Best radar systems in the world hey? I don't suppose you have heard of JORN, developed in Australia? It can detect stealth aircraft over 3000km away, but i'm sure lockheed must have something better right?
People die without AC, because they don't drink enough and dehydrate. Where I live, the temperature in summer hits mid 40's every day, all week, and nobody dies.
I read about european "heatwaves" of mid 30's and people end up in hospital.
The water temperature of the ocean is higher than that here, and nobody dies from it!
The brown tree snake is another interesting example. It was a native of Australia and Papua New Guinea, stowed away on a US ship to Guam. Oops!
There is also a starfish that is carried around the world by ships, that is causing major problems not only for Australia, but many countries. I can't remember the name, but it eats the coral reefs, leaving a desolate wasteland.
Another example of evolution in action, is the effect on certain snakes the toad is having. I think its the Red Belly Black snake that is evolving a smaller and smaller jaw size, which limits the size of toads that can be ingested. smaller toad means less toxin, ie non-lethal doses. This is measurable from museum specimens taken over the years, since the cane toads introduction.
There is a large electronics chain in Australia, that sells a device for Macrovision removal, except its called a video stabiliser or something.
Anyway, Joe Sixpack or whoever notices they can't copy a video, asks why, gets sold one of these (pretty cheap) devices, and is happy, no mention of Macrovision, no technical details, just plug it in, and away they go.
What i'm trying to say, is that average people are bypassing Macrovision all the time, without even knowing what it is.
I never used to, but it turns out Compact Discs are not as indestructable as they told us. After a couple of my favourite discs became unreadable, I bought a pack of Tao Yuiden Ceramacoat CDR and stole some backups.
Having a phone doesn't indicate need or desire to call somebody.
My bank no longer has a phone, although plenty of people want to ring them. The found answering the phone was costing them money, so they got rid of it.
I think you can fax them, but you can't ever talk to a human being, unless you enter the branch (where incidently, they charge you for just about everything). Small town, one bank - what you gonna do?
Haha, like Joe Teenager and friends know how to use softice, let alone your average business user.
No matter what their goal, the end result is that legit customers are inconvenienced and the product is still available in your favourite binaries group for download.
Did you actually read your links?
The first one clearly states:
Laser eye surgery accomplished before a member enters active duty continues to be a medical disqualifier. However, medical waivers are possible. See the Laser Eye Surgery Medical Waiver Policy page for more information.
Yeah, liteon drives are totally crap, with any dvd media, if you buy the cheap stuff. If you want to burn on cheap media, do not get a liteon drive.
CDR/RW is fine, but for DVD+-R/RW, unless you use high quality media, the drives suck.
I had a liteon CDRW, which will write at high speed on the cheapest media I can get hold of, and I have never had a read error/coaster. This is why I got the Liteon DVD burner. Oops! Should googled it first.
Everyone seems to assume that there is some excess of fuel in antarctica, that can readily be sold, if only Australia/New Zealand/US researchers were not being assholes.
What do you think will happen if the give this guy fuel from their limited supplies, and then have an emergency themselves? Its not like they can just order some more and have it arrive quickly, especially if there is bad weather.
I hate the whole thing where you have to return rentals, now mabey those lazy folk like me will be able to rent, happy in the knowledge that we're helping create usefull landfill:)
Sorry, this is not the bios that was being used by the poster I replied to. He said he uses his modchip to run the Xbox Media Player (XBMP). This program is compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio 6, with the XDK. There is currently no other way to compile it for xbox. i.e OpenXDK will NOT compile it. Also, from xbox-linux.sourceforge.net FAQ section
"Xbox Linux Project's Cromwell clean BIOS, which is only able to install and boot Linux, but does not contain any Microsoft code"
Clearly, its copyright infringement, because he can run XBMP.
So sure, point taken that there is a free alternative, but when it is clearly not being used, its hardly a get out of jail free card is it?
Actually, you are probably wrong. The modchip you have installed has a copyrighted bios image on it. Sure, its been modified by the xboxhackers out there, but it still uses code from the xbox development kit, which is copyright microsoft.
