Pretty much every other console I can think of uses some kind of DRM to enforce what is allowed run on their console. That they will let you run your own programs (in some kind of sandbox, I presume) and allow you to swap out hardware and add your own standard USB accessories makes it the most open I can think of (but yes, very much more closed than a standard PC).
Actually, you're right. The SCURK add-on let you create your own buildings for SC2000, which you basically did by drawing them pixel by pixel. I would assume that the 'stock' buildings were done the same way.
I imagine that I could probably run things at a pretty low tax rate in a world where a coal power plant costs $3000, and an airport costs $10000, and I can fully fund a police station for $50/year.
The version for the SNES had "penalties" for zones placed near the edge of the map, which made it a little harder for them to develop. I assumed that it was in there to mimic how the land is more valuable in the center of a real city. It was somewhat subtle, and hard to see on a normal map, but it was pretty obvious on the "Free City" scenario map with no water or other features that had a big effect on land value.
I thought that SimCity 2000 was the best myself. I tried SimCity 3000, and while it was cool and had some awesome ideas, all the micro-managing eventually got annoying (a common flaw it seems with strategy/simulations game sequels as computers get more powerful, the Master Of Orion series also suffered from this). I want to design and lay out my city, not having to constantly run around replacing the dozens of bloody water pumps as they wear out. A close second might be SimCity for the Super Nintendo, which was very well done and had a nice amount of polish on top of the PC/Mac versions of the game, with the only real flaw being that the game ran pretty slow on the SNES's CPU.
I admitedly never have tried SimCity 4, for fear it was going to be like 3000, only even more annoying.
A bit by bit comparison would work if they just tagged the files somehow, remove the tag and the watermark is gone. However if they did it right, they probably just overlayed a bit of random noise over the entire CD (which you presumably wouldn't hear), and the watermark is somewhere in that noise. Thay way, even though the CDs would sound the same, a bit-by-bit comparison would show that they are completely different.
Of course you'll have to pay twice, but if you're paying the right price, 2x0=0.
If you're going to pirate the music, what do you care if it has someone else's watermark on it? Of course, if you do it just to stick it to "the man", that's alright by me.
It would likely take most of their fuel supply to get them to the sun from Earth's orbit. The most logical thing to do would be to burn them up in the atmosphere once they were "spent". Though if they were stable, it may make more sense just to park them somewhere for later retrieval as raw materials.
If you read the comments around here, I'm not seeing a whole lot of support for this. Most people here support letting the market sort it out by allowing the price of electricity to fluctuate with demand, and allowing consumers the ability to set their thermostats accordingly.
The whole safety department of that tram line should be fired. A system hackable via a TV remote and unencyrpted signals subject to relay attacks should not be deployed ever.
That's 2008 thinking. You might want to consider that the system was likely designed and deployed long before TV remotes were common and there was no practical way to encrypt the signal. Sure, the system probably should have been replaced in the last few years, but no one probably thought anything of it being that the system had worked fine for decades.
Charge who? These systems are probably decades old, and the engineers who designed them long retired and likely have even passed away. Back when they were designed, I'm sure they were fairly secure through security through obscurity (few people would know how to hack it, the equipment would have been expensive, thus if you wanted to mess with the trams you probably wouldn't try to hack the switches). Furthermore, back when it was designed it's not like you could just throw a cheap IC in the design to get something like rolling codes anyway.
Well, the slow left lane drivers really are doing exactly the same thing. They chose to enforce some laws (the speed limit) by giving themselves the "right" to break other laws (slower traffic keep right, yield to faster vehicles, etc.).
One of the nice things about Windows updates in XP is that you can have the system download them automatically, and then it will install them when you shut the computer down. I find it's pretty easy to keep up to date, just tell the computer to shut down at the end of the day and walk away from it. The next morning you'll have an up to date system.
