If you send a photo containing someone driving while using phone/electronic device to the police you will get 10% of the fine. Currently the catch rate for phoning while driving is so low that many people are not bothered by it.
The catch rate for these kinds of things is just to low, and then many people don't bother with it. The one time they get caught they just pay up. Which puts people like me (using bike to get to work) at risk.
SSD can benefit from defragmentation. This because of the READ/WRITE MULTIPLE ATA commands, which transfer X blocks in a row. Of course the blocks need to be in a row then, hench the defrag.
The final speed increase will be pretty limited, but it could help. I would still recommend against it tough.
You can buy about 4 ASRock IONs for that amount of cash. It has a bit lighter specs, but a much lighter price. And it's about the same size as a mac mini.
In most games the "german" mode gets triggered by putting the game in german language. Many games have this, and usually just just green blood instead of red. This was already the case in Doom (1&2)
I don't know what TF2 uses as trigger, could also be language/location settings of your computer.
...and its orbit is tilted 27 degrees from the planet's main ring plane,...
That's something that amazes me. Why doesn't the stuff making up the rings just orbit the planet like a cloud instead of flat rings in a plane? And now this, a ring that's in it's own plane?! Was it at one time a single object orbiting and then broke up and that's why it's on its own plane - the orbital momentum keeps it in place?
It's times like these I wish I were smart enough to be an astrophysicist!
One of Saturn's farthest moons, Phoebe, circles within the newfound ring, and is likely the source of its material.
Other browsers don't comply with the W3C standards and have there own extensions as well, so those should be kicked off port 80 as well then. And who judges what is compliant and what is not?
we'll be dramatically lowering our hopes for Windows Mobile 7.
Most customers just hope for a device that will function without crashing or freezing every couple of hours. Do Microsoft really want customers to lower their hopes below that?
It doesn't have to brick, but the boot2 update software from nintendo is not failure proof. There is a small chance that it fails during the update and then you're left with a useless Wii. If your update was successful then there is nothing to worry about anymore.
Only if they rip off the flash chips to read them, but that would be lots of work. But maybe they will rip them off to recover your VC/WiiWare games. And notice the HBC at the same time.
Only thing they had to do was change the title ID. And work around a few protections that didn't seem to work that well. They all did it in less then a day. Only the bannerbomb exploid no longer ran, but there where already 2 other exploits to run homebrew. And there is word going around that bannerbomb will be trival to fix for 4.2.
Nintendo actual risks bricking 5% (just a random number) of the Wiis they have out there. For 1 day of no homebrew. Don't forget that the hackers (twiizers) love working on these patches, they just want to take the system apart to make it do whatever they want. They don't want to pirate or cheat, they just want an open system to toy with.
Note that the cheating is done trough Homebrew software. And thus blocking homebrew could help in stopping cheating a bit. But stopping homebrew is like trying to stop the sun shining, the people who are working to hack the Wii are smart and persistent. And those people don't do it for the cheats or the piracy, they just want an open platform to toy with.
Cheating in online games is always hard to beat, but the current state of the Wii is like early counterstrike and UT. The games are not build with cheat protection in mind, and thus the cheaters can run free. Times will change, but Nintendo is not known to change fast.
It's a real shame that Homebrew is being (ab)used to cheat online and to pirate games.
-Daid (writer of the Guitar Hero clone GuitarsOnFire for the Wii homebrew)
I wouldn't care less if you wreck your car, wrap it around a tree for all I care. But if you hit me on my bicycle then you will have a problem. If you hit my on my bicycle and you where using your phone, well. Then you better hit me good, because I will make sure you won't use that car to drive away if I have the chance.
No need for big brother to protect you from yourself, but big brother can do a bit to help us protect us from each other. It's not a toy you are driving in, it's a large metal box going at 80Km/h. Which makes it a killing machine.
Copyright lasts 70 years, not 10. And you don't need to add a copyright notice to get copyright. If you made it it's yours, under your copyright. If something has no notice/license at all, then it's copyrighted. And then you shouldn't go and copy it.
