If the flies can only mate once, then releasing a large amount of sterile males will certainly help.
Your argument works with larger animals such as mammals where mating can occur as often as possible with both males and females. Once a fly mates, that's it. No second chances. If a sterile male mates with a female then that female has no chance of reproducing.
The problem with the Medfly release is that suddenly a larger population of non-sterile males were out there, allowing less of a chance for females to die before finding a mate. So in this case, males and females are genetically equal.
They used method this to control the Medfly here in California back in the 80's as well. Guess what?
The release of the sterilized flies resulted in a screw-up where the flies weren't actually sterilized at all.
The whole situation with the Medfly is that they can only mate once, though dumping a huge number of *supposedly* sterile males really helps out the population in this case. I really hope they don't screw up like that.
They can easily check who bought what with serial numbers.
At one of my forays to Fry's to purchase an X-box, they not only took my money, but also entered the serial number of the box into their system. Since this was paid for by a credit card, they have all the info necessary to track the item back to me.
Now I understand paying with cash can help solve the above problem, but if resellers are forced to track the serial numbers, they will -- no matter now many John Smith 123 Main St USA they have in their database.
Considering how things are going with IP and the draconian measures being taken, I would not doubt that blanks and drives, when they become available, must be sold as a traceable item.
If the whole thing is too onerous, simply making the players/recorders "call home" a'la TiVo would serve the same purpose.
The next step is to tie the consumer's identification in a traceable manner. The only way to do that is to tie the consumer to the serial numbers. That way they can know what we record, and possibly what we watch.
So what you're saying is that you deliberately prevented their dialer from connecting you to a human being, and then blame them for dead air calls and say it's harrassment?
Ummmm... Nooooo.
I only picked up once. If there's no response within a few seconds after I say "Hello", then they are wasting my time. Besides, it's an out-of-state call. Now they get billed for the time.
The rest of the time they were screened.
As for the "dead air" -- haven't you received calls like this? Where they can't even be bothered to have a human at the other end, only a prerecorded pitch or switching device?
A retailer calling me up for an extended warrantee sale should not call like a bill collector or a jilted lover.
Circuit City harrassed me. The Sony XBR TV I purchased last year had its 1-year MFG warrantee expire, and I screen my calls with caller-ID. They called no less than 10 times a week for two weeks.
How they dialed up was annoying too. After 5 or 6 calls, I picked up to see what there problem was, they don't even have a person on the other end, the machine waits for something that sounds like a voice and then attempts to connect you to a service rep. I never play those games -- just say "Hello" once and wait. Twice and the computer knows they have a bite on the hook.
They finally got a clue and started sending me letters. If you haven't guessed what they wanted by now, it was to peddle an "Extended Service Plan."
It works for Verizon DSL. I recently migrated my DSL service to them and they sent an e-mail contract. All I had to do was hit reply and put "I AGREE" in the subject (I read the contract first). Prest-o change-o, my account was set up, and everyone's happy.
I doubt they would do this if it were not binding in some way.
Shortly before an economic summit in NYC, the Feds raid an anarchist's website and home.
Said anarchist is unfazed and travels to NYC anyway and gets nabbed.
Summit is now over with no real "incidents". Suddenly, the FBI is all sorry for the inconvenience. (but good luck getting your computers, papers, car, and other misc. property back).
So what we have here are possibly pre-emptive raids by the Feds. Possibly to shut him up and intimidate him. I would not be suprised if this happens again to someone else when some more corporate/government bigwigs try to pow-wow in another American city.
It is not just the DMCA: it is the whole idea, very popular these days in political talk, that if something can be used for harmful purposes, it needs to be banned inmediately because it will be used in that manner.
You seem to be missing the point. Importing deadly weapons (guns) and importing Intellectual Property infringement devices (serial cables) have clearly shown where the priorities of this country now lay in regards to its citizens.
I personally find it hard to replace a dead tree with a laptop. Imagine reading the latest yarn, bathed in the glow of a backlight, the little tyke snug in their bed juuuust dropping off to sleep...
[WHOOOOSH!] Notebook's fan goes into super-turboblast mode
[BING!] Low battery warning
[WHAAAAH!] Kid gets a priority interrupt and awakens from sleep.
[WHIrrrr....CLICK!] Notebook shuts itself down in a last gasp of self-preservation, leaving you with a screaming kid in a pitch black room.
or even better... you drone away endlessly and suddenly realize you are no longer reading about Sir Arthur, but are halfway through reading off the BSOD of a general protection fault.