They do laud the security cage, I never said otherwise. But they are careful to point out it's flaws:
"The downside of the sheel's rigidity is that there is a greater potential for the deacceleration to be transmitted to the passengers..." "So how much stick can a Smart take? A lot. But that can't be said for its passengers."
And yeah, you'll die in any car from extreme deacceleration, that's obvious. The point is with a large crumple zone you won't experience the extreme deacceleration.
If you're really worried about losing some data that might be needed, why not just buy a 500GB drive for $100 and copy everything from all the drives to it? I seriously doubt that even with a large stack that you really have more than a few tens of gigs of data, given that most of those drives are probably only a few gigs in size anyway. It would also be a lot quicker just to copy everything than to sit and go through the files on each drive to determine what needs saving. A cheaper alternative might be to just burn the drives to DVDs, I bet a lot of them aren't even 4.7GB in size and would fit on a single disk.
I suggest you go rewatch it. They concluded that the lack of significant crumple zones was a weakness in the design, though they also showed that the passengers in some other small car I'm not familiar with would have likely been killed in the same scenario.
Did you even watch that video? It pretty much proves what the original poster said. While the Smart does seem to do an excellent job at safety given its form factor, there just isn't anyway it can compete with a similarly well thought out car with larger crumple zones.
You must not remember usbsupp.exe and Windows 95. Sure, I bet they'll be a patch, and it'll be interesting to see how they break things this time around.
Here's a better tip, USB2 cables are exactly the same as USB1 cables. Best Buy and Monster want to convince you otherwise, so you have to repurchase your $29.99 gold plated printer cable, don't fall for it.
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Pretty much every other console I can think of uses some kind of DRM to enforce what is allowed run on their console. That they will let you run your own programs (in some kind of sandbox, I presume) and allow you to swap out hardware and add your own standard USB accessories makes it the most open I can think of (but yes, very much more closed than a standard PC).
Actually, you're right. The SCURK add-on let you create your own buildings for SC2000, which you basically did by drawing them pixel by pixel. I would assume that the 'stock' buildings were done the same way.
I imagine that I could probably run things at a pretty low tax rate in a world where a coal power plant costs $3000, and an airport costs $10000, and I can fully fund a police station for $50/year.
Um, that pretty much describes how Simcity 2000 did it's graphics too.
The version for the SNES had "penalties" for zones placed near the edge of the map, which made it a little harder for them to develop. I assumed that it was in there to mimic how the land is more valuable in the center of a real city. It was somewhat subtle, and hard to see on a normal map, but it was pretty obvious on the "Free City" scenario map with no water or other features that had a big effect on land value.
I thought that SimCity 2000 was the best myself. I tried SimCity 3000, and while it was cool and had some awesome ideas, all the micro-managing eventually got annoying (a common flaw it seems with strategy/simulations game sequels as computers get more powerful, the Master Of Orion series also suffered from this). I want to design and lay out my city, not having to constantly run around replacing the dozens of bloody water pumps as they wear out. A close second might be SimCity for the Super Nintendo, which was very well done and had a nice amount of polish on top of the PC/Mac versions of the game, with the only real flaw being that the game ran pretty slow on the SNES's CPU.
I admitedly never have tried SimCity 4, for fear it was going to be like 3000, only even more annoying.
A bit by bit comparison would work if they just tagged the files somehow, remove the tag and the watermark is gone. However if they did it right, they probably just overlayed a bit of random noise over the entire CD (which you presumably wouldn't hear), and the watermark is somewhere in that noise. Thay way, even though the CDs would sound the same, a bit-by-bit comparison would show that they are completely different.
Of course you'll have to pay twice, but if you're paying the right price, 2x0=0.
If you're going to pirate the music, what do you care if it has someone else's watermark on it? Of course, if you do it just to stick it to "the man", that's alright by me.
It would likely take most of their fuel supply to get them to the sun from Earth's orbit. The most logical thing to do would be to burn them up in the atmosphere once they were "spent". Though if they were stable, it may make more sense just to park them somewhere for later retrieval as raw materials.
