I learned never to ask their sales droids any questions. Last one I asked was about writing EEPROMS and they told me that you can't write to a chip, and I kinda walked out on them after showing them one in their catalogue. They leave me alone now when I go in to buy my componants. It would be nice though to have a place around where I live that had all the electronic stuff I needed and the ability to help.
Even the store on campus has them cheap. I buy them 2 for ~$2 or 4 for ~$3.50 . However I go to RS or some of the other store around here and they are high price (never more than $5 for 4 though I don't think)
in my neighborhood we have problems with people building timer and pressure circuits for land mines with parts from radio shack. Go figure a kids in the country can't find a safe way to play in a creek other than blowing things up with bombs. There are certain people in my neighbor hood that Radio Shack will not sell to due to being caught doing this before (go figure they are giving up a buck for something on the moral side).
not a $500 per min, it is a $500 minimum. And no I don't know what areas other than mine will do this for you. I live somewhere in the USA and that is all I will say on my whereabouts.
Actually, sony will drop the idea eventually and come up with a new one. Prohaps even a better one. Looks to me like they are trying to float lead balloons, or maybe even *GASP* trying to provide a middle ground on the DRM issue. The only Sony discs I have are some of the best classical recordings I have heard. They try contributing to the music world (even with this style of DRM). I really don't understand all your fear and loathing of DRM of any kind. It is not like this doesn't let you back up your media and play it. If they can cover the hurdle of letting CD-ROMS play the audio but not copy it. If you buy the CD you can make a back up, what is the real problem here. Oh yeah, you might have to *GASP* buy something.
they are crying over the fact that they are not providing linux software. However, I am surprised that there is no Mac software for it. The only major problem that this presents is playing it back on a stereo that has a CD-ROM in it instead of just a player (ie. one that reads: CD, CD-R, CD-RW, CD+t, or CD+G). Also, something that nobody seems to mention (did they read the article, or is that a stupid question here) is the fact that it only holds a few songs.
the title is still wrong, these are not CDs. They just happen to play in a CDA device and in your Windows computer (after using their software). However I doubt this will fly very far, as most of the high end CDA devices and Car CDA systems use a CD-ROM to read the disc, at which point it will hit the copy protection and just not play. This could be a good thing if Sony could figure out how to iron out the bugs in their system, and make it hold more than a few songs. Like it or not DRM technologies are making advancements towards user-friendlyness. If they can make this work right (and maybe provide software for the Mac) this is probly the least painful DRM you will be seeing.
actually you technically have another choice. You can choose to NOT have one at all. I have many friends who have opted to not have a land line at all. Just get a celphone or similar, there are a lot of people I know that have done this to get rid of the telemarketers (telemarketers know better in our area to call cellphones ($500 charge min)). The only problem they ran into was explaining to people why they don't have a home phone, just a cell phone.
I should hope that microsoft isn't in control of the PS2 network. Sony should be in control of it. I would be really worried if MS was abusing its monopolistic PC powers to control a competetor in a market that is unrelated. I am glad to see though that mod chips are being banned off the network.
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it would be interesting to see diamonds fall back to a price equivilant to what they are really worth. Diamonds (other than jewelry) really have a very limited function in the real world. However gold and platinum both have some great properties that make them actually useful in many different feilds, where as the diamond is only really good for cutting things. Question is though, if the markets fail will DeBeers still extort a high price out of these common rocks?
one day someone will link GPS, HUD, and navigation software. This will be the ultimate use of driver accessable computers. Think of being able to have a navigation line that tells you where you need to go, and maybe some lines that outline the other objects in view (would be great for fog). All that you need is a bunch of GPS nav-points and the ability to find directions from point A to point B, which shouldn't be too hard. Next step is the be able to draw a usable line to each of these nav points. You then use a series of projection HUD systems (much like what you will find in the cockpit of a military aircraft) that projects the lines and other information onto the windsheild.
i am neither one. I can't wait until someone tries to hit me while they are using on the highway. We have enough problems with celphones in cars, how will this differ.
actually what you need to do is devide the company in half (each dept in 2 so that they are exact competators of each other) and not let them or subsidiaries of them merge. make patents and trademarks of their joint for a year and then disolved. in the end instead of 1 microsoft you have 2 microsofts that compete against each other.
Are you just a troll, or are you either really paranoid or lax in your thinking unit. Seriously now, how is Sega a part of the MPAA/RIAA. Last time I checked the only console manufacture that is part of either group is Sony, and they are a part of both groups. And in all honesty this isn't supporting SEGA at all either, just makes the Dreamcast look like more of a failure by showing lower game:console sale ratios.
