we have the reason why this thing will not gain support from the device manufacturers! Building devices to be compatable with this might interfere with the devices functionality, manufacture price, and Quality-Testing.
Also, this has been menitoned, but I somehow have doubts this will work "properly" over time for devices with magnetic hard-drives or other mechanisms (what about cell-phone antennas?). Notice how they used an ipod mini with its aluminum case - wouldnt it act as shielding if you made the end thing use it as such?
Anyways, if you want a fun time, leave a metal slinky on top of this thing while its on! Or embed some coils in a bowl and you can use it to heat water slowly. I also wonder if this will (like everything else) screw up wireless networks... why didnt they list any technical information anyway?
Remember way back, when robots were really just midgets inside tin cans? Well, I have a sneeking suspicion that these "robots" actually have midgets inside them! (to help the aiming computer, obviously). So, the real problem here is not how to stop them from shooting the wrong things - its how to keep the midget clones from misbehaving!
Theyre gonna start getting drunk and going on sniping rampages... driving around in groups, shooting peoples mailboxes, yappy dogs, ugly hats...
Ever notice how nobody can ever spell DMCA properly?
Im always calling it the "DCMA" or the "DCMCA" or the "DMCMCA"... hehheh
Its one of those vague meaningless acronyms that fail to register as "something valuable" in our minds. And the brain is very good at forgetting useless crap.
People who pay for digital radio arent the ones pirating material.
In fact, this is probably just gonna piss people off - I've heard of people who record digital radio, then put it onto their ipods in batches, so they can listen to new music all the time, and its portable.
The purpose of digital radio is to eliminate the need for owning so much music, and that means you dont need to pirate OR buy tons of music! The point of digital radio was to get decent quality, original material on an ongoing basis - its like Napster, only you dont have to do all the research (look for good bands) on your own - they do the work for you.
What they really need is portable digital radios! And bundle it in with another service, like cell-phones or cable TV!
It requires "forenxic software" to search a windoze box for pr0n fliks? WTF?
Why dont they just do a SEARCH for video/picture file extensions, then use an undelete tool to recover images/videos and history files? Or is this program just all that automated - since windows doesnt support macros/scripts?
Exactly! You can only do one thing at a time in windows! I cant stand it - why on earth am i expected to stop surfing the web to burn a DVD?
This is why I run Linux; its pretty good at multitasking on the same hardware. And if it misbehaves i fiddle with the "niceness" of all the applications, and I, the user, actually get to use the computer instead of just throwing up my arms in disgust.
Yeah... 'been watching that show all summer, so when I saw this i did a double-take. I didnt even know they didnt get the show in the US!
PS: Amber rocks!
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Theres no market for this kind of service. Most of the people into games enough to want to play games in quantity, are "hardcore" enough that they've already played games from a few years ago (or later versions of them); got bored of them, and have them still on the shelf somewhere. If youve played Red Alert 2, Starcraft, and C&C Generals, why would you want to play the original Command & Conquer? Or better yet - would it even run properly? It might run better on Winex than WinXP ! LOL! Anyways...
The less-hardcore gamers likely dont want to pay monthly fees for games, when they already pay monthly fees for various other services. Not to mention how pirating of older games has probably rendered this whole thing utterly useless anyway. People might balk at copying new games, but older ones just feel like fair game once they're off the shelves of stores. People often just borrow old games, and movies from friends/neighbours, and return the disc later. ANd with old games/movies, there is no "copy protection"; so they actually last for a while.
Then theres the whole preventing piracy of games while using the service - its quite likely this thing will go up, everyone will download and crack tons of games, then cancel their subscription.
So like, are we gonna start categorizing the internet, forcing crazy nonsense to sort itself into neat categories, and expect it to stay that way for more than 3 seconds? Its just more Rules! And the internet breaks rules repeatedly! From behind; sometimes two at a time; and it doesnt hurt the internet one bit; but the rules get fucked.
But, what about GPS? What if they just built in a GPS unit that goes on only when you call 911, to tell them where you are?
