psychologists officially recognize a mental disorder of "Video Game/Reality dissociation" or something...
I agree with you. I have played a lot of Vice City since I got it last christmas. I just started driving, and sometimes when I see pedestrians walking beside the road, I'll get an urge to run them over, hop out of the car, and pick up their money.:-/ Luckily I have indulged any of these urges yet:)
If you had actually read the article, you would see that what Randi is complaining about is true and the lifter geeks admit to it and it's pretty obvious why they need these things (if you read the article)...
Anyone know how much current the new spec allows? (yes, I did rtfa and it's not in there) I don't think Cat-5 (or similar) cable could carry much current, but I could be wrong. Since it can power a razor, I assume it would be enough to power basic ethernet devices, but I'd still like to know the exact specs.
No, power over ethernet is relatively new. By saying "utilise" you make it sound like every ethernet device puts out usable power, which isn't true. I think you're thinking of phone cables, which have had power running through them for many many years, to power phones that don't have another power source.
Could it be that if our brains were 90% smaller, we'd just use 10% of that smaller brain? Maybe our heads are this because because we can only use 10% of our brain mass effectively, so to get a useful brain, it has to be very large.
I'm pretty sure that trillian sends the encrypted data through the AIM server, because I've had encrypted sessions with both me and the person I'm talking to behind a router/firewall.
You do have a point, but under the PATRIOT act, there's no legal basis for us to challenge the eavesdropping. Without the law, we would have some sort of legal basis to challenge eavesdropping, however small that basis may be.
AIM is very insecure by nature. I downloaded Ethereal, a packet sniffer, and it has built in filters for extracting AIM messages out of the packets AIM sends. So anyone with a packet sniffer program and half a brain can easily eavesdrop on your conversation. And under the PATRIOT act, the US government can do this any time they want... ugh
Even better - KazzaLite K++. It's the normal KazzaLite with some great features added, like Auto Unlimited Search More and such. I use it all the time and love it. The website is down right now, but it should be back up soon.
I noticed that my comment has been modded as offtopic... I quote the article: the legality of DVD-copying software. Would the moderator care to explain how my comment on Dvd copying software is offtopic in relation to a news article about dvd copying software?
I've seen DVD X Copy at stores, and it has false claims on the box. It claims to copy the whole dvd onto one dvd-r, which is impossible for many commercial movies. Dvd-r's are single layered and only 4.7Gb(4.5 usable), but many(most?) professional movies are on double layer discs which hold twice that, therefore not fitting on a single dvd-r.
There's a computer store up in Maine that still has a boxed, shrinkwrapped copy of Win 3.1. I haven't been up for a while, but last time I checked the guy was trying to sell it for $80 or something like that.
Maybe they want to keep the price down so they're not using 2k, but Microsoft is trying to kill off Win98 so it would be almost impossible for them to get mass licenses for Win98 anymore.
I've seen this before, sites have been doing this for at least a couple months now. And the only major browser that it'll really work on is IE. With Mozilla and other real browsers, you can disable the Javascript it uses (window resizing and repositioning).
I agree, I like having short paths for typing commands. Maybe an extension to the file system could be added so that when a user is using a GUI file viewer, the "extended" names are displayed, but the short names are still the default in command line.
(it wasn't up until 2 years ago that I found out that/usr didn't mean USER but rather Unix System Resources. WTF?)
It wasn't up until I read your comment that I found that out! I also wish application install paths were more standardized. In Linux, applications get installed in/usr,/usr/share,/usr/local/share, and many other different locations. In Windows, unless you explicitly tell it otherwise, all apps are installed in C:\Program Files, so when I'm looking for a program's folder I don't have to spend 5 minutes searching my hard drive for it like I often do in Linux.
Because most people have x86 hardware and Mac OS X doesn't work on x86 hardware (in case you didn't know). I'll bet that most people aren't willing to shell out $2000+ for an Apple system with the performance of a ~$1000 x86 system when they already have an x86 system. I myself have an Athlon XP computer, and if I had unlimited money I'd buy a PowerBook and dualboot OS X and some form of Linux. But, like most of the people in this world, I don't have unlimited money, so I'll stick with my x86 hardware for now.
Since it's software emulation, this means that it's OS dependent. So if you want run x86 apps on an OS that Intel hasn't written their emulator for, you're out of luck unless somebody else writes one. Imho, AMD's Opteron native hardware x86 support is much better, and I think the AMD chips will be much cheaper, much like the Athlon XP is much less $$ than the Pentium 4.
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Luckily I have indulged any of these urges yet
That should be Luckily I haven't indulged any of these urges yet
I guess I should pay closer attention to what I type before I submit.
psychologists officially recognize a mental disorder of "Video Game/Reality dissociation" or something...
