>Instead people have to buy expensive "chips" to change their vehicle's performance regime.
Expensive chips that void warranties and damage various components. So what you can get a 35% horsepower increase with some chip. Do you really think the drivetrain was engineered to handle it? If you are really interested in this kind of thing, you have lots of money to blow. Might as well blow some on a chip.
Why does it make any difference to Joe Schmoe w/ $20 speakers if it's in MP3, AAC or WMA?
He's going to download what is readily available, or use the default format of the most readily available CD ripper. Winamp will play them all regardless; you can't even tell the difference.
Well, of course, the Robolawyer will undoubtedly have a EULA explaining that the translation will not always be perfect and they are not responsible if you agree to something you didn't mean to, yada yada yada.
Question. Can I read the Robolawyer's EULA with Robolawyer? Please?
>Government should be after big-time counterfiters, those settled in Colombia or North Korea.
I think they're taking the same approach to counterfeiting as Microsoft does to pirating. Microsoft stops Joe Schmoe from pirating by only allowing x number of installations per key. They still have XP Corporate edition which has no limit.
They know they're not going to stop the big-time guys, so they don't try. If you want to bad enough, there's nothing they can do to stop you (or even make it not worth your time). But they will stop the kid in high school who wants an easy $20. Maybe they're going after the wrong crowd, but everything is a trade-off.
>I can think of SCO, Kodak, Unisys and now Honeywell. I will venture all is not well at the little Honey
Honeywell patented this in 1994, developed it, and sold it. Then someone came along, took the idea, and started selling the product before the patent expired.
This is exactly what patents are supposed to prevent. Why are you guys giving them so much crap for doing something about it?
>"(a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent."
271 USC 35
So if I sell one of these on eBay, I may be in violation of patent law? That's scary...
I believe this is the FCC's classification of a particular device. They're saying, however you use this thing, it can't cause harmful interference (i.e. you don't have a right to use this device in such a way that will cause harmful interference). They're also saying that you have to deal with whatever interference it receives (i.e. don't complain to the FCC if something is interfering with it).
>"may" not? is it optional? Harmful to who or what?
Required. Anyone that complains to the FCC.
>"accept" in what sense. If it does "cause undesired operation", then surely that means it didn't "accept" it? What wound not accepting interference actually involve?
"Accept" in the sense that you have to deal with it. Even if it doesn't work at all, it's your problem not the FCC's.
>Now, their authority (to my understanding, feel free to correct me if I'm full of it) is limited to controlling what the devices *broadcast*, not how they recieve things, but still.
By broadcast, you mean transmit. But read the back of almost any device with the FCC logo you speak of. It seems they have authority over both transmitting and receiving.
This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
If this ever happens to you do not ever attempt to turn the ignition all the way off...
1) If you kill the ignition in this situation, you're not going to immediately lose power steering and power braking. The engine is still going to be turning over (at least a little bit, even in an automatic transmission) since it's in gear and the tires are spinning. As long as you have the engine turning, you have power steering & power braking; these systems (for most cars) don't rely on electronics.
2) You can control a car without power steering or power braking.
3) You have 2 options.
a) Run the car at 120mph until you run out of gas.
b) Kill the ignition and try to handle it.
4) This guy was probably just out having some fun. He managed to stop it before he killed himself by hitting a toll booth. I don't believe one word of it.
>That's a bit of a let-down, actually. I was hoping a few more people would have a successful first launch before someone managed to do it twice in two weeks. It would have been a little more dramatic.
More dramatic? It would've been more dramatic if it exploded into a fireball too.
But seriously, this is great news. I do hope that the other teams consider to pursue their goals, but this team and SpaceshipOne can be a model to help others succeed. I say we congratulate SpaceshipOne and wish the rest of the teams good luck.
>the problem is just that lots of people in charge won't get off their arse and design a new protocol.
The problem is that people keep buying the junk advertised by spam.
No matter what protocol you use, how are you going to stop me from sending e-mail to all my classmates telling them I have a textbook for sale? Not allow me to e-mail all my classmates? What if I need to do this for some other reason?
>If a pirated copy deleted my important calls you can bet I would be on the phone with support for hours until they restored all of my data they messed up.
Almost modded this funny, then I realized you weren't try to be funny. Anyone who does this isn't going to have a support number, and isn't going to put up with your BS if they do. Clearly they don't care about customer satisfaction if they're wiping home directories. What makes you think they'll be able to recover your rm -rf ~ better than you can anyway?
>TI-89 + solver/roots function = roots of polynomial
The TI-89 solver/roots function numerically estimates the roots of polynomials and often takes a very long time to compute an answer, even sometimes reporting that more solutions may exist.
After this new solution is reviewed, I see no reason why a firmware update wouldn't be available for the 89 that would use this method. And for Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, etc.
How many % of all end-user machines are running Microsoft Windows?
>Zombie Macs and Zombie Linux boxes are about as common as snowcones in hell, it would seem.
In the world of common users, Linux boxes are about as common as snowcones in hell, too. Macs are almost as common as snowcones in Florida...not quite.
Cartman: I learned somethin' today. This country was founded by some of the smartest thinkers the world has ever seen. And they knew one thing: that a truely great country can go to war, and at the same time, act like it doesn't want to. [a shot of the crowd] You people who are for the war, you need the protesters. Because they make the country look like it's made of sane, caring individuals. And you people who are anti-war, you need these flag-wavers, because, if our whole country was made up of nothing but soft pussy protesters, we'd get taken down in a second. That's why the founding fathers decided we should have both. It's called "having your cake and eating it too."
Randy: He's right. The strength of this country is the ability to do one thing and say another.
