Nova Queen Pilot: Keldan Control, Keldan Control, this is Nova Queen on primary approach zero-four-zero. Request orbital entry clearance. [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. Maintain zero-four-zero. Orbital entry is clear. [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: Keldan Control, this is Nova Queen. I have an unidentified trace on zero-four-zero. [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. Maintain zero-four-zero and switch to Computer Flight Coordination. [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: Switching to CFC, maintaining zero-four-zero. [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: [after a pause] That ship is still coming at us. [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. The ship is an unmanned ore carrier on Computer Flight Coordination. [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: I hope you're sure about that, Keldan. It's still on zero-four-zero. [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, computer control is confirmed. No problem. [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: You know that and I know that, but does the computer know that? [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: It'll switch vectors any time now. Relax. [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: I'll relax when it gets that ship off zero-four-zero. [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: It will. [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: Keldan Control, I have four thousand passengers on this ship and that ore carrier is still on zero-four-zero! [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: [calmly] Computer Flight Coordination doesn't make errors. [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: To hell with that! Do something, Keldan; that thing is coming straight at us! [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot:Keldan Control! [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: [with sudden urgency] Nova Queen! Switch to manual control! Engage emergency boosters and abort zero-four-zero! Confirm, please! [com-beep] Nova Queen Pilot: I can see it! My God, it's too late! Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control, do you copy? [com-beep] Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, Nova Queen, come in please! [com-beep]
What about skeletal transduction effects? Testing on those with their corpus callosum severed should also be performed. I'd be interested also if this had any effect on the abilities of those with perfect pitch, or inducing that ability in those without it.
Some of us never let them take OtherOS away. My unit still has the capability (but as yet unused).
Of course, that didn't stop Sony from making accepting updates mandatory. But as long as I leave it disconnected from the network (and don't load any disks that contain auto-apply updates), my unit's resale value is preserved. I only ever bought two games for it anyway and my display isn't 3D-capable.
I'm still looking to the hacking community to reverse-engineer these updates to enable their new features while keeping OtherOS intact.
Just require every recharging station to maintain charge on a bank of high-capacity capacitors. Not only will it make it easier to rapidly charge the cars but also maintain the ability of Hollywood to have something dramatically explode in place of gas pumps.
I've had software that had DRM that restricted the HD features to SP2 and would refuse to work under SP3. I believe it was the software for the Hauppage HD DVR under Windows.
I however did not downgrade to use it. In fact, I never got any use out of the device until EyeTV supported it for the Mac. (Though the lack of 5.1 audio extraction to two stereo (front and rear) and two mono (center and LFE) AIFF files is annoying.)
Oh, and even if your system still carries analog channels, if you have a SDV "tuning adapter" box, it will digitize and encrypt and/or broadcast-flag them so you can't move them between TiVos, nor control the recording quality with the TiVo.
Except when you're recording two analog channels at once. Then it seems it passes one of the analog signals through unmolested.
Comcast is switching their TV network to what's called "switched digital" to free up bandwidth for IP services - the problem is that this requires a tuner to "ask" the network for a certain channel.
Not just Comcast. Time-Warner Cable and Charter Communications are doing it as well.
And, with my Time-Warner experience, very often when the tuner "asks", the network ignores it. I couldn't count the number of times I jumped to Live TV on my TiVo and been told the channel isn't available and to hit Select to try to tune it again. When it fails on a scheduled recording, you have to cancel the recording and restart it to get the signal. The TiVo won't be proactive to repeat the request--say, every 5 seconds--if the signal hasn't arrived and will instead sit there for 2 hours trying to record nothing. SDV is the same bullshit unreliability for third-party DVRs they introduced with the Mystro software on their cable boxes making channel changes unreliable when done on schedule.
In some places, it isn't so much that there's encryption than that the signal is slightly out of specification such that typical authorized devices work fine but that most editing tools can't access the video signal. Fox prime-time programming seems to be a consistent problem. For example, a recorded stream from a Firewire port on a cable box won't decode properly in MPEG StreamClip, but a TiVoToGo transfer can be extracted and converted to editable HDV using Roxio Toast Titanium. (MPEG StreamClip though is still needed to extract the 5.1 audio; Roxio's software only exports stereo.)