:-/ Luckily I have indulged any of these urges yet :)
I agree with you. I have played a lot of Vice City since I got it last christmas. I just started driving, and sometimes when I see pedestrians walking beside the road, I'll get an urge to run them over, hop out of the car, and pick up their money.
If you had actually read the article, you would see that what Randi is complaining about is true and the lifter geeks admit to it and it's pretty obvious why they need these things (if you read the article)...
Anyone know how much current the new spec allows? (yes, I did rtfa and it's not in there) I don't think Cat-5 (or similar) cable could carry much current, but I could be wrong. Since it can power a razor, I assume it would be enough to power basic ethernet devices, but I'd still like to know the exact specs.
No, power over ethernet is relatively new. By saying "utilise" you make it sound like every ethernet device puts out usable power, which isn't true. I think you're thinking of phone cables, which have had power running through them for many many years, to power phones that don't have another power source.
Could it be that if our brains were 90% smaller, we'd just use 10% of that smaller brain? Maybe our heads are this because because we can only use 10% of our brain mass effectively, so to get a useful brain, it has to be very large.
I'm pretty sure that trillian sends the encrypted data through the AIM server, because I've had encrypted sessions with both me and the person I'm talking to behind a router/firewall.
You do have a point, but under the PATRIOT act, there's no legal basis for us to challenge the eavesdropping. Without the law, we would have some sort of legal basis to challenge eavesdropping, however small that basis may be.
AIM is very insecure by nature. I downloaded Ethereal, a packet sniffer, and it has built in filters for extracting AIM messages out of the packets AIM sends. So anyone with a packet sniffer program and half a brain can easily eavesdrop on your conversation. And under the PATRIOT act, the US government can do this any time they want... ugh
Trillian has had this feature for as long as I can remember using it.
Even better - KazzaLite K++. It's the normal KazzaLite with some great features added, like Auto Unlimited Search More and such. I use it all the time and love it. The website is down right now, but it should be back up soon.
I'm assuming the disc reacts with gasses in the air, so all you have to do to get unlimited viewing time is keep the dvd in a vacuum, nothing major.
I suppose I do. I've seen some interesting moderations in my time here.
I noticed that my comment has been modded as offtopic... I quote the article: the legality of DVD-copying software. Would the moderator care to explain how my comment on Dvd copying software is offtopic in relation to a news article about dvd copying software?
I've seen DVD X Copy at stores, and it has false claims on the box. It claims to copy the whole dvd onto one dvd-r, which is impossible for many commercial movies. Dvd-r's are single layered and only 4.7Gb(4.5 usable), but many(most?) professional movies are on double layer discs which hold twice that, therefore not fitting on a single dvd-r.
And transistors/other solid state analog circuits are considerably more stable than Linux, or any operating system for that matter.
Full portable multimedia systems have been around for a long time. They're called laptops.
There's a computer store up in Maine that still has a boxed, shrinkwrapped copy of Win 3.1. I haven't been up for a while, but last time I checked the guy was trying to sell it for $80 or something like that.
Maybe they want to keep the price down so they're not using 2k, but Microsoft is trying to kill off Win98 so it would be almost impossible for them to get mass licenses for Win98 anymore.
I've seen this before, sites have been doing this for at least a couple months now. And the only major browser that it'll really work on is IE. With Mozilla and other real browsers, you can disable the Javascript it uses (window resizing and repositioning).
I agree, I like having short paths for typing commands. Maybe an extension to the file system could be added so that when a user is using a GUI file viewer, the "extended" names are displayed, but the short names are still the default in command line.
(it wasn't up until 2 years ago that I found out that /usr didn't mean USER but rather Unix System Resources. WTF?)
/usr, /usr/share, /usr/local/share, and many other different locations. In Windows, unless you explicitly tell it otherwise, all apps are installed in C:\Program Files, so when I'm looking for a program's folder I don't have to spend 5 minutes searching my hard drive for it like I often do in Linux.
It wasn't up until I read your comment that I found that out! I also wish application install paths were more standardized. In Linux, applications get installed in
Because most people have x86 hardware and Mac OS X doesn't work on x86 hardware (in case you didn't know). I'll bet that most people aren't willing to shell out $2000+ for an Apple system with the performance of a ~$1000 x86 system when they already have an x86 system. I myself have an Athlon XP computer, and if I had unlimited money I'd buy a PowerBook and dualboot OS X and some form of Linux. But, like most of the people in this world, I don't have unlimited money, so I'll stick with my x86 hardware for now.
Ah, my bad. So if Intel released code to activate it then it's not that bad.
Since it's software emulation, this means that it's OS dependent. So if you want run x86 apps on an OS that Intel hasn't written their emulator for, you're out of luck unless somebody else writes one. Imho, AMD's Opteron native hardware x86 support is much better, and I think the AMD chips will be much cheaper, much like the Athlon XP is much less $$ than the Pentium 4.