The world's first Segway tractor pull. Possibly. Though I can't help but feel that any Segway could be decimated by even the weediest competitor off Robot Wars.
.. an OS with East-Asian language support built in. If it's halfway decent, I can see it being used in cybercafes all over the globe. It'll sure be a lot easier than, as I've some Japanese travellers have to do, log on at a cafe, trying to install Japanese character sets/keyboards . They'll be able to send emails in their native language/character set right off the bat.
obstructing the operation of a shop is, and they can and will sue you for their lose in sales.
But if all you were doing was disrupting their RFID tracking, how would that lose them sales? They'd have to prove that RFID was a necessary part of their loss-prevention and then try and say you were directly responsible for their shoplifting losses by blocking RFID, tenuous at best.
I hold the "Words on a webpage" patent. It turns out that all of you will have to pay me royalty fees!
Trouble is, I hold the 'Placing comments regards an item of news on a flexible message archiving system' patent, which I'm willing to waive fees on except in your case. So going by the amount of posts you've made on the forum, you owe me quite a tidy sum of money. Shall I send the baliffs round, or shall we call it quits?
A more proactive - albeit possibly legally dodgy as you'd be transmitting - would be to get a RFID transmitter that transmitted random RFID codes as you walked around the store. I believe this would be more effective in stopping RFID in that it would make the system worthless, flooding the system with reams of false data. Whether it needs doing is another thing - there's a degree of paranoia surrounding this whole thing, but I sure as hell don't want my purchases RFIDed.
He's working for SCO's press department. Cue news eed..
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, SCO's Press Officer denied that the billion pound judgement against the company, awarded to IBM, will in any way affect the company's pursuit of Linux Licensing Fees from other companies. As Mr al-Sahaf explained... 'We have not lost to IBM. We have in fact had a great and astounding victory. Tonight we shall dance around in the piles of money that we have been awarded. We have more joyous news in that all Linux users have agreed to pay us for developing Linux completely on our own, and with no help from outsiders.'
I just hope that they value a quality assurance process more then the typical software engineer. In a game like this you would not be able to release version 2.0.
I think they might have difficulty finding beta testers, though.
So I guess he is one of those that think that NASA should send up more manned Space Shutlle's to test if they are reliable?
Yep. I hear John Romero's at a loose end.
I mean, sorry to be un-idealistic here, but web-broadcasters thinking they could play commercial music without paying for it was naive at best.
Let's face it, we're living in a capitalist society here and the free and easy image of the internet was never going to last.
If said web broadcasters really do object, the best way to hurt the RIAA is by not using their music.-There are plenty of bands out their on the web whose music could likely be picked up relatively cheaply, and denying the RIAA future profits.
There's a third factor that should also be taken into consideration - that of just how easy it is to completely mess up an install of the OS. Even if you have an OS that is completely user friendly, making it easy to do whatever you want, if the users have access to essential functions of the system, they *will* mess it up. An ideal OS would be user friendly, secure *and* even the most determined good intentioned meddler would be unable to make a dent in it.
Because blatant abuse of time travel is the only explanation I can see for these lawsuits. It's beyond ridiculous - a technology/feature is used by software company X for ages then a crappy little company pops up claiming they patented it ages ago. I'm astonished by how cases as ridiculous as these even get to court.
No, I'm sure it's Hercules - The Legendary Journeys. Albeit it's spelt Iolaus. Coming soon - Xena Vs SCO. 'Your honour, I aim to prove that my client has the rights to tax what is supposed to be an open source sy...' 'Aiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi!' *thwack* 'Case closed due to decapitation of prosecuting attorney. I find in favour of IBM and their unorthodox but effective representative.'
To keep your analogy in context shouldn't it be Daleks rather Terminators?
Not really - The Terminator and HKs in The Terminator themselves were esentially robots, albeit with an organic covering some cases. And Skynet became self aware on its own. The Daleks on the other hand had a living brain as an essential organic component without which it could not function. And clearly the Roomba would have no way of aquiring such organic materi... hey, anyone seen the cat?
