They don't provide two-way communication. This is VERY IMPORTANT as two-way communication is REQUIRED for cable networks that use switched video broadcasting technology. Time Warner in Austin, TX is one such network. I would expect most of not all the digital channels will move to swiched video by the end of 2007. This isn't a problem as a digital box already is required for the digital feed.
Second problem. You won't be able to order PPV or view any on-demand content with cable cards.
Until Cable Cards move to a new spec that support two-way, they're rather worthless these days...and a total scam by themselves anyway.
Well...given cities and this comment on Wired regarding the location of Austin "Only downside: It's surrounded by Texas", my Liberal Radar is beeping pretty fast.
Also, they would never name Los Alamos because they are "da war machine". You know how it goes...
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Yes! A robotic "Real Doll"!
Google it, but be warned...it's NWS (not work safe)
Sure. Write something incriminating to a hard drive, perform your procedure of choice then hand the drive off to your local neighborhood police data recovery lab. If you're in the neighborhood, hand one off to your local federal branch of investigators and have them give it a whirl.
Make sure your first phone call has access to a computer so they can let us know how it went.
Sure, I'll put my money where my mouth is. Question however... How do I PROVE to you and the rest of the Slashdot crowd that I didn't give the local police department (or FBI) a bogus drive that never had anything on it in the first place?
I'm sorry, but I don't have any way of publicly contesting this argument and still seem credible. And no offence, but even if I put forth the effort to satisfy your curiosity and yours alone (IE, can it be recovered, or is the data gone)...I feel my time would have been wasted. I'm sure if the tables were turned, you feel the same way.
You could also of course mount the platter in a much higher resolution drive and try to create an image where you have 4 or 8 tracks in the space where you previously had one.\
I'm not suggesting that the average tech guy could pull this off, but i'd be surprised if intelligence agencies could not.
You're talking about the magnetic fields being out of phase of each other. While they can in theory overlap, most of the time, the adjacent "out-of-phase-bit" gets knocked back toward in relation of the "true magnetic bit". Anyways, that's what the servo tracks are for. They keep tracks and bit spacing in check, and leave little room for overlap, let alone 4 or 8 out-of-phase tracks.
And no, an intelligence agency couldn't reconstruct data once a drive has been properly mid-level formatted. All they can do is pull data off a drive if there is a head-crash or some other hardware failure. Or, of someone does a quick-format and/or just deletes a file name-your-OS, they can pull the files without needing the index pointer.
With a hard drive you can write and rewrite multiple times and still have data recovered by someone willing to spend the time, effort, and money.
BULLSHIT! If you write all zeros, then ones, and back to zeros again accross the entire drive (technically a mid-level format, a true low-level erases the servo tracks and renders the drive useless), you can NEVER, NEVER, EVER recover the data.
The application is obvious. Aside from legalities (or possible joint-venture), having Flight-Sim tap into the Google Earth system would be the best option.
1. You don't need to install two DVDs worth of data (17GB install?) 2. Graphics are better. 3. Google Earth is always updated with 3D buildings. 4. Other stuff...etc.
Downside however. A working broadband connection would be required.
One is my general "public" account. I throw this around when I need to sign up for something online, or if I will be expecting something soon from whom-ever I gave this address too. It automatically gets flushed once a week, so spam away...
My other address is based on a whitelist. My friends, family, and co-workers are on this list by default. If you are someone whome I know (and trust), I will manually add you into my accepted list.
I find the public vs private system works the best. It requires no form of filtering, and there is no work-around for spammers to use.
- "Email is not a storage system" (dogma and hyperbole)
You've GOT to be kidding, right? Seriously, your e-mail server shouldn't be a bloody file server. It should be for e-mail, and that's it.
It really burns me up when co-workers pass multiple revisions of a document back and fourth while keeping the old versions still in their inbox. Damn it!!! If you need to collaborate on an Excel or Word document, do it on the file server. If you need archived backups of previous revisions, keep them on the file server too.
He said "Muslim extremists, thus he did NOT make a blanket statement. This minor detail in his post already cuts your comment off at the pass. Why did you even bother wasting your time?
Why not just move them to Alaska? You cool the building using ambient air from the outside passed through a multi-staged filter. Being that it's so damn cold outside, you don't need to run any compressors.
No kidding!!! If i hear him say "hyper-dimensional" one more time, I'm going to kick HIS ass to Mars.
He's a nut... But on a more serious note, he's just some public has-been seeking to recapture the lime-light he once had in the past. In any case, it's sad to see someone's reputation degraded to that of nut. He has no one to blame but himself.