So mabey you don't copy games, but your chip still infringes copyright.
The exception to this is the new cromwell bios, which is for running linux, and has been developed from scratch, not using the XDK, but sorry, that bios won't run your media player, or legit games.
but my local Walmart had plenty of copies
Wow, this must be a software/firmware update huh?
They have plenty of copies left, but i think i'll just wait till it hits usenet.
Does anybody else think its kinda weird that two of the games (Quake3, RTCW) are not DirectX games, but OpenGL?
For all we know, vanilla wine does just as well for those games, and you don't have to pay $5/month. Of course, you could also download the linux binaries, and get better performance, withouth paying $5/month:)
I am a user of the BigPond Freedom plan. I would
consider myself a little above average in my usage, but definatley NOT excessive.
I play Q3 and Tribes2 online, I read newsgroups, I send/receive email, and a spend a little time browsing the web. The only bandwidth intensive thing I really do is when I apt-get update, and thats not very often, I have a cron job do it at 3am from an australian mirror.
Oh yeah, and my little sister does some web browsing for school work too.
These figures are
a little higher than avg, because she did a windows update on her win2k box, SP2 IE 5.5 etc
Maybe that's true morally, but it doesn't make the situation any more right legally. What exactly is the point of "law" if it doesn't reflect the morals of society?
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Best radar systems in the world hey? I don't suppose you have heard of JORN, developed in Australia? It can detect stealth aircraft over 3000km away, but i'm sure lockheed must have something better right?
People die without AC, because they don't drink enough and dehydrate.
Where I live, the temperature in summer hits mid 40's every day, all week, and nobody dies.
I read about european "heatwaves" of mid 30's and people end up in hospital.
The water temperature of the ocean is higher than that here, and nobody dies from it!
I thought they were talking about Second Life or some MMORPG.
Right up until I read the article anyway.
The brown tree snake is another interesting example. It was a native of Australia and Papua New Guinea, stowed away on a US ship to Guam. Oops!
There is also a starfish that is carried around the world by ships, that is causing major problems not only for Australia, but many countries. I can't remember the name, but it eats the coral reefs, leaving a desolate wasteland.
Another example of evolution in action, is the effect on certain snakes the toad is having. I think its the Red Belly Black snake that is evolving a smaller and smaller jaw size, which limits the size of toads that can be ingested. smaller toad means less toxin, ie non-lethal doses. This is measurable from museum specimens taken over the years, since the cane toads introduction.
There is a large electronics chain in Australia, that sells a device for Macrovision removal, except its called a video stabiliser or something.
Anyway, Joe Sixpack or whoever notices they can't copy a video, asks why, gets sold one of these (pretty cheap) devices, and is happy, no mention of Macrovision, no technical details, just plug it in, and away they go.
What i'm trying to say, is that average people are bypassing Macrovision all the time, without even knowing what it is.
I never used to, but it turns out Compact Discs are not as indestructable as they told us. After a couple of my favourite discs became unreadable, I bought a pack of Tao Yuiden Ceramacoat CDR and stole some backups.
Having a phone doesn't indicate need or desire to call somebody.
My bank no longer has a phone, although plenty of people want to ring them. The found answering the phone was costing them money, so they got rid of it.
I think you can fax them, but you can't ever talk to a human being, unless you enter the branch (where incidently, they charge you for just about everything). Small town, one bank - what you gonna do?
Haha, like Joe Teenager and friends know how to use softice, let alone your average business user.
No matter what their goal, the end result is that legit customers are inconvenienced and the product is still available in your favourite binaries group for download.
Did you actually read your links? The first one clearly states:
Laser eye surgery accomplished before a member enters active duty continues to be a medical disqualifier. However, medical waivers are possible. See the Laser Eye Surgery Medical Waiver Policy page for more information.
Its about a page down.
Yeah, liteon drives are totally crap, with any dvd media, if you buy the cheap stuff. If you want to burn on cheap media, do not get a liteon drive.