I'm not sure how software not doing the job is related to it being pirated. Barring a few programs - eg Operation Flashpoint which uses FADE technology to supposedly degrade in performance if a pirate copy is used, I can't see why pirate copies aren't functionally identical to shop versions.
And like most methods of protection, I wouldn't be surprised if Symantec's product activiation was cracked pretty quickly indeed. I suspect Symantec would be better off spending the money they spend on developing/buying this technology adding to the fund they use to pursue and close down the spammers who try and sell pirated copies of Norton AV, System Works et al.
One thing occurs to me regards the Roomba - just how well does it stand up to kids? It sounds like a great invention but knowing how much stress kids can put on pieces of equipment. Especially equipment that might attract their attention by moving around of its own accord? Clearly it can't be expected to withstand Little Billy pushing it downstairs just to see what would happen, but can the Roomba's withstand bumps and knocks?
.. am creeped out by the idea of sentient cleaner robots running around, ever since I saw the 'Paradise Towers' episode of Dr Who where the robots took to cleaning up humans. It's a short step from cleaner robots to plasma gun toting Terminators. Honest (adjusts tin foil hat)
Plenty of nice features there, but the Baysian filtering alone is worth its weight in gold. Mozilla's email client is better at filtering out spam than most commercial standalone spam killers I've tried. As for spellchecking, how about an on the fly spellchecker that actually took in a dodgy l33t JeffK (www.somethingawful.com/jeffk) style webpage and translated it to readable english?
Also keep every memo email and piece of paper you're given, and if your boss or the customer tries to give you a new task/system change verbally, make sure they put it down on paper, so if something does to askew, you've damn well got a paper trail to deal with any recriminations.
... the customer goes over your head to your point-haired boss who of course says 'no problem' and leaves you with the work having no comprehension of how long it'll take.
One thing affecting how money women take up gaming may be 'adult' or 'mature' games. Or rather games that are labelled 'adult' but are in fact as adult as stitting on a wall drinking panda pops and swearing. Maybe more games with genuinely mature themes as opposed to just wholesale gore would attract more female gamers (and no, that doesn't mean shopping games)
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The world's first Segway tractor pull. Possibly. Though I can't help but feel that any Segway could be decimated by even the weediest competitor off Robot Wars.
.. an OS with East-Asian language support built in. If it's halfway decent, I can see it being used in cybercafes all over the globe. It'll sure be a lot easier than, as I've some Japanese travellers have to do, log on at a cafe, trying to install Japanese character sets/keyboards . They'll be able to send emails in their native language/character set right off the bat.
And you just know if you do that she'll start hogging the duvet.
But if all you were doing was disrupting their RFID tracking, how would that lose them sales? They'd have to prove that RFID was a necessary part of their loss-prevention and then try and say you were directly responsible for their shoplifting losses by blocking RFID, tenuous at best.
Trouble is, I hold the 'Placing comments regards an item of news on a flexible message archiving system' patent, which I'm willing to waive fees on except in your case. So going by the amount of posts you've made on the forum, you owe me quite a tidy sum of money. Shall I send the baliffs round, or shall we call it quits?
Has anyone got any links inside the sites that are supposedly shut down? Are the sites really shut down or has the index.html just been changed?
A more proactive - albeit possibly legally dodgy as you'd be transmitting - would be to get a RFID transmitter that transmitted random RFID codes as you walked around the store. I believe this would be more effective in stopping RFID in that it would make the system worthless, flooding the system with reams of false data. Whether it needs doing is another thing - there's a degree of paranoia surrounding this whole thing, but I sure as hell don't want my purchases RFIDed.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, SCO's Press Officer denied that the billion pound judgement against the company, awarded to IBM, will in any way affect the company's pursuit of Linux Licensing Fees from other companies. As Mr al-Sahaf explained... 'We have not lost to IBM. We have in fact had a great and astounding victory. Tonight we shall dance around in the piles of money that we have been awarded. We have more joyous news in that all Linux users have agreed to pay us for developing Linux completely on our own, and with no help from outsiders.'