If you read the comments around here, I'm not seeing a whole lot of support for this. Most people here support letting the market sort it out by allowing the price of electricity to fluctuate with demand, and allowing consumers the ability to set their thermostats accordingly.
Any computer you buy has been tested in a 140F hot room before sale, of course one you built yourself may be different.
Got any proof of that? Quite a few laptops I've had to deal with don't take too nicely to temperatures above 100F.
No, but as soon as she connects to the internet it will be rooted by someone who might.
One pass writing random data before donating the drive would be plenty sufficient.
The whole safety department of that tram line should be fired. A system hackable via a TV remote and unencyrpted signals subject to relay attacks should not be deployed ever.
That's 2008 thinking. You might want to consider that the system was likely designed and deployed long before TV remotes were common and there was no practical way to encrypt the signal. Sure, the system probably should have been replaced in the last few years, but no one probably thought anything of it being that the system had worked fine for decades.
Charge who? These systems are probably decades old, and the engineers who designed them long retired and likely have even passed away. Back when they were designed, I'm sure they were fairly secure through security through obscurity (few people would know how to hack it, the equipment would have been expensive, thus if you wanted to mess with the trams you probably wouldn't try to hack the switches). Furthermore, back when it was designed it's not like you could just throw a cheap IC in the design to get something like rolling codes anyway.
Well, the slow left lane drivers really are doing exactly the same thing. They chose to enforce some laws (the speed limit) by giving themselves the "right" to break other laws (slower traffic keep right, yield to faster vehicles, etc.).
It's pretty unAmerican to suggest that people can't advertise their (perfectly legal) products at all.
You mean like what happened to the cigarette companies?
One of the nice things about Windows updates in XP is that you can have the system download them automatically, and then it will install them when you shut the computer down. I find it's pretty easy to keep up to date, just tell the computer to shut down at the end of the day and walk away from it. The next morning you'll have an up to date system.
They do laud the security cage, I never said otherwise. But they are careful to point out it's flaws:
"The downside of the sheel's rigidity is that there is a greater potential for the deacceleration to be transmitted to the passengers..."
"So how much stick can a Smart take? A lot. But that can't be said for its passengers."
And yeah, you'll die in any car from extreme deacceleration, that's obvious. The point is with a large crumple zone you won't experience the extreme deacceleration.
If you're really worried about losing some data that might be needed, why not just buy a 500GB drive for $100 and copy everything from all the drives to it? I seriously doubt that even with a large stack that you really have more than a few tens of gigs of data, given that most of those drives are probably only a few gigs in size anyway. It would also be a lot quicker just to copy everything than to sit and go through the files on each drive to determine what needs saving. A cheaper alternative might be to just burn the drives to DVDs, I bet a lot of them aren't even 4.7GB in size and would fit on a single disk.
I suggest you go rewatch it. They concluded that the lack of significant crumple zones was a weakness in the design, though they also showed that the passengers in some other small car I'm not familiar with would have likely been killed in the same scenario.
And wealthier districts are less densely populated (People with money like space), and thus have a smaller need for electronic vote counters.
I think you'll find that suburbia is a lot more densely populated than the back country.
Did you even watch that video? It pretty much proves what the original poster said. While the Smart does seem to do an excellent job at safety given its form factor, there just isn't anyway it can compete with a similarly well thought out car with larger crumple zones.
You must not remember usbsupp.exe and Windows 95. Sure, I bet they'll be a patch, and it'll be interesting to see how they break things this time around.
Here's a better tip, USB2 cables are exactly the same as USB1 cables. Best Buy and Monster want to convince you otherwise, so you have to repurchase your $29.99 gold plated printer cable, don't fall for it.
I'm still trying to figure out how to fit "Profit!" into there as well. Maybe blackmail?
Here, let me help:
5) ?????
6) Profit!