.. for anyone with a Cobra, a mining laser and a fuel scoop. I'm sure we'll be seeing chunks being sold off online. With 'OMG! BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM! WOW!' listings on E-Bay fifty years from now. Each with their own certificates of authenticity, of course.
Same old sh*t, different day. Other than alerting admins who really should know this is there a reason for having it on the front page?
Yes. Alerting would be virus writers who can then use the information to create yet more hole exploiting viruses and bring systems crashing to a halt. Oh, wait, that'd be a reason *not* to have it on Slashdot. Hmm.. do stories highlighting the exploits do more harm than good?
Then you can get Arnie in the White House. I hear he's going to be The People's President
That'd be The Rock, surely? After all, with Jesse Ventura managing to get into politics, it can't be long before more wrestlers take that path, and I for one welcome our new smackdown-laying senators.
I can't say I'm surprised by the company not offering support. Having worked supporting home PC users I know that they're far from savvy and can be testing at the best of times, downright infuriating at worst. If you then throw 'Linux' into the mix which is less user friendly than Windows - though it is getting friendlier by the day - you'd end up with a lot of frustrated users and techs. I doubt we'll see Linux being installed and fully supported on PCs sold to Joe Public till it's at least as user friendly as Windows. Which for all its faults, is quite hard to mess up.
Except when everyone else has a flying car.
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When everyone else got their hands on something the novelty/cool/usefulness value would diminish. Especially in the case of flying cars. The Fifth Element and Back To The Future II showed the likely future of flying cars if they ever emerge. The earliest adopters would have a laugh but when they became affordable you'd have the authorities instituting skylanes and aerial traffic lights. The only difference would be you'd end up in a jam in the sky. And unlike a traffic jam on the ground where you can turn your engine off and save petrol, in an air jam you'd have to your engine going to keep you aloft.
I'd also hate to have my car stall mid air. In fact, it might get to the point where, a la Back to the Future II, the roads would become almost deserted so any ground-based drivers would benefit most.
You really have to hand it to the Microsoft marketing dept for making everyone believe they need to upgrade every year.
And also people for being so gullible as to either be born wanting the new version of absolutely or to be hoodwinked so easily. It's not just the software industry where people are so easily fooled - the fuss over new registration cars etc is just one of many examples of human gullability. (Cynicism hat off)
Yes. OpenOffice is pure evil and will bring about the rise of communism, followed by the fall of civilization. The skies will burn and the rivers will turn red with blood. The Great Old Ones will return to bring unimagined terror to mankind and it truly will be hell on earth.
Oh, wait, my mistake.. that's just the text of a Microsoft internal memo.
Call me a stickler but I'd much rather have a an actual proper DVD/CD/VHS than a burned DVD or virtual copy. From a financial point of view, providing purely digital online copies of songs/movies will make them much easier to copy and share. Currently - allegedley - if you want to perhaps share a movie you have to rip it, encode it to a managable size and then send it on, a good few hours of work/processor time.
With a digital copy it'd be just a matter of decrypting the file, sending it along and there you go. If DeCSS was the best the industry could come up with then I don't forsee any online media protection scheme being hard to crack.
And as for the reduction in costs being passed on to the end user? Doubtful - they'll just be absorbed as profit because if people are happy to pay current prices, why reduce them? CDs were cheaper to produce than tapes yet are more expensive.
Could this perhaps be used as a pseudo GPS system? Rather than determining your position by a GPS signal, could have data on gradients of an area and have the PDA in your car in some sort of cradle to hold it flat. Then the PDA would detect when you were going up a hill (the software would have to discount speed bumps) and update your shown position. Provided you kept to the roads, by checking your car's angle it could determine your exact position, at worst it could be used to show were on a contour map you were.
Of course the eco freaks won't like the idea of Orion being nuclear powered...
And rightly so. Nuclear power is an unnecessary and eco-unfriendly option. Whale blubber, dolphin snouts and bear cub hides make a far more efficent fuel when burnt.
Well, let's just hope Atlantis rises in time to catch the incoming object.
'At last! We, the long dormant Atlanteans have risen to claim our rightful place as rulers as the world and be the object of worship for hordes of crystal-wearing new agers. Oh, bugger.'*wham*
... perhaps a gift of penis enlargment pills and generic viagra wrapped up Nigeriam spam printouts might be appropriate.
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However, there are quite a lot of places [rpc1.org] where you can get region-free firmware..
Flash once and liberate your drive from geographical restrictions forever!
Which is what I did, and it worked fine with Windows 98 and 95, after I just deleted a registry setting. However, 2000 and XP are, in my experience, a lot more tricky and recreated the registry setting on reloading and needed some DVD Genie style software to work. It seems later vers of Windows do more to stop you playing DVDs you legally own yet which the manufacturers have decided should be viewed only in certain countries.
.. would be a feature that could play DVDs from any region on Windows regardless of how many changes the OS thinks you've got left. Currently, even if your DVD-Rom is region-free, Windows XP and 2000 are real swines when it comes to standing in the way of region-free playback.