You spend months getting very powerful, and then suddenly people get just as powerful in only a few days. While you ruled PvP situations, and it took parties of 5 to kill you, now all of a sudden it only takes 1 or 2 people to kill you. This can ruin your fun if you PvP a lot.
I used to play this low profile MMORPG. With only a handful of players (about 100 at the top times), and gear was very important. I was one of longest players around and thus had collected a lot of very powerful gear. I could solo wipe 7 man parties in PvP. Which was no fun for them. And then... came the nerfs, some of my strongest items became almost worthless. A few hardcore players left over that nerf, but I stayed. And the game became more fun, I was no longer unstoppable. And the newer players stood a chance, making for better battles. Sure, lots of my hard work was gone. But in the end that worked out fine, as there was more fun.
The people that complain about these kinds of nerfs are the people that leave after a nerf. And... you are better off without them, those kinds of hardcore players tend to ruin the game for many others.
I'm playing WoW for 4 months now. I really like it, I see people rush to lvl80, but I'm still only lvl70. I don't care, I have fun while playing.
I love tabs. (Except when you give me IE tabs, those act freaky)
But for me, a tab contains the contents of a page, not a full browser. And those buttons just act on the current tab. Just like the current song position in a media player acts on the currently playing song, and not all songs have an own song position bar.
(And if you want a freak interface, then look at the old VisualStudio6 project configuration, where you have tabs that contain a combobox that changes the content of that tab)
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That's not hidden in PNG images, that's "as" PNG images. It would be better to put it in Exif data, so it's really hidden.
How about putting the cars on tracks, and run the electricity trough that. Also make the cars larger, and let multiple people ride the same one.
And add a 'feature' to it:
If you send a photo containing someone driving while using phone/electronic device to the police you will get 10% of the fine. Currently the catch rate for phoning while driving is so low that many people are not bothered by it.
The catch rate for these kinds of things is just to low, and then many people don't bother with it. The one time they get caught they just pay up. Which puts people like me (using bike to get to work) at risk.
SSD can benefit from defragmentation. This because of the READ/WRITE MULTIPLE ATA commands, which transfer X blocks in a row. Of course the blocks need to be in a row then, hench the defrag.
The final speed increase will be pretty limited, but it could help. I would still recommend against it tough.
What's a more pressing problem then the human race getting fried by the sun in about 5 billion years?
You can buy about 4 ASRock IONs for that amount of cash. It has a bit lighter specs, but a much lighter price. And it's about the same size as a mac mini.
http://www.asrock.com/nettop/overview.asp?Model=ION%20330
In most games the "german" mode gets triggered by putting the game in german language. Many games have this, and usually just just green blood instead of red. This was already the case in Doom (1&2)
I don't know what TF2 uses as trigger, could also be language/location settings of your computer.
Tech won't solve stupidity.
That's something that amazes me. Why doesn't the stuff making up the rings just orbit the planet like a cloud instead of flat rings in a plane? And now this, a ring that's in it's own plane?! Was it at one time a single object orbiting and then broke up and that's why it's on its own plane - the orbital momentum keeps it in place?
It's times like these I wish I were smart enough to be an astrophysicist!
One of Saturn's farthest moons, Phoebe, circles within the newfound ring, and is likely the source of its material.
I think that's why.
Other browsers don't comply with the W3C standards and have there own extensions as well, so those should be kicked off port 80 as well then. And who judges what is compliant and what is not?
we'll be dramatically lowering our hopes for Windows Mobile 7.
Most customers just hope for a device that will function without crashing or freezing every couple of hours. Do Microsoft really want customers to lower their hopes below that?
Microsoft are some kind of joke company.
Microsofts new slogan: "Why so serious?"
I'll bite your legs off!
It doesn't have to brick, but the boot2 update software from nintendo is not failure proof. There is a small chance that it fails during the update and then you're left with a useless Wii. If your update was successful then there is nothing to worry about anymore.
