Because you'll know about the service pack? You'll only find out about the activation when you go to your closet to look over your thesis research after 20 years.
First off activation is a huge pain, piracy is increadibly easy. Most times you get the disk from a friend or picked it up on a whim (hey let's check out the new OS, I have friends running 2003 why? Because it's there).
In 1998 they used to send you stuff if you activated, now they won't let you use the product if you don't.
They are not just giving you an activation key (something that will be put with the cd key on cracked Winblows cds they are trying it to a number, a date (of install) and if they can I'm sure a mac and ip addy.
That said windows is still the best, and with the bickering in the linux community will be the best for a long time. That said with my second box running Solaris 10, RL:FC3, Mandrake,Debian, and Suse.
But um against a newb a good go player can just clean the board regardless of handicap... It only takes one big mistake to lose....
Plus you can't really learn go from a beginner... it takes a while to even understand what's really going on... I mean grasping the eating of pieces is easy but trying to capture territory takes years...
Come on Opera has the best features, it's totally under the radar and it's faster and better than anything out there... the size of firefox with e-mail functionality...
You guys need to get off your high horse and come inside... there's no fat lady in sight.
For some tv watchers it's an escape from reality, for those reality show watchers this is definitly the case. They feel that those people are their friends.
When I watch Battlestar galactica I want to be MORE into the show which is why I download, then I can watch several shows in sucession without commercial interuption.
Um there is a finite file size so not an infinite number...
Let's say the file is 2^1000 then you could remove 2^160 with a 2^160 from that further, since the file won't be garbage. You can remove any data which isn't of the filetype you expect (formatted headers for example).
The impression I got from hashing is that most of the files that are also congruent with the same hash data will be of a diffrent size.
I will have to examine the algorithm a bit more, but it seems you can use filesize+hashsize to remove > hashsize+filesize possibilities from the file.
Guess who wants to send meaningless data... bittorrent relies on SHA-1 which is I imagine what the moderator was most interested in.
I might be paranoid but it wouldn't be inconceivably difficult for **AA to upload single blocks of corrupted data and destroy every torrent as it streams, they certainly have the resources.
Money is funnelled into next production, fans vote on the people in charge not direct control. (come on wrap your head around indirect democracy here).
DVD's are distributed for free, open source style.
The show doesn't need to make massive money, it's already financed.
Once the fans have paid for the show they don't need to milk it, they just need enough for the next show.
I agree, they are leaving themselves open to be argued with.
They may not listen but that's another crime.
Arresting them for their ideas is possible because their beliefs are against most laws but trying to understand and explain reality to them might be more productive.
Um these cases have mostly been settled out of court...
Because the RIAA is lined up with 1000 lawyers waiting to make a case that will be a precedent and the site authors haven't wanted to give them that chance.
If you think this matter has actually been settled in the legal realm then you are very foolish.
They don't have ships and pretty women to bribe U.S. costal forces? I'm sorry those guys "resort" (implied refrence has to do with compromising personal sexuality, has no implications for actually homosexual individuals) to homosexuality.
They are probably already in place, and since you'll never know who detonated the only thing stopping people from doing so is the hope that other people being alive may improve your quality of life.
Not something that American's generally believe, but perhaps they will have to start.
People threatening and stealing seem like a pretty good target for violence without the possibility of retaliation.
That's silly he has little sound clips for each one.... figure it out for yourself! Just listen to the clips and it'll be clear that they are the same genre...
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Because you'll know about the service pack? You'll only find out about the activation when you go to your closet to look over your thesis research after 20 years.
First off activation is a huge pain, piracy is increadibly easy. Most times you get the disk from a friend or picked it up on a whim (hey let's check out the new OS, I have friends running 2003 why? Because it's there).
In 1998 they used to send you stuff if you activated, now they won't let you use the product if you don't.
They are not just giving you an activation key (something that will be put with the cd key on cracked Winblows cds they are trying it to a number, a date (of install) and if they can I'm sure a mac and ip addy.
That said windows is still the best, and with the bickering in the linux community will be the best for a long time. That said with my second box running Solaris 10, RL:FC3, Mandrake,Debian, and Suse.
Inside Ghost my computer lives in 1999.
Shooting utopia scenes in canada should be manditory... damn tree huggers.
Dvd's were put into use over vhs because they were supposed to offer multiple angles something that these new formats ARE AGAIN OFFERING!
