My friends and I too were doing this in the 80's. Put on a tape at lunch (best music of the day) and come home after school and redub the best songs to a compilation tape.
I remember years ago reading an article in Analog Sci Fi/Fact Mag, that with off the shelf technology, we could accellerate a 1 meter sq. package with about a 5 kilos (my facts may be slightly off, but it's small, anyway) that could get there in 4 years, at about.8 of light speed.
Off the shelf. No need for anything special.
I dunno, sounds like we don't need warp speed, and we could just send a package of equipment over and see who's home....
That is lucky. You're doctor must SUCK. Any good doctor is so overworked, they cannot keep up.
My doctor, it's about a 2 month waiting list. I like her, cuz she saved my life.
Try to go to a hospital with a major injury... see how long you lay in the hallway, moaning in pain.
It killed me to see my wife suffering from a fall on her belly when pregnant.
They made her stand up for 2 hours till a seat was available... then off to another 2 hours in a waiting room, then line up for the actual room, etc, etc.
Not everyplace is Toronto. And those people in Sudbury or London, etc, have to wait, cuz they don't have services in their area... they have to go to TORONTO!?!?
Why? No competition! It's not allowed!
Our system is a good idea, but it's borked. We need privately funded hospitals to get services in outlying regions where they are needed; then people won't have to travel days and days to get to a doctor.
Up in the NWT/Yukon, they have to fly to Ottawa for treatment! Several thousand kilometers! No major services in the north at ALL.
You are just plain wrong. I know of people here told they would NOT operate on them, because the success rate didn't fall into the cost/benefit analysis ratio that was acceptable for the surgery.
Then they went to the US, spent $$$ and had their lives saved.
This is what 100% public medicine gives you.
What we need, is publicly funded/regulated, but privately DELIVERED health care, much like the clinics for xray and ultrasound, etc.
It's crap what we have to put up with. Staff never move with a sense of urgency, most of the time you get an immigrant doctor, who can barely speak your language, and then you have to be shuffled from waiting room to waiting room for hous and hours.
I know my mother might be alive today, if she hadn't thought going to emergency for some strange symptoms (turned out to be heart related, pain in lower arm) would not have guaranteed an entire weekend wasted because she would have been in the waiting room for 6 - 12 hours.
Our system is broken! One hospital I saw 3 clerks sitting playing solitare on their pc's, but only one nurse capable of seeing patients for triage. WTF?!? Those three pimples could be exchaned for a nurse.
Of course, it would help if nurses actually moved faster than ice melting in Antarctica.
I've needed both urgent and non-urgent but life saving care over the years. Without a doubt, in almost every case, I wish I was in the US with $$$ in my hand to get it taken care of quickly and efficiently.
Right now, we ship tons of cancer patients to Buffalo and other points south, cuz we can't house/treat them. The irony? They won't let local private providers set up clinics to keep the $$ and jobs here in Canada.
Idiocy. But what can you expect when you vote liberal for 13 years running (federally).
Really? And WTF happens to FAIR USE?
How do you back up your CD, if you only have electronic copy? Most people will save their serials on their computer, and then if they have a crash.... they are stuck and need to buy a new license.
Not to mention the possibility of someone ripping your license off....
I still fucking HATE steam. It's performance bites ass, compared to the old download when I want version.
Not only that... it removes choice. Before, people could run older versions if they wanted. Look at America's Army... you can find verious versions running.
To me, it won't stop piracy. All it does is fuck up people who want to play LAN Games without Internet connections. You are then forced to run the old version, without the option to get all the updates.
Until I was forced on steam, I had no idea CS... a game I don't normally play at home, but do at work... had so many changes done to it in the last few versions. Same for DoD. Pretty much sucks ass, and I'm NOT going to buy HL2 because of it.
Valve can bite my ass. Well, I mmight buy it when it's 20$.
The thing is, they always justify high prices on games because of piracy. Well... systems like steam eliminate most piracy... but you'll entice less people to buy it who are normal "warez" try/buy people.
Will we see a considerable drop in pricing, accompanying these new secure modes of delivery?
Ya, and I got some RIAA / MPAA friends I want to introuduce you to.
I've been looking for a good Outlook compatible client... so that I can finally pitch Open Office as an alternative, but there is no PIM/Calandering function out there... just nothing that compares to Outlook.
