oh look, the money can be counterfeit, lets force printer drivers to not print out things that look like money!
fucking hell, do it right, make the money more secure, its not hard, we did it 10 years ago.. and im sure they make plastic in that lovely green colour you americans seem to love so much
its like making the bike seat my comfy by wearing silly damn pants instead of fixing the damn seat. (thanks mr adams).
DRM, the stupid answer to any sufficiently simple question
right, and theyll be able to use TIA to find bin laden cos he shops at safeway right?
TIA is more likely to generate more noise than signal, and if they cant find these guys now, what makes you think theyll be able to find them when theres 1000 times more noise in the information they gather?
directed intelligence is good, blanket intelligence is like trying to land a ball bearing in someones sandwich from 30,000 feet. its pointless, impractical, and someone unrealated is going to get hurt...
most carriers are changing to UTMS (3g GSM) not CDMA2k. eventually both standards will merge to facilitate global roaming, but for now, GSM / UTMS has a MUCH higher uptake rate than CDMA/CDMA2k
i can roam almost anywhere in the world on GSM, with a CDMA phone, im limited to a select number of countries. i dont know which standard is "better" but like the whole VCR/BETA thing, its who gets the most installs, not who has the best technology who wins.
yes, im well aware of the triangulation method however for billing purposes its not necessary, nor is it practical in most cases to get someone's position down to three feet.
most switches will only give you the calling cell id, not the triangulated location, so youll find that any provider who gives you a discounted rate for calling at home will generally do it based on what cell covers your residence
cell towers in residential areas are genearlly quite closely packed:)
its getting to the point now where even people like my parents and their friends have asked me about copy protection on music cd's.
the longer the music industry does this (especially with high penetration artists like placebo and ben harper) the more of the general population will be effected by "cd's that dont work"
customer backlash is inevitable, hell EMI cd's wont play on my stero (and its old).. the more cd's they put out that are crippled, the more people they are going to piss off, the more pissed off the populace gets , the more backlash there will be. people dont like paying 30$au for something that wont work when they want it too
your customers are your market, fuck with your customers, and your market evaporates. but hey, it hasnt seemed to stop any other global conglomerates has it.
billing tip 101
the billing sytem determines whats peak, and off peak, not your phone. so the phone has no way of telling you how many mintues of peak, or off peak youve used.
you could get the billing system to send you an sms with this in it *shrug*
as for sms's, well someones gotta pay for the sms gateway. voice and data are not the same... well in 2g anyway..;) packet switched voice is, as the name suggests data, but people dont like to be slugged 5c/kb for voice now do they?
dms0
think for a second, how people in other countries would use lexical names for devices.
what character set do you use?
what extra storage requirements will the use of the above character set incurr (UTF8, which doesnt support chinese, would incurr an extra byte for each non ascii 7 character, to support chinese you need at least two bytes per character)
simply put, how do you input your chinese friends device name into your us phone? can you type using chinese characters? how about thai? or russian?
numbers are universal, require minimal amounts of storage and can be memorised without major problems. sure you could force people to use enlgish for their device name, but that would kinda suck wouldnt it? how would you do trying to remeber your device name in kanji?
trying to use lexical names for mobile devices is a nice idea, but in practice its adding complexity to something that wont beneifit for it.
yeah your probrably going to say something like "but i dont remeber IP address for the web do i" but before you do, look down at your keyboard, you got a lot of keys there right? makes it easy to enter text in any languge, and im pretty sure youve got more than 10k of ram for your address book:)
in fact, id say that this is perhaps the first time ive read eloquent reasoning for the attack on iraq
however my issue with the war is not around that iraq has obviously not complied with the original resultion from the gulf war, my concern is the bullshit that has been spun by "allied" politicians over the reasons they wish to go to war
see, i read the situation like this. if, in fact, this was all squarely about iraq breaking the resolution, politicians around the would would have come out and said so from the get go, they would not have made vauge references to terrorism, vain attempts to link ossama to saddam, claims of an attempted nuclear program and other weapons of mass distraction.
god knows, if the allied governments had come out and said exactly what you did, most people would be directly behind it, as long as the governments involved could prove the claims.
because of the run around, the bullshit, and the obvious lying, i am not convinced that the original resolution is the reason bush and pals wish to invade iraq. its a nice cover, lets liberate the iraqi people and kill us a terrorist supporting dictator yeah!. but i just dont buy it. theres something else going on here, and i belive that this is the reason a lot of people around the world are generally pissed at the war.
hell, i dont like saddam either, id be happy to see him go, but i am really miffed at my government for the amount of crap they spouted in the last three months.
to evade radar, the f117's unique angular surface "scatters" radar return, not rendering it invisible to radar, instead, creating a rather odd and unidirectional radar return. the basic idea is that the plane then "hides" itself in the scattered return.
