Not spoofed, but stolen easily enough. Just collect somebody's razor from a shower, or their female sanitary napkins, or whatever. There's plenty of ways to get blood from a target.
Great movie, but the f***ing thing makes you watch previews for Fish Tale and Madagascar even time you start it up (unless you have a cheapie DVD play which ignores the skip-rules on the disc). Yes, a movie I paid for, and it forces me to watch the damn ads.
When I get a moment I'm going to plug it in and rip the damn thing to a new DVD, minus the advertisements, then stick the copy in with the original. However it would have been more convenient to just download the damn thing in the first place.
Hey, let me know if you happen to get this working. I tried it with my Debian box and despite inserting the firmware it would not connect to a wireless network for me (dhcp didn't get an IP).
MMORPG's are the goose that keeps on laying golden eggs. Once you've got somebody hooked in to monthly fees and a continual source of revenue, why make anything else?
I do think that the whole MMO trend has somewhat set back regular games. I personally don't have the time to devote to Massively Multiplayer world's, and have found the selection of non-MMO titles somewhat lacking (although I am tempted to try EVE or something else that doesn't require constant massive time injections).
It's easy to assume he does it for the money, but in many of these cases he's not the being paid
And yet most of us know who he is. Assumedly, if somebody wanted to go sue "BloodyExposiveGames.com" they might pick up on his name from the media and pay him to be their lawyer.
This would have been a decision by the developers of the game not to release the 'nix/SGI code. If they don't want to support the market, fine.
However, this isn't a case of ATI etc not releasing directX10 for WinXP (it's not their product). Rather, directX is made by Microsoft, windows is made by Microsoft, and getting a newer DirectX looks like it's going to require you buy a newer Microsoft OS (Vista).
If this was the case of ID software/w Doom or Quake, it wouldn't be that they profited from operating-system sales by only releasing the DOS version (and it worked with most DOS versions that I recall anyhow).
This job has been mentioned a few times and I've always wonder how much he makes at it, and how many logos etc he has to make. The article points out it's on 20% of what he does, but not really what else he does (and of course, mentioning pay-rate is usually considered rude).
It also mentions how sometimes sites suffer an effect similar to a slashdotting through being linked from the google logos, so I found if google might consider coordinating with some of those a little better to offer temporary mirroring services.
Out of the logos shown on the CNN site, I think that the machaelangelo is probably my fav.
Except in some instances I'm guessing that things are a bit rushed, in which case you'll be calling in people, equipment, etc. Generally mechanic-work has all the tools readily available, and in any event they're generally counting that the number of screws that came out also go back in. If the doc forgets to put something back that should have been, it's a bigger problem that RFID isn't going to fix.
If they are developing on windows XP, that means that DirectX10 works on windows XP. Pretty hard to develop for it if it didn't.
Therefore, if they have it working well enough for the developers, what reason (besides forcing gamers/etc to switch to Vista) could they have for not allowing it to work for consumers on XP as opposed to just Vista?
There have been accounts of people (or couples of people) whom have a strong "sense" of precognition, of people who have a strong emotional/mental connection over distances (such as twins, etc), and of places that have a resonance (hauntings, stonehenge, etc).
Indeed, both person-associated (genetic or chance) phenomenoa have been said to occur, as well as environmental/locational.
A few points that came to mind as I read the above...
Haven't been slapped: women I find attractive, as a rule, do not have telepathy
Depending on what you find attractive in women, chances are that such women will also be attractive to others. In that event, I believe they'd be somewhat immune due to constant hinting thoughts of passerby.
Taxpayer's money: research into the mystical and supernatural isn't strictly illegal it is certainly a questionable use of taxpayer money
How many expeditions across the world, expected to fall off the "edge" were funded by what would have then been something similar to taxpayer's money?
There's a likelyhood to all things, as well as a case history. Cases of various paranormal events exceed those of invisible pink unicorn reports (although how something can be pink when invisible?). It leaves the possibility of lots of crazy people, lots of easily influenced/misled people (more likely), or the possibility that various paranormal circumstances may exist. Lots of things that would have been 'witchcraft' or paranormal years back are commonplace. I suppose the trade-off is in exactly how much money is spent vs the results received.
By measuring the state of the first electron, you can instantaneously affect the state of the second electron -- but according to all of the current theories, there is no way to actually use that to communicate
Why not? If you can in any how tell that the state of the second electron has been altered, and you could consistently alter/un-alter/re-alter the second electron, you could transfer binary data... with the limits being on how quickly one could read the changes given or affect a change.
