It's good to know you're taking a sane view of the matter, but over the years I've learned that if someone has an agenda against something and they can find a religious hook they'll use it. I'm sure you find Flat Earther, Creationists, and the like rediculous too, but obviously not everybody does.
The point is that you're comparing apples to oranges. I'm amazed at how well your $80 DVD burner apparently writes and reads VHS tapes. The TV is a good example though, since we can see a virtually unchanged technology drop in price over the years.
The 2600 is really nothing at all like a PS3, except that they're both in the same market category.
I'm not making my mind up until I see which system has the best games. If all of the developers flock to the PS3 for some reason, then I'm buying a PS3.
Right now I'm leaning towards the Wii based on the prerelase games demoed at E3 and elsewhere, but come launch day (or more likely 6 months after) who knows?
Eh, I'd also point out that consoles have been improving with time. You could build a 2600 for peanuts these days, and trying to build something like a PS3 in 1978 would have been astronomically expensive. Also, a 26" CRT TV you bought in 1988 would be pretty similar to a 26" CRT TV you might buy today, the technology hasn't changed too much.
And I wonder why. What makes an e-mail more credible than snail mail? If they got a mail from their "bank", telling them to send their CC number or other details, they would NEVER do that. Online? No problem.
Are you sure? Granted, I've never seen anyone try this, but I suspect it would work better than you think. Probably not as a mailback though, that would require too much effort, but if it had some "hotline" number to call I bet you could get a ton of CC numbers, especially if the letter is worded in some particularly scary way like "Your credit card numbers may have been stolen, we need you to call our hotline and verify that your number is still safe, it will only take a minute and can save you thousands of dollars worth of fraudulant activity".
Even better, some poor gullible sap could call them and discover that their card has been "stolen" and that they'll need a new one. Happily the person on the other end will be more than willing to do that if you just provide your bank account numbers, SSN, mothers maiden name, etc... Then just wait 4-6 weeks for the new card to be issued to you in the mail and make sure you cut up the old one and throw it out.
The only major danger is that some people will be wise to what you're doing and your phone number won't last very long. Of course that's true of most email pishing scams too (their email accounts/web sites are shut down all of the time).
Addendum: Most internet routers don't have multicast enabled.
Multicast is one of those technologies that sounds like a great idea on paper, but in practice there are limitations that prevent it from being used. It is usable within a single organization, but most organizations have more than enough bandwidth to unicast their local traffic. So it only works where you don't need it and doesn't work where you really need it.
The point was to have them on the roof of your house and have a little storage/filling station inside your garage. 10 square meters is not to much to ask of your average suburban roof.
As for efficency, they're supposely less efficent than the highest grade solar cells we have today, but way cheaper and environmentally friendly to manufacture.
The way the proposal was structured there should have been no problem trying to figure out what was pornography. The whole domain was supposed to be self selecting so only people who thought they were making porn would take the domain. Much like.net and.org, there would be no process for disputing a domain name over misclassification.
I think if they had proposed that all porn sites must leave their current domains and get a.xxx instead, then it would have been a massively unwise proposal, but that's not what was suggested.
From what I can tell, the arguments against it fell into two camps:
1. Porn websites that didn't want to buy another domain when the one they already have seems to work perfectly well (but they'd _have_ to buy the.xxx to avoid having squatters get it)
2. Conservative groups that don't want their (apparently very sheltered) kids to find out that there might be pictures of naked people online.
There was an article in last month's Scientific American about one group of researchers that's using nanotechnology to create cost efficent solar cells that can crack water. The article suggested a practical capacity of somewhere around the equivelent of two and a half gallons of gas a day. That'd be enough for most commuters with enough left over to store up for weekend trips. Reading that article was the first time ever I've been excited about Hydrogen power.
The PS3 is going to have a first generation Blu-Ray player in it though, much like the PS2 had an early model DVD player I suspect there will be problems with it.
You know, I replayed VI awhile back and the story certainly didn't wow me like it did you. It seemed pretty average to me. Maybe I'm just jaded now. The only one that really stuck out to me was Chrono Trigger, but that was mostly because I really liked the characters.
Or people drank the two and came to the same conclusion that I did: Most microbrews are badly overhyped and many of the patrons get this sort of "audiophile" effect where whatever is the most expensive also happens to taste the best.
The beers are certainly different, but the small brews aren't three times better than the mass market stuff, despite having three times the price. They're usually marginally better, and sometimes quite horrible. Worse are the people who use their taste in beer like some kind of social status, like they're better than the plebians because they pay two or three times as much for their beer.
However, like most subjective ratings, it's pointless to argue because in the end it all comes down to personal preference anyway.
Sadly all of those great features are what eventually killed them in the marketplace. Half of the stuff that made it great is either lawsuit bait or something that insures that no cable/satellite company will even give you time of day.
ReplayTV made a name for itself by not caving into content producer demands (30 second skip on by default for example). As a result, they're a pariah in the industry. That's why you'll never see them bundled with your cable company box.
