Besides, it's the sugar that keeps me going, not the caffeine.
If you just want a yummy caffiene hit, try to find "Pocket Coffee" candy by Ferrero from Italy. It is rich chocolate surrounding real liquid coffee (probably espresso of some type). This is the BEST CHOCOLATE that I have ever had. It is easy to find in Eurpoe, but a challenge to find in the US. A quick search turned up this. But I have never ordered from them.
It is easy to find truffles from Ferrero in gas stations, so I wonder why pocket coffee is so rare...
I have the best of both worlds. I got a flip-open color-screen java, net, email feature-laden Motorola phone. But my entire phone book and identification is stored on a little "sim card."
I picked up another phone for the same service 2nd hand from a guy at my work. It is one-piece, mono screen, and rather simple. If I just swap "sim cards" then I can take the older one with me and ust it on my same account! The best part is that the batteries are the same and the old clunker only cost me $20. And I can choose which phone I want to carry with me whenever I want. When I go out in the sailboat, the old clunker will be with me in a dry-bag. If I break it, no big deal!
Ain't that the truth. If this rumor IS true, the Sony will always triumph because Microsoft is dumb.
Seriously, by having a new box which is NOT backwards compatible would be a SERIOUS mistake. Microsoft could not be so stupid. Microsoft is greedy and amoral, but they are not dumb.
I should hope not. I carry this with me every day. It receives 100KHz to 1.3GHz, and can monitor nearly all analog voice modes. I doubt that this would be illegal in any state, and if it was, the ARRL would be all over them. An amateur radio operator is licensed by the feds. This trumps any state law. IANAL, and this is a gross simplification of the facts, but legal precedents have been set as far as having amateur radio tranceivers in a vehicle.
Okay, this is slightly off-topic, but related (I guess). Feel free to mod me down AFTER I get an answer...
I just got a Nextel i95cl phone. Where can I find documentation to do things that the vendor does not want me to do, such as download my OWN wallpaper (my wife wants a wallpaper of the kids).
Web searches turn up mostly sales sites, with very little actual info.
First, it can be safely assumed that almost ALL people who use RPN also know how to use old "algebraic" calculators. Yet they still use RPN.
I do not know of ANYBODY who became proficient with RPN who prefers algebraic calculators.
The reason that RPN is dying is because HP was the only company making RPN calculators, and they are not very competetive now. You have a shelf full of calcuators, and the shiny TI machines are brand new, and at a good price. The HP one (if they have one) may have been sitting there for a while, and simply cannot compete on such things as screen resolution and memory.
Sheesh... something good the politians could do if they weren't so clueless: put the people that write this stuff in prison.
Yes. It is just that easy. Do your part. Provide the names and addresses of the perpetrators. Oh, by the way... could you also provide the proof?
And if they are not in the US, how do you get them over here to take their punishment????
It might be easier just to follow the link. Buy a product and persecute whoever gets the money. But the problem is in the proof that THEY are the ones to send the spam. They could always say "I promised XYZ company 10% of profits. I did not know that they sent spam." It is called plausible deniability.
Finally if the message does not contain a stamp and is not white listed, the message is put in a spam folder and a memo sent to the sender (me) telling me that I need to request permission to send e-mail.
Yup. Then my anti-spam system sends you an e-mail and you, the spammer collect my penny...
Or... my anti-spam system sends you an e-mail telling you to request permission. Then your anti-spam system sends me an e-mail tellin me that I have to request permission. Then my anti-spam system sends you an e-mail telling you to request permission. Then your anti-spam system sends me an e-mail tellin me that I have to request permission. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Forking MUST be bad. I am a hardware guy, but I hear the software guys talking about the "forking" software all the time, and from their tone of voice, it does not sound kind. They are always talking about the forking compiler, the forking debugger, etc.
Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner cartoons were also violent. There is a BIG difference between "cartoon" violence and realistic blood-spurting-from-a-neck type violence. After all, nobody ever compared Roadrunner to a snuff film.