These companies can't figure out why people adopt new infintesimally better tech, they assume we are using the multiple angles feature.
In football that would be very useful I imagine.
The preceding was brought to you by a devil's advocate, I don't think Nintendo will be puchased, except maybe by sony.
Nintendo is attitude American ownership would FS*C it in the $%%.
Gamboys monopoly was perpetrated by one thing, The U.S. market was too stupid to appreciate the wonderswan. End of Story.
But um against a newb a good go player can just clean the board regardless of handicap... It only takes one big mistake to lose....
Plus you can't really learn go from a beginner... it takes a while to even understand what's really going on... I mean grasping the eating of pieces is easy but trying to capture territory takes years...
Come on Opera has the best features, it's totally under the radar and it's faster and better than anything out there... the size of firefox with e-mail functionality...
You guys need to get off your high horse and come inside... there's no fat lady in sight.
For some tv watchers it's an escape from reality, for those reality show watchers this is definitly the case. They feel that those people are their friends.
When I watch Battlestar galactica I want to be MORE into the show which is why I download, then I can watch several shows in sucession without commercial interuption.
Here's your five seconds... wake up, explain to girlfriend blockbuster needs you, get dumped... return movie. Save $5....
Profit?
YAY!
Worked there too... late fees are about $5 a day.
So the 30 day thing isn't really a problem.
Only looked at first two... a welshwoman and an aussie. Good arguement there buddy.
They waited 10 years I was hoping I could make and sell this :P
A nice interface would be a kicker on such a service, and roaming between hotspots.
But shouldn't it reduce it by Filesize/Filesize*hashsize?
I agreed with you that they were nuts until they put a cell tower on top of the building where I had a seminar.
Every seminar everyone had a mild headache...
Um there is a finite file size so not an infinite number...
Let's say the file is 2^1000 then you could remove 2^160 with a 2^160 from that further, since the file won't be garbage. You can remove any data which isn't of the filetype you expect (formatted headers for example).
The impression I got from hashing is that most of the files that are also congruent with the same hash data will be of a diffrent size.
I will have to examine the algorithm a bit more, but it seems you can use filesize+hashsize to remove > hashsize+filesize possibilities from the file.
Every slashdot reader has seen Sneakers :P
:P
Yes they are badass, no it will probably never happen.
Though they are working on legislation for blind driving
Explain to me why this isn't useful for compression?
I know it's next to impossible to create the data from the hash but shouldn't it be theoretically possible?
If the hash reduces the possible files which match it by 99.999% then shouldn't it be possible to send that much less data?
Guess who wants to send meaningless data... bittorrent relies on SHA-1 which is I imagine what the moderator was most interested in.
I might be paranoid but it wouldn't be inconceivably difficult for **AA to upload single blocks of corrupted data and destroy every torrent as it streams, they certainly have the resources.
There is already concern about the nature of copywrite... now they will slow down the entire internet to suit their needs?
These guys going down!
Money is funnelled into next production, fans vote on the people in charge not direct control. (come on wrap your head around indirect democracy here).
DVD's are distributed for free, open source style.
The show doesn't need to make massive money, it's already financed.
Once the fans have paid for the show they don't need to milk it, they just need enough for the next show.
I agree, they are leaving themselves open to be argued with.
They may not listen but that's another crime.
Arresting them for their ideas is possible because their beliefs are against most laws but trying to understand and explain reality to them might be more productive.
Um these cases have mostly been settled out of court...
Because the RIAA is lined up with 1000 lawyers waiting to make a case that will be a precedent and the site authors haven't wanted to give them that chance.
If you think this matter has actually been settled in the legal realm then you are very foolish.
They don't have ships and pretty women to bribe U.S. costal forces? I'm sorry those guys "resort" (implied refrence has to do with compromising personal sexuality, has no implications for actually homosexual individuals) to homosexuality.
They are probably already in place, and since you'll never know who detonated the only thing stopping people from doing so is the hope that other people being alive may improve your quality of life.
Not something that American's generally believe, but perhaps they will have to start.
People threatening and stealing seem like a pretty good target for violence without the possibility of retaliation.
She reads slashdot with you... don't complain.
That's silly he has little sound clips for each one.... figure it out for yourself! Just listen to the clips and it'll be clear that they are the same genre...