This is separate from broadcast-flag problems where you can record a Copy-Once program but you're not allowed to play it back (on a computer). I've been seeing Copy Once asserted on Fox and ABC, but not both ABC affiliates in the same area for the same programming, yet the TiVo be completely immune from this flag.
Have you tried reading a book instead? Supernatural and CSI are not necessities of life.
It's a lot easier to get the whole department's attention by turning off the TVs (TV-B-Gone or cut the power) than taking the books out of each and every police officer's hands.
At least not until the airlines force all the e-book makers to make them respond to a remote shut down RF signal.
I'm curious how long it will be 'til somebody says, "This hellabyte drive just isn't big enough to hold all my pron."
Is a hellabyte 10^27 bytes or 2^90 bytes? The difference is not insignificant (237.94 yottabytes(10^24)).
Anyway, as an SI prefix, where zotta-/zocto- and yotta-/yocto- would make 10^-27 would be heclo-, which is too close to hecto- which is 10^2. Plus, it would make three prefixes using the letter H, and hecto- has prior claim to both capital and lowercase versions. Well, not in binary measure, but still in metric.
That should be enough to disqualify hella-.
Otherwise, if you drop hecto- as 10^2, you should have to drop centi- as 10^-2 as well.
That won't work. They've gone after people for infringing works of which they were not previously aware. With copyright durations these days, one person could unknowingly infringe on the work of another and not even be a contemporary (i.e. never simultaneously alive).
The modern outcome of Close Encounters of the Third Kind would be the aliens being sued for copyright infringement over their 5-note greeting because it matched some progression in a disco-era song.
I suspect Pixar has made more money on Cars and its merchandising alone than from the entire history of Snow White-related income and associated merchandising.
You just had to work in a car analogy, didn't you.;)
He was re-edit his books every few years, adding new material. If people wanted the latest and greatest (the one with more g's), they'd buy, and they did.
I think John Fogerty is a much better example of stupidity. They sued him for making a song that they claimed sounded like another song by him.
Yeah, but he won. And got reimbursed for his defense, and set precedent for not requiring the original claim be determined frivolous (thanks to SCOTUS).
Otherwise ZZ Top might have something to worry about... if the rights to their back catalog ever fell into other hands.
Michael Jackson even ripped off part of USA For Africa's "We Are the World" for another of his songs (to my ears at least). But then, I think he owned the rights to both of them at the time.
Firefox is our company-wide browser as well. Well, at least on the the Linux machines the programmers use.
However, it is only Firefox 2.0.
Some are able to run 3.0. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 won't run on any Linux machine installed here. Programmers do not have sufficient access to install the necessary libraries (e.g. libpangocairo) required by newer versions.
I don't think I'd call a strip club or porn shop unethical. By some standards immoral for sure.. but what is the ethical violation of a strip club or porn shop?
It's only unethical if you're only there to browse.
My wife and I have just arrived in the Ukraine for two weeks. First thing we did was to buy prepaid sims 'over the counter' ready with credit so that we could keep in touch. No details required at all.
Yes. Walk right into walmart / walgreens / target, pick up a prepaid phone, and a prepaid balance card, pay cash, walk out.
While wearing a ski mask, gloves, and lifts, 'cause all those stores will have surveillance cameras at the register and door, and the law will soon require the footage to be retained for two years (long after the minutes you bought would expire) just like your ISP, so if a phone is ever used for illegal activity, they can still pull the video record of who bought it. Just a matter of tying the camera data into the inventory recording feature of the register.
And, as you say, walk. There are cameras in the parking lot too.
These days you might as well walk around in your own personal portable cage. "What you gonna do, then? Arrest me? Lock me up? Throw me in a cage? Well, you're too late! Ha!"
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Laserbeak, eject. Operation: wiretapping.
Where the guide is inaccurate, it is at least definitively inaccurate, and in cases of major discrepancy it is always reality that has it wrong.
