Frankly these types of people need to be blasted into a astroid. Pathetic wasters of society. They angst me can I sue them!!!
They waste time/resources and frankly shouldn;t be alowed to breath, totaly pathetic. Funny how all thsese silly lawsuits have $ values, is it gentic or something!!!!:(
I feel sorry for all the Americans that have to put up with people like this, must make there life hell and not helping the countries credability at all that shite like this can even get off the ground.
Whatever happened to common sence. Not like they objected before it happened noo cant do that they wait till after the event and go ew were ma lawyer paaa izzaa goona sueza theasea peeoopola cozaaa my maaa sayzaaaa that me horoiscopy goonaa alll wong.
I Hope NASA counter sues and shoots em into space coz they would get my vote.
1) GPS in built up cities is a pain and get echoes from high buildings in built up area's
2) testing on a skoda a car most claim that if it did break a speed limit would actualy frame the ticket as would increase said cars value:>
3) GPS is easily foooled and this will give motivation for cheap devices to enable this.
4) If I could find a spot in central London or major city in England were it was possible to stand a chance in breaking the speed limit (ie no traffic jams) I'd be lucky let alone doing it.
5) Why does the UK have so much faith in GPS when they hel[p back EUROPES own solution
6) Mobile phone base station signals offer greater accracy for trianelating postition than GPS given density in the UK and so much more reliable in bult up area's were they have to work for realtime communuications.
7) Its not a law so will be avoided by those it would help stop and when it become law it will be cercumnavigated by those that will be likely to abuse the speed limits anyhow.
8) Public transport in the UK is overloaded in alot of area's and would be best appraoch to solving the main issue instead of a side effect (ie more cars than are needed).
9) This may prove unsafe as one false echo and your car things its doing 90MPH in 30mph zone when actualy doing 27mph and you stop sharply due without warning. Needs to be carefully thought out.
10) there are more than enough camera's and speed camaera's in the UK to have one trained on every person let alone vechile so again does this mean we have bad direvers or bad software in place atm. Fix the problem directly dont dust around it I say with some let try this technology and waste more money on quango's etc etc.
That countries like France who currently hold the head position in EU have no faith in the EU as indicated by there NO vote (same vote they told the UK they couldn't have few years back, bless them).
So what can we conclude, europeans (me included) who care about our media player are intelligent enough to sort it ourselfs and those that are not intelligent enough to take the windows XP CD out of the sealed envelope would rather have something that just works out of the box.
Now if the EU had given us an install that gave the user a choice of X,Y,Z media players then it might hvae had an impact, but no. They went take it all out. Of course PC manufacturers probably did a few consumer tests and found out that by saving a few euro's on an install (and were talking a few euros's given OEM costs) compared to long list of users who phone up saying how they cant play microsoft video's and mp3's out fo the box. They probably went hmmmm extra support calls or bung couple extra bucks at the end product directly.
Moral is if there is a problem and its an issue you can garantee that any form of goverment will take a long time to find a solution and end up given us a solution that might have been viable day one of the issue but years down the line is a total waste of time and beyond keeping a few lawyers employed does nothing of value for the public at large. Especialy given that the part of the public that does care have already addressed the issue themselves from day one though the power of consumer spending and choice and just install Linux or whatever in the first place. Bottom line those of the public that care already dealt with it and those that dont care, well, they dont give a monkies either way as there oblivious to the problem if indeed it is a problem, which you have to ask... is it a problem or yet more beuroratic phallis waving after the party ahs finished.
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a PS3 port of this would IMHO go realy well and be so suited to a medium powerhouse thats PS3. Heck a PS/2 port would be nice but they certainly have more leaway with a PS3 port given what its got under the hood.
so you can now run more worms out there. OS and CPU are seperate issues personaly i'd like a customisable instruction set and all my code/data morphed just for that, then only programs i convert to my morphed instruction set would run. Realy a new type of OS is needed, one that sits on top of the kernal in the way a BIOS does on a PC and offers basic functionality to the gui OS.
If you have a G4 and given cost of most of these cards I'd say buy a 2nd hand PC for less and use your trusty G4 with a flavour of linux of BSD and setup a firewall to protect you and offer a solid network for your new x86 windows PC. Even if an expliot is found for your firewall the odd's of being explioted are reduced due to your CPU being non X86 and as most expliots are buffer overrun types and x86 machine code injected will mean nothing to your humber non x86 CPU, though NOP (00) may be a universal but harmell bit of byte code:).
