Yadda, yadda, yadda. Just look up "cracker" in those dictionary links and see what you find outside of the jargon file. Oh, sorry, I guess that distinction is to hard for a non-l33t noob like yourself to get.
If you wanted to be obnoxious you could just start dialing numbers in the near vicinity of the posted ones. Imagine if EVERYBODY at the network came to work on monday to find their voicemailboxes full of of complaints about farscape.
No, SciFi is not JUST a contracted version of the phrase Science Fiction. It is like the difference between saying "San Francisco" and saying "Frisco." People who call the city "Frisco" think they know what they are talking about, but really are saying more about themselves than they know.
The term SciFi started out as simply a contraction of those words, but long ago it evolved to have a meaning of its own, distinct from its origin - that's what language does, it evolves. Nowadays, SciFi typically covers anything that is "light" and of a fantastical nature, covering many stories that might otherwise be called fantasy or historical fiction as well as light science fiction.
As for the other guy saying that Starship Troopers is some kind of proof that SciFi and Science Fiction are one and the same - BFD. Of course there are borderline stories, just like there are borderline stories across the genres of mystery and historical fiction or fantasy and satire, etc, etc. The movie certainly was light in places, but it was also a savage commentary on fascism, even moreso than the book.
They aren't the science fiction channel, they are the SciFi channel which is a much broader, and shallower genre. Unfortunately it includes pablum like "The Dead Zone" which really belongs on the Women's Channel because the plots are so touchy-feely it is ridiculous, not to mention the bogosity of John Edwards and his feel-good show.
If they aren't going to do space shows, does that mean SG1 is doomed? How about the rest of the Dune movies?
There are lots of urban legends about people who submitted these high-level questions and where truthful - as in yes, they had smoked dope more than 15 times throughout their high-school career. Thus they were rejected but a record of this fact was kept. Years later when they needed a security clearance for some job or another, they were unable to acquire it because of the original rejection.
So, beware guys, this shit does go on your permanent record, and this is not some bullshit high-school principal intimidation technique either. You never know what kind situation you may find yourself in 10 years down the road, don't tell them anything that they might use to screw you later.
Oh, and do you sneak in to theaters or amusement parks too? I mean you aren't taking away anyone elses enjoyment are you, the play or movie or park ride woul dhave happened anyhow. and how would you know if the ride was fun if you did not get free ride?
Don't bother trying to make analogies to the physical world, they ALWAYS fall apart in one way or another - even if the postulator is unable to see it for himself. Information is unique in this respect. All your examples have marginal costs associated with them like physical wear & tear. The only marginal cost digital copies have is bandwidth and that's paid for by the copyright infringers not the infringee unlike your examples.
Just because its "easy" to steal does not make it your right.
You sound like a broken record, he didn't say anything about ease. Chanting your mantra doesn't make it any more true than it does for those who chant that "Information wants to be free."
your lament about adveritsing is pitiful. poor boy. advertising has only been going on for ten millenia and no it has not gotten more deceitful. Maybe you have just gotten more gullable?
He didn't say a thing about advertising getting worse, he just said that advertising is all about deceit.
That's also what most people thought about the ocean 100 years ago - oceans were considered vast deserts. Now we know better, hell even deserts aren't the kind of deserts we once thought them to be. Perhaps in a hundred years our understanding of space will also have changed substantially. Given that there are already serious technical problems with lofting waste into space right now, why even bother pursuing such an approach when there are other alternatives.
Or hell, even if it misses, who gives a Care? Space is rather large and it WOULD take an awful long time for even the all mighty all consuming all wasteful human species to mess it up too badly.
Yeah, that's what they said about the ocean 100 years ago.
Check out CANDU nuke plants. They are way, way cheaper, safer and at least as efficient as "regular" American nukes. The waste they produce has a half-life vastly shorter than that of the waste we get from American nukes - thus making storage vastly cheaper than what we have to do for current American waste. And, they are designed to fail safely - no more china syndrome either.
The main reason the US isn't using CANDU nukes is the now knee-jerk reaction from the public that nuke == bad.
PS, CANDU - developed in Canada, thus the name similarity.
You must have missed the space elevator story a few weeks back. The earth has a very large amount of momentum in relationship to the sun. This makes the energy requirements to "chuck" something into the sun quite high.
Not that I am aware of. Standard Libertarian Party Line has always put national defense as one of the few legitimate roles of government. If it takes a big military to do it, I don't see many Libertarians balking at that. Now, if it takes a big WASTEFUL military, that's another story.
