I don't think it would have been dull at all. However much you get paid for the one pet, it isn't hard, so why not do as dogwalkers do? Two, or three, or ten? BEEP BEEP BEEP!
By the end of the week you'll be jumping out of your skin everytime someone's watch goes off.
It isn't that the copy slowly degrades. It's that if you don't properly copy the CD and fake a scratch in the right place, then it knows you have a pirated copy. It slowly makes the games worse and worse.
Why do that? Macrovision has a history of selling copy-protection schemes to companies with a glamour factor. The DVD protection, for example, doesn't make the DVD not play at all. It just makes it irritating to play. The image fades bright and dark. Macrovision presents reports that say people get about fifteen minutes into a movie before they get too frustrated by the fading to watch, but then they want to see the end, so they buy the movie.
Similarly, the idea here is that you get a pirated copy and install it. It works just fine. You play for days, you like the game, you want to keep playing, but slowly it becomes unplayable. Your ISO doesn't change at all. The game code is just designed to become unplayable over time if it detects that the iso isn't real. It knows how long you've been playing because it puts that in your save files, which you don't want to destroy, or whatever.
After two weeks, your fake Unreal Tournament is a mess. You can aim, you can't move, but you really like Unreal Tournament, so you buy it. It turns all pirate copies into time-limited demos, which is the publisher's dream-technology.
As usual, though, it isn't a very strong protection scheme. The marketing's genius, but tech took about three days to knock up in a basement, and will take far less time to fix.
Yeah, right. And every time you take a stand, an angel gets its wings. Game companies have hoards of little angels in a garden at headquarters, and the count the wings every day to see if they've made people unhappy.
Voting with your wallet just gets lost in the noise. Sales are down? Maybe the game sucks, maybe the economy sucks, maybe Doom 3 just came out, maybe maybe maybe. Maybe sales are up, but they aren't up as much as they would be without macrovision, and nobody notices at all.
Vote with a polite letter to the company telling them that you won't buy their game because they are using Macrovision. Sign the letter in blue ink. Do that for every company you have a problem with. That's what senior citizens do, and that's why they get more of what they want than anyone else in the U.S.
Well, suppose you drop your checkbook. It's just best to have as few pieces of paper out there with everything necessary to recreate your entire life. Writing information on checks isn't so onerous; you just have to hit the balance between enough pre-printed info that it's a little report on your life and so little that people suspect it's a fake.
This isn't paranoia. It's not about some vast government conspiracy, it's not about aliens, it's not about anything unlikely. It's about a very, very common crime. Thousands of individuals make their livings this way, and if you get hit it takes years to put your life back together. Sometimes it's impossible to convince some companies that you're not the one pulling a trick on them, inventing an identitiy theft to cover your own misdeeds.
Calling this paranoia is like calling someone who tucks a little extra money into their heel in New York paranoid. It isn't that you're going to get mugged every time you step out in the street, or even that you'll ever get mugged living there for years. It's that if you are in the middle of Manhattan at night with no cash and no ID after a mugging, you're fucked. It's going to be a long, unpleasant night of trying to get home. It does happen.
"I'm surprised your Kryptonian metabolism is vulnerable to the effects of alcohol, Superman."
"Mike, I'm married to my unattractive wife who is terrible in bed, so I have to sleep with her. But why you?"
"It takes three (_____) to change the lightbulb: one of the (_____) holds the lightbulb while the other two rotate the ladder. Afterwards they throw the used lightbulb away."
Many of the shows I see on the History Channel recently are instead about how forensic criminologists are helping archaeologists unearth the secrets of the past.
I think it's like announcing a "groundbreaking new partnership between masons and carpenters to build a cathedral of both stone AND wood." Yeah, they have some different techniques, but come on. It's obvious that a mason who becomes a carpenter will be more prepared than, say, a circus clown. It's obvious that his masonry training may help him innovate. So what?
This is happening, conservatively, in ten thousand places in the U.S. alone right now, where someone has changed jobs into a related field. I think this is what managers once meant by synergy.
Note that I'm not attacking the newspost with vitriol. I'm just tired of the History Channel's hype about Nefertiti and Julius Caesar.
Time to buy somebody a gift is what I'm thinking. "Here's a GameCube, there are lots of great games out there. Oh no, I bought it for you before the bundle came out. Sorry."
You can rely on a rich new vein of controversial decisions on minor points of particular namespaces for Slashdot to cover. You can also rely on hundreds of us, batty-eyed from trying to find a bug, safely venting our anger on these design mistakes instead of throttling every co-worker listed before us in a module's revision history.
I don't think so. Titanium in an of itself is not particularly sensitive to magnetic fields because it is not a ferro-magnetic metal. That's one of the reasons they use it. If, for example, you have a metal screw in your body and now you need an MRI, you'll be in trouble if it's, say, steel. Titanium implants of recent manufacture are generally considered MRI safe up to 1.5 Tesla, I think, and the issues people are concerned about there are generally heating, sometimes induction.