CDR/RW is fine, but for DVD+-R/RW, unless you use high quality media, the drives suck.
I had a liteon CDRW, which will write at high speed on the cheapest media I can get hold of, and I have never had a read error/coaster. This is why I got the Liteon DVD burner. Oops! Should googled it first.
My point is that you can't guarantee that your C-130 is going to actually get there. Its that fucking unpredictable.
Everyone seems to assume that there is some excess of fuel in antarctica, that can readily be sold, if only Australia/New Zealand/US researchers were not being assholes.
What do you think will happen if the give this guy fuel from their limited supplies, and then have an emergency themselves? Its not like they can just order some more and have it arrive quickly, especially if there is bad weather.
Cool,
:)
I hate the whole thing where you have to return rentals, now mabey those lazy folk like me will be able to rent, happy in the knowledge that we're helping create usefull landfill
Sorry, this is not the bios that was being used by the poster I replied to. He said he uses his modchip to run the Xbox Media Player (XBMP). This program is compiled using Microsoft Visual Studio 6, with the XDK. There is currently no other way to compile it for xbox. i.e OpenXDK will NOT compile it. Also, from xbox-linux.sourceforge.net FAQ section
"Xbox Linux Project's Cromwell clean BIOS, which is only able to install and boot Linux, but does not contain any Microsoft code"
Clearly, its copyright infringement, because he can run XBMP.
So sure, point taken that there is a free alternative, but when it is clearly not being used, its hardly a get out of jail free card is it?
Actually, you are probably wrong. The modchip you have installed has a copyrighted bios image on it. Sure, its been modified by the xboxhackers out there, but it still uses code from the xbox development kit, which is copyright microsoft.
So mabey you don't copy games, but your chip still infringes copyright.
The exception to this is the new cromwell bios, which is for running linux, and has been developed from scratch, not using the XDK, but sorry, that bios won't run your media player, or legit games.
but my local Walmart had plenty of copies
Wow, this must be a software/firmware update huh? They have plenty of copies left, but i think i'll just wait till it hits usenet.
could someone tell me exactly what an "alike" looks like?
Yes, but according to CNET, in IRC you have to
type cryptic commands to find and join "chatrooms".
Who would ever guess that "/join #blah" would be
the required command to join #blah??
I guess CNET thinks cryptic is a synonym for obvious.
Does anybody else think its kinda weird that two of the games (Quake3, RTCW) are not DirectX games, but OpenGL?
:)
For all we know, vanilla wine does just as well for those games, and you don't have to pay $5/month. Of course, you could also download
the linux binaries, and get better performance, withouth paying $5/month
Why? Its not like they carry guns in Australia.
it doesn't work. pay the bill on the internet
and the money never moves, the bill remains
unpaid.
try it and see.
I don't know re bpay, and yes, this guy
should pay his fucking bill and mabey we
wouldn't have 3gb caps to start with!
I am a user of the BigPond Freedom plan. I would
consider myself a little above average in my usage, but definatley NOT excessive.
I play Q3 and Tribes2 online, I read newsgroups, I send/receive email, and a spend a little time browsing the web. The only bandwidth intensive thing I really do is when I apt-get update, and thats not very often, I have a cron job do it at 3am from an australian mirror.
madness:~# ifconfig eth1 | grep bytes
RX bytes:2556879164 (2438.4 Mb) TX bytes:138309404 (131.9 Mb)
madness:~# uptime
12:07:01 up 9 days, 22:09, 5 users, load average: 0.13, 0.03, 0.01
Oh yeah, and my little sister does some web browsing for school work too. These figures are
a little higher than avg, because she did a windows update on her win2k box, SP2 IE 5.5 etc
Am I really all that EXCESSIVE?
I've found that I don't even need to ssh in when it crashes. Just CTRL-ALT-F[1-12] to the good old console and do a killall tribes from there.
Much easier no?
Maybe that's true morally, but it doesn't make the situation any more right legally. What exactly is the point of "law" if it doesn't reflect the morals of society?