Funny as this reminds me of the Amiga days were you could get a X86 (prolly NEV V.30 at the time) addon card. Was like why when you have a perfectly good looking and working porche would you put a roof-rack and disco lights.
The best hackers are never ever caught or even known about. Take expliots, they dont suddenly appear overnight, alot these holes are there from day one. Just become mainstream public when open expliot written. Fair few known about by very select few (who discover them) and those are the true hackers.
An old school hacker would of at the very least beiged the next doors phone line and by laughing his ass of now quietly to his/herself, at the very least.
I've also read much more rampant cases than this one, must be mear inflationary/chaos blow out that is making it seem the biggest. Hell even a street urchin stealing a few hundred quid (in ye olde days) factoring in inflation would have stolen more than any bank robbery, but hey. Let the press have there day's.
Well with these size's we could be seeing OS's distributed on a ROM soon. Great anti piracy, well least add's another level that will remove a high percentage of copies out there. Remember nothing is perfect.
Roll on 3D holographic cubes for ROM storage, ready by laser:>
Please will some `GPL` lawyers countersue these greedy tardnips for there anti-competativeness. Given there trying to put anybody who charges for software ahead of the game by countering free software under GPL then I can only conclude that in itself there lawsuit is anti-competatibve and as such in breach of other law's.
Send em some cookies and tell em to FOAD as its all there worth.
PS can they amend the GPL to prohibite anybody that goes to sue any such software maker that is released under GPL. That they be banned from using it as it would in a sence be spying so from a software perspective can we just shoot em:>. Wonder how they could get about without using `ANY` GPL software at all. Think linux, think CODEC's think small appliances, think!
Now if I copyright the idea of extortionating money out of mp3 manufacturer's based upon there storage size would I be able to sue the muppets at the "oh my you must be using illegal music division and we dont care your being double taxed".
Kinda ironic for what is afaik europes most libral and open minded and as close as you get to free speach kinda country. Now they want to tax you for your words.
Still bright side being I can now go on holiday over there and pay for my accomodation in iPods - bwahahahahhahaha.
Its called Raid mirror's using hotswappable discs.
1) take disc out
2) insert spare disc
3) disc that is taken out is verbatim backup of what you have, so go take offsite
4) Spare gets mirrored with live data by the raid to resync it.
5) cookies allround.
Coz the real secret is to be able to pull data back and in an organised way, this is were all great backup plans usualy fail.
Now had they said they were going into the heriacial storage game with nice cheap solution and nice end-abUser interface then I'd be going yeah great, go Microsoft. But it aint and I shant.
I currently own serveral optical PDA's that help me plan my day. Alas due to size and construction they are general not something you would be able to carry around but there are versions that cars use already.
Its called a window, and depending on the level and toneality of light it emits means that trips outside become more plesant and as such not only is it a PDA but also very good for ones health and general stress levels.
I also have a portable optical computer, though this is used to aid in the correction of my long sighted vision. i have found both very reliable and with the best user interfaces one could ask for without any gui or other command line interface to learn. There just so intuative.
-- Thinking outside the box ever since I found out I have clostraphobia:) --
Well whoopy they made tee-shirts and put up plastic plants, Geee what next. Wearing there tee-shirts inside out. A standard teenager on a drink up does more exciting and defining pranks than this. Had they not highlighted them as `pranks` I suspect everybody would have missed em.
MIT,, Mass Ingenuity Trashed or is it Major Idiotic Tricks:(*
I'd rather implant something into the technology thanm have it implanted into me, heck I had to learn assembler and many other perverce coding languages in my time so I'll wait until the machine can understand the human and the machine gets the implants not I.
Its bad enough for poor peeps with pacemakers but imagine the fun at hightech supermarkets and airport scanners with these puppies in you.
How long (I know few places that offer this) will it be that pre-tested/inspected new hardware services to become standard. Alot of hardware faults usualy happen in first 3 months and out of those generaly 50% are out of the box faults. there are still faults that happen over time, but as I'm sure many know if it goes past 3 months then your faily safe until the garantee runs out before it will fail.
As mentioned a few places (mainly small shops/outlets) offer a pretest/inspection of new kit which many people like, though dont pay for (as it does take time to test these things properly). But alas many dont offer this and few people like to burst open the virgin packaging as some form of assurance of a new product and not a factory fixed jobbie being sold as new.
