Yeah, SpinRite looks like a really good program, but it doesn't work on NTFS-formatted drives. So much for that idea. Guess I'll just have to let my data fail the old-fashioned way.
HDTV *is* MPEG-2, fool. Honestly, though. I tried Hauppauge's WinTV-HD and it was a piece of shite. Crashed my computer constantly, didn't work with any digital cable (despite there being a picture of it on HBO Plus in their docs), BSOD'd on our local FOX stream, didn't have 16:9 aspect ratio for HDTV (everything was stuck in a 4:3 box), didn't allow you to do fullscreen (I mean, how trivial can a feature be?? JUST EXTEND THE OVERLAY WINDOW!) Hauppauge are a bunch of posers with overpriced cards. Until I see a card that can decode my digital cable, I'm sticking with my TV-WONDER PCI.
It's non-violent. However annoying Votester may be it is not comparable to violent demonstrations in which property is damaged and/or humans are injured. Votester demonstrations are peaceful, they are simply email and HTTP campaigns. All that is exchanged is information.
Yeah, sure, it's non-violent until a sysadmin figures out what is happening. At that point, whoo boy...
Maybe now would be a good time to build that bomb shelter I was thinking about...
Here are a few simple guidelines to figure out whether it's bulk mail or not, and what to do with it:
1. Is it a Viagra ad? If it's a Viagra ad, you might want to keep it (you're getting old...), but it's not in your jurisdiction. 2. Is it an add to smuggle several million dollars out of some estranged third-world country, and all they need is your bank number? If it is, you might want to keep it (you know, "soft" money...), but it's not in your jurisdiction. 3. Is it an ad for special non-accredited diplomas? If it is an ad for diplomas, you might want to forward it to Bush twenty-or-so times in the hopes that it will somehow make him intelligent. 4. Is it a porn ad? If it is, remember that it's not spam if you request it.
Biddle and a TCPA spokesman deny the assertions, saying that no monitoring, reporting or censoring capabilities are designed into the systems, and people will be able to choose whether they want to use the security features, or not.
Talk about bullshit. DRM is useless if the user can turn it off.
I speculated about this a bit, and realised that it's probably the same kind of thing that the MPAA is trying to do to consumer home entertainment systems. From what I know, it means that if you choose NOT to use DRM features, you either lose the really high-quality (high-quality as in resolution, not high-quality as in content) stuff, or you are denied from viewing certain things.
VOGONS (pun intended), Very Old Games On New Systems, is a forum designed to help you get old games (DOS/3.1/some 95/98) running on new systems (usually NT/2K/XP, but occasionally users running WINE*, 95, and 98 have problems as well). Shameless plug, but hey, I'm still waiting for The Dig 2.
* WINE users are known to have.005% more problems than those using a real copy of any of the 9x series.
Somewhat similar to this problem is a petition to repeal CARP. It has a space for you to show how many CDs you've purchased by listening to internet radio.
How about using this amplified light and focusing it on, say, a solar panel? It seems to me that the reason there are great spanning arrays of solar panels is because they don't receive enough light (due to their design, not due to the lack of sunlight). If something like this was used to amplify the amount of light that went into a solar panel, what would stop solar power from becoming a widespread reality?
Everything is achieved through over-exaggerating points. It's the same way the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA all overexaggerated the effects of piracy to get what they wanted [the DMCA], and now it's our (the Consumer's) turn to over-exaggerate the facts to get this thing repealed.
Looking at things with a level head only tends to make it harder to get anything done.
SAMPO makes some nice, easily hackable (eg. just plop in an ISO-9960 CD with a text file on it and you've got no region encoding) machines that have some great features -- Progressive scan, optical audio out, component video out, even some Karaoke models with frontside microphone jacks. There's lots of information, and under-the-hood looks, at most of their models here.
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Yeah, SpinRite looks like a really good program, but it doesn't work on NTFS-formatted drives. So much for that idea. Guess I'll just have to let my data fail the old-fashioned way.
HDTV *is* MPEG-2, fool.
