Page even says: "Note. works with Pioneer 6 series models only." Why is that? Why isn't any other model supported? I wish manufacturers would release source code to firmware too so I could fix the issue by myself when the manufacturer is just too lazy.
The issue with releasing firmware code for CD/DVD drives is that the consumer could presumably hack the motor controller to spin faster than light and temporal anomaly insurance rates are already pretty damn high here in 3067.
But without math, you can't hack, and if young hackers are getting hung up on stupid math mistakes made by textbook authors... well, it's obviously a case for FDL textbooks.
So true - I can't count how many times I've been laid off because I couldn't remember how to write code to find the eccentricity of a hyperbola.
It's widely reported that automated Windows Update downloads cause a sort of "reverse" Slashdot effect in which a significant portion of a location's bandwidth gets consumed up by the update process.
With grammer like that and not knowing the difference between there and their, your and you're, and they let you hire people?
Thank you for illustrating a detail about the currently unemployed masses that the original poster missed: many are too stupid to know just how stupid they are.
Widespread drive (and O/S) support for the Mt. Rainier packet-writing/defect-handling standard should go a long way toward making floppies obsolete.
For the masses, the next release of Windows should feature built-in Mt. Rainier support and I believe Linux has had its act together on this one for a while.
The magnitude of paranoia and demand for paranoid law is inversely proportional to the accountability of actions in a given network; where it is easy to determine "whodunit" you don't have people legislatively freaking out because (among other reasons) you can wait for the judicial process to take first pas.
How much responsibility, if any, do you think the early phreakers and hackers have for this rash of paranoid law?
Isn't this rhetorical? By your stipulation, early phreakers and hackers were blips on radar screens.
It wasn't until the age of widespread public Internet access and commercial Internet sites that all of the sudden corporate interests took notice of the danger imposed by millions of wanna-be icy hot script stuntaz (and worse) poking at their servers.
By the late 80's, most metropolitan areas were on digital switches which made accounting of your phone line (modem) usage pretty simple. And since the inroads to hackable systems were almost always via dial-up modem lines, it was ultimately pretty easy to determine if someone was, e.g., dialing up to some computer system, x.25 network/PAD, etc. to do something questionable. Contrast this to the relatively anonymous nature of IP. "Back in the day," hiding your tracks meant calling from a pay phone or otherwise working on the run. Today it just means r00ting some box and perhaps erasing shell history.
The bigger threat today comes from international hackers who are out of conventional jurisdiction. At least in the 80's, the line noise phoning to and from overseas was so bad that you were lucky to even get a good connection.
Also, all your links were DMCA-related which is somewhat removed from the "traditional" phreaking/hacking milieu (maybe you should save your question for some 1980's Warez magnate's interview).
do you feel you tought them a lesson by walking out? do you think they wered [nice] upset that they lost the sale? or do you think that they laughed at you later on?
Is this the sales tactic you use at "your store"? "Purchase the extended warranty or you will be laughed at later?" Anyone who buys from your store should be laughed at: lesson giver, warranty buyer or otherwise.
at my store which is not best buy, if you bring an electronic item back on the 15th day, one past the return policy, with no warranty on it, you just wasted a trip.
I count two wasted trips.
if its under warrant [cherry pie?](at our store there is no in store service) we will swap you out for a new one if its in a reasonable time and send you on your way, if its not in a reasonable time we'll swap you out a new one and terminate the extended warranty (depending on the kind of warranty)
Congratulations on being an esteemed member of the class of salesmen who are too feeble-minded to realize when they're giving an even feebler sales pitch to a roomful of people who realize just as well as the salesmen that extended warranties, service plans, in-store replacement policies, etc. are statistically unwise purchases because if they were not you would not be selling them.
This is very interesting stuff but the headline is a little misleading.
Strictly speaking, complete combustion releases energy and water (and carbon dioxide), and combustion engines are power plants that have been producing energy and water for quite some time.
Of course the operative word there is complete and as we all know your typical combustion engine passes (at least) a few PPM of unburnt hydrocarbons along with the other combustion products.
Truth be told though, I think my company's sales force is smarter than a roomful of Stephen Hawkings. They never cease to amaze me with their anticausal wizardry: selling and delivering features to customers months before they have even been spec'ed let alone coded!
There's something to be said for working a strict 9am-5pm schedule (that most people don't think about).
When you come into the office by 9am and leave at 5pm, you are communicating a message to your peers that you get your shit done, you get it done in the time allotted, and then you leave because you don't need to stay late.
In time (provided you are actually getting said shit done and done well), it becomes a point of respect that you have other priorities but that first and foremost you are handling your business.
