Stealing == Theft of property, ie, to deprive someone of there possesion.
The issue is illegal copying, ie, making a copy without the permission of the owner. IT IS NOT THEFT!!!
The *RAA have done everything they can to brainwash people into thinking the making a copy of a song is theft, and it seems they have succeded in conditioning you to there way of thinking.
For the record, I do not condone copyright infringment in general, and those people who do copy music, be it by download or friends CD=>your iPod are breaking the law.
HOWEVER, format conversion/backup copying is fine, as long as you have the original.
The question of wether "Black Holes" exist is nothing new.
The only way that a singularity can exist in Einstien's Theory of General Relitivity is if you accept that there can be areas of space/time that have infinite states, ie, ininite mass or gravity. I've heard several Astrophysisits coment about how with GToR you have to create special cases for a classic "Black Hole" to exist because anytime you get an infinite value as a solution to a GToR equation you have to really wonder if you have done your math right.
A Gravistar matches the charicteristics of a singularity close enough to fit in with the observed data, but doesn't have infinite values in its equations. I don't know if they are compatiable with a MECO, but I don't see why not, they are both collapsed matter/energy and at the denistys involved there isn't much difference between the two, it might even be that a MECO is some sort of proto-gravistar.
Its been known for quite awhile that Einstien's GToR has some issues with it, 20 years from now he may be considered the same way Newton is now, his equations work great at the resolutions they where created from, but they don't explain everything, thats what (insert new theory here) does.
Lets think about this for a moment, what is really going to happen?
How many times have we seen this kind of game from MS? Oh sure, they may actually have to pay EUR280 mil this time, but will that really hurt them, come on, the company still has BILLIONS in cash reserves.
M$ will just try and appeal or negociate to pay as little as they can, then pull it out of their cash fund or something and NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
Until the really big players start telling MS to go to hell and M$ starts getting hit HARD (billion $ fines anyone?) they will just continue as before.
You really think M$ won't have something like "...by entering the contestant assigns any and all rights to any project/idea submited to MicroSoft, Inc. in connection with this contest, without any renumeration, now or in the future, in perpituity" somewhere on the entry paperwork?
Under President George Sr., Yeah This is a bad joke
Under President Clinton, Yeah this is a bad joke
Under Emporeror Bush, this fucking scares me.
A fitting quote from Sid Myer's Alpha Centaury
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last loose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Librarian's Preface"
Acording to Clarke's notes in the copy of 2001 I have Kubrick decided to drop Saturn because he didn't want to confuse the viewers about where the Monolith was, plus try explaining a gravity slingshot manuver to joe sixpack moviegoer.
Your dead on about Iapetus though, when the first images where sent back from Voyager 1 showing the moon exactly as Clarke had described it, right down to the black dot (in the book its the Monolith)in the middle Carl Sagan promptly sent a copy of the image to Clarke with the note "Thinking of you..."
Sounds like 2000 was as far back as he was able to test.
This exploit/backdoor likely goes back as far as WMF.
And to all those people who said I was paranoid back in the '90s when I said that Gates had propably put some kind of Backdoor into Windows, HA! I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!
Its the cost of the equipment, not the quality that will decide this. The porn industry is just the most likely be first adopters of the cheapest of these two and that will help generate the mass volume that is needed to set the de-facto standard. Think Wallmart is going to start selling anything for which there is not a market, or only a small niche market? No way, until there is a large established market for one format or the other Wallmart is not going carry much of a selection of titles for either of the formats unless they get such a massivly good deal from the MPAA or whoever for the handfull of titles that are going to be available in the near future.
Though on consideration you are likely right about the porn industry not being as much of a player in this battle. During the BetaMax/VHS conflict they saw a distribution channel into peoples homes, now they are far ahead of the MPAA and the rest in embracing the Internet as a distribution channel, they may even effectivly ignor the new formats.
Funny thing is this all may turn out to be a non-issue, something new will likely come along before the BluRay/HD DVD conflict gets settled that is so great that people stop buying either of them to wait for this new format to hit the market. What it will be I'm not even going to try and guess. But now I kind of doubt that either of these will become as much a standard as DVDs are now, they will both have a share of the market but niether will suplant the other as DVDs are replacing VHS tapes.
Porn, and that is what will decide Blu-Ray/HD DVD.
Whichever format has the cheapest production equipment and licensing fees will be the one that the Adult Film Industry picks. Betamax was by far the higher quality format but the hardware cost so much compared to VHS that the AFI whent with VHS and the rest is history.
You may have "nothing to hide" but that doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who would like to keep the color of their boxers private. Just because your a rampant extrovert doesn't mean everyone else is too.