When will companies stop dumping R&D into frivilous thinks like updating the console to kill a few modchips. Make the modders have to work for it. Update the CD-unit so that it checks the disc color by scanning some white light from the bottom to check if the disc is from correct territory and what not. If the disc doesn't pass don't spin up at all. Say for instance a narrow frequency band for US region game disc. Calibrating it would be fairly simple as you can attach a standard somewhere for it to calibrate to (though not the correct disc color for your region). I can't think of a more evil thing to do to keep modders from being able to modify the game console. To get it to work for them they have to find the right color combo (annoying as there are some fun tricks you can do with layered light refraction) or modify their disc drive to always spin up, but that would be VERY easy to defeat and expensive if you goof. Honestly what is the point of making a modification to your system setup to try to defeat a group of hackers if you don't make them have to jump through a lot of hoops in the process.
reminds me of the arcades we used to have where I live. It was 8 tokens for a dollar and 1 token = 1 credit. Cap'n Boggies came into town at 4 tokens per dollar but also had a few other things in it too. Within a year and a half all of the 8/$1 arcades closed down even though they had the better games. Cap'n boggies is still around and another place just like it sprung up but neither has good games to play. Also, it seems that no one takes care of the game machines anymore, what is the point of paying for one if you are going to let it breakdown quickly and not fix it. Is it just me or have arcades gone from places where you can play some good games to places where you are lucky to find a decent game that partially works?
uhm, i have a 14 watt florensent bulb here that is painful to look at. I would hate to think of what a 130 watt version would look like. Before this bulb my last one was an 8 watt bulb. keep in mind that not all bulbs are incandescant ones that produce 90% heat and only 10% light. I also some bulbs here that produce about 5% or less heat from their power supply, and I am sure that someone could come up with a way for it to be used on a much higher powerlevel than the 3 or 4 watts that it is.
actually he is correct, this is how this would work. You better have REALLY clean mirrors or you will have problems on your hands, sure it will refelct MOST but that might not be enough to save yourself.
On a side not I have seen lasers in this range used for research and they are quite amusing to mess with. Just make sure your reflective surface doesn't have any contamination on it or you will have severe problems with it.
well the pilot would be stupid not to have eyeprotection (The russians have in the past tried to blind our pilots with lasers anyways so that should be a good excuse to have teh eye protection). And the ground troops, uhm you would first have to get teh beam to them, and at that point blinnding might be the least of their problems.
If blinding is a side-effect as opposed to the goal of the weapon, then by all means you are allowed to use it. Blind people with lasers isn't against geneva convention so long as the weapons primary designed usage is to anything else.
who ever said intentionally blinding people was the use of the weapon, it is just a side effect. Go back and reread that articles. Also, it doesn't make a case about what happens if it is 'accidental' so splash damage is a moot point.
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I learned never to ask their sales droids any questions. Last one I asked was about writing EEPROMS and they told me that you can't write to a chip, and I kinda walked out on them after showing them one in their catalogue. They leave me alone now when I go in to buy my componants. It would be nice though to have a place around where I live that had all the electronic stuff I needed and the ability to help.
Even the store on campus has them cheap. I buy them 2 for ~$2 or 4 for ~$3.50 . However I go to RS or some of the other store around here and they are high price (never more than $5 for 4 though I don't think)
in my neighborhood we have problems with people building timer and pressure circuits for land mines with parts from radio shack. Go figure a kids in the country can't find a safe way to play in a creek other than blowing things up with bombs. There are certain people in my neighbor hood that Radio Shack will not sell to due to being caught doing this before (go figure they are giving up a buck for something on the moral side).
not a $500 per min, it is a $500 minimum. And no I don't know what areas other than mine will do this for you. I live somewhere in the USA and that is all I will say on my whereabouts.
Actually, sony will drop the idea eventually and come up with a new one. Prohaps even a better one. Looks to me like they are trying to float lead balloons, or maybe even *GASP* trying to provide a middle ground on the DRM issue. The only Sony discs I have are some of the best classical recordings I have heard. They try contributing to the music world (even with this style of DRM).
I really don't understand all your fear and loathing of DRM of any kind. It is not like this doesn't let you back up your media and play it. If they can cover the hurdle of letting CD-ROMS play the audio but not copy it. If you buy the CD you can make a back up, what is the real problem here. Oh yeah, you might have to *GASP* buy something.
audio? yeah you can defeat that with a good black marker. The copy protection? No, you can't do it that way.
they are crying over the fact that they are not providing linux software. However, I am surprised that there is no Mac software for it. The only major problem that this presents is playing it back on a stereo that has a CD-ROM in it instead of just a player (ie. one that reads: CD, CD-R, CD-RW, CD+t, or CD+G). Also, something that nobody seems to mention (did they read the article, or is that a stupid question here) is the fact that it only holds a few songs.
the title is still wrong, these are not CDs. They just happen to play in a CDA device and in your Windows computer (after using their software). However I doubt this will fly very far, as most of the high end CDA devices and Car CDA systems use a CD-ROM to read the disc, at which point it will hit the copy protection and just not play. This could be a good thing if Sony could figure out how to iron out the bugs in their system, and make it hold more than a few songs. Like it or not DRM technologies are making advancements towards user-friendlyness. If they can make this work right (and maybe provide software for the Mac) this is probly the least painful DRM you will be seeing.
sounds like a weird mix of Survivor and the Truman Show.
actually you technically have another choice. You can choose to NOT have one at all. I have many friends who have opted to not have a land line at all. Just get a celphone or similar, there are a lot of people I know that have done this to get rid of the telemarketers (telemarketers know better in our area to call cellphones ($500 charge min)). The only problem they ran into was explaining to people why they don't have a home phone, just a cell phone.
they should have used shrew terminals, might have been a better type for this case.