It's a pity that there's no evidence that these experiences actually took place in reality, not just in the participants' imaginations, don't you think
Which leads to a previous statement. Not everyone is a liar, some people honestly (but mistakenly) believe in a paranormal ability or event that may have an existing scientific explanation beyond their own knowledge. Of course, some other unexplainable/supernatural events over time have become normal scientific data as science progressed as well.
One thing I do wonder is about experiments done with twins (quite a few interesting cases of people having an unusual 'connection' there), and experiments vs situations of duress. Sure, a million bucks is a nice incentive, but if one did have an invisible supernatural transmitter in one's head... say a weak one... a life-threatening situation might just be the thing that squeezes out the juice in it, and that's not really something that can be (legally) simulated.
Certainly there are cases where humans put in "impossible" situations have gone beyond what science dictated should be possible.
originally developed for the HRP-2 Promet (pictured at right), a life-sized research robot marketed by Kawada, and costing tens of millions of yen (upwards of $170,000). The Choromet, on the other hand, was designed to be relatively small and inexpensive.
So what exactly qualifies as inexpensive? If the Promet is $170k, would the Choromet be more like $17k?
Yes and no. Countries don't just need to investigate alternative fuels (although that is definately an avenue to persue), people also need to learn to learn to be more conservative of the fuel we have. The problem is that a large portion of the people buying the bigass SUV's and motorhomes have plenty of cash, and while the might find it annoying to pay more for gas it's not going to hit them very hard. The fact is that they're driving wasteful vehicles because they can, and because they don't care.
Yes, a big enough gas cost might make them care, but then it's also going to affect a lot of other people. There are plenty of people driving older vehicles because they can't afford something newer and/or more fuel efficient, and in fact the cost of gas has made used milage-friendly vehicles less available and more expensive. About 1 1/4 years ago I bought a new Corolla (which I bought because the milage+power seemed best in that price-point at the time). Originally I was going to go used, but decent Toyota's were actually fairly scarce around here. A lot of people I know can't afford a newer Corolla, and the cost or upkeep of other used but fuel-friendly vehicles may also be pretty hard to afford, yet use of transportation is pretty much a necessity of life for many. Looking at the hybrid's there's good milage but actually a pretty big trade-off for maintenance and replacement (batteries wear out).
So you have two categories, people who can't afford an efficient vehicle and people who don't want to. Raise the gas price enough and those at the lower end will simply not be able to afford to drive, period. Those at the higher end will either keep paying the higher costs, or maybe eventually go with something more efficient. However, by then the good portion of the population is screwed. Even for myself with my Corolla - which is pretty efficient if you drive it right - it's gonna be pretty hurting in the next few years, and everything else is going to rise as well as the cost of transporting goods increases.
The good news is that some of the energy-efficient vehicles are becoming more trendy, but the bad is that it's still not enough to convert a lot of the SUV, motorhome, or truck-which-I-use-like-a-car crowd.
a) Open Source: Easier to find bugs/exploits in the source, for both malicious and altruistic (fixing 'em) purposes.
b) Closed Source: Harder to find bugs/exploits, meaning that they might be harder to exploit, but also oftimes harder to get a timely fix and/or fix it yourself... or even know the bug exists.
Those are all factors, but not all of which can be controlled. It pisses me off to no end that I am seeing increasing numbers of huge fricking motorhomes passing through my city here in BC, Canada (many domestic or visiting from the US). First of all, I see no reason that anyone needs to tote the equivilent to a small luxury house down the road, and secondly because the gas consumption is insane. Long weekend coming, gas goes up. I actually do see a decrease in regular users during the peaks, as many sane people wait for it to drop again. On the other hand, you will still see plenty of idiots filling up their gas-guzzling motorhomes because it seems that they can only get about 100-200km without needing another fill... usually $100-200+/fill
So why would the gas companies not jack up prices? Sure, a few people will cut back when the prices are high, but there are still plenty of idiots with SUV's, motorhomes, and the rest guzzling down more and more gas, enough to make it plenty profitable for the gas co's to keep jacking up the prices.
In my case this was likely because the windows graphics drivers are integrated with the power-saving, buttons, etc. You can't use the updated ones from the graphics-card manufacturer, and the laptop manufacturer stopped updating the specific ones for that laptop (and latter models went with ATI instead of NVidia).
So in the end, I had windows with less up-to-date graphics drivers, and crappy gameplay in BattleField 2. On the other hand, Linux+NVidia Driver+Cedega game better gameplay for many of the games requiring a newer graphics driver.
On other systems, I've found that sometimes there's a graphics/FPS penalty for running Cedega (depending on the game), but loadtimes from the disk tended to be a bit faster on the ReiserFS filesystem etc etc.