Think about it, if no one bothers to oppose this kind of thing because they have nothing to hide when it gets to where some agency wants to do something you don't like, maybe survalence cameras in the bathrooms of every house, it will be too late for you to do anything about it.
Sticking your head in the sand just puts your ass up high where its easy to give you the shaft.
Ever read this? "As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last loose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Librarian's Preface"
It's from Sid Myers "Alpha Centary". I think of this every time I hear about the goverment putting restrictions or "watch lists" on any kind of information.
500Mhz CPU, 1GB of storage... Thats plenty of power for 90% of the people out there. Hell, my mom is still using an old Compaq 486DX-33, 200M HD, no USB, everytime I tell her I could upgrade her system she says not to bother, what she has works perfectly for her, she doesn't need a faster CPU, USB or a bigger HD.
These systems, if the interface is clean and intuitive to use (I did not RTFA, sorry), would do great in any market.
FTFL "Our system makes an initial assessment within three minutes", three minutes for each person in line. And how many people on average are in line ahead of you when you enter it?
This may even be worse than the audio check crap.
For the record though I should have read your link before commenting, wouldn't have changed much of what I said but it would have been a bit more on topic to your comment, my bad.
If you think this will get you through the checkpoint faster then you must be smoking some really good stuff.
Look at how it is now, they only let people who are flying past the check point and it still takes longer than when they let everyone through.
This will just slow it down even more, FTFA "Tested in Russia, the two-stage GK-1 voice analyser requires that passengers don headphones at a console and answer "yes" or "no" into a microphone to questions about whether they are planning something illicit. This is going to speed things up how?
This is not going to help one F'ing bit. It just brings the US one step closer to being a police state.
Now mater what happens some people are going to be pissed, those with disabilitys (who in some cases are getting financal aid to buy accesability software) are ticked because the accessability software that is out there is almost all for MS-Windows, but there are likely just as many, probably more non-disabled people, who can't afford MS-Windows or MS-Office so they are left out too.
This would not be an issue is MS would stop being a bunch of arogant SOBs and support the open format. Its stuff like this that make me really hate MS.
I think the chances are far greater that your HDD would fail as opposed to your registry getting corrupted.
In the last 20 years I have had a HD fail 4 times, my CPU fail once right out of the box and never had a PS fail. In the same time I have had to deal with registry corruption so many times I lost count after ~20.
I don't know how MS did it, but I've never had a registry get corrupted.
Are you sure its MS?, maybe you just know how to program and have been very lucky with the apps you use. If you have never had a corrupt reg file then good for you, you may be one of the rare Windows programmers who does know what they are doing and does it right, unlike another portion of the population who does it all half-ass and causes all the trouble we complain about.
Any OS or app can be almost totaly error free, its all a mater of how much effort and time coders are able/willing to put in to it.
Pathfinder and the two rovers are the only ones I'm sure of as far as the Mars units go but some of the other space probes, Stardust,Deep Imapct and Deep Space 1 also used VxWorks.
I do know that the "safe mode" the probe has entered means that something locked up the main program long enough for a hardware watchdog to go off, rebooting it, during boot the init code checks what state the system is in, ie; did the WD go off, and if it did then it boots a known good App/OS package that will at least allow the probe to get in contact with Earth so it can be fixed.
I don't know for sure if NASA is doing this, I know I told the JPL people I met about it, but I know that with VxWorks it is possible to store data in the upper area of RAM and prevent the init code from clearing it so that a core dump of sorts can be used to isolate the problem so the main code can be adjusted, if needed, to correct the issue. This is what they did with Pathfinder when the base station kept rebooting every 20 min due to a priority inversion issue with a semaphore.
My family has a long history of service in the military, everyone of them who is still alive is sickend by how the ideals they fought to protect are being set aside.
Basic human rights apply to ALL, deny one person those rights and you set the stage for those rights to be denied to ALL.
Thats why I don't post very often. My beliefs and views are my own and I respect that others will always see things at least a little differently. Plus usualy someone else will say what I wanted to say but far more eloquently.
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Stealing == Theft of property, ie, to deprive someone of there possesion.
The issue is illegal copying, ie, making a copy without the permission of the owner. IT IS NOT THEFT!!!
The *RAA have done everything they can to brainwash people into thinking the making a copy of a song is theft, and it seems they have succeded in conditioning you to there way of thinking.
For the record, I do not condone copyright infringment in general, and those people who do copy music, be it by download or friends CD=>your iPod are breaking the law.
HOWEVER, format conversion/backup copying is fine, as long as you have the original.
