You mean this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103239/
"Camp Holliday, a prison that utilizes explosive-filled 'wedlock collars' (a la THE RUNNING MAN) to maintain order. Each wearer has an unknown 'partner', and if they are separated by more than 100 yards, Ka-BOOM!, two headless prisoners. The genial Warden Holliday (Stephen Tobolowsky) brags of his 'perfect' record, but takes an immediate interest in the welfare of Warren (prison name, Magenta), and more importantly, his (as yet undiscovered) stash of diamonds."
Last time I checked my junk mail account at Yahoo was averaging 23 spams every 30 min. I leave the Yahoo spam filtering turned off but use a combination of YPops!(simulates POP3 access to yahoo mail) and K9(spam filter) to pull the mail to my local client. Out of the last 6000 or so emails arround 200 were legit. Occasionally I'll open the "potential spam" folder sort on sender and scroll through to see if any legit email ended up there.
On top of that, my spamgourmet account has blackholed almost 100,000 spam emails in the last 18 months.
If I only get 20 spams a day in my inbox it is a very good day indeed.
But you seem to be implying that ALL the revenue/profit growth is due to the war. The war is not what is driving up demand for petroleum products, demand was increasing worldwide before the war and likely would have continued even if their were no war. The growth of demand in China is largely responsible. And of course if demand rises faster than supply, not just supply of crude oil but also "supply" of refining capacity, prices of refined products will go up causing an increase in profits. Some reports suggest that we are near our capacity for refining oil into gas and that increased supplies alone would not likely reduce prices much.
Rather than complaining about the oil company profits, why not buy oil company stocks and participate!
I'm prety sure that the "Dirivative Work" would have to be in a tangible medium to be a copyright violation. Remember that copyright comes into effect when the expression of an idea is fixed in a tangible medium, paper, disc, celluliod, etc. I dont think the new law reduces or removes the prohibition of public performances and it specifically prohibits the production of copies with the "objectionable" material already removed. It simply makes it explicitly legal to do "on-the-fly" removal of "objectionable" material.
Kind of like the difference between a deep cycle marine battery and a regular automobile battery. The automobile battery is designed to provide short bursts of power (and spends more of it's life being recharged as you drive) while the later is used constantly to run say an electric trolling motor. If you try to swap the applications the "other" battery won't last as long.
as all patent law is federal (as is copyright law, both by the U.S. Constitution).
Just a minor quible but the constitution, while providing the basis for federal patent and copyright law, does not in and of itself prohibit states from having patent and copyright laws. What does, in the case of copyright law, is Title 17 section 301 of the US Code which reserve to the federal government the right to enact copyright law. I'm sure there is something like that for patents, I just don't know it off the top of my head.
Are we not just talking about the analog hole
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Isn't this just a plugin to WinAmp the grabs the output stream from napsters software going to the sound card and "records" it? As far as I can tell you would still have to manually name/tag the files unless your happy with generic names. Also, a five minute song will take five minutes to capture. OPh and it captures as an uncompressed wav so you would need to convert it to your prefered format.
Actually "Reality" TV (putting aside "the Real World from MTV) was an act of despiration to fill space during the writers strike. Survivor was created because it could be done without writers, the producers came up with the chalenges etc., but no traditional "writeing" was required.
If not Fox perhaps one of the cable outlets that caries the older Treks in syndication? I have actually enjoyed ST:Enterprise (but I have a high tolerance for dreck) certainly going back and comparing to first season or two of TNG I would say Enterprise is better. But I was also disappointed with he strange direction the third season went with the meddling time traveling alien nazis I think the fourth season is shaping up nicely.
...especially since they tore down all the analogue masts...
er, no they did not tear down the analog masts. Some rural locations (I have a friend that commutes 2hr to the city from the boondocks every day) are still well served by analog systems. Additionally GM's OnStar service is carried mostly by Verizon's old analog system because analog still has more complete coverage that digital (again especially in rural areas)
Back on topic, he said talk time, 180 min is pretty standard for most digital phones talktime.
If that 40GB could be put in a CF form factor the people with the high end digital cameras would likely get excited. At only 5mm thick it seems like it's heading that way.
