They said in the article that they've already woven cloth out of the nanotube threads. I wonder how long it'll be before they stop making kevlar vests and start making "nanotube" vests.
I heard it on NPR this morning... thought I can't find anything on it... As for protecting against that sorta thing, probably lots and lots of heavy lead that they didn't want to carry...
Personally I think this discussion would be way cooler if we just took that "address" word out of the title...
Personally, I like "Confronting Space Hijackers" way better.
When they finally come out with a real solution to subnet boosting, I'll be busy playing Duke Nukem Forever connected to a public server with an IPv6 address...
Our solution to this was easy. When people paid they were handed a card that had all the network vitals on it. It contained their IP, subnet mask and IP's of the servers on the LAN. It worked out nicely.
well technically what are you paying for? Are you paying for the service or are you paying to rent that silly box.
Even though my TV's only connected to a PS2, it still is cable ready. If I could get cable without paying for that stupid box I'd be all set. Yeah I wouldn't have access to pay per view and all the other special (HBO, etc) but I'd have access to all the "regular" channels.
I mean... what does the cable company really have to bitch about. In most cases, the cables been laid. My apartment is cabled for cable, I just don't have it turned on.
So, the cable company could do it. Turn on everything. Then give you two options.
1. You buy digital cable from US and we're contractually obligated to repair/replace/maintain the cable connection to your house.
2. Your on your own. No box, no ppv, no subscription channels, just the regular channels. Any maintaince would be through either licensed third party or PPI (Pay Per Incident)
That would make everybody happy (except those living in rural environments that haven't been wired...)
so if an executable prefetches libraries, is that called "executable doping"?
I can see in now... --headline-- Microsoft admits to executable doping, anonymous sources heard talking about how they "knew" their executables loaded too quickly. Microsoft spokesperson read a public apology to all executables that had ben resource starved because of the malaction of their executables.
The only way this would ever work is if they made regular cable free.
I don't have cable in my house because I think $50 is a waste of money considering I can only think of about 5 shows I would watch if I did have cable.
Since I can't buy cable by the channel, it's of no interest to me... when I can, I'll think about it.
Geez! On a side note, I had heard of something like that where some site recommended that renaming your executable to some "name" would give better results.
I think someone should run "strings" on the nvidia driver to see what other names work...
"Is there a country were people will work for free?"
Yes, such a country exists. However, to be part of this country you need to have a big needle stuck in the back of your head and your whole body gets submerged in Astrolube. Your then stored in this "pod" where this "dream" of your life is pumped into your brain by a big computer.
Now, in this dream your actually answering the phone and solving technical problems and you only "think" your getting paid for it. In real life, that money is getting collected so that more people can get plugged into the machine to make them more money...
There was this dude who realized it was a dream and managed to wake up. He now cleans the floors in the building that holds all the people and the big computer. We hear him wanding around go "Damn Red Buritto..."
I think the problem was that the foam had hit the shuttle before and it hadn't caused any damage.
Because of this, I think the engineers were lulled into thinking "Well, it happened before and it didn't cause any damage, why whould anything change now"
Tragically, their apathy about the whole situation cost the lives of 7 really smart and talented people.
In the future when we build the next generation shuttle, they integrate some better sensors that would detect that kind of damage.
That's the whole idea behind sucking the whole lecture into an mp3.
At most the typing would be at a minimum. Mainly it would free you to actually pay attention to what the professor is saying then trying to digest it into something to put into one setence on paper.
My thinking is that the average note would look like this:
[12:44:43 audio] described dualism [13:04:34 image] sketched relationship pyramid
Even better that timestamp would actually be clickable and would seek to the content (either the audio or the image taken with the camera)
You should think about getting one of those laptops with a built in camera, so when the prof. starts drawing diagrams just grab the frame.
Also, provided you've got enough harddrive space you could record the lecture into mp3 (at a low bitrate) and make an archive of the whole thing.
Actually, what would be a really cool application that would sorta automate the whole process. It would record the audio in the background while giving you a place to write timestamped notes (you'd hit a button when the teacher said something of interest) and write a quick note. You could also hit another button and it would take a time stamped snapshot and also put a marker in the notes as well...
I was over a buddies house and we turned on SG-1 and it turned out they were showing some of the original episodes, so I managed to catch the first 4 episodes in succession.
