An easily legible signature is easier to forge than a unique and weird one. Why do you think they call them signatures? If you just write in neat cursive, anyone can duplicate it.
Chris
It's hard to argue with assembly, especially in the limited environment that the Game Boy Color provides. You can get an awesome development environment and emulators for the Z80 based Game Boy Color and get things working onscreen, using assembly, pretty quickly. There's also a pretty good development scene, although much of it has moved to GBA now.
Used Z80 books are easy to pick up at Alibris.com too. You can even invest some dough in hardware and see the results on an actual GBC. And once you understand assembly, pretty much any other language is going to be easier, because you can understand what the language is trying to do with its crazy high-level commands.
Of course, he could end up like a friend of mine (who is now a manager and no longer codes on a daily basis), who more or less starts any C programming by defining 8 global variables "reg1... reg8" and proceeds from there, without comments...
He actually gave Wikipedia a lot of credit in his article. It comes off to me as criticism from someone who has a fundemental disagreement about the project. For my money, I'd rather know stuff there was fact-checked. I think Wikipedia is better for more objective issues (microprocessor facts) and worse for more political issues (see above).
Well, if you don't really carry anything secure in your luggae, but it has a combination lock when you buy it, you might want a combo like that. I remember my dad's briefcase had combo "000" on its locks for that reason.
This is exactly how this scam works. They busted some people who were doing this at Home Depot around San Francisco (San Leandro and Emeryville, I think, if you want to be specific -- read the article), using a bar code for a really cheap light fixture and putting it on a much more expensive fixture (by $150 or so). They did the same thing with sinks, too. They'd buy like 10 at a time along w/ a ton of legit stuff, then sell the legit stuff to a contractor and return the light fixtures for the higher price. If they couldn't get cash (because they had no receipt) they'd get a gift card and sell that for a slight discount elsewhere. The scam netted them maybe ~$400K over 18 months. Check out the link, it's a pretty interesting story.
One of the most ironic things that ever happened to me was at Walmat. I usually don't shop there but got bad service at Sears and left, but still needed a seriously cheap 13" TV. So I went to Wal-Mart, browsed for a while, bought one and left, only to be assaulted at the door by some Nazi who insisted she had to check my receipt to make sure I hadn't stolen anything. Very irritating. Then I got to the car, put the TV in the trunk, looked down and saw a small craft item that I had thrown in the cart on impulse and *totally* forgotten to pay for... It was kind of a funny situation, as I then had to surrepticiously sneak it back into the store to pay for it while trying to explain to my son that I hadn't stolen it. Bottom line is -- even with their high security, you gotta figure if someone like me can *unintentionally* steal from Wal-Mart, others are probably ripping them off left, right, and center.
Two things: 1) your user name is very funny. 2) Just "doing it" is a great way to be successful. Their Venus stuff was also really well done.
NASA has done some awesome things, but it has tended to get bogged down in beaurocracy while the Russians were able to get things done. I would have been a lot happier w/ us going up to SpaceLab 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc than over-spending, over-thinking, and over-engineering our way through the late eighties and nineties.
Yeah, it was a joke. His name is actually Edward "Mike" Fincke. I just changed it to be "Fat Mike" to be funny. Because they supposedly ate all the food. Get it? haha, lol, roflmao,;), etc.
My personal guess is still that they're taking the blame for other teams' overeating as well.
I understand that this is supposed to be funny, and in fact, it is funny, but the reality is, the Russian just are better at Space exploration than America. They were and are able to do more with less.
The classic example is the story of the space pen. Ballpoint pens don't work in space, so NASA spent millions to develop a "space pen" which had a pressurized ink compartment, creating a pen that could write in zero-G.
To solve this problem on Soviet space shots, they used pencils.
Ok, so that story is apocryphal(more about the actual story of the space pen is here -- in fact Fischer developed it before NASA needed it to solve earth-bound ballpoint issues), but it does illustrate the difference in attitude between the US and Russian space engineers.
NASA tends to over-engineer everything while the Russians tend to be scrappy. When you have unlimited amounts of money to throw at the problem, as we did during the Apollo days, I'll take over-engineered any day of the week. When you don't have unlimited money, scrappy starts to look better and better...
No, that's bullshit. If you were single out and kill someone who worked at Microsoft, that would be first degree murder and you'd go to jail forever, with no parole.
Software piracy is not harmless. The impact may not be as large as the xxIA say it is, but it is stealing. It does cost a real loss of real income to intellectual property rights holders. And that trickles down to real people -- not just rich people, either. To say that piracy is completely harmless is completely fucking retarded. It's impact may be overstated, but, Blackbeard, don't try to justify your theft by saying no one's ever been hurt by piracy.