... FPS does it get in Quake 3 Benchmarks? Slashdot Benchmarkers must be told.
I think they might have difficulty finding beta testers, though.
So I guess he is one of those that think that NASA should send up more manned Space Shutlle's to test if they are reliable? Yep. I hear John Romero's at a loose end.
If said web broadcasters really do object, the best way to hurt the RIAA is by not using their music.-There are plenty of bands out their on the web whose music could likely be picked up relatively cheaply, and denying the RIAA future profits.
There's a third factor that should also be taken into consideration - that of just how easy it is to completely mess up an install of the OS. Even if you have an OS that is completely user friendly, making it easy to do whatever you want, if the users have access to essential functions of the system, they *will* mess it up. An ideal OS would be user friendly, secure *and* even the most determined good intentioned meddler would be unable to make a dent in it.
Because blatant abuse of time travel is the only explanation I can see for these lawsuits. It's beyond ridiculous - a technology/feature is used by software company X for ages then a crappy little company pops up claiming they patented it ages ago. I'm astonished by how cases as ridiculous as these even get to court.
No, I'm sure it's Hercules - The Legendary Journeys. Albeit it's spelt Iolaus. Coming soon - Xena Vs SCO. 'Your honour, I aim to prove that my client has the rights to tax what is supposed to be an open source sy...' 'Aiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyi!' *thwack* 'Case closed due to decapitation of prosecuting attorney. I find in favour of IBM and their unorthodox but effective representative.'
Not really - The Terminator and HKs in The Terminator themselves were esentially robots, albeit with an organic covering some cases. And Skynet became self aware on its own. The Daleks on the other hand had a living brain as an essential organic component without which it could not function. And clearly the Roomba would have no way of aquiring such organic materi... hey, anyone seen the cat?
And like most methods of protection, I wouldn't be surprised if Symantec's product activiation was cracked pretty quickly indeed. I suspect Symantec would be better off spending the money they spend on developing/buying this technology adding to the fund they use to pursue and close down the spammers who try and sell pirated copies of Norton AV, System Works et al.
One thing occurs to me regards the Roomba - just how well does it stand up to kids? It sounds like a great invention but knowing how much stress kids can put on pieces of equipment. Especially equipment that might attract their attention by moving around of its own accord? Clearly it can't be expected to withstand Little Billy pushing it downstairs just to see what would happen, but can the Roomba's withstand bumps and knocks?
.. am creeped out by the idea of sentient cleaner robots running around, ever since I saw the 'Paradise Towers' episode of Dr Who where the robots took to cleaning up humans. It's a short step from cleaner robots to plasma gun toting Terminators. Honest (adjusts tin foil hat)
Plenty of nice features there, but the Baysian filtering alone is worth its weight in gold. Mozilla's email client is better at filtering out spam than most commercial standalone spam killers I've tried. As for spellchecking, how about an on the fly spellchecker that actually took in a dodgy l33t JeffK (www.somethingawful.com/jeffk) style webpage and translated it to readable english?
Also keep every memo email and piece of paper you're given, and if your boss or the customer tries to give you a new task/system change verbally, make sure they put it down on paper, so if something does to askew, you've damn well got a paper trail to deal with any recriminations.
... the customer goes over your head to your point-haired boss who of course says 'no problem' and leaves you with the work having no comprehension of how long it'll take.
... and just as 3D Realms were porting Duke Nukem Forever for it.
Now let's see just how many new 'alien' features -pyramids, etc, your average tinfoil hat wearer spots in these images.
One thing affecting how money women take up gaming may be 'adult' or 'mature' games. Or rather games that are labelled 'adult' but are in fact as adult as stitting on a wall drinking panda pops and swearing. Maybe more games with genuinely mature themes as opposed to just wholesale gore would attract more female gamers (and no, that doesn't mean shopping games)