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Happy Dude
742 Evergreen Terrace
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Global warming will not happen the frequencies used would be picked for their ability to pass through the atmosphere with out absorption, yes there will be some absorption but the heat added to the environment would be less then the heat added from a nuclear plant per kilowatt. As for interfering with radio communications this would not happen either because they would need to buy the spectrum they were using and the Tx antenna will focus the RF so little to no energy is transmitted outside the Rx antenna.
At the point of collecting these microwaves, no.
How about at the point of dissipation, though? What happens when we use this power that didn't previously exist within our atmosphere to power our lights, computers, air conditioners, stoves, refrigerators, etc?
All of those things generate heat... heat which may not have been generated if we didn't have these additional MW (and later GW, TW) of energy available to us.
Skellie (Natal's version of Clippie): It looks like you are trying to perform "Monkey Boy Dance". Choose the following options:
1) Continue with "Monkey Boy Dance".
2) Make someone else do "Monkey Boy Dance".
3) Patent Natal's "Monkey Boy Dance" initiation methods.
4)...
5) Profit!
4) Apply ballistic trajectory to office furniture.
There... fixed that for you
...one of the first things I typed was:
LOAD"$",8
without missing a beat.
It was only a few minutes later that I noticed that there was no quotation-mark over the "2" key and that due to some freakish mental glitch, my fingers knew precisely where to go.
Probably had nothing to do with a mental glitch, instead being pure muscle-memory.
As you said, you fingers knew precisely where to go (i.e. your brain just gave the command "Get commodore directory" and your fingers responded. The result of the entire command sequence was 'remembered' and aliased as above
It's quite similar to how chefs chop vegetables into tiny slivers without ever (well rarely) slicing their own fingers off.
Hooray for the proprietary compression algorithm used in the transmission of control data throughout the human body ^^ (and damn, that's some long-lived nvram)
2) How long before some manufacturer claims their pinouts are proprietary/trade secret/patented/act of god and slaps a takedown order on their info?
What, like Apple's iPod dock connector?
It's proprietary/trademarked such that they can license the ability for 3rd-party vendors (Belkin, Griffin, etc) to create accessories, instead of everyone and their gecko flooding the market with cheap knock-offs.
This, of course, hasn't stopped everyone and their gecko [who live in countries which do not accept those patents] from releasing 4th-rate 3rd-party accessories, but the SNR is much lower in this case.
I'm pretty sure you can find pinout info for the iPod dock anyways (or just reverse engineer it yourself). In the case of the iPod, though, it's not necessarily the pinout that will net you a decent chunk of change, it's the protocol used over the data pins.
"Now available on DVD and blu-ray disc. Digital copy included"
This means there's a second disc containing an AVI, yes.
That AVI is DRM-protected, such that you need special plugins for WMP or iTunes (or a handful of other media applications) to be able to open them, which needs to be authenticated against an internet server every time you want to watch or transfer the copy.
My guess is so that they can say "Look, we gave you the video in a digital format, and still you download it for your iPod, all your claims are now null, and we own your soul"
I guess they fixed it for you
Of course, for mentioning this, I must be an insensitive clod. Never mind me, I'm going to go have some more Kool-Aid... OH YEAH!!
they could also have been better released as expansions to the old game (or not given the diff bitween Console and PC)
Expansions to the original game can be used on pretty much every platform those games are available for.
Many games that come out for PS3/360 get patched to fix bugs or inmprove gameplay long after they were released.
There are track packs available for Wii and PS2, and the 360, PS3, and (I'm assuming) PC versions all support DLC, and have track packs available as well for those that don't want to spend Live points or $$ on PSN.
With Consoles now having harddrives, patches, network connections, etc; and PCs now being able to connect effortlessly to HDTVs, the difference between Console and PC now is getting blurred to the point that there is very little anymore.
You can connect keyboards and mice to both the 360 and the PS3 (and the PS3 has a browser, nevermind how poor it performs though), and my media PC has gamepads which are modelled after the PS3 controllers (or you could just attach 360 controllers to it).
Realistically, the only difference I see between my PS3, 360, and HDTV-connect HTPC is that my PS3 plays Blu-ray (although I could add support for it to my HTPC), and my HTPC has a huge harddrive with tons of pre-recorded TV shows available through a simple interface [XBMC] (although much of that content can be played over the network by any DLNA compliant player, of which the PS3 and 360 both are).
