why does this sound exactly like the plot of the the day after tomorrow... oh yeah, that's because this IS the plot of that movie without even little changes. talk about plagiarism./sarcasm
well this random post seems to claim that 1 mA can kill a sick person, and 100 mA can kill a healthy person... so my "an amp can kill a person" should actually say "an amp could kill 1000 sick people... or 10 healthy people... or some combination thereof..."
an excellent post. volts don't kill people, amperes do! and since watts are the product of voltage and amperage, and voltage will be likely low... this would lead me to believe that yes, these could be dangerous devices with a good amount of current going through... a physics professor of mine once said "it only takes a single amp to stop your heart"... oh yeah! now we can play flatliners without the need for a power outlet! sweet!
it is not about approval, it is about the current state of the legal system. I went on to say that we can (and perhaps hinted that we should) challenge this. But going around bitching about "whah... my ipod don't not play no more of them real songs... wha..." is simply not productive.
and if Intel licenses its BIOS to you with a clause which says "only Palladium approved operating system may be used with this BIOS software" and you buy that hardware, you better believe I approve of you not breaking your licensing terms. because I'd like people to not ignore other licenses, such as the GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc, licenses.
Are you blinded by your desire to pirate music that you have sold out your belief in not being a hypocrite? We can't pick and choose the licenses we want to honor. I don't want people to pirate my software, so I don't pirate music.
That is an entirely different proposition from the previous statement about demanding a refund.
I would like to see a logical explanation of why someone who either bought an iPod for the purpose of playing RealMedia files or bought RealMedia files for the purpose of playing them on an iPod decided to do so.
The advantage to the firmware is that it removes the temptations to violate your iTunes or iPod end-user license agreement. As the iPod runs software, it is subject to licensing terms. As iTunes music is licensed (not bought -- read carefully, young padawan) it is also subject to licensing terms. Using the hacked RealMedia files violates these licensing terms and could result in the revocation of the legal use of said licensed software and media.
Not that I particularly like or agree with all this licensing nonsense, but that is the way it is. If we want to fight the software licensing movement let's do that, not piddle around with "waaaaaahhhhhhh my iPod won't play my RealMedia files no more... waaaaaaahhhhhh!"
You seem to be confused about both the iPod and Hymn.
1. The iPod will play unprotected AAC and MP3 files. 2. Hymn produces unprotected AAC files.
For Apple to disable the ability for the iPod to play files produces with Hymn, they would ostensibly have to either (1) remove unprotected AAC playback or (2) (a) watermark their AAC files prior to encryption and (b) update the iPod firmware to check for such a watermark for unprotected AAC files before playing.
However such a watermark would likely be a prime target for a reverse engineering and removal tool, hey why don't we just build it into Hymn in the first place?
Besides, updating iTunes, Quicktime, FairPlay, and iPod software from Apple doesn't force the end-user to update that software on any or all of their machines. So the most Apple could really hope for with the best possible solution would be to create an un-removable watermark (very, very, very hard), non-trickable FairPlay libraries (somewhat hard but then again it seems they're not really trying at this point), and even then there would be huge gaping holes w.r.t. the million or so songs already downloaded without the watermark technology.
A person that is equipped with purchased items could slaughter players that earned everything in game.
How? This is a ridiculous notion. A person equipped with purchased items is equipped with items earned in the game -- albeit by other people. We're not talking server-hacked items. If you spend $1000 and outfit yourself in badass "leet" gear, all I have to do is spend a few hours in an instance dungeon (where you can't follow and PvP) and get similar gear, and then I'll whip your ass because I learned a bit of how to play by... wow... playing the game.
not that I agree with it for/other/ reasons, but it's hardly unfair. a player still pops the item or gathers the gold, it is not a dupe trick, it is not hacking the server.
if selling gold or weapons on ebay is "unfair" then so is giving away gold or weapons to friends, or heck, just for fun.
please come up with a more compelling argument than "fairness" -- because that one falls flat on its face in my opinion. because "having money" or "knowing the right people" don't fundamentally differ as valid reasons for giving someone an item, in my opinion.
now, the selling of items is expressly forbidden by the terms of service, making selling items either grey "illegal" or at least simply "against the rules". but I honestly don't see it as "unfair".
if person A is willing to pay person B for not having to kill monster C a dozen times to get item D, who the hell cares? there are minimum level requirements for all the non-quest items I know of, and frankly if knowing that person A has item D bothers you, get a life. and "get a life" coming from someone who plays a MMORPG should be at least somewhat alarming.
the main reason (to me) to discourage ebaying such items is that there is little (to no) enforcement possible, thus you have no recourse if your money is taken and you don't get the item you want. because you can't complain to Blizzard or eBay or anyone else really, as they can easily point you at the terms of service. yet you'll feel screwed by "someone" and likely take it out on Blizzard or eBay employees.