Still, at 25 Tesla you wouldn't want to get too close. If your screw isn't completely pure, and nothing ever is, the impurities may lead to little bits of it being magnetically affected. That can lead to deformation and such. It's not that you're entirely safe around magnet that big, it's that the screw isn't going to tear out of your bone at splintering speeds, "severely injuring" you.
Entirely different, of course. The prof wasn't experiencing diamagnetic levitation of his own molecules, but rather levitation of something below him that he sat on in the usual way.
If the professor were in a very large levitation tube, the magnetic force would be acting on every part of his body uniformly. It's a real gravity-magnetism balanced environment, as you can see here, where the water forms a spherical bubble from water tension.
When China abuses human rights, we must pursue other options than the U.S. did with Iraq or Bosnia because invading China simply isn't an option. It isn't the appropriate solution. Instead, we try propoganda and cultural imperialism, which although detestable in, say, Coca-Colanizing France, may be appropriate in teaching the Chinese the advantages of free speech and safety from the police.
Similarly, a boycott isn't an option with Adobe. The populace can't just decide that no magazines will be printed, no billboards created, no illustrations of any kind produced on the computer because Adobe had a conflict with a fellow over the DMCA. That isn't a good way to convince companies to treat programmers fairly. It's just about impossible, and the message is pretty fuzzy.
Instead, we attack the DMCA. Lawyers in any organization will always take advantage of the laws available to them. It is our reponsibility to ensure the laws are just instead. That's a hard task, but it is far easier than transforming the entire face of world publishing without a software alternative.
Ah, the do-it-yourself geek way. The deep, unshakeable belief that you can successfully search out every piece of software for every task you want to do, install each, explore its configuration options reasonably, give it a fair test, then make the right decision given a finite lifetime. Also, delete the old ones and maintain a solid computer.
Many of us have lives to lead, full of working and commuting and fucking on the beach, as much as playing a MUD may seem to contraindicate. This is why we have a society, and Slashdot's mod system puts a pretty good spin on it. Ask question, wait until the discussion has been fully modded, turn Funny down and dial Informative/Insightful up. Skim. I guarantee that's faster than reviewing all the software.
Computers are merely an extension of human memory. If I've heard a song, I'm entitled to remember it, therefore I am entitled to record it as an extension of that memory, and further entitled to download a copy since I heard it last week when I didn't have my computer with me.
But Evian doesn't come out of your faucet at home, and CD-quality wave files don't come off Kazaa. Not the way Mp3s do. Magnatune sells you the CD-quality version if you like the MP3.
You know, I clicked on the article and was surprised to see no posts. Rather than FP, I sat here reloading the page to see how far ahead I was of the FP. I twas a strange few seconds, like staking out a freshly painted blank wall in Harlem.
Don't forget, an isn't a person. The accountants at the RIAA probably see your logic, while the lawyers are tearing off on their own gig. They are, after all, there to advance the group's interests through law, not sit on their hands. Part of that job is deciding when it isn't wise to sue, but when a man owns a good hammer, every job starts to look like a job for a hammer.
Strange to say, my talking pedometer got lost in the couch cushions the day before this article was posted. Every time I sat down the couch said "it's so and so PM. You have walked 0 miles."
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By the end of the week you'll be jumping out of your skin everytime someone's watch goes off.
It's not illegal to write it at all. Write it and keep it in a jar, no problem.
Maybe! I know where you can find out How to Tell
Why do that? Macrovision has a history of selling copy-protection schemes to companies with a glamour factor. The DVD protection, for example, doesn't make the DVD not play at all. It just makes it irritating to play. The image fades bright and dark. Macrovision presents reports that say people get about fifteen minutes into a movie before they get too frustrated by the fading to watch, but then they want to see the end, so they buy the movie.
Similarly, the idea here is that you get a pirated copy and install it. It works just fine. You play for days, you like the game, you want to keep playing, but slowly it becomes unplayable. Your ISO doesn't change at all. The game code is just designed to become unplayable over time if it detects that the iso isn't real. It knows how long you've been playing because it puts that in your save files, which you don't want to destroy, or whatever.
After two weeks, your fake Unreal Tournament is a mess. You can aim, you can't move, but you really like Unreal Tournament, so you buy it. It turns all pirate copies into time-limited demos, which is the publisher's dream-technology.
As usual, though, it isn't a very strong protection scheme. The marketing's genius, but tech took about three days to knock up in a basement, and will take far less time to fix.
Voting with your wallet just gets lost in the noise. Sales are down? Maybe the game sucks, maybe the economy sucks, maybe Doom 3 just came out, maybe maybe maybe. Maybe sales are up, but they aren't up as much as they would be without macrovision, and nobody notices at all.
Vote with a polite letter to the company telling them that you won't buy their game because they are using Macrovision. Sign the letter in blue ink. Do that for every company you have a problem with. That's what senior citizens do, and that's why they get more of what they want than anyone else in the U.S.