Outrun had a spring-centered steering wheel. The sit-down version had the seat slide to the left and right to simulate the tail end of the car sliding.
Sorry, Atari's Pole Position (1982) and Pole Position II (1983) did not have force feedback of any kind. I distinctly remember the steering wheel's ability to "spin" in either direction, quite in the manner that real steering wheels don't.
Now Atari's Race Drivin' (1990) and Hard Drivin' (1989) both have force feedback on the steering, definitely prior art.
It is significantly more difficult to keep animals from dangerous boat-rocking mating in a maritime environment, be sure to add that to your total cost of ownership
Hardly, unless Noah had a huge drum he was beating (like the old slave galleys) to keep all the critters "in synch", the various sizes of the animals combined with the various timings of the thrustings would result in negligible boat rocking.
You had better search out and buy VCR's without AGC (automatic gain control, the device fooled by Macrovision) they are already illegal (see section 1201.k.1.A) to traffic in these devices.
I would bet that Macrovision's 98+ patents preclude anyone from coming up with a similar scheme of copy protection. Lovely how that works out where your monopoly is codified in federal law.
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This was true when I powered up my iBook.
Getting this beast for OS X was an easy enough choice. The "manual" just pointed out some basic features, like where certain things are and connecting to the internet though the GUI.
The thing was no more than 20 or so pages of mostly pictures. A+ for simplicity, appearance and brevity. However, you gotta dig and dig on the net or buy a 3rd party manual to figure out how the other stuff works -- like NetInfo. Lucky for me, I got my UNIX experience on a NeXT box - another miracle in an easy-to-use UNIX OS and mine came with nearly a yard of manuals and developer's documentation. It was a relatively painless process to migrate for me.
Only D-VHS players with this "D-Theater" technology will be able to play the new generation of high definition D-VHS cassettes
Greeeaaaat... here's a restriction that's being pushed as a feature. Almost (but not quite) as funny as seeing Best Buy and Circuit City's Sony products listing "SDMI Compliant" as a feature.
OK. We need to start digging in the desert to find an old buried ship and use the discovered lost technology to build a new one in orbit and go off to find our "Homeworld"?
Or scour Japan looking for Noriko to pilot the Gunbuster?
It's great now that there's more Sci-Fi to hope will come true. 2001 was such a disappointment.
Even more so that the content is supposedly encrypted and compressed. I used my VII for e-mail and accessing flight schedules. I easily stayed within the limits of the cheapest plan. Palm.net even has a feature on their website that looks at your past usage history and recommends the appropriate service level.
Even more nice is that Palm.net will not charge you to upgrade/downgrade your service level -- changes go into effect at the end of the billing cycle.
Remember that Palm.net is basically a glorified text paging service. If you want to read web pages, that's what Avantgo is for. Sync up before you leave.
G4 is the processor, GeForce4 is the video card.
Photoshop is one of a few applications that take advantage of dual-processor machines running the "old" MacOS. The "old" MacOS is not multiprocessor aware--certain applications are. The "new" MacOS supports multiprocessor machines at the operating system level instead of the application level.
So what will they ask for if the damage is irreparable? Make it a capital offense? Remove your nads? Nothing like the threat of the death penalty for copyright infringement to chill those who want fair use.
If the damage is irreparable, then they refuse to specify what the actual dmages are. Therefore they should be entitled to nothing.
A Dual G4 is barely better than a single processor G4? If you really mean in MacOS 9, where the second processor is not used except for SMP-aware applications like FCP or Photoshop, then yes you are correct. However leaving out information such as OS X being an SMP aware OS is downright unfair. Tossing out the "there are no OS X apps available" argument doesn't work.
My Dual G4 allows me to render MPEGs for DVD burning and iMovie rendering in the background while having plenty of cycles available for other tasks.
If you are going to bash as system, please do mote than pick and choose information, if you really did do any research.
Really folks, Apple is doing the Right Thing releasing OS X. I was a happy intel camper until I saw I could get a top-notch unix system that runs mainstream commercial apps at sane prices. You could not ask for more than that, except to say these apps also come out on Linux.
How about a free copy of a linux or Free/NetBSD distro to everyone who can supply Microsoft with a valid Windows license? I'm not talking downloaded ISO's, I'm talking about retail boxed distros, the ones that include manuals and support. Make MS buy them from Redhat, Mandrake, Suse and all.
