the system uses the as-yet-unused 120GHz frequency band. The actual bandwidth the system uses is 17GHz, and the method of modulation employed is amplitude shift keying.
Its land is mostly mountainous, and its chief export is beans.
So, let's see... They're having too many drives returned on their warranty plan, so the idea here is to shorten the warranty period and leave the customers with dead drives and no recourse.
That's definitely progress in American corporate culture. Maybe soon they can start charging extra for drives that will go into multi=processor machines.
What's with the binary-only releases?
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No source? I wanted to compile it for OSX, but I can't seem to find any sourcee.
They claim that the location, length and number of embedded keys can vary making it more difficult to hack.
"more difficult" != copy protection.
The copy protection arms race has continued unabated for what, 20+ years now?
No matter what they build, it will be circumvented. If a human can design it, another human can dismantle it.
It's sad, really, watching these companies dump millions of dollars into useless protection schemes while watching their profits and stock values shrink day by day.
Look -- it's not the pirates that are hurting your businesses. They have always existed and will continue to exist.
It's your stubborn unwillingness to admit that you cannot recoup every single penny from every single installation of your software throughout the world.
This would TOTALLY feed the impulse buyer, which is a Good Thing.
This past weekend I downloaded the demo of Moonbase Commander and called every computer store I could think of in the state, willing to drive 2 hours to pick up a copy, but no luck. It wasn't in stores yet.
I would have happily made my credit card payment and started downloading without a second thought.
BTW, if you like strategy games, check that one out. It's turn-based, VERY balanced and strategy really pays off.
Oh, and there is NO micromanagement. Imagine that.
It'll also run on machines as low as 233. I run it on a 300, with no issues whatsoever, and it's only $20. Amazone apparently has it for $16.
My parents divorced almost 20 years ago (after 20 years of marriage), and my mother had kept her engagement ring in a box for those 20 years. When I told her I was getting engaged, she gave it to me and my fiance and I went and had it reset in a band that she liked.
Later we picked another stone and had my mom's band redone with it, everybody won in the end.
If we got organized and all chipped in the cash, maybe we could PAY the radio stations to stop broadcasting certain crap.
Maybe we could, say, limit classic rock stations to only playing Zeppelin 12 times a day, or possibly even rid the universe of Britney Spears "music" -- then she'd have to be more honest with us and actually launch her porn career.
We could set up a voting system and a paypal account, and utilize micropayments and public opinion to pay the stations not to play this crap.
I've tried occasional milestone builds over the years, and not liked them. I can't deal with using Netscape, it bugs me for some odd reason.
But 1.0 has honestly taken over as a browser for me. I very rarely use any other browsers anymore, and it has taken over, at least on my desktop, as my main browser.
This isn't for some pseudo-religious reason, this isn't zealotry, I just really really like it.
It's fast, which matters on the older machines I have in the house, and the "open in new tab" thing...
It's such a simple thing, tabbing browser windows instead of opening them in new windows...
...but it makes all the difference for me. I can't use a browser without it anymore, and it hooked me within 5 minutes of firing it up.
Great feature. If only it would detect installed plugins and use them automatically instead of forcing me to either set up all of my helper applications manually or re-install all of the plugins, it would be the perfect newbie experience.
If you think any environmentalists give a shit about Cher or Woody Harrelson, you have NO idea what is going on in the world.
All these celebrities really do is give morons like yourself easy targets to use to argue against environmentalists.
As if Sting and Bono have anything to do with people's natural feelings that perhaps clear-cutting the main oxygen producing organisms on the planet might just be a bad idea, or that cutting toxic emissions might just be a good idea...
Sure, our meddling in Middle Eastern affairs gets a lot of people killed, but it makes a lot of money for the U.S.
You should try cancelling Sprint service
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Either long-distance or SprintPCS, it can take over 6 months to cancel your service.
The long distance is the worst though -- we switched to Working Assets many moons ago (they give you free Ben and Jerry's coupons every month), and we still recieve a bill from Sprint monthly. It's usually for a nickel, or for 50 cents, or some paltry amount that they would most likely be losing money on collecting anyway, even if it weren't for the fact that we'll never pay them another cent.
Usually a brusque "I don't want to get into why I'm cancelling, just cancel me" will work. Sometimes you'll have to say it twice, but it's best to get it out of the way early on in the conversation.
This is just another exampel of how ludicrous some company's "busines plans" are, and how willing the government is to spend money on things like this.
Right, this company out of nowhere can suddenly predict human behavior? Humans in large groups?
This is akin to the millions of dollars that CA just needlessly spent on Oracle licenses -- it's an example of some government flunky with a budget picking up some snake oil from an overzealous salesperson.
Anyone who claims they can "mathematically predict" human behavior is lying through his or her respective teeth.
Shouldn't the fact that the US government is still suing Microsoft weigh in, at least a little bit, on the choice of Microsoft for handling the national IDs?
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the system uses the as-yet-unused 120GHz frequency band. The actual bandwidth the system uses is 17GHz, and the method of modulation employed is amplitude shift keying.
Its land is mostly mountainous, and its chief export is beans.
So, let's see... They're having too many drives returned on their warranty plan, so the idea here is to shorten the warranty period and leave the customers with dead drives and no recourse.
That's definitely progress in American corporate culture. Maybe soon they can start charging extra for drives that will go into multi=processor machines.
No source? I wanted to compile it for OSX, but I can't seem to find any sourcee.
The exact opposite happens, of course.
You fire up Media Player, start watching a movie, get a minute or two into it an dBAM:
"There is a newer version of Windows Media Player. Would you like to download it now?"
News sites top list of job time burners
Gotta wonder if that was done on purpose.
Doesn't quite replace Newsblaster for me, but cool nonetheless.
thank you, Captain Generalize.
