It protects users from lawsuits that the media companies will be filling against everybody who didn't upgrade to the "protected" player and who must therefor be a dirty pirate.
Those $100 lasers are just the green ones. They're about 25x stronger than your average 650nm laser, but otherwise nothing special. They're expensive because they're a little harder to manufacture and sold at much lower volumes. In a few years they'll be $10 or less (assuming they're not banned).
In addition, you'll never pick up the ladies if you stick to nothing but the CS/Math courses. All of the women taking those course are already married or insane.
I'll give you a hint, it came from a time before refrigeration but after the invention of fishing boats capable of multple day cruises.
A _lot_ of our dishes are actually designed to circumvent a problem we don't have much of any more: Meat/Vegetables spoiling before you're ready to eat it. Some of the options (Mayonaise for instance) are in the "cover it up" category, while Lutefisk is in the "preserve by any means possible" category. It turns out that if you drop the fish you catch into a bucket of lye, it won't rot (because the lye kills everything living on the fish). Of course lye is poisonous, so you have to soak the fish thouroughly before you eat it. Unfortunatly it completely destroys the texture and flavor of the meat as well, but that's a small price to pay for not eating always-spoiled meat (supposedly).
You would probably get even better gas milage on the highways actually. The problem would be that your car would accelerate terribly and have trouble getting up to highway speeds. The advantage of the Hybrids isn't so much that it makes compact gas-sippers more efficent (it doesn't do a particularly good job of that), but rather it makes them perform like regular cars so regular people will be interested in them. People don't like taking a minute to get to highway speeds, which is one of the big reasons Diesals had such a bad rap early on (have you ever driven one of those Diesal Rabbits? It's no fun.).
One of the tricky things people don't always understand is that you can't create something from nothing. We can't flood the world by running fuel cells because we have to create the H2 before we can burn it in a fuel cell. One way to create H2 is to electrolize water! Other methods (usually using Hydrocarbons) may increase the amount of water not locked-up in the Earth's crust over the short run (much the same way we are currently releasing enormous amount of Carbon that was previously locked up in Old/Coal/Natural Gas/etc... deposits.
That said the amount of water we are talking about is unlikely to have any significant impact on the environment, although the effects are hard to predict.
Lawn Darts were the first game where I wore a helmet even though the directions didn't mention helmets at all. The reccomended underhanded throwing style combined with the design of the dart itself ment that (at least with kids) it was quite easy to throw one straight up in the air and have it land at some random place around you.
I'm pretty sure that lump is there on purpose to make sure people don't stack stuff on top of this guy. It probably vents from the top and can't handle having stuff stacked on it.
<Stormrider> I should bomb something
<Stormrider>...and it's off the cuff remarks like that that are the reason I don't log chats
<Stormrider> Just in case the FBI ever needs anything on me
<Elzie_Ann> I'm sure they can just get it from someone who DOES log chats.
*** FBI has joined #gamecubecafe
<FBI> We saw it anyway.
*** FBI has quit IRC (Quit: )
IMHO, I think the reason we don't teach skepticism and higher reasoning is that it is in fact very hard to just teach those concepts to children. You can help them along and try to push them in that direction, but it is a harder skill to pick up than most people realize. Even worse, the children are getting conflicting messages on this "Just Believe" or "I want to belive" that make it hard to get through.
The other reason is that skepticism is not tested by any standardized test. Teaching kids to be good critical thinkers with strong fundimentals won't help you when they do poorly on the states standarized test because you didn't have time to cram in all of the rote memorization required to pass those tests, especially considering how half of your students will already be below average (heh) from the start.
The difference is that the O2 was closer to a giant graphics card than a traditional PC aarchitecturally. That little blue cube could push bits around like nobodys business. PCs in the past (and probably in the future) have always sucked at moving bulk data around in comparision. That's why PC video cards have been forced to stick the memory on the card itself, because the rest of the system was too slow to keep up.
PCI-Express is supposed to change that, but that's the same thing they said about AGP, and you see what kind of reputation the AGP cards that use system memory have.
Fair Use? What's that? Sue them all and let the lawyers figure it out! Sportsdot looks like it is pretty safely under the (ever shrinking) banner of Fair Use to me. I know there are a lot of forces at work trying to nullify Fair Use, but this is so basic that I have trouble seeing it go away any time soon.