Disclaimer: Yeah, I have VA Linux stock. (But at least I bought it last summer).
I was kicking this idea around while logging into my Hotmail "dropbox" (used for things like required e-mails for web site access, web e-tailers, etc.)
This mailbox is now getting 30+ spams a day, the majority from other Hotmail/AOL/Yahoo/MSN users.
Quite a few of these users are creating obviously fake user names such as a sring of 3-4 characters and some integer value. Would it be possible to punish some of these free e-mail services by writing a bot that creates hundreds or thousands of spambait mailboxes on these services? Examples would be aaaab, aaaac, aaaad, etc. Get several thousand (or tens of thousands) of people to participate and it would easily clutter up the servers, directories, etc. -- AND it would be ready-found fodder for brute-force spambots that troll these free e-mail services. As an added bonus the user can run another script to log in once every two to three weeks to keep the created accounts active.
Just a thought... thinking ain't illegal yet, isn't it?
ObDisclaimer: No scripts have been written, none intended to be written, nothing past the "what if..." wondering stage. So keep the lawyers leashed.
The best thing about Morpheus is that if you use it in conjunction with Proxomitron, or just monitor the IP range it tries to access, you can block the ad frame on the lower left *and* prevent popups.
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Your argument works with larger animals such as mammals where mating can occur as often as possible with both males and females. Once a fly mates, that's it. No second chances. If a sterile male mates with a female then that female has no chance of reproducing.
The problem with the Medfly release is that suddenly a larger population of non-sterile males were out there, allowing less of a chance for females to die before finding a mate. So in this case, males and females are genetically equal.
The release of the sterilized flies resulted in a screw-up where the flies weren't actually sterilized at all.
The whole situation with the Medfly is that they can only mate once, though dumping a huge number of *supposedly* sterile males really helps out the population in this case. I really hope they don't screw up like that.
At one of my forays to Fry's to purchase an X-box, they not only took my money, but also entered the serial number of the box into their system. Since this was paid for by a credit card, they have all the info necessary to track the item back to me.
Now I understand paying with cash can help solve the above problem, but if resellers are forced to track the serial numbers, they will -- no matter now many John Smith 123 Main St USA they have in their database.
Considering how things are going with IP and the draconian measures being taken, I would not doubt that blanks and drives, when they become available, must be sold as a traceable item.
If the whole thing is too onerous, simply making the players/recorders "call home" a'la TiVo would serve the same purpose.
The next step is to tie the consumer's identification in a traceable manner. The only way to do that is to tie the consumer to the serial numbers. That way they can know what we record, and possibly what we watch.
I only picked up once. If there's no response within a few seconds after I say "Hello", then they are wasting my time. Besides, it's an out-of-state call. Now they get billed for the time.
The rest of the time they were screened.
As for the "dead air" -- haven't you received calls like this? Where they can't even be bothered to have a human at the other end, only a prerecorded pitch or switching device?
A retailer calling me up for an extended warrantee sale should not call like a bill collector or a jilted lover.
How they dialed up was annoying too. After 5 or 6 calls, I picked up to see what there problem was, they don't even have a person on the other end, the machine waits for something that sounds like a voice and then attempts to connect you to a service rep. I never play those games -- just say "Hello" once and wait. Twice and the computer knows they have a bite on the hook.
They finally got a clue and started sending me letters. If you haven't guessed what they wanted by now, it was to peddle an "Extended Service Plan."
I doubt they would do this if it were not binding in some way.
Said anarchist is unfazed and travels to NYC anyway and gets nabbed.
Summit is now over with no real "incidents". Suddenly, the FBI is all sorry for the inconvenience. (but good luck getting your computers, papers, car, and other misc. property back).
So what we have here are possibly pre-emptive raids by the Feds. Possibly to shut him up and intimidate him. I would not be suprised if this happens again to someone else when some more corporate/government bigwigs try to pow-wow in another American city.
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You seem to be missing the point. Importing deadly weapons (guns) and importing Intellectual Property infringement devices (serial cables) have clearly shown where the priorities of this country now lay in regards to its citizens.
[WHOOOOSH!] Notebook's fan goes into super-turboblast mode
[BING!] Low battery warning
[WHAAAAH!] Kid gets a priority interrupt and awakens from sleep.
