i use fuck@off.com, fuck@you.com, etc...I've wondered, does a "real" person see this email address and say "you dastardly kids! you foiled me again!" or does it just get stashed in some database somewhere? Whatever the answer (I'm sure the answer is "both"), I prefer that someone is reading my protest and knows that I want the to go fuck themselves instead of emailing me their crap.
That's actually one of the things I had in common with a girlfriend: We liked ST:TNG. We actually watched episodes together, we and other friends had a ST:TNG Series Finale party, we even dressed in the uniforms one time for Halloween. Jeez, What a dichotomy of a life I was leading. Long hair, pot-n-Xtasy, Raves, and a restaurant job by night, Geek, CS student, and StarTrek fan by day.
At least its comforting to know that I won't have a mid-life crisis after the fun I had in my 20's. Or maybe I can fake one to get that Porsche...
Well, first of all, your not going to get 5 AGP cards to fit into one machine (you can jam them into the PCI slots but that's probably bad). So the solution is to use multiple computers and what about combining the imagery from each computer? Combiners are expensive. So I think that to say you can get 10 monitors to do more than what this monitor can do is kind of a stretch.
And I'm not a video expert so I'm not sure what the issues are involved in playing a DVD at that resolution. I'm also pretty sure that even the almighty GeForce FX6800 Ultra or the ATI 9800xt is going to have a problem rendering Far Cry or Half Life or Doom3 or whatever at those resoutions at a decent frame rate.
I see your point. However, you kind of expose the reason why they are not going to give us multicore/multiGPU cards (at least anytime soon): Why give us 4 times the performance with one card when we (general consumer) will gladly buy 2 cards for the SLI scheme.
'm suggesting that connecting two cards via SLI is not very likely to become commonplace, because in the future we'll have multicore or multi-GPU consumer cards instead. They'll perform "twice as fast" but won't use twice the power and twice the space and they won't cost twice the cost.
eh...don't know about this. It was common place in 95-96 with the Voodoo2 (I had it). Also, what do you project the cost of the multicore/multiGPU cards to be? I would say over a $1k, at least the first few rev's. So if you had two 1 year old 6800 ultra's running on your machine, that's what? $4-$500 worth of video card? (I say 1 year old because most of us don't by the latest and greatest because it's just plain cost prohibitive).
Also, E&S can effortlessly justify charging $30k for their hardware (Recouping Engineering Costs/Proprietary Hardware/We need a handout) because the customer will pay it, if nVidia or ATI came out with a card with 4 GPU's integrated to perform 16x antialiasing with GenLock capabilities and still have the Pixel Fill capacity to run 50k Polys at 60 hz for the price of let's say a Workstation Card ($3k?), I think E&S would be in big trouble (not that they already aren't).
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see MultiGPU cards come out. Have there been any anouncements or info on COTS MultiGPU cards?
Are you suggesting that the average consumer go out and purchase a 6000q to play HalfLife2? From what I understand, E&S worked with ATI to produce their own (proprietary) card and charges the Government $30,000 per system. I realize you said "High End" but that doesn't take away from the fact that your comparing apples and oranges. Military simulation grade hardware vs. consumer level hardware. Next thing you know you'll complain that the 6800 SLI configuration doesn't have genlock!
Aside from the fact that you're personally breaking the law
I have to wonder if connecting to an FCC approved device with my FCC approved device and utilizing a piece of hardware as it was designed is illegal(read: Default Password).
Is this TRULY a fact?
personally breaking the law
wtf does that mean? I don't even know what to say to that. Can the act of breaking the law be qualified as personal or private? I mean, am I breaking a personal law of mine? (or of yours?)
a real attacker could easily install a hacked firmware that would disable the router or sniff the user's passwords.
ahh. I see, first its "hey man, you're personally breaking a law !" and then in the same "breath" it's "but you're not a real man if you don't personally break the law this way". Oh my, I won't be considered a real attacker by anyone. My ego...is suffering...must...show my dick...is bigger than yours...
Anyway, to stay on topic (too late), I think the point is that even a non-real-attacker can achieve what I've said in my original post.
I thought I was going to get lectured and then you actually give me an answer to my question. Nice. That would be pretty funny to redirect everthing to that snoop dog "turn a site into shizzle speak" or redirect Google to elgooG.
Does it effect you in anyway aside from/letting/ you use their access point?
No, you're right, it doesn't affect me, its purely for the fun of it.
