Many schools have removed payphones due to the saturation of cell phones, not to mention the large amount of abuse and prank calls occurred at those payphones.
The kid should have "borrowed" someone elses phone, used it, and returned it ("Hey, you dropped your phone.")
Considering it wasn't The Giant, but The Spaniard (Mandy Patinkin, who is, as far as I know, still alive) who said that paraphrased (and very poorly, I assume you) quote, it is rather inconceivable.
You're assuming they allow booting off a device that isn't the primary hard drive. How many people who know anything about computer security actually continue to allow non-internal hard drive booting on a system that is intended for general use after it's set up and installed?
Maybe this will turn out like the Netpliance i-Opener, and we'll get a nifty little machine we can hack to do whatever we like. If it's going to play movies, it'll probably have a decent (4") screen, and it should have a competent processor in it, even if the video decompression is all hardware.
At the least it could be used as a remote mp3 player/picture frame/clock/bedside movie machine.
The computer has to actively seek the drive and look for an appropriate filesystem to boot from.
In order for a boot disk to "violate" this patent, the computer would have to turn on and automatically boot from that floppy upon insertion, or something of that sort.
I'm not trying to say it's not yet another stupid patent, but just that I'm not sure your example would apply.:-)
That and most people don't like the idea of having to look at whoever they're talking to, or have who they're talking to looking at them.
Who here even stays seated the entire time they're on the phone anyway? Cordless phones were a huge hit for a reason; it lets people do other things when they're on the phone, although that can be a bad thing (like when you're talking to someone and you realize they're using the bathroom) Yeah. Video phones won't be very useful outside of business transactions.
That sounds more like an interface issue than a use issue. I can quite easily envision a commander setting waypoints and targets on his electronic screen, then hitting a "send" button of some sort, and having the waypoints and targets sent to the people he's commanding. Hell, it shouldn't be too much of an issue to assign individual or unit objectives with just a few taps.
Of course, as to your second point, what field commander goes anywhere without appropriate backups in place? Just because GPS is widely used doesn't mean they shouldn't take along a compass and map, does it?
I got my wife semi-hooked on games mainly by just playing them while she was around. I spent a few weeks playing Grandia II on my Dreamcast, and she finally let her curiosity get the better of her, and sat down and played it through. Now she's playing Animal Crossing, and really liking it. She likes all the different things to do, all the interactions, the letter writing, decorating, digging, etc, etc. Puzzle games as mentioned above are great as well, but I've noticed that once they find a puzzle game the like, they'll only be interested in playing it or something similar.
I'm not sure if this has been posted or not, but try this (this is how it works in W2K, dunno about XP): 1) Make a copy of the admin account and make the password something easy for the kids to remember. 2) Go into the local security policy, add the account to the "Deny Logon locally" entry under "Local Policies/User Rights" 3) Give the password to your kids and teach them how to do the "right click + run as" thing.
This way, they can run the programs when they need to, but they can't log in using that account and screw up the system.
I don't think so, because they have to inject the tumor directly with the reovirus.
The reovirus probably stays limited to the GI tract, and doesn't make it to the locations where cancer may be. The matter of relative concentrations of the reovirus should be kept in mind as well.
That, and the general health benefits of not driking sewage and river water would probably outweigh the faint chance of consuming enough reovirus to heal your cancer.
wouldn't installing and making the files available to others using the sharing software be implicit permission for those people to browse the files made available?
The RIAA isn't installing any kind of software on these people's computers to get the file lists. They are using the sharing software itself to get the lists.
Ahh. Understood. Yeah, you'd just treat it like someone constantly asking you for money or equipment. Most games offer commands to completely ignore someone, and if they're a constant nuisance, you can report them. But I don't think you'll find it to be a problem with your gaming sessions, should you choose to join. Just looking at it from a numbers perspective makes such a situation highly unlikely.
OK, so why can't you react the same way to them as you would to anyone else who is bothering you? There are systems in place to take care of the annoyances of other players in the game. Ignore them, ask them to stop, and when they don't, report them as harrassing you. Personally, I think you've just become a tad too sensitive about the whole thing. That other person has just as much right to be there as you do, and has as much right to utilize the system as you do. They are using it for a different purpose than you are, but I don't think there are any rules in place in most of the big MMOGs that say you can't spread the Word and attempt to bring people to believe. Use the tools that are given to you, that is your recourse.
Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine? I'm sorry but this sounds like wishful thinking. One more point impossible" Why is this impossible? There are motherboards with optical audio in and out built in, and you can buy PCI sound cards with optical audio built in for less than $50. I bought a Gamesourround Fortissimo II more than a year ago for less than $40, and it's got optical in and out. And if they're wanting to create a media creation and/or editing system, then of course they would have optical in/out.
Actually, I remember a LOT of people discovering Puzzle Bobble Online back when Tycho (of Penny Arcade fame) introduced so many people onto the (Japanese, I think) server, they had to shut it down and create English-only and Japanese-only servers for it. Very fun game, but not as fast as Snood, which is (in my opinion) one of the nice things about Snood.
ICQ logs every message that comes down the pipe, and organises it chronologically by user ID number in a database. I've got ICQ conversations in my backup archives that go back to when I first got the application; approximately early-mid 1997. Backing it up is easy on any platform, as it stores it in a couple of files in a single directory. You can have a scheduled task download the directory on a weekly basis and put it in the backup directories. And since they're all text, you don't need the user password to read them (if someone leaves), and they're easily zipped up and encrypted.
I agreecompletely... While I respect his business acumen and ability to get his way, I don't think I'd be able to handle him as a friend, or even a business associate. What I sincerely hope is that his management style doesn't get mirrored by too many people. There are many ways to skin a cat, but I think Steve Jobs would be one of the few people who could make a cat feel so small that its skin just fell off.
Oh, you mean like gasoline and cigarettes? c'mon, man, be reasonable. If people want something badly enough, they'll spend money on it, regardless of the taxes that are imposed on it. If you were to refuse to use or pay for everything that has odd or obscure taxes attached to it, your life would probably be a little less exciting than it is now.
*of course, all this only applies to the US, since I don't know about the tax codes of other countries, but I'd bet it's fairly similar.
Not if you buy a whole bunch of them, and are there anyway on business/vacation. Especially business, because someone else is probably footing the bill for the airfare and hotel.
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Many schools have removed payphones due to the saturation of cell phones, not to mention the large amount of abuse and prank calls occurred at those payphones.
The kid should have "borrowed" someone elses phone, used it, and returned it ("Hey, you dropped your phone.")
Considering it wasn't The Giant, but The Spaniard (Mandy Patinkin, who is, as far as I know, still alive) who said that paraphrased (and very poorly, I assume you) quote, it is rather inconceivable.
You use that word.
Are you sure it means what you think it means?
You're assuming they allow booting off a device that isn't the primary hard drive.
:-)
How many people who know anything about computer security actually continue to allow non-internal hard drive booting on a system that is intended for general use after it's set up and installed?
Not many, I'd hope.
Maybe this will turn out like the Netpliance i-Opener, and we'll get a nifty little machine we can hack to do whatever we like. If it's going to play movies, it'll probably have a decent (4") screen, and it should have a competent processor in it, even if the video decompression is all hardware.
At the least it could be used as a remote mp3 player/picture frame/clock/bedside movie machine.
I don't think a bootable floppy would count.
:-)
The computer has to actively seek the drive and look for an appropriate filesystem to boot from.
In order for a boot disk to "violate" this patent, the computer would have to turn on and automatically boot from that floppy upon insertion, or something of that sort.
I'm not trying to say it's not yet another stupid patent, but just that I'm not sure your example would apply.
That and most people don't like the idea of having to look at whoever they're talking to, or have who they're talking to looking at them.
Who here even stays seated the entire time they're on the phone anyway? Cordless phones were a huge hit for a reason; it lets people do other things when they're on the phone, although that can be a bad thing (like when you're talking to someone and you realize they're using the bathroom) Yeah. Video phones won't be very useful outside of business transactions.
I think he means "nigh" impossible.
Meaning, it's possible, but the chances of it happening are slim, or nearly impossible"
That sounds more like an interface issue than a use issue.
I can quite easily envision a commander setting waypoints and targets on his electronic screen, then hitting a "send" button of some sort, and having the waypoints and targets sent to the people he's commanding. Hell, it shouldn't be too much of an issue to assign individual or unit objectives with just a few taps.
Of course, as to your second point, what field commander goes anywhere without appropriate backups in place? Just because GPS is widely used doesn't mean they shouldn't take along a compass and map, does it?
I got my wife semi-hooked on games mainly by just playing them while she was around. I spent a few weeks playing Grandia II on my Dreamcast, and she finally let her curiosity get the better of her, and sat down and played it through.
Now she's playing Animal Crossing, and really liking it. She likes all the different things to do, all the interactions, the letter writing, decorating, digging, etc, etc.
Puzzle games as mentioned above are great as well, but I've noticed that once they find a puzzle game the like, they'll only be interested in playing it or something similar.