The good thing about political spam is that it is really easy to trace - at least so far. All the political spam I've received has been straight-up about who sent it (usually their campaign office). That makes it real easy to let them know what idiots they are and how much damage they've done to their campaign. They'll read the email you send and may even respond so that *you* know you got a live one. If you are in a pissy mood it sure helps to go off on a campaign-office numbnut.
Now, as soon as the politicians discover that they can send attack-ads as anonymous spam then it won't be so easy to exact vengence, but until then they sure make it easy to beat them up for spamming.
All this whining about red-laser DVDs not being sufficient is irrelevant. Anyone here taken 1080i HDTV mpeg2 transport stream and transcoded it to 9Mb/s MPEG4, raise your hands -- anyone else, sit down and shut up.
I know some people over on avsforum.com who did exactly that, except they used DiVX which is almost the same as MPEG4. The results were fantastic. For the most part it was not possible to distinguish between the original and the DiVX. With a commercial MPEG4 I am sure the results will be even better.
Other then brand-new copy-prevention schemes, and the whole having to buy it again thing, I look forward to Hi-Def DVDs.
If they are smart, they will also add anamorphic 2.35:1 and pan&scan tracks so that dumb people can buy the same discs as smart people and still be happy. (Yes, I know those two are part of the current DVD standard, but they aren't common enough in players for any publisher to use them.) And, if they are really smart, they will do double-sided discs - one side regular DVD and one side Hi-Def DVD. But when as the MPAA ever been smart?
The good thing about radical organizations is that they will sometimes spend money on radical causes which you don't agree with, because if no one were pushing the boundries then your "moderate causes" would be the radical ones.
This whole "deep pockets" excuse is just a lot of bullshit. "Deep Pockets" are for when some idiot gets drunk at work, falls off the loading dock and sues his employer for $2M. "Deep Pockets" are not about one multinational corp suing another multinational corp. In fact, such suits are what they do best.
If HP had any gonads left after Carly's last couple of years, they would have stood up and told Bruce to go ahead and break the DMCA on company time so that their entire legal department could kick some ass instead of cowering in the corner.
Of course the real reason they told Bruce to hold back wasn't any legal fears, they just are afraid of pissing off Hollywood and other potential customers. Morality doesn't mean beans when there is a buck to be made, even for the once honorable HP...
Likely that you either have poor cooling or poor power or both. One reason the raq may be spec'd for only one drive is that the power supply can't support two without running into the ragged edge. When a power supply is over-extended but not completely overwhelmed it will continue to "work" just you won't get nice clean power out, instead it will be all noisy and full of ugly fluctations that can end up damaging electrical components, like, disk drive controller boards.
If you keep killing drives in the same machine, it is a pretty good chance that the problem is not the drives but something about the machine.
Always spend the extra $20-$40 for a good power supply (if it is lightweight, it ain't a good power supply, heavy means good, as long they don't put a brick in it) and don't skimp on cooling either...
You know how televisions shows will pixelate the face of someone that doesn't want to be show on television? Sometimes it is just a passerby on MTV's Realworld who won't sign a release, but sometimes its somebody a little more important like a corporate or federal whistle-blower.
I've long thought that pixelization wasn't a very good way to protect the identities of these people because when they are on video, they move around and the camera sometimes moves around, but often the pixelization is applied in post-production so it stays in a relatively constant location rather than tracking the features on the person's face. Anyone sufficiently motivated and sufficiently equipped with the right tools ought to be able to reconstruct a much higher resolution, non-pixelated image of the secret person's face by extracting all of the useful information from each frame and then corollating it all together with the general movements of the person in the frame.
It sounds to me like pencigraphy is exactly the kind of science required to do something like that. So now the question is, who do we want to unmask? Too bad Deep Throat never made an on camera appearance.
A week later an e-mail appears in our CIO's mailbox saying that we're being audited by Microsoft. Now every morning, he walks into work and says "Alright, what can we do today to get rid of more windows boxes".
You can't buy advertising for free software as good as that. And just think, Microsoft is giving it away for free. As long as Bill keeps donating to the free software cause like that, I think the future is pretty bright for Linux and the gang.
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Yadda, yadda, yadda. Just look up "cracker" in those dictionary links and see what you find outside of the jargon file. Oh, sorry, I guess that distinction is to hard for a non-l33t noob like yourself to get.
I liked MTV better when they were the animation channel. LiquidTV, The Maxx, that weird alien-in-the-brain series, etc. Those were some awesome shows.