But on the other hand, why, exactly, is it required that "teaching somebody a lesson" and doing it for fun and frolic be mutually exclusive. So I have a bit of a mean streak. Like I said though, I think it would be counterproductive to do anything to their setup as that will alert them to their open router and result in (if they're smart) the router to be locked down to the point that I can no longer utilize it.
I agree. Every time I discover an open WiFi with my laptop, the first place i go is 192.168.0.1 and try "admin" with no password. I don't think I would do anything malicious, I just do it just to see if I can. I can pretend I'm some badass hacker with mission_impossible_theme.mp3 playing at the same time. The worst thing I can think of to do (off the top of my head) is change the password and only allow my MAC to connect, but then eventually that would be counterproductive as they would hit the hard reset button and clear the configuration to default.
Just curious, what fun stuff could you do? Nothing mean or dirty, just to F* with someone to teach them not to use the "default" settings.
Have you been to the parks lately? Not only do they use the "legacy" characters, but they also use newer characters. There is a Buzz Light Year ride in Tomorrowland for godsake. The Disney DVD Characters I am also referring to are the classics like Robin Hood (the fox one), Cinderella, Peter Pan, etc..ALL OF THESE movies I have found in my friends/families collections. They're still great cartoons even if they are a cell-based animation.
If Disney owned the rights, they would put a freaking Shrek Ride in Fantasy Land in time for Shrek 3!
Agreed. The Disney parks (I'm an orlando resident) are a HUGE part of the Disney experience. Some child poster (no pun intended) mentioned " You cannot bring Mickey Mouse "to life" by sticking a man in a giant plastic Mickey head."
Um...Yes. You can. These are freaking little kids. When they see a huge version of their Disney DVD characters (that they incessantly watch over and over again btw), that is a pretty big impact.
The parent poster is right, there is no PixarLand to continue the revenue stream after winning the hearts and minds of the kiddie masses(just the DVD release, maybe some action figures). Disney traps you in their parks (yes they do trap you, you go in on your own accord, but you are so isolated from the outside world that you aren't going to leave anytime soon else lose $50 a pop on admission), make you eat their exhorbantly priced food, and stick as much of their "content (tm)", manifested in enumerable ways, in your face as they can. And when Jr. see's a big huge guy dressed as Shrek, you bet your ass that experience is ingrained in their little minds more than anything else. Disney has that one advantage, hooking up kids, in the real world, with their favorite characters in the movie world.
I'm not a religous person (not an athiest either), but this was one of the most logical and thought out posts I have read defining what a religion should be as opposed to the fanatical extremists we find in the "bible belt" or in the middle east.
Population (year 2000): 321 Males: 156 (48.6%), Females: 165 (51.4%)
Elevation: 4 feet
County: Palm Beach
Land area: 0.5 square miles
Zip code: 33462
Median resident age: 61.3 years Median household income: $127,819 (year 2000) Median house value: $943,200 (year 2000)
It's a small town on the Florida east coast where about 0.05% of you would ever travel through. Actually, you can't even travel "through" the town, looking at the map shows that it's an island seperated by some intercoastal waterway from the mainland.
Now if they implemented this in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, or Jax, then I'd be worried...
Sounds like a bunch of old paranoid geezers (Median resident age: 61.3 years).
Actually, more specifically it's used to describe the action of using a laser to find the range of a target. Almost all personnel involved in using/developing/simulating target aquisition systems in the military that use lasers in this fashion say the word "lase" to aquire and identify (for the tactical software) targets.
In response to the geosyncronous satellites, I believe A.C.C. came up with this concept in the Non-Fiction realm, not as a future technology in his stories. I could be wrong however...
First time I've read about this. I have a baby on the way...maybe I should name him Titor? Or will the T-1000 come back in time to kill my wife now that I've even asserted that I would name my kid Titor. Ok...I won't name him Titor...or maybe I will. No. Yes...just kidding.
careful with your words...There are many who believe we have a *right* to bypass copy protection, however it is *illegal*. If you start believing that what you have a right to do is based on the law, you might as well just let big brother strip you down and body cavity search you right now. Laws aren't always right. And your rights should be *protected* by the law.
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i use fuck@off.com, fuck@you.com, etc...I've wondered, does a "real" person see this email address and say "you dastardly kids! you foiled me again!" or does it just get stashed in some database somewhere? Whatever the answer (I'm sure the answer is "both"), I prefer that someone is reading my protest and knows that I want the to go fuck themselves instead of emailing me their crap.
Etymology: irregular from pixie
1 : somewhat unbalanced mentally; also : BEMUSED
I guess that can mean drunk.