My experiance with these built-in batteries is that right out of the box they have great life, but six months to a year down the road you're looking at half of the runtime (or less!). Worse, integrated batteries are often difficult/expensive to replace and can be hard to find once a gadget goes out of production. This is why I usually look for stuff that takes AA batteries, because I can always just use NiMH rechargables in it and fall back on Alkalines if I have to.
Oh, wait, you didn't get the support contract. I misread your post. You'll only be able to upgrade to 6.5.22 at the current time (this is not a big deal).
Why not just download them from http://support.sgi.com? Supportfolio accounts are free and provide access to OS updates. The latest version is...(checks account)...6.5.26. Since you already have the 6.5 CDs you can just install 6.5.0 and then using inst or swmgr to upgrade to 6.5.26. The harest problem I've run into is running out of drive space during the upgrade (SGI likes to stick tiny OS disks on their machines--especially those old ones).
inst (and its X frontend swmgr) are among the best software installation managers I've ever used. swmgr is pretty intuitive. It's certainly a whole lot easier to use than RPM (try asking an rpm newbie how to find what package installed what file, or where a package is going to put its files for instance).
I think the idea is that the same people who pirate media professionally on large scales like this are also the sort of people who are engaged in all sorts of other shady dealings. IE, it's all the same organized crime outfit. There's no cause-effect relationship per say, but they are releated.
Also, maybe a human slavery ring got its starting funds (you need money to get started after all) by selling bootlegs? Of course the bootleg business needed starting funds too, maybe that was good old extortion? You can speculate forever on these sort of tangents though without getting anywhere.
"They were burning games onto the hard drive and equipping the hard drive with copying software so that the average consumer could just go ahead and copy the software themselves," she said.
To me, this suggests that the users were actually buying the games (the actual discs/cases/manuals) along with the hardware, and the store employees were burning the games on to the HDD as a convienence (for $500 they'd better do _something_ like that). I would also bet that the bootloader they installed allows you to copy games off of a DVD (and possibly over the network!). That's probably why they were arrested. This is probably illegal under the DMCA, but even if it isn't, there's enough "kinda sorta looks illegal" stuff there to get the police to make an arrest and hand off the matter to the lawyers.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if the Cops that did the arrest even understand half of the issues at hand here. They're just doing their job, and Microsoft has come down and told them that people are doing something illegal and that they need to be stopped. In a few years they'll probably settle out of court for an undiscloased sum and admit to no wrongdoing on either side.
Maybe part of the cost was that they were actually giving the users the original DVDs and cases for the games, and the pre-loading was just a convienence thing? I know stores don't pay the full $50 for the games. Maybe they thought they were being legit because the customers were in fact buying all of the games and hardware they installed?
This is all speculation though, the article was written by someone who doesn't know anything beyond what the police told him, and the cops don't always have their facts straight before the brief the press.
On the other hand, I live near DC and Pandora's Cube has always had a rather seedy reputation. They used to (and probably still do) sell fansubs for instance--not of stuff that's licensed in the US, but fansubbers explicitly state that their work is not for sale. They are also notorious for carrying HK knockoff CDs and DVDs. I've never actually been in the store though, so take this paragraph with a grain of salt.
Frankly, most government positions seem to only care that you have a security clearance and are breathing. At least that appears to be how they hired a lot of the contracters I work with. I think they figure it is easier to hire an unskilled person with a clearance and train them up to do their job than it is to hire a skilled person and get them cleared. Clearances take 12-18 months now (although you can get interim secret a lot faster, if that is good enough) and there is no guarentee that you will be cleared. It also costs $50,000+ to the company/agency clearing you.
I was under the impression that the camera was mounted on a fixed surface and configured to snap pictures periodically to watch cloud formations or something. A low shutter speed wouldn't be a problem because clouds aren't going to move very far in 1/30 of a second.
For $2900 I think they would be able to afford to put a gigabit port on there. Gig-E cards aren't all that expensive anymore (at least for the copper ones).
IANAL, but unless the contract had an explicit clause nullifing it in this instance, the scumbag on the other end still holds a valid license. The obvious thing to do is to summon him to court to have the contract nullified (for breach of contract), but that costs time and money. I don't know if they'd have to hunt that guy down and provide an address to do that either.
No other publisher is going to touch the material with that sort of legal baggage attached to it. That guy could come back into the country and sue the new publishers for copyright infringement, and since his contract would still be valid he could stand a chance of winning (even if the contract is nullified before his case gets to court). Copyright law (as it is interpreted today) is very liberal in who you can sue. Don't underestimate the greed or audacity of a scumbag.