Perhaps its time suppliers worked with distributers to build in these checks so suppliers can reseal with some form of recognised/accepted QA seal of approval. Downside is more work for suppliers initialy, but less returns, happier customers and as you can see less unhappy potentials for said customers. Also as you would be looking at less returns, the saving and gain in customer service would potentialy offset this additional service/cost. From a PR perceptive it woudl even pay for the manuifacturer to sponser these checks, given its these type of checks that they themselves shoud be doing in the first place, it should in theory be just another net to catch theses faults. Though alot of these are induced by poor storage/handerling/shipping of items. but at least the supplier would avoid the situation were the courrier is at fault but as the kit is new, and previously unused can easily blame the supplier who in turn blames the manufacturer. End result still get the inconveniance/hassel at the consumer level.
It makes sence these issues are handled further up the supply chain to a level were a customer knows that there getting a new fully working product shipped to them, and any faults are caught as high up the supply chain as possible as it is a waste of resources to move faulty products around.
As for Sony's approach they have service centers and outlets so would be easier on the customer and would have thought SOny if any faults can be exchanged at said stores/outlets to lessen the impact on a already put out customer. How many of these replacements that are shipped out are garanteed to address the fault; potential for a replacement having dead pixels in another part of the screen would seem just as high as getting a dead pixel system in the first place.
Personaly if I bourght a faulty unit from a store I'd be back at the store for a replacement and let them send `there` dead unit back to sony whilst I got what I paid for right there or then or a full refund, given Sonmy have accepted dead pixels are indicative of a faulty unit and your paying for a fully working unit as advertised and we dont see many posters/box's/adverts showing units with dead pixels. Why should one even accept this in the first place.
So nice to see Sony have seen some light and addressed this issue, but from a PR percepective they did drag there heals a bit and a situation like this could have been alot bettter handled and addressed before the product was even launched.
Show the kids a nucleur power station's control software in action. Has loads of prety lights and colours and the kids just love playing with all the control's, levers and switch's. Garanteed to be a blast.:D
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Frankly these types of people need to be blasted into a astroid. Pathetic wasters of society. They angst me can I sue them!!!
:(
They waste time/resources and frankly shouldn;t be alowed to breath, totaly pathetic. Funny how all thsese silly lawsuits have $ values, is it gentic or something!!!!
I feel sorry for all the Americans that have to put up with people like this, must make there life hell and not helping the countries credability at all that shite like this can even get off the ground.
Whatever happened to common sence. Not like they objected before it happened noo cant do that they wait till after the event and go ew were ma lawyer paaa izzaa goona sueza theasea peeoopola cozaaa my maaa sayzaaaa that me horoiscopy goonaa alll wong.
I Hope NASA counter sues and shoots em into space coz they would get my vote.
^^ now that is worth knowing. Basicly Skoda's a bargin cheap VW then, swheeeet
1) GPS in built up cities is a pain and get echoes from high buildings in built up area's
:>
2) testing on a skoda a car most claim that if it did break a speed limit would actualy frame the ticket as would increase said cars value
3) GPS is easily foooled and this will give motivation for cheap devices to enable this.
4) If I could find a spot in central London or major city in England were it was possible to stand a chance in breaking the speed limit (ie no traffic jams) I'd be lucky let alone doing it.
5) Why does the UK have so much faith in GPS when they hel[p back EUROPES own solution
6) Mobile phone base station signals offer greater accracy for trianelating postition than GPS given density in the UK and so much more reliable in bult up area's were they have to work for realtime communuications.
7) Its not a law so will be avoided by those it would help stop and when it become law it will be cercumnavigated by those that will be likely to abuse the speed limits anyhow.
8) Public transport in the UK is overloaded in alot of area's and would be best appraoch to solving the main issue instead of a side effect (ie more cars than are needed).
9) This may prove unsafe as one false echo and your car things its doing 90MPH in 30mph zone when actualy doing 27mph and you stop sharply due without warning. Needs to be carefully thought out.
10) there are more than enough camera's and speed camaera's in the UK to have one trained on every person let alone vechile so again does this mean we have bad direvers or bad software in place atm. Fix the problem directly dont dust around it I say with some let try this technology and waste more money on quango's etc etc.
That countries like France who currently hold the head position in EU have no faith in the EU as indicated by there NO vote (same vote they told the UK they couldn't have few years back, bless them).
So what can we conclude, europeans (me included) who care about our media player are intelligent enough to sort it ourselfs and those that are not intelligent enough to take the windows XP CD out of the sealed envelope would rather have something that
just works out of the box.
