Of course it comes with DRM.
My guess is you have to pay again every time you recharge it. Just to make sure you're not illegally using it, you'll have to pay as if you were using it 24/7.
I've been making a pic based version of spokepov from scratch. This is the first I've heard of the kits, and it seems like a great deal. There's a lot of wiring without a PCB, and $35 for a complete kit including PCB is a great price.
This censorship group offends me
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Can we get them banned?
They're using false logic in saying there should always be a certain percentage of games rated AO. That means no matter how bland and boring the games are, there's still some rated AO. Then games are forced to be blander and blander.
If not for Sony, the industry would have settled on -.
Sony made +, not because it was better but so they could say "see, our drives support both formats, they're better".
That screwed over the customer by delaying adoption of any DVDR format, kept prices high much longer since it wasn't a commodity item for a long time. Even now when you buy DVD hardware, you're paying double royalties for both formats.
Sony caused a lot of the divide between DVD-R and DVD+R. The standard should have been -R but Sony backed +R. Then Sony was the first to market with drives that could do both.
I also remember a toy watergun called "Zap It" that used a richly-colored dye instead of water. You'd spray it on people's clothes, but in a few minutes the "stain" was gone.
The poetic flow and imagry of the text is what makes these worth reading. The childish scribbles being produced here ruin everything that makes the story have value.
It's like making renaissance paintings more accissible by rendering them in ascii art.
And best of all, it would level the playing field. Small bands could "get noticed" by the common person if their sound was something that the given person liked.
This is why you'll never see it. The big money is trying to make sure the small bands have no chance.
Apple's agreements with the RIAA probably prevent this feature too.
Getting written works off of paper and stored electronically should be a priority--bits are much easier to store, preserve, and copy for future use.
Preservation?
Do you really think your magnetic/optical/flash/etc storage will last as long as printed paper...even assuming you can find a CD reader in 50 years? Maybe you mean to recopy the data every few years, but if something gets lost for a few decades, it's lost for ever.
The only MMO's I've played are WoW and City of Villains. WoW has that 90% kiddies problem, it's the biggest flaw in the game. CoV didn't do much for me, It's only been out for 10 days and I'm back to WoW.
I didn't know Sony had a policy of deleting your characters. That's absolute stupidity IMO. It's just one more reason you'd have to be an idiot to give a cent to sony.
It's kind of funny. I used to think Sony was one of the best electronics makers around, most of my electronics came from them, but I haven't bought a single product of theirs in the past 5 years because of all this crap they pull. They've lost about $15,000 in sales on stuff I bought from other companies. I can't be the only one who's stopped buying anything from them.
I won't even go to a movie if it's made by Sony. I'd probably have seen Zathura in theatures for example, but since it's sony I'll wait and borrow it from netflix.
Would anyone on slashdot even consider giving them a cent?
This is the company that installs a root kit when you play a CD.
...The company that is leading blue-ray, the DVD format that allows Sony to remotely update the firmware, has a kill switch, must phone home to get permission to play a disc, and won't let you play a disc at a friend's house.
Science is a process of discovery involving the "scientific method". It primarily deals with what can be empirically observed and then builds models to explain and predict those observations.
Math is a system of formal logic that begins with basic axioms and produces results that follow through pure logic from those axioms.
I used to buy a lot of CDs but stopped around the time of the napster lawsuit. I would probably still be buying 2-3 discs/month if I didn't consider it immoral to buy CDs.
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Of course it comes with DRM. My guess is you have to pay again every time you recharge it. Just to make sure you're not illegally using it, you'll have to pay as if you were using it 24/7.
I usually use JAL. I don't know of any free C compilers, but generally C doesn't work too well with the PIC architechture anyway.
I've been making a pic based version of spokepov from scratch. This is the first I've heard of the kits, and it seems like a great deal. There's a lot of wiring without a PCB, and $35 for a complete kit including PCB is a great price.
Can we get them banned?
They're using false logic in saying there should always be a certain percentage of games rated AO. That means no matter how bland and boring the games are, there's still some rated AO. Then games are forced to be blander and blander.
An email starting "Dear Network Solutions Customer" is a legitimate email?? No wonder only 4% of people pass that test.
