A number of posters here seem to think that a network is "open" when they guess that the password to access has been left as the default.
To my way of thinking, that means the user does NOT intend for others to use their network. An open network would not require a password.
It does not strike me as moral, and it should be illegal, to access a network that is not CLEARLY open. Simply guessing the password should not grant one unrestricted, legal access.
Over time, I've picked up a few Anime titles. Ghost in the Shell... Ninja Scroll... Akira (which bored me silly)... now Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away... Grave of the Fireflies... Maybe ten others.
I also saw the Overlord series, and some other works. Some if it was good, some of it very, very bad. Like any field, there are crap films and wonderful ones.
But I can't help but note that my enjoyment of certain pieces could have been heightened had the animation not suffered from that ridiculous stop-action style that is so prevalent. Certain scenes are wonderfully smooth, but it seems like 3/4 of each movie is animated at 5 or 10 frames per second.
I love the diversity and the treatment of animation as an adult media, but I detest the fact that within the same movie the animation quality can range from gorgeous to "saturday morning bottom of the barrel".
I really want to know why some people are fixated on watching DVD's on their home computer. 29" TV's can be had for less than the price of a decent new video card, and basic DVD players are dirt cheap.
I don't understand it. Why sit in front of your computer for 2 hours when you can stretch out on the couch?
Oooo - movies in 1024x768 - crystal clear! Of course you have to be within 3 feet of the screen to really enjoy it...
So, all you folks who think you have a real handle on technological progress: what will information-access-over-electronic-networks look like in 2013?
With any luck it'll be a vast desert. People may discover that one can:
Go to a big building and see/touch/evaluate a product LIVE!
Hit on the pretty teller at the bank.
Go out and talk to people without seeing faces that change only once every three or four seconds, and who don't ROFLTEO, because they ANAL.
Buy porn off the shelf in a convenient, easy-to-port-to-the-bathroom package.
Read consumer equipment reviews in a (get this) PAPER format obtainable at your local bookstore.
Illegally trading their music by meeting people who have a similar interest in music and who don't introduce themselves as jmh121jasi@hotmail.com.
Pay their bills in person and get a little exercise in the process.
Read a book, watch a movie, learn to play a musical instrument, watch a sunset (in a realtime, full 3D, completely immersive format no less!), or... go on a date.
Yes, my finest hope for man is that we discover by 2013 that a computer is not needed to access the vast majority of useful information and experiences available!
{b}Grow some spine, explain things to them, and you'll be surprised about how many of them get it... And yes, I'm doing rather well even with principles.
So your principles involve pulling clients into your own holy war and immersing them in technical details that don't directly drive their business?
If I was a customer of a business who demanded that I start changing my technical decisions in order to communicate with them, I wouldn't remain their customer long.
Please, no more "Al Gore created the Internet" quips. Y'all think you're being clever, but that horse is long since dead, and most of the blunt trauma suffered by the carcass clearly occurred after death.
...I can tell you without question that none of the effects associated with crack include the forming of erroneous conclusions regarding the current state of database field testing.
Marijuana, on the other hand, allowed me to accept such conclusions as valid, mostly because I was too lazy to doublecheck.
Tube amplifiers do have a sweet, sweet sound. Tubes mostly produce even-order harmonic distortion, which is pleasing to the ear. The warmth stems from this coloration. It might not be an accurate reproduction of the source material, but many people prefer it. To people who prefer this coloration, transistors do sound sterile.
Digital distortion, on the other hand, often results in odd-order distortion, and is ugly.
I think you actually believe that the justice system of the United States has something to do with "Truth" as a serious concept. Anybody outside the country can clearly see it does not.
The american justice and legal system is a wonderfully complex chess game. You find the cleverest way to use the law to avoid having to tell the truth, and you win.
It's also a place where people who don't know how to use a compiler are free to repeat the few small intelligent programming points they've read in an effort to appear knowledgeable.
Also, it's a place where true wit takes a back seat using spellings like "Micro$oft" and "Winblows" (gee, never heard THAT one before).
Rather than complaining about the site, view those who frequent it regularly with pity. One day they'll discover sex and then they'll have something to take their minds off of the geek empires.