Or, it could be truck!
I'm not sure if this has been posted or not, but try this (this is how it works in W2K, dunno about XP):
1) Make a copy of the admin account and make the password something easy for the kids to remember.
2) Go into the local security policy, add the account to the "Deny Logon locally" entry under "Local Policies/User Rights"
3) Give the password to your kids and teach them how to do the "right click + run as" thing.
This way, they can run the programs when they need to, but they can't log in using that account and screw up the system.
They'll probably just toss a dozen of them into their trunks and drive to a Best Buy or Circuit City parking lot and "hey buddy" some of the shoppers.
Or they can set up a garage/junk sale at a flea market and sell them off there one at a time.
crminals are clever folks, they'll figure out a way to sell what they steal.
I don't think so, because they have to inject the tumor directly with the reovirus.
The reovirus probably stays limited to the GI tract, and doesn't make it to the locations where cancer may be. The matter of relative concentrations of the reovirus should be kept in mind as well.
That, and the general health benefits of not driking sewage and river water would probably outweigh the faint chance of consuming enough reovirus to heal your cancer.
no, by the uh... stroke.
wouldn't installing and making the files available to others using the sharing software be implicit permission for those people to browse the files made available?
The RIAA isn't installing any kind of software on these people's computers to get the file lists. They are using the sharing software itself to get the lists.
Ahh. Understood.
Yeah, you'd just treat it like someone constantly asking you for money or equipment. Most games offer commands to completely ignore someone, and if they're a constant nuisance, you can report them.
But I don't think you'll find it to be a problem with your gaming sessions, should you choose to join. Just looking at it from a numbers perspective makes such a situation highly unlikely.
OK, so why can't you react the same way to them as you would to anyone else who is bothering you?
There are systems in place to take care of the annoyances of other players in the game. Ignore them, ask them to stop, and when they don't, report them as harrassing you.
Personally, I think you've just become a tad too sensitive about the whole thing. That other person has just as much right to be there as you do, and has as much right to utilize the system as you do. They are using it for a different purpose than you are, but I don't think there are any rules in place in most of the big MMOGs that say you can't spread the Word and attempt to bring people to believe.
Use the tools that are given to you, that is your recourse.
I think that particular phrase means you don't have to purchase a product in order to enter to win (because then it can be construed as gambling).
However, I would compare this more to when Mastercard offers to pay the credit card bill of whoever's bill clocks in at 11:17am on 23 December, 2003.
"Optical and analog audio in and out
Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine? I'm sorry but this sounds like wishful thinking. One more point impossible"
Why is this impossible?
There are motherboards with optical audio in and out built in, and you can buy PCI sound cards with optical audio built in for less than $50. I bought a Gamesourround Fortissimo II more than a year ago for less than $40, and it's got optical in and out.
And if they're wanting to create a media creation and/or editing system, then of course they would have optical in/out.
Actually, I remember a LOT of people discovering Puzzle Bobble Online back when Tycho (of Penny Arcade fame) introduced so many people onto the (Japanese, I think) server, they had to shut it down and create English-only and Japanese-only servers for it.
Very fun game, but not as fast as Snood, which is (in my opinion) one of the nice things about Snood.
ICQ logs every message that comes down the pipe, and organises it chronologically by user ID number in a database.
I've got ICQ conversations in my backup archives that go back to when I first got the application; approximately early-mid 1997.
Backing it up is easy on any platform, as it stores it in a couple of files in a single directory. You can have a scheduled task download the directory on a weekly basis and put it in the backup directories.
And since they're all text, you don't need the user password to read them (if someone leaves), and they're easily zipped up and encrypted.
I agreecompletely...
While I respect his business acumen and ability to get his way, I don't think I'd be able to handle him as a friend, or even a business associate.
What I sincerely hope is that his management style doesn't get mirrored by too many people. There are many ways to skin a cat, but I think Steve Jobs would be one of the few people who could make a cat feel so small that its skin just fell off.
Oh, you mean like gasoline and cigarettes?
c'mon, man, be reasonable. If people want something badly enough, they'll spend money on it, regardless of the taxes that are imposed on it.
If you were to refuse to use or pay for everything that has odd or obscure taxes attached to it, your life would probably be a little less exciting than it is now.
*of course, all this only applies to the US, since I don't know about the tax codes of other countries, but I'd bet it's fairly similar.
Not if you buy a whole bunch of them, and are there anyway on business/vacation. Especially business, because someone else is probably footing the bill for the airfare and hotel.