BULLSHIT - Put in 100 Ergs and get 101 Ergs out? Fine, if you are converting matter to energy (a la E=mc^2.) If we're talking about non-nuclear reactions, bullshit.
I for one dumped EQ over this exact problem. Why charge your loyal customers another $30 for something that should have been in the last bloody expansion!
Wow. If I read the article right, security will be coming in 2005? Wow. Previous smart ass remark aside, how old is MSSQL? In light of the known threat that "hackers" pose why the hell isn't this a patch to be released ASAP for all versions of MSSQL?
>>They may use a challenge-response method of >>authentication, but beware of someone walking by >>with a pocket sized repeater for the real reader.
>How would that decrease the security of the challenge-response method?
A evil retailer could use a legit machine thus be able to complete the challenge-response hurdle to charge unsuspecting passers by. When(IF!) the transactions are disputed by the cardholders the evil retailer will refer to the factory specifications for the reader and point out it only works at a very short range and the could not have accidently come into that very short range. Not every business owner is the model law abiding citizen.
"thermoacoustic refrigeration technology, which uses helium gas subjected to ultra-loud 173 db sound."
I know...RTFA, but...I did read the FA. Problem is I must have read the wrong one (so many links here.)
Whatever they use to keep the 173db sound locked inside the box, I want. I'll use it to line my appartment walls, as I'm tired of hearing the latest crap..err...latest top 40 hit being blasted by my neighbor's juvenile deliq..err...teenager.
Yes, you can go through alot of work dicking around with hardware to copy data from obsolete formats and media to modern formats and media, but photos taken back in the days of "glass plates"(glass used for negatives, no thing plastic like today) don't need to be upgraded to the next media or format to be useful. I can pop a 100 year old glass plate into the same enlarger that will print photos from a modern 35mm or APS camera. Simple as that, less work involved in getting your data archived. Keep the film cool and dry and it'll last quite a long time w/o having to fuss w/ all this data copy from 5.25 to 3.5 to ZIP to CDR to DVD (+R? or -R? or two later DVD, or whatever the next format is.)
Why bother, film works fine for historical recoding. Film works fine for art. Film IS being beat by digital in the COMSUMER market - IE: those wanting snapshots of the events of their lives. Snapshots of 100 years ago are the historical recordings of today. Today's digital will be the historical recordings of 100 years from now. Will someone out there in 100 years have the hardware or codec to view your JPGs that hold the visual records of "historic" value?
In my line of work no one cares if you used power point, or a pointy stick and little dots of colored ink on a membrane of transparent plastic to make a presentation. The end result is what matters. Often you get the idiots that ask "Hey, this dinner was great! You must use really great pots and pans!" Those in education must learn to make their corsework reflect the needs of the real world. Whatever the best tool is for the job, that's what needs to be used. Be it a Micro$oft product or opensource...who cares, as long as the results are what the customer wants. PERIOD.
This guy (assuming a guy) should be praised for using the tools at hand to get the job done. PERIOD.
for my photography I use a simple non-automatic camera with a single lens (200mm Nikkor.) This camera type has changed little sense it's invention. When you can show me a digital camera that can match the resolution of an 8x10 sheet of Illford film (or Kodak, or Fuji, or Agfa, or Konica, etc) then I will say film is dead. If a 35mm camera and it's 1.5 square inch bit of film can be replaced by 6 megapixels then my 800 square inch negatives will require a 3.2 GIGApixel camera. It should be noted that my camera+lens+film holder system cost less than a the 14 Megapixel machines that are top-of-the-line today. As a matter of fact, a year supply of film and darkroom chemistry and other supplies still run me less than a 14 megapixel digital and a 1 year suppluy of batteries. That said, most people outside the world of large format photography will be happy with the results you can get from a $4 disposable camera, so 6 megapixels will suit them fine. Next time you want a sharp 4x6 print you'll cget those results from a film camera..that is 4x6 FEET (Thing large gallery prints and large format advertisments.)
If you put it on the head of a shark you can go 20cm deep, 10 cm from each side. And to think that people said that sharks with frigging laserbeams on their frigging heads would never see any practical application!
...for Rockstar! The game would have otherwise been abandon-ware and never again seen the light of day. But they apparently see the value of releasing older games as a marking moev to gain better exposure and build a customer base (those who get the old game today might get a new game tomorrow, and that's money in Rockstar's pockets!)
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you know, looking at the red/blue map, it looks like a sad day for 25-33% of America. 15% if not for CA.
Who cares? What really matters,can it play OGGs?
Nabbing a CD off an assembly line is no better than downloading the game off the internet, it's stealing plain and simple.
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Software piracy is victimless theft.
WOW! I didn't know the Senator Kerry participated in
As of August 18 2004 www.bugmenot.com is not up. Unknown if this is a long term or short term condition.
welcome our well timed overlords.
this results in over 100% efficency.
BULLSHIT - Put in 100 Ergs and get 101 Ergs out? Fine, if you are converting matter to energy (a la E=mc^2.) If we're talking about non-nuclear reactions, bullshit.
but the enterprise could use shields!
