Hmm... well, this will probably be cheaper (it's unreleased yet so I can't find a price) it's 80GB rather then 20, works with ALL cameras that have USB 2.0, and there's probably much less risk of loss on it.
I say that last part because a friend of mine only managed to get half of his pictures back off of an iPod that he used while at a wedding in florida. And after buying the expensive iPod, FM Tuner, seperate speakers, seperate adapter to do this, and lord knows how many other accessories he bought for an MP3 player. Give me a device that does one thing, and does it well. It's the KISS princaple, don't give me something that I need 5 or 6 different adapters for, making pay enough to buy a second one.
I see some faults in your logic. If it hits in the water, well, did you see "The Day After Tomorrow"? remember when the water hit new york, well, make the waves at least twice as high. (And remove the cold)
And as for "Landing on land, it would just make a big boom and put a lot of dirt into the air" that "a lot of dirt" could be enough to have permanant clouds over a large area, blocking out the sun for quite a while. This would have repercussions on a global scale as it would effect weather patterns in that area. Also, have dirt and dust in the air can add to an increase in electrical build up causing one hell of an lightning storm covering miles, but there'd be no rain to put out the fires as they start.
All in all, if it's more then a few meters wide, it don't matter where it hits, it'll cause enough damage. (Think about no crops in north america because we don't see the sun for 6-8 weeks.)
But in the case of software you're violating the EULA which is a contract. And it sounded like these were software pirates, not kazaa users that they arrested.
But I've never seen anyone get arested for breach of contract before this. Which since these people are violating a contract it should be a civil suit between the company and the pirates.
Well the oldest dated link is from February. That's still new (by/. standards). Although this link seems to be dated 1999, still only 5 years. That's still new... right?...
We have mapped out the brain and know how we can hook it up without making the victim, I mean subject, I mean Guinie Pig a vegtable.
We can create this out of material that we know for certain will not have ill side efects. Such as the dye in the PCB on the processor.
People (besides yourself) actually want their brains hooked into the internet. With what script kiddies do now, I know I sure as hell wouldn't be jacking in.
You mention "who know, maybe even a TB of chemical memory". I dunno about anyone else but this sounds like you want to re-structure my biological signature and alter my electrical signals for technological advances. Sorry, but I like my brain functioning just fine.
Lastly, you assume that "jacking in" to the brain stem with an ethernet port would work. There are upteen Million nerve endings connecting to my built in CPU (the biological one, not silicon) that I don't want f#*@ed up.
"But doesn't that make you wonder just how close we really are to a Matrix-like life?" -We're a long way off buddy. You show me an acurate map of the human brain, and CNS before you try to promote the creation of the borg.
So if you strip the Voice out of a Voice Over IP program, tell me what you end up with? I'm trying to picture a VOIP program that doesn't do VOIP. I can't imagine it does anything. Next you'll tell me kDevelop is a stripped version of OpenOffice
Reading the replies I see mostly prejudiced personal opinions.
Apple has always made great OSes for their computers. They are more intuitive for beginners, the interface is clean and easy to read. On kde/gnome It can be quite difficult to find applications. With linux in general there's the massive and complex dependency tree to worry about. I wanna install xmms and i gotta install 5 other things as well (ok I'm exagerating for effect.)
People have to realize that Linux isn't quite ready for the average user desktop. It's great for our parents/releatives because when they have problems they'll ask us. But not everyone has that luxury. Mac and windows, for the most part, you install it and it just works. No worries. Also, lets see you do High quality graphics work on Linux. Mac gives you more true colors for the image and prints the way you see it.
And for those of you that are gonna say so-and-so copied so-and-so, lets just set the record straight. Apple BOUGHT their interface from Xerox PARC after Microsoft turned it away. Then when MS saw the success apple was having in the early 90's decided to copy and modify the interface and created the "Start" menu (Finder anyone.) Incidently kde/gnome also designed their launcher menus based on the apple one. Which apple had been prototyping for a while, and many Geeks/nerds knew about it before it was released.
So don't bad mouth a company you know nothing about, especially when most of the technology we have is owed to them.
BTW: i feel I should tell you this was written on a Windows/Xandros Dual boot system. I was beta testing Xandros 3.0 prior to release.
And even being investigated is enough to cause the loss of a job if they are a teacher. It's happened a few times up here in Canada. Well... after found innocent they let him teach again, but 2 years of suspension without pay still hurts.
The problem isn't about someone using another persons access point. The problem is what they use it to access. They are usually used to access things that the war driver doesn't want tracked to his home. So the problem isn't all the pr0n theve' been downloading, it's the age of the people in the pr0n. This then gets traced back to the IP address your router had at that date/time, and then you're charged for it.