1) Brags about having a contact who is a (gasp!) theatre employee
2) Brags about recompiling kernal (and specifies the tech details for some obscure reason)
3) Talks about "jury-rigging" a digitil theatre projector
... I don't believe he has a girlfriend. And if there were geek chicks that his friend needed help with, I'm fairly certain he wouldn't have been much help.
Why would people buy a novel when they can download it?
Because nobody wants to read a whole novel off a computer screen.
Saying that this argument says anything about the recording industry is just silly. If mp3's could only be played off of the computer, and never transferred to CD's, then people would be more inclined to buy the music.
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I think you're merely trolling, since the claim is so outlandish, but I'll reply as if you were serious.
I would LOVE to hear some of these studio quality recordings? Care to share them?
I am highly skeptical. I can almost guarantee that it does not measure up to studio work.
Besides, an acoustic guitar and a couple voices does not an ensemble make. Mixing two sources is hardly a test.
People I know who were caught with illegal drugs in college weren't fined anywhere near this much.
The drug producers probably didn't feel the need to press charges, and they probably paid the dealer straight up.
Actually, that makes perfect sense to me. A couple of joints or pills is hardly in the same league as high volume copyright infringement.
No, but the frame rate would rise above 10fps for the entire movie.
A number of posters here seem to think that a network is "open" when they guess that the password to access has been left as the default.
To my way of thinking, that means the user does NOT intend for others to use their network. An open network would not require a password.
It does not strike me as moral, and it should be illegal, to access a network that is not CLEARLY open. Simply guessing the password should not grant one unrestricted, legal access.
Over time, I've picked up a few Anime titles. Ghost in the Shell... Ninja Scroll... Akira (which bored me silly)... now Castle in the Sky, Spirited Away... Grave of the Fireflies... Maybe ten others.
I also saw the Overlord series, and some other works. Some if it was good, some of it very, very bad. Like any field, there are crap films and wonderful ones.
But I can't help but note that my enjoyment of certain pieces could have been heightened had the animation not suffered from that ridiculous stop-action style that is so prevalent. Certain scenes are wonderfully smooth, but it seems like 3/4 of each movie is animated at 5 or 10 frames per second.
I love the diversity and the treatment of animation as an adult media, but I detest the fact that within the same movie the animation quality can range from gorgeous to "saturday morning bottom of the barrel".
Okay, I'll grant you dorms. Good point.
I really want to know why some people are fixated on watching DVD's on their home computer. 29" TV's can be had for less than the price of a decent new video card, and basic DVD players are dirt cheap.
I don't understand it. Why sit in front of your computer for 2 hours when you can stretch out on the couch?
Oooo - movies in 1024x768 - crystal clear! Of course you have to be within 3 feet of the screen to really enjoy it...
So, all you folks who think you have a real handle on technological progress: what will information-access-over-electronic-networks look like in 2013?
With any luck it'll be a vast desert. People may discover that one can:
Go to a big building and see/touch/evaluate a product LIVE!
Hit on the pretty teller at the bank.
Go out and talk to people without seeing faces that change only once every three or four seconds, and who don't ROFLTEO, because they ANAL.
Buy porn off the shelf in a convenient, easy-to-port-to-the-bathroom package.
Read consumer equipment reviews in a (get this) PAPER format obtainable at your local bookstore.
Illegally trading their music by meeting people who have a similar interest in music and who don't introduce themselves as jmh121jasi@hotmail.com.
Pay their bills in person and get a little exercise in the process.
Read a book, watch a movie, learn to play a musical instrument, watch a sunset (in a realtime, full 3D, completely immersive format no less!), or... go on a date.
Yes, my finest hope for man is that we discover by 2013 that a computer is not needed to access the vast majority of useful information and experiences available!
{b}Grow some spine, explain things to them, and you'll be surprised about how many of them get it... And yes, I'm doing rather well even with principles.
So your principles involve pulling clients into your own holy war and immersing them in technical details that don't directly drive their business?
If I was a customer of a business who demanded that I start changing my technical decisions in order to communicate with them, I wouldn't remain their customer long.
