Wait a second. Without prohibition we wouldn't have had rednecks running moonshine. And without them, we wouldn't have had races between them to see who had the fastest car. And without that we wouldn't have NASCAR!
Wait. That means that because of the DMCA there will be a new sport in a few years that only geeks can participate in. That might be good.
Um...somehow I don't think that's what you meant about comparing the DMCA to prohibition.
I really don't understand what is so good about satellite radio. If I want to hear something new, I will turn on the free (read "advertised-based") radio. If there are no radio stations in the area, I pop in a CD of stuff I know I like to listen to. When the CD is done, turn on the radio again. Rinse, repeat. Why pay for something that gives no added value?
So the bottom line is, I have no advice for you. But if they move your desk into the basement, burn down the building.
*SNARF* OUCH! Stop that! Diet Dr. Pepper through the nose HURTS! Of course, I wasn't really drinking Diet Dr. Pepper, I was drinking the advertising, and therefore snarfing the advertising through my nose! But then, there is no spoon. Or is it....SPOOOOOON!
This should not be 4, Interesting because it is wrong. It does not matter what the MAC address of the NAT router is. The server will NOT see the same MAC address twice unless the MAC address of the individual PC's are changed to the same address, then they will have problems even communicating with any other PC's on the LAN and, by extension, the Internet.
What this software does is simply capture the low-level MAC address as reported to the OS (ifconfig -a in Linux, IPCONFIG in WinNT, WinIPCfg in Win98), and send this data in an IP (probably UDP) packet over the Internet to the game server. If you can feed the wrong data to this software, you have cracked the feature without changing your MAC address at all.
Exactly! "sugar cane distilled alcohol" is called RUM! So sometime in the future, you'll be pulling up to a Bacardi fuel station to gas up your car. A whole new definition to drinking and driving!
And there *IS* a "natural" way to turn sugar cane into alcohol. It's called fermentation...using yeast. The same way that beer and wine are made. The next step after that is the distillation that turns a 5% - 15% alcohol mash into 150 proof alcohol. The yeast creates a LOT of CO2 itself as a byproduct of the fermentation process as well, so there is another source of greenhouse gasses...freeing up much of the the CO2 that the sugar cane absorbed.
And there's the rub. Companies that leave their networks open to laptop squatting have unintentionally given up posession of their bandwidth. If a warchalker finds it, they need to report it. They report it by writing on the sidewalk or a wall. That is not only legal, it is socially responsible. Now...anyone who squats in a chair with their laptop after that and steals the bandwidth is stealing services. The problem with Nokia is that they are equating warchalkers with squatters. They are not.
I used to watch SG-1 regularly on Showtime. But ultimately I had to stop because I couldn't justify paying my cable company just to get one channel. I was extremely happy when they moved SG-1 to Sci-Fi. I finally had another reason to watch Sci-Fi for an original show instead of reruns. I stopped watching Farscape when Virginia Hey left the show (Zhan(sp)). However, now that SG-1 is there I started watching Farscape again. To me the jury's still out on Farscape. While I fully support anything that Jim Henson and his company does due to their track record (Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Yoda, Muppets, Sesame Street), I just can't get too worked up about Farscape being cancelled.
Yep, you're right. They associate a set-top box address with a set-top box serial number. They also associate your home address with the set-top box serial number (so they can track which one you have so they can get it back when you cancel). It's just a matter of a SQL join to associate the two.
I think what you say is the absolute best use of this technology. Has anyone ever seen the PBS college course by that professor from MIT who is teaching a beginning physics class? That series uses pretty impressive computer graphics to demonstrate ideas. I see this system as taking that excellent idea one step further by adding 3D. If students can actually SEE magnetic fields doing their thing in 3D space they will quickly understand some concept being taught. Actually SHOW them what the inside of a jet engine looks like while it is operating in 3D and they will pick up the ideas much better abd more quickly.
And that doesn't even take into account geologic commercial uses for this technology. The fact that this is portable and relatively cheap means that A/V departments in schools and small businesses can have some of these things, and not just big companies/research institutions.
God is the only form of extraterrestrial life that we will ever be able to communicate with. SETI is a joke people.
The first statement is true IMHO. The second statement is false. Communicating with extra-terestrial life is a completely different problem than simply searching for it. Finding out if we are alone or not in the physical galaxy is worthwhile. Therefore, SETI is not a joke.
Or Weird Al Yankovic: "I hooked up 80 channels, and each one sucked (stunk?). Just brainless blood and guts, and mindless T&A. It's awful, it putrid, it's crummy, it's stupid, want to throw my set away (Can't watch this.)"
