From a total health perspective people with very limited mobility could benefit from living in a zero g environment. Up there, we are essentially equal.
What happens if I make an appointment now for sometime in the period of adjustment? Will everybody know that the 9am I told it should really be 10am or vice versa?
The most frustrating example of this is the final putt on the golf course, the one which is about a metre away and you need minimum power. You find yourself doing some random body shake to try to get it registering.
Half the time this ends up with the ball fucking off half a mile away and landing in the pond.
Yes, and its mentioned in the report. The best part about the entire thing is the very last quote:
"If they told me it was 100,000 hours, I'd still protect it the same way. If they told me if was 5 million hours I'd still protect it the same way. I have to assume every drive could fail."
What if you could actually do pay off potential lawsuits.
What if you could buy freedom for your media for the next 12 months, how about monthly? There would be no fear of prosecution just because we happen to like something so we save it.
If doesn't matter where we get it from, it doesn't matter what quality or how often we transcribe it. Come on media companies and software developers, how much would that cost us? I want music and ebooks and movies as well - infact just the whole job lot. I might even want to try Vista or OS X.
What price?
Incidentally, I am 100% in favour of a simple payment method for authors and artists and developers and even movie execs where we get what we want and they do too. I would never want these folks out of a job, as fat and evil some of them are - they have families to support just like us.
Sweet! So all a pirate has to do is find a VLK which some random company uses and he is guaranteed to be marked as genuine for life?
I always thought Microsoft had discussions with their volume customers and could arrange a keyswap for those which have leaked licenses.
Isn't that how the original FCKGW was blocked? When it was news I read it was a large company who had every legit machine key swapped for a new VLK and then the original pirated one was closed off?
That honor system has a trail of money, customer X purchased 1000 copies and are based in Washington DC, but yet there are 3000 machines constantly updating themselves all the time validating using this key.
Ok, the boxed product I buy from the store has a key. That key is a single use single instance key - one consumer can have it. However, 2 people register with Microsoft for it - one of them is a pirate, the other isn't (or both are..)
How can you tell?
Then, take one volume licensing key which was purchased for a company to do 20000 installations worldwide. That key gets used 20001 times, which is the pirate?
Turn off the wrong machine and you just lost that entire customer of thousands of machines ('cos the boss is pissed off with MS for making him look like a pirate).
Wow, don't see you around much and certainly not since zzz went off-air. Hope you are OK, if you ever reopen for business make sure you let slash know:)
The protection scheme allocates an amount of space on each new disk to list the codes for all de-activated player keys. It is one key per revision of software/silicon, otherwise to revoke every machine/instance of software you would need to store the possible keys used in every device/installation ever known to the system. There is simply no space for that.
Will they actually revoke these software players from all new disks? Its time for them to put their money where their mouth is and actually block access to these broken players.
If they allow it to continue, all their movies will be piratable (insert oh noes! here).
I wonder how pissed off people will be if they can't play their new movies?
Just in case anyone is actually wondering, the reg entry required to allow "a word or phrase in" searching within the standard Windows search *per file extension* is:
Microsoft released a patch sometime before SP1 which applies these settings to a bunch of common file extensions but even this missed the ones specific to my system.
I too wrote my own Search tool. Windows search just didn't give me what I wanted and to make matters worse it didn't even try to search the files I wanted it to search. I knew totally that specific files contained exact string matches (it was vb code) but yet the search didn't touch them.
I initially started by finding out how and why and what to do with it, in the end I created a scanner which assigned each unknown file extension currently located on my system the default text scanning clsid), and still run this occasionally so I am not restricted by random uses of the global search.
This still wasn't enough because Windows will not show the context of a match or allow multiple patterns and filters to the parameters, mine displays the exact line match of anything found along with a little context (project.file.proc.line)
As for storing a large cache away, scanning the filenames and properties of a large deeply nested drive takes approx 20seconds (longer for the first scan before windows builds up any kind of cache). Of course if you have large folders containing 1000s of files each, this could be quicker but I am somewhat sceptical of your timings. It takes even longer if you are scanning the contents of files as well but from the sounds of things you aren't. I don't actually mind waiting for the search to finish as long as I know it is searching the correct data I have asked it to.
I think the Wii is something entirely different and if done correctly Sony could still retain their core gamer generation market who like fast action zillions of polygons and l337 skills whilst Nintendo will exist happily with their more family oriented gaming set.
Its capturing an entire class of gamers which just wouldn't even have purchased a console before, its a similar story with the DS - you have people playing on these things that wouldn't even consider another game system.
I cannot ever imagine my parents owning any playstation or xbox, but I think Nintendo might just have themselves another sale based upon their reaction to our Wii when they played last night.
I possibly will retry it at some other time, but for now the only positive thing to come out of this is a link to Sketchup which at first glance seems a lot less headache inducing and might just do for what I need.
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From a total health perspective people with very limited mobility could benefit from living in a zero g environment.
Up there, we are essentially equal.
Its just the travelling which would be a problem.
Does this mean that anyone can get to go for a ride?
I was under the impression you had to have a certain level of fitness and stamina.
I also cannot get the thought of the south park kid shouting "Timmmeh!" whilst riding the shuttle.
What happens if I make an appointment now for sometime in the period of adjustment?
Will everybody know that the 9am I told it should really be 10am or vice versa?
The most frustrating example of this is the final putt on the golf course, the one which is about a metre away and you need minimum power.
You find yourself doing some random body shake to try to get it registering.
Half the time this ends up with the ball fucking off half a mile away and landing in the pond.
Yes, and its mentioned in the report.
The best part about the entire thing is the very last quote:
"If they told me it was 100,000 hours, I'd still protect it the same way. If they told me if was 5 million hours I'd still protect it the same way. I have to assume every drive could fail."
