The only way in the current batteries to find out wether it is a nokia, is to include extra circuits.
Yes, and they all have this circuit in modern batteries. Even laptops 6-7 years ago had serial communications busses. My laptop of that age has a different serial number for each battery that can be accessed by the PC.
Most phones are the same. My phone can get lots of information about the battery, it's capacity, current voltage, temperature and so on. A manufacturers ID is pretty much a given. Anything beyond ye olde NiCad technology has this kind of thing.
So yes, it would be entirely possible and very easy to have the phone treat some batteries differently. Not to say that they are doing it of course.
The power in a NiCad battery is astounding compared to normal ones. I used to short AA NiCads all the time for kicks when I was younger. Would melt the wires and produce some strange smells, something an alkaline could never do. Afterwards, the batteries were literally too hot to touch. Once I had a NiCad short with something metalic in my pocket, and I actually got a small skin burn from it.
I probably wouldn't have done it had I known that they could explode though!
Yup, that's how it works, it's down to the phone to find the name. Besides, a central database system wouldn't work because there would be quite a few "mom"'s in there!!
It's not even the worlds biggest power grid. Consider the article text:
'the vast system of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution that covers the United States and Canada is essentially a single machine-- by many measures, the world's biggest machine.'
Since when was North America the biggest continent? Surely the interconnected systems of China, Europe, Africa or the former USSR are much bigger? In fact, I'm fairly sure that you could find interconnecting links between each of these, making them all "a single machine".
Or, are they still teaching yank kids that the world is a backwater without things like electricity?;-)
At some future point, when human existence is long forgotten, some entity will find this plaque long since buried in the martian dust, and think to themselves "My god, what shitty artist they were".
Or, they'll look at it the same way we study stonehenge. Was it a primitive calender?;-)
And no, Kazaa dos not make music (ie music you've never heard) easy to find, it only finds things that you already want.
Not so. Sure, most of the p2p services don't allow you to "browse" music, but that's not a problem. Combined with sites such as AllMusic, I've been off on my own musical tangent since the very first days of Napster. I still have files missing the last 100 bytes, for those that remember that early bug!!;-)
Another great source of inspiration and recommendation are the many thousands of streaming stations on Shoutcast. Simply listen to a station on a genre you like, and have a pen or an eMule search handy. Most of the time, if I hear a song I like, I've researched the band, seen listings/reviews of all their albums, and started downloading some, before the streaming track has finished!
And there is no way that traditional music sales models can compete with that. Game over.
My thoughts on eMusics demise and pending downfall; damn. It was a great idea, it was and still is the future model of distribution. Unless you can beat your competitors model (p2p), traditional companies (RIAA) don't stand a chance. However, as I've been saying for years, they know they can't stop it. Simply slowing it down will earn them billions.
scroll lock is an extremely useful key so that you can pause the output in order to read it. In most BIOS's, you can also press it to pause the info that it is giving you as well.
I'm fairly sure it's the pause/break key to halt the bios, not the scroll lock one. Only thing is, I'm not rebooting to verify that !!;-)
In my laptop that part failed three times during 2 years.
and later you say:
I dropped that very same laptop numerous times and that never resulted in a damaged HD or even damaged plastic.
Did it ever occur to you that dropping a laptop might be bad for the machine as a whole, not just the hard-drive? General laptop tip: If you want them to continue working...don't drop them.
Personaly I'm baffled how the designers didn't see these issues comming.
What? Users dropping them? Ripping connectors out by the wire? What the hell do you expect? Do you treat a desktop PC the same way?
So? What's this got to do with skipping anyway? It's technology to prevent head-crashes on portable devices.
Regardless of the size of your RAM buffer, dropping it while the disk is spinning and the head is not parked could easilly be catastropic. Bye hard-drive.
So, yes, this is directly relevant and useful to iPods or whatever.
Likewise, I'm doing the same. I'm trying to persuade one of my friends to allow me to put the backup drive in their flat, giving me the essential off-site backup.
HD failure and accidental deletion are one thing, but fire and theft also have to be considered.
That's over 1000 CDs or thereabouts (the wallets are alphabetical, and have some empty spaces between letters).
