The cable company is dumping all the small towns in our area. That leaves only DSL, WiMAX, 3G or WildBlue internet for our customers. Dish Network is a good TV provider and DirecTV being 2nd because they don't have locals over the dish. The main reason the cable companies were surviving was the internet.
Hackers and Hackers 2. Hackers is a cult classic for all hackers, even the ones who don't know what a PBX is. Hackers 2 I consider more of a "documentary." Both are great. Also American Beauty was beautiful.
Get Download Accelerator (or an equivelent). It will pretend you are like 7 people and download in parallel one file. It can turn a 50kbps server into 200 easy with broadband.
I know quite a few of you are thinking, f*ck OSX, we'll use Linux and pirate all we want. Well, you're the kind of people who kill Linux. Anyway, if that bill comes to pass, no one will make drivers for Linux because it will be illegal. All digital TV technologies must be "tamper resistant." That means that they need to be engineered to frustrate end-users' attempts to modify them. Under this rule, open-source digital television components will be illegal, since open-source software (like Darwin, the system that underpins Mac OS X) is designed to be modified by end-users. So no perhiperals or graphics cards with DTV input can have Linux drives legally. And if their are no drivers, their is no Linux.
So now anyone running Linux is a potential "Rights-management" threat, which means if you're running Linux "they," e.g. RIAA, will be looking at you more closly and will be more apt to breaking into your house via S.W.A.T. and taking your computers and "political books."
I have three problems with this: (1) Why use Iris scanning? Your Iris is the colored part, easily changed by contacts. Your RETINA - which good old fasioned Sci-Fi always scans - would be much harder to fake. (2) You people who don't think this is a big deal. Well it is. When you make a new UserID at some site, lets say www.disney.com, you enter your name, your email, etc. Then you click over to www.pr0n.com and what? Your name and email change? Oh well, guess the advertisers can't track you. Well if you emptied your cookies they can't. Anyway, with retinal scans, they could have one ubiqitous ID system for everyone. Everywhere you go, your can be tracked by your unchangable retina. They would know about everything you use your credit card/retina card for. (3) But, if this were to actually happen, why has it not happened already? Fingerprints are almost as unchangeable, plus the technology is already there, the databases are there, it's cheap, and you can't get pink eye from the finger scanner (unless you like to stick your thumb in your eye). Just my 3,000,000 rubles.
See, the problem I have with Windows, other than the 30 minute up times, is all the crap they install. Did you know you can't "uninstall" Freecell, Minesweeper, IE? And there are so many processes that you can't end. That's my $.02, but there are billions left.
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The cable company is dumping all the small towns in our area. That leaves only DSL, WiMAX, 3G or WildBlue internet for our customers. Dish Network is a good TV provider and DirecTV being 2nd because they don't have locals over the dish. The main reason the cable companies were surviving was the internet.
Now we know where to send the planes! Just crash into the blurry spots
Yeah I guess this would fall under the FCC's jurisdiction or maybe they'll make an RFID Tag Coallition :bleg:
I think a REAL study would need to be done for either conclusion to be reached
Maybe they hope to make most of their profit off of the discs and not the player itself like w/ consoles and games?
Hackers and Hackers 2. Hackers is a cult classic for all hackers, even the ones who don't know what a PBX is. Hackers 2 I consider more of a "documentary." Both are great. Also American Beauty was beautiful.
i remember the hors of time my friends and I spent making, playing and trading Wolfenstein maps. that little level editor was the best
Get Download Accelerator (or an equivelent). It will pretend you are like 7 people and download in parallel one file. It can turn a 50kbps server into 200 easy with broadband.
yes, they are http://nw.com/nw/projects/aural/ interesting
Are they the same group who makes a soundscape with many little speakers that create different random sounds from nature?
I made a debian/mosix cluster with the leftovers from my attic.
Oh yeah! It looks like the eggs I ate for breakfast! I think we're being tricked.
Or you could put some thing on it like, oh, what's the word.... uh, they were invented by cavemen or something... AH!! WHEELS!!!
What if they made the media rewritable, so after it goes bad you can burn your own stuff on it?
For one thing, this has been posted already. If I remember correctly, I belive the problem was that they couldn't write to it at any reasonable speed.
Laptops are so hard to put the latest and greatest GeForce in tho.
I know quite a few of you are thinking, f*ck OSX, we'll use Linux and pirate all we want. Well, you're the kind of people who kill Linux. Anyway, if that bill comes to pass, no one will make drivers for Linux because it will be illegal. All digital TV technologies must be "tamper resistant." That means that they need to be engineered to frustrate end-users' attempts to modify them. Under this rule, open-source digital television components will be illegal, since open-source software (like Darwin, the system that underpins Mac OS X) is designed to be modified by end-users. So no perhiperals or graphics cards with DTV input can have Linux drives legally. And if their are no drivers, their is no Linux.
No, a Van de Graaf generator creates concentrated amounts of static electricity.
Use GOOD hard drives, not cheap Maxtor or Western Digital, THEY SUCK!
What about a study with people and TV? I think watching TV would probalbly yeild the same result as gaming, if not more so.
So now anyone running Linux is a potential "Rights-management" threat, which means if you're running Linux "they," e.g. RIAA, will be looking at you more closly and will be more apt to breaking into your house via S.W.A.T. and taking your computers and "political books."
yeah, my IBM keyboard is typing this in right now. great keyboards.
Why the hell are you using VB?
I have three problems with this: (1) Why use Iris scanning? Your Iris is the colored part, easily changed by contacts. Your RETINA - which good old fasioned Sci-Fi always scans - would be much harder to fake. (2) You people who don't think this is a big deal. Well it is. When you make a new UserID at some site, lets say www.disney.com, you enter your name, your email, etc. Then you click over to www.pr0n.com and what? Your name and email change? Oh well, guess the advertisers can't track you. Well if you emptied your cookies they can't. Anyway, with retinal scans, they could have one ubiqitous ID system for everyone. Everywhere you go, your can be tracked by your unchangable retina. They would know about everything you use your credit card/retina card for. (3) But, if this were to actually happen, why has it not happened already? Fingerprints are almost as unchangeable, plus the technology is already there, the databases are there, it's cheap, and you can't get pink eye from the finger scanner (unless you like to stick your thumb in your eye). Just my 3,000,000 rubles.
See, the problem I have with Windows, other than the 30 minute up times, is all the crap they install. Did you know you can't "uninstall" Freecell, Minesweeper, IE? And there are so many processes that you can't end. That's my $.02, but there are billions left.