Now if the EU had given us an install that gave the user a choice of X,Y,Z media players then it might hvae had an impact, but no. They went take it all out. Of course PC manufacturers probably did a few consumer tests and found out that by saving a few euro's on an install (and were talking a few euros's given OEM costs) compared to long list of users who phone up saying how they cant play microsoft video's and mp3's out fo the box. They probably went hmmmm extra support calls or bung couple extra bucks at the end product directly.
Moral is if there is a problem and its an issue you can garantee that any form of goverment will take a long time to find a solution and end up given us a solution that might have been viable day one of the issue but years down the line is a total waste of time and beyond keeping a few lawyers employed does nothing of value for the public at large. Especialy given that the part of the public that does care have already addressed the issue themselves from day one though the power of consumer spending and choice and just install Linux or whatever in the first place. Bottom line those of the public that care already dealt with it and those that dont care, well, they dont give a monkies either way as there oblivious to the problem if indeed it is a problem, which you have to ask... is it a problem or yet more beuroratic phallis waving after the party ahs finished.
a PS3 port of this would IMHO go realy well and be so suited to a medium powerhouse thats PS3. Heck a PS/2 port would be nice but they certainly have more leaway with a PS3 port given what its got under the hood.
so you can now run more worms out there. OS and CPU are seperate issues personaly i'd like a customisable instruction set and all my code/data morphed just for that, then only programs i convert to my morphed instruction set would run. Realy a new type of OS is needed, one that sits on top of the kernal in the way a BIOS does on a PC and offers basic functionality to the gui OS.
:).
If you have a G4 and given cost of most of these cards I'd say buy a 2nd hand PC for less and use your trusty G4 with a flavour of linux of BSD and setup a firewall to protect you and offer a solid network for your new x86 windows PC. Even if an expliot is found for your firewall the odd's of being explioted are reduced due to your CPU being non X86 and as most expliots are buffer overrun types and x86 machine code injected will mean nothing to your humber non x86 CPU, though NOP (00) may be a universal but harmell bit of byte code
Funny as this reminds me of the Amiga days were you could get a X86 (prolly NEV V.30 at the time) addon card. Was like why when you have a perfectly good looking and working porche would you put a roof-rack and disco lights.
Its snowcone factory :D
The best hackers are never ever caught or even known about. Take expliots, they dont suddenly appear overnight, alot these holes are there from day one. Just become mainstream public when open expliot written. Fair few known about by very select few (who discover them) and those are the true hackers.
An old school hacker would of at the very least beiged the next doors phone line and by laughing his ass of now quietly to his/herself, at the very least.
I've also read much more rampant cases than this one, must be mear inflationary/chaos blow out that is making it seem the biggest. Hell even a street urchin stealing a few hundred quid (in ye olde days) factoring in inflation would have stolen more than any bank robbery, but hey. Let the press have there day's.
We all know diamonds conduct heat uber well so how long before we can have a diamond heatsink, you know case moders dream of these things ;).
easy, changes will be stored on disc but you will still need the base rom image.
Well with these size's we could be seeing OS's distributed on a ROM soon. Great anti piracy, well least add's another level that will remove a high percentage of copies out there. Remember nothing is perfect.
:>
Roll on 3D holographic cubes for ROM storage, ready by laser
Given we have more survalance camera's per head than other countries, seemes logical next orwellian step to make :/
Please will some `GPL` lawyers countersue these greedy tardnips for there anti-competativeness. Given there trying to put anybody who charges for software ahead of the game by countering free software under GPL then I can only conclude that in itself there lawsuit is anti-competatibve and as such in breach of other law's.
:>. Wonder how they could get about without using `ANY` GPL software at all. Think linux, think CODEC's think small appliances, think!
Send em some cookies and tell em to FOAD as its all there worth.
PS can they amend the GPL to prohibite anybody that goes to sue any such software maker that is released under GPL. That they be banned from using it as it would in a sence be spying so from a software perspective can we just shoot em
Now if I copyright the idea of extortionating money out of mp3 manufacturer's based upon there storage size would I be able to sue the muppets at the "oh my you must be using illegal music division and we dont care your being double taxed".
Kinda ironic for what is afaik europes most libral and open minded and as close as you get to free speach kinda country. Now they want to tax you for your words.
Still bright side being I can now go on holiday over there and pay for my accomodation in iPods - bwahahahahhahaha.
He could hire a yacht with a pool onboard and do laps the whole trip, hence swimming the entire distance ;o)
Its called Raid mirror's using hotswappable discs.