The reason they don't go for the ala-carte system is that it wouldn't give them any guarentees.
When some channel approaches a cable company they say "how many households am I going to be seen in?"
What the cable company doesn't want to say is "Well, it depends on how many people put you in their package".
What they say is, we'll you'll be in 67% of our customers homes.
Personally, I agree. I don't have cable (or watch any TV) because it's so shitty. Yeah, I miss SG-1 and Enterprise, but it's the small price I have to play to not get exposed to Joe Millionare and American Idol...
I'm usually very much against internet vigilantism, but I would think if any company deserved to have their boxes DOS'd these creeps do.
Having had several relatives fall into one of their traps only to call me pleading for help and explaining how they got this error message that their computer was "under performing" and that this software would fix everything and now windows can't find this "Registry" thing.
Then again, when I worked in the corporate helpdesk I had a user call me one day complaining that his computer didn't work... upon further discussion it came to light that he ran out of disk space so he deleted all his (we'll as many as he could before his computer started freaking out) DLL's off the machine.
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They said in the article that they've already woven cloth out of the nanotube threads. I wonder how long it'll be before they stop making kevlar vests and start making "nanotube" vests.
I heard it on NPR this morning... thought I can't find anything on it... As for protecting against that sorta thing, probably lots and lots of heavy lead that they didn't want to carry...
Personally I think this discussion would be way cooler if we just took that "address" word out of the title...
Personally, I like "Confronting Space Hijackers" way better.
When they finally come out with a real solution to subnet boosting, I'll be busy playing Duke Nukem Forever connected to a public server with an IPv6 address...
Yup, your right on the mark. The architect had been watching Neo for a long time.
As for banning media, I would think they'd up for banning SG-1 more than the matrix... SG-1 doesn't put a real positive spin on egyptian mythology...
Our solution to this was easy. When people paid they were handed a card that had all the network vitals on it. It contained their IP, subnet mask and IP's of the servers on the LAN. It worked out nicely.
Ah, you beat me to the punch.
;-)
I've got 4 monderation points left... too bad their isn't a "Uninformative" or "Totally ass backwards" moderation
Your forgetting the most important factor: Obnoxious citizens.
You know these people... they move into a house right next to a rural airport and immediately start bitching about the sound...
Celltower: I don't want that ugly thing near my beautiful house. It's going to ruin the view.
Helios: I don't want that ugly thing circling over my house. What if it crashed in the school yard, think of the children you bad person!!!
You see the pattern.... also know as BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody) or NIMBY (Not In My BackYard!)
well technically what are you paying for? Are you paying for the service or are you paying to rent that silly box.
Even though my TV's only connected to a PS2, it still is cable ready. If I could get cable without paying for that stupid box I'd be all set. Yeah I wouldn't have access to pay per view and all the other special (HBO, etc) but I'd have access to all the "regular" channels.
I mean... what does the cable company really have to bitch about. In most cases, the cables been laid. My apartment is cabled for cable, I just don't have it turned on.
So, the cable company could do it. Turn on everything. Then give you two options.
1. You buy digital cable from US and we're contractually obligated to repair/replace/maintain the cable connection to your house.
2. Your on your own. No box, no ppv, no subscription channels, just the regular channels. Any maintaince would be through either licensed third party or PPI (Pay Per Incident)
That would make everybody happy (except those living in rural environments that haven't been wired...)
It doesn't apply anywhere. That's something that gets worked out in the settlement phase.
so if an executable prefetches libraries, is that called "executable doping"?
I can see in now...
--headline--
Microsoft admits to executable doping, anonymous sources heard talking about how they "knew" their executables loaded too quickly. Microsoft spokesperson read a public apology to all executables that had ben resource starved because of the malaction of their executables.
The only way this would ever work is if they made regular cable free.
I don't have cable in my house because I think $50 is a waste of money considering I can only think of about 5 shows I would watch if I did have cable.
Since I can't buy cable by the channel, it's of no interest to me... when I can, I'll think about it.
So NVIDIA is guilty of using corked drivers?
Geez! On a side note, I had heard of something like that where some site recommended that renaming your executable to some "name" would give better results.
I think someone should run "strings" on the nvidia driver to see what other names work...
"Is there a country were people will work for free?"