If you wanted to be obnoxious you could just start dialing numbers in the near vicinity of the posted ones. Imagine if EVERYBODY at the network came to work on monday to find their voicemailboxes full of of complaints about farscape.
No, SciFi is not JUST a contracted version of the phrase Science Fiction. It is like the difference between saying "San Francisco" and saying "Frisco." People who call the city "Frisco" think they know what they are talking about, but really are saying more about themselves than they know.
The term SciFi started out as simply a contraction of those words, but long ago it evolved to have a meaning of its own, distinct from its origin - that's what language does, it evolves. Nowadays, SciFi typically covers anything that is "light" and of a fantastical nature, covering many stories that might otherwise be called fantasy or historical fiction as well as light science fiction.
As for the other guy saying that Starship Troopers is some kind of proof that SciFi and Science Fiction are one and the same - BFD. Of course there are borderline stories, just like there are borderline stories across the genres of mystery and historical fiction or fantasy and satire, etc, etc. The movie certainly was light in places, but it was also a savage commentary on fascism, even moreso than the book.
They aren't the science fiction channel, they are the SciFi channel which is a much broader, and shallower genre. Unfortunately it includes pablum like "The Dead Zone" which really belongs on the Women's Channel because the plots are so touchy-feely it is ridiculous, not to mention the bogosity of John Edwards and his feel-good show.
If they aren't going to do space shows, does that mean SG1 is doomed? How about the rest of the Dune movies?
I always thought John Edwards belonged on the comedy channel.
There are lots of urban legends about people who submitted these high-level questions and where truthful - as in yes, they had smoked dope more than 15 times throughout their high-school career. Thus they were rejected but a record of this fact was kept. Years later when they needed a security clearance for some job or another, they were unable to acquire it because of the original rejection.
So, beware guys, this shit does go on your permanent record, and this is not some bullshit high-school principal intimidation technique either. You never know what kind situation you may find yourself in 10 years down the road, don't tell them anything that they might use to screw you later.
Maybe, but drug users pay for their drugs. Movie copiers only pay for the bandwidth. That's a totally difference kind of economy.
Oh, and do you sneak in to theaters or amusement parks too? I mean you aren't taking away anyone elses enjoyment are you, the play or movie or park ride woul dhave happened anyhow. and how would you know if the ride was fun if you did not get free ride?
Don't bother trying to make analogies to the physical world, they ALWAYS fall apart in one way or another - even if the postulator is unable to see it for himself. Information is unique in this respect. All your examples have marginal costs associated with them like physical wear & tear. The only marginal cost digital copies have is bandwidth and that's paid for by the copyright infringers not the infringee unlike your examples.
Just because its "easy" to steal does not make it your right.
You sound like a broken record, he didn't say anything about ease. Chanting your mantra doesn't make it any more true than it does for those who chant that "Information wants to be free."
your lament about adveritsing is pitiful. poor boy. advertising has only been going on for ten millenia and no it has not gotten more deceitful. Maybe you have just gotten more gullable?
He didn't say a thing about advertising getting worse, he just said that advertising is all about deceit.
That's also what most people thought about the ocean 100 years ago - oceans were considered vast deserts.
Now we know better, hell even deserts aren't the kind of deserts we once thought them to be. Perhaps in a hundred years our understanding of space will also have changed substantially. Given that there are already serious technical problems with lofting waste into space right now, why even bother pursuing such an approach when there are other alternatives.
Or hell, even if it misses, who gives a Care? Space is rather large and it WOULD take an awful long time for even the all mighty all consuming all wasteful human species to mess it up too badly.
Yeah, that's what they said about the ocean 100 years ago.
Check out CANDU nuke plants. They are way, way cheaper, safer and at least as efficient as "regular" American nukes. The waste they produce has a half-life vastly shorter than that of the waste we get from American nukes - thus making storage vastly cheaper than what we have to do for current American waste. And, they are designed to fail safely - no more china syndrome either.
The main reason the US isn't using CANDU nukes is the now knee-jerk reaction from the public that nuke == bad.
PS, CANDU - developed in Canada, thus the name similarity.
You must have missed the space elevator story a few weeks back. The earth has a very large amount of momentum in relationship to the sun. This makes the energy requirements to "chuck" something into the sun quite high.
Not that I am aware of. Standard Libertarian Party Line has always put national defense as one of the few legitimate roles of government. If it takes a big military to do it, I don't see many Libertarians balking at that. Now, if it takes a big WASTEFUL military, that's another story.
That sounds great on paper. But in reality how are you going to enforce that payment for pollution damage with a small government with no teeth?