Wow. First, let's assume linear polarization. The polarization angle could vary between 0 and 179.999 degrees. If the "twist" of the light could be considered as an "amplitude," then we could do a variant of QAM on a single photon. Depending upon how sensitive the receiving equipment is, and how precise the transmitting equipment is, it should be possible (in theory) to then encode at least 4 bits in one single photon.
Of course, building such a transmitter/receiver would be an engineering nightmare. But we can dream...
This is not a discussion on how it works, but how it gets there in the first place.
If you make videotapes, and if you pay Macrovision some bucks, then you can include Macrovision on your videotape. It is NOT added by the VCR at all. It is actually on the tape itself. You can copy your own home movies all you want (within the constraints of analog copying). Buy trying to copy a Macrovision VHS tape even one will yield less-than-satisfactory results.
BTW: The older versions of macrovision might be trivial to implement (for an electrical engineer), but the newer version is a little more difficult. I think that they play with the colorburst sync pulse somehow.
Using the same logic, cars should be around $1000 or so....
You forgot the possibility that the raw materials could be expensive and the item difficult to make. A laser powerful enough to do this type of work is very expensive. A typical laser pointer will not cut through wood and plastic. This is probably a lot of the cost.
This also appears to be the first of an entirely new class of product. The first DVD player was about 10 times the current cost. Something like this must have taken a certain amount of R&D that must be recovered.
If this takes off, I would expect that the price would drop by 1/2 to 1/4 in the next 5-10 yesrs, especially if there is competition (but patents may scuttle competition for the next decade).
Not quite true. It might be possible to find 1 or 2 people who would be willing to be tortured to death for the sake of a hoax (not likely). However, to find 10 people who would do this is extremely unlikely. Don't forget that all of the apostles were recorded as having seen Jesus after the crucifixion.
The manuscripts that do exist are quite old. If any inaccuracies were present, you would also expect to see a flurry of writings that say "not so". For example, suppose that in 100 years somebody comes out with book claiming that John F. Kennedy liked to wear women's clothing. Maybe somebody would believe it. If such a book were to come out now, a lot of people would jump up and say "I remember JFK. I met him. This is a load of bull." Similarly, most of the writings about Jesus were written within a lifetime of when he actually walked the Earth. If there was anything which was not accurate, people who were there would have torn it to pieces.
Not entirely accurate. God has left evidence printed on the pages of history. How about all of the prophecies in the Bible which have come true?
One case in point is Jesus. It is a historical fact that he lived, and all of the evidence points to the fact that He rose from the dead. Most of the original apostles were tortured to death. All they had to do to avoid death was to admit that Jesus did NOT rise again. So they gave their lives because they believed --adn they believed because they saw him after he was killed. If the apostles faked the resurrection, they would not be willing to die for something that they knew was hoax.
I don't think that you quite have it. It is all about the value.
For a fixed amount (say, $10/month), you get all-you-can-eat online gaming. If you are on 100 hours/month (possible for some people), then that is $0.10/hour. This is a decidedly good deal for entertainment.
Somebody like me, who would like to play something like EverCrack, cannot spend much time on something like this due to obligations (wife, 2 children, work, church, household repairs, etc.). I might be able to play around 5 hours/month. It does not seem worth $2.00/hour.
Now, if they offered a different rate structure, then things might be different! How about this as a plan:
$1.00 - flat rate for account maintenance. $0.25 - per hour of actual use. $10.00 - Max amount that you have to pay.
This means that if you play for eight hours, your bill is $3.00. If you play for 36 hours or more, your bill is $10.
This might help to breathe a little life into the genre.
That was the whole point of this article! They are apologizing for introducing DRM. Last May they promised not to do it again. Repeat after me: "No more DRM. No more DRM. No more DRM."
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If you just want a yummy caffiene hit, try to find "Pocket Coffee" candy by Ferrero from Italy. It is rich chocolate surrounding real liquid coffee (probably espresso of some type). This is the BEST CHOCOLATE that I have ever had. It is easy to find in Eurpoe, but a challenge to find in the US. A quick search turned up this. But I have never ordered from them.