Because - as many have mentioned - gambling itself isn't illegal. At the point where you have to screw around making offshore accounts etc etc, most people would just skip the time and trouble that represents and head down to gamble in their local government-sanctioned money pit. It's not like prohibition or "the war on drugs" where the material is entirely illegal (well, war on drugs has some legal ones), so people can still legally practice/fill their vices.
All Lithium-ion batteries can make a real nasty mess when they go, but as with many batteries, the method of charging, storage, and charge+heat monitoring can cause the battery to become unstable more easily. Putting the battery near other hot components, with an improper charge monitor (overcharging), or in an area than generally leads to overheat can all greatly increase the chance of the battery going boom (not sure how that applies in this case)
How about the ignorant jerks who happily pop open your running washer/dryer to 'check' if there's anything in there. Of course, the machine will happily tick down its time but not restart unless the button is hit again, meaning when you come back in 20-40 minutes your coins are still eaten and your laundry is still wet.
Give me a wifi connection to the machine and the ability to catch a picture of whomever is opening my machine so I can be sure to add some tye-dye to his next load...
Well, I'm a Canadian, and a few years ago I took a trip down to Australia to visit some friends. One thing I noticed while I was down there, is that while frequenting the bars, etc, people were in fact a fair bit friendlier when they found out I was Canadian (no maple leafs sewn onto my clothes or other physical identifiers were present). Quite often in a conversation somebody would suddenly state "Oh, you're a Canadian" and suddenly they would be much friendlier to me.
On the other hand, I've seen plenty enough of arrogant and rather ignorant Canadians here at home, so if we still have a reputation for being friendly/nice/polite abroad I suppose it's because we're keeping our supply of jerks this side of the border... not because we lack in ignorant people in general.
Can they? If organizations like the boyscouts of American can block gay members, why should anyone be able to force google's ranking or even inclusion of site site. Also, if you note the linked article, the press from the boyscouts incident has definately hit them financially... which is the way the public can really express their distaste for corporate methods, rather than individual companies wasting court time.
Slashdot Mirror
Not spoofed, but stolen easily enough. Just collect somebody's razor from a shower, or their female sanitary napkins, or whatever. There's plenty of ways to get blood from a target.
This is what I was told of it anyhow (that it requires time but you don't have to spend 4h a day gaming) but I might have been misled...
Great movie, but the f***ing thing makes you watch previews for Fish Tale and Madagascar even time you start it up (unless you have a cheapie DVD play which ignores the skip-rules on the disc). Yes, a movie I paid for, and it forces me to watch the damn ads.
When I get a moment I'm going to plug it in and rip the damn thing to a new DVD, minus the advertisements, then stick the copy in with the original. However it would have been more convenient to just download the damn thing in the first place.
Hey, let me know if you happen to get this working. I tried it with my Debian box and despite inserting the firmware it would not connect to a wireless network for me (dhcp didn't get an IP).
MMORPG's are the goose that keeps on laying golden eggs. Once you've got somebody hooked in to monthly fees and a continual source of revenue, why make anything else?
I do think that the whole MMO trend has somewhat set back regular games. I personally don't have the time to devote to Massively Multiplayer world's, and have found the selection of non-MMO titles somewhat lacking (although I am tempted to try EVE or something else that doesn't require constant massive time injections).
It's easy to assume he does it for the money, but in many of these cases he's not the being paid
And yet most of us know who he is. Assumedly, if somebody wanted to go sue "BloodyExposiveGames.com" they might pick up on his name from the media and pay him to be their lawyer.
This would have been a decision by the developers of the game not to release the 'nix/SGI code. If they don't want to support the market, fine.
/w Doom or Quake, it wouldn't be that they profited from operating-system sales by only releasing the DOS version (and it worked with most DOS versions that I recall anyhow).
However, this isn't a case of ATI etc not releasing directX10 for WinXP (it's not their product). Rather, directX is made by Microsoft, windows is made by Microsoft, and getting a newer DirectX looks like it's going to require you buy a newer Microsoft OS (Vista).
If this was the case of ID software
This job has been mentioned a few times and I've always wonder how much he makes at it, and how many logos etc he has to make. The article points out it's on 20% of what he does, but not really what else he does (and of course, mentioning pay-rate is usually considered rude).
It also mentions how sometimes sites suffer an effect similar to a slashdotting through being linked from the google logos, so I found if google might consider coordinating with some of those a little better to offer temporary mirroring services.
Out of the logos shown on the CNN site, I think that the machaelangelo is probably my fav.
