Obviously now.
Those media cards are pretty had to make worthless. It's kind of hard to put a fingerprint on an IC and you can't bend such a tiny thing (and even if you do, they have been shown to work even with a busted circut board). Flash media won't unspool, slip, or mechanically degrade through normal use. They will electrically degrade, after about 100000 write cycles, but that would take months of constant usage as a swap partition for petes sake.
Oh, it's also pretty hard to make stone tablets worthless, and those were invented thousands of years ago;)
Yup. The only tests that seemed worth doing were the mechanical stress tests. Since IC's are watertight (and washed at the factory), I would expect them to survive the coffe and cola. The cola probably could have corroded some of the contacts, but probably not to the point of destruction. The cards are already so damn thin that it is hard to believe you could put enough weight on them to destroy them (car, skateboard). The sledgehammer has additional force behind it (momentum and all) and can deliver it in a very short amount of time (greater impulse), so it carries far more destructive power than antything else. If the nail went through the IC, it's toast. If it just went through the plastic, the card would be fine.
Another scenario that I can see happening is this:
Guy has card in shirt pocket. Guy bends over to put some papers in shredder. Card falls into shredder.
These are the cards that you use in your camera, non-volatile flash memory cards, not RAM. Your standard RAM card would certainly not survive jack. But then, RAM is normally confined to the inside of your case, which is generally too large to stick in coffee.
Yes, reasonable people would believe that Happy Birthday is in the public domain. The copyright holders disagree, however. Ever wonder why restaurants have their own (often annoying) birthday songs? Yup. The Happy Birthday goons have fought. And won.
To be quite honest, I was expecting something more like an arcade cabinet. Oh, well, it was neat idea, but the case is horribly ugly. And I bet it would be horrendous if a decent percentage of the controllers were plugged in at once It would be way cooler with some sort of cable management system and a little door behind which to store the controllers.
On the aside, I have always wanted to take one of the three Atari 2600's I own and condense it to the size of a Nomad so I could play on the road.
I could definitely use this for transferring large amounts of video between my PC and my other PC that has a DVD burner. I suppose that companies like Pixar would be interested in this regard.
There are also companies (finacial, law, etc...) that could need to transfer huge documents (1000+ pages) between people. Huge databases could also be accesed better, I suppose.
Seriously, though, Bono may be insane, but this may work for them. Nowadays, people would rather buy music than download it illegaly, if given a choice. Besides, the stolen version is unfinished. I think that most fans would rather buy a GOOD version, rather than run the risk of being sued over a crappy one.
I see little problem with this as a measure to prevent piracy. However, in preventing piracy, this runling also infringes substantialy on fair-use. it is hard to say which is more prevelant, but protecting fair use is certainly more important.
At least the Italians seem to believe that this is true.
This is great news! However, SCO will certainly drag things out for along time to come. Their bussiness model is failing, and the only avenue for profit they have open seems to be lawsuits. They have $50 million to play with and with that cash comes the means to make life very unpleasent for those in its path. Their FUD machine is crumbling, but it can still infilct harm on its way down.
There are some Christian games out there....
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There are a lot of reasons that game developers have not pushed anything more than basic good/evil in most video games. First, most in the gaming community are agnostic/atheist. Second (and most importantly), it is very difficult to deal with such topics in a way that not make (some) people cry.
That said, there are developers out there pushing Christian themes. N'Lighting Software is one: http://www.n-lightning.com/
or does this seem like sometihing that would hurt Japanese companies? I would've expected the Japanese FTC's job would be to protoect the companies in their nation.
How exactly would a voluntary system help?
Potential terrorists are likely not to provide information on themselves, and non-terrorists who do the same are going to be discriminated against.
Besides that, the governement is supposed to cater to the people, not the other way around.
1) The current Xbox is losing money, but the Xbox 2 will be built with cheaper materials (esp. Flash memory, instead of a hard drive)
2) The current Xbox has much better graphics than the PS2, and there is no reason to believe that this will change with the Xbox2/PS3
3) Microsoft is hell-bent on dominating the console market (watch the discovery channel special "Inside the Xbox").
