Oh, come on, iPod's were designed for listening to music, it clearly says so everywhere in the iPod documentation and on Apple's site. Yet hackers have succeeded in using them for data storage, running Linux, etc, all sorts of uses Apple probably didn't have in mind. I was shooting for some creative, out-of-the-box responses when I Asked Slashdot...I can google docs too. Does no one have any interest in real hardware hacking anymore?
Hmm. Wonder if it could be used for some kind of custom backup solution, to an external real-freaking-fast drive of some kind, for automatic backups of your server. That would push out a lot of data with little need for backtalk besides "More data please".
The (actually rather large type at the top of) the USPTO page lists the inventors as Worsley, Andrew Peter; (Kent, GB) ; Twist, Peter John; (Tortola, GB). I'm assuming you're making a joke, but I'm wondering what connection those who modded you 70% informative saw between these people and 3D Realms. I don't see one, and googling variations on the names brings me the blog, but nothing about 3D Realms or Duke Nukem Forever.
I probably just got trolled, and someone is probably laughing his ass off at my expense, but I've got nothing better to do this hour of the morning.
Ask her what she thinks about the idea of a third party taping the process for later viewing, and see if it gets embarrassing then (when she's throwing things at you).
Aye, they can't even ship it continental either, ie..Canada.
You know, someone in the US could probably make a bit of money re-shipping stuff from newegg to Canadians who want to buy from there, but can't. Some of the prices on there are good enough that an extra $10 or so to have someone else ship it to me up here would be worth it.
Sure, I could always get a friend to do it for me, but that's never as convenient as a business, that would be accessible more easily.
The reality seems somewhat nicer. The summary says they only plan to flex their muscle at the adware-bundled clients, which will discourage people from making them (hopefully), so we can have our Torrent clients that don't spy on us. Hurray for Bram (if that is, in fact, his intent) for helping protect us from spyware.
If their simulated attacks actually expose any problems, I wonder if the rest of us will experience any disruptions of the net in general that week. Sure would suck if they found some hidden flaw in whatever the backbone is running on, and crashes it somehow (although I guess that's the point, is to find these flaws or problems).
This mod, while very cool, would make an excellent semi-portable monitoring device, say, to keep an eye on the stockroom at your restaurant or whatever. Stuff some kind of thin webcam in the bottle neck, lay it on it's side, headless (cords to the wall, somehow) and you'd have an inconspicuous camera that can store images/video locally or ftp them somewhere remote (then you could skip the laptop drive altogether and run the whole thing off the CF card, perhaps allowing a smaller bottle), and looks like an empty bottle on a shelf. Extra points if you mount it in a wine rack with a few real bottles.
Of course, you could also probably break an empty bottle, drop in one of those wireless network cameras, and glue it back together, but that wouldn't be half as cool.;)
Alternately: (4) Original author MIA since silly flame war on irc (5) No one else has the ability to sign the driver, and original author has taken his marbles home. (6) ??? (7) No profit.:(
Seriously, an oligarchy usn't the same as a democracy, or even a meritocracy.
How many companies are going to use the Intel transition to force paid upgrades? I can see some companies offering a 'special deal', pay $X for the universal binary edition, so it'll actually run on your new computer. Sort of a variation on the DVD re-release double-dip, except with a gun to the (figurative) head. (and no, I know they don't force you to buy their software, but if you're a graphics artist in a Mac only shop, your IT department will have to buy you Photoshop for Intel Mac, whenever your machine gets upgraded).
Looks like windfall time for Mac software vendors.
I'm going to Assume Good Faith and respond to this. Perhaps I should have been more clear. The members of Wikipedia (would users be a better word?) have requested comment from the remainder of Wikipedia users (hence the Request For Comment), which is a democratic process (in that it involves the people commenting on the issue and offering their viewpoints freely), to address the issue of abuse from the United States House of Representatives (a group formed by yet another democratic process), or at least what strongly appears to be that body. I think perhaps you overgeneralized my meaning...I was talking about the article. I neither made nor inferred any claims to any universal motives or beliefs. I just found it amusing that the process used to address this issue is, generally, a similar type of process to the one used to select the body with whom Wikipedia has the issue with.
And they should be. There are a lot of us, ranging from car accident victims to war veterans to crazy old men with perceptual disorders like me. If a game company stepped up to the plate and spent the small amount they would need to make a game accessible (integrate it with MS's text-to-speech and other accessibility features; permit simplified game control layouts, even if they allow less of the game to be fully explored, as long as it's finishable with the reduced control set; there's a million ways), I'm certain disabled gamers would respond. I'm not talking about targetting games solely at that section of the market, just removing the artificial and unnecessary barriers that exists as it is, adding features to normal game releases.
Wikipedia is using a democratic process against the US Government. I'll be laughing extra hard next time I hear them defending American freedom and values.