1) take disc out
2) insert spare disc
3) disc that is taken out is verbatim backup of what you have, so go take offsite
4) Spare gets mirrored with live data by the raid to resync it.
5) cookies allround.
Coz the real secret is to be able to pull data back and in an organised way, this is were all great backup plans usualy fail.
Now had they said they were going into the heriacial storage game with nice cheap solution and nice end-abUser interface then I'd be going yeah great, go Microsoft. But it aint and I shant.
Until then...
I currently own serveral optical PDA's that help me plan my day. Alas due to size and construction they are general not something you would be able to carry around but there are versions that cars use already.
:)
Its called a window, and depending on the level and toneality of light it emits means that trips outside become more plesant and as such not only is it a PDA but also very good for ones health and general stress levels.
I also have a portable optical computer, though this is used to aid in the correction of my long sighted vision. i have found both very reliable and with the best user interfaces one could ask for without any gui or other command line interface to learn. There just so intuative.
--
Thinking outside the box ever since I found out I have clostraphobia
--
My the Wine'ing continue :).
Well whoopy they made tee-shirts and put up plastic plants, Geee what next. Wearing there tee-shirts inside out. A standard teenager on a drink up does more exciting and defining pranks than this. Had they not highlighted them as `pranks` I suspect everybody would have missed em.
:(*
MIT,, Mass Ingenuity Trashed or is it Major Idiotic Tricks
Bump :D
Yeah eve-online does rock as a game.
I'd rather implant something into the technology thanm have it implanted into me, heck I had to learn assembler and many other perverce coding languages in my time so I'll wait until the machine can understand the human and the machine gets the implants not I.
Its bad enough for poor peeps with pacemakers but imagine the fun at hightech supermarkets and airport scanners with these puppies in you.
Doh 8/
How long (I know few places that offer this) will it be that pre-tested/inspected new hardware services to become standard. Alot of hardware faults usualy happen in first 3 months and out of those generaly 50% are out of the box faults. there are still faults that happen over time, but as I'm sure many know if it goes past 3 months then your faily safe until the garantee runs out before it will fail.
As mentioned a few places (mainly small shops/outlets) offer a pretest/inspection of new kit which many people like, though dont pay for (as it does take time to test these things properly). But alas many dont offer this and few people like to burst open the virgin packaging as some form of assurance of a new product and not a factory fixed jobbie being sold as new.
Perhaps its time suppliers worked with distributers to build in these checks so suppliers can reseal with some form of recognised/accepted QA seal of approval. Downside is more work for suppliers initialy, but less returns, happier customers and as you can see less unhappy potentials for said customers. Also as you would be looking at less returns, the saving and gain in customer service would potentialy offset this additional service/cost. From a PR perceptive it woudl even pay for the manuifacturer to sponser these checks, given its these type of checks that they themselves shoud be doing in the first place, it should in theory be just another net to catch theses faults. Though alot of these are induced by poor storage/handerling/shipping of items. but at least the supplier would avoid the situation were the courrier is at fault but as the kit is new, and previously unused can easily blame the supplier who in turn blames the manufacturer. End result still get the inconveniance/hassel at the consumer level.
It makes sence these issues are handled further up the supply chain to a level were a customer knows that there getting a new fully working product shipped to them, and any faults are caught as high up the supply chain as possible as it is a waste of resources to move faulty products around.
As for Sony's approach they have service centers and outlets so would be easier on the customer and would have thought SOny if any faults can be exchanged at said stores/outlets to lessen the impact on a already put out customer. How many of these replacements that are shipped out are garanteed to address the fault; potential for a replacement having dead pixels in another part of the screen would seem just as high as getting a dead pixel system in the first place.
Personaly if I bourght a faulty unit from a store I'd be back at the store for a replacement and let them send `there` dead unit back to sony whilst I got what I paid for right there or then or a full refund, given Sonmy have accepted dead pixels are indicative of a faulty unit and your paying for a fully working unit as advertised and we dont see many posters/box's/adverts showing units with dead pixels. Why should one even accept this in the first place.
So nice to see Sony have seen some light and addressed this issue, but from a PR percepective they did drag there heals a bit and a situation like this could have been alot bettter handled and addressed before the product was even launched.
gimme gimme gimme, that I would watch.
Show the kids a nucleur power station's control software in action. Has loads of prety lights and colours and the kids just love playing with all the control's, levers and switch's. Garanteed to be a blast. :D