The best CRT-based consumer HDTV's are far less sophisticated than the best consumer monitors.
Consider that the best purpose-built HDTV's can only display 720 lines of video non-interlaced and 1080 lines interlaced, and even then only at a refresh rate of 60Hz.
What's on your desktop is a far better display device, it's just smaller, and mostly what you're paying for with HDTV's is size.
I am not sure what the situation is in Europe, but looking at the ECDL syllabus, it would seem that having the license could attest to only the most basic competency in many subject areas which (in the U.S. at least) are taken for granted if you are applying for a position which requires any sort of real "computer skills."
In all honesty this ECDL seems more like a test fit for a grammar student or the elderly than for a professional (or really, anyone born in the last 40 years). Think "Microsoft Office for Dummies" but formalized into a course.
Embedded devices are becoming increasingly powerful, and are expected to do more. Have you ever looked into the capabilities of new high-end stereo receivers? It's almost exponential from year to year.
Indeed, which makes it all the more ironic that the highest-end receivers are judged primarily on how cleanly they can get amplify a simple stereo audio signal (which typically means bypassing all that electronic wizardry).
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... and sufficiently small values of Quality.
I do not have any cash to give but I've got some bootleg Metallica CD's I could donate(I just need to make some copies).
For too many it seems, money is a matter of principle before principal.
I thought Christina Aguilera's latest offering was the first volley in the RIAA cyberwar.
That thing got a hemi?
It's widely reported that automated Windows Update downloads cause a sort of "reverse" Slashdot effect in which a significant portion of a location's bandwidth gets consumed up by the update process.
So there's the blue pill, the red pill, and what color is the Dramamine pill I'd need to stomach a 5-story high Wachovski brothers film?
Are the users happy, overall?
For the masses, the next release of Windows should feature built-in Mt. Rainier support and I believe Linux has had its act together on this one for a while.
The magnitude of paranoia and demand for paranoid law is inversely proportional to the accountability of actions in a given network; where it is easy to determine "whodunit" you don't have people legislatively freaking out because (among other reasons) you can wait for the judicial process to take first pas.
It wasn't until the age of widespread public Internet access and commercial Internet sites that all of the sudden corporate interests took notice of the danger imposed by millions of wanna-be icy hot script stuntaz (and worse) poking at their servers.
By the late 80's, most metropolitan areas were on digital switches which made accounting of your phone line (modem) usage pretty simple. And since the inroads to hackable systems were almost always via dial-up modem lines, it was ultimately pretty easy to determine if someone was, e.g., dialing up to some computer system, x.25 network/PAD, etc. to do something questionable. Contrast this to the relatively anonymous nature of IP. "Back in the day," hiding your tracks meant calling from a pay phone or otherwise working on the run. Today it just means r00ting some box and perhaps erasing shell history.
The bigger threat today comes from international hackers who are out of conventional jurisdiction. At least in the 80's, the line noise phoning to and from overseas was so bad that you were lucky to even get a good connection.
Also, all your links were DMCA-related which is somewhat removed from the "traditional" phreaking/hacking milieu (maybe you should save your question for some 1980's Warez magnate's interview).
Ironically this was the most concise insightful reply to the article so far.
P.S. Welcome to America.
Strictly speaking, complete combustion releases energy and water (and carbon dioxide), and combustion engines are power plants that have been producing energy and water for quite some time.
Of course the operative word there is complete and as we all know your typical combustion engine passes (at least) a few PPM of unburnt hydrocarbons along with the other combustion products.
So now does that make them a one download wonder?
Truth be told though, I think my company's sales force is smarter than a roomful of Stephen Hawkings. They never cease to amaze me with their anticausal wizardry: selling and delivering features to customers months before they have even been spec'ed let alone coded!
When you come into the office by 9am and leave at 5pm, you are communicating a message to your peers that you get your shit done, you get it done in the time allotted, and then you leave because you don't need to stay late.
In time (provided you are actually getting said shit done and done well), it becomes a point of respect that you have other priorities but that first and foremost you are handling your business.
Actually the Zenith HDV420 is a decent standalone HDTV tuner which can be had for less than $400 mail order and probably even cheaper on eBay.
Consider that the best purpose-built HDTV's can only display 720 lines of video non-interlaced and 1080 lines interlaced, and even then only at a refresh rate of 60Hz.
What's on your desktop is a far better display device, it's just smaller, and mostly what you're paying for with HDTV's is size.
In all honesty this ECDL seems more like a test fit for a grammar student or the elderly than for a professional (or really, anyone born in the last 40 years). Think "Microsoft Office for Dummies" but formalized into a course.