If IE is a universal constant, than the age of the universe must be about 15 years or so. Now that would give the Creationists something to talk about.:P
I don't see the analogy. A television is a luxury item. When the analog TVs go dark, people can choose to not watch TV and be just fine. In a city in Sweden, people can probably use public transit, but in more isolated areas, a car is a necessity, potentially life or death (unless you want to walk to the hospital in the next town X number of miles away). Also, the monetary amounts involved are quite different.
Ok, so they've developed a concept vehicle. Unless there's a pre-existing (as in right now) infrastructure for biofuel fill-up stations (maybe there is, I'm not Swedish), one will have to be implemented before the car will be drivable. This will take time and money. Also, the car will have to go from concept to production, taking a certain length of time and money. Also, other concepts will have to be invented to fill other automotive needs (have you seen any concept biofuelled transport trucks?). The R&D costs will have to be recouped somehow, hopefully by subsidies, but likely by higher consumer costs. So, in 2010 or so (pulled that date out of my ass, might take longer), they might have the ability to field a significant number of non-gasoline cars on the road. In the meantime, anyone who needs a car between now and then will have to buy a gas car, which will have zero resale value when they switch off the gas pumps and can't fill the tank (and probably quite a while before that date). Finally, not everyone has a good job, and can afford a brand new car, with or without a premium cost to offset the R&D. Since all these cars will be new, there will be no used car market for some time. I hope everyone in the northern parts of Sweden, where the population is less dense, has the aforementioned good job, since driving is likely their only option.
It's undeniable that this is a laudable goal, but 14 years to make a complete paradigm shift on an item that is probably the second most expensive thing most people will buy in their lives isn't enough time.
So, in 14 years, every car currently on the road in Sweden will be obsolete? Illegal? Will they be making outlaws of classic car collectors? The Swedish automobile industry must be much larger and more advanced than I had ever dreamed, to pull this off. They're going to have to develop affordable new cars with a completely different architecture, since used cars won't be usable. Is the government going to reimburse people whose vehicles are unusable and unsellable? And can every single driver in the country afford a brand new car? A brand new domestically made car, even?
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Oh, come on, iPod's were designed for listening to music, it clearly says so everywhere in the iPod documentation and on Apple's site. Yet hackers have succeeded in using them for data storage, running Linux, etc, all sorts of uses Apple probably didn't have in mind. I was shooting for some creative, out-of-the-box responses when I Asked Slashdot...I can google docs too. Does no one have any interest in real hardware hacking anymore?
Hmm. Wonder if it could be used for some kind of custom backup solution, to an external real-freaking-fast drive of some kind, for automatic backups of your server. That would push out a lot of data with little need for backtalk besides "More data please".
The (actually rather large type at the top of) the USPTO page lists the inventors as Worsley, Andrew Peter; (Kent, GB) ; Twist, Peter John; (Tortola, GB). I'm assuming you're making a joke, but I'm wondering what connection those who modded you 70% informative saw between these people and 3D Realms. I don't see one, and googling variations on the names brings me the blog, but nothing about 3D Realms or Duke Nukem Forever.
I probably just got trolled, and someone is probably laughing his ass off at my expense, but I've got nothing better to do this hour of the morning.
My usage of gmail would be basically unaffected if I could only send one email every sixty seconds. It'd kill a spammer, though.
That's OK. It doesn't trust you.
Ask her what she thinks about the idea of a third party taping the process for later viewing, and see if it gets embarrassing then (when she's throwing things at you).
Seriously, now, do you think McDonald's does any kind of beta-testing?
Aye, they can't even ship it continental either, ie..Canada.
You know, someone in the US could probably make a bit of money re-shipping stuff from newegg to Canadians who want to buy from there, but can't. Some of the prices on there are good enough that an extra $10 or so to have someone else ship it to me up here would be worth it.
Sure, I could always get a friend to do it for me, but that's never as convenient as a business, that would be accessible more easily.
See, i told you others could disagree.
Others may disagree, but that was the best laugh I've had all week. You made me spill my coffee on my keyboard, though :/
The reality seems somewhat nicer. The summary says they only plan to flex their muscle at the adware-bundled clients, which will discourage people from making them (hopefully), so we can have our Torrent clients that don't spy on us. Hurray for Bram (if that is, in fact, his intent) for helping protect us from spyware.
I'm running 2.95 on a spare box. If someone can provide an evil link, I'd be glad to test it out for ya.
If their simulated attacks actually expose any problems, I wonder if the rest of us will experience any disruptions of the net in general that week. Sure would suck if they found some hidden flaw in whatever the backbone is running on, and crashes it somehow (although I guess that's the point, is to find these flaws or problems).
