The amusing part is that this is their public stance! Imagine what the rep was originally told, before it was converted into this "we're happy for this document to be released into the public domain as our official stance" email. I expect some sort of retraction/modification very soon! Unless they've just lost the plot!
"The CD's copy protection" (meaning the copy protection of the CD) would still be incorrect, as you don't apostrophise the genetive case of objects (only people).
"The computer's memory was increased". That's an object, not a person.
Potentially a system could be created which would keep the data encrypted until the loudspeaker stage, so you`d have to take apart the speaker and wire it up to an analogue input, or stick a mike in front of the speaker, to capture the information. I can see this being more practical for movies, where a digital display decrypted the data from the CD, but it's still possible.
Exactly. You could brute-force a One Time Pad if you had the patience and CPU power, but what would be the point? You might as well just generate one single random number. It would be about the same thing.
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"Besides the fact that MY TAX MONEY paid for any software my state uses to record votes... shouldn't I have access to it?"
Yeah, and ongoing police surveillance, and military secrets. You should be able to ask for it all. Makes sense to me.
If it's in the fm then being told to rtfm is 100% acceptable, and it wasn't a legitimate question. Thats the the fm is there for - to stop wasting peoples time on questions that have been asked many, many times before. That't bad manners - ignoring the ettiquette/rules of the situation you are in.
It sounds to me that the sentence was crafted by a laywer. Perhaps it was shot at by the laser, then by conventional weapons (who knows, maybe there was a GPS system in there somewhere, like in all the other Star Wars `tests`), and only then did it "later, at a point well short of its intended destination" - but not when it was hit by the laser - finally disintegrate.
Everyone knows how hard it is to spell check text these days. You know, with all the pressing F7 (on most Microsoft software) and everything. Especially for a site which publishes up to 6 stories a day, some of which contain up to 100 words. There just isn't the time.
"Hey boss, Karen in Accounts sent out 54 megs of messages last month" "What were they about?" "Dunno, they were all just squiggly characters" "Ok, well lets just assume its work related. After all, like all other companies, we use pokey messaging software to talk to clients. Let me know when it looks like she's wasting my time and money."
But then you`d have literally every other country on the planet against you! As it is you don't have many. I`m not sure how long the "country formerlly known as the Land Of The Free" can survive on its own!
"I'm just confused, sounds like this is cracking, and last time I checked thats a pretty illegitimate thing to do, even advocate."
You should`ve stopped at "I'm just confused" -the rest of your sentence makes it look like you don't understand the difference between legal and moral, or between necessary and fun.
I agree with you entirely, except for that part about the first few hours. Frankly i`d rather spend the time with Partition magic, disk defragmenter and windows explorer. At the end of the 10 hours i`ll have a nicely sorted out hard disk. I`ll have had more fun too.
"This is the same company that continued to foist off the Gameboy with its puke yellow screen on the gullible public while all their competitiers were selling color handheld systems"
Isn't the Gameboy the most popular hand-held in history? I own one, and a GBA. They succeeded because it was much cheaper at launch than the Atari Lynx, had more developers, and better games. I know grandparents who still play with their gameboys. I have peers who don't know what a Lynx is. Have I made my point yet?
"And they used their market clout to kill off the better alternatives."
You make it sound like they did a bad thing! They won! They didn't `kill off` anything - the public preferred to buy their products other those of their competitors. Atari died because they produced mostly shit hardware and software.
"Nintendo has only loved the pocketbooks of their users, nothing more."
Are you sure you`ve not mis-typed "Nintendo is the only company in the world to consistantly produce excellent hardware and software"? Even if you ignore the hardware and just look at the software, it's always been loads better than that of any other developer in the world. Only Sega got close (and possibly Atari 20 years ago) but they both produced loads of worthless shite too.
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It's worth remembering that all that `eat popcorn/drink coke` subliminal stuff was a hoax. It's not true - it doesn't work.
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Are you sure? I thought I had this sussed!
One computer has some memory. It had 64mb, it was increased to 128mb. So, the computer's memory was increased.
What's wrong with that?
The amusing part is that this is their public stance! Imagine what the rep was originally told, before it was converted into this "we're happy for this document to be released into the public domain as our official stance" email. I expect some sort of retraction/modification very soon! Unless they've just lost the plot!
Well, either that or a fingerprint reader where your print is read 'in the air', not when pressed against a glass square.
