Just send a ton of Spam mails and host a pr0n site
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That usually will get you booted off a service pretty quick. Spam the postmaster, abuse, support, sales and other addresses that are found on the top level pages of those providers. They should boot you off, and you won't have to worry about going on the phone.
Or, you could just call your credit card company and say you will refuse to pay any future bills from those companies.
We know that sometimes kids who are never exposed to alcohol until they are 19 or 21 can go way overboard the first time... is there a possibility of the same thing happening with violent video games?
That would mean banning kids from video arcades until they are 18. How you gonna do that? There are places that still have some of the great old games from the 80's, and there are a ton of "violent" video games in the arcades now. Are the owners expected to ID people? Are they expected to have an "adult" section?
I thought this was one of the coolest demonstrations when I was at university. Drop a cube of steel between the coils of the induction furnace, watch it float in the air suspended by magnetism while getting hot enough to turn into liquid then plunk down into a bucket of sand when the thing is shut off.
They build for DX9 based on the written specifications. The DX9 software might be nearing first beta just now, but the specifications and requirements for what is supposed to be in DX9 would be completed long before the software.
it ignores that fact that many folks won't be able to pay their May bills with only half their salary.
If you make over $60K a year, and can't pay your bills after losing $2500 (less than $2000 after deductions), then you have other problems. You need to learn how to budget and not get in debt so much. Making $60K/year you should be saving some. While this might be a bit inconvenient and a bummer, you shouldn't have any problem paying bills (it might mean dipping into your aforementioned savings though). Maybe its a good thing and a wake up call. Maybe these people that can't afford to pay their bills will become more responsible.
Ruiz also disclosed that AMD's 0.13-micron wafer production at Dresden was accelerating and the total transition to the next chip node had moved up by one quarter -- presumably to the end of Q3 '02.
I thought they orginally said quarter 3 for hammers...
I wonder if they are really ahead of schedule.
I'd love to see some Hammers in Sept-Oct. I've been putting off buying anything new in anticipation of this "next big thing"
Yep, and this doesn't take into account that it could be -30 when the snow starts, and you haven't kept the bridge heated since it hasn't snowed for the last 3 weeks, so you have to heat up the bridge a whole lot in -30 weather while the wind (from the snowstorm) is sucking almost all that thermal energy away (and the cold wind will be hitting the big bridge surface you want to heat from both above and below). How much you think its gonna cost now?
The article says:
"At the end of next year, there will be a 64-bit processor called the "Hammer." "
I thought that Hammer was supposed to be out at the end of THIS year?
I agree with you. If it doesn't follow the standard, then it shouldn't be labeled a CD and shouldn't be lumped in with the other CDs to decieve consumers. If they want to sell these things, then should be forced to retail them in some kind of distinct way so that consumers are aware. A little sticker saying its copy protected isn't enough. It should be clearly (not tiny print on the back) labeled "THIS PRODUCT DOES NOT MEET THE STANDARDS OF BEING A CD. EVIDENCE HAS SHOWN THAT THIS PRODUCT WILL NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY ON A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF CD PLAYERS". Then if people still want to buy the damn thing, let em, at least they will have been properly warned.
DVD region locking isn't really an issue. Its easy enough to buy a DVD player that is region free. They aren't illegal. Vote with your dollars and buy a factory region free DVD player and not a modded one. Anyone who is thinking about getting overseas DVDs probably know about the region settings and has a region free player anyways, so they aren't really stopping anything...
Take at look at this report:
http://www.competitivealternatives.com/main.htm
to see how costs compare in different cites. Canada is at the top of the pack for best places to do business. And Edmonton (home of companies like Bio-ware) is the #1 city, though not even mentioned in the other article...
There will be other options...
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You can bet that if this passes, there will be versions of the devices manufactured outside the US that don't comply. The companies in taiwan and other places know that if they make devices without the copy protection built in, there will be a demand for them and people (not just Americans) will buy them. Either that or they will make versions that have a simple disable function so it looks like they comply. Besides, putting a silly law like this into place will just make those people that want a device without copy protection built in, drive across the border to Canada, or Mexico and buy one that isn't crippled. The US law makers have to understand that the laws they pass in their own country don't hold for the rest of the world, especially when it comes to the internet (or in this case consumer goods).
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They talk about systems of up to 1 million of these modules. 1 million processors is gonna suck up a hell of a lot of power not to mention the motors etc. Its gonna generate a lot of heat too, where is the power for these things supposed to come from if they are supposed to be used for plant exploration and stuff?
These would make cool toys if...