The question of wether "Black Holes" exist is nothing new.
The only way that a singularity can exist in Einstien's Theory of General Relitivity is if you accept that there can be areas of space/time that have infinite states, ie, ininite mass or gravity. I've heard several Astrophysisits coment about how with GToR you have to create special cases for a classic "Black Hole" to exist because anytime you get an infinite value as a solution to a GToR equation you have to really wonder if you have done your math right.
A Gravistar matches the charicteristics of a singularity close enough to fit in with the observed data, but doesn't have infinite values in its equations. I don't know if they are compatiable with a MECO, but I don't see why not, they are both collapsed matter/energy and at the denistys involved there isn't much difference between the two, it might even be that a MECO is some sort of proto-gravistar.
Its been known for quite awhile that Einstien's GToR has some issues with it, 20 years from now he may be considered the same way Newton is now, his equations work great at the resolutions they where created from, but they don't explain everything, thats what (insert new theory here) does.
Disclaimer, IANAP
Lets think about this for a moment, what is really going to happen?
How many times have we seen this kind of game from MS? Oh sure, they may actually have to pay EUR280 mil this time, but will that really hurt them, come on, the company still has BILLIONS in cash reserves.
M$ will just try and appeal or negociate to pay as little as they can, then pull it out of their cash fund or something and NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
Until the really big players start telling MS to go to hell and M$ starts getting hit HARD (billion $ fines anyone?) they will just continue as before.
I'm not going to hold my breath.
The developer does. Not Microsoft!
You really think M$ won't have something like "...by entering the contestant assigns any and all rights to any project/idea submited to MicroSoft, Inc. in connection with this contest, without any renumeration, now or in the future, in perpituity" somewhere on the entry paperwork?
Under President Reagan, Yeah this is a bad joke.
Under President George Sr., Yeah This is a bad joke
Under President Clinton, Yeah this is a bad joke
Under Emporeror Bush, this fucking scares me.
A fitting quote from Sid Myer's Alpha Centaury
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last loose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." -- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Librarian's Preface"
Acording to Clarke's notes in the copy of 2001 I have Kubrick decided to drop Saturn because he didn't want to confuse the viewers about where the Monolith was, plus try explaining a gravity slingshot manuver to joe sixpack moviegoer.
..."
Your dead on about Iapetus though, when the first images where sent back from Voyager 1 showing the moon exactly as Clarke had described it, right down to the black dot (in the book its the Monolith)in the middle Carl Sagan promptly sent a copy of the image to Clarke with the note "Thinking of you
" i'm getting paranoid... ;) i'm getting scared ..."
Good, paranoia and fear are healthy responses when someone threatens you, your lifestyle, your beliefs.
This is all going to get a lot worse before anything starts to improve.
What if the parent is wearing a tinted contact lens? That will change how the iris looks to the software
I can see this pissing off a lot of people with the added inconvienience and hassle it will cause.
"..from at least Windows 2000 on, .."
Sounds like 2000 was as far back as he was able to test.
This exploit/backdoor likely goes back as far as WMF.
And to all those people who said I was paranoid back in the '90s when I said that Gates had propably put some kind of Backdoor into Windows, HA! I TOLD YOU SO!!!!!
...nuff said.
You just helped make my point.
Its the cost of the equipment, not the quality that will decide this. The porn industry is just the most likely be first adopters of the cheapest of these two and that will help generate the mass volume that is needed to set the de-facto standard. Think Wallmart is going to start selling anything for which there is not a market, or only a small niche market? No way, until there is a large established market for one format or the other Wallmart is not going carry much of a selection of titles for either of the formats unless they get such a massivly good deal from the MPAA or whoever for the handfull of titles that are going to be available in the near future.
Though on consideration you are likely right about the porn industry not being as much of a player in this battle. During the BetaMax/VHS conflict they saw a distribution channel into peoples homes, now they are far ahead of the MPAA and the rest in embracing the Internet as a distribution channel, they may even effectivly ignor the new formats.
Funny thing is this all may turn out to be a non-issue, something new will likely come along before the BluRay/HD DVD conflict gets settled that is so great that people stop buying either of them to wait for this new format to hit the market. What it will be I'm not even going to try and guess. But now I kind of doubt that either of these will become as much a standard as DVDs are now, they will both have a share of the market but niether will suplant the other as DVDs are replacing VHS tapes.
Know what killed BetaMax?
Porn, and that is what will decide Blu-Ray/HD DVD.