Guns, BIG GUNS
Small does not equal toothless, just better directed.
The good thing about political spam is that it is really easy to trace - at least so far. All the political spam I've received has been straight-up about who sent it (usually their campaign office). That makes it real easy to let them know what idiots they are and how much damage they've done to their campaign. They'll read the email you send and may even respond so that *you* know you got a live one. If you are in a pissy mood it sure helps to go off on a campaign-office numbnut.
Now, as soon as the politicians discover that they can send attack-ads as anonymous spam then it won't be so easy to exact vengence, but until then they sure make it easy to beat them up for spamming.
Dude, MTV hasn't meant Music Television for more than a decade now. It's been Marketing Television ever since...
All this whining about red-laser DVDs not being sufficient is irrelevant. Anyone here taken 1080i HDTV mpeg2 transport stream and transcoded it to 9Mb/s MPEG4, raise your hands -- anyone else, sit down and shut up.
I know some people over on avsforum.com who did exactly that, except they used DiVX which is almost the same as MPEG4. The results were fantastic. For the most part it was not possible to distinguish between the original and the DiVX. With a commercial MPEG4 I am sure the results will be even better.
Other then brand-new copy-prevention schemes, and the whole having to buy it again thing, I look forward to Hi-Def DVDs.
If they are smart, they will also add anamorphic 2.35:1 and pan&scan tracks so that dumb people can buy the same discs as smart people and still be happy. (Yes, I know those two are part of the current DVD standard, but they aren't common enough in players for any publisher to use them.) And, if they are really smart, they will do double-sided discs - one side regular DVD and one side Hi-Def DVD. But when as the MPAA ever been smart?
The good thing about radical organizations is that they will sometimes spend money on radical causes which you don't agree with, because if no one were pushing the boundries then your "moderate causes" would be the radical ones.
This whole "deep pockets" excuse is just a lot of bullshit. "Deep Pockets" are for when some idiot gets drunk at work, falls off the loading dock and sues his employer for $2M. "Deep Pockets" are not about one multinational corp suing another multinational corp. In fact, such suits are what they do best.
If HP had any gonads left after Carly's last couple of years, they would have stood up and told Bruce to go ahead and break the DMCA on company time so that their entire legal department could kick some ass instead of cowering in the corner.
Of course the real reason they told Bruce to hold back wasn't any legal fears, they just are afraid of pissing off Hollywood and other potential customers. Morality doesn't mean beans when there is a buck to be made, even for the once honorable HP...
Likely that you either have poor cooling or poor power or both. One reason the raq may be spec'd for only one drive is that the power supply can't support two without running into the ragged edge. When a power supply is over-extended but not completely overwhelmed it will continue to "work" just you won't get nice clean power out, instead it will be all noisy and full of ugly fluctations that can end up damaging electrical components, like, disk drive controller boards.
If you keep killing drives in the same machine, it is a pretty good chance that the problem is not the drives but something about the machine.
Always spend the extra $20-$40 for a good power supply (if it is lightweight, it ain't a good power supply, heavy means good, as long they don't put a brick in it) and don't skimp on cooling either...
You know how televisions shows will pixelate the face of someone that doesn't want to be show on television? Sometimes it is just a passerby on MTV's Realworld who won't sign a release, but sometimes its somebody a little more important like a corporate or federal whistle-blower.
I've long thought that pixelization wasn't a very good way to protect the identities of these people because when they are on video, they move around and the camera sometimes moves around, but often the pixelization is applied in post-production so it stays in a relatively constant location rather than tracking the features on the person's face. Anyone sufficiently motivated and sufficiently equipped with the right tools ought to be able to reconstruct a much higher resolution, non-pixelated image of the secret person's face by extracting all of the useful information from each frame and then corollating it all together with the general movements of the person in the frame.
It sounds to me like pencigraphy is exactly the kind of science required to do something like that. So now the question is, who do we want to unmask? Too bad Deep Throat never made an on camera appearance.
A week later an e-mail appears in our CIO's mailbox saying that we're being audited by Microsoft. Now every morning, he walks into work and says "Alright, what can we do today to get rid of more windows boxes".
You can't buy advertising for free software as good as that. And just think, Microsoft is giving it away for free. As long as Bill keeps donating to the free software cause like that, I think the future is pretty bright for Linux and the gang.
If the "a lot of people" are the majority of the Supreme Court them it does mean exactly that.
It doesn't.
At what point do we decide that the violations of our civil liberties and the financial costs of maintaining this war aren't justified?
The day we have sustainable alternate fuel source and not a minute sooner.