The HTPC also performs better at web browsing, which is nice when you want to see the HD trailers from games displayed @ E3, but don't want to watch it on a little 13-17" laptop screen.
If the password can be worked around, what does it matter if it gets written down in the first place?
Because if the password is written down, then in (most) windows shops you can login remotely as administrator (or get administrative rights while logged in as a non-priviledged user).
GP did say Boot single user, which entails physical access to the system.
While effectively any system to which there is network access can be compromised (eventually), every system to which you have physical access can be compromised (and that, rather trivially).
But honestly... are we going to debate whether a US president, sitting or past, is responsible for the actions of KJI? That guy is a nutjob and an egomaniac and to pretend that he's only that way because of the behavior of the US is dangerously naive.
But honestly... are we going to debate whether a foreign national leader, sitting or past, is responsible for the actions of [GWB and his cabinet]? That guy is a nutjob and an egomaniac and to pretend that he's only that way because of the behavior of any other nation is dangerously naive.
Right, it's the time machine that breaks that concept. Records were destroyed? Why not go back in time.. to get the records?
OH NOESSS PLOT HOLE!
Perhaps it was the going back in time to ensure the safety of the records that caused their very destruction in the first place?
Time travel's funny like that.
Slashdot Mirror
No, but there are sites on the internet that love to eat all your non-ascii code.
I'm pretty sure there's only one left that doesn't support unicode; I think it's some sort of tech-news site.
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Happy Dude
742 Evergreen Terrace
Springfield
I look forward to further correspondance from you (and hope I included enough postage to get this message to Nigeria so you can read it)
Global warming will not happen the frequencies used would be picked for their ability to pass through the atmosphere with out absorption, yes there will be some absorption but the heat added to the environment would be less then the heat added from a nuclear plant per kilowatt. As for interfering with radio communications this would not happen either because they would need to buy the spectrum they were using and the Tx antenna will focus the RF so little to no energy is transmitted outside the Rx antenna.
At the point of collecting these microwaves, no.
How about at the point of dissipation, though? What happens when we use this power that didn't previously exist within our atmosphere to power our lights, computers, air conditioners, stoves, refrigerators, etc?
All of those things generate heat... heat which may not have been generated if we didn't have these additional MW (and later GW, TW) of energy available to us.
First one to add Cyber Command to their botnet gets 10 internet points!
When do I get to trade those internet points in for the internet monies?
Skellie (Natal's version of Clippie): It looks like you are trying to perform "Monkey Boy Dance". Choose the following options:
1) Continue with "Monkey Boy Dance". 2) Make someone else do "Monkey Boy Dance". 3) Patent Natal's "Monkey Boy Dance" initiation methods. 4) ...
5) Profit!
4) Apply ballistic trajectory to office furniture. There... fixed that for you
...one of the first things I typed was: LOAD"$",8 without missing a beat.
It was only a few minutes later that I noticed that there was no quotation-mark over the "2" key and that due to some freakish mental glitch, my fingers knew precisely where to go.
Probably had nothing to do with a mental glitch, instead being pure muscle-memory.
As you said, you fingers knew precisely where to go (i.e. your brain just gave the command "Get commodore directory" and your fingers responded. The result of the entire command sequence was 'remembered' and aliased as above
It's quite similar to how chefs chop vegetables into tiny slivers without ever (well rarely) slicing their own fingers off.
Hooray for the proprietary compression algorithm used in the transmission of control data throughout the human body ^^ (and damn, that's some long-lived nvram)
2) How long before some manufacturer claims their pinouts are proprietary/trade secret/patented/act of god and slaps a takedown order on their info?
What, like Apple's iPod dock connector?
It's proprietary/trademarked such that they can license the ability for 3rd-party vendors (Belkin, Griffin, etc) to create accessories, instead of everyone and their gecko flooding the market with cheap knock-offs.
This, of course, hasn't stopped everyone and their gecko [who live in countries which do not accept those patents] from releasing 4th-rate 3rd-party accessories, but the SNR is much lower in this case.
I'm pretty sure you can find pinout info for the iPod dock anyways (or just reverse engineer it yourself). In the case of the iPod, though, it's not necessarily the pinout that will net you a decent chunk of change, it's the protocol used over the data pins.
and idspispopd if you wanted to just walk in a straight line to the exit.
mmm... Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris... fun-fun
easier to understand:perl
This particular grouping of words should not ever be used outside the privacy of your own home...