Thanks for the link, I might just give my 6 year old daughter's computer a speed boost. That barbie "princess & the pauper" game will really run smoothly now.
I AM serious....my little girls PC is a 233mHz PII, $4 for a 100mHz speed jump, why not.
We run the lounge and snackbar in the EE building at Purdue
Hey, I always bought my morning soft drink at that place to drink during ENGR 100. 16oz glass bottles back then, probably plastic now though.
Of course I changed majors the next year and hardly ever went into the EE building again.
memories....
On, topic
There used to be a DPMA chapter at Purdue but I believe that DPMA changed it's name to the AITP(Association of Information Technology Professionals). It still has a chapter at Purdue!
IIRC Chernobyl was a boiling water reactor(BWR) where the water actually turns into steam where most(all?) US power reactors are Pressurized water reactors(PWR) where the water stays liquid(unless there is a serious problem). also. IIRC BWRs are inherently less safe than PWRs.
What if you modify the hardware in such a way that it does not facilitate copying but does get around other "access controls". The last I checked even the DMCA does not guarantee the movie studios the right to create these little geographic monopolies called "regions". The problem is that most of the hacks to make a DVD player region free also disables macrovision as well. If someone were to hack the firmware of a player to enable region free access but left the macrovision copy protection in place(as long as were at it lets also disable the crap that keeps you from skipping past the FBI warning, etc) I think a good argument could be made that you in fact have not violated the DMCA.
I found the following but I suspect that you mileage may vary as there were several versions of the cat with slightly different firmware. Also there are length limits on some of the non fixed length code schemes. Also, whoever complied this table says that ISBN numbers are read but EAN-13 are not which seems odd since I was lead to believe that a ISBN number was a EAN-13 number with 978 as the country(bookland).
A CueCat device is able to read the following barcodes: UPC-E UPC-A UPC-A, add 2 EAN-8 ISBN ISBN, add 5 CODE128 CODE128-B CODE128-C CODE39 Interlea ved 2 of 5 ITF-6
A CueCat device cannot read barcodes of the following types: - EAN-13, EAN-13, add 2 and EAN-13, add 5 : the CueCat mistakes them
respectively for UPC-A, UPC-A, add 2 and UPC-A, add 5 barcodes, and returns
the majority of the barcode value, apart the first digit and the check digit. - EAN-128 - Extended CODE39 - CODE93 - 2 of 5 - MSI (Modified Plessey Code) - PostNet - RM4SCC - 4-State - SISAC
Once someone pointed out that if you hold the bottle at eye level at a 45 degree angle you could see enough of the cap to determine a winner before buying. Most of the ones I bought were during a sale at $0.99 each.
I didn't just flip a bit, it put the DRM software in sector 33 of the boot record. If you tried to uninstall the DRM software that was also installed as normal software it reinstalled itself the next time you boot. Some dual booters reported that installing turbotax broke dual booting, presumably whatever bootloader they used for dual booting stored info in sector 33. I used a sector editor to examine sec 33 before and after. Virtually the entire sector was used.
is that a person can think faster than they can actually speak so that when listening/viewing you are capable of absorbing information much faster than the presenter can deliver. I explored this idea in the late 80's. The undergrad library at Purdue University had a number of lectures on tape (audio only) and had variable speed players available that you could use to play the tapes anywhere from.5x to 4x speed(IIRC). They also had a tone control that would let you tone down the "chipmunk" sound of the accelerated audio.
I have one of these IBM Scrollpoint mice at work and I love the thing. I never cared for the scrollpoint as a pointing device on a laptop but it works great on a mouse for scrolling in either direction, heck if I'm looking at a large image in a browser I can even scroll diagonally. Trying to tilt the wheel on at new MS one and roll it at the same time would be more dificult I think.
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You mean this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103239/ "Camp Holliday, a prison that utilizes explosive-filled 'wedlock collars' (a la THE RUNNING MAN) to maintain order. Each wearer has an unknown 'partner', and if they are separated by more than 100 yards, Ka-BOOM!, two headless prisoners. The genial Warden Holliday (Stephen Tobolowsky) brags of his 'perfect' record, but takes an immediate interest in the welfare of Warren (prison name, Magenta), and more importantly, his (as yet undiscovered) stash of diamonds."