If not for Sony, the industry would have settled on -.
Sony made +, not because it was better but so they could say "see, our drives support both formats, they're better".
That screwed over the customer by delaying adoption of any DVDR format, kept prices high much longer since it wasn't a commodity item for a long time. Even now when you buy DVD hardware, you're paying double royalties for both formats.
Sony caused a lot of the divide between DVD-R and DVD+R. The standard should have been -R but Sony backed +R. Then Sony was the first to market with drives that could do both.
Now they're doing it all over.
How is this different from disappearing ink?
I also remember a toy watergun called "Zap It" that used a richly-colored dye instead of water. You'd spray it on people's clothes, but in a few minutes the "stain" was gone.
The poetic flow and imagry of the text is what makes these worth reading. The childish scribbles being produced here ruin everything that makes the story have value.
It's like making renaissance paintings more accissible by rendering them in ascii art.
The patent will expire long before there's a market for this product.
And best of all, it would level the playing field. Small bands could "get noticed" by the common person if their sound was something that the given person liked.
This is why you'll never see it. The big money is trying to make sure the small bands have no chance.
Apple's agreements with the RIAA probably prevent this feature too.
Getting written works off of paper and stored electronically should be a priority--bits are much easier to store, preserve, and copy for future use.
Preservation?
Do you really think your magnetic/optical/flash/etc storage will last as long as printed paper...even assuming you can find a CD reader in 50 years? Maybe you mean to recopy the data every few years, but if something gets lost for a few decades, it's lost for ever.
The only MMO's I've played are WoW and City of Villains. WoW has that 90% kiddies problem, it's the biggest flaw in the game. CoV didn't do much for me, It's only been out for 10 days and I'm back to WoW.
I didn't know Sony had a policy of deleting your characters. That's absolute stupidity IMO. It's just one more reason you'd have to be an idiot to give a cent to sony.
It's kind of funny. I used to think Sony was one of the best electronics makers around, most of my electronics came from them, but I haven't bought a single product of theirs in the past 5 years because of all this crap they pull. They've lost about $15,000 in sales on stuff I bought from other companies. I can't be the only one who's stopped buying anything from them.
I won't even go to a movie if it's made by Sony. I'd probably have seen Zathura in theatures for example, but since it's sony I'll wait and borrow it from netflix.
Would anyone on slashdot even consider giving them a cent? This is the company that installs a root kit when you play a CD.
...The company that is leading blue-ray, the DVD format that allows Sony to remotely update the firmware, has a kill switch, must phone home to get permission to play a disc, and won't let you play a disc at a friend's house.
...and start over completely with Star Wars Galaxies 2?
I can understand why they'd go to such lengths to keep people from installing it on any computer they want.
You mean like switching from the PowerPC CPU which is very uncommon in the market to the x86 which dominates the market?
Yep, that's quite a length they're going to to protect their code.
If the safety were so bad you could guarantee 100% it was a one way trip, there would still be no shortage of astronauts willing to go.
Do you really want to use software built on a model of the software is free but you pay for support?
There would be a huge incentive to make software hard to use, buggy, etc.
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So science uses math as a tool. That doesn't make math a part of science or science a part of math.
Accountants use computers. Does that mean computer science is a part of accounting?
Science is a process of discovery involving the "scientific method". It primarily deals with what can be empirically observed and then builds models to explain and predict those observations.
Math is a system of formal logic that begins with basic axioms and produces results that follow through pure logic from those axioms.
They are totally different entities.
Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN in Switzerland when he invented the web. There would be absolutely no problem inventing it there today.
Perhaps it would have been much slower to penetrate the US market, but that would not mean it couldn't exist basically as it does now.
There have been recent articles here about how the US is slipping into a technical dark age. This is just one more example of how that's true.
I have a B.Math in CS from Waterloo. I don't think it's debatable, computer science is math, not science. As this implies, math is not science either.
My wireless notebook weighs less than a typical newspaper does these days.
I used to buy a lot of CDs but stopped around the time of the napster lawsuit. I would probably still be buying 2-3 discs/month if I didn't consider it immoral to buy CDs.