They claim that the location, length and number of embedded keys can vary making it more difficult to hack.
"more difficult" != copy protection.
The copy protection arms race has continued unabated for what, 20+ years now?
No matter what they build, it will be circumvented. If a human can design it, another human can dismantle it.
It's sad, really, watching these companies dump millions of dollars into useless protection schemes while watching their profits and stock values shrink day by day.
Look -- it's not the pirates that are hurting your businesses. They have always existed and will continue to exist.
It's your stubborn unwillingness to admit that you cannot recoup every single penny from every single installation of your software throughout the world.
This would TOTALLY feed the impulse buyer, which is a Good Thing.
This past weekend I downloaded the demo of Moonbase Commander and called every computer store I could think of in the state, willing to drive 2 hours to pick up a copy, but no luck. It wasn't in stores yet.
I would have happily made my credit card payment and started downloading without a second thought.
BTW, if you like strategy games, check that one out. It's turn-based, VERY balanced and strategy really pays off.
Oh, and there is NO micromanagement. Imagine that.
It'll also run on machines as low as 233. I run it on a 300, with no issues whatsoever, and it's only $20. Amazone apparently has it for $16.
My parents divorced almost 20 years ago (after 20 years of marriage), and my mother had kept her engagement ring in a box for those 20 years. When I told her I was getting engaged, she gave it to me and my fiance and I went and had it reset in a band that she liked.
Later we picked another stone and had my mom's band redone with it, everybody won in the end.
They're been delayed so long now I'm starting to wonder if they're hanging out with Duke Nukem, or even Prey fer chrissakes.
Could we ask 40 Helens?
Just for future reference, it's "toed," not "towed."
It's a matter of dragging your foot along the line, or standing on the line with your toes touching it or extending over it.
There was a great version of Syndicate for the Jaguar. I still play it on occasion.
...not to mention the new Tempest.
...and improve radio at the same time.
If we got organized and all chipped in the cash, maybe we could PAY the radio stations to stop broadcasting certain crap.
Maybe we could, say, limit classic rock stations to only playing Zeppelin 12 times a day, or possibly even rid the universe of Britney Spears "music" -- then she'd have to be more honest with us and actually launch her porn career.
We could set up a voting system and a paypal account, and utilize micropayments and public opinion to pay the stations not to play this crap.
It could work, I tell you....
I've tried occasional milestone builds over the years, and not liked them. I can't deal with using Netscape, it bugs me for some odd reason.
But 1.0 has honestly taken over as a browser for me. I very rarely use any other browsers anymore, and it has taken over, at least on my desktop, as my main browser.
This isn't for some pseudo-religious reason, this isn't zealotry, I just really really like it.
It's fast, which matters on the older machines I have in the house, and the "open in new tab" thing...
It's such a simple thing, tabbing browser windows instead of opening them in new windows...
...but it makes all the difference for me. I can't use a browser without it anymore, and it hooked me within 5 minutes of firing it up.
Great feature. If only it would detect installed plugins and use them automatically instead of forcing me to either set up all of my helper applications manually or re-install all of the plugins, it would be the perfect newbie experience.
I didn't expect to like it. But I do.
...that "smaller government" that the Republicans are always spouting on about.
You know, how they all want to get the government "off our backs" or "out of our hair."
If you think any environmentalists give a shit about Cher or Woody Harrelson, you have NO idea what is going on in the world.
All these celebrities really do is give morons like yourself easy targets to use to argue against environmentalists.
As if Sting and Bono have anything to do with people's natural feelings that perhaps clear-cutting the main oxygen producing organisms on the planet might just be a bad idea, or that cutting toxic emissions might just be a good idea...
That's because conflict fuels the military, which fuels our budget and maintains the idea that we are the supreme world power.
The whole "No Blood For Oil" notion is naive to say the least.
So whay again does the US kiss Saudi tush, and ignores it friends to the north?
Because Middle East oil makes money twice -- once for the oil companies and once for the military. Actually, add a third time for the drug trade.
Check out the Carlyle Group.
Sure, our meddling in Middle Eastern affairs gets a lot of people killed, but it makes a lot of money for the U.S.
Either long-distance or SprintPCS, it can take over 6 months to cancel your service.
The long distance is the worst though -- we switched to Working Assets many moons ago (they give you free Ben and Jerry's coupons every month), and we still recieve a bill from Sprint monthly. It's usually for a nickel, or for 50 cents, or some paltry amount that they would most likely be losing money on collecting anyway, even if it weren't for the fact that we'll never pay them another cent.
Usually a brusque "I don't want to get into why I'm cancelling, just cancel me" will work. Sometimes you'll have to say it twice, but it's best to get it out of the way early on in the conversation.
This is just another exampel of how ludicrous some company's "busines plans" are, and how willing the government is to spend money on things like this.
Right, this company out of nowhere can suddenly predict human behavior? Humans in large groups?
This is akin to the millions of dollars that CA just needlessly spent on Oracle licenses -- it's an example of some government flunky with a budget picking up some snake oil from an overzealous salesperson.
Anyone who claims they can "mathematically predict" human behavior is lying through his or her respective teeth.
Shouldn't the fact that the US government is still suing Microsoft weigh in, at least a little bit, on the choice of Microsoft for handling the national IDs?
Can you point me to any of these studies on RF? I've been trying to find them for months now.
It also has yet to be rigorously tested -- which is the main question most people have these days about cell towers.
When they came to put in a cell tower a couple of streets away from me, they had a lot of studies on heat radiation, but none on RF radiation.
I'd love to see several studies on RF radiation and cancer, but I haven't been able to find them.
It's a micmrochip that emits radio frequencies. RF can cause cancer.
You don't see a need for studies into whether or not this thing will cause cancer when implanted in the human body?
That has nothing to do with my agenda.