"The CD's copy protection" (meaning the copy protection of the CD) would still be incorrect, as you don't apostrophise the genetive case of objects (only people).
"The computer's memory was increased". That's an object, not a person.
Bigtime!! Bet MS are scared! That's gonna hurt their bottom line!
"If it can be played, it can be copied."
Potentially a system could be created which would keep the data encrypted until the loudspeaker stage, so you`d have to take apart the speaker and wire it up to an analogue input, or stick a mike in front of the speaker, to capture the information. I can see this being more practical for movies, where a digital display decrypted the data from the CD, but it's still possible.
Exactly. You could brute-force a One Time Pad if you had the patience and CPU power, but what would be the point? You might as well just generate one single random number. It would be about the same thing.
"Besides the fact that MY TAX MONEY paid for any software my state uses to record votes... shouldn't I have access to it?"
Yeah, and ongoing police surveillance, and military secrets. You should be able to ask for it all. Makes sense to me.
If it's in the fm then being told to rtfm is 100% acceptable, and it wasn't a legitimate question. Thats the the fm is there for - to stop wasting peoples time on questions that have been asked many, many times before. That't bad manners - ignoring the ettiquette/rules of the situation you are in.
I wonder what Philips think of this abuse of their standards? Do BMG still have to pay them a license to use the format?
It sounds to me that the sentence was crafted by a laywer. Perhaps it was shot at by the laser, then by conventional weapons (who knows, maybe there was a GPS system in there somewhere, like in all the other Star Wars `tests`), and only then did it "later, at a point well short of its intended destination" - but not when it was hit by the laser - finally disintegrate.
Everyone knows how hard it is to spell check text these days. You know, with all the pressing F7 (on most Microsoft software) and everything. Especially for a site which publishes up to 6 stories a day, some of which contain up to 100 words. There just isn't the time.
or here, if you don't want to have to download proprietary rubbish just to look at some ascii characters!
"It's not like they could even check them for fingerprints... "
You`ve really been keeping up with forensics, haven't you. Heard of DNA?
Yeah, right.
"Hey boss, Karen in Accounts sent out 54 megs of messages last month"
"What were they about?"
"Dunno, they were all just squiggly characters"
"Ok, well lets just assume its work related. After all, like all other companies, we use pokey messaging software to talk to clients. Let me know when it looks like she's wasting my time and money."
Hey, it's embedded - who's gonna know? :)
But then you`d have literally every other country on the planet against you! As it is you don't have many. I`m not sure how long the "country formerlly known as the Land Of The Free" can survive on its own!
By that criteria, it sounds like you`re suggesting they never sell any software which works under Windows!
"I'm just confused, sounds like this is cracking, and last time I checked thats a pretty illegitimate thing to do, even advocate."
You should`ve stopped at "I'm just confused" -the rest of your sentence makes it look like you don't understand the difference between legal and moral, or between necessary and fun.
Anything that moves faster than my cursor is unreliable on a LCD. I wonder if this new technology is any good for DVD playback, games etc?
"the US is once again made to look like a country run by bankers"
Sure. Governments are often toppled in a revolution and made accountable to the public, but the drift in the other direction is slow and continuous.
I agree with you entirely, except for that part about the first few hours. Frankly i`d rather spend the time with Partition magic, disk defragmenter and windows explorer. At the end of the 10 hours i`ll have a nicely sorted out hard disk. I`ll have had more fun too.
"This is the same company that continued to foist off the Gameboy with its puke yellow screen on the gullible public while all their competitiers were selling color handheld systems"
Isn't the Gameboy the most popular hand-held in history? I own one, and a GBA. They succeeded because it was much cheaper at launch than the Atari Lynx, had more developers, and better games. I know grandparents who still play with their gameboys. I have peers who don't know what a Lynx is. Have I made my point yet?
"And they used their market clout to kill off the better alternatives."
You make it sound like they did a bad thing! They won! They didn't `kill off` anything - the public preferred to buy their products other those of their competitors. Atari died because they produced mostly shit hardware and software.
"Nintendo has only loved the pocketbooks of their users, nothing more."
Are you sure you`ve not mis-typed "Nintendo is the only company in the world to consistantly produce excellent hardware and software"? Even if you ignore the hardware and just look at the software, it's always been loads better than that of any other developer in the world. Only Sega got close (and possibly Atari 20 years ago) but they both produced loads of worthless shite too.