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I don't think it was ment as a joke, more as a practicality. But recently people have just given up being sad about things like this, after I found out 30,000 people die every day from famine and curable disisese I don't even know what to care about anymore..
Thats an absolutely brilliant idea but with just one slight change.. we put the anti-nudists (in most of Europe thats pretty few) inside the tin can and black out all the windows, then let everyone else run wild...
I was imagining some sort of technical marvel like the Truman Show set with realistic looking sky, sun rays, jungle you could get lost in and most importantly an actual island with water all the way around (i think thats still the definition of an island?). Instead I see something that looks like a cross between a sports hall, a tacky cruise liner and some kind of theme park but without the rides. The whole thing looks very dark and dead, they atleast need retina-burning spotlights or something to hide the ugly structure? The jungle is just a load of trees with a linear zig-zag paved path! and I bet they won't let kids climb the trees for safety reasons, if I was 8 I would be pretty pissed off.
Don't forget the 2 hour drive to the airport through heavy traffic and the 5 hour security screening, and if its the US you're entering there will be another 3 hours at the end for finger-printing and the pledge of allegence.
Well it took me 3 days to get my adsl modem working under linux (tried debian and mandrake) at the end of it i had it just about working under mandrake but even then it was still crap and buggy! This has happened with several other bits of hardware. Aslong as you double check before you buy that it works well in Linux then you're ok, but if you don't its pure luck...
Porting code isnt that hard but often there are big differences to how you do something in one OS vs another and thats made worse if the original program hasn't taken that into consideration and is very much tied to doing things one way. another problem is that hardware support under Linux sucks total dogs balls and then eats the dogs shit and takes 3 days of hard work to then shit out that shit which then stinks of crap. Its not really the Linux community's fault, its just because no-one (manufactures) bothers to do decent Linux support and when they do, its still far lower priority than the Windows support so bugs take longer to get fixed.
Maybe thin clients will replace machines that are only used for basic net, email and word but its most likely they will be running Windows under a very profitable Microsoft licensing system, they're not going to let go of their monopoly that easily and I don't blame them. However anyone who does anything serious with their computers is going to need a good old PC - graphic design, video editing, business applications etc are going to stay local. Seriously, managing your PC isnt that hard, its probably easier than maintaining a car. I use win2k, I started by patching it up and installing a crapy sygate firewall, then I dumped IE and Outlook - all of that could have been done by Microsoft, the PC manufacturer or someone else. Now all I do is click OK to windows update - and even that could be defaulted to auto. Theres really nothing more to it - people can live with getting someone to come and look at their PC if something really major goes wrong, just like taking their car to the garage...
The people who should most fear bandwidth are TV networks.
Er theft should be punished through fines, physical violence, damage or breaking and entering should result in prison - lets not become Saudi Arabia just yet..
Besides, didn't the US remove the big terrorist powerhouse that was Iraq?
Actually terrorism came to Iraq after the US got there, but the best thing about the 'War on Terror' is that terrorists will always be around, just like pick-pockets and lying politicians, so we must always pump more money into security. Damn I need to get a job designing these bouys or something, gotta cash in! On the other hand, planes have transponders and any entering a country that don't, usually get a welcome from the air-force its just common sense that you track things around your borders.
$1000 is the flat fine for sticking something on your computer, which I think is fair enough. If you can show they damaged something (work etc) stole personal info or otherwise cost you more money then you can sue them, but just fining people millions for no actual reason other than you decided thats what they owe you is a bit much.
In some countries you can see when the next bus is comming on your phone. In London we have displays at bus stops that say when the next bus is but it would be so much better to have a map and the current locations of buses on it. In car navigation/traffic jam maps are pretty useless in the city because the jam is _everywhere_. But buses and taxis have priority lanes, I think a million more people would dump their cars and use the bus if they had live bus maps on their phones and bus stops, one of the worst things about taking buses is sitting there waiting for something you can't see because in your mind it takes 10 times longer to come, if there was a map you could atleast watch the dot move slowly towards you. Alas the fairs are going up again (that fucking lair told us he wouldn't) and its all going into a) the pockets of the pigs who now own the buses and b) another 50,000 stupid LCD screens to show crap that no-one wants to see.
I'd gladly pay a small tax (1 or 2%) on PCs and CD-Rs if that ment I now had a free pass to copy/download whatever I wanted without fear of being sued. Whats that? they want all our money still?