I don't think it was III. I'm leaning towards II, but whichever one opened with an Origin "symphony" being conducted. Man, that put my Sound Blaster to the test. Actually it was the original Wing Commander, after checking out some of the info WCNews has on the game, it all comes rushing back: the Tiger's Claw... ah, the joys of youth.
the article also mentions that (1) the guy hacking it apart intends to put a flash drive in it and (2) that AMD intends to put a flash drive in it soon.
well, for web browsing, if it has a cache of any kind it will be doing a lot of writes. plus, with 128 MB of RAM, one suspects a lot of virtual memory will be used on the disk as well (lots of writes).
I remember several years ago I was boasting about running some of my servers from Flash IDE drives, and I immediately was blasted with comments like: "yes, but you can only write to the Flash disk so many times before it fails". Any comments on that? Was that ever the case, and if so, is it still the case?
Since Windows on PPC was scrapped back in 1997, this leads to speculation that perhaps Linux, AIX, or BSD will be the operating system for cell workstations."
say it with me: "an i name is not a name". your "i name" can be "=fscknugget", having it be based on your actual name is up to you, but it does not (and should not) be used as data which can in and of itself be parsed into your real name. in fact, your real name is one of the pieces of private data which an "i name" purports to protect.
note that I neither affirm nor condem this "i name" business, just noting that the "i name" is not even designed to be parsed into a real name, so your points about "St. John" and double-barreled surnames are not that important. (I have a hyphenated last name and so this kind of thing is almost a hobby of mine...)
first of all gamecubes are incredibly cheap. used gamecubes can be had at the $50 price point. if I wanted a tiny,/quiet/ little DNS server or mail terminal, hey, that is not a bad machine to do it. I think you may be overlooking that gamecube keyboards exist.
This was/by far/ the best computer gaming experience I have ever had. From Wizardy, to the SSI "Gold Box" D&D games, the early Ultima games, hundreds of others over the years, console games galore, MUDs, what have you. Call me a fanboy if you will (fanboy!) but WoW just absolutely rocks. It receives a 10/10 from me, even though of/course/ I would have suggestions such as: real penalties for dying instead of not even a slap on the wrist; permanent death servers; better auto-attack.
This weekend will be one of withdrawal and suffering, before the solvent rush of renewed addiction.
nobody is making anyone do anything. this isn't communist russia or some fascist country where The Company can make you work. what it comes down to is these people want to keep their BMWs, their 3-bedroom houses in the Valley, their prime rib dinners, and/they are perfectly willing/ to work 80 hour weeks to do it. how do I know? because they are doing it.
myself, I've been working 60-hour weeks for about a month (yes, software developer). if it continues for another month/I will leave/ because I/value/ my life and the short enjoyment of it/more/ than having a stupid house or car.
THAT is what Microsoft hates. People who buy the loss-leader hardware and never buy the software.
Actually no. They probably most hate people who buy competitor's hardware, rivaled only by hating people who buy no hardware.
For every XBox that sells, "loss leader" or not, they get to go back to marketing with "we sold x million (plus one now) units" and build their image. There is actually a part positive effect for XBox even when a GameCube or PS2 sells, because they go back with "look at the video game console industry -- booming!", but this is at least partly if not completely cancelled out by the fact that the competitor gets the sale and market share.
People who buy no hardware even can be "spun" into a positive effect -- "look there is still a market to be tapped".