Yes, such a country exists. However, to be part of this country you need to have a big needle stuck in the back of your head and your whole body gets submerged in Astrolube. Your then stored in this "pod" where this "dream" of your life is pumped into your brain by a big computer.
Now, in this dream your actually answering the phone and solving technical problems and you only "think" your getting paid for it. In real life, that money is getting collected so that more people can get plugged into the machine to make them more money...
There was this dude who realized it was a dream and managed to wake up. He now cleans the floors in the building that holds all the people and the big computer. We hear him wanding around go "Damn Red Buritto..."
I think the problem was that the foam had hit the shuttle before and it hadn't caused any damage.
Because of this, I think the engineers were lulled into thinking "Well, it happened before and it didn't cause any damage, why whould anything change now"
Tragically, their apathy about the whole situation cost the lives of 7 really smart and talented people.
In the future when we build the next generation shuttle, they integrate some better sensors that would detect that kind of damage.
For that matter than, they could go after them for marketing windows... or worse... for continuing to push DOS...
I'm not even going to start talking about "Microsoft Bob"...
It's not like their scanning in the patterns, they're selling discarded merchandise.
One mans trash is another mans treasure.
I think McCall is just pissed because someone thought up a clever way to make money in a way they didn't forsee.
Maybe we'll get lucky and some judge will find a chink in DMCA's armor and the whole thing'll go up in smoke...
Why haven't drug dealers picked up on the whole geocaching craze?
Well, there's this old saying...
If 10 people break the law, they goto jail...
If a million people break the law, they change the law.
On a side note, I agree about the low speed limits. They should up the speed limit to 70-75.
Paying a very low fee would make it non trivial for a company to just perpetuate it's copyrights.
As it stands a few companies have tens of thousands of copyrights that their just sitting on for the sake of others not having access to them.
If you set some low fee, it would just legitimize their sqandering of literary material.
That's the whole idea behind sucking the whole lecture into an mp3.
At most the typing would be at a minimum. Mainly it would free you to actually pay attention to what the professor is saying then trying to digest it into something to put into one setence on paper.
My thinking is that the average note would look like this:
[12:44:43 audio] described dualism
[13:04:34 image] sketched relationship pyramid
Even better that timestamp would actually be clickable and would seek to the content (either the audio or the image taken with the camera)
You should think about getting one of those laptops with a built in camera, so when the prof. starts drawing diagrams just grab the frame.
Also, provided you've got enough harddrive space you could record the lecture into mp3 (at a low bitrate) and make an archive of the whole thing.
Actually, what would be a really cool application that would sorta automate the whole process. It would record the audio in the background while giving you a place to write timestamped notes (you'd hit a button when the teacher said something of interest) and write a quick note. You could also hit another button and it would take a time stamped snapshot and also put a marker in the notes as well...
Actually I didn't, thanks!
I was over a buddies house and we turned on SG-1 and it turned out they were showing some of the original episodes, so I managed to catch the first 4 episodes in succession.
Very cool stuff.
Yup, your right.
Tragically, your dick is still too small to post under anything other than AC.
Oh well you pussy little fucking fucktard.
Let me swap out "Joe Millionare" and "American Idol" with "Trading Spaces" and "Iron Chef"
Happy now you fucking zipper headed dipshit.
I'd call you dumb as paint, but I'd be insulting the paint...
The reason they don't go for the ala-carte system is that it wouldn't give them any guarentees.
When some channel approaches a cable company they say "how many households am I going to be seen in?"
What the cable company doesn't want to say is "Well, it depends on how many people put you in their package".
What they say is, we'll you'll be in 67% of our customers homes.
Personally, I agree. I don't have cable (or watch any TV) because it's so shitty. Yeah, I miss SG-1 and Enterprise, but it's the small price I have to play to not get exposed to Joe Millionare and American Idol...
I'm usually very much against internet vigilantism, but I would think if any company deserved to have their boxes DOS'd these creeps do.
Having had several relatives fall into one of their traps only to call me pleading for help and explaining how they got this error message that their computer was "under performing" and that this software would fix everything and now windows can't find this "Registry" thing.
Then again, when I worked in the corporate helpdesk I had a user call me one day complaining that his computer didn't work... upon further discussion it came to light that he ran out of disk space so he deleted all his (we'll as many as he could before his computer started freaking out) DLL's off the machine.