Or if you buy some other service that uses GPS then it could turn on for that too. THough it would have to be secure and not activate for anything except 911 calls - and be hardware seperated or something... or is this just a disaster waiting to happen?
if its open source whats to stop jerks from making it ignore robots.txt? this is gonna help phpbb, and other things that currently have asstastic search capability - but its gonna be the next big thing for DNS attacks, wurms, etc.
mayby someone'll come up with some sort of SPI-thingy that sniffs out the indexing weasels from the good guys and bloxorz them!
i call it, realsearchengines.org - the only place to register as a legit search engine indexer, and to report "search-spammers"
It all comes down to how the brain works; this is just one of the fascinating ways the brain stores information effeciently! Its some kinda conceptually associative compression... concepts that overlap, that are broken down and stored as repeating elements - you see it in mathematics, programming, language, everywhere.
Its filled with juicy fat ads, for me to add to my massive ad-block database. Animated this, annoying that, etc. THose obtrusive advertisements make it impossible for me to read an article, and remember the content properly!
One thing i find kinda funny, is, if you just go to "printable version", you get a nice page with no ads, thats proper width. Its actually readable! Printable version is a godsend.
Okay, Congressmen, after you have read the bill, you will be tested on your comprehension of all its contents, as well as its ethical implications. You have 3 days to read it.
In order to proceed to voting on this bill, all congressmen must pass the comprehension test. Failure to achieve a minimum score of %5, without a valid reason (sickness, health, etc), will result in an allowed non-confidence vote, and possible re-election for that riding.
"Similarly the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), although not binding on WTO members that have not joined the WCT, states, in its Article 4," - wikipedia.
So, is this thing not a requirement? Well, if this is true, the government will get out of this "commitment" like someone getting out of a bad relationship... as usual.
"Its not you, its me.", "Im just not ready for this kind of commitment.", "I'll call you sometime.", "Id like to, but im just too busy."
Chretien was the king of subtle rejection... half the time nobody even knew what he was rejecting. Hopefully the Canadian government hasnt lost its touch yet.
Yeah - we pay for the POWER to keep these computers and a game machines turned on! They use quite a lot of power too, my computer being on all the time added about $6 to my hydro bill every month! If i were to use it only a fraction of the time, then it would cost nearly nothing, but if its on just to help out folding.net, then im giving them about $4 a month in power costs, which is more than im willing to donate on my limited budget.
Distributed computing is NOT FREE, it costs money to keep machines powered up and running! If your computer is not in use, put it in standby or shut it off, or it WILL cost you - and thats now, in the near future, power costs will go up.
If, on the other hand, they were to make distributed computing a tax deductable, charitable thing, then it would be okay.
Why does Microsoft even care about windows networking? Windows net"working" is so incredibly, horribly bad, i've been yearning for a windows version of Samba to come out just so i can have decent response times, and adequate reliability.
And network speeds/cpu speeds keep getting faster! Its just unacceptably slow, and they keep making things worse (SP2, etc.). QUite frankly, ive lost faith in Microsoft to program anything effecient.
Wait, wait a second here...
What percentage of Americans are religeous... and dont most of those religeons deny the possibility of Aliens? This doesnt make sense! I sense an overlap here, one that either questions religeous beliefs, or implies gullability... i think this is just people wanting to believe in exotic ideas: fantasy.
And, of course, in a society lacking mainstream fantasy entertainment, it makes sense for them to try to scrape fantasy elements off the bottom of the barrel... in a vain attempt at satisfaction.
Aliens are boring - I believe in mah shjo!!
W00YEAH!
Yeah exactly. THe policies arent all "hard-wired", people interpret additional meaning into them, and commonly practised standards are always rather different than corperate policy.
I bet the people who took off the negative comments, did so to protect themselves and the blog in general from other departments who would have taken it more seriously. Basically, they were covering their asses by deleting the comment, because any level of the company can read it, and will make a big deal out of nothing. Thats because there are departments, and people, whose job is to PROTECT CORPERATE IMAGE at all costs; they wont hesitate to anihilate blogs, etc., even if the managers think its a good idea.
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we have the reason why this thing will not gain support from the device manufacturers! Building devices to be compatable with this might interfere with the devices functionality, manufacture price, and Quality-Testing.