They'll probably use the "Call me" IT manager guy for these commercials. Anyone notice that they are putting this guy on all the business commercials for Dell? Even the guy that used to sell IBM computers is now getting in on the Dell act. He's in the one who uses all the old servers as a set of battlebots in the parking lot.
The first time I saw this set of commercials when the IT manager guy said that the IT department was saving money by buying several racks of Dell servers, replacing the old proprietary ones, the first thought that came to mind was "yeah, and if you had simply kept using your old systems, you wouldn't have spent a huge amount on all those Dells, thereby putting your company in the hole that much more." But then, that wouldn't sell many Dells.
Real evolution would have feedback to "nature"...
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where "nature" is the researcher(s). When the robot finds that it can't really fly, it could come up with an "idea" and ask "god" to lighten up its wings or motor, or have a faster motor, etc. That way, the machine would truly evolve as it goes. The researchers could even take these "requests" from the robot, and give it things it didn't ask for. For example, if it asks for a lighter motor, give it a faster motor instead.
Read this:
http://speaker.house.gov/library/texts/lincoln/lyc eum1.asp
This is not a new thing. It was happening in 1838. Perhaps this will give you reason not to give up. Perhaps not.
When I typed in my previous comment it was much better formatted than the way it was posted. Please someone help a newbie to this board out and tell me how to post a neatly formatted comment.
"the digital cable and DBS systems generally use digitally compressed analog streams. Some use regular MPEG2"
I'm a bit confused. How do you digitally compress and still send an analog signal? Isn't that MPEG2, where you digitally compress and send a digital signal?
Note: I do know that all signals are analog when broadcast over the air (carrier waves, etc). But I'm ignoring that part.
They want digitial tuners in TV's. But they didn't say they wanted HDTV tuners in TV's. At first I thought there wasn't a difference, but now I'm not sure. Couldn't you digitize a NTSC signal as easily as a HDTV signal and pipe it through a digital tuner?
Also, what does this have to do with DishNet, DirecTV and all the cable companies? DishNet and DirecTV already use digital signals to broadcast NTSC-quality stuff to US televisions, and cable companies aren't using any of the airwaves (they use cable). Also, cable companies are selling digital cable now to people with NTSC televisions (analog tuners).
I don't see the big deal here. So what if broadcasters are forced to send all their stuff in digital. I haven't used an antenna on my TV in over 15 years. Cable and dish companies even force you to keep your TV on channel 3 anyway and use a converter, so why not just use a monitor, or the video/audio-in ports on your TV and bypass ALL tuners?
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Wait a second. Without prohibition we wouldn't have had rednecks running moonshine. And without them, we wouldn't have had races between them to see who had the fastest car. And without that we wouldn't have NASCAR! Wait. That means that because of the DMCA there will be a new sport in a few years that only geeks can participate in. That might be good. Um...somehow I don't think that's what you meant about comparing the DMCA to prohibition.
Yeah, and next year they'll be 12, 8 and 4. Isn't it about time for another one?
I really don't understand what is so good about satellite radio. If I want to hear something new, I will turn on the free (read "advertised-based") radio. If there are no radio stations in the area, I pop in a CD of stuff I know I like to listen to. When the CD is done, turn on the radio again. Rinse, repeat. Why pay for something that gives no added value?
This should not be 4, Interesting because it is wrong. It does not matter what the MAC address of the NAT router is. The server will NOT see the same MAC address twice unless the MAC address of the individual PC's are changed to the same address, then they will have problems even communicating with any other PC's on the LAN and, by extension, the Internet.
What this software does is simply capture the low-level MAC address as reported to the OS (ifconfig -a in Linux, IPCONFIG in WinNT, WinIPCfg in Win98), and send this data in an IP (probably UDP) packet over the Internet to the game server. If you can feed the wrong data to this software, you have cracked the feature without changing your MAC address at all.
Exactly! "sugar cane distilled alcohol" is called RUM! So sometime in the future, you'll be pulling up to a Bacardi fuel station to gas up your car. A whole new definition to drinking and driving!
And there *IS* a "natural" way to turn sugar cane into alcohol. It's called fermentation...using yeast. The same way that beer and wine are made. The next step after that is the distillation that turns a 5% - 15% alcohol mash into 150 proof alcohol. The yeast creates a LOT of CO2 itself as a byproduct of the fermentation process as well, so there is another source of greenhouse gasses...freeing up much of the the CO2 that the sugar cane absorbed.
It's, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means hhhhwhat you think it means."
And there's the rub. Companies that leave their networks open to laptop squatting have unintentionally given up posession of their bandwidth. If a warchalker finds it, they need to report it. They report it by writing on the sidewalk or a wall. That is not only legal, it is socially responsible. Now...anyone who squats in a chair with their laptop after that and steals the bandwidth is stealing services. The problem with Nokia is that they are equating warchalkers with squatters. They are not.