I found some disk wallets that had the pages hooked in by ring-binders. You can easilly add new pages to letters etc, makes organising large collections easy. Highly recommended.
Am I the only one who notices pixelation even on todays MPEG2 DVD standard?
Often it's down to poor encoding. A lot of the early movies have been re-released with better versions.
Cheap players can make it worse as well. I very rarely notice pixelation on my Sony DVD player, hooked up via RGB, blah blah blah. Mind you, it's gathering dust now, two thirds of my media is now DivX;-)
Divx isn't even that good a MPEG-4 codec. XVID is somewhat better, and it's free.
This is exactly why I'm going to buy an X-box and install the linux media player soon. Codecs change, new ones come along, some are better for diffent sources etc. Until the major manufacturers offer upgradeable codecs on their machines, I think the only way to get flexibility is to build your own.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against DVD or anything, I was a very, very early adopter. I'm just moving onto the next adoption now.
Where is it written that we, as Americans, are responsible for the rest of world.
Nowhere. Your government uses the "save the world" rant to get you onside whatever war you are in at that point; it's easier to get civilian support if they believe they are the good guys.
The world doesn't want us there, why are we interfereing all over the world.
The same reason that any other country interferes in another: personal gain. This can be in pure profit or political/strategic gain.
I agree wth you on Afganistan. It involved American lives. We had a right to retaliate.
It wasn't a retaliation. The Afgan war was in planning prior to 9/11. I believe it was around June/July when the Indian ambassidor was told by the US to expect a war in Afganistan "before the snow starts falling". 9/11 was used as propaganda to get the public onside.
The gain? Well, Harliburton, the company directly linked to the current US regime, has been attempting to build a cross-Afgan pipe line, to ship the oil resources of the former USSR states to the north to the Persian gulf. When the Taliban awarded the contract to an Argentine company instead, the adminstration fell out with them. Prior to that, they were best-of-buddies, always in negotiations etc for the lucrative contract. The pipeline was under construction by US interests before the war was over, guarded by US troops.
But Iraq? There was nothing going oon there at the time.
Ah, you miss the point there. Question: where did the majority of 9/11 hijackers come from? Saudi Arabia. Where does the US rely mostly for foreign oil? Saudi Arabia.
Back in the initial gulf war, the US convinced the Saudi's that positioning US troops in Saudi was neccessary in case Saddam advanced further than Kuwait. It is rumoured that the satelite inteligence shown to them of troops near their border was faked by the US. Previously, the US only supported the Saudi dictatorship with weapons and financing, in return, the US was able to access the oil. The US actually helped this dictatorship to power, after the previous democracy (yes, democracy) was toppled (again with US assistance) because it wasn't forthcoming to US interests.
When the troops arrived, that's when the anti-US terrorism there really kicked off, away from the purely religious fanatics that hate all non-Islam, and into a more mainstream position. Al Qaeda's stated goal is to remove the US from Saudi, allowing them to control their own government. The "hate freedom & democracy" thing is a US propaganda lie, to prevent you from knowing why they hate you so much. If anything, that's exactly what they want, although their idea of Freedom is a bit more strict than ours.
Anyway, back to Iraq. After Saudi, the second largest oil reserves are in Iraq. Under Saddam's regime and UN sanctions, this oil was essentially out of play for the west, increasing dependance on Saudi, a state with huge ties to terrorism and anti-US feeling.
With Saddam gone, and a democratic government in Iraq, this oil is now available. The Saudi troops have already mostly moved to Iraq, which will become the new US reserve of power in the middle east. There will be a large US army stationed there for many years to come, even if the guerilla war ends before then.
So, in essence, the west has actually conceeded to the terrorists goal. Of course, it's not going to work out. I estimate that the story of Saudi Arabia is going to be replayed in Iraq. There have been some good documentaries on recently on the BBC, and while there is some support for the war, the majority of the population were against it, and have lost family. Note we've never heard Iraqi soldier casualty figures on our news, they are very high. If the US is not careful, the hate for them could grow to the point that Iraqi becomes the source of a large amount of terrorism.
American history shows that it is neccessary to disagree with you government if it dooing wrong
What do you mean with "don't buy Sony or Pioneer?"