Honestly, though. I tried Hauppauge's WinTV-HD and it was a piece of shite. Crashed my computer constantly, didn't work with any digital cable (despite there being a picture of it on HBO Plus in their docs), BSOD'd on our local FOX stream, didn't have 16:9 aspect ratio for HDTV (everything was stuck in a 4:3 box), didn't allow you to do fullscreen (I mean, how trivial can a feature be?? JUST EXTEND THE OVERLAY WINDOW!) Hauppauge are a bunch of posers with overpriced cards. Until I see a card that can decode my digital cable, I'm sticking with my TV-WONDER PCI.
Maybe now would be a good time to build that bomb shelter I was thinking about...
I hope that's not the same vector engine that they use in the PS2, because if it is, hoo boy...
Here are a few simple guidelines to figure out whether it's bulk mail or not, and what to do with it:
1. Is it a Viagra ad? If it's a Viagra ad, you might want to keep it (you're getting old...), but it's not in your jurisdiction.
2. Is it an add to smuggle several million dollars out of some estranged third-world country, and all they need is your bank number? If it is, you might want to keep it (you know, "soft" money...), but it's not in your jurisdiction.
3. Is it an ad for special non-accredited diplomas? If it is an ad for diplomas, you might want to forward it to Bush twenty-or-so times in the hopes that it will somehow make him intelligent.
4. Is it a porn ad? If it is, remember that it's not spam if you request it.
Robotica is its name. It's not quite the same -- it's more than just robots bashing each-other -- it has an obstacle course and other neat things.
I speculated about this a bit, and realised that it's probably the same kind of thing that the MPAA is trying to do to consumer home entertainment systems. From what I know, it means that if you choose NOT to use DRM features, you either lose the really high-quality (high-quality as in resolution, not high-quality as in content) stuff, or you are denied from viewing certain things.
How much crap do you get from the RIAA? With your decidedly pro-filesharing views, it would seem to me that it would be a rather large amount.
They could mark a story as an advertisement. Not that this story ISN'T completely blatant, but some of the others aren't (quite as much).
it's *really* time to outlaw the felt-tip markers.
VOGONS (pun intended), Very Old Games On New Systems, is a forum designed to help you get old games (DOS/3.1/some 95/98) running on new systems (usually NT/2K/XP, but occasionally users running WINE*, 95, and 98 have problems as well). Shameless plug, but hey, I'm still waiting for The Dig 2.
.005% more problems than those using a real copy of any of the 9x series.
* WINE users are known to have
Somewhat similar to this problem is a petition to repeal CARP. It has a space for you to show how many CDs you've purchased by listening to internet radio.
Not exactly the same, but close enough, eh?
Environmentally conscious amount of harmful chemicals? That's a very big conflict of interest.
web.archive.org is an archive of sites on the web going back to about 1996.
How about using this amplified light and focusing it on, say, a solar panel? It seems to me that the reason there are great spanning arrays of solar panels is because they don't receive enough light (due to their design, not due to the lack of sunlight). If something like this was used to amplify the amount of light that went into a solar panel, what would stop solar power from becoming a widespread reality?
The politicians probably need the Viagra more than the people they're trying to market it to, so I don't see much of a problem here.
generic repackaged Dell! B..but it's still a Dell!
Why not? Because how much easier is it to remember "slashdot.org" than it is to remember "3ffe:ffff:0100:f101:0210:a4ff:fee3:9566"
Everything is achieved through over-exaggerating points. It's the same way the MPAA, RIAA, and BSA all overexaggerated the effects of piracy to get what they wanted [the DMCA], and now it's our (the Consumer's) turn to over-exaggerate the facts to get this thing repealed.
Looking at things with a level head only tends to make it harder to get anything done.
SAMPO makes some nice, easily hackable (eg. just plop in an ISO-9960 CD with a text file on it and you've got no region encoding) machines that have some great features -- Progressive scan, optical audio out, component video out, even some Karaoke models with frontside microphone jacks. There's lots of information, and under-the-hood looks, at most of their models here.
Hercules still exists. In fact, I bought my GF3Ti500 from them. Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?