Al Gore worked for DARPA and one of the projects he worked on was the precursor to the internet. This is why he claims he invented the internet.
Causality-Shmausality. I dropped a glass because I found it in pieces on the floor just this afternoon...
Excellent, I was pretty sure you dropped a glass because I found it in pieces on the floor just this afternoon also, and now I have proof.
"Now available on DVD and blu-ray disc. Digital copy included"
This means there's a second disc containing an AVI, yes.
That AVI is DRM-protected, such that you need special plugins for WMP or iTunes (or a handful of other media applications) to be able to open them, which needs to be authenticated against an internet server every time you want to watch or transfer the copy.
My guess is so that they can say "Look, we gave you the video in a digital format, and still you download it for your iPod, all your claims are now null, and we own your soul"
I guess they fixed it for you
Of course, for mentioning this, I must be an insensitive clod. Never mind me, I'm going to go have some more Kool-Aid... OH YEAH!!
blame darpa... they invented the interwebs of piracy
So it's all Al Gore's fault?
"In one ear and out the other."
Except that, in this case, it went in one ear and got stuck.
they could also have been better released as expansions to the old game (or not given the diff bitween Console and PC)
Expansions to the original game can be used on pretty much every platform those games are available for.
Many games that come out for PS3/360 get patched to fix bugs or inmprove gameplay long after they were released. There are track packs available for Wii and PS2, and the 360, PS3, and (I'm assuming) PC versions all support DLC, and have track packs available as well for those that don't want to spend Live points or $$ on PSN.
With Consoles now having harddrives, patches, network connections, etc; and PCs now being able to connect effortlessly to HDTVs, the difference between Console and PC now is getting blurred to the point that there is very little anymore.
You can connect keyboards and mice to both the 360 and the PS3 (and the PS3 has a browser, nevermind how poor it performs though), and my media PC has gamepads which are modelled after the PS3 controllers (or you could just attach 360 controllers to it).
Realistically, the only difference I see between my PS3, 360, and HDTV-connect HTPC is that my PS3 plays Blu-ray (although I could add support for it to my HTPC), and my HTPC has a huge harddrive with tons of pre-recorded TV shows available through a simple interface [XBMC] (although much of that content can be played over the network by any DLNA compliant player, of which the PS3 and 360 both are). The HTPC also performs better at web browsing, which is nice when you want to see the HD trailers from games displayed @ E3, but don't want to watch it on a little 13-17" laptop screen.
I'm looking forward to FFXIV too, as I've been out of touch with FFXI for quite a while, but used to be quite heavily involved in it
The next logical step would be a controller that you can actually wear on your hand like a large glove. It would be so bad!
Just keep your power gloves off my gaming system, pal, ok?
So Atheism is the result of a divide by zero error? The result as done by hand makes sense: DNE, "Does Not Exist"
No, athiests are just like monotheists; they just believe in one less god.
If the password can be worked around, what does it matter if it gets written down in the first place?
Because if the password is written down, then in (most) windows shops you can login remotely as administrator (or get administrative rights while logged in as a non-priviledged user).
GP did say Boot single user, which entails physical access to the system.
While effectively any system to which there is network access can be compromised (eventually), every system to which you have physical access can be compromised (and that, rather trivially).
October 9, 2006, not 2008.
But honestly... are we going to debate whether a US president, sitting or past, is responsible for the actions of KJI? That guy is a nutjob and an egomaniac and to pretend that he's only that way because of the behavior of the US is dangerously naive.
But honestly... are we going to debate whether a foreign national leader, sitting or past, is responsible for the actions of [GWB and his cabinet]? That guy is a nutjob and an egomaniac and to pretend that he's only that way because of the behavior of any other nation is dangerously naive.
You speak a lot of the US being on a moral high ground, with respect to the use of nuclear armaments.
Have you forgotten that the US is, to date, the only country to have actually used nuclear arms in the past (outside of testing grounds)?
I'm pretty sure that currently every country in the world which is not the USA has the moral high ground, with respect to nukes.
Right, it's the time machine that breaks that concept. Records were destroyed? Why not go back in time.. to get the records? OH NOESSS PLOT HOLE!
Perhaps it was the going back in time to ensure the safety of the records that caused their very destruction in the first place?
Time travel's funny like that.
The Collector's Edition is said to replace the bag of tepid air with a container of smoke and a short length of garden hose...
The container, of course, being in the form of a suppository...
What does the unicorn burger taste like in this mystical land in which you live?
Chicken