Most of the easy region mods have been for the lower end of the market DVD players. Meanwhile, the more expensive players required hardware mods or updated firmware, which cost more to do.
Many of the cheaper brands, such as Samsung, became infamous for selling machines that could be hacked by certain sequences on the remote-control. This started off back in the day when the legality of these hacks was still in question. The smaller brands were not members of the DVD consortium, and weren't forced to follow it's rules as closely. The reputation pretty much remains. It's interesting for Sony, because one division (movies) want's region coding, while the hardware division wants to do anything to increase sales, e.g. easy region free.
More likely, however, it's simply being driven underground.
Let's not forget that Echelon was created entirely underground, so business as usual I see. If the public won't like what you are doing; don't tell them!
Funny? He's not kidding, it's there under that file name and there are shed-loads of sources for it, I just checked. And, as I pointed out in this post, the protection is working against them.
So? What's wrong with spaces in *nix? Oh, you mean your scripts that are badly written and don't enclose strings in quotes?;-)
To me, it's second nature to\ type\ like\ this\ when\ I\ have\ to on the CLI. With autocomplete in your shell, you don't even have to most of the time.
Or an even better way to work around it is to not buy the CD, and just download a copy somebody else went through the hassle to rip.
Because of this, it actually becomes easier to download. Let me explain:
It's inevitable that a few people will be able to rip it to mp3 or whatever through some hack or obscure hardware combo. There is nothing anyone can do to stop this, no system is 100% secure. Those versions that do get ripped will make it on to p2p. As the album is hard to rip, there will be less varients of the files out there, which in the p2p world actually makes the files much easier to get. This is because the few versions out there will be far more widespread. More sources, more availability.
And, as you are legally entitled to make additional copies for your own use in many countries, downloading via Kazza might be your only legal option! Ironic, the one thing they are trying to stop is helped by it.
Combined with pissing off more consumers (I doubt this disk would work in my car cd/mp3 player for example), it's just another shot in the foot. Watching the music industry evolve (or disolve) is history in the making, enjoy it people!!
Face it, a few people will be able to rip it to mp3 or whatever through some hack or obscure hardware combo. Then, those versions will make it on to p2p. As the album is hard to rip, there will be less varients of the files out there, which in the p2p world actually makes the files much easier to get. This is because the few versions out there will be far more widespread. More sources, more availability.
And, as you are legally entitled to make additional copies for your own use in many countries, downloading via Kazza might be your only legal option.
Combined with pissing off users (I doubt this disk would work in my car cd/mp3 player for example), it's just another shot in the foot. Watching the music industry evolve is history in the making, enjoy it people!!
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Well, there is the Catholic church, one of the most profitable organizations ever. How does the quote go:
"They built the church and then the pub, and finally the school, for there was no profit in that"
Never seen landline caller ID myself, a premium service around these parts. It's been free on mobiles here for many years though.
The only way in the current batteries to find out wether it is a nokia, is to include extra circuits.
Yes, and they all have this circuit in modern batteries. Even laptops 6-7 years ago had serial communications busses. My laptop of that age has a different serial number for each battery that can be accessed by the PC.
Most phones are the same. My phone can get lots of information about the battery, it's capacity, current voltage, temperature and so on. A manufacturers ID is pretty much a given. Anything beyond ye olde NiCad technology has this kind of thing.
So yes, it would be entirely possible and very easy to have the phone treat some batteries differently. Not to say that they are doing it of course.
I probably wouldn't have done it had I known that they could explode though!
Yup, that's how it works, it's down to the phone to find the name. Besides, a central database system wouldn't work because there would be quite a few "mom"'s in there!!
'the vast system of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution that covers the United States and Canada is essentially a single machine-- by many measures, the world's biggest machine.'
Since when was North America the biggest continent? Surely the interconnected systems of China, Europe, Africa or the former USSR are much bigger? In fact, I'm fairly sure that you could find interconnecting links between each of these, making them all "a single machine".
Or, are they still teaching yank kids that the world is a backwater without things like electricity? ;-)
Why? Is there some inherent problem with socialism here? Lot's of countries have nationalised power grids that seem to get along just fine.