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why does this sound exactly like the plot of the the day after tomorrow ... oh yeah, that's because this IS the plot of that movie without even little changes. talk about plagiarism. /sarcasm
and your post disagrees with the moronic links I provided... how?
are you a student? my post was in response to the story submitter as this position would be a coop/intern position not a "real job".
well this random post seems to claim that 1 mA can kill a sick person, and 100 mA can kill a healthy person... so my "an amp can kill a person" should actually say "an amp could kill 1000 sick people... or 10 healthy people... or some combination thereof..."
an excellent post. volts don't kill people, amperes do! and since watts are the product of voltage and amperage, and voltage will be likely low... this would lead me to believe that yes, these could be dangerous devices with a good amount of current going through... a physics professor of mine once said "it only takes a single amp to stop your heart"... oh yeah! now we can play flatliners without the need for a power outlet! sweet!
if you want to come manage security patches for a few thousand windows, aix, solaris, and linux machines for me, let me know.
it is not about approval, it is about the current state of the legal system. I went on to say that we can (and perhaps hinted that we should) challenge this. But going around bitching about "whah... my ipod don't not play no more of them real songs... wha..." is simply not productive.
and if Intel licenses its BIOS to you with a clause which says "only Palladium approved operating system may be used with this BIOS software" and you buy that hardware, you better believe I approve of you not breaking your licensing terms. because I'd like people to not ignore other licenses, such as the GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc, licenses.
Are you blinded by your desire to pirate music that you have sold out your belief in not being a hypocrite? We can't pick and choose the licenses we want to honor. I don't want people to pirate my software, so I don't pirate music.
That is an entirely different proposition from the previous statement about demanding a refund.
I would like to see a logical explanation of why someone who either bought an iPod for the purpose of playing RealMedia files or bought RealMedia files for the purpose of playing them on an iPod decided to do so.
The advantage to the firmware is that it removes the temptations to violate your iTunes or iPod end-user license agreement. As the iPod runs software, it is subject to licensing terms. As iTunes music is licensed (not bought -- read carefully, young padawan) it is also subject to licensing terms. Using the hacked RealMedia files violates these licensing terms and could result in the revocation of the legal use of said licensed software and media.
Not that I particularly like or agree with all this licensing nonsense, but that is the way it is. If we want to fight the software licensing movement let's do that, not piddle around with "waaaaaahhhhhhh my iPod won't play my RealMedia files no more... waaaaaaahhhhhh!"
You seem to be confused about both the iPod and Hymn.
1. The iPod will play unprotected AAC and MP3 files.
2. Hymn produces unprotected AAC files.
For Apple to disable the ability for the iPod to play files produces with Hymn, they would ostensibly have to either (1) remove unprotected AAC playback or (2) (a) watermark their AAC files prior to encryption and (b) update the iPod firmware to check for such a watermark for unprotected AAC files before playing.
However such a watermark would likely be a prime target for a reverse engineering and removal tool, hey why don't we just build it into Hymn in the first place?
Besides, updating iTunes, Quicktime, FairPlay, and iPod software from Apple doesn't force the end-user to update that software on any or all of their machines. So the most Apple could really hope for with the best possible solution would be to create an un-removable watermark (very, very, very hard), non-trickable FairPlay libraries (somewhat hard but then again it seems they're not really trying at this point), and even then there would be huge gaping holes w.r.t. the million or so songs already downloaded without the watermark technology.
They just reduced the functionality of a unit I already own. I want a refund now for the lost functionality.
Which advertised function do you base this claim on? Apple has never claimed that its iPod product would play RealMedia files.
A person that is equipped with purchased items could slaughter players that earned everything in game.
How? This is a ridiculous notion. A person equipped with purchased items is equipped with items earned in the game -- albeit by other people. We're not talking server-hacked items. If you spend $1000 and outfit yourself in badass "leet" gear, all I have to do is spend a few hours in an instance dungeon (where you can't follow and PvP) and get similar gear, and then I'll whip your ass because I learned a bit of how to play by... wow... playing the game.
not that I agree with it for /other/ reasons, but it's hardly unfair. a player still pops the item or gathers the gold, it is not a dupe trick, it is not hacking the server.
if selling gold or weapons on ebay is "unfair" then so is giving away gold or weapons to friends, or heck, just for fun.
please come up with a more compelling argument than "fairness" -- because that one falls flat on its face in my opinion. because "having money" or "knowing the right people" don't fundamentally differ as valid reasons for giving someone an item, in my opinion.
now, the selling of items is expressly forbidden by the terms of service, making selling items either grey "illegal" or at least simply "against the rules". but I honestly don't see it as "unfair".
if person A is willing to pay person B for not having to kill monster C a dozen times to get item D, who the hell cares? there are minimum level requirements for all the non-quest items I know of, and frankly if knowing that person A has item D bothers you, get a life. and "get a life" coming from someone who plays a MMORPG should be at least somewhat alarming.
the main reason (to me) to discourage ebaying such items is that there is little (to no) enforcement possible, thus you have no recourse if your money is taken and you don't get the item you want. because you can't complain to Blizzard or eBay or anyone else really, as they can easily point you at the terms of service. yet you'll feel screwed by "someone" and likely take it out on Blizzard or eBay employees.
it may not be illegal per the laws of the land, but it is in the WoW user agreement. don't like it, don't use the service. easy enough.
because it's also not illegal for Blizzard to thwack your account, losing you the use of your precious $200 staff of mightyness.