4) They believe that if you control a family's entertainment, you essentially control the family (again, from "Inside the Xbox")
This is one market MS cannot afford to lose. They will throw everything they have at it.
How exactly is this suit supposed to "help" the shareholders? Isn't the company OWNED by the shareholders? The lawyers are essentially suing the shareholders, then, right? Sounds like the lawyers are just looking to fatten their wallets.
I know a lot of people here think this can fight abduction. But how? Would a kidnapper really care whether or not the kid has a tag? If the sensors were placed EVERYWHERE, maybe they could track a missing child, but the abductor would certainly not stick around school with a tagged (or any) kid. I could see this as a potential means to fight truency, but not abduction.
Both. A lot of people have no idea that Mozilla exists. Plus the fact that a lot of people are of the "click the big E to get on the web" type.
Ignorance of need is another issue, some people just trust M$ and feel they don't need to update their system.
Does this take into account all the dual-boot desktops? Or machines behind proxies? There are large desktop implementations out there, but a lot of them sit behind a single machine. Wouldn't this survey only find that server, instead of all the desktops?
Space:
Firefox is only about 6MB and the installer app for Windows is only 4.7.
Confusion:
To alleviate confusion, just set Firefox as your default browser. That way, every hyperlink you click on from inside Windows will point to Firefox->web. Then, just remove the IE icons and replace them with Firefox ones, and you are set. Or, if you really wanted, the "E" buttons can also be remapped to point to Firefox/Mozilla.
Email:
I don't know about your mail issue, but it can probably be worked out. Personally, I still use Outlook Express because I am too lazy to switch.
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Obviously now. Those media cards are pretty had to make worthless. It's kind of hard to put a fingerprint on an IC and you can't bend such a tiny thing (and even if you do, they have been shown to work even with a busted circut board). Flash media won't unspool, slip, or mechanically degrade through normal use. They will electrically degrade, after about 100000 write cycles, but that would take months of constant usage as a swap partition for petes sake.
;)
Oh, it's also pretty hard to make stone tablets worthless, and those were invented thousands of years ago
Yup. The only tests that seemed worth doing were the mechanical stress tests. Since IC's are watertight (and washed at the factory), I would expect them to survive the coffe and cola. The cola probably could have corroded some of the contacts, but probably not to the point of destruction. The cards are already so damn thin that it is hard to believe you could put enough weight on them to destroy them (car, skateboard). The sledgehammer has additional force behind it (momentum and all) and can deliver it in a very short amount of time (greater impulse), so it carries far more destructive power than antything else. If the nail went through the IC, it's toast. If it just went through the plastic, the card would be fine.
;)
Another scenario that I can see happening is this: Guy has card in shirt pocket. Guy bends over to put some papers in shredder. Card falls into shredder.
Man, that would be nasty
These are the cards that you use in your camera, non-volatile flash memory cards, not RAM. Your standard RAM card would certainly not survive jack. But then, RAM is normally confined to the inside of your case, which is generally too large to stick in coffee.
Yes, reasonable people would believe that Happy Birthday is in the public domain. The copyright holders disagree, however. Ever wonder why restaurants have their own (often annoying) birthday songs? Yup. The Happy Birthday goons have fought. And won.
To be quite honest, I was expecting something more like an arcade cabinet. Oh, well, it was neat idea, but the case is horribly ugly. And I bet it would be horrendous if a decent percentage of the controllers were plugged in at once It would be way cooler with some sort of cable management system and a little door behind which to store the controllers.
On the aside, I have always wanted to take one of the three Atari 2600's I own and condense it to the size of a Nomad so I could play on the road.
I could definitely use this for transferring large amounts of video between my PC and my other PC that has a DVD burner. I suppose that companies like Pixar would be interested in this regard.
There are also companies (finacial, law, etc...) that could need to transfer huge documents (1000+ pages) between people. Huge databases could also be accesed better, I suppose.
