, too. What can I say? I'd like to be able to watch stuff (don't laugh, but usually particularily smart commercials or the free music video on demand service) later in time, especially in the case of VOD, where they 'recycle' old stuff, and with decent quality. Sure, I can use my trusty ole ATI TV-WONDER to capture video, but those 525 lines of horizontal resolution don't compare to even the worst 720x480p digital signals.
The installer they use doesn't compress any of the files. Eventually the game should take up significantly less space (until they add the movies, that is). Additionally, since there are lots of tiny little files, the amount of space the game actually takes up on disk runs to about 185MB (194,224,128 bytes) in 13,555 files and 92 directories. They are planning on using a new installer and putting everything into a Quake-esque package file to reduce the number of sectors used (and thus make it much closer to the actual 145MB that it takes up). You aren't gonna get a lot of compression on the Ogg Vorbis files, but there are TONS of little 1KB text files that will compress quite nicely.
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Nice job of being an ignorant heterosexual male. I think this is a very legitimate question. 11% of the World's population is homosexual.
And if they meant happy geeks, well, how many of those are there right now? 5, maybe 10, excluding Bill Gates?
I would certainly consider giving it a good home here. I'm not discriminate. You can give me an 8086 and I'll be happy. All that copper will be good to keep away the evil mind-controlling radio waves.
Wait... A, B, L, R, OPT and START ... ...
where are CTRL, ALT and DEL? Seems to me you'd need those on any console running DOS...
Hey, as long as they don't allow it to be called over the Internet, it might just do something to the whole 2 countries that use computers instead of paper for their terroristic activities.
Apart from the practical problems involved (like introducing a third measurement system and getting everyone to switch-again, for many), you mean? :)
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Well, yeah, of course.
In normal life, who cares about the definition of a unit?
Um...me?
Seriously though, as we build more and more things of smaller and smaller size, we're going to need a better definition than 1/299,792,458 of a second for units of measurement, and I can't imagine AMUs working that well, even modified for the express purpose of length instead of weight. We've come up with a lot of stupid, arbitrary systems. I like the metric system (and yes, I unfortunately have grown up and currently live in the United States). Multiples of 10 make sense. 12 inches per foot, three feet per yard, 5280 feet per mile... ridiculous. The argument has been made that these are better measurements for aerospace things, but I'm not so sure that is true. While the smallest units (1/12 of an inch and whatnot) might correspond better to certain things, the fact that it is 1/12 instead of 1/10 is, well, dumb.
According to the letter that was (supposedly) sent, PCI-SIG Incorporated is a non-profit organization, which is why this pretty much boggles my mind. What would a non-profit have to gain by threatening to sue some guy that was using their logo and their freaking three-letter acronym that is used on billions of other sites to describe their technology?
Hopefully someone reads this and responds. I'd appreciate it.
Why are we not using measurements that the Universe has handed to us? I am, of course, speaking of the fact that a metre (or meter, if you're like that) is "the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second". How crappy a definition of a size is this? Why not create a unit that is the size of 1000 trillion Carbon-12 molecules strung end-to-end? That would make a lot more sense. I know that there is a unit type "dalton" that is 1/12 the size of a Carbon-12 atom, but that's rather ridiculous. While I would say "use Hydrogen", I'm thinking that would probably be WAY too small. :P
For anyone that speaks Japanese, you might want to listen to the song by Ayumi Hamasaki entitled "Endless Sorrow". Much more convincing, however, is the music video. Try to find it on a P2P network, or email me for it ... it's a really powerful piece about big brother and laws exactly like this.
Hmm, as long as they're stopping, how about adding support for x86? As much as I'd like to see AMD kick Intel's arse with their x86-64, I always worry that they are going to go out of business and then I'll never be able to buy new computers (though with TCPA and Palladium, I might not anyway) because I'll still need backward-compatibility. Imagine not being able to use ANY of your old programs from long-defunct companies -- games, especially. It's already hard enough to get developers to release source for their 10-year-old games.
Snood is primarily a cheap rip-off of the arcade game Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-a-Move in the USA). Mame does an excellent job of playing the ORIGINAL versions, and there are also plenty of less "hacked" alternative (by hacked, I mean that Snood has removed a lot of the original features of the game that made it really fun).