because of this effect, its quite possible they saw "something" coming, but they would still be unable to determine exactly where the planes were. and therefore, unable to lock onto it
as one of the other posters pointed out, in serbia i think some clever people worked out that by using a huge array of sensors(mobile phone networks?) they could detect enough of the scatter (or was it the effect of the plane moving through the atmosphere my memory is faulty) to accurately pinpoint these planes.
nothing is ever totally invisible, remeber these planes are BLACK, if they fly during the day, theyll know they are coming
i personally think part of the problem is that the consumer expects something with the production aspects of final fantasy X for their 50$USD (100$AUD) so when you have independent games being released which wont give you 100 hours of play with more CG than you can poke a team full of maya artists at the consumer gets narky.
i think that gaming has to step back a bit, not every title needs to be huge massive epic like experience, whatever happened to the cool but short lifespan beat em ups and shoot em ups? simple, no one wants to pay 100$ for one of these things.
what it comes down to is that id happily pay 100$ AUD (50$ USD) for something like Final Fantasy X2, but i wont pay 100$ AUD for a clone of Rtype. however id probrably put down 10-15$ AUD for it no problems! maybe even 20$ AUD if it were pretty fun, hell even if i only get 5-10 hours of play out of it, its still on par with standing in an arcade shovelling 2-4$ into a machine.
i think the industry needs to realise that consumers are smart enough not to throw 100$ at something which is going to provide 20$ worth of entertainment.
AFAIK it wasnt the boiling tempertaure, but the temp its stored at on the hotplate, i think it was 120deg or something (F?) and the legal limit is 100F or something
im sure you can find more info on the net somewhere
despite mcd's having had multiple repeated warnings that their coffe was being stored WAY to hot (in order to keep it fresher apparently)?
yeah its a joke case that everyone brings up, yeah she's an idiot for putting hot liquid between her legs,
but mc'd's was breaking the law, the coffee wasnt hot, it was illegally hot and she was within her rights to sue for the damage.
if youd spilt your average cup of coffee on your legs you woudlve got away with a minor burn and no perm damage.. this girl got the sharp end of the very hot stick.. still doesnt make her any less of an idiot though
so what does this mean for Opengl 2.0?
and when will us bedroom game developers have to start paying m$ to use directx?
in this instance, a monopoly can be used to place the bar far above that of the two man part time dev team. I hope they dont forget that the reason there is so much directx support out there is because the tools are free.
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using dubya-speell2003(c)
fucking hell, do it right, make the money more secure, its not hard, we did it 10 years ago.. and im sure they make plastic in that lovely green colour you americans seem to love so much
its like making the bike seat my comfy by wearing silly damn pants instead of fixing the damn seat. (thanks mr adams).
DRM, the stupid answer to any sufficiently simple question
dms0
think im going to be upgrading my firmware? hahaha what a joke
dms0
TIA is more likely to generate more noise than signal, and if they cant find these guys now, what makes you think theyll be able to find them when theres 1000 times more noise in the information they gather?
directed intelligence is good, blanket intelligence is like trying to land a ball bearing in someones sandwich from 30,000 feet. its pointless, impractical, and someone unrealated is going to get hurt...
dms0
makes you feel bad for placebo and radiohead, but thems the breaks
dms0
refusing to buy any EMI product till they drop the crippleware
most carriers are changing to UTMS (3g GSM) not CDMA2k. eventually both standards will merge to facilitate global roaming, but for now, GSM / UTMS has a MUCH higher uptake rate than CDMA/CDMA2k
i can roam almost anywhere in the world on GSM, with a CDMA phone, im limited to a select number of countries. i dont know which standard is "better" but like the whole VCR/BETA thing, its who gets the most installs, not who has the best technology who wins.
GSM is far from dead.
dms0
most switches will only give you the calling cell id, not the triangulated location, so youll find that any provider who gives you a discounted rate for calling at home will generally do it based on what cell covers your residence
cell towers in residential areas are genearlly quite closely packed :)
dms0
they do that using the cell id on the switch record... not triangulation dms0
the longer the music industry does this (especially with high penetration artists like placebo and ben harper) the more of the general population will be effected by "cd's that dont work"
customer backlash is inevitable, hell EMI cd's wont play on my stero (and its old) .. the more cd's they put out that are crippled, the more people they are going to piss off, the more pissed off the populace gets , the more backlash there will be. people dont like paying 30$au for something that wont work when they want it too
your customers are your market, fuck with your customers, and your market evaporates. but hey, it hasnt seemed to stop any other global conglomerates has it.
dms0
oh the sarcasm
MattD
HAHAHHA
;)
yeah thats not a bad idea, some of the new phones come with j2me (JAMiD?) compatibility so you could maybe roll your own..