Except in some instances I'm guessing that things are a bit rushed, in which case you'll be calling in people, equipment, etc. Generally mechanic-work has all the tools readily available, and in any event they're generally counting that the number of screws that came out also go back in. If the doc forgets to put something back that should have been, it's a bigger problem that RFID isn't going to fix.
If they are developing on windows XP, that means that DirectX10 works on windows XP. Pretty hard to develop for it if it didn't.
Therefore, if they have it working well enough for the developers, what reason (besides forcing gamers/etc to switch to Vista) could they have for not allowing it to work for consumers on XP as opposed to just Vista?
There have been accounts of people (or couples of people) whom have a strong "sense" of precognition, of people who have a strong emotional/mental connection over distances (such as twins, etc), and of places that have a resonance (hauntings, stonehenge, etc).
Indeed, both person-associated (genetic or chance) phenomenoa have been said to occur, as well as environmental/locational.
A few points that came to mind as I read the above...
Haven't been slapped: women I find attractive, as a rule, do not have telepathy
Depending on what you find attractive in women, chances are that such women will also be attractive to others. In that event, I believe they'd be somewhat immune due to constant hinting thoughts of passerby.
Taxpayer's money: research into the mystical and supernatural isn't strictly illegal it is certainly a questionable use of taxpayer money
How many expeditions across the world, expected to fall off the "edge" were funded by what would have then been something similar to taxpayer's money?
Why exactly couldn't invisible pink unicorns exist?
There's a likelyhood to all things, as well as a case history. Cases of various paranormal events exceed those of invisible pink unicorn reports (although how something can be pink when invisible?). It leaves the possibility of lots of crazy people, lots of easily influenced/misled people (more likely), or the possibility that various paranormal circumstances may exist. Lots of things that would have been 'witchcraft' or paranormal years back are commonplace. I suppose the trade-off is in exactly how much money is spent vs the results received.
By measuring the state of the first electron, you can instantaneously affect the state of the second electron -- but according to all of the current theories, there is no way to actually use that to communicate
Why not? If you can in any how tell that the state of the second electron has been altered, and you could consistently alter/un-alter/re-alter the second electron, you could transfer binary data... with the limits being on how quickly one could read the changes given or affect a change.
It's a pity that there's no evidence that these experiences actually took place in reality, not just in the participants' imaginations, don't you think
Which leads to a previous statement. Not everyone is a liar, some people honestly (but mistakenly) believe in a paranormal ability or event that may have an existing scientific explanation beyond their own knowledge. Of course, some other unexplainable/supernatural events over time have become normal scientific data as science progressed as well.
One thing I do wonder is about experiments done with twins (quite a few interesting cases of people having an unusual 'connection' there), and experiments vs situations of duress. Sure, a million bucks is a nice incentive, but if one did have an invisible supernatural transmitter in one's head... say a weak one... a life-threatening situation might just be the thing that squeezes out the juice in it, and that's not really something that can be (legally) simulated. Certainly there are cases where humans put in "impossible" situations have gone beyond what science dictated should be possible.
originally developed for the HRP-2 Promet (pictured at right), a life-sized research robot marketed by Kawada, and costing tens of millions of yen (upwards of $170,000). The Choromet, on the other hand, was designed to be relatively small and inexpensive.
So what exactly qualifies as inexpensive? If the Promet is $170k, would the Choromet be more like $17k?
Yes and no. Countries don't just need to investigate alternative fuels (although that is definately an avenue to persue), people also need to learn to learn to be more conservative of the fuel we have. The problem is that a large portion of the people buying the bigass SUV's and motorhomes have plenty of cash, and while the might find it annoying to pay more for gas it's not going to hit them very hard. The fact is that they're driving wasteful vehicles because they can, and because they don't care.
Yes, a big enough gas cost might make them care, but then it's also going to affect a lot of other people. There are plenty of people driving older vehicles because they can't afford something newer and/or more fuel efficient, and in fact the cost of gas has made used milage-friendly vehicles less available and more expensive. About 1 1/4 years ago I bought a new Corolla (which I bought because the milage+power seemed best in that price-point at the time). Originally I was going to go used, but decent Toyota's were actually fairly scarce around here. A lot of people I know can't afford a newer Corolla, and the cost or upkeep of other used but fuel-friendly vehicles may also be pretty hard to afford, yet use of transportation is pretty much a necessity of life for many. Looking at the hybrid's there's good milage but actually a pretty big trade-off for maintenance and replacement (batteries wear out).
So you have two categories, people who can't afford an efficient vehicle and people who don't want to. Raise the gas price enough and those at the lower end will simply not be able to afford to drive, period. Those at the higher end will either keep paying the higher costs, or maybe eventually go with something more efficient. However, by then the good portion of the population is screwed. Even for myself with my Corolla - which is pretty efficient if you drive it right - it's gonna be pretty hurting in the next few years, and everything else is going to rise as well as the cost of transporting goods increases.