For me, the attraction of Vi (and Vim) is readily apparently when switching over to something like Visual Studio and thinking "I need to run a regular expression over this file" or "I need to move this block of text (not the whole line, just a block of it) over somewhere" or "It'd be really handy to have a quick way to select this entire block without having to reach for the mouse".
Vi is arcane, but it's insanely powerful. Once you get used to what you can do in Vi, other editors will just feel like toys. You'll also hate that pause you get while your hand reaches for the mouse yet again.
More importantly, some of those brilliant engineers who left the company ended up starting one of the companies that really put the nail in the coffin of SGI: nVidia.
SGI was a great company, but the management really went off into crazytown around the mid 90s or so. When your management is bad, the good people start to leave, and pretty soon you're left with just a shell of a company. Then it was one bad decision after another, buying Crey, hiring a CEO (for way too much money) with a proven track record of trying to turn companies into Windows PC companies, falling behind the technology curve as PC graphics cards get better at an amazing rate, and so on.
I was waiting for the day when SGI released a big box with a super-fast backplane (which is the one area where they still beat PCs) and graphics consisting of a ton of slightly up-rated PC graphics chips in a huge array.
Usually that's the case because X crashed. Technically, X is a userland application, so it's no surprise that you can still ping the box when it's crashed. In practice, X tends to mess around with kernelspace memory a bit and sometimes it's better to just reboot anyway when it goes down. This is especially true when it whacks your consoles so bad that they're basically unusuable.
Eh, lots of games have female antagonists. Even in Return to Castle Wolfensten there were those leather wearing female SS troops that were probably the hardest enemy to deal with in the game. Lots of times they're even scantily clad.
Of course if their butt or a nipple were showing, then it'd be mass outrage from the very vocal minorty who always complain about this stuff.
That's one thing that's always bothered me. Why does making something's blood red automatically raise the rating? Is fake green "blood" splatter less disturbing than fake red "blood" splatter? It's gets even sillier when game makers do a pallate swap on the "blood" to get a lower rating. How is that any less violent?
They're far from unheard of though. Most people don't bother because they have a regular kettle and a stove already. It's not like there's time competition on a stove.
Also, in the US if you're just heating up a cup of water, most people will use the Microwave instead. It's not like you really need a special piece of equipment to heat up water.
Why is this so hard when basically the same thing (sudo) in Unix works so well?
It's apparently really hard to figure out what a mailicious action is in Windows, so the options are: never prompt (no security) or always prompt (no securty because nobody will read the prompts after a few days).
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It's good to know you're taking a sane view of the matter, but over the years I've learned that if someone has an agenda against something and they can find a religious hook they'll use it. I'm sure you find Flat Earther, Creationists, and the like rediculous too, but obviously not everybody does.
The point is that you're comparing apples to oranges. I'm amazed at how well your $80 DVD burner apparently writes and reads VHS tapes. The TV is a good example though, since we can see a virtually unchanged technology drop in price over the years.
The 2600 is really nothing at all like a PS3, except that they're both in the same market category.
I'm not making my mind up until I see which system has the best games. If all of the developers flock to the PS3 for some reason, then I'm buying a PS3.
Right now I'm leaning towards the Wii based on the prerelase games demoed at E3 and elsewhere, but come launch day (or more likely 6 months after) who knows?
Eh, I'd also point out that consoles have been improving with time. You could build a 2600 for peanuts these days, and trying to build something like a PS3 in 1978 would have been astronomically expensive. Also, a 26" CRT TV you bought in 1988 would be pretty similar to a 26" CRT TV you might buy today, the technology hasn't changed too much.
Shame it has crappier graphics than even last generation consoles. Seriously, the 6150 is a bit of a stinker.
Even better, some poor gullible sap could call them and discover that their card has been "stolen" and that they'll need a new one. Happily the person on the other end will be more than willing to do that if you just provide your bank account numbers, SSN, mothers maiden name, etc... Then just wait 4-6 weeks for the new card to be issued to you in the mail and make sure you cut up the old one and throw it out.
The only major danger is that some people will be wise to what you're doing and your phone number won't last very long. Of course that's true of most email pishing scams too (their email accounts/web sites are shut down all of the time).
Addendum: Most internet routers don't have multicast enabled.
Multicast is one of those technologies that sounds like a great idea on paper, but in practice there are limitations that prevent it from being used. It is usable within a single organization, but most organizations have more than enough bandwidth to unicast their local traffic. So it only works where you don't need it and doesn't work where you really need it.
The point was to have them on the roof of your house and have a little storage/filling station inside your garage. 10 square meters is not to much to ask of your average suburban roof.
As for efficency, they're supposely less efficent than the highest grade solar cells we have today, but way cheaper and environmentally friendly to manufacture.
The way the proposal was structured there should have been no problem trying to figure out what was pornography. The whole domain was supposed to be self selecting so only people who thought they were making porn would take the domain. Much like .net and .org, there would be no process for disputing a domain name over misclassification.