Please, no more "Al Gore created the Internet" quips. Y'all think you're being clever, but that horse is long since dead, and most of the blunt trauma suffered by the carcass clearly occurred after death.
Find a new joke.
...I can tell you without question that none of the effects associated with crack include the forming of erroneous conclusions regarding the current state of database field testing.
Marijuana, on the other hand, allowed me to accept such conclusions as valid, mostly because I was too lazy to doublecheck.
Tube amplifiers do have a sweet, sweet sound. Tubes mostly produce even-order harmonic distortion, which is pleasing to the ear. The warmth stems from this coloration. It might not be an accurate reproduction of the source material, but many people prefer it. To people who prefer this coloration, transistors do sound sterile.
Digital distortion, on the other hand, often results in odd-order distortion, and is ugly.
Your attitude is about as reasonable as theirs.
The poster lists one feature he likes better - which really has little, if anything, to do with the story - and gets a +4 Informative?
Well, I suppose he didn't really want to descend to the level required for a +5 interesting and say, "Micro$oft Sucks".
"Just TRY to stop my wife from giggling giddily when you show her an Antonio Banderas movie!"
Obviously you haven't been properly educating your wife. I suggest looking up the formerly acceptable "rule of thumb".
FTHI (For The Humor Impaired) - Relax. I only invoke the rule one Thursday a month.
Well, what do you know. You all have probably figured out by now that they aren't blowing up the balloons - they're inhaling from them.
And not to make cartoon voices either.
They moved the nitrous cartridge and cracker from the frame.
Who says techies don't know how to have fun?
...it was found that every being in the galaxy has 2.4 legs and owns a hyena.
D.Adams will be sorely missed.
Ever wonder how come you never see a SINGLE intelligent rebutal of the linux zealotry here? Its no accident.
Yeah - because intelligent rebuttals get modded down as trolls, or are lost in the sea of white noise that is the slashdot linux community. Or both.
I think you actually believe that the justice system of the United States has something to do with "Truth" as a serious concept. Anybody outside the country can clearly see it does not.
The american justice and legal system is a wonderfully complex chess game. You find the cleverest way to use the law to avoid having to tell the truth, and you win.
Microsoft understand this very well.
It's also a place where people who don't know how to use a compiler are free to repeat the few small intelligent programming points they've read in an effort to appear knowledgeable.
Also, it's a place where true wit takes a back seat using spellings like "Micro$oft" and "Winblows" (gee, never heard THAT one before).
Rather than complaining about the site, view those who frequent it regularly with pity. One day they'll discover sex and then they'll have something to take their minds off of the geek empires.
According to the report, money from pirate CD's is going to support the drug trade, as well as organized crime.
Naturally, this means that the people who produce the content for those pirate CD's are to blame.
It's time to stamp out the source of this evil money pit. The artists!
Despite the fact that practically nobody uses these for snuff, they are, in fact, legal.
http://www.head-shop.com/snuff.htm
Sooner or later it will occur to the recipient that there are better things to use it for than "snuff". Plus, that'll fit with "higher education".
I wear a pager 24/7 roughly 40 weeks per year. I can't wait two hours to respond to a page.
...I guarantee you've annoyed more people than I ever have. YOU should stay the hell out.
All of you morons who think I should "stay out of a theatre" as a result, well...
If you have any of the following:
1 - Crunchy Food
2 - Overly Loud Laugh
3 - A Tendency To Whisper To Your Compatriot
4 - Body Odor
Actually, I believe most of it.
... I don't believe he has a girlfriend. And if there were geek chicks that his friend needed help with, I'm fairly certain he wouldn't have been much help.
I believe you saw the movie.
However, given the following:
1) Brags about having a contact who is a (gasp!) theatre employee
2) Brags about recompiling kernal (and specifies the tech details for some obscure reason)
3) Talks about "jury-rigging" a digitil theatre projector
Oh, darn - there goes karma!
Why would people buy a novel when they can download it?
Because nobody wants to read a whole novel off a computer screen.
Saying that this argument says anything about the recording industry is just silly. If mp3's could only be played off of the computer, and never transferred to CD's, then people would be more inclined to buy the music.