Actually, yes I do. It was just a feeble attempt at humor.
Seriously, I wouldn't be against using the chip to defeat region locking as suggested elsewhere in this thread. I would encourage the use of the chip for the purposes of backup only to continue to exercise "fair use" rights. I would definitely frown upon those that us the same chip to pirate games.
Personally I do not own a mod chip. I have not even looked into it so unfortunately/. is my only source of information regarding the chip. (And what a great source that is.)
Oh yeah and all the playstations, nintendos and segas that put arcades out of business is any better. How dare them big corporate thieves steal from the arcade owners.
I thought the movie was truly awful. I had read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. At the times I read the book, I didn't really know who Hubbard was nor did I know anything about "scientology". In fact it was not until deal with scientology and google that actually took the time find out about what scientology was. I still like the book.
Back to the first statement. The movie could have been much better. It barely followed the plot line. I was so disappointed by it that I barely remember what happened. The biggest glaring change that bothered me was the whole hanger full of planes at "Fort Hood". I was stationed at Hood (when the movie came out) and there aren't any hangers full of fighter jets there. (Helicopters yes, cargo planes yes, fighter jets no.) It should have been the "tomb" as described in the book.
I know this far-fetched, but... Instead of all the trash that the parent wants to send why not just send the 3 pesky planets that are causing such a fuss to Jupiter.
We'll have to leave Pluto though just to spite that NY planetarium since that damned NY Times always wants us to register.
Hmmm, that's what I get for basing my observation on skimming the text that was posted in another thread (site/.ed when I was looking) and skimming the original article.
Dupes seem to be a waste of time, especially the closer together they are. Even if it is the fist time I am seeing the post, it's not really worth commenting in either story. First one is "old", the second one is a comedy stage show. (Maybe that's the fun you are talking about, but then you wouldn't be offering this service as a way to reduce dupes.)
As for spelling errors, everyone makes them. You can either choose apathy or integrity. I understand you do your best, but slashdot should strive for integrity. Like the parent implies, this professional publication needs integrity. You get paid to do this thus you are a professional.
There are plenty of other things that make slashdot fun without dupes and typos.
You should try playing a Colonial Marine in Alien vs. Predator. That game did an excellent job setting the mood. There's nothing like going down a darkly lit hall to have an Alien screech and jump out of nowhere at you. The sounds alone would give my wife nightmares if I were playing it while she slept in the same room. I even convinced her once to play it, to calm her fears, and it scared her so bad she jumped out of the chair.
I figured (without reading the fine print) that you can file as many returns as you wish on the same PC with installed software. Even the free tax software I used this year (taxslayer.com) allows me to file multiple returns on the same PC with installed software. The point I was making is that since "lending" the CD has been crippled some consumers may choose a different product next year. Will it be enough to hurt?
As for your FAX to Wolfram, love it! It reminds me of a time when I sent a "pre-approved" credit card offer back in their pre-stamped return envelop. I was getting sick of all the junk mail. Not only did I say F. No on their info card; I also included a couple dead cricket legs that my cat had left as a present for me.
It will be interesting to see how the sales go next year. If there was really a big problem with casual piracy, it is quite possible a majority of those average users that lend the CD to another to use will find out this year that they can no longer help family and friends. Of course since the box is opened most will not bother to try and return it.
Next year or two is when will see if this product activation really hurts. The question comes down to how many customers now feel betrayed?
I was waiting in line to enter the main gate at Camp Pendleton, CA (USMC) which has MP's guarding all the gates. There was a bus in front of me that was being checked for illegal immigrants. As I sit, bored and pissed because the bus check takes extra time, I see a Hispanic guy jump off the bus and start running away from the gate. He didn't get very far. The MP jumped off the bus, chased him down, and tackled him. The MP rolled the guy onto his stomach and placed his knee in the guy's back. The guy was desperately trying to get up, so the MP grabbed the back of the guy's hair to smack his face into the ground. This sunned the guy for less then a second, but by that time the MP already had cuff's on him. The MP then led him to the guardhouse. From the time I saw the guy to the time he was apprehended was about 4-5 seconds.