I am pretty sure if I could run it every day, people would say... "hey, what you got there?" and be piqued. They already are having the print to PDF built into the Open Office.... but they need more to coax them over.
Until then, Kopete and others just aren't good enough. Maybe Chandler, some day....
BeOS Personal Edition Max ver 5.0 has a Live CD I've been playing with on my desktop at work.
I'm not leet enough to be thought of as uber, so you'll have to pick a different one.:-)
http://www.beosmax.org/html/
You are a complete and utter dumbass.
Radical Islamists Like Osama and team, believe in one thing only; the re-establishment of the Caliphate for all the Umma.
That means that YOU, as a non-believer would face either death, or a life of second class citizenship, should western nations "do the right thing" in the eyes of Islam and submit to Islamic rule.
Don't believe their rhetoric that says "leave our lands or face the consequences." They have been saying that to their neighbors and enemies since about 700 AD when Islam started it's march across the globe.
>i>"If you had invaded a country, committed genocide against it's people, done all you can to stamp out their indigenous culture......colonized it and incorported it into your own nation, I'm sure you'd want to repress all mention of it as well."
You mean like every stolen land-based "state" in the western hemisphere, such as the USA, which gave aborignals disease infested blankets, hunted and killed with efficiency, and then moved them onto reservations of mostly useless land far away from their original farming/hunting grounds?
Hmmm sounds mighty familiar to me. Hell, the US Supreme court even ruled way back that the dispossession of Cherokee and other aboriginal nations was illegal, according to law, but the US just decided to send the army and IGNORE> their own courts/laws (ie: consititution)
(see a description here: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/native_ american2.html).
Nobody much wants to hear about that, do they? Nor do you hear anyone (well, except proud newfoundlanders) talk about how the Beothuks were exterminated in Canada....
or how current government policies of "racial quantum (purity) assessment" allows the government to say who IS and ISN'T Aboriginal, thereby stripping them of their last shred of power: The right to self identify and gather as a nation. It also has the great effect of pitting "status" Indians with their 'on the dole' rights against "non-status" who often seek some of those rights, but are denied due to shrinking government handouts.
Pretty world we live in here in the west, eh? Nope, nobody being colonized HERE. Oh, right, we just call it immigration.
Not to my knowledge, and the Canadian ISP's won their defence to NOT give away file shareer's names.
However, I had FULLY expected this defence to pop up instantly when the first person when to court. Lawyers don't cost as much here.... I retained a downtown lawyer to sue a doctor for only 300$, and total cost (before I realized I had no claim) was less than 3K$. Well worth it to make sure I wasn't ignoring a wrong doer.
That being said, I don't think the CRIA has a leg to stand on here in Canada...but the Liberal government has just recently pledged to "change the laws" so.... here we go again....
I know one of the Canadian X-Prize Entries, the DaVinci projetc, has had most of their $$ and equipment donated. Sponsorship! That means the cool $10 Mill (US! that's like 1.8Billion Canadian!) would be theirs to do with as they please.
Now, that being said, they came out and announced a spring launch date. BUT they are being sufficiently vague so to keep others in the dark. They don't want anyone scrambling at last minute and catching up with them.
I sure hope they win. It would rock for Canada (third country in space) to get BACK into the space race.
Now, that being said, the X-Prize will be a REGULAR competition, so anyone who loses this year, can try, try again!
You can't even buy a soda pop from a vending machine for that little anymore.
Oh, HELL YES you can. Right out side of Wal-Mart or any major grocery store, you can pick up a can of pop for 50 cents. And that's in CANADIAN money....
BTW: You have some facts blatently incorrect. Many countries have used poison gas, some against its citizens.
Now, while the US may be interested in growing and keeping markets open to trade, don't think other countries don't also feel this way.
Why do you think the Russians, Germans, and French were the big complainers about Iraq?
Hmmmm? You ever see the numbers on weapons to Iraq? I just named the top 3 contributors, and America was not even in the top 5. Hell, even CANADA sold weapons to Saddam.
Oh, and Iraqi pre-war exports? Hmmm I think I also named the top 3. So, did they Europeans really want to stop Saddam, but use different means, or did they just want to keep the status quo of them getting rich off the backs of the persecuted Iraqi's? Hmmm?