Nova Queen Pilot: Keldan Control, Keldan Control, this is Nova Queen on primary approach zero-four-zero. Request orbital entry clearance. [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. Maintain zero-four-zero. Orbital entry is clear. [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: Keldan Control, this is Nova Queen. I have an unidentified trace on zero-four-zero. [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. Maintain zero-four-zero and switch to Computer Flight Coordination. [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: Switching to CFC, maintaining zero-four-zero. [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: [after a pause] That ship is still coming at us. [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control. The ship is an unmanned ore carrier on Computer Flight Coordination. [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: I hope you're sure about that, Keldan. It's still on zero-four-zero. [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, computer control is confirmed. No problem. [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: You know that and I know that, but does the computer know that? [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: It'll switch vectors any time now. Relax. [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: I'll relax when it gets that ship off zero-four-zero. [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: It will. [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: Keldan Control, I have four thousand passengers on this ship and that ore carrier is still on zero-four-zero! [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: [calmly] Computer Flight Coordination doesn't make errors. [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: To hell with that! Do something, Keldan; that thing is coming straight at us! [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: Keldan Control! [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: [with sudden urgency] Nova Queen! Switch to manual control! Engage emergency boosters and abort zero-four-zero! Confirm, please! [com-beep]
Nova Queen Pilot: I can see it! My God, it's too late!
Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, Nova Queen, this is Keldan Control, do you copy? [com-beep]
Keldon Traffic Controller: Nova Queen, Nova Queen, come in please! [com-beep]
It's all just fun with exploits until someone burrows through the giant's eye.
What about skeletal transduction effects? Testing on those with their corpus callosum severed should also be performed. I'd be interested also if this had any effect on the abilities of those with perfect pitch, or inducing that ability in those without it.
Some of us never let them take OtherOS away. My unit still has the capability (but as yet unused).
Of course, that didn't stop Sony from making accepting updates mandatory. But as long as I leave it disconnected from the network (and don't load any disks that contain auto-apply updates), my unit's resale value is preserved. I only ever bought two games for it anyway and my display isn't 3D-capable.
I'm still looking to the hacking community to reverse-engineer these updates to enable their new features while keeping OtherOS intact.
Just require every recharging station to maintain charge on a bank of high-capacity capacitors. Not only will it make it easier to rapidly charge the cars but also maintain the ability of Hollywood to have something dramatically explode in place of gas pumps.
I've had software that had DRM that restricted the HD features to SP2 and would refuse to work under SP3. I believe it was the software for the Hauppage HD DVR under Windows.
I however did not downgrade to use it. In fact, I never got any use out of the device until EyeTV supported it for the Mac. (Though the lack of 5.1 audio extraction to two stereo (front and rear) and two mono (center and LFE) AIFF files is annoying.)
What, did they have some kind of aversion to using megatonnes for a rocket?
Oh, and even if your system still carries analog channels, if you have a SDV "tuning adapter" box, it will digitize and encrypt and/or broadcast-flag them so you can't move them between TiVos, nor control the recording quality with the TiVo.
Except when you're recording two analog channels at once. Then it seems it passes one of the analog signals through unmolested.
Comcast is switching their TV network to what's called "switched digital" to free up bandwidth for IP services - the problem is that this requires a tuner to "ask" the network for a certain channel.
Not just Comcast. Time-Warner Cable and Charter Communications are doing it as well.
And, with my Time-Warner experience, very often when the tuner "asks", the network ignores it. I couldn't count the number of times I jumped to Live TV on my TiVo and been told the channel isn't available and to hit Select to try to tune it again. When it fails on a scheduled recording, you have to cancel the recording and restart it to get the signal. The TiVo won't be proactive to repeat the request--say, every 5 seconds--if the signal hasn't arrived and will instead sit there for 2 hours trying to record nothing. SDV is the same bullshit unreliability for third-party DVRs they introduced with the Mystro software on their cable boxes making channel changes unreliable when done on schedule.
In some places, it isn't so much that there's encryption than that the signal is slightly out of specification such that typical authorized devices work fine but that most editing tools can't access the video signal. Fox prime-time programming seems to be a consistent problem. For example, a recorded stream from a Firewire port on a cable box won't decode properly in MPEG StreamClip, but a TiVoToGo transfer can be extracted and converted to editable HDV using Roxio Toast Titanium. (MPEG StreamClip though is still needed to extract the 5.1 audio; Roxio's software only exports stereo.)