Funny, that doesn't do anything to my W2K box here at work. However, I know that Windows + L is the "quick" way to lock your PC on XP (with fast user switch enabled.) It really pisses me off though that Ctrl + Alt + Del doesn't bring up the security dialog box in XP (with fast user switch enabled) and that I have to use a different Keyboard Shortcut between the two different OS's.
Any way, to at least to try and make the reply to this thread a little more interesting. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/w inkeyboard.htm http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/winkeyb oa rd.htm
Why did I bother replying to this??? Must be board...
Of course profit is it's own incentive; doesn't take a genius to realize that. What you miss in my question is this "law" based on the fact that instead of continually saturating the market with current product Moore seemed to set a goal for engineers to help that ol' profit incentive.
Considering there was very little lead-time between Deep Sight's alert and the total saturation of infected machines, there are alot of corporate weenies and beancounters out there trying to justify this expense.
Norton is probably trying to release this press release not only to "get new business", but probably to also justify the expense of the program. Some corporate shmuck was standing in front of "the man" and he came up with these hours of notice to save his job.
Hey, I've had to re-solder traces to get stuff working again. Once it was a VCR that my cat had knocked over and it had damaged about 3 traces on the clock PCB, cracked the power sw. PCB in half and bent the loading carriage but hey I got it working again! Another was a cordless phone that got damaged in an argument with the wife. Got it working too. That one was pretty tough to fix but at least it wasn't a multi-layered PCB.
And by the way, the/. posted article for "fixing" a NES is a horrendous hack job. No elegance at all in their mod, what a waste.
Slashdot Mirror
Or check here...
Actually, yes I do. It was just a feeble attempt at humor.
/. is my only source of information regarding the chip. (And what a great source that is.)
Seriously, I wouldn't be against using the chip to defeat region locking as suggested elsewhere in this thread. I would encourage the use of the chip for the purposes of backup only to continue to exercise "fair use" rights. I would definitely frown upon those that us the same chip to pirate games.
Personally I do not own a mod chip. I have not even looked into it so unfortunately
Oh yeah and all the playstations, nintendos and segas that put arcades out of business is any better. How dare them big corporate thieves steal from the arcade owners.
I miss my T-Mek game.
I thought the movie was truly awful. I had read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it. At the times I read the book, I didn't really know who Hubbard was nor did I know anything about "scientology". In fact it was not until deal with scientology and google that actually took the time find out about what scientology was. I still like the book.
Back to the first statement. The movie could have been much better. It barely followed the plot line. I was so disappointed by it that I barely remember what happened. The biggest glaring change that bothered me was the whole hanger full of planes at "Fort Hood". I was stationed at Hood (when the movie came out) and there aren't any hangers full of fighter jets there. (Helicopters yes, cargo planes yes, fighter jets no.) It should have been the "tomb" as described in the book.
"Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP" vs. "Canon Powershot G3"
I agree. They were trying real hard to come up with something that would fit. Maybe they should have tried:
The Really Obscure Nucleus
Tiny Real-time Operational Neural-net
Techno Real Op Net
This Retarded Opportunistic Name
I was really hoping this had something to do with lightcycles and recognizers.
Wouldn't he be a great Spidey? It would more than make up for being cut from Nemesis.
I know this far-fetched, but...
Instead of all the trash that the parent wants to send why not just send the 3 pesky planets that are causing such a fuss to Jupiter.
We'll have to leave Pluto though just to spite that NY planetarium since that damned NY Times always wants us to register.
Hmmm, that's what I get for basing my observation on skimming the text that was posted in another thread (site /.ed when I was looking) and skimming the original article.
Oh well, thanks for the correction.
I wonder if CmdrTaco considers this to be fun?
This is pretty much a dupe. Even more amusing, note who posted the first article.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/055324 9&tid=137
Enterprise-class ATA Drives Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 21, @05:48AM
from the fast-enough-to-make-disk-heads-spin dept.
Dupes seem to be a waste of time, especially the closer together they are. Even if it is the fist time I am seeing the post, it's not really worth commenting in either story. First one is "old", the second one is a comedy stage show. (Maybe that's the fun you are talking about, but then you wouldn't be offering this service as a way to reduce dupes.)
