No. I heard a story from a friend of mine (whose name I can't remember) of a friend of his (whose name he can't remember) who runs a pirate copy and it updates fine. Service packs, no. Updates, yes.
Boycotts don't work. If it's hits they're after, it's hits they'll get. I'd never seen that site before today... and had after I'd read the boycott request.;) Oops...
They're nearly one and the same- if you lose credit score, you're going to pay for it in the long run- in the form of higher rates on any borrowed monies...
This device increases a vehicle's horsepower by an average of 23%. The system does not cause any damage to the engine, and only consumes about 2 amps of electrical power (about as much as your taillights use). The power increase is due to the introduction of large volumes of Ozone to the engine air intake.
*cough*bullshit!*cough*
Nothing against the parent poster, but this fails the maxim that there's no such thing as a free lunch. As with nitrous oxide (the bottled power adder of Fast & Furious fame, of late), when you cram more oxygen into a combustion engine you have to add proportionally more fuel... or the combustion goes lean, things get hot, and then go BOOM! Or SKRANK! But they don't go well. That's if the oxygen in ozone is available for combustion at the pressures in question- IANAP and don't know if it is or not.
Forgot- wrong forum for that...
The contrast ratio is 600:1? It better be high- the pixels on this thing are the size of flashlights! What's the point of buying a 29" display if you have to sit three feet away to start enjoying it? Yeah, 29" is a lot of square footage, but you aren't gaining "square pixelage"... which is at least if not more important.
Moore's Law looks like its going to hold for the forseable future (still), so it wont be long before the 109 bit version becomes trivial and the 163 bit is doable in a reasonable time frame
Depends what you call a reasonable time frame- Moore's law predicts a doubling every 18 months, and if the same brute-force code-guessing techniques are used to "break" the encryption it will be awhile.
109! is a much smaller number than 163!(!), and IMMIC(If My Math Is Correct), there are ~2 x 10^114 more bit combinations in 163 factorial than in 109 factorial...
Maybe we could construct a ladder?
Ooh! I can see the tops of the trees already!
Cake or Death... Long live Eddie Izzard... his stand-up is a must-see.
Cheap fast internet is not a God given right to all the world.
No, perhaps not. Given that, it seems logical that it should be affordable at least. In the simple case where one has existing telephone service and wishes to get DSL(residential) from the same provider, the infrastructure is already in place. I.E., they already have the copper to the POS. They are effectively making money on top of something that they're already getting paid for! I understand there is a cost to supplying the bandwidth and switching hardware, but they *own* the bandwidth, and it goes unused otherwise. Correct me if I'm wrong... I don't think it's asking too much for 1.5M/384K D/U for ~$40-50/month. Tech costs trend down with time(given like equipment), and in May, 1999 I paid $39.99/mo for reliable 165KB/S down, static IP, always on DSL from Pac Bell. I moved shortly thereafter and have regretted losing that sweetheart of a deal ever since.
No, no, no... this will lead to an entirely new phenomenon! We already have the "hands-free" earbud style headset, so...
Instead of the usual "person talking to themselves"(i.e. talking into the headset but not holding the phone), there will be legions of people walking around having animated conversations with their cell phone held at arms' length. Can you imagine someone trying desperately to get a signal? Or having a heated argument? Something similar to the following... "IF I'VE TOLD YOU ONCE, I'VE TOLD YOU A THOUSAND TIMES, DON'T PISS ME OFF!!!"
DVD-18 will hold up to 17. I think a typical feature length movie and "special features" usually eats up 14GB.
http://www.nswc.navy.mil/cosip/nov97/cots1197-1.sh tml
As a DVD can hold 14GB, and DVD rewriteable are no where near that capacity... the short version is "no". Add to that CSS(content scrambles system) encryption.... and well no you can't just make a bit for bit copy.. AFAIK. Anyone care to correct me?
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No. I heard a story from a friend of mine (whose name I can't remember) of a friend of his (whose name he can't remember) who runs a pirate copy and it updates fine. Service packs, no. Updates, yes.
Boycotts don't work. If it's hits they're after, it's hits they'll get. I'd never seen that site before today... and had after I'd read the boycott request. ;) Oops...
They're nearly one and the same- if you lose credit score, you're going to pay for it in the long run- in the form of higher rates on any borrowed monies...
That was very very sneaky... and completely forseeable. :( CYA...
"Hands up! Move away from the Outlook..."
The contrast ratio is 600:1? It better be high- the pixels on this thing are the size of flashlights! What's the point of buying a 29" display if you have to sit three feet away to start enjoying it? Yeah, 29" is a lot of square footage, but you aren't gaining "square pixelage"... which is at least if not more important.
Maybe we could construct a ladder? Ooh! I can see the tops of the trees already! Cake or Death... Long live Eddie Izzard... his stand-up is a must-see.
What is the matter with you? Nothing like a little anonymity to bring out the freak in oneself, eh?
Cheap fast internet is not a God given right to all the world.
No, perhaps not. Given that, it seems logical that it should be affordable at least. In the simple case where one has existing telephone service and wishes to get DSL(residential) from the same provider, the infrastructure is already in place. I.E., they already have the copper to the POS. They are effectively making money on top of something that they're already getting paid for! I understand there is a cost to supplying the bandwidth and switching hardware, but they *own* the bandwidth, and it goes unused otherwise. Correct me if I'm wrong... I don't think it's asking too much for 1.5M/384K D/U for ~$40-50/month. Tech costs trend down with time(given like equipment), and in May, 1999 I paid $39.99/mo for reliable 165KB/S down, static IP, always on DSL from Pac Bell. I moved shortly thereafter and have regretted losing that sweetheart of a deal ever since.
Or perhaps Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within...
Instead of the usual "person talking to themselves"(i.e. talking into the headset but not holding the phone), there will be legions of people walking around having animated conversations with their cell phone held at arms' length. Can you imagine someone trying desperately to get a signal? Or having a heated argument? Something similar to the following... "IF I'VE TOLD YOU ONCE, I'VE TOLD YOU A THOUSAND TIMES, DON'T PISS ME OFF!!!"
DVD-18 will hold up to 17. I think a typical feature length movie and "special features" usually eats up 14GB. http://www.nswc.navy.mil/cosip/nov97/cots1197-1.sh tml
As a DVD can hold 14GB, and DVD rewriteable are no where near that capacity... the short version is "no". Add to that CSS(content scrambles system) encryption.... and well no you can't just make a bit for bit copy.. AFAIK. Anyone care to correct me?