The second mouse button wasn't "invented". The first mouse ever had three buttons. Only Apple thought they'd have to dumb it down to one because they thought their users couldn't count farther or whatever. It's not "different", it's just stupid. Everyone with half a brain can cope with at least two mouse buttons.
People will be thinking twice about doing that when the punishment for inability to produce ID is immediate and indefinite incarceration, or worse.
And there will be laws to punish people not carrying a valid ID card. Otherwise the whole concept would be pointless. Maybe it'll just be a fine at first, but you can bet that punishments will gradually increase.
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=3062
So I was right. It's still only a software issue. If you had spent just five minutes searching google instead of drooling on your keyboard while composing this incoherent rant, you hadn't made such a fool of yourself. Which most likely happens to you on a regular basis, and is probably the reason why you post anonymously.
Also, the original (prototype?) was manually controlled, while the new one seems to be semi-autonomous, with GPS and waypoint navigation. So this is actually current news, though the photograph might be an old one.
No, it's not. Hydrogen-oxygen mixtures are explosive, though.
Besides, in the event of an accident, I'd rather have a gas flame that burns more or less localized than be drenched in burning liquid hydrocarbon (the vapors of which are no less dangerous than hydrogen). There are good arguments against using hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles, but safety isn't one of them.
Though you can't help but think about those 200 poor Indian villagers who blew their life's savings on something that is now basically a paperweight.
Indian villager to his wife: "Look what I bought us! It's called a simputer. It will take us into straight into the 21st century and magically improve our lives! We won't be able to buy food for a year, and I had to sell two of our kids to the Nike factory, but finally, we will live like rich westerners, writing emails and surfing the web!"
All recent drives allow uploading of firmware updates. So you simply
read out the firmware
disassemble the firmware
find the code that checks for password
replace it with NOPs
upload patched firmware to drive
Profit!
Of course this assumes that you can still upload new firmware to a locked drive... no idea if that works, but who knows, even if not, maybe there's some weakness that would allow you to do it.
Congratulations, sir, you are the first one to use a crappy and completely wrong analogy in a thread about intellectual property and copyright. Here's your award.
What the hell are you doing to your hardware? This 80 Gig Seagate next to me has, lessee, 17,679 power on hours (thats slightly over 2 years running time) and still works like on the day when it was brand new.
Of course, it sits in a cooled drive bay and never gets warmer than 40 degrees C. The current drive temp is 28 degrees.
The only defective hard drive I've had is a 2 Gig Quantum SCSI drive... it still works, mind you, but it takes hefty slap to start up. The heads are probably stuck to the platters.
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I liked the game, the graphics were really nice and all, but I wouldn't call it beautiful.
The second mouse button wasn't "invented". The first mouse ever had three buttons. Only Apple thought they'd have to dumb it down to one because they thought their users couldn't count farther or whatever. It's not "different", it's just stupid. Everyone with half a brain can cope with at least two mouse buttons.
You mean just like about every military out there?
Yes, we get it indeed. You don't know shit about electronics.
Hey, at least your PC's fans are smarter than Michael Jackson's.
Being able to boot into Windows (and run it at full speed and compatibility) when you need it would be a huge pro for the Mac platform.
Also, there are rumors that it's going to be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever to show off the power of the Cell/Hurd platform.
And there will be laws to punish people not carrying a valid ID card. Otherwise the whole concept would be pointless. Maybe it'll just be a fine at first, but you can bet that punishments will gradually increase.
Also, check this review for another unusual keyboard.
I can't believe nobody has posted the above info yet. Slashdot has really gone downhill as of late.
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=3062 So I was right. It's still only a software issue. If you had spent just five minutes searching google instead of drooling on your keyboard while composing this incoherent rant, you hadn't made such a fool of yourself. Which most likely happens to you on a regular basis, and is probably the reason why you post anonymously.
(At least it was that way with the original GeForce/GeForce 2).
Hey, it already keeps burgers fresh and razors sharp. That's more than you can say for most of the other monuments.
Also, the original (prototype?) was manually controlled, while the new one seems to be semi-autonomous, with GPS and waypoint navigation. So this is actually current news, though the photograph might be an old one.
No, it's not. Hydrogen-oxygen mixtures are explosive, though.
Besides, in the event of an accident, I'd rather have a gas flame that burns more or less localized than be drenched in burning liquid hydrocarbon (the vapors of which are no less dangerous than hydrogen). There are good arguments against using hydrogen as a fuel for vehicles, but safety isn't one of them.
Indian villager to his wife: "Look what I bought us! It's called a simputer. It will take us into straight into the 21st century and magically improve our lives! We won't be able to buy food for a year, and I had to sell two of our kids to the Nike factory, but finally, we will live like rich westerners, writing emails and surfing the web!"
Two months later: company folds.
- read out the firmware
- disassemble the firmware
- find the code that checks for password
- replace it with NOPs
- upload patched firmware to drive
- Profit!
Of course this assumes that you can still upload new firmware to a locked driveUSB, Firewire and other serial protocols have much too high latency to be usable in this kind of application.
Just too bad it's slower than the inferior 'fake' ones.
I thought (most) countries don't extradite their own citizens, no matter what. At the very least not for relatively minor offenses like this.
Depends on the car.
Well fuck me Tommy. What have you been reading?
Congratulations, sir, you are the first one to use a crappy and completely wrong analogy in a thread about intellectual property and copyright. Here's your award.
Just write on the side: If you blow one of these up, we'll make bombers out of the others.
Of course, it sits in a cooled drive bay and never gets warmer than 40 degrees C. The current drive temp is 28 degrees.
The only defective hard drive I've had is a 2 Gig Quantum SCSI drive ... it still works, mind you, but it takes hefty slap to start up. The heads are probably stuck to the platters.
Oh yeah, DTemp is pretty nifty.