Also, this has been menitoned, but I somehow have doubts this will work "properly" over time for devices with magnetic hard-drives or other mechanisms (what about cell-phone antennas?). Notice how they used an ipod mini with its aluminum case - wouldnt it act as shielding if you made the end thing use it as such?
Anyways, if you want a fun time, leave a metal slinky on top of this thing while its on! Or embed some coils in a bowl and you can use it to heat water slowly. I also wonder if this will (like everything else) screw up wireless networks... why didnt they list any technical information anyway?
so... all i have to do to pay, is give them the finger!
Remember way back, when robots were really just midgets inside tin cans? Well, I have a sneeking suspicion that these "robots" actually have midgets inside them! (to help the aiming computer, obviously). So, the real problem here is not how to stop them from shooting the wrong things - its how to keep the midget clones from misbehaving!
Theyre gonna start getting drunk and going on sniping rampages... driving around in groups, shooting peoples mailboxes, yappy dogs, ugly hats...
Ever notice how nobody can ever spell DMCA properly?
... hehheh
Im always calling it the "DCMA" or the "DCMCA" or the "DMCMCA"
Its one of those vague meaningless acronyms that fail to register as "something valuable" in our minds. And the brain is very good at forgetting useless crap.
People who pay for digital radio arent the ones pirating material.
In fact, this is probably just gonna piss people off - I've heard of people who record digital radio, then put it onto their ipods in batches, so they can listen to new music all the time, and its portable.
The purpose of digital radio is to eliminate the need for owning so much music, and that means you dont need to pirate OR buy tons of music! The point of digital radio was to get decent quality, original material on an ongoing basis - its like Napster, only you dont have to do all the research (look for good bands) on your own - they do the work for you.
What they really need is portable digital radios! And bundle it in with another service, like cell-phones or cable TV!
It requires "forenxic software" to search a windoze box for pr0n fliks? WTF?
Why dont they just do a SEARCH for video/picture file extensions, then use an undelete tool to recover images/videos and history files? Or is this program just all that automated - since windows doesnt support macros/scripts?
Exactly! You can only do one thing at a time in windows! I cant stand it - why on earth am i expected to stop surfing the web to burn a DVD?
This is why I run Linux; its pretty good at multitasking on the same hardware. And if it misbehaves i fiddle with the "niceness" of all the applications, and I, the user, actually get to use the computer instead of just throwing up my arms in disgust.
Yeah... 'been watching that show all summer, so when I saw this i did a double-take. I didnt even know they didnt get the show in the US! PS: Amber rocks!
Theres no market for this kind of service. Most of the people into games enough to want to play games in quantity, are "hardcore" enough that they've already played games from a few years ago (or later versions of them); got bored of them, and have them still on the shelf somewhere. If youve played Red Alert 2, Starcraft, and C&C Generals, why would you want to play the original Command & Conquer? Or better yet - would it even run properly? It might run better on Winex than WinXP ! LOL! Anyways...
The less-hardcore gamers likely dont want to pay monthly fees for games, when they already pay monthly fees for various other services. Not to mention how pirating of older games has probably rendered this whole thing utterly useless anyway. People might balk at copying new games, but older ones just feel like fair game once they're off the shelves of stores. People often just borrow old games, and movies from friends/neighbours, and return the disc later. ANd with old games/movies, there is no "copy protection"; so they actually last for a while.
Then theres the whole preventing piracy of games while using the service - its quite likely this thing will go up, everyone will download and crack tons of games, then cancel their subscription.
So like, are we gonna start categorizing the internet, forcing crazy nonsense to sort itself into neat categories, and expect it to stay that way for more than 3 seconds? Its just more Rules! And the internet breaks rules repeatedly! From behind; sometimes two at a time; and it doesnt hurt the internet one bit; but the rules get fucked.
I like mapping and triangulation the best...
But, what about GPS? What if they just built in a GPS unit that goes on only when you call 911, to tell them where you are?
Or if you buy some other service that uses GPS then it could turn on for that too. THough it would have to be secure and not activate for anything except 911 calls - and be hardware seperated or something... or is this just a disaster waiting to happen?
if its open source whats to stop jerks from making it ignore robots.txt? this is gonna help phpbb, and other things that currently have asstastic search capability - but its gonna be the next big thing for DNS attacks, wurms, etc.
mayby someone'll come up with some sort of SPI-thingy that sniffs out the indexing weasels from the good guys and bloxorz them!
i call it, realsearchengines.org - the only place to register as a legit search engine indexer, and to report "search-spammers"
now thats what i call focusing on security!