Have you seen the receipts that come out of Best Buy (mass consumer cattle herder) when you buy CDs/DVDs/software. It says... "Unopened software may be returned or exchanged. Open product may be exchanged for the same item only. Softare returns or exchanges are only valid within 30 days of purchase" (may vary, mine is canadian) Basically it says, they can't accept opened software. Now this reciept is about 12 inches long. I've seen them up to 24 inches long (I unfortunately work for best buy canada) To print a EULA that is currently 20 pages long on 8.5x11" paper, then putting it on something 4" wide..... well, you can do the math, I'm going to bed.
Face it, if you strip the cost of windows xp home off of This computer It's only about 800 CAD, that's gotta be aroun $700 US, and it comes with a DVD burner.
Who is to say that every book ever checked out from a library isn't reproduced in some form by someone in some form?
It is reproduced in one form, the words are scanned by an optical sensor which sends the information to a system of electrical pathways that interperit the scans into comprehensable data.
To summarize (and over-simplify) It's no different then a Library having a photocopier in a room full of copyrighted books. What people use it for is up to them.
"Now all the browsers have to do to work around the patent (and do some innovating at the same time)"...
Lets think for a second. Most People (99% of Non-Geeks) Use what comes on their computer. Which is of course IE. These people think that "Blue E" is thier internet. If IE looses the ability to embed Java applets, Adobe PDF's, and anything else that can load in IE, then any no websites will use them (yay, no ActivX) but still, no Java applets, no Flash (not all bad) and there's alot of other things we will loose because if microsoft can't have these features in IE, web developers won't use them. And depending on how it's worded, since a program designed to load HTML documents by definition don't show pictures (think early Lynx) then we may not be able to have images in websites. Does libjpg count as a "plugin" in this case?
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Hmm... well, this will probably be cheaper (it's unreleased yet so I can't find a price) it's 80GB rather then 20, works with ALL cameras that have USB 2.0, and there's probably much less risk of loss on it.
I say that last part because a friend of mine only managed to get half of his pictures back off of an iPod that he used while at a wedding in florida. And after buying the expensive iPod, FM Tuner, seperate speakers, seperate adapter to do this, and lord knows how many other accessories he bought for an MP3 player. Give me a device that does one thing, and does it well. It's the KISS princaple, don't give me something that I need 5 or 6 different adapters for, making pay enough to buy a second one.
I see some faults in your logic. If it hits in the water, well, did you see "The Day After Tomorrow"? remember when the water hit new york, well, make the waves at least twice as high. (And remove the cold)
And as for "Landing on land, it would just make a big boom and put a lot of dirt into the air" that "a lot of dirt" could be enough to have permanant clouds over a large area, blocking out the sun for quite a while. This would have repercussions on a global scale as it would effect weather patterns in that area. Also, have dirt and dust in the air can add to an increase in electrical build up causing one hell of an lightning storm covering miles, but there'd be no rain to put out the fires as they start.
All in all, if it's more then a few meters wide, it don't matter where it hits, it'll cause enough damage. (Think about no crops in north america because we don't see the sun for 6-8 weeks.)
Besides that, when I bought my network card they never took my personally identifiable information.
But in the case of software you're violating the EULA which is a contract. And it sounded like these were software pirates, not kazaa users that they arrested.
But I've never seen anyone get arested for breach of contract before this. Which since these people are violating a contract it should be a civil suit between the company and the pirates.
Well the oldest dated link is from February. That's still new (by /. standards). Although this link seems to be dated 1999, still only 5 years. That's still new... right?...
- We have mapped out the brain and know how we can hook it up without making the victim, I mean subject, I mean Guinie Pig a vegtable.
- We can create this out of material that we know for certain will not have ill side efects. Such as the dye in the PCB on the processor.
- People (besides yourself) actually want their brains hooked into the internet. With what script kiddies do now, I know I sure as hell wouldn't be jacking in.
- You mention "who know, maybe even a TB of chemical memory". I dunno about anyone else but this sounds like you want to re-structure my biological signature and alter my electrical signals for technological advances. Sorry, but I like my brain functioning just fine.
- Lastly, you assume that "jacking in" to the brain stem with an ethernet port would work. There are upteen Million nerve endings connecting to my built in CPU (the biological one, not silicon) that I don't want f#*@ed up.
"But doesn't that make you wonder just how close we really are to a Matrix-like life?"-We're a long way off buddy. You show me an acurate map of the human brain, and CNS before you try to promote the creation of the borg.
is when you chain two car batteries together, and then hook them up the the first and last pins on a processor. Now that's overclocking.