Last time I checked my junk mail account at Yahoo was averaging 23 spams every 30 min. I leave the Yahoo spam filtering turned off but use a combination of YPops!(simulates POP3 access to yahoo mail) and K9(spam filter) to pull the mail to my local client. Out of the last 6000 or so emails arround 200 were legit. Occasionally I'll open the "potential spam" folder sort on sender and scroll through to see if any legit email ended up there.
On top of that, my spamgourmet account has blackholed almost 100,000 spam emails in the last 18 months.
If I only get 20 spams a day in my inbox it is a very good day indeed.
But you seem to be implying that ALL the revenue/profit growth is due to the war. The war is not what is driving up demand for petroleum products, demand was increasing worldwide before the war and likely would have continued even if their were no war. The growth of demand in China is largely responsible. And of course if demand rises faster than supply, not just supply of crude oil but also "supply" of refining capacity, prices of refined products will go up causing an increase in profits. Some reports suggest that we are near our capacity for refining oil into gas and that increased supplies alone would not likely reduce prices much.
Rather than complaining about the oil company profits, why not buy oil company stocks and participate!
My older (but not too old) Samsung SCH-A310 has the GPS thing turned off by default and automatically turns it on if the number you dialed is "911".
I'm prety sure that the "Dirivative Work" would have to be in a tangible medium to be a copyright violation. Remember that copyright comes into effect when the expression of an idea is fixed in a tangible medium, paper, disc, celluliod, etc. I dont think the new law reduces or removes the prohibition of public performances and it specifically prohibits the production of copies with the "objectionable" material already removed. It simply makes it explicitly legal to do "on-the-fly" removal of "objectionable" material.
Kind of like the difference between a deep cycle marine battery and a regular automobile battery. The automobile battery is designed to provide short bursts of power (and spends more of it's life being recharged as you drive) while the later is used constantly to run say an electric trolling motor. If you try to swap the applications the "other" battery won't last as long.
as all patent law is federal (as is copyright law, both by the U.S. Constitution).
Just a minor quible but the constitution, while providing the basis for federal patent and copyright law, does not in and of itself prohibit states from having patent and copyright laws. What does, in the case of copyright law, is Title 17 section 301 of the US Code which reserve to the federal government the right to enact copyright law. I'm sure there is something like that for patents, I just don't know it off the top of my head.
Isn't this just a plugin to WinAmp the grabs the output stream from napsters software going to the sound card and "records" it? As far as I can tell you would still have to manually name/tag the files unless your happy with generic names. Also, a five minute song will take five minutes to capture. OPh and it captures as an uncompressed wav so you would need to convert it to your prefered format.
Actually "Reality" TV (putting aside "the Real World from MTV) was an act of despiration to fill space during the writers strike. Survivor was created because it could be done without writers, the producers came up with the chalenges etc., but no traditional "writeing" was required.
If not Fox perhaps one of the cable outlets that caries the older Treks in syndication? I have actually enjoyed ST:Enterprise (but I have a high tolerance for dreck) certainly going back and comparing to first season or two of TNG I would say Enterprise is better. But I was also disappointed with he strange direction the third season went with the meddling time traveling alien nazis I think the fourth season is shaping up nicely.
Anyhow, I'll miss it even if no one else does.
...especially since they tore down all the analogue masts...
er, no they did not tear down the analog masts. Some rural locations (I have a friend that commutes 2hr to the city from the boondocks every day) are still well served by analog systems. Additionally GM's OnStar service is carried mostly by Verizon's old analog system because analog still has more complete coverage that digital (again especially in rural areas)
Back on topic, he said talk time, 180 min is pretty standard for most digital phones talktime.
If that 40GB could be put in a CF form factor the people with the high end digital cameras would likely get excited. At only 5mm thick it seems like it's heading that way.
Thanks for the link, I might just give my 6 year old daughter's computer a speed boost. That barbie "princess & the pauper" game will really run smoothly now.