Or, they'll look at it the same way we study stonehenge. Was it a primitive calender? ;-)
Not so. Sure, most of the p2p services don't allow you to "browse" music, but that's not a problem. Combined with sites such as AllMusic, I've been off on my own musical tangent since the very first days of Napster. I still have files missing the last 100 bytes, for those that remember that early bug!! ;-)
Another great source of inspiration and recommendation are the many thousands of streaming stations on Shoutcast. Simply listen to a station on a genre you like, and have a pen or an eMule search handy. Most of the time, if I hear a song I like, I've researched the band, seen listings/reviews of all their albums, and started downloading some, before the streaming track has finished!
And there is no way that traditional music sales models can compete with that. Game over.
My thoughts on eMusics demise and pending downfall; damn. It was a great idea, it was and still is the future model of distribution. Unless you can beat your competitors model (p2p), traditional companies (RIAA) don't stand a chance. However, as I've been saying for years, they know they can't stop it. Simply slowing it down will earn them billions.
I'm fairly sure it's the pause/break key to halt the bios, not the scroll lock one. Only thing is, I'm not rebooting to verify that !! ;-)
Quick, ship him to a part of the world where there is no law, and hold him indefinitely without trial!!
and later you say:
I dropped that very same laptop numerous times and that never resulted in a damaged HD or even damaged plastic.
Did it ever occur to you that dropping a laptop might be bad for the machine as a whole, not just the hard-drive? General laptop tip: If you want them to continue working...don't drop them.
Personaly I'm baffled how the designers didn't see these issues comming.
What? Users dropping them? Ripping connectors out by the wire? What the hell do you expect? Do you treat a desktop PC the same way?
So? What's this got to do with skipping anyway? It's technology to prevent head-crashes on portable devices.
Regardless of the size of your RAM buffer, dropping it while the disk is spinning and the head is not parked could easilly be catastropic. Bye hard-drive.
So, yes, this is directly relevant and useful to iPods or whatever.
HD failure and accidental deletion are one thing, but fire and theft also have to be considered.
I found some disk wallets that had the pages hooked in by ring-binders. You can easilly add new pages to letters etc, makes organising large collections easy. Highly recommended.
Often it's down to poor encoding. A lot of the early movies have been re-released with better versions.
Cheap players can make it worse as well. I very rarely notice pixelation on my Sony DVD player, hooked up via RGB, blah blah blah. Mind you, it's gathering dust now, two thirds of my media is now DivX ;-)
This is exactly why I'm going to buy an X-box and install the linux media player soon. Codecs change, new ones come along, some are better for diffent sources etc. Until the major manufacturers offer upgradeable codecs on their machines, I think the only way to get flexibility is to build your own.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against DVD or anything, I was a very, very early adopter. I'm just moving onto the next adoption now.
Nowhere. Your government uses the "save the world" rant to get you onside whatever war you are in at that point; it's easier to get civilian support if they believe they are the good guys.
The world doesn't want us there, why are we interfereing all over the world.
The same reason that any other country interferes in another: personal gain. This can be in pure profit or political/strategic gain.
I agree wth you on Afganistan. It involved American lives. We had a right to retaliate.
It wasn't a retaliation. The Afgan war was in planning prior to 9/11. I believe it was around June/July when the Indian ambassidor was told by the US to expect a war in Afganistan "before the snow starts falling". 9/11 was used as propaganda to get the public onside.
The gain? Well, Harliburton, the company directly linked to the current US regime, has been attempting to build a cross-Afgan pipe line, to ship the oil resources of the former USSR states to the north to the Persian gulf. When the Taliban awarded the contract to an Argentine company instead, the adminstration fell out with them. Prior to that, they were best-of-buddies, always in negotiations etc for the lucrative contract. The pipeline was under construction by US interests before the war was over, guarded by US troops.
But Iraq? There was nothing going oon there at the time.
Ah, you miss the point there. Question: where did the majority of 9/11 hijackers come from? Saudi Arabia. Where does the US rely mostly for foreign oil? Saudi Arabia.