.xxx instead, then it would have been a massively unwise proposal, but that's not what was suggested.
.xxx to avoid having squatters get it)
I think if they had proposed that all porn sites must leave their current domains and get a
From what I can tell, the arguments against it fell into two camps:
1. Porn websites that didn't want to buy another domain when the one they already have seems to work perfectly well (but they'd _have_ to buy the
2. Conservative groups that don't want their (apparently very sheltered) kids to find out that there might be pictures of naked people online.
There was an article in last month's Scientific American about one group of researchers that's using nanotechnology to create cost efficent solar cells that can crack water. The article suggested a practical capacity of somewhere around the equivelent of two and a half gallons of gas a day. That'd be enough for most commuters with enough left over to store up for weekend trips. Reading that article was the first time ever I've been excited about Hydrogen power.
The PS3 is going to have a first generation Blu-Ray player in it though, much like the PS2 had an early model DVD player I suspect there will be problems with it.
You know, I replayed VI awhile back and the story certainly didn't wow me like it did you. It seemed pretty average to me. Maybe I'm just jaded now. The only one that really stuck out to me was Chrono Trigger, but that was mostly because I really liked the characters.
Or people drank the two and came to the same conclusion that I did: Most microbrews are badly overhyped and many of the patrons get this sort of "audiophile" effect where whatever is the most expensive also happens to taste the best.
The beers are certainly different, but the small brews aren't three times better than the mass market stuff, despite having three times the price. They're usually marginally better, and sometimes quite horrible. Worse are the people who use their taste in beer like some kind of social status, like they're better than the plebians because they pay two or three times as much for their beer.
However, like most subjective ratings, it's pointless to argue because in the end it all comes down to personal preference anyway.
Sadly all of those great features are what eventually killed them in the marketplace. Half of the stuff that made it great is either lawsuit bait or something that insures that no cable/satellite company will even give you time of day.
ReplayTV made a name for itself by not caving into content producer demands (30 second skip on by default for example). As a result, they're a pariah in the industry. That's why you'll never see them bundled with your cable company box.
For me, the attraction of Vi (and Vim) is readily apparently when switching over to something like Visual Studio and thinking "I need to run a regular expression over this file" or "I need to move this block of text (not the whole line, just a block of it) over somewhere" or "It'd be really handy to have a quick way to select this entire block without having to reach for the mouse".
Vi is arcane, but it's insanely powerful. Once you get used to what you can do in Vi, other editors will just feel like toys. You'll also hate that pause you get while your hand reaches for the mouse yet again.
More importantly, some of those brilliant engineers who left the company ended up starting one of the companies that really put the nail in the coffin of SGI: nVidia.
SGI was a great company, but the management really went off into crazytown around the mid 90s or so. When your management is bad, the good people start to leave, and pretty soon you're left with just a shell of a company. Then it was one bad decision after another, buying Crey, hiring a CEO (for way too much money) with a proven track record of trying to turn companies into Windows PC companies, falling behind the technology curve as PC graphics cards get better at an amazing rate, and so on.
I was waiting for the day when SGI released a big box with a super-fast backplane (which is the one area where they still beat PCs) and graphics consisting of a ton of slightly up-rated PC graphics chips in a huge array.
Usually that's the case because X crashed. Technically, X is a userland application, so it's no surprise that you can still ping the box when it's crashed. In practice, X tends to mess around with kernelspace memory a bit and sometimes it's better to just reboot anyway when it goes down. This is especially true when it whacks your consoles so bad that they're basically unusuable.
Eh, lots of games have female antagonists. Even in Return to Castle Wolfensten there were those leather wearing female SS troops that were probably the hardest enemy to deal with in the game. Lots of times they're even scantily clad.
Of course if their butt or a nipple were showing, then it'd be mass outrage from the very vocal minorty who always complain about this stuff.
That's one thing that's always bothered me. Why does making something's blood red automatically raise the rating? Is fake green "blood" splatter less disturbing than fake red "blood" splatter? It's gets even sillier when game makers do a pallate swap on the "blood" to get a lower rating. How is that any less violent?
They're far from unheard of though. Most people don't bother because they have a regular kettle and a stove already. It's not like there's time competition on a stove.
Also, in the US if you're just heating up a cup of water, most people will use the Microwave instead. It's not like you really need a special piece of equipment to heat up water.
Why in the world would Matsushita Electric sell their patent to Exxon-Mobile? That doesn't make any sense.
Isn't that just an electic kettle at that point? What's the big hoopla about a "self heating can"?
Or as the FAQ said for the original game: No, they were not able to get Jimi Hendrix to come and perform his Guitar solo.
Why is this so hard when basically the same thing (sudo) in Unix works so well?
It's apparently really hard to figure out what a mailicious action is in Windows, so the options are: never prompt (no security) or always prompt (no securty because nobody will read the prompts after a few days).