I personally think that banning the mod chips from the network is a good thing. Now the next step is to ban gamesharks and similar from it.
I should hope that microsoft isn't in control of the PS2 network. Sony should be in control of it. I would be really worried if MS was abusing its monopolistic PC powers to control a competetor in a market that is unrelated. I am glad to see though that mod chips are being banned off the network.
it would be interesting to see diamonds fall back to a price equivilant to what they are really worth. Diamonds (other than jewelry) really have a very limited function in the real world. However gold and platinum both have some great properties that make them actually useful in many different feilds, where as the diamond is only really good for cutting things. Question is though, if the markets fail will DeBeers still extort a high price out of these common rocks?
one day someone will link GPS, HUD, and navigation software. This will be the ultimate use of driver accessable computers. Think of being able to have a navigation line that tells you where you need to go, and maybe some lines that outline the other objects in view (would be great for fog). All that you need is a bunch of GPS nav-points and the ability to find directions from point A to point B, which shouldn't be too hard. Next step is the be able to draw a usable line to each of these nav points. You then use a series of projection HUD systems (much like what you will find in the cockpit of a military aircraft) that projects the lines and other information onto the windsheild.
i am neither one. I can't wait until someone tries to hit me while they are using on the highway. We have enough problems with celphones in cars, how will this differ.
actually what you need to do is devide the company in half (each dept in 2 so that they are exact competators of each other) and not let them or subsidiaries of them merge. make patents and trademarks of their joint for a year and then disolved. in the end instead of 1 microsoft you have 2 microsofts that compete against each other.
Are you just a troll, or are you either really paranoid or lax in your thinking unit. Seriously now, how is Sega a part of the MPAA/RIAA. Last time I checked the only console manufacture that is part of either group is Sony, and they are a part of both groups. And in all honesty this isn't supporting SEGA at all either, just makes the Dreamcast look like more of a failure by showing lower game:console sale ratios.
When will companies stop dumping R&D into frivilous thinks like updating the console to kill a few modchips. Make the modders have to work for it. Update the CD-unit so that it checks the disc color by scanning some white light from the bottom to check if the disc is from correct territory and what not. If the disc doesn't pass don't spin up at all. Say for instance a narrow frequency band for US region game disc. Calibrating it would be fairly simple as you can attach a standard somewhere for it to calibrate to (though not the correct disc color for your region). I can't think of a more evil thing to do to keep modders from being able to modify the game console. To get it to work for them they have to find the right color combo (annoying as there are some fun tricks you can do with layered light refraction) or modify their disc drive to always spin up, but that would be VERY easy to defeat and expensive if you goof. Honestly what is the point of making a modification to your system setup to try to defeat a group of hackers if you don't make them have to jump through a lot of hoops in the process.
reminds me of the arcades we used to have where I live. It was 8 tokens for a dollar and 1 token = 1 credit. Cap'n Boggies came into town at 4 tokens per dollar but also had a few other things in it too. Within a year and a half all of the 8/$1 arcades closed down even though they had the better games. Cap'n boggies is still around and another place just like it sprung up but neither has good games to play. Also, it seems that no one takes care of the game machines anymore, what is the point of paying for one if you are going to let it breakdown quickly and not fix it. Is it just me or have arcades gone from places where you can play some good games to places where you are lucky to find a decent game that partially works?
uhm, i have a 14 watt florensent bulb here that is painful to look at. I would hate to think of what a 130 watt version would look like. Before this bulb my last one was an 8 watt bulb. keep in mind that not all bulbs are incandescant ones that produce 90% heat and only 10% light. I also some bulbs here that produce about 5% or less heat from their power supply, and I am sure that someone could come up with a way for it to be used on a much higher powerlevel than the 3 or 4 watts that it is.
actually he is correct, this is how this would work. You better have REALLY clean mirrors or you will have problems on your hands, sure it will refelct MOST but that might not be enough to save yourself.
On a side not I have seen lasers in this range used for research and they are quite amusing to mess with. Just make sure your reflective surface doesn't have any contamination on it or you will have severe problems with it.
well the pilot would be stupid not to have eyeprotection (The russians have in the past tried to blind our pilots with lasers anyways so that should be a good excuse to have teh eye protection). And the ground troops, uhm you would first have to get teh beam to them, and at that point blinnding might be the least of their problems.
If blinding is a side-effect as opposed to the goal of the weapon, then by all means you are allowed to use it. Blind people with lasers isn't against geneva convention so long as the weapons primary designed usage is to anything else.
who ever said intentionally blinding people was the use of the weapon, it is just a side effect. Go back and reread that articles. Also, it doesn't make a case about what happens if it is 'accidental' so splash damage is a moot point.