These intermissions aren't made for the purpose of showing ads. They're there so that viewers can have a little break to grab some snacks, make a visit to the toilet, and chat with their friends about the movie, or whatever, in the lobby. Most people leave the theater so they don't see the ads anyway. (At least from my experience in Europe that's the way it is). It's really a great way of doing things as opposed to the three-hour-movies-with-no-bathroom-breaks-for-you! system.
It can just as well be said that the X-43A did not achieve "scramjet powered flight" as the scramjet engine was only operated for about 10 seconds out of the total flight time of several minutes. I'm not an aeronautical engineer, but it seems that NASA just used a different technique to get the aircraft to the speed at which it could ignite the scramjet engine.
The program is run, then it sends the data to those email addresses. Then it changes the settings so that the next time the machine is turned on, it dials 911.
Well, what if OpenOffice didn't exist? There'd be almost no way for you personally to make a MS-compatible document without paying someone for the privilege. Even though OpenOffice does exist and it gives you a costless way of creating Word-format documents, it's not like the government financially (or otherwise) supports it. OpenOffice was created exactly because people needed to communicate with people who used MS Office exclusively. It did not magically appear, many people had to spend quite some time working on it and they did not receive compensation from the government for making a tool which enabled citizens to communicate with their government without having to pay a third party.
One could make the analogy that this is a similar situation if the government charged an entrance fee to public buildings.
The document you're looking for is here. But they're people too, and so they have an opinion of their own. Now they felt like letting the rest of the net know what their opinion on this matter is.
Of course it's not perfect english, considering that's something still being worked on in research labs, but what you can from various free translation engines online can let you get an idea, or sometimes even the full meaning, of what's on a foreign language page. Getting the general idea of a page is much better staring at bunch of gibberish. At least gobbledygook is gibberish in your own language.
Well, how else will you believe them that they can break into your car? If they just leave a note stuck under your windshield wipers saying that your car is insecure and that you should do the following, you'll probably just think it's a prank or something like that, and disregard it. That is, if you don't mistake it for a parking ticket first, and just throw it away;-). A note inside your car will prove to you that you are indeed at risk, and you will now probably seriously consider following the advice on the note, and taking security precausions.
Now back to the real world. If someone called up Yahoo, and said something to the extent of: "Your system is insecure, there's potential for exploitation here and here using bla and bla." They are unlikely to be taken seriously. That is, if they can even get a phone number of someone who will understand them. I think you can guess what would happen if they call the typical customer support. Of course there are exceptions where there are intelligent sysadmins who will listen to someone who knows what he's talking about, and invest 10 minutes to see if they might be correct.
Just so you know, I think it's really not worth anyone's time to go around checking other people's/companies' security. If large companies such as Excite@Home and Yahoo don't have tight security, that's their own fault. They should be the ones looking for consultants to make sure their systems are unassailable. I seriously wouldn't care if they got hacked, especially if they care so little about their customers that they don't make absolutely sure they will be able to offer their service without interruption. To think some people pay for Yahoo Mail...
The above is copy and pasted from Robotic Nation... Which is another piece written by Marschall Brain. It's linked at the top the of this article in fact.
I'm sorry, but for $20 Billion you could have your moon base, but that's a long way from eliminating all extreme poverty in the world, because there's so many things you need to do to achieve that.
For all those who don't understand the above, Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a book called Red Mars, which is about the colonization of Mars. Even world famous author Arthur C. Clarke says: "The best book on the colonization of mars that has ever been written..." (The quote is on the cover). There are two books that follow up on Red Mars, namely, Blue Mars, and Green Mars.
If you want more information about the research sql*kitten mentions, check out the Focus Fusion Society. Their goal is raise funding for additional R&D in this subject, but they also have a good description of how focus fusion is achieved.
I can think many useful things can come out of this. For exaple, a product which let you access/search the vast amounts of information they have on each of their products could be quite useful. (Although this could be constructed as a simple (well, sort of) script that retrieves certain parts of the pages Amazon has on each product.) Now, let's hope no disputes arise between Amazon and the people who want to use their information. This could range anywhere from people not giving credit to Amazon for the information, or claiming as their own, to disputes about money that's made selling products to access this information in the certain way. This could be viewed by some as selling the information. (Don't you think Amazon will want in on large amounts of money that's made from their own data?)
A new company, swiss, has replaced swissair. There is a rather large discussion about this replacement, and if it's going to work (I.e. be profitable, be able to stay aloft), in Switzerland.
You should read this article called: Opening the Next Frontier. Shows, step by step how we could expand outwards into the next big frontier... Space, using nuclear powered ships.
Those 3 seats would not be filled by three more geeks because those three geeks are poor university students and can't afford to spend 20 bucks to see it right when it comes out, they'll wait till it's cheaper. Through your method you may be denying the three most "dedicated" geeks entrance to the movie.
You do realise that the iPod is supposed to be used as an accessory? The way it was designed, it was supposed to only store the music you're likely to listen to for the next week. You could rotate the songs on your PC/Mac to the iPod every once in a while to maintain some diversity. What are you gonna do when your iPod get's stolen? Yea, you'll have to spend the dozens of hours re-ripping all your music because you probably don't have a copy on your PC/Mac.