This would never be allowed - how can you have engaging plot lines involving the death of squad mates and dangerous missions behind enemy lines if theres no danger? I can see about one film and that would involve both sides running out of robots and then a final desparate battle between the actual people who had forgotten how to fight.
Im guessing that medical ethics will come into play and that allot of implants will be a no-no unless they are to repair damage. Having said that, plastic surgery is pretty common place now most people know someone whos had a nose or boob job but mostly thats done to make someone look more 'normal' - a nose shaped like a bullet or size 50 breasts just look stupid so its slightly different than gettin extra vision. Also allot of enhancements will be genetic and that already has a pretty strict medical ethic.
Would be interested to see the file but im pretty sure its not part of the mp3 spec, it could be that it was named ".mp3" but was actually ".wma" or could be something specific to winamp or windows media player...
Actually its probably more likely that the contractor company that does all this seeding just wanted to make a little on the side advertising revenue. Most non-savy P2P users have a geek friend that set them up with Kazaa lite or Shareaza and they will probably implement some sort of automatic filtering that removes the bad bit of the file. Also these seeding contractors are only (AFAIK) making bad music and movie files, legit things like hot collage lesbians and that funny police chase video (where the car gets hit by a truck) won't be stopped...
This is pretty old and not a 'binary-payload' issue with WMA files, more of a good old IE flaw. Windows media format has the ability to launch a web-page from a media file (i think it actually forces IE, not your default browser which is a violation of the anti-trust crap). Obviously this is just an instruction in the file and a patch could pretty easily turn it off, once the page is opened (in our favourite browser) the skys the limit. You could also disable this by filtering all windows media files through some program that took out the call, if anyone knows of the program or file format that would be cool?
Obviously no one with any know-how actually uses this format, but sometimes the file you want is in it, just be sure to play WMV/A files offline until you find a patch for Windows media player.
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I don't think it was ment as a joke, more as a practicality. But recently people have just given up being sad about things like this, after I found out 30,000 people die every day from famine and curable disisese I don't even know what to care about anymore..
Thats an absolutely brilliant idea but with just one slight change.. we put the anti-nudists (in most of Europe thats pretty few) inside the tin can and black out all the windows, then let everyone else run wild...
I was imagining some sort of technical marvel like the Truman Show set with realistic looking sky, sun rays, jungle you could get lost in and most importantly an actual island with water all the way around (i think thats still the definition of an island?). Instead I see something that looks like a cross between a sports hall, a tacky cruise liner and some kind of theme park but without the rides. The whole thing looks very dark and dead, they atleast need retina-burning spotlights or something to hide the ugly structure? The jungle is just a load of trees with a linear zig-zag paved path! and I bet they won't let kids climb the trees for safety reasons, if I was 8 I would be pretty pissed off.
Don't forget the 2 hour drive to the airport through heavy traffic and the 5 hour security screening, and if its the US you're entering there will be another 3 hours at the end for finger-printing and the pledge of allegence.
Shit, what cinema do you go to?
if this peelable paint concept is new, what did I spend hours peeling off pallets in art class when I got bored?
... Team leader Professor Wubbo Ockels (correct) was inspired by making and flying powerful high-flying kites as a boy. ...
Is that an editors comment accidently left in or are they saying this guy has a really funny name?
I say we just take the people who came up with this and chain them to an exercise bike for power, anyone with me?
Well it took me 3 days to get my adsl modem working under linux (tried debian and mandrake) at the end of it i had it just about working under mandrake but even then it was still crap and buggy! This has happened with several other bits of hardware. Aslong as you double check before you buy that it works well in Linux then you're ok, but if you don't its pure luck...
Porting code isnt that hard but often there are big differences to how you do something in one OS vs another and thats made worse if the original program hasn't taken that into consideration and is very much tied to doing things one way. another problem is that hardware support under Linux sucks total dogs balls and then eats the dogs shit and takes 3 days of hard work to then shit out that shit which then stinks of crap. Its not really the Linux community's fault, its just because no-one (manufactures) bothers to do decent Linux support and when they do, its still far lower priority than the Windows support so bugs take longer to get fixed.
Boy am I gonna get a beating for this..