It is easy to find truffles from Ferrero in gas stations, so I wonder why pocket coffee is so rare...
I have the best of both worlds. I got a flip-open color-screen java, net, email feature-laden Motorola phone. But my entire phone book and identification is stored on a little "sim card."
I picked up another phone for the same service 2nd hand from a guy at my work. It is one-piece, mono screen, and rather simple. If I just swap "sim cards" then I can take the older one with me and ust it on my same account! The best part is that the batteries are the same and the old clunker only cost me $20. And I can choose which phone I want to carry with me whenever I want. When I go out in the sailboat, the old clunker will be with me in a dry-bag. If I break it, no big deal!
Except for the ENTIRE Game Boy series...
Ain't that the truth. If this rumor IS true, the Sony will always triumph because Microsoft is dumb.
Seriously, by having a new box which is NOT backwards compatible would be a SERIOUS mistake. Microsoft could not be so stupid. Microsoft is greedy and amoral, but they are not dumb.
I should hope not. I carry this with me every day. It receives 100KHz to 1.3GHz, and can monitor nearly all analog voice modes. I doubt that this would be illegal in any state, and if it was, the ARRL would be all over them. An amateur radio operator is licensed by the feds. This trumps any state law. IANAL, and this is a gross simplification of the facts, but legal precedents have been set as far as having amateur radio tranceivers in a vehicle.
Okay, this is slightly off-topic, but related (I guess). Feel free to mod me down AFTER I get an answer...
I just got a Nextel i95cl phone. Where can I find documentation to do things that the vendor does not want me to do, such as download my OWN wallpaper (my wife wants a wallpaper of the kids).
Web searches turn up mostly sales sites, with very little actual info.
This does not say much...
First, it can be safely assumed that almost ALL people who use RPN also know how to use old "algebraic" calculators. Yet they still use RPN.
I do not know of ANYBODY who became proficient with RPN who prefers algebraic calculators.
The reason that RPN is dying is because HP was the only company making RPN calculators, and they are not very competetive now. You have a shelf full of calcuators, and the shiny TI machines are brand new, and at a good price. The HP one (if they have one) may have been sitting there for a while, and simply cannot compete on such things as screen resolution and memory.
Simple. The color is related to the frequency.
f=frequency
l=wavelength
c=speed of light in a medium.
We know that fl=c, so f=c/l
Since we set c=0, that yields f=0. Stopped light has no color!
Yes. It is just that easy. Do your part. Provide the names and addresses of the perpetrators. Oh, by the way... could you also provide the proof?
And if they are not in the US, how do you get them over here to take their punishment????
It might be easier just to follow the link. Buy a product and persecute whoever gets the money. But the problem is in the proof that THEY are the ones to send the spam. They could always say "I promised XYZ company 10% of profits. I did not know that they sent spam." It is called plausible deniability.
Did you read the article???
Any kid that could pull this off obviously could get quite a nice job as a sysadmin. I could not even follow most of the article!
Yup. Then my anti-spam system sends you an e-mail and you, the spammer collect my penny...
Or
Forking MUST be bad. I am a hardware guy, but I hear the software guys talking about the "forking" software all the time, and from their tone of voice, it does not sound kind. They are always talking about the forking compiler, the forking debugger, etc.
At least I think they are saying "forking."
Pffft.
I remember many days of surfing at 300 baud!
Ahhhhh. The fun of the old Commodore 64.
Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner cartoons were also violent. There is a BIG difference between "cartoon" violence and realistic blood-spurting-from-a-neck type violence. After all, nobody ever compared Roadrunner to a snuff film.
Wow. First, let's assume linear polarization. The polarization angle could vary between 0 and 179.999 degrees. If the "twist" of the light could be considered as an "amplitude," then we could do a variant of QAM on a single photon. Depending upon how sensitive the receiving equipment is, and how precise the transmitting equipment is, it should be possible (in theory) to then encode at least 4 bits in one single photon.