Mildly off-topic, I am attempting to sound proof my room next year to avoid those nasty noise violations for late-night LAN parties (and those other parties too).
Has anyone used any soundproofing equipment before or have any suggestions or recommendations? Do the soundproof mats you can hang on the wall actually work?
>As Kevin Mitnick pointed out in his book The Art of Deception, anyone with a PBX system can program their outgoing Caller-ID information to show anything they want.
Hey, I'm not the only slashdotter that's read this book. Hopefully now even you non-readers are enlightened to the fact that caller id is not a means of authentication.
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I didn't want to do my homework today anyway. :-)
Expensive chips that void warranties and damage various components. So what you can get a 35% horsepower increase with some chip. Do you really think the drivetrain was engineered to handle it? If you are really interested in this kind of thing, you have lots of money to blow. Might as well blow some on a chip.
Professional Grade Engineering: It's not more than you need, just more than you're used to.
-GM commercial
He's going to download what is readily available, or use the default format of the most readily available CD ripper. Winamp will play them all regardless; you can't even tell the difference.
Question. Can I read the Robolawyer's EULA with Robolawyer? Please?
I think they're taking the same approach to counterfeiting as Microsoft does to pirating. Microsoft stops Joe Schmoe from pirating by only allowing x number of installations per key. They still have XP Corporate edition which has no limit.
They know they're not going to stop the big-time guys, so they don't try. If you want to bad enough, there's nothing they can do to stop you (or even make it not worth your time). But they will stop the kid in high school who wants an easy $20. Maybe they're going after the wrong crowd, but everything is a trade-off.
Props to how far Mozilla has come. I guess the increased computing power helped them a tad :) Salute to our pioneers as well.
Honeywell patented this in 1994, developed it, and sold it. Then someone came along, took the idea, and started selling the product before the patent expired.
This is exactly what patents are supposed to prevent. Why are you guys giving them so much crap for doing something about it?
271 USC 35
So if I sell one of these on eBay, I may be in violation of patent law? That's scary...
I believe this is the FCC's classification of a particular device. They're saying, however you use this thing, it can't cause harmful interference (i.e. you don't have a right to use this device in such a way that will cause harmful interference). They're also saying that you have to deal with whatever interference it receives (i.e. don't complain to the FCC if something is interfering with it).
>"may" not? is it optional? Harmful to who or what?
Required. Anyone that complains to the FCC.
>"accept" in what sense. If it does "cause undesired operation", then surely that means it didn't "accept" it? What wound not accepting interference actually involve?
"Accept" in the sense that you have to deal with it. Even if it doesn't work at all, it's your problem not the FCC's.
By broadcast, you mean transmit. But read the back of almost any device with the FCC logo you speak of. It seems they have authority over both transmitting and receiving.
This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
1) If you kill the ignition in this situation, you're not going to immediately lose power steering and power braking. The engine is still going to be turning over (at least a little bit, even in an automatic transmission) since it's in gear and the tires are spinning. As long as you have the engine turning, you have power steering & power braking; these systems (for most cars) don't rely on electronics.
2) You can control a car without power steering or power braking.
3) You have 2 options.
a) Run the car at 120mph until you run out of gas.
b) Kill the ignition and try to handle it.
4) This guy was probably just out having some fun. He managed to stop it before he killed himself by hitting a toll booth. I don't believe one word of it.
More dramatic? It would've been more dramatic if it exploded into a fireball too.
But seriously, this is great news. I do hope that the other teams consider to pursue their goals, but this team and SpaceshipOne can be a model to help others succeed. I say we congratulate SpaceshipOne and wish the rest of the teams good luck.
Laugh. It's funny.
Woops, that's the working WINDOWS torrent.
The working torrent is here.
The problem is that people keep buying the junk advertised by spam.
No matter what protocol you use, how are you going to stop me from sending e-mail to all my classmates telling them I have a textbook for sale? Not allow me to e-mail all my classmates? What if I need to do this for some other reason?
Almost modded this funny, then I realized you weren't try to be funny. Anyone who does this isn't going to have a support number, and isn't going to put up with your BS if they do. Clearly they don't care about customer satisfaction if they're wiping home directories. What makes you think they'll be able to recover your rm -rf ~ better than you can anyway?
The TI-89 solver/roots function numerically estimates the roots of polynomials and often takes a very long time to compute an answer, even sometimes reporting that more solutions may exist.
After this new solution is reviewed, I see no reason why a firmware update wouldn't be available for the 89 that would use this method. And for Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, etc.
How many % of all end-user machines are running Microsoft Windows?
>Zombie Macs and Zombie Linux boxes are about as common as snowcones in hell, it would seem.
In the world of common users, Linux boxes are about as common as snowcones in hell, too. Macs are almost as common as snowcones in Florida...not quite.
See the South Park episode on this.
Cartman: I learned somethin' today. This country was founded by some of the smartest thinkers the world has ever seen. And they knew one thing: that a truely great country can go to war, and at the same time, act like it doesn't want to. [a shot of the crowd] You people who are for the war, you need the protesters. Because they make the country look like it's made of sane, caring individuals. And you people who are anti-war, you need these flag-wavers, because, if our whole country was made up of nothing but soft pussy protesters, we'd get taken down in a second. That's why the founding fathers decided we should have both. It's called "having your cake and eating it too."
Randy: He's right. The strength of this country is the ability to do one thing and say another.
$295.20 for a 4.5' x 6' sheet? You must not have caught that I am a college student.
Has anyone used any soundproofing equipment before or have any suggestions or recommendations? Do the soundproof mats you can hang on the wall actually work?
Hey, I'm not the only slashdotter that's read this book. Hopefully now even you non-readers are enlightened to the fact that caller id is not a means of authentication.
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