... a processor thats built to run on XP!
XP made to run on XP!
Vista made to run on Vista!
It all comes down to how the brain works; this is just one of the fascinating ways the brain stores information effeciently! Its some kinda conceptually associative compression... concepts that overlap, that are broken down and stored as repeating elements - you see it in mathematics, programming, language, everywhere.
LOL!!!
Its filled with juicy fat ads, for me to add to my massive ad-block database. Animated this, annoying that, etc. THose obtrusive advertisements make it impossible for me to read an article, and remember the content properly!
One thing i find kinda funny, is, if you just go to "printable version", you get a nice page with no ads, thats proper width. Its actually readable! Printable version is a godsend.
Since there is Linux support, yes.
Okay, Congressmen, after you have read the bill, you will be tested on your comprehension of all its contents, as well as its ethical implications. You have 3 days to read it.
In order to proceed to voting on this bill, all congressmen must pass the comprehension test. Failure to achieve a minimum score of %5, without a valid reason (sickness, health, etc), will result in an allowed non-confidence vote, and possible re-election for that riding.
"Similarly the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), although not binding on WTO members that have not joined the WCT, states, in its Article 4," - wikipedia.
So, is this thing not a requirement? Well, if this is true, the government will get out of this "commitment" like someone getting out of a bad relationship... as usual.
"Its not you, its me.", "Im just not ready for this kind of commitment.", "I'll call you sometime.", "Id like to, but im just too busy."
Chretien was the king of subtle rejection... half the time nobody even knew what he was rejecting. Hopefully the Canadian government hasnt lost its touch yet.
Yeah - we pay for the POWER to keep these computers and a game machines turned on! They use quite a lot of power too, my computer being on all the time added about $6 to my hydro bill every month! If i were to use it only a fraction of the time, then it would cost nearly nothing, but if its on just to help out folding.net, then im giving them about $4 a month in power costs, which is more than im willing to donate on my limited budget.
Distributed computing is NOT FREE, it costs money to keep machines powered up and running! If your computer is not in use, put it in standby or shut it off, or it WILL cost you - and thats now, in the near future, power costs will go up.
If, on the other hand, they were to make distributed computing a tax deductable, charitable thing, then it would be okay.
Why does Microsoft even care about windows networking? Windows net"working" is so incredibly, horribly bad, i've been yearning for a windows version of Samba to come out just so i can have decent response times, and adequate reliability.
And network speeds/cpu speeds keep getting faster! Its just unacceptably slow, and they keep making things worse (SP2, etc.). QUite frankly, ive lost faith in Microsoft to program anything effecient.
Oh yeah, Samba rulez!
that should say maho shojo... damn accents.
Wait, wait a second here... What percentage of Americans are religeous... and dont most of those religeons deny the possibility of Aliens? This doesnt make sense! I sense an overlap here, one that either questions religeous beliefs, or implies gullability... i think this is just people wanting to believe in exotic ideas: fantasy. And, of course, in a society lacking mainstream fantasy entertainment, it makes sense for them to try to scrape fantasy elements off the bottom of the barrel... in a vain attempt at satisfaction. Aliens are boring - I believe in mah shjo!! W00YEAH!
Yeah exactly. THe policies arent all "hard-wired", people interpret additional meaning into them, and commonly practised standards are always rather different than corperate policy.
I bet the people who took off the negative comments, did so to protect themselves and the blog in general from other departments who would have taken it more seriously. Basically, they were covering their asses by deleting the comment, because any level of the company can read it, and will make a big deal out of nothing. Thats because there are departments, and people, whose job is to PROTECT CORPERATE IMAGE at all costs; they wont hesitate to anihilate blogs, etc., even if the managers think its a good idea.
Notice how they made it DURING EXAMS?
That way, all those free-spirited, pirates will be too busy studying their asses off to give a hoot about it. "intellectual property day". LOL.