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It protects users from lawsuits that the media companies will be filling against everybody who didn't upgrade to the "protected" player and who must therefor be a dirty pirate.
Those $100 lasers are just the green ones. They're about 25x stronger than your average 650nm laser, but otherwise nothing special. They're expensive because they're a little harder to manufacture and sold at much lower volumes. In a few years they'll be $10 or less (assuming they're not banned).
In addition, you'll never pick up the ladies if you stick to nothing but the CS/Math courses. All of the women taking those course are already married or insane.
I'll give you a hint, it came from a time before refrigeration but after the invention of fishing boats capable of multple day cruises.
A _lot_ of our dishes are actually designed to circumvent a problem we don't have much of any more: Meat/Vegetables spoiling before you're ready to eat it. Some of the options (Mayonaise for instance) are in the "cover it up" category, while Lutefisk is in the "preserve by any means possible" category. It turns out that if you drop the fish you catch into a bucket of lye, it won't rot (because the lye kills everything living on the fish). Of course lye is poisonous, so you have to soak the fish thouroughly before you eat it. Unfortunatly it completely destroys the texture and flavor of the meat as well, but that's a small price to pay for not eating always-spoiled meat (supposedly).
You would probably get even better gas milage on the highways actually. The problem would be that your car would accelerate terribly and have trouble getting up to highway speeds. The advantage of the Hybrids isn't so much that it makes compact gas-sippers more efficent (it doesn't do a particularly good job of that), but rather it makes them perform like regular cars so regular people will be interested in them. People don't like taking a minute to get to highway speeds, which is one of the big reasons Diesals had such a bad rap early on (have you ever driven one of those Diesal Rabbits? It's no fun.).
One of the tricky things people don't always understand is that you can't create something from nothing. We can't flood the world by running fuel cells because we have to create the H2 before we can burn it in a fuel cell. One way to create H2 is to electrolize water! Other methods (usually using Hydrocarbons) may increase the amount of water not locked-up in the Earth's crust over the short run (much the same way we are currently releasing enormous amount of Carbon that was previously locked up in Old/Coal/Natural Gas/etc... deposits.
That said the amount of water we are talking about is unlikely to have any significant impact on the environment, although the effects are hard to predict.
Lawn Darts were the first game where I wore a helmet even though the directions didn't mention helmets at all. The reccomended underhanded throwing style combined with the design of the dart itself ment that (at least with kids) it was quite easy to throw one straight up in the air and have it land at some random place around you.
I'm pretty sure that lump is there on purpose to make sure people don't stack stuff on top of this guy. It probably vents from the top and can't handle having stuff stacked on it.
That lump is butt ugly though.
IMHO, I think the reason we don't teach skepticism and higher reasoning is that it is in fact very hard to just teach those concepts to children. You can help them along and try to push them in that direction, but it is a harder skill to pick up than most people realize. Even worse, the children are getting conflicting messages on this "Just Believe" or "I want to belive" that make it hard to get through.
The other reason is that skepticism is not tested by any standardized test. Teaching kids to be good critical thinkers with strong fundimentals won't help you when they do poorly on the states standarized test because you didn't have time to cram in all of the rote memorization required to pass those tests, especially considering how half of your students will already be below average (heh) from the start.
The difference is that the O2 was closer to a giant graphics card than a traditional PC aarchitecturally. That little blue cube could push bits around like nobodys business. PCs in the past (and probably in the future) have always sucked at moving bulk data around in comparision. That's why PC video cards have been forced to stick the memory on the card itself, because the rest of the system was too slow to keep up.
PCI-Express is supposed to change that, but that's the same thing they said about AGP, and you see what kind of reputation the AGP cards that use system memory have.
I've often wondered if it is the same way Women feel when Tivo accidentally grabs something off of Oxygen.
Fair Use? What's that? Sue them all and let the lawyers figure it out! Sportsdot looks like it is pretty safely under the (ever shrinking) banner of Fair Use to me. I know there are a lot of forces at work trying to nullify Fair Use, but this is so basic that I have trouble seeing it go away any time soon.
My experiance with these built-in batteries is that right out of the box they have great life, but six months to a year down the road you're looking at half of the runtime (or less!). Worse, integrated batteries are often difficult/expensive to replace and can be hard to find once a gadget goes out of production. This is why I usually look for stuff that takes AA batteries, because I can always just use NiMH rechargables in it and fall back on Alkalines if I have to.