One of the keys to winning the war on terror is to stop being so afraid.
...and fight back!
I dunno about you, but if some religious zelot (or anyone for that matter) starts attacking my country and its people, there will be hell to pay. If they wanna play games, fine...let's play by our rules and our terms!
Your not going to find them unless it's a 3rd party brand. I had to order the component cables direct from Nintendo for use on my GameCube. In fact, I still have them. I wonder if they are compatible with the Wii?
I felt a steadily widening range of unpleasant effects whenever I was in the classroom, he said. First came a thick headache, then pains throughout the body, sudden flushes, pressure behind the eyes, sudden skin pains and burning sensations, along with bouts of nausea. Over the weekend, away from the classroom, I felt completely normal.
Ya, that shit happens when you use a CRT set to 60hz refresh. Like, DUH!
Crank it up to 75 or 85Hz and watch your symptoms disappear like magic. *Gasp* OMG!!!
This only becomes a problem when your connection has to go through several different ISPs and backbones (as each one will tier traffic differently). However, if the server is hosted at your ISP, I would imagine the impact will be little to none as everyone on that segment adheres to the same tiered leveling schema. Second, that server would in theory have as much bandwidth that the fiber/coax infrastructure can handle. That's a crapload of potential bandwidth at the local level!!!
Let's say this comes to pass and that all real-time gaming grinds to a halt. What happens then?
The way I see it, it will force the MMORPG genre to the local level. I can imagine about 20+ or so people playing games like Diablo2 with one computer opting to host as the server. Or, maybe a game like WoW where the server runs at your ISP and all its members can connect to it.
It doesn't sound all that bad when you think about it. I personally would rather be playing an MMORPG with only local players from my city. Second, there wouldn't be an over crowding issue. Third, because they're local, I could actually meet them in real-life in a bar or something as a get-together and drink beers over it.
The same thing happened with computers. We've been told in the past that computers will make it so you work less hours for the same amount of work. In reality, we work the same amount of hours to achieve more work.
The human race is enslaved to ourselves. I fear we might reach a breaking point if we haven't already. I mean seriously, just how MUCH blood can you squeeze from a turnip?
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Here's an idea. Why not makes the rails disposable. In other words, each projectile round comes with its own pair of one-time use rails.
Aim...fire...
Eject spent rails and reload a new cartridge containing new rails and its accompanying round.
Haven't we been down this road before? I guess this will finally shut down SOMA FM.
They don't provide two-way communication. This is VERY IMPORTANT as two-way communication is REQUIRED for cable networks that use switched video broadcasting technology. Time Warner in Austin, TX is one such network. I would expect most of not all the digital channels will move to swiched video by the end of 2007. This isn't a problem as a digital box already is required for the digital feed.
Second problem. You won't be able to order PPV or view any on-demand content with cable cards.
Until Cable Cards move to a new spec that support two-way, they're rather worthless these days...and a total scam by themselves anyway.
Well...given cities and this comment on Wired regarding the location of Austin "Only downside: It's surrounded by Texas", my Liberal Radar is beeping pretty fast.
Also, they would never name Los Alamos because they are "da war machine". You know how it goes...
Yes! A robotic "Real Doll"!
Google it, but be warned...it's NWS (not work safe)
Sure. Write something incriminating to a hard drive, perform your procedure of choice then hand the drive off to your local neighborhood police data recovery lab. If you're in the neighborhood, hand one off to your local federal branch of investigators and have them give it a whirl.
Make sure your first phone call has access to a computer so they can let us know how it went.
Sure, I'll put my money where my mouth is. Question however... How do I PROVE to you and the rest of the Slashdot crowd that I didn't give the local police department (or FBI) a bogus drive that never had anything on it in the first place?
I'm sorry, but I don't have any way of publicly contesting this argument and still seem credible. And no offence, but even if I put forth the effort to satisfy your curiosity and yours alone (IE, can it be recovered, or is the data gone)...I feel my time would have been wasted. I'm sure if the tables were turned, you feel the same way.
Again, no offence to you...
You're talking about the magnetic fields being out of phase of each other. While they can in theory overlap, most of the time, the adjacent "out-of-phase-bit" gets knocked back toward in relation of the "true magnetic bit". Anyways, that's what the servo tracks are for. They keep tracks and bit spacing in check, and leave little room for overlap, let alone 4 or 8 out-of-phase tracks.
And no, an intelligence agency couldn't reconstruct data once a drive has been properly mid-level formatted. All they can do is pull data off a drive if there is a head-crash or some other hardware failure. Or, of someone does a quick-format and/or just deletes a file name-your-OS, they can pull the files without needing the index pointer.