That's actually one of the things I had in common with a girlfriend: We liked ST:TNG. We actually watched episodes together, we and other friends had a ST:TNG Series Finale party, we even dressed in the uniforms one time for Halloween. Jeez, What a dichotomy of a life I was leading. Long hair, pot-n-Xtasy, Raves, and a restaurant job by night, Geek, CS student, and StarTrek fan by day.
At least its comforting to know that I won't have a mid-life crisis after the fun I had in my 20's. Or maybe I can fake one to get that Porsche...
I actually tried to think about this to its logical conclusion. I was left scratching my head.
Well, first of all, your not going to get 5 AGP cards to fit into one machine (you can jam them into the PCI slots but that's probably bad). So the solution is to use multiple computers and what about combining the imagery from each computer? Combiners are expensive. So I think that to say you can get 10 monitors to do more than what this monitor can do is kind of a stretch.
And I'm not a video expert so I'm not sure what the issues are involved in playing a DVD at that resolution. I'm also pretty sure that even the almighty GeForce FX6800 Ultra or the ATI 9800xt is going to have a problem rendering Far Cry or Half Life or Doom3 or whatever at those resoutions at a decent frame rate.
I see your point. However, you kind of expose the reason why they are not going to give us multicore/multiGPU cards (at least anytime soon): Why give us 4 times the performance with one card when we (general consumer) will gladly buy 2 cards for the SLI scheme.
'm suggesting that connecting two cards via SLI is not very likely to become commonplace, because in the future we'll have multicore or multi-GPU consumer cards instead. They'll perform "twice as fast" but won't use twice the power and twice the space and they won't cost twice the cost.
eh...don't know about this. It was common place in 95-96 with the Voodoo2 (I had it). Also, what do you project the cost of the multicore/multiGPU cards to be? I would say over a $1k, at least the first few rev's. So if you had two 1 year old 6800 ultra's running on your machine, that's what? $4-$500 worth of video card? (I say 1 year old because most of us don't by the latest and greatest because it's just plain cost prohibitive).
Also, E&S can effortlessly justify charging $30k for their hardware (Recouping Engineering Costs/Proprietary Hardware/We need a handout) because the customer will pay it, if nVidia or ATI came out with a card with 4 GPU's integrated to perform 16x antialiasing with GenLock capabilities and still have the Pixel Fill capacity to run 50k Polys at 60 hz for the price of let's say a Workstation Card ($3k?), I think E&S would be in big trouble (not that they already aren't).
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see MultiGPU cards come out. Have there been any anouncements or info on COTS MultiGPU cards?
Are you suggesting that the average consumer go out and purchase a 6000q to play HalfLife2? From what I understand, E&S worked with ATI to produce their own (proprietary) card and charges the Government $30,000 per system. I realize you said "High End" but that doesn't take away from the fact that your comparing apples and oranges. Military simulation grade hardware vs. consumer level hardware. Next thing you know you'll complain that the 6800 SLI configuration doesn't have genlock!
Kahn?
KAAAAaaaaaaaAAAHN!!!!!
KAAaaaaAAAAAHN!!!!
I'd like to nominate the great Awesom-o to be inducted into the robot hall of fame! His accomplishments far outweigh that of two gay robots!
Relax. They're organic, right? ;)
no go....go and hug a tree...
Let's break this down shall we:
Aside from the fact that you're personally breaking the law
I have to wonder if connecting to an FCC approved device with my FCC approved device and utilizing a piece of hardware as it was designed is illegal(read: Default Password).
Is this TRULY a fact?
personally breaking the law
wtf does that mean? I don't even know what to say to that. Can the act of breaking the law be qualified as personal or private? I mean, am I breaking a personal law of mine? (or of yours?)
a real attacker could easily install a hacked firmware that would disable the router or sniff the user's passwords.
ahh. I see, first its "hey man, you're personally breaking a law !" and then in the same "breath" it's "but you're not a real man if you don't personally break the law this way". Oh my, I won't be considered a real attacker by anyone. My ego...is suffering...must...show my dick...is bigger than yours...
Anyway, to stay on topic (too late), I think the point is that even a non-real-attacker can achieve what I've said in my original post.
I thought I was going to get lectured and then you actually give me an answer to my question. Nice. That would be pretty funny to redirect everthing to that snoop dog "turn a site into shizzle speak" or redirect Google to elgooG.
/letting/ you use their access point?
Does it effect you in anyway aside from
No, you're right, it doesn't affect me, its purely for the fun of it.