Only if they rip off the flash chips to read them, but that would be lots of work. But maybe they will rip them off to recover your VC/WiiWare games. And notice the HBC at the same time.
Only thing they had to do was change the title ID. And work around a few protections that didn't seem to work that well. They all did it in less then a day. Only the bannerbomb exploid no longer ran, but there where already 2 other exploits to run homebrew. And there is word going around that bannerbomb will be trival to fix for 4.2.
Nintendo actual risks bricking 5% (just a random number) of the Wiis they have out there. For 1 day of no homebrew. Don't forget that the hackers (twiizers) love working on these patches, they just want to take the system apart to make it do whatever they want. They don't want to pirate or cheat, they just want an open system to toy with.
Note that the cheating is done trough Homebrew software. And thus blocking homebrew could help in stopping cheating a bit. But stopping homebrew is like trying to stop the sun shining, the people who are working to hack the Wii are smart and persistent. And those people don't do it for the cheats or the piracy, they just want an open platform to toy with.
Cheating in online games is always hard to beat, but the current state of the Wii is like early counterstrike and UT. The games are not build with cheat protection in mind, and thus the cheaters can run free. Times will change, but Nintendo is not known to change fast.
It's a real shame that Homebrew is being (ab)used to cheat online and to pirate games.
-Daid (writer of the Guitar Hero clone GuitarsOnFire for the Wii homebrew)
I wouldn't care less if you wreck your car, wrap it around a tree for all I care. But if you hit me on my bicycle then you will have a problem. If you hit my on my bicycle and you where using your phone, well. Then you better hit me good, because I will make sure you won't use that car to drive away if I have the chance.
No need for big brother to protect you from yourself, but big brother can do a bit to help us protect us from each other. It's not a toy you are driving in, it's a large metal box going at 80Km/h. Which makes it a killing machine.
Just FYI, the site is hosted in the US, and the domain register is from the US. Which makes US copyright law pretty relevant in this case.
(And I'm from Europe)
http://openpandora.org/
It's taking a while, but they are getting there.
Copyright lasts 70 years, not 10. And you don't need to add a copyright notice to get copyright. If you made it it's yours, under your copyright. If something has no notice/license at all, then it's copyrighted. And then you shouldn't go and copy it.
http://inventors.about.com/od/copyrights101basicsfaq/f/secure_copyrigh.htm
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/24/1250228/Microsoft-Says-Google-Chrome-Frame-Makes-IE-Less-Secure?art_pos=1
We knew already.
beer and midget hookers?
I guessed that you where guessing, does that cancel each other out now?
It affects you in PvP.
You spend months getting very powerful, and then suddenly people get just as powerful in only a few days. While you ruled PvP situations, and it took parties of 5 to kill you, now all of a sudden it only takes 1 or 2 people to kill you. This can ruin your fun if you PvP a lot.
I used to play this low profile MMORPG. With only a handful of players (about 100 at the top times), and gear was very important. I was one of longest players around and thus had collected a lot of very powerful gear. I could solo wipe 7 man parties in PvP. Which was no fun for them. And then... came the nerfs, some of my strongest items became almost worthless. A few hardcore players left over that nerf, but I stayed. And the game became more fun, I was no longer unstoppable. And the newer players stood a chance, making for better battles. Sure, lots of my hard work was gone. But in the end that worked out fine, as there was more fun.
The people that complain about these kinds of nerfs are the people that leave after a nerf. And... you are better off without them, those kinds of hardcore players tend to ruin the game for many others.
I'm playing WoW for 4 months now. I really like it, I see people rush to lvl80, but I'm still only lvl70. I don't care, I have fun while playing.
I love tabs. (Except when you give me IE tabs, those act freaky)
But for me, a tab contains the contents of a page, not a full browser. And those buttons just act on the current tab.
Just like the current song position in a media player acts on the currently playing song, and not all songs have an own song position bar.
(And if you want a freak interface, then look at the old VisualStudio6 project configuration, where you have tabs that contain a combobox that changes the content of that tab)