I used to watch SG-1 regularly on Showtime. But ultimately I had to stop because I couldn't justify paying my cable company just to get one channel. I was extremely happy when they moved SG-1 to Sci-Fi. I finally had another reason to watch Sci-Fi for an original show instead of reruns. I stopped watching Farscape when Virginia Hey left the show (Zhan(sp)). However, now that SG-1 is there I started watching Farscape again. To me the jury's still out on Farscape. While I fully support anything that Jim Henson and his company does due to their track record (Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Yoda, Muppets, Sesame Street), I just can't get too worked up about Farscape being cancelled.
Yep, you're right. They associate a set-top box address with a set-top box serial number. They also associate your home address with the set-top box serial number (so they can track which one you have so they can get it back when you cancel). It's just a matter of a SQL join to associate the two.
I think what you say is the absolute best use of this technology. Has anyone ever seen the PBS college course by that professor from MIT who is teaching a beginning physics class? That series uses pretty impressive computer graphics to demonstrate ideas. I see this system as taking that excellent idea one step further by adding 3D. If students can actually SEE magnetic fields doing their thing in 3D space they will quickly understand some concept being taught. Actually SHOW them what the inside of a jet engine looks like while it is operating in 3D and they will pick up the ideas much better abd more quickly. And that doesn't even take into account geologic commercial uses for this technology. The fact that this is portable and relatively cheap means that A/V departments in schools and small businesses can have some of these things, and not just big companies/research institutions.
Or Weird Al Yankovic: "I hooked up 80 channels, and each one sucked (stunk?). Just brainless blood and guts, and mindless T&A. It's awful, it putrid, it's crummy, it's stupid, want to throw my set away (Can't watch this.)"
They'll probably use the "Call me" IT manager guy for these commercials. Anyone notice that they are putting this guy on all the business commercials for Dell? Even the guy that used to sell IBM computers is now getting in on the Dell act. He's in the one who uses all the old servers as a set of battlebots in the parking lot. The first time I saw this set of commercials when the IT manager guy said that the IT department was saving money by buying several racks of Dell servers, replacing the old proprietary ones, the first thought that came to mind was "yeah, and if you had simply kept using your old systems, you wouldn't have spent a huge amount on all those Dells, thereby putting your company in the hole that much more." But then, that wouldn't sell many Dells.
where "nature" is the researcher(s). When the robot finds that it can't really fly, it could come up with an "idea" and ask "god" to lighten up its wings or motor, or have a faster motor, etc. That way, the machine would truly evolve as it goes. The researchers could even take these "requests" from the robot, and give it things it didn't ask for. For example, if it asks for a lighter motor, give it a faster motor instead.
But I haven't met a VP yet who would sign a PO for anything but a low-end machine. Developing on an Ultra 5 is painful.
Read this: http://speaker.house.gov/library/texts/lincoln/lyc eum1.asp
This is not a new thing. It was happening in 1838. Perhaps this will give you reason not to give up. Perhaps not.
When I typed in my previous comment it was much better formatted than the way it was posted. Please someone help a newbie to this board out and tell me how to post a neatly formatted comment.
"the digital cable and DBS systems generally use digitally compressed analog streams. Some use regular MPEG2" I'm a bit confused. How do you digitally compress and still send an analog signal? Isn't that MPEG2, where you digitally compress and send a digital signal? Note: I do know that all signals are analog when broadcast over the air (carrier waves, etc). But I'm ignoring that part.
They want digitial tuners in TV's. But they didn't say they wanted HDTV tuners in TV's. At first I thought there wasn't a difference, but now I'm not sure. Couldn't you digitize a NTSC signal as easily as a HDTV signal and pipe it through a digital tuner? Also, what does this have to do with DishNet, DirecTV and all the cable companies? DishNet and DirecTV already use digital signals to broadcast NTSC-quality stuff to US televisions, and cable companies aren't using any of the airwaves (they use cable). Also, cable companies are selling digital cable now to people with NTSC televisions (analog tuners). I don't see the big deal here. So what if broadcasters are forced to send all their stuff in digital. I haven't used an antenna on my TV in over 15 years. Cable and dish companies even force you to keep your TV on channel 3 anyway and use a converter, so why not just use a monitor, or the video/audio-in ports on your TV and bypass ALL tuners?
*talking through my nose* Hwell, hhhOK, hyou hcan hhave hmy staplher, hhbut I'm hgoing to hhhave to hburn hdown hthe hplacehhh.