Finally, making *a* copy of M$ office isn't what this dude plead guilty to. And, he knew the sentencing possibilities and still plead guilty. I feel for the guy, because I think first-offender prison sentences are too long generally, but the fact that this guy may be getting fucked doesn't make what he did any less wrong.
Unless you are trying to sell something that a lot of people are pirating and you go out of business. As happened all over the computer entertainment software industry in the mid 1980s, to cite one example. The fact that the xxIA organizations and the DMCA are all totally fucked doesn't make stealing software or selling stolen software for profit ok.
Those homicide stats include manslaughter. Break it out seperately and you'll see that most first and second degree killers get far, far longer sentences.
My Pentium M (IBM ThinkPad R40 1.3Ghz) seems pretty speedy for normal apps when clocked down, and also lasts fairly long when not clocked down. But I don't know what your applications are (I'm just using it for word processing, image editing, email, and watching DVDs -- nothing crazy processor intensive).
And, by the way, Halo 2 is fucking awesome, even with it's supposed problems. I prefer the pop-in on Halo 2 to the load pauses in HL2, personally. As for the ending, the single player game took me ~12.5 hours to beat. That's plenty for a single-player game. Yes, the ending left a lot of loose threads, but it didn't feel like the game just "stopped," any more than Empire Strikes Back just "stopped."
I think a lot of people were disappointed that the game didn't take place entirely on Earth, so you almost discount and forget about the Earth sections of the game, which are probably about 15 - 20% of the total play time, making the game feel a lot shorter than it actually is in terms of play time.
But I'm sure it violates Comcast's TOS to do this, but Speakeasy not only doesn't care, they encourage it, w/in the confines fo their program (they bill, you support, you get 80% of your mutual clients' rate off your bill).
Does it have a *battery*? When searching for cheap laptops I found a few at Walmart.com (this was a few months ago) that didn't actually have batteries. They were just basically all-in-one portable PCs.
Actually most console makers eventually make a per-unit profit on their hardware. It's hard to pinpoint a specific time, but call it three years into the console's lifespane. Now, they may not make a profit overall, but the machines are only loss-leaders for a while.
Not enough... The game industry is bigger than Hollywood, if you only count US boxoffice receipts. But these "game industry is bigger than Hollywood" claims always leave out the rental and DVD sales market.
It was kind of tacky though. I mean, I was interested to see the clips the next day, but the real crime wasn't that we saw her tit, it was just the whole horribleness of all pop-music Superbowl half-time shows. And like this old woman flashing her boob was kind of just a gross end point to a gross display. It never would have occured to me to complain (and I didn't), but I did find the entire slut-rock show distasteful.
I guess my point is that just because it was used by the Right Wing to clamp down on public expression doesn't mean that it wasn't also totally lame. Being oppressed doesn't make bad art good.
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An easily legible signature is easier to forge than a unique and weird one. Why do you think they call them signatures? If you just write in neat cursive, anyone can duplicate it. Chris
US Citizens can't be declared either enemy, or illegal combatants. Thanks, court system!
Used Z80 books are easy to pick up at Alibris.com too. You can even invest some dough in hardware and see the results on an actual GBC. And once you understand assembly, pretty much any other language is going to be easier, because you can understand what the language is trying to do with its crazy high-level commands.
Of course, he could end up like a friend of mine (who is now a manager and no longer codes on a daily basis), who more or less starts any C programming by defining 8 global variables "reg1 ... reg8" and proceeds from there, without comments...
He actually gave Wikipedia a lot of credit in his article. It comes off to me as criticism from someone who has a fundemental disagreement about the project. For my money, I'd rather know stuff there was fact-checked. I think Wikipedia is better for more objective issues (microprocessor facts) and worse for more political issues (see above).
Well, if you don't really carry anything secure in your luggae, but it has a combination lock when you buy it, you might want a combo like that. I remember my dad's briefcase had combo "000" on its locks for that reason.
This is exactly how this scam works. They busted some people who were doing this at Home Depot around San Francisco (San Leandro and Emeryville, I think, if you want to be specific -- read the article), using a bar code for a really cheap light fixture and putting it on a much more expensive fixture (by $150 or so). They did the same thing with sinks, too. They'd buy like 10 at a time along w/ a ton of legit stuff, then sell the legit stuff to a contractor and return the light fixtures for the higher price. If they couldn't get cash (because they had no receipt) they'd get a gift card and sell that for a slight discount elsewhere. The scam netted them maybe ~$400K over 18 months. Check out the link, it's a pretty interesting story.