Whichever format has the cheapest production equipment and licensing fees will be the one that the Adult Film Industry picks. Betamax was by far the higher quality format but the hardware cost so much compared to VHS that the AFI whent with VHS and the rest is history.
when it comes to the goverment or anyone else seeking power over others there are no coincidences
You may have "nothing to hide" but that doesn't mean that there aren't people out there who would like to keep the color of their boxers private. Just because your a rampant extrovert doesn't mean everyone else is too.
Think about it, if no one bothers to oppose this kind of thing because they have nothing to hide when it gets to where some agency wants to do something you don't like, maybe survalence cameras in the bathrooms of every house, it will be too late for you to do anything about it.
Sticking your head in the sand just puts your ass up high where its easy to give you the shaft.
Ever read this?
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last loose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-- Commissioner Pravin Lal, "Librarian's Preface"
It's from Sid Myers "Alpha Centary". I think of this every time I hear about the goverment putting restrictions or "watch lists" on any kind of information.
Gateway.
Or is that too obscure?
500Mhz CPU, 1GB of storage... Thats plenty of power for 90% of the people out there. Hell, my mom is still using an old Compaq 486DX-33, 200M HD, no USB, everytime I tell her I could upgrade her system she says not to bother, what she has works perfectly for her, she doesn't need a faster CPU, USB or a bigger HD. These systems, if the interface is clean and intuitive to use (I did not RTFA, sorry), would do great in any market.
FTFL "Our system makes an initial assessment within three minutes", three minutes for each person in line. And how many people on average are in line ahead of you when you enter it?
This may even be worse than the audio check crap.
For the record though I should have read your link before commenting, wouldn't have changed much of what I said but it would have been a bit more on topic to your comment, my bad.
If you think this will get you through the checkpoint faster then you must be smoking some really good stuff.
Look at how it is now, they only let people who are flying past the check point and it still takes longer than when they let everyone through.
This will just slow it down even more, FTFA "Tested in Russia, the two-stage GK-1 voice analyser requires that passengers don headphones at a console and answer "yes" or "no" into a microphone to questions about whether they are planning something illicit. This is going to speed things up how?
This is not going to help one F'ing bit. It just brings the US one step closer to being a police state.
Now mater what happens some people are going to be pissed, those with disabilitys (who in some cases are getting financal aid to buy accesability software) are ticked because the accessability software that is out there is almost all for MS-Windows, but there are likely just as many, probably more non-disabled people, who can't afford MS-Windows or MS-Office so they are left out too.
This would not be an issue is MS would stop being a bunch of arogant SOBs and support the open format. Its stuff like this that make me really hate MS.
"advantage" ?
Would that be tactical, financal, phsycological or sexual? And over whom?
What is the advantage of having a 360 now as oposed to 12 months, and likely a few patchs, from now?
I think the chances are far greater that your HDD would fail as opposed to your registry getting corrupted.
In the last 20 years I have had a HD fail 4 times, my CPU fail once right out of the box and never had a PS fail.
In the same time I have had to deal with registry corruption so many times I lost count after ~20.
I don't know how MS did it, but I've never had a registry get corrupted.
Are you sure its MS?, maybe you just know how to program and have been very lucky with the apps you use. If you have never had a corrupt reg file then good for you, you may be one of the rare Windows programmers who does know what they are doing and does it right, unlike another portion of the population who does it all half-ass and causes all the trouble we complain about.
Any OS or app can be almost totaly error free, its all a mater of how much effort and time coders are able/willing to put in to it.
VxWorks from Wind River Systems.
Pathfinder and the two rovers are the only ones I'm sure of as far as the Mars units go but some of the other space probes, Stardust,Deep Imapct and Deep Space 1 also used VxWorks.
I do know that the "safe mode" the probe has entered means that something locked up the main program long enough for a hardware watchdog to go off, rebooting it, during boot the init code checks what state the system is in, ie; did the WD go off, and if it did then it boots a known good App/OS package that will at least allow the probe to get in contact with Earth so it can be fixed.
I don't know for sure if NASA is doing this, I know I told the JPL people I met about it, but I know that with VxWorks it is possible to store data in the upper area of RAM and prevent the init code from clearing it so that a core dump of sorts can be used to isolate the problem so the main code can be adjusted, if needed, to correct the issue. This is what they did with Pathfinder when the base station kept rebooting every 20 min due to a priority inversion issue with a semaphore.
My family has a long history of service in the military, everyone of them who is still alive is sickend by how the ideals they fought to protect are being set aside.
Basic human rights apply to ALL, deny one person those rights and you set the stage for those rights to be denied to ALL.
Thats why I don't post very often. My beliefs and views are my own and I respect that others will always see things at least a little differently. Plus usualy someone else will say what I wanted to say but far more eloquently.