I for one dumped EQ over this exact problem. Why charge your loyal customers another $30 for something that should have been in the last bloody expansion!
READ THE SIG!
Wow. If I read the article right, security will be coming in 2005? Wow. Previous smart ass remark aside, how old is MSSQL? In light of the known threat that "hackers" pose why the hell isn't this a patch to be released ASAP for all versions of MSSQL?
GOOD THING? Security By Microsoft - with a proven track record.
To think, I used to feel that it was a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts!
Appologies to Mr. Adams.
Kao Megura, may you rest in peace.
No! You have to go to the mailing address where you sent the money and deliver a few "lashings of the old ultraviolence"
>>They may use a challenge-response method of
>>authentication, but beware of someone walking by
>>with a pocket sized repeater for the real reader.
>How would that decrease the security of the challenge-response method?
A evil retailer could use a legit machine thus be able to complete the challenge-response hurdle to charge unsuspecting passers by. When(IF!) the transactions are disputed by the cardholders the evil retailer will refer to the factory specifications for the reader and point out it only works at a very short range and the could not have accidently come into that very short range. Not every business owner is the model law abiding citizen.
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RTFA? Which one?8 614 34 ?s tm ?l / ?a u.r efrig.html ?/ 2aP Aa7.html ?
http://www.npr.org/ ?
http://www.benjerry.com/ ?
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1
http://live.psu.edu/story/6482 ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2543085.
http://www.benjerry.com/our_company/sounds_coo
http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/9706.Monge
http://www.auditory.org/asamtgs/asa93dnv/2aPAa
http://www.coolsound.us/ ?
-- all of these are linked to from the summary/blurb.
"thermoacoustic refrigeration technology, which uses helium gas subjected to ultra-loud 173 db sound."
I know...RTFA, but...I did read the FA. Problem is I must have read the wrong one (so many links here.)
Whatever they use to keep the 173db sound locked inside the box, I want. I'll use it to line my appartment walls, as I'm tired of hearing the latest crap..err...latest top 40 hit being blasted by my neighbor's juvenile deliq..err...teenager.
Isn't it Sony that made the VCR? Time to sue them, this lawsuit stuff works!
This sounds just like the contraption they use at Yoshinoya to cook their "beef."
Yes, you can go through alot of work dicking around with hardware to copy data from obsolete formats and media to modern formats and media, but photos taken back in the days of "glass plates"(glass used for negatives, no thing plastic like today) don't need to be upgraded to the next media or format to be useful. I can pop a 100 year old glass plate into the same enlarger that will print photos from a modern 35mm or APS camera. Simple as that, less work involved in getting your data archived. Keep the film cool and dry and it'll last quite a long time w/o having to fuss w/ all this data copy from 5.25 to 3.5 to ZIP to CDR to DVD (+R? or -R? or two later DVD, or whatever the next format is.)
Why bother, film works fine for historical recoding. Film works fine for art. Film IS being beat by digital in the COMSUMER market - IE: those wanting snapshots of the events of their lives. Snapshots of 100 years ago are the historical recordings of today. Today's digital will be the historical recordings of 100 years from now. Will someone out there in 100 years have the hardware or codec to view your JPGs that hold the visual records of "historic" value?
In my line of work no one cares if you used power point, or a pointy stick and little dots of colored ink on a membrane of transparent plastic to make a presentation. The end result is what matters. Often you get the idiots that ask "Hey, this dinner was great! You must use really great pots and pans!" Those in education must learn to make their corsework reflect the needs of the real world. Whatever the best tool is for the job, that's what needs to be used. Be it a Micro$oft product or opensource...who cares, as long as the results are what the customer wants. PERIOD.
This guy (assuming a guy) should be praised for using the tools at hand to get the job done. PERIOD.
for my photography I use a simple non-automatic camera with a single lens (200mm Nikkor.) This camera type has changed little sense it's invention. When you can show me a digital camera that can match the resolution of an 8x10 sheet of Illford film (or Kodak, or Fuji, or Agfa, or Konica, etc) then I will say film is dead. If a 35mm camera and it's 1.5 square inch bit of film can be replaced by 6 megapixels then my 800 square inch negatives will require a 3.2 GIGApixel camera. It should be noted that my camera+lens+film holder system cost less than a the 14 Megapixel machines that are top-of-the-line today. As a matter of fact, a year supply of film and darkroom chemistry and other supplies still run me less than a 14 megapixel digital and a 1 year suppluy of batteries. That said, most people outside the world of large format photography will be happy with the results you can get from a $4 disposable camera, so 6 megapixels will suit them fine. Next time you want a sharp 4x6 print you'll cget those results from a film camera..that is 4x6 FEET (Thing large gallery prints and large format advertisments.)
If you put it on the head of a shark you can go 20cm deep, 10 cm from each side. And to think that people said that sharks with frigging laserbeams on their frigging heads would never see any practical application!
...for Rockstar! The game would have otherwise been abandon-ware and never again seen the light of day. But they apparently see the value of releasing older games as a marking moev to gain better exposure and build a customer base (those who get the old game today might get a new game tomorrow, and that's money in Rockstar's pockets!)