Of course, building such a transmitter/receiver would be an engineering nightmare. But we can dream...
This is not a discussion on how it works, but how it gets there in the first place.
If you make videotapes, and if you pay Macrovision some bucks, then you can include Macrovision on your videotape. It is NOT added by the VCR at all. It is actually on the tape itself. You can copy your own home movies all you want (within the constraints of analog copying). Buy trying to copy a Macrovision VHS tape even one will yield less-than-satisfactory results.
BTW: The older versions of macrovision might be trivial to implement (for an electrical engineer), but the newer version is a little more difficult. I think that they play with the colorburst sync pulse somehow.
You need to be specific. Is this...
end of the (beginning of the end)
or
(end of the beginning) of the end
???
Using the same logic, cars should be around $1000 or so....
You forgot the possibility that the raw materials could be expensive and the item difficult to make. A laser powerful enough to do this type of work is very expensive. A typical laser pointer will not cut through wood and plastic. This is probably a lot of the cost.
This also appears to be the first of an entirely new class of product. The first DVD player was about 10 times the current cost. Something like this must have taken a certain amount of R&D that must be recovered.
If this takes off, I would expect that the price would drop by 1/2 to 1/4 in the next 5-10 yesrs, especially if there is competition (but patents may scuttle competition for the next decade).
Not quite true. It might be possible to find 1 or 2 people who would be willing to be tortured to death for the sake of a hoax (not likely). However, to find 10 people who would do this is extremely unlikely. Don't forget that all of the apostles were recorded as having seen Jesus after the crucifixion.
The manuscripts that do exist are quite old. If any inaccuracies were present, you would also expect to see a flurry of writings that say "not so". For example, suppose that in 100 years somebody comes out with book claiming that John F. Kennedy liked to wear women's clothing. Maybe somebody would believe it. If such a book were to come out now, a lot of people would jump up and say "I remember JFK. I met him. This is a load of bull." Similarly, most of the writings about Jesus were written within a lifetime of when he actually walked the Earth. If there was anything which was not accurate, people who were there would have torn it to pieces.
Not entirely accurate. God has left evidence printed on the pages of history. How about all of the prophecies in the Bible which have come true?
One case in point is Jesus. It is a historical fact that he lived, and all of the evidence points to the fact that He rose from the dead. Most of the original apostles were tortured to death. All they had to do to avoid death was to admit that Jesus did NOT rise again. So they gave their lives because they believed --adn they believed because they saw him after he was killed. If the apostles faked the resurrection, they would not be willing to die for something that they knew was hoax.
In any reference to Pong, it almost seems obligatory to include links to the PONG ACTION FIGURES
One site.
Another site.
This holds even in nuclear physics, except that you can also "borrow" energy, you just have to pay it back very fast.
The energy from a nuclear reaction (bomb, reactor, or even our sun) comes from a small amount of lost mass.
I don't think that you quite have it. It is all about the value.
For a fixed amount (say, $10/month), you get all-you-can-eat online gaming. If you are on 100 hours/month (possible for some people), then that is $0.10/hour. This is a decidedly good deal for entertainment.
Somebody like me, who would like to play something like EverCrack, cannot spend much time on something like this due to obligations (wife, 2 children, work, church, household repairs, etc.). I might be able to play around 5 hours/month. It does not seem worth $2.00/hour.
Now, if they offered a different rate structure, then things might be different! How about this as a plan:
$1.00 - flat rate for account maintenance.
$0.25 - per hour of actual use.
$10.00 - Max amount that you have to pay.
This means that if you play for eight hours, your bill is $3.00. If you play for 36 hours or more, your bill is $10.
This might help to breathe a little life into the genre.
Hello!
That was the whole point of this article! They are apologizing for introducing DRM. Last May they promised not to do it again. Repeat after me: "No more DRM. No more DRM. No more DRM."
The loss of a little repeat business is small potatos compared to the loss of piracy. Blast away!