This mod, while very cool, would make an excellent semi-portable monitoring device, say, to keep an eye on the stockroom at your restaurant or whatever. Stuff some kind of thin webcam in the bottle neck, lay it on it's side, headless (cords to the wall, somehow) and you'd have an inconspicuous camera that can store images/video locally or ftp them somewhere remote (then you could skip the laptop drive altogether and run the whole thing off the CF card, perhaps allowing a smaller bottle), and looks like an empty bottle on a shelf. Extra points if you mount it in a wine rack with a few real bottles.
;)
Of course, you could also probably break an empty bottle, drop in one of those wireless network cameras, and glue it back together, but that wouldn't be half as cool.
Was it a Sony CD? :P
Alternately: :(
(4) Original author MIA since silly flame war on irc
(5) No one else has the ability to sign the driver, and original author has taken his marbles home.
(6) ???
(7) No profit.
Seriously, an oligarchy usn't the same as a democracy, or even a meritocracy.
How many companies are going to use the Intel transition to force paid upgrades? I can see some companies offering a 'special deal', pay $X for the universal binary edition, so it'll actually run on your new computer. Sort of a variation on the DVD re-release double-dip, except with a gun to the (figurative) head. (and no, I know they don't force you to buy their software, but if you're a graphics artist in a Mac only shop, your IT department will have to buy you Photoshop for Intel Mac, whenever your machine gets upgraded).
Looks like windfall time for Mac software vendors.
I'm going to Assume Good Faith and respond to this. Perhaps I should have been more clear. The members of Wikipedia (would users be a better word?) have requested comment from the remainder of Wikipedia users (hence the Request For Comment), which is a democratic process (in that it involves the people commenting on the issue and offering their viewpoints freely), to address the issue of abuse from the United States House of Representatives (a group formed by yet another democratic process), or at least what strongly appears to be that body. I think perhaps you overgeneralized my meaning...I was talking about the article. I neither made nor inferred any claims to any universal motives or beliefs. I just found it amusing that the process used to address this issue is, generally, a similar type of process to the one used to select the body with whom Wikipedia has the issue with.
Sorry for the confusion.
And they should be. There are a lot of us, ranging from car accident victims to war veterans to crazy old men with perceptual disorders like me. If a game company stepped up to the plate and spent the small amount they would need to make a game accessible (integrate it with MS's text-to-speech and other accessibility features; permit simplified game control layouts, even if they allow less of the game to be fully explored, as long as it's finishable with the reduced control set; there's a million ways), I'm certain disabled gamers would respond. I'm not talking about targetting games solely at that section of the market, just removing the artificial and unnecessary barriers that exists as it is, adding features to normal game releases.
Probably not, but I thought I'd ask. Did they add anything new that's good?
Wikipedia is using a democratic process against the US Government. I'll be laughing extra hard next time I hear them defending American freedom and values.
If IE is a universal constant, than the age of the universe must be about 15 years or so. Now that would give the Creationists something to talk about. :P
I don't see the analogy. A television is a luxury item. When the analog TVs go dark, people can choose to not watch TV and be just fine. In a city in Sweden, people can probably use public transit, but in more isolated areas, a car is a necessity, potentially life or death (unless you want to walk to the hospital in the next town X number of miles away). Also, the monetary amounts involved are quite different.
Ok, so they've developed a concept vehicle. Unless there's a pre-existing (as in right now) infrastructure for biofuel fill-up stations (maybe there is, I'm not Swedish), one will have to be implemented before the car will be drivable. This will take time and money. Also, the car will have to go from concept to production, taking a certain length of time and money. Also, other concepts will have to be invented to fill other automotive needs (have you seen any concept biofuelled transport trucks?). The R&D costs will have to be recouped somehow, hopefully by subsidies, but likely by higher consumer costs. So, in 2010 or so (pulled that date out of my ass, might take longer), they might have the ability to field a significant number of non-gasoline cars on the road. In the meantime, anyone who needs a car between now and then will have to buy a gas car, which will have zero resale value when they switch off the gas pumps and can't fill the tank (and probably quite a while before that date). Finally, not everyone has a good job, and can afford a brand new car, with or without a premium cost to offset the R&D. Since all these cars will be new, there will be no used car market for some time. I hope everyone in the northern parts of Sweden, where the population is less dense, has the aforementioned good job, since driving is likely their only option.
It's undeniable that this is a laudable goal, but 14 years to make a complete paradigm shift on an item that is probably the second most expensive thing most people will buy in their lives isn't enough time.
So, in 14 years, every car currently on the road in Sweden will be obsolete? Illegal? Will they be making outlaws of classic car collectors? The Swedish automobile industry must be much larger and more advanced than I had ever dreamed, to pull this off. They're going to have to develop affordable new cars with a completely different architecture, since used cars won't be usable. Is the government going to reimburse people whose vehicles are unusable and unsellable? And can every single driver in the country afford a brand new car? A brand new domestically made car, even?
Somehow I don't think they thought this through.