Maybe thin clients will replace machines that are only used for basic net, email and word but its most likely they will be running Windows under a very profitable Microsoft licensing system, they're not going to let go of their monopoly that easily and I don't blame them. However anyone who does anything serious with their computers is going to need a good old PC - graphic design, video editing, business applications etc are going to stay local. Seriously, managing your PC isnt that hard, its probably easier than maintaining a car. I use win2k, I started by patching it up and installing a crapy sygate firewall, then I dumped IE and Outlook - all of that could have been done by Microsoft, the PC manufacturer or someone else. Now all I do is click OK to windows update - and even that could be defaulted to auto. Theres really nothing more to it - people can live with getting someone to come and look at their PC if something really major goes wrong, just like taking their car to the garage...
The people who should most fear bandwidth are TV networks.
In other news.. dselect still sucks..
Er theft should be punished through fines, physical violence, damage or breaking and entering should result in prison - lets not become Saudi Arabia just yet..
Its all these damn trouble making hackers and lock-pickers figuring out how to do it! Damn commies.
Besides, didn't the US remove the big terrorist powerhouse that was Iraq?
Actually terrorism came to Iraq after the US got there, but the best thing about the 'War on Terror' is that terrorists will always be around, just like pick-pockets and lying politicians, so we must always pump more money into security. Damn I need to get a job designing these bouys or something, gotta cash in! On the other hand, planes have transponders and any entering a country that don't, usually get a welcome from the air-force its just common sense that you track things around your borders.
Wait a sec, can't you just buy a monitor and take it back (usually before 30 days) anyway? If the shop asks just make something up!?
$1000 is the flat fine for sticking something on your computer, which I think is fair enough. If you can show they damaged something (work etc) stole personal info or otherwise cost you more money then you can sue them, but just fining people millions for no actual reason other than you decided thats what they owe you is a bit much.
In some countries you can see when the next bus is comming on your phone. In London we have displays at bus stops that say when the next bus is but it would be so much better to have a map and the current locations of buses on it. In car navigation/traffic jam maps are pretty useless in the city because the jam is _everywhere_. But buses and taxis have priority lanes, I think a million more people would dump their cars and use the bus if they had live bus maps on their phones and bus stops, one of the worst things about taking buses is sitting there waiting for something you can't see because in your mind it takes 10 times longer to come, if there was a map you could atleast watch the dot move slowly towards you. Alas the fairs are going up again (that fucking lair told us he wouldn't) and its all going into a) the pockets of the pigs who now own the buses and b) another 50,000 stupid LCD screens to show crap that no-one wants to see.
I'd gladly pay a small tax (1 or 2%) on PCs and CD-Rs if that ment I now had a free pass to copy/download whatever I wanted without fear of being sued. Whats that? they want all our money still?
This would never be allowed - how can you have engaging plot lines involving the death of squad mates and dangerous missions behind enemy lines if theres no danger? I can see about one film and that would involve both sides running out of robots and then a final desparate battle between the actual people who had forgotten how to fight.
Im guessing that medical ethics will come into play and that allot of implants will be a no-no unless they are to repair damage. Having said that, plastic surgery is pretty common place now most people know someone whos had a nose or boob job but mostly thats done to make someone look more 'normal' - a nose shaped like a bullet or size 50 breasts just look stupid so its slightly different than gettin extra vision. Also allot of enhancements will be genetic and that already has a pretty strict medical ethic.
Yeah but sometimes you see something like "Natalie Portman lesbian scene.WMV" and you cant help clicking.
Would be interested to see the file but im pretty sure its not part of the mp3 spec, it could be that it was named ".mp3" but was actually ".wma" or could be something specific to winamp or windows media player...
Actually its probably more likely that the contractor company that does all this seeding just wanted to make a little on the side advertising revenue. Most non-savy P2P users have a geek friend that set them up with Kazaa lite or Shareaza and they will probably implement some sort of automatic filtering that removes the bad bit of the file. Also these seeding contractors are only (AFAIK) making bad music and movie files, legit things like hot collage lesbians and that funny police chase video (where the car gets hit by a truck) won't be stopped...
This is pretty old and not a 'binary-payload' issue with WMA files, more of a good old IE flaw. Windows media format has the ability to launch a web-page from a media file (i think it actually forces IE, not your default browser which is a violation of the anti-trust crap). Obviously this is just an instruction in the file and a patch could pretty easily turn it off, once the page is opened (in our favourite browser) the skys the limit. You could also disable this by filtering all windows media files through some program that took out the call, if anyone knows of the program or file format that would be cool?
Obviously no one with any know-how actually uses this format, but sometimes the file you want is in it, just be sure to play WMV/A files offline until you find a patch for Windows media player.