But on the other hand, why, exactly, is it required that "teaching somebody a lesson" and doing it for fun and frolic be mutually exclusive. So I have a bit of a mean streak. Like I said though, I think it would be counterproductive to do anything to their setup as that will alert them to their open router and result in (if they're smart) the router to be locked down to the point that I can no longer utilize it.
I agree. Every time I discover an open WiFi with my laptop, the first place i go is 192.168.0.1 and try "admin" with no password. I don't think I would do anything malicious, I just do it just to see if I can. I can pretend I'm some badass hacker with mission_impossible_theme.mp3 playing at the same time. The worst thing I can think of to do (off the top of my head) is change the password and only allow my MAC to connect, but then eventually that would be counterproductive as they would hit the hard reset button and clear the configuration to default.
Just curious, what fun stuff could you do? Nothing mean or dirty, just to F* with someone to teach them not to use the "default" settings.
WHAT DISNEY DVD CHARACTERS?
Have you been to the parks lately? Not only do they use the "legacy" characters, but they also use newer characters. There is a Buzz Light Year ride in Tomorrowland for godsake. The Disney DVD Characters I am also referring to are the classics like Robin Hood (the fox one), Cinderella, Peter Pan, etc..ALL OF THESE movies I have found in my friends/families collections. They're still great cartoons even if they are a cell-based animation.
If Disney owned the rights, they would put a freaking Shrek Ride in Fantasy Land in time for Shrek 3!
Agreed. The Disney parks (I'm an orlando resident) are a HUGE part of the Disney experience. Some child poster (no pun intended) mentioned " You cannot bring Mickey Mouse "to life" by sticking a man in a giant plastic Mickey head."
Um...Yes. You can. These are freaking little kids. When they see a huge version of their Disney DVD characters (that they incessantly watch over and over again btw), that is a pretty big impact. The parent poster is right, there is no PixarLand to continue the revenue stream after winning the hearts and minds of the kiddie masses(just the DVD release, maybe some action figures). Disney traps you in their parks (yes they do trap you, you go in on your own accord, but you are so isolated from the outside world that you aren't going to leave anytime soon else lose $50 a pop on admission), make you eat their exhorbantly priced food, and stick as much of their "content (tm)", manifested in enumerable ways, in your face as they can. And when Jr. see's a big huge guy dressed as Shrek, you bet your ass that experience is ingrained in their little minds more than anything else. Disney has that one advantage, hooking up kids, in the real world, with their favorite characters in the movie world.
How about a 3D Mouse
This along with a wireless keyboard should work pretty well.
I'm not a religous person (not an athiest either), but this was one of the most logical and thought out posts I have read defining what a religion should be as opposed to the fanatical extremists we find in the "bible belt" or in the middle east.
Thanks for the good read...
I for one welcome our L for R switcher overlords...
Population (year 2000): 321
Males: 156 (48.6%), Females: 165 (51.4%)
Elevation: 4 feet
County: Palm Beach
Land area: 0.5 square miles
Zip code: 33462
Median resident age: 61.3 years
Median household income: $127,819 (year 2000)
Median house value: $943,200 (year 2000)
It's a small town on the Florida east coast where about 0.05% of you would ever travel through. Actually, you can't even travel "through" the town, looking at the map shows that it's an island seperated by some intercoastal waterway from the mainland.
Now if they implemented this in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, or Jax, then I'd be worried...
Sounds like a bunch of old paranoid geezers (Median resident age: 61.3 years).
Actually, more specifically it's used to describe the action of using a laser to find the range of a target. Almost all personnel involved in using/developing/simulating target aquisition systems in the military that use lasers in this fashion say the word "lase" to aquire and identify (for the tactical software) targets.
In response to the geosyncronous satellites, I believe A.C.C. came up with this concept in the Non-Fiction realm, not as a future technology in his stories. I could be wrong however...
oh..his name is John. Titor. I don't feel so powerful anymore...sigh.
First time I've read about this. I have a baby on the way...maybe I should name him Titor? Or will the T-1000 come back in time to kill my wife now that I've even asserted that I would name my kid Titor. Ok...I won't name him Titor...or maybe I will. No. Yes...just kidding.
Wow, screwing around with the time line is fun.
Shouldn't this be under the Science section?
careful with your words...There are many who believe we have a *right* to bypass copy protection, however it is *illegal*. If you start believing that what you have a right to do is based on the law, you might as well just let big brother strip you down and body cavity search you right now. Laws aren't always right. And your rights should be *protected* by the law.