Ask yourself some hard questions you neo-stalanist. You are of the same breed of idiots that would defend suicide bombers, all the while they are using your misplaced sympathy to impose Islamo-fascist regimes around the world, and terrorize... you guessed it... secular-social democratic people around the world.
STFU with your damned jealousy of the worlds biggest and best superpower. It smacks so badly of "my country is small and pitful, so I'll complain about the US". Every nation on this planet has done terrible things. Hell, even Canada uses ID CARDS like in South Africa to say who is and isn't an "aboriginal". They are creating genocide there by means of disinterest./end rant
Why not? I have changed perfectly good working BIOS's before, simply because there was an update.
All you need is the original on a floppy disk, and you should be able to re-flash. And on some boards, you now have the backup flash, (dual bios) so in case one chip doesn't run, it will fall back to the other.
I use DVD Shrink for all my backups. You can keep the whole DVD, with menu's and everything, or you can just rip the movie, etc.
It will remove all prohibited user ops (PUO's) and remove copy protection etc. I too ejoy watching my freshley ripped DVD's from my HD, using a software dvd player, after ripping with DVD shrink.
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My friends and I too were doing this in the 80's. Put on a tape at lunch (best music of the day) and come home after school and redub the best songs to a compilation tape.
Why not?
.8 of light speed.
I remember years ago reading an article in Analog Sci Fi/Fact Mag, that with off the shelf technology, we could accellerate a 1 meter sq. package with about a 5 kilos (my facts may be slightly off, but it's small, anyway) that could get there in 4 years, at about
Off the shelf. No need for anything special.
I dunno, sounds like we don't need warp speed, and we could just send a package of equipment over and see who's home....
MS is always one step ahead because it has GAMES DEVELOPMENT.
GAMES PEOPLE. GAMES.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY I knew was going to bother with Windows 95, except for office tools.
Then... Mechwarrior 95 came out. Furty 3 could be had for a song...
Then I saw Wing Commander come out, and I realized it was all over. DOS was dead. My beloved DOS.
Get GAMES YOU LINUX DUMBASSES. BUILD GAMES. GAMES YOU CRAZY ASSSED MOTHERFRUCKERS!
Get games. They will come.
That's just wrong. People paying tax on something people normally PAY to have taken away?
Egads! What's next, charge you a tax on power generated by your wind/solar/hydro home system?
Sheesh. That's so evil, it feels Canadian.
Here's the place to find out how to do it for your own vehicle.
http://www.greasel.com/
That is lucky. You're doctor must SUCK. Any good doctor is so overworked, they cannot keep up. My doctor, it's about a 2 month waiting list. I like her, cuz she saved my life. Try to go to a hospital with a major injury... see how long you lay in the hallway, moaning in pain. It killed me to see my wife suffering from a fall on her belly when pregnant. They made her stand up for 2 hours till a seat was available... then off to another 2 hours in a waiting room, then line up for the actual room, etc, etc. Not everyplace is Toronto. And those people in Sudbury or London, etc, have to wait, cuz they don't have services in their area... they have to go to TORONTO!?!? Why? No competition! It's not allowed! Our system is a good idea, but it's borked. We need privately funded hospitals to get services in outlying regions where they are needed; then people won't have to travel days and days to get to a doctor. Up in the NWT/Yukon, they have to fly to Ottawa for treatment! Several thousand kilometers! No major services in the north at ALL.
You are just plain wrong. I know of people here told they would NOT operate on them, because the success rate didn't fall into the cost/benefit analysis ratio that was acceptable for the surgery. Then they went to the US, spent $$$ and had their lives saved. This is what 100% public medicine gives you. What we need, is publicly funded/regulated, but privately DELIVERED health care, much like the clinics for xray and ultrasound, etc. It's crap what we have to put up with. Staff never move with a sense of urgency, most of the time you get an immigrant doctor, who can barely speak your language, and then you have to be shuffled from waiting room to waiting room for hous and hours. I know my mother might be alive today, if she hadn't thought going to emergency for some strange symptoms (turned out to be heart related, pain in lower arm) would not have guaranteed an entire weekend wasted because she would have been in the waiting room for 6 - 12 hours. Our system is broken! One hospital I saw 3 clerks sitting playing solitare on their pc's, but only one nurse capable of seeing patients for triage. WTF?!? Those three pimples could be exchaned for a nurse. Of course, it would help if nurses actually moved faster than ice melting in Antarctica. I've needed both urgent and non-urgent but life saving care over the years. Without a doubt, in almost every case, I wish I was in the US with $$$ in my hand to get it taken care of quickly and efficiently. Right now, we ship tons of cancer patients to Buffalo and other points south, cuz we can't house/treat them. The irony? They won't let local private providers set up clinics to keep the $$ and jobs here in Canada. Idiocy. But what can you expect when you vote liberal for 13 years running (federally).