Why do people sign electronic pads at stores when they use credit cards?
Not just at stores, either. In the UK, at least, one courier uses handheld computer type devices - which electronically capture your signature. All you'd need to do to get an electronic copy of someone's signature would be to package up any old thing in a package, get one of these devices, deliver it, and hey presto.
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.. for anyone with a Cobra, a mining laser and a fuel scoop. I'm sure we'll be seeing chunks being sold off online. With 'OMG! BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM! WOW!' listings on E-Bay fifty years from now. Each with their own certificates of authenticity, of course.
Yes. Alerting would be virus writers who can then use the information to create yet more hole exploiting viruses and bring systems crashing to a halt. Oh, wait, that'd be a reason *not* to have it on Slashdot. Hmm.. do stories highlighting the exploits do more harm than good?
That'd be The Rock, surely? After all, with Jesse Ventura managing to get into politics, it can't be long before more wrestlers take that path, and I for one welcome our new smackdown-laying senators.
Well, 'bend over and brace yourself' does seem to pretty much sum up the RIAA's legal philosophy.
....I always wanted to hear a 'Speak and Spell' swear its face off.
I can't say I'm surprised by the company not offering support. Having worked supporting home PC users I know that they're far from savvy and can be testing at the best of times, downright infuriating at worst. If you then throw 'Linux' into the mix which is less user friendly than Windows - though it is getting friendlier by the day - you'd end up with a lot of frustrated users and techs. I doubt we'll see Linux being installed and fully supported on PCs sold to Joe Public till it's at least as user friendly as Windows. Which for all its faults, is quite hard to mess up.
I'd also hate to have my car stall mid air. In fact, it might get to the point where, a la Back to the Future II, the roads would become almost deserted so any ground-based drivers would benefit most.
And also people for being so gullible as to either be born wanting the new version of absolutely or to be hoodwinked so easily. It's not just the software industry where people are so easily fooled - the fuss over new registration cars etc is just one of many examples of human gullability. (Cynicism hat off)
Yes. OpenOffice is pure evil and will bring about the rise of communism, followed by the fall of civilization. The skies will burn and the rivers will turn red with blood. The Great Old Ones will return to bring unimagined terror to mankind and it truly will be hell on earth.
Oh, wait, my mistake.. that's just the text of a Microsoft internal memo.
Ah well - never mind, we can use them to propel the kitten-tipped missiles we'll be firing at the asteroid.
With a digital copy it'd be just a matter of decrypting the file, sending it along and there you go. If DeCSS was the best the industry could come up with then I don't forsee any online media protection scheme being hard to crack.
And as for the reduction in costs being passed on to the end user? Doubtful - they'll just be absorbed as profit because if people are happy to pay current prices, why reduce them? CDs were cheaper to produce than tapes yet are more expensive.
.. now this? Almost makes me want to move to Germany.
And since when has an idea not being practical ever put off those who regularly grace Slashdot's front page?
Could this perhaps be used as a pseudo GPS system? Rather than determining your position by a GPS signal, could have data on gradients of an area and have the PDA in your car in some sort of cradle to hold it flat. Then the PDA would detect when you were going up a hill (the software would have to discount speed bumps) and update your shown position. Provided you kept to the roads, by checking your car's angle it could determine your exact position, at worst it could be used to show were on a contour map you were.
... with a Gameboy Advance game, Kirby's Pinball - you put the cart in, moved the GBA abound and the onscreen character reacted appropriately.
.. about a guy whose car went off the road while he was tilting his mobile trying to keep a virtual car on the road.
And rightly so. Nuclear power is an unnecessary and eco-unfriendly option. Whale blubber, dolphin snouts and bear cub hides make a far more efficent fuel when burnt.
'At last! We, the long dormant Atlanteans have risen to claim our rightful place as rulers as the world and be the object of worship for hordes of crystal-wearing new agers. Oh, bugger.'*wham*
Seriously, kudos to Mozilla for having a spam filter that is better than any of the non confirmation spam-tools I've seen.
Which is what I did, and it worked fine with Windows 98 and 95, after I just deleted a registry setting. However, 2000 and XP are, in my experience, a lot more tricky and recreated the registry setting on reloading and needed some DVD Genie style software to work. It seems later vers of Windows do more to stop you playing DVDs you legally own yet which the manufacturers have decided should be viewed only in certain countries.
Yep, but with all the features - saving streaming content, multi-region DVD playing, etc, in one single player.
.. the ability to save streaming content straight to HD wouldn't go amiss either.
.. would be a feature that could play DVDs from any region on Windows regardless of how many changes the OS thinks you've got left. Currently, even if your DVD-Rom is region-free, Windows XP and 2000 are real swines when it comes to standing in the way of region-free playback.
Why do people sign electronic pads at stores when they use credit cards? Not just at stores, either. In the UK, at least, one courier uses handheld computer type devices - which electronically capture your signature. All you'd need to do to get an electronic copy of someone's signature would be to package up any old thing in a package, get one of these devices, deliver it, and hey presto.