[WHIrrrr....CLICK!] Notebook shuts itself down in a last gasp of self-preservation, leaving you with a screaming kid in a pitch black room.
or even better... you drone away endlessly and suddenly realize you are no longer reading about Sir Arthur, but are halfway through reading off the BSOD of a general protection fault.
Outrun had a spring-centered steering wheel. The sit-down version had the seat slide to the left and right to simulate the tail end of the car sliding.
Now Atari's Race Drivin' (1990) and Hard Drivin' (1989) both have force feedback on the steering, definitely prior art.
Dates for games from the Known List of Videogames
Hardly, unless Noah had a huge drum he was beating (like the old slave galleys) to keep all the critters "in synch", the various sizes of the animals combined with the various timings of the thrustings would result in negligible boat rocking.
I would bet that Macrovision's 98+ patents preclude anyone from coming up with a similar scheme of copy protection. Lovely how that works out where your monopoly is codified in federal law.
Getting this beast for OS X was an easy enough choice. The "manual" just pointed out some basic features, like where certain things are and connecting to the internet though the GUI.
The thing was no more than 20 or so pages of mostly pictures. A+ for simplicity, appearance and brevity. However, you gotta dig and dig on the net or buy a 3rd party manual to figure out how the other stuff works -- like NetInfo. Lucky for me, I got my UNIX experience on a NeXT box - another miracle in an easy-to-use UNIX OS and mine came with nearly a yard of manuals and developer's documentation. It was a relatively painless process to migrate for me.
Greeeaaaat... here's a restriction that's being pushed as a feature. Almost (but not quite) as funny as seeing Best Buy and Circuit City's Sony products listing "SDMI Compliant" as a feature.
OK. We need to start digging in the desert to find an old buried ship and use the discovered lost technology to build a new one in orbit and go off to find our "Homeworld"?
Or scour Japan looking for Noriko to pilot the Gunbuster?
It's great now that there's more Sci-Fi to hope will come true. 2001 was such a disappointment.
Even more nice is that Palm.net will not charge you to upgrade/downgrade your service level -- changes go into effect at the end of the billing cycle.
Remember that Palm.net is basically a glorified text paging service. If you want to read web pages, that's what Avantgo is for. Sync up before you leave.
Robert
G4 is the processor, GeForce4 is the video card. Photoshop is one of a few applications that take advantage of dual-processor machines running the "old" MacOS. The "old" MacOS is not multiprocessor aware--certain applications are. The "new" MacOS supports multiprocessor machines at the operating system level instead of the application level.
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Think of the possibilities! Bid now on E-Bay!
If the damage is irreparable, then they refuse to specify what the actual dmages are. Therefore they should be entitled to nothing.
My Dual G4 allows me to render MPEGs for DVD burning and iMovie rendering in the background while having plenty of cycles available for other tasks.
If you are going to bash as system, please do mote than pick and choose information, if you really did do any research.
Really folks, Apple is doing the Right Thing releasing OS X. I was a happy intel camper until I saw I could get a top-notch unix system that runs mainstream commercial apps at sane prices. You could not ask for more than that, except to say these apps also come out on Linux.
How about a free copy of a linux or Free/NetBSD distro to everyone who can supply Microsoft with a valid Windows license? I'm not talking downloaded ISO's, I'm talking about retail boxed distros, the ones that include manuals and support. Make MS buy them from Redhat, Mandrake, Suse and all.
Disclaimer: Yeah, I have VA Linux stock. (But at least I bought it last summer).
I was kicking this idea around while logging into my Hotmail "dropbox" (used for things like required e-mails for web site access, web e-tailers, etc.)
This mailbox is now getting 30+ spams a day, the majority from other Hotmail/AOL/Yahoo/MSN users.
Quite a few of these users are creating obviously fake user names such as a sring of 3-4 characters and some integer value. Would it be possible to punish some of these free e-mail services by writing a bot that creates hundreds or thousands of spambait mailboxes on these services? Examples would be aaaab, aaaac, aaaad, etc. Get several thousand (or tens of thousands) of people to participate and it would easily clutter up the servers, directories, etc. -- AND it would be ready-found fodder for brute-force spambots that troll these free e-mail services. As an added bonus the user can run another script to log in once every two to three weeks to keep the created accounts active.
Just a thought... thinking ain't illegal yet, isn't it?
ObDisclaimer: No scripts have been written, none intended to be written, nothing past the "what if..." wondering stage. So keep the lawyers leashed.
Morpheus has never been better.
Robert