Really? And WTF happens to FAIR USE? How do you back up your CD, if you only have electronic copy? Most people will save their serials on their computer, and then if they have a crash.... they are stuck and need to buy a new license. Not to mention the possibility of someone ripping your license off....
I have TWO licenses for HL/DoD.
I still fucking HATE steam. It's performance bites ass, compared to the old download when I want version.
Not only that... it removes choice. Before, people could run older versions if they wanted. Look at America's Army... you can find verious versions running.
To me, it won't stop piracy. All it does is fuck up people who want to play LAN Games without Internet connections. You are then forced to run the old version, without the option to get all the updates.
Until I was forced on steam, I had no idea CS... a game I don't normally play at home, but do at work... had so many changes done to it in the last few versions. Same for DoD. Pretty much sucks ass, and I'm NOT going to buy HL2 because of it.
Valve can bite my ass. Well, I mmight buy it when it's 20$.
The thing is, they always justify high prices on games because of piracy. Well... systems like steam eliminate most piracy... but you'll entice less people to buy it who are normal "warez" try/buy people.
Will we see a considerable drop in pricing, accompanying these new secure modes of delivery?
Ya, and I got some RIAA / MPAA friends I want to introuduce you to.
I've been looking for a good Outlook compatible client... so that I can finally pitch Open Office as an alternative, but there is no PIM/Calandering function out there... just nothing that compares to Outlook.
I am pretty sure if I could run it every day, people would say... "hey, what you got there?" and be piqued. They already are having the print to PDF built into the Open Office.... but they need more to coax them over.
Until then, Kopete and others just aren't good enough. Maybe Chandler, some day....
BeOS Personal Edition Max ver 5.0 has a Live CD I've been playing with on my desktop at work. I'm not leet enough to be thought of as uber, so you'll have to pick a different one. :-)
http://www.beosmax.org/html/
You are a complete and utter dumbass. Radical Islamists Like Osama and team, believe in one thing only; the re-establishment of the Caliphate for all the Umma. That means that YOU, as a non-believer would face either death, or a life of second class citizenship, should western nations "do the right thing" in the eyes of Islam and submit to Islamic rule. Don't believe their rhetoric that says "leave our lands or face the consequences." They have been saying that to their neighbors and enemies since about 700 AD when Islam started it's march across the globe.
>i>"If you had invaded a country, committed genocide against it's people, done all you can to stamp out their indigenous culture ... ...colonized it and incorported it into your own nation, I'm sure you'd want to repress all mention of it as well."
_ american2.html).
You mean like every stolen land-based "state" in the western hemisphere, such as the USA, which gave aborignals disease infested blankets, hunted and killed with efficiency, and then moved them onto reservations of mostly useless land far away from their original farming/hunting grounds?
Hmmm sounds mighty familiar to me. Hell, the US Supreme court even ruled way back that the dispossession of Cherokee and other aboriginal nations was illegal, according to law, but the US just decided to send the army and IGNORE> their own courts/laws (ie: consititution)
(see a description here: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/native
Nobody much wants to hear about that, do they? Nor do you hear anyone (well, except proud newfoundlanders) talk about how the Beothuks were exterminated in Canada....
or how current government policies of "racial quantum (purity) assessment" allows the government to say who IS and ISN'T Aboriginal, thereby stripping them of their last shred of power: The right to self identify and gather as a nation. It also has the great effect of pitting "status" Indians with their 'on the dole' rights against "non-status" who often seek some of those rights, but are denied due to shrinking government handouts.