One of the most ironic things that ever happened to me was at Walmat. I usually don't shop there but got bad service at Sears and left, but still needed a seriously cheap 13" TV. So I went to Wal-Mart, browsed for a while, bought one and left, only to be assaulted at the door by some Nazi who insisted she had to check my receipt to make sure I hadn't stolen anything. Very irritating. Then I got to the car, put the TV in the trunk, looked down and saw a small craft item that I had thrown in the cart on impulse and *totally* forgotten to pay for... It was kind of a funny situation, as I then had to surrepticiously sneak it back into the store to pay for it while trying to explain to my son that I hadn't stolen it. Bottom line is -- even with their high security, you gotta figure if someone like me can *unintentionally* steal from Wal-Mart, others are probably ripping them off left, right, and center.
NASA has done some awesome things, but it has tended to get bogged down in beaurocracy while the Russians were able to get things done. I would have been a lot happier w/ us going up to SpaceLab 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc than over-spending, over-thinking, and over-engineering our way through the late eighties and nineties.
My personal guess is still that they're taking the blame for other teams' overeating as well.
The classic example is the story of the space pen. Ballpoint pens don't work in space, so NASA spent millions to develop a "space pen" which had a pressurized ink compartment, creating a pen that could write in zero-G.
To solve this problem on Soviet space shots, they used pencils.
Ok, so that story is apocryphal(more about the actual story of the space pen is here -- in fact Fischer developed it before NASA needed it to solve earth-bound ballpoint issues), but it does illustrate the difference in attitude between the US and Russian space engineers.
NASA tends to over-engineer everything while the Russians tend to be scrappy. When you have unlimited amounts of money to throw at the problem, as we did during the Apollo days, I'll take over-engineered any day of the week. When you don't have unlimited money, scrappy starts to look better and better...
Reality is, it's easy to blame the last crew, but it might have been the cumulative effects of multiple crews' snacking.
Software piracy is not harmless. The impact may not be as large as the xxIA say it is, but it is stealing. It does cost a real loss of real income to intellectual property rights holders. And that trickles down to real people -- not just rich people, either. To say that piracy is completely harmless is completely fucking retarded. It's impact may be overstated, but, Blackbeard, don't try to justify your theft by saying no one's ever been hurt by piracy.
Finally, making *a* copy of M$ office isn't what this dude plead guilty to. And, he knew the sentencing possibilities and still plead guilty. I feel for the guy, because I think first-offender prison sentences are too long generally, but the fact that this guy may be getting fucked doesn't make what he did any less wrong.
Unless you are trying to sell something that a lot of people are pirating and you go out of business. As happened all over the computer entertainment software industry in the mid 1980s, to cite one example. The fact that the xxIA organizations and the DMCA are all totally fucked doesn't make stealing software or selling stolen software for profit ok.
Those homicide stats include manslaughter. Break it out seperately and you'll see that most first and second degree killers get far, far longer sentences.
My Pentium M (IBM ThinkPad R40 1.3Ghz) seems pretty speedy for normal apps when clocked down, and also lasts fairly long when not clocked down. But I don't know what your applications are (I'm just using it for word processing, image editing, email, and watching DVDs -- nothing crazy processor intensive).
No, they're not, some internet rumor site is.
And, by the way, Halo 2 is fucking awesome, even with it's supposed problems. I prefer the pop-in on Halo 2 to the load pauses in HL2, personally. As for the ending, the single player game took me ~12.5 hours to beat. That's plenty for a single-player game. Yes, the ending left a lot of loose threads, but it didn't feel like the game just "stopped," any more than Empire Strikes Back just "stopped."
I think a lot of people were disappointed that the game didn't take place entirely on Earth, so you almost discount and forget about the Earth sections of the game, which are probably about 15 - 20% of the total play time, making the game feel a lot shorter than it actually is in terms of play time.
You sound like one of those dudes who are like "Global Warming my ass, it was cold here yesterday."
But I'm sure it violates Comcast's TOS to do this, but Speakeasy not only doesn't care, they encourage it, w/in the confines fo their program (they bill, you support, you get 80% of your mutual clients' rate off your bill).
This should answer your questions. It's all good.
And for the truly lazy ...
Does it have a *battery*? When searching for cheap laptops I found a few at Walmart.com (this was a few months ago) that didn't actually have batteries. They were just basically all-in-one portable PCs.
At CGE this year she practically bowled over a kid on her way to see Al Alcorn , who I guess she hadn't met yet. It was awesome.
Actually most console makers eventually make a per-unit profit on their hardware. It's hard to pinpoint a specific time, but call it three years into the console's lifespane. Now, they may not make a profit overall, but the machines are only loss-leaders for a while.
Not enough... The game industry is bigger than Hollywood, if you only count US boxoffice receipts. But these "game industry is bigger than Hollywood" claims always leave out the rental and DVD sales market.
I guess my point is that just because it was used by the Right Wing to clamp down on public expression doesn't mean that it wasn't also totally lame. Being oppressed doesn't make bad art good.