Odd thing was, I think the Intel processor was at the same temperature as normal use.
So if you strip the Voice out of a Voice Over IP program, tell me what you end up with? I'm trying to picture a VOIP program that doesn't do VOIP. I can't imagine it does anything. Next you'll tell me kDevelop is a stripped version of OpenOffice
Reading the replies I see mostly prejudiced personal opinions.
Apple has always made great OSes for their computers. They are more intuitive for beginners, the interface is clean and easy to read. On kde/gnome It can be quite difficult to find applications. With linux in general there's the massive and complex dependency tree to worry about. I wanna install xmms and i gotta install 5 other things as well (ok I'm exagerating for effect.)
People have to realize that Linux isn't quite ready for the average user desktop. It's great for our parents/releatives because when they have problems they'll ask us. But not everyone has that luxury. Mac and windows, for the most part, you install it and it just works. No worries. Also, lets see you do High quality graphics work on Linux. Mac gives you more true colors for the image and prints the way you see it.
And for those of you that are gonna say so-and-so copied so-and-so, lets just set the record straight. Apple BOUGHT their interface from Xerox PARC after Microsoft turned it away. Then when MS saw the success apple was having in the early 90's decided to copy and modify the interface and created the "Start" menu (Finder anyone.) Incidently kde/gnome also designed their launcher menus based on the apple one. Which apple had been prototyping for a while, and many Geeks/nerds knew about it before it was released.
So don't bad mouth a company you know nothing about, especially when most of the technology we have is owed to them.
BTW: i feel I should tell you this was written on a Windows/Xandros Dual boot system. I was beta testing Xandros 3.0 prior to release.
As long as it's more secure then wireless networks.
And even being investigated is enough to cause the loss of a job if they are a teacher. It's happened a few times up here in Canada. Well... after found innocent they let him teach again, but 2 years of suspension without pay still hurts.
It should be "You got whiplash"
The problem isn't about someone using another persons access point. The problem is what they use it to access. They are usually used to access things that the war driver doesn't want tracked to his home. So the problem isn't all the pr0n theve' been downloading, it's the age of the people in the pr0n. This then gets traced back to the IP address your router had at that date/time, and then you're charged for it.
I know brother/sister post is similar but....
Have you seen the receipts that come out of Best Buy (mass consumer cattle herder) when you buy CDs/DVDs/software. It says... "Unopened software may be returned or exchanged. Open product may be exchanged for the same item only. Softare returns or exchanges are only valid within 30 days of purchase" (may vary, mine is canadian) Basically it says, they can't accept opened software. Now this reciept is about 12 inches long. I've seen them up to 24 inches long (I unfortunately work for best buy canada) To print a EULA that is currently 20 pages long on 8.5x11" paper, then putting it on something 4" wide..... well, you can do the math, I'm going to bed.
A beowulf of crap is just a bigger pile of crap.
Face it, if you strip the cost of windows xp home off of This computer It's only about 800 CAD, that's gotta be aroun $700 US, and it comes with a DVD burner.
Who is to say that every book ever checked out from a library isn't reproduced in some form by someone in some form?
It is reproduced in one form, the words are scanned by an optical sensor which sends the information to a system of electrical pathways that interperit the scans into comprehensable data.
Who thought reading was so complex?
I live in the home of the free...
This was decided a long time ago in Canada.
To summarize (and over-simplify) It's no different then a Library having a photocopier in a room full of copyrighted books. What people use it for is up to them.
And I thought I had no life
Laugh, it's funny
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but I like the play on words. (but i'm tired so it's probably just me)
I think you're missing the problem.
"Now all the browsers have to do to work around the patent (and do some innovating at the same time)"...
Lets think for a second. Most People (99% of Non-Geeks) Use what comes on their computer. Which is of course IE. These people think that "Blue E" is thier internet. If IE looses the ability to embed Java applets, Adobe PDF's, and anything else that can load in IE, then any no websites will use them (yay, no ActivX) but still, no Java applets, no Flash (not all bad) and there's alot of other things we will loose because if microsoft can't have these features in IE, web developers won't use them. And depending on how it's worded, since a program designed to load HTML documents by definition don't show pictures (think early Lynx) then we may not be able to have images in websites. Does libjpg count as a "plugin" in this case?
Hostly, this can be scary. Actually, it IS scary.
I'm going to patent this!
With any luck, they'll open source Winamp so it can stay around.
:S
Who am I kidding, that won't happen.