It's a fairly simple thing to remove region encoding on modern DVD-ROM "RPC2" drives. This site has firmware for practically every DVD-ROM drive available, patched to RPC1, which does not check for region encoding on the DVD. Couple this with a software DVD player such as InterVideo WinDVD and it's a simple matter to go into the registry and delete the key that tells the player how many times you can change the region encoding. You can even use this tool to do it automatically. I'm not positive about the legality of this, for IANAL, but I don't believe after recent rulings on DeCSS (which this does not bypass) that there is much of a risk of any kind of legal problem.
Similarily, as the UK is paying for 3G subscriptions as written in this article, perhaps, rather than taxing all business on the web, they focus instead on taxing just a certain sector, such as 'adult sites'. The libido of men doesn't move a whole lot alongside the economy, as far as I can tell (except possibly inversely, which is double-plus-good in this case), and I know that most adult sites make enormous profits. The rest of the internet economy could go on blistfully, while the adult sector earns slightly less money, while the government collects a lot from the tax. Of course, this could run into problems, as lots of stuff is hosted outside of the USA, but as far as I can tell that can only lead to a reduction in the amount of stuff that people are 'banned' from doing in the US.
Well, okay, it wasn't a great thought, but it was a thought, okay? The really sad thing is if they legalized kiddie pr0n and then took 50% of profits from that they'd probably make a TON of money. ~_~
If they didn't want linking, couldn't they just deny anything that had an HTTP_REFERER?
"YOUR DOMAINS ARE EXPIRING! RE-REGISTER THEM NOW WITH NETWORK SOLUTIONS! ONLY $35/YEAR! THAT'S LESS THAN $($) PER DAY! ...if you do not wish to receive these messages, please purchase SpamAssassin. Now available for only $250."
And then, of course, NSI is whitelisted in the SA database through some "mysterious corruption".
Any transation that cannot be completed over the phone is exempt from the do-not-call list. That means most of those annoying recorded messages that end up on your answering machine -- "Sorry I missed you, but let me tell you about a great deal on clothes at..."
Maxtor is shipping their DiamondMax Plus 9 with Serial ATA.
Step 1: Create .kids.us domain to protect the children.
Step 2: Create a "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace".
Step 3: Centralize the Internet.
Step 4: ? (InterNIC)
Step 5: Profit!
Huzzah! More open email relays in China to get spammed with! I can hardly wait!
Really? I thought it was now "the equivilant of X hard drives."
Really? I thought it was gratuitous sex scenes with Carrie-Anne Moss.
I know this is late in the lifecycle of this article, but I figured I'd post it anyway. Some sites actually PREVENT you from using them if you use a program to block pop-ups. This includes Mozilla and Opera's built-in functions. The script? AntiAdBlocker. (Not that it's very hard to get around, since the script is so dumb that you pass it the URL in the GET header, but it could dissuade Joe Sixpack from using Mozilla because they can't access sites.)
One of the things I *hate* about streaming video sites is that they categorize things qualitatively instead of quantitatively. "Modem 28.8k", "Modem 56.6k," "ISDN", "Cable Modem/DSL" (aka Broadband), and "T1 or higher" are NOT good ways of calculating connection speed. Give us NUMBERS.
This connection is for people capable of receiving 28.8Kbps. This connection is for people capable of receiving 56.6Kbps. This connection is for people capable of receiving 256Kbps. This connection is for people capable of receiving 512Kbps. This connection is for people capable of receiving 1Mbit. This connection is capable of receiving 2Mbps. This connection is capable of receiving 4Mbps, etc. You can get a 256Kbps DSL line, or you can get an 8Mbit DSL line. LOOOOTS of difference between the two, but still the same technology that would show up as "Cable Modem/DSL".
Eh, I dunno.. I still haven't seen any cracks for digital cable boxes. Been looking for a while, too. What can I say? I'd like to be able to watch stuff (don't laugh, but usually particularily smart commercials or the free music video on demand service) later in time, especially in the case of VOD, where they 'recycle' old stuff, and with decent quality. Sure, I can use my trusty ole ATI TV-WONDER to capture video, but those 525 lines of horizontal resolution don't compare to even the worst 720x480p digital signals.
Who cares about a van?
We need to find people driving white broncos!
The installer they use doesn't compress any of the files. Eventually the game should take up significantly less space (until they add the movies, that is). Additionally, since there are lots of tiny little files, the amount of space the game actually takes up on disk runs to about 185MB (194,224,128 bytes) in 13,555 files and 92 directories. They are planning on using a new installer and putting everything into a Quake-esque package file to reduce the number of sectors used (and thus make it much closer to the actual 145MB that it takes up). You aren't gonna get a lot of compression on the Ogg Vorbis files, but there are TONS of little 1KB text files that will compress quite nicely.