Back in the initial gulf war, the US convinced the Saudi's that positioning US troops in Saudi was neccessary in case Saddam advanced further than Kuwait. It is rumoured that the satelite inteligence shown to them of troops near their border was faked by the US. Previously, the US only supported the Saudi dictatorship with weapons and financing, in return, the US was able to access the oil. The US actually helped this dictatorship to power, after the previous democracy (yes, democracy) was toppled (again with US assistance) because it wasn't forthcoming to US interests.
When the troops arrived, that's when the anti-US terrorism there really kicked off, away from the purely religious fanatics that hate all non-Islam, and into a more mainstream position. Al Qaeda's stated goal is to remove the US from Saudi, allowing them to control their own government. The "hate freedom & democracy" thing is a US propaganda lie, to prevent you from knowing why they hate you so much. If anything, that's exactly what they want, although their idea of Freedom is a bit more strict than ours.
Anyway, back to Iraq. After Saudi, the second largest oil reserves are in Iraq. Under Saddam's regime and UN sanctions, this oil was essentially out of play for the west, increasing dependance on Saudi, a state with huge ties to terrorism and anti-US feeling.
With Saddam gone, and a democratic government in Iraq, this oil is now available. The Saudi troops have already mostly moved to Iraq, which will become the new US reserve of power in the middle east. There will be a large US army stationed there for many years to come, even if the guerilla war ends before then.
So, in essence, the west has actually conceeded to the terrorists goal. Of course, it's not going to work out. I estimate that the story of Saudi Arabia is going to be replayed in Iraq. There have been some good documentaries on recently on the BBC, and while there is some support for the war, the majority of the population were against it, and have lost family. Note we've never heard Iraqi soldier casualty figures on our news, they are very high. If the US is not careful, the hate for them could grow to the point that Iraqi becomes the source of a large amount of terrorism.
American history shows that it is neccessary to disagree with you government if it dooing wrong
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Most of the easy region mods have been for the lower end of the market DVD players. Meanwhile, the more expensive players required hardware mods or updated firmware, which cost more to do.
Many of the cheaper brands, such as Samsung, became infamous for selling machines that could be hacked by certain sequences on the remote-control. This started off back in the day when the legality of these hacks was still in question. The smaller brands were not members of the DVD consortium, and weren't forced to follow it's rules as closely. The reputation pretty much remains. It's interesting for Sony, because one division (movies) want's region coding, while the hardware division wants to do anything to increase sales, e.g. easy region free.
Let's not forget that Echelon was created entirely underground, so business as usual I see. If the public won't like what you are doing; don't tell them!
Ignore this nonsense! Had two browsers open, wrote the post in the wrong place. To see this message in context, click here. ;-)
Nice to be validated!
To me, it's second nature to\ type\ like\ this\ when\ I\ have\ to on the CLI. With autocomplete in your shell, you don't even have to most of the time.
Because of this, it actually becomes easier to download. Let me explain:
It's inevitable that a few people will be able to rip it to mp3 or whatever through some hack or obscure hardware combo. There is nothing anyone can do to stop this, no system is 100% secure. Those versions that do get ripped will make it on to p2p. As the album is hard to rip, there will be less varients of the files out there, which in the p2p world actually makes the files much easier to get. This is because the few versions out there will be far more widespread. More sources, more availability.
And, as you are legally entitled to make additional copies for your own use in many countries, downloading via Kazza might be your only legal option! Ironic, the one thing they are trying to stop is helped by it.
Combined with pissing off more consumers (I doubt this disk would work in my car cd/mp3 player for example), it's just another shot in the foot. Watching the music industry evolve (or disolve) is history in the making, enjoy it people!!
Futile? It's counter productive!!
Face it, a few people will be able to rip it to mp3 or whatever through some hack or obscure hardware combo. Then, those versions will make it on to p2p. As the album is hard to rip, there will be less varients of the files out there, which in the p2p world actually makes the files much easier to get. This is because the few versions out there will be far more widespread. More sources, more availability.
And, as you are legally entitled to make additional copies for your own use in many countries, downloading via Kazza might be your only legal option.
Combined with pissing off users (I doubt this disk would work in my car cd/mp3 player for example), it's just another shot in the foot. Watching the music industry evolve is history in the making, enjoy it people!!