Just common sense.
Your correct.
Their laptops explode at a totally different frequency.
Apples' magic smoke is colour coordinated and scented.
Its actually a rather nice rainbow effect which draws in a crowd of people who all get burnt.
They really have got a broad patent.
The first one has a mistake:
Anti-slip control for a legged robot and realisitc simulation of a legged creature
does this make it invalid?
from here: http://animats.com/topics/patents.html
What if you could actually do pay off potential lawsuits.
What if you could buy freedom for your media for the next 12 months, how about monthly?
There would be no fear of prosecution just because we happen to like something so we save it.
If doesn't matter where we get it from, it doesn't matter what quality or how often we transcribe it.
Come on media companies and software developers, how much would that cost us?
I want music and ebooks and movies as well - infact just the whole job lot. I might even want to try Vista or OS X.
What price?
Incidentally, I am 100% in favour of a simple payment method for authors and artists and developers and even movie execs where we get what we want and they do too.
I would never want these folks out of a job, as fat and evil some of them are - they have families to support just like us.
Do you mean the students, or the RIAA?
Packet storm!
Routing to the max.
If you set the evilbit can you make your pigeon crap on specified targets?
Sweet!
So all a pirate has to do is find a VLK which some random company uses and he is guaranteed to be marked as genuine for life?
I always thought Microsoft had discussions with their volume customers and could arrange a keyswap for those which have leaked licenses.
Isn't that how the original FCKGW was blocked?
When it was news I read it was a large company who had every legit machine key swapped for a new VLK and then the original pirated one was closed off?
That honor system has a trail of money, customer X purchased 1000 copies and are based in Washington DC, but yet there are 3000 machines constantly updating themselves all the time validating using this key.
You think MS aren't going to know?
Ok, the boxed product I buy from the store has a key.
That key is a single use single instance key - one consumer can have it.
However, 2 people register with Microsoft for it - one of them is a pirate, the other isn't (or both are..)
How can you tell?
Then, take one volume licensing key which was purchased for a company to do 20000 installations worldwide.
That key gets used 20001 times, which is the pirate?
Turn off the wrong machine and you just lost that entire customer of thousands of machines ('cos the boss is pissed off with MS for making him look like a pirate).
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Cannot delete file 'File 47'
It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.
Undoing modifications, 35952 files restored.
Wow, don't see you around much and certainly not since zzz went off-air. :)
Hope you are OK, if you ever reopen for business make sure you let slash know
The protection scheme allocates an amount of space on each new disk to list the codes for all de-activated player keys.
It is one key per revision of software/silicon, otherwise to revoke every machine/instance of software you would need to store the possible keys used in every device/installation ever known to the system.
There is simply no space for that.
Will they actually do it?
Will they actually revoke these software players from all new disks?
Its time for them to put their money where their mouth is and actually block access to these broken players.
If they allow it to continue, all their movies will be piratable (insert oh noes! here).
I wonder how pissed off people will be if they can't play their new movies?
Most people have never gone out and specifically bought Windows.
They go and get themselves a new computer which comes pre-installed.
Most of those people will be ok with the 5 changes rule and will never ever need to contact Microsoft.
Wii come in piece!
Imagine a beowolf cluster of WiiMotes coming attacking you and you get the idea.
Just in case anyone is actually wondering, the reg entry required to allow "a word or phrase in" searching within the standard Windows search *per file extension* is:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ext\PersistentHandler]
@="{5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}"
Microsoft released a patch sometime before SP1 which applies these settings to a bunch of common file extensions but even this missed the ones specific to my system.
I too wrote my own Search tool.
Windows search just didn't give me what I wanted and to make matters worse it didn't even try to search the files I wanted it to search. I knew totally that specific files contained exact string matches (it was vb code) but yet the search didn't touch them.
I initially started by finding out how and why and what to do with it, in the end I created a scanner which assigned each unknown file extension currently located on my system the default text scanning clsid), and still run this occasionally so I am not restricted by random uses of the global search.
This still wasn't enough because Windows will not show the context of a match or allow multiple patterns and filters to the parameters, mine displays the exact line match of anything found along with a little context (project.file.proc.line)
As for storing a large cache away, scanning the filenames and properties of a large deeply nested drive takes approx 20seconds (longer for the first scan before windows builds up any kind of cache).
Of course if you have large folders containing 1000s of files each, this could be quicker but I am somewhat sceptical of your timings.
It takes even longer if you are scanning the contents of files as well but from the sounds of things you aren't.
I don't actually mind waiting for the search to finish as long as I know it is searching the correct data I have asked it to.
The next stage of evolution won't be long now.
In a few years scientists will discover the monkeys have learnt how to lash these sticks together to make chairs.
Throwing these at their prey is more effective because it fucking kills them.
Who says there can only be one winner?
I think the Wii is something entirely different and if done correctly Sony could still retain their core gamer generation market who like fast action zillions of polygons and l337 skills whilst Nintendo will exist happily with their more family oriented gaming set.
Its capturing an entire class of gamers which just wouldn't even have purchased a console before, its a similar story with the DS - you have people playing on these things that wouldn't even consider another game system.
I cannot ever imagine my parents owning any playstation or xbox, but I think Nintendo might just have themselves another sale based upon their reaction to our Wii when they played last night.
Actually, no I'm not exaggerating just a quick google for [blender user interface] found me this little page (at position 6 in my results).
r -interface-tutorial.html
http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2006/01/blender-use
I possibly will retry it at some other time, but for now the only positive thing to come out of this is a link to Sketchup which at first glance seems a lot less headache inducing and might just do for what I need.
See how they like it.