The good news is that some of the energy-efficient vehicles are becoming more trendy, but the bad is that it's still not enough to convert a lot of the SUV, motorhome, or truck-which-I-use-like-a-car crowd.
a) Open Source: Easier to find bugs/exploits in the source, for both malicious and altruistic (fixing 'em) purposes.
b) Closed Source: Harder to find bugs/exploits, meaning that they might be harder to exploit, but also oftimes harder to get a timely fix and/or fix it yourself... or even know the bug exists.
There's a bad and good in both worlds.
Those are all factors, but not all of which can be controlled. It pisses me off to no end that I am seeing increasing numbers of huge fricking motorhomes passing through my city here in BC, Canada (many domestic or visiting from the US). First of all, I see no reason that anyone needs to tote the equivilent to a small luxury house down the road, and secondly because the gas consumption is insane. Long weekend coming, gas goes up. I actually do see a decrease in regular users during the peaks, as many sane people wait for it to drop again. On the other hand, you will still see plenty of idiots filling up their gas-guzzling motorhomes because it seems that they can only get about 100-200km without needing another fill... usually $100-200+/fill
So why would the gas companies not jack up prices? Sure, a few people will cut back when the prices are high, but there are still plenty of idiots with SUV's, motorhomes, and the rest guzzling down more and more gas, enough to make it plenty profitable for the gas co's to keep jacking up the prices.
In my case this was likely because the windows graphics drivers are integrated with the power-saving, buttons, etc. You can't use the updated ones from the graphics-card manufacturer, and the laptop manufacturer stopped updating the specific ones for that laptop (and latter models went with ATI instead of NVidia).
So in the end, I had windows with less up-to-date graphics drivers, and crappy gameplay in BattleField 2. On the other hand, Linux+NVidia Driver+Cedega game better gameplay for many of the games requiring a newer graphics driver.
On other systems, I've found that sometimes there's a graphics/FPS penalty for running Cedega (depending on the game), but loadtimes from the disk tended to be a bit faster on the ReiserFS filesystem etc etc.
Because - as many have mentioned - gambling itself isn't illegal. At the point where you have to screw around making offshore accounts etc etc, most people would just skip the time and trouble that represents and head down to gamble in their local government-sanctioned money pit. It's not like prohibition or "the war on drugs" where the material is entirely illegal (well, war on drugs has some legal ones), so people can still legally practice/fill their vices.
All Lithium-ion batteries can make a real nasty mess when they go, but as with many batteries, the method of charging, storage, and charge+heat monitoring can cause the battery to become unstable more easily. Putting the battery near other hot components, with an improper charge monitor (overcharging), or in an area than generally leads to overheat can all greatly increase the chance of the battery going boom (not sure how that applies in this case)
Alien VS Predator was frickin' creepy. Especially the first one, which was ahead for its time
Simple. How else can the cops choose the exact moment when you are in nothing but your boxers to show up and pound down your door...
How about the ignorant jerks who happily pop open your running washer/dryer to 'check' if there's anything in there. Of course, the machine will happily tick down its time but not restart unless the button is hit again, meaning when you come back in 20-40 minutes your coins are still eaten and your laundry is still wet.
Give me a wifi connection to the machine and the ability to catch a picture of whomever is opening my machine so I can be sure to add some tye-dye to his next load...
Well, I'm a Canadian, and a few years ago I took a trip down to Australia to visit some friends. One thing I noticed while I was down there, is that while frequenting the bars, etc, people were in fact a fair bit friendlier when they found out I was Canadian (no maple leafs sewn onto my clothes or other physical identifiers were present). Quite often in a conversation somebody would suddenly state "Oh, you're a Canadian" and suddenly they would be much friendlier to me.
On the other hand, I've seen plenty enough of arrogant and rather ignorant Canadians here at home, so if we still have a reputation for being friendly/nice/polite abroad I suppose it's because we're keeping our supply of jerks this side of the border... not because we lack in ignorant people in general.
Can they? If organizations like the boyscouts of American can block gay members, why should anyone be able to force google's ranking or even inclusion of site site. Also, if you note the linked article, the press from the boyscouts incident has definately hit them financially... which is the way the public can really express their distaste for corporate methods, rather than individual companies wasting court time.
The decision suggests that, if properly alleged, Google may be defaming a whole class of Web sites sacked with a '0' PageRank,
Isn't this something like MacDonalds sueing "Fine Cuisine Ratings Inc" because they're at the bottom of the charts?