getting an sms from the provider is probrably the best way to do it.. at least then you know exactly when the boundaries are.
timezones, billing systems, and time bands are a bitch
dms0
i forgot html formatting was on... GRRR
whoops
dms0
billing tip 101 the billing sytem determines whats peak, and off peak, not your phone. so the phone has no way of telling you how many mintues of peak, or off peak youve used. you could get the billing system to send you an sms with this in it *shrug* as for sms's, well someones gotta pay for the sms gateway. voice and data are not the same... well in 2g anyway.. ;) packet switched voice is, as the name suggests data, but people dont like to be slugged 5c/kb for voice now do they?
dms0
numbers are universal, require minimal amounts of storage and can be memorised without major problems. sure you could force people to use enlgish for their device name, but that would kinda suck wouldnt it? how would you do trying to remeber your device name in kanji?
trying to use lexical names for mobile devices is a nice idea, but in practice its adding complexity to something that wont beneifit for it.
yeah your probrably going to say something like "but i dont remeber IP address for the web do i" but before you do, look down at your keyboard, you got a lot of keys there right? makes it easy to enter text in any languge, and im pretty sure youve got more than 10k of ram for your address book :)
dms0
the only trick will be if the phone is clamped to a specific spectrum range (eg: 1800 only) which will limit your network choices.
dms0
however my issue with the war is not around that iraq has obviously not complied with the original resultion from the gulf war, my concern is the bullshit that has been spun by "allied" politicians over the reasons they wish to go to war
see, i read the situation like this. if, in fact, this was all squarely about iraq breaking the resolution, politicians around the would would have come out and said so from the get go, they would not have made vauge references to terrorism, vain attempts to link ossama to saddam, claims of an attempted nuclear program and other weapons of mass distraction.
god knows, if the allied governments had come out and said exactly what you did, most people would be directly behind it, as long as the governments involved could prove the claims.
because of the run around, the bullshit, and the obvious lying, i am not convinced that the original resolution is the reason bush and pals wish to invade iraq. its a nice cover, lets liberate the iraqi people and kill us a terrorist supporting dictator yeah!. but i just dont buy it. theres something else going on here, and i belive that this is the reason a lot of people around the world are generally pissed at the war.
hell, i dont like saddam either, id be happy to see him go, but i am really miffed at my government for the amount of crap they spouted in the last three months.
still, nice informative post.
cheers
dms0
because of this effect, its quite possible they saw "something" coming, but they would still be unable to determine exactly where the planes were. and therefore, unable to lock onto it
as one of the other posters pointed out, in serbia i think some clever people worked out that by using a huge array of sensors(mobile phone networks?) they could detect enough of the scatter (or was it the effect of the plane moving through the atmosphere my memory is faulty) to accurately pinpoint these planes.
nothing is ever totally invisible, remeber these planes are BLACK, if they fly during the day, theyll know they are coming
dms0
i personally think part of the problem is that the consumer expects something with the production aspects of final fantasy X for their 50$USD (100$AUD) so when you have independent games being released which wont give you 100 hours of play with more CG than you can poke a team full of maya artists at the consumer gets narky.
i think that gaming has to step back a bit, not every title needs to be huge massive epic like experience, whatever happened to the cool but short lifespan beat em ups and shoot em ups? simple, no one wants to pay 100$ for one of these things.
what it comes down to is that id happily pay 100$ AUD (50$ USD) for something like Final Fantasy X2, but i wont pay 100$ AUD for a clone of Rtype. however id probrably put down 10-15$ AUD for it no problems! maybe even 20$ AUD if it were pretty fun, hell even if i only get 5-10 hours of play out of it, its still on par with standing in an arcade shovelling 2-4$ into a machine.
i think the industry needs to realise that consumers are smart enough not to throw 100$ at something which is going to provide 20$ worth of entertainment.
dms0
dms0
im sure you can find more info on the net somewhere
dms0
yeah its a joke case that everyone brings up, yeah she's an idiot for putting hot liquid between her legs,
but mc'd's was breaking the law, the coffee wasnt hot, it was illegally hot and she was within her rights to sue for the damage.
if youd spilt your average cup of coffee on your legs you woudlve got away with a minor burn and no perm damage.. this girl got the sharp end of the very hot stick.. still doesnt make her any less of an idiot though
dms0
i like my women like i like my coffee
in a plastic cup
dms0
I thought the doom3 engine allready did? dmszero
doh!
dms0
so what does this mean for Opengl 2.0? and when will us bedroom game developers have to start paying m$ to use directx? in this instance, a monopoly can be used to place the bar far above that of the two man part time dev team. I hope they dont forget that the reason there is so much directx support out there is because the tools are free. dms0