To summarize, the iPod is meant to be used to carry around part of your collection (where 5 gigs are fine for a few days, and 10gigs are fine for a vacation) to listen to. Keywords: part, and a few days.
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These intermissions aren't made for the purpose of showing ads. They're there so that viewers can have a little break to grab some snacks, make a visit to the toilet, and chat with their friends about the movie, or whatever, in the lobby. Most people leave the theater so they don't see the ads anyway. (At least from my experience in Europe that's the way it is). It's really a great way of doing things as opposed to the three-hour-movies-with-no-bathroom-breaks-for-you! system.
"During the free flight, the scramjet engine operated for about 10 seconds."
(Emphasis mine)
It can just as well be said that the X-43A did not achieve "scramjet powered flight" as the scramjet engine was only operated for about 10 seconds out of the total flight time of several minutes. I'm not an aeronautical engineer, but it seems that NASA just used a different technique to get the aircraft to the speed at which it could ignite the scramjet engine.
The program is run, then it sends the data to those email addresses. Then it changes the settings so that the next time the machine is turned on, it dials 911.
One could make the analogy that this is a similar situation if the government charged an entrance fee to public buildings.
The document you're looking for is here. But they're people too, and so they have an opinion of their own. Now they felt like letting the rest of the net know what their opinion on this matter is.
A quick Froogle search turns up quite a few people selling those preinstall kits. Here's just the first shop that pops up:
http://www.amamax.com/wi20proprein.html
http://www.amamax.com/swmswinxppreinstacd.html
Does anyone know why they stopped resisting?
Of course it's not perfect english, considering that's something still being worked on in research labs, but what you can from various free translation engines online can let you get an idea, or sometimes even the full meaning, of what's on a foreign language page. Getting the general idea of a page is much better staring at bunch of gibberish. At least gobbledygook is gibberish in your own language.
Let them end!
Don't know if that's such a good idea...
I should not (and do not) care unless I were a paying customer for said site, or if I had some other interest in it.
Because that means other people can use the same way to break in, obviously.
Now back to the real world. If someone called up Yahoo, and said something to the extent of: "Your system is insecure, there's potential for exploitation here and here using bla and bla." They are unlikely to be taken seriously. That is, if they can even get a phone number of someone who will understand them. I think you can guess what would happen if they call the typical customer support. Of course there are exceptions where there are intelligent sysadmins who will listen to someone who knows what he's talking about, and invest 10 minutes to see if they might be correct.
Just so you know, I think it's really not worth anyone's time to go around checking other people's/companies' security. If large companies such as Excite@Home and Yahoo don't have tight security, that's their own fault. They should be the ones looking for consultants to make sure their systems are unassailable. I seriously wouldn't care if they got hacked, especially if they care so little about their customers that they don't make absolutely sure they will be able to offer their service without interruption. To think some people pay for Yahoo Mail...
Be more careful when you're plagiarizing. :)
I'm sorry, but for $20 Billion you could have your moon base, but that's a long way from eliminating all extreme poverty in the world, because there's so many things you need to do to achieve that.
For all those who don't understand the above, Kim Stanley Robinson wrote a book called Red Mars , which is about the colonization of Mars. Even world famous author Arthur C. Clarke says: "The best book on the colonization of mars that has ever been written..." (The quote is on the cover). There are two books that follow up on Red Mars, namely, Blue Mars , and Green Mars.
If you want more information about the research sql*kitten mentions, check out the Focus Fusion Society. Their goal is raise funding for additional R&D in this subject, but they also have a good description of how focus fusion is achieved.
I can think many useful things can come out of this. For exaple, a product which let you access/search the vast amounts of information they have on each of their products could be quite useful. (Although this could be constructed as a simple (well, sort of) script that retrieves certain parts of the pages Amazon has on each product.) Now, let's hope no disputes arise between Amazon and the people who want to use their information. This could range anywhere from people not giving credit to Amazon for the information, or claiming as their own, to disputes about money that's made selling products to access this information in the certain way. This could be viewed by some as selling the information. (Don't you think Amazon will want in on large amounts of money that's made from their own data?)
A new company, swiss, has replaced swissair. There is a rather large discussion about this replacement, and if it's going to work (I.e. be profitable, be able to stay aloft), in Switzerland.
You should read this article called: Opening the Next Frontier. Shows, step by step how we could expand outwards into the next big frontier... Space, using nuclear powered ships.
Seriously, I doubt anyone will use it.
Those 3 seats would not be filled by three more geeks because those three geeks are poor university students and can't afford to spend 20 bucks to see it right when it comes out, they'll wait till it's cheaper. Through your method you may be denying the three most "dedicated" geeks entrance to the movie.
Yes, this is great and all, but when will we get Liquid Knuckles(TM)?
Film Review: the Matrix Reloaded
To summarize, the iPod is meant to be used to carry around part of your collection (where 5 gigs are fine for a few days, and 10gigs are fine for a vacation) to listen to. Keywords: part, and a few days.