This is separate from broadcast-flag problems where you can record a Copy-Once program but you're not allowed to play it back (on a computer). I've been seeing Copy Once asserted on Fox and ABC, but not both ABC affiliates in the same area for the same programming, yet the TiVo be completely immune from this flag.
Have you tried reading a book instead? Supernatural and CSI are not necessities of life.
It's a lot easier to get the whole department's attention by turning off the TVs (TV-B-Gone or cut the power) than taking the books out of each and every police officer's hands.
At least not until the airlines force all the e-book makers to make them respond to a remote shut down RF signal.
I'm curious how long it will be 'til somebody says, "This hellabyte drive just isn't big enough to hold all my pron."
Is a hellabyte 10^27 bytes or 2^90 bytes? The difference is not insignificant (237.94 yottabytes(10^24)).
Anyway, as an SI prefix, where zotta-/zocto- and yotta-/yocto- would make 10^-27 would be heclo-, which is too close to hecto- which is 10^2. Plus, it would make three prefixes using the letter H, and hecto- has prior claim to both capital and lowercase versions. Well, not in binary measure, but still in metric.
That should be enough to disqualify hella-.
Otherwise, if you drop hecto- as 10^2, you should have to drop centi- as 10^-2 as well.
That won't work. They've gone after people for infringing works of which they were not previously aware. With copyright durations these days, one person could unknowingly infringe on the work of another and not even be a contemporary (i.e. never simultaneously alive).
The modern outcome of Close Encounters of the Third Kind would be the aliens being sued for copyright infringement over their 5-note greeting because it matched some progression in a disco-era song.
I suspect Pixar has made more money on Cars and its merchandising alone than from the entire history of Snow White-related income and associated merchandising.
You just had to work in a car analogy, didn't you. ;)
He was re-edit his books every few years, adding new material. If people wanted the latest and greatest (the one with more g's), they'd buy, and they did.
Just like George Lucas.
I think John Fogerty is a much better example of stupidity. They sued him for making a song that they claimed sounded like another song by him.
Yeah, but he won. And got reimbursed for his defense, and set precedent for not requiring the original claim be determined frivolous (thanks to SCOTUS).
Otherwise ZZ Top might have something to worry about... if the rights to their back catalog ever fell into other hands.
Michael Jackson even ripped off part of USA For Africa's "We Are the World" for another of his songs (to my ears at least). But then, I think he owned the rights to both of them at the time.
Will that work also for upgrading GTK+, glib, and dbus? And under Redhat 9?
Firefox is our company-wide browser as well. Well, at least on the the Linux machines the programmers use.
However, it is only Firefox 2.0.
Some are able to run 3.0. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 won't run on any Linux machine installed here. Programmers do not have sufficient access to install the necessary libraries (e.g. libpangocairo) required by newer versions.
I don't think I'd call a strip club or porn shop unethical. By some standards immoral for sure.. but what is the ethical violation of a strip club or porn shop?
It's only unethical if you're only there to browse.
My wife and I have just arrived in the Ukraine for two weeks. First thing we did was to buy prepaid sims 'over the counter' ready with credit so that we could keep in touch. No details required at all.
You used credit. They have your details.
Yes. Walk right into walmart / walgreens / target, pick up a prepaid phone, and a prepaid balance card, pay cash, walk out.
While wearing a ski mask, gloves, and lifts, 'cause all those stores will have surveillance cameras at the register and door, and the law will soon require the footage to be retained for two years (long after the minutes you bought would expire) just like your ISP, so if a phone is ever used for illegal activity, they can still pull the video record of who bought it. Just a matter of tying the camera data into the inventory recording feature of the register.
And, as you say, walk. There are cameras in the parking lot too.
These days you might as well walk around in your own personal portable cage. "What you gonna do, then? Arrest me? Lock me up? Throw me in a cage? Well, you're too late! Ha!"
The original Macintosh had 128 KiB of DRAM. The next model had 512 KiB and the original Macintosh was rebadged "Macintosh 128K".
No Macintosh ever had only 256 KiB of memory (the original was not memory-upgradeable).
He appeared to be gearing up to do something naughty, and they caught on and stopped him.
Good to know the threshold for a warranted arrest in Canada is "naughty".