I don't think it was III. I'm leaning towards II, but whichever one opened with an Origin "symphony" being conducted. Man, that put my Sound Blaster to the test. Actually it was the original Wing Commander, after checking out some of the info WCNews has on the game, it all comes rushing back: the Tiger's Claw... ah, the joys of youth.
the article also mentions that (1) the guy hacking it apart intends to put a flash drive in it and (2) that AMD intends to put a flash drive in it soon.
well, for web browsing, if it has a cache of any kind it will be doing a lot of writes. plus, with 128 MB of RAM, one suspects a lot of virtual memory will be used on the disk as well (lots of writes).
I remember several years ago I was boasting about running some of my servers from Flash IDE drives, and I immediately was blasted with comments like: "yes, but you can only write to the Flash disk so many times before it fails". Any comments on that? Was that ever the case, and if so, is it still the case?
Since Windows on PPC was scrapped back in 1997, this leads to speculation that perhaps Linux, AIX, or BSD will be the operating system for cell workstations."
My guess is OS X.
say it with me: "an i name is not a name". your "i name" can be "=fscknugget", having it be based on your actual name is up to you, but it does not (and should not) be used as data which can in and of itself be parsed into your real name. in fact, your real name is one of the pieces of private data which an "i name" purports to protect.
note that I neither affirm nor condem this "i name" business, just noting that the "i name" is not even designed to be parsed into a real name, so your points about "St. John" and double-barreled surnames are not that important. (I have a hyphenated last name and so this kind of thing is almost a hobby of mine...)
claiming that you didn't know spam was illegal is not the same thing as claiming that you didn't know your computer was sending spam.
first of all gamecubes are incredibly cheap. used gamecubes can be had at the $50 price point. if I wanted a tiny, /quiet/ little DNS server or mail terminal, hey, that is not a bad machine to do it. I think you may be overlooking that gamecube keyboards exist.
You did the impossible Blizzard. You finally shut me up about Starcraft 2.
Yeah. Now I want World of Starcraft when I get tired of World of Warcraft, "Wing Commander Privateer" style.
That should be 2 or 3 years, plenty of time for them to get it done.
This was /by far/ the best computer gaming experience I have ever had. From Wizardy, to the SSI "Gold Box" D&D games, the early Ultima games, hundreds of others over the years, console games galore, MUDs, what have you. Call me a fanboy if you will (fanboy!) but WoW just absolutely rocks. It receives a 10/10 from me, even though of /course/ I would have suggestions such as: real penalties for dying instead of not even a slap on the wrist; permanent death servers; better auto-attack.
This weekend will be one of withdrawal and suffering, before the solvent rush of renewed addiction.
nobody is making anyone do anything. this isn't communist russia or some fascist country where The Company can make you work. what it comes down to is these people want to keep their BMWs, their 3-bedroom houses in the Valley, their prime rib dinners, and /they are perfectly willing/ to work 80 hour weeks to do it. how do I know? because they are doing it.
/I will leave/ because I /value/ my life and the short enjoyment of it /more/ than having a stupid house or car.
myself, I've been working 60-hour weeks for about a month (yes, software developer). if it continues for another month
THAT is what Microsoft hates. People who buy the loss-leader hardware and never buy the software.
Actually no. They probably most hate people who buy competitor's hardware, rivaled only by hating people who buy no hardware.
For every XBox that sells, "loss leader" or not, they get to go back to marketing with "we sold x million (plus one now) units" and build their image. There is actually a part positive effect for XBox even when a GameCube or PS2 sells, because they go back with "look at the video game console industry -- booming!", but this is at least partly if not completely cancelled out by the fact that the competitor gets the sale and market share.
People who buy no hardware even can be "spun" into a positive effect -- "look there is still a market to be tapped".