As for spelling errors, everyone makes them. You can either choose apathy or integrity. I understand you do your best, but slashdot should strive for integrity. Like the parent implies, this professional publication needs integrity. You get paid to do this thus you are a professional.
There are plenty of other things that make slashdot fun without dupes and typos.
>Hey, America's already Been There, Done That.
Where's My Tee-Shirt then? Huh??
You should try playing a Colonial Marine in Alien vs. Predator. That game did an excellent job setting the mood. There's nothing like going down a darkly lit hall to have an Alien screech and jump out of nowhere at you. The sounds alone would give my wife nightmares if I were playing it while she slept in the same room. I even convinced her once to play it, to calm her fears, and it scared her so bad she jumped out of the chair.
I figured (without reading the fine print) that you can file as many returns as you wish on the same PC with installed software. Even the free tax software I used this year (taxslayer.com) allows me to file multiple returns on the same PC with installed software. The point I was making is that since "lending" the CD has been crippled some consumers may choose a different product next year. Will it be enough to hurt?
As for your FAX to Wolfram, love it! It reminds me of a time when I sent a "pre-approved" credit card offer back in their pre-stamped return envelop. I was getting sick of all the junk mail. Not only did I say F. No on their info card; I also included a couple dead cricket legs that my cat had left as a present for me.
It will be interesting to see how the sales go next year. If there was really a big problem with casual piracy, it is quite possible a majority of those average users that lend the CD to another to use will find out this year that they can no longer help family and friends. Of course since the box is opened most will not bother to try and return it.
Next year or two is when will see if this product activation really hurts. The question comes down to how many customers now feel betrayed?
I was waiting in line to enter the main gate at Camp Pendleton, CA (USMC) which has MP's guarding all the gates. There was a bus in front of me that was being checked for illegal immigrants. As I sit, bored and pissed because the bus check takes extra time, I see a Hispanic guy jump off the bus and start running away from the gate. He didn't get very far. The MP jumped off the bus, chased him down, and tackled him. The MP rolled the guy onto his stomach and placed his knee in the guy's back. The guy was desperately trying to get up, so the MP grabbed the back of the guy's hair to smack his face into the ground. This sunned the guy for less then a second, but by that time the MP already had cuff's on him. The MP then led him to the guardhouse. From the time I saw the guy to the time he was apprehended was about 4-5 seconds.
Is that good enough?
Wow, even the mirror was /.ed
Funny, that doesn't do anything to my W2K box here at work.
w inkeyboard.htm b oa rd.htm
However, I know that Windows + L is the "quick" way to lock your PC on XP (with fast user switch enabled.) It really pisses me off though that Ctrl + Alt + Del doesn't bring up the security dialog box in XP (with fast user switch enabled) and that I have to use a different Keyboard Shortcut between the two different OS's.
Any way, to at least to try and make the reply to this thread a little more interesting.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/winkey
Why did I bother replying to this??? Must be board...
In case you didn't see the slashdot article last summer, here is a big robot for you that some guy built in his back yard.
>Wouldn't profit be it's own incentive?
Of course profit is it's own incentive; doesn't take a genius to realize that. What you miss in my question is this "law" based on the fact that instead of continually saturating the market with current product Moore seemed to set a goal for engineers to help that ol' profit incentive.
Really? How would Intel realistically expect to generate revenue if they didn't have such a "law" as a guideline?
Considering there was very little lead-time between Deep Sight's alert and the total saturation of infected machines, there are alot of corporate weenies and beancounters out there trying to justify this expense.
Norton is probably trying to release this press release not only to "get new business", but probably to also justify the expense of the program. Some corporate shmuck was standing in front of "the man" and he came up with these hours of notice to save his job.
Hey, I've had to re-solder traces to get stuff working again. Once it was a VCR that my cat had knocked over and it had damaged about 3 traces on the clock PCB, cracked the power sw. PCB in half and bent the loading carriage but hey I got it working again! Another was a cordless phone that got damaged in an argument with the wife. Got it working too. That one was pretty tough to fix but at least it wasn't a multi-layered PCB.
/. posted article for "fixing" a NES is a horrendous hack job. No elegance at all in their mod, what a waste.
And by the way, the