Pretty world we live in here in the west, eh? Nope, nobody being colonized HERE. Oh, right, we just call it immigration.
Although I think Win2K would run a lot faster on that slow CPU.
Not to my knowledge, and the Canadian ISP's won their defence to NOT give away file shareer's names.
.but the Liberal government has just recently pledged to "change the laws" so.... here we go again....
However, I had FULLY expected this defence to pop up instantly when the first person when to court. Lawyers don't cost as much here.... I retained a downtown lawyer to sue a doctor for only 300$, and total cost (before I realized I had no claim) was less than 3K$. Well worth it to make sure I wasn't ignoring a wrong doer.
That being said, I don't think the CRIA has a leg to stand on here in Canada..
God forbid anybody else in another project, eh? http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/screenshots .html
I know one of the Canadian X-Prize Entries, the DaVinci projetc, has had most of their $$ and equipment donated. Sponsorship! That means the cool $10 Mill (US! that's like 1.8Billion Canadian!) would be theirs to do with as they please.
Now, that being said, they came out and announced a spring launch date. BUT they are being sufficiently vague so to keep others in the dark. They don't want anyone scrambling at last minute and catching up with them.
I sure hope they win. It would rock for Canada (third country in space) to get BACK into the space race.
Now, that being said, the X-Prize will be a REGULAR competition, so anyone who loses this year, can try, try again!
Links:
DaVinci Site - http://www.davinciproject.com/
Launch Site - http://www.kindersley.ca/
You can't even buy a soda pop from a vending machine for that little anymore.
Oh, HELL YES you can. Right out side of Wal-Mart or any major grocery store, you can pick up a can of pop for 50 cents. And that's in CANADIAN money....
Well....
/end rant
I for one welcome our American Overlords.
But they can keep the DMCA.
BTW: You have some facts blatently incorrect. Many countries have used poison gas, some against its citizens.
Now, while the US may be interested in growing and keeping markets open to trade, don't think other countries don't also feel this way.
Why do you think the Russians, Germans, and French were the big complainers about Iraq?
Hmmmm? You ever see the numbers on weapons to Iraq? I just named the top 3 contributors, and America was not even in the top 5. Hell, even CANADA sold weapons to Saddam.
Oh, and Iraqi pre-war exports? Hmmm I think I also named the top 3. So, did they Europeans really want to stop Saddam, but use different means, or did they just want to keep the status quo of them getting rich off the backs of the persecuted Iraqi's? Hmmm?
Ask yourself some hard questions you neo-stalanist. You are of the same breed of idiots that would defend suicide bombers, all the while they are using your misplaced sympathy to impose Islamo-fascist regimes around the world, and terrorize... you guessed it... secular-social democratic people around the world.
STFU with your damned jealousy of the worlds biggest and best superpower. It smacks so badly of "my country is small and pitful, so I'll complain about the US". Every nation on this planet has done terrible things. Hell, even Canada uses ID CARDS like in South Africa to say who is and isn't an "aboriginal". They are creating genocide there by means of disinterest.
My only worry is that things like the new tax to MP3 Players will go right along with a proposed tax on ISP's.
This case will likely add ammo to their argument that ISP's need to be taxed. Even though we ALREADY PAY for the right to copy on the MEDIA TAX.
Any post on /. eventually digresses into diatribes against BUSH becaUse - let's face it - this group is resentful over never getting ANY.... :-)
Why not? I have changed perfectly good working BIOS's before, simply because there was an update.
All you need is the original on a floppy disk, and you should be able to re-flash. And on some boards, you now have the backup flash, (dual bios) so in case one chip doesn't run, it will fall back to the other.
I use DVD Shrink for all my backups. You can keep the whole DVD, with menu's and everything, or you can just rip the movie, etc.
It will remove all prohibited user ops (PUO's) and remove copy protection etc. I too ejoy watching my freshley ripped DVD's from my HD, using a software dvd player, after ripping with DVD shrink.
http://www.dvdshrink.org/
That's exactly what happened in Canada in the 80's. They started selling 15 packs and all my friends would buy them.
Also mentioned, sometimes we'd split a pack... here in Canada the internal portions of a pack are divided into 2 foil wrapped 10 packs.
20 years later, it cost me a kidney to cancer. Bastards.