BULLSHIT! If you write all zeros, then ones, and back to zeros again accross the entire drive (technically a mid-level format, a true low-level erases the servo tracks and renders the drive useless), you can NEVER, NEVER, EVER recover the data.
Please, stop spreading this myth. It's BS!
Robots...
Tubes...
For a moment, I thought he was talking about the interweb!
The application is obvious. Aside from legalities (or possible joint-venture), having Flight-Sim tap into the Google Earth system would be the best option.
1. You don't need to install two DVDs worth of data (17GB install?)
2. Graphics are better.
3. Google Earth is always updated with 3D buildings.
4. Other stuff...etc.
Downside however. A working broadband connection would be required.
I have two e-mail addresses.
One is my general "public" account. I throw this around when I need to sign up for something online, or if I will be expecting something soon from whom-ever I gave this address too. It automatically gets flushed once a week, so spam away...
My other address is based on a whitelist. My friends, family, and co-workers are on this list by default. If you are someone whome I know (and trust), I will manually add you into my accepted list.
I find the public vs private system works the best. It requires no form of filtering, and there is no work-around for spammers to use.
- "Email is not a storage system" (dogma and hyperbole)
You've GOT to be kidding, right? Seriously, your e-mail server shouldn't be a bloody file server. It should be for e-mail, and that's it.
It really burns me up when co-workers pass multiple revisions of a document back and fourth while keeping the old versions still in their inbox. Damn it!!! If you need to collaborate on an Excel or Word document, do it on the file server. If you need archived backups of previous revisions, keep them on the file server too.
Words mean things!
He said "Muslim extremists, thus he did NOT make a blanket statement. This minor detail in his post already cuts your comment off at the pass. Why did you even bother wasting your time?
Goverment funded. Do NOT forget it will be government funded with YOUR tax dollars.
With all the "Slashvertisements", Slashdot sure could use one of these servers.
Why not just move them to Alaska? You cool the building using ambient air from the outside passed through a multi-staged filter. Being that it's so damn cold outside, you don't need to run any compressors.
You're not having Deja Vu. That's called clairvoyance!
No kidding!!! If i hear him say "hyper-dimensional" one more time, I'm going to kick HIS ass to Mars.
He's a nut... But on a more serious note, he's just some public has-been seeking to recapture the lime-light he once had in the past. In any case, it's sad to see someone's reputation degraded to that of nut. He has no one to blame but himself.
I dunno about you, but if some religious zelot (or anyone for that matter) starts attacking my country and its people, there will be hell to pay. If they wanna play games, fine...let's play by our rules and our terms!
to pacify a communist nation, is to export capitalism to it. It worked with Russia. Or...would you rather face another cold-war?
Dealing with a communist nation is a bitch aint it? Here's hoping to change the tide through capitalism rather than war.
Your not going to find them unless it's a 3rd party brand. I had to order the component cables direct from Nintendo for use on my GameCube. In fact, I still have them. I wonder if they are compatible with the Wii?
Ya, that shit happens when you use a CRT set to 60hz refresh. Like, DUH!
Crank it up to 75 or 85Hz and watch your symptoms disappear like magic. *Gasp* OMG!!!
Yes, I realize that.
This only becomes a problem when your connection has to go through several different ISPs and backbones (as each one will tier traffic differently). However, if the server is hosted at your ISP, I would imagine the impact will be little to none as everyone on that segment adheres to the same tiered leveling schema. Second, that server would in theory have as much bandwidth that the fiber/coax infrastructure can handle. That's a crapload of potential bandwidth at the local level!!!
Let's say this comes to pass and that all real-time gaming grinds to a halt. What happens then?
The way I see it, it will force the MMORPG genre to the local level. I can imagine about 20+ or so people playing games like Diablo2 with one computer opting to host as the server. Or, maybe a game like WoW where the server runs at your ISP and all its members can connect to it.
It doesn't sound all that bad when you think about it. I personally would rather be playing an MMORPG with only local players from my city. Second, there wouldn't be an over crowding issue. Third, because they're local, I could actually meet them in real-life in a bar or something as a get-together and drink beers over it.
The same thing happened with computers. We've been told in the past that computers will make it so you work less hours for the same amount of work. In reality, we work the same amount of hours to achieve more work.
The human race is enslaved to ourselves. I fear we might reach a breaking point if we haven't already. I mean seriously, just how MUCH blood can you squeeze from a turnip?