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They could get the price down to something reasonable. They wouldn't need the uber processors in each module either, just something cheap. I'd love to play around with something like this, and be able to go and pick-up a few extra modules whenever I needed/wanted. It would be great for experimenting.
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Or, you could just call your credit card company and say you will refuse to pay any future bills from those companies.
That would mean banning kids from video arcades until they are 18. How you gonna do that? There are places that still have some of the great old games from the 80's, and there are a ton of "violent" video games in the arcades now. Are the owners expected to ID people? Are they expected to have an "adult" section?
I thought this was one of the coolest demonstrations when I was at university. Drop a cube of steel between the coils of the induction furnace, watch it float in the air suspended by magnetism while getting hot enough to turn into liquid then plunk down into a bucket of sand when the thing is shut off.
They build for DX9 based on the written specifications. The DX9 software might be nearing first beta just now, but the specifications and requirements for what is supposed to be in DX9 would be completed long before the software.
If you make over $60K a year, and can't pay your bills after losing $2500 (less than $2000 after deductions), then you have other problems. You need to learn how to budget and not get in debt so much. Making $60K/year you should be saving some. While this might be a bit inconvenient and a bummer, you shouldn't have any problem paying bills (it might mean dipping into your aforementioned savings though). Maybe its a good thing and a wake up call. Maybe these people that can't afford to pay their bills will become more responsible.
Ahem. Read near the bottom half. AMD announced big price cuts yesterday...
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-884652.html?legacy=c net&tag=lthd
I thought they orginally said quarter 3 for hammers...
I wonder if they are really ahead of schedule.
I'd love to see some Hammers in Sept-Oct. I've been putting off buying anything new in anticipation of this "next big thing"
Audi W12 420 BHP luxury sedan and
VW W12 recordholder 600BHP.
Like having a twin engine V6 under your hood.
Yep, and this doesn't take into account that it could be -30 when the snow starts, and you haven't kept the bridge heated since it hasn't snowed for the last 3 weeks, so you have to heat up the bridge a whole lot in -30 weather while the wind (from the snowstorm) is sucking almost all that thermal energy away (and the cold wind will be hitting the big bridge surface you want to heat from both above and below). How much you think its gonna cost now?
The article says: "At the end of next year, there will be a 64-bit processor called the "Hammer." " I thought that Hammer was supposed to be out at the end of THIS year?
Actually Endor is a moon ("The forrest moon of Endor") not a planet, and Chewbacca doesn't live there, he just visited it...
I agree with you. If it doesn't follow the standard, then it shouldn't be labeled a CD and shouldn't be lumped in with the other CDs to decieve consumers. If they want to sell these things, then should be forced to retail them in some kind of distinct way so that consumers are aware. A little sticker saying its copy protected isn't enough. It should be clearly (not tiny print on the back) labeled "THIS PRODUCT DOES NOT MEET THE STANDARDS OF BEING A CD. EVIDENCE HAS SHOWN THAT THIS PRODUCT WILL NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY ON A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF CD PLAYERS". Then if people still want to buy the damn thing, let em, at least they will have been properly warned.
DVD region locking isn't really an issue. Its easy enough to buy a DVD player that is region free. They aren't illegal. Vote with your dollars and buy a factory region free DVD player and not a modded one. Anyone who is thinking about getting overseas DVDs probably know about the region settings and has a region free player anyways, so they aren't really stopping anything...
Take at look at this report: http://www.competitivealternatives.com/main.htm to see how costs compare in different cites. Canada is at the top of the pack for best places to do business. And Edmonton (home of companies like Bio-ware) is the #1 city, though not even mentioned in the other article...
You can bet that if this passes, there will be versions of the devices manufactured outside the US that don't comply. The companies in taiwan and other places know that if they make devices without the copy protection built in, there will be a demand for them and people (not just Americans) will buy them. Either that or they will make versions that have a simple disable function so it looks like they comply. Besides, putting a silly law like this into place will just make those people that want a device without copy protection built in, drive across the border to Canada, or Mexico and buy one that isn't crippled. The US law makers have to understand that the laws they pass in their own country don't hold for the rest of the world, especially when it comes to the internet (or in this case consumer goods).
They talk about systems of up to 1 million of these modules. 1 million processors is gonna suck up a hell of a lot of power not to mention the motors etc. Its gonna generate a lot of heat too, where is the power for these things supposed to come from if they are supposed to be used for plant exploration and stuff?
They could get the price down to something reasonable. They wouldn't need the uber processors in each module either, just something cheap. I'd love to play around with something like this, and be able to go and pick-up a few extra modules whenever I needed/wanted. It would be great for experimenting.