This isn't paranoia. It's not about some vast government conspiracy, it's not about aliens, it's not about anything unlikely. It's about a very, very common crime. Thousands of individuals make their livings this way, and if you get hit it takes years to put your life back together. Sometimes it's impossible to convince some companies that you're not the one pulling a trick on them, inventing an identitiy theft to cover your own misdeeds.
Calling this paranoia is like calling someone who tucks a little extra money into their heel in New York paranoid. It isn't that you're going to get mugged every time you step out in the street, or even that you'll ever get mugged living there for years. It's that if you are in the middle of Manhattan at night with no cash and no ID after a mugging, you're fucked. It's going to be a long, unpleasant night of trying to get home. It does happen.
Better than discorporate whores. Spoils the whole thing, really.
"Mike, I'm married to my unattractive wife who is terrible in bed, so I have to sleep with her. But why you?"
"It takes three (_____) to change the lightbulb: one of the (_____) holds the lightbulb while the other two rotate the ladder. Afterwards they throw the used lightbulb away."
W: "You can't be President, I'm President."
S: "Fine, then I'm King and Tyrant."
I think it's like announcing a "groundbreaking new partnership between masons and carpenters to build a cathedral of both stone AND wood." Yeah, they have some different techniques, but come on. It's obvious that a mason who becomes a carpenter will be more prepared than, say, a circus clown. It's obvious that his masonry training may help him innovate. So what?
This is happening, conservatively, in ten thousand places in the U.S. alone right now, where someone has changed jobs into a related field. I think this is what managers once meant by synergy.
Note that I'm not attacking the newspost with vitriol. I'm just tired of the History Channel's hype about Nefertiti and Julius Caesar.
Time to buy somebody a gift is what I'm thinking. "Here's a GameCube, there are lots of great games out there. Oh no, I bought it for you before the bundle came out. Sorry."
Particularly when the EB guy warns you when you buy the PS2 that if you play DVDs the laser will wear out 24x faster.
You can rely on a rich new vein of controversial decisions on minor points of particular namespaces for Slashdot to cover. You can also rely on hundreds of us, batty-eyed from trying to find a bug, safely venting our anger on these design mistakes instead of throttling every co-worker listed before us in a module's revision history.
Still, at 25 Tesla you wouldn't want to get too close. If your screw isn't completely pure, and nothing ever is, the impurities may lead to little bits of it being magnetically affected. That can lead to deformation and such. It's not that you're entirely safe around magnet that big, it's that the screw isn't going to tear out of your bone at splintering speeds, "severely injuring" you.
If the professor were in a very large levitation tube, the magnetic force would be acting on every part of his body uniformly. It's a real gravity-magnetism balanced environment, as you can see here, where the water forms a spherical bubble from water tension.
Similarly, a boycott isn't an option with Adobe. The populace can't just decide that no magazines will be printed, no billboards created, no illustrations of any kind produced on the computer because Adobe had a conflict with a fellow over the DMCA. That isn't a good way to convince companies to treat programmers fairly. It's just about impossible, and the message is pretty fuzzy.
Instead, we attack the DMCA. Lawyers in any organization will always take advantage of the laws available to them. It is our reponsibility to ensure the laws are just instead. That's a hard task, but it is far easier than transforming the entire face of world publishing without a software alternative.
Many of us have lives to lead, full of working and commuting and fucking on the beach, as much as playing a MUD may seem to contraindicate. This is why we have a society, and Slashdot's mod system puts a pretty good spin on it. Ask question, wait until the discussion has been fully modded, turn Funny down and dial Informative/Insightful up. Skim. I guarantee that's faster than reviewing all the software.
Computers are merely an extension of human memory. If I've heard a song, I'm entitled to remember it, therefore I am entitled to record it as an extension of that memory, and further entitled to download a copy since I heard it last week when I didn't have my computer with me.
But Evian doesn't come out of your faucet at home, and CD-quality wave files don't come off Kazaa. Not the way Mp3s do. Magnatune sells you the CD-quality version if you like the MP3.
Before we can build X-Wings, we have to figure out what the hell "Fusial Thrust" means.
I propose that the Pentium 5 with the 64-bit add-on module be called Pentium Coprocite.
Here's the explanation, for those who missed out on this one.
You know, I clicked on the article and was surprised to see no posts. Rather than FP, I sat here reloading the page to see how far ahead I was of the FP. I twas a strange few seconds, like staking out a freshly painted blank wall in Harlem.
Don't forget, an isn't a person. The accountants at the RIAA probably see your logic, while the lawyers are tearing off on their own gig. They are, after all, there to advance the group's interests through law, not sit on their hands. Part of that job is deciding when it isn't wise to sue, but when a man owns a good hammer, every job starts to look like a job for a hammer.
Strange to say, my talking pedometer got lost in the couch cushions the day before this article was posted. Every time I sat down the couch said "it's so and so PM. You have walked 0 miles."