I AM serious....my little girls PC is a 233mHz PII, $4 for a 100mHz speed jump, why not.
We run the lounge and snackbar in the EE building at Purdue
Hey, I always bought my morning soft drink at that place to drink during ENGR 100. 16oz glass bottles back then, probably plastic now though.
Of course I changed majors the next year and hardly ever went into the EE building again.
memories....
On, topic
There used to be a DPMA chapter at Purdue but I believe that DPMA changed it's name to the AITP(Association of Information Technology Professionals). It still has a chapter at Purdue!
We are talking about power generation which does not use weapons grade materials. Power generation is a non-evil use of nuclear power.
IIRC Chernobyl was a boiling water reactor(BWR) where the water actually turns into steam where most(all?) US power reactors are Pressurized water reactors(PWR) where the water stays liquid(unless there is a serious problem). also. IIRC BWRs are inherently less safe than PWRs.
What if you modify the hardware in such a way that it does not facilitate copying but does get around other "access controls". The last I checked even the DMCA does not guarantee the movie studios the right to create these little geographic monopolies called "regions". The problem is that most of the hacks to make a DVD player region free also disables macrovision as well. If someone were to hack the firmware of a player to enable region free access but left the macrovision copy protection in place(as long as were at it lets also disable the crap that keeps you from skipping past the FBI warning, etc) I think a good argument could be made that you in fact have not violated the DMCA.
Which is more likely, finding or creating and emulator vs. finding replacement parts for the old beast. And if you can find parts, at what expense?
And I found another listing that says the cat CAN read EAN-13
I found the following but I suspect that you mileage may vary as there were several versions of the cat with slightly different firmware. Also there are length limits on some of the non fixed length code schemes. Also, whoever complied this table says that ISBN numbers are read but EAN-13 are not which seems odd since I was lead to believe that a ISBN number was a EAN-13 number with 978 as the country(bookland).
:a ved 2 of 5
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A CueCat device is able to read the following barcodes
UPC-E
UPC-A
UPC-A, add 2
EAN-8
ISBN
ISBN, add 5
CODE128
CODE128-B
CODE128-C
CODE39
Interle
ITF-6
A CueCat device cannot read barcodes of the following types
- EAN-13, EAN-13, add 2 and EAN-13, add 5 : the CueCat mistakes them
respectively for UPC-A, UPC-A, add 2 and UPC-A, add 5 barcodes, and returns
the majority of the barcode value, apart the first digit and the check digit.
- EAN-128
- Extended CODE39
- CODE93
- 2 of 5
- MSI (Modified Plessey Code)
- PostNet
- RM4SCC
- 4-State
- SISAC
Once someone pointed out that if you hold the bottle at eye level at a 45 degree angle you could see enough of the cap to determine a winner before buying. Most of the ones I bought were during a sale at $0.99 each.
I didn't just flip a bit, it put the DRM software in sector 33 of the boot record. If you tried to uninstall the DRM software that was also installed as normal software it reinstalled itself the next time you boot. Some dual booters reported that installing turbotax broke dual booting, presumably whatever bootloader they used for dual booting stored info in sector 33. I used a sector editor to examine sec 33 before and after. Virtually the entire sector was used.
is that a person can think faster than they can actually speak so that when listening/viewing you are capable of absorbing information much faster than the presenter can deliver. I explored this idea in the late 80's. The undergrad library at Purdue University had a number of lectures on tape (audio only) and had variable speed players available that you could use to play the tapes anywhere from .5x to 4x speed(IIRC). They also had a tone control that would let you tone down the "chipmunk" sound of the accelerated audio.
"...plasma gun toting Terminators."
To keep your analogy in context shouldn't it be Daleks rather Terminators?
I have one of these IBM Scrollpoint mice at work and I love the thing. I never cared for the scrollpoint as a pointing device on a laptop but it works great on a mouse for scrolling in either direction, heck if I'm looking at a large image in a browser I can even scroll diagonally. Trying to tilt the wheel on at new MS one and roll it at the same time would be more dificult I think.