Oh, wait, you didn't get the support contract. I misread your post. You'll only be able to upgrade to 6.5.22 at the current time (this is not a big deal).
Why not just download them from http://support.sgi.com? Supportfolio accounts are free and provide access to OS updates. The latest version is...(checks account)...6.5.26. Since you already have the 6.5 CDs you can just install 6.5.0 and then using inst or swmgr to upgrade to 6.5.26. The harest problem I've run into is running out of drive space during the upgrade (SGI likes to stick tiny OS disks on their machines--especially those old ones).
inst (and its X frontend swmgr) are among the best software installation managers I've ever used. swmgr is pretty intuitive. It's certainly a whole lot easier to use than RPM (try asking an rpm newbie how to find what package installed what file, or where a package is going to put its files for instance).
I think the idea is that the same people who pirate media professionally on large scales like this are also the sort of people who are engaged in all sorts of other shady dealings. IE, it's all the same organized crime outfit. There's no cause-effect relationship per say, but they are releated.
Also, maybe a human slavery ring got its starting funds (you need money to get started after all) by selling bootlegs? Of course the bootleg business needed starting funds too, maybe that was good old extortion? You can speculate forever on these sort of tangents though without getting anywhere.
To me, this suggests that the users were actually buying the games (the actual discs/cases/manuals) along with the hardware, and the store employees were burning the games on to the HDD as a convienence (for $500 they'd better do _something_ like that). I would also bet that the bootloader they installed allows you to copy games off of a DVD (and possibly over the network!). That's probably why they were arrested. This is probably illegal under the DMCA, but even if it isn't, there's enough "kinda sorta looks illegal" stuff there to get the police to make an arrest and hand off the matter to the lawyers.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if the Cops that did the arrest even understand half of the issues at hand here. They're just doing their job, and Microsoft has come down and told them that people are doing something illegal and that they need to be stopped. In a few years they'll probably settle out of court for an undiscloased sum and admit to no wrongdoing on either side.
Maybe part of the cost was that they were actually giving the users the original DVDs and cases for the games, and the pre-loading was just a convienence thing? I know stores don't pay the full $50 for the games. Maybe they thought they were being legit because the customers were in fact buying all of the games and hardware they installed?
This is all speculation though, the article was written by someone who doesn't know anything beyond what the police told him, and the cops don't always have their facts straight before the brief the press.
On the other hand, I live near DC and Pandora's Cube has always had a rather seedy reputation. They used to (and probably still do) sell fansubs for instance--not of stuff that's licensed in the US, but fansubbers explicitly state that their work is not for sale. They are also notorious for carrying HK knockoff CDs and DVDs. I've never actually been in the store though, so take this paragraph with a grain of salt.
Frankly, most government positions seem to only care that you have a security clearance and are breathing. At least that appears to be how they hired a lot of the contracters I work with. I think they figure it is easier to hire an unskilled person with a clearance and train them up to do their job than it is to hire a skilled person and get them cleared. Clearances take 12-18 months now (although you can get interim secret a lot faster, if that is good enough) and there is no guarentee that you will be cleared. It also costs $50,000+ to the company/agency clearing you.
I was under the impression that the camera was mounted on a fixed surface and configured to snap pictures periodically to watch cloud formations or something. A low shutter speed wouldn't be a problem because clouds aren't going to move very far in 1/30 of a second.
Really? I don't see it.
You CS types are stealing the jobs normally held by English and Philosphy majors! Shame on you!
For $2900 I think they would be able to afford to put a gigabit port on there. Gig-E cards aren't all that expensive anymore (at least for the copper ones).
IANAL, but unless the contract had an explicit clause nullifing it in this instance, the scumbag on the other end still holds a valid license. The obvious thing to do is to summon him to court to have the contract nullified (for breach of contract), but that costs time and money. I don't know if they'd have to hunt that guy down and provide an address to do that either.
No other publisher is going to touch the material with that sort of legal baggage attached to it. That guy could come back into the country and sue the new publishers for copyright infringement, and since his contract would still be valid he could stand a chance of winning (even if the contract is nullified before his case gets to court). Copyright law (as it is interpreted today) is very liberal in who you can sue. Don't underestimate the greed or audacity of a scumbag.