Yup. There it is. in firefox, too. The black screen "could" be a hack, since it seems to have been apended to the end of the page (outside html tags).
Seriously, though, Bono may be insane, but this may work for them. Nowadays, people would rather buy music than download it illegaly, if given a choice. Besides, the stolen version is unfinished. I think that most fans would rather buy a GOOD version, rather than run the risk of being sued over a crappy one.
I see little problem with this as a measure to prevent piracy. However, in preventing piracy, this runling also infringes substantialy on fair-use. it is hard to say which is more prevelant, but protecting fair use is certainly more important.
At least the Italians seem to believe that this is true.
This is great news! However, SCO will certainly drag things out for along time to come. Their bussiness model is failing, and the only avenue for profit they have open seems to be lawsuits. They have $50 million to play with and with that cash comes the means to make life very unpleasent for those in its path. Their FUD machine is crumbling, but it can still infilct harm on its way down.
There are a lot of reasons that game developers have not pushed anything more than basic good/evil in most video games. First, most in the gaming community are agnostic/atheist. Second (and most importantly), it is very difficult to deal with such topics in a way that not make (some) people cry.
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That said, there are developers out there pushing Christian themes. N'Lighting Software is one: http://www.n-lightning.com/
Predictably, their games have not exactly recieved rave reviews: http://www.game-revolution.com/games/pc/action/ca
There is also Bible Blaster, (played and probably endorsed by Rod and Todd Flanders) ^_^
You are right. Thanks. I did RTFA, but I was in a hurry and missunderstood it (I thought that the japanese were having M$ add the clause; oops.)
Well, it's not on topic at all, but then this topic is rather stupid, so...:
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Uhh, how exactly is this newsworthy? Are we that starved for stories?
or does this seem like sometihing that would hurt Japanese companies? I would've expected the Japanese FTC's job would be to protoect the companies in their nation.
How exactly would a voluntary system help?
Potential terrorists are likely not to provide information on themselves, and non-terrorists who do the same are going to be discriminated against.
Besides that, the governement is supposed to cater to the people, not the other way around.
The sad thing is that Balmer may be right:
1) The current Xbox is losing money, but the Xbox 2 will be built with cheaper materials (esp. Flash memory, instead of a hard drive)
2) The current Xbox has much better graphics than the PS2, and there is no reason to believe that this will change with the Xbox2/PS3 3) Microsoft is hell-bent on dominating the console market (watch the discovery channel special "Inside the Xbox").
4) They believe that if you control a family's entertainment, you essentially control the family (again, from "Inside the Xbox")
This is one market MS cannot afford to lose. They will throw everything they have at it.
How exactly is this suit supposed to "help" the shareholders? Isn't the company OWNED by the shareholders? The lawyers are essentially suing the shareholders, then, right? Sounds like the lawyers are just looking to fatten their wallets.
I know a lot of people here think this can fight abduction. But how? Would a kidnapper really care whether or not the kid has a tag? If the sensors were placed EVERYWHERE, maybe they could track a missing child, but the abductor would certainly not stick around school with a tagged (or any) kid. I could see this as a potential means to fight truency, but not abduction.
Both. A lot of people have no idea that Mozilla exists. Plus the fact that a lot of people are of the "click the big E to get on the web" type.
Ignorance of need is another issue, some people just trust M$ and feel they don't need to update their system.
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Does this take into account all the dual-boot desktops? Or machines behind proxies? There are large desktop implementations out there, but a lot of them sit behind a single machine. Wouldn't this survey only find that server, instead of all the desktops?
Space: Firefox is only about 6MB and the installer app for Windows is only 4.7.
Confusion: To alleviate confusion, just set Firefox as your default browser. That way, every hyperlink you click on from inside Windows will point to Firefox->web. Then, just remove the IE icons and replace them with Firefox ones, and you are set. Or, if you really wanted, the "E" buttons can also be remapped to point to Firefox/Mozilla.
Email: I don't